28th March 2025
This morning while in prayer, I had a strange encounter which I will not recall here full in detail, but I will share bits of the encounter and what I felt the Lord is saying.
As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly – Proverbs 26:11
This is the scripture that would best sum up the encounter that I had in prayer. It is also echoed by Peter in 2 Peter 2:22 (“The thing spoken of in the true proverb has happened to them, “The dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “A sow is washed only to wallow [again] in the mire” AMP), where Peter describes those who have strayed from faith and the dangers of returning to sin after having known the truth. Sobering.
“20For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world by [personal] knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, their last condition has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have [personally] known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to have turned back from the holy commandment [verbally] handed on to them.” – 2 Peter 2:20-21
This is not a rebuke, but a warning.
I saw a threshold presented to many Christians in the coming weeks. A threshold, that once crossed, would take them into the next glorious assignment, deeper wells of intimacy, and even greater strength to stand and fight. I saw that like a wave that comes and goes, in and out, familiar spirits were lingering at these thresholds, ready to pounce and to deceive the Christians who were undecided about the cost of crossing the thresholds.
Hebrews 3:13 states that sin is DECEITFUL. It hardens the heart. I saw that these familiar spirits were not even whispering but spewing lies to the people of God and causing people to turn back to their own vomit – old thought patterns, old ways of doing things, old desires that they were once completely aware were keeping them in bondage. PEOPLE WERE GOING BACK TO THE OLD NATURE, completely disregarding all that Jesus had done to give them a new nature.
Again, I saw large surfing waves begin to crash. Each breaker was a lying, familiar spirit, and the choice was there to either subdue it and violently take the wave to surf through the threshold OR to weakly give into the deception and return to their vomit with hardened hearts.
I saw both responses. I saw some surfing through the thresholds in glory and splendour, giving much glory to Jesus, while others chose to give in to the familiar. I saw that for those who gave in, the consequences of their sin this time around was much greater than previously. More damage would be done than they could have ever conceived.
Please note, that if you are in this season, the Lord is exposing this so that you can realign to His heartbeat. The cost of surfing through the threshold may seem too great to bear right now but remember that He is your exceedingly great reward (Genesis 15:1). Jesus has made a way, and He is worth dropping everything to follow.
Cry out to Jesus for mercy and help in your time of need. Do not return to your vomit, do not return to your Egypt.
I IMPORE YOU! Please heed the voice of the Lord.
But continually encourage one another every day, as long as it is called “Today” [and there is an opportunity], so that none of you will be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [its cleverness, delusive glamour, and sophistication]. – Hebrews 3:13 AMP
Please share.
xoxo
Mandy
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