Faith looks Up!

This is a season where God is requiring great faith Speaking of Abraham Romans 4:19-21 says 19And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: 20He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. We must be unmovable in our consecration in learning to trust the Lord. When we not give way to unbelief it takes us off course. Beloved faith in God keeps us focused on the prize as we run our race.

And the Lord says, Abraham considered not his flesh, he did not consult the head knowledge that he had to be his authority of faith; he kept his eye on Jesus. And My children I say to you lift, up your head and look to your Savior, Jesus who is the Author And Finisher of your faith. He initiates your faith and upholds your faith by His power. So take your eyes off of your circumstances and lay aside everything weight that would trip you up and entangle you in the bondage of your flesh. Look away from all that is seeking to distract you in this hour and look to Jesus who perfects your faith.

Rejoice, again I say Rejoice!

“Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord.” 46 And Mary said: “ My soul magnifies the Lord, 47 And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.” Luke 1:45-47

The Lord has been causing me to meditate deeply on His promises. I don’t know about you but as I can perceive in my spirit that a time of fulfillment is upon us. I am also perceiving a war waging in my flesh that is seeking to defy the Word of promise that God has spoken to my heart and conceived in my womb. I know that it is our Father’s desire that we continue to move in faith as He will show Himself strong on our behalf. For some who have walked in their wilderness for a long season the spirit of weariness is vying to maintain control. There is a refreshing in the spirit; the new thing has been declared and is being established by our Father; El Shaddai.

“Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS. 32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. 33 And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.” 34 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?” 35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. 37 For with God nothing will be impossible.” 38 Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.” Luke 1:30-38

The word of the Lord to you today is the same as it was with Mary. For the Lord says, Do not be afraid for you have found favor in My sight. And that which I have conceived in your womb as a promise shall surely come forth and be birthed in this hour. Do not look at your current circumstance and judge Me according to those standards. I know that there are many obstacles and many other difficulties that have caused this situation to seem impossible. But My beloved child with Me nothing is impossible. I have orchestrated the conception, the maturing and the birthing of your promise so do not fear. What is impossible with man shall not be so with Me for I am still the God of the impossible. I Am causing signs and wonders to come forth and they shall be multiplied in this hour so that many who have walked in barrenness will now walk in fullness. And this fullness that I A speaking of is not that which temporarily quenches your thirst but it is the fullness that completely satisfies; it is the fullness of heaven which is multiplied until it overflows and overflows. My command for you in this hour is to continue to press forward in faith forgetting the barrenness of your last season. It is time for you to apprehend the prosperity of your promise in this new day. Let your declaration of faith resound. Shout it from the mountain top and confess it now: "Lord, behold, I am the handmaiden of the Lord; let it be done to me according to what you have said. And, Lord my soul magnifies You and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.”

Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.

The New has Begun

When the Lord woke me up this morning I felt a lightness in my spirit and after several days of heaviness in my heart I felt the obvious and most welcomed difference. When I walked into the bathroom there was an open window and a breeze blew in and met me at the door and all of a sudden I was overcome by the newness and freshness of the air. It was an incredible smell and an even better aroma to my spirit. I rejoiced in the Lord shouting out “this is the day I Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad.”

It has become my practice that during the warmer months when I don’t require a coat I take afternoon walks taking a break from my work desk. Today I was able to go for a walk. As I stepped outside my heart again rejoiced as I was met with the breeze I had been blessed with in the morning. As I breathed in deeply I heard the Lord say, the old has passed the new has come. Two things immediately came to mind. First, 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Secondly I heard in my spirit I am doing a new thing, do you perceive it? Isaiah 43:19 “For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.”

Even as I enjoyed the warmth of the day and the newness in the atmosphere I looked around I still saw the mounds of snow that have remained from the snow storms we had experienced over the last several weeks. As I came back to my desk one of my co-workers said Wow there are sure signs that spring is definitely on its way. I smiled as I said in my heart, Lord thank You for the new season that is now upon us.

And the Lord said, “Although there are things that may still remain that are a visible and  irritating reminder of the last season you have already come into the new. In the realm of the Spirit I have already begun the new thing. You need not look in fear at your present circumstances as any indication of what I am doing; for behold the old has passed and all thing have become new. Shed the weight of the old season and begin to bask in the new. Before you know it, you will be able to see the new thing even with your physical eyes. You will taste it and touch it as the full manifestation of the spirit will come into the natural. You have waited a long time for this and many things have come to try to distract and discourage you but now I say your way shall be made clear and what was once dry and barren will spring forth new life flowing as rivers of living water. Get ready for the old has passed and the new has begun.”

Consider your way!

Proverbs 4:26 (AMP) “Consider well the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established and ordered aright.”

There is a way that I have planned for you. It has been this way since the beginning for I have declared it to be so even before one of your days came to be. Now I am calling you to take a moment to consider your ways. I Am calling My people to courageously and boldly apprehend and press into their destiny. Even as you are pressing forward I am requiring you to take a rest in Me and carefully consider your way. How will you go forward. How will you press into your destiny. Consider now your ways, your words, your thoughts and your deeds. Let us reason together. Bring them to My altar so that I can examine them, try them against My Word and being forth righteous judgment that is necessary to make your way in Me successful. Remember there is a way that seems right unto man but in the end it only leads to destruction. Your ways are not My ways for My ways are higher but I am calling you to a place of prophetic revelation so that I can reveal My thoughts to you. Come into My Rest so that I can cause you to learn of me. And after you have rested in Me you will find that your way is no longer traverse but because you have aligned with My way of doing things you will be able to cause the mountains to become leveled paths before you, says the Lord.

Matthew 11:28-30 (AMP) "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] 29Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls. 30For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good--not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne."

Watch your Step!

Hebrews 3:12 (MSG) “So watch your step, friends. Make sure there's no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God. For as long as it's still God's Today, keep each other on your toes so sin doesn't slow down your reflexes. If we can only keep our grip on the sure thing we started out with, we're in this with Christ for the long haul. These words keep ringing in our ears: Today, please listen; don't turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising.”

Know this today My child; My desire is to see you walk in the fullness of your anointing, establishing yourself in My complete Love for you so that you will not allow the devil to come in any longer and cause distraction and delay. In this hour I will no longer overlook your unbelief. I know that you have been in a hard place, a difficult and challenging place; a place of much trial and tribulation but have I not said, in the world you will have tribulation and trials, distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you. (John 6:33). I have told you these things so that in Me you can have peace and be confident in My unconditional and perfect love for you. Today I say to you strengthen your weak knees and arise in Strength once again. Take courage in your fretting and unbelieving heart and trust again. You must know and believe that what I have said is true. No longer are you to waver in your faith because I have declared that without faith it is impossible to please Me. I see your heart and your desire to pursue My promise in your life but as I have also declared he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6) My precious one I have not forgotten you, nor have I forsaken you. You are not abandoned. You must rest assuredly that your time of recompense has come. Everything that has been stolen shall be restored to you. I will reward your faithful intercession, travail and petition before Me. Even that which you have been birthing in great travail will come forth in this season. You must not fear. But, be on alert because your unbelief will stagnate you. It will cause you to be fruitless or keep you from walking in the fullness of that which I have already prepared for you. This is a season of fullness and you must be a vessel prepared for My fullness. You must understand that your unbelief and your lack of faith in Me and My power to deliver you creates an atmosphere that cannot be receptive to the fullness of My power. You have each been given a measure of faith that is more than enough when it is wrapped in My grace so be encouraged in My grace. Your unbelief also keeps the fullness of My Power from being displayed in and through you. In other words, you will be hindered in your ability to do, to say and to be as I have decreed for your life. My Beloved children watch your step, be careful how you proceed in this hour. If you continue to step forward in unbelief you will develop a hardness of heart with each step you take. But, if you should take each step in faith and trust nothing will be impossible to you and all which you have faith for Me to do shall be done unto you. Your next steps will be crucial so watch your step and consider if they will be steps of unbelief or steps of faith. Steps of fear and doubt rooted in unbelief will pollute your spirit and lead you into despair and disobedience. But, steps of trust and faith rooted in total belief will cause you such freedom that it will free your spirit and propel you into My perfect rest and into your destiny, says the Lord.

Live by faith!

You cannot judge by what you are seeing with your eyes. Have I not told you faith requires that you hope firmly on what you cannot see with your eyes? Have I not made a promise to you and have decreed that it will surely come to pass? You must not give way to your emotions in this season because they will fail you. This is a time of obedient faith coupled with patient endurance. Without faith it is impossible to please Me and I cannot and will not delight in your fears and hopelessness.  So hold fast to the confession of your hope without wavering. Beloved the One who has promised you is Faithful and I will not change My mind and I cannot lie. I have given you the promise and it shall surely come to pass. So jump into the fullness of faith, be refreshed by the well of My Living Water and press into the Promised One and the promise. You will not be disappointed for a blessing is on the way that will surpass that which you have been believing and hoping for. I will do exceedingly and abundantly above all that you have asked and above what you have been thinking and imagining. Though the vision tarries do not allow the spirit of death to overtake you in fearfulness and doubts; for the just and those who are uncompromising in their pursuit of the King and the Kingdom shall live by their faith and their faithfulness, so do not shrink back now, says the Lord.

Hebrews 10:37-38 “For still a little while (a very little while), and the Coming One will come and He will not delay. 38But the just shall live by faith [My righteous servant shall live by his conviction respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, and holy fervor born of faith and conjoined with it]; and if he draws back and shrinks in fear, My soul has no delight or pleasure in him.”

Be Strong and Courageous

I know that in this hour you see your strength as small and that is why I am calling you to lean on the mighty arm of God, your Strength. Even now as the enemy taunts you with words of weakness I command you to be bold and very courageous and remember that My strength is made perfect in your weakness. Do not be afraid My child for I Am with you to lead you and to guide you along this path. Little children, you are of God [you belong to Him] and have [already] defeated and overcome them [the agents of the antichrist], because He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world. (1 John 4:4). Though you may stumble you will never fall. And though the path seems increasingly surmounting to you and even treacherous and bewildering at times; I say, do not be afraid. I am your Guide and your Companion I will never leave you nor forsake you. My promises to you are still yes and Amen and remember I am not a man that I should lie; I will not change My mind. Be reminded of My promises to you and know that I have not forgotten them. No longer are you to yoke yourself to things that have held you in bondage in days past but I am saying to you, yoke yourself to Me the Author and Finisher of your faith for My yoke is easy and it will build you up and strengthen you for the next leg of this race. You are in a place of preparation where I am building in you Godly-character and Godly-integrity. When you emerge from this place of preparation you will find yourself in a place of commissioning, consecrated, set-apart for the work that I have assigned to you to do. You are being positioned into a place of your God-appointed, God-ordained destiny in service to the King and the Kingdom. There is a time of fulfilling upon you and though it hastens My beloved; it shall come to pass. Cry out, cry out and when I hear you I shall deliver you; I shall not despise your tears. There is a place of deliverance that I have prepared for you. There is a day of restoration of all that has been stolen and held back from you. And even as you diligently press forward you are coming into a place of maturity in Christ. And rejoice, rejoice in Me for in that day I have ordained that your confession of faith will be, “It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. (Psalm 119:71). Beloved child I am commanding you this day be strong and courageous; I Am with you. Be of great hope and wait in expectation for no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what I have prepared for you because you love me, says the Lord."

Joshua 1:8-9(Amplified Bible)”This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success. 9Have not I commanded you? Be strong, vigorous, and very courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Come to the next Level

In this season the desire of My heart is to dwell with you. For those who will be obedient this will be a time of sweet fellowship and communion like never before. As you come away with Me by laying aside those things that entertain your flesh you will soon find yourself in a place of intimacy with Me that will propel you into your destiny. I created you for relationship and for fellowship with Your God and Father. It was the desire of My heart to have a family, to have children that would dwell with Me in love and peace by their own choosing. I separated to Myself a peculiar people who would be governed by My Word and My Love. There are many levels in Me where I display My presence to you but as I called Moses to come up the mountain to be with Me so I am calling you today. Come up from the place where flesh still rules, come up from the place where you allow Me to dwell with you from a distance where you only experience a convincing manifestation of My presence and come up to a place where you come to experience the real deal, the fullness of My presence. I call to you from the cloud of My presence and as you ascend and you come to Me you will be overshadowed and enveloped into My glory. I desire for you to live in My glory, to move and to have your being in My glory. Yes it is true that you can see Me and experience Me from right where you are because I have promised to never leave you or forsake you and I have promised you My eternal presence but My beloved child there is so much more available to you. Yes you can experience communion with Me in the place you are now but by choosing to stay there you deny the fullness of My glory. So take the limits off Me, forget the excuses and come up to the next level. Strip yourself of yourself and come up higher, lay aside every weight that would so easily entangle you again in bondage and come up higher. In the days of old I declared that only Moses could come near but now, today, I say the Way has been made and I say draw nearer unto Me and I will draw nearer unto you. Come up higher and disappear into the cloud of My presence, says the Lord.

“Then Moses climbed up the mountain, and the cloud covered it. 16 And the glory of the LORD settled down on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from inside the cloud. 17 To the Israelites at the foot of the mountain, the glory of the LORD appeared at the summit like a consuming fire. 18 Then Moses disappeared into the cloud as he climbed higher up the mountain. He remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. Exodus 24:15-18