TRYING

My brother James had many opportunities for his faith to be tried as he daily had to deal with the various churches in the region.  As you know, dealing with people, even people who share the same faith as you, can be trying.

James wrote: "Brethren, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations (trials); knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience."  Many in My body on Earth are going through horrific trials and temptations now.

I exhort all My beloved to remain in praise with a joyful heart as their faith is tried.  I desire that all My beloved remember also that whenever they feel weak in their faith, they can ask Me to give them the gift of faith. I am the One Who can give them the will to do My will and also the power to do My pleasure.

JAMES 1:2-4; PHILIPPIANS 2:13

ALL

I am an inclusive God, not an exclusive God.  I would that none perish but that all should come to repentance.

I became the perfect sacrifice that fulfilled My Father's requirement to provide a way that all who believe in Me would be justified, cleansed continually, and forgiven for their sins.  My blood was required and it was for the joy that was set before Me that I was able to endure the cross.

On that fateful day I was crucified, a great exchange took place.  All who would believe that I died, was buried, and was raised again from the dead would be translated from the kingdom of darkness to My kingdom of light. All of your self-righteousness was exchanged for all of My righteousness.

2 PETER 3:9

PROVE

So many people want to know what is My will for their lives.  There is a way that everyone can know My will, but few people take time to discover what reveals My will.

I prove what is My good, acceptable and perfect will in My Word. Some preach that there is an acceptable will of God and a permissive will of God.  This is not correct. 

My will is always good.  It is always acceptable, and it is always perfect.  Also My will is accessible The knowledge of My will is at your finger tips.  Just turn the pages of My Word to discover the treasures there.

ROMANS 12:2

ASSURANCE

Many believe in Me when they are young.  They receive My offer of forgiveness for their sins by faith.  However, the devil is not only the prince of darkness, but he also is the prince of doubt.  He will try to rob people of their assurance of salvation.

It is My Holy Spirit Who can bring that assurance to you and others.  Paul said that the gospel he and the other apostles preached was not only in word, but also in the power of the Holy Spirit and in much assurance.

Ask for the power of My Holy Spirit to be imparted with much assurance to you when you share My gospel with others.  My Spirit then can infuse those listening with the assurance they need to help them resist the fiery darts of doubt that the enemy sends.

1 THESSALONIANS 1:5

EMBRACE/GRACE

Many of My beloved have never had a one on one encounter with My love.  You had your encounter when you were 26.  That is when I told you to stop trying to earn My love.  I exhorted you to receive My love and allow Me to work through you instead of your working for Me.

This encounter was a turning point in your life.  On that day you felt My embrace around you.  You knew from that moment on that My promise to never leave you or forsake you was true.  Since that day, you have experienced many trials, but you felt my embrace through all of them.

Paul discovered the truth that I would be faithful to work through him as he fulfilled My call on his life. He said that it was My grace that labored through him.  Today pray for those who have yet to embrace My grace and love.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:24

STRENGTH

I have heard you exclaim, "LORD, give Me strength!! You usually exclaim this phrase when you have had a day filled with duties and projects that needed to be accomplished.

I never want you to work to the point of exhaustion.  This is why I desire for you to commit your works to Me at the beginning of the day.  Then My Holy Spirit will be able to establish your thoughts during the day.  There are many things that you feel you must accomplish that can wait for another day.

I want you to be wise, and when you trust your day into My hands, My wisdom will be infused into your thoughts so that you will be able to complete what needs to be done.  The top priority each day is to spend time in My presence because in My presence is fulness of joy.  My joy then will strengthen you.

PROVERBS 16:3; PSALM 16:11

DEAD

 I hear your prayer every morning as you lift up your loved ones to Me.  I want to thank you for praying for each one as you stand them before My throne.  I know how much you love each one, but I love them even more.

You always hide each loved one with Me in My Father's heart.  You are hid with Me in My Father's heart, and this gives you such a safe place to be each day.  Paul wrote: "For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God."

When I died, you died.  I shed My blood as the perfect sacrifice to provide the way for those who believe in Me to no longer live for themselves.  When you were born again,  I came to dwell within you.  Now it is not you who live.  I am in you and you are in Me.  Now your life is being change from glory to glory.

COLOSSIANS 3:3-4

GRANT

There is no question that the heathen are raging throughout the world at this time in history.  There was another time like that when the early church (My body on Earth) became bold as a lion.

They were hiding from their persecutors and were gathered in a home.  The prayer they prayed was the platform that launched the world wide spreading of the gospel of My Kingdom. When you pray the prayer they prayed, I want you to expect My glory to begin to fill all the Earth. 

They prayed with one heart and one soul: "And now, Lord, behold their threats: and GRANT unto your servants, that with all boldness they may speak Your Word, by stretching forth Your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of Your holy child Jesus." After they had prayed that prayer the place they prayed was shaken with the power of My Spirit. I GRANTED their request and I will also GRANT your request. Then you will see the world changed. You have not because you ask not.

ACTS 4:29-32

MEMORIES

I know how you love to look at photographs of you and your husband when you were first married and of your children at the different stages of their lives.  So many wonderful memories come back to you.

When you read the gospel accounts of My walk on Earth, you can ask My Holy Spirit to help you picture the many scenes and the people I healed and delivered in your mind. 

Every time you take communion, I want you to ask My Holy Spirit to help you envision what happened on that fateful night when I was betrayed. I also want you to remember the promise I spoke to My disciples that night.  I said, "I will not drink  henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom." I am looking forward to the day we will drink the fruit of the vine together.

MATTHEW 26:29

DIVIDED

When the Pharisees accused Me of casting out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils, I responded with these words: "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?"

The strategy of Satan is to divide and conquer. He causes division in families, cities, governments and nations. The main assignment of the spirit of anti-Christ is to cause division.

My Holy Spirit brings unity, not division. I told the Pharisees that if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.  I have given you all authority over Satan.  Bind the spirit of anti-Christ in My blood and curse its fruit of division and loose My Holy Spirit upon your nation.

MATTHEW 12l24-26, 28; MATTHEW 16:19

SOLVE/DISSOLVE

I know sometimes you wish that I could solve all the problems people are experiencing in these last days. It seems like you hear daily of another person who is in great need of prayer.

The problems world wide will continue to increase before My coming. Every time you pray for the peace of Jerusalem, you are praying for My soon return.  There will be no peace on Earth until I do return.

I am the only solution to the world's problems.  The day will come when everything on earth will be burned.  This is why I want you to daily set your affection on the things above, not on things on the earth. When you do this, I will blanket you with My peace, and each day I will strengthen you with My joy.

2 PETER 3: 10-11; COLOSSIANS 3:2

REMEMBRANCE

I rose on the third day after My crucifixion. I tried to prepare My disciples for what was going to happen to Me. I said, "The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: And they shall kill him, and the third day He shall be raised again (Matthew 17:22-23)."  Even though that statement caused them sorrow, they did not understand what I was saying.

After Pentecost, My Holy Spirit brought the things I told them to their remembrance.  My Holy Spirit today has the same assignment to bring to your remembrance My Words. 

On this special "Resurrection Day," I want you to remember these words that I spoke always: "I go to prepare a place for you.  And If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also (John 14:1b-3)." Truly you will be with Me for all eternity.

MATTHEW 17:22-23; JOHN 14:1b-3

SUNDOWN

When the scribes and Pharisees asked me to give them a sign, I replied, "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart  of the earth ((Matthew 12:40)."

I  was crucified the ninth hour, which was 3 in the afternoon on the day the lambs were being slain for the Passover celebration.

The days on the Jewish calendar begin at sundown and end at sundown. I rose from the grave three days after My crucifixion which was the day that the "Feast of First Fruits" was celebrated.  I tell you these details because I want you know that the resurrection day that you will celebrate this Sunday should be called the celebration of the "Feast of First Fruits." I am the first fruit of the resurrection of all who believe in Me.

LEVITICUS 23:10; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:20

GOOD

Some may ask why this day would be called "Good Friday" since it is the day that My crucifixion is remembered. I bore the sins of the world on that fateful day I was crucified.  

The agony I experienced emotionally, mentally, and physically was beyond what a human could imagine. However, on that day mankind was provided the opportunity to become righteous in the sight of My Father. This is why it was a good day for all of mankind.

Because of My sacrifice that day, at last mankind could be liberated from Satan's grip of sin and placed into My loving arms.  This was very good.

MARK 15:25; ROMANS 5:21

ENVELOP

I will soon envelop those who you desire to come to know Me with My love.  Many do not even know what they have been looking for, but I will reveal My love to them.

The word "envelop," means to wrap up and to cover up completely.  I came to earth as a babe to redeem mankind from sin.  I was love wrapped in swaddling clothes.  I was love wrapped in fine linen when I died. I was love wrapped in resurrection power when I ascended to My Father. When I return, I will no longer be wrapped.  All will see Me in the fulness of My Father's glory.

Those you have interceded for will finally recognize that only I can fill the void in their lives.  Call forth My good plans for those you have prayed to know My love.  I will give them revelation knowledge.

EPHESIANS 3:17-21

READ/h/HEED

The Torah records that it was a requirement that a copy of the law be written and presented to the king.  If the king read the law faithfully, his rule would be prolonged. 

However, if a king did not read and heed the law, he would have no fear of Me, and his heart soon would be lifted up in pride. You live in a lawless culture today in your country because the importance of reading and heeding My Word has been absent in families, governments, and even churches.

There is no fear of Me in your culture. Pray for the fear of Me to sweep not only your country, but also every nation.  Pray for a great awakening based on a hunger and thirst for My Word to be manifested on Earth. 

DEUTERONOMY 17:18-20

TURN

I know it is difficult for you to hold on to the hope that I will intervene in the situation that the world is in today.  There are promises that you can receive and believe and decree and declare in My Word that will assure you that I am in complete control.

I rule over nations.  The psalmist wrote: All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship thee (Psalm 22:27).  Another promise that you can declare is: "When I cry unto thee, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me (Psalm 56:9)."

Declare these promises when you pray and search for more promises like these.  You are in the time called the beginning of sorrows, and there will be more to sorrow over.  However, believe this promise: "You have turned my mourning into dancing: You have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; (Psalm 30:11). Encourage yourself and declare these promises daily.

PSALM 22:27; 56:9, 30:11

CHALLENGE

You are living in challenging times.  It seems like every morning you are faced with another crisis to pray about. I told My disciples that there would be wars and rumor of wars, plagues, famines, earthquakes and other dramatic occurrences in the Earth before I return.

My disciples faced so many challenges just as the persecuted church all over the world is facing many of the same challenges today.  However, those challenges did not deter My disciples from spreading the gospel world wide.

The main challenge you have each day in these times is to keep your focus on Me.  As you draw close to Me, My peace will invade your heart, and I will be able to instruct you through My Word and daily prayer what I desire for you to do each day in order to fulfill My will.

MATTHEW 24

RUN

I want you to run well in these last days.  My beloved Paul wrote this question to the churches in Galatia:  "You did run well; what did hinder you that you did not obey the truth (Galatians 5:7)?"  The Galatians were leaving the simple truth that we are saved by faith alone and that faith works by love.

My adversary is causing many believers to doubt the simple truths of My good news.  My Word predicts that there will be a falling away from the faith in the end days.

Pray for those you know who have turned away from My truth in these days.  Bind the hindrances of doubt and unbelief  that my enemy is placing in the minds of some believers and loose My Spirit of truth to lead those who are not running well to the simple truths of My gospel once again.

GALATIANS 5:6-7

SPACE

I am a merciful God, and I always give mankind a space to repent.  Some are asking now: "How long before things in America and the world turn around? 

I am giving those who have been corrupt in governing the nations a space to repent.  They no longer can cover their sins when full disclosure happens.  That is the space in time when they can choose to repent or continue their wicked ways.

Once the offer to repent has been given, then My glory will begin to fall upon the whole Earth. Do not grow weary during this space in time.  Keep praying and calling forth My Kingdom to come and My will to be done. I even gave Jezebel a space to repent.

REVELATION 2:21

LIGHTNING

When the Pharisees demanded Me to tell them when the kingdom of God should come, I said: "For as the lightning, that lights out of one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in His day (Luke 17:24)."

I was saying that the kingdom of God would not come with observation just like no one can know when the sky will be lit up by lightning.

My return will be like lightning. No one will know exactly the moment or the hour when the heavens will be lit with My glory upon My return.  This is why you must always be prepared.  Stay very close to Me in these last days.

LUKE 17:20-30

OCCUPIED

What has occupied your time lately? Has it been the news, friends, or social media.  There are so many things that can occupy your time today.  Technology today can rob you of time with Me.

The writer of Hebrews warned the readers not to be occupied with all kinds of strange doctrines.  The same is true today.  The writer gave the answer to how you can keep your focus on Me in these last days.  

The writer reminded the readers of the truth that  I am the same yesterday, and today, and forever. The writer urged the readers to establish their hearts fully with grace instead of occupying their time with rules and regulations like abstaining from meat. Give your heart fully to Me daily, and then My Holy Spirit will keep you on the path I have prepared for you.

HEBREWS 13:8-9

PUBLISH

When My ministry first began, I asked those who were healed and delivered not to publish what happened to them when they returned home and also when they went to other towns.

What is being published abroad today is not My gospel.  It is the deceptive words of My enemy.  The only way to fight such deception is to publish My truth to every nation. My disciples began in Jerusalem, and soon My good news was published throughout the world.

The one sign of My return to earth is that the gospel of My kingdom shall be published in every nation. Pray for more laborers during this harvest time, but also recognize that you are My laborer at this time.  Begin to publish My gospel in your own neighborhood.

MARK 7:36; 13:10

SEEN

You live in an age when deception is raging.  This causes many to lose their sense of reality. Only the spiritual discernment that is gained through reading and applying My Word will help you to determine what is reality and what is not.

My servant Paul wrote: "While we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are  not seen: for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18)."

The things in the spiritual realm are not seen, but I can reveal those things to those who have eyes of faith. I desire for you to war through intercession for those who are bound by temporal things.  Ask Me to reveal to you what to bind on earth so those things will be bound in the spiritual realm and what to loose on earth so those things will be loosed in the spiritual realm.

2 CORINTHIANS 4:18; MATTHEW 16:19