There are those I am calling to stop and listen for a season to others that I am sending to share what I want to say. Listen as they speak and do not let pride get in your way. Be willing to stop and listen as they speak those things you need to hear for there are those of Mine that have given out that which I said and now it is time to replenish your spirit. Listen as I speak through those I am sending to say a word in due season. Do not hesitate nor reject this time of listening. Do not let the enemy tell you that you should be out doing and running here and there for now is the time to wait and listen to all I have to tell you. Be vigilant to receive that which I will tell you in secret as those that are sent come.

Do not listen to the lies of the enemy as he comes to torment you because I have called you to stop and listen. Resist his words that tell you that you are lazy, do not let the condemnation come that would tell you to stop and listen is wrong for it is time to prepare for that which is here, that which has been prophesied of old. Do not let the enemy tell you that those that are speaking are closer to Me than you for that is not true. Preparation is just that, preparation, so stop and listen to that which I am preparing you for. Hear those that have words of encouragement and instruction to give you for they come with that which I have placed within them for those that are being prepared and replenished. They have that which is life within them to give and you must receive this as they come.

Yes, great tribulation is coming onto the WHOLE EARTH and all who survive in its midst will do so because they are BEING INTIMATE WITH GOD in an active, personal (not figurative) way. Those who only have a form of godliness but have no power, have no personal contact with HIS LOVE dwelling in their Hearts on a day-to-day basis … well, they’ll have no real strength to survive what is fast coming and is in many ways already upon us. The keys to this intimacy are having His Joy, Peace, Hope and Love ... which we receive from Him when we have authentic Faith.

I heard the Lord say recently that, “Faith is the fight against fear.” I didn’t know exactly what He was talking about, although it sounded like something you hear a lot … that ‘faith is the opposite of fear,’ or ‘fear is faith in bad things happening.’ But I can now more clearly see that fear prevents us from trusting God enough to walk in faith in His promises of peace, protection and provision. And since it is His Perfect Love that casts out (displaces) fear, we first have to let God’s Love have its purifying, restoring, transforming work in us before we are free to walk strong in authentic faith.

I also heard Him explain that without a hopeful expectation we’re not actually standing in faith either. (As in Hebrews 11:1) Because when a HOPE is a REALITY to us, we get EXCITED about it … and THAT is Faith. But hearing things like that always used to make me feel anxious because I felt I was supposed to force myself in my own strength to ‘just believe’ and somehow always be happy in order to be in real faith — and that was usually the main problem I was having to deal with to begin with! I gradually understood that I do need HIS HELP just to believe the astounding things He tells me to believe Him for, and that’s because He is both the author and perfector of our faith! (Hebrews 12:2) (And I recommend Mitt Jefford’s ‘The Secret Equation of Life’ on www.etpv.org to understand this better.)

You have continuously heard of The New World Order. Now let us look at the New God Order. These are things that I the Lord have predestined to take place. It is indeed, Bible prophecy!

I the Lord am bringing a balance to my house. There has certainly been an imbalance at times concerning the position of the leaders in my true remnant church. Many are called to show my love and devotion to my bride, as that has been evident. Others have been shown the great injustice that has been done to Myself and my beloved. Now I will begin to bring a balance to the two. People have come against you, because they could only see one side of you. This has been because I have been revealing certain kingdom purposes and principals to you, and others have not understood or had the revelation that you have been given. They have seen you as “extremists.” Because you have warned and warned of impending judgment, you have been labeled the “doom and gloom prophets.” You have not asked for this, but in your obedience to me, people have called you such.

Now your role in the kingdom is about to change. Yes, you will still be warning of my judgments and exposing sin and the deceiving tactics of Satan, but you will also be carriers of the flame. You will now start to exhibit my power ... through love. Love has been the motivating force behind you, your great love for Me and for My kingdom. Now I will enable others to see that you do have the love of God flowing through you. You have even become hard on yourself ... feeling as if this is your “role” in my army. Yes, you are soldiers, but I also have soldiers in my army that bring comfort and healing to those who have been wounded. You will now begin to move much more into this position. I am bringing others along side you, that will accompany you in accomplishing My plans and purposes for the last days. These will be people who will understand you and you will have a spiritual bonding with them that will be “unexplainable” to your natural mind. Together, I will use you to continue to tear down the walls of division and deception that has been planted among those who have wanted to know Me, yet have been held back by the deceptive ways of Satan and man.

My precious Church, I am releasing a waterfall of My Spirit over My Church right now, a greater increase of revelation upon those who are hungry and those who are seeking to know Me more. I am releasing this waterfall of My Spirit upon many of you who are longing to know My heart more, and to hear what My Spirit is saying to the churches. It is this waterfall that is bringing refreshing to many who are parched, it’s bringing revelation to many who are seeking to teach and preach My Word and it’s bringing empowerment to those who are finding it hard to move forward, and it’s bringing release to those who have been waiting on My call to move forward into ministry in My name.

This is the waterfall that is bringing more and more life to those who are seeking Me, more of the abundant life through knowing who I am and what I am saying to the churches and individuals today. This waterfall pours forth from My heart.

It is this waterfall that I am releasing now, upon many who have tired in waiting for the promises of My heart to come to fruition, and as this waterfall is being released, these ones are being taken to a higher plane in their relationship with Me. Increased healings, increased miracles, increased abundance of My Spirit, increased anointing as one presses into Me, and the increase of sight into all that I am doing within the hearts and midst of those who are truly seeking Me.

There is a shaking happening across the corporate Body of Christ. God is getting us ready for an outpouring of greater glory and in the process, He is transitioning the Church into the fullness of her inheritance.

A Shaking Dream and a Broad Vision

Recently, I had a dream in which I was preaching. Whenever I have a preaching dream, I know God is trying to tell me something. In this dream, I’m shouting at the top of my lungs, “Everything that can be shaken will be shaken!” And I’m saying it over and over again. “Everything that can be shaken will be shaken! Everything that can be shaken will be shaken!” I’m booming this out in my sleep and I wake up hearing myself say, “Everything that can be shaken will be shaken!”

In June of this year, I was with my team in New York and we had gone out to lunch to celebrate one of our team member’s birthdays. While in the parking lot of a local restaurant, the presence of God came over our group and I was caught into a vision. It was a very simple vision but it spoke clearly and powerfully to me of the time we’re in right now.

In my vision, I saw a wall with a narrow archway in it. The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “Matt, I have a broad place that I’m bringing My people into. But in order to get into the broad place I have for them, they have to first pass through a narrow place.” And then the Lord said, “I’m stripping away everything that needs to be stripped away so that this transition can be made successfully.”

Interceding over the last few weeks I get the clear sense that it is a time of intense battle in the spirit realm. Angels and demons are at war. Angels who were previously ministering grace, love and peace as a gift of mercy from God have now moved out of these positions to fight satanic attack, so there is a call for the people (each of us as individuals) who have been in a state of slumber to wake up and join the battle against the principalities. How?

1) Each person needs to pray and ask for more angels. Fill our homes, offices, schools, neighborhoods, churches — every place we gather — with angels. There is no lack of angels but we need to do our bit and ask.

2) Seek the Lord for key scriptures that He will reveal to each of us as individuals — these are our swords — our weapons of war that we must receive and then use. Write them down. Place them where we will see them often, confess them, pray them, meditate on them, declare them, do battle with them.

God is moving in our lives as individuals in this hour. He is challenging and convicting us. He wants to do it to set us free. We want it done to be free. From leadership right down to new believers even ... we’ve all been praying for the Lord to burn away within us what is not of Him. It’s the Holy Spirit praying a very precious and life-giving prayer and I really believe that I sense the joy of the Lord over this, and He is moving to answer — but we need wisdom and understanding to go through this time in peace.

Night Vision / Dream Sept. 26, 07

With so much coming from the Lord recently teaching about the vital need to be able to walk in God’s Peace during times of trial and especially during tribulation, this dream is a welcome lesson. It was so vivid and interesting and has really helped me develop a firm concept of how and why to enter the Peace of God’s Rest. Try to imagine the imagery when you take it back to the Lord in prayer. Some of the symbolism is very straightforward and I have added my own interpretations in the (( )) which you can take or leave. Anyway, here’s the dream:

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I was at my parents’ house with lots of other people who were getting ready to get on the bus and go to work. ((There are many of us who have been prepared by spiritual parents to possess our inheritance and we are about to be released into various ministries.))

We were waiting for the right bus. ((We are waiting for the right time or personal conditions of release according to God’s perfect Wisdom.))

The bus came, and someone said, “Hey it’s a REAL bus.” It was a new model and had a different seating layout than a normal bus. I got on, paid the fare and had a bulky backpack that I soon took off. ((God’s Ways and His Kingdom are True and Eternal. We pay a price to enter it, and we enter still carrying our burdens.))

When the Scriptures refer to the “heavenly host,” we usually think of “choirs of angels.” The word “host” in the Bible meant “army” (Josh. 5:13-14). It is an important truth: the hosts of heaven are worshiping armies. Indeed, no one can do warfare who is not first a worshiper of God.

The Central Issue in Tribulation: Worship

One does not have to penetrate deeply into the Revelation of John to discover that both God and the devil are seeking worshipers (see Rev. 7:11; 13:4; 14:7,11). Time and time again the line is drawn between those who “worship the beast and his image” and those who worship God.

In the last great battle before Jesus returns, the outcome of every man’s life shall be weighed upon a scale of worship: in the midst of warfare and battles to whom will we bow, God or Satan?

Yet, while this warfare shall culminate in the establishment of the Lord’s kingdom on earth (see Rev. 11:15), we must realize the essence of this battle is the central issue in our warfare today. Will we faithfully worship God during satanic assault and temptation? True worship must emerge now in the context of our daily lives, for no man will worship through the great battles of tomorrow who complains in the mere skirmishes of today.

A few days ago a friend of mine in church shared with me a vision she had during an intense time of prayer and seeking the Lord. She saw a wine bottle on a table and it was broken on the inside, and then she saw a jagged hole on one side of the bottle and out of this hole full grapes were just pouring and pouring out. She also had the words, “Whatever can be shaken will be shaken.”

My husband and I have the habit of sleeping with the bible playing on CD and the morning after my friend shared this word, I woke up listening to Isaiah 5 and as I listened the Lord showed me how there were full grapes in the wine bottle that should not be there. Grapes have to be crushed first before they can be put into the bottle as wine, and yet there were those who had not allowed what needed to be crushed and removed to be so, and had entered into the bottle not as pure spirit but as flesh mixed with spirit. I believe that this vision again confirms the purifying work of the Lord in this season.