The heavenly chamber. The Father’s urgent call. The exhortation. Three components of 2025’s watchwords from New Year’s Eve intercession.

I will take my stand at my watch post and station myself on the tower and look out to see what He will say to me.” —Habakkuk 2:1
 

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READING TIME: 8-10 MINUTES

WATCHWORD GIVEN: At the stroke of midnight (heralding in January 1, 2025) through the third watch (midnight to 3 am).

A distinct vision stood before me during my latest New Year’s Eve midnight rendezvous with God, a longstanding, specially designated intercessory appointment for the coming year’s watchwords.

But in the weeks prior, He’d given guideposts that I recorded—three spiritual dreams, followed by a fourth in the early hours of New Year’s. Each vivid, each a brick in the buildup to round out the 2025 watchwords.

Only excerpts of two dreams—the third and fourth that sandwiched the New Year’s Eve intercession, titled below—are woven into the last section of this post.

Dream 3. White Parchment: stand fiercely

Dream 4. Gowned Bride Running Late: discern the schemes

The other two watchword-dreams appear in separate prior posts, though connected: Buffet, No Food and 61/22.

For easy reading, this post is divided under three subheads:

The Heavenly Chamber. The Father’s Urgent Call. The Exhortation.

THE HEAVENLY CHAMBER

As the Holy Spirit surrounded me after midnight, He soon brought me to an ethereal, broad yet unwalled chamber, embodied in a heavenly white with delicate, regal architecture rising in the distant front.

A chamber . . .

Purified.

Sanctified.

Set apart. Intimate.

Holy. Kadosh. (קָדוֹשׁ)

Ensconced in immeasurable awe and reverence.

A stilling, holy quiet.

A heavenly prayer chamber that hushed a thousand questions . . . and a thousand more concerns. Hamakom (המקום)—the place, His place where shalom is inhaled and exhaled. Where my soul can see this world and pray from Heaven’s eyes, from Heaven’s heart.

I was alone in the white silence but not alone. My King’s presence was with me. For He is Hamakom Hakadosh (המקום הקדוש), The Holy Place.

God’s Desire. Our King yearns for one thing in His bridal prayer chamber: You.

You, rushing to Him more often, with more longing for Him and more intentionality. Sitting in His holy quiet. An act of worship. An act of honest love. Allowing the flames of His heart to ignite the flames of yours.

A heaven-earth convergence. Where you abandon all defaults, rote wording and thinking. Instead, listening for His words. His lead. There, a deeper work begins within you, little by little, in His time, burning off the dross, melting away the hardness, kashering (making ready for use) your soul so you can walk in maturity and intercede with prayers led by Heaven.

“Come to me,” says the Lord in Matthew 11:28 to the tired, weary, burdened. “Come,” says the Holy Spirit in Revelation 22:17. “Come! Let the one who is thirsty come.”

THE FATHER’S URGENT CALL

During that same midnight-onward intercession on New Year’s Eve, while my arms were lifted and far apart, the LORD placed a large word into my open hands. The word—ZION—extended from one outstretched hand to the other.

That word—encompassing Israel and Jerusalem—has been the center of my personal prophetic intercessory calling for many years. And although He was confirming something in that image and in another image immediately following it, I sensed that this first word-image was a clarion 2025 call to believers everywhere.

Prayer focused on Israel/Jerusalem is what the Father is setting in our hands. It’s His heart call and a biblical command . . . and critical in this turbulent time in Israel—and for what lies ahead that only He knows.

Not only is Zion surrounded by a growing list of terroristic, demonic-driven enemies in a world drunk on anti-semitism, but she is THE EPICENTER of God’s unfolding last-days prophetic events.

Remember . . . Adonai says, “You are my Servant, Israel, through whom I’ll show my glory . . . and who says, “I will make you a light to the nations so my Salvation can spread to the ends of the earth.” —Isaiah 49:3,6

Of course, that doesn’t negate battling in prayer for the numerous other issues blanketing our lives and the world. It all matters to God. Every detail. Every heartache. Every tear. He is faithful and true—to Israel and to you.

(A cursory list of scripture-reminders are at the end of this post.)

THE EXHORTATION: TWO DREAM ALERTS

Can you discern the enemy’s slick games and twisted words? These two dream excerpts—given to me as bookends to the New Year’s Eve watchwords—are a heads-up to what may be pulling on you and confirm God’s authority over it all.

WHITE PARCHMENT

Stand fiercely

Throughout the dream, I was clutching a rectangular white parchment-like bag, holding it near to my chest. It was about 18 inches long and 16 inches wide. The feel of the parchment was vivid through the dream and after I woke up.

A small group of people also were there. We sat in a car, darkened inside as if we were parked at night with the car and lights turned off and no street lights.

I sat in the middle backseat, seemingly trapped. Two darkened figures sat on other side of me. Another darkened figure sat facing forward in the front passenger side.

I knew the contents of the parchment bag held proof that these people had hidden, deceiving plans, the antithesis of how they were portraying themselves to others.

I kept expecting them to haul off and grab the parchment since it would expose their whole game plan–strategies, deceit, phony ways, lies. But instead, they kept eyeing the bag while trying to convince me they were good people and that I just didn’t understand them. They wanted me to go somewhere with them to talk about it.

Nope. I didn’t trust them and kept guarding the parchment.

Then a blonde-ish haired male figure entered the car and slid into the driver’s seat. Clearly he held some level of leadership or power. He came across as dangerous and certainly not trustworthy, a true manipulator and out to destroy or harm and sway. Whether that intent was to harm me in order to get to the bag, I didn’t know.

I could see a bit more of him, unlike the darkened, shadowed, faceless figures that were shrouded in the car. Interestingly, he never completely turned to see me straight on, face to face. That seemed sly-like. So I gripped the parchment tighter and kept rejecting their claims of having good intentions, as if the content in my parchment bag was false.

Eventually, we got out of the car. No one attempted to rob the parchment. We all stood there, them waiting for me to go with them for more discussion.

I didn’t. Instead, they watched me walk away clutching the parchment bag of proof.

Why? I believe it was because they had to. They had no authority to take the parchment or me. But they were permitted to try to tempt, lure, deceive, sway me.

Bottom line. I may have kept the parchment close to me, but the parchment was really keeping me. It exposed the twisted words, lies, sway of the enemy. Because the parchment was the Word of God. In the dream, it was symbolic of the ancient biblical scrolls written on parchment paper.

GOWNED BRIDE RUNNING LATE

Discern the enemy’s schemes

If you’re a born-again believer in Jesus our Messiah, you’re His Bride, the Betrothed. And with that, there’s a cautionary tale here in this short dream excerpt.

I was dressed in a bridal gown but couldn’t leave for the wedding. My groom was waiting at the altar, yet well-meaning people kept stopping me from leaving. Everyone had a need, so I hurried and helped this one and then that one and another and another . . . but time was running out. If I didn’t leave, I definitely was going to be late for my wedding!

As I turned again to go, two people stopped me. One actually grabbed my arm, pointed to a woman, and in a near-convincing tone said, “But she needs you, she’s going through so much.” Well, no argument there. The woman legitimately was distraught.

Pressed, I had to decide. A Mary vs a Martha moment. I’m both at times, divergent. But my longtime intercessory calling, ministry, and comfort are totally the Mary side. When the rising needs of others nudge into my Mary space, I can get pushed out of that comfort zone and into the Martha zone.

The merciful Martha seeing the heaviness weighing on others, busy wanting to bless them, nourish them (spiritually and physically) as a service before God. But the lovesick, grateful, WORD-student Mary in me hungers for His voice and presence, the quietness He gives my soul. Only then can my Mary-ness rise, spiritually realigned and refilled, to bring a refreshing cup of water (spiritual and otherwise) to others.

How it had to play out. In the dream, the need this distraught woman had was great . . . but the pull to obey and keep my word to my groom was stronger. How could I dishonor the One who rescued me, who deserves all my love, by keeping him waiting even longer at the altar?

Or do I prayerfully trust God, follow His timing and lead, and obediently run to fulfill my intimate appointment with my groom, resting in the fact that God will love on this troubled woman, calling forth the exact source of help needed for her situation?

Legitimate needs are everywhere. And however we can help, as He leads, we should. But if it’s at the expense of what our King, our Groom, has called us to—like meeting Him when called into the holy prayer chamber, resting when He tells us, getting out of His way when instructed, etc.—then it’s outside of our abilities at that moment.

Sure, it can be a precarious line. And some may not understand. But that fine line must be walked in obedience, His leading, His balance. That means stepping aside and trusting Him in the process. We’re not the default rescuer for life’s situations. God is the preeminent one. No default required. Ever.

And when God does move in their situation using whatever unexpected resource He chooses, He alone will get the glory and the person’s faith and relationship with Him will grow.
 
 

THE 2025 TAKEAWAY

Four watchword-actions for this year:

1. Run to His holy prayer chamber often

2. Intercede for the Father’s heart (Zion)

3. Study/know/fiercely stand on the Word (the holy parchment) to confront the enemy

4. Watch out for spiritual disrupters disguised with legitimate needs that rob your time with Him and whatever He’s called you to at that time

ZION: Father’s Heart Scriptures

Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; May they prosper those who love you.

Isaiah 25:25. Here is Adonai’s answer [to Israel]: Even a warrior’s captives will be snatched away, and the booty of the fearful will be freed. I will fight those who fight you, and I will save your children.

Isaiah 52:8 Listen! Your watchmen are raising their voices. They’re shouting for joy together for they will see before their own eyes when Adonai restores Zion.

Isaiah 62:1,6,7

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep quiet, until her righteousness goes forth like brightness, and her salvation like a torch that is burning.

On your walls, Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; All day and all night they will never keep silent.

You who profess the Lord, take no rest for yourselves; And give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem an object of praise on the earth.

PHOTO CREDITS

Lighthouse by Michael Krahn on Unsplash

White cathedral arches by Sophie Soilmann on Unsplash

Israeli pin, kippah, flag by Marek Studzinski on Unsplash

Bride scaling rock by Dylan Siebelink on Unsplash.

Sometimes a section of a longer spiritual dream reveals much. That was the case with this 61/22 dream about building and living out your faith to stay useful in the things of God.

“I will take my stand at my watch post and station myself on the tower and look out to see what He will say to me.” —Habakkuk 2:1

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READING TIME: 3 to 4 MINUTES.

WATCHWORD GIVEN: An encouraging word from a God-given dream in mid-November 2024

Not everyone has a visible ministry. God uses a lot of us for the moving, behind-the-scene activity to accomplish His magnificent, holy plan. But if we’re honest, we sometimes might feel like shadows, useless, as if we’ll have nothing to lay before the King in Heaven.

This twofold spiritual dream (only relevant excerpt given below) reveals what determines our usefulness in God’s eyes. Take heart and read on.

The dream’s focus was on the word carrying and the number 61. But a week before the dream, the number 22 kept coming to me.

Strange as it might sound, an excitement churned within me. I couldn’t wait for the 22nd. Turns out, I had this vivid spiritual dream just before awaking on the 22nd. Gotta love God’s timing. The numbers and dream were connected.

Three times in the dream, two of my friends (prayer members) and I were carrying things for others. One of them had a heavy, odd-shaped metal item and kept saying, “It’s heavy, it’s heavy, I can’t, I can’t go any further!”

Without warning, she plunked it in my arms. I nearly dropped it but managed to set it down gently. Not, however, without a small part of the leg getting slightly cracked. She sounded as if it had happened before and knew it would cost $61 to repair.

That number dwelled in my mind throughout the dream, where I also questioned my usefulness for the Kingdom. Something I also hear from other believers from time to time.

Let’s stop there for a moment. I believe the word carrying in this part of the dream symbolized lifting the burdens of others, helping them take one more step, serving them in deep intercession before our King. Some loads are heavier on the soul, even for the intercessor. We need to watch that. That’s why we also need one another to manage the spiritual battle waged in intercession. Everyone is a critical link to the war surrounding us . . . the one seen and unseen.

You undoubtedly know this, but it’s shared as a loving reminder: Visible ministries and their teams, the lost, the prodigals, the trafficked, the captives, the governments, the lonely and sick, and others need the hidden ministers of prayer—the intercessors who take a portion of their day or week to enter the holy prayer chamber where Heaven and earth intersect. Where God hears and Heaven moves.

Now, onto the numbers. To be honest, they led me on a biblical scavenger hunt. Nothing I could think of or in my online search seemed to fit right . . . Isaiah 61, Psalm 61, etc. Until I sensed to enter 61st book of the Bible. Then it was clear.

Enter 2 Peter. It’s the 61st book of the Bible—and the 22nd book of the New Testament. And there are a total of 61 verses in 2 Peter.

A few verses into chapter 1 and there it was—how to be and stay useful in God’s Kingdom. And with a sweet ending in the 61st verse of the book: 2 Peter 3:18.
 

Reading the verses below, I knew it was time to step back and seek His face to learn where my soul needed deeper maturing to build up the verse’s listed qualities, which are foundational to our faith, prayer life, family life, ministry life, and our daily life. All an act of worship before Him.

Maybe it’s the same for you. Look up, your redemption King draws near!

HOW TO BUILD & LIVE OUT YOUR FAITH

commentary is bracketed

2 Peter 1:5-8 & 2 Peter 3:18 (NASB)
 

(5) Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence

[living uprightly, the 10 Commandments are our foundational moral code for making morally upright decisions before God, your spouse/family, neighbors, community],

and in your moral excellence, knowledge

[growing in the knowledge of God, our Messiah, His character, His will for you],

(6) and in your knowledge, self-control

[choosing what is right in speech and actions vs flying by your feelings and desires; instead considering God and the welfare of others],

and in your self-control, perseverance

[doggedly standing in our faith through the highs, lows, and in-betweens, not forsaking our God-appointed assignments],
 

and in your perseverance, godliness

[walking through your life devoted to the things of God, mindful of Him in decisions and interactions with others, choosing and walking in a way that pleases God ],

(7) and in your godliness, brotherly kindness

[using our spiritual gifts and sharing what we have to bless and edify others, hospitality, listening, helping, walking in unity],
 

and in your brotherly kindness, love

[intentional, authentic love, a tall order per 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a but loving God first with all your heart, soul, mind, being and loving others as yourself, bearing in mind the Good Samaritan parable from Luke 10:25-37].

(8) For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they do not make you useless nor unproductive in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(2 Peter 3:18) But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

PHOTO CREDITS

Lighthouse by Michael Krahn on Unsplash.com

A famine of sorts but not of bread or water. Unknown at the time, this disturbing dream in early October 2024 would soon link to the watchwords God revealed in the early hours of New Year’s 2025.

“I will take my stand at my watch post and station myself on the tower and look out to see what He will say to me.” —Habakkuk 2:1

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READING TIME: 4 to 5 MINUTES.

WATCHWORD GIVEN: A wake-up call from a God-given dream in early October 2024

Somewhat reminiscent of Amos 8:11, this watchword rises from a spiritual dream—realistic, unforgettable, unsettling. A famine of sorts but not of bread or water.

The dream carries a two-part call to every believer in our Messiah, Jesus. That call is stated in the latter part of this post.

As the dream begins, I was lying in a hospital. A row of white-linen hospital beds with patients were on either side of me. Not ill, I got up and walked over to talk with some medical staff.

A woman sitting upright on the side of her bed caught my attention. Her legs hung over the side as she just sat there. Near catatonic, it seemed. Blank. Lifeless. A shell of a person.

Somehow I was given the care of her and another woman who was in the same state. I had to get them out of there. Oddly, before we left, someone had handed me a business-like card and said that it was a buffet.
 

In the next scene, I exited the large building, the two women on my left, blank souls mindlessly following me. I had to get them fed, wanting to bless them because they were in such poor shape.

I remembered the card. I held it, reading it several times. The word BUFFET was strong—not seen but sensed. But I didn’t want a buffet. I felt they needed to be served a quality, plated meal.

A slew of people, a faceless, shell-like crowd, exited the building we’d been in and moved en masse like a swarm to the left down the street. I sensed they were going for food too.

Following the swarm could mean a long wait for food. The “buffet” place per the card was directly across the street—and these two women needed food fast.

So we crossed the empty city street, walked inside the buffet building, and found the hostess counter. A young women dressed in a colorful sequined gown helped us while another young woman, also gowned in sequins, was busy behind her.

Feeling underdressed but not caring, I showed the card to the first woman as I signed in.

“We were given this.”

“Oh, yes, you can go right in.”

Walking past the two women, I stopped to look back at the second woman, her gown’s shimmering blue woven among the other colorful sequins. But I recalled that a sequin/glittery gown can mean deceit in a dream—and made note of it.

A strange scene confronted us as we entered the buffet dining room. There was a long buffet counter on my left and dining tables and chairs in front of me and on my right. People were seated at many of the tables—lifeless like the women with me. They were motionless, waiting. They had silverware but no plates, no cups, and no food.

Sitting like that in quietness, obedience, staring straight ahead was something right out of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

I told the two women with me to be seated at a small table in front of me, near the buffet line. They obeyed and sat, still lifeless. But then I noticed that the buffet’s stainless steel chafing dishes were empty, like the people.

Exasperated, I stood behind the now-seated two women and tossed my things on a chair opposite them. I told them, “I have to find out what’s going on.” But really, I don’t know if they heard or understood me at that point.

A server—not catatonic like the others—appeared and stood facing me.

Doubtful things would go well, I tried anyway. “Where’s the food? There’s no food.”

Deceit-fueled defiance shrouded her face. “We have food.”

What cheek! A scripted lie for sure. She stood facing me, unflinchingly.

Challenging her, I looked again at the empty chafing pans and back at the server. “Where?”

She didn’t move, only looked at me, stonewalled.

That was it. Something had to be done. Talking aloud but primarily to myself: “I’ve got to find out what’s going on.”

I started to turn to do just that . . . then woke up.

Mindless Sheep: Spiritual Buffet of Nothingness

A Call to Pray & Lead the Lifeless to God’s WORD

The dream highlighted twos. Two women with me. Two buildings. Two groups of people (the swarm and the women/me). Two women at the hostess counter. Two views (no food and there is food). In Judaic Gematria, two suggests duality, contrasts, good and evil, pure and impure.

Here’s the point. People are attending places where they think they’re being fed the things of God but aren’t. It’s stripped down. Negating biblical authority. Negating and altering God’s Word. Instead, they relish their own voices, their own words, pontificating their own views rather than honoring and being fed and humbled by God’s.

As a result, they’re walking among us empty, without the truth and life of God. Spiritually, severely malnourished . . . oblivious to their real spiritual condition.

Isaiah 66:2b. Adonai says, “The kind of person on whom I look with favor is one with a poor and humble spirit, who trembles at my word.” (CJB)

ONE CALL, TWO ACTIONS

1. Pray! Seek God’s face and battle in prayer for strongholds to be broken, asking our King to run after these famine-struck people and carry them to the truth of His Word and ways.

2. Lead! Heed Jude 20-23. As the Holy Spirit brings forth divine appointments, have mercy on them, doing your part in God’s rescue operation. Share the milk and meat of the Word and give them strong, biblically accurate resources for them to read, watch, learn, and grow in the Word.

Jude 20-23

But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

And have mercy on some, who are doubting; save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.

SCRIPTURES FOR REFLECTION

Amos 8:11b

Not a famine of bread or a thirst for water but rather for hearing the words of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:3b

In order to make you understand that man shall not live on bread alone, but man shall live on everything that comes out of the mouth of the Lord.

Psalm 119:103-105

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path. Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.

John 1:1-2, 14

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 6:32-35

Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.”
 

And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.“

PHOTO CREDITS

Lighthouse by Michael Krahn on Unsplash.com

Sheep fold by Christopher Burns on Unsplash.com

A divine spark. A flash image. A scripture suspended before me. This series shares soul-to-soul watchwords that I believe the Lord has impressed on me for this season, hour, moment that we’re in.

This time He marked the season with a scripture (several subsequently) . . . it’s a definite wake-up call.

“I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what He will say to me.” —Habakkuk 2:1
 

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READING TIME: 3 to 4 MINUTES.

WATCHWORD GIVEN: NOVEMBER 10, 2020

T his time the watchword was 2 Timothy 3. It hung, suspended in the air over my prayer chair when I awoke that morning. It loomed large.

We’re aware of the times—particularly that scripture—but when God does a mini billboard in your room, it’s a heads-up. It cements things. We. Are. In. Those. Days. It’s not a matter of “application” . . . it’s real and it’s now..

Prior to this, I’d been reading Isaiah, followed by Jeremiah, some Ezekiel, Hosea, then Ezekiel again. After revisiting 2 Timothy 3, I felt prompted to go back over Hosea for a comparison of the two.

But unintentionally I had started to read Titus 3 and found that it plays into the Hosea/2 Timothy 3 comparison as well. And with that, I soon realized that Ezekiel 22 and Jeremiah 22 also mirrored the “reminding” wording of Titus 3.

So let’s do some unpacking to hear from the Lord.

First, keep in mind that Hosea’s audience was the Northern Kingdom prior to its Assyrian captivity. His prophecies were fulfilled within 30 years of their delivery. Both Ezekiel and Jeremiah warned the Southern Kingdom (Judah) before their descent into Babylonian captivity.

Paul’s letter to Timothy refers to the days—the season—that would unfold immediately before the return of Jesus and the consummation of all things. Eerily, the three prophets of Israel/Judah along with Paul’s clarion call were voices crying out to a people whose sins and soul condition mirrored today’s world.

HOSEA & 2 TIMOTHY 3 & EZEKIEL 22

Critical words/images from Hosea (chapters 1-12) that relate to our times, to the current soul condition of humanity:

1. walking in spiritual adultery
2. having a faithlessness—a spirit of prostitution leads Israel away
3. demonstrating no love or acknowledgment of God—only cursing
4. lying, committing murder, stealing, adultery
5. breaking all bounds
6. spilling bloodshed that follows bloodshed—and stumbling day and night
7. ignoring the Law of God—exchanging their glory for something disgraceful
8. having an arrogance testifies against them
9. their sins are exposed, crimes revealed—deceit, thievery, robbery
10. acting senseless
11. speaking lies against God
12. following their deceitful hearts

 
The call: return to God, maintain love and His justice.

2 Timothy 3—its key descriptions of the last days’ mentality. They’ll sound quite familiar, in line with Hosea’s calling-out:

1. lovers of self
2. loving money
3. boastful, proud, abusive
4. disobedient and ungrateful
5. unholy, without love, unforgiving
6. slanderous
7. no self-control
8. brutal
9. not lovers of God
10. having a form of godliness but denying its power

 
The call: continue in what you’ve learned about God, love, patience, perseverance, and the sacred writings because “all Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man or woman of God may be fully capable, equipped for every good work.”

Ezekiel 22 echoes both Hosea and 2 Timothy 3 loud and clear:

 
1. shedding blood
2. idolatry
3. oppressing strangers, orphans, widows
4. despising God’s holy things, profaning Shabbat (His Law)
5. slanderers
6. sexual uncleanness
7. steeped in bribery, taking interest
8. conspiracy among prophets, tearing prey
9. making no distinction between the holy and the common
10. oppressed the stranger without justice
 
The call: Hear, pay attention, for the time is coming when the Lord will deal with these indignations.

GOD WANTS: TITUS 3 & JEREMIAH 22

Titus 3 says to remember this:

1. be obedient—ready to do what’s good
2. slander no one
3. be peaceable, considerate
4. show true humility toward all humanity

Jeremiah 22 shows us what it means to know God:

1. do justice and righteousness
2. save those robbed by their oppressor
3. don’t mistreat others or do violence to the stranger, orphan, widow
4. don’t shed innocent blood

BROKEN SOULS: WALK THE RESTORATION

Humanity is fractured. You. Me. And everyone else. God made a way to repair that broken relationship with Him and with one another.

Here’s the 4-1-1 series on how your soul can be restored: God’s Roadmap to Heaven:The Broken Bridge, followed by the Roadmap to Heaven: The ABCS of Salvation Also, the third part of that short series is a Grow in the Lord resource, recommendations for solid biblical teaching/radio, etc.

CREDITS: Lighthouse with lightning photo by Michael Krahn on Unsplash.com

A divine spark. A flash image. A scripture suspended before me. This series shares soul-to-soul watchwords that I believe the Lord has impressed on me for this season, hour, moment that we’re in.
 

When chaos rises like a whirlwind . . . God’s Word reminds us where to stand and who we are: His living stones, voices crying in a spiritual wilderness.

“I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what He will say to me.” —Habakkuk 2:1

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READING TIME: 3 MINUTES.

WATCHWORD GIVEN: JULY 2020, THEN AGAIN LATTER PART OF OCTOBER 2020

Living stones. That’s who we are in God’s hands. Alive in Him, called to speak His words, walk in His ways, for His glory.

It’s not easy in a world at odds with Him. And as these end times accelerate, there are spiritual minefields everywhere. I believe that’s why the LORD gave me this scripture back in July 2020 . . .

Truth is nowhere to be found. Whoever turns from evil becomes a target (prey). The LORD looked and saw no justice and was displeased. —Isaiah 59:15

If we stand in and with God, there will be repercussions from the world around us.

That reminded me of a scripture (Isaiah passage below) He’d given me early last year (2019) or before, when I was tweaking Combat Zone: Rules of Engagement.

Don’t fear (be shaken, swept into conspiracies) what people fear (call conspiracies)
nor give strength to it
or be awed (shaken terribly, oppressed) by what awes them.
Let G-d be the object of your awe (trembling holy fear) . . .
consecrate Him.
He alone is to be your sanctuary.
—Isaiah 8:12-14

What does that look like in 2021—and how does that dovetail into being His living stones? It goes like this . . .

Remember that the LORD is the stability of our times (Isaiah 33:5-6). Not the world or mainstream media or your checkbook. G-d and Him alone is your rock-solid foundation.

Therefore, per I Samuel 12: 7, 16 & 21 . . . hold still, stand and see what He will do, don’t turn aside.

Pause in the stillness of His presence, humbled.

When it’s time to move, move in His stillness—not the world’s energy, chaos, freneticism, reckless meandering, cacophony.

Don’t turn from His ways, voice, leading

LIVE THIS SCRIPTURE: 1 PETER 2:1-5

Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, of all deceit, hypocrisy and envy,
and of all the ways there are of speaking against people;
and be like newborn babies, thirsty for the pure milk of the Word;
so that by it, you may grow up into deliverance.
For you have tasted that Adonai is good.
As you come to him, the living stone,
rejected by people but chosen by God and precious to him,
you yourselves, as living stones,
are being built into a spiritual house to be high priests set apart for God
to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to him through Jesus (Yeshua) the Messiah.

OUR DESIRE, OUR PRAYER

Make us a voice crying out in the wilderness, to those surrounding us, those lost in the enemy’s darkness.

Make us carriers of Your presence, ignited with the flame of your heart.

Your Name is our Strength. Your Name is the very breath of our souls.

Help us stand in You and become a unified army, marching shoulder-to-shoulder, focused on You, working as one, followers of our Messiah, Jesus (Yeshua) to the glory of G-d the Father.

CREDITS: Lighthouse with lightning photo by Michael Krahn on Unsplash.com

A divine spark. A flashed image. A scripture suspended before me. This series shares watchwords that I believe the Lord has impressed on me for this season, hour, moment that we’re in.

This word—given on Rosh Hashanah 2020 (Judaic year 5781)—is weighty. Critical for your walk with God so the beating of His heart becomes the beating of your soul’s heart.

“I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what He will say to me.” —Habakkuk 2:1

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READING TIME: 3 MINUTES.

WATCHWORD GIVEN: SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Justice. God impressed that word three times on Rosh Hashanah. I’d taken my seat at service—with the co-vid distancing and required mask. It was a Messianic Jewish synagogue, Shabbat morning.

Right off the bat, the LORD flashed an image that lingered for a while. A runner, one knee down, the other bent, hands steadied at the starting line, ready for the command to GO, run the race.

We’re called to run like mighty men . . . aligned with His ways . . . running to gain Him, our crown.

They charge like warriors;

they scale walls like soldiers.

They all march in line,

not swerving from their course.

—Joel 2:7

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run,

but only one gets the prize?

Run in such a way as to get the prize.

Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training.

They do it to get a crown that will not last,

but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.

—1 Corinthians 9:24-25

But in that race you’re running—in Him—stop at checkpoints. Is  your race being run well? Justly?

JUSTICE. JUSTICE. JUSTICE.

That’s what God requires. Of course, in our court system. But what does that mean in day-to-day life?

It means doing rightly per God’s Law. Being equitable. Having rightly balanced measurements in your daily decisions and in your dealings with others.

A righteous man knows the rights of the poor—but a wicked man doesn’t understand such knowledge. —Proverbs 29:7

Help the oppressed, the robbed, and plead the cause for the afflicted and poor—and don’t mistreat the stranger, orphan, widow, or shed innocent blood or avoid paying for services rendered. Is this not what it means to know God?—Jeremiah 22

Do what He told you to do—do what is good in His eyes, do what He requires of you, walk in justice, mercy, and humility before God. —Micah 6:8

Let His just ways roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. —Amos 5:24

Don’t treat your parents with contempt or mistreat the fatherless and widow, and don’t slander or get involved with sexual defilements, usury, or unjust gains. Do not forget God, the King of all. —Ezekiel 22

Learn to do good, seek justice, correct oppression, bringing justice to the fatherless, pleading the widow’s cause. —Isaiah 1:17

The oppressor of the poor insults his maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors Him. —Proverbs 14:31

Because . . .

To the Lord your God belong the heavens,

even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.

Circumcise your hearts, therefore,

and do not be stiff-necked any longer.

For the Lord your God is God of gods

and Lord of lords,

the great God, mighty and awesome,

who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.

He defends the cause of the fatherless

and the widow

and loves the foreigner residing among you,

giving them food and clothing.

—Deuteronomy 10: 14, 16-18

CREDITS: Lighthouse with lightning photo by Michael Krahn on Unsplash.com

A divine spark. A flash image. A scripture suspended before me. This series shares soul-to-soul watchwords that I believe the Lord has impressed on me for this season, hour, moment that we’re in.
 

This watchword shook my soul—and my physical surroundings.

 

“I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what He will say to me.” —Habakkuk 2:1

 

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READING TIME: 2 MINUTES.

 

WATCHWORD GIVEN: JULY 3, 2019 at 1:50 am PST

 
 

God’s powerful, immeasurable vastness astonishes me. Enthralls me. Frightens me. Humbles me. I am finite . . . from dust. He is the Great I AM.

 

Shaking. That was the watchword the LORD had me pray in those wee hours in early July 2019. The focus then and going forward—even into the end of 2020—has been Psalm 29.

 

The Lord had led me to pray, reflect, breathe in, and exhale Psalm 29—peering into the words, the meanings behind the words, and burrowing in-between the letters—over and over and over and over and over again. And I haven’t stopped.

 

Peering into these scriptures about His weightiness and holiness continues to silence me, moving me to repentance on new and unexpected levels.

 

Psalm 29 is for this time. An hour like none other before it in history, when the birth pains of what is coming alert us, awaken us from our slumber. Seven times the psalm speaks of the voice of the Lord, giving us a window into His depth and power.

 

Orthodox rabbis sense the shift toward end-time events. Messianic Jews/Christians recognize it from biblical prophecies. Whether God moves soon or, in His mercy, waits another decade or two or three, one thing is clear:

 

We have turned a corner,
and there is no going back to the way things were.
We are on His divine trajectory.

 

This is a soul-call . . . to deeper reverence for Him, acknowledging His might, the awe that is Him. The unknowingly knowable One. The hidden-yet-revealed One. The unseen-yet-seen-with-the-eyes-of-the-soul One.

 

So no matter what lies ahead for this world,
you’ll know where to fix your eyes.
You’ll know that He is on the throne—the one and only Mighty God.
He sits above the flood . . .
meaning kings and kingdoms come and go, but God reigns.
He alone is steadfast, the stability of our times.
He won’t be surprised or shaken by the turning of things.
Yet, promising to be your shielded cleft in the storm,
your strength, your blessing,
your peace and completeness . . . your shalom.

 

He alone deserves PRAISE and WORSHIP.

He alone is HOLY.

He alone is GOD.

He shares His GLORY with no one.

 

All of Psalm 29 appears at the end of this short post (next). But these particular images mentioned in the psalm spoke to me, stirred me, quieted me:

 

ADONAI’s voice over the waters . . . the GOD OF GLORY thunders . . . ADONAI over the rushing waters.

[His might hovering over His creation.]

 

His voice in power, in splendor, cracks the cedar, flashes fiery flames.

[The magnitude of His voice alone stills my soul. It was His voice that thundered over Israel’s enemies—panicking the Philistines (1 Samuel7:10) and breaking down the Assyrians (Isaiah 30:31).]

 

His voice rocks, shakes the wilderness, convulses the Kadesh desert.

[The sheer force of His presence changes everything. The desert quakes—the Hebrew likens it to pain (חיל), a woman in travail, as in Jeremiah 6:24. ]

 

During intercession, my prayers sought the LORD to shake the wilderness—shake us out of the wilderness, the wanderings, the soul’s wilderness wanderings.

 

Shaking us . . . with testings for faithfulness.

 

Just a few days later—during Friday night shabbat dinner at a rabbi’s house—that shaking took on physical dimensions. The glass chandelier swayed and shimmied, the artwork shook, the glass dining room table moved from side to side, as did our chairs. Kind of like a Disney ride.

 

An earthquake tremor, not that typical for Las Vegas. At least in my longtime living here. But I sensed that it was underscoring the Psalm 29 prayer—which continues to stand in the forefront throughout 2020’s tumultuous times.

 

PSALM 29: THE HOPE

 

When you read-pray the psalm (aloud even!), note the call to acknowledge GOD, assigning Him the rightful place in your soul/life, ascribing to Him power and glory—and to praise His power, might. And to pray, asking ADONAI for strength and shalom (a completeness, peace.)

 

A psalm of David:
Give Adonai his due, you who are godly;
give Adonai his due of glory and strength;
give Adonai the glory due his name;
worship Adonai in holy splendor.
The voice of Adonai is over the waters;
the God of glory thunders,
Adonai over rushing waters,
the voice of Adonai in power,
the voice of Adonai in splendor.
The voice of Adonai cracks the cedars;
Adonai splinters the cedars of the L’vanon
and makes the L’vanon skip like a calf,
Siryon like a young wild ox.
The voice of Adonai flashes fiery flames;
the voice of Adonai rocks, shakes the wilderness,
Adonai convulses the Kadesh Desert.
The voice of Adonai causes deer to give birth
and strips the forests bare—
while in his temple, all cry, “Glory!”
Adonai sits enthroned above the flood!
Adonai sits enthroned as king forever!
May Adonai give strength to his people!
May Adonai bless his people with shalom!