This is most certainly a "now" word from Candice Smithyman...for this very month we are in and beyond. God loves to bring resurrection life in places we "thought" were dead.
Are there areas that need resurrection life...areas that you thought were dead? Just read this prophetic exhortation from Candice:
Amen! I pray you allow the Lord to bring new life in situations you thought were dead and gone for good. He's very good at that! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
We have just entered into the new Hebrew month of Cheshvan which began on Monday, October 8 at sundown. God began to speak to me through two dreams concerning the power of the prophetic word in this month.
If you remember, in the month of Tishrei we were called to come before the Lord and celebrate His feasts—the Feast of Trumpets, for His new year, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles—with fasting, feasting, and giving. This was a time of consecration and purification for the blessings coming. So when I received these two dreams for two days in a row, I was not surprised that God wanted to do something amazing in Cheshvan.
"Idle-wood": Calling the Dead Things Forth
| "...bring forth the harvest with His words by calling those things which are not, as though they were." |
In both dreams, I heard the Lord say the word, "Idle-wood." (I'm assuming the Lord meant this expression to be like the name of a town; e.g., "Hollywood".) I was surprised by this word, being heard two days in a row and in both dreams. In the dreams there were dead people who were birthing babies, or there was old property that had been just sitting there, idle, and now it was being made new; newly decorated and occupied by people I've been in relationships with in the past, but not currently.
The Lord began to speak to me that these dreams were concerning a season of birthing, and that He is getting ready to birth new things from the old or dead things in our lives. I found this interesting, especially since God could just create something new. Why would He choose to take the old and bring life from it?
He began to share with me that the old represented a strain of DNA that He wanted to touch with the new life. In other words, the promise was not dead, it was simply idle. There was to be a calling forth of an old promise. He began to instruct me to tell people to speak life to the dead places.
Maybe you have dead relationships, dead jobs and dead finances. Maybe you have old, latent property or idle property (as in not moving); dead things that are still in your life but bear no fruit at this time. The good news is He is calling the dead things forth and back to life!
Abraham and the Belief of a Past Promise
Abraham believed God when He spoke about the things to come based on a past promise, even though everything around Him was death. He spoke life to what appeared in the natural to have no life. Abraham believed a word from God that had been latent or idle or had not yet come to pass. You too have dreams and promises from God that are latent and unfilled at this time; you may have even made them dead to your own heart. (Photo via Unsplash)
Romans 4:17-21 (NIV) says: "As it is written: 'I have made you a father of many nations.' Abraham is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not. Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, 'So shall your offspring be.'
"Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as...(continue reading)
