Tag: prune

January 19, 2024 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

     Do not stand aloof from Me in this season of your life.  It is the time of drawing very close to Me in order to hear My instructions and directions for your life. It is not time for choosing your own plans and ways.  Now more than ever it is My plans for you that must prevail in your life.  All this time I have been bringing you to the place of surrender.  Surrendering your plans for Mine.  Sometimes when you thought you were surrendered, you were still holding on to your plans.

     The system of this world is rapidly decaying, it is drawing itself up like an old ancient scroll.  The lease is almost up and now the whole world awaits the rising of the sons of God to take their place.  All creation is waiting on you.  Rise to righteousness, My way of doing right. You have gone down a winding road and have almost forgotten to be driven by your eternal purpose.  I Am soon to come for a spotless church.  So, wash yourselves through and by My Word.  It is not grievous or hard to do.  I can no longer tolerate your indecisive ways or your desire to keep wandering around in immaturity.  This is a season of purging and pruning.  Cutting and severing yourselves from the love of this world system.  It is time to grow up.  I have narrowed your way with constrictions and I have hedged you round about.  Look to Me, your Redeemer and your Deliverer.  The affair with this world system will be severed.  Your dependency on My Word and obeying My voice must be your necessary food.  You can not have two lovers, one will become less loved.  I Am a jealous God, I alone must be your God. 

     I Am now taking the position as the Lord of your life, which means obedience to My ways.  I know the way through the valleys as well as through the mountains, so stay near.  I discipline and teach My people from My Word.  I give you peace and in the midst of troubles.  I also judge and discipline nations at the same time.  That time has come upon the earth.  The cries of My people have come up to Me.  My judgment is pure and right.  Blessed are the ones that I discipline and those who yield and learn from My discipline.  I discipline those I love.  I stand against those who stand against My Word.  For those who have made Me their trust, I will never abandon.  After the divine time set aside for refining and purging you will come forth as pure gold.  Rare and unique.

     “My son, forget not my law or teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments; For length of days and years of a life [worth living] and tranquility [inward and outward and continuing through old age till death], these shall they add to you. Let not mercy and kindness [shutting out all hatred and selfishness] and truth [shutting out all deliberate hypocrisy or falsehood] forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them upon the tablet of your heart.” (Proverbs 3:1-3)

     “And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” (Hebrews 12:5-6)

     “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:26-28)

Love,

Pastor D.

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 10, 2023 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

 I have a few in my house that have not bowed their knee to Baal. I have a few in my house, that are standing strong their roots are deep The enemy a long time ago, came into my house and sowed tares in the midst of My wheat seeds. And I have allowed them to grow together and even my people have a hard time distinguishing the difference between the wheat and the tare, but I know says the LORD.

 
Good morning,
 
    I have a few in my house that have not bowed their knee to Baal. I have a few in my house, that are standing strong, their roots are deep. The enemy a long time ago, came into my house and sowed tares in the midst of My wheat seeds and I have allowed them to grow together and even my people have a hard time distinguishing the difference between the wheat and the tare, but I know says the LORD.  At the time of harvest, I will come and separate.  For I Am pruning those that are truly Mine and they are becoming sharper, wiser, and more sensitive in the things of the Spirit. The tares are beginning to get stronger too, they are trying through the enemy to thwart My purpose because the season is short.  Those who will stand strong for Me and in Me and with Me, they will grow stronger still and their end will be better than beginning. A noticeable difference, for you will begin to discern those who are for Me. You will know, truly your brother and your sister, those who labor with you and have one heart for Me and the kingdom. For the time is at hand and I will come and I will separate and I will burn those that are tares. I will cause the wheat to grow stronger and still be coming to My house and they shall begin to feed many in the time ahead. I Am even now placing a transfer in your life to be able to supply to many. I have prepared ahead so allow all things for your maturing. Mature wheat! The heart of man I see and I recognize what I placed within you for the days ahead, you My child will shine. So keep your eyes looking right on, not to the left, nor to the right. Run diligently with Me for Our season is at hand. I love you. I Am keeping you, and I Am watching, stay strong in Me.
 
    "But while he was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed also darnel (weeds resembling wheat) among the wheat, and went on his way. So when the plants sprouted and formed grain, the darnel (weeds) appeared also. And the servants of the owner came to him and said, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then how does it have darnel shoots in it? He replied to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Then do you want us to go and weed them out? But he said, No, lest in gathering the wild wheat (weeds resembling wheat), you root up the [true] wheat along with it. Let them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will say to the reapers, Gather the darnel first and bind it in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my granary." (Matt. 13:25-30)
 
    "Now also we beseech you, brethren, get to know those who labor among you [recognize them for what they are, acknowledge and appreciate and respect them all]—your leaders who are over you in the Lord and those who warn and kindly reprove and exhort you. (1 Thess. 5:12)
 
    "Let your eyes look right on [with fixed purpose], and let your gaze be straight before you. Consider well the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established and ordered aright. Turn not aside to the right hand or to the left; remove your foot from evil." (Pro. 4:25-27)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.