Tag: garden

September 22, 2023 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning, 

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 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 trials 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.

“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.” (Jeremiah 17:5-8)

“I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.  He cuts off every branch of mine 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.” (John 15:1-4)

“For you are still [unspiritual, having the nature] of the flesh [under the control of ordinary impulses]. For as long as [there are] envying and jealousy and wrangling and factions among you, are you not unspiritual and of the flesh, behaving yourselves after a human standard and like mere (unchanged) men?” (1 Corinthians 3:3)

Love,

Pastor D.

February 3, 2023 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

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. 

 
Good morning,
 

    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 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 comes, 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, and many of them will be like Joseph and Daniel.  In times of difficulties, times of oppression, times of uncertainty, and 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.
 
    "I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.  Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit.  You are cleansed and pruned already, because of the word which I have given you [the teachings I have discussed with you].  Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me." (John 15:1-4)
 
    "Thus says the Lord: Cursed [with great evil] is the strong man who trusts in and relies on frail man, making weak [human] flesh his arm, and whose mind and heart turn aside from the Lord. For he shall be like a shrub or a person naked and destitute in the desert; and he shall not see any good come, but shall dwell in the parched places in the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.  [Most] blessed is the man who believes in, trusts in, and relies on the Lord, and whose hope and confidence the Lord is. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters that spreads out its roots by the river; and it shall not see and fear when heat comes; but its leaf shall be green. It shall not be anxious and full of care in the year of drought, nor shall it cease yielding fruit. (Jer. 17:5-8)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

February 25, 2022 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

You have answered my call, my call to come up higher. There is a place in Me that not many have ever come to, it is My secret place. 

 
Good morning,
 
    You have answered my call, my call to come up higher.  There is a place in Me that not many have ever come to, it is My secret place.  This is where I cover you and I love you and I place My hand of healing upon the wounds and the hurts of your heart, your mind, and body and I make you whole.  It is that place where I speak Spirit to spirit, deep to deep, where there is no need for your language.  A place where I have given you the love language, a place where you speak to Me in a language unknown to the enemy.  A place where you are high above the things that are on the earth, a place where the things of the earth look like a dim memory.  A place where I Am calling My own to heal, to love, to soar in the gifts that I have given to My children. You have never fully experienced the love that I have for you.  Nothing can ever separate you from My love.  I know all things that you have encountered in living, your mistakes, sins of omission, and commission and I have covered it all.  I cover them with My love.  I have never longed for or wanted to love more than I long to love you.  It is here where I reveal to you an unfailing, relentless, and overwhelming love, a love beyond your human comprehension.  It is here in the secret place where I can little by little make known to you the depths of My love. 
 
    I have given you My name that is above every name.  On this earth, I have given you the same level of love that I gave My son that you might know that I have called, separated, ordained, and anointed you and put a covenant between us, in this place of communion that will last for all eternity.  It is here where I affirm Myself to you that you might know Me in a deeper and more intimate way.  I have been calling My own to come closer that they might experience Me so that they can separate the things of this world; whatever they might be going through, separated and distinguished through the eyes of My love that is higher above those things.  This is why there is no weapon on this earth that has been formed against you that can ever prosper because My love has more power.  There is nothing greater, there is nothing more powerful than My love that I have for you.  Come, sit, bask, and feast upon My love.  I Am calling you into My garden, into My secret place that I set aside just for My own. Come and experience My love.
 
    "Who shall ever separate us from Christ’s love?  Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation?  Or calamity and distress?  Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword?" (Rom. 8:35)
 
    "You have called me a garden, she said] Oh, I pray that the [cold] north wind and the [soft] south wind may blow upon my garden, that its spices may flow out [in abundance for you in whom my soul delights].  Let my beloved come into his garden and eat its choicest fruits. (Song of Sol. 4:16)
 
    "And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself).  And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being]." (Rom. 8:30)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

 There is a storm that is coming, and the winds that will accompany this storm will have diverse affects.  For those who have stood on My Word

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Good Morning,
 
     There is a storm that is coming, and the winds that will accompany this storm will have diverse affects.  For those who have stood on My Word and refuse to compromise my Word, this storm will be used to blow you back on course.  Many who have slipped or taken missteps will be rectified by the power of the winds that will issue forth.  For those who have been hardhearted and stiff necked and would not obey Me, they will find My Word harder to accept and understand, they will begin to slide back from Me and My truth.  Yet, I will still keep calling you back and wooing you, for My tender mercies and My long-suffering are in pursuit of the backslider.  I desire you to come back and be faithful to the True Lover.  You have spent endless hours and days trying to make yourself happy.  By now you should know that I Am the only real joy.  The great deceiver has spent energy and time to try and make you believe the lie that your happiness depends on others and outward circumstances.
     Many who seek My face on a daily basis know the season and can perceive in their inner selves that they must redeem the time.  They are walking with purpose and pursuing My will and having no part with the deeds of darkness.  Truth, My Truth has been distorted by heresies and teachings that are only half truths.  I Am raising up those who have My heart and I will give to them My voice.  They will move in a new arena of signs and wonders, that will shake up the "religious" world, yet these signs will come to approve My Word that was spoken.  There will come a divide, because the enemy has come in secretly and sown tares in My field.  I have allowed the tares to grow together with My wheat, so as not to destroy My wheat.  I Am the husbandman of My field and My garden, and I Am about to call for the reapers to separate the two. The winds of distinction are beginning to blow.
     Let your ears be attentive to My voice and your eyes open to the changes that I Am doing on the inside of you, My garden.  I have raised you up to be able to bring a fresh aroma to a world that is wafting in the midst of the smell of degradation and sin.  I have placed rare and unique fruits and plants in My garden, you are one of these.  You are not like everyone, don't try to be either.  Those who attend to My Word are consistently washed and kept pure from the storm of destruction.  I will blow and their strong aroma of faith and love will begin to change their course.  So stay rooted and grounded and you will be gently directed to the course that I place you on.  The winds will be strong enough to shift you onto the right path if you have halted between two opinions.  Those whose choice is to walk in the name of the Lord of Hosts, I will assemble the lame, and all those that have been afflicted by choosing righteousness.  I will make the lame a remnant, and the afflicted and those who were rejected, will become a strong nation.  Even now I Am turning your captivity, and I bring you acclaim, acknowledgment, and distinction in every territory where there was shame.  This is Our hour to shine!
     "You will also decide and decree a thing, and it will be established for you; And the light [of God’s favor] will shine upon your ways." (Job 22:28)
     "So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will] and do the works you did at first [when you first knew Me]; otherwise, I will visit you and remove your lampstand (the church, its impact) from its place—unless you repent." (Rev. 2:5)
     "In that day,” says the Lord, I shall assemble the lame, And gather the outcasts [from foreign captivity], I shall make the lame a [godly] remnant. And the outcasts a strong nation; And the Lord shall reign over them in Mount Zion from this time on and forever." (Micah 4:6-7)
     "Let them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First gather the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; but gather the wheat into my barn.” (Matt. 13:30)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.