April 4, 2025 – Ears to Hear, Hearts to Obey

Good morning, 

Today I awoke with Psalm 46:10 on my heart and mind.  “It reads, Be still and know that I am God.”  My attention was drawn to the “be still” part.  It means to abate, to cease, to leave or let alone.  He is saying to let everything else alone, cease from all that occupies and keeps us so busy, and takes all of our time and attention, and give it to knowing Him.  Know means to recognize by becoming acquainted with, comprehending, discovering and understanding; to become a familiar friend.  This can be accomplished by being still.  Yada is the word for “know” in Hebrew.  It literally means to transfer your attention, energy and time knowing God, instead of all that is going on around you.

It sounds simple, to be still, but really for most of us it is a challenge.  We live in a fast paced world.  For most of us from the time we wake up in the morning until we go to bed at night, we are in a rush.  Our sleeping pattern is even dictated to by this, “hurried life”.  This got me to thinking about Jesus.  He was not depicted as a “hurried” Lord.  He did great exploits by just being still.  He was often seen going aside to be still and know God, through prayer and worship.  He knew Father God better than anyone, yet, He was always being still by being in God’s presence.  Sometimes He was going fishing, other times He was walking along with his disciples teaching them about the kingdom; just, being still.  The scriptures don’t reveal that He was in a hurry to build His ministry.  He wasn’t a mover and a shaker by today’s standards, yet He accomplished more than anyone in history.  As I look at Jesus I see that it is okay, sometimes, to do nothing.  Even though He was doing the Father’s business, he did it in a state of rest.  He never had to prove who He was by what He was doing.  He did it with ease!  There is a lesson to be learned from the example of our Lord.  
Do you know that the cell is one of the most basic units of life?  It is also one of the smallest units of life in our bodies.  After a cell has divided there is a period of rest before anything else happens.  If cell division is about growth and transitioning, and it is, then growth and transitioning is also about rest.  I believe that before we can grow and go into our next transition, we must learn to rest or be still.  I realize that God has been trying to get me to be still, so new growth can take place.  I have fought it all the way, thinking that being still meant no growth.  Matthew 11:28 does not say, “Come unto Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest (until I give you your calling and My plans for your lives, then you must work like crazy until you have accomplished it!).  No!!! Let’s read on, verse 29 says, “Take My yoke upon you learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly of heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.”  Now that sounds similar to, “Be still and know that I am God”, maybe, just maybe God will reveal more of His self to those who cease from so much busyness.  He really wants us to get to know Him in a quiet, peaceful frame of mind and heart.  Rest means to take intermission; recreation; to repose; to be refreshed and to take ease.  Rest for our souls, our minds, will and emotions, so that we can truly get to know Him.  Can you really do that?  Just get to know God and learn of Jesus, without making it some busy activity!  Yes, even Martha’s have to learn of Him by sitting at His feet, doing nothing.  Cells do it, they rest in order to continue growing.  Your transition or change could be waiting on you to enter into His rest.  “For he who has entered God’s rest (intermission; recreation; repose; to be refreshed and to take ease) has also ceased {be still} from the weariness and pain of human labors.” (Heb. 4:10)  Let us make our transition with ease.  Relax, be still and you will know!

Love,

Pastor D.

March 28, 2025 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

If you listen closely even as you raise yourself into a higher place with Me, you can hear the angels joining in. You can hear the host of heaven joining in as you praise Me to excel you into higher realms of glory to bring you to a place where you actually hear My voice clearer and you actually hear the angels that surround you and encamp around about you, singing songs of deliverance, victory and joy. You can sense them as you worship Me, as you go into that quiet secret place. As you guard yourself from the things of this world and put yourself in the position to hear you will receive wisdom that is needed to protect and strengthen you. You will hear that there are more that be for you. Even as you are singing, a host of heaven was encamped around about you singing. You can hear the angel voices begin to have that clarity of victory, glory and honor as they worship and praise the God of all creation, your Father. And as you join in worship of the Father of all creation, you will begin to have your eyes open to the great and awesome majesty and the might and the glory of the heavenly realms, the places where I Am calling you to, into the higher places of glory. So join yourself with the heavenly forces every time you worship Me, and your eyes will begin to be opened and you will see and understand the times and the seasons that you are living in and you will be better prepared for the days ahead. You will not faint, you will not give up, you will not quit, you will be prepared for the race. The sound of heaven mixed with your unhindered voices lifted up will build you up to where you are seated with Us in heaven, knowing how to succeed in every area of this life you are living now. You are ready now to fulfill your purpose and the destiny I placed in you before you were born. Get ready to be known as heirs and joint heirs with your Lord. 

Love,

Pastor D.

March 14, 2025 – Ears to Hear, Hearts to Obey

There are eagles that are about to soar in great flight.  They have streamlined their lives and allowed Me, their Lord to shave away the weights that have kept them grounded in the past.  Weaning them from all that they thought was their source and their necessity.  They have truly discovered I Am their one and only source.  Watch the eagles, climb higher into My presence. They will not settle for the commonplace.  Every step of faith has brought them closer to the clouds of My glory.  The eagles will experience the great torrential rains that I have promised in My Word.  The rains are coming to refresh and blow away all that is stagnant, clearing away all that obscured their vision.  My eagles will create a refreshing wind, for they will carry My anointing and drip it on all who have been waiting for more of Me.  This will increase the desire for all the eaglets in My Kingdom to produce a fresh wind of glory in their environment.  All of My children will desire to grow up and take their place in the army of their God.  Holiness and maturity will be their aim and their goal.  All of those who love Me will seek me again as they did at first.  This fresh wind will start fires, fires will begin to glow. The wind and the fires will cause a dynamic outburst of the Spirit.

New levels of My Spirit producing new levels of My glory.  My people will now walk in sustained levels of power and authority.  This will be the greatest time ever known to My people.  Healings that will encompass spirit, soul and body will be seen as evidence of My favor.  My eagles will be at the forefront of this great time of My manifested glory and healings, yet humility will fan the flame for greater manifestations.  Those who have developed their wings have done so through great seasons of endurance.  I know the many times that they have laid down their own desires to see that Mine would be done.  Such an awakening of my eagles will cause My watchmen to become more alert. Their times of intercession will be fanned by the fires of purpose and their eyes will see with great distinction.  My shepherds will be quickened by the rushing of the wind of my eagles.  The meals that they feed my people will be served with truth and in power.  They will be revived by the same wind, feeding My people with fresh manna.  My people will go throughout their territory bringing restoration to their land.  Rebuilding all that has laid in ruins because of the devastation of the past generations and of the present troubling to their lands.  They will not be distracted any longer by the lies of the enemy.  They will work diligently on one hand while warring for the Kingdom with the other.  This wind of the Spirit will cause supernatural waves of energy, they will never grow weary as they march right on to the new level.  All that they have gone through has been preparation for this time.  The set time for My eagles has come!   My favor will be your great reward.

So I say to you, stir yourself up once again to loving Me.  Revive the fires of your prayer life, ignite your quiet times in My Word, where you learned to hear My voice. Speak life to your times of worship, and you will be transported into My Presence.  Refuse to stop running, and you will see that you be like
a watered garden and an ever-flowing spring.  You will be raised up on high to soar once again as a renewed eagle!

Love,

Pastor D.

March 7, 2025 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

This enemy of Ours is attempting to lull a great body of My people to sleep.  “Sleep”, he says, “through the crisis in your life”.  “Sleep”, he says, “to the cries of the lost world”.  “Sleep, you don’t need to be aware of the times or season that you are in”, says the liar.  Sleep so that your spiritual senses become dull.  Sleep in order that you might receive more of his lies.  Sleep so that you are deaf to My voice. He is using the cares of this world, the lust and longings for other things, (wants, entertainment, business) and the deceitfulness of riches, those cravings and desires for more and more, all those things that beckon for your attention.  He is applying a smoke screen.  Awake from your spiritual slumber, for it is the sleep of death  sent to kill your real life in Me.  Where are the watchmen on the walls?  Those who are seers, that I have anointed to see ahead, to the times and the season.  Listen as they cry out to you.  For the spirit of deceitfulness has caused your walk to become lethargic, as one who feels in the darkness.  Your great light that once burned brightly has become small.  Wake up to righteousness! You don’t even know how far you have fallen.  You have judged yourself by others that have been dulled by this life.  Those who have become lovers of this world.  Those who are taking pleasure in the wickedness around them.  Turn your gaze back on Me, your Bright and MorningStar.  You once ran with the messengers that carried My Word.  Now you have put down your torch and run with the jackals of this temporary world.  Return to Me! 

You must stay planted by the river of My Word in order to have a ceaseless supply of fresh water.  So that no matter what the outer conditions, you will continue to produce.  Each time you dwell in darkness and with sin, you are weakened to your defense against it.  Your delight and desires for Me will shift.  You cannot love two lovers.  You will either hate the one and love the other.  Remember how you loved Me, I was your delight and your desire. Come back to Me with your whole heart and I will heal you of your backsliding heart.  I have been speaking gently, while the world screams at you for your attention and affection.  Now I will shout as one who is in travail.  Awake, arise and stir yourself up to Me!!  Do not grow weary in your waiting.  Do not grow weary in your well doing.  I will come for you.  I Am coming for My Bride, so wake up to My Word.  Stay alert to My Presence and know the times that we are in. 

Love,

Pastor D.

February 28, 2025 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

Expect the suddenlies, they come by waiting. I love to do good, I Am always looking for a way to bring good into your life.  As the pressure squeezes you, all of those things that are dead in you will be pushed out.  Just like a wine press that leaves the waste behind and processes the wine for drinking.  Life, new wine of life will burst forth from you.  This wine of new life will anesthetize you to any forms of attack, you will press right through it.  The enemy does not know the resurrected you, he can not perceive the power in this new wine.  You are a new wineskin now, full and overflowing with the best wine.  Yes, I have saved the best for last. You are always drinking from the springs of life that provide fresh and new strength everyday.  In this wine, it gives you wisdom, revelation, insight, along with being fully inebriated, laughing at the ploys and strategies of the enemy.  Using every trial, test, tribulations, as a stepping stool, to lift you up higher into my heavenly realms to hear and know the great and masterful plans that I have for you.  I have ordered steps for you.  Though it seems like time has passed you by, take a look and see, it has brought you to your suddenly.  You have come through the floods and the fires, and you are still ready to fight.  You have grown up, through the very things that you thought would destroy you.  Hold your head up high, you are an ambassador from My kingdom, a winning warrior.

Love,

Pastor D.

February 7, 2025 – Ears to Hear, Hearts to Obey

Good morning, 

If My people will turn their backs on the ways of this world and leave the distractions of this present age behind them, they will open their eyes and have them flooded with the light of My ways.  I will use the trials and tribulations of your seasons of life as dung.  Yes, I will mulch down every obstacle, trial and tribulation in your life and use it to produce a massive harvest in your life.  The strategies and tactics that the enemy thought would bring you down, I delight in turning them around to show our enemy that His best is nothing but dung to us.  What he thought would destroy you I have cunningly used to incite you to riot against the kingdom of darkness.  You realized that you have been lied to and you are ready to be the winner you actually are.  Rising up in you is the “warrior bride.”  You are staying in a state of readiness for your soon coming lover, and you will fight off any foxes of life that will try and prevent you from staying prepared.  You know now that all these trials and tribulations were sent to divert your power and your energy away from what you are truly longing for.  Yes, more of Me, deeper intimacy with Me.  With great fervor and zeal you are now setting your gaze upon Me, my bride, my fair one.  You see that with great revelation, that I Am the One and only One that can put you over.  I Am over every trial, test, circumstance, tribulation, hardship and adversity of life, I Am.  I Am rising in your life as a contented lover and supplying for you as a great provider, so that you will not lack in any area of your life.  I Am here to fulfill the wantings and longings of your heart, because you have remained faithful to Me, you did not go defiling our love life, by filling your heart with every imitated lovers.  Those who promised you things, that only I could provide  You trusted Me when things looked impossible, yet you kept on believing Me.  You refused the well-timed advances, of the false lovers.  Our enemy thought you were weak.  He did not know that your cries were for Me, and I heard them as a horn sounding for battle.  I Am here to fight on your behalf, stand beside Me, your great Warrior has arisen.  The whole earth will tremble at My arising.  You will see Me doing wonders in the earth and through My bride, My lovers.  She will step into My ways now.  The intensity of Who I Am will be seen through her.  She has arisen, for I have arisen in her.  Refreshed with strength, power, wisdom, signs and wonders, the world will now look on and see that I Am is here.  Together we will sweep the earth and call my army, the warrior bride to attention.  Those who are mine will hearken and do.  My lovers will arise.  All who are faithful I will reward plentifully.

Love,

Pastor D.

January 31, 2025 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

I am reminded of a story about a young boy who found a cocoon, and seeing how hard the insect struggled on the inside, he cut the cocoon open, thinking he would help the bug escape.  Instead, the butterfly died.  A butterfly expert told him that it is the struggle within the cocoon that gives strength to the butterfly and enables its wings to grow and develop.  Only then can it emerge and go free.

If God cares so much for butterflies, to give them a covering while they transition, I know He covers us as we change or even as we are going through tough or trying times. Is. 41:10 says, “Fear not, (there is nothing to fear), for I Am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I Am your God, I will strenghten and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with My victorious right hand of rightness and justice.”  This “hardening” us to difficulty, is also where we receive strength to come forth from our God-given cocoon.  Harden means to make tough, to strengthen or confirm in disposition, feeling or a course of action, to make bold.  You see we become tougher and stronger to outer circumstances and easily pliable to inner change.  He will harden us to difficulties emotionally, spiritually, and physically.  

This is the Word of the Lord; “I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord,  thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.” Do not be shaken or moved by the outward circumstances that have come to test and try you, I have allowed them so that you might see what We are doing on the inside. I Am shifting how you think, and what you are preoccupied with thinking. All of the cares of this life are temporal and I need you to keep eternal vision. The futility of the race of this world will overwhelm your thought life if you let it which pushes out “keeping your mind stayed on Me.” I need you to meditate and ponder on My Word and My promises to you consistently. You know that Our enemy’s purpose is to take your mind off of Me and My Word down a tunnel of hopelessness and despair. I Am greater than all of the scenarios of your wearied thoughts. Know this, I have overcome the world and I have given you the keys to open up the door and walk as an overcome in every area of life. Be prepared always to wage war against the enemy. But what I have given, I have given! Stand and take your position, as you do you will see the salvation of your Father.

Love,

Pastor D.

January 24, 2025 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

  I share in the victory and triumph with My people.  All of those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. It is not how you start, it is how you end up and because you keep your eyes stayed on Me, whatever I have you will have. I Am seated at the right hand of My Father, and so shall you be, because you are fighting the good fight of faith. Look up, because your redemption draws nigh. The more that you press in, the more you cry out, the more you hunger and thirst for Me the more you become full of Me. I beckon to your call, and I Am coming closer and closer every time you call with the fragrance of your voice. No man knows the hour, but the time and the season are at hand, because My children are crying out for Me.  They are asking for Me to come for they desire to be with Me. My bride is longing for My arrival and I cannot contain nor keep back from My love. 

The time is coming when I will not keep back or hold off. There will be no one who will be able to say that they did not hear that they did not know, because I Am firing up My people to run like never before, clean, purify and purge as many souls as they can before I come and receive My people home and they will ever be with Me. So rejoice, your time is upon you now says the Lord.

Love,

Pastor D.

January 17, 2025 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

Your praise is a weapon, and it surrounds you. You are surrounding yourself with My glory, so that everywhere you go My glory goes before and behind you.   There is no weapon that is formed by man or the enemy that can penetrate the glory of your King. All deep things happen in My glory. You open your eyes and you see and you understand what was once shrouded. You open your ears you hear and you understand. It all happens in My glory.  So let your voice be a weapon as you praise Me, let your voice be a sound to the enemy that you are not afraid as I surround you with My glory. There is nothing that he could do that could ever penetrate you to the point of killing you or taking you out, for I surround you by My glory. The power shall begin to arise and it will rise like a river. A river that will not quit flowing, a river that will flow on and will bring to you healing, soundness, wellness, wisdom, insight and, revelation into all things. As you live in My river that is created by the glory that you create with your sound with the voice that you send out as a praise, as a mighty weapon, you will deepen your revelation of Abba. For I use the foolish things to confound the wisdom of this world, to confound the wisdom of the enemy. So praise Me let me hear your voice, let Me hear your sound.

Love,

Pastor D.

January 10, 2025 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

I Am restoring the joy of your salvation all you need to do is believe it. I say to rejoice in Me always, for I am doing wonderful things, even behind the scenes. I Am bringing to pass every word I have spoken. I Am not man that I shall lie. Every word I speak is a yes and amen over you so rejoice, always rejoice, knowing that what I say, I do, I will do. I always finish. I always complete and so I say to you this year begins to mark a new year for you. A new year of victory, a new year of walking it out, a new year of not backing down to the enemy. This is your year of glory. This is your year that your head will be held high only because you make a choice and you choose to hold it high. 

Great and mighty men and women shall be forged from fire. Everyone wants the easy way, but I Am preparing great and mighty people that have been brought through the fire. They shall be different and unique, and an anointing shall rest upon them that others have never seen. Signs and wonders shall follow them. They shall not have to run after anything in the kingdom, but because they stand for My word and speak My word, I will back them up with signs, wonders and miracles. It is for anyone who chooses to do My word, for anyone who is determined to walk wholeheartedly. It is for anyone who will run the race and not quit. It is for anyone who is determined to put their hand to the plow of My Word and not let go. It is for anyone who will not look back at the circumstances or situations that surround them daily, for I have overcome everything and I have made you overcomers. I have made you victorious. I have made you the head and not the tail. I made you above and not beneath. You are the ones that  hold the truth in your heart and in your mouth and in your whole being. If you will allow Me to now begin to dig out those dry places, those hard places, and allow the water of My Word to soak you and marinate you in My Word so that every time the enemy pokes you, all that comes forth from you is more of My word. Not your circumstances or your situation, but you will rehearse My Words.  You will become the people who say what I say by rehearsing My word despite the circumstances and situations that you face. For you know that your end is always good, for I made a promise to you that I will bring you to the end, and that end is good. I have spoken it. I have determined it. There is nothing but good for you in store. So keep your head held up. Don’t look to the left or to the right. Circumstances and situations are all around you. Yes, you are enveloped in difficult times but I say to you, look up for your God is about to come. Look up for your redemption draws nigh, look up for I Am soon to come for My bride that is ready. Everything you see is temporary. Everything you hold dear on this earth is temporary except souls only souls. That is what I Am after. I have given you a fresh, new banner to run and many shall follow the banner that you hold up for Me. They will see that I Am victorious therefore you will be victorious too.

Love,

Pastor D.