I believe we are in a restart moment.
Many have been in survival mode for so long feeling like they were in life support, lost their fire, vision, and hope.
The last 4 years have been the the darkest and hardest and many have felt like they internally died.
Heart and soul sick. Plagued with pioneering trauma and bruised faith.
The enemy has raged against you to kill you. But what he didn’t know and you may not have known was that God was using it for your advantage!
How? Yes God knew that if you died to what was plaguing you, you would finally enter the breakthrough you have been praying for.
I believe what we’ve been going through in these last few years is the Lord bringing so much of what we’ve called kingdom, our pursuits, and fleshly assignments—He’s been killing them.
Like I shared recently, God has wanted for the oxen that you’ve been on to die.
Those yokes you were under looked like great religious activity but they were driving you into burnout and mental exhaustion.
There’s been so much activity, mindsets, and belief systems created around those activities for so long that they have been keeping us in destructive, tiresome, and weary patterns, leading us back into bondage over and over and over.
And so, the purging that we’ve been in during 2024 is the Lord asking: “Will you come up the mountain so I can free you?”
“Will you leave behind the thing you think you’re meant to be doing to come back to the only thing that I have asked of you?“
That’s right… intimacy. Connection. Friendship.
“Will you leave all those things behind?”
So many of us have been in such a purging season and it’s been painful.
The tension has never been greater because we’ve been in a place where it’s felt like we’ve had to wrestle so much of what we thought we were meant to be doing with the deep longing and sense that the Lord was wanting us to finally let it go.
We’ve also been battling the fact that we’ve seen so many doors close this year and so many things come to a very painful closure and death that we loved and genuinely believed He was on.
Many people have been looking at their hands emptied, feeling like there was nothing of themselves left. Feeling completely depleted.
But while this has looked negative according to our standards of success and fruitfulness, this was the Lord. This was the Lord’s hand.
This truly has been a Lazarus moment for the church.
In John 11:11, Jesus said, “My friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; I must wake him up.”
I feel like the Lord has allowed the church to go into the tomb season because there are some things that you cannot get rid of unless you kill them.
Just as we came to Christ and our old man died, the church has still been resurrecting old-nature concepts, values, ideas, and idolatries that the Lord has needed to kill off completely.
It’s interesting how Jesus came into Bethany and wept with Lazarus’s sisters, knowing that He turned up late.
I feel like it’s been a moment that’s felt like, “God, where are you? I don’t even know where you’ve been.”
But the Lord has not abandoned you.
He’s needed for those dependencies on so many comforts and things that we’ve relied on for so long to die.
We’ve needed to lose our codependent relationship with the spirit of religion and institution to find ourselves fully alive in Christ again.
THE SEISMIC SHIFT IN NATIONS
Now, before I go any further, let me say this as well: This has not just been on a personal level.
The nations have had to enter into dark days where it looked like the hand of the Lord was not present so they could reveal our need for Him.
The nations have had to fall into a certain level of disrepair so that we would begin to cry again for the living God rather than depending on our own abilities.
God has wanted the church to cry out for Him again instead of other Gods and idols. Even in western nations founded on Christianity have fallen for other Gods and priorities.
They have been worshipping a “me” gospel and a “my truth” ideology and lost the fear of the Lord.
But this week during the US election there has been a shift in the spirit—a seismic shift, as I called it—that I felt rippled out to the nations of the earth.
It was a twofold process.
First, it was a message to the enemy: God is not done with America and the nations, and He’s not done with the church.
Second, it was a seismic shockwave broadcasting that we’ve entered a new chapter and a restart that begins now.
Let me prophesy: Just as when Jesus died on the cross, He said, “It is finished,” and darkness spread out over the earth, and there was a deep earthquake, in that same way, an old chapter ended, and a new one began.
There was a restart in the Spirit that began to take place.
LET THE REPAIR-RATIONS BEGIN
This week we entered into a Nehemiah moment where after the tomb and the demolition comes the rebuilding..
The enemy has been slowly dismantling people and nations through ideologies, agendas, and lies, but there is a great revealing speeding up that will bring about a great repentance, and a rebuilding.
The light is on families, and nations.
And I heard the word “REPARATIONS!”
It’s the justice and recovery of the Lord personally and globally!
Watch and see the hand of the Lord people of God!
So, body of Christ, let me say this to you and prophesy this clearly: You’ve been through closure.
You’ve been through the season of things falling to the ground and dying.
You’ve been through the darkest nights of the soul in these last three to four years.
But we are entering the greatest resurrection moment and restart that we’ve ever seen.
The greatest comeback we have seen in our lifetime.
You and I, the Church, and humanity are coming out of the tomb.
We’re unwinding the bandages and looking our Savior in the eyes again and following Him and no one else.
This is the restart...
