Your Hears Will Leap For Joy

The Lord is saying:  I Am here, and I Am with you.  I know that your times are difficult right now, but these must happen in order to make you the child of God that I have planned you to be.  If you were left on your own without My guidance you would be of little influence in My Kingdom, and not what I intended you to be.  These things you experience right now are refining you into a beautiful creation that the world will see and know you belong to Me.  When they see you juxtaposed to what the world has to offer, then they will become curious as to the hope that you have when they see no hope around them.  When you are refined by My Spirit, then you are changing everything around you and the earth becomes a better place for all.  Do not discount this difficult path right now, for it has to be so in order that My will be accomplished.  Persevere to the end, My loves, and see if your hearts won’t leap for joy!

 

Psalm 96:1-13 (ESV) Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! 2  Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. 3  Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples! 4  For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods. 5  For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens. 6  Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. 7  Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength! 8  Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts! 9  Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth! 10  Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.” 11  Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it; 12  let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy 13  before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness. 

My Greatest Miracle

The Lord is saying:  I Am here, and I Am with you.  My love for you knows no bounds as I have sacrificed everything so that we can have communion together.  If you have surrendered your lives to Me through My Son, Jesus, then the bridge between us has been removed and you are with Me.  And you are not allowed to go back across that bridge into the darkness from which you came, for you belong to Me and Me alone.  As a child of the King, you are princes and princesses that are highly favored in My kingdom.  You are more than esteemed guests, for you are My family, My children, My loves.  I have done everything to bring you close to Me, and all that I ask is that you be holy as I Am holy.  But you cannot do anything in your own strength to become holy – only the death of My Son, Jesus, perfectly paid the price for your salvation and your entrance into My presence.  This, My loves, is My greatest miracle, even over the Creation itself.  Turning hearts of stone into hearts of flesh required you to willingly want what I have to offer, and you said “yes” to My calling.  This is such a radical thing that is so counter to what the physical world has to offer in its fallen state.  Only you, My children who walk the earth, are the only ones who will live abundant life with Me for eternity, as the earth is on the cusp of a fiery judgment.  Be encouraged, My loves.  You are royalty.

 

Eph 2:1-10 (ESV) And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2  in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3  among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4  But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5  even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6  and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7  so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8  For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9  not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. 

Present The Gospel

The Lord is saying:  I Am here, and I Am with you.  The time is quickly approaching when people who don’t know Me will become very unstable and seek relief from their woes, but most will look in the wrong places.  Instead of seeking to help others they will seek to help self from all that is happening around them.  But you, My loves, I will send to them, to show them the better way – the way of abundant life.  I will give you the words to speak to them at the perfect time, that they be roused to look from their immediate circumstances up and around to see Me in their midst.  This is when they will see you, and then Me in you, and they will have a very important choice to make at that point.  If they refuse what you say to them, do not fret, My loves, for it is not you they are rejecting, but Me.  Remember that it is the job of My Holy Spirit to save those who come to you – it is your job to present them to Me, and My Spirit to change their hearts.  This is the job of obedience for My children, to present My Gospel to the world by the way you speak and by the way you live differently than the world.  Be encouraged this day, for you never know when you are affecting someone that I bring across your path that is on their journey to Me.  You may be the final steppingstone that brings them to repentance. 

 

Psalm 39:1-13 (ESV) To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.” 2  I was mute and silent; I held my peace to no avail, and my distress grew worse. 3  My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue: 4  “O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! 5  Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah 6  Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather! 7  “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you. 8  Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool! 9  I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it. 10  Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand. 11  When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah 12  “Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers. 13  Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!”