Wow! Here we are mid October 2026, and it has been an amazing year thus far. Thank you to all our new subscribers this year! You know who you are and you are awesome and appreciated! Also, a big THANK YOU! shout out to the person who gifted Awake Glorious Bride, Awake! website with a paid subscription. We don’t know who you are but we bless you and pray a seven fold return upon your generosity and kindness. Thanks to you, awakegloriousbride.com is up and running until November 2027.
Not many posts have gone out this year and that is okay. It has never been about the quantity, but rather the obedience to post as led. Yeshua had us focused on studying and teaching on “The Tabernacle Series” during the first part of the year and in the past few months a big focus has been to get that teaching into book format. We also had one of our beloved ministry partners of 23 years transition to heaven in June, which not only has left a void in our hearts and ministry, but in Yah’s grace it was to serve as a time marker to transition into a new season. The word we received in early July was “This new season must be divinely and supernaturally led like never before. What worked in the last season will no longer work nor will it be honored.” Divinely meaning to act with the qualities of Yahweh, sacredness, and His supreme grace. Supernaturally being led by the Holy Spirit and not by our own might. Beloved, the Holy Spirit has revealed so much since June that will affect the next three and a half years, and as we get the release, a post will be coming out with what He has shown us.
If you are awake, then you know we are seeing heaven and earth being shaken so that that which can not be shaken will remain. It is humbling to think about how quick life can change with little to no notice and yet through it all I can not imagine one day of my life going by without giving Father Yahweh praise and thanksgiving for His love, compassion, and mercy in giving His only begotten Son to offer up His life on a cross for our sins. I can not imagine going one day of my life without thanking Yeshua Ha Mashiach (Jesus Christ) for being my God and Savior. He is everything to me. I can not imagine one day of my life without thanking the Holy Spirit of Truth for all He teaches me. The Three become One and I have become One in them and they are in me. Beloved, our lives would literally be non existent without the Three and this my spirit, soul, and body knows well. They are the very breath of life we breath.
So let us celebrate He who was, who is, and who is to come everyday. His Word proves to become more true with every season. I pray that we as believers everywhere, in whatever manner you choose to celebrate our risen Lord and Savior, that you do so from the heart posture that we each are a holy tabernacle living in a temporary dwelling place until the day we will tabernacle with Yeshua forevermore. I long for that day and I know it is coming soon.
I want to switch gears a bit now and talk about something we must all be aware of and be prayerful about. Many of you are aware of the great exposure in the false prophetic and apostolic movement. This has caused many of Yah’s children to discredit the spiritual gifts and/or works of the Holy Spirit.
The first thing I want to share is that the word of Yahweh says clearly that we should all desire the spiritual gifts and especially the gift of prophecy. It is also clear on what the purpose of the gifts are for. (Click the link for more teaching on the Gifts.)
The second thing I want to share is that I am a strong believer in all the gifts of the Spirit because Yeshua Himself has been gracious and poured out His Spirit and given me several, just as I know He has given you. They have taken me years to unpack and understand because the pastors in church buildings I attended never taught about them, nor did they walk in them. It was only by the Spirit of the living God that I received the gifts and only in seeking and searching out the matter that they were activated. By the age of 16, I knew the gifts were real and I knew Yeshua personally. I learned through the Word and Holy Spirit of Truth that this was a result of being baptized by the Spirit and of the Spirit of Yahweh. I do not profess to be a Prophet like Samuel, Elijah, Jeremiah, etc., but I know I have been given a gift of prophecy. I have been given words to speak, visions, and many prophetic dreams for decades. I have journaled and learned that some come to pass within days, some months, and some have come to pass years down the road. I have learned that Yahweh’s time is not our time. Do I or would I boast about these gifts? No! It’s really quite the opposite. I am deeply humbled and stand in awe and reverance at what the Holy Spirit reveals when He chooses to. Sometimes, they take me days or weeks to unpack because I am a big believer in testing every spirit to make sure it is from Yeshua. I am as obedient as I know how to be with that which He tells me to say and do, when He tells me to share and/or do something. I know this life is not about my timing, my agenda, or my purpose. It is for His purpose, His agenda, in His timing. We would all benefit greatly if we understand that Life is not about us, and that Life is for us. Yeshua is the Way, Truth, and Life! That is enough about me and I share only for what I am about to share. We need more fear of Yahweh in the body of Yeshua.
In the midst of the church exposures and political craziness in the world, we are also in the midst of a wonderful revival of hearts across the globe where many are returning to Yeshua. There are voices in the crowds that speak words of Truth and walk in Truth. Their fruit is evident to Yeshua and their communities. There are also voices in the crowds that were not sent by Yahweh. Their fruit is selfish ambition and personal gain. Their goal is to deceive the masses and be pleasers of man.
Jeremiah 23:21 says, “I did not send these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.”
Those words from Yahweh should bring everyone with a prophetic gift to their knees. Yahweh did not say, “we need to show them grace because they are learning, or they missed it and that’s okay, next time will be better.” He said, “I did not send these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.”
Can you imagine the Prophet Samuel going to the house of Jesse and missing the prophecy over David as the future King of Israel, and then later saying, “Oops, I missed it. It was suppose to be someone else. My bad.”? When Yahweh, Yeshua, the Holy Spirit speaks a word, it is right on target! No do overs. And yet, my stomach turns at how many professing “Prophets of God” have made a name for themselves and then later realize that they “missed it”.
Jeremiah 23:22 goes on to say, “But if they had stood in My counsel and had caused My people to hear My words, then they would have turned them back from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.”
Today, so many proclaimed Prophets are compromised because they are speaking words about the events of the days, mostly political, and they throw in a scripture or two. Very few, if any, are calling for people to repent and turn from their wicked ways and to set their hearts after the heart of the Father.
Beloved, we know that the days are evil. We see the political schemes and trickeries of the devil. None of it is designed to turn the hearts of men, women, or children, to Yeshua. It reminds me of a feeding frenzy on a school of fish in the sea. Prophecy is real and the devil knows it and he is the greatest counterfeit of all. I beseech you to not fall for his schemes, but to test every spirit. Read the Bible and know the word, especially the New Testament. When you see people posting scriptures on social media, make sure they are scriptures from the Word of Yahweh because the counterfeit is posting stuff daily and most people will just buy into what they say. Don’t be that people. Once you spend time reading the New Testament, the Old Testament makes perfect sense as to why things were, and why Yeshua came. This is the only way to truly test the spirits of man when they prophesy and/or claim to think of themselves higher than they ought. It becomes fairly easy to spot the wolves, false teachers/prophets/apostles. Their spots are like leopards who run fast and speak blasphemous words that attract itchy ears. Yeshua said in the last days we must make sure that we “Let no man deceive us.”
Pray for new beleivers that they will seek the Spirit of Truth for themselves and not rely solely on pastors and prophets to teach and guide them. Do not despise prophecy, but test every spirit for the prophet is subject to the spirit of the prophet. If Yahweh did not send them, it matters not how much they may get right, if there are tainted or wrong words spoken. We must stop comprommising and/or trying to justify these things. A false prophet can give a true word but by the wrong spirit (spiritists, mediums, psychics, new thought, new age, etc.). The same can happen to christians who have given themselves over to a false spirit, thinking it is the Holy Spirit of Truth. Satan comes as an angel of light, but he is not the Light.
Jeremiah 23:28-29 says, “The prophet who has a dream let him recount the dream; and he who has MY Word, let him speak My Word in truth. What is the straw to the wheat?” say Yahweh. “Is not My Word like a fire?” declares Yahweh, “and like a hammer that shatters a rock?”
Below are a few scriptures to meditate on. Please take a minute to read through them and not just gloss over them. Yeshua’s Word is sharper than a two-edge sword that separates the soul from the spirit. Allow your spirit to receive that which the Spirit says to the churches.
Revelation 21:1-4 – Tabernacle of God Dwells With Men
1Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. 2Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. 4And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
2 Peter, Chapter 2 – Destructive Doctrines
1But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
4For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; 5and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; 7and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked 8(for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)— 9then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, 10and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, 11whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.
12But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, 13and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you, 14having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. 15They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.
17These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
Deceptions of False Teachers
18For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. 19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. 20For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”
(Beloved, the above should awaken every believer. As mentioned before, please make it a practice to read the Word of Yahweh so that you can test the spirits. 2 Peter 2 is a match to what Ezekiel spoke. Read it in your bible or here: https://biblehub.com/nkjv/ezekiel/13.htm and again in Ezekiel 14:8-11 here: Idolatrous Elders Condemned)
1 Corinthians 3 – Divisions in the Church (ESV)
1But I, brothers,a could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 4For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human?
5What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. 9For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.
10According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilledb master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
16Do you not know that youc are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” 20and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” 21So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, 22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, 23and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
The below link is a study done by E. Hurndall around 1885. Divisions in the church have been around since Yeshua’s ascension into heaven. The adversary has been at work to deceive ever since and Hurndall did a wonderful study on it. I hope you’ll take time to read the links and as always, feel free to leave a comment, like this post, and share with others. You are called to be a voice that will help awaken others. Remember, do not despise the gifts of the Spirit, but rather learn about them and their fruit and step into that which you are gifted to do.
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/hurndall/christian_work_and_its_testing.html
Until next time, be blessed and know how much you are loved.
Norma Umphress
P.S. Watch for the upcoming book on “The Tabernacle Series”. As mentioned in the Post “Posture, Position, Provision”, the series is too long for a blog post. We expect to have the E-Book available free to our Subscribers, and for a small fee to non-subscribers in November. It will also be available in book form for purchase for those who like to have a book to read. A separate post will be forthcoming about it with cost information.
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