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As I drove to church a couple of weeks ago, the Lord gave me some direction in regard to writing that I feel he wants me to share with others. This word of direction is applicable to any ministry that God is using to open the gates of his blessing.

At the time, I was thinking about the angel in Revelation 10 with the open book in his hand and the fact that I believe there is an anointing present now that is opening God's word like none other we have seen to date. Scripture itself is being opened in an unprecedented way along with other writings based on the truth of scripture.

I call this anointing "an open word." What happens with this is that our words break open, like that open book in the hands of the angel, and the words become way more in the understanding of the hearer than what the person ministering even had in mind for them.

The words break open and just keep opening until each hearer gets something for their own spiritual perspective, and it even breaks loose and fans out linking scripture to scripture. This quality of "opening" is particularly characteristic of this anointing.

As I contemplated this, I caught the momentary flash of a picture in my mind of a ship, and the men on board were taking soundings of the depth of the water. The Lord suddenly gave me understanding of something very important to keep in mind for the operation of this anointing of "an open word."

Like those men on the ship, God wants to take soundings of our spirits, and in doing so, we'll know as we go along where the depths are and where the shallows are. God's desire is that everything we write or minister under this anointing be connected to one of the deep places in our spirits.

He does not want us to connect anything now to shallow places. Let those places alone for God to do a work of deepening there. If we discern that we are starting to get shallow, go back out into the deep.

This anointing is going to do what God intends for it to do in opening our words, whether they are shallow or deep, but He wants us to choose those deep places to draw people into.

Today, there's really no use in opening the shallow places any more. For too long we have called people to the shallows, the places that dry up first when the rains don't come.

The season of a little touch of Jesus is over. The time for shallowness is past. Therefore, we need to start calling people to the deep places, and we can't call them to the depths from the shallows. Deep calls unto deep.

So every word must be especially connected to those places that God has dug deep within us. This is beyond writing or ministering what we know. It is writing and ministering what we live and breathe in the Lord.

There are two ways the Lord applies the oil of His Spirit. He either pours it on or rubs it in. These deep places are where He has rubbed and dug down and placed His Name. Oh, many are thirsty to get a drink from those wells!

I pray that all of us will undergo soundings of our spirits and write and minister an open word from the depths that will be like the sound of many waters.

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