I AM GIVING YOU A VOICE AND A VISION!

5/5/2025

For the past week, the Lord has brought me into several encounters concerning His deep desire to give members of His Bride both a VOICE and a VISION.

Many in the Body of Christ went through severe trials and testing prior to Passover. Many battled the devourer at the gates of destiny and were victorious. Those overcoming ones now stand at the threshold of a new season with new opportunities!

I believe the Lord wants to establish you and pour out power and anointing you have not experienced before as you begin to advance and conquer more of your promised land. He wants you to have a voice and a vision!

Once again, I felt the Lord’s heart for those who have a prophetic call and commission to be the sound of His voice on the earth and to AMPLIFY the message of His Kingdom.

From the start, the Lord envisioned a prophetic community of believers who would become His “microphone,” amplifying the sound of His voice to all who will hear. (Read “Glory on the Airwaves” here)

Yet some are still turning away to other voices because they do not believe in the power of their own intimacy with Christ!

To these, I hear the Lord saying, “There are things I would like to tell My people, but they are too busy to listen, too focused on other voices and visions!

“These voices and visions have become so consuming to them that they no longer develop the powerful voice of God within - that precious comingling of My voice within their own - in what I see as a “holy matrimony.”

Jesus’ resounding prayer is: I am in you and the Father is in Me, and We desire unity! (John 17:23)

Do not miss your union with what is powerful and invisible by seeking only what is seen! Christ promises that when you love and turn to Him, you WILL see Him; your vision will be restored. (John 14:21; Acts 9)

I saw the Lord patiently waiting in the background for His children to be truly ready to hear again (Hebrew: “shema,” to truly listen and respond or obey).

Hearing is not primarily physical, but spiritual. Ultimately, all things are spiritually discerned. Without the breath of the Spirit within us, we would see and hear nothing!

Hearing and seeing flow from the inner man; when you see the power of who God is within you, you do not desire any other voice or any other vision!

COME WITH ME

As I pondered these words in prayer, I asked the Lord for a confirming scripture. In response, He gave me Luke 24:13-35, but with an unusual twist.

In a vision, I heard the Lord’s voice saying “Come with Me!”

I encountered the Lord standing on what appeared to be a highway above me in the Spirit. This, He said, represented the “Emmaus Road.”

Jesus then extended His hand to me as a member of His Bride.

As I was lifted up onto this highway, I began walking and talking with Christ just as the two disciples had done two thousand years before.

As we walked, I saw the destination: Heaven! Yet there was still a way to go, and I somehow knew His Bride was carrying a very heavy weight with her.

I sensed the Bride’s desire to be free of this weight, and heard her cry “How long, Lord?” as she wrestled with it.

Jesus replied to her with the comforting words of Revelation 6:11: “Just a little while longer.” Then He took the weight in His own arms.

Spiritual life with Jesus is meant to include both listening and leaning, so that the heaviest weights are borne by Him. “Leaning” on Jesus means He carries the weight so that you can continue walking and talking!

STAY WITH ME

As we walked, I reviewed the Emmaus story in my mind. Like most believers, I wanted to “constrain” the Lord’s wonderful Presence, so that He felt welcome to stay in my spiritual home! I wondered how best to continue hosting Him.

In response, the Lord retold the story of Emmaus in a different way.

Instead of the Bride constraining Him, He said, He was inviting the Bride to HIS house to stay!

As the vision expanded, I saw the Lord bring the Bride into His heavenly tent, washing her feet and sharing a beautiful meal and fellowship with her. Much of what He shared was essential revelation for her future.

As the vision closed, the Lord asked, “Do you know what Emmaus means?”

It wasn’t until after the encounter that I learned the word “Emmaus” in Greek means “warm baths.”

Beyond the spiritual “washing” of salvation available to all, Jesus is issuing an invitation to His beautiful Bride to immerse herself in times of intimate, holy fellowship and communion with Him. To miss His voice at this hour is a grave mistake!

CONFIDENT, CLOSE, AND COMMITTED

In prayer recently, the Lord emphasized that He desired His people to live “Confident, Close, and Committed” to Him for this new season. Biblically, confidence is found only in the Fear of the Lord (Proverbs 14:26).

The greatest revelation of these recent encounters is that the Lord desires to bring us into His confidence! Whether you have walked with Him for a day or for forty years, He longs to draw you even closer.

Just as the two disciples urged Jesus to stay with them at Emmaus, so He is now constraining willing members of His Bride to stay with Him in prayer, so that godly confidence can grow to meet the weighty demands placed upon her.


THE VOICE AND THE VISION ARE HIS

I heard a specific caution in the Spirit to learn this saying: “‘He who has no voice has no vision.’ For without a vision people perish, and without My voice there is no vision!”

Both the apostle Paul and King David echoed this thought. Paul wrote, “There is no one with true spiritual insight, there is no one who seeks after God alone. All have deliberately wandered from God’s ways. …They never experience the path of peace. They shut their eyes to the awe-inspiring God!” (Romans 3:11-12; 17-18, TPT; see also Psalm 14)

God distinguished the Jewish nation from all other people by entrusting them with the revelation of His prophetic promises (Romans 3:2, TPT). Yet rules, rituals, and unbelief prevented them from entering into the fullness of those promises. Losing His voice, they lost their vision - and missed the Messiah when He came.

The Lord is still longing to entrust His promises to those who will listen for His voice and watch for His vision. Are you part of that Bridal Company whose sole focus is her Bridegroom? Your intimacy with the Lord is a powerful and necessary weapon to combat the voices and visions of the deceived!

As you move across the threshold of this new day, may you heed the Spirit’s call to stay within earshot of the pure Voice of the Lord. Reject all other voices and visions.

Remain close and committed to the Lord, and He will pull you into His confidence. Even unfamiliar terrain will become navigable to you because you hear and obey the Lord who IS your Way!

May the Lord release His voice and His vision for your future,

Deborah

"Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts. "For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD. "But he who sins against me injures himself; all those who hate me love death."
Proverbs 8:34-36 NASBS