Put on

I don’t want you to pretend, I do not desire pretence, but I want to be your pre tense.

Before you tense up, before you receive tension, before you expect tension, before you brace yourself, before you confine yourself, before you restrain yourself, before you bind yourself, before you hold your breath, before you take another breath, you pause anticipating the challenge, the battle, the conflict.

Just be, just be, just be yourself, just be confident…

But I am not confident, your vision of the future is overwhelming, all surpassing, beyond my expectation. I love the vision, yet I struggle to compose myself. I don’t know what to write about myself.

Allow me, won’t you allow me to compose you.

Let’s start with a building crescendo, you are listening to one right now.

Like a sound track of a movie, building to a great climax, to a moment of tension, a moment of impact. The hoped for moment, the moment of triumph.

For such is the expectation of the peoples champion, even of the underdog, for everyone backs the battle of the brave, for they love to watch the fearless one, the one without fear.

It is easy for you to remember the battles, the manifest blows inflicted upon the enemy. You can see it now the literal body blows to those who opposed my advance. The physical retreat of their position, when you expressed yourself.

The calling to account, the imposition of the boundary line, the taking of territory, all too familiar. Yet you feel the loss, you feel the pain of the loss of what could have been. For you hoped for more, you could see the potential, you wanted so much more for them. You did not revel in their defeat, you mourned the loss of what could have been.

Yet you shall be my instrument of the harvest! I have appointed you for this purpose, for did I not say, those who abide in me shall bear much fruit.

For I am taking the covers off, I am dusting off the covers, I am pulling back the covers, I will bear witness for you, I will showcase your fruit to many, the flow on, the flow on effects will cause a great ripple across the land.

Those who did not know what to do with you, those who saw you as too intense, shall be taken a back, shall be taken back. Those left behind by you, shall embrace you.

You feel the pain of being misunderstood, your intention was good, and yet the reception was distorted, perverted, misconstrued, malformed, reshaped to become that which it was not.

And yet be encouraged, those that went through the worst of it, long to reconnect with you, long to catch up, miss your impact.

How can this be?

For you don’t fit the mould, it is hard for you to fit in, for I can caused you to stand out. For you see it now don’t you?

Rows of square blocks all around and then a sphere in the midst

For I have given you a unique shape, and the power to reshape.

It is time to take it up a notch, to release my glory, to pour out that which overflows.

I know what you are referring to, for it is an image I cannot get out of my head. A beam of intense light coming down from on high. Waves all around lapping against it, attracted to it, and yet having no impact upon it.

The intensity of my glory shines upon you, like a spotlight.

There is an elevation coming, plucked from obscurity to celebrity, shall be your story.

These words echo in your ears, “rise and shine”, great words for another, but these are my words to you.

Isaiah 60:1-5 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, and His glory shall be seen on you. And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Lift up your eyes round about you and see! They all gather themselves together, they come to you. Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried and nursed in the arms. Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and tremble with joy at the glorious deliverance and be enlarged; because the abundant wealth of the Sea shall be turned to you, unto you shall the nations come with their treasures.

For I shall cause you to shine wth such intensity, that those who discarded you will hear about it, and want to come back to you again.

Radiant, radiance, be radiant, just be radiant, radiate my joy, radiate my strength, radiate my power, radiate my peace, radiate me.

For what shall you put on?

Put on me, for my anointing flows upon you. Did you not feel it, did you not see it?

It felt like a dream, a vision, surreal not real, yet as I walked around Sydney, it was like walking in a river, literally going with your flow. My hand shook as I walked. The only visible evidence of what was really happening.

“All the world will see”

It is time to lift the lid, it is time to release my flow, the time of the great outpouring is here.

Let’s take it up a notch.

I know what you mean Lord, for you don’t do incremental, you mean let’s add a new dimension.

Be uncontainable, be unrestrained, be without limit, for behold, just be and hold, I am doing a new thing, NOW IT SPRINGS FORTH!

Yes NOW IT SPRINGS FORTH!

Sorry for the bold, exclamation, but I want you to hear me. NOW it is coming!

For your impact will flow across the land.

Arise and shine, put on my glory, be radiant for the glory of the Lord is revealed upon you.

That is right, for I am revealing my glory, you are my instrument of glory, I have chosen you for this purpose.

Just reflect my glory.