Tag: tests

January 20, 2023 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

 Do not allow your feelings to lead or guide you.  Now you must live by faith, which is not feeling-based. 

 
Good morning,
 
    Do not allow your feelings to lead or guide you.  Now you must live by faith, which is not feeling-based.  Here is where you must lean your entire personality over on Me and keep your hand and your eyes on Me.   Decisions made now centered on your feelings will surely end in ruin and disaster.  Hear My voice clearly and watch My steps also.  Know Me and My Word, for those who once followed Me and did not truly love Me will find it difficult to hold on.  So it may seem as if you are walking alone, but remember I always have many that have not bowed their knee to the god of this world.  I am restoring joy and strength to many that stood through the difficult tests and trials, those who have endured hardness as My soldiers will shine forth as a great city of light. Instead of failing, they have learned how to overcome by the blood and the Word of their testimony.  When tested, tempted, and tried they withstood the enemy's beguiling voice of deceit.  As in any war, it is the front-liners who are assaulted the most.  Yet, when they outlast all attacks, they receive the greatest reward and spoils.  Rewards of honor and valor, are things that distinguish them from all others who march alongside them.
  
    Do not let the tactics of the wicked one cause you to become offended, for many of your loved ones may lend their members to offend in this season.  Many who oppose Me may be found in your own household, these are signs of the times and of My soon return.  You must keep on walking to higher places in Me.  Run with those who are running to win, not those who have let the love of this world's system overtake their love for Me.  Remember I have foretold you that people would be lovers of themselves, haters of those who do good.  So you must subdue your feelings, for the enemy desires for you to make strategic moves based only on what you feel.  You must realize that these choices would cause chaos in your life.  Now is when you must pursue the enemy with the Word, war with the promises that I have given unto you.  My Word will stand through it all, every violent attack against you was sent as a missile to bring you down.  I expect My warriors to rise with the weapons of warfare that I have placed at your disposal.  They are mighty to bring you through to victory!  Stay safe underneath the shadow of My wings!
 
    "If the world hates you, know that it hated Me before it hated you.If you belonged to the world, the world would treat you with affection and would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world [no longer one with it], but I have chosen (selected) you out of the world, the world hates (detests) you." (John 15:18-19) 
 

    "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good. Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." (2 Tim. 3:2-5)

 
    "Take [with me] your share of the hardships and suffering [which you are called to endure] as a good (first-class) soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier when in service gets entangled in the enterprises of [civilian] life; his aim is to satisfy and please the one who enlisted him." (2 Tim. 2:3-4)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

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Good morning,
  
     There are many that have been overwhelmed by the onslaught of circumstances, tests, and trials, that have come upon them this past year.  I would like to magnify these words once again that they have been sent by the enemy to cause discouragement, disillusionment, and despair, in hopes of wearing you out and causing you to let go and give up.  Whatever you do, don't quit, because for you the best is yet to come.  I will uphold you by the right hand of My righteousness, I will not let you fail or fall.  My promises to you are, yes and amen.  I am not a God that will lie and that can not perform His Word that has been spoken to you.  Call upon the power of My Spirit that lives within you and stand erect like the powerful one that I have called and anointed you to be, there is more in you than you have even seen.  Speak now to your circumstances, even in your weakened state, and My Word will tear down the mountains that have been erected against you.  For My dear child, it is not by your might or strength, it is by the power of My Word.  I will not stop until I have perfected you and you see Me on that day that I have prepared for all that have finished their race and course that I set before them.  For I have prepared for you the best, and the most grand reward for all that you have accomplished in My name.  Though for you it might seem small and insignificant, I measure and weigh things done in My name, much differently than men.  Did not I say that even if you give a cup of cold water in My name to a disciple that you will receive the reward?  And did I not say that he that receives a prophet in My name shall receive the prophet's reward?  So My child, keep running the race that has been set before you, you will win as long as you endure to the end. 
     I will give you a resting place, a time away, a time to gather your breath, in order to be ignited afresh and anew.  Do not be weary in your well doing, and do not measure your well doing according to the standards of those around you.  I see all that you have done as a labor of love in My kingdom and I have set My seal of love upon you for your work of love.  I know how you have stood against all that was evil and unholy.  I know every word of encouragement spoken and every gift given, I have seen the times when you neglected yourself in order to provide for other, your selfless acts and display of love when no other eye beheld it.  I did.  I have perfect accounts of all things good and bad.  I will say to you My loved one that I Am pleased with your diligence and persistence for the Kingdom, and the love of the Body of Christ.  Be encouraged, and speak to yourself, when no one else has a song of praise, know that I sing and dance over you with strong declaration.  Rejoice and be glad for the enemy persecuted My prophets and saints of old and great was their reward, and so shall yours be too.  You are my jewel and I Am delighted with you.
     "He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.  And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward." (Matt. 10:41-42)
     "And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him." (Mal. 3:17)
     "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." (1 Cor. 15:58)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.