ONE BY ONE WE FALL FROM HEAVEN HOW TO

The reset is the shutting of doors of commonality with the world, contractual fear, and comforts that keep us in apathy and inaction when the world is needing the children of God to arise and shine.

It spoke to me about a coming RESET to the church that resulted in the RISING of THE CHURCH.

God is going to highlight our dependence on Him more than the systems of man, more than ever before.

We are going to see doors shut to areas that make us numb to what is taking place around us.

The church is heading into a greater shaking and separation from our dependence on earthly things.

This part of the dream was sobering but it spoke so loudly of these things God is doing:

These comfortable believers were instantly cutoff from their comforts and unable to access them. Suddenly one by one each store shut their doors and asked their patrons to leave. Then what happened next took me by surprise. This was the church who couldnвЂ™t hear the cries of the lost, or the broken, because they were distracted. This was the comfortable church, who had created a lifestyle out of comfortability over the cause of Christ. I tried to figure out what I was sensing it was, and the word came to me вЂњComfortвЂќ. I noticed them going into nail salons and other beautification services, hairdressers, and fashion stores and while none of those things were bad, I felt the grief on the Lords heart that something was amiss. Who were these people? I thought, and knowing what I was asking He replied, вЂњThis is the church.вЂќ At first, we just simply stood and watched people coming and going in and out of different stores and vendors. In the first part of the dream, I was in a busy marketplace or shopping mall and the Lord was with me.

ONE BY ONE WE FALL FROM HEAVEN HOW TO

I have personally wrestled how to share this, but for the sake of revealing where God wants us to go, I need to share this dream very candidly. 7 weeks ago, I had a dream where the Lord showed me three scenes and walked me through each of them like a tour-guide. But the decision we need to make is вЂњWill we cave in defeat, or will we take our inheritance?вЂќ Just like the place where Goliath stood to defy GodвЂ™s people вЂ“ the valley of Elah вЂ“ we too are in what looks like a low place, a narrow passage, but a place where we must pass through to further establish the kingdom of God and advance.ДЄs I constantly faced daily news headlines like the taunts of Goliath, I kept asking the Lord the question, вЂњWhere are we and where are we going?вЂќ but I didnвЂ™t expect Him to show me what He did. Our promise is straight ahead, and we are surrounded by obstacles and seemingly menacing giants in our path. The fact is, we, the church, like the Israelites of that day are at a crossroad. Will we stand idly by to the shouts of the giants in the land, or will we go and collect our stones? I knew then that God wanted to have a longer conversation with me about the moment we are in and how we are right now, as a church, at the place of decision. In the vision I saw myself (representative of the church) picking up the stones and could feel the flurry of emotions as David even semi-wrestled this moment between righteous fiery passion and raw, risky faith. вЂњThen he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherdвЂ™s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the PhilistineвЂќ I felt the thread of this word begin to come when one morning in June this year I had a vision of 1 Samuel 17:40 which says: Whether you choose to see them as your problem to defeat or not, they are there and in this next year God is doing a massive work to engage the church more than ever before to contest the assignments of these giants and serve them an eviction notice going forward.ДЄ VALLEY OF DECISION MOMENT вЂ“ THE WRESTLE AT ELAH ItвЂ™s no surprise though, look around you right now and youвЂ™ll see that there are indeed giants before us. IвЂ™ve been stuck on the theme of giant-killers for most of this year and unable to move from it, as if there was something God was trying to speak to me about the church and where weвЂ™re heading.

One by one we fall from heaven