Daughters of Z

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

The Spirit of the Lord says;

     We are nearing the last leg of Our time here on this side of earth.  Even now I have spread the curtain open in order that you may see more of My glory.  I Am now opening revelations to you that have been closed, because of the times that We are in.  For all that love Me and My kingdom in the end-time Church age, I am entrusting to you the power of the ages.  You have only been on the fringes of all that I have for you.  Now, because this enemy of Ours has unleashed all evils, I Am releasing to My children revelation power and abilities.  With intensity, the gifts of Holy Spirit will flow like a refreshing river to all that have experienced a 'dry time'.  As the pressures of this age grows darker month by month, so the glory of My Presence will grow in power and in revelation.  All who have loved My Presence more than they have loved their own desires, or their own dreams, and more than their ministries, will I reveal Myself in a more powerful way.  Gifts of Holy spirit will bring forth many miracles, signs, and wonders, and extraordinary gifts of faith.

     I have warned My people many years ahead of the times that would come to try men on the earth, yet I reminded My children that they would be kept from the harshness of this judgment.   This is not My wrath, this is judgment for all who would rebel and reject Me and My Word.  I Am Abba, a loving Father, I do not abuse My children.  I hover over My own to protect them from anything that would try to destroy.  I also allow you to walk through those things that may strike fear in you, in order for you to learn that there is no place that you can go, that I will not be there to keep and preserve you.  I want you to know for yourself that there is no need to fear, with Me on your side.  So now, I Am still waiting for the remnant to pull away from the stained cloth of this world, and the system that has become an idol god to many, even some that call Me their God.  My remnant has yearned for My appearance and still looks with longing for Me.  They are buying up every opportunity to save some souls, for they are always Kingdom minded.  Now the process of remaining pure is not easy.  The fires have been allowed to burn for great purification, so that you might be holy for the Kingdom, and Our business.  Our values and worth far outweighs any temporary hardship, or, temporary pleasure.  You must discard all that hold little or no Kingdom value.  This season will pass and you will see when all clears that you will stand up with more than you had when this all started.  Keep your hands and your eyes on Me, I will uphold you and sustain you.  I Am bringing forth the gold and silver from My great treasuries.  You are My special and unique treasure, My glorious beauty.

 

Love,

Pastor D.

Scripture References: John 14:21; John 17:20-24; 2 Tim. 2:20; Ezek. 47: Zec. 8:11-12

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

     Recently a friend and I were talking about the 'end times', and the importance of sticking to the Word.  There are a whole lot of false teachings going around and a little leaven will blow things all out of proportion.  More than ever we must be people who are built upon the solid rock of God's Word.  It is not a new tactic, it is one that the enemy has had a lot of success with, so he continues to do what works.   Listen to Paul's admonition: "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.  But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed." (Gal. 1:6-8) Pervert means to twist, deviate, to distort, and misconstrue.

     We owe it to ourselves to be disciples of the Word, I can't express it enough, neither can God.  "The entirety of Your Word is truth, and every one of your Your righteous judgments endures forever" (Psalm 119:160)  "Forever, O Lord, Your Word is settled in heaven." (Psa. 119:89) "But the word of the Lord endures forever.  And this is the Word which by the gospel is preached to you." (1 Peter 1:25) Everything in life can change and probably will change, but God's Word is reliable because it is consistent.  Times and seasons change, our circumstances change, our relationships may change and slowly with the Word we can change, but God's Word must remain sure.  Settled means to be resolved, completed, concluded, confirmed, established, and fixed.  Endures means tireless, persistent, and to continue and to abide.  In  order to build on the Word, it must be stable, not movable, or shifting.   

     All of that said, then the Word is our plumbline.  It is to help us to grow to maturity in the Word, so that we are not easily led astray.  "So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead." (Ephes. 4:14) Without the stability of the Word, we will end up blowing around, easily moved, easily misled, by every corrupt and deviated learning, teaching, or instructions.  Let's stay on course, by staying with the Word.  Otherwise you will end up in error as spoken of the 'end-times'.  "Herald and preach the Word!  Keep your sense of urgency [stand by, be at hand and ready], whether the opportunity seems to be favorable or unfavorable.  [Whether it is convenient or inconvenient, whether it is welcome or unwelcome, you as preacher of the Word are to show people in what way their lives are wrong.] And convince them, rebuking and correcting, warning and urging and encouraging them, being unflagging and inexhaustible in patience and teaching.  For the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate (endure) sound and wholesome instruction, but, having ears itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold, And will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and man-made fictions." (2 Tim. 4:2-4) The love of God's Word must precede your own likings and be first to correct your own thoughts and feelings.  Otherwise, you will end up looking for some teacher to say what you want the Word to say, in order to 'have it your way'.  We must all kill pride when it rears it's ugly head and humble ourselves and yield to the rightness of God's Word.  Keep the standard of the Word, especially at the 'end-times'.

 

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

     I am reminded over and over again about the greatest thing that we as Christians need to grow in.  There are many areas that we need to develop skills in, but for us saints, it is the Word of God that we need to develop in more than them all.  Yet, quite often it is not measured to the level of importance that we should hold it to.   Listen as we read about the "Rechabites'.  They valued the words that were left to them by their ancestors, with greater esteem than most Christians do for God's Word.  "THE WORD that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers; then give them [who are pledged to drink no wine] some wine to drink.  So I took Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites, And I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah the man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum the keeper of the door.  And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pitchers full of wine, and cups, and I said to them, Drink wine.  But they said, We will drink no wine, for Jonadab son of Rechab, our father, commanded us: You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons, forever.  Neither shall you build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard or have them; but you shall dwell all your days in tents, that you may live many days in the land where you are temporary residents.  And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab son of Rechab, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days--we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters-- And not to build ourselves houses to live in; nor do we have vineyard or field or seed.  But we have dwelt in tents and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our ancestor commanded us.  But when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, Come and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Syrians.  So we are living in Jerusalem.  Then came the word of the Lord to Jeremiah: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction and listen to My words and obey them?  says the Lord.  The command which Jonadab son of Rechab gave to his sons not to drink wine, has been carried out and established [as a custom for more than two hundred years].  To this day they drink no wine, but they have obeyed their father's command.  But I, even I, have persistently spoken to you, but you have not listened to and obeyed Me.  I have sent also to you all My servants the prophets earnestly and persistently, saying, Return now every man from his evil way and amend your doings and go not after other gods to serve them; and then you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers.  But you did not submit and consent to Me or listen to and obey Me.  Since the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab have fulfilled and established the command of their father which he commanded them, but these people have not listened to and obeyed Me, Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them, but they have not listened, and I have called to them, but they have not answered.  And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father and have kept all his precepts and have done according to all that he commanded you, Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab son of Rechab shall never fail [to have] a man [descendant] to stand before Me." (Jeremiah 35) The Rechabites were being tested by Jeremiah, a prophet of God, to test their faithfulness to their ancestor's words.  They resisted temptation by remaining faithful to the word that was given them.  Wow, this is a picture of how we should be concerning God and His Word.  God wants to know, if the Rechabites can be faithful to their 'human' ancestor's words, why can't we be faithful to love and obey His?   When the Word that we have from God is being tested, will we stand the test of temptation and remain immovable?

     Because, after all, "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts." (2 Peter 1:19) God's Word is the sure word of prophecy, if we keep the covenant of His Word, He will do what He promises in His sure word.  "Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God, the faithful God which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations." (Deut. 7:9)  God longs to show Himself strong on our behalf.  All He needs is a covenant keeper, a people that believe His word and will remain as faithful to it as the Rechabites.  He says, "My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips. (Ps. 89:34)  "Then said the Lord to Me, you have seen well for I Am active and alert watching over My Word to perform it.(Jer.1:12) What is it that you need from God's covenant Word, be faithful to it, and God will hasten to do it in your life?  Do you need Him as Jehovah-Rophe, the Lord your healer; or as Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord Who sees and provide?  Maybe you need Him as Jehovah- Shalom, the Lord your peace, or maybe you need him to "Shepherd you' through a hard place, Jehovah-Rohi.  God is trustworthy and you are worth His trust also, because you will keep His Word.  After all, He is our only hope.   So throw everything into the hands of our Mighty God and watch and see what he will do.  He will always keep His promises.  "For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us." (2 Corin. 1:20)

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

Hear the spirit of the Lord;

     A greater anointing awaits all that put their trust in My ability to cause change in them.  The wine will be fresher and more potent that will flow from My House, for I have kept the best for last.  You will arise from the state that you were in for your transitioning.  In your new position, you will spread out as a mighty oak tree, to provide a covering for others that I have placed in your circle, to show them the same compassion and mercy that I have given to you.  I have lifted you up so that you may be the butler, the preparer of the way for others.  Just as I did for Joseph.  I sent the butler ahead of Joseph in order to open a door for My servant.  Many of My children I have placed strategically in divine placement at this 'time of troubling', to be a door for My prophets, My ministers, and My little ones.  It wasn't your wisdom or abilities that put you there.  You were sent ahead for My reasons.  It was not happenstance, nor 'who you knew', it was because I needed you to do your part.  I have always raised up My children to do their part for the Kingdom, each person's function I have ordained.  When My people cried out for My help, I raised up judges, kings, prophets, and deliverers, at just the right time.  Every ones function is significant to the whole Body of Christ, and each one must be in the correct place, in order to move with agility and with power.  No one can afford to be in the wrong place any longer.  My wisdom is vital at this time.  I will give it to you as you seek and ask for it.  It is My design and plan that will succeed.  We have looked forward to the time that My children would line up with My plan, desiring to see My kingdom come and a longing to fulfill their calling.  It is that time!

     As you see businesses, churches, families, and nations that are going through 'troubling times', there will be a remnant that will stand out.  It will be those who have been in that state of preparation, to be positioned for Me, by Me.  My children have lamented over the missed opportunities, but now they are more sensitive and discerning to My Voice and My ways.  I go before you to make your way clear, so follow Me closely.  As you stick to Me, you will find abilities and capabilities to be able to maneuver on the most confining and inflexible road.  We will perform fully every detail needed to bring all things to completion.  Now stay alert and charge up your prayer lives, declaring boldly My promises for the times of troubles.  This is not the time to sleep, but wake up to prayer.  Wake up watchmen, wake up righteous ones, hear the call to be on alert.  Ask for the Godly way and you will travel My path that I established for you.  I Am your Deliverer and your Provider and I have already gone ahead to give you safe passage to your proper place of position.

 

Love,

Pastor D.

Scripture References: Gen. 41:9-13; Jer.6:16; Ezek.33:1-7; Rom. 11:8-10; 1 Corin. 12:12-18  

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

Hear the Spirit of the Lord;

    

     This year will be a time to dig deeper in order to experience the new that I have for you.  There will be rare and unique opportunities available to My children to advance the Kingdom.  It is paramount for you to be attentive, for there will be a blowing away of old issues.  Shackles and bonds will fall off, as you continue to meditate on My promises to you.  Decisions and choices that you make will change your course, so make sure that they are formed from My Word.   Holy Spirit will assist you to stay on My course, far from accusing tongues.  My favor will surround you and crown your year with a bountiful harvest, even the hard pathways will overflow in abundance.  This overflow is in various ways, it will affect the whole man.  All who will abide under My shadow, I will lavish My protection upon.

     I hear your voice as you cry out to Me in the night season, I Am your rescue and your deliverance.  I have chosen you and you are My special possession.  My love for you is passionate and strong, I will not let you down.  I will accomplish My will for you, it may seem impossible now, but there is nothing impossible to Me.  I say to you now, be strong and accomplish the work that I have given you to do.  I Am bringing everything together, for it is time, it is all working according to My plan.  Remain faithful to My plan, for a reward awaits all who run to obtain it.

      Join me as I think on this verse today.  "Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters.  Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God.  You must warn each other every day, while it is still "today", so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God.  For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ." (Hebrews 3:12-14) Don't let anything move you away from the great foundation of your faith.  I am doing my part to warn my brothers and sisters to keep believing, not to quit.  Faithful to the end, here are a group of synonyms that we should look at to examine our walk to see if we are as firm as we were when we first believed.  Are you, loyal, reliable, affectionate, ardent, constant, dependable, devoted, enduring, firm, genuine, obedient, sincere, steadfast, steady, trustworthy, unchanging, and unwavering, with and to God?  Let's work on being as faithful to God as He is to us.  "Test yourselves to make sure you are solid in the faith.  Don't drift along taking everything for granted.  Give yourselves regular checkups.  You need firsthand evidence, not mere hearsay, that Jesus Christ is in you.  Test it out.  If you fail the test, do something about it.  I hope the test won't show that we have failed.  But if it comes to that, we'd rather the test showed our failure than yours.  We're rooting for the truth to win out in you.  We couldn't possibly do otherwise." (2 Corin. 13:5-8; Message Bible)

 

Love,

Pastor D.

Scripture References: Ephes.1:9-11; 2 Tim. 3:6-8

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

     Let's spend a little time talking about interceding for those who are going through trying times.  It is so easy for our prayers to be for 'me, mines and ours', because everyone is standing and believing God for something, right?  Turning our prayers inward will not give us the desired results that we are seeking.  I know that when we are overwhelmed by your own circumstances, it can be easy to be selfish, without really trying.  Let's read James 5:17; "Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart].  The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working]".  We as the Body of Christ must be more sensitive to the other members in the Body.  Restore is to reconstruct and set to rights; to put back; to reorganize, to build up; reconstitute.  Our intercession for others will cause them to be built up and things to be reorganized and set right in their lives.  Hm-mm, sounds like a great seed for us to sow as we are expecting harvest from all that we do.  Healed means to cure and to make whole.  That's just what every member in the Body of Christ needs, to be made whole.  Our prayers are powerful, if we continue to intercede and do it energetically, fervently, and like all get out.  Do it like you expect them to actually receive from the Father, what you are praying for.  So we all need to maintain, sustain, and persevere in our prayers for our brothers and sisters in Christ.  Come let's  "pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty.  To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints (God's consecrated people)". (Ephes.6:18)   We must pray in the Spirit because, "He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God's will". (Rom. 8:27) As we pray in the Spirit we will be praying in harmony with God's will for that person.  After all, we know very little about what a person really needs in their lives to make them an overcomer.  We have eyes that see the surface, while God is all the while dealing with the root, in order to bring forth healthier fruit.  Just think, as we pray in the Spirit we are praying the intent of God.  Intent implies a sustained unbroken commitment or purpose.  We join as God's co-laborers for whoever we pray for in the Spirit (especially the household of faith).  We are assisting someone else in order for them to fulfill God's purpose in their lives.  Come on now, let's get our minds off of ourselves, for you know someone needs our prayers.  "For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap.  For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.  And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint". (Gal. 6:7-9)  We sow to the Spirit by praying in the Spirit, we must not sow to our flesh, by being selfish with our prayers.  There is a whole world in need of God's Spirit- intercessors', let's be one.  I am not telling you to forget about yourself or your family members, not at all, but broaden your prayers to include the Body of Christ and others.  1 Peter 4:7; says, "But the end and culmination of all things has now come near; keep sound minded and self-restrained and alert therefore for [the practice of] prayer".  We are the people that pray at all times in every season, remember, that's what we do.  Keep alert, stay wide awake, active, observant, ready and switched on.  We need each other in more ways than one, especially as the end has been drawing near.  Continue to intercede! 

 

Love,

Pastor D.

   

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

     Today, I was reminded to, 'never settle for less than God's best'.  Sometimes I have elected to settle for less because I thought that I was being humble.  False humility has destroyed most of our 'divinely planned lives'.  We as God's children have been given strength, power, and virtue, enough to do all that His Word says that we are capable of.  What happens is that we become to entangled with the world's ideas and it's perceptions of ourselves.  Listen to the Word:  "Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith].  For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness?  Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?  What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial [the devil]?  Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?  What agreement [can there be between] a temple of God and idols?  For we are the temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them and will walk in and with and among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.  So, come out from among [unbelievers], and separate (sever) yourselves from them, says the Lord, and touch not [any] unclean thing; then I will receive you kindly and treat you with favor.  And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty". (2 Corin. 6:14-18)  Don't swing to far to the left or right, you know as well as I do that we work, live, and some of us sleep with unbelievers. "Not [meaning of course that you must] altogether shun the immoral people of this world, or the greedy grasper's and cheats and thieves or idolaters, since otherwise you would need to get out of the world and human society altogether!". (1 Corin. 5:10) So you know the key is in making alliances or coming under the same yoke with unbelievers that is inconsistent with your faith.  Still keep it together, I know that some of us married unbelievers before we were believers.  You know what the Word says about that right? (1 Corin. 7:10-14)  To make it simple, whatever state you came to the Lord in, stay that way concerning your married life.  Okay, we are on the same page now.  Yoke is the beam that joins two together in the same service, a coupling of obligation.  Of course our service and obligation is to the Lord, while an unbeliever's service or obligation is usually to 'themselves or the god of this world system'.  In other words we are not to take the world's wisdom as our way of doing and being, or determining our worth and value.  God's desire for us is found throughout His Word, but listen to James; "External religious worship [religion as it is expressed in outward acts] that is pure and unblemished in the sight of God the Father is this: to visit and help care for the orphans and widows in their affliction and need, and to keep oneself unspotted and uncontaminated from the world". (James 1:27)  Obviously we have need to do the first part of this verse as well, but we are talking about the second half.  Staying uncontaminated from the world's way of thinking and doing things.  We should be renewing our minds with God's Word and changing how we think and 'the why' we think the way we do will change our inner and outer results.  "Let no person deceive himself.  If anyone among you supposes that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool [let him discard his worldly discernment and recognize himself as dull, stupid, and foolish, without true learning and scholarship], that he may become [really] wise.  For this world's wisdom is foolishness (absurdity and stupidity) with God, for it is written, He lays hold of the wise in their [own] craftiness.  And again, The Lord knows the thoughts and reasonings of the [humanly] wise and recognizes how futile they are". (1 Corin. 3:18-20) We want to have God's wisdom, which far excels any earthly wisdom, we must think about ourselves the way God does in all of His wisdom.

     I know that God's ways are so much higher than ours, so it takes some time for us to catch up to Him, but we do, as we renew our minds.  Listen to what He says; "This is because the foolish thing [that has its source in] God is wiser than men, and the weak thing [that springs] from God is stronger than men.  For [simply] consider your own call, brethren; not many [of you were considered to be] wise according to human estimates and standards, not many influential and powerful, not many of high and noble birth. [No] for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame.  And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are.."(1 Corin. 1:25-28)  The reason that God chooses the lowborn, the foolish, the insignificant ones, is so that our glorying and boasting is in Him, not in our own smarts, or high breeding, or degrees, etc.  I said all of this, to point out the fact, that we are who Christ says that we are.  We are not what our circumstances dictate, not what our past screams at us, not what other people brand us as, not what this world declares we are.  Now as I close today, it is imperative that you see yourself as God sees you.   Meditate, ponder, reflect, and murmur this verse, over and over again, until the 'real you' transitions and emerges.  "For You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in my mother's womb.  I will confess and praise You for You are fearful and wonderful and for the awful wonder of my birth!  Wonderful are Your works, and that my inner self knows right well.  My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought [as if embroidered with various colors] in the depths of the earth [a region of darkness and mystery].  Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them.  How precious and weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God!  How vast is the sum of them!" (Psalm 139:13-17)  You are no mistake, no foul up, no accident, no unworthy thing.  You were carefully knitted together by God's own Hands.  Your color, your hair, every mole, birthmark, etc.  His thoughts about you are vast and tey are all good.  You are a Master Piece, one of a unique and rare kind, that's who you are! 

 

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear

Good Morning,   Hear the Spirit;      I Am rallying the heavenly troops to your aid and to help you remain victorious.  You will find that your strength is not small.  You will amaze yourself when you see what is really on the inside of you.  The enemy has been taunting you about your inability to stand, to fight and to win.  Yet, you continue to stand, not in your own might, but in the strength of your God.  Ministering angels are lifting hands that hang low, My Word is being whispered in your ears, just at the right time to carry you on.  Yielding is your strong place now, for as you do you will find a hiding place, yes, a landing place to recover and restore yourself in order to continue.  You will hear My Voice behind you, commanding you to, "get up, stay up, stand up, and fight."  You will know that I have gone ahead of you to place the right steps for your path.  Do not fear, I Am with you!  My course for you is sure, though the way may seem difficult and sometimes treacherous, it will cause in you a developing of confidence in Me.  Every step you will become more aware of Me and My Presence as I lead you.  My love and assurance of you will give you the needed boldness.  I Am your constant Companion, I will not forsake you.  After-wards you will know that it is for your good that you were brought this way.  I want you to learn of Me and learn to take My yoke.  Staying hooked up with Me at all times will bring you through safe passage and the way will yield the promised benefits.      This is not the time to do nothing.  It is not the time to stop decreeing.  It is not the time to isolate yourself from the assistance of the 'Body'.  Do My Word,speak My Word and do not forsake the assembling of yourself together with believers.  Each member supplies a need.  I have already given it.  I have already supplied your need, so stay the course.  The crooked places caused twisted results and now the straighted way will bring My righteousness in all results.  I know that you do not always see My way as good, but your vision will improve.  You will see that I have extended sight for you.  Your desert will be your oasis, your rough road will turn into your high-way.  Take confidence in Me, I will not fail you.    Love,   Pastor D.    Scripture References: Is. 40:3; Phil.1:6; Heb.10:25   P.S. This was a personal word that Father spoke to me as I go through a time of transition.  All of us will go through tough times, or if you prefer, tribulations.  It is inevitable to living in this world.  God reminds me as well as you, my dear sisters and brothers, that he will fulfill His good Word to us.  The personal promises that were spoken to you as well as His written word, He will do.  He reminds us that He is not a man, He cannot lie.  Why would He?  He wants us to learn to trust Him.  He will keep everything that He has promised you, He will lay it aside for you.  Do not give in, do not give up.  If you have slipped, fallen, or mis-stepped, don't stay down.  Do not allow the devil, that liar to accuse you of failure, get up and put him under your feet.  Shout aloud the Word if you have to.  God believes in you too.  He always look for the best in you and He believes the best in you.  He is a good Daddy.  He really does love you.  Believe in His love, it will help you to stay steady no matter what comes.  The best is yet to come for us. "I run for dear life to God, I'll never live to regret it.  Do what you do so well: get me out of this mess and up on my feet.  Put your ear to the ground and listen, give me space for salvation.  Be a guest room where I can retreat; you said your door was always open!  You're my salvation-my vast, granite Fortress.  My God, free me from the grip of wicked, from the clutch of Bad and Bully.  You keep me going when times are tough------ my Bedrock, God, since my childhood". (Psalm 71: 1-6; The Message Bible)