Category Archives: prophetic

Prophetically Speaking, Your Time is NOW!

Leave a reply

Well, (Gulp!) here I go: I will be (attempting ) Live Streaming tomorrow as I preach at a Multi Cultural, Multi Lingual Church in Upstate NY- and I will be preaching in Spanish AND English for the first time, and then getting translated into CREOLE!! This is a momentous occasion, for many reasons. And one of the reasons has to do with Something spoken to me in my Past, having to do with my Future, which Today is about to happen! If that sounds a bit confusing, welcome to the world of the prophetic.

First, I share this turning point in my life both boldly and humbly at the same time- because I am not proficient in Spanish at all. I’d say I have a conversational ease in Spanish of a toddler lol. It’s been years since I’ve spoken it as a second language when I studied in Spain. And even then I struggled with the pronunciation and the somewhat awkward lisping dialect. But with the help of my son and some great tools online for translation, I figured out how to fully translate my sermon and am ready to preach it in this multi cultural setting.

An International Speaking Ministry??

Years ago I had several different people come up to me and prophetically give me words about being a spokesperson for the Lord and an International Speaker. At that time I was mainly teaching Women’s Bible Studies and speaking at Women’s Retreats. The audience was sometimes a bit multi cultural but at no time did I venture into teaching or preaching in any language other than English. There was nothing “international” about those events I did.

But I began to realize, over the years that I’ve done mainly speaking at Churches and Retreats in the Northeast, that I don’t have to passively wait till that prophetic word comes to pass. That maybe God wants me to participate proactively in seeing that word come to pass. That maybe we need to call forth the dreams we’ve had from God and start stepping into them- as awkwardly and bumbling as we may be attempting to do.

START SMALL…BUT DON’T STAY SILENT

I’m sharing this scary adventure to encourage anyone wanting to step out in Faith and do something for the Name of Jesus and for the millions of people that He loves and wants to reach. He wants to reach them where they are, in their language they understand.

And I want to do my part – even if I’m fumbling and misspronouncing words- because I’ve got a Savior who sees my heart, and cares about my motive more than He cares about my method. He also cares about His Word and His Words, being fulfilled in our lives.

Prophetically, it’s a miracle the way God works it out and causes something spoken long ago to come to pass. But prophetic words also require an act of faith on our part, our cooperation, our voice, and even our footsteps – as we walk into the unknown, ready to partner with God in doing surprising and scary and yet effective missions of love, all for the glory of God.

Thoughts of Peace.. When You Have None of Your Own

Leave a reply

I’ve never been one for sending “good thoughts” to someone who is in crisis. You ‘ve seen the comments on a Social Media Post where someone is sharing their devastating situation they’re in and well intentioned subscribers are commenting “sending positive thoughts your way!” When you’re in the throes of a major crisis, “religious” or not, you want powerful prayers sent up on your behalf, not mere fluffy good thoughts.

Our Nation is in deep turmoil and breakdown. You may be in a crisis of some sort yourself. But I would propose ironically, that you DO need though, not only prayers sent up on your behalf, but you also need some stabilizing and prophetic THOUGHTS OF PEACE when you have none of your own.

Thoughts- as in the kind of thoughts that God thinks towards you, expressed in Jeremiah 29:11:

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.“

There’s an awful lot of demonic and evil thinking that’s going on in our Nation lately- and many are not sure where these downright evil thoughts and agendas are coming from. Evil thoughts lead to evil plans which leads to a host of evil plans or an “agenda”. Freedoms have been trampled on, protective borders have been broken through, food sources have been targeted and tainted, questions abound as to what’s safe, and on and on. That’s an obvious assessment of whats been happening these last couple years in our country, some would say.

But the next statement I’m going to make is not an obvious one: If you’ve never cared about, or desired to be in one, or if you never believed they even existed, you are now in a spiritual war. (And perhaps unwittingly in another kind of war as well. But we’re not addressing that in this post).

It’s a battlefield out there, every day. And in your home as well- if you’re reading or watching any kind of news sources and updates and factual reporting which has managed to get through to you. It’s an onslaught for your mind to take in. It’s affecting your spirit, your emotions, your physical well being. Every time you hear about another explosion or derailment or contamination or health scare or shut down of any sort, your mind is trying to take that all in, at the same time that you’ve got the job to somehow stay cool, calm, and collected.

What thoughts are running through your mind every time you hear or read of something frightening? For most of us, it’s: I can’t believe this is happening! What happened to our country? Who’s going to fix this? Can this be fixed? What’s really the truth behind this? and…How much worse is this going to get??

These obviously are NOT thoughts of peace. And I’m not going to propose you need to quickly and mindlessly recite some magic mantra of “Everything will be ok, Everything will be ok” .

There is NO Peace in just words themselves. BUT THERE IS PEACE AND POWER IN THE ONE WHO UTTERS THESE WORDS TO US!

And when God speaks about knowing the thoughts and plans that He is thinking towards us, we need to understand that whatever God thinks about and plans on, manifests and becomes real. His thoughts are intentional, they are directional, and they result and culminate in new life, new miracles, new hope, and new ways in the wilderness, and a way out of the wilderness.

Here’s we we get prophetic- as in speaking forth the truth, speaking what is true even when it doesn’t look true, speaking the words of God by faith even though our heart is racing. This is where we speak to that mountain and tell it to be moved, just as Jesus instructed:

 “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.” Matt 17:20

“But Lauren, Jesus said we have to speak to the mountain. What does that have to do with thoughts? ” you ask? You’re absolutely right- we need to speak to impossible situations with the authority God gives us.

BUT MORE THAN SPEAKING TO THAT MOUNTAIN, WE NEED TO HAVE THE RIGHT THOUGHTS ABOUT IT FIRST! Because the Bible tells us that out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth SPEAKS! What you’re thinking about, what you’ve stayed quiet about out of fear, what your heart is in turmoil about- all that leads to what will come out of your mouth…and what won’t come out of your mouth. Will you address that mountain before you or will you stay quiet and forfeit your authority to address it ?

Your words have power, yes, but your thoughts deep down inside are busy concluding things and rendering important decisions and convictions. This is the arena of Faith which gives unction to our prophetic declarations, proclamations and prayers. Simmer all day long on circuitous anxious and paralyzing thoughts and you’ll pray prayers of pleading and desperation. Its almost a form of mental torment to get caught in pleading and begging like that. God does not intend that for His children!

But stabilize your thoughts on what God says and promises, and bring those fears to Him, exchange those anxious thoughts for HIS thoughts on the matter, and receive from His Word your words of intercession and proclamations of peace that you have the right to utter- well then everything changes.

Some days I have no thoughts of peace , of my own. I can wake up and realize I’ve been battling anxious thoughts in my dreams and I wake up to more bad news in the world, and my own honest thoughts as I look with bleary eyes about me, are: This is bad. This is pure evil. Everywhere I look. If I stay with those thoughts, my actions and my prayers that day are going to be ineffective in helping to bring anything good or godly into my life, or my corner of the world.

But when I don’t have any powerful, life changing, thoughts of peace of my own, I turn to God. I say “Holy Spirit, what are you thinking here?” I want God to permeate not only my thoughts, but my thought patterns. I want my thoughts to be super charged by His Word and by the prophetic unction of Holy Spirit.

Then my thoughts will be not only thoughts of peace and shalom that I can bask in, just like David who had a feast prepared for him by God, in the presence of his enemies- but I can DO something with those thoughts! They will lead me into productive prayer. They will lead me into speaking supernatural peace over volatile situations, and these thoughts of mine bathed in His Word and His comforting presence, will cause me to speak out and speak up, to bind and to loose what is needed, and to speak to any mountain looming in front of me which tries to intimidate me.

“Move, Mountain!” I speak in Jesus name. And I mean what I’m thinking when I say this!

So have no fear. For fear shall not torment your thought life. I break that off in Jesus Name. I speak the Powerful Peace of God to you today. Take a moment to think about that. Bask in that thought of how much God loves you that He would send His Son Jesus to be the sacrifice for your sins. And that God continually prepares plans for good for you, for your life, because He’s thinking not only of you, He is thinking His powerful good thoughts towards you every day. That’s the overflow of His heart.

Receive that! In Jesus’ name.

#Anxiety #Fear #Turmoil #FaithoverFear #ProclamationsofPeace #PropheticResponse #HowToPray #PowerinJesusName #prophetic #prayer #faith #holyspirit #christian #propheticword #prophecy #bible #love #church #scripture #revival #jesuschrist #propheticministry #christianity #godisgood #wordofgod #healing #propheticinsight #ministry #inspiration #spiritfilled #hope #peaceofmind