Word From The Lord Given To Sharon Seidel 8-22-14
Sputtering Trumpet … I heard the sound of a sputtering trumpet intersecting my dreams early this morning. It sounded like someone trying to blow a trumpet for the first time. Sputtering was the word that came to my mind by way of a description of the sound. It startled me and woke me up. At first I thought it might be coming from one of the kids next door (we live in a duplex) but they are gone on vacation. I have heard other intersecting words/conversations and seen visions interrupting my dreams previously, and it was like those, only this was the sound of a stuttering trumpet. I asked the Lord what that was about. This is what I believe He told me….
Wake Up! Wake Up! Wake Up! This is an Urgent Wake-Up Call! My people aren’t ready! Stay Alert! Keep your eyes fixed on Me as if your lives depend upon it. Stay focused upon Me. Don’t take your eyes off Me! Watch My every move and do what I do. Listen for My every word and say what I say.
Stay in My Word! Read it also as if your very lives depend upon it for I speak the Truth. Even those who are most diligent and think they are ready must not waver or lose focus! Look for revelation in My Word – deeper revelation than you’ve ever received before, for there are still hidden mysteries for you to find. I will give you clues for you to search them out. Everything is contained in My Word, but look with spiritual eyes and listen with spiritual ears. Read My Word with new eyes and ears as if you’ve never read it before. Let Me give you fresh perspective and understanding for this day, this time.
Like the sputtering trumpet that isn’t yet being played correctly, there is much in My Word that isn’t being skillfully applied and used correctly. 1 Corinthians 14:8, “If the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?” Seek Me. Seek Truth. Seek Wisdom and Understanding. Seek Me diligently, passionately, consistently. Soon I will be thundering across the face of the earth, but if you tune your inner ear to My Voice, you will still hear Me in the silence. Psalm 81:7 “You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder.”
So come. Even though this is an urgent warning and wake-up call, still I call you with great love and compassion to come to Me quickly. Come, hide yourself in Me! For in My Presence is fullness of joy, even in the midst of chaos and turmoil. So come, children, come find what I so desire you to find in My Word. Stay Alert! Pray with Me! Watch for Me!
…After this word I asked the Lord for more clarity about why the sputtering and not the clear sound of the trumpet. I got two more viable interpretations. Just as His Word oftentimes has more than one meaning within a verse, I believe these also are valid explanations.
1. Even a sputtering trumpet woke you up out of a deep sleep. Even those unskilled in My Word, unskilled in “playing the trumpet” can help wake people up. Even those who are not skilled evangelists can encourage people to start waking up to what’s going on around them. Even those unskilled in speaking can speak and get the Word out to others and encourage them to pray and to call on the Name of Jesus. Joel 2:1, “Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord is coming, for it is at hand.” Exercise your voice, your sound, and use your spiritual gifts. You get better and more skilled with practice. Isaiah 58:1, Cry aloud, spare not, (do not hold back) lift up your voice like a trumpet. Tell My people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins.
2. The trumpet is sounding clear and strong coming from the Heavenlies, but what people are hearing is a sputtering sound, because it is being filtered by the noises of the world, the flesh and demonic interference. 2 Corinthians 4:4, “The god of this world has blinded the eyes of those who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.” People have been lulled to sleep and see and hear as if they are in a fog. They aren’t thinking or hearing clearly! Matthew 13:15, “The hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, let they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.” They must seek to see and hear with spiritual eyes and ears.
Matthew: 3:1, 3 “John the Baptist came preaching, saying ‘Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord; make His paths straight.’”
