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The Inner Furnace and The Fleshhooks
Suzin McNeill
In the deepest confines of My furnace I am bringing
forth the white flames of holiness upon My prophets.
The fires are to purge all doubts and self willfulness.
The fires are to burn up all of your own agendas. Self
works, self exaltation, and greed can not be upon your
fleshhooks as you stand before Me. The fires are to burn
off the fatted places upon you and within you in order
to produce in you only the leanest meat of My will. I am
sending you out with My apostles to go forth to those who
have gathered and hoarded and who have built themselves
up monuments of ministries and have not sought to know
or do My will. Many of these are famous men who shall
boast themselves of their own great works. Many of these
are men who have spoken much in their own darkened
presumptions when I, The LORD have not said. Many of
these have laid up for them- selves and have given
little in disbursements unto the poor around them. Many
are pulpit thieves, swindlers, and black hearted doing
their own works while calling,LORD, LORD. They are
mastered merchants standing within My temples. To these I
send you forth first, for they block the doors to My
temples in their own greed, pulling their own fleshhooks
filled with control, manipulation and religious powers.
I send you forth as My servants with My fleshhook to
speak My fiery words against those who boil in their own
pots in their own names, for their own selves. Greed
cries from their own lands against them, along with the
cries of the poor. If any should raise himself in denial
and refuse to hear My words through you, my sent ones and
servants then, you shall take as much as thy soul
desireth. Speak forth. Proclaim against them unto Me, and
I will speak. Then, if they shall say Nay, I will take it
by force, for they have stolen My offerings and My
thithes, and consider it lightly.
There can be no turning within you, My proclaimers. You
shall prophesy but not in the ways of times passed. You
shall speak forth and behold My Words made flesh and
coming into fullness to render My actions, My love, My
mercy, My shakings, and My judgments. My Word shall walk
through you. You will see My power just as you beheld Me
in the fiery furnace with you. You will not desire the
delicacies of other kings, for I The LORD will provide
and cause men with both opened hands, and opened hearts
to give all you need speedily. Do not doubt My ability
to place you before those who shall give all liberally at
My leading. Did I bless the birthing of My Son JESUS with
wealth, yea even gold? So shall I bless you, My apostles
and prophets before your journeys of obedience. You will
know My divine provision and you will walk free of need
before men. You will not be swayed by any needs. I, The
LORD will raise you in the power to both get and receive
wealth even before, I send you. You shall walk in My
promises unto you. Prosperity is Mine, says The LORD and
it is I, Who establishes My promises to My sent ones and
My servants to receive wealth.
This I speak unto those lingering within the fires. There
has been great difficulties and much brokenness. Your
most basic needs have been met, but feintly for some. You
have endured the hardships of My will for you have died
over and over again. I call to you and say, Arise, you
will need no borrowed tomb, for I speak you blessings. I
will also speak to those prepared to give unto you for
this work in this season, because I have found you
faithful, even with a little. I have set you to receive
all, without labor for your labor has been in Me. Your
labors have cost you much, but you have made the
dedication of your heart to serve only Me. Your hearts
have been tried and My Word has been tried, even seven
times within your hearts. You have faltered in times
past, but I have upheld you. My sons and My daughters I
call to you now as My mouth pieces, My proclaimers, and
say, My hand is open to give unto you and to lift you as
you speak forth. Your voice will sound out to bring My
people, Israel to both repentance and to prosperity, and
to wellness. You are complete in Me, says The LORD.
Speak forth and you will see My Word manifest.
Suzin@Handmaidens.net
The Strongholds are Breached
Jeff Smallman
A couple of weeks ago, sitting in church, I saw the wall of a castle or
fortress with a turret at each end, but I was looking down at it from
above. The wall had been knocked down in the middle, caving in almost
from one turret to the other. Behind the wall was what looked like the
side of a mountain. As I moved closer (still looking down at all of
this), I saw "people" running away. They had thrown down any weapons
they had, and were just running. Some were jumping over boulders that
were in their way. Others were running around them, but none tried to
hide. They just kept running.
Then I heard "The strongholds are breached. The enemy is fleeing and
there is no place for him to hide."
The more I think about this, the more important I think it is that this
message be broadcast to everyone. The battle is already won. And I
think now we are going to see the victory with our own eyes.
God bless you all,
Jeff
smallman@lib.uwo.ca
Awake Oh Sleeper!
Don Nori
I see it, but not yet. The coming of His Presence and power like we have not
seen in our lifetime. The splashing of revival and renewal we are now
experiencing are as wind blowing the mist in from the ocean over dry ground.
It is only the beginning.
The tide comes in, even though we watch waves come flow in and recede. Do
not fear a receding wave and do not stop preparing. For He is coming. As
surely as the eastern sky gives way to the morning, so nature will give way
to His coming; submitting to the powers of the age to come as time and space
are invaded by eternity. Things created will give way to an unprecedented
flow of His Holy Spirit upon the planet.
Much of the church looks upon this time with great anticipation, but it will
be a time of great upheaval as nature groans in travail, giving birth to a
new power and level of His presence and purpose (Rom 8:22,23). It is not a
time of jovial frivolity, but a time of sober understanding as we see the
Lord Himself moving on behalf of His purposes in the earth. So then let us
not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober(1Th 5:6).
It is a time to recognize that this is not about the church. It is not about
saving us from difficult times. We have lost the utter centrality of Christ
in our understanding OF His purposes. The universe does not revolve around
the earth, and the purposes of God do not revolve around the Church. God's
plan revolves around His Son and His dynamic blueprint which He determined
before the world began.
The Lord is preparing the planet for His own appearing. If we think that a
little revival brings persecution and miss-understanding, wait until His own
arm brings Him salvation and His own power breaks through the natural order
of things. All those religious things that we have been so sure are
important will not bring us salvation and will not be an adequate defense
against the powers of darkness. There will be only one place to be when He
appears and that is in Him. David experienced this when he said, "In the
shadow of His wings, we will sing for joy."(Ps.63:7)
But this move of the Holy Spirit is a move of preparation and repentance.
The Lord is calling back those who think they have had a discharge from the
army of the Lord. These are the ones who feel they have failed Him. As a
result of this apparent failure, His plan has passed them by. But they do
not understand the workings of their Lord. Neither do they understand the
depth of His love nor the power of His plan throughout time. Whether they
believe their discharge was honorable or dis-honorable, His grace is
sufficient and His mercy is everlasting.
The Lord is sweeping across the land with determined purpose. For those who
think their time is past and God is finished with them, don't give up yet.
Rather, give yourself one more time to the wind of His Spirit and listen
again for the song of your Beloved deep in your heart. For the Lord, whom
you seek, will suddenly come to you (Mal. 3:1). Do not resist His coming.
For He will move again in your heart, stirring the coals you thought were
long burned out. But one blow from His Spirit will ignite them once again
into the blaze of His glory you once knew so well and experienced so
passionately. Your day has arrived once again. Today, when you hear His
voice, do not harden your heart (Heb. 4:7).
He is brooding over the face of humanity, calling untold millions to Himself
in a sovereign act of His Presence and His Will. No man will stand in his
own strength. No man will take credit. No man will receive accolades. For he
will see His coming in a way he could never have imagined. Those who
recognize Him will dive for cover at His appearing. They will fall at His
feet in abandoned worship and servanthood to His purposes. They will want
nothing but to be found in Him. If He needs them for service, they will be
ready. If He does not need Him for service, they will pray. If they are
recognized among men as leaders, it is fine. If they are hidden in the quiet
of prayer and unseen obedience to Him, it is better. Their only passion is
for Jesus to be lifted up. This is so powerfully exemplified in Paul"s words
in I Cor. 2:2 , "For I determined not to know anything among you except
Christ, and him crucified".
But some will recognize Him and will not be broken. These are the Gospel
peddlers who glean the harvested fields of the prophets. They look for just
enough grain to validate their existence. These go from gathering to
gathering, mystifying the carnal and wooing the ignorant into their
spiritual milking parlors where they will become the feeders for those who
have no passion but for worldly gain and no power but for personal
recognition. They have filled their silos with stolen grain and their
pocketbooks with treasure that belongs to the Kingdom of God. These are the
proud that the Lord resists. These are those who have sold their souls for
the fortunes of counterfeit magical powers among those with no discernment,
no witness and no intention of serving the Lord. "For we are not like many,
peddling the word of God..." (II Cor. 2:17).
But when He comes, His appearing cannot be faked. It cannot be duplicated.
One cannot run into the streets shouting, "The coming of the Lord! The
coming of the Lord!" Words will not be enough this time. Dazzling
showmanship and intellectual reasoning will neither convince the skeptic or
save the faint of heart. The reality of the Living God will flow from His
own, those who have died with Him and have paid the price of obedience to
their Lord. They will be the city on a hill. They will be the light that the
nations will run to. For when they come, they will see Jesus and Him alone.
And they will fall to His feet in repentance and worship. "And when I saw
Him, I fell at His feet as a dead man...."(Rev. 1:17a).
For He will appear in the church before He comes in the clouds. These are
the ones who have given themselves to the power of the Holy Spirit to be
molded and transformed into the image of their King. They will sing His
song. They will experience wonders that human lips have heretofore not dared
to utter. They will be a sacrificial people laying down personal ambition,
personal promotion, personal ministry and yes, even personal finances. This
kind of selfless giving will separate those who have truly seen Him from
those who have merely parroted the new song of the Lord that He Himself will
sing. Words will no longer be enough. There will be a slaying of self and a
dedication to Him that will strike fear into the hearts of those who have
only words.
This is what the immediate future holds for this planet. If you have been
waiting for a better day, it will not come. If you have been expecting the
skies to split in divine splendor, you will have a long wait. The better day
is always TODAY. In place of the skies splitting, our hearts must be rend as
He searches across the land for those who will pay the price to carry His
glory to the world. Only these will discern the religious from the
impassioned and the glory from the glitter. The hearts of these have already
passed from death into life and will never accept a substitute for the
ultimate experience of mere mortal flesh: union with God.
Don Nori
dfn@reapernet.com
A word for the weary
Teresa Seputis
The following word does not apply to everyone. But there are some who
have been feeling unsettled for quite a while and who have been crying
out to God. You have become weary and exhausted and do not know if you
can go on much longer. Everything has been swirling around you and you
have felt that if God does not do something soon, it will not be possible
for you to keep on going forward without mis-stepping. Yet you still
want to "go on" with God... providing He will "go on" with you.
These are the people that this word is for....
(If it is for you, the Holy Spirit will quicken it to you...)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I am about to bring My stability into your life.
There have been times and seasons of great change. These have not
always been comfortable for you. But you have looked to Me and cried
out to Me, and now I am about to bring a stability into you life.
I am going to begin to bring you into a place of relationship and
intimacy with those around you. I am going to begin to give you favor
with others. I am going to give you a season of rest and peace and
prosparity. You will able to sing "it is well with My soul," for I
will make your soul very well. I will watch over you and guard your
path and provide your needs. I will meet you in new and unexpected
ways. I will being to bring a quiet joy into your life.
You will see victory in many areas that you have been crying out to
Me for. For I am with you and not against you. I will do a work in
your family, and I will bring about the peace that you have been
seeking me for in your relationships.
Right now, right this very minute, I am planting the seed of My hope
in your heart. I am watering this seed with My love. I am bringing
you forth as one out of the darkness into a great light. You will
come forth surrounded in My peace and clothed in My righteousness.
I am working My character in you.
But for right now I am going to bring you into a season of peace and
rest. I am going to bring a stability into your life. And you will
be established in My peace.
Blessings to you
- teresa
TeresaS@xc.org
Expect Change
Marsha Burns
Expect change, great sweeping change in
all areas. For, I say to you assuredly, old things have
passed away and all things are becoming new. Even the old
things that are worth bringing into this new era will be
transformed and take on the characteristics of
progression. Those areas in your life that you stubbornly
cling to and refuse to yield to this spiritual conversion
will become lifeless and historical. You are but a pilgrim
passing through this foreign land on your way to a City
"whose builder and maker is God." And, I tell you that
many of you seek only to find a safe and comfortable place
to stop and camp. But, your spiritual camping places are
for the purpose of bringing you into greater revelation of
Me. You cannot camp on revelation of one aspect of My
nature and character and still see the fullness of My
purpose. Believe Me when I tell you that the cloud is
moving, and it is time to strike camp once again. You must
move on to your next destination. But, fear not. I am with
you. I will lead you and direct your steps. Come,
courageous hearts; let us journey together!
Faith Tabernacle
HIS STRENGTH---------HIS ABILITY
SHAROLYN BALDWIN
I believe that He is taking us through to the other side. It's definitely a
process. He know's what He's doing and He will get us there. Hop into His
Holy Ghost Mobile and ride, just leave the driving to Him. It doesn't
matter
what it looks like right now. Good or bad or if it feels like nothing is
going on in your life with Him. No matter where you are right now. Even if
it seems like everyone else is going and doing and experiencing things
with
the Lord and you feel like you're out in left field somewhere, just
gropping
to hold on and not lose what little bit you feel you have....YOU ARE RIGHT
WHERE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IN HIM, going through your process.
Where you are right now (wherever that may be for you) because we're all
in different
places, is no surprise or disapointment to Him. We are not a
disapointment,
misfit or always on the outside looking in, as satan would try to get you
to
believe. Our sin against God is when we turn and believe the lie satan is
telling us. It may not seem like a lie at the time but if it's not what
God's word is saying about you then it is a lie, right out of the pit of
hell. We are simply in the place we are in and it's not any more or less
complicated than that. Being processed by our Heavenly Father, into the
glorious image of His Dear Son......Our Lord and Savior......Christ
Jesus.
Whatever He is working through us or out of us, is being done from the very
place we are at....right now! He is working from that very place we are in
at the time and regardless how long we spend in that place, that's
irrelevant, it's the place He wants to work on you from. I will say it
again. The place we are at is the place the Lord wants to work on us
from. So if He want's to work on us, in the place we're at. Why are we
fighting Him? Why let satan condem and belittle us at the place God is
working on us? satan comes with his lies and tries to turn your focus on
your "SELF." Giving you all the thoughts of, well if you were any kind of
real christian, you wouldn't still be in this place, you're just weak,
you'll never make it out of this place cause God is waiting on you to do
something or see something or say something and you know you. You'll never
get it figured out or get it right. You'll just have to hold on where you
are and hope you don't mess this up too, you just aren't like the
rest....LOOK AT THEM! God can only work with what He's
got and LOOK AT YOU. he does have this down to an art, but he is A LIAR!!
God knows exactly where we are and it's the very place He want's
to work on us from, or believe me, we wouldn't be there.
There's nothing impossible for God. That's right! We couldn't be stupid
enough
or weak enough or broken enough pieces, that Father can't fix .
He saved you, didn't He? You didn't do it youself. It's not your
goodness, your strength or your ability. It's HIS. If satan can keep us
looking at our self...our weakness and lack of abilities then he has us
where he can beat up on us...legally. How? Because as long as we are
believing his lies, then we are walking after the flesh and the flesh will
always fail in it's own strength and then you once again leave the door
open
for him to come back and remind you how weak of a person you are and what
a
failure you are, that's his merry-go-round, only it's not so merry, is it?
he want's to keep it all about who you are in the flesh and your strength
and your abilities, he wants to keep you focused on your flesh strength
and
ability and then he can get you to believe you need to try harder an
harder
and we all know what happens to us when we start relying on our own
strength, we fall flat of our face, then up jumps slewfoot to beat up on
us
somemore, reminding us of how pitifully weak we are and what a miserable
failure we are. If we are following his path of lies about us then we are
not walking by the spirit of life. It should always be, about asking Him
to
show us His Heart on any matter, then after seeing the right thing to do
and
walk in, we ask Him to fill us and cause us to have the desire to want it.
Then when we truly have the right desire but start trying to live it (out
of
our strength) and find that our flesh is fighting us and won't let us
stick
with it and we are getting worn out in trying , once again we then
realize
we are now trying to to do it in our strength again. That's the place
where
we will always struggle and get beat up on.
It's only the power of His Spirit that opens our eyes to the truth of His
way. Then fills us with the desires to walk in them. Then He Himself rises
up from within us, in His Power, to fulfill that desire and make walking
it
out a reality in our life. Just trust Him that He's going to do it and
don't
try to force things and try to make it happen. It will get done, in his
time, in His strength and in His ability. Ask Him to rise up and be. Then
be
patient and know He Will In His Perfect Timing
So we must never forget what He says, (Matt 11: 28-30) Come to Me, All you
who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and
learn from Me, for I AM gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest
for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.
So, if we are in a battle, of which we all are, at one time or another and
we are going threw whatever each person may be battling at their
particular
place in time, such as oppression, depression, hopelessness, worn out and
in
doubt or confussed, maybe thats a good place to stop and evaluate who's
strength have we really called on and who's strength are we depending
on. WE
have to be as dependent little children (you can do nothing Without me)
Hey! He means this literally. Be careful what you ask. Don't ask for Him
to
strengthen you, to be able to do something. Guess what? He won't ever
strength your flesh to do anything. He died to kill that flesh. He's not
going to turn around and now strengthen it for us to carry out His
commands. We really know this but we don't always take notice of what our
words are really asking. He calls this, ask amiss and He will not
answer
when we ask it amiss. We can't ask Him to strengthen us. We have to ask
Him
to rise up and be our strength to walk in whatever He may be calling us to
walk in at the time. See the difference in the two way's we ask? There is
a
big difference. Everything that exists is in Him. He lives in us.
Everything we could ever need is living in us. HE IS, Whatever you need.
Whatever you need, HE IS.
Oh! I hope I'm explaining this where it's understandable. If not, then I
pray, Lord! let whoever read's this, to hear it as I heard it from you. In
the name of Jesus I ask, Amen. Are we ready yet, to stop doing the
driving?
Will we do what's called of us to do? Pray for Him to rise up and come
forth in power to perform His work, threw us. Will we pray and trust ?
Then just climb in the Holy Ghost Wind- Mobile and let Him do the driving.
Then just wait, in Him, until He get's us to the other side. PRAISE GOD!!!
HE WILL DO IT!!!
Just know, whatever place you are at and whatever you are going through, as
you are seeking to know-grow-love and be like him, He would say, "You are
ok
my child, this is the place from which I will work and bring you through to
the other side. Stop trying to do it yourself and trust Me, I will do it.
I
will do it through you, So Saith The Lord God, All Mighty."
In His Love
sharolyn1@home.com
Are You The Reason Your Family Is Dying?
Doug Morrell
God is faithful. God hates sin.
We all like to hear about and talk about how faithful He is to bless the
righteous, but how often do you talk about or hear about the fact that God
is just as faithful to punish the disobedient as He is faithful to bless the
steadfast?
Let's take a look at how sin can devastate a man, a family, a church, a
nation (Josh. 7). These discipleship principles of blessing and cursing are
lessons for us as we travel on the pathway to maturity.
In Joshua 6:18 we learn that Achan underestimated God and didn't take his
commands seriously. It may have seemed a small thing to Achan, but the
effects of his sin were felt by the entire nation, especially his family.
Like Achan, our actions affect more people than just ourselves. Beware of
the temptation to rationalize your sins by saying they are too small or too
personal to hurt anyone but you.
Why did Achan's entire family pay for his sin? The Biblical record does not
tell us if they were accomplices to his crime, but in the ancient world, the
family was treated as a whole. Achan, as the head of his family, was like a
tribal chief. If he prospered, the family prospered with him. If he
suffered, so did they. Many Israelites had already died in battle because of
Achan's sin. Now he was to be completely cut off from Israel.
Achan's entire family was to be stoned along with him so that no trace of
the sin would remain in Israel. In our permissive and individualistic
culture we have a hard time understanding such a decree, but in ancient
cultures it was a common punishment. The punishment fit the crime: Achan had
disobeyed God's command to destroy everything in Jericho; as a result
everything that belonged to Achan had to be destroyed. Sin has drastic
consequences, so we should take drastic measures to avoid it.
We should learn that it is through faithful meditation on His Word and
faithful obedience to His commands which provide the key to blessing and
abundance. Blessing follows obedience, judgment follows disobedience. Just
as we learn that Achan's sin reveals the principle that no man lives to
himself (Josh. 7), the sin of one can affect the lives of many.
None of us can ever afford to drop our guard; even one person's sins can
weaken the life of a whole church. Deal with sin quickly and forthrightly.
Leave no sin unconfessed or undealt with. Know this...unconfessed sin will
become a snare.
Today, right now, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal sin in your life. Then
repent asking God and those you've offended to forgive you. The Bible
teaches that repentance is the pathway to restoration. I assure you, there
is nothing you've done which God will not forgive. Trust me when I say that
I've sinned greatly against the very One whom I love most dearly and He is
just as faithful to punish the disobedient as He is faithful to bless the
steadfast.
Grow in grace and truth,
doug morrell
--
October 4, 2000
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