Do not hesitate to obey me. Move into the arena of your gift. There is inspiration available that you have never heard. Do not fear to trust me. Simply walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of your flesh to doubt the move of my spirit. I have something to do that cannot be accomplished by a sermon. Do not go forth to sermonize, but go forth to be a yielded vessel for my spirit. I will show you things that you have not known. Go and have confidence in me, the Lord God. Go.

 

 

 

I will not hesitate to obey God. I move into the arena of my gift. There is inspiration available that I have never heard. I will not fear to trust him. I simply walk in the spirit, and I will not fulfill the lust of my flesh to doubt the move of his spirit. God has something to do that cannot be accomplished by a sermon. I will not go forth to sermonize, but I will go forth to be a yielded vessel for his spirit. He will show me things that I have not known. I have confidence in Jesus, the Lord God. I will go having trust in the Almighty.

 

By Don Grigsby

(Continued)

 

Humility pauses to allow you to come aboard. Do not attempt to journey across the dark, cold sea of death in a vehicle of pride and selfishness. Only humility will access the grace that will propel you through this time of extreme coldness. The love of many has waxed colder than ever before. Do not become shipwrecked with the masses. Examine the condition of your heart. Do not allow your life to become an open autopsy of one who could have succeeded if you had really loved others.

28. Your exterior works may shine before man, but what does that profit you if your interior heart and motives are not pure in my sight?

 

Fall at my feet and receive the mercy being offered you. My grace is sufficient. All who abandon pride and vengeance shall not crash on the wreckage in the cold sea. I have equipped you with love inside. Follow charity, and place vengeance in my hands. It is time to weep. This is the time to cry. You have found grace in my sight. Grace shall support you while wrong inflicts you during times of sincerity and prayer for your persecutors. Pour out your tears upon the altar, and I will create within you a new heart of love for others. Be broken upon this rock of conviction. The brokenness of your heart shall allow my purity to shine in you, and then will you see me and desire my attitude and my love for those who treat you wrong. I died for my enemies.

29. What will you do for yours?

30. If you will not die for them, then why attempt to journey across the cold sea ahead without a renewal of your heart and your spirit?

 

(To Be Continued)

 

 

November 1 , 2006

 

Lord, I realize that Satan has sold death for life for so long that many do not know the difference; however, those who are fully alive in the Holy Ghost and running over with the joy of that life and they know that the peddlers of enemy wares are frauds. Thank you for a desire to eat at the table that you have prepared and not those that hold the junk food of the flesh. Your meat is to do your will. We have found the meat that rejoices men's hearts. You are bread and drink, and we are eating off the plates of love with forks of faith and the meat of miracles on the plate. You have given us healthy appetites that will refuse the substitute and fabricated things that are like spiritual cardboard. Our banquet and feast is at your house where you have prepared your fatlings, and everything is now ready. Some refuse to come in because they have other agendas. Our daily bread from your mouth is the most important item in our diet. Our strength will not come from the plastic creations of the flesh or the devil but that which you have prepared for us at your table daily. We come to feast when we come into your presence in prayer and worship at prayer meetings and church services. The feasts that people eat at the entertainment events are those that the scripture describes as full of vomit and every unclean thing. Adam and Eve were eating off the wrong tree and listening to the wrong voice when the rest of creation was feasting on your presence. The wrong voice led them away from your presence. If we listen to the wrong call to dinner at the wrong house, we will be deceived, and death will be in the meal. As the sons of the prophets gathered together, one of their number went out and gathered wild gourds. It is said that they knew them not. It was poison in the pot. O’ Lord, teach me to be careful with what I go out and gather up to eat. I can put poison in the pot and destroy others. Thank you for the grace that will ensure that I will be at the house of the Lord to hear the words of the prophet that you have given to us. If I am hearing the words of your prophet, he can remove the poison of that we do not even know that we have gathered up outside the church. Many have been seduced by entertainment, in its various forms in the world, that makes them feel cultured. It is almost a religious experience for them. The devil told Adam and Eve if they would partake, they would be like gods. O’ God, cause me to understand the difference between worshipping you, the True God, and idolatry. I know that the only place for me to eat and partake of the One True Living God is in your presence and in your house. I know that the enemy hates me; therefore, I should never eat anything at his hand or house no matter how good it sounds.

Life is flowing in me. You have given me a river of life; therefore, I will not receive the dead things that are offered on the banks of life by my enemy. Sales representatives have already lined up this morning to pass out their wares. Thank you that I have been given precious life and that there is no reason to receive worthless wares of death. You have given me the table of life, and now I may eat of your goodness. You are serving a meal filled with vigor, vitality, nourishment, and blessing. A table of life has been furnished for me, and there is no reason to eat from a table of death. I praise you for the table of life. I can sit down before your throne of grace and eat from the hands and the mouth of grace. The chief meal of life is being served. I open my heart and receive the good things that you are serving. Thank you for the strength that I receive that satisfies my need for the day. If I eat the things served at other tables, I will be malnourished and without strength to overcome in the end. I must consider my end, for I will not endure unto the end on a diet of carnality, pleasure, and death.

Thank you Lord for being the Author of the faith within me. You did not start me out on meaningless meals that are impotent in real spiritual power. You started me out on meals designed by the Holy Ghost and fire. An enemy has sown meals without the true Spirit and without the real fire. Without God’s fire, which is a consuming fire, I will die in the halls of cold love. In the halls of cold love, the entertainment designed by the prince of power of the air is the focal point. This is why some will contend to go to athletic events, dances, and social events instead of contending to attend prayer meetings and worship services. Thank you for the grace to remain determined to go and bring your people back to the banquet halls of red-hot love. Without a love for God, they will perish with the ungodly. We must all repent, lest we all perish. Without returning to my first love, I will journey to the empty abyss of worldliness where there is no love for you, only a love for the world. Lord, you have said, “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.”

Those seemingly innocent events that some are attending are not innocent events, but they are doorways to worldliness and entrances to the chambers of death. The people there are sowing to the flesh and not to the Spirit, and they will reap corruption. Your people should not be there, Lord. Some of your people are journeying toward a chasm, which is a deep void where there is no relationship with you, our heavenly Father. Lord, you have said, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” Another time you said, “And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.”

Lord, you are the same God who gave these instructions, so I know that you are not giving instructions for me to go to the tents of wickedness for my pleasures. The spirit of deception has captured me if I think this is right. I am going my own way and not your way. You are not double-minded. You do not contradict yourself. I purpose not to receive of the plagues of the last days or to receive the judgments for these plagues. I repent, for I do not want to perish. Grace has stretched forth its hand. Thank you for the strength and the mind to place my hand in its hand and listen to its voice of instruction. Grace says, “I have brought you salvation, and I am teaching you to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts. Live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world looking for the blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God who gave himself for you that he might redeem you from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” If I am a friend of the world, then I am your enemy. I have no need to go to these places because I am not a friend of the world. I cannot be the friend of the world without being your enemy. Your enemies are my enemies, and there is no reason for me to be in the house of my enemies. I REMEMBER SAMSON. He journeyed to the house of his enemies and died there. The place where his enemies entertained themselves became his tomb. My enemies’ entertainment centers will not become the tomb for me. I will speak these things in the ears of the people. I will exhort and rebuke with all authority and let no man despise me. Thank you Lord for opening my eyes to these precious truths.

 

 

RE: PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING - November 1, 2006

 

Seven feasts were instituted in the lives of the early Israelites. These feasts had definite purposes in the lives of God's people. Maturity in the Spirit is to understand that we have destiny and purpose in our lives and a distinct purpose for everyday of our lives. Feasts were not only to provide a time of coming together with others but an attitude of overflowing gratitude and thanksgiving for every dimension of life and godliness. Worship is always the best way to exclude the devil. He either has to worship or leave. No created being of God can stand in his presence and not worship. At all of these feasts the people had a time of feasting on natural food, but they also looked forward to a time that they would partake of the spiritual food in the kingdom of Jesus Christ. We cannot eat at the table of devils and the Lord's Table also. Satan will always provide cheap substitutes and counterfeit delicacies that appeal to our fleshly lust and appetites. In his presence is fullness of joy, and at his right hand are pleasures forevermore. God will provide a daily table of love feasts that will truly satisfy our longings. All of this world’s entertainment and amusements are made to tempt us to become eventual gluttons of the fleshly appetites. Our fatness needs to come from the table of spiritual feasts of prayer and fellowship in the Holy Ghost. There is pleasure in sin for a season. In the presence of the Lord, there are pleasures that the world cannot duplicate. Our praise goes up to the throne for the daily blessings of the meat of the will of God and the dessert of the blessing of his grace.