Tag: beauty for ashes

May 17, 2024 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

Yes, you have braved many battles, fought many wars, and come forth victorious by My mercy and grace. For I have given you beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Why, so that you might be called trees of righteousness planted deep in My word, fully rooted, immovable by the circumstances and the sway of the world, and the winds of change and the slight cunningness of the enemy that comes to try to dislodge you to cause you to be removed from the place that I planted you in. But you have remained faithful to My Word, always going back to My promises. This is what I have for you, the Few, the Proud, the ones that stay steady on the course, the ones that remain faithful, the ones that keep My Word uppermost in their hearts, and minds. Every time that the enemy tries to come and steal a promise or steal My Word from you, you go back to My Word, and renew again, the hope and promises that I have given you so that you might remain faithful and steady, regardless of the things that are going on around about you. For this is My people, a people that have been purged through the fires of life that comes forth as pure gold. They will go through but they come out victorious every time. This is My people, says the Spirit.  They are not afraid of the challenges that the enemy will try to bring against them. They stay faithful and steady in My Word. This is My people, a faithful people that will not be altered by circumstances or situations. Instead, they face them right on knowing that I, their Father will see to it that in everything that they do, they will remain and be victorious in every circumstance and every situation. This is My people, a people that have become hard to the ways of the world but pliable in My hand. This is My people, says the Lord, the ones that will not be removed and will remain when I come I will find faith in this world and it will be these people who have remained steady, faithful, and trustworthy. Always looking to My word as their final answer. This is My people.

“Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.” (Psalm 101:6) 

“The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows].” (John 10:10)

  “For our momentary, light distress [this passing trouble] is producing for us an eternal weight of glory [a fullness] beyond all measure [surpassing all comparisons, a transcendent splendor and an endless blessedness]!  So we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are unseen; for the things which are visible are temporal [just brief and fleeting], but the things which are invisible are everlasting and imperishable.” (2 Corinthians 4:17-18)

Love,

Pastor D.

July 3, 2020 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Reclaim the secret place, it is a place you have been before, there you know me better.  Come, there is a different anointing waiting there for you.

Oil
 
Good morning,
 
     Reclaim the secret place, it is a place you have been before, there you know me better.  Come, there is a different anointing waiting there for you.  
     It is where I comfort all that mourn, it is where I apply the balm of Gilead, it is where I set the captives free.  It is the secret place.  I Am calling you there.  I give you beauty for all your ashes.  This place of restoration is so that you can run longer.  I place My arms underneath your shoulders and I hold you and gird you up.  I Am giving you oil of joy for all your mourning.  It is an exchange place, it is where we meet, and here I place My love upon you.  I speak words of encouragement and words of comfort where I cause you to lift your head up, as you have been battle worn.  It is in My presence where there is fullness of joy and I place upon you a garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. I know you and I Am intimate with you.  As your loving, gentle, and kind Father I know how to bring you out and put you on a high place.  I know how to make your feet stay firm as you climb upon the stony, rocky mountains of life.  I know how to cause you to be girded up, strengthened and mounted up with wings as eagles and soar to unknown places.  Here I take your tears and I place them in a bottle, for know that weeping may endure for a night but your joy will come in the morning.  It is morning time for you now, so arise in fresh new strength and victory, for I have spoken over you, and I sing songs of deliverance right over you.  I laugh the enemy to scorn right here in the secret place and I speak to you powerful words and your head become lifted up because I know you, and I know you will not quit.  I brought you this way that you might be strong and full of courage and not weak, and learn not to allow every circumstance and situation to weaken your heart.  I brought you this way because I knew what it would take to make you the mature child of God that I created you to be.  I brought you this way that you might be rooted and planted in My house.  I know the storms of life come, heat will not cause you to wither, circumstances would not cause you to bend or break.  I brought you this way to establish your roots way down deep.  I made you and I Am making you even now.  I will not stop for I Am forming a great and mighty person.  I knew you before you were formed and I have been forming you ever since.  For I know the beauty, the beauty that I have placed on the inside of you and I see the gold that is deep within.  So I Am mining, I Am mining in the deep recesses of your heart.  I Am mining in the deep places, the hidden places that man may not see or draw from.  I Am pulling out everything that would choke the fruit that must come forth. See I never quit, not for a moment, fashioning and forming you into the very image of your Father.  I see and I know exactly what I have to accomplish.  I Am doing the mighty things that I promised I would do to bring you to the place that you stand on a high place, the pinnacles of life that men may know that My hand has been upon you and I anointed you. My hands were upon you and I know you think that everything has been a hard way, but the hard way has brought you to the place that you have endurance and that you are patient.  I made you strong, I have made you an enduring war-faring soldier. My favor surrounds you as a shield.  My favor will cause you to be exalted as you deal in all of life affairs. Step into all that is yours because you have become inaccessible to all the ways of the enemy, as you stay in the secret place.
 
     "The Lord God is my strength [my source of courage, my invincible army]; He has made my feet [steady and sure] like hinds’ feet.  And makes me walk [forward with spiritual confidence] on my high places [of challenge and responsibility]." (Hab. 3:19)
     "You’ve kept track of all my wandering and my weeping.  You’ve stored my many tears in your bottle—not one will be lost.  For they are all recorded in your book of remembrance." (Ps. 56:8)
     "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified." (Is. 61:3)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.