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Word For Today January 1, 2021: Part 1: Unprecedented glory begins! Humility, Brokenness, and genuine repentance for such at time as this!
Beloved,
This is part 1 of a word God has been downloading in my heart for the next few days and what is coming. I will post part 2 later today:
As I woke up this morning and considered all that is going on in our nation, the Lord reminded me of something He taught me many year ago.
He said, “Brokenness and Humility are the foundation of God’s kingdom. I never forgot those words to this day.
As we consider these next few days of where our nation is headed I believe we must consider our ways.
When all the judgments came upon Israel, God raised up a prophet named Haggai, to call the people back to true repentance and to get their lives aligned with God.
Haggai chapter 1 is a testimony of how God uses judgments to warn his people and cause them to truly repent of their sins individually and as a nation.
I have noticed that those who who lead the prayer movement in this nation often focus on our national sins, but not much on our personal sins and the sins that are in the House of God.
They are leading major prayer marches and vigils to pray for the nations sin, but it seems like God is not hearing us yet.
Why is that? Perhaps before God can forgive a nation of its sin, God must forgive the church in that nations sins first, to heal their land.
In 2nd Chronicles 7:14 God is not asking them to repent of a “nations sins” but the call is to IF MY PEOPLE, CALLED BY MY NAME.
Joel the prophet also calls the the “people of God” individually and collectively to come and keep coming with fasting and weeping until every place of broken fellowship with God is restored.
No one was exempt. Is this the true repentance we see in the church right now as our nation stands in the cross hairs of the one world order? I don’t think so.
Even with all the judgments, all the harbingers, we are not heeding the true call to repent or perhaps we just don’t know how to repent before our Holy God.
Let us read what God says through the prophet Haggai to His people:
1 In the second year of Darius king [of Persia], in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by means of Haggai the prophet [in Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity] to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
2 Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say, The time is not yet come that the [a]Lord’s house should be rebuilt [although Cyrus had ordered it done eighteen years before]. 3 Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house [of the Lord] lies in ruins?
5 Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways and set your mind on what has come to you.
6 You have sown much, but you have reaped little; you eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you do not have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages has earned them to put them in a bag with holes in it. 7 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways (your previous and present conduct) and how you have fared.
8 Go up into the hill country and bring lumber and rebuild [My] house, and I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified, says the Lord [by accepting it as done for My glory and by displaying My glory in it].
9 You looked for much [harvest], and behold, it came to little; and even when you brought that home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because of My house, which lies waste while you yourselves run each man to his own house [eager to build and adorn it]. 10 Therefore the heavens above you [for your sake] withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its produce.
11 And I have called for a drought upon the land and the hill country, upon the grain, the fresh wine, the oil, upon what the ground brings forth, upon men and cattle, and upon all the [wearisome] toil of [men’s] hands.
12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people [who had returned from captivity], listened to and obeyed the voice of the Lord their God [not vaguely or partly, but completely, according to] the words of Haggai the prophet, since the Lord their God had sent him, and the people [reverently] feared and [worshipfully] turned to the Lord.
13 Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s message to the people saying, I am with you, says the Lord.
14 And the Lord aroused the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, so that they came and labored on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, Verses 5-7 the Lord speaks to their spiritual condition.
This is the same God who is going to speak to the condition of the church in this nation from the book of Revelation chapters 2 and 3, but where is the true brokenness and humility of the heart God needs to forgive our sins and heal our land?
5 Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways and set your mind on what has come to you
6 You have sown much, but you have reaped little; you eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you do not have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages has earned them to put them in a bag with holes in it.
7 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways (your previous and present conduct) and how you have fared.
Beloved on this New Years Day, why is the Lord putting humility and brokenness as the true foundation in my heart to share with His people?
Could it be Beloved of God, that God wants us CONSIDER OUR WAYS AND SET OUR MINDS ON WHAT HAS COME TO YOU?
Will 5 fold ministers, Fathers, Husbands, Wives, Mothers, Grandparents, and children hear the word of the Lord that we must truly repent now?
Our nation stands in the balance, but will we bring to God, lip service or heart service? Could it be now said of us, we have sown much… look at all the protest of the election, look at all the fraud that was found… why is it falling on deaf ears so far?
You have sown much and you have reaped little, you eat but you don’t have enough, you drink and you are not full, you clothe yourselves and no one is warm, and you earn ages to put them in a bag with wholes in them?
How true it this for our nation and the church in this nation? What does God ask of us? Have we done that?
He says, “Consider your way, your previous and present conduct.”What a word for us today?
The Book of revelation chapter 3 speaks of the sin in the house of God with a call to true repentance, change and to overcome. To the church in Laodecia the Lord says these words:
14 And to the angel (messenger) of the assembly (church) in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the trusty and faithful and true Witness, the Origin and Beginning and Author of God’s creation:
15 I know your [record of] works and what you are doing; you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!
16 So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth! 17 For you say, I am rich; I have prospered and grown wealthy, and I am in need of nothing; and you do not realize and understand that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
How is this not the same warning and condition God finds his church in this nation as He did in the time of Haggai and Joel?
Let us go a bit deeper into why true heart repentance is needed for us as we begin the first day of 2021 now that we are transplanted in a new ground of “unprecedented glory?” God’s glory can only fill broken and contrite hearts, that are humble, innocent and sincere. In many ways like a child in their clinging to God and as a Man broken before the Lord like David.
One of the functions of God’s divine convergence of the saints in 2021 that will breakthrough and change the spiritual atmosphere over churches, cities, regions and nations will come through true and genuine repentance before God.
This repentance is going to release the glory and fire of God in the midst of each gathering to finish, purify his saints so they can be filled with unprecedented glory that God is releasing in His remnant warriors.
Not one thing of darkness, not one way of darkness or of sin is going to be seen or remain his pure holy bride, his full grown sons and daughters.
They will be filled with the Glory of the King of Glory and that glory will be SEEN RISEN UPON THEM IN THE BURNING HOLINESS OF GOD’S PURE HOLY LOVE!
As we enter into 2021 God is asking His entire body to “consider our ways, and what ha come to us? He is not telling us to pray for our nation and politicians first to repent but us to stay the same in our spiritual nations sins in the house of God.
Verses 9-11 again speak to what the Lord is seeking and what He is looking for in His people?
9 You looked for much [harvest], and behold, it came to little; and even when you brought that home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because of My house, which lies waste while you yourselves run each man to his own house [eager to build and adorn it]. 10 Therefore the heavens above you [for your sake] withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its produce.
11 And I have called for a drought upon the land and the hill country, upon the grain, the fresh wine, the oil, upon what the ground brings forth, upon men and cattle, and upon all the [wearisome] toil of [men’s] hands.
Please Beloveds hear the word of the Lord at why these things were able to come upon this nation in 2020 and why it seems to be getting worse and darker surely with this Covid -19. The enemy announced 2021 to be a “dark winter” God has announced it to be “ a winter of his arising Light and glory.”
Which one do we truly want as God’s people and what is God asking from us a spiritual nation, not the American nation first, but God’s people called by His name!
Again the Prophet speaks for God and says, “you have looked for much harvest?” Isn’t that what the church leaders of the church age are looking for, waiting for and planning for, “the end time harvest?”
Yet God says, Yet, it came to little, and even what you brought into your home (churches) I BLEW IT AWAY.. WHY? WHY? WHY, SAYS THE LORD OF HOST…
Beloved, are we ready to hear the truth as the Body of Christ in this nation? Do we want to be taken over by the one world order that will come if God does not intervene in this nation and turn this tide around?
Do we want more time to get ready for God’s end time judgments in this nation or do we want them now? THEN WE MUST CONSIDER OUR WAYS!
God give the people of Israel the answer through Haggai, Do you want to hear it? They did. So powerful was this rebuke God opened their hearts to receive it, and they repented and turned around in their hearts.
Why are we in this position as a spiritual nation and a nation ready to be turned from a sheep nation for God to be a goat nation against him. Here is the reason:
Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because of My house, which lies waste while you yourselves run each man to his own house [eager to build and adorn it].
Beloved, this is exactly the Word Jesus speaks to the last church age church represented in Laodecia as the third day’s kingdom age dawns in our midst.
He tells the church of our day what our condition is and what the Lord will do to that people if they don’t repent and turn back to God? Revelation chapter 3: 1
4 And to the angel (messenger) of the assembly (church) in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the trusty and faithful and true Witness, the Origin and Beginning and Author of God’s creation:
5 I know your [record of] works and what you are doing; you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!
6 So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth!
7 For you say, I am rich; I have prospered and grown wealthy, and I am in need of nothing; and you do not realize and understand that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
What does the Lord say to the church in this nation on January 1, 2020? What is He saying to remnant warriors planted in the new ground of 2021 unprecedented glory:
Humility and Brokenness are the foundation stones of the kingdom and how we must intercede and pray individually and collectively to see the transformational change needed for the advancement of the Kingdom of God with the glory of God these next 5 days and beyond.
God is intervening on our behalf but we must be aligned with what He desires to receive all He desires to do on the earth in this season of the New Year.
In Revelation chapter 3:19 we find the call to repent, change and overcome in our day as God spoke to the children of Israel in Haggai’s day.
Jesus speaks to each and every single person individually and corporately what He needs and why for our day:
19 Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I tell their faults and convict and convince and reprove and chasten [I discipline and instruct them]. So be enthusiastic and in earnest and burning with zeal and repent [changing your mind and attitude].
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he [will eat] with Me.
21 He who overcomes (is victorious), I will grant him to sit beside Me on My throne, as I Myself overcame (was victorious) and sat down beside My Father on His throne.
The remnant of God and the people of God in Haggai’s time headed the word of God when they could see… they could see what God saw.. and their true spiritual condition.
Unless we can see individually, as a family, a church and the Body of Christ our true spiritual condition in our land NOTHING CHANGES AND THINGS GET WORSE! TRUE REPENTANCE CHANGES AN INDIVIDUAL, A FAMILY, A CHURCH AND NATIONS DIRECTION FROM EVIL TO GOD’S GOODNESS!
Let’s close out part 1of this post with what the remnant people did and how God answered when they were confronted with their sins and what we need to do.
In part 2 of this word, We are going to unfold Joel chapter 2 and Psalm 51 of King David as spiritual tools we must use in the next few days.
Remnant of God you have been transplanted today into a new land, a new year, of unprecedented glory. In that glory is the power of God to open the eyes of the blind and remove the blindness satan has put on the hearts and minds in the house of God, your family, churches and even cities and the nation.
The glory of God is so powerful that when men see it, THEY FALL ON THEIR FACES AS DEAD MEN. THEY SEE THEMSELVES AS THEY REALLY ARE BEFORE GOD. LIKE ISAIAH CRIED OUT, I AM UNDONE, I AM A MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS AMIDST OF PEOPLE OF UNCLEAN LIPS.
ONE SECOND IN THE REVEALED GLORY OF GOD BRINGS SUCH CONVICTION OF SIN, RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUDGMENT THE MEN OF GOD FELL ON THEIR FACES….. HOW MUCH MORE WILL THAT HAPPEN WHEN HIS GLORY IS SEEN UPON YOU WITH YOUR HUSBAND, WIFE, CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, PRODIGALS, THOSE WHO NEED HEALING AND DELIVERANCE?
HOW MUCH MORE WILL IT CHANGE A CHURCH FROM DARKNESS, MIXTURE OF FLESH AND SPIRIT TO REPENT AND RETURN TO THEIR FIRST LOVE AND DO THEIR FIRST WORK?
GOD’S GLORY TRANSFORMS EVERYTHING. IT BURNS UP EVERYTHING THAT IS DARKNESS AND SIN AND REMOVES IT FULLY. IT TRANSFORMS EVERYTHING INTO HIS GLORIOUS LIGHT THAT GOD WANTS TO REMAIN.
IT IS THE GOODNESS OF GOD THAT LEADS A MAN TO REPENTANCE. THE DARK CLOUD THE ENEMY RELEASED ON THIS NATION BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE ELECTION IS GOING TO BE REMOVED BY GOD’S GLORY FILLING HIS REMNANT WARRIORS NOW!
We have been transplanted in the new year of 2021 for such a time as this. THE FIRST WORK OF THE GLORY REALM OF THE KINGDOM IS THE CALL TO REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS IN HAND. IT IS NO LONGER AT HAND AS IN THE CHURCH AGE, IT IS NOW IN HAND, FOR THAT GLORY SHALL BE SEEN RISEN UPON US!
What did one ounce of God’s glory filled word do the people of Isreal in Haggai’s day? Let us read it. When God explained why the judgments came, they were ready to repent. I pray we are as we understand why this darkness is overtaking our land in the church of God. Haggai 3 say,
11 And I have called for a drought upon the land and the hill country, upon the grain, the fresh wine, the oil, upon what the ground brings forth, upon men and cattle, and upon all the [wearisome] toil of [men’s] hands.
12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people [who had returned from captivity], listened to and obeyed the voice of the Lord their God [not vaguely or partly, but completely, according to] the words of Haggai the prophet, since the Lord their God had sent him, and the people [reverently] feared and [worshipfully] turned to the Lord.
( Do you see what God requires beloved of the Lord?)
13 Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s message to the people saying, I am with you, says the Lord.
14 And the Lord aroused the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, so that they came and labored on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, I want us to read this verse carefully: God arouse the Spirit of Zerubbabel and Joshua, AND THE SPIRIT OF THE REMNANT PEOPLE OF GOD… THAT IS THE GROUND WE ARE TRANSPLANTED IN TODAY…
What is the fruit of God’s glory to change a nation: SO THEY CAME AND LABORED ON THE HOUSE OF THE LORD OF HOSTS AS GOD INSTRUCTED THEM TO DO FROM THE BEGINNING WITH HIM.
A closing prayer:
Father, give us ears to hear, eyes to see, and hearts to understand the first work of the new year 2021 of your unprecedented glory.
May we enter into your glory realm in the third heaven to repent, stand in the gap for us all in this nation.
Father, our nation is being weighed by you because of our choices, the choices we have made and the sin and idolatry we have allowed in our hearts, our families, our churches and cities. We have compromised with the spirit of Jezebel, Anti-christ and Religion and have turned from your heart.
God, we your remnant people today will consider our ways before you. We will turn to you with all our hearts, and humble ourselves for real, seek your face and turn from our wicked ways as David did.
Lord, we pray this day you will hear your remnant people and come and forgive our sins and heal our land.
We ask this in Jesus name!
