Great Exchange | Re-Training Day

Prophetic Expression | Angie Day Peters

With exasperation, Holy Spirit whispered, "I've got 7 Spirits to revel in but they'd rather dance with the knowledge of an unclean spirit. Come up higher, and I will show you more."

The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him, a Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation, a Spirit of Counsel and Might, a Spirit of knowledge and of the Fear of the Lord. His delight will be in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by what his eyes see, he will not execute justice by what he hears with his ears, but he will judge the poor righteously and execute just for the oppressed of the land. He will strike the land with a scepter from his mouth and he will kill the wicked with a command from his lips. Righteousness will be a belt around his hips; faithfulness will be a belt around his waist. The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat. The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf will be together and a child will lead them. The cow and the bear will graze, their young ones will lie down together and the lion will eat straw like cattle. The infant will play beside the cobra's pit, and a toddler will put his hand into a snake's den. They will not harm or destroy each other on my entire holy mountain, for the land will be as full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the sea is filled with water. Isaiah 11:1-9

The delight of Jesus Christ was found in the Fear of the Lord, can the same be said of you?

Have you committed to the Re-Training Day that we've all been invited into?

If so, part of that process is letting go of old prophetic tricks and side shows. The Father is simply unimpressed with mimicry. Concerning that, he says, "My voice has lost power and influence under the grab for perception control. You've defaulted to taking on the sound and the posture of one another for fear of unacceptance in social circles. I am looking for a body who will stand like me, sound like me, move like me and love like me." As I listen to the heart of the Father, my thoughts are understanding and perceiving what alignment looks like. We can continue to pick fights and invest in Jezebel, Ahab, Territorial Spirits, and the like, or we can lean in beyond what's been modeled, ask for the new equipment and better understanding. Equipping the body will always offer better results than proud announcements of an unclean spirit. We are unintentionally wounding and rendering individual parts of the body powerless and ineffectual with our low-level prophetic prowess.

We need wisdom, revelation, counsel, might, knowledge and the fear of the Lord for the days ahead. Let's opt in on that!

We will still need understanding of the schemes of the enemy, we cannot plunder a camp without it but, we will move beyond knowing and announcing, into knowing and equipping with solutions to overcome. A step in the right direction to stand as those who are more than conquerors.

The exchange for lesser things has reaped devastating loss, we need to turn back and come up higher asking the Lord to open the eyes of our hearts before we open our mouths.

The lesser exchange needs addressed, it's manifested as: Measured Spirit of the Lord

Revelation and Expression

Counsel and Assignment

Knowledge of Systems The Fear of Man

This has hindered the body from releasing the knowledge of the glory of the Lord in the free-flow purity we're intended to.

Survey where your delight is found, ask for a loftier experience as a co-heir; ask for what is already yours. Together, we need to investigate the 7 spirits of the Lord.

Apostolic Mandate | Vincent Ream

What is our focus?

Where are we drawing revelation from?

Are we drawing revelation or simply regurgitating information?

What is going to offer breakthrough for the person?

Are you leading people to freedom or driving them deeper into hiding?

This is not gentle correction, this is corrective training meant to make straight our focus so we don’t continue to take aim at one another. Our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities. We’re quick to offer sharp rebuke, or offer a hard word without going to battle for each other and understanding what we are to offer with those words. 

Delighting in the fear of the lord is not going to leave questions in people that send them sprinting for isolation after hearing what was spoken over them. 

In this re-training we are to focus on interacting with the Spirits of Wisdom, and of Understanding. From there you will be able to move in the Spirit of Counsel, the Spirit of Knowledge, and the Spirit of Might. 

Speaking from the knowledge of another, or without understanding, offers no hope, only mystery and fear, and this is something we need to repent for. Holy Spirit is directing, “You will take the time to seek what is wise so that your understanding is complete to fully deliver on behalf of the Father.”

You do not train to understand the enemy. You are to train as you fight. While yes, it’s important to know who your enemy is, you don’t train for battle to understand. You train with what’s in the arsenal available to you. 

If Holy Spirit whispered to Angie, "I've got 7 Spirits to revel in but they'd rather dance with the knowledge of an unclean spirit. Come up higher, and I will show you more." 

He is now shouting as a drill instructor to train as you fight. “Understand and know me. In doing so it doesn’t matter what attempts to stand against my Kingdom, it will be insignificant.”

To train as you fight you have to focus on you and your company. There are those whose specialty it is to understand the schemes of the enemy. If that’s not you, then stop it. Focus on who you are as spoken by God and what He’s equipped you with. 

If you are currently being trained to see without wisdom or understanding, it’s a lesser-than training that is only serving to equip you to inflict friendly casualties. 

This is your opportunity to re-train in the basics of your oneness with Christ and His body. Revel in and explore the Spirits of God, give Him your undivided attention. 

Make a commitment right now. Re-train with Holy Spirit because it’s time to expand…or die.

Intercession Directive | Pepper Diehl

• Begin with asking God for a fresh infilling of more of the fear of the Lord which Scripture tells us is the beginning of wisdom (see Proverbs 9:10 esv).

Proverbs 9:10-12 (tpt): …To receive the revelation of the Holy One, you must come to the one who has living-understanding. Wisdom will extend your life, making every year more fruitful than the one before. So it is to your advantage to be wise. But to ignore the counsel of wisdom is to invite trouble into your life.

• Ask Holy Spirit to reveal to you the importance of functioning within the wisdom of the Seven Spirits of God.

James 1:5-6 (tpt): And if anyone longs to be wise, ask God for wisdom and he will give it! He won’t see your lack of wisdom as an opportunity to scold you over your failures but he will overwhelm your failures with his generous grace. Just make sure you ask empowered by confident faith without doubting that you will receive…

Jeremiah 33:3 (esv): Call to me and I will answer you, and tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

• Ask for more Godly wisdom. His wisdom is full, and includes both strategy and application to enable us to more than conquer.

• Ask Holy Spirit to show you where you may have inadvertently fallen into formulas of low level training from the past. Or beliefs and mindsets which may be causing you to take a “business as usual” approach in rescuing people.

• Seek to come up higher in wisdom. Seek fresh manna in order to receive His hidden mysteries for such a time as this.

• Pray for the wisdom and skills to go beyond words of knowledge to revealed words of wisdom in the Power and Demonstration of the Kingdom of God (see 1 Cor. 4:20).

Proverbs 29:25 (esv): The Fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.

• Ask to be free from the fear of man which produces “perception control.”

1 Corinthians 13:8-10 (tpt): Love never stops loving. It extends beyond the gift of prophecy, which eventually fades away. It is more enduring than tongues, which will one day fall silent. Love remains long after words of knowledge are forgotten. Our present knowledge and our prophecies are but partial, but when love’s perfection arrives, the partial will fade away.

• Prayerfully seek to lead with God’s love and not spiritual gifts. When we lead with the love of God we can never go wrong because Holy Spirit within in us will define our actions, and give us the correct expression for every individual need and situation.

• Pray for the carefulness not to press the boundaries of your anointing to operate in what you “know” and are familiar with. But May not have the permission of Holy Spirit “this time around.” Even if you’ve done it a thousand times before.

1 Samuel 16:7 (esv): “…For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

• Ask God to help you look to the heart of every unique person, and to the heart of every unique situation.