Radically Happy

I HAVE BEEN REBUILDING YOU.
It feels as if so many things in your life have been dismantled and demolished. Even in areas where you were once confident, you have felt insecure. In your places of natural ability, you feel increasingly inadequate. You don’t understand what is happening. It’s frustrating and confusing. You have even begun to wonder if you’re still called by Me, or if you have done something wrong.

Please know, I have been deeply and intimately at work in your life. My hand is still upon you. I have been deconstructing your self-reliance and removing your dependence on your own gifts and ingenuity. I am taking away the crutches that you lean on. I want you fully dependent on Me. I am revealing your weakness so that you will cry out for My supernatural strength.

You are increasingly frustrated at your own best efforts. That is My intention. Because I need you to realize that apart from Me, you can do nothing.

Old formulas and methods are no longer going to be fruitful.
What used to work will now feel empty and lifeless. I don’t need more gifted men and women. I don’t need more “great speakers.” I don’t need more cookie-cutter ministries. I don’t need charisma or human wisdom. I don’t need more influencers or ‘big names.’ Those things might impress others, but they nauseate Me. They might even appear to work for some people, but they don’t carry My anointing or My blessing.

I need men and women who will humble themselves before Me. I am seeking those who hear My voice and obey without hesitation, even if it is costly or uncomfortable. I am looking for those who will discern the Word of the LORD for this hour and communicate it with courage and conviction. I need men and women who will go low—who will set aside ego and ambition, and live only for My glory. I need those who desire more to minister TO Me than they want to do great things FOR Me, who will spend more time on their faces weeping than standing on stages seeking attention.

• I don’t want you to be famous. I want you to be fruitful.
• I don’t need you to be impressive. I need you to be surrendered.
• I don’t need your platform. I want your consecration.
• I don’t need your best ideas. I need you to build according to My blueprints.

I will give you My unlimited power and abundant provision if you will give Me your unconditional “yes.”

I know you’ve been struggling with the stripping back.
The pruning has been painful. I know you have felt lost and lonely. But know this: what was there before was not able to sustain what I will do in and through you in this next season. You would have been content to re-order and re-decorate. I needed to tear down, uproot, sever, and remove. The debris of the old is being cleared to make room for the construction of the new. What I am building inside you will enable you to flourish and be more fruitful than ever.

What got you this far was good for then. But it can’t take you any further. Therefore, some things had to die to make way for the new. You might miss them. But you don’t need them. I’ve seen what you can do. Now, I want you to see what I can do. My strength is sufficient. My power is available. Take heart. I have been rebuilding you.