GOVERNING IN GLORY

Dear Friends, 

During a prayer retreat before Rosh Hashanah / New Year 5783, I experienced several profound encounters in the Glory of God. These are some of the things the Lord revealed to me during that time. 

Every word from our Lord’s mouth is like a cup of compassion. His life-giving words are liquid love, meant to sustain body, soul, and spirit!

While this is a slightly longer word for the year, I encourage you to meditate on each portion of what He’s shared with me, allowing the depth of His wisdom and love to penetrate your hearts.

The eight sections of this word are listed below. Feel free to read one section at a time, pausing to pray and allow Holy Spirit to minister truth to you at this significant time!

• THERE'S GLORY IN THE SOUND
• SOUND WILL BE YOUR SUPPLY LINE
• CALL FOR THE GLORY!
• PRESENCE WILL BECOME GLORY
• GLORY IS EMBEDDED IN YOUR DNA
• WEAKNESS TRANSFORMED INTO WISDOM
• ASHES TO BEAUTY: MORE TRAFFICKING EXPOSED
• A GREAT AWAKENING OF HOLINESS AND HOPE!

Deborah

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​THERE’S GLORY IN THE SOUND! MOVING FROM SUBSONIC TO SUPERSONIC

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I hear the Lord saying repeatedly: “There’s GLORY in the SOUND!” 

Just as immersion rapidly births language fluency, so total immersion in the sound of God’s Kingdom produces glory. Hearing the Word, praying in the Spirit, and worshiping  produces supernatural acceleration in you! It deafens the enemy and releases the cloud of God’s glory! 

During a personal prayer retreat in September, God began speaking to me about supersonic speed in aircraft; the speed that breaks the sound barrier. Speeds faster than Mach 1 cause thunderous, supersonic “boom” sounds of over 200 decibels. The high pressure created also produces a visible vapor cloud.  

Beginning in 2006, Israel employed supersonic jets flying at low altitudes to create these terrifying, thunderous “booms” over Gaza as psychological warfare. While supersonic sound is highly effective as a war strategy, the practice has since been condemned by the UN.   

I believe God is calling His Body into immersive and supersonic experiences of His glory through sound. I have felt the heavy “cloud” of God’s glory resting close in recent days; it is the “first fruits” of a glory outpouring that will cover the earth and ultimately displace all of God’s enemies! 

The Lord showed me that those who abide in His cloud of glory through Spirit-led prayer and high praise will be sent on Kingdom assignments to rapidly remove the enemy in various locations. Working exclusively from the glory realm, praying in the Spirit and in unity, these believers will move faster than the speed of sound. They will be accelerated and undetected, hitting targets faster than the enemy can locate them.  

It is essential for you to remain “inside the sound” of God’s voice this year! Drawing His Presence towards you daily through worship will enable you to walk safely through increasing spiritual warfare. 

The promise of God’s Presence through praise still stands. You have the ability to change both hearts and atmospheres through your worship! Worship and praying in the Spirit are the keys that will open the door to heaven’s glory and help you rapidly expel the enemy.

To illustrate this idea, the Lord took me in a vision to the foot of His cross. Jesus asked me what I thought sustained Him during the worst pain of His life. I responded with a verse from Hebrews, saying He had done it “for the joy set before Him” and because of the overwhelming love He had for us.  

But the Lord said there was something more: Jesus heard the VOICE of His Father speaking to Him throughout His painful ordeal. Just as we do now, the Son of Man relied on the power of the sound of His Father's voice to create perseverance in His time of need. 

While Isaiah 53 says “He was led like a lamb to the slaughter… He opened not His mouth,” Psalm 22 prophetically documents, in part, the internal dialogue between Father and Son. 

What words of love the Father must have whispered to Jesus as He made His way to that cross! And what comfort the Holy Spirit must have been releasing to enable Him to persevere!

Because Christ experienced the unbearable pain of separation from God (“My God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?” Ps. 22:1), as well as the reassuring comfort of the Holy Spirit (“You have answered Me;” Ps. 22:21) YOUR heart can now live forever, securely connected to the sound of God’s voice!  

There is nothing that separates you from the Voice, the Presence, or the Glory of God. The SOUND of God’s voice sustained Jesus during the worst pain of His life. Faithful end-time believers will allow that same sound to sustain them.
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SOUND WILL BE YOUR SUPPLY LINE

Both Jacob and John saw angels ascending and descending between heaven and earth in obedience to the Word of God. Jacob saw angels on a ladder through an open portal to heaven; John saw that Jesus WAS the “ladder,” the Word on which angels travel. 

The sound of the Lord’s Word in your mouth is as powerful as the sound of His Word in His mouth! Angels will interact with you more and more as you speak His Words over your life. That sound is your supply line between heaven and earth. 

Do not neglect to decree God’s powerful Words! Be aware that releasing the sound of negativity into your atmosphere can cut off your supply lines and cause negative things to happen. 

The enemy is still trying to use sound and resonance to change the atmosphere for the worse. Once a worshiper himself in God’s glory realm, Satan has a “Master’s degree” in the powerful effects of sound waves and resonance on the atmosphere. Yet as a fallen creature, he can only distort, not create. His sounds are counterfeit and dissonant.

Another strategy of Satan in this hour is to use the sounds of soulish love to interfere with your God-given calling. Remember that he used spirits of flattery, fear, and self-love to try to interfere with both Jesus’s and Paul’s personal missions (Matthew 17:4; Acts 21:10-13). 

The enemy’s desire is to hold you back through ungodly soul ties; the sound of God’s voice in such situations is what will propel you forward. Kingdom sound breaks off  “inter-fear-ence.” Don’t let fear interfere with your destiny! 

There is a strong emphasis in the Spirit on the power of our words this year. As I listened, the Lord reminded me of an expression I’d heard often in my childhood: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all!” The Lord rephrased this maxim, saying: “If you can’t speak by the Spirit, don’t speak at all!”

God is looking for men and women who speak only as they are moved and carried along by the Holy Spirit. (1 Peter 1:21.) It is better to remain silent than to let the enemy use your words against you.   

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​CALL FOR THE GLORY!

As I prayer-walked on my retreat one day, I came to a vast, desolate stretch of rocky land. In the distance was a single white cloud that was connected to the earth by a rainbow (photo below). No clearer illustration of God’s covenantal supply and His desire to release glory on earth could have been given! 

Modern-day “Elijahs” know that they must partner with God in the release of His glory. Your words have the power to command or withhold the rains of refreshing and the fire of God’s glory in times of famine. (1 Kings 17:1; 18:38; Luke 9:54-55.) 

I heard the Lord say that the promises of Ephesians are like the “pot of gold” at the end of the rainbow for His children right now. Understanding the provisions of your inheritance in the Word will keep the supply lines open for all your battles in the coming days. The more you cultivate the sound of the Throne-room here on earth, the greater access you will have to the spiritual realities Christ died to give. 

An inheritance is never gained through negativity or slander, whether on earth or in heaven. Surpassing riches are for those who believe! Those who are lovers of God will receive the full measure of their spiritual inheritance by faith. Those who mock God or rely on their own wisdom will find their supply cut off and their riches disappear.

PRESENCE WILL BECOME GLORY ​

Walking in the FULLNESS of Christ and the corporate experience of His glory-realm is going to become commonplace for believers and churches who choose lifestyles of holiness and hope, trust and love. 

Encounters with God’s weighty glory will increase this year, along with angelic visitations and supernatural encounters that enable believers to overcome the burden of the enemy’s attacks. Yet as opposition increases, it will be necessary to fight for God’s glorious Presence! (Hebrews 4:11.)

The “supersonic sound” of God’s voice will penetrate the heart’s rocky barriers of self-defense, breaking open what even the most skilled counselors have not been able to bypass or unearth. 

Immersion into the sound of God’s Kingdom will move believers rapidly from more subjective, Presence-based ministry to corporate, glory-filled encounters. Again I heard Him saying: “There’s glory in the sound!”

As you declare and decree what you hear in the sound of God’s voice, the thunder of His voice intertwined with your own will shatter internal barriers and bring miracles of salvation, healing, and deliverance from oppression. External, bureaucratic forces that seem to have caused delays in certain situations will suddenly be removed and replaced by  Kingdom governance.

This “Kingdom upgrade” will be a fulfillment of the words of Isaiah 9:7: “Of the increase of His government and of peace there will be no end.” God is establishing and upholding justice and righteousness for His people! Growing hunger is causing a shift from seeking the Presence and anointing of the Lord to abiding in Him and being governed by His glory.   
 
Pure words of the Lord are being woven into believers’ spiritual “mantles” like gold as you  continually return to intimacy with the Bridegroom, decreeing what is seen and heard in His Presence. The “fine linen” of good deeds done in wisdom, combined with the pure resonance of His Words, is making the Bride ready for the King’s wedding feast!    

GLORY IS EMBEDDED IN YOUR DNA!

At 2:02 one morning the Lord woke me, speaking even more specifically about this movement from Presence to Glory. 

He said that like the disciple Ananias, who was sent to pray for Saul’s healing in Damascus, some of you will receive surprise invitations to sit down and talk with your enemies this year. Your willingness to trust and feast on God’s goodness in such unusual situations will result in both protection and promotion. Showing mercy and love to your enemies through the Presence of God is a key to your desired breakthrough into the glory realm. (Psalm 23:5; Hebrews 4:16; ) 

Then in a vision, I saw a plate with four sweet samples of food on it, each with its own tasting spoon. The Lord spoke to me, saying some of you reading these very words will find yourselves presented with up to four possible choices concerning your future. There will be no “wrong” options! You are free to “sample” any of the offerings He places before you. Whichever one you choose will turn out to be a viable path for you. 

God will do this to reveal His multi-faceted wisdom (Ephesians 3:10). You will truly “taste and see” His goodness and sweetness, and you will be empowered, knowing that He trusts you!

Finally, I heard the Lord say: “I have written my genetic “source code” into your DNA through My blood. You cannot ‘lose’ Me! I have embedded Myself - My GLORY - in you and your future generations will forever be influenced by My goodness to you!” (See Isaiah 49:22-25.)
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WEAKNESS TRANSFORMED INTO WISDOM

As I continued to pray, I encountered the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord and the Spirit of Wisdom. I heard the Lord say: “I am turning weakness into wisdom.”

All those who govern wisely govern through the Spirit of Wisdom (Proverbs 8). It is weak and foolish to rely on fleshly thinking to solve spiritual problems. Wisdom walks on the higher paths of truth, justice, and righteousness. In a time when it is easy to feel ignorant or overwhelmed by the enemy’s deception, you can exchange weakness for the wisdom of God. Pure wisdom will help you navigate deepening levels of corruption and perversion in every sphere. 

Where you send your children to school, how you vote, and how you take care of your physical body will become even more critical issues that require nothing less than the Wisdom of God to preserve your life and legacy!    

The sound of wisdom’s voice is calling loudly this year, at the entrance to every heart’s door. The wise will hear the sound of wisdom’s upward call and ascend to that ancient “intersection” of the human path with the Divine through worship and prayer. Only here will you gain perspective on world events and learn to govern from glory! 

Ecclesiastes 7:12 says: “Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves those who have it.” In times of instability, silver or gold will not protect you; only wisdom has the power to preserve your life.

Embracing Wisdom and the Fear of the Lord also brings with it the reward of enduring wealth and substance. There is a standing invitation from the Lord to receive the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in greater measure so that He can fill your treasuries (both natural and spiritual) with the substance of His abundance. 

ASHES TO BEAUTY: MORE TRAFFICKING WILL BE EXPOSED AT COASTLINES

I felt the Lord’s heart for victims of abuse and trafficking in particular as He highlighted the scriptural judgments against the trading of human lives in Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 23: “Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth? The Lord of Hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty, to bring into contempt and humiliation all the honored of the earth.” (Isaiah 23:8-9.)

In a dream, the Lord showed me the name “Tyre,” followed by the long list of its sins. The name “Tyre” means “rock.” I watched scripture after scripture from these passages in Ezekiel and Isaiah “scroll” as if in a video reel before my eyes. Holy Spirit impressed on me the horrible weightiness of America’s participation in Tyre’s sins, one after another. A second dream highlighted ongoing, tacit agreements with abortion. I woke in deep intercession and tears, sensing the urgency for intercessors to continue repenting and praying for mercy concerning these issues, especially in our nation.  

As the prophet Zephaniah writes, the Lord will again become “terrifying and awesome” to the nations, starving the ‘gods’ of the earth to bring an end to ungodly trading and trafficking, especially along the coastlines. I heard the Lord say He will cause the coastlands of the nations to worship, “every one from his own place.” (Zephaniah 2:10-11.) God will be to His people a “rock of habitation;” a refuge and fortress to whom they can come to find true sustenance. 

The fruit of godlessness that is being exposed today is revealing deep roots of wickedness and greed much more pervasive than anyone imagined, even within the Church. Root systems take time to develop and intertwine, and we will continue to see them dug up, separated, and exposed in our nation this year. Deliverance will also come to individuals as God puts an end to the enemy’s “trading” within your soul: lies for truth and captivity for freedom.

Jesus will continue to restore the “beauty of holiness” to His wounded ones in the coming days. Jesus came to heal and free the traumatized, giving beauty for ashes. It is no accident that the first healing after Pentecost happened at the gate called “Beautiful” in Jerusalem! Peter and John continued Christ’s legacy of restoration for those who were crippled by sin. We are to do the same!

A GREAT AWAKENING OF HOLINESS AND HOPE ​

The holy roots of hope and love are being brought to maturity in the lovers of God. We are in a season of “burning,” where the Lord is both refining and marking His remnant as “Holy to the Lord.” 
 
As diseased or compromised branches and trees are removed from our spiritual landscape, not only will the Body of Christ be able to see with greater perspective and clarity, but those who are seeking God will also see that it is faith alone that can support an enduring legacy. 

This truth will seem miraculous to some seekers, becoming a catalyst for hungry souls that comprise the harvest (Daniel 12:4). Authentic faith, enduring hope, and lasting love will be signs and wonders in a world devastated by public failures. 

As Daniel wrote prophetically, “They who are wise and have spiritual insight among the people will instruct many and help them understand.” God is using even believers who fall as purifying agents to refine His people and increase the Fear of the Lord during these end times (Daniel 11:33-35). 

Hope in Christ will cause you to keep drawing living water from the roots upward until Christ arises powerfully within you to rule and govern in confident trust. I see a “great awakening” of hope that will serve to counter the dullness and deadness the enemy has used to shroud wounded souls.

After a difficult season of corporate failure, division, and offenses, the Body of Christ will “with one mind” glorify and praise God, knowing that “...this is a critical time. It is already the hour for you to awaken from your sleep [of spiritual complacency]; for our salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed [in Christ].” (Romans 13:11, AMP)

The Passion Translation words this exhortation even more clearly: “To live like this [in love] is all the more urgent, for time is running out and you know it is a strategic hour in human history. It is time for us to wake up! For our full salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.” (Romans 13:11, TPT; parentheses added.)

CONCLUSION

The meaning of the name "Israel" is "one who prevails with God." Governing in God's glory requires a heart that is first yielded to God’s Presence, then submitted to His ways. I encourage you this year to move beyond seeking God just for information and revelation. Pursue the intimate and corporate knowledge of Him in all His multi-faceted Wisdom! Counter the pressure of the enemy by pressing in to the Father of Glory. Speak only as you are led by the Spirit of Glory!

Throne-room sounds release glory and glory releases provision to the saints. May the sound of God’s voice propel you into your destiny. May you live in the glory realm. May God richly reward your pursuit of Him, protecting you in every way this new year!

Deborah 

Key scriptures for this year:
Romans 8:31-39; Hebrews 1:3; Daniel 11-12; Romans 11; Psalm 45; Revelation 19:6-8; Acts 9:1-19; Isaiah 60; Psalms 103:20 & 112:3; Proverbs 8; Ezekiel 9 & 38; Isaiah 23; Zephaniah 2; Hebrews 11:3.
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