The Lord came to me in my sleep last night, woke me up wide awake in a flash, and pierced through my soul and post-surgical blurriness with 6 supernaturally charged words I then heard over and over again on repeat until I finally stopped and recorded them and everything else He was giving me on audio.
“The fire is in your voice”, He said.
He was talking about business, and content, and being the messenger and outpouring, and just the general endless figuring out I find myself so often caught up in, when I look to the world and what it would tell me, rather than looking to He who created me.
“The fire is in your voice”.
You know how, when you hear something which carries IN itself its own fulfilment (hint: EVERY word of God is this!), and you’re also supernaturally activated to receive it, the more you hear it the deeper it implants and also opens?
“The fire is in your voice”.
“The FIRE. (breakthrough, new life, destruction of the old, light, LIFE)
is IN (location!)
your VOICE (what you speak out, the word of God which shall not return void but WILL have its effect and perform what He promised!)”
“You look to the left or the right, wondering if you should do this or do that, but the fire is in your voice”.
“You worry and ponder about multiplication, distribution, or how to create or perform well, but the fire is in your voice”.
“You turn every which way to see what others are doing, and imagine yourself being that on it, that high vibe, that consistent or polished, imagine that THAT is what would get you some place, but the fire is in your voice”.
“You do everything but just open your mouth and speak unfettered and unfiltered each day with whatever I put in you, but the FIRE IS IN YOUR VOICE!”
Confronting?
Yes it was.
EXCITING, and renewing?
OF COURSE OF COURSE IT WAS.
“You have to preach THROUGH it”, He then said to me.
And I saw so clearly,
how the repeat build of the words He puts in me released,
would cause the moving THROUGH of all obstruction,
and ultimately the torrent He has written for me, to appear.
“As though the words are a battering ram”, I said to myself, before BOOM – it hit me. ‘there’s a verse for that’.
Sure enough, Jeremiah 23:29 –
“Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?”
Wowwwwww God, I said.
“Your voice is what CARRIES the anointing”, He said.
“And the fire is in your voice”.
I wrote it out multiple times over.
My voice carries. Carries. CARRIES. As in, from where it came to where it needs to go. The anointing.
My VOICE carries the anointing.
Not the algorithm.
Not doing content a certain way.
Not proper editing or production.
Not trial reels 😉
Not multiplication via AI.
But multiplication via the Holy Spirit because if God SAID it, then it’s HAPPENING, and it’s GOING where He said!
Literally,
my voice is the strategy.
Releasing what God gives me each day.
Obediently, not based on what I feel comfortable with or certain of.
On repeat.
Are those other things bad? Only if your focus is on them instead of on what God is actually saying to you.
Any tool, modality, cutting edge way or thang can be great, if you find it IN God.
But not if you find it in place of where you were meant to be seeking God, and trusting Him.
Do you know why it’s so hard to simply do the thing God put inside of us, and do it unreservedly?
I’m not saying this is the entire answer, but a good chunk of it at least comes down to the fact that we don’t know how to simply trust God.
The world is SCREAMING at us with everything we need in order to be enough, know enough, do enough, produce enough, perform enough, succeed.
It promises and also serves up success but at COST. Which is not true success at all. Because the cost is not only every wrung out piece of your soul you were never meant to give in place of giving your focus to the things of lasting value in your life, it’s also the cost of the fact that if you created that success without God it’s pure vanity, emptiness, nothing, death.
And yet the world with its screaming keeps convincing you, me, all of us, that surely we need at least SOME of what it is offering if not all of it.
We don’t know how to be still, and wait, and know God is God.
We don’t know how to hear His voice.
We don’t know how to trust it can be as simple, beautiful, scary and amazing as ONLY doing what He says.
And so we reason that it makes more sense to do alllllllll the other things the world is screaming about, because with its screaming comes visible proof.
But proof of what?
Proof that you absolutely can build yourself a tower, a platform, or anything, in this world, BY this world.
Jesus offers a different kind of proof.
Proof by His Spirit in yours of that which is not yet seen.
Of that which you personally have been tasked to call, create, write, speak, walk into being.
Proof by the substance which is formed by faith, by the evidence OF those things not yet seen or formed.
Proof which carries with it certainty in the secret and still place, the holy place.
Certainty which is easily dismissed when once again you dial up the noise of the screams of the world, just YELLING at you about your insufficiency and the so-called ease with which you too can achieve whatever you want.
The enemy doesn’t come to steal, kill, and destroy with some half-baked Temu plan.
He comes with his FINEST.
He comes armed and dangerous.
He comes with glitzy glamorous BELLS on.
He comes seductive. And oh so serious about getting you to look away from the sure path God wrote for you.
The thing is though, even though we in ourselves don’t know how to be quiet, how to wait, how to hear God and how to be led by Him, by His Spirit we know ALL things.
And so we can turn once again towards Him and know ALL things we need to know for what we personally need to do in our businesses, ministries, or lives.
The truth is it’s only hard if you give yourself an option.
So stop giving yourself an option.
Stop even CONSIDERING that maybe there is a way you need to consider outside of what God has been saying to you.
And listen again.
Wait again.
Hear again.
And KNOW again.
Maybe for you too, it is as simple as the fire is in your voice. Or some other cutting truth God has given to you.
You know what that means though, about letting it out unadulterated.
And if you don’t know?
The Spirit who knows all things will lead you.
Now don’t forget –
Life is Now. Press Play.
Kat
PS
Close Your Eyes & Say the Thing November is still open and it is GOOD good. 25 days together, free, the title says what it is, and I’m serving up daily missives and assignments as God gives ’em to get you actually releasing what it IS, and ignoring all the noise.
This will be my ongoing free thang but it won’t be run live again after this initial intake.
Come join us and be activated by the daily butt-kicking into EXACTLY what you need to hear as well as by watching everybody around you stepping up too!
https://katrinaruthministries.com/closeyoureyesandsaythethingnovember
AND / also though:
PPS Could it be time to join the Academy for Women Who Burn?
Whichever way you look at it, and whichever way you want to spin it and tell the story, in the end you are going to come back to the fact that SIMPLY,
it’s time.
Time to step up.
Time to step IN.
And time to admit once and for all that if you don’t accept and also commit to walking forward with the call now?
You may not ever.
I know it’s easy –
To convince yourself that there’s genuinely a reason to not take that step today.
That maybe God wants you to stay still, to wait, to flow in a different way, or even to dream an entirely different dream.
That if you were really meant to be showing up burning right now, well, obviously that fire would just be pouring outta you all day ‘err day, and in particular when it comes to the work you’re here to do and step forward with; there’d be no question or doubt about it!
I know it’s easy even to convince yourself that actually? You could have the whole entire THING wrong and are not called like that at all after all! I mean, it’s possible, right? That you made it all up?
Or, simply –
Even though you do in fact know you’re called, you’re not ready. And you don’t know how.
ALL GREAT POINTS MY SIS.
Except also?
You still know it’s time.
You know it’s time because of the charge which ignites in you even from me saying that.
Because whether that charge is a flicker or a question mark, underneath it? There is peace.
There is a lift in your spirit even now.
Something within you is sitting up,. The hope of certainty, and the assurance that God will meet you right in the place where you CHOOSE to walk forward in faith.
It’s as human as anything, and maybe just something to acknowledge right now and then move past, that sometimes we convince ourselves peace is in the place where we decided God doesn’t actually want us to do anything right now. “It must still be waiting season!”
There’s an almost convincing type of exhale around feeling convinced we don’t know yet, aren’t sure, “it’s obviously not quite my time or I’d be guns blazing doing the thing”.
It can feel easier to put off assuredness for another day if the alternative is some version of realising YOU are going to have to decide, and yes YOU absolutely could get it wrong and besides which YOU are scared and it’s also true you don’t know how!
But should we peek into what’s beneath that?
Here are some possibilities:
If I get it wrong, God might be angry or annoyed with me.
I might be being disobedient.
I could screw up my destiny.
I might miss out on something which really IS for me.
I might bring judgment on myself which will cost me my future or my now in other ways!
I might find out I don’t have what it takes.
It’s exhausting and overwhelming even to think about!
I BETTER WAIT FOR TOMORROW AGAIN, BECAUSE MAYBE THEN I’LL BE SURE.
Sister –
Does this remind you of any particular person from any particular parable in the Bible?? Any particular servant perhaps who got thrown out of their master’s kingdom for being too scared to take action, and burying their talent in the ground?
The truth is we NEED to be sobered with the reality of the fact that God has already given is vision for what it’s time for now, if only we’d look to that vision and also to trusting that He IS the one leading us and straightening our path as we walk forward.
— If you are saved, the Holy Spirit IS leading you
— God is literally re-routing every ‘that was you flesh not Him’ move you do even get started with
— Which truthfully is happening less and less because you HAVE a growing discernment He is building in you, so unless you know you are actively in rebellion on something? You need to stop worshipping the devil with your worry and hand that care over to Him
— God doesn’t give vision for what He hasn’t already provided grace and equipping for in all needed ways, and PS those ways are infinitely beyond your own ideas or imaginations!
So let’s come back to where peace is.
Is there peace to continue to wait to be sure of something tomorrow?
Or are you ready to admit that actually that is fear in one of its many forms and WE DON’T NEGOTIATE with fear. We remind ourselves that’s not a spirit from God and we command it off of us!
And tell me –
Is there peace, the peace of God which surpasses ALL possible understanding, in the place where you open your mouth right now and you say yes?
Yes God.
I will be the one who knows she IS sent by you.
And I will be her now.
My love, if all of that is you and SO much more besides, if you are burning right now already with what is in you to release, if His word is in your heart like a fire, a fire shut up in your bones, and you are so weary of holding it in, indeed like the prophet Jeremiah in chapter 20:9 you can NOT, if in your truest of true places where your spirit meets with His you know the only way forward in the business, ministry, and life you’re called to is to submit to all of Him and to LIVE burning, if you plain and simple just don’t have it IN you anymore or in the first place to try and build, grow, or flow, according to the ways of the business world, the social media world, or even the Christian world in all its too-oft conformity, if you LONG to live with a raging river, a rushing wind, a torrent of heavenly fire coming out of you and you know full well that stepping into that in EVERY possible way is what God is calling you to and that every last bit of strategy is IN that, if reading this long of a paragraph excites and ACTIVATES you because you are HERE for the intense fire of the Lord in and through God’s anointed and burning daughters and if you know you’re one of them who is called to step forward now now NOW –
THE ACADEMY FOR THE WOMEN WHO BURN IS FOR YOU.
Calling forth, equipping, and SEEING SENT the daughters of the Lord who burn, and desire to LIVE burning, in business, ministry, Kingdom wealth of all kinds, and life.
