Tag: grace

April 23, 2021 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

I desire a close relationship and partnership with you, one where you lean upon My strength to carry you through.

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Good morning,
 
    I desire a close relationship and partnership with you, one where you lean upon My strength to carry you through.  I have told you that My yoke is easy and My burden is light.  I lighten your load when you choose to cast every care on Me.  Don't allow the cares and worries to shift the weight over on your shoulders, otherwise you would tire out and become exhausted.  I will adjust the weight, so that you may bear it and come out with the victory over them.  I Am well able to carry what you can't.  We must stay in harmony, step by step, you can not be found dragging behind or racing ahead of Me.  Do not be frustrated with life, but rather choose My effectiveness, you will find less struggle, and in so doing you will not be self-sufficient but God-dependent.  If you operate under feeling self-sufficient, you then become prideful and will be easily deceived by our enemy.  His desire is for you to be wary of waiting for My help.  He wants you to turn again to your own arm of the flesh, and to be under your own strength.  I Am faithful to you and My Word, I will keep you, as I have in times past and proven Myself trustworthy.  I will not let you down now in your hour of need.  Will you trust Me now in this new testing and trouble?  Remember, everything that the enemy meant for your harm, I will turn it for your good.  For I will cause you to ride upon new heights and will restore to you all that has been lost or seemingly destroyed.  You know Me, I Am the arms that you can lean upon, do not lean on your understanding, it will not hold you.  My care for you at times of testing is greater by far than you will ever know.  You may not understand at this moment what it is that I Am working out for you, but I Am always ahead of you in preparation.  I require you to pull from My grace daily and when it seems darkest, to remember that My Light never goes out.  My Light keeps the dark from overtaking you.  I Am there with you, whispering words of love and healing.  You will experience for yourself My deep intensive care for that I shower on those who have been in a furnace of affliction.
    Trust Me even now, cast down the strongholds of anxiety, worry, despair, discouragement, and doubt.  Rehearse My Word over your life, knowing that I will supply your every need.  Stop the lies and question of the enemy, that tries to make you not rely on your only Hope.  I want you to be free, not encumbered by so many things that hinder your ears from hearing Me, and entangle your mind with webs of deceit and untruths.  Don't stand aloof and back off from Me, you must come close so that I can minister to you in a greater degree.  I will revive you and restore the joy of your salvation!
 
    "Let my passion for life be restored, tasting joy in every breakthrough you bring to me.  Hold me close to you with a willing spirit that obeys whatever you say.  Then I can show other guilty ones how loving and merciful you are.  They will find their way back home to you knowing that you will forgive them." (Ps. 51:12-13)
 
    "Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God [set aside self-righteous pride], so that He may exalt you [to a place of honor in His service] at the appropriate time, casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully]" (1 Pet. 5:6-7)
 
    "For though we walk in the flesh [as mortal men], we are not carrying on our [spiritual] warfare according to the flesh and using the weapons of man.  The weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood].  Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.  We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ," (1 Corin. 10:3-5)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

March 5, 2021 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

 For everyone who “wills”, I will.  I will do all that you believe and receive.  My glory is dropping like sweet drops of rain all around, for everyone who will stand in the rain of My glory, they will receive what is needed at this moment.

 
Good morning,
 
    For everyone who "wills", I will.  I will do all that you believe and receive.  My glory is dropping like sweet drops of rain all around, for everyone who will stand in the rain of My glory, they will receive what is needed at this moment.  For many it is healing, for others it is deliverance or revelation, still for others it is a closer walk with Me.  You have been crying and asking, and I am your Father, and know that there is not a prayer that comes across your lips that I do not desire to answer.  And I desire to answer speedily, and others I work on to bring you to a place where you really want what I want, and when we are in agreement, I will flood into your life, everything that you have asked and believed Me for.  I Am waiting, many times for you to line up with My word that has been spoken, so that you can receive what I have for you.  There is so much, so much that I want to give, do, and reveal to you.  Any good father wants to bless his child, any good father wants to give to their children everything that they have need of, and to share all that they have.  So know that My desire is for you, always for you, to be highly blessed and highly favored over all men.  All I need from you is a willing heart of obedience to My Word, and to patiently wait on Me.  For I Am doing more than you can understand in your life.  I know that you see and feel things, but you must not to be moved by those things, only by My Word.  For I Am constantly doing things beyond your seeing and your feeling.  I Am working things out for your good.  I know what is for your good and that is what I Am working on for you.  So wait on Me, I Am faithful and dependable and I Am trustworthy.  I will do exactly what My Word says, I cannot lie.  I cannot lie, every promise that I have given you I have sealed it with a yes, and an amen from Me.  I will keep My Word to you.  I will keep My promises to you.  Just stand under My grace and be saturated by My grace, and My ability will keep you.  My ability will cause you to be able to wait and not lose hope, and you will not grow weary, and you will not faint.  You will see your desire come and it will come upon you for I Am faithful says the Lord.
 
    “My grace is sufficient for you [My lovingkindness and My mercy are more than enough—always available—regardless of the situation]; for [My] power is being perfected [and is completed and shows itself most effectively in [your] weakness.” Therefore, I will all the more gladly boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ [may completely enfold me and] may dwell in me." (2 Corin. 12:9)
    
    "And we know [with great confidence] that God [who is deeply concerned about us] causes all things to work together [as a plan] for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose." (Rom. 8:28)
 
    "Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress!  Incline Your ear to me; In the day when I call, answer me quickly." (Ps. 102:2)
 
    "Who does great things, [beyond understanding,] unfathomable, Yes, marvelous and wondrous things without number."  (Job 9:9)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

December 11, 2020 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

 My grace shall be upon your life like never before.  My power and ability to meet every one of your inabilities.  My grace will cover you as a shield. 

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Good morning,
 
     My grace shall be upon your life like never before.  My power and ability to meet every one of your inabilities.  My grace will cover you as a shield.  You will see My grace in the best of times and yes, even the worst.  My grace, my power and ability will fuel your faith causing you to walk in an extraordinary faith when all seems lost.  Through it all your commitment to worship and your dedication to seeking My face will keep you increasingly growing in this great grace.  I will hear you from heaven and those who seek Me, they will find Me.  You will know Me in the places of comfort, and you will be like Me in the places of adversity, you will not weaken, but receive greater power.  You will know My grace because of the quiet times with Me, living and experiencing Me in every circumstance of life.  You will know Me as I am truly Am.  You will know Me as a God of great good.  For even when I made myself known to Moses, I said, I allowed My goodness to pass before him.  Knowing that everything, yes everything else is wrapped up in my goodness.  And I know that there are many of you who feel that of late, that you have only experienced the bad, but now comes your turnaround.  See, there is no way that you can continue to experience only troubles if you have sown good seed, for I Am faithful to My Word and he who sows shall reap of the same kind.  So get ready to experience the greatness, and the goodness of your God and you will say even as it is written in My Psalms, "the Lord is good, yes, the Lord is good."  Yes, you will speak of My grace and goodness to one another, encouraging and building up one another.  Some of you I have been only good to and you did not even see My goodness.  Every time I answered, you attributed it to someone else or some other thing trusted in, but I have been faithfully good to you.  Count the blessings, count your blessings, count your blessings and see how much they outweigh the bad.  I Am your God, and I Am faithful to My Word and My promise to you.  I will never forsake you, no never.  I care not what the enemy has lied to you about.  He is a liar first and foremost, truth never passes through his mouth.  I Am true!  Every word I say is true and I Am about to reveal Myself and make Myself known to those who seek Me.  You will know Me as your Abba.  No longer just God, but your Abba, your endearing Father.  Your merciful Father, your gracious and compassionate Father, your supplying Father.  Your Father who will now give you great, great grace.  During this year you will know Me as Abba, the great and powerful Father of all grace.  You will demonstrate My grace in your life!
 
     "For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received [all had a share and we were all supplied with] one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and even favor upon favor and gift [heaped] upon gift." (John 1:16) 
     "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:" (2 Corin. 9:8) 
     "Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear and heed you. Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart." (Jer. 29: 12-13)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

May 22, 2020 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

What are you waiting for?  I have given you everything that pertains to life and godliness.

 
 
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Good morning,
 
     What are you waiting for?  I have given you everything that pertains to life and godliness.  I have given you everything of Me so that you can be like Me in this world, so that you can speak what is needed into existence for the kingdom sake, as well as your own sake.  So when you pull from the kingdom, and require from the kingdom, you will have more of the kingdom.  In order that My will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  I Am giving more and more in the days that are ahead for those whose hands are open wide, for those whose hearts are lifted high in expectation from Me.  I Am pouring more and more into all whose eyes are upon Me, looking to the hills from where their help comes from.  This is in order for you to be the possessors of all that heaven has, so that you can walk throughout this land not as a defeated one, but as one that is lifted up, walking in the power and the authority of who you really are.  The resurrected power is living and abiding on the inside of you, the life sustaining power resides in you, bringing everything that I have touched to life once again.  Everything that the enemy walked over and declared that it was dead, and that it was not good, I have breathed My life into you.  I Am saying live, live.  Live for the kingdom, live wholeheartedly for the kingdom.  Live, live, live, let every gift, every ability that I have placed on the inside of you to advance the kingdom.  So burst forth on the inside of you, come forth, and do the work that you were meant to do while causing the enemy to back up and release his hold off of your life, off of your purpose and My plan and destiny that was made for you before you were even born.  I knew you and I knew that you would carry it out to the end.  I knew you, I Am familiar with your heart, your will, and your desires.  We all work well together!  I knew that you were capable so I placed My Spirit on the inside of you, to grace you with My power.  You have all that is needed, it is in you, it will be released in your life so that you can go forth and do what I have called you to do.  I know you.
 
     "In Him also we have received an inheritance [a destiny—we were claimed by God as His own], having been predestined (chosen, appointed beforehand) according to the purpose of Him who works everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His will," (Eph. 1:11)
     "And [I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit], so that you will know and cherish the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people),  and [so that you will begin to know] what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His [active, spiritual] power is in us who believe.  These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength." (Eph. 1:18-19)
     "For His divine power has bestowed on us [absolutely] everything necessary for [a dynamic spiritual] life and godliness, through true and personal knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence." (2 Peter 1:3)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Open your arms and open them wide.  You are going to enter into this year, according to your calendar, loaded.  Those things that have been held back, they can be held back no longer. 

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Good morning,
 
     Open your arms and open them wide.  You are going to enter into this year, according to your calendar, loaded.  Those things that have been held back, they can be held back no longer.  What I have done is taken your worship of Me and I have pressed it down, multiplied it, and it is coming back to you in loads and loads of goodness, mercy, grace, and blessings that you can not contain says the Lord.  So get ready, those who are ready to receive.  Every tormenting devil that tried to hold you back, this year, will not be heard from you any longer.  They will still be yelling, talking loud, trying to get your gaze, but you will not give them any more attention.  I have placed upon you the anointing to hear Me and you will hear Me so clearly and I will be constantly telling you to move ahead, move ahead.  You are no longer familiar with the enemy's message.  Ministering angels right now stand garrison around about My people to minister to them My salvation.  Salvation which brings about wholeness, soundness, wellness, prosperity in every area of your life, spirit, soul and body.  You will experience a new level of salvation.  
     You have many angels, and those angels surround you, and they have been sitting by the wayside waiting on you.  If you would dare to speak to your angels and cause your angels to go out and bring those things in that I promised you, this day and next year will never be the same.  They hearken to the voice of My children who believe.
     Stay with Me, I told you this year you will be loaded and right now I Am bringing it to pass.  I have dispatched those angels, that you have called upon to go forth.  You line your words up with Me, but I send them forth into your life.  What they are doing right now is recovering those hidden riches.  You thought it was all gone to other people that you know as millionaires and billionaires, but I have hidden riches and they know where those riches are, and they know how to cause you to possess them.  That is why I say open wide.  They are taking the hidden riches in secret places right now.  As you are anointed you will be able to see those hidden riches and to obey and move when I tell you, and to stand still when I speak.  You will have the eyes to see and ears that hear, witty inventions, creative ideas, gifts and talents will begin to make room for you.  Loaded with all things that is needed to cause you to move ahead and be blessed, and be a blessing. 
     "And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:" (Deut. 28:13)
     "And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel." (Is. 45:3)
     "Are not the angels all ministering spirits (servants) sent out in the service [of God for the assistance] of those who are to inherit salvation?" (Heb. 1:14)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

 Good Morning,

     "God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives.  Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching, but has rejected God, who gives His Holy Spirit to you." (I Thess. 4:7-8) Holy Spirit leads and guide us into holiness.  I like the end of this verse in the Amplified Bible, it says, "Therefore whoever disregards (sets aside and rejects this) disregards not man but God, Whose [very] Spirit [Whom] He gives to you is holy (chaste, pure).  Holy Spirit is holy, pure and chaste, He will guide us into all things that are holy also. (John 14:26) We are changing how we think by renewing our mind, in order to live holy.  "Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body and spirit.  And let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God." (II Corin. 7:1) We know that our thoughts are one of the strongest contaminate to our body and spirit.  Mtt. 15:18-19; "But whatever comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this is what makes a man unclean and defiles (him).  For out of the heart come evil thoughts (reasonings and disputings and designs) such as murder, adultery, sexual vice, theft, false witnessing, slander, and irreverent speech."  "[Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)." (II Corin. 10:5)  Evil thoughts defile us and make us unholy and affect our conducts and behavior.  So we must have a clean and undefiled heart which is the seat of our thoughts, emotions and intellect.  "Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure."  Change your thoughts and you change your behavior, conduct and course of life. "But nothing is pure (undefiled) to those who are corrupt and unbelieving because their minds and consciences (their thought life) are corrupted.  Such people claim they know God, but they deny Him by the way they live. (their conduct, behavior, manners and lifestyle) They are detestable, worthless for anything good. (Titus 1:15-16)

     We are to be working towards changing our old behavior and conduct into God's holy character.  Work means activity where one exerts strength or faculties, to do or perform.  A sustained physical or mental effort valued as it overcomes obstacles and achieves an objection or result.  We must overcome the obstacles of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life to achieve the result of holiness.  Holiness is achieved by grace with our effort of self control as we renew our mind we strengthen ourselves to do the Word as our lifestyle.  It is not perfection but commitment to the pursuit of holiness.  We have grace (the divine influence upon the heart and its reflection in life; God's ability over our inability).  Holy Spirit comes alongside as our helper and assisting us to accomplish the task.  Holiness should be reflecting in our every day lives.  We have SUPER – natural help.  There is nothing impossible for us who believe, let's stay committed to pursuing holiness.

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"Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure." 

Love,

Pastor D.