I am very late in getting this edition of Transformed Living published because my family has been dealing with an exceptionally difficult reality since February 10, 2024. Since a large number of you who subscribe to this are personal friends, I am asking in all earnest for your prayers for God’s swift intervention, healing and deliverance. Our present reality is among the top 3 most devastating issues we have ever experienced–nothing short of life and death.
I have been aware that this year would be one of heightened spiritual battles. In fact, I have shared on my podcast that I fully expected the time from Purim, which was March 23, 2024 through Pentecost which was May 19, 2024. to be a time when God would be setting up world matters that He would begin dealing with following Pentecost. I’ve said we would see His hand of justice against evil in undeniable ways and that we could expect evil to fight back with all available power. So for our very serious family issue being raised at this time, I am not surprised and instead I am believing this is the hand of God exposing evil to be dealt with once and for all and I’m applying earnest faith that we will see His victory in this truly devastating time.
While I ask for your prayers, please know I am also praying for you. I have every reason to believe you or someone you are directly connected to are caught in this time of intensity of the times. I am keenly aware that people all over the world are suffering in this time of heightened spiritual battle. We see it manifest in family matters, financial matters, church and government matters. In fact, these are the four “doors” God has revealed He would be working in in 2024 which in Hebrew is the year of the door.
I sent a text to a dear friend asking for specific prayer and she wrote back, “Yes, I will pray. There is something serious going on right now in both the spiritual and the natural realms. I am dealing with 2 deaths, a suicidal situation, and several life-or-death illnesses plus other crisis.”
Because of my weekly podcast, which sincerely hope you regularly listen to, I seek the Lord constantly for understanding the times, to help us as His children to know how He wants us to respond to what He is doing. And that’s the key. As God’s children we must be fixed on responding to what God is doing and not what the enemy of God is doing. If you are overwhelmed with fear, that is a clue you are more focused on the enemy than on God. When we are fearfully focused on what the enemy is doing we actually empower him. When we are focused on what God is doing we diminish the power of the enemy. The enemy only has as much power as we give him.
God has warned us through His written Word, the Bible, and His spoken Word to us individually when we pray and listen and through His Prophets, that we would experience a time of tremendous shaking, BUT the shaking is against evil, to expose and deal with evil for the justification and benefit of God’s people. We must remain focused on this truth in the same way the Israelites did that night of the first Passover when the Death Angel visited Egypt and took the first-born son from all families that were not obedient to God to have the blood of the sacrificial lamb on the doorposts of their home, while being dressed and ready to depart at a moment’s notice. With what we are experiencing today, it is not difficult to imagine what it was like for God’s people that night, as explained in the book of Exodus. With undeniable awareness of the extent of evil at work all around us, we must drown out the fearful sounds and intentionally focus on the Word of God.
The goal of my podcast is to help us make sense out of what’s occurring in the world. It’s not because I’m interested in politics, governments, or headline news. It’s because I’m interested in what God is doing to overcome evil and advance His Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Because the enemy of God has tried to gain control over world affairs through governments, politics and people, we must learn to discern events and become engaged as partners with God for what He is doing. Then we can actually see the path of victory, overcome fear and be effectively engage with God’s effort to subdue evil.
Applying our faith to the knowledge of God, His revealed character, will and intentions, is the best way I know of to overcome fear and prevent the enemy from having any influence in our lives. The Bible is clear, we are to submit ourselves to God, resist the devil and he must flee, (James 4:7). I also rely on Luke 10:19 with a special liking to the Amplified Classic version: “Behold! I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and [physical and mental strength and ability] over all the power that the enemy [possesses]; and nothing shall in any way harm you.” Jesus earnestly taught His disciples and teaches us today, that faith in Him, without doubting Him or His promises, coupled with obedience to do what He has asked us to do, will always produce God’s best.
Whatever hardship or suffering your are enduring, dig deep to apply your faith, even asking for more faith where you are weak. Seek the prayer partnership of others who are strong in faith, joining your faith with theirs. Listen to what God is directing you to do and be obedient especially in the midst of your suffering.
I have endured several serious significant life-trials, some were long lived and I can assure you, intentionally choosing to believe by faith, listening and being obedient to do what God asks, is the best way to not only make it through the suffering, but to receive God’s promised victory in the shortest amount of time possible. Consider the Israelites once they were delivered from their Egyptian slavery. They experienced God’s miraculous delivery yet, in their journey to God’s Promised Land, they allowed their focus to get off of God and His promises and onto the hardship in the journey. Because of this, the people traveled 40 years in what could otherwise have been an eleven-day journey.
We are in a Time of Accountability. Through tests and trials God is revealing who are truly devoted to Him and who are not. Those who are will see His victory promises manifest. Those who are not, will experience His promises of correction and/or justice manifest. Since 2020 God has allowed us to live through a Time for Accountability–His time of grace when we could choose to repent and be in position to receive His blessing. However, justice demands there come a Time of Accountability, which I believe we are in now–it has begun. Prophetically, I believe God has revealed this time of justice will continue through the end of 2024, and during this time the disparity between those who are God’s people and those who are not will become undeniably apparent.
My prayers for you and for me, are that we truly understand the times, dig deep and apply our faith, even partnering with others to fortify our faith and that we are obedient to what He asks of us so that we do not delay our promised victories, Amen.
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