He requires a response

Exodus 19:7-9 (NLT) “So Moses returned from the mountain and called together the elders of the people and told them everything the LORD had commanded him. 8 And all the people responded together, “We will do everything the LORD has commanded.” So Moses brought the people’s answer back to the LORD. 9 Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will come to you in a thick cloud, Moses, so the people themselves can hear me when I speak with you. Then they will always trust you.” Moses told the LORD what the people had said.”

Beloved in view of all that I have spoken to you in days past a response is now required. How will you respond? Even as you are feeling wearied and even overwhelmed My command to you is to continue advancing; you must continue to move forward. Beloved, I am still calling you to pursue, overtake and recover all. Know that your response is reflected in your focus. Are you keeping your eyes on Me or are you still consumed with your situation and not the One who is able to transform your situation instantaneously? You must respond by obedience. You must respond in trust. You must respond with belief. Abraham believed Me and responded with faith. Even when time and his body seem not to support the promise he looked not on what he could not do but what I said I would do. Joshua believed Me and responded in action and trust. When Joshua was told to go forward although he did not trust in his own ability He believed Me that I had gone before him and he went anyway as He trusted in My ability. The three Hebrew boys believed Me and responded in steadfast boldness and unwavering hope. When the three Hebrew boys were told to bow down to idols they refused knowing that I was able to deliver them both in life and death. I say to you, respond in faith, respond in trust. Do not allow your fears and doubts to overwhelm you and cause you to stagnate or turn back. Respond and stand firm in your faith; respond with praise and worship, respond in good works, respond with love. I do require a response that affirms that you belief Me and that you will obey Me regardless of the past failures, your present trials or your future doubts. I will honor your response of faith, hope, love belief and trust. Today, let your response be, Father I will do everything that You have commanded me to do. Let Me hear you say, Father I will not give way to doubt, fear or hopelessness. Come boldly because nothing can stop or delay what I have promised and at the appointed time that which I have decreed shall come to pass. Again I say do not respond from a place of doubt. Response from the place of the promise, respond from the place of already having received all that I have promised. Come on into My presence because you have been given access, come on in and respond and I will meet you there in the place of promise because My response is still Yes and Amen!

Keep your eye on Me!

Matthew 14:28-32 (CEB) "Peter replied, “Lord, if it’s you, order me to come to you on the water.” 29 And Jesus said, “Come.” Then Peter got out of the boat and was walking on the water toward Jesus. 30 But when Peter saw the strong wind, he became frightened. As he began to sink, he shouted, “Lord, rescue me!” 31 Jesus immediately reached out and grabbed him, saying, “You man of weak faith! Why did you begin to have doubts?” 32 When they got into the boat, the wind settled down."

And the Spirit of the Lord says, I have given you the faith to go beyond. I say to you in this season that the faith to walk on water is available if you would not doubt and only believe. The tactic of the enemy is to get you distracted by the storm. The enemy wants you to look at your circumstances so that you would take your eyes off Me and give way to your fears and doubts. I say to you today that you have been given power to walk on water even in the midst of the storm. You have been given the power to look into the storm and find strength to walk into the seemingly impossible. You have been given overcoming power as you stay focused on the Savior. You do this by keeping your eye on Me. You do this by obeying My command to come forward. You do this by faith. You have been willing to come to Me even in the midst of your difficulties and I have beckoned you to come knowing that I would honor your faith to step out and go beyond the natural into the supernatural of My Presence. If you will take your eyes and your attention off of the storm that is raging about you and keep your eyes on Me nothing will be impossible for you. With Me all things are possible and a part from Me you can do nothing. The enemy has come in to distract you and his goal is to get you to take your eyes off Me, his goal is to get you to become so overwhelmed that you forget the promises that I have made to you. He wants to keep you from hearing My voice and to keep you from seeing Me as I AM. I AM always with you, ready to help and to rescue you from every storm. I say to you cry out, cry out because your cry will come to My ear and I will respond without delay. Keep your eye on Me and I will strengthen your faith to soar and not sink.

Hebrews 12:2 “Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”

My ways are perfect

Isaiah 55:9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

My husband and I were discussing the “difficult times” and the travail that is going forth from the earth. He remarked that although we are going through difflicult financial times and even ministries are seeing a decrease in giving that he is sure that God would supply His people to finish building what He has begun in them even through difficult times and He would rebuild all that the enemy destroyed and stolen in the last season. I sensed a firm belief in his heart that God would indeed provide for his people. Even as my husband spoke in faith God gave me a look into his heart and I was led to say to him before I got out of the car, “Honey don’t worry God already has people assigned to help us rebuild our walls also.”

And the Spirit of the Lord says, You must know that I will rebuild all of the broken walls of your life. You need not fear and you need not worry. I know that you have waited and I know that you have trusted; believing far beyond even your own natural ability to believe. I see the strategy of the enemy and I say to you he is not doing anything new. My Word declares that he comes only to kill, steal and destroy, but beloved child, I have come so that you can assuredly have a rich and satisfying life. So do not give up; now is the time to persevere. Your faith must now align with My reality. Do not grow weary in well-doing now; you have come too far to look back or to turn back now. You must relinquish the way you thought it should go, you must give up your methods and submit to My way. Surely I know all things for I am He who has ordained your yesterdays, todays and your tomorrows. Even though My ways are not your ways, I desire to make them known to you. My ways are higher than yours and you must rest confidently that they shall surely prevail. Now is the time to take your faith to the next level. This new level requires an unyielding trust in My plan. You already know that My plans are for your good. I have already prayed that your faith not fail you, so encourage yourself today because I shall not fail to do exactly as I have said. And you must also know that I delight in you. You are My joy and My portion. I am interested in every detail of your life. I love all of My children equally and I have no favorites. My promises for you are to bring you joy, peace and satisfaction. I will do it for YOU! I have an individual and specific plan of blessing for each of you. I have not forgotten you and I have not skipped over you; there is an appointed time and as you patiently rest in expectancy and anticipation you will see Me take you into My ordained promise for your life. Beloved My ways are not your ways and My thoughts are not your thoughts. My ways are miraculous and supernatural; they are not dependent on your possessions or your ability. Each of you are fearfully and wonderfully made, predestined, chosen and called before the foundation of the world. I am Your God My ways are perfect.

Psalm 18:30-32(AMP) "As for God, His way is perfect! The word of the Lord is tested and tried; He is a shield to all those who take refuge and put their trust in Him.31For who is God except the Lord? Or who is the Rock save our God,32The God who girds me with strength and makes my way perfect?"

Rapid Response

Daniel 10:12-14 (NLT) “Then he said, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven. I have come in answer to your prayer. 13 But for twenty-one days the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia blocked my way. Then Michael, one of the archangels, came to help me, and I left him there with the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia. 14 Now I am here to explain what will happen to your people in the future, for this vision concerns a time yet to come.”

Beloved child, I am speaking to the fear that is seeking to paralyze you today. I say that I have not given you a spirit of fear, but one of power, love and a sound mind. This spirit of fear is of the devil; he is a liar and a thief and it has been that way from the very beginning. Today I speak to this place of fear and I say do not be afraid. Do not be afraid because I am your Protector. Do not be afraid because I have set My watchman to watch over you at all times. Do not be afraid because I have given My angels charge over you lest you should dash your foot against a stone. Do not be afraid because I hear your tears and your prayers have come into My hearing. Do not be afraid because I am He who guards you in all of your ways. Do not be afraid because I have I am ready always to bring a rapid response to your request. I have heard and I have seen; My beloved I have not forgotten you. Nor have I forgotten the Word that I have spoken concerning you or the promises that have been commanded to come to pass at their appointed time. I have promised you that when you cry out that I will come to you speedily. My Word moves swiftly so as I have heard your prayers and even before a word was even uttered I looked upon your heart and set out to answer you according to My perfect will. I say to you today, do not allow the distractions of the enemy to frustrate you. Do not allow the delay tactics to cause you to faint and to become weak of faith and weary in well-doing. Trust and believe Me because My response is rapid and I never fail to meet your every need. Wait for the manifestation at the appointed time and in its due season. Continue to seek Me for wisdom and understanding and trust that there is a rapid response; hold on the answer is on the way.

Jeremiah 33:2-4 (NLT) “This is what the LORD says—the LORD who made the earth, who formed and established it, whose name is the LORD: 3 Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come. 4 For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: You have torn down the houses of this city and even the king’s palace to get materials to strengthen the walls against the siege ramps and swords of the enemy.”

It is time to Push

Beloved, you must be steadfast in your possession of the promise. I have told you before and I will say it again until you have become fully persuaded; I am with you, I will never fail you and I will meets all of your needs. All of My precious promises are available to you today. You lack nothing and you have all that you need for life and godliness. I will never withhold anything good from you; in this I require that you be fully confident. So in this time of transition you must know that if you have not yet seen a manifestation or fulfillment of what you have asked and petitioned for that it is only a matter of time. If you have asked according to My will I will not fail to give it to you. At the appointed time all things shall come to pass as I have ordained them. Some things may seem to be delayed but there is no delay in My Kingdom; there is only the appointed time and the due season. So you must rest assuredly that I am the I Am. I am all that you need and I will never fail to make sure that in Me you are fully satisfied. Beloved child it is time to push. It is time to put away your fear and your doubt of the unknown because I go with you and I have gone before you. Here are My instructions to you; Push! Be strong and courageous and firm because I will be with you as you speak, and I will instruct you in what to say.” I will not fail you or abandon you. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. And don’t be afraid of the people, for I will be with you and will protect you. I, the Lord, have spoken!” Now go!

1 John 5:13-15 (AMP) “I write this to you who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) the name of the Son of God [in [a]the peculiar services and blessings conferred by Him on men], so that you may know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that you [already] have life, [b]yes, eternal life. 14And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us. 15And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.”

Kingdom Hauler

And the Lord says, I have called you out of obscurity for such a time as this. You may not be aware of all that I have invested in you but I have ordained you for a purpose much greater than you have yet to discover. You have been called to lead my people. You have been called to the place of leadership because you have carefully sought My wisdom and understanding in matters concerning the work I gave you and assigned to you in the last season. You have shown yourself to be faithful in the little and now I say; you will have much more responsibility in the days ahead. The weight of your responsibility may have seemed too weighty at times but you never backed down from the call. Instead you sought My counsel and direction and now you are learning what it means to truly be a leader. You have been continuous and even at times relentless in the tasks I have given you to do; even those that continue to prove to be laborious and sometimes overwhelming and beyond your ability. You are a kingdom hauler. You are a vessel that commands movement. As others look to your leadership they are provoked to raise their standard of leadership. Others are compelled to excellence in leadership and commitment because of what you demonstrate in your obedience and commitment to the kingdom. You are a billboard of faithfulness as have been a faithful demonstration even in seasons of difficulty and trial. Today I want you to be know, that truly you are a leader’s leader. Well done My good and faithful servant enter into your Father’s joy.

Matthew 25:21 “His master said to him, Well done, you upright (honorable, admirable) and faithful servant! You have been faithful and trustworthy over a little; I will put you in charge of much. Enter into and share the joy (the delight, the blessedness) which your master enjoys.”

Shift with Me

Isaiah 30:20-22 (AMP) “And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide Himself any more, but your eyes will constantly behold your Teacher. 21And your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way; walk in it, when you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left. 22Then you will defile your carved images overlaid with silver and your molten images plated with gold; you will cast them away as a filthy bloodstained cloth, and you will say to them, Be gone!

And the Lord says, you have roamed around this mountain long enough. I command you to stop now from going around and round in circles and learn how to shift with Me. You have not gone this way before so I say to you, stay close. I have gone before you and the way has been made clear. If you will keep your eyes on Me you will not fail in succeeding to arrive in the place of promise that I have ordained and assigned as your portion. You are now moving in a place of victory because I have given you ears to hear. You are of My sheepfold; you only hear My voice and the voice of a stranger or a deceiver you shall not hear. You must stay alert and be on your guard for the enemy of your soul will not relent in his attempt to kill, steal and destroy. I Am come to reveal Myself to you like never before. I will show you a portion of My glory not revealed in former seasons. You have asked Me to show you My glory and teach you of My ways so I say to you that I Am your Teacher. As a good student be careful to allow Me to instruct you, coach you and train you as you press forward into your destiny. My desire is to impart to you knowledge that this world can never understand because it is divine and eternal. I want you to come into the full knowledge of the Kingdom that you have been called to and ordained to rule and reign as kings and priests. I want you to become skilled in your authority here in the earth, to occupy, to have dominion over your assigned portion. Beloved I had to send you in a way in which you had never gone before so that I could teach you and instruct you to war, to rule and to reign. Now you have emerged as My victorious ones and over-comers mantled in My authority. I know that difficulty can cause you to close your eyes, deafen your ears and harden your heart but I say to you today just like your Elder Brother you have come forth as one submitted and obedient because of what you have endured and suffered. And now you possess knowledge and ability that could not have been produced no where other than in the fires of purification and the furnace of affliction. It was I the Lord who allowed it so that you would know the fullness of Who I AM and who you are in Me. Know that this day I will give you eyes to see Me in a brand new way. You will know that I have never left you; I have not forsaken you, in-fact I have been by your side all the while. You have been saying, Lord show me my way, show me what is necessary for me to press forward because I do not know what to do. I say to you My child only watch, listen and obey for I Am with you to instruct you into the cloud the glory, so shift with Me now; this is the Way; walk in it. I Am the voice that is with you no matter where you go.

Jeremiah 33:3 (AMP) “Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand).”

Our Source

Isaiah 26:3-4 “You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its inclination and its character] is stayed on You, because he commits himself to You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You. 4So trust in the Lord (commit yourself to Him, lean on Him, hope confidently in Him) forever; for the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages].”

My child, I see you seeking after My peace to bring you comfort in this season where the enemy of your soul is seeking to distract you to get you off course; in this My heart delights and I am well-pleased. I say to you today, as you keep your focus on Me My peace will continuously envelop you and rob the enemy of his victory in your situation. As you lean confidently on Me, keeping your focus on kingdom things the tactics of the enemy will fail in their attempts against you. The kind of peace that rightfully belongs to you does not come from this world. This peace originates and is sustained in heaven; it is divine peace. Beloved, set your mind upon Me and I will keep you completely whole, nothing missing, nothing broken. I will keep you steady on your feet as you keep straight your path to obtain My promises. You must depend on Me and hide yourself in Me and know that your victory is a sure thing as you rest confidently only in Me; your Source of all hope, peace and joy. Many of My children have with great failure and distress placed their confidence and trust in other things, places and people. They have even failed in their attempts to trust in themselves and their abilities. But this day you must know that it is only in Me you can trust. You can trust in My nature and My character; for it is one of faithfulness rooted in everlasting love. The days of shaking have begun, and only those who have been trained and submitted to the Word and have learned to rely on Me as the sole Source of support and maintenance shall be left standing.

Psalm 20:7 “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.”