Amanuensis

Deuteronomy 23:9 “When you go to war against your enemies, be sure to stay away from anything that is impure.”  

You are in a spiritual war, and your enemy would like nothing better than to separate you from me. Be on your guard. When you engage the enemy, when you stand up for Me and my Word, his focus will be on you. One of the main ways he gains power over you is through sin. You will be enticed to sin. You will be enticed to cut corners in your relationship with me. Be on your guard at all times. Be in prayer at all times. Listen for my voice and do not listen to the loud voices and noises competing for your attention and your focus. If you slip, stop, repent and go forward again. Whatever happens, do not allow him to get you with guilt or a feeling that you cannot return to me. You can always return to me. I am the source of what you need to prevail and your enemies know that. Trust me. I will provide all that you need. But, you will not do this perfectly. Do not stop because that is true. (2021)

Deuteronomy 28:32  “You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. Your heart will break for them, but you won’t be able to help them.” 

So many of you have lost your children to this manufactured division – the race/gender/sexual preference/political/religious/doctrinal/economic divisions that have been sown into your society. You mourn as your families are ripped apart. Any attempts to breach the divides are rebuffed. Some of you relent and begin to honor the lies that are being put forth today as truth: diversity, transparency, intersectionality, privilege, systemic racism, white supremacy, tolerance, speaking truth to power, women’s choice, abortion as healthcare, democratic socialism, climate change as a political force – and so many more. Others of you are holding to truth – My Truth. It is a very difficult road today, and will be more and more difficult as the days progress. Holding to my values – to “conservative” values – will not just be unpopular, but as you are beginning to see unfold, will make you the domestic enemies of the 21st century. Your lives will be made more and more difficult. But, do not despair, for I will honor you. I am with you. I will not forsake you. And when it is time – in my perfect timing – it will end. But until then, do not allow yourselves to be shaken. Do not falter in your walk. Do not abandon your faith. Do not compromise your beliefs.  (2021)

Deuteronomy 21:1-9. If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was, your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns. Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke and lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer’s neck. The Levitical priests shall step forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord and to decide all cases of dispute and assault. Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, and they shall declare: “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done. Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, Lord, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent person.” Then the bloodshed will be atoned for, and you will have purged from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

Guilt of sin and crime are not just those of the individual but of the entire community. Why should I not judge your nation for all of my innocent children murdered in the womb? Is it not the fault of the entire nation? Your nation has not only actually passed laws permitting this abomination, but grants community money to pay for it. Your nation has made an industry of murder and the sale of the parts of these precious bodies. Why does it surprise you that your nation is under my wrath? Why should I not abandon you to your blatant sin? Why would I return to you? Yes, I have forgiven you and all those who committed this act but have repented. Yes, I see your individual hearts. But, as a nation, there has been no repentance for the practice continues. The heart of your nation continues to be hard. I love you, but will not coexist with this. Choose. What is the desire of your heart? Is it to return to the Nation I blessed, that blessed me? Or is it to continue to murder the innocent and profit from that sin? (2021)

Luke 10:1-12 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road. When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you. Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house. When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to you. Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.’ I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.”

I am sending you. You are a harvest worker. Pay attention. Some will welcome you and my Word, others reject you. When you see a person’s heart is too hard, move on. When you are openly attacked and rejected, look to me for strength and comfort and move on. Do not waste time on those who will not hear, who will not repent and be saved, who will not turn to me. Time is too short. Plant your seeds and move on. You will not see the ultimate harvest. Some will respond immediately, some will respond later when you have already left their lives. Some will not respond ever, and will not be saved. You cannot change that. It is their choice. Offer them my Word and allow them to decide what to do with it. Do not allow the darkness and evil of this day to discourage you. I am. I will prevail in my time. (2021)

2 Kings 1:1-4  After Ahab’s death, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury.” But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?’ Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!’” So Elijah went.

My own people rejected me. So I gave My word to the gentiles. They knew they were not my favorites. Many knew that they were entirely undeserving. So, they were more grateful for their salvation than the Jews. So it is and should be with you. You were deeply lost in your sin. You were walking a very dark path. You once remembered the magnitude of My grace toward you. Return to that knowledge. Rejoice in what you have been given. Stop focusing on what you do not have, because really you already have all that matters – you have the promise of eternity with Me and your Father. Notice that the Jews in power in that day did everything to destroy Paul and Barnabas – and anyone who preached My word. So it is today. Do not be surprised, nor dismayed. Just as I protected and drew close to them, so I will to you and all my children today. It will get worse. Christians will continue to be hated, spurned, even persecuted. But, it has always been so, really. You just don’t have the experience, as you were fortunate that I planted you in what was, up until recently, a Christian nation. But watch, it is worsening. You will be hated, if you continue to follow me. The choice is yours.  (2004)

Judges 21:25  “In those days Israel had no king, so the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.” 

Oh how like the world today – how like the USA – no king – no faith in me.  Your nation has strayed so far from my side that everyone is doing whatever seems right to them – and society is crumbling.  Life is becoming more dangerous, more difficult, less secure.  Remember this in your own life, also.  You have confessed that you have been straying from my side – leaving me behind as your King – the farther away you get, the more you will become like Israel in those days – doing whatever seems right in your eyes —  Keep your eyes on me.  Keep me in my right place – as your God, your King, your Lord.  Watch for me, listen to me, obey me, and all will go well with you.  Otherwise, you will wander back into the old life where you reigned – and life did not work. (2003)

John 4:4-12.  Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

The Samaritan woman by the well did not understand how I could give her water. I had no bucket, no rope, nothing that the world can understand as a tool …  She was only able to see from her earthly eyes.  So it is with my children.  You do not understand, you question my abilities, you see things through the perspective of human abilities.  I am the great I AM.  I can do anything, any time, with any or no “tools”.  In order to believe in me and my abilities,  in order to understand (as best as any human can) my power and my abilities, you must have new eyes.  Spiritual eyes.  Eyes that can see the eternal, and not be focused on the human.  

She also asked if I were greater than her ancestor Jacob was.  My children so often count on other people.  You look to people from the past.  You forget that humans will never be more than humans.  Any abilities, any intelligence, any gifts that they have come from me.  Yes, I am greater than any human, now or ever.  Stop looking to people, look only to me.

Remember that you can tell people about me, but they will not believe in me until they have their own personal experience with me.  Just do the footwork.  True salvation is a work of the Holy Spirit.  Only the Spirit can draw the person, can give them the understanding, and can turn a heart.  I just want you to live in such a way that people see me.(2003)

Deuteronomy 18:20 “But any prophet who falsely claims to speak in my name or who speaks in the name of another god must die.”

Do not take this lightly. If I choose you to give my word to the world, be exceedingly careful that what you put out is truly from me. If you find yourself having to think about what is being written, it is not of me. Stop and do not go forward at that point. 

Luke 9:48 “Whoever is the least among you is the greatest.” 

Anonymity. Humility. You are nothing special outside of my choosing and anointing. This is not about you. This is not about your reputation or what people think of you. This is about me. This is about dealing with the evil surrounding you. Be ready to go forward, but in my name and my spirit. Be ready to be attacked. Also be ready to be wrongly elevated. Stay strong in me. Be humble but be fierce. Do not allow attacks to stop you nor praise to derail you. Eyes on me, child. Eyes only on me.

Psalm 73:10-13  “Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them. And they say, ‘How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?’   Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches. All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.” 

Never allow yourself to doubt me just because evil has such a strong foothold in your world. Do not allow your enemy to cast doubt about my dedication to my children. Remember, your ancestors chose to disregard my word and listen to the serpent. At that time, I gave them what they asked for, but only for a time. That time is coming closer and closer to an end. That time when I take back my children and my world and banish all evil from it, that day is coming closer. In the meantime, there will be evil and darkness. You, however, are to shine a light in that darkness. You are to banish as much of it from your world as you can, but only through me. You cannot do it without me. I have chosen you, I will provide what you need. Do not be discouraged if you do not seem to make a difference. Remember when you were teaching. Some students did not seem to hear your words nor to see your example. But they did. One day I will show you just how many of them did see me because of you. So it will be today.