Part III of GOD’S PREPARATION FOR THE GLORY, THE FIRE WITHIN
AND THE FIERY DARTS WITHOUT BY ROBIN KIRBY-GATTO
April 15, 2011
When the enemy comes in like a flood where he sends the assignment of python against you cooperating with the spirit of Jezebel which ends up opening up the door to Leviathan then you have to enter the stronghold of God. I remember a dream that is in my first book “The Glory to Glory Sisterhood” was all around an attack that I would have an attack of Leviathan hit me. Remember, Leviathan is a culmination of a brood of vipers that are cooperating with satan’s plan to come against the anointing of Christ in you the hope of GLORY! Glory is the copiousness of God, it is all of Who God is, His Names, His Characters, His Attributes, His Fullness! Therefore God wants this Glory, Himself, to be manifested in you as it was made visible in His Son, God the Son, Jesus Christ! In the section on “Pride” in my book “THE GLORY TO GLORY SISTERHOOD” a dream that I had in 2006 consisted of having Mr. and Mrs. Pride in it. God was warning me I was about to go through an attack of a brood of vipers leading to such magnitude that it would be Leviathan I would be attacking me. Here is the dream from the book on page 89.
“For example, in 2006 I received a dream from the Lord where I was going to go through great persecution from other Christians. In the dream the people were very tall. I was walking around and heard them all clamoring to talk with a specific couple, Mr. and Mrs. Pride. Then we all went into a larger room to listen to a well known teacher of the Word of God. In this room I sat by another lady whom I had known years earlier somewhere else. This lady had been treated as an outcast by her church because her husband had cheated on her and left. While I was sitting by this lady, a partition came down between me and all of the tall people who were sitting by Mr. and Mrs. Pride, and I was no longer able to be a part of them. After that, a lady in the dream came up to me and said that I had two demons on me and I told her I did not. Then I walked away dejected in the dream for a long walk and eventually came back to tell her I did not have two demons on me. She apologized to me, said she knew and was sorry, and the dream was over.” It was during this time after I had the dream that I even repented for having the dream after I told my husband Rich because he couldn’t believe I had the dream too. However, within a matter of two weeks the occurrences started happening as I had dreamt and I had to endure a 2 year at the minimum but truly lasting up to 3 years of being rejected, persecuted, thought to be doing the work of satan, and discredited. However, simultaneously God worked in me like He did Joseph who was misunderstood by His brothers. It was not about me it was about the SEED!!! The seed of CHRIST IN ME THE HOPE OF GLORY!!!! God was turning this around to my good because I love Him and I am called according to His purpose!
In order to bring me higher God allowed me to go through a greater FIRE! A fire within and fiery darts without! The fire of God began to purge and consecrate me in greater measure for the CALL!!! Many are called and few are chosen! Not many are willing to go through the test of being hit by Leviathan to expose the pride that is present in others and even within ourselves in order to allow more room for God’s Glory to be poured into our lives! It is the very thing the enemy thinks he is going to crush us with that becomes our launch pad, our acceleration, our elevation by God Himself! God promotes and elevates those who are low, who are humble and contrite. When we get hit by a hit of Leviathan and to everyone else that is in agreement with the enemy and the iniquity is in their heart where they have not the love of Christ then it will suck them in, in THEIR OWN PRIDE, to believe that what they are doing is TRULY the WORK of GOD when it is not God at all but it is satan that has them deceived they are doing the work of God. Moreover, to everyone in this web of deceit they are given over so much to the delusion and believe it to be real that they are “protecting” the system from the danger, the threat, which is the anointed vessel of God going through the attack. Even the righteous indignation that Jesus presented in the temple when He went in with the whip among people given over to this deceit will justify their action and they will say “see I told you she had Jezebel; I told you he had pride.” When in real fact it was the humility of Jesus that also was bold to get the whip and chase out the devil! Therefore, when righteous indignation rises up in a vessel of God to expose the system because the system has been hissing and biting them, it actually looks like the vessel of God is in rebellion. Lolololol. That is too funny but that is how satan works! He makes those who are deceived believe they are doing the work of God and point fingers at the vessel that has interrupted the system of pride, religion, mammon, control and manipulation. When we are going through this type of attack where satan is using our brothers and sisters in Christ (I’m talking about the church in general) we do not want to be a part of the Civil War Leviathan has raging and turn on each other but instead God’s banner over us is LOVE! It is all about God’s Love because that is how faith operates! Faith operates by way of LOVE! Therefore, if satan can get us to be offended with those attacking us then he can affect our love tank and stop the flow of the anointing. It is ALL ABOUT GOD ALL THE TIME, every attack, every test and tribulation is about God, Christ in us the Hope of Glory being manifested in the earth.
Therefore, the greater end is for God’s Holy Spirit to pull us toward the position of Love, the place of Love, where we choose not to war, because if we do it will mean that we will be fighting our own brother or own sister, the spirits in them and since they are consumed with it any truth we might offer in love will actually make the situation worse. This is why we enter GOD!!! We enter Psalm 91! The first four verses describe the protection of entering the stronghold.
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.2 I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” 3 Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. 4 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. Psalm 91:1-4
The next verses in Psalm 91, verses 5-8 describe the outcome of those who do not enter love, God, but instead continue to operate in pride.
5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. 8 You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. Psalm 91:5-8.
The last verses of Psalm 91 describe the victory of those who are in the stronghold of God.
9 If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, 10 no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. 11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. 13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
14 “Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. 15 He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.” Psalm 91:9-16 Amp.
We that enter the stronghold of God are protected from the fiery arrows of the enemy, we are set free from the oppressor and the destruction of the attack of Leviathan that started out as Jezebel then co-labored with python to bring about an attack of Leviathan where we feel as though we are crushed. However, God knows how much we can bare and will not allow us to go past a point whereby we are crushed. We have instead chosen to throw ourselves on the rock to be broken! King David describes very well in the Psalms (Psalm 55-59) his attack of being hit by a brood of vipers and Leviathan and the operation of it through others. We will look at these verses and then come back to what God wants us to realize! WE come back to GOD!!! To God’s GLORY!!!! GOD’S GLORY IS LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After the Psalms read with me further.
Psalm 56 Amp
1BE MERCIFUL and gracious to me, O God, for man would trample me or devour me; all the day long the adversary oppresses me. 2They that lie in wait for me would swallow me up or trample me all day long, for they are many who fight against me, O Most High! 3What time I am afraid, I will have confidence in and put my trust and reliance in You. 4By [the help of] God I will praise His word; on God I lean, rely, and confidently put my trust; I will not fear. What can man, who is flesh, do to me? 5All day long they twist my words and trouble my affairs; all their thoughts are against me for evil and my hurt. 6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they watch my steps, even as they have [expectantly] waited for my life. 7They think to escape with iniquity, and shall they? In Your indignation bring down the peoples, O God. 8You number and record my wanderings; put my tears into Your bottle--are they not in Your book? 9Then shall my enemies turn back in the day that I cry out; this I know, for God is for me. 10In God, Whose word I praise, in the Lord, Whose word I praise, 11In God have I put my trust and confident reliance; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? 12Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render praise to You and give You thank offerings. 13For You have delivered my life from death, yes, and my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life and of the living.
Psalm 55 Amp
1LISTEN TO my prayer, O God, and hide not Yourself from my supplication! 2Attend to me and answer me; I am restless and distraught in my complaint and must moan 3[And I am distracted] at the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression and threats of the wicked; for they would cast trouble upon me, and in wrath they persecute me. 4My heart is grievously pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me. 5Fear and trembling have come upon me; horror and fright have overwhelmed me. 6And I say, Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. 7Yes, I would wander far away, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! 8I would hasten to escape and to find a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest. 9Destroy [their schemes], O Lord, confuse their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 10Day and night they go about on its walls; iniquity and mischief are in its midst. 11Violence and ruin are within it; fraud and guile do not depart from its streets and marketplaces. 12For it is not an enemy who reproaches and taunts me--then I might bear it; nor is it one who has hated me who insolently vaunts himself against me--then I might hide from him. 13But it was you, a man my equal, my companion and my familiar friend. 14We had sweet fellowship together and used to walk to the house of God in company. 15Let desolations and death come suddenly upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol (the place of the dead), for evils are in their habitations, in their hearts, and their inmost part. 16As for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord will save me. 17Evening and morning and at noon will I utter my complaint and moan and sigh, and He will hear my voice. 18He has redeemed my life in peace from the battle that was against me [so that none came near me], for they were many who strove with me. 19God will hear and humble them, even He Who abides of old--Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!--because in them there has been no change [of heart], and they do not fear, revere, and worship God. 20[My companion] has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; he has broken and profaned his agreement [of friendship and loyalty]. 21The words of his mouth were smoother than cream or butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. 22Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you; He will never allow the [consistently] righteous to be moved (made to slip, fall, or fail). 23But You, O God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in, lean on, and confidently rely on You.
Psalm 57
1BE MERCIFUL and gracious to me, O God, be merciful and gracious to me, for my soul takes refuge and finds shelter and confidence in You; yes, in the shadow of Your wings will I take refuge and be confident until calamities and destructive storms are passed. 2I will cry to God Most High, Who performs on my behalf and rewards me [Who brings to pass His purposes for me and surely completes them]! 3He will send from heaven and save me from the slanders and reproaches of him who would trample me down or swallow me up, and He will put him to shame. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! God will send forth His mercy and loving-kindness and His truth and faithfulness. 4My life is among lions; I must lie among those who are aflame--the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords. 5Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let Your glory be over all the earth! 6They set a net for my steps; my very life was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way; into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! 7My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is steadfast and confident! I will sing and make melody. 8Awake, my glory (my inner self); awake, harp and lyre! I will awake right early [I will awaken the dawn]! 9I will praise and give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to You among the nations. 10For Your mercy and loving-kindness are great, reaching to the heavens, and Your truth and faithfulness to the clouds. 11Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be over all the earth.
Psalm 58
1DO YOU indeed in silence speak righteousness, O you mighty ones? [Or is the righteousness, rightness, and justice you should speak quite dumb?] Do you judge fairly and uprightly, O you sons of men? 2No, in your heart you devise wickedness; you deal out in the land the violence of your hands. 3The ungodly are perverse and estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. 4Their poison is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder or asp that stops its ear, 5Which listens not to the voice of charmers or of the enchanter never casting spells so cunningly. 6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths; break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord. 7Let them melt away as water which runs on apace; when he aims his arrows, let them be as if they were headless or split apart. 8Let them be as a snail dissolving slime as it passes on or as a festering sore which wastes away, like [the child to which] a woman gives untimely birth that has not seen the sun. 9Before your pots can feel the thorns [that are placed under them for fuel], He will take them away as with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike. 10The [unyieldingly] righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11Men will say, Surely there is a reward for the [uncompromisingly] righteous; surely there is a God Who judges on the earth.
Psalm 59
1DELIVER ME from my enemies, O my God; defend and protect me from those who rise up against me. 2Deliver me from and lift me above those who work evil and save me from bloodthirsty men. 3For, behold, they lie in wait for my life; fierce and mighty men are banding together against me, not for my transgression nor for any sin of mine, O Lord. 4They run and prepare themselves, though there is no fault in me; rouse Yourself [O Lord] to meet and help me, and see! 5You, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, arise to visit all the nations; spare none and be not merciful to any who treacherously plot evil. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! 6They return at evening, they howl and snarl like dogs, and go [prowling] about the city. 7Behold, they belch out [insults] with their mouths; swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips, for who, they think, hears us? 8But You, O Lord, will laugh at them [in scorn]; You will hold all the nations in derision. 9O my Strength, I will watch and give heed to You and sing praises; for God is my Defense (my Protector and High Tower). 10My God in His mercy and steadfast love will meet me; God will let me look [triumphantly] on my enemies (those who lie in wait for me). 11Slay them not, lest my people forget; scatter them by Your power and make them wander to and fro, and bring them down, O Lord our Shield! 12For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them even be trapped and taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they utter. 13Consume them in wrath, consume them so that they shall be no more; and let them know unto the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob (Israel). Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! 14And at evening let them return; let them howl and snarl like dogs, and go prowling about the city. 15Let them wander up and down for food and tarry all night if they are not satisfied (not getting their fill). 16But I will sing of Your mighty strength and power; yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy and loving-kindness in the morning; for You have been to me a defense (a fortress and a high tower) and a refuge in the day of my distress. 17Unto You, O my Strength, I will sing praises; for God is my Defense, my Fortress, and High Tower, the God Who shows me mercy and steadfast love.
It is in the place of being misunderstood, of the anointing of Christ in you the hope of glory being rejected, persecuted, despised that we are promoted to the place of glory we were always meant for which is Galatians 2:20!!! It is no longer I that live but Christ in me!!! We have come to a place of realization that Christ fought the battle with LOVE! Christ is the stronghold! Isaiah 59 describes appropriately how one goes through this attack of walking through this great persecution, pit of vipers and shows where God is Lord of the battle and the vipers are lured into their own trap and we come out in victory! The ultimate end is because of LOVE, because of the COVENANT! God brings us forth from Psalm 91 protection once we have passed the test of entering the stronghold of God in the midst of the attack and not being part of the civil war satan would bring about in the church. We come into Psalm 92:10 anointing where “God has exalted our horn like a wild ox and given us the NEW ANOINTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” GLORY TO GOD!!!!! IT IS THE VERY ATTACK THAT BRING US INTO AN INCREASED ANOINTING A NEW ANOINTING!!!!!
Isaiah 59
1BEHOLD, THE Lord's hand is not shortened at all, that it cannot save, nor His ear dull with deafness, that it cannot hear. 2But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. 3For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. 4None sues or calls in righteousness [but for the sake of doing injury to others--to take some undue advantage]; no one goes to law honestly and pleads [his case] in truth; they trust in emptiness, worthlessness and futility, and speaking lies! They conceive mischief and bring forth evil! 5They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats of their eggs dies, and [from an egg] which is crushed a viper breaks out [for their nature is ruinous, deadly, evil]. 6Their webs will not serve as clothing, nor will they cover themselves with what they make; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths and highways. 8The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice or right in their goings. They have made them into crooked paths; whoever goes in them does not know peace.9Therefore are justice and right far from us, and righteousness and salvation do not overtake us. We expectantly wait for light, but [only] see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity and gloom. 10We grope for the wall like the blind, yes, we grope like those who have no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the twilight; in dark places and among those who are full of life and vigor, we are as dead men. 11We all groan and growl like bears and moan plaintively like doves. We look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. 12For our transgressions are multiplied before You [O Lord], and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know and recognize them [as]: 13Rebelling against and denying the Lord, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving in and muttering and moaning from the heart words of falsehood. 14Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) stands far off; for truth has fallen in the street (the city's forum), and uprightness cannot enter [the courts of justice]. 15Yes, truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice. 16And He saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no intercessor [no one to intervene on behalf of truth and right]; therefore His own arm brought Him victory, and His own righteousness [having the Spirit without measure] sustained Him.
17For [the Lord] put on righteousness as a breastplate or coat of mail, and salvation as a helmet upon His head; He put on garments of vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal [and furious divine jealousy] as a cloak. 18According as their deeds deserve, so will He repay wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; on the foreign islands and coastlands He will make compensation. 19So [as the result of the Messiah's intervention] they shall [reverently] fear the name of the Lord from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him and put him to flight [for He will come like a rushing stream which the breath of the Lord drives]. 20He shall come as a Redeemer to Zion and to those in Jacob (Israel) who turn from transgression, says the Lord. 21As for Me, this is My covenant or league with them, says the Lord: My Spirit, Who is upon you [and Who writes the law of God inwardly on the heart], and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouths of your [true, spiritual] children, or out of the mouths of your children's children, says the Lord, from henceforth and forever.
Immediately following Isaiah 59 is Isaiah 60:1!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE ATTACK THAT SATAN MEANT FOR OUR DESTRUCTION FOR OUR HARM IS THE ATTACK THAT BRINGS IN GOD’S GLORY!!!! IMMEDIATELY AFTER AN ATTACK OF THIS MAGNITUDE WITH LEVIATHAN WE ENTER INTO
ISAIAH 60:1
1ARISE [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you--rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you! Isaiah 60:1 AMP.
Welcome to promotion, more glory, more of God’s Goodness!!!! Recently the dream that I had demonstrated a series of events that were to happen, which have already began to play out. However, the end of the dream was this: I stood in front of a mirror after a series of persecuting events were to take place. When I stood in front of the mirror and a friend of mine was there with me who resembled the Holy Spirit and a new anointing, that of the tribe of Dan. When I walked to the mirror and I looked into the mirror it was 2 Corinthians 3:18, that as we look with unveiled faces in a mirror we are being transformed into the image of Christ Jesus from Glory to Glory! Therefore, when I looked into the mirror the Holy Spirit said receive the FULLNESS OF MY POWER! Then I felt the power of God infuse me leaving me wrecked! Moreover, God told me that this particular friend of mine represented the anointing of the Tribe of Dan. I looked up the promise spoken over the Tribe of Dan and here it is:
16Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, a horned snake in the path, that bites at the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward. 18I wait for Your salvation, O Lord. Genesis 49:16-18 AMP.
16 “Dan will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan will be a snake by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward. 18 “I look for your deliverance, LORD. Genesis 49:16-18 NIV.
Dan was anointed as judge of Israel, Judge of God’s people. When you pass this test God can trust you to judge correctly not by your eyes but with righteous judgments and you can operate in a greater anointing for deliverance and the prophetic!!! Moreover, it says of Dan that he shall be like a serpent by the way, a horned snake in the path. Here I am reminded of Jesus when He said in Matthew 10:16 “Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves; be wary and wise as serpents, and be innocent (harmless, guileless, and without falsity) as doves.” The root word to serpent here means to “diligently observe.” Dan diligently observes with justice and righteousness and provides God’s justice! That is what the enemy is after God’s love and justice in the earth to stop the flow of God’s power! It is those who have been through the test whereby they have been hit on every end by the attack of python turned into Leviathan where you are attacked on every end that when you enter the stronghold of God, Psalm 91, you enter into LOVE and God himself takes the battle on to bring victory, to bring you forth into the image of Christ Jesus from Glory to Glory!!!!
(EXCERPT FROM GOD’S PRINCESS WARRIORS BY ROBIN KIRBY-GATTO COPYRIGHT 2011).