A Midnight Call

 

“For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart, (13) Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.” (Hebrews 4:12-13, BSB)

At the voice of the Lord the earth shakes and jolts from its pillars. The Lord will not be silent as this prophetic mantle stirs the lax spiritual atmosphere. He has mantled me to kick up the dust that has settled. To stoke up the flames of the dying embers. To ripple and churn the deceptively calm spiritual waters. The loose rocks shall tumble away from the shaken mountains into riverbeds to swirl and surge the currents. The turbulent prophetic season shall rip up the comfortable order of externalised works. I announce that the rebellious iniquitous house of God be set in order. There is still yet something more required of God’s people. We have learnt to externalise our works and normalise our behaviour by keeping our heads down with business when the heart is desperately wicked and the conscience seared. Meeting organisational expectations and keeping up appearances will not do in this highly charged season. You are exposed and the Spirit will prompt you to bow out willingly. Obey the leading of the Spirit. The silence behind pious and religious behaviour is troubling. It is an impure spirit of denial bound up in haughtiness and pride. So, does God not see your evil heart as you carry on with your works?

The New Covenant of grace brought the works of righteousness into the fleshy hearts of men. It is in this place on earth that God chooses to live and reign with His people. In our troubled deceitful hearts, overrun with malice and hate does God really live there? He resides in vessels where His Spirit is free to pour over our wounds, to lovingly attend to the matters of the receptive heart. In the sepulchre heart of the spiritually dead the remains of dead men’s bones are lain. Externally, is a facade of a beautiful whitewashed wall overflowing with trailing flowered shrubs, a profusion of colours. The appearance of a scented healthy crop swaying in the cool breeze belies the stench of death, the dried out final spiritual state of the fallen. Hearts of stone, jealous, unforgiving, emptied out of pure works of goodness. This is the outcome of once promising souls who being filled with vitality in the Spirit commenced a beautiful relational experience with the Lord. To the end, religion and apostasy crept in having preeminence over the kingdom works of holiness. We are called back to the basic works of internalising our righteousness. On the threshing floor of penitence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling before a Holy God. “Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.”(Psalms 38:9,) For it is the heart that the Spirit searches to reveal our works. The emphasis is not on works least we should be heady and high-minded because of our externalised busyness and favour with men.

The midnight call to turn the searchlight into the dark labyrinth of the illusory heart, crafted in deceptive schemes advantageous to ingratiating the self. The mind games of perfunctory works is revealed by the superior works of the Spirit. Under its blazing truth the spirits of denial and falsehood cringe and writhe uncomfortably. This is a midnight call to repentance, confession and holiness. The Spirit call to attend to the internal matters of the heart is urgent. We must enter into the holy of holies, bowed low at the feet of Jesus rather than busying oneself in the crowded bustling outer court of church life. In this midnight hour the emphasis has to be on the internalised state of the heart. It is in the utterances of our poured out penitently seeking soul, in the presence of our Lord that He speaks His truth and reveal His plans.

The voice of the Lord is powerful to cause the deer to give birth, how much more powerful to deliver His people. He has dominion over His creation to bring order. The inner being is the most personal, secretive no-go region in all of God’s creation. It is only the Spirit of God that has access into these foreboding dark chambers where the devil makes his stronghold, bringing this territory under his captivity.

Territorial warfare over control of the heart is a spiritual fight like no other. Satan speaks out of the heart that is under his control. His inner chatter brings confusion, self delusional lies and accusatory spirits working to undermine spiritual clarity, integrity and wisdom. “Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.” (Psalms 51:6, BSB). Left unchecked by the Word and Spirit-exposure, the heart becomes overrun by the evil spirits at work,. The once spiritually vibrant life is sapped and dried out of strength. We are fundamentally flawed and desperately wicked having no good intention or will towards obedience and righteousness. In our most inner being, the Spirit desires to have free rein to strip away the falsehood and to break the spirits of confusion and laxity. The Spirit will bring the wisdom of God as the sword of truth cuts away the diseased unhealthy tissues of the works of unholy desires.

JESUS’ midnight call is an invitation to “Come, Drink of Me”. “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). The Water of Life, flowing eastward from below the threshold of the temple of grace is for those who will make their way to Zion’s Holy Hill.

I implore you to “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 11:1, NIV). I am commissioned by God, under a weighty awesome flow of a strategic end time prophetic anointing. This mantle is for a grace and favour healing and restoration call. It is of a 7-fold abundant measure, now ready to flow for this profoundly challenging season of brokenness, sickness, fear and death.

Gwendolyn Smith. : #NEWPENTECOST. : 18th September 2020