Category: Daily Word

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

    Do you remember when you first got your new car, new house, new
toys, new outfit, new pair of shoes?  Do you remember the first time you
met your mate for life?  How about the first time you met the Lover of
your soul?  Oh, the excitement, the care and attention that you gave to
those first new loves!  Now can I ask you, do you even know where those
shoes are that you couldn't do without?  Do you wash and shine that car
like you did the first few weeks?  How about the upkeep, how old is the
oil, or is it empty?  How about your house, is there things that are broken
and in need of repair that you keep promising to get to?  Does your
front yard look like no one lives there?  That outfit,is it balled up
in the corner of your closet?  How much dust is on that 60 inch flat
screen T.V.?  That mate that you thought was the only one for you, when
was the last time you had a romantic evening of gazing into each others eyes? When was the last time
you did something to let them know that they are still the most important person in your life?
    I said all that to bring us to the number one, most important One in our lives.  Do you still give God the undivided attention
that you once gave Him?  Do you wake up in the morning and run to be in
His arms as you did in the beginning?  Do you wait with anticipation,
for those sweet Words of love
that He whispers to your heart alone?  Do you still look into His eyes
while everything else fades into the shadows?  Is He the only One who
can make you truly happy?  Are you longing to be with Him always
and forever?  There are so many distractions of life that cries out for
our attention.  Many of them are viable, like our family, our loved
ones, our jobs, our ministries, etc.  None of this should occupy the
first place in our lives, even though for most of us these very viable
things take precedent.  While our relationship with the Father gets
pushed back into our 'spare time slot'.  Our hearts and our minds will
make place for that which we long for and desire.  We can make our flesh
get in line for anything that we really want.  If you need to get up and
catch a flight to go on your vacation you can program your mind and
flesh to line up with your heart.  You will not miss that flight, even
if it is 2:30 in the morning, right?  You will get to that gate in time! 
Yet we should be waiting at the gates of our God, first place.  "Joyful are those who listen to Me, watching for Me daily at My gates, waiting for Me outside My home" (Proverbs 8:35)
    Longing means to seek greedily; to run to
and fro to have; have appetite for; to pine for or to languish with
desire; yearn intensely for; to be desperate for; have a strong craving
for; to give diligent search for; to hunger and thirst for with ones whole heart.  Does this define your relationship with God right now?  Listen to these verses and see if you identify wholeheartedly with them.  Psalms 63:1; "O God, You are my God; At dawn, I earnestly search for You.  My soul [mind, will and emotions] thirsts for You; my whole body longs for You…"  "My soul yearns, yes, even pines and is homesick for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God." (Psalms 84:2)  God is waiting to have a bride who can no longer stand to be separated
from Him.  A bride who desires Him more than silver or gold.  One who is
languishing within, to behold Him.  Father is saying to let our dream
become reality!  "In the night I dreamed that I sought the One whom I love. I sought Him, but I found Him not."(Song Of Solomon)
    Are you keeping your love red hot and on
fire for Him?  Are you longing, greedily seeking, running to and
fro, pining and yearning with desire, desperately craving and yearning,
hungry and thirsty for Him now?  Can you sense Him deep inside causing
your bowels to turn with such longing to go to Him?  Where nothing else
can quite satisfy you. I hear His voice saying,

    "Rise
up, my love, my fair one and come away.  I desire you, and only you.  Come and linger in the sheltered secret place and be enamored always
with My love for you.  I will lavish you with all that I have kept for
you, overflowing goodness, My heart's treasure is to fill you with
wholeness and soundness.  Stay in the place of readiness and
preparation.  I am coming soon to take you away.  Be ready against that
day.  We are yearning for you to behold all that we have prepared for
you.  To take delight in your delight.  Do not let or allow the
activities of life to side track from your journey back home.  Home with
me is where you belong.  Your assignments on earth are almost completed
and over.  I need your affection and attention to be single-minded.  I
sense your desire is towards Me.  You are coming into your place of
being a mature bride.  Ready to do the greater works that will give Me
all glory.  The finishing touches are being applied.  This will be our
grandest hour.  The light will shine brighter in the darkest days
ahead.  What was once a small light shall now outshine all eras.  We are
taking in the greatest haul, my love.  Together in My name it will be
accomplished.  The greatest power is released from love.  Our love for
one another will accomplish these great works in the days ahead.  While
the world quakes in fear and in darkness, you will arise in love and light.  Go forth my love and let us finish what I started.  Stay sensitive to My voice,
for I am giving you instructions that will put you over the top, both spiritually and naturally.  So follow Me and stay true to My Word.  Forever, we will be together loving and enjoying each other!"

 
Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

    As we expectantly, patiently and actively wait during our
transitioning, we must keep our mind stayed on the fact that this is
the year of completion and ending of issues.  There will be certain 'issues' that you will never see again, as you come into your
'promised' land.  We talked about waiting expectantly, now let's discuss 'quietly waiting.'  Lamentations
3:25-26; "The Lord is good to them that wait for Him.  It is good that a
man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation
[deliverance; victory; aid; prosperity; health; help; welfare and something saved] of the Lord."  Quietly means to be at a place of rest; to cease from toiling; it means to become tranquil or to be at peace within; to be free from disturbance or tumult on the inside; refraining from busyness.
    This waiting quietly means for us to quit trying to 'make it happen' on your own ability and allow God to work on your behalf.  It is explained simply in Hebrews 4:9-11; "So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God.  For all who have entered into God's rest have rested from 'their own labors', just as God did after creating the world.  So let us do our best to enter that rest…." The labor we should do is to be diligent in the Word, to hear and do the Word.
    I know that you are thinking, how do I accomplish this?  If you will read further, our answer is there.  "This
High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for He faced all of the
same testings we do, yet He did not sin.  So let us come boldly to the
throne of grace.  There we will receive His mercy, and we will find
grace to help us when we need it most." (Hebrews 4:15-16) 
His ability that covers our inability, His grace is there to help us to
wait quietly, expectantly and patiently for our promises.  Psalm
25:5; "Guide me in Your truth and faithfulness and teach me, for you
are the God of my salvation, for You [You only and altogether] do I
wait expectantly, all the day long.  Now we are not the only one waiting expectantly, also God is waiting on us.  Listen to this; Isaiah 30:18;  And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits (expecting, looking and longing
) to be gracious to you [to bend in kindness]; and therefore He lifts
Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to
you.  For the Lord is a God of justice.  Did you hear that?  God is waiting, expecting, looking and longing to be good to us and
show us His goodness.  I say, here I am Daddy God!!  Let's finish the rest of the verse…."Blessed, (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who earnestly wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him. (for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy and His matchless, unbroken companionship) I
wait expecting, looking and longing for God, and I will have and enjoy
His victory, favor, His love and peace and stay in His matchless,
unbroken companionship, how about you?
 
Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,
   
    Today, I have a very novel Idea to write about.  I
know that all of us are going through some kind of transition. 
Transition can be difficult and rewarding as well, if we keep the right
thought processes.  God is sovereign and omniscient-all knowing.  He does
know things that we could never perceive, and we must trust Him to
bring it to pass.  Having said all that, here is the novel
idea, why don't we just simply love God.  You know He is worthy of our
love, just because He is a good God.  What if He never did anything
else, wouldn't He still be deserving of your love? [ just thinking out
loud]
    Listen to Job, as he was transitioning from the place of tests, trials and tribulations that had multiplied in his life.  Job
10:1-5; "I am disgusted with my life.  Let me complain freely.  My
bitter soul must complain.  I will say to God, "Don't simply condemn me-
tell me the charge you are bringing against me.  What do you gain by
oppressing me?  Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands, while
smiling on the schemes of the wicked?   Are your eyes like those of a
human?  Do you see things only as people see them?  Is your lifetime only
as long as ours?"  Here we see human reasoning, not seeing beyond
our present day testing, trials and tribulations.  Have you ever heard
similar words flow from your own holy lips?  Yet God had great
confidence in Job's righteous living, God, Who is a God of faith.  We
know the previous conversations between the enemy and the Lord, on
behalf of Job.  Job 1:6-12; "One day the members
of the heavenly court came to present themselves before the Lord, and
the accuser, Satan, came with them.  "Where have you come from?" the
Lord asked Satan.  Satan answered the Lord, "I have been patrolling the
earth, watching everything that's going on.  "Then the Lord asked Satan,
"Have you noticed my servant Job?  He is the finest man in all the earth.  He is blameless- a man of complete integrity.  He fears God and stays away from evil.  "Satan replied to the Lord, "Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God. 
You have always put a wall of protection around him and his home and
his property.  You have made him prosper in everything he does.  Look how rich he is! But reach out and take everything he has, and he will surely curse
you to your face!"  "All right you may test him,"the Lord said to
Satan.  "Do whatever you want with everything he possesses, but don't
harm him physically."  So Satan left the Lord's presence."  Can God say of you the same that He said of Job, the finest man in all
the earth, blameless and a man of complete integrity and one who stays
away from evil and fears God.  As Job went through his transitioning, he
complained to God, tried to reason out why he was going through it,
felt rejected, hurt, misunderstood and every imaginable emotion.  God
knew the heart of Job, even through this.  God searches the heart and examines and tries the mind [secret motives]; (Jeremiah 17:10)  He
saw the heart of Job and knew that Job's trust was in Him.  Now, I'm not
giving you liberty to complain against God because you are going
through an uncomfortable transition.  All I am saying that if you really
love God, then there is nothing that will separate you from His love. 
Love Him, the same way you have done when you were on top!  Don't allow
things or even difficult people to sway your love life with God.  Romans 8:35&37  "Can anything ever separate us from the love of Christ? 
Does it mean He no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or
are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened
with death?…… No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is
ours through Christ, who loved us."
    We have so much that we can place in our
arsenal of weapons to fight Satan, and keep our eyes on God.  There is
no way that we can know exactly how and when God is going to deliver
us, but always know that He will.  All of our questioning will be
answered the same way that God answered Job, listen…
"Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind: "Who is this that
questions my wisdom with such ignorant words?  Brace yourself like a man
because I have some questions for you, and you must answer them.  "Where
were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?  Tell me, if you know
so much.  Who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying
line?  What supports its foundations, and who laid its cornerstone as
the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?" (Job 38:1-7)
    God went on asking Job questions to which he
had no answer, yet God knows all things.  It is from this humble place
of being man, where our knowledge is limited that we must learn to trust God,
Who is limitless in knowledge, power and His presence.  This is where
our simple faith must trust that God knows how to get us through our
transition safely.  Listen again to Job's reply in the end of his
transition….."Then Job replied to the
Lord: "I know that you can do anything, and no one can stop you.  You
asked, 'Who is this that questions My wisdom with such ignorance?'  It
is I- and I was talking about things that I knew nothing about, things far to wonderful for me." (Job 42:1-3)  Job repented.
    I will not try and minimize your place of
transition, but I will say what God says, for this is part of a walk of
faith.  We can not always see everything right before us, for then we
wouldn't need faith.  We would know already.  There is something that we
know, and that is that God is the same, yesterday, today and forever,
He changes not.  "For our present troubles
are small and won't last very long.  Yet they produce for us a glory
that vastly outweighs them and will last forever."(II Corin.4:17)
    You know how the book of Job's transition ends, its good right! 
"When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes.  In
fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before!"(Job 42:10)  That's
the kind of ending He has planned for you.  So, just keep loving God for
He is good all the time, even the times you can't see!  No matter how
small or how great the troubles, the Lord will deliver you out of them
all!
 
Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,
 
    Isaiah 50:10-11; "Who is among you who [reverently] fears the Lord, who obeys the voice of His Servant, yet who walks in darkness and deep trouble and has no shining splendor [in his heart]? Let him rely on, trust in, and be confident in the name of the Lord, and let him lean upon and be supported by his God.  Behold, all you [enemies of your own selves] who attempt to kindle your own fires [and work out your own plans of salvation], who surround and gird yourselves with momentary sparks, darts, and firebrands that you set aflame! —–WALK BY THE LIGHT OF YOUR SELF-MADE FIRE AND OF THE SPARKS THAT YOU HAVE KINDLED [for yourself, if you will]! But this shall you have of My hand, you shall lie down in grief and in torment."
    As we trust the Lord and lean on Him, we must remain on the path that He has planned for us and not try to create our own plan of deliverance. You see when we try to work our own plan we end up being our own worst enemy.  Anything that we could produce would be momentary and not lasting, and bring more grief and sorrow in our lives.  Creating more troubles than we could imagine.  When the pressures of life squeezes us, we must learn how to wait with expectation and maintain our joy.  God is always working on our behalf.  He will deliver those who trust and depend on Him.  His plans for you will succeed.  Have you ever tried to light your own fire and lead yourself out into the light?  I have, and every time, I ended up having to eventually learn to wait on God to clean up my double-sized mess, and give me night vision glasses to see through the darkness I created.  You know what I mean!  Quite often we can see ourselves being portrayed through the pages of the Word of God, for human nature hasn't changed much (unless, we learn to yield and trust), and even those times that people trusted in God thoroughly, have been penned in the Word for our benefit too.
    Isaiah 40:25-26; – "To whom will you compare Me?  Who is My equal? asked the Holy One.  Look up into the heavens.  Who created all the stars?  He brings them out like an army, one after the another, calling each by its name.  Because of His great power and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing."  Now, I have not created any stars of late, and this is the God, who desires to light my fires, plan my life, and rescue me.  I know that I haven't found any equal with skin on, have you?  I believe I will allow Him to show me the way and deliver me from all my troubles.  Verses 27-31 (Isaiah 40) – "O Jacob {put you own name here}, how can you say that the Lord does not see your troubles?  O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?  Have you never heard?   Have you ever understood? The Lord is the Everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth.  He never grows weary.  No one can measure the depths of His understanding.  He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless.  Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fail in exhaustion."  Now, think on that, if you are tired as you are standing to see your deliverance, God has promised to give you strength.  You may be saying.  I am weak, and I can't do this.  God's reply to you is, everyone may get tired, even the youngest and the strongest (whether in faith, age or physically).  He is constantly renewing our strength, that is called His grace.  His ability to cover our inabilities, that is simply His grace.  But listen to the requirement for this supernatural ability of grace being placed on our natural inabilities.  "But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for,and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not faint or become tired."
    As we learn through our troubles, tests, and trials, to yield to God's grace and trust His light to lead us out, we shall be changed and renewed in our strength and power.  Shall means will have; must and will be able; can; it is used to express what is inevitable or what seems to be fated or decreed to happen in the future.  As we trust and wait on God, it is inevitable, and it is decreed to happen for us.  We will increase in power and strength and we will succeed.  The requirement is for us to wait on Him.  Wait means to expect, look for, and hope in God; it also means to bind together by twisting; to collect, gather together; to patiently tarry.  A vital part of our waiting is the attitude behind the waiting.  Are you expecting and looking for your change, as you wait?  Are you patiently tarrying, which means with joy and peace in your heart.  Knowing that the God of creation who knows all of the stars by name, has got you covered, with His amazing grace, His very own ability is given to you, in the waiting.  So, go ahead and lean on Him, He will not get tired or weary of you trusting Him.  Oh yes and by the way, as you wait are you twisting, binding and collecting together all of these truths that concern you.  That you are never alone, and that God is your Deliverer, your Provider, your Shade of protection from the heat, your very own Refuge, your Stronghold, your Way, and the Lover of your soul. Who could ask for anything more?  Haven't you heard, have you not known, that the Lord never grows weary?
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,


    At the beginning of this year, the Lord spoke to us concerning
the number, '3'.  Here are some simple facts about three.  Three lines
are necessary to form a plane figure; and three dimensions
of length, breadth, and height, are necessary to form a solid.  Three is
the symbol of the cube, or solid contents.  Three, therefore, stands for
that which is solid, real, substantial, complete, and entire.  All
things that are specially complete are stamped with the letter three. 
God's attributes are three: omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence.  There are three great divisions of time——-past, present, and
future.  Three kingdoms embrace our ideas of matter—mineral,
vegetable, and animal.  Three, denotes in the scriptures divine
perfection.  Three represents the Godhead trinity: God the Father; God the Son; God the Holy Spirit.  The first time the number three is seen in the Word is in Gen.1:13; "And the evening
and the morning was the third day."  Look
back at verses 9-12.  The earth was caused to rise up out of the water
and the earth began to produce.  This was a divine resurrection
power.  It was divine perfection.  Now, let's look at this number
concerning our Lord; it was on the third day that Jesus was perfected [resurrected].  It was at the third hour that He was crucified; and it was three hours
(from the 6th to the 9th) that He suffered.  We could go on about the
power of this number, but let's place our attention on what it stands
for, it is: solid, real, substantial, complete and entire.
   
    Now is the time for us to place our focus on these things; Solid means, having sound judgment or knowledge; serious-minded, thoroughly grounded; reliable.  I Col. 1:23; "If you continue in the faith grounded and settled,
and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have
heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under
heaven…"  Real means, authentic, genuine, not merely apparent, actual, free from pretense or affectation, sincere.  Romans 12:9; "Let your love be sincere (a real thing); hate what is evil [loathe all ungodliness, turn in horror from wickedness], but hold fast to that which is good."  Substantial is to be, sturdy; firm; unshakable.
I Corin. 15:58; "So, my dear brothers and sisters, be firm
(steadfast), immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord
[ always being superior, excelling, doing more than enough in the service of the Lord, knowing and being continually aware that your labor in the Lord is not futile [is never wasted or to no purpose]."  Complete–not lacking anything necessary, to bring to an end or to its final intended condition, perfect, conclude. Phil. 1:6; "And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He who began
a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right
up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you."  Entire–whole, undiminished,
unimpaired, blameless, no part lacking, unblemished.  James
1:3-4; "Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your
faith brings out endurance and steadfastness and patience.  But let
endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a
thorough work, so that you may be people perfect and entire and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing." 
Ephesians 5:27; "That He might present the church to Himself in
glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things; that she
might be holy and without blemish."

    What our Father is doing right now is getting His church prepared against the third day.  Just as our Lord was resurrected on the third day and the earth was resurrected from the waters on the third day, it is indicative of our Father that He is preparing us for our resurrection day.  He is causing us (as we yield to Him) to become solid in our faith, real in our love walk, substantial in our work for the Lord, complete in who we are in Him, and entire in our God-like character, all blemishes being removed.  I am reminded of Hosea
6:1&2; "Come and let us return to the Lord, for He has torn so
that He may heal us; He has stricken so that He may bind us up.  After
two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise
[resurrect ] us up so that we may live before Him."
 


Love,


Pastor D.  

 
 

Ears to Hear (Part 44)

Good Morning,

    The Hebrew month of Adar is here, also known to us as March.  Both are significant for us to pay attention to.  The Hebrews associate this month in the sense of the 'power to walk', meaning to move and accelerate in our service of God.  They also receive the Jewish Law, whose name is derived from the word which means walking, 'halicha'.  It also denotes the month of vision.  In Adar everybody saw the revelation on Mount Sinai, the giving of the Torah to Moses.  Vision is something seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight; an imagery supernatural or prophetic sight; something beheld in revelatory dream, trance.  The act or power of seeing and or perceiving.  This season overlaps with the times of the month of February which denotes healing, purging and refining.  The Spirit of God is still doing the work of refining, purging and healing, while causing our vision to be purged and refined.  At the same time healing the steps (those that have been crooked or perverted) that we are taking towards the vision in the service of God.  The month of March, for the English calendar represents the times of winds, also on the Hebrew calendar it is when they celebrate the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost).  Acts 2:1-2; And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting….verse 4 says, "and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.."  The winds represent the breath of God.  Winds here mean breath, or a sensible or even violent exhalation of life.  It can be seen clearly by the demonstration in Ezekiel, where wind and breath are synonyms.  Ezekiel 37:4-10; Again He said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.  Thus says the Lord God to these bones; Behold I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.  Verse 7; So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone….Verse 9; Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind (breath), prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind (breath), Thus says the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.  So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them and they lived…

    This month ahead, the breath or wind of God is breathing in and upon us as in days gone by to refresh us for the journey of walking out the vision of God.  He will enable us for the journey, to take the steps necessary to fulfill His purpose.  Whatever God has been speaking consistently to you over and over again, now is the time to allow the winds to take you there.  Those dreams, visions, plans and goals that have been birthed through prayer, the wind or breath of God will push you along to the end of this course.  
    The Spirit says: "Do not be afraid to take the steps.  Walking means to have the ability to move to the directed course.  Move now, towards the vision.  Do not halt between two opinions.  I will accelerate, I will breathe a fresh breath of life into the plans that I have made for you.  Everything that establishes the Kingdom, will take priority.  As you are busy doing Kingdom business I will in turn take care of all of your affairs, everything that concerns you.  We will affect every area and walk of living, so that no one is missed or untouched by those who are walking in the vision that I have planned for them.  All of Me will blow through this world, for I Am in all of you.  For wherever I send you, there I Am also.  More of Me will be seen, for My people are dying to themselves, so that I may live through them.  My life being expressed through My people, My plans, My dreams, My vision being fulfilled through My people.  Take those steps towards the destiny that I breathed into you.  Don't be afraid, for it is My breath, the wind of the Spirit that you will feel blowing you onto course.  Simultaneously the same wind will be blowing the refuse off of the course, so that you will not stumble over it anymore.  Listen to Me, for the Spirit and the Word gives light.  Light brings understanding.  Yield to My Spirit and My Word.  Both, together are life-giving.  When you sense the push along the course that I have chosen, it will be by My breathe and My wind.  Together we will bring a new day."
    This month, you must remember to prophesy-to speak by inspiration.  Inspire yourself to speak that you will walk out the God given vision, blown by the wind of the Spirit. "He who walks uprightly, walks securely..Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved…whoever walks wisely shall be delivered. (Proverbs 10:9;28:18 & 26) "So we walk on, securely, saved and delivered!
 
Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear (Part 42)

Good Morning,

    Ephesians 5:8-9: "Once you were full of darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light [lead the lives of those native-born to the Light]. 
For the fruit [or product] of this Light within you is only what is
good and true.  And try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proof of what is most acceptable to Him].  Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead [let your lives be so in contrast as to] expose and reprove and convict them.
    We are children of the light, if we continue to do the good deeds of the Word.  Matt.5:14-16: "You are the light of the world.  A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.  No one lights a lamp and puts it
under a basket.  Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives
light to all in the house.  In the same way, let your good deeds shine
out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father.  We must lead lives that expose and reprove dark ways of living.  We do
that by doing right.  We have the ability to walk in obedience to the
Word and turn up the Light.  Light-we look at
everything around us using light.  Paintings, sunsets, blue skies,
shooting stars, beautiful things; when we are looking at these things
we are in fact seeing light.  Light is all our eyes can really see. 
Three primary properties of light are: intensity; frequency; and polarization.  Our intensity, as light should be to be extremely passionate in energy and in quality
in living our lives for God.  Turning it up to the highest degree.  Our frequency should be regularly, systematic, persistently and habitually doing the Word of God, no matter what the world is doing and saying around you.  Polarized as the light in the sense that we are extreme opposites in our nature, tendency and in action to those who are living in darkness.
    Just think, we really do have the ability to affect our
environment [at least the one we live in daily], by just doing what
light does, and shine.  "But when anything is exposed and
reproved by the light, it is made visible and clear; and where
everything is visible and clear there is light." (Ephes. 5:13)  Now, we are in the place of Isaiah
60:2; "For behold darkness shall cover the earth and dense darkness
(all) peoples, but the Lord shall arise upon you, and His glory shall
be seen upon you."  Isaiah 60:1; tells us to, "Arise, shine, for your
light is come, and nations shall come to your light, and kings to the
brightness of your rising". (Is. 60:3)
    The true bride, the true church is arising and shining.  We are
getting up, raising ourselves up, setting up, standing up, stirring
ourselves up, strengthening and establishing ourselves, so that we do
the works of the Light.  As we stay intense, frequent and
polarized, this Light will cause us to succeed, confirm, accomplish and
continue to live in the glory, while exposing and reproving darkness. 
As our Bridegroom tarries, the wise virgins keeps their lamps filled with oil, so that we can shine on!! (Matt. 25:1-13)
 
Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear (Part 41)

Good Morning,
 
The Spirit of the Lord says;

    Let the winds of adversity blow and the
storms of change rage against My trees that I have planted.  They may
bow at the fierce gust of the winds, but they will not break.  They, who
are Mine have allowed Me to plant them near the river.  Their roots go
down deep, so deep that nothing can penetrate to their depth.  They sway
with the force of the storm, but they are easily up-righted.  For they
are rooted in My Word and they have stood the test of time.  They are
the great oaks and evergreens in My garden.  When the heat of trials,
tests and adversities come, they have found their shade of protection
in My Word.  These oaks and evergreens have been fruitful to all in My
garden.  Others take delight in their shade and in the sweet smell that
comes from their leaves of life.  The foxes and all the enemies of My
garden are shocked by the incredible stamina of these great and
powerful trees.  They have learned how to use all the difficulties and
adversities as fodder for their continued growth.  My trees remain
connected to Me, their source, I have received much glory from their
obedient and yielded life. 
In the days that are coming upon the face of this earth, it will be My
trees that will stand for Me and for righteousness and not be moved by
what moves the world.  Their trust is in Me and My faithfulness to them
and in keeping My promises.  Because they are deeply rooted in Me, they
will rise with wisdom and insight for the days ahead, many of them will
be like Joseph and Daniel. 
In times of difficulties, times of oppression, times of uncertainty and
in challenging times, Joseph and Daniel received heavenly wisdom,
knowledge, insight and revelation for their families as well as for
their nations.  I am giving to My trees of righteousness that same
ability.  One will receive a piece of the puzzle, another will receive
their piece and still another their piece.  My true people will come
together and they will excel at this time as they learn how to be One,
as I Am One with the Son and Precious Spirit.  We are whole together.  So
shall My people come, each with his piece to make a whole.  Stamping out
their childish ways, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and a list of fleshly
devices of separation.  One as I long for you to be.
    Listen My trees for I Am revealing to you
the way to go through the midst of these times of tribulation and
testing without anything hurting or harming you.  If you want in, come
and let Me plant you and prune you by My river that you too may be an
oak or an evergreen in My eternal garden.
   
    Jeremiah
17:5-8; "This is what the Lord says; Cursed are those who put their
trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts
away from the Lord.  They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no
hope for the future.  They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salted land.  But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the lord their hope and confidence.  They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water.  Such trees are not bothered by heat or worried by long months of drought.  Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit."  John 15:1-4; "I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.  He cuts off every branch of mines that doesn't produce fruit, and He prunes the branches that do bear
fruit so they will produce even more….remain in Me and I will remain in you.  For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in Me.
 
Love,

Pastor D.
 

Ears to Hear (Part 39)

Good Morning,
 
    Are you able to see farther than you can see?  I know that you
are probably wondering if I fell and hit my head today.  Not today!  Let
me explain this question that I heard this morning in my quiet time
with the Lord.  Is your ability to see affected by what you are looking
at?  Yes, unless you are looking with eyes of faith.  We usually respond
or we are moved to action by our immediate sight.  As we see and
experience transition in our lives and in the lives of others, our
vision can become shortsighted and blurred.  It can also become stronger
and better.  We are the determining factor in what we allow to keep our
attention and our eyes.  If you've been having trouble seeing beyond
today, you need to strengthen your 'spiritual eyes' until it affects
your future sight.  It would be to your advantage to have a seer in your
life, as well.  God has placed them in the church too, 'prophets-seers.'  Ephesians 4:11-12; –
"And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets;
and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the
perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the
edifying of the body of Christ."  Of course every vision that is true will line up with the Word of God
which has the best and farthest vision.  Any true prophet will line up
their vision with God!  They are as needed in the body of Christ as a
pastor, evangelist, teachers, and apostles.  Don't treat them any differently than you do your pastor.  God ordained the office of a
prophet, just as surely as He did the other four offices and they all
are needed to help mature the body.  Each of these offices have a
special part to fulfill.  Don't despise the office of the prophet.  The
prophet will see those things that are afar off and give us a heads up. 
We all need their ministry in our lives.  God is faithful and He has
surely placed them in your church.  We will go into this a little more
at a later time.  Let's see what we can do about developing our vision.
    Let's see what vision means.  Vision
in the Strong's concordance means sight in a dream, revelation, or
oracle.  Websters define vision as; something seen otherwise than by
the ordinary sight; supernatural, or prophetic sight; unusual
discernment or foresight or envision.  This is what God gives us through His Word.  He has given us vision, unusual discernment and foresight, to see beyond the turmoil that is going on in the world today, the ability to see through the temporal things of this world.  II Corinthian 4:18– "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal;[brief and fleeting] but the things which are not seen are eternal.  Eternal vision is seeing beyond, "our
light momentary affliction {this slight distress of the passing hour}
is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving
for us an everlasting weight of glory! (II Corin. 4:17)  Start
exercising your vision by practicing and looking beyond what is trying
to take your attention.  It is temporary, brief and fleeting.  See the
plan that God has promised in His Word or what He has spoken to you.  Fix your gaze on eternity and your vision will get stronger.  All of us
as children of God have some foresight, because of the Word and precious Holy Spirit.  Foresight means a view forward; front sight; future sight or looking in a forward direction.  We are preparing for our future life more than this temporary one.  Prov. 29:18 says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish…."  We are a people that have a vision.  This
can keep our eyes on the ultimate plan of God and eventually all things
will be made right. We must fight the good fight of faith like
Abraham.  Abraham's sight went beyond his life on earth.  "Abraham
was confidently [waiting expectantly] looking forward to a city with
eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God." (Heb. 11:10)  Here is a great telescope to help us to see farther than whatever is taking up the sight of our eyes. "And
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first
earth was passed away;…" And God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed
away…. He that overcomes shall inherit all things: and I will be His
God, and he shall be my son." (Rev. 21:1,4,7)  Are you able to see farther now?  If not get your 'eyes' back on sight.  You have a
great future ahead!  We are in production and preparation for greater glory! Believe it.
 
Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear (Part 38)

Good Morning,
 
    This Sunday at our church, there was a Word spoken from the Lord. 
   
    He
said, "From chaos, void and darkness, I brought forth light and life.  So
I Am still bringing forth in your lives today light and life from the
chaos and darkness that has tried to form in your lives.  I speak and
then I watch over My Word to see to it that it comes to pass.  Everyday
I created something marvelous and magnificent, that still exist from
the power of that Word.  On the sixth day I created the most awesome
marvel, the crowning of My creation.  Male and female in My very own
image.  Everyday, I will call for you, greater and magnificent things. 
More awesome than the day before.  On the sixth day you will see in your
life, My crowning glory.  You will delight in it, and shout and sing My
glory.  You will say, it is good,good,good!
   
    Light means illumination, luminary in every sense, happiness, bright, clear day, morning, sun.  Now,
just began to see in every area of your life, light.  God is going to
remove obscurity, brighten and clear up your mind, your family matters,
your finances, all your affairs of life.  Light filling up all the empty
and void places.  Light clearing away the confusion
and the unorganized state.  Just think, everyday getting brighter, less
confused and better organized.  Touching every part of living.  Psalm 112:4 says, "Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness…"  Psalm 36:9; "For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light do we see light."
    On the sixth day, life comes
forth in your image.  Something that God impregnated you with in the
"spirit'.  What great idea, creation, dream, longing of the heart has God placed in you?  Life means fresh and alive; vital and living with force.  Isaiah
66:9 says, "Shall I bring to the moment of birth and not cause to bring
forth? says the Lord.  Shall I Who causes to bring forth shut the womb?
says your God."   There you have it, it's your time to bring forth in the light.  It is time to replenish the earth with the 'living thing'
inside you.  Now just as with labor, you have your part to do in this
great illumination and birthing process.  You have to push!  Even when
you are tired, you still have to press and push.  You must believe you
receive and you must say so.  You must speak and declare the great days
of illumination that lie ahead for you!  We are expecting the Word of God to bring forth, life and light!
 
Love,

Pastor D.