“RELATING TO OTHERS WITH A LIKE-MINDED HEART”

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By Mary Lindow

THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS SAYING

"Be very careful whom you share your treasures with. How many pearls have you cast before piggish souls in the past, only to have them ground to powder?

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 fracture’s of truth!

The past years of agony have been hard soldierly-like boot camp. Elite forces training. It will not go away. You must simply learn that it is My duty to do the fighting for you. Just be certain that you are only speaking, ONLY SPEAKING, what I have told you to. Nothing more and nothing less.

THIS IS A TIME IN THE KINGDOM
WHERE WE ALL MUST SOBERLY COUNT THE COST
OF WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO STEP INTO ON EVERY LEVEL.

If there is not the peace of the Holy Spirit resting on those who you are involved with…don't move into anything until the peace comes.

Gatherings and movements can feel real exciting and purposeful until conflict, control, and competition show up.

The apostolic and prophetic saints in Acts, fasted, ministered to the Lord, and then the Holy Spirit spoke. We have all learned many a painful lesson in the past from experiences of over planning, programming, and hurrying to help God out.

To everything there is a season …a time. Until you have a full green light…don't move. It will keep you from having to backtrack and…it trains in humility.

Acquaintance OR RELATIONSHIP?
Ask yourself the following question. "Are you simply an acquaintance 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?"

Before I finish with what the Spirit of God would have me share in a final prophetic word, I am impressed to share with you the difference between the two words Acquaintance and Relationship

Acquaintance
1. Somebody who is known slightly rather than intimately.
2. Knowledge, usually slight, of somebody or something.

Relationship
1. The connection between two or more people or groups and their involvement with each other, especially as regards how they behave and feel toward each other and communicate or cooperate.
2. An emotionally close friendship,

IF YOU SHARE WHAT IS PASSIONATELY BURNING IN YOUR SPIRIT
WITH THOSE WHO ONLY "RELATE" ON A CASUAL SPIRITUAL LEVEL THEMSELVES…
…YOU WILL BE CONTINUALLY DEVASTATED.

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. Not easy for busy human life!

Philippians 2: 1-3 1 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,

2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.

3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

A PROPHETIC WORD CONCLUSION:

" Hear Me!" Cries the Spirit of Holy Grace and Mercy! I desire to move upon, in, and through each of you. Not one of you alone can endure the onslaughts of evil by standing aloof and silent. Nor can the most vocal of gifts among you clearly communicate all that I long to express.

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.

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 the power of My glory, you will be so very very frustrated by the heaviness that doggedly harasses your soul.

What I ordain, I cover.
What I command, I give direction to.
Be certain that you have heard what I am saying. I am fully aware of the weariness and fatigue you have been experiencing. Heavier than anything you can recall from the past.

Do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering,
as though something strange were happening to you!
1 Peter 4:12

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!

Hellish warfare will be a normal activity in the days ahead. 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, and dread when the trauma of warfare attacks!!

GIVE VOICE TO MY SPIRIT!
Awaken your mute tongue and give voice to My name, My power and My Kingdom Solutions! No weapon formed against you will ultimately prosper! My Spirit longs to declare wonders, to decree Justice, and to destroy darkness with your lips proclaiming from the spirit.

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.
Isaiah 55:11

Speak out in truth and in praise and I will step into your midst with the peace you have been craving and groping for. Quickly! Enter in before you reflect and exchange ideas. After I am given My rightful place of honor and adoration, then I will speak and give you clear vision and direction.”

In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice;
in the morning I lay my requests before you
and wait in expectation.
Psalm 5:3

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“ DIFFERENT NATURES TRAVEL IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS ”

By Mary Lindow

 I would like to share with you…
… A few true and weird warnings that are out there!





A warning on an air conditioner – Avoid dropping air conditioners out of windows.
A warning on a blow dryer - Do not use while sleeping.
A warning on a Rowenta Iron – Never iron clothes on the body.
A warning on a vacuum cleaner – 1. Do not use to pick up gasoline or flammable liquids. 2. Do not use to pick up anything that is currently burning.
Here is a warning sign that reads – Ignore this sign.
Here is an obvious warning sign from Durango, Colorado – Warning: Do not hit this sign.
Here is a warning sign in South Carolina – Caution water on road during rain.
A chilling warning from Sony Trinitron – Caution: risk of electrical shock. Do not open.

I could go on-and-on with these warnings that are obvious, ridiculous, and yet, how many people feel that the warning is not for them? Many do and that is why there are so many warnings out there, so the company is not legally responsible when people do a stupid thing with their product!

In II Corinthians chapter 6 Paul opens his heart to the Corinthians, he shows his love for them, and he holds nothing back. And yet, they refuse to heed or listen to Paul’s warnings. They may not have liked the first letter they received from Paul that was full of correction and rebuke for their sin, but it was also sent in love. So, now they can’t get beyond it and Paul’s point is that they refuse to be open because of the limits they have made.

Also, the people they were hanging out with may have influenced them, and so Paul now moves into this very conflict-ridden and often disregarded portion of Scripture.
As I read through these verses I see serious thing that we need to listen to, and that we need to heed. My prayer and hope is that that we would not only understand these things, but we would then apply these things to our lives.

COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM!
II CORINTHIANS 6:14-16b “Do not be joined to unbelievers. What do right and wrong have in common? Can light and darkness be friends? How can Christ and Satan agree? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?    We are the temple of the living God. God has said, "I will live with them. I will walk among them. I will be their God. And they will be my people."—(Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27)

Please know this has nothing to do with the worth of a person, the significance of a person, that one person is better than the other person. Paul is speaking of the nature of each person. Think about it, you would not put an ox and a donkey together with the same yoke, they have different natures, they would go in different directions, and it would be a mess.

HOW DOES THIS PLAY OUT IN OUR DAILY LIVES?
If you are dating an unsaved person you need to stop for you are not to marry, you are not to even date an unsaved person, someone who does not know the Lord Jesus Christ. Why is that? Isn’t that harsh? Isn’t there something called “missionary dating” where you date an unsaved person hoping to lead them to the Lord? I don’t know where that came from but it is not from the Word of God!

Again, we miss the point if you think these things are okay. You will be unequally yoked together and you will be going in different directions. And let me say this, chances are you are not going to affect them, but they will affect you and your relationship with the Lord.
Paul lays it all out for us as he puts side by side, the two natures. How can you have fellowship with a lack of control when your nature is honesty? You can’t!

How can light and darkness feel at one with each other? They can’t because light and darkness don’t mix! And if Christ is in you how can you be in agreement with the Devil? You can’t!
We need to understand that this does not just apply to marriage, it applies to business partnerships, close relationships, sharing an apartment or home together and-so-on. You may think you will influence them but the reality is, they will influence you and bring you down. Paul tells us in I Corinthians 15:33, the following.

DO NOT BE TAKEN IN:
EVIL COMPANIONSHIP CORRUPTS GOOD EVERYDAY LIFE.
Or as The Amplified Bible puts it, “Do not be so deceived and misled! Evil companionships (communion, associations) corrupt and deprave good manners and morals and character.”
I know that some people still doubt that, and think you they are going to influence them, but most of the time, that is not the case, it is the other way around. Let me show you what I mean with this story:

H. A. Ironside tells of some boys who caught two chirping baby songbird finches. They decided to teach these birds to sing by placing them in a small cage and hanging it next to the cage of a pet canary. The canary, of course, sang beautifully, so the boys thought if the songbird finches were close to it they too would become good songbirds. Several weeks went by with no apparent results. Then one day the youngsters were startled by a strange sound coming from the canary’s cage. “Listen,” said one of them, “the canary is cheeping like a song bird finch.”

DANGER LIES AHEAD FOR THE CHRISTIAN…
…Who fellowships too often with irreverent people in the world. He will become like them. But worse than that, he will experience the disfavor of the Heavenly Father, whose will is that His children withdraw themselves from sin and evil.

The devil would have people believe that the life of sin is a very exciting life. It is a very exhilarating life. Yet the fact of the matter is - sin becomes a very boring and a very monotonous experience.

CELEBRITIES IN AMERICA AND THEIR LIFESTYLES
I was reading an article about the celebrities in America and their lifestyles. I saw that the average time of death of celebrities is 52.If they are going to live much they better live in a hurry because at age 52 that's when most of them die. The fast lane, very, very soon, becomes a rut. A lot of people who think they are living it up in sin are really not living.

If you really want to live and if you really want to have an exciting life, give your life to Jesus. There's never a dull moment when you know the Lord and when you live for the Lord. That's one of the lies of Satan - that sin is exciting and ooooh sooooo fulfilling!

OVER AND OVER AGIN WE READ THE LINE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
"The Children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord. ”It seems as long as Israel could have some kind of outward restraint on them they would be fine. If they would have a spiritual leader, something on the outside they could hold things together, but the moment the outward restraints were gone they would go right back into sin and there would be another lapse into idolatry.

A lot of people are like that. Some Christians are like that. As long as they have the positive peer pressure of a fellowship of Christians around them they do okay. As long as they have some spiritual leader who is right there to stay on top of them and help them do right they do okay? But when the restraints are removed and all of those things are gone, if you aren't growing, if you are not maturing on the inside, then you aren't going to continue to live for the Lord.

WHERE ARE YOU IN THE MATURING PROCESS?
I would encourage you to get the measuring stick out and see where you are. Look to the Lord and ask Him to uncover any areas in your life where He doesn’t have complete and total influence. Like Paul, do away with childish things, and continue to grow in Christ. May each of us ”grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ.”

As I close this message I would like to take time to share with you, a few lingering "prophetic whispers" that the Lord has spoken clearly to me.
 
“Each day, upon waking, where does you hear and mind wander to?

Is it the plans and lists of things you must accomplish for the day? Is it the meal you are about to eat? Is it worry and the bracing yourself for another grinding day of dealing with the pressures of life?

Return to those early awakening moments where you and I share in the dialog of my plans for you. Each day you have to live and to give, you have been given the opportunity to impact someone and to do a kindness or act of training for another. Where has your thankful heart wandered? Without it, evidence of bitterness and drudgery will manifest and sour even the brightest flower of hope.

 Return to the heart of the issue and clean away the rusty decay of treadmill thinking.
Each day can be a fresh adventure into Kingdom purpose or,
a continual repeating of dreary existence.

Choose ever so wisely.”

 “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken,
let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.”
~ Hebrews 12:28

“When God prunes us, the result will be greater growth and sweeter fruit.”
“Pruning usually takes place when God uses situations, people, and circumstances to help mature us in our Christian disposition, attitude, and temperament.”

“The way we respond when we are pruned reveals our true level of spiritual maturity.”
~ P. B. Wilson



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"WHAT I WILL TEACH YOU IN THE DAYS AHEAD"

 A Prophetic Word by the Holy Spirit through Mary Lindow

Have you noticed that there are so very many voices in the world today claiming great insight and wisdom?

What I will teach you in the days ahead will instruct you in the way you should carefully and yes, even cautiously lead your life! 

Listen, and it will keep you on My sharp advantage.

 
"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;

I will counsel you with my loving eye on you."

Psalm 32:8

 So many are gobbling up heady information from the voices of humanistic thought. Most of it is void of any real lasting wisdom. Many of my best prophets and teachers began to mix worldly thought with My Word and ended up diluting the power of their calling.

The power you long to see manifesting in your ministry settings only comes from getting clear and perfect instruction from My word. Dabble in intellectual study and you will appear “wise in the eyes of men,” but from My heavenly library of wisdom, you are viewed as shallow and pompous.

 "Guard what has been entrusted to your care.

Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas

of what is falsely called knowledge."

1 Timothy 6:20

 I want to demonstrate My instructions!

I will back up every teaching I have given to you with signs and miracles.

Sit at My feet and receive instruction.

Just like Mary did.

It will not be taken from you.

LET THEM SING FOR JOY ON THEIR BEDS

 "Let his faithful people be filled with joy because of that honor. 

Let them sing with joy even when they are lying in bed."

Psalm 149:5

I give you many things to speak out to My kingdom children.

Often, the insights seem simple.

I don’t ask you to figure out the reasons or the styles that I have you deliver words for Me. Just deliver them the way I ask, and when you have finished the delivery, wait for your next assignment!

Lay down for a time of rest, refilling, and rejoicing!

You must remember to re-fuel your body, soul and spirit!

Rest your body after giving out in ministry times! Quiet your mind with peaceful adoration and thanksgiving for all we accomplished together in caring for My people! Build your spirit man up by praying in the language of heaven!

"For anyone who enters God’s rest 

also rests from their works,

just as God did from his."

Hebrews 4:10

You will be reinforced and ready to impart and instruct with my fresh anointing and a heart filled with joy!

THE UNIVERSE DECLARES MY MAJESTY!

 Everything in heaven and on earth was created to declare My majesty! 

The stars were created to radiate and twinkle My message of reflecting the light that flows from heaven! From the Father of Light!

In Him there are no shadows or darkness. 

Every planet orbits in a musical rhythm!

Each planet following it’s own unique pathway of perfect balance in Me!

I hold the universe in the palm of My hand!

"When I consider your heavens, 
the work of your fingers, 
the moon and the stars, 
  

which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, 


human beings that you care for them?"

Psalm 8:3-4

Everything I have formed and breathed upon has a declaration to make!

I Am the God of Wonder and Majesty!

If I hold the entire balance of hundreds of stars and galaxies beyond the one you live in, why would you fear that your life is not “orbiting” around my “Son” and His light just as I planned it?

I have everything for your life totally in motion NOW!

You may not see it but the course I have you on will bring promotion in the right “orbit”!

STOP TRYING TO PUSH AHEAD

 Instead. Declare My majesty!

Prophesy to the winds! Let you words go out as containers of life, seeking out souls!  Those words will not return to you empty!

They will return full of My wonder and My majesty!

“So shall My word be which goes forth from My mouth; 

It shall not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, 

And without succeeding {in the matter} for which I sent it.” ~Isaiah. 55:11

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"THIS LONG SEASON OF TRANSITION FROM SOWING TO HARVESTING"

by Mary Lindow

Are you in a place where you risk laying down what might cost you your
past history and which will create a new and fresh beginning in the walk of
the saint on earth?

ARE YOU YEARNING FOR REFRESHING FROM THE HEART OF GOD THE
FATHER?

Sadly, many choose to return to the safe place of familiarity and control
to gain perspective, and lose the joy set before them.

THE FATHER IS WATCHING THOSE WHO ARE NOT CREATING AGENDAS
AND PROGRAMS TO ATTEMPT TO HAVE AN "EDGE" DURING THIS LONG
SEASON OF TRANSITION FROM SOWING TO HARVESTING.

He is allowing the breaking and "coming to the end of ones' self" to
continue. Few have stepped over the line into the abandonment He desires
from those who claim that their lives are for His use.

IN THIS CRUCIAL HOUR
Yes… Right now even as you read and contemplate, the Lord is not
requiring acts of greatness and profound gatherings to bring glory to His
plans. The Lord Jesus says these words to those who will choose hear:

"THE SACRIFICE I WANT IS A BROKEN SPIRIT.
A BROKEN AND REPENTANT HEART,
THIS MY BRIDE, I WILL NOT DESPISE.
(PSALM 51:17)

WHAT IS IT THAT JESUS REALLY WANTS FROM US? REALLY?
The obedience to do the simple, and often at times, mundane acts of
“silencing our fleshly need for action and comfort."

JESUS REQUIRES THOSE WHO WOULD BE HIS FOLLOWERS TO A RADICAL
DEVOTION AND AN EVEN MORE RADICAL DEPENDENCE ON GOD.

His followers must be meek,(this does not mean weak)
Must not retaliate,
Must go beyond the Word of God’s “rules and regulations”
And instead, understand its spirit.
They must do what is right when only God is looking,
Must depend on God for their needs,
And pursue His interests rather than their own.

HIS DEVOTED FOLLOWERS MUST LEAVE SPIRITUAL MEASUREMENTS
OF OTHERS' HEARTS AND ACTIONS, “SEEMINGLY GOOD OR BAD”
- TO GOD.

In short, true people of The Kingdom live for God, not for themselves.

"ARE YOU IN AN “UNCOMFORTABLE” SEASON BECAUSE
YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO WALK THE NARROW PATH?

"But small is the gate
and narrow the path that leads to life,
And only a few find it."
Matthew 7:14

THIS IS THE AGONY THAT TURNS INTO A GODLY CONTENTMENT!
When we fully realize that only God the Father can be the full and well
trusted Redeemer and Rescuer in all of our life situations right now, at this
moment, in this time of pruning and trimming away of the things we cling
to that bring a temporary band-aid to a deeper issue! Learning to trust and
know that God is truly, truly FOR us.

So Fear not!
He is dealing with the hearts of those who still cling to hidden control over
their brothers and sisters.

HE IS PROBING EACH HEART WHO CALLS HIM LORD!
He is allowing a spiritual discontentment and a holy frustration to stir up
all unsatisfied and unfulfilled hearts until they begin to wail out loud,
”How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?”
Psalm 13:1

THE LORD IS TRAINING US!
And if you wonder why there is such a limited level of joy and rest in your
heart, it is because until you have a heart that is broken and repentant for
assuming you are allowed to call the shots in your decision making in this
life, He will not expose you to His full measure of Glory!

Psalm 19:13 (CEV)
”Don't let me do wrong on purpose, Lord,
Or let sin have control over my life.
Then I will be innocent, and not guilty of some terrible fault.”

IT IS TRUE THAT THE KINGDOM IS AVAILABLE TO US ONLY
BY GRACE THROUGH TRUST.

But! Genuine faith (trust) means genuinely embracing and yielding to God's
supremacy, not simply acknowledging it and then passing it by as if it did
not exist.

The Kingdom is a supreme treasure, not just a nice “prize”, and those who
really believe this, will sacrifice everything else in their lives for its agenda.

Professed Christians who crave worldly wealth and position but are not
nearly as excited and consumed with the advancing of God's kingdom,
really need to take a brutal and laser piercing look at the true state of their
souls.

If you hear more talk of someone’s ministry title, mission statement
or the things that God has let them acquire, rather than the
stories of God’s redemption, salvation, and mercy, you will have
witnessed the “kingdom of selfish ambition” in the name of the Lord,
but most certainly not the Kingdom of God.
After all the kingdom of God is not a matter of [getting the] food and drink
[one likes], but instead it is righteousness (that state which makes a
person acceptable to God) and [heart] peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:17 (Amplified Bible)

When we preach that people who simply “pray a prayer” will automatically
be saved from hell regardless of whether they truly commit their lives to
Christ and commit to trust that He is saving them from sin (from
selfishness, from going their way instead of his), we preach a message
other than the one our Lord has taught us.

2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this
inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Everyone who
confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness."

Romans 10:9 (CEV
So you will be saved, if you honestly say,
"Jesus is Lord," and if you believe with all your heart
that God raised him from death.

ONCE WE OBEY…HE WILL RETURN WITH HIS FRESH AND SWEET JOY!

Oh, give me back my joy again; you have broken me—
Now let me rejoice.
Psalm 51:8

IT IS AN INTENSE STRUGGLE TO CHOOSE TO BE EXPOSED BEFORE GOD!
But the delight of allowing nothing of the soul to influence your decisions
when the Lord speaks and gives command far outweighs this present
suffering between spirit and flesh!

If you put yourself above others, you will be put down.
But if you humble yourself, you will be honored.
Matthew 23:12 (CEV)

MANY WHO ARE NOW HIDDEN AND YES, BEAT DOWN, TESTED, RIDICULED
AND SEEMINGLY FORGOTTEN, WILL SHORTLY PASS THROUGH THE OPEN
DOORS OF FRESH OPPORTUNITIES…

…AND PATHWAYS OF TRUTH WILL LEAD THEM.
<br>He makes me strong again.
He leads me in the way of living right with Himself
Which brings honor to His name.
Psalm 23:3 (NLV)

THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE SLOWLY ARISING FROM A HIDDEN PLACE
WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO GROW IN WISDOM,
UNDERSTANDING, AND DYING TO SELF-LOVE…
…STAY THE COURSE!

”We are pressed on every side by troubles,
But we are not crushed and broken.
We are perplexed,
But we don't give up and quit.”
(2 Corinthians) 4:8

HE HIMSELF WILL BIND UP EVERYTHING BROKEN IN YOUR HEART,
YOUR DREAMS AND YOUR REPUTATION, WITH HIS OWN HAND,
AND HE WILL RESTORE YOUR JOY!

He heals the brokenhearted,
Binding up their wounds.
Psalm 147:3

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THE “SECRET THINGS” OF PERSONAL RENEWAL

THE “SECRET THINGS” OF PERSONAL RENEWAL
By Mary Lindow

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I invite you to step out from the familiar comfort zone in which you now
are and take a risk.
In the body of Christ today there are many different kinds of comfort
zones. Step out from your comfort zone that leaves you in the place of
being a “Fallow ground- Christian.”
What I mean by that statement is – “being currently inactive but with the
possibility of activity or use in the future.”

THINK HONESTLY.

Are you living as unto yourself, basking in self-approval or self hatred, or
are you self-consciously living for God’s glory and for the encouragement
of others?

Is there joy in your life, and a deeply developing love for God, in the
“routine” you have carved for yourself?

We all need the discipline of doing something that goes beyond our
comfort zone. Some of us need to risk being at an event whose only
purpose is to pray instead of going to get something or hear something
that will feed our own need for more attention and self-focus.

How many times have your heard the line, “If I won the Publisher’s Clearing
House Sweepstakes, I would do sooooo much to help others who are poor
or are going through difficult times?!” Or, maybe you have said, “When I
close this business deal, get my family inheritance, sell that piece of
property (uh…brings to mind a certain Ananias and Sapphira from Acts 5)
then I will obey the prompting of the Lord to “Do something to help.”

If we are truly going have a move of God’s Heart not just His Hand in the
form of a “Harvest” we need to start living the lifestyle that sets a
precedence for such a move! Meaning? Prying our fingers away from what
we will not share with others until “we” are first satisfied and justified in
our own “Self preservation.” This does not just apply to material goods. It
means sharing from the heart humbly, partaking openly with others
allowing them in, and allowing tears to flow in vulnerability. These make
us equals in painful times and equal when we rejoice.

If folks can’t share during their good times and seasons of abundance,
they will not fully obey the Lord in caring for their brothers and sisters
when times are difficult.

SHARE WHAT?

Time, resources, wisdom, counsel, transparent dialog. And how about a
focused “Listening ear” instead of a benevolent sort of “tolerant” dead-pan
stare as someone pours out their deeply bruised soul, looking for a
handhold or foothold that will assist them in grappling with the
overwhelming “mountain” of life.

…For the LORD searches every heart
and understands every motive behind the thoughts.
If you seek him, you will find him;
but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.
1 Chronicles 28:9

Woe to those who think they are fooling themselves when they say that
they “need to be careful” when they give so people don’t “depend on them
or expect more from them!

Imagine Jesus saying that! He would never withhold from us in order to
protect “His” investments or hard earned, worked to the bone assets! He
gave ALL with no guarantee that we would ever appreciate or value it.

Invite another family or friend to your home. Don’t wait to be invited. Take
the initiative. Eat together around the table in your dining room or kitchen.
Talk together. Pray together. Start a plan of blessing someone in need that
you know of - together.

DO YOU HEAR VOICES?

Stop the mindless chattering that is allowed in most of our self-talking
heads that allows the flesh to push aside the promptings of the Lord!
Times are getting tough, and those who have been reluctant to share when
the times were not nearly where they are heading now, will be called up for
service again, and asked by the Lord to assist those who
are perhaps weaker, lesser, and much “leaner” in their provisions.

Start with something small, something useful. Keep it going. And whatever
you do, keep it between you and the Lord, where your reward is given
weight in the records in heaven for eternity, not just for a few fleeting
strokes of the ego here on earth.

THE “PRIVATE THINGS” OF PERSONAL RENEWAL EXPOSED!

Begin a private life of personal devotion. Rediscover your prayer closet.

”Very early in the morning, while it was still dark,
Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place,
where he prayed.”
Mark 1:35

Gut it out with God. Confess your dissatisfaction with the stale places
where you have allowed “moss” to grow over in your devotion to the
discipline of Reading the words of Jesus, Heeding the words of Jesus, and
then Feeding the Words of Jesus to the hungry, lost, and scared people
around you in your daily “Missionary calling” as a follower of the Great
Reviver of your soul.

Isaiah 57:15
For this is what the high and lofty One says—
He who lives forever, whose name is holy:
"I live in a high and holy place,
but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.”

Personal revival is usually needed when something in our walk with the
Savior has gone into a “Flat line” and needs to be shocked back into a
proper heartbeat.

The closer we become devoted to and more intimate with The King, the
Comforter, and Savior, the more near He is to us and, will reveal His daily
“Divine Appointments” for our lives and for His Glory.

If Jesus did it to survive- so must we!

But Jesus would often go to some place where he could be alone and pray.
Luke 5:16

We NEED to be alone. Why? In order to not have the distraction of leaning
on someone else to “do the praying or talking” for us for one! We gain
perspective, and refreshing after repenting, and a “reality check” regarding
how we are to live the lifestyle of a Christian in an ever-darkening world
where morals and values are crumbling at an uncontrollable speed.

LET US SEE AND HEAR AND ACT!

As we face the fallow ground left unfruitful (through intentional denial that
we allowed this) in our lives and allow the Father to create a clean heart in
us, and renew or “Revive” a right spirit (godly attitude) within it, the soil
can be a host for seed and harvest.

He gladly does this! WE are His faith seeds in the soil of Earth!

Psalm 126:6
”He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.”

”He restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.”
Psalm 23:3

WISDOM FROM THE SPIRIT

If you want present day revelation, you must have a level of solid Christian
maturity to not only discern it, but to apply it. There are more and more
”Muddy” approaches regarding how to be wise or savvy in living your life,
being sold in bookstores and every media venue out there! If you want to
drink or eat re-cycled food…well, be my guest. BUT! If you truly desire
depth and a secure anchor for surviving and flourishing in any
circumstance that you surely will have attempt to sidetrack and undermine
your Godly Destiny, you and I will have to go to THE SOURCE of Wisdom
and stay there until we “Get it.”

1 Corinthians 2:6
”We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature,
but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age,
who are coming to nothing.”

”But solid food is for the mature,
”which by constant use have trained themselves
”to distinguish good from evil.”
Hebrews 5:14

GIVE JESUS JOY

Romans 12:12
”Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.”

These are the attributes of the faithful and true follower of Christ. And as
Jesus watches over our coming and our going, every moment of every day,
His joy is made complete when He sees the evidence of a restored life
being fruitful and steadfast, no matter what the condition of their
circumstance or surroundings.

Believer. Let us press on into the walk of maturity in Christ where nothing
shakes or shatters us anymore, because we live in the light of His Glorious
Grace.

Ephesians 1:6 (New Living Translation)
”So we praise God for the glorious grace
he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.”

QUOTE FORM OSWALD CHAMBERS~

”Whenever we are obstinate and self-willed and set upon our own
ambitions, we are hurting Jesus. Every time we stand on our rights and
insist that this is what we intend to do, we are persecuting Jesus. Whenever
we stand on our dignity we systematically vex and grieve His Spirit; and
when the knowledge comes home that it is Jesus Whom we have been
persecuting all the time, it is the most crushing revelation there could be.”


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“After The Fire”- A Prophetic Word

“After The Fire”- A Prophetic Word
By the Holy Spirit through Mary Lindow

OH HOW YOU FEAR THE PURIFYING FIRE OF CONVICTION!
It is as if you think that I might truly do something unloving to burn you
or disfigure you!

I am a God of fire! Yes!
But a HOLY fire! A fire that burns away wood, hay, and the chaff
Lying around in your heart. They are littering the places that
I want to bring My Glory into!

For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 4:24

WHEN MY FIRE PURSUES YOU,
It drives out any voice of lust, passivity, or any other enemy of your
soul!You will come to a place where you no longer need to have the
splash of fanfare or the rumblings of the earth to know that I Am in
your presence!

Instead.
The Fire brings you to a place just like it did Moses!
He saw My Holy Fire in a bush on a hill.
I spoke to Him and told Him He was on HOLY ground!
I was a still, small voice, speaking out from inside of a fire!

LISTEN! I AM CALLING OUT TO YOU!
Be quiet! Silence the noise around you!
Get quiet with me,
Put away the busyness that you get caught up into!

After the “Fire" ... a still small voice.
1Kings19: 12

MY PASSION FIRE IS CALLING OUT TO YOU!
I have things I want to whisper into your spirit man!
I have words that will sustain you through all of the fiery trials
and tests you will inevitably pass through!

IF YOU WANT MY FIRE TO BE EVIDENT
IN YOUR SERVICE TO OTHERS,
Listen to My still small voice.
It will in turn resound like a roaring ocean
to those whom you will minister to.

O Lord of hosts,
How blessed is the man who trusts in You!”
Psalms.84:12

THE ISSUE THAT EVERYONE ON EARTH DEALS WITH DAY IN
AND DAY OUT.
Trust.
Putting your trust in things that last for only a season or a few years
can be very risky and very disappointing. I have told My people to
trust in ME with ALL of their heart and I will make their paths straight.
Yet- continually they put their trust in people, and idols made of gold,
(money) positions of power, and in themselves!

LASTING BLESSINGS CAN ONLY COME FROM TRUSTING IN ME.
The real issue is that you don’t really think that I will do what I say I
will do! So... You take it into your own hands! When you finally lay
down your need to control the universe and those all around you and
trust in me, then you will be blessed! Blessed with safety, peace of
mind and above all, blessed by My pleasure in your resting in My
plan.

“See to it that you do not refuse HIM who is speaking!”
Hebrews 12:25

Do you know how many times you have said to Me,
“Later! I will do it Later?”
You exhort others to obey quickly and yet you will drag your feet
and put Me off until you “feel” like following through!

DO NOT REFUSE ME WHEN I SPEAK TO YOU,
or when I send you to do something in My Name!
You might fear for your own reputation, but remember that a life could
be hanging in the balance! You do not have the luxury of “denying
your King!”

”You are my portion, O LORD;
I have promised to obey your words.”
Psalm 119:57

If you wish to be caught up into higher dimensions in My Spirit,
and, if you long for the deep that calls unto deep,
be faithful to ACT when I give you a command!

“In the day when I cried out, You answered me, and made me bold
with strength in my soul.”
Psalms 138:3

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COMPLEX TIMES AND ACHING HEARTS

COMPLEX TIMES AND ACHING HEARTS

By Mary Lindow

HELLO DEAR CHILD OF GOD,
I WAS PROMPTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO SHARE WITH YOU A FEW
THINGS THAT HE HAS IMPRESSED ME WITH AND ALSO WHICH I FEEL
HE IS WANTING TO “IMPRINT” UPON MY HEART AND PERHAPS YOURS
AS WELL!

Proverbs 3:3
Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
Bind them around your neck,
Write them on the tablet of your heart.

COMPLEX TIMES

It doesn’t take a genius mind to know that we are in some terrible times here in the
earth! Wars wars and more threats of wars! Economic pressures, ungodly rulers,
missiles aimed and ready to blow up other countries, more tsunamis and bizarre
weather patterns!
And this is all just one week’s worth of change and events happening!

I hear the Holy Spirit bringing a clear word of comfort and help to His people who
have ears to hear what He is saying to them. Those that are determined to follow the
voice of the Good Shepherd and not strange voices.

John 10:5
And a stranger will they not follow,
But will flee from him:
For they know not the voice of strangers.

ACHING HEARTS

The days have seemingly turned darker, uncertain, and frenzied as media reporters
shell out the hyped newscasts of doom and despair. And although much of what is
being reported may be actually happening, it is intentionally ratcheted up to keep
viewing polls well oiled and operating.

All of the noise pollution and the droning voices of the media personalities can
weary and weigh down the heart of those who have a compassionate and sensitive
spirit or heart. And. Often through all of the pressure filled “minute by minute live”
reporting, people can become restless and fearful, anxiety ridden, and heavy laden
with so much hitting them.

Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down,
But a good word makes it glad.

It is a crazy World we live in and it’s not going to get easier as corruption and
wickedness continue to play together!

WHAT DOES A PERSON DO?

Although we are not to be totally ignorant of what is occurring around us as live in
recluse mentalities, the Lord does have a greater plan and focus for us during such
tough times.

YOU AND I AS CHILDREN OF GOD WILL NEVER REALLY FEEL AT
HOME HERE ON PLANET EARTH.

We have been Divinely implanted with a homing device deep in our spirits that
longs for the Home of Heaven. No more tears, no more night, no more longing to
fully be-long! We have been walking a pathway of preparation, each of us in
different stages of our lives, to transition from this decaying world and body into a
heavenly place of resurrection and eternal abundant life.

It’s the living here now that is so like rough grit sandpaper to our nerve endings!

2 Timothy 4:18
The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack
And will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom.
To him be glory for ever and ever

RUN TO THE SAFE HAVEN

A save haven is a place of protection, safety and hiddenness from the onslaught of
evil. Shelters are not necessarily luxurious nor are they places to be pampered and
babied in. They are underground dwelling places of safety, emptied of frills but
reinforced for protection.

Psalm 61:3
For You have been a shelter and a refuge for me,
A strong tower against the adversary.

The Spirit of the Lord is calling out to His People in this very very serious and
crucial moment to allow Him your ears that hear and your eyes that see to discern
where the signs of The Shelter for your soul are located!

THE SAFE HAVEN OF GOD IS A HIDDEN DEEP PLACE OF SAFETY
ONLY REVEALED TO THOSE OF PURE MOTIVE AND CLEAN HANDS.

The Lord is calling out to you and I;

“Come to Me! Run to Me! I know that you are heavily burdened by all of the
concentrated pressures mounting around you. Get to the Safe haven of My Safety.
A Dwelling place of Divine Rest and Protection. It will require you laying down
the things that so easily set you off and get you weighed down with concern and
anxiety.

1 Peter 5:7
Casting the whole of your cares
All your anxieties,
All your worries,
All your concerns,
Once and for all on Him.
For He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.

COME TO THE SIMPLE PLACE.

“Huddle into the shadow of My Wings for I AM the Shelter and Refuge for the
child that heeds My voice and runs to Me, abandoning self made plans for
protection and self preservation.

I AM your shield,
I AM your Fortress.
But you must come to the Save Haven with no agenda in your heart or a statement
on your lips. You come to the Resting Place of Safety from the Storm to WAIT,
Ponder, Rest and rethink your Life call.”

A TIME FOR DIRECTIONAL ADJUSTMENT

We are in much need of a directional adjustment as believers right now as the world
turns itself upside down with malice, dictatorships, and political posturing. We
need to be certain that nothing of the world and its behaviors is hidden in our own
hearts. We must hear that Magnetic pulling voice of the Holy Spirit, and obey it
without turning left or right.

Deuteronomy 5:32
So be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you;
do not turn aside to the right or to the left

CONTINUAL SAFETY

When we walk in the way of surrender and tenderness with our ears attuned to the
still small voice of God, we actually walk in the Safe haven or Overshadowing
safety of the Presence of God. Training our spiritual ears to hear the voice of the
Father is a lifetime guarantee of knowing when the storms or troubles will arise and
is a promise for direction to a place of Divine Protection and direction whenever
needed.

Psalm 16:9
Therefore my heart is glad
and my tongue rejoices;
my body also will rest secure

REST CHILD OF GOD. REST!

It is the hardest thing the mind and body to do! Learning to rest when the world is
screaming at a fevered pitch,” WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW!” is a hard
learned yet reachable discipline if we will lean into it and ask for God’s help.

Hear the Voice of God calling you to enter into His rest. It is a place of pleasant
simplicity and uncluttered doctrine. His Presence silences all of the noise of the day
and noise of the Head.

HIS PRESENCE, HIS SAFE HAVEN, IS A SANCTUARY…
… FOR THE WEARY

Dear child of God!
There is no judgment or shame there.
It is a restful place of learning to take up an easy yoke and a light burden.

Perhaps right now….as you read this…you might just sit back away from music in
headphones or speakers, away from the ring tones on your phone and...Enter in to
the Safe haven of God.

Lay down the weight of worry and frustration. The anger at life all bottled up in
rage and gloom! All you need to take with you into the shelter is a willing heart.
Ready to trust the Divine Protector and Provider.

Enter…

…Into His Rest.

Psalm 33:22
May your unfailing love rest upon us,
O LORD, even as we put our hope in you.


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THE “CLIMATE” OF THE HEART IN THIS “GOD SEASON”

By the Holy Spirit through Mary Lindow

OH HOW PRECIOUS IS THIS SEASON IN THE EARTH TO THE LORD!
In the spirit I see Him strategically placing people into
settings He has had designed from the very beginning of His
heart’s plan to redeem the earth.

At this time the Master King is simply stating...
…“Hold fast; do not let go,
until I have shown you My faithfulness.”

Psalm 119:31
I hold fast to your statutes, O LORD;
Do not let me be put to shame.

This is a bit of a test for those who love to be in that
“forerunner zone” of “let’s run!”
And! There is nothing God loves more than those
visionaries that have the foresight to see what is coming
down the road!

However! The Lord does not want any move orchestrated
by His voice, “tainted” with presumptions! He really does
know what He is planning and exactly how to facilitate this!

Psalm 19:13
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;
Let them not have dominion over me:
Then shall I be upright,
And I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

WE ALL ARE FULLY AWARE OF THE “SHIFT” IN THE SPIRITUAL HAPPENINGS OF GOD.
It is going to required great amounts of personal discipline
and again...(that word!).... Accountability to each other in
order to not “sour” or short circuit the will of God for our
lives. Our old habits and way of doing things die hard!

THE LORD URGES THOSE CALLED INTO THE STREAMS OF THE APOSTOLIC/PROPHETIC TO "LISTEN WISELY”
“ to the voice of the Holy Spirit and
not give in to merchandising the anointing nor take on any
form of “one-upmanship” in these days of the tempering of
the soul.

THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD UNDERSTANDS THE “CLIMATE” OF THE HEARTS OF MEN AND
WOMEN IN THIS “GOD SEASON.”
If any ministry calling “assumes” to know totally what the
body needs...they are in error! We only know and see in
part. That is why hearing the hearts and attitudes of others
are of highest importance at this time.

1 Corinthians 13:12
”For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a
dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as in a riddle or
enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see
in reality and face to face! Now I know in part
(imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand
fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have
been fully and clearly known and understood by God.”

CHOSEN ONE OF GOD!
HEAR THE VOICE OF THE GREAT AND WISE AUTHOR!
He is the foremost Father of the “harvest wave” about to
break upon the heart of mankind.

He the Spirit of God can speak clearly to you and direct you
in the way you walk, make decisions, and will help you flee
from temptation.

Psalm 29:4
”The voice of the LORD is powerful;
The voice of the LORD is majestic.”

THE FATHER IS SUPERNATURALLY AND
SYSTEMATICALLY CONNECTING PEOPLE OF HIS HEART AND THOSE WITH LIKE-
MINDED KINGDOM VISION…
…to fulfill His plans in the earth. Surprising Divine
relationships will be established among those who
understand the cost of finishing past Kingdom assignments
and did not bail out when the attacks and losses came
to rob the promise and God placed vision of their hearts.

Isaiah 6:8
“Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
"Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

YOU WHO HAVE SURVIVED THE ONSLAUGHTS OF DISCOURAGEMENT,
anxiety, near poverty, and desperation, have been made
into steeled vessels that can no longer be penetrated by
disappointment and ridicule.

Job 11:15
“Then you will lift up your face without shame;
You will stand firm and without fear”

Your trust is in the name of the Living God who will do
exploits in the face of those who mock the people of His
heart.

Daniel 11:32
“And such as do wickedly against the covenant
shall he corrupt by flatteries:
But the people that do know their God shall be strong,
and do exploits

“NOW IS THE TIME, SAYS THE SPIRIT OF GOD, NOW!”
“Stand. And having done all you know to do and all that I
have asked you to do. STAND, and see the salvation of your God.”

Proverbs 10:25
“When the storm has swept by,
the wicked are gone,
But the righteous stands firm forever.”

“LISTEN, LEARN, AND PREPARE.”
“I the King and Keeper of the seasons have sharpened your senses to obey
only to the promptings of My voice and not the voice of man.

I will trust you with the hidden things of My Kingdom as you
honor Me with offerings of worship, songs of the Spirit,
and self-abandonment.
The timing for My plans is measured in the scales of justice
and redemption.”

Psalm 33:5
“The LORD loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of his unfailing love.”

Psalm 115:1
Not to us, O LORD,
Not to us but to your name be the glory,
Because of your love and faithfulness.


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