tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67234018272067026232024-03-15T18:01:42.003-06:00Mary Lindow ~"The Messenger Blog"Mary Lindowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745158429327557321noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723401827206702623.post-20567740094077485962024-03-06T23:15:00.001-07:002024-03-07T01:13:44.120-07:00WHERE TO GO TO GET HOPE IN AN UPSIDE DOWN WORLD - PROPHETIC ENCOURAGEMENT<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tYXJ5bGluZG93LnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2ZlZWQueG1s/episode/bWFyeWxpbmRvdy5wb2RiZWFuLmNvbS9lZmMyNTZlNi03MDFjLTM5ZTAtOGUxNi1mODZjZTc5OGYxZjE?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahgKEwiw1bqf2uGEAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQvQE" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="360" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh80QySa5McitnLKq4CusNLImrqr6TB4vCo-oj24LDG62IvV3VZ79NbVY8jF6N7UYeDb064RPhyphenhyphenyXtnKE9byV5iczvfr4Tb7Kg92WnicOpo9WCMNOOWD9CxKrb0p6RH-LKMDGsQQh5roEn8-23Sp9W26WTwwMtK4QoUblOr1Hj5YLk87SFpRn8X5l_wltI/s320/where%20To%20go.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">⬆︎</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>CLICK PICTURE TO LISTEN TO THIS MESSAGE RIGHT NOW!</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">by Mary Lindow</em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>DO YOU FEEL AS IF THINGS ARE UTTERLY HOPELESS </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AND COMPLETELY UPSIDE DOWN RIGHT NOW?</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>Maybe you have you been in that scary place before.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Most people, if they are being transparent and honest will admit to times of experiencing hopelessness and feeling alone and afraid.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Friend.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>You aren’t without hope,</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>You aren’t hopeless,</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>But you ARE helpless!</b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>God Has Allowed This Time And Position Of Helplessness</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>And Complete Dependency On Him,</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>And You Are Helpless To Help Yourself.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>We struggle to gain back some measure of control over our lives when this pressure is upon us,</b></span> but our personal pride <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">(that we didn’t even know that we had) </em>is being crushed, and the only thing for us to do is to surrender!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">NOW YOU MAY FEEL HOPELESS, BUT REALLY…</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>…IT’S THE CONDITION OF HELPLESSNESS </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THAT IS CAUSING YOU PAIN.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><u><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">God Wants You Completely Dependent On Him, </span>and He will keep you a “prisoner of hope” until you are.</u></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>OH HOW WEARY YOU ARE OF THE AWFUL REFINER’S FLAME AND THAT SEEMINGLY ENDLESS TWEAKING OF YOUR ATTITUDE!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Okay, God, you can stop now!"</em> you scream.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">But He doesn't stop.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">You're caught in a prison of hope and He will not let you out until He is finished with what He began in you.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">There are times during the process of pursuing heartfelt dreams and callings in life that you might feel that your "hope" seems to have been locked up in a prison.</span> </b>You can't seem to make your dreams come true, and yet, you find it impossible to stop believing in them!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>YOU CAN'T GO FORWARD ANY FASTER THAN GOD WILL LET YOU, </b></span>and yet, you sure don't want to return to where you once were before you were overshadowed and given a "life vision" with a promise from God!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>GOD JUST WILL NOT LET YOU GIVE UP!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>During this time you might feel like saying,</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Okay God, this is enough! I don't want to hope anymore!</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I am tired of being like an egg in an incubator with this promise!</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I want out of this prison of hope!"</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>IT'S DURING THIS TIME THAT YOUR DREAMS FEEL SO VERY REAL TO YOU, YET TO OTHERS THEY DON'T!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>There is a big conflict between what you discern in the Spirit and what appears to be moving so slowly in the natural, and that grates at our souls!</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We feel like we are on a Ferris wheel</span>. You have your “up times” when you can see your dream's fulfillment far into the future, but you also have your “down times” when you can't see anything and everything seems to have crashed into a messy heap.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>YOU THINK TO YOURSELF,</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><i>“AM I CRAZY TO THINK THAT GOD COULD USE ME? NOW?</i></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><i>IN THIS TIME?"</i></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The enemy comes in like a rushing flood and you begin to doubt, causing anguish to your soul.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THIS IS THE TIME WHEN GOD IS DOING HIS GREATEST WORK IN YOU!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">This is when the refining process REALLY hurts, because He is getting down to the very core of your soul, to the deep regions of your heart.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>HE IS DEVELOPING THINGS IN YOU</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THAT YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT YOU LACKED.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THINGS THAT YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT YOU NEEDED.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">You think, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Okey Dokey God, this is deep enough!"</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>But, every builder knows you must dig down deep to lay a proper foundation first, before you start to build upward.</b></span> And the greater the height of the structure, the deeper the foundation must be.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>YOUR FORTRESS OR PLACE OF REFUGE IS TRUSTING IN A LOVING GOD.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Trusting Him in spite of all the reasoning of your mind, in spite of the circumstances that surround you.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>YOU WERE CONTENT TO GIVE GOD CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE UNTIL HE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFE, YOU DIDN’T LIKE.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">You were happy to surrender all to Him, until He decided to give your promotion to someone else.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">You believe in His sovereignty, until His sovereign will conflicts with, your will.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Then you are sure He has made a mistake!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">You want to run from Him, but He is your refuge.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><i>How do you run from your refuge?</i></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">How do you run from the only one who really loves you or understands you?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The answer is . . .<b> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">you don't.</em></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>SO, RETURN, MY FRIEND, TO YOUR FORTRESS, </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AND REMAIN A PRISONER UNTIL HE IS DONE WITH YOU. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>UNTIL HE DECIDES THAT YOU ARE READY FOR ALL THAT HE HAS FOR YOU.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Return to your fortress! Yes!</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">You prisoners who have hope!</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Today I declare that I will return double what has been taken from you."</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;">-<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Zechariah 9:12</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>PROPHETIC WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The Spirit of God says,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Even now I announce to you that not only will I restore to you all that has been taken from you, but I will give you double for all the trouble you have endured."</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He says, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Don't stop now . . .</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">…Keep trusting me, because I can see your future and it is very blessed.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Keep walking with me,</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and keep trusting in me</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and I will give you rest."</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">“Come to me all who are weary and burdened,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">And I WILL, give you rest." -Matthew 11:28</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THERE IS MORE PROPHETIC ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE PRAYER AS YOU LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST THAT IS NOT IN THE TRANSCRIPT HERE. BE SURE TO LISTEN TO THE COMPLETE MESSAGE.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Duplication and sharing of this message is welcomed as long as the complete message, podcast location and website information for Mary Lindow is included.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">
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margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s13" style="box-sizing: border-box;">We are financially accountable and have been in full compliance </span><span class="s13" style="box-sizing: border-box;">since 1985 with Clergy Financial Advantage.</span></p><p class="s3" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s14" style="box-sizing: border-box;">THANK YOU!</span></p><p class="s3" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRU6SPp88aP3sgapq2dd2vUjriClO7_vNYfKJ6VLmF75u0XWxDghWyA3jnuSA_LKT3nINYPpT-6UXAmWnmUssvnoZqD8rx9II_M6p_fNl2Mh116FDXFISu7g228SGVJ2SACx7_V205yURiUZ7uiLETiMio8uidUg6X8WHGhWVF_T3Ho66fI8CCcAkt2tk/s384/HBFC_NEW_LOGObh6dp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="384" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRU6SPp88aP3sgapq2dd2vUjriClO7_vNYfKJ6VLmF75u0XWxDghWyA3jnuSA_LKT3nINYPpT-6UXAmWnmUssvnoZqD8rx9II_M6p_fNl2Mh116FDXFISu7g228SGVJ2SACx7_V205yURiUZ7uiLETiMio8uidUg6X8WHGhWVF_T3Ho66fI8CCcAkt2tk/s320/HBFC_NEW_LOGObh6dp.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span class="s14" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span><p></p></div><p><br /></p>Mary Lindowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745158429327557321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723401827206702623.post-14755427508780580012024-02-09T23:16:00.000-07:002024-02-09T23:16:29.735-07:00"WHAT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT DOING IN THIS SEASON?" - A PROPHETIC INSIGHT<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/what-is-the-holy-spirit-doing-in-this-season-a-prophetic-insight/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="480" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh91mOJ19jRQmppuQHMUOpLOzdh3sJmDnb4amXAI2f00q25fLPj79NGjrsX81mfDh_IfRKWpQX6Bs2eSinxYSJwPTxILZjNWbASu076hokIU6wH4E16CFyosMPVO_5CgwQGT0bJIu1EkpOATmeU5X1RZJWIYA4hZopfYLMEQ_a_0o5Lz0YNIM_YcJ3Nmyg/w400-h283/WHAT%20IS%20THE%20HOLY%20SPIRIT%20DOING.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">☝</span></b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;">CLICK THE PICTURE TO LISTEN TO THIS MESSAGE </span></b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>By Mary Lindow</b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="color: #212529;">This <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>podcast is going to be directed towards the question that many people are asking, </b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>(<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and of course a lot of times believers don’t “ask the question” because they fear that they are going to be judged for asking such a question!) </em></b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #212529;">But if we don’t ask, we don’t get answers, and so today’s podcast is addressing:</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">“<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">What is the Holy Spirit doing during this season”.</span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I have spent time praying and seeking the Lord well for a good month now and it’s been an interesting time since the last time we were together,</b> </span>and of course, the assignments God puts or put us into, IN different season of life, they never come without challenges and also without redemptive opportunities! And so, that’s what I’m going to be addressing! </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">I’ve heard from the Spirit of God about what I’m to share. </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">I am cautious about giving a word for a specific year because it begins to be kind of a measuring stick for some people to then either compete with or, that’s all they go by “What the Lord said for 2024, 2023”, whatever, and they don’t listen for themselves, because sometimes it’s not about the year, it’s about the season, and a season can be more than one year! It can be more than a week, it can be a month or two!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Wherever we are in the Presence of God in our lives, walking with Jesus, we are in a season, and that season that we’re in right now is a very different time. </b></span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span><span style="color: #212529;">That’s where we’re heading today and I encourage you to share this word with those who are crying out to God for answers.</span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The things that are coming up in this next time and in life for all of us, </b></div></span><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">They’re going to be challenging!</span> </b></div></b></span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: helvetica;"><b>In order to have the times of refreshing we are crying out for and, </b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b style="color: #0b5394; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">a</span><span style="font-size: 18.4px;">re desperate for as believers,</span><span style="font-size: 18.4px;"> w</span></b><b style="color: #0b5394; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18.4px;">e must learn to rule and reign with grace.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Refreshing rains will not fall, and cannot fall in full glory, when we refuse to lay down judgments, manipulations, and self invented “spiritual rules” that do not run parallel with the King of grace who is the ULTIMATE Mercy bringer in this present season.</span> </b>The conviction of God will be strong to cleanse the heart of falsity, the <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>fear of man and the passivity of half repentance for works of the flesh. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">We can get all the people that we know around the globe to pray for us and to pray over us, but we cannot force out the devil and the darkness of our own unforgiveness and intentional blame-shifting. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>We give the enemy consistent access to our churches and our lives as long as we “lord it over others”, hiding our own sin, pretending that God does not see.</b></span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">To operate or flow in Mercy means to perform out of a desire to relieve suffering, and is motivated by compassion.</span> The action of forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>one's power to punish or harm. Mercy shown, prevents something unpleasant or provides relief from suffering.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">IN THIS SEASON, </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">THE SPIRIT OF GOD DESIRES EVERY BELIEVER </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">TO DO THEMSELVES AN ETERNAL FAVOR. </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">TELL THE TRUTH.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">God will protect you more for doing this than any self-invented cover-up ever could. </span>And, you just might regain relationships with those you have used as stepping-stones to your own deviant self-empowerment.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>THE HEAVENLY KING OF GLORY </b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>IS ALWAYS AND FOREVER CREATING NEWNESS OF LIFE!</b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i><b><u>If we are indeed man or a woman of prayer, the test will come of that deep prayer life when your enemies surround you, accuse you, and often attempt to execute and silence you. </u></b></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><u>Some will manifest in this next year </u></b>as false friends who use and abuse your friendships and contacts, in order to gain access to notoriety and power over all of the things you are supposed be preparing for yourself. </span><span style="font-size: 18.4px;">They will exhaust and weaken you until you once and for all put upon the altar of surrender, any need for someone else to carry you or promote you. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> <span style="font-size: 18.4px;">A man or a woman of prayer in these days, right now, will learn to sweep out iniquity, falseness, slander, and “hierarchical pecking orders” through goodness and humility.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">This is a time to trust, to depend upon, to lean upon, the goodness of the Lord. </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">This is a time to trust in His sovereignty more than ever before.</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">It is His right to define what grace is. </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">It is not man’s right. </span></b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Prophetic Exhortation </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>“And so says the Lord, the Spirit of Grace, <span style="font-size: 18.4px;">the Voice of Wisdom, and the only Almighty One.</span><span style="font-size: 18.4px;"> </span></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>As you cry out for times of refreshing, for a change in the hearts of men, for a move of my Spirit across the lands of Earth, my command to you is that you begin to create an atmosphere where I may speak My plans, according to My Word and according to My prerogatives.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i><span style="font-size: 18.4px;">I will lead you and guide you with enough light each day, as you come to that narrow place with me.</span><span style="font-size: 18.4px;"> </span></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i><span style="font-size: 18.4px;">I will strengthen your weakened emotions and spiritual discernment as you dialogue in honesty with me.</span><span style="font-size: 18.4px;"> </span></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>Some of you must quickly repent of foolish choices and foolish actions that have caused many to be shattered and shamed because you spoke out of a title or calling, rather than out of following my voice.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;"><i>Begin to dig wells in prayer. </i></span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;"><i>Become entrenched and immersed in it, never ceasing. </i></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;"><i>Prepare places where my rain may fall and cause a fresh drinking place for those yet to taste of my goodness, as well as for those who are thirsty within my Body.</i></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>Begin to dig wells in prayer in dry places, with humility and goodness. </i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>Lean upon me, trust in me, do not lean upon your own understanding, for you have well seen that having done this in the past you have missed many opportunities to prepare a way of salvation for others.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>“I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.” (Isaiah 48:10)</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i><b>So comfort yourself, weary and tried believer with this thought.</b> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Does not the word come like a soft shower, quieting the fury of the flame? </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Is it not a fireproof armor against the heat, which will then have no power? </span></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Whatever happens to you in this valley of weeping, know that I have chosen it for you.</span></b></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>If you still require an even greater comfort, remember that you have the Son of man with you in the valley, in that “secret place” with you. There He sits by your side, One whom you have not seen but whom you love and whether you know it or not, this is the true friend who sticks closely by you.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i><b>I will never leave one whom I have chosen as my own.</b></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Great grace. Great mercy. Great promise. </i></span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>All these are yours, extended from my hand, and for you to extend, from your hand. </i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i> </i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>NOW IS THE SEASON…</i></b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>…To live out the heart and life of the servant</b></span><span style="color: #212529;"> </span></span><span style="color: #212529;">as I lead you with the little light that you have at this time. It is all you need as long as it comes from me. </span></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><i>It is a time to learn to march forward, to dig wells, to prepare, so that others may also drink freely with no restraints.</i></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>When I come and speak to you and move among you, I express everything that is pure and lovely and has a good report and sin and uncleanliness depart.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Peace also rains when I move with humble power. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gentleness will be the result of my transforming power. </span></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>Harmlessness will follow, for hearts that are touched by me are never exhibiting any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showiness.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>My grace is sufficient for you, and you will find it if you will seek it, and above all if you will express it!</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>“Be strong in the grace that is in me.” (2 Timothy 2:1)</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><i>As a reservoir empties itself into pipes, so have I emptied out my grace for my people in this Next Wave of My Heart. </i></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>From my fullness you have received “Grace for Grace”. Grace is always available from me, without price.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>“Keep yourselves then, from overconfident, arrogant sins.” (Psalm 19:13) </i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>You will certainly stumble if you look away from the One who is able to keep you from falling. </i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><i>Be very cautious about pushing yourself into the forefront of public gatherings and among the more visible. If you are to be used in higher visibility, let it be Me who promotes you there. </i></span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><u><b><i>Some who drive themselves to the forefront will also have greater scrutiny and unfortunate exposure of hidden agendas and unholy transactions in this season, and sadly will be brought low again because of their self presumption of importance. </i></b></u></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>If your love is fervent, your faith constant, and your hope bright, continue <span style="font-size: 18.4px;">nonetheless to be on your guard and cry out, “Keep us from temptation!”</span></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i><b>The seasons revolve according to my Divine appointment and man cannot change their schedule. </b></i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>In the spiritual as in the natural realm, man’s power is limited.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>I alone can remove the winter of spiritual death from an individual or from a church.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>Let me hear you say, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Not my will, but as you will oh Lord!” </span></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>As you yield to me my people, I will yield in return and bring the sweetness of my Holy Presence into your very homes, your gatherings, whether modest or larger numbers are attending. </i></span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>I look for honest, wisdom-filled, and humble people to move among and to move through. </i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>Let it be, as I desire! <span style="font-size: 18.4px;">As I will! </span></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>Allow me to determine what is the best for you. </i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>Be content to leave your prayer and your petitions in my hands.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>I know when to give, how to give, what to give, and what to withhold.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;"><i>As you visit me in the secret place of repentance and brokenness, as the path becomes narrower, seeking me earnestly and often times pleading with humility and resignation, you shall surely prevail!</i></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i>I am the light on your pathway. And, I AM all you need.” </i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>This Was A Strong Word From The Lord! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><u>I encourage you to listen to it and read it and meditate over it, several times, allowing the Holy Spirit to do a deeper work in your heart. </u></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>When the Spirit of God speaks to us about a Season that we are in, or about things that are to come, </b></span>we need to cleanse our hearts from being impatient, and allow Him to do that work that gets down deep inside and pushes out anything that we are running from, or, He begins to deal with the things that we have been asking questions about, and now he’s bringing the answers. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">I bless you today and encourage you to dedicate yourselves to rich and set apart time in prayer and fellowship with the King of heaven. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529;"><b>I encourage you to dig wells in prayer. </b></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>It’s not glamorous! </b></span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">But, I can tell you this we’ve been having prayer gatherings every Thursday evening now for well over two years now, actually, three now, and I can tell you that there have been nights where it seems like two hours went by and it felt like 15 minutes.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The presence of the Holy Spirit is so sweet and thick</span>,</b> and you know the scripture talks about “the weight of his glory” (2 Corinthians 16-18) there is a presence of weight, a thickness of the presence of God, a rich atmosphere. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">We have seen the impossible take place in prayer! </span></b><span style="color: #212529;"> </span></span><span style="color: #212529;">We have seen lives changed, </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #212529;"> </span><span style="color: #212529;">we have seen court cases reversed, we have seen sick bodies be recovered and restored and miracles take place in families. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We are grateful to the Lord that when we come together in his name, he is there with us, </span>and that scripture that says whenever two or more gather in <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>my name there I am in the midst of them, (Matthew 18:20), that can correspond with the scripture verse that talks about a threefold cord is not easily broken (Ecclesiastes 4:12), and that’s like three strands of a braid. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">When we are braided together, that’s a strong bond with the Lord</span> and He is like a cord that’s bound to us whenever we gather and it’s not easily broken and cannot be broken by any other force.</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We live in the presence of a Sovereign, Mighty Force, </span><span style="font-size: 18.4px;">and that is the Savior, Jesus Christ.</span><span style="font-size: 18.4px;"> </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;">Duplication and sharing of this message is welcomed, provided that the complete message or article and website and podcast link information for Mary Lindow is included. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); 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font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s13" style="box-sizing: border-box;">We are financially accountable and have been in full compliance </span></p><p class="s3" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s13" style="box-sizing: border-box;">since 1985 with Clergy Financial Advantage.</span></p><p class="s3" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s14" style="box-sizing: border-box;">THANK YOU!</span></p>Mary Lindowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745158429327557321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723401827206702623.post-58576048869027618532023-12-11T23:29:00.005-07:002023-12-11T23:31:07.441-07:00"ATTRACTING THE EYE OF GOD AND HEARING HIS SECRETS FOR CURRENT TIMES AND EVENTS" - A Prophetic Insight<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/attracting-the-eye-of-god-and-hearing-his-secrets-for-current-times-and-events-a-prophetic-insight/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="456" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPYSuflomNqV2bcLfi-jtQ12byPaqzvkrT1qAtJA_6Z_62ZmEbPT50NVv6cgv35tvvxk6e8oCL6YJAXT2PghAh04SobIwnHEb8siclNJ4oSmBNrm5n2cL75r2UHnKA4LGZBC9uU9HakziY2-Idz0JzUIc3zC8QF_wBzDtn5YHcg8EaAQiYbD_PfilYV4k/w400-h266/Attract%20The%20eye.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">PLEASE CLICK PICTURE TO LISTEN TO MESSAGE IN AUDIO FORM </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><i>(You will be glad you did!)</i></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><i><b>By Mary Lindow</b></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">I had just worked four days and had put in 46 hours on my feet. I was tired. I had spoken life and ministered to many people in my position as an office manager and chiropractic assistant to a wonderful Doctor that loves people and loves God. But nonetheless<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">, <u style="box-sizing: border-box;">I was tired.</u></em> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">I had been asked to come and minister at a women’s gathering on my day off, which would be Friday evening. I rested part of the day, did laundry the rest of the day and spoke to the Lord and prepared what he was giving me for the evening ministry meeting.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>As I Got In The Car, I Noticed That My Indicators Were Telling Me There Was Something Wrong With The Car.</b></span> Engine light flashing, cruise button not working and I had no time to spare to get to the meeting on time. So, I simply prayed, put my pedal to the metal and prayed all the way there.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">When I Arrived, The Room Was Filled With Tired, Weary Women, Who Had Also Been Working Hard.</span></b> Many of them, single mothers, many of them were parents who had taken on the adoption of their children’s children, because their own children had gone wild and embraced a lifestyle of drugs and freedom. They were pouring everything they had into these grandchildren, yet they still came. Many in the room we’re still seeking employment because they had lost previous jobs due to economic down change. And there, sitting in the church were young pregnant mothers.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Also, in the room were teenage high school girls </b></span>and there I was, sent in my fatigue, to speak to them about the hope of Christ. I can tell you, I am so grateful for time in the word and time in prayer that anchors us and shows us the purpose beyond our own, as to why God sends us into different places.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Was Honest, I Was Raw, And I Was Right In Front Of Them As One Of Them.</span> </b>As I began to talk about what it means to be in the presence of God, to really know him and his presence, and that it is there for us to draw from, to drink from, in order to survive this cruel world, something in the room began to change.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>We are all aware of when the presence of God comes into a meeting and we call it the glory of God, Or We Call It The “Shekinah Glory”, Or The Holy Presence Of The Lord, And All Of This Is Very True!</b></span><b> </b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">But in this meeting there was such a kindness and such tenderness towards this room of women who showed up on a Friday night after a long workweek, just to come in hope that they could touch the hem of his garment. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b>There were people in that group from about 11 years old all the way up to I would say late 70s. </b>But every single one of them were women created in the fashion that God wanted them to be made in. Each of them still has dreams alive inside of them, even if their bodies are aging and are beginning to slow down a bit. There’s a fire inside of them that God wants to keep lit so that he may use them to the fullest.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>But How Do You Address Those Situations With Multiple Generations?</b></span> You talk to them about how much God loves them. You tell them about the hope that Jesus brings and then you get honest and tell them where you are! </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>When You Don’t Put Yourself On A Pedestal </b></span>or lift up the icon of “your great knowledge of the Lord”, but instead, you get in the boat with them, they suddenly feel that they can receive from something or someone who “gets where they are at”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I told stories of when I was a young girl, </b>and first came to know the Lord</span> and I had the young girls laughing, and it was so wonderful! But the Lord gave me their attention then.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I began to talk about raising children and how frightening it can be in a world where the narratives are screaming to influence our children’s minds</span>,</b> and I cheered the mothers on who are willing to do the hard things of homeschooling or be on top of the things their children are learning at school and to be vocal.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I talked about what it means to have pain in a family </b>and to see children suffer</span>, to see orphaned and adopted children come into your home, and you love, and care and nurture them as your very own.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">And, I talked about when our bodies begin to change and grow a bit weaker and a bit older</span>,</b> the things we must do to remain strong in the Lord and yet what we can do with what we have, and how we can walk the floors in prayer, how we can be in the church building and pray for those who need to know Christ, and if we can’t walk, we can ride in our car and drive around and pray for our neighborhoods.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>You See The Nurturing Quality Of God Is Real! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b>It is the Holy Spirit in a mothering form, </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b>but it also has to come across with direction.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>People Are Looking For Direction Today. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">They need to see a course set out before them that has light and hope, and the wonderful woman of God, Deborah in the scriptures, had a journey, and a story to tell that in fact, turned her nation around because she chose to work and do the hard things in her community, where God began to then build a rapport with those who would even go to war and lead the armies.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>God Is Raising Up Many Deborahs In This Hour.</b></span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Many who have been silent and quiet.</em></span> Maybe it’s your wife, maybe it’s your daughter, and maybe it’s your grandmother.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>But right now there are women who see on the horizon, the great and dark, gloomy agendas of the world. </b></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">And Friends, when you have a mother’s, fighting spirit and you have experience, there is nothing you will not do to stand up and protect your family and to go to war in the kingdom of God.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“God's eyes are searching to and fro over the earth looking for a heart that is fully His.” </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">-2 Chronicles 16:9 </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> <b>What caught His eye when He came to Deborah? </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Was it the uncompromising fire of holiness, an unwavering faith or an unrelenting love that set her apart? Was it something about the integrity of her character, the depth and integrity of her wisdom and the richness of her kindness, which produced confidence in both men and women? </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE LORD IS SO JEALOUS</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>FOR EACH ONE OF US </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>TO LOVE HIM AND KNOW HIM!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>When We Start To Move Away From Him, He Allows Evil Kings To Oppress Us. </b></span>The Word tells us that God is the one who appoints evil kings and magistrates, but He also rises up the godly judges and kings! Deborah was the fourth judge and for the first 20 years of her 40-year reign, the nation was oppressed by one of history's most powerful and cruel Canaanite Kings, Jabin, and his sneaky military commander, Sisera. (Judges 4:1-4)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deborah Captured The Heart Of God</span>!</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>What is amazing is that the Lord raised up a woman to deliver a nation!</b></em></span> What is especially surprising is that it happened in the Middle East thousands of years ago! Deborah was not only a wife, mother, intercessor, psalmist and prophetess but also a judge and a national deliverer. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">That’s not a bad resume for a middle-aged woman living in that oppressive Middle Eastern culture!</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>Against Great Odds, God Used Her Powerfully. </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Deborah broke outside of her culture but she wasn't in rebellion, she was in obedience -- to her God. She was used radically and set her people free, and the people loved her. It's a wonderful story of faith in God, and it champions men and women partnering together in a war to save their nation from great oppression.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">When we read about this revolutionary prophetess and judge, it expands our religious studies of women being allowed to lead governmentally. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">But I really feel that God is raising up a troupe of end-time Deborahs. </u></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </u></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THERE IS GREAT GLOBAL SHAKING </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THAT HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN, </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AND THE LORD IS CALLING NOT ONLY </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE MEN, BUT ALSO THE WOMEN OF GOD!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b>The Lord is saying,</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><i>“<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">ARISE! SHINE Deborahs! </span></i></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Be a part of the army of the Lord!” </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">There Are Two Root Words For Consecrate In Hebrew:</span> never (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">separating from</em>) and cades (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">separating unto</em>).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Deborah, Like The Other Defenders Of The Faith, Was Separated From The World And Unto God. </b></span>She did nothing on her own but spoke just what the Father taught her.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>This is where the true victory lies, </b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>in listening to Him.</b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Deborah's Work History </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">We tend to think of multi-tasking as a 21st century sensation, but Deborah was functioning in five major roles. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Many scholars believe that one of Deborah's roles before becoming judge was being a lamp lighter in the temple</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In The Bible, Oil Is Often A Symbol For The Holy Spirit.</span> </b>Deborah was married to Lapidoth, whose name means, shine, lamp, flame, burning lamp, lightening, and torch. Isn't it interesting? He, too, was a lamp that had oil!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Deborah Was A Keeper Of The Oil And Light, Carefully Tending The Lamps. </b></span>This shows us that she was a woman who was passionately spending long hours dwelling in the temple. She was a woman of prayer and of worship. She lived between two villages, Ramah and Bethel, in Ephraim, which means the valley of fruitfulness.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Biblical Names Often Have Profound Prophetic Meanings.</span> </b>The ancient village of Ramah was known to be the seat of high adultery.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Bethel was known as the house of the Lord with open heavens, where Jacob had his ladder experience in Genesis 28.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deborah stood in the gap interceding between the seat of high idolatry and pagan worship and the house of Bethel with its open heavens.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Now The Picture Becomes A Little Clearer As“ Deborah Was Raised Up By God To Intercede Against Idolatry (</b>Ramah).</span> She wanted to turn the hearts of the children of Israel back to the house of God (Bethel) to inherit a double portion of fruit (Ephraim). </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Deborah's Relationship With The Lord Was Very Precious And Intimate. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">I believe that in those twenty years of captivity, Deborah stood in the gap and interceded to change the course of Israel. God promised Abraham, in Genesis 18, that He would save a nation for the sake of ten righteous men. I believe that the righteous prayers of Deborah availed much!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>She Worshipped And Had A Deep Intercessory Life With God. </b></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">She would go into the temple and fill the lamps with oil and ask God for revelation for people around her in great darkness. </em> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">She was prepared in this secret place as she stood in the gap in desperate intercession for her people and her nation. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">She would hear from God and would bring down great wisdom and counsel.</span> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>She Spent Long Hours In The Temple. </b></span>This dedication moved the very heart of God and changed the very heart of Deborah.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">He led, she followed. She led, Israel followed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Oftentimes we have the misunderstanding that worship is merely the thirty-minute time slot before the sermon, when we sing songs of devotion to God. <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">This is part of worship.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">But Doing Small Things With Great Love Unto Him Is Living A Life Of Worship.</span> </b>Deborah was a worshipper who loved the oil of the lamps, the Holy Spirit.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We Need To Be Like Deborah, Men And Women Of Prayer.</span> </b>Sincere and passionate prayer is the key to unlock our relationship with Almighty God. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Many struggle with praying because they feel that their intercession is not much more than empty cries to an invisible God who seems so distant. </span>We often think that our prayers bounce off the ceiling and back to us unheard and unanswered<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span>But Beloved! God Loves Conversing With You! </i></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><i>He promises that He will hear you and answer!</i></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>IT TAKES ONLY A FEW SECONDS OF </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>A FACE-TO-FACE ENCOUNTER WITH GOD, </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>FOR YOU, YOUR CITY, OR YOUR NATION.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Fact, Connecting With God Is The Highest Purpose For Which You Were Created! </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">This is eternal life to know me! (John 17:3)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our Hunger For God Is What Fuels Our Prayer Life.</span> </b>When His presence is our passion and our hunger is for His heart, we can approach the throne of God boldly with the confidence that our Papa loves our prayers, but having this first love is so important. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">For Deborah, intercession was an exchange of ideas in which God began to download strategic battle plans, blue prints from heaven</span>,</b> and keys to open doors that no man can shut, and shut doors that no man can open. Isa. 22:22 <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">How else could she have so wisely judged so many civil cases with the Israelites?</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The journey of Deborah is a declaration </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>of the power of just ONE life…</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>…Fully set apart for God.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Deborah Stood As A Prophetic Representation,</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">a suggestion that as a woman who may have been weaker in her physical attributes, she had the word of God! She had a history of going in and lighting the lamps.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">She Had A History Of Hearing The Voice Of God In The Secret Place</span>. </b>So swiftly, when the hour came for her tangibly to go into war, she was ready. She was in the place to say yes because she knew the voice of her God.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">What Is The Reason Why God Was Attracted To The Life Of Deborah?</span> </b>Prophetess Deborah functioned in the divine dimension of a spirit of wisdom and revelation. It was almost as if God had supernaturally, placed a divine compass in her, always guiding her to Him. The judging that Deborah did so well might have been because of her gift as a prophetess. <i><b><u>She would have been able to make wise decisions if she saw well in the Spirit. She was humble, willing and wise.</u></b></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>In Matthew Henry's Commentary, he writes: </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“She was a woman of illuminations, or of splendors, one extraordinarily known and wise, and so came to be eminent and illustrious. She was intimately acquainted with God, she was a prophetess, and one that instructed others in divine knowledge by the inspiration of the Spirit of God, and had gifts of wisdom, to which she attained not in an ordinary way; she heard words of God, and she probably saw visions of the Almighty. She was totally devoted to Israel. After Jehovah, Israel was she first love.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Deborah Was One Who Received Fresh Instructions From Heaven,</b></span>and though she knew how evil the oppression of King Jabin was, she also knew that with God anything is possible! Something in Deborah knew how to pull on the sources of heaven, standing in the guidance of the Lord (Jer. 23) and open her mouth and let Him fill it (Psa. 81:10).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>She Was A Mother Of Israel. </b></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>What made this woman a mother of Israel? </b> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i><b>Deborah loved well.</b></i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Imagine facing the unending line of people all needing a touch of heaven. Imagine her tired eyes looking out on the faces of His design as she felt the ache in their hearts for God. They had come so far, how could they leave empty handed? The eleven other scattered tribes of Israel walked for miles and risked their lives on the dangerous highways as they struggled through to hear from God, through Deborah's voice. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> <b>In Judges 5:6-8, listen to what she says.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>“The highways were deserted, and the travelers walked along the byways. Village life ceased, it ceased in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, Arose a mother in Israel. They chose new gods; then there was war in the gates.”</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">I believe that Deborah could hear the groans of the Israelites who were oppressed for 20 years and feel the throbbing pain in God's heart over His people's sin and oppression.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Believe That It Was Her Ability To Hear His Heartbeat That Allowed Her To Save A Nation In A Day.</span> </b>Deborah ruled with the sword of a prophet but the staff of a shepherd -- she truly loved God's people.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">She always led well. She led by loving.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Military Policymaker Deborah Was More Than A Judge; She Was Used To Deliver Israel From The Second Longest Captivity.</span></b> As a prophetess and military strategist, she called the nation to war. She not only brandished the hand of God but also operated with the heart of God. You see, Deborah was a deliverer!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">She Loved The People And They Loved Her. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">She Delivered Them From A Great Enemy. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">The Lord literally issued a clear prophetic word to summon Barak, the Israeli commander, to rally the troops for battle against impossible odds.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why? Because the Hebrews had no weapons -- none. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">They had all been taken away by the Canaanites.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>God Showed Deborah The Secrets Of How To Win The Battle. </b></span>She brought a holy “about-face” to the wicked plans of Israel. When the city gates were at war, Deborah, a mother of Israel who was willing to lay down her life for her God and county, arose.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Why We Need Deborahs To Arise And Shine Today </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">There is a cry going out </em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">from the hearts of God’s people </em></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">about the oppression the church is under </em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">from the enemy.</em></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Heaven Is Aware Of The Issues Affecting The People Of God.</span> </b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">But, until a cry goes out from the people of God, the hands of Heaven are tied. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Without A Cry, We Show We Are Satisfied Or Comfortable With The Way Things Are. </b></span>The harassment had been going on for well over 20 years. How long do we put up with things before we cry out for change? </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>GOD HAS BEEN WATCHING AND STIRRING UP DEBORAHS </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AND THE TIMING IS RIGHT.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">When We Get To The Place</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">To Where Revival Itself Isn’t Enough,</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">But We Must See Change Take Place</span>,</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">We Know We Are On The Verge</span></b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">Of Something Great.</span></b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">We Have Got To Get To The Place </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">That We Don’t Just Want Change, </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">But We Are Willing To Rise Up </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">And Put Our Hands To The Plow, </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">To See Change Occur.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Actions truly do speak louder than words.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Deborah Represents The Steadiness And Dependability Necessary To Both Win And Keep Victory.</b> </span>Barak means “lightning flash”. That is temporary.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">We don’t need a temporary fix or a temporary anointing.</u></em> I</b>f a temporary, quick fix was enough; we would be in a great position by now! We didn’t get to where we are at quickly, and the victory must be won with reliability and dedication.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">When Deborah Arose, The Warriors Returned. </span>There is a group of God’s warriors who are waiting for someone to rise up and lead them back to the place and position for which they have been created.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">God bestowed peace and victory for 40 years. The time of victory was twice as long as the time of oppression. The sad part is that after the 40 years, the Israelites went back to their wicked ways and found themselves in a place of oppression again.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Let Us Be Men And Woman Who Will Stand In The Breach </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">And Go Before God And Cry Out In Intercession These Very Words,</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;"> </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">“Lord, we need restoration!</span></b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Lord, we need the Kingdom of God to </span></b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">break in with the resurrection power of life!”</span></b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>This Is A Call To Combat!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>This is a call for you to say that you want to hear the voice of God… </b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>… From the secret place.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom </em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">that cannot be shaken, </em></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">let us be thankful, </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and so worship God acceptably, </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">with reverence and awe.” </em></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">-Hebrews 12:28</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; 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font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">PLEASE CLICK PICTURE TO LISTEN TO THIS IMPORTANT PODCAST </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">AS AN AUDIO MESAGE</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">By Mary Lindow</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s not just “my opinion” that playing close to the edge of occult involvement </span>is a trap and a lure.</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>It’s my very deep conviction after having a full on and horrifying experience when we were young and first married.</b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Steve and I had watched a James Bond 007 show earlier that evening called "Live and Let Die", with a lot of “harmless” voodoo, (incantations and curses being put on people) and "fun" spies disturbing graves, and dark evil spirits attacking them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>While we were watching, I had a very quiet but persistent warning inside my heart to “stop watching the show”.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I blew it off saying to myself that, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I could handle it. </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">It was just a show… harmless entertainment.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">After we had gone to bed and had fallen asleep, I was awakened by a loud crashing sound outside of our bedroom door</span>, </b>which was our living room. I turned my head to look in that direction and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">standing in the door frame was a hunched over, very tall, long haired, naked from waist up, long armed, pig snouted with a brass ring pierced through it, hairy being.</u></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I thought I was maybe dreaming so I shook my head and rubbed my eyes to see if I was just coming out of a bad dream. Nope.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The dark being was still there.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">My body was paralyzed in fear and I could not move to wake Steve.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>I spoke to the hideous creature and told it to leave in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>It just laughed at me and began to move into the room and alongside the bed, heading towards me. </b>I said the same words again and it laughed, saying, "<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">YOU invited me into your home tonight! I have every right to be here!"</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><u>I immediately knew that I had rejected the warning of The Holy Spirit to not watch the show. </u></b></span>I was crying in terror and said, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Jesus… Please forgive me for ignoring your warning! I repent and apologize for blowing you off!”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>At that point, the demonic thing stopped at the foot of the bed and was very agitated.</b> </span>I was no longer paralyzed with fear and then spoke to it again, telling it that I was forgiven by Jesus and that in HIS NAME, the evil being had to leave our home.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It still stood there frustrated and I told it again that the power of Christ and His poured out blood on the cross for my sins cried out against this attack and that it must leave. It started to whimper and walked towards the wall and then, walked right through it, and left.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Immediately, Steve woke up and asked what was the crashing sound!</b></span> I told him everything that happened. He got up and went out to the living room. On the floor was a weather station type of decoration that we had firmly screwed into our wall. It had “somehow” ripped itself off the wall, jumped 8 inches and onto our record player, (yes…. we had vinyls!) sending the needle across the worship record we played often every day.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">Both Steve And I Knew At That Point </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">That We Could Never Again Justify Or Blow Off </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">The Warning From The Father About</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">Our Entertainment Choices.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>We were called to be worshippers and to not ever allow a strongman from hell into our home.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">Here Are Some Reasons The Scriptures Warn Against</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #073763;"><b>Engaging In <u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Any Form</u> Of The Occult:</b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b>➡ We are opening ourselves up to spirits other than God’s.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b>➡ We are not looking to God for guidance, but to the occult.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b>➡ We are turning away from true faith in Jesus.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b>➡ We are disobeying God’s word, the Bible.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The Israelites often made the same mistake and turned from God, although God clearly warned them about this.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #212529;">“When you enter the land The LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or who consults the dead.
</span></u></span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Anyone who does these things is detestable to The LORD,</b></em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b> </b>and because of these detestable practices The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. </em><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">You must be blameless before The LORD your God.
</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination<u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>. But as for you, The LORD your God has not permitted you to do so,”</b></u></em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deuteronomy 18:9-14</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Saul, Israel’s first king, started out well.</span> </b>He expelled mediums and spiritualists from the land, then violated God’s word and his own conscience by consulting a medium (<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 Samuel 28:3-25</u></span>). His end was tragic (<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 Samuel 31:1-6</u></span>).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>New Testament Christians turned from sorcery.</b> </span>We really need to let their example serve as an inspiration and a warning.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed their evil deeds<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">. <b>A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly</b></u></span><b>. </b>When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas. In this way the word of The LORD spread widely and grew in power.”</em> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Acts 19:18-20</u></span>. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>These verses are given to us as warnings.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">God wants us to learn from the examples he gives in the Bible, and to avoid making the same mistakes. He loves us and wants us to turn from anything that will get between us and the safe spiritual life that he offers.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Bible verses warning about mediums and spiritualists:</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritualists, for you will be defiled by them. I AM The LORD your God,” </em><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Leviticus 19:31</u></span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I will set my face against the person who turns to mediums and spiritualists to prostitute himself by following them, and I will cut him off from his people,” </em><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Leviticus 20:6</u></span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritualists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?” </em><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Isaiah 8:19</u></span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-weight: bold;">So, these are the things these are the scriptures that the Lord has given us, the warnings are there, and also the consequences!</span><b style="color: #212529;"> </b><span style="color: #073763;">I can tell you that ever since then, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I have been fully aware of when there’s something on television or when people want to watch a movie or, there’s people beginning to talk on a New Age level of intellectualism. Or, they talk about some of the things they’re partaking in for “medical practices”, or, different kinds of exercise programs,</em> and my first thought is, “Doesi t has to have something to do with the occult or if it has to have something to do with “freeing your mind” so that you can relax and so your body is at peace”?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">These are the lures that the enemy uses to draw us into other gods, </span>and some Christian individuals actually say, “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Oh, we’re not worshiping the god, we’re just doing things with the name of the Lord on it.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Lord doesn’t put his name on anything occult</span>, and he never will,</b> because he is The Sovereign, Ultimate Strength, THE Sovereign Ultimate King, and he is The Voice that speaks to his people.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The word talks about those that know the voice of the Lord, </b></span>the sheep, they know his voice, but the voice of strangers they will not follow, SO, I encourage you that during this time in the Earth, when the occult practices are literally overwhelming schools, college campuses, exercise regimes, television, movies, videos, <i>(the Super Bowl was packed with these for years) DO NOT ENGAGE!</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Many of the performing artists that are considered “popular musicians” have sold their souls to demonic activity</span> in order to become wealthy.</b> This is how it works many times, you make a pact with the devil for fame fortune and greatness, but there’s always a price to pay and that is that you are captive, held captive, and many times these people can’t get out without a tremendous amount of threat against them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">I’m Now Going To Lead You In A Prayer.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><u><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I feel in my spirit that the reason I was to put this on this podcast</span> is that there are some of you who have been saying<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">, “I need to know if this is really bad for me or if I’m being ridiculous, and being too stringent or too rigid”. </em></u></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Let me tell you something.</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">You can never be too rigid against Satanic involvement </em></span>in your life </span></b><span style="color: #212529;">and you can never be too stringent against saying, “is there anything that I am opening the door to in my home that can affect my children’s sleep, affect my health, affect the safety of our home,” because our homes are to be a place of peace for the presence of God, a sanctuary for God to reside on a more personal level.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The word says, “Don’t you know you’re a temple of the Holy Spirit?”</span> </b> When Jesus comes into our spirit, when the spirit of God comes to dwell inside of us after we surrender and we say, “Take that part of my life and use it”, that part dictates from the inside out. But, if we let our mind get in there and say, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I can handle it! I can handle it! It’s not that big of a deal! I feel so good! It’s good entertainment. </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">My body feels great when I engage in meditation!” </em>(What kind of meditation?) </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why do you need to meditate on something that is not bringing the presence of God closer to you are you closer to the presence of God?</span> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Because our flesh doesn’t want to be convicted. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>Our flesh does not like the discipline of getting still, or studying the word of God, or resting in his presence, and worshiping him.</b> Not unless we discipline it and train it, and grow in his word so we see the gratitude of how, IT is, the voice that controls and speaks to our spirit, causing us to be at peace and to war against the things of darkness.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We live in high-pressure times,</span> and the warfare, (yes, it is warfare),</b> It is demonic war against God‘s people, and, the number one thing is fear, anxiety, stress, worry, and then, just go ahead and escape for a little while. Watch something on TV. The Flesh says, “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Go ahead! Watch some of those movies on Netflix that have some horror scenes or a lot of heavy sex. You can handle it!</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The "F word" is being used a lot, and now many other words have become commonplace.<b> But you see the thing is, WE CAN’T, handle it! <u><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Because, it gets into our brains, it gets into our minds. </span>It gets into our way of thinking, and it dulls our ability to hear the clear and clean pure words of the Lord.</u></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>If you don’t want to walk with Jesus, 100%</b></span> and you want a lukewarm walk, then you’re going to be susceptible to demonic activity in your life, and unfortunately if you have children, you’re opening the door to them, and the Lord talks in that one scripture about not letting children pass through the fire.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">We Are Not To Offer Our Children Up In Sacrifice </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">To Demonic Activity, And Yet A Lot Of Parents </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">Go Ahead And Sacrifice Their Kids To A Lot Of </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">Occult Practices Because “It’s Hard To Be Different”.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>You don’t have to have to be locking the doors, and turning the light bulbs out all the time for fear that the devil is coming to get you! </b></span>But! I can tell you this! You do want to shut your door to occult practices and the doors that come through your iPads, your computers, and your television screens.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">These are the places; these are the entry points</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">that the enemy uses.</span></b> Those out there preparing programming, the majority of them in the world are all geared towards doing satanic and fearful programming and if anything, they like to do “shock value” enticing types of programs to bring stimuli and fear! That’s how they get better listeners or viewers or people chatting and talking! But their goal is not to bring goodness or peace or safety. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Their goal is to get you to come back and be addicted to more or “fascinated”.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>This is where that word “fascination” and “magical” comes in.</b> </span>We just feel like we’re mesmerized and drawn in, and we kind of want to know how it works. We want to know how it ends! And then before you know it, your mind has been seared, your conscience has been compromised. Then enters the guilt and then the shame, and then the hiding, and guess who did that?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">When Adam and Eve engaged with the snake in the garden, he trapped them and lured them,</span> </b>and said, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“It’s not that big of a deal! You can handle it! Did God really say that to you?” </em>But once they tasted of evil, they were forever changed. They were forever changed and lost their innocence, <u style="box-sizing: border-box;">and forever changed mankind.</u></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>Imagine how much that sin nature is affecting us!</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>Thank goodness that Jesus came to wash us clean</b> and poured out his life, and endured a horrible sacrifice for us, so that we would have a chance to have our minds cleaned<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">. If we are introducing our children to it, imagine the torment, and the things passing down to them.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>So, I encourage you now to pray with me, </b>and</span> if it’s not for you, If you don’t have this problem, but you’re saying, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I agree I’ve had experiences like this or I know what you’re talking about!”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529;"><b><u>If you have family members maybe you have children, if you have a spouse, if you have grandchildren that are engaging in specific kinds of occultic things,</u></b> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #212529;">(</span><span style="color: #073763;">and friends you know with a lot of the PlayStation games and different kinds of Xbox games),</span></em><span style="color: #073763;"> there’s a tremendous amount of demonic looking creatures and a lot of darkness in those games and yeah, I guess, “you can handle it”, but if you’re murdering and killing and having guns shooting and bloodlust all the time, eventually, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">is it a just a game?</em> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Has it become a conquering or have you become desensitized?</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">SO! I ENCOURAGE YOU TO RETHINK WHERE </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">YOUR COMMITMENT TO THE LORD IS.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Do you want to hear the voice of the Lord?</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Do you want to hear the Lord speaking clearly about the times about the days?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Do you want to hear him protecting you, telling you to get in the car and leave now, or “don’t go to the grocery store” or “don’t go down “that” street”? </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He WILL lead you like that and protect you!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Do you want the Lord to tell you his secrets?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Did you know that he tells them to his servants? But! He tells them to those that will spend time in his presence, seeking his voice, seeking to know him more. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I encourage you to consider, "which tastes better". </span>The presence of God, and hearing his voice, or a temporary high and excitement, or the thrill that wears off, and then you’re buried in guilt, or harassed by something dark?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">I’m going to pray now and I’m going to ask you just to pray with me or agree with me in prayer for those that you know need to be free.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Heavenly Father, </b></span>we come to you and Father you say that you roam the Earth to and fro, with your eyes you are looking all over the Earth, searching for those who will serve you, searching for those who will obey you. Lord you know all things, you see all things, and you hear all things.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">You are aware of the assignments of darkness</span> against our families,</b> against our children, against our grandchildren, against our spouses, against our brothers and sisters, and aunts and uncles.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Father, we stand before you now individually and ask you for a clean heart.</b></span> We ask you to wipe the slate clean of anything that we may have engaged in.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>First of all we say we’ve sinned against you because it’s the truth. </b> </span>If we’ve done these things we have done them against you. We have put our eyes upon idols or things at the world calls, current and exciting and we think that we’re just fitting in, as a part of it or maybe it seems like it’s not harmless. It looks like everybody else is doing fine.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lord, l know that you know the condition of each man’s heart,</span> </b>and Lord you know those that are using this as a lure, so Father, we stand before you, and we ask that you would create in us a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within us. Don’t cast us away from your presence!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lord, we don’t want your Holy Spirit taken from us,</span> because we choose to listen to other evil spirits are divining spirits!</i></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Now Lord, we say to you, we ask if there’s anything in our lives,</span> anything in the lives of our families that they are engaging in or things that we have become accustomed to, that you would show us clearly and concisely, vividly, the things that we have put our hand to that are not from you.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Lord, we repent, we apologize. </b></span>We are ashamed that we would allow even the whisper of a demonic subtlety to enter into our home.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We want to be the stewards, good stewards of what you’ve given us in children, in our spouses and our grandchildren.</span> </b>So we ask that you would put a barrier between us and the darkness, that conviction would rise up again, that we would heed your voice, and not the voice of a stranger!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Lord your word says whether we turn to the left or turn to the right, there you are right behind as a voice saying, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“This is the way, walk in it”.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Lord, forgive us for thinking that we don’t want to be different or strange in this world that we don’t want to be ridiculed. </b></span>Father we are a peculiar people as you said, you made us and fashioned us to stand out in the dark world, and when we gave our lives to you, we committed that you would be Lord, Savior, King, Ruler, Master over our lives, and we apologize to you for ever touching anything that gave others mastery over us.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father, we just come before you, and ask you to wash us clean. </span>Wash our children, wash our grandchildren clean, wash our families clean.</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Lord, we apologize and ask that now you would make the rudder of our ship turn back out to the direction where we seek you, and seek you alone.</b></span> That the entertainment choices that we make in the future will be with wisdom and if there’s something on television that is dark or dirty, or evil or suggestive, we turn it off, we don’t just mute it. We turn it off. We will not let our eyes even watch, nor let our ears hear. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father. We thank you that you will speak loudly</span>, </b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Don’t do that! Stop now!”</em> Just like you did to me. Father, we ask that you would speak loud and clear, because sometimes we’re dull of hearing.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lord we submit to you, we glorify your name.</span> </b>We thank you, that you deliver us completely and you set us free when we’re captive to dark things.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We call upon the name of Jesus Christ who is God,</span> who is the Son of God, the Sovereign king, and we thank you that the Holy Spirit is there to convict us of our sins.</b> We thank you Triune being Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for the privilege of being called children of God.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lord, teach us to act like children of God, in our every day lives,</span> in Jesus most holy and powerful name against darkness.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>Amen.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mary Lindow </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">© 2023 - “THE MESSENGER”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Duplication and sharing of this writing is welcomed
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margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">ALL gifts are tax-deductible under<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />His Beloved Ministries 5013c non-profit status.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We are financially accountable and have been in full compliance </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">since 1985 with Clergy Financial Advantage.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">THANK YOU!</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p></div><p><br /></p>Mary Lindowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745158429327557321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723401827206702623.post-29672167900803811892023-10-04T21:30:00.003-06:002023-10-04T21:30:41.721-06:00"A TIME FOR PRECISE ACTS OF GOD" - THE OPENING OF DOORS AMONG HIS OWN PECULIAR PEOPLE<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/a-time-for-precise-acts-of-god-the-opening-of-doors-among-his-own-peculiar-people/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="456" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnHLqdE_ph2k63_IvOqWn33BjBHdVm4HRpZv0qNil5a3qTnlM3ZDeYVVA6PNSLJmoANrHznU76qWvV83EhXKYE3-6T7jRkQI0KMTg5aP65_J0-ImOTdVQTFVKUUIR4siXvJi78A0hHB9OkNZaJPgn77qTQ60knd7cEkrU5fkBxNyCAxiaGk2W85vbDEOI/w400-h266/a%20time%20for%20opening%20of%20doors.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">👆</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">TO LISTEN TO THIS MESSAGE PLEASE CLICK THE PICTURE! </span></b></p><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">By Mary Lindow </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>It’s a wonderful thing to be able to give a hand to someone who is in turmoil, but we can’t do it by just quoting nice Christian sayings or throwing out a random scripture at them.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b>It’s so easy to say<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">, “Oh yes! Just trust in God! It’ll all work out. Somehow somewhere God will help you!” </em></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">When we see a person who is going through trials and who knows God</span>, but is struggling hard, </b>who is deeply fatigued and bobbing up and down under the water, barely keeping afloat, due to some difficulty or trial of their faith, we need to lift them up and we are not to judge them, because it is a slander against the very loved creation of Jesus Christ.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Oswald Chambers had a tremendous statement about this. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">He said, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“<b>It’s a great thing to see physical courage, and still even strong, moral courage, but the greatest thing is to see spiritual courage, to see that we can help others stand true and strong in the integrity of Jesus, no matter what they are going through. People who have gone through a hot fire or as some call it, a crucible, these tested individuals are going to be a tremendous support to many other people.” </b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">He went on to say, </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Here’s the reason we go through the things we do. </em></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">God wants to know if he can make us “good bread - good food” to feed to other people.”</em></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">In first Peter one through eight Peter says to us, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>“Though right now, you’re grieved by so many different trials, hang in there, remember the inheritance! It’s not messed up it’s not defiled, it’s not made dirty. Look to Jesus and you will receive the ultimate result and reward of your faith.”</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">MY FELLOW BELIEVERS, THERE’S A TIME COMING WHEN EVERYTHING THAT RIGHT NOW THAT IS A PROBLEM, WILL BE PERFECTLY SOLVED</span>. </b>In the meantime, are we prepared to let people poke at us, to joke at us, to humiliate us, to let them have their momentary agendas over certain narratives?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">When you stick it out and hold on</span>, looking to the greater horizon, to the very central part of Christianity, which is your personal walk, your personal relationship to Jesus, how do you continue to handle the cruelties of this current world system?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>LOOK TO HIM! LOOK AT HIM! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Which actually means, look for spiritual discernment, remembering it’s a difficulty to be weak, and God strengthens us to go through anything when Jesus Christ is what he is, and who he said he was!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>“If we have a trial of faith, we must endure it until we get through it, </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>and more often than not, even other Christians who are watching </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>might pull back in disgust at our difficulties or losses.”</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THESE INDIVIDUALS HAVE YET TO ACTUALLY SURRENDER THEIR LIVES TO HUMILITY.</span> </b>They enjoy thinking God has blessed them with earthly things and pleasures because somehow, they are more clever and worked harder at achieving.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE RICH YOUNG RULER WAS MUCH LIKE THIS.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">He did all the right actions, was good hearted and generous, oh yes! But he loved the attention it garnered as well. When Jesus asked him to sell it all, sell out 100% to help those around him, and to come and follow Jesus, he couldn’t. He loved being in charge and in control of his own destiny.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>IT SAYS THAT HE WENT AWAY SAD. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><u>Sad because he couldn’t live both lifestyles at the same time. </u></b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">He most likely thought he could finance Jesus quite well, and make a return on his investment if the marketing drew good crowds!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">IF YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH TRIALS OF FAITH IN THE PAST,</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">GOD WILL THEN BRING ACROSS OUR PATHS</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">OTHER MORE IMMATURE SOULS,</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">AND WE HAVE NO BUSINESS DESPISING THEM.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WE ARE SUPPOSED TO HELP THEM.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">We are to be to them something that has embraced and fully transferred into our souls, which is, the very fundamental nature of Jesus.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Remember, people will draw off of that “virtue” leaving you.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><u>The scripture says Jesus, knew in himself that power had gone out of him. </u>This is when the woman with the shaming, hemorrhaging issue of blood said, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“If I could just touch that piece of fabric, the hem of his garment!”</em> and Jesus did say, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Someone touched me! I felt Virtue leave me!”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>FRIENDS! YOU AND I WILL FEEL THE SAME THING!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">There are people who spiritually and morally who will literally draw or pull the virtue out of your life, and if you don’t keep up the supply from the life of Jesus Christ you will be exhausted! We must keep our spiritual strength strong and let others nourish themselves until they are able to stand on their own feet, and then take direct life instructions from him.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>DON’T BE DISTURBED IF PEOPLES LIVES SEEM TO BE MESSY…</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>… OR THINGS ARE CHANGING AND NOT FITTING PERFECTLY LIKE A JIGSAW PUZZLE PIECE! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">It actually means there is a terrific possibility of greater things developing!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">And the same thing spiritually is that if there is turbulence in our lives, God is turning it into the right thing in the right time! So, in the meantime, look to Jesus, and take the next step as it comes.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">“GET THROUGH WHATEVER YOU’RE GOING THROUGH</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">AND YOU’LL BE A TREMENDOUS ASSISTANCE TO OTHERS</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">WHO ARE GOING THROUGH THE VERY SAME THING!”</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>IT’S NOT FOR US TO SHAME OR HUMILIATE OR CRITICIZE OTHERS</b></span> for not being where you are spiritually, but instead, it’s for us to see that we are good nourishing bread for these people in the hands of God. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">If we look at Job Chapter one verse one that verse certainly speaks loudly! </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It says Job was blameless and upright. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">He feared God and pushed away or shunned evil and this was the character God gave to Job. </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>God asked Satan, </b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>“Have you considered my servant Job?</b></em></span><b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">There’s no one on earth like him”,</em></span> </b>and Satan, then replied and said, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“<b>Well, strip him, and he will curse you to your face!” </b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>SATAN WANTED JOB TO FALL. HE WANTS US TO FALL.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">But God wanted Job to be blessed. So Satan tried to strip Job from God.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">With a Malignant, and a strong, strong, evil energy, he goes to work, and then in one day he brought the greatest man in all of the East into abject poverty and then visits him with great sadness, blow after blow of such a difficult and crushing nature and with such speed this all fell upon Job!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We just have to marvel at the testimony of the Holy Spirit that in all of this, Job did not sin by blaming God with wrongdoing,</span>that’s in verse 22 of Job one.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">What a massive win for God, and what a punch in the face and a defeat for Satan.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">A Current Prophetic Word</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Many hidden and also more visual Prophetic individuals are hearing similar threads and words from the Holy Spirit regarding what I’m about to share with you. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I encourage you to be very focused and still as you take these insights to heart. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><u>The Father has things that are very succinct and encouraging for you to hear. </u></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>“Those who have stayed faithful to God’s leading, stepping out into new things will start to see doors opened into the promises. The prophetic word of testing and preparing them for this time is now coming to pass.</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>There is a precise blessing for the double portion where that which was conceived and dreamed about in the years past, and now it surfaces into a double blessing.</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>This is the year where the prophetic voice brings into the open new life, brings restoration, strengthening the weary soul, enlarging your heart, resurrecting the dry bones.</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>This is the prophecy to His church. ‘As you reorder, reset yourself to His leading, His mission, and His headship, He brings the wind of His Spirit to cause His church to rise up. Expect to see resurrection in the church’.</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Doors begin to appear for many, with heavenly encounters and signs showing the way. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Those who have stayed faithful to God’s leading, stepping out into new things will start to see doors opened into the promises.</span></i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>For some, this year will be one where you start to truly enter the dream you felt God called you to during the last year or two, even though it seemed to lead to nothing, and you found yourself back at the beginning of where it all started.</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>But through the voice of the Father and the Son, they have been establishing you, preparing you, for what lies ahead. This year, development has been taking place, positioning you for the door that is about to open.</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>The is the beginning of the prophetic word and dream being realized…</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>…But it is only the beginning.</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>The place where no options and hard brick walls once existed, now, doors appear, new partnerships and pure relationships continue to be revealed.</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>This is for personal moves of God and for national moves of God globally.</i></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>The moment and movements, yes, better mobility allowing the passage through the doors is being made possible.However, be wise and aware that the enemy crouches at the door, so don’t be deceived, but in the power of God and faith in His leading, continue, despite the battle. </i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Know too that Satan will seek to deceive by building his false gates and attractive “other doors” options, flanking the Lord’s, so; prayerfully seek the will of God.</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>The key that opens the Doors of The Father is humility and dependence on Him.</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>This door is opened by the Doorkeeper.</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hearts once closed to love will begin to open the journey to humility, bringing about those who will bend their knees.</span> Those who carry the gospel will see their light received by those bowing and seeking God, and a new awakening will take place.</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>It’s time for the doorkeepers to announce the invitation, ‘Come, enter into His presence, open your heart to His perfect love, and you will find rest. The Lord will make His home in you.’</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i> </i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">My Husband Steve had a most beautiful encounter with the Lord during an early morning </span>and he is going to share his exact words and understanding about what that the Lord gave to him in the next few minutes of this podcast.</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">It is so very timely and certainly the word of the Lord for this time that we are living <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">in and experiencing.</span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>PECULIAR PEOPLE</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">(Jesus Christ) who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> a peculiar people</span>, zealous of good works;” </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Titus 2:14 (Young’s Literal Translation)</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>PERHAPS YOU HAVEN'T CONSIDERED YOURSELF PECULIAR, BUT THAT’S HOW THE APOSTLE PAUL REFERS US TO.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why?</em></span> Because Peculiar People walk by the spirit, and not by the flesh. In our temporal life on this earth we are bombarded with difficult situations. However, even as we live in the flesh our life is hidden in God and we who walk in the spirit overcome these situations.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I am crucified with Christ nevertheless, I live, yet, not I but Christ, who lives himself in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THERE IS A SONG THAT WAS OFTEN SUNG IN WORSHIPS SERVICES THAT ORIGINATED FROM PSALM 48:1-3</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the city of our God, on the mountain of his holiness. </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beautiful for situations, the God of the whole earth, </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the City of the Great King?</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">ON THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES, THE INGATHERING, THE FIRST NIGHT OF SUKKOTH, SEPTEMBER 30, 2023, AT 4AM, I WAS AWAKENED AND WALKED OUTSIDE TO SEE THE FULL HARVEST MOON</span>.</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It was an unusually bright night.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i><u>Prophetically it represented the soon coming harvest of souls about to be ingathered to His Kingdom.</u></i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Next to the moon shown the planet Venus - the morning star. We know the Morning Star to be another name Jesus gave to Himself in the Book of Revelations. I also saw the Little Dipper shining very brightly as if reporting that His Saints were about to “dip in“ and gather the end time harvest for the Kingdom of God.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In this weary season because of the constant assault of evil agendas we often feel as if we are literally on the battlefield of the last days War between Two Kingdoms</span>. </b>Satan’s assault, his purpose, is to steal, kill and destroy, particularly from the Saints of God. His method is to first come by fearful thought to distract us from who we are in our spirit man and steal our divine purpose.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">MANY SAINTS ARE PRESENTLY BURDENED BY SITUATIONS OF THE WORLD</span>.</b> They are looking to their situations as being more real than God’s Word and the power that He has given to them. If your purpose is stolen it is equal to neutralizing you or equal to spirituality killing you.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u>When your eyes are focused more upon the negative situation than on who we are in Christ, then Satan has not only stolen from you, he has robbed you of your true identity. </u></em>The ‘eyes of our flesh’ are then held captive by him as we focus more on the problem than the victory we have in Jesus. He said, “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I have come that you might have life abundantly!”</em> We stand as conquerors in Him or we succumb to the trouble and are defeated.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">GOD SAYS WE ARE A PECULIAR PEOPLE</span>.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Why?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b>We who know our God intimately, walk in the spirit and not in the flesh.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">We are unmoved by situations. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“He who has ears to hear, (he who walks in the spirit realm), let him hear what God is saying to the churches.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;"> </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">EARLY IN 2022 THE LORD SPOKE TO ME AND SAID,</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Live in the history of your future!”</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Exactly what does that mean?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ask yourself these questions: </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the spirit realm how do you envision yourself in the future? </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">What are (or will be) your accomplished results?</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> What passions did God instill in you and what purpose has He created in you before the foundation of the world?</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>IN THE SPIRIT, IN THE FUTURE, DO YOU SEE YOURSELF </b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>SETTLED AND LOOKING BACK ON YOUR LIFE</b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b> HAVING COMPLETED WHAT GOD HAS PURPOSED FOR YOU </b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>TO ACCOMPLISH DURING YOUR SHORT SPAN ON THE EARTH?</b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the midst of your current situation, according to your future self, do you look back at the present obstacles, the situation that Satan threw at you to trip you up, and see yourself as having overcome it?</span> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Do you envision yourself as confident in the Lord having applied His word and having walked by faith and not by sight? </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">In the spirit you are <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">imagining</em> that you have advanced yourself in faith?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Are you living in the years yet to come and looking back to the now seeing how you overcame the situation by the Word of God? That is how you live now <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“…in the history of your future!” </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">You borrow from your future victorious self and apply that to the present.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>FOR EXAMPLE, LOOKING AT A MONETARY SITUATION OF LACK OF FINANCES, IT IS ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED WITH ANXIETY.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Scripture says, “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Anxiety in the heart of a man weighs it down.</em>” - Proverbs 12:25.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">IT IS THE DEVIL’S TRAP TO DIVERT YOU INTO EMBRACING WORRY RATHER THAN FOCUSING ON ALL THAT YOU HAVE SUPPLIED IN THE PROMISES OF THE LORD.</span> </b>That same scripture above is completed with <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“but a good word makes it glad!</em>” In other words, focusing on the Word of God and the promises He made to provide for you are more powerful than any lack you might be experiencing in the natural.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>YOU ARE A PECULIAR PEOPLE!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">You are not moved by what you see, by what present upsetting situations you are going through. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” </em> Peculiar People have joy in the midst of natural situations. They override circumstances by faith standing on the promises of God. In their spirit they see themselves having passed through the “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">valley of the shadow of death</em>” overcoming these natural situations by remaining confident in what God says about them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">PECULIAR PEOPLE HAVE A FOUNDATION ON WHICH THEY STAND. </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Having done all to stand,”</em> (standing firm on the Word and who God called them to be), <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“stand therefore!”</em> They see themselves, not on the defense, but on the offense, having the upper hand. They confidently wrestle the adversary and rejoice in prayers of thanksgiving. They are resolute in presenting themselves and pleading their case before the Throne of Grace, fully dressed in the armor of God, which is the holy character of the Lord Jesus. They stand in faith stating what scripture says about their situation saying, “God, here is what your Word says about it and I’m holding you to it!” He loves that boldness!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>PECULIAR PEOPLE STAND FIRM AGAINST THE WILES OF THE DEVIL BECAUSE THEY SEE THEMSELVES AS VICTORS.</b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">They envision who they have become in their future self.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">They know who they are because of what Jesus did on the Cross and who God called them to be.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">They know their purpose is to bring heaven to earth, to be a present expression that represents the faith of all the great Cloud of Witnesses.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Peculiar People already envision themselves as having defeated the devil and as being part of the City of God, the New Jerusalem. This is their future! “Live NOW in the history of your future!”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">They have already overcome natural situations and the devil’s ploy against them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">"HOW" YOU ASK? </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“And they overcame and conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, for they did not love their life and renounce their faith even when faced with death.” Revelations 12:11 (Amplified)</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>FIRST, VICTORY COMES BY<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB</em>. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">They identify themselves with Christ on the Cross having had died with Him, then having risen with Him where their life is conducted by faith and hidden in the Son of God.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Secondly, it is by<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> the word of their testimony</em>, their covenant!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">They live their earthly lives through Him in spirit over the flesh. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever! Forever is the spiritual place that is beyond the dimension of eternity. It has no beginning and no end. These saints are hosting Christ in their spirit; therefore, they live through the Alpha and Omega in this life on earth.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thirdly, they overcame Satan in their identity with Christ</span> </b>because<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> they love not their our own lives, their own soul and body, even to a situation of facing physical death</em>. If necessary, in our stand against Satan, we volunteer for martyrdom.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">How is the possible? <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Because we have already died with Him!</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">PECULIAR PEOPLE LIVE THROUGH CHRIST JESUS BY WALKING IN THE SPIRIT,</span> </span></b><span style="color: #212529;">a realm higher than our natural earthly physical life. We live on Mount Zion, the city of the New Jerusalem, along with the victorious Saints who have preceded us.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Morning Star has risen in our heart and we see ourselves for who we are as victors in the spirit. </span>We live now on this earth borrowing on the promise of who we will be in the age to come. We live in the history of our future! We live as the Ingathered.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">We call those things that are not</em> (presently in the midst of our situations) <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">as though they were</em>, because by faith, in the spirit realm, they already are a reality in the purpose of Christ within us. That is how you fulfill and complete the part of the prayer that Jesus taught His disciples to pray, and to live. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">It is your personal relationship with God in spirit.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">It is your union with Him in revelation that you are one with God in intimacy.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Once that is established, and then you can confidently carry His presence outwardly and exhibit His nature toward others.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND RADIATE HIS GLORY.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">That is what it means to bring His Kingdom on earth <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“as it is in heaven.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>PECULIAR PEOPLE BRING THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN TO THE EARTH. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Stand firm in who you are as the bright Morning Star continues to arise in your heart, even to its brightest, as the light of the full day or noon.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u>Live today in the history of your future. </u></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Be Peculiar.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">LET’S GIVE THANKS FOR GOD SPEAKING TO US MY FRIENDS! </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">He spoke to Steve that we are to be unusual, peculiar radiant people, filled with the light of Jesus!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Thank you Jesus…. For BEING the door of Hope.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Revelation 3:8 says,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>“I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. </b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.</b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Isaiah 22:22 declares,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>“<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.” </em></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Speak Lord…. Your Servants are listening.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Here we are.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><i>Send us.</i></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;">****************************</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; 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</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">His Beloved Ministries </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5013c non-profit status.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We are financially accountable and have been in full compliance </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">since </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1985 with Clergy Financial Advantage.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THANK YOU!</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="HBFC_NEW_LOGObh6dp.jpg" height="256" src="https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7jjzs9/HBFC_NEW_LOGObh6dp.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="384" /></span></p><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /> </p>Mary Lindowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745158429327557321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723401827206702623.post-3995814285276519782023-08-23T21:22:00.003-06:002023-08-23T21:22:22.911-06:00THE MIGHTY POWER OF GOD WILL BE DEMONSTRATED WHEN WE WALK AND PRAY<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/the-mighty-power-of-god-will-be-demonstrated-when-we-walk-and-pray/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="480" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_qRPBBD8P7FpdXuC-_QKG8oU4eND-8oMpStLOLClQLrVjmsmbz5xUjhiDhIDub4rs36wGj0w97iJahhypitNTozWRCwUUTZ3otgzLvwXUWblDy9QpwkRL_JXAML8eez1AFaHjE44eeM0TjchjrfbQ9bmnlg_iWfavDkmvFFNrbkQ7GInrBgeIXmYNGKE/w387-h253/The%20mighty%20power%20of%20prayer%20walking.JPG" width="387" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>☝︎</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Please Click Picture </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>To Listen to the VERY SPECIAL Podcast!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">By Mary Lindow</em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In this podcast I am going to share two interesting supernatural events </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">that took place in regards to “prayer walking” in two different locations. </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">If you will remember the story of the battle at Jericho, Joshua and the people who marched around that fortified city, you will know that prayer walking and praise have a potent affect!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>We would often have groups of people walk among our community near where our church facility was </b></span>and they would simply pray quietly for the neighborhoods they were walking in. Often there would be people out in their yards or sitting on their front porches, and they would stop to visit with them, simply asking if there were something they could pray about with them, and would state that they had no agenda other than just a walk through the neighborhood and to pray. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Out of that came great moments where peoples live were being touched, and changed! </b></span>These individuals would often end up coming to church where they could be loved on, discipled and find family in Christ to help them grow, or to help them through difficult times.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We knew one pastor who had everybody gather one Sunday during the service,</span> and then he gave packets of scripture verses and candy bars to groups of them or whoever was there, and said, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Today’s service is concluded! Here’s a block map for you to go walk and pray and greet your neighbors around the church!”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Imagine the shock of the people that they had to leave their comfortable church building and go out and actually be praying for their neighbors physically, and look for opportunities to help them!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The next Sunday, the building was so packed the people couldn’t believe it! </b></span>People had asked for help and asked for prayer, because someone dared to reach out to them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>THERE ARE TIMES WHEN GOD WILL STRATEGICALLY </b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b style="color: #0b5394;">SEND GROUPS OF PEOPLE </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>TO PRAY THROUGHOUT </b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS, THEIR CITIES, </b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>AND, THEIR STATES.</b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>It’s during these times when we focus on praying that the God brings about not only a change in our hearts, but he also begins to see that the land is being blessed by his people, rather than being cursed by the wicked. </b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WE ARE IN A TIME WHERE GOD IS CALLING HIS BODY TO BE ACTIVE,</b></span> and he is literally thrusting them out of the upper room experiences that they’ve been dwelling in for a long time, and sending them out into the streets to preach the gospel in love and act in kindness and in listening.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">Hey! The world is frightened right now! </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">People are terrified at what they see </span>coming against them from the </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">encroaching communist regimes. </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">They don’t know what to do! </span></b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">AND SO, HUGE PRAYER INITIATIVES </span>ARE EXPLODING EVERYWHERE!</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>But the one thing that we must not be afraid of is this to go out of the church building and walk our neighborhoods and pray,</b> </span>because this is us in action out in the highways and byways, compelling people to come in, simply by being available.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">There are times you may meet no one while you’re walking and praying but you continue to listen to the Holy Spirit! He may have you stop gently in front of someone’s home and then show you something that you need to pray about for that individual or that family.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">You just quietly pray as you walk and bless, or pray however the Holy Spirit leads you for that home.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">This is faith in action, and it is above all, love in action!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">SO NOW, FOR THE TWO SPECIFIC INTERESTING</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">PRAYER WAKING EXPERIENCES THAT I HAVE HAD </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">THAT I’D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU!</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Here we go!</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Steve and I took a team of women from across the United States</span>, to Mundolsheim, France </b>a city not far from well-known Strasbourg, France. We were working with another wonderful French ministry team, “Le Olivier” called, “The Olive Branch” in English, and we were preparing to have a multi-national women’s conference. We had built a wonderful relationship with the key leaders, Christine and Michele and we had arrived with the team of women who came from all across the United States and who paid their own way to come. Many of them were Pastoral, Counselors, Ministers, intercessors, missionaries, and also strong Christian businesswomen.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AS WE MET AND BEGAN TO PRAY AND PREPARE</b></span> for the days ahead when the conference would take place, we had a map of the city the conference was being held in on a poster board and pointed out to individual different places we would like to have everyone go walk and pray, in the community where we were going to be having the conference.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">AT THE TIME, FRANCE HAD </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">MORE RESTRICTIVE RULES ABOUT </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">RELIGIOUS GATHERINGS AND CHURCH PRACTICES THAN CHINA.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WE HAD FAVOR WITH THE CITY MAYOR. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He was a strong Lutheran who had a love for Jesus, so he did everything he could to secure the large meeting hall for us, and the team that helped us from the City Hall were lovely people.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">As we assigned different city location areas for groups of people participating in the conference as leaders or helpers, we asked them to take their Bibles and to go in groups of three or four, to begin to walk and pray for the village of Mundolshiem.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i><b>This region is a very difficult place to plow in, especially when it comes to anything that might have the power of the Holy Spirit flowing. </b></i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">We had women coming in from Brussels, France, Germany, Romania, Croatia, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and we also found out we had individuals who were led by the Lord to the conference who were from Iraq. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">This all was a result of the Lord having everyone prepare in prayer for months ahead.</u></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THE TEAMS OF THREE AND FOUR INDIVIDUALS BEGAN TO SPREAD OUT</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></b>throughout the village/city of Mundolsheim. Everyone knew that because there was a language barrier, we would not be able to talk with very many people since we did not have enough French interpreters. So, people went with the intent simply to pray and to bless this city.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">We asked the Lord to use us to bring peace and joy, and also to discern, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">how</u></em> to pray.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">During the prayer walk, one group was specifically really feeling strong to pray and intercede for salvation among the young people,</span> </b>and asked the Lord to please show them how to pray, and to please give them an indicator that they were on the right track into what they felt they were being called to pray about. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>SUDDENLY THEY BEGAN TO HEAR MUSIC DOWN THE STREET ABOUT A BLOCK AWAY. </b></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">(In France they still do open the shutters in the upper level of their homes to let air pass through!) </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The closer they got, they recognized the worship song that was very popular during that time.</em> As they approached where they could hear the music more clearly, there in the window, with his back to the window was a young man playing the guitar and worshiping the Lord in French, singing, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I will glorify the King of Kings! I will glorify the Lamb!”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He had no idea that this group of individuals was now standing down in the front of his house lifting their hands and praising God with him! When he finished his song, they began to clap and he turned around!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>HE SAW THEM PRAISING GOD AND HE JOINED IN WITH THEM,</b></span> clapping his hands and rejoicing, that even though none of them could understand each other, the common bond was, that they knew they belonged to each other because of Jesus! Everyone tried to sign language with him and he spoke a little bit of English so they told him about the conference. He was so excited to hear about it! Even though the conference was for women during the day, night sessions were opened to men.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THIS WAS A CLEAR INDICATOR </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THAT THE LORD HAD DIRECTED </span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THESE INDIVIDUALS TO PRAY </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">FOR THE YOUTH IN THAT CITY!</span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b>And, as they walked the streets and interceded, </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b>the Lord gave them a prophetic indicator </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b>that there were those in the city that were young people, </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b>called to impact that city through worship!</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">EVERY GROUP THAT WENT OUT TO WALK </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">HAD SOME KIND OF INTERESTING EVENT TAKE PLACE </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">OR AN INDICATION OF HOW TO PRAY. </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>God wastes nothing when we dedicate ourselves to his purposes!</b></span> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Not every time you prayer walk will there be something supernatural or spectacular take place in the natural, but what will take place in our heart, is that we shed fear and what we think people will think about us and we simply and quietly go serve our communities. </em>Above all of that we serve the Lord by praying for those around us, as the word of God tells to us to do.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">THE SCRIPTURE TELLS US TO PRAY </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">FOR THOSE IN AUTHORITY AND TO PRAY </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">FOR OUR CITIES, AND FOR THOSE </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">THAT ARE OUR LEADERS.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I know of groups of people who have taken time to go walk around their local city buildings very quietly without fanfare or trying to draw attention and simply prayed for all the leaders, the police force, the fire department and all those others who serve in their city communities.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">NOW, MY NEXT STORY ABOUT </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">PRAYER WALKING IS VERY RELEVANT </span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">FOR WHERE WE ARE <u>RIGHT NOW.</u></span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I urge you to listen carefully, </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b>because I believe that there will be another attempt </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">to put a complete lockdown on the United States </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b>with another forced pandemic </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b>or a “forced fear” about a pandemic. </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I urge you to be very wise and discerning about listening to the encroaching fear mongering, and continual threats against your freedoms.</span></b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>IT IS FOR THIS THAT CHRIST DIED TO SET US FREE, AND NOT TO TREMBLE UNDER THE HAND OF TYRANNY. </b></span>We are never to hide our faith under a bushel basket, or hide what we believe in order to protect ourselves from opinion.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">IT IS WHEN WE OBEY THE LORD </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">IN THE DARKEST TIMES, </span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">THAT THE GREATEST POWER,</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">AND THE GREATEST STRENGTH COMES.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I<b>N MARCH 2020, WE WERE AT PEAK LOCKDOWNS HERE IN COLORADO</b>. </span>People were so afraid of each other that even neighbors would mask and rush to their cars and not even wave at each other as if perhaps this diabolical biological weapon, would somehow be further released in a wave or in a friendly greeting.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>OUR TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE MID TO LOW 50S ON A MONDAY THAT SEEMED TO BE EXTREMELY BLEAK.</b> </span>Everywhere we turned people were in fear, and the newscasts were nonstop bombardment of fear, control, and banter.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I was in our guest room, which is also my prayer room, just pondering everything and quite weary of the noise,</span> knowing that this was not going to get better quickly.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I was looking over a bunch of scriptures that I was going to pray over my city as well as pray for our neighbors,<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and I was strongly urged by the Holy Spirit</u></span> to put on a warm coat, warm clothing and gloves, and take a walk around my neighborhood.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I was to take those scripture verses with me on my piece of paper and simply and quietly walk all of the blocks and pray those scriptures and speak peace over my neighborhood. So, I got bundled up and I told my husband Steve that I was going to go prayer walk.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I did not put a mask on. </em></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I was not going to walk in fear.</em></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Block after block, I was simply walking and praying</b> and, listening closely to the Holy Spirit </span>as to how I was to pray the scripture verses I read that were spoken out quietly.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">As I was coming down one street there was also a looped, small cul-de-sac, and so I took a left-hand turn and began to walk around the cul-de-sac.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">As I was coming around the edge of the cul-de-sac, coming back towards the street just being quiet, reading my prayers and scriptures, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u><b>I noticed that there were three young women standing outside the front of their house on the lawn drinking large cans of beer, and being generally rowdy and laughing.</b></u></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><i>I didn’t pay much attention to it because I was busy praying.</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">SUDDENLY THEY STOPPED, AND ALL OF THEM CAME TO THE EDGE OF THE SIDEWALK AND STARED AT ME</span></b></span><span style="color: #212529;"> as I was approaching to go down the other side of the street across the street from them!</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>ALL AT ONCE THEY BEGAN CUSSING AND SWEARING AT ME,</b> laughing maniacally, and then one woman in a very guttural maniacal voice began to yell,</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“We’re going to spit on you!</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">We’re going to give you Covid! </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">What are you doing out here? </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">We’re going to spit on you we’re going to breathe on you. </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cooooooooviiiiid is coming for you!”</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THEY WERE LAUGHING AND SCREECHING AND SPITTING OUT INTO THE STREET!</b></span> At this point, I had stopped just to stare at them and realized that I was seeing a full force of mocking and harassing spirits coming my direction, in complete demonic manifestation!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><i>Hmm… Apparently quiet prayer walking for your neighborhood really upsets the Demonic strongholds! </i></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I did not give them any attention and as I was walking forward, and I looked up into the sky above the house where they were, the day was overcast and had gloomy pockets of clouds so the sun was not showing for the majority the time I was walking.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>SUDDENLY, UP OVER THE TOP OF THE HOUSE THE SUN BROKE FORTH</b></span> and I was just beginning to pray in tongues asking the Lord to please keep me safe as I passed by them, because I really didn’t want them coming over to the street to engage with me if they were either drunk or fully manifesting demonic activity!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Again, as I looked up over the top of the house, suddenly the sun burst forth behind this formation in the sky, and there in the sky was a giant cloud, CLEARLY shaped like an eagle.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It’s pretty obvious from the picture in my introduction, since I did have my phone with me and I was able to snap it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I had just gotten done praying for the United States of America</span> when I was coming around the cul-de-sac, asking the Lord to protect our nation, and was led by the Spirit of God to pray regarding a need for protection in the skies, and protection over our nation.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">In Isaiah 40:31, God compares His care for His people, to that of a mother eagle who spreads her wings to cover her young and carry them away from danger.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I was crying out in prayer for our nation </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">like a Mother would for a child in grave danger! </em></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjInRveKXNBoxA-YTRHpu-i09YsvgGyb-Vui2RT-kiBMzPwq_EtFM-BNPgwR5nfBVRZ2rfsbqbyiC0TkEQ7SyTiZkU4pCqVjJw5NOxrgH11-JY0vtmyWk5DL98_UNs01xbathNlR5rVblPK2nnq0hXUl9GX91gq1lJjzdZV3ZgrK7Q28FAPZd55wm3XDQQ/s820/sky%20eagle%202020-03-16%20at%203.45.38%20AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="820" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjInRveKXNBoxA-YTRHpu-i09YsvgGyb-Vui2RT-kiBMzPwq_EtFM-BNPgwR5nfBVRZ2rfsbqbyiC0TkEQ7SyTiZkU4pCqVjJw5NOxrgH11-JY0vtmyWk5DL98_UNs01xbathNlR5rVblPK2nnq0hXUl9GX91gq1lJjzdZV3ZgrK7Q28FAPZd55wm3XDQQ/w640-h238/sky%20eagle%202020-03-16%20at%203.45.38%20AM.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">AS I SAW THAT HUGE CLOUD ABOVE ME, I STOPPED AND STARED, AND OF COURSE GOT MY PHONE OUT AND TOOK THE PICTURE</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</em></b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b> </b>I think the women thought i was getting ready to take a picture of them, because they began to really act up! </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">But as I stood there and stared in the sky, they too turn around and looked. I continued on my way and did not engage with them so I can’t honestly tell you what they thought of that formation in the sky, but I can tell you it was so obvious that no one could’ve missed it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I went around the corner and passed where they were, and they seemed to withdraw and go back into the lawn area as if something was subduing them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">As I turned down another block, and was pondering what I had just seen, the sun then went back behind the clouds and the shape was gone.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">I BEGAN TO PRAY IN TONGUES, PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT AS THE HOLY SPIRIT GUIDED ME. </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Several times I was praying, I would speak out in English the word, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“It’s a coup it’s a coup! Pray against the coup!”</em> So then I would I began to speak scriptures about God exposing every evil thing that is hidden in the darkness and to bring it into the light.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I was praying so intensely in the spirit for the next 15 minutes I vaguely remember walking a couple blocks and I was at this point, walking pretty quickly and purposefully</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">AS I CAME AROUND ANOTHER BLOCK, THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN AND HIS WIFE GETTING OUT OF THEIR PICK UP TRUCK WITH A BABY,</span> </b>and they had masks on. I was walking more down the middle of the street because it was a quiet neighborhood street, and as I walked by them I smiled at them and waved and I said, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I hope you’re OK! Have a peaceful afternoon, don’t be afraid.” </em> The young man turned around and stopped and looked at me like a deer in the headlights. And then he said, “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thank you so much. I appreciate that so much!”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">All it took was one kind word, </em></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">one risk to engage, </em></span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and someone stopped and felt that love </em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and felt that connection.</em></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE PRESENCE OF GOD FLOWS OUT OF US</b></span> like the virtue flowed out of Jesus for the woman who had the issue of blood. He said he felt virtue leave him when she touched the hem of his garment.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">WHEN WE ARE BUSY OUT AND ABOUT </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">PRAYER WALKING, </span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">BEING CARRIERS </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">OF THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST, </span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">BRINGING PRAYER INTO DARK PLACES, </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">WE ARE EMANATING A LIGHT </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THAT WE MAY NOT SEE, </span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">BUT IT IMPACTS THOSE AROUND US.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Obviously the demonic forces in my neighborhood didn’t like that I was out praying</em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">and breaking strongholds of fear and critical judgment against each other in our neighborhood! </span></em></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">So what did the evil darkness tried to do try turn around and threaten me, </span>actually it gave itself away!</i></b> The enemy let me know exactly that he knew I was out praying for my neighborhood and that he was going to threaten me with spit or Covid!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Needless to say, I knew I was on to something!</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>You do not need to have some large ministry or some affiliation with a group to go prayer walk! </b></span>You as a single, individual believer can walk in all the authority you need to go walk in the power of Christ and pray for your neighborhood!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">MANY PEOPLE SAY, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN!”</em></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">So, I’m going to give you some simple, easy guidelines.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Don’t make it difficult! As you walk and pray, the Holy Spirit will guide you!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Here are a few instructions and guidelines on how to prayer walk and, WHY to prayer walk!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WHAT IS PRAYER WALKING?</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">First of all it’s following the example that Jesus gave us in Luke 10 try to go out in twos if possible.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">In <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Ezekiel 22 verses 30 through 31</b></span> it shows us that we are we’re standing in the gap for people by praying for people! Standing there in prayer for them between heaven and their lives.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Then in<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <b>Luke 10:19</b></span> it says, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus gave us authority over the enemy, so as we pray, we begin to stand firm against the strongholds in our neighborhoods or cities.</em> In <b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matthew 18:14</span> </b>it states that we have to seek God‘s guidance in whom we approach when we are prayer walking.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">WHEN YOU GET READY TO PRAYER WALK,</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">THE FIRST THING TO DO IS TO SET</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">AN INTENTION FOR YOUR WALK.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">There are multiple possibilities as to why you’re going to take a walk and pray.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>First of al</b>l</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">think about praying for your community.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Pay attention to the details around you.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">What do you see that needs your prayer?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">There may be a home on the street that looks impoverished or perhaps it looks like it might even possibly be a location where there is crime taking place.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Explore a question situation with God! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Ask God to help you discover truth! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">ASK THE LORD WHAT IS HE WANTING YOU TO SEE,</span> </b>then if you’re meditating on a passage or a verse of scripture like psalms, as you walk keep referring to the piece of scripture that helps you meditate on the word, and speak the word as you’re praying. That’s why I take notes with me. Just a little piece of paper with scriptures so I know that I am praying the word of God over my neighborhood.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Simply enjoy being in the presence of God and in nature. </span>It’s wonderful!</b> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Enjoy the beauty around you and the Divine presence of God.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I would recommend to pray before you start walking and also be open to God’s leading in this time of walking.</span> If you see people on your walk, you can say hi! If you happen to strike up a conversation, feel free to ask them if they have anything you could pray for.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">WHEN YOU FINISH YOUR WALK</span> </b>just as you’re coming home, give thanks to God for this time that you’ve had praying for your city and tell him how much you love your neighborhood and that you want these people to feel the love of God.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I call this <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Prayer walking made easy”. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>When Steve and I were pastoring or when we knew that there was a situation going on in our community</b> we looked to partner with God, or in a new area, we’d start by prayer walking the streets to prepare our hearts for the harvest.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We see throughout the Bible that God calls people to walk the land and as we do, this physical act becomes a spiritual one! </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">In Genesis 3:17 it says,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Go walk through the length and breadth of the land for I am giving it to you!” </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WOW! I like that one!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Joshua 13 says,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I will give you every place that your foot touches as promised to Moses”</span>,</em> so prayer walking helps is to really see the area and its people through God‘s eyes.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WE CAN HEAR WHAT GOD IS SAYING</b>, </span>and get an understanding of how the Holy Spirit might want to engage the people who live there, and when we pray or walk, all our senses become part of our prayer as sights, smells and sounds prompts our discussion with God.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand that prayer walking is not about standing on a street corner praying out loud and preaching!</span> It’s a time of learning, listening. and importantly, intercession on behalf of the people that we want to reach. It’s very important that we know how to pray when we’re prayer walking, so ideally if you can find a friend to walk with you. It’s nice to have someone to be in agreement with while you’re walking.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Each of you can pray and take turns </span>to just walk the streets of your neighborhood silently. praying for each person, each house, and praying for specific needs if you know them or, just pray for God‘s truth and blessings for each person.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>PRAYER WALKING SHOULD BE LOW PROFILE. </b></span>You don’t need to carry a huge Bible, pray out loud, or tell everybody what you’re doing.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Just quietly pray as you walk. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THERE ARE TIMES WHEN PEOPLE </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">ARE REALLY FORGETTING </span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THAT </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">WE CAN PRAYER WALK FOR THE SCHOOLS </span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">THAT CHILDREN ARE GOING TO!</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>What do we pray for</b>? </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">We pray for the coaches and teachers, the bus drivers, the traffic directors, the cafeteria staff, front office staff, the school nurse, security personnel, especially pray for the superintendents of the schools right now!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">We definitely need to see </u></em></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">a move of God among school boards!</u></em></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>We need to pray for arts teachers and school counselors</b></span> who need wisdom in assessing the needs of children and pray that they are not forcing harmful narratives on them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We need to pray for classroom teachers</span> </b>that they use efficient time management and creative planning and love the children and teach them well, not indoctrinate them!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Special education teachers</b> need prayers </span>so very much, and <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">we need to pray for <b>new students.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The big thing to pray for in schools is for bullies. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">When I taught school, the bullies would even bully the teachers! This is a stronghold that comes against teachers! It comes against tenderhearted students or young students coming into the schools.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">BULLIES USE A STRONGHOLD </span></b></u></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">OF CONTROL AND SHAME!</span></b></u></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><u> </u></b></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><u>We need prayer for specific care above all during this time where we have so much child abduction, taking place,</u></b> definitely </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">praying for children who walk to school, that they would make wise decisions and be alert to cars and people and Safety. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I encourage you to pray specifically with the names of teachers if you know them and be sure to include prayers of thanks.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">WE BEGIN TO PRAISE GOD </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">AS WE SEE </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">CHANGE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS </span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">TAKING PLACE DUE TO PRAYER</span></b></span><span style="color: #212529; text-align: start;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Now!</b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I WILL GIVE YOU A SPECIFIC STORY</span> </b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AS I FINISH THIS PO</b>DCAST. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">We had a family that lived across the street in one of the homes near us who lived there many years and they had one young daughter. I’ll say her name is “J” because I don’t want to give her name away. She was a darling little girl, but there was tension between Mom and Dad.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Eventually, Mom and Dad moved out and the house became a rental to some lovely people that lived there.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Now understand, every now and then this couple would come over to check on their house/property, and their little girl would be there. As she grew up she always came across the street to talk to us because she enjoyed visiting with Steve and I and our boys, and then as our boys got older and left home, she would still come over and we would always visit with her.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">She knew that we were ministers or pastors at one time, but we never pushed anything on her.</span> We simply showed her love and always gave her cookies at Christmas.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>FAST-FORWARD, 15 YEARS.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Suddenly her dad and mom have been divorced for years and her dad has decided to let her live in the home by herself as a single adult. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Who are the first people that she decides to come over and talk to?</u></em><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </u>You guessed it! Steve and I!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">More and more she would come across the street or we would meet her at the edge of the sidewalk and just chat about lawn mowing, the weather, and, she got a new puppy.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">ON A SPRING EVENING THIS YEAR,</span> I</b> invited her to come over for coffee and sit on the front porch to enjoy the beautiful evening. We were going to come inside, but her new puppy wanted to run around out in the front yard area so we sat on the area instead.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>Slowly, but surely she began to tell me her story.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">What heartache she had experience through her parents divorce. What she had just recently gone through with the Covid pandemic, and having to bury both of her grandparents, because her mother had a complete breakdown.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><b>This young woman is just now 21 years old. </b>We sat there and I talked and laughed with her and let her share her deep, innermost sorrows and fears. I held her in my arms as she began to weep and cry out of despair and feeling so lost knowing that her Dad was going to soon remarry, and she was being rejected and belittled by the new woman in his life and her daughters.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">This lead me to be able to gently task her is she had ever thought about asking God to show himself to her?</span> Have you ever said, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“If you’re real, please let me know who you are.” </em>She has had plenty of counseling from a secular counselor, she has relatives who come from a cultish spiritual background, and have tried to force it on her.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">So, when I told her that she can ask God to show himself to her, that he loves her and that he can handle her anger, that he could handle her asking him this, it was like an entire new world for her! She went home, smiling and happy and hugged me again, and again.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We have waved as she drives by. </span>She’s come over and talks on the lawn.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">A few times we’ve given her some baked goods or fresh vegetables from our garden, and we’ve left it alone.<b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>BUT, SHE CONTINUES TO GRAVITATE BACK TOWARDS OUR HOME BECAUSE SHE FEELS SOMETHING.</b></span> She had told me she felt so safe and calm when she was around me. I told her that’s the kindness of God that you’re feeling, and his peace. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">(She wasn’t sure about that. She thought maybe it was just because we were nice people!) </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I’m looking forward to the next time that I can have Miss “J” over to our home and love her, and continue to plant seeds into her heart. Every Thursday night when we have our prayer gathering we pray for Miss “J”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Sometimes I’ll just stretch my hand out towards her house when I’m looking through the window blinds and pray for her.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Maybe you’ll join me in praying for Miss “J” as well?</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">I feel the Holy Spirit would have me to say to many of you </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">who are reading or listening to this and have been asking the Lord,</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">“What part can I do?</span></b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">What can I do to change anything?</span></b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">Everything is so dark and frightening </span></b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">and I’m at my wits end!”</span></b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I CAN TELL YOU THIS! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">There are people tonight who will lose their homes due to the mounting cost of living.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">There are people tonight who have their children who will not talk to them, because they are Christians and the children despise their parents.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I can tell you tonight that there are many people who are weeping and crying, because they have no one to tell about how close they are to losing everything.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I can tell you in my life it’s become very tight on many levels. Being a pastoral counselor we keep our fees low so that we CAN help people, but when people are choosing between groceries and gasoline and a house payment that everything is skyrocketing in expense, the first thing they tend to do, is just stop coming for counseling. So, that drastically affects my way of living too!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Churches are feeling the pinch</b></span> because people are not able to give as freely or as generously. This then shuts down opportunities and the opportunities of other to go and speak and minister in different places because the church needs to pay their utilities before they pay for a guest minister! <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yes! I’m feeling it just like everybody else is! </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">IF you’re NOT feeling it. </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 18.399999618530273px;">If you have everything in a good place in your life and you have plenty of financial security,</span><span style="font-size: 18.399999618530273px;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18.399999618530273px;">then be a blessing to someone who isn’t. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>HELP OTHERS! PRAY FOR THEM!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Pray for those in your neighborhood who look worn down, those who have yards that perhaps are not as well tended to anymore because they’re working two and three jobs. You may even volunteer to mow their lawn just to show love and compassion!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>BELIEVERS! DEAR ONES!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Let us not love merely in theory with words or with giving lip service to compassion, </b></em></span>but in action and in truth, in practice and in sincerity, because practical acts of love are more than words. - I John 3:18</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">One of the greatest things that we </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">can possibly ever do, </span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">is to go and walk </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">and pray for our neighbors, our cities, </span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">our states, our nations.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>GOD HAS CALLED US TO BE A PEOPLE OF PRAYER</b></span> and I encourage you to go march around your city and speak against the strongholds that are trying to destroy your children’s education, destroy your freedoms, and to take away your ability to function!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">THE LORD WANTS THE WALLS OF JERICHO </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">AROUND YOUR NATION TO COME DOWN, </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">BUT HE CALLS UPON HIS PEOPLE </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">TO OBEY HIM AND DO THAT KIND OF </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">LABOR OF LOVE BY PRAYING.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>In fact, let’s pray right now!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Heavenly Father!</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I come to you in the name of Jesus and I thank you Lord Jesus that prayer walking is a desire of your heart. Not only is it good for our spiritual health, but it’s also good for our heart muscle as we walk! </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I thank you that you will use this message to stir people to realize that sitting around and just waiting for something to happen isn’t fruitful. </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Lord as we get up and move, I ask that you help us to be discerning and open to the things of your spirit, and Lord if a manifestation takes place or an opportunity to pray for someone happens, help us to record it and write it down to remember the things that you have done! </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Lord I am so grateful that someone recorded the story of the road to Emmaus when you walked with the two disciples. You were walking and talking and sharing with them, and out of that came the great amazement that they realized it was you speaking to them! </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Father, I bless every person listening to me today, and I speak peace over their storm, in the name of Jesus. </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I see that your word says no weapon that is being formed against them will utterly prosper against them, that you will come and rescue the desperate and the destitute, and the fearful.</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Father break off any shame, or any sense of great humiliation for being in struggles or difficulty right now.</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Break off the shame of being embarrassed because things are tight or uncomfortable financially for many Lord!</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I ask that you show each individual that you are a loving God and that you provide even at the very last moment.</em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Lord I ask that you would open up generosity in the hearts of people in your body to care for one another like they did in the book of Acts. </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Train your people to be people of battle, train their feet to walk and to march in prayer and prepare us Lord Jesus for the harvest that will come across the globe. </span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">We ask for your loving face and mercy to flow throughout our neighborhoods and we ask this because we love you Father. </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I ask this in the mighty, glorious name, the name of Jesus Christ the Messiah, the Great Redeemer, Yeshua. </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">AMEN.</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS PODCAST ! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I would sure love to hear from some of you</b> <b>if you decide to go out and do some prayer walking and perhaps have some exciting events take place!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><i>I’m convinced that this will happen for you, because I’ve seen it happen over and over again!</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I Bless You Today in the Name of Jesus! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I want to thank those of you who have been so gracious to help in assisting me produce, publishing and storing these podcasts! </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I thank you all for your kindness and your notes and emails that come to me as well as your prayer requests. I don’t just look past them!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I’d like to let you that know I can’t comment on some of your comments posted on my podcast site or blog,</b></u></span> because in order to comment I have to pay for an extended premium account and I’m not going to do that just to be able to make comments!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Please know that I read and see everything you say and it so encourages me!</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;">I want to thank you for today’s time spent together </span><span style="text-align: center;">and I look forward to our next podcast.</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>Please visit my website at <a href="http://www.marylindow.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">www.marylindow.com</a> to listen to more podcasts and read about all the Lord is doing! 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="384" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Pnl5-ZwtuYCVUbY6xXvyYustfKeFbshKu8JwKS_1wyGEdHSqvKfsK_jA7MCtxnBt41zWXCPV9e2XOMlNiGgVhixiwbc8qgg1KrHJWJX_Y8AWdp-J6PeTNoFBV963rH5SsfqOV1nKE34HVpiHFPYrCnT9AhVPoOyKfXPIw6xfR7CnDpZsfFtPA4kBCgA/s320/HBFC_NEW_LOGObh6dp.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></b><p></p><b><span style="color: #073763;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="text-align: start;" /></span></b></div><p><br /></p>Mary Lindowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745158429327557321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723401827206702623.post-65032255865913627072023-07-26T22:22:00.000-06:002023-07-26T22:22:02.309-06:00"THE HAND OF GOD OVER YOUR CITY" - A WORD AND A WARNING<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-47aqb-1466974" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJDXVYd_t0vPKPYRNYhUGeO834AhomQb4v6u-SFxC_Ds-rkC6xrB6kOpxK8swsyDSOs5aO7g9ts9_0LejoUWQL_hbJUA8v2VqEZFBgYQUDYyRwQbTEd2ixswD4teU4sARu6cbAStxJ9M6OGBQkC-FLJkiK84FGCATeAtxvjhndsqda1mo7GwGp6Mg_YVM/w400-h266/hand%20of%20God%20over%20city.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">👆</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: verdana;">TO LISTEN TO THIS MESSAGE PLEASE CLICK THE PICTURE</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>By Mary Lindow</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>In this podcast I will be speaking about an experience that I had which was completely unexpected, yet several consecutive things took place indicating a Word and warning from the Lord regarding our City.</b></span> This happened in late August of 2019, right before the WuhanCovid19 biological disaster was unleashed, shortly after. This is a difficult message somewhat for me to deliver yet, it’s also a wonderful insight for us all during such volatile and darks days.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>This podcast was unusually difficult to pull together, due to several events that simultaneously warred against us.</b> </span>Pipes broke in our home and we are still sorting out that situation with great difficulty. I was suddenly very ill with a kidney/bladder situation, (I’ve never had any problems previously,) and my husband was then in pain with a sudden kidney stone! We took this to prayer along with several others praying for and with us and have seen the Lord do the work of restoring our bodies. The pipes are still in a place of prayer and decisions about what to do. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>BUT! <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">God sees it all and knows the answer!</em></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Now! Lets get to the podcast! <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s an intense but import message from the Lord at this time.</em></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></em></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">OFTEN THE LORD WILL LET US SEE THINGS OR CATALOG THINGS,</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">AND THEN HE WILL PUT THESE ALL TOGETHER AND SPEAK CLEARLY ABOUT WHY HE LET US SEE OR HEAR SOME OF THEM</span>.</b> It’s not always easy to communicate what the Lord shows you prophetically, but I’m going to give it my best and trust that the Holy Spirit will let you hear what you’re supposed to hear, and see what you’re supposed to see.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>My husband, Steve, and I went to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s to see “The DaVinci Experience”</b>.</span> I had purchased surprise birthday tickets for Steve since his birthday is in late August. As we were driving around looking for a parking space, the lots were absolutely chaotic since the location of this event also had multiple huge displays and different events going on. We finally pulled into a space quite a distance away and hurriedly got out of the car and quickly headed towards the building that the presentation and creations that DaVinci had made, were being displayed. We had a specific time slot to be in line for or we would lose our entry to view the exhibit.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">As we went in</span>,</b> we noticed that to the left a section there were all of the musical instruments and many copies of DaVinci’s paintings and amazing inventions that literally changed the world. On the right hand side, there were large, 20-foot graphics, and then reproductions of all of the machines of war that DaVinci drew and created. He was one of the first catapult engineers! As we read about his life, he was known to have extreme artistic talent and precision engineering types of abilities, but in order for him to finance his creative artistic gift, he also had to create weapons of destruction in order for the wealthy to support him.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We moved on further into a large room</span> </b>that had multiple multimedia cameras positioned on huge canvases, and we watched beautiful movement and saw his most amazing art creations, projected onto massive screens with gorgeous music accompanying these. <b>As we moved out of that room and walked around and were looking at a few more items that were created by DaVinci, I looked up and on the wall there was a statement that DaVinci had made.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I didn’t quite know why at the time but I was impressed to take a picture of it.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Here is what the statement said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>"There are three classes of people: </b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Those who see, </b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Those who see when they are shown, </b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Those who do not see."</b></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="davinci_quote70b8o.jpeg" height="256" src="https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/abwzh3/davinci_quote70b8o.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="382" /></em></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Steve and I finished the exhibit</span> and went out into the parking lot </b>and as we were walking towards our car, I looked in front of our car and realized we had parked in front of a large, silver colored, aluminum light pole.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Right In The Middle Of That Pole In Front Of Our Car </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Someone Had Carefully Used Some Kind Of A Tool To Hammer A Perfect Indentation Of A Goblet Or What Some Might Call A Cup</span>.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I pointed this out to Steve and I said, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Why would there be a cup right where that “pole is” where we are parked?”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Again, the Holy Spirit prompted me to take a picture </b>of what I saw.</span> So I did. Picture below. ( As a side note, the last name of our extreme liberal governor is Pol-is).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_AC0AJAClzxgcE7ajA4fQXRjyQEtoQZiV36PcMimdEQ_oVXGdSURK61tN33XATwoLp6ABmj9uIpGRRlsAniUU2yUUI_rzrKSlt25Bg_Bn8dtpAuZ6zPBonu1kc3VA-19rH65lPzX6sMJVcnOoQWr_o1SWJ_A8jtDnO9jz8NZJAKAowPwgmnDDVw1gpVc/s288/cup%20on%20pole.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="288" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_AC0AJAClzxgcE7ajA4fQXRjyQEtoQZiV36PcMimdEQ_oVXGdSURK61tN33XATwoLp6ABmj9uIpGRRlsAniUU2yUUI_rzrKSlt25Bg_Bn8dtpAuZ6zPBonu1kc3VA-19rH65lPzX6sMJVcnOoQWr_o1SWJ_A8jtDnO9jz8NZJAKAowPwgmnDDVw1gpVc/s1600/cup%20on%20pole.jpeg" width="288" /></a></div><br /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>We stopped to have a birthday meal and enjoyed ourselves and then began the trek back home on Interstate 25.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We reached a specific place on the highway</span> </b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>where you’re up above on a higher curve that turns towards the north.</b> </span>To the left you can see the full Rocky Mountain Front Range. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">The traffic was at a standstill when we hit this section and it was bumper-to-bumper.</u></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">As we were sitting there, talking about the strangeness of the DaVinci art show, </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>I happened to look out my window, which was on the right side of the car.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Directly To My Right Up In The Sky Was A Giant Hand-Shaped Cloud.</span> </b>It was stretched out, reaching out over the capital or pointing toward the Capital hill area of Denver. It was so clear and obvious that people were rolling down their windows and staring, and of course phones with cameras were snapping up the picture!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Again The Holy Spirit Said, “Take A Picture Of This”</b>, And We Were Pretty Stunned To See Something So Extremely Clear In The Sky. </span>Down in the corner of the picture when I got home and looked at it again, was a billboard sign that said, “plumbers wanted”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30FdO00PAJw7g-sCGOZap49EAp2dKQ2QfAq555443MSRgUraZzViKUW6zxMDQavPWH3uRIJI8xCnsoA-V0R_KeVN__4EOCxpLoBb3zzyi3LLhmrYU54eiiCchi2oG18iBnNDNjD2kAyh0A0ZkM1kh1olAyjUkw6l_lo8Fua8P9GX96sPE1eXMDrPwhus/s2323/Untitled.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2072" data-original-width="2323" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30FdO00PAJw7g-sCGOZap49EAp2dKQ2QfAq555443MSRgUraZzViKUW6zxMDQavPWH3uRIJI8xCnsoA-V0R_KeVN__4EOCxpLoBb3zzyi3LLhmrYU54eiiCchi2oG18iBnNDNjD2kAyh0A0ZkM1kh1olAyjUkw6l_lo8Fua8P9GX96sPE1eXMDrPwhus/s320/Untitled.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Of course, at the time I had no idea how all three of these pictures</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">were going to come together,</span> </b>but we don’t always know what the Holy Spirit is putting together in the moment when he is showing us things that he wants us to observe and pray about. .</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>FOR MONTH AFTER MONTH I WAS PRAYING AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE LORD WAS SAYING TO ME ABOUT ALL OF THESE THINGS HE HAD ME SEE.</b></span> Meanwhile, the legislation in the state of Colorado and bills that were being passed by them were becoming more and more restrictive and excessively contentious, and diabolical in their approach. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THEN, ONE DAY, AS I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT EVERYTHING </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AND PRAYING, </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE PICTURES ALL CAME BACK TO MY MIND.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The Holy Spirit began to speak to me about the hand of God over our city,</b></span> and I was immediately reminded of the picture of the hand that I had taken in the sky.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">This hand was the right hand outstretched in the sky, towards the city of Denver, </span>a</b>nd it almost looked as if there was another hand below it reaching towards it, but it was more faint.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WHEN GOD’S HAND IS STRETCHED OUT OVER A CITY </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>OR TOWARDS AN INDIVIDUAL, </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>IT IS BECAUSE HE WANTS TO EITHER BLESS THE CITY, </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WARN THE CITY, OR JUDGE A CITY. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the Book of Daniel chapter five there was the hand of God that wrote on the wall of a feast taking place</span>.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Belshazzar, the son of King Nabonidus, began to co-reign over the Babylonian empire with his father starting in 553 B.C. He decides, in 539, to hold in Babylon a great feast for one thousand of his nobles (Daniel 5:1).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>No expense is spared in carrying out the lavish banquet!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">During the revelry Belshazzar, now drunk from wine, commands that the holy vessels Nebuchadnezzar took from Jerusalem's temple be brought to the festivities. He then proceeds to have himself and his honored guests drink from these gold and silver goblets. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">T<b>he party guests soon begin to use the vessels, in a contemptuous act against God, to celebrate and praise their own pagan deities!</b></em><b> </b>(Daniel 5:2 - 4)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE MIRACULOUS HANDWRITING</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><i>As those at the massive banquet continue to indulge in drunkenness and idolatry, the fingers of a man's hand miraculously appear near one of the hall's walls.</i></b> The supernatural manifestation then begins writing on a wall the now well-known words, "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" (Daniel 5:25).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>BELSHAZZAR, WHILE HE IS WITNESSING GOD'S HANDWRITING, BECOMES TERRIFIED.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The fear welling up inside of him not only causes his face to turn pale but also his knees to knock together! His now weakened state causes him to fall to the ground (Daniel 5:5 - 6).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THIS WAS WORTHLESS AND VAIN</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Pulling himself together, Belshazzar calls for his enchanters and astrologers to interpret the mysterious words. They, of course, prove to be worthless and unable to determine the meaning of the phrase on the wall. Following his wife's suggestion (Daniel 5:10 - 12), the king summons an old man named Daniel (likely in his 90's).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Daniel severely chastises the king for not reeling in his excessive pride and vanity,</span> even though he knew God punished King Nebuchadnezzar’s pride. He then interprets the handwriting on the wall for the king.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>A TRUE INTERPRETATION</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The literal word for word translation of "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" in Daniel 5:25 is "numbered" "weighed" and "divided up or split". Daniel goes into detail and tells Belshazzar that "mene" means God has numbered his kingdom and will end it. The word "tekel" suggested this judgment was due to the king's character being found morally deficient or wanting.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">BELSHAZZAR IS KILLED SEVERAL HOURS AFTER SEEING THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL</span>.</b> The Persians overrun the city of Babylon (Daniel 5:31). The once great empire receives its final crushing blow when later the same year Persia's Cyrus the Great is victorious at the battle of Opis in Mesopotamia.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD HAS SHOWN ME THAT THE MEANING OF THESE THINGS THAT I SAW AND DOCUMENTED IN PICTURES,</b> </span>the words on the wall in the DaVinci display, the cup or chalice that was hammered on the light pole in front of where our car was parked, and then, of course, seeing the hand in the sky, are three things that really address one thing.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>REMEMBER The DaVinci statement was.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>"There are three classes of people: </i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>Those who see, </i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>Those who see when they are shown, </i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>Those who do not see."</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">-Leonarde DaVinci</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">MANY PEOPLE ARE SEEING THAT GOD IS CALLING THEM INTO A DEEPER PLACE OF GENUINE PURITY</span>,</b> not a “religious” rigid, holiness, but a Divine holiness of love and faithfulness. It’s a choice to be obedient to God and these people see that God is asking them to walk a pure path with him.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>They are hearing God speak in the difficult times that we are in and they are seeing him in a way they have not experienced before.</b></span> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">These people are alive with the pursuit of the will of God for their lives and are in daily communication with God.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE SECOND GROUP OF PEOPLE ARE THOSE WHO WILL “SEE WHEN THEY ARE SHOWN”. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><i><b>These individuals walk in a very shallow faith and need to have facts and data that match their narrative, or match the way that “they” think. </b></i>These are the people that we are to compel to seek God, to seek truth and to not seek the modern day constant “shifting of truths”, in order to convince people to follow a less then accurate way.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Individuals like this often doubt that there is only one way for salvation through Jesus Christ as the Savior and King.</span> They dabble in light occult practices and in different forms of soul-driven “self care” practices, in order to please their flesh, as well as feed their need to be in control.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">They walk in a very immature level of weak faith and often are distracted or led by emotions and feelings regarding decision-making. </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This is where deception easily creeps in and the louder voices of human reasoning, choke out the pure word of God.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE THIRD GROUP OF PEOPLE ARE THOSE WHO DO NOT SEE. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><i>They absolutely remain blinded. </i></b>They remain stuck, and they choose to not believe the warnings around them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">In John 9:39 Jesus said,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“For judgment I have come into this world, </em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">so that the blind will see </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and those who see will become blind.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AS I PONDERED THESE THINGS,</b></span> and began thinking about the communion type looking cup or chalice on the light pole in front of our car, that was literally chiseled or hammered into the metal, no matter how much I tried to reason with myself that this didn’t mean anything, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">the Holy Spirit would not let up.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Then the Lord began to speak to me and said that this is the cup that our governor in Colorado has chosen to drink from.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I remembered my statement when I saw the cup chiseled into the light pole as we were standing there. I vividly remember saying to my husband, “look at what is hammered onto where the pole is!” (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our governor’s name last name is Po-lis</em>).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AND SO THE LORD BEGAN TO SPEAK ABOUT HIM TO ME</b>,</span> and, yes, we have prayed and prayed for him, and prayed that he would have his eyes opened, but in fact, he’s becoming more and more like the tyrant king Belshazzar in Daniel, who defied everything in order to build his kingdom. His lavish and wicked ways have multiplied evil and death in our state.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Many Governors and leaders are drinking from a cup of deception, sexual perversion, the murdering of children, and tyrannical law.</b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>GOD’S HAND IS OUTSTRETCHED. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It was outstretched in the sky, pointing towards our state capital.</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">God is saying to the state of corrupt Colorado, and of course, to many other states specifically that his hand is outstretched to those who will see and help, and who will obey the voice of God. </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">But for those that have to be shown, and for those who will not see, there is a cup to be drunk from that will be of utter sorrow and great destruction.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">What amazed me about this outstretched hand in the sky was that people were at a dead stop on the highway and were all taking pictures</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Everyone knew it was a phenomenon and an unusually strange cloud!</span> They knew it was something strange because they were taking pictures of it!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>DOWN BELOW, IN THE RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE PICTURE</b></span> (as I was looking at again), you can see that there is an advertisement sign that was on the opposite side of the median.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Now Hiring” - Plumber Service. Apply Within. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWAivhPefPapigzH8brXf84PzZfzv5X1K76NPgDlQEIPs7L47NMVfc7LRS-je8IaBVlFkVQnhSgMU-G6V_ZtlzI-rojOqxj-r98CSQw3d2ppzvx1KWVWF_fpXyacmE_BgT9M12DNrNNLPq4JvVdXRjobBR5aYpU65bju4kkL-tcvBJXAe7Zo5BmaMD0U/s461/car%20hand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="461" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWAivhPefPapigzH8brXf84PzZfzv5X1K76NPgDlQEIPs7L47NMVfc7LRS-je8IaBVlFkVQnhSgMU-G6V_ZtlzI-rojOqxj-r98CSQw3d2ppzvx1KWVWF_fpXyacmE_BgT9M12DNrNNLPq4JvVdXRjobBR5aYpU65bju4kkL-tcvBJXAe7Zo5BmaMD0U/s320/car%20hand.jpg" width="320" /></a>👈</div><br /><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>I was asking the Lord why that picture seemed to be significant because I was impressed to continue looking at it, and then he revealed to me why he wanted me to pay more attention to it.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Most all of us all know that plumbers come to do some very difficult work in our homes. One of the most messy and unpleasant jobs is when they have to bring in a rotor-rooter system that needs to unclog drainpipes in order for debris and sewage and water to be able to pass through freely.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE LORD IMPRESSED ME WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT PRAYER AND INTERCESSION IS MUCH LIKE PLUMBING.</b></span> Those devoted to prayer stay consistent and persistent as they push against the darkness, the blockages and the strongholds that “stop-up” and keep the free flow of the Spirit of God in their cities.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>INTERCESSORS KNOW THAT THE CONSISTENT APPLICATION OF PRAYER IN SPECIFIC AREAS HAS TO BE DONE WITH THE INTENT OF FOCUSED AND PURPOSEFUL PRAYER.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">COLORADO HAS MANY DEMONIC STRONGHOLDS, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">AND THE DARKNESS HAS ENCROACHED AND INCREASED.</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Colorado’s governor signed into law that there can be no “conversion therapy” permitted by any counselor, licensed psychiatrists or licensed, registered or certified mental health providers, in the state of Colorado according to the Movement Advancement Project.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Read here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/bdf4fs95" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/bdf4fs95</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">This basically means that anyone who would want to leave a homosexual lifestyle or any other kind of sexually deviant lifestyle attached to that, cannot be counseled, as to how to do that. It is called fantasy. It is called impossibility and, it is called illegal! Christians who believe the Bible opposes homosexuality should be given “the freedom to choose counseling and support that’s one with their goals," but that the current legal trend prevents parents from doing so. If you’re a parent and you have a 5-year-old boy who’s confused about his identity, in Colorado you can’t find a licensed counselor who will help him embrace his masculine identity, and that’s a travesty.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">However, Colorado law does allow for “gender-affirming care,” such as hormone therapy, for minor children, with parental consent. But, youth can access mental health care without parental consent at age of 12, which means psychotherapy of any kind, including gender-affirming counseling, is available for children 12 and older. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Some states, including California, want to prohibit such therapy/counseling for adults as well.</em></p><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Governor Polis also urged individuals to lie to their family members and “privately” get one of the controversial COVID-19 vaccines while engaging in deception, to keep loved ones who may be against the vaccines from finding out.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: left;">His Direct Quote:<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em></div><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="text-align: left;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“A spouse, a parent you live with who doesn’t want to get it, is against it… you can still privately get that vaccine without your parents or partner knowing, if that’s what keeps the harmony in the family and you are protecting yourself.” </em>Source: https://tinyurl.com/yc7fe25b</div></em><div style="text-align: left;">UNDERSTAND, Colorado does not make exceptions for minors to receive the COVID-19 vaccine or any vaccine without parental permission.<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THIS IS WHERE THE CHURCH MUST TO COME INTO PLAY.</b></span> Ministers who are men and women of God must be available to help break the darkness, break down the lies, break down the narratives by praying and being available to the Lord (like a plumber), to clear out this blockage that is causing great difficulty in the homes and lives around them, and the hearts of many believers.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>They must preach the truth regarding sexually deviant practices and pushes to influence little children that are taking place in our world. </b></u></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>It must be done biblically and it must be done in love. </b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>ANOTHER THING THAT THIS GOVERNOR HAS SIGNED OFF INTO LAW IS THAT A CHILD CAN BE ABORTED UP TO THE VERY DAY OF BIRTH.</b></span> That means a full-term baby can be murdered within seconds of being born. This is a great evil in our land, and it is a great evil to sign into law in any state!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Read about it here:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/mpfr6dkw" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">https://tinyurl.com/mpfr6dkw</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AND SO, WE, THE INTERCESSORS OF GOD, MUST PRAY. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The part that stood out to me above all the others on the advertisement sign were the words “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">apply within</em>”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">When we are intercessors for the Lord, when we are as human beings called by the Lord as believers to pray, and to do the work of intercession in prayer, to bring about a godly plumb line in our city, <b>GOD IS LOOKING FOR THOSE THAT HE CAN “EMPLOY” or, "HIRE" TO GET THE JOB DONE.</b></span><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THE FATHER IS LOOKING FOR WORKERS </span>WHO ARE WILLING TO STAND IN THE GAP AND PRAY UNTIL CHANGE COMES. </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>But, it has to be applied within.</b></em> Each of us has to apply that prayer to our own lives as well as seeking God, asking him to purify our hearts so that when we pray, our prayers are not hindered, and, so that the Lord hears them, from a pure heart.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We have to apply intercession “within first” so that the hand of God can move without the land.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD?</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">In ancient times, a person with a high or highest rank stood to the king's right side. Even today, a person may be called someone's "right hand man" or "wingman" when he or she serves as the closest person to another leader. An example of this can be found in <a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Gen%2048.13-14" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">Genesis 48:13-14</a> where Jacob blessed the child who would receive a greater blessing with his right hand. The right hand of God also relates to this concept of someone being right next to God, acknowledging both authority and closeness to Him.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WHILE GOD THE FATHER DOES NOT CONSIST OF A PHYSICAL BODY LIKE HUMANS DO, THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD IS OFTEN USED FIGURATIVELY IN SCRIPTURE.</b></span> In the Old Testament, the phrase is used to refer to the coming Messiah. <a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ps%20110.1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">Psalm 110:1</a>predicts, "The LORD says to my Lord: 'Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool'" (also quoted in <a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matt%2022.44" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">Matthew 22:44</a>). <a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ps%20118.16" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">Psalm 118:16</a> adds, "the right hand of the LORD exalts, the right hand of the LORD does valiantly!"</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">In the New Testament, we see expressions of this phrase in reference to Jesus Christ. <a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Eph%201.20-21" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">Ephesians 1:20-21</a> says, "…that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Rom%208.34" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">Romans 8:34</a> teaches, "Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD THEN, IS A REFERENCE TO BOTH A PLACE OF CLOSENESS TO GOD THE FATHER AND A POSITION OF POWER ABOVE ALL OTHER POWERS</b>.</span> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">That means that Jesus has power over any and all earthly governors operating in evil powers.</em> Jesus the Messiah exists at the right hand of God today, perfectly reigning with God the Father and God the Spirit in community and power.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THE HAND OF GOD HAS BEEN EXTENDED, LETTING US KNOW THAT HE IS CALLING AND POINTING OUT AS A SIGN THAT HE IS LOOKING FOR INTERCESSORS.</span> </b>He wants to have a plumb line that is straight and in order, and, he wants his people to believe and trust in him, without having to be shown every little step of the way. He’s looking for those that will “see and believe” without having to be shown. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This is where the crux of our faith comes into play.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">WHEN IT IS SO DIFFICULT AND SO DARK, AND IT SEEMS AS IF NOTHING IS CHANGING, AND NOTHING IS MOVING, RESOURCES ARE TIGHT,</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">PRESSURES WITHIN AND PRESSURES WITHOUT ARE PUSHING IN ON US, THIS IS WHEN THE LORD POINTS TO THE PLACE WE NEED TO BE.</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">That place is looking within our own hearts to allow him to do the work through prayer and intercession that needs to be done.</span>We need to apply it “within”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">If you’re looking for a sign from the Lord, and you’ve been seeking him,</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">your sign is exactly like the actual billboard sign that I saw!</span> </b>He is looking for you to become a person that decides to hunker down in authentic times of prayer and intercession, and apply it within, your own life.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AS I SHARED THESE THINGS WITH MY HUSBAND STEVE THAT I SAW AND PONDERED AND WRESTLED OVER FOR MONTHS, WE BOTH CONTINUED TO PONDER AND THOUGHT ABOUT THEM OFTEN, AND PRAYED.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">One morning a few weeks later Steve, just as he was waking up, (the Lord often shows or speaks things to Steve just as he is waking up in the morning), he heard the Lord speak to him, and he was addressing our Governor.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Here is what the Lord said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“You have been found wanting, your breath will be taken from you”.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">NOW, PLEASE UNDERSTAND! WE DO NOT WISH ANY EVIL OR HARM TO COME UP ON ANYONE!</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">But, just as Belshazzar chose to drink from the golden and silver goblets that were to be used only for holy purposes, our governor has chosen to use the vessels God has called holy which are infants, children, and justice, and abuses them by drinking from the cup of the murderous Genocide of infants, sexual deviancy, and tyranny.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">He refuses to be shown the way of the Lord, and he refuses to honor truth. He refuses to see.</span> He wants to murder more infants and control medical care for children.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>And so the Lord speaks about his right hand of judgment and literally had a right hand form in the sky above Denver, reaching towards the Colorado State Capital.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Exodus 15:6 says,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Your right hand,</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> O LORD, glorious in power, </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Your right hand, </em></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">O LORD shatters the enemy.”</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>ALL ACROSS OUR LAND, THERE ARE LEADERS </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WHO HAVE BECOME DRIVEN BY DEMONIC FORCES, </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AND BY THEIR OWN PRIDE AND ARROGANCE AND WEALTH.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">They choose to ignore the voice of God, and they refuse to see the warnings that he has continuously brought to our land.</span> </b>When we ask God to move his hand, we must ask with the intent of the Lord saving the wicked from his own demise. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">And yet we know that there will be those who will not see.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WHEN SCRIPTURE USES THE IMAGE OF GOD’S RIGHT HAND, </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>IT IS MEANT TO BE A PICTURE OF </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE PINNACLE OF STRENGTH AND ABILITY.</b> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>In passages that specify God’s right hand, his strength is a key focus.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">One of my favorite verses is the following.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Now I know that the Lord saves His </em><a href="https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-terms/anointed-definition-anointing-oils.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">anointed</em></a><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">;</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">He will answer him from His holy heaven </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">With the saving strength of His right hand. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Some boast in chariots and some in horses, </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">But we will boast in the name of the Lord, our God</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">.”</em> (<a href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/search/?ver=niv&q=ps+20%3A6-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">Psalm 20:6-7</a>)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Right Hand of God is outstretched for his people for Protection and Salvation</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><a href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/search/?ver=niv&q=ps+44%3A3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">Psalms 44:3</a> says:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">“For by their own sword they did not possess the land, and their own arm did not save them, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">but your right hand and Your arm</span> and the light of Your presence, for You favored them.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">And Psalms 17:7 says</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">“Wondrously show Your loving-kindness, O Savior of those who take refuge at <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Your right hand </span>from those who rise up against them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THIS LAST VERSE I SHARE IS PACKED WITH SUCH BEAUTIFUL TRUTH.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I believe it is exactly what many of you need to hear right now.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><a href="http://www.christianity.com/bible/search/?ver=niv&q=ps+18%3A35" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">Psalms 18:35</a> Says</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">“You have also given me the shield of your salvation,
</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">And <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">your right hand upholds <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and</em> sustains me;</u></span>
</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Your gentleness [Your gracious response when I pray]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">makes me great.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>MY FRIENDS, IT IS IN GENTLENESS AND INTERCESSION THAT MAKES US GREAT. </b></span>Great in the eyes of God, because we choose to move and flow in, HIS image. Yes, judgment will come, and God will move with fierce and complete fire when he brings justice. But, he is long-suffering, and he waits patiently and gives many opportunities for hearts to change.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus is still praying and interceding right now in this moment for us, and intercedes for the world</span>.</i></b> But, he does bring warnings, and just as he wrote on the wall, God is beginning to point his finger to things in each of our cities, and he is going to bring justice and judgment as well.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WE CAN SHAKE OUR FISTS ALL THAT WE WANT AT THE EVIL PEOPLE AROUND US</b> </span>and make poignant posts on social media that we hope others will read and be motivated by. But in the end, the greatest force and the greatest power and the greatest kindness and grace that we could possibly ever operate in is, when we become those who choose to pray.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">WE BECOME PLUMBERS BY USING THE PLUMB-LINE </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">OF PRAYER </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>TO PUSH OUT THE UNCLEAN AND THE UNHOLY, </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">SO THAT THE FRESH CLEAN FLOW OF THE HOLY SPIRIT </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">CAN ONCE AGAIN </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">BRING TIMES OF REFRESHING AND PURITY </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">TO THE BODY OF CHRIST, </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AND THEN TO OUR CITIES.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE LORD IS GOING TO BEGIN TO SHOW MORE SIGNS AND WONDERS JUST LIKE THE HAND IN THE SKY THAT HE FORMED OVER THE CITY OF DENVER.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I’m going to share in my next podcast about yet another supernatural event I had when I began to prayer walk during the time of COVID-19 lockdowns. </b></span>I had a very supernatural event take place and now in retrospect, realizing exactly what the Holy Spirit had me do and say, has driven me to a place of understanding that when we are yielded in God to prayer, and yielded to allowing the Holy Spirit to pray through us, he will speak things and show us things that only God can do.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I ENCOURAGE YOU TO BECOME MORE TENDER HEARTED AND CAST AWAY BITTERNESS AND HATRED AND DESPAIR.</span> </b>Ask the Lord to drive you into a place of greater Intercession, because his hand is reaching out over your city and is reaching out over your leaders, but it is also pointing towards the signs that tell us we are to become people of Intercession and apply that prayer within our own lives, in order to see God move in a mighty way.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>HE IS ABSOLUTELY HOLDING US! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Isaiah 41:10 tells us,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I will strengthen you, I will help you, and I will uphold you with my righteous </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Right hand.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>IN CONCLUSION</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">There are many seasons in life. </span> </b>Proverbs tells us there is a time for every purpose under heaven. Beloved, I believe it is time to draw near to God, to prepare our hearts for His presence. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>There simply is no substitute for the presence of God! </b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">David was a king. His life was filled with many responsibilities and he was clearly very passionate about many things. Yet he wrote, "<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">When You said, 'Seek My face,' my heart said to You, “You, O LORD, I will seek' "</em> (Ps 27:8).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>IF THE HOLY SPIRIT WERE TO WHISPER TO YOUR HEART THAT HE WANTS MORE OF YOUR TIME, WHEN THE LORD SAYS, "SEEK MY FACE," WHAT DO YOU SAY? </b> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><i>Oh beloved, here is the true battle for your soul!</i></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Your victory is not in getting more data and information about the evil days and treacherous news cycles, but in your answer to the Lord's call. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The result of seeking God is that He guides us into an absolutely fearless life.</span> (see Psalm 27:1-4). David says, "For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock." (Ps 27:5).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>TODAY, WITH SO MANY DISTRACTIONS, WHAT PLACE DOES THE LORD HAVE IN YOUR LIFE?</b> </span> If He called you to deepen your walk, to seek His face, how would you respond? <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">When He says, "Seek My face," what does your heart say to Him?</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I love Paul’s instruction in prayer that he gave to Timothy in 1st Timothy 2:-1-3</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way” because “This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior.”</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">PLEASE. <i>PLEASE! </i></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">JOIN ME RIGHT NOW IN THIS MOMENT OF INTERCESSION </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">AS I PRAY FOR MY CITY, YOUR CITY, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">ALL CITES. </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Father, turn our cities from the power of darkness to light, open their eyes that they might receive forgiveness of sins.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>We pray for our cities LORD.
</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>So much turmoil is affecting so many.
</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Help us reprioritize in these desperate times.
</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Teach us to number our days.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Give us love for You and one another.
</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Give us wisdom and discernment.
</em></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Forgive us. Renew us.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>We pray against the evil schemes of the enemy.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>He is a liar and a murder. From the beginning, he was so.
</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Help us resist His temptations.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Preserve our lives, LORD.
</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Help us have peace in the middle of the storm!
</em></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Strengthen our faith and love.
</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Give us hearts full of thanksgiving.</em></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>We depend on You.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>We do not put our hope in medicine, Policy, leadership or human might, but in the Lord of Hosts, the Holy One of Israel.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Be with every honest and godly leader and minister Lord.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Keep their eyes on truth, and Frustrate evil at every turn.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>In the Name Christ Jesus our King, we pray, Amen!</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Duplication and sharing of this writing is welcomed, as long as the complete message, Website, podcast link and information for Mary Lindow is included.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thank You!</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; 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His Beloved Ministries </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "trebuchet ms", geneva;">5013c non-profit status.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "trebuchet ms", geneva;">We are financially accountable and have been in full compliance since</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "trebuchet ms", geneva;">1985 with Clergy Financial Advantage.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "trebuchet ms", geneva;">THANK YOU!</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "trebuchet ms", geneva;"><img alt="HBFC_NEW_LOGObh6dp.jpg" src="https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7jjzs9/HBFC_NEW_LOGObh6dp.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p></div><p><br /></p>Mary Lindowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745158429327557321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723401827206702623.post-30026391861551699192023-06-21T01:40:00.000-06:002023-06-21T01:40:15.669-06:00THE VOICE OF GOD - “A REFUGE OF TRUTH FROM THE WORLD OF DARKNESS AND CHAOS”<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-upjnu-143b24d" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="480" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4w8gxipLrwXjUIuBDvG4EYDWqKmXOavHe9UvRYYNJV6xd1TE2839-gRrOmZc6jctyqf_rwgbYSN9dmNlFw6ZC6wwVfemUuyMLx3pMhOUoa_DLShPnQg_SOUcX8d-imGttpXnVWo7PPM8pN7Q2KcPvNOl2XmNdVWjoiFs7hKtamdLOb77tkcHlci4Ixas/w400-h286/THE%20VOICE%20OF%20GOD%20A%20REFUGE.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>👆</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>PLEASE CLICK THE PICTURE </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>TO LISTEN TO THE AUDIO VERSION OF THIS MESSAGE </b></span></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">By Mary Lindow</em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Hello to all of you who are listening via podcast today or who are reading this message!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I just finished being a part of our weekly prayer gathering this evening, and I have to tell you, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">the presence of the Father was so absolutely strong </span>and evident in our time together! I am literally to the point that I anticipate all day long on Thursday evenings, getting together with the group that we pray with. I practically run to the family room and get things prepared, and get in position so that when everyone arrives we can just get right at it!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><i>We have been blessed week after week, month after month with the sweet and strong presence of God as we intercede for our nation, for the globe, and for so many other things that the Lord lays on our hearts to pray about.</i></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THE PODCAST THAT I HAD TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, REGARDING A SUPERNATURAL EVENT THAT TOOK PLACE IN AUGUST 2019.</b> </span>I am still trying to get it to compile and come together and I know that if I rush this, I will not share it in the light of how the Lord wants it to be presented properly.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>BUT, I HAVE BEEN HAVING ANOTHER MESSAGE AND WORD FROM THE LORD STIRRING DEEP WITHIN MY SPIRIT, AND SO THAT IS WHAT I’M GOING TO SHARE WITH YOU TODAY.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Hearing God accurately in the mess and chaos that the world is in right now, is of huge importance!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #0a085d;">I would first like to welcome all of our brothers and sisters listening in Sri Lanka, as well as our brothers and sisters in Latvia.</span></b><span style="color: #212529;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529;">May the Lord continue to use you all to proclaim and speak truth, no matter what the cost. It is so worth being called a servant of the Lord during hard and challenging times.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">TODAY, I’M GOING TO TALK WITH YOU ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE IN A PLACE OF SAFETY, A PLACE, OR A “HAVEN” OF BEING SHELTERED BY THE LORD. </span></b></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529;"><b>Especially during very, very difficult and hard times.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I’ll share how to discern and hear His voice in the chaos of the nonstop noise the dark world bombards us all with. It’s ratcheted up to crazy levels, and shouts loudly to attempt to distract us from discerning the times, and hopes to discourage us and knock us off balance with fear, and then rob our peace.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>I</b></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>T’S OBVIOUS THAT THE EARTH IS IN ONE MASSIVE UPHEAVAL, AND NO MATTER WHERE YOU TURN RIGHT NOW, THE CRISES CONTINUE TO MOUNT AND BOIL!</b></span><span style="color: #212529;"> </span></span><span style="color: #212529;">And so, people begin to put aside spending time in the word of God, and certainly in his presence, to spend time with the love of the Internet and scrolling through their telephones through social network information and high charged doomsday podcasts and videos.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">This can absolutely create stress and anxiety, and it also creates a terrible problem with comparing ourselves to other people and where we are at in life.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">PRAYER IS NOT A BORING HARD THING WHEN YOU REALIZE </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">THAT YOU ARE FACE-TO-FACE, OR LITERALLY, </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">“PRESENCE TO PRESENCE” WITH THE FATHER.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>A tremendous man who walked daily in the Presence of God, Andrew Murray, said in a book that he wrote, </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>“It’s one of the terrible marks of the diseased state of the Christian life in these days that there are so many that are content, and <u style="box-sizing: border-box;">remain passive and content, </u>without the distinct occasion of having experienced answered prayer. They pray daily, but know very little of direct, definite answers to prayer as the rule of their daily life.”</b> </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Psalm Thirty verse four says, “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I sought the Lord and he answered me.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>We must understand that it’s the Father’s will that WE SEEK HIM OUT</b></span> to daily have dialogue with his will, and it’s his will to have his children to listen to him and then, he listens to his children and agrees to their requests.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s his will that we should come to him day by day, </span>with specific requests, and he will every day, do for us great and wonderful things!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>What we ask sometimes might be a case where the specific answer is that he refuses our request,</b> </span>but our Father lets us know when and why he can’t give us what we request. It’s like his Son Jesus, and so we will withdraw our petition or our request.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">When did Jesus do that?</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Jesus said in the Garden of Gethsemane, “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">If this cup could pass from me, but not my will, but your will be done.”</em> He said this to the Father.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">WHETHER OUR REQUEST IS ACCORDING TO GOD’S WILL OR NOT, GOD WILL BY HIS WORD AND BY HIS SPIRIT, TEACH THOSE OF US WHO ARE TEACHABLE</span></b></span><span style="color: #212529;">, and he will give us time to withdraw our requests if they’re not according to God‘s mind or purposes.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">LET’S PRESS IN.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">LET’S JUST STAND FIRM UNTIL THE ANSWER COMES! PRAYER IS GIVEN TO US TO OBTAIN AN ANSWER!</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It’s in prayer and its answer, that the exchange of love between the Father and we his children takes place.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">MY QUESTION IS, <b>“ARE <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">YOUR</u></em></span> PRAYERS BEING ANSWERED?”</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>During the last hours of the age that we’re in, there will be two opposing groups or alliances in the world. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>The First group</b></span><span style="color: #212529;"> </span></span><span style="color: #212529;">are those whose hearts are absolutely overwrought with bitterness, resentment and hatred.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Second group</span> </b>i</span><span style="color: #212529;">s those whose love has actually increased, and are experiencing the power of the Kingdom of God, now!</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>Jesus told us about this in Matthew in chapter 4:10-13.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>He said, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. </span></b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.”</b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">And then in Matthew 24:14 he added,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>“This gospel (good news) of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all the nations and then the end shall come.”</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">SO, THE BIG QUESTION IS...</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">...“WHAT IS THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM?” </span></b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It’s the whole truth Jesus came to bring, not only that part that saves us from our sins, but also that part which creates us in his image!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s the full message, the full good news with all its requirements and all of its rewards! </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It’s is the full price for the full power!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It’s the most glorious pearl that a person can possess. The presence of God in His glory, revealed, made known within and among us!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">IF WE WANT TO GAIN THIS GREAT LOVE, WE WILL CONTINUALLY BE FORCED TO MAKE CHOICES TOWARD MERCY, OR, TOWARD UNFORGIVENESS,</span> </b></span><span style="color: #212529;">and if we don’t walk in a forgiving attitude, we will certainly become prey to an embittered spirit, if it’s in fact, God‘s plan to allow wickedness and holiness at the same time, so they grow to full maturity.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>We must guard our hearts ahead of time from reacting in bitterness or unforgiveness because the increasing anarchy will certainly give us occasions to lose love, with the attempt to make us hard so we can survive in this cruel world.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">WE OFTEN WITHDRAW FROM THE GENUINENESS OF PURE LOVE!</span></b><span style="color: #212529;"> </span></span><span style="color: #212529;">We can’t choose cautious, selective love, and also walk in the power of God’s kingdom, my friends! To defy pain, we sometimes unconsciously shut down our love, because after all, its love that makes us vulnerable.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">GOD WANTS US TO BE A PEOPLE WHOSE LOVE IS GROWING HOT, NOT COLD. </span></b></span><span style="color: #212529;">Jesus didn’t say that we had to trust our enemies, but he did say that we had to love them anyhow. </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529;">You might be asking why! </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">One reason God allows difficulties is to test us!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I know! I know! We don’t want to hear that! </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He wants to see if our Christianity is just an intellectual pursuit or just thoughts and feelings of the mind, or if following him is truly the highest passion of our hearts. So, he tells us in Matthew 5:44, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wow! </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">SOME OF YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH REJECTION AND BETRAYAL MOST LIKELY.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Lord says to you today</u></span>,</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>“You did not fail, you have continued to love, and although you went through great pain, yet you have forgiven, those who have hurt you.” </b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>My friends you have passed the test.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">THERE ARE HOWEVER, SOME OF YOU LISTENING OR READING THAT STILL HAVE CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS IN YOUR LIVES THAT YOU HAVE NOT FORGIVEN, AND WHOM YOU DO NOT LOVE. </span></b><span style="color: #212529;"> </span></span><span style="color: #212529;">Maybe you’re right, they don’t deserve your forgiveness, but what you don’t realize is the consequence of your anger.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>You see, as long as we refuse to forgive, a part of this is trapped in the past</b> where you will always be reminded of your pain, and until we forgive, we will not be fully released to go on with our life. Even the time of year in which you were hurt will bring depression.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">THERE’S ONLY ONE WAY WE CAN HAVE TRUE FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD AND THAT IS IN THE HERE AND NOW, RIGHT NOW, LIVING IN THE PRESENT. </span></b></span><span style="color: #212529;">But if our mind is in conflict with others, we’re neither here nor in the present. When we live in the past, we are cut off from God! What people did to us to hurt us is over! It’s done; it doesn’t have any real existence or life of its own, except in your mind.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>SO THERE WITHIN US, THE DEED CONTINUES TO LIVE AND FESTER AND AS LONG AS IT LIVES, WE’RE STILL BEING HURT BY IT. </b></span></span><span style="color: #212529;">The person or the people who wounded you may have long since died. They can’t be blamed because it’s us who keeps our wounds alive. Not only is the quality of our spiritual life affected, but often our physical health pays a price as well!</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>As long as we keep holding onto the burden of what someone has done to us, every time we think about it or think about that person, the stomach acids start to churn and anxiety increases, and then of course our body is continually put under stress.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">If we don’t forgive those who have hurt us, we lose a measure of our capacity to love and whether they deserve forgiveness or not, we deserve a better life!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">God wants to give you a better life but you can’t enjoy abundant life and carry unforgiveness, because we’re shackled to something that was hurting us.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Did you know that our own unforgiveness tortures us?</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">SO HOW DO YOU GET OUT OF THAT PRISON? </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">HOW DO YOU FIND THE PROTECTION OF GOD FOR YOUR SOUL? </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Well, God calls us to forgive. You have to see the hands of God reaching to you in the midst of your pain.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He wants to redeem that conflict using that specific crisis or hardship to develop and perfect character in you. It will be this experience that he will use to make you like Jesus. To become like Jesus is to dwell, to live, in the place of rest and the safety of God.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Every time we say, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Father, I choose to love. I choose to forgive. I choose to forget and not hold it against this person”</em>, we are taking on the nature of Jesus. Friends, rejoice that Jesus is taking over your heart. You are entering into the strong, safe haven of God’s shelter.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">I DO MANY THINGS THAT THE LORD HAS ASSIGNED ME TO DO IN LIFE NOT ONLY AS A MINISTER, BUT ALSO AS A PASTORAL COUNSELOR.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I also host and facilitate a group called “The international Prophetic Women’s Mentoring Council.” This is a group of women from all walks of life several cultural groups and different backgrounds. We meet through zoom video sessions and individually.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The thing that is “the glue that bonds us” is the fact that each of us have been called into ministry, and each of these women flows in a different expression of the prophetic gift.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">This past week we had a zoom session and our conversation and subject matter was regarding, the power of intercession and what it takes to approach the Face of God, in a right attitude.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">One of the things that stood out so strongly</span> in our time of dialogue and accountability to one another was the fact that <b>in order to hear clearly from the Spirit of God, we need to have the inward witness, or the “inside part of us that communicates with God”, clearly in a place of submission and humility before him, </b>and, that we first come into a place where we have asked the Lord to cleanse us. That means cleanse our hearts before we try to come to Him in prayer.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">MANY PEOPLE DON’T KNOW HOW TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD.</span></b><span style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #212529;">They seek it through quick daily devotionals, or they seek the voice of God through other people every day, instead of seeking the Lord himself.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The scripture tells us clearly in John 10:4-5, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“His sheep know his voice, and strange voices, they will not follow.</em>”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>SO WHAT ARE THE STRANGE VOICES?</b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The voices from the external world that are constantly pumping us full of data, fear, rhetoric and forced compliance to social conditioning. If we choose to listen to the voice of strangers, then we move further away from being sheep in the pasture of the Lord.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">SO HOW DO WE KNOW HIS VOICE?</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>How do we discern that it’s him?</b> </em></span>The number one thing, is that God always speaks life. He always speaks truth. And when God speaks, it brings peace, even in the midst of hard difficulties or hard decisions. An absolute solid peace comes and says, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“This is the way, and this is what you have to do!”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Your own ears will hear him. Right behind you a voice will say,</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"This is the way you should go,” whether to the right or to the left.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">That’s Isaiah 30:21.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVES IN YOU.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">God absolutely wants to direct your life through your decision-making. The Holy Spirit guides us in our spirits (not through our physical body). The Number One way The Holy Spirit leads and guides us is through what the Bible calls, the “Inward Witness.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Proverbs 3:6 says, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">WHAT IS AN INNER OR INWARD WITNESS?</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">An inner witness is an impression, or a sense or perception on the inside of you.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Romans 8:16 tells us,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“For his Spirit joins with our spirit, </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">to affirm, to confirm, that we are God’s children.”
</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Jeremiah 7:23-24 says this to us, </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you shall walk <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">entirely</span> in the way which I command you, so that it may go well for you.’ </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yet, they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked by their own advice and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and they went backward and not forward.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">AS KINDGOM PEOPLE, WE’RE NOT LED BY OUR SENSES.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">We’re not led by our ears or our eyes. We’re led by our spirit.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">When we talk about hearing God, we’re not talking about hearing God with our physical ears. We’re talking about hearing Him in our spirit. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Here’s a great example: </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The Apostle Paul had been arrested and he was headed to his trial. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Before he took the journey he sensed something in his spirit.</u></em> He wasn’t the captain of the ship, but he sensed something in his spirit. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">In Acts 27:10, Apostle Paul said,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Men, I perceive we're going to face a disaster and heavy losses on this voyage. This disaster will cause damage to the cargo and the ship, and it will affect our lives."</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It wasn’t long before the ship hit a cyclone, but an angel appeared and guaranteed Paul that everyone would make it, and they did!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">What was it that what Paul said in the beginning? <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I perceive".</u></em> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">This is what we’re looking at right now.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">We’re talking about being led by the Spirit of God, no matter what circumstance or difficulty we might encounter.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">BEING A PERSON WHO IS CALLED TO A PROPHETIC MINISTRY, I AM CLEARLY AWARE OF THE FACT THAT 90% OF WHAT I DO, ALSO COMES FROM TEACHING PEOPLE FROM THE WORD OF GOD REGARDING HOW TO </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“HEAR” THE VOICE OF GOD.</span></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">My job is not to be a telephone for people to connect to God with, nor simply through prophesying. This is not going to change lives long term if the word of God is not taught and also if people don’t act on it and obey it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;"> </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">I HAVE HAD SOME STRANGE ENCOUNTERS WITH PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT I HAVE SOME KIND OF HOTLINE OR SATELLITE CONNECTION TO GOD TO HELP THEM GET ANSWERS. </span></b></span><span style="color: #212529;">They need something or want to hear what the Lord has for them by asking me for a prophetic word. </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">My friends this is not how the prophetic word of knowledge or word of wisdom works! </u></span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I had a lady when we were Pastoring a local fellowship come up to me after the service and she asked me if I would please, “do whatever I do, do that thing that I do”, and see if God would show me where she had put her wedding ring. She had lost<b> </b>it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I remember feeling very uncomfortable and a cold chill went through my body! </b></em>My thought process was, “this woman wants me to be like a palm reader, or a magic eight ball! She wants me to use divination to find her wedding ring!“</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Very kindly but firmly I told the woman, “You can ask the Lord to show you where it is yourself, or just simply go on looking for it. Pray that the Lord would lead you to it, but to ask me to ask the Holy Spirit to show me where it is, is basically trying to use another voice to speak to God for you when you can speak on your own to him.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THERE ARE TIMES, WHEN GOD WILL SPEAK A WORD</b></u></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, AND IT IS DONE THROUGH A PROPHETIC UTTERANCE,</span> and it gives us a word of knowledge about something or a word of wisdom about a specific event where we need to have insight, but it will always confirm with the Spirit of God what he has already put down on the inside of us that we can’t seem to quite untangle, until the prophetic word comes and brings a clarity to it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">SOMETIMES THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL HAVE SOMEONE BRING A PROPHETIC WORD THAT COMES IN THE FORM OF LOVING CORRECTION, BUT IT IS STILL CORRECTION, AND PEOPLE GET ANGRY AND SHOUT, </span></b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">“HOW DARE YOU JUDGE </span></b><b><span style="color: #20124d;">ME!</span></b></em></span><b><span style="color: #20124d;"> </span></b><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529;">Who are you to judge me?!” </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Of course what this is a reaction to being caught out in bad behavior or hidden sin, and the Lord gently, lovingly, brings a word of warning.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">ALL OF US KNOW WHEN WE SLIP AWAY FROM SPENDING TIME IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD</span></b><span style="color: #212529;">.</span></span><span style="color: #212529;"> We know when we slack off from reading the scripture and from meditating on it, letting the Holy Spirit speak through the word to us. This is where the areas of bitterness and lack of purity in our walk with the Lord get all tangled up.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">FRIENDS. </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT TO TEACH YOU HOW TO BE LED BY HIM<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</em></span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">(</em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">By the way, you might need a refreshing of your commitment to only follow his voice.)</em></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">You don’t need a prophet to hear from God for you, or have a constant prophetic word to make decisions.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Simply say these words.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Holy Spirit, teach me how to be led by you.”
</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Then, before you make any major decisions, acknowledge God.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Say, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“God, this is what the situation is, > insert your situation <. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">What are your thoughts about this?” </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Or</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“God, this is what is happening right now, and this is what I’m thinking about doing. What do you think?”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">From this point, you begin to look on the inside. Practice looking on the inside.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">DO YOU HAVE PEACE ON THE INSIDE?</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Or do you have discomfort on the inside?</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Proverbs 20:27 says,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“The spirit of man is the candle or lamp of the Lord.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">This verse lets us know that God guides us through our spirit.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">MUCH TOO OFTEN, WE SEEK GUIDANCE IN OTHER WAYS.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">We judge by our physical senses, but nowhere does God say He will guide us by our senses. Or we look at a situation from a mental standpoint. But God guides us through our spirit, or our inward man.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">THE INWARD MAN HAS A “VOICE.”</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">We call it our conscience, intuition, or an inward witness. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">As born-again believers train and develop their spirit, this voice becomes clearer.</u></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">One thing that has held us back is that we are more body-conscious and mental-conscious than spirit-conscious. We have developed the body and soul but have so often, ignored our spirit.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">WAITING ON GOD IS SO IMPORTANT</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Sometimes people don’t want to take their part of responsibility to engage with the Lord. It’s easier to put it off on God and say<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">, “Lord, if you want me to do something or do that, then open the door. If You don’t, then shut it.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It takes patience to wait on God </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">until you know the answer on the inside. </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sometimes it takes times of waiting, quietly, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">patiently, to hear this inward witness.</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">WE GET SO BUSY PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY THAT SPIRITUAL THINGS BECOME INDISTINCT TO US.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It’s easier to get quiet with your body than with your mind. Sometimes when you try to sleep, your body is relaxed, but your mind is still churning with the day’s activities, ideas and plans, or, with worries and anxieties.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">HERE IS WHERE PRAYING IN TONGUES IS A GREAT ADVANTAGE.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Paul said,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">but my understanding is unfruitful.”</em> </span>(1 Cor. 14:14).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I have found the best way to quiet my mind is to pray in tongues. When you pray in tongues, your mind grows quiet. Once it’s quiet, you become more conscious of your spirit and spiritual things.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">WHEN CHRISTIANS SEEK TO KNOW GOD’S WILL FOR THEIR LIVES,</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">HE WILL MAKE HIS PERFECT WILL CLEAR TO THEM THROUGH AMAZING WAYS OF COMMUNICATING.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Whether it be through a calm, small voice speaking to their heart, or through a supernatural manifestation. God will guide those whose hearts are open to Him along the pathway of peace.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">HERE IS A HELPFUL HEART PREPARATION</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">FOR LISTENING TO AND HEARING GOD</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">When Samuel was a very young child he went to live with Eli the priest, where he sleeps in the temple. Samuel is sleeping when he is awakened by the Lord calling his name: "Samuel!" (He thinks Eli is calling him.) This happens twice. Finally, Eli realizes that God is calling the boy!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">"So Eli told Samuel,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">'Go and lie down, and if he calls to you, say, </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening."'</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">So Samuel went and lay down in his bed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The LORD came and stood there, calling just like the</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Other times, 'Samuel! Samuel!'</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Then Samuel said,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">'Speak, for your servant is listening.' </em>(1 Samuel 3:9-10)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">THIS IS THE HEART NEEDED FOR THOSE WHO TRULY WANT TO CLEARLY HEAR GOD:</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">"Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i><b>Humility is required.</b></i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">GOD DOESN'T TALK TO US NON-STOP LIKE A 24-HOUR RADIO STATION.</span></b><span style="color: #212529;"> </span></span><span style="color: #212529;">But he will speak to us or nudge us occasionally -even often, if we're listening for his voice.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">God sees the whole picture, like a scouting pilot who watches the battle from a spotter plane high above the action, then radios down to others, the instructions for battle.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">God speaks to us about this through David in Psalm 32:8-9</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The LORD says,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I will advise you and watch over you.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Do not be like a senseless horse or mule that needs a bit and bridle to keep it under control.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">GOD IS OUR INSTRUCTOR AND TEACHER ON WHAT DIRECTION OR PATH TO TAKE. </span></b></span><span style="color: #212529;">From his vantage point -seeing the past, present, and future, God sees what we can’t see, and "counsels us, directs us, shows us with his eye, focused upon us.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">IF WE WILL LISTEN, GOD IS OUR WISE COUNSELOR. </span></b></span><span style="color: #212529;">God doesn't want to force us to obey like some animals that won't obey unless you put a bit and bridle or a leash on them. Instead, he seeks to speak to us in counsel.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">AS WE HAVE GROWN AND LEARN TO HONESTLY TRUST IN HIM, WE BEGIN TO OBEY. </span></b></span><span style="color: #212529;">He desires a more mature relationship based on trust rather than on being forced.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529;"> </span><span style="color: #212529;">If we fight him, we can't serve him.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Speak the same words that Samuel did.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Lord! Here I am! Your servant is listening!”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Then, be still, and listen to what the Lord has to say to you!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>He’s waiting to speak to you right now!</b></u></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </u></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">LET’S PRAY TOGETHER RIGHT NOW!</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Whenever I lift my voice to pray for discernment and Your guidance Lord, I am reminded that You are a good shepherd. </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Forgive me for the times I have gone behind or ahead of Your plans. Forgive me for being demanding and trying to rush my time hearing from you. </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Father, I ask for Your Holy Spirit to lead me to Your perfect ways. I thank You that I don’t have to rely on my own wisdom, but I can depend on Your guidance. </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Thank You Holy Spirit. </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #20124d;">In the precious name of Jesus I say, “Here I am Lord. Speak to me. I am your servant and I am listening.</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #20124d;">In Jesus name I pray, Amen.</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Duplication and sharing of this writing is welcomed, as long as the complete message, Website, podcast link and information for Mary Lindow is included.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Thank You!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">"THE MESSENGER" - Mary Lindow - “2023”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://www.marylindow.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">www.marylindow.com</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">www.marylindow.podbean.com</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">If you would be so kind and assist Mary helping her to meet other administrative needs such as web site and podcast costs, or desire to bless her service with Spirit-led Love gifts or regular support:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Please JOYFULLY send your gift in the form of:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">►</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Personal Checks </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">►</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Business Checks</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">►</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Money Orders </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">►</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Cashiers Checks</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">To:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">His Beloved Ministries Inc.
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Maybe loneliness.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Maybe grief or addictions. Kids, in-laws, friends.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Maybe it’s a storm called cancer.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Sometimes We Wonder Where Is God In The Midst Of Our Struggles. </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Why is God allowing this to happen? We usually don’t understand, (even if we’re the culprit, it still doesn’t seem fair or right.) Yet God is there. His name “Immanuel” means, God WITH us.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">In Matthew: 1:23 it says,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">“<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call His name Immanuel” (which means, God with us.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">That’s our theme.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It’s really believing and trusting that God is with us.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">With that in mind, I want to look at a passage from Acts 27.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">As Paul Was Being Transported To Rome, </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">The Focus Was On A Storm On The Ship Paul Was On. </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">There was this massive storm at sea. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u>The storm went on and on and on.</u></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The crew was so terrified that they threw cargo overboard, believing they were about to die.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">In Acts 27:20, Luke tells us;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and no small tempest lay on us, </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>When We Read, No Small Tempest Lay On Us;</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Luke Is Telling Us This Was A Massive, Raging Storm!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It wasn’t just a rainstorm, the wind was blowing, the skies were dark day and night; they couldn’t even see the sky.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The storm was raging, and I wonder how many of us would use that phrase for what we’ve been going through?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The storm - won’t - stop.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Do you see the end of that verse? </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It said, “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">All hope of being saved was abandoned”. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">They gave up all hope of being saved! That’s terrible!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Have You Been There? Have You Given Up All Hope?</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It’s the finances that are killing you and you see no hope.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Maybe there’s a wedge between you and your spouse and you can’t see any hope.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Maybe it was the diagnosis.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Maybe you can’t see yourself with a mate.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Maybe it’s a job, it’s the kids, it’s getting older and more dependent.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Whatever it is . . . and just like those sailors, you’ve given up all hope!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The storm continues to rage and in verse 21 we read,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Since they had been without food for a long time, </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Paul stood up among them and said,</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and incurred this injury and loss.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I love Paul! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>But right here, I don’t think I would want to hear what he said!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Kind of an <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I told you so!”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“You should have taken my advice. You wouldn’t have lost all of this property. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">If you had just listened to my advice, you wouldn't be in the middle of this storm.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Why Were They In The Storm?</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">They were in the storm because it was their fault.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">They made a decision to go out when it’s not the best time to sail.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It was risky from the start.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Spiritual warfare is real and sometimes, yes, it is Satan. </b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">But this situation was on them; they couldn’t blame Satan as much as they may have wanted to.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">We Don’t Like To Admit It, But Sometimes It's Our Own Fault.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Sometimes you over-indulged and you spent too much money, or you said something you shouldn’t have said and now you’re in the middle of the storm.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">You procrastinated and now you’re paying for it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">You said yes, when you knew you should have said no!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">You dated someone everyone said not to date, and now there’s lots of hurt and you’re in the middle of the storm and you can’t blame anyone else.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Maybe That's Why They Gave Up Hope - - - They Knew It Was Their Fault.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I think we may find it easier to believe God can get us out of a storm He called us to, than it is for God to get me out of a storm we created.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i><b>Does that make sense?</b></i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Maybe It’s The Captain’s Fault.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">You’re just a sailor and you didn’t have a say in it. You heard Paul, but you believed the captain and now through no fault of your own, you’re in the middle of the storm.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Have You Have Ever Been In The Middle Of A Storm And It Wasn't Your Fault?</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Your parents divorced and you thought it was about you.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The company made poor business decisions, which impacted you.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Someone gave you their word and you believed them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Whatever it was, you were the victim.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">You’re in the middle of the storm and you’re giving up hope!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Now, Paul says in verse 22 - -</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Yet now I urge you to take heart,</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Literally, Paul is calling them to have a positive spirit, </span>to have good courage.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He is reassuring them there will be no loss of life.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">How Many Of Us Need To Hear That? </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Be Of Good Courage.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">That’s a theme throughout the Bible. Remember what God told Joshua in chapter 1 verse 9;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! </b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, </b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Be of good courage! Be courageous.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Don’t be defeated. Don’t give up hope!</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">WHY?</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Because the Lord your God is with you wherever you go!</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">That’s news we need to hold onto! It’s great news when we’re giving up hope!!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Then in verse 23 Paul said - - -</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“For this very night there stood before me an angel of the God </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">to whom I belong and whom I worship.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Talk About A Powerful Statement From Paul!</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">You're in the boat in a raging storm and an angel stands beside you! <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I wonder what some were thinking.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">I Truly Believe There Are Angels All Around Us. </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">There are angels where you are right now ministering to you. I really do believe that. I believe the spiritual world, when we get there some day, is going to totally blow us away with what’s going on.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Imagine That You're In The Middle Of A Storm And The Presence Of God Is With You In This Moment</span>.</b> You have no idea all the different ways God is with you. He could be with you as an angel. His Spirit is with you. Jesus is with you! God is not bound by time; He’s with you yesterday, today and forever. He is listening to your prayers. He’s interceding on your behalf to the Father!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">We Have No Idea How God Is With Us At All Times, Even In The Storms.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It’s what Paul told Timothy - - -</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me, </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me.”</em> - 2 Timothy 4</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Isn’t that great?</span> The Lord stood by me and strengthened me.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The Lord didn’t leave me; the Lord didn’t fail me nor forsake me.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He’s with me, at my side, and He is with you at your side, and He's giving you strength.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">NEVER LET THE PRESENCE OF A STORM</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">CAUSE YOU TO DOUBT THE PRESENCE OF GOD.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Following Jesus doesn't mean bad days won't happen.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">That's bad theology to think that it does.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Jesus said that in John 16:33,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>You will have trouble, but Jesus promises us He will be with us and on top of that, </b><b>He has overcome the world.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">That means Jesus is the victor!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">We have our victory in Jesus.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">We Can't Control What People Do To Us. </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">But, we can control what we believe and where we put our faith, put our trust. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">My faith is in the One who created the wind and the waves. I have faith in God that what He says will come to pass. What He says will happen - - - will happen.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Who Is God? </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">In Psalm 46:1-3, the psalmist tells us,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">(That means right now!)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way,</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">though its waters roar and foam,</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">though the mountains tremble at its swelling.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Don’t You Love That?</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">In the midst of our storms, God is our hiding place.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He is our refuge and our strength.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He is always ready, willing and able to help us in times of trouble.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why?</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Because He is with us.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Who is He?</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He is Immanuel.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He is God with us.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Because He is with us, we will not be afraid, even if the earth is shaken, (it’s sure shaking right now!) and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, even though the seas roar and rage, and the mountains tremble.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">If we lose our job, if the relationship falls apart, if the economy gets shaky,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I still will not be afraid.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why?</span> Because He is with me.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Because He will never leave us. Because He will never forsake us.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Because He is what we need.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Because He is our safety. He is our strength. He is our comforter.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He is our redeemer. He is our righteousness. He is our friend.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Because He is a rock. He is the living bread, the bread of life.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He is the living water that satisfies our souls.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He is the gate through which we can enter.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He is the good shepherd.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">He is our comforter and peace.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">PEACE IS NOT FOUND IN THE ABSENCE OF A STORM.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">PEACE IS FOUND IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS, AND HE IS WITH US.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">That’s why you never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">True peace is not found in the absence of trials and storms.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">That's a part of life.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">True peace is found in the Presence of Immanuel.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">God <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">WITH</span> us.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Let’s pray,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Heavenly Father, we see the world in turmoil, we see the storms on the horizon. Wherever we turn, it seems as if darkness is attempting to encroach and suffocate the goodness in the earth.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">But Lord, you have people filled with your Spirit, you have your own set apart and called and planned for this very storm and time.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lord, those that are listening to me, many of them like myself are asking questions like, “what more can I do”?</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">It seems as a governmental policies are thrown aside and treachery wins the day. It seems as if there are family members who refuse to speak to one another because of either different political views, or they’ve been forced into doing things that they didn’t want to do and they said “no”. Father we know all these things are being heard from you in our prayers and we ask that you help us to be like Paul, that we wait upon the strengthening of your angels that come around us. You yourself were sent a strengthening angel in the garden of Gethsemane that ministered to you so that you could fulfill the ultimate call upon your life, to spare us from damnation and a place of great darkness for eternity.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Teach us your way oh God!</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Teach us to trust you with all of our heart. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Those places that have become weak or frightened, or perhaps presumptuous, Father, we want to be on an equal plain of humility before your throne, that you can call upon us, call us up at any time, that we might stand and face the storm in the courage of knowing that every place in which our foot has tread, you have given it to us.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">We will be strong and courageous, and we will not be afraid.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">We thank you Jesus so much for being there, we thank you, Father for the presence of your Holy Spirit. We can lift our hands and close our eyes and lift our hands and begin to call upon your name, and peace falls on us, and that thick Presence, knowing that you are in the midst of us. The world does not have that! The wicked never taste that kind of full belonging and peace, and we thank you for it.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father I ask those that are listening today, if there’s anyone who’s afraid, if there’s anyone going through a really hard thing, Father I ask that your Presence would reassure them, that your grace your mercy would overshadow them right now and carry them to the place they need to be whatever it would be Father, relationships, finances, harm in family situations, physical abuse, perhaps a difficult medical diagnoses. I would ask that you would show them, let them know beyond any doubt there you are there and that you are not leaving them, that you will get them though the storm. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thank you Father for hearing my prayer in Jesus' loving, mighty and glorious name.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Hope You Enjoyed Today’s Podcast!</span> </span></b><span style="color: #212529;"> I enjoyed sharing it with you.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">My next podcasts are going to be in regard to some things that I’ve been sitting on, now maybe two or, two and a half years. Sometimes you must wait until you have a peace and full release to share specific supernatural things you have experienced and that you have proof of. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">One thing I will be sharing is in regard to the State of Colorado.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Things that are now beginning to take place and I believe the word is to address this, but I believe it also is a national word. I have several things that the Lord has given me to share now as we are presently in a different time.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I encourage you to listen and then pray about it and pray for your nation.</b></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">We are in a difficult time</span></b><span style="color: #212529;">.</span></span><span style="color: #212529;"> This is nothing but repeat of history over and over again, but I do know that when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Lord himself will raise a standare up against him.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">I say goodbye to you for now and thank you for listening!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Rest Child, Rest in my Peace, Rest in my Peace, Child. 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word-break: break-word;">We are financially accountable and have been in full compliance since</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">1985 with Clergy Financial Advantage.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">THANK YOU!</p></div><p><br /></p>Mary Lindowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745158429327557321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723401827206702623.post-87497235907375719292023-04-06T01:07:00.004-06:002023-04-06T01:08:39.381-06:00"UNDERSTANDING THE KINDNESS OF GOD DURING CHANGING TIMES" - Prophetic Word<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/understanding-the-kindness-of-god-during-changing-times/" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: verdana;">TO LISTEN TO THE MESSAGE IN AUDIO FORM</span></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">By Mary Lindow through the Holy Spirit</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">This podcast message has been sitting strongly in my spirit and of course, </span></b><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">not all of it will be easy to hear because our flesh doesn’t like </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">to hear about change or where God must correct us. There is also a Prophetic Word from the Lord at the end of this message which I feel holds so much insight and promise for those He loves. </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THE TIMES ARE RAPIDLY CHANGING AND I KNOW THAT FOR ME, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">IT WILL REQUIRE A DIFFERENT STRATEGY TO HANDLE THEM </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>AND </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THAT I MUST BE WILLING AND ABLE TO WALK OUT THE DAYS AHEAD.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">It seems as if I identify with the prophet Jeremiah more often now than ever before. And so, I am CHOOSING to adjust the way of delivering my portion of what the Spirit of God would give me, as He leads me. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Daily.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I AM IN WORDLESS, TEAR-STREAMING GRIEF </span>over the rapid forms of meditation, eastern mysticism, competitive daily trendy “prophetic” articles/ words (advertisements!) — and outright fear mongering one moment and then “hysterical” any moment breakthrough messages, (both which, recycle over and over), that are sweeping into the Body of Christ. And. the devouring and public slandering has become unbearable.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">YOU SEE, WHEN PEOPLE REFUSE TO LET GOD BE THE JUDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL</span>, When they inject their own standards to oppose His, these people who are “usurping” assume a sovereignty or power that belongs only to God.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">They choose to undermine God’s order, in order to demand their own, and in doing this, they hope to avoid the pinpricks of their conscience. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">After all, “if it’s legal” then it must be right! Right?”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">No. </u></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">God’s law is not so easily escaped or fanned away as an old dusty list of metaphors.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">CONCEIT AND PRIDE ARE THE GREATEST ENEMIES TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH! </span>Newly “acquired knowledge” or notoriety often leads to pride rather than wisdom.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">There is no more certain way to fall into sin and self-deception than to allow pride to lead us into putting confidence in ourselves rather than God. This kind of pride always leads to destruction, because it robs us of God’s power to stand against temptation!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WHAT WE ACCOMPLISH AS MEMBERS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>IS DONE BY THE POWER OF GOD. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Knowledge can be mistaken for maturity</span>. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">True knowledge is designed to bring us TO maturity.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">When we parade our so called freedom before others in an effort to reveal how much we know, we actually reveal our immaturity and are treading on dangerous ground!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>KNOWLEDGE PUT ON PUBLIC DISPLAY </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>LEADS TO HEARTBREAK AND DIVISIVE SCATTERING.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THE WESTERN STYLE “FIRST WORLD CHURCH” IS CAUGHT UP IN SO MANY IDENTITY CRISES </span>andwith pushing movements and meetings, that the voices crying out and weeping in the places of preparation (the wilderness) saying, “You!<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Yes YOU</em></span>! Prepare the Way of the Lord! Straighten out those crooked, twisted paths!” – Well, they are suddenly being told to step back into a place of silence and travailing prayer, determined to lean in closer to THE Voice that is small, still, and sure.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">FRIEND! ONLY TIME SPENT WITH THE LORD </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">LIKE A DEAR FRIEND, </span>will fill the gaping ache you have. He will speak, He will comfort, and He will show you what is true and what is false in the days ahead, if you will return to that “place of companionship with Him”, away from the opinions of men and the noise of this life. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">As you turn your heart and hopes towards him </em>you will see compassion poured out upon you and you will then have his power of pure godly compassion and “wisdom driven grace” to pour out on others.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">"SPEAK TO HIM WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART, YOUR LONGINGS,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">YOUR HEARTACHES, AND YOUR DREAMS.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">HE WILL BE THERE WITH ARMS OF STRENGTH</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">TO RESCUE YOU FROM DESPAIR.”</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>“A Prophetic Word”</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">“Can you not hear my voice speaking to you clearly?</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Has it become clouded with the cares of this life and the voices of men articulating what they “think” is my voice?</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">My time for you to hear the truth is never when man decides it. </span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The world screams that all the chaos and change is turning and twisting men’s hearts away from me.</em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">But when I speak and when I move and I AM lifted up, men’s hearts ache for me!</em></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">There is a greater power in my silence then there is in the shouting of mankind saying that I do not exist! It is folly and foolishness to think that man can try to silence or attempt to erase me!</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">I AM preparing for myself a Bride. </span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Not a foolish, emotionally lovesick self-seeking Bride!</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">No I AM seeking and preparing for myself a mature godly gathering of those who will become one and unified with and in me.</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">I AM the one that is shaping and fashioning this Bride in the refining fires that are currently burning across the earth.</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Men may try to redefine me, saying that I do not exist. </span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">They may attempt to twist words that I have spoken in order to fit the base agenda in their own souls, but all the while I AM shaping and fashioning and preparing for myself an army and a Bride that will not be defeated in the days to come.</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Adjust your thinking child!</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">I AM not a God to be dictated to or to be demanded of! </span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">I AM one to be approached with brokenness and humility! </span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Those who have a contrite heart and a right spirit are the ones that I will answer.</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">There is a time coming when I will sweep away and clean up the false examples of prophetic ministry claiming and declaring things that have nothing to do but glorify the flesh.</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">If a person’s heart is not right with me, no matter what they declare, decree, or shout, it will fall upon ears of deafness in heaven. </span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">I desire truth in your inward parts.</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Let me reduce you to love. </span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Stripping away title, presumption, and secret desires for notoriety. </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">In order to be like me you have to live like I did in the earth. </span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">I served mankind and was spat upon.</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">I spoke truth and I was mocked. </span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">I challenged the proud and religious thinkers of the day and they desired to silence me and kill me.</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">I AM calling you my people, to become honest in heart, broken and humble before me, with a willing heart to serve me and those that I send to you. It is not their external condition that you are to judge nor categorize. </span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Your job is to share my life, my light and my love with them. </span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">In your example of how you treat them is how I see you treating Me.</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Show no favoritism but humble yourselves in my sight and do the work of my servant.</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Yes, the days are changing and the mandates for your life are becoming more defined.</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bow before me and reconnect your heart to truth and simplicity and the grace of knowing that you were purchased with a life poured out so that you might live life to the fullest.”</em></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“It is necessary for him to increase and for me to decrease</em></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">.”</em></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">-John 3:30</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;">Duplication and sharing of this writing is welcomed, as long as the complete message, website, podcast link and information for Mary Lindow is included.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;">Thank You! "2023"</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;">"THE MESSENGER" - Mary Lindow</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://www.marylindow.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.marylindow.com</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.marylindow.podbean.com</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/the-clash-of-kingdoms-and-moves-of-god-we-are-not-alone/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="480" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1fSfnc0Qlk5afRHwKrf5imPkNyTjhqcj_yJOer0ynXoB8jyuRHG5VsWguXktbTYIGfov88Iy1ecbnLpQTmcv2hs75q4XlqZ-AewNVwGwsiJJbOkH67VlUTSWti4JSHfMJpxEIuvjvE3svT0a6eK7a1DA9cCUmChcCUTHgmVJgkoPujsb7wzHcC9CT/w400-h266/clash%20of%20kingdoms.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>👆</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: verdana;"><b>Please Click Picture to Listen to the Message, Prophetic Word </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: verdana;"><b>and Beautiful Worship Song</b></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"> <strong>By Mary Lindow</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>TODAY’S PODCAST IS ADDRESSING SOMETHING THAT I FEEL THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD HAS GIVEN TO ME TO SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU, AS WELL AS HAVING </strong><strong>A PROPHETIC WORD AT THE END.</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>THERE IS ALSO A BEAUTIFUL SONG FROM THE LORD TALKING ABOUT HOW HIS MERCY REDEEMS. </strong></p><p>This was a song that our son, Joel our oldest son recorded while he was going through a very difficult and deep time in his life and out of that came this beautiful song out of his grief and out of his hurt. Out of his challenges and change came this beautiful worship song, which I feel will encourage you today!</p><p> </p><p><strong>IT’S A CRAZY, UPSIDE DOWN, DISPLACING PHENOMENON WITH ALL THAT IS BEING THROWN AT US IN THE WORLD AND IT’S NARRATIVES. </strong>It’s trying to get us to feel completely off balance and mentally weary. Resting, reading, getting outdoors, crying, laughing and expressing healthy anger gets a good detox going, shaking off the "world slime" and, its agendas.</p><p>Quiet resting in the presence of God just letting His grace and unfailing "nurture" wash us clean, renews the day and our minds.</p><p> </p><p><strong>MY FRIENDS, THIS BATTLE IS UGLY, LONG, IT’S VICIOUS</strong> and although new to us humans right now, to God it’s the same mocking evil that has forever attempted to overthrow and usurp His Kingdom.</p><p><em>It will never happen!</em></p><p>He IS THE Supreme Being, THE Creator of Love, and he laughs at the wicked.</p><p> </p><p><strong>NOW, WE AS HUMANS CAN’T MANUFACTURE AN AUTHENTIC MOVE OF GOD,</strong> but we CAN create the conditions that welcome a move of God!</p><p><em>We mustn’t forget that these events are God’s Divine work.</em></p><p><strong>Human planning ignores the sovereignty of the Living God. </strong></p><p>A move of God begins with a person, or with a very small group of people.</p><p><em><u>Minorities, not multitudes make history.</u></em></p><p> </p><p><strong>WHEN GOD SENDS A FRESH MOVE BY HIS SPIRIT, IT ALWAYS COMES SUDDENLY.</strong> Where we are least expecting Him to act, God intervenes in time and space, revealing His might and His mercy.</p><p>Light comes into dark places whether invited or not.</p><p>And, it either exposes or…</p><p>…It illuminates hearts.</p><p> </p><p><strong>THE VOICE OF TRUTH WILL NOT BE MOCKED OR TWISTED. </strong></p><p>Now, God will allow time for a heart to hear and obey, but will not permit passive resistance to change when He is speaking of new directions and desires to straighten out crooked paths.</p><p>Follow the Light of Christ prodding you to obey and fall upon the rock! Broken and honest people are His favored ones.</p><p>When a heart is open to the whispers of "The Counselor", life becomes a sweet gift as each day unfolds itself like a blooming flower, from bud to full mature glory, peeling away the layers of hiding and hurting, helplessness, and the hoarding of secrets.</p><p>Light shines into your darkness and fear no longer paralyzes you when you listen to the ONE, who knows you better than any other.</p><p> </p><p><strong>LOVE YOUR FAMILY, PLAY, PRAY AND PROTECT. </strong></p><p><em>That’s power against the darkness! </em></p><p>And yes! Pray honest warrior prayers!</p><p>King David did!</p><p>In Psalm 10:15 he cried out to God saying,</p><p><em>“Break the arm of the wicked and evil man Oh God! </em></p><p><em>Hold him accountable for his wicked deeds, </em></p><p><em>which he thought you would not discover.” </em></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKS THE FOLLOWING WORD OF PROPHECY </strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>TO US IN THIS MESSAGE.</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;">I want you to listen with an open heart to what God instructs us to do at this time.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Here is what the Spirit of God has shared:</strong></em></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394;"><em>"Darker and broader and louder come the shouts of world to draw you into its intricate webs.</em><em> </em></span></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">These webs of deceit are spun with easy threads of recommendations to give in and accept passive living, and they lie with the softness of the promise of an easier life.</span></em></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394;"><em>There is a reckoning coming to those that sell lies and imprison those who buy their wares. </em><em> </em></span></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">But, for those who are determined to not walk on a fence, trying to balance between their own thinking and me, there will be a “Divine Might” that will empower them to continue down the narrow and simpler pathway.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Where does this narrowing journey lead? </span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">What is the payoff at the end?</span></em></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394;"><em>As you become more determined and lay aside the things that have hindered you over and over again from fully entering into the deeper places with me, a lightness and freedom will propel you toward a place of Living and Clean Light. </em><em> </em></span></p><p><strong><em><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">That Light is Me, and you will soon know Me in a different way than you have in past years and different seasons in life.</span></u></em></strong></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">My one warning to many is that they cannot argue that the path is “too hard”. </span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">What mankind may call “impossible” I call “Straight and Direct”. </span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">If you choose to alter the plans that I have set down for your protection and safety, you will grieve my Spirit and allow a searing of your conscience to override the truths that you know deep in your heart.</span></em></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394;"><em> </em><em>Isaiah 26:7 says</em><em> </em></span></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">“The path of those who do right is straight and smooth. </span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">I, who am upright, make the way of the righteous level.” </span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">The simplifying and straightening of crooked places in your life has begun to increase, and the love for this move of my hand has decreased among those who choose to remain passive to conviction and pure living. </span></em></p><p><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Allow my Holy Spirit to move freely again!</span></em></strong></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">I know what I must do, to break the constraints of man.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Let me move! </span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Wait in my Presence in prayer, in worship, in gatherings! </span></em></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394;"><em>My Presence and Peace creates the environment for a move among humans who hunger for hope and safety!</em><em> </em></span></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">“Don’t stifle the Holy Spirit. </span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Don't scoff at prophecies,</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">But test everything that is said. </span></em></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394;"><em>Hold on to what is good.” </em><em>- I Thessalonians 5:19-21</em></span></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Choose the “more narrow, simple way”, </span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">I Am there. </span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Choose the pathway of “rightness and tenderheartedness” with me, even when others scoff at your simple and grace-filled choices.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">When the days become darker and the world tilts and twists in further unrestrained darkness, you will be the carrier of My Light, which can lead the lukewarm and lost down the narrow, but safe and integral way, straight to Me.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Be Gracious. Be Kind. Be Hopeful. </span></em></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Let go of bitterness and self-protective behaviors. </span></em></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394;"><em>Grace and Kindness, Humility and Compassion, </em><em>are the behaviors that attract the move of my hand and heart in the earth.</em></span></p><p><em><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></em></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394;"><em>There is no greater love on earth than when you lay down your own life and your own opinions and lift up love and a sacrifice of worship and joyful unrestrained giving of all you have spiritually, physically, and in humble intercession, so that others might thrive.</em><em> </em></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394;"><em>“I Am Forever With You!” </em><em>Says the Spirit of Grace. </em></span></p><p> </p><p><strong>THIS WAS A POWERFUL WORD FROM THE LORD FOR US! </strong></p><p>I encourage you to maybe print it out, take time to meditate on it.</p><p>Pray about it!</p><p><strong>These moves of God that we are beginning to see moving on college campuses in different areas and now beginning to move in junior high schools,</strong> these are the moves of God that are coming for us to partake of and not to put our hands on and try to manipulate, and certainly not to cause these to become a movement that becomes something that we promote or try to sell something from!</p><p>Let them remain organic!</p><p><em><strong>Let the Spirit of God blow across the land and if you’ll notice, this is causing people to cry out to God and repentance to get their hearts right.</strong></em></p><p> </p><p><strong>MANY PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WAIT IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD,</strong> and to let worship just roll through the congregation or the gatherings!</p><p><strong>Many churches have become more "concert focused" in their worship lifestyles and people just sit and listen, but there is no real entering in!</strong> No hymns, no traditional songs, maybe modernized, but certainly these are the hymns of our faith!</p><p><strong>I NOW ENCOURAGE YOU TO SIT BACK AND LISTEN TO THIS BEAUTIFUL, WORSHIPFUL SONG AND LET THE HOLY SPIRIT SING OVER YOU,</strong> sing through you <em>(and I think there will be some tears),</em> as you just enjoy the beauty of how the Mercy of God Redeems us and make us clean.</p><p> </p><p><strong>I encourage you to go to my website which is at </strong><a href="http://www.marylindow.com/">www.marylindow.com</a></p><p><strong>I now have a page there that introduces you to our pastoral counseling services. </strong></p><p>We keep the fees very modest because we believe in helping people and not “fleecing” people.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong> Now, let’s listen to that song!</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>"Your Mercy Redeems"</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">© Joel Lindow 2013</span></p><p style="text-align: center;">Do in me, Anything,</p><p style="text-align: center;">To bring you Glory</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Do in me, Anything</p><p style="text-align: center;">To tell your story</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Your Mercy Redeems</p><p style="text-align: center;">Your Mercy Makes Clean</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Duplication and sharing of this writing is welcomed, as long as the complete message, Website, podcast link and information for Mary Lindow is included.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thank You! 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His Beloved Ministries 5013c non-profit status.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>We are financially accountable and have been in full compliance since</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>1985 with Clergy Financial Advantage.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><em>THANK YOU!</em></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p>Mary Lindowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745158429327557321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723401827206702623.post-7432289750842985382023-02-16T23:29:00.005-07:002023-02-16T23:29:55.454-07:00"The Power of God’s Intervention and Protection From the Evils of The Day"<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/the-power-of-god-s-intervention-and-protection-from-the-evils-of-the-day/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="288" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAkPMepWzLHdmOB4JEcrY5K20nuzamWmeyfSiCzv1dJq_jWwWlBASuIb1Khqu6B6eVMwZOCEwho9M7r0T6O8xH-80I6AdohI1YZaiyVjo-vXmb2voGIM4FKU9VmZwZmjRoJ3uaUfzxwm5gpGY-V3xchUTBRh8wScpKSGaj8IxuDjKBE2n8ZC9ci5Fe/s1600/The%20Power%20of%20God%20%20and%20Protection.JPG" width="288" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: x-large;">☝︎</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/the-power-of-god-s-intervention-and-protection-from-the-evils-of-the-day/" target="_blank">CLICK THE PICTURE TO LISTEN TO AUDIO VERSION OF THIS MESSAGE</a></span></b></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Today’s podcast is going to be, addressing what it means to have the Lord protect us, and save us from evil or harm that may come our way we learn to hear his voice when he tells us to go somewhere or to not go somewhere, or when he puts something down on the inside of us that is not at peace because we are supposed to be doing something differently.</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>One particular indication in our life, where the Lord protected us will be vivid forever for my husband Steve and I.</b> </span>It was the weekend of my birthday which is May 1, and we had traveled from where we were living at the time which was O’Fallon Missouri, to a town nine miles west of us called Wentzville. There was a restaurant called Isabella’s and we were having the fun of Steve’s parents who came to visit us from Belleville, Illinois to celebrate with us. We also had our two little toddler boys with us. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">We had a wonderful lunch and on the way home we had decided to stop by a church building that my husband Steve has been involved in helping to redesign the interior of and to adjust some architecture. We had texted to see if the pastor or assistant pastor happened to still be there and, the assistant pastor was there! When we went inside we were enjoying showing things to Steve’s parents and suddenly the power went out. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The sky had been looking rather odd in the direction we were traveling,</b></span> and if you know the area of Missouri where tornadoes can form, skies gets a strange aqua tint to them. While we were in the building, sitting down talking with the assistant pastor, the Holy Spirit prompted both Steve and I that we were to stay for a little while and not to travel just then, and the pastor himself said he thought it was a good idea if we all just waited a little bit. So, we waited 15 to 20 minutes and then we seemed to have a “go ahead” to travel. We bundled everyone back up into the car and began to travel down the road, which was parallel to a highway and was a wide frontage road. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>The sky to the North and east looked very ominous! </b>As we began to take a curve around the bend in the road, I suddenly said to my husband, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Why is that road sign up in a tree?”</em> And then we saw someone’s small covered work trailer up in a tree and realized there was debris to the right of us all along the grassy field area. As we finished coming around the curve, we noticed a man and a group of children standing like statues out in a grassy large front yard and behind them there were, some farm style buildings and a home that looked like they had no doors and windows on them. We pulled over and my husband and his dad went up the gravel driveway to see if they were all right, because we realized a tornado had touched down. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The man was staring at my husband and father-in-law, and said, “God must’ve been with you people!</b> </span>I watched your car coming down the frontage road and then disappeared around the bend where I couldn’t see you anymore. The twister had dropped down in front our property a few minutes before you came around the bend, because it had just passed over our house and blew out the windows and blew the door off the refrigerator and everything out of the refrigerator, into the house.” </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Of course the more we looked around the more we realized how we would have been in that very spot when the tornado touched down if we hadn’t heeded the internal warning of the Lord to wait it out for a little bit at the church building!</em> </b>Our car could’ve been picked up and tossed just like all the things that were now obvious to us. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">We talked to the people for a little while to make sure they had someone coming to help them, and once we were reassured that they had assistance we got back in the car and quickly made our way home. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Once we got home, the sky had turned an even more aqua color and the atmosphere was eerily still and muggy</b>,</span> so we went down into our basement to wait the storm out. We prayed together and asked the Lord to be a shield around us, and that he would surround us with angelic protection according to <b>Psalm 91: 9-11, </b>and it says this:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and you make the Most High your dwelling, </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">No harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We could hear the howling wind coming down our fireplace chimney</span>, </b>and there was an eerie glow from the strange sky color coming through the drapery in the basement windows, but we just simply talked and played with the children and waited until the sirens stopped blaring. About an hour later we went upstairs, and the sky was completely clear and dusk was setting in.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Everything was very quiet and yet we still had power in our house. People were outside sweeping up broken glass around the neighborhood and as my husband and dad in law went for a walk around the block, they were stunned! There were individual homes <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that were completely wiped off the street, giant old oak trees picked up and tossed like play toys, and then there were homes left completely standing!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We knew that we had experienced the protection of the Lord two times that day, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">and the promise of being surrounded by his protective agents. </span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Wow! <i>What a Birthday that was! </i></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Dear Believers! </b></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>We live in times right now where there is a tremendous amount of danger and uncertainty.</b> </span>There are a lot of desperate people, and a lot of people who are out of their minds on drugs and alcohol. It is at an epidemic level. When we bend our ear to listen to the Lord and ask him if we should be traveling or going somewhere, we are yielding our common sense and our way of doing things to the greater wisdom of God. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">There have been several times that I have gone to travel on an airplane with Steve or by myself, and we always pray the prayer that if there’s anything wrong with the plane Lord, stop it from ever taking off the runway. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We also had one time where we were both very unsettled about a flight. We just did not feel right getting on the plane, and as we boarded that intensity grew stronger. While we sat in our seats we began to pray, and we asked the Lord if we needed to get off the flight. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We both immediately were impressed to pray that the captain upon final inspection of his plane, would spot what ever was wrong with it at would halt the flight</span>. </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Sure enough as he did his walk-through outside, we noticed the captain stopping and looking at something near the engine. He climbed aboard the back stairs and went into the cockpit, and within a few moments he announced that we were going to have to deplane and wait for another plane, because there was something he was not comfortable and was not going to fly the plane until it had been addressed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">When you feel uncomfortable or uncertain about traveling or going somewhere,</span> that is the Lord allowing you to be discerning about Divine protection</b>. Each of us have experienced where we know the Lord has intervened and often there are angelic interventions that save lives. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">When our two boys were toddlers, we had a wall that we had put brackets and wood slat bookshelves up to store our library of books, and the three lower levels were to hold toys for the children at their height so they could pick them out and play with them. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">One afternoon I was in that space with the children and they were playing with their toys. They were both toddlers at the time one of the babies was under just 14 months old. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I was strongly impressed to quickly move my boys away from the play area,</b> and something nudged me in the shoulder to push me forward! </span>At the time I was so focused on moving them both at the same time that I wasn’t concentrating on the nudge! I scooped them up and pulled them away without alarming them and about the time I did this, the bookshelf broke free from some brackets and twisted, and hundreds of books fell down, as well as the wood shelves right in the very play space the boys had been sitting in. Of course I gathered my little ones up and held them close, and was stunned at how there could’ve been great harm done to them, and then I suddenly thought about what had pushed me forward in that very moment to get to them! </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I knew that the Lord had permitted angelic intervention to move me forward to get the boys in that very moment. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">Psalm 34:7 says, </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"The angel of the LORD surrounds those who fear him, </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and he delivers them." </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Of course, we never pray to angelic beings, a</b></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>nd we certainly don’t try to turn them into some kind of "bizarre, supernatural guide".</b> </span>Some self-styled “angel experts” instruct their followers to love their angels and to call upon them for health, healing, prosperity, and guidance. But angels are God’s servants, and all this attention and emphasis and glory should go to God, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">not His servants. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">God says, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I will not share my glory with another”</em> (Isaiah 42:8). </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Scripture makes no mention of loving angels—only God, His word, and people.</b> </span><b><i>And, it never tells us to pray to angels, only to the Lord Himself. </i></b>The church at Colossae had been invaded by false teachers, who were teaching a false humility and the worship of angels, claiming special mystic insights by way of visions in connection with their worship of angels (Co. 2:18). This was demonic because it was usurping the preeminent place and sufficiency of Christ as Savior and Lord. The claim was that Jesus was not enough for salvation and spirituality. So these people said you “needed” to worship angels, and so on.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>These are the demonic, dark spiritual forces we’re up against today,</b> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">and you can be assured that the enemy knows how to disguise himself as an angel. </span>His whole intent is to lead us into traps of destruction and to draw our worship away from God. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Live aware my friends, and don’t be easily deceived. </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><u>God promises to help us as we seek to honor Him and walk wisely in this life. </u></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>We can trust that even when we’re unaware of our needs or impending disasters that lay before us, God knows the way. </b></span>He is at work, sending words of hope, protecting his children, attending to our needs, bringing justice and mercy to our land, drawing us closer to himself, and encouraging us to walk wisely, be aware, and live fully for Him.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>A wonderful story has been told by a Moravian missionary in connection with angelic protection!</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">An American missionary and his wife bravely went to their station, where, twenty years before, two missionaries had been killed by the natives. They said as they took up their work it seemed as if often they were surrounded not only by the hostile natives, but by the very powers of darkness. These powers of darkness were so real, that night after night they were forced to get up and strengthen their hearts by reading the Word of God. Again, they would pray.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">One day a man came and said, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"I would like to see your watchmen close at hand."</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The missionary replied: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"I have no watchmen; I have only a cook and a little herd boy. What watchmen do you mean?”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The man asked permission to look through the missionaries home. Every corner of the house was carefully searched, and the man came out of the house greatly disappointed. Then the missionary asked the man to tell him about the watchmen to whom he referred. Here is the man's answer;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"When you and your wife came here we determined to kill you as we did the missionaries twenty years ago. Night after night we came to carry out our intentions, but there always stood around your house a double row of watchmen with glittering weapons, and we dared not come near.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“At last we hired a professional assassin, who said he feared neither God nor devil. </span>Last night he came close to your house-we followed at a distance and he was brandishing his spear. There stood the shining watchmen, and the killer fled in terror. So we have given up our purpose to kill you, but tell me, who are the watchmen?”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The missionary opened the Word of God and read: </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The angel of he LORD encamps around those that fear him, </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and delivers </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">them. - </em>Psalm 34:7 </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him. - Deuteronomy 33:12</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Lord had hidden them. - Jeremiah 36:26</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>God often works in ways we can’t fully see, sometimes behind the scenes or with unexpected timing, </b></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>yet he’s always working on our behalf.</b> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Whether we realize it or not, there’s a spiritual realm constantly around us. </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">May God give us eyes to see clearly that angels are among us and that God is working miracles, even today.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Let’s Pray Together For God’s Divine Protection</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Father, I thank you for the great authority and protection you have given your children in the person of Jesus Christ. Even as we go out into the world, your promise remains true to us. Nothing shall, by any means, hurt us.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">All authority in heaven and earth has been given to you, Lord Jesus, leaving none for the devil and his angels. Thank you for your divine protection and covering.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">You have put your angels in charge concerning us, to guard us in all our ways. You have sent your angels down to your true loyal children to rescue us from danger. Your angels will lift us up and keep us from harm, as we choose to trust in you and obey your promptings and warnings in an instant!</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thank you, that by faith in the work you have done, we are protected and secure, everywhere we go! </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Amen! </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Duplication and sharing of this writing is welcomed, as long as the complete message, Website, podcast link and information for Mary Lindow is included.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thank You! 2023</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">"THE MESSENGER" - Mary Lindow</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp-z1vvhSJ1SdruG2BS9C5hwVuAcC-eMvou9iRU5eeQblCBV6nVkvMNOJJSeWYectvaaNkl9cnx_IAUDEi8rTZ9uCEirbUhqNiLpRMdyZK-AxTsH3V-3IQKGl1NLDDLlVfTEoJPpUFB7t8PnTCUqJ-5GJSy7F6-iJwA0LeJK8L2Xi3UzI6AyLxBcVw/s336/The%20Streching.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="336" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp-z1vvhSJ1SdruG2BS9C5hwVuAcC-eMvou9iRU5eeQblCBV6nVkvMNOJJSeWYectvaaNkl9cnx_IAUDEi8rTZ9uCEirbUhqNiLpRMdyZK-AxTsH3V-3IQKGl1NLDDLlVfTEoJPpUFB7t8PnTCUqJ-5GJSy7F6-iJwA0LeJK8L2Xi3UzI6AyLxBcVw/s320/The%20Streching.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">☝︎ </span></b></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>PLEASE CLICK THE PICTURE </b></span></span><b>TO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST IN AUDIO FORM</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">By the Holy Spirit through Mary Lindow</em></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, </em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.</em></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, </em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">though a man's misery weighs heavily upon him."</em></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ecclesiastes 8:5-6</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>NOTE: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">At the end of this podcast there is a short spontaneous song of the Lord that was recorded in a small studio several years ago. There were other wonderful and gifted percussionists and musicians joining in as the Holy Spirit moved through us all and gave me the beautiful melody and orchestral keyboard accompaniment. My hope is that it will stir your heart to worship and be even hungrier for the Presence of the Lord in your life. </em></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><b>In all of our lives as believers, we face times and settings where there is a feeling of being pulled and tested, stretched, and restrained.</b> Often, during these excruciating events, those who avoid personal character development tend to give unrestrained advice, spiritualized platitudes, and often, trumped up words of so-called prophetic inspiration to help us not suffer so!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">As we begin to see the Lord's plan in all of this we also come to understand that if we are not first hearing His voice, His heart, His word in the matters that are straining us, nothing any man or woman says can bring the ultimate light of clarity and release!
</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WINTER SPRING SUMMER AND FALL
</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">We all face seasons of change that correspond much like the four seasons we observe yearly. Nothing is more surprising than to have an interruption of what we presume to be what is "normal" for an earthly expectation, in one of those seasons.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">When a sudden ice snow storm blows in unexpected in the late spring in the Colorado fruit growing regions and encrusts the tender blooms on fruit trees and garden plants, we are devastated by the loss of not only the blooms, but also the fruit it could have produced. It appears as if there has been a cruel storm sent to cause crop failure.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WHAT IS THIS CURRENT SEASON OF DIVINE TENSION ALL ABOUT?</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">For many who are hearing or reading this message, you feel as if you have experienced a "Crop failure," perhaps several, and just can’t take one more aching disappointment. Many hearts have passed their tender agonies to me on paper, in emails, texts, and through the telephone.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>ANGUISH HAS ITS OWN PERFUME </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I too have heard the whispers of the voices of darkness try to entice, with wearisome words of worry, paranoia and doubting!</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Give up!"</em></span> they say! <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"What good is this time of shaking doing?"</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"What possible good can come out of believing that there is something occurring that will bring a fresh advancement when all seems to have stalled or strained?”</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">And yet, another set of voices would tempt with words of esteem whispering;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Make it happen! </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Proclaim mighty deeds and things to come with fervor, flair and well-honed words of impact!</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Use it or lose it!</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Promote, push, and publish! It is all yours for the taking!"</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">BOTH OF THESE VOICES COME FROM THE SUBTLETIES OF THE SOUL </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">AND WELL OILED SPIRITUAL VOICES </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">TRAINED BY </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THE PRINCE OF LIES AND FLESHLY IMPULSE.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>But. </b></u></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">In the midst of these strains and attempts to distract comes a clear undeniable "Divine Tension" that pulls and stretches the heart of the humbled believer.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It calls simply, firmly, and does not lack a depth of confidence and direction.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">This “Presence” causes a clash with all that seems to be "the way of man" and will not relent.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THE EARTH IS IN TURMOIL
</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It doesn't take much to understand that the earth is in upheaval, rivalry, and chaos wherever we look. There is a tangible and penetrating "tension" in the events we are seeing unfold every day. Parallel to this explosion of pure evil and lulling to sleep of many, there is a Divine Course being laid out for those who have come to the end of them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>ETERNITY IS IN THE SIGHTS OF THOSE LOOKING TO A KINGDOM YET UNSEEN.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have been preparing a bride. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">This is done only through the shaping tools of heavenly choice.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The chisel and hammer have been at times brutal and unflinching, yet, when the soft hand of The Almighty begins to apply the oil of polishing, He does it with His own hand as well.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><i><u>He makes it beautiful in His own timing, even though the “Divine Tension” seems as if it might cause us to "snap" under the pressure of His hand, smoothing away the roughness of our thoughts and soul's intentions.</u></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ecclesiastes 3:11</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">He has made everything beautiful in its time.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">He has also set eternity in the hearts of men;</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>HEARING, REFINING, HEEDING
</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">The King of all Glory is training those who have been thrust on the altar of fire to hear from Him as one who strains to catch the song of a bird in distant meadow.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">It takes the "spiritual ear" and training it to identify even the slightest note or sound, however distant, and to learn to silence the sounds and voices of distraction until the "honing in" on the sound, the glorious sound of peace, finally directs and sustains us with all that we hear.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">And then, having drunk deeply of the Voice of the Beloved and Divine Counselor, quickly, without mental filing way of instructions or overthinking, we move and heed His mapping out of plans for this appointed time.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>RISING FROM THE ASHES OF THE REFINING OF GOD
</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">So! Unto those who hear this word from heaven, claiming you are one of Heaven's very own, know that you are being formed and fashioned into sober, clean containers, prepared for infilling.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">My Spirit will fall upon those who are not seeking to lay claim to My voice, but instead HEED My voice and SEEK My face. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">They shall be examples of purity in My Kingdom and will not strive among the self-promoting and “wordy". The broken will be safe in the arms of these who have passed through the current season of being pulled and tested, stretched and restrained and they will restore the devastated.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;">My "faithful hearts" will not be compelled to build agendas for Me and My Presence, because I will BE the Presence that creates the Manifestations of Glory and Might in the earth, without the fanfares of men.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>YOU HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO DESPERATION IN ORDER THAT I MIGHT RESTORE YOU TO INSPIRED LIVING, IN FULL FELLOWSHIP WITH ME.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Isaiah 61</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Because the LORD has anointed me</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">To preach good news to the poor.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">To proclaim freedom for the captives</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">And release from darkness for the prisoners,</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">To proclaim the year of the Lords’ favor</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">And the day of vengeance of our God,</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">To comfort all who mourn, </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">And provide for those who grieve in Zion</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">To bestow on them a crown of beauty</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Instead of ashes, the oil of gladness, </em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Instead of mourning,</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">And a garment of praise, Instead of a spirit of despair.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">They will be called oaks of righteousness,</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">A planting of the LORD</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">For the display of his glory and splendor.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; 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💟</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p></div><p><br /></p>Mary Lindowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745158429327557321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723401827206702623.post-70224163574204969572022-12-30T21:47:00.000-07:002022-12-30T21:47:00.050-07:00"The Timing of God and His Impeccable Attention To Details"<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/the-timing-of-god-and-his-impeccable-attention-to-details/" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="464" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_VtsqqFLGmqAtKupVJVOjzjf2uteTtPPNdh5CqSSwoCh51qVWblG8lhaX3HbHO54-M6Ynj0aRsz4EpHharrXjgZGXWUs96VwPZY2_Fs7gkwHIO2lhVJ9kTf31K1wWTrnQcOh2SDtjvM4mhxihB2N0fc-vfeRjIYr03HirJHCghmqdsRe6yvLj-A2U/s320/timing%20of%20God.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;"> </span></b></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">👆</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;">PLEASE CLICK PICTURE TO LISTEN TO THIS AS </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: arial;">AN AUDIO STORY FORM WITH SOOTHING BACKGROUND MUSIC</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: center;">By Mary Lindow</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Today’s podcast is one that I am going to share with you about “another wonderful story” of how the Holy Spirit can prompt us to do things for others at the most uncanny times, and as if they were perfectly orchestrated years </b></span><b>and years before hand. </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">And, of course, the Lord knows the hearts desire of every one of his children, but he often uses his own children to help bring about the heart’s desire for many other people by being obedient and acting when the Holy Spirit in first Corinthians says, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Don’t you know that your body is a temple that belongs to the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit, whom you received from God, lives in you. You don’t belong to yourselves.”</em> 1 Corinthians 6:19</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">IT WAS NEAR CHRISTMAS TIME</span>,</b> and a local Women’s Aglow group, which happened to be a good sized chapter was having a Christmas ladies luncheon and asked if I would come in and be their keynote speaker. The room was decorated beautifully and of course the tables were festive for the holiday!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">As I was sitting at the table next to the team members and the president of the group, there was a conversation about the beautiful table settings. I was just listening and enjoying hearing them talk about how they went about getting everything ready, and why they wanted to make it so nice for so many other women that were coming, because many of them worked full-time jobs and didn’t get a chance to come and partake of beautiful things during the holidays because they were also busy mothers.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>ONE OF THE LADIES BY THE NAME OF BILLY WAS SHARING WITH EVERYONE THAT SHE HAD JUST GONE SHOPPING WITH HER DAUGHTER A FEW WEEKS AGO,</b> </span>and they had picked out Wedding China for her daughter and her husband, because her daughter was going to be married in the spring. She went on to say that she never did get to have Wedding China as a young bride and wanted her daughter to have a beautiful experience and opportunity to have a beautiful table.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I THOUGHT, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"WHAT A WONDERFUL THING THIS WAS THAT THIS WOMAN WAS GETTING CHINA FOR HER DAUGHTER, AND THAT SHE HAD NEVER HAD WEDDING CHINA HERSELF."</em></b></span> She went on to mention that she had picked out a special pattern herself as a young bride, but that it was just not possible for her family and friends to get give wedding china at that point, because it was a very frugal wedding, and other wedding gifts were more important.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">I sat there and wondered about how wonderful it was for her as a mother, to be so concerned that her daughter would have a beautiful table to set with beautiful things, when she herself had never had any. Now it was time for me to get up and share my Christmas message so I did and afterwards told her how beautiful her story was to me about her daughter and proceeded to go home for the day.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><i>On my way home, I began to remember that I have been given an entire set a Fine China from a dear friend, whom I had come to know while I was in Bible College. Hmmmmm... </i>😉</b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b> </b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>NOW, THIS IS WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">This dear, godly, lovely man would take on students to help with jobs or different kinds of projects in his home or, other derelict properties that he would buy, and train them and also pay them so they could pay for their Bible college fees. He had been in the military with a high clearance type of job, and although he had wanted to marry, he knew that he would never be able to be home enough to justify caring for a bride. At 63 he began to take students into his home for meals and storytelling, and developing them for skill sets. He had been a trainer for all kinds of business components of the military.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WHEN I MET HIM WHEN IMMEDIATELY HAD A BOND</b> </span>because he was also a gifted musician, and had a love for Fine art and Fine China. He would go to the thrift stores or take me along and different places where very wealthy Texans would drop off Crystal and China and dishes and silver that they were no longer using. So he was forever scouting out Havilland china pieces or different kinds of China to add to his collection. I went on to meet my husband and marry him later and we moved to Illinois. (That’s where my husbands from.)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THIS LOVELY MAN BY THE NAME OF ALAN</span> </b>would occasionally sent boxes of pieces of things that he would find to add to a side of China for me, and I did have wedding China of my own. At one time we had three full sets of Fine China and I wasn’t sure what to do with all of it! Then came two boxes that he had found of a 1950s china pattern that he thought was exquisite! I had opened the boxes and noticed there were eight place settings, eight cups and saucers, eight salad plates, eight serving plates, and also a creamer and sugar set as well as a large serving bowl.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">SOMEHOW, I NEVER FELT LIKE THESE WERE TO BELONG TO ME</span>, </b>and I really didn’t have storage for them. So, I put them away in a cupboard thinking that someday if we moved and I had a China hutch for them, I would use them as spring dishes. They had a platinum rim, they were white and off to the right side there was a spray of flowers that had a lot of teal and a little bit of touch of pink and a hint of orange, and of course soft green.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">STEVE AND I WERE THEN CALLED TO GO HELP PIONEER A CHURCH IN MISSOURI</span>, </b>so we packed everything up and moved those dishes and everything else to Missouri. And understand these dishes have been shipped from Dallas Texas to Illinois. Now they were taking a trip to Missouri!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">ABOUT TWO YEARS LATER STEVE AND I DECIDED THAT WE WERE GOING TO MOVE BACK TO DENVER, COLORADO BECAUSE THE LORD HAD PROMPTED US TO DO SO.</span> </b>So once again, we packed everything up and moved to Denver. There I was in Denver speaking at a Women’s Aglow Christmas banquet luncheon and I hear this woman-discussing find China for her daughter.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>NOW! BACK TO ME ON MY WAY HOME.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">The thought came to me, (prompted by the Holy Spirit) <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Why don’t you give that set of China to Billy? What a wonderful Christmas gift it would be to gift to her, and she would have a lovely set of China for her own home.” </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I was absolutely thrilled to think that this would belong to someone else, and that the Lord would want me to give it to them. </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">But I wasn’t sure if it was a pattern she would want or not.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>BUT THE PERSISTENT NUDGING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT…</b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>… WOULD NOT GO AWAY!</b></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i><b>I went into our basement storage area and found the two boxes and everything was still pristine and in great condition.</b></i></span> I wrote a quick card, and told her that I felt like the Lord wanted me to give these to her after listening to her conversation about buying China for her daughter and then that I just wanted to bless her with it so she would have a beautiful table at Christmas time. I did get a hold of her telephone number and called and told her that I was having my husband and two little boys run some boxes by, just a little something for her. Would she be home? She said of course she would and she said she was “quite intrigued”.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>I BUNDLED UP THE BOXES AND HELPED MY HUSBAND GET THE TWO LITTLE BOYS INTO THE CAR AND OFF THEY WENT TO DO THE DELIVERY.</b> </span>I was downstairs folding laundry, and just thinking about how much I hoped it blessed her, and that she would be tickled that the lord thought of her.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b> NOW COMES THE MOST EXCITING PART! </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The phone starts ringing and I went upstairs and I missed it.</b> </span>(<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This is back when Cell Phones were way too expensive for everyone and we still had a landline with a long cord!)</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Then the phone started ringing again,</span> so I quickly answered the phone, and on the other end, there was the sound of someone gasping and crying!</b> Now. Being a pastor's wife, we often received calls from people who were in distress or who were needing prayer, so, I began to saying, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Hello? Who’s there? Can I help you?” </em>Finally, the person on the end of the line was able to clear their throat and gather their emotions, and it was Billy the lady who Steve had dropped the China off to.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">SHE BEGAN SAYING, “OH MARY! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!”</span> </b>And of course I didn’t, and I wasn’t sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing, but I could tell that she was overcome! She then began to tell me that when the boxes arrived, she was tickled to think that someone thought of her, and my husband said my wife wanted to give these to you and wish you a Merry Christmas. But, when she closed the door and went to open the packages, she reached in and pulled out one of the dinner plates that was in a slotted cardboard area. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The China pattern was the EXACT China pattern that she had wanted as a young bride, but never had</em></span>. It had the platinum rim that she had desired to have on her pattern! And there were eight place settings, just enough for her Christmas table and her family that was coming to feast. Also, she was able to set a beautiful place setting and table, for the Mother of the Groom, who was going to come and visit.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THIS WOMAN WAS WEEPING AND LAUGHING, AND COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT THE LORD WOULD HAVE HELD ONTO THIS CHINA FOR HER ALL THESE YEARS.</b></span> I told her that they have been given to me and shipped from Dallas to Illinois to Missouri to Denver. Imagine! The Lord had shipped those dishes, and had me move them “strategically”, until they got into the hands of the woman that he had planned to bless them with!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>MY FRIENDS, GOD KNOWS THE DESIRES OF OUR HEARTS</b> </span>even down to the simple things like Fine China, and he knows that soft and beautiful things, in specific times of our life are so necessary, to show us how lavish and beautiful his care and love for us is.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">THE STORY GOES ON BECAUSE MANY OF HER FRIENDS THEN BEGAN TO HEAR THE STORY ABOUT “THE CHRISTMAS MIRACLE CHINA”</span>,</b> and they began to give her serving pieces that matched, or Silver pieces or Crystal, and one friend even gave her a set of family silverware to accompany her beautiful table. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Everyone wanted to get in on the beautiful moment!</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>WHEN STEVE CAME HOME, WE JUST PUT OUR ARMS AROUND EACH OTHER AND LAUGHED AND CRIED</b> </span>at the joy of knowing the Lord had those dishes, literally moved and sent on his behalf, to this darling woman.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO NEVER, EVER, MINIMIZE THE FACT, THE HOLY SPIRIT ASKS YOU TO DO SOMETHING FOR SOMEONE ELSE. </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b>It could be something as simple as giving them a beautiful scarf that you are no longer wearing, or perhaps you have tools in your garage that you’re not using.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">IT’S IN THE ACT OF GIVING </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">THAT THE PRESENCE OF GOD COMES DOWN </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">AND TRANSFORMS WHAT WE ARE GIVING, INTO HOPE.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>GIVING IS NOT THE NATURE OF THE DARK WORLD!</b> </span>Taking and grasping and hoarding is from the dark part of the world. But we as believers are to give freely because we have freely received everything we could ever need to save us from the doom and darkness of this world.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">When Christ himself came and gave his life as a lamb, as a child, he gave his life to us in the form of an infant so that when his day to die up on the cross came; he could truly say that he experienced life like we have, from cradle to grave.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="color: #212529;">AS WE ALL BEGIN TO DE-CLUTTER AND PUT AWAY CHRISTMAS ITEMS,</b><span style="color: #212529;"> I would encourage you to look at through the lens of what you have, and ask the Lord, </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #212529;">“</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">Is this something that I need to be sharing with someone else?”</span></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Is there another set of silverware in your house that you are not using that another family might need?</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Do you have several pairs of sports tennis shoes that you purchased and realized you don’t like them and they’re practically brand new?</span></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>FIND A FAMILY, FIND SOMEONE WHO NEEDS THEM.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">And yes, you have to look for them sometimes, but the Lord will direct your path because you are led by the Holy Spirit and you belong to Him, and the Holy Spirit wastes NOTHING!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">WE ARE LIVING IN A TIME WHERE THE BODY OF CHRIST </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">IS BEING CHAMPIONED AND CHALLENGED TO LEARN </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">HOW TO CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER AND MEET ONE ANOTHER’S NEEDS </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">SO THAT NONE ARE LACKING. </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">There’s no place in the Bible that talks about hoarding or keeping everything to us. <u>None whatsoever. </u>But it does talk about sharing and at times, “sacrificial giving to others” so that they may know the love of Christ.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">I encourage you to go through your canned goods to look at your bedding, sheets, extra coats, and by all means that dozens of Bibles that we all have sitting on our shelves in abundance! There are those who would give anything to have a new Bible or perhaps a warmer winter coat.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">WE CANNOT LOOK DOWN ON THOSE WHO ARE SLIGHTLY IMPOVERISHED OR IMPOVERISHED,</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">BECAUSE THERE’S NOTHING "MORE GODLY" ABOUT BEING WEALTHY, THAN THERE IS ABOUT BEING POOR.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b> </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;">GOD JUDGES THE INTENTION OF OUR HEARTS,</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;">NOT THE ABUNDANCE OF OUR WALLETS.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>THERE ARE THINGS AROUND YOU THAT THE LORD HAS PLACED WITHIN YOUR REACH</b></span> and maybe even you have moved from state to state or move from one house to another that you could easily ask him about and ask him to prompt you to show you who is this to go to.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">You may be sitting in a restaurant and hear someone talking about something they need and you may be prompted by the Holy Spirit that you are the one that has it.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">It takes simple listening.</span></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">It just takes simple listening!</span></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">It doesn’t take a Herculean effort.</span></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><u>But love <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">acts</em>! </u></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>ONCE WE SECOND-GUESS OURSELVES</b></span> and never stop and buy that cup of coffee for the person in front of us that seems downtrodden. Or, we wonder if that $20 towards someone’s grocery bill in front of us makes any difference, then we miss out on the blessing. But you see it’s not for us to question the amount or the moment! It’s for us to act in loving grace and humility and kindness, and in that moment change the world!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">HEAVEN COMES DOWN AND MEETS THE NEED AND KISSES SOMEONE’S HEART WITH HOPE, AND HE USES US TO DO IT.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I wish you all a beautiful week as you prepare </span>for this up-and-coming year.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>My message after the first of the year is going to talk about, </b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Peace in the midst of chaos”</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">because the world is becoming more chaotic and unfortunately the world is covered with a gross darkness right now. </span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Believers need to be strengthened encouraged not to quit, not to hide, and certainly not to hoard!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I BLESS YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS AND I PRAY NOW THAT HE WILL TOUCH YOU AND GUIDE YOU AND SHOW YOU WHAT TO DO WITH THE THINGS THAT YOU DO HAVE THAT YOU CAN GIVE FREELY.</span> </b>And, perhaps there are things that you are feeling a tug at your heart that you need to give but they’re going to cause a little pain to give away. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">That’s OK! </em>The Lord does love, sacrificial, giving, and above all, he loves a joyful giver!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">THERE IS NOTHING MORE JOYFUL THAN TO SEE THE ABSOLUTE SURPRISE AND DELIGHT ON THE FACE OF SOMEONE THAT YOU HAVE BLESSED IN KINDNESS, AND WITHOUT FANFARE.</span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Have a beautiful and Happy New Year, but above all, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">pray that the Lord would show you what he has to say to you in 2023 specifically for your life </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">and what kind of assignments he has for you.</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #351c75;">THE CHURCH IS BEING CALLED UP TO BE THE FULL ARMORED BODY OF CHRIST, AND MY FRIENDS THAT MEANS YOU AND I. </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Goodbye for now! Please go to my website at <a href="http://www.marylindow.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d6efd; text-decoration: none;">www.marylindow.com</a> where you can listen to this podcast directly there or you can read and listen to other things that I have posted there and a few videos.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;">I<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> say thank you to all of you who have been so gracious to send beautiful Christmas cards and little notes in the mail and also emails with encouraging words, sharing what these podcasts and stories I’ve been doing mean to you.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">And I thank those of you who have been prompted by the Lord to support this next year of ministry. Your response has been a bit overwhelming and I thank you for your help, and also I think you more than anything for your prayers for I truly do feel them.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">God bless all of you.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;">Duplication and sharing of this message is welcomed provided that complete article, podcast and website information for Mary Lindow is included. 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caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Under the name of - His Beloved Ministries Inc. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">ALL gifts are tax-deductible under</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />His Beloved Ministries 501(3)c non-profit status.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We are financially accountable and have been in full compliance since </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1985 with Clergy Financial Advantage.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: Avenir; font-size: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">THANK YOU!</em></p>Mary Lindowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745158429327557321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723401827206702623.post-59900304636604951222022-12-13T22:15:00.000-07:002022-12-13T22:15:06.739-07:00“A “Chosen” Moment In Time - An Act Of Obedience - A Life Changed Forever”<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/a-chosen-moment-in-time-an-act-of-obedience-a-life-changed-forever/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="480" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiph0G7pb0d5oI3Z713ZeGVWFr0N38d82u6uRGcVuR6OlYoLlueSTNbNDxDbLdlEWvh7mCy0wAByIfD28rzjmWem_Je06as0Eluu9UUema1vuc-jRXgl93EeCd1465zH_wwituaK-9bBhwyqIW4M8Vh-UVUva5GeyaEVGzFLDp50O_sbUG7nWxur_2H/w400-h266/A%20Chosen%20Moment.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="entry" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 1em 0px 0px;"><p style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">☝☝☝</span></strong></p><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #3c30c0;">TO LISTEN TO THIS AS AN ENCOURAGING AND CALMING PODCAST</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #3c30c0;">JUST CLICK THE PICTURE TO LISTEN </span></span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by Mary Lindow</strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">TODAY’S PODCAST IS ONE OF SEVERAL THAT I WILL BE DOING IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS WHICH </span></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I TRUST WILL ENHANCE YOUR CHRISTMAS SEASON, EVEN THOUGHT THE MESSAGE IS ONE FOR ANY SEASON!</span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to share with you, some very tender and beautiful moments where the Lord moved upon my husband, and I to obey the spirit of God promptly, and out of doing this God did great and amazing things!</strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I also want to thank those of you that have been so consistent in helping me to produce podcasts. </strong>I am now reaching through the grace of God 60 countries freely, and also have been picked up by dozens of different podcast organizations. It does cost me to have to produce and publish these because they have to be parked somewhere. So again, I thank you and I know that at times it is difficult to give, and I do not take it lightly. It does help me do what I do because without you, I would have to stop!</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">NOW LET’S BEGIN WITH TODAY’S EXCITING “GOD STORY” PODCAST.</span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">My husband and I were given tickets to attend any movie of choice that we wanted to. Of course there’s not much to choose from out there anymore that isn’t filled with all kinds of trashy material and narratives which we just simply choose not to support. So, we were thrilled to find out that Season Three of the tremendously well done epic cinematic story of the apostles and Jesus, the epic production of “The Chosen“ was showing at our local theater! They were releasing the first two episodes of Season Three!</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We had just recently returned from a trip,</strong> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and I had just returned from ministering at two different conferences.</strong> We were both a little tired, and to be honest, weary with the world. At the same time when we came home a day or two later after the last trip, my husband was rushed to the emergency room with excruciating pain, and we found out that he had a very large kidney stone. That night after 10 hours, we came home, I was sitting in our living room praying and just trying to be quiet and calm myself, and I heard a strange noise downstairs in our lower level closet area. I heard a grinding and a popping and hissing sound. Something was not right with our furnace!</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">COLORADO WINTER WAS UPON US AND THE FURNACE WAS NOT BEHAVING!</span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">I went downstairs and could not see that the gas pilot was lighting, nor was there anything remotely close to heat coming out of it, so I just assumed that the pilot light was out. To cut to the chase, there were no parts to repair our furnace due to supply chain issues, and the potential for us having had carbon monoxide poisoning going on was high!</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">We were grateful that the Lord alerted us to this! But we were NOT happy that we were going to have to replace an entire furnace system, and up to the new specifications for “green energy requirements“ in Colorado.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WHAT AN ABSOLUTE HORRIBLE THING TO HAPPEN BEFORE CHRISTMAS! RIGHT?</em></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">And, we had just finally caught up on paying for the last of Steve’s Father’s care in assisted living, as he had just passed away in March. He was 96 years old, and of course had planned to take care of himself, but no one knew he would live to such a ripe age of 96!</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So, we were feeling a little bit out of sorts and overwhelmed and COLD</strong> and decided that we would go to the movie and just enjoy something where the presence of God was allowed to flow, as well as something that was going to be meaningful and purposeful during this difficult time we were in, once again.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE WERE SCHEDULED TO SEE THE MOVIE AT 1:45 PM IN THE AFTERNOON. </strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As we walked into the theater, there was no one else IN the theater but Steve and I! </strong>We did arrive a few minutes early but as time passed, it was obvious we were at an afternoon matinee close to the end of the time they were going to show this film. So, we just sat there and held hands and watched all the previews of wonderful new films that were coming out by Christian groups and their animations for children. </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">THEN, OFF TO THE SIDE...</span></strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">...WE NOTICED A YOUNG MAN COME IN THE DOOR. </span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">He had to be in his mid-20s, and certainly not any older than 30. He was dressed in a white snapback baseball cap, a white hoodie with red and black graphics of some type on the front, and off-white khaki type colored jeans and white tennis shoes with black laces.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>Now, I noticed all of this because there was not another single person to pay attention to at that point!</i> </strong>Just a minute or two later another couple who were fragile and older, probably in their mid 80s, came in and sat far off to the side.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">THE ENTIRE PRODUCTION WAS AS IF TIME WAS SUSPENDED</span><span style="color: #333333;">, </span></strong><span style="color: #333333;">as we watched our own lives passing before us, as the Lord had called us so many years ago, individually as young people, and then as a married couple into the service of the King. The hardships, the “iron sharpening iron” dialogs that shaped and fashioned our marriage. And nd the things that the Lord needed to prune away in order for us to be better, used by his plan and hands.</span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE COULD FEEL THE “DIVINE TENSION” BUILDING</strong>,</span><span style="color: #333333;">and we knew that this production had been created for this very time in the earth. We sat in our seats and wept, and prayed for our world and our nation. We asked God to help us to be strong and to not be afraid, and that he would use us until our very last breath.</span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> Toward the end of the production, there was a clear understanding, that the disciples and the women who were followers of Jesus knew that this next phase of ministry they were called to, was going to be very sobering and very difficult, and, that the pressure from external governments (the Romans) and then dealing with the religious dictators of the day among them Pharisees/Sanhedrin, it was pressing in on all of them.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">THEY WERE BEING CALLED TO COMPLETELY ABANDON ALL OF THEIR OWN PLANS</span></strong><span style="color: #333333;">,</span> and all of their <span style="color: #333333;">own desires and everything they owned in order to be sent out two by two, to go preach the gospel. We watched them struggle to figure out how food was going to be provided and more, even though they had seen Jesus multiply in the crowds. We watched Peter and his wife look at each other, wondering if they would ever have the children they were longing for. And yet, we also watched Matthew the tax collector have a redemptive reconciliation with his parents (who had previously, literally, disowned him), because they too had come to be followers of Jesus. </span><strong style="color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It’s uncanny that the words “The Chosen” are the key words that define the name of this production.</strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">BEFORE I GO INTO THE NEXT PART, WHICH IS THE ABOUT COMMAND OF THE LORD AND SUPERNATURAL PART OF THE SUPERNATURAL EVENT, THAT TOOK PLACE, </span></strong><span style="color: #333333;">I would like to tell you that you can download the app on your phone or onto your computer and watch season one and season two of the chosen absolutely for no cost. This entire production has been funded by crowdfunding only. It is the largest crowdfunded, crowd-sourced production ever to be done. How absolutely amazing of the Lord to have this kind of an event to be produced during the most difficult and tumultuous times that we are all now experiencing in this current era!</span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">SO NOW, BACK TO THE STORY!</span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Steve and I sat there very quietly once the movie had ended.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The older couple had left.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">We were just watching the credits, listening to the music and quite honestly crying and being shaken by all that we have been experiencing lately with so many deaths, the hardships of travel and ministry and strange beds, and so many people hungry for a word, or a touch from the Lord and us knowing we have very human limits. We were weary from funerals that we had been attending or hearing about from the multiple deaths during the Wuhan COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Drug overdoses, many suicides. </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE HAD BEEN WORKING IN PASTORAL COUNSELING WORK WITH SOME EXTREMELY DEVASTATING AND HARD CASES</strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> WHERE WE KNEW THAT WE HAD STRETCHED OUR LIMITS TO THE FINAL POINT, </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AND ONLY GOD COULD DO THE FINAL WORK.</strong></span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">And of course, burying Steve’s father in the spring, after having recently buried his mother during Covid, and not being able to see her was still weighing on our hearts. And then there was that shocking expense of that new furnace and entire new venting system. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">UGH!</u></em></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We were absolutely weeping over the movie, identifying with the struggles of the apostles and disciples, as well as contemplating this time in our lives, and what God needed to do to assist us as well! </strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Out of the corner of my eye, I saw movement and I noticed the young man was now coming down the steps, and was going to exit the theatre. </span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As he went around the corner out into the hallway to exit,<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> the Holy Spirit, clearly spoke to me, “Go after him! I want you to say something to him! I sent you here to this specific, showing so that you would see him.” </em></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">SO! I QUICKLY GOT OUT OF MY SEAT AND TOOK OFF AFTER HIM</span><span style="color: #333333;">,</span></strong><span style="color: #333333;"> and as the door was closing to the cinema entry section that we had just been in, I shouted, </span><em style="color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Excuse me! Excuse me!” </em></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">I made it to the door and outside of the door, because the young man had heard me and held it open. I simply looked in the young man’s eyes, and I said, “I feel that the Lord wanted me to come out and speak to you. He has something he wants me to tell you and I would be wrong if I did not take the time to stop and obey him.” I asked the young man if it was OK if I told him what I felt, I was to say to him, and he said, “Yes, please!” very politely.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I BEGAN TO TELL HIM THAT HE WAS SENT TO THE MOVIE THEATER AT THE VERY SAME TIME WE WERE BECAUSE GOD WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT SOMEONE SAW HIM, THAT WE SAW HIM, AND THAT THE THINGS GOD NEEDED TO SAY TO HIM WERE DELIVERED. </span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ABOUT THE TIME, I SAID THAT I WAS ABSOLUTELY HIT WITH AN UNUSUALLY STRONG SENSE OF TREMBLING</strong>.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> Now, when I minister to people, or when I am in a prophetic vein of ministry, whether I’m teaching, or whether I am literally delivering words of knowledge, words of wisdom or songs of the Lord, I am aware of an intense presence and weight of the glory of the Lord, but this was definitely different.</span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I WASN’T SURE I COULD FINISH WHAT I WAS SAYING TO HIM. </strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I WAS LITERALLY WEEPING AND SHAKING TRYING TO TELL THIS YOUNG MAN WHAT GOD WANTED TO SAY TO HIM.</strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And so I spoke in my weakness, and absolutely in this undone state that I was in.</em></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The Holy Spirit began to tell him that he himself is one of the chosen of God. That he has been called to minister to his people, to his own culture of people.(Side-note: I’m not sure if he was First Native/First Nations Individual or of Asian descent or a combination of both, but his features seemed to indicate that.) </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Holy Spirit then had me say to him, "you don’t know how you’re going to pull this off."</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></strong><span style="color: #333333;"> You don’t know how you’re going to get to the people but the Lord says to tell you that he has called you and that you are being positioned and prepared and you were sent here today to receive this confirmation.” The Holy Spirit said to tell him, “You can do this! You can do this because I have called you and have chosen you and I have set you apart. I’ve set you aside to do this work for me. You’ve been struggling and you’ve been wrestling with the Lord today and asked Him to speak to you. The Lord says to you that he will give you the courage and the strength and the ability to do what he has called you to do.”</span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">YOU ARE NOT TO BE AFRAID AND YOU’RE NOT TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK. </strong></span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">You simply step in and obey and begin to minister to those around you and the Lord is going to make the way for you. He’s going to open the doors and prepare the way for you. Then again, the Holy Spirit said, “Don't be afraid and question how God is going to do this, because you have been chosen, and we were sent to you today to tell you this.” I had told him that I had been a pastor that I had been a missionary, and continue to mentor, as well as do pastoral counseling, and have worked many hard side jobs, even now as we still serve the Lord.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I also told him it is not easy! </u></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">I told him that it will take great courage, and it will take great faith that only comes from God to be able to want to even continue. Especially during the times that you see the impossible <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">as impossible</u></em> to handle! But, that He would not be alone. That the Holy Spirit will come and give him the strength and speak to him and tell him what to do. Because He, is Chosen.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HE WAS WEEPING, AND GENTLY AND HUMBLY HAD HIS HEAD BOWED</strong>.</span></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">THIS IS A YOUNG MAN GOD IS PREPARING TO USE,</span></strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">IN THIS TIME IN THE EARTH!</span></strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">HE WAS HUMBLE, AND HE WAS WILLING TO RECEIVE.</span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">I asked him if I could pray for him and lay my hand on him.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">He nodded his head and said, “Yes, please! Please!”</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Now about this time Steve had come out the side door himself, and stood off to the side, and was praying in the spirit because he could tell that I was engaged, and he didn’t want to break the flow of what God was doing.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I GENTLY LAID MY HAND ON THE YOUNG MAN’S SHOULDER NEAR HIS COLLARBONE,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></strong><span style="color: #333333;">and began to pray for him, and ask the Holy Spirit to impart and infuse him with great courage and great wisdom, and great direction during this time in his life. That he would surround him with people who would cheer him on, but also help him to be strong and accountable so he would not be taken out by the temptations that often come to young people in ministry, as well as anyone in ministry!</span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Again, the power of God and the presence of God was so strong he and I both were shaking and weeping. </strong>This was as if a commissioning of God was taking place right there in that side lobby of a movie theater. And yet there was no one else observing this! Well, no one else in “the natural”, except Steve, but it was as if the heavens opened up and there was a shaft of divine glory and a commissioning of the Lord taking place over this young man.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This year Steve and I have had the opportunity to ordain someone who served the Lord alongside us for many years, and then moved to another state. </strong>On top of that, the Lord has been sending us more and more individuals for mentoring and training and we believe there will be more commissioning and more ordaining in the days ahead because God is beginning to send out more and more people who have served faithfully, without ever having had a title or a position named out in a church function or a church body. They just continue to do the works of the Spirit of God without fanfare.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AND SO IT SEEMED AS IF THIS WAS ANOTHER DIVINE, </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">UNSCRIPTED APPOINTMENT OF THE LORD</strong>.</span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">As I finished praying with this young man, I just put my arm around his neck and hugged him and told him that, “He could do this! God is with you!” He held on to me and was weeping and kept saying, “Thank you, thank you so much! I can’t tell you how much this means. Thank you!” And then he simply took off down the hallway and went out the door to the parking lot.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Once again, Steve and I stood there and I had to go lean against a wall for a few minutes, because the presence of God was so very tangibly strong.</span></strong><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;">I was saying to the Lord, “Here we are Lord! Use us to your fullest!” Steve began to say the same things. “Lord, we are weary, we are poured out, and we are tired! Yet, your presence and your power and your strength comes and ignites the fire to once again deliver the word of the Lord to whoever you send to us!”</span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We finally got ourselves together and decided to go to a nearby restaurant </strong>called Red Robin and split a hamburger and a salad. We had a few space heaters that we were going to use in our home to keep it warm while waiting for this furnace situation to be addressed, and quite honestly, we just didn’t want to go home to a cold house and cook dinner and try to warm everything up all at the same time. </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I was still very tender hearted and contemplating as we came into the restaurant and sat down at the table.</strong>We were quiet and we were thinking of what just happened and just sat there for a bit until our waitress came. She looked at me and asked me if I was OK! I smiled at her and I said, “I’m actually really wonderful, but we just had an intense experience watching a movie and it has tremendously moved us emotionally and we’ve got a lot to think about.”</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AND GUESS WHAT?</strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">She looked at us and said, “What happened? What movie was this?” </strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">And once again, that power of God dropped down on us. With tears pouring down my face, I told her about what “The Chosen” was. Now, this girl was not a believer! But! She tenderly looked at me and she said, “I need something like this !I need something meaningful! I need something that I can enjoy and that helps me to feel better during the Christmas season!”</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">So I told her about the app, I told her about the season one and two being a free opportunity to watch. She said she wanted to watch season one and two, first, and then she would go with her friends to watch season three because she thinks her friends might need to see it too. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We then ordered our meal and just sat there and looked at each other again and said this is what we live for! YAY GOD!!! </strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Several times throughout the meal she came by and just stood there and wanted to talk to us. You could tell she was feeling something, she was sensing something.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">She was sensing what her soul was longing for, and that was safety in the presence of the Lord and safety in the presence of his people. </span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">She didn’t know how to define it, but she was longing for it. As we got ready to leave, she came over and thanked us and told us how much it meant for her to talk with us and meet us at that time.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">STEVE AND I GOT OUT INTO THE CAR AND JUST SAT THERE AGAIN IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, KNOWING THAT WE WERE SPECIFICALLY SET APART FOR THAT VERY DAY, FOR THOSE TWO INDIVIDUAL SOULS TO HEAR OF THE HOPE AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIGHT OF CHRIST. </strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">WE KNOW THAT WE ARE IN A TIME RIGHT NOW WHERE GOD IS LOOKING BACK-AND-FORTH </span></strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">ACROSS THE EARTH FOR HIS PEOPLE WHO HAVE PREPARED </span></strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">AND WHO DISCIPLE AND TO TRAIN OTHERS.</span></strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">BUT ABOVE ALL, HE’S LOOKING FOR THOSE WHO HEAR THE VOICE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND OBEY THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT PROMPTLY.</span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MY DEAR LISTENERS! </strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180;">I CAN TELL YOU THAT SOME OF THINGS THE HOLY SPIRIT IS TELLING YOU TO DO OR NOT TO DO IS CRUCIAL IN THIS TIME THAT WE ARE LIVING IN.</span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you have even the slightest hesitation inside of you about something you are about to commit to, and you do not feel at peace, no matter what others think about you, you must withdraw, you must not do that thing.</u></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE ARE IN A TIME WHERE THE ENEMY IS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO SNARE </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AND TRIP UP INDIVIDUALS, TO DESTROY BELIEVERS AND GET THEM OFF </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE TRACK OF HEARING THE LORD’S VOICE, AND ABOVE ALL, </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">OBEYING THE LORD‘S VOICE.</strong></span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The word of the Lord says, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”</em> (Isaiah 30:21)</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180;">IF YOU DON’T HEAR THE VOICE OF THE LORD TELLING YOU WHICH DIRECTION TO WALK, THEN YOU DON’T MOVE</span><span style="color: #333333;">. </span></strong><span style="color: #333333;">But if you do hear him, you get up and run like I did towards that individual or that situation that God is going to immerse you into.</span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This powerful presence that can shake our flesh to the core </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">is what God is about to pour out upon those who are willing to </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hear the voice of the Lord, and no matter what the cost, </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">no matter what the assignment, they run towards it!</strong></span></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">He is also going to bring a strong conviction over those who are moving out of his will, because they are still moving in the patterns of the things they feel they want to do for him and he has not made that way clear.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></strong><span style="color: #333333;">Others are pushing and attempting to motivate many, into things that are not of the Lord right now.</span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180;">WHAT IS THE KEY ELEMENT THAT GOD IS USING RIGHT NOW?</span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong>It is an atmosphere that you choose to step into through worship.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Through worshipping, waiting in his presence, and praying and interceding. And, there will be during that time, a great presence of the Lord where there will also be much repentance and adjustment done to our souls. Why? Because God knows that the days are dark, men are evil, and human beings are easily led away from doing difficult things.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">WHAT IS THE LORD IS SHOWING YOU TO DO DURING THIS SEASON?</span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">There are hundreds of thousands of people that are longing for one word of encouragement, one word of kindness and the Lord is calling up all of his troops, all of his great army of believers to be on the alert for the opportunity to let the glory of God come and move through you to reach out to those who are now facing this confusing, dark time.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180;">LET’S PRAY TOGETHER RIGHT NOW! </span></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Heavenly Father! I pray that you help people to be strong and courageous to not be troubled nor be dismayed for in Isaiah you said, I the Lord am with you and I will hold you up with my righteous right hand! </em></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lord, we ask that you use us to the fullest extent of your glory until there’s nothing left in us! Oh Lord, I pray that those that who are listening to this podcast today would feel your presence drop down around them and that they too would weep and stand before you, and pray saying those words, “Here I am Lord! Send me!” </em></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lord I ask that you would open their eyes to see the many who are just waiting for them to come and speak to them. We adore and give you all honor today Father, in the most marvelous and mighty name of Jesus! Amen!</em></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I truly hope that you were encouraged and inspired by this wonderful experience that I shared with you and I also hope that you will pop back in next week when I will have another amazing Christmas “Miracle story” to share with you and that it will encourage you and challenge you to take a risk and step out and let the Lord use you in the most wonderful and seemingly impossible situations!</strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Goodbye for now! </em></strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">May God greatly bless you with Peace, Joy, </span></em></strong></p><p style="font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">and great Anticipation of how he’s going to use you. </span></em></strong></p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Duplication and sharing of this writing is welcomed, as long as the complete message, website, podcast link and information for Mary Lindow is included.</p><p style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Thank You! 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padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><p><br /> </p>Mary Lindowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745158429327557321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723401827206702623.post-70626608964893748902022-11-21T12:30:00.000-07:002022-11-21T12:30:58.015-07:00”Aligned and Armored Up” - Real Relationships Are Costly : A Prophetic Word<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/aligned-andarmored-up-real-relationships-are-costly/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="480" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnmcPX6x9V1Y2ysv9tNYJO2vXXLW9fMsgLQMVzIjwJO_RTRhVztZGZ8p-umuxNCLYEOD8F2hc4PLCr3meGBC_1viCh0ByQHw9CIXbFf-YuH4aaMHq_j8PngZN3e5vjHIw4XkXGjdX6dPh4PRtTAaw_7Cxsld--j7vhUTCz8NIl6flrtWhz8lsDkqkA/w400-h266/Aligned%20and%20Armored%20up.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b>👆</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> PLEASE CLICK PICTURE </b></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>TO LISTEN TO THE AUDIO VERSION OF THIS MESSAGE</b></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By Mary Lindow</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS SAYING...</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">"Be very careful whom you share your treasures with. How many pearls have you cast before piggish users in the past, only to have them ground to powder?</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The servant Paul the apostle was more than a new herald in the order of the day. He stirred up old systems and disturbed demonic religious strongholds. You must be ready to "power up" for years of opposition and hoards of religious factions and fractures of truth!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The past years of agony have been hard soldierly-like boot camp. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Elite forces training.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">It will not go away. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">You must simply learn that it is My duty to do the fighting for you.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Just be certain that you are only speaking, <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ONLY SPEAKING</u>, what I have told you to.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Speak Nothing more and Speak Nothing less."</u></em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">THIS IS A TIME IN THE KINGDOM </span></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">WHERE WE ALL MUST SOBERLY COUNT THE COST </span></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">OF WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO STEP INTO ON EVERY LEVEL.</span></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If there is not the peace of the Holy Spirit resting on those whom you are involved with, don't move into anything until the peace comes.</u></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Gatherings and movements can feel real exciting and purposeful, until conflict, control, and competition show up.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The apostolic and prophetic saints in Acts, fasted, ministered to the Lord, and <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">then</u></strong>the Holy Spirit spoke. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">We have all learned many a painful lesson in the past from experiences of over planning, programming, and hurrying to help God out!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">To everything there is a season, a time. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Until you have a full green light, don't move. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> It will keep you from having to backtrack and...</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> …It trains you in humility.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Familiar Friends OR RELATIONSHIPS?</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ask yourself the following question. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Are you simply a familiar with people or are you working in relationship with others and those whom you feel are to move into a more Kingdom minded level of Spiritual intimacy with?"</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">IF YOU SHARE WHAT IS PASSIONATELY BURNING IN YOUR SPIRIT WITH THOSE WHO ONLY "RELATE" ON A CASUAL SPIRITUAL LEVEL THEMSELVES… </span></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"> …YOU WILL BE CONTINUALLY DEVASTATED.</span></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Spiritual intimacy can only be as deep as those who spend the time in spiritually intimate worship, waiting, and self-examining dialog with the Father, and in relating to others of a likeminded heart. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">This is not easy for busy human life!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.</em></strong> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves."</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Philippians 2: 1-3</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A PROPHETIC WORD CONCLUSION:</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">"Hear Me", Cries the Spirit of Holy Grace and Mercy! </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">I desire to move upon, in, and through each of you. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Not one of you alone can endure the onslaughts of evil by standing aloof and silent.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Nor can the most vocal of gifts among you clearly communicate all that I long to express.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Until each one is willing to step into the Holy place of pure relationship with Me and with one another, waiting, crying out, Yes - even waiting until I come and refresh, then the generation waiting in the wings will not fully come forward.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Until it is branded into your spirits that this era in time is for the saving of the lost, the redeeming of the wasted, and the release of My power, of My glory, you will be so very very frustrated by the heaviness that doggedly harasses your soul.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What I ordain, I cover. </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What I command, I give direction to. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Be certain that you have heard what I am saying.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">I am fully aware of the weariness and fatigue you have been experiencing.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Heavier than anything you can recall from the past.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">as though something strange were happening to you!" </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 1 Peter 4:12</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">There are many many others globally who are also still wrestling out of the cocoon in new birth and are suffering also. PRAY FOR THEM!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hellish warfare will be a normal activity in the days ahead. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Unless you harness the power of consistent prayer and train yourselves in regular gatherings of passion in prayer and worship together, you will shrink back into serious doubt, anxiety, bitterness and dread, when the trauma of warfare attacks!!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GIVE VOICE TO MY SPIRIT! </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Awaken your mute tongue and give voice to My name, My power and My Kingdom Solutions! No weapon formed against you will ultimately prosper! </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">My Spirit longs to declare wonders, to decree Justice, and to destroy darkness with your lips proclaiming from the spirit.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">- Isaiah 55:11</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Speak out in truth and in praise and I will step into your midst with the peace you have been craving, and groping for. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Quickly! Enter in before you reflect and exchange ideas. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">After I am given My rightful place of honor and adoration, then I will speak and give you clear vision and direction.”</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">in the morning I will lay my requests before you, </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And wait in expectation." -</em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Psalm 5:3</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">My friends, this is a word from the Lord and I encourage you to heed the word of the lord and not immediately go to the assessing and the sanitization of what some would do with a prophetic word from the Lord. </strong>He’ll show you what parts aren’t accurate or what parts aren’t fitting for you right now.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">But the general overview of this word is that the Lord is calling us to a place of battle, a place of prayer, a place of growth, a place of tenacity, letting go of bitterness where we feel unfairly treated, where we feel like life will never get better.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">These are the things that God is saying! </strong>If you want to continue to say these things, then you stand in the way of me being the ONE who is the Redeemer of time.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">We need to have a challenge to each believer in the Body of Christ, each of you who are servants of the Lord. Every one of you!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Every person listening has an assignment from the Father </strong>at this time to tell someone else about the Lord to tell others who are feeling weak and discouraged, angry or bitter, that the need to be understanding that they are called to now grow up into the faith and to not just listen to what other people say, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">not be inundated with media and false narratives and lies about what Jesus says in His Word. </strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It is time to stand in the place of trust</strong> and ask God to strengthen us in every way, yielding every ounce of our being into His care. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">I bless you today in the mightiest and most powerful and Supreme, dynamic name there is ever to be, and that is the name of Jesus Christ the Messiah. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We know that God is Sovereign!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Duplication and sharing of this writing is welcomed, as long as the complete message, website, podcast link and information for Mary Lindow is included.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Thank You! 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color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>By Mary Lindow through the Holy Spirit</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jeremiah was known as the 'weeping prophet’. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Some say he was called at the age of 17. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He was called to reprove a crumbling nation. The Israelite nation. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Unfortunately for them they didn’t <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>listen to him. But during his day, people were so hardened by sin that they neither believed God nor feared him. They seem to find Jeremiah's constant warning of judgment overbearing and frankly, annoying.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It's the same with us now. </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Those that hear our warning find us obnoxious!</strong> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">But as believers we are supposed to follow God's instructions to warn a lost and dying world of upcoming judgment. Even though most are not listening, we still have to persevere in courageously speaking truth in order to rescue some from the terrible judgment that will inevitably come. If we are so easily discouraged at fighting the rude behavior of our peers what are we going to do, when we are confronted by demons? </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The LORD rebukes Jeremiah for his impatience,</strong> in Jeremiah 12:5 saying, </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“If you have raced with men on foot and they have tired you out, Then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace [where you feel secure], Then how will you do among the lions in the flooded jungle thicket beside the Jordan?”</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If we are distraught when we can't make a car payment, what will we do when we lose our job?</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If the footmen weary you what will the horses do?</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If we are distressed at the terrorism going on overseas, what will we do when it’s in our own neighborhoods? <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Because it already is!</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If the footmen weary you what will the horses do?</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If we are overwhelmed with the work we have now, what will we do when a double or triple portion is required of us? </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If the footmen weary you what will the horses do?</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God is reminding Jeremiah (and us) that there is much more to be concerned about than what we’re complaining about . </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There is something ahead of us in this season my friends that is of more concern than petty grievances against those who seem to be better off or live easier than we do. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God is telling Jeremiah “ If you are not able to encounter lesser dangers, how will you be able to overcome greater ones?” </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Jesus said to us in John 16: 33 “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! Take Courage! I have overcome the world.”</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It’s natural that our hardest days and most difficult trials are ahead of us, not behind us. </strong>If you are worried and in great upset about these things, what are you going to do when you are forced to face extremely difficult trials and troubles that are most certainly just around the bend?</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Matthew Henry said, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The faith even of strong believers may sometimes be sorely shaken and ready to fail them. There will be storms that will try the firmest anchors.”</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now, </em>Isn’t that the truth? </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jeremiah was consumed with grief </strong>about the prosperity of the wicked in Anathoth when just in a short time He would be beaten in Jerusalem by order of the priest Pashhur (instead of worrying about the prosperity of heathens in Anathoth, he was about to be severely punished by a priest in Jerusalem). </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let's take a sneak peek of what is in store for Jeremiah:</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“He had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper gate of Benjamin at the LORD's temple.”</em> Jer. 20:2</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God saw this coming when Jeremiah was crying about the prosperity of the wicked!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If Jeremiah had known what was going to happen ahead of him, He wouldn't have wasted time complaining</strong> about the men of Anathoth. Jeremiah was concerned about something insignificant when something greater needed his attention. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And,</strong> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">His own family was secretly conspiring against him </strong>— they spoke well of him to his face but were trying to incite a mob against him behind his back. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They seemed to be friendly but they were really his enemies.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">God's faithful servants shouldn't think it's strange that their enemies are in their own family, </span></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">some living under their own roof.</span></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Jesus told us in Matthew 10:34-35 </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies will be the members of his own household.”</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So friends, If the footmen weary you what will the horses do?</strong> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">I know I keep repeating the statement because it’s what the Holy Spirit would have me consistently say so that you hear the challenge and that you are strengthened to stand up and be courageous, now!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God's answer to Jeremiah was to be absolutely determined to stay solid and immovable in his walk with God, </strong>because there were bigger trials ahead of him that needed his attention. But God does let him know what will happen to Israel and her enemies. Although God punishes Israel by allowing her enemies to overtake the land, God would not let her enemies sacrilegiously use that land which belongs to Israel. Even their land is blessed!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“But after I uproot them, I WILL AGAIN HAVE COMPASSION and will bring each of them back to his own inheritance and his own country.” </em>(Jeremiah 12:15)</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">God will again deliver his people from their enemies by uprooting them just as he did when they were suffering in Egypt. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God shows that even his enemies may receive compassion and grace.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“And if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, 'As surely as the LORD lives' even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal – then they will be established among my people.”</em> (v.16)</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God's Expectation Is Plain. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">If Israel's enemies would pay homage to God the way they did for Baal, (a dead and dumb idol) if they could humble themselves to follow the God of Israel instead of teaching Israel to follow idols they would be rewarded, but if not...</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“'But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it,' declares the LORD”</em> (v. 17)</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God's call and Plan and Instructions for us can be summed up in </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I Corinthians 16:13</strong> <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.” </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our greatest difficulties are ahead of us, not behind us.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(If our troubles were always behind us, we would never grow as a Christian.) </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">We mustn’t waste time complaining about petty things. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Quickly put on your helmet, take up your sword and shield, tighten your armor and get ready! </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Get ready to run with the horses!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">God offers Jeremiah a beautifully wise word picture for him to consider. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">He essentially asks Jeremiah, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“If footmen weary you, what will the horses do?” </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Paul referred to life as a race. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Makes sense, after all, it has a beginning, a middle, and a strong determination to finish strong. It requires endurance, patience, devotion and a resolution to finish strong. At the end of his life Paul said,<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> “I have finished the race.” </em>And referring to Jeremiah's race God is saying: <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If running with others on foot, when everything is equal, what are you going to do when they are given horses?</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In this verse the prophet Jeremiah has been complaining about his persecutors. </strong>God Divinely answers, and warns Jeremiah about his impatience, and then tells him that harder trials are in store for him. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><u><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What?!!! </em></strong> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">More distressing times? </em></strong></u></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We all have had the experience of how in our lives, there are long stretches of uneventful days, and then, generally without warning, some crisis is sprung on us, </strong>which demands quite a different set of gifts to cope with it. Our monsoons in Colorado, generally come without any warning from a falling barometer.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We can at any moment be confronted with some hard duty which will exhaust our energy. </strong>We may at any moment be plunged in some huge calamity and the quiet course of our lives for years suddenly is interrupted with fierce storms and devastating fallout. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We won’t always have the easy foot race with footmen;</strong> there will some times come a call to strain our muscles to keep up with the gallop of the cavalry. We will have to struggle to keep our feet in the rising waters of difficultly, and must not expect to have a continual leisurely life in ‘a land of peace.’</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With the power of Jesus in our spirits </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">we shall never have to attempt </strong></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a duty </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">that we are not first strengthened by Him to take on.</strong> </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">And we never have to face a danger in which He won’t defend us. </span></strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">With His life in us we will be ready for the long hours of uneventful, unexciting duties, and for the short spurts that make precise calls on each of us to respond to. We ‘WILL run and not be weary; we will walk and not faint.’ </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As I finish this podcast I’d like to share what Oswald Chambers said about patience during the time of great difficulty and when the world is filled with uprising. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It is so powerful and quite comforting.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Duty of Patience</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth"</em></strong> (Rev. 3:10).</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Jesus says we are to keep the word of His patience. There are so many things in this life that it seems much better to be impatient about. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The best picture to explain this is that of an archer: </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">He pulls the bow string further and further away from his bow with the arrow solidly fixed in its slot, then, when it is adjusted, with his eye on the target he lets it fly. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The Christian's life is like that. God is the archer. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">He takes the saint like a bow which He stretches, and we get to a certain point and say,<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"I can't stand any more, I can't stand this test of patience any longer,"</em></strong> but God goes on stretching. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">He is not aiming at OUR TARGET mark, but at His own, and the patience of the saints is that we hold on until He lets the arrow fly straight to His goal.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Are you ready for a time of strengthening to come into your life?</strong> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord promises that a dramatic transformation will take place in us when we abandon our agenda and open ourselves to His plan for us. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We can see this so clearly in the life of Saul before he had become the Apostle Paul.</strong> Saul had been intent upon his own evil strategy to persecute Christians. Then came his life-changing encounter with Jesus, when he asked the most important question of all in Acts 9:6: </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Lord, what do YOU want me to do?”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Are you ready to ask the Lord that same question? </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Are you ready to give up your own fruitless designs in return for God’s better plan?</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let’s pray that together now.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lord Jesus, I have been moving forward persistently with my own thoughts and plans. I have been intent upon seeing those accomplished. Now I see that despite my good intentions, my plans may not be in line with Yours.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Right now, I humble myself before You. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I take this moment to ask, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In Your presence, I place my agenda on the shelf, and I open my heart and my hands to Your plans and purposes.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I belong to You, Lord. Please forgive me for any stubbornness that may have captivated me. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I pull down that stronghold right now—any thought that needs to be taken captive to the obedience of Christ. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I place my future in Your hands, Lord Jesus. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Have Your way—and only Your way—in my life. 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">By Mary Lindow – through the Holy Spirit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">BEFORE WE BEGIN: <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I’m going to kindly ask you to please be patient and take the time to listen to this as a crucial podcast, due to the important timing. I have recorded the entire vision as well as what the Lord has shown me as to what it all means in the audio form, but I will only be able to share with you in the text form here when I explained a little bit about what happened in this tremendous vision. It takes so much bandwidth to put the entire message into the text and it really is a very tedious and difficult process. Please listen! The vision alone is in the notes. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I am returning now with a podcast that I had promised to have follow the previous podcast where I talked about “A time of review, before the new”.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> This podcast is one that I have sat on for about a year, due to the fact of it being pretty intense for me receiving this from the Lord. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Trying to figure out how to put into words what you see in the spirit in a vision from the Lord, and understanding it and then, scripturally applying what you have seen and learned is daunting.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> For me it’s a very serious and holy thing, and I wanted to make sure that I really presented it at the time and in the way that the Lord would want me to. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">We’re going to get started with that but before I do I want you to know that <b>at the end of my podcast I will be sharing about two different conferences that the Lord has opened the door for me to go and minister at, so those of you who often if ask if I’m going to be in your area,</b> those doors and opening up again since the WuhanCovid19 bio weapon attack on our world, so <b><i>you can look that up at the end and also my website has all the information you would need about those conferences. <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">THIS VISION HAS A LITTLE BIT OF GROUNDWORK IN IT.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">In my last podcast I shared about a vision or a word from the Lord that I had in 2016 called, “The Great Coming Whirlwind” and I also shared about what the Lord was wanting us to see and was adjusting what we needed to look at in our hearts, regarding where we are at right now in this time on the earth. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I BELIEVE THAT THIS VISION THAT I HAD FROM THE LORD IS SO “RIGHT NOW” IN THE TIMING, THE PRECISION TIMING OF THE LORD TO SHARE. </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I am almost shaking a little bit as I share it and I feel a little bit of trembling sharing it, <b><u>because I know we are coming up to a climax of something in the earth,</u></b> and God is not mocked, and he is not a fool, and God is not afraid, nor is he worried.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">HE WILL NOT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, ALLOW WICKEDNESS TO RULE AND REIGN.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">But in that process, God does a deep work within his own people, because if there’s wickedness in his own he must Judge fairly and rightly, and he’s so good to give us time to get repentance going, to be accountable, to get the help we need. When we don’t, he has to bring his pure and righteous hand of judgment, and he has to do “cleaning house” because, God does not tolerate darkness in his light.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I’M GOING TO BEGIN TO SHARE THE VISION WITH THE SCRIPTURE VERSE THAT STARTED WITH THIS VISION.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">It’s the picture that you will see on the podcast graphic itself. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I’d like you to take a look at it and please, have mercy and grace over me, because trying to put a graphic together and combine it all with what I saw, and how I saw it, was a challenge. <b><i>The scripture verse that started this vision was very intense and of course, when we don’t understand what the word is always saying sometimes we’re a little not sure what we do with this, so I did a lot of studying and praying and referencing, before I chose to really open myself up to recording this.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">THAT SCRIPTURE VERSE IS NAHUM 1:3-4</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">‘The Lord is slow to anger but great in power, the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebukes the sea and dries it up, and he makes all the rivers run dry.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I WAS IN OUR LOWER LEVEL IN OUR BASEMENT AND I HAD BEEN WORSHIPING,</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><b>JUST TALKING TO THE LORD, PRAYING ABOUT ALL THAT WAS GOING ON IN THE EARTH,</b> and began to get up to walk towards the area to go up the stairway and all of a sudden I felt this presence of the Lord come on me, and I know when this happens, he’s getting ready to speak to me or show me something, or I’m being called into immediate intercession for something. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I’VE JUST LEARNED TO STOP AND STAND THERE AND SAY, “LORD WHAT IS IT THAT YOU WANT ME TO DO, TO KNOW? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I’M HERE, SPEAK TO ME.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I was just absolutely feeling weak, just like I was going to faint. I was under such a strong drawing to his presence, and so I began to walk and went upstairs and went into my room, a guest room we have, but I use it as my reading and praying room, and sat down in the chair there. About the time I sat down I was<i>, (and I share this, it’s so uncomfortable to share when you have these experiences)</i> because the world and often in charismatic environments, either they mock what happens to someone or unfortunately, in Spirit-filled charismatic environments, things get hyper sensationalized, to the point that someone’s having a vision every moment, every five minutes they’ve got a word from the Lord and they’re rushing to post it or print it (and that’s up to them), but we tend to get very critical and may be jaded that when something authentic really happens to someone we immediately put it through this filter of, “I don’t know”, and so I understand your possible hesitancy to say, “we’ll see”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH TESTING A VISION OR WORD OF GOD, YOU ABSOLUTELY SHOULD</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">, but what I’m saying to you is I come before you with this because the Lord has a warning and a promise in it, and <b><u>I am compelled by him to share this as quickly and as succinctly as I can with you now, to the best of my ability, by the Spirit of God. <o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">So, I was sitting in the chair and I am now suddenly standing out in a barren area, up on a slight hill, and I was looking out over the land in front of me,</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> and in the back distance I can see some slight hills so I kind of recognize the horizon, maybe some foothills in Colorado, and there was a sun trying to somewhat set in the background, like it was at the low level before sunset in Autumn in Colorado. It kind of just rests there in a yellow type of reddish tint.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I was standing there looking at all of this, my physical body was standing looking and yet I was above it in the spirit, watching this take place and the Holy Spirit was with me, instructing me about what I was to be observing. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">NEXT TO ME WAS JESUS; <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">HE WAS STANDING THERE BY MY SIDE. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Now before I step forward I want you to know that I had no idea why in this vision Jesus was the way he was, until after I’d had the vision because a week later we had been helping care for a little foster baby girl, and a brand new baby grandson. Our youngest son had gotten food poisoning, so we went down to help care for these children. The little girl tended to be very ill because she needed medical care and was forever getting respiratory infections. So, we were cleaning and doing everything parents do to help and assist, and of course, holding the new grand baby! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I WAS IN THERE WITH CLOROX, GETTING “EVERYTHING” WITH CLOROX</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> and my face was probably down in germs, so what we did not know at the time, is that my son probably had a second round of Covid, and was reacting to it, it was a different strain, but the little girl had RSV, so both my husband and I came home, and shortly within 48 hours began with symptoms of massive RSV also the “big gun” Covid strain that everybody got, and in that process it was weeks of fighting to get well. Colorado forbade any kind of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Of course we’d been taking all the vitamin protocols and so on, but we were able through missionaries, to get ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, but we did not know we had what we had until it got so bad. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">WE KNEW WE WERE PRETTY MUCH ON OUR OWN WITH THE LORD,</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> and we didn’t want anybody coming to take care of us, because we didn’t want to infect them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I WAS LYING ON THE BED AND, JESUS WAS STANDING BY THE BED. I WAS AT A POINT WHERE I KNEW I HAD ONLY A FEW SHALLOW BREATHS LEFT, THAT THIS WAS IT! <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I was walking in the “valley” of the shadow of death, and I have learned since then, that there is death and there’s “the valley of the shadow of death” where you were in the shadow of it, that it’s right next to you, but there’s a shadow of death over you, and it says that, “<i><u>Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, you are with me”,</u></i> and sure enough, during that time when I had the last two shallow breaths that I thought that I was going to take, my words to Jesus were, “<b><i>if I die and I don’t wake up, I have to sleep now, then I’m with you.”</i> </b>I was travailing and crying for a good 48 hours because I was sad. Then the other part of me said, “<b><i>Lord, if I wake up and I’m still here then use me to the fullest all that you can until it IS my time!” <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I WAS EXPECTING BELLS AND WHISTLES AND ANGELS, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">AND YOU KNOW! THE SMELL OF FRANKINCENSE AND SINGING BIRDS, AND THE GLORY OF GOD TO COME AND RAISE ME UP OFF THE BED! I REALLY DID EXPECT IT!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">BUT WHAT HAPPENED INSTEAD</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> was that there was a steady “non-emotional”, INTENSE PRESENCE that stood by my side, and the voice spoke “I AM”, and it was with authority! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">IT WASN’T MESSING WITH ME AND ANYTHING EMOTIONAL,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">It was a fact that whatever he was in that moment, sustained me. I could see in the spirit a sash across him and I could see him holding my hand. I was breathing so shallowly and I said, <b><i>“I’m sorry Jesus, I have to go to sleep. Whatever happens, I trust you.”</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">And I did! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">WHEN I WOKE UP I WAS TOTALLY AWARE AND AWAKE AND KNEW THAT I HAD LIVED,</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> (it was many hours later) and I immediately heard the Holy Spirit say, “Start the Ivermectin!” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">From that point on I won’t go any further, because that’s when the healing process began</span></u></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">, but I wanted to tell you about Jesus standing by my side looking at me intently, holding my hand in the spirit. There was not any kind of crying and he wasn’t showing sadness or compassion or emotion. He WAS the sovereign presence holding me together. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> NOW WE GO BACK TO THE VISION. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I am standing there, Jesus is with me I’m looking out over land, and the land was so parched! The ground was curling up and looked dry like rectangle sizes, you could just probably pull a piece up like a slab of cardboard that has sat out in the sun, and was curled up around the corners. The entire landmass in front of me was covered in this parched, dry desert, and I was looking at it saying, “it’s so dry! There’s just nothing of moisture here!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I was asking Jesus, “What am I looking at, what am I seeing?”</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> Jesus was just looking at me saying, “You’re learning, I want you to observe, you’re to learn to take this in.” I kept looking and seeing this, as I was looking out further on the horizon. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">This was to the left of me Jesus was standing to the right of me. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I looked up past the shoulder of Jesus and in the distance to the right or him, I saw a swirling, boiling looking red cloud,</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> and it was the color of terra-cotta, like garden pots that we used to put plants in, that earthy clay soil color. I’m watching this dust cloud boil and boil and grow larger and larger, and I’m getting a little concerned because it’s a pretty high in the sky, but <b>it’s coming our direction,</b> it’s kind of at a vanishing point angle<b>. Here it comes, and it’s starting to make a noise, it’s swishing and beginning to drop the dust down on the ground and blow across this dry parched area as it began to come my direction.</b> I was concerned and Jesus took me by the hand. It was again, “I AM here no matter what happens, no matter what comes, I AM!” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Then I suddenly begin to see that the cloud is being pushed by something!</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> Something is driving this cloud forward and it was a sleek dynamic train. I tried to make it look right in my art piece that I created for it, it’s not quite right, it was more sleek and dynamic, but it was the best I could come up with. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">This train had these massive wheels that were turning, and you could hear the power, the dynamic power,</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> the clicking, nothing was missing, not one cylinder was off, it was churning and churning and chuffing and chuffing. Nothing was going to stop the destination of this train. It was driving a storm forward pushing the storm. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">The sound became so loud and powerful that you tremble at the strength and the might, and the power of the force of this train!</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> As it was moving up above us, the dirt of this cloud of dust was sifting down over Jesus and me. It was such a fine, silty reddish soil. I could see it gathering in the beard of Jesus, then his hair and in the vision I had much longer hair, it was falling down into my hair and on our arms when I was holding his hand. I could see it gathering on the sleeve of my arm and on his sleeve. <b>Jesus kept looking at me, and as long as I kept referencing back to him as the storm was dumping this mass amount of whatever it was, the substance that was being driven by this force, driven out - driven over, as long as I looked at him, I had a non-emotional response,</b> but a steady understanding that knew I was being held by a power greater than anything that could ever come against me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">This went on and on. </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">The dust was so clogged and cloudy that I could just see the silhouette of Jesus, but I had his hand and we held our hands and stood there as this loud, powerful, dynamic train began to just roar over the top of us. <b><i><u>Then I heard a voice shout out over the sound of all this and it was firm! “It’s DUNAMIS! Dunamis! The Dunamis Power!”<o:p></o:p></u></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 3pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I STOOD THERE JUST SAYING, “DUNAMIS, I KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS IN THE GREEK, IT MEANS DYNAMITE, DYNAMO,</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> (saying this to myself in the spirit).” I’m standing here in this vision trying to remember the power of that word as the train was passing and that word was written on the train, as I watched it finally pass by and begin to go further up in the sky and then pass by us. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">SUDDENLY IT GOT QUIETER, AND IT WAS AN EARTH SHAKING VIBRATING STORM THAT WAS DRIVEN BY THIS FORCEFUL DUNAMIS POWER OF GOD.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> Again, the Holy Spirit and I were standing up at the back watching this, watching Jesus and me at the same time, and <b><i>the Holy Spirit was saying to me, “watch, learn, observe.” <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">ONCE AGAIN JESUS TURNED HIS HEAD AND LOOKED OUT OVER THE VALLEY AND INDICATED TO ME, “I WANT YOU TO LOOK OUT HERE”.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">AS I LOOKED, THE DUST HAD BEGUN TO SETTLE AND I COULD IDENTIFY THAT WE HAVEN’T BEEN MOVED</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Nothing was different, I’m in the same place, except the Horizon in the background looks the same, the sun is the exact same place it was, just about ready set, sitting in the same position in the sky, but the land that has been parched and curled up and dry, every single crevice or crevasse, every single surface was covered in this thick layer of this red dust. It had completely transformed into a different look, and different land. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">AT THAT POINT I WAS JUST IN AWE AND I DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT ALL MEANT AND THEN WHAM! <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I AM BACK OUT OF THE VISION AND SITTING IN MY CHAIR,</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> gasping at what have I just had happen to me, and of course I started crying! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I WAS ASKING GOD TO SHOW ME <i>“Father! 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What are you saying?” <o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Then I heard the Spirit of the Lord say, “These are things to come. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Learn about them, prepare, and I’ll tell you when to share.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/red-alert-a-vision-of-the-coming-storm-the-force-of-god-s-power-over-the-earth/" target="_blank">REST OF MESSAGE AT AUDIO TIME MARKER: 18:50</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Duplication and sharing of this writing is welcomed, as long as the complete message, website podcast link and information for Mary Lindow is included.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thank You! 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font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">PLEASE CLICK PICTURE TO LISTEN TO THE AUDIO PODCAST VERSION</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>By Mary Lindow</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I’d like to welcome you to my podcast today with a greeting to those who are listening and who were wondering where is the podcast that I had promised regarding a very intense, vivid, open vision, that I had from the Lord</strong> (that I had said I was going to share with you the following week) from my last podcast.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AS I BEGAN TO PREPARE FOR THAT, I JUST COULD NOT GET IT TO COME TOGETHER,</strong> and I was striving and I was fighting it. So I got quiet before the Lord and asked him what I was to do. As I was in prayer, I had the impression from the Lord that there was something that I needed to prepare. He began to remind me that I had not done a review of the year 2022. Now I usually do this midyear, after I’ve had a word at the beginning of the year from the Lord, or, that year that we are in.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AS I BEGAN TO PREPARE AND LOOK AT THAT WORD, </strong>I realized that it was in fact, something that I needed to use as a springboard to share what the Lord had given me in the vision.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">And then the word came to me from the Lord<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“First A Review Before The New”. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord was letting me know that there was a little bit of reviewing, and again, sometimes we need to look at what the Lord has spoken to us previously and check our hearts, and also see if we have obeyed him, or if there is something we missed before we can really get a full handle on what he is trying to say to us currently.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I’M GOING TO REVIEW THAT WITH YOU FIRST, AND, ALSO THE LORD BROUGHT BACK TO ME A VERY STRONG WORD THAT I HAD IN THE YEAR OF 2016. IT WAS TITLED "THE GREAT COMING WHIRLWIND" AND IT WAS A PROPHETIC INSIGHT FROM THE LORD.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT WHIRLWIND RIGHT NOW, </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SO THE WORD HAS TAKEN TIME TO DEVELOP AND TO PROCESS </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AND TO COME TO PASS.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I had several of you comment to me that this for some reason, struck a chord with you </strong>and that you were deeply moved, especially one of my good friends who is a pastor in St. Louis Missouri, a pastor by the name of Harry Schroeder, who said the seemed to really, stand out to him, so thank you Harry for letting me know back then that the Lord did hold on to something in peoples hearts with this.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">That is the second part of the review that the Lord would have me share again, in order to make sure that we have listened or “listen to” what the Holy Spirit has said, and what he is saying to his churches. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THIS WILL CONFIRM TO MANY OF THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE BEGUN SEE COME TO PASS, </strong>but needed a reference point to remind you, that you had heard from the Lord, or that what I’m sharing with you as confirmation, for the things that you have been questioning and wanting to somehow have answers to.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">BEFORE WE BEGIN, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY HELLO TO OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN SINGAPORE. </strong>I have noticed that many of you are listening to the podcast, and I feel like the Lord would help me encourage you to not be afraid at this time, to be bold and courageous in sharing the love of Christ.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I KEEP HAVING THE NAME OF SOMEONE BY THE NAME OF “TING” WHICH IS SPELLED - T I N G - being impressed upon my heart by the Lord. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">This name, (I think it’s a female) but the Lord just simply said. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Tell Ting that you have been called to be an evangelist to your nation, and that the Lord wants you to be bold and courageous, and he wants you to know that if you open wide your mouth, he will fill it with the words that will begin to change hearts. Start with a small gathering in your home and begin to just lovingly share, as with dear friends, your own story. You don’t need to make it a big loud story, nor do you need to perform. Simply say, “I want to tell you the story of what has changed my life”. The Lord is going to enter that room with his Holy Spirit Presence, and hearts are going to be tenderly touched, as you boldly and courageously share. Jeremiah 1:8-9 and 10 say, “Be not afraid of their faces for I am with you to deliver you says the Lord, then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth and the Lord said to me, “behold I’ve put my words in your mouth. </u></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">See! I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and pull down and to destroy, and to throw down, and to build and to plant.”</u></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE TITLE OF THIS PODCAST IS CALLED,</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“A REVIEW BEFORE THE NEW” OR, “A RE-view” BEFORE THE NEW.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">In 2022 I had a word for the Lord for that year, and I’m going to share with you “in review”, the prophetic word from the Spirit of God, that is most important and a kind of an introductory for what we’re about to enjoy next podcast regarding this vision that I had.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I believe the vision is right where we are literally moving into right now, in the world, in the Body of Christ, and literally all over the globe.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The prophetic word from the Spirit of God was/is called,</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“FOR THOSE FACING THE NARROWING PATH”</em></strong>, (2022)</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The word said this;</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Darker and broader and louder come the shouts of world to draw you into its intricate webs.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">These webs of deceit are spun with silken tongues and with the softness of the promise of an easier life.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There is a reckoning coming to those that sell lies and imprison those who buy their wares.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But for those who are determined to not walk on a fence, trying to balance between their own thinking and me, there will be a “Divine Might” that will empower them to continue down the narrowing way.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Where does this narrowing journey lead? </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What is the payoff at the end?</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As you become more determined and lay aside the things that have hindered you over and over again from fully entering into the deeper places with me, a lightness and freedom will propel you toward a place of Living Light.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">That Light is Me, and you will soon know Me in a different way than you have in past years and seasons.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">My one warning to many is that they cannot argue that the path is “too narrow”. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What mankind might call “rigid” I call “Straight and Direct”. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you choose to alter the plans that I have set down for your protection and safety, you will grieve my Spirit and allow a searing of your conscience to override the truths that you know deep in your heart.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The path of those who do right is straight and smooth. </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I, who am upright, make the way of the righteous level.” </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Isaiah 26:7</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The Narrowing” has begun to increase, and the love for it has decreased among those who choose to remain passive to conviction and pure living. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Allow my Holy Spirit to move freely again.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I know what I must do, to break the constraints of man. </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let me move!</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Are you afraid that I might be ridiculed?</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Or, are you more concerned for your image and patterns before men? </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Do not stifle the Holy Spirit. Do not scoff at prophecies, </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-I Thessalonians 5:19-21</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Choose the “Narrowing Way”. For I, Am there. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Choose the pathway of “rightness” with me, even when others scoff at your “narrow mindedness”.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When the days become darker and the world tilts and twists in further unrestrained darkness, You will be the carrier of My Light, which can lead the lukewarm and lost, down the narrow, but safe, and integral way, to Me.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“THE GREAT COMING WHIRLWIND”</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="TheGreatComingWhirlwind.png" height="216" src="https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zih8cv/TheGreatComingWhirlwind.png" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="301" /></em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By the Holy Spirit through Mary Lindow</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The LORD is slow to get angry, but his power is great, </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And he never lets the guilty go unpunished. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He displays his power in the whirlwind and the storm. </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The billowing clouds are the dust beneath his feet.” </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Nahum 1:3</strong> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We Are In High-Pressured Days That Seem As If Everything Around Us </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Is In A Great Whirlwind.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The noise coming from the media, the weather patterns, the sounds of war, the sounds of people crying out for “Justice” and the sounds of people crying out because they feel like there's been too much “In-justice”.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord Would Like To Speak These Words In This Hour</strong> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To Those </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">That Have Ears To Hear</strong>. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">I know there are many prophetic words being ushered into the media outlets by so many people and many have been spoken out in meetings and conferences. I wish that I could tell you that every single voice you're listening to and every promise that is being made to you regarding great wealth, great promotion, and great open doors are accurate. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But deep down inside of your spirit-man, there is something stirring that you cannot explain. It's that knowing that something is coming, that something has begun out there in the world that we cannot see, but that we know in the spirit.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We Are In A Time Like None Other On And In The Earth. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">But, we do have reference points to go to that tell of similar warnings and events that took place in the past. We can remember when Lot chose to go for the things that were more pleasing to his flesh and where he would have more abundant provision and opportunity for business trade, but in the end he was stuck in the city where there was nothing but illicit sex, graft, stealing and robbing, and eventually total desolation and demolition. Even as the Lord provided a way of escape, his wife still had the smell, the stench of the worldly life in her heart, and she turned around to look one more time, fondly, over her shoulder, at the home that she dreaded to leave behind.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Look At The Days Of Noah When He Was Mocked And Laughed At</strong>. He did not build that famous ark in a month! No! It took a long, long period of time to build the ark out in the middle of nowhere! A simple study of the Bible text shows that the time from when God told Noah to build the ark, till the rain fell was no longer than about 75 years.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And yet he obeyed God.</strong> If we read carefully, it says that the Lord himself drew the animals to the ark. First, it is necessary to note that Noah was not told to gather the animals. He was commanded only to build the Ark, large enough for all the animals, and simply receive the animals when they arrived. "And of every living thing of all flesh, . . . two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive" (<a href="http://www.icr.org/bible/Genesis/6/19-20" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #265e15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Genesis 6:19-20</a>).</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I Want To Encourage All Of You To Understand Clearly </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">That </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There Is A Whirlwind Coming</strong>.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In Jeremiah 23:19 God is talking about a whirlwind that He has sent—a violent windstorm.</em></strong> The false prophets have said, "No bad is coming" (verse 17). God says, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Do they ever listen to me? I've said, 'I'm sending a whirlwind, and it's going to fall on the heads of the wicked.' How dare they say that everything is going to be okay!”?</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What is coming is bigger and broader and wider and more destructive than anything else that we have ever seen.</u></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I don't know if it's a nuclear war!</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I don't know if it's bizarre weather patterns!</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And I don't know if it's not just a whirlwind of new kinds of ideas being foisted upon mankind.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What I Do Know Is This. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There are people who are aware in the spirit that the only stronghold in place right now, a place of immunity and safety, is in prayer and in surrendering to all that the Lord is asking of them.</u></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Many of you are stretched beyond the point that no one can understand. </em></strong>Their financial resources have been given and given again to help others, and yet their own supply seems to be dwindling. There are those who have poured into the lives of others, poured into businesses, poured into mentoring and training others, and yet it appears as if when they reach out there's nothing left in the pantry for them. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord Wants Those Of You Who Have Been Giving, Giving, Giving </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">- To Check Your Hearts One More Time.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">If HE told you to give and to serve and to sacrifice, then you can be guaranteed one thing. He does not withhold from those who have been faithful.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“But this I say, He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully. - </em>2 Corinthians 9:6 </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"And God, who supplies seed for the sower and bread to eat, will also supply you with all the seed you need and will make it grow and produce a rich harvest from your generosity." -</em>2 Corinthians 9:10</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I want to encourage you right now in the spirit to understand the time that we are in, is a time when nothing is making sense when trying to apply the past patterns and methods or, the natural way of living. </u></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It's Going To Take A Determined, Dogged, Supernatural Approach </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To Understand The Seasons The Days And The Times.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">God already understands all of this, but He is not going to communicate to people who will then try to communicate it in natural terms to those who don't have ears to hear. He's going to communicate truth and wisdom to those were willing to allow their own hearts to go into the fire of refining and changing the way that they have done things in the past.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</strong>The fear of the LORD is the beginning of <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">wisdom</strong>; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.”</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Psalm 111:10</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">DIFFICULTIES REQUIRE NEW STRATEGIES.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Hard times require sober minds and the determination not to be towed under by destruction and despair.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We Are Not To Be Focusing On The Noise In The Whirlwind Around Us In This World, </strong>even though it sure does draw our attention from the left and the right! We are to instead, focus on a specific path, a narrowing of vision and a “one direction” place.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And what exactly does that all mean?</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">It means that we are to seek the Face of the Father. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And I mean seek and to seek, and to seek again. Continually.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">“Seek the LORD and his strength, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">seek his face</strong> continually.”</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-1 Chronicles 16:11</strong> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE HAVE GOT TO BREAK DOWN THOSE THINGS </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THAT ARE HOLDING BACK THE MOVE OF GOD </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IN ALL DENOMINATIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">It will only come by <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Seeking</strong> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">His Face</strong>,</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Seeing</strong> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">His Heart</strong> for people</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hearing</strong> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">His Plans</strong> for them, and for us!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Oh how the Father wants to bring a fresh move of his presence through His word and through His glorious goodness and mercy!</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HE IS GOING TO BRING CORRECTION TO ALL DENOMINATIONS </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">All walks that claim to have Jesus Christ as the head of the faith! So many smugly think that because they have been charisma tics or that they have been “spirit-filled” they have a higher attained level of wisdom and discernment! This is nothing but plain arrogance. If anything, there should be a more refined level of humility and thankfulness for the fact that we have access through the gifts to flow in the fruits of the Spirit.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled).” -I</strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">saiah 2:12</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE HOLY SPIRIT WOULD SAY THESE WORDS TO US TODAY</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Yes, the winds are blowing and they are harsh winds and some are absolutely destructive winds! Everything that does not stand under the power of my word and is not anchored in Me shall be shifted and blown and shaken, and at times the winds of drastic change will draw away the dross from the wheat. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am sifting and shaking, and shaking and sifting again and again until my people understand they do not live in a time where making demands and commands to Me operate well.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am looking for a people who will bow low enough before Me and get quiet and seek My will, <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MY WILL</u> for planet earth! This world is fading away quickly and mankind is corrupted each day more and more to go the way of the flesh.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">YOU MUST PUT AWAY THE NOISE!</em></strong><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You must put away the noise in your life and enter into the place were in the center of the storm is the eye. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MY EYE</em></strong><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> is upon the righteous, My eye is upon those that are fruitful and faithful, and fruitful to Me may be different than fruitful to you!</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You cannot serve two masters, yet many have tried to justify the shutting away of My convicting voice when I have told them to go back and make right the situations where they have done grievous damage to others who are supposedly their family members in Christ.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you cannot repent and get relationships right in the Kingdom now, I cannot use you to forge new relationships in the future in My Kingdom</strong>. If you have bitterness, anger and jealousy in your heart, it will manifest with shaming and name-calling, as well as condescending and destroying another's capability to serve me well.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The days of selfish ambition and immaturity are closely coming to an end. My light, My life, My word and My ways are perfect! </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I will not deviate from My plan for the Kingdom of God in the earth. I am looking for a people who will not listen to the accusation of others nor slander and destroy their brother and sisters because of another's opinion, or perhaps because they themselves were brought a loving correction or warning and instead, turned around and shamed the messenger.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I see you all and I am fully aware of the things that have been done in My name to hide behind selfish ambition. A judgment time is coming! </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Know this. I am about to expose those who abuse the gifts, abuse their titles and abuse the finances that I have deemed for the kingdom and I'm going to bring their names to the forefront to save their souls!</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Yes, the whirlwinds may blow, and the storms and winds will be continuing to cycle and swirl.</em></strong><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> But I'm looking for those who are willing to stay in the center of My Eye, where there is quiet and there is calm and there is discernment, direction and wisdom for these devastating days.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To those in the center of My Eye,</em></strong><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> I will pour out a wisdom beyond mankind's understanding and they will rise up and have the words that will bring direction, correction, and light into dark places.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge, </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But he overthrows the words of the traitor. </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Proverbs 22:12</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and he ponders all his paths." </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Proverbs 5:21</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stand prepared,</em></strong><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> f</em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">or I'm doing this thing regardless of whether man is ready or not. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am that I Am and I will have my way in the earth, says the Lord of Hosts.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">For this is what the high and exalted One says-</em></strong><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">- <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He who lives forever, whose name is holy: "I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.” -Isaiah 57:15 </strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>Duplication and sharing of this writing is welcomed, as long as the complete message and all websites and information for Mary Lindow is included.</b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Thank You! 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font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The words, “The Harsh Winds of Life” </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">have been playing themselves over and over in my mind.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">As I have pondered them and have allowed the Voice of the Holy Spirit to instruct me as to why I have been impressed with this statement, I sense the Lord addressing many deeper issues that are well anchored and maintained within our souls as believers.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HARSH WINDS</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">These blustery currents in the natural can be devastating to property, trees, and all living-breathing creatures. We have all seen what the devastation of hurricanes and tornadoes can do in a very short amount of time.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Often when listening to the traumatic stories of those who have lived through a nightmarish storm, the realities of what they hold near and dear have been laid bear and brought to the surface. Many weep over the loss of family photographs or tender things like Grandma’s old chipped china and are unconcerned about larger material items, but are deeply thankful for the safety of family members after a traumatic event. Others, are shaking fists at the sky and are enraged that they have been infringed upon during a difficult time, and want somebody else to pay for it!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE HARSH WINDS OF LIFE BLOW UPON THE GODLY AND THE UNGODLY. NO ONE IS EXEMPT.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">There are some of life's storms that threaten to blow away everything we've depended on as well.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Friendships are tested, relationships are strained, and the Lord uses these harsh winds blowing against our lives to remove the crusty chaff that can form and harden around the seed of our lives.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Those who are independent in nature find a bitterness creeping into their attitudes and heart. They feel infringed upon when things are not easily controlled or maneuvered in their favor. And so, the Holy Spirit allows the winds to blow until a conviction penetrates the self centered soul, and exposes the fleshy comfort zone of, ‘My Way, My World, My Rights”!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">No man has power over the wind to contain it; </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So no one has power over the day of his death. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And no one is discharged in time of war, </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So wickedness will not release those who practice it.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Ecclesiastes 8:8</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HOW LONG WILL THE HARSH WINDS BLOW?</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">As long as we practice wicked behavior in the eyes of the Lord, and no matter how hard we try, we cannot stop it! He is winnowing us, allowing us to be caught up into the refining wind of the Holy Spirit's conviction so that the chaff and waste places in our souls are removed.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">And trust me my friends, anything that you may be hiding or pretending wasn’t “that bad”, that harmed someone else, well God will allow it to come to the light to be either judged or to be cleansed and yes, there may be consequences that you don’t like.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE CAN’T HARM OTHER PEOPLE, OR ABUSE THEM, SEXUALLY PREY UPON THEM, SPIRITUALLY ABUSE AND DOMINATE OR SLANDER,</strong> and then pretend that it wasn’t “that big of a deal”! It’s a huge deal to God and he will continue to pursue us in order to cleanse us if we will allow him access.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(Yes you can say "ouch" right about now!)</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CHAFF MUST BE REMOVED. </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">BUT WHY?</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Chaff is a waste material plowed into the soil or burned.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Chaff, as a waste product from grain processing, shows us a symbolic use of the idea that refers to something seen as worthless.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Now, this is where we read, "to separate the wheat from the chaff" from</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Matthew 3. It means to separate things of value from things of no value.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Another example is in Psalm 1 which says: "<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away".</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE CHRISTIANS OFTEN PRESUME THAT BECAUSE WE ARE REDEEMED THROUGH THE BEAUTIFUL SACRIFICE OF CHRIST FOR OUR LIVES, THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR AN EASIER AND MORE PRIVILEGED LIFE.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is simply not so!</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">We are given a shield and a holy stamina to withstand the wiles of this world, but no free passes to a life of ease.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE LORD LOVES ALL OF MANKIND.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">He longs for ALL of mankind, (that includes you and I) to come to a place of trust in His way, not “our way”. Fully stripped of self-will, self-gratification, self- justification, and self-focus.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Matthew 5:45 says~</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> “He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good,</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I KNOW! I KNOW! THIS STINGS!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. James 3:14</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">About now, I can hear a few righteous folks saying, "I would never boast about envy! "</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Well! Selfish ambition is well hidden in our personal behaviors.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">We offer gifts or opportunities for others to be blessed or helped as long as we are feeling in control and benevolent at the time of the offer or good intention.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">But when the winds of life shift and the Lord allows the chaff of "waste materials" in our soul to be Tornadoed —bitterness and exclusive rights abound! Huffiness, abrupt harshness and passive aggression <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(which means getting even)</em> will manifest and expose the soul's clinging nature, which does not want the hand of God striping away any safety veneer that we use to protect our approach to life.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A CHANGE IN THE SPIRITUAL CLIMATE HAS OCCURRED!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">John 6:18 says, “A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough.”</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Jesus allowed the wind to be a teaching point for his disciples. They had walked with Him, talked with Him and served alongside Him. But trusting Him when the Storms and Harsh winds blew revealed a weakness that we all must look at, and often.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">We trust the Lord when things are going our way, but when the Harshness of a storm blows us off the course that we set, many times we run to our own devices or “Plan B”.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SO MANY AT THIS TIME IN THIS DIFFICULT AGE ARE SCREAMING,</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Lord! Don’t you care about me? The winds are blowing, and I am fearful for my life! If you Love me, why are you allowing this horrid event to occur?”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Even Peter in his zeal to get out of the boat and see if it was indeed Jesus calling to him to come, once he was out of the safety of his own control and the winds blew against him, he focused on the wind, and not upon Jesus, who was there the whole time. Peter cries out, "<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LORD I am perishing! SAVE ME!”</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CONTROL IS A DEEP, DEEP NEED.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Perhaps <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE</u></em> deepest need people have, is for control.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When we feel out of control, we experience a powerful and uncomfortable tension between the need for control and the evidence of “inadequate control”.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Without the Presence of God in our lives, we will attempt to control everything, every event, and every person around us in order to attain the sense of order and “identity power” that we crave.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">DRAWING NEAR TO GOD</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">It was James, the brother of Jesus, who wrote to the believers in Jerusalem, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double- minded people!" (James 4:8).</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">If we draw near to God, he will respond and draw near to us.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Drawing near to God is spending time with Him, worshiping Him, praying and talking to Him, inviting Him into every aspect of our lives.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">EVERY. PART. OF. OUR. LIFE.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">BRING YOUR HEART UNDER HIS LORDSHIP</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">James gives us the blueprint for drawing near or “right up close” to the Lord. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">If you've committed sin, confess it, get rid of it.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Next, ask the Lord to examine your heart, your motives, and the things that make you do what you do.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bring your heart under His Lordship as well.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">May our actions be manifestations of a clean heart and conscience.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Allow HIM to remove the Chaff, the wasted time controlling things, and TRUST Him to align your life.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Notice that when he writes about this he says,</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">"Purify your hearts, double-minded people."</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY "DOUBLE-MINDED"?</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Well, a person who is double-minded is drawn in two completely different directions. And so he or she will get nowhere fast because loyalty is divided.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">They will vacillate between faith and unbelief.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">And, a double-minded person is unstable in all his/her ways and his/her spiritual walk is inconsistent because he/she tries to serve God and his/her own interests, and gamble their life against the Harsh Winds.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We've all learned that this kind of living never works. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Friends again I say this under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the master that you serve whether it be hiding something that is a secret sin or offense to The Lord, or things that you are aware of that have dishonored others, they will be brought into the light one way or the other.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">If you think you can hide it, if you think you can gloss it over, God will eventually bring it into the light and have you exposed for deception.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Or, you choose to get the help you need and you can humble yourself! </strong>Yes, there may be consequences you don’t like, because of your actions and choices. But repentance and accountability will save your soul. It may not save your marriage, it may not save your ministry, and it may not save your job or your relationships. But it will save your soul, because humility enters, and God can re-create what has been destroyed and damaged.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GOD DOESN'T PLAY GAMES!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">No one is going to get very far with God by playing spiritual games.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">It will soon be discovered that the only people playing the game with you will be you, yourself, and again, YOU. It's just like people thinking that they can "ride the fence" into the kingdom.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There is no riding the fence; there is no lukewarm support group.</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">You’re either in or out.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">If we really want to know Him, we are going to have to get serious about our relationship with Him.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE DON’T WANT DIFFICULT! </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">I will tell you right now, that even as I write and speak these words, I can feel the resistance to pruning and more change in my gut! </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Are you in a pruning, shocking, "getting trimmed back" difficult season right now? </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Most everyone is! </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Feeling like your wings have been clipped?</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Are you seeing a pattern of lethargy and a dullness of joy maybe in your daily life? </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Don’t waste those struggles friends! </strong>Know that God is very... VERY... intentional. And, He has a good plan for all of it. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Every challenge is an opportunity to practice walking one day at a time, with really clear thinking and gratitude, and He is right there, inside you, to help you.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LIKE I SAID BEFORE! WE DON’T WANT DIFFICULT! </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">But my oh my, I do want to be like Him!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So I’m in surrender-mode now, friends. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">I’m saying, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Cut away, Lord. Go deep.” </strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">WHY? Because I want ALL that He has for me. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I want the fruit. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">I want all that abundance, and I know it’s waiting for me when this weird and awkward season changes.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THERE IS ANOTHER PHENOMENON I FIND THAT HAPPENS DURING THE PROCESS, WHEN THE HARSH WINDS OF LIFE ARE BEARING DOWN.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And, one that I find that is unhealthy to ignore.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The enemy of our soul is observing and is feverishly “taking notes” about this difficult process, and I believe he finds it quite enjoyable; he laughs and ridicules and flings missiles of insults that shout that, "<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">only a loser needs this kind of difficult adjustment ”. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This of course, is a lie</strong> <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">but, one which we can tend to believed on a bad day! </strong></em>Listening to the wrong voice can tempt us to believe the blowing away of chaff in our lives is punishment, and comes from God being mad at us. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It can cause us to pull back from deeper fellowship or social engagements </strong>(social distancing tools too, like Face Time, ZOOM, integral) these paralyze honesty, transparency and humility.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It can lead to self-hatred, self-protection, denial about how we hurt others with half-truths, and so on!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I AM TRULY BECOMING MORE AWARE IN MY SPIRIT THAT GOD CAN ONLY USE ME—OR “BEST USE ME”, THROUGH THE PARTNERSHIP OF HIS POWER AND MY WEAKNESS. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A wise and well-tested man by the name of Alan Hood must have had a few pruning clippers dig into his life at time or two and learned this lesson. </strong>He stated<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“To Be Pruned Is To Lose The Resources, Whether Monies or Physical Strengths Upon Which Everyone Around You Measures You As Successful.”</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LET’S READ THAT AGAIN… </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">…S L O W L Y ! </strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“To Be Pruned Is To Lose The Resources, Whether Monies or Physical Strengths Upon Which Everyone Around You Measures You As Successful.”</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TRYING TO USE OLD THINGS WHEN GOD IS TRYING TO GIVE US NEW THINGS IS REALLY SUCH FOOLISHNESS! </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Psalm 85 talks about Restoration, Re-tooling and Revival.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Verse 8 says, </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I will listen to what God the Lord says;</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He promises peace to his people, His saints</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">—but let them not return to folly.”</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I’M TRUSTING THE LORD’S GOOD AND GRACIOUS HAND IN THE PROCESS THAT THE WORLD IS EXPERIENCING RIGHT NOW. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">I know God does not intend to leave even a healthy fruit-bearing branch how it is, but He is always after a more abundant harvest for His people.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I don’t get it, I don’t like or want difficult! </u></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But I also don’t want a puny little sick looking basket of bitter, green, unusable fruit out of life! </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">He will “give the increase” when I reach the end of this seeming devastation of stymied ideas and “put on hold” plans, and let me tell you something crazy, I feel it coming! The increase!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">I’m learning to WALK in harmony, in tune with the truth that, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“He is dwelling like healthy sap, in me, and will keep sin and despair from having dominion over my life”.</em> (Romans 6:14) YOUR LIFE TOO! </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A MOMENT IN HIS ANGER - A LIFETIME IN HIS FAVOR.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">God disciplines for a moment when He wishes to get our attention and our lives may indeed become painful for a period, but then comes His favor.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God doesn't delight in either our depression or our damage. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">And, when He begins to deal with the chaff in our lives, it is for our advantage, that we may be conformed to His likeness and reflect His holiness.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">When we sense God’s disapproval, when it appears He has withdrawn from us, it is only so that we see our utter need of Him.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WHEN LIFE SEEMS TO BE SO SOUR, WHEN EVERYTHING CRUMBLES,</strong> then we must remember what we “say we believe”, that God’s favor is with us, because of Christ’s worthiness given to us, because we are adopted and are His - which means, that His favor always wins out over His disapproval.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THIS PICTURE IS PAINTED WELL BY THE WORDS "WEEPING REMAINS FOR A NIGHT." </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Weeping and sorrow are pictured as a traveler who comes to stay for a night. The pain and sorrow we feel may seem as though it has moved in with us like an unwelcome guest, who decides to stay for a very long time.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">REJOICING THOUGH, COMES IN THE MORNING.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Your “mourning”, will dissipate in the morning”.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Your winter, will melt into summer.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">God will replace your sighing, with singing.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Grief, will give way to gladness.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">What was once bitter, will be made sweet.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">And, what was once a desolate wilderness, will be transformed into a paradise.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LIKE THE FIRST RAYS OF THE SUNRISE WHICH DISPEL </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE HARSH WINDS AND GLOOM OF NIGHT, </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GOD GIVES US JOY WHEN THE DARKNESS OF OUR PROBLEMS SEEM AS THOUGH THEY’LL NEVER LEAVE.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">YOUR CROSS IS HIS GLORY</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">What is so crucial to understand is that as a Christian, your life will be filled with times of weakness and strength, with want and wealth, with disgrace and honor, with crosses and comforts, miseries and mercies, joys and sorrows, delight and mourning.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As this cycle of separating “Chaff” from our lives reoccurs many times in our lives, and it moves us from the cross to glory.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">For your own health and so that you find all your satisfaction in Christ alone, God will send you times of great growth and other times of emptiness.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When the harsh winds blow, know that God desires that you find your hope and comfort by His own fire.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When the balmy breezes come, give Him praise and thanksgiving for the warmth He provides.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Psalm 57:1 says,</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Have mercy on me, O God,</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Have mercy on me, for in you my soul takes refuge.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.”</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">(PROPHETIC EXHORTATION AND WORDS OF KNOWLEDGE NOT INCLUDED IN WRITTEN MESSAGE </span></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">CONTINUE IN THE AUDIO MESSAGE FORMAT BEGINING AT </span></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; 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text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">👆</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">TO LISTEN TO THIS AS A FREE AUDIO PODCAST</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">CLICK THE PICTURE</span></b></div><p></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By Mary Lindow </strong></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am by far not an expert on the subject of plumblines and righteousness</em></strong>, so take what I say in the light of one who at time gropes like a child in the dark, ever reaching for the hand of the ONE to lead me into a safe place filled with His Hope, His Mercy, His Light and Life.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE LIVE IN A CORRUPT WORLD</strong> and therefore, have the “effects and affects” of that corruption ever influencing, ever tainting and ever wooing the flesh. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Plumbline: </strong>a tool that consists of a small, heavy object attached to a string or rope and that is used especially to see if something (such as a wall) is perfectly vertical or in alignment) </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">A plumbline is a simple but accurate tool used for determining whether or not something is perfectly vertical or upright. The Lord also used, and uses, a "plumbline," His Word, to determine how upright His people truly are in His sight.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How upright they think they are</em>, or how upright they proclaim themselves to be, means nothing to God.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> "Behold, I WILL set a plumbline in the midst of My people". </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Amos 7:7 </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A PLUMBLINE SET OUT BY THE HAND OF GOD IS ONE THAT WE CAN ANCHOR OUR HEARTS TO.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">It will always, always, ALWAYS, direct us to the truth in a matter; even if it requires pain, loss, persecution and perhaps death in areas we feel we may well have rights to. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">It will also be a shield, a balm, a comfort and a teacher to those who will yield to the directive positioning of the Master. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumbline.” </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Isaiah 28:17 </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LIFE – DISTRESS - AND PERSECUTION </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">I have found that in my life, distress and persecution do not feel like God’s care being poured out on me. My heart is not immediately drawn to thanksgiving and gratefulness for the faithfulness of God on display as I cling to the battered pieces that look like potential “rafts” of hope, only to find out that many of them have gaping holes or slow leaks in them. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Rather, it feels like yet another hurt is being permanently woven into my tattered and war-torn soul. It seems as if another mound of questions are piling up and just waiting for an answer and a true solid REAL anchor of hope. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I CAN REALLY CONNECT TO THE WRITER OF PSALM 42 </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">He said <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?”</em> It’s at those very times that the words of the Savior are so important. When we are down and in turmoil. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But, how do we connect the dots between what we know is true about God’s faithfulness and what our hearts feel?</em></strong> When flipped and flung around by the waves, weary from crying and when no answer seems at hand, what is the answer? </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When my circumstances show many foes and tyrants rising up against me and my heart is prone to wander and fear, what hope is there of peace? </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When my feelings start controlling my thoughts, how can I rest in God’s promises? </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AT THIS POINT… I HEAR THE “GASPS” … </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">…And perhaps shocked comments of a few who are amazed that someone who appears to walk so fervently and intimately with the Lord would have such difficulties! </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Well!</strong> <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Guess what?</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I do struggle, I do hurt, and yes I do doubt</em></strong> when I have been side swiped or “rammed” by skilled cons and those who, although may have the appearance of godliness and offered friendship or fellowship, end up having private and evil agendas behind their well placed and planned schemes.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">And boy oh boy! Those skilled players know the wicked art of wounding the heart and causing people to reel in pain! </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">BUT, THERE IS ONE WHO FULLY SEES IT ALL </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The main skill in the issue of dealing with life as a spiritual person, is to know how to handle yourself when things not only crush and grind your heart, but what to do with the anguish and toll of their aftermath. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We have to get ourselves into a place where we hear clearly again. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">We need have to address ourselves, preach to ourselves, and ask questions about ourselves. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">We must say to our soul: "<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Why are you cast down –Why are you so anxious and lacking in peace?" </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We must urge ourselves, and say ‘Hope in God’–instead of remaining in this paralyzed, aching state!” </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AND THEN WE MUST TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">We must go on to remind ourselves just “Who “God is, and what God is and what God has done, and what God has promised that he Himself said that He would do. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Having done that we can stand up and sing out strongly, defying the torment of the soul, and resist other people’s wicked tongues and arrogance, and refuse to go along with the devil and the whole world, and say: ‘Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.” </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The hope and promise of the fairness of God’s justice when dealing with the hurtful things and presumptions of others gives me the confidence to know that God will never turn away from me in my need. No matter how they seem to prosper in the short term, wicked men and women will ultimately pay for their sins, in this life or the next. Jesus died to meet my greatest hardships and sorrows for me, and I need to preach this to myself every day.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">His power is greater than my weariness and suffering. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The comforting and instruction that comes from simply running to feed upon His word instead of the toxic poison of the replaying of trauma reminds me that what Jesus has done is strong enough for my soul to rejoice in and to be set into a place where it can rest and regroup, gaining a healthy perspective about what to give out to others and what is simply…</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">…. To be enjoyed by the Lord Himself. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE NATURAL IMPULSES OF MANKIND ARE SINFUL AND DECEITFUL! </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Human willpower alone will never be able to change this. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">We need God's help to truly change our hearts. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">REMEMBER. </strong><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You cannot change the heart of anyone else either. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">If you try to, you will feel the bite of stinging venom or be laughed out of a room. Only the power of the conviction of the Holy Spirit can permeate and get around the jam-packed hardhearted egos of the self sufficient and bitter. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Jeremiah 17:9 says that the human heart is deceitful in all things and is even beyond cure!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We must be cautious and wise in reproving and warning such types of people about their bad behaviors and wicked actions</strong> where there seems to be no appearance or hope of change and where there is danger of experiencing great and heart wrecking retaliation and slander. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">These types trample the warnings and urging for repentance </strong>and humbling of the heart under their feet, and turn again and slash at you, despising the warnings that are “tearfully and fearfully” given, and often hurt the persons who give them, either by words or deeds. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Don't waste what is holy on people who are unholy. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Don't throw your pearls to pigs! </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They will trample the pearls, </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">then turn and attack you.” </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Matthew 7:6 </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"GIVE ME THE FACTS MA’AM JUST THE FACTS” </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">I remember that phrase from a TV show called “Dragnet”. The detective would not allow the details of the case to be skewed by any assumptions or pontificating from those he interviewed. He stoically and firmly demanded only the facts. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And so, here are the “facts” about the heart of a good man or woman.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1.) The good man or woman: Brings good things out of the good stored up in his/her heart. And the facts about an evil man or woman. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2.) The evil man/woman brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his/her heart. For out of the overflow of his or her heart his or her mouth speaks. Luke 6:45 </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE FRAILTY, BRIEFNESS, AND INSECURITY OF LIFE </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The frailty, briefness, and insecurity of life should hold down the vanity and presumptuous confidence of all of our projects and boasting about future greatness and bragging rights! We are always to depend on the will and leading of God. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">OUR TIMES ARE NOT IN OUR OWN HANDS, BUT ARE INSTEAD IN THE TIMING OF GOD. </strong>Our heads may be filled with cares and plans for ourselves, or our families, or our friends; but Divine intervention often throws our plans into bewilderment. All we have in mind, and all we do, should be with a humble and deep dependence on God.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">It is foolish, and it is hurtful, to boast of trendy “latest happening” things and prospective projects, and it will bring great disappointment and will prove destructive to relationships and meaningful help to others in the end. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world.” </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-1 John 2:16</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LISTEN KINDLY - BEFORE SPEAKING YOUR THOUGHTS </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">People don't need a lecture on the meaning of suffering</strong></em> or to have a barrage of scriptures “machine-gunned” at them as a reprimand for sharing their moment of grief or struggle! <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(Especially when their hearts are breaking, weary of the battle and if they are fatigued.)</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Job could have done without some of the self-righteous answers that came from his “well-meaning” friends. All of the answers could have even been true, but Job didn't need to hear any of them. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">He needed their love, not their value judgments. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">In fact, it appears as if God judged THEM for trying to offer simple solutions to things that were beyond their comprehension. They had never walked in the loss he was in anguish over. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WHEN WE SUFFER UNJUSTLY WE HAVE A MAJOR CHOICE TO MAKE</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">How will we respond? We can feel sorry for ourselves (<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and understandably so, for a while</em>), become bitter and cynical, get drawn into a war of words, or even become mixed up in a major conflict.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">On the other hand, we can take our suffering to the cross and allow our pain to draw us into a deeper place of understanding of what Jesus went though in his sufferings. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This does not remove the pain, but does help us to know what to do with our hurt. </strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is the 'fellowship of his sufferings'</strong> (Philippians 3:10), one of the gateways to closeness with God and the release of his power in our lives. The weight of heartbreak shared with a loving friend cuts it in half. When the burden is shared with many friends, we can cope with almost anything.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We never feel more revitalized than when a friend loves us enough to walk with us in our pain. Not lecture us. </strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The apostle Paul wrote these words to the church in Corinth: </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God". </strong></em><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-1 Corinthians 1.3-4 </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SOMETIMES GOD GETS INVOLVED WITH DIRECT MIRACLES, </strong>Giving supernatural strength to those in need. But for the most part, he depends on us, his people, to do his work in the world. We love each other, work for healing, and suffer with those who suffer. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The next time you see a friend who is suffering, Jesus may just invite you to be the warm embrace! </strong>We comfort each other with the comfort we have received in Christ. And when we do, we become the Body of Christ and he receives the glory! </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE BIBLE IS CLEAR! </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">We are to bear one another's burdens. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">We are to comfort others as Christ has given comfort to us. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Your hard time becomes my hard time. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">We join hands in the journey. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">When you succeed, I succeed. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">When you suffer, I suffer. But we do it together. We share it together. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And we do it, not so much in our wisdom or our words, but in our availability, our understanding, and through our presence. </strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THAT'S WHAT FELLOWSHIP IS ALL ABOUT! </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">But not “bland” fellowship.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">It is CHRISTIAN fellowship. It is the business of burden bearing.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Authentic CHRISTIAN fellowship says that when you need me . . . I'll be there.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Support in suffering is at the core of what it means to share life together in Christ.</strong> The word for "comfort” is the same root word as the name Jesus used to describe one of the functions of the Holy Spirit in our lives (Paraclete). “I will be a comforter, one who comes alongside to give help.” And so as God comes alongside you, now you are able to come alongside another. As the Comforter is at work within you, so you also can be of comfort to those around you. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE ARE CALLED TO BEAR ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">To mourn with those who mourn.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">To be a follower of Jesus means to come alongside people who are hurting and find ways to help them walk even through the valley of the shadow of death. We are called to do this, as the word of God and care of God is shared with the intention of stirring, plowing up hardened hearts, creating a place for repentance and challenging saints to hope again, I know and believe that as we learn again as believers, to care, to truly listen and to hope fully again, that the sweet and heavy weight of HIS Glory will be made known and will manifest in unfettered and uncontrolled waves of worship and spontaneous adoration of the King of Heaven. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HE REALLY DOES KNOW WHAT HE WANTS</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Let's focus on bowing low and seeking His heart and plans in what matters to Him.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Indeed, HE is the Plumbline. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prayer </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">God, I ask in Jesus' name, that you comfort, strengthen and encourage all who are hurting deeply right now and are going through so much pain and heartache. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Don't allow them to give up in the heat of the battle. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Let them feel your arms wrapping around them and your love overflowing and filling them up. Lord, I will pray often and I know that you will hear my voice, even when I speak to You in my silent thoughts. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To You, I am crying out and my prayers are now before You. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Father, I give to You my problems, I do not want them. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Father, please restore them to You. I know that you have compassion for your children. Father, show them your ways and teach them your paths. Lead them in your truth and teach them you are the God of our salvation and on you we will wait. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Protect them from the evils of this life and guide them through all of their days. Father, thank You for hearing my prayer Father and for considering and for having compassion on all who hear and read these words, and all who hurt, in this troubled world we live in. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Keep them in the center of Your love. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In Jesus’ Name</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">~ Amen </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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WHY ALL THE DELAYS?” - The Encourager Hears You! - A Prophetic Word Of Hope<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBOm3ldJklqkB_G-ZWZgzJrKvqMM1-wwt1fDpIvHSdTLwBwCkZoRzsJVlxxg1u8Who4L_l1JJMVvW9VK66M1ex8nylO1XifPMhG0VEkjdwq7P4J8kknjMHW4I0CeK671zKyDTyiWotqVrWPVksJxv0IYNUuX8-9S5-gN-kRUbIx38Z3bsZYVc88DI/s408/Oh%20Lord.why.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="408" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBOm3ldJklqkB_G-ZWZgzJrKvqMM1-wwt1fDpIvHSdTLwBwCkZoRzsJVlxxg1u8Who4L_l1JJMVvW9VK66M1ex8nylO1XifPMhG0VEkjdwq7P4J8kknjMHW4I0CeK671zKyDTyiWotqVrWPVksJxv0IYNUuX8-9S5-gN-kRUbIx38Z3bsZYVc88DI/w400-h266/Oh%20Lord.why.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By Mary Lindow</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I HAVE AN UNUSUAL STIRRING IN MY SPIRIT FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT AS I WRITE THIS MESSAGE.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord is revealing a sound in the earth coming from the hearts and deep cries of so many of His people right now. Perhaps it might even be yours as you read. There is a cry of hunger for His sure, safe presence in difficult times and in changing times.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A NEED FOR “QUIET”</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">The world and it's voices of influence, humanistic subtleties, and constant technology and it's sounds bring about an overload of weariness to all people, and there is a greater need for a place of rest for the warriors of truth who are very aware of the pressures that have not stopped mounting for many years now. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THERE IS MUCH TREACHERY OCCURRING </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IN THE EVIL PLANS OF DARKNESS AND</strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE PEOPLE HELD CAPTIVE BY IT THESE DAYS</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">It can bring a real sense of despair, broken-heartedness and shock when you encounter this type of thing and when it attempts to destroy your hope and confidence in what the Lord Jesus has set you apart for to express in His Power and in His name.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> OH LORD! WHY ALL THE DELAYS?</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">I don't know fully why it seems as if good people who are sincere and pure hearted seem to go through more persecution and repeated difficulty than those who seem to be the ones perpetuating the majority of it!! <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #660000;">SO MANY RIGHT NOW ARE NEARLY AT THEIR WITS END</span></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #660000;">WAITING FOR GOD TO RELIEVE THEM OF SORROW,</span></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #660000;">DISILLUSIONMENT AND BATTLE FATIGUE!</span></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“My soul faints with longing for your rescue,</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But I have put my hope in your word.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Psalm 119:81</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FEAR NOT! THE ENCOURAGER HEARS YOU!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted;</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You encourage them, and you listen to their cry.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Psalm 10:17</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WHAT IS THIS VERSE SAYING TO YOU AND I RIGHT NOW?</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">It is saying that the Lord Himself will encourage us!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">That is why we must continue to fight for that place of Divine “refuge!”</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">That <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“get away from it all”</em> place of craving and longing for His comfort.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">He knows our hurt, our loneliness, our scorched and heart torn issues! He understands how agonizing and bled out we can get when it seems as if battle after battle we begin to wonder if something might be wrong with us!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Hope delayed makes the heart sick,</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But when dreams come true, there is life and joy.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Proverbs 13:12 (NAT)</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOTHING CAN SATISFY DRY LIPS LIKE WATER!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">We are in a time where no persons opinions, no one’s books, no one’s TV shows are going to satisfy that craving, that need for a thirst quenching drink of companionship with God.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #660000;">We long to hear words from someone that tell us everything is going to be all right! That our children will be safe, our homes protected, our basic needs provided! And yet! Nothing “out there” satisfies us fully!</span></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">YOU SEE DEAR BELOVED ONE… </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">…The season of great hunger for the simple walk with Jesus has blossomed!</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Only time spent with him like a dear dear friend will fill the gaping ache you have. He will speak, He will comfort and He will show you what is true and what is false in the days ahead if you will return to that PLACE of companionship with Him. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Away from the opinions of men and the noise of this life.</em></strong> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Every word you give me is a miracle word-how could I help but obey?</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Break open your words, let the light shine out,</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">let ordinary people see the meaning.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mouth open and panting, I wanted your commands more than anything.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Turn my way, look kindly on me, as you always do to those who personally love you.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Psalm 119:129-131 (The Message)</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">~ A PROPHETIC WHISPER TO YOUR HEART FROM THE SAVIOR ~</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“ To know of My ways, you must know ME!</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To Know Me, you must spend time with ME.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To spend time with Me, you must purpose, to put aside the lists of things you have to do, before you can spend time with Me.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Order you days first in My Presence, and watch the desires of your heart be fulfilled. Man and his counsel will always fall short of the full truth of My Wisdom. I have blueprints and a Master plan for so many things yet to build upon in your life.” </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Come. Let us talk again together.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“You are the temple, the house of My Holy Spirit. I desire to build you up in spiritual strength as you walk in prayer conversations with me. “I will fulfill your longing for peace and direction as you step up again into a heavenly trust and rest.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“People will change, man will fail you, friends will turn, if they are not seeking My Voice above the clamor of the day. And you My child will fail others, if you listen to your own voice of reason and intelligence. As you turn to Me, you will see My compassion poured out upon you and you will then have My power of pure godly compassion and Wisdom driven grace to pour out on others.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> “I too, long for you as well! Seek Me-with all of your heart, your longings, your heartaches, your dreams. And I will be there with arms of strength to rescue you from Despair.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Jeremiah 29:13</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The LORD is good to those, whose hope is in Him, </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">to the one who seeks Him.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Lamentations 3:25</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Duplication and sharing of this message is welcomed </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">as long as complete article, podcast link and website information for Mary Lindow is included. 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Prophetic Word – “HOLD ON! HOLD FAST! REACH OUT!”<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/how-much-light-is-needed-to-push-back-the-darkness-on-earth-prophetic-word-–-hold-on-hold-fast-reach-out/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="461" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOL4OAcWuIqfoATBE23tGHCYS3YmKcP0lrJZTKK6qu6sFnQE4v2QmK14RQjHfFjJ9gD5STKs9VJqlWighgPMnsj13xY4o3zvbK-1azKgrkfXvAi4HHIN3pJQ6UptDcW_JDFigwyHzN2iuV71mfELsCCeIa9wYyT71ByblylBpsJ7daDmNZ_op8ncPR=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>⬆</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b>PLEASE CLICK PICTURE TO LISTEN TO AUDIO VERSION</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><i>(You will be glad you did!)</i></b></span></div><p></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By Mary Lindow </em></strong></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE WORDS “HELP ME!” ARE THE DEEPEST CRY OF EVERY HUMAN HEART</strong>. It perfectly describes the anguish of the soul, that agony in need to hear God lovingly respond with redemptive help.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">He answers as the very person and the very place of help through His son Jesus Christ, providing help for the helpless, a Father to the fatherless, and Hope for the hopeless.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">One of the most amazing things about of God and so very precious to the humble needs of we humans is that he is actually the very BEING, the very exact place, where we find help.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Nothing and no one else is so truly and so really, THE place and person from who help comes like he is.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Our need for help is more accurately termed “rescue” when it’s expressed in the fullest sense, and only Jesus himself can provide it!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">He rescues us from our daily “sneaky and self gratifying” sins and he rescues us from our falling and our faults, and he rescues us from our helplessness and hopelessness!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">JESUS ALONE IS THE PLACE OF RESCUE. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">He is the ultimate single person of help and we can find no one else to fill that break in the bridge of life! There is no one else, and when we come to this place we realize we need no other fixer!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now, this doesn’t mean that we don’t need one another as brothers and sisters in Christ and as friends.</strong></em> But unless those brothers and sisters and friends are walking in the light and brokenness of the Lord, they really aren’t much help anyway.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SOME PEOPLE RESIST AND PROLONG THE INEVITABLE</strong>, and will resist you when you are going through times of struggle and difficulty. There is a certain “ugly distain” in an individual who does not want to admit that they are infallible.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">These individuals still feel that they can control the environment around them through their education, their income, and their attitude.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">OFTEN, THESE KINDS OF INDIVIDUALS CAN CREATE PAINFUL DARKNESS </strong>in<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong>the lives of others, because instead of extending mercy and compassion, they have a lot of advice that comes out of simple textbook reading, rather than out of any real experience in dealing with their own darkness and personal places of being stuck in dysfunction.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SAD AS IT MAY SEEM, MANY PEOPLE APPLAUD THEIR OWN DYSFUNCTIONS, </strong>claiming that they are actually “just fine”, and they will pretty much verbally “whack anyone else in the head” that dares to challenge them!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THESE ARE THE FRIENDS THAT JOB HAD, AND THESE ARE NOT REAL FRIENDS. </strong>They will never understand the life of the disciple of dear Jesus, being refined in the fire, in order to come out of that fire more radiant, and expressing the hope and light of Christ without a lot of pompous preaching or fanfare.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The way to the fulfillment of all of life‘s highest peaks </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and deepest longings is in knowing the depths of the love of the Rescuer, </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lord Jesus Christ himself.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It’s not a quick process by the way! </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HOW MUCH LIGHT DOES A PERSON NEED WHEN PRESSED UNDER </strong>by evil pressures, nightmarish reoccurring losses and disjointed, painful relationships? </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Only a very tiny pinhole of light, if it is the Light that comes from God.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ONE PINHOLE OF GODLY LIGHT </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IS STRONGER THAN A UNIVERSE OF DARKNESS. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">It is enough for a surrendered and determined believer to cling to and depend on when all else has failed.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Psalm 89:15 says,</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Blessed are those who have learned to give praise and honor to you, </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Who walk in the light of your presence, O LORD.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">When we focus upon the Light of God's enduring and endearing Presence, all darkness will eventually be swallowed up into the Light of His Fountain of light. His Light is victorious over the darkness. ALL OF IT.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Psalm 36:9 says,</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“For with you is the fountain of life; </em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In your light we see light.”</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE ALONE CANNOT BATTLE THE DARKNESS. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our strength is not enough. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Accept that and know that God’s light comes to dispel darkness.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">His strength and Righteous arm smashes dark deeds, enemies, and deceivers and He will bring out into the light the things men think that they have hidden or have justified away.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Psalm 90:8 says,</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You spread out our sins before you—our secret sins—and see them all.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WHAT IS HAPPENING WHEN YOU FEEL BLIND AND LOST IN A DARKENED SEASON? </strong>Just as a caterpillar in a cocoon must experience a time of confinement and seeming darkness, there comes a time when it is lead out of darkness into light to stretch its newly found wings of liberty and gracefulness to soar and express Resurrection power, to those who gaze upon its beauty.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Few will fully understand the pain of this difficult process, unless they too pass through it.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Isaiah 42:16 says, </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I will turn the darkness into light before them </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And make the rough places smooth.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SO! WHO ARE THE GENUINE WORKERS OF GOOD AND HONEST DEEDS?</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now, there are those who do acts of benevolence and kindness </strong>whose aim is to only gain personal gratification and a sense of power when they “stoop to help others” in times of distress and sorrow. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Often times, folks with this fleshly and condescending behavior, (although claiming to have some spiritual godliness) will test those whom they share with. This can be either in monetary gifts, acts of service, spiritual gifts, or in counsel.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In basic terms, it’s set up. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">You better perform up to the standard they expect!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Because it’s their reputation on the line if you fail! </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(Imagine if Jesus held us all accountable to the acts of His goodness towards us!)</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">This is NOT a Worker of A Righteous or Good and Honest deed.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">This is a form of selfish ambition, entrapment and control.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A RIGHTEOUS DEED OR ACT OF GOODNESS IS DONE WITH THE </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">INTENT OF IMITATING THE NATURE OF GOD’S MERCY AND KINDESS.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">It does not expect performance or groveling in return.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">It never holds others over the fire with a critical eye, expecting perfection.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Often we have failed and disrespected His grace.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Yet He continues in love, and Redemptive acts towards us.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Because He has, no insecurities whatsoever.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TO BE RIGHTEOUS OR “DOING WHAT IS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF GOD” MEANS TO BE:</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">VIRTUOUS - MORAL - GOOD - JUSTICE LOVING </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HONORABLE - HONEST - RESPECTABLE - DECENT</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I HAVE PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED IN THE PAST AND EVEN AS </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">RECENTLY AS THE PAST FEW WEEKS, OVERWHELMING ACTS OF KINDNESS AND PATIENCE FROM THOSE WHOM I KNOW, </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GOD MUST CALL HIS WORKERS OF HONORABLE AND KIND DEEDS.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THE COMMON THREAD I SEE AMONG ALL OF THESE BELOVED GIVERS OF GRACE</strong> and care is that they have all experienced a time of great loss, depravation, near death, or sorrow.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> A Ray of Hope.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">A beam of light that draws you out of the darkness that attempts to tow you under in despair or fear.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I JUST LOST ONE OF MY SEVEN BROTHERS.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Sudden liver failure and organ failure. He was 63.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">He was brilliant, funny and kind.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I LOST ANOTHER FRIEND A WEEK LATER. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">One moment a successful surgery, moments later a clot was formed and a stroke took place.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Gone in a moment. She was 62.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">A giver, an artist and lover of God.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I HAD A VERY DEAR FAMILY MEMBER THAT I LOVE, </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TURN ON ME SUDDENLY</strong> and share privileged information with others who are not considered safe or wise people.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Trust was shattered!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ALL THREE OF THESE EVENTS WERE AND ARE PAINFUL!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">All three events were and are out of my ability to control! </u></em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">And friends, grief and loss and betrayal are very, very real, and they are very painful events in our lives.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">YET, GOD SEND US OTHERS INTO OUR SPIRAL OF PAIN AND LOSS</strong>, who "get it", because not only have they been through similar events, they learned that hard won growth can come out of pain and loss, or, you can choose to grow isolated, insulated, and bitter.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jeremiah 9:24 says,</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But let him who boasts- boast about this: </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">That he understands and knows Me,</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">That I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">justice and righteousness on earth, </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">for in these I delight," de</em></strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">clares the LORD.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WHEN TORMENT AND LYING SPIRITS DECEIVE OTHERS </strong>and they foolishly accuse you; know that there are others whom God will place in your life that will bring sober and Godly counsel, as well as loving kindness and help.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Proverbs 27:9 says,</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend, springs from his earnest counsel.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">DO NOT STOP IN YOUR KINDNESS AND IN YOUR CARE FOR OTHERS! </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The testing in this hour of the hearts of men and women will only grow more intense as the Lord examines the intentions of the hearts of those who call Him Lord.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The hoarding of comfort and help can’t ever be allowed </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">in the life of a follower of Jesus.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Your comfort, is not number one!</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SOMETIMES, WE PUT ASIDE OUR OWN NEEDS AND COMFORTS </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AND SECURITY, AND FORGE THROUGH THE DARKNESS TO BRING HOPE AND RELIEF TO THOSE BEING BATTERED BY A RELENTLESS STORM!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We speak peace to them IN the storm.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jesus did it! So He gives us the courage and strength to do the same!</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IF YOU HAVE PERSONALLY CAUSED TRAGEDY, DESTRUCTION OR SHAME </strong>to fall upon any of your Family in Christ, and have yet to openly apologize and make the situation you were a part of “right”, know that the risk of a deep darkness of the soul is reserved for those who choose to walk in self-deception and who cloak their denial in passivity.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">QUICKLY WHILE YOU STILL HAVE TIME, HUMBLE YOURSELF</strong> in the sight and the light of the Lord and HE will lift you out of your darkness.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Be humble enough to apologize specifically, for the harm you have done to someone.</u></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Own it, apologize, and ask for their forgiveness. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Then, Light will come again into your soul, and so will a flooding peace that cleanses you from shame and the claw of bitterness that demons use to torment and immobilize you with.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Philippians 2:3 says, </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Don’t be selfish; don’t live to make a good impression on others. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">DEAR BELIEVER! </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THERE IS THE OPEN OFFER OF AN ABUNDANCE OF JOY FOR </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WORKERS OF RIGHTEOUS AND HUMBLE, HONORABLE DEEDS!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Psalm 45:7 says,</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You love righteousness and hate wickedness; </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">by anointing you with the oil of joy.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Psalm 33:1 says,</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sing joyfully to the LORD, you righteous</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">it is fitting for the upright to praise him.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOW, I’M GOING TO SHARE A PROPHETIC WORD FROM THE LORD </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THAT DOES ADDRESS SOME OF THIS AND IT’S IN AN ACTIVE AND </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">VOCAL WAY THAT THE LORD WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO US, </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TO PUT A TYPE OF SEAL ON THIS MESSAGE.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“HOLD ON! HOLD FAST! REACH OUT!”</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> - A PROPHETIC WORD - </strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"I the Redeemer of those who cry out to Me day and night, compel you to hold on to My hand of Faithfulness and Light. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Keep your eyes on the light I provide for you in the darkness. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hold fast to it and I will stir the hearts of the Righteous and </em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">faithful in me, to reach out a hand of compassion and they will obey Me with acts of blessing, restoration, and supply. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They will do this willingly, for they have tasted of sorrow and know the secret of My abundant Joy! </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They have gone out weeping themselves, sowing seeds when they didn’t understand, all now growing up in compassion, only to produce a harvest, abundant in Joy.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Psalm 126:6 says,</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Those who weep as they walk and plant with sighs</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Will return singing with joy, when they bring home the harvest.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I the Lord have tasted sorrow, loss, torment, and death. </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Yet in one Redemptive act, mankind was brought the opportunity for the fullness of Joy and the open door from darkness into light, when they too, choose to call upon My salvation, cleansing, and light.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Quickly.</em></strong><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Cleanse your hearts of any act of unkindness, false humility, and the use of a heavy hand over your brothers or sisters, or your children.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The pinhole of light...</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">...My Light, Is drawing you into a New Day.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">For Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">for the gracious and compassionate </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and for those in right standing with God.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Psalm 112:4</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dear Believer! I encourage you to chew on this message. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Let us all bow before the Lord. Get low and sit at the feet of Jesus.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Ask Him to wash you clean of fear and weariness and feeling displaced.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is a different type of warfare that we are experiencing right now! </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">It’s not one that a lot of us have experienced on this level of pressure.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ask the Lord to show you that single pinhole of light.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">From that light, God shows us He is there with us.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Be strong in the Lord</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And in the POWER of His Might.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Duplication and sharing of this message is welcomed</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Provided that complete article, podcast link and website information for</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Mary Lindow is included. 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DREAMS" - VISIONS and PROPHECY. "OH CANADA!"<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/the-spirit-of-god-speaks-dreams-visions-and-prophecy-oh-canada/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="480" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguH1mFIC-CKbY-azOkEgDdNISjlgT0xmLqbzCXzGgoBFBlnJg8jb6LHgM5q6IUbyXv7m26oG3DF7tICSGP6HTE-GWFAm1CcpEKJ5qDeycjlrf-fuXwQbv3Zptc8O2D9jDzigRFRWX_zoVT_qAjqOtvltV8zAnx0aZsuAvK81ApzgeNBReaSVkzpNk9=w399-h278" width="399" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/the-spirit-of-god-speaks-dreams-visions-and-prophecy-oh-canada/" target="_blank"> CLICK PICTURE TO LISTEN TO AUDIO VERSION PODCAST</a></span></b></div></b><p></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By Mary Lindow</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TODAY I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE TRUTH AND REALITY OF HOW GOD, AND WHY GOD USES DREAMS AND VISIONS, WORDS OF KNOWLEDGE, WORDS OF WISDOM AND PROPHETIC WORDS TO DIRECT US, ENCOURAGE US, AND TO PROTECT US!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">I’m also sharing a very recent dream that I had and how it confirmed God’s plan for a local church that Steve and I were invited to minister at.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SO OFTEN PEOPLE THINK THE LORD ONLY SPEAKS TO “SPECIFIC PEOPLE” AND THAT HE CANNOT SPEAK TO THEM IN THE SAME WAY. </strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So, I think we need to understand clearly as believers what the Lord said in Jeremiah 33:3.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, </em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and show you great and mighty things, </em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">which you do not know.’</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">He also says in the book of James if any man lacks wisdom let him ask of God who will give to all liberally and will not withhold it!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The one big catchall is that people think God‘s going to speak to them at the same time or in the same way or in the same fashion he has previously, and so when they don’t hear from him the same way all the time, they wonder somehow if they’ve missed it.</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TIME AND TIME AGAIN THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT NIGHT VISIONS </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AND DREAMS THAT THE LORD USED TO INSTRUCT HIS PEOPLE, AND TO PROTECT THEM! </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Here are a few Bible verses that give examples of biblical dreams, provide guidance on how to verify the source of this type of revelation, and show God's purpose in using them.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Amos 3:7</strong> – <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets."</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Daniel 1:17</strong> – <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds."</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Job 33:14-15</strong> – <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"For God does speak—now one way, now another—though no one perceives it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds.</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ONE THING ABOUT HEARING FROM THE LORD IS THIS. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">There has to be an element of the Word of God undergirding anything you receive in a vision, in a dream, or through other people who are used in the prophetic gifts of word of knowledge and word of wisdom! It is out of the word of God that prophecy then is solidified!</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I’M GOING TO SHARE WITH YOU ONE OF MY MOST RECENT EXPERIENCES </strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />to encourage you to know that as we act upon what the Holy Spirit shows us, he can then move corporately. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He likes to move among groups of people!</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">STEVE AND I WERE RECENTLY INVITED TO SPEAK AT A WONDERFUL FELLOWSHIP NOT TOO FAR FROM OUR HOME IN A CITY CALLED BRIGHTON, COLORADO. </strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So, we were praying about it and told the pastor and his wife that we wanted to pray first before we committed to saying we would come, because, we wanted to make sure what we were supposed to share, and to be sure it was the right timing.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">We had gone to bed one evening and I had gotten back out of bed up to get some water and was just restless and not ready to sleep. I read for a while and finally got tired enough to go back to bed and fell into a deep sleep.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I THEN HAD A VERY VIVID DREAM.</strong> <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In the dream I was standing up behind a pulpit or podium, and Steve was standing there with me and I looked out into the congregation <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and I saw a young man who was very tall and had on a gray colored t-shirt, he had a beard and had a baseball cap on and was wearing black framed glasses</u></em>. He was halfway between the congregation and about six seats in and he was to my right as I was facing him.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AS I WAS STANDING THERE, I FELT THE HOLY SPIRIT STANDING BEHIND ME. </strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />He said to me, “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">People want to receive their prayer language. If you will tell people exactly what I want you to say, I’m going to move on and within them today. They’re going to experience the fullness of my joy with their prayer language by speaking in tongues.” </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">So, in the dream I said these words, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I had a dream and the Holy Spirit showed me that they were people here who would be moved on by the Holy Spirit and will receive the blessing of praying tongues, and there are many here who have been afraid of it or who have not been able to get a release for some reason when they were prayed for. As I stand here and begin to pray the Holy Spirit‘s going to come on you in a very gentle and soft presence, and we’re just going to all lift our voices and in that moment and you’re going to be able to be released to pray in tongues.” </em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In the dream, I was watching the young man and I pointed out him and I said,</strong> “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You are one who has been wanting the Lord to bless you with speaking of tongues aren’t you”</em> and he raised his hand up and was crying and he said “yes”, and in that moment I just said to him that the Holy Spirit is gently touching you right now, just begin to open your mouth and begin to speak, and he did! He immediately began to pray in this beautiful prayer language and then the whole place erupted with people cheering and crying and the room was filled with the Spirit of God and the whole room was lifted up in worship and praise to God with people praying in tongues and laughing joyfully. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There was lots of crying and worship, because they could feel the love and kindness of the Lord everywhere.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I THEN WENT BACK TO SLEEP AND SLEPT DEEPLY I GUESS, BECAUSE WHEN I WOKE UP IN THE MORNING I WAS AWARE THAT I HAD SLEPT LONG AND HARD.</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Steve was already up and was drinking coffee and reading, so I told him about the dream and that the Holy Spirit had said that there were people at this church <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(the church’s name is “Fearless Church”)</em> that had been wanting to receive their prayer language and speak in tongues, but they just had not had the release, or, anyone help them with that. So I told him that the Holy Spirit said if we will tell them that the Holy Spirit said that there were those to be filled today, the Lord would honor it and he would do a great and precious thing in that service.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOW, WE HAD NOT YET BEEN IN THIS COUPLE’S NEW CHURCH FACILITY BEFORE BECAUSE WE HAD KNOWN THEM FROM THEIR OLDER BUILDING LOCATION.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">When we walked in, it was exactly like the building that I saw in my dream which was amazing, because I didn’t even realize it until we walked in, so I knew this was definitely the time and the place for what God was wanting to do with this special meeting.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">After very beautiful worship, Steve got up and began to share his message and was teaching. I was just kind of looking around and then paying attention to what Steve was sharing and you could begin to feel this calm and peace come over all of us. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">STEVE SHARED ABOUT THE LOVE OF THE FATHER AND ABOUT HOW MUCH GOD IS CALLING US TO A PLACE OF GREATER HUNGER FOR HIS PRESENCE.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">As he began to wind up that part of the message, I joined him on the platform and began to share about what words of knowledge and prophetic ministry, (what they were), and as I looked out into the congregation, there was the guy halfway down the middle to the right about six seats in that I had seen in my dream. He had on the exact same gray T-shirt, he had the beard he had the black glasses and he was very tall.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I JUST BEGAN TO ACT OUT AND SPEAK EXACTLY WHAT I SAW IN THE DREAM THAT THE LORD HAD GIVEN TO ME AND I SAID THE EXACT WORDS</strong>, and sure enough this young man lifts up his hand and we began to lift our voices and he was immediately overwhelmed with the power of God, and began to speak out in his prayer language.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE BEGAN TO TELL OTHER PEOPLE TO BEGIN TO LIFT THEIR VOICES</strong> <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />and do the same thing, and the entire room began to speak out in their tongues or they were praising God or just praying in English, and some people were praising in Spanish, but for a long time there were many people were just spontaneously being filled with the Holy Spirit and speaking with the evidence of tongues in languages they had never spoken.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOW, THIS LED TO A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF JOY<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />AND ALL WERE SHOCKED AND IN AWE AT THE PRESENCE OF GOD<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />SUDDENLY OVERWHELMING THEIR CONGREGATION!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> They had been through a very difficult time since they had had such lockdown and restriction problems and pressure from the local government. There had been a lot of grief and death and a lack of continuity in the people. It seemed as if the Holy Spirit just wanted to come in and bring this peace and hope to them.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOT TOO FAR AFTER THAT THEN, WE BEGAN TO MINISTER IN THE PROPHETIC GIFTS OF WORD OF KNOWLEDGE AND WORD OF WISDOM</strong>.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />People stayed for an additional full hour! We did not ask them to do this! They were hungry to be loved, they were hungry to be at peace, and they were like gentle lambs receiving the word of the Lord, even some words that were not easy to receive. But the atmosphere was primed, simply by a dream that the Holy Spirit had given to me, and then asking us to obey him and act on what we had seen and heard in the dream.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WHAT I’M SAYING ABOUT ALL OF THIS IS THAT,<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />SOMETIMES IT TAKES JUST A DREAM OR A VISION OR A THOUGHT<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />THAT COMES TO YOUR MIND WHILE YOU’RE GOING ABOUT YOUR DAILY BUSINESS.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">It is a catalyst then that the Holy Spirit can use to open the door to a sweeter or greater move of God in a meeting or a gathering, or in a coffee shop, depending on where the Lord happens to have you go.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">He knows exactly what to do in every situation that we are sent into, and knowing the timing of the Lord was right for us to go minister to this body of believers, was all because of the fruit of prayer.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I NOW WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SHARE OR UPDATE YOU<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />ABOUT SOMETHING THAT THE LORD HAD ME SHARE </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A FEW MONTHS AGO REGARDING CANADA.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">I will include the link right below for you to go read or listen to the entire word again, but again, when the Holy Spirit begins to speak he does confirm these things.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">LINK: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/xzk2hvh8" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #265e15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/xzk2hvh8</a></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WORD FOR CANADA STARTS AT MINUTE MARKER 11:34</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MANY OF YOU ARE AWARE OF THE THINGS GOING ON </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AT THE CANADIAN BORDER </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AND OF COURSE, THE ENTIRE GLOBE IS FIGHTING TYRANNY. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In this prophetic word the Lord had me share something that I did not understand at the time, but I knew that I needed to deliver the word AT that time. Now in review, it is happening and coming to pass.</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HERE’S WHAT THAT WORD SAID.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Canada will experience one of its most prosperous seasons ever known, for a short season.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Lord would have Canada know that they must deal fairly with the wealth that they will produce and pay back the First Native families, and with Godly equity. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If this is not addressed with wisdom and integrity, Canada will have to pass through the sorrows of disobedience.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Canadian Intercessors are being awakened and called up to stand in the place of prayer for its leaders and tribes.</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now is the time for soberness, It is not a time for silliness and laughter. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It is a sober day, with a command for sober prayers. </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Accordingly then, let us not sleep, as the rest do, but let us keep wide awake (alert, watchful, cautious, and on our guard) and let us be sober (calm, collected, and circumspect)". - 1 Thessalonians 5:6 </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“So get up! Stand UP! Be Purposeful,” says the Lord!</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How do you not know that through your borders I can bring a North American Wave of Justice and Restoration?” </em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As you have just heard or have just read, the Lord knew these events were going to take place on the border of the United States and Canada way before I ever spoke it out.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></strong>I am certain that the Lord spoke these words or similar words to other men and women of God.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MONTHS AGO HE BREATHED THESE WORDS OUT SO THAT OTHERS MIGHT HEAR THEM AND PRAY ABOUT THEM.</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I believe that when the Lord gives a word especially specific to any nation, it is first a call to prayer and repentance. From that then, the outbreak of moves of God can take place.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I ENCOURAGE YOU TO NOT FEAR THE SUPERNATURAL. </strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />If you are grounded in the Word of God and a person filled with the spirit, God is going to speak to your spirit and instruct you in the way you should go. He is not going to talk to your mind, because you will talk yourself out of anything that takes risk or costs you laying down your own intellectual reckoning.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WE ARE LIVING IN A TIME WHERE HEARING FROM GOD </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">WILL LITERALLY SAVE YOUR LIFE. </strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It is not a time to hope we have everybody else hear from God, and tell us what to do.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I am almost certain that anything I share today is something the Lord has been stirring in the hearts of the majority of you that are listening. And it is confirming things deep in your spirit that you needed to have sorted out in order for you to proceed.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MY PRAYER FOR YOU TODAY IS THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THERE IS A STIRRING IN THE HEART OF GOD TO MOVE UPON HIS PEOPLE IN A DYNAMIC AND EXTREME POWER </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THAT SHAKES THE CORE OF EVIL IN THE WORLD.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It will cause a great upheaval, because darkness resists light. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But light penetrates past darkness. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">YOU ARE A LIGHT IN THIS WORLD, </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">BECAUSE OF THE LAMP OF CHRIST INSIDE OF YOU. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">Take the bushel basket off and let that light shine.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Yes it may cost you something.</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">If it doesn’t cost you something to be strong in the Lord then we are pretty much guaranteed to be lukewarm and passive.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THESE ARE THE DAYS THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR YOU AND I.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">He planned for you to be here today in this very hour in this very moment. He has words to speak out of your mouth that are his words that will help break the darkness over peoples lives that have no ability to understand how captive they are to the narratives of the world.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Don’t underestimate the power of God’s words coming out of your mouth when you are talking to someone. </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">It takes just one anointed obedient act to set a captive free.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It takes just one obedient act done while stepping out in courage to open the ears of someone who has been deafened to truth most of their life.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">If the words are rejected, understand that a seed went inside of them and was planted. Someone else may come along and water that seed, and someone else may harvest what comes from that.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;">But in the end you were obedient to plant the seed, and all of the joy and the glory and honor of a new soul or someone set free, goes to Jesus.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Psalm 31:24 is what I want to speak over each of you today!!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TAKE COURAGE!</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Be strong and take heart, </strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">All you who hope in the LORD.”</strong></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Duplication and sharing of this message is welcomed as long as the complete message, podcast and website information for Mary Lindow is included.
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font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We are financially accountable and have been in full compliance since 1985 with Clergy Financial Advantage.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THANK YOU!</em></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </p>Mary Lindowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745158429327557321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723401827206702623.post-23818759351324606492022-01-21T02:42:00.010-07:002022-01-21T02:46:04.318-07:00“DETERMINE NOW TO NOT LOOK BACKWARDS” - Everything Will Be Brought Into The Light - Specific Prophetic Insight<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/determine-now-to-not-look-backwards-everything-will-be-brought-into-the-light-specific-prophetic-insight/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="480" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFnp5Plaqq8JZTBRENisfBK_UAG6IpC0oG6m-cPLxlKrN2i4XZopnKACuSzNCy1osbfgXhiiIXQ6atvkez7uSu6MJRR2J9jhGbYWsLOj3VGVNMQPli-2niCPbealm19l6PY-fxNMXWo4K2breUijKD3mbK2AhI3QotdjsUe70o7Q5JO3a27oZqurrc=w400-h264" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">👆</span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/determine-now-to-not-look-backwards-everything-will-be-brought-into-the-light-specific-prophetic-insight/" target="_blank">PLEASE CLICK PICTURE TO LISTEN TO MESSAGE!</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://marylindow.podbean.com/e/determine-now-to-not-look-backwards-everything-will-be-brought-into-the-light-specific-prophetic-insight/" target="_blank">YOU WILL BE SO GLAD YOU DID!</a></span></b></div></div><br /> <p></p><div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" class="s4" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Prophetic Insights From the Holy Spirit </span></strong></p><p align="center" class="s4" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">through Mary Lindow</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" class="s4" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" class="s4" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'?</span></em></strong></span></p><p align="center" class="s4" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields!</span></em></strong></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" class="s4" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They are ripe for harvest</em></strong></span><span class="s7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. - John 4:35</strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" class="s4" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">PLANT YOUR FEET AND DETERMINE NOT TO LOOK BACKWARD.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The enemy will assault you to press you backwards. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Have I not said, "without a prophetic vision the people perish and go backwards?”</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am ready to revisit areas that have advanced my purposes but retreated at the day of battle.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE SHAKING OF GOVERNMENTS.</strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There must be a confrontation of governments. My government on earth is arising and causing entire regions to shake. I am restoring and rising up leaders.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">IN THE PAST SEASON, MY GIFT WITHIN LEADERS COULD NOT FIND ITS PLACE IN MY GOVERNMENT.</strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">However, now I am causing governments and gifts to divinely “find one another" and to connect. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is creating great shakings from region to region throughout this land.</span></em></strong></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This alignment is creating a shift in civil government.</span></em></strong></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TODAY IS A DAY OF BREAKING OFF THAT WHICH CAUSED MY LEADERS TO RETREAT FROM THE VISITATIONS OF THE PAST</strong></span><span class="s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Many advanced and then quit and retreated!</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">NOW IS A TIME TO ADVANCE!</strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am restoring many of you to lead this advance.</u></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </u></span><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></u></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There will be great connections occurring in My Body in this advance.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This will be the beginning of confronting sorceries, astrology, and witchcraft, which have produced control. I am sending you forward and I am releasing supernatural wisdom. This wisdom will cast down the sorcerers, astrologers, and those practicing witchcraft throughout regions.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LOVE AND CONFIDENCE IS ARISING IN MY BODY.</strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The past three years have been a time of restoring a level of worship, humility, meekness and purity in your calling and boldness in the choices you make!</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s11" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FROM WORSHIP YOU WILL NOW MOVE INTO A NEW SUPERNATURAL DIMENSION.</strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Do not fear this call to the supernatural!</span></strong></em></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Baal systems of this nation will begin to strengthen to keep my new refreshing strategies from forming and advancing in your region. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Do not fear these systems, but keep confronting through prayer, the powers that have attached themselves to the structures of governments in your region.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">I WILL MAKE YOU INTO A SUPERNATURAL PEOPLE</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">WHO CAN RISE UP AND OVERTHROW</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">THAT WHICH HAS CONTROLLED YOU IN THE PAST.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">MY PEOPLE ARE BECOMING A NEW, SHARP THRESHING INSTRUMENT. </span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This threshing is producing shaking. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This shaking is releasing harvest. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The harvest will not rot in the fields of neglect or laziness.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A POWERFUL CONSUMING FIRE</strong></span><span class="s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When these occult structures are overthrown, consuming fire will sweep through this nation. And you will set my name upon the high places! </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">My all-consuming light will address the idols and temples of religious shame and control.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I HAVE GIVEN SO MANY WHO CALL THEMSELVES “MY ANOINTED” MUCH, MUCH, TIME TO DEAL WITH THE HIDDEN SINS</strong></span><span class="s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sins in their marriages. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sins of competition, jealousy over who is used by me, and harsh verbal words of shame used to control and break the will of another servant in my calling. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Some have called themselves my servants but have only served their own purposes in a place of self-comfort and self-promotion, letting others do the labor in prayer.</span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span class="s7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jeremiah 7:24 says, </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“But they did not listen or pay attention; </span></em></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts.</em></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s13" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">THEY WENT BACKWARD AND NOT FORWARD</em></span><span class="s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.”</em></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><span class="s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">DEAL WITH YOUR WEAK AND COWARDLY ATTEMPTS AT HOLINESS, THROUGH REPENTANCE AND HONESTY OF HEART BEFORE ME </strong></span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AND OTHERS WHOM YOU HAVE BEEN WALKING IN FELLOWSHIP WITH.</strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">THE DAYS OF PERSONAL AMBITION AND HIERARCHY ARE NUMBERED.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></strong></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></strong></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">MY FIRE MUST BE IN YOUR HEART!</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The fear of the Divine Supernatural is to be removed from you. </span></strong></em></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Many have fallen into fear over the supernatural spirits that have surrounded them. Therefore, they have retreated in their prayer life and fallen into passivity.</span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></span><span class="s16" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1 Samuel 12:24 says</strong></span>,</span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s15" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“But be sure to honor the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you</em></strong></span> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A NEW DAY! PLANT YOUR FEET.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The window of opportunity for change is short and sweet. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">THIS WILL BE A TIME THAT NIGHT WATCHES ARE RE-FORMED IN YOUR REGION, </span></strong></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">AND I WILL REVISIT YOU IN THE NIGHT WATCH. </span></strong></p><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></strong></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I will visit my bride as I described in the Song of Solomon and knock upon her door. </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is not a time for hesitation.</span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Night watches will spring forth across the nations.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once again these watches will open the door to me, and I will come again. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;">Therefore, I am calling watchmen to rise up and cry out day and night </span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;">for my bride to be positioned near the door of opportunity in these lands.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;">Be positioned, ready to open the door of opportunity in your nation.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></strong></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">MY BRIDE MUST NOT HESITATE TO OPEN THE DOOR </span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">SINCE HARVEST IS WAITING TO COME THROUGH THE DOOR </span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">INTO THE STOREHOUSE OF MY KINGDOM!</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">MY WILL HAS BEEN ACTIVATED ON EARTH.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">I AM ADVANCING.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">ADVANCE WITH ME.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">I WILL LEAD YOU INTO WARFARE.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">MANY HAVE GROWN FEARFUL OF CONFRONTING THE ENEMY. </span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I CAME TO DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE ENEMY. </span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I confronted both legalism and liberalism. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I say rise up in worship that you might confront. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Without confrontation, your enemy, the legalist, will gain much strength against you and narrow the boundaries of your freedom.</span></em></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you will align yourselves properly and allow your gift to work within my government, I will guide you like a troop into warfare and make you victorious.</strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">WORSHIP IS ARISING. FROM WORSHIP, YOU WILL WAR!</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For a sound of war is coming into the heart of my people.</span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">John 4:23 says, </span></em></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers </em></strong></span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">will worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality), </em></strong><span class="s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers</em></strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></em></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s11" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">DO NOT GO BACKWARDS.</strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Take off the old garments that would hinder you. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">My advance is now in the earth.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;">YOU HAVE BEEN BLINDED FROM THE SUPPLY OF THE FUTURE!</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></strong></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A NEW SEER ANOINTING IS ABOUT TO ARISE IN MY PEOPLE.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What you couldn't see in the past, you will now see. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You've tried to connect and align with some, but now I will release a new anointing for connecting. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You will see strategies of supply that have been hidden from you by occult powers.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The seer anointing is coming back into your region. </span></strong></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My people's eyes are about to see their supply. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Advance is now in the earth. </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Open your eyes and advance with me!</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s17" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">YOU WILL KNOW ME AS THE GREAT PROVIDER.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">YOU WILL KNOW ME AS THE GREAT HEALER.</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">YOU WILL SEE ME BRING FULFILLMENTS</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">AND ANSWERS TO MY MANY PROMISES!</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">YES!</strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You will now begin to release a manifestation of My joy of release from captivity from region to region throughout the land and in all nations crying out for more of Me!</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s15" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“He will wipe every tear from their eyes.</em></strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s15" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain,</em></strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </em></strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s15" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">For the old order of things has passed away."</em></strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> - </span><span class="s16" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Revelation 21:4</strong></span></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s16" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s16" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><i>Let’s pray about this word from the Lord and share it with others!</i></span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">___________________________________________</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Duplication and re-transmission of this writing is welcomed </span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; 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padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Messenger " ~ Mary Lindow</span></strong></span></p></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p align="center" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 12.15999984741211px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.marylindow.com" target="_blank"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #265e15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></span><span class="s18" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #265e15;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px;">www.marylindow.com</span></span></u></strong></span></a></span></p><p align="center" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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