Fresh Oil

Ok, I get it. 2022 – it’s a higher place – different level – for me – a whole new way of life – a major reassignment. No longer who I thought I was or needed to be BUT who I am. What I was created for !

If God had not had me “Burn the Ships” when I moved to Satellite Beach – I would have considered crawling back in the cave I had prayed my way out it!

The last day of 2021, we crossed a glorious threshold to the next year. Bevard County came together in to bring in the New Year at Freedom Christian Center. Large Tubs and troughs for fire baptism and recommitent. Unity and a resetting of our county wide revival history. People came in wheel chairs and walked out. Lasted till 4:00 in morning. Men of God released Holy Spirit Words that set Florida awakening and change in motion for next decade. It was a true state wide shaking.

And then… the seclusion and confusion when Pandora’s box is opened. It took me awhile to get my feet gounded in the word and listen to Holy Spirit’s insight to what was really happening.

We were going full circle to a new level. We were up higher in the spiritual realm and learning how to open up this door at this level and calling.

Nate Johnson summed it up in his blog post.

I was in a time of worship with the Lord when these words began to come forth…

Many are feeling the swirl of change and it’s causing a sense of instability or confusion. Your message has changed and your affections have shifted. You have made a grand departure from the place you started the year in and the things you once had in your sights. You don’t even feel like the same person anymore. You walked through the fire this year and so much has fallen away that you were holding tightly. You battled giants you didn’t expect and encountered some dark nights you wouldn’t wish upon anybody, but soon you’ll see why.

“Soon you’ll look back and you’ll see this was a cocoon year where the Lord tucked you away and hid you so He could transform you.
Soon you’ll see that what felt like cruel pruning, cutting away, and closed doors was protection from what was not your road forward.
Soon you’ll look down and where you used to see chains and old wounds you’ll see healing and your total deliverance.
Soon you won’t feel the limbo of transition anymore but the momentum of a focus and purpose you didn’t conjure or expect.
Soon you’ll stop feeling the mush and mess of the process and begin to feel new wings emerging and a fresh fire and message you were not carrying before.”

And as you begin to see the way breaking open before you, you’ll realize that you were ambushed by Heaven so you wouldn’t miss out on this new chapter waiting. Yes, it’s time to emerge now. Your days underground are coming to an end. The seed had to die but now watch what comes forth from your darkest and messiest season yet. Soon you’ll see the ground crack and break open and in a moment you’ll step out of the limited place you have been in.

But you won’t leave empty-handed. For what you have not been able to see is that God has been growing you in the dark, building you, forming you, and launching you. The landscape you left isn’t the same one you are returning to. Your old plow has been burned and your previous role and assignment had been retired, but you’ll suddenly find the new thing God has for you, and you’ll find you have a fresh passion to run with it instead of the weariness you were carrying.

And you’ll look back and you won’t see a trail of pain and trauma behind you but fresh wings for a new season… and you’ll soar with the Lord in this season with NOTHING holding you back.

“And you’ll arise and you’ll shine. 
You’ll arise and you’ll shine. 
YOU’LL ARISE AND SHINE!

You’ll run and not grow weary, you’ll walk and not grow faint.
You’ll leap over a wall and break through the once boarded-up gates.
You’ll cut through the bars of iron.
And you’ll make up for the lost time.”

No, this wasn’t a wasted year or a robbery year…
THIS HAS BEEN YOUR METAMORPHOSIS!

Today, I came to understand what 2022 was all about. A testing of the YES. Giving Holy Spirit Freedom to transition me into his image.