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The title of today’s episode is: “WE CANNOT HIDE”

Ostriches bury their heads in the sand to hide. But when I did a little research that is just a myth. Since they do not fly, they build their nests in the ground. Occasionally, they will stick their heads in the ground to check on their eggs. For years people have said they buried their heads when scared or threatened. If they feel they cannot run away. They actually will fall down on the ground and try to blend into the terrain, not moving.

Our enemy is on the prowl to destroy us. We cannot be like the ostrich and run or just sit still and hope the enemy will not attack.  He sees us, because he is afraid of us. If he thinks we are weak or afraid he will attack.

It is like a small child covering their eyes and thinking that you do not see them. We do not have the luxury to cover our eyes. We need to pray for God to open our eyes as never before, we need to see the truth. God will open our eyes and show us the things He wants to reveal to us.

We have to have our ears open as never before to the still small voice of God. He will whisper what we need to know if we are listening. But we have to listen, or He cannot guide us. If we are too busy doing our own thing and making our plans, it will drown out God’s voice.  

When I was a child, my grandma had a statue of three monkeys, one was covering its eyes, one covered its ears and one was covering its mouth. It was saying, see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. Too long the church has been like the monkeys. They shut their eyes and ears to evil, and stopped using their mouths against evil.  We no longer have the luxury of shutting our eyes. The battle is getting real. We are fighting for the souls of our families and friends. We are fighting for the final harvest.  We cannot cover our eyes and ears. We cannot cover our mouth either. We need to tell the enemy he cannot have our families, our friends or the harvest.

It is time we asked for our spiritual eyes and ears to be open.  It is time we open our mouths and declare victory in all situations. We do not have the luxury of being complacent and hoping if we are still and quiet that the enemy will not attack. Our enemy is out to destroy us, our families and to destroy the harvest before we can reach it.

Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Because of Jesus’ work on the cross, we can come boldly to the throne of grace. We can ask our Father for what we need. His Spirit lives within us. He will lead and guide us into all truth. If we allow Him to lead.

When I say we need our spiritual eyes to be opened. I mean that God needs to show us the things He wished for us to know. He needs to give us understanding. The church is in desperate need of spiritual discernment.

(Warning: Do not buy into the new age philosophies about seeing in the spirit realm through meditation. If you do, you will get a demon showing you things you don’t want to see. Or worse, the demon will show you things you wish to see, so you can be manipulated by the enemy. These things are real even though many close their eyes to the fact that the enemy has power. Do not fear these things, we have been given power over the powers of the enemy when we received the Holy Ghost. This was not what I meant when I said our eyes need to be open. When Christian’s meditate, we focus on the one true and living God. We focus on his word. We do not ask the universe to open our eye.)

We have to be led by the Holy Ghost. God can give his people dreams and visions today as he did in the days of old. But He can also open up our eyes of understanding and when we read His word, we will see what He is speaking to us. He can take the verses on the pages of His Word and guide us to what we need to be doing.

Many have experienced the way the word will guide us along our path. A situation will arise and we ask God for guidance. The next time we flip our Bible open and begin to read, the verses will come to life in us, and we will know what we need to do about our situation.

When I say we need our ears open to hear, I mean not hear a sound, but understand God’s leading. One definition of the word hear, is to understand or pay attention when someone speaks. When God speaks, we need to understand and pay attention. Our spiritual ears need to be open to his voice.

I have talked often about the power of our words. We not only have to be careful not to gossip or speak curses, but we cannot allow negativity to come out of our mouths. We need to speak things that edify or build up. Things may look a certain way, but we cannot speak what we see with our natural eyes, we have to speak what God would have us speak in the situations.

The children of Israel is my go to for the example of what not to do. They accused Moses of bringing them into the wilderness to die. They saw their circumstances as being bigger than their God. Then they saw the giants in the promised land as being bigger than their God even though he had destroyed Egypt, the largest superpower of that day, before their eyes.  What they spoke, they received; they all died in the wilderness.

We cannot keep talking about how things appear in our country. We need to come before that throne of grace and declare before God that we believe the word. We believe God is in control. We believe He will not allow us to be overtaken by the enemy. All of the people we perceive as evil are under Satan’s control. We know that our God has more power. We must speak God’s truth and trust him to deliver His people.

Pray for the eyes, ears and mouth of our enemy to be shut. While praying for the body of Christ to be awake, watching and listening to God. Then speak victory, because God will not allow His people to be defeated. He will lift us up, He will go before us and fight our battles.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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