This prophetic word is titled Pillar of Cloud by Day, Pillar of Fire by Night.
Who is this word for? Everyone.
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Have you ever read a scripture and it is just so JUICY??? I mean it just taste so good!!!!!!! Phew! I have a juicy scripture for you here.
This word is like 3 separate messages in one but they can all work together as well.
Numbers 9:15-23
15 On the day the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant law, was set up, the cloud covered it. From evening till morning the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire. 16 That is how it continued to be; the cloud covered it, and at night it looked like fire. 17 Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tent, the Israelites set out; wherever the cloud settled, the Israelites encamped. 18 At the Lord’s command the Israelites set out, and at his command they encamped. As long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they remained in camp. 19 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a long time, the Israelites obeyed the Lord’s order and did not set out. 20 Sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days; at the Lord’s command they would encamp, and then at his command they would set out. 21 Sometimes the cloud stayed only from evening till morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they set out. Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they set out. 22 Whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain in camp and not set out; but when it lifted, they would set out. 23 At the Lord’s command they encamped, and at the Lord’s command they set out. They obeyed the Lord’s order, in accordance with his command through Moses.
The point here is, your cloud today is the Holy Spirit. You need to get very familiar with following the leading of the Holy Spirit in this hour. WE do not have the same journey, everybody is different. We are all waiting on something different, starting something different, heading in different directions, even if it’s the same thing we are at different points in the journey…THERE ARE NO TWO PEOPLE ALIKE. Therefore, comparing yourself to other people is a mistake.
The only Person that can tell you when to move and when to stay is God. If you don’t spend time every day with the Lord in prayer, you may miss when you should move and when you need to stay put. Notice, that you cannot set a habit or pattern of when you should move and when you should not. It may be 1 day, 2 days, a month, a year, daytime or nighttime! The point is that you need to be so in tuned that you know when it is time to boogie!
If you are a woman and you’ve ever been pregnant, the most annoying part of the pregnancy is the 8th month. Because at that point, you are over it! And you just want it to be over, but you can’t do anything until it’s time. Are you feeling annoyed? Restless? You just know you are on the brink of something? You’re probably in the 8th month and that can look like 1 day, 2 days, a month or a year! For real! So the only person who knows when it is time is YOU by the leading of the Holy Spirit. OK? No prophetic word can tell you this. Only the mother of the baby knows when the water breaks. This is where your personal relationship with the Lord comes into play. I hope you have the Holy Spirit, if not, please pray to receive Christ here.
Prayer: Holy Spirit, please fill me afresh and help me to discern the timing of things. If it is possible and You can give me a timeline on this, please do. I need to be so in tune with You so that I know when it is time to wait and when it is time to go. I ask that You make me sensitive to your Spirit, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
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Exodus 13:21-22
. 21 By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night. 22 Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.
When you start to move, you have to check in with the Holy Spirit as you go. You cannot just assume that you know exactly what to do because at some point He may need you to take a left turn. It has happened to me a few time when I thought the Lord was leading me to a place and as I headed down that road it didn’t work out. Then I stop and say to myself, how did this not work out? Only to realize IT WAS NEVER ABOUT THAT. I assumed it was. He just needed me to get going so that I could get to where He really wanted me to go. It was about something else but I couldn’t see it until I went in that direction. Jehovah Sneaky knows exactly the type of motivation you need to get you going and He’ll bring a situation to get you moving….only for you to find out it was never about that. You didn’t get it wrong, it was never about that.
Sometimes you can also overshoot your target only to realize that you are one mile beyond where you should have turned off the road, then you have to back track. Hence, check in often.
You cannot move in pride. If it doesn’t work out, just know that there was another reason why He sent you in that direction and ASK, Lord, why did you send me down this road? You’ll see it.
Prayer: Lord, remind me by Your Spirit when I need to stop and reassess to see where I am and what I need to do next, in Jesus’ name Amen!
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Here comes the JUICY scripture!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When it is time to crossover or to give birth…
Exodus 14
19 Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them, 20 coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.
That was me when I read this scripture. Oh wow! So Juicy!
When they got to the Red Sea when it was time to CROSSOVER, everything changed. There was no cloud in front of them. I picture this as seasons when you have no clue what is happening. God is silent. You cannot see what is happening there and it appears there is no movement, nothing going on.
Perhaps, just perhaps, that is because He has moved behind you and He’s standing in between you and your enemies!!!!!!!!
Here’s the cool thing about this scenario, no matter how hard they look, stalk, peep, monitor, they can’t see ANYTHING!
Because the cloud is blocking them, they are in darkness! Block ’em Jesus! Block ’em! LOL. But on your side, it is so sunny! Just… quiet, a stillness. You can see them very clearly but they can’t see you!
ooooh this is so juicy! LOL
The only way they know is if you walk past the cloud that the Lord put there for your protection and tell them, and that would be a tragic mistake.
Some of you know this story already but in the last housing crash of 2008 God told me to sell my house. People were foreclosing left, right and center. There were numerous houses in my development and using pure logic it was the worse possible time to sell a house. I obeyed and got an offer within 15 minutes of the house hitting the listing before the agent could even put the lock box on the door. When she showed up with the lock box the buyer was waiting for her at the house and she didn’t even need to put it on the door.
Because all my friends thought I was crazy to just randomly get up and sell my house, I told them within minutes, they were in shock. Well, the next couple days, the deal fell through. I told them. Then I had another offer the following day, I told them. That deal fell through, I told them. THREE TIMES!!! Because no where in my mind did I ever think these people would ever have bad intentions in their heart for me.
There is something called jealousy and you need to be very aware of it. I don’t care if they are your friends, you need to keep quiet about it. STOP TALKING. Sometimes it’s not even them but they are telling it to someone else and you don’t know!
I finally learnt my lesson after the 3rd time so then I decided to use another approach, when it fell through the 3rd time , I didn’t tell them about the 4th buyer. I had 4 buyers in the space of 3 weeks when nobody was buying anything. Because when the Lord decides to do something, He does it!
I firmly believe it would’ve closed with the 1st buyer if I just shut my mouth. They sat there waiting for me to inform them when I had the next buyer… and I didn’t. So the whole time they thought I was waiting for the buyer, I was waiting for the closing date! No one knew until the day after the closing. “oh, you closed? I thought you were waiting on a buyer?” “Oh no, I already had a buyer I was waiting on the closing”. “I thought your buyer fell through”, “They did and then God sent me another”
That was my first lesson in… you never know what is in someone’s heart. Jealousy is a spirit that can jump from one person to the next. So, the minute you get rid of one person with that spirit here comes another one. And if you happen to walk in favor, it is something you have to get used to. You have to get use to it and learn how to navigate through it. And because about 8 people knew about it – friends and family members, I had no idea which one of them was harboring this in their heart. So, I decided only the necessary parties need to know…it’s me, the realtor, the buyer, and their realtor.
In these seasons, it is called “Need to know basis”. Unless you are the buyer, or you are the seller, you don’t need to know. If they need to know, tell them. If not, ferme la bouche. ¡Cállate!
Thank God He was so gracious to me and kept bringing it back around until I realized what was happening. I tend to think well of people, and sometimes God has to remind me…they are people, made of flesh, and you don’t know what is in their hearts. You may not have the luxury of Him bringing it around 4 times for you, so guard it from the beginning.
They may be perfectly fine with you at one level, but go ahead and reach their level or take one step higher… all of a sudden they turn into someone else! Saul had no issue with David playing his ukulele but the minute he turned warrior? That’s when he had a problem with him. You are good enough for the sheep pen, good enough for the ukulele, but warrior?…hmmm…..the next king? Ain’t no way!! They start to get spiteful and weird. This whole time David didn’t change! He’s just following the instructions of the Lord. But this is what your success will do to some people. And, you never see it until you are at the doorway of success. You didn’t even know they were like that.
Why am I telling you this story? When God puts that cloud there, it is there for a reason. If they can’t see it, don’t say it. Keep quiet. Move in silence.
Not all the people you think are happy for you, are truly happy for you. You’re going on a job interview, ssshhhh. After you have the job letter, it’s signed, contract in hand, now you can talk. If it falls through, tell them it fell through…if something else opens up, keep it to yourself. If they assume the deal fell through, let them assume. They’ll stop monitoring you if they believe there is nothing to monitor.
Gatekeep the information.
Prayer: Holy Spirit, teach me how to put a guard over my mouth in critical seasons. Move Your cloud behind me to protect me from the enemy. Blind the eyes and deafen the ears of every monitoring spirit with Your cloud over my life, around my family, around my ministry, around my church, around my business, around my house, around my children. Cut off their access and remind me of this prayer as I forge forward in Jesus’ name Amen!
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In closing, check in with Holy Spirit often to be sure you are on the correct path. Move when He says move and stop when He says stop. If you are not hearing God and you have no idea where things stand, but you have PEACE, perhaps the cloud is behind you, protecting you. Remain calm. Stop over sharing and if what is in front of you looks impossible, HE is right there with you….just behind you. Don’t look back, look forward.
Blessings!
I just went through that same experience. The Lord told me to sell my house to relocate from PR back to the states. I did not tell anyone in my Church including my Pastors for that same reason everytime I mentioned what God was doing it would fell through. So, I learned. I sold the house in one week for more than the appraisal and when all was finished I told them I was moving to the states…thank you for the Word because it helped me to know to keep.my.mouth shut!
This is such a good word!! I have been praying these points as of late before I even read this!! I’ve been saying to myself “you talk too much” and I have to just be mum and watch God work! It’s a shame that I can’t confidently speak about my blessings right now due to jealousy but I will not apologize for how God is blessing and moving! Thank you for this great word! I keep thinking about this secular rap song for my life, a lyric says “DONT BELIEVE ME JUST WATCH!!!”
AMEN!
Thank you Heavenly Father for this message. You’re always on time!
Very timely word!!!
This is so timely. I have been struggling with this lately(information sharing). Thank you for the confirmation and prayers.