CLOSE

I know your desire is to draw closer to Me day by day.  However, in the world in which you live, you have so many distractions and you hear so many sounds like the noisy traffic on the streets.

I want you to know that I have provided a pavilion for you that will drown out the worldly sounds you hear every day.  That pavilion is far away from the strife of tongues.  It is a place where you can focus on Me and the beauty of My holiness.

That pavilion can be reached very when you discipline yourself to close your ears to every sound but My voice.  This can only be done early in the morning just as the dawn breaks.  It was My practice to hear from my Father at that time, and I do want you to hear My voice first before all other voices.

PSALM 27:5, 31:20 

FIXED

I want your heart fixed upon Me in these end times.  There is no question that before I return, there will be difficult times and even fearful times.

I do not want you to be in fear or dread about the times ahead.  David, the psalmist, faced many difficult times.  He spent  most of his life either fleeing his enemies or fighting them. 

David was able to get through the fearful things he faced because his heart was fixed.  He wrote: "O God, my heart is fixed,  I will sing and give praise." David did not fear for evil tidings because he put his trust in me. You can trust Me at all times because I have said I will never leave you or forsake  you.

PSALM 57:7, 112:7

DAWN

My servant Peter heard the voice of My Father twice.  He heard My Father's voice when he was present at My Baptism.  He heard My Father say, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."

Then he heard it again when I he saw Me glorified in his presence on the mount of transfiguration. I was standing with Elijah and Moses.

Later, Peter remembered these to occasions and wrote: "We also have a more sure word of prophecy, and you do well to take heed, as unto the light that shines in a dark place until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts."  I am the light of the world Who shines in your heart.  Let that light shine.

2 PETER 1:19

VICTORY

I am the One Who can help you to always be victorious when you face many battles.  The battles you experience I have already won on the cross for you.

You have been born again and the promise is that whoever is born of God overcomes the world, and the victory that overcomes the world is your faith.

Release all your battles to Me and you will see the mountains you face melt.  It is My joy to do battle for you.

1 JOHN 5:4

EXORT

When I preached to the multitudes, I usually exhorted them to action. The word, "exhort" in your language means to urge earnestly by advice ou warning.  

I desired that everyone who heard Me would be challenged to do what was right in the sight of My Father. My goal when I taught was that a desire to please My Father would be greater than their selfish desires.

Pray daily for the words of exhortation that you speak to be anointed so that your words will produce desires in those who listen to please Me more than the desire to please themselves.

LUKE 3:18

TESTS

You will have all kinds of tests throughout your lifetime, but the one test I want you always pass is the tests of faith.

I tested Abraham's faith, and he passed his test because He knew Me.  He knew My character and he could hear My voice.

Abraham also knew that I was always faithful to keep My promises to him.  You will always pass the tests of faith that I give you when you know Me intimately, tune your ear to hear My voice, and know what I have promised in My Word.

GENESIS 17

EXCEEDING

I can do for you exceeding abundantly above anything that you ask or think, according to the power that works in you. I want you to focus on the power that I have.  It was through Me and for Me that all things on earth and in heaven were created. My power resides in you.

I created you, and you are fearfully and wonderfully made.  I want you to receive all I purchased for you when I died to forgive you of your sins and to take away the sins of the world.

I did not cover sin.  I took it away.  Everyone who believes in Me can receive complete forgiveness and liberty from the bondage of sin.  Meditate on My power and all doubts in your mind will have to leave.

EPHESIANS 3:20; COLOSSIANS 1:16

FLESH

I am God in the flesh.  I put on an earth suit and came as a little babe, developed as a young man and grew in wisdom and strength and favor with God and man.

The day came when My flesh was torn for your sakes and I became the perfect sacrifice to forgive and take away all of your sins. It was My joy to do this for you because I love you.

Before I left earth, I sent My Spirit to help you walk as I walked on earth. When I walked on earth I had to surrender completely to My Father's will and be led by Holy Spirit.  This is what you must do in order to win the battle over your fleshly lusts.  

LUKE 2:52

FAST

I had fasted for forty days and forty nights when I was tempted by the devil.  The Holy Spirit led Me into the wilderness to be tempted.  My Father knew that I would have a great battle with My flesh during this trial of temptation.

I know you and all believers have a constant battle with their flesh because your flesh seeks to satisfy itself by over indulging your five senses.  My Father knew that I had to be prepared through fasting before I experienced Satan's fierce temptations.

One of the secrets to overcoming temptation is to fast.  Maybe you are trying to pull down a stronghold of some kind of addiction in your life.  The best way to overcome strongholds and resist temptation is to fast.

MATTHEW 4:2

LOCUSTS

I am your redeemer.  You may have regrets when you look back on your life.  I want you not to look back.  I am able to restore the years the locusts have eaten in your life.

As you draw closer to Me, you may grieve over the years that you wasted and were not close to Me. I want you not to look back.

No, I want you to just look at Me.  Yes, I do not want your focus to be on anything else but Me.  This is how you will draw closer and closer to Me and how you will become stronger and stronger in My joy.

JOEL 2:25; MATTHEW 6:33-34

CLOUDS

The day will come when all those on earth will see Me coming in the clouds with great power and glory. On that day there will be an open heaven.

You do not have to wait until that day to have an open heaven.  As strong intercession from earth is being heard in heaven, there will be an open heaven, and many angels will be released to minister to My saints on earth.

I am even doing this now.  You will see breakthroughs in the lives of those you have lifted up to Me in prayer.  Begin to thank Me for this open heaven, and pray without ceasing. 

MARK 13:26 

AGREE

I promised that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father Who is in heaven.

There is such power in agreement.  This is why it is so important for you to pray with others.  I sent My disciples out two by two so that they could agree in prayer as they went out to share the gospel of My kingdom.

When you do warfare and use the keys to My kingdom to bind and loose, you will see many miraculous answers to your prayers as you agree together.  Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

MATTHEW 18:18-20

DISCRETION

You are living in a day when the character quality of discretion is sorely needed.  Discretion is the ability to guide your affairs with wisdom and to judge what is right and what is wrong.

The atmosphere in your nation and even in some churches is filled with facts that simply are not true.  In order to be discrete and discern what is a lie and what is truth, you must draw upon My wisdom.

You will grow in My wisdom as you abide in My Word. My Word is true. Thank Me today for Holy Spirit. Who leads and guides you into all truth.

PSALM 112:5; PROVERBS 3:21: JOHN 14:16-17

WILLING

I am looking for willing hearts during this harvest time.  I have appointed you to be living at this time in history. As you willingly yield to My Spirit daily, you will be led to do the works that I have ordained for you to do even before the earth was formed.

Every morning, willingly offer your body to Me and the members of your body to be used as instruments of My righteousness, peace, joy and love.

Also, willingly offer your day to Me, and ask Me to put you in the right place at the right time so that you do not miss any divine appointments.  Listen carefully to My Holy Spirit as He leads and guides you throughout your day.

ROMANS 12:1; 6:13 

MINISTRY

 I want you to never forget that I can send angels to you when you call My name and when you speak My Word.  Angels hearken to the voice of My Word.

I am captain of the heavenly hosts of angels.  Some people have the wrong idea about angels.  They think they are only in heaven.  However, if you could have your eyes open to the spirit realm, you would be able to see angels.

Angels are ministering spirits sent to minister to those who believe in Me. This should give you great comfort during these dark days in your nation.

PSALM 103:20; HEBREWS 1:13-14

TRY

Paul warned Timothy that there would be many seducing spirits in the last days.  More than ever, I want you to try the spirits whether they are of God or not.

John wrote how you can discern whether a spirit is from me or from My enemy.  He said that every spirit that cannot confess that I am come in the flesh is not of God: and this is the spirit of antichrist.

Sharpen your dependency upon My Holy Spirit to enable you not to be fooled by the enemy.  You can sharpen your discernment by abiding in My Word.

1 TIMOTHY 4:1; 1 JOHN 4:1-2

HARPS

The heavenly scene that many see in their imaginations are angels sitting on clouds with harps in their hands. This is certainly not a description of your life with Me after you die.

All those who have received Me as their Lord and Savior on earth will be very busy in heaven.  The words that describe heaven are at the end of the Book of Revelation.

There will be a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. The tree of life that yields twelve kinds of fruit will be there and the leaves of that tree will be for the healing of all nations. The important blessing you will experience is to be with Me for all eternity.

REVELATION 22:1-2

STARS

My servant Paul wrote: "There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differs from another star in glory (1 Corinthians 15:41).

I created you be a light in this world that shines brightly for Me. You were created to uniquely show forth My glory (My presence) to others on earth.

As the days grow darker, I have called you to shine brighter and brighter so that men can see your good works and glorify Me.  There are unique works I have created for you to do. Ask Me what works I have called you to do each day when you pray.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:41; PROVERBS 4:18

BEHIND

It is the nature of mankind not to want to be behind in anything.  Most people want to be in the front of the crowd so that they can see better and hear better what is happening at the moment.

When you review your life, you can usually remember some very hard things that happened in your life.  Maybe you had a child die at a young age or maybe you had a divorce that was very traumatic. Remembering your past can be a painful experience.

My servant Paul was ashamed of many things that happened in his past.  However, he did not meditate on those things.  He wrote: "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things that are behind, and reaching forth to those things that are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Keep pressing forward.

PHILIPPIANS 3:13-14

DILIGENCE

My disciple Peter was far from perfect.  However, he learned the importance of diligence.  He was a diligent fisherman and was willing to fish all night if that was what it took to catch a net full of fish.

Peter did not become a diligent, fruitful fisher of men, however, until he received the power of My Spirit at Pentecost.  When he received the baptism of My Spirit, he was empowered to deliver My good news to multitudes.  3,000 souls were saved by his message just after he received the anointing of My Spirit.

Peter exhorted all of us to be diligent to add to our faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, kindness and love to our faith.  If Peter became diligent, you can also.  My Spirit will empower you to add these character qualities of My nature to your faith.

ACTS 2:41; 2 PETER 1:5-7

ALL

When My Word says the word, "all," it means "all," not "some." My servant Paul wrote to the Corinthian church about how I can sufficiently supply all things. I am Jehovah Jireh your Provider.

2 Corinthians 9:8: "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work."

Let this truth that Paul wrote to My body in Corinth sink deeply into your heart.  When you meditate on this truth, you will never doubt again My ability to supply your every need.

2 CORINTHIANS 9:8; MATTHEW 6:33-34

LIFT

I am the glory and the lifter of your head.  Whenever you feel heavy of heart, come to Me.  I want to lift your head up to see Me.  

I promised that if I was lifted up that I would be able to draw all men unto Me.  I was lifted up when I died on the cross to forgive you of all of your sins.

I was lifted up when I ascended into heaven.  I want to lift your head up to see how much I love you. Today and every day when you pray, allow Me to lift up your head to see My GLORY (My presence with you).

PSALM 3:3, 24:9

SAFETY

Many people fear for their safety as they see crime increase in their cities.  New safety devices have even been invented to ward off those who want to invade homes to rob or to do harm.

Most people in My homeland Israel have made safe places in their homes that will give some amount of safety when terrorists launch destructive missiles into their villages.

There is only one place that can provide safety and that is when you abide under the shelter of My wings. When you trust in Me, you do not need to be afraid because you will be able to lay down in peace, and sleep because I, your LORD, only make you dwell in safety.

PSALM, 4:8

TAKE

There are many material things in life that you can choose to take or leave them.

Material things will pass away.  In fact, they will all be burned one day.  The things I want you to take are those things that will last forever.

I want you to take My yoke upon you and learn of Me.  My yoke is My Holy Spirit. I want you to take and receive the protection and provision of My blood that was shed for you.  I want you to take and receive My Word into your heart daily.  All these things are of eternal value.

MATTHEW 11:29