~THE HEART OF GOD~

~THE HEART OF GOD~

Within His Heart is the beauty of the beating of His passion that we may come to know. The Glory of the Father is so that He may recognize the creation He has made so that hearts are directed towards Him. We are full of the love of the Father that we should explode with His joy and peace and grace. In the Father's Heart there is peace and we shall be given a peace that passes all understanding. We are chosen vessels, selected by Him to proclaim the divine living Word of God. We shall be open and direct and to proceed without hesitation to the front lines.

For the battle is before us so that we may look upward and forward and put on our armor to walk out into the territory that He has so deemed. Finding our strength in Him we shall run and not be weary for He is our Joy and our strength. We shall rise up like eagles and we shall not be faint. The name of our LOrd is a strong tower and all who run into it shall be saved. We are not battling flesh and blood but high places, and principalities to the pulling down of strongholds. We shall arise and stand in the places to speak with boldness the Words of our Lord. He shall make the crooked ways straight and we shall climb the hills of adversary with courage and confidence in our Lord.

We shall not shrink back for to do so will cause defeat. We are not defeated for we are the army of the LORD! WE SHALL PROCLAIM HIS WORD CUTTING DOWN THE ENEMY WITH A STRIKE OF THE SWORD. WE SHALL GO IN AND COME OUT AND STAND ABOVE THOSE THINGS THAT PULL UPON US. We are seated with Him now and we reign with Him. We are His and He is ours! Do not be discouraged, do not fear, for the LORD THY GOD IS WITH YOU! MOVE FORWARD with GREAT SPEED!

~THE LATTER SHALL BE GREATER THAN THE FORMER RAIN~

~ THE LATTER SHALL BE GREATER THAN THE FORMER RAIN~
Joel Chapter (2:15, 23,25)

15:Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly..... 23: Be glad then, you childen of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for He has given you the former rain moderately, and He will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month....25: And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the swarming locusts, the crawling locusts and the chewing locusts...........

This is concerning the faithfulness of God and a time to feast in your blessings! Many have felt in captivity, exiled, eaten up, and ground that was gained being taken away; but God is getting ready to restore what the locusts have eaten and your empty places will be full, no more will you be in disgrace. The three different locusts that were attacking were, the swarming locusts that swarms above us so at times we feel as if we cannot see heaven. We wonder where is God. The crawling locusts so that is seems wherever we have put our feet the locusts have crawled over and caused things to disappear before our very eyes, and the chewing locusts which eats away at the leaves and trees causing things that were growing or being restored to be chewed away at looking like it will never happen!

But God is a God of restoration, and in Joel He is speaking to the people in the season of fall and showing how in both seasons-spring and fall, God will bring forth growth and rain in both seasons. There will be a double portion in both seasons, fall and spring causing it to grow no matter when you planted. Like a farmer planting in one season or another, God is going to cause it to rain in both seasons so that everything this farmer has planted comes up double.

The locusts in your life that have been causing you double-trouble are about ready to be devoured because God's great army is getting ready to be released. Israel shall be restored to its proper place. We shall be restored to our proper place and all things restored to us to their proper place. Many are waiting for relationships to be restored, children to be back in their proper places. God is getting ready! Get ready for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit for this is the fall season coming up upon you. Everything that you have planted shall come back double. You shall grow in both seasons! It is beginnning now! It is happening now in my own family's life!


It will be a time of blessing and feasting and the latter of it shall be greater than the first. It is going to be a time of plenty such as you have never known. You shall eat and be in plenty. You will function as you should and will never be in shame again and your finances, your jobs, your relationships, your children and all those prayers that went up shall be restored. These are the promises of God, but they also include the principles of God. He also requires us to be properly dressed so that He can restore us to our rightful place, just as Israel must be restored to her rightful place. In order for us to receive this double portion of HIM, of His power, His righteousness. His anointing, we must live HOLY! We must have more of Him before anything else in our lives. He tells us to seek Him and we will find Him; we can have as much of Him as we want.

We are to be OBEDIENT for rain comes out of a righteous life as God will never bless a mess! WE only get the promises of God by the principles of God! We must be DISCIPLINED in all areas of our lives, because wealth takes discipline, blessings take discipline and a disciplined life leads to greater anointing. We must be a GIVER - we cannot appear before God empty-handed. When we do these things the threshing floors and new wine and oil will overflow. This I believe to be the overflow of the windows of heaven being pressed down and shaken together to pour out upon the people. We will not be able to contain it~ In Ezekiel 34:26 God said, "And I will make them and the places round about My Hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessings", which refers to spiritual blessings which will generate economic, physical and domestic blessings as well for our God is no respector of persons.

You say, "What are these rains?" These former rains promoted germination and growth of the seed, the latter in April matured the crops and got them ready for harvest. Spiritually speaking, the latter rain speaks of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the church and continuing on through the Millennial Reign.

So, if you feel you have been in an exiled state and like Babylon, found your temple in ruins and your seed in captivity, wake up! because the rebuilding of the temple is at hand and the latter rains are coming to bless you in whatever area you have planted. So get ready, for God is getting ready to pour and abundance in your life to feast upon.

How can you apply this to your life, your church:

In rebuilding the temple in Nehemiah 8- the people came together as one.

They listened tentatively to the word as it was made clear to them.

They understood the word and agreed.

They acted upon the word and proclaimed it throughout.

They cleansed themselves and separated themselves from wickedness and sin and confessed their sins. The cleansing came after they walked out of their captivity~then the rains overtook them!!!

~Arise & Release~

Live life abundantly for the Glory of the latter house will be greater than the first. Lay all things aside for the Lord is giving greatly the widom to understand and reveal those secret places. Come to me and call upon me and see if I will not show you great and mighty things.

You have waited and wondered why the Lord is slow to speak. But my dear child I have waited to give you great messages of hope and inspiration and public speaking to become empowered to give my life giving words abroad and to many people. Trust me and begin to speak, write and walk about for you are getting ready to meet many who are without hope and are spiritually dead and blind. Your life, love and empowerment have come at a great cost but you are about to see the Lord in the Land of the Living mount up in your defense to go to each and every man, woman and child and pronounce the day of Great News, Deliverance and Jubilation~

In the same mind of Christ you shall release great hope and faith with deep understanding and revelations unknown to many because I have emplanted years of seeds inside of you that have been lying dormant ready to be grown, empowered and released.

Once the seed has grown and become fully developed it must be watered and then it is released for greater emobodyment. It shall grow as it is released. For is is flowing - it is flowing - flowing within and it is about to BURST! YOU CANNOT CONTAIN It any longer!! There must be a release so come forth and arise for your words are anointed by my very hand for I have touched your lips as you will never know or understand. Yes, the gentle pat you felt was the fingers of the Lord upon your lips shedding abroad my light that will perform wonders among many and dispel darkness all over.

It is time to release what has been stored inside. I did not forget about you - for you are the apple of my eye! You have been sitting and waiting! Now go forth in the name of the Lord and shine my light. Spiritual Words Shall Fly throughout the HIGHWAYS, BYWAYS AND AIRWAYS! These words are SPIRIT and the are LIFE~



In His Service - Blessings to You!
Barb

~A Blazing Furnace~

~A Blazing Furnace~

Daniel: 3:13-19

What will we do when the temptation to compromise our faith stands before us? Will we conform to others ways of doing things even though it clearly disobeys the will of God, or will we set the standards of personal Holiness. Will we imitate those that do not know Him to please them or will our behavior, and our character line up with Christ's teachings and likeness. In identifying ourselves with Christ's life and work we are living as an heir and adopted child of God.. We are living a gospel-centered life in which we are abiding in Christ and showing forth His rulership and authority over our life rather than bowing down to idols, and foreign commands of people who put barriers before us to live a holy life sanctified and set apart for Christ.

We are to submit to God and trust Him in faith when we are faced with temptations to acknowledge other gods. There are some who will be watching you trying to get you to conform to their way of thinking and in this case of Daniel and his friends being thrown in the furnace, it was the onlookers and the officials who noticed what the others were not doing. It was not the King himself, for he really cared for Daniel. Others will be motivated by envy to destroy your faith and trust in God discouraging your from completing your destiny. Even though these men in the furnace were certain of God delivering them, it did not depend on that, but on the certainty of their conviction in their Faith an trust. Most would perish in this situation for who wants to get thrown into a blazing furnace. We do not so easily trust when we are tried and thrown into various fiery situations, most of us start moving into doubt and want out quickly! Doubt and worry are sin and so cause us to be weakend in our faith.

In most cases we will not have to defend our belief in our God to save us for He stands with us and before us fighting our battles. He is our sun and shield and will certainly deliver us. Even if He chooses to not take us out, but take us through we need only to submit to His authority, to His commands and be obedient to what He has told us to do. We do not change like shifting sand, or whatever feels good at the moment. In Isaiah 26:3 it says, "You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, all whose thoughts are fixed on You! Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock". Our Lord will smooth out the path before us and will bring down other idols to dust. What will you do if you are suddenly thrown into a "high pressured" situtation, will you give in and bow down to the idol before you, or will you depend on the Christ who is able to deliver you and, "if not", will you still trust and obey?

God does have the power to save everyone from the death of flames, but many times He dosen't. Many times God allow His people to demonstrate their love for Him by giving up their lives. But He saves them from a greater danger - eternal hell! We must be willing to die rather than serve or worship any God except our own. Even Daniel's King Nebuchadnezzar praised the God of Daniel for rescuing His servants. What a testimony that was and is for us when we stand in the face of death and defy all those who wish for us to bow down to their ways of doing and thinking and living. We cannot compromise our Faith but must be fully committed to our God. Daniel had been promoted to prime minister and sat at the gate of the King, (gate meaning "the door to the king". He still was put into a fiery furnace with his friends. When God promotes you to sit "at the gate of the King" will you still be able to be tried in the furnace? You may not know how God will deliver, sometimes it may be the very opposite of what you think, but dead or alive - you will certainly know that you are God's!

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Remaining Faithful

Remaining In Faith!

A. Ruth's Need to Remain with Naomi (1:1-5)
B. Ruth's Opportunity to Leave Naomi (1:6-15)
C. Ruth's Choice to Remain with Naomi (1:16-18)


Throughout the story of Ruth you can see how God took the losses and sufferings of this family and turned it into good and reaped blessings forevermore. There was famine in this land and they had moved out of the land and territory that they were forbidden to be outside of; they were not to leave Israel. We have in our own lives spiritual famines of different types concerning job losses, family breakups, relationships that are broken, we live in a dry non-caring world that has lack of spiritual insight. It is a famine all its own. We all at some time have moved out of the area, position or place of dwelling that God has given us because we thought we have found something more suitable. We want to be in better houses, neighborhoods, better success and have a title that means something. We want to do it our way! WE have moved out of the land or spiritual umbrella that God has orchestrated for our lives. This is exactly what this family had done. Not only with the famine going on, but now Naomi’s husband and two sons had died so this brought more suffering. To be out of the will of God will always bring suffering. Spiritually speaking, it is easy to go into wrong directions; however, it is very hard to leave that wrong direction in order to come back to the right way. But this ends up becoming a story of Redemption!

Ruth-the daughter-in-law was of great Faith from the beginning! Naomi was bitter because of all the heartache but somehow she knew that the famine was over and that in the country of Moab the Lord had visited His people giving them bread. Many times we in our own natural strength try to make a way through these famines when our Lord is saying, “here is the bread of life” eat it and be satisfied”. But we neglect to take in this daily nourishment. Until finally after many dry years or weeks we decide to feast upon what God has already supplied us with. We just weren’t listening. Now Naomi heard clearly that the famine was over and she wanted to go and get some bread. But, now she displays the same faithlessness that she did when her family left Israel and discourages her daughters-in-law from returning with her. At this stage, she had poor faith. But when she returns to Israel, her faith will begin to come back. You see, Moab - was not the place of faith - the world system is never the place of faith. Israel was and still is the place of Faith~

Many times we leave our place of Faith - there is no rest when you are living in the place of idolatry. There is anxiousness and restlessness when you are not walking in Faith and the will of God. Our Moab is the place of distractions, of walking by sight and not by faith. This direction limits God to move. It is where doubt and unbelief rule instead of trust and Faith in our God to be with us. So Naomi continues to give them an opportunity to leave and discourages them from staying with her. I believe she knew what would transpire in Moab. Naomi knew she had been out of the will of God, but I believe she wanted better for Ruth and Orpah. But Ruth had a need to stay with her Mother-in-law. She knew the God of Israel! But Orpah didn’t because she kissed her and left, how sad! She wanted the gods of Moab and couldn’t part with them. We do this in our own lives, God is telling us to part with these idolatries, but we would rather have them than the true God of Israel. Ruth’s faith was great, because she must have seen something or known something before to cleave to her mother-in-law. She I believe had saw her God of Israel and was cleaving to that remembrance of Him. She would not let go!

Ruth chooses to cleave unto God, whereas Orpah leaves to settle in with the gods and idolatries of the past where it is comfortable and settled, where at least she knows what is in store for her. But that is not what God ask of us. We are to leave the past behind and press forward to greater things, moving out of our comfort zones. Those things that are unseen and yet still promised we are to head towards. Ruth expressed one of the greatest affirmations of Salvation found in the Word of God. It characterizes all those who come to Christ. Even though Naomi had low faith plus she discouraged her from staying and even asked her if she was going with her sister, Ruth never swayed from her love and faith that she held to, saying, “Where you go, I will go and where you lodge, I will lodge, your people shall be my people and your God my God, where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried, the LORD do so to me, and more also if ought but death part you and me. There is no looking back! She will forever turn her back on the world of idolatry and rebellion against God. Even when she died she did not want to be sent back to Moab. Ruth cut all ties to the past, even her family and everything else. This is the same consecration that is demanded by God of all who come to Him. Naomi knew she had done wrong but Ruth was about to change that line of heritage.

As they went steadfast in their mind and faith to Bethlehem the city moved about them, because they couldn’t believe it was Naomi. They saw the poverty of spirit within her for she was low in faith and the husband and two sons that were absent-meaning dead were gone, and then above all else, a Moabitess accompanies her! They thought of all the bad things this woman had been through, the turmoil, pain and shame and now look at her being accompanied by this woman Ruth! Little did they know that this WOMAN (Moabitess) would be the ancestress of the Messiah.! Were they in for a surprise! When people come and condemn you and look at you for where you’ve been and all your past experiences and begin to sum you up, tell them to wait! That there is another person showing up yet!

Naomi thought she was dead, bitter and empty and the Lord had dealt with her because of her wrongdoings, but God doesn’t work from what might have been, but rather from “what is”. Her thinking “empty” certainly described her situation, however, she was far more full than she could even begin to think because Ruth - that crazy Moabitess would prove to be the greatest blessing of all. When unbelief sees “empty”, faith sees “full”. Ruth’s choice and her need and her opportunity elevated her Faith to stay on with Naomi and bring them back into the goodness of the God of Israel. It doesn’t matter what Ruth was, the Holy Spirit wants us to know who she becomes and that He changed Ruth’s life and He can change ours as well, for Ruth goes on to meet her kinsman redeemer and finds favor and blessing and a new husband! Not to shabby for a Moabitess full of Faith! Remember, there is no sin that the blood cannot cover, there is no life that the cleansing of the blood cannot change.

~We also have a NEED to remain with God~

~We also have FREE WILL and opportunity to LEAVE God~

~We have a CHOICE to REMAIN with God~

Do not leave the umbrella of God’s protection and do not give up in your time of spiritual famine!

~Heavenly Places`~

Ephesians 2:6-Seated In Heavenly Places
And He hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.


We have been identified with Christ not only in His death, but also in His resurrection and in His ascension to the right hand of the Father. The word SIT is a great word because it indicates the position we have in Christ as partakers of a finished redemption and sharers in victory. Because of our position in Christ, we are already potentially in heaven where He is- actually.

The difference is that before we became christians we were dead in sin and were slaves to our sinful nature, but now we are alive in Christ and seated with Him. We have been given the power to live as victorious Chrisitans now! He gave us life and raised us from the grave of sin and took us out of the graveyard! So we have been quickened together, raised together and seated together in the heavenlies. God did this because He is rich in mercy and great in love. Mercy means that God does not give us what we do deserve, grace means that He gives us what we don't deserve.

By being made alive in Christ, a spiritual resurrection from our dead state, we have ascended in our spiritual position in the heavenlies with Christ. Our physical position may be our faith, but our spiritual position is in the heavenlies.

In our spiritual union in being raised from the dead with Christ means we have been given new life. (A new disposition) Being taken up to the heavenlies with Christ (our ascension) means we have been given a new environment. We are not longer creatures of this world bound by what we can see and touch, smell, hear and taste.

But, we are now people of a greater heavenly realm, who now because of our union with Christ, think, work and speak in new spiritual arenas. We are actually lifted up into a new thought realm. We now have a new standard of values and assess things in a new way.

More than anything, we start to recognize and realize that we belong to heaven than to the earth. We have in Christ a title to the privileges and blessings of God. Apart from this position and this union, we would not even be aware of God's Kingdom, let alone be part of it.

To put it another way, we now have an upward focus, a new disposition, and a different heavenly orientation so we set our affections on things above. In being seated with him we are now in a position of power and authority and thisis the security we have.

We are exalted with Him, we reign with Him, we can obtain victory through Him, so we are intimately secure in Him. It states, "He has seated us" - meaning the promise has already taken place, so we are already there in Christ spiritually and one day we will be there physically. It is for the greater purpose of His Glory to manifest His jewels!

~Getting to Know You~