Daily Bread - June 8, 2004

But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

Do not allow your confidence in me to be shattered because of the heat of the trial. I am faithful. Though you have been done wrong, you must remain certain of my faithfulness to you. Allow not the wrong done to you to be used as a measurement of trust in me. Hold fast to the full assurance that I have meant this for good. Now look to the good that will come out of this instead of to the bad that you are experiencing. Allow the roots of your faith to grow deeper into my faithfulness during this time of hurt. Plunge yourself into total trust in my promises and me.

I am the Rock. My work is perfect. I am a God of truth, and I am without iniquity. I am just and right. My people are my portion, and I will keep them as the apple of my eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, so do I lead my people in this hour. Turn not from serving me in spirit and in truth. Go forth and say, "Sing unto the Lord a new song. Praise him with all that is within you." My face is turned toward the true worshippers, for they are the children in whom is faith. Turn not from me as the children in whom there is no faith. They are void of counsel and have no understanding in them. They have not considered their latter end, for they are unwise and do not understand my speech. I have sent prophets before you, and they despised them and turned their ears from hearing them. Their prosperity shall take flight and plunge into the darkness. I have said, "Believe in the Lord, your God, so shall you be established; believe my prophets, so shall you prosper." To be established, you must believe. Those who turn from hearing the word are rebellious. They are liars and only desire to hear smooth things.

Have no fellowship with those who despise prophesying, for they exalt themselves above the knowledge of my word. I have said, "Despise not prophesying." I have given you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction. You have heard my word in your ears saying, "This is the way, walk in it." Open your mouth, and sing a new song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the Mighty One of Israel.

Sing unto me a new song. I await the true praises of those who sing spiritual songs from the redeemed hearts of truth. I have made them free and loosed them from tongues that can only speak what they have learned. I have loosed them to sing and speak what I am saying within them, for it is not they who speak, but I am speaking in them by the testimony of Jesus Christ, which is the spirit of prophecy. Because of unbelief, many are void of a true demonstration of my power within them. They are faithless and of a perverse generation. If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say unto your mountains, "Remove from here, and get up to another place," and they shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Seek me with prayer and fasting and then shall you behold the miraculous hidden in the belly of impossibility. There is too much of yourself in the way. Pray and fast and then shall self be decreased. There is faith in you to fast and pray. Allow faith to work this good work in you. I have been merciful unto you, for you have sought me without trusting in yourself that you were righteous. Love others and then will your testimony before men and me be an acceptable testimony full of power. Allow the word of God to have free course in you, and you will be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men. All men do not have faith, but I am faithful. I have established you. Now I will keep you from the evil that has threatened you. Be confident in my promises as one who has faith, always knowing that without faith, it is impossible to please me. He that comes to me must believe that I am and that I am a rewarder of them that diligently seek me. Question not my word, but receive it with an open heart of love and trust.

Amos 3: 7 - 8

Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?