SOME THINGS HAVE TO GO IN ORDER TO MOVE IN THE NEW FLOW. THINGS NEED TO CHANGE TO MOVE IN THE NEW PAGE.

SOME THINGS HAVE TO GO IN ORDER TO MOVE IN THE NEW FLOW. THINGS NEED TO CHANGE TO MOVE IN THE NEW PAGE.

Lana Vawser

April 22 at 10:28 PM · 

The Lord has been speaking to me for many months now about the need for 'change' and 'making room for the new' in our lives. As believers we have a responsibility to have our ear to His chest and be listening to His instruction and wisdom and implementing it in our lives.

In this time of significant transition and in this new era I have been hearing the Lord say over and over:

"Things HAVE to change, they cannot remain the same. Things NEED to change in order for you to move into the NEW that I have for you and to move in and on the new page I have opened up for you."

The hand of the Lord is doing a MAJOR rearranging right now in the lives of His people. This is a time to YIELD unlike any other. It is a time to ALLOW the Lord to move what He needs to move. To rearrange that which He needs to rearrange and to shake that which needs to be shaken.

I heard the Lord say:

"Some things HAVE to go in order for you to move in the NEW FLOW!!!!"

There is a divine LETTING GO that is taking place right now. The Lord is asking His people to remove their hands from certain things, to let go of things that cannot go with you into the new. The "letting go" is happening on MANY levels. There is a letting go of holding onto the past. There's a letting go of unforgiveness and hurt. There's a letting go of unrealistic expectations. There's a letting go of anxiety. There's a letting go of fear. There's a letting go of "old wineskins". There's a letting go of the burdens of "this is how it should be done" or "this is the way you should go" or "this is who you should go with", the expectations of "man" NEED to fall. The Lord is summoning His people to LET GO of expectations built by man and led by man, it's a "man made way" and not the way the Spirit is leading, but see in the OBEDIENCE and the letting go and following where Jesus is going and where He is leading there is great fruit, increase, favour and blessing unlike you have known.

RELATIONSHIPS ARE SHIFTING

There are MANY relationships that are shifting right now. Don't fight to hold onto a relationship when there is a change taking place by the hand of the Lord.

I heard the Lord say:

"There is a shifting and changing happening in relationships and some relationships cannot be taken into the new place that I have for My people."

The Lord is leading many of you reading this in new directions and you feel relationships that have been close to your heart and some that you love dearly, beginning to change. You can feel the change, you can feel the shift, there hasn't been offense or hurt or a falling out, but you feel the relationship shifting and changing and you have been wondering what's happening. The Lord showed me that there are SEASONS for some friendships and there is a CLOSING of a season of friendships for many right now, but I hear the Lord saying "TRUST ME". For where those friendships shift and change and you are moving into something new and a new direction, the Lord will bring new people around you for the next part of the journey. Yes, there's a grief, yes there's a process in the letting go, but where the Lord is saying to "release them", do so, because some cannot go where you are going. Do not hinder the process of moving into the new thing the Lord has for you by holding onto some relationships He is clearly saying to let go of.

It is IMPERATIVE to listen to the wisdom of the Lord right now regarding relationships and those who are walking with you on your journey. I heard the Lord saying "INNER CIRCLES ARE SHIFTING", some of these inner circles need to shift and change in order to move into the new.

In the shifting of relationships and shifting of many "INNER CIRCLES" there is a depth of intimacy with the Lord that is going to blossom with the Lord and a deeper unity that is going to come with those the Lord brings into your life. God is building stronger community and unity in your life, the Lord is strengthening unity in your life, it's just happening for some in different ways than you realise.

CAN YOU HEAR THE SOUND OF INCREASE?

I heard the Lord saying:

"Can you hear the sound of increase?"

The Lord is bringing increase like never before and as a loving Father He is releasing wisdom and instruction on how to move with Him and yield with Him to be able to carry the increase. The sudden changes, the sudden changes of course, the resounding of the Lord to "COME OUT" of things you were in and part of before, is exciting because you are moving into something more beautiful and greater than you could ever imagine. It is increase. Any deep pruning taking place right now is simply to see the increase of fruitfulness in your life. You must arise and obey in order to ARRIVE into the increase He has for you.

Yield! Yield! Yield! There is a resounding sound from heaven to YIELD!!! HUMILITY is KEY and THE key in this new era.

"The source of revelation-knowledge is found as you fall down in surrender before the Lord. Don't expect to see Shekinah glory until the Lord sees your sincere humility." - Proverbs 15:33 (The Passion Translation)

"The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honour." - Proverbs 15:33 (ESV)

Take heed of the Lord's instruction, follow His wisdom in the "letting go" and the "rearranging" for He is leading you into a new place of favour and partnering with Him to see His Kingdom established and His Glory revealed. Watch as the name of Jesus is lifted high and glorified in and through your life through your obedience to His wisdom and instruction.

And The Old Man Became As A Little Child by Madeleine L’Engle

This poem was written in remembrance of the Holy Innocents — those babies who were killed around  the time of Jesus’s birth. The man in the poem is imagined to be the father of a Holy Innocent, and the nobleman from Capernaum whose son Jesus saved from death.

He could not sleep.
The tomb was dark, and the stone heavy that sealed it.
He could not sleep for all the innocent blood he had seen shed.
He was an old man. Too old for tears.
Not yet young enough for sleep. He waited and watched.

Thrice he had spoken to him whose body had been sealed
within the tomb, thrice had the old man spoken,
he who was a disciple, but not one of the twelve,
older, gentler in all ways,
and tired, worn with time and experience and the shedding of blood.
He came from Capernaum
and after that his son
who touched the edge of death
was drawn back from the pit
and made whole,
the old man returned to Jesus and said,
“O thou, who hast today been the consolation of my household,
wast also its desolation.
Because of you my first-born died
in that great shedding of innocent blood.
Nevertheless, I believe
though I know not what
or how or why
for it has not been revealed to me.
I only know that one manchild was slain
and one made to live.”

And a second time he spoke
when the Lord kept the children beside him
and suffered them not to be taken away:
“These are the ones that are left us,
but where, Lord, is the Kingdom of Heaven?
Where, Lord, are the others?
What of them? What of them?”
And he wept.

And a third time he spoke
When the Lord turned to Jerusalem
and laughter turned to steel
and he moved gravely
towards the hour that was prepared
and the bitterness of the cup:
then the old man said,
“All your years you have lived
under the burden of their blood.
Their life was the price of yours.
Have you borne the knowledge and the cost?
During those times
when you have gone silent in the midst of laughter
have you remembered all the innocence
slaughtered that you might be with us now?
When you have gone up into the mountain apart to pray,
have you remembered that their lives were cut down
for your life, and so ours?
Rachel’s screams still shatter the silence
and I cannot sleep at night for remembering.
Do you ever forget your children that sleep?
When will you bring them out of the sides of the earth
and show mercy unto them?
Who will embrace them until you come?
I cannot sleep.
But because I have already tasted of the cup
I cannot turn from you now.
I, who live, praise you.
Can those who have gone before you into the pit
celebrate you or hope for your truth?
Tell me, tell me, for I am an old man
and lost in the dark cloud of my ignorance.
Nevertheless, blessed is he
whom thou hast chosen and taken, O Lord.”

He did not speak again.

But he was there when the rocks were rent
the veil of the temple torn in twain
the sun blackened by clouds
the earth quaked with darkness

the sky was white and utterly empty.
The city gaped with loss.

Then, out of the silence,
the Lord went
bearing the marks of nails and spear
moving swiftly through the darkness
into the yawning night of the pit.
There he sought first
not as one might have supposed
for Moses or Elias
but for the children
who had been waiting for him.
So, seeking, he was met
by the three Holy Children
the Young Men
burning bright
transforming the fire into dew as they cried:
“Blessed art thou, O Lord God, forevermore.”

And all the children came running
and offering to him their blood
and singing: “With sevenfold heat
did the Chaldean tyrant in his rage
cause the furnace to be heated
for the Godly Ones
who wiped our blood like tears
when we were thrust here
lost and unknowing.
The Holy Three
waited here to receive us
and to teach us to sing your coming
forasmuch as thou art pitiful
and lovest mankind.”
So they held his hand
and gave him their kisses and their blood
who could not bear their innocence
and thrashed with his tail
so that the pit trembled with his rage.
But even his roaring could not drown their song:
“For unto Thee are due all glory, honor, and worship,
with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now, and ever,
and unto ages of ages, Amen.”

And the holy children were round about him,
the Holy Innocents and the Holy Three.
They walked through the darkness of the fiery furnace
and the dragon could see their brightness,
yea, he saw four walkers loose
walking in the midst of the fire and having no hurt
and the form of the fourth was like the Son of God.

And he saw the Son of God move through hell
and he heard the Holy Children sing:
“Meet is it that we should magnify thee,
the life-giver
who has stretched out thy hands upon the cross
and hast shattered the dominion of the enemy.
Blessed art thou, O Lord God, forevermore.

O Jesus, God and Savior,
who didst take upon thee Adam’s sin
and didst taste of death
(the cup was bitter),
thou hast come again to Adam
O compassionate One
for thou only art good
and lovest mankind,
Blessed art thou, O Lord God, forevermore.”

So hell was shriven
while the holy children, singing,
transformed the flames to dew,
and the gates of Heaven opened.

Then, by the empty tomb,
the old man slept.