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August 28, 1998:  As the dawn breaks so shall My faithfulness rise with healing in its wings.  I AM sending forth a gentle wave of healing, of restoration & renewal.  I AM restoring the years that the locusts have eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm have devoured.  I AM the minister of reconciliation, calling forth those things which are not as though they are.  I AM the resurrection & the life, to rise from the dead to lead many from death & captivity to life abundantly.  Come forth!  Come out!  Come up into your inheritance!  Come out of your burial clothes into your New Beginning!  The caterpillar struggles in life within the confines of the cocoon waiting for the strength to break out & emerge into the glorious light.  For even the butterfly can't comprehend the beauty that shall break forth from the struggle.  But in the breaking forth, she is, she was, & she will always be, for in My plans from the foundation of the world I have made her so.  I decree Jubilee release of captivity.  I declare Jubilee over your marriages, your families, your circumstances!  Receive this word, claim the benefits, come up into your inheritance says your God.

I AM the first & the last.  I AM your first love & your last love.  Return to your passion of ardent adoring love.  Passion is powerful emotion.  Emotions that I have created to communicate My love to My creation.  I passionately pursue My bride with strong intense love & devotion.  In My passion, I died for you so you would live.  In My passion of jealousy, I pursued you & overtook you & brought you back to Me, that you would not stray away.

Where are you?  Where are you?  I AM walking in the garden in the cool of the evening, where are you?  Shall the two be one?  Will you walk with your hand in mine in the cool of the evening.  For the shame of your nakedness does not appear with Me.  I see your heart, your mind, your very existence. I have created you for My pleasure.  You are my peculiar treasure.  As a rose struggles to grow, the breaking of the ground, the seasons of rain & snow, the pruning, the struggle of the bud to push towards the sun, to break forth into a thing of real beauty.  So have I planted you in My garden, to break forth, to grow, to bloom into a beautiful rose.  I created you to dwell & thrive in My garden to give fragrance after the early morning rain.  For I AM the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.  A rose of great beauty produced in thorns, handled with great care, for the thorns that I wore, were for all your thorns, all your grief's & sorrows.  I AM your rose, receive My rose for I have brought you into My house and My banner over you is love.  Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.  Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is as strong as death, & jealousy is cruel as the grave.
 
 

August 21, 1998:  Many plans are in a mans mind, but My purposes shall stand.  I have a master plan designed from the foundation of the world for you.  I have chosen you to partake of My holiness, My nature, My character.  I have chosen you in the fiery furnace of affliction.  Many of you wonder, "shall I stand?"  I the Lord will not put more on you than you can bear, but the fire is in direct proportions to the degree of anointing I shall release in you.  You shall stand!  For I AM with you to deliver you from the fiery furnace & you shall come through as pure gold.  There are levels of refinement & definement.  I AM boiling up within you & pressing to the surface every hidden thing, every motive & thought in this seasoning process, of the vessels fit for My use.  Endurance develops maturity of character, approved faith and tried integrity.  The test is not the test, but what you do after the test.  As the tongue tastes food, so the ear tests words.  For I AM creating a new era, the former shall not be regarded except as learning experiences.  You have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has your eye seen what I AM about to do for you, because you have learned to wait for Me.

I saw a floor buffer spinning with a dirty rag under it.  I saw a buffer that is used to buff out paint on a vehicle.  All humanity is an unclean thing, and all righteousness apart from My righteousness is filthy rags, and all humanity fades as a leaf.  No one is righteous, no not one.  No one understands fully or discerns perfectly.  All humanity have turned aside.  The throat is a yawning grave, and the tongues deceive to mislead and to deal treacherously.  The venom like the asp is beneath the lips, & the mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.  How can anyone be saved?  Who shall deliver man kind from these bodies of death?  I AM the resurrection and the life, no man can have life apart from My finished work of redemption.  What becomes of boasting & pride?  From beginning to the end beloved, it is by faith in My finished work.  I AM bubbling up from the inside, a purging work of grace from the inside out.  Out of your hearts come the issues of life.  I placed My Holy Spirit in you as My earnest agreement that I would never leave you or forsake you, & that I would be there all the way.  My agenda in My ambassadors, is to form Myself into your lives.  Only as you learn to yield & abide in the vine can the sap of the vine produce My character.  It is quite simple My beloved, learn to lean more on the lover of your soul.  The two become one in intimacy.  One heart, one mind, one accord.

Having begun your lives in the Spirit, are you now trying to reach perfection by depending on your flesh?  Your dead works don't produce My fruits.  The law of the Spirit of life has set you free from the law of sin & death.  The law doesn't change you, it condemns you.  It confirms how guilty you are.  Through My redemptive work I caused the law to be written on your hearts, it happens on the inside.  True circumcision is of the heart & you are the true circumcision who worship Me in Spirit & Truth & put no confidence in the flesh.  The law points you to Me, for I was the only one worthy to complete the requirements.  Therefore you must depend on My finished work & learn to abide in Me.  Come into My Holy chambers My love, in the secret place let me see your face, let me hear your voice, let Me touch & settle your heart says your God.
 
 

August 19, 1998:  This is a time of great turmoil, of great agitation's, of washing of the garment to present as spotless.  This is a season of microscopic inventory.  For you indeed learn obedience by what you suffer.  You learn obedience in love by facing hate.  You simply move toward me with your "little" measure of faith, wanting obedience to My love & I will make up the difference.  For I take your weakness & make strength because you depend on My Power to accomplish these things.  No man can truly love perfectly, only when you depend on My Strength to make perfect through your sufferings.  The sufferings of this present hour don't hold a candle to the glory that will be revealed.  For I the Lord, touch those tender spots to heal you emotionally, physically & Spiritually.  I touch those spots so you can minister healing to the broken hearted, I touch those spots so you can have common ground with the hurting.  Many are the wounded & afflicted they lay by the roadway.  Will you show love to the broken hearted, will you bind them up in cords of love or will you pistol whip them with My Word?  I the Lord search the roadways for those who are hurt & afflicted, will you hear My call to go?  I passionately, care for the down trodden & wounded.  It is the sick that need a physician, not the whole.  My beloved, allow Me to touch your heart, your sore spots, allow My compassion for the sick & wounded to fill you hearts like it fills mine, let not your heart be hardened because of the great multitude of wounded.  Take what you have & give it away freely.  Bind them up with cords of love, apply the oil & the wine.  Nurse them back to Spiritual health.

I AM calling many a backslider home in this season.  The jubilee release of the captivity, that I shall take captive.  Hold on to the promise I made you.  I AM drawing a line in the sand, & the sand is getting hot.  You have stood faithful in weakness, therefore I AM adding strength.  The secret of My power in your lives is, embracing your weakness, realizing what you are & what I AM.  MY GRACE is sufficient for you My beloved sons & daughters, for I will complete the work I have started in you.  The unveiling process has begun, & the true church shall arise out of ashes.  Ashes of personal tragedy & agony.  My light shall be great upon these faithful ones, for I shall beautify thy countenance with My Glory.  I have launched a golden thread through you as a spearhead.  Do not cut the thread of pure prayers & intercessions for those you have called to come home.  They are coming home, says your God.  Those who have sown in tears will reap great joy in that day.

I AM in charge of the great meeting of My people.  I judge the judges.  I set the time for trial.  I judge fairly.  The earth with all its people will shake, I AM the only one who can hold it steady.  My justice reaches to the sky, & My Mercies are still new every morning.  For many shall return unto Zion, with weeping & mourning & I shall receive them, & I shall heal them.  And I shall decree a New Beginning, a new start, a fresh start.  They shall be My people, & I will be their God.
 

August 17, 1998:  At your beginnings, your ancestors possessed the land.  On the day you were born, your cord was not cut, neither were you washed in water or wrapped in cloths.  No one would do these things for you, & you were thrown in the field.  This is because you were hated the day you were born.  I passed by you & saw you kicking in your own blood and I said to you Live!  I made you grow like a tall tree, you grew up and became like a beautiful jewel.  But you were without clothes.  Later I passed by you in the time of love & I spread My robe over you & covered your nakedness.  I made a marriage promise to you, & we entered into an agreement.  Then you became mine, says your God.

I bathed you, put oil on you.  I clothed you with beautiful clothes & fine sandals on your feet.  I wrapped you in fine linen & covered you with silk.  I put fine jewelry on you, for you wore silver, gold & precious stones.  You ate the best of fine flour, honey and olive oil.  You became famous among the nations because of your beauty.  Your beauty was perfect, because of the glory I gave you.  But you trusted your beauty, & became a prostitute.  You had relations with anyone who passed by, and even took some of your clothes that I made you and prostituted yourself in them.  You offered your jewelry to the idols on the streets, & you offered the oil, honey & flour at every idol shrine.  You took My sons & daughters who were My children & sacrificed them to idols of the land.  You built yourself places of worship to false gods in every city square & at the head of every street.  You made your beauty a thing of hate.  You had sexual relations with Egypt.  They were your neighbors & partners in idolatry, each neighing like horses in heat.  These actions caused Me to become angry.  So then I withdrew My power from you & took away your land.

Truly, the will of the Babylon harlot is weak, says the Lord.  You do all the things a stubborn prostitute does.  You built your own shrines to worship your false gods even in every city square, loving the approval of the rebellious neighbors.  You are a wife who is guilty of adultery, for you desire strangers instead of you husband.

So prostitute hear the word of the Lord.  You have showed your riches to other countries and have uncovered & prostituted your body to every idol of the land.  Shall I not judge a land as this, that unfaithfully departs from her husband?  Yes, I will gather them against you from all around & I will strip you naked in front of them.  You great harlot say your are rich.  You think you have wealth and do not need anything.  What you don't realize is that your are really miserable, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.  Buy gold from Me, your true husband.  Gold made pure in fire, then you can be truly rich.  Buy clothes from Me that are white, then you can cover your shameful nakedness.  Buy from Me medicine to put on your eyes, then you can truly see.  I correct those that I love, so be eager to do right.  Change your hearts & live!  For I AM about to judge the great harlot & My justice shall reign in My house.  I shall pursue Gomer, says your God.

The sons & daughters of harlotry have multiplied by your lusts.  This was the sin of Sodom.  She & her daughters were proud & did things that I hate.  So I got rid of them when I saw what they did.  If you do not repent of your harlotry, in departing from your Husband, you will suffer disgrace & shame, for your actions fueled your offspring's behavior in departing from Me, says the Lord.  You hated and broke the marriage agreement.  But I will remember My agreement I made with you when you were young.  You must repent & I will forgive you for all the things you have done.

So, I bought Gomer.  I told her, you must be faithful to Me.  You must not be a prostitute anymore.  Then shall My faithfulness rise with healing & restoration of all things.  Then shall the people return to the Lord their God.  In the last days they will come to the Lord & I will bless them & they shall no more stray from Me, says your God.
 

August 15, 1998:  While in prayer I saw lots of sheep jumping the fences with smiles on their faces.   I then heard, "when you go to sleep you count the sheep."  I also saw black sheep.  I saw sheep being sheared for their wool.  I heard, "exploiting the flock."   The pasture was barren & the pastures over the fence were lush & green.   I saw a sheep, but on further investigation it was a wolf with a sheep skin on it's back.  I saw a manger or a feed container with hay, then I saw a barn filled with hay.  I then heard, "little boy blue come blow your horn the sheep's in the meadow & cow are in the corn, where is little boy blue?  Sound asleep in the haystack."  I then saw barn yard animals going in every direction, then I saw a cow jumping over the moon.  Then I saw a peacock on a pedestal.

Why don't the shepherds feed the flock?  You clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill the fat sheep, but refuse to feed the flock.  You have made the strong weak.  You did not heal the sick or hurt ones.  You have not rescued those that strayed away.  You have not searched for the lost ones.  The sheep were scattered because their was no shepherd.  Then they became food for every wild animal.  This is what the Lord God says, I AM against the shepherds that exploit & abandon My sheep.  I will take My flock from their mouths.  My sheep will no longer be their food.  I will lead My sheep out to lush green pastures where they will thrive by rivers of living water.   I Myself will search for My sheep & I will care for them.  There shall be true shepherds that shall care for My scattered flock when it is found.  I Myself will save them from all the places where they are scattered.  I will feed them in good pastures, & they will lie down on good ground.  I will tend to My sheep in fairness & justice.  I shall judge between one sheep and another.  I will judge between the sheep & the goats.  I will put shepherds over My flock that have the heart of David.  I have made an agreement of peace with My sheep.  I will remove harmful animals from the land, that they may lay down without danger.  I will cause the rains to come in the seasons & there shall be showers of blessings.  Also the trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will give its harvest.  My sheep will be safe in the land & no one will make them afraid.  I will give them a place that shall be famous for good crops & you shall not suffer hunger.  You My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are My people and I AM your God.
 
 

August 14, 1998:  There are many battles in a war, for there is always a cause.  I the Lord only did what My Father revealed.  When opportunities knock at your door, make sure I tell you to open it.  Just because it looks like a duck, & quacks like a duck, does not mean it's a duck.  It could be a decoy to divert your attention & go on a chase.  Even well meaning causes, godly causes could be a diversionary tactics of the enemy to get you off the path I have chosen for you.   I have made you stewards of blessings, stewards of your time.  Your time is important to me, have you given Me your time?  Or are you on a crusade for justice.   There is always a cause.  Let no man steal your time, even in just causes.  I Myself will reveal what you shall be involved with.  There shall always be forces at work, diversionary tactics to steal, rob your time & resources.  Controversies shall never end, remember you look through a glass darkly.  It is My problem, not yours.  These distractions are designed by darkness to steal your time from Me says your God.  Fix your eyes upon the author & finisher of your faith.  Those causes I connect you to, are relationships that shall add to your lives, & compliment your lives, not drain your lives.   A sharpening & building up of one another in love.  Line upon line, here a little, there a little.  There shall be a mutual benefit, a pouring from vessel to vessel.

Fix your eyes upon Me, says the Lord.  Lift up your eyes to Me, & take your eyes off others & yourself.  Get your eyes off the sheep, David.  Get your eyes off your brothers who scorn you & accuse you.  Get them upon the God of thy salvation, I shall slay the Goliath that stands before you.  Say not I am only a youth, & let no one despise thy youth, but be an example!  Engage in the causes I bring before you!

Blessed are those who hunger & thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.  When you hunger & thirst for the things of the world & man's causes,  it leaves you empty & dry.  When you hunger & thirst for Me, you shall be filled & My meat & drink shall leave you with an addiction.  For those who have tasted & seen My goodness, know the difference.  An addiction to My presence, & addiction to My cause.  When you hunger & thirst for Me, I will reward your intimacy with satisfaction & you shall know how I love & approve of you.  Many cannot recognize what I Am doing in you, for I did not give them that information.  But you know & those who I shall connect with you shall recognize.  Turn away from the things of this world that falsely satisfies, turn away from men's admiration.  Turn to Me, your hope, which is the anchor of your soul.

Many never met My servant Paul.  He did his greatest works while alone in a prison cell, but he was not alone.  His words were weighty & powerful, because his words were anointed by My Spirit.  Many measure Paul by the words written.  He was a human with faults & failures, but I still chose to use him.  Not many know about the person of Paul, just the writings of Paul.  There are those who are hidden from view, & some have come to be with Me, but yet their words live on & on.  Because My word is forever settled in heaven.  Heaven & earth may pass away, but My Word will never pass away.  Many warriors, little old ladies in their prayer chambers have changed the course of history by their obedience to My call.  But no one sees them.  Wrong, I see them.  Just as Paul's greatest works were done in prison, many of My works are now being done in hidden places.  Before you were born, I knew you & approved of you.  Be not afraid of the people, but trust that I have designed your life.  You have been designed for My presence & purpose & all of the paper work comes with the call.  You get instructions from Me says your God.
 

August 12, 1998:  Over the past several days while I have been in prayer, I have seen red lights like on the top of police cars.  I have seen this on several occasions.  I kept seeing a sheriffs badge, then a marshals badge.  We saw a old time western wanted poster, FBI 10 most wanted list, & a jail cell.  I heard "All points bulletin, be on the look out."  I heard "the long arm of the law."  I heard "the wild, wild west."  I saw a duel on a western dirt street.  I can see old time western people, taking the law in their own hands & I see a lynch mob.  

Let no one act as an umpire or sheriff, declaring you unworthy or out.  Hold fast to Me says your God.  For I shall disarm those that are ranged against you, even as I disarmed the principalities and powers that were against Me.  I made a public example of them triumphing over them on the cross.

Gal.4:17-18 Amp.  These men (the Judaizing teachers) are zealously trying to dazzle you (paying court to you, making much of you), but their purpose is not honorable or worthy or for any good.  What they want to do is to isolate you (from us who oppose them), so that they may win you over to their side and get you to court their favor.  It is always a fine thing (of course) to be zealously sought after (as you are, provided that it is) for a good purpose and done by reason of purity of heart and life, and not just when I am present with you!

I see a forked tongue, then it changes to a sword, then a forked tongue.  I hear "unprincipled men."  I see fences that have been broke down & crossed over.  I heard, "crossing over into boundaries that are none of our business."  I hear "test of loyalty."  I saw prophets hiding in caves.   I saw a cobra being sucked into a whirlwind.

The spirit of Ahab wants your inheritance, your vineyard & Jezebel is coming after you to get it.  Jezebel shall not cut off My prophets says the Lord.  For false witnesses have arisen to accuse of treason & betrayal.  To accuse as being trouble makers.  To lynch the prophet.  The Spirit of Elijah has not come to trouble Israel but you have Ahab.  How can two walk together unless they be in agreement?

Malachi 2:7-10 Amp.  For the priest's lips should guard and keep pure the knowledge (of My law), and the people should seek (inquire for and require) instruction at his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.  But you have turned aside out of the way, you have caused many to stumble by your instruction (in the law), you have corrupted the covenant of Levi (with Me), says the Lord of hosts.  Therefore have I also made you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept My ways but have shown favoritism to persons in your administration of the law (of God).  Have we not all one Father?  Has not one God created us?  Why then do we deal faithlessly and treacherously each against his brother, profaning the covenant of (God with) our fathers?
 

August 8, 1998:   There was once a very good king.  He was outstanding in the way in which he was head of state.  He heartily embraced the faith.  His heart was courageous in the ways of My Spirit & he set his heart to seek my face.  He went out among the people, from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers.  In military policy, he believed in time of peace to prepare war.  His military and religious actions were successful, for the fear of the Lord fell upon all, and they made no war with him.  He brought the nation back, at least formally, to "the God of their fathers."

Although personally loyal to his faith and pure of life and motive, his greatest failures lay in the precise areas of his greatest sucess......international relations and religious reformations.  He could not root out the unlawful.  His diplomacy by alliance into intermarriage with the house of Ahab & Jezebel brought all his gains to ruin within a few years of his death.  The poisonous effect of that union, became an arrangement that was very expensive to Judah, for the king supported with treasure & manpower to fund Ahab's wars.
The king assisted in at least two fruitless campaigns with the kings of Israel.  He suffered personal physical peril, and spiritual loss to himself and his kingdom.  This was an ill conceived policy.   His name was Jehovah judges, or King Jehoshaphat.

I the Lord have brought you to the valley of Jehoshaphat, & I shall judge you in this valley of decision.  Corrupt alliances by deceit have come to ride on your anointing.  To prostitute your oil & wine so they gain victory & prestige.  There numbers are great, they love a crowd.  They corrupt your goodness by flatteries, they take the advantage for their own personal gain.  As I live says God, I tell you the truth, I wouldn't even look the way of these corrupt leaders, but because I honor your life, I will speak!

I know your works, love & service.  I know your faith, patience and all your works and the last to be more than the first.  But I have this against you, you let the woman Jezebel do what she wants & that unrestrained.  She says that she is a prophetess, but she is leading my people away with her teaching.  A teaching of religious mixture, that has sugar sweet appeal, but is in every way poison to My sheep.  I have given her time to change her heart and turn away from her sin.  But she does not want to change.  Those who partake of her deeds & teaching shall suffer greatly & the blind shall fall into a ditch.

The process she uses is Osmosis.  Any way she can gain access by gradual, often unconscious process of assimilation until the hot is now diffused into mixture.  I will spue lukewarm mixtures out of My mouth says your God.  Is not My Word as a fire!  That burns up everything that is not precious metals & stones?  What has My Word in common with mixtures?   Who shall stand against My plumb line?  For these allied mixtures breed false security, all for the sake of peace & unity.  As they gradually absorb the facts of error & cling to them as gospel, many of my servants are to busy to detect this subtle fine line among the people.  And by avoiding confrontation, thereby have they empowered evil.  Deceptive veils & masks, hunting & snaring My sheep.  Many of My servants have encouraged the hands of error.

The house looks all clean on the outside, with a white picket fence.  Flowers growing, squeaking clean image.  But I see in the house!  I see in the walls!  I see into the hidden places!  And I see the hearts!
I say to you, judge Jezebel in your house.  Judge Ahab in your house!   I see My sheep on many hills scattered from this foe.  Like sheep without a shepherd, without correct leadership.  My leaders in this hour shall confront sin & Jezebel.  She shall not reign in My house again!  Ahab shall not be empowered by his apathy & complacency!

Woe to the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!  You are like foxes in the deserts, cunning sly, deceptive!  You have not gone up into the gaps, or made up the hedge to protect My sheep. But used My sheep to exploit them & so you could advance in pride.  Many have seen vanity and lying divination!  Witchcraft in My house!  They say the Lord sent them, & I did not send them!  They made others to hope that they would confirm their words.  They steal words from other prophets & intimidate My sheep so they will get on the band wagon.   Many have seen lying visions and spoken a lying divination, saying I sent them.  I did not!  Because they have spoken vanity & seen lies, behold I AM against them!  My hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies, they shall not be in the assembly of My people.  They have enticed & seduced My people.  But the writing is on the wall, & I will discover the foundations!   Will you continue to pollute Me among My people?  Will you continue to prophesy out of your own hearts?  I AM calling for repentance from these things, for I AM sending a raging fire in My house that shall not be quenched.  You must master these spirits or they will master you & rule over you & My sheep.  I Myself shall bring down the house of Ahab & Jezebel & those allied with them.  Repent says the Lord!  Rend your heart, I'm tired of outward shows!  The hour is at hand & My fire shall consume the sacrifices, for My vessels shall shine with fervent heat.  No unclean thing will abide in My manifested presence.  The time is now, hear what I say to My church!
 

August 4, 1998:   I saw a ship on the ocean, and most of people were on the left side looking over the edge.  I saw the mast & at the top was a flag.  On closer observation, I found the flag to actually be dirty long handled underwear with the flap flying in the breeze.  The weight on the left side of the ship made the ship dip severely & start taking on water.  The ship looked like it was getting ready to capsize.  At that moment a few people quickly ran to the right side & held on to the rail.

Each part of the body of Christ is necessary or we will capsize.  We will not all have the same perspectives.  Different sides of the ship looks different, depending on the position.  Every ship needs an anchor.  But who talks about the anchor?  Prophets are by nature visionaries.  The Lord must keep us anchored so we don't fly off into the stratosphere somewhere.  The Lord brings balance like this in ministry relationships as well.  Counter balance, for none of us have the complete revelation.  If we did.....we would not need Jesus or each other.

I saw a single rose stem & the pettles fell off.  The love of many is waning away.  I the Lord court with love, I woo with love & great compassion's.  All men shall know your My disciples by your love for one another.  This is the servant I will support, this is the one I chose and I AM pleased with.  I will put My Spirit in him, and he will not cry out or yell, he will not speak loudly in the streets.  He will not break a crushed blade of grass.  He will not put out even a weak flame.  He will bring justice and find what is true.  He will not loose hope or give up until he brings justice to the world.  And people far away will trust his teachings.

I saw incense burning to vanity.  I see corruption by flatteries & hypocrisies.  I see yes men.  I see dynamite in a bundle that must be handled with kit gloves.  I see rocks being thrown at a eagle.  I see white face masks all uniform in size, shape.  Many people were holding them up in front of their faces.  I saw an ax chopping a root of a sapling tree.  I have set watchmen upon thy wall, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night, ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.  I the Lord have sent a provoking fire in My house to get to the hidden heart issues.  I AM turning up the flame, how will you respond?   I AM bubbling up to the surface every hidden motive.  Become transparent, become a bush that burns but is not consumed.   I have not called you to conform but to bring reform.  I AM establishing a base point for delivery, a method unlike any previous method.  A ministry of ministries.  A separate yet connected entity.  Co-labourers together in My building, My vineyard, & My harvest field.   One plants, one waters, but I give the increase.  I know the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.  Let no man glory in men.  What was former shall not be latter.  Think not that the former days were better than these, for the days ahead shall be a consuming fire says your God.
 
 
 
 

August 2, 1998:  In prayer, several times I saw sins of the tongues.  I saw a tongue being used against the brothers.  At one point, I felt so sick to my stomach that I wanted to just walk away, because of the vomit of rivalry & competition among Gods ministers & prophets.  If we "think" we are ready in this condition, we are of all men most deceived. The fruit of the Spirit is our proof of what tree we belong to.

A hot furnace test silver and gold.  And people are tested by the praise they receive!  Beware when men only say good things about you!  Flattery, boasting, & bragging will bring ruin to your souls.  Wise men must not brag about their wisdom, strong men must not brag about their strength.  But if someone wants to brag, let him brag that he knows Me, let him brag that I AM the LORD.  This kind of bragging pleases Me, says the Lord.

The love of many shall wax cold, & brother will turn against brother.  If you have not love, you are nothing & have nothing to give.  Love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul & with all your mind, & love your neighbor as yourself?  How can you say you love Me & rip & tear at the people.  How can you bless Me in one word & curse a neighbor in the next breath?  I have chosen you to speak forth life into the people & not to curse.  You attack the people, by using your tongues to curse them.  Have you not read, how can you curse what I have blessed!   For no weapon formed against my beloved shall prosper & every tongue that rises up against her in judgment, those words shall be condemned.  For those I have entrusted with eyes to see, & voices to speak.....I require much more from you!  Your suspicions & innuendoes have come up before My face.  With what you see, you have been chosen to pray, not to curse.  Pray for your enemies & do good to those who persecute you.  If you do not understand something or someone, it is better for you to be quiet & pray for them, than to engage in a battle that you cannot win.  I have not chosen you to fight each other, or even fight your physical enemies, but I have chosen you to fight My battles in the Spirit.  For your battles ARE NOT with flesh & blood, but with evil spirits that are at work, to bring a scattering & isolation to the parts of the body.

All people, "including church folks" will hate you because you follow Me.  Beware of people, they will whip you with their tongues, especially in churches!  If they called the head of the family Beelzebub, then the other family members will be called worse names!   If you have tired racing against men's tongues, how are you going to race against horses!  You must listen!  I AM sending you out like sheep among wolves.  Get that into your Spirits.  Be wise as a serpent, but harmless as a dove.  Even the best of people are like thorn bushes.  Your watchmen warned you about this day!  Don't trust your neighbor......pray for your neighbor.  Don't even trust a friend.  These are your own brothers.  Members of your own family are making plans against you.  Don't put your trust in man!  They will even speak to you like friends!  Be careful of what you say to those in your own home, for adversity shall even arise in your own home.  One moment they love you, the next moment they hate you.  Put your confidence & trust in Me!  I did not commit Myself to any man, for I knew what was in the hearts of man.  Yet I loved them, & only did what My Father revealed.  And for each moment, you must trust Me!   For at any moment a brother could be deceived like Peter.  I simply said "get behind Me satan."  I aimed at the adversary, not the claimed territory.  Peter was one that indeed was claimed as mine!  I take it very personally when one of My children get hit.  Touch not, or you will be touched!  Whoever digs a pit for the righteous, will themselves fall in it.  Many use their tongues like a bow.  They shoot lies from their mouths like arrows.  You live in the middle of evil, & lies follow lies.  I will test the people as one tests metal in a fire, for I have no other choice.  My people have sinned.  Everyone speaks nicely to his neighbor, but secretly is planning attacks!  I must unify My body, therefore I must judge the strife of tongues in My house!  Repent!  Says the Lord.
 

August 1, 1998:  Take heed!  Listen!  Be quiet!  Fear not & neither be fainthearted!  Because at your standing of the test of this ministry, they will glorify Me for your loyalty and obedience to My Gospel & My particular orders to you.  They will yearn to hear My messages as they pray for you, because of the surpassing measure of My Grace in your lives.  Come, return to Me, for what I have torn, I will heal.  What I have stricken, I will bind up.  After two days I will revive you & on the third day I will restore you.  I will come to you as the heavy rain, as the latter rain that shall water the earth.

I saw a huge brilliant silver "wide" door, with elaborate lacy looking hinges, but yet they weren't delicate because they looked very strong & thick.  It was made to open from right to left.  There was no door knob on it.  Only a keyhole.  The Spirit of Grace spoke to us & said, to camp out at the door & wait for it to open.  Do not return by way that you came, but wait.  For you have learned what I designed you to learn, in this place.  I know your records!  I know what you have done and what you are doing!  I AM the one who holds the key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, who shuts and no one shall open.   See!  I AM about to open a wide door before you that no one can shut.  For a wide door of opportunity for effectual service shall open & there shall be many adversaries.  Adversaries within & without.  Critics within the religious order, critics of the world order & even critics within the church order.  Know who you are & why you have been sent.  Behold My Face & I will be your critic & approver.  Don't engage with other critics that steal your time.  I know that you feel you have only a little power, & yet you have kept My Word & guarded My message.  That is safety! For those who think they stand, better beware!  For no one can stand in this hour without My Grace.   Moses felt like he had only a little power, but yet I was able to move in his life.  He was the meekest man who ever lived.  It is with the meek & humble that I shall hear their prayers & move on their behalf.   The door shall open & the war trumpet shall sound & you shall come under My Spirits Power & I will show you many things to come.

The Lord revealed to me a union of colleagues.  Separate yet connected.  A "type" of round table.  Many of  us have wondered what is happening & how we all fit together.  The Lord said to me, "You will be connected yet a separate entity." You do not loose your identity in Christ nor your personality, but are being linked together to make a bigger picture of Christ personality.  The part of your puzzle is not being diminished, but is linking or expanding to present a clearer picture.  The Spirit spoke "corporate anointing."

I saw the different levels of court systems, like the county, district, state, superior & supreme court systems.  Different degrees of decrees in the stages.  I believe represents the stages of authority in the time frames of Gods judgments, especially pertaining to the church.  We shall continue moving toward the ultimate Supreme court of Gods judgments on the world.

I saw a star falling from the sky & it entered a gate.  He who overcomes and who obeys My commands to the very end, I will give him authority and power over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, and his power over them shall be like that which I Myself received from My Father.  And I will give him the Morning Star.  A star shall rise, and a scepter out of My people that shall crush the corners of Moab.  A General that shall command end time strategies.  A five star general of Apostle, Prophet, Pastor, Teacher & Evangelist.  The darker the night the brighter the light.  The teachers & those that are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness shall give forth light like the stars in the heavens.  Navigators have for a long time relied on the stars, for I will still visit Bethlehem, the small seemly insignificant places.  I saw the big dipper & the north star.   The north star is almost directly above the north pole & is called Polaris.  I heard the Lord say, "I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh."

I have created the North & the South, Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon joyfully praise My name.  My mighty arm & right hand is strong.  My right hand is soaring high!  Righteousness and justice are the foundation of My throne.  Mercy, loving kindness and truth go before My face.  Blessed are the people who know the joyful sounds, who understand the blessings symbolized by the feasts, for they walk in the light and favor of My countenance!