by leaps and bounds

While at a prayer meeting recently, the Lord gave me the word “rescue” and then proceeded to give me a detailed vision and accompanying message with it. So I pray I’m able to get out all the details He wants me to share effectively.

He said, “The rescue ship is coming, but we have to CHOOSE to get on it.” I then saw many in dark, deep waters floating around in life boats. The Lord then asked me what causes someone to need a life boat? It’s a traumatic event, or series of events, that leaves someone wandering in a life boat in the waters waiting on rescue to come. It’s usually not a good thing that leaves someone needing a life boat. It’s an event that leaves people needing healing and rescue to take place.

Being in a life boat out in the ocean can also bring isolation if we aren’t found soon enough. We begin to focus on the storm and overwhelming abandonment surrounding us if we aren’t careful. After all, we have just been through something traumatic and if our rescue doesn’t come quick, we begin to feel all hope is lost and the darkness begins to become our normal and our lens. This is where many are at in this season of life. Feeling lost, abandoned, overwhelmed, and overtaken by the storm. Their life boat feels to be sinking and that there’s no way out.

But the Lord said the rescue ship is coming. I saw a huge cruise ship on the way to come and rescue those floating around in life boats. The Lord told me that when you first get on the rescue ship, you are given new garments that are clean and warm to replace your tattered, warn ones. Then you are given fresh manna and water to renew your spirit and soul- to revive and refresh you. You are taken to the first aid station in some instances and rendered aid to heal your wounds (inside and out). You may even have to talk with a therapist to work through all the trauma you have endured out there in the stormy waters (inner healing & deliverance).

After you have done all this and get the healing and strength you need, you can then come up to the highest deck and now have a vantage point to see all the threats and others still out there needing rescue. The Lord said this is the part of coming up higher He is talking about. Waves that seem large in a small life boat, don’t seem so big when you’re at the top of a large cruise ship. You go from being weak and vulnerable, to being the strong one with an advantage to see the darkness trying to surround you. In a lifeboat, you may only have a small lantern to guide you, or maybe even no light at all, but in a cruise ship you have a huge light that can see long distances ahead.

So, it’s time to get on the rescue ship. It’s time to get the healing and strength you need that comes from our Savior alone. It’s time to come up to the highest vantage point so that you can see incoming threats and those who still need rescued. It’s time to ride the rescue ship through the storm to take others along with you. When you are seated in heavenly places, earthly things don’t seem to affect you as much. The rescue ship is coming, and it’s time to get on, get healed, and then rescue others as well.

The rescue ship is coming… will you do the work it takes to get free and come up higher so that others can be saved because of your yes? It’s time to get on board and leave your lifeboat behind. It’s our mandate after all. And frankly, our lifeboats won’t sustain us in the upcoming waves. We have to get on the rescue ship if we want to survive the storms. We WILL make it, but it’s time to get on the ship of life and protection. It’s time!

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