This word was released by Gina Gholston at Riverside Church, Clarksville, TN on February 2, 2020:
I don’t know that I have ever heard a word like this, but I feel this word has to do with our nation as well as for many of us individually. I hear the Lord saying:
In the days ahead, I’m going to remove the covering where evil has been hiding. Up from that will rise a stench, but I say to My church, stay the course, for I Am giving beauty for the ashes. This is MY time. I will come, and I will make things right again, but you must stay the course!
This word had come after I had seen a vision during the beginning of the gathering. In the vision, I saw a fighter pilot in his jet and in front of him, a missile was flying toward him. He could see it, and he had his helmet on. Everything in him wanted to abort his path, but through that helmet, there was a voice saying, “Don’t abort. Don’t you dare abort!”
All of a sudden, I saw the missile as it hit something that had already been set into place. It wasn’t a physical structure that it hit, but more like some type of movement that the missile couldn’t penetrate. When the missile hit this movement, there was an explosion in front of the pilot that he would now have to fly through. And that voice spoke again, saying, “Don’t abort. Don’t abort!”
I continued to release more of the word of the Lord that I was hearing.
What is coming in the days ahead, there is going to be a grand temptation to abort the mission, but the Lord says, “Believe the love I have for you. My love will carry you through unscathed, if you STAY THE COURSE. The danger is when you get off the course,” says the Lord. “My peace is on the course. My mercy is on the course. My grace is on the course. Do not focus on what you see in front of you in these days; near . . . NEAR!” (I began to declare under the unction of Holy Spirit that this was not something that was way out there. This was something that was right in front of us.)
Stay the course! Don’t look at what you see. There are some of you—in your own lives [that] there is going to be smoke. There are going to be things that seem to explode in front of you, and there’s going to be everything inside of you saying, “Run away! Abort! It’s not worth it!” But God says, “Press through because just on the other side, you will find the large place that I Am making for My Body to rise up with My authority and My power and make things right again.
The movement that the missile hit in the vision wasn’t an insinuation that God was reacting to what the devil was going to do. God was showing us that His movement had already been set into place, and the attempt of evil to try to stop what God had already begun would be obliterated when it encountered God’s move. But even the collision of that would cause an explosion! God was saying to us:
Don’t focus on what the enemy launches in this nation and in your life. To focus on that will bring you to the point of veering off the course I have set for you. Focus on Me. Hear My voice. Stay the course! When it seems that you can’t see your way forward, and it seems that the attempts of hell have prevailed, do not focus on that. Focus on Me! Hear My voice! Don’t abort! Stay the course! Submit your mind, body, and spirit to My peace, and you will emerge as the Ekklesia, the Light carriers, the Glory carriers, the difference makers, and through you, I will make things right again. I will bring things back into alignment with My original intentions.
Do not overlook these words He spoke to His Church: “Believe the love I have for you. My love will carry you through unscathed.” Believing the love that God has for us was the basis of this whole vision and revelation. The uncertainty ahead was coming, and God was speaking to His Church, not just about the explosion, but about the “large place” we were going to come into as a testimony to the world around us. If we are going to “stay the course,” the ability to do so successfully will come from the revelation of the love that God has for us. God was not saying to His Church that we were going to have to bear down and with human grit and determination just get through this the best we can. The explosion was coming, but the ability to come out on the other side of it was also prophesied, and the vehicle that would get us to the other side was the love that God has for us. The love of God is the “jet” that carried the “pilot” through the fiery explosion unscathed!
“And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him” 1 John 4:16 (emphasis mine).
God was saying to His Church that when this explosion is cleared away and we find ourselves in that large place, He is going to shine the light of His glory as a testimony of His power through those who stayed the course.
Gina Gholston
