A STRATEGIC PRAYER FOR JUSTICE IN THE NATIONS

“We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:5, NLT)

Dear loving Father I come to you in confession and repentance as I present myself before you. I confess you as El Kadosh, Holy One and ask a covering of the Blood of our Lord as I enter into this level of strategic territorial deliverance in the authority of the Name of Jesus.

Let the Name of our dear Lord be lifted high in all the earth as the confidence and pride of the nations be brought low. Jesus you are Lord and you have sovereign rule over your universe and the powers of the evil realm are subject to you. In your Name I release Deuteronomy 28:7, “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.” The dark forces and their works of unrighteousness are shaken this day to the core. The spiritual atmosphere shifts as the sweet scented prayers of the ardent and faithful saints reach into your nostrils oh God, in a manner unique for this time. As a pleasing sacrifice, let the aroma of wafting prayer-incense linger around your eternal throne of justice. In your presence oh God let the atmosphere be charged with the heavy rising fragrance. Be pleased with our offerings of sacrifices oh loving Father, as you stir yourself to move on behalf of our suffering, distressed and broken nations. “Tell the nations God has roused Himself from His holy place” (Zechariah 2:13, ESV)

In the authority of the Word I now decree strategic change for vindication and justice according to (Psalms 18:37-40), “I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were consumed. (38) I crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet. (39) You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me. (40) You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.” We approach a new strategic season, confident of your power, Holy One to release tortured souls. I move by faith in the authority of your Word and in your Name, with the mantle vested upon me, I bring down evil works of principalities and powers ruling over the nations that are writhing in spiritual bondage. According to Colossians 2:15, “Having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it”. In your victorious Name I crush oppressive systems that are holding sways of people and groups under state-led persecution, occupation and imprisonment. Every strategic curtailment of the spiritual advancement of the Kingdom of righteousness, entrenched in the nations is crushed this day. In this 2022 New Year, The 7th Sabbatical Year of Release, a momentous shift will be globally witnessed as an ‘out of Egypt deliverance’ comes into being. I thank you Lord for this ‘out of Egypt’ deliverance word given to me in 2015. I now behold its fulfilment as it takes place to deliver the people and communities under forced occupation. This move of evil holding nations in spiritual captivity now comes to a brutal end as the sword in the hand of the slayer is unsheathed. It will be a spiritually bloody scene to behold as the enemies of God are vanquished.

We thank you now that an epic spiritual move of God that humbles nations will be enforced as we prepare for a transit from this old system into a new spiritual order, under the leading of the Spirit. All territorial captivities perpetrated against the people of God ceases this day as the Spirt effectuate strategic change to shift demonic forces. I dismantle oppression according to Luke 10:19, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you”. All constructions of evil to immobilise the saints through fear, anxiousness and intimidation ceases in your Name. I call upon a substantial presence of the Godhead to move foundational boulders of hindrances as the Messianic Kingdom rule is enforced in the hearts of men. I pray for the hearts of world leaders, spiritual leaders and those with strategic authority to be changed as they become compliant to an imminent Spirit-move.

Let the chosen strategic end time prophets mantled with authority, moving under the forceful power of the Spirit come forth now. Thank you Lord that you have prepared and trained them under a 7-fold heat of injustice, to perfectly qualify them, by your Sovereign will as they are now ushered onto their divinely assigned Kingdom platform. They will not be shifted from this strategic place of authority but feared as a substantial presence of the Godhead abides with them for their end time assignments.

I pray a Spirit-move of access into divinely-designated nations with key remits for alignment to the imminent move of God in this end season. According to the word given to me for Turkey In the winter of 2012, ‘I want you to establish it in a conference in the place of the 7-fold churches.’ , I now await God’s move for strategic instructions as the Spirit penetrates into this nation on behalf of the Alevi people. Lord please let these adherents of the apostles’ work in Asia Minor now see your delivering power in signs, miracles and wonders. Let the Davidic root that has lain in the spiritually hard soil of this nation now spring forth to bud, flower and bear fruit profusely. According to Psalms 129:4 the cords of the wicked you have cut asunder. I now plunder the spoils from the protracted fight for nations that I have fought over. These spiritual territories now be released for God’s Kingdom as the people now prosper in the things of God. Today, aIl that has been violently taken, destroyed and denied God’s people is restored, healed, reconciled and delivered as the enemy cedes power.

Thank you Lord as you act upon our behalf in this perfect and complete time for change. We fall at your feet in thankful worship. AMEN

GWENDOLYN SMITH. #NEW PENTECOST APRIL 2020

‘ I LOVE THE LORD! DO YOU?’

The Year of Release

The ‘Year of Release’ will now yield abundance as we have entered into a #NewPentecost season. We have entered into a #NewPentecost Spirit-empowerment, restoration, healing and a time of spiritual awakening. The Lord revealed to me in 2015 that a New Pentecost outpouring was coming to the world. I wrote about it in 2015 when I was under a strong prophetic grace to write. The anointing upon me then provoked me to write as I concluded that season with publishing 7 books. I t occurred to me on entering into Pentecost 2020 that another compelling season with the pen had dawned upon me. In Pentecost 2020 I was Spirit-urged to commence a prophetic blog. I was being woken and stirred with extrapolations from my 2015 books during the pandemic. What was unfolding in my postings on that blog page were synopses of aspects of those prophetic 2015 writings. What was written in 2015 was now being unearthed anew in 2020. Every word was fresh, relevant and pertaining to this season’s New Order.

This 2021 #NewPentecost season has now synchronised with heaven’s calendar for a fresh outpouring of the Spirit of healing, reconciliation and restoration. Six years on from 2015, I believe this ‘Year of Release’ is the timing of the New Pentecost for miracles, signs and wonders that now begins to unfold before our very eyes. It is more than we deserve as the glory fills our living temples afresh. There will be such unfettered joy, mass healing, unbelievable measures of abundance through restoration of all that has been stolen, denied you, violently taken over the season of loss and demonic provocation. Reconciliation comes to broken relationships where the enemy wreaked havoc in the lives of many. There will be deliverance from every known captivity afflicting the people in our world. Through the pandemic we have seen the evil perpetrated by the enemy. Now it is God’s timing to reveal His power and the potency of the Blood to eradicate the evil and erase the stain of sin from the lives of vulnerable souls. This is a global Spirit-move that will bring fear to the enemies of God. “Let all flesh be silent, God has roused Himself from His holy place” (Zechariah 2:13).

Incident of Injustice

Recently I was out when I came upon a drama unfolding. Many police cars suddenly swooped in blocking the road as the traffic came to a halt. I ventured into the heart of the furore to see what was happening. I caught the tail-end of a schoolboy with his face shoved into the pavement being dragged and forced into a cell in a waiting police van. I heard the cell door slam and caught a glimpse of him crouched on a seat in the tight space. I was moved by the scene as there was much commotion and heated exchanges between members of the public and the police. I enquired what had happened to a group of schoolboys standing around. They were very vocal, saying that their friend had done nothing wrong. One of the group members said, ‘I was the one who hit the security guard’. I keep telling the officers but they just proceeded to take our friend because the security guard said it was him who assaulted him. It transpired that this group of teenagers was calling the police racist because the young boy taken into the cell was the only black boy amongst this groups of schoolboys. What was certain was that they all vouched for this black teenager as being innocent. They also all agreed that the one who owned up was the offender.

I am recalling this incident because as I approached a police officer in defence of the young black student, I was affected by the incident in a way that surprised me. I became very vocal at what seemed an injustice. A righteous indignation swept over me as I eyeballed an officer and told him they could do better than to pin facedown, a young impressionable schoolboy into the pavement. I felt a surge of authority overtake me and I had to contain myself as I was about to raise my hand and shutdown the principalities of injustice in Jesus name. In the noise and commotion I then heard a friend who was engaging with the schoolboys call me to ‘come’. I then moved away from the officers and went to her. I cannot explain the intensity of anointing that came over me leaving me visibly shaken. As I walked away and composed myself I began to ask the Lord some pertinent questions. ‘What is this Lord?’ ’How do I move in this level of anointing?’. It was so forceful. It brought fear and soberness on reflection. It was an indication of the mantle-empowerment but that was perhaps not the time for it to be revealed. I kept saying, ‘Lord teach me how to handle this’. I thought, ‘This is scary Lord’. I declared, ‘I fear you Lord, please help me not to go ahead of your leading but give me wisdom and understanding how to move in this tremendous grace and favour anointing’.

The incident brings me back to past recurring scenes I have had of me moving in a dimension of the anointing in an open street where people are being healed and delivered. The public outpouring of the Spirit is what the everyday people in our world need to experience so that their needs are met as we lift up the Name of Jesus.

Key Scripture – Psalms 116:1-19

Psalms 116 is a poetic compilation of the Sons of Korah. I share what my spirit digested concerning these verses expressing love unto the Lord.

“I love the LORD, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.” (Psalms 116:1, NIV)
There is no one who can take the place of our Lord. He is the only one who will stay beside you in the human challenges until the day is done. He will find you in the dark vast realm of nothingness. Wherever evil has deposited you Jesus will search you out. Keep calling on the name of our Lord as He reach down to comfort and embrace you. Jesus loves His creation and He will move at the impulse of His love when He hears your weak desperate cries for mercy. A faithful God will never forsake His beloved ones.

“Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.” (v 7)
A command to the sin sick tormented soul lost in the throes of life, is to return to your rest. In the presence of a loving Father we have known sweet contentment and blissful rest as a baby upon his mother’s breast. Yet, in a state of mindless oblivion, urged by a reckless impulse we have wandered from that quiet, holy abiding place. There is now torment, fear and anguish as we grope in the dark vacuum of sin. The soul-being is drawn to destruction but an inner voice of moral consciousness pleads and provokes to reconcile with a loving doting Father. Speak to your troubled, torn and restless soul to return to its rightful and restful position, under the covering of the Sabbatical rest, in the Spirit of Jesus.

“For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.” (v 8). How many times we have pursued our self interests to the detriment of our peace that is procured through the grace of our Lord. Lost and forlorn, without comfort and direction the Spirit of Healing has lifted fallen beings out of the pit of destruction. The fuzzy head, incoherent mind-narrative and the exhaustion for deep sleep, kicks in as the spirit of death seeks to call your spirit away. The grave beckons as a seemingly plausible alternative to carry on living this miserable life. The spirit behind suicide and death is a strong and compelling force. In your lowest, weakest state this spirit comes along side you, presenting a plausibly convincing case to end it all. But wait! There is a Spirit of Life. Is name is Jesus! Behold, He is near you in your mind confusion. He sees the heavy heart you are carrying as you oscillate between a life and death decision. The muffled sounds, poured out from a broken spirit are not lost on Him. A gentle hand of help is extended – reciprocate by reaching out in faith and just touch Jesus. Hold on tightly even when your strength seems to ebb away. Listen to the gentle voice of reasoning, a spirit bringing a glimmer of hope, respite and the strength to draw back from the brink of eternal emptiness.

“I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.” (Psalms 116:9, BSB)
Whilst I am alive and the breath of life is coursing through my being, I will praise the Lord. I will bless the Lord and all that is within. I thank you Lord that I have learnt at your feet to embrace an appreciation of what it is to understand the spiritual concept of life beyond this earthly realm. This realm of struggles and eking out a life is only a temporary state. Beyond the existential self, the life challenges and inevitable shocks there is a place of eternal rest. Even as we press on in the moment, we can taste of the heavenly joy and experience the eternal state of rest in Jesus. The fullness of the joy and peace to come awaits those who will persevere and linger at the feet of Jesus.

“How can I repay the LORD for all His goodness to me?” (v 12)
I will lift up my heart to El Elohim, the Living One who is worthy of my praise for all that He has done. Worthy is the Lord! It is impossible to repay in kind to God all that He has done for His unfaithful people. We are serial offenders, never deserving of God’s love and blessings. How gracious and merciful are your righteous works towards fallen beings. The Beloved of heaven willingly offered Himself as a sacrifice for our sins. His selfless act has raised up His creation to sit with Him in heavenly places. I give thanks for His goodness towards me, so underserving as I stand guilty and condemned without the blood covering.

“I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people.” (v 14)
I am now being called to my God-positioned earthly purpose. I have been on a spiritual journey of immense faith to build a platform for a spiritual New Order. So, I fulfil my vows and do what the Spirit urges. The revealing of this end time strategic healing mantle will be according to God’s timing. As we move through this season, approaching the next Sukkot in Rosh Hashanah 5782, what God will do will be before the watching world. Yes, that’s right! The word given to me in 2013 now comes to fruition in this #NEWPENTECOST season. “Thy righteous shall be as light and thy justice as the noonday” (Psalms 37:6)

“I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.” (v 17)
A sacrifice has been prepared over the 49-days of countdown to Pentecost/Shavuot. In 1 Kings 18, a severe drought had entered its third year when Elijah met with a cohort of King Ahab’s diviners at Mount Carmel. King Ahab was king over the northern kingdom of Israel. He was the most wicked and prolific worshipper of state-led idolatry of Israel’s kings. His incessant love for Baal can be attributed to his evil wife Jezebel. This bond of evil brought the consequences of drought and famine upon the land. Elijah was the only surviving prophet after Jezebel’s reign of terror to obliterate them from the kingdom. The Lord aroused Elijah to meet with Ahab and a challenge was set to remind the people of the Living God. “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” (1 Kings 18:21, BSB).

Needless to say, the false prophets of Baal and Asherah were unsuccessful in arousing their dead gods . It was about the time of the evening oblation, the 9th hour of the day that Elijah the prophet proceeded to build up the broken alter and to prepare his sacrifice unto the Lord. Elijah’s simple prayer of faith to consume the sacrifice was prayed. After ordering the killing of the false prophets he left to go up to Mount Carmel, fell on his knees to worship as he watched and awaited the rains.

GWENDOLYN SMITH. #NEWPENTECOST. 26th March 2021

FALSE PROPHETS (PART 2)

An Active Prophetic Season

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children” (Hosea 4:6).

The way we understand, think, believe, speak, receive and disseminate information are unique to us. All our biases are perfectly formed over a lifetime through our social systems. There is no doubt, because of our fallen human nature, our cognitive processing system is by far a faulty mechanism. (12)’How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults.” (13) “Keep your servant from deliberate sins! Don’t let them control me. Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin.” (Psalms 19:12-13, NLT)

Our visceral, base self will always reveal our true nature. It is a first response indicator of who we are. We are unrefined in nature and need spiritual transformation and an enlightenment by the Spirit. A reliance on Jesus to map the course of our lives is important in a climate of spiritual shifts. It requires an acute sense of understanding and listening to the voice of the Spirit. This is possible when honed through a prayerful lifestyle. An acute spiritual sense of hearing what the Spirit is saying is key. Relying on inner cues and our unreliable and biased cognitive mechanisms for spiritual understanding in a prophetic season forfeits the purpose of spiritual intelligence. Indeed, when the Spirit has revealed our sins we must come into agreement with what the Spirit is saying. To remain in denial about our failings, weaknesses and sins is tantamount to implying that the Spirit-revelation is untrue. Do not shun the Spirit of Truth. You must agree with the Spirit concerning who you are, confess your sins, repent and turn away from them. Failure to change course will result in a strengthening of the hold that the enemy has on that area of your life.

Prophetic revelations should be the preserve of everyone. It is not just for those deemed to move in a higher prophetic manifestation. We should all be hearing from God for our individual remits. Apostle Paul encourages desiring the gift of prophecy which is to seek divine understanding, building up and edifying each other in love. We are only made complete in Christ Jesus if we love one another and abide in Him. To love one another is the fulfilment of the law, a sovereign royal command.

Who can be deceived?

“And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.,
(11) And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. (12) And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. (13) But the one who endures to the end will be saved. (Matthew 24:10-13, ESV). Strong’s Greek (4105). ‘planaó’ interprets as ‘to cause to wander’, ‘to get off course the right path’, ‘to deviate’. Clearly, an intentional, hidden agenda lies in the heart of false teachers who are themselves under a deception by the enemy.

Many will be deceived because their foundation is insecure in Christ Jesus. The race of the faith that Christians have signed up to is not for those who are swift off the mark. You have received salvation to endure hardship as a good soldier. 2 Timothy 2:3). Rather, those who persevere on the battlefield in resisting seducing and deceptive spirits are like warriors, steadfast in the trenches doing service unto God. Their singleminded approach will be rewarded by our Lord Jesus as their labour of love will account for righteousness.

The spirit of deception is no respecter of persons. In fact, the deception on leadership within the body of Christ indicates a systemic cross-generational failure throughout the church ages to adhere to doctrinal truth. The spirit of deception has filtered through machinations of the body of Christ corrupting many. The subtle reach of this insidious deceptive spirit has caused many to reject and abandon the season’s cohort of called prophets. We are in the time when God’s elect will be hated, called a false prophet and betrayed. The offenders, righteous in their own eyes will think they have done God a favour. It is in effect the same spirit that caused Jesus to be isolated from the religious leaders. His ministry was rejected. He was called ‘Belzebub’ – a false prophet, Betrayed by His own people, He was eventually offered up to the authorities. It is a fearful truth that many are under its influence even now but they have learnt to normalise their behaviour and carry on, lost in religious oblivion.

We can only be deceived if we do not know our Lord and fail to remain untainted from doctrinal error. We must seek to be discerning in the spirit, doing the will of the Father. Judge no man falsely, praying rather that all false prophets repent or they will be exposed by the Spirit. God is faithful and will not forsake His faithful people in the end times. (Isaiah 26:) “So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.

Who are the false prophets?

At that time, if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe it. (23) For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. (24 ESV).

A false prophet is a term used to make a distinction of someone with a spirit of divination. They cease to operate out of the pure prophetic gift that they have been endowed with. The line between the prophetic and divination is very thin. It requires constant vigilance in the Word at the feet of our Lord. The once pure prophetic gift of these individuals has become corrupted by falsehood, deceit and contempt towards the sacredness of the things of God. They are driven by ulterior motives under the spirit of error, resisting God’s truth. You will know them by their fruits. Their true manifestations are revealed under the omniscient seven eyes of the Spirit of Truth which is the Spirit of our Lord Jesus. There can be no relationship between the Spirit of Light and the hidden works of darkness.

These dubious characters are suave and convincing, intentioned on leading God’s people into doctrinal error because their works are evil. This is what God requires from His true servants: ’They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.’ (Ezekiel 44:23, BSB). They fail to teach the people the things of God and to bring the body of Christ into doctrinal purity and truth. Strong’s Greek (5578) gives a meaning for false prophets as ‘religious imposters’. There are of course degrees of operation between false prophets. Generally they claim to be commissioned by God but their inner works are impure and self driven. We are warned to be aware of them and test the spirits against the Word. If it is not about the Testimony of Jesus or Lord, then mark such a one.

“For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. (5) And you will hear of wars and threats of wars, but don’t panic. Yes, these things must take place, but the end won’t follow immediately. (6) For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. (7) All these are but the beginning of the birth pains. (8)Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My Name. (9) At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another, ( 10 Berean). And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. (11) And because lawlessness (sin – my emphasis) will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. (12) But the one who endures to the end will be saved. (13).And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then the end will come.” (14, NLT)

The scriptures places much emphasis on the validity of our foundational integrity. “For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 3;11, BSB) The eternal pillars of our faith will remain unshakeable as the demonic storms wreak havoc to make shipwreck of our faith but we can have confidence in the skilled master builder. “Together, we are His house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself.” (Ephesians 2:20, NLT).

We must be convinced of our true identity in Jesus, knowing the Word to counter and expose the unclean spirit behind the works of false prophets. They do not speak for God as they claim. “When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him. (Deuteronomy 18:22, BSB) These individuals cannot elevate the righteous works of the kingdom or bring the elect ones into spiritual maturity and truth because their motives are impure.

The word of a true prophet will come to pass. Only, be not hung-up on expecting that word to manifest according to your timing and understanding. Inexperienced christians tend to quickly call others false because a word is perceived to be long coming into being. But, by the very nature of prophecy, the long wait, although timely in God’s calendar, characterises the birthing of a word given by God. In the wait, the active experiential journey of the servant chosen, gets God the glory. That word is also aligned to other events unfolding. In the greater scheme of God’s plans a prophetic word is an experiential journey of faith that is proven to be true in the fullness of God’s timing.

Only a foundational construct build on the Word in Jesus our Lord can withstand the subtle works of demonic powers in this end season. The subtle, beguiling and convincing unclean spirit that juxtapositions itself against the Spirit of Truth is being exposed in the body of Christ. The Holy Spirit is superior and omniscient to detect, flush out and reveal every hint of evil. “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6:12, BSB). The fight of God’s faithful elect ones is undoubtedly with the supernatural realm. Reference is always drawn to having an enduring spirit, continuing in the faith at all cost. We must persevere in the fight and win the battle in order to make heaven. Be assured that we are safe and secured in our Lord Jesus.

Territorial Dominance

It is without doubt that the battle for territory is fought in the mind. The fight to keep the Word in our hearts begins with resisting impure thoughts. Doctrinal error is a stronghold of the enemy and is a prevalent spirit in this time. False ideologies and historical religious fallacies are generational sins of iniquity to be resisted. We are disadvantaged when we do not understand the battle we are in. The strategies of the enemy is to have christians in confusion, opposing the prophets and failing to fight against adversarial attacks using the Word.

Many are also ineffective in their efforts because they do not know who they are in Christ Jesus through the power of the Word. (4) “The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. (5) We tear down arguments, and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:4-5, BSB) “The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.” (Nahum 1:7). “Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.” (2 Peter 2:19, BSB). To be in confusion about our spiritual position in Christ and to be without divine knowledge is to be ill-prepared and ill-equipped in the battle of the mind, for territorial dominance. This level of spiritual ignorance will elicit from the enemy a wounding deadly blow.

Safety in Numbers

The Prophetic Council collectively provides safety in numbers as long as we are speaking and minding the same things. We are surrounded by an innumerable company of angels. (1) “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.” (2) “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:1-2, BSB) Jesus with us is the majority. We
sometimes focus on the physical organic entity in the understanding of the term ‘safety in numbers’. But, a deeper revelation unfolds at the entrance of the Word. When we search the scriptures for truth impartation, we derive a deeper understanding of the innumerable heavenly host that is with us and come to appreciate the eternal heritage of the faith.

Jesus, our sure and solid foundation, with the prophets and the apostles, the forefathers of the faith are concrete pillars in the spiritual legacy given unto us. The Prophetic Council is more than our earthly cohort. Under the auspices of God, His early prophets and apostles, left a legacy as credible, trusted and divinely commissioned cohort of servants. They were positioned in the body of Christ providing an innumerable body of faithful witnesses of the faith. Yahweh, El Saboath, Lord of the Host, leads this heavenly company, a great cloud of witnesses who have gone on before us. They attest to our faith and the confidence we can have in the durable Word during spiritually restive times. Our Lord will provide the safety we need. The prophets and leaders today, likeminded saints, are a community of true believers. They are the elect of God, positioned around us as the time of the end ushers in our Lord’s imminent return. Be not afraid but stand still and see the deliverance God will give unto his faithful ones.

Gwendolyn Smith. #NEWPENTECOST. JANUARY 2020

FALSE PROPHETS (PART 1)

One morning after prayer my spirit was fed with thoughts on – ‘to deceive the very elect.’
I sought further understanding as to what my spirit was digesting. I began to ask some very pertinent questions. What was revealed in the dark I now hasten to put it on the housetop.

I asked myself, ‘Who are the elect?’ ‘What is the deception?’ ‘How could this happen in a time of great prophetic revelations?’ ‘What is the great falling away?’ ‘Who can be deceived?’ I now explore how to remain steadfast and true in this turbulent prophetic season.

Background:

The world events unfolding in this time are bringing great fear, distress and anxiousness as people work through their daily challenges. These times of widespread uncertainty are an indication of our world being just a ‘global village’. Transmitted diseases can spread so quickly across borders. Devastations caused by fire affects others far beyond the source of the outbreak. Natural disasters from various weather systems wreak havoc decimating entire island chains. Swarms of tropical devouring pests bringing national devastation on vegetations affecting already fragile food chains and eco-systems. There are other anomalies affecting the quality of human lives and they appear to be becoming global norms.

These global natural trends can be paralleled with spiritual forces destroying the bond of unity in the body of Christ. Fierce deceiving spirits are prevalent in this prophetic season, actively engaged in deceiving the flock. The lawless spirit is the spirit of the Evil One and is already at work to bring destruction to the inner temple of the hearts of those who are unsuspecting and undiscerning in the subtle attempts of evil to disarm God’s people. Others outrightly rebel against the Word of God and are easily overtaken by strong, violent seducing spirits. The current season of epic changes and shifts requires spiritual vigilance in the Word.

What is the Great Deception?

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 21:7 ESV). Many will be deceived in the last days simply because they fail to keep the commandments of the Lord. They may preach, teach, cast out demons, doing many great signs and wonders that would deceive the every elect, if it were possible. Yet, they work from an impure spirit. (46) “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?” (47) Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: (Luke 6:46-47). These verses illustrates that the quality of one’s foundation makes a distinction concerning doing the will of the Father. One cannot stand in the evil day unless they have built on the foundation in Christ Jesus. A sure foundation that is robust and formidable to withstand the Evil One. How deeply are you abiding to lay your spiritual foundation in Christ Jesus, and to withstand the spiritual storms ahead? Jesus said, ‘Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.’ (John 14:24, ESV).

Who are the Elect?

At the beginning of the time of the tribulation there will be a greater anguish of soul as dread and unprecedented upheaval grip the hearts of people as the spirit of fear becomes the new normal. The level of restive times of the pre-tribulation, the beginning of sorrow will not have been experienced by mankind in any previous age, since the beginning of human existence. (21) “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.” (22) In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, not a single person will survive. But it will be shortened for the sake of God’s chosen ones.” (ESV)

The elect are those who have made themselves spiritually ready as the bride of Christ. Strong’s (G1588) – From the Greek word ‘eklektos’ we get a meaning for the word ‘elect’ which are: ‘chosen of God’ or ‘choice’, ‘select’ and the ‘best of a kind or class.’ Best of its kind or class is a suitable application of meaning here. If there is a great falling away as the scripture suggests, then the elect are those of excellence. This explanation of the ‘elect’ corroborates with Matthew 25:1-12. The elect ones are here likened to wise virgins who are diligent in preparation for the wedding occasion. They trim their lamps ensuring they are filled with oil. So the elect ones are diligent in the application of the word and oiled in the Spirit. It is these times of purifying under the prophetic end time mantle that will test and separate the wise and foolish categories of christians.

What is the great falling away?

“Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, (2) through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, (1 Timothy 4:1-2, ESV). There is already an audacious spirit of rebellion resisting against the Word of God in the hearts of many that profess Christ. Strong’s (G646) gives us ‘apostasia’, with an interpretative meaning of: ‘to forsake’, ‘defection’ and ‘apostasy’. It is a troubling thought that many will forsake their first love in Christ and be deceived and led away into apostasy. They will become mockers of the faith even condoning the unmarried state and forbidding others to eat certain foods. They will begin to operate out of the flesh. Before we judge them let us bear in mind the strong forces that contort and twist around a lost soul. Only those with a conscionable and Christ-like spirit can stand in the gap to bear the burden of a lost soul. Those under the grip of evil forces are unable to help themselves. The end time spirit easily take hold of the duplicitous hearts of vulnerable christians who are less than attentive to the things of God.

For out of the issues of the heart, the fierce, rebellious, unrepentant and unforgiving manifestations will reveal the abundance of their evil works. 2 Timothy 3:2-7 draws reference to some of the characteristics of the rebellious end time spirit. “For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, (3) unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, (4) traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, (5) having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these (6) They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions, (7) always learning and never being able to come to a knowledge of the truth.“

The spirit of disobedience is at the root of their rebellion. This spirit of rebellion is also likened to being as the spirit of witchcraft. What is witchcraft? It is an evil insidious spirit operating at different levels through individuals, families, organisations etc. Strong behavioural traits of manipulation, rebellion to the things of God and exhibiting control over others are high levels of captivity. Low level witchcraft can be characterised by evil vocalising of seemingly harmless curses on others, continual muttering and whispering against others with evil intent. In truth, those who harbour witchcraft tendencies are in effect experiencing a relational problem with the Father. Their behavioural manifestations are an indication of not being able to digest the truth of God’s Word. They will leave the faith because their hearts are overrun with evil and they will not confess, repent and forsake their sins.

Gwendolyn Smith. January 2020

THE ‘YEAR OF RELEASE’ IS THE SPIRIT OF JESUS

(19) “Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert. (20) The beasts of the field will honour Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.” (Isaiah 43:19-20)

Ezra – Instilling The Law

When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.” (Deuteronomy 31:11-13, BSB) From this verse we see from the very earliest of times, under the leadership of Moses that Israel as an emerging nation was instructed to come before God and to be read the Law by the priest. This reading was every 7th Sabbatical year know as the Year of Release. Many years later, in the book of Nehemiah we see the practice of coming before God continued as the Priest Ezra, is burdened with instilling the sacred Law of God in the minds of the dispossessed returning Jews. “At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate” (Ezra 7:10, BSB). Since the time of Moses the people knew the requirement to be read the Torah law. “…and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.” (Nehemiah 8:1, BSB)

“For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.“ (Ezra 7:10, BSB). Ezra, a descendant of Aaron was one of the priesthood, a scribe and teacher of the law. During his time in exile he had the favour of God bestowed upon him to come before King Artaxerxes, his counsellors and power officials of Persia. Ezra was a studious elder and had a volition to advance the teachings of the Torah Law. As soon as he returned to Jerusalem he set about executing what God had willed him to do. Ezra’s response was to begin the restorative work of healing in the people. It was a Spirit-led burden that rested upon Ezra to restore Israel back to a covenant relationship with God. Therefore diligently he set about teaching the people the requirements of the Law.

A wooden platform was placed before the Water Gate in the square and Ezra stood on it to be raised up amongst the people as the Book of the Law was read. This high structure is called a ‘bimah’. The ’bimah’ (Strong’s 998’) is a Hebrew word which has a numerical value of 67. As I thought about the number 67 I was enlightened to the single digit of 6 being of sinfulness and the digit 7 being one of the perfect set of numbers. Since the number 7 has featured in all aspects of this end time prophetic call, I can qualify that we are in the perfect and complete season to see a global move of God for repentance and salvation under this strategic prophetic healing mantle. If we look at 6 x 10 being 60, the number 10 is a new order so we can deduce that 6 being sinfulness is a reference to 60 being a new order of evil upon our world. The Spirit of Jesus is the healing flow from the tabernacle that will raise up sinful fallen men as the reviving Word is ministered to the weary, displaced hearts of the thirsty people.

’Bimah’ has a meaning of wisdom and understanding. The NASN Translation gives further meanings of ‘discernment and truth’. In synagogues across the world, the ‘bimah’ is the platform from which the Torah (Word) is read. Behind this raised platform there is a cabinet (symbolic of the ark) where the Torah scrolls are kept. A lamp hangs above the cabinet. These are all depictions of the Mosaic Tabernacle placed in global synagogues. We can extrapolate from these references that the Word when read in the ears of the people raises them to a position of enlightenment to search for understanding, wisdom and truth. The Word is Truth and its superior knowledge of our sinful hearts reveals the hidden nuances we harbour. Like the lamp over the cabinet, the Spirit of Light, a reference to discernment is shone into our being. The Spirit of Jesus was the encapsulation of the Mosaic Tabernacle bringing life into the letter of the written law and its artefacts and ceremonial practices. These observances and symbolisms remained for a time, signalling the prophecy of our Lord’s New Covenant, yet to come. The time came when a new and better Covenant brought the Testimony of Jesus into the tabernacle of fleshy hearts. The Word now resides in earthen vessels to raise up fallen men in the presence of our Lord. The higher platform of grace would supersede all that represented the now obsolete Mosaic Order.

The Water Gate

It is thought that the water gate was so called because of the Gihon Springs, the only source of fresh water in Jerusalem, located nearby. (Nehemiah 3:26). I get so excited about water as it represents the Spirit of Life. Since entering into the decade of ‘pey’ 5780, the decade of the mouth, many of my dreams and Spirit-inspired thoughts pertains to the healing flow trickling from under the threshold of the Tabernacle. Strong’s Hebrew (4670). ‘miphtan’ interprets ‘threshold’. The temple threshold speaks of power – there is a ‘release’ of the power as one steps over into the threshold of grace. Jesus said, ‘I am the door of life’. It is one thing to stand on the threshold of an open door but to step into the tabernacle of power is the ultimate experience.

The 13th Hebrew letter of the alphabet is ‘Mem’, with a meaning of ‘King of Water’. In Hebraic religious writings, this letter ’Mem’ is also known as the name of God ‘Makom’, meaning ‘the place’. “When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.” (Deuteronomy 31:11-13, BSB) ‘Mem’ has a numerical value of 40. Forty is typically a reference to a period of time ending and the beginning of another period. Therefore, forty signals a distinct difference between two periods.

We understand the Spirit of Life is Jesus the source of the Living Water. There can be no life form without water. Equally there can be no spiritual life without having an experience with the source of the Living Water – Jesus. From this understanding I can extrapolate a spiritual meaning from the references above of the Water Gate. The scriptural meaning of water is the Word of Truth. “to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,” (Hebrews 5:26, BSB). The square was the place where Yahweh ‘Makom’ met with His people. The King of Water would wash and make the erring people whole through His decrees and guiding principles. The Word brings a refreshing to abate one’s thirst for the Living Water. We have entered into the prophetic season of the number 7, a time of completion and fulfilment. We are moving into a New Order. A season of the New Pentecost outpouring. A distinction is now being made as the Old Order gives way to the ‘Release’ for this time.

Nehemiah – Rebuilding Jerusalem’s Walls

Nehemiah was King Artaxerxes’ cupbearer and he was burdened to return to Jerusalem, He was in a favoured position in the royal house to ask permission to return to Jerusalem, where his people began to make their journeys home from being in exile. Under contrition he prayed a prayer of forgiveness for himself and his people. After seeking God’s help concerning what he had heard about the state of Jerusalem, he was granted favour by God to ask the King for assistance. His petition to return home was granted and approval for resources to the rebuilding work from the King was given. On returning to Jerusalem he set about to survey the damage done to the walls, the security of the city. A national collective response was employed by the returning leaders of Israel to restore and settle the people in their land. Even with opposition levelled against these priests and elders of Israel, collectively they proceeded with all aspects of the national resettlement project. The elders who saw the glory of the temple before their captivity, wept at such an emotional experience to witness the foundations being laid for the restoration of the temple.

Restoration of the Living Sanctuary

“At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate” (Ezra 7:10, BSB). Jesus is at the centre of everything pertaining to the tabernacle/sanctuary. In the above verse we see the people would gather in the square before the Water Gate. From my research the Water Gate is associated with the Festival of Tabernacle (Sukkot). The Living Water poured forth from Jesus’ mouth at this annual Feast of Tabernacle in Jerusalem as He announced, “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. (38) Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’ ” (John 7:37-38, BSB). His announcement was the promise of the Living Flow that would bubble and churn in the hearts of jars of clay. There is a river of life flowing out of our LORD that makes glad the city of God. The Spirit of Life is with us and because He Lives we can live. “Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him. For this end time it is like the winter snows” (Isaiah 47:9, BSB). ‘Does the snow of Lebanon ever vanish from its rocky slopes? Do its cool waters from distant sources ever stop flowing?’ (Jeremiah 18:14,NIV) This perpetual living flow is the Spirit of Jesus.

There can be no decay or death in the Living One. Jesus is the essence of life, mantled with the power to heal the sick, raise the dead and set men free from the captivity of sin. The tenacious nature of sin is destructive and ruinous to hold onto a soul and bring men under an unbreakable stronghold. It is a futile struggle as they come under ensnarement to a strong spiritual bondage. Outside of our Saviour there is no remedy for sin. There is healing for man’s sin sick soul as the river of life, a transforming flow will pour out of everyone that will come to the waters. “The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus. (Isaiah 35:7, BSB). This verse speaks of spiritual transformation and hope. The screech owls, jackals and night creatures, represents the base nature of men’s works of darkness, They can no longer dominate the spiritual environments of life. The visceral self, the elementary nature of our being will come under the power of the vivifying Spirit. The invitation is to come and be restored and made whole in the Living Flow.

The Year of Release

Biblically sound grounding principles would govern Israel, inheritors and custodians of the Law. Over the intervening years since leaving captivity in Egypt under Moses, periodically Israel continued to come under foreign rule. The sins of the people was a consequence of their exilic experiences. They continued to indulge their hearts to idol worship. A weak disposition to love the giving of themselves to foreign gods was a detestable practice in the eyes of God. In a covenant relationship both parties are required to abide by the legally binding covenant. Yet God would continue to keep covenant with His erring people, choosing to meet with man as He did in Creation at a place of His choice.

The ‘Year of Release’ would be the means by which the people could be restored as grace would be afforded them. The 7th month, Tishri in the Jewish civil calendar was called Ethanim under the religious ecclesiastic calendar. “On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could listen and understand.” (Nehemiah 8:2, BSB). On the 10th day of Tishri, the Holy Day of Yom Kippur is observed, having significance to the time when the Torah Law was given by God to Moses at Mount Sinai. Moses’ descent from the mountain was met with a gross departure from holiness by the people as they worshipped a golden calf. This rejection of the Torah Word was a slighting towards Jesus by the people. “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present an offering made by fire to the LORD.” (Leviticus 23:27, BSB) The Jewish people entered into a fast for a 25 hour period ending the 10 Days of Awe, Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. During these High Holy Days the people consecrated themselves by self introspection and repenting in contrition for personal and collective sins.

My spirit is here being fed that we are in the season of a repeat of the holy gathering of the people before the Lord. I was led in my spirit to research the next ‘Year of Release’. The ‘Year of Release’ is associated with every 7th Sabbatical Year. According to the Jewish Calendar, Rosh Hashanah 5782 (2022) is the start of the ‘Year of Release’. The ‘Year of Release’ (Shmita), pertains to the Feast of Tabernacle (Sukkot). “And Moses commanded them, saying: “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles, (11) when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.” (Deuteronomy 31:10-11, NKJV)

After Yom Kippur It would be five days later that the Festival of Tabernacle (Sukkot) would begin for seven days. It was at this Feast that Jesus stood up and blast the verbal shofar of the Invitation to ‘Come and 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. (38) Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him. ” (John 7:37-38, BSB). ‘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). At this agricultural feast the people would bring in their first fruits as an offering of sacrifice. The ‘Year of Release’ was the year when the people would be read the Law by the Priest.

Although the practice is celebrated in Judaism, I gleaned from what I was receiving in my spirit that as we course towards the ‘Year of Release’. There is a spiritual significance unfolding as we enter the next season of Sukkot 5782. (2022). The healing mantle for the hurting displaced world has been stirred in this Pentecost /Shavuot 2021 season as the Invitation to ‘Come, Drink of Me’ according to John 7:37, gathers pace. The ‘Come With Me ‘ Invitation is now to be announced to the nations and the ‘Persecuted Church’. People who are not yet of this fold but are longing for God’s intervention in their suffering for the Testimony of Jesus, will be first, grateful recipients of what is unfolding. These persecuted christians are proliferated across nations, blanketed under different names and groups. The outpouring of the Spirit of a New Pentecost will bring them under the banner of God’s love. Those who are dispirited, languishing and thirsty in the Arabah basins of our world will gather in a proverbial ‘global square at the Water Gate’ for the outpouring of the Spirit. They will be read the Word and ministered to by Jesus, the Living Word.

I announce that the whole earth shall appear before the Lord in this dry season. The Water Gate in the square where Israel met before Ezra can be likened to the source of the imminent refreshing flow from under the sanctuary, to pour out onto the spiritually languishing people desiring to drink of the living water. The Spirit will refresh the thirst for worship in the people. In this end time the living water that will flow from the altar under the threshold of the tabernacle will burst the banks of religion, a spirit that blocks entering into the flow to abate the thirst and release the captives in the salty Arabah basins. A spirit that rejects the moves of God by rejecting His chosen servants. The religious spirit that rejects the Sabbatical 7th Year Release, a time of the Lord’s favour. (Isaiah 61) by resisting and muzzling the prophets with the end time message of healing and hope.

I believe the world will be spiritually awakened under this end time mantle but the increase of ferocious satanic forces will juxtaposition itself against the works of grace. The move of evil in these end times will be subtle, disarming and cause many to be in spiritual laxness. Clearly, many even those who profess being christians will be under a strong delusion. This season can be liken to the times of Noah when the preaching of the word to a degenerate society to escape the imminent danger went unheeded. This beginning of the end will be an intolerable time for mankind. “People fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.” (Luke 21:26, ESV). I believe we have entered the beginning of the end, leading up to the Rapture. The pandemic will continue to rumble on causing distress in the nations, marking a time of sorrow and fear. I believe the internet will be the global central square, as a new era emerges to prepare those who will repent and commit their fallen ways to our Lord. The sins of the people will be covered under the blood of our eternal Paschal Lamb, the blood flow will give life to raise up a spiritually lost society.

Gwendolyn Smith. #NEWPENTECOST. 2nd May 2021

A MANTLE OF STRATEGIC GLOBAL AUTHORITY

(28) “And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. (29) Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days. (30) I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. (31) The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD. (32) And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.* (Joel 2:28-32, BSB)

A strategic mantle has been bestowed upon me for this end time Kingdom work. As we approach the final countdown weeks of Pentecost 2021, it is evident to me that the mantle has been stirred as my writings lean towards a strategic national undertaking. There will be less emphasis on the current body of Christ leadership as a stirring urgency towards the leadership of the new harvest intake into the Kingdom takes precedence. This shift is significant as it indicates a Spirit-shift as the healing mandate is activated outside of Zion’s city walls. The slighting and rejection of this prophetic call by the global church has been noted by our Lord. It is the season when the Lord will deal with the offensive religious spirit that has resisted any move of God that will heal His people. These are ancient scornful resident spirits in the foundations of religion. Hence, when Jesus came along with His new Reconciliation Ministry, He was treated as an unlearnt juvenile upstart coursing His way through a wall of resistance from the religious leaders of the Law. Collectively they poured disdain upon His refreshing effective teachings. These religious men lacked the spiritual wisdom that Jesus was the Law giver. Yes, that knowledge escaped them so they remained bound in defiance against the New Covenant of righteousness.

This is a warning to leaders, right in their own eyes, convinced of their organisational heritage, not willing to be refreshed by the end time unveiling of the new mantle of grace for healing and restoration. The thirsty and dying, languishing by the dusty sun-baked stagnant pools of water in the Arabah basins (Gentile nations), will be the grateful recipients of this next season’s refreshing flowing out from under the threshold of the tabernacle. People, take heed and be obedient and willing to a Spirit-move. Be spiritually discerning, as the Spirit has changed course. We are approaching a new season and things will not be as they have been. There will be an imminent shift, a significant prophetic move as the new generation of leaders, young and old, male and female of all nations emerge on the scene. They will pour into the Kingdom in this end time, fresh, willing and pliable in the hands of God. I truly believe they will be the ones culminating the end time work.

The Babylonian Invasion

In Ezekiel 21, The prophet Ezekiel is yet again under the influence of the Spirit of Prophecy, and is shown what is to come concerning Israel. To put into context this chapter, Israel at the time of the three Babylonian sieges, sometime between 605bc – 586bc was governed by Kings, Jehoiakim, Jeconiah and Zedekiah. It was towards the timeline of 586bc that the second temple in Jerusalem was burnt to ruins. During these unsettling periods these reigning kings, because of their profanity would be disposed of their rulerships. The troubling seasons in Israel’s history of the Kings can be attributed to their ungodly reign as evil rulers. The Lord’s displeasure is made known concerning the fallenness of His people because of state-led corruption and false worship. Hence, here we see God’s response, I believe it was to King Jehoiakim, because of his evil. “And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.’ (Ezekiel 21:25, BSB).

The impending judgement of God prophesied by Ezekiel was looked on with disdain as an empty gesture by those in authority. But with certainty at an appointed time, the severity of God’s judgement would befall Israel. In Ezekiel’s vision he sees the King of Babylon advancing on Jerusalem with his army. At a juncture in the way, he is forced to make a decision where to execute his arms, on Rabbah of the Ammonites or Judah of Israel. In consultation with his military officers and diviners, the King of Babylon draws a lot, choosing Jerusalem. Immediately he retorts that the city of Ammon would not escape the long blade of the sword of retribution and punishment also.

A Reversal of Status

The elaborate headgears worn by the priests, kings and the noble was a testament to their authority and status amongst the people. These dignitaries would always wear them in public life. “He shall put the holy linen tunic and the linen trousers on his body; he shall be girded with a linen sash, and with the linen turban he shall be attired. These are holy garments. Therefore he shall wash his body in water, and put them on.” (Leviticus 16:4). Hence, the removal of one’s turban, mitre or by whatever they were known would be the consequence of a serious matter.

Here in Ezekiel’s vision God commanded that the reputation of Israel’s kings would be in tatters. They would be required to remove their headgear as a sign of demotion. The privilege of status would be given to another, whose right it is according to God’s doing. “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “Take off your jewelled crown, for the old order changes. Now the lowly will be exalted, and the mighty will be brought down.. (27) Destruction! Destruction! I will surely destroy the kingdom. And it will not be restored until the one appears who has the right to judge it. Then I will hand it over to him.” (Ezekiel 21:26-27, NLT). This verse was also a prophetic signposting to our Messiah King, whose rightful reign, being of the Davidic lineage is here referenced. However, Ezekiel is here being shown what will transpire concerning Israel.

A divine reversal of the old order is God’s vindication against rebellion and indifference to the scared holy matters concerning His people. God loathes continual sinning a consequence of pride and haughtiness. “And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, (2)“Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel (3) and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.” (Ezekiel 21:1-3).  The time comes when the gleaming sword is unsheathed by the Slayer that will move through the land upon those without the mark of protection, until God is justly vindicated.

God Cries Over Israel

In Ezekiel’s vision God makes it known that Judah’s relentless sinning before Him was memorable enough to warrant a fitting response. The judgement from God to come would be equally memorable. The false hope of the people eliciting protection from false gods would be eclipsed by the double gleaming sword and the battering rams that would come against Jerusalem. The Babylonian army would be strengthened by God as the Slayer, descending upon Jerusalem to bring about a memorable slaughter. This measure of intervention against evil by God is pitiable. It would cause our Lord to cry over His people’s fate. Yet, He cannot deflect from honouring every word that proceed from His mouth. God would cause Ezekiel to feel His pain over His people. (6)“But you, son of man, groan! Groan before their eyes with a broken heart and bitter grief. (7) And when they ask, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you are to say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, and every hand will go limp. Every spirit will faint, and every knee will turn to water.’ Yes, it is coming and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD.” (Ezekiel 21:6-7)

Gwendolyn Smith. #NEWPENTECOST. 2 May 2021

NO STONES LEFT UNTURNED

“When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,” (Colossians 2:13, BSB)

“By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This He set aside, nailing it to the cross. (Colossians 2:14, ESV),

I announce a fresh dynamic move of the Spirit in this ending 49 days countdown season of Pentecost 2021 to bring reconciliation, restoration, restitution and healing to individuals, families, communities and nations. All fissures in faulty grounds will give way as the foundation in Christ Jesus is laid in the entities of life. Broken and ruined entities of life will see the miraculous creative power of God’s renewing Spirit at work. Long awaited unanswered prayers will yield abundance as the spoils from the battles that have raged over the entities of human life are won as the waiting for PENTECOST 2021 season draws to an end.

A fresh new awakening dawns to legally take back, build, establish, occupy, reinstate, reclaim and own. The legal right to properties, lands and title deeds is now upon us, as we enter into Spirit-enforced entitlement to family, community and national heritages and possessions of these entities. All that was denied and violently taken from individuals, groups and nations comes into Spirit-urged force.

In early February I was in worship when I was directed to turn the pages of my bible. I immediately fell upon Jeremiah 32. It was the full chapter across the two pages. Having history of how the Spirit works with me in being directed into the Word, I knew immediately this daily portion of bread was for me. As I began eating, the Spirit spoke to me regarding properties that I have been awaiting, on a timely spiritual faith journey, to see the fulfilment of God’s word to me. I am in no doubt that the historical injustices in our world is coming to a brutal bloody end. God’s vindication will be miraculous, memorable to bring deferential fear to the enemies of God, before the watching world. Yes, this next move of God will be visible and awesome.

Like Paul before King Agrippa making his defence for the Testimony of our Lord, I too can say I am not insane but the power to move one through the realm of prophetic faith is incredibly strong and convincing to the one chosen to bear the brunt of what God desires for His glory. “For the king knows about these matters, and I can speak freely to him. I am confident that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner.” (Acts 26:26, BSB) Truly, all the injustices poured out on me from all entities of my life became a very public matter. This season will encapsulate a Spirit-move, speaking of the mighty works of our Sovereign Lord.

A Blood Covenant with Jesus

“having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross! (15) And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.” (Colossians 2:14-15, BSB). All that was legally against us spiritually has been revoked by the blood of Jesus. His blood-covenant with mankind, achieved in the death of our Sovereign Lord is a Testimony of Jesus that supersedes all blood written covenants of evil. We are redeemed from ancient curses still legally disturbing the order of human life through systemic and foundational works of national founding spirits. This new season of healing, restoration, restitution and reconciliation brings an end to control, manipulation and crafting of historical evil works. Jesus is Lord over all realms and satanic powers and His strong arm to deliver will break the strength of evil residing over the people. All invocation of founding ancient spirit is annulled and their powers disarmed from influencing the course of human life.

The Spirit of Revelation

There can be no relationship between light and darkness, the living with the dead or the Christ and satan. The time has now come for the Spirit of Revelation that is the Spirit of Jesus to bring to light all covert works and hidden deeds. Even the grave must give up its secrets. The Spirit of Light rose from the realm of the dead and the abode of hell by the Resurrection power. “For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living” (Romans 14:9). There is no secret place or thing in God’s universe that is not privy to the Spirit. Whatever secrets have been taken to the grave with the dead will be given up now in the omniscient power of God.

All ancestral authority curses blocking and holding captive the people in the nations will be destroyed in the potency of the Word. Religious curses that hold sways of people captive to false religion will lose spiritual efficacy before the undiscerning people as the 7-fold power of the end time mantle shifts and stirs the lax spiritual atmosphere. I challenge all demonic activities in this season of global assertion of God’s power by the Spirit of Knowledge with the Word, according to Daniel 7:14. “And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed“. “So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it..” There will be no stones left unturned in this season of divine revelations as the Spirit of Truth that searches the hearts draw out the evil in the hearts. A New Order will be established as The Christ, perfect His Beloved Elect for the imminent Rapture of the saints.

For my Word is as a two-edged sword to cut into the spiritually diseased and rotting tissues and issues of the rebellious heart. My word will heal the repentant contrite heart of every spiritual blockage. The Spirit of the Word is potent to turn, dismantle and find the sins hidden in the labyrinth of the secret chambers. I move in the authority of the Word, according to Psalms 25:14, “The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.”. Therefore, in the power of The Name of our Lord, I now fling open every door of sin in the deceitful hearts and reveal the web of evil resident spirits. No stones are left unturned in this season as the spirit that holds men’s hearts in captivity to unconfessed sins be exposed.

Spirit of Joy

Let there be new found joy in the hearts of those who were once bound. Let the joy of the Lord cancel out torment, anxiety, fear and heaviness of heart. Every burden be removed from the troubled hearts of the people. Those who will confess and forsake their sins in the Name of the Lord will be saved. No matter the depth of sin, the heinousness of the crimes, how hateful, bitter and remorseless the heart, the blood of Jesus can reach into those hidden chambers and bring healing. The deepest depth of isolation, secrets and eerie silence in the darkest undisturbed region on planet earth is the heart. It is a no go territory under occupation by spirit terrorists. Spiritual bandits that hold the people captive under fear. But the Word knows no bounds to redeem a soul. The angels of God assigned to the people will invade and plunder every territory where the souls of men are under demonic strongholds. The Spirit of God has been hovering over your spiritual deep to prepare you for this time of deliverance. No stones will be left unturned to bring you peace and strength in the joy of the Lord.

PRAYER:

Dear Lord we thank you for your love and compassion towards undeserving men. Please permit your Spirit of Healing to come upon our troubled world – the dying, sick, afflicted, broken, suicidal, hopelessly forlorn, depressed and mentally challenged. Let healing to Individuals, social and national entities be procured through your love. Help us to extend care as we learn to responsibly support and reach out towards others. Help us to go beyond the narrative, religion and embrace others with your endearing spirit of benevolence. Let an altruistic tendency become the norm as our core values are motivated to the good of our fellowmen. We give thanks for your Reconciliation Ministry. As we are Spirit-move to embrace our Father’s love and forgiveness, we too can be reconciled to our fellowmen to forgive others and all differences be removed by the perfect Spirit of Love.

It is by your Spirit that nations can be healed from injustices, prejudice, intolerance, hate and indifference to suffering. We thank you this day for the national leaders you will set down and raise up by your authority and power. Oh, we praise you for the healing mantle now being stirred in nations bringing alleviation and cessation of wars, uprisings and human suffering. We praise you now for your peace in Israel. We thank you Lord for your healing power over Palestine and the Arabic nations. We pray for Africa and other nations under severe struggles against rising skirmishes, chronic destabilisation through leadership challenges, factious groups, lawlessness and systemic poverty. I pray for all other nations with their diversity of challenges unique to their regions. By the strategic authority of the 7-fold mantle usher in strategic healing, restoration, reconciliation, deliverance and salvation.

Let the joy be restored to wipe away the tear stained faces of the weary, listless and dispirited people. Release your comfort that removes the fear and terror suffered by your people. Let the healing of generational wounds begin now with turn around breakthrough in families, communities and nations. Transformational healing comes to our world as the Spirit of Healing leaves no stones unturned to bring about God’s will in our world.

Thank you loving Father for your attentive ear to this prayer and your will to honour your Word and give us the desires of our hearts this day. AMEN. “…I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,” (Genesis 17:1, ESV)

Gwendolyn Smith. #NEWPENTECOST. 11th May 2021

AUTHORITY IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE EARTH

‘Saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”(Revelation 1:11)

In obedience I write what I believe to be Spirit-urged for this time. In a strategic end time role as a prophetic scribe I am downloaded with information. As I obey and begin writing, the churning and stirring in my spirit begins to overwhelm me with emotive expressions. I am moved by deep levels of compassion for our world that ushers me into the presence of the Lord. People, it is time to repent and forsake all competing priorities and fall before the feet of our Lord to escape the impending wrath to be poured out on the children of disobedience.

Mantle Authority

2022 is the 7th Year of the Sabbatical ‘Year of Release’ (Shmita). As we move towards the ‘Year of Release’ will see the revealing of the 7-fold mantle. As we enter into the Jewish New Year 2022, Feast of Tabernacle (Sukkot) we will see a move of God according to John 7:37. This season’s Pentecost empowerment will continue to rattle and shake powers to bring down demon princes ruling in fear and terror over territories. The authority of the mantle is to strip away layers of collective iniquitous evil. The dominant forces that have controlled sways of communities and nations in fierce opposition to the works of God’s righteousness will be disrupted and discharged from their strongholds of evil.

The new fresh anointing of this New Pentecost overflow will be likened to no other periods of the Holy Spirit outpouring recorded in the history of the church era. Yes, I labour not on this point because it is unequivocally so. It is a 7-fold strength mantle to bring about God’s will in the earth that is overrun with evil. It is potent to command a New Order, breaking the strength of evil gripping the hearts of vulnerable souls.

Principalities and powers will be shaken as the high places of evil are torn down from pillar to post. This releasing mantle will crush the tempter’s power to bring release, healing and restoration to the things of God. Territorial powers are in fear as the Sovereign Lord shows His power and might in this season to reveal His strong outstretched arm of deliverance for the dispirited grieving people in the nations.

As we leave Egypt’s (world) system of control, manipulation and injustices we are being ushered into a new dimension of the Pentecost power. A new authority is being given to the Elect Church. To take back territories of nations under demonic control, terrorising and plaguing the broken lives of the war weary, conflict-ridden communities. Crass national leaders polluted by self interest have left the poor and needy people open to abuse and control by marauding opportunist groups. Our world has become a poorer, destabilised place for families and communities to thrive, because of inept leadership. Under a New Order we are being called back to leadership accountability, personal responsibility and spiritual integrity.

Gwendolyn Smith. #NEWPENTECOST. 2 May 2021

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

A ‘FIRST LOVE’ AFFAIR

But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.’ (Revelation 2:4, BSB)

I confess I am experiencing a renewed ‘first-love’ affair with my precious Lord. I am besotted and overcome with a new intensity of a ‘first love’ passionate affair’. I am captivated by this new-love experience. I am so in love, I am dancing with my Lord. Equally, a deep penetrating longing for intimacy overwhelms me with incessant joy being in His presence. I am often oscillating between bursting fitful bouts of laughter and unceasing tearful ecstatic joy. I am now ready for whatever I will be Spirit-led into at this time.

This beautiful experience is intended to bring me to my new platform, overflowing in the anointing poured out on me. To be saturated and dripping in the 7-fold overflow measure of the healing mantle for this end time – unmerited favour.

Recently, the Spirit brought me to Juanita Bynum’s master CD, ‘Above All Else’. Since that day it has just been doing it for me. The songs bring me into the presence of my Beloved for intimacy and love in pure praise and worship. My life will never be the same again. I am acutely aware that the timing of this moment of renewed intimacy is to prepare me for whatever the Lord will do now as I move into the final weeks of Pentecost. May God bless you Juanita.

The Spirit-call for this season is to bring the people of the nations into a new meaningful and vital relationship with Jesus. You are being called back to your first love experience in Jesus. A refreshing for intimacy and deep penetrative breaking into the presence of our Lord. To be released into lingering unfettered ecstasy and joy.

New found strength, in this dark woeful season, is for those who will unashamedly cast-off all inhibitions in expressive yearning as they enter into a first love intimacy. Falling hopelessly in love with our dear Lord all over again. The current plague and death is intended by the adversary to eclipse what is to come through the stirring renewing work of the Spirit. The Living Water that will flow from under the tabernacle will refresh the longing yearning hearts of weary dispirited people.

Gwendolyn Smith. #NEWPENTECOST. 5th May 2021