FORGIVING THE BODY OF CHRIST – A STRATEGIC COMPELLING WORD
“Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? (19) He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.” (Micah 7:18-19 – BSB)
The ways of our Lord are unfathomable. I can announce that our Lord has done a ‘beautiful thing’ in my life. Out of evil, good has emerged the victor. The reward comes in a measure that cancels the enormity of the entirety of the blow that was dealt me. Today, I can declare life’s parallel of an ‘evil act’ to be a ‘beautiful thing’ as it was all for the glory of God.
The Resurrection power of our Lord is potent to bring the necessary healing associated with relational injustices. Healthy, ingratiating relationships are so important to thrive as a social being. Social mistreatment and isolation are only some of the conditions that can affect and retard an individual, causing an inability to function effectively. My journey of faith was intentional to release the strategic end time 7-fold prophetic mantle of healing and restoration. What was not intended was the rejection, mistreatment and smearing of my quiet godly character and good name by those I loved and cared for. It was the deepest cut and I could not redeem myself in the eyes of men.
That was then. This is now my time to flourish and prosper in my purpose as God intended. This is what the Lord is saying of me: “Thy righteousness shall be as light and they justice as the noonday” (Psalms 37:9, ESV). On the cusp of divine vindication I am enthralled at the journey of faith I have come. What the dear Lord will now do speaks of His justice and exoneration. My hope in God, waiting through seasons experienced in desperate places has not made me bitter, unforgiving or ashamed of my steadfast hope in my Lord. Amazing grace has been afforded me to overcome the relentless pressing challenges, forgive and release my adversaries. In choosing to release my enemies, I have been enrobed with a
7-fold mantle of strategic global authority bringing spiritual release in the nations. The mantle is potent to strip away the evil strongholds gripping the entities of human life. It is God’s appointed time, as I feel the strong stirring of this mantle to bring justice and healing to those wronged for purpose. “And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,” (Ezekiel 11:19, BSB)
Forgiving the Body of Christ
‘To whom much is given much is required’. (Luke 12:48). This morning I heard clearly in my spirit the Spirit-directive to ‘Go and forgive the church’. I said, ‘Lord I forgave them in 2015 when you asked me to’. I then heard, ‘Yet one more time, go and tell Pharaoh you forgive the church’. (Exodus 11:1). I then thought how to proceed. Immediately the Spirit revealed this to be a national mandate. As I awaited further directives my spirit was fed that this move of forgiveness is for the global body of Christ. “To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him” (Daniel 9:9, BSB). The sacrificial love of our dear Lord to forgive fallen and undeserving men is potent in His Resurrection power. I was reminded to ‘forgive them for they know not what they are doing’. (Luke 23:24)
In obedience to the bidding of the Spirit, I now momentarily leave at the altar of sacrifice the weighty prophetic mantle endowed upon me, a gift of healing for this end time and forgive the body of Christ. I now humbly implore mercy for the body of Christ and move to forgive the universal church. I do not fully understand my remit and why I should forgive the entire body of Christ, but in preparation for this next season of a New Order and in the spirit of obedience I make this strategic move. Having posted this forgiveness note I will now take up the mantle to flow effortlessly in sinc with the Spirit to bring restoration and healing to a broken suffering world. Without any reservations I can say that a public enrobing of this mantle is about to be executed, sanctioned by the Godhead. It is indeed a season when full justice is being meted out to those who, for a protracted time have been marginalised, relegated to the peripherals of the universal church and forgotten. It is in the inhospitable lonely spiritual terrains, isolated as the scapegoat for organisational ills that an end time no.7 ministry has been painfully birthed.
A Healing Mantle
A prophetic healing mantle, despised by the church community, oblivious to the imminent midnight strike when the best wine is about to be served as the bride of Christ makes herself ready. Sadly, organisations so desperately in need of the Spirit refreshing have remained in their religion. Under the governance of men, having continued to conduct their religious works with impunity, favouritism, acting out of disingenuousness and disregard to the higher order of Christ’s unconditional love, they have come under a strong grip of indifference to the leading of the Spirit. The act of active Spirit-love that searches out injustice, repairs gaping voids of unforgiveness, and mend relational breaches has been sidelined.
In this New Order the love of God that knows no bounds will reach the prophets who in social-isolation have been tested under unfavourable conditions. to be prepared and called to their God-ordained office. The message they carry will be uncompromising to ensure that when one hurts the whole body hurts. Under the 7-strength fire of testing their experiences have striped away the fear of men. Unmoved by tears they have been pushed to a place where there is no further tolerance to injustice.
It was the religious spirit in the Jewish leaders that rejected Jesus’ call to repentance. His invitation to come and drink of Him, the living water at the Feast of Tabernacle (John 7:37), was slighted and scorn poured on the Son of God. This spirit has continued to plague the global church throughout the 7-church periods of history. It is of course a spirit that Jesus hated as it undermined every effort made to bring healing and wholeness to the suffering sick people. I announce the religious spirit is exposed and it will be dealt with in this closing chapter of the church age.
Gwendolyn Smith. #NewPentecost. 19th April 2021