Latest Sense of "It"

Many different folks have been sensing many different things that may, at the surface, appear to not jive or fit even remotely together....like large pieces of two different jigsaw puzzles that are being mashed together. This is the time for exactly that to happen.


Two weeks ago now, I started to hear in the spirit, one degree off.  I kept asking what this meant and what God would like for us to do with this. Nothing came at first. Only after I finally stopped asking did I get a clearer sense of this. In one particular case, I was shown a vision of a vapor type serpent that was "piggy backing" on a ministry as a means of entry. I was told that what was going on was they were being influenced in theology and doctrine to be "one degree off" from Scripture, early church fathers, and what I refer to as holy tradition...those traditions that, yea, they appear religious, are designed to point in the direction of God, not limit him within the context of the tradition. (Maybe some time later down the road, we'll take a run at that in a more clear sense).


This one degree off appears nominal at first. In fact and truth, it is barely perceptible at the onset. It is only when moving along from the point of the misdirect and getting further out do we come to recognize that we have strayed from that which we were directed to. As soon as it is recognized, we must issue a course correction to come back in line. 


As I said, I was shown this for one particular grouping of believers. However, it is not for them alone. As I meditated further over the past couple of weeks, I keep being brought back to this same sense. In reading some of what others have sensed, including a man by the name of Mark Mallett, this falls in line with what others are sensing....time is short, the enemy is on the move and a need is developing more and more for those of us to believe to enter into belief and worship with each other. 


How do we keep then safely moving forward? Do we sit with hands under our thighs and feet in cement waiting for God to show up in a burning bush so that we now have permission to act? 


My sense of it is "No". We shouldn't. We were not given a spirit of fear with which to turn us back. We were given a spirit of adoption. In this sense, as sons and daughters, we are to walk by faith. This will mean taking steps that may be a degree off. In true sensitivity to the Lord, however, we also must then be listening as we move. Acting in discernment, testing the spirit and seeking counsel from others as we move. When the word comes that we are a degree off, make the correction, but do not over correct. A degree off to the right is no better nor worse than a degree off to the left. Fear and trembling? Yes, but not the same paralyzing fear or trembling that will cause us to act. Only through testing is the will of God revealed (Romans 12:2). 


Finally, I am also brought back to Isaiah. Through the prophet we are told that when we stray to the left or to the right, we will hear a voice from behind telling us, "This is the way, walk in it". (Isa 30:21). Listen for that still small voice and be made aware, one degree off at the beginning of the journey will lead to be utterly lost and confounded many months down the road. Listen early, correct quickly and do not fall into the trap that is being set.