Daughters of Z

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,    

    I would like to share with you a Word from the Lord that our church received on Sunday the 3rd of January 2010.  The background of this message has to do with a deep season of worship that we were in at our church.  The Lord had directed us to seek His face until... Because of men faces and even some of the people's desire to stop having so much worship, we shifted back to the norm.  This is God's reply:

The Spirit of the Lord says;         

    You were running so hard to the beat and the light of My glory, who hindered you?  Was it not the enemy of your soul?  For he knows that as you keep running towards Me the light of My glory would turn into an all consuming fire.  A fire that would destroy all that has hindered and kept you from truly hearing My voice.  Your worship and praise to Me was a sweet burning sacrifice.  Your worship created hunger and desire for more and more of Me, and a thirst to live in My Presence.  You fell away because of religious notions and ideas.  Now, I Am awakening you to pass the stares of old religious ideas that have kept My children eating old stale manna.  Come up to the fresh and the new!  Let Me surprise you with all that I have to drench your lives with My goodness and mercy, My power and glory.  Yes, I will saturate you with Myself.    

    Bring to your remembrance how you started to run at the beginning of this year past.  Fire, wind and rain, I used them all to sweep and clean My house, for you are My house.  My Word was being intertwined with the power of My Spirit.  Your worship was alive!  Now I Am breathing this fresh new breath upon you to recover and regain what was yours.  Jump into the river of My flowing glory.  Be covered over with all of your Great God.    

    In order to come up higher, you must forget about yourselves, and the opinion of man as to what true worship really is.  I will make known to you My desire, which is to be truly worshiped.  Let Me lead you into the quest of genuine worship, for I will take you from glory to glory.  Keep turning up the fires of worship and the fire of My Word and you will find the real you, for it is meant to burn all flesh up, so that all that is left is holy.  You once labored so hard to enter into My rest, do not fall short now. Restore yourselves back to the 'love' of worshiping Me.  Press beyond the curtain of the flesh and reason and walk boldly into the holy of holies.  Enter in to the holiest and be made whole.  

Love,

Pastor D.   

Scripture References: Jeremiah 23:29; Malachi 3:1-3; Hebrews 12:28-29; John 4:23-24

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

    The year 2010 will hold for us plenty of adventures of faith.  The Lord has been speaking to me about delighting myself in Him.  Too often we are waiting on that "something' or that 'someone' to give us delight, our delight should always be based upon our relationship with God.  Then our lives would become more stable and fixed, because all of the other things are temporal and fleeting.  Then and only then we would enjoy every moment of our lives, based on our delight in God and not in the ever changing 'things'.  Delight means a high degree of pleasure or satisfaction.  Delight is a more permanent pleasure than joy and not dependent on sudden excitement.  This delight comes with its own reward.  Psalms 37:4 says, "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you your heart's desire."  Now I am advocating that we just take pleasure in God because He is good, even when we are not aware of His goodness to us.  To just 'do' the Word of God since it is our part of the covenant.  We must keep pursuing the works of righteousness, until our heart's desire is His Word, first and upper most in our lives.  "I take delight (a high degree of pleasure and satisfaction) in doing your will, my God for your instructions are written on my heart." (Psalms 40:8)  Our focus this year should be in taking pleasure and satisfaction in doing the Word even when others are not.     Isaiah wrote these verses after telling about all of the blessings and benefits that would come to those who are planted like great oaks in the Lord.  Are you one of those great oaks, one that is rooted and grounded in His Word and not easily moved by circumstances whether conditions are favorable or not?  "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments and as a bride adorns herself with jewels." (Is. 61:10)  Notice the small word will - to make a choice, willingness, intention and consent; it expresses simple desire; used to express frequent or habitual action or tendencies.  Greatly rejoice means to the highest degree and intensity; magnanimously, be glad in and take great delight in and pleasurable satisfaction.  With preceding promises such as; double share of honor; ancient ruins being rebuilt; foreigners being your servants; feeding on treasures of nations; and possessing a double portion of prosperity; Isaiah's great delight is in the Lord, not in the 'things' that the Lord provides.  This year as we delight in the Lord He will in turn give us the desires of our heart.  So let's take great pleasure and receive the highest degree of satisfaction in the Lord.  Let's make an habitual action and frequent tendencies to do the will of the Lord.  

Love,

Pastor D.