Do our prayers make a difference? Does it matter to God – or to the world – if we pray? The Bible from genesis to Revelation, shouts the answer, “Yes!” And yet the Bible also gives us a picture of an almighty, sovereign God who can and will do what He wants but who has chosen to limit Himself to work through weak, frail humans. The truth is that our prayers can make a difference; the God of the universe wants us to participate with Him to fulfill His plan of redemption in the earth.

The ABC’s of Prayer is a collection of twenty-six principles of prayer, principles which line up with Scripture and have proven to be true in everyday experience. They are simple and easily remembered. However, we believe God can use them as teaching tools to effect powerful prayer for the establishment of His Kingdom on the earth.

Ask God to change your heart and fill you with His compassion

Lam. 3:22; Mark 1:41

Be natural. Talk to Jesus in everyday language, perhaps over a cup of coffee. He is our friend and counselor.

Matt 6:7; John 15:15

Choose to pray. Make prayer a vital part of your life.

Mark 1:35; 6:46

Discover who God is, what He promises He will be in given situations. God is our strength. God is a very present help in time of trouble. God will never leave nor forsake us.

Ps. 118:14; Isa. 12:2

Expect God to act. Intercession initiated by the Holy Spirit always calls for action on God’s part.

Ps. 65:5; Jer. 33:3

Forgive and let go of feelings of resentment, anger, and hurt. Unforgiveness closes us off from receiving answers to our prayers.

Matt. 6:14-15

Give God all glory for answered prayer.

Dan. 2:20; Matt. 6:13 (KJV)

Help yourself. Take generously from the Word of God. A good starting place is to pray selections from the Psalms and raise your voice in praise with the psalmist.

Psalms

Intercede as the Holy Spirit brings people or situations to your mind-whenever, wherever.

Eph. 6:18; Rom. 8:26, 27

Jump in! Approach God boldly with the problem in the authority of Jesus’ name.

Eph. 3:12; 1 John 5:14, 15 (TAB)

Kick the guilt. Accept God’s forgiveness. Let yourself off the hook. Guilt is a trap that brings condemnation and closes us to God; conviction comes from the Holy Spirit and offers a way of release.

1 John 1:9; 3:20 (TAB)

Listen to Jesus’ voice. We allow ourselves to become more accustomed to hearing the accusing voice of Satan (he never reminds us we’re cleansed and forgiven!) than the comforting, encouraging voice of Jesus. Satan’s lies can cause us to feel unworthy of going to God in prayer.

Matt. 11:28-30; John 10:27

Marvel at the provisions in His name!

EL suggests power/authority

EL SHADDAI: strength, stability, permanence; God is enough; His grace is sufficient (Gen. 17:1-8)

EL ELYON: Supreme being, most high (Gen. 14:18)

EL OLAM: the everlasting one, same yesterday, today, and forever, unchanging (Ps. 90:1, 2; Isa. 26:4)

ELOHIM: creative and governing power (Gen. 1:1)

JEHOVAH: eternal, self-existent (Ex. 6:1-3)

JEHOVAH-JIREH: the Lord will provide (Gen. 22:1-18)

JEHOVAH-ROPHE: the Lord who heals (Ex. 15:22-27)

JEHOVAH-NISSI: the Lord is my banner, victor (Ex. 17:9-15)

JEHOVAH-M’KADDESH: the Lord which sanctifies you (Lev. 20:1-8)

JEHOVAH-SHALOM: the Lord our peace (Judg. 6:1-24)

JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU: the Lord our righteousness (Jer. 23:1-6)

JEHOVAH-ROHI: the Lord our shepherd (Ps. 23:1-6)

JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH: the Lord is there (Ezek. 48:29-35)

EMMANUEL: God with us (Matt. 1:23)

ADONAI: The sovereign one (Ex. 23:17; Isa. 10:16)

Nourish your relationship with the Lord. Prize it, give expression to your thoughts and feelings as you would to a close and dear friend.

Ps. 37:4; John 15:15

Outwit the enemy; agree with the Word of God. Say to Satan, “It is written…”

Luke 4:1-14; Eph. 6:17

Persist in prayer. Keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking.

Luke 11:9-13; 18:1-8 (TAB)

Quiet your fearful heart. Be still and know that He is God. Often we tend to trust more in our fears than in God.

Ps. 46:10, 2 Tim. 1:7 (TAB)

Rejoice because of who He is. Delight yourself in Him.

Ps. 37:4; Phil. 4:4

Sing to the Lord. Sing to the barren places in your life. Sing for fruitfulness out of the barrenness. Call forth what is not as though it were.

Isa. 4:1; Rom. 4:17 (TAB)

Trust Him. He cares for you. His character is trustworthy.

Prov. 3:5, 6:2; Thes. 3:3

Use your prayer language.

Rom. 8:26-28; 1 Cor. 14:14, 15

Value the moment.Voice your prayers in the utility room, as you wash dishes, in the marketplace, in the car, etc. Pray without ceasing.

1 Thes. 5:17, 18

Watch and pray. Be vigilant and observant. Guard and protect the lives of those around you. Wrench them from the hands of the enemy.

Col. 4:2; Jude 22,23

X-out wrong beliefs. Wrong beliefs about ourselves and God hinder our desire and ability to pray.

John 8:32

Yield to God. Ask Him how He wants you to pray in a given situation. Then agree with Him.

1 John 5:14, 15 

Zero in on specifics. Be explicit with your requests.

Phil. 4:6

We just rejoice and be glad in what the Lord is doing. Certainly, His mercy endures forever. Hallelujah.

Transcribed by Beverly Clous:

What I see is a very wide river, but it seems to be falling from way up high and whoosh, it comes down and it spreads out when it hits the earthly plain. Hallelujah.
Father says, “Oh indeed, I’m sending a River, My children, indeed I’m sending a River. Remember, I tell you in my Word, that a river that flows right from My throne is the River that I’m sending forth upon the earth now, in this day & age when you are upon the earth. And I say unto you, My precious children, My precious, precious children, taste and see, taste and see. Enjoy this wonderful River that is flowing from My throne upon the earth. That River is one that people who partake in it will find all the wonderful ministry things that I have for my people to be flooded with My Holy Presence. I desire My people to be filled. Jump in the River. Jump in the River. And don’t just put your little tippy toes in.

Jump in the River! Yes, I showed Ezekiel, that some wanted to go ankle deep and some knee deep and some thigh deep, but My children, I’m looking for people that jump in all the way, that they won’t even be able to keep their head above the water, except My Holy Spirit will slide underneath you and hold you up and you shall move on the Power and the Might of the Holy Spirit.
I say unto you, these times that you are living in are dynamic times. Oh yes, there is much going on in the world system, but My children, I tell you there’s a lot going on in My system, and it’s going to increase because that River now is coming with a portion, but soon it will become a flood, because I’ve opened the gates. Yes, indeed, My children, but I will open the flood gates and when they open up, there’ll be like a deluge coming from My throne to the earth. Partake of it. Partake of it, because in that you’ll find the anointing to do the powerful things that I desire to have My people doing upon the earth this day.
I say unto you, My precious ones, that Water, that River of the Almighty God will do great and awesome things. It will be a great cleansing tide, indeed, and people will find that they will be cleansed in such a mighty short amount of time. Where it was a process that those of you that have been upon the earth when I poured out with the charismatic renewal; for those of you that were blessed to be part of the Azusa revival. For you that have been part of these mighty healing moves of God that I manifested My Presence through, but I say in this day, it shall be a greater move than what any of those prior moves of My Spirit were because this is a time when I desire to show forth My power and My might. Yes indeed, I have rolled up My sleeves (as you would use a vernacular upon the earth) to reveal My Holy arm, to reveal My strong right hand and I say onto you, My children, this is a season where I’m pouring out My power and My might. It’s a season where My people will be so full of the mighty Presence of the Almighty God, that they will show forth a Presence that others will know that they have something that they have not seen before. They have something that’s going on with the children of the Almighty God. They don’t have words to understand it with. All they know is that Manifest Presence does mighty things.
For I say, the Gifts of the Spirit will be stirred up much stronger than what has been used in those times before, and I say, the Fruit of the Spirit will be abounding on my people because that is the character of the Almighty Holy One. And I say, unto My children, this season, if you will get into My River, and move into what I have pouring out, by the Holy Spirit, you will find that mighty things transpire in your life. It will be an easy time. It’s not going to be that you’ll have to take a long period of time to prepare. Many of you have already been preparing. You have surrendered to Me, the Almighty God. You have laid on the alter, all the things that maybe before, were keeping you happy. The things that showed forth My presence. But this My children, is a mighty move of God, that has not been upon the earth since I sent forth My son. When I sent forth My son, very few people even noticed that something Almighty had happened. But in this move of God, people will notice that something amazing has been happening because it is by My Holy Spirit that will invade the temples of my people and My Manifest Presence will shine forth from them and it will be an awesome mighty people of God and it doesn’t take much to do.
The Almighty work of God – as you look back in the Scriptures look at Gideon. My man, Gideon, had all these people and some of them just turned and went the other way. Some of them didn’t know how to appreciate the Presence of God and they drank from a river, A RIVER ! Those few men Gideon had were mighty men. Those are the kind of men, women and young folks I’m training up in this day. I say, it will be a day of power. It will be a day of might. It will be a day when My son, Jesus Christ is lifted up. It will be a day where these people that I’m filling with My Presence, they will never, never yield to the world’s system that says “don’t say that Name”. Don’t say that Name that I cherish so much, Jesus Christ, My only begotten Son. But I say, they shall go forth, doing great exploits, because they will always stay in the Truth, they won’t stay in this watered down religiosity that you have upon the earth. They won’t be a part of this church that’s trying to entertain people or have the leadership control them. No, no, no!!
This group of people will move by the Power of the Almighty Spirit that is resident within. Those people that have accepted My Son Jesus Christ as their Lord & Savior and I have broken forth with the Power of My Holy Spirit!! I say, this is the day, that people that are on My side, I will take up with Me to the Heavenly Realm. They have longed for this day that they knew was coming because Scripture says that it’s so. When I will pour out like I never have before in this intensity, My children, and I say unto you, that those one’s that keep their eyes upon My Son Jesus , they will not falter, they will not be beguiled to go to the right or to the left, but they’ll stay constant with their eyes upon My Son Jesus and that Manifest Presence will come forth to these people. The Spirit of the living God is within you and it will pour forth with the Fruit of the Spirit and the Gifts of the Spirit in a mighty powerful way. You will find, people will sometimes look at you and just wonder “ what’s about these people?” Some of you that are listening to this message have been anointed strongly, that people would look & wonder, what’s so different about these particular people. It’s the Anointing. My Anointing. My Jesus’ Anointing. Christ means the Anointed One and I say, that same Spirit lives within these temples that I have been raising up. And yes, the world system hates and will not want any part of this and they will do their best to defeat this group of people.
But I tell you, the gates of hell will not prevail against My people, My Ecclesia. Those ones that follow hard after me, they will not water down the message. They won’t walk partly in the truth and partly in the false hood. They will have their eyes fixed and they will not move to the right or to the left, they will march together. I am bringing people together, so that My remnant people will be linking together. Some of My people have had people placed in their path, that they know something about that because they relate, spirit to spirit. It doesn’t have to be a head knowledge in this day. You don’t have to have all these credentials after your name. You don’t have to be elevated by some group of people but these people that I’m raising up will do the same as the people that were in the Book of Acts, in the Upper Room. And I say, I am about shaking, I am about cleansing and purifying. I am about filling My Temple with My Manifest Presence.
I say unto you, My children, this is an awesome time that I’ve chosen for you to be upon the earth and I say, there’s great power going to be coming and you will find people that will be drawn, one to another, like a really big, huge jig-saw puzzle. And different people of this Ecclesia are these different puzzle pieces and the Lord is putting them together, He’s fittingly, joining them together, and it’s not going to be difficult. It’s not going to be a lengthy time, because the season is short before I send My Son Jesus for his beautiful Bride. And I say, those pieces of this puzzle are going to fitly join together and they shall move in harmony and unity. People who have never met before in the natural, will have a Spiritual connection that comes from the Holy Spirit. And these people will be a yes, yes, and Amen kind of people. They will go forth and shout the truth of the Gospel. They will not allow some other gospel. They know that Jesus is the only Way. He’s the only Truth. He is the Life.
I say, there is only one way and that’s through My Son Jesus. I say in My Scripture, that there will be people knocking at My door and they’ll give Me this great list of wonderful things that they have done, but I will say “I knew you not”, and I say, everyone that has ears to hear this message, be sure that you hear the Voice of the Holy Spirit, be sure you hear the Voice of God, because there’s many voices. There’s even many people that are claiming to be My Son Jesus. There’s many false prophets upon the earth in this day. There’s always been false prophets but it is multiplying. I say, do not dilute the Gospel because the Gospel is truth. The good news of My son Jesus and what He did. There is no other of these false Gods that died and rose again. When they died, they’re dead. My Son Jesus, on the third day, that awesome third day, He rose from the grave and there was no longer Jesus in the grave, because with the Resurrection Power, I took Him out of the grave. He said that in three days, they would tear that temple down. But in three days, it would be rebuilt and My temple was rebuilt on that day and that is the beginning of the great movement of the Lord Jesus Christ that manifests itself by the power of the Holy Spirit that He poured forth on Pentecost. Remember Pentecost. The Fire came upon these people. The Holy Ghost came upon these people. These people that I’m raising up, is this awesome army of the Almighty God, they will go forth and do great and mighty things. It won’t matter to them like My son Paul, when they put him in prison, he sang praises until the doors opened. These people won’t even care if you put them in prison because they will sing praises to Me and the places where they put one or two Christians in, there’ll be such Power & Might coming from them that the prisoners will all fall to their knees and accept My Son Jesus because of My Holy Presence. A Manifest Presence of thee Almighty God, and that’s something that the people upon the earth in this day & age are beginning to understand a bit about.
But I’m going to pour forth a much stronger way that you will know this is what my Heavenly Father has been talking about. This power came into that upper room, where the walls shook. This is that Power that went out and when they began to preach, even people from many languages were there and three thousand were drawn in one day. Ooh, My people, you will see that happening. And yes, in some of these cultures where they have huge amounts of people that come and sometimes they come because they really believe the Spirit is showing up. They already have hundreds of spirits in some of those cultures and they come to see this other One. But there’s many, many of those people that leave that place, knowing that the Spirit of the Living God is much different than these other spirits that have come down their ancestral lines.
And I say, I’m going to move in such a powerful, mighty way, you will see awesome healing. I will heal the people under the misty Golden Glory Cloud. They are completely delivered. Some of them had addictions to drugs and alcohol, and instantly, they have no desire for that, because I will do great healing from that, and great deliverances from that. I say, It’s an awesome time for My people because this is the culmination for this particular church age. Many people have had teachings about the third day. When did My Son get out of the grave? The third day! Three is important for Me. The Father, the Son, & the Holy Spirit. The third day church is that church of power. Buy they will not bow their knees to some group of people that will tell them how they have to follow Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, My Son is Head of that Church and He will guide and direct that Church. He will have those people move in harmony & unity that He is manifesting Himself through as that Ecclesia, that army of God. Joel talks about that. There are many Scriptures that you can look up that will confirm that this is that particular Mighty Day of the Lord. This is that particular season, where I will pour out from that mighty River, way up high, coming down, hitting the earth. I’m pouring out, My people, and it’s not a Presence you’re going to get from some great speaker. You’re not going to get it from some mighty man or woman of God, but you’re going to learn to walk in My River and that comes right from My Throne. I will guide and direct My people by My Spirit. There will be great harmony & unity because these people will be operating out of the Spirit. The soulless realm has tripped up many of My Holy people because they began to operate in the Holy Spirit but then that wasn’t getting them enough acclaim, that wasn’t selling enough items. It wasn’t causing enough people to come to their church building.
In the days that you are living, the people will follow the Holy Spirit with great harmony & unity because all will be following and being led by the Holy Spirit. I will still have leadership as in My Word, but that leadership will be flowing in unity & harmony with all people, because I don’t raise up one gifting above the other gifting. I say they are all the body of Christ, they all flow together. You don’t lift up your hand and say it’s more useful and more power to you than a heart or a kidney, because you need all those parts to flow. So true in My Son’s Body, it’s going to flow in harmony & unity and the most important thing that this group of people will have is that wonderful thing called LOVE. They will have the Manifest Presence of God and it’s going to be so permeated with Agape Love, that they will go forth and they will do these awesome things. They will love people into the kingdom. They will see the most wretched person with tattered clothes, dirty skin and hair, who hasn’t showered in a long time. And Father said, this group of people that I’m raising up will have such Holy Agape Love, they will love those people into the Kingdom.
Many people upon the earth have been told by other people that they loved them but then they did despicable things to them. That is not My Love. That is a lie, right out of the pit of hell. But I am raising up a group of people that will truly Love and that will be when they go forth in the Power & Might. [Oh, wound together with LOVE. I see a golden strand wrapping many people together and it keeps getting bigger and bigger. And that strand will be LOVE. It will be what holds these people together, but it will be AGAPE LOVE.]
And I say unto My children, I rejoice, because this is a season that I, as your Heavenly Father, have longed for. I have longed for this season and this is the season where I will pour forth Power and Might. This is the season where My Son Jesus Christ will be lifted up. This is the season where people will move in the Power and Might of the Holy Spirit. Oh yes! This is the culmination of what you call the church age. But as that culmination of the church age is running out, there’s another time and a season that I will snatch away My Son’s Bride. As I say in My Word, there will be great turmoil and many awful things happening upon the earth, but I will restore. I will return and as you know, if you’ve read My Word, there is a one thousand year rule and reign, and that’s from the culmination of this particular church age into the one thousand year rule and reign of the Millennium.
Yes, there’s that time and that season that things will transpire upon the earth that are very, very awful, and tremendously difficult. But I say, keep your eyes upon Me and in that season, many, many, people will come to know My Son because they will have absolutely nothing else that they can trust in. They will soon learn, after the antichrist is on the scene, that he looks like he’s this great world leader, but in a short amount of time, he will turn on those people and there will be despicable things happening upon the earth, but even out of that, I will have some people that will come to realize, My Son Jesus is the only Way. If they run under the wings of the Almighty God, as I tell you in My Word, I will keep them protected and I say unto you, My precious children, you are in a season of time which is absolutely awesome. It’s absolutely fantastic. Jump into My River. Get everything you need, so that I can manifest the Presence of My Son Jesus through your vessel, by the power of the Holy Spirit. I say, you are the temples of the Holy Spirit and I will fill My Temple with My Glory and I will fill My Temple with My Presence.
I say, some of you have walked in a portion but many will walk in a much higher portion. Even the ones that are walking in a great amount of anointing but that will still increase in all people. I say unto My people, how happy I am that this is that season that I have longed for. This is that season, where I will bring many of you home to My House. I am the Father and Jesus the Groom, will bring His Bride to His Father’s House. What a day of rejoicing that will be. And I say unto you, My precious ones, look up, look up, jump in the River, for indeed, My Manifest Presence will fill you and that will touch many other people’s lives. I say, I will provide everything that you need. I will continue to move in Power and Might, way beyond what you thought could happen. I am your Heavenly Father and I have been preparing the mighty people that will do great and mighty exploits. I have been drawing people into My Holy presence. I have been teaching people how to sit and soak in My Presence. I have been teaching people how to come up that ladder into My Heavenly realm. I have been teaching people that those things will speed up and be even more prominent in My people. My people, My children, I say, I bless you. I love you. I love you. I wrap My big arms around you and I give you a big hug and I say, your Father loves you. I embrace you, so you can go out and embrace other people with My Holy Agape Love. I bless you My children. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!!!

Jesus. Sweet, sweet Jesus. And I will take over from there.”

Compliments of:

Transcribed by: Beverly Clous

I hear Open up. Open up. Open up oh ye Heavenly Gates.

I say unto My people that indeed this is a season when I desire to open wide the floodgates. Open WIDE the floodgates. I desire to pour out My Holy Presence. I desire to fill My people to overflowing with My Presence. I desire to see My People walk in My Glory. I desire to see My People have such a strong anointing that those things that I have commissioned My people to do will be accomplished. My desire is for My people to spend time, spend time, spend time – you find time for everything else in your lives. But so few spend time with Me, the Holy One, the Maker of the whole universe, the One Who knows everything from the beginning to the end.

I say unto you My people that spend time with Me, that is only thing that is going to be profitable in the season in which you are upon the earth. I say these are days where I desire to pour out in great and mighty measures – not just the measure you have been walking in – but the FULLNESS, the FULLNESS, of the measure that I can pour out upon My people; into My temples. I call you My temples you are the temples of the Holy Ghost. I say unto you as you learn to come into My Presence, I will pour out a Presence IN you stronger than you have known.

You cannot begin to think in your finite minds the awesome things that I have on My agenda, MY AGENDA, My people. Not the agenda that you set for yourselves each and every day, but the agenda the I have set for you and for Me. It is a time when I desire to come into My people in an awesome mighty powerful way. To come into My people the way that My Son Jesus was anointed when He walked this earth. When He imparted it to His disciples as they went away and did the bidding that He set upon them. I say that same anointing is available today and My Father’s heart says I DESIRE MY CHILDREN, MY SONS AND MY DAUGHTERS TO WALK IN THAT STRONG ANOINTING THAT MY SON DID.

First of all you must get rid of the things in your heart that are impure. You must get out of your mind that are causing you to think erroneously. I say that this is a time when I desire you to walk in the Spirit; not after the flesh. So many of My children are gratifying their flesh. So many of My children are walking in the world’s ways and in the world’s system. I say you should be IN the world but not OF the world. Too many of My people are OF the world. They are trying to prosper in a season when prosperity in the world system is not very viable in this day and age.

I say, My children, this is a time when I desire to pour out. This is a time when I desire to fulfill that great commission as My Son, Jesus, said “Go ye therefore and preach the gospel.” Preach the Good News of My Kingdom. You shall heal the sick. You shall see the lame walk. You shall set the captives free.

Those are the things that I desire to have happening. Oh, yes, all My children say they desire that too; but so few have even let go of the strings that the earth has wrapped around you. The world and its system have encumbered My people. In order to walk in the strong anointing, it is a Highway of Holiness. I have said, “Come up My Mountain”. It is a Highway of Holiness. It is a way that you have to think My thoughts not your thoughts. I have told you that My thoughts are higher than your thoughts. I say let go of those thoughts that are of the world system – those thoughts that you have allowed to nurture in your minds. I say bring your thoughts captive. Do I not say that – bring your thoughts captive?

I say so many of My people think like the world system instead of putting on the mind of Christ. So many of My people are interested in having a merry old time than they are in walking in My Holy Presence. I say this is the time when I will have a people that will be coming out of the churchianity system. They will come out of that system that has doctrines that are not pleasing to Me. They will come out of that religious system that has some teachings that are very displeasing to Me. They have taken portions of My Word and wrapped their own thoughts around it and came up with doctrines that are not doctrines according to what I have set for My people.

This is a season when I desire to speak to My people. This is a season when I desire My people to speak to Me. A lot of people pray and pray and pray but prayer should be a communication. Communication is two ways. You speak for a while, you pray a petition, but then you listen for the answer. Then you listen how I want you to pray. Even something as simple as that; My people are stumbling because some of them do the same prayer over and over again. They don’t even expect that I would desire to answer them. They don’t even expect that I would really answer these prayers.

I say that I desire to have a relationship. I desire to have a love relationship with My children the way a good Father should. I desire to bring My children close to Me and let them feel My Holy Presence. This is a season when My desire is strong toward My people that they will want to enter into My Kingdom. For I say over and over I have told you that this is a season when I desire My Kingdom to come upon the earth even as it is in Heaven. I desire that, but so few of My children want to come into a time frame where they spend time with Me.

I have given you many tools but so few of My children really use the tools that I have appropriated to My Church. Those ones that are called by My Name. I say I have many things for My people. They shall be like a mighty [I am seeing a swift Army]. They shall all take their place. They shall not break rank. It is quick time. It is a quick time. Sometimes when the army is training up its people in your world system they do a quick step. That is the way I am now. I am quickening. I am quickening. This is not a season where you will have to sit back and wait for a long time for something to transpire because I am doing things quickly in the day in which you are living. Because this is a time when I desire to prepare that precious Bride for My holy Son. I say so few are even talking about that they are the Bride. So few even realize that the Bride is mature. The Bride is not an immature – she is not a baby, she is not an adolescent – she is a MATURE Bride. So few even recognize that there is such a thing.

I say that My Church is My Bride. So few even equate that Bride with the Church in which they are involved with. I say this is a season where there are those people who have allowed Me to come into their presence, who have allowed Me to have a relationship with them. To have allowed Me not only listen to their prayers but to talk back to them the answers to those prayers; to speak to them because I desire. What would it be like if as an earthly Father your children only came to you and say they called you on the telephone and they did all the talking, they never gave you a chance to say anything. That would be very lopsided. They would miss the wisdom that the elders have. Sometimes My children are so busy jumping around and playing games, they are satisfying their fleshly desires.

So few come really come into the Spirit where they worship in Spirit and in Truth; in Spirit and in Truth. I say this is a season where I am calling My children. I have been speaking to My children. I have been beckoning My children. I have been wooing My children. But I say so few have listened to the call. This is a time where the Turtle Dove has been calling. This is a time where I have been wooing My children. This is a time where I have been preparing My children; but so many of them are absent without leave. They have left their first love. They have gone after other attractions.

I say I have a people. I say they will be used mightily in the days that are upon you. This is a season where I will pour out My fullness upon those who have allowed Me to bring them into a mature relationship. This is a season, this IS the season that I have talked about in My Word that you call the fullness of time. This is the fullness of the time in which the Church has been upon the earth. The time has now taken a shift as I have told you many times that there would be a paradigm shift. The shift has happened, but so few even recognize that there has been a change. They like doing things that are comfortable with. They like doing the things like they have for generations.

I say I WILL have a generation that I AM raising up that will do GREAT and awesome exploits. They will give ME all the glory. They will give ME all the honor. They will give ME all the praise. They will KNOW that it is nothing that they did – it is only that they happen to be an instrument that I use. You have many who have heard the song about the old violin that was at the auction block and nobody wanted to bid on that old violin because it looked like it was all scratched up. It looked like it had no good left in it. Nobody wanted it, but THEN the Master stepped up and took that violin in his hands that knew how to make that violin sound wonderfully. Then the auction price began to go up and up.

I say I am much like that old master violin player. I have a people who are pliable in My hand. When I take even the most lowly person upon the earth or if I take the most acclaimed person upon the earth, but when they are in the Master’s hand they will make beautiful music. I say that is where you are in Church history right now. I AM taking those ones that will allow Me to and place them in My holy hand; and when My holy hand comes upon them they will recognize that they have been touched by Master’s hand.

I say THAT is the Anointing that will go forth and do those things that I have said in My Word that My People would do. I say the Master’s Touch is what so many people need. It is not a touch from some big name preacher. It is not a touch by somebody who agrees with you all the time. But it is the Touch of the Master’s Hand. I say in order to have that Touch, that awesome Touch, you must come away and spend time with Me. No master violinist gets that way just over night. It takes much, much practice and much, much patience. I have been patient with My people. Some of them have even been practicing much but I say THIS WILL BE A SEASON WHEN I WILL POUR OUT MY TOUCH UPON MY PEOPLE. When they have My Touch they will find that they will touch others and they will be healed. They will touch others with My holy Presence and those people will find that they will have a hunger and a thirst after those things which I AM about which they didn’t even ever think they would have a hunger and a thirst for.

I say put on garments of praise. Put on garments of praise. Put on that armor that I have given you. Do those things that I have given you. I have given you what you call the Lord’s Supper. I have given you that kind of a tool. I have given you My Word. I have given you the Light of My Word. I say read it often. So many people have read it and they seem to have put it on a shelf and it is gathering dust. It is the same as it has been for generations as some denominations. But this is a season when I desire you to read My Word because it IS My Holy Word. It is a living Word and as you get My Word in the fabric of your life you will find that you live out My Word. Because it is a Living Word, you will find as you get more and more of My Word in you your flesh and your soulish realm will become less and less predominant in your life.

I say these are peak times when I have a desire. I have a strong desire to move in a mighty awesome powerful way. My people have been praying for revival and I desire that many times more than they do. But they are not willing to pay a price to learn My Ways, to walk in My Ways, to be the people of God that I have chosen for them to be. You can’t just say you want revival and just say it with lip service. You MUST have heart service. You must have heart service. Those ones who love Me – they WILL take the time. Everybody has the same amount of time in a day. No matter how busy your day may be, put My agenda first. As you put My ways first, as you seek Me you will find that your day will revolve around that instead of revolving around your agenda. This is the season where I WILL have a people who are called by My Name; that will humble themselves and seek My face and if they have any sins I will be happy to forgive them. I say I will hear your prayers. This is a time of seek ye first the Kingdom of God. This is a time when I desire, much more, My heart overflows with an urgency; with an urgency. This is a time when I desire to pour forth. You pray for the lost and that is good and that is well; but I desire to move in the midst of them. I desire to use YOU as My fine-tuned instruments to take you to the lost so that you will recognize that they, too, need a Savior. They, too, need a Power of the Holy Spirit. They, too, need the Kingdom of God in their lives. I say the urgency of the hour, the urgency of the hour.

I say My children many of you I bless. I bless many of you because you have listened to My Sound. You have listened to the cry of My voice. You HAVE taken the time to come away and be with Me. This is a time when I am desiring to do mighty exploits in My people – far beyond what most of you have been doing. This is a time when I want you to come into My Holy Presence. I say COME UP! Come up and seek Me! Come up and seek Me! I say this is a time when I am opening floodgates up. I am opening up the gates of Heaven. You shall hear the roaring of the Spirit as I open up the Gates and it shall flood your presence. It shall flood your presence! It shall over power; it shall over power your flesh. These are days that are awesome in My Holy sight and you will find as you learn to walk in My Holy Presence; as you learn to humble yourself; as you learn to be obedient; you will find these are the most exciting days. Those people who are just the nominal Christians that have been doing the same old same old – they are not going to find the excitement unless they conjure it up in the flesh and it is NOT of the Holy Spirit – it is of some other spirit. I say but there ARE those people who will walk in My Power. Who will walk in My Might. For I say surely, surely the Presence of the Lord – when you go in My Presence people will recognize that surely the Presence of the Lord is in that place. I desire to use My Temples – you are My Temples. I tell you that in My Word. I will fill you with My Holy Presence and you shall see awesome things will transpire because I have CHOSEN, CHOSEN in this awesome Day of the Lord in which I have chosen for you to be upon the face of the earth. And I say for such a TIME as this. It is a Glorious Time for my Ecclesia, those ones that have allowed Me to take them and shine them and polish them and nurture them and make them into the people of God that I so desire. Especially in this day in which you are living because the things of the world are in great tumult – even the earth is in tumult, even the earth is in a convulsive state. But I say My People Will Stand Solid because they stand upon the solid Rock of My Son. All the things that He did – all the things that He said in the Word – I say all those ones that have built their life upon The Rock of My Son shall not be shaken by the shifty sands that are so prevalent in the world today. I say unto you, My children, look up for your redemption draweth nigh. Look up for your redemption draweth nigh. I say unto you, My beloved ones, My precious holy ones, I pour out My love. I pour out My Love no matter if you are the worst wicked sinner that ever existed, or whether you are the most Godly saint that has ever existed I pour out My Love upon all because I AM LOVE! I AM LOVE! I don’t separate My love by what you do or what you don’t do – I just LOVE. I do have a place for those ones that are lining up with My heart’s desire which is to go forth in the season in which I have placed you upon the earth so that great and mighty things that will happen in MY Kingdom. Jesus said He did miracles so that the lost would recognize that He was the Son of the most high God. Many sons and daughters are walking upon the earth today. Those sons and daughters have decided to lay down lives, take up the cross and follow Me. Those are the ones that I will use in a powerful, mighty way in these days in which you are living. They are great days as you keep you focus upon My Son, Jesus. These are great days as you keep continually filled with the Holy Spirit and with My Fire. I bless you My precious children. I am calling forth. I am calling forth those ones that have taken the time to follow hard after Me. I bless especially those saints that have learned to be in a relationship with Me; who love Me as I love them. They have put down everything else – their own agendas, their own fleshly desires to follow Me. To follow Me. They are My true disciples. This is the day when I am raising up true disciples of My Son, Jesus Christ. Same as His original disciples followed Him, I have people in this day that are following Him. The same way, they have left everything behind to follow the Master. I say many more will come, many more will come because this is a time and a season where awesome things will transpire. Awesome things will transpire because I have ordained it to be so. I have ordained it to be so.

I bless you, My precious sons and daughters. I bless you, My precious sons and daughters. I pour out richly upon you. I pour out richly upon you. I say unto those ones that are following hard after Me – well done My precious sons and daughters. Well done My precious sons and daughters.

Your Heavenly Father

Before the new marvel of ‘Glow Sticks’ as children we had toys that we could hold under a light bulb for a time and then when placed in a dark closet or room they would glow and give off light. Nowadays all you have to do is bend your ‘Glow Stick’ until it cracks a little bit and it will glow for hours. When pondering this thought I realized the will of God for our lives while enduring trials. His desire for us is to be ‘Glow-in-the-Dark Christians’. While processing this thought a bit further I understood that the degree to which we glow or shine in the darkest of times is measured by the degree to which we expose’ ourselves to the light of His truth and spirit during the daytime of our spiritual lives when things are more calm and serene. The childhood toy would only glow for a duration of time equivalent to the time it was held under the light. The ‘Glow Stick’ has to be broken before it gives off a long-lasting glow. If we are to be glowing Christians in this day we must allow the Lord to break our will and we must spend much time exposing ourselves to the light of His presence. The final analysis of whether a Christian is glowing in the dark is when the worst possible news comes in from the doctor. Maybe a husband has cancer or a wife has heart disease or a young child, a terminal illness. Perhaps the economy is not yielding its crop of earnings sufficiently enough to meet the daily needs of your household. Whatever the scenario may be, if we can still sing, “Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me”, this would be a good indicator that we are ‘Glow-in-the-Dark Christians.

Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee.