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Word from the Lord: Coming Persecution/Refining/Guard Your Hearts


 I was looking for something and in my usual form was distracted by the document. I clicked on it and boy did I need to rehear this warning I received in 2024. I feel I have gotten a little sleepy. I wrote this as I was trying to interpret what the Lord was impressing on my spirit.

Here it is:

Taking my walk, I was thinking about the coming persecution, and Gracie was sniffing in the bushes. To her dog mind this was a great idea, but to my higher understanding, it was a terrible idea. I know those bushes are constantly sprayed with pesticides, and she is sniffing in toxins that can kill her. Right now, it’s very dangerous to focus and listen to anything that is not speaking by God’s spirit, and that magnifies the glorious of God. 2 Cor 3 it’s by beholding the beauty and truth of God, with eyes of the Spirit, that transforms us. We become what we focus on, and even neuroscience bears this out: Newburg, a neuroscientist at Penn State who studies Neurotheology (yes, that's a thing) says “Essentially, what you focus on changes the structure of your brain” -your beliefs.  Then, the beliefs that are actually a physical structure in our brains dictate what we believe, and what we believe dictates WHAT WE SEE. This means "believing is seeing." We can only see/discern/hear what we believe. Words and ideas that we allow into our eye-gate will eventually change the physical structure and beliefs, even when you think it's not and even when you listen but say, 'I don't believe that." Without realizing it, you do change and that is established by neuroscience. Listening changes your brain.

We think we can sniff here and there to “be informed” but we will be changed by the words we allow into our minds. That's why Jesus rebuked Peter so quickly, because he knows the power of words! He is the Word. 

Spirit, good and evil, are carried on the wings of words, words, words and slowly and imperceptibly grow in our hearts until a stronghold belief is created-and then it’s too late. The building is erected, and it’s hard to take down.

Children, guard your hearts! The mind is the gateway to your heart! Gorge on My living word! Be so full of it that when Satan comes to speak a lie you respond as Jesus did when he emerged from the wilderness of fasting and prayer! Sharpen your swords my children!

The stories coming this year will be so tempting, like bright shiny objects drawing your curiosity like the carnage on the side of the road that people slow down to see. I say, don’t look! Don’t meditate on the works of the wicked one.

Right now, Satan is moving in a very concerted spiritual manner against believers; he has planned the day of our death just as Haman was moved against the Jews because Mordacai would not bow. So too, Satan is jealous for your submission to him, and as I blessed the Jews through his demonic plots, so too I will bless my people who refuse to bow but will trust me, and submit to my leading. On the day they were to be destroyed, they took the kingdom.

 It's Night Now

It is night on the earth, like the night before the cross of Christ. As someone recently said, “the church is going into Gethsemane”, but it’s a darkness before the most glorious dawn humanity has ever known. As Satan entered Judas, he is entering leaders and people all over the globe to move in hatred to murder believers, to destroy our faith, to stop the temple of God from being erected in the earth, a spiritual temple...people full of His Spirit, dependent on Him and moving in his will much like Jesus did. The mature Romans 8 sons and daughters birthed into the earth by the Holy Spirit Himself. My body will be seen on the earth. (The fullness of the revelation of the children of God happens at our full redemption, at His appearing.)

So, God’s people are being sharpened by the present and coming global persecution. As governments unite being led by Satan himself, it will “wear down” the saints. This wearing down serves to sharpen my people. How do you sharpen a knife? By rubbing a soft cloth against it? As much as I would prefer the soft cloth, it is the hard, cold edges of the sharpening rod that makes a knife sharp.

Man's Religion/Ideas vs. Spirit Led, Submitted Bride:

The house of David is at war with the house of Saul, and David will grow stronger and stronger.

“Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.”

2 Samuel 3:1

 The house of Saul seeks their own will, glory, comfort, and position, but in my name. I am removing my Spirit from the Saul’s who refuse to follow me and placing it on the David’s who know Me and who love Me. My David’s see the wolf coming and will lay down their lives for the sheep. My David’s are true shepherd’s who seek to follow Me no matter the cost. They fear no man.

The hard edge of persecution is coming to glorify My name in the earth. Nothing glorifies Me like my Stephens, those who love and obey no matter the cost-and there will be a great cost. Remember, if they persecuted and hated me, they will persecute you. Woe to you if others only speak well of you, for that is how they treated the false prophets.

This is your sword, to hear the voice of My Spirit and not lean on your own understanding. Seek My face, fast, pray, meditate, marinate, consider, study, My word. Let My word overflow as a flaming river of fire so within you so you can discern the moment you hear something deceptive!

Peter did not know what spirit he was of when he rebuked Jesus. Many will not know what spirit is speaking in them, and through them because the word is not sharp and alive inside of them due to neglect of the word, and due to distraction and “sniffing the bushes” with pesticides.

What you focus on will change you My children. Be wise. Understand that your enemy is seeking who He may devour! Be circumspect every day for you are on the battle field and must be clothed with my living, quickening word so you can immediately  slice through the soulish realm and the Spirit-My Voice, My truth!

Satan’s SEEms so reasonable. He speaks through what you SEE with your mind and it makes so much sense. It sounds so very good. It sounds righteous. It sounds reasonable. It sounds like something that will lead to the greatest good. Remember, Satan is so very reasonable to your rational mind. (Recently read Tozier who said Common Sense is good, but it's for the natural man, it can't bring you into the new nature. Only the Holy Spirit can do that.) 

But what are you hearing from Me?

The word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than a two edged sword diving soul from spirit.

Oh My word inside of you is a hot light that will burn through lies and expose deception. Be filled, Be filled Be filled now.

I am purifying. I am removing, I am exposing. What you see happening out there is coming to everyone from the least to the greatest.

I am shaking things up to bring the sediment to the surface so it can be removed! Yes  I am. It is my joy to do it, to bring forth my church as while and spotless!

Be prepared to endure until the end. Understand what I am doing. Prepare your hearts and minds. I am not coming with soft clothes and sweet surgery drinks for that is not how I purify, refine, and prepare my body.

 Now we fight. Now we endure affliction to come forth as pure gold, now we unveil every man’s foundation so that you can get remove that which spoils and be clothed in righteousness.

The heart is deceitfully wicked, and only I know every man’s heart, more than he knows his own. Trust me in this process. Lean into this process. Learna to rejoice in the trials and affliction realizing the glory that will come after the furnace burns away the dross.

Or do you imagine that you are refined? That your love is like Mine? That you have arrived?

No. No. I love you, and this is my mercy. This is my grace. This is my joy. I love you too much to leave you to your current spiritual state.

“I counsel you to buy gold tried by fire.” Those words are for the American church, right now.

Is  that not what my people ask for? What does a fire feel like? It’s hot. It burns. “Burn me pure”. Why do you sing that? Because that is my process that I use to establish my church.

Trust Me. As I warned the Israelites when they mixed worship of Me with their gods, and their selfish lives that sought their own comfort and glory while coming to the temple to worship and pray to me, I do this so that you will return to me with all of your heart.

 

 

 


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