A MANTLE FOR RESTORATION AND HEALING IN THE NATIONS
(1) “When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. (16) For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.” (2 Chronicles 7:1,16, BSB)
I woke this morning being led by the Spirit to issue a declaration announcing the imminent destruction of the old order. The old order represents all that has existed to this current time. There is atmospheric shift as our world is ushered into God’s New Order. It was in 2015 when the Spirit revealed to me, in a season of a strong prophetic anointing to write, that a New Order was coming. I did not know when the process to this New Order would take place but during that year, under that compelling mantling of writing I was fed by the Spirit of a New Pentecost coming to the world. What I did not understand, until 2020, was the scale of the changes and shifts that would occur in our world to bring about the will of God. Indeed, it escaped me that the word of a New Order was integral to the word the Spirit fed me also in 2015 of God giving me an ‘out of Egypt’ deliverance. The salient question is, ‘Why would God give me such an epic deliverance before the watching world?’
For sure, the journey I have come has been painfully public, isolating and misunderstood. Yet, in the presence of my Lord it has been awesome, and fearfully humbling. God has personally revealed aspects of His determinate will to release His sheep that are not yet in His fold. This strategic healing and restoration vision for nations that He has call me too will be the jewel in His crown. The remnant from the early apostles’ work, having continued to push through the hard soil of religious persecution and spiritual isolation have suffered because they love Jesus. Not fully understanding the word of God they have continued to belief that they are the spiritual descendants of the apostle’s work in Asian Minor. From what God has revealed to me over time, coupled with the word given to me in the winter of 2011, ‘I want you to establish it in a conference in the place of the 7-fold churches’, I believe it too.
My mandate is to release God’s people in the nations through an end time anointing potent to destroy and bring to ruin every demonic interference. The Spirit is leading many out of the clutches of spiritual captivity from non-traditional christian entities who have been under religious and ethnic persecution. I am assured of the substantial presence of the Godhead that moves with me. God’s protection has been endearing, reassuring and demonstrably potent to keep me from the evil intent to destroy me. His peace has been next to none and the quiet nurturing love displayed by a loving Father can only be likened to a young child being fed on the warm breast of a doting mother in tender love and quietness. Such love to inspire confidence and affirm approval of His servant, even when disgraced, abandoned, rejected and slighted by the mass. The negative behavioural traits portrayed by those consumed by religion, pride and self righteousness have not moved me from pursuing this strategic vision, carrying nations in my womb.
I announce, let God be true and all men be liars because a prophetic call takes time to come to fruition. Religion says get it out quick, do it in the way things have always been done so we can understand what you are doing and align to it. The things that gives God the glory are a long time in the fire, not appreciated and approved by men. Isolation for a prophet’s mantle is an inevitable consequence of the process of training under the auspices of God who calls you to service. You are left in no doubt about your call. I can now seen why everyone including my loved ones were removed from me. The enemy used anyone made available to take a ‘chunk’ out of me. It was an experiential journey that revealed the inner most thoughts, intent and motives of every one.
Setting aside the disappointment I have felt towards many of God’s people and the inconveniences experienced on this long and exhausting journey, I see by faith, the victory. This 7-fold mantle that exposes and disturbs the entities of life has been at work, I first witnessed the dismantling of the church I left after the leadership rose up against me. In a dream it was revealed that the prophetic mantle stirred that church and continued to move across the entities of life. It is a serious strategic prophetic mantle that leaves no stones unturned. I can confirm this day that God has watched over my pain and the prayers for my enemies. The shabby treatment from a church community that lied on me and after 10 years cannot say sorry has not gone unnoticed by God. His timing of the vindication promised is imminent and it will be witnessed by the sons of men. This word given to me in 2013 is about to come to pass “Thy righteous shall be as light and they justice as the noonday” (Psalms 37:6).
The fire of God descended upon the national sacrifice that King Solomon prepared. It caused the people to bow with their faces to the ground. The glory of God filled the tabernacle and would have lingered heavily in the atmosphere. The dedication of the temple was pleasing to the Lord and His glory came down impressively. The temple was the place that God chose to dwell with man at that time in Israel’s history. God now chooses to dwell in the temple of the heart, made possible through our Lord Jesus. God requires His people to be true to the covenant relationship He has established with them. There are spiritual conditions to be met in order that the land be healed and the glory is given to God. The spiritual keys to unlock the favour of God to act on our behalf is guaranteed if we will but humble ourselves and do right by God’s people. The fire of God will come down and consume the pleasing sacrifice of a penitent devoted heart, in a manner and time that gives glory to His name.
Gwendolyn Smith. #NEWPENTECOST. 16th December 2020