(part 2)
First, the Lord showed me a Scripture card where I’d written Psalm 72 about Him CRUSHING THE OPPRESSOR:
He will vindicate the afflicted of the people, Save the children of the needy, AND CRUSH THE OPPRESSOR. …For he will deliver the needy when he cries for help, The afflicted also, and him who has no helper. Psalm 72:4, 12
As I meditated on this passage and prayed over it, He brought back to mind a passage He had given us on 2/3 (Psalm 68). I had written parts of it down on a Scripture card:
Blessed be the Lord, Who {daily} bears our burdens and carries us day by day, even the God Who is our salvation! Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! God is to us a God of deliverances and salvation {healing, deliverance, protection, etc.}; and to God the Lord belongs escape from death [setting us free]. But God will SHATTER {or CRUSH} THE HEADS OF HIS ENEMIES, the hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his trespasses and guilty ways. The Lord said, I will bring back [your enemies] from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the [Red] Sea, THAT YOU MAY CRUSH THEM, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their share from the foe. (part of Psalm 68)
He reminded me that on 2/15, I “happened” to come across this Scripture card and began to read it and meditate on it again. That same night, Jesse asked me to read something he’d written. When I did, I was SO EXCITED to see further confirmation of this same passage (Jesse had not seen the card I’d written and didn’t know I’d just been meditating on this passage).
He had written about how Psalm 68 was one of the songs that Israel’s musicians used as they were MARCHING INTO BATTLE in order to DECLARE THEIR VICTORY and ANNOUNCE THE ENEMY’S DEFEAT EVEN BEFORE THE BATTLE BEGAN!!!!! (Of course that also goes along with our former themes from the Slaying the Giants series!!) I was so thrilled with God’s continued confirmation of this passage and the powerful prophetic promise He was giving us through it!
As I remembered these words from February and continued meditating on Him CRUSHING THE HEADS OF OUR ENEMIES (in the spiritual realm), CRUSHING OUR OPPRESSORS, and allowing US to CRUSH them through Him as well, He also brought back to mind Romans 16:20.
The God of peace will soon CRUSH Satan UNDER YOUR FEET. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. Romans 16:20
A day or two later, Sunday (3/23), I was looking back through my journal and saw another word that God had given us exactly a week earlier (3/16) from Ivan’s book which was also based on Psalm 68! At that point I realized He had been bringing the Psalm 68 theme back up again before I even recognized it. The word from the 16th not only included our themes from Psalm 68 again, but also contained confirmation of what I wrote in the last message about
~ the invisible trumping and transforming the visible
~ and that the enemy’s weapons/works – the symptoms and circumstances that contradict and attempt to exalt themselves above the Truth of God’s Words – are LIES, DECEPTION, SHADOWS, ILLUSIONS, smoke and mirrors in comparison to the Truth of God’s Word. Their report counts for NOTHING, is irrelevant, doesn’t get a vote, and is not to be considered.
Part of it said, “Remind yourself today that the devil is a defeated liar. He has no new tricks, lies, deceptions, lusts, fears, doubts, or accusations. All of those weapons are broken now. … TRUST Me. EXPECT THE AMAZING FROM ME. I WILL LIFT YOU OUT OF THE SHADOW ” (from Ivan Tait’s, Letters from God) (Lifting has also been a recent theme.).
I knew the Lord was continuing to confirm the messages that these attacks of the enemy are LIES/SHADOWS/ILLUSIONS in comparison to the Truth of His Word. Again, we don’t deny that they exist, but we deny them THE RIGHT to exist in our lives because of what Jesus has done for us. And as we stay in agreement with the TRUTH, it will TRUMP and TRANSFORM those lies and illusions of the enemy, overthrowing them and bringing them into obedience to Christ. I also saw that He was tying these previous themes together with the themes from Psalm 68 – stating that He is daily carrying our burdens (and carrying us) and that He (/WE) will CRUSH the head of the enemy and overcome!
Due to some other things written in the word the Lord gave us on the 16th (that He had reminded me of on the 23rd through my journal), I asked Him for further confirmation. (I didn’t tell Jesse any of this.) That same night (3/23) when we went to bed, the Lord gave us the EXACT same word from Ivan’s book! This was undeniable confirmation! Yesterday, I was so elated by this additional confirmation of Psalm 68 that I was considering posting all the words about CRUSHING THE ENEMY UNDER OUR FEET on FB. But I was busy working on the recent prophetic series (trying to finish pt 8 and 9) and never got to it.
So, THIS MORNING, when I saw this message from Rick Renner, I felt as though I could launch out of the house and fly around the neighborhood!!!
to be continued…
