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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/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

This is why the veil was torn in two, so that you might have this unusual common access to Me. That you might always go between here and the kingdom, so that you might establish heaven on earth. So
that the world might know that there is a people among them that are
truly devoted to My way and not to the processes and the ways that the
world operates. It has been My plan to have a people that genuinely reflected My image. So I say come, come to where I Am and see. See how I see, see what I feel, see how I think and how I act and move. See
and then imitate and do the same! I have always called you to that
higher place so that you could understand that you are not mere men
walking upon this earth acting like mere men, doing what mere men do. You
are to be different, unique and special, you are to be set apart and
called to a higher life, walking in the higher planes and the higher
places that I have called and ordained for you to be in, to operate
from. Not from this plane, this is the low living and if you operate from the low living you'll only reap death. But
if you operate from the heavenly realm from the sphere of your Father,
you will see and understand that you will affect your whole environment,
your territory and your land.

You can ignite a fire that will be hard for the enemy to put out. So come closer, come closer to Me, come and know Me. Come
and know Me as I know you. Come and be intimate with Me,
abandon every perceived idea, everything that has been taught to you
that is not in line with My Word, abandon it and let it go. You
have been seeing Me from eyes of religion and now I say see Me from my
Word, understand me from my Word, for I am cordial, I am kind, I am
gentle, yet I am firm and I am a Father.

"And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus." (Ephes. 2:6-7)

"The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life." (John
6:63)

"Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.Fulfill your promise to your servant, so that you may be feared." (Ps. 119:37-38)

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

We are continuing to share with you the prophetic words given to us in our services at Hesed
Ministries. We pray that you would meditate upon the words spoken and
move deeper with God. Experience God encounters with us as we delve into
deeper intimacy with
Him.

Take a breath and drink deeply, these are moments where you learn to take a breath and drink deeply, moments spent with Me. The Lord keeps talking to me about sippers and how we cry out for more of Him but we sip at what He gives us. We only take a little one, and He
says part of the reason we sip is because we are afraid to leave the
familiar things, the familiar surroundings, the familiar feelings, every
thing that goes with that familiar place that we are in. So we just sip a little bit. You
are afraid that He is going to do something out of the ordinary, that
you can't control and maybe cause you to be put to shame and all the
while all He wants to do is place His glory in you to change you, to
change you so that you resemble Him. There is no need to fear going into the deeper things, for as you do you will see in a whole new light.

For I am for you, I am all about you, you’re the apple of my eye. You see you live and you move and you have you’re being because of me. You are the reason that I live and move even before you were always on My mind, that is why I fashioned you and I formed you. Even
before you were in your mother’s womb, do you not understand, even
before you were there I knew you and I took great delight in you. That is why I brought you to this earth so that men might see you and glorify your Father which is in heaven. And too often you have stayed in that place of familiarity, fear
has kept you immobilized and you haven't done the very simple things
that would move you into that next level of the glory of your Father. So
that every where you go people would see Me, know Me and recognize that
you are different, you are unique, that is all I want. I will not shame you, I will not hurt you, and I will not bring you down. I will cause you to be lifted up higher. I
will cause you to receive glory on this earth if you just do as I tell
you to do because you will be constantly giving Me glory and you can not
out give me. And I will cause My weightiness, My glory to rest upon you, My honor, My dignity will be yours. That is the great exchange and all I Am asking is for you to do that. Just surrender
who you are, after all that is what you have to bring to Me? I will make beautiful things, I Am a God of beauty. I Am a God of creativity. I
will make something that you could never perceive in your own mind out
of you, even out of your mess, even out of what you have done. If you would just let Me!

"And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it." (Ps.90:17)

"And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory; Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?" (Rom. 9:23-24)

"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us." (Ephes. 3:20)

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

Every tradition and every theology that man has made for you to learn and have taught you that was wrong
according to My Word, if you would abandon them and find yourself in My
Word, hidden in My Word and then you will find My secrets that will
bring to you new life. New life even to those things that are dead, even those things says the Lord. Even those things that the enemy has celebrated over in your life that have been dead, I will resurrect to new life. I delight to resurrect, I have resurrected nations, I resurrected Israel, a nation
that was dead and I brought them from the corners of the earth by My Word says the Lord. A Word that I have never forgotten, I keep My Word, and I Am bringing it back to life on your behalf tonight. All that I have spoken life to and ordained, I will resurrect in your life says the Lord. Begin
to rejoice, for even though the enemy has sent the vultures of the
spirit across your pathway to say these are dead, I will pluck them and I
will eat them and I will tear them apart until there is nothing left. I
Am a God that breathes life into dead things, but I will cause those
things to live again and they will arise and walk says the Lord.

Even your dreams, even people in your life that the enemy has ripped from you, I will bring
back says the Lord. I will cause new life to come to them
says the Lord because I Am God and there is no one like Me and you will
stand amazed at what great things I do for those who will come with
broken hearts, for those who would rend their hearts, you will find
treasures unfold. Secret hidden treasures that I have laid up keep for all who walk upright. Lay aside every thought that you have that is pre-conceived
that will hinder Me from moving and operating like I want to do now,
that I want to do every day until I come so you will know that I Am your
God and there is none like Me. You will find yourself going from one
level of glory to another level of glory, and the enemy won’t be able to
stand before you in the days ahead.

"Rend
your hearts and not your garments and return to the Lord, your God, for
He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in
loving-kindness; and He revokes His sentence of evil [when His
conditions are met]." (Joel 2:13)

"The Lord is close to those who are of a broken heart and saves such as are crushed with sorrow for sin and are humbly and thoroughly penitent." (Ps. 34:18)

"And
I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret
places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, Who
calls you by your name." (Isa. 45:3)

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

"Do
not therefore, fling away your fearless confidence, for it carries a
great and glorious compensation of reward." (Heb. 10:35) We must stay on target and keep our eye on the prize!

One little distraction, even the distractions that
try to keep you from getting into that secret place, can seem insurmountable. So
how much more, every day living with its cares, worries and
frustrations and then the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eye and
the pride of life that interferes and obstructs you from getting into
the secret place that I have ordained for you to be in, where I have
called you to walk in. It is not just for set aside moments of worship, but to live there as a lifestyle of worship and that is what I Am calling you to. Rise to the place where you abandon all thought processes that pull you back to the ways of this world, to
the thoughts of what’s going on and I’m calling you higher so that means you have to abandon your dependence upon the flesh. Which means the things that keep you earthly, the cares of this world which are bound in your flesh and in your emotions and how you feel and how you think. I
Am calling you to go beyond your feelings, go beyond your thoughts,
and keep your mind renewed with My Word and begin to do exactly what I
Am saying regardless of what you feel like, or what you think and then
you’ll find yourself in that secret place, protected by Me no matter
what is going on in the world or in your life, you will find yourself
inaccessible to the darts of the wicked one. In the midst
of that you can hear My voice clearly, see nothing will keep you from
hearing Me when you find that secret place and you never abandon it.

"For
in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; in the secret
place of His tent will he hide me; he will set me high upon a rock." (Ps. 27:5)

"Therefore, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit." (Rom. 8:1)

"Do
not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted
to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed
(changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and
its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the
good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]." (Rom. 12:1)

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

Like
drops of rain that start off soft and then as the day goes on, as your
life continues, I will begin to pound and compound those drops of rain
until it begins to melt away like fire those things in your life that
have not brought Me glory. And in the end you will see the man and the woman that I have designed for you to be. You will walk in that higher life doing greater things more than you ever thought possible just by surrendering yourself to Me. And everywhere you go it will begin to be a normal occurrence for the glory, for the glory to surround you. These are the days that we have longed for, the Father and
I, we have longed for these days. That you would really
recognize who you are and that you would no longer hold on to the things
of this world and the ways of flesh and man. But that you would recognize that you are children of the most high God, the only God, the true and living one. Because
of Me, you are, and you live and you move and you have your being
because of Me and you will come to really know in the days ahead who you
are. Walk in it, no longer fight or resist the power nor the authority. Just walk in it. I
will fill your pools to overflowing, spilling over upon all that I send
you too. Be bold in this time of power. Take authority over the spirit
if fear, fear no man face. Just do it in My name! I am enlarging your
territory and your area of influence, do not
fear. I have
prepared you through the turbulent times of testing and you have come
forth as pure gold. You are ready! That is why I Am sending you a fresh
rain to cause you to pick up your pace for the race. It will keep you
fired up as you run and do the greater works of the Kingdom!

"Blessed
(happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man whose strength is in You,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.Passing through the Valley of
Weeping (Baca), they make it a
place of springs; the early rain also fills [the pools] with blessings. They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power]; each
of them appears before God in Zion." (Ps. 84:5-7)

"For
in Him we live and move and have our being; as even some of your [own] poets have said, For we are also His offspring." (Acts 17:28)

"So we take comfort and are encouraged and confidently and
boldly say, The Lord is my Helper; I will not be seized with alarm [I
will not fear or dread or be terrified]. What can man do to me?" (Heb.
13:6)

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

We are sharing God's spoken Word to us this past Sunday. Selah, pause, reflect, and meditate upon it.

I Am awakening, I Am awakening love. Great love that I have placed on the inside of you and with the awakening of love your eyes will be healed. I Am taking away the scabs that have hindered you from seeing into the realm of the Spirit. And all around there are sentinels that I have dispatched and they are
war-faring angels. They
are standing guard to fight on your behalf, for there are battles that
have come against you in your life that you have found hard to bear. But I have given you more than you could ever dream of, more than you ever thought of to win and to
become victorious even in this battle. For I will get to Myself and My name glory, I will have it says the Lord. And
I have sent you help from on high, not only by the presence of My
precious Holy Spirit that lives and abides on the inside of you but I
have seen to it. For I have given you everything beyond human capability and the ability to perceive what I Am doing, giving great war-faring angels, a host from heaven to fight on your behalf. You have never been alone, but more than ever before your eyes will gaze and look and see, and you will know. You will know when you walk through your daily life that I Am with you and the ministering angels never abandon
you. And it is because
of these angels that the battles in this past month that you thought
were too insurmountable, I have caused you to succeed and overcome. It
is not because of your own strength, your own wisdom, your own ability,
even your own knowledge of Me. It has been because of My mercy, My
great mercy that I have been raining glory upon you and every time that
you invite Me and make room for Me, yes, when you make room for Me, I
will come in a most powerful way. I will come as an abundance of power, in an abundance of rain, in an abundance of fire, in an abundance of oil. I will anoint you from on high with fresh zeal. I will cause your eyes to understand and see things from afar and you will walk in them this day, says the Lord. They
will not be beyond your reach, but you will step into Me like never
before and wherever I step, you’ll step and the things that
you thought you could not do, you’ll find the ability to do it and far
beyond that, others will see and recognize and know that is I, the Lord
your God that has now stepped in the forefront. For I have surrounded you as unto a shield. I go before you and I Am your rear guard. I Am behind you and I have taken up the positions to surround you on every side. So there is no weapon, none, not even those conceived by the enemy nor by man that shall ever touch, harm or hurt you. But
instead you shall come out, arising with more power, more wisdom, more
insight, more ability to surmount the enemy in these days. The
greater works are at hand, the greater works are at hand, for I have
called you to do those things and you are just about to experience
the manifest presence of your Father. The glory that you have been
crying out for all the while will be seen, all has been waiting for you to arise, and awaken yourself to My love.

"The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place." (Psa. 68:17)

"Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield." (Psa. 5:12)

"Then your light
will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard." (Isa. 58:8)

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

This word was given in at Hesed Ministries, two Sundays ago. The Spirit
is calling us to be alert and awaken from a slumber, that sometime or
another even those who consider ourselves "spiritually aware" have
fallen into. This comes from a place of familiarity our relationship
with
God. We can all fall into complacency without a whole lot of fanfare
that we are entering into a "lull". So let us awake and be alert!

Persecutions
and troubles cause people to either draw closer to Me or pull away
completely from Me. In the days ahead you’re going to begin to see, and
this is the separation, that I have always been talking about of letting
the wheat and the tare grow together. You’ll begin to see
those that are truly mine, they will begin to cultivate and grow strong
in the midst of the hard times like never before. They
will enter into the promised land that I have given them, even in the
midst of the diverse trials and
tribulations that's going on around about them, because they have come
to understand that peace does not mean without the existence of troubles
or trials. Peace means having the ability to do exactly what I have called you to do in
spite of troubles and trials. And so, because My people
have sought my face they will begin to experience true prosperity,
prosperity of mind, prosperity of heart, prosperity in their body, as
well as prosperity in their finances.

For
this is the time says the Lord, that every foul, wicked abomination
that has come against you, will recognize that they have come against Me
in you, says the Lord. And in these days ahead they will
come and fight against Me in you, understanding slowly that no weapon
formed against you shall prosper in the days ahead. They will understand
that I have put a
shield around about you for protection because you have
come underneath the banner of your God. You have come
underneath the holiness of your God and I will surround you and the
enemy will not be able to touch you and do as he has done in the past. For I the Lord your God will fight for you, stand for you and withhold the enemy in the days ahead. Watch
and see, says the Lord, there will be no plan, nor scheme that will
come against you that will prosper, but you will prosper in the plans
that I give you says the Lord. You will walk ahead of the
things that are coming upon the earth and you will hold your head up for
you will recognize and understand that without Me, you can do nothing,
but because you have Me living so powerfully in you, you can do
anything. And because of that says the Lord, great shall be your peace in the midst of all things going on around about you. Great
shall be your
composure in the midst of everything going on around about you! You
have found yourself hidden in the secret place of the most high God. And
there says the Lord, I will feed you and you will thrive and you will
grow and you will be supernatural beings, doing supernatural things, not
because of anything you have done, but because you have chosen that
which was good and right which is to seek my face at all times.

"Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. Listen to my instruction and be wise, do not disregard it. Blessed are those who listen to me,watching daily at my doors,
waiting at my doorway. For those who find me find life and receive favor from the Lord. But those who fail to find me harm themselves all who hate me love death.” (Prov. 8:32-35)

"Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and
tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn." (Mtt. 13:30)

"Before
I was afflicted I went astray, but now Your word do I keep [hearing,
receiving, loving, and obeying it]. .. "It is good for me that I have
been afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes." (Ps. 119:67; 119:71)

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

"After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us
up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on
to know the Lord:
his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us
as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." (Hosea
6:2-3) God has
promised to revive us, but we must awaken and arise from the slumber of
circumstances and troubles. Usually it is because we have too many
other "loves" that have our attention and our affection. But when our
inflection changes and we cry out loud for God to revive us from a place
of desperation, God will come as the former and latter rain. God will not share us with other loves, or idols, can't you hear these
verses ringing in your heart; "You shall have no other gods beforeme." (Exodus 20:3); "Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God." (Exodus 34:14). He is raising us up from depression or discouragement to revive – to
restore us to life, to action, to vitality, [to raise from a state of
neglect or disuse] to bring us back, to make us valid, operative and
flourishing. The former rains represent the winter showers and
the latter rains represent the heavy downpour of rain that brings the
crop to maturity, the spring rains. We are about to experience a
torrential downpour in our lives, but it will be upon those who have
humbled themselves and cried out for a revival and choose to be awaken! God desires for everyone who names the name of Christ to receive His
best, but first there must be a willing heart. "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:" (Isa. 1:19)
Our Father God will not force you to His highest plan and good for your
life, you must have a desire to yield. He wants willing lovers. Those
who are humble, willing, and obedient will partake of the torrential
downpour. The choice is yours but I would like to provoke you to change
your infection and cry for more of God. Provoke means to stir to a desired feeling or action; to move deeply; to arouse your
zeal; to summon and call forth an emotion and or action; to stir up on purpose; to fire up; to impassion; to build a fire under. One
of the biggest hindrance to us experience the next level of revival is "pride" a resistance to letting God do whatever He needs or want to do
in order to raise us up. Never must we be found resisting God's hand
upon our lives. "Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." (Acts 7:51) "But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble." (James 4:6) We need more grace, God's divine ability over and upon our own ability, So, don't be hard hearted and
stiff-necked people, humility
invites God into your affairs! Be like the early saints who didn't
resist God in receiving the Holy Ghost, they were willing and they
received the grace of the Holy Spirit. Read Acts 19:1-6, they
were believers who had not heard of the Holy Spirit and speaking in
other tongues yet. They could have resisted God and the next level by
staying full of pride, thinking they knew it all or had it all, but the
scripture says that they received the Holy Spirit,
spoke in tongues, and prophesied. There is so much more of God and we
need to remain teachable, humble, willing and obedient, if we expect to
eat the good of the land that God has for us.

Listen to this; "Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of his servant? Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on their God." (Is. 50:10) If
you obey God and His servant, darkness and trouble will come, but if
you stay yielded and trusting in God's willingness to revive you, He
will give you the former and latter rain. "Though I
walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch
forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand
shall save me." (Ps. 138:7) Those
are promises that we can rely on as we believe for revival, but we
don't want to be found resisting his aid and assistance and trying to do
it on our own. "Behold, all ye that kindle a
fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of
your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of
mine hand; ye shall
lie down in sorrow." (Isa. 50:11) I pray as I
provoke you that you will humble yourself under God's mighty hand, cry
out loud for revival, and don't let pride, which is being stiffnecked
and hard hearted keep you from receiving the next great level of grace. Pride will cause you to walk in a deceptive fire and it will cause you
to lie down in sorrow! Join us as we humble ourselves and cry out for
revival.

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

There are those that I have allowed, I have allowed you to know Me in a particular way. Through
the things that you have gone through, I have brought you to a special
place that you know Me, you stayed and grew in knowledge and
understanding of Me. You know Me and no one else can take
that knowing away from you, yet you would not allow Me to take you to
the higher levels and deeper places in Me. Because you have cried out to
Me over and over again to be like Me, I am fashioning the moments, the
season and the times, to know Me deeper still. For the next few months there are things that are going to come into your life and it is
for fashioning you and it is for changing you and it is for shaping you. It is for making a mark in your life that will change you from this moment on. You
will not veer to the left nor to the right and no, there is not an
enemy alive that can push you nor pull you to any other course. You will stay the course until you are brought in to the promises. You
will not be moved and this will come about through those very times,
those very changes, those very situations that you have fought Me about,
that you have withstood Me about. But I am bringing it
about for your good, says the Lord, for I know the plans that I have for
you, they are for good and not evil. Understand my children it is never meant for evil, it is about bringing My perfect plan for good to you. And even though the course may not be the one
that you chose, I have a way and I know the way and I Am bringing you about in that way, says the Lord. And
I will not change if you stay with Me, and it is based on you staying
with me, for I will bring you to that final victory where you will see
and know without a shadow of a doubt that you have known your Father,
that you have walked with your Father and that you are now in the image
of your Father. For the world will come and they will look
upon you and they will know that a change has indeed taken place and it
will be extremely effective so that you can be effective and extreme
for use and benefit in the kingdom of your God. I will
not waste one moment of your life, not one thing that you have gone
through, not one thing that you have suffered but I will bring it about
to good says the Lord. And in the end you will truly wave a
banner of victory for you will know Me
as a God that keeps his word, as a Father that does not give up on His
children, as a Master that has a plan, and I will patiently wait on you
until that plan comes to pass, if you stay with me says the Lord. And
watch and see it is always for your good. Come and turn from all that
distracts your attention and wait on Me, it will be for your wholeness!

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (Jer.
29:11)

"I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope,I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning." (Ps. 130:5-6)

"Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you." (Ps. 9:10)

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

We are crying out for more of the glory of God! God has been speaking
to us, but we desire to hear Him more clearer. We want more! Awaken us from the place where circumstances have brought us to and revive us! "Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?" (Psalms 85:6) Revive
means a restoration to use, acceptance, activity, or vigor after a
period of obscurity or quiet. A time of renewing or an instance of
returning
to life and vitality. A renewal of commitment [to God]; to
resuscitate; to restore the effectiveness of and from discouragement,
faintness, and death. No
matter how long or short the time that we have served and loved our
God, there should be a desire to be revived. God spoke to us about an
inflection point and the change that was coming there. Inflection means a change or a variation of pitch; a modulation of the
voice in the loudness; a change from a monotone to a louder tone. I
know that our Father is requiring us to long for Him and cry out for
Him from a heart filled with passion and burning for Him. As we cry out
louder from a heart of longing we then bring ourselves to a place where
we are ripe for revival and an awakening. Whereby we create the
environment for the supernatural power of God! Here is a picture of the
heart of longing and a change in inflection for the love of
their life. "In
the night I dreamed that I sought the one whom I love. [She said] I
looked for him but could not find him. So I decided to go out into the
city, into the streets and broad ways [which are so confusing to a
country girl], and seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I
could not find him. The watchmen who
go about the city found me, to whom I said, Have you seen him whom my
soul loves? I had gone but a little way past them when I found him whom
my soul loves. I held him and would not let him go until I had brought
him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who conceived
me. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the
hinds of the field that you stir not up nor awaken love until it
pleases." (S.O.S. 3:1-5) This is where our hearts should be now, searching and seeking our Love. It is time
to awaken love. Awaken
is to arouse or it is to quicken; the act of awakening from sleep; a
revival of interest or attention, a recognition, realization, or coming
into awareness of something [God]. We
are at this critical place, the point of a new inflection, the need
for the Body of Christ to cry out aloud for more, to arouse ourselves
and become more vigorous towards God. He is bringing us out of the place
of obscurity to revive us. As we are revived, our joy in our salvation
will increase. It is time to awaken and be revived. "Besides
this you know what [a critical] hour this is, how it is high time now
for you to wake up out of your sleep (rouse to reality). For salvation
(final deliverance) is nearer to us now than when we first believed
(adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Christ, the Messiah). The night
is far gone and the day is almost here. Let us then
drop (fling away) the works and deeds of darkness and put on the [full] armor of light." (Rom. 13:11-12) Calling
all of true lovers of God to awaken and be revived to God. We must stir
up our love for Him, while letting all other "loves" of our lives that
occupy our time, energy, thoughts, and our love to fade away as our
desire for our Lord rises higher and higher. Do not allow these other
lovers to gain any more of your attention. Cry out loud for more!

Love,

Pastor D.