Illuminations

The Sounds of Silence

The Lord began giving me this word two days ago.  As I was being still and listening, it grew and grew in my spirit.

Today, as I write this word, I have a deep, deep sobriety---a great sense of  care and concern for the people of God:

That We Awake, Listen, Discern and Speak.

Amen?

Love


Kelly

 
LOST IN A MOMENT
Farrah Fawcett
Ed MacMahon
Michael Jackson
Billy Mays




I Asked the Lord:

" Why These People, Why Now, What is the Enemy Up To?"

The Lord said, "Voices."

Voices.

The Lord was not calling Ed, Farrah, Michael, and Billy prophets or prophetic voices---but He was revealing to me the common denominator of their public lives--- They all were 'a voice' in a particular sphere of society.

The Lord began to reveal to me that in this season, there is a 2-fold strategy of the enemy to Silence Voices.

First, the enemy is creating such a din and a cacophony of  NOISE from ungodly source that we must go outside the camp to Hear His Voice.

So much of this noise is coming from within more than from without!  Too much debating---especially political issues....too much talking 'about' faith, God, one another---not enough talking to God in faith, talking with one another.  Noise.

The other vector of noise comes from the world.  The world is raising a ruckus to distract us!  It can be deafening if we allow it.

This is all diversionary.  It is to keep us focused on Earth-Realm stuff and issues, preventing us from testifying, prophesying and bearing witness of Jesus.

If we can't hear ourselves think we will not know what to say!


Second, the enemy wishes to silence prophetic voices and all Christians from prophesying.  It seems the tactic is to distract and frustrate those God has called to Declare the Way of the Lord!

"Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. "  Isaiah 6:8

I don't know about you, but I need to Hear His Voice for every move I make.  All the 'moves' I make without His Voice and direction end up going to hell in a hand basket--big time.  Silence is Golden.  Not scripture, but wise words nonetheless.

We must first Hear His Voice to Be His Voice

The Voice of Him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. ~  Isaiah 40:30

There is also a freneticism that goes along with this enemy strategy.  My apostolic counsel, Jerry Phillips identifies this as the "frenetic spirit."  It is a spirit that keeps things roiled up, fussing, wingy.  We say Peace Peace and there is no peace.  It is an unholy disturbance of the Peace that Jesus provided for us on the Cross.

Beloveds, we must enter into the Reality of the Prince of Peace

In Him we live and move and have our being--- and In Him we can Hear Him and Hear ourselves think!


Beloved, if YOU are not the VOICE of Your GENERATION

someone is waiting to take your place!
 




OUR WINNING STRATEGY



  • Stay at the Feet of Jesus  
  • Discipline Yourself to Practice JESUS as Reality
  • Submit to His Voice Alone
  • Commit to Quietness, maybe Silence in His Presence
  • Pray for Direction, Clarity
  • Say Only What He is Saying
  • Do Only What He is Doing
  • Remain Alert
  • Consecrate Your Eyes and Ears---all of your physical and spiritual senses to Him alone.
  • Ask for Increase in Intimacy with Him and in Discerning His Voice
  • Declare the Word of the Lord, Prepare the Way of the Lord

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear His Voice...
 
The Sounds of Silence


Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
A neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools said I,you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whispered in the sounds of silence.


Listen in memoriam of Ed, Farrah, Michael, and Billy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePyo6Q