Tag: trouble

July 8, 2022 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Understand this and take to heart that the plan of the enemy is to keep your eyes and mind on all of the trouble and chaos that he keeps stirring up around you.

 
Good morning,
 
    Understand this and take to heart that the plan of the enemy is to keep your eyes and mind on all of the trouble and chaos that he keeps stirring up around you.  Do not quickly forget that I have said, "in the time of trouble I will hide you safe in My pavilion and under the shadow of My wings."  My desire is that you would learn to keep your eyes and your mind stayed on My goodness to you.  Goodness and mercy are on assignment from heaven to do you good.  You must stay readily accessible by pressing into the hiding place that I have for you.  There you have access to the Kingdom, all that you need for recovery, restoration, and a refreshing.  Yes, I have given to you all that is needed to live a victorious life.
     You are standing at the dawn of your breakthrough, do not be deceived now.  This is where the enemy will pull out all the wicked spirits of offenses, bitterness, and unforgiveness.  Your thoughts and your words you must put a watch on and cast them down.  You do possess authority over them.  Remember your fight is not against people, but against principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this present world, and against spiritual wickedness in high places.  Here is where the spirit of deception will turn My children against one another, fighting in the House, instead of against the enemy.  This will cause you to be defeated when you fight against those who I am for.  In war many times there is fire sent out that hurts and mauls their own allies.  This confusion is a smoke screen to keep you from receiving what you have labored and believed for.  Once you step through the opening, the light that you will have will be greater than what you had before the storm came.  What you have glanced at in the shadows shall be clearly known.  I make darkness light, and the crooked places straight!  More than before, you must stay glued by love to the members of My Body that I have connected you with, this is for your healing and your deliverance."  Take refuge and be confident in Me until the calamities pass, for I Am your hiding place.
 
    "Surely or only goodness, mercy, and unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life, and through the length of my days the house of the Lord [and His presence] shall be my dwelling place." (Ps.23:6)
 
    "Be merciful and gracious to me, O God, be merciful and gracious to me, for my soul takes refuge and finds shelter and confidence in You; yes, in the shadow of Your wings will I take refuge and be confident until calamities and destructive storms are passed. (Ps.57:1)
 
    "For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere."(Eph. 6:12)
 
    "For by the grace (unmerited favor of God) given to me I warn everyone among you not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought [not to have an exaggerated opinion of his own importance], but to rate his ability with sober judgment, each according to the degree of faith apportioned by God to him." (Rom. 12:3)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

May 29, 2020 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

When we go through sore troubles, and we are trusting and believing God’s Word, we learn that the promises are really true for us.

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Good morning,
 
     Psalm 71:20-21; "You have allowed me to suffer much hardship, but you will restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth.  You will restore me to even greater honor and comfort me once again."  Suffer, hardship, troubles, these are words that we would rather not hear in the Christian community.  Yet God reminds us that these things are allowed in our lives, in seasons for a higher reason.  This verse in the King James translation says, "Thou, which has shown me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me again from the depths of the earth." [vs.20]   Great troubles means huge, increased, and many.  Sore troubles means adversity, affliction, calamity, displeasure grievous, sorrow and trouble.  That is just to name a few.  Why?  Why are we allowed to go through troubles and hardships?  Let's see what the Psalmist writes.  "Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word." (Psalm 119:67) "It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statues.' (Psalm 119:71) When we go through sore troubles, and we are trusting and believing God's Word, we learn that the promises are really true for us.  We have experience to go with our faith.  It is no longer the pastor's, the evangelist's, the teacher's or anyone else's testimony, it becomes your own.  You have seen the true and living God come to your aid, watch over His Word and perform it on your behalf.  The Word that you refused to let go of, that faithful promise you stood on.  When all else that you trusted in proves that it is unstable, unfaithful, not lasting, and undependable, then you are left to see God's Word will prove itself. "Faithful and absolutely trustworthy is He who is calling you {to himself for your salvation}, and He will do it {He will fulfill His call by making you holy, guarding you, watching over you, and protecting you as His own}." (1 Thess. 5:24)
     Look at the power and the benefit of trusting God's Word.  "…you will restore me [quicken me] to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth."  Quicken is to make alive, nourish up, to recover, repair, to restore and to revive and to preserve to life again.  Restore means to give back, to make restitution, to rebuild, to bring back to a healthy state, to make amends or compensation for, to replace in a former state of favor and grace.  After we have withstood, we then inherit the promise and receive greater honor. " Blessed [happy, spiritually prosperous, favored by God] is the man who is steadfast under trial and perseveres when tempted; for when he has passed the test and been approved, he will receive the [victor's] crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him." (James 1:12) God, our Father delights to lift us up from the deepest abyss of life and bring us up to the greatest place of honor.  He did it with David, Abraham, Esther, Joseph, Ruth, Gideon, Moses, Daniel, the three Hebrew boys, the list goes on and on.  When all of our dependency is in Him, not in us or the arm of flesh, stand and see the salvation of the Lord.  Salvation means, something saved, deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity, health and help.  He wants our Source to be Him, for all of His rewards are with Him.  Get ready then to be brought up from the places of the abyss and be revived, rebuilt, quickened, brought back to live, really live.  Greater grace, greater favor, greater amends and compensation.  That first burst of sunlight is awesome, train your eyes to see greater distances.  We are rising to new heights in Christ.  We have learned through our afflictions that our God is a mighty deliverer and restorer!!!
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.