Daughters of Z

July 23, 2021 - Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

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Good Morning,

    Psalm 119:122-126; "Please guarantee a blessing for me.  Don't let the arrogant oppress me!  My eyes strain to see your rescue, to see the truth of your promise fulfilled.  I am your servant; deal with me in unfailing love, and teach me your decrees.  Give discernment to me your servant; then I will understand your laws.  Lord, it is time for you to act, for these evil people have violated your instructions."

    For a moment meditate on the underlined portions of the scriptures.  Please guarantee a blessing for me.  My eyes strain to see your rescue, to see the truth of your promise fulfilled.  Give discernment to me, your servant.  Lord, it is time for you to act.

    How many times have we thought it, or said it to God in the past year of this great transition period?  "Lord it is time for you to act."  In Ecclesiastes 3:1, God tells us, "For everything, there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven."  Then He goes on to explain His process a little better for us.  Verse 11 of chapter 3 says, "He has made everything beautiful in (its) or (His) time."  Either way, it is worth us meditating on, wherever you are right now, whatever you are facing, God is going to make everything beautiful in the right time.  Whether it is His timing or the correct timing for whatever you may be facing now.  God will make it turn out beautiful.  As we transition, we need to remind ourselves that our God knows how and when to turn it to beauty.  He's doing it even now!

    The next underlined verse says, "Give discernment to me your servant."  Discernment means understanding, to distinguish and mark separate mentally; to consider and to be cunning; to direct and perceive what it is gathered; to look well to and to diligently know; to view and deal wisely in affairs; to detect or discover with other senses than eyesight; to differentiate.  We need to be able to know the times and the seasons that we are in.  In order to walk out the plan of God, no matter what is going on around us.  Father God has already told us that everything we see that is crooked or out of line with His plan, that He will turn around for our good and straighten them out.  If we remain faithful to His Word, we will come out stronger than we were going into this period of change.  Our change will be good!  Let's exercise our discernment by using our spirit eyes and trust that our Father has already made a safe haven for His own.  This is where we walk by faith and not by sight.  Where we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things which are not seen.  This is our true discernment, walking in the authority of God's Word. (II Corin. 4:18; II Corin. 5:7)

    The next underlined verse says, "My eyes strain to see your rescue, to see the truth of your promise fulfilled."  That is just what we should be doing since we know that God watches over His Word to perform it and that His promises are yea and Amen.  Our necks should be stretched out in anticipation of what our God is going to do.  Just how great is His deliverance going to be!!  He loves to deliver those who put their trust in Him.  We have sent out our S.O.S.'s in the Spirit; through prayer and intercession, confessing His promises, and by worshiping His name.  Our rescue is already here, let's strain, stretch to discern, and know that it is.  Rescue and deliverer carry the same meaning.  Our Deliverer has come to refresh, recover, restore, relieve, and render His promises to the believer.

    Finally, it says, "Guarantee me a blessing." God has guaranteed us a blessing, by His Word.  Blessings to those that obey His Word.  Duet. 28:1; "If you will listen diligently to the voice of the Lord your God, being watchful to do all His commandments, which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth.  And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you heed the voice of the Lord your God."  Let's not lose sight of this, that we are people that love God's Word, all of it.  Stay in your authority, by staying with God's promises.  Prov. 28:20, reminds us; "A faithful man shall abound with blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich [at any cost], shall not go unpunished."  The one with clean hands and a pure heart shall receive the blessings of the Lord. (Psalm 24:4-5) Let's keep our anticipation high, our deliverer has come.  He is trustworthy!

 

Love,

 

Pastor D.

July 3, 2020 - Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

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Good morning,

 

     Reclaim the secret place, it is a place you have been before, there you know me better.  Come, there is a different anointing waiting there for you.  

     It is where I comfort all that mourn, it is where I apply the balm of Gilead, it is where I set the captives free.  It is the secret place.  I Am calling you there.  I give you beauty for all your ashes.  This place of restoration is so that you can run longer.  I place My arms underneath your shoulders and I hold you and gird you up.  I Am giving you oil of joy for all your mourning.  It is an exchange place, it is where we meet, and here I place My love upon you.  I speak words of encouragement and words of comfort where I cause you to lift your head up, as you have been battle worn.  It is in My presence where there is fullness of joy and I place upon you a garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. I know you and I Am intimate with you.  As your loving, gentle, and kind Father I know how to bring you out and put you on a high place.  I know how to make your feet stay firm as you climb upon the stony, rocky mountains of life.  I know how to cause you to be girded up, strengthened and mounted up with wings as eagles and soar to unknown places.  Here I take your tears and I place them in a bottle, for know that weeping may endure for a night but your joy will come in the morning.  It is morning time for you now, so arise in fresh new strength and victory, for I have spoken over you, and I sing songs of deliverance right over you.  I laugh the enemy to scorn right here in the secret place and I speak to you powerful words and your head become lifted up because I know you, and I know you will not quit.  I brought you this way that you might be strong and full of courage and not weak, and learn not to allow every circumstance and situation to weaken your heart.  I brought you this way because I knew what it would take to make you the mature child of God that I created you to be.  I brought you this way that you might be rooted and planted in My house.  I know the storms of life come, heat will not cause you to wither, circumstances would not cause you to bend or break.  I brought you this way to establish your roots way down deep.  I made you and I Am making you even now.  I will not stop for I Am forming a great and mighty person.  I knew you before you were formed and I have been forming you ever since.  For I know the beauty, the beauty that I have placed on the inside of you and I see the gold that is deep within.  So I Am mining, I Am mining in the deep recesses of your heart.  I Am mining in the deep places, the hidden places that man may not see or draw from.  I Am pulling out everything that would choke the fruit that must come forth. See I never quit, not for a moment, fashioning and forming you into the very image of your Father.  I see and I know exactly what I have to accomplish.  I Am doing the mighty things that I promised I would do to bring you to the place that you stand on a high place, the pinnacles of life that men may know that My hand has been upon you and I anointed you. My hands were upon you and I know you think that everything has been a hard way, but the hard way has brought you to the place that you have endurance and that you are patient.  I made you strong, I have made you an enduring war-faring soldier. My favor surrounds you as a shield.  My favor will cause you to be exalted as you deal in all of life affairs. Step into all that is yours because you have become inaccessible to all the ways of the enemy, as you stay in the secret place.

 

     "The Lord God is my strength [my source of courage, my invincible army]; He has made my feet [steady and sure] like hinds’ feet.  And makes me walk [forward with spiritual confidence] on my high places [of challenge and responsibility]." (Hab. 3:19)

     "You’ve kept track of all my wandering and my weeping.  You’ve stored my many tears in your bottle—not one will be lost.  For they are all recorded in your book of remembrance." (Ps. 56:8)

     "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified." (Is. 61:3)

 

Love,

 

Pastor D. 

June 26, 2020 - Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

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Good morning, 

 

     Isaiah 43:2-3; "When you go through deep waters, I will be with you.  When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown.  When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you" ..verse 4 says "Others were given in exchange for you.  I traded their lives for yours, because you are precious to Me."

     We are unstoppable, as long as we stay connected to our Lord.  There is no circumstance, no test, trials or tribulations that would ever bring us down, if we would only learn to hide under the shadows of God's mighty wings.  God is our deliverer, our restorer and our protection.  Our great UPS - our Upholder, our Preserver, our Sustainer.  Our great Father!
     "Bring all who claim Me as their God, for I have made them for My glory." (Isaiah 43:7)  Just think about everything that you have endured, this year alone.  God loves to take our worst days and use them for a turn around for the best days that are ahead.  Your life brings God glory.  That is a selah, pause, reflect and calmly think on that.  You, yes, you, bring the God of the universe glory.  Glory meaning, rare splendor, honor, and copiousness which is abundance; full supply and ample.  Just think on that for a moment!  You, the one who never feels quite adequate, you bring God an ample abundance and a full supply.  You give Him a rare splendor and honor, by your life being lived for Him.  When you go through, you are being purified and raised to a new level in your faith.   

     Isaiah 43:11-13; "I, yes I Am the Lord, and there is no other Savior.  First I predicted your rescue, then I saved you and proclaimed it to the world.  No foreign god has ever done this.  You are My witnesses that I Am the only God.  No one can snatch anyone out of My hand.  No one can undo what I have done."  It is plain and simple, we can't lose if we stay in His hand.  Now you are the only one that can remove yourself from the hand of God. The enemy does not have that power, he can send thoughts and try to get you in agreement with him, but he can't take you from God's hand!  No one else has that power, only you.  So choose to stay in His firm and loving grip and you will pass through to the other side, stronger and a more formidable adversary to our enemy.  The storms are passing over and when they do, more and better fruit will spring up.  For those who are planted by the rivers bear fruit in all seasons, and their leaves never wither and they prosper in all they do.  Jeremiah 17:8; "For he will be nourished like a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its root by the river: And he will not fear the heat when it comes: but its leaves will be green and moist.  And it will not be anxious and concerned in a year of drought, nor stop bearing fruit."

 

Love,

 

Pastor D.

May 29, 2020 - Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

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Good morning,

 

     Psalm 71:20-21; "You have allowed me to suffer much hardship, but you will restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth.  You will restore me to even greater honor and comfort me once again."  Suffer, hardship, troubles, these are words that we would rather not hear in the Christian community.  Yet God reminds us that these things are allowed in our lives, in seasons for a higher reason.  This verse in the King James translation says, "Thou, which has shown me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me again from the depths of the earth." [vs.20]   Great troubles means huge, increased, and many.  Sore troubles means adversity, affliction, calamity, displeasure grievous, sorrow and trouble.  That is just to name a few.  Why?  Why are we allowed to go through troubles and hardships?  Let's see what the Psalmist writes.  "Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word." (Psalm 119:67) "It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statues.' (Psalm 119:71) When we go through sore troubles, and we are trusting and believing God's Word, we learn that the promises are really true for us.  We have experience to go with our faith.  It is no longer the pastor's, the evangelist's, the teacher's or anyone else's testimony, it becomes your own.  You have seen the true and living God come to your aid, watch over His Word and perform it on your behalf.  The Word that you refused to let go of, that faithful promise you stood on.  When all else that you trusted in proves that it is unstable, unfaithful, not lasting, and undependable, then you are left to see God's Word will prove itself. "Faithful and absolutely trustworthy is He who is calling you {to himself for your salvation}, and He will do it {He will fulfill His call by making you holy, guarding you, watching over you, and protecting you as His own}." (1 Thess. 5:24)

     Look at the power and the benefit of trusting God's Word.  "...you will restore me [quicken me] to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth."  Quicken is to make alive, nourish up, to recover, repair, to restore and to revive and to preserve to life again.  Restore means to give back, to make restitution, to rebuild, to bring back to a healthy state, to make amends or compensation for, to replace in a former state of favor and grace.  After we have withstood, we then inherit the promise and receive greater honor. " Blessed [happy, spiritually prosperous, favored by God] is the man who is steadfast under trial and perseveres when tempted; for when he has passed the test and been approved, he will receive the [victor's] crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him." (James 1:12) God, our Father delights to lift us up from the deepest abyss of life and bring us up to the greatest place of honor.  He did it with David, Abraham, Esther, Joseph, Ruth, Gideon, Moses, Daniel, the three Hebrew boys, the list goes on and on.  When all of our dependency is in Him, not in us or the arm of flesh, stand and see the salvation of the Lord.  Salvation means, something saved, deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity, health and help.  He wants our Source to be Him, for all of His rewards are with Him.  Get ready then to be brought up from the places of the abyss and be revived, rebuilt, quickened, brought back to live, really live.  Greater grace, greater favor, greater amends and compensation.  That first burst of sunlight is awesome, train your eyes to see greater distances.  We are rising to new heights in Christ.  We have learned through our afflictions that our God is a mighty deliverer and restorer!!!

 

Love,

 

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

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Good morning,

 

     This is a love story, My children.  I Am the beginning and the end and it is good for you My love.  I Am loving you with an everlasting love.  I have called you before you were ever known and I already approved of you.  I have gone ahead of you to make the way for you easier, if you will just follow Me.  This is a love story My children of how much I love you.  It is exhausted in My endless works and miracles that I perform in your life.  This is My love story for you My children and I have never stopped loving you and I will never stop loving you and caring for every care that concerns your heart and mind.  I will never stop loving you, this is a love story My children and it is good.  For I am a great lover, I am a great lover and I know how to love you and I know how to love you good and I will always love you.  This is a love story.

     Just like Joseph, as he went through many tests, trials, and tribulations but I never stopped loving him. My purpose and My plan for him never altered or changed no matter what he went through.  I called him, I anointed him, I appointed him and I brought him through and I set him at the seat of kings.  I made him the head in authority in a place and a land that was unknown to him and his people, but I raised him up because he never ceased to praise Me and to worship Me even in the deepest, darkest place.  My praise remained on his lips and because of that My children I raised Joseph up and I Am saying to you, as you continue to praise Me no matter where you are know that I Am exalting you.  I Am raising you up to the seat of kings.  I will lift your head up high above your enemies and people will know that I placed My hand upon you and My anointing covers and surrounds you.  I Am in love with you, My purpose and My plan for you never changes.  I knew you before you were formed in your mother's womb and even then I said blessed, you shall be blessed, you shall be seated in high places.  That is My call upon you.  No matter where you are right now, know that the end is good.  I have written it in My word and My end for you is good.  This is our love story.

     "The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee." (Jer. 31:3)

     "And He raised us up together with Him [when we believed], and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, [because we are] in Christ Jesus," (Ephes. 2:6) 

     "You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.  You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.  You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways)" (Psalms 139:1-3)

 

Love,

 

Pastor D.

 

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

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Good morning,

     

     I Am calling once again for you to walk in child like faith, simply believing what I have spoken over you, in you, and for your life.  And as you have that childlike faith, says the Spirit of grace and mercy, doors, new doors, fresh doors that you did not even see will swing wide for you.  These are doors of faith and favor!  Now that you have established a childlike faith, you will have eyes that see beyond what you are going through, you will see these doors and you will no longer have to kick doors down.  
     Understand, says the Lord, those who have warred and fought in the Spirit and stood and resisted no matter what went on in their life and believed My Word, their doors will come crumbling  down.  It will be as when Joshua fought the war at Jericho and those walls came tumbling down, doors shall come tumbling down before you, and fresh new insight and wisdom are before the threshold of these doors.  Now you have heightened sensitivity in the Spirit so that you hear Me, and know Me in a deeper way.  You will begin to discern the moves, and the fresh new things I Am doing.  You will know the moves of the enemy, yes because so many false prophets have gone out into the world, so many "false men and women of God", declaring things that I never declared, never gave to them to say.  Mixing their own vain thoughts with My Word saith the Lord, intermingling between the truth, it is hard for those who do not walk in the discernment by My Spirit to understand the move that I Am doing, and be confused by the deceptive moves of the enemy.  But because you have sought Me in the secret place, in the secret times, I shall begin to reveal and uncover those hidden things, those truths, those steps, those insights, the wisdom to the next level, for this is My people that have culminated together.  Warrior class people that are ready to go into the next level to do warfare against the enemy but not only against the enemy, but to decree and declare those things in their lives that I have already given them.  They shall begin to open their arms wide and receive blessings, I have said over and over again that I Am giving you tokens.  I say to you open your eyes and see that your fields are full of tokens of My goodness and My faithfulness to you, says the Lord.  You will rejoice and celebrate like a child! 
     For this is the time says the Lord, although the world may be entering into difficulties, my children shall enter in to a season of jubilee because they have worked, yes I say, worked in the Spirit.  For I have said, "labor to enter into that rest", and you have done just that.  Now lay back, I know for some of you this is difficult for you have been laboring all your life, but now I say lay back in My arms.  I Am faithful, I Am trustworthy, I Am dependable and I will cause every chain, yes, those chains that you have tried for years to break off of your mind and heart.  Those things that hindered your walk with Me, where you could not see the vision, the things that I told you would come to pass in your life.  You will begin to see because those things will begin to fall off of your eyes and ears, and the scales will move away and you will see and understand the simple things that I have told you to do, are the dynamic things of the kingdom that will open doors and move mountains.  Yes, this is our season to rejoice.  So My children, lift up your head like never before and give Me all glory and all praise for I have come to fulfill the promises, believe like a child again.

 

     "Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth.." (Jer. 15:19)
     "Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away, concerning faith have made shipwreck;" (1 Tim. 1:19)
     "For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." (Heb. 4:10-11)

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

     Today I would like to come from a place in my heart, the scripture says that, "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life." (Pro. 13:12) Here is a verse that I struggle with when I read it and I have tried to make it more than what it means, but even in our language of today, I believe we get this.  All of us have experienced this at one time or another in our lives, you have prayed for something in your life and believed with all of your heart for it to happen and it doesn't come.  It may have been for healing in your body, salvation for a loved one, financial prosperity, deliverance for you or a loved one, I could go on, but I know you understand.  Let us see if the Old Testament of the Bible means what we think it means.  Hope in the Strong's Concordance means; expectation.  Let's see what it means in the Webster's Dictionary; "to want something to happen or be true and think that it could happen or be true, to desire with expectation of obtainment.  I think I could easily say that all of us have an anticipation in our hearts that when we pray or ask our Father for something that we expect to obtain it.  That is easy to understand.  All of us hope.  Then what does deferred mean?  Deferred means to be drawn out, to be postponed, to be prolonged, to drag or continue on; that is the Strong's definition.  Let us look into our Webster's dictionary.  Deferred means withheld for or until a stated time, to put off, to delay, to postpone until a later time.  Maketh or make is still the same too in both definition, it means to cause to happen to or be experienced by someone;to bring into being by forming, shaping, or altering, to lay out or construct.  So in any language to have our hope, [our expectation, our wanting something to happen and be true], even our believing for it, when it is deferred, [or, put off, prolonged, dragged on, or withheld until further notice] can make [cause, form, shape, lay out or construct] our hearts to be sick.  That brings me to the word sick, I skipped heart because we all know what that means, but I will throw it in here, so that we have the complete picture; heart means our inner being, our will, emotions or our feelings, our thought, our passions, and our mind.  This part of us becomes sick.  Sick means to be or become weak, be or become sick, be or become diseased, be or become grieved, be or become sorry.  As Christians, even the most powerful one has experienced this in their walk with God, so don't feel that you are not worth the blood that was shed for you.  The wisest man that ever lived was instructed by our Father, God to place this right in our Bible.  It can and does happen, even if some never tell you about their times.  But, I have lived long enough to know if I keep my eyes on the thing that I was expecting to happen, that has been deferred, for whatever reason, I will get weaker and weaker.  So we all must learn to shift our hope and focus on something other than the desired thing, when we become weak, grieved, or tired.  David knew what to do and it is placed in scripture for us by them.  I will close with these two verses.

     "For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God."  "And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee" 

     "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God."  "For thou art my hope, O Lord God thou art my trust from my youth."  "Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word". (Ps. 38:15; 39:7; 42:5; 71:5: 119:81) Let us follow his example, let us put our expectation, our hope in God and in His Word, shift our focus from the desired thing or what we want to obtain and place our hope on the greatest desire, our Father, then we will have the Tree of life!

 

Love,

 

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

 

    There is a lot of teaching about the grace of God going on, some is a little twisted, just enough to lead some astray.  God has always helped me to understand that His grace is sufficient or enough to meet the need of any situation that I may face in my walk with Him.  One of the most powerful definitions of His grace is found in the Strong's Concordance of the "Greek" word, "grace", it says; the merciful kindness by which God, exerting his holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, keeps them, strengthens them, and increases them in faith, knowledge, affection, and kindles them to the exercise of the Christian virtues.  That is the power and ability of God upon our inability enabling us to do the Word of God.  It reminds me of the verse that says; "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me." (Phil. 4:13) Thank God, that we have His grace on our lives, or we would be slaves to sin.  Here is a prophetic word that was given to us in one of our services.

     My grace is sufficient and what I Am saying to you is that I have given you all power, all authority and it lies within My grace.  It is sufficient for everything that comes in your life.  It is sufficient for the good times to carry you through so that you never forget your God.  It is sufficient for the difficult and the tough times to hold you high so that you do not succumb to the trials and the tests of this world, but always rise above.  It is sufficient to keep you no matter what you are going through, it is sufficient to keep your heart soft and tender and easy to be directed by My Spirit.  It is sufficient enough to keep your mind stayed upon Me.  The grace that I have given you is sufficient, it is My power and ability that I give to My people, My children so that you can walk and live and demonstrate this life as Kingdom children, as the holy children of the most high God and everything that you do and everything that you say is in demonstration of the power of your Father.  For you are my representatives, you are the one who represents My Kingdom, and so I have anointed you with enough grace to carry you through no matter what you face.  The grace of God, the grace of your father, My grace is sufficient for your life.

     "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." (Rom. 5:2)

     "But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." (1 Corin. 15:10)

     "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:  (2 Corin. 9:8)

  

Love,

 

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

     I desire to be an instrument led by My Father in all that I say and do, as I know that you do too.  There is a "word" that was given that I know it is the right time to share it.  Some prophetic words  that God gave to us a while ago, Father warned us to be "discerning" about what we hear or go after.  A message that was close to truth but was intermingled with lies.  "The priests shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the common or profane, and cause them to distinguish between the unclean and the clean." (Eze. 44:23)  That should be the calling of all of the priests of God today.  But at the same time the people of God have a responsibility also; "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." (2 Tim. 2:15)  I approach this "fearing God", and not man. "Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth..." (Jer. 15:19)

     A friend of mine shared a "prophetic dream", it was a canister that was placed in a great body of water and then it burst open and polluted the body of water.  Here is the simple interpretation that the Father spoke to me;

     The canister is a contaminate and it is a '"message" that will go forth from those who have been My ministers.  This "message" will contaminate and pollute My Body and weaken them, causing many to fall because it will be a little truth mixed with lies from the wicked one who is the one that planted the canister.  This is why I warned My children to operate from a place of discernment when it comes to gathering to yourself "teachers" because you are itching for something new.  Yes, there will always be a desire for more of Me, which I have given to you, but I also told you truth is line upon line.  My Word that I give to you is easily understood, it takes a great deception to twist My truth and cause My little ones to believe a lie.  Stay on target with My Word right now.  It will not fail you, study to show yourself approved, so that you are not found to be ashamed!  Now hear My heart, those who have followed Me from a pure heart and have been led astray by this canister of deception and polluted lies, I will save and preserve.  Some will be preserved in a way that I have used over and over again in my Word to preserve their souls from hell.  Those of you who have not developed itching ears will be kept to keep My children on the straight and narrow pathway that leads to Me and the Kingdom.  Stay true to My word and My teachings and cooperate with precious Holy Spirit, for He will lead you and guide you into all truth.  Keep your eyes on Me, I Am the Way and the Truth.  Do not let impurities pollute your heart, eyes, or ears from My Truth!  You who are led by My Spirit will recognize the canister of contaminate, do not swallow it into your heart.  I will save you and keep you against that day.

     "For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear." (2 Tim. 4:3) 

     "But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come." (John 16:13)

     "And this is why I am suffering as I do. Still I am not ashamed, for I know (perceive, have knowledge of, and am acquainted with) Him Whom I have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on), and I am [positively] persuaded that He is able to guard and keep that which has been entrusted to me and which I have committed [to Him] until that day. (2 Tim. 1:12)

 

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

     At Hesed Ministries we are calling forth the supernatural in our own personal lives as well as we come together to worship.  We recognize the need for revival, for many of us have come through a season of tedious trials.  Tedious just means tiresome because of length.  So we have asked for a revival in our lives and most of us are experiencing a fresh wind of the Spirit blowing upon us.  Revival is a restoration to use, activity, acceptance, or vigor after a period of quiet, or obscurity.  A time of turning to life and vitality; to resuscitate; to restore the effectiveness of and from being discouraged, faint,, or even from death.  Does it sound like something you need?  Last time we talked about this, we understood that in order for this to happen we had to begin to change our inflection (our cry, our voice) which comes from a place of being desperate.  Desperation which arise from extreme need or pressure of circumstances; and when we face the worst with resolution.  Resolution which means making a complex notion into a simpler one; it means reducing formulas.  Sometimes we as Christians make the Word of God too complex for anyone to follow.  Quite often we have too many formulas to follow, we have to pray three times a day, confess two pages of scriptures, memorize half the Old and New Testament, etc., etc.,. God wants us to be revived!  The scripture says; “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?  Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?  If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:11-13)  “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. (Mtt. 7:7) Let's look at another ending of a verse; Romans 4:17... God, who quickens the dead and calls those things which be not as though they were.  Quicken means to make alive, to revive; to cause to burn more brightly or more intensely; to hasten and accelerate; to kindle the renewal of life.  Are you ready to accelerate?  I am, and I want to burn and shine more brightly.  So we must declare and decree that and we can begin to partake of that in our lives.  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.  Remember Job 22:28 We will be revived and quickened once again, it is an ongoing process as we grow from glory to glory.

     "Oh, that You would rend the heavens and that You would come down, that the mountains might quake and flow down at Your presence— As when fire kindles the brushwood and the fire causes the waters to boil—to make Your name known to Your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at Your presence! When You did terrible things which we did not expect, You came down; the mountains quaked at Your presence.For from of old no one has heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who works and shows Himself active on behalf of him who [earnestly] waits for Him." ( Is. 64:1-4) As an African evangelist once said we need a PHD, which means Praying Heaven Down!  The King James version says, "what he hath prepared for him that waiteth on him."  Prepared means fashioned; produces and does; works and acts with effect; appointed and ordained to bring about with signs; arrange things in readiness.  See, our Father wants to act with effects and to bring about signs, the supernatural!  We have been waiting on Him.  Waiting means to long for; to tarry for and remain in readiness and expectation; to remain hopeful and expectant while looking forward.  Let us decree a revival and it shall be established [to rise up, stand up; come on the scene; to become powerful].  Get ready to rise up as the supernatural revival comes on the scene and you become more powerful as you have been appointed and ordained to be!

 

Love,

Pastor D.

Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

Good morning,

     "Do not therefore, fling away your fearless confidence, for it carries a great and glorious compensation of reward." (Heb. 10:35) We must stay on target and keep our eye on the prize!

     One little distraction, even the distractions that try to keep you from getting into that secret place, can seem insurmountable.  So how much more, every day living with its cares, worries and frustrations and then the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eye and the pride of life that interferes and obstructs you from getting into the secret place that I have ordained for you to be in, where I have called you to walk in.  It is not just for set aside moments of worship, but to live there as a lifestyle of worship and that is what I Am calling you to.  Rise to the place where you abandon all thought processes that pull you back to the ways of this world, to the thoughts of what’s going on and I’m calling you higher so that means you have to abandon your dependence upon the flesh.  Which means the things that keep you earthly, the cares of this world which are bound in your flesh and in your emotions and how you feel and how you think.  I Am calling you to go beyond your feelings, go beyond your thoughts, and keep your mind renewed with My Word and begin to do exactly what I Am saying regardless of what you feel like, or what you think and then you’ll find yourself in that secret place, protected by Me no matter what is going on in the world or in your life, you will find yourself inaccessible to the darts of the wicked one.  In the midst of that you can hear My voice clearly, see nothing will keep you from hearing Me when you find that secret place and you never abandon it.

     "For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; in the secret place of His tent will he hide me; he will set me high upon a rock." (Ps. 27:5)

     "Therefore, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit." (Rom. 8:1)

     "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]." (Rom. 12:1)

     

Love,

Pastor D.