Editor’s note: This is not a Pacific Northwest word,
but it is a word for the Church, including the Pacific
Northwest.
--
By Bob Hartley
Going From a Retreating, Misery
Christianity to a Hope-Filled, Reforming Christianity
I
experienced a series of visitations in the past few weeks that revealed God’s
jealous and hope-filled heart of love for His people and plan according to this
passage:
“The LORD
goes out like a mighty man, like a man of war He stirs up His zeal; He cries
out, He shouts aloud, He shows Himself mighty against His foes” (Isaiah 42:13).
God has
extensively spoken in past revelations that have laid the foundations for this
understanding of God’s zeal to displace what has hurt His children. He has
called it “misery Christianity” versus “a hope-filled Christianity.” By this
second reformation He will activate and empower 50 million “Hope Reformers” to
usher whole cities and nations into great blessings and manifestations of the Kingdom of God in every arena of life.
This is our
first report of what the Lord said regarding a 2014 “word in season” with some
context and comments added to aid the understanding.
The Lord
GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to
sustain with a word him who is weary... Isaiah 50:4
Not the Spirit of Terror Year But
the Psalm 67 Year
On a number
of occasions, I have been taken in the Spirit into a “reformation room.”
Situated within is a table of communion where the Lord reveals His manifold
faces and nourishes us with the bread of His presence.
In this
encounter I was seated at the corner of the table on the Lord’s right side. He
strongly corrected us concerning speaking from areas where we were weary,
wounded, disappointed, or Hear the clock ticking hopeless. The Lord said, “Stop
it! Wait and listen again until you get the hope, the love, and see My
solution.” He was in pain over this and desired to help us.
He said
that 2014 is the year for Psalm 67:
“May God be
gracious to us and bless us and make His face to shine upon us, that Your way
may be known on earth, Your saving power among all nations. Let the peoples
praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise you! Let the nations be glad and
sing for joy, for You judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon
earth. Let the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise You! The
earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us. God shall bless
us; let all the ends of the earth fear Him!”
The Lord
said that He will progressively reveal facets of His nature to us that will
help us progress in His purposes this year and beyond.
• He said, “There
is an epic battle presently raging over Who I am.”
As we
continue to look up to Him (see Psalm 121), greater building wisdom and favor
will allow us to discern His hopeful ways more clearly than ever before. The
Lord linked this experience to the account of Moses praying to see His glory and
to know His ways and presence in an ongoing fashion in Exodus 33.
“Now
therefore, if I have found favor in Your sight, please show me now Your ways,
that I may know You in order to find favor in Your sight...” Moses said, “Please
show me Your glory.” And He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you
and will proclaim before you My name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom
I will be gracious, and will show mercy [compassion] on whom I will show mercy
[compassion].” Exodus 33:13, 18-19
They will
bow their knees God spoke from Psalm 67 that He is going to open up His face
and His ways so that He will be seen and known, not only among His people, but
also among whole cities, and even nations, that will open their gates to Him. I
saw specific nations invite Him, with His gifts and building plan, into their
cities. These cities will become radiant with joy and pulsate with the presence
of God. They will receive and enjoy many breakthroughs in every area of life.
Jesus has also shown me how thrilled He truly is that these people and places
are welcoming Him to bless and lead them.
• The Lord
spoke, “Psalm 67 is the fifth scene.”
With this,
the Spirit took me back, as He has many times, to one of my initial heavenly
encounters in January of 1982 in Fort
Collins, Colorado,
when I was just newly converted. It was so dramatic! After being “taken up,” I
saw four visions of earthly situations that were only filled with sorrow,
tragedy, despair, and death. I was disrupted and deeply burdened by what God
showed me. But, then I saw “The Fifth Scene”!
The first
four scenes were real, but the fifth scene was the even greater reality. I saw
the Lord high and lifted up like Isaiah did – even though I had never read the
passage at that time. The Lord Almighty was higher than the sky and the
brilliance of His indescribable presence filled my whole view. He was filled
with joy, celebrating and, yes, belly laughing.
I was so
perplexed by the contrast of the fifth scene to the first four I had witnessed.
I asked Him, “Lord, what about all the terrible evils and human suffering you
just showed me?” Then I saw a small dark dot enter the lower left corner of the
vision. It floated up a ways and then suddenly disappeared. The Lord
authoritatively announced, “That dot represents all the evil of all beings and
of all history combined. It’s temporary and fleeting compared to Who I Am. So
what are you going to magnify?”
The Lord is
going to been seen as “The God of the Fifth Scene” or the “Psalm 67 God.”
• At the
communion table He declared, “I Am God All Powerful”:
“Now
therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps
covenant and lovingkindness...” (Nehemiah 9:32).
• He said, “I
am the celebrating, covenant-keeping, sovereign God, and I will bring forth
radiant cities and nations of the earth.” (See our most recent Elijah List
article.)
He is first
offering to us “the Gift of Himself.” This hope reformation is all about a
healed and expanded view of God, and what then happens is we feed and feed
others on this deeper knowledge of God. This revelation caused me to weep for
joy. Though we do truly know the Lord, and yet surely there are many, many
things about Him that we have yet to discover.
He told me
that we presently know 1% of the 100% of the knowledge of God that He wants to
reveal to us in this life, not to even mention what the future age will reveal
about Him. It’s not that the divine attributes revealed in Scripture will be
contradicted by what we learn, but it’s that we so easily misunderstand and
misjudge His great heart and His manifold wisdom and thoughts regarding the
people and situations in our world.
As a
result, we often unwittingly misrepresent the Lord to the people and the
watching world around us. However, Jesus wants to be more accurately “re-presented”
in our day by His sons and daughters to a needy and spiritually hungry world.
Psalm 67 speaks of causing His face to shine upon us. And He is promising to
help us if we humbly acknowledge our need to learn and grow.
Wrapped up
in this Gift is a revelation of “The God of the Fifth Scene,” and also a “pattern”
for our worship, and a “building kit” for our service. He will unfold to us a
practical, stage-by-stage plan for the extension of His Kingdom like He did for
Moses, Solomon, and Nehemiah. Psalm 67 speaks of the revelation of His ways.
God will reveal a blueprint about specifically how He is seeking to dwell among
us here and now, and how this union with Him will lead to a truly apostolic
reformation that will eventually lead to the restoration of all things referred
to by Peter in Acts 3:19-21.
Psalm 67
speaks to the nations singing for joy and salvation coming to the earth. As we
unpack this Gift, we will also experience how divine hope will “heal and expand”
our view of God, and our own hearts, too. (We will say more about these things
in our coming reports, because Jesus has spoken important and hopeful details
about them to us.)
• The Lord
said, “I will progressively reveal 12 of My faces that will cause you to
advance in My Hope Reformation. This is a year for the Issacharian Reformers to
arise.”
“...Of
Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel
ought to do...” 1 Chronicles 12:32
• He also
declared, “They will reflect Zechariah 10:3”:
“My anger
is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD of
hosts cares for His flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like His
majestic steed in battle.
We will be
transformed from “sheep” into “war horses.” The Lord instructed all of us to
continue to sit at the table, and to keep watching and listening, so that we
could see through the dark clouds. He said, “Wait, wait, wait for My Father’s
hopeful view,” because He had more things yet to reveal to us...
A New Lens For a Hopeful Prophetic
At the very
beginning of this visitation, the Lord held my face in His hands for two hours
and repeatedly affirmed that He was delighted in me. I saw Him also holding the
faces of others at the table. He kept saying, “I am delighted in all of you.”
He kept imparting the essence of Zephaniah 3:17 to my heart...and to
theirs...again and again:
“The LORD
your God is in your midst, a mighty One who will save; He will rejoice over you
with gladness; He will quiet you by His love; He will exult over you with loud
singing.”
It was so
good that He did that because I didn’t know at the time how much I would need
that deep and warm fatherly affirmation and delight to handle the rebuke over
hopeless prophecy and speaking throughout my life.
As this
divine encounter took on a more serious tone, He took a fiery coal and put it
to my lips to purify my speech. He said this was needed so that I could blow
the trumpet He has put to my mouth to faithfully declare His nature.
He then
took me, and many others, on a journey through a number of scenarios in our
histories where we spoke out of a wrong frame of spirit, heart, or mind. He
showed me the damage and discouragement I had caused...even in relation to
people I love the most. It was so painful and humbling to rehearse.
• The Lord
said, “The words I have given you to speak are a ‘holy sacrament.’ Speaking ‘hopeless
words of negation’ only serve to ‘resurrect’ the enemy that I have already ‘obliterated’
for you.”
He took me
back to a very dramatic experience I had years ago when He powerfully defeated
a terribly intimidating demonic spirit of negation and hopelessness that had
tormented me. I witnessed the heat of this battle with my eyes wide open! When
had He vanquished this demon by His mighty power, He asked me in an audible
voice, “Whom do you fear now?”
Now, in
this recent visit, He proclaimed again with strength, “I am your Victorious
Warrior.” He said, “You have a choice to ‘resurrect’ this old enemy, but it is
not My plan.” Then He showed me times when I had chosen to do this. Ugh!
• The Lord
declared, “I intend to bring you into the goodness and blessing of Romans 5:17
so that you may reign in this life:
“‘For if,
because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more
will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of
righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.’“
God spoke
He wants to raise us up as true Hope Reformers who partner with Him to “reign
in life”...to prevail over the darkness and misery of this world and bring the
hope of the true Gospel to the cities and nations of the earth that He so
deeply loves. The Holy Spirit said, “God has ‘lifted you up’ out of the ‘miry
clay’ of Psalm 40 so that you can ‘mount up on wings of eagles’ to declare
Isaiah 40:31 – ‘the glory of the Lord’ that ‘shall be revealed’ and how ‘all
flesh will see it together.’“
• The Lord
was shouting, “Soar with Me. I want to take you to a place in Me where the
enemy’s voice ceases.” I was aware that this era could become like the time of
Solomon in which all of his adversaries were subdued on every side. Then He
said, “Destruction is not My answer. I have a redemptive plan.”
The Honorable Prophetic
To help me
understand an even fuller context for and properly steward the prophetic, the
Spirit took me in a vision to the tent of Noah to observe the correct behavior
of Shem.
Noah began
to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. He drank of the wine and
became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two
brothers outside. Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their
shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their
faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
Genesis 9:20-23
Shem
covered his father’s nakedness, and the Lord promised us, “I will cover your
shame and nakedness with My mercy,” and He instructed me to make sure that I do
the same for my prophetic comrades and the Body at large. He made me aware of
the “seeds of superiority” that the enemy would try to sow within us. We were
being called to be vigilant to speak from His heart and not allow this to
happen. I would have to first embrace the Lord’s correction to me in order to
be able to declare to others what He wants me to offer others as a spiritual
father.
He
instructed me to honor those who are speaking for the Lord for being fathers
and mothers in the faith. They have accomplished many good and great things in
and for His Kingdom through the years. However, the Lord is saying, “Stop it
with the negative words that have not been filtered through a lens of a heart
that has been healed by the power of hope.”
The Rebuke
Jesus is
issuing a word of correction to many of His beloved leaders in the land. This
also extends out to segments of the people of God in general, for as the
prophets and leaders go, so go the people. It is a word for all, from the
greatest to the least. I saw some dark and heavy clouds of trouble, despair and
depression roll across the hearts and minds of God’s people and leaders in all
the arenas of life...even more intensely over the last quarter of 2013. I had
personally encountered this satanic opposition during these past few weeks, but
Jesus kept insisting to keep watching for the breakthrough in the clouds.
Then He
warned us all with a very firm, but still loving, tone:
• “Do not
speak until I lift you up out of the miry clay, and put a new song in your
mouths.” He also declared with intensity, “I do not use the enemy to spank My
children!” He said, “I intend to turn the enemy’s assaults and attacks into
opportunities for you to partner with Me to transform them into portals of
hope.”
He spoke
this passage:
“...I will
give her her vineyards and make the Valley
of Achor a door of hope.
And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she
came out of the land
of Egypt” (Hosea 2:15).
The Lord decreed,
• “You must
continue to watch until you can see and speak from the silver lining, the
hopeful place with My hopeful solutions, versus speaking from the dark clouds
that release the dark humidity of doubt and despair. Indeed, I have already
positioned and am empowering both My angel armies and My Hope Reformers to
discern and apply these divine answers.”
• “I will
raise you up above the clouds to see My heavenly perspective of these negative
situations and challenges and turn them into opportunities to advance in
amazing ways and bring reformation to cities and nations. Mercy triumphs over
judgment.”
• “Can you
hear Me? I am giving you My blessing without reproach. Can you hear Me?
Nehemiah did! I have a blueprint...a building kit...to birth the Kingdom Church...an apostolic reformation and
the restoration of all things. Can you hear Me?”
The Lord
said to stop being like Sanballat...a professional accuser...who twisted the
truth by magnifying the challenge instead of magnifying the Lord. Like in the
time of Nehemiah, the Lord is commanding us to be happy and rejoice with His
plans to build and rebuild.
Questions And Answers: Then the Lord spoke to me about
2014 in response to my questions:
• “Civil
war?” “No! Not to worry, hope peacemakers are rising up. Be praying for peace
on all sides. Go forth and have fun. It is time to build.”
• “U.S. currency
failure?” “No! Not to worry. I have some good plans. Therefore go and build.”
• “Protect
ourselves to survive tribulations?” “No! I have you protected and covered like
the cities in Goshen.
Freedom is granted to live more generously than ever and bring reformation. Go,
build and have fun!”
• “Need to
hoard food?” “No! However, there will be a few various places where there will
be need for food assistance, so be wise. Go and build, have fun, so that you
can feed people. See your food multiply, and there will be supernatural and
providential miracles in these days. I have My Hope Reformers ready to step in
to help alleviate the hunger.”
The Lord
continued on:
• The Lord said
to all of us in a very kind but very firm tone, “Stop it, stop it, stop it,
stop it, stop it! Stop spreading this misery, this evil humidity that you have
been spewing out that settles upon the mountains. If you cannot speak out of
life, do not speak out of death. Look again from a better view, from My
perspective. You are to get above the clouds. To fear Me is to see what I see.”
• “It is
harming, confusing and wounding My people...it puts My cities and nations under
a dark cloud. It is speaking out of your own wounds...or your warfare, or your
weariness, or your sense of rejection, or your isolation, or your
disappointments, or your despair. I am bringing a healing model and restoring
My joy to all those who have suffered pain in this life, and it is beautiful.
• “Let Me
tell you how to fight with hope and love.” (At this point He laughed and
lightened the mood.) “Ask Me this, ‘What would it be like if My servants simply
focused on hope and love until the very end? What kinds of amazing solutions
would I bring into this world?’“
• The Lord
said, “Let’s fight against this enemy together! I do not want both sweet and
bitter waters to proceed from the same source. I do want to go with you! But
follow Me with joy, love, hope, and adventure in your hearts. Band together and
reveal to all ‘The God of the Fifth Scene’ and call them into the Hope
Reformation...the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do
exploits.” (See James 3:11; Daniel 11:32.)
The Hope Reformation Plan
• God said,
“This is a Psalm 67 year.”
God is
giving us a divine blueprint and a building plan. He is engineering a “new
exodus” for God’s people to come out of “misery Christianity” into a
hope-filled reformation. The Lord said,
• “I will
release My people to leave the bondage and drudgery of religious agendas and
traditions and the merely human expectations that require them all to just make
brick after brick. I will commission them to go forth into all of life to
worship Me in the beauty and wonder of the diversity I have created. They are
to give back all their amazing gifts, talents, and daily works in the
neighborhoods, streets, schools, and marketplaces as an acceptable offering to
Me and I will then use them to glorify Me in all the earth.”
• The Lord
said that we will see ourselves, our journey, and comprehend our story within
the ancient story of Moses and the children of Israel.
I saw the
Lord open up a hope-filled reformation blueprint where He magnifies Himself in
supernatural and providential miracles this coming year. He will continue to
trump evil with good and cause hope to be the anchor of our souls as we major
on adoring Him well.
Bob Hartley (scribed
by Michael Sullivant)
Deeper
Waters Ministry
