For the Lord says you’re moving into a season of faith. The Lord would say, “Don’t think that it is faith that you have to generate because I have given you a measure of faith. It is inside you already for whatever you need, for whatever challenges that you have in front of you.”
And the Lord would say, “I am rebooting your life, for you have been frustrated, and you feel like things aren’t working as they should work. And you try to do one thing and it just doesn’t happen.”
The Lord is saying that, “I am getting ready to move among families in extraordinary ways.”
James 5:16 is commonly referenced when it comes to the topic of prayer: “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”
This simple sentence reveals three significant attributes of prayer
Scripture reveals that the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world, and then the end will come. The gospel of the kingdom includes the demonstration to every nation that Jesus is the sovereign Lord of all, and it ultimately leads to the separation of sheep and goat nations (Matt. 24:14, 25:31-34).
And the Lord would say, “You feel very human. You feel that you have so many limitations that you are becoming bound by how you define yourself,” says the Lord. But the Lord says, “I do not see you as you see yourself. I do not look at you as a weak person, incapable to stand against the storms of life,” says the Lord.
If children in your area did not start back to school in the last week or so, they will be in session before too long. “Back-to-school” is a societal and seasonal turning point in America. It seems that when the school year begins, everything in our lives shifts and resets.
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” (Prov. 29:2; KJV)
Scriptures like Proverbs 29:2 underscore that a biblical construct for government founded on principles of righteousness brings freedom, while government that runs contrary to godly standards brings loss of freedom—or oppression.
One of the family stories I love hearing is from 1935 during the Great Depression. My grandfather was just out of high school when he found some surveyors examining the farmland owned by his father. When he approached and asked what they were doing, they informed him that the farm was being repossessed by the bank because the loan payments were not being made.
For the Lord would say, “Yes, the heavens are very violent right now. And this violence from the heavens is swirling over many nations. But know this—I am your shelter. I am One who will protect you.”
