Prophetic Word – Empty The Trash

This prophetic word is titled Empty Trash.  I believe this is a good time to talk about this subject because for those of you who were affected by this you would’ve already started to see the signs of it in your life.

Who is this word for?  Everyone.  This post will help you to recognize when you are slowly drifting back into old patterns.

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At the beginning of every new year this is usually a time when we make resolutions, get on a fast so that we can start the year off right.  If you haven’t been on a fast yet and would like to join one, you can do that here.

We are hopeful that the year will all go very well for us because we’ve taken the time to sit with God, repent of our sins, hear from God, get rid of the bad habits, mindsets, things that we don’t really want to have around for the rest of the year.

It all goes well for the first week, that is if you are on a week long fast.  If it is for 3 weeks, then it’s all going to go really well for 3 weeks…and then the fast ends.

Now one of two things will happen at this time.  First, the enemy already knows your pattern.  He knows you’re on a fast so now he is going to try to mess up that week, or that 3 weeks so that you are completely blocked, agitated, irritated, distracted and you don’t get what you expected out of the fast.  It is just what he does.

Step 1

If you were blocked, the wise thing to do is extend the fast.  Yes, that is what you do.  It was a week fast, you didn’t hear clearly go to week 2.  Week 2 you just scratch the surface, go in to week 3 and so on and so forth.

To just come off the fast the very same way in which you entered it, you are already off to a bad start because you haven’t gained any ground and you are about to have a repeat of last year.

A spiritual fast is supposed to recalibrate you, realign you with the Almighty God, set right the things that are wrong and give you direction and clarity to move forward.  That is if this is what you are looking for.  If all you wanted to do was lose 5 pounds, then good for you and this post is not for you. If that is what you wanted but never got that, you can sign up for one of our fasts.  But for those of you who want CHANGE continue reading.

Stay on the fast until you get an answer and you have clarity.  Don’t leave until you have breakthrough and you have clear instructions and direction from the Lord.  If you can’t get it with a Daniel Fast, ramp up to the next level which is now you only eat one meal a day, if that is not doing it,….don’t eat!  Unless you have some kind of medical condition where you need to eat, this is the best way to get a breakthrough spiritually.

Shutting down all external media – tv, social media, news, all of it helps to get you there faster.

 

Step 2

Let me introduce you to the recycle bin as it is called on a PC

or Trash as it is called on a MAC.

When you delete something on your computer that is where it goes.  It’s kinda quarantined in an area and stays there until you empty the trash or the recycle bin.  It is still there until you take the final step.

Let’s talk about what this looks like spiritually, you spent a week repenting of your sins, binding up and casting out those demons, rebuking the devil, removing strongholds, evicting the strongman…and all of those things went into the recycle bin.

They are out of your life but they sit there until you completely get rid of them.  You’ve freed up space on the computer/there is now a space in your life where that is now unoccupied.  How you get rid of them is permanently is continuing on the path to keep them out. The space needs to be filled.  Don’t create an environment that allows the sin to come back and thrive.

Any space you don’t occupy will be taken over by the enemy.

Read Exodus 23:20-32

Exodus 23:29-30

²⁹ But I will not drive them out in just one year. If I did, the land would be deserted. There would be too many wild animals for you. ³⁰ I will drive them out ahead of you little by little. I will do that until there are enough of you to take control of the land.

God will not give you everything all at once; otherwise, the enemy will come back and take over.  You have to show that you know how to occupy territory.  The first place you need to occupy…your own mind, your thought life.

You see some of us make a big show on week 1 of the fast, but once it ends….that’s a different story!

Do you know you can recover things from the trash?  Yep, all you have to do is double click on the bin, right click the file and restore. Voila, just like that….it comes back!!

Sigh.

This is why you go on a fast, feel great for a week or two and then there you are by the end of January, your old self again.  Because someone went into the trash and fished it out!  Restore file.

 

Step 3

Sometimes you actually didn’t fish it out of the trash, it is that while you were in a mode of having very clear thoughts, after you got rid of those bewitching spirits,(unoccupied space), your mind starts to roam. Consider the roaming you looking through the recycle bin.  You don’t want anything there but for some reason there you are examining files that you have already discarded, years ago.

It looks like this, now that you are free from this one relationship that you needed to end, you were just there cleaning your house, minding your business, then all of a sudden you start to remember that one boss that you had back in 1981 that was such an awful person.  THEY GOT YOU FIRED!!!!  Now you’re mad.  Anger.  Why?  Because you’re roaming around in the trash.  You pulled up a memory from years ago and those emotions is like files get restored from the trash!!!!  You now have an emotion attached to something that has been over for decades.  You actually put that in the trash 2 fasts ago!  But for some reason here you are angry over it all over again like you never forgave them, BUT YOU DID!

That is the devil and it has nothing to do with the old stuff, nope, this is about the new stuff that you just put in the trash this month.  Have you ever deleted something by mistake and so you have to go into the trash to recover it?  I’m sure you glanced at the names of the other files you have there.  This is how it happens.

The enemy wants you to restore the stuff you just threw in the trash but he needs you to create a door using your negative emotions to bring it back. Otherwise known as, coming into agreement.  He needs you to agree by cosigning with the negative emotions. So he’s got to pull up the old stuff that you are not 100% healed from to get agreement and access to your soul.

So, you deleted the file but there’s still something there that you haven’t fully released…

 

Do you know what this is?  A doorway that the enemy will now use to access your life.  Because anger is a doorway to the devil.

What you need to do is empty the recycle bin, empty trash!

 

Step 4

If you pay attention, every single time you have a huge victory, you got delivered from something, within days you may find your mind wondering off into the trash.  The enemy is trying to create a doorway to pull you right back.  This happens to pastors Sunday night, right after preaching.  You just preached one of your best sermons and there you are Sunday evening, fishing for trash.  The minute you come into agreement with those emotions, BAM!  Spiritual Warfare!

The only time the Lord will bring up old memories is if there is something there to be healed which means you’ll immediately look into healing, extend forgiveness, there is a reason He brings it back and it is for your good.  God is not just going to let you go dumpster diving to leave you

Angry

Doubtful

Unbelief

Envy

Jealousy

Malice

Hurt

Pain

Trauma

Lust

Addiction

Unclean Thoughts

Reliving Abuse

Depression

Guilt

Shame

Unforgiveness towards others

Unforgiveness towards yourself

Unworthiness

Insecurity

Hatred

Bitterness

Fear

Pride

Ungrateful

What happens is the minute you latch on to these emotions, a door is being created in the realm of the spirit for the enemy to come through and start to restore all the files in that folder!  It is all about undoing what you just accomplished on the fast.

THE MINUTE you realize that you are now reflecting on things in your mind that are changing your emotional state from one of calm and peace, you need to immediately pull yourself out of it. IMMEDIATELY and then talk to yourself…I’ve already forgiven that person so there’s no need for me to feel this way.  Shut it down immediately.  I don’t need to sit here and think about “the one that got away” because God has someone perfectly suited of me on the way….

YES!!! Bye Felicia!

Whenever you see all the exes from years ago all of a sudden, start to hunt you down, wanting to “reconnect”, that means you are right at the threshold of a blessing and the devil needs a door!  DON’T GIVE HIM ONE!

The devil already knows that you are very close to the blessing so now all these emotions from the past, all these people floating by in your head.  WHY?  That’s you roaming through the trash!

Focus on your future.  There’s no point in looking at your past.

No one is going to come and sit in the seat next to you if the seat is already occupied.

You can’t pick up something if your hands are already full.

In order to get the new thing, you have to let go of the old thing.

You have to make room for the new.  In your heart and in your mind.  Because you evicted what you did during the fast the enemy is trying to fill it with what’s in your trash, do not do it.

If you just follow through on what I said here, catch yourself every time your mind starts to wander off to the old thing, you will be able to move forward much faster because you’ll always be looking forward and working on the new thing instead of grasping for the old.

Fill your mind with the things of God.  Fill the empty space with preparing for the new.  Fill that void by picking up habits that will help prepare you for your future.  This is what you put there.  Do not roam in your mind through the trash.

What if the memory was good and not bad?

Sometime even that can be bad.  We have a tendency as people to remember only the really good parts of an experience and discard the bad parts.  Unless it was traumatic, it’s like we wipe the flaws under the rug and ignore them.  Amnesia for the bad parts when it really wasn’t as good as you remembered.

And, I’ll explain it to you like this…do you realize that at the end of term of every President of the United States many many many people says “this was the worst President ever” and they are so sure about it too.  But then somehow down the road, we forget. Amnesia sets in. Remember when George Bush was the worst?  LOL. I’m sorry but I can’t think of a better example that people can relate to.  But then Barak came and relieved him of his post as the worst.  But then… Oh goodness no, orange man bad.  But that was a short lived run until what’s his name again?  Oh Never mind, he can’t remember his name either.  The point is, you tend to think what you are going through now as the worst, and forget about all the other things that happened before. You may not feel this way right now but let enough time pass…….just you wait, by the end of the term! They will be picketing “4,6,8,10, give us back the Autopen”! I don’t know why we do this as humans, but we do.  Amnesia!

Check out what the Israelites pulled out of the recycle bin while they were in the wilderness

Numbers 11:4-6

⁴ The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat! ⁵ We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.⁶ But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”

 

When you reminisce about the past, what you see as good really isn’t that good and the worst part is that you can fall into ingratitude.  You don’t appreciate what God is doing for you NOW while you are on the way to your Promised Land.  You end up leaving with this thought pattern of “when Lord?  I’ve been waiting for so long.  Oh it was so much better when…” You start to whine and complain all because you are remembering things from your past.  When it was “better”.  And truth be told, it wasn’t that great.  You just don’t remember.  You don’t recall the circumstances that led to that “good life” the things you conveniently forgot.

You know which part they conveniently forgot as they were reminiscing on cucumbers?  This part…

Exodus 1:11-14

¹¹ So the Egyptians put slave drivers over the people of Israel. The slave drivers treated them badly and made them work hard. The Israelites built the cities of Pithom and Rameses so Pharaoh could store things there. ¹² But the worse the slave drivers treated the Israelites, the more Israelites there were. So the Egyptians became afraid of them. ¹³ They made them work hard. They didn’t show them any pity. ¹⁴ The people suffered because of their hard labor. The slave drivers forced them to work with bricks and mud. And they made them do all kinds of work in the fields. The Egyptians didn’t show them any pity at all. They made them work very hard.

Now if I was there when they brought up the cucumbers and the melons do you know what I would say? “You know what tastes better than leeks, Schlomo?  Freedom.  Freedom taste better than all of that and besides I heard that where we’re going they have grapes as big as the palm of my hands and I cannot wait to see it! And the best part is, we will not be slaves in that place so if what it takes is for us to eat manna until we get there?!….Bring on the manna!”

Don’t forget that the ones who crossed over were the ones who were free from the MEMORIES of Egypt because they were born in the wilderness.  The didn’t have those memories in their recycle bin.

 

YES!!!!  All ya’ll can leave now.

I had a friend who struggled with drug addiction and every time he would get clean he would relapse within 3 months.  When we would talk I asked him what was happening right before the relapse and one day he said that when he would visit his parents they would sit around and reminisce about when he was doing really well in life.  You know back when he had millions.  They would talk about how great their life was then and “those were the good ole days”.  Like he was only valuable back in the 1980s but now, not so much.  He would leave feeling depressed and use again.  What they never brought up was that it was back when he was living this lavish lifestyle that they all loved so much that was when he got into drugs, that part they conveniently forgotten.  Because remember what I told you, we don’t remember the worse part, only the good part and they remembered it better than it actually was.

So they would ultimately leave him feeling like he had no value now.  They keep bringing up something that he could never get back and that would cause him to use again.  Instead of ending it by saying “well, we must acknowledge that it was through that lifestyle that you got addicted to drugs so we’re happy that you’re not in that life anymore because at least now you are on your way to sobriety and you can always start over and do something else.  And you are our son and we still love you.” Naw, they don’t say that part.

So, not every good memory leads to good things.  And there’s a possibility you just conveniently decided to forget the bad parts!

Remember this, it is only coming up because you are on the brink of a breakthrough or you just got delivered from something and the devil wants it restored.  You just crossed over a threshold and the enemy wants to put a hook in you to bring you back.  His parents only spoke like this after he got out of rehab, he was clean and sober and was working to rebuild his life.  The enemy used them to drag him backwards every time.  Some of you may need to do some serious disconnection to keep moving forward.

I guess if you are married and you sit around reminiscing with your spouse about how you met, the birth of your children, things that remind you of really good times without anything that is going to leave either of you spiraling into depression or some other negative emotions, that would be ok.

If you’re remembering loved ones that passed away, that would be ok.  But even that has its limits because if you’re depressed afterwards, it means you went too far into it and you just need to learn how to safely acknowledge the person’s life and step away quickly.

It’s in your mind.  Watch your thoughts.

You just need to pay attention to where it leads.  You can’t constantly bring up that one house you used to have that you lost to foreclosure had the world’s best kitchen!  At some point you need to leave it behind and start envisioning the new house.

That one job where you had the best benefits and the beautiful view of the city, yes, but you don’t have it now and it’s not coming back.  So you need to move on.  Because all that is doing is making you hate driving for Uber Eats when the truth is that is what is putting food on your table now.  THANK YOU GOD for Uber Eats. Gratitude.  That’s what you should be doing.  Ingratitude…door for the devil!

You can’t just sit there and constantly remember the church hurt.  All those people who turned against you.  Think about what it’s doing to your heart?

People who keep bringing up stuff you’ve already apologized for because they can’t let it go! Are you doing that? Please STOP. When is it going to be enough? Unless they did it again, once they said they were sorry, they’re sorry. Let it go! The devil is using you, not just for them but for you too. This is unforgiveness so this regurgitation is affecting you too. Clear up all the issues surrounding it, ask all your questions once and for all and let it go.

Most of the time it is just that we have too much time on our hands, unoccupied..  When you are idle, the devil will keep you busy if you don’t go about doing the Lord’s work.  Read these scriptures Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 18:9, Ecclesiastes 10:18, 2 Thessalonians 3:11, Proverbs 6:6-11.  Find something to do, volunteer at a local shelter, volunteer at your church, if you can’t leave your house volunteer online, send us an email and we’ll give you something to do to keep yourself occupied.

You see the devil will ON PURPOSE send people our way to give us these emotions so he can create the doorway.  On purpose.  They love to get you angry, discord, division, fearful on purpose. Yes, folks.  Pay attention. They were sent on an assignment. He needs your agreement to create the door so as soon as you recognize that it is happening, you back up immediately.  Breathe, say to yourself if they are infront of you “I see you devil and I rebuke you in the name of Jesus” and you keep it moving. Bring yourself into a state of CALM. Shift to neutral.  Then turn your emotions centered this way >>>>>> love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, self control.  BOOM!

I WIN!!!!

The God I serve, says….

Haggai 2:9

‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and in this place I shall give [the ultimate] peace and prosperity,’ declares the Lord of hosts.”

So why in the world would I look behind me?  BETTER is up ahead.

What comes next is better than what you had before.  Promise land living will be better than cucumber, leeks and onions from Egypt!

Isaiah 61:7

Instead of being ashamed [your shame], you will receive twice as much wealth [a double portion]. Instead of being disgraced [dishonored; humiliated], they will be happy because of what they receive [rejoice over their portion]. They will receive a double share of the land, so their happiness will continue forever [everlasting joy will be theirs].

I don’t have to worry about what I lost because it get replaced with better multiplied by two.  I can REST.

Genesis 41:51-52

⁵¹ Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh [He Helps Me Forget], because God helped him forget all his troubles and all about his father’s family. ⁵² He named the second son Ephraim [Blessed Twice With Children], because God gave him children in the land where he had suffered.

He wants you to forget all the bad that ever happened to you so what He’s planning to give you WILL MAKE YOU FORGET!!!!!  The recycle bin was destined to be EMPTIED…forgotten!!!!!!!!

Do you remember what you emptied from your recycle bin or your trash 10 years ago?  NO!!!!  Because you are not supposed to remember the trash!

Jeremiah 29:11

¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

But you can’t lay hold of it until you let go of all the old stuff.  Don’t allow the enemy to pull up the stuff from a trash bin and loop you back into your old life that you discarded when you were on the fast.

YES!!!  Please and Thank you!

And now for the sound effects..

PC

 

MAC

 

Aaah the sweet sound of progress!  LOL. Now go empty your trash/recycle bin yourself so you can enjoy the sound!!

2026 Here we come!!!!!!!!!!!

Blessings!