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From "Sin to Signs"                                                                                                                        Tracy Schellhorn
    05-27-05

A PROPHETIC ENCOUNTER IN WORSHIP AND INTERCESSION

While worshipping, I saw myself from above. Things often look different from a higher vantage point – His vantage point.

I was suddenly on, or possibly in, this white substance that seemingly had no end and was "aglow." I was kneeling before the throne of the Most High God but was surprised that from the position of worship I, and not just He, was engulfed in His light.

It seemed as if no one and nothing else existed outside of that moment. It was just He and I and eternal light. A "oneness" that brought such warmth and peace to my heart. I cannot help but ponder how great it shall be when that oneness encompasses all the saints; how much greater the light, how much stronger the warmth, how much deeper the peace.

also felt His pleasure in sharing that moment. There was something like a tantalizing grin in the air. He knew that the more I see of Him, the more I desire. I could sense His passions arising as He sensed my awe with Him!

I was filled with such a love for Him and a desire to trust Him more than I ever have – so much so that what I did next surprised me. I reached my hands to my chest and actually opened my heart before Him! It opened as if I were parting two curtains . . . or tearing a veil in two.

As I did, a bright light shone into and through my open heart. I realized that He could see right through me – even what I myself could not see. Because the light was shining through me like a beam, my eyes followed the beam behind me where it seemed to end or blend with the unending white glow all around me. Lying in the shaft of light was the word "SIN" upside down behind me.

It struck me that the sin was not in me but was washed away by the light and was not even recognizable any longer.

An upside-down "NIS" lying in the midst of the shaft of light on an unending glow of light was feeble and quite honestly pitiful. It was so incredibly overshadowed by the greatness of God's light!

Putting any value on it (sin) or holding onto it would have been an act of futility and irreverence. It was as dust that is being swept away by a broom. Why even concentrate on it when there is something so much greater on which to focus our attentions!

While pondering what I saw, the Lord instructed me to reach under my arm and pull out something. Wondering what could possibly be under my arm, I obeyed and pulled out an ear. What was an ear doing under my arm? That's not where ears belong! I began to see that I, and the Body, have misplaced parts. We're not working at optimal capacity when ears are hidden under arms where the sound is muffled. Only those with outstretched arms in worship, service or surrender would be able to hear.

Yes, Lord, we surrender our placement to You and allow You to move us into proper position – spiritually and in the natural.

Next, the Lord led me to reach into my own heart. When I did, I pulled out a rib. I realized that the division between man and woman was piercing the very heart of God and impairing our own. The rib from Adam was never meant to be divisive. When God looked around at all He had made, He said it was good. The only thing that was not good was for man to be alone. God's answer to this was to separate the one man into two entities who are one yet distinctly separate – like the Trinity itself.

I welcome the Lord's correction and realignment of all the misunderstandings we have held regarding gender. Also, I pray that both male and female will recognize that we were not created to be alone, and we will submit ourselves to God's equipping in this area. I particularly present our minds before You, Lord, for the washing and renewing in the Word, for eye has not seen and ear has not heard the plans that You have for Your people. Won't it be beautiful when He's completed this work in us?

As I pulled the rib out of my heart, a motorcycle, like an Evil Knievel stunt-rider, came jumping out of my heart. As it departed one way, room was made in my heart for something else. In came a locomotive from the other side. As one thing was leaving, another was coming in.

I realized that as I let go of certain mindsets and pre-conceived notions that limited who I could be and who others could be – even if these mindsets were as daring and trailblazing as an Evil Knievel -- I could make room for power in my life.

This kind of power prepared a way and pulled many behind it. As long as I maintained a "little" mindset of who I was, or who we are, there was no room for the kind of power God desired to release in us. We, as the Body, must accept our election and our call and realize that we are who God says we are, and we will do what He says we will do.

Lord, I ask You now to tear down the strongholds that keep us little, which keep us from all that You intend for us.

After this, I reached into my sleeve, right under my bicep. There it was – up my sleeve!

How easily we can be deceived. When I am weak, I am actually strong, for His power is perfected in weakness. I haven't realized that what I've perceived as weakness has actually been my strength all along – and there it was – a trick up my sleeve. The answer to the accuser of the brethren. All the deceptions, all the lies – just to keep me from realizing that my weakness is actually my strength.

Lord, I pray for the Body of Christ and myself that we be willing to be weak and foolish in the eyes of the world, assured from within that a greater power lives within us -- one that rises up in authority when we acknowledge total defeat, completely surrender and allow Your strength to complete its perfect work!

From my sleeve, I pulled out a rainbow-colored dove. It was most unusual and beautiful. I knew I needed to set it free. It was cramped up from being up my sleeve for so long. I felt bad knowing that I was responsible for the condition of this beautiful creature.

The dove had large plumage on its tail and wings in wispy, feathery, glowing colors. It reminded me of a peacock's plumage except more delicate and less ostentatious. This lovely creature was squished from being in such a small space, so I held it gently in my two hands while it adjusted to being outside of its cramped quarters.

There was an inner battle going on. Part of me knew the dove deserved its freedom, and part of me wanted to keep it. I selfishly desired it for myself and had to weigh my own desires against what was right for the bird. When the dove was sure that I wanted to let it go, I set it free, and it flew. It could not have flown earlier, due to the crimped, stiff state of its wings, but after careful handling and a willingness to let it go, the dove was free to do what it was created to do.

Letting it go inspired me. What I saw in freeing it was that the dove's gain was actually my gain as well. Holding it back kept me back, but until I placed the desires of the Lord above those of my own, I couldn't see that.

Many of us in the Body are quick to profess being led by the Spirit, when in reality, we are keeping Him all cooped up for ourselves. We are afraid to let go and let Him be the boss, but when we do, the pleasure and the results will plunge us to our knees in repentance for taking so long to do so!

Lord, I pray that You place a willingness within each of us to give up control of our lives and ministries to You. It's so unfair to ask You to show up when it's convenient, when we want to show off or when it's according to our plan. Cause our plans to be Your plans so You may show up all the time, any time, whatever it may look like, and help us to go with Your flow instead of ours! Replace that spirit of control in Your Body with a spirit of surrender, and let it begin with me!

The freed dove now spiraled around me, moving ever upward and releasing the most beautiful streams of colored light, power and revelation as it flew. I knew it was releasing the heavenly realm all around and above me.

The signs that the dove left in its trail were so visible! Wherever it went, there were visible signs – above me, around me and in the heavenlies. They were visible to all who would see.

While I wondered in awe at what was being revealed before my eyes, I also sorrowed knowing that not all would know this wonder. The signs are being released, but we must have ears to hear and eyes to see what the Spirit is saying.

As we release the Holy Spirit to do and be what He is commissioned of the Lord to do, signs will be released. Signs will follow them that believe, and I pray that we not miss them. That we grow in appreciation of the signs in the sky and the diversity of ones we don't even understand.

Let us, Lord, especially long for and witness the signs that bring You glory rather than the ones that bring us glory! Change our desires, O' Lord. Cause us to want what You want and have reward enough in seeing the signs released whether or not they are ever associated with our names or ministries!

Oh, Lord, I see in all this the great wonders You want to do through Your Church. Make us ready. Fear of man, pride of life, fear of failure and so many other things stand as idols in our hearts. I ask, Lord, that You tear down the Asherah poles we've erected and the offerings of incense that clutter our hearts when You alone are God, and You alone are Lord! Purify our hearts, O' Lord; purify Your Church.

Let us receive the cleansing work of the cross and stop believing the lies that tell us we are not the precious seed of God. You promise in Your word that every seed shall produce after its own kind. So, Your seed in us shall not fail, but it will prosper and grow into the tree You have established.

At the same time, grant us a submissive heart to allow You to determine the DNA of our seed and what we shall become, and cause our hands to be still while our heart witnesses the work of the Lord in our lives.

Make us one, Lord, even as You are One! Build a bridge, prepare a roadway and send Your messengers beforehand to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord! May this, Lord, be the year of birth and promise. May the seed of the Holy Spirit, planted in the womb of a fertile heart, crush the head of the serpent and may Your Church be holy even as You are holy.

Lord, we beseech Thee; glorify Your name in all the earth!



(Tracy Schellhorn of Manifest Ministries in Birmingham, Alabama entered into this prophetic experience of worship and intercession in December of 2004, thereby indicating the "signs" of the times as we entered into another calendar year. Study the imagery, and allow the Lord to speak to you Himself. The insights and intercession that you bring forth may open yet another veil that others can walk through. BELIEVE and RECEIVE!)