Tag: sword

August 26, 2022 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Come away and draw close to me, I want to prepare you for the difficult days ahead. 

 
Good morning.
 
    Come away and draw close to me, I want to prepare you for the difficult days ahead.  Many of my dearest little ones will be caught off guard because they refuse to listen to My voice, they have been hearing the voices of many false prophets.  They are saying, "all is well, and you have nothing to be warned about."  Yet, I have placed watchmen on the walls, who have seen the perils from afar, and have been declaring to all that will have ears to hear, to hear what the Spirit is saying.  No, do not regulate your life by fear, you must always live by faith, trusting My Word.  You should be familiar with the chamber of My room, where I reveal and make known all secrets to My holy ones.  My Word is true, all of it is true.  It is your map and clearly shows where we are and where we are headed.  It is all good to those who have put their trust in Me.  Warnings are not to bring fear, but in order that you may be aware.  Your preparation, should be to become sensitive to My voice, get used to hearing the sound of Me.  I will lead you to the still and peaceful waters, even in the midst of the storms of life.  I Am your hiding place, your safe haven.  So don't be dismayed when you see what will come upon the earth.  It has always been coming to this.  Those who have made me their Refuge will see the pressure rising and building over the wicked and the evil, but it will not be able to touch My faithful ones.  I have been a Shield to all who know Me as a Warrior and to all who have allowed Me to fight for them in past battles.  Wake up to the cry of My prophets that run with My Word, you will recognize My voice.  I Am all that is desired and needed by My loves, a strong fortress to them, while the rich have trusted in their wealth as their high wall.  Everything that has been erected and built by all other gods will come down, every high place that was built by this Babylon system will experience a crash.  Men that doubt Me and My Word have already built up a new system to lean and trust on.  Their wisdom will be exposed as complete folly, yet they will only see it has higher intelligence.
    In the midst of these perilous times, water, rain, and the wind will blow My loves from their places of obscurity.  They will become vibrant once again with new life to spring up with fresh wells of revelation, insight, worship and understanding of the times and seasons.  Arising with abilities that will bypass their natural capacity to sustain and cause them to prosper even in the time of famines.  They will dream with clearer definition and awaken with understanding.  The visions they see will give them deeper insight into the next steps that must be taken to bring them to a place where they are inaccessible to the climate around them.   Their worship will come from those deep wells that have been untapped, but now the thirst for more will require them to draw more.  Sharpen your blade, strength requires you to be sharp now!  The wisdom you receive from Me will help you to succeed.  I have sent My armies from heaven to be at your aid, for My holiness will be displayed by My righteous ones.  You, My loves will be My pride and My glory!
 
    "I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence.  In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]" (John 16:33)
 
    "And of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs; and all their kinsmen were under their command;" (1 Chron. 12:32)
 
    "But solid food is for full-grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law." (Heb. 5:14)
 
    "And He has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of His hand has He hid me and made me a polished arrow; in His quiver has He kept me close and concealed me." (Is. 49:2)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

July 10, 2020 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

    I have given many warnings to My people about the times of the end.  You have sat at My table that was prepared for you from the beginning. 

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Good morning,
 
    I have given many warnings to My people about the times of the end.  You have sat at My table that was prepared for you from the beginning.  You have partaken of My Word that was only sweet to your taste and easy for you to swallow.  Yet, I have referred to My Word as milk, water, bread and meat.  Each has a different texture and each one supplies you with ingredients that are needed for spiritual growth.  You have not trained your palate to desire all that is necessary to be able to endure.  So eat My Word, all of it, and it will begin to cause you to stretch out for more of Me.  Grow up in My Word!  I have described My Word as a hammer, a sword, and fire.  The hammer will deeply embed in you what is needed to keep you stable and immovable.  My sword will cut and sever from you things that have grown in your life that will weaken and infirm your walk of faith.  The fire of My Word will ignite and destroy all that is left that is unacceptable, that would try to grow back. 
   Take heed all those that I Have placed as shepherds over My people.  You are responsible for the preparation of the one-sided unhealthy portions of food that have consistently been fed to My people.  You have caused a spirit of deception and a false-belief system to breed among My church.  You have only wanted to teach what is acceptable and popular to My flock, causing them to be weak and malnourished.  Some of you teachers have made My people believe that I Am a hard taskmaster with very little mercy towards them.  Yet, others have portrayed Me as a God with very little judgment, that just gives to everyone, anything, at their request, as if I was their very own personal genie.  I am rebuking you now, from a place of My love and mercy.  I Am calling you to preach and teach the whole Gospel.  I have warned you about the time when all that people would want is to have their ears and eyes tingled for their own pleasure and delight.  A time that they would not tolerate My sound wholesome Word.  This is that time!  Stay with My Word it is the guidepost that I have given so that you may really know Me.  Stop leaving out, and adding to My Word, stop embellishing for your “person” to be seen.  Stop dishing out this ungodly mush, that does not nourish at all.  Ministers, you must prepare My people with My Word to be able to endure and to be strong in faith.  Religious, preconceived ideas are causing a sleepy, lethargic and non-responsive “body”.  Be not consumed with your own reputation, but with the care and the growth of My house.  My people are My house, build up My house and I will establish yours.  Build with My Word and not with your favorite words.  Build wisely, not with the religious wood, hay and stubble that some foolishly use.  Turn back to My Word with a pure heart.  Empty yourselves of pride, greed, jealousy, hatred, vindication and all manner of evils and return to Me.  Those who will return, I will receive you to My heart and I will multiply back to you once again.  You will make up My holy remnant, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, the set apart ones, the holy vessels of God.
 
     "Is not My word like fire [that consumes all that cannot endure the test]? says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks in pieces the rock [of most stubborn resistance]?" (Jer. 23:29)
     “And take the helmet of salvation and the sword that the Spirit wields, which is the Word of God." (Eph. 6:17)
     "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto [completed] salvation,. Since you have [already] tasted the goodness and kindness of the Lord. Come to Him [then, to that] Living Stone which men tried and threw away, but which is chosen [and] precious in God’s sight. [Come] and, like living stones, be yourselves built [into] a spiritual house, for a holy (dedicated, consecrated) priesthood, to offer up [those] spiritual sacrifices [that are] acceptable pleasing to God through Jesus Christ." (1 Peter 2:2-5)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.