MAKING ROOM FOR CHANGE

9/9/00

Hi Loved Ones,

This week two Words came to me that were significant and I want to share them with you. One was, "A change is coming." The other was, "A changing of the guards." When the Lord breathes upon His Words, there are as many applications as there are people to apply them. His Word is alive and bears witness at so many levels that we can barely touch the surface. However, I would like to share with you what these Words mean to me, in hopes that it will touch and encourage some of you.

This year the Lord gave Bobby Conner a Word that said something like, "Brace yourselves, the hand of God is coming down to uproot everything He has not planted, in order to establish His government." This has proven true in my life, for it is as though He has been peeling away layers of old, dead and buried things. I made mention to this in 4 other postings this year. (Circumcision at Gilgal, stripping Lazarus’ grave clothes, and peeling away band-aides and barnacles.) As He carefully exposed old wounds it was as though He gave me a 2nd chance to respond to them appropriately with forgiveness when necessary, and also personal repentance. He has even taken me back to my foundations before I was born, to repent for the sins of my ancestors.

Sometimes when we are in the midst of a cleansing process, the enemy confuses us, and we are overcome by dirt and grime and can’t see the forest through the trees. I was ready for a change. I have a friend who has been house cleaning after years of collection, and has taken several trips to the dump. I kept telling her the Lord was removing the garbage from her life, so that she could have room for the new when it comes. She had a dream this week that was quickened to me concerning a prophetic experience I’d just had.

In the dream she saw this horse running around whinnying to all the animals in the field. It was beautifully free as it shook its head. Then in the next scene she saw this huge, pile of excess baggage being carted off. Above and below the baggage were moving captions like on the tail end of a movie. She kept trying to read the captions, but they were moving too fast to read them.

I felt the Lord was saying that we were trying to focus on the old garbage, and it was already being removed. We wanted to linger and figure it all out, but He was already moving on towards this coming change. A few days ago, I was feeling quite slimed from the enemy. I was more upside down then right side up, after having so many layers removed this year. This brought me to a place where I was starting to flinch… Sometimes when we go through a great battle, we come out the other end, gun shy and jumping at the least little thing. That is how I was feeling. So this strange experience occurs….

I was at my desk and needed to go to the restroom. I grabbed my reading glasses to put them on my desk. My hand was in midair before I realized my glasses were not on my face. I stared at my empty hand, wondering why I would do such a strange thing and started to giggle. A couple minutes later in the restroom I grabbed the toilet paper and pulled it down. Only the toilet paper is not there either! My husband had torn out the bathroom floor a few days before (layers peeled away, exposing foundations) and the toilet paper roll had not yet been remounted on the wall. I stared at my empty hand and laughed as I understood the Word of the Lord, given to me with such clarity.

WORD TO PONDER

"I have removed the old dead layers in your life. I did not expose them for you to linger over them. They are GONE. They are but filthy rags and they are GONE. You are still trying to see though old lenses, but they are GONE. You are shadow boxing with nothing. They are GONE. You are wincing. They are GONE. You are trying to figure it all out. They are GONE. Your past is GONE. Yes, it takes time for you to make the adjustment while old patterns repeat themselves. But you will soon see they are just empty motions.

For I have brought you into a new place. A place of freedom. A place of purity, where the dry rot of flesh has been purged, where the smelly places have been removed. You remember the shame, the filth, the slime, and yet I have already installed a new foundation beneath your feet. It is already in place and you have yet to realize it.

Even now, I want to bring a new change to your door. Places where you have been the tail, I will make you the head. And where you have been trampled upon by the enemy, you will suddenly rise and place him beneath you. The enemy thought he could take advantage of what I have been stripping in your life. But I AM Sovereign and nothing, no not anything shall by any means hurt you! I AM the Master Surgeon, and I restore, making all things beautiful. Fear not, for I have done a good thing. Let the past go, remove it. For now I bring to you My change. If you wince and stay buried in the past, it hinders this new thing I want to do in your midst. Rejoice with Me, and laugh hilariously, for all of heaven laughs with Me as we see the enemy beneath your feet.

"The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision." Ps 2:2-4 KJV

[end of Word to Ponder]

So how does this fit with a changing of the guards? I believe this powerful change is going to filter down from the very top levels of government to the very bottom of our personal lives. In the spiritual realm, in the places where we have stood in the heat of battle, where we have earnestly interceded and humbly repented, we are going to see long standing, territorial enemy occupations being moved away and these places suddenly being occupied by angels. The ramifications of such will filter down through every area of life. He is moving out the old, making room for the new. He is cleaning the filthy house, to fill it with His righteousness. He is removing the dross and keeping the gold. He is blowing away the chaff to harvest the grain.

"But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears?

For He is like a refiner's fire and like launderer's soap. He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness." (Mal 3:2-3 NKJV)

Even so, come Lord and do Your work among us.

Lovingly,

Sandy