God is giving you spiritual eyes to see
By Amanda Shiflett
A word for many of the remnant who have been fighting through the intense battle of this last season, and have become very weary in soul and body…
I heard the word “recalibrate” this morning. The Lord is wanting to recalibrate your emotions and perceptions in this new season to His reality, instead of the “reality” of what you see, hear, feel, and think is happening around you. Much of what you see and are experiencing is an altered reality that the enemy is presenting. He has been creating a fog, a type of smoke-screen, in the atmosphere around you, and it is altering your perception of what is really going on.
There has been a very strong, deceptive perception that the enemy has displayed in this last battle season, and it has caused many to feel has if they didn't even know what to believe anymore. This has intensified greatly in the last few months. It has been a whole different type of warfare and tactic than what the enemy has used in the past a new twisted tool that is stronger than before. It has felt so real at times, that you felt as if the enemy was actually winning. No matter how much you warred, and fought against his onslaught, he seemed to gain ground. You are seeing a skewed perception, based on circumstances that are out of your control, and at times, it has felt as though the enemy was winning this particular battle. Trust me when I tell you, he is not! He is delaying and drawing out the battle perhaps, but that is only to weary you and get you to lay down your weapon and surrender. You cannot!! You are on the brink of victory in many areas, and your faithfulness in this battle will determine your level of promotion in the next season. Don't give up, and don't back down!
If you need to rest, ask the Lord to send more angels to war on your bahalf. Go into a place of worship (which is also warfare), and rest. As the old song says, “Even solders need a quiet place to rest”! There is a time to war, a time to worship, and a time to rest. Each has their place in warfare against the enemy. Now is the time to worship Him, from that place of rest, as if the battle has already been won…as if you have already tasted of the victory! This disarms the enemy, and causes the fog of altered perception to dissipate. When you force yourself to come into peace and rest in your soul, the enemy begins to lose his grip on the false reality that he had been displaying…you begin to see what is really going on, and that he is only bluffing in many of his tactics. His “bluffs” have caused fear and anxiety to take precedence, and where there is fear, there cannot be faith. As you worship the Lord, in the beauty of His holiness, your faith will begin to build, and your perception of reality will begin to be recalibrated to what the Lord is really doing and saying. Your eyes and ears will be opened to what the Lord is saying and doing in your circumstance. There is much more going on “behind the scenes” than you can even imagine! He is setting you up for a win a check-mate in the spirit! But He is doing it so the enemy won't know what happened when He does it! He will not count on that strategy. Remember, the Lord knows the end from the beginning, but the enemy does not.
The enemy will fight, but if we listen to the Lord, obey & trust in Him and let Him recalibrate our eyes and ears to His strategies, we will always win! Remember there are more that are for us than are for them! He is still the All-Powerful & All-Mighty God and there is no one who can win against our God! If He is for us, who can win against us?!
I believe the Lord is releasing a “recalibration” in the way our soul has been perceiving and processing what is happening around us! I declare that our eyes are being opened to the correct reality, and our ears are being opened in a new way to the strategies and plans the Lord already has in play! Our perception is being recalibrated, and we will not see the enemies perception any longer, but we will see from the perception of heaven! I pray as Elisha did, “Open our eyes Lord, that we may see”!
“And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?” So he answered, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” And Elisha prayed, and said, “ Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.” ~ II Kings 6:15-17
Amanda Shiflett is the founder of Prophetic Reformer and Co-founder of Kingdom Life Ministries, along with her husband Darin. She is a Prophetic Minister who heard the Lord's call from a very young age. Along with her calling as a Prophetess, Amanda also flows in a powerful worship and healing anointing, and is a gifted teacher and writer as well. Although she loves all aspects of the ministry that God has called her to, her personal passion is to see reformation come to all of the “Seven Mountains” of influence, but especially to the Body of Christ and the current prophetic movement.
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