Hide-N-Seek

“Come out, come out wherever you are!”  

Many of you are playing children’s games in My House when I have called you to cooperate with me in the sanctification work of maturity.  Instead, you are hiding behind things like good deeds, the outer appearance of respectability, the approval of man, and many other worldly things.  These are only religious shells full of dry bones.      

I don’t play Hide-N-Seek.  I play SARDINES!  Where you are, there I AM with you!  I AM patient and longsuffering in My kindness toward you so that you may come to repentance on your own.  I AM also Light and Truth.  Your hidden place of darkness will be exposed in My light and truth, so come out of your hiding place while you are able to repent before Me freely before those hidden things of darkness become revealed to others who find you in that hiding place...and before you carry the responsibility and consequences of bringing others into the place of your darkness.  

Prophesy the breath of My Holy Spirit on these dry bones to revive them and bring new life into the place of dead works.  I will provide that new life in the Spirit with muscles and tendons to strengthen and reconnect you so that My Bride can go forth in the power of My Kingdom.  Be free of the empty shell of religious works and let your inner reality come into alignment with My Word of Truth.

“All ye, all ye, in come free!”

Isaiah 58:7; Matthew 23:27; John 3:19-21; Ezekiel 37:4-6

   

THE WASHING OF MY WORD

Many of My people have been hit and wounded by “friendly fire” because of the schemes of the enemy.  Where he has not been successful in “direct hits”, he has used the “fog of war” (uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in conflict) to take strategic advantage against My people from within My Body, My Family.

I AM Jehovah Rapha, “God Your Healer”.  I AM increasing the anointing on My Word, My Truth to cleanse My Bride through the washing of My Word, My Truth, My Presence.  This washing will remove the fog of war to bring clarity and healing to My people.  I will have a glorious Bride without spot, blemish, wrinkle, scar or any such thing.

I have called My people to be holy and set apart to Me.  I AM building a unified and victorious Church in the earth.  Each one of you has a part in that glorious wholeness and victory.  Come near to Me, the One Who is your Truth, your Healer and allow Me to pour over you My Living Word to wash you and cleanse you from the fog of war; healing you and making you whole.

Ephesians 5:25-27

PURSUING SHADOWS?

The enemy is trying his very best to convince some of you that pursuing Me is like chasing shadows, like trying to catch the wind.  He is a liar and the father of lies.  The truth is that I AM here with open arms and a heart full of love for you.  Draw near to Me and I will draw near to you.  Just one glance from My Bride ravishes My heart. The moment you turn your eyes back toward Me, I RUN to meet you even as the prodigal son’s father ran to meet him while he was still far off in the distance.  Even when you still can’t see Me, if you seek Me with all of your heart you will find Me.

Keep moving toward Me, keep turning in My direction and you will be met with the overflow of My heart.  I love you with an everlasting love.  Nothing can separate you from My love...nothing.  The light of My Presence will enlighten your darkness and chase away every shadow of doubt.  Turn your eyes upon Me and look fully into the unquenchable flames of love burning deeply for you.

Ecclesiastes 6:12; James 1:17, 4:8; Deuteronomy 4:29; Song of Songs 4:9, 8:6-7   

HUMILITY AND HONOR

I speak to those who have become weary and discouraged in your souls.  I have chosen you to be holy and set apart to Me as a special treasure.  You are My precious sons and daughters and as a loving Father I discipline those that I love.  I AM with you in these wilderness places.  I lead you through them to humble you, to test you, and to show you what is in your heart so that you will learn to obey My Word, to walk in My ways and to fear Me.  I have chosen you in order to bless you to possess and to rule over your Kingdom inheritance in the earth.  I discipline you to do you good in the end.  The riches of your inheritance in Christ are godliness and honor and life, but these come by humility and the fear of the Lord.
Do not shrink back from this work of humility that I AM doing in your life.  It is My grace which gives you the power to get the wealth and substance of your inheritance.  I resist the proud and give My grace to those who are broken in heart and humble in the spirit of their minds, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the broken ones. The tears, the trials, and the suffering are instruments of discipline which produce the desired humility necessary to rule well in My Kingdom.  You have been justified by grace to become heirs of grace.  That grace is My power and those who hold power must be humble in spirit in order to rule righteously.  You are My sons and daughters whom I love and I AM raising you up according to My timing and purposes for My glory.  It is by My glory and goodness that you are called to know Me and to know My ways so that you can rule well. My divine power gives to you all things that are appropriate for the riches of godliness, honor, and life.
Put aside weariness and discouragement and receive the humility that comes through My loving discipline in this season.  You will soon see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!          

Hebrews 12:3-6; Deuteronomy 7:6, 8:2-6,18; Proverbs 15:33, 22:4; 2 Peter 1:3 

Choose Life

I AM the Life and the source of all life.  My words are life and in turning to Me you find life.  As you take My words of life into yourself, you are nourished with My life.  I AM Light and My words are light.  As you take My light into yourself, I enlighten your darkness so that you are not overcome by the darkness.  My light and life become your light and life as you choose Me.

This very act of choosing Me, moment by moment, entails a forsaking of other things.  This “forsaking” is a turning away from other things...lesser things.  It is a choosing of life and a forsaking of all else because all else eventually leads to death.  These “lesser things” do not all have the appearance of evil; some even have the appearance of “good”.  However, eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil leads to death.  It is only as you choose to eat from the Tree of Life that the blessings of My Kingdom remain.

There is an order of things in this “choosing” if you are to continue successfully.  This order involves counting the cost.  Listen carefully, for I AM giving you a key of truth that will set you free from your cycles of failure.  Counting the cost does not begin with looking at the price to be paid.  Counting the cost BEGINS with first knowing what assets you have.  These assets are the wealth and substance of resources at your disposal that can be used as a medium of exchanged value.  As you turn to look at Me and realize the abundance of the wealth of your heavenly inheritance, you receive My grace and the lesser things of the world loose their power to hold you. Forsaking darkness for light is as easy as turning on the light, forsaking good for best is as easy as wanting what is MORE desirable, and forsaking death for life is the end result.  Come to Me,  precious ones!  Come and buy and eat.  Only I will satisfy you.  Let your soul delight itself in My abundance.  Listen carefully to Me, and come to Me.  Take My words of light and life into you and your soul will live in My abundance.   

John 1:4-5; Luke 14:28-33; Isaiah 7:15, 55:1-3; Deuteronomy 30:19-20    

STEP INTO MY REST

All of the Father’s works have been finished since the foundation of the world.  “And God rested on the seventh day from ALL His works.”   He sat down in Heaven and rested. My work was finished at the cross and then I sat down at His right hand.  I have given to you My Holy Spirit to help you enter into the finished work of God and into the rest of God.  You enter Our rest through obedience to the Word of God.  You step into obedience through faith, becoming a partaker WITH God in the work OF God.

You have been given a high calling in Christ Jesus.  Walk worthy of that high calling.  Step into it by faith.  Let faith arise and step into the honor you have been given as a child of the Most High God.  Step into obedience to My Word through faith in the One who is sufficient for you.  It is time to lay hold of all that Christ has laid hold of for you.  Forget those things which are behind you and reach forward to those things which are ahead.  Press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.  The way has already been finished...enter into the rest of Our work for you.

Hebrews 4:1-13; John 19:30; Ephesians 4:1; Philippians 3:12

FAMILY FIRST

From the very beginning, I have designed that the order of all things begins with family first. In this season I AM bringing redemption, reconciliation, and restoration to individual households, individual families and from there to My Household, My Family and beyond.

Healthy individuals in strong, united, loving families make for a healthy, strong, united, and loving community, society, nation, or kingdom.  This is why the enemy has targeted individuals and the family unit for destruction.  The education system, the government, and even the mainstream church have all partnered with him in separating family units and making place for the weakening of Divine Design.

I AM the One who sets people in families.  I AM the One Who has adopted you into My family and made you members of the household of God.  I have called you according to your families so that in you all of the families of the earth may be blessed.  It is time to get your families in order.  It is time to begin with your own household.  It is time to bring health, strength, unity, and love back into your homes, thwarting the divisive plans of the enemy, bearing witness and giving testimony to the power of the Kingdom in your own lives FIRST and THEN into your own neighborhoods, communities, and beyond.

Look to your own households first and then also to the interests of others.  Put feet to your faith with those whom you say that you love. 

I have come to seek and save that which was lost.  I have released a redemptive grace for restoring all things that concern you.  All government begins with self-government.  Bringing your own household under the rule and authority of My Kingdom will make the way for you to come into wholeness and enter into the place of greater authority and power in Me.

Genesis 12:3; Ephesians 2:19; Luke 19:10; 1 Timothy 3:1-13