The Lightnings of God Are Being Released: The Reformers Are Here!

Sep 15

Reformers give language to new times, new seasons, and new movements. They shape the world with new ideas and see solutions where others see problems. They shift paradigms and adjust mindsets. Reformers see into the future and open up new realms of possibility. They also face great battles and stiff resistance. Reformers are usually scoffed at and scorned or attacked by criticism and jealousy.

Reformers Often Face Battles of:

· Rejection from those who don’t have ears to hear new language and innovations.

· Criticism from those who are stuck in old ways.

· Scorn from the religious institutions threatened by their innovations.

· Jealousy from those who choose not to invest time and pay the price for revelation.

· Friendly fire from those who want to use them for personal gain.

Reformers are often regarded as crazy, fanatical, and sometimes even downright mad, but reformers are innovators and history-makers who have their ears pressed to the heartbeat of God and have eyes that see from the watch towers of Heaven.

Reformers are often not celebrated or welcomed until the need for the solutions they bring become necessary.

DIVINE ALIGNMENT & ANGELIC ASSISTANCE

There is a flurry of angelic activity in Heaven right now. It is an ordered but busy sort of commotion. A holy convocation of angels is gathered to be dispatched, releasing edicts of divine assistance. These angels are being sent from Heaven to reinforce reformers who have been fiercely fighting for and stewarding a work God has given them.

· Some angels are being sent to re-route mismatched assignments and re-direct mismatched alignments.

· Some angels are delivering coals of fire for cleansing and purifying.

· Some angels are delivering fresh oil for healing and ease of walking out assignments.

· Some angels are being sent to hold back the hoards of hell and principalities assaulting God’s people.

Surprisingly, some angels were so young they looked like children! I asked God why these angels were so young, and He said, “I have sent out some of my most powerful assignments to some of my youngest servants.”

THE REFORMERS ARE HERE!

Kingdom expansion always comes with the price tag of death.

“I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the Earth and dies, it remains alone [just one grain, never more]. But if it dies, it produces much grain and yields a harvest.” – John 12:24 Amp.

Reformers, you are that grain of wheat! The devil may have thought he killed you, but he didn’t know you were just marinating in the oil of breakthrough and deliverance. Death never has the final say for believers because the resurrection power of Jesus inside you cannot be snuffed out!

The battle has been fierce, but it’s not in vain. Your battle is what has equipped you. You have been sown like a seed amid war, and now it’s time for the battleground you thought you would die upon to spring up, releasing a HARVEST in your life! Your grave of consecration is about to be hit with resurrection power!

Warring Angels are being released to the battlefield on your behalf. Angels of healing are being released! Healing oil is being made available to you. The battle has been fierce, and the pain has been severe, but the antidote for pain is the wine of God’s presence! It’s hard to be gripped by pain when the love of God is gripping you!

Reformers arise from the grave. Allow the wine of God’s presence to fill you. Receive ease and healing from the fresh oil being dispatched to you. It’s time to put on your new mantle. God is about to announce to the world that you are here!

THE BRIDLE IS BEING BROKEN

Every controlling spirit that has placed a bridle in the mouths of God’s prophets to harness and maneuver them for personal gain is being broken. God says, “Enough!” These generals are His reformers! These are the ones God is releasing Kingdom assignments to because they have entirely crucified everything within themselves to the cross of Christ. They have not become bitter or fought to defend themselves but have fought to defend purity in the Body and to see God’s glory released in the Earth. These reformers are laid down lovers who seek no reputation with man but simply want to be known as His Bride.

BEWARE OF ILLEGITIMATE MESSAGES

Discern wisely the messages you entertain. Be careful of listening to messages from those who haven’t been branded by fire. The Church doesn’t need to be fed empty words and stale vision with no weight or authority in the spirit! They need to eat new words with fresh vision that are fulfilling, sustaining, and nourishing from those who have earned their stripes on the battlefield, been branded by the fire and learned to serve up a feast pleasing to God.

God, forgive those who would rather:

· conceive through artificial means rather than cultivate intimacy with you.

· adopt that which has been birthed through someone else’s labor.

· be anesthetized to the pain and the process rather than paying the price to carry and birth what you want released in the Earth.

Exposure is coming and it’s coming swiftly! Exposure is coming, not to harm and to divide but because it’s God’s goodness and grace to spur repentance in those releasing illegitimate messages. These illegitimate messages sound like truth, but in reality, they have been siphoned by parasites who pull from revelation God planted in another. They hijack messages and portray them as their own to cover up a lack of true intimacy with Him. You can discern these messages because they lack weight and anointing in the spirit, as they have not been conceived in the heart of God.

**This is not the same as hearing or sensing similar messages in the spirit. God often speaks similar messages to many people attuned to His voice and will use multiple voices to confirm His word . This is speaking to plagiarism in the spirit used to cover for a stale relationship with God. The fire of God will test the works of men and reveal all.

“Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.” - 1 Corinthians 3:12-13

HUMILITY IS THE KEY

There are intimate realms of glory that cannot be accessed through casual approaches of ambivalence. They cannot be accessed by the works of man or by boasting in spiritual gifts. No, these intimate realms of glory can only be accessed through humility.

"Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.” - 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 ESV

There is a holy invitation extended right now to eat the scroll of humility that will form within you, the key to unlocking realms of God’s glory that cannot be accessed any other way. The winnowing fork is extended right now over the Church. The only two options: bow low or be brought low. The eyes of the Lord are examining hearts and motives. He is weighing good works versus God's works.

“The eyes of the LORD are everywhere, observing the wicked and the good.” - Proverbs 15:3

Reformers, do not doubt what you see. You may feel isolated and alone, but I want to affirm that you see correctly! Don’t be talked out of what you see. Stay humble, pray, and remember that God reveals His secrets to servants he trusts. (Amos 3:7-8) Steward God’s secrets well. Trumpet only what He allows and remember; the messages and innovations were never to make us popular but to make God known!