All That Can Be Shaken Is Being Shaken

By Angel Dahilig.

03-11-2003.


Many of us have been in a winter season, holding onto God’s promises and the visions which he has put in their hearts, while the fulfillment of these promises lie dormant, even without any sign of life. Many of the seeds that have been sowed into our hearts have been promises of sustenance, healing, and/or deliverance, or He has planted the vision and desire to be about the Father’s business with a service, mission, or a ministry. Yet, since the sowing of the promises and visions in our hearts, many of us have experienced a winter, a waiting period, where we have watched our resources dry up. We also have not seen the mountains moved out of the way, no, but on the contrary, they seem to have grown steeper or bigger. The hope for the bringing forth of the sowed promise, appears to be fading, and we wonder if we ever heard the Lord right at all. We have cried out to the Lord, “Lord, what have I missed? What am I not doing for you? What sin is hidden in my heart to keep me from hearing you? What should I be doing, or preparing? Please, give me instruction on what your will is. Have I heard you right?” Yet, very little or no new instruction seems to have come forth from Him concerning the fulfillment of those promises and visions. Yet during those times when we are asking Him these questions, His Holy Spirit asks us in return, “Do you trust Me?” as he gently reminds us to keep His promises in sight and to hold fast to the last instructions He may have given us, and to not move until he has told us to move. His Word has also reminded us many times, during this winter season, to “Wait upon Me, and keep My ways….”



Many prophecies have gone forth from the Lord’s servants, declaring that “ALL THAT CAN BE SHAKEN, WILL BE SHAKEN.” The shaking IS NOT JUST OF THE WORLD and it’s systems… not just of the world’s financial system, the governmental system, the apostate church, and the nations. But this shaking is a SHAKING OF US!… A SHAKING OF GOD’S PEOPLE AND SERVANTS… FROM TRUSTING IN OUR OWN STRENGTH!



In the waiting, and during the winter dormancy of our promises… through the drying up of our earthly resources, and the growing obstacles…though the viability of the promise appears to be dying… through all of this, THE LORD IS SHAKING US… OUT OF US! HE IS SHAKING US FROM RELYING ON OURSELVES! We have relied partly on our own strength, even our own “righteousness” or “spirituality” or “gifts”, and WE HAVE TRIED TO THINK OF EVERY POSSIBLE WAY TO BRING THOSE PROMISES AND VISIONS TO PASS, yet we are not able to (without disobeying his instructions to us)! At this time, EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT BASED IN TRUST AND FAITH IN HIM, AND HIS ARM ALONE, IS BEING SHAKEN. Our FAITH and TRUST IS BEING SHAKEN AND TRIED, as we are witnesses to the DYING OF OUR OWN STRENGTH TO BRING THE PROMISES TO PASS. 



In the past, the Lord has allowed many to get by and continue to serve him by mixing reliance of themselves with reliance on the Lord. But in this shaking, nothing that is of us, or based on our own understanding in the natural, will continue to walk on towards the promised land. Only that which is based on truth, and trust and faith in God’s promises and His faithfulness, will go forth under the banner of the Lord. We must continue to stand firm in this time. Do not be moved, but stand on the rock, Christ, your firm foundation. Continue to wait upon the Lord, and to keep his ways, to love the Lord your God with your whole heart and to love one other as he has loved you. Continue to walk in the path of submission and humbleness and faith and perseverance and the sacrificial love that he has called you to. Continue to seek Him first. Trust in Him, and rest in his promises to sustain you, to keep you, to heal you, to deliver you, to be with you and to never leave you nor forsake you. Continue to run the good race for the hope of the prize held out for you. Keep your eyes on Him and the cross. For it was through the cross that you met the Lord, and it is through the cross that you shall be saved. Both through the finished work of redemption that Christ obtained for you on his cross, and through the denying of yourself and the picking up of your cross to follow him. 



Revelation 14:4 … These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.


Isaiah 2:8,11