The Spirit broods over the earth. He is calling to the sons of God: "Awaken, Arise". A key word for this hour is "emergence". A season of emergence is proclaimed, as the sons of God awake to the Voice of the Spirit and begin to emerge upon the face of the earth. Those who discern the hour and are watchful of the seasons of the Lord are even now discerning with their spiritual senses a new and marvelous thing breaking forth. They are alerted to a changing of season.

It is a season that comes with little fanfare or celebration, yet it comes in the perfect timing and complete power of the Father. It comes like the rising of a new dawn on the earth; it comes with the brilliant light and glory of a newly created day emerging on the eastern horizon. As surely and as silently as the morning sun sends out her rays to kiss the darkened earth, so surely and silently does this season dawn with the Kiss of the Son upon the earth's weary, weeping face. And as certainly as each new day brings expectations of change, so this new season comes with expectations of great changes whose appointed times have come, and which will not be held back or delayed any longer. Yet few will notice, and few will comprehend the significance of this hour for which creation has yearned and Heaven celebrates.

Yes, the long-awaited Word has gone forth, determined from the dawn of time in the secret council of Elohim - flowing forth from the Son, approved by the Father, to be birthed by the Spirit - now carried forth by angels and declared with power. And once again, the Spirit hovers over the face of the waters. The waters are of nations, tribes and peoples, but these do not know or hear the song He sings. The song He sings over the earth in this hour is a song that brings forth a mighty awakening and stirs a growing restlessness deep within the spirits of those to whom it is sung. It comes even as a sudden gentle wind on a still day, fanning into flame the smoldering embers of fires long thought dead. It comes as a new, yet ancient tune, strangely familiar to those who will now be compelled to play it, sing it and dance to its beat. It comes from the deepest longings of the Father's heart, having been bathed in His own holy tears. It comes with a fearful shout of victorious triumph from the lips of the Son, startling His enemies into a frantic and final escalation of unparalleled wickedness.

And as this song of emergence, this creative call to resurrection life, arises in the spirits of the very sons of God, now and in the days that come, a responding sound will begin to rise from the earth. It is simultaneously the sound of war and the sound of heaven, appearing among men. It is the sound of resolute marching; it is the sound of clashing swords; it is the sound of many voices united together by the Spirit of Adoption, by whom they cry out as one "Abba, Father!". It is the sound of two kingdoms colliding on a scale not ever before witnessed by mankind!

And as this awesome revelation of sonship reverberates throughout all creation, the King's enemies will flee powerless and confused before those who carry it forth. Powerless, because death cannot defeat those who have already died. Powerless because there is no demonic strategy in the face of truth proclaimed by the Spirit of Truth. Powerless because as one mortal body is destroyed, many more shall arise in that one's place. Powerless because men, women and children will now walk the face of the earth in the stature and image of that Firstborn Son whose exploits are forbidden even to be spoken in the darkest, vilest haunts of hell.

And powerless because these ones know who their Father is and therefore know who THEY are! Having come forth from the dust of the earth, they have followed the Firstborn into their eternal realm, quickened by the Spirit and no longer bound to the earth from which they were formed. They have obtained the heavenly inheritance of joint-heirship with Christ and are declared to be the sons of God with power! And so shall be the manifestation of the sons of God to all creation, the season of which we now enter. Let him who has ears to hear, hear what the Spirit decrees. It has begun!

Go to 'Feed My Sheep' & read "The Revelation of the Sons of God"

June, 2004

Cheryl McGrath

Cheryl McGrath, Great South Land Ministries