Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,
     Hear the Spirit of the Lord,
     I have kept you in the palm of My hand through many attempts from the enemy to try and kill, steal, and destroy your life.  I know that some of My little ones have become discouraged and frustrated by the assaults and the war that seems as if it never ceases.  I have hidden you from the strong assignment to take you out before your time, and Mine.  I have planned for you a good and expected hope, something that you have longed for.  You have tried to accomplish the promise, by gritting your teeth and working in the flesh, by trying to reason out the plan I have.  Now, I encourage you once again, My yoke is easy and My burden is light.  It is not to cause your hope to be deferred, so that your heart becomes weary and sick, no, it has always been to get you to put your trust in Me.  I do not want you to be looking in some distant future for a far away promise, but being thankful for My everyday supply and care for you, the promises I have fulfilled!  It is because of My Father's heart that you wake up with strength to arise and to take the steps necessary to move toward your destiny, day by day, moment by moment.  I just want to be loved for Who I Am, not for what I can give you.  I want to be appreciated for what I Am doing, yet those gifts and tokens of My love, usually go unnoticed.  My desire is for My children to long to be with Me where I Am, so much so that night and day your cry is for Me to come and receive My beloved.  I desire your longing for the things of this world to become faint and barely noticeable compared to your longing for My Presence.  I wait and long for your whole heart to be like Mine.  There is no need or want that I will not fulfill for those who love Me, just because I Am worthy of your love.  My countenance towards you is one of longing for you to come closer.  I Am not angry or disappointed, I just want your wholehearted love from a pure heart, not one that is full of stipulations.  As if you can only believe My love for you is based upon the things I give and do for you.  I love unconditionally, that is how I must be loved too!   
     Do not worry about what you eat, or wear, your possessions, or, even your desires, for I Am your provider.  This is where the enemy launches his violent attack, when you are weak, tired, angry, discouraged, lonely, these are some of the open doors, for the devil is an opportunist.  He is looking for you to feel that I have neglected to watch over my Word concerning you.  That is why I beckon you to keep your mind stayed on Me, the place of peace and rest.  My Word is governed by the foundation of My love.  I want you to base everything that you do from the foundation of love as well.  This makes you an obedient lover, who does My word in love.  This is surely changing you from the inside and making you more effective outwardly.  So that you then become My poem of love, easily read by a dying and hurting world!
     "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.  For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."(Mtt. 11:28-30)  "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." (Jer. 29:11)  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.  If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (1 John 2:15-17)  "Come!" say the Spirit and the Bride.  Whoever hears, echo, "Come!" Is anyone thirsty?  Come!  All who will, come and drink, Drink freely of the Water of Life." (Rev.22:17)
 
Love,
Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,
     Talking to Father God during my day, He kept saying one thing to me, "Everything is going to be alright".  You see the Father says this one line to me when everything seems too much or there are way too many troubles, when it seems overwhelming.  It is the same as when he would  speak to His disciples when they were overwhelmed or didn't know the way out, He would speak, "peace", or say "fear not".  He wants us to agree with His omniscient view of it all.  He sums it up with His final appraisal.  Again, I will share a personal Word that the Father spoke to me.  He said:
     My dear child, do you not know that when you speak, I listen, and that you have My undivided attention?  I have heard your cry, and you know that I answer My own.  I Am moved by the sound of your voice speaking and declaring My Word, even though sometimes it is but a weak whisper.  I move the mountains at the smallest glimmer of your faith.  I delight in you so much that you can not understand the depth of My love for you.  You are the apple of My eye and the heavens and the world stands in awe and wonder of My love and devotion to you.  My favor is yours, My honor I give to you, to be called by My name.  At My name every knee must bow, so when you speak in My name, My beloved one, everything waits to beckon to your voice, and will bow even unto the weakest command spoken in My name.  I have given to you all power over all of your enemies, just mention My name in faith, see you are hidden under My shadow, that is why no weapon formed against you shall prosper.  When you decree a thing, I am working on it, to establish it on your behalf.  I want you to enjoy your salvation, yes, there will be tribulations, but the joy will make everything worth it all.  Look on Me, and return to Me this devoted love and watch your Father's special care for you and yes, I will even carry you through to victories promised.  I have never forgotten one promise that I gave to you, I Am bringing it to pass.  Stop the enemy from speaking lies to you because of the temporary moments of afflictions you encounter, all these things will change.  If you will keep your stand and fix your gaze, you will experience a rising glory, one that few have ever known before.  You will step into a constant, a higher walk, one that Enoch and Joshua grew in.  Joshua was drawn to My Presence in worship and waiting, when others were busy about other activities.  Enoch learned how to take My Presence of worship and waiting and make it his daily life.  They lived well pleasing sacrificial lives, lived to the fullest, constant in Me!  This is what I have set your course of life for too, so just choose Me above all else.
     "For since the world began, no ear has heard and no eye has seen a God like you, who works for those who wait for him!  You welcome those who gladly do good, who follow godly ways." (Isaiah 64:4-5a)
 
Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,
     The word for me this morning in prayer is a challenging one for me, being that the only stable and constant in my life is the Lord.  He woke me up with this: My dear child, it is time to exchange your clothing, to take off the garments of despair, weariness, and fear, and to step into the true joy that salvation clothes you with.  There is so much beauty in holiness that my children can't truly comprehend the depths of it all.  All spirits respond to the aroma and the scent of holiness.  It is the strongest repellent to the wicked ones, that is why it is important for you to continue shining forth the beauty that My salvation has brought to you.  As your beauty that is charged by joy in loving Me emanates, all of the heaven responds with My answers of victorious power, delighting to do My good pleasure to all whose lives are perfumed by the scent of joy.  If you believe that I have already given to you the honor of winning, because I have gained for you the crown by going before you, then lift up your head and hands that hang low, run with joy the race for the finish line is in view.  Every obstacle and instrument that was used to try and trip you up, I have turned to your good, to strengthen your resolve, to make the next step more solid, more secure.  You have remained faithful, yet the joy of your first love has dwindled.  Out of your faithfulness, you remain, but you have done so from duty only.  Any real lover can sense the lack of zeal and joy in one that is only there in presence but not in heart.  Remember, how you followed Me in anticipation of My next move in your life.  I Am still full of excitement for our journey, you must renew your desire for me by meditating on My Word that I speak daily.  As you commit afresh and anew to your vows of love for Me and My Word, you will receive a restoration of joy rising in you.  Your whole being will experience a rush like adrenaline being pumped in you to push you forward with increasing joy and strength.  You will do the works of one who loves with joy, which is a scent to all those who are waiting for you to rise up from being bowed low and they will come to your bright rising and will celebrate with us at the glorious end and step into the new beginning!
     "I know your industry and activities, laborious toil and trouble, and your patient endurance, and how you cannot tolerate wicked [men] and have tested and critically appraised those who call [themselves] apostles (special messengers of Christ) and yet are not, and have found them to be impostors and liars.  I know you are enduring patiently and are bearing up for My name's sake, and you have not fainted or become exhausted or grown weary.  But I have this [one charge to make] against you: that you have left (abandoned) the love that you had at first [you have deserted Me, your first love].  Remember then from what heights you have fallen.  Repent (change the inner man to meet God's will) and do the works you did previously [when first you knew the Lord], or else I will visit you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you change your mind and repent." (Rev.2:2-5)  "Behold, God, my salvation!  I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord God is my strength and song; yes, He has become my salvation.  Therefore with joy will you draw water from the wells of salvation." (Is. 12:2-3) "To grant [consolation and joy] to those who mourn in Zion–to give them an ornament (a garland or diadem) of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment [expressive] of praise instead of a heavy, burdened, and failing spirit–that they may be called oaks of righteousness [lofty, strong, and magnificent, distinguished for uprightness, justice, and right standing with God], the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified." (Is. 61:3)
  
Love,
 

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,
     Hear the Spirit speak;
          My people are always searching for an "easy word" and an easy way!  Life is hard, you say, and I say, yes, and the enemy of your soul tries to make it tougher than it really is.  I have always tried to strengthen you and make you tougher than anything that might come your way.  Making you well able to endure and outlast whatever you encounter.  Even when you are weak, My strength in you will arise and cause you to be able to go through and come out without the smell of that trouble on you and more wiser than you were before entered.  My faithfulness to you is great, I will not fail to bring you to completion if you will allow Me.  I need your cooperation to do what is necessary make you whole.  I have imprinted you upon the palm of My hand, so your name is always before My face, and because My love for you is so deep, I am constantly raising up watchmen to call out your name in prayer.  I do not slumber, so I Am constantly bringing it to pass.  That is why my angels, those that have been assigned to assist and minister to you will not cease to accomplish their assignment concerning you.  Remember that I have given to you everything to bring you to your divine destiny.  There may be times that this may be held up because of the endeavors of the wicked one, and sometimes things you do, but as long as you will keep your trust in Me, it shall be even as I have spoken it to you.
     I have been removing all that causes you to stumble, so that you can do the work of laboring with Me.  You are the ones that I have ordained to see to it that the devastation of your generation will turn, and be elevated to the city on a hill that I destined you for.  Look past the smoke screen of the wicked one, and all will be made clear to you, you are the Joseph's in your family.   You've been sent ahead in order to save your generation from complete destruction.  It is no small thing that the enemy keeps trying to bring confusion to you and to take you out.  Just as he chased and hounded Joseph to try to make him doubt the call on his life, so the assignment of the enemy remains the same.  Through many trials, test, and tribulations, Joseph prevailed.  His destiny was greater than the testings that he endured, and through it all He became a developed and tested vessel for My glory and My plan to save nations, but especially his own generation of people.  Now you stand in the same place, you are even as Joseph.  You have endured trying and difficult times, accusations from within and without, you have been imprisoned for doing right.  Do not despair, your Helper will bring you out, for your destiny is to save your nation as well.  Many generations are waiting for you to rise up and shine from the dust.  You were brought forth for such a time as this.   I have confidence in you, for you are in My image, I Am a Warrior, and so are you!  The greatest part of you is yet to be seen.  Don't give up!
     "And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.  And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.  But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.  For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

     For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them." (Isaiah 61:4-8)
     "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.  Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong." (2 Corin. 12:9-10)

Love,


Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,
     The Spirit of the Lord says;
          Never doubt My faithfulness to you.  Every thing that I have spoken to you, every promise made I Am doing exactly that!  I Am not bound by the time of this world, I Am ageless and timeless.  Just because you have not seen the expected desire, I Am watching over My Word to perform it.  At times you think that I Am unaffected by your cries for relief, yet I Am always beside you making sure that you live to see and walk in the promise.  Only know My Word, never assume that I will do what you want if it doesn't line up with Me.  Quite often this is where My children are deluded and deceived and where their hope becomes deferred.  When you are not acquainted with Me or My ways, you allow the enemy of your soul to make you believe a lie, for you expect Me to do what I cannot do, and that is lie.  When I speak I cannot lie!  I told Joshua and Caleb that they would come into their promise land as long as they continued to believe Me, it came to pass for them.  Forty years passed and My Word was alive in them, it remained the same and they enjoyed the fruit of believing Me.
     Many must let go of the false gods of faith, believing Me for the things in their heart that they could not find in My Word.  For when you believe in things that I did not say, those desires then have become idols, forming their own belief systems in your heart.  Go back and see if those things are so, study to show yourself approved unto Me.  My Word is the Truth that you need to order your life by.  All that is in your life and every test of your life I will turn for your good, no matter how it has comes, or how long it endures, I will keep My promise to you.  It shall be even as I have declared to you.  For it is My Word that you believe and continue in that I can prosper and watch over to perform, not preconceived ideas, or speculations.  So meditate on My Word and you will be amazed when your desires become Mine, bringing us into agreement.  So don't give up, don't lose hope.  I know what time it is, and I have time on My side to perform all that I promise.
     "So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His word." (Heb. 10:23)  "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.  For as the rain and snow come down from the heavens, and return not there again, but water the earth and make it bring forth and sprout, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it." (Is. 55:9-11)
 
Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,
     As My people come marching forth from the wilderness, the season of testing, trials and temptations, where great victories have been won by their faith, there will be a refreshing.  Their faith that they saw grow before their very eyes, opened their eyes as they began to get a glimmer of who they really are in Me.  Learning to place My Word in their mouth and decree all that I have declared and stand and see that I Am faithful to watch over My Word and perform My promises to them.  Children who know their Father well, have confidence that He will do what He says, and rest in the comfort of His plans for them.  So, this time, practice resting in My love for you!  As you do, you will be amazed at the wonders that you have been missing from not dwelling in the secret place that Love has prepared for you.  You have looked and longed for someone to highly esteem and favor you above all else and all others, all the while waiting deeply into My words of love.  As you begin to allow me to cover you with My love which is able to cause you to see yourself as I see you, thereby making you see the beauty, elegance, strength, talent, and gifts, in you, you will step up and step forward and go through all the way.  You don't have to be concerned about being hurt, wounded, or abused any more.  I Am your love, and protection.
     You will experience wholeness in all that I Am, no longer running to other lovers, expecting from them what only I Am able to give.  Your thankfulness will abound and flow out and bring others into the shelter of My love.  Come into your promised place, where you will sense the overwhelming joy of your Father's love and delight.  You have labored to come in, you are accepted and desired here.  I know that you had to keep stirring up yourself to love, in order to not let it die.  I was with you in the dark places where you did not even think you would see the sun shine for you again, how your tears watered your pillows, and strained your heart.  You are a precious gem to Me, and I have made you into a pearl, and layered you with My covering that keeps you from breaking.  That's why no matter what, you get stronger and stronger as you have been tested.  I will set you on high for all to see the greatness of Me in you! 
     "He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love [for love waved as a protecting and comforting banner over my head when I was near him]." (Song of Sol.) This is part of what the Father spoke to Me, as I was still in My worship time.  He always encourages me and values me, especially when I have gone through a difficult time of standing.  These words build me up and keep me pressing in to Him.  I pray that they bless you as well.

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear and Hearts of Obedience

Good morning,
     Today I will share a prophetic word given to me.  I know that we all need encouragement as well as discipline in order to grow in the things of God.  "I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.  I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.  I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart." (Ps. 119:30-32)
     The Spirit of the Lord says;
          All who arise in the Spirit will increase in all things.  My heart will flow from you as you increase in the multiplication of My promises that I have given to you in times past.  I Am increasing the fruitfulness of all that have remained faithful through the toughest seasons of change and transitions.  I have loved the way that you have loved Me sweetly by your devotion and dedication.  You have run for Me with lavish love, how you have pleased Me.  I will multiply My sons and daughters at this time, because you have remained fixed and stable.  You will not be able to fathom the depth of all that I Am doing in you now, but little by little you will see and know what I have been up to all this time!  I am increasing the mantle of boldness, and My wisdom, and the ability to express My desires to all that you are sent to.  When you awake in the dawn, you will awaken with fresh showers of revelation upon revelation.  Once, what was not understood by you will be a celebration of revelation, for I Am causing a strengthening of your body and your mind.  All that I have kept hidden for you for this season that you are entering into, will be like a rush of fresh wind that I will drape over you.  Yes, you will know Me, really know Me, for deep is calling to the deep that I have placed in you from before you were known.  For you are my treasure and in you I have placed my greatest riches.  You are My lovely ones, you are the chosen ones who will display My righteousness and My glory by your holy union that you have been committed to.
     I Am abounding in you and upon you, many will see and hear that I Am I the One and only God.  You will walk in mighty demonstrations of Holy Spirit, just because of the intimate times spent just getting to know Me deeper.  It will be a normal thing to walk in My power, because you are truly understanding that My image is yours, and you are no longer resisting looking like your Father.  New dimensions are opening of the Kingdom and greater comprehension of all that springs from the connection of heaven and earth, and that it is Our time to shine in these hours of darkness.  I have predestined you for this hour!  That is why you will not have to think on what to say or do, I will speak to you, and since you have learned simple obedience by trusting Me through the season of wilderness.  Oh how much you have matured when you thought you would fail, by letting go of your reasoning.  I was always calling to the Me in you, to come forth.  As you were letting go, you were dying, which gave room for Me to live big in you!  My Word has healed even the splinters of the heart, wounds of emotions and affections embedded by bitterness.  These may have come by words, lies, anger, unforgiveness, judgments, acts, and other ways.  As I have cut away the hard flesh to pull out the offense, I, as your Healer have poured the oil of healing and anointing in the wound so that the operation is complete.  This has cleared your heart for more and more of Me.  You are yielded more to My open hand in your life.  Be bold as you step into the wide expanse that I made for you to dance with Me victoriously.  Take comfort and relax as you continue to walk in joy, peace and deep fulfillment in Me!
     "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion." (Pro.28:1); "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.  (Psalms 17:15); "Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married." (Is. 62:4)

Love,
Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good morning,
     The Spirit of the  Lord says;
    
     There are many that have gone through a level of thorough cleaning from the inside.  It has felt to you as if you were being stripped of yourself.  This is a necessary purging to rid you from the thought process that keeps you doing things the way of the world, instead of lifting you up and over into the Kingdom way.  There is so much that I desire to make known to you, but you must step into the next level with an abundant amount of purity of your thoughts.  I have been bringing you to this place of seeing Me once again as your Provider, for I have gone ahead of you.  I know what you need, and you must know that I will provide for you in new ways, ways that you could not see, unless you experience this great purge.  As you declare and decree it shall be done for you.  Your faith will rise and you will experience the new thing that I have promised to all that have stayed with Me.  You will open new and glorious doors that will reveal to you how great I Am.  For a time it will seem as if you are running alone, but this is only because not everyone will have the purity of heart to see what I Am doing in this season of the new.  They will be a little apprehensive about the insight and wisdom that you have entered into.  Do not fear, you are not alone, I will add those who have a desire to come up a little higher and gaze into the realms of My deeper glory.  The hunger and thirst for more of Me will turn their apprehension into trust and depth of Revelation.  It will be as if you are dreaming, but it will be more real to you than anything that you have ever touched, tasted, or heard before.  There is an awakening, but the awakening is within you!  I have been crying for My Church to wake up from the slumber that circumstances and situations have kept them in, and awaken to Me.
     Because of the great purge, you have also let go of all other idols, and all that you have worshiped before Me, and some, right alongside Me.  You know that I will have no other gods beside Me.  When you worry and those thoughts take over the clarity of your thoughts, you have inadvertently made worrying your god.  So, laying everyone and everything else upon Me, you have made Me God, the One and only.  Now, you can live in the peace that passes your understanding, which will set you up high to hear Me and My clear way that I have already made for you.  This is part of fighting the "good fight of faith".  Draw near and I will draw near.  The change is now on a rapid track.  See, this is the end of the old and the beginning of the new for you!
     "And I will bring My hand again upon you and thoroughly purge away your dross [as with lye] and take away all your tin or alloy." (Is. 1:25)  "You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light [of God's favor] shall shine upon your ways.  When they make [you] low, you will say, [There is] a lifting up; and the humble person He lifts up and saves.  He will even deliver the one [for whom you intercede] who is not innocent; yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands." (Job 22:28) "You have heard [these things foretold], now you see this fulfillment.  And will you not bear witness to it?  I show you specified new things from this time forth, even hidden things [kept in reserve] which you have not known."
 
Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good morning,
     I usually hear a word from the Lord as I am going about my working, living, and sleeping life.  I spend quiet time in the Presence of the Lord which opens me up for communication with Him.  Here is the word that I wrote as I heard today.
     "Listen and understand that you are not appointed for the wrath of your God.  There will be no wrath from the Lord poured upon My own, but there is great tribulation while you are in this world.  Wrath is about My righteous anger being let loose upon all who have rejected Me and have not come under the umbrella of My Word of love and mercy.  I Am not and will never be angry with My children, those whose hearts have been turned towards Me, and are willing and obedient to My Word.  I have and always will provide for My own.  Am I not a good heavenly Father who supplies all of your needs?  There is nothing that will be allowed to come on this earth during a time of great tribulation, that has been sent to destroy My own.  No, everything allowed is to turn My children's affection and attention back to their loving Father.  I know how to provide for and take care of My own!  You are to be busy setting your mind and affections on Me, not being overwhelmed in your heart and mind by trying to be your own provider.  In times past, in the midst of great famine, all of My children either prospered or were taken care of by those that received My insight and instructions for those seasons.  Do not be conformed to this world, nor overly concerned about your current financial condition, I know all the secret places of wealth hidden away just for you.  Trust Me to provide and care for you.  I know how!  My wrath I have held back because of you, My beloved ones, but I have released My judgment upon the world in order for My Church to rise as ambassadors from heaven, to cry loud and spare not.  It is for you to go into the highways and compel all who will come to come to the marriage feast that I have prepared for the willing.
     Darkness is allowed so that My Light, you My children, with My word in your heart and mouth will arise and shine.  Causing My sons and daughters to come back home to Me, all who are willing.  Those whose trust is in Me will lack no good thing.  I Am not moved by the circumstances, the conditions, nor the time, my Word remains unchangeable!  Believe in Me and you will always come out ahead, blessed in all of your ways and time on the earth.  But those who have placed pride in themselves and all that they have accomplished by their own might and ingenuity will be brought low, and all who have humbled themselves by believing and doing My word will be exalted: herein is wisdom, pause and meditate on this.  Who is the god of your heart?  Who is on the throne of your life?  All who have exalted Me, I will promote, just as I did with Joseph.  He was brought low by life, even to the pit and prison, yet while there I promoted him.  But I called him out and set him among kings and rulers of this world, because I Am faithful to My word.  Greater still is the faith of My prophet Moses, whose trust in My Word caused manna to rain down from heaven.  Men ate angel's food, when there was no other provision.  Can you turn bitter water into sweet?  Only those who have been trained and proven through the times of wilderness, and trusting that I Am their Provider.  Also learn from My servants, never do anything motivated from a place of fear, anger, selfish desires, or pride, this will destroy your faith in Me.
     I Am the same, I change not!  I know you and the desires of your heart, whether those desires are deceitful or pleasing to Me.  Children, examine your heart and motives as well, for I Am faithful.  I will perform all of My promises to the humble.  I know that you sometimes think that I have forgotten you, but I never forget your humble labor of love for Me and My Kingdom.  All that you have done for the least of these in the Kingdom, you have done it unto Me, I will repay! 
     "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time." (1 Peter 5:5); "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.  Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud." ( Prov. 16:18-19); "For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister." (Hebrews 6:10)

Love,  

Pastor D.

Scripture references: Genesis chapter 37-41; (Joseph); Exodus chapter 3; Deuteronomy chapter 34; (Moses' life); [The wrath of God not for believer's]; John 3:36; Rom. 5:9; Ephes.5:5-6; Col. 3:2-6; 1 Thess. 1:10; 1 Thess. 5:8-10

Ears to Hear

Good morning,
The Spirit of the Lord says;
     As the year increases there will be great challenges, but there will also be the greatest soil for the miraculous, it will be very strong for the yielded ones.  Stay sensitive to My leading, and you will sow your strength and abilities into the Kingdom, where your true treasures are.  Advance, advance, is what you will hear!  You will make great advancements and strides into arenas that were shut and closed off to you.  The areas that you have invested your time and energy in the past that have not brought forth fruit will now begin to bring about a sudden production.  The season of the plowman overtaking the reaper is upon you now.  I delight to do this even now, especially when the world does not know how to change the cycle that sin has set them on, and it has spun out of control.  My children will now begin to shine forth with My wisdom, insight, and ability.  The great I Am, on the inside of you will begin to illuminate all that I have placed in you.  Deep will be calling out the deep things on the inside, causing you to truly and finally, 'have My mind!'  You will know what it is to be "God inside minded", it is dependent on the degree of your ability to yield.
     Because darkness grows even darker you must depend on My light which will make clear for you all that my Word has placed in your mind and heart.  You will recognize and know that it is My image being reflected  through and in you.  Praise and worship will shift you into another level, magnifying and making transparent all that has been obscure.  Grow in your times of praise and worship, there I am conditioning the ground of your heart that you might move more gracefully into the deeper realms of God.  Draw nigh to Me and I will draw nigh to you, as I do all that I Am is available too.  You will have revelation as well as the understanding to do just what I have directed and made known through My Word and through those prophetic encounters.  I have been setting you up with those whose capabilities will strengthen yours, as well as yours will bring strength to them.  My body will be made whole, there will be nothing missing or broken.  Now you will not only recognize the competence that I Am in those around you, you will embrace and welcome their skills.  You will now see how I have set each individual 'gifting' in the Body to compliment and bring out the best for the Kingdom.  Maturing in Me, will cause My Church to do the great exploits in the midst of days of great chaos!  You are well able, because I Am has seen to it.  My Word, the prophetic, and praise, will cause the true worshiper to walk into the divine realm of their God!
    "However, we possess this precious treasure [the divine Light of the Gospel] in [frail, human] vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves."  "But, on the contrary, as the Scripture says, What eye has not seen and ear has not heard and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that] God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him, [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed].  Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the [Holy] Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man's scrutiny]."(2 Corin. 4:7; 1 Corin. 2:9-10)

Love,
Pastor D.