We are to live and move and have our being in Him.  His desire is to live and have His being within us, His Holy tabernacle in the earth.  Under the Old Covenant He gave very specific instructions for the building of the tabernacle.  He changes not; even under grace, He still has details, specific instructions for building and inhabiting His temple, the place of His dwelling.  God desires to meet with us in the Holy Place, that which is created and made according to His instructions.
Many have lived their lives around gifts and callings.  Gifts and callings are those things, which originated in the heart of God and He gave to us.  His desire is to receive from us those things that originate from within our heart – worship, adoration and reverence for Him.  The Fruit of the Spirit, as it is produced in our lives will become a living demonstration of His abiding presence.  He says our gift will make room for us.  Once room is made, we are to become a representative or a demonstration of His abiding presence.  His presence enables the Fruit of the Spirit to grow and reproduce in our lives.  Many times, we fall into using His gifts to demonstrate His presence.  Gifts are given for the building of His Body.  We are not to be known by our gifts, by the Fruit and our love for one another.  It is possible to move in the gifts and not have love.  Love is the bouquet or aroma of the combination of the fruits and gifts in our lives.  There are times when to walk in the Fruit of the Spirit is a sacrifice of praise, especially during this season.
He came into the earth, even though no room was made for Him.  We celebrate this season of His birth, but many times, we make no room for Him.  We become so caught up in our own plans, family, church or relationships we have no room in our daily lives for Him.  We fall into the trap of saying after I do this…, when I finish…, the next thing on my list…  He promises to come with His abiding presence, but how many times has He come and there has been no room.  We sing our songs with our friends, spend time with family and He comes and we make no room for Him.  How many times has He come into our church services, when we were gathered in His name but He found no room?
His desire is to be in the midst of us.  He desires room in our life.  His desire is to have a dwelling place in the earth for Him to live, move, and have His being.  He stands at the door of our heart and knocks, asking, “Will you make room, right now, this very moment?”  He desires to come in with His full salvation, His presence today and find room within our hearts.  He desires to have the fullness of His being – a living, manifesting demonstrating presence that will show forth His glory in the earth.  We desire the power and the authority; we long to see signs and wonders.  He’s asking today, if you hear My voice to open and let Me come in.

The old has passed away.  I have washed away the old a little here and a little there.  You are training in how to walk in this My new day.  Walk; step forward in my resurrection into the newness of My power.  Put away your old ways of seeking Me.  Put away your familiar ways with Me.  It is a new day and you shall now behold Me face to face.  You will see My glory as the fullness of the noonday sun.  The light of My presence will fill you and expose those things, which have held you captive, keeping you from experiencing all that I’ve done.
This day, I require you to seek Me in a new way not because I have changed, but because I am the God of times and seasons.  It is a new day, a new season and a new time to seek Me.  Those things that have been acceptable practice will no longer be common among you for I have tried and tested you.  Your faith has been proven and your endurance tested.
Today is a day of newness, newness in My presence, in My word, and My moving in you.  It is a new season.  In My resurrected power, you will experience a newness of My presence.  As you step into the new, the old things will fall away.  To step into the new you must leave the old behind.  Keep pressing forward one-step, one day at a time.  The past is dead and offers nothing of benefit to you in this new season.  There is no new life to come from those things that are of the past – life only comes from My presence, My Spirit.
My life dwells within you.  Step into the fullness of My life and you will see My glory.  You will see those things you have desired.  Leave the old behind and rise to the new with Me and establish My glory, My presence wherever you go.  I say it is time – a time and a season for all I have spoken and promised to become in you that which you have only dared to dream.  My Kingdom has come and is yet coming.  I will use you in the establishment of My purposes in the earth.  Know that I am not moving in the ways of the past, but in a new way.
If you continue to return to the old things, you will not see that which I am doing in the new.  Put away your old methods – the old ways, even though you know they will work, they will not accomplish that which I desire for this time and this season.  This is a time and a season that My presence will be made known.  I will reveal Myself to you in ways you’ve not previously known.  Do not look back with longing to the old days for there is no life in the old for this season; they were but for a time and a season, today is a new day, a new time and a new season.

The clock said 3:35 a.m. and Isaiah 35:3 came to my mind, I’ve learned to write this down and if sleep doesn’t come easy get up and read.
Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.  Say to those with anxious heart, “Take courage, fear not.  Behold, your God will come with vengeance; the recompense of God will come, but He will save you.”  Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.  Isaiah 35:3-5
Many are anxious of heart and life has become an existence, as there is no real life or joy within oneself.  I will come into your lives restoring your joy and fullness.  My joy will be your strength for many of you have had your joy – strength stolen.  You are to be encouraged and strengthened, for I am coming on your behalf.  I will open your eyes and open your closed ears.  You will know the Joy of the Lord; you will be strong in the power of My might.  You will no longer be a victim.  You will no longer be tossed back and forth by every word spoken by those around you.  You will be like a tree planted by the river of living water.  You will be deeply rooted and planted in Me and you will surely see My goodness in the land of the living.  You will know My joy and you will be known as joyful ones.  You will be known as one who has My wisdom; wisdom beyond your years and wisdom beyond what the world can comprehend.  You will be the precious pearl born out of adversity and irritation.  You will be one who will shines forth My glory and reflect the light of My presence.  Know there is a “suddenly” on your horizon.
My word, My living word from within your belly will come forth in the dry and parched places of your soul.  You will come forth as holy unto Me; you shall be holy as I am holy.  There shall be a separation the holy and from that which is profane.  You will find that your enemy is no longer to be roaming about in your life and within your sphere of influence for in My presence, there is fullness of joy.  Know that the enemy trembles before My joyful ones.  You will walk in the place of My power and that which was stolen and robbed from you in seasons past.  My joy will crowd out all sorrow.  Your days of disappointment will be of those things only remembered.  You will know they have fled away and I have arisen in your life.  I am breaking forth with My life, My joy and My strength in a newness you have not experienced.  Come to My river and taste of My goodness in the land of the living; then you shall not only know of My goodness but you will live in My goodness.
Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb will shout for joy.  For waters will break forth in the wilderness and streams in the Arabah.  And the scorched land will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, its resting place, grass becomes reeds and rushes.  And a highway will be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness.  The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for him who walks that way, and fools will not wander on it.  No lion will be there, nor will any vicious beast go up on it; these will not be found there.  But the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the LORD will return, and come with joyful shouting to Zion, with everlasting joy upon their heads.  They will find gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.  Isaiah 35: 6-10

There are times when we have snow, sleet, ice and extreme cold temperatures in the winter.  We know this is not a permanent situation.  We have knowledge of the established weather patterns for our area, because we can call to remembrance history, we know our current condition is only temporary.  It is passing, but during the present, it has many far- reaching effects.  We dress warmer, turn up the thermostat, sometimes limit our travel, businesses, schools and churches close, we are affected by the immediate conditions, but even after the weather has passed there will be effects.  We may have stayed home more, having a direct effect on our grocery bills, also grocery stores and restaurants.  Children possibly will have a snow day from school, which later is to be made up later after the snowball fights and the snowmen are long forgotten.  We adjust our heat to be more comfortable, but when the bill comes due we may have forgotten the unusually cold weather and ask ourselves why is the bill higher than usual.  Those who live in the north have a different plan; those who live in the south have a different summer plan or life style. We have a plan, which for the most part works as long as there are no unexpected changes.
The Lord is invading our lives and our plans with His presence.  May times His presence has immediate effects and at other times there is the long-term or ripple effect, such as throwing a pebble into a pond.  When the ripples touch us, we may have forgotten the original incident that set things in motion.
The consistent theme is one of new beginnings, new doors, new gates and also a new gait, a new way of walking.  Through it, we begin to walk in a new way.  In order to enter into the new we are consistently brought back to some of the old.  We experienced some hardship, disappointments, unexpected events and intense resistance even in the first days of this season, our new beginning.  The Lord is using this time to bring to our attention the forgotten incidents that have had a ripple effect or a consequence in our lives.  In His goodness and His mercy, He desires to show us events in our life, we have forgotten – thinking they are such small things.  These events produce some of the current waves, or ripples we experience as we look for new things.  When past events are taken to the cross they may not have an immediate effect on our today, but they may on our tomorrows.  We may have unknowingly thrown many pebbles into our lives, but we know that when our Rock – Jesus Christ comes into our life there are continual effects bringing a new beginning along with our destiny.
We indeed cross over into new beginnings, doors are unlocked, gates are opening and all of the other promised things, but some of the ripples that seem to be never ending from the past may distract us.  We are not to lose heart and become weary in well doing.  All things are working together for our good, as we are the called of the Lord.  It just may not look like or feel like what we have anticipated.
God is answering our prayers, but we must not lose sight that sometime our answerers are delayed, as there is not yet a breakthrough.  God gives us the authority to decree His purpose in the earth.  The first new beginning we will step into is a new way of talking resulting in a new gait, a new way of walking.  Yes, there are opposing forces at the gates, but greater is He that is in me than he who thinks he holds the hinge or latch on the gate.  We have, are and will overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and by the Word of our Testimony.  This is season to position ourselves to see what the Lord would say.

There is an appointed time for everything and there is a time for every event under heaven.  Ecclesiastes .3:1
We experience times and seasons according to the purposes of the Lord; in the Atlanta area we have a specific time known as “pollen season”.  It’s everywhere, a thick coating.  Some days bring us a fresh rain, which washes away the coating of yellow.  Following the rain there is a residue where the rain causes puddles.  Future rains will settle the additional pollen until the season is over and we will have long forgotten our temporary frustration and inconvenience with the heavy coating and blowing pollen.  Later seasons of fruitfulness and harvest depend on pollen season.
There are times in the natural that we are negatively affected by what seem to be a heavy coating, we are discouraged, feeling weighty and looking for this season of heaviness to be over.  We long for a fresh rain to wash away the depression and discouragement, which so easily can come when we’re expecting one thing and it seems the opposite, is occurring.  It is during this time that our enemy comes to bring fear that this is the way it is and is going to be.  Nothing’s really going to change, not for you at least.  You might as well just settle in and get comfortable.  Forget it; you didn’t hear what you though you heard, etc…  (sound familiar)
God in His faithfulness sends a refreshing, but there is still a residue remaining.  It’s during this time the enemy seeks to bring us into a place of overwhelm.  There are times when you’ve done all you just stand and preserve.  We may feel momentarily refreshed, but it’s seems as though it’s hard to shake off all the residue.  We are to know that just as in the natural during pollen season there is a plan and there is a purpose at work for our good.  This is a season of preparation for fruitfulness and the harvest.  We can know that whatever we feel or the enemy has brought our way that as we are faithful to cry out to the Lord, pressing into Him for more – He is faithful.  He sends the fresh rain that may not look like what we have been expecting, but it is indeed bringing the fresh reign that we’ve so longed for.  It may not appear as what we’ve envisioned and there may be some residue remaining, but we are to keep pressing toward that promised new season.  We will enter into fruitfulness and a harvest that has been born out of a season of hindrance and inconvenience.
We find our self at a new level of trust.  We can trust knowing the Lord has our times and seasons in His hand.  He knows our end all the way to the beginning.  The enemy tries to convince us that he’s in charge of our times, but God is at work to bring His fresh reign into our lives moving us from one place of faith to that increase of faith where we find ourselves at another level.  Our circumstances may come and go, but we can know that the Word of the Lord abides forever.
In the Atlanta area we’ve been in a Class 4 Drought and the pollen season was excessively heavy (or so it seemed at the time) but there is an abundant harvest coming because we’ve had an increase of fresh rains.  The discouragement has been excessive, but there is a great harvest season in store for us.  We may not know what to expect or have details, but we know there is a season coming.

As I was out walking this morning I heard the wind in the trees and the phrase – the horses are running – can you hear them?
David had already defeated the Philistines and named the place of his breakthrough.
Then David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines?  Wilt Thou give them into my hand?”  And the LORD said to David, “Go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand.”  So David came to Baal-perazim, and defeated them there; and he said, “The LORD has broken through my enemies before me like the breakthrough of waters.”  Therefore he named that place Baal-perazim.  2 Samuel 5: 18-20
Yet once again he face the same enemy, the giants he had previously defeated were before him, on his horizon.  He enquired of the Lord and was to wait until he hear the sound in the tops of the trees then he was to go at the Lord’s command.  He was not to go against the enemy the same way he had previously defeated him, as he was to do something new.  We are facing many of the enemies we have previously defeated, but the Lord desires to bring a final victory that we might have peace in the place of His calling.  Sometimes have to face the same enemy, but in a new way and the timing of the final defeat is the key to moving into a place of lasting peace.  We are to move forward only at the Lord’s command.  If we move to soon things will not have been prepared and if we wait too long the moment of victory may have passed.
Now the Philistines came up once again and spread themselves out in the valley of Rephaim.  And when David inquired of the LORD, He said, “You shall not go directly up; circle around behind them and come at them in front of the balsam trees.”  2 Samuel 5: 22-24
In October, I saw the following: There were armies of horsemen lined up; coming into order beginning to face the same, direction and many being reposition to be aligned with those on either side for effectiveness.  In times past, He has passed before the troops inspecting and bringing order.  The troops are trained; readied for a pass and review.  They will pass before the Lord and all eyes will be on Him.  He is now releasing and sending forth.  In His positioning, many are released into that He has prepared, trained and equipped to do; building and establishing His Kingdom as we co-labor with Him.
He’s releasing His Spirit of Might.  It’s not by power and not by might, but by His Spirit, as it is the power of His might emerging.  The closer we draw to Him the more understanding we will have of His Spirit of Might.  Suddenly God will establish His promises as He is restoring lost dreams, visions and promises; dreams are being brought to remembrance, times of renewed vision.  We’ve been waiting for a sound, the sound of Him moving in the earth.
Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain!  Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; surely it is near, Joel 2:1
Do you sense the swirling or a stirring in the heavens?  While it is yet dark, you know, you sense and you feel the effects, but since the sun has not risen you don’t have the ability to see.  You are to keep pressing upward towards Me, as I am arising in your midst.  When I arise, there will be light to see that which has been stirring; soon you will have tangible evidence of what you’ve been hearing and sensing.  You are to stand in faith believing for those promises.  You are to stand in what appears to be the dark places waiting for My light to make entrance, to unfold and as it does your anticipation will give way to action, but it will be at My direction and timing.  You are to wait in faith looking forward and keeping watch to see what I would say.  It may appear nothing is happening but I am arranging and preparing behind the scenes.  I am speaking in a still small voice, but I am also speaking in all things that surround you.  Your cry is – open my eyes Lord that I might see what you’re saying – open my ears that I might hear your word and the sound of your preparation.  This is a season to have your spiritual senses expanded.  You are not only to have eyes to see and ears to hear, but you are to have understanding.  I am not only giving you understanding during this season, but I am working to give you wisdom.  The sons of Issachar not only knew the times and seasons of their God, but they knew what was to be done.  You have the ability to see and hear, but are transitioning into a season where you will know the timing of what you should do.  You are not to run ahead of Me, but to wait on My timing, wait on my sound so that you can move when I move, rest when I say to rest and wait when I say wait.  You are in the transition place of ceasing from your labors and entering into My rest, which is co-laboring with Me, as I build My house, My tabernacle, My dwelling within you to bring forth My purposes in your lives and in the earth.

White puffy clouds were moving against a clear bright blue sky.  Standing beside a very large oak roll top desk with the top rolled up and the cubbyholes were exposed. Many of the spaces contained white envelopes, some were empty, but none of the spaces were completely full.  The Lord began to rearrange the envelopes.  Many of the spaces, which had been previously empty, became full.  There was a lot of movement, shifting and rearranging.
White clouds – righteousness
Clouds moving – wind blowing, movement – a move of the Holy Spirit
Bright blue sky – abundance of revelation
Oak roll top desk – oaks of righteousness – place of work, calling
Opened – revealing of things hidden, ministries, gifting, calling
Rearranging – connecting, realigning according to His choice
The season is changing and I am realigning and connecting those in which I am establishing My Kingdom.  Many things are not as though they seem.  Look unto Me and be as one planted by My River of Living Water.  It is a time to stand strong in the place of your planting during the winds of change, for I am building My house according to My plan.  I am bringing forth righteousness and revelation that you have not seen before.  I am opening doors, releasing those I have prepared into a greater measure of the fullness of My calling and anointing.  Those who have felt disconnected, out of place and even hidden away – know I am bringing an order to My house, which is bringing you into alignment with My plans.

You have been asking, “Lord what are you saying to me?”  Stand still and see My salvation for I will surely deliver you from that which you are leaving into that which I have ordained before you.  Do not look to the right or left, but look to My face and you will surely see My hand move on your behalf.
I am breathing My breath of life into those areas of your heart that you didn’t even know were lifeless.  I am causing the fullness of My word, My life to become who you are.
I am doing a new thing in you, even now – you are becoming aware of the new condition of your heart.  My desire is to bring you to the fullness of all that I have promised.  You are realizing a newfound strength and ability to trust, even when you cannot see or do not know what is around the next bend in your road.  There is a bend in your road coming that you are even now anticipating.  Things are not going to be as they appear for a season.  I am reveling My heart towards you, so you will go out with a new level of trust.  I trust you and you are learning deeper trust.  I will take you many places and cause to you to accomplish those things that you have even forgotten how to dream or envision.
Allow Me to finish what I have started and I will bring you to the place I have ordained for you from the beginning.  The season of feeling as though all has been derailed is soon ending.  Look forward with excitement and anticipation calling those things that are not as though they will be and you will see them become reality.
You shall be one to know My divine protection and provision.  Do not look to see what you do not have, but rejoice and thank Me for my protection and provision.  I will meet all the needs of your life.  Even now, I am preparing the next phase of your provision.  You have tried to imagine all the different ways in which I could do things for you.  I say, that what I have in preparation will far surpass anything you could imagine.  That is why, at times, you have not been able to see beyond the moment.  I am going to do things in such a way even to astound you and those who have been waiting with you.  You will stand in amazement at my plans.  For I know the plans, I have for you; they will bring you to the fullness of My promises regarding where you will go and what you will do.  Trust Me, as I am even now taking care of the last minute details and arrangements, for your time of change is upon you.
You will see as My plan unfolds the importance of the trust I have been developing within you.  I have brought you to a place of trust, even when you’ve not understood the purpose.  I am teaching you to walk the walk of faith in Me.  You will not lack for the things I will provide when you are in a situation where you cannot see the next thing.  I am pleased with your trust.  I am one who rewards those who diligently seek Me – for you will see your reward.  What you have begun to see within these last months is only the beginning.  Am I not faithful to my promises?  Do not lose heart for all that I have promised is around the bend in the road.

Know that the movement you are feeling is not the pushing and pulling of the double minded.  You are of one mind and one accord with Me.  You are experiencing the washing of the water of the Word, which is renewing your mind, causing all things to come into alignment and agreement with My Word.  When one is in the surf of the ocean there is a gentle moving back and forth, this is the process many find themselves in, one of feeling pulled and pushed at the same time.  Know this is My gentle hand washing over you with waves of My presence and waves of My glory.  As the surf comes in and recedes from the shore, know that My word is coming in and receding,  accomplishing a polishing away of those things that have attached themselves to you in the day-to- day business of living.  As the tossing of the surf polishes a seashell, the washing of the water of My Word is polishing away all those things that would hinder My reflected glory.  My light, My presence will reflect within those I have called by name.  Know that this season is sort lived because I am breaking through, arising and shining like the dawn.  I am bringing My early light and My early rain, for I would have you to be a well-watered garden that brings forth much fruit.
For I declare that in the midst of all that appears – I am bring forth a people who are like My well watered garden,  as it is the place where I dwell within those who are fruitful.  Know that I have prepared the soil of your hearts for a season of fruitfulness.  For you truly are standing on the edge of the new thing I am doing within My body
The reason if feels strange and unfamiliar is you have not been this way before, for I am in the midst of doing the new thing I have promised you.  Stand fast, hold tight to the promises, for I truly will have My glory seen in the earth through My chosen and polished vessels.  Be encouraged for I am arising with My arms outstretched reaching for you to bring you into my fullness.

Know that the movement you are feeling is not the pushing and pulling of the double minded.  You are of one mind and one accord with Me.  You are experiencing the washing of the water of the Word, which is renewing your mind, causing all things to come into alignment and agreement with My Word.  When one is in the surf of the ocean there is a gentle moving back and forth, this is the process many find themselves in, one of feeling pulled and pushed at the same time.  Know this is My gentle hand washing over you with waves of My presence and waves of My glory.  As the surf comes in and recedes from the shore, know that My word is coming in and receding,  accomplishing a polishing away of those things that have attached themselves to you in the day-to- day business of living.  As the tossing of the surf polishes a seashell, the washing of the water of My Word is polishing away all those things that would hinder My reflected glory.  My light, My presence will reflect within those I have called by name.  Know that this season is sort lived because I am breaking through, arising and shining like the dawn.  I am bringing My early light and My early rain, for I would have you to be a well-watered garden that brings forth much fruit.
For I declare that in the midst of all that appears – I am bring forth a people who are like My well watered garden,  as it is the place where I dwell within those who are fruitful.  Know that I have prepared the soil of your hearts for a season of fruitfulness.  For you truly are standing on the edge of the new thing I am doing within My body
The reason if feels strange and unfamiliar is you have not been this way before, for I am in the midst of doing the new thing I have promised you.  Stand fast, hold tight to the promises, for I truly will have My glory seen in the earth through My chosen and polished vessels.  Be encouraged for I am arising with My arms outstretched reaching for you to bring you into my fullness.
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