POSTED: April 23rd, 2006 @ 1:42 a.m.
Today the Lord sent me about 20 miles East of my home to attend an Israel Seminar, led by two awesome saints who live and minister in Israel part time and in America part time. Twenty miles may not seem all that far, but it took me through three towns to get to the location of the conference. The first half went really quickly and I was surprised to learn that Tel Aviv is being made into (by their government) the number 1 sodomite capital in the world; that women are captured and sold into slavery/prostitution at alarming rates; that abortion is a way of life, the army even paying for two free abortions for each female soldier who asks...thus the rosy scenarios painted by Christian television about the Holy Land truly being blasted wide open with God's truth of reality there. It was quite sobering. The couple's heart for Israel is deep and profound...
When it came time for lunch, virtually everyone in attendance left the building except for myself and two precious sisters, one from Indiana, one from Illinois. I don't even remember how it started but the Lord had me telling them about my life as a little Jewish girl in America and how I was persecuted (which I tell you truthfully, He RARELY EVER has me share ANYTHING of my life aloud)...but it led to the amazing ways that the Lord's hand had been on my life even then giving revelation to how truly He has chosen us from before the foundations of the earth AND that when He said, "I will never leave you or forsake you"...this is indeed absolute TRUTH. Without question, He has always been there and if you will let Him, the Lord confirms that He will reveal His presence in your life since the beginning as well.
But the amazing thing that the Lord did was that He had me speak forth His words of encouragement to the sister newly from Indiana...and she wept with joy for truly when you hear God's truth and when you recognize His heart it brings a deep joy that cannot be contained. It was a humbling honor to have yet again been sent by Almighty God across town(s) NOT for anything He wanted to show me personally but instead to deliver His message of love to one of His own. THAT blows me away.
And so the first message that He would have me speak unto you this day is: if you are waiting for God, if you are waiting to hear what He has to say to you, if you need Him to show it - TRUST THAT HE WILL - because He DOES AND HE WILL COME TO YOU if you will but LOOK FOR HIM IN ALL WHO HE PLACES IN YOUR PATH. For this is not the first time that He has sent me on journeys for Him, just to say "I love you" to one, or "I'm here" to another. This day He actually spoke about His calling for this precious sister to become an end-time martyr.
This should NOT cause you to get into fear, and should not come as any great big surprise - that this is the hour where He is revealing that which is about to transpire AND the role He has ordained for you to walk in for Him, for He has spoken through me (and others!), IF HE IS CALLING YOU TO DO SOMETHING ON HIS BEHALF AND FOR HIS GLORY, HE WILL REVEAL IT AND HE WILL GIVE YOU THE GRACE TO DO IT! For it is the HIGHEST HONOR OF ALL HONORS to be asked to give our lives on His behalf. Would He not then BE THERE WITH US as we do this monumental thing?
Because you will not be doing this for yourself - you will be doing it for Him.
If you have ever read "Foxes Book of Martyrs" or "Jesus Freaks" or any number of books, or articles from Voice of the Martyrs - you will find story after story of people being burned alive, people being boiled alive, people being cut apart or any number of torturous ways man can think of to "silence the truth of God" (NEVER!!!)...and they are recorded as SINGING while they are on fire, or boiling, or.... How is that possible? God gave me this revelation of how He will be SO ENMESHED with us - the teacher used this perfect word today - that you and He will become this interwoven TAPESTRY...and you will be so saturated in Him and He in you that there won't even BE fear or pain or ANYTHING other than Him and His Glory! For TRULY He is calling for the ultimate sacrifice from MANY who will read this..and TRULY He has been speaking for months now 'GET READY' and 'ARE YOU READY TO DIE ON MY BEHALF'.
Is this something that you shrugged off? Is this something that you think (or thought), "That's not me...", or "You won't see ME burning for Jesus...yea I love Him but..."
I pray that you will come to know Him so intimately and love Him so deeply that your entire life from this moment forth will cease to be about you and will instead begin to be only and all about Him.
Do you ever wake up in the morning and just smile because you feel His presence saturating your entire being and do you then gently and tenderly whisper His name..."Jesus..." in a loving hush...and He then permeates you with all that He is and then you ask Him NOT what He can do for you this and every day but instead, "What is it that I can do for YOU today My love...?" For it is when you get to the place of not caring about you or your life or ANYTHING having to do with this world and your place in it, but instead you get a revelation of His immeasurable goodness and heart toward you that you cease to worry about provision or blessing or any such thing, and instead you just KNOW that He will always provide for your each and every need that you can then focus all that you are upon Him.
And then you too will be in a place where you will know that to die FOR Christ is the greatest honor imaginable.
How could we not want to die for Him...
At the end of the seminar the Lord had me tell yet another woman that she has been chosen to become a martyr for His Glory. And again He so lovingly laid it out to her using me to paint His picture of how she and He will be one in those moments...and the Lord cried and I cried at the beauty of it, the depth of His love, what it does to His heart to know that there ARE those who are willing to lay down all for Him...it undoes Him and He is moved beyond words.
Outside the window of the conference, from where I was sitting, I could see a momma robin sitting upon her nest and tending to her eggs. She kept nestling in, using her warm red breast to tuck those little created lives up under her heartbeat - caring for them, nurturing them, in preparation for them TO BE BIRTHED - to be brought forth into their purposes.
And the Lord said, "The last time I spoke of Israel I likened Myself to a hen who longed to gather His chicks to His breast...as these, My chosen saints for Israel share Israel with this group today, the robin is a but a smaller picture but powerful nonetheless, for ISRAEL is My heart and these, My son and My daughter, are sharing MY heartbeat with MY creation, who shall then break out and go forth to minister unto Israel for My Glory. For also I say unto you that that which is in need of being birthed where Israel is concerned is ALSO being nurtured, and incubated, and cared for in that place where your heart beats with My heartbeat. And just as those tiny fledglings shall break forth at the appointed exact right moment so too all that you are birthing in the Spirit for My Glory shall break forth. For yea, NOW IS THE TIME, THIS IS THE SEASON, for verily I say unto you, the next powerful and mighty move of MY SPIRIT is ready to be issued forth. "
Spoken forth by His Messenger
April 22nd & April 23rd, 2006
1:31 p.m. - 1:42 a.m.
