Lift Your Voice with the Sound of Heaven

“When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.” The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.” (Psalm 126:1-3 NIV)

    As I was reading Psalm 126 this morning, Holy Spirit called my attention to the footnotes at the bottom of the page. There I found two variations in translation. One is for the wording, “the Lord brought back the captives to Zion..” It can be rightly rendered, “restored the fortunes of Zion.” The other variation follows immediately. Where it reads, “we were like men who dreamed” it can be rendered, “those restored to health.” When I saw this, it lead me to begin praying, “I seek to experience this reality more and more, my Lord. I desire to be a sign and a wonder of Your healing love and Your abundant life released in and through me.”

    Then Holy Spirit began to speak. What He says is not just a word for me (although I am deeply stirred with it); but, a word for the Church and the nation in these days of great change. The Spirit of the Lord says:

    “Let go of the past and embrace the now. I have removed all chains, broken down every prison door, taken away all reproach. I have restored what the enemy tried to steal, and given new life, Abundant Life to what the enemy tried to kill and destroy.”

    I hear You, my Lord say, “lift up your voice, release the Song of the Lord! Let the heavens and the earth resound with the Sound of Heaven resonating within you! For I call you forth from the places of bondage into the place of Liberty.”

    “Enlarge your place, stretch out to the North and South, to the East and the West. Expand the Temple of Praise, expand your Heart of Worship. Do not hold back, but release the Sound of Joy!” Says the Lord.

    “It is this Sound, this Song, that breaks the chains and sets the captive free, My Beloved. This Sound is the Song of Deliverance, the Song of Prosperity, the Song of Healing, the Song of Peace, the Song of Redeeming Grace, the Song of Righteousness, the Song of Justice, the Song of Love and Joy.”

   I hear the Spirit say, “I AM shaking the nations. I AM opening their eyes to see and their ears to hear the Sound of Heaven released in this hour.” “I AM stirring up the hearts of the nations as they look at you. Can you hear? The nations even now are crying out, “The Lord has done great things for them.” The nations that see and turn, I will pour out of My Spirit a Great Awakening, and they will join with you and become one with you in the Song of the Lord,” says the Lord.

    I hear You, my Lord, say to Your Church: “Do not let any unclean thing, any critical or negative or dark thing become attached to your Song, for I have cleansed and purified, healed and delivered. And, what I have restored to you is Light and Life. Therefore, Beloved, be holy, for I AM holy.”

    The Spirit says, “What I have cleansed and purified, healed and delivered must resonate evermore deeply with Me. Do not mingle the cleansed and purified with the soiled and degraded; nor allow what is healed and delivered to join with that which is bound in a covenant with death.”

    “Have I not said, do not conform to the pattern of the world? The pattern of the world is rooted in the frequencies of death and disease. It has dominated long enough!” Says the Lord. “Embrace the pattern of Heaven for it is the pattern of Life-it is My Song. And the more you engage, the greater the expansion. This expansion of My Song in you collapses the pattern of the world. It becomes dust under your feet.” Therefore, Beloved, RESOUND the Song of the Lord! It is what releases the weapons of warfare that conquers all!”

    “For the weapons of this Great Awakening are the weapons Love, Joy, Peace, Forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. No weapon formed against these shall prevail. Nor will darkness overcome. Destruction shall not enter your borders for I have brought you forth in this hour for My Glory. And, your joy will set the captives free. Your Song will shatter the darkness with the Light and change the atmosphere of earth into the atmosphere of Heaven.”