Daily Bread - July 20, 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.

I have made you an able minister of the new covenant, not of the old. I have established a new covenant and revealed who I am unto you. Remember your own shame before you are quick to judge others. I am no longer angry at my people. Much of what they are doing is because of ignorance. Their shepherds are leading them astray. The shepherds feed themselves and then turn to feed the flock the dry grass of tradition and dead water. Money is at the root of their love and not the welfare of the flock. Open your mouth, and prophesy against the shepherds of the day, for they eat the fat of the pastures, but they do not strengthen the diseased sheep. They do not heal those who are sick, neither do they bind up those who are broken. They do not search for those who have been driven away, neither do they seek that which was lost. They rule with cruelty, for it is a cruel thing to place doubt in the hearts of innocent sheep concerning the prophetic word and those who prophesy.

Many are becoming meat to all the beasts of the field because they have lost confidence in the prophetic ministry. This lost confidence shall be required at the hand of the shepherds who have opened their mouths against those that I have sent with the fresh word of the Lord. The shepherds eat well while my sheep eat the dead things of their traditional ministry. I will require my flock at their hand and cause them to cease from feeding the flock. I will deliver my flock from their mouths so that they may not be meat for them. I have said, "The letter kills, but the spirit gives life." Without a prophetic word, there is no life. I have sent you with my testimony. It is the testimony of Jesus, the life of the world. I have sought out those who are mine. I will bring them unto you so that you may nourish them back to real life.

This is a very cloudy and dark day, but I will bring my sheep out from the people and gather them from the darkness of the hand of cruel shepherds who say they love them with forked tongues. They lie to them and deceive them. My sheep will not be deceived, but my sheep shall follow my voice, and they shall run from the voice of strangers who do not know the voice of prophecy. I will feed them in the land where I do draw them. I will feed them in a good pasture. I am establishing a good fold for them to lie down in. I am bringing them into a fat pasture, and there shall I feed them the living word. They shall regurgitate the dead food from the mouths of the deceived shepherds. They shall suddenly leap up and run from the folds of the false shepherds. They shall remember my voice and come from the corners where they have been driven away. I will bind up that which was broken and strengthen that which was sick.

I will save my flock, and they shall no longer be a prey unto the false shepherds and the fat cattle. The fat cattle have bruised my flock. They have pushed the diseased with their horns. I will judge those of the flock who have caused pain to those who seek after my voice and seek to follow me. Those who seek me shall find solace, support, and relief in the covenant of peace. The evil beasts that have tormented them shall cease to growl in their ears, for I shall cause them to dwell safely in a new pasture. They shall sleep in pastures where shepherds after my own heart dwell with them. I will give them new shepherds. Behold the shepherds that I have brought unto your midst. These shepherds are called by me and not by man.

The places round about them shall be hills of blessings. Showers shall come down in his season. The showers shall be showers of blessings. Behold the pastures that I bring my flock unto. The trees of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase. All these things shall happen for my sheep that I love so dearly with an everlasting love. They shall be safe in this new land that I bring them into. They shall know that I am the Lord who leads them, for I shall break the bands of their yoke and deliver them out of the hands of those that served themselves.

They shall not be a prey any longer, and the evil beasts shall not devour them. They shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid. Open your mouth, and declare these words into the atmosphere. They shall go far and wide. Those who hear these words shall be raised up to be a plant of renown. Hunger shall not consume them any longer. I have heard the flock cry out for the living word. They do hunger for it, and they do thirst for the fresh waters of your mouth and my spirit. I am their God, and they are my people.

Pray and intercede for those who are held by the spirit of error and confusion. I will make those who are mine free by the truth that I will send among them. The false teachers cannot screen out the truth, for there are some among the flock who are bearers of the truth. They shall open their mouths and prophesy, and the people shall be delivered by the truth that they shall speak. I shall bring out all who are mine. Only believe.

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?