Who Let The Dogs Out

"Who Let The Dogs Out?"

The enemy is all bark and no bite when the Spirit of the Lord is for you! But thats doesn't mean he is going to shut his big mouth anytime soon.

Dogs have been invading my dreams lately, and their spiritual presence has a meaning far deeper than what meets the eye.
Personally, in my dreams when "barking dogs" show up I know there is about to be a rise of religious spirits and gossip. Sometimes in these dreams the Lord also reveals who will succumb to being a mouthpiece for the enemy in this way and it allows me to guard my heart in a more purposeful way.
Paul marries together religious spirits and dogs in Philippians 3:2 if you want to dive deeper.

You know those funny memes that float around the internet saying 'you cannot hide anything from your prophetic friends?'  It's true! The Lord is out here exposing plots and ploys of the enemy days before they show up in the natural and I am SO thankful for His insight.
However it is important to note that the Lord doesn't just show us things, to show us. He shows us so that we can fight in the spirit in a way that works. Because remember, we aren't battling personalities - we are battling principalities. 

There is something interesting about these barking dogs tho.
When they show up in my dreams they are contained in some way.
Whether on a leash, unable to walk on the patio, stuck behind a fence, etc.
These dogs do not have full reign and unrestricted access.
They do however BARK, very loudly.
I will be honest and tell you that in the last 9 out of 10 dreams when these dogs are barking I go outside to look at all the noise and see what is going on. Once I realize it is just a noisy dog I go back inside and shut the door, refusing to listen to them any longer.
In one dream I even downplayed the noise from the dogs to other people in the dream, trying to get them to not to pay attention.

While I am thankful that in these dreams the enemy is tethered, I am asking the Lord to help me take a new stance. I no longer want to go outside and LOOK at the barking dogs.
And I don't want you to either.

I want us to hear the dogs barking while we are minding our own ministry/family-business and refuse to give those dogs even one moment of our attention.

I want us to be so consumed in the glory, I want us to be so caught up in heavenly places, I want us to be so surrendered at the feet of Jesus that the barking dogs just become background noise that never commands our attention.  
I want us to be so deep in the wells of revival that the sound of yapping religious spirits doesn't turn our gaze from the assignment of Heaven.

There must be a shift.

The spirit of religion was alive and well when Jesus roamed this Earth and it bucked up against everything He did.
The spirit of religion called Jesus the prince of the devils. They were mad that he was out setting people free without following their religious man-made protocols.
The spirit of religion crucified the very son of God made flesh because it could not stand the anointing.
And if you and I carry this same anointing, why do we expect it to be any different?

It is the design of heaven for the anointing to break every yoke - even religious ones.
even if the people think you will have to pry it out of their cold dead hands first.

Carry the fire anyway.

Let the dogs bark, and burn brighter than ever before.

Jesus is coming back, soon.
And he isn't coming back after a pew-sitting-religious-luke-warm bride.
He is coming back after a bride on fire ? walking in the very covering of Heaven, setting the captive free and preparing the way of the Lord.

So go ahead - find the old song from 2001 by Baha Men called "Who Let the Dogs Out" and remind Satan that he can bark all he wants to, he can use whatever mouthpiece piece of flesh that yields itsself to gossip and discord that he wants to -- you are still going to make hell nervous all the day long because you were bought with a price -- and God isn't going to waste his investment on you.
You will pioneering the narrow path.
You will blaze a trail of fire in the wilderness.
You will stand by the Sea like Moses leading a captive generation into the promised land.

There is no time for anything less.
No matter who let the dogs out.