Inflammatory

Inflammatory

For the pressure mounts.

Higher and higher.

A tumult.

Why wrestle with the storm when I have given you power over it?

The person you are wrestling with is yourself.

For you want to do the right thing, yet without compromising yourself.

You don’t want to dictate for you are not a dictator, yet you are not a peasant.

You’d rather hang out with the sheep, yet I have anointed you to be the king.

Why are you surprised that you are at a nexus point?

For what is the point of the one who does not know, imparting knowledge to the one whom I have given the answer?

For you are in the place of avoidance.

You both want to avoid conflict, yet each day adds to the tension.

For you are wrestling with what you manifest, rather than what is real.

For how should reality be defined?

What is real?

What is imagined?

What is coloured by fear?

What is it you are manifesting?

Are you not fighting with yourself?

Did I wrestle with anything or anyone?

Did I ever attack anyone?

You did fashion a whip and overturn the tables.

Yet what is it you would overturn?

Have I not placed you on top of this?

Why would you want to place yourself underneath?

You’d rather keep your distance, yet for you this is up close and personal.

You want him to put himself forward, yet you hold yourself back.

You want his input for the future, yet you are the prophet!

What will you say about this future?

Did I not say “don’t say “off course”, say “of course”?

Define your course.

Define your plan.

How do you see it?

What does it look like?

For your enemy wants you to screw up your face and blur your vision, he wants you to react.

Over and over these words echo in your ears…

The philistines are coming.

So what!

SO WHAT!

Really who cares!

Whether you want to be David or Samson or Jonathan, have I not given you the power to overcome?

For what are you afraid of?

Losing all that I have invested in. Fighting over control. Being eased in a direction that I don’t want to go in. Working with someone that will keep tripping me up. Dealing with someone who appears to agree but really doesn’t.

Have I not given you authority?

I can see you standing in position, with your enemy questioning your position, considering your posture, challenging your position.

Did I not say, take up your position?

For you want to negotiate your position, ask permission from your subordinates whether it is ok to lead.

What the heck!

It’s like you have asked a bunch of questions, and await the answer, when you already know what his position is.

Why put yourself out of position?

Why fight for your position?

Have I not given you this mandate?

You don’t what to be prescriptive about the future, or be the dictator, how about you just be the King and Priest and Prophet!

You have held back.

You are holding yourself down.

What is it you see right now!

A bunch of burly men holding me down, pushing me down, keeping me down, wrestling with what I am wearing, trying to wear me down.

Yet you know the end of all this, I have shown you the end from the beginning…

Rising up from the crowd, I surface wearing a black tie outfit, with them brushing dust off my clothes, and ensuring my tie is straight.

For you think that which comes against you is designed to bring you down, but I have commanded it to elevate you.

What do you stand to lose, if you fail to stand?

Now is the time to stand.

Now is the time to take up your position.

Watch me move everything into position.

For now is not the time to hold back.

For I am not holding back.

For you have pondered this word for so long…

Micah 7:11 In the day that your walls are to be built [a day for building], in that day shall the boundary be far extended and the decree [against her] be far removed.

For you have for so long been a builder.

The pressure to start, the push to erect, the building rising higher and higher, to the point of elevation. The getting to a point. Then the attack, then the demolition, then the starting over.

For you must push the boundary.

For you MUST push the boundary.

I will not accept your limitation.

I WILL NOT ACCEPT YOUR LIMITATION.

Be unlimited.

For you were born to push the boundary, to break the limit.

My overflow upon the edge.

A tipping point.

For you have reached a tipping point.

For that which boils shall fall upon your enemy.

For I am clearing the path ahead.

For it is time for the decree against you to be far removed.

I am extending your territory.

Do you not see!

Have you not heard!

For he asks the questions that stir you up!

Inflammatory questions.

But have you done this globally?

It was so inflammatory.

You could feel your blood boil so intensely.

You thought to yourself, you spoke to yourself, you whispered to yourself…

If only he new….

Yet I have appointed him to call you out!

I have appointed him to call you up!

No wonder….

NO WONDER!

Without wonder.

For I know what riles you up, I know what gets you hot under the collar, I know what buttons to push!

Going up!

For this button shall only elevate you, shall only cause you to rise up, from the dungeon, from the internship, from the prison cell, to the palace.

For it is my purpose to fire you up!

You just want to keep your treasure buried.

I know you are so annoyed with him, but really annoyed with me, for you just want me to let you off the hook, you just want me to accept the burial!

Am I not the God of resurrection!

Am I not the one who rose from the tomb!

I refuse to accept your offer!

For that which was buried shall arise.

For the latter glory shall far surpass the former glory.

Arise and take up your position.

Isaiah 60:1-3 ARISE [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you—rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you! For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and dense darkness [all] peoples, but the Lord shall arise upon you [O Jerusalem], and His glory shall be seen on you. And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. 2 Chronicles 20:17 You shall not need to fight in this battle; take your positions, stand still, and see the deliverance of the Lord [Who is] with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Fear not nor be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you.

For now is the time of deliverance.

Take a step towards your enemy.

Fear not, nor be dismayed.

For my fire rests upon you.

They have no idea who they are messing with.

Rest in my fire.

Let my passion rise within you.

For there are more on your side than on your enemies.

Behold there you find yourself surrounded by fire.

For I have placed you in the line of fire.

For you are my line of fire.

It is your destiny to burn down the enemies camp.

Let my fire burn within you.

For my fire burns within in.

I give you permission to be fired up!

For it is I that sets you ablaze.