On This Day of The LORD...

24^th June 2015

Renovations

Renovations are going on around you. You may even be slightly involved in them. However, those actively involved in them do not know that they are doing it for you and, in fact, you do not know it either. Just give it your best shot because right there is your blessing.

GOD BLESS YOU.

The Upper Room

We are about to have an 'upper room experience' complete with a mighty wind and tongues of fire...and I intend to be a big part of it! I intend to be among those in that upper room and I intend to be embraced by it and to be changed by it!

Dear Lord, I need to tarry at 'Jerusalem' and wait for your promise!

Betrayal

Once again, I smell betrayal in the city! This time, there will even be money involved and it will have something to do with ‘thirty’. Beware.

The good news, however, is that you have victory. Just as Judas betrayed JESUS for only thirty silver pieces but ended up the defeated one, you too will have victory in CHRIST. It will be the beginning of your long awaited promotion.

  

Zechariah 11:12-13

“...So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter” — the handsome price at which they priced me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD to the potter”.

24^th June 2015

Victory Over the Spirit of Death

Now, sometimes, GOD will speak to me through recurring situations. Therefore, I realized that GOD was giving me a word for this season when two different born-again women had similar experiences, one in a vision and another in a dream (below). In one situation, the woman’s husband was very sick when she had a vision just a night before his worst attack. If she had not stood in the gap the night that she had that vision, her husband would have died.

The other woman had a dream that mirrored the vision the first woman had. Below, is the word that was birthed following their narrated experiences.

There is a spirit of death stalking the families of believers. GOD is warning wives and mothers in visions and dreams. In these dreams, this spirit is reflected as strange men breaking into or falsely gaining entry into their homes. Thankfully, these women gain victory after rebuking that spirit. Their victory in the dreams will avert the spirit of death in reality. Their husbands and children are safe from harm. Many born-again women have been given the mandate to pray over their families but they have been in a slumber! It is now time to WAKE UP and avert death.

GOD BLESS YOU.

Not on My Watch!

I have often said that I am a ‘watchman’...one who never goes away from her 'station'! However, why do certain things happen that should never have happened, on my watch, had I truly been the best watchman in the kingdom of GOD?

Hosea 9:8

“The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman”

I was so saddened when I heard about the killings engineered by Dylann Roof but I was also very disappointed in myself as a ‘watchman’. Where was I when this happened? I was supposed to have known that it was going to happen and avert it. Was I not at my post, as a WATCHMAN? Where was I? Why did I not get an alarm that this was going to happen? As one who operates in the office of the Prophet, I was supposed to have learned about it before it actually happened! I was supposed to avert that attack through intercession! Had I abandoned my post or was I sleeping on duty?

Revelation 10:7

“...just as he announced to his servants the prophets.”

This set of questions is only part of many questions I have recently asked myself about what happens around me, especially, in my country (Uganda). While many are busy robbing, raping, or murdering others, where am I? Why did I not hear about it before it happened? Why did I not stand in the gap to ensure that it did not happen?

I do not know if I speak to you and about you as well when I say that I must have drifted off to sleep while on duty! I was caught sleeping on duty and those over whom I was left in charge were killed! Oh, NO!

Now, this latest killing, by Dylann Roof, left me wounded at heart. Why did I not know about it and pray against it. Perhaps it would have been avoided had I been in my place as a watchman or had I been AWAKE. Things such as these should never happen on my watch, which happens to be all the time! Maybe, just one watchman was off duty or sleeping but what about you...where were you?

Isaiah 52:1

“Awake, awake, O Zion, clothe yourself with strength. Put on your garments of splendour, O Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again”.

I feel that we, as the Body of Christ, have gone into a slumber and we need to WAKE UP! We are the security system of the kingdom of GOD here on earth and we need to ‘smell’ danger from afar! We must have all our antennae in place to alert us when something is not right and we must be able to avert it through prayer!

Today, I purpose that I shall put my ear on the heart of GOD and hear His heartbeat. I should be able to hear what is going to happen so that I can help stand in the gap. These evil occurrences should not happen on my watch!

Prayer

Dear GOD, I am tired of hearing about rapes, murders and other such acts of evil. However, I do confess that I went off into a slumber while on duty. Please forgive me. I now arise and put on my garment of strength. I return to my post, LORD, and ask you to release the grace that will keep me awake on duty. Reveal to me things to come so that I can stand in the gap and prayerfully avert danger. I thank you, LORD, because you have done it. In JESUS’ name, I have prayed, amen.   

‘UNLEARN’

I wrote a poem called, ‘Unlearn’ a few years back that I published (online) in my book called, ‘The Bridge’. I did not think much about it when I uploaded an audio of it a few weeks back. However, while going through my notes yesterday I came across something that I wrote in 2008.

24^th March 2008

Get Thirsty... Unlearn

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. The wild animals honour me, the jackals and the owls,

because I provide water in the desert and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen, the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise” (Isaiah 43:18-21).

I AM pouring out my Spirit afresh but you must first unlearn all that you learned and then I will start a new thing.

21^st April 2008

You think that you know everything about me but you do not. You will unlearn the old ways of doing things, the Moses way, and learn new ways (JESUS ways) of doing them. I AM doing a new thing. Can you not perceive it (Isaiah 43:18 and Isaiah 44)?

When I read the above words, I realized that nothing just happens. Everything done under the guidance of the Spirit of GOD follows an unwritten process. As was in this case, I had even forgotten that that poem had any relation to a prophetic word. In fact, I do not remember which came first...the word or the poem...but all that is not important. What is important is that the poem is backed by a prophetic word. This reinforced my belief that everything that GOD does through me is purposed to be released in the time that it should be released. He does operate according to seasons and to think that the season of emphasis happened seven years after I wrote it is amazing.

Therefore, it is without a doubt that GOD wants us to ‘unlearn’ or forget all that we have picked up along the way so that He can teach us anew. He wants us to empty ourselves so that He can fill us up.

Even though, this has a lot to do with the spiritual things, it also involves the physical stuff that we need to accomplish our daily activities.

For instance, there are so many examples of the things GOD has taught me to do. Some of them were computer programmes or technical ways in which to do things that I had never done before or been taught before. Other things were spiritual matters that I picked up from those I encountered in life I simply admitted that I did not know and requested Him to teach me. In some instances, I mentally reached out and pulled out everything that I had learned along the way and asked Him to teach me again.

Consequently, today, GOD wants me to tell you to unlearn all that you learned and ask Him to teach you anew.

Prayer

Dear GOD, I thank you for all that you have enabled me to learn along the way. However, because of your word above, I choose to lay it aside so that you can teach me afresh. In JESUS’ name, I have prayed, amen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi3UCX8CVo4

'Number 2'

Has GOD ever told you something consistently until you finally got what He was saying?

Well, recently, GOD surprised me by consistently showing me the number ‘2’ and then later showing me the words, ‘Number 2’. He kept on saying it and I kept on asking Him what it was about.

Later as I made my way from a certain shop, a young woman I had only just met came running after me that she had been advised not to let me go until I had prayed for her. Well, I was in a hurry to leave and I honestly did not feel very prayerful or in the spirit at that time. However, her grip on my hand was quite tight that I had no way of escaping! Anyway, she told me about her social life and I ministered to her. Even though, GOD had already spoken to me about who His choice for her of the two male suitors is, I still asked her for their names so that I could pray some more. Now as soon as she handed me the slip of paper, I asked her which one of the names was the man GOD had talked to us about and she said it was the second name. It was only later, in my closet, that GOD spoke again and I realized that actually the man she had written as number two was the man GOD had confirmed is her future husband!

All along, GOD had been preparing me for this woman! Therefore, the ‘number 2’ had nothing to do with me but with a woman who I nearly did not pray for!

GOD BLESS YOU.

Rest

Every so often, we endure situations that break us but that do not kill us. They are so painful that we wonder if we shall ever make it ‘out of here’ this time. These situations usually remind me of an ‘illness’ and the rest that must follow during and after it.

Hebrews 4:7

“Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

Hebrews 4:10-11

“for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no-one will fall by following their example of disobedience”.

Entering the rest of GOD is something that is hard for most of us. Sometimes, we ‘work’ so hard that resting is simply not an option! The ‘rest’ that I am talking about is what happens when you choose to ‘get away from ‘it’ all’ until you 'heal'! You get away from the anger, the pain, the bitterness, and all those painful emotions that result from being hurt. These emotions are what I sometimes refer to as brokenness – you get undone. Each one of us has a breaking point. However, as we grow in our walk with Christ, the breaking points become fewer. I am yet to find out if we will ever grow so much that we stop breaking.

Nonetheless, sometimes we refuse to break – we resist it. It is unfortunate that this resistance is tantamount to hardening one’s heart. We should be pliable to brokenness so that we can enjoy the healing power of GOD as we choose to rest in Him.

Sometimes, we suffer from particular sicknesses and take the necessary medication prescribed to us. Doctors then advise us to ‘take it slow’ and that we must not ‘get up too soon’. However, some of us do not know how to rest – in fact, as soon as we can stand up and support ourselves, we up and GO! Sometimes, we get away with it but at other times, we do not because it catches up with us and we succumb to the same illness again!

Lamentations 1:2-3

“Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is none to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies. After affliction and harsh labour, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

Brokenness is a place of tears, betrayal by friends, affliction, lack of comfort and exile. It is a place that you cannot call your own – it is not your ‘resting place’. Brokenness is actually a place of distress where your enemies have pursued you and overtaken you! It is a place in which you admit seeming ‘defeat’ and choose to return to the GOD of all peace. This place is one in which you feel the nails been dug into your flesh – your ‘flesh’ feels the pain!   

Now, I relate this to our spiritual and emotional lives as well. Sometimes, things happen to us that derail us for a while but because we think that we need to pretend that everything is just fine, we get up too soon! I have found this not to be good at all. If we ‘get up’ too soon we stand the risk of not ‘recovering fully’ from that ‘illness’ or falling sick again after a very short time!

Of course, it is not easy for someone as ‘busy’ as you and I are to rest but GOD Himself tells us to enter His rest! It is no wonder, therefore, that He rested on the seventh day and that He tells us to do so as well! We must rest from our ‘work’, and be still and know that He is indeed GOD! Of course, there are so many things that we should be doing and that are linked to the area we operate in from which the brokenness accrued, but rest we must. This rest enables us to allow the healing process to go on without a hitch.

The ‘emotional and spiritual illnesses’ are my main concern today. In life, we meet people who break us by their words, actions, or even inactivity even as we too do our own ‘breaking’. If we are on the receiving end, nevertheless, those who break us move on without a care in the world. It is true that they may not know that they hurt us but even if they do, they will continue doing so for as long as they have access to us.

Subsequently, it is imperative for us to allow ourselves to hurt or grieve but also to ‘heal’ – we must enter HIS REST. Unfortunately, as Christians, we ‘program’ ourselves into believing that it is not right for us to hurt or to take some time off to ‘deal with this’ and that is why most of us break under the strain. We must allow ourselves to hurt so that we can grow past it and so that we can take some much deserved time off to heal. We are not superwoman, batman, or any of those cartoon characters – we are human and human beings hurt and hurt one another.

2Corinthians 12:9

“...for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong”.

What breaks us most is denying, to ourselves as well as to others, that ‘that really hurt me’. Some Christians believe that admitting that we are hurt is a sign of weakness and, YES, it is. However, how then would GOD’S power be made manifest in us if we were not weak enough to receive it? For this reason, I will often look back and think to myself that, ‘I would never have made it through that if it had not been for GOD’.

You must realize that you cannot enter His rest for as long as you pretend that you are macho and that everyone else is the weak one...You can only enter His rest when you admit, to yourself, that ‘this is hard...it is so painful that I need to go away for a while...I need to heal’. However as long as you pretend that you are okay, yet you are not, GOD’S rest will be far from you. Therefore, today, I encourage you to feel the pain, hurt as much as you will and allow yourself to rest and grow past it.

John 14:30

“I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He

has no hold on me.”

By the grace of GOD, I have learned to be silent when in this place. I do not allow myself to say anything at all – I sit in one place with my finger on my lips as an act of silence so that I can hear GOD more but also so that I can grow faster. I have also learned that the enemy has nothing on me provided I am silent. In fact, I will often allow myself to stay away from certain people or certain places so that I do not say what I should not say but more so so that I can heal better. It is my belief that the people who hurt us or break us are those that we should not allow near us during our rest. We need to feel the peace of the LORD again before we can allow them in. We must also be willing to forgive them and bless them because this is what GOD wants us to do but also because it is balm to our very own hearts. I have never been able to explain it but when I forgive my enemies and bless them, peace replaces the anxiety in my spirit.

In this resting place, I have also come to acknowledge something. The source of my pain may never change his or her stripes but if I am to continue dealing with the likes of him or her, I must be the one to change. I must be able to stand him or her. In other words, I must mature beyond the person who consistently causes me pain. This place is truly a place of growth for me even as it is my healing place. It enables me to see the areas in which I need to grow and then ask the Spirit of GOD to help me grow. You must realize that each ‘sickness’ makes me aware of the things I may or may not have done that ‘opened that door’. On this ‘sick bed’, I will also determine not to continue doing those things that caused this situation. I must not get out of ‘this’ the same way. I have to get out as a better person – that is the plunder that I, as the VICTOR, walks away with!

You must realize that just as choosing to rest is not easy and is a process, so is healing and growth. They do not happen overnight. However, I can determine how fast I heal by being still and silent but also being careful to do only that which GOD commands me to do. Sometimes, I do not feel fully recovered to return to the ‘arena’ or to do the things that GOD commands me to do but I must obey the Master. You see, part of my recovery has a lot to do with obedience even when I do not want to. I MUST never leave the resting place the same way I entered it. I must forgive and bless my enemies even as I must obey my Master.

I will also often remember and apply what I have come to know as the ‘measles example’ that the older generation has been gracious enough to share with me. Well, they say that even if measles is a very deadly disease and that some children do not survive it, it is better that a child suffers from it and recovers from it. You see, they say, that once someone has suffered from measles, he or she will never suffer from it again. I do not know what the Doctors call that. Anyway, I will often take every ‘ailment’ as a measles example. Once you have had it, you will not have it again provided you receive the right treatment for it and recover from it. Whatever, it is that breaks me accords me the right to heal from it and to decide that ‘I will never feel like this again’... ‘I will not return to this place’. This too, is part of my plunder as I return to my normal way of life.  

The time comes, in my ‘resting place’, when I feel around me inside and realize that I HEALED and that it is time for me to return to the place where it all began. I will not rush into the arena, though, but will take ‘baby steps’ until I am sure of my bearings and stability. This time, as I step forward, I purpose to do things differently as I do them the way I have been taught to do them in the ‘resting place’.   

May you, too, allow yourself to feel the brokenness but also to enter His rest. May you be still and silent as you rest from your works and get healed by the Master. May you obey His instructions as you rest and when it is time to return to the ‘arena’, may the grace of GOD go ahead of you.

Finally, I want you to realize that even though brokenness feels like defeat to you, GOD may see it differently. You may feel like you have been defeated but only because your flesh feels the pain.

Prayer

Dear GOD, I admit that I am sometimes too proud to admit that I am hurting and that I am weak. Please forgive me. Give me the grace to allow myself to feel the pain and the hurt so that I can enter your rest. I pray that today I do not harden my heart but that I make it pliable to you. Help me to be still and silent as I learn to rest in you. Teach me to forgive and bless my enemies because that is what you require of me. Father, I also ask you to give me the grace to obey you and follow your instructions to the letter even though I may not want to.

Heavenly Father, may I also acknowledge that what I may see as defeat in the natural may actually be victory in your eyes. May I always see situations as you see them and may I follow you wholeheartedly as Caleb did. In JESUS’ name, I have prayed, amen.