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“2016”
“THE LESSONS OF
HUMILITY”
Seeking Out Pure And
Fresh Wells
“When pride comes,
then comes disgrace,
But with humility
comes wisdom.”
-Proverbs
11:2
Many powerful men and women who
were in elevated and highly visible positions of leadership politically,
spiritually and in the sport and entertainment fields in 2015 were uncovered as
frauds and vile abusers during the past year of what appeared to be a virulent
year of repeated and embarrassing exposures.
The Lord is again FIRMLY warning
many out in these arenas, large and small, that there is still an opportunity
for you to redeem the time. The falsifying of your claimed insights from God to
manipulate financial support, fame, notoriety and honor for good deeds will no
longer be tolerated and will in fact be double-stamped with the seal of
“deceiver and thief” if the appeals for connived support are not stopped. God is
not behind what you have demanded in His Name.
Some in ministry and Non-profit
organizations have satisfied themselves upon the offerings of widows and those
who foolishly gave on impulse, due to your slick emotional pleas and contrived
media images and heart-tugging background musical interludes. They have robbed
and stolen from others whom God has anointed and blessed in smaller settings and
their cries for help and assistance have not gone unheard from the Heart of
heaven.
SUSTAIN AND BE A
FOUNDATION FOR THE SMALL BUT FRESH WELLS.
The Holy Spirit would have the
body of Christ soberly hear the following words.
"There will be a fresh wave of conviction to
"Sustain and Strengthen the Foundations of those who have been Fresh and Pure
wells to drink from and connect with" and there will be a trending back towards
smaller, steady and steadfast ministries and servants who have faithfully plowed
and served in seasons of loss, lack, and persecution. Don’t
withhold!
You must not muzzle the servants who have
been plowing, and you will be judged for feigned ignorance towards their needs
and my conviction to “send them out” to do My
work.
To those who feel as if they are “more graced
or more anointed” and who think that they have a "special and more unique”
calling that needs a preeminent opportunity to instruct and be seen, beware of
the pride of life, the lust for power and the wares of selfish
ambition.
Do
nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.
Rather, in humility, value others above
yourselves.
-Philippians 2:3
You will be found upon the trash heap of loss
and sorrow if you grasp and hold tightly to what was never really yours to begin
with. It is mine.
If you cannot accept the terms of what I
request, you will be known as a divider, weak, egotistical and
immature.
Again, I will not bless your intentions or
your ambitions. You rob the Body of authentic Kingdom service by remaining
secretive, self-promoting and destructive to My
purposes.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
and the knowledge of the holy one
understands.
-Proverbs
9:10
WHEN THE SOUL GOES THROUGH
HUMBLING EXPERIENCES
We all know that there are times
when the soul goes through humbling experiences. Perhaps in the past you had
strength, calm, security and confidence, and then all of that suddenly gets
stripped and your soul sees itself and it's true state of desperate
need. If you are alert you will recognize that the Lord
is opening our eyes to secret pride in 2016. That internal thinking that all of
our achievement is of our own doing and not purely a gift from
above.
Yes, these times come so it will
never occur to us again that we are stronger in spirit than anyone else! If we
look up on any other person as weaker, it is only because we have not been taken
through the purging fire of God completely. Perhaps this is what's happening to
someone we know, and it's no business of ours to preen our feathers of
“goodness” while they are being refined and challenged. On the other side of
that coin, God wants for us to have an open and humble spirit, realizing that if
we were in their position we may not handle the circumstances as well, and might
do worse.
IN 2016 THIS HUMBLING
PROCESS IS IN GOD’S HANDS
It is his way of raising in your
heart a new love for all of mankind. In the past you may have judged others
either for their pride, or for being in personal
difficulties.
Even worse, you may have seen
others who are lukewarm or weak in their faith and compared it with your own
strong devotion and enthusiasm for God.
God is merciful and he shows us
all of our own places of emptiness. Allowing us to go through humbling
experiences is how He knocks this out of the seat of our own “judgment” which is
His seat alone!
He wants us to keep our eyes on
our own response to what we know He wants us to do so that we remain in a place
of simple obedience to Him.
WE ARE ON A HUMBLE
SPIRITUAL ROAD IN 2016
David stood in the presence of
wicked men (Samuel chapter 16:5-6 and 9-10) and there he was wondering why the
Lord put up with their evil behavior while he was going through such anguish in
his own life! But he still prayed and said “I will watch my ways so I may
not sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth shut as if it were tied with ropes,
while the sinful are near me.” –Psalm 39:1
109 When David finally saw how
limited and small that his own viewpoint was, he continued to say, “ I
remained silent and I wasn't about to open my mouth because you Lord are the one
who allowed this!”
This is a humble condition much
like David's that the Lord will bring our souls to as we are on a humble
spiritual road in 2016. He says to you and I that He longs to help you
to be submitted to His hand alone, obedient to His voice alone! We are not to
resist Him!
We are not really serving Him and
our brothers and sisters if we've taken the high seat above them. When the Lord
begins to work this way of tenderness in our hearts we must listen to what He
says no matter what or WHOM He allows to bring the message through. In the past,
arrogance has been the measuring stick where many would only receive teaching
and correction from someone THEY thought was worthy to DARE speak to
them! Those days are over.
If you have jealousy in your
heart and fight to have many things,
do not be proud of it. Do not
lie against the truth.
James
3:14
IN 2016 WE MUST HAVE EARS
THAT ARE OPEN TO HIS VOICE ALONE
We can enjoy the extreme value of
knowing that we must be under the direction of our matchless
Lord.
Remember that He may use anyone at
all, however unpleasing to the eye, unintelligent or not so affluent! When you
see they may be able to teach you and direct you on your way, it is because of
the attraction and Divine beauty they have in their lives from honoring the
Lord. It’s that they are truly humble, not simply by saying it - but by
literally BEING humble.
HEEDING ANOTHER VOICE OF
PROMISE AND PROMOTION
The Lord has impressed me to share
that some have heeded another voice, one who would put them up, on the pinnacle
of the world and promise them all power and wealth if they but just bow down.
The Lord wants you to know, (although I tremble at even delivering this), that
many have already bent one knee downward to hopefully obtain a bit of blessing
from “both sides.”
Get up and RUN from deception and
self-indulgence, blatant lying and entitlement!
You can be sure that using people
or spiritual metaphors or “things” just for what you can get out of them—the
typical indicators of idolatry—will get you nowhere, and certainly nowhere near
the Kingdom of Christ.
You have been taken in and spoiled
by religious smooth talk. The Lord is furious with people who are full of
religious sales talk but who really want nothing to do with Him. You have groped
your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The
bright light of Christ makes your way plain.
GOD MOVES AMONG THE
OUTCASTS
“Has not my hand made all
these things, and so they came into being?”
declares the LORD. These are
the ones I look on with favor:
Those who are humble and
contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word.”
-Isaiah
66:2
You've probably never been stuck
on a deserted island, but you may know pretty well how it feels. In a world of
bad relationships and superficial relationships and broken relationships, a lot
of people know the feeling of being emotionally cast aside, abandoned, and maybe
even discarded. Because of some of what you've been through, you may feel like
you're the outcast.
Your days on that island may be
almost over. In fact, it could be that all your failed or frustrating
relationships have actually been preparing you to experience the central
relationships you were being equipped and prepared for.
Anyone who has ever felt like an
emotional outcast needs to hear the fabulous promise of Jesus Christ in
this word for 2016 from the Word of God.
Jesus says to all those
who belong to Him,
"I will not leave you as
orphans. I WILL come to you.”
-John
14:18
This is the same Savior,
who says,
"Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.” Hebrews. 13:5
He's the One, who
promised,
"The one that comes to me,
I will certainly not cast out."
John
6:37
And from now on, that promise of
Jesus can be all about you,
"The one that comes to me I will
certainly not cast out."
THE LORD WOULD SAY THESE
WORDS TO YOU AND I IN 2016
“You now understand the pain of betrayal, losses so
great that you can no longer talk about them. You have ached in such agonizing
despair that at times you have begged me to let you die. Friends have turned and
chosen to see you through blinded eyes of their own making and have refused to
help you to find your footing again, thinking they are doing you a service by
letting you grovel and weep in painful loss and sorrow. They have competed for
gain to their own egos and have self promoted at the expense of exchanging
deeper relationships for ego stroking.
You have been reduced in the past season to
identifying with those who were forced to make bricks for Pharaoh without
straw. I too was a man of sorrows and endured the shame in
order to be formed, shaped and made ready for the moment of
redemption.
And so shall it be with you. Redemption from the
losses will come to those who choose obedience over pleasure, serving others
over being the served one, and letting go of the dreams of greatness you cling
too, no longer using my name or gifts as a calling
card.
THE CALL OF THE MOMENT IN
2016
“Let the follies of your dim visions fall away”, says
the Spirit of God! I have a more perfect way that I am forming in you and for
you. I have caused you to cease from striving, from worrying, and from being
anxious.
You now rest up again my chest, waiting, trusting,
wanting only ME.
You have become kinder, a better listener, a more
trusted confidant.
I can work well with those
attributes. Just Watch Me in this
Year.
I WILL Open the Way of Hope and shine Light on the
pathway for those who have ceased from manipulating the
moment.”
SEARED OR FERVENT IN
2016?
“The spirit clearly says
that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and
things taught by demons.
Such teachings come through
hypocritical liars,
Whose consciences have been
seared as with a hot iron.”
~ 1 Timothy 4
To have a seared or calloused
conscience means to cause something to wither. To make (someone's conscience,
heart, or feelings) insensitive.
Without the willingness of heart
to fall upon the rock of God’s word, allowing every strength and support of ours
to be fully broken, the wicked heart of mankind will continue to allow the
searing patterns of indifference and insensitivity to affect their choices and
will permeate more and more of the moral and sacred places of
society.
I have been impressed to warn
believers that the increase of sexual lures and smutty language has begun to pay
a toll much larger than they realize.
MATURE AND SOLEMN IN
2016
Huge numbers of people are being
brought to ruin because they are not thinking; thoughtlessly causing hurt or
inconvenience to others is the devastation of thousands, and many a precious
soul has been shattered through carelessness.
The Lord is asking you and I to
"consider our ways," and return to a walk with
The Still Small
Voice and begin a familiarity with him yet again. With conviction, it
would be the most rewarding relationship you could fall
into!
But since we belong to the
day, let us be sober.
-1 Thessalonians
5:8
PRAYER AND THANKFULNESS IN
2016
“Devote yourselves to prayer,
being watchful and thankful.”
-Colossians
4:2
As I finish this word and
insights for the year, I will share the last whispers the Lord spoke clearly to
me.
“Each day, upon waking, where does your heart
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, behaviors and moods 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 grindstone thinking. Each day can be a fresh adventure
into Kingdom purposes or, a continual repeating of a 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
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