Month: February 2021

By Debora Galloway

Feb 14,2021

On Feb 10^th, the Lord spoke to me “I’m slowing things down and releasing my peace for healing, comfort and encounters.”  I began to imagine a cozy blanket of peace wrapping around God’s people. I saw us sipping from a calm river or brook.” I found myself praying “Lord, fill us with your peace and life for healing”.   

The Leaf of Healing

In going back to my journal notes on the words God gave me for this year, on 1-1-21 when the Lord said it would be “a year of breakthrough and life”. I also wrote down “turning over a new leaf. The leaf of healing” This made me think about the River of Life in Rev 22:2, “the leaves of the tree (of life) were for the healing of the nations.” That includes us! Dictionary.com says the expression “turning over a new leaf” alludes to turning the page of a book to a new page. God is doing something new and it includes healing! 

In 2020, God gave me 3 scriptures to write songs to so that I would marinate in them, declare them and pray them over and over.  One of those was from the beginning of Isaiah 26.  “You will keep Him (Her) in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.  In Yahweh, the Lord, is everlasting strength”. God wants to heal us and renew our strength through His peace. 

After I had the dream in my last post, I began to ask the Lord.. “God, what do I and my family need in order to obtain that strong container in our suitcases that will enable us to make it successfully into the next move of God?”.  The Holy Spirit answered back.. “Health”.  And I heard that scripture from Joel 2:25 “ I will restore the years the locust has eaten”.  

Healing for Spirit, Soul & Body

God wants us contending for healing and miracles for ourselves and for our families. God wants to restore the strength of His people. (Psalm 103:1-5, Isaiah 35, Isaiah 40:31)  Way too often, we have a tendency to settle for less than God’s best for our health.  I believe health includes spiritual, physical and emotional healing.  When we forgo the emotional healing that we need, it can manifest in our physical bodies. God wants to heal our whole self: spirit, soul and body. 

In contending for this wholeness and healing,  Jesus is inviting us into impactful and powerful encounters with Him. His total sacrifice on the cross has already made provision for our complete healing, but many of us don’t know how to access all that Jesus has for us.  Hebrews 4:16 “Let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” And James 4:8 “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.  Cleanse your hands you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” And lastly, Heb 3:18-4:3, “And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So, we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.”  We need to believe that Jesus wants us to approach Him and have experiences with Him that will heal our hearts and catapult us forward into His love and purposes. 

So.. believe! Jesus in inviting us in this season into some new experiences, some personal encounters with Him.  I’ve had dreams and visions my whole life, but nothing compares to the recent encounters I’ve had with Jesus going up into the throne room and looking into the face of Jesus.  It’s a place of surrendering all and allowing Jesus to redefine our lives and our very identity.  He will confirm in that place who He created us to be and what He wants us focused on this season.  

Because the Lord brought up healing in the context of slowing down and peace, it made me think of the Hebrew word for perfect peace in Isaiah 26 “Shalom, Shalom”. The commentary in my bible says that the Hebrew word Shalom implies health, happiness, well-being and peace. Also, my bible regarding Shalom it says “Strongs #7965- completeness, wholeness, peace, health, welfare, safety, soundness, tranquility, prosperity, perfectness, fullness, rest and harmony. It’s more than the absence of agitation, but the root word Shalam means ‘to be complete, perfect and full’. This is the wholeness that the entire human race seeks. The wholeness made possible by Jesus suffering on the cross (Isaiah 53:5)”  I don’t know about you.. but more of all those things?  Yes, please!

Let the Spirit of the Living God fill you with Peace. Peace in your spirit to fill you. Peace in your soul and body to heal you. 

Jesus is the Prince of Peace.  Let Him take you to new places in Him this year, so that you and your family will not miss the fullness of all He has for you, which includes divine healing and peace. 

Recently, I keep finding myself referencing this scripture in Romans 14:17 “… for the kingdom of God…. Is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit”.  In a previous post I mentioned how joy can bubble up supernaturally.  There are other times joy comes as a progression.  Today I saw this scripture like a river flowing.  When we experience the righteousness of Christ and receive His forgiveness in an area of our life, it causes peace to flow (like a river flows) because Jesus is The Prince of Peace.  If we don’t have enough peace, we are lacking some needed face time with Jesus!  Faith in God’s Word should bring us peace, and there is more.. encountering Jesus himself! Peace is part of who Jesus is. If the flow of Jesus’ Life is running through us, we will find our peace in Him. As we spend “face time” with Jesus receiving His peace, His peace will flow through us and can accomplish many different things.  One of which is healing and wholeness. As we receive healing physically, emotionally or spiritually we flow into Joy.  When emotional weights are removed and miracles happen, Joy results!  When someone gets healed physically, there is a lot of rejoicing and joy around!  God wants this for all of us, for righteousness, peace and joy to flow through our spirit, soul and body like The River of Life, because He is a God of restoration.  In the bible, whenever we see God restore, He never restores like before. He always restores GREATER than before!  That’s how good our God is! 

Encounter Jesus Now!

As the Lord was speaking to me about the contents of this post, these three songs below came to mind.  Not sure why the Lord gave me these old songs.  Maybe He wants the older generation not to miss this! Or maybe because they were all inspired by scripture.  If you know one of them (if you don’t you can start with another song) why don’t you just sit back right now.. relax, close your eyes and sing these songs to Jesus.. focus on His beautiful face in your mind’s eye, maybe in the throne room of heaven or maybe by the brook of bliss in the beginning of Psalm 23.  It’s the Holy Spirit within us that makes possible intimate moments with Jesus, but we have to choose to give Him that space and draw near to Him. We just have to choose to believe!  Jesus wants to fill you, heal you and strengthen you, and you can always go back to Him for more.. 

I love Psalm 23:1-3a from The Passion Translation. “The Lord is my best friend and my shepherd. I always have more than enough. He offers a resting place for me in His luxurious love. His tracks take me to an oasis of peace, the quiet brook of bliss. That’s where He restores and revives my life.” 

As A Deer by Martin Nystrom, based on Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longs after You
You alone are my heart’s desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart’s desire
And I long to worship You

I want You more than gold or silver
Only You can satisfy
You alone are the real joy giver
And the apple of my eye

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart’s desire
And I long to worship You

You’re my friend and You’re my brother
Even though you are a King
I love You more than any other
So much more than anything

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart’s desire
And I long to worship You

Spirit Song (Jesus, O Jesus Come and Fill) by John Wimber, based on Ephesians 3:16-19

Jesus, O Jesus
Come and fill Your lambs
Jesus, O Jesus
Come and fill Your lambs

O let the Son of God enfold you
With His Spirit and His love
Let Him fill your heart and satisfy your soul
O let Him have the things that hold you
And His Spirit like a dove
Will descend upon your life and make you whole

Jesus, O Jesus
Come and fill Your lambs
Jesus, O Jesus
Come and fill Your lambs
Come and fill Your lambs

Spirit of the Living God by Daniel Iverson, based on 2 Corinthians 3:3

Spirit of the Living God
Fall fresh on me
Spirit of the Living God
Fall fresh on me
Melt me mold me
Fill me use me
Spirit of the Living God
Fall fresh on me

By Debora Galloway

Feb 5, 2021

God is about to do a new thing, and He wants to make sure none of us miss it! In preparation, God wants us to “be the Lighthouse” that lights the way not just for the lost but also for other believers who are having trouble pulling themselves into where they need to be in this season.  I believe He wants us to understand how great our loss will be, if we stay where we are and do not make it into the new things He is birthing.  This should motivate us into deep prayer and action.  Below is a dream I had this past week, that highlights a few important areas so that we don’t miss the new thing! 

Dream: I’m preparing for a trip, and I enter a hallway with a man who is also headed to the same place. We are wearing Covid-19 masks.  My mask is black.  We are both pulling suitcases and are on our way to an indoor loading area at the edge of a building.  Just outside the indoor loading area are SUV’s waiting to pick us up and take us to where we are going. There is a small group of people gathered in various stages of loading up.  I have a feeling I’m last in line, as they take the other man’s suitcase and shake it upside down so they can inspect the contents.  What comes out is a hard container about the same size as the suitcase. His belongings stay intact inside the hard container, so they put it back in the suitcase, give it back to him and he goes outside to get his seat in the SUV. In the dream, I’m thinking to myself “ I’m afraid if they shake and inspect my bag, my belongings will go everywhere because I don’t have a hard container.” My Father was standing to my left while I was watching and having this thought. Then all the sudden my Father and everyone was gone, the SUV’s pulled away and I’m left alone standing by myself in the loading area.   I called a friend on my cell phone and said “ They left without me!  I can’t believe they just took off without me!”  I’m very upset about it. It was like I got there just a hair too late and wasn’t fully prepared with a hard container.  I didn’t know I needed a hard container. I was devasted. 

Pray like your life depends on it! 

In the dream, I think I represent people in the church who are lacking what’s needed to make it successfully into the next move of God. The black mask represents lack.  Through the dream, God has allowed me to experience what it feels like to be that devasted person who misses it, so that I will pray more seriously and more ardently that we will all become prepared and not lacking. God has been calling me to a tears and travailing type of prayer. (Isaiah 21, John 11:32-44) Some of us, or maybe all of us to some degree, need to feel His pain that He feels toward those in the church who know better but have been complacent, or tainted by fear or unbelief, the backslidden, those hanging around the peripheral edges of the church, or those who are trying but struggling. He wants us to feel the pain of those who will be left behind, those who will miss the next move of God and outpouring of His Spirit. He also wants us to  feel His pain of how much that breaks His heart that some of His own kids will miss it. When we have tears and travail in prayer, although it can be intense and uncomfortable for a time, God uses us it to help birth something new in the spirit so that it can be released in the natural.  I believe He wants us to pray like our life depends on it, because some people’s lives do depend on it, and certainly our spiritual lives depend on it. He wants us to contend in prayer until we see the promises start to manifest. (I Kings 18:41-46) We need to heed the words of John The Baptist and “prepare the way for the Lord” through our prayer and however else He is showing us, as time and seasons will be shifting again soon. *A note about tears and travail, I’m just learning about this myself, but I think the goal is to allow God to take us there in desperate prayer filled with His heart, and then give the burden back to Him so we continue our day mostly with peace and joy.  After all it does say in Romans 14:17 that “the Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. “

There is always a mandate and responsibility on the church toward the lost who don’t know Christ, however; I believe in this season God is also putting his finger on His church.  He is calling us to a greater level of trust, faith, endurance, repentance and humility so we can hear without the prejudice of our own human filters about the new things He wants to do in us and through us.  If we can receive and facilitate what He wants to do, it will lead to a new and greater outpouring of His Spirit that will equip us to bring in the greatest harvest yet!  There will be boldness required once we do hear His heart.  We must be willing to make changes and move forward into the new thing He is birthing. It starts with us.  Are we ready? It’s time to get really serious about prayer, searching our hearts, and asking God to change us into people who love what He loves, and hate what He hates, so that we can be effective in this next season. We need desperation in prayer for people to enter into the new thing. This will turn into tears and travail for some, but for all it should compel us into the action of helping others, so that our local church and in our individual spheres of influence, we all make it into the next move of God, and no one misses it! 

Like the dream I had, there are many believers who are lacking and don’t have their bags packed right. Some of the things we need are: 

A Fortified Spirit 

A fortified spirit for the potentially hard or long road ahead. (hard container in the dream)  Believers without endurance, perseverance and strength will fall apart when the road gets tough or long.  Miriam-Webster says this about fortified: 1. Made stronger or more secure. 2. Improved or enhanced through the addition of one or more ingredients.  Because I believe the black mask in the dream represents lack, I tend to think the latter is very important for us. Ask the Lord what you and those around you are lacking to be strong and prepared enough for the road ahead.

Preparation, Perseverance & Clear Vision

God recently brought to my attention the parable of the wise and foolish virgins in Mathew 25, which I brought up in my first post in January. The foolish virgins also lacking something.  They had what they needed in the moment, but not enough for the long haul, not enough for the unexpected delays. They were lacking the oil to be sustained over a longer than expected time period, so they could keep their light burning as long as required, so their lamps would enable them to “see” well. 

A Fresh Outpouring of the Holy Spirit with Joy and Restoration

I believe, at least in part, in this season the lack of oil represents that we need more of the oil of the Holy Spirit. We need His fresh outpouring!  Through the Holy Spirit God encounters us, fills us, heals us, and empowers us so we become utterly convinced of God’s love and goodness, as well as we receive His clear vision and direction for the road ahead with strength for the journey. We also need the oil of Joy which has been hard to maintain during this past difficult Covid season, which is why one of my previous posts addresses Joy and more will follow.  We must learn to find our Joy in Christ and let His Joy become our strength like the Word tells us. 

Spiritual Father’s and Mother’s Focus on Next Generation

More spiritual fathers and mothers take their place with the next generation. In the dream, I had the realization of what I was lacking when my Father was standing by my side.  We need Fathers and Mothers of the Faith to rise up like never before and help the next generation into the next move of God.  Everyone was getting in the SUV’s moving to the new place together.  Spiritual fathers and mothers, please don’t keep or leave your spiritual sons and daughters in an old box that will become stagnant.  Please follow Jesus into the new places He is leading and help your spiritual family get there.  God is on the move! Follow Him and take the next generation with you! 

Ready or not, God is on the move! 

God is about to do a new thing!  In His graciousness and love, He is sending us a message to be prepared so we don’t miss it!  There are those who will miss it.  Don’t let it be you!  Don’t let it be your family or your church.  Let’s seek the Lord in humility and repentance like never before so that our vision is clear. Let’s ask Him for a great outpouring!  Strengthen those around you.. we all need it! Seek the Lord for the new thing! 

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.  See, I am doing a new thing!  Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?  I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.” Isaiah 43:18-19 

I feel so strongly this is a key song for us in this season, so I just have to post it again. “Prepare the way, He’s coming through, ready or not our God’s on the move. We’re going to see Heaven on earth, Come Holy Spirit awaken your church!”   (“Prepare the Way” Bethel Music, Revival’s in the Air Album)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iB5xUn4IWo0

By Debora Galloway

Feb 1, 2021

Ready or not, Jesus is on the move…

On January 19^th I had the following vision: Jesus came down from heaven and followers of Christ fell into a single file line behind Him.  He started moving forward immediately, and we all followed Him still in a single file line. He was moving forward, but not in a straight line.  It was a curvy, forward motion, like a swirl going forward, not a straight shot. Also, the forward swirl movement was inconsistent..  The two things that were consistent was the forward direction of the movement and that we all stayed in a single file line.

It was very clear to me when I had this vision, that ready or not, Jesus is on the move and we must follow Him.  He’s not going to wait around on us in this season. Things may start to move forward quickly. If we don’t recognize where He is going and follow Him, we will simply get left behind and find ourselves somewhere God never intended us to be.  

Follow Him!

If we are not moving forward or not planning to move forward soon, there’s a good likelihood that we are missing something important. Ask God to reveal to you where He is moving at this moment, so you can get in line behind Jesus.  Look for Him and follow Him.

Don’t expect moving forward to be a simple, straight forward trajectory.. the road might be a bit curvy and at times it might feel a bit like going around in circles, but as long as you are seeing/hearing Jesus and following Him, you’ll get to your destination with Jesus!  For some, even though you’re moving forward, it might feel a bit slower than you expected/wanted because it’s not a straight shot, but it is going forward. 

There’s a song that I think is so prophetic for the time we are in right now. I encourage you to take a listen to “Prepare the Way” by Bethel Music, Revival’s in the Air Album, with Bethany Wohrle, and Dante Bowe.   

“Prepare the way, He’s coming through. Ready or not our God’s on the move.  We’re gonna see, heaven on the earth.  Come Holy Spirit awaken your church!”.. 

Check out the You Tube Lyric Video for “Prepare the Way”:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iB5xUn4IWo0