Crossing Over: Transition to The Month of the New House
After a relatively extreme July, God designed August as a time of crossing over and looking to the future. As I prepared to physically move into a new house, God positioned me internally to step across old ways into new family patterns, roles, and placement for ministry. God in his kindness took the time to show me which things needed to be replaced, which needed to be discarded, and the specific roles that he would use to bless me, starting in September.
In sharing revelation, God continued to use imagery of house reformation, emphasizing that a specific time of cross-over has started. As someone who often lives the prophecy as she is receiving it, God made it clear that this time of entering into the new is a corporate word, even though he has bundled together my personal and familial redemption at the same time that the Church is experiencing reformation.
The fact that the Prophetic Movement in the church is now visibly moving into new expressions is so exciting! As someone who has been getting revelation for this move for about 2 years, I’m really thrilled to get to be part of it.
Role Change
In August, God used imagery in dreams to encourage me to enter into the New House not as a Shepherd, but as a Curriculum Developer. When I first came to Seattle in August 2022, I was still in the middle of a Spherd-Gatherer season that God had initiated in February 2022. That mantle came with increased mercy and co-identification with Seattlites’ weakness, which allowed me to love the city well in spite of its many identity issues.
God made it clear that while those gifts of mercy and a shepherd’s heart are still available as necessary, he is calling me into the New House as a Curriculum Developer instead. God is directing my attention both by supporting the prophets I’ve gathered who are developing resources to increase young people’s access to revelations of Jesus and through my doctoral research. He is multiplying what I could do independently by putting me as a leader and follower within strong teams. In the consulting words and documents we produce, he is crafting a heavy emphasis on releasing life, redemption, and hope to the Nations. We carry a vision for intergenerational ministry and young prophets training that is rooted in purity, releasing purifying effects to regional land and territory, liberating the land from curses of sin and restoring their inheritances back to the generations (Isaiah 49:8-13).
Redeeming the Nations: Identity Change
In Hebrews 3:1-3, Jesus reveals himself as the Rebuilder of the House.
Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. 3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,”[a] bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
Hebews 3:1-6
Just as God rebuilt a way for Israel to be reconciled to himself through Christ, God is coming in this era to redeem the history of the nations: every inheritance of times past, every lost destiny, and every missed opportunity.
God is Merciful, and he demonstrates his mercy by calling the nations into identity change. As prophets and apostles align to what the Holy Spirit is doing in the nations, now is a good time to examine the failed opportunities within your own life and lineage, and ask God how he plans to redeem them.
Jesus will receive praise from every nation on the Earth (Psalm 86:9). God is preparing the nations with new, purified identities so that he can habitually visit them in this era. Just as God gives people permission to change and grow, Prophets must ask God how he wants to bless individuals and nations to receive new stories (redemption). The ministries that embody these redeemed national identities will carry the best fruit and cause outstanding worship in the coming years.
So what are these new identities? Here are a few that I have seen.
- America, The Pure
- God will redeem America’s international legacy as a nation that produces pure living water, serving less powerful nations by helping them tap their own wells
- Ireland, The Nurturer
- God will purify Celtic Spirituality’s mixture with witchcraft that has spread cursing, bitterness, and violence. God will purify the speech of Ireland and Ireland will be a nation that blesses itself and the nations.
- Canada, The Beautiful
- By celebrating beauty in diversity, Canada will come to see itself as beautiful and beautiful to others.
- Scotland, Redeemer of Families
- God will inspire Scotland to demonstrate a truer reflection of his family unit and intergenerational story than the nations have previously seen. Scotland will be a place known for redeeming and healing broken family legacies, restoring people and nations to their proper place.
- France, The Brilliant
- The purity that Jesus develops in the hearts, minds, bodies, and spirits of France will demonstrate to the world the beauty formed in a nation when its people respond to God with complete devotion.
- England, The Merciful
- England will speak truthfully but without harshness to demonstrate Jesus who comes close and can identify with our weakness. God will use England to heal the bodies and spirits of his people.
- Germany, The Just
- Germany will become a leader in economic and ethnic justice, relying on the strengths and protecting the rights of all its citizens. God will use Germany to financially restore nations that have been exploited and they will see him as God of all Kindness.
- Philippines, The Equal Yokemate
- God will celebrate Phillipnes as the apple of his eye and will raise up a fledging, diverse, pure Church who can rule with him as an equal yokemate. God will demonstrate his heights and depths to a people who have made themselves ready.
These are just some of the roles God is making available to the nations and Christians within them.
Prophecy as a Building Tool
He who speaks in a tongue edifies [builds, builds up] himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
Ephesians 14:4
Ultimately, prophecy is a tool that helps edify [build up] an individual. On a national level, prophecy is a tool that helps build up a nation. God thinks of nations like he thinks of people (Isaiah 13-23). Though prophecy has been used for impure financial and political gain, God is reclaiming it for the development of ministries, nations, or people groups.
Prophecy should be instrumental. Prophetic words should be blueprints that present a sequential strategy from Heaven about how to release living water in a group, organization, or region. Apostles should oversee the building process as prophets release rightly-timed follow-up words to support further development. As wells are established and nations are engaged, children will learn how to use the faucets and seek revelation themselves. God wants all people to have access to his living water through Jesus.
Ministry Update
Positive
- Signing a new lease on August 12th (8-12), a felt sense of saying yes to God on a date that numerically symbolizes “a new, divine beginning”. Being conscious that as Heaven watched my choice to move closer to my Church in July, I was really choosing to be an active stakeholder in this community. Consciously recognizing the ripple effects of that choice and trusting in how God is leading me.
- Local Seattle Ministry Context, Mosaic Church: The Way of the Heart as a Strategy for Partnering with God
- Being honored by Heaven in dreams about being rightly grouped, being shown how to indicate what I want from a buffet, being served, and permission to enjoy receiving as God prepares the people I’ve been grouped with to enter into a greater portion of blessing
- Asking in Secret: Based on imagery of indicating what I need and being served, praying silently in my heart about what I want, asking God for things and an increase in receiving the specific help I need. Emphasis on the right way to receive, covering, waiting to be served, going through the right protocol.
- Worship for being Rightly Grouped: Seeing God gradually transition my ministry context to be able to hold a new expression, seeing the beauty in how people are leaning in and how God is gradually developing teams.
- No longer needing to focus as much on filtering what I sense in others (ie, no longer feeling overwhelmed), but focusing on aligning and sorting people, skill sets, gifts, and timings (imagery of sorting different colored skittles).
- Prophet Training:
- Closure: Bringing to a close a teaching series on Identity and National Prophesy that I have led and developed within a private group of Prophets. This series was the first time distilling and packaging revelation I have received into a series, and God provided the right amount of support through leaders.
- Room to Receive: I am transitioning out of teaching right now in order to focus on receiving and research. As I rest in the Lord, he will show me more layers to support more teaching in January. I know that I need to continue developing a training on times and seasons I need to share, but am leaving room for God to share additional insight as I rest. I’m grateful for the raw material we’ve mined that I can use in future sessions.
- Experience of Tailoring Trainings: Figuring out what prophetic trainings are best released in closed group versus those that require less relational safety. Being more apt to respond to the needs of different cultures in order to enlist everyone’s participation.
- From the Right Heart Posture: Joining a “Praying for the Nations” group in my local church that is pressing in for God’s love for different regions. Feeling strongly that this group will help me make sure that God’s love is the source and motivating factor as I move into a new season of national prophesy.
- Youth and Young Prophets Nework: August Update
- Prophesying over Mosaic Seattle Youth Group: Having the support of my family of prophets to prophesy over my ministry context, so that we will be rightly aligned to the move of God. Through prophecy, having a clearer sense of direction for how God is calling me to contribute, a sense of release from false burden because it’s so clear how he will use the strengths of the entire team, and just in awe that he will make it easy.
- Customizing the Support Offered to Individual YYPN Members:
- Excitement for new pathways opening up to our team from a lack of hurry and gentleness
- Asking God to help each member to take ownership of the mission and customize it for their context. Seeing us move forward as each individual begins to take risks to own their call. Growth as an apostolic organization originating from the heart and application choices of individual members.
- Opportunities to have prophesies translated into the languages of the regions they correspond to, ministry partners willingly volunteering to help
- Learning Easier Ways (receiving the Lighter Yoke)
- Owning my limits, allowing God to strip some false responsibilities off, and bundle opportunities together so that it is easy. Excited to see the fluency of the Holy Spirit, sensing that the quality of the fruit will be so good. Grateful that I didn’t compromise.
- Example of this: Somehow I’ve made it to 29 years old without ever relying on frozen meals. I have been so intent on good nutrition that I didn’t know that there were r sometimes easier ways (shortcuts) for meal prep that would turn out just as good and provide an easier way forward. Heaven is teaching me that not everything has to be so hard.
Challenging
In this section on “Challenges”, I’m going to include how God redeemed each struggle experience in August as we kept journeying together.
- Exhaustion from the Moving (read: Transformation) Process, fears, insecurities. Unsure if I can physically or emotionally take any more pressure. Resisting manipulation and draining interactions with family or others.
- Discovering that I am stronger than I thought (including more physically strong)
- Gratitude and praise over having chosen rightly
- Grateful for Right Placement: Meeting God in Nature
- Having chosen to live near a lake/water source soothes and brings out the contemplative side of me, and aligns with the imagery of water sources and washing that God is doing in me and sending regionally
- Having a soothing contemplative retreat is counterbalance for a season that feels very active
- Laughing at the weirdness of being a Prophet who lives near a lake and is helping leaders in the nations learn how to dig new wells or refresh old ones
- Feeling discouraged by the amount of effort required to build up relationships at Church. Fear because of past hurts, needing to step forward regardless.
- Accumulating Community: Seeing investment beginning to pay off, the decision to move closer added the relational ease I hoped it would. Seeing the choices that I made while scared in accordance with wisdom bearing the fruit that I had foreseen. Grateful that I was right, because it felt somewhat like a shot in the dark in the moment.
- Aware of the necessity of finding new ways of curating scribed prophesy both locally and within YYPN
- Leaving room for Jesus to show me an easier way. Unsure of what that will be yet, but confident we’ll find out.
Worship
Names of God
- God of Right Timings
- Facing the Unknown, Remembering a series of times when God was perfect and faithful in his timings
- When I needed confirmation to move YYPN’s focus outside of Europe, you were there
- When I needed assurance that you would continue to walk with me in the long process, you were there
- When I needed clarity about how to approach this season of transition, you showed me what I would need and encouraged me to wait for it. You confirmed that another direction was off because it lacked good fruit, and showed me that you had better things in mind.
- Learning at a deeper level not to panic when I face the unknown because of a deeper felt recognition that God will be there.
- Facing the Unknown, Remembering a series of times when God was perfect and faithful in his timings
- God, Our Counselor
- Reflecting on how Hell harasses, intimidates, and sows fear, but God’s ways are different.
- Instead,
- God uses revelation to show us important details
- God exposes our deep emotions and internal conflicts
- God provokes us to articulate what we need, challenging us to ask for more/better
- God says that he will support us to receive those things
- God provides new opportunities
- By grace, God helps us pivot to have the right posture for new things
- God provokes and enlists our help by being faithful to us. Invites us to respond to his goodness through a mirroring.
- God allows us to go off in the wrong direction, but it usually corresponds more to what you think about yourself (identity) and what you believe you deserve rather than the nature of God. God always wants to progressively give good gifts. He helps us go on the journey it takes to receive new things in the right way, giving us just the right amount without overwhelming us.
- God, My Personal Assistant
- Due to the amount of clarity I needed from God this month about how to step into the new thing in international ministry partnerships, in my local context, in housing, and across the board, God felt like my personal assistant in the constancy of his support and updates. As I chose to retreat into rest, the increasingly Holy Spirit felt like an angel with a clipboard, saying “Focus on this, ignore that, let go, this is actually what you need to do today”.
- I still have to seek clarity and choose dependence, but he is right there.
- I still can’t believe all of it is working. In awe of how the long process and narrow road are becoming both better quality and somehow faster than the easy way.
- God who Restores
Worship Music
Verses
- Psalm 116: Redemption Imagery
- Judges 5: Deborah’s Song, Gathering the Table of Nations
- Importance of Willing Volunteers, calling “Who will stand in the gap?”
- God chooses new leaders (v8)
- Imagery of watering places
Questions
- In Judges 5, why does Deborah name the nations that stayed behind? What is the significance of telling the stories of failure?
- Maybe the bad stories are included not just so that we can learn by mis-example, but to offer the tribe and their descendants a chance at re-writing the story (redemption)
Media
Books
- That Hideous Strength – C. S. Lewis
Movies
- Warcraft (2016)
- In this movie, the characters must defeat a kind of witchcraft/corrupted power that has a draining, death-releasing effect (“Fel” magic in the movie). I initially watched this movie because I wanted to better understand nerds and gamers, but enjoyed how the message of the film fit with the gospel.
Prayer Requests
- For all logistics with the research process to come together as I journey through September to December
- For an abundance of joy, rest, creativity, purified passion, and right relationships within community
- To enjoy the process
- To have genuine love for my new roommates
Age of the Unexpected 