When you walk in the prophetic people are always asking you, "What's the Lord telling you?" Most of the time I just smile and shake my head like I've got a surprise pot of Gumbo on the stove and its not quite ready to serve. It's always better the longer it sits! Yep, there are seasons when we wait before the Lord and hold a word until God releases it. Now that's good eating! But lately there is an urgency in the spirit to get the word out. Now, I didn't say panic, that's how the enemy works. Panic is fear based. Urgency is from necessity or importunity. God is saying, "Blow the trumpet!Sound the alarm!" There is a necessity to awaken the sleeper and warn the wicked! The day of the Lord is coming! The book of Joel gives us a fantastic picture of what this day will be like. Get your "waders" on it's the former rain and the latter rain together!
Another reference the Lord gave me is in Nehemiah. Great was the opposition and the fear of the people in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem. So Nehemiah armed the workers,and kept a trumpeter by his side. "And I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, The work is great and extensive, and we are separated on the wall far from one another. At whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us."(Nehemiah 4:19-20) As we are working in the kingdom together are we aware of one another that we are not in this alone? I need to know that when the enemy attacks on my portion of the wall that the workers from the other parts are there to war for me and support me. Are you on alert? Are you listening for the trumpet call to rally around your brother or sister on the wall?
An interesting note, this is the Hebraic month Elul. It is the month of repentance, preparing our hearts for the High Holy Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. It is a time of cleansing the season of teshuvah, the 40 days of repentance leading to the Day of Atonement. The shofar is blown every week day after morning services as a custom to "wake up the sleepers, to rouse us from complacency".
Paul's urgent message was this,"Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed." (Icor.15:51-52)
I don't know about you, but I'm getting the message; Blow and Go!
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Hey, I really enjoyed this. I’ve been hearing this same call from others the last few weeks. And even in nature: autumn is fast upon us, time to harvest before the winter sets in!