On Sunday, January 18th, 2004 an individual (Paul), within our congregation came forward during a time where the Lord spontaneously spoke through various people gathered there. What this man brought forward was this - he had been instructed earlier in the week to come forward and share that the Lord had pointed out the highest physical point in our building and indicated that the praise and worship goes up from that point (the highest!). He was then instructed to walk to the spot directly beneath the high point, which brought him to a chair. The Lord told Paul "the person who sits in this chair on Sunday is significant". As Paul shared this in our meeting that day he was walking out the demonstration the Lord had shown him and when he came to the chair, there was an infant carrier in it and the baby that the carrier belongs to is named "Shekaniah". (Shekiniah, if you do not already know, means "glory")
I was then prompted to come forward to share what the Lord had spoken to me of that morning at home about the coming of the glory of the Lord. That morning I had awoken with a strong desire, need, to go and sit in the presence of the Lord. I went to my living room and sat down looking out over the valley with the Lord and I asked Him what I was seeing. I began to sense His presence over the entire valley. Not knowing what this was, I asked him about it and the Lord spoke to me about carrying His glory and I could not grasp the fullness of what he was trying to say/show me; it was as though His presence was watching over the valley. At this point I felt to ask Him about Moses again reflecting on some of the things which he had been showing me about Moses. Some of the insights to Moses were that Moses was not accepted in either Israelite camp nor the Egyptian camp but he would stand overlooking and watching on all of the goings on with both camps. As Moses stood there, he began to see the injustices and the bondages that the Israelites (God's chosen people), were being kept captive in and that were being inflicted upon them. When Moses could bear it no longer, he responded in killing the Egyptian. When Moses was confronted with the murder by the two Israelites, he ran off and lived in Midian, in the desert.
Release for the Captive Church - Moses is in Your Midst
As I recorded the events of January 18th above, the Spirit of the Lord stirred in me and this is what I recorded.
While Moses was in transition in Midian he was seated by a well, (a water well - water is essential to life, we die without water and the ability to drink it). As Moses is seated there, 7 women (daughters of a Midian priest), come to draw water from a well to provide water to their father's flocks but some shepherds come along and drive the women away. Moses comes to their rescue and provides water for their flocks. Moses was a rescuer of the oppressed he saw the oppression of the people and he was prompted to respond.
The passage with Moses seated by the well is significant. The seven women of the priest represent God's children - those who have received His heart, His mind and are submitted to His will - they are the apple of His eye. The fact the women have come to draw water from the well represents those who have come to draw water (truth) from the well of life (spirit), Jesus Christ, in order to provide water (representing truth) to their father's flocks, (the father represents God and the flocks are God's people). The shepherd's who come along and drive the women away represent those who appear as shepherds of the flock yet are not of the father's house - they, in fact, want the water for themselves and their own uses.
God has a Moses in your midst. He has Moses' in our midst who see the captivity of the people, who see their thirst, who see their hunger. He is about to free the captive church, captive chosen ones. God is raising up people who are of one mind and one accord with Him; who will see the things that the Father sees, who are not of one camp or another - who have one mind with the Father - who will step forward and free the captives. THEN God will hear all of the oppressed just as he did with Moses and He will come, and is coming, to show His glory before those who are like Moses and HE WILL SET THE CAPTIVES FREE.
Calling of Moses - Get Ready!
His glory is about to pass by - the ground is holy, the mountains have been on fire, the ground has been cleansed so the Lord can speak to the Moses' in order to prepare His chosen people to be released from the captivity and the oppression of the enemy. It is no longer a time of US & THEM - US & THEM - US & THEM - IT IS HIM - HE SAYS I AM - take off your shoes, humble yourselves, the ground is holy.
Moses come here and stand before Me - because you have seen what I have seen and it has not been about you or them - it has been about ME - because of this I am about to release my people, I AM, says the Lord, I AM about to release MY people, MY church from their bondage. And I WILL GO WITH THEM - I WILL BE BEFORE THEM - I WILL BE WITH THEM. MY people will be released into the land and when they go THEY WILL TAKE MY GLORY - LET MY PEOPLE GO! And as you go from here you will take the land - not by might, not by power but by MY SPIRIT says the Lord.
Get ready church, MY glory is about to pass by. And MY Glory will not remain in one place but it will go out from here and it WILL touch nations.
Watch for Him and be ready - do not keep MY daughters from taking from MY well, it is for MY sheep. There are shepherds who are not mine - there are shepherds who have flocks of their own - their own ideas, other thoughts, their own minds - they are not serving my flock. They are serving their own. Keep them away from my girls, says the Lord - I have told them to come and draw water for my flocks. It is not to drive them from there, what are you afraid of? My water brings LIFE. My water brings LOVE. I AM not a God who scares others away from the water of life.
God came to Moses and He spoke out of the burning bush, (right now I think of the burning mountain) - Moses was afraid to look at God and God told Moses, (and this was a confirmation to Moses for what he had seen of the the suffering of the people in Egypt.) "I have indeed seen the misery of My people . . . I have heard My people crying". Notice here that Moses was afraid of God and not of men - he killed as a defender of the oppressed, he drove away the bad shepherds of the persecuted, he did not fear them. Yes, Moses may have run away to save his own life but his time had not yet come until God came and called him. Moses presumed nothing about himself before God, he did not belong in the Egyptian camp and was not accepted in the Israelite camp and yet God sent him to Israel (his chosen people, his church) and told him to go in His Name - in doing this God was saying Know who I AM and walk in that strength - MY leaders will know me when you come in MY NAME and in MY AUTHORITY. I will not share my glory with another, it is MINE so walk in who I AM - you just tell them who's name you are in and MY leaders - the ones I HAVE CHOSEN will know you by MY NAME because I have already given it to them, they already know me. Blessed is he who comes in the Name of the Lord for there is NO OTHER NAME by which you can be saved.
CARRIERS OF THE GLORY!
We can no longer be empty carriers of the glory of God! The baby mentioned on the Sunday was a sign and so was the infant carrier. The Lord told Paul very clearly - the person who sits in this chair on Sunday is significant. The baby, Shekiniah, when she was born, was gasping for breath, she was nearly dead and she was resuscitated - she is a sign and a wonder in the declaration that God's glory cannot die in the church. The infant carrier which was sitting empty in the chair is a sign - we are designed to be carriers of the Glory of God. The infant carrier represents the portability of the glory of God - just as it is designed to carry a baby - it is meant to take that baby (Shekiniah Glory) out -take it out to the stores, take it to your schools, take it to your workplace, take it whereever you go but for GOD'S SAKE, take it and and don't you let it be found empty. God's glory is about to pass by and we are going to take it with us whereever we go.
Don't let God's glory pass by you without letting it touch you and fill you.
Blessings - Deborah Ritz
