My children, for a long time now I have talked about times and seasons. Much of what I have spoken must now be shared. Many people still wander in the wilderness and are lacking in so many ways. But My day has come to the land shadowing with wings. As a thief in the night, the shadows creep forward. The set time is at hand. My time has come and the season has changed. Yet so many are still sowing their seed, so intent on their own works that they never saw the reapers overtaking them.

After all this time children, so many still claim My work as theirs, believing that there is privilege of circumstance for them in so doing, when self denying servanthood and faithfulness is expected. I have said, I will build My church! This is a work of mine and not your own. Many have Claimed their Arights@ in the public arena, proclaiming My Kingdom here in the market places and in the strength of their own arms. Once again attempting to label it as My habitation where there is nothing more than a den of thieves. But I will yet again overturn the tables of the money changers! Many surmise that I will bless what is good in their own eyes.... . Even now many that read these words will say , "GOD does not talk like that...". But they leave off the two critical words 'to me'. You often pray as children that I would just take you home.

This is the escapist mind set from which I command repentance, for I have redeemed you to occupy! I am the captain of your salvation, and what captain listens to the weak soldier who cries for a mercy flight home when in the midst of battle? For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself to the battle? You struggle with the "WHY" of it all. You ask for 'more faith' and keep asking for forgiveness when you stumble and fall. But you have come to the Kingdom for such a time as this! When children are learning to walk the task of "simply standing" is the first impossibility that must be solved. So is it in the spirit when My children attempt to stand in their own strength. In the Spirit it is impossible to stand without the armour of God!

You must choose to stand in My strength and to be upright before ME. Both the goats and the sheep are Mine. Many babies have been birthed in My house, and some may learn to crawl. But few learn to stand and fewer still will learn to walk upright before Me. As Paul taught, finishing the race is not enough. My rules are explicit and many have run hard and long only to stand in shame before Me disqualified.... My word proclaims "And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed."It is written that My mercy is given to My children who obey Me. The gospel of the Kingdom is the message of My Son in obedience to My will. Did My Son not say "Not my will, Father, but thine be done...". And from His mouth came the words, "Father forgive them...." And yet when you have been perfected you will also utter like Stephen. But now I speak to them that must see the purpose behind all that I do. There is a set time to the prophetic seasons that I have ordained in My word. And the set time has come. Many of you have chosen to stand before Me, to listen for My voice and to obey My will. And you who are gifted with a prophetic voice have spoken out specific parts of a whole that now unfolds. The theme of My purpose will unfold as the quilting patterns of a blanket. So let those who desire to stand approved in My eyes begin to assemble the pieces and see all that I have ordained from the beginning. In spite of the lies that so many of My supposed sheep have established as truth, I AM not a GOD who is distant and aloof. Nor do I change. Within the totality of My word all things are available to those who ask for wisdom and discernment. For nothing is hidden from those who diligently seek Me.

For that reason the day of darkness is manifest. And because they do not know Me, they will not see the pattern and purpose that My love has established which must befall mankind. For wisdom can only begin with the fear of the Lord. Because I desire that none would be destroyed, the day of the Lord has begun. And so few have as yet observed. For it comes not as a flood, but as a gentle creeping forward, even as the day ends and shadows grow longer and longer still, until eventide is overtaken of darkness. In materialism and self-centred complacency they would not learn of ME when it has been light. So now they must seek Me in darkness