I am sifting you as if to separate the wheat from the chaff in you, My people. I will indeed sort out and make a distinction between that which accelerates life and order and that which brings chaos and hinders your spiritual growth. I alone know exactly what will prepare you to fulfill My plans and purposes in your life, and I alone will lead, guide and direct your steps. Yield your will to accept what I am doing whether you understand it or not. I am with you for your good, and you will bring glory to My name, says the Lord.
Luke 3:17 "His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire."
Beloved, I have set you on a fast track to fulfilling My purposes on the earth. Watch for the enemy to interfere with the pace that has been set by creating complacency or laziness in you. Resist with all your heart this work of the devil against you. You must not lose your momentum. Do whatever is necessary to stay awake and alert in the spirit realm. Yield to the working of My Spirit as I hone and fine tune your discernment, says the Lord.
Proverbs 2: 3-5 Yes, if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
For I have heard the cry of your heart. I have looked upon you with eyes of love, and I have found you wanting. I have been so pleased with your desire, and I have been drawn to your holiness. For I the Lord am attracted to holiness. I shall indeed open the heavens for you. You shall not always be found wanting or lacking. I am a God who can fulfill your every need and desire. Just one touch from My hand, and you are made whole...body, soul and spirit. Oh yes, saith the Lord, I will rain down blessings on my remnant that has stood strong and longed for the tender caresses of my Spirit. I have watched you read the Song of Solomon, and I have planted that hunger within your heart. I do not plant a seed that I will not water and spring forth into new life. For there is a new day dawning for many of you. A long awaited day. A day of great reward and anticipation. For those who have hungered and thirsted after righteousness, SHALL BE FILLED! Ask of Me what you will, for I do decree, the heavens are open for you!
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Do you not see? Do you not know that the King of all the universe is
on your side?
I have surely held back the thunder in the skies on your behalf. I
have kept the clouds from forming over you. I have not allowed the
enemy to trample you under his feet. For I tell you today, that in
this day and hour, you shall trample him instead. You shall take up
your authority, and you will not be moved. You are like a flower petal
that has been fragile, and yet you are strong. I have made you strong,
invincible.
Together we can accomplish so much! Walk with Me, talk with Me. Let us go
hand in hand across this land and slay mighty dragons together.
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Declare War!
My servants and My warriors, this is time to press into Me. It is thetime
to get on your knees and seek My face; stand in the gap cry out to Heaven.
Declare war; say no to Satan and say no to the flesh. Let Me arise in the
midst of the battle and march forth.
Declare war and expel darkness. Stand firm on My word and put on the whole
armor of your God.Shout and declare that I am alive and My power and
authority is on you.
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, for I am with you and I will
bring you through to higher ground. I am bigger than any obstacle that may
come across your paths. I have given you authority and boldness to speak to
the mountains and defeat the giants in your life. Yes, you have victory in
Me, for I have begun a good work in you, and I will finish it. Say no to
the tricks and schemes of the enemy and declare war! Stand and walk in
faith that I will bring you through, no matter the trials.
So seek Me. Arise in boldness and authority march throughout the land.You
shall come through every storm and battle, for your God is with you,and you
shall triumph with Me. For you shall be more than a conqueror in Me.
Proclaim I am a overcomer; by faith proclaim victory and triumph, for this
is the season to fight and expel the darkness. For My word lives in you and
it shall not come null and void.
So declare My truth and claim it to be, for in Me youlive and move. As My
faith arises in you, the giants and mountains in your life will be
defeated. So march forward in boldness; put My full armor on and walk in My
authority. Your enemies will be defeated as you shout forth My victory.
So, My warriors, sing a song of victory and triumph.
The Waiting
Those who wait upon the Lord, will renew their strength, they will soar on wings like the eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (Isaiah 40:31 )
...for twelve years she had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. (Mark 5:25 )
While Jesus was still speaking, some men came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue ruler. "Your daughter is dead," they said, "Why bother the teacher any more?" (Mark 5:35)
Parents waiting for children out past curfew know it. Couples having trouble conceiving a child know it. A family separated by overseas military service knows it. A person needing an organ transplant knows it. A candidate for law or medical school knows it. A pregnant mom 10 days past due knows it. A person struggling to be hired for a job knows it. In fact, at one time or another, most of us come to know this brooding beast. It's the long wait -- that drawn out time of fretful anticipation and extended longing.
"Those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength..." Often, this is easier said than done. Before we get to "mount up on wings like eagles," we often have to obediently grind away through the brutal passage of agonizing time. Before we can "run and not grow weary," we have to trudge on as anticipation dims and hope's flickering flame fights against the winds of despair. Many times, we just have to keep walking and trust that some hidden grace will help us "not faint."
That's what makes this story of Jairus' daughter so compelling to me. Like you, I don't like to wait. In my mind, if there is any privilege for those with power and position, one should not have to wait! "They" surely don't have to wait like I do. "They" get to move to the head of line. "They" get to throw around their weight and get what they want when they want it. In this case, however, "they" (or more accurately, "he") didn't. (see Mark 5:21-43)
Instead, Jairus' humbling approach to Jesus, an approach that could cost him everything in sacred society, was interrupted by a desperate woman who had faced "the long wait" herself as she had hopelessly gone to every healer available to her, and no doubt prayed incessantly for her own cure. This woman, who could not go into the synagogue because of her uncleanness, derailed the hope parade of Jairus, the ruler of the synagogue.
I find two things amazing about both of them. First, neither complains about his or her wait. Not the woman, who has spent her fortune on false medical hopes, nor Jairus, who has spent his respect capital to associate himself with a suspicious teacher. Both wait for their Lord to act. Impatiently waiting? Probably! But, they waited and received their grace.
Second, they both received the personal attention of the Lord -- the man of power who could expect that attention and the woman on the fringes who, in her day, could not expect it. Jesus refused to let the woman have an anonymous miracle! He personally and specifically blessed her. Jairus' daughter would not be healed for the crowd, but only in the closed intimacy of Jesus' chosen few and Jairus' family. Both waited faithfully. Both received the personal attention of the Master! Each received his or her heart's greatest desire.
This is not a story about long ago and far away. It is a reminder that Jesus is there for those who wait. It is a renewal of the ancient hope that God will act for those who don't give up during the long wait. You see, the issue isn't the wait. Instead, it is all about refusing to give up hope when the journey seems so long (12 years for the woman) and the problems so insurmountable (a dead 12-year old daughter for Jairus).
Maybe you face the long wait right now. Maybe your heartbreak or shame or disappointment or loss seems insurmountable. If so, I want to encourage you to come back to this story of the powerless woman and the powerful man and remember the place their broken hearts met, the place their broken dreams were mended, and the place their long wait ended. Know that place is really a person, and his name is Jesus.
Phil Ware
www.heartlight.org
Haggai 2: 6-9 For thus says the Lord of hosts: Once more (in a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory, says the Lord of hosts. The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine says the Lord of hosts. The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, says the Lord of hosts.”
I want to tell you something, beloved. I want you to take My words deep into your heart. Ruminate on them. Chew them until they become a part of you.
I am the Lord your God. I change not. I offer much to one who will accept My offer, much. Listen to these words. Hear them. Let the listener beware, for in hearing you must also respond and with these words, I am asking for a response, a response from everyone who hears these words, ponders them, and then makes a decision.
I want you to know that much awaits one who is inclined to follow Me, more than you can imagine. I want you to know that the one who chooses Me over all else will find himself blessed, but the one who follows the world, never giving Me a backward glance, will not go unscathed, for the adversary is out to dupe, mock, and eventually kill. So be aware that the words that I am speaking bear much significance for your future.
Things are about to take on a strange, new look, a look that many will find quite ghastly, but those who serve Me, maintaining their focus on Me, will see the signs of the times for what they are, and as they focus on Me they will know a deep, deep peace settling in over their hearts. This is truth. Ponder it! Take it to heart. Respond to Me your wish to advance into all that I have for you, My chosen, My very own.
I want you to know that the days ahead, ghastly though they may be, will not harm the well-being of My dear children, those who have conditioned themselves to follow after the heart of the Beloved. Yes, your well-being is secure in Me, dear one, most secure. So bear this in mind when contemplating your decision, the decision that you are to make about certain conditions that I am laying before you.
First, I want to tell you that My wish is for your advancement. My wish is to see you secure, looking not on the occurrences of the world, but on the face of your Beloved. Secondly, I want you to know that times ahead will be difficult, most difficult for those whose purpose is any other purpose than serving the Almighty God. For the days ahead are to be filled with decisions that you must make, according to My will or according to fulfilling your own fleshly desires. I will tell you this, dear one: Following after Me, seeking after My will, brings much more satisfaction to a heart than seeking your own way. Bear this in mind, also.
Then there is one other proposal that I am putting before you. Hear Me and know that this proposal is one of the utmost importance. Your decision to do things My way instead of your own, will qualify you for adventure far beyond anything you could ever imagine. I want you to keep your mind and your heart open to what I bring into your life. I want you open to the sweet revelation that I am about to bring forth. I want you to look at this revelation from every angle. Look at it forwards, backwards, upside down, and head on. I want you searching My word, getting quiet before Me, and letting My Spirit speak to you on this sweet revelation. Know this! I look on this revelation as sweet and I want you to do the same. Don’t view it as anything other than a gift from your God to your heart.
So there, I have said it. I have told you that much is coming to earth, and many will view it as ghastly, while those committed to My cause will see it for what it is, a step toward My return, and they will rejoice over this fact. I have told you that I want you listening to Me and following after My will. I want you to give those fleshly desires no attention, and turn toward following after My heart. Then there is the matter about deeper revelation that is coming your way that I like to look on as sweet. There is nothing sweeter than the truth of your loving God and I want you to accept it as such. I want you ruminating on all that is coming forth, keeping your heart turned toward Me in an attitude of complete trust. You will find in doing this that it certainly behooves one much to follow after the heart of the Beloved. It behooves one much when he lays aside his fleshly desires and follows after My heart, and that one who succumbs to My wishes will know true heart peace in the midst of chaos, and, beloved, that is saying a lot, that is saying an awful lot!
So follow My heart. Comply with My instruction, and move forward into your destiny, your destiny that is alive with My goodness, your destiny that has been prepared for you since the beginning of time.
It is time for you to move out of the commonplace and into the most extraordinary. Get ready to take the plunge, get ready to take the plunge, beloved, into the totally unfamiliar. I will be with you. I will be with you in the depths and to the heights. I will be with you throughout all that comes your way. I will be your Mainstay, your support. Trust Me in this. It is going to be a different time, different from anything you have experienced, but I will be with you My dear beloved. Your Beloved God and King will be with you ALL the way, supporting you and guiding you through passages unknown to you, but well versed by the One Who is holy and pure, your God, your King, your Love!!!
versed – very knowledgeable about or skilled in something
ruminate – ponder, think over, reflect, cogitate, chew over, meditate, mull over.
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My precious church, I love you very much and My desire is, is that you are raised up and shine brightly as the pure and spotless bride that I am calling you to be. I have purchased cleansing for you at Calvary and in the light of eternity and through My death and resurrection you are indeed spotless, but you are not walking in the manifestation of this purchase My Church. You are choosing to walk in ways not of Me and ways that are not bringing glory to Me.
A secretive pride has entered into the hearts of many within My Church. Many within My Church have built trophies in their hearts, but they are trophies of their acheivements and their names.
As My eyes roam upon the earth looking at the hearts of all My Church and who will serve Me in Spirit and in truth, I find some guilty of allowing the sinfulness of pride to enter their hearts and it has brought upon a deception and blockage to many of My Children. A blockage to hearing My voice, and a deception in the form of heart motivations and luring people to their ministries and their names rather than My Name and My Kingdom.
For I will not stand for My Church building trophies to their names and ministries within their hearts, the Glory and honour belongs to Me alone. I love you My Church, and I am drawing you closer to Me, to worship Me in Spirit and in truth and I am calling My Church to lay their treasures up in heaven not upon earth within hearts full of pride.
This pride has entered many of My Children through undealt with woundings, bitterness and unforgiveness, and the lack of stability and grounding in My Word has opened the door for the enemy to bring in seeds of pride.
I am calling these ones to repentance, it is time to repent of building these trophies and lay your hearts before Me in humility and purity knowing that I love you with an everlasting love and will lead you always on the path of the everlasting.
For those who are not listening to My Spirit, I am bringing about a shaking within their hearts, lives and ministries that will indeed crumble these trophies, these ones of Mine will be brought to a place of such brokenness, not so they may suffer, for that is not My desire, but so they may see their need for Me, and their hopeless acts of service without Me, their works are as filthy rags, it is through My Spirit and My love that they are to minister for Me.
For I love all of My Church and I chasten and discipline because of My Great love, because I can see the glorious future that I have for those who truly seek after Me, and love Me.
The crumbling has begun and will remove many from places and ministries that was not expected, but I will clean My Church and I will pour My fire down from heaven, to burn away anything not of Me.
Those who are seeking Me with a pure heart and to know Me in greater intimacy, your prayers and your praises are building Me upon the earth. You are building Me upon the earth through your humility and through your passionate love for Me and purity in praise.
I am being lifted high by those who are truly seeking My name.
Check your hearts My church, for the enemy's greatest desire is to bring down powerful leaders in My Kingdom through pride. Focusing on themselves and not on Me, this grieves My heart greatly, and I the Lord thy God will not stand for this within My Church.
It's your time to shine My Church...shine with the purity of heart that is found and received by passionately pursuing My presence.
"It is the fear of man that keeps us from our inheritance. Confront obstacles with the Word of the Lord and bring a decree that will remove those obstacles!" (Bill Johnson)
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Fullness. Enjoying the September full Moon this morning, the Lord spoke this word to my heart. Just as that moon is bright and beautiful and represents to you the harvest moon for the gathering in of crops, I tell you that the fullness of time has come for the ingathering of My harvest of the nations. I will fill them with My fullness as a testimony of My grace upon grace. All will see and rejoice. But I am telling you today that you are just beginning to look at and behold the fullness of harvest of souls and disciples I am giving you. Children, yes. But the whole of nations I am also giving you. Rejoice in the Lord your God. Now seize your day and go. Fullness.
Psalms 16:11 "You will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever." John 1:15-16 "For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace."
