Diet Coke and a Candy Bar

The Lord spoke a word. 

If it resonates with you, let it do what only His words can. 

For several weeks, I have been hearing the word “pent.” 

As in “pent up”. 

When I looked up the definition, it means “closely confined, held back, shut up.”

The Lord asked, “Fed up or pent up?”

“Before you get fed up with being pent up, 

picture a calf, pent up in a stall; all the while being bottle fed, rich nutrients and prepared for fields she has not yet known or seen. “

Efforts from multiple directions have been made to cause you to be fed up and blow out.  

I have used it all in your favor; for your good.

I know you are familiar and quite possibly numb to the often-used term breakthrough or breakout.  

But it’s time.

The bell is ringing but it’s not over. 

And

School is not in session. 

And you’re not blowing out, you’re launching up.

It’s time to launch.

Launch from the couch of complacency. 

Knowing, that is not the place where 

contentment is found. 

I’m calling you out of the place of thinking you need to “be thankful and like it.”

You have come to the end of your own efforts  

The bottom of the tank of your own strength. 

You’ve mulled the ideas around in your head.

For some, the pause has been so long that the dust from pacing, has dissipated. 

Still, no contentment found. 

You’ve got splinters and raspberries on your skin from trying to force your way free; to break out.

You are realizing that there is more. 

The outcomes you see, the emotions you feel, the situations surrounding you; these are not the finish points. 

They are not even the starting blocks. 

It’s been a breathing point. 

Pondering. Waiting. 

Wondering. Asking. 

It’s time to nestle up under My Presence. 

Take it all in.

You have breathed in and you are ready. 

The breath is ready to release. 

Find contentment in My fullness. 

Content in pause, content in high velocity, content in pieces falling into place, content in coming and going. Content in an unknown path. Content in sudden answers.

Allow My fullness to bring clarity, higher thoughts and strategy.  

It will open dried up wells and hidden springs.  

Both forgotten and unknown sources will feed your now and new to come.

Settled awakening

Morning by morning, I am awakening you.  Awakening you to truth.  

You are waking up but it’s not like other mornings. 

Other mornings, there has been stirring. 

A nearly and often fed up.

“How do I get out of this place?”

“I have to find an outlet”

“This must be all there is.”

“I better be happy and like it. “

Today, there is a settled awakening. 

Awaken in truth. 

The dawn is bursting into your night. 

Dissipating shadows of confusion and endless sounds of defeat.  

A deafening silence…your voice, shut up.  

Pent up.

I speak open doors and new pathways for you.  

I speak provision to be waiting at your next point of need.  

Around the bend or just over the hill; no matter where you find yourself; there, I have already sent provision.  Waiting for you.

There has been much stripped from you.  

I declare a greater understanding of a rich life.  

Great grace, I declare over you.  

The Lord reminded me of the days when I would stop for fuel and purchase a Diet Coke and a Snickers bar. 

He then proceeded to show me how I also used to go “all in for Him” on Sundays and then stay surface the rest of the week. 

Essentially, eating a Snickers on Sunday and live “diet Jesus” the rest of the week. Not fully seeking, walking in or declaring His promises and fullness in everything, daily.

Frankly, not knowing understanding fullness. Not feeling it was for me.  Not knowing that He cared about even the small details of my life.

The Lord says, I am peeling back the confinement and layers constricting your freedom. 

Revealing the fullness of who you are.  

Get off the ventilator! 

There is a false security, when echoing culture. 

It’s time to declare truth. 

Prophesy truth. 

Speak truth.  

Reveal My Son as I reveal who you are, in My Kingdom, always.

Begin to see through Heaven’s perspective and speak from that place.  Your place. 

Begin to declare what you see, from heaven’s perspective. 

As you do, you will see walls crumble, enemy strategies thwarted, answers to prayers nobody knows about, your deepest longings answered.  

When you speak My words, you will find your voice emerge, launch and advance My fullness, into every fiber, open to receive. 

Receive.  The instant, the marinating.  Open up and “own” My fullness; your fullness.  You will never be the same.  

The depth you reach today will be the shallow end in the pool of tomorrow.