I AM RESURRECTING THE DEAD PLACES IN YOUR LIFE

Word and Vision from March 28, 2024 | Originally released by Truth-Justice-Mercy on Easter Sunday March 31, 2024

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Good morning friends! Jesus is risen!

It’s been several years since the Lord spoke to me about physical healing and moving into full-time ministry – March 4th of 2018, to be exact. I had sought Him about my longing for both of these things for 30 years, when, during the worship portion of our Sunday morning service He said, “Today is the day.” Upon pressing Him as to why it was today, He answered, “Because TODAY is the APPOINTED day.”

I’m going to say that date for you again: “March fourth.” Now, indulge me once more as I rephrase that slightly: “March FORTH!” The date was an imperative from the Lord, as much as His word was an announcement. While there was some immediate breakthrough, total victory was definitely not instantaneous in its arrival (lol!). I had no idea the battles I would still be required to march through. That appointed day was a turning point, but the March forth! has been a steady driver.

The past year has been perhaps one of the most challenging for me, on par maybe only with 2021 (I think I’ll just call those years a tie!). I also wouldn’t trade them for anything. Pressing into the presence of Lord has been the single most rewarding thing I’ve ever pursued. But, as I was falling asleep one night a few weeks ago, the Lord mentioned to me that I had a birthday coming up, and I was about to enter into my personal year of jubilee (so without telling you my age, I think I did just that). This had never occurred to me. In fact, I’d kind of blocked out any thought of birthdays (they’re just not nearly as fun now as when I was a kid). I mulled it all over as I drifted off to sleep.

Jubilee. The release of slaves… the forgiveness of debts… the resting of the land… the CELEBRATION! This is another one of those appointed times... one that could never have been forced to happen sooner.

The day I was born was a Good Friday, and my understanding is that it was two weeks after the "due date." It represented a day of agony for our Savior… and also, no doubt, for my mother. Just a few days later, though, my mom was RELEASED from the hospital... on RESURRECTION Sunday... with a NEW LIFE in tow.

Appointed time... jubilee... resurrection... new life. Now, I know that most of you probably don’t share the same age or birthday as me. And, depending on where you research, the official Year of Jubilee was: last year, two years ago, several years ago, this year, or is still upcoming. I just can’t seem to get a definitive answer on that one. But, let’s just say that, prophetically speaking, we’re in a season of jubilee and resurrection that was appointed far before any of us had anything to do with anything.

So, as I share the following Resurrection message, I ask you to consider those dead and dry places: those areas of stagnation, drought, hope deferred, and relentless assault. What are the promises you’ve had stolen away? Who are the prodigals you’ve so longed to see return? Have you been stuck in that place where the labor pains seem unbearable and breakthrough seems impossible? Do not miss that our powerful God is at hand to breathe life, cleansing, and healing into those areas. Press in. Worship with outstretched arms. Pour out your finest praise upon Him. Continue to travail. Watch expectantly.

Blessings to you on this Resurrection Sunday,

-Lana

I AM RESURRECTING THE DEAD PLACES IN YOUR LIFE

Thursday March 28, 2024

“I AM resurrecting the dead and dry places in your life. This is a message to you, personally, to your church, and to the Body—My Body—at large.

I have made you grapple with and feel the very real weight of this fact in recent months: that hope deferred makes the heart sick! Many of you have been living in this place for quite some time, longing to see My mighty power on display.

You have felt and experienced the holy dissatisfaction that comes from rote religion. Your spiritual eyes are opened, and you see death and stagnation all around you—in your bodies, in your families, in your churches, in your land, in the earth—but it seems that no one is paying attention to what should be obvious.

Even the believers seem to be asleep at the wheel and oblivious to their need to GET OUT OF THE WAY and LET ME BE THE DRIVER. Where I want to take them, they have not gone before! I want to plunge them into the depths of My love, My passion, My holiness… where all else becomes silent, and only the whisper of My voice can be heard.” [i] (see corresponding vision in the footnotes)

“For you who have pressed in, who have trudged through the mud, who have ruthlessly cut out what doesn’t belong between you and Me, who have put in the time, who have sown the tears… you will soon reap in joy! The parched places of your heart, and church, and land will be satisfied. Death and stagnation is going away. I am burning away the wood, hay, and stubble. I am exposing and dealing with the deeds of darkness on every front. I am delivering My people… just as in the days of old.

Many of you have grown thoroughly weary of the disconnect between what you hear sung and taught in church and the physical reality of what you see.

‘Doesn’t anybody really BELIEVE it?!’ you cry.

‘Doesn’t anyone actually KNOW that OUR GOD truly SAVES, and He HEALS, and He does MIRACLES, and SIGNS, and WONDERS?!

Doesn’t anyone SEE that He is serious about holiness, passionate about relationship, and worth forgoing all of our personal agendas for?’

You have cried to Me:

‘Display Your power as You have in the past!’

I say to you now that I will do just that. In fact, even greater things will you see. The Word of the LORD is sure. You will find yourselves decreeing a thing, and it shall come to pass! You will see governments and nations fall and new ones rise up in their place. You will see wicked regimes from the deepest, darkest undercurrents of society being fully exposed and destroyed by My mighty hand alone. There will be no explanation other than that the LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD, AND HE IS GOD –

The God who sets up high and brings down low.

The God who truly still does miracles, signs, and wonders.

The God who brings dead things to life.

I AM He, and I am bringing a resurrection to the earth of My goodness and favor to all those who will call upon My Name. Jesus lives! I say it again: Jesus lives… and My power lives in you.

Let Me reign in your hearts. Let Me rule in your minds. Let Me be your very sustenance for life. Abide in Me, and I will abide in you, and you will see those places of death and hope deferred spring forth into life. Expect it, believe it, and keep pressing in. Renew your hope in Me, and let Me fill you with life.

To those in My Body who continue to resist the moving of My Spirit, know this:

I AM coming to your church.

I WILL do what I said I will do.

This is NOT an if/then situation.

This IS a providential time, and it is a DONE deal.

The train is coming.

Will you get on, or will you be run over?

I am coming.

Will the legs bow, or will they be broken?

I have held off because I am a merciful God. The time is short, so seek My face, little children. Seek My face.”

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“Hope deferred makes the heart sick,

but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.”

-Proverbs 13:12, NIV

“Summon Your might, O God.

Display Your power, O God, as You have in the past.”

-Psalm 68:28, NLT

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me,

the works that I do he will do also;

and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.”

-John 14:12, NKJV

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VISION:

[i] At this portion of the message, I had a vision of being in the passenger’s side of a car with Jesus at the wheel.  It must have been a British car, because He was on my right!  He plunged us nose first into a large body of water, and as we went straight down to the depths, the peace I heard and felt was intense.  We locked eyes, and He began to speak in a whisper.  There was total trust and complete safety in His presence, as He took me, intentionally, to a secret place.