Tag: valley

May 10, 2024 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

Even though you may be walking through the darkest, sunless valley of the shadow of death, do not fear.  I, even I, am there to lead and guide you.  I will not leave you.  Lean on Me and I will hold you in my hands.  You will come out into the sunshine that I have prepared you for.  I will bring you to your safe haven.  You will overcome this too, and grow stronger and be more determined than ever to trust Me.  You will come to understand and know that I really know, what the best way is for you.  I know that at times you don’t believe I have your best interest in My heart.  You think I have closed My ears to your cries because it is not the way you would choose.  You are the apple of my eye, trust Me!  I can see farther than you, I know everything concerning you.  Your future is far greater than you can imagine.  If you let Me I can make your life so sweet, you will pinch yourself to make sure that it is you living it.  Will you really trust Me?  Every day I Am bringing you closer to the end of this place that you are in.  I hear you, I care for you.  You are not by yourself.  I Am turning things around and straightening out the crooked places in you as well as in your living.  I can be trusted with every detail of your life.  I am your Father, and I am dependable.  Most of all, my beloved, I love you more, so much more than you love yourself. Stop running around to everyone and everything else, come up and rest in My arms.  Take a deep breath and rest in Me.  Fix your gaze on Me.  I truly Am trustworthy.  Come on, run to Me, I will be your resting place. 

“Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.” (Psalm 116:7)

“But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.” (Psalm 5:11)

“Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain” (Isaiah 40:4)

Love,

Pastor D.

March 10, 2023 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

A generation of Davids is what I Am seeking. The question is asked, why was David a man after My own heart?

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Good morning,
 
    A generation of Davids is what I Am seeking. The question is asked, why was David a man after My own heart? It is because David praised Me in the valley, he remained the same, and he praised Me on the mountaintop. He never changed, he praised Me during death, and in life. He never changed, his praise for me was never altered and I Am raising up a generation of Davids whose praises are not altered by the things they have or do not have or by happenings that come into their life or by the things that are taken out of their life.
    This generation shall see My coming. They remain consistent, with an offering of thanksgiving to Me, and as they do something happens on the inside of them. Deep begins to really cry out to deep. Things unknown, things not yet seen, and things not yet heard will begin to be revealed and made known to them.  That generation who are not moved by circumstances or situations. I will begin to uncover hidden riches. Hidden depth on the inside of them. And the least of these are the temporary things of this world. I will reveal to you spiritual insights and depths that you have never known. You have longed for and asked to know these things. And because you would not be moved, I will strengthen your stand in the last days.
    You will not be shaken by the things that are coming upon the earth. It will be a sudden shaking. For right now, My glory is rising upon you because some have awakened from their slumber. I Am rising upon you with wisdom and insight and My gifts and anointing are rising too. Rising upon the youngest to the oldest who yield. We have been interceding on the behalf of all the earth that My children might truly know Me and demonstrate who I Am to this world before great darkness come. While the light is here shine on. Shine on with all the power and the glory and the anointing that I have placed within you.
    Stay consistent in your praise, turning the light up!
 
    "For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light [lead the lives of those native-born to the Light]." (Ephes. 5:8) 
    
    "I have seen that everything [human] has its limits and end [no matter how extensive, noble, and excellent]; but Your commandment is exceedingly broad and extends without limits [into eternity]. Oh, how love I Your law! It is my meditation all the day." (Ps. 119: 96-97)
 
    "Arise [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you—rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you! For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and dense darkness [all] peoples, but the Lord shall arise upon you [O Jerusalem], and His glory shall be seen on you. And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising." (Is. 60:1-3)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

January 14, 2022 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

I Am calling you up to the highest place, to the mountain of the Lord.  All this time you have been going through a refining process. 

 
Good morning,
 
    I Am calling you up to the highest place, to the mountain of the Lord.  All this time you have been going through a refining process.  I Am bringing up to the surface of your life, the gold that has been buried deep in you, My grand purpose and plan for you before the enemy set out to try to kill, steal and destroy it.  It has been buried because of old dirt.  The old dirt of your past and of previous generational weaknesses.  The gold is priceless, its value will begin to go up and up.  This refining process has brought fires, fires of testing, and fires of purification, removing the "dirt of fear", "the dirt of low self-image", the "dirt of repeated failures", all the "dirt of the old man", and all the other dirty lies of the wicked one.  As you continue waking up towards Me, you have increased in your ability and in your stability.  When you slipped and fell, you got back up, you would not quit.  You heard Me, calling you to come up higher.  You threw off the dirt and begin to allow the process of refining, becoming stronger, and choosing to become a vessel of honor.    
    For there were those who began this walk with you and they are no longer here.  They could not stand the intensity of the fires of change.  They could not stand the steepness of mountain climbing.  As you continued to climb up the mountain, they fell away.  Sometimes it seemed as if you could not take another step, yet you continued by faith and were motivated by love.  Here is where the impossible, became possible; you begin to learn to lean your entire personality over on Me.  When you were weak I remained strong.  As you took the mountain one step after the other, you began to realize the very thing that was sent to destroy you, I began to turn it around for you.  You started to develop "spiritual muscles", getting stronger even through opposing circumstances.  Every new level of the mountain you have been faced with new levels of trouble, suffering, or responsibility, yet you pressed, becoming surefooted even in those times.  I brought you up the mountain on purpose, so that you would see the need to rid yourself of the heavily weighted baggage that you were carrying.  At each new height, you would let go of those things that so easily beset you, desiring to be free.  As you journeyed from the place of familiarity closer to Me, you could hear My voice clearer.  I Am saying, "Come away from the noise of living in the valley, come where adventures of real living and great encounters with Me will show you things to come."  As you keep walking through troubles and sufferings, I will cause you to take the mountain much quicker now, yes, even now.  Remember I know the way!

    Unforgiveness, bitterness, hatred, selfishness, jealousy, pride, and all of the other dirt of your soul that has been used to try and keep you standing still in terror or fear can not keep you down.  You are walking lighter, higher, and stronger now, making strides toward Me.  Let it go, let it all go!  Free to follow Me, higher still.  In order to come up higher with Me, to truly see Me as I Am, you must have a pure heart.  Therefore, you must allow the process of purification, ridding yourself of bitterness, hatred, unforgiveness, feelings of rejection, hurt, misuse, and being abused.  You must cease all forms of manipulation, scheming to have your way, and controlling others.  Rebellion and secret loathing of My Words, doubt, and unbelief must come to an end.  For I Am "God of the heart", I know your motives and the intents of your heart, and if what you are doing, and why you are doing it does not line up with My Word, I will not, and can not bless it!  I know the secret thoughts of your heart. Only those with a pure heart can see God!  The mountain journey will aid and assist in removing any and all impurities of the heart.  So, go up My children.
 
    "The Lord God is my Strength, my personal bravery, and my invincible army; He makes my feet like hinds feet and will make me to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk] and make spiritual progress upon my high place [of trouble, suffering, or responsibility]!" (Habbakuk 3:19)
 
    "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." (Heb. 4:12)
 
    "When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their distress and troubles." (Ps. 34:17)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

January 31, 2019 – Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

On the mountain, on the high places you are able to see even the valleys and the next high place.  You can see every mountain that you have passed, every mountain that you have spoken to by My word, and every mountain that you have eradicated by My word, those that are in your past.

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Good morning,
 
     On the mountain, on the high places you are able to see even the valleys and the next high place.  You can see every mountain that you have passed, every mountain that you have spoken to by My word, and every mountain that you have eradicated by My word, those that are in your past.  Now I Am saying to you, that as you stand on this mountain, you will see all the other mountains that have come, and that are coming against your life and you will see that you have the power within you now, as you stay hidden in Me, to speak to every mountain and they will collapse and, or move aside.  But if you are not going to stay hidden in Me, you will find that these mountains are hard to climb and you will require my strength even to make the next step.  So I am requiring you to seek Me like you have never done before, for the times that you are in right now requires a heart that is hungry and thirsty after Me.  When you are hungry and thirsty after Me then I will fill you to the full and overflowing, and you will be able to speak to those mountains and see them move, move easily.  It will take some strength, but it will be My strength, and the strength you have in My word.  You will begin to be stronger than you ever have been before because you have chosen to walk with Me.  You will notice that even those things that come against you daily, for I know the things that come against you daily, that you will experience daily victories.  I see how the enemy causes pits, and sets traps and snares to try to get you to focus on him, and draw your attention on him instead of what I Am doing.  Now you will be able to focus on what I Am doing which will cause you to come up another level higher, higher in Me and you will understand deeper things, wisdom and insight will come to you in this season.  Wisdom and insight that you have longed for and cried out for because now you will hear Me, and see what I Am doing in your midst.  Your focus will not be on what the enemy is doing because that zaps and dries up any insight and wisdom because your focus is on the dark things instead of on the light.  But as you focus on the light and keep your focus on My word, you will step into the place that I have set aside for this generation.  A place of insight and wisdom so that you can draw and pull back, and not only pull those who have fallen away, but that generation that men have named that is hard to reach, they will be easier to reach.  For I have not finished with anyone, I am just beginning to do the work that I designed to do before you were ever born.  I will in fact cause a fresh anointing to come upon your physical being, that means those things where you have tired you out before, you will experience new energy.  New energy to seek My face, new energy to wait on Me as you seek My face, new energy to do those things that I have called you to do.  Yes, you will do those things, you will not only hear this is the way, but you will walk in them because you will do exactly what I have called you to do.  You will be quicker to obey Me because you will know Me, you will know My voice because of our continued intimate moments.  You will know that it is I, that have spoken to you and you will do those things with joy.  The season of confusion that the enemy brought is over, as you yield to Me and stay under the secret place, stay in the cleft of the rock.  There I will open your eyes to see not only Me, but every enemy and you will know how to dispossess them, and know how to bring them down.  This is the time of enlightenment for My children, for you have asked and cried out to know Me, to see Me, to be a part of what I Am doing.  I have made these things available to you as you seek Me, as you get hungry and thirsty for Me, you will know Me.  I Am not too difficult to find, I Am not hard to hear.  All I ask is that you clear your heart and mind so that then you can hear Me.  This is a new day for My people, a day of the dawning of the powerful, anointed ones.  You will live it and you will walk in it and there will be nothing that you can not do, for you have put on a new garment of boldness in this season.
     "But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired." (Is. 40:31)
     "He said to them, Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have faith that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you." (Matt. 17:20)
     "Blessed and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous (in that state in which the born-again child of God enjoys His favor and salvation) are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God), for they shall be completely satisfied!" (Matt. 5:6)
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

I have brought you this way.I have brought you this way.Even though you say, “I have cried a lot”.Even though you sing, “I have cried a lot”.  I have bought you this way.  It was intentional.

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Good morning,
 
I have brought you this way.
I have brought you this way.
Even though you say, "I have cried a lot".
Even though you sing, "I have cried a lot".  
I have bought you this way.  It was intentional.
Your tears have brought a harvest of joy.
Your tears, your tears will bring a harvest of joy. 
For those who sow in tears will reap in joy. 
Harvest is coming.  
Harvest is coming and it's filled with joy, so much joy.
The difficult ways, the difficult steps, the difficult way you gained the knowledge that you have.
The difficult way that you have known, it was done to make you more like Me.
I have seen to it says the Lord, I have brought you this way to bring about a greatness in your life, to bring about a greatness in your heart so that you would never be moved or be persuaded to do anything other than follow Me all the days of your life.
I have brought you this way, to make you stable and unyielding to testings.
You have seen many giants in your land and I have seen to it, says the spirit of grace and mercy, that they were brought down by your words, brought down by your worship, brought down by your praise.
I have brought you this way to make you the man, or the woman that you are today.  
I have brought you this way even though you did not understand, I knew the way.
I knew the way and I would not change the path to bring about what you are today.
I have brought you this way so that you might stand in times of difficulty, knowing who I Am, never being persuaded to go another way, never listening to the voice of the enemy who would cause you to sway.
I have brought you this way and this is what I planned for you even before you were formed in your mother's womb.  I knew the days, I knew the steps, I knew the way and I brought you this way to fashion and form you into the one who stands before Me, holy, fully persuaded to follow Me all the days of your life.
I have brought you this way, not easily moved by circumstances, nor situations.
I have brought you this way, even though you did not understand when you cried those tears.  I was taking those tears, and I was using them as seeds to multiply back to you a harvest of joy.
I have brought you this way and I knew that you would become the person you are today easily swayed by My spirit, not easily swayed by the enemy.
I knew exactly what I was doing in you.
I knew exactly what I was bringing you to.
I have brought you this way says the Spirit of God.
 
     You thought I had forgotten about you.  You thought I had left you in the valley but I Am a God who is faithful to the promises that I have made to you and I have called you to war with the promises that I have given to you.  Even when it looked like darkness surrounded you, I was even light in the midst of the darkness calling you and causing you to come up.  Come up higher, another step, come up  higher way with Me.  I know your tears, and I know your heartbreak, but now I have turned those things around for your good so that you can save and help many others who are in that place, in that valley, in that place of indecision where the enemy tries to confuse them.  Now you can direct them out of that valley into the light says the Lord.  I anointed your for this season, I anointed you for this time. I have never, never abandon you, but I anointed you for this time. I held you in My hand that is why you stand today.  It is no mighty powerful thing that you have done except yielding to Me, yielded to My way, yielded even when you did not understand what was going on and you held on to My hand.  I have made you, says the Lord into My image, that you might stand before men to bring them into the Kingdom in the last days.  For you know the way, and you know your Father, and you know My heart and it is because you have endured those difficult, hard, and trying things, that you know that I Am faithful, for I brought out. I will never leave you alone and I will never abandon you, but I Am working miracles, signs and wonders in you so that you can do them and walk in them.  That is who I Am, faithful to you, faithful to the call, faithful to My purpose, faithful to My plan, says the Lord.
 
     "And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit." (2 Corin. 3:18)
     "Light arises in the darkness for the upright, gracious, compassionate, and just [who are in right standing with God]." (Ps. 112:4)
     "They who sow in tears shall reap in joy and singing.He who goes forth bearing seed and weeping [at needing his precious supply of grain for sowing] shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." (Ps. 126:5-6) 
 
Love,
 
Pastor D.