PROPHETIC WORD: You are God’s TRAILBLAZER!
Ecclesiastes 3:11
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”
Last night I had a dream that I arrived at an intersection with a gigantic green road sign that said: TRAILBLAZER.
I knew both the color of the sign and the road name had significance for many people. So I hope the Sovereign Lord ministers to your heart and encourages you today! You, my dear, are SPECIAL.
TRAILBLAZER: A person who is the first to do something or go into a territory, an innovator, pathfinder, one that blazes a trail to guide others, or one who forges a new path through the wilderness.
Trailblazers are people who “blaze” their way through life as they approach new, uncharted territory. They refuse to be like the rest and walk with God into new places and later guide others to follow the same way. Jesus taught them how this works.
Pioneers go before and lead a path; trailblazers create something completely new. They are adventurous and God has created them to be different and out of the norm on purpose. They can’t be defined. God’s trailblazers might be the very last people to realize they are different. This “uniqueness” has caused a ton of rejection in their lifetimes. Trailblazers find their sole identity in Jesus and not man.
God’s trailblazers are not capable of forging a path on their own. They must live by the impulses of the Holy Spirit. Jesus must remain at the center of their lives as they pave this new course ahead.
The Lord has equipped you not only to take this road, but also teach others how this works. A trailblazer is not defined by age or time. They are not defined by the public or popular opinion or the culture. They operate on the Lord’s calendar and don’t get distracted by outside noise.
They pave a path through territory others have never reached or even considered. Trailblazers follow the heart of Jesus with intention and purpose.
They know it’s not enough to believe in God’s grace. We have to live as a reflection of God’s grace anywhere we go. Their entire life is rooted in abundant love for others and radical forgiveness.
Trailblazers follow the SPIRIT OF GOD. Paul was certainly one!
“It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.” (Romans 15:20).
THE COLOR GREEN: Represents growth, renewal, revival, a nourishment of life, land or territory. Green denotes vitality and youthfulness, a revival and season of explosive growth. It represents a restoration of life itself that can only come when one’s life is fully submitted to the Lord. Without a healthy relationship with Christ, spiritual transformation cannot take place.
The color green is marking a clear path for a TRAILBLAZER. It might seem like you are coming upon an intersection in life, but the Lord is making the path abundantly clear. There’s only one way to go and it’s to create a NEW PATH.
There is no other choice. It’s go time. This path requires a new pace of grace, meaning, it won’t always look the way you think. Sometimes God will have you do less, so that He can do more. In seasons of renewal, things just flourish with ease but God makes it very clear what’s Him versus you. Your old mentality has to go.
You have to forgive others, beloved. Sometimes we think it’s the world that’s against us, but really it’s the Lord who has been blocking the path the entire time. God might have shielded others from seeing you. He took you on the long route on purpose. He knew that if the world loved you, then it would distract you from His greater purpose. He wanted you to build from a whole new path and it’s something that only experience and time with Jesus could teach.
You can’t be tainted. The greater the calling, the tougher the path.
If you live, play, compete or create from a place of bitterness, nothing will ever grow. You have to be loose, free and full of joy because “the joy of the Lord is your STRENGTH!”
The day you release and let go of all resentment and bitterness, is the day that you’ll find full freedom and can walk into the new with a new pace of grace. This is not the season to hold grudges anymore. Move forward and let everything go. You can’t take old baggage on this new path. There has to be a softening of your heart that can only come by seeing yourself like God does. Your entire life must be deeply rooted in love. Only then can you properly be used for His glory. Some of you are on the final stretch! You’ve come so far, so keep pushing!
BIBLE SPOTLIGHT
Phoebe was a trailblazer! She, as a woman, carried Paul’s letter to Rome that contained some of the greatest Christian theology in history! Paul uses the Greek word prostatis to describe her. It means “the one who goes first,” and “a champion defender.” She was a woman of great importance!
“Embrace her with honor, as is fitting for one who belongs to the Lord and is set apart for him. So provide her whatever she may need, for she’s been a great leader and champion for many…” — Romans 16:2b (TPT).
GUARD YOUR HEART: I don’t know who this is for, but be very mindful of who you surround yourself with in this new TRAILBLAZER season.
Everyone can’t go, this includes people who might feel like the right fit, but they are blocking you from receiving the Lord’s best. Do you want to be married? Then don’t surround yourself with people who fulfill that role in other ways whether it’s personal or work relationships or partnerships. It’s time to buckle down and get serious. It’s not play time, it’s work time for the kingdom.
Sometimes we think we have healthy relationships with others, but really they are filling a void that the Father wants to occupy. He’s trying to teach you how to love others the correct way, but you can’t hear Him correctly by allowing other voices to take His place.
Many of these people are well-meaning and have the right kind of heart, but they are not the ones for you in certain seasons. God wants to be the Person you talk to about everything. He wants to send you the proper relationship without the new person having to compete with those already in your life. What if the Lord has the most beautiful love available for you but you can’t even see it because you’re blinded by the wrong people right now?
They can be good people, but wrong for you at this time. I don’t know who this is for, but there is such an urgency on this message. You have to get a handle on these other relationships and partnerships so that the Lord can get you in the right alignment for where you’re going. It’ll be lonely, it’ll be isolating, but it is the right move.
It’s okay to be different. Abraham loved his relative Lot, but he chose a journey with God because it would change generations in his bloodline. Sometimes we think too small. For some of you, God needs you in the right alignment because there are future children waiting on a union to come together. Abraham went out of his comfort zone and chose a new path with Christ. Abraham allowed Lot to pick his land first, but it was a perverse land. The Lord honored Abraham’s willingness to put all selfishness aside and he became God’s trailblazer.
Genesis 13:14-15 "After Lot had gone, the Lord said to Abram, “Look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west. I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.”
The TRAILBLAZER sign in my dream was massive for a reason. I can really feel the heart of the Father delivering very direct words to someone:
God is saying “you have to take My way over yours; My way is different than anything you’ve seen in your lifetime. You can’t even talk to others about it, because My thoughts and ways are much higher than yours. No one else will understand what I’m doing. If you talk to the wrong people, they will muddy what I’ve been showing you the entire time. Go My route. Choose My way. It might be lonely and isolating at times, but you will come to understand My love in new and powerful ways. I need all of you this season. Others can’t go. I’m outlining a path for you that requires releasing everything you know about your former life and even how you see Me. This path is different and you will be glad you went this way. I’m standing with open arms to clean your open wounds and I am strong enough to help you walk this new path. Your spirit of religion is no longer needed. I want your heart. I want your passion. I want your devotion. I want even your pain. Give it all to Me.”
GOD’S TRAILBLAZERS ARE ENTERING A SPIRITUAL SPRINGTIME FULL OF CELEBRATION!
"See! The winter is past...flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land" (Song of Songs 2:11-13).
BACK TO MY DREAM: Later in the dream I was with a group of people about to get a bonus. The people kept telling us: “pay special attention to the date that the bonus arrives. The date is important.”
When my bonus check came, it was dated 3-20.
In the dream I knew the date had great significance and as I spent time in prayer, the Lord reminded me of a blog post on March 20.
The title: BLOOMING SEASON.
YOU ARE BLOOMING RIGHT ON TIME! What might seem out of season with others is “in season” with God!
A spiritual spring season is marked by:
New beginnings and rapid growth
A sense of renewal and rebirth
Hope and love is in the air
Some of you have already experienced the winter blues in the midst of summer and that is not your portion as we close out this year.
You are walking into a season of rapid growth, acceleration and renewal. You are coming into a completion of time. There is something that is coming full circle. I’m hearing in my spirit “it’s always been you.”
It’s a song from Phil Wickham.
You are the voice that calms the storm inside me / Castle walls that stand around me
All this time, my guardian was You
You are the light that shines in every tunnel
There in the past, You'll be there tomorrow
All my life, Your love was breaking through
IT’S ALWAYS BEEN YOU. 🏹
Ephesians 3:20 — “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us…”
COME BACK MY CHILD
Many people are coming back to their first love in this season — Jesus Christ.
Do you feel like a social outcast or just different from others? Good! The Lord made you that way on purpose. It gives you the right kind of heart.
Luke 17 tells us about a group of social outcasts that Jesus healed from leprosy. They were forbidden to interact with others because of their disease and they were outcasts. They were considered “unclean” and rejected by others. Spiritually speaking, you might feel like a social outcast at times, but God sees you with clarity. You are dearly loved and perfect in His sight.
The story of the 10 lepers teaches us about the one person among the group who was a TRAILBLAZER.
Luke 17:11-13
As Jesus went to Jerusalem, He passed between Samaria and Galilee. As He entered a village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood at a distance.They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!""
Jesus told them to show themselves to the priests. After they were healed, nine of them went on their merry way, but the trailblazer chose a different path.
Luke 17:15-19 (emphasis mine)
One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.
Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?”
Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”
HE PRAISED JESUS IN A LOUD VOICE! Then the leper “threw himself at Jesus’ feet!” Isn’t that incredible?!
The one that turned back was the least likely of them all to thank Jesus because he was a foreigner from Samaria. The others likely had a priest to be declared ceremonially clean.
However, the leper from Samaria didn’t have a priest, so he went to the only one he knew — Jesus.
Some of you have been rejected your entire life and the only person left for you was Jesus. He healed you on His own. He came right into your room and rescued you.
Continue to put Him first and chase your loving Heavenly Father with everything you have! Sing His praises wherever you go because HE IS WORTHY OF ALL!
We all need the leper’s heart. Sometimes we are more like the other nine and go to our pastoral team or spiritual leaders, family or friends before getting alone with Jesus first. Our walk with Christ is not a committee meeting. When God speaks to you, it’s for you. Silence is golden. It is a gift. You don’t need to share with the committee what the Lord is speaking over you.
We reach for our phones to share our anguish with everyone else but Christ. We cling to promises tighter than the Promiser. We fantasize about being first when Jesus calls us to be last. We run to our friends and family to get their thoughts before going to the feet of Jesus who can give us the best directions.
We often forget to turn back and just thank Christ for loving us and accepting our selfish, spotted, leper-hearts who might seem righteous to men, but we are actually very impure.
That’s really what this new era is all about. Jesus is teaching us to love Him like children once again. He’s reminding us how “I am yours and you are mine.”
The love of our Father is so profound that we are truly not worthy of Him but He loves us anyway. Sometimes in the passion and zeal of chasing our own dreams, we forget to turn around and thank God for the now. He’s carried us so far and just loving us is more than we deserve. Promises and gifts and all of that is great. However, at the end of the day, give me Jesus. Living in unity and wholeness with Him is the Promise Land.
Reading and loving the Bible and Word of God is life changing. However, we are not called to be a people who just know Christ by the Word alone. We are called to experience life with Him. It’s relational. Many times He’s our only friend, yet we are the first to abandon Him the second anything exciting or new comes our way.
That’s why sometimes we have to go the long route to remember. Every stage of our walk and journey has purpose. For me, the Lord will allow me to push and toil and try to do it on my own until I reach the point of surrender. I have nothing left. That’s why Jesus looks upon us with compassion and mercy. He knows we are lost sheep. We are simply not strong enough to do it on our own.
Developing a friendship with Jesus is a true privilege and the love and comfort He gives us cannot be put into words. He envelopes us in the power of His mercy, kindness and light.
The Lord has been stirring many people’s hearts in very deep and profound ways lately and He was getting you to a place of surrender.
Recently, I truly remembered my smallness next to Christ. I had a dream where I was wearing this majestic floor-length white-feathered vest that was unlike anything I’ve seen in this lifetime. The dream represented Psalm 91:4 and how the Lord covers us with His feathers. I always imagined that verse more like feathers above our head like an umbrella. However, in my dream, His covering is even closer than that. We literally put on Christ’s feathers like a sturdy and strong vest that envelopes our arms and we wear His love as a mantle of protection wherever we go. Our steps are so in union that His shadow casts over us.
As I was walking in the dream, my boots started getting heavy. Then all my clothes started shedding and I was vulnerable and exposed. When I got to this package facility, they told me my gift was waiting a few more stops away. However, I couldn’t move another inch because of the heavy boots. In the dream, I thought about taking them off and walking back barefoot, but the streets were filthy. Going back was not a choice. I was too tired to walk forward, so I decided to just stop, rest and surrender.
“To be still and know” means to spiritually surrender to our own striving and even conniving. “Moving forward” means being so sensitive to the Lord’s voice that we even know when to stop and wait for His path.
I keep thinking about that feathered vest in my dream and how majestic that covering was from God. Why in the world would I come out of that covering? What was so important to keep plowing forward without my feathers? The more I did it my way, the heavier my boots got and my mantle and clothes were gone with the wind. We need God’s feathers and covering. We cannot do it alone. Every step we walk without the Lord becomes heavier and more painful.
Etch the below verse on your heart. You will need it for the TRAILBLAZER path.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls — Matthew 11:29.
The Message translation says it like this:
“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”
DIRECT PROPHETIC WORDS
Go back to the basics and love the Lord with childlike faith. He desires our intimacy in very small and tender ways like a child who wants to spend the afternoon at the park together. There’s no need for bright lights and “amusement park faith” or all these showy acts. Jesus just wants very intimate, pure moments together that happen out of the shadow. He’s all we need.
This is a season of men coming to the forefront. There will be an overflow of kingdom men and fathers who are new to God-ordained marriage, possibly mid-age who the Lord has been training Himself during the last few years. They have never seen what the Lord is doing during their lifetime. They are breaking generational curses and establishing a completely new family line and will marry women with the same spirit and raise children who will drastically impact the world. Eyes have not seen and ears have not heard what is about to happen. God is reestablishing the family unit back to its intended place. Many of these men have platforms or will have platforms or are leaders in their sphere of influence to teach others how this is done.
Do not give up on this generation. TikTok will be transformative to turn many to the Father. We are already seeing a massive movement underway of how people are leaving the New Age and the occult because of the Spirit of God speaking through so many people on TikTok. Heaven’s influencers will not be mega pastors or those already established. God has chosen select men and women who have been called to this very platform. They have been chosen for this call. They are creative, determined, anointed and able to share the gospel in such powerful ways that it will spark curiosity to new people. We are about to see an outpour of Christ on this platform. Support these young men and women.
The same thing is happening on YouTube, but in a different kind of way. King Jesus has raised up many new prophetic voices and leaders to teach the gospel on this platform in small, but mighty ways. These new leaders have such a heart for Christ because they have overcome tremendous odds and recognize His love so powerfully. They will continue to pour out the Lord’s love into people.
God is going to speak powerfully this year through sound and music and not just Christian music. Romantic songs and love songs will capture people in new ways. They will know with certainty that Christ is singing the words over their hearts. We are seeing something similar take place on Netflix. Every single week in recent months, new love stories and movies are landing in the Top 10. Many of these movies are very pure and with strong storylines. Hollywood will have to take notice that people are yearning for more clean and pure storylines.
Here is a principle of healing miracles: it’s not how much faith you have, but what you are doing with that faith. The same with those gifted with the power to heal. You can have enough faith to see a miracle and believe God for the impossible, but you have to step forward and be willing to act on that faith with power and purpose. Don’t pray and believe from emotions, but faith.
God’s Will will never contradict His Word. The secret to Jesus’ healing ministry was He always listened to His Father. God can also use doctors as instruments to heal people. If your body needs healing, really listen to the Lord more than others. Read Psalm 103.
Verses for someone:
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5).
“The Spirit of the Lord will control you, you will prophesy with them, and you will be transformed into a different person. When these signs have happened to you, do whatever your circumstances require because God is with you” (1 Samuel 10:6-7, HCSB).
“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak whatsoever He hears. He will also declare to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, because He will take from what is Mine and declare it to you” (John 16:13-14).
The Year of the Lord’s Favor
Welcome to the Isaiah 61 Year! This is the Year of the Lord’s Favor for many people!
I am hearing “14 years / 4 years / 9 months” outlining the path you have been on before reaching this point.
You are in a 14-year time period, and there is emphasis on the last four years and also the last 9 months in particular.
Pray for the Lord to bring clarity to what that might mean for you.
YOU ARE GOD’S TRAILBLAZER! Follow the Lord wherever you go! God’s love never fails. Love and only love can build a bridge. Everything must be rooted in love.
YOU ARE A TESTIMONY.
YOU HAVE TASTED AND YOU’VE SEEN.
GOD’S LOVE NEVER FAILS.
ISAIAH 61:1-11
The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,
to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor.
They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.
Strangers will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
And you will be called priests of the LORD, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.
Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours.
“For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them.
Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.”
I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.
