IN SPITE OF. . .

7/23/2011~~

Speak to My people and tell them that IN SPITE OF their pasts and all that has gone wrong~~IN SPITE OF attacks~violations to them~sorrows and failures, still, I remember they are but dust and I will cause this dust to be changed~transformed, to serve Me and worship Me and love Me to the full.  Only submit yourselves to be in My loving Presence~basking in My loving Presence~waiting before Me, bowing before Me, putting me first in all you do.  I love you and I will never stop loving you.

Know that I am preparing you for the dark days ahead~for persecution~for unexpected and sudden trials so that you can stand strong in the evil day and stand with Me.  But you must know Me deeply and intimately in order to stand in a right spirit regarding Me and your enemies and all new, surprising situations.

Remember, you are not here to serve yourself or anyone else's flesh.  You are here to serve Me with your love and devotion and thereby shine in the midst of a dark and perverse generation.  You are here to be My salt and light.  You are here for My purposes.  Trust Me~walk in My patience and thereby save your soul.  Walk in My faith for your own will not stand.  Trust Me in all and worship Me through it all, even if no one else sees you or acknowledges you or understands that you are indeed worshipping the true and living God!

Excerpt from series by Philip Enlow of www.midcry.org

"It may sound strange to some but the gospel message is focused on God's purpose and NOT on man's needs and desires. That doesn't mean that He is uncaring or unconcerned about our needs. Not at all. It just means that we need to see everything in the light of His revealed purpose and not what we think we need and want. He created us in His image (Genesis 1:27). He must have had a reason. He must have had something particular in mind in so endowing us."

My prayer~~Let me be one of the sincere seekers; let me be one of the humble seekers; let me be one of your truly repentant ones; let me be one of your true worshippers!

My Note: Through being a true and sincere seeker of God, repentant and worshipful, will come fullness of joy and peace and love. The Living God and only the Living God prescribes what is best for He knows the beginning and the ending. He only the Alpha and the Omega. We do NOT know better and we must live each new day as though we do NOT know better than Our Redeemer, Savior, and Lord. His prescriptions for our lives are the Best! He IS as near as your mouth.


FOR YOUR MEDITATION~~

Notice the principles in Lev. 26 as well as:

Lev. 26:44
And yet in spite of this, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

Psalm 103:14
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

John 4:24
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.


1 Chronicles 16:27
Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.


Psalm 27:14
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.


Psalm 95:6
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

1 John 4:16
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.


 Hebrews 13:5
5 Let your way of life be without the love of money, being satisfied with the things which are at hand; for He Himself has said, "I shall by no means give you up, neither by any means shall I abandon you''.   (Recovery Version)

Philippians 2:15
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
 
2 Timothy 3:1
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 


2 Timothy 3:12
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 


Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?


1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:


James 1:3
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.


1 Peter 5:9
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.


1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:


Ephesians 6:13
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.


John 17:3
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.


Luke 9:23
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.


Matthew 13:43
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.


Matthew 5:13
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.


Matthew 5:15
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light.


Matthew 5:15
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.


 Luke 21:19
In your patience possess ye your souls.  (possess--keep intact, acquire)

Ephesians 2:8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:


Isaiah 26:4
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:


 Psalm 115:11
Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.

Philippians 1:10
That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.


James 4:10
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.


2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.


John 4:23
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.


Ephesians 3:19
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. 

THE BURDEN OF THE LORD

Burdens of the Lord~Inspirational Message~5/31/11

What are the Burdens of the Lord?  The Burden, the Burden, the Burden of the Lord.  It is deep, it is real, it is righteous indignation.  It is sorrowful and it is suffering and it is painful. 

But who of you are willing to take up the Burden of the Lord?  Not the many, for the many are entrenched in their own burdens, their own interests, their own complaints, rather than see what the Lord sees.  He sees all and shares with His own, but the many reject and refuse His heart's Burdens~the Burdens of the lost who are damned for all eternity, the Burdens of the truth~speaking and writing the truth, the Burden of dispensing Christ in truth, the Burden of persecution, the Burden of warning others loudly and clearly of their impending doom. 

For sure, most will not hear, but still, take up the Burdens of the Lord's heart and He will smile upon you with His smile of approval.  We were made for His good pleasure and not for the pleasure of man.

Take up the Burden and you will be one with your Lord!  Trust Him for all the consequences and the persecution.  You will be hiding in Him in the heavenlies.  To be at one with Jesus Christ, you must be willing to take up and share His Burdens of great love and mercy, yes, but also to be warning others of their blindness and deafness, their own straining in life without Him, their merry-go-rounds of life.  Speak up, warn, write, live and act as though you truly are carrying the Burden of the Lord!

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Isaiah 13:1-13--The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
²Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
³I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
⁴The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
⁵They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
⁶Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
⁷Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
⁸And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
⁹Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
¹⁰For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
¹¹And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
¹²I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
¹³Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Isaiah 30:27-30--Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
²⁸And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
²⁹Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
³⁰And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

WISDOM IS THE PRINCIPAL THING

5/27/11~
Words of wisdom, yea, they are from Me and ONLY from Me.  Seek wisdom daily and for each person and situation.  Seek wisdom like you would for a prize~a treasure.  You especially need wisdom in these dark days.  My Body is in desperate need of wisdom~daily, for all things~there's so much more  There are deeper places of enlightenment and illumination for the souls of men~for My children.  Seek and never stop seeking. 

Puzzlements, confusion, chaos are upon the land and will only increase.  Fears, unbelief, persecutions in families of My children will only increase. 

But buckle up and stand strong and look to Me~your everything and all and I will come to you.  Call on Me with all your spirit, mind and heart.  I will never fail you, I will never leave you.  I AM your Helper~your Divine Helper.  Never forget that!

Job. 28:28--And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Prov. 4:7--Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Ephes. 6:10-17--Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
¹¹Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
¹²For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
¹³Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
¹⁴Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
¹⁵And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
¹⁶Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
¹⁷And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Heb. 13:5-6--Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.