SETTING THE CAPTIVES FREE
“For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,“ (Isaiah 25:4, BSB)
The Living Flow
By the time we hit Sukkoth 2023 in October we will see the full fall out of what has been taking place around the globe since we entered the 2020 decade of ‘Pey’. I believe that Sukkoth will see the beginnings of the living flow from under the threshold of the temple altar. The season of a New Order under the New Pentecost mantle will set ablaze the trail of a world-wide mass evangelism.. “On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.”, (John 7:37, BSB) . This invitation of Jesus is to everyone. Christians and non-Christians alike. I confess on behalf of the nations and the global Church that we are languishing for the refreshing of the New Pentecost Spirit. I believe this outpouring of the living water will begin in earnest. It will not abate as the weary people gather around the spiritual ‘bimah’ in the ‘central square’ at the water gate to draw on the source. There will be a refreshing if the people will remove themselves from the shrinking pools of stagnant waters that they have come to know and plunge unashamedly into the overflow..
As we approach Rosh Hashanah, I know without any doubt that my focus will be on the people in the lepers’ colony. The Spirit has been shifting me to the everyday people of communities. They are coming out of their dungeons, dark makeshift habitats of sin into the glorious light of our Lord. They are the ones who will lift up the Name of Jesus in a way that the Body of Christ has omitted to do. The deep pits are giving up the spiritually dead. There is hope and immense joy as the light of Jesus shines in a dark place. I see many dowsers and false worshippers throwing down their idols and coming to Jesus. They are coming to the healing flow so that their corrupted gifts can be made pure. The mantle is stirred. I am feeling the call of the Spirit to my rightful place. “I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs” (Isaiah 41:18, BSB)
It has been exhausting carrying what the Lord has given me to war over. I confess that this weary season comes to an end and there is no going back. There are many weary souls waiting on the Lord for a release from the perishing heat of the day. In this season I have been brought back to my dream of the lepers’ colony amongst the rocks and slopes of the dusty terrains outside of Jerusalem.. “Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.” (Isaiah 32:2, BSB)
It has been revealed that those not of the native branch, foreigners and bond servants are coming into their release as we come to the end of the 7th Sabbatical Release.Year. They have been trawled on the open seas. The prophetic waters have been rough in this season as the intensity of probing and shifts take place. As enforcers of His truth many have stoically held onto the sure promises of our Lord that cannot fail. The mandate of Jesus according to (Luke 4:16-18, BSB) is violently stirring the spiritual atmosphere. “Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read, (17) the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it was written: (18) “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,”
There is a shift people. “For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.” (Matthew 13:15, BSB ).. I fear that a grip of bondage is strengthening on those in the Body of Christ who choose to remain in spiritual apathy. The inertia and lack of spiritual discerning to understand what God is doing and where the Spirit is leading is lost on the mass. It is troubling and I rest my case. I am moving on as carrying this burden of the call has exhausted me as I wait on the church community to get it.
Jesus did not come for those who are without need of a physician. He came to bring healing to the sick and those forgotten in the lepers’ colony outside the city walls. Those who are social rejects and suffering people who are soiled and smelling unpleasant from their putrid sores. Jesus also came to those in need of a saviour. It was His eternal mandate to set captive souls free from every oppression. I received in my spirit that I became the ‘scapegoat’ suffering for this call so many others can come to salvation in this end time . The experiential journey of exceptional demonic challenges have prepared me for this unenviable role. Yet, willingly I stood in the spiritual void for many others. The fight has been so intense that I have come to the end of myself. God is not pleased with the Body of Christ for trashing and turning a blind eye to His servant. It is time to repent of leadership negligence, failure and to say sorry. That is what will bring release to the those in the Body of Christ who are unrepentant of their wrongs done. I fear it is a collective bondage.
The Sanatorium
As I come to the end of this season the Spirit has had me revisiting some of my earlier dreams pertinent to this time. The Sanatorium was one of those dreams.
I was flowing through an ancient sanatorium, a place for those who are chronically sick. There were endless corridors with endless rooms along both sides of the corridors. Each room was furnished with a single black-framed bed. The beds were covered with white linen sheets and there was a person in each bed. In my spirit I was being fed that they were all ministers. They were bound as if prepared for burial. The linen was slit near the eyes and nose areas. They were stiffly bound and the slight movement I witnessed was with great difficulty. I was flowing with joy as I moved through the sparse, sterile and dimly lit sanatorium. The air of hope and optimism that I was endowed with was evident and everyone in a synchronised fashion were doing their utmost to lift their heads to see me as I passed by their doorways. I was drawn to this one room where there was a coffin in the middle of the room. I stopped at the door looking in and as I stepped over the threshold of the doorway a woman lying in the coffin jumped up in a sitting position. As I moved to step back out of the room she slowly slid back down into the casket.
I am being urged to bring attention to this dream. The dream indicated that many, many servants of the leadership are in a bound, dying or dead state. I am receiving that they are bound and they are in spiritually sick and dying positions because of chronic religion. Leaders can be loosed and set free with joy and refreshing if they repent of the spirit of indifference to those who are hurting. The spirits of dishonouring and dismissing God’s chosen servant is unacceptable when it comes to leadership integrity.. Jesus drew attention to these spirits exemplified by the Levi and the Priest on the Jericho road. They need a releasing under the 7-fold mantle provided for the Kingdom for this time. They should have been the ones to assist the injured man, going over and above their call of duty. We all need this refreshing that is to come. El Makom, ‘God of the Place’, in His own profound way will bring His end-time servant to where He chooses.
GWENDOLYN SMITH. #NEW PENTECOST. 20th JUNE 2022