2020 the Purge Prophetic Word

Hey guys i know it has been quite a while i have been going through a lot as most of the body has been in this time and i just feel like corporately we've been going through a cleansing and a purging and a stripping as a body in my own personal life i've seen that and all those around me i'm seeing that and i just want to be real and vulnerable with you guys for me personally some of that looked like all of my electronics braking at once my wi-fi not working all these things that i depend on for work um everything changing with my in my job getting new management struggling with that i also had like my car stopped working my um some ministry opportunities not work because of covid some relationships not work a lot of pain that i've been processing through just everything at once even family members getting really sick and i just came to the realization of like wow i don't have anything like anything that you would call my desires of my heart on this earth i don't have them even recently i found out that i had to move out uh soon and this home that i have is the only place that's ever felt like home to me and it was all suddenly everything just crashed and i realized wow i don't have a home i don't have um like a ministry that's made it yet i don't have like the career i've dreamed of i don't have a marriage i don't have a family of my own i don't have all these things that i desire on this earth and at first that was really painful for me to process through and then it changed from pain to gratitude and thankfulness and what a privilege what a privilege it is that i get to ground myself in jesus alone here in this place and if i would have built my house my home like who i am on any of those things whether it was career marriage ministry whatever it is and this storm of 2020 came and i had put my hope in those things all of those things would have crumbled and i feel like this year was has been a year of exposing that this year really could be the best thing that's ever ever happened to you because we can realize in this place that all the things that we got stripped of is not going to give you what you need your source is not found in those things and one of the things that i feel like have gotten shaken in this time is like our dependency our our our trust in our own ability and it being about i can do this or i can do what god called me to or i can make this happen that is being ripped from us because it is only in his strength not by might not by power just jesus that we can accomplish anything and so um that's a place that's really getting uprooted for us and hebrews 12 itself is a word for the entire body right now and in the beginning it talks about taking everything off that entangles you to run your race unhindered and then it says don't grow weary for your being made holy and righteous you're being made to look like him in this and you will have a harvest in peace and it also talks about when god shakes the earth and heavens that indicates the removal of things that can be shaken and that is you know all the things that have been made in order that the things that cannot be shaken would remain and that's what he's doing within us within our lives within the body it's because he wants to give to us he wants to give to us the unshakable kingdom he doesn't want to take he wants to make room to give to us what's real what will last and um at me and this time so many people in this time i know have felt bare and vulnerable and empty but that's not a bad thing i actually feel the lord saying that that right now is the point that we have to be emptied so that he can fill us with with himself with what's true and and lasting and and it's a word for us to stop fighting it to yield to surrender um to give up control and i have felt personally like i'm dying throughout this process and i just like cried out to the lord like what is going on god and he spoke to me and he said there is a detox going on in the body i am detoxing them from the things that they put their hope in that were not me and i saw a person actually detoxing and detoxing sucks it is an awful process you do feel like you're dying like it's hell on earth but you're being purged of these things that were toxic for you that you found everything in it's like you get addicted to these things to fulfill your needs but the body is getting purged like detoxed of all those things and at first it's really terrible process but in the end the result is freedom and you feel better and stronger than you ever did before and so there is somewhere that we're getting in this and it is so good and it's freedom um and i saw another vision of the body and it was like we were all together and we're in this war zone and we're in this battle where things were just bearing down on top of us and this onslaught this attack was happening and i saw instead of breakthrough coming in those things that were attacking us it came from down below and it was like it like i just feel like the the lord is saying breakthrough is coming but it may not be in the direction you think you have to surrender you have to let go of everything let go of control let go of the fight and let the bottom fall out because what happens when we fall and we release is we fall deeply into him and that's what this time is about and if you don't surrender everything i do feel this is a word for the body if you don't surrender everything to him everything that this world can offer you everything you found your security in if you don't surrender it then you will be crushed by this onslaught and we have a choice um to be crushed or to be tenderized you have a choice to allow all these things that are going on in the world to either crush you or tenderize your heart and open it to the lord um something else that i saw is that they're a vision of the whole church and we were walking like on a pilgrimage you know to zion and all of a sudden 2020 hit and we took a sharp turn and in that we took a turn into what looked like the wilderness the wilderness of wandering and then i saw um a few of us choose to go up to the mountaintops and it was a place of encountering the lord um face to face just like moses did and those who chose to make this place of a desert of suffering and wandering a place of encounter with the lord those were the ones that the lord had chosen and anointed to be leaders in the body for the next season the ones that he is preparing in this time to carry that out and um one last thing that i saw is in worship i i it was me but i represented the body too the lord was holding me so tight to his chest just covering me that i couldn't see anything but his chest and i couldn't see what he was doing i didn't know what direction i was going you know like in my own life i'm like what what do i do i don't know what's next and i felt like the lord was saying that is also the point the point is that you would just get to know me get to know my nature to where i am all that you see where i am truly all that you need all that you want to see and um that is what he is forming within us and so i feel that this is also a return to true christianity for the church and i'm speaking specifically to the western church in this we have gotten to a place that doesn't even really look anything like what true christianity is and it's not about you it's not and i have been processing that i feel like i'm relearning that christianity is not about you at all it's about god and the glory of jesus and i've been thinking you know we feel like we're dying i feel like i'm dying you probably feel like you're dying but that's a great thing it's actually really good because your death is the only way to true life and that is the entire message purpose it's the entire point of christianity that we would die completely to ourselves be buried with christ and raised again one with jesus and it's him who lives and not us anymore real christianity is death to yourself and resurrection in christ and i felt like i was supposed to read some scriptures there's matthew 10 39 if you cling to your life you will lose it but if you give up your life for me you will find it of course that's jesus speaking um galatians 2 20 i have been crucified with christ and i no longer live but christ lives in me the life i now live in the body i live by faith in the son of god who loved me and gave himself for me and then romans 12 2 i encourage you guys to read that paul urges us to live our lives as living sacrifices find out what that means that's what this is this is a time to to do that to mirror that to flesh out this word lord what does it mean to look like a living sacrifice that's the point of christianity true freedom true christianity is everything in this world is meaningless it's all meaningless the world is not our home this is not where we bury our treasure this is not where we cling to things this is not our all in all this is not what we live for jesus his glory that's what we live for that's true freedom knowing that this is not where we belong and it's not where we find our fulfillment and nothing says that better than a few verses in ecclesiastes there's one ecclesiastes 1 14 it says i have seen all the things that are done under the sun all of them are meaningless at chasing after the wind and then there's ecclesiastes 2 14 it says yet when i surveyed all that my hands had done and what i had toiled to achieve everything was meaningless at chasing after the wind nothing was gained under the sun and i just feel this challenge this question to the body is he all for you truly like not oh yeah yeah jesus is everything but then you live like he's on the side you know as opposed to your career or the people in your life or whatever no is he everything is he truly all to you is he really enough is his is trusting him for your provision for your comfort for your needs to be met is he really enough just him because that is true christianity he is everything he is all he is in all he holds all things together everything finds its purpose and completion in him everything was created through him and for him and for his glory true christianity being a true christian means that he is everything he is your all not just some and that's what we're returning to in this time and what i what other things i believe that he's wanting to do right now is for us i saw this vision a long time ago when i was having hard season and i got saved this flower that was being pounded by rain and it was all dilapidated and on the ground and then i saw another vision of the same flower that opened itself up to the rain to receive it and it got nourished and it's got grew big and strong and i feel like that is for us like what he is wanting to do in this time is nourish and strengthen us if we would receive from him in this time god has really intended this time to be a time of filling of filling us up of refreshing us with himself and what he has for us what's true what will last there is one psalm in psalm 13 and it go read it it's amazing but at the end it says for in all of this you have strengthened my soul and that's what he's wanting through all of it he's wanting to strengthen your soul strength in your spirit in him and there's um psalm 84 it said blessed are those whose strength are in you whose heart is set on pilgrimage as they pass through the valley of baca which means a valley of suffering they make it a place of springs the autumn reigns which means blessing also cover it with pools they go from strength to strength till each appears before god in zion so that is the strengthening as you pilgrim towards him as you set on that pilgrimage towards him he wants to strengthen you and bring you to the next strength in this season something else i saw was he was wanting to give the body this massive glass of new wine and i saw myself like drunk on this new wine in the spirit and it was the bliss of the gospel it was that true freedom where it's not about this world it's about him he's more than enough that we get to live with him for eternity and we have all that we need that wine glass he wants to give it to the church to fill us and inebriate us in him again and in that revelation again and this year 2020 when it first began he did speak to me that this is like a year that the body would see again um and i'm seeing that now and it's not what i thought or probably what anybody thought but all of the deaths and the grieving of this year even like in this year the things that have been brought up from the past old familiar feelings old things that you need to grieve all of this has been brought up so that the body would process it release it so they can truly see and i saw a vision of myself and i knew it was a body too where we were being empty there was like we were bags of water being emptied out as we wept as we processed as we cried and it was being emptied so that then the lord filled the bag it was open so he could fill it um with himself and then there was also a vision where i saw like the eyes of the body and we were just crying but it was like it flushed everything out of our eyes as we were doing that so that we could see him clearly so that we could see the reality of the gospel clearly so we got that we could see everything around us in truth and so he did show me also that we will dance on the heap of all of the ashes and all the death of the season all the things that could be shaken that have been shaken that died all the things we've had to grieve we will dance on that we will praise we will worship we will be ecstatic with joy again and the last scripture i want to share with you is romans 12 12 it says be joyful in hope patient in affliction and faithful in prayer and i also felt like he wanted me to share some really encouraging quotes with you guys so there's one from corey ten boom and it says you never know that christ is all you need until christ is all you have and that's what we're getting to discover in this season and there's um some quotes by charles spurgeon it says i have learned to kiss the waves that throws me against the rock of ages here's another one we ought surely be content with such things we have for he who has god has more than all the world and this is one of my favorites nothing will satisfy man but god in whose image he was made and the last one hold everything earthly with a loose hand but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip i just love what the lord is doing right now and i know it's painful and i know it's hard but there's so much richness and goodness that he wants us to return to so much truth and and strengthening that he's giving us in this season so i encourage you guys lean into him surrender let go because there's so much that he wants to give you in the place of all those things that are being shaken i love you guys thank you for listening i am still speaking in the capacity that i can whether that's on zoom or a few ministries so if you're interested and want me to come share a word with you your ministry your body i would love that so just message me on my website nicolesmodio.com with a request there's also the mentorship program so if you're interested in that needing mentorship especially in this time please message me i'd love to help you with that as well there's also a place to give i'm writing a book all the things on there so i love you guys be encouraged and have an amazing rest of the year with jesus