LOCOMOTION

March 2, 2008

Acts 17:28

...and he gives us the power to live, to move, and to be who we are. "We are his children," just as some of your poets have said.

I had a vision of a butterfly, a cocoon, and a cocoon with wings protruding from it. I sensed that this was the church and it was caught in a stage of metamorphosis. It was like God was saying this is where the church rather rest than move forward. The butterfly was in still motion, not moving, wings not flapping, but just still.

I hear the question, "Where are we going? What are we supposed to do? Where are we headed? We will not move until we know and this is a safe place until we do." But God says "No, this is not a safe place, this is where you die and the adventure ends. This is the place where you do not rest, but you push forward to get to the next phase of your destiny. Some of you are stuck in the cocoon, wanting to come out, but afraid to move forward. Some are out of the cocoon, but just waiting for flight destinations. Some of you are half way out and waiting for someone to come and pull you out of your cocoon."

God says "your place of stillness is your place of death. It is where you will remain if you don't begin to move forward into what is the next stage of your life. You do not know, and instead of embarking on a journey that is unfamiliar, you rather stay in the safe place. It is not a safe place, but a place of danger, a place where you fall prey to the wiles of the devil."

As you move ahead, God will move before you and make the crooked places straight and lead you into green pastures, where He will bring you rest.

"You are at the place of metamorphosis, the place of fulfilling your destiny but you refuse to move, you refuse to move ahead, you refuse to know that where you might go, is where you have your call and your destiny."

But God says "I am sending a wind that will remove the scales off of your eyes so you can see clearly the path that I have set before you and in that you will find the strength to move full speed ahead into what I call the next phase of your call. Full speed ahead is what I have called you to do. Full speed ahead."

Let he who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says. . . . .

The Prophetic Sword