DO YOU BELIEVE MY WORD?
by Patricia Hamel
Are you believing Me for great things in your life?
Are you believing Me for the salvation of your
loved ones? Are you believing Me for the healing
of your body? I ask you if you truly believe My
Word? My Word says, "according to your faith be
it unto you".
Do you have faith stirring in your heart to
believe Me for the impossible? I am the God of
the impossible and can do all things. I work miracles
and am the same, yesterday, today and forever.
Believe it. My Word is ever active and working on
your behalf. Believe Me for My Word’s sake. I
am stirring you to come to a new level in your
faith. I am stirring you to believe that the
mountains will be moved in My name. Allow Me to
stir you beloved for according to your faith will
it be unto you.
GLORY BE TO JEHOVAH NISSI! GOD OUR VICTORY!
The enemy may attack in one direction, but God will disperse him in seven directions. Amen!
Yesterday in church God confirmed His message to me which was also ringing in my heart. He confirmed this message through my Pastor. He said that the enemy may attack from one direction but God will disperse them in seven directions. Amen!
God is great and His works are those of eternal! At many times He confirms many messages to me and this always leaves me amazed. Glory to God!
This day I am proud to be under the Rock that is higher than I, the unshakable Rock and the Rock of Ages.
And when the enemy attacks! He does not see me but the Rock who surrounds me is always my Defence and my Shield. And when the enemy knocks on this Rock, he splits in seven directions leaving the Rock strong and intact. Hallelujah!
Therefore i am not afraid of the enemy because the battle is not mine but the Lord's.
And whoever has placed his trust and hope in the God of Israel will never be afraid.
And as He told Joshua to be of good courage, He is also telling us today, "Do not be afraid, neither be terrified. Take heart and be of good courage!"
He is God and He changes not!
He is God and not man that He should lie or repent!
He is God and all His promises are Yes and True and Amen!
We only need to trust on His word. He requires us to have faith and not doubt.
He has said He will return soon and therefore take heart, because very soon He will appear for us. He will appear and take us home. Hallelujah!
He has said He will never forsake us! And surely Jesus will be with us until the end of the age! Amen!
God is always watching over us. For He neither sleeps nor slumbers, therefore do not be afraid. Do not be afraid even by the terrible. Our Lord encourages us to fear Only God, who can destroy both body and soul in hell, but not man who can only kill the body!
Take heart now and reverence your God. He created us and we are all the work of His hands. We have all the reason to praise Him.
My Pastor always encourages us that, the best time to praise God is when you are in trouble. Therefore even in your toubles, do not complain but continue praising God so that when the storm you are in passes away you can parsie God even more and glorify His Holy Name and say," Had it not been God, I wouldn't have survived!"
Therefore in your calamities and troubles, praise God!
In your times of joy, praise Him!
Praise Him all day.
The situation you are passing through right now should not prevent you from praising God!
God knows what you are passing through. He also knows why you are in that wilderness.
Do not abandon God or complain to Him in that wilderness but instead praise Him!
Wait for God's time because it is always the best.
The God of Jacob has not forgotten you!
The God of Jacob knows you by your name!
The God of Jacob has engraved your name in the Palm of His Hands!
Though a mother may forsake his baby at her birth, the God of Jacob will by no means forsake us! Hallelujah!
SEEK THE LORD AND LIVE!
Amos 5:4-6 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, seek ye me, and ye shall live. But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. Seek the LORD, and ye shall live:..
May the LORD help us to follow the straight and narrow path which leads to Heaven. Let us not swerve to the right or to the left. Let us not make for ourselves other small gods which will become a snare and defile many.
Let us all trust in the Only One and True God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob! Amen!
LET US WATCH EVEN UNTO PRAYER, FOR OUR DEPARTURE IS NIGH!
LIFTING JESUS HIGHER! GLORY TO HIM!
Peace!
"The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from or where it goes.
September 8, 2008: I speak to those who feel like you have to go back to the beginning and start over. But, the truth of the matter is that the ground that you have gained has not been lost. Do not try to go back, but rather move forward from where you are right now. Only leave behind those things that have brought regret and mourning. The best is yet to come, says the Lord. Come higher!
Revelation 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this."
September 8, 2008: I come to you with a challenge, which has already been proclaimed, "Raise the Standard." Raise the standard of your faith, the standard of your living in My kingdom, and raise the standard of your expectations. Come higher, for indeed if that is your will, I will help you. I shall cause you to gain spiritual strength, even as Sampson gained strength in the days of his adversity. You are more than mere flesh and blood; you are spirit, and the power of your spirit connected to My Spirit has a supernatural power and presence that you can live in and will bring victory over all adversity. You are designed for victory, and you belong to Me. Walk in My ways and follow My paths, and you shall indeed come forth in triumph, says the Lord of Hosts.
Grantley Morris has an amazing site...link at bottom
“Nothing but Dirt”
Suppose someone suggested you sell absolutely everything you have – your car, house, furniture, jewelry, even your best clothes – to raise the cash to buy a barren piece of land that to you is nothing but dirt. That’s about as ridiculous as what Jesus seems to be asking of us – to give up things we hold dear and for this enormous sacrifice he offers what seems little better than dirt. But what if the person urging you to buy the land were a devoted friend who had discovered oil on the property? Underneath that land is enough crude oil to make you an instant multimillionaire. You would not be able to stop grinning as you excitedly sell all you possess. You would be focused not on the house you are losing, but on the mansion you will soon be able to buy. You would be too busy thinking about sports cars, limousines and Lear jets to mourn the loss of your old car. That’s how eagerly we would follow Jesus’ seemingly crazy requests if we really understood what God is offering us in exchange. If, for instance, we are horrified when God asks us to give up our puny, selfish ambitions, it is only because we have been too pre-occupied with ourselves to gain the slightest conception of how excitingly superior are God’s ambitions for us. If only we understood we could hardly contain our joy.
Back to Earth
As wonderfully true as this is, for me to leave you floating in the clouds would be less than honest without first tackling the issue that most preachers and teachers, myself included, are sorely tempted to side-step. We must face up to the cost, plunging into those icy waters while desperately clinging to the truth that by an incomprehensible but divinely-guaranteed miracle, the benefits are exceedingly greater than the enormous cost.
Jesus is our Savior – saving us from many things we could never bear, including an eternity in hell. In addition, Jesus is our Example – the Pioneer who trail-blazed the route for us to follow, all the way to the cross and beyond. “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2). Not only was it necessary for our Leader to suffer en route to indescribable victory, joy and honor, so must his followers. Prayerfully consider the following:
. . . if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. (21) To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps (1 Peter 2:20-21).
Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude . . . (1 Peter 4:1).
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. (13) But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed (1 Peter 4:12).
This truth is strongly emphasized in Scripture. Most of us will find the relevant Scriptures in the verses not underlined in our Bibles. For more Scriptures, see The suffering Lord: our Example.
Act like Christ – which is possible only by letting Christ live in you and express himself through you – and you will end up like Christ – despised, rejected, humiliated and finally reigning in honor on God’s throne for all eternity.
Sheer Agony
“Anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me,” declared our Savior (Matthew 10:38). I dare not rob that chilling statement of the dread filling the thumping hearts of Jesus’ original hearers. Crucifixions were so common that all Jesus’ contemporaries must surely have seen condemned criminals dragging their crosses on the way to a most torturous death. Later, many of his hearers witnessed their Leader agonizing on the cross, confirming the enormity of the cost involved.
It is an inescapable fact that the cross is sheer agony. I would be little better than a charlatan to suggest otherwise. I, for instance, made what at the time seemed a huge sacrifice for the Lord. Over twenty years later it still hurts deeply every day, with no hint that the pain will ever cease this side of eternity. I am unaware of the slightest compensation for all the suffering, except for an increased capacity to minister to hurting people. If I hold on until the end, however, what had seemed a sacrifice will prove itself one of the shrewdest imaginable investments.
Following Christ starts by sweating drops of blood, sobbing the prayer, “Not my will but yours.” It necessitates abandoning our pet sins, even though the incessant craving may gnaw at our insides day after endless day. It involves lowering ourselves in our own eyes; viewing ourselves as weak, ignorant and useless without Jesus’ constant input, and believing we are so morally corrupt that we deserve endless torment in hell. It could well mean letting people walk all over us, or choosing a path that exposes us to rejection, ridicule, perhaps even physical suffering. It will probably involve giving up whatever is dearest to our heart. It might be prized possessions, hobbies, loved ones, a promising career, financial security, or the right to marry the person we love, but whatever most rivals our love for God may have to go. Jesus’ teaching is crammed with this emphasis and if it is currently unpopular to talk about it, that just shows how far we have yet to go before we truly reflect Jesus.
Our Lord was forever warning would-be followers of the enormous cost involved. This worries most of us so much that we would like there to be two categories of believers: disciples and ordinary born again Christians. But Scripture makes no such distinction. There are indeed two categories: true Christians and fake Christians. Or, expressed another way: those who are genuinely born again and those who merely think they are. Space allows only a couple of reminders of how Jesus’ approach to potential converts differs so markedly from what we typically hear today:
Luke 14:25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: (26) “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters – yes, even his own life – he cannot be my disciple. (27) And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. (28) Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? (29) For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him . . . (33) In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple.
Matthew 10:25 It is enough for the student to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebub, how much more the members of his household!
John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
The apostles, of course, followed Jesus’ method of evangelism and teaching. Thus, for example, we find Paul and Barnabas “strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. ‘We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,’ ” they said (Acts 14:22). “Everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,” promises 2 Timothy 3:12. Today we are so eager to declare people “co-heirs with Christ” that we often gloss over Scripture’s proviso, “if indeed we share in his sufferings” (Romans 8:17).
“Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ,” said Paul (1 Corinthians 11:1). We know how much Paul suffered. “I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church,” he wrote (Colossians 1:24). Paul kept his side of the bargain. He paid the price of following Christ. What about us?
The cost highlights why faith is so essential to authentic Christianity. Faith is the glue without which our entire spiritual life disintegrates. Without faith, we would not dare pay the price. We would be left only with false religion, no matter how much we cite Christian doctrine. And what faith it takes! Without a foretaste, it is nearly impossible even to imagine anything so wonderful as to make the cost worthwhile. Whatever could move anyone to pay such a price? I suggest the greatest of all motivations: love. The future joy that moved Jesus to endure the cross was not the happiness that ease and luxury gives, nor an empty euphoria like a drug-induced high. What held Jesus to the cross was the thrill and matchless satisfaction of knowing he was delighting the Father who meant everything to him, and the ecstasy of obtaining eternal fellowship with us, whom he loves with an intensity beyond our comprehension. Likewise, it was supernatural love pumping through the hearts of the early Christians that propelled them to exult in what they regarded as the privilege of suffering for their Lord (Acts 5:40-42). And it was that same love that exploded within the heart of Paul, driving him to count all his earlier achievements as trash relative to the joy of intimately knowing Christ and of sharing in Christ’s suffering (Philippians 3:8-10). We love because Christ first loved us. We embrace pain because he first did it for us.
When I remind you that “hope” is a theological term about the certainty of the reward, you will see that we have been discussing the big three – faith, hope and love. No wonder Paul in 1 Corinthians 13 sang the praises of these three qualities. They empower us to embrace the cross and thus plunge into the riches Christ has purchased for us.
New Life
To take up our cross and follow Christ sounds horrific, until we discover that following Jesus takes us not only to crucifixion but to resurrection; not only to the death of self but to a gloriously new and superior life. It is only the spiritually corrupt part of us that we are asked to let die. Once that goes we find ourselves tingling with life like never before. It’s the death of the grub so that butterfly wings might be stretched and soar heavenwards. It’s the death of the sin-addict, the groveling sin-slave, the despicable weakling, and the rising of the glorious conqueror. It’s the death of pollution and the emergence of purity; the death of lonesome self-infatuation and the release of true love.
‘Self’ refers to everything within us that is weak and ignorant and ugly. It is all that would ultimately darken us with shame and misery – the foolish choices that seemed a smart move at the time; the sweet things that turn sour. This, and only this, is what your loving Lord wants to die, so that a new you can burst onto the scene. Like (and through) Jesus risen from the dead, the new you will be a person brimming with life; glowing with purity, honor and a thrilling future.
I have sometimes so much craved sin that I actually felt that without it life was hardly worth living. That is utterly ridiculous and yet temptation is all about the enemy of our souls creating a dangerously false but highly convincing illusion. The critical issue, however, is that even if sin really were the only thing that made life seem worth living, I should lay down my life for the sake of the One who laid down his life for me. Christ paid the ultimate price for me, even though I deserve nothing. This leaves me utterly without excuse for not laying down my life for the exalted Lord who deserves everything. As Christ resurrected to a new and glorious life, so will I, as I cling by faith to my Savior. Through the One who died a slow, agonizing death for me, I will gain a sparkling new life, far superior to the old, sin-stained one. This new life will be fully manifest only after I physically die. Nevertheless, as I “die daily” – daily sacrificing a life of self-centeredness for the sake of my Lord – I will receive greater and greater foretastes of this new and excitingly superior life. Since they are only foretastes I will still have times when life feels awful, but in faith I plow through those times, refusing to surrender eternal reality for temporary illusion.
Making Room for God
Alex, a friend of yours, inherits a massive fortune in diamonds. He knows you have a small safe for personal valuables. “I have many diamonds with me,” he says, “I’d hate for them to be stolen. Could you put them in your safe?”
“Okay,” you say, none too pleased. You open the safe. It’s crammed with stuffed toys and fake jewelry.
“You’ll have to remove your things to make room for the diamonds,” Alex observes.
“What?” you exclaim, “and risk having my valuables stolen? Not on your life!” You angrily show Alex the door.
You later meet a friend and tell him about it.
“Alex kindly approached me, too,” your friend replies with a big grin, “I gladly threw out my valuables for his diamonds!”
“You did?” you reply, taken aback. “You took your valuables out of your safe, when he has enough wealth to buy a million safes of his own?”
“Alex didn’t want to use our safes!” laughs your friend, “He wanted to share his new-found wealth with us. All he wanted was to ensure you had a secure place to store your diamonds until you made up your mind what to do with them.”
“You mean all those diamonds would have been mine to keep?” Your ‘valuables’ suddenly seem worthless. “If only I’d understood, I’d have immediately emptied that trash out of my safe!”
Most of us make that same tragic mistake when God makes his offer. Like no one else, God is a giver, yet we mistake him for a taker. We each have, as it were, a treasure chest within us. We usually cram it full with such trinkets as self-righteousness, self-pity, self-promotion and bloated self-esteem. Pathetically, we horde these fake commodities, foolishly thinking them valuable. We realize they are inadequate, but they are all we have and we don’t think God would give us genuine valuables. We think the Lord asks for sacrifices, when all he wants is for us to clean out lesser things to make room for priceless treasures. Most of us fail to realize that by making room for God, we are making room for a vast treasury of divine riches that will be ours to keep.
If God filled that treasure chest within you, it would make you of infinite worth. While that chest is filled with yourself, however, there is no room for God. The more you make yourself small, the more of God there can be in that chest. The thought of making ourselves small terrifies us until we discover that it is simply making room for real riches that will be ours forever. Anyone opening up to God and pricking the balloon of his/her own importance, fills with divine importance. The new you fills with divine glory and supernatural power and majesty and joy and goodness and love and wisdom.
By emptying ourselves, we free up space for God to cram honor, beauty and eternal riches into our lives. When we shrink our estimation of our unaided ability, we make way for more of the ability of Almighty God to come flooding in.
Dying to self means coming to life like never before. It is trading trinkets for treasures; taking desires that end in despair and exchanging them for superior passions that produce life and fulfillment. And yet, when we have only known the inferior, it is so hard to even imagine the superior that it seems an enormous sacrifice to swap our darling trinkets for things of eternal value.
You might have heard it said, “God does not make junk.” The implication is that because we are God’s creation, we are of great worth, irrespective of whether we are filled with self or filled with Jesus. There’s a flaw in that logic. A brilliant artist will only make masterpieces, but any fool can vandalize a work of art until it is worthless. Our value lies only in our potential to be restored to the condition the Master originally intended. This restoration cannot happen if we keep Christ at arm’s length. We were divinely crafted to be filled with Jesus. As a human body without life is nothing but a putrid, decaying shell, so is a human spirit without Jesus.
Ironies
So upon opening yourself up to God, the more you shrink in your own estimation, the more you grow in worth, honor and usefulness. Here’s an example that may startle you: the more morally superior to a rapist Jane thinks herself, the more of Jane there is in that chest and the less there can be of God. On the other hand, the more Jane regards herself as morally corrupt and worthy of the same eternal fate as a rapist, the more she makes room for the Holy Lord and so the more she grows in purity and eternal honor. Consider Jesus’ parable of the tax collector and Pharisee praying in the temple. The one overwhelmed with a sense of moral depravity went home pure in God’s eyes. The good-living man, however, left morally corrupt in God’s eyes because he considered himself better than notorious sinners (Luke 18:9-14).
Likewise, we see in the life of the apostle Paul, the more he grew in spiritual stature, the lower his opinion of himself. That’s the only way anyone can grow spiritually. Paul went from thinking himself the equal of any apostle, to regarding himself as the least of Christians, to concluding he was the worst of sinners (Galatians 2:6-14; Ephesians 3:8; 1 Timothy 1:15). The more we lower ourselves, the taller we stand. Life is filled with such ironies and spiritual life is crammed with them.
Consider these ironies:
Jesus, without equal in wisdom and spiritual power, regarded himself as useless without God. “By myself I can do nothing,” he said (John 5:30).
“The meek . . . will inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5).
“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 18:14).
“So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants . . .’” (Luke 17:10)
“Honor your father and mother and love your neighbor as yourself,” said Jesus, quoting the Old Testament (Matthew 19:19). And yet another time he said: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters – yes, even his own life – he cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:26).
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20).
“I die daily,” wrote Paul, (1 Corinthians 15:31) who had discovered how to really live.
In a nutshell:
The world says love yourself, Jesus says deny yourself.
How can this be the gateway to fulfillment and supernatural joy?
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September 8, 2008. If your foundations be shaken, do not despair. Shakings will come and have come again and again in your lifetime. They happen for a reason. You are being seasoned so that in the great day of shaking you will survive and be My messenger and voice to those who are suffering and some are perishing. You are in a practice season for the big game. Learn all you can. Strengthen yourself through endurance testing, never turning back or quitting. You are no quitter. Have I not stood by your side already? You can be sure I will not quit and I will not ever leave you. Receive My comfort in the coming tribulation.
Hebrews 12:27 “This expression, "Yet once more," denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.” Ras Robinson*
September 8, 2008. You have no idea of the importance of the choice you have ahead of you in the next months. During the time between now and then I want you seeking me fully and depending on Me totally. When you have heard Me, then follow through with determination. You will hear things from those who will oppose your decision, that is hard to understand. You are a greater influence than you think you are. Some will weigh what you believe and decide along with you. Others will scoff and think you’re out of touch with the way things really are. The decisions you make are crucial. Many things hang in the balance.
John 10:27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;” Bev Robinson**
“Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:6-7
For those who are endeavoring to pursue with passion the presence of God, there is an unrelenting continuing back pressure that attempts through intimidation to stop forward progression in the continuing transformational glory to glory process.
When Paul asked his intercessors to pray for him, his number one request was that doors of opportunity would open but, equally important, he asked that he be granted boldness to speak as “I ought to speak”.
Demonic forces, human carnality and the world system all conspire attempting to cause the true disciples of Jesus Christ to back off, back down, sit down and shut up.
Every time evil triumphs over good, every time human frailty is exposed in the house of God, every time voices are raised against the Truth, there is the opportunity to withdraw into silent quiescence.
In his exhortation to Timothy, Paul hits the nail on the head. Paul was in prison. Embarrassing, humiliating association with the criminal element. Degrading. His only crime was being guilty of obeying God. Paul tells Timothy not to allow the situation to shut him down. Rejected by religious leaders and stigmatized by the government, Paul reacts by telling Timothy to stir up the very gifts that brought him to this point.
The word “fear” as it is translated from the Greek in this passage, can literally be translated “shrinking back”. The human emotional response to withdraw from attacks, criticism and contrary circumstances does not originate with God. It is a spirit (demon) that is to be resisted with equally forceful determination.
All the forces at our disposal as christians are to be unleashed against this spirit. All the power, all the love, all the concentrated force of our will are to be released in response to this frontal assault by the enemy. In other words, when the pressure is on to withdraw, sit down, shut up and shut down the word of the Lord comes saying boldly stand up, speak up and move forward. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.
by Patricia Hamel
My people are searching for answers
and those answers are found in the Word
of God. They are also found sitting at
My feet and allowing Me to reveal My
heart to you. I will reveal great and
mighty things to you as you spend time with
Me and seek My face.
I am looking for those that will seek
My face and do My will in the earth.
Will you do My will? Will you obey Me
in all things? Will you allow Me to work
in your life? I am working to
change your heart so that your heart is
full of My love. Will you allow Me to
transform your life?
Great things will be done with the one
that is allowing Me to transform them
into My image. Be transformed by the
renewing of your mind. Come to Me today
and be renewed in Christ.
Behold, I make all things new.
There is a vision and a purpose on the horizon that will bring us out of the malady of just going through the motions. It will be a vision plain and clear that will bring a pure focus that will cause ministry as we know it to arise out of the mire of human reasoning and understanding, up unto the full purposes of God. There will be a running with this fresh clear vision that has arisen from the depths of a new commitment and addresses the heart issues that have caused us to remain ‘sunk down’ in a lackadaisical approach of humanistic fleshly operations toward the advancement of the kingdom of God.
This vision will prepare hearts for the reality of the yet unseen and unheard promises of God that He has prepared for those that love Him. A new culture will arise that will run swiftly throughout status quo religiosity, shaking false foundations and establishing God’s seal of love over His bride.
The Lord is mounting His horse and soon will be riding across the earth declaring a new thing. “Behold, I make all things new.” This will be a time of extreme change. The church is about to get a makeover. There is a shift coming that will bring with it the reality of painful change. Current foundations rooted in a legalistic system of religious performances will be cracked wide open. Out of this shaking will emerge true servants of God with shepherd’s hearts who can be trusted to care for the flock.
It is time for the Spirit to ride. He will first ride across His church. Then He will ride in the earth. He will “not flow from dirt” (that which is earthly; the work of man’s hands; the filth of the flesh) and “religious recipes” (well thought out and planned out ingredients of man’s wisdom mixed together and offered as an appeasement to God). It is time to re-shape re-organize and re-structure in the house of God. The current walls of Christianity are broken down and the gates have been burned. Our arrogant, self-sufficient ways have left us wanting. There is no place for God to come and dwell. So much structure - so much form - usurping the authority and power of the Holy Spirit and leaving us with dry dead bones.
Can these bones live? Spirit of the Lord, ride! Spirit of the Living God, ride! Spirit of prophecy, ride! Speak to these dry dead bones that they may come alive. Share the vision! Speak the vision! Write the vision! You visionaries - You seers -Go forth! Proclaim the day of the Lord. What do you see? Speak! Write! Prophesy! The vision is for an appointed time and it will not tarry. Carry the vision! Live the vision! Become the vision!
There is no time for holding back. This is a time for moving forward. Renewed focus! Renewed purpose! We cannot rest on anything but a fresh revelation of Jesus Christ. He is our focus - He is our purpose - He is our Life - the full promise of God, beyond what we have thought or imagined - the kingdom of heaven come to earth. Thy kingdom come - Thy will be done - on earth as it is in heaven. Run with the vision!
Woody Winchell
Then the Lord answered me and said, “Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run. For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hastens toward the goal, and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; for it will certainly come, it will not delay.
Habakkuk 2:2-3
We give thanks to Thee, O God, we give thanks, for Thy name is near; Men declare Thy wondrous works. “When I select an appointed time, it is I who judge with equity. The earth and all who dwell in it melt; It is I who have firmly set its pillars. I said to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn; Do not lift up your horn on high, do not speak with insolent pride.’”
Psalm 75:1-5
The sound of Thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook. Thy way was in the sea, and Thy paths in the mighty waters, and Thy footprints may not be known. Thou dist lead Thy people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron
Psalm 77: 18-20
Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, like a warrior overcome by wine. And He drove His adversaries backward; He put on them an everlasting reproach. He also rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, but chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved. And He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has founded forever. He also chose David His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; from the care of the ewes with suckling lambs He brought him, to shepherd Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance. So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them with his skillful hands.
Psalm 78: 65-72
And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he who sat upon it is called Faithful and True; and in righteousness He judges and wages war. And His eyes are a flame of fire, and upon His head are many diadems; and He has a name written upon Him which no one knows except himself. And He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood; and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. And from His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may smite the nations; and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, ‘KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.’
Revelation 19: 11-16
18 PROPHECY: / Daily Prophecy Corner / Re: OVERCOME by Patricia Hamel 9/6 on: September 07, 2008, 12:49:03 PM
A Now word to the Overcomers in Christ !
Jeff Kingshott
He shall delight in the fear of the Lord " The all consuming fire " The Zeal of the Lord !
Isaiah 59:17
17He put on righteousness like a breastplate,
And a helmet of salvation on His head;
And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing
And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.
Isaiah 59:16-18
The Redeemer of Zion
Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him
That there was no justice.
16 He saw that there was no man,
And wondered that there was no intercessor;
Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;
And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.
17 For He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
And a helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,
And was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay,
Fury to His adversaries,
Recompense to His enemies;
The coastlands He will fully repay.
My all consuming fire is upon you now ,
I shall uproot and destroy all the sacred cows ,
For I am all consuming in whatever I do ,
And now I have chosen to do this through you ,
For I am light awakening all that is dead ,
Bringing flesh and life to bones that have lived in dread ,
Yet the Fear of the Lord brings delight ,
And now I have chosen you as my light ,
Isaiah 4:2
The Renewal of Zion
2 In that day the Branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious;
And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and appealing
For those of Israel who have escaped.
You need mercy... You need grace. Your heart is crying out for help in your time of need. You will be tempted to approach others who love you with this need. But no one can show you or give you what I can give you. You are not one to settle for superficial comfort from those who seem to understand but in fact do not. You know that I always understand. I am mercy and grace to you. I will never superficially comfort you but rather will give you all of Myself in a genuine and healing manner. Come now, let us talk about this. I am the healer for your hurt.
Hebrews 4:16 Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].” (AMP) Ras Robinson
<><><> FALSE COMFORT <><><>
WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN
THE GOING GET'S ROUGH
WHERE DO WE RUN TO
WHO DO WE TURN TO?
IS IT PEOPLE
AND THEIR CONSOLATION
AND PRAYERS
IS IT FOOD, OR DRUGS
ACHOLHOL
EVEN WORK
AND CREATIVITY?
EVEN GOOD THINGS
LEGITIMATE THINGS
AS A MEANS OF ESCAPE
OF AVOIDING
THE PRYING EYE OF GOD
WHO WE KNOW
DEEP DOWN
WANTS SO MUCH
TO CLEAR OUR DECKS
FILL OUR VOID
CHANGE OUR HEARTS
SO THAT WE FIND
SOLELY IN HIM
THE COMFORTER
THE SPIRIT
OUR PEACE
OUR CALM
OUR VICTORY
NO MORE SHORT CUTS
ON THIS NARROW WAY
TO ALIVIATE
THE PRESSURES
OF THIS WORLD
AND LIFE
WE MUST BEGIN TO TURN
FROM ALL FALSE COMFORTS
TO FIND OUR REFUGE
OUR ROCK
OUR HIDING PLACE
IN HIM ALONE
FOR HE IS THAT PURE
AND SURE RELEASE
FROM ALL THE DRY PLACES
EMPTY SPACES
HURTFUL HABITATES
THAT ONLY HE CAN FILL...
GENE JOHNSON ~ 2008
20 PROPHECY: / Daily Prophecy Corner / Re: HOW MANY MORE WARNINGS? 9/7 on: September 07, 2008, 12:18:16 PM
PUBLIC STATEMENT OF ALARM
By Jan Willem van der Hoeven & Stan Goodenough
http://www.israelmybeloved.com/channel/wor...ion/article/199
In the light of God's warning to the nations through His prophet Joel that He will one day bring them to judgment for dividing the land He repeatedly vowed to give to just one nation - His own beloved and Chosen People - it is appalling to read Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's expressed belief that he can almost see the hand of God behind the crazy idea* being pushed upon Israel by the nations of the world: that a 23rd Muslim Arab state-Palestine-be established in the heart of this already tiny little land.
As you must know, Mr. Olmert, this is not the advice of friends but of self-serving politicians who are afraid or unable to withstand the immense pressures of the whole Muslim world (of more than 40 nations) and also the millions of Muslims within their own borders. No, this is not the kind advice of friends, but unconscionable exploitation for reasons of expediency. And it is certainly not the hand of God behind all this pressure, but the sinister influence of your combined enemies-or should we say, the Enemy?
Therefore, together with millions of Christians who are true friends of Israel, and in faithfulness to what the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem declared at its opening on October 15, 1981, pledging its "support and untiring international effort for the unification of Israel's land and Israel's capital Jerusalem," we call upon you both - Mr. George W. Bush and Mr. Ehud Olmert - to cease forthwith your attempt to placate Israel's enemies with a 23rd state of their own, thereby facilitating the demise of this young courageous nation, to the judgment of all those responsible for pushing Israel down this totally treacherous road.
Jan Willem van der Hoeven, Director
International Christian Zionist Center
Stan Goodenough, Editor
"Zion's Alarm" and "Jerusalem Newswire"
* The revelation, on the same day as Mr. Olmert's statement, that two official PA policemen murdered two Israeli hikers in the last week of 2007, using weapons issued under Israel's supervision as part of the "peace process," is only the latest proof of the foolishness of this idea.
© Israel My Beloved
21 PROPHECY: / Daily Prophecy Corner / HOW MANY MORE WARNINGS? 9/7 on: September 07, 2008, 12:17:20 PM
HOW MANY WARNINGS MORE?
by Jan Willem van der Hoeven
www.israelmybeloved.com
As Gustav has left destruction in its wake, Hannah lashes its way up the East Coast, Ike charges towards the Gulf of Mexico, and Josephine picks up steam behind it, WHERE ARE THE MEN who can warn President Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice loudly and with enough impacting authority for them to FINALLY get the message and CEASE their tampering with God's land and borders in a bid to please the Arab and Muslim world.
Enough is enough, in God's eyes, and I wish someone would say so to Mr. Bush and Ms. Rice.
God has had enough of all this pressure - as Rice again just mercilessly brought to bear on the Israelis in her bid to please the president with at least one political "success!"
When will the president heed God's message? Will he, like Pharaoh, close his ears in the face of disaster after disaster? Does the U.S. need more terrible destruction before Mr. Bush realizes that he is on a collision course with God Himself? Can't SOMEBODY tell him, robustly and with authority, that unless he turns away from his two-state solution which aims at dividing God's land, everything will go wrong in his remaining months in office?
May God find a prophet among His children who will be able - as Moses and Aaron did for Pharaoh - to interpret these disasters to Mr. Bush in such a way that he, and those with him, will finally understand that the one who touches and pushes Israel touches the apple of His eye.
How amazingly appropriate are the words of Psalm 105. Although the whole psalm is highly significant, here are some of the most important verses:
O seed of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob, His chosen ones! He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth. He remembers His covenant forever, the word which He commanded, for a thousand generations, the covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac, and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant, saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the allotment of your inheritance," when they were few in number, indeed very few, and strangers in it. When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people, He permitted no one to do them wrong; yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes, saying, "Do not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm." (Psalm 105:6-15)
The rest is the story of what God did through many plagues to Egypt as He will do to America unless there is a definite change. How many plagues have to hit the people of the US before the President finally lets Israel free to possess all its land, as God intended.
Who will bring THIS MESSAGE to Mr. Bush like once Moses who stood up before Pharaoh? This is a cry written in love and deep concerns for an already too maligned President. May he heed the warning of God and redeem these last few months of his presidency as no other president yet in love and service for God and Israel-I pray.
ADDENDUM
David Wilkerson's Economic Vision
Key points to remember about this vision:
1. From the time the first country goes down, you'll have two weeks to get your money out of the bank.
2. America will come through this crisis-there will be restoration.
3. But the nation will never be as it was before.
4. God is saying: Get our lives straight... Get rid of idols... Seek the face of God in holiness...
5. God will be a wall of fire about you... And the glory in the midst of you!
It's about to happen---very soon, one nation, and I'm speaking prophetically--if I've ever heard anything from God in my life, I heard it ... Very soon a European or North African or Eastern nation is going to default on its international loan and when that happens, within two weeks, Mexico is going to default.
Mexico owes $100 billion ---80% of it to American banks---and here's what is going to happen: about two weeks after the first country goes bankrupt, (we're going to survive that, because most of that (money of the first country) is owed to European banks---German, Swiss and French banks) but a second country is going to go down, probably Argentina or Brazil, and we'll kind of live that down and say: "Well, maybe it's not going to hurt," but two weeks after the first country goes down, Mexico's going to default on $100 billion.
And when the banks open the next day at 9 in the morning, $15 billion an hour is going to be withdrawn from our American banks - they're going to be running our banks-the Arabs---all the Latin American countries, they're going to be running our banks- and before the day is over, the U.S.A is going to have to declare a "bank holiday."
SIX MONTHS OF HORROR:
And we're going into six months of the worst hell America has ever seen---there's going to be chaos---not even the National Guard's going to be able to quiet it down---we're going to have to call out the whole U.S. Army.
Now I've had visions recently, for I've been in New York City and I was in Macy's in a vision, and I saw people walking around stunned because they couldn't get their money out of the bank.
Now I'm going to give you a word of advice, the first country goes bankrupt---I've documented this and I've got it sealed in an envelope, and I'm going to call all my friends and I'm telling you---this is the first time I've said it in a public meeting like this---but the first country that bellies up, you go get every dime you have---church get your money out of the bank--because there's going to be a 'bank holiday' and you won't be able to get a dime for six months. Now, of course, there's going to be -restored, but the nation will never be like it is again.
There's going to be fear like we've never known---judgment at the door. When I was at Macy's Dept. store in a vision and I watched people walking around stunned, they didn't know what to do, they didn't know what was happening; then a bunch of people walked into Macy's and suddenly went wild and began to steal and within an hour everybody---I saw the spirit of everybody in the store---they were robbing and stealing---they raped Macy's and destroyed five floors--- Macy's was raped and ruined in a period of an hour or two.
That's just the beginning. Folks it's all in this book (the bible) ---we've been warned and warned and warned---you can't tell me God hasn't warned us. You can't tell me God isn't saying something awesome here tonight in this church...we better get our prayer life straightened up, our lives straightened up, get rid of the idols, as Paul writes, and seeking the face of God in holiness or you're not going to be ready for what's coming. God's warning, get ready and you'll not fear these things that come onto you and you'll start rejoicing, you'll not be afraid because your hands will be clean. You've been praying and God's building a wall of fire around you to keep you."
We'd like to teach you a song about God's protection. It goes like this.:
"There's a wall of fire around me...There's a wall of fire between my soul and the enemy.
There's a wall of fire that you can't see...Between my soul and the enemy. There's a wall of fire around me. May it be so with us all..."
I believe this prophetic word from David Wilkerson, a true servant of the Lord, needs to be spread. May the Lord speak to your hearts and minds through it and help us to prepare both spiritually and economically for what is soon to come.
22 PROPHECY: / Daily Prophecy Corner / TRUST IN HIS ABILITY TO WORK FOR YOU by Frances Lloyd 9/7 on: September 07, 2008, 07:53:42 AM
Trust in His Ability to Work for You
Daily Golden Footprints
Trust His Ability to Work for You
Friday, September 05, 2008
As I was writing down the Rhema Word yesterday, the Lord began to speak to me again about the trial of your faith. The thing that I am to tell you about it is that you must go through God’s way. You must apply your faith in the midst of the trial. It doesn’t count if you just wait for it to end. You must use your faith in the midst of it. You must make your confessions right and stand on the promises. You don’t get to complain and make dumb statements blaming God for what has occurred. You must come to the conclusion once and for all. God has not made any mistakes. He knows best, period. Another thing is the darkness has to get burned out of us (2 Corinthians 3:18) But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. It is not just toughing out the hard times that burn out the darkness. It is applying the Word of God and using your faith in the tough times that burn out all of the darkness. It is then that you see the Word in action because you have made the right choices and loosed God to do the miracles for you (Mark 16:20) And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
I am going to share with you again, the testimony of the vision that God gave to me many years ago. From it I was given the name of the ministry-Daily Golden Footprints. Some of you have read this testimony and some have not. Many need to be reminded.
When I started out this ministry in the Lord back in the early seventies, as many of you know, the Lord gave me a vision which lasted for hours. (It was from this vision, that He gave me the name of this ministry.) It has had a deep impact in my life and ministry since. I was in the habit of spending time with God each morning. As I went in to pray and seek the Lord in my morning “quiet time” this particular morning, I immediately went deeply into the presence of the Lord. God caused my two year old hyperactive son (now 36) to sleep soundly until two in the afternoon and my unsaved husband (now deceased) to sleep soundly as well until two o’clock in the afternoon this day while the vision was happening. This vision and the fact that they had slept all day (at least 6 hours) made me realize that God had done something really special. I was only to find out how special as the years have past.
In the vision, I saw something which looked like a rat’s maze much as you would see in a science class where they put cheese at one end and let the rat try to find the right path. In this vision, Jesus was there showing me the paths to take. He told me that this represented my paths that I would take throughout my life and ministry. Jesus was my guide down this path. He represented being led by His Word because Jesus is the Word made flesh and dwelt among us. He started to take me down the path to show me. At the beginning of the path were sign posts with one post (like a garage sale temporary sign on one stake) which said one word on each of them. The words were love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, temperance, faith and hope. I had not studied this before that time but later found out that was the fruit of the spirit and one extra; hope. As we stepped onto the path, the first thing on the path was a golden footprint engraved with a scripture. The very first scripture was (1 Corinthians 14:1) “Follow after charity and desire Spiritual gifts but rather that ye may prophesy.” I saw other golden footprints leading along the path. I could see that there were scriptures engraved in each of them, but I couldn’t make them out from a distance. The Lord said there would be one a day. This meant that daily He would be leading me through this walk with him with His Word. I would see clearly at least one Golden Footprint each day with His Word to guide me. It was then when the pathway came to a cave. The footprints leading the way split and met back up again on the other side.
When He explained it to me, He said that it was still representing the paths that I was to take in life and ministry. I asked if they both ended up at the same place on the other side, then what would be the difference. He answered me this way. The footprints that lead through the cave represent going through the trials and challenges in life God’s way in faith, applying His Word to every challenge. The footprints going around represents when I avoid the issues and look for the easy way out not His way by His promises. It was doing things the natural way and not necessarily His way. To teach me, He took me through one of the caves. I saw golden arches supporting the walls. He explained that this meant that when I did go through His way, that He would support me through the tough times with His love and teach me how to apply His Promises. And if I did things His way by applying the Word in every trial, I would have more anointing in my life. He reminded me that I could not recognize but one inscription of a scripture for each day. I could not get them ahead of time. He told me to live one day at a time and obey Him one day at a time. I was to walk through every physical situation with Him applying His promises to them and He would take care of me miraculously through His anointing.
I have faced many challenges in my life. God has never failed me. I am sorry to say that there were some moments of weakness when I got into fear for a moment and did things in the natural. With God’s help, I plan to be able one day to tell the Lord that I have made every effort to walk with Him and apply His Word to every situation for the rest of my life.
Every day for the past thirty years God has given me a “Daily Golden Footprint” which is a Rhema Word for that day. Sometimes one Word and sometimes He gave several Words a day. He is still giving me His Daily Golden Footprints. He has always given me the Logos Word to back them up each time. If it is Rhema, then it will never contradict His Logos.
God has increased this ministry from it’s beginning in July of this year from five individuals, to more than forty thousand homes receiving it daily, and it is in more than 50 countries that I know of. It is forwarded daily to many more individuals and groups. Pray for strength, wisdom and anointing as we endeavor to obey the Lord in this and learn how to handle the growth.
The Lord gave me a Word from Him a long time back that he wants me to share with you. His sheep hear his voice and don’t follow strangers. It is so important for each of us to learn to hear the voice of God. Once when I was trying so hard to learn to hear the voice of God, He spoke to me. “Don’t depend on your ability to hear my voice, but on my ability to get through to you.”
God is telling you today that He knows you have sought Him hard in some particular areas. You know what they are. He is telling you not to depend on your ability to hear His voice but on His ability to get through to you. He is also telling you to act in faith. Put the Word on it. Remind God exactly where in His Logos Word that He promised to deal with that particular request and then thank Him because it is already done. (Materialization in the natural is happening now as we speak!) Act like it is already done. It is you know. Act like you believe His promises. You don’t have the luxury of waiting until He materializes your promise right in front of your eyes in that area before you really believe it. You don’t get to believe after you see it. You believe Him first, then you see His materialization.
(Mark 11:23) For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
(Mark 11:24) Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
(Mark 16:20) And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Trust Him today. Some of you have experienced misunderstandings because others did not understand your commission and anointing from the Lord. You know what I mean. God has given you the heart for your job that He told you to do. He didn’t tell other people, so they don’t have the drive that you have. Don’t let up any way. He will clearly make you understand what He wants you to do. You cannot depend on man’s validation. Be sure that you are operating scripturally and continue. When we are honestly searching for His clear direction in ministry with a pure heart, seeking His will and not ours, then He will get through to us. We will not hear a wrong voice because we are His sheep and a stranger we do not follow because as His children, we know His voice. If we ask for an egg, would He give us a snake? (Luke 11:12) Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? Of course not… Be yourselves as God has made you. It is beautiful thing.
Act on His Word today.
In Him,
Prophetess Frances Lloyd
Daily Golden Footprints
footprints@dailygoldenfootprints.com
www.dailygoldenfootprints.com
23 PROPHECY: / Daily Prophecy Corner / FAVOR by Ras Robinson 9/7 on: September 07, 2008, 07:37:47 AM
What the Lord Is Saying Today
September 7, 2008. You have wondered if you have My favor anymore. Sometimes it feels like whatever favor you had has slipped away. I say unto you this day, you would be wise to humble yourself and ask again for My favor as Moses did. He already had My favor as do you. He sensed that ahead in His journey He needed assurance of My favor and presence in all that he did. This is not a new notion to you. The devil has told you that I am finished with you. He also says you are doomed to failure and abandonment. Don’t you listen to him. He is lying in a convincing way.
Exodus 33:15-17 “Then he said to Him, if Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here. For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth? The LORD said to Moses, "I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name." Ras Robinson*
September 7, 2008. You are doing what is in your heart, and this is good because I have given you a new heart, but there are some small stony places there that keep you from all that you can be and do. Ask Me what they are. Haven’t I always shown you with mercy? My way is the way of humility. True humility is always the order of living your life before your earthly and spiritual family. False humility is the fabric of door mats. You have a fear of humility because of some who have tried to outwit you in the past. Don’t give into the fear, learn from Me.
James 4:6-7 “But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble." Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” Bev Robinson**
For in this season of turmoil, do not fear! Lean back on My Power, My All-Sufficient Power. For I am not unaware of your troubles or the assails of the enemy. I have seen his foolishness in thinking he can persuade you to give in. This is only a season for the perfecting of My faith in YOU. I have conquered what you are facing already. I AM WITH YOU, I AM IN YOU. I WAR FOR YOU, I WAR THROUGH YOU. Let My faith be released against your enemy. He fears Me and therefore He f