Tag: relationship

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.

Devotions
 
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.

February 19, 2021 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

My love, stop being the Laodicean church.  Wake up, wake up from your slumber, and realize that I Am coming for a church without spot, wrinkle or blemish, and the only way this an be accomplished is to stay under the purging, purifying cleansing of My Word and My presence.  

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Good morning,
 
This was a spontaneous song, sung at one of our services.
 

I Am calling for my first love. 
The ones who love Me, the ones who love Me dearly.
Move every obstacle out of your way, move everything that hinders out of your gaze. 
I Am calling for My first love. 
Those who love Me come again, come again. 
Come again, come again, move everything out of your way, move everything that hinders your steps. 
Come again, come again. 
I Am the same I change not, I Am the same I change not. 
If something has happened in our relationship, I change not.
If something is going on in our relationship, I change not. 
Come again, come again and love Me. 
Come again, come again and obey Me. 
Come again, come again and hear Me. 
Come again, come again and love Me.
 
     My love, stop being the Laodicean church.  Wake up, wake up from your slumber, and realize that I Am coming for a church without spot, wrinkle or blemish, and the only way this an be accomplished is to stay under the purging, purifying cleansing of My Word and My presence.  There you can be washed at all times, white as snow, but you must have a hunger, a desire, and a thirst.  If the things of this world have captured your attention and taken away that hunger, desire, and that passion and thirst, you must come back to your first love.  If there is anything that has entered in and sat on the throne of your heart, and stolen your attention, where it has more affection than Me, it has become the idol of your life, and of your heart.  I say come again, come back to Me, your first love.  I have never changed. I never alter who I Am, I remain the same, consistent God, every promise that I give you is yes and Amen.  All I ask is for you to pursue Me patiently and watch and see that I keep My word.  I Am not like anyone else you know, I cannot lie, I will not fail, I will not falter, I will not change or alter the plans that I have for you.  Ever since the foundation of the world, I knew you and I knew the plan that I had for you, and it has never changed for Me, it has remained consistent, it is always for good.  Yet, in the midst of the good that I Am bringing forth, there are circumstances, situations, trials and tests that you must walk through in order to cause yourself to be hardened to the difficult and trying things of this world, while remaining tender to Me.  I Am ordering all things on your behalf.   I require that you keep your eyes fixed and your gaze fixed upon Me, and continue to cry out until you awake in My likeness.  Just because you have not seen what you have asked for, you have doubted My faithfulness, but I change not.  So if there is any changes that have gone on, it has not come from Me, says the Lord, I change not.  I will do exactly what I said I would do.  I Am God, the faithful.  I Am. I Am the firm and stable God, and I am consistent.  Keep My Word and stay consistent as well.  I will come for all who are faithful.
 
     "So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word, that He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless]." (Eph. 5:26-27)
 
     "For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.  Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;  Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." (2 Cor. 1:20-22)
 
     "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." (Rev. 3:14-16)
 
Love, 
 
Pastor D.