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HOW MUCH LIGHT DOES ONE NEED WHEN
PRESSED UNDER by evil pressures and nightmarish
reoccurring losses? Only a pinhole. One pinhole of Godly
light is stronger than a universe of darkness. It is enough for
a surrendered believer to cling to and depend on when all
else has failed.

Psalm 89:15
"Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you,
who walk in the light of your presence, O LORD."

When we focus upon the Light of God's enduring and
endearing Presence, all darkness will eventually be
swallowed up into the Light of His Fountain of light.
His Light is victorious over the darkness.

Psalm 36:9
"For with you is the fountain of life;
In your light we see light."

WE ALONE CANNOT BATTLE THE DARKNESS.
Our strength is not enough.
Accept that and know that God's light comes to dispel
darkness. His strength and Righteous arm smashes dark
deeds, enemies, and deceivers and He will bring out into the
light the things men think that they have hidden or have
"justified" away.

Psalm 90:8
"You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins are in the light of your presence."

WHEN YOU FEEL BLIND AND LOST IN A
DARKENED SEASON.
Just as a caterpillar in a cocoon must experience a time of
confinement and seeming darkness, there comes a time
when it is lead out of darkness into light to stretch its newly
found wings of liberty and gracefulness to soar and express
resurrection power to those who gaze upon its beauty. Few
will fully understand the pain of this difficult process, unless
they too pass through it.

Isaiah 42:16

along unfamiliar paths I will guide them;
I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the
rough places smooth.
These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them."

"WORKERS OF RIGHTEOUS DEEDS"
There are those who do acts of benevolence and kindness
whose aim is gain personal gratification and a sense of
power when they "stoop" to help others in times of distress
and sorrow. Often times, folks with this fleshly behavior,
although claiming a form of godliness, "test" those whom
they share with. This can be either in monetary gifts,
spiritual gifts, or in counsel.
This is NOT a Worker of A Righteous deed.
This is a form of selfish ambition and control.

To be righteous means to be:

VIRTUOUS
MORAL
GOOD
JUST
BLAMELESS
UPRIGHT
HONORABLE
HONEST
RESPECTABLE
DECENT

A RIGHTEOUS DEED IS ONE DONE WITH THE
INTENT OF IMITATING THE NATURE OF GOD'S
MERCY AND GOODNESS.
It does not expect performance or groveling in return. Nor
does it hold others accountable for their actions in regards to
the "act" of Righteousness. Imagine if Jesus held us all
accountable to the acts of His goodness towards us and how
often we have failed and disrespected His grace. Yet…
…He continues in love, and acts of Righteousness.

I HAVE EXPERIENCED IN THE PAST AND EVEN AS
RECENTLY AS THE PAST FEW WEEKS,
OVERWHELMING ACTS OF BLESSING, KINDNESS
AND SACRIFICE FROM THOSE WHOM I KNOW GOD
MUST CALL HIS WORKERS OF RIGHTEOUS DEEDS.

The common thread I see among all of these beloved
Righteous givers of grace and care is that they have all,
experienced a time of great loss, depravation, near death, or
sorrow, and…they understand the need for a pinhole of light.

Jeremiah 9:24
"But let him who boasts- boast about this:
that he understands and knows Me,
that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and
righteousness on earth,
for in these I delight," declares the LORD."

WHEN TORMENT AND LYING SPIRITS DECEIVE
OTHERS
and they foolishly accuse you; know that there are others
whom God will place in your life that will bring sober and
Godly counsel, as well as loving kindness and help.

Proverbs 27:9
"Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart,
and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest
counsel."

DO NOT STOP IN YOUR KINDNESS AND IN YOUR
CARE FOR OTHERS!
The testing in this hour of the hearts of men & women will
only grow more intense as the Lord examines the intentions
of the hearts of those who call Him Lord.

IF YOU HAVE CAUSED TRAGEDY, DESTRUCTION
OR SHAME to fall upon any of your Family in Christ and
have yet to openly apologize and make the situation you
were a part of rightly corrected, also know that the risk of a
deep darkness of the soul is reserved for those who choose to
walk in self-deception. Quickly while you have time, humble
yourself in the sight and the light of the Lord and HE will lift
you out of your darkness.

Isaiah 53:11
"After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life
and be satisfied; by his knowledge My righteous servant will
justify many, and he will bear their iniquities."

"AN ABUNDANCE OF JOY…
…FOR WORKERS OF RIGHTEOUS DEEDS"

Psalm 45:7
"You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
by anointing you with the oil of joy."

Psalm 33:1
"Sing joyfully to the LORD, you righteous;
it is fitting for the upright to praise him."

HOLD ON! HOLD FAST! REACH OUT! –
A PROPHETIC WORD

"I the Redeemer of those who cry out to Me day
and night compel you to hold on to My hand of
Faithfulness and Light. Keep your eyes on the
light I provide for you in the darkness. Hold fast
to it and I will stir the hearts of the Righteous and
faithful in me to reach out a hand of compassion
and they will obey Me with acts of blessing,
restoration, and supply. They will do this
willingly for they have tasted of sorrow and know
the secret of My abundant Joy! They have gone
out weeping themselves. Sowing seeds they didn't
understand, growing up in compassion, only to
produce a harvest, abundant in Joy.

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

I the Lord have tasted sorrow, loss, torment, and
death. Yet in one act of Righteousness, mankind
was brought the opportunity for the fullness of
Joy and the open door from darkness into light,
when they too, choose call upon My salvation,
cleansing, and light.

Quickly. Cleanse your hearts of any act of
unkindness, false humility, and the use of a heavy
hand over your brothers. The pinhole of
light...My Light. Is drawing you into a New Day."

Psalm 112:4
"Even in darkness light dawns for the upright,
for the gracious and compassionate
and for the righteous man."

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I HAVE LATELY BEEN FOUND OFTEN IN PRAYER
and to be honest, in much weeping and heart wrenching travail. I have been
asking the Lord, "What is this strange season in your people right now
Lord?"

SO MANY NIGHTS OF WALKING THE FLOOR IN ANGUISH,
WRESTLING AND ACTUAL GROANING IN PRAYER.
The haunting inside of my soul, aches with a longing for things I can't even
express. It is as if the Lord is saying:

"Wait until I have dealt with the motives and hearts of men and women I am
speaking to. I am orchestrating a gathering of people, groups and clear
visioned saints to team with Me to empower others to fulfill their Destiny
and Callings. Let Me do the work in their hearts to hear clearly, see clearly,
and act willingly."

The Lord will establish you as his holy people, As he promised you on oath,
If you keep the commands of the Lord your God And walk in his ways.
Deuteronomy 28:9

I HAVE FELT THE BENEFITS OF THIS IN THE SENSE OF A "QUIET CALMING."

For so says the Lord GOD,
In returning and resting shall you be saved;
In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: Isaiah 30:15

Grace us God! With emotional strength and a lasting joy that will hold us up
through this time of change.

MOSES AND HIS OBSCURE CALLING.
In the past years before Moses was thrown into his wilderness experience
with God, he was very self-assured. He came from the highest nobility of
the Pharaohs schools of training and was even raised among the princes of
Egypt. He had everything at his fingertips to succeed and achieve a great
destiny in the natural realm. He knew languages and could carry himself
well in many functions. Then he found out what that "thing that was
nagging him" was all about.

THAT SENSE OF DESTINY, SOMETHING HIDDEN AND YET
TO BE PRODUCED IN THE SOIL OF HIS LIFE.
He found out that God had placed him right in the middle of the greatest
enemy of the Hebrews, and had him trained to understand every thing
about them.

THE ONE THING THAT MOSES HAD TO LEARN YET DIDN'T COME EASY.
HE HAD AN ISSUE WITH ANGER.
One day even though Moses knew he was to be a deliverer of the Hebrew
people from the strongholds of Egypt. He saw a "fellow" Egyptian beating a
Hebrew Slave. Moses decides to try to avenge this treatment for his true
kinsman, and in anger murdered the Egyptian and hid his body. When he
looked for thanks and approval from his Hebrew buddy instead, he got
sneered at and rejected. The Hebrew slave let Moses know that all he had
done was make the slavery of His kinsmen even more difficult and that they
would take the punishment for his attempt at heroics to gain relationship
with his Spiritual kinsman. Moses was baffled and shocked and then...
Terrified. He would be killed himself for this action if it was found out.

SO.... INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH THE ISSUE OF HIS ANGER AND REALZING
THE CONSEQUENCES FOR IT HE RAN.
Or was driven by a plan formed by God…into the wilderness. The desert.

There was no fine food, or comfort. No one to bathe his body let alone
moisten his parched lips! No one to play soft soothing melodies to quiet
his tormented heart.

NO ONE THERE BUT... GOD.
For forty years Moses sat on the hills of a desert terrain learning to live in a
community of broken people. He learned how to care for others who had
cared for him in his time of great need. He even learned to tend the sheep
of another man yet never owned his own flock or herd.

GOD WAS TESTING THE YEARS OF POLISH AND EARTHLY EDUCATION
IN THE SCHOOL OF THE WILDERNESS.

Hebrews 3:8
Do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion,
During the time of testing in the desert,

James 1:3
Because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

MOSES LOST HIS ARROGANCE
He became a man who truly worshipped only God. He learned to quickly
obey His voice and not the voices of fleshly wisdom, ancient rituals, or
counselors of power and sway. Even to the point that He could no longer
speak without stuttering.

ONE DAY HE WAS OUT TENDING THE FLOCK OF HIS FATHER IN LAW
AND A VERY WILD AND UNEXPECTED EVENT TOOK PLACE!
There on that lonely mountain and desert terrain was a scrub bush that
looked as if it was on fire! Yet... The flame wasn't consuming it! As Moses
drew closer to the bush the flame seemed to intensify! Suddenly out of this
burning bush came a voice.

A voice that apparently knew him, because it called his name. The Lord told
Moses to do a very peculiar thing. He said... "Take off your shoes for you
are on holy ground."

MOSES DIDN'T KNOW THAT THIS EVENT HAD BOTH PROPHETIC
AND FIGURATIVE IMPLICATIONS.

God was telling him that He would not walk out of this encounter the same
way he walked into it! God told Him that He was going to put a different
path before him. His intelligence and skilled social upbringing didn't teach
Moses graciousness. Moses had his soul tamed by the wilderness
experience.

WE CAN ONLY BECOME TRUE SEASONED SOLDIERS OF CHRIST WHEN WE
TRAIN AND SERVE IN THE PREPARATION TIME OF THE WILDERNESS.

If our lives are constantly surrounded by people who claim to have,
"gotten it all together" or seem to never have affliction… then when the
hard times come, you will be angry and have a murderous attitude much
like Moses did.

THE LORD WILL ONLY ELEVATE BROKEN VESSELS
into His highest positions of leading others out of the captivity of this
world. And, many of the highest positions are kept in pockets of obscurity.
Not on the lime lighted platforms of public proclamation!

THE LORD LOVES TO BE WITH BROKEN PEOPLE
Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?"
declares the LORD. "This is the one I esteem:
He who is humble and contrite in spirit, And trembles at my word.
Isaiah 66:2

GOD WAS GOING TO USE MOSES TO START A "SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION!"
A Battle against good and evil. The righteous against the unrighteous. The
true God against idols and false gods.

It took the flame of God to call Moses out of the furnace of affliction into
the fire of a passionate life song, lit by brokenness. The arm of God was
going to be the strength against the enemies of Israel. Not the strength, of
an educated, ambitious, arrogant, ruler.

AT LAST MOSES SEES IT!
"I will have the Lord's Fire to lead me by night, and His cloud of glory in the
day! He has even told me that this journey that I am about to embark on
will need some durability! The shoes I used to walk in, as a servant will now
become the shoes led in the footsteps of God. They will never wear out all
through this journey.

As long as I walk when the Lord says walk, and when I speak when the Lord
says speak and when He says to move I move. Even this staff that I have
gotten use to tending sheep with seems to be now empowered with God's
anointing! Who would ever believe that this could happen?"

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

Each of you should look not only to your own interests,
But also to the interests of others. "
Philippians 2: 3-4.

WHERE ARE WE AS GOD'S PEOPLE?
WHERE ARE YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL?
If we want a move of God to deliver our nations it will come from taking off
our shoes.

In other words… laying down the way we have walked and done some
things in the past and bowing down before the fire of God, and listening to
His voice!

WORSHIP IS NOT NECESSARILY SOMETHING WE "DO" ONTHE OUTSIDE,
BUT SOMETHING THAT WE DO ON THE INSIDE IN OUR SPIRITS.

It's prostrating and bowing down our inner-man before God.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God,
These you will not despise.
Psalm 51:17

WORSHIP IS ASKING NOTHING OF GOD,
But is instead, losing ourselves in adoration, reverence and homage to him.

MOSES HAD TO LEAVE THE LAND OF IDOLS AND EMBRACE GOD.
SO DO WE.

Isaiah 57: 13-15
When you cry out for help,
let your collection of idols save you!
The wind will carry all of them off,
a mere breath will blow them away.
But the man who makes me his refuge
will inherit the land
and possess my holy mountain."

For it will be said:
"Build up, build up, prepare the road!
Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people."

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.

OH LORD!
IN EACH OF OUR LIVES LET US SEE A BURNING BUSH AND HEAR YOUR
VOICE. Cause us to turn wholly to you to obey you in everything, even if we
must embrace the flame of the altar of personal sacrifice.

"Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
But God is the strength of my heart,
and my portion forever."
Psalm 73:26

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Although we are nearly 5 months into the New Year, I was still impressed by the
Lord to linger a bit longer in His presence before sharing what I feel He has shown
me regarding the year 2009 and beyond.

If we were to look at the Jewish calendar we would see that the year is 5769
according to that representation of the New Year, a Hebrew year that started in the
evening before September 30, 2008 and will end on September 18, 2009. I enjoyed
learning the meaning of the numbers that represent this year 2009, or again, in the
Jewish New Year calendar 5769. The meaning of this number has significance and
flows beautifully with so much that the Father has been speaking to so many of His
beloved children.

Samekh Tet, are the Hebrew words that define the number 5769.

Samekh Means to "to trust" "depend upon," and "support."

Tet means to "sweep out (by judgment)." It also illustrates goodness and humility. The
non-discriminatory type of "goodness" which is the Creator's choice to define and
outline, not humankind's.

THE NARROW WAY

In Psalm 91 verse 2 reads;

"I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress:
My God, in Him will I trust."

This is the reception area, the entranceway into the complete protection of the
remaining verses of that psalm. It is your and my "password" when we say; "I will
say!" It is as we proclaim it, as we say it, as we decree it; "I will say of the Lord! He
is my refuge and fortress! I will ENTER in to His safety! IN HIM I will trust!"

But how do we get to this point?
I believe that we are at this place in time right now, where will we have to come to
the realization that we must DWELL in the secret place of the Most High and live,
exist, under His shadow. For only He alone is Almighty and safe enough to protect
us.

A WELL-BEATEN PATH TO THE SECRET PLACE

The Scripture aptly says, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is
fit for service in the kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62) We often flippantly quote this
without fully acknowledging the seriousness of this statement.

We have seen again and again, the devastations brought on by many failing in the
body of Christ, from highly visible individuals to those working in the back
stockroom of a business. Deviant and secretive behaviors inevitably will be exposed
and found out. Sadly many believers who have been called to walk the righteous
walk, the walk that depends upon the Lord - and yet when he speaks, when he
commands, when he challenges, they do not follow.

Psalm 32 verses 7-10 addresses this matter. I will share it here for scriptural
definition and then expound as to how the Lord spoke to me regarding this matter
and the year 2009.

"YOU are my hiding place, YOU LORD will protect me from trouble, and surround
me with songs of deliverance.

And the Lord replies, "I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should
go: I will counsel you and watch over you. Do not be like the horse or the mule,
which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridal or they will
not come to you."

"MANY ARE THE WOES OF THE WICKED, BUT THE LORD'S UNFAILING
LOVE, SURROUNDS THE MAN WHO TRUSTS IN THE LORD."

Unless the believing bride learns what it means to have a well-beaten path to the
hiding place, the secret place, "secret" meaning - a place alone, hidden with the
Lord), a place of uninterrupted dialogue, instruction, and worship, then she will
continue to have public exposures on all levels and among all peoples represented in
the body.

When we hide ourselves with the Lord, He instructs us, He warns us about the
trouble ahead. He sings over us, songs of deliverance and He rejoices over us
because of our obedience.

SOLITARY PLACES OF LIFE

On the external, there was nothing that marked the Lord as any different than the
common ordinary man except for one thing. He was separated from within. He knew
when it was the spirit of the Lord driving Him into the wilderness, and, that it was
not good to be alone for too long. Jesus Christ does not make "religious hermits" as
Oswald Chambers states. He makes us men and women fit for a world as it is. HE
DOES NOT EXPECT US TO WORK FOR HIM BUT WITH HIM.

The narrow way I spoke of before, combined with the solitary places of life, creates
an incubator that the Lord can use. As we submit ourselves to his instructions in
times of meeting with him in the secret place, he WILL instruct us as he stated! We
must not be like a mule or a horse that forever needs to be prodded and forced into
discipleship.

A true disciple, one who was willing to not simply be called, but follow obediently
working with the Lord's plan, will rarely have time to be self-promoting or shouting
too loudly about their own, "divine destinies," knowing that each day spending time
meditating upon the Word of God, fellowshipping with Him in a place of rest and
instruction is all that one needs for the tasks at hand.

The hallmark of true discipleship will always be noted and noticed by the discipline
of one who has worn a well-beaten path to the place of intimacy and personal deep
fellowship with the King of glory.

"OBEY MY VOICE, AND I WILL BE YOUR GOD."
Our destinies for good or evil are completely determined by the voice we choose to
obey.

LISTENING TO THE VOICE OF THE LORD and obeying what He says will bring
blessings. Not always as speedily as our consumer minds prefer. Nor will they
always come in the format our flesh would desire or dictate. But indeed, the
blessings will come!

IGNORING THE VOICE OF THE LORD will bring many curses. It is impossible
to obey God without first hearing His voice. His voice tells us what He expects and
what He requires. And it is always for our good, and the good of mankind.

A LAMP AND A LIGHT ON THE PATHWAY

"Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path."
Psalm 119:105

When David wrote this passage, it was a literal reality. When David wrote this,
there was a small plate that attached to the top of the sandals people wore which
allowed a candle to be positioned so that it would light the path ahead. (Look at the
picture again at the top of this message.) "A lamp unto my feet!"

However, this lamp only provided enough light to show where to place the next
step. And so, this is how the Lord is moving and speaking at this time in 2009.
He illuminates our path today, with just enough light for our next step.

THE "REIGN" OF GRACE - AND THE "RAIN" OF GRACE
MERCY FOR THE MERCIFUL

Psalm 109:4 reads:
"In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man/woman of prayer."

Jesus taught us that God forgives us in the same measure in which we have forgiven
others. He said in Matthew 6:14 through 15 that if we forgive men their trespasses,
He our heavenly father, will also forgive us. But if you do not forgive men their
trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses.

If there is a ministry, a foe, a friend, whom we do not forgive within the same
measure that the father has forgiven us, truly God cannot fully forgive us. He stated
here we can get all the preachers in America and around the globe to pray for us and
pray over us, but we cannot dislodge the devil and darkness of our own
unforgiveness. We give the enemy consistent access to our churches and our
families as long as we "lord it over others", hiding our own sin, pretending that God
does not see.

In order to have the times of refreshing we are crying out for and are desperate for
as believers, we must learn to rule and reign with grace. Refreshing rains will not
fall, and cannot fall in full glory when we refuse to lay down judgments,
manipulations, and self invented spiritual dictates that do not run parallel with the
King of grace who is the ULTIMATE Mercy bringer.

Mercy. It means to perform out of a desire to relieve suffering, motivated by
compassion. The action of forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within
one's power to punish or harm. Its occurrence prevents something unpleasant or
provides relief from suffering.

DO YOURSELF AN ETERNAL FAVOR. TELL THE TRUTH. God will protect
you more for doing this, than any self-invented cover-up ever could. And, you just
might regain relationships with those you have used as stepping-stones to your own
deviant self-empowerment.

The Heavenly King of Glory is always and forever creating newness of life. If we
are as mentioned above in the psalm, "A man or a woman of prayer", the test will
come of that deep prayer life when your enemies surround you, accuse you, and
often attempt to execute and silence you.

A man or a woman of prayer in this season, in this year of 2009, will learn to sweep
out iniquity, falseness, slander, and "hierarchical pecking orders" through goodness
and humility. The year 5769 or 2009 is as stated in its meaning, a year to trust,
depend upon, to lean upon, the goodness of the Lord. To trust in His sovereignty
more than ever. It is his prerogative to define what grace is. Not man's.

THE FAITHFUL DIGGERS OF DITCHES

In second Kings Chapter 3 the Lord seemingly through the prophet Elisha, ignores
the pleas, and strategies of the king of Israel, Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom.

They grew frustrated. They wanted action, they wanted vindication, and they wanted
control over their enemies. But Elisha knew what brought wisdom, council, and the
"lamp unto his feet."

He himself knew a well-beaten pathway to the secret place. He himself had lived a
life of personal pilgrimage and had walked the narrow way.

He created an atmosphere, with worship, silencing the voices and opinions and fears
that were suffocating the atmosphere of Kingly decisions and wise counsel. He
called a harpist, and the song of deliverance began to bring direction. He even stated
that he had no respect for the king standing before him! He would not be swayed by
their power or positions. Nor what they could do to promote him. He knew that in
the presence of the King of glory and all wisdom, the dispensation of grace would be
fairly and appropriately measured out.

While the harpist was playing, and an atmosphere of reverence and respect for
God's voice was shaped and waited upon, (a Key, a "HUGE" indicator as to what
the Lord desires in this year ahead,) the Lord God gave a divine battle strategy that
would subdue and totally defeat the enemy.

It was not in any handbook or jazzed up battle gear, or any strategic war craft-
planning manual. It was in the hand of God, written by The Eternal One Himself.

The instructions were these. Make this valley full of ditches for this is what the Lord
says: "You will see neither or wind nor rain. Yet this valley will be filled with water,
and you, your cattle and your other animals will drink. This is an easy thing in the
eyes of the LORD; he will also hand Moab over to you. You will overthrow every
fortified city and every major town. You will cut down every good tree, stop up all
the springs, and ruin every good field with stones."

The next morning, about the time for offering the sacrifice, there it was—water
flowing from the direction of Edom! And the land was filled with water.

DIGGING THE DITCHES OF 2009

"And so says the Lord, the Spirit of grace, the Voice of Wisdom, and The Only
Almighty one. As you cry out for times of refreshing, for a change in the hearts of
men, for a move of my spirit across the lands of Earth, my command to you is that
you begin to create an atmosphere where I may speak My plans according to My
Word, and according to My prerogative.

I will lead you and guide you with enough light each day as you come to that narrow
place with me. I will strengthen your weakened spiritual muscles as you dialogue in
honesty with me and repent of foolish choices and foolish actions that have caused
many to be shattered and shamed because you spoke out of a calling rather than out
of following my voice.

Begin to dig ditches in prayer. Become addicted and immersed in it, never ceasing.
Prepare places where my rain may fall and cause a fresh drinking place for those yet
to taste of my goodness, as well as for those who are thirsty within my body. Begin
to dig ditches in dry places in humility and goodness. Lean upon me, trust in me, do
not lean upon your own understanding, for you have well seen that having done this
in the past you have missed many opportunities to prepare a way of salvation for
others.

I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction: (Isaiah 48:10)

So comfort yourself weary and tried believer with this thought. Does not the word
come like a soft shower quieting the fury of the flame? Is it not a fireproof armor
against the heat, which will then have no power? Whatever happens to you in this
valley of weeping, know that I have chosen it for you. If you still require an even
greater comfort, remember that you have the Son of man with you in this valley. In
that secret place with you, there He sits by your side. One whom you have not seen
but whom you love, and whether you know it or not your friend sticks closely by
you. I will never leave one whom I have chosen as my own. But you now must
choose whether to heed a calling from me - or follow me in that calling.

Great grace. Great mercy. Great promise.
All these are yours, extended from my hand, and for you to extend from your hand.
NOW IS THE TIME, NOW IS THE TIME, NOW-IS-YOUR-TIME, to live out the
heart and life of the servant, as I lead you with the little light that you have now. It is
all you need as long as it comes from me. It is a time to learn to march forward, to
dig ditches, to prepare so that others may also drink freely with no restraints.

When I come and speak to you and move among you, I express everything that is
pure and lovely and of a good report, and sin and uncleanliness depart. Peace also
rains when I move with humble power. Gentleness will be the result of my
transforming power. Harmlessness will follow, for hearts that are touched by me are
always meek and lowly. My grace is sufficient for you, and you will find it if you
will seek it, and above all if you will express it.

Be strong in the grace that is in me. (2 Timothy 2:1)

As a reservoir empties itself into pipes, so have I emptied out my grace for my
people. Of my fullness you have received grace for Grace. Grace is always available
from me without price. Keep yourselves from presumptuous sins. (Psalm 19:13)
You will surely stumble if you look away from the One who is able to keep you
from falling.

If your love is fervent, your faith constant, and your hope bright, continue
nonetheless to be on your guard and cry out, "Keep us from temptation!" The
seasons revolve according to my Divine appointment and man cannot change their
schedule. In the spiritual as in the natural world man's power is limited I alone can
remove the winter of spiritual death from an individual or from a church.

Let me hear you say, "Not my will but as you will oh Lord!:
As you yield, I will yield.
Let it be as I will, and allow me to determine the best. Be content to leave your
prayer and your petitions in my hands. I know when to give, how to give, what to
give, and what to withhold. As you visit me in the secret place, and as the road
becomes narrower, seeking me earnestly and often times pleading, yet with humility
and resignation, you shall surely prevail. I am the light on your pathway. And, I AM
all you need."

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