How do you spell S-H-I-F-T?

Have you felt it?  The ‘shift’?  And I don’t mean the uptick of diabolic happenings in the news.  Something has shifted in the Spirit realm.  And actually it’s been ramping up for quite a while now… with enough effect that one can begin to define and assess it now. 

I love how God is adjusting our values, our perspectives and our vocabulary.  He’s adjusting our prayer perceptions and prayer posture from plaintiff beggars… to confident sons and daughters who are more aware of what He is doing than what the devil is doing.  We used to be so conscious of all the ills around us, but His goodness is redefining what gets our attention.

Here’s a simple axiom to explain the fruit between these two polar opposite mental orientations.  

“If we focus on the evil that the devil is perpetrating in the earth, we create a culture of heaviness and fear in our hearts.  But if we focus on what God has and is doing, we create a culture of faith, readiness and empowerment.”

Our Good, Good Father is changing us.  The change is becoming more clearly discernable and it’s ‘marvelous in our eyes’. (Ps 118:23)  We’re starting to transition into realities of the Heavenly realm the likes of which have never been seen on earth, en masse.  If I was to make a comparison, I’d say that it’s something on the order of the transition from BC to AD.  The change taking place in our day is radical, dynamic and empowering.  Yes, I’ll even say that a new ORDER is being instituted in the Heavens and earth!   

To announce and initiate this SHIFT, there is a confirmed awareness of a ‘disturbance in the force’.  By the way, this is a good disturbance.  The shift has begun!  God is shifting everything.  But then that’s what He said He would do.  

“Once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.  I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory...” – Hag 2:6-7

Did you see… He shakes the nations, but fills His house with glory!  Are you prepared!  A Door has opened in the Heavenlies… and it feels like Dan 7:21-22

“As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and prevailing against them, until the Ancient of Days arrived and pronounced JUDGMENT IN FAVOR OF THE SAINTS of the Most High, and the TIME CAME FOR THEM TO POSSESS THE KINGDOM.” – Dan 7:21-22

This is a time to guard over our eyes and souls because the devil is implementing his version of a shift, also… it’s called ‘the bait of satan’.  We must NOT get sucked into the political/global news… nor into the petty ‘skirmishes’ happening more locally around us.  There is NO life in those things!  They will violate our soul and leave us bruised and hollow, because those base things are largely the works of the devil!  And don’t you know, the devil would like nothing better than for us to be emotionally snared in the web of what he’s doing.

But we are not OF this earth… We are OF Heaven!  Our reality is defined by our view from the Heavenlies and our paradigm is ‘other worldly’.  We have chosen to ‘live, move and have our being’ in and from this higher realm – ‘above the line’… above the ‘snake line’.  😊

I feel a very sobering, but happy, confident expectation for good, in our lives!!  In fact, any thought that is lesser than that, is from the lower realm!  We are training our senses to discern good and evil (Heb 5:14)… the Heavenly things from the base things.  This qualifies us to be able to help others who are being tossed to and fro by all kinds of ‘fightings’ and fears.

This is a most amazing time.  It’s time to: 

“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.  See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you.  Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.” – Isa 60:1-3

So don’t let your heart get discouraged.  Our day is dawning.  Believe it!

Be strong, my friends!  Be courageous!  Say “No” to worthless things… to things that have no Life of God in them.  Set your affections and orientation on things ABOVE!  Keep your heart full and you’ll be surprised at what you’re being qualified for.  And as it manifests, you will gratefully stand and thank Heaven for the grace to keep your heart uncluttered and uncompromised.

O why don’t we just go ahead and tell him now, “Thank You Lord!  Thank you for Your divine shift.  We welcome it.  You are doing marvelous things!”

— MLH