There Is Hope For You!

 

 

I’ve had these verses on my mind for days now. This morning I woke up at exactly 2:44am and could not go back to sleep…just laid there wide awake until I got it. Lord? You got something on your mind?  

Job 14:7-9, 14 For there is hope for a tree, when it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and its shoots will not fail. Though its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the dry soil, at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth sprigs like a plant. …If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my struggle I will wait until my change comes.

I believe the Lord is saying to us all is not lost, things are going to get better. Really. 

 

 

Jesus likened people to trees remember? Matthew 7:17-18 so every good tree bears good fruit and every bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.

Now go back and read the scriptures from Job again only this time read them as if you are the tree they speak of. Viola! There is hope for you!

Remember Job is speaking in this passage. By this time he has already lost all he had except the very breath he breathed. He lost his children, livestock, material possessions and his health. It must have been a horrible sight to see because his own wife said to Job in 2:9-10 do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die! But he said to her, you speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Even Job’s friends came to see him when they heard the news of his loss. They were so traumatized by what they saw they couldn’t even speak. 2:11-13 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one come from his own place… For they made an appointment together to come and mourn with him, and to comfort him. And when they raised their eyes from afar, and did not recognized him, they lifted their voices and wept; and each one tore his robe and sprinkled dust on his head toward heaven. So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

Be encouraged, all is not lost. All may represent something different everyone so you fill in the blank. It may seem like it is and it may look like it is, but I am speaking to you by the Spirit of God. All is not lost! No matter the situation; no matter what’s been done to you…all is not lost. I believe the Lord is saying the day is here to sprout again and be fruitful. Isaiah 60:1 Arise and shine for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

We can learn some lessons from Job’s experience on how we should carry ourselves in times of adversity. One, he did not sin with his lips. He knew to accept the bad with the good. He knew to always stay on God’s side even when it looked like God wasn’t on his. (We know better) Two, Job knew God was not going to leave him in this condition. We know this because of what he says in verse 14 all the days of my struggle, I will wait until my change comes.

Wow! Remember his friends were so horrified at the sight of Job’s condition that they cried out and tore their clothes. They wept and did not speak a word to Job as they sat with him for 7 days because his grief was so great, but the Bible says even in all this tragedy Job did not sin with his lips. In the greatest trial in Job’s life, when it seemed like God was nowhere around when Job needed Him the most, Job’s confession was this – All the days of my struggle, I will wait until my change comes.

He says in 13:15 Though He slay me, yet I will trust in Him.

We are all going through various trials and tests. Some are going through them by divine design and some are going through them because of bad choices, but the promise of God to us is He does not intend for us to stay in our current condition if we trust in Him. The key is in verse 14:9 at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth sprigs like a plant.

Water is symbolic of the Holy Spirit. Only He can resurrect what seems to be dead or cut off. Only He can heal and deliver. Only He can cause dry stony ground to become fertile soil again. Only He can cause a dried withered root to become tender again going downward and bearing fruit upward. Isaiah 37:31. The ground being our hearts.

So what’s God saying?

 

When you sense My Spirit moving on your heart about something, yield. Do not harden your heart, but yield to My Spirit and reward of yielding is blessing and new life coming forth bearing fruit. Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it spring the issues of life. NKJV or Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. NLT

When the Bible speaks about the heart it usually is not speaking of the heart of flesh. It is usually speaking of the soul, which is the heart of a person, his inner most being. The soul is made up of the mind, will and emotions. So now we understand why Proverbs says we should guard our hearts, that is, guard our minds, our wills and our emotions because out of them flow the issues of life and they determine the course of our life.

So powerful.

Now we understand Job’s confession… all the days of my struggle, I will wait until my change comes. He understood the importance of guarding his heart even though the thing he feared the most had come upon him; the thing he dreaded the most happened to him 3:25. Read the rest of his story and you find it pays off for him. God blesses him with double.

Be encouraged, the passage from Job 14 is a word from the Lord to you… better days are coming, better days are here. Things are going to get better. The Lord is watching over these words to perform them. Amen.

A word to those who are not going through any kind of adversity, but seemed to be at a standstill or maybe it seems like you are losing ground for some unexplainable reason. Maybe you were experiencing a season of fruitfulness. No matter what you did, you just seemed to be multiplying in all directions. Ministry, revelations, business, family; all these areas may have been overflowing with fruit, but now it seems like nothing is happening. Be encouraged, you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve not missed the Lord. The Lord Himself is at work, pruning you in ways you know not of, that you may bear more fruit.

John 15:2 He cuts off every branch of mine that does not produce fruit, and He prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.  NLT

Need I say more?

 

Father,

Help us to put a guard over our mouths while we wait for our change to come.

In Jesus’ name! Amen.

Kyle's Dream - A Call to Intercession

This is another call to intercession through a dream a good friend, Kyle Simmons, had this morning. I sense an urgency to share the dream and what I think the dream means, which is, the watchmen are not on the wall.

Brothers and sisters, we are the watchmen. We are the ones called to pray today. Please take a moment after you read this post and ask the Lord what part you play. He may need you to pray today only or He may ask you to pray daily until the burden lifts. One thing I am curtain of and that is this -

The Lord Has Need Of You. Amen.

Kyle's dream:

I knew something was coming from the sky. I was outside with some other people. All of a sudden I saw lights appearing in the sky. They were coming to the earth. And then more started appearing. They were coming down to the ground more like they were flying than coming straight down. I was in a big city with lots of buildings. When the lights hit the ground they destroyed things and they were ominous and created billows of smoke and cloud-like storm-looking clouds of grey and red. I thought we should run and find shelter. So I(we) ran to a large skyscraper and went into an open door on the back side of the building. Once inside there were no people inside or only 1 or 2. The "offices in the building almost had nothing in them, except some overturned furniture. We made it to a door that went to a slanted shingled roof. I went outside to look around and when I looked up I saw that the clouds had square shapes cut into them. as soon as I saw the shapes the spaceships appeared and I realized the spaceships were cloaked. I remember saying something and the ships uncloaked and sent an army of very large birds to the earth to capture us or kill us. We went back inside. The birds were like very large crows.
There was more in the dream, but that's all I can remember. I remember not really being afraid, and I remember praying. I think I felt bad for the people of the earth. It was like the ships were watching from above and waiting for movement or sound from people below. 

Alabaster Box - I Give You Oil To Pray

I am anointing you to pray the things that are in heaven so that they will be on earth the same. The mantle to pray and to intercede on your behalf and on behalf of the Body My plans and My purposes for you this day and hour upon the earth is now imparted to you. I have broken the alabaster box and have poured the oil upon your heads to prepare you to do the things that I have called you to do. You have been faithful to do what you know to do in the natural and I have watched and considered your works. I call them good works. So now I will add to you a fresh anointing to pray the prayer of faith and out of the things not seen will come forth the things that are seen with the natural eye and touched with the natural hand.

It is your voice speaking My words that will activate that thing which you see and perceive in the spirit realm, but have yet to see it birthed into the natural realm. You must draw closer to Me through vehicle of prayer. It is the only way that I will reveal to you My secrets before I perform them. You must yield to the Spirit of Intercession when He calls. No longer putting off the prayer watch for another day.

Be mindful of your words for they have power to root out and pull down, to destroy and throw down the works of the enemy and even the very works birthed by your idle words. Be mindful of your words for they have the power to build and to plant My kingdom, but idle words will give access to the enemy to establish his kingdom in your lives. Speak My word at all times and it will not fall dead to the ground, but it will produce fruit. I watch over My words to perform them and to perform them on your behalf.

 

This anointing to pray is to pray the will of the Father and not the will of man. The will of the Father is His Word and if you know His Word and abide it and it in you, then you will know the will of the Father. You will know what the Father is doing and what the Father is saying and you will pray in My name and it will be done for you.

The angels only do the will of the Father and hearken unto His voice, the voice of His Word. They will not be moved by man's words nor are they commanded to do what is contrary to My Spirit. They excel in strength and are obedient to My Word at all times and so you should follow their example.

There is a move in the earth to remove those who will to be a voice for good and not evil. There is a move in the earth to quiet the voices of righteousness. There is move in earth to call good evil and evil good and the move has it origin in the second heaven. You cannot withstand in the natural that which cannot be handle with hands. It must be dealt with in the realm of the spirit and then the natural can be placed in order. It can only be done by the vehicle of intercession, by the mantle to pray.

Do not be moved by the enemy and his agents that seem to out number My people. Yield to intercession and your eyes will be opened to see that there are more that are for you and with you than there could ever be against you.

I have decreed a thing and it will be declared among the nations, but you must  come to the secret place that only you have access to enter. You are seating with Christ in heavenly places, far above all principalities and powers and mights and dominions and every name that could ever be named. It is in the secret place where I will reveal to you  the things I am doing in the earth. I am faithful to reveal it before I do it. I will not do it unless  I reveal it to My prophets first that they might be My trumpets sounding the alarm. These are troubling times and days and I am sounding alarms  to warn and to  protect My people. I am visiting you in dreams and visions to seal your instruction in you. I do this in order to conceal you from pride and to prevent you from falling into the pit or by perishing by the sword.

I am gracious and merciful. I know your works. You must see, you must perceive, that today I have set a door before you. The door of intercession has been opened to you, My church and no one will shut it; even though you are weak and have little strength, you have purposed to keep My Word and not deny My name. Because you have purposed in your hearts to persevere, I also have purposed to keep you from the hour of trial that will come upon the whole world, to test those whole dwell on the earth. 

I tell you of things to come. I tell you through the vehicle of intercession, in the secret place.  

Amos 3:7-8
Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken! Who can but prophesy?

Psalm 103:20-22
Bless the Lord, you His angels, who excel in strength, who do His Word, heeding the voice of His Word. Bless the Lord, all you His hosts, you ministers of His, who do His pleasure. Bless the Lord, all His works, in all places of His dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul!