Today’s Reading:
Psalm 67
Psalm 68
Isaiah 66
God be gracious to us and bless us, And cause His face to shine upon us— Selah. That Your way may be known on the earth, Your salvation among all nations. Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You. Let the nations be glad and sing for joy; For You will judge the peoples with uprightness And guide the nations on the earth. Selah
Psalms 67:1-4 NASB1995
The Spirit of the Living God says,
We’re on the razor’s edge of normal. Normal is a thing of the past, and the normal you know now will become a thing of the past as well. This is a tipping point moment. This is not a pendulum swinging as the so- called experts like to say. This is an axe swinging at the roots of evil in America and around the world. When the root system is separated from the mammoth tree of death that it has been feeding, a vast underground network will be exposed. The root system, the feeder system, the network will be cut off from this tree of death that has been feeding people with the fruit of death, covering them with the shade of death and whose leaves do not bring healing but instead accelerate death.
God is to us a God of deliverances; And to God the Lord belong escapes from death. Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies, The hairy crown of him who goes on in his guilty deeds.
Psalms 68:20-21 NASB1995
I’m cutting this tree of death off at the roots, and the axe has already begun to swing. This is not hard work for me. The time it takes is the warning to all who take shelter in the tree, all who find their sustenance and get their fill of blood and darkness from this tree. With every methodical swing of My axe, they are warned. They are given an opportunity, a choice. They should see and hear that their time is running out. But those whose hearts have been hardened will not recognize the warning. In their pride, they will sit drinking their mixed wine and blood as they remain in their perches hidden in this tree of death. Like when My voice spoke commending My Son Jesus, saying to all — with Him I Am very well pleased — some heard My voice clearly, others knew something of great spiritual significance was happening but could not understand it, and yet others heard it as only thunder. So it is with the swinging of My axe against the vast entrenched root system of this gargantuan tree of death that reaches across the nations of the world.
”So I chose to punish them and to bring on them what they fear the most because I called out to them and they ignored me. I spoke and they did not listen but did what is evil in my sight and chose what I despise.” Hear the words of Yahweh, you who tremble at what he says: “Shame on your own people, who reject you and hate you, claiming they do it for my sake. For they mock you, saying, ‘May Yahweh be glorified; let us see you rejoice.’ ” Listen! A sound of uproar is coming from the city a sound from the temple! It is the thunder of Yahweh as he completely punishes his enemies! Zion gave birth suddenly, even before going into labor. She delivered a son without any painful contractions. Who has ever seen or heard of such a wonder? Could a country be born in a day? Can a nation be birthed so suddenly? Yet no sooner does Zion go into labor than she gives birth to sons! Yahweh, your God, says, “Do I allow you to conceive and not to give birth? Do I shut the womb when I’m the one who delivers?” So rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her! All who love her, join in with her great joy, especially those who remember her grief! You, her children, will drink the milk of her prosperity and nurse with delight from her glorious abundance! For Yahweh says: “I will extend to her prosperity like a river and the wealth of gentiles like a flooding river. You will nurse from her breast, be cradled in her arms, and delightfully bounced on her knees. As a mother tenderly comforts her child, so will I tenderly comfort you, and you will find comfort in Jerusalem.”“
Isaiah 66:4-13 TPT
This tree of darkness and death, of sickness and depravity will soon be toppled. And like a woman who falls over in her skirts, the nakedness, the complete uncovered nakedness of this dark tree will be exposed for all to see. The inner workings will be exposed — the root system, the feeder network of vast complexity will be exposed, and men and women will get to work to ensure that every root source is traced and pulled up from under ground. Not one root in the system will be left with the chance to regenerate this factory of death that has poisoned the nations.
How to Respond
- Pray, Lord do as You have said. Strike at the roots of this evil tree and factory of death, depravity and darkness. Change our normal into one where darkness and evil are completely uprooted and removed from the scene. Only You can do it Lord. Show me where I can help.
- Declare, the Lord is striking His axe at the roots of a tree of death that has poisoned and depraved the nations. He will prevail. The tree of death will be toppled and all of its inner workings will be revealed. Men and women will uproot every root in the network beneath it to ensure that not one opportunity for regeneration of this tree of death remains.
- Decree, I will see the Lord topple the great evil that is feeding and poisoning and accelerating death in the nations. I will live in a new normal, where evil and degeneracy and accelerated death no longer exist. I will be part of a great guard of watchmen who ensure that nothing like this insidious, depraved tree of death ever takes root in my nation again.
For more encouragement from Glory & the New Wine, check out the post from this day in years past:
2023: The Bright Ones Are Rising
2022: Resurrections, Turnarounds and Restoration
2021: Restoring Communities and a Right View of Jesus
