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Three Winds
Bill Burns
This morning I was awakened at 3:33 a.m., and the Lord
said, "Tell My people they must discern the winds that are
blowing. Two winds are presently blowing, and the third is
yet to come. The names of these winds are the wind of
change, the wind of adversity, and the wind of Pentecost."
I then sought the Lord for understanding about these
winds, and this is what He revealed to me. The wind of
change is the Lord's wind that has been blowing since
January. The wind of change is a wind of purification.
This wind is for the purpose of preparing God's people for
the season of Pentecost. The Lord's wind is a chastening
wind to remove the impurities (sin) from His people so
that He can move them into the fullness of His purposes
and power. This is God's wind, and we must submit to its
cleansing power and allow it to remove all defilement from
His temple, which temple we are.
Hebrews 12:5-8 And you have forgotten the exhortation
which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise
the chastening of the LORD, Nor be discouraged when you
are rebuked by Him; For whom the LORD loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives." If you endure
chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son
is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are
without chastening, of which all have become partakers,
then you are illegitimate and not sons.
The Lord is in process of bringing His sons into His
glory. The wind of change is for the purpose of changing
His sons from glory to glory into His image. These sons
are the sons of glory.
The wind of adversity is Satan's wind. This wind is one of
destruction, and we are not to submit to this wind.
Satan's wind has begun to blow on God's people. Satan has
sent this wind as an opposing force to the wind of change.
This is why the Lord said that we must discern the winds
that are blowing. When we are being chastened and
perfected, we have a tendency to assume that everything
that is happening to us is from God. The Lord does not
want us to submit to Satan's wind, He wants us to rebuke
the winds of adversity. We find ourselves caught between
the winds, which creates somewhat of a whirlwind, and
confusion will be the result if we yield to Satan's wind.
If we will ask the Lord for the gift of discernment, He
will give it to us, and we will be able to discern the
source of the wind. We can then either submit to God's
cleansing wind or rebuke Satan's wind of destruction.
God's wind is designed to prepare us for the third wind,
which will begin to blow at the season of Pentecost.
Satan's wind is designed to keep us distracted from God's
purpose so that we are not prepared for Pentecost. The
third wind (wind of the Third Day) is coming to bring
God's people into the fullness of the Spirit.
Listen now to the voice of the Master: "Awaken now, My
people. Be alert and stand guard over your circumstances.
The wind of the enemy is coming like a flood, but I am
raising up the standard of My word to warn you. I say,
rebuke the winds of adversity. Stand up and say, 'Peace!
Be still!' to the destructive forces that have been sent
against you. Be wise as serpents, and do not submit
yourselves to their attacks. Soon the wind of change will
bring you into the wind of Pentecost, and when that day
fully comes, you shall hear the sound of My mighty rushing
wind. It is My intention to once again bring My church
into the fullness of Pentecost.
When My temple is
cleansed, the wind will blow and the fire will fall and
you will be filled with the fullness of My Spirit. You
shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.
This is the third-day outpouring that shall equip this
generation to do mighty exploits in the name of their God.
Arise now like eagles and spread your wings and allow the
wind of change to lift you above the wind of adversity.
The wind of change will bring you forth to your
destination, and then my eagles shall ride upon the wind
of My power. You shall trample the wicked, for they shall
be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I do
this, says the Lord of Hosts." (Malachi 4:3)
Faith Tabernacle
Let go...
Armando Morales
My children,
Will you let go of the burdens that have weighed you down for so long?
How much longer will you keep struggling to keep these burdens under your
control, trying to overcome them through your methods. Today is the day
that I'm calling you to LET GO! Let go and let my peace rule your heart.
Do not figure out your afflictions, trials, or character issues, but
seek Me, seek my Kingdom, seek my righteousness, and everything else
about you I will shape and perfect. Know that I am the Potter and you
are the clay...My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts are
higher than your thoughts.
My calling for you is to trust in me and not figure out where I'm taking
you..will you follow me...will you take my hand...will you trade your
heavy heart for my joy?
I'm waiting to pour out my love to you the moment you ask. I'm waiting
to be found the moment you seek. I'm waiting to dine with you the moment
you invite me. Will you let go of these burdens my child and let me rule
and establish you on My rock..from which you can not be shaken? My urgency
for you to let go is today..will you entrust me with your cares?
Let go..today is the day you need to let go...
humbly sumbitted,
ib4gzus@juno.com
Walk with Me in the Newness of This New Day...
Shelleymae Bartlett
Recently the Lord gave me 3 pictures and a Word for the body.
(1st picture)
Rise up
Walk in the New.
MY WAYS cannot be comprehended in your own understanding.
Come up and walk with ME in the Newness of this NEW DAY.
I The LORD try the reigns to see where you will go and what you will say.
It is either "MY WILL" or "your will" that will be done.
Oh choose ME that you might Live
(2nd picture)
It is more then SAVIOR.
(The 3rd picture)
I felt the Lord show me that Every Word that we have planted in our lives will come to Fruition!
Up and beyond our highest expectation!!!
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth
all things, yea, the deep things of God.
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in
him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of
God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but
which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they
are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no
man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.
(1 Corinthians 2: 6-16)
It is in Walking In the SPIRIT that we all can become ONE In HIM.
Humbly submitted In Him,
CRICKETAK@aol.com
Count Down Begins:
My children I have not forgotten my promises to You!
But you have planned it all out and I have not listened
to your ways
Allowing me to continue to cut off that which I will not use.
For some these pressures seem almost unbearable and
have extended way past your human understanding.
If you will but just began to taste my words that I speak to you, just taste and see that I
am good. In quiet confidence, I say. The countdown has begun, and I am counting. Listen with quietness of heart, Do not be shaken by the fears of man. It is I who have control and I am that ROCK who protects you and will lay out the pieces to the puzzle in your mind. Only allow me without regrets, to prepare you. Your life has not be in vain, for I the LORD know all things and you are the apple of my eye. Your tender loving Father.
litebearer@uswest.net
Just Wait on God
A. W. Tozer
But the Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence
before Him. --Habakkuk 2:20
I think we are the busiest bunch of eager beavers ever seen in the
religious world. The idea seems to be that if we are not running in
a circle, breathing down the back of our own neck, we are not
pleasing God!
When Jesus said, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel
to every creature" (Mark 16:15 KJV), Peter probably leaped to his
feet and, no doubt, scooped up his hat on the way out. He was
going to go right then!
But the Lord said, "Peter, come back, and 'stay in the city until
you have been clothed with power from on high' (Luke 24:49)."
I heard a Christian leader warn recently that we are suffering
from a rash of amateurism in Christian circles. Christianity has
leveled down and down and down. We are as light as butterflies--
though we flit, flit, flit around in the sunshine and imagine that
we are eagles flapping our broad wings.
Sometimes I think the Church would be better off if we would call
a moratorium on activity for about six weeks and just wait on God
to see what He is waiting to do for us. That's what they did
before Pentecost. The Counselor, 95.
"Lord, this morning I'll stop for a while at least to 'just wait
on God.' I know You're wanting to work, and I for one am willing
to wait this morning to hear Your voice and discover what You
want to do for me today. Amen."
_______________________________________________________________
Religious Divination (Python in the Pulpit?)
by Doug Fortune
"Who has BEWITCHED you?"(Gal.3:1) Normally we don't think of
witchcraft being in the Church or believers being bewitched;
this seems like some pretty strong language for Paul to use.
Images of a haggard old woman hovering over a boiling black kettle
of frog gizzards and 'eye of newt' spring to mind (maybe I watched
too much television as a kid!). Is this really what Paul is speaking
of though? A look at the context of this verse will perhaps shed
some light on the subject.
Often missed, I believe that Gal. 1:10-12 sets a good stage;
"For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving
to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be
a servant of Christ. For I make known to you, brethren, as touching
the gospel which was preached by me, that it is NOT after man.
For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but
it came to me through REVELATION of Jesus Christ." He didn't
receive his ministry from man and he wasn't endorsed by man.
Then verses 15-17 reveal God's primary purpose; "But when it
pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called
me by his grace, To REVEAL His Son in me, that I might preach
Him among the heathen; immediately I conferred NOT with flesh
and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were
apostles before me..." Did you catch that?... Paul was chosen
before he was born, before he had any obedience or works; he
was chosen for the purpose of REVEALING Christ to the nations.
The following verses go on to reiterate how his ministry was
not a product of, nor endorsed by man.
On into chapter two, we see that he was eventually accepted by
the 'established church' (Gal. 2:9). He was still no man-pleaser
though, for we find him confronting the elder apostle Peter;
"But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face,
because he was to be blamed."(Gal 2:11) In most circles today,
had Paul done that, his credentials would have been pulled and
he would have received the left foot of dis-fellowship! In verse
19-20, he makes plain the foundation and source of his spiritual
authority: "For I through the law am DEAD to the law, that I
might live unto God. I am CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST: nevertheless
I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth IN ME: and the life which
I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me, and gave himself for me." Remember also that he
declares he was chosen before his birth as the source of his
authority. In other words, it is Christ living THROUGH him that
he receives his authority from. It is against this backdrop of
authority conferred by God versus authority appointed by man,
that he says "Who has BEWITCHED you?"
In verses 2-3 of Galatians 1, he goes on to describe this 'witchcraft';
"Did you receive the Holy Spirit as the result of obeying the
law and doing its' works, or was it by hearing the message of
the Gospel and believing it?- Was it from observing a law of
rituals or from a message of faith? Are you so foolish and so
senseless and so silly? Having begun your new life spiritually
with the Holy spirit, are you now reaching perfection by dependence
on the flesh?"(Amplified Bible) You see, often those who have
man-made and man-appointed authority will preach a sin-conscious
gospel of works and obedience. In reality that is an oxymoron,
for the true Gospel is neither sin-conscious nor works-oriented!
If you can get people feeling bad enough about themselves, it's
easier to get them to go along with YOUR 'program'... it's an
issue of CONTROL. Guilt is very good for the religion business!
The true issue is manipulation and control- or RELIGIOUS DIVINATION.
In the occult, divination is casting spells and word-curses under
the GUISE of revealing secrets and foretelling the future. This
is basically what sin-conscious, works-oriented preaching does
to the unsuspecting believer in the pew! It focuses on revealing
your sin (which, by the way, God says He FORGETS! Is.43:25, Jere.31:34,
Heb.8:12) and casts a word-curse (spell) on you so you'll conform,
and by conforming to the religious standard, it affects your
destiny- a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. The root of this
divination and man-appointed authority is a RELIGIOUS spirit,
which is antichrist. Remember, antichrist means instead-of or
a substitute for Christ - the anointing. Some have started out
with a true anointing of God on their life, but because they
sought the approval of man, they end up with only a man-appointed
authority.
In Acts 16 we read of a young woman possessed by a spirit of
divination; "And it came to pass, as we were going to the place
of prayer, that a certain maid having a spirit of divination
met us, who brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. The
same following after Paul and us cried out, saying, These men
are servants of the Most High God..."(Acts 16:16-17). I believe
this account gives us a prophetic picture worth exploring. First,
if you look in the Greek we notice that she is a girl, not a
mature woman; that she is in bondage as a slave; that she is
bringing her masters much gain. The Church is usually referred
to in the female gender. Here, I believe, is a prophetic picture
of the immature Church, operating under bondage to religious
laws, bringing her pastors... oops, I meant masters much gain.
Notice that she is following Paul and those with him, proclaiming
loudly, "These men are servants of the Most High God!". At first
glance you would think, What's wrong with that? In fact there
are some leaders today operating under an authority appointed
by man, who surround themselves with immature believers who will
put them on a pedestal and proclaim them to be 'servants of the
Most High God'. By doing this it helps to make up for their
lack of anointing due to man-appointed authority, and helps to
draw more people to follow them. Have you ever seen a leader
allow people to put them on a pedestal, and to take credit for
things they were not even responsible for? Paul said, "...am
I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should
not be a servant of Christ."(Gal.1:10). Paul recognized it for
what it was, as the girl was drawing attention to himself and
his companions. Paul cast that spirit of divination out of her!
It is interesting to note that the word translated as divination
is PYTHON in Greek. A man named Pythagoras was an early Greek
philosopher who founded a society of pagan religious orientation
known as Pythagoreanism. The society fostered strong bonds of
friendship and a sense of ELITISM among its members through ritual
and a code of rigorous self-control, including lists of taboos.
This ancient spirit is alive and well today. This description
of Pythegoreanism could easily be a description of many churches
under man-appointed authority - cliquish groups, elitism, ritual
(believe me, there IS charismatic/ pentecostal ritual) codes
and taboos. All these elements appeal to the approval of man
as they stem from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
It is also interesting to note that the python snake does not
poison its victims, rather it wraps its coils around and slowly
squeezes the life out of its victim. Most man appointed leaders
and churches are not necessarily involved in poisoning through
blatant doctrinal error (although some are), rather they just
squeeze the life out of the believers through the oppression
of sin-consciousness and works-oriented mentality. Perhaps you've
seen another fairly common scenario: a Church experiences a powerful
move of the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there
is LIBERTY... it is difficult to please men and maintain control
where there is much liberty... also when people come into liberty
they begin to be released into their giftings and callings...
this is very threatening to intimidated man-appointed leaders...
so we begin to limit the flow of the Spirit... I think you know
the rest of the story.
Let us be like Paul, receiving our authority from God rather
than man. Let us understand that our authority is based solely
on our death in Christ, and His subsequent Resurrection Life
flowing through us. Let us quit seeking the approval of men and
allow the abiding anointing to flow out of us; "And as for you,
the anointing which ye received of Him ABIDETH IN YOU, and ye
need not that any one teach you; but as His anointing teacheth
you; concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even
as it taught you, ye ABIDE IN HIM."(1 John 2:27) Right now, call
upon that abiding anointing the leads you into truth and ask
the Lord if you have been bewitched by sin-conscious, works-oriented
preaching. If so, be like Paul and cast out that spirit of divination,
that python that seeks to squeeze the Life out of you. Move forward
"...into the glorious LIBERTY of the children of God."(Rom.8:21)
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April 6, 2001
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Mando
Resurrection in The Kingdom
I think it is a True Reflection of where HE has brought me and where and what HE has PROMISED me/us will come to Fruition.
Coming out of the ugliness
Like a cocoon ... and yet not.
What I saw was a shell of an old bug. A skeleton shell if you will ... of the old flesh. The bug had been metamorphased/transformed like a butterfly and yet not... It were more like life in "the flesh" verses life in "The Spirit."
Rise up out of thyself.
Rise up out of thy circumstances of your carnal thinking.
Rise up with ME in the Land of the Living.
Rise up in the SPIRIT with ME.
In the newness of your mind The Mind of Christ.
Let the old pass away.
Loose sight of the shore of your own understanding
and let ME renew your thoughts with MY THOUGHTS says The LORD.
MY WAYS cannot be walked out in the flesh of your own doings.
MY WAYS are HIGHER
MY THOUGHTS are HIGHER
Separate yourself with your will that you will serve ME and ME Alone THIS DAY
That I Alone will be the sole KING that is Enthroned upon your Heart.
Or "MY KINGDOM " or "your kingdom" that will be ... within the hearts of men.
Choose THIS DAY whom you will serve
For great is the fear for those who dwell outside of ME
For therein is darkness and In the darkness there is death.
Oh that thou would choose ME
To walk in the LIGHT
For in ME is Great MERCY
In, ME is Great LOVE.
And it is In The TRUTH of MY LOVE
that you can Rise Up In The LIGHT of MY LOVE
And walk in EVERLASTING LIFE
in The SPIRIT In The Land of The Living.
I saw a beautiful apple tree in full bloom.
The sweet smell was breath taking.
(and oh to have orchards full of them ! {:o) )
The Lord showed me that this was like Salvation.
How beautiful indeed!
But JESUS wants more.
He wants to be LORD of our lives.
He wants to be KING!
But in order for this to happen
The flower must wither and fall to the ground for the FRUIT to come forth.
It is HIM being LORD.
EMMANUEL GOD with us.
BLESSED REDEEMER.
LIVING WORD.
CHRIST IN US...
HOPE OF GLORY!!!
I saw a tree but it wasn't just a tree, it was very fruitful and planted by the Waters in a very beautiful fruitful Garden.Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of
this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught:
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which
God ordained before the world unto our glory:
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they
would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered
into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love
him.
Let us lay aside the weight that can so easly betset us and press on in and for Him that we may know Him and the Awesome Power of His Resurrection!!!
(\O/)o Shelleymae Bartlett
I am the Lord and all my promises are yeah and amen.
I am waiting for you to have "quiet" confidence in me!
The repetitiveness of it causes confusion and you wonder if I had spoken at all.
Hebrew 13:5 I will never fail you, I will never forsake you.
But my child I am here and will not allow you to be carried away by this pain.
You know it to be the last days, and again I say to you
my children, trust in me with all your heart, do not lean unto your own understanding.
All your ways acknowledge me and "I WILL" direct your path.
I have a plan says the Lord, and it will come to pass~~~~
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