(Angelic encounter and vision)

We were all dark and void just like the earth before God spoke the Light into existence. Jesus went to the bowels of darkness and overcame death so that we may have His Light. When we receive Him, we receive His Light of Life and become children of the Light.

Any area that is still dark, void, or dim in our life needs more of Jesus, as He is the Light of the world. These are the areas that are still needing to be transfigured on this side of Heaven. “The [basis of the] judgment (indictment, the test by which men are judged, the ground for the sentence) lies in this: the Light has come into the world, and people have loved the darkness rather than and more than the Light, for their works (deeds) were evil. [Isa. 5:20.] For every wrongdoer hates (loathes, detests) the Light, and will not come out into the Light but shrinks from it, lest his works (his deeds, his activities, his conduct) be exposed and reproved. But he who practices truth [who does what is right] comes out into the Light; so that his works may be plainly shown to be what they are–wrought with God [divinely prompted, done with God’s help, in dependence upon Him].”
‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭19‬-‭21‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

What’s even wilder to me is God will actually use the dark to accomplish His plans. EVERYTHING is subject to Him! Coming into this revelation is completely transformative. The darkness can not overwhelm the Light because He created it! “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” Isaiah‬ ‭45‬:‭7‬ ‭KJV‬‬

God separated the light from the darkness to create a division. He uses the division for resistance, boundary and exposure. The Lord has been individually working with me to bring a greater revelation on how the darkness is subject to Him. Without going into too much detail, this week has felt like something straight out of a fairytale. The fiercest ‘birthing season’ I have ever encountered. Just a few days ago while I was sleeping in the night I felt a hand grab my right arm and shake me awake. I didn’t know who or what it was, and just seconds later I felt cold go through my body. “Oh I know what that is is” I think to myself as I roll over to face it, though unafraid. I couldn’t see the demon, however as I glanced around there was physical light in my room and my eyes were drawn upward to this light, where I then saw an angel standing right beside my bed a few steps back from where the demon was. The angel’s shoulder (which reached the height of my ceiling fan) and wing were most illuminated to me, that is what I saw most clear. I then laughed, as I was receiving more of the revelation – I can not be overwhelmed by the darkness, because darkness is subject to the Lord! The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it!

Perhaps one of the greatest tests we will face head on is loving our enemy – actually realizing that sometimes they are part of the Lord’s plan to get us where we need to go. Jesus never stopped loving Judas and yet He knew this disciples fatal end. The maturity was knowing yet still loving, though painful to the heart He understood His Father’s plan. He would go to Sheol even for His betrayers, and I am so thankful because we ALL like sheep have gone astray at one juncture or another. And in that abyss of darkness our Lord overcame all betrayal, mockery, shame, rejection and despise. Only one sin He found unpardonable, “Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy (every evil, abusive, injurious speaking, or indignity against sacred things) can be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the [Holy] Spirit shall not and cannot be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Spirit, the Holy One, will not be forgiven, either in this world and age or in the world and age to come.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭12‬:‭31‬-‭32‬ ‭AMPC‬‬. The darkness is subject to it’s Creator and Light has overcome it!

This past Sunday 7.9.23, while in worship I had a vision of a giant sunflower that appeared to be “laying down” with its face toward the sun. From the heavens there was a clear jar of oil pouring over the head of the sunflower. The next day I understood the meaning as the Holy Spirit led me to the Word, “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my [brimming] cup runs over.” ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭23‬:‭5‬ ‭AMPC‬‬. Though I may literally be surrounded in the presence of my enemies, the Lord prepares a table. I am not consumed with the presence of the enemy, I am feasting and resting in the Lord. Perhaps this is how the woman in Revelation 12 successfully birthed, quite ironically described as ‘a woman clothed with the sun’. Though there were tears and pains of labor and an awareness of the dragon who was attempting to devour what was being birthed, the assassination was not successful. For reprieve she went to the desert after birth for nourishment, as the scripture writes ‘a place prepared by God’.

If the Lord has prepared a table for you in the presence of your enemy, it is the safest place one can be. I believe this is the greatest test at this level, if one can lock eyes with the Lord here and be consumed by His Presence, even while knowing and seeing and feeling the presence of your enemy. The choice and test is ours, however the future day is at hand, everlasting joy is eminent as Song of Solomon writes of the promise, ““Who is this coming up from the wilderness Leaning upon her beloved?” “Under the apple tree I awakened you [to my love]; There your mother was in labor with you, There she was in labor and gave you birth.” ‭‭Song of Solomon‬ ‭8‬:‭5‬ ‭AMP‬‬.

Intimacy has always been and will always be our greatest weapon. I often write about how Paul mentions before putting on the full armor of God, to be ‘empowered by our union with Him’.

There is nothing greater than Jesus’ Light and Love. His love overcomes all darkness, as He swallowed it once and for all. “Put me like a seal on your heart, Like a seal on your arm; For love is as strong as death, Jealousy is as severe and cruel as Sheol (the place of the dead). Its flashes are flashes of fire, [A most vehement flame] the very flame of the Lord! Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can rivers drown it. If a man would offer all the riches of his house for love, It would be utterly scorned and despised.”” ‭‭Song of Solomon‬ ‭8‬:‭6‬-‭7‬ ‭AMP‬‬.

In this critical birthing season, will we believe the Lord? Will we trust Him? Will we put our faith in Him knowing with greater revelation that He has created darkness therefore it is subject to Him?

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭1‬:‭1‬-‭4‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“For You will light my lamp; The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭18‬:‭28‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“For God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as [to beam forth] the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God [as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed] in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah). [Gen. 1:3.]”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭6‬ ‭AMPC‬‬