PREPARATORY WORD FOR TEN DAYS OF AWE 2008



Curt Landry:
"Preparatory Word for Ten Days of Awe 2008 - Psalm 91:9"
"Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place..." Psalm 91:9



The Lord Your Refuge

I believe that the Lord laid this word of direction and affirmation on my heart: "My children, put all fear of the future aside and know above all else that you will be led by Me. Know and understand that you will be shown the way.

"I have covenant blessings to release and now is the appointed time. New treasures and new authority are found on new roads of surrender. Those who climb mountains only travel with that which is necessary to succeed; they travel as lightly as possible and only with the essentials.

"The hiding place of My protection is the mountain of holiness; just as I hid Moses in the mountain, so shall I also hide you. I alone know this refuge, your refuge; no power of the enemy can touch you there. As you dwell in the hidden place, I will heal the wounds of the past and reveal your future. My Word promises that he that dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

"When fear is invading, always run to the refuge of this peaceful, quiet, dwelling place. It is there that you are to wait on My command; wait on My strength. Make this your home for the Third Day.

"Slow down. Bow down. Calm down and hear My words. Quietness is important. Solitude is the solution. Holiness is the highway. Provision for body, soul, and spirit are the rewards. And purity is the result of the process; the anointing, My anointing, will rest upon sanctified vessels.

"My presence is your provision. My anointing is your power. Presence and power are the true fruits of the hour. Worship Me in spirit and in truth. Just as the dead keys of a piano can only make living notes when touched by the Master's hands, so also you need My touch for life to flow from you. White or black, major or minor, high or low - all areas of your life must be surrendered in this hour, dead to self, and waiting for the Master's touch.

Third Day Glory

"The priesthood of the Tabernacle of David is being restored. People who are dead to themselves will be like shofars that are cut off from their flesh and cured in order to sound the alarm. The Third Day sound will be holy, and things that have long since been hidden will be seen - sights, sounds, and songs. And there will be resurrection glory like that which has not been seen before.

"In preparation for the Third Day temple, the living stones will be restored along with the restoration of priestly patterns. Holy prayer will act as a foundation that will be like marble floors: it will reflect that which is standing on it. What I burden you to pray for in others reflects what you need in your own life.

"The Third Day anointing is being released into the Church. Pulpits and those who present the Gospel will be seen in a new light; therefore, those who stand on these platforms must be clean from the inside out. What was unseen in the Second Day will be revealed by the glory of the Third Day. Be patient with Me. Submit to My ways and let Me release new undergarments as well as outer garments.

"Study My temple of old and practice My presence, and I will show you the way. It is time, during the Days of Awe (September 30th-October 9th, 2008), to anoint My kings for finance and My priests for vision; I will then lead them both together to perform their tasks in My ways on the highway of surrender.

"Ten Days of Awe. Ten days to perfection*. Ten days of divine order. Ten days to complete eternal cycles. Ten days to anoint priests and kings for Third Day Glory. Ten days of vision. Ten days to reveal provision." (*note: Ten days to perfection leads to Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement - Jesus Christ is the One who leads us to perfection.)

The Days of Awe: A Beautiful Picture of Salvation

The Days of Awe (September 30th-October 9th, 2008) is a special period of ten days that begins on Rosh Hashanah and ends with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Rosh Hashanah is the Hebrew new year according to the civil calendar, but it is also called The Birthday of the World as it celebrates the "anniversary" of the creation of Adam and Eve.

During Rosh Hashanah the shofar is sounded as a call to repentance. Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the Days of Awe, a period of time for introspection and repentance. It is believed that Yom Kippur is a time of repentance and restoration between God and mankind, while the Days of Awe is a time to seek forgiveness and make amends between man and man - a time for mankind to seek reconciliation with one another, and if possible right the wrongs committed.

Jewish tradition holds the belief that judgment is pronounced on each person on Rosh Hashanah. The concept of judgment and decrees has a negative connotation to many, but allow me to remind you that judgment is simply the formation of an opinion after consideration, or as Merriam-Webster states, "a formal utterance of an authoritative opinion."

Judgment is the friend of those who desire right-standing with God. When your life is right with God, a judgment should be a "formal utterance" of reward - it should not be feared, but rather something you are looking forward to. Judgment is a friend of the righteous!

As a Believer, I view the Days of Awe as a beautiful picture of salvation. Is it not true of each of us that we deserve a judgment that is not in our favor? And yet, through Jesus we have the opportunity to repent, to return to the Lord. Is it not also true that this life is but a vapor?

The Days of Awe also act as a reminder to me that our days to seek reconciliation with our family and friends are numbered. I would encourage you to take advantage of this reminder during this special season and seek to make amends with one another. Begin the new year with purified hands, a clean heart and healed relationships. Begin the new year right with both God and man.

It is my prayer for the Days of Awe, that the song that says, "I stand, I stand in awe of You" would truly become the heart cry of the Body of Christ. That we would stand in awe, in wonder, in respect, in fear, in reverence, and in amazement of what God has done in our lives and the great mercy we have received.

Curt Landry, Founder
House of David
Email: curtlandry@houseofdavid.us

Give Me your hands, give Me your mouth and release the power of My Son to those who are lost in darkness. I have given you the authority of My Word and the power of My Spirit to lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. Deliver those who are lost in darkness. Pray, decree, prophesy, preach, proclaim. Reach out, touch, impart, transfer, loose. The warmth and power of My tangible Presence is with you beloved children, as you go forth in My Name.
James 1:17-18 NKJV
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights , with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

Beloved


I have been watching the current events unfolding in the world financial markets and also praying as we approach Rosh Hashanna, the Jewish New Year, which begins at sundown on September 29th. This is the time referred to in any of the passages from the Word where the court of Heaven is seated and the books are opened. It is the time when our lives are under review and the Father remembers us; at time when hearts are being weighed and courses decided for the coming spiritual season. I think anyone with any understanding of the times is aware that we are entering a stormy season. People's hearts are beginning to fail them for fear as they watch the news broadcasts and consider their futures.


Yesterday I was pondering the Lord speaking to the Body through the stormy winds that have been assailing America in the past few weeks and was prompted to check out the next tropical storm which is on the horizon so to speak. This one's name is Kyle, meaning 'narrow, strait'. A strait is a narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water. It can also mean 'a condition of doubt, despair, difficulty, poverty or perplexity' and is often used to refer to financial difficulties. I believe this storm Kyle is a further warning to the Body of Christ that we are about to enter a season of great difficulty, a narrow place where many feel pressed on every side and do not know which way to turn. It will be a time when those who have depended upon their money for shelter will find themselves under open skies with no covering for their heads; a time when the idols of materialism will come tumbling off their pedestals. It is all part of the cleansing of God's temple and those who have walked in the fear of the Lord have been in preparation for this season for some time already. They have found that the only rock of refuge that never fails is the Rock of Ages. This tropical storm Kyle is expected to make landfall in the next few days. The governments of men are meeting in boardrooms trying to think up bailout plans to prop up economies. They consult the wisdom of man instead of the throne room of Heaven. Yet the God of Heaven has already unleashed a stormy wind to do His bidding and its name is Kyle.


This stormy wind is also predicted to pass directly over St John in New Brunswick. Prophetically this is a warning to those 'beloved of the Lord' that a stormy wind is about to pass directly over your head. Those who have lain with their heads upon His bosom and have been receiving the revelation of the heart of Christ must realize that this narrow passageway is the the appointed path to the fulfillment of His purposes for us. The difficulty and time of perplexity is a brief journey to the next season in God. The question is, 'what is our response to be?'.


If we consider the scenario of a ship having to pass through a narrow strait of water in order to reach the next point in its charted journey, we know that the only way for the ship to pass safely through to the other side without crashing into the rocks on either side, is to set its rudder in a straight position and keep it there for the entire journey through the narrow dangerous place. James 4 speaks of the tongue as being a rudder:


Jam 3:4 Behold also the ships being so great, and driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small rudder, where the impulse of him steering desires.


I believe the Lord is issuing a warning that in the stormy wind that is about to hit, we are to align our tongues to His plumb-line of Truth and bind them there. If He has given promises from the Word concerning our future (which lies in the large body of water on the other side of the strait), then we are to keep on speaking and believing this Word, no matter now narrow or how difficult the journey through the strait is. Paul speaks of a time when he felt pressed on every side:


2Co 1:8 For, brothers, we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength; so much so that we despaired even of life. 2Co 1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;


We are going into a time when we must place our trust completely in God our Father, no matter whether we always understand what is happening around us. It is time for the faith and trust of a little child, who will sit upon his father's lap with his big strong arms around him and know total peace, no matter the intensity of the lashing winds and lightening strikes overhead. This is why the Lord is stressing the importance of lashing the rudder of our tongues to the rock-solid Word and allowing ourselves to speak nothing contrary during our passage through the strait.


If we deviate from the plumb-line of His promise to us and begin to speak other thoughts and act upon those thoughts, we will find ourselves veering off-course. Because the strait is so narrow there is no room for errors in navigational calculations. We must trust Him, no matter what readings our natural senses are giving us! To chart our course using the readings of our eyes and ears at this time is to invite disaster. We have yielded our whole lives to Christ. He is the captain of our ships and we must line up with His spoken Word over us in order to traverse safely through this tropical storm Ike.


There is a description of the people of God being in straits in 1 Samuel 13. It contains a very strong warning for those of us entering the strait ahead of us. The philistines had gathered to fight the Israelites. The sight of the enemy arrayed against them made them panic.


1Sa 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.


King Saul was waiting for Samuel to come and he did not arrive within a week. So Saul took things into his own hands and offered up the burnt offering himself.


1Sa 13:11 And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and you did not come in the days appointed, and the Philistines gathered themselves at Michmash, 1Sa 13:12 and I said, The Philistines will come down now on me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord. And I forced myself and offered a burnt offering. 1Sa 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you. For now the Lord would have established your kingdom on Israel forever. 1Sa 13:14 But now your kingdom shall not stand. The Lord has sought Him a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him to be leader over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.


Notice that Saul's rash choice during this time of dire straits caused him to lose his kingdom. He did things God had not appointed him to do because he leaned on his natural understanding and got into a panic. His natural senses were feeding him panic readings and he responded in the flesh. Sadly he did not realize that the narrow strait he was passing through led either to the fullness of his destiny or his demise. Jesus himself spoke of passing through a strait:


Luk 13:24 Strive to enter in at the narrow ('STRAIT' in KJV) gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able. Luk 13:25 And once the Master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and He shall answer and say to you, I do not know you; from where are you; Luk 13:26 then you shall begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence, and You have taught in our streets. Luk 13:27 But He shall say, I tell you, I do not know you; from where you are. Depart from Me, all workers of unrighteousness! Luk 13:28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you will see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrust out.


Beloved of the Lord, be aware of the season you are in. When you are pressed on every side, do not be tempted to come up with your own solution to the crisis at hand. Do not trust the feedback of your five senses. They will push you to lean on your own understanding and to make choices which cause you to deviate from the prescribed safe path through this strait. The only way you will navigate this strait is declaring and decreeing the promise of God to you and by resting and trusting the Rock of Ages. Be hidden in Christ. The temptation in times like this is to DO something because the danger of destruction seems to be looming over you like the rocky ledges of the cliffs on either side of the strait. God wants you to rest and trust and listen to His still small voice rather than the shouts of your sense of self-preservation. There is another passage that warns of the danger of choosing your own plan of action:


Isa 30:15 For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not. Isa 30:16 But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. Isa 30:17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. Isa 30:18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.


There are some who say that they have been in a narrow place for some time already and that the Lord has likened it to experiencing the birth pangs and being propelled down the birth canal to one's destiny – and the question is 'surely it is not about to become even narrower?' I believe that the Lord would have me say to you that yes, you have been making progress down the narrow passage towards the full light of a new day and the pressure you have experienced has been the birth pangs of a new season approaching. However, you are about to experience the journey through the 'cervix' so to speak. Although it is a very short distance relatively speaking when considering the long way you have come, it is the point of greatest resistance and intense pressure upon your mind. However it is the gateway to the large open place that He promised to bring you into. It is the point at which you need to die to your own understanding and your own wisdom and just rest and trust Him to bring to pass His promises for you and surely complete them. It is the place of being pressed beyond measure and trusting in God who raises the dead. It is the narrow strait which will birth you into the fullness of all you have seen only with the eye of faith. It is the time of the crowning of the head, the place of breaking through. He does not bring to the point of birth and not bring forth - so look not at the size of the cliffs, nor at the strength of the stormy wind. Lash your rudder to the plumb-line of His promise and confidently continue to declare in the face of the storm every promise He has given you.


2Co 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves; 2Co 4:8 we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; 2Co 4:9 pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; 2Co 4:10 always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.


2Co 4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;


Speak His promised Word to yourself. Declare to others who bring bad weather reports to you. Let the atmosphere resound with the sound of His spoken Word which cannot return void, and thus rightly aligned,let the ship of your life cut through those churning waters until you are safely in full view of all He has whispered to your heart.


Psa 18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. Psa 18:16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. Psa 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me. Psa 18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. Psa 18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Anytime is good for me, Monday through Wednesday is all considered Rosh Hoshanah. Even the Saturday in between Rosh Hoshanah and Yom Kippur is called the "Sabbath of Return".

"well, in the old days it had to be sighted..... now we have NASA, satelites, etc..... the new moon will be on the 29th... and the trumpets are blown precisely at sundown in Jerusalem to start Rosh Hashanna...

they will blow 100 trumpets..... the last one is called "The Last Trump"

and the last trump is ONLY blown on Rosh Hashanna

no other time....."

and this is true, also:

One thing to note:

"1Thessalonians 4:16 (KJV) wrote:
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

See, the trump of God... not a trump of men."

Makes the day and hour kind of hard to know even when you are standing at the door! But if the last trump is blown in Israel around 6 pm in Israel on Monday, those who predicted we could be raptured before Rosh Hoshanah will still be right. As it will not even be Rosh Hoshanah at that time for most of the western world, including the USA.

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