Release the Lightning Bolt of Peace!

I hear the Father say,

"The clouds are building and the rumbling of thunder can be heard in the distance. I am gathering my arrows and placing them in my quiver, ready to send them out into the earth like lightning bolts. Beloved, are you ready? Are you ready to become thunder in the ears of your adversary and strike lightning in the midst of this darkness? You will open your mouth and declare a thing and it will happen! Speak, 'Peace. Be still,' and the darkness will shirk back. Your weapon of choice comes from your mouth. You will remember your lessons and you will apply what you know to be true- If I am the authority then you have access to all of Me. Rise Up Beloved, and Believe. Continue practicing your faith. Today, you will remember why I left. I took the keys of death from your adversary, I returned, and guess what I did with those keys? I gave them to you! By my life and by my name, I give you the keys to remind the enemy he no longer has authority over you. He made himself king over death and the grave, but I dethroned your adversary and gave the authority to you. I have made you a king and a priest over all the earth- You and Me together! The Kingdom is yours! It's time you flex those muscles of authority (Luke 10:18-20)!

Revelation 1:7 The Passion Translation (TPT)

Now to the one who constantly loves us and has loosed us from our sins by his own blood, and to the one who has made us to rule as a kingly priesthood to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and dominion throughout the eternity of eternities! Amen!

"A storm is brewing and the earth is responding to the cloud that is gathering within it. A cloud of witnesses gathers and no eye has seen what I am about to do next. Watch out for those who minimize what I am doing- it may appear that history is repeating itself, this isn't the first time I have tried to come through, I am continually coming through, without end. Has a gathering like this ever occurred in history? My people are gathering together like a single cloud, that once was small as a man's hand, but now it increases in velocity. Hear the rumblings- a lightning storm is brewing, a storm of words and declarations carrying within it a unified sound, "Peace. Be still." I am not coming out of an old tomb this time, I am coming through the clouds! I am returning on a cloud, Beloved, and that cloud is a company of clouds- a full force of refreshing.

"Today you will look your adversary in the face and without batting an eye, command, 'Peace. Be still.' The imposter of light will shirk back by the Light Radiance that burns within you. I have given you the authority to remain in peace. I know you like a good battle, the weapon of choice in this battle is not a sword or fear or blustery words, it is the simple sound of My Spirit breath within you declaring, 'Peace. Be Still.' I am the Prince of Peace after all and the temple I have chosen for myself is you, Beloved. Take a knee, I knight you this day, My Purveyor of Peace. This war will be won as you remain in peace- to your adversary your words are lightning bolts, striking terror and bringing division into the midst of his dark chaos. How dare you have peace- your adversary thinks you should be terrified! You will walk into the middle of it all and by the audacity of your faith you will command the chaos and fear to be still, and it will submit to your authority. Peace. Be still. I have given you legal right and all the authority you need- My authority is your authority. I never hid from the enemy, why would I now? All the earth is mine and everything that is in it- I have given it to you to rule (Rev. 5:10)! Your adversary will fall silent like the waves of an unruly sea and the sounds of heaven will follow in a rolling thunderous praise! My sons and daughters are about to be revealed and I am there, in their midst! The company of clouds gathers," declares the Lord, where I will rise in their midst for all to see.

Behold! He appears within the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him. And all the people groups of the earth will weep with sorrow because of him. And so it is to be! Amen. Rev. 7:1 TPT

Daniel 7:13 New International Version (NIV)

“In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man,[a] coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence.

Hebrews 12:1 The Passion Translation (TPT)

The Great Cloud of Witnesses

As for us, we have all of these great witnesses who encircle us like clouds.

For many, this is a new perspective of what it means when Jesus will return on a "cloud." For so long we have been taught in Sunday school of a little cartoon of Jesus literally returning on a white puffy cloud. Is that what the Bible shows us? Please consider taking the time to dive deeper into the word. Some specific scriptures recommended in The Passion Translation come from a note in Revelation 7:1, Or “He will appear [be surrounded] with [Gr.meta] clouds,” or “He appears by means of clouds” or “with clouds” or “between clouds.” See also Isa.60:8; Dan.7:13-14; Heb. 12:1. The cloud of glory is now plural—clouds, a company of clouds (Dan.7:13-14; Matt. 26:64;1 Thess. 4:17).

God bless you as you explore more of who you are to Jesus, and who Jesus is to you!