WILL YOU LET ME RESTORE YOU TO THE TABLE?

This is a word for the isolated and the ones who are SKEPTICAL and SCARED of the church because you have been hurt too much.

You have CHURCHIANITY ANXIETY because you have seen it all, experienced the same religious institutional environments over and over and HAVE NO HOPE that God could ever bring you into a healthy place.

You have seen the hypocrisy and the fake you have witnessed man’s buildings and man’s empires and found very little Jesus, but most of all, YOU KEEP BEING BEAT UP and robbed in these places rather than encouraged, sharpened, and launched where you are meant to go.

This is even for the ones that have some PTSD around the word “FAMILY” because you JUST HAVEN’T SEEN IT…

As I was waking this morning, I heard these words from the heart of God spoken over the church:

“Will you allow Me to restore you to the table? Will you allow Me to heal you from the wounds that have afflicted you in the church, that have afflicted you from other believers, that afflicted you in places you were meant to belong?

Places that you were meant to be protected in, honored in your calling, where your family was protected, and your voice valued? The places you were meant to come into and collectively bring my heart to, places where I had called you to go in and be a part of a body, a family, and a community?

But yet, all you've found was betrayal, hurt and rejection, constant bickering, witchcraft and character assassination.

Places where you were robbed in your worth, and the enemy tried to steal your best days, crush your marriage, your family, your kids, your livelihoods, deplete your finances and your health, and shut you down and send you running.

For in this season, I am turning around everything that the enemy has done to cause you to believe that you would never belong.

In this season, I am confronting, exposing, and counteracting the demonic assignment that has caused you to believe that you would never find your tribe, your people, and that you would always be in isolation, running from one place to another, one city to another, one people to another, never truly being able to settle and rest and be established.

This is the season you've been through the worst with people. Hear me now when I say this: this will be the season that you discover the best in people.

In this season, you won’t see an ugly bride that afflicts her own, but a PURE bride and a HEALTHY bride…

In your past season, it was people that hurt you, betrayed you, rejected you, and sent you into isolation, which is why right now I am sending you people that will heal you, encourage you, hold up your arms, and restore you to the table.

This is a season where I'm going to cause you to come into an environment and places where in past seasons, your pearls were trampled, your pearls were smashed, and you forfeited your calling over and over.

But this will be a season I cause you to come into the right environment where you will finally be able to plant your seeds and you'll birth the assignments that I've given you.

You'll finally come into environments where people will water you, they'll surround you, lift up your arms, and bring you into the fullness of everything that you've been trying to birth on your own in secret that has not come to pass.”

You've cried out in the dark saying, “God, will I ever find my people? Will I ever find my tribe? Will I ever step into the fullness of everything that's on my life? You said that I needed a village for my kids, for my family, and for my calling, to see the fullness of it!”

Which is why the enemy has warred against it the most and why the enemy tries to prevent it the most.

But this is a season you are coming OUT of the wilderness of religious club mindsets.

The Lord says,

“I know that you're still critical of many environments, but watch me now as I bring you into an Acts 2 community again, where the fire of God burns, and hearts come alive, and people are not gathering based on their differences or their grievances, but they're coming together under the banner of Jesus.

It's time to come to the table, but the question is, will you allow Me to restore you?

Will you allow Me to SHOW YOU THERE CAN BE PLACES OF HEALING AND THE REAL YOU HAVE BEEN LONGING FOR?”

In fact, I believe we are in the beginning of the healthiest days the church (the people) have ever seen. That’s why God is shaking us all up and letting the old wineskin breathe its last.

I'm writing this right now after we had an incredible gathering last night at our Strike Night, where the fire of God came through the place for over an hour, and we were singing, "We are your burning ones."

We saw so many people that God was restoring after being crushed by seasons of religious abuse and discouragement through seasons they've walked through, but what I'm seeing right now is a beautiful moment- a new wineskin where God is gathering His people to the table again.

And I simply want to end this by saying that if you've been hurt, betrayed, and you've been in that place where you've been in isolation and you're longing for community, but are also really scared of stepping back into that place, just pray this with me:

“Holy Spirit, can you show me my people in this season? Can you show me that there are people who will be genuine and authentic and lift up my arms in this season? Can you bring me into that community? Lord, RESTORE ME TO THE TABLE, in Jesus’ name!”

If you read my Eagle's Nest word, God is bringing you into those eagle's nests in this season- places of healing and wholeness, where you can be healed from the years, be restored, and then sent into your mission field, in Jesus' name.

If you'd like prayer, let us know, and we'll be praying that God will bring you into those places.