Buckets
of Joy, the Instruments For Drawing Water from the Wells of Salvation
Isaiah
12:1-6
1 And in that
day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast
angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst
me. 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid:
for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become
my salvation. 3 Therefore
with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon
his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that
his name is exalted. 5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent
things: this is known in all the earth. 6 Cry out and shout, thou
inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the
midst of thee.
These words came
to me,
I have awakened you
another day. Now put on your strength. Put on your beautiful garments
of praise. Do not sell yourself for naught, for you are redeemed
without money. There is no dust on you. There are no bands on
your neck. You are not in bondage. Though many are taken into
captivity in this hour, you dwell in liberty. I have sent revival
into your midst. The people are loosed, and joy is in their expressions
unto me. Continue to carry them good tidings and publish peace.
I have declared your feet beautiful upon the mountains of the
last days. Go and speak good tidings of good. Go and publish salvation
among my people. Go and say, "Your God reigneth!"
Go and remove lamenting
and mourning from the midst of the people with the washing of
water by the living word. Many are expressing themselves with
tearful faces, and the voice of the plaintful souls contend for
positions in the congregations. They seek to drain the true children
of their joy and persuade them to follow their paths of moody
worship. Go and lift up your voice as a watchmen, and tell them
to break forth into joy, and sing the new songs of the Spirit,
which are given freely to those who are yielded unto the abundance
of grace.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Rejoice! My holy arm shall be seen by all nations, and the ends
of the earth shall see the salvation of the true God. There is
a time to weep and a time to laugh. There is a time to mourn and
a time to dance. This is not the time for weeping and mourning.
I have brought you into the good land of plenty. I have not left
you in a spiritual Babylon where people sit down and weep at the
remembrance of the house of God and the good land of liberty.
There is a spirit warring against my people that tempts them to
hang their harps of praise upon the weeping willows planted in
their midst. It is a spirit of bondage that has seduced many and
has brought them into captivity. This spirit will require of them
the songs from the house of God that they may mock their relationship
with their God. This spirit will carry away my people into a strange
land of false joy and spiritual pretense. How will they sing the
Lord's songs in a land of bondage where there is no real joy and
the abundance of hypocrisy?
I desire to deliver
the people out of the hand of this enemy. My anger is turned away,
and now I am comforting the people of my body. I am their salvation.
Tell them to trust and not be afraid, for I am their strength
and their song. Show them the bucket to use to draw waters out
of the wells of salvation, for many are attempting to draw living
waters without the buckets of joy. I have said, "With joy,
shall they draw water out of the wells of salvation." Without
the bucket of joy, then there is no means to draw out of these
living waters. Go and preach that I have given them freely buckets
without holes that they may be washed and refreshed from the deep
fountains of living water.
