October-December 1998

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December 10, 1998:  Before Abraham was, I AM.  I AM the beginning, and the end, I was and will ever be.  All of your days are written in My book, none of your circumstances have served to deter My purposes in your lives.  Just as I have always been, I have always been with you. The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve. I served in life and death.  I paid the ransom for your freedom and took the keys of death and hell that had you shackled, releasing you into new life.  Your value cannot be measured by earthly standards. The key to how much something is worth, is the price that was paid for it.  The ultimate heavenly price was paid in full for you.  When you understand your value to Me and in Me, then you can walk in victory.

I have chosen you to serve.  Some people in My kingdom seek designated seats of power, pushing for positions that belong to another.  These seats are for those whom it has been ordained and prepared by My Father.  Your success is your obedience to My place of position.  Value isn't determined by power or position.  The latter of success will fall if it is not leaning on the right stone wall.  Whoever wishes to become chief among you, must become a servant.  Your value is found in My finished work in your hearts.  That value is like a pearl of great price, a nugget of earnest Spiritual investment that shall compound.  So you want to be the right hand man?  At My right hand there are pleasures forever more.  Whoever has a modest opinion of himself and behaves accordingly, shall be raised to honor.  Seek first the Kingdom of God and My righteousness and all these things shall be added to you.

Come out of isolation and worldly mindsets.  I have given you the mind of Christ, so you can think the way I think about the world you live in.  I AM sending you into the community as secret agents of truth.  My ambassadors represent My principles and who I AM in a non threatening way.  You are to be in this world, but not of it.  You are here to effect change in the places your feet take you.  You are to possess the land and gain access to areas long held by darkness.  You are to effect, not be infected.  There are those driven to solitude for a season.  They shall recover.  Just as I sent Elijah back the way he came, I AM sending you with orders.  You shall recover and cover the allotted boundaries I have assigned.  As a blanket of warmth, your positive influence and prayers shall be a comfort and sustaining force for many.  Many are the plans in the mans mind, but it is My purpose that shall stand.  Possess your land, secure it, cast out the devils and declare, decree and establish My Word.  I have assigned you to bring light to the subject, says the Lord.

Watch and pray.  A watchman sees from a higher perspective.  You must be aware of your surroundings and the world situations.  Watch and pray.  Watchmen what of the night?  Watchmen what of the company?  Watchmen what of the job?  Be faithful watchmen in the place I have ordained and assigned to you.  Above all, keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it come the issues of life.  My issues shall come out of your mouths and even your very actions, sometimes without a word.  When they notice your your chaste lifestyle and conversation, they will take notice.  I know the issues of man.  I know the issues of a community.  I know the issues of a nation.  Out of Daniel's heart came the issues of life for the king.  I made Daniel to find favor with the chief leaders of the Babylonian kingdom.  In all matters of wisdom and understanding which the king asked him, I made Daniel ten times better than any educated Babylonian.  I demonstrated My true prophetic power, humbling the magicians and enchanters by simply opening the issues of life in the heart of My true servant.  In confirming Daniel's dreams and visions, I established and confirmed his ministry.  I change the times and the seasons.  I remove kings and set up kings.  I give wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.  I reveal the deep and secret things.  I know what is in the darkness and the light dwells with you!  Fear not!  Do not fear to step into your ordained lot!  Allow Me to reveal the strategies says the Lord.
 
 
 

December 2, 1998:   There is no crisis or situation that is beyond MY sphere of jurisdiction.  I have complete power over MY creation so that what I will, I will absolutely.  You feel all alone, but you are not alone.  I have promised to never leave you or forsake you.  I promised you I would be there till the very end.  It is in the times that you feel distant you must remember that I came to make MY abode with you.  When I knocked at your door, you opened your heart to MY Spirit and MY Spirit came into you, and we became a team.  Emmanuel, God is with you, for even the smallest sparrow does not escape MY view.

As you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I AM with you.  Though it looks like no one is with you, I have gone before you to make the crooked places straight and the rough places shall be made plain.  I will lead you into paths that you have not known and I will make the darkness light before you.  Unconditional surrender is the only way out.  Surrender to the guardian of your soul.  Embrace the place where you are at, for I AM teaching you.  Surrender to the Sovereign Lord as the guide of your path way.  Jerimiah walked with and prophesied to Israel as they went into captivity.  His walk revealed the way out of the pit of despair by embracing the cross, embracing the cost and embracing the lost.  Arise, take the allotted journey before the people, for many look to you to show the way so they may possess the land that I have allotted to them.  I say that this path of the shadow of death is part of your equipping and molding to make you into a container fit for MY use.

I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life.  The way is narrow, contracted by pressures that lead to life, for only pure Truth comes from pure Life.  Your life quest is to walk the path I have chosen, no matter how dark it seems, for your path shall become light to many.  Many will see your light as you come out of great darkness and they will learn of My path that takes them from glory to glory.  Some have instructed few, some have instructed many, but each soul speaks volumes.  You have strengthened weak and feeble hands.  You have been a support and a comfort to confirm feeble knees.  You have been a strength and help to the poor and needy in their distress.  Through your intercessions and giving of yourself, you have provided a refuge from the storms.  The valley of the shadow of death has taught you new lessons.  New lessons of trust and compassion.  Now you have obtained understanding of why it is hard for some that have been wounded, to be healed and to be able to forgive.  How do wounds heal?  How deep is the wound?  Is it a scratch, or is it a gaping hole in the heart?  I AM the God who heals, seals and delivers.  I shall heal MY way, for I AM a sovereign God.  As they continue to seek MY way, I will help them to recover and I will help them to forgive, by MY Grace.  For helping a person to forgive, you must learn to get to the source of the wounds of MY people and help them recover and not say, "just get over it."  Believe Me when I say, "THEY WANT TO GET OVER IT."  Bind up the broken hearted.  Encourage them to get help, for there is no shame or guilt in prayerfully seeking help.  My body is unbalanced in this area.  Many of My people hide so their wounds won't be seen or reopened by their brothers and sisters.  Trust not in any brother or sister, but trust in Me to lead you and to deliver you.  If MY people cannot come to My church for help, they will seek outside help.  The old performance patterns they have used to prove their worth cannot measure up to a seemingly intolerant church. They hide from view, ashamed and frustrated that they somehow are castaways.  How can MY body be restored and healed if the way is not made through the valley?  Pray to ME that I may increase your compassion for MY wounded and broken, says the Lord.
 

November 17, 1998:  Deep calls unto deep.  A deep inner working of My Grace in your hearts.  The piercing of your hearts, the dividing of the joints, marrow and even the very thoughts and intents of your hearts to produce an inner working to an outward end, and you shall begin again.  Those parts that no one can see.  Those vital organs that I can see clearly, those organs that have been pierced with many sorrows.  A puzzle can not be complete without your part, but when complete,  presents a clear picture of My masterpiece.  A finished work of My Grace.  As a sponge absorbs the element it is emersed in, your lives have drawn in the good and the bad.  I take the sponge of your hearts and I squeeze out the old so you can hold the new.  The contaminations of this world are reflected in the sponge as it wipes and cleans the surface of humanity.  I must therefore squeeze and emerse your hearts into deeper water.  I go to the deepest detail of your motives, I see the afflictions of your hearts, I AM familiar with them.  I AM healing you.  I AM not a superficial God, and you will not be superficially healed.  I AM doing a deeper work, a lasting work.  A painful work of getting to the nitty gritty of things.  You have read that you must lay the ax at the root of the tree.  I AM getting to the root issues of your lives..........what makes act and do what you do.  I AM making you qualified to carry My message by your life experiences.  I give you the ministry of healing, the healing of inner conflicts, turmoil and clamities.  The healing of deep seated emotional trauma.  Many in My body are sick emotionally and are in need of a physician.   The troubles of your life have taught you the value of patience in My presence and purpose.  You have learned by experience, you have walked through life lessons, you have rolled with the punches.  You have asked Me why? Why couldn't you keep this from happening to me?  Why this Lord?  You are rising from the ashes and I shall crown you with credentials to minister life to the hurting.  I AM sending you to comfort all who mourn, to comfort those whose hearts are broken.  To the ruined places that have no hope, they too shall rise out of the ashes and I will give the oil of gladness to replace their sorrow and they shall be clothed with the garments of praise as they rise from despair.  I shall be glorified by their rising says your God.  I will rebuild the old ruins, I will correct their belief system.  They shall know that I AM God when I AM displayed before their eyes.  Don't be discouraged!  I AM with you to save you!  It is the deep inner working of being saved.  The sanctification and salvation of body, soul, (mind, will, emotions, intellect) and Spirit.  The sanctification and salvation of your marriages.

My beloved, this season too, will pass, and I will take away the sadness and shame.  I will gather the scattered ones, and I will give them a place, and they will not be disgraced, says your God.

November 11, 1998:  I speak to those who are hidden, hidden in My Spirit and hidden from view from the establishment of man.  Though your existence seems futile and vain, I AM erecting a sure house on a sure foundation that shall surely stand.  For on no other foundation can anything be built to last.  For unless I build the house it won't stand.  Your beginnings may seem insignificant in your minds, but I AM working a much greater plan in your hearts.  The work of MY IMAGE, not your image.  No other image shall stand but that of My Son.   I AM God who gives increase.  For one plants, one waters but I AM over the field says your God.  I send the rains, I send the droughts, I send the heat, I send the harvest.  The results of My planting shall be fruitful.  Not according to some men's standards, but I hold the balance in My hand.  I weigh, I sift, I shake and I know the record book.  All of your wanderings are recorded in My book.  A new thing?  I lifted up My eyes and declared, "behold the fruitful place is the wilderness and the barren land."  The wild and barren lands have always been the best locations for My teachings.  Was it not said, "Child, you shall go before My face to prepare My ways?"  For it is in the deserts and wilderness that you grow strong in My image.  Preach in the wilderness!  For in that day, you shall show up and not delay, you won't be behind in My timing for I AM watching over My Word in your lives to perform it.  It will surely come to pass, so don't despise small beginnings, for these lessons are part of your foundational structure that will bring stability to your lives and to the corporate body.  I prepare you on the backside of the mountain.  I prepare you in the cave of the mountain.  I prepare you on the top of the mountain.  I prepare you at the bottom of the mountain, as a shepherd cares for the flock, so I care for you.  I have invested much into your lives and that investment shall bring in much fruit.

I speak to those hidden code breakers.  I have gifted you with "Spiritual intelligence."  I have opened your eyes to behold  pin point targets of darkness.  The weapons of mass destruction are released as you sound the trumpet and alert the warriors for war.  All of hell itself congregates and plots to break the code breakers.  The Spirit of Elijah nourished in My presence by the brook, fed by ravens, sent by Me to break the codes.  What is whispered in secret, a little bird reports to others.  What is planned in the very depths of hell is exposed to the code breakers.  To destroy the threat and silence the secrets of darkness that became light in the faces of the code breakers.  I have kept you hidden and preserved, even as the dragon came to devour the woman with the child, the child was caught up!  The earth came to the aide of the woman by opening up and swallowing the flood.  I promoted the woman and gave her wings and she flew away from the presence of the dragon into the wilderness, a place prepared by Me says your God.  To a place of "season."  The season of rest and recovery,  a season of healing, for the advancement of My goal.  Be fortified, become strong again!   I announce at the beginning of the new year the prince of darkness shall return against you.  You shall not lack any information on that day as you allow Me to prepare you.  Rejoice, My code breakers!  For your Lord shall do valiantly, for I love My code breakers.  Pray for My code breakers, says the Lord.
 

November 10, 1998:  For with what measure it is measured out, it shall be measured unto you.  The squeezing of the grapes, a pressing out of the skins and the seeds, a pressing out to reveal the sweetness of the harvested fruits.  After harvest is the transformation from fruit to new wine.  The skins that are left are a vague remnant of what you were, pressed out, shaken together and running over as the new wine is refined and defined in the vessels I have chosen.  The seeds of the once ripe grapes, crushed, pressed & discarded are dried and planted for the soon multiplied harvest.

The squeezing, breaking, and pressing of your hearts is producing true compassion, true fruits of My Spirit.  How can you have compassion unless you yourself are compassed with infirmity?  Are you able to exercise gentleness and forbearance toward the ignorant and erring?   If those who are overtaken in a fault, are you able to restore such a one in a Spirit of meekness?  For with the same measure you measure out it will be measured to you.  There was a traveler who fell into the hands of bandits who stripped him and wounded him leaving him half dead.  As he lay helplessly along the roadway, I watched the pious self righteous priest and Levite pass on the other side of the road, looking but not wanting their garments spotted by such a one.  A Samaritan, considered an outcast of what the acceptable standard was, looked.  The compassion of this outcast Samaritan, was borne out of the depths of experience with infirmity.  It takes a reject to know a reject.  This Samaritan not only looked, but had compassion on him.  He bound up his wounds and poured in the oil and the wine and took care of him.  Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and with all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself.  How can you help the lost when you can't even help your own brothers?  Truly there are many that lie wounded.  Wounded by My enemy and wounded by their friends.  An army that wounds it's own wounded.  An army who distances themselves and surely wounds each other.  Whoever has goods, both physical and Spiritual, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how can the love of God dwell in him?  My Spirit sends vessels to heal the broken hearted, to deliver the captives, to open blind eyes, to liberate those who are bruised.  I AM a God of Hope, and My hope will never make them ashamed.

As a king loses touch with the subjects of his kingdom, he must therefore go among the people to see their condition, relate where they are, so he won't be out of touch with the objective........to win them so they become loyal subjects to his kingdom.  I came to those who were in need of a physician, those who were sick in every way.  I AM the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!  I AM the good King, and I AM familiar with the feelings of My people's infirmities.  I care.  Blessed are the poor in Spirit.  Do not pass  judgment on a weaker brother, for one day you could be weak too.  Show mercy to people who have doubts, for I even chose one of the twelve who had much doubts.

Character issues are being developed in this season.  It is in the secret places with Me that I shall see your progress, not before the admiration of man.  It is not who you are before men that counts, it is who you are before Me.  There must be balance between the gifting and the maturation of your character.  The gifting without balanced character results in self righteous pride.  The gift is My Son.  The working and proving of the gifting is through your submission to My character molding in the furnace of affliction so that My Son will be seen in you.

Psalms 145: 8-14  KJV   The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.  The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.  All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee.  They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.  Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.  The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
 

October 27, 1998:  In the levels of vision, I the Lord desire that your limitations be taken off.  Is the sky the limit?  There is no limit in Me for what I say, that I do.  Don't look at your inadequacy, but look to My sufficiency.  Take your eyes completely off yourselves and others, place them on Me.  Look to the author of the book who shall finish the last chapter gloriously.  The battles for territory are to gain the new lands by force.  The relentless personal attacks that have come against you have been the result of the ground that has been gained Spiritually.  Every time the enemy tries to blow you out like a candle you shall come back stronger.  Continue to reclaim the land, tear down the high places through warfare, prepare the way for the coming of the Lord.  Cleanse the land of defilement by destroying the powers of the idols.  The land must be cleansed for revival to stay.  Behold, I will bring health and healing, and will reveal abundant peace and truth for I will cleanse the land from all the iniquity.

I speak to My cyberspace church.  The war has gone on for the possession of the air.  Bind the prince of the power of the air.  Take cyberspace by force.  For the Word of the Lord shall be published throughout all the earth.  Now there are those in far out locations, who live in places that are very dark.   But they will see a great light.  A great light shall shine upon them and I will cause them to live and grow.  It will bring great joy during harvest time, and it will be like the joy of people who have won a war.  It is I the Lord who gathers the outcasts of the earth, and I will gather others besides those you know.  Many shall see and be free.  The barren waste places and wilderness shall become a fruitful place as all the cities are broken down at My presence.  Not only am I establishing and publishing My Word through the method of cyberspace, but I AM establishing churches through cyberspace, and the church of God of cyberspace shall be greater than the previous works, for who can hold the multitude that shall come in through conventional means?  For a number than cannot be counted shall come.  I AM establishing Pastors in cyberspace who shall shepherd under a corporate anointing.  How can a Pastor shepherd the corporate body of Christ?  Many of those who connect with cyberspace churches will never see the faces of their Pastors, but they will know assuredly, that I the Lord have shepherded them and led them to proper pastures.  All things are possible with Me says your God, for I AM the Chief Shepherd.  It is through the great network, that the fullness of the Godhead will be made available.  The benefits of the five fold ministry of Apostle, Prophet, Pastor, Teacher and Evangelist will be made available by a click.  My body shall be brought to maturity, built up and prepared for service says your God.

I AM building a great wall of defense that can be walked on.  Each link, each stone, each wire, all being connected by technology, so that you can walk in other places and visit other places in seconds.  I AM making connections from watch tower to watch tower, from sheepfold to sheepfold.  From gates that are being guarded to the corners of My Kingdom, all being connected to form a great wall of defense for protection.  The work is very large and many of you are separated on the wall very far away from each other.  In whatever locations on the wall that you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally with that sound for I will fight for you.  When one part of the wall is attacked, you are all attacked.  When one part of the wall is blessed, you are all blessed.  You know who you are connected with.  Beware of the foxes or distractions that will try to keep you off of the work of fortifying the wall and body.  The work is very great, and I have sent forth "cyber" laborers to My harvest.

Matthew 24:14 KJV And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
 
 
 

October 25, 1998:  I saw in the Spirit a person trying to tear up a book.  On closer observation, I recognized that the  book was the story of the individuals history.  The person was trying very hard to rip the cover but could not tear the book at all.

Hear what your Father says:  Many of you have come through life's best lessons.  You have been seasoned through trial and prepared for My purposes.  All of your history was written in the volume of My book.  Why do you loathe your very life?  Why do you wish to hide the lessons of your past.  I have spoken that I would take all of your mistakes and turn them around for My honor and glory.  You are who you are and I accept you for who you are.  Did you receive Me as the result of any works or previous good behaviors?  Or did you receive Me by hearing the Gospel and believing it?  You have suffered so many things in the past, and suffered much as you matured in Me.  Are you now trying to reach perfection by depending on your flesh?  I pursued you and loved you even before you called My name.  I met you in your valley of decision, and I received you just as you were.  Why now, do you doubt My love for you.  I have loved you with an everlasting love, and through loving kindness I led you to repentance.  Why are you ashamed of who you are?  These influences that have caused shame are not from Me, says your God.  Would I give you a task and not give you the equipment?  Part of your equipment is the life experiences that have graduated you to a position of reality, not theory.  You lived real life, therefore you minister with "real life."  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.  For I did what the law could not do, because it was weakened by the flesh of man.  No matter how hard man tries to live up to the laws requirements, it cannot be done.  That is why I became flesh and dwelt among men, the perfect Son of man sent to be the sacrificial offering for all sin.  I deprived sin of all its power to whoever accepts My sacrifice.  Be not ashamed of your history but rejoice that I have given you keys to release captives.  Captives whose locks need your key or your experience to release them.  For you overcome darkness by My blood and by the word of your testimony.  You have killed the lion and the bear what are these uncircumcised Philistines!

Rouse yourselves!  I will move on your behalf and restore you to your rightful place.  Your beginnings will seem humble and even embarrassing, but your latter years will be full of blessings.  Your humble beginnings shall be used to carry many sons into My kingdom.  Ask of the former generations, if they will be honest, you will find out what their fathers learned.  For all things work together for good to those who love Me and are called according to My purposes.  Can the rush grow without the mire?  You feel like your stuck in the mud?  Your growing!

As for those influences that disturb your faith, this evil persuasion is not from Me who called you to freedom.  I made the way for you to come boldly into My throne room of Grace through a living way, My flesh.  Except that, receive that, apply that.  You are no more righteous than you were when I saved you, unless you are "self righteous."  As for the charges and condemnations against you, whose servant are you?  Who dares to criticize another mans servant?  It is up to Me whether that servant stands or falls, and I will make them stand says the Lord!  There are those who search out your faults and probe after your sins.  Shall not the candle of the Lord see all things and illuminate the issue.  Who are you to censure another man's servant.  Watch dogs have made you their target, prepare for gnashing of teeth.  I will fill your mouths with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy!  Your enemies will be clothed with shame and they will eat the fruit of their own lips says your God.
 
 
 

October 18, 1998:  While in prayer this morning, a prayer warrior and myself saw the darkest and most foreboding clouds coming closer.  While the clouds brought a sense of fear and terror the scene changed and in the midst of the dark clouds and foreboding, many warriors began to emerge from the darkness of the storm clouds clothed with brilliant armor that shown with the light from within their hearts.  The glory that radiated from their faces and armor revealed the depth of afflictions that these brave warriors suffered through to make them rise in the midst of gross darkness.  The darkness became the catalyst of the rising of the sons of glory.  I saw in the midst of the clouds hail being formed.  The hail started small but as it was tossed in the winds back up over and over again, I noticed the hail had warriors faces on them.  The faces grew with more determination and authority as the hail was tossed higher and higher into the storm clouds.  Soon the weight of the hail was such that the storm could not contain the hail, at which point the hail began to fall to the earth and did much damage to the enemies camps.  I knew the determination and boldness in the faces of these warriors was something that had never been seen before or would never be seen again.  These warriors were clothed with authority and determination that only came through the victories of previous campaigns.  These were tested........severaly, and were promoted to positions of heavenly places, to stand as judges and to reclaim the territories that had been held for generations.  These were chosen to see, hear and speak judgments to the enemies plans and entrenchment's.  I saw a massive amount of enemy POWs all standing in line with their arms up as they shuffled before these judges.  The judges would pronounce a verdict and cancel their assignments then cast them into outer darkness, forbidding them to return.

Hear what the sovereign Lord says; all the people of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming.  This day is a day of darkness and gloom.  A day of invasion, a day of great tribulations.  Thick darkness shall rise but My chosen ones, the valiant, shall rise with strength that has never been known.  Great tribulations bring great patience.  In patience possess your souls.  My judgments are just and fair and I have decreed circumstances to turn many over to the destruction of their flesh that their souls, (mind, will, emotions and intellect) would be saved.  That they would change their minds and turn to Me and repent.  Judgments in this life are for mercy to mankind, so that through circumstances they might be delivered from their own pathway, which is destruction.  I AM pursuing the wayward and the obstinate.  I AM judging My house, I AM bringing the backslider home through the iron furnace.  I have sent My judgments as mercy so man will be ready to stand at the final judgment.  It is better to stand in My judgments now  than to be found not ready to stand at My white throne judgment.  1 Cor.11:31-32 declares,"For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world."

The appearance of the army that is emerging is like a raging fire, nothing escapes them.  Like the noise of chariots and the noise of raging fire they devour the enemies works.  They are like a very strong people set in battle array.  The enemies are greatly distressed at the emerging valiant ones.  The warriors of valor shall run like the mighty men, they shall be skillful in tactics and chiseled through trial.  These warriors will stay with the agenda and not venture in someone else's expertise.  Even if they fall upon a sword and get wounded, they shall be healed and rise up with greater strength.  For with more afflictions and more wounds they shall rise with greater fervency and determination.  No area will be hidden from these valiant ones.  For they are wise as serpents but harmless as doves.  They shall enter the enemies camps like a thief.  The earth shall rock and quake before them as they go.  Might and power are with them and signs of My presence all around them.  For those who execute My Word shall be very strong.  Turn to me with all your heart, mind and your very self.  Allow me to prepare you so well that you won't fail.  Guard the wounded, says your God, for when they rise, they will be your defender.  Defend the weak, take care of My babes.  Stay clothed with humility.  Rise and shine for your light has come, the glory is coming in thick dark clouds of adversity.  Isaiah 54:11states, "O thou afflicted, tossed with the tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thee stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires."
 
 

October 9, 1998:  For many of you know not the degree of onslaught against you.  Feeling like the very air you breathe escapes you, struggling like a swimmer threading water but feeling weak to the point where you despair for life itself.  Your not alone.  Not only AM I with you, but countless numbers of faithful ones world wide, suffer at the hands of a very real adversary.  His power is real, his ability to inflict chaos, calamity and suffering are seen on every continent.  When the tempest rises, so I rise.  When the waters rise, I rise.  When the fire burns, I burn brighter says your God.  I have equipped you for this hour & the fire is shining up that glorious armor, bringing out the true purity which is by Me says your God.  They're  more with you than you know, both angels and praying saints.  The effects of the swarm of adversity brought relentless rage, because you hit his nest.  Now destroy his works!  I came to destroy the works of the devil.  They are like a nation without a home, they wander through dry places seeking rest.  They are keen at terrorist threats.  Even as the Palestinians zealously claim Israel, they know not the mind of the Lord.  For who can curse what I have blessed.  But they swarm, they claim land inch by inch.  Hear the word of the Lord, they are not content with one inch, they want all.  They want destruction, for it is the spirit of Babylon at work.  Every place that your foot shall tread on has been given to you to possess.  Possess Spiritual ground!  Maintain the Spiritual ground that has been gained!  Occupy till I come!  This is the occupation of MY army.  You shall occupy and you shall build, you shall spread forth like an army without number.  I have all things under control concerning your lives, says your God.  The advancing swarm shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed.

Behold, the former things are come to pass, there is nothing you can do to change it either way.  I declare new things before the spring.  The former tyrant masters are dead, they are but powerless ghosts.  Remember not the former years and days.....I will do a completely new thing.  I AM the God who can change everyday into a new beginning.  I have declared a new beginning for you NOW, says your God.  Receive it, for now it will spring forth.  From this day I show you new things, even hidden things that you don't  yet know.  The melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your names known to your adversaries that they may tremble at your presence!  Who can stop My fire, who can stop My warriors of valor?  If I be for you who can be against you?

The spoken word must be walked out.  You are walking out what was spoken in previous months.  These words become flesh in your walk through the fire, water and winds.  If you will not run, and will abide in the place where you are, then I will build you and plant you.  Don't go AWOL.  Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, for I AM with you to save you and to deliver you out of his hand.  Fear not nor be dismayed.  I AM with you and I AM for you!  I will make a full end of the adversity that has been waged against you.  Even though you have made terrible mistakes and even deadly mistakes, I will not make a full end of you.  I shall correct you in measure for you are My sons, says your Father.

I have chosen you to go into all the world and preach My gospel and make disciples.  Be not contaminated by the world.  How do you get rid of pollution?  Wash your hands in innocency as you compass My altar, allow Me to wash your feet, from the contaminations of what you have walked through.  Bathe your tongue as you allow the spring of life to bubble up from within and pour out of your lips in perfect praise.

I saw many different military medals.  I saw one with a blue ribbon and Gold star with the word valor written on it.  I saw the color orange.   I saw other medals of honor awarded for acts above and beyond the call of duty.  For promotion comes not from the east or west, but promotion comes from the Lord.  Let us present our bodies to God as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable, which is our "reasonable" service.