The days are evil so we must dress appropriately in other words dress for success.

 He will do it again remember the last last victory HE gave you. If HE did it then HE will do it again just believe that HE will!

  

Today God is faithful even when we feel as though HE has forgotten us. I have been feeling forgotten and have asked HIM numeous times "Do I matter"? And Everything I have read the past couple days has began with these words YOU MATTER TO GOD! Oh how I love Jesus

I have a word of encouragement for whoever is feeling lost in the wilderness...

A couple of years ago I was just having a fit one evening while in prayer things weren't going the way I felt they should. The Lord had gotten quiet, wasn't saying much,I was stuck right in the middle of nowhere and all I could see was NOTHING! The Lord had led me here and just abandoned me and the times of testing can be rough and it really is in those times that we find out who we really are and we grow to the next level HE stretches us and to the Limits!

I remember just crying that was all I could do I had no words left so I cried and cried till it turned into the UGLY CRY! 

I was like LORD do you see me at all and if you do tell me I demanded what do I look like?
The Lord has such a sense of humor I LOVE HIM SO! After asking him what do I look like I saw a picture of myself flash before my eyes and I was looking up to heaven tears just streaming down my face with the ugliest cry face one could have,snot was flowing freely from my nose. With a giggle I told him I guess I look very silly

While in the dark places of your journey you are going to be stuck anyways so just REJOICE it is a season and it will pass...

Debra

I woke up this morning and as I sat in HIS presence I just felt the past season just leave and I waved goodbye and so happily welcomed the new that has finally arrived. In what seems like a life time of struggle. I can truly say I wont miss it. As I sat and looked back over the past seasons of my life all the hurt and lack that had taken place the feelings of being abandoned in life. The Lord asked "What were you grateful for?"

There is always something to be grateful for in any circumstance in life.I am grateful for you Lord!! HE never leaves us empty there was a time in the grieving the loss of my husband that I sat empty the thought of being alone overwhelmed me I felt as if I could not go on half of me was missing and how could I ever replace that part of me?

As I sat one evening just looking out the window the thought of just getting my little dog who is my faithful friend and getting in my car and crashing it somewhere. Suddenly the peace of God just flooded my heart and somehow I knew that in all the emptiness it would all work together for me on the other side of the brokeness!

It is so funny whenever someone shares an word from the Lord they always talk about the trauma.. That left for good this morning it is so hard to type with the weight of HIS glory on me.. Thank you Lord for loving me and standing by me strengthening me when everyone else abandoned me I am so grateful for your love and mercy YOU have shown me..

I am grateful for the ones that HE placed in my pathway who have helped me when I couldn't help myself.. I am moving forward to all the doors HE will open for me. I am stronger in HIM than I have ever been I sit in heavenly place by Christ Jesus and I am a joint heir with HIM what is HIS is mine How awesome!! I look forward to the new and my prayer is that everyone who is in a broken and barren place will find the new and have something to be grateful for through it all.. HE is raising up HIS remnant bride the BURNING ONES who have been through the brokenness and the process and I am ready sword held high!!! welcome all things new.

Debra

I was reading in 2 Samuel chapter 9 about King David and Mephibosheth the crippled man living in a town called Lodebar which means Barrenness or Brokenness. David asked was there anyone left in the house of Saul that he could bless for the sake of his best friend Jonathan who had been killed in battle alongside his father King Saul. I believe David was remembering their friendship and times together the Bible said their hearts were knitted together in love... They had a Soul Tie in the spirit realm formed by God. David was told that Jonathan's son who was crippled was alive and David instructed him to be blessed given every blessing and he would sit with him at the King's table to go down to Lodebar and bring him out.
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We all have barren and broken places in our walk with the Lord and we have to pitch our tents in  Lodebar NO ONE likes camping there just like Mephibosheth we become crippled from the warfare  BUT.. God sits us there as times of testing and breaking us to mold us to be used in a greater way for the Kingdom. All we can do is sit in the doorway of our tents and cry out for the hand of God to help and lift  us out. Life has dropped us people we love and counted on have let us down deserted us leaving us wounded and naked and begging for a hand to hold, a word spoken to encourage us we are cold and hungry and it is as time has stopped and we feel as if we will be stuck forever in the barren wasteland. You gave your all  to who needed you in their times of despair you spoke words to edify and lift them up blessed them in every area that you had available. And now you find yourself crippled and abandoned by the side of the road but they all pass you by turning their heads away from you..

Here is where God shows himself strong in our lives when we are weak then he is strong I HAVE A WORD... God saw us the moment we pitched our tents the words says..
2 Corinthians 4:7-9

7- But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8- We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
God has already anointed and appointed our time of COMING OUT...And by his hand he lifts us up we have a King waiting to bless us after we have gone through the fiery trial sadly a lot do not make it through they walk away from God.. they just could not let the flesh die.. We all have different trials and tests nothing can shake your faith and life-like having your Husband die unexpectedly I never blamed God I did ask him WHY? after all the prayers of protection I had prayed over my husband. The Lord answered with "Bad things happen to good people"  was all he said.

I am COMING OUT! of Lodebar to the praise of HIS Glory!  Renewed Refreshed Refilled stronger than ever and Ready to walk into the NEW he has for me I may have been crippled but he has stretched out his hands  to lift me up. I will pass this test.. Weeping may endure for a night BUT joy cometh in the morning.. I don't know about anyone else but I see my sun rising and what a glorious day it is going to be.

Matthew 13:24-30
NJK

The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares

²⁴ Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; ²⁵ but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. ²⁶ But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. ²⁷ So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ ²⁸ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ ²⁹ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. ³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn

I was listening to my Pastor in North Carolina the other day a message that he had preached.As he was talking he began to feel as if he was going to get choked and began to cough and with a desperate request he asked for some water. I just felt the urgency in his voice.. We all have had a coughing fit and it is annoying especially in public. Immediately I felt  that it was a spirit on assignment trying to choke out the word and as I began to war against this spirit the Holy Spirit brought to my remembrance the parable of the wheat and tares.

The church is full of wheat and tares as a matter of fact we probably sat beside a tare. The devil has planted  to choke out the  wheat and steal  the peace,joy,and strength from Gods people funny thing is a lot do not know it. I love the revelations from God! It is time that we expose the darkness as the Bible tells us to do. I am so sick of phony demonic people planted in the church to steal and cause discord. We are to love God and pursue holiness not this do what you want teachers it is okay you will still get to heaven..

 God said be ye holy as I am holy?That don't sound  like to me live anyway that you want. We should ask ourselves am I a wheat or an tare?