Dear child, I know that there are times when it feels like I am very far
away. But the truth is that I have never left you, nor will I ever do so.
I am always with you. I live inside of you; I walk by your side, and I
remain close to you at al times. I cannot leave you or abandon you--it is
not in My nature to do so.
The heavens may feel like brass to you at times. But dear one, I am
watching you closely, and I hear every prayer--even the ones you whisper
to Me in silence. Nothing can separate you from My love and nothing can
take My attention off of you. You may feel as though you are alone and
abandoned, but you are not. I am here with you and I will not leave you.
Let Me explain to you what has really happened: your spiritual senses
have temporarily dulled, so that you are not able to perceive the reality
of My presence with you. That is why faith is so very important. I want
you to trust Me, that I would keep My word and never leave you--not even
when it feels like I am very distant.
Do not fret, little one, for I wall awake those senses once again. I
will saturate you with My presence and I will allow you to perceive My
nearness. I will encapsulate you in My love and allow you to know My
pleasure upon you. Be patient and know that I am good. Know that I am
One Who does not abandon My own or turn My back on them.
Dear one, the desert times must come into your life. It is not to punish
you, but so that you may grow and be perfected in Me. Even My Son, Jesus,
was lead into the desert just after He was baptized, so that He might be
tested. But when He came out of the desert, having passed His test, then
He was able to move in a greater measure of My power and anointing. He
was able to accomplish My will and nothing could hinder Him in this.
Yes, dear one, even your Lord Jesus Christ had to be tempered in the
desert.
Likewise, you also must be tested at certain times in your growth
process. How can you learn to stand when you are being held tightly in
My arms? How can you learn to walk in faith if you are always saturated
by a sense of My nearness? How can you have an assurance of My love and
acceptance when there is nothing in your life to test you in this area?
Stand firm, dear one, in your desert times. Know that they are but a
season and that they shall pass. Remind yourself that I lead you into
the desert for a purpose and a plan. It is to cause your faith to grow
and to strengthen and mature your character. Keep your focus on Me, even
when I feel distant. Let your faith arise, so that you know I am really
right there beside you, and that My hand remains upon you.
Remind yourself often of the prize that you will obtain when you have
passed through this desert and walked out the other side of it. Then
you will possess an increased ability to sense My nearness, and you will
grow in your intimacy with Me. Then I will be able to trust you with
greater measures of My power and anointing, and you will see an increase
of My glory manifested in your day to day life.
Dear child, do not despise your desert times, for it is those times
that your faith will grow. There are times when you must pass through
the desert in order to arrive at the base of the Mountain Of My Presence,
where you will see My manifest glory.
It does not matter how alone you feel in the desert, I will not leave
you or abandon you. I walk beside you step by step. It may feel like I
am far away from you, but I am not. I am right here, next to you, and I
have not stopped loving you or caring for you. Trust Me, dear one, in
those desert times, and you will not be disappointed.
Hear what the Spirit of the Lord says to the Church:
I am He- The Everlasting to Everlasting and Behold I Am the Lamb who was slain. Forever shall the Praises of He who was slain be sung. In all the Earth there was none found worthy but Me. I am the Christ and I AM the Alpha and Omega.
Behold fare ones:
In the coming days there shall be a rejoicing – a rejoicing for Victory is assured! I am releasing Grace and Power this day to overcome your obstacles and every evil scheme of the evil one. You are My Victors!
Behold the song of Victory is being sung in the Heavens for the saints have overcome the wicked one. There is promotion in the air for you dear ones – I shall elevate you in the Spirit and the manifestation shall be seen in the Earth. Array yourselves and advance for the Victory is assured. Go and take the territory that was stolen. Whether it is your land or possessions or your peace and health – Take what belongs to you, Take It by Force! The Victory is yours. Step out in Faith and reclaim your Joy and Peace Beloved Ones!
Rev 12:10-11 “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
But Elijah replied to the captain, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and destroy you and your fifty men!" Then fire fell from heaven and killed them all.” 11) So the king sent another captain with fifty men. The captain said to him, "Man of God, the king says that you must come down right away." 12) Elijah replied, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and destroy you and your fifty men!" And again the fire of God fell from heaven and killed them all.” 2 Kings 1:10-12 NLT emphasis added.
God had authenticated Elijah's ministry under Ahab by fire. For Ahaziah, following in Ahab's steps, God did the same. In the encounter on Mt. Carmel, God responded to the strong decrees His prophets and leaders placed on other people when they fulfilled God’s intentions. The ‘summons of fire’ was not a weapon to be used indiscriminately against one's enemies.
God's responses revealed God's power, not the prophet's. When we understand God’s power it gives a real view of His mercy in combination with His justice. God’s system is not man’s authority to incorporate insensitive curses upon our human enemies. In the days prior to Grace through Jesus Christ mission of the Cross of Calvary, we could have received a fiery judgment over many sins that we now have blotted out by the Blood of Jesus! Times of God have brought us into a dispensation of Grace.
When we understand God’s Word, we soon realize this season will not be with mankind forever. This season of Grace must cause us to see sin as the enemy and to apply the Fire of the Holy Spirit on this sin by engaging all the people we can for the message of the Gospel while there is yet daytime of Grace. Our mission is to seek and to redeem all that are lost. All 6 Billion plus people on this earth did not have hell in their plans. God made hell only for satan and his followers!
Present day prophets have no authority to call fire down upon anyone just as it was in the days Jesus lived.
If we lived in the Old Testament days, we would only have the hope of seeing the law being one day fulfilled as our sins were annually pushed ahead. Today, the Lord Jesus Christ sat in the Messiah’s and the Prophet’s chair in the Jewish synagogue in Luke Chapter 4:20. The early prophets displayed to God’s enemy what God wanted them to view compared to the fire that burns in His heart for His own. Today we see that Jesus brought a fulfilling promise of another Fire that only He could fulfill for the Father that formerly sent fire to demonstrate His power through His servants-His prophets. We do not have that authority today as God gave that authority to be the fire of God that burns to reconcile all His creation of mankind back to their rightful relationship. The Fire of the Holy Spirit now is released from The Prophet Jesus to this new age of Grace.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19) To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20) And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21) And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. 22) And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son? 23) And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. 24) And he said, Verily, I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.”
The disciples wanted to go back to the days of Elijah and do, as they knew Elijah and rain fire down on others for not receiving Jesus and themselves in their city. Jesus rebuked them and so we must take note of this as well. Jesus came to save lives—not destroy them.
“And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? 55) But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. 56) For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.” Luke 9:54-56 KJV emphasis added.
Jesus literally rained fire down upon satan and his demons when He was crucified, buried and then resurrected. This new authority gave us the ability to be totally reconciled with God for eternity, yet it further secured an eternal fiery ending upon all spiritual forces of darkness. Depending upon which choice mankind makes will determine the fire that they choose. It is God’s desire to have all humanity with Him in heaven forever. We now have the ability to choose to be filled with Jesus Christ, His Holy Spirit and consumed by the Fire of God!
Always a Voice for the LORD,
John Mark & Sandy Pool
Do you not know that you begin each day with a clean slate. It is my promise to you as you confess your sins, for I am faithful and just to forgive your sins and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. Remember that Jesus is your righteousness and all have sinned and fallen short of my Glory, and it is my desire to fill you with my glory, but it must be in a cleansed and holy temple and it is available to each and every person. So look to me and meet with me and confess that which is trying to keep you from being filled with my glory. Your destiny is to be filled with my glory manifesting my glory in signs and wonders and miracles. This is a month of my glory and my miracles. They are just around the corner. They are waiting to be taken up by you and released as you release your faith.
Prayer for Today
Power Over Darkness
The Word of God says:
Psalm 18:28 (KJV)
For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
Psalm 107:14 (KJV)
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Isaiah 45:3 (KJV)
And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
John 8:12 (KJV)
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Acts 26:18 (KJV)
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Romans 13:12 (KJV)
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Ephes. 6:12 (KJV)
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places
Col. 1:13 (KJV)
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
PRAYER:
FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR LIGHTING YOUR CANDLE IN US: AND YOU THE LORD OUR GOD WILL ENLIGHTEN ANY PLACE OF DARKNESS WITHIN US OR IN OUR LIVES TODAY
LORD, WE PRAISE YOU FOR BRINGING US OUT OF DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH, AND HAVE BROKEN ALL OF THE BANDS THAT TIE US UP TODAY
FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR TRANSFERRING THE TREASURES OF DARKNESS, AND HIDDEN RICHES OF SECRET PLACES UNTO US, THAT PEOPLE WOULD KNOW THAT YOU THE LORD WHO HAS CALLED US BY NAME IS OUR GOD TODAY
JESUS, WE EXALT YOU FOR BEING THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD: AND WE THAT FOLLOW YOU DO NOT WALK IN DARKNESS, BUT HAVE YOUR LIGHT SHINING INTO EVERY AREA AND SITUATION OF LIFE TODAY
FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR SENDING YOUR DEAR SON, TO OPEN OUR EYES, AND TURN US FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT, AND FROM ALL OF THE POWER OF SATAN UNTO GOD IN ALL THINGS TODAY
LORD, WE BLESS YOU AND WE DO CAST OFF ALL WORKS OF DARKNESS, AND WE PUT ON THE ARMOR OF YOUR LIGHT IN EVERY THING WE DO TODAY
FATHER, WE THANK FOR THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD BUT AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS AND RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, AND AGAINST WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES AND WE THANK YOU FOR POWER OVER ALL OF THEM THROUGH CHRIST JESUS IN ALL THINGS TODAY
LORD, WE EXALT YOU, WHO HAS DELIVERED US FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS, AND HAS TRANSLATED US INTO THE KINGDOM OF YOUR DEAR SON TODAY
LASTLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU THAT WE ARE YOUR CHOSEN GENERATION, YOUR ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, YOUR HOLY NATION, YOUR PECULIAR PEOPLE; THAT WE SHOULD SHOW FORTH YOUR PRAISES, WHO HAS CALLED US OUT OF ALL DARKNESS INTO YOUR MARVELLOUS LIGHT TODAY
IN JESUS NAME, WE PRAY…AMEN!
