TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN STUCK IN THE WAR ROOM - ITS LEVEL UP TIME

On the second or third night of being voiceless, I lay in bed, my whole body numb and trembling. And I sat there, struck with fear, not knowing what was going on, and after many hours of praying and crying out to the Lord, I asked, “Lord, what is going on? What has happened to me?”

JEZEBELS HOUSE

In the first part of the dream, I found myself in a cold, uninviting house. It was a castle or palace of sorts, but it was just not a nice place. It felt dark. Instantly, I hear this voice echo through the halls, "How dare you try to shake my kingdom?” “Who is that?” I thought. “How dare you shake my kingdom?” It said again. And I instantly discern what I'm hearing is the voice of Jezebel yelling at me. “How dare you?” And I said, "God's given me authority." And this voice said, "Not without a warrant, you don't.” And I remember being really confused by that statement. I wake up out of the dream, and I remember sitting there thinking, "What I experienced was coming into a region that has come into agreement with this spirit, but I didn't come with a warrant. I'd come trying to call this thing out of its house, but I didn't come with a warrant.

Jesus said in Matthew 17:21, "This one only comes out by prayer and fasting.”

I instantly discerned that what I'd experience was the backlash from not coming prepared and not rallying the church to pray or fast. I needed to awaken the church to what they'd come into agreement with that allowed this thing to stay, and I could tell that this had been there for a very long time. After I had this dream, I then fell asleep again and went into another dream…

THE DREAM OF THE SECOND HEAVEN

When I fell asleep, I entered a dream where I watched angels and demons fight. I was in some kind of warfare realm where there was just chaos everywhere. It was not hell, but it felt dark. It felt like I couldn’t feel the presence of God there.

And there was this battle taking place, as if it were the kingdom of darkness versus the Kingdom of Light. And I remember thinking, “Where are the Christians?” And then suddenly my eyes looked, and I saw them - not outside of this realm, but sitting on top of it, almost like a spectator’s booth but definitely sitting in the same realm.

It was like a VIP box at a game.

And I saw what I knew to be the whole body of Christ, and they were in this high-up kind of place within this realm. And they were shouting down at what was taking place in this fight, like it was a show. It was a game of sorts. And they were shouting down, “Do this! Do that!” But it wasn’t accomplishing anything, and I couldn’t understand why.

Why was the church in this kind of place, and why wasn’t it accomplishing anything? It didn’t make sense to me. And I began to really get frustrated. There was no authority. The demons weren’t even paying attention to the Christians there.

I remember thinking, “Is it because we’re in their territory? Like, because we’re in their territory, we’re not a threat to them?” And then the phrase came to me: “We have sunken low instead of ascending high.”

And I wondered if these demons were not reacting to the body of Christ because we weren’t coming from a place of authority, we were on their level, and we were shouting at them.

Then, suddenly, I began to feel like the Christians within this area were beginning to get afflicted. They were beginning to come under the spirit that was reigning there. They began to yell out in rage. I began to notice all these demonic themes within this group of people.

And the whole time I’m trying to process it in real time, because I knew something was off. Then I had this moment where I began to say, “This is not where you belong, Church. You’re called higher than this.” But I couldn’t see any higher at the time. I remember thinking, “How do I break out of this? How do I get into another realm?”

But I felt the Lord wanted me to sit, wait, and watch what was about to take place. I remember thinking, “Where is the Church that’s called to evict and tear down principalities and powers? Where is the Church that’s meant to walk on scorpions and snakes, and nothing can harm them? Where is the Church that carries the Spirit of God that raised Jesus from the dead? Where is the head and not the tail, above only, and not beneath?”

And I began to notice more and more, as I looked around this room, these Christians were shouting scriptures and shouting all this religious knowledge, but they were manifesting the same spirit of what they were warring against. This was clearly fighting fire with fire, but the whole ruse was the fact that the Church had played into the game of Jezebel.

The Church had played into the game of all these demonic principalities and powers, simply because they didn’t know who they were, and they didn’t understand the authority of the realm they were meant to occupy.

Suddenly, when I saw that, in my spirit, I said, “Church, ascend. It’s time to level up in this season so we don’t fall prey to the enemy’s devices. We must come up higher.”

Instantly, I shot up, high up in the heavens, in this other place I knew to be the glory realm. It was thick all around me, like honey. The air felt like honey is the only way to explain it. It felt sweet. There was a fragrance all around me, and suddenly I was looking down, and I could see that realm. I could see that other place where the Church was, and I began to call them higher.

And instantly in the glory realm, I discerned the fullness of my authority. I understood the fullness of what I had to dispense against that particular fight and that situation. And suddenly, as I was in there, the Lord said to me;

“My Church needs to come up higher so they don’t play into the game of the enemy, and they don’t die before their time.”

And I instantly discerned that even in my particular situation, the Lord had used it to reveal this to me that even though I had the message, and the boldness, and the authority, and the anointing to tear down some of these principalities and powers, there were some areas of this particular battle that I’d entered into when I arrived in Australia that I hadn’t appropriately discerned.

He said to me, “There are some battles you need to strategize before you release.”

And I said, “What are the strategies for us here in Australia, for instance?”

And He said, “There needs to be a rallying of the Church to evict the deep-seated principalities that have been in regions for a long time. This is not something that you go and try to pluck out right away, like you did. This is something that needs strategy, and it needs prayer, and you need to rally the Church and call them higher.

Because right now, the Church in that second heaven realm is actually coming into agreement with this spirit because they don’t know what higher looks like. They don’t know that higher realm yet. So they’re having to come into agreement. They’re actually shouting at a spirit or shouting at a principality that they’ve actually come into agreement with.

So there’s the facade of doing Kingdom. There’s a facade of spiritual warfare. There’s a facade of all these different religious practices where there’s a certain measure of Kingdom that still happens, but it’s capped and it’s managed by that spirit, because of the realm that they occupy.

The place your feet stand determines what you’re in agreement with.

SEATED IN HEAVENLY PLACES

If you’re seated in Christ in heavenly places, you’re submitted to Christ, and your authority comes from Christ. The lie of the enemy has been to keep the Church stuck in the second heaven realm, not understanding their authority, and not understanding their identity. It actually causes them to shadowbox the enemy, where you are not a threat to him. You think you’re doing Kingdom, but you’re living under a ceiling.

All the while, you see no results, you see no power, you see no breakthrough. But it’s a place of religious activity thriving without any results.

And the Lord says in this season: I’m actually flipping the script for the Church. But the first step is that the Church must rise higher. The Church must come out of that place.

Right now, the first thing I felt the Lord was doing, as I saw in the dream, was He began to turn the lights on. And when He turned the lights on, suddenly the people, the Christians in that lower realm, began to look blinded and confused. And as they adjusted to the light, they began to realize: “Wow, we’ve been occupying a space we’re not meant to occupy. Like, we’re sitting in a place that is lower than the station that we’re called to.”

And it caused this mass awakening in the body of Christ, where they started saying, “We need to get out of this place. The reason we’re experiencing that issue is because we’ve occupied a lower station for such a long period of time.”

We have called warfare something that it really isn’t. We’ve been thinking that warfare is a shouting match at the enemy while we’re in his house.

Jesus said in John 14:30 that “the enemy had no hold over him” or nothing in common with Him.

So we, as the Church, being in that realm, have actually come into agreement with areas of commonality with the enemy.

We’re shouting at the very thing we are tolerating. We’re shouting at the very thing we are allowing in our lives.

And so this dream, to me, was personal, yet it was also corporate.

If you’ve been wanting to know what I felt like the Lord was saying to me personally in all this, I felt like the Lord was saying to me that I came into Australia guns blazing.

I know God has anointed Christy and me to expose and stir up what many Christians have tolerated here. I know that the calling and the message on my life was always going to be to wake up the remnant, and to call the Church to tear down principalities and powers. I know the message on my life is not to tolerate Jezebel and to evict it from churches and regions where it’s just running rampant right now in Australia.

But I think what the Lord was showing me is that we have to come up higher to know the correct strategy and the right way to evict these principalities and powers.

PARABOLIC SIGN TO THE CHURCH

The war on my voice was a parabolic sign to the Church that unless we rise up, the enemy’s going to keep stealing our voice. But it was also a massive warning and reminder that unless we level up in this season, in our authority, we’re going to keep getting taken out. We’re going to keep taking those blows.

But if we ascend the hill of the Lord (Psalm 24), if we come up to a higher realm, a higher place of authority, we can evict those principalities and powers without fear of the backlash or the fear of being taken out, because we have stepped into a higher realm of operating.

So Christy and I know that nothing changes for us here. God’s called us to do that here in Australia, but it requires a new level of prayer. It requires a new level of stepping out of the mud of this culture that’s being tolerated here, even here in the church in Australia, especially within prophetic and apostolic cultures.

There is a very toxic allowance for the very thing that the Church was meant to oppose and come up against.

a message to the body of christ

This not just about Australia but it’s a message to the body of Christ that in this season, we can keep pretending like we’re doing Kingdom while we’re down in the pit, in the mud slinging it on other Christians, trying to fight things that we’ve tolerated and allowed inside our hearts and lives, or we can begin to evict those things.

Step out of the mud. Break those agreements.

And step into the place of effectiveness for the Kingdom that we’re called to.

It’s time to ascend the hill of the Lord (Psalm 24) and come up higher. Come out of the pit and out of that place you’ve been living in.

But how do you do that?

I actually felt like the Lord said that it comes down to agreement.

We want to fight and engage in warfare against the enemy because we’re frustrated. We’re frustrated that we have experienced nonstop warfare, and I get it. I understand that we want to see those areas of warfare end. But sometimes we do it while allowing agreements with the enemy to remain. And we become a landing place for the enemy to wreak havoc on our lives.

We need to level up in our identity and authority in this season. And we level up in identity by spending more time in the secret place than we do trying to shout things down in public place.

We level up in our authority by knowing what the finished work of the cross of Jesus Christ looks like, and untangling from every other mindset and limitation that we’ve allowed.

It’s time to level up, church

So, I believe that God gave me this insight as an understanding of what we are facing right now as a Church and the process that we are all in right now.

Wow, I feel the anointing right now as I write these words. It’s level-up time for you, Church.

There are so many people reading this who are experiencing a level of warfare, backlash, and robbery that has been on another level. I know that many people have been following my journey over these last few weeks, watching what happened to my voice, watching how we’ve navigated it that have been in similar situations and circumstances.

And I want you to know that I’m in no way trying to bring condemnation. I’ll never tell you that this is your fault or make you feel small, stupid, or belittle you for what you’re going through.

I know I did. I felt stupid. I felt silly. I felt small.

I felt like maybe I went into a fight that I wasn’t properly ready for at the time. I went in a little blindsided. Not because I wasn’t prayed up enough, but because I didn’t correctly recognize the dynamics of the region.

But I have a word for you, if you’ve been going through this kind of warfare, I want to give you every bit of advice and keys for you in this season to know how to level up.

Are you ready?

how to level up

1. Get out of the VIP box.

We need to get out of that second heaven realm. That is where we fight fires and warfare with our heads. That is where we come up against the enemy with our intellect and emotions, rather than with our spirit man.

That’s where we’re engaging with the chatter, the gossip, and the slander more than we’re engaging with the spirit behind it.

It’s where we’re focused on the people afflicting us more than we’re focused on the enemy behind them.

You must leave that place. You need to get out of your head. It’s time to go and spend more time with the Lord than you do calling your friends and telling them about what you’re going through and who’s against you.

When did we make the Kingdom about who’s against us, rather than the Kingdom we’re advancing?

2. Identity upgrade.

We need an identity upgrade right now.

We need to be refreshed and reminded of who we are.

When you walk through battles, you forget who you are.

The Lord is saying:

“Get into the Word. Find who you are again. Declare it until you become it again. Shake loose the mindsets that have been trying to snag you.”

3. Break commonality.

Ask the Lord: “Is there any area of commonality in my life with the spirit that I’m warring against?”

You won’t be able to be set free from a spirit you’re in commonality with until you break agreement with it.

Maybe it’s come generationally.

Maybe it’s come through the environment, or through the people you’re aligned with.

But this is a massive one.

You need to break free from any areas of commonality, any false alignments, and any places where you’ve come into agreement with the enemy in your life.

When you’re in an environment that has tolerated a spirit, in the natural, you will not be able to defeat the very thing in your home.

In fact, it will only flare up in your marriage or in your home.

4. Ascend the hill of the Lord.

Ask the Lord what it means to be seated in Christ in heavenly places and live there.

Jesus used to go up the mountain to pray, and I believe that the cornerstone of us leveling up as a Church in this season is leaving the battle of turkeys versus chickens.

It’s about ascending the hill of the Lord, taking back the high places, taking back our homes in prayer and worship, and dedicating our marriages and our families to the Lord afresh.

in closing

Now, lastly, I also want to pray for the voices that have been taken out in this season because of this kind of warfare.

Silence, break in Jesus’ name. Demonic assignment sent to muzzle you, steal your message, and fire, be broken now in Jesus’ name.

I am not saying not to speak or to be afraid of the enemy, but to increase your ferocity and boldness coupled with the wisdom and insight of heaven that only comes as we ascend higher and see clearly what we are facing.

“And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus…” - Ephesians 2:6