Tag: encouragement

September 26, 2025 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good Morning,

“The fastest runner doesn’t always win the race and the strongest warrior doesn’t always win the battle…” (Ecc. 9:11).  “Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize?  So run to win…” (1 Corin. 9:24).  Therefore since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up.  And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.  We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith.” (Hebrews 12:1,2)

We all can sense the heaviness of despair and discouragement that has tried to seep into the hearts of believers.  I am reminded of David who cried out, “Why am I so discouraged?  Why is my heart so sad?  I will put my hope in God!  I will praise Him again – my Savior and my God.” (Psalm 42:5).

During difficult times, David chose to hope and praise God afresh and again.  Listen to Jesus as He tells us  the climate during the times of the end.  “Sin will be rampant everywhere and the love of many will grow cold.  But the one who endure to the end shall be saved.” (Matt. 24:12,13).

    We must not let our hope be put off to some future day, we must place hope, fresh, new hope everyday in God and in His Word.  He gives us fresh new mercies every morning, so we ought to offer God the same.  Mercies for hope!!  Jesus said those who endure—-{to undergo patiently, tarry, have fortitude, never give up, to stay and abide} to the end shall be saved.  This world depicts the attitude of a person who is under a heavy load but refuses to surrender to defeat, because he knows he is in his place.  “Endure suffering along with me, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.  Soldiers don’t get tied up in the affairs of civilian life, for then they cannot please the officer who enlisted them.” (2 Timothy 2:3,4)  

We must try and keep our focus on the eternal plan of our kingdom and not get so weighted down by these present sufferings of this temporal world or our temporary situations.  The glory that is to come and the glory that is soon to be seen in the children of God will far outweigh any present sufferings, for it is temporary.  Remember the enemy is trying to get your love for God to grow cold, through outward pressures of living.  We are wiser than that!

    The Spirit says: You are in your place, the place of transition and transformation.  I have brought you here.  Stand firm!!  The place where I will come along and speak to you the sweet words of encouragement that you long to hear, stand still.  Listen carefully, My words will change every fiber of faith that reside on the inside of you.  Doubt, unbelief and discouragement will flee from you.  Don’t you know that our enemy is afraid of you, who you are in Me.  This is the reason he tries to stop you in the middle of your transition.    He knows that I am doing a supernatural change in you.  You will arise from the place of depression, for this is not your place, it is too tight for My child.  You will be raised up with a renewed vision.  A giant “believing believer” shall arise from this cocoon.  You are in a state of metamorphosis, the real you is about to be revealed!!!  You will come out looking just like Me.  You will be brought to the place of, “open fields”, where I will enlarge and strengthen you.  You are a strong victorious champion in Me.  I see the end from the beginning and I know that your end is good.  I see you standing and waving your victory banner.  Lift up your hands to me and I will lift you up.  As long as you keep your eyes on Me,  I will bring you to the finish.  Do not put your trust in that arm of flesh, lean totally on Me.  As you lean on Me, you will receive with clarity of vision and hearing the steps that you must take.  Your eyesight and your hearing have transcended to a higher level, because you have been purified of the blockages.  You are advancing! You are advancing!

Love,

Pastor D.

December 15, 2023 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning, 

Goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life, that is My word. You have not begun to see the goodness, but My mercy is new every morning. It usually is not seen or acknowledged by My children. The plots and plans of the enemy are to kill, steal, and destroy, I come to give you life and that more abundantly. It is My mercy giving life daily, thwarting all of the enemy’s plan of destruction. I will open your eyes to see how merciful I Am towards you every day. I Am a great lover. There is nothing that I have not done that did not come from the place of love for you. I have always sought you out, always done what was good for you. I draw you closer every day with My goodness, which is joy, beauty, good things, and prosperity in every area of your life.  I Am always, always beckoning you to come close. Amid everything that you go through in your life, I Am the only one who will never forsake you, never leave you. I will not abandon you or leave you helpless and hopeless. For I Am the God of all hope and encouragement, and I Am always trying to bring you up higher, all I need from you is a yielded heart, and I will do the work that I designed and purposed before you were even born. Which is a greater call, a greater anointing, a greater advancement than you could ever know. I Am willing, waiting, and desiring to pour out blessings in your life that you will not have room enough to receive. There are blessings in you that will cause you to be blessed on the outside and that is why I Am overloading it, overpouring on the inside of you more of My blessings, understanding, insight, and wisdom. Abilities that you did not possess I Am giving to you now so that in the days ahead, you might know who you really are and be able to stand against the wiles of the enemy and know your Father and know your God. I Am faithful to My promise, faithful to do exactly what I said I would do amid anything that comes in your life. I Am still faithful.

“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.” (Psalm 23:6)

“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)

“A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.” ( Proverbs 28:20)

Love,

Pastor D.

November 19, 2021 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

As I bring you out and over to your “promise land”, don’t forget your brothers and sisters who are making the same journey for their crossover. 

 
Good morning,   
 
    As I bring you out and over to your "promised land", don't forget your brothers and sisters who are making the same journey for their crossover.  Offer to them the same comfort, encouragement, help, and support that you have received.  Remember, I have been faithful in sending you help from on high.  Sometimes in the form of good anointed words to heal your hurting heart, other times I have given finances as a token to push you over the hill that was too much for you.  I have supplied to you whatever was necessary for your maturing.  I Am gracious and gentle to you as you transition and make the change.  My mercy kept you in My hands. 
       
    I desire that you now become My ministers of mercy to one another, as those who are walking behind you on the same road, grow up.  You must be the consoling voice to the hurting parts of My Body.  On the road that is contracted by pressure, I have placed rest areas along the way, full of encouragement and mercy, to assist and aid to make the walk of faith prosperous.  I will not forget the labor of love that you show by serving all other saints.  I Am measuring your seeds back to you, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.  You must make all your seeds full of love, kindness, gentleness, long-suffering, meekness, and temperance, powerful ones that will bring to you a bountiful harvest.  Do not become selfish by not opening your hands of love and mercy because of your own difficulties, test, and trials.  Always giving, casting your bread on the waters, for waves will come at all times and in a variety of ways.  Harvesting in your field, make it good!  Do not forget that your brothers and sisters are on the same narrow road as you, be an easy marker for them to follow.    
 
    I Am coming soon, to receive you.  Be a people of unity, preferring one another.  Victory is on the horizon for My people who will stand side by side.  Your voices ringing as one is an intoxicating sound to Me.  With you, I Am well pleased!  You are imitating Us, We are One.  

 
    "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of sympathy (pity and mercy) and the God [Who is the Source] of every comfort (consolation and encouragement), Who comforts (consoles and encourages) us in every trouble (calamity and affliction), so that you may also be able to comfort (console and encourage) those who are in any kind of trouble or distress, with the comfort (consolation and encouragement) with which we ourselves are comforted (consoled and encouraged) by God." (2 Corin. 1:3-4) 
 
    "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." (Eph. 4:1-3)
 
    "That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me. I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one: I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and [definitely] recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them [even] as You have loved Me."
(John 17:21-23) 
 

Love,

 
Pastor D.