GOD IS SILENCING YOUR CRITICS
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This is a season where the Lord is vindicating men who have been in the line of fire for a LONG time.
Those who have kept their hearts right before the Lord, simply desiring to release what God has given them to birth.
It’s the Nehemiahs who have been facing the constant pushback and opposition from the Sanballats and the Tobiahs while you trying to build and birth.
Nehemiah was filled with zeal and almost a heavy grief seeing what was broken down… there has been many reformers living with that tension.
It’s the tension of knowing you are called to it, but knowing the warfare is intense, right? Because its a calling that is unpopular and upsets the religious system everywhere you go.
But in the midst of that there is DIVINE WIND ON YOUR BACK because God is moving on your behalf to silence the accuser where the voice of the accuser has been so loud and intimidating.
And that has been confusing for so many building in obscurity and nothingness, because the critics have been so loud in your ear, and you don't understand why because you don’t feel like you are even building or birthing anything significant yet.
But you are about to birth and that's the sign that you're about to birth. The Sanballats and the Tobiahs rise up.
Why? The enemy wants a stillbirth– he wants barrenness in your life.
The enemy will either try to attack you before the conception by robbing your intimacy with God where you RECEIVE the commissioning, zeal, passion, and blueprints, or the enemy will then try to rob you in your process, to distract you, get you off course, and lead you astray.
It happens to so many people and they end up planting or birthing an Ishmael.
But if you go to full birth, that's when the Sanballats and the Tobiahs come out in full force, and it'll be an assassination attempt on your life and your calling. It'll be an all out war.
Many people have been in that season where the critics have been after them, and this is what that looks like - the enemy will trigger ANYBODY that is a soft target around you.
He will trigger those who are influencable, impressionable, and have any measure of spiritual conflict.. THAT’S WHY THE CRITICS OFTEN COME FROM WITHIN OR VERY CLOSE RANGE.
But I just keep hearing the Lord say over and over for months, that God right now is silencing the wolves, He's silencing the lions, and He's shutting up their mouths.
How many nights have you stayed awake, not understanding?You ask yourself: “Why am I in anxiety and fear? Why do I feel like there's a fog over me? Why do I feel like there are people speaking, and I'm waking up in the night, and there's like daggers in the spirit, arrows trying to pierce my heart?”
And you don't understand? The critics are speaking. The dogs are barking NONSTOP.
The Lord right now is shutting the voices. He's shutting down the voice of the accuser against you and your calling, your life, your family, your destiny, your purpose. He's shutting down the voice right now.
And do you know what else He's doing in this process? He's taking care of where it's been LANDING IN US. He's taking care of where it's so easily wounded us in the past.
In John 14:30, Jesus says, “I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of the world (Satan) is coming. And he has no claim on Me [no power over Me nor anything that he can use against Me].”
Much of our attack has been because of commonality - areas of small compromises and ACCESS, but God is BREAKING the access points.
This is going to be a season where God is going to make you impenetrable to those daggers and arrows of the past season. Those things will bounce off you. It will not even be on your radar.
I don't know how many dreams I've had where people are after me but they can't even get to me. I can't even tell you how many times Christy and I have had people who have actually been after us in the natural wanting to harm us and our family and they've looked straight through us and not been able to see us, because God made us invisible to them.
That's the Father who is looking after you, and protecting you.
He is like a dad in the schoolyard, where Kids are bullying you, and he's like “No, not on my watch”
There are only so many times you can be sworn at, cursed, and wrongfully accused before your dad steps in, and HE IS STEPPING IN RIGHT NOW.
Let me say that again: The Father is stepping in on your behalf right now. God of angel armies, King of glory, strong and mighty in battle.
God is silencing the lions and the wolves. He's silencing them right now in the name of Jesus.
I had a bizarre dream a few nights ago where there was a lion walking around ravaging people, and then the lion turned into a shark that tried to devour a whale, then it turned back into a lion again.
I stayed at a distance, but it couldn't even see me.
Firstly, it represents the enemy roaming around like a lion right now, seeing who he can devour (1 Peter 5:8). It was the Lord saying, “just heads up, the enemy's roaming again.”
But He was a lion, and then he was a shark. You know what the shark does? It's hard to see sometimes... it’s under the surface and represents the HIDDEN ATTACKS, and the whale represents the prophetic. The enemy is roaming around trying to see what voices he can take out.
Yet the Lord is saying that even in the midst of that, “I will take care of them. I will shut them down, I will vindicate you. I'll shut down the voices of your critics. I'll shut down the voice of the accuser in your life.”
God will expose the vultures in your life in this season, but get ready, because they might be closer than you think.
Let me pray for you…
Lord, I'm praying right now for another wave of your vindication to wash over them right now. Whatever they're facing this week, God, may another wave of your vindication come over them in the name of Jesus. Would you silence those voices, Lord. Even those toxic text threads - go silent now. All those bands of people that are gathering together to speak against your anointed ones, God, that you would just shut down their witchcraft. Lord, bring conviction and the fear of the Lord over them now in Jesus' name. Lord, we refuse to play the enemies game, so we forgive and we bless them, but we do not accept their words. Silence the voice of the enemy in this season, the taunts of Goliath. Bring me out from underneath that constant court case in the spirit, so I can release my song again, in Jesus' mighty name.