What Heaven is Saying Today
This morning the Lord gave me a vision of an early morning sky. As I looked at the horizon, I saw row after row of red and dark orange clouds across the area of the rising sun. I remembered what Jesus said in Matthew 16:1-3, “Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven. He answered and said to them, “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red’; and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.” As these words went through my mind, I remembered how my father taught me this truth. He said many times, “Red sky at night – sailors delight! Red sky in the morning – sailors take warning!”
It was clear that a storm is brewing on the horizon and will soon be upon us. What are we to do now? I heard the Lord say, “Intercessors arise! Watchmen arise! Gatekeepers arise! This is not a time to go into hiding! This is a time to come forth and take your stand! It is in the difficult times that the Kingdom is advanced! It is in times of hardship that the harvest is great!” I remembered again what the Lord promised to Isaac in Genesis 26:1-3a, “There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar. Then the Lord appeared to him and said: “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you. Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you;”
Isaac trusted the Lord and stayed in the land of famine. The Lord blessed his obedience and fulfilled his promise to Isaac. Genesis 26:12-14a, “Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him. The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous; for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants.” Remember that obedience came first and was then followed by the blessing. The Word from the Lord for today calls for our obedience. The Word of the Lord today is a promise for another time of sowing in famine and reaping a hundred fold. It is harvest time! It is time for the Kingdom of God to increase and expand. It is a time of blessing and favor from the Lord that will catch the attention of others and draw them to the Lord.
I remembered another outcome from Isaac’s blessing and prosperity. Genesis 26:14b-16, “So the Philistines envied him. Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them with earth. And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.” This is a time for the Lord to make the enemies see us as “much mightier than” they. This is a time for Kingdom logic and Kingdom wisdom. Notice that the Philistines kept stopping up the wells during the time of famine. Their foolish choices made their situation worse and worse. This is not a season to stop up the wells. This is a season to dig new wells and open those the enemy has stopped up. This is a season to receive blessing and favor in abundance from the Lord. This is a season to release a new flow of living water.
This is not a season to grumble and complain. This is not a season to point fingers of blame. This is not a season to draw into a hiding place and hope the storm will pass us by. This is the time to step out in faith and obedience. This is a season to arise and enter the fields of harvest! This is a season to take forth the gospel of the Kingdom and draw people to the Lord. Whining and complaining will not impress the enemy. Grumbling will not bring favor from the Lord. Now is the time to follow His published Kingdom strategy. Not is the time to sow and reap. This is a season for those who plow to overtake those who are reaping. This is a season to receive the abundance of the Lord. He has reminded us once again that the world is not our source of supply. The Lord is now and always has been our source! Amen and Amen!!!!