Daughters of Z

August 27, 2021 - Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

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Good morning,

   

  How many times have we heard something and interpreted it out of context that may have caused us plenty of difficulties?  You know the familiar conversation, it goes something like this......" You said -----------!!!!" and the person who was speaking says:...."No, that's not what I said!!!!!" Has that happened to you lately?

    Do you remember the "telephone game" we learned as children, where we would start a conversation by saying a simple sentence and it would be repeated to the next person and on to the next and it would go on until the last person would repeat what they heard?  It would begin by saying something like, "my dog is a black and brown shepherd," by the time it got to the last person it might be, "the shepherd is brown where the black dog bit him."  Well, I learned several things from that exercise: #1 - you can not listen to gossip, it is never complete in truth; #2 - people do not listen intently and last but not least, I came to the conclusion that when you speak there is a force that causes our conversation at times to be misdirected or confused. Ephesians 2:2 makes reference to the "prince of the power of the air (in which you once walked. You were following the ways of this world [influenced by this present age], in accordance with the prince of the power of the air (Satan), the spirit who is now at work in the disobedient [the unbelieving, who fight against the purposes of God).  Later on in Ephesians 6:12, we have a little more insight into this, "prince of the power of air".  Listen, it reads, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places".  So we can see that the devil has a rank of delegated authority, and one of those evil spirits' jobs is the "airwaves".  His sole purpose is to scramble up our communication lines.  He keeps the atmosphere charged with misunderstandings, misinterpretations, dirty filters, poor comprehension, and selfish hearing so that we are constantly dealing with offenses, unforgiveness, bitterness, hatred, anger, deception, and all other kinds of little foxes that spoil our growth in our ability to hear clearly.  I am not saying this is the case every time, but we are told to know the ways of our enemy so that we can be victorious all the time.  We take authority over this low-ranking prince of the power of the air and we say that you will not hinder our ability to hear clearly and or communicate effectively.  We will keep the garden of our heart free of offenses, bitterness, malice, unforgiveness, etc.

Hear what the Spirit says:

    

    "For I am coming for My bride and she must no longer allow spots, wrinkles, or blemishes to continue to grow on her.  These hearing problems have caused so many blemishes in My church.  My children continually hurting one another, fighting and bickering over small temporal things that have been destroying their abilities to represent the Kingdom.  You must cease the wars among My beloved, and direct your attention to the enemy, who pits you against one another.  You must see and understand that a house divided cannot stand, and will end up in self-slaughter.  Stop!  My children, I have given to you all the power over all the power of the enemy, now use your power against the enemy and not against each other.  Love, love, and prefer one another.  Be merciful, tenderhearted, and kind.  Give allowances to one another.  Every time you are hurt by each other, quickly forgive.  Those seeds of forgiveness will return to you on swift wings of My favor to you.  You will grow twice as much because of the mercy you extend.  You will become more mature and more sensitive to Me and My ways you will be alert to follow Me.  This is the way of the Spirit.  Following the high road of love will always cause you to be on top, it is the steps to prosperity that will bring you to good.  Love will mature my bride and keep for her an atmosphere of miracles, wholeness, soundness, and true prosperity.  Love is the atmosphere where I, in My glory abounds.

 

    "Be kind and helpful to one another, tender-hearted [compassionate, understanding], forgiving one another [readily and freely], just as God in Christ also forgave." (Eph. 4:32)

 

    "For the whole Law [concerning human relationships] is fulfilled in one precept, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself [that is, you shall have an unselfish concern for others and do things for their benefit].”  But if you bite and devour one another [in bickering and strife], watch out that you [along with your entire fellowship] are not consumed by one another." (Gal. 5:14-15)

 

    "That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." (Eph. 5:27)

 

Love,

 

Pastor D.

August 20, 2021 - Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

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Good morning,

 

    The spirit of discouragement and disillusionment has tried to deceive many of My children.  It is a strong, obscure, and blurred spirit.  He has lied to them and told My children that I have forgotten them.  The lie that he perpetrates is that I will not do what I have promised to do.  Promises that I have spoken from My Word or in times of intimate fellowship, he lies by trying to divert your attention to the temporal things.  Do not give any attention to him My children.  If you entertain his lies they will find a way into your heart and destroy and entangle all that We have built together.  Do not allow the "evil one" to plant snares and tares in our garden of love.  Now is the time to draw close and call forth My Word, so that you become inaccessible to the darts of the wicked one.

    Yes, it is a time of tribulation for this world system for I Am bringing forth its quality.  It is overdue, because of the unjust weights and balances, and the great deception that has continued for decades upon decades.  I have heard and I have hearkened to the cries of My servants, those who are watchmen on My walls.  They have cried for justice and I Am responding.  I Am shaking every system that is not built upon My foundations.  Some of these systems have found their way into My house.  That cannot be.  I Am uncovering and exposing all that does not originate in Me and with My plans.

    My children that give a cup of cold water in My name will receive all that I have promised.  I have not forgotten one seed sown in My name by faith.  Harvest times are by My timetable, for I Am Lord of the harvest.  I will repay.  I know all that you have suffered in My name and because of your stand in My name.  I have been touched by your heartaches and all that troubles you, and I will come and rescue you.  You can be sure of Me and My word, it will stand through all times.  I will lift you out of despair, by My Mighty outstretched Arm.  No one will be able to take you from that secure place.  Nothing is too difficult for Me, I will heal and refresh you again, setting you in an enlarged place.

 

    "Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting." (2 Corin. 4:18)

    

    "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.  When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)

 

    "He brought me forth also into a large place; He was delivering me because He was pleased with me and delighted in me. (Ps. 18:19)

 

Love,

 

Pastor D.

August 13, 2021 - Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

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Good morning,

 

    Come away and draw close to me, I want to prepare you for the difficult days ahead.  Many of my dearest little ones will be caught off guard because they refuse to listen to My voice, they have been hearing the voices of many false prophets.  They are saying, "all is well, and you have nothing to be warned about."  Yet, I have placed watchmen on the walls, who have seen the perils from afar, and have been declaring to all that will have ears to hear, to hear what the Spirit is saying.  No, do not regulate your life by fear, you must always live by faith, trusting My Word.  You should be familiar with the chamber of My room, where I reveal and make known all secrets to My holy ones.  My Word is true, all of it is true.  It is your map and clearly shows where we are and where we are headed.  It is all good to those who have put their trust in Me.  Warnings are not to bring fear, but in order that you may be aware.  Your preparation should be to become sensitive to My voice, get used to hearing the sound of Me.  I will lead you to the still and peaceful waters, even in the midst of the storms of life.  I Am your hiding place, your safe haven.  So don't be dismayed when you see what will come upon the earth.  It has always been coming to this.  Those who have made me their Refuge will see the pressure rising and building over the wicked and the evil, but it will not be able to touch My faithful ones.  I have been a Shield to all who know Me as a Warrior and to all who have allowed Me to fight for them in past battles.  Wake up to the cry of My prophets that run with My Word, you will recognize My voice.  I Am all that is desired and needed by My loves, a strong fortress to them, while the rich have trusted in their wealth as their high wall.  Everything that has been erected and built by all other gods will come down, every high place that was built by this Babylon system will experience a crash.  Men that doubt Me and My Word have already built up a new system to lean and trust on.  Their wisdom will be exposed as complete folly, yet they will only see it has higher intelligence.

     In the midst of these perilous times, water, rain, and the wind will blow My loves from their places of obscurity.  They will become vibrant once again with new life to spring up with fresh wells of revelation, insight, worship, and understanding of the times and seasons.  Arising with abilities that will bypass their natural capacity to sustain and cause them to prosper even in the time of famines.  They will dream with a clearer definition and awaken with understanding.  The visions they see will give them deeper insight into the next steps that must be taken to bring them to a place where they are inaccessible to the climate around them.   Their worship will come from those deep wells that have been untapped, but now the thirst for more will require them to draw more.  Sharpen your blade, strength requires you to be sharp now!  The wisdom you receive from Me will help you to succeed.  I have sent My armies from heaven to be at your aid, for My holiness will be displayed by My righteous ones.  You, My loves will be My pride and My glory, even in the middle of difficult times!

 

    “Awake, O north wind, And come, south wind [blow softly upon my garden]; Make my garden breathe out fragrance, [for the one in whom my soul delights], Let its spices flow forth. Let my beloved come into his garden And eat its choicest fruits.”(S.O.S. 4:16)

 

    "I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust [with great confidence, and on whom I rely]!” (Ps. 91:2)

 

    "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness (absurdity, stupidity) before God; for it is written [in Scripture], “[He is] The one who catches the wise and clever in their craftiness;” (1 Corin. 3:19)

 

Love,

 

Pastor D.

 

August 6, 2021 - Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

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Good morning,

 

    Listen My children, you are Our great hope.  We have invested in you everything that We are.  We have given all so that you might be our image-bearers in this world.  You say purify me.  Every time I go to burn you, to purify you, it does not appear, the way that you want.  Every prophet, every man and woman that I burned on the fire to purify them for My purpose, it did not look like they thought it should.  So I Am saying to you now, purification, refining, I choose the process.  I choose how much to burn to bring you to the place of perfection so that you might fulfill your calling and your purpose.  I choose says the Lord, whether you are like Paul or Stephen, whether you are like John the Baptist, or John the Revelator.  I choose as your Lord, whether you are an Elijah, or an Ezekiel, or like Jeremiah.  I choose whether you are Joseph, I make the choice, and then I begin to do a work in you, but you must allow me, you must yield with My plan.  Every time I start a process, you cry about the fire burning too much and I must take you out because I recognize you would be totally devasted, not consumed for service.  So, I want to save and restore and bring you to the place that you perform and function according to the design and purpose that I created and made you for. 

    So allow me and work with Me, so that you might come forth as pure gold, allow the purification and the refining process to take place on the inside of you.  There are things that you must do and others that you must not do in order to walk the path that I have called you to.  There are things you should not touch and places you cannot go because I call you to a higher degree of anointing, there are things you must do separate from every other person that walks on this earth because I have anointed you for a season and a time to do the things that others cannot do.  I know you and have charted a course for you.  Allow Me to do those things and work with Me, and you will come forth as a vessel of honor in My house.  Do not draw back from the fire, I recognize that these changes hurt.  Those things that I Am doing and working on the inside of you are not a comfortable situation but it will bring you forth as a threshing instrument.  Let Me do the work in you, let Me purify you, let Me cause you to stand in My strength.  I have made a choice to choose you as vessels of honor, not to dishonor.  Come and co-labor with Us, and I will exalt you in due time.

   

    "For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building." (1 Corin. 3:9)

 

    "But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work." (2 Tim. 2:20-21)

 

    "Yet, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our Potter, And we all are the work of Your hand." (Is. 64:8)

 

Love,

 

Pastor D.