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Where Our Strength Lies Has anything like this happened in your days, or even in
the days of your fathers? (3) Tell your children about it,
The Word of God indicates the enemy’s tactics are to Let your children tell their children, and their children
“divide and conquer.” The Holy Spirit took me to another another generation. He tells them of the Chewing locust, the
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dimension with this message. When we become too busy to Swarming locust, the Crawling locust, and the Consuming
communicate, it opens doors, giving the enemy free reign locust. He warns of locusts, each leaving leftovers that are
with our lack of communication. This allows him to start consumed by the next: Chewing, then Swarming, followed
putting thought bombs of false imaginations in our minds by Crawling and finally, Consuming locusts.
to cause division. Could this be one of the reasons Jesus When I considered each one’s form of tactics, I saw
instructs us for battle to Cast down every false imagination, this: If something is Chewing, it might be gnawing at
and every high thing that would exalt itself against the our thoughts, probably with untruth, to distort Who
knowledge of God, and bring it into captivity… (2 Cor and Whose We Are. Now, the Swarming locust comes in
10:5)? He knew these thoughts could cause division in our causing confusion, where we are disoriented, with distorted,
heart and confusion in our mind. We know who the father constant thoughts from the lies being cultivated. Then,
of confusion is. The enemy is described as prowling around there is the Crawling locust, which I see prowling around
like a roaring lion, waiting to pounce upon his prey. 2 for the right opportunity to pounce, in a weak moment of
We are called to be one in Him, to communicate and share doubt, confusion, depression or even suicide. For the finale,
His vision and prophetic revelation. God called us together the Consuming locust takes the rest of our power, stealing
to be one body with multiple talents and knowledge, that is all the Knowledge which Is Our Strength.
why I don’t believe any one of us have the full knowledge of The formidable door has now been opened to the enemy’s
God, but as we come together we are the fullness of Christ deception. We need to be wise as serpents and harmless
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and have the full knowledge of God… We are designed to as doves, on guard always for the tactics of the enemy
work together as a vessel of Christ united, working in unity are daily, to destroy those called to be God’s Vessels. The
for the greater good, as one body with the Holy Spirit as army is called to rise up, to be together in His strength.
our guide. No wonder the enemy strives to divide us. He Deuteronomy 32:30 indicates one cast out a thousand, and
is determined to weaken us, to leave us powerless. God’s two cast out ten thousand. This is yet another Scripture that
Word Is Clear: As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens reveals to us, our power is in working together through Him.
another (Proverbs 27:17). We Are Called to Work Together Our strength lies in our relationship. God created us in
as One Body In Christ for a Purpose in this day and this His image, and we are beautiful in His sight. Are we to
Season! question Him? We are All of one lineage, One Blood, One
You are Powerful, and I am Powerful. Through Christ Father, with One Savior, through the Father, Son, and Holy
together, We Can Do All Things. We are Called to Walk Spirit. We were Created to Have Relationship with God, to
In The Impossible and be Unstoppable. With Him We Are Love Him and One Another, as One Body, to be the Bride of
Limitless and a Force to be Reckoned With, For Good and Christ. I Believe those who are Called by God were called
Not evil. for a time like this. Selah: Together We Stand, Divided
The book of Joel 1:2-4 references the locust – It must be We Fall! Let’s learn to love one another as Christ loves us
important, as he seems to sound the alarm: (2) Hear this, unconditionally and look beyond the flaws because we all
you elders, and give ear, all the inhabitants of the land! fall short, as we are All flawed. Let us pray for peace and
unity in our land, as we press into our Father in Heaven,
repenting for our sins and complacency to get where we are
today. We must ask for His direction through all the lies and
deception in the name of Jesus Christ.

Sincerely,
LuAnne Anderson

Publisher

1 Mark 3:25
2 1 Peter 5:8
3 Matthew 10:16
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