YOU ARE TAKING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED…
This is going to be a raw letter from my heart to you as we begin this week…
My prophetic heart is processing something I can't seem to move on from and a word from the Lord that is either going to cause you to stop reading or make your heart scream, "YES LORD!!"
And only you can decide which…
A few weeks ago I was recording a video about this month when the Lord dropped these words:
"Nate you are forgetting something… September begins THE NEW WAY."
Ever since, those words have been etched and branded into my heart for weeks now with a HOLY FEAR and I can't just brush past it or move on without fully knowing what that means.
THE NEW WAY?
Isn't that what many of God's remnant have already been doing? Isn't that the path many have been on?
Yes, but not like what we are about to see. I feel like that has just been the warm up…
Because if Jesus IS THE WAY and there's a new way, it means He is inviting us somewhere HE IS MOVING that unless we are intentional about WE COULD MISS.
I guess what I am processing is exactly this– Lord, where are You going? I don't want to be so busy that I take another road.
Christianity has become so fast paced like a Maserati race instead of a walking of a narrow road in relationship. Right now, many are feeling that they are at a fork in the road of sorts.
A place where they know they can't keep going the way they have been but it's beyond that. It's the grief or longing to follow Him and NO LONGER FEELING HIM where and how you used to. Right?
If your heart leaped in that statement or you feel that grief, this word is for you.
This September has been all about that– RETURNING… a coming back. A recalibration. A laying down the old. A THRESHING FLOOR…
It's been an unsettling year leading up to this point. Seeing the wheels fall off things you were doing. Rooms you were in. Relationships you had.
But it's been a month of DECISION, or should I say the beginning of the days of decision as we crossed over this Rosh Hashana into 5787, which I am calling the year of the sword of the Lord and the sword in our mouth.
It's the year the Lord is inviting us to BE MADE SEPARATE from the things that once entangled us so we can release THE SWORD of the Lord.
Which brings me to what I'm going to share next that the Lord spoke to me that may be INTENSE for some to read. Are you ready?
I heard the Lord say,
"Will you take the road less travelled with Me?
Will you leave the familiar road, the mega highway of man-made religion, to go where I lead you, even if it doesn't make sense for a while?
Yes, you'll look foolish, rebellious, anti-church, uncovered, and un-submitted to those who only know the institution and the big bustling corporation of religious hype but you'll finally discover all of Me.
You'll finally find Me where few find Me, because I've seen you wrestling and fighting for your faith in a world of Christianity that you no longer identify with.
I've seen you grieving something you no longer feel part of or identify with and feeling guilty for it, but it's only because I HAVE MOVED ON.
My ark has moved. My glory has moved.
So the question remains. Will you stay in the old wine or follow Me into the new?
THERE HAS TO BE A NEW PACE.
The grief you feel is that you no longer find joy in kingdom like you used to because it has become BUSY and rushed, and you have forgotten what it's like to simply BE in My presence.
You have been tethered to theme park Christianity and nonstop attractions - it's fun and exciting but I AM NOT IN IT... and that's the grief in the reflection of this hour.
I'm in the still small voice and few are choosing what is private because they want what is PUBLIC and gives them a false sense of purpose.
They are pouring themselves out for man as a worship daily and deceiving themselves it's kingdom but they don't pour themselves out at My feet anymore.
They are in slavery to be seen instead of being KNOWN BY ME. The fruit of that? Burnout and disillusionment.
The home gets neglected. Marriages fail. Kids become prodigals. People are led into the world by default.
But I am inviting you in this hour off the hamster wheel and back into the place of My REST FOR YOUR SOUL.
A place and season of replenishment where I REFILL YOU. Where I wipe away the weariness of the years and the warfare fatigue, fill you with fresh vision again, and give you back your song.
But you will have to lay down the IDOLS of hustle and the fast paced world of pressure you have been in. Will you?
As you do, watch me as I restore your joy.
Watch as I restore your passion and zeal.
Watch as I set you back on track and RESTORE what has been stolen by Saul's house and the leaven of the Pharisee.
For you will look back and see that this month something shifted DEEPLY in you.
For even now I am breaking your appetite for the things that have been EMPTY and leading you on a road that may seem lonely at first and UNPOPULAR but it will be FULL OF ME...
I will satisfy you with My GLORY that will flood your life and cause you to be the first fruits of the new wine that I am about to gush forth over the earth.
Will you take the road less traveled with Me?”
(If you want some practical instruction on how to process and stocktake your life with the Lord, go HERE.)
PRAY WITH ME…
Lord, lead me in this new way. Lead me where You are going. Get me back on track. I lay down my appetites. My desires. My idols of hustle. The pace and pressure I've been living in. I lay down the familiar road to follow You onto the narrow one. I repent for running the rat race of religion. For being tethered to hustle and the need to be seen. I renounce it and I break agreement with it now. I come out of Saul's house and the leaven of the Pharisee. I break off every yoke of striving, performance and religious pressure, in the name of Jesus.
Restore my joy. Restore my passion. Restore my song. Take me off the highway and back into the still small place with You. Wherever You are moving, I don't want to miss it.
I choose the road less travelled with You…