A Word for the Season ~ March 2017
A Word for the Season
Times and seasons are very essential things when we look at God’s Word, because time has always been a significant factor.
Within it, we see cycles and patterns that set in motion things for the purpose of them being be clearly identified, recognized, and not over looked by us.
I see a convergence of so many things all taking place at the same time. Jesus, who is the Alpha and Omega is drawing lines in the sand about the things that man has judged to be one thing when His rendering was different.
It has been clearly spoken that when it comes to the mind of Christ and our own mind they many times don’t line up. The truth being that God’s way of thinking, processing, and judging far exceeds our own.
As clear as that is many of us have forgotten that. I believe, we are about to see a marking in time. As we are trying to get everything in focus, we will see suddenlies occur before our eyes.
A week or so ago I had a very lucid series of unusual dreams revealing some things that were not on my mind nor on my prayer list. One dream stood out among the rest, and I believe in this dream He began to clarify somethings that were indicators of what we are looking at right now.
I was in the midst of a Kingdom gathering and things begin to happen. Things that I wanted to control how they occurred almost as if I wanted to slow down the process. I found myself adjusting to the situation instead of the situation adjusting to suit me. I began to go with it as I knew that it was God’s will being walked out in the process.
An unusual man appeared speaking to me. Quickly I went to slow him down and he then lead me out of the building. The next I knew, I had left the gathering to walk out a path so to speak, that was highly significant at that time. Before I knew it, I had walked upon new ground (freshly laid ground), and I knew it was important to adjust again.
(I want you to know. Things are rapidly unfolding and we are not going to be able to dictate the process and how it will be walked out. And it will unfold before us without notice.)
In the dream, I said “Wow I have just come upon freshly laid sod!” My shoes had sod on them and I wanted to clean them. The man lead me to a clean body of water, so close I don’t know how I didn’t see it before. I sat there and cleaned my shoes and my feet and then woke up.
My daughter has a gift of interpreting dreams. She said, “You were in a place where God’s will was starting to unfold before you. Though you could recognize that these events were occurring because of God, you could not mange and alter the things happening around you. It was Sovereign.
Then God sends you a messenger like He has throughout the pattern of His word when something significant was coming, but the nature of whom He sends you, is unique. You could not comprehend what he was saying because he spoke fast.
I believe he “the man” was acceleration. Possibly an angel of acceleration. Realizing that you couldn’t understand him, he does what he was sent to do, leading you into a new place. One called SOD. This is the place where Suddenly Overtakes Delay.
As you noticed, things stuck to you after trying to adjust. He shows you that this is a place where you don’t have to worry a place where solutions appear even faster than problems.
I believe that in that place, you washed yourself of worry and gave in to trusting God, despite the unusually quick occurrences around you.
I also believe that the gospel and the good news God has given you, and those like you, will carry the power to overcome and accelerate during this season, as well as the authority to tread over delay.
Go with God’s flow and follow His process. For it’s nothing strange, it’s just the season we are in.”
After I received her interpretation, the LORD confirmed to me that not just was every word true, but it was a direct word for this season!
Many times we weary in the wait of that which He has spoken, then when the suddenlies appear, we don’t quite realize it until it is upon us. No matter how prophetic, wise in the LORD, or confident in areas of discernment we may be, God’s ways are much higher.
It is our time before God, in submission, that helps us to bridge the gap. When we get there we will know that our delay has been dealt with through sudden manifestation of God’s will for our lives, brought about by acceleration.
As I was in before the LORD, He spoke to me about not just “the walk” (the process) of getting to where we are suppose to be, but also to the seeing of signals, so that we won’t miss our day of visitation.
When I say “the day of visitation,” many times the statement is made, “When He comes how will he find us?” (Luke 18:8).
But before that, will we know who He is and what we have truly walked upon? They walked upon the road to Emmaus. Ἐμμαούς, Emmaus means, “uncertain” or “hot spring.”
Now the dual meanings alone sheds much light about the path on which Jesus appeared to them. The walk they took with Jesus was everything, and yet they could not see it was Him.
God is leading us in unusual and unexpected ways down paths of uncertainty, into places of with supernatural springs. Yet to go through the process, we must walk with Him. Even when we can’t see and understand, we have to get to the place where we trust God and allow Him to reveal His heart, His plan, and His purposes to us.
We have become so dependent on ourselves, we have been talking about Jesus and have not even noticed that He has been trying to lead and walk with us. This is a season to follow God. To surrender our control, so that we might experience the grand reveal of His plan.
As times progresses, much will happen, but those who trust in God and surrender to Him in this time will be taken to supernatural places, (Luke 24:13-35).
We are about to walk upon ground that seems insignificant, because it is not a large place. The birthing of great things can happen in the obscure places. Micah begins to speak about Bethlehem Ephratah אֶפְרָתָה בֵּית לֶחֶם (which was the place of His birth) telling them how one will be born from that land who would rule all.
Jesus was born in BETHLEHEM! Prophecy fulfilled in a small forgettable place in a small stable, (Micah 5:2).
Stop focusing on the smallness of the place you’re in, but see the potential and know that your God will do great things. I tell you today there is about to be something big happening on small ground.
In small places, in the “Bethlehems” all over, we will see revival fires burning bright. Outpourings of the anointing like we have seen in times pass. People will be healed, miracles will break out, and the news agencies will start to gather to see what is going on.
Those embers will blow upon larger reasons and many will look to the larger regions, but others will know where it first happened. His oil is about to be poured upon nations of people.
The marking of time has begun and this oil will not stopped, but it flow and grow. It will begin to bring others to receive and witness the plan and move of God. Despise not the day of small things, (Zachariah 4:10).
We are about to hear the sound of the wind over the mulberries trees and we will clearly know that a fresh move of the coming of the LORD will yield grace and take place before us, and all of heaven will rejoice.
Ladies, a Special Note:
Beautiful Ladybugs, I know we can all look back and see the road from where we have journeyed.
It has been long and arduous but despite it all, The LORD God Almighty has been forming us, fashioning us, and preparing us for these times ahead. It’s time to pick up and move forward with all you have been given. The prophets have echoed it over and over, that it is time for women to come forth in great measure!
Women, we are strategic. In every great move there were women doing tremendous Kingdom work. In every battle we were right there and for every prayer, visibly praying, always ready somewhere in the midst.
Whether we were the women of the tribe of Manasseh, Deborah and Esther, Ruth and Naomi, Mary and Martha, Hannah and Jael and the list goes on. I heard the LORD said, “There is now a stirring and cleansing. Even the purification of the days of old are coming upon righteous women in this hour.
This is not a season to settle for anything, but there is better. Look upon the balconies of heaven, there are women who have gone on before you, let them be your heavenly record.”
Many of us are about to walk into promotions, back-pay, and even long-wanted inheritances. There are those of us who will take the marketplace by storm.
Most importantly, these things will occur because you have labored over them, cried over them and fervently prayed about them. We will see victory and there will be Esther moments.
Your men will stand by your side as the Kings and the Priests that they are answering and heeding God’s call. The youth will run ahead as forerunners of their generation. Be Encouraged and Stay Before Him.
~ Phyllis Ford
Prophet Phyllis Ford of Phyllis Ford Ministries is called by God’s grace as a prophet to the nations; now in ministry for 27 years. With yearly and monthly Words, she and husband Apostle Miles release the Word of the LORD via their website. Her ministry emphasizes the Watchman call and duty in governance, as she teaches prophetic schools of ministry, intercession and deliverance workshops and tours worldwide, speaking into the lives of ministry leaders, encouraging prayer, and releasing regional strategies.
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When I read the word SOD, I was reminded of the 4 levels of reading/understanding Scripture. SOD is the deepest and most hidden of the 4.
PaRDeS
Simple, Hint, Search, Hidden.
Each layer is deeper and more intense than the last.
Peshat (פְּשָׁט) — “plain” (simple) or the direct meaning. The literal principal. Grammatical historical sense.
Remez (רֶמֶז) — “hints” or the deep (allegoric: hidden or symbolic) meaning beyond just the literal sense.
Derash (דְּרַשׁ) — from Hebrew darash: “inquire” (seek) — the comparative (midrashic) meaning, as given through similar occurrences.
Sod (סוֹד) (pronounced with a long o as in ‘bone’) — “secret” (mystery) or the mystical meaning, as given through inspiration or revelation