Author: gwendolynsmith

A STRATEGIC MANDATE

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“Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7, BSB)

“Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 11:1, NIV)

In 2015 the Spirit revealed to me that I would have an ‘Out of Egypt’ deliverance from the spiritual journey I had encountered for a strategic end time prophetic healing call. As I prepared for Passover 2020 into Pentecost/Shavuot, I was instructed to put out a “Come With Me’ Invitation to whoever would follow my example as I follow Gods leading for this end time. As I came to the end of Pentecost/Shavuot’s 50-day countdown, I was endued with a New Pentecost overflow of empowerment. It was then that I began to receive forcibly a spirit-shift in the focus of the invitation. John 7:37 became the focus, integral to the invitation. “On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. (38) Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:37-38 ESV).

Jesus’ invitation at the yearly Feast of Tabernacle would be the purpose of the rallying call to the ‘Come With Me’ Invitation that was given to me around the time of Passover week 2020. The same plea of Jesus our Healer is being given today, a shofar blast of the scripture. A wake-up call is being sounded to the current Body of Christ, who like the festival worshippers are spiritually rooted in religious practices. The call is to bring the Body of Christ out of religion into a fresh dynamic relationship with the Spirit that has been sidelined in the throes of church life. I was further spirit-compelled to put out a ‘Come With Me’ Prayer Plan. This second Prayer Plan invites seekers to collectively go through the month of Elul (August/September) with me for contrition and consecration, as led in my spirit. Further, in obedience I outlined the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah 2021, leading into Yom Kippor, a High Holy Day of Atonement. This day is a 25 hour time of awe and repentance in fasting, a personal sacrifice made by fire, (to burn the flesh). The Prayer Plan concludes with going through Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacle. (early October)

Sukkot is the highlight of this period of personal dedication in prayer. Sukkot is the yearly Feast of Tabernacle that Jesus attended on that great and final day of the festival in Jerusalem. Today, His invitation is to the thirsty longing world to ’Come and Drink of Me’. It is an invitation for mankind’s spiritual thirst to be quenched from the scorching, perishing heat of the evil day and to be vivified and made whole. Please DO NOT resist this call to where the Spirit is leading. There has been a strategic shift in the spirit realm. It has come about to accommodate the move of God to usher in the 7-fold healing mantle. The intervening years have proved that there has been no place in the current Body of Christ for its reception. The same ancient scornful spirits working in the time of Jesus, to hinder the healing of the sick and needy has raised its ugly head in the Body of Christ. The continuity of organised church life is akin to a ‘Carry-On’ script of yearly rituals and convocations as undertaken by the festival worshippers at the Feast. Globally in the Body of Christ it has been a case of business as usual.

Take note, the call to the ‘Come With Me’ invitation has come at a time of organisational disruption and chaos to global church life because of an indiscriminate virus plaguing the nations. The Spirit would have you intelligently discern the season of a denominational pause, at a spiritual crossroad. This move of the Spirit is a strategic one with a collective approach to change and the ushering in of a New Order. From hereon, the journey to culminating the final chapter of the 7-Church Age will be Spirit led under strategic leadership. Do not ask me! Ask in penitent searching in the Spirit and hear from God. A great demand will be made on everyone to align with the Spirit requiring departure from organisational dependency. It would be a road of abnormal resistance to breakthrough that would prepare me with this dimension of confidence to trust my spirit to hear the voice of God. To step out on a global platform, fearless, undeterred, fiercely loyal to being Spirit-led and uncompromising in the Word to bring truth is a Spirit-urge move. It took great faith, learning with the Spirit of wisdom, understanding, revelation, discernment and possessing an unfailing trust in the Lord.

The importance of this season for the next move of God cannot be overstated. I underscore emphatically that this ‘Come With Me’ Invitation is Spirit led. This Invitation is the vehicle to usher in the healing flow into the nations. God has watched over every detail of the strategic preparations I have made. He is watching over the night of departure out of Egypt. We are leaving behind a global place of death, fear, plague and structural destruction. We are about to see the epic influx of the rejects, homeless and wayfarers of our society making their way to the kingdom of God. Muslims and those from other religious folds who desire to drink of the Living Water will be led by the Spirit to make their way into the refined, purged and streamlined fitly framed Body of CHRIST. “Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.” (Psalms 110:3, KJB).

A unified collective approach to transition from one state to another requires strategic mandate for leadership to culminate the final work of the 7-Church periods. God chose Moses to lead the Israelites through the wilderness rather than by a straightforward route. God’s ways are not always understood by man but they are perfect to accomplish His plans. The Rapture-preparing Body of Christ will be minding the same things of God, orchestrated by the Spirit through God’s chosen servant. It is a strategic paradigm shift in thinking, understanding and intended to breakdown our unique and perfectly formed mental processes of our church cultures, It would not be God if the New Order was without creativity, differentiations and diversity.

“In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” (Ezekiel 29:21, BSB). The glory of this latter house will be visible to a disbelieving world. The people will know that the Eternal Holy One is with us. “Those who fight against the LORD will be shattered. He thunders against them from heaven; the LORD judges throughout the earth. He gives power to his king; he increases the strength of his anointed one.” (1 Samuel 2:10, NLT). It is thought that this psalm relates to the time when the Ark of the Covenant was being escorted to Jerusalem from the house of Obed-Edom, who was chosen to look after the tabernacle after it was taken by the marauding Philistines. On reaching Jerusalem, King David set about overseeing the reinstating of the Ark, into its rightful place. This ‘kiaros’ moment is the season of reinstating our purposes to the call to service. Not as we have known, become accustomed to or become familiar with. Rather, by letting go of all our predispositions to religious works to totally, unashamedly surrendering at the feet of our Lord. To give ourselves over to His leading.

The beautiful robe of a priest is a mantle that can only be worn when attested with spiritual testings, consecration, holiness and the disciplines as exemplified by our Lord, the Great High Priest. In the day of His power we see the release of the abundance of anointing bestowed upon His soldiers of the faith. The ‘called’ ones, arrayed in His beauty. The nations will desire to be a part of this glorious festal throng. “How great is the goodness you have stored up for those who fear you. You lavish it on those who come to you for protection, blessing them beforethe watching world. (Psalms 31:19, NLT)

GWENDOLYN SMITH : #NEWPENTECOST : 24TH SEPTEMBER 2020

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“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14, KJB)

In bible times the people who were turned outside of the city walls of Jerusalem were sick, diseased or incurables who would be certified by the Priest to be ritually ‘unclean’. They would remain outside the city walls until they were ‘clean’ or better put, cured of their afflictions. Many died outside the gates of Jerusalem because there would have been no support systems for them. Leprosy was a highly contagious skin lesion afflicting many in those times. The rejects of the society were socially cast out by virtue of their maladies and afflictions, isolated to protect the ‘clean’ citizens living within the city of Jerusalem. One can only image the lepers’ colony being a sprawling landscape of makeshift habitats amongst the rocks, nooks and crannies, cavities within caves and hollow dwellings excavated around the hillsides. The scent of death and decay would have filled the air as they lay helpless, hungry and thirsty, often succumbing to their persistent health challenges. It was to these poor and needy folks that Jesus came. Jesus’ testy relationship with the authorities often prompted a curt response from Him. On this occasion, His interaction with those deemed ‘unclean’ by the priests, initiated a retort to the leaders’ objection. “Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. (32) I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” (John 5:31-32, BSB)..

Sin is a spiritual plague destroying the people. The realm of evil will always unleash with fury a backlash against the healing of the people. This spiritual force of resistance to wholeness and health in the people was prevalent in Jesus’ time. These hostile contending spirits against Jesus’ ministry would rise up in the hearts of the religious leaders. The Spirit of Light would shine in the dark recesses of the human soul to reveal the works of the Evil One. Jesus’ earthy mandate to destroy the strongholds of evil residing in the cavities and chambers hidden deep in the foreboding distressed heart. With the breaking of the dawn of grace, the Eternal Light would stream into makeshift habitats of the soul isolated under the dominion of sin. The brilliance of His light is an unwelcome and uncomfortable exposure as the spirits of the dark shudder, scattering in the brilliance of our glorious Lord. He came to crush and destroy the powers that rule in the dark night of the soul. To break the chains of affliction that binds a human soul in the pit of despair. The release of the people, the sick, the lost, and the tormented is the eternal mandate of our Lord. “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”,(Luke 4:18, BSB). Whatever comes against the people will be discharged by the power of the cross that knows no bounds to deliver men from their spiritual captivities. “The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.” (Deuteronomy 28:7, BSB)

The time has come for the healing to begin. The Spirit of Healing will flow into every lepers’ colony, the healing streams will reach into every terrain where the people are hidden, afraid to go into the daylight of the walled city of the spiritual Jerusalem. The healing flow will begin to bubble in the forgotten regions, waste places, dry dusty plains shimmering in the heat of sin. The Spirit of Healing will flow along impassible dirt roads, obscure off-the-beaten tracks and marked-off isolated paths where souls are spiritually isolated and forgotten. A Spirit overflow will surge into the ghettos of tenements where the forlorn and dispirited dwellers reside, ostracised and stigmatised by generational abject poverty,. Territory control by warring factions of gangs addicted to lawlessness will experience the bubbling flow. These manifestations are indicative of strong demonic controls over human life. They are spiritual problems that requires a spiritual solution, hence why governments and politicians have never been able to resolve these communal and social problems. It will be an end time prophetic mantle that will stir the world and turn over the order of sin to bring God’s New Order. The souls bereft of solutions to unending life challenges, languishing in uncertainty, hopelessness, broken by life, leprous and dying will experience the bubbling flow of the Spirit of Healing. The Spirit of Light will expose the haunting pitiable human conditions holding people in spiritual, social and emotional captivities around this distressed globe. The walls of the fortified city, the place where the priests sends away those certified ‘unclean’, comes down now as the Spirit of Light explodes to reveal the hidden works of darkness in the eerie uninviting places of human life. There will be no hiding place for evil to thrive under the radiant eyes of the Spirit of Truth. In the secretive regions of the human soul every hidden works will be made known to bring release and healing. “For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.” (Psalms 12:5, BSB)

Gwendolyn Smith. : 17th September 2020

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. (Isaiah 44:3, ESV)

In the spirit of Elijah I announce the season of the early and the latter rains. I sound the shofar blasts of the HEALING WORD in this Jewish New Year 2021 (5781), “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).

In the dry and muddy watering holes of life, sun-baked and putrid the scenes of languishing for water is unfolding. Exhaustion and death belies the stillness of the scorching day. The ominous quietness is a desperately anxious wait to survive to see the latter rains. The parched thirsty lands stenches with rotting flesh as the flying scavengers gather around. In the spirit of Elijah, I announce by faith that the rain clouds are rolling in. The depleted spiritual watering holes of nations will be vivified as the thirsty and dying, muster the strength to sniff the damp air. Expectantly joyous that the imminent abundance of rain is HERE. The grateful cries of the seekers, echos across the plateaus and desert plains. Weak and frail are the piercing cries and vocal expressions of excitement. Rippling loudly across the dry expanse, the sounds give strength to weary travellers, still yet making their way to watering holes.

The odour of death pervades the air as the smell of decomposing tissue rises to greet the cool soft winds bringing the rains. The downpour suddenly splits the dark heavy skies and rapidly saturates the grounds. Across the barren dusty landscape the thankful environment releases a dank earthy aroma. The sodden grateful earth quickly becomes pockets of flowing streams accumulating into a treacherously deep flowing river. Near and far, tributaries of trickling water passages begins to overflow their banks. Valleys and plains are drenched by swelling torrents as plunging mountain streams meet each other, cascading out towards the open seas.

It is the time of the healing rains as prophesied by the prophet Joel. “Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given the early rain for your vindication; He has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.” (Joel 2:23, ESV) . “Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.” (Isaiah 35:6, BSB) This is the promise from a loving faithful Father. To replenish His earth and quench the thirsty soul. Our LORD came to rescue the people from every bondage and captivity they have been enslaved to. The mandate of OUR LORD is to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers and drive out demons from the tortured soul. “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,” (Luke 4:18, BSB)

Our world is spiritually languishing at watering holes of depleted resources. awaiting the fresh winds of the Spirit to bring the healing waters to saturate the nations. “Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up! The grassy banks are scorched. The tender plants are gone; nothing green remains” (Isaiah 15:6, NLT). Strong’s (5249 ) Nimrim was a source of water in the land of Moab. It means ‘pure’ or ‘wholesome’. The decadence in the nations, the failings of God’s people have caused the flow to dry up because of the spirits of rebellion and apostasy. Sin brings catastrophic environmental, economical and social consequences. God will heal the land of nations if they will repent and seek His face. We are now in that season of healing and restoration to the things of God. “Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish. (Ezekiel 47:9). In the spirit of Elijah the heavens now declare and release this refreshing that speaks of life, salvation and healing.

Gwendolyn Smith. : #NEW PENTECOST. : 3 August 2020

Here we have an interesting account of the prideful folly of King David that led to him purchasing the threshing floor of Araunah, a Jebusite, for 50 shekels of silver. King David initiated a census on Israel but the enemy was behind his action. His sin incurred the wrath of God. King David was given three options of punishment. He chose three days of the plague at the hands of the destroying angel despatched from heaven. When the angel had gone through the land slaughtering, on reaching Jerusalem his hand was stayed as God would instruct that it was enough punishment. The angel ceased the slaying at Araunah’s threshing floor. This gracious act prompted King David to purchase the threshing floor. He determined to offer a pleasing sacrifice to God for His mercies. In his heart the only thing that would be worthy to give to God was an offering that would cost him something. Now Araunah’s threshing floor was situated on Mount Moriah, (Strong’s 4179), namely referred to as the place ‘chosen by Jehovah’. This site was marked for God’s glory, the place chosen by God. It would later be the site for the building of the temple by Solomon. “Then Solomon began to build the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David on the threshing floor of Araunah. the Jebusite, the place provided by David.” (2 Chronicles 2:1, NIV). It was therefore God-intended that His mercy would be shown at the threshing floor.

It was at Mount Moriah that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, his only son unto the Lord. “Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” (Genesis 22:2, NIV). As I prepared this text, I was moved with a fresh insight of the significance of awe and worship attached to Mount Moriah. Abraham went to Mount Moriah with Isaac where a sacrificial ram was provided by God, caught in the thicket by its horn. The ram as a sacrifice and its horns are all symbolisms of our LORD JESUS. Veiled in this early Old Testament account, we see a hidden reference made of JESUS our Paschal Lamb. Similarities can be drawn out with King David noting the move of God to stave off judgement from the destroying angel. Araunah’s threshing floor on Mount Moriah, would in time to come be the scene of sacrifice for Israel’s sins. This mountain was a place of awe and worship unto God. As in Abraham’s case, a sacrifice provided by God would be the only worthy offering unto Him. The judgement of God ceased on Araunah’s threshing floor, awaiting the institution of Solomon’s temple, the place of His mercy.

The threshing floor is indicative of the process of refinement by the Word as the trash and stubble is winnowed by the Spirit of the wind. The wheat and tares speaks of God’s judgement that comes now in this end time to separate the elect ones from the masses that will fall away. We are in the season of the purifying of the spiritual Levites. These are God’s people who will be ardent worshippers of the new covenant. They will be the new temple worshippers, diligent in the chastening of the soul as they labour with intensity on the threshing floor of grace. In time, King Solomon built a temple on Araunah’s threshing floor. It is where the covenant sacrifice of King David was made. A foundational stone in the place where God chose for Solomon’s temple. God has chosen the hearts of men for the new temple of grace, not made with hands. The perfect sacrifice of our Lord, our Paschal Lamb has been offered for sin, JESUS the Stone of David in the foundation of the kingdom is the threshing floor of our hearts. It is on the floor of our hearts that we can work out our salvation with fear and awe to escape the judgement of God. The spiritual Levites are they that are conscientious in the things of God. The Levites under the law were chosen to service the things pertaining to temple matters in reverential fear and holy discipline. Under the new covenant of grace of our Lord, we are now personally responsible to attend to the things concerning matters of the heart, as they pertain to worship, purity and truth.

There are several metaphors for threshing. It can be interpretative of ‘purification’. “At that time this people and Jerusalem will be told, “A scorching wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward my people, but not to winnow or cleanse; (Jeremiah 4:11), and also ‘chastisement’. “I will winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land. I will bring bereavement and destruction on my people, for they have not changed their ways” (Jeremiah 15:7, NIV). Wheat and grains were threshed and winnowed on threshing floors to separate the wheat from the tares. The stubble would be gathered up and throw into the fire. It was a process that was labour-intensive requiring stamina and commitment to get through the long process. In the scriptural accounts of Jeremiah above, there are two types of processes – refining and judgement. The backdrop to both scriptures pertains to God’s people’s incessant sinning. Throughout the history of an erring people, YHWH Kadosh, the Holy One would chose between love and mercy or punishment. These two discipline types are considered to be the ideal parenting style. We can see the Fatherly character of our God being displayed to bring the best out of His people. But they had an incessant penchant for idol worshipping.

Strong’s Hebrew (2219) ’zarah’ means ‘to scatter, disperse, scrutinise’. God’s wrath is poured out on the children of disobedience when they will not forsake their sins and repent. When King David repented and offered a sacrifice that cost him, his actions appeased the wrath of God. The heart is the threshing floor where we can offer ourselves in confession and repentance unto the Lord. The Word, liken to the rod of correction will not be spared to bring to bear against disobedience and the rebellious nature in humankind. The potent Word will beat out every impurities in us. Our folly and wilfulness will be scattered by the fierce east winds of change to disperse, scatter and shift stubborn works of unrighteousness.

Our Lord sits in His seat of mercy, working on His people. Lovingly skimming away the dross under the piercing blazing eyes of His Truth to present us faultless before the Father. The work of the Spirit is to help God’s people to bring a desirable offering, worked out on the threshing floor of the penitent heart. A place chosen by God for His Holy Name to dwell with man. A by-product of dwelling in the presence of our Lord is possessing a pure heart. It creates a desire and intense longing for worship. Our hearts are conditioned to worship and the threshing floor of the heart is where the Spirit of Truth bears with us to work on ourselves to produce fruits of righteousness. In reverential fear we can be winnowed and thrashed to remove the undesirable works of our stubborn nature. The trash and stubble of our nature is destroyed in the heat of scrutiny by the 7-fold eyes of the Spirit.. “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord”. (Malachi 3:3, ESV).

Gwendolyn Smith. : #NEWPENTECOST. : 28th August 2020

 

“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

The Apostolic fervour of the Truth that the custodians of the faith modelled at the feet of Jesus would wane with time. The litmus test to resist the encroaching evil of corrupting the Word would see the splintering and fracturing of the emerging early churches. A divergence from sound doctrinal truth has plagued the body of Christ to this present day. The time is ever more pressing for the prophetic remit to have free course under the leading of Spirit, to flush out pleasers of men, false teachers and seducers leading the end time church into spiritual darkness. Too many leaders have an appetite for falsehood, a heretic leaning, not sound, corrupted, yet tolerated and upheld in a lax environment void of spiritual detection.

It is time to call it what it is. It is the anti-Christ spirit at work in the detail of church life. False teachers and leaders are indeed defectors of the faith. They are tares and stubble amongst the wheat. When did the body of Christ become so tolerant of evil spirits? Deceivers operating from the heart of organisations and denominations predicating themselves as true servants of righteousness. These deceptive spirits are at ease, entrenched in church life, Undetected and comfortable in the body of Christ. Clearly, the spirits at work in many organisations have become resident spirits, all working as one of the same. Many churches have become covens of witches where they are crafting evil against those who are spiritually discerning. They will put you out of their places of worship thinking they have done God a favour. They will judge some falsely, lie on them and isolate them from their midst. Why? Simply because their hearts are amenable to evil. They will not tolerate sound doctrine or love those who will stand for truth. Those who will dispense the pure Word will be despised and rejected. It is a serious time as we will see the body of Christ turn on each other as the spirit of chaos takes root. It is part of the process of sifting. The end time evil spirits, strategically at work, will set about corrupting the body of CHRIST in its entirety, deceiving the Elect, if it were possible.

The fresh new mantling stirring the body of Christ will cut away the callous sinews of the heart to bring healing to those who will repent and turn from the path of destruction. It is high time to call upon the Name of the Lord and be saved. Sadly many will fall away because the end time strongholds are fiercely resisting in the heart. Vulnerable souls will fall prey to strong satanic forces. In their rebellious state they will follow a course of destruction but for God’s grace.

Gwendolyn Smith. : #NEWPENTECOST. : 1 JULY 2020

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“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.’ (Isaiah 58:1)

God instructed His servant Moses how to lead His people out of the House of Bondage into the place of their destiny. This is the ‘pey’ decade of the ‘mouth’. God loves His people and He is speaking forth, how to escape from the chains of religious drudgery. A mindset of spiritual captivity, lost in a repetitive cycle of performance and rituals. This behavioural norm comes easy to people because we are social beings. We look to others to model behaviour and construe meaning to our lives. Of course I include myself here. Generational passing of norms, tried and tested ways of working, organisational expectations and models enshrined in religious entities. They have worked for centuries but in a progressive age of Herculean shifts, perhaps the contemporary church has lost its mooring. It has become unfit for its spiritual purpose. The spiritual realm has moved into rapture ready gears. When the need arises for change it brings discontentment, instability, chaos, unwillingness and resistance on the part of some to move forward.

When the time came for Israel to vacate Egypt, it brought plagues, destruction and death. The spirit of Pharaoh does not like change. Of course God hardened his heart to get the glory, but Pharaoh’s heart was already amenable to being used by the evil spirit behind his behaviour. The chaos in the nations today of plague, death, lawlessness, economic woes, leadership challenges and civil unrest are all indication of a demonic agenda at work to prevent a momentous ‘out of Egypt’ exodus as many will come to salvation in this end season. The current church set up has not been reserved by God for the reception of this harvest of souls. God has something else in mind. He will not be bound by man’s constraints. He has removed Himself from many houses of bondage but the people continue to operate in the residue of God’s glory. ‘The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?’ (Jeremiah 5:31)

The fading ‘afterglow’ will not do. Israel was given fresh manna everyday and warned not to store up manna for the next day. Left overs was not what God wanted for His people. We need the fresh ‘ruach’ winds to winnow the trash and stubble. To separate the chaff from the tares as judgement begins in the House of God. It is time to leave Egypt by way of the wilderness. The end time flock MUST be led by God because we have NOT pass this way before. We MUST totally depend upon the leading of the SPIRIT. It will make us very uncomfortable, unsure at times but it WILL cause us to remain at the feet of JESUS our Shepherd. As it is now, we are too reliant on the organisation and others, comfortable in the way we have known it to be. Many, ‘resting on their laurels’ are not even aware that God is doing a new thing around the confusion and inertia. He is raising up a new generation of worshippers outside of the city walls. Those who understand the times as the sons of Issachar will shift effortlessly into where God is leading. I announce that I just want to be where God resides, even if I am isolated and doubted. Really, I am not about convincing any one. I just have to keep going. “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland” (Isaiah 43:19)

Gwendolyn Smith : #NEWPENTECOST

“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars. (Isaiah 45:2, NIV)

Recently, I felt urged in my spirit to check when I wrote about the word given to me of an ‘out of Egypt’ deliverance that would precede the divine vindication God promised me. There it was, written in a published book sometime in 2015. After many years of being overlooked, slighted, ostracised and muzzled for this prophetic end time call, I can now see things tangibly aligning to that word. So, what does a modern day ‘out of Egypt’ deliverance look like?

I have no idea, except that I am seeing global destruction, plague and death. What I do know is that this wave of societal destruction being witnessed today is reminiscent of what was taking place in Egypt when the fullness of time had come for Israel to leave. They were leaving bondage and slavery behind. They would also vacate Egypt leaving it broken to its foundation. Israel emerged from captivity intact and strengthened to embark upon an epic journey to the Promised Land. They had no idea where they were going and how to get there. Moses, chosen by God would bring strategic leadership. Everything was taken
care of by the Almighty Lord. The memorable exodus would live on in the mind of this newly emerging nation. The hostile nations around would hear of Israel’s supernatural deliverance by the outstretched arm of YHWH Saboath, LORD of the Mighty Host.

I can see similarities in the experiences of Israel and the current church body today. Without a doubt the global Church is at an impasse. Like many nations, business entities, creative innovative thinking will bring one to new frontiers of strategic change. It is the Spirit that will refresh the body of Christ. Yet it is the work of the Spirit that is being stifled in the body of Christ. What is needed is a willingness to let go of the organisational reins and let the ‘horse out of the stable’. Yes, let the horse find new pastures. Trusting God is faith-anticipation. Expectancy and hope are all components of faith. It is trusting when there is no evidence for your hope. This level of faith is of the Spirit and cannot be manufactured.

An ‘out of Egypt’ deliverance has continued to resounded in my ear since 2015. As I patiently waited on faith to be manifested in the realm of reality, the unimaginable curiosity and peeping made it an unwelcome public experience to be observed by many haters of destiny. Of course churches frown upon the dismantling of one’s life as borne out of sin. To the contrary, the servants who undergo these public challenges are being set up for greatness. God has a way of redeeming the time lost in exceptional ways. For what was intended to destroy one actually work for their good. I will see my enemies of destiny eat their words and cringe in disbelief at the miraculous deliverance from every form of captivity that was assigned against my life unjustly. I announce that this is my portion: “He will make your innocence radiate like the dawn, and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun.“ (Psalms 37:6. NLT) It was all intentional, that I would go through the storm for this healing assignment. What surprised me was those that had the heart to be used by the enemy to destroy me. They were the people I loved and cared for, my social network. It was like receiving a punch in the stomach and being left winded. It destroys your ability to trust. You end up struggling to learn to trust new people in your life. It was during those early years of a life breakdown that God told me to trust no one as He prepared to train me for service. I carry those words with me for the rest of my days. “until what he had said came to pass, the word of the LORD tested him.” (Psalms 105:19, ESV.

Israel’s exodus from Egypt would be public, a phenomenon watched by hostile nations. But these experiences of public testings are for God’s glory. He watches over every iota of our breakthroughs and deliverance. Every word He will ensure comes to pass so that one’s enemies retreat in disbelief and fear. The neighbouring nations would fear Israel after their extraordinary passage to freedom. These are superior acts of divine favour watched over by a loving Father. “It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the LORD by all the people of Israel throughout their generations” (Exodus 12:42). God is in the detail of one’s life and He takes note to act at an appointed time when the Evil One brings chaos and ruin to thwart a move He has set up. Healing ministries will also attract and encounter high levels of demonic activities by virtue of the salvation, deliverance and restoration that accompanies the release of the Word.

The extent and breadth of this ‘out of Egypt’ word is shortly to be realised. As I stand on the cusp of strategic transition I am excited and buoyed up for the joy and healing coming to the nations. It will be deliverance for everyone. It will not be easy and there are many adversarial challenges ahead but our LORD GOD is ‘The Way’. ‘To Him who led His people through the wilderness, for His lovingkindness is everlasting’ (Psalms 136:16, NIV). God is still in control, steering the journey to our heavenly shores. The night of divine-vigil, as yet not grasped by the collective contemporary Church, has now shifted into a higher gear. We are in the fullness of time, as the Spirit ushers in the chosen strategic servants, operating under an end time prophetic mantle, they will be instrumental in bringing about the will of God to culminate the kingdom work. “You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. (Psalms 77:20, NIV)

Gwendolyn Smith. #NEWPENTECOST. July 2020

A 7-FOLD HEALING MANTLE

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(1) “Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD. (2)“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. (3) For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities. (4) “Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood. (5) For your Maker is your husband– the LORD Almighty is his name– the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth. (6) The LORD will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit– a wife who married young, only to be rejected,” says your God. (7) “For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back. (Isaiah 54:1-7, NIV)

‘Can you feel the joy and excitement, the imminent emergence of the end time healing mantle, in 7-fold overflow?’ ‘Can you feel vibes of expectancy jumping off this page as the bubbling of the anticipated flow intensifies?’ A pressured unhindered force is about to be released in this ‘kiaros’ moment. Out of his belly shall flow rivers of the Living Water. Our Blessed Paschal Lamb, the Beloved of Heaven died so we could live again. He pled, ‘If you are thirsty, ‘Come Drink of Me’. (John 7:37). Heed the call to this overflow from the mountain of God. Oh barren isles, thirsty dying plains, furrow your grounds to receive the Living Waters. The fallowed lands are ready for seeding, to bring forth as the waters flow into every nook and cranny. Channels and tributaries will burst forth in abundance. Dry riverbeds will begin to trickle and flow into deep gorges and ravines. The mighty surging force will cascade over hills and mountains taking everything in its path. Uninhabitable regions, notorious no go areas, hidden places, offbeat tracks and inhospitable terrains will all be spiritually transformed by the turbulent flow. A healing deluge across borders and
boundaries, into remote tribes and secretive nations. The earth will be saturated by the healing flow. Those who have not yet experienced the joy of the healing rains out of Zion’s Holy Hills will come to the Fountain of Life in Christ Jesus. “Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.” (Ezekiel 47:8, KJB). This is the dynamic healing flow issued from under the tabernacle as seen by Ezekiel in his vision. It is for this time, as the Spirit of God stirs and refresh the dead, putrid waters of nations with the spiritual waters that flows from the throne of God.

The imminent release of the 7-fold healing mantle will change the nations’ landscapes. The spiritual landscape has been undergoing strategic shifts that will become evident as the Kingdom change-agent servants come into their rightful places. The season of being ‘dammed up’ is over. The velocity of the forceful prophetic mantle has shifted underlying boulders and blockages to release the flow into a torrent of apostolic grace. A season to lengthen, strengthen and build. Do not hold back – be excessive, spiritually violent, ambitious and audacious. The NEW PENTECOST empowerment that I and many others received coming out of Pentecost/Shavuot 2020 is intended for this momentous time. Supernatural favour is upon you to plunder Egypt and take the spoils from the
long spiritual captivity. Pull the sword out of its sheath, strike ferociously. It will be a bloody scene as you possess businesses, properties, lands, opportunities and territories. Yes, come in agreement with me to violently take back all that is rightfully yours and dispossess the foes of God’s people. Crush every contender, strike the mouth of liars, make your claim and stake your ground. You are marked for victory, fearless and uncompromising to walk the choppy prophetic streams.

It is now the time to press in, praise YHWH Palet, your Deliverer. I announce with the authority vested upon me that: ‘The battle has been won’. There will be no more tears, fear, frustration and deferred hope. We are coming out of this evil pit with abundance and substantial spoils from the ruin, as did King Jehoshaphat in the Valley of Ziz. This is the promise of restoration and healing. There can be no shame waiting on a faithful God that vindicates His people for the wrong done. The Body of Christ is coming back to spiritual health, honour and its enviable position in the nations. The season of apostasy and fallenness is over and the true beauty and grace of the Bride of Christ will be exhibited in holiness as the clean living waters cascading down from the mountain of God.

Gwendolyn Smith #NEWPENTECOST. 11th August 2020

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A ruin is coming to collapse and devastate the unstable structures built by men in the body of Christ. Throughout the period of the 7 church ages the warning given to the 7 churches of Asia Minor has gone unheeded. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’’ (Revelation 2:29, ESV), Jesus implores, with a universal appeal to take heed and obey the leading of the Spirit of God.

The end time warning to call out the 7-strength foundational sins that are lain in the infrastructure of church organisations have become an abomination before God. To bring about His will, God will lay waste the land, like a tornado the winds of change will rip up, cast down, root up and bring chaos and ruin to denominationalism and the entities of life. The ruin will serve its purpose to prepare the ground and bring about a New Order. I announce, ‘bring the chosen sons and daughters of God to take up their rightful positions of authority in their communities and nations.’ Honour will be bestowed upon them for working tirelessly behind the scenes, making social, political, legal and pastoral differences to people’s lives. They are the unsung heroes in our world, keeping communities, churches and families together often in dire circumstances. With the heart of God they have been sidelined, muzzled, rejected and abandoned to the peripheral areas of the body of Christ. Religion disfavours the prophetic voice. “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.” (Genesis 50:20, NIV). It is from the sidelines as an outsider that they have been tested, trained and prepared for service. From outside the city walls they will flourish and find their niche in God’s emerging change process. It has all been an intentional set up for the glory of God.

According to Ezekiel 21, it is a 3-fold strengthening of the sword that will pierce the callous conscience of the heart and it is about to be unsheathed. “So then, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together. Let the sword strike two times, even three. It is a sword that slays, a sword of great slaughter closing in on every side!”(v14). A substantial and complete work of healing, of end time magnitude will be released upon our world. The Word, as a sharp scalpel will cut like a surgeon’s knife, to dissect and strip away the hardened tissues of the heart. It will cut into every spiritual, emotional mental, relational and physical issues and heal the wounds of the languishing battle weary people. ‘But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.’ (Isaiah 40:31, BSB). “Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us. (8) We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; (9) persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. (2 Corinthians 4:7-9, BSB).

There is grace for every trial and the impending destruction is intended to usher God’s people into His presence. He is a relational Being in an everlasting covenant with those who will partner in this great end time move. The proverbial sword is the Word. “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12, ESV). The unsheathed sword is not intended to kill, for it is the letter of the law that brings ruin but the Spirit gives life. The law served its purpose under the Old Order but the new and living way was opened up to refresh the soul from the burden of the law. The burden of the law, being its inability to redeem the soul and keep the people from an inherent desire to break the law. The power of the New Covenant, superior in Christ Jesus is potent and sufficient to keep a soul from the strongholds of sin. The ruinous soul comes about out of wilful disobedience and a haughty spirit of a degenerate heart of carnality. Indeed, a decadent societal’s impulse is to pursue a lifestyle of sin and to go beyond the pales of what is acceptable in the sight of God. Our world has erred into sinful oblivion and it will take a collapsing of this current world order to bringing about
God’s New Order of justice and righteousness, the hallmarks of His throne.

Gwendolyn Smith. 23rd August 2020