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200. Make Your Trumpets

 

"It's time to make your trumpets, Ash" the Lord spoke as He led me to Numbers 10. "It's time to MAKE your trumpets" I heard again, with the significance of the word make burning in my spirit. We see in this chapter, Moses being given instructions on how to make two silver trumpets. He is told to make them of hammered work. By hand. He can't just go and buy some. They needed to be made of a specific material, silver, which represents in short, redemption and paying off a ransom, or redemptive works in general.

They had to make a certain sound. A sound that is distinct and different from all others. A sound set apart by the Lord, that He Himself will hear. To summon the congregation, they both had to be blown together, working as a team, in unison; following the direction of the Lord. They will be used to alert the congregation, not only to gather together, but also for warfare and to know when it's time to move, and how to do so effectively. To make these trumpets by hand took time, it took force, it took heat and hammering of that metal. It took testing the sound and hammering again, over and over and over until it was exactly the sound that the Lord wanted to hear. 

Some of us are in the hammering stage and we wonder why it's taking so long, or why the Lord feels so far away. I can assure you that He is working, behind the scenes, hammering out all the details, testing the sounds that come forth when the pressure is applied and maybe hammering a few more things out before He tests you again.  

Your ministry will have a unique sound, a sound unlike any other. It will be a silver trumpet when it works with the presence of the Lord. Again, WITH the presence of the Lord! Trumpets only worked effectively with the evidences of God’s presence. The trumpets told them to when start marching, but the pillar of cloud, or pillar of fire showed them where to go.

We have to be careful not to force air through trumpets that are off pitch, that still need to be mended, or that are sounding outside of the presence and will of the Lord. This is your reminder that the hammering process of the making of your trumpet, though long, thorough and painful, is the process of perfecting the sound that the Lord wants to hear coming from your mouth.

Though they each had an individual sound, the blowing of the trumpets together is what drew the congregation. "Moses had Aaron, David had Jonathan, Priscilla had Aquilla and Ash has Rege." Ministry is never a one man show. It takes the body of Christ coming together, it takes Kingdom.

It's time to make your trumpets. It's time to hammer it out. It's time to put in the hard work. There is Kindom work to do! Many of us in ministry want to share the gospel, we want so bad to advance the kingdom, but we can't even advance our homes. It's time to put in the work behind closed doors. It's not time for short cuts, it's not time for grabbing someone else's trumpet and trying to blow it. It's time to hammer out your unique calling with the Lord. Your sound will be exactly what the Lord wants to hear. Don't forsake the hammering. It's perfecting your sound.

The Silver Trumpets
1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you shall make them, and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp. 3And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 4But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. 5When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side shall set out. 6And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out. 7But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow a long blast, but you shall not sound an alarm. 8And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations. 9And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies. 10On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God.”

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