#351

I do not regret my time in tribulation. God has placed me here for a purpose. I take heed to myself, and I purpose not to forget the covenant of the Lord, my God. He is a consuming fire even a jealous God. I turn from this slothful way that I have turned unto and remember the covenant. I desire to know the Lord but on my own terms. I shall seek him with all my heart and with all my soul when I am in tribulation. It is during these times that I shall turn unto the Lord and be obedient unto his voice. The Lord is a merciful God, and he will not forsake me, neither will he destroy me. He will not forget the covenant that he made with Abraham. I have heard his voice from within, not out of heaven. The new covenant has guaranteed me a relationship with him. The might that he demonstrated when he brought the children of Israel out of Egypt will be demonstrated in me. I know of a truth, that he is the Lord and that he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath. There is none else. I will keep his commandments that it may go well with me and with my children and then shall my days be prolonged upon the earth. If I serve myself now, self will not deliver me in my time of tribulation; therefore, I will serve God, my only deliverer.

 

 

#352

Tribulation arises because of the word. By grace, I will not be offended. I must have root in myself. If I do not have root in myself, then the word will be as seed among thorns. I shall be a hearer of the word, but I know the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches will choke the word and then I will become unfruitful. I will be honest with myself and humble myself. I am proud. I look upon myself with a sincere heart, for I will not be able to stand during the time of this great pressure and anguish without humility. There is no place to find grace if I do not humble myself and pray.

Persecution, tribulation, and trouble are coming upon this world like never before. I will pray that I may avoid many of the temptations that are before the feet of everyone. There is no alternative path to heaven. I must go through these conflicts between the devil and the Lord, for I am one with God.

I remember that I am justified by faith and have peace with God through the Lord, Jesus Christ. It is by the Lord, Jesus Christ, that I have access by faith into this grace wherein I stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. I stand and glory in tribulations, for I know that tribulation works patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope; and hope does not make ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto me. I stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made me free, and I continue in the faith, for I must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

I follow the Lord through the door of hatred ahead, for I shall be hated of all men for his name's sake. I endure through this trial ahead, for it is those who endure to the end that shall be saved. I take up my cross and follow the Lord. He that does not take up his cross and follow him is not worthy of him. I cease expecting peace upon the earth, for God has come to set a man at variance against his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's foes shall be those of his own household; therefore, I prepare to suffer at the hands of those in my own household. God must separate me from some people in my life, for if I love others more than him, then I am not worthy of him. I take up my cross and follow him. He that finds his life shall lose it, and he that loses his life for his sake shall find it. I behold the doors of tribulation before me. They are entrances into the kingdom of God.

 

 

#353

The hour, according to my time, has come that God will pour out his spirit upon those that he spoke to me about in times past. He has drawn a mighty assembly of people to my door that he might baptize them with his spirit. I am living in the last days. I will go and prophesy according to the proportion of faith that is in me. The Lord has placed faith and the spirit of prophecy in me. I will allow my gift to work without restraint and behold the results of revival already born in our midst. This is no illusion, neither is it a program instituted by man, but it is a sovereign move of God's spirit among the people of his name and in the earth. He is pouring out his spirit and preparing to catch away his bride, the people called by his name who walk in willing obedience.

I will go and preach the good news of his glorious salvation and marvelous light. The Lord has placed the power of the resurrection in me, and now by the power of this great gospel, lives will be changed before my eyes. I lift my head from the fears that have distracted me. He has not closed me off in rooms of hiding. The rooms in my mind for hiding from my fears are mere imaginations that have become my prison houses of self-imposed bondage. I come from the fears of the last days. These fears should not affect me, for I am saved.

The world will live in fear, but God's love is casting out the fear, which has entered the lives of those who really believe. The spirits that have orchestrated these war tactics of fear have no authority to enforce their strategies. I come again to the cross and behold his sentence upon them and then will I behold my freedom. God has made me free by the truth. I rise up and preach the gospel and Jesus.

God has revealed to me the power of Paul's message. I have gone to the written word and traced his message throughout the Bible. I have read of his beginning and his ending. I will look again and behold the message of Phillip. I will look again and behold the messages preached by Peter. I will go and study the word of God again, and God will reveal to me the foundation of true revival preaching. There is no message without preaching the Christ, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I lift my eyes unto the Lord and seek a renewed relationship with him. From this renewed relationship, he is going to build a new ministry in me. I believe.

 

 

#354

God has not forgotten this country during the times of the refreshing that comes from him. He has not selected a few places to pour out his spirit. He is not a respecter of persons. He is the judge of the entire earth, and there are none that are worthy of themselves.

We are his garden and his flowers, and he has seen our thirst for living waters. I will weep and lament at our altars then I will rejoice in his presence. God is raining down the waters of refreshing in this moment of evening time. These states are one of his gardens. We are a flower in this garden. No flower of a garden deserves his sunshine and his rain. They have not toiled for sunshine and rain. They have not labored to deserve the rain and sunshine. The Lord has given them sunshine and rain freely because of his love. Grace has come to them that they might have life flourishing for our oxygen and beauty. God's love has shown forth the marvelous beauty of these gardens. A flower shall not die without his knowledge. No flower will wither without God's permission. The thirsty souls shall not be denied a drink of water from the rainmaker. I will not die of thirst when I desire a drink of living water for my soul.

God has not planted me in this garden to let me die. He has planted me so that I might blossom for his glory and his purpose; therefore, I will not fear the drought of the last days. I will not fear the famine of the hearing of the words of God. God has given me eyes that see and ears that hear. My heart shall not wax gross, and my life shall continue to flourish in the deserts of this life.

 

 

#355

I look to nature and learn of God's grace. I look to the gardens of this world and learn of his love. I look to the gardens of this world and learn of his awesome creativity. He has created me in righteousness. I behold the beauty of his creativity. The lonely trails through my garden shall not be a place of loneliness. He shall walk with me through this garden, and I shall commune with him.

Some of us feel like the grass, and some of us feel as the dirt; however, I will not worry, for I am not walked upon, but I am chosen to bear the weight of these things that humility might be my ornament of victory and power in these last days. The beast of the fields shall not enter the garden of the Lord without his knowledge. He has placed a fence around this garden with angels watching over me. I search not the vain resources of my mind for answers, but I look to the grace of the Lord. When I look to his grace, I will behold the throne where love resides. I have come in boldly today, and I rest from my own works. Now I will see the beauty of my trials. I sit with the Lord in these heavenly places, and he will talk with me in this garden of angels where love abides.

 

 

#356

I lift up my eyes from the pits of this world. God has not selected a pit for my abode. He has called me into his presence to abide with him before the throne of grace. An enemy has sown the seed of doubt in my midst. I do not cultivate this seed of distrust in God. He is faithful. He has promised, and he will perform. He has sent forth the mercies of David, and these mercies are sure. He has called me unto grace, not disgrace; therefore, I lift up my eyes unto the harvest. I will labor for this meat in the field of grace. There in the harvest field will I find the glory of the last days. The Lord has sent forth more power that I might experience the glory of his promises. He has called me unto sufferings; therefore, I do not glory in the things that the enemy desires to hear, but I glory in the cross of redemption. God shall show me the power of the suffering of the cross. He has caused me to allow this expression that he might be glorified. I lift my eyes again to the power of the cross, and I behold the power of his glorious gospel. I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation. God knows that I believe the gospel. I live in its power. This gospel and its power is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

 

 

#357

I am not ashamed of the Lord's name and him. I will go and proclaim the power of his glorious name. It has me hidden from the things that have attacked my body. It has me hidden from the debts that have leaped from the shadows of doubt and unbelief. I do not give credibility to the wave of unbelief that has filled the land, but I give praise unto the name that has already been glorified.

I lift up my eyes and behold the blessings that are already in the barn of faith. God has called me blessed. Now nothing, no one, no spirit, no principality, no dominion, no person, no adversary can call me cursed. The Lord lifts up one, and he brings down another. I will be content in the place that he has set me in. He has set me as a pillar in the church. I will go forth in the power of the resurrection that carries me. The power of the resurrection is carrying me during this time of weariness; therefore, I am not weary in well doing. I am reaping more than I realize. I purpose to carry the harvest to the barn of fulfillment. When it is harvested by the angels that minister, then I will see what I have reaped. Angels have assisted me all the while. I behold their presence in my life in a manner that I have not seen. God is touching my eyes to behold the realness of angelic help in this time of spiritual wickedness against me and the body of Christ. I behold the power of the ministry of angels on my behalf.

I determine to go and preach the gospel. God's word is already in my tongue, and the expression of the resurrection waits to deliver the people. I prepare for a wave of deliverance on behalf of his name.

 

 

#358

God has not allowed me to come to this place in life and have an enemy take me under to the pits of corruption. He has brought me to the place of redemption and not the places of defeat. An enemy has lied to me and attempted to abort my faith in his faithfulness.

I come from the table of voices. There are many voices, and none of them are without signification. God has sent forth the voice of the spirit of God. His voice is speaking clearly in this hour. He has begun a good work, and he will finish the work that he has started. I do not fear the enemy and his threats. I am confident of the victory that is already won. The Lord has won my victory at Calvary. I rest in the victory of the cross. His blood is a paved way to the victory over all the things that he has won for me. I lift my voice, and I praise him even in the times when I see no victory. The victory that the Lord has won is not a victory that is beheld by the natural eyes. It is a victory that is beheld by the eyes of faith.

God knows my shortcomings. He knows my failures. He knows where I am. He knows my destiny. I come to the throne of grace and behold the victory that is in the right hand of God. The same right hand that brought out Israel is the same right hand that has brought me out. I lift my eyes from these pits and the threats of my enemies. These things have no power over me. I am redeemed by precious blood; therefore, I lift my eyes again to his blood and its power and offer fervent praises because of faith. Faith is a weapon that God has freely given every man. Faith will not fail in the presence of the threats of voices from the darkness.

 

 

#359

I come to the belief of Abraham, and I offer a good profession in the face of these things. The territory that God has sent me unto is no different than any other place. He is the God that shall save those people from their sins and bring them out of bondage. Nothing is too hard for the Living God.

I minister unto the Lord, and now I shall behold the power of his deliverance that he has wrought on behalf of his own name. His name is a mighty weapon in my bosom. I speak his name, and I behold the things that back away from my presence. I lift my voice in the sanctuary. I lift my voice in the streets. I will not be silent in this hour of harlotry. I show forth the faith within me. The enemy desires me to falter and doubt in this hour of opportunity. I arise to the occasion before me and speak words of faith in this due season. I am not weary in well doing. I will reap if I do not faint. If I have real faith, I will not faint.

Faith will move these mountains. Faith will bring me out of the horrible situations that torment my mind. Faith will cause me to abound when my body does not feel like going on. Faith is not residing in the impossibilities. Faith has leaped from my heart, for the Lord has spoken it. I lift my voice and speak words of faith in this due season. My words shall cause doors to be opened. My words shall thrust the enemies out of the doors of opportunity. The enemy has camped round about.

The enemy has no power to bring down the light of the Church. I do not fear, for the power of redemption is working on my behalf. I rise up in praise and bring down these strongholds that have vented themselves against me. I am the light of the world; therefore, I will not set on the hills of revival with bushels over my head. I will thrust out the bushels that have shaded God's glory, and I bring the light of praise in the face of the doubtful expressions from the warriors against his body, the Church.

The light of God's glory shines, and now shall his light of glory blind the eyes of the enemies against the church. I rise and behold the time frame of the Lord. He is the Lord, and he does not change. I behold the glory of the Lord. I behold it, for it fills the whole earth. This glory shall overshadow the gross darkness that is also covering the land. God's glory shall use it as a background for his brightness of victory and power. I believe.

 

 

#360

God has not allowed an enemy to siphon the grace that he gave me. Though iniquities have abounded and sins have been committed, his steadfast grace has accomplished its purpose in my life and brought me to this point of victorious faith. By grace, I will not leave the throne of grace for another position or station in life. There is no other place that I can journey to and find the riches possessed in Christ. He is the treasure that men and women seek, yet they continue to search for the empty things in life. They are constantly destroyed because of their lack of knowledge. I will go and proclaim Christ, the wisdom of God and the power of God. He is the riches of life. There are no other riches that last forever except Christ, the treasure of the ages.

Many have sought what I have found; therefore, I rejoice in this relationship, for it is valued above everything in heaven and in earth. The systems of the world shall now know that the Lord is God. He is more than a man, more than a prophet, more than a lamb. He is the Everlasting Father and the Prince of peace. Man's peace shall not come in the form of things, but man's peace came as a lamb and was offered as a sacrifice. Unless his offering for sins is accepted and believed according to the scriptures, then a man's religion is vanity. I look to Jesus today, and he will show me the glory of redemption and the glory of this relationship.

 

 

#361

God has not brought life to my ears and to my doors only to have me come and find death and defeat. He has brought me the glorious victory of his cross and granted me the fruit of his sufferings. His sufferings were not in vain. All that he suffered was for me, and now the fruit of his sufferings are for my tasting. I will taste of the victory of his bruises, his wounds, and his stripes. I will taste of the fruit of Gethsemane and his submission to death. He has not sent forth an empty experience into my life, but what he has sent forth, is the total victory of life over death; health over sickness; prosperity over poverty; peace over confusion; liberty over bondage; a sound mind over troubled minds; and righteousness over unrighteousness.

The Lord is a holy God. There is no defeat in him. He has all power, and there is no counsel against him. I lift my eyes to him, and I give him my heart. He has all power. He created man and made woman from the man's rib. His creative power has not diminished when he is the Lord who does not change. His constructive power has not withered as a flower in its state of withering.

Jesus is the Lord, and he does not change. I trust him, and he will show me his glory. I trust him, and he will show me that I have not believed in an idol, but I have believed in the only Lord God. The Lord is Jesus who called Paul of the early church. Now he has called me. I allow the fashioning of his grace to complete its work. Now will I be pleased with the result that God has planned by his mind. I cannot add one inch to my stature. There is no need for me to struggle to become what I am going to be.

I allow God to continue his molding process of my life. Now I will be a vessel that he is pleased to dwell within. He has a word for the people. I allow him to give them what has been sent from eternal wisdom and understanding and not from my own plans. Now will I behold the victory planned for today. I believe.

 

 

#362

The light of the glorious gospel has shined into my heart. The grace of the Lord has sent forth a revelation of his glory in this hour of spiritual enlightenment. God has enlightened my eyes and my mind. The day of redemption will not find me asleep, but the day of redemption of the body shall find me looking for his appearance. He has sent forth more grace that I may not be found possessing cold love for him. He has forewarned me of the subtle acts of the spirit of lust and pride. Lust and pride have been sent forth in a magnitude never seen, nor experienced. I will beware of covetousness, lust, and pride. I know of a truth, that the whole world lieth in wickedness. Lust is the doorway of sin. It is written in the word of the Lord that sin entered in through lust. All that is in the world is the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. I am not a friend to lust and pride. Friendship with lust and pride has cost multitudes their eyes and their minds. I look to the grace that is so freely given me, and I rejoice in self-denial and holiness.

The world cannot know God in the light of the Word. He is hidden from the world just as he is hidden from many who dwell in him. I look to the Lord for a revelation of himself, who is also invisible, immortal, and unapproachable. I must see him, who is invisible. Unless I have seen him, who is invisible, then there are heights to desire in my spiritual growth. I look to his word again, and I behold the many appearances of Moses' great, glorious God.

 

 

#363

God has not sent me away empty although I have neglected the fellowship of the Spirit. He has not dealt with me after my sins. He has stretched forth more love in my time of little love for him. I return unto the fellowship offered me, and he will return unto me in a magnitude of revelation that I have not known. I am thankful, and I rejoice in my tribulations instead of responding with coldness and indifference. He has allowed the purifying fire of trial to come that I might endure unto the end. I do not think these things strange which are to try me. No strange thing has happened; therefore, I rejoice in as much as I am a partaker of his sufferings. God's glory shall be revealed, and I will be glad with exceeding, great joy. If I refuse the grace to rejoice, then there is no way that gladness will be found at the end of the trial.

I come from my tables of pride and covetousness, and I sit with the Lord at the tables of fresh bread and water. He has a refreshing for me in this hour that shall wash away all the debris of the storm of ignorance. There are continual storms of ignorance being poured out by lust and pride. I receive the grace that is being multiplied unto me in this hour, and I will not walk through this life in the filthy garments of misunderstanding and spiritual poverty. God has sent forth fresh waters of the washing of regeneration and a renewing of the Holy Ghost. I will be washed again with these fresh waters of cleansing.

These waters are sent forth for times like these. Many have refused the washing of the word. Many have not the living word for washing and cleansing. I will not remain ungrateful and lose the washing of water by the living word. Many are attempting to receive this washing with the filthy waters of death, for they have gone to the fountains of the letter and not the fountains of the spirit. I heed this admonition, and I know that love speaks to me. God has sent forth a renewal of the living word in me. Now I embrace this experience again, and I behold people and things all around me come alive. The living words in me shall produce life. I now go and proclaim the life that is in me.

 

 

#364

Night is coming fast. I am beholding the night fall upon the world as a dark blanket. Though men say night is not coming and that things will continue as they are, I know of a truth, that night will come and overtake them as a thief. God's thoughts are much higher than mine. His ways are much higher than mine. His time is not as my time; therefore, I will heed this admonition. I know that if Adam had known the power of disobedience, he would not have disobeyed. I have seen the power of disobedience and the power of obedience. I choose obedience, and I behold the fruit of my obedience on an eternal plane. Many have chosen to taste the bitter fruit of disobedience on an eternal plane. The fruit that awaits those who believe not is an unwanted experience, yet many shall experience damnation by choice.

I look again to Adam and Eve, and I behold their lack of knowledge. I can make a choice today having much knowledge available to me. I will not choose as they did with the vast knowledge of the consequences of disobedience. I do not believe that Adam would make the same choice if he were choosing on this side of time. I will take heed today on this side of time. God once winked at ignorance, but now he commands everyone to repent. I repent and enjoy the fruit of the tree of life. The tree of damnation is an unwanted experience with the taste of all the sorrow, grief, and pain in the life to come multiplied by infinity. I repent and experience the joy of obedience.

 

 

#365

God's ways are not my ways. He is from above, and I am from beneath. Though I am of this world and from beneath, the Lord has lifted me into heavenly places in Christ Jesus and made me a citizen of heaven. I am a new creature, an heir to the common wealth of Israel's promise through Abraham. I lift my head to the heavenly seed in my midst, and I look no longer to my old nature. I was without hope in the world. I was alienated from the promises, a stranger to the covenants, but now I am made free and complete in Christ. I look to the seed of Abraham, and I will discover the tree of life again. This tree of life is not found outside of Christ. The tree of life is not found in the garden of carnality and human wisdom. The tree of life is only found in Christ. I have come to the tree of life, and now I eat of that which is not forbidden. God has beckoned me to come to a tree of precious fruit.

I do not follow after the desires of my flesh, for the flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of God. I follow after charity, peace, and holiness. I follow the faith in me, and now I behold my name written in the Lamb's book of life. Many seek to place their names in man's book of life, but God has told me that man's book is a book of death, not a book of life. If I have hope only in this life, then I am miserable. Hope in man's ways is a pit and a prison house. I have come to my tree of life, and I pick from the Lord's hands the fruit of the tree of life. He has offered me true love instead of lust. He has offered me true humility instead of pride. I choose today whose hand I will eat from. The enemy that was in the garden yet offers lust and pride to deceive and corrupt, but God is offering me grace and righteousness. I eat from the hands of life and not from the hands of death. I cannot say that I am eating from the hands of life when I am satisfied with the things that he abhors and detest.

 

 

 

 

Hebrews 10:22 - 23

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

 

 

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.