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/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

One of the Daughters of Z sent me this past blog post. She said that she was pondering or calmly thinking on this. I read it and felt led to re-post this portion. I believe that we need to be reminded that our Father is always up to something "good" on our behalf! What we see is an attempt of the enemy to throw us off track, to get us looking and focusing our attention on things, things that will eventually be turned for our good and our growing. We are God's children after all, and parents want their children to succeed. Our Father's plan is as big as He is.

November 15, 2011

Ears to Hear

Good morning,

Today I would like to share a continued dream that I had three days in a row. Three signifying the perfectly divine and heavenly number. Being representative of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit among many other things. In my dream I was looking out of a window and saw eight deer standing on a mountain in the snow. The first thing I noticed was that there were two stag deer with powerful antlers, three doe or female deer, and three fawn. The next night it was the same dream, but this time there were twelve trees that were burdened under the weight of snow but they did not break. The third night it was the same dream but this time there was a wind that begins to stir, but all of the deer remained standing immovable in spite of the wind. I needed the interpretation for the dream and this is what I received. Eight is from the root word to make fat; to super-abound, making it the super abundant number. The eight deer represent the super abundance for us in the year ahead. The number seven represents the seven days of creation, the seventh day then being the day of completion and rest, Eight coming after the seventh day was over and above this perfect completion and was indeed the first of a new series. Making eight the number specially associated with "resurrection" and "regeneration" and the beginning of a new era. Here are some scriptures that line up with the number eight being resurrection and starting a new era. 2 Peter 2:5; "And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly". 1 Peter 3:20 "[The souls of those] who long before in the days of Noah had been disobedient, when God's patience waited during the building of the ark in which a few [people], actually eight in number, were saved through water". Also we will see that circumcision was to be performed on the eighth day, because it was the foreshadowing of the true circumcision of the heart. This of course is connected with us being a new creation, or being born again. Genesis 17:12 "He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male throughout your generations, whether born in [your] house or bought with [your] money from any foreigner not of your offspring". Colossians 2:11 "In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but in a [spiritual] circumcision [performed by] Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh (the whole corrupt, carnal nature with its passions and lusts)". So here we understand that eight has the significance of beginning anew, regeneration and resurrection. There are approximately eight known resurrections recorded in the Bible, besides our Lord and the end-time saints. Three in the Old Testament (1 Kings 17:17-25; 2 Kings 4:32-37; 2 Kings 13:20-21), three in the New Testament that corresponds to the three in the old (Luke 7:11-18; Mark 5:35; John 11) and then there is one in Acts 9:36-41; and another in Acts 20:9-12. I will close with the definition of two words, and next time, we will talk about the twelve trees which also have significance since we are coming up to our calendar year of 2012. The words regeneration and resurrection, which is what the eight deer represented in my dream, which is also what we will experience afresh and anew in 2012 Regeneration means to be restored to a better, higher, or more worthy state. To redeem from error or decay. To reestablish on a new and better basis; to make a radical change for the better; to reform completely. Resurrection which means the act of rising from the dead; a rising again as from decay, disuse; a revival; restoration to use; an awakening to care [for what God is concerned with]. Great things are about to come to pass for all who have put their trust in God. It will be magnified in comparison to those who have not trusted and known God! Praise our God forever more!

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

The Spirit of the Lord says;

Embrace transition! You will come through stronger and wiser, believe Me. In the midst of the storm is when you actually develop your spiritual muscles and stamina. You learn how to stand irregardless of all that is going on around you. You will allow the roots to go down deep so that winds of troubles can't uproot you. After the storm is over you will see that the sun was shining even through the darkness, for I Am your light. You will see that all that you thought you could not live without, those things that have been blown away by the winds, were not essential to your living. In fact you will find that now you are more free than you could ever imagine. You will go places in Me that those things that bound you kept you from experiencing. So do not be afraid of this transition, it is for your good. I know that it is not what you thought, I know that it doesn't look like what you imagined, I know that it doesn't feel good, but I Am in the midst of the fire with you, I have not forsaken you. I will perform My Word concerning you, and this too shall pass. It will serve as a testimony to My goodness! Trust Me, I Am trustworthy, remember My faithfulness to you in times past, I change not. Say what I Am saying about this journey (through), I Am bringing you out to take you in to the good plan that I set up for you. Hear Me, I have ordered your steps and beyond the dark clouds there is much brighter days for a stronger and wiser you to complete the Kingdom. You are bigger than where you are now, so I Am correcting all that has been out of line and bringing all back into divine order at just the right time! Embrace your transition, it is working together for your good!

And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known. I will make darkness into light before them and make uneven places into a plain. These things I have determined to do [for them]; and I will not leave them forsaken. (Is. 42:16)

The Father keeps telling me to embrace transition. I have heard it from three different people speaking into My life, after the Lord spoke it to Me in My prayer time. If it is repeated by God, it is a revelation to meditate on. Selah, pause and calmly think on this.

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

God has been preparing us for something greater than we can perceive. "Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over andabove all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]" (Ephes. 3:20) Now we all have to know that our enemy is aware of the love and favor that God has toward us, and that being an enemy that he is not going to stand by on the sidelines while we waltz into our promise-land. No, he will fight us all the way throwing as many obstacles, bombs, and attacks on our lives as he can. I have been talking to many Christians that have been under attack, it has been upon their person, as well as to their faith. Many have been saying that it has been like waves, one problem after the other. Sounds like warfare to me, how about you? That's the job of the enemy, to try to kill, steal, and destroy. The Word of God has always led us by warning, directing, correccting, and instructing us concerning the times. We are to be like the tribe of Issachar that was anointed to know the times and the seasons. We should know that this is what it is suppose to look like right before the return of our Lord and Savior. We should not be taken aback or caught off guard by what we are seeing or hearing. "Beloved, do not be amazed and bewildered at the fiery ordeal which is taking place to test your quality, as though something strange (unusual and alien to you and your position) were befalling you. But insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that when His glory [full of radiance and splendor] is revealed, you may also rejoice with triumph [exultantly]". Test means trial, proving; the trial of man's fidelity, integrity, virtue, constancy; it also means adversity, affliction, and trouble allowed by God and serving to test or prove ones character, faith,and holiness. Quality means a peculiar and essential character or nature; a distinctive feature; a special or distinguishing attribute, stature, and caliber. Everything that we are going through is to see that our character measures up to God's, after all we are to imitate our Father. He is bringing us up all the time, to the place where we reign as kings in the Kingdom. We are to live our lives with a distinction and greater caliber than those who do not know God. The adverse circumstances are allowed to prove our carat and our caliber. So that we stand and not compromise our faith because of our feelings, or those of others, or because of afflictions, troubles, or adversities. Sufferings meansmisfortune, calamity, evil, affliction, enduring and ongoing; also the afflictions which Christians must undergo in behalf of the same cause which Christ patiently endured. Just like the devil tried to use the Word to attack Christ after His fasting for forty days, He does the same with us. He turns our faith, our belief, our Church, and uses them against us with a little Word mixed with a whole lot of lies and deception. It is after all the spirit of the antichrist that we are dealing with.

Remember the warning that we have and keep our eyes open and our spirit sensitive by washing ourselves with the Word. Hear Holy Spirit. "I know your record and what you are doing, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your recent works are more numerous and greater than your first ones. But I have this against you: that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess [claiming to be inspired], and who is teaching and leading astray my servants and beguiling them into practicing sexual vice and eating food sacrificed to idols." (Rev. 2:19-20) Jezebel references is in 2 Kings 16:3; 2 Kings 9:22, 30. This is a spirit that beguiles the people of God into complacency, confusion, and spiritual laziness. This spirit leads astray with teachings that lull Christians into serving idol gods, or gods of their own mind and making. We must stay alert, arise to the season that we are in and run with patient endurance. Listen: "Andwill not [our just] God defend and protect and avenge His elect (His chosen ones), who cry to Him day and night? Will He defer them and delay help on their behalf? I tell you, He will defend and protect and avenge them speedily. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find [persistence in] faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:7-8) God will defend, protect, and avenge those who are persistent in their faith, we can not and must not be averted by the distraction, obstacles, sufferings, and testings. We are kings of the Kingdom and victory belongs to us! We must keep our eyes on the prize and our minds on heavenly things. It's going to be worth it all.

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

The Spirit of the Lord says:

You have been in training for reigning in the coming days. I know that for many this has been a war on the mind as well as the areas of your body and relationships. You will arise from this time as one that is fully persuaded. You will not be easily moved or shaken. For the personal shaking that you have endured has made you stronger and you have learned how to depend and trust Me. You have leaned your entire personality upon Me.

Small foxes have creeped into My House sent to try and cripple My children. The attempt has been to hinder you with many obscure and unclear thoughts that he tried to embed in your mind and heart. His purpose is to hinder and rob you of your purpose and destiny; with confusion, discouragement, and distractions. I have given to you ministering angels to help you along the journey, to aid you in staying the course. Holy Spirit gently speaks to you My Word, this is why you must lean entirely on My Word. He will speak to you what you have allowed from My Word to be placed within your heart. That's why I have told you, to keep your heart pure. With the pure, I will come to purely. Keep your eyes on Me, I Am well aware of the hanging and looming oppressive spirit that is trying to move you off course. I know that the enemy waits for the wounded, the weary, the discouraged, the ones whose vision has become blurred and he uses them to assault the stronger ones as well. That is why I Am always sending you help from the Kingdom, I Am the Lord Warrior. I Am mighty in battle! My help is My mighty messengers, war-faring angels, that war on your behalf, so that you are not alone. Do not turn on one another by division and strife, do not be self-slaughtered, but draw strength from the stronger ones in My Kingdom that I send out ahead of you to march in the paths that I Am making clear to My leaders.

Hear Me and understand that I Am sending a great shift in what you perceive and know as My church. I Am shaking every House that bears My name and yet does not know My ways. I Am deep-cleaning those who are Mine to further bring out all that I have placed inside, in order to affect the land that I have given to them. Many have been under pressure and they have been pressed for this time, now they will arise with the fresh anointing on behalf of all that have allowed their light to grow dim. You are to stand and do not lay down the Sword that I have placed in your mouth. Speak the Word that I give to you and every evil spirit will begin to flee. I will be allowing you a time to be strengthened for what must come on the earth. It must come, in order to separate the wheat from the tare. It must come so that you may see what is in you, and oh, you will be astounded of the faith that is in you. Up until now not many have seen Me as their God that supplies all their needs. Many have never had to depend upon Me, for their ways were always sufficient for them. Now in families there will come forth My ordained Joshua's, Joseph's, and Moses'. Those who have My heart, My message, My plan, and will not deviate in order to build their own Kingdom. Those whose heart is after My own, those who have gone through the test in order to walk the path that I chose for them, a set apart path.

Know this, that I Am faithful to watch over and provide for My own. I Am the Lord and I change not. I will provide for you beyond your ability. I will carry you, beyond your comprehension. I will be to you, your God, the One Who is more than enough. I will bring your children from afar and those who have turned away I will turn their hearts back to you. I only need your full attention. I will be able to do much more if you agree with me. Do not fight against Me, do not waste any more time doubting or playing in the fields of flesh, for I Am bringing even this to work for your good. In learning more of Me, you will truly learn to trust Me with your life. Let go and let Me be your God. The God you have only heard about and have known very little of Who I really Am. But this is the day that many of My own will finally know Me. I will be Light to you in a time of darkness, Bread to you in place of hunger, water in a dry and weary land. I will be your All, and you will love Me more than you have ever loved before. It will look like the hardest time, but with Our eyes, We will see that it is like an oasis in a desert land, a warm light in a cold dark place. It is the prelude to Our great date of celebration. You will be carried in My arms and fully protected. I Am sending a fresh wind to revive all that I have given and I Am placing new revelation alongside the refreshed. I Am the Lord and I cannot lie.

I had heard of You [only] by the hearing of the ear, but now my [spiritual] eye sees You. (Job 42:5); With the kind and merciful You will show Yourself kind and merciful, with an upright man You will show Yourself upright, with the pure you will show Yourself pure,and with the perverse you will show Yourself contrary. For You deliver an afflicted and humble people but will bring down those with haughty looks. For You cause my lamp to be lighted and to shine; the Lord my God illumines my darkness. (Ps. 18:25-28)

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

From the time of our new birth God has been making our wilderness into the garden of Eden. He has been doing an extreme makeover in our lives. "For the Lord will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song or instrument of praise". (Is. 51:3) In the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve walked and talked with God in the cool of the day. They had an intimate relationship, that is what God desires from us in His garden of Eden within. We have the same choices as Adam and Eve did in the garden of Eden, we can serve God and pay no attention to the devil and our end will be entirely different. Allow God to be God and do His tending in us. Wilderness means uncultivated, pathless, or barren, confusing mass of something, confusion, or desert waste. Eden means pleasure and delight. God has been turning and will continue to turn our mass of confusion into a place of delight and pleasure. Our soul is God's garden that He is involved in restoring, He is working with us to bring about peace and beauty. "Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all." (Jer. 31:12) Watered garden means steeped in moisture, saturated, completely penetrated, a garden is an enclosure, "figuratively of a bride"' a cultivated area (prepared, loosened; breaking up of the hard ground for the purpose of killing weeds and modifying moisture retention.

God waters and weeds His garden (our soul) as we renew our mind with the Word of God. Ephesians 5:26; "So that He [Christ] might sanctify her [the Church], having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word." John refers to this as he talks about us producing much better fruit in the garden. "I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit. You are cleansed and pruned already, because of the word which I have given you [the teachings I have discussed with you]." (John 15:1-3) God is always cleaning and pruning in our garden in order to change the uncultivated area into a cultivated one. We are like a bride being prepared and ready for her King. Our Vinedresser is using everything in our life to prune and cut away the dead and unfruitful things that have grown in our lives. Pruning is to bring rejuvenation, it involves cutting back, deadheading and pinching. Cutting back is when older leaves start looking worn, you can cut it back to where there is fresh growth or all the way back. Sometimes you cut back when a plant grows too tall to support itself and encourage the plant to become more stockier; more blooms and stems. Deadheading is removing things that once bloomed but are now dead; removing the dead will cause new blooms. Every plant benefits from deadheading because the plants put their energy into strengthening itself. Pinching is done more often than deadheading, like every 2 to 3 weeks. It is done by using your fingers, it is not as forceful as the other methods, yet it also produces a more fuller plant. Sounds like pruning is all for our good to get us to produce better, fuller, stockier blooms, and to remove all dead things to make room for the new! Let's yield to the hands of the One Who tends our garden. It may hurt or be uncomfortable, but since we know He loves us, we can trust His pinching, deadheading, and cutting back is actions of love.

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

The Spirit of the Lord says:

You have stepped into another level, one that I have prepared you for, it has been years in the making, waiting for you to mature, to drop off and let go of all that would have kept you from fully performing and appreciating all that I Am doing now. The whole creation has patiently waited for this day, for My children to rise and take their place. Shake off of you the world and its way of thinking and its way of being, for the force of your Father cannot be contained in one place or in one person. I Am about to astound even those who have faithfully believed in Me, so expect the world to place a label on My encounters with you. It will not be correct what they perceive, for when this world can not understand, it labels the unknown as mystical or mysterious. Heaven touching earth is beyond words, but it will be done for the purpose of keeping My promise to generations before. I have made promises to your forefathers, now I will perform My Word to them. Your sons and your daughters I will bring to My House by a mighty move. You are a part of My Word being performed on the behalf of the prayers of the righteous. This I will do, because I Am faithful. But everyone has the choice once they encounter Me, to love Me faithfully or not, I will not force anyone to love Me. But for those whose hearts desire Me, there will be a new awareness of My nearness and My willingness to do them good. Many will say daily, "the Lord loves me and does me good." You will see My hand in your life everyday more powerfully, because your eyes are open to see, you have removed the blinders. Your hunger for My Word has opened you to walk in the heavenly realm. Now these things I speak of is for the few who choose to love and live for Me unbridled.

Listen, listen, and you will be able to lift your heads above all of the overwhelming tests that have come. You will see Me walk the way of deliverance and hear Me saying, "this is the way walk in it." Each guide-step will bring you to another answer, until your way is made clearer and your trust in Me is unhindered. Our relationship will become more intimate, until your dependency on Me will be complete, and We will be one. That has been My purpose, for us to be One. Then I can truly move within you and My power can be demonstrated by those whose mind and heart are Mine, not those building their own kingdom and trying to use Me to fulfill their own self-centered ways. No, this prepared people are marching in line and they are having all things in common. This will be the recognition line that their desires and Mine are the very same, when there can be no other plan but Mine. This is the bride of Christ, My people beautified by the oneness, that is the Father, the Son, and Holy Ghost. One purpose, those who are fully consecrated and dedicated to Me will find that they will walk in a deeper revelation and a higher anointing. For you have come through and the strategies of the wicked one did not keep you down, you allowed yourself to grow and now you will enjoy the unity of Oneness.

His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body (the church), [That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the [full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ’s own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him.So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead.

Rather, let our lives lovingly express truth [in all things, speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly]. Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way andin all things into Him Who is the Head, [even] Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed ). (Ephes. 4:13-15)

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

We must be very discerning in the days that we are in, and our ability to discern everything in our lives, must be based upon the understanding of the Word of God. The enemy is throwing out all kinds of propaganda against the family of God. So, we must make everything line up with the Word, or we may end up following the lead of the enemy. Quite often when we are trying to appease the flesh we end up following the guide of the wicked one and not the Holy One. Propaganda means a group or movement that is organized to spread a particular system of ideas or principles; spreading ideas or rumors for the purpose of injuring a cause (Christianity) or a person; rumors spread for the purpose of damaging another person. Along with offenses, the devil's desire is to bring about division, confusion, and unrest. With all that going on in a person's life and mind, it will be difficult for them to hear the, "still small voice" of the Holy Spirit. We know that we are to be led by peace, but we are usually trying to get peace at any cost, and therefore we end up doing all manner of things that God hasn't sanctioned. We are supposed to "war" with the Word in order to enjoy this peace of God! Phil. 4:6-7; Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God. And God's peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hears and minds in Christ Jesus.

We can not afford to have a false peace, in order just to get along. Jesus spoke truth and it separated many people because their belief system was wrong. The Word says this; "Casting all your care upon Him for He careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour; whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world." (1 Peter 5:7-8) The accuser is one that is a plaintiff, one that bring a a charge or an offense against another. The Word says that the accuser of the brethren is the devil (Rev. 12:10). The Word further says about the devil who accuses us before God day and night is a liar. " …He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." (John 8:44) We must make sure we are led by truth and walk in truth in the whole of our lives. We are those who live the Word, not those who just go to church. We are living epistles read of men, our lives should be the signpost of our God. We should be able to say, "when you've seen me, you've seen the Father." We are Christ-like. We only follow the Shepherd. We will not be led by propaganda, only the Word; "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them and they follow Me. And a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers." (John 10: 27 & 5)

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

My precious treasure and My dearly beloved, all that have been redeemed by My blood. Listen intently to My Words, for often I speak and you do not perceive or understand, because you have too many thoughts that take priority over My Words. I have said to you in My Word that in the last days that judgment will begin in My house and when it does begin in My house, what will be the end of those who do not respect, believe, or obey My Word? Judgment has begun and My children do not see it, they perceive it as a lethargic mind and heart but I said to you that I would separate the wheat from the chaff and those that are sheep from the goat. The day of falling away has started and My people are not even aware of it, keep your eyes in My Word and you will know what is taking place. Those who were not rooted in Me, but desired to be a part of some worldly thing have become fainthearted! Keep yourself rooted in My Word, not in your feelings. My Word must be your road-map and your guide; for your senses are often led by the pack and the natural. You must be stable in heart and mind and not be shaken, these things must take place in order for your King to return and the time of the lawless one to be revealed. I have told you these things that you may know and understand the season and the times and not fall away or give in to the pressure of the day. So, stand that you may be counted worthy and that you may fulfill all My good pleasure in this season.

Do not walk around in darkness, for you are children of the light, I have revealed to you My plan and My way. My Word, it is the light that you must turn up to the highest power now to guide you through the storms of life, for if you lean on your own understanding you will be led astray, just like the many. These are the perilous times that I have warned you about so be quick to see it in My Word. When you see things, remember My Word, it is written for your guide and directions to navigate you to the place of My promise. Continue in the things that you have been taught, for evil is waxing strong, but My grace is sufficient to see you all the way through. Keep your eyes on Me and I will lead you to the promise and you will be found in the Kingdom.

For the time [has arrived] for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will [be] the end of those who do not respect or believe or obey the good news (the Gospel) of God? And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the godless and wicked? Therefore, those who are ill-treated and suffer in accordance with God's will must do right and commit their souls [in charge as a deposit] to the One Who created [them] and will never fail [them]. (1 Peter 4:17-19)

BUT UNDERSTAND this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear]. For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane. [They will be] without natural [human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good. [They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God. For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them]. (2 Tim. 3:1-5) Also read 2 Peter chapter 2.

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

"Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord." (Ps. 27:14) Every Christian has had to, or will have to wait on God for most of the promises given to be fulfilled in their lives. It is a challenge to wait. I know that the majority of us really don't get to see God's hands move on our behalf, because we can't wait on Him. Wait means to look for, hope, and expect, while we linger in readiness. Though some of us have been placed in a position where we couldn't bail ourselves out, borrow, scheme, ask, or get others to help us. In moments where there is no earthly solution or help, [where we face the Red Sea in front of us and the enemy armies behind, where we are hemmed in], when God is our only hope, this is when we are tested and get a chance to see God be God, if we don't faint or lose hope. I know that does not sound like an invitation that most of will accept, so quite often that is where we end up without our vote. I have been there more times than I care to talk about, sometimes I have failed in my testing and usually similar opportunities were allowed again! God wants us to learn to trust Him and also to learn to be brave and of good courage. Brave means possessing or exhibiting courage; to strengthen, prevail, harden, be strong, become strong, be courageous, be firm, grow firm, be resolute. Resolute is firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion, characterized by firmness and determination, as to the temper, spirit, actions, etc. Staying the same with God in our attitude and our actions is important as we wait. We must continue to praise, worship, serve, and not stay angry, bitter, or lose our faith and hope. The King James Version says that as we wait God will strengthen our heart. "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD." We receive strength from God for our heart, so God will cause us to become assured, He will make us firm, persistent and confirmed. Our hearts will become hardened to difficulties. The inner man, the mind and our will, our understanding, our hearts will be strengthened, God will do that as we wait on Him.
We must have the attitude of Job as he went through and had to have a resolve to wait on God. "If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare and service I will wait, till my change and release shall come." (Job 14:14) Our change will come. Change means replacement, relief, release, and varying course of life. We are all waiting for our course of life to be released, that is part of our promise that we believe to see come to pass in our lives. God our defense, is giving us strength to keep hoping and expecting in Him and His Word to us. Let's keep in our minds, Romans 8:25; "But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently." The sooner we learn to wait on God, the firmer and more resolute we will be and then we will receive our relief and our release!

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

The Spirit of the Lord says,

Great illuminations will come to all who have been crying to Me to see more clearly. You will be made aware of the great depth of My love and the power you wield as you walk in it. My love is not a "touchy feely" thing, it is all that I move in. My love creates, fulfills, carries, and upholds all. This day that you woke up in was because of My love for all. A new day for My great new way to be paved and sealed for you. Walk in the new light that you have now. Even as others seem to be diving deeper into the darkness of this world, for the wisdom that this world thought most precious has left them empty and confused. All that they have treasured and highly esteemed has fallen from its height and disillusioned them. Many have placed their trust in their own wisdom and now that has failed or is rapidly declining. Still many wander from place to place, warring in their soul, tormented by the deep darkness from within.

You, My own previous enlightened ones must not be afraid to speak life and truth into their lives. My Word will dispel the darkness of mind and heart, for all that desire to be free. I will not force deliverance. Your lighted path and illumined thinking will be a life preserver to those who are drowning and to those who are weary from trying to stay afloat by their own strength. But be aware that for those who love their darkness, you will be scorned and lightly esteemed. Yet I will see to it that you will never be ashamed as you keep walking in the light, it will get brighter and brighter until you outshine the confines of this world. Your righteousness will be much more than this world can endure. Your glory and beauty will be just right for the Kingdom. So understand that this is the beginning of the end, just as John was sent to a generation that was in the same spiritual condition as this one, he was to go before the Lord and announce His arrival. You have been prepared for this time to be like John, to herald the arrival once again. Prepare the way! For all whose hearts hunger and thirst for more of Me, they will be filled. Those who are filthy and live for their own sensual pleasures, they will become more hardened. I have said to you that there will be a great separation, the great divide is here. Live wholly for Me and you will move over into the arena where illumination will cause you to walk in a greater dimension of authority and power. Signs and wonders and demonstrations of the Holy Spirit will follow you, my enlightened ones.

"And He will make your uprightness and right standing with God go forth as the light, and your justice and right as [the shining sun of] the noonday." (Ps. 37:6) "[For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him, By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones), And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength, Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places], Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come." (Ephes. 1:17-21)

Love,

Pastor D.