Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

    Psalm 119:122-126; "Please guarantee a blessing for me.  Don't let the arrogant oppress me!  My eyes strain to see your rescue, to see the truth of your promise fulfilled.  I am your servant; deal with me in unfailing love, and teach me your decrees.  Give discernment to me your servant; then I will understand your laws.  Lord it is time for you to act, for these evil people have violated your instructions."
    For a moment meditate on the underlined portions of the scriptures.  Please
guarantee a blessing for me.  My eyes strain to see your rescue, to see
the truth of your promise fulfilled.  Give discernment to me, your
servant.  Lord it is time for you to act.
    How many times have we thought it, or said it to God in the past year of this great transition period?  "Lord it is time for you to act."  In Ecclesiastes 3:1, God tells us, "For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven."  Then He goes on to explain His process a little better for us.  Verse 11 of chapter 3 says, "He has made everything beautiful in (its) or (His) time."  Either
way it is worth us meditating on, wherever you are right now, whatever
you are facing, God is going to make everything beautiful in the right
time.  Whether it is His timing or the correct timing for whatever you
may be facing now.  God will make it turn out beautiful.  As we
transition, we need to remind ourselves that our God knows how and when
to turn it to beauty.  He's doing it even now!
    The next underlined verse says, "Give discernment to me your servant."  Discernment
means understanding, to distinguish and mark separate mentally; to
consider and to be cunning; to direct and perceive what it is gathered;
to look well to and to diligently know; to view and deal wisely in
affairs; to detect or discover with other senses than eyesight; to
differentiate. 
We need to be able to know
the times and the seasons that we are in.  In order to walk out the plan
of God, no matter what is going on around us.  Father God has already
told us that everything we see that is crooked or out of line with His
plan, that He will turn around for our good and straighten them out.  If
we remain faithful to His Word, we will come out stronger than we were
going in to this period of change.  Our change will be good!  Let's
exercise our discernment by using our spirit eyes and trust that our
Father has already made a safe haven for His own.  This is where we walk
by faith and not by sight.  Where we look not at the things that are
seen, but at the things which are not seen.  This is our true
discernment, walking in the authority of God's Word.
( II Corin. 4:18; II Corin. 5:7)
  The next underlined verse says,"My eyes strain to see your rescue, to see the truth of your promise fulfilled." 
That is just what we should be doing, since we know that God watches
over His Word to perform it and that His promises are yea and Amen.  Our
necks should be stretched out in anticipation of what our God is going
to do.  Just how great is His deliverance going to be!!  He loves to
deliver those who put their trust in Him.  We have sent out our
S.O.S.'s in the Spirit; through prayer and intercession, confessing His
promises, and through worshiping His name.  Our rescue is already here.  Let's strain, stretch to discern and know that it is.  Rescue and
deliverer carries the same meaning.  Our Deliverer has come to refresh,
recover, restore, relieve and to render His promises to the believer.
    Finally it says, "Guarantee me a blessing." God has guaranteed us a blessing, by His Word.  Blessings to those that obey His Word.  Duet. 28:1; "If you will listen diligently to the voice of the Lord
your God, being watchful to do all His commandments, which I command
you this day, the Lord your God will set you on high above all the
nations of the earth.  And all these blessings shall come upon you and
overtake you if you heed the voice of the Lord your God." 
Let's not lose sight of this, that we are people that love God's Word, all of it.  Stay in your authority, by staying with God's promises.  Prov.
28:20, reminds us; "A faithful man shall abound with blessings, but he
who makes haste to be rich [at any cost], shall not go unpunished."
  The one
with clean hands and a pure heart shall receive the blessings of the Lord.
(Psalm 24:4-5) Let's keep our anticipation high, our deliverer has come.  He is trustworthy!
 
Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

The Spirit says;

    Oh My Church, I desire a people that is desperately loving Me and seeking Me for the pleasure of knowing Me.  My signs and wonders
will follow those whose desire is to know Me.  I Am opening to them the
realms of the Spirit, like never before.  Living in a place where the
things of earth will no longer obstruct and limit their ability to soar
as an eagle, to the heavenly realms.  You will soar with those that are
like-minded.  Those that are done with the low elements of earth.  They
have allowed Me to realign their value system and now they see
spiritual riches more precious than the temporal values of the earth. 
They are done with small and petty thinking and dreaming.  I will anoint
them with a double anointing, because their desire is to honor Me with
their lives, not to get honor for their selves. Their
humility and fear of Me, will bring riches also.  I have found such
people who worship Me in spirit and truth, only Me, not for power,
anointing, fame or fortune, but just to commune with Me.  They receive
of Me and My presence and they give it to others just as freely.  These
saints are so passionate about Me and their joy of knowing Me, that I
can't keep quiet about the delight and joy they bring to Me.  Great
signs and wonders shall follow them, because I delight in their
humility and their sincerity.  They esteem My Person and My presence of
more worth than their lives, ministry, family and friends.  I Am their
first place.  I know it and they will never take the recognition for it,
but I will exalt them, for they are truly humble.  They are simply
obedient to Me and My Word.  They love My Word!
    I open My arms to all My children to be so
tender and beloved, but it is your choice.  Come, climb back into My
arms once again.  Let Me show you My ways of loving and living in My
great Kingdom.  There is so much to explore in Me.  Come fall into the
depths of your God.  I want all My children to walk in this great power
and it is available to anyone that will choose Me above all else.  I
show no favoritism.  I will satisfy all the longings of your heart and
show you great and mighty things that are to come.  True salvation will
be yours.  You'll walk and live in the heavenly realm, where all things
on earth grow small in comparison to the treasures that I have for
those that love Me from a pure heart.
 
 Love,

Pastor D.
 
Scripture References: I Corin. 8:3; Mk.16:17; I John 2:15; Prov.15:22; Prov. 22:4; I Peter 5:5-6

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,


The Spirit says;


    I have given many warnings to My
people about the times of the end.  You have sat at My table that was
prepared for you from the beginning.  You have partaken of My Word that
was only sweet to your taste and easy for you to swallow.  Yet, I have
referred to My Word as milk, water, bread and meat.  Each has a
different texture and each one supplies you with ingredients that are
needed for spiritual growth.  You have not trained your palate to desire
all that is necessary to be able to endure.  So eat My Word, all of
it, and it will begin to cause you to stretch out for more of Me.  Grow
up in My Word!  I have described My Word as a hammer, a
sword and fire.  The hammer will deeply embed in you what is needed to
keep you stable and immovable.  My sword will cut and sever from you
things that have grown in your life that will weaken and infirm your
walk of faith.  The fire of My Word will ignite and destroy all that is
left that is unacceptable, that would try to grow back.  
Take heed all those that I placed as
shepherds over My people.  You are responsible for the preparation of the
the one-sided portions of food that have consistently been fed to My
people.  You have caused a spirit of deception and a false-belief system
to breed among My church.  You have only wanted to teach what is
acceptable and popular to My flock, causing them to be weak and
malnourished.  Some of you teachers have made My people believe that I
Am a hard taskmaster with very little mercy towards them.  Yet, others
have portrayed Me as a God with very little judgment, that just gives
to everyone, anything, at their request, as if I was their very own
personal genie.  I am rebuking you now, from a place of My love and mercy
I Am calling you to preach and teach the whole Gospel.  I have warned
you about the time when all that people would want is to have their
ears and eyes tingled for their own pleasure and delight. A time that
they would not tolerate My sound wholesome Word.  This is that time!  Stay with My Word it is the guidepost that I have given so that you
may really know Me.  Stop leaving out and adding to My Word, stop
embellishing for your 'person' to be seen.  Stop dishing out this
ungodly mush, that does not nourish at all.  Ministers, you must prepare
My people with My Word to be able to endure and to be strong in faith. 
Religious, preconceived ideas are causing a sleepy, lethargic and
non-responsive body.  Be not consumed with your own reputation, but with
the care of the growth of My house. My people are My house, build up My
house and I will establish yours.  Build with My Word and not with your
favorite words.  Build wisely, not with the religious wood, hay and
stubble.

    Turn back to My Word with a pure heart.  Empty yourselves of pride, greed, jealousy, hatred, vindication and all
manner of evils and return to Me.  Those who will return, I will receive
you to My heart and I will multiply back to you once again.  You will
make up the holy remnant, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, the set
apart ones, holy vessels of God.

Love,


Pastor D.
  

Scripture References: Jer. 23:29; Ephes. 6:17; I Peter 2:2-5; Jer. 5:14; Ezek.34; II Timothy 4:1-4; I Corin. 3

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

    Colossians 4:6  "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man."  "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers." (Ephesians 4:29) "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer." (Psalms 19:14)

    This month there is a holy challenge being issued.  Can you speak only when it is to edify?  When you speak can you season your words?  Last, but the most important one.  Can all your words be acceptable to God?  We are all watching our words to get some material promise, like houses, cars, jobs, etc.  Yet, how many times are our words destroying or cutting down someone made in the image of God?  I wonder how many slayed saints have been left in the aftermath of the great hurricane of our mouths.  Look at the two headed monster that still lives in our mouth.  Let's clean it up all around, not just for our confessions that we apply for personal gain, or temporary pleasures.  "With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who were made in God's likeness!  Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing.  These things, my brethren, ought not to be so." (James 3:9-10)  Let us build the kingdom by building up one another, with our words.  We are the living stones, that make up God's temple.  We edify by using grace filled words.  Grace are words that have a divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in your life.  Grace filled words will affect the manner and the actions of those that you speak them to.  Season with salt means to make our words palatable, more agreeable to God's words; to be less severe, to prepare to be pleasant and give relish and zest to our words that others hear.  To keep safe from injury, harm or destruction; to keep alive and intact and free from decay.
    Do your words have that kind of affect on those who listen to you?  Are they influenced with divine manners and reflections of godly actions after hearing you?  Can you honestly say that most of your words are easy to digest, agreeable, not harsh or severe?  Do people think that you are arguing even when you're not?  Your last conversation, was it filled with words that made the listener feel full of zest for living a godly life?  Did your last words bring injury, harm or destruction?  Today, can be a turn around in your conversation.  You can bring life to every one in your sphere.  All you need is a willing and obedient heart.  Learn to prepare your speaking and the words that you say.  Learn grace-talking and season-speaking.  Start off slow, choosing one word at a time.  Just because you talk a lot or talk fast, does not mean you know kingdom speaking, or that wisdom is dripping off of your tongue.  Start off with this simple confession.
    "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips." (Psalms 141:3)  If you would spend as much time watching your words that are spoken to people, as you do over temporal things, you will get astronomical results.  You will find Holy Spirit will come along side to assist you.  The kingdom is built of people that are made in God's image.  That is eternal building!! I hope I'm able to recognize you next month.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

    I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying:

    Do not stand aloof from Me in this
season of your life.  It is the time of drawing very close to Me in
order to hear My instructions and directions for your life
It is not time for choosing your own plans and ways.  Now more than ever
it is My plans for you that must prevail in your life.  All this time I
have been bringing you to the place of surrender.  Surrendering your
plans for Mine.  Sometimes when you thought you were surrendered, you
were still holding on to your plans.
    The system of this world is rapidly decaying, it is drawing itself up like an old ancient scroll.  The lease is almost up and now the whole world awaits the rising of the sons of God to take their place.  All creation is waiting on you.  Rise to righteousness, My way of doing right.
    You have gone down a winding road and
have almost forgotten to be driven by your eternal purpose.  I Am soon
to come for a spotless church.  So, wash yourselves through and by My
Word.  It is not grievous or hard to do.  I can no longer tolerate your
indecisive ways, nor your desire to keep wandering around in
immaturity.  This is a season of purging and pruning.  Cutting and
severing yourselves from the love of this world system.  It is time to
grow up.  I have narrowed your way with constrictions and I have hedged
you round about.  Look to Me, your Redeemer and your Deliverer.  The
affair with this world system will be severed.  Your dependency on My
Word and obeying My voice must be your necessary food.  You can not have two lovers, one will become less loved.  I Am a jealous God, I alone must be your God.
    I Am now taking the position as the Lord
of your life, which means obedience to My ways.  I know the way through
the valleys as well as through the mountains, so stay near.  I
discipline and teach My people from My Word.  I give you peace and quiet times
in the midst of troubles.  I also judge and discipline nations at the
same time.  That time has come upon the earth.  The cries of My people
have come up to Me.  My judgment is pure and right.  Blessed are the
ones that I discipline and those who yield and learn from My
discipline.  I discipline those I love.  I stand against those who stand
against My Word.  For those who have made Me their trust, I will never
abandon.  After the divine time set aside for refining and purging you
will come forth as pure gold.  Rare and unique.
 
 Love,

Pastor D.
 
Scripture References: Psalms 94; Isaiah 46; Romans 8:26-39; Prov. 3:1-7: Hebrews 12:5-11

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

    This is the Word of the Lord that was received at our church this Sunday:

    You have heard about the narrow way and
how it is upon you now, but some of your hearts cannot see beyond your
current moment.  Hear me and listen, I have nothing but good in My eyes for
you.  For with My eye I will guide you until the end.  As always that end
is for good.  That is My creation, design and invention for you.  The
narrow way will bring you into a broad place.  Just as I led My people
Israel through the wilderness, and My end for them was the Promised land
The wilderness was allowed so that all that was fleshly died.  Every
desire that kept them naturally connected to Egypt had to die also.  I wanted their new beginning to bring them to trust only in Me.

    Think higher thoughts!  Do not be afraid of
a narrow way, it is an opening to a larger way. Constrictions are
placed in a narrow way to make you apply pressure.  Pressure to My Word,
which will not fail.  Pressure to the righteousness and holiness that is
living in My people who have been living whole-heartedly for Me.  Pressure applied will produce from your holy lips a rhema Word that I will quicken to perform.  Align your thoughts with Mine.
    Babies are brought through a narrow birth
canal, yet it opens for them a broad new world.  A new beginning for
them.  So it will be for you, you will be brought forth into a broad new
arena, with new beginnings.  As you come through the narrow place, the
old after-birth will be discarded along with the dependency on things
that were conducive in that old season.  Think, I have brought you to
the Kingdom through a narrow way, yet it is the opening to the highway
of heaven and the broad way of real living.  I Am raising you to new
levels of challenge and destiny.  It is new to you, but not to Me.  That
is why you need to completely depend on Me, your Father Provider, to
reveal to you My way to the broad open spaces that I Am bringing you
to.  Now you must keep My promises in your mouth.  Keep your hands held
high in praise.  Keep living holy.  I Am making your Words to Me, a new
song, a new prophetic threshing instrument.  More powerful than ever
before.  Your eyes are beginning to see what I Am doing and yes, it is
too wonderful for you to comprehend or to put in words.  As you break
through the narrow way into the broad spaces, a shout will come forth. 
A shout that will bring a new sound that will shake the foundation of
the earth.  Many will come to your arising, to look and see the
miraculous awakening of My people.  My real church is transitioning into
greater power, greater anointing, greater love and greater works.  My
church has been in preparation, shaking loose the old things and all
that has hindered.  She is coming forth as My glorified Church!
 
Love,

Pastor D.
 
Scripture References: Ps.118:5; Mtt. 7:14; Jer. 29:11; Is. 41:15; Is. 44:26-28; Is.48:6-7;

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

 This morning I hear the Spirit saying;

    I Am doing something in your days such
that you wouldn't believe it even if someone told you about it.  Be
astonished, and astounded my children.  In your midst I have been trying
to get your attention.  Many still will not hear My voice, even though I
Am using every thing available to get them to clear their ears for My
voice.  For those who hear, I say that this is Our time to shine!  When
darkness covers the face of the earth, that is when I call forth the
light.  I Am calling forth the light that resides in you.  In you I have
placed hidden resources and great treasures that are now waiting to be
revealed.  The world is in need of those things that I have placed
inside of you.  Deep is calling to the deep inside of you.  Open up My
treasure trove.  Let me show you what you are really made of.  My great
DNA is flowing through your veins.  As you continue to come up higher
and you hear My voice beckoning you to do so, you will begin to
recognize that at the end of you is an opening up to a new beginning in
Me.  Secret riches in heavenly places.  The mind of Christ is in you
and all that I Am resides in you.  Where there is a shortage in the
natural, it is only an opening for the limitless supply of your God and
Our kingdom
When there is a famine in the natural, it is only a door for the
heavens to open its windows and pour out blessings that can't be
contained.  There is no stopping us.  We have just begun to shine.  I Am
glad that it has come to this time, for now My children will begin to
truly know Me as their great Father and Provider.  I will not be known by
what I use to be, but by who I Am.  My children will see that when
there is trouble and darkness all around, that even their darkness is
light, because I Am Light.  I Am the same God, I change not.  I do not
change, no matter what is going on, I Am the same.  You will be known as
those who minister to those who have been cast down.  When others have
dried out you will be known as the ones who water.  I will make My name
known to your adversaries.  All the seed that you have sown into the
kingdom is once again about to be multiplied back to the faithful, in 
an extraordinary way. 
You
will cause a shaking in the atmosphere around you.  Those whose desires
are toward Me, will rise up with a double recompense.
    Those who have been calling unto Me, I Am showing you great and mighty things in the realms of the Spirit.  Hidden things ,that it is now the time and the season to be brought to the surface.  It is time, mark it down.  Greater revelation,
yet simple for all to understand, who require it of Me.  Instead of
breaking down under these times of transition you have used it to
increase your spiritual hunger to know Me.  Now I will be the dew unto
you and you will continue to grow as the lilies, My loves.
 
Love,

Pastor D.
 
Scripture References: Hosea 14:1-4; Habak.1:1-5; Is. 61:4-7;

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

    John 18: 36— "Jesus answered, My
kingdom is not of this world, if My kingdom were of this world, then
would My servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews.  But as it is, My kingdom is not from here (this world) it has no such
origin or source."  Col. 1:12-13; "Giving thanks
to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the portion
which is the inheritance of the saints (God's holy people) in the
Light.  The Father has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of the darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love."  "The kingdom of God
does not come with signs to be observed or with visible display.  Nor
will people say, Look! Here [it is]! or, See, it is there!  For behold,
the kingdom of God is within you [in your hearts].." (Lk. 17:20-21)
"And from the days of John the Baptist until the present time, the kingdom of heaven
has endured violent assault and violent men seize it by force (a
precious prize – a share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with most
ardent zeal and intense exertions)." ( Mtt. 11:12)
    Now we have been made to qualify through Jesus to operate as ambassadors to the kingdom of God.  Our kingdom
is not of this world, but it is within us, just as an any ambassador
would have their kingdom in their hearts.  They would represent how
their kingdom operates in a foreign country.  We are living and working
for our kingdom also.  We are to function according to the kingdom of
God here on earth.  The kingdom of God operates and is effective based
upon the foundation of love.  The language of our kingdom is faith. 
Those who want to be effective, must seek the ways of the kingdom with
the most ardent zeal and intense exertion.  You must be stirred up about
what the kingdom is stirred up about.
    Listen to what will always remain in this kingdom of ours.  "And now abides faith, hope and love [faith—conviction and belief
respecting mans relation to God and divine things; hope–joyful and
confident expectation of external salvation;  love–true affection for
God and man, growing out of God's love for us and in us] these three;
but the greatest of these is love.  Eagerly pursue and seek to acquire
this love [make it your aim, your great quest].."  (I Corin.
13:13–14:1)
  Love is the greatest
building block in our kingdom.  Now let me ask you a question.  Has love
really been your great quest or aim?  This is what makes the kingdom of
God effective in every area that the kingdom can and will influence
those around.  Is this what you are building in your heart?  When was
the last time you actually pursued and sought to acquire this love? 
This is what causes us to become truly like God and to really know God
more intimately.  Listen:
"May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love. (sounds like foundation material and building stones) That you may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length and depth and height.  And to know the love of Christ,
which passes knowledge that you may be filled unto all the fullness of
God. [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence and become a
body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]
(Ephes. 3:17-19)
    Love is the
greatest force of the kingdom and it will abide forever.  Love will
cause you to be filled with the fullness of God to the richest measure. 
This love increases the knowledge of God in you and makes your faith
more energized.  We are kingdom people, ambassadors for the kingdom of
heaven, and this kingdom operates by love.  So, let's get violent and
seize the kingdom, by love, our great quest and aim.  It's done by intense exertion and ardent zeal of love.  It is not of this world, it is the way of the kingdom and our great King. 
"Therefore be imitators of God [copy Him and follow His example], as well beloved children. And walk in love,.." (Ephes.5:1-2)
 
Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

    I have been meditating on the words of a song and also these same words are found in the Song of Solomon.  Listen with your heart to these verses.

    S.O S.1:15; "Behold you are fair, my love; behold you are fair; you have dove's eyes."  "Behold you are fair, my love; behold you are fair; you have dove's eyes within your locks:…" (S.O.S.4:1)  Then it appears again in S.O.S.2:14; "{So I went with him, and when we were climbing the rocky steps up the hillside, my beloved shepherd said to me} O my dove, {while you are here} in the seclusion of the clefts of the solid rock,
in the sheltered and secret place of the cliff, let me see your face,
let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is
lovely."
    My meditation was on the words 'dove's eyes and dove'.  It
is interesting to note that dove's mate for life.  They are faithful to
one another.  Their mating is symbolized as one of warmth.  Doves are
gentle and meek.  That is why we typify them as a symbol of peace.  Interestingly enough the Word of God portrays the Holy Spirit as a dove.
(Mtt. 3:16; Mk. 11:15; Lk. 3:22; Jn.1:32); (because Holy Spirit is meek, gentle, faithful and single-eyed)   The
dove's eyes represent having undistracted vision.  Single-eyedness,
nothing else enters the eye gate, but what it is looking upon.
    As we keep a
single-eyedness toward our Lover of our soul, it is easier to ascend up
the steep and narrow places of life.  Only those that have undistracted
vision, keeping their gaze fixed on the Lover of their soul will be
able to come up into the high places of God.  Having a single-eyedness
also causes your ears to become sensitive to His voice alone.  You know,
"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them and they follow Me." (Jn.10: 27)  Also, having an undistracted vision and single-eyedness makes for peace.  Notice the verse that follows S.O.S. 2:14, verse 15, it says, "Catch all the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyard."  In
order to keep those foxes out of our vineyard, we would do well to
train our eyes to become single.  All of the little foxes are everything
in our lives that distract and keep our eyes upon them.  No matter
what it is, big or small.  They are burrowers that try to dig deep and
get our eye off of the Lord of our soul.  From inner issues to outer
issues.  Our promise is,
"You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You." (Is. 26:3)  Our Lord is working to keep our eyes of love faithfully looking unto him.  Remember and think on these Words this week; "Now
I say this to your own welfare and profit, not to put a [halter of}
restraint upon you, but to promote what is seemly and in good order and
to secure your undistracted and undivided devotion to the Lord."
"Looking away [from all that will distract us] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the source of our faith…"  (I Corin. 7:35; Hebrews 12:2)
    Now listen to this: "The light of the body is the eye; therefore when your eye is single, your whole body also is full of light.."  ( Lk.11:34)
You and I owe it to our new life in Christ to become single-eyed and to
become undistracted in our faithful love to the Lover of our soul. 
Listen to how it delights our Lord.
S.O.S. 4:9; "You have ravished My heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished My heart with one of your eyes..
    Ravished means to transport with love, joy and delight.  To carry away as into another state.  Every
time we stay single-eyed we transport our Lord with our love into great
delights and joys.  Let's focus our dove's eyes on Him at all times.
 
 Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

    Isaiah 43:2-3; "When you go through deep
waters, I will be with you.  When you go through rivers of difficulty,
you will not drown.  When you walk through the fire of oppression, you
will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you" ..verses 4 says
"Others were given in exchange for you.  I traded their lives for yours,
because you are
precious to Me."
    We
are unstoppable, as long as we stay connected to our Lord.  There is no
circumstance, no test, trials or tribulations that would ever bring us
down, if we would only learn to hide under the shadows of God's mighty
wings
.  God is our deliverer, our restorer and our protection.  Our great UPS – our upholder, our preserver, our sustainer.  Our rescuer!
    "Bring all who claim Me as their God, for I have made them for My glory." (Isaiah 43:7) Just
think about everything that you have endured, this year alone.  God
loves to take our worst days and use them for a turn around for the
best days that are ahead.  Your life brings God glory.  That is a selah, pause, reflect and calmly think on that.  You, yes, you bring the God of the universe and beyond, glory. 
Glory meaning, rare splendor and honor, and copiousness which is abundance; full supply and ample.  Just think on that for a moment!  You, the one who never feels quite
adequate, you bring God an abundance, a full supply.  You give Him a
rare splendor and honor, by your life being lived for Him.  When you go
through you are being purified and raised to a new level in your faith. 
Look at how God sees it.
  Isaiah 43:11-13;
"I, yes I Am the Lord, and there is no other Savior.  First I predicted
your rescue, then I saved you and proclaimed it to the world.  No
foreign god has ever done this.  You are My witnesses that I Am the only
God.  No one can snatch anyone out of My hand.  No one can undo what I
have done."
  It is plain and simple, we can't lose if we stay in His hand.  Now you are the only one that can remove yourself from the hand of God
No one else have that power, only you.  So choose to stay in His firm
and loving grip and you will pass through to the other side, stronger
and a more formidable adversary to our enemy.  The storms is passing
over and when they do, more and better fruit will spring up.  For those
who are planted by the rivers bear fruit in all seasons and their
leaves never wither and they prosper in all they do.
 
Love,

Pastor D.