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Breaking The Baton

Recently as I was in prayer, the Lord showed me a faceless figure wearing a high priest’s attire, but it wasn’t the High Priest. I immediately knew it was a representation of the demonic pharisee (religious) spirit.  This figure was holding a conductor’s baton and was using it to orchestrate or direct the plans of the enemy — plans of chaos and confusion that bring division and disunity, among other things.  It was almost as if I could see sabotage shooting out from the baton. It caused some to be spiritually blind. Others to be spiritually deaf. And others to turn on each other because they were surrounded by a swirl of lies.  But the baton was thin, weak, and fragile. I began to take authority over the pharisee spirit. I broke it’s power, releasing the Lord’s mercy and declaring His blood speaks a better word. As I did, the baton snapped. So easily and so quickly! No longer could the enemy conduct his plans. No longer could he sabotage the people of God by orchestrating chaos and

First Blood

God is dismantling and displacing regional strongholds (including witchcraft/Jezebel, idolatry/Baal, and religion/Pharisee) by tearing down idols that have been established by counterfeit covenants.  A few months ago, on May 9, 2023, I was praying for revival in my city, Wilmington, California. As I shared in a previous post , I felt like the Lord gave me two phrases from Scripture to declare over my region: “Mercy triumphs over judgment” (James 2:13) and ”His blood speaks a better word" (Hebrews 12:24).  I asked the Lord, “Why those two verses?” He took me to Acts 9, which is the story of Saul, the Pharisee — a man who is out doing his own thing, thinking it’s the right thing, and making a mess of things. A man who is the epitome of how the demonic works.  Saul, with letters of authorization over cities, is literally shedding the blood of innocent people in the name of his cause. He is a man who is deeply lost and spiritually blind… just like so many in my city… just like so