Sometimes we get really hung up on hearing a word from God to confirm our direction or that God is working on a situation, bringing His promises to pass.
Today I felt the spirit of God remind me that he is WORKING. That He doesn't just speak things, he DOES them. He accomplishes that which He speaks.
“So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth, it shall not return to me void but it shall accomplish what I please and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it”-Isaiah 55:11
The Hebrew word for ‘void’ translates to something that is done in vain and for nothing. While the word accomplish basically means if God said it, its as good as done.
And as Jeremiah states, the word of God is an active force much like fire or a hammer.
"Is not my word like fire?" Says the Lord. And like a hammer which breaks the rock in pieces?" Jeremiah 29:23
"My Father is always working. He is working right up to this day, and I am working too" John 5:17
Recently, I was at a prayer gathering and they had an alter call. I went up wanting to hear a fresh word from God about the pressing situation that I had found myself in for the past year and a half. I was feeling exhausted, emotionally worn and past the verge of desperation. I wanted God to confirm, yet again, that I had heard Him. That he wasn’t asleep at the wheel and that things would be okay, that He was on it. I felt that this was somewhat a right of passage. This is just how it works, right?
Usually, I do get some kind of word.
But this time was different. The woman who prayed for me only said five words but the power and presence of God flooded my senses. Heat spread in thick liquid bands from my chest and down my body as she touched my shoulder and cried out “More fire for your daughter!”
Tears flowed as I felt the Holy Spirit step in to minister to me, it was if Jesus had reached into my chest and was holding my heart in His hands.
I could sense that He was about to speak so I quieted my own thoughts and yielded, opening my heart like the petals of a flower to the light of the sun.
What I’m about to do will speak louder than any prophetic word
This phrase wasn’t so much spoken as impressed upon my spirit. It held weight. It carried with it the sound of sovereignty and a sense of unshakable assurance. The King had spoken. Those words rung in my spirit, reverberating in my senses, flooding me with revelation and chasing out the dark doubts and lingering fears that had haunted my thoughts. Like medicine, they began to heal me.
I stood there under the weight of it, glory thick all around.
I’m sharing this with the hope of imparting this revelation to you. That things are shifting. That things are aligning and that God is still in the business of breaking through. That His word will not return void but accomplish that which He has sent it to do. You are about to see with your eyes the things that you have been contending for that have yet seemed afar off. Is anything too hard for God? Can a nation be born in a day?
What I am about to do will speak louder than any prophetic word
There is a new level of authority and vindication being released now. As God arises in our midst there will be MOVEMENT. We will not only see a move of God but we will see God move in our lives, in our assignments and in the world.
God is about to step onto the scene and nothing will remain the same.
There are divine demonstrations of the grace and majesty of God taking place. Situations long thought dead and buried are about to suddenly come together, sinew to sinew and bone to bone.
If you have a valley of dry bones before you; rejoice. God is about to put his anointing on the words of your mouth and when you prophesy you will hear a rattle, you will see the dead raised to life.