Author: daughtersofz

Called, appointed and anointed by God, Pastor Debra Lowe has been called to the forefront to pastor along side her husband, Michael Lowe at Hesed Ministries. Pastor Debra has served the Lord for 39 years. Called as a Prophet to the nation she also walks in the office of teacher and is an intercessor. Pastor Debra has used these gifts to minister to the body of Christ, teaching men, women and children to enter into His presence causing them to mature and be changed by His Word. As a servant of the Most High God she brings forth a word in due season to the body of Christ.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

I received this word as I was coming out of my prayer closet.

This enemy of Ours is attempting
to lull a great body of My people to sleep. "Sleep", he says, "through
the crisis in your life". "Sleep", he says, "to the cries of the lost
world". "Sleep, you don't need to be aware of the times or season that
you are in", says the liar. Sleep so that your spiritual senses become
dull. Sleep in order that you might receive more of his lies. Sleep so that you are deaf to My voice.

He is using the cares of this
world, the lust and longings for other things, (wants, entertainment,
business) and the deceitfulness of riches, those cravings and desires
for more and more, all those things that beckon for your attention. He
is applying a smoke screen.

Awake from your spiritual slumber,
for it is the sleep of death! Sent to kill your real life in Me. Where
are the watchmen on the walls? Those who are seers, that I have
anointed to see ahead, to the times and the season. Listen as they cry
out to you. For the spirit of deceitfulness has caused your walk to
become lethargic, as one who feels in the darkness. Your great light
that once burned brightly has become small. Wake up to righteousness!
You don't even know how far you have fallen. You have judged yourself
by others that have been dulled by this life. Those who have become
lovers of this world. Those who are taking pleasure in the wickedness
around them. Turn your gaze back on Me, your Bright and Morning
Star. You once ran with the messengers that carried My Word. Now you
have put down your torch and run with the jackals of this temporary
world. Return to
Me!

You must stay planted by the river of My
Word in order to have a ceaseless supply of fresh water. So that no
matter what the outer conditions, you will continue to produce. Each
time you dwell in darkness and with sin, you are weakened to your
defense against it. Your delight and desires for Me will shift. You
cannot love two lovers. You will either hate the one and love the
other. Remember how you loved Me, I was your delight and your desire.
Come back to Me with your whole heart and I will heal you of your
backsliding heart. I have been speaking gently, while the world screams
at you for your attention and affection. Now I will shout as one who is
in travail. Awake, arise and stir yourself up to Me!! Do not grow
weary in your waiting. Do not grow weary in your well doing. I will
come for you. I Am coming for My Bride, so wake up to My Word. Stay
alert to My Presence and know the times that we are in.

Here are the scriptures that I heard in my heart . II
Corin. 2:14-16; " …Now He uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ
everywhere, like a sweet perfume. Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance
rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those
who are being saved and by those who are perishing. To those who are
perishing we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who
are being saved, we are a life giving perfume…" II Corin.13:5;
"Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test
yourselves. Surely you know if Jesus Christ is among you, if not, you
have failed the test of genuine faith. "I Corin. 15: 33-34; "Be not
deceived and misled! Evil companionships (communion, associations)
corrupt and deprave good manners and morals and character. Awake from
your drunken stupor and return to sober sense and your right minds and
sin no more….."

There are
some other verses that the Lord gave me and I pray that you will give
them serious meditation and study. Do you remember how it was when you
first loved Him? Do you remember how you couldn't wait to go to church
and be with other believers? Do you remember the excitement you felt
when you fist realized that God was really speaking to you through His
Word? Let's keep ourselves stirred up in Him, it is your choice to keep
the fire burning.

Love,

Pastor D.

Scripture References. Hebrews 6:4-6; II Peter 2:20-22; Psalms 1:1-6; Ezekiel 3:16-27

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

James 1:12 – "Blessed is the man who is patient under trial and stands up under temptation, for when he has stood the test and been approved,
he will receive the victors crown of life which God has promised to
those who love Him." I Peter 1:6-7 – "You should be exceedingly glad
on this account, though now for a little while you may be distressed
by trials and suffer temptations. So that the genuineness of your faith may be tested, [your faith] which is infinitely more precious than the perishable gold which is tested and purified by fire. [This proving of your faith is intended] to redound to your praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)
is revealed. Job 23:10 – "But He knows the way that I take (He has
concern for it, appreciates and pay attention to it). When He has tried me, I shall come forth as refined gold (pure and
luminous). Psalm 66:10 – "For You O God have proved us, You have tried us as silver is tried, refined and purified."

By now we
are all seeing this process for purification and refining is costly to
God and us. It cost our Lord His life to purchase us. Now to uncover
the gold that is in us takes time for Him as well as for us. For us, it
takes us going into the fire also. Refining gold is a valuable and
costly affair. Refine is to free from
impurities or unwanted material; to free from moral imperfections; to
improve by pruning or polishing; to free from what is coarse, vulgar or
uncouth; to become pure or perfected by improvements by both subtleties
and distinctions. Let us think that out together. To uncover the gold that is in us, the process is in what we see as tests, trials and tribulations,
whether they are emotional, financial, physical or through our
relationships. God knows how to mine for gold, for he sought us and we
were dug out of the rough. Yet, He is not through with us. He wants the
ultimate from His purchases. He is removing those things that are
coarse, vulgar and uncouth in us. Freeing us from all imperfections
and impurities. We all want the end results, to be refined. So, now we
need to learn to count it all joy when we go through diverse testing,
it is part of the refining process. To draw out of each of us the deep
seated value that only He sees and knows that lies beneath the
impurities that have become mixed into our character, from living in
the rough. To purify
means to clean; to wash or cleanse; to clarify; to make clear by
decontaminating and disinfecting; to purge and sanctify. Our
great loving God is purifying us from all that has contaminated our
minds, and our future destiny, by allowing the fires of tests,
trials etc. to burn away from us anything that will infect us.
Infections weaken us and deprive us of our strength and potential by levels.
He is clarifying our walk with Him, clearing away all hindrances and
the familiar obstacles that we have stumbled over in the past. Sad to
say even some of the hindrances have been people in our lives that we
refuse to let go of, that may be helping us to stay contaminated or
infected. It doesn't always have to be inanimate things. We need to let
God be the refiner and purifier that He is. He is increasing the
quality and value of our life lived for Him and for those with whom we
have any affect and influence upon.

I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying;

I Am bringing a new revelation of
holiness to you. For you are the ones who will display My
righteousness, My holiness. I am bringing things to the surface in you
and by My mighty strong wind I will come and blow on My gold. With the
power and force of the wind I will blow all that has been sticking to
you. I have placed My anointing all over you for you have stayed in the
fires and now coming forth is the new man that will not let the same
old things to stick your heart and mind like you allowed before. You
have come into your time. It is our time to demonstrate to this world
what real gold looks like and how you will shine, you will shine for
Me! You are now clearer and more clarified than you have ever been
before. There is no mixture in you. Truly sanctified for the service of
your God. There are moments that you can see all that I have in store
for you. You will do great things not yet seen by men. Your offerings
to Me are right and true now. No more mixture. Now all we see what
valuable gems I have in You. You will outshine every generation.

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

The Spirit of the Lord says:

For false messiahs and false prophets have risen and they perform signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God's chosen ones. This spirit of religion has always tried to blur the true faith
with itself. I Am not deceived, for I know how to keep the elect from
deception and I will avenge My elect soon. I have never seen things
through the eyes of man. My ways and thoughts are higher. I look upon
the heart, not on the outer appearance, nor at the smooth lips or words
of men. Man can be deceived, unless he sees with My eyes. My selection
is from the heart of man. While you are looking at the Saul's as the
elect, I Am selecting David's. While you are looking at the gender, I
Am choosing Deborah's.

In the approaching days, fresh revelation
knowledge is coming to the very elect, My Word will be truly uncovered.
Those who have made Me their choice and their selection above all else,
will find that I have anointed them with a double anointing. A great
desire and delight for My Word, mixed with deep insight will be theirs.
Even now they are rising from every corner of the seven continents of the
earth. Their candles are burning brighter for Me. Their obedience to My
Word and their love for Me keeps a steady flow of revelation. In
worship, they have learned true humility. They have encountered the Ancient of Days,
in their worship. These are My elect, usually unknown by men, yet
tenderly known of Me. In those moments of being still they have been
taught the unique blending of 'Spirit' and 'Truth'.
They will excel in revelation and insight, causing their walk to be
extreme. Extremely devoted, extremely faithful, to the One who has
called them. They are not compromisers! Others will be blinded by their
glory that reflects from their extreme worship of Me. They will not be
called a desolate or forsaken city, but they will be the city of My
delight. I delight in them and they delight in Me.

Hear Me, My elect, many lives are
depending upon you staying the course. Be true to your calling. Run the
race, do not look to the right or left, look right on. The race is not given to the swift, but to those who finish the course!

Love,

Pastor D.

Scripture References: Mark 13:22; Isaiah 62:4; Eccl. 9:11; Heb.12:1

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

I would like to share with you the Word of the Lord that our church, Hesed Ministries received Sunday morning.

By the end of this year I will have repositioned
My people for a stable transition. For I know the businesses and
financial institutions that will stand the next few years. The natural earthquakes, fires, floods and unusual signs in the heavens, have begun
to filter down into the grain of everyday living. That is why there is
relational, financial and physical earthquakes, floods, fires and
unusual happenings to the people on the face of the earth. My children
shall be kept as in the times of Moses, in the land of Goshen. I Am
placing you in different places for the days ahead where I know that
you will be preserved and sustained. There are certain places where I
will cause you to rise and fly, to keep you from hurt while the storm
that is brewing. My children who will run to the cleft of the Rock will
be inaccessible to the darts of the enemy. Yield to my leading, even
though you may not understand right now what I Am doing. I Am
repositioning you for your preservation. The world is growing weary of
the current conditions and they are looking for a safe place. My
children will be safe as in the land of Goshen, kept from the effects
of Egypt. Your family, your finances, your life preserved and upheld because you
are Mines, truly Mines. There where those in Egypt who ran to those in
Goshen for the protection that they saw upon their lives. Aliens to the
faith of Israel,
were willing and obedient to come and serve Israel's God, for their
soul preservation. This will be repeated in your time now. I have declared that 'you will shine' and
now is your time. Those outside the faith will want to know how and why
you are being kept from the plaques of this time and season.
You will humbly know and say, "it is because of my God, the One and
Only true God." At the same time those who were within My house and
have not been rooted will become offended with Me and My Word. Those
tares that have hindered the true wheat from growing and producing to
its fullest potential and value. Some of these tares will be blown
away as if by a fierce wind.

Now, My people will begin to do great last
days exploits. It shall be noted that there is a people who believe in
a supernatural God and that they are co-laboring with Him. I will give
you great favor in the sight of all the people of the earth. You, will
begin to do all that I have declared over you in My Word. Signs will
follow you because you believe, you will cast out demons, lay hands on
the sick, drink any deadly thing and speak with tongues all in My name.
Plaques, disasters and unknown germs will die, for you are kept in My
Presence. They can not stand in 'Our Presence.'

I have said once, and now again, that the
sun will come out from behind the clouds of darkness for a season and
shine ever so brightly. As dark clouds loom overhead, it's okay, for it
is full and will pour on My people a fresh anointing. For I Am the Lord
and I change not. The sun will shine afterward and illuminate you for
Me!

Love,

Pastor D.

Scripture References: Mark 16:15-18; Zech.13:7-9; Hosea 2:14-23; Hosea 14:1-7; Exodus 5-8

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

I Am awakening as one from slumber and I
will shout like a mighty man full of My new wine. I will call to My
own, as a woman who is in travail. Come back to Me with your whole undivided love and affection.
I Am crying in your ears, for I remember how you tenderly loved Me. I
know how you were thoroughly enamored with My love and kindness. There
was a time when nothing else would satisfy your longings, except Me.
Now I have seen you looking with longings towards other lovers. Those
who promise satisfaction, but is like a flickering lamp. It cannot
supply you with warmth or fulfill the longings of your heart. I Am the
only love, that will completely fulfill you.

Yet, you have worshiped the works of your
own hands. You revel in your own creations. You have become to involved
with idle, fruitless deeds of life. The time and the change of season
has come and you would have missed it. Yet, I have kept My hands on you.

I have brought My people through the fires
and I will refine them as silver and test them as gold is tried.
Purifying you, so that you may run the race weightlessly. This has been
the training ground
for the next level of testings, that will come upon the face of the
earth. You will need to be quick and sharp. That is why I Am burning
from you the weighted impurities. With the coming disasters and chaos
you will see that you have doubled in power and in purity. I have
placed you in a spiritual boot-camp, with difficult training and
exercise of your faith. It has been necessary, so that you will make
progress on the dangerous heights of this next level of testing and
trouble. You will turn your face to Me and rejoice! You will know that
I have become your strength, and your invincible army. I will set you
up securely, even on the high places. You will be glad in Me. You will
stir up and rekindle the flames for Me. Your light will burn bright,
while you lead others from their darken state. Those who would not
yield to Me will begin to seek refuge from their storms. They will find
priests of the Lord, ministers of God, flaming fires of righteousness.

Love,

Pastor D.

Scripture References: Jeremiah 2:1-4; Zec.13:8-9; Psalms 18:32-33;

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

I hear the Spirit saying;

I have said over and over again, that I
have brought you to a place of transitioning. It has been a seemingly
rough place, a hard and difficult and trying place, yet here is where
My glory will be seen more radiant. I have opened to you a door, a way,
a landing, a safe haven. Now, the sun is about to come up for a
season. It has been one storm after another, yet you have put one foot
in front of the other, stepping through the darkest of the storms. Reaffirming your walk of faith. You will walk through the next season
with heighten spiritual insight. Yes, your steps have become more
surefooted. You have stayed close to Me and gained the ability to
maneuver the steep and dangerous mountains of your life. Through this
time of transition, the enemy tried to keep your mind
thoroughly bombarded with thoughts. You have learned to be content in
and with Me. Even when the fields looked barren and empty and when
there was no grapes on the vines, you still rejoiced in Me. I have seen your faith and it has brought pleasure to Me. I Am ever present
to do you good. In your darkest moment it was My light that kept you
seeing the Way. From the crooked places, your sight has been made
right. Now, your eyes are on eternal things, your gaze is on the
everlasting Kingdom. What are you doing here that will matter in our
eternity? You are developing a mind that is set on Me. You are pursuing
the position of a watchman and a witness for the Kingdom. You are
keeping your mind on things above, where I can reveal and uncover the
secrets of your homeland. Insights to be powerful and effective in
every season. You are super-natural beings, moving with My purpose upon
this land. There are more for you than against you. You have a heavenly
arsenal and heavenly allies at your disposal. Wake up, arise from the
place of discouragement and despair. You are the mighty army of the
Lord. Do not be entangled with the affairs of this world, for that
is not pleasing. Your Kingdom is calling you to rise up and utilize all
that has been given to you to bring in the harvest. The Lord of the
harvest is calling all of His laborers to go out into His fields, they
are white! This is the time, this is the season when the plowman will
overtake the reaper. All hearts and hands should be single-minded.
Quickly carrying out the task that has been assigned you. The sun is
coming out in the day, all work must be done while it is day, the night
is coming and no man can work then. Look for the sun, but get ready to
work. Start now by much watching in prayer for the fields. Then you
will run out to My fields and help gather in My great harvest.

I have made
you a sharp threshing instrument. A mighty tool and a weapon that was
formed in the rough fires of life. You are now ready to thresh through
to obtain the harvest. Your oil of life has come from My presence, now
you will be smooth in your assignment for this great season. Yes, your
waiting in My glory and presence has caused us to be synchronized. One,
in purpose and in pursuit.

Love,

Pastor D.

Scripture References; Habakkuk 3:15-19; Isaiah 60:1-3; Amos 9:13; John 4:34-38; Mtt.24:42-44; I Thess.5:5-8

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

Hear The Spirit Of The Lord;

Be still. Be still. Stop allowing this
world system to dictate your thoughts and your movements. As you are
quiet in My presence, you will begin to see what I am up to in your
life. You will see what I Am requiring of you. Too much activity and not
enough action. The enemy is trying to keep you busy in non-activity.
Running, running, yet not covering enough territory. Do not run in fear
or because of the lack of knowing! Wait, wait on Me. I Am the Way, and
I will assist you in covering more and doing it with less of your
energy spent. I need your mind to be leaned and set upon Me, not on the
happenings that surround you. You must reign in the renegade thoughts
that are damaging the soundness that I can keep you in, if you will
meditate on Me and My Word. I want you to see the kind of man that you
really are. Always you need to depend on My support. Give Me and Holy Spirit room
to move and guide you. Soon even as 'times' get more difficult, those
who have learned to wait and be still, will find that they are being
preserved in their mind and heart. Men's hearts are failing
them, literally, because of fear and the torment that comes from lack of
knowing. Now is the time for My people to know that I Am faithful to My
Word. I will uphold, preserve and sustain those who are still. You will
rise up with wisdom and understanding and run with horses in the course
that I have set for you. Out of what was meant for devastation shall
arise prophets that are unashamed to proclaim My Word. Strong, bold and
unafraid, under the mantle of Elisha. Detailed and precise as Isaiah.
They will not care for their reputation, only Mine. My truth shall be
their guideposts, at home, in the neighborhood and around the world,
they will be constant.

My glory will resound through My true
saints, those who are being purified with My Word. My treasures, that
are like a blazing fire with My holiness and My covenant. They are
shouting loud and not sparing for the look of men faces. Crying, for
the many souls that are still languishing in the valley of indecision.
My voice is heard through these holy ones, that are still pure in heart and mind. My children who accept divine guidance will prosper, especially in times of famine and hardship.

I will be honored by every nation and
throughout the whole world. My prophets will see to it that everyone
will know that I Am sending out this last call. Come, all that are
weary! Come and I will give you rest. Turn from your own ways and allow
Me to show you Mine. I will bless those that have a humble and
contrite heart. Instead of shame and dishonor I will give you double
honor.

Love,

Pastor D.

Scripture Reference: Isaiah 26:3; Isaiah 61:5-9; Isaiah 58:1; Psalms 46:10; Prov.3:5;

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

Psalm 139:13-18; "You made all the
delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's
womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship
is marvelous-how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed
in utter seclusion, as I was woven in the dark of the womb. You saw me
before I was born. Everyday of my life was recorded in Your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How
precious are Your thoughts about me, God. They cannot be numbered! I
can't even count them, they outnumber the grains of sand. And when I
wake up You are still with me."

Everyday of
our lives and every moment has been laid out by God. There is nothing
in our lives that has caught our God by surprise or that has confused
Him. Just think with me for a moment. All of the childhood, teenager,
and adult traumas, struggles, misuses, abuses, and every issue that we
are now being delivered from as a Christian, has not been a surprise or
shock to Him. Those things that the enemy of our soul tried to kill,
steal or destroy our lives, or at least stop our destiny with are not
new to God. For instance, I was molested as a child, from the time I
was 10 years old until I was 15 years old. The devil meant to have me
so messed up in my mind towards God, men, family, life, motherhood,
etc. He wanted me to never trust anyone in authority, or male kind ever
again. Along with keeping bitterness and unforgiveness as
the mainstay of my life. When I gave my life to God, He turned those
very things that the enemy tried to destroy me with to my good and to
the advantage of the Kingdom. You may be saying, how? Well, I am very
sensitive to children and I am spiritually sensitive to that deviant
spirit that would try to operate in any around me. Also I spend a lot
of intercessory prayer time for the protection of children. I know that
just like me, each one of us have a testimony of where God has
delivered us from and brought us to.

Think about Joseph and all that he went through after his
revealed dream from God. His brothers abused him and would have left
him for dead, except that God would not allow it, His plan would
prevail. You know the account. Joseph was thrown in a pit, accused of
rape, and thrown in prison. Finally everything that Joseph saw in the
dream begin to come to pass. He is delivered and vindicated by
God. Joseph brings his family to live with him. After the death of their
father, his brothers begin to think he might want to pay them back for
the abuse and selling him into slavery. Joseph tells them, "As
for me, you thought evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring
about that many people should be kept alive, as it is this day."
(Gen.50:20) Just like Joseph, those
evil things that were meant to destroy you, God will turn them for your
good. Why? So that you to can be a representative of the Deliverer to
your family and those around you. Keeping them alive through your life
as a witness and an ambassador for the Kingdom of God. A living testimony of the God who has a good plan for their lives as well.

Psalm 37:23-24: "The Lord directs the steps
of the godly. He delights in every details of their lives. Though they
stumble, they will never fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand." God knows those that are truly His, the godly ones. Those that are trying with all of the help of the Holy Spirit to live their lives holy and righteously. The word steps means companionship and the goings of.
As we stay in companionship with God, even though we may make
mis-steps, feel overwhelmed, or overthrown, we will never stay down.
We may go into the fire, but we come out without even the smell of
smoke upon us. Floods of lifes circumstances may try to drown us,
but they cannot keep us under its force. Micah 7:8; "Do not gloat over me, my enemies. For though I fall, I will arise again. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light."

God knew what
would happen in your life. He knew what circumstances or situations
would make your path crooked and twist you with issues of the heart and
mind. He knew the home you would be raised up in, the kind of parents
or people that would be responsible to raise you. He knew how long you
would take to yield to His way. He knew how often you would be in His
permissive will instead of His perfect will, once you became His
child. God's plans for our lives will prevail, as long as we allow Him
to direct our goings, refusing to become entangled again with the old
yokes of bondages. Even those times that we don't understand all of our
steps, He does. Remember every moment of everyday He has recorded for
you. He also knows what it will take to bring you to your destiny,
while He straightens out the crooked places.

Psalm 40:5; "O Lord my God you have
performed many wonders for us [me], Your plans for us [me] are to
numerous to list. You have no equal. If I tried to recite all Your
wonderful deeds I would never come to the end of them." We
are in His thoughts at all times, we are the apple of His eye. We have
His attention and He has incredible plans for us. Everyday, every
moment He is planning good for you. Psalms
37:37- "Mark {keep you eyes on} the blameless [the godly] man, and
behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace." Peace- nothing missing, nothing broken; well, happy, good health, rest, safety, and wholly.
As we lean our whole human personality on God, He will see to it that
our steps lead us right to our destiny of peace. Proclaim it everyday!

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

Psalm 71:20-21; "You have allowed me to suffer much hardship, but you will restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth. You will restore me to even greater honor and comfort me once again." Suffer, hardship, troubles, these are words that we would rather not hear in the Christian community. Yet, God reminds us that these things are allowed in our lives, in season for a reason. This verse in the King James translation says, "Thou, which has shown me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me again from the depths of the earth." [vs.20] Great troubles means huge, increased, and many. Sore troubles means adversity, affliction, calamity, displeasure

grievous, sorrow and trouble. That is just to name a few. Why? Why are we allowed to go through troubles and hardships? Let's see what the Psalmist writes. "Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word." (Psalm 119:67) "It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statues.' (Psalm 119:71) When we go through sore troubles, and we are trusting and believing God's Word, we learn that the promises are really true for us. We have experience to go with our faith. It is no longer the pastor's, the evangelist's, the teacher's or anyone else's testimony, it becomes your own. You have seen the true and living God come to your aid, watch over His Word and perform it on your behalf. The Word that you refused to let go of, that faithful promise you stood on. When all else that you trusted in proves that it is unstable, unfaithful, not lasting, and undependable, then you are left to see God's Word will prove itself.

Look at the power and the benefit of trusting God's Word. "…you will restore me [quicken me] to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth." Quicken is to make alive, nourish up, to recover, repair, to restore and to revive and to preserve to life again. Restore means to give back, to make restitution, to rebuild, to bring back to a healthy state, to make amends or compensation for, to replace in a former state of favor and grace. After we have withstood, we then inherit the promise and receive greater honor. God, our Father delights to lift us up from the deepest abyss of life and bring us up to the greatest place of honor. He did it with David, Abraham, Esther, Joseph, Ruth, Gideon, Moses, Daniel, the three Hebrew boys, the list goes on and on. When all of our dependency is in Him, not in us or the arm of flesh, stand and see the salvation of the Lord. Salvation means, something saved, deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity, health and help. He wants our Source to be Him, for all of His rewards are with Him. Get ready then to be brought up from the places of the abyss and be revived, rebuilt, quickened, brought back to live, really live. Greater grace, greater favor, greater amends and compensation. That first burst of sunlight is awesome, train your eyes to see greater distances. We are rising to new heights in Christ. We have learned through our afflictions, that our God is a mighty deliverer and restorer!!!

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

Everyone has gone through some tests, trials or tribulations in
their lifetime, and that makes us human. Then there are those of us
that go through tests, trials etc., and we grow and change as we go
through, and that makes us Christ-like. It is how you go through 'a
thing' that makes the difference. Let's talk about remaining the 'light
'no matter how dark it gets around us.

Isaiah 60:2-3; "For, behold, the darkness
shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord
shall arise upon you, and His glory shall rise upon you. And nations
shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising." In the midst of darkness we are to remain a bright light. So that they can see the Christ in us. Gross means thick, gloomy, immediately, obvious, plain, evident, out and out, complete, and flagrant, rank and unmitigated. Darkness has already become excessively growing and heavy, and we must keep shining even more brightly. How do we stay bright?

John 1:5; The light shines on in the
darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it and has never
overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it and the
darkness is unreceptive to it]. How do we keep our light burning like a torch when the darkness is trying to envelope our light? Psalms 34:1-9; "I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. "Will
means to choose; used to express desire, choice, consent; a habitual
action or a natural tendency or disposition; an inclination; a
settlement of any mental uncertainty and indecision made by a choice
clearly known in advance and requiring effort. The word bless
means to make happy; give good satisfaction to; to confer prosperity
upon, highly favor; endow; to bring pleasure and contentment to
[something that promotes or is the source of happiness] to give grace
to [to regard with goodwill and approval to regard above all others; to prefer and to be partial towards like a light]. Now we are to praise the Lord continually, to praise means to shine like a light; to make a show, to boast and to be clamorously foolish (vibrant; demonstrative; be tumultuous) to rave; to celebrate; to give light to stultify; to utter aloud; noisy outcry, appeal, demand or proclaim incessantly. This is how we keep our flames burning bright and this is how we stay light! By praising and blessing! So therefore we must
will or make a choice, consent and incline, desire to express and
require effort to overcome uncertainty or indecision in our mind or
disposition to bless at all times. I will make God happy, give God good satisfaction and highly favor and promote God as my source of happiness. I
will endow and bring pleasure and contentment, and give grace to regard
God above all others and prefer God and be partial towards Him at all
times.

As we will to bless God and praise Him, we are lighting the fire that must burn bright. I
will shine like a light, by showing and boasting and be clamorously
foolish. I will be vibrant, radiant and demonstrative. I will be
tumultuous, rave and celebrate. I will give light to God by uttering
aloud, making a noisy outcry, by appeal and proclaiming incessantly
continually.

As darkness
becomes more thick and gloomy, more plain, evident and flagrant, we are
to bless and praise God. In good times or bad. In times of planting and
times of plucking up. In times of healing and in times of dying. In
times of of casting away and in times of embracing. In times of weeping
and in times of laughing. At all times as we bless and praise God, we
are keeping the flames burning bright! So give God praise anyhow. Bless
Him continually! Remember our light will bring nations and kings to our
Lord.

Love,

Pastor D.