QUOTE(fervent @ Dec 18 2006, 02:49 PM) [snapback]95853[/snapback]
You have been tested in these things says the Lord, and I have brought you through difficult things that you have said prior to going through, that you were “not able to go through.”
You had said that you could not speak, but I have created a tongue, and I have loosed it, says the Lord; even paramount to the same testing that Moses has gone through, so I have tested you, because of the glory that you are about to be a part of.
For a great testing, a great trial, a great season; do not feel that you have failed Me in any manner, for I deliberately, says the Lord, I deliberately took you past your comfort zone, I took you past even that which you had faith for, for I have wrestled trust from you. So I took you to places that you had no trust in anything else and finally, you decided to trust Me.
I will show to you My own Self, worthy of that trust says the Lord, for you have indeed wrestled in the night season saith the Lord and I have seen you through, and I know that these days past have been filled with confusion.
They have been filled with “What if” and “Why not” and “What about.” But My hand has stayed My own word from you says the Lord, for I, even in that, took you past to an emptying of trust in any other thing so that you would place your full trust in Me, says the Lord.
All through My word I have taken My disciples, those that I have entrusted with great power, those that I have entrusted with great ministry and great influence, I took My disciples into the storm and I purposely waited for them to arouse Me to see what their trust would be in.
Even as Marion sang when she crossed the Red Sea, “Some trust in horses and some in chariots, but we trust in the Lord.” It has all been about trust, and those things that had any weight in the past that you have learned to trust in; resources, and surplus, resevoirs, and knowledge, and wisdom and all those kinds of things, even friends and even relationships. Those things I have purposely caused to seemingly fail in front of you for I have caused you a mighty testing, a mighty time, saith the Lord, to come and be with me.
I have called you to My side, I have called you higher into a mountain, as with Moses, I called and said to him that I have chosen him and imparted to him and I began to show My power through him, and still he doubted and still he came up against those things, and I routed him again. I changed his mind. I showed him My power, and even in all those things, says the Lord, he still had a thought process that wanted to go back to whatever the strength of man was.
But I have taken you through says the Lord, and these days I say to you, that as he came upon the most extreme of his early beginnings when the Red Sea was before him, I’ve brought you to that very place. I’ve brought you to a place and you have said that “unless the Lord does a thing it shall not be done, for this is indeed harder, this is indeed more difficult, this is indeed impossible for me.”
But I say to you that My wind will blow. My Spirit is upon you. The word of the Lord comes and says, “I will blow and the Red Sea of your impossibilities will open.” I will make a way. I will cause you to walk over on dry land saith God, and I will make and provide that which has not been provided for in the past because you would have trusted in that thing that was provided rather than in the provision of My hand.
I have taken it all away and now I bring it back with My hand for I have found that you as Abraham, even when called upon to sacrifice his own son, his beloved promise, you have risen up early says the Lord, and you have mounted up the donkey and you have called the servant and you have said to them, “Let us go for we must worship the Lord in yonder place.” And I say to you as you have mounted up the mountain, and you have laid the sacrifice of your praise, the sacrifice of your time, the sacrifice of your tears and sorrow and grief and joy as you have laid upon the altar of My throne of My Kingdom, everything that you are and everything that you ever wanted to be, I have seen as I saw in Abraham that desire to be, I have seen as I saw in Abraham that desire to please, and so I say to you....It is time. It is time for the show of My power.
WOW! Was that one given to you?? Coz I can just seriously relate!
Oh well - back to the houseworrk - I want a relatively tidy house for christmas - whether hubby believes in christmas or not. I will come back and sit down and read it through slowly and deliberately....I want to try and absorb it.