DEBRA WESTBROOK
Rivers of Eden
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Agitation and Reverberation
Sounds from the Throne
And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this." NKJV
"You are askew in your understanding of Me. But take heart, for there is a trumpet sounding forth that will propel you into a greater understanding of who I AM. Each I time I reveal Myself, I call you forth to a greater level of glory by faith. Relinquish your ties to the past and all that tethers you to that place. My voice sounds forth and my voice shakes, reverberates, agitates, and disturbs your current position.
Are you uncomfortable? I say that is a good thing - a very good thing. I am taking notice, I am taking soundings of those whose hearts are crying out to me. I am taking soundings of the true depth of dedication to Me and Me alone. They are like those who are cast upon the sea, adrift without a compass and without direction. I have brought you to this place. It is I that has placed you upon the sea. You are unable to see the shore and you are unable to touch the bottom. You are far from any land and are adrift in the unknown. Again I say this is a good thing. You are traversing the unknown seas. They may be unknown to you My child, but they are well known to Me.
Don't try to touch the bottom for you can't. Don't try to get a direction for yourself for you can't. In your own wisdom you will never know the way that I am taking you. Be still and know that I AM God. I will breathe upon the waters and under the waters and over the waters and I shall create a wave to propel you forth into the direction I choose for you to go. The seas shall indeed rise under you and you shall hear a sound of agitation as the seas roar under you and around you. But they shall move you and propel you forth. And the glory of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. "
This voice, like a trumpet, agitates and resonates into the very being of John the Apostle. When God's voice sounds forth, things begin to shake and change whatever is in the path of this sound coming forth from the Throne Room. This voice is meant to disturb us and disrupt our life. This voice confronts and challenges and transforms us by its sound. This voice pulls us into itself and our lives implode in the essence of this sound. We are undone in the presence of God and the sound of His voice coming from the Throne Room.
Psalm 29:3-4
3 The voice of the LORD is over the waters; The God of glory thunders; The LORD is over many waters. 4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; The voice of the LORD is full of majesty. NKJV
Do Not Compromise Your Position in Worship
"Do not compromise your position in worship. Do not let go of the desires that I have placed within your heart to worship Me in the beauty of My holiness. For many do worship Me with their mouths but their hearts are far from Me. Do not be like them. Press past the places where many stop and press into that position where I have called you to gaze upon Me and Me alone. Do not be distracted but focus on Me. Your desire to worship Me in spirit and in truth will propel you past the place where many of My people are content to stay in these days. Again I say come up and go higher in Me! I am seeking worshippers. I am seeking those who will cast off all restraints and worship Me and Me alone."
In seeking the Lord and writing this word, my experience has often been that many times while participating in a corporate worship service, there is always a glass ceiling that is hit and they go no further. When God calls us into certain places we watch and are so often grieved that people go no further and are content to stay where they are, basking in a measured presence of God that is mingled with emotional feelings. Yet, there is so much more. How many of us stop when we see others stop? Do we judge and critique these situations and perhaps feeling somewhat self-righteous that we want to go higher but simply can't in the place where we are standing? What if we just forget where we are and just worship? Just worship and ignore anything that is going on around us. What if? Think of the possibilities, if not for others, but for us.
Why are so many gatherings stopping at the point of breakthrough when it is clear that God is saying to press and go higher? I sense it is fear.
Fear will contribute to unbelief, doubt, seeking the approval of man and a host of other repercussions that hinder true worship in our midst. There are many contributing factors but I see fear in the forefront - a fear of relinquishing all to worship. In worship, all fear is left behind in a revelation of His perfecting love.
1 John 4:18
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. NKJV
2 Timothy 1:7
7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. NKJV
When I encounter this over and over as God sends us forth, we continue to be astounded yet also grieved. I sense that perhaps I should know this but I am always bewildered by this sense of obstruction in worship where people will not release and let go.
Song 2:8-9 8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. 9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall; He is looking through the windows, gazing through the lattice. NKJV
Jesus watches and waits for people to press past all fears and to enter into that place where He stands - where He waits and watches. He watches for anyone who will go beyond the mundane routine and vain repetitions and move out seeking His glory.
I would challenge you that are in places that are stifled and stuck - worship Him. If God has told you to be where you are and you are positioned accurately in Him, then worship in humility and grace but worship. Your worship can change the atmosphere in which you find yourself. You can ascend into eternity and bring that atmosphere down into a corporate environment. It may not happen immediately but your assignment may be to simply worship and leave the outworking in the spiritual atmosphere to God's hand. We are not dependant on what is around us to worship. We are dependent on who is in us - Christ Jesus, our hope and glory.
So wherever you are, worship. Don't make excuses if the atmosphere is dry and hard - just worship. Don't critique what is going on around you - just worship. Just worship in the secret place of the Most High. In your worship you will forge a path that will open up heaven in your midst. Then perhaps others may see, experience and know He is Lord in a revelation of His perfect love that is devoid of any and all fear. Worship.
Don't compromise your position in worship because others do - just worship.
ELAINE TAVOLACCI
Staten Island, NY
I have a word from the Lord
for those of you that have been going through a difficult season and it seems
like all the promises of God and the prophetic words that were spoken over your
life will never come to pass. The other night I had a dream and in the dream I
was writing down these words that I heard: “Testing, This is only a Test”. It
sounded like something that I heard years ago on the television saying: This
station will conduct a test from the Emergency Broadcast System, this is only a
test. I record all my dreams during the night that have spiritual significance
and I knew that this dream was a word from the Lord and it has certainly been
confirmed several times this week. There are many of you that know that you were
called to a particular ministry or some other plan that the Lord has for your
life but if you look at things in the natural, your circumstances don't seem to
line up with your promise. God tests us to prove us so that He could move us
into the position that He has for us. As Joseph was being tested he didn't sit
in the dungeons in fear or worry but he stayed plugged in to Gods agenda and
didn't allow a root of bitterness to enter in. He kept himself clean in the eyes
of God when Potiphar’s wife tried to seduce him. He never retaliated even when
he was scorned and beaten. Psalm 105: 16 – 22 shows us how God turned Joseph’s
life around but verse 19 explains it all.
Psalm 105:19
Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of the Lord tested him.
Joseph had two dreams. In the first dream the sheaves of grain were bowing down
to him. That represented his earthly authority and favor with man that God was
going to give him. In the second dream the sun and moon and eleven stars were
bowing down to him. That represented his Spiritual authority and favor with God
that He was going to release to Joseph. Did these promises come to pass? Yes but
if you read the life of Joseph you will see all the adversity that he went
through until the word came to pass. If he looked at things in the natural he
would have thought that he missed God but he was fully persuaded of what God had
shown him. Now I am not saying that everyone will go through devastating trials
that has a calling but what I am saying is that this is the reason why many of
you are going through difficult times. Many of you seem to be in a constant
battle and you don't understand what is happening. God doesn't cause these
things to happen but sometimes He allows them to test your character. Joseph’s
own brothers sold him into slavery right after he had those dreams. How many of
you have brothers and sisters that think that you are losing your mind because
you are believing God for something unattainable in the natural? Even some of
your Christian friends won't understand you when you have a significant calling
on your life. Many years later when Joseph came into his promise he met with his
brothers again and forgave them. This is what he said:
Genesis 50: 20
But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order
to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.
You may have been through betrayals and injustice. People may have spoken all
kinds of evil against you. If you have a calling on your life you are going to
be tested. God can never tempt us but He will test us. I heard a very profound
statement this week. Don't let your talent take you where your character can't
keep you. Joseph certainly was a man of honorable character.
As I said last week we are coming into a great move of God and Jesus has awesome
plans but you must be positioned for your destiny. Recognize the test. Stay
steadfast and don't lose your focus as you allow Jesus to work character and
integrity in your life.
‘Tis The Season For His Glory!
The Lord says I am about to release My Glory upon this earth in an unprecedented way. I am about to pour out My Spirit in a mighty way and I desire to bring you from glory to glory. As I said in My Word: I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh, your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. I am about to do great things in your lives and ministries. Many of you will experience new dimensions of My Glory. Several of you will have Spiritual encounters that are uncommon to man. I am raising up writers, artists, musicians, ministers, and the five-fold ministry as well as people to go into the highways, byways and marketplace. I am about to release new mantles and gifts to even the least among you. As you allow Me into your churches you will receive a new and fresh outpouring. As you allow Me into your lives you will be transformed into My image. Don't resist nor quench the Holy Spirit. Don't settle for less than what I have for you. Allow My Word to penetrate your heart as a fire shut up in your bones. As you perceive the world growing darker I will raise up people to be My Light bearers and bring My Glory into this darkness. As the darkness increases you will also see My Glory accelerate beyond what you have ever known. Look up for your redemption draws nigh says the Lord.
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from Glory to Glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Close Every Door
If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
CHUCK PIERCE
http://www.glory-of-zion.org
PRAYER OF FAITH
"Because you endured the trauma of your change, and because you've waited for Me, I will now rest a burning upon you. The way that needs to be cleared and burned for you in the next 10 days is now beginning to be prepared. The waiting has produced a burning. The burning has caused you to have an authority. So now watch Me take you into the place you've waited for. Yield the reins of your heart. Yield the reins and let Me draw you. The flame is beginning to rise up within you, for I have ways to be made. I have assignments to be handed forth. Yield your heart, for I will send some of you to an unusual place and there you will meet a need for Me. In meeting a need for Me, I will meet what you've been asking Me for.
"What is that you have faith for? What is it that you are not looking for Me to manifest around you? What is it that you have faith for? There is a prayer of faith to be prayed this week. Let Me give you the prayer of faith. What is it do you have faith for - a relationship? What is it that you are really going to pray the prayer of faith over this next week? This isn't a week of anxiety praying. This isn't a week of praying and striving. This is a week of the prayer of faith. Rise up, and in a moment when I call you forth, you will hear the one prayer that you pray and watch for Me to do. Listen for faith! Young people, pray for that one friend that I give you. Pray for that one friend to be drawn in. You'll hear deep in your spirit and My faith will join with your decree. Many things will be placed on My altar, for the prayer of faith is a prayer that ascends and brings to Me the issue that I have revealed in your heart. The prayer of faith will make them well. The prayer of faith will make them well. I'm going to begin to restore the prayer of faith to My people."
STAY CONNECTED!
"Be where I assign you, when I assign you. There are new connections coming into your path this week. You will begin to experience life in a way that you've not known in the past. So be where you are to be, when you are to be there, and watch Me work on your behalf. Put procrastination under your feet. Put laziness under your feet, and be where I tell you to be. Put shame under one foot and put disgust and lagging behind under the other foot. Be where I tell you to be! It's at that place you will begin to see.
"I am pulling down revelation in the night season. I am sending angels of preparation and angels of positioning. I am defining you in a new way. These are not the angelic hosts that you have known in other seasons. These are angels that are sharpening the Word that is in your mouth. They are sharpening your schedule and your timing to put you in the position to which I have called you. You are shaking off what is not of Me. You are shaking off things you have heard and said that were not about this season. I am sending a new angelic force. You are feeling their pressure as they work to hone you into that sharp place I am putting you in this day. Stay connected! Stay connected even though this is not the message you have expected from a former season of angelic visitation.
"There is a new place for you to go. There is a new job waiting on you. There is a relationship waiting on you. There is a new place that I am assigning you. Watch carefully. Go where I send you. Do not go in your own strength, for it is Me that is sending you forth. I AM mobilizing you. I AM giving you the strength to rise up. Go where I send you. Do not be frightened by what you hear. Do not back up just because giants seem near. Stand firm for I AM going before you. Just go with Me and say, 'I have been sent to receive this blessing.'
"I can part what is un-partable. I can cause that which would not let go to now come apart so you can pass through. This is a time of showing. I plan on showing you what you are looking for. Do not back up for the show is ready to begin! The show is ready to begin! Therefore, find your seat in Me and get ready to watch the manifestation that you have been asking Me about.
"Your seat and your position have already been prepared for you. Come up! Through your worship, rise up and be seated with Me. Together we will decree into your atmosphere and change your condition. Come up, be seated, and watch that area around you in the earth realm be filled with My presence. Come into a new place with Me. Join Me in a new way. I have blessings that you know not of that I long to pour out over you.
"I have been looking for a group. I have been looking for the ones to anoint now. There is an anointing that I am bringing down from heaven so you can stand as one and break through the barrier that the enemy has erected. I AM coming in NOW!"
"I am coming into your life in new ways. I am breaking that which has been around you. I am causing you to feel My presence in new ways. I am causing you to be favored in new ways. I am breaking through the blood carrier in your brain. You thought that knowledge could get through, but I have got to break that blood barrier where the iniquitous flow from generations in your life continues to have right to operate. I will cause you to come alive and see what I would see. I am breaking through a blood barrier! I am breaking through a blood barrier! What has been filed and catalogued is now coming alive. I am going to reverse some Alzheimer's. I am going to reverse some dementia. I am changing some things. I am going to reverse stuttering. I am going to reverse dyslexia. I am breaking through the blood barrier in your brain. My presence can penetrate.
"I will reveal My glory. I am coming to reveal so I can break open the seal that has closed up what you have been looking for. I am neutralizing your chromosomes from iniquitous patterns. Let My glory penetrate! Let My glory penetrate! I am breaking your insecurity barrier. I am uncovering the treasure that you have been. I am uprooting what has been buried deep, and causing you to flower and blossom forth in a new way. Let Me uproot! Let Me uproot!"
DEBRA LOWE
http://daughtersofz.typepad.com/
All that hear and hearken to My voice in these times when confusion attempts to cause you to be moved, will from my Word receive double honor. Stand and believe Me because of My Word and I will give you double for your shame. Those who are being led by My Word and not by their emotions or by their circumstances and all who will not give up will reap the rewards of their harvest. As the days become more and more difficult, some that sat at My table will leave My house for the momentary pleasures that bring a lifetime of misery. Yet, I will have a remnant that will stay true and faithful to Me and My Word. I and my Word are one and that will never change. I Am watching those who are faithful to My Word, so that I may shower over them blessings. They will be My Josephs' in this season. families will be preserved because of their faithfulness to do My Word. I will instruct them in the night season with dreams and visions. They will have witty inventions and creative ideas in a time when all seems lost. Supernatural wisdom will be given to them, because they have kept themselves pure and holy. Just like Joseph they will refuse to be dictated to by the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. They know how to run when faced with sin for a season. They will still be holy. This will be the holy remnant that have kept themselves as virgins in this world, choosing to be holy vessels in these last days. To be the dwelling place for My glory to shine forth. My glory will go forth through the wisdom and abilities that My holy people will exhibit to a world that is in chaos. Peace, I speak to my children, peace I command to rest upon My obedient ones. Be empowered to prosper in every area of your life. I have commanded My angel army to be at your side, to assist in all of the kingdom affairs. You will succeed and nothing will hinder. All that the enemy thought would hinder you will turn around and annihilate his plans and purposes against you. You will step over his snares and traps this season and not give his plans a second thought, because you will cast down every high thing, every lie and cunning device. They are old devices that are known to Me and the Kingdom, deceitful, prideful and full of lies. Be strong in Me and declare boldly to the spirit of the enemy, I will not stop, go back or give up. Have a single vision now,d o not be distracted, run to win.
Many may fall at your right and left, but because you have made Me your Refuge, you will be stable. I Am going through My garden to remove the tares that have grown and entangled itself around my true plant. Draw your energy from the deep roots you have in Me. My children that have placed their trust in Me will grow deeper in Me, for now more than ever they know that I Am their true hope. This transition has hemmed you in to Me and my Word. We are truly becoming One.
YOLANDA BALLARD
AT THE FATHER'S FEET
Melbourn, Florida
http://www.ourchurch.com/member/r/RainNglory/
TAKING THE LAND
For I am calling to My side My people for we are beginning to ride across the nation, and we are letting out a war cry, for we are beginning to take the land. For you must draw close to hear My voice to begin to receive marching orders. For I will divide you up into troops row by row. For you are an army, and you must know where you are to be positioned. Do not care what others will think of you. You must step out by faith, and take a stand for the land.
Yes, stand for holiness and truth, and wear a banner of love and not religiosity. You must be real. So take off the mask and be who I called you to be, and that is a fearless warrior, one who will stand up and be counted for what is righteous, and will not compromise no matter what the cost or the price to be paid whether it be life or death it doesn't matter. If I am for you, who can be against you.
So buckle up your armor and wear My glory like a shield against the enemy. He will not see you. You will remain hidden until the purpose I have called you to accomplish is complete. So let out a war cry and rejoice for we are truly taking the land this day and this hour.
