From her Website
(pamclark@prophetic.net)
I keep sensing in my spirit that something “shift changing” is about
to happen. I know, too, that I am not alone in sensing that. I keep
feeling alerted in my spirit that things are not going to be the same as
usual, and while some have collapsed into fear over that and expect
dark things, that is not what I believe the Lord wants.
Because so many others have written on this, I have refrained, but
over these holidays (2012), I have sensed an increase of the alert to
the point that I am seeking God about it. It’s a good thing to be
flexible in the Spirit and learn how to “ride the waves” so to speak,
and then you are rested when He speaks to act. Just because you hear
something doesn’t always mean that you are supposed to act, but when He
does say to act, you want to be ready and able to accomplish the things
being asked or required.
God’s Presence will often have a sense of “awe” with it, or a fear of
His judgments/ transactions. If you are sincerely doing all you know,
and you have studied to show yourself approved unto God (not man), then
usually when a shift or change happens, you are prepared for it. As I
was feeling His Presence the last few days and even this morning, I
asked for the words to explain it, and what I got was “the cutting away
is coming.”
With the approaching budget cuts and fiscal cliff, many have been
concerned about the condition of America, and if you are in the world
more than the Spirit, it could alarm you. But I felt today that what is
coming is for the good of America. When we personally have to go
through budget cuts, we have to prioritize what is most important to us
and plan our spending around that, and then if there is more, we know
what is covered and what is not and we choose wisely from that
position. If we have given, then we also have investments! Just be
sure your giving comes from your heart and not just another’s that has
been paid as a tax into another man’s system.
I believe with the needs in the world, most Christians do not have a
large savings, unless they have been specifically directed to do so.
God loves us counting on Him for our day to day lives, because it keeps
the bond of affection going and the acknowledgement of needs met
strong. When we get too much, often we get distracted by things that
don’t really profit. We get concerns that really are not real concerns
but we have become convinced they are.
Sometimes God just allows things to manifest so their full expression
comes forth. For years along with many others, I have cried out for
America and not seen the results I expected for the travail. After a
number of years, I had to step back and ask, “What is really going on?”
Well, I had to seek Him more to figure it out! He changed the paradigm
of my thinking. He was not denying my good will, but rather just the
way I thought about it. And part of that included the question of “What
is really most important?”
And the logical conclusion of course starts with “What are the
basics?” And in a society of seeming prosperity, that can be a hard
question. Like children with a wish list, we can make a lot of entries
on our “wants.” But what is most important?
As I have pondered that over the years, I also realized that I needed
to consider the children of Israel who escaped the bondage of Egypt,
but never got the Egyptian ways out of them. The Egyptians had been
their oppressors but their ways became idols to them because it was
lorded over them. When they became more prosperous, they remembered
“the ways of power” and replicated that, rather than seeking the
revealed ways of the Lord.
They wanted to remain in Egypt as the head and not the tail, and not
see what God wanted to do with them as Israel and as His holy people!
Others were so used to the hardships of the bondage that it was a
struggle for them to accept any other lifestyle, and so they were afraid
to allow the good will of God to awaken in their lives. When something
would “feel good”, they would be waiting for the other shoe to drop of
something bad that would harm them, and so in many ways, they made pain
their friend and idol. For them, if it didn’t hurt, then it wasn’t
real, but that was not God’s way.
If we want to move forward in God, we have to be open to new things
that express His good will for us and be sensitive and alert to things
that He says or reveals is not His will. The world is tricky as we
know, because some things that are good are presented through ways that
are wrong. Some people say that “anything goes because it is love.”
But God doesn’t say that.
Some say, “if it feels good, do it,” some say “might makes right,”
some say “all is fair in love and war”, and some have no sensitivity at
all. There are many examples of this in modern thought, and there has
been a real strong social engineering going on via the media and through
other venues that have worked strongly, even through churches, to
program thoughts other ways.
Thoughts lead to feelings and feelings lead to actions. It is just
how we work. If we change our thoughts, then we change our feelings and
then our actions will change, too. But then we want to find that
other “group think” and often I have found, that is the real challenge.
But more importantly, if we find “God think,” then no matter what
happens around us, we will be okay. Even in a Christian community, that
can be a challenge, because of the battle and warfare waged by the
enemy. And that has been fierce, I believe many will say that, along
with me.
But God has allowed some of that for a reason – the betrayals, the
strippings, the fears, the ‘what if’s', the ka-zillion negative or false
positive prophecies. Your emotions can go up and down with hopes and
disappointments. But all that has allowed God’s Voice to become
distinct to you. It has caused you to say, “What is real?” and “What is
right?” and “What is important?” And certain Scriptures and mindsets
come forth from that.
And now is the time for the “cutting away” of things not needed
anymore. When there is a budget cut, we have to ask, “What can we
eliminate that we don’t really need?” Of course the flesh screams at
such a time but in the long run, we end up often being healthier for
it. If we have learned how to be still and hear God, then when the
cutting comes, and He slices through those membranes that are so tender,
yet which keep us together, then we won’t have a jerk reaction that
hits the knife the wrong way.
Like a sheep getting its wool shaved off, when the process is done,
we will go jumping and skipping for the heavy weight that is now off of
us! More and more, society wants to invite us in to the complex world
of confusion that they themselves can’t even explain. They blindly
trust what “somebody else” says, and they follow a stranger’s voice.
But in reality, God has allowed to manifest a system that can’t support
itself.
Many will go into a panic and proclaim false prophecy fears that can
become self fulfilling if they persist in them. But if we can hear
God’s Voice through this, we will find a better more simpler way. When
the world starts crashing down, the people of God will still be
standing. After all, He has been feeding nature for many years. And He
has plans to redeem that, too!
The longer the confusion goes on, the bigger the crash and the bigger
the stand that God will make through those who believe Him. “Egypt”
will crash, but God’s people, though seeming small to some, will have
not just wisdom but also a power – a well meaning power – that will go
with them.
Just as in earlier times, there will be some who will go the way of
Achan and Korah and they will go the route of selfishness and the route
of rebellion of self will for their own kingdoms, but they will not
prosper in it. God’s sheep hear His Voice! And a stranger’s voice,
they will not follow.
There is a cutting away coming and we do not need to be afraid. The
voice of reason with the Spirit of God will prevail! We need to learn
how to be still and know that He is God and that He will be exalted, but
also know that He delights in His own people. He will make ways where
there seems to many to be no way. He will have good when so many others
only see doom and gloom.
If you hear the beat of a different drummer, be glad! If you are
seeking God with that, it can be the right and true way. You are being
prepared for, and you are preparing for the future in God! No one
really gainsays God. Some seem to get away with some dreadful stuff for
a season, but there is a God of justice and when His Spirit rises, no
one can oppose it. It is good to be on that welcoming committee!
Yes, a cutting away is coming, a trimming, a shaving, a reduction in
some things that is going to bring about good – if you stay in the right
Spirit. Let the Word of God abide within you, claim it and proclaim
it, and trust Him and it will be well with your soul.
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