#104

It is I, the Lord Jesus, who gathered you unto myself. You once were a wanderer. When I found you, there was no place to go. You were dwelling in the pits of this world, wandering from one pit to another. You ate the vomit from the pits of this life, and your soul was starved, hungry, and thirsty for the good food of life. When you cried out unto me from the pits of distress and despair, I delivered you and brought you into this narrow path which is the right way. A city of refuge has now become your habitation.

Continue to praise me for my goodness and then will you see my presence come as a giant earthmover and move your mountains of trouble. Do not wait until your longing soul is satisfied to praise me. While you are yet hungry and thirsty, praise me, and I will surely satisfy your longing soul and fill your hungry soul with my goodness. Remember the pit where you once sat in darkness and in the shadow of death. There were you bound in the chains of sin and distress. Panic was the expression of your countenance, and the sins of your life were the bars on the windows of your soul. You had ignorantly served a cruel slave master and dwelled in the tents of wickedness. No friend could come to your rescue, for all were barred from your prison house, and there was none to help. When you cried unto me from your pit of sin, I heard your cry and saved you.

Dwell no longer in a prison house, and make not the bars of sin your window. Dwell not in the darkness of this life, but come forth unto the light of grace. Hold forth your heart, and I will cut asunder all of your chains. I have come with deliverance in my hands. The gates of evil and the gates of mistakes and misfortune cannot bar me from you. I love you, and I have come with plenteous redemption. I have forgiven all your sins, and now you will not be afflicted because of your transgressions. I will deliver you out of all of your troubles and distresses. Sickness has plagued you and tormented you for years, yet it has not consumed you. Its threat is void of power, and its effect has failed in its expression to manifest defeat. You have been weak, and you have been worn, yet are you not defeated, nor destroyed. I sent my word and healed you. Destruction must now look for another avenue of expression, for I closed the pathway of your life and barred out sickness and destruction.

 

 

#105

I receive your praises for my goodness and my wonderful works unto you. When you praised me this morning and brought thanksgiving unto my feet, it was a sacrifice well pleasing unto me. The brokenness that followed was not of you but of me, for you were void of the right sacrifice. When I brought my works of the past unto your mind, then did thanksgiving flow freely. Without my grace and my mercy, you would not have seen the great light of gratitude this day, but I shined the light of mercy and grace, and you did see and think with a grateful mind. How many will awaken unto the dark chambers of ingratitude and unthankfulness?

I know, but you do not know. Lift up your eyes unto the place where you now reside, and know that the stormy wind and the mighty waves of destruction passed you by today because of my love. Be grateful, and rejoice, for I brought you to a heavenly place and did not allow you to sink into the depths of ruin and despair. Many have no place to go today, and many have not a family. Many are homeless, and many stagger with the sicknesses of this world. I have responded toward you with goodness. Now give thanks for the calm sea of life that is all about you. I have brought you quietness, blessed quietness. There is no storm round about you; therefore, be glad, for I have chosen this day to express my love and make you glad.

Your barn overflows, and your pockets are not empty. Your soul is free, and your family dwells with you. Give thanks, and be glad, for I have brought you unto a haven of goodness. Continually give thanks, and be an example of my goodness in the midst of the people. Let not despair come from behind you and stir you unto the tornado of doubt and unbelief, but give praise at all times. Even when you journey through a wilderness, even when you journey through dry places, even when you do not seem to be fruitful, even when things stalk you with uncertainty, continue to give thanks for my goodness unto you and my mercy which endures forever.

 

 

#106

How are the mighty fallen, and how are the redeemed led away into bondage?

How are the songs of Zion turned unto pity and mourning?

How are the fruitful turned unto barren trees of covetousness and pride?

How are the elect brought to the door of the harlot with inquisitive minds of lust after her beauty?

How are the mighty fallen when they have a Savior to hold them up in the presence of royalty?

Know of a truth, that many are fulfilling these things as I speak unto you because they have put their hands to the plow and have looked back. Do not discount my word and think that I do not count disciples unfit for me and the kingdom of God. I am a jealous God; therefore, love me with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength. I will not share you with another, neither will I give my glory to another.

I bring encouragement to those who love me. However, those who love me not will find this word displeasing as it pricks their hearts with conviction and rejection. I rejected Saul, and I am rejecting many today because they love me not. Many are fallen by the wayside because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.

Hear the voice of the Spirit, and be blessed by the sound of redemption. The sound of redemption sounds in your ears and greets you with the melody of grace. Grace speaks in your ears and teaches with the hymns of love. Upon your bed last night, I showed you the folly of turning your back upon me. The melody of grace teaches you respect for me and honor of my word. There is no void in my word.

 

 

#107

Many sing from the strange lands of alienation today. They cannot sing the songs of Zion. How will you sing the new songs of redemption and grace in the strange land of sin?

Go not to the rivers of the world with the soldiers of lust and pride. Be not taken by the captors who search for cold-hearted believers. Those who are taken into captivity will sit down beside the rivers of the world and remember the joy of the church and not be able to return. They will weep when they remember Zion. They will hang their spiritual harps of joy on the weeping willows of the world.

The occupants of the world will ask you to sing a joyful song. How will you sing the Lord's song in the strange land of sin?

It would be better to lose the functions of your right hand than to forget me and my grace. It would be better to be an invalid whose awareness is just as real as yours, yet not able to function with normal mobility than to forget me and my mercy. Behold the invalids of the hour, and reflect upon their agony. Behold those with strokes, and reflect upon their torment. They are tormented day and night as they hear every sound, yet cannot communicate or activate their desires and wills.

Count all your pains joy, and rejoice in your salvation, for the Lord, your God, has blessed you with abundance of grace and goodness. Come and praise me with your whole heart before the gods of the world as they seek your praise and adoration. Worship in the body of Christ, and praise the name of God for his lovingkindness and his truth. I have magnified my word above my name. In the day that you cried unto me, I answered you and strengthened you with strength in your soul. Every tongue shall swear, and every knee shall bow unto me. All the kings of the earth shall praise me; therefore, let those who gather around to take you captive hear the words of your mouth in praise. Sing in the ways of the Lord, for great is the glory of the Lord. I am high and mighty, yet I have respect unto the lowly. It is the proud that must know from afar off. Humble yourselves unto me, and when you walk in the midst of trouble, I will revive you.

 

 

#108

I will stretch forth my hand against the wrath of your enemies, and my right hand shall save you. I will perfect that which concerns me, so fear not, neither be filled with dismay. My mercy endures forever; therefore, forsake not the works of your own hands for me. Continue in my goodness, and be not weary. Due season is here, and you shall reap. Lift up your voice, and sing a new song. I have placed a gift within you. Lift up your voice, and speak faith unto the body of Christ. Go and say, "Your Redeemer lives. He lives within you and shows great strength unto the weak. He revives those who expect his grace to save them. He lifts the lowly from their pits of despair. Be lifted in your souls, for the Lord, your God, surely cares."

 

 

#109

A crimson stream of blood paves an access to my throne for you. Enter into the joy of life by precious blood. Lift up your voice in triumphant praise in my presence. Fullness of joy awaits you on my right hand where pleasures are kept. The right hand of my presence brings to you comfort and blessed assurance. Spiritual beasts do not chase you today. The safety of my hand is a powerful refuge for your soul. My hand is a green pasture with living water. The guilty stains of sin are cleansed, and the echoes of the voices of worry are silenced. A space for rest is provided for you. Come and lie down in my hand. I have embraced you with the security of love. In the quietness of the morning, grace has filled you with desire to be here. Allow the throne of grace to serve as a resting place, and fall upon the foundations of mercy. My throne is held up by mercy.

Love found you upon your bed and brought you here for fellowship and communion. My love is perceived by my action on the cross. Now give thanks that you hear the voice of communion. Open your ears to this voice of comfort and peace. I have summoned you here to assure you of the faithfulness directed to those who believe in my voice. I came walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Adam looked forward to hearing my voice. I appeared unto Abram. I opened his ears to hear my voice. Your ears are opened, and your eyes are not closed. I have opened your understanding so that you might understand the scriptures. I have brought you into the throne room to eat the bread of the morning and to drink the water of peace. The words that I speak unto you are spirit. They are life. Come and be ministered unto by my Spirit. Lie down in my presence with the foundations of mercy as your pillow. I am ministering unto you this morning. Rest in my love.

 

 

#110

I am the minister of the sanctuary. You are a sanctuary of worship and praise. Your sanctuary is a temple of the Holy Ghost. There is the fire of trial in the temples of God. Your adversary has sought my sanctuaries as shrines of temptation, jealousy, bitterness, and wrath. Be filled with my Spirit, and be always ready to forgive and suffer for my name. You were called to suffer for righteousness' sake. When you are reproached for my name's sake, the consuming fire of love shall be your defense and your refuge. Sell not your relationship with me in exchange for bitterness and revenge. Choose not the venom of revenge as an answer to suffering that is inflicted upon you by others. You are marked for alienation and loneliness. Though these things stalk you and threaten you, know of a truth, that I will never leave you or forsake you. Draw nearer to me, and the power of our relationship shall nullify unforgiveness and bitterness. The power of our relationship shall give you love for others when they fail and grow weak in faithfulness and loyalty. I have ministered love, conviction, and abundant grace unto you. Be assured that the ministry of the Spirit has done more than reveal things unto you. I have supplied all that you need to be an overcomer.

 

 

#111

I have taught you by many means. Lift up your eyes unto the teachings of nature, and behold how grace has saved you from shame. The natural production of grace has given you a new lineage in a heavenly place. Behold the declarations in the heavenly dimensions of life. The heavens declare my glory, and the firmament shows you my handiwork. Have you looked to the heavens lately to learn of the declarations being declared?

My glory is being declared even now. Are you listening to the declaration of the heavens?

The days are a constant reminder of a language that is foreign to many, but to those who have understanding, yesterday and today have spoken clearly the language of time. The nights are a constant reminder of a knowledge that is laid out for even the simple. Open up your heart, and hear the voice of the heavens, the days, and the nights.

Behold the writing of the heavens. Behold the alphabet of the day and the night. The words that these fashion for man are from one end of the world unto the other end. Throughout the earth, the voice of day and night has spoken unto you. Rise up, and become as a sun in time. Come out of your chamber of romance, and rejoice with the stars in their victory. Night does not end the reign of the stars, neither does day prevent their glow. Their glow is just as glorious in the background of the day as it is against the background of the night. Though their glow is not seen clearly by the human eye, they are not stripped of their glory. Rise and shine as the stars of the heavens, and the heat of your experience shall shine and bring many souls out of hiding. I am your shield and your exceeding, great reward. You are Christ's seed; therefore, are you Abraham's seed and an heir according to the promises.

I have broken the bondage of barrenness and given you souls in your bowels. Abram looked toward the heavens and saw the stars, yet if he could have numbered them, he could have told the number of his seed. Though he could not fathom the number, he yet believed, and it was counted to him for righteousness. What do you believe?

Have you looked to the heavens and beheld the glory of your God?

 

 

#112

The Lamb was slain before the foundations of the world. The horror of great darkness fell upon the Lamb before you were created. Before the world was and before there was a sun, I was the smoking furnace and the burning lamp that passed between the torn pieces of the Lamb. Now I am the promiser who is fulfilling the promise declared by the sacrifice of the Lamb. The slaying of the Lamb before the foundations of the world was enough for your insufficiency today. Now believe that you shall have spiritual children because of my promise. Fulfillment shall come because of promise, not because of your works. You are not worthy of the least of all my mercies and of all the truth that I have shown you. Stop looking at your efforts, and look again to the promise made to you. Believe the promises, and you will not faint in the face of the coming perplexities and fears.

You cannot buy the enemy's favor. Do not attempt to give him the gift of compromise for his favor. His wrath is perpetual and deadly. Your gifts will not change his mind. He has only one intent and that is to destroy you. Look no longer at this intimidating foe, but look to me, and accept the blessing that I have already poured into you by my spirit. I have made you a prince who has power with me and with men. It was given by grace and not by your works; therefore, rise up, and present the banner and emblem of praise, which testifies of your blessings. Look and behold my glory in the face of your brothers and sisters. Look and behold the power of the Lord God in their faces. I am the miracle worker who has transformed their lives and made them glad. Be glad, for I have made you a coat of many colors. Be free to dream my God-given dreams of victory and power. You are free to live out the dreams of the Church, and behold their reality in the presence of your enemies. Lift up your eyes from the pits of unbelief, the prisons of lies, and the distress of rejections. The reality of your God-given visions has dawned upon you. Now lift up your voices in praise, and receive the power of God to make your visions a reality.

 

 

#113

Your past should be sealed in the book of profitability and only read and learned from so that the same mistakes are not committed in the future. Some of the things that you have experienced were because of other people's mistakes, but some bad things experienced by others are because of you. Cease balancing the books of the past, and go on to the joyful things of today and tomorrow. How someone else could have done what they did to you is not the issue today, but how you responded to what they did, will be an issue tomorrow. You may choose by your obedience or your disobedience as to what you will regret or enjoy. Choose to worship the God of life and then will you wish and pray to live. Worship the god of self or the god of this world and you will wish and pray to die. The god of this world is ugly and cruel, but I am kind and compassionate. I did not mean the things in your life for bad. I meant them for good. You must learn to bring sweetness out of the bitter things of life and good out of evil. How can you say you have grown in the knowledge of God when you yet wrestle with what's fair and what's wrong?

When you have won me and an excellent knowledge of me, then will you count all the bad things that you suffer joy rather than sadness. When you worship me and live for me, then all your sufferings are for my name's sake and not for doing evil. You are sad because you are reaping the crop for your evil planting. Arise from your beds of regret, and go to the harvest field of future joy. Go there and plant the seeds of good. Be patient, and you will have a harvest of fruit that is a great consolation to you.

 

 

#114

I am the God of honor; therefore, do not charge me with allowing things to happen as a punishment to you. Grace is teaching you. Are you learning?

Why go through the hard times if you are going to cast the lessons of great value in the pits of this world?

You will have suffered in vain if you do not learn from your pains. What you expected during the harvest of your evil sowing was an erroneous expectation. How can you expect a celebration of victory when you have sown the seeds of mourning and grief?

The crop of deception was sown long ago. Now eat the bitter seeds of your sowing and then will joy come because of godly endurance. Be not deceived. I am not mocked. Whatsoever a person sows, that is what that person will reap. I ate the bitter herbs and drank the bitter cup of your sins for the joy that I set before me. Now you come to me, and I will help you eat and drink of your bitter experiences that the horror of their reality is dulled by my mercy and grace that I will give to you. You may eat it alone, but I offer you my companionship. I ate and drank from your bitter lot alone. Shall the wrong not taste of any bitterness when no one was available to eat and drink with the right?

There is pleasure in sin, yet only for a season. Remember your pleasures while you sinned, and learn that all the pleasures enjoyed in the bread and wine of sin are not worth the judgment and cost of these sins. Where are the pleasures now?

Where are the remembrances of their gratifying feelings?

Behold a better way, the way of the cross where emotions are crucified with me. Come to the cross, and live with a cross borne upon you then will you enjoy the victory of discipleship.

 

 

#115

Sin is deceptive. When it is finished, it will mock you. Though sin hides behind the face of beauty, it is ugly when exposed and finished. When sin is finished, it will send you into a rage. Your rage will not receive an answer from sin when you question the tabernacle of its dwelling. Silence will be its answer, and ignorance shall be its expression when you inquire to find out the why to the pain that produces the rage of insanity.

Wisdom writes with the pen of pain. Wisdom draws with the paintbrush of rage. The chaotic expression that wisdom has drawn is not a disorderly design without any meaning, but its dark and empty form is the picture that depicts the only results that sin can bring. Will your debt ever be paid?

I paid for you to live righteously, godly, and soberly, not to live and continue in sin. Grace will not abound if you continue to live in sin. Grace will teach you in spite of what you think about the consequences. The consequences of sin yield a great harvest of pain and sorrow, but the blessings of obedience and grace yield the greater harvest of joy and success. A kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies then it brings forth much fruit. In place of the lonely kernel, you have an abundance of fruit. Choose the blessings of abundance in righteousness, which comes from your time alone in fellowship with me, or choose the curses of abundance in unrighteousness, which comes from your time alone in fellowship with sin. Choose this day what you shall reap.

The scheme of deception has an evil ending. The drama of its script sounds good, but the cost of its production is enormous. You will pay in the end. After sin is finished, the horrible scheme is revealed according to its true value. My word brings light so that you might see the end of sin's entire plight. Are you an exception who will escape the burns of the fire carried in the bosom?

Are you an exception whose feet will not be burned from walking on hot coals of fire?

You have walked in the wrong places. Now learn from your travels, and become a teacher of righteousness then will your sufferings have real value. How will you teach others if you are not acquainted with the devices of evil?

Many are ignorant of the devil's devices. Will you remain ignorant after suffering so much?

The only good that can come out of your sufferings is the lessons in righteousness and wisdom that are learned by you. These lessons must be taught to others that their obedience may be exchanged for their love toward me. I will reward them that your children and their children might be spared from your defeats. Come and make a new covenant with me, and I will show you how the ugliness of this experience shall become the embrace of beauty and understanding.

 

 

#116

How long will you embrace the arms of regret and despair?

How long will you halt between your own opinions and my realities?

If you continue to squeeze regret's arms as a lover in the time of misunderstanding, then regret will squeeze the desire to live from your bosom. Come to the arms of eternal love, and allow the embrace of holiness to blow the fresh breath of life within you. I have allowed you to keep the spirit that I gave to you. Why choose to allow your soul to live in misery?

Truth paints a picture that brings pain and exposure to that which is wicked. Ask truth not to lie for you, for it does not know how to lie. It can only tell the truth that it is. This is truth's picture of your life. Now allow me to change this reality by the transformation of my righteousness upon this ugly scene. Look at this ugly scene again. Do you like what you see?

Are the pleasures you remember worth this scene filled with the death of efforts, dreams, and visions?

Bring me this ugly scene, and I will create a new life as I created a good world when the first one became ugly, dark, and without form. The world of chaos did not resist the moving of my spirit upon its face. Now cease your resisting, and break under the power of my actions upon the face of your life. I will create a new life for you and make things inside of you brand new then will the old scene of defeat and wasted efforts be buried in the chambers of an old, hard heart of sin. I will take away the stony heart and give you another heart of flesh. Come and receive of the transformation on high. Come. I have beckoned. Now come, and be changed forever.

 

 

#117

I am the Lord. I do not change. I am the same from everlasting to everlasting, for I am the Everlasting God. I touch you this morning with a fresh anointing of my spirit. I will do a thing in your life that you will not believe. I am, and because I am, I will reward you according to my lovingkindness. I will touch you this morning. Only believe. I touch your soul. I touch your mind. I touch your spirit. Who can touch you the way I can touch you?

I am the Living Savior, the God of the whole earth. I have come with an abundance of my mercy. This mercy shall make a way for you through the fog and the weakness you have felt in the last few weeks. Mercy has picked you up with the compassion of my nature. With all gentleness, have I allowed my mercy to pluck you from the hands of the devourer. Now rest in the hands of my mercy. Mercy shall carry you through all the areas before you that have appeared dark and hopeless. Lean on the arms of mercy as goodness grants you the good things of my spirit and my provision. Goodness shall take back all that was stolen from you. Goodness shall bring forth changes in the complexion of the impossibilities before you.

You ask, "How will you make it in the future?"

I say, "How have you made it this far?"

By the same grace, by the same goodness, by the same mercy, by the hand of the same Lord, you will make it. I have not brought you this far to allow an enemy to trample you while you seek the truth concerning me. Lift your hands, and worship me, the Living God, the Eternal Spirit, the only Lord God. I have blessed you with the blessing of my goodness. Now believe as Abraham believed. Get up from your own struggles, and endure to the end where these impossibilities are over. Know of a truth, that all things are possible to you because you believe. Stagger not at these fogs of misunderstanding through unbelief, only be strong in faith as you give glory to me. I will grant you the victory. I will place it in your hands and in your innermost being. Only believe.

 

 

#118

I am granting you joy, unspeakable joy, in the midst of the storm of confusion. I am not the author of confusion. I am not the author of strife. I am not the author of misunderstanding. I am the author of peace; therefore, embrace the Prince of peace within your life. I am the peace-bringer. I am the prosperity-bringer. I shall show forth my love in dimensions that you have not imagined. I shall show forth the glory of the revelation of myself, and the fire of the revelation shall bruise the head of trouble and conspiracy. I have already made a way through the deserts of your life. I have already made a way through the low places in your deserts of life. I have provided a table here. This table is filled with fresh bread, meat, water, and wine. This is your table of victory. Now prepare to eat from Victory's table. In my name, you have this victory.

Allow not uncertainty to rob you of your peace of mind. Look not upon the emotions felt in your body or your spirit, but be focused upon me, the Lord of all. Focus your eyes upon me, and the peace that passes all understanding. When you do not understand, remember that I have given you the bread of peace. Eat this bread of peace, and your entire body, soul, and spirit shall feel the calm of my Holy Spirit. Though you feel like giving up, there is peace in me. Though you feel like giving up, there is comfort in me. Though you do not see the way out, there is grace in me.

I have given you the shield of faith. Now receive of the activation of this shield against the furious blows of strife and confusion. Lift up your voice, and behold the victory in me. Victory is in me. All that you need, all that you want, and all that you have prayed for is in me at the table of victory. Though it seems as though it is a long way off, remember that I am walking with you. Remember that I am in you to do exceeding, abundantly, above all that you are able to ask or think according to my power that works in you.

 

 

#119

You have reached out for my hands. They are stable and immovable. You called on me. I heard your cry even in your weakness I heard, and I have replied. Know of a truth, that I have replied. I will demonstrate the volume of my loud voice, which shall speak on your behalf. Fear not. I will speak for you. I have ways of speaking that you have not heard; therefore, listen for the sounds that you have never heard. I shall send forth a clear, directional sound and all who eat from the table of victory shall have ears to hear this clear sound of victory.

Hold fast to the substance of the things that you hope for. Hope will not make you ashamed. You talked to me in prayer in the time of your problems. Now I will speak through events and surprises that shall spell in simplicity, the power of my love for you. By faith, you will hear the voice of events that shall declare my faithfulness in the trying times of this hour. Walk on by faith. There is no task too difficult. There is no warrior from this valley that shall slay the arms of your faith. I have strengthened your muscles of faith. Now behold how I have worked out the things that seemed impossible. Faith in me will not fail. Faith in me will stand in the midst of scorching air and wind of this valley of impossibilities. The cloud of love has come to bring you the shade of my faithfulness. Now behold the cool breath of peace during this hot time of persecution and subtle attacks. I will confirm my love and my promises. I have not promised and denied my word to you. I have embraced my promises in my own bosom and drew you nigh the bosom of your Father. Know of a truth, that I have worked out the complexities left by broken promises and seemingly wasted dreams.

The promises that I made to you have not failed, neither have I forgotten what I promised you. Men may lie to you and change their minds, but I am the Lord, and I do not change. I have not granted you faith to trust me and then drawn back my promises. You trusted as a child. Now I will reward you according to that child-like faith. By faith, right now, I demonstrate my faithfulness to my promises. I have started a good work in you, and I will finish what I have promised and started. Allow me, the resurrection, to work through you, and I will show you the magnificence of my spirit. I have expressions that you have never seen, poems that have never been penned, words that the gainsayers cannot resist, songs that ears have not heard, and letters that have never been written.

 

 

#120

Allow me to lead you into dimensions that the church has never ventured into. Allow me to lead you into the future glory for my church. Human reasoning has stepped before my throne to present its case. I shall thrust out the spirit of man's way and bring my church to the dimensions of light in this evening time. Open your heart up to me, and leave the past in the past where it should be. The past belongs in the land which is forgotten.

Praise me with a loud voice today, and I will show you the power of the resurrection in your today and your tomorrows. Be not distressed by the things that are taken away from you. Man cannot take away anything from me. Only that which is man's will be taken from you. I have sent a flood of my spirit in the midst of the people. This flood of my spirit shall drown the things of philosophy and man's reasoning. Be not intimidated by what is directed toward you. I am greater inside of you. I will buffet all these things, for I have bought you with my blood. Complain not because of the incidents of the hour, but count all these things joy. Think on the things that are of a good report, and you will be in tune with the glow of my spirit and not the vibrations from the graveyards of the hour.

 

 

#121

I am a Spirit; therefore, worship me in spirit and in truth. I have not brought you here to die by the hands of confusion. The strength of peace has lifted you and brought you to my table of fresh bread. Eat this bread with your mind at peace. How will you assimilate this spiritual meal if your nerves and emotions are slashed with the sword of confusion?

Eat and be glad in the presence of evil. You shall be filled with my goodness, and you shall behold the victory over your imaginations. Assumptions have attempted to trip you up, but I have sent my word and cut away the cords and the hands of assumptions. Stand but take heed how you stand. Think not that you are standing in your own pride, but know of truth, that you stand because of my grace and my mercy. My love has left you standing as many are falling in this hour of great grace. Count not yourself to have apprehended, but know of a truth, that it is possible for all to fall without my grace.

Trust not in your own ability, neither your mind that will contend to be religious and speak through your unbelief and carnality. Trust in me, and I will allow the spirit of wisdom and of revelation to speak through you and for you. Cease wrestling to obtain and keep things and positions. I lift up one and cast down another. You cannot keep what I do not keep for you; therefore, relinquish all that is yours to me, and my security will keep the things I have promised you. Now I will keep that which I have promised you. Eat the bread of plenty, and be strengthened in your faith and your love. If you love me, then believe all things promised you, for I am faithful.

 

 

#122

The royalty and majesty of an eagle is not full of glory when it lowers itself to stand and walk in the low places of the environment. You were not chosen to stand on the straw and brush of carnality, but you were chosen to soar in heavenly places in Christ. The enemy will corner you if you walk after the flesh and not after the spirit. Though the enemy gives tactics that are wise in the eyes of man, these tactics and their results can be defeated by man. Choose spiritual tactics and spiritual weapons rather than carnal methods of living.

Beware of the strategies of the enemy. He will accuse and draw you into the line of his fire as you seek to justify yourself. Fight not the enemy's accusations with your own words, neither with a compromise of the spiritual principles given you. Fight the enemy's accusation with a silent heart and a silent tongue. Remember, I am your defense and your avenger. Trust and then you will not be ensnared in these subtle devices of the devil.

Never choose revenge as a defense. Your barrage of words in your own defense will escalate with every expression. Words are easy to pick up, yet hard to put down. Pick not words from the wisdom of man and carnality, for they are snares used by your enemy to bind you up. Listen to the voice of the spirit and not to the voice of revenge. Revenge is bitter. It is never sweet. Though the taste of revenge tastes sweet to raging emotions, it is bitter to the belly and your future. Taste it not lest you develop a taste you cannot control.

 

 

#123

Many have allowed themselves to be exiled in the corners of their own kingdoms, subjugated and enslaved by their own actions of self-justification and revenge. Remember, there is no earthly heritage worth preserving at the expense of your spiritual inheritance. Many have lost their spiritual heritage because they have chosen to fight with carnal methods rather than submitting to the ways of the Lord. My ways are spiritual. Fight the good fight of faith, but understand what that means. The weapons of your warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through me to the pulling down of strongholds and every high thing that exalts itself above my knowledge. My knowledge will not fail, for there is no failure in me.

I am compassionate, and I have your good in mind. Allow me to fulfill that which I have chosen for you, and seek not the things you have set as earthly goals for yourselves. Seek the counsel of godly men, for there is safety in a multitude of counselors.

Learn to rule in peace and then will you never be harsh with orders from laws, but the spirit of the law of God shall rule and abide unto effective leadership. Use your laws instead of grace and you will force others to fight. Force others to fight and you will be defeated because you cannot fight and win. I will not defend you in the fights you author by your own schemes. Follow after me and then the leading of my spirit will show you the way to fight by the vengeance of the Lord and not the vengeance of man.

I have settled all wars at Calvary. Peace was won by the violence accepted against the Prince of Peace. Peace is never won in war, but the effects of war's results are escalated by war. War is the language of death. Why speak the language of death if you want your ears to hear the melody of peace?

The melody of peace is not sounded by the instruments of war. The melody of peace is not sung with the words of war from a sharp, witty tongue. The melody of peace is not written with the pens of self-defense, neither with the breath of revenge on instruments of violence. The pens of self-defense and the breath of revenge design and play the funeral songs of the mourners and the actors of regret. What melody will your children sing if you write the melodies of carnality and revenge?

These melodies merely bring you tears that you did not have to shed and broken hearts that will never heal. These melodies will bring you pain that you cannot heal. These melodies will bring to your door the dance of grief whose rhythm is too slow for joy to enter into. Revenge will blow its hot air across the instruments of hurt, but the sound from the instrument will be cold in the ears of those who wait on peace. Peace will take flight like an eagle and fly high above your self-made storm. War will engulf you and bring unwanted death and shame to the unwise summon sent by rebellious warriors of ignorance.

 

 

#124

The unwise and the carnal only look at the satisfaction sought by the belly of revenge. They look not to the suffering that their actions will bring to their families and those who are innocent. Follow not those who act out of pride and wounded egos, for they are dangerous and full of contagious spiritual disease. What god will defend them?

The god of death and the father of lies will not defend them against death itself. The house of death will not divide itself in its effort to destroy the ignorant. It knows the weakness of ignorance and those who reject knowledge. Come aside from the entrapment of the enemy, and abide in the house of faith and of peace. Those who abide outside of peace will not survive, for only those who follow peace will see me as their defense. There is no trap in peace. The enemy's only effective trap is in war against one another. Why continue wars among yourselves?

If you bite and devour one another, you will simply be consumed one of another. Learn of the war of the Lamb of God upon the kingdom of the darkness. By the laying down of the life of the Lamb of God, I have destroyed the workings of the devil and made all who believe righteous by faith. Accept this righteousness that is imputed to you, and the effect of the war by the Lamb shall be your victory. What have you gained if you win a victory over flesh and blood, yet lose the war against principalities, powers, and rulers of the darkness of this world?

Accept the victory of the Christ who has destroyed the workings of the devil. I have given you that victory, and it overcomes the devil, the flesh, and the world. Glory in my victory at the cross, for it is real and eternal. Now set your affections on things above and not on things below. Set your heart in heavenly places with treasures laid up in my kingdom in the places above.

 

 

#125

You cannot manage your own life without my guidance. Many have lost complete control of their lives because they have attempted to govern themselves. You have seen the wicked prosper, but that does not mean that their end will be prosperous. The good things that happen to them do not mean that they will arrive in heaven. A life managed by self is destined to crash and fall short of the kingdom of God. Make your calling and election sure. Work out your own salvation with fear and with trembling. Mental instruments cannot guide you to heaven. There is no spiritual stability in your life without me. Without me, you can do nothing. Without righteousness, the kingdom of God will not profit you anything. Seek first the kingdom of God and my righteousness, and all the other things shall be added unto you. How will you obtain righteousness unless it is imputed unto you?

I do not count anyone righteous if they do not believe in me. Abram believed my promise to him, and I counted it to him for righteousness. Take heed unto yourself, and make sure that the foundation of your belief is not in you or man. Your righteousness has not gotten you anything. Beware that you do not make an image of yourself by considering your own achievements, neither allow others to fashion you as an idol. Hide yourself in me, and give all glory unto me, the Lord, your God. I will not share my glory with another. Those who glory in themselves have turned their lives upside down and are plunging toward destruction. Leave the controls of your life in my hands, and offer all praise unto me, and then will your life be stabilized.

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah 15:16

Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

 

 

 

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