Daily Bread - August 17, 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 magnified my mercy, and you have found grace in my sight. You should have died in your sins. Hell should have been your lot, but I allowed your soul to live. Do not look back at the world, for there is nothing there but the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If you love the world, the love of the Father is not in you. The world will pass away and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abides forever. The world hated me before it hated you. If men hate you, then are they of the world or of the truth?

If you were of the world, the world would love its own, but because you are not of the world, it hates you. I have chosen you out of the world; therefore, the world hates you. You are not greater than your Lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have not kept my sayings, why do you expect them to keep yours?

They are doing all these things to you because of my name's sake because they know not him that sent you. My sheep hear my voice. Why do you think that they reject the voice of God and the Rhema word?

I sent you to speak on my behalf. If I had not sent you and you had not spoken Rhema in their ears, they had not had sin, but now they have no cloak for their sin. He that hates you, hates me also. I sent you to bear witness of the truth, and they refused you. You have done what I sent you to do. The truth has been preached, and the grace that I desired to give them has been prophesied. Do not think more highly of yourself because I have used you. Through the grace that has been given you, accept a right mind and by the mercies of God, present your body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you prove what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

Continue prophesying according to the proportion of faith. Show mercy with cheerfulness, and allow your love to flow without dissimulation. Be kindly affectionate to others with brotherly kindness, in honor, preferring one another. I separated you from your mother's womb, and now I separate you unto myself for these last days. Come aside from the noise of brethren, and listen to the call of grace. I will reveal myself in you and those who follow you that you may preach me among the people of the world. Cease conferring with flesh and blood, and come and reason with me. I will make you a mighty fisher of men. If you go in the path of men, you will miss the outpouring of my spirit upon the hungry and the thirsty. Many people have not heard the Rhema from your mouth because men have alienated you from the people in your fellowship. I will send you in another direction that the multitudes that I have chosen to hear the Rhema word will be blessed by the words of my mouth.

I am rich in mercy, for my great love wherewith I have loved you, even when you were dead in sins, has quickened you together with Christ. I saved you by grace, raised you up together, and made you sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come I might show the exceeding riches of my grace in my kindness toward you through Christ. It is by grace that you are saved through faith and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast. Beware, that you are not entangled in legalism in these last days. Beware of making things sin that I have not made sin, for where there is no law, there is no transgression. You will reap the wrath of God on yourself and those who follow you because you will make faith void and the promise of none effect. Remember, the promise that Abraham should be the heir of the world was not to him or to his seed through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If they that are of the law be heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of none effect because the law works wrath, for where no law is, there is no transgression. Hear my words. I make you free from the legalities of men. You have not won many souls because of this entanglement with things that I have not made sin. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. Lay aside your pride, and come walk with me by faith. I will show you new pathways of liberty.

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?