Beloved Ones, I AM faithful even when you are not. It is My nature to be so, and My faithfulness endures to all generations. I AM trustworthy and reliable to work My goodness on your behalf. You can be at rest in that, but you must also understand that floating along in the “Lazy River” ultimately gets you nowhere. You will not progress in Me, but will merely go around in circles just as My people circled around in the wilderness for forty years. That is because this attitude is rooted in unbelief and fear.
True freedom is found by entering into the current of My Holy Spirit. Yes, sometimes the current is fast and the waters are deep, but it is by staying in the flow of My Spirit that you progress into your promised destiny.
Today if you hear My voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, for true rest is found in obedience. Be faithful as I AM faithful. Jump into the current of My Holy Spirit! The water is fine...and…I AM here to catch you.
1 Corinthians 1:9; Psalm 119:90; Hebrews 3:7-19; 2 Corinthians 3:17
Monday, July 11, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
First The Natural And Then The Spiritual
Beloved One, what happens in the natural is often a picture of what will be in the spiritual. What you have seen through the grass fires, unpredicted rainstorms, and powerful wind storms of late are mere whispers of what I AM doing.
Many have been in a dry season where the grass seems greener on the other side of the fence, but I AM telling you that I will consume all of the wood, hay, and stubble in your life with the fire of My Holy Spirit. Even what was green and seemed to be good will be removed so that My best can come forth in your life. Through the charred remains will arise new growth, new life, and new purpose.
The heavy rains are as My mercies that I send from Heaven to water the ground of your heart, to quench your parched dryness and to soften it so that the weeds are easily plucked up by the roots. This is a season to root out those things that would choke out Kingdom fruitfulness in your life. Receive My mercies for strengthening those good things.
The powerful wind of My Spirit is blowing to remove the chaff, the worthless things and to knock down the obstacles that hinder you from progressing into your destiny.
Sing with thanksgiving in your heart for this season of new growth, new life, and new purpose in Me.
1 Corinthians 15:45-49, 3:12-13; Psalm 130:7-8; Psalm 147:7-8
Many have been in a dry season where the grass seems greener on the other side of the fence, but I AM telling you that I will consume all of the wood, hay, and stubble in your life with the fire of My Holy Spirit. Even what was green and seemed to be good will be removed so that My best can come forth in your life. Through the charred remains will arise new growth, new life, and new purpose.
The heavy rains are as My mercies that I send from Heaven to water the ground of your heart, to quench your parched dryness and to soften it so that the weeds are easily plucked up by the roots. This is a season to root out those things that would choke out Kingdom fruitfulness in your life. Receive My mercies for strengthening those good things.
The powerful wind of My Spirit is blowing to remove the chaff, the worthless things and to knock down the obstacles that hinder you from progressing into your destiny.
Sing with thanksgiving in your heart for this season of new growth, new life, and new purpose in Me.
1 Corinthians 15:45-49, 3:12-13; Psalm 130:7-8; Psalm 147:7-8
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The Father's Day
Beloved Ones, this is the Father’s Day. It is My day and it is full of My glory. It is a new day and it is My gift to you. Every good and perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of Lights. This new day is a gift of My grace and is full of My grace. Because of My compassion for you and My lovingkindness towards you, there is grace enough for each new day. My tender mercies are new every morning and My goodness surely follows you all the days of your life.
I AM pouring out My grace on you to wash away the dust of the earth that gathers on you as you walk in this world. I AM pouring out My grace through you to wash away the failures and regrets of the past. Let go of regret…it is water under the bridge…it is behind you…it is gone.
This is a new day and there is much goodness still ahead for you. Receive My mercies, My grace, and My strength to walk in the newness and goodness of this new day…My gift to you.
James 1:17; Lamentations 3:22-23; Psalm 23:6; Psalm 51:1-2
I AM pouring out My grace on you to wash away the dust of the earth that gathers on you as you walk in this world. I AM pouring out My grace through you to wash away the failures and regrets of the past. Let go of regret…it is water under the bridge…it is behind you…it is gone.
This is a new day and there is much goodness still ahead for you. Receive My mercies, My grace, and My strength to walk in the newness and goodness of this new day…My gift to you.
James 1:17; Lamentations 3:22-23; Psalm 23:6; Psalm 51:1-2
Monday, June 13, 2011
Growing Season
Beloved Ones, You have been and still are in a “growing up season”. This growing up season requires diligence, faith, and patience in order to bear the mature fruit of My Kingdom Word that has been sown into you. You are also in a “growing out season”. This growing out season is the result of poor shortcuts that you have taken in the past. Think of a poor haircut and how it takes time to “grow out” before it can be correctly restored to its original design. Or think of how it can take time to get back on the correct course when you take a poor turn on the road when walking or driving.
YOU are changed in My sight at conversion, but walking out your divine design and bearing Kingdom fruit along the way is a process that takes time and has various seasons. This is a season of judgment in the sense of discerning the proper nurturing necessary to take you from the poor “shortcuts” of the past season that have resulted in less than desirable Kingdom fruitfulness and into the much more fruitfulness that I have for you. I AM the knowledgeable Husbandman who knows the right amount of sun, water, and nutrients for an abundant harvest of good fruit. I AM patient to do all that is necessary to bring that mature fruit to harvest in you. I will redeem all that concerns you. Trust My process by abiding in Me…dwelling in Me…going down deep in Me… and strengthening yourselves by My Word and My Spirit.
Just as the farmer must patiently wait for the precious fruit of His labor…patiently waiting through the long growing season…patiently waiting until it receives both the early and the latter rain, so too, you must establish your hearts in diligence, faith, and patience. This is My ordained process for growing a strong root within yourselves so that you do not wither away when the heat is turned up through tribulation or persecution.
James 5:7; Hebrews 6:11-12; Matthew 5-6, 20-21; John 15:16
YOU are changed in My sight at conversion, but walking out your divine design and bearing Kingdom fruit along the way is a process that takes time and has various seasons. This is a season of judgment in the sense of discerning the proper nurturing necessary to take you from the poor “shortcuts” of the past season that have resulted in less than desirable Kingdom fruitfulness and into the much more fruitfulness that I have for you. I AM the knowledgeable Husbandman who knows the right amount of sun, water, and nutrients for an abundant harvest of good fruit. I AM patient to do all that is necessary to bring that mature fruit to harvest in you. I will redeem all that concerns you. Trust My process by abiding in Me…dwelling in Me…going down deep in Me… and strengthening yourselves by My Word and My Spirit.
Just as the farmer must patiently wait for the precious fruit of His labor…patiently waiting through the long growing season…patiently waiting until it receives both the early and the latter rain, so too, you must establish your hearts in diligence, faith, and patience. This is My ordained process for growing a strong root within yourselves so that you do not wither away when the heat is turned up through tribulation or persecution.
James 5:7; Hebrews 6:11-12; Matthew 5-6, 20-21; John 15:16
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Created For Liveliness
Beloved Ones, there is a longing for the “lazy days of summer”, but My longing is for the “lively days of summer”. Not the busyness that comes from the works of the flesh…of planning, of programs, of striving, of toiling…these are the works of man which are dead works. It is My desire that the works of God come forth in your midst.
I AM stirring up the Kingdom of God which is in you. I AM stirring up the Kingdom of God to “liveliness”. Do you feel it? Do you sense My stirring in the spirit? Do you sense My stirring in the earth? Do you sense My stirring in you? Rise up in your spirit man to the “liveliness” of My Kingdom. You were created to be “lively stones” in My spiritual house. I have chosen you to be My “peculiar people” who manifest My praise in the earth. You are My own possession to obtain the establishment of My Kingdom in the earth.
My Kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit…not food and drink. Stop working and worrying about the things that can’t satisfy the Kingdom longings within you and start to ACT out of My promptings to make things right, to bring My peace, and to spread My joy. These are the things that are the markings of the liveliness of My Kingdom. By My Spirit you start with these…and then…no eye has yet seen, no ear has yet heard, no mind has yet imagined the liveliness of the Kingdom that I have prepared for you who love Me! Are you ready to stir yourselves up to liveliness in the spirit and write a new chapter in My Book of Acts?
John 9:3-4; Philippians 2:13; 1 Peter 2:5; Romans 14:17; 1 Corinthians 2:9
I AM stirring up the Kingdom of God which is in you. I AM stirring up the Kingdom of God to “liveliness”. Do you feel it? Do you sense My stirring in the spirit? Do you sense My stirring in the earth? Do you sense My stirring in you? Rise up in your spirit man to the “liveliness” of My Kingdom. You were created to be “lively stones” in My spiritual house. I have chosen you to be My “peculiar people” who manifest My praise in the earth. You are My own possession to obtain the establishment of My Kingdom in the earth.
My Kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit…not food and drink. Stop working and worrying about the things that can’t satisfy the Kingdom longings within you and start to ACT out of My promptings to make things right, to bring My peace, and to spread My joy. These are the things that are the markings of the liveliness of My Kingdom. By My Spirit you start with these…and then…no eye has yet seen, no ear has yet heard, no mind has yet imagined the liveliness of the Kingdom that I have prepared for you who love Me! Are you ready to stir yourselves up to liveliness in the spirit and write a new chapter in My Book of Acts?
John 9:3-4; Philippians 2:13; 1 Peter 2:5; Romans 14:17; 1 Corinthians 2:9
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Heavenly Wisdom
Beloved Ones, there are many who do what is right in their own sight, but I have called you to come up to a higher realm of truth. I have called you to walk by faith, NOT by sight. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing is by the Word of God.
My sound goes out into all the earth and My Word to the ends of the world. Who will believe My report? Do not become dull of hearing. Do not be deceived by human wisdom. The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. I know the thoughts of the wise, and they are vain. I desire that no man glories in men and that no flesh glories in My presence. I love to confound the wise of this world by choosing what the world considers to be foolish.
Heavenly wisdom is yours for the asking; but ask in faith, nothing wavering. It is time to let go of double-mindedness and renew your hope in the things of God that are not seen. It’s time to step up into My higher realm of truth. I will light the path for you with My Word…but it will require faith to act on it. I AM with you the whole way. I AM the way, the truth, and the life. I AM the wisdom of God for you and you are Mine. Allow My Word to stir up the substance of your faith for the unseen things of hope and receive the mind of Christ to believe that I AM able to fulfill My Word of truth.
2 Corinthians 5:7; Romans 10:16-18; 1 Corinthians 1:27-31, 3:18-23; James 1:5-6
My sound goes out into all the earth and My Word to the ends of the world. Who will believe My report? Do not become dull of hearing. Do not be deceived by human wisdom. The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. I know the thoughts of the wise, and they are vain. I desire that no man glories in men and that no flesh glories in My presence. I love to confound the wise of this world by choosing what the world considers to be foolish.
Heavenly wisdom is yours for the asking; but ask in faith, nothing wavering. It is time to let go of double-mindedness and renew your hope in the things of God that are not seen. It’s time to step up into My higher realm of truth. I will light the path for you with My Word…but it will require faith to act on it. I AM with you the whole way. I AM the way, the truth, and the life. I AM the wisdom of God for you and you are Mine. Allow My Word to stir up the substance of your faith for the unseen things of hope and receive the mind of Christ to believe that I AM able to fulfill My Word of truth.
2 Corinthians 5:7; Romans 10:16-18; 1 Corinthians 1:27-31, 3:18-23; James 1:5-6
Sunday, April 24, 2011
The Truth About Emptiness
Beloved Ones, take off the shame of emptiness. This shame is rooted in the mindset that emptiness is the end of all things. The truth is that emptiness is the beginning of Kingdom things. Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Have you not heard that in the beginning of creation the earth was void? It was into this large EMPTY space that I choose to fill with Kingdom creation. Have you not heard that Elisha told the widow to go and collect EMPTY vessels from her neighbors? It was into many EMPTY vessels that I choose to fill with Kingdom provision. Have you not heard that Jesus emptied himself to come in the likeness of men? It was into My EMPTY Son that I choose to fill with Kingdom destiny. Have you not heard that the tomb was EMPTY? It was into this EMPTY place that I choose to bring Kingdom power…the resurrection power of the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Do not despise your emptiness. Come to Me in your emptiness and I will satisfy you. Let your soul delight itself in My abundance! Come to Me as an EMPTY vessel and I will fill you with My Kingdom creation, My Kingdom provision, My Kingdom destiny, and My Kingdom power! Yes…Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for THEIRS is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are you when you’re EMPTY…when you are at the end of all things, because that is where the Kingdom comes!
Matthew 5:3; Genesis 1:1-3; 2 Kings 4:3; Philippians 2:7; John 20:1-9; Isaiah 55:1-3
Have you not heard that in the beginning of creation the earth was void? It was into this large EMPTY space that I choose to fill with Kingdom creation. Have you not heard that Elisha told the widow to go and collect EMPTY vessels from her neighbors? It was into many EMPTY vessels that I choose to fill with Kingdom provision. Have you not heard that Jesus emptied himself to come in the likeness of men? It was into My EMPTY Son that I choose to fill with Kingdom destiny. Have you not heard that the tomb was EMPTY? It was into this EMPTY place that I choose to bring Kingdom power…the resurrection power of the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Do not despise your emptiness. Come to Me in your emptiness and I will satisfy you. Let your soul delight itself in My abundance! Come to Me as an EMPTY vessel and I will fill you with My Kingdom creation, My Kingdom provision, My Kingdom destiny, and My Kingdom power! Yes…Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for THEIRS is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are you when you’re EMPTY…when you are at the end of all things, because that is where the Kingdom comes!
Matthew 5:3; Genesis 1:1-3; 2 Kings 4:3; Philippians 2:7; John 20:1-9; Isaiah 55:1-3
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