Tag: race

August 8, 2025 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

As you keep running in the race, you may become weary, I encourage you to keep moving. Your promise land is so close, it is a breath away. You are stronger than when you first believed. Your spiritual muscles and stamina is much more than you think. The enemy will try to discourage you with all of the things you can see or feel. I know that the physical world is strong but it is not stronger than your spiritual world.  Here in the realm of the spirit you are always an overcomer, victory is yours no matter the temporary circumstances. I Am sending you help from on high, yes ministering angels are standing ready to bring to pass all things that have been promised through My Word. I Am the watcher over My Word to manifest it in your life. Put your hope, trust, and confidence in Me. I will not fail to do what I have spoken. I Am the Lord who sees and provide. Remember that you also sit with Me in heavenly places above all of the things of earth. I have given you eagle eyes, you see it before it manifests. You have been given all authority over all the power of the enemy, you are the ambassadors on earth. I have given to you everything that pertains to life and godliness, which means you are always the victor, Come on My children, you can do this you are made in My image and filled with all My glory. You have angel help, Holy Spirit assistance, My Word, which is the Father and I. You got this. Get back up and run this race, placing one strong stride in front of the other. 

“Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God” (Psalms 42:5)

“Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord.” (Psalm 27:14)

“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.

September 16, 2022 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Now more than ever before is time for you to take a stand, keep your position, and do not be moved.

 
Good morning,
 
    Now more than ever before is time for you to take a stand, keep your position, and do not be moved.  Everything has tried to get you to take steps back and the push is from the spirit of the wicked one.  I have taken delight in many of My strong ones that have learned to lean on Me when the storms of great adversities begin to try and blow them off course.  My strong ones have held on tight to My Word and have refused all of the lies of this world and of the spirit of religion.  My children have not committed adultery with the idols of this world and all of its enticements to sin.  They have looked right on, in spite of the many distractions that have tried to pull them to other ways.  Now, listen, My strong ones, when you hear My voice you must not halt between two opinions.  You must be quick and powerful to stop the smooth-talking lies of the enemy.  We knew this time would come, where you would be tried and your faith tested, and you have fought a good fight.  Continue to hold fast to My promises, and do not be weary in doing right.  I see all that you have done in My name, and not one of those labors of love has been forgotten.  Just as you have endured some things that you could have never seen coming, wait on Me.  I have some surprises for you, yes, some things that you could never have dreamed or conceived.  All of My strong ones that have learned the value of patiently enduring without giving up, I have laid up for you gifts and benefits that you will begin to see crop up in your daily life.  I have prepared this strong generation of righteous ones to carry forth a mighty work now at the time of the end.  We will produce a great bang!  All will pay attention and take notice of My children.  All who have set their faces like a flint, and have refused to back down and give any place to the enemy, they will enjoy a new level of walking in a heightened awareness of the Kingdom and heaven's aid.  They will be more attuned to the assistance from the ministering angels and they will be more in harmony with Holy Spirit.
 
    "I have fought the good (worthy, honorable, and noble) fight, I have finished the race, I have kept (firmly held) the faith. [As to what remains] henceforth there is laid up for me the [victor’s] crown of righteousness [for being right with God and doing right], which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me and recompense me on that [great] day—and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved and yearned for and welcomed His appearing (His return)." (2 Tim. 4:7-8)
 
    "Let us all come forward and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water. So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the [b]hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His word." (Heb. 10:22-23)
 
    "But as for you, O man of God, flee from all these things; aim at and pursue righteousness (right standing with God and true goodness), godliness (which is the loving fear of God and being Christlike), faith, love, steadfastness (patience), and gentleness of heart.  Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold of the eternal life to which you were summoned and [for which] you confessed the good confession [of faith] before many witnesses." (1 Tim. 6:11-12)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

 Do not fret over the transitions and changes that I have allowed in your life.  Most of the things that have been removed; whether people, familiar situations or circumstances, would have obstructed you from reaching the ultimate goal or position that I Am bringing you to. 

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Good morning,
  
     Do not fret over the transitions and changes that I have allowed in your life.  Most of the things that have been removed; whether people, familiar situations or circumstances, would have obstructed you from reaching the ultimate goal or position that I Am bringing you to.  Some familiarities would have been an obstacle, while others would have been a deterrent to keep you from running unhindered.  Others would have caused you to be snared by the enemy of your soul and stopped completely.  Let them go!  These obstructions in your life have hindered you from the clarity of great revelation.  These revelations are necessary in order for these times of transition.  These changes have all been about bringing My people up to a higher level, changing how you see and what you see as being genuine and real.  Now you must release the load of weights that have caused your run to become sluggish and tiresome to you.  Your flight will be glorious, as you and I shake from you all that would detain you from reaching your proper place and position in Me.    

     I have already spoken to you that the way would be narrow and not many will choose that way.  The way is made so that your eyes should only look forward and stay focused on Me and all that is vital to the Kingdom and its advancement.  This narrow, constricted passageway will lead you to the wide open spaces of living in the realms of My Spirit.  My Holy Spirit has been directing your course, you may have struggled on this course, yet you did not fight against Holy Spirit.  Because you chose to yield to Holy Spirit, you will reach your destination with more power, more glory, more anointing, more wisdom and more understanding of Me and My ways.  You have now entered into a new position and place of authority, because of your endurance during times of transition.  New keys are now placed in your hands for the opening of doors that you thought were locked to you.  You will enter boldly now without fear or shame.  You will walk into your promised territory, holding your head high, for you have kept the faith and stayed true to Me and My Word.  Your focus remained on Me and the Kingdom, even through the darkest times of change.  For your faithfulness you will abound with blessings and rewards.  You were not lead astray by the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, or the pride of life.  These three have slain many strong men of faith, yet, your love for Me remained strong.  I Am well pleased with you, My children.  Keep moving on the path of holiness and your destination will always be glorious!  Stay focused and My light will forever brighten your steps into the right position of holiness. 
 
     "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who by faith have testified to the truth of God’s absolute faithfulness], stripping off every unnecessary weight and the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles us, let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us, [looking away from all that will distract us and] focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity], who for the joy [of accomplishing the goal] set before Him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God [revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work." (Heb. 12:1-2)
     "Do you not know that in a race all the runners run [their very best to win], but only one receives the prize? Run [your race] in such a way that you may seize the prize and make it yours!  Now every athlete who [goes into training and] competes in the games is disciplined and exercises self-control in all things. They do it to win a crown that withers, but we [do it to receive] an imperishable [crown that cannot wither].  Therefore I do not run without a definite goal; I do not flail around like one beating the air [just shadow boxing].  But [like a boxer] I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached [the gospel] to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified [as unfit for service]." (1 Corin. 9:24-27)
     “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad and easy to travel is the path that leads the way to destruction and eternal loss, and there are many who enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow and difficult to travel is the path that leads the way to [everlasting] life, and there are few who find it." (Matt. 7:13-14)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.