Yolanda Ballard
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Posted: 04/05/2009 at 7:01pm
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Word submitted for your discernment
By Yolanda Ballard (roarnworship@cfl.rr.com)
TIME TO CHECK MOTIVES
Nothing can come upon you without Me allowing it to do so. When you
examine your heart, even in the things that you do, make sure that your
motives are right even in the little things right up to the big. For when
your motives are pure, only good will come forth from your efforts to
serve Me. But when your motives stem out of a heart of pure
manipulation, you are dabbling in witchcraft to even trying to bring forth
blessings from My hand and heart to you.
When you hear others say of things like planting a seed to reap a harvest
and what you sow you reap, examine even the motive behind that. What
are they trying to get you to do to be able to receive? Is it to give only to
get back more, or is it to give freely wanting nothing in return? For many
are dabbling in witchcraft in trying to manipulate My people to give into
their ministries.
Are they baiting you with items and trinkets and gifts to get you to bless
their ministries, or are they just giving you the true opportunity to give
just because you have a heart to give. Take away the gift before you and
see if you truly are led by Me to give into this ministry. I want you to be
sure you are led by My Spirit for many are out there trying to rob you of
the funds you need to survive right down to the time you put into serving
others.
This is the day to examine your heart to see if your motives are pure but
also to see if your priorities are right in what you are doing. Your time is
also important. If you are burning it up in doing things outside of My will,
then the enemy is sidetracking you and robbing you of your energy of
having that freshness when you come before Me. Don't give Me second
best of your time. Give Me your first fruits, and then only then will you be
blessed in being led by My Spirit in all that you do.
Watch and pray for the spirit is willing and the flesh is weak and is easily
snared by the enemy's devices to lead you into complacency by
sidetracking you to be caught up into busyness. Let yourself pull back
from what you are doing to see if it is truly Me who is leading you. Would
I do things that would rob you of your affection of that place of intimacy
with Me? Would I drain you of your energy so you are too tired physically
and mentally to come before Me?
Yes, I call you to watch and pray and to be wise as a serpent but harmless
as a dove. Do not be intimidated by any man, but stand up for what I
show you. A simple "yes" to what I lead you or a simple "no"to others who
ask of you. Do not be conned in even by the lusts of your eyes, your
flesh, or the pride of life.
Yes, this is the time to examine your heart and truly be led of Me in these
following days. For time is crucial, along with your strength and energy
and also your funds. But most of all keep your heart and your ears open to
My guidance. And desire most of all that place of intimacy with Me, for I
desire most of all to be with you to feed you My truth, to guide you and
protect you, and to build you up. Yes, this is the day to draw close to Me!
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CHRIS MORRIS
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Posted: 04/11/2009 at 11:33pm
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This Post is so current!
Please read in context the entire chapter Malachi 3.
Amazing words for this hour.
It is the Priests Hearts! 100% all of it. 100% not to be compromised in any way!
This passage is always used just to take offerings... hey now lets go way beyond that money thing!
It is talking about the condition of the Priests Hearts first and foremost. The money thing and offering is a non-issue if He has all of your 100% pure heart!
Treasure = Heart! + Heart = Treasure!
"The Storehouse" = Secret Treasure Place also!
Malachi 3
The Coming Messenger
1 Behold, I send My messenger,
And he will prepare the way before Me.
And the Lord, whom you seek,
Will suddenly come to His temple,
Even the Messenger of the covenant,
In whom you delight.
Behold, He is coming,
Says the LORD of hosts.
2 But who can endure the day of His coming?
And who can stand when He appears?
For He is like a refiners fire
And like launderers soap.
3 He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver;
He will purify the sons of Levi,
And purge them as gold and silver,
That they may offer to the LORD
An offering in righteousness.
4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem
Will be pleasant to the LORD,
As in the days of old,
As in former years.
5 And I will come near you for judgment;
I will be a swift witness
Against sorcerers,
Against adulterers,
Against perjurers,
Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien
Because they do not fear Me,
Says the LORD of hosts.
6 For I am the LORD, I do not change;
Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.
7 Yet from the days of your fathers
You have gone away from My ordinances
And have not kept them.
Return to Me, and I will return to you,
Says the LORD of hosts.
But you said,
In what way shall we return?
Do Not Rob God
8 Will a man rob God?
Yet you have robbed Me!
But you say,
In what way have we robbed You?
In tithes and offerings.
9 You are cursed with a curse,
For you have robbed Me,
Even this whole nation.
10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,
That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,
Says the LORD of hosts,
If I will not open for you the windows of heaven
And pour out for you such blessing
That there will not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes,
So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,
Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,
Says the LORD of hosts;
12 And all nations will call you blessed,
For you will be a delightful land,
Says the LORD of hosts.
The People Complain Harshly
13 Your words have been harsh against Me,
Says the LORD,
Yet you say,
What have we spoken against You?
14 You have said,
It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the LORD of hosts?
15 So now we call the proud blessed,
For those who do wickedness are raised up;
They even tempt God and go free.
A Book of Remembrance
16 Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another,
And the LORD listened and heard them;
So a book of remembrance was written before Him
For those who fear the LORD
And who meditate on His name.
17 They shall be Mine, says the LORD of hosts,
On the day that I make them My jewels. (or "special treasure")
And I will spare them
As a man spares his own son who serves him.
18 Then you shall again discern
Between the righteous and the wicked,
Between one who serves God
And one who does not serve Him.
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MALACHI 3
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