Kathie Walters:
"YOUR RUNNING SHOES ARE READY"
A Vision of Running Shoes
Recently while in Atlanta, I had a vision of "runners." A few weeks before that, I saw a "running angel" (an angel dressed like a runner) with the color blue on his vest. Then I saw lots of people with running shoes, ready to go. It seemed that there were even little springs on the shoes to give them a "SPRING FORWARD." (Bobby Conner also said that he had seen a runner angel and believes it has to do with "acceleration.")
In this vision I saw on some of the feet and running shoes - a thick layer of dust and the dust was also a weight. This is what the Lord told me: He has positioned people that are ready to run the next part of the course that is set in their destiny.
God asked Jeremiah (who was a teenage prophet by the way) "What do you see?" (Jeremiah 1:11) and Jeremiah, by faith saw "a rod of an almond tree." Do you know what happened? God did what Jeremiah saw by faith.
Don't guess at your destiny. So, get with God and get your vision clear. You can't aim at what you can't see. You don't want to be "guessing" at your destiny. There is a complete book of your destiny written in Heaven, but it is divided into "chapters."
Chapters in Your Life
The book of your life consists of different chapters. Each chapter is a different adventure with an Alpha and Omega. By the way, when you come to the end of a certain chapter and you are released - go out and have some fun. God always blesses you with some relaxing, fun things before you turn the page.
In a vision of seeing different chapters, I realized that whatever chapter I saw when the last page was turned, it always turned next to CHAPTER EIGHT. Every new chapter is a "chapter eight" in the sense that eight represents new beginnings.
We must be willing to leave our comfort zones! One of the dangers is that we hang around in chapter seven when we should have turned the page to chapter eight. Chapter seven has become familiar and for the most part our flesh doesn't like change, especially if it is presently comfortable. But the changes and new chapters are exciting and wonderful.
It's better to fly out of your comfort zone rather than get kicked out of the nest. The mother eagle is good at that by the way. She pushes the eaglets out and then flies underneath them and catches them. At least they know what it feels like to be "nestless" - it makes them "restless." The third time she pushes them out, she doesn't catch them; they either fly or hit the deck. I never heard of a baby eagle hitting the deck yet so I guess it works.
A good friend of mine had her son coming home from university. She gave him a couple of months to figure out what he wanted to do. Then she had his room made into a guest room. He's a very successful young businessman now so I guess that worked too.
Any Dust on Your Feet?
The Lord also told me that the runners were ready to spring forward, but there was a hindrance on some of the shoes that had dust on them. God said, "Sometimes you have to go back in order to go forward."
Jesus said that when we move on, we are to "wipe the dust from our feet." The dust is a weight. Wiping off the dust from your feet does not mean that you get mad and stomp off. It means that when you move on, you make things right with anyone you offended or anyone who has offended you. Sometimes other people are not interested in making things right and there's nothing that you can do about it. But at least you tried.
When you have offenses and differences that are not cleared away, you carry them with you to the next place - the church, the next chapter, etc. Wiping off the dust means that you do what you can to wipe off that dust before you are free to move on, or in this case to "spring forward."
When God told us to leave a certain town in Florida some years ago, He told me to wipe off the dust from our feet. Then He showed me three people that I needed to apologize to, for something. I had honestly forgotten all about those situations. I did just that. I called someone, sent a fax to another who was traveling, and called someone on the phone who didn't remember anything about it. After that our move accelerated.
Your Running Shoes are Ready!
Ready, set, go! Go back if you have to and then run towards your next chapter. You can have your own Holy Ghost adventures in the land of "mighty exploits." It's much easier to be light-headed with no weights on the mind and light-hearted with no worries and LIGHT-FOOTED with no offenses clinging.
Your running shoes are ready!
Watch for the enemy to push your emotional buttons through innuendoes, assumptions or false accusations. You must rise above this attack and refuse to allow its substance to stir up your carnal nature. You may feel like punching someone in the nose,
but your spiritual response must be forgiveness.
Quickly let go of your irritation and aggravation. Come up in the Spirit and shut the door that the devil has opened against you, for this assault is demonic in nature. I am with you to cause you to gain the victory, says the Lord.
Revelation 12:10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down."