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(RHEMA: The Rod of God Striking the Waters of Trouble)
Moses Hightower
The Power of Mercy In the Face of Unrelenting Pressure
Think not that the situation that I have allowed into your life is a strange thing. This is the trying of your faith and a new dimension to your life. The enemy meant this for bad, but I meant it for good. Do you love me? Are you called according to my purpose? Then all things are working together for good. You must pull the window shade by praise, and look through the new window that I have created in your life. This new window is a hyperlink into a new dimension of understanding, love, and faith. Raise the shade that shrouds the window that I have created. Offer praise and thanksgiving in the face of disappointment and hurt. The mystery of the trial is only revealed on the other side of praise. If you allow the disappointment and the hurt to steal your praise to me, then you did not need what you were seeking. I am removing all the idols from the hearts of my chosen ones. I will be first, and I will not be second. If you make someone or something first in your life, then you are not worthy of me. If you cannot offer praise, then you have come into bondage unto another spirit. I will not stand in line while you worship another god. You have put your hands to the plow of faith. Now do not look back and declare yourself unworthy of me. This trial is about the god of the world and the Living God. The accuser of the brethren has brought you before my throne and accused you of loving another more than me; therefore, this trial was sent your way. You must prove the worth that grace has supplied you with. Are you worthy of me? If you are worthy of me, then place your hands to the plow of love, and do not look back at the sensual things offered to you by the god of the world. Offer praise to the God who is worthy to be praised so that I can save you from this thing that is stronger than you are. The waves of death have compassed you about. The floods of ungodliness have made you afraid. The sorrow of hell has compassed you about. The snares of death have prevented effectual praise from flowing out of you to me. In your distress, call upon me, the God of your salvation. I will hear your cry. Your cry will come into my ears. I will shake the earth for you. I love you, and I am wroth about this situation. I will move the foundations of heaven and shake heaven and earth for you. As of old, smoke comes out of my nostrils and fire comes out of my mouth. I will kindle the coals of fire and ride upon the wings of the wind. I will send out my arrows and scatter your enemies and discomfit them. When I utter my voice in response to your praises, you shall be delivered and set up on high. I will make your feet like hinds' feet and set you upon the high places. I will teach your hands to war. I will give you a shield, the shield of salvation and enlarge your steps under you so that your feet do not slip. I have pursued your enemies and destroyed them. I will not turn until I have consumed them. They will be consumed. They will not rise again. Yea, they are fallen under your feet. I have given you the neck of your enemies. Those who have hated you and broken your heart shall look for help, but there will be none to help. There will be none to save them. They shall cry to me, but I will not answer them. Enter into this new window built on your behalf. Pull the shade that covers this new dimension. Click on the hyperlink of praise, and the window of a greater good shall be revealed unto you. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth. I came not to send peace but a sword, for I am come to set a man at variance against his father, the daughter against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's foes shall be those of his own household. If you love your girl friend, father, mother, friends, or anything more than me, then you are not worthy of me. If you love anyone more than me, you are not worthy of me. If you do not take up your cross and follow me, then you are not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. I have given you a window into a new dimension. Allow not the shade of disappointment and hurt designed by your enemies to cover this launch window into the opportunities before you. I have placed a window of opportunity before you. While you grieve, the enemy rejoices that you were in love with someone that did not love you. Rejoice that I have saved you from a love that had turned bad. The picture window before you will reveal the greater good that I have planned for you. Remove the window shade totally by your thanksgiving. I will now reveal the good planned for you though the devil meant it for bad. I have given you grace as a storm window to protect you from the bad weather that shall be authored by your foes. Come forth now, and praise me in the trial of your faith. Become as gold that you may offer the gold of your life as an exchange at the door of rewards.
Don Grigsby
RE: RHEMA - The Power of Mercy In the Face of Unrelenting Pressure Mercy seats are always the best seats in the house. Since the mercy seat is a figure of God's throne, it is also the greatest seat of power. If we sit, let it not be in judgment but in mercy. Mercy will bring to us more windows of opportunity than the judgment of others. In the prison at the Livingston unit where death row is, one of our ministers began to threaten the chaplain, and they removed him from the unit. We have had a growing group of Apostolic men on that unit. I have been contacted over and over again in the last two months for someone to come. We prayed, and God put a new chaplain that I had been friends with on another unit. He has already set up a baptism service for the truth and preaching time as well! This did not happen by condemning the chaplain. God spoke to me earlier about this year in the prison. You must speak to them by revelation and not by condemnation. You do not know where I have led them from and how I have spoken to them that they will never admit to any of their own friends or family. I am leading many out of darkness. It is difficult for men to turn loose of error when they have believed it was truth for years. What would you do if someone began to ridicule the truth that you were convinced was light? I am the truth. Let me embrace them with my love and they will embrace you. Point them to my throne of mercy and not a seat before the court of your thoughts. I am convinced that there would not have been any opportunity to minister to one in that unit if God had not worked in mercy. Every closed door and hurt will be overturned by the hands of mercy. Every wounded spirit cries for the balm of grace and the oils of mercy to be applied by gentle spirits and tender hearts. As we dedicate ourselves to the ministry of the cross, mercy will testify of the only true God. Worship and commitment to him will exclude all the false images of jealousy that we are capable of hiding in the high places of our hearts. We play right into the hands of the accuser of the brethren when we cannot worship in the presence of mercy. We can fill the windows of opportunity of mercy with shades of unresolved issues of the past and the untenable problems of the present. We must determine to remove the shades and coverings of the windows of new dimensions so that we are able to respond to the light and opening that has come out of the shadows. Complacency and no commitment will cause us to ignore the venues of opportunity that God will open to us daily. We are surrounded by many things that would sweep us away and entangle us in our own emotions and personal agendas. We must shred and burn any personal lists that we have and ask God for a fresh sheet with daily revaluation to work in this hour when mercy will do a quick work. Many pitfalls and traps of selfishness are along the path, but his directives will instruct us clearly how to avoid the entanglement of the enemy. He will make our feet like hind's feet and put them on our dancing places of victory because mercy has already designed the victory. We must not be ignorant of the false love that will attack us in this hour. We can let it become introverted and destroy us, or we can be overwhelming in our response and view the grand vistas of power through the windows of mercy and doors of grace. We have been given doors of utterance to walk through in this hour. We will do well to walk through them anointed by mercy and shouting life instead of death.
DISAPPOINTMENT, MISUNDERSTANDING, HURT, AND UNBELIEF
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You have strong arms to depend on. My arms are long and strong. The
long arms of longsuffering have been extended to you. The same lovingkindness
that David knew has been bestowed upon you. The same unfailing faithfulness
is yours also. The spoken word that David heard has not ceased. You
are hearing the voice of David's God. David wrote of my everlasting
mercy. He spoke of my truth that would endure to your generation. I
sent the truth as a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a Branch that grew
out of his roots. Though the rod of my mouth smites the earth, it smites
the troubled waters for you today. Be confident in the favor that has
come to you because of my name. The faithfulness and truth of my word
should secure your faith. It is impossible for me to lie; therefore,
my promises are never to be doubted. I have promised that I would never
leave you. Your adversaries cannot consume you because you have my mercies,
and my compassions do not fail. They are new every morning, and great
is my faithfulness. I am serving you new compassions this morning. Hope
in me, for I am your portion. Taste and see that I am good. You have
sought me, and now my goodness shall doubly reward you. 
