Littlestone was remembering the day for Joshua in Joshua chapter 5: 13:15: Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”
“Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord have for his servant?”
The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.
Littlestone thought the Lord is for Himself because He will not deny Himself as written in 2 Timothy 2:11-13: Here is a trustworthy saying:
If we died with him,
we will also live with him;
if we endure,
we will also reign with him.
If we disown him,
he will also disown us;
if we are faithless,
he remains faithful,
for he cannot disown himself.
So littlestone thought, if the Lord is faithful, and He is…. He is faithful to His Word…. He cannot deny Himself as written. We as His followers must be faithful to Him at all costs.
He was studying the Word, waiting on Him, who knows the End from the Beginning. You showed up when the Israelites had just gone through circumcision, after You held back the waters of the Jordan…..and they crossed over into their promise land.
They had consecrated themselves to You…. Now, we are to circumcise our heart with You, the King of our hearts….to allow You to fill us with the living Word of God.
If You brought us out from the world to bring us in so we may take dominion over the land we live for You. Souls of mankind is Your desire.
You want to fill all and be in all as written in Colossians.
We must walk according to Your Word and obey the voice of Holy Spirit’s guidance.
We walk from victory.
By the Word of God, we walk.
By the Word of God, we talk.
By the Word of God, we live and breath and have our being.
By the Word of God, we rule and reign by Christ Jesus.
If we want the victory as in Israel’s victory in Jericho, then we must circumcise our hearts over the next days into the coming months as they turn into years.
Not much of a sacrifice to start the prayer and fasting after the holidays, he thought…..!!!!
But to lay down all our traditions, feasting and festivities. We hear the trumpet call, and know this is a somber and vital day to sit before Him and hear.
This is the sacrifice of our heart that will count to Him, who sees all and knows all…. He who usually takes a seat on the table near the neglected manger scene.
He also is in a storage room where His commands are etched in stone.
His name is not lifted up in prayer by the kids in the morning as it was by every school in the land as their day started,
Will it be soon the pledge of alligiance will be forbidden too?
There will be a time of feasting and celebrating but it is not the time…..
Wake up and hear Him……
Turn off the world and tune in Him alone…..
Father God, stop the clock until You see Your glory fill the earth and the waters fill the sea.
What a sacrifice of love to our King to just sit at His feet in prayer for the Day we call His birthday.
What if we turned off the traditions of the days that are coming.
What if we just spent time with Him and for Him to hear Him.
After all, this season is about Him and not us.
He is not on our side nor on our enemy’s side.
He is for Himself and His grace is allowing us to bring glory to His name in all we do, all we walk and all we talk.
If Christmas Day is about Him, America,….. and it IS for HE IS THE GREAT I AM.
Then let us hold our hearts before Him and spend the days before Him and quench the festivities…..
How bad do we want the land He has given us to be for Him?
It starts with us,…..and He alone has our future in His hands….
As we follow His Word and sit with Him, faith comes by hearing the Word……
What more mountains shall be moved by His grace and mercy ?
But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world, Galatians 6:14.
Tone down the days ahead and tune in to Him who holds all our days in His hands…. Loving hands, but He is God….
How bad do we want Him to have His rights restored in the land?
How bad do we want the violence against our kids stopped?
How much do we say we do, but do not sit before the One who sees all and knows all we need…..
He will supply all we need according to His riches in glory, if we believe.
Giving Him audience to know the way of Him in the coming days…..is imperative…..
Know His secrets and the enemies plans will be thwarted and back fire before our eyes.
If we say we love and do not do what He desires and commands…….?
How is our life of love to Him alone be revealed? Love Him with all we are and all we got, my paraphrase.
2 John 2:4-6: Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.
But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.
Our King left many in His days on this earth. He went before His Father many hours for communion, how much more should we?
Littlestone was seeing his glass of understanding filling up before him on what was shown him over the last couple of days….
He parted the red sea before the wilderness, and the Jordan before Jericho, and after each one, it is written that they prepared themselves for battle.
He delivered them and set them where He wanted….
Then, told them to prepare for battle?
He thought, how weird as he would have been celebrating over the waters being divided before his eyes…..
It surprised him that they went into a battle mentality and also consecrated themselves to Him for three days instead of celebrating.
He thought, wow, if all the believers in this land for the Eve of His day, His day, and after, tuned off all and sat before Him in prayer….
Wow….
What consecration and honor, He would receive….Could we then be so cleansed of the world, we would be ready for the battle?
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus as stated in Philippians chapter 4, 19.
But He knew what was ahead of them….
They were told to consecrate themselves or circumcise themselves…..
Now we are to come before the Lord and pour our hearts out and allow the New Wine of His Spirit to be filling us up to overflow…
So we may be walking out these days as written in Ephesians 1:19-23:
according to the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe according of His mighty power which he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in everything in everyway.
He could hear the people’s objections about the festivities and celebrations that might be toned down, or stopped.
Then he thought, what a legacy to give your children….
Hey, this year is different.
We have been given a great window of opportunity of grace and mercy from our God. We must respect Him and honor and gather at His feet as the saints still do this day.
We must give Him our time today after all, it is His birthday……
Then, when the waters part and things of heaven are revealed on this earth…. Then they shall see the God of glory in their midst…..
Can we be bold as Joshua was and take the land?…
Father God, stop the clock until we do…
Speak His Word in prayer and declarations around as if we were walking around Jericho and then on the fulfilled day, watch the walls fall down of strongholds of darkness.
I double dog dare all to partake as His sons and daughters should be apart of their Father’s business.
Celebrate His Day as He desires!
Be bold and courageous, for He is with us,……. Immanuel…..
But He is still for HIMSELF and HIS GLORY!!
Now His sons and daughters are for Him and His glory.
SELAH!
