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RHEMA 11/02/06
OVERCOME SHAME
HEARD:
Purpose defeat the enemy. When is suffering wrong?
PIX:
I saw the word Shame.
The word suffer occurs
93 times in scripture.
1 Peter 5:8-11 NKJV
Be sober, be
vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about
like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist
him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same
sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the
world. But may the God of all grace, who called us to
His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have
suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and
settle you. To Him be the glory and the dominion
forever and ever. Amen.
The word shame occurs
140 times in scripture.
“Instead of your
shame you shall have double honor, And instead of
confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore
in their land they shall possess double; Everlasting joy
shall be theirs.” (Isa 61:7 NKJV)
WORDS TO PONDER ABOUT SHAME
WORD TO PONDER: SHAME 1991
In your life you have suffered shame. Some
of it was your own doing, but most from circumstances
beyond your own control. It was an enemy plan to
ultimately destroy you. And what he could not destroy,
he slimed with layers upon layers of shame.
Covered in mud, you have felt despised and looked down
upon. In an attempt to recover, you have layered
yourself with soap to rid yourself of the memory. And
yet deep in your heart you still suffer the shame.
The enemy placed you as the tail to walk upon and
trample. In your sufferings, you have cried out to Me,
and I have heard your cries of despair and shame.
Did I not promise to make you the head and not the tail?
What the enemy has tried to slime, I make beautiful and
bestow with honor. I give honor to My weakest members.
Do not forget that. You have yet to experience your most
glorious hour and the enemy knows that. Remember that
shame is one of his greatest road blocks. I
want you to recognize it and put it behind you once and
for all.
"O my God, I trust in thee: let Me not be ashamed,
let not mine enemies triumph over Me."(Psalms 25:2)
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COVER THE SHAME 1991
When Ham saw Noah's nakedness, rather than turning and
covering the shame, he told his brothers.
When Noah found out, he cursed him with slavery.
Because the other sons respected their father, they came
into his tent backwards, keeping their eyes averted and
covering his nakedness. When Noah heard, he blessed them
with prosperity.
Likewise, when you see the sins of others, cover their
shame. To tell another, is like spreading
a plague. One tells another and so on. When you spread
someone else's shame, you yourself become
the captive. The end result is always slavery.
When you love someone, you will be loyal to him no
matter what the cost. You will cover his shame.
“And above all things have fervent charity among
yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of
sins.” (I Peter 4:8)
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ROLLING AWAY THE SHAME 1991
Though you appear crippled and carry the stigma of this
shame, I have ordained a straight path for
you. I AM moving you quickly into your place. Your
journey is coming into a time of favor, whereby as you
trust in Me, I will indeed roll away the shame.
I will send My angels to guard your path, and you will
move forward into Me. With each step you will grow
stronger and suddenly you will be brought into an open
expanse - a place filled with widened boundaries. A
promotion, something well deserved by one who has
suffered long. Trust Me, it's coming.
“And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled
away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the
name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.”
(Joshua 5:9)
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THE POWER OF WEAKNESS 1991
In My kingdom, I send the mouth of babes to still the
avenger. I empower the foolish to confound the wise. The
cowards are given holy boldness. The meek are raised to
possess the spoils of war.
I do not intend weakness to shame. Rather,
weakness is a mark of honor. For only through weakness
can My full complete power rest upon your life. If I
place you in an environment of weakness it is because
there is an assignment for you that will be hindered any
other way.
The strength of flesh has no might in the unseen world.
The enemy lies, telling the world there is strength in
control, intimidation, debate, intellect, mastery. He
puffs man with these false securities, for darkness is
desperately afraid of weakness. Weakness that empties
self in any form leaves one vulnerable to depend upon
Me. Within that dependence I AM released to work greater
victories to defeat the realm of darkness.
Rejoice in weakness. It is not something to fear. Rather
glory in it, that My full miraculous power may be
dispatched without hindrance.
"..My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is
made perfect in weakness..." (2 Corinthians 12:9)
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WOUNDED 1991
I wound and I heal. I tear down and I build up. What is
being fashioned you have not seen. Rest assured it is I
Who have brought you to this place. A new thing is in
the making. But I will also restore your walk to a
smooth path without shame. Your confidence
shall return. Be of good cheer.
" See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god
with Me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal:
neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand."
(Deuteronomy 32:39)
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LET GO OF THE SHAME 1991
Who can know the heart of man? There are many influences
that cause him to run from Me. But I know the heart. I
have understood your pain and your desires to camouflage
it. I have suffered your grief. I have understood your
sorrows.
Do not let the enemy condemn you for running. I have
kept you and never left your side. The enemy may be
justified in his condemnation, but justification comes
through Me, and Me alone. You cannot justify yourself. I
alone hold pardons. When I speak, the enemy's charges
cannot stand. I have spoken. Do not allow shame
to stand between us. You are My favored one.
Purity comes from the fire. Darkness cannot stand My
purging fire. Your heart has been cleansed and you have
withstood the heat. I do not smell smoke upon you. Yet
the enemy would cloud your vision with the smoke of
shame. Walk through it and leave it behind.
Do not allow shame to come between us. Let
the shame go. Come to Me.
“For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on
the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the
heart.” (I Samuel 16:7)
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ONE BY ONE 10/10/94
You have been under great opposition. I have given you a
secret weapon and that is not even yet manifest to you
as to how effective. Just continue to use your authority
one by one and oust your opposition. This is for
ultimate victory. Be of good cheer. You have been
greatly slimed by the enemy in this process. I want
shame and condemnation and guilt gone. There
is no place for such when you abide in Me. Don't hang
onto it, let it go. I remove all stain and cleanse
everything by My blood. Stand on that and be
strengthened.
“And they departed from the presence of the council,
rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer
shame for his name.” (Acts 5:41 KJV)
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OVERCOMING SHAME 3/26/95
I AM raising My sons for future leadership and yet they
are bound in shame. I will teach them to
use their weapons and they will be established. In that
day, they will be launched. They will also be given
spreading wings of faith to fly above the circumstances
and their shame.
“Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be
ashamed for my sake: let not those that
seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame
hath covered my face.” (Ps 69:6-7 KJV)
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SET YOU FREE FROM SHAME 5/30/95
When you heard the foul mouth of the enemy's accusation,
you overcame and blessed and did not retaliate.
Consequently, I fought your battle for you. I want you
to remember this lesson and want it to be so important
that you plant it like a memorial in stone so that you
do not forget. I also want to bless you where you live
and set you free from the enemy's shame.
“Let those be put to shame and brought to
dishonor who seek after my life; Let those be turned
back and brought to confusion who plot my hurt. 5 Let
them be like chaff before the wind, and let the angel of
the LORD chase them. 6 Let their way be dark and
slippery, and let the angel of the LORD pursue them.”
(Ps 35:4-6 NKJV)
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SHARING 11/6/95
I will be launching you to share your testimony. You
will be safe My love. You must overcome your shame
and I will help you by sending you love letters. It will
not be bitter, but better.
“In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let Me never be ashamed:
deliver Me in thy righteousness.” (Ps 31:1 KJV)
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PAIN IS BURIED 1/18/96
In your past you have suffered deeply imbedded bullets.
These were from the firing of another's will that caused
you shame and loss of dignity. I will heal
you through love.
“Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal
me; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed:
but thou, O LORD, how long? Return, O LORD, deliver my
soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.” (Ps 6:2-4 KJV)
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FINAL GOAL THE HARVEST 10/10/96
Where am I going, you ask. I AM moving towards the grand
finale of bringing in My final harvest, - an explosion
of souls through My supernatural touch. I have been
training you underground with a long season of
schooling. You have been sorely chaffed, cut and pruned
by the opinions of man. This has caused you to feel
shame and become weary. The enemy has wanted
to take advantage with destruction and evil demise, but
I come that you may have life and more abundantly. I
only allow your pruning to cause you to grow even
stronger branches, and have fruitful harvests. But
rejoice, I AM now opening doors of favor for you with a
green light to let you grow new branches of life and
faith. Your training was necessary, My love. Now let us
graft you into greater faith for greater works.
“But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with
compassion on them, because they fainted, and were
scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then
saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is
plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore
the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth
labourers into his harvest.” (Matt 9:36-38 KJV)
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DO NOT DESPISE PROPHESY 10/15/96
Do not allow man's opinions of your prophetic giftings
to despise My treasures. For you belong to Me and I have
planted My Word in you. I do not need their permission
to use you. Wash the shame away and trust
Me in this.
“Quench not the Spirit. 20 Despise not prophesyings.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” (1
Thess 5:19-21 KJV)
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COMING OUT OF HIDING 1/29/97
I have made you My transparent vessel, so that My
children will see the beauty of genuine realness. I have
made you bold, able to publish your life, and come out
of hiding so that others may see your worship of Me
through it and be set free to be transparent themselves.
The beauty of your transparency goes deeper than the
mind, straight into the heart. Thank you dear one, it is
true worship as you lay yourself bare without
shame before My Presence. Always remember that
you are at complete liberty to share or withhold
anything you choose. To share out of your private life
is a sacrifice and I receive it as a sweet smelling
savor.
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face
to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even
as also I am known.” (1 Cor 13:12 KJV)
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WIPED CLEAN 1998
The slate of your life is wiped clean. My blood covers
you and you need not look back. The enemy would forever
hold your past before you. But I say, “Wiped clean by My
blood!” I shed it for you so that you could come into My
Presence without shame, and with My
covering. Stand before Me filled with bold joy, for I
give new life. Rejoice without wavering for I AM
faithful.
“Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way,
which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that
is to say, his flesh; And having an high priest over the
house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an
evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without
wavering; he is faithful that promised.” (Hebrews
10:19-23)
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WHY THE SHAME? LAUNCHED INTO NEW PLACE
2/20/99
Child, why the shame? Let the past go. You
are lamenting and crestfallen for no reason. I have
given you a countdown to new beginnings. I am launching
you into this new place and yet you suffer shame?
Get behind me satan. For he has no place in this new
beginning. I have given you a safe haven, and protection
from him who puffs at you. Change your perspective. No
more despair.
Ready for a plunge? Another chapter is yet to be
written. You have waited so long. Rise up My Beloved,
come to Me. For I give you a promised double portion of
grace and you indeed shall be protected as in the days
of Goshen.
“And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and
there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt
three days: They saw not one another, neither rose any
from his place for three days: but all the children of
Israel had light in their dwellings.” (Ex 10:22-23 KJV)
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WAITING FOR A PLACE 1/10/00
For many years you have been held in confinement. Your
need to be healed, to be loosed from shame,
to come out of prison. I have held you there with the
greatest of care and watchful eye. I have met all your
needs and in the process I have trained you to be able
to walk in a great promotion. For My Spirit is coming!
So much to come, when My Spirit flows up river. It will
break the hindrances held for so long, and will travel
up through the roughest of waters to reach you.
In that day, I would not have you earn your pay by the
sweat of your brow. For you are My chosen vessel,
prepared in the fiery furnace. I would have you do
nothing that causes sweat. You have sweat enough!
I know you are waiting for a place prepared for you. Do
not fear, for I shall indeed link you with other kindred
hearts. You shall stand together against trouble and
easily divide the load. It shall be so much easier than
the road you have traveled. For you have been My
sacrifice in order that you could come into this new
promotion of divine rule. I shall give you rest with the
cloud of My Presence. I shall give you the ease of My
spoken Word. It contains the keys of authority that will
unlock the doors to the hearts of man, and it will bind
all resistance from hindering their movement towards Me.
In that day, you shall have many rewards and honor for
all that you have suffered. In that day, you shall look
back upon the pain and say, “Yes Lord, it was worth it!”
“Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD
tried him.” (Ps 105:19)
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MOVE ON 8/9/00
As a team of trail blazers, you have stood on the front
lines battling the obstacles, one step at a time.
Enduring shame, desolation and death on
every side, you have faithfully plowed a trail behind
you. This has been a humble, lowly and less than
honorable place. And yet in spite of all that you see,
hear, think and feel about yourself, your calling, your
intercession, I declare like thunder in the clouds. MOVE
ON! For I pierce your way with clarity and with the
lighting rods of My power, I will break the mountains
before you and make them plains. I have commissioned you
to move on and come into new land, flowing with milk and
honey. I promise you, you shall not be disappointed.
“Then at last the LORD said to Me, `You have been
wandering around in this hill country long enough; turn
northward.” (Deut 2:2-3 NLT)
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A SPRING FED POOL 8/20/00
Deep within your roots is a beautiful garden pool, fed
by an underground spring. The devil has dumped upon it
and covered it with mud and shame. He has
slimed you with many layers of filth and has wanted to
muddy your waters. But it is only on the exterior, My
love. For if you dig beneath the surface, you will see
that I placed My covering over you when I chose you as
My own. Within your belly flows fountains of crisp
spring water, never to run dry. As we peel away your
layers of shame, you will find deliverance
from these issues and one day you shall once again know
an open heaven as an answer to your prayers.
“Instead of shame and dishonor, you will
inherit a double portion of prosperity and everlasting
joy. "For I, the LORD, love justice. I hate robbery and
wrongdoing. I will faithfully reward my people for their
suffering and make an everlasting covenant with them.”
(Isa 61:6-8 NLT)
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PETER FEED MY SHEEP 5/9/01
How great is your shame and
disappointment! And how far you say you have fallen. And
yet I loved you before and I love you now, knowing full
well your strengths and weaknesses. It is not Me that
disqualifies you, but your own self analysis. In My eyes
you have not fallen, for your faith has not failed you.
I allowed this sifting so that you would learn to not
trust in yourself. No flesh will glory in My Presence,
when I send them My signs and wonders. My messengers
will know that it is I Who holds them up and keeps them
from falling back into their old nature.
So feed My sheep Peter. I have called you but it is from
your own heart that you decide whether you are willing.
I ask you to give out of what you have, not what you do
not have. I know you love Me, will you feed My sheep?
“He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do
you love Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him
the third time, "Do you love Me?" And he said to Him,
"Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You."
Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep.” (John 21:17 NKJV)
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TREE OF INFIRMITY 2/25/02
Precious One, it is time to harvest the pain that has
been deeply embedded in your life for a long time. I
will uproot a family tree of sickness that has been
passed down through generations. I have kept you through
the pain, and now it is time to uproot it. I know it is
difficult for you and it is not easy to find the way to
truth. I will bring you to the door of revelation and
you will know that I Am leading you. Trust Me through
this process to continue to keep you, to heal you and
recover all that you have lost.
Your life of correction has given root to a bitter tree
and it is now clouding your perspective of Who I AM, how
I feel about you and how you feel about yourself. Always
remember that there is no shame on you.
Let go of condemnation from making mistakes and not
measuring up. The poison of such is turning upon
yourself to become your own worst enemy. Know that you
are completely blameless before Me, as you stand in the
Presence of heaven. I have given you clean hands and a
pure heart. You are holy and acceptable in My sight. I
see no spot in you.
“Yet now he has brought you back as his friends. He has
done this through his death on the cross in his own
human body. As a result, he has brought you into the
very presence of God, and you are holy and blameless as
you stand before him without a single fault. 23 But you
must continue to believe this truth and stand in it
firmly. Don't drift away from the assurance you received
when you heard the Good News.” (Col 1:22-23 NLT)
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YOU HAVE NOT FALLEN 4/22/02
The enemy would have you believe that you are making
many mistakes and are falling. But I have promised that
I will raise you up to be My faithful priest and I will
build a stable house. You shall walk in My favor and
anointing forever.
The enemy dumped upon you much shame and
then I stripped you of all the mud and layers. The
stripping process left you feeling shaken and in misery.
I feel your tears, My love, and I will repay everything
the enemy has done to you, with great reward. I have
used this stripping to consume into ashes what does not
belong to Me. But I have left you with a testimony that
will defeat your enemies. You will live to know the day
when your test-i-mony will turn to a blessed-a-mony. I
promise.
“Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who
shall do according to what is in My heart and in My
mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk
before My anointed forever.” (1 Sam 2:35 NKJV)
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TRANSPARENCY 10/06/02
Thank you dear one for giving so graciously to others
what I give to you. You share your testimony, your
relationship with Me, and your life in a transparent
manner due to the nature of My calling upon your life
and I would have you no other way than to be genuine and
real. I know this has cost you your privacy and want to
reassure you. Please do not feel ashamed.
What you perceive as naked weakness and vulnerability is
being transformed into the beauty of My glory and honor.
I clothe you in the beauty of My Word, and it shall go
forth with My power and blessing.
“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper
than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing
asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents
of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not
manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and
opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”
(Heb 4:12-13 KJV)
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REPUTATIONS BELONG TO ME 10/18/02
There was a time in your life when your motives were
misunderstood, misaligned and you were falsely accused.
I am so sorry for your pain. And yet if you had your
way, you would still be in that place today if I had not
put a stop to it and set you free to move on. I use
everything in your life for your training and
perfection. And this experience was not without My
permission. Although painful, I allowed it for your
good.
There will come a day when your past will cross roads
with your present and you will be reminded of the pain
and the shame. I will show you that I have
redeemed that time of dishonor on your behalf. I went
behind you and defended you in the places where you
could not defend yourself and those things that were
misunderstood were put to rest. And you, My love, walked
on and I gave you a new place and with honor. For I
alone hold the reputations of men and I use all for My
purpose. Let go of the shame and keep your
eyes on Me, the One Who adores every part of you. Always
live for an audience of One, and My clapping shall
thunder the heavens on your behalf.
"Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the
same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for
dishonor?” (Rom 9:21 NKJV)
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SHAME NO MORE 11/22/02
Many times I have spoken to you to let go of the
shame. You may not even understand this. I see
it in your wincing, in your downcast eyes, in your
looking away, in your doubts and inability to receive My
complete and everlasting love. Dear One, you are most
precious to Me and it sorrows My heart to see the cloak
of shame that veils your eyes from My
face. If you were to truly understand the work at the
cross and the covering of My dear Son's blood, then you
would receive that I see you only through the eyes of
love. Now come to Me unhindered and look straight into
My face. For there you will see Me smiling with
unconditional love.
“…looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our
faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured
the cross, despising the shame, and has
sat down at the right hand of the throne of God…” (Heb
12:2 NKJV)
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I SEE YOU THROUGH LOVE 1/7/03
I have covered your sins My child. I cover your blights.
I cover your weakness. I cover your tendencies. I cover
your failures and rejections. I cover every part of you…
always with My love. That shame that
causes you to continue to wince, has got to go. Lift
your face to Me and look into the smiling eyes of My
love. See how proud I AM of you, My overcomer, who has
born so much pain and so much sorrow. I am so proud of
you, My very own. Let Me bathe you in the warmth of My
loving smile and let it penetrate all the layers of
shame, right down into your heart. Let the
truth of My love cleanse the shame and
rinse you from its sting forever.
“You will be called priests of the LORD, ministers of
our God. You will be fed with the treasures of the
nations and will boast in their riches. Instead of
shame and dishonor, you will inherit a double
portion of prosperity and everlasting joy.” (Isa 61:6-7
NLT)
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POP THAT LID AND BREAK THE RESTRAINTS 3/12/03
My people have been under years of restraint. Timidity,
shame, regret, insecurity, intimidation,
domination, controlled, wounded. It's time for Jubilee
freedom that can only come through great and mighty
works of My Spirit in their lives. My Presence shall
draw nearer to them than ever before and My Spirit will
break off the restraints. I will lead them out of their
own personal captivities and they shall have testimonies
of restored lives. Then I will use them to help others.
I AM preparing to pop the lid off My people and all that
has held them in captivity shall burst away as they
spring forth in a new release.
“Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou
shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the
headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace
unto it.” (Zech 4:7 KJV)
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THE WHIRLWIND AND CIRCUMCISION 5/25/03
A portion of My children do not understand the lengthy
season of circumcision that I sent with the winds of
change. They have experienced winds so violent that most
perceived this as demonic. Demonic yes, but I allowed
these whirlwinds so that they would leave their
carnality behind and forever walk away from old ways,
old flesh patterns and learn to walk in obedience and
holiness. I will have a pure and spotless bride and she
will make herself ready. Part of this preparation is
learning obedience to holy living. My people perish
through the shame of reproach. The
blasphemous one rails night and day and this stirs the
whirlwinds into greater storms because My people tarry
as they feed upon the world. Come out from her and be
separate and leave the storms behind. Time is short and
I have great bounty in store ready to be dispersed. I AM
calling Mine own to turn a corner and leave the shackles
of carnality behind. In turn, I will roll away the wind
and the shame, the reproach and blasphemy.
“And the Lord said to Joshua, This day have I rolled
away the reproach of Egypt from you. So the name of the
place is called Gilgal [rolling] to this day.” (Josh 5:9
AMP)
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YOUR PORTION IS JUST RIGHT 8/16/03
Let the shame go. Sweet one, I hear you
fuss over the gifts I have given you. You concern
yourself too much with what you think your calling is
supposed to look like. Who told you these things? It is
I Who conceives, grow and brings to birth each man's
calling. This has nothing to do with the affairs of men
and their opinions of what a calling is supposed to look
like. Yes there are patterns to certain gifts, but even
they are individually unique as to each person. Relax
and accept that the portion I have given you is exactly
what you need to daily grow in your calling and daily
fulfill all that I have called you to do. You do not
need tomorrow's portion until tomorrow. Rest dear one,
rest in Me.
I have given you an allowance of daily hearing that you
may grow and some day share My Words with others. You
shall speak them in prayer, in testimony, in sermons, in
writings, in prophesying and in declarations. As you
learn, you shall also teach others. My Words are piling
up in your life and I AM keeping them warm and ready for
birthing in My perfect timing.
“But to each one of us grace was given according to the
measure of Christ's gift. Therefore He says: "When He
ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave
gifts to men." (Eph 4:7-8 NKJV)
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REASSEMBLED 3/17/04
Broken and disassembled, My body is scattered in parts
and pieces all over the world. Even when in a crowd,
they are suffering the coldness of isolation. Broken,
alone, and separated, the comfort of fellowship has
become a rarity. How it grieves My heart to see My loved
ones in such disarray!
Although the enemy has desired to plunder My people
through isolation, I have used the wilderness seasons to
raise My eagles to search for food and train them to
climb higher. Birds fly in flocks and eagles fly alone.
This is the way for training leaders. I have raised a
generation of leaders, who will nurture the great
harvest of newborns. And how they will love their
children! The chatter, the activity, the questions, the
hungry hearts will be like a balm to My isolated ones
who have suffered years of detachment. The shame
of those years will melt away within the deep pools of
My children's hugs. Lost confidence and joy shall return
as I reassemble My body back together again. United in
kindred hearts of loving appreciation, I shall remove
the stumbling blocks and bring My own into one big
family.
Heb 10:24-25 NKJV
And let us consider one another in order to stir up love
and good works, not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but
exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see
the Day approaching.
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SURGERY FROM YOUR PAST IS NECESSARY 5/15/04
Precious one, yes it is Me. Sometimes I bring your past
before you for a specific purpose. You may think you are
repeating old cycles of old pain. It may concern you
that you will fall into the ditch and never rise again.
Yes, you have circled this journey before, as even your
parents did before you. Yet, listen to My voice. THIS
time it is different. I have brought you to this door
for a specific purpose. It is time to cut off the old
shame, the old pain, the old mind-sets, the
old habits, the old misunderstandings, the old lies and
be RELEASED. You know this is behind you and I have
already planted seeds in you that are a different
flavor. Do not allow the enemy to steal your new hopes
and transformations for old lies. Allow Me to take you
through this process of inner healing and wash the
layers of your past in the blood of My Son, the One Who
took the stripes on His back so that you would be
healed.
Isa 53:5 KJV
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was
bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our
peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
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WORKING WITH YOU TO ERADICATE SHAME
6/19/04
I AM doing a work among you that will help wash off the
layers of shame. I have earnestly waited
for you and will work with you until our union is
complete. This shame that stands between
us, as hidden and lurking veils, has to go. I will do
whatever is necessary to remove every layer until you
are squeaky clean. Always know there is no shame
in love. Learn to relax in My love and you will no
longer feel shame. It is that simple.
Cooperate with Me that as I draw the wounds of
shame to the surface, you will see the truth of
who you are in Me, and release the shame
and let Me eradicate it from your life forever.
Isa 61:6-7 NKJV
But you shall be named the priests of the LORD, they
shall call you the servants of our God. You shall eat
the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory you shall
boast. Instead of your shame you shall
have double honor, and instead of confusion they shall
rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they
shall possess double; Everlasting joy shall be theirs.
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WRESTLING WITH ADDICTIONS 1/11/05
How I groan over so many of My children who are
wrestling over addictions! I AM wanting their conscience
and temperance to grow in overcoming these things, so
that they will be able to say no to their flesh and no
to the demonic powers.
It moves Me with such compassion when I see their
transparency to confess with humble hearts their sins
and failings. I see them courageously get up after
falling and then see them facing with determination the
desire to overcome. I witness their teachableness for
answers, and their tenacity to hang onto Me in-spite-of
their flesh and demonic opposition.
They are so slimed with shame after having
reaped the demonic discipline of what they sow. However,
beneath the sin of addiction, in the face of everything,
they are revealing a pure heart when they show such
willingness to move on in obedience. They search Me to
find the help to overcome these things. I love them so
much and AM moved by their tenacity to hang on. I grant
them My grace to overcome.
Gal 6:7-9 NKJV
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a
man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his
flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows
to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due
season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
1 Peter 1:14-15 NLT
Obey God because you are his children. Don't slip back
into your old ways of doing evil; you didn't know any
better then. But now you must be holy in everything you
do, just as God -- who chose you to be his children --
is holy.
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HEALING THE CHILD 3/05/05
Within every human being is a wounded child that needs
to be healed. Beloved one, when you receive a wound, you
stop growing in that place in your life. Life grows up
around you, and you keep growing into maturity with
wings to fly in every area except where you were
wounded. I AM wanting to raise up the tabernacle which
has fallen inside of you and bring you into manhood. In
order to do that, I want to heal the child places in
your life which are so deeply disabling.
Old wounds are like knot holes in a tree. There is a
circular pattern around the wound, and the closer you
get to the knot hole, the more warped and perverted and
out of shape it is. When people get near your wounded
areas, you wince. The more tender those wounds are, the
stronger you wince. The farther away they move from
those places, the more normal and well balanced and
stable you are... able to stand and function in an adult
society with adult pressures.
It is important that You allow me to touch you in these
wounded areas and bring healing. I want to flow through
you and use you as My vessel. But, I do not want you to
minister through your wounds before you are healed. This
would cause you to spill poison onto others and also
pervert truths and spill out bitterness, unforgiveness
and self pity etc.
Until your wounds are healed, there will remain that
unstable place. You have held up all these years with
scar tissue and hardened places. My Spirit is
spotlighting these places and bringing them into focus
so I can wash them and draw out the poison. I AM taking
the heart of stone and replacing it with a heart of
flesh.
The closer you come to the anointing, the more I will
approach these tender and sore places. The process of
washing, although humbling, and makes you feel like a
child and insecure, it is not something to be ashamed
of, it simply is a part of the process. As you are
willing to become vulnerable before Me in the holy
place, I will allow this healing to take place in the
secret places behind closed doors. I will supernaturally
keep you, so that when you return to do your daily
tasks, I will give you the ability to function without
transparent pain.
2 Cor 3:2-3 NKJV
You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and
read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ,
ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit
of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on
tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
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BELOVED FEET
How precious are the feet of My Beloved Bride! Though
she limps with suffering, pain and shame,
she knows in Whom she puts her trust. She bravely trusts
Me for each and every step, and leans upon her Beloved
King. How little she understands the depths of My
eternal love for her! How I long to plant My lips upon
her feet and tenderly kiss them stable again! Rise up My
wife, My Beloved Bride! Rise up and stand, for Your King
has called you into His chambers. Rise up, My love, My
fair one and come away with Me.
Song 7:1 NKJV
How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince's
daughter!
Ps 18:33 NKJV
He makes my feet like the feet of deer, and sets me on
my high places.
Song 2:8-10 NKJV
The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes leaping upon
the mountains, skipping upon the hills. My beloved is
like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind
our wall; He is looking through the windows, gazing
through the lattice. My beloved spoke, and said to me:
“Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
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THE MEASURING WEIGHTS OF LOVE 3/01/06
There are seasons when I have raised you with tough love
as well as raised you with comforting love. At this
point, there is a balancing scale in My hands, and I AM
weighing issues I have spoken about to you for years.
Precious, I love you. I want you to walk in freedom. I
want you to walk in power and grace. I know how deeply
your soul hurts when you don't measure up because of
making deliberate choices that take you into captivity.
I love you and it hurts Me when you are hurting.
I don't want you wallowing in self pity. I don't want
you burning with shame. I don't want you
wincing in condemnation. I want you to grow up and
mature the child inside of you that runs from obedience
and turns to the world for escape. This balance scale is
weighing heavily on My heart. The hand that holds these
scales of tough love and comforting love is called
Grace. I offer you My abiding grace, but I AM asking you
only one question. I need you to be WILLING. That is
all. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and be willing
to listen to Me and obey. I will help you face these
things, but you must be willing to do your part. We will
partner together and face this mountain. How can two
walk together unless they agree?
1 Cor 4:21 AMP
Now which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod
of correction, or with love and in a spirit of
gentleness?
Ps 119:73-77 NLT
You made me; you created me. Now give me the sense to
follow your commands. May all who fear you find in me a
cause for joy, for I have put my hope in your word. I
know, O LORD, that your decisions are fair; you
disciplined me because I needed it . Now let your
unfailing love comfort me, just as you promised me, your
servant. Surround me with your tender mercies so I may
live,
for your law is my delight.
Amos 3:3 NKJV
Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?
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HARVESTING YOUR SOUL GIANTS NO CONDEMNATION 3/25/06
Beloved, I AM NOT angry with you. Nothing could be
further from the truth. Yes I know it hurts to have the
blade cut down the soul giants in your life. It hurts to
separate the good things in your heart, from the weeds.
It hurts to let go of what is not healthy, edifying and
fruitful. Yield it up, dear one. When you feel the
pressure mount and see the tare bearing fruit, yield it
up so that it does not go to seed. We will harvest the
tares and weeds and separate them from you forever.
I understand when you see these things manifest, that
you feel blackened and dirty like the Shulamite who lost
her ivory skin from harvesting the fields under the
blazing sun. I understand your shame and
that you feel unstable and a mess. Please, always
remember that you belong to Me and I love you dearly. I
have a strong hold on you and you are more than stable
in My loving care. I know you better than you know
yourself and have loved you and watched over you while
these same seeds have been dormant, then became active
and began growing inside of you. I have so much mercy
and forgiveness for you. I want all things in your life
to bear My image. Precious one, I point no condemnation
towards you at all.
When you offer the tares up to Me to be separated from
your soul, be encouraged that what you overcome will not
be passed on to your children. And you will have ended a
cycle of generational issues that have been passed down
through the blood lines. Rejoice when the sickle comes,
because it means VICTORIOUS OVERCOMING. Be blessed with
no condemnation! Rejoice with heaven as you offer these
up into the light.
Song 1:5-6 NLT
"I am dark and beautiful, O women of Jerusalem, tanned
as the dark tents of Kedar. Yes, even as the tents of
Solomon! "Don't look down on me, you fair city girls,
just because my complexion is so dark. The sun has
burned my skin. My brothers were angry with me and sent
me out to tend the vineyards in the hot sun. Now see
what it has done to me!
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FULL BLOOM AHEAD 5/16/06
Ask Me now for promotion, dear ones. Yes you have worked
hard and accomplished so very much. The strings of your
past where you have suffered loss and shame
are snares. As you are reminded of them, let them be
memorial stones of your lessons learned then give all
that you are working towards back to Me. Sometimes you
wonder of the road you have taken and have felt blind
not knowing your way. I tell you FULL BLOOM AHEAD. You
are on the right road, your road is straight ahead.
Die to your pursuits and hopes and let Me be the One Who
sustains you, the work of your hands and the measurement
of success. If you give it to Me, My peace will hold you
and settle you of My Sovereign plan in your life. ALL
things work together for good, even the losses in your
life. It is My desire to bring you to full bloom - you
and all that you do for My kingdom; rich in good fruit
to benefit many.
Your works have not gone unnoticed, you work hard and it
is evidence of your faith. Like Abraham, the fruit of
your life shall be like the sands of the sea. The ship
that you are on, called Leader-ship, is a great boat
carrying many in need of passage. The seas are rough at
times and storms are in the air. But My mercy will
travel with you and all aboard. My 7 Spirits shall go
with you in full measure. No good thing will I withhold
from you, My favored one. Full bloom ahead.
Isa 35:6 NKJV
And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose; 2
It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice, even with joy
and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the
glory of the LORD, the excellency of our God. 3
Strengthen the weak hands, And make firm the feeble
knees. 4 Say to those who are fearful-hearted, "Be
strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with
vengeance, with the recompense of God; He will come and
save you." 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then the
lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb
sing.
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SHAME IS HOLDING PETER AT ARM'S DISTANCE
10/03/06
There are some of My children who are easily dismayed
and have chosen to stay in the outskirts of My love,
because of suffering deep shame. They are
willing to hear Me through hand-me-down connections
because the intimacy of My Presence brings their buried
pain to the surface. To face it all is too hot, they
would rather stay numb and in a cold place, away from My
direct touch.
They believe their failures are too great to deserve
such an intimate place in My Presence. They do not know
the sweetness of having a wound lanced with My personal
Word, the poison extracted, and then delivered in one
impacting moment. They dont know the relief of such a
time before My face. What took years to embitter can be
extracted in one powerful exchange of My loving embrace.
Come Peter, I know you love Me. Do not hold back. Swim
speedily to your loving Surgeon and I shall extract your
deep sufferings of shame and bring your
calling to life again.
Deut 5:27 NKJV
"So it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of
the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire,
that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes
and your elders. And you said: 'Surely the LORD our God
has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have
heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen
this day that God speaks with man; yet he still lives.
Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire
will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our
God anymore, then we shall die. For who is there of all
flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking
from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? You
go near and hear all that the LORD our God may say, and
tell us all that the LORD our God says to you, and we
will hear and do it.'
John 21:7 NKJV
Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter,
"It is the Lord !" Now when Simon Peter heard that it
was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had
removed it), and plunged into the sea.
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