Dear Faithful Friends and Partners in the Ministry of the Gospel!<\/p>\n
As you know, the word the Lord gave me for the year 2014 was:\u00a0 Listen … The Sound of the Lord.\u00a0 Just to recap a little, the Lord is making a sound.\u00a0 If He is making a sound, we, His people, need to have ears to hear.\u00a0\u00a0 Some key concepts \/ words about His Sound for 2014 and what we need to be listening for:
\n– Alliance:\u00a0 pay attention; listen because 2014 was a year of forming alliances; some might seem very unusual.
\n– Prayer, Praise, & Prophesy:\u00a0 Are we declaring His Word when we pray?\u00a0 Do we praise Him for who He is?\u00a0 Are we speaking life?
\n– Inheritance:\u00a0\u00a0 Do you know your inheritance?\u00a0 The Holy Spirit? Eternal life!\u00a0 It is for now!<\/p>\n
If you have attended any of the Point To Hope Conferences this year, you will know there is so much more that can be written.\u00a0 The PTH Conferences are still available via audio online.\u00a0 www.pointtohope.org<\/p>\n
I was excited about 2014, but I must confess, I am ecstatic about the word for 2015.\u00a0 It is about \u201cRaise the War Cry:\u00a0 His Redemptive Rest\u201d (Is 8:9).\u00a0 His seal is upon us with new beginnings, compassion, covenant, our first love, communion, and priesthood.<\/p>\n
Several months ago, the Lord started speaking to me about the Navy SEALs.\u00a0 He is continuing to reveal His mysteries, but I wanted to share a few key characteristic & phrases with you about the spiritual type and shadow of what the Lord is saying for this next year.<\/p>\n
The Navy SEALs:
\nNavy – complete body of warships, vessels, equipment, & personnel.\u00a0 Spiritually speaking, ships pass through seas and rivers and provide essential things for life.\u00a0 Ships are carriers.\u00a0 Did Paul, Jonah, & yes Jesus, not travel by means of vessels upon the waters to carry the truth?\u00a0\u00a0 The Word?\u00a0 Are we not ships? … Carriers of the gospel?\u00a0 Carriers of the Spirit of the Living God?\u00a0 Romans 8:15b \u201c…the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. The Hebraic view is more than an orphan being adopted; Rather, it about coming into maturity whereby the Father\u2019s inheritance is bestowed upon him \/ her – including authority.\u00a0 Navy SEALs are elite and mature warriors and they know the authority they walk in.\u00a0 They believe who they are … and they serve according to their creed – their \u201cBible\u201d<\/p>\n
SEAL – \u201cPlace me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm…\u201d (Song of Songs 8:6a)
\n\u201cHe anointed us, 22\u00a0set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.\u201d\u00a0 (2 Cor. 1:21b)
\n\u201cWhen you believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit\u201d (Eph. 1:13b)
\n\u201cAnd do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.\u201d (Eph. 4:20).
\nWe are His elite troops!\u00a0 \u201cWith Your help I can advance against a troop (a barricade); with my God I can scale a wall.\u00a0 As for God, His way is perfect: The Lord\u2019s Word is flawless; He shields all who take refuge in Him.\u00a0 It is God who arms me with strength and keeps my way secure.\u201d (Ps. 18:29-32).<\/p>\n
The Navy SEALs\u2019 maturity is forged by adversity.\u00a0 Our first inclination would be to shy away from adversity.\u00a0 Yet, the Lord is saying, it is MY adversity and when My warriors battle according to My Spirit, it will be by entering My rest, an active rest.\u00a0 \u201cRest\u201d as in action!\u00a0 \u201c\u2018Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,\u2019 says the Lord Almighty.\u201d (Zech. 4:6b).<\/p>\n
I also hear the Lord saying that 2015 will be a year of \u201cgoing back to school – school of the Spirit.\u201d\u00a0 He is saying, if we want to enter this active rest, He has some new in-depth trainings and requirements for His saints.\u00a0 If we are entering into rest during a war cry season, it is not surprising to consider that He will fully equipping those who enlist in His armed forces; His school of the spirit.<\/p>\n
\u201cTherefore, since the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.\u201d\u00a0 (Heb. 4:1).\u00a0 \u201cFor anyone who enters God\u2019s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from His.\u00a0 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.\u201d\u00a0 (Heb. 4:10 & 11)\u00a0 The key word in that verse is \u201ctheir\u201d … we will enter this active rest when we surrender from \u201cour\u201d work and enter His work BY HIS SPIRIT.\u00a0 This yielding from our work takes our focus off our labors and draws us into His presence; a place of freedom.\u00a0 It is a willingness, a choice to engage in His rest.\u00a0 In Exodus 31:16-17, this rest is called \u201ca perpetual covenant\u201d between God and His people.\u00a0 Perpetual is never ending, never changing, repeating so frequently that it is uninterrupted!\u00a0 This is what work … rest …. work … rest should be like – they are one in the same when \u201cwork\u201d is according to His work by His Spirit … that is our active rest!\u00a0 Are you willing to enter His covenant rest for 2015.\u00a0 It is a choice!<\/p>\n
Back in 2013, the Lord showed me He was removing the \u201cfence line.\u201d This removal was a demarcation line; No more luke warm – make a choice.\u00a0 As Joshua announced:\u00a0 \u201cChoose for yourself this day whom you will serve\u201d (Josh. 15b).\u00a0 It is not difficult but our fleshly feathers get ruffled.\u00a0 Still, the War Cry is sounding.\u00a0 A War Cry to rally the soldiers to battle.\u00a0 A war cry to prepare soldiers to be Navy SEALs, an elite force by His Spirit.<\/p>\n
There is a war cry to enter into His rest, being willing to be trained and equipped by His Spirit AND not forsaking our first love.\u00a0 This is key for 2015 from Rev. 2:1-5.\u00a0 God knows our works, labors, patience and perseverance.\u00a0 He knows we have not embraced those who claim to be apostles but have been found to be liars.\u00a0 He knows all this has been done for His name\u2019s sake and we have not become weary.\u00a0\u00a0 Yet, in doing all these \u201cdeeds\u201d we have left our First Love!\u00a0 We have forgotten how far WE have fallen!\u00a0 We can operate in spiritual gifts, faith, and knowledge, yet without love, we are a resounding gong (1 Cor. 13).\u00a0\u00a0 Grace and mercy have been given to us.\u00a0 Not because we deserved it.\u00a0 God is saying 2015 is abut compassion!\u00a0 Freely giving what has been freely given to us (Matt. 10).\u00a0 Loving the unlovely … loving our FIRST LOVE so much that we never forget where we have fallen from and we give up ourselves – completely yielded to our First Love.\u00a0 Choosing to let our flesh die!\u00a0 Knowing this, we will have sufficient courage so that Christ, our First Love, will be exalted in our body; dying to gain! (Phil. 1).\u00a0 Yes, the onset of giving in to \u201cself\u201d is always a struggle because that ole\u2019 flesh just wants to hold on!\u00a0 However, once you give it up and let flesh die and live in that place of \u201crest\u201d in the Spirit, looking back to yesterday is easy.\u00a0 Like the motto of a Navy SEAL:\u00a0 \u201cThe only easy day was yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the ways the Lord speaks to me and reveals His mysteries to me personally, is through numbers.\u00a0 So let me share with you what He told me by His Spirit about 2015:<\/p>\n
2015:
\n20 = redemption
\n15 = rest
\nGod\u2019s Redemptive Rest<\/p>\n
20 + 15 = 35 (Hope)<\/p>\n
2+0+1+5 = 8 (New Beginnings)
\nNew beginnings – Quit looking at yesterday; what ever you did yesterday, don\u2019t worry about it; you can\u2019t do it again.\u00a0 New Beginnings today!<\/p>\n
5775 Jewish Calendar year (for 2015)
\n5 = His Grace (or God\u2019s goodness)
\n7= Completeness, Spiritual; Perfection
\n5+7+7+5 = 24 (The Priesthood); you are His royal Priesthood
\n5+5 = 10 (Testimony – Law of Responsibility)
\n7+7 = 14 Deliverance or Salvation<\/p>\n
8 (2015\/ 2+0+1+5) + 24 (5+7+7+5) = 32 (Covenant)
\n(New Beginnings)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Priesthood)<\/p>\n
Let me close with this simple yet profound truth as we move into this year of 2015, \u201cRaise the War Cry! God\u2019s Redemptive Rest.\u201d\u00a0 Believe and Obey!\u00a0 We must believe with the evidence of obedience.\u00a0 Trusting fully in Him!\u00a0 \u201cHe is a shield to all who trust in Him,\u201d (Ps. 18:30b).\u00a0\u00a0 We don\u2019t have to strive or work in our own strength – it is by HIS Spirit!\u00a0 The Spirit of our First Love!<\/p>\n
Let us enlist ourselves in the school of His Spirit and yield to His elite training; Open up and compassionately give what has been freely given.\u00a0 Activate our belief by faith!<\/p>\n
Therefore, I close with these words with sincerity, \u201cI thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.\u201d\u00a0 I remember you in my prayers at all times and I pray now at last by God\u2019s will, the way has been opened, for PTH will be coming to you Soon!\u00a0 AND, I sincerely long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong…\u201d<\/p>\n
Blessings and Prayers,
\nNancy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"