22/01/2010

We’re sorry it’s taken so long to get this GN to you. The messages which follow were all received shortly after the tsunami struck, but when the situation arose with Ricky and Angela, we had to set them aside until we could get you the first two or three GNs on that subject. Nevertheless, we hope you’ll find the Lord’s Words that follow feeding, inspiring, and challenging. We love you!

My dear Family,

1. I love you so much, and Peter and I thank the Lord for each of you, for your love for the Lord, your dedication to Him‚ your love and service for others, and for your many wonderful qualities that make us proud to say we’re the Family!

2. As you know, right after Christmas a powerful earthquake shook Southeast Asia‚ followed by a devastating tsunami or tidal surge that wreaked havoc all around the border of the Indian Ocean, killing tens of thousands. Here’s an overview of this disaster that we’ve put together from the newspapers:

On Sunday, December 26, 2004, at 6:59 AM local time, the Indian Ocean was shaken by the biggest earthquake the world has experienced since 1964, registering a magnitude of 9.0. The epicenter was under the sea, off the northern tip of the Indonesian archipelago.

As the Earth’s plates buckled and fractured along a 600-mile section of the seabed, they released pent–up energy equivalent to the power of more than 1,000 atomic bombs, sending the waters above into a frenzy, rearing up, crashing down.

The resulting waves, racing across the ocean at 500 mph, first devastated Indonesian Sumatra‚ then spanned outwards, reaching as far as Somalia on the coast of Africa. Tens of thousands of tons of water swept across beaches, through villages and towns, tearing down hotels and homes as though they were mere papier-mãché models on an architect’s drawing board. The waves engulfed 12 countries, drowning tens of thousands in their wake. There was‚ for so many, nowhere to hide. As one British holiday–maker said: “One moment we were sitting in paradise, the next second we were engulfed in the depths of Hell.”

With each passing day, new and ever-more heartbreaking stories have emerged: stories of outstanding courage, unimaginable terror, unstinting selflessness and inconceivable anguish. Among all of them runs a common thread: unbearable loss—losses so great that estimates suggest more than 225,000 have died in this ravaged and devastated region.

All that is left of a holiday paradise is debris and masonry‚ and beneath it thousands of bodies. Many will never be recovered; many more will only be given up by the sea months from now.

In most of the affected countries, aid is coming in. But for many people, there has been little in the way of shelter. A few days after the disaster, fishermen in Tamil Nadu in India were bedding down for the night on the beaches. “We don’t even have blankets, all we can do is light fires to try to keep ourselves warm,” says Wimol Thongthae‚ from the village of Nam Khem, which was flattened by the tsunami. “We are using any wood we can find from the buildings that have been destroyed. There is barely a building left standing here, yet no one has come to offer help. We are destitute, why does no one come?”

One woman, her head swathed in a shawl‚ crooned softly to a small crying baby, cradled in her arms. “I don’t know his name, he isn’t mine, not really,” she said. “I found him, he was washed up near me. He’s only about nine months old, three months older than my daughter who died.

“I don’t even know where her body is. She may never be found. But this one‚ he is alive. He is like me, he has no one. So he will be my baby now. That is how we will go on here‚ by becoming new families.” (Compiled from articles by Raymond Whitaker, The Independent; Olga Craig, Electronic Telegraph)

3. This earthquake and tsunami have caused more death and destruction than any other natural disaster in a long time, and have not only touched the countries affected, but have rocked many countries around the world in one way or another—hearts have been moved, nations have been stirred to compassion, governments have rushed to send aid, rivalries have been set aside for a time.

4. It’s been an earthshaking event with global repercussions, and we wanted to get our dear Husband’s counsel and perspective on it all. So we asked Him to give us His Words about it, and He answered in nearly 40 prophecies from 30 different people in different WS units. It was a tremendous outpouring of insight, counsel, revelation and promises, which you’ll read in the pages to follow!

5. As we prepared this material for you, we were amazed at how often the Lord confirmed His Words through the mouths of many channels, saying very similar things through different people in different units who hadn’t discussed these events! He told us why this disaster took place‚ emphasized His love and concern and compassion‚ revealed what happened in Heaven—and Hell—at the time of the disaster, and divulged what’s in store for both the world and the Family.

6. Since the Lord was so clear and comprehensive in His counsel, and He gave so many details on different aspects of this tragedy, I won’t add much commentary in the messages that follow. I pray that you’ll find them as fascinating and feeding and motivating as I did. All messages are from Jesus‚ unless otherwise indicated.

An Overview of the Reasons Why

7. First we asked our dear Husband why He allowed this tragedy that took so many lives and left so many others bereaved, destitute, and in pain. We know He doesn’t allow such things without a reason or a purpose, and that He doesn’t afflict His children willingly‚ that He is Love and Goodness and Mercy itself. So we asked why, and the following message gives a good overview. (The Lord elaborates on each aspect later in this GN; this is simply a bird’s-eye view.)

8. (Jesus:) Amidst the tears and cries of anguish, the heartache and heartbreaks, the cries of “Why, Lord?” rise to My throne. How could I allow such a thing? Why did I cause such devastation and death, or why didn’t I prevent it or limit it somehow?

9. I will explain, My dear loves, because I know this is a question that many of you have as well. But first let Me remind you that the Enemy often tries to use such disasters, catastrophes which he is allowed to bring about‚ to turn both My children and the world against Me, convincing them that I am cruel, unloving, vengeful toward men, or at least indifferent to their suffering and pain. This is not the case.

10. My heart goes out to the children of men, for I feel their suffering and pain. I am a God of Love, and I gave My life for men to relieve their pain and to give them eternal life, happiness and joy, with blessings and rewards both now and hereafter. Do not imagine that I rejoice in these things. I weep too, for I feel the agony of the survivors, those who have lost loved ones, all those they hold dear and all that they possess, and are without hope or earthly comfort‚ and who languish in both physical and spiritual pain. I experience their pain, for even on Earth I was a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, as I bore the suffering of many. I do much more so now, in Heaven.

11. I take no pleasure in these disasters, these events which men of old called “acts of God” and which men today have taken to calling “natural disasters.” They are neither fully natural‚ because they have spiritual causes, nor are they acts of God‚ for I allow the Enemy to enact them, and there are many reasons for them.

12. Many people are prone to see such events that take the lives of multitudes as My judgments, and to wonder what those who died did to deserve it. My first disciples asked about these things as well, wondering whether those who died when a tower in Siloam fell upon them were sinners who were being judged for their iniquities. Well, I do judge the evil, but My nature is love rather than judgment, forgiveness and mercy rather than punishment or pain. If I were to truly judge iniquity and sin, who would stand? All men are sinners, and without My sacrifice for them, all would be worthy of death.

13. So do not automatically think “judgment and wrath” when you hear of these events that take the lives of many hundreds or thousands, for this is not always the case. It is often part of it, but it is not the full story.

14. Yes, many of those nations which were touched by the earthquake and the tsunami were worthy of judgment, for they had persecuted and oppressed My children‚ often for many years. Other nations are governed by cruel and evil men whose people suffer because of their evil deeds. Other places catered to sodomites and rich and selfish pleasure-seekers who long have done evil in My sight. And even in nations which have received and blessed My children, there are both the righteous and the unrighteous, the good and the bad, the virtuous and the iniquitous. So I did allow this disaster as a form of judgment‚ a chastisement for those who know Me and a judgment for those who have rejected Me, but that was only one of the reasons.

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15. (Mama: ) Along this line, in a separate message from another person, the Lord said: “I have been grieved at the sodomy that many of these [beach] resorts have been harboring. Sodomites come from all over the world to these places to revel in their rebellious lifestyle and to prey on the poor. This has been My judgment on some of these people as well, and has put an end to their deeds of lust and defiance and rebelliousness against Me, the God of nature.”

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16. I also allowed this as a release for many of the poor and the helpless, the poverty-stricken and those afflicted and burdened by war, sickness and disease. Why did so many poor people die‚ so many women and children?—Because I have released them from their pain and suffering and gathered them into a better place. Those who knew Me have been gathered to My side, and many of those who did not know Me have had a chance to know Me and to receive Me, and many have taken it. All these are freed from earthly anguish and now enjoy heavenly bliss‚ for death is not the end of life but a gateway to a better life for those who enter through Me, the door. And those who have definitely and knowledgeably rejected Me have gone to their reward as well, downward rather than upward.

17. I judge righteous judgment, My dear loves, for I am a God of justice, mercy and forgiveness. I am just and fair, loving and kind, and so are My judgments. So those who have passed on have received of My mercy‚ as have those who have survived. I spared many of My children by miraculous means, just as I will spare you in the days to come. Some did not go to the beach that day for one reason or another, while others went and were kept through the raging floods and preserved, even while thousands next to them perished. Although a thousand may have drowned at their side, death did not come nigh them or overtake them.

18. And what of the survivors who are homeless and helpless, who have lost loved ones and even all their living, who live in danger of disease and death even now? Many of these dear ones will be gathered to Me in the days to come, released from their suffering and reunited with their loved ones‚ never again to suffer want or need or pain.

19. Others, I am working in their lives, trying to draw them unto Me even while on Earth, empowering their guardian angels to whisper in their ears, “Turn to God and seek His face! He has the comfort and peace and help that you need!” I seek to win as many as I can on Earth‚ for the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory and reward which I have prepared for them hereafter. The role of some of these survivors is even to be witnesses of My love and mercy and grace, to reach out and touch the hearts of their fellow survivors and even the hearts of multitudes of others, to be living examples of Romans 8:28.

20. And yet other survivors are being faced with their final decision in the midst of this devastation, even as My servant Job of old was. Will they “curse God, and die,” as his wife urged him, or will they say “even though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him,” as Job declared? (Job 2:9, 13:15). They are brought to the point of decision, and this too is part of My love for them.

21. I also use this event to bring multitudes of others to the point of decision, even those far away from the scene of the disaster. There is a great stirring in the spirit as they confront these events and consider their own mortality, that their life is but a vapor and that all which they possess and hold dear could be lost in an instant, just as was the case in this earthquake and tsunami. I empower My angels mightily to break through to them and bring them to Me, and I use events around them and My children on Earth to witness to them and give them eternal life. I try to shake them out of their lethargy, their attitude that life goes on as usual, to cause them to think on the eternal, not just the temporal. A man’s life does not consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses, as they have just seen illustrated.

22. This is also a fulfillment of My Word of old‚ a sign of these Last Days: “For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage‚ until the day that Noah entered into the ark‚ and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Mat.24:38-39). Just as in Noah’s day, these floods were sudden. So suddenly will great confusion and floods of iniquity come upon the world in the days ahead, and so suddenly will I return to rescue and resurrect My children at the end of them! My servants are wise to watch for these events, and the world does well to be warned and wary.

23. So now you know some of the many reasons why‚ My dear loves, although for each person, each family, each city, and each nation affected by these events there is a different reason. I am a loving God‚ and I work in the lives of all My creations personally, individually, lovingly, for I am not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, to Me‚ to eternal life, and joy and happiness forever after!

24. Blessed are you, My dear children, who minister to those touched by this catastrophe. You are My comfort to the heartbroken, My encouragement to the downcast, My love to the lost, My sweet balm of relief to the suffering‚ My lifesaver in the midst of these storms of trouble. Go forth with My blessing and My spirit helpers and the fervent prayers of your brethren, and give life and comfort and hope to many in the way that only My children can. I love you and am with you, even unto the end of the world.

Love and Hope and a Heavenly Perspective

25. (Mama:) In the preceding message, the Lord emphasized the fact that He is a God of Love Who laid down His life for us to relieve our pain and suffering. He made the ultimate sacrifice so that we wouldn’t have to suffer the torments and agonies of death and Hell‚ but could instead have eternal life, happiness and bliss! Not only that, but His body was broken so that we could have healing and relief from pain here and now, on Earth. And when we receive Him, He can provide peace, comfort, consolation and faith, answer our prayers, provide our needs, soothe our troubled minds, and much, much more. He ever lives to make intercession for us‚ our wonderful, caring mediator at the throne of God. So of course He isn’t going to contradict His very nature as a God of Love. This is a very important point to keep in mind and to share with your friends and contacts and relatives, because the world’s media—and even many religious leaders—have taken the attitude that this is either a judgment of God or an act of an uncaring and unloving God.

26. When we first asked the Lord about this tsunami, He said: “My children need fresh words that they can pass on to their friends and contacts about how a God of Love can suddenly take the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and leave thousands more in pain and suffering. Even My brides in the Family need a reminder of My perspective on these matters, a reassurance of My boundless love, a reminder that death is not the end, and a heavenly perspective on suffering and how it can draw the sufferers to Me, to a land where there will be no more pain or suffering or tears forever after.”

27. Following are the messages we received along this line, His loving heavenly perspective, and the Lord continues to express His love and compassion and mercy through the rest of this GN:

28. (Jesus: ) My loves, just as you see the suffering and you are concerned for those who have lost everything‚ and your heart aches for them and goes out to them, so much more do I care and I cry for these who have felt the devastation of this disaster. The ones who are left behind are those who are feeling the worst of it, and I see each one. I am coming to their aid, and through your prayers for them more help can be released from Heaven to aid them.

29. I’m not a cruel and uncaring God. I am personally involved in each individual life that was affected by this disaster—both those who passed on at the time of the disaster and those who survived it and who have lost so much. The action in the spirit world at the time of this disaster was immense. I released legions to help, as those who died passed on into the next life, and as those who clung on for dear life and uttered prayers to Me were saved. I had My hand in every single life—whether they died or they survived, in some cases against insurmountable odds. It wasn’t just a random thing, but My hand was upon every life.

30. For those who died, it was their time, and if they were saved they entered into rest in Heaven, with no more pain, sickness, poverty, heartache‚ or the toils of life. Those who were unsaved received a chance in the spirit world to accept Me. Those who need more time to make a decision, I do not judge harshly‚ and they are still in a beautiful place, a place of peace, of rest, where they can learn to know Me and to understand the ways of the spirit world. These are the blessed ones, those who passed on, so weep not for them. Yes, the numbers are staggering, but trust that I was personally involved in each and every life, and that My hand was upon them at the time of the disaster.

31. Turn your prayers and your efforts toward those who are suffering now, who are traumatized‚ and who have nothing left. Your prayers will help them to find peace, comfort, and the aid that they so desperately need. Your prayers will help to alleviate their suffering, and to bring about good in their lives through this in the end. Pray for all those who are volunteering to aid in the relief efforts, the thousands and thousands who are trying to do what they can to alleviate the suffering. They are working under much pressure and in very difficult circumstances, seeing the desperate need and not feeling that they can even make a tiny bit of difference. Pray for their strength and endurance, and that through this experience those who don’t know Me will come to know Me in some way, that they will not harden their hearts, but let the suffering that surrounds them soften their hearts and drive them to Me for the help, strength, endurance, and compassion that they need. So much can be accomplished to help alleviate the suffering through your prayers.

32. Remember, My dear ones, that you are going to see much, much more in the days to come, and you need to strengthen your faith and your spirits so that you take these devastations—whether caused by man or by natural disasters—in a spirit of trust and faith in Me. It’s not going to get easier. At times you will be caught in the midst of these things. But always remember that you are in My hands, no matter what happens. See the signs of the times and do what you can to reach as many as you can while you still can. The world will get darker and more volatile. The signs of the times, in the sky and the seasons and the earth, will be more powerful and more obvious.

33. You can’t let these things make you flinch. You must keep your hearts firm on Me‚ your solid Rock, so that no matter what befalls you or the world around you, your faith remains strong, and you see these things as I see them—not with fear, despair, or even anger at Me, as is the reaction of many in the world. Instead‚ think of My love, of Heaven, of the wonderful afterlife that awaits you, and help to impart this to the world, so that they too can find peace in Me even in the midst of a storm.

34. One day I will return and turn this world that is going to Hell right-side up, and Heaven will come to Earth. This is the way I originally intended for things to be, but through man’s choices‚ the world is only growing darker, colder, and the signs of the times are getting heavier. Rejoice, though, in knowing that I am coming. All these things must come to pass. The Word will be fulfilled. So open your eyes, your hearts, your ears, and your spirits to see things from this vantage point. Although I have to allow the Enemy to have his way with the world for a time, it will ultimately bring in My Kingdom on Earth. I will win the victory! I will be the Victor and will conquer the world for My glory‚ and a new day will dawn.

35. Keep your eyes on the heavenly vision! Do not despair‚ My loves, but set your hearts as a flint. Stay strong so that you can pull others up and out of this hellish world, into My beautiful Heavenly Kingdom of love and light. You have to stay strong so that you can help others! Will you do that for Me? Or will you despair and lose faith? I know you will stay strong and remain faithful! So keep doing what you can to be a witness, and to draw My sheep to Me through this huge devastation, which has certainly touched every heart in some way—whether or not they were directly involved. I love you and I need you to help Me usher in My Kingdom‚ and to bring as many as you can along with you!

36. When huge disasters occur, man’s tendency is to see the overall magnitude, the seemingly general‚ sweeping nature of the disaster, and to begin to look at it as if I were just sweeping away everything, good and bad alike, without being concerned for each one whose life was touched by these events.

37. Your mind cannot grasp how I could possibly be so intimately involved in every individual life and heart, every single feeling and intimate detail of each life, but I am. The natural disasters that I allow, even though they seem massive and beyond your comprehension, are never out of control. There was not a single life that was allowed to end on Earth that day or since, not a single affliction‚ physical, emotional or spiritual that touched a life as a result of this event, that was not allowed by Me.

38. Many of those caught up in this event did not yet know Me, yet My hand was upon their lives just as surely. I knew each life and what the future held for each one. I knew that it was the perfect time to bring them into the realm of the spirit where they would be able to make the best possible choice. For many this was an act of great mercy. I brought them into the realm of the spirit so that they could see the truth now, lest the darkness that would soon engulf them were they to remain should pull them so far away that they would not have a fair chance to come to understand the light and to choose freely.

39. Others whose lives I spared, many times through miraculous events even in the midst of the disaster, I chose to do so because I knew it was exactly what they needed. I see each heart. I know exactly what will bring them as close to Me as possible so that they can choose. In some cases there were those who had made their choices and had rejected Me to the depths of their heart‚ and their time of accounting came; but man cannot judge such things—only I can.

40. I alone know the time for you. Only I can see and know if someone is truly rejecting or if they have yet to make their full choice. For many, this was My mercy on them, to either bring them to where they could find Me or to shake up their world and shatter their false images, to give them a chance to come to know Me in a deeper way.

41. For some, even those who didn’t yet know Me, it was a time of decision. Some who knew Me and were placed in the midst of this disaster were given the choice to save themselves or to give their lives in love for another, that they might be saved. The few accounts you have heard of are but a minute part of the multitudes of events that took place that day: acts of bravery, acts of sacrificial love, of people laying down their lives for others. Even when the person didn’t know Me, yet they felt My Spirit moving them and knew what the good and right thing to do was, they chose the good, and this opened the doors for them to come to Me.

42. They still have much to learn here and many choices to make, yet because in the moment of decision they chose what they sensed to be right, it has been counted unto them for righteousness and they have been given all they need to continue to move toward the light.

43. Heaven is busy and many, many are being nurtured and gently shown the truth. This is not a time of sorrow at all in the spiritual realm but of great rejoicing. My children on this side are taking these precious but ignorant ones under their wings and gently teaching them the truth. Many who never had the chance to understand are now being given that chance. It’s a witnessing explosion! It’s not quite like on Earth‚ because these precious ones must be gently taught the truth and it will take time to bring them to where they can choose, but the heavenly realm is bursting with excitement and anticipation of the many they will be able to help.

44. So don’t get your eyes on the terrible disaster and what seem like losses in the physical. Rejoice and thank Me for how I chose each one who entered the spirit realm through this event and am giving each one the personal, one-on-one help and training they need.

45. My view of tragedy is so different from that of the world’s. Some see death and sorrow as a heartbreaking experience, but if they could only know the reality and the fullness of My love, they would not weep for those who have gone beyond this life. I can give My peace, My hope, and My faith to continue on, even in the most trying experiences and through the deepest, hardest loss.

46. Some of the areas which were hit were among the poorest and most suffering in the world‚ and it is My mercy to have taken some of the people there. Had they been allowed to continue, their grief would have grown, and with the world situation growing worse, their plight would have grown more desperate. So in My love and wisdom, one reason I allowed this was to relieve some of these poor people of their suffering and to bring them home to Me. Many did not believe on Earth, but are given that opportunity on this side, as a sign of My love. And many of those who did believe were spared‚ so that they could be part of the transformation in these areas and sweet examples of My love in this time and hour.

47. In all these things, in death, disasters‚ and wars, I am aware of each of those who fall or who are in pain. If I know when even one sparrow falls, I know of each person who has fallen now. The fallen are the ones who have it easy, those who have passed from this life into My realm, for they are now free from the pains of this world. The ones who have it harder are the ones who remain, who must rebuild their lives and overcome great obstacles in order to survive.

48. I know all these who go through these difficulties, and I have sent My angels of comfort to beckon them to My side, so that they might turn to Me and find My love. Sometimes situations like these are the only times in which people will turn to Me. Some will blame Me for allowing such a disaster, but although I am God and I wish I could take everyone out of their suffering and relieve them from the pain, I am also bound by the choices of man. I long to help each one, to save them from this misery, but many have sought their own paths and their own ways and have not allowed Me into their lives, so I am not able to deliver them because they do not call out to Me.

49. But through this disaster many will seek Me out and find Me. Through their pain they will discover My love and how much I care for them, and they will then be able to receive My peace and comfort. My love will wash away all fear. Beauty will come from the ashes of defeat in the lives of many. My light will shine through the storm and many will find their way to Me through this. The times are dark and will get darker‚ and that is why I use this disaster to bring as many as I can to Me.

50. I still remain the God of love through all this. My love has not changed or grown weary or old with time. If you can trust Me and not doubt My love, then you will be able to see the reason behind it and know that there is a greater plan and reason. Hold on to My love through all the pain and suffering that surrounds you and remember that I hold each person in the palm of My hand. I have a special interest in each man, woman, and child, and none fall without Me knowing of it. I will repay them for all that they must go through. Many are the innocent who have passed on and many are the innocent who remain and continue to suffer, but they will not suffer needlessly and without relief, for I will send them relief and I will comfort them. If they turn to Me, they will know peace and have no more fear or pain.

51. So don’t worry that My love has failed or that it cannot be trusted. Although I cannot save all from the pain and suffering of this life, I will make it up to each one in the life to come. This world is but a speck in time, and those who suffer in this life will be honored in the life to come. They will come to know Me and My love‚ and all that they have gone through in this life will be erased.

52. I will care for My Own. Even if they are not immediately delivered from their present suffering, they will be delivered from it for all eternity. All wrongs will be made right and I will more than repay them. This is My boundless love for them, for it will go on for eternity and each one will be able to partake of it. So question not My love in this matter or how I could do something like this, for I am a just God and I will return to these ones what has been taken away from them. This I promise.

The Survivors

53. (Mama:) For those who have passed on in this disaster, their troubles are over‚ while for those who remain—husbands or wives who’ve lost each other or their children, or children who’ve lost their parents—it’s much more difficult. But the Lord has given many beautiful messages of encouragement and comfort for them.

54. (Jesus:) I know you believe that there is good in everything that happens when it involves those who love God. Look at that verse, “All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.” Notice, there is no mention of Me, Jesus, in this verse. It applies to all who love God.

55. Many of the Muslims in Aceh [northern Indonesia, near the epicenter of the earthquake] tried to love God, to love Me in their own way. You see the debris and then the mosques standing in more than one city. I allowed these buildings to remain because these dear Muslims needed this sign to give them faith and hope for rebuilding their lives and to show them that I have not deserted them.

56. I did not desert them. I took many of their loved ones home to the spirit world. I delivered their wives and children into My heavenly realm where I can love them and care for them. I took them away from the harsh law of sharia [Islamic law], because God is not a God of force and laws, but a God of love. I took many into the spiritual world, where I can teach them the love and mercy of God.

57. Many in Aceh have cried out to God in recent months and years‚ begging for surcease from the pain. Many mothers have asked for their children to be delivered from the fighting. They raise their sons only to see them go off to battles, and their hearts ache. They don’t understand. These wars do not seem to be holy wars, and yet the men have promoted them as such. [Note: In Aceh province on the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra island, insurgents seeking independence have been fighting government forces since 1976. The conflict has killed 13,000 people, including at least 2,000 in the past year.]

58. I have delivered the weak in answer to these prayers. I heard their prayers, and I orchestrated an event to bring many into the spirit world where they could learn about Me and My love. I have not forsaken them.

59. However‚ you wonder about the living dead, those who live on in agony. You wonder about the sorrowing mothers and fathers who cannot find their children, and must accept that they are gone.

60. I have not forsaken those who survived. Many feel forsaken because of the lack of food and water and other necessities, but I have not forsaken them. Many children of David and other missionaries are going forth to lend a hand and to supply their physical and spiritual needs.

61. The world is calling for aid. I am calling for volunteers from the heavenly realm to help meet the great need. There are millions of Christians in Heaven who have not yet learned how to witness and how to tell people of My salvation. I don’t press them into service, but I have given the call.

62. Many of these departed Christians feel totally unworthy and incapable. I tell them to look at the children of David, who also feel unworthy and incapable of the jobs I put before them. But do My faithful children of David cower and turn away from My service because they feel incapable? No! They cry out to Me and ask Me to work through them. They are a shining example of faithful obedience, being little and yet willing for Me to make them great, by being willing to let Me call them forth wherever I lead. You‚ My children of David, are not only missionaries to the lost and lonely of the world, but a sample to many in Heaven, a stirring testimony that anyone can serve Me.

63. So now I send out a call amongst My children in Heaven who have not yet stepped out to serve Me. I am calling for volunteers in Heaven to go to the lands devastated by the tsunami and to work in the hearts of the living to bring them hope and faith and My love in the midst of their sorrows.

64. I give this call especially to those departed spirits who are from these lands or from these areas of the world, who can more quickly understand the thoughts and sorrows of the people affected. I have held up the children of David as the example of being willing to let Me work through them even when they feel incapable.

65. Your sample has helped them to step out, and many thousands of these departed saved ones are stepping out by faith and serving Me for the first time. Many Christians from Indonesia, Malaysia‚ Singapore, the Philippines, Burma, and India have heeded My call, and are now in the spirit world around these survivors, speaking words of love and counsel and encouragement to them.

66. I have not forsaken any of these survivors in their hour of need. I come to them. Even those who cry out and curse Me because they think I am responsible for the pain they are suffering, I still go to them. I have sent My emissaries to them to answer their prayers, to bring them dreams and visions and still small voices of counsel.

67. It is up to them to listen. If their hearts are full of hatred and bitterness and are closed off to Me, or they are crying day and night to heathen gods, they won’t benefit from the help I am sending them. But many are only distraught and confused, and this spiritual army is making headway into their hearts, bringing them comfort and light in the midst of what would otherwise be utter darkness.

68. You have heard the miraculous stories of those who survived the waves. But there are great testimonies that could also be told by those who are surviving the despair. The world will not hear these stories, but they are real stories of being guided through the carnage and back into life—not just mothers or fathers finding children and families, but mothers and fathers learning how to cope and care for their surviving families in the midst of the carnage; children finding happiness even though there is suffering around them; dreams that come in the night to inspire faith for the difficult days.

69. Many more will die‚ and you wonder how these spirit helpers will help them. But you must remember that passing from this life into the spirit world is not a bad thing but a wonderful thing. Death can be viewed as a golden opportunity. Care for the living, give them food, water‚ and the truth they need, but also rejoice for those who have died or are dying, for they will come to know about Me and have a choice for Me once they are on this side.

70. As you know, it’s difficult to reach everyone with the truth in the world you live in. But it is not difficult here‚ where all physical barriers are stripped away. Even the Devil is not given the power to stop them from hearing the truth on this side. He is allowed to invite them into his kingdom of darkness and to try to persuade them to follow him instead of Me. But he is not able to block the light from being shown to them.

71. So, My loves, even when you read of disease taking more from earthly life, know that I will lovingly receive these people into the spirit world, and send the truth to them that they have not yet been able to receive or partake of. They will have that opportunity on this side to make the choice between the light and darkness. And as for those who survive, I send them spirits of mercy, new heavenly soldiers who are volunteers going forth into their first battles.

72. I have also instructed Michael and his legions to clear these areas momentarily of the demons that obstruct the truth, so that these new soldiers of Mine can have quick and easy access to the survivors and can speak to them unhindered by the forces of Satan.

73. There is only a small window of opportunity for each of these survivors, in which the Enemy is blocked from influencing them with his evil forces. Then once they have been presented with My love and have had an opportunity to experience My love, the Enemy is allowed back in.

74. These departed Christians aren’t always able to give them the full truth and specifics about Me, their Savior. But they are able to show the people that I am a God of love with a personal interest in each of them. Those who are receptive to this message are then given more truth, and assigned permanent spirit helpers to continue to lead and guide them and speak to them.

75. So as you can see, I do not leave anyone comfortless. I give each the opportunity to know My love. And for those who are receptive to these messages of love, the channel between them and Me has been created, and I continue to give them these messages as long as they continue to be receptive.

76. You can rest, knowing that the survivors are being cared for. Though you hear the news about devastation and sorrow‚ the media do not report how My Spirit comes through. I bring hope in the midst of their despair. I am a God of love, and even the destructive forces of war or volcanoes or tsunamis or plagues cannot stop My love from reaching a heart that cries out for My truth.

77. My love is always pouring out, in such great abundance that even the fires of this life cannot stop it. These fires can burn away the dross of life, they can cause immense pain and suffering, but they cannot torture the soul by blocking My love. Instead, they often make a way for My love to finally break through.

78. This was the case for many of you: Times of sorrow were what turned you toward Me, and once you turned toward Me, you never wanted to turn away again. I didn’t have to use sorrow to keep you looking toward Me. The sorrow just got rid of the blockages that kept you from noticing Me. And once you noticed Me, you were in love‚ and never wanted to be away again.

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79. (Question:) Lord, can You please explain how there can be millions of Christians in Heaven who haven’t yet learned how to witness and tell people of Your salvation?

80. (Jesus: ) Heaven is a vast place, My dear ones, with many different classes and ranks of people. Yes, there are millions here who have not yet learned how to witness or accomplish much in the spiritual realm. Many are new or recent arrivals, and others are those who came to Heaven with little more than a salvation prayer, but who had little or no knowledge of Me and My ways. Some received Me as children, through a simple prayer‚ but then forgot all about Me. Others got saved on Earth and called themselves Christians and went to church occasionally, but that is all. Others were from remote tribes or primitive people who were witnessed to by a missionary and received Me‚ but had little spiritual or even material knowledge.

81. When they reach the spiritual realm‚ all of these dear ones must be brought along steadily and gently and be educated in heavenly ways. Many in Heaven are in schools of various sorts, with many here teaching and training them. And this is yet another lesson for some of them, field training, you might call it‚ for the many who are in need of it. (End of message.)

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82. Those who have passed on, I hold them in My arms and I comfort them. They are released from the pain of this life, but they do feel for you who are left behind and who miss their presence. I comfort them in this grief, and I can comfort those of you who have “lost” friends or family. The gift of life is a precious one, and the sudden taking away of life is not something I grow callous toward, nor do I allow it at random.

83. On Earth‚ you will not understand all the reasons why I allowed this tragedy, nor do I expect it to be easy to endure. But each one who does, and each one who avails themselves of My love and mercy through this difficult time will come through as a stronger person, a person more apt to show love and kindness to others. They will have richer character, and they will have that trait of inestimable value—what some call faith—the knowledge that I do all things well. And it will be well in the end—as all things will. Mankind will then know the reason why so many disasters had to occur, and how the good fruit of each one was that people were drawn closer to Me.

84. Those who grieve for those who have died should not. They are held safely in My hands‚ forever beyond the pain of war, of grief and bloodshed that is on Earth. Those who survive are those I call you now to comfort, to aid, and to be a help to. Those who survive are the most needy, and their time has come to feel love and encouragement from a world busy at war.

85. My love is being poured out in greater abundance than ever upon those that have gone through this. I will tend to the needs of the orphans and the widows and widowers. I will comfort the hearts of those who long and search for answers.

86. My mercy and grace extends to all those on Earth. I wish to see all men saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. And now when men need it most‚ My truth and grace is there for them through you, My children, and through the truth that I speak to the hearts and minds of all of them.

87. Everyone must decide whether to listen to My voice or to the voice of the Enemy that tells them that I am a mean and hateful God, or even worse, that this proves that there is no God. I have given every man and woman the majesty of choice, the freedom to decide from birth, and the choice is up to all to choose to listen to Me or to the Enemy.

(Note: The following two messages from Jesus to the survivors of the tsunami are GP and may be reformatted, duplicated and distributed as the Lord leads.)

88. (Jesus to the survivors: ) My dear children—and yes, you are My children—please take comfort in knowing that your loved ones are in a glorious, happier place, and have no worries, fears or pain. I weep with you as I feel your pain‚ and I know how greatly this has cost you. And the cost continues to grow as you realize what you have lost, not only in loved ones, but in your welfare, your job, your home.

89. All things have changed for you now‚ and although it seems impossible to see where you should go and what you should do, I call your attention to the simple fact that “Nothing is impossible with God!” (Luke 1:37). I can do all things. I can change all things. Although your heart has been broken, I can mend it. Although your home has been destroyed and your job has been lost‚ I can make a way for you.

90. Trust in Me, and trust in My promise that all things will work together for good for those who love Me. Do not fear, dear ones, for there is light and hope ahead for you. Put your hand in Mine and let Me lead you step by step, day by day. I will make you new, and I will make your life new. As you trust in Me, your pain will lessen‚ your heart will heal, and I will help you to see the possibilities of hope and improvement.

91. Things will not continue as they have, but it will be a new beginning, a new and different life for you. It will not only be physically different, but as you learn to look to Me for help and comfort and guidance for the days ahead, I will open doors in the spirit that will shine a bright light on your path.

92. Your heart has been broken, and so you will learn to comfort others with the comfort I am giving you. Everyone is in great need, physically, emotionally, spiritually—in all ways—and as you listen to My Words to you, I will give you the strength to help others. Let not your heart be troubled, but believe and look to Me, and I will care for you.

93. (Jesus to the survivors:) My love covers all and cares for all. It sees beyond today, beyond tomorrow, and beyond time and space to eternity, and I know what is best for each person. For many who passed on, their time had come‚ and for those of you who survived, it’s because I have something more for you to do. Believe Me, each one who passed on is in a better place. I care for each one who died in this great catastrophe, and I have personally met with each of them to comfort them about what they’ve left behind, the mistakes and regrets they have. I’ve given each one a chance to come to Me, to receive My forgiveness, comfort and love.

94. When something like this happens, whether thousands die or only one, I go to them. I comfort them and I try to give them the encouragement that you would want to give your loved one if you were able to see them one last time. I do this because I love them, but I also do it for you because I know what it would mean to you to see him or her again, to be able to say all the words left unspoken, or to once again reassure them of your love, your care, and your concern for them. I know your heart, your deepest secrets, your longings‚ your words unspoken, and I can and do share these things with your loved one. I tell them the things you’d want to say if you were with them again, and it brings them great joy.

95. So remember that no matter how badly you feel about your last meeting or how concerned you are about your loved one, I am caring for them. I give them great comfort and peace so that they are able to leave the world behind with complete peace and understanding of why I allowed this disaster and what good has come about because of it.

96. It’s easy for Me to explain these things in a heavenly plane where everything is loving, clear and bright. But in your world of confusion‚ sadness and darkness, it is difficult for Me to clearly explain to you My reasons. But let Me say this: It will all turn out for good. Maybe not right now or even in this life for some, but in the life hereafter you will understand and see what good came about from it.

97. Your loved one is happy in My arms, singing and rejoicing for this new life in which there’s no more pain, sadness‚ sorrow, crying, or despair. They’ll never be hungry or thirsty again, will never know pain again, will never know debt or worry again, only complete peace and constant care. Every need is met, every wrong is made right, and every pain and tear is wiped away by My loving hand.

98. When you’re the one left behind‚ of course it’s hard to see the good and you feel that your loved one is the one who suffers, but they are in a better, happier place. Picture him or her in a beautiful resort with every need, wish or want provided in an instant. Or if you have lost a child‚ picture him or her having the greatest fun of their life with new friends, family to care for them, and anything they could ever want, as they wait for you to join them. The time will be as nothing for them, like minutes, even if it’s many years, because they will know such joy and bliss and happiness that time is no more. They can see you whenever they want, and while they can’t speak with you now and be held by you as you’d like, in time they will be able to see you again in person. Until then, they understand the reasons and are happy just the same.

99. The thing that makes your departed loved ones sad is if you are mourning them. They appreciate your care and concern for them, but it pains them greatly to see you suffer, to see you mourn their loss and weep over them. So for their sakes, lift up your head that hangs low‚ put a smile back on your face, wipe away the tears, and while you can think of them as often as you like, think upon good and happy thoughts and it will make their transition so much easier.

100. Those who hold on to the past and who cannot let go and give their loved one the freedom to enjoy their new life are the ones who make it the hardest for their loved one to move on and to be happy. And, of course‚ they make it doubly hard on themselves. So make it easy for your loved ones and for yourself by letting go. Let go by being happy for your loved ones and not dwelling on your mistakes, the things you wish you’d said or done better, the fact that you have to go on living without them, feeling sorry for yourself. Remember that you’ll not only make it easier on yourself‚ but much easier on your loved one if you give up the sadness and try to have joy instead. It’s a sign of love for them, not a lack of love, if you can let go, move on, and realize that they are in a much better place, cared for by Me and My angels and heavenly hosts who will spare nothing to give them everything their hearts could desire.

101. I understand that your heart aches and nearly breaks at the thought of your loved one having gone away. I feel your pain and I understand. I know it’s no light matter to move on, and it takes great strength of spirit, courage, determination and perseverance to make it, but you can do it! You can find happiness again even if the ship of your life is in a thousand pieces. Together we can make it into a raft that will bring you to the shores of happiness again. It is possible. If you have a believing will‚ that’s all I need to help you. As I’ve helped your loved one, I can also help you and give you peace and understanding of all that has happened.

With love, and a broken heart for you, Jesus

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102. (Question:) It talks about those who’ve passed on being happy in the Lord’s arms. Does that include those who didn’t believe in God or Jesus?

103. (Jesus: ) One mystery of the spirit world which you will never fully understand until you’re here with Me is the magnitude of My love for My children.

104. Hell is reserved only for those who out and out reject Me—and even that decision is not based on outward appearance, but the rejection or acceptance of the heart. Even Hell and punishment is but for a time, until their hearts are repentant.

105. Many are in situations such as your David saw in “The Green Door,” where they are subjected to the meaninglessness of the life they lived on Earth and can clearly see what their rejection of Me has brought them. Hell is not all fire and brimstone; these “Green Door” type situations are almost as agonizing for many. But for many it will also be the road to repentance one of these days.

106. There is also a kind of hell that exists in Heaven, where those who chose to accept Me at one point, but then willfully turned their backs on Me, must also go through retraining and reach the point of acceptance before they are allowed to partake of the joys of Heaven.

107. There are likewise places of waiting, where those who never fully had the chance to make a choice are given a chance.

108. These are difficult things to understand if you try to reason them out in your mind. But if you choose to believe in My perfect and everlasting love, then these concepts bring you comfort‚ that I do all things well and that each person will in time have the opportunity to receive Me and partake of the peace and comfort of Heaven.

109. So it is that I can give the promise that their loved ones are with Me—for wherever they are in the spirit world, I am working in their life to bring them along to the place where they will accept Me, if they haven’t already.

110. Especially in these poor and forsaken nations and areas, there were very few who had knowingly rejected Me, although there were some. And there were also some who in their wickedness had made wrong choices and will need to be retrained. But even they have the opportunity to accept and receive My mercy, if they will throw themselves on it and be willing to learn their lessons and repent. (End of message.)

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The Littlest Survivors

111. (Mama:) Often, it happens that children survive disasters—sometimes very young children or babies. Even when their parents or entire families are killed, sometimes small children are left. While the Lord’s protection and safekeeping are wonderful, we also wondered what His plan was in this. When we asked Him, He explained in the following message.

112. (Jesus:) I do not engineer death and destruction, and My heart grieves when so many die. In the midst of so much death and destruction, there are survivors, however. I generally engineer things so that there are people who go through these horrors unhurt, people who can testify of a miraculous safekeeping, and who can demonstrate that there is always hope, even in the very worst of circumstances.

113. It’s true that there are often many babies and children saved in such tragedies. What better symbol of hope and faith is there than that a baby could survive such terrifying events? What better proof is there of My love for My creations, even the weakest and most helpless ones?

114. There are many reasons why children and infants often survive disasters. The first is that they are the ultimate symbol of helplessness and purity. It shows My power and My protection. They are also a symbol of the future, and if they survive‚ it kindles hope that the future will be better, and that out of these ashes or wrecks, life will one day return to normal. The day after the earthquake in Iran last year, a mother gave birth to twins there—it was a powerful message of hope and faith. The symbolism of a baby surviving a disaster is a powerful one, and one that speaks to many people.

115. “Why?” you still ask. “Is it really for their good?” I will reveal another reason which sometimes plays a part as well. Often the parents of the small children or babies ask Me to let their child live. If the parents have passed away, sometimes their first thoughts are about those they left behind, and they will plead with Me for their safety.

116. Sometimes a wife will ask that her child can live so that her husband (if he is still there) still has a part of her with him. Sometimes they will both ask Me to protect their child so that the relatives or others will be comforted in not losing them. Sometimes they just love their baby so much that they want it to live its full life‚ and they’re willing to be separated from it for a time, so that it has that chance.

117. I greatly admire the parents who make those requests, for they are truly unselfish ones. It is a proof of their great love—for their baby‚ and often for others they leave behind as well. Not always, but often, I will honor their wish, and let the baby or small child survive, even in incredible circumstances.

118. It is always a great pleasure for Me when I send angels to guard a baby and protect it. I love to save lives, and the saving of a baby’s life is a wonderful experience. It is thrilling for Me, it is thrilling for those I send, and it is thrilling for its parents who are with Me.

How Could Man Let This Happen?

119. (Mama:) Many people around the world are blaming God for this disaster, which seems to be a common reaction after any great tragedy. As Dad said in the Letter “Medusa Touch,” “The world is constantly judging God, and you’ll find in most accounts of disasters and catastrophes they say, ‘Why did God allow this thing? Why did God allow all these innocent lives to be destroyed!’ In every disaster that happens [they] are judging God, and most of them are saying God shouldn’t have done it, it was too much, too severe.” (ML #955:8,17, Vol.8).

120. Well, in the messages that follow, the Lord points the finger right back at the world and asks how could you have let this happen! He blasts the hypocrisy of some, their lack of love and care and concern for the poor, and the hardness of hearts that are moved to act only when a tragedy hits the headlines, while tragedies happen around the world on a daily basis. One magazine editor put this disaster and the world’s reaction in perspective when he said:

Imagine if every single day there were headlines in every newspaper in the world and every television show saying: “29,000 children died yesterday from preventable diseases and malnutrition,” and then the rest of the stories alternated between detailed personal accounts of families where this devastation was taking place, and sidebar features detailing what was happening in advanced industrial countries, like this: “All this suffering was happening while the wealthiest people in the world enjoyed excesses of food, worried about how to lose weight because they eat too much‚ spent money trying to convince farmers not to grow too much food for fear that doing so would drive down prices, and were cutting the taxes of their wealthiest rather than seeking to redistribute their excess millions of dollars of personal income.” (Michael Lerner, Tikkun)

121. In other words, where’s the world’s outrage over the 29,000 children who die every day—more than 10 million a year—whom they could save if they unselfishly shared more of their hoarded resources? Where is their sense of values and priorities when they are more concerned about their own way of life and waistlines than about the millions of sick and starving of the world?

122. And, while the nations of the world are devoting millions to the relief effort, what about the billions they spend on weaponry and war?—In fact, nearly a trillion dollars every year on weapons and armies worldwide! While the U.S. has pledged $350 million in aid, it’s spent $148 billion on the Iraq War, a figure which grows at a rate of $4 to 6 billion every month!

123. As one journalist put it, “If our leaders were as generous in helping people as they are in killing them, no one would ever go hungry.” So is it any wonder the Lord points the finger back at the world and its selfishness?

124. (Jesus: ) This was a massive quake, a huge tsunami, and great devastation, and now much suffering, but it is only because it happened on such a big scale that people are now asking, “How could God let this happen?” Perhaps I should turn around and ask‚ “How could mankind let this happen?—And every day in millions of instances around the globe where individual catastrophes occur: children suffering from malnutrition and disease, adults subjected to war, rape, atrocity and horror—all due to man’s sins or lack of concern!” This disaster cannot be laid at My door. I gave My life so that all creation can be redeemed, and eventually all will be. But nature must now run its course until the supernatural can return and restore all things to the way they should be in the Millennium.

125. I am touched by the infirmities of each one who hurts and suffers. I cry for them. And when they pass over, I and My helpers are there to comfort and gently bring them in, some to everlasting life, many to a place where they can choose it, and others unfortunately to the recompense of their rejection and hatred.

126. But I do have a better life available for everyone just beyond that last breath. And I have a better world planned for your world when the Curse is removed finally and irrevocably in the New Earth. I have great and wonderful and pain-free plans for the future. That is the goal I am working toward, and I wish I didn’t have to wait. I have been waiting for thousands of years, and each minute of each of those years has caused Me sorrow. I am a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. If you think I don’t know what it is like, remember that I was whipped and scourged and crucified. But I look at what is ahead and that gives Me the patience to let the world go on for just a few more years, just a little while longer. Please hang on and keep the faith! All will be made right.

127. I knew each and every life that this disaster would touch, and I did not allow anything that was not supposed to be. Many of My children I brought Home to Me and many I protected through miraculous circumstances. If one was supposed to be untouched, then that one was untouched. If one was supposed to come Home to Me, then that one came Home to Me. If one was supposed to pass on to the next life and there be given a chance to know My love‚ then they passed on and were given their chance. I do all things in love. I am just, good, and merciful. And in many cases it was in My mercy that I delivered My children, both those who knew Me on Earth and those who did not but were still My children‚ from a life of endless toil and misery at the hands of those who oppressed them.

128. It makes Me furious to see those who would enslave and murder My poor little ones either through deliberately taking advantage of the less fortunate or through simply doing nothing and choosing to remain ignorant and blind to the plight of their brothers and sisters‚ and then questioning Me and blaming Me when I relieve them from a world that has done nothing but enslave, oppress‚ and abuse them. Many who never did a thing to help the poor of the world will question My ways now when they did not care in the past.

129. Oh, the hypocrisy of man. How many more will die today of hunger or disease or war that could easily be saved if only the rich would put their will to it. How many die each day at the hands of selfish man, and yet so few stop to question why. And the needless suffering of the poor will go on until the day that I right all wrongs.

130. This is once again a wake-up call to the world to put aside their selfish ways and wars and to use the wealth I have put on Earth to make life wonderful for all. When their time comes, they will be without excuses, for none can say then that they did not know of the plight of the poor and needy. Some will do what they can and they will be rewarded accordingly—if not in this life‚ then in the next. Others will do a token—only enough to relieve their conscience—and then go back to their selfish ways of life that inflict misery on the poor of the world. Others will use this time to further their own selfish goals. All will be rewarded according to their works.

131. Oh, how My heart breaks for those who suffer, those who do not see and know that I am a God of love and mercy! Yes, it is true that I am also a God of judgment. But that is not the message that I would have those who suffer to hear, for it only adds to their weights, their burdens, and their loss.

132. Mine is a message of love—that is what I wish to be conveyed. I have seen the hurt and plight of these who have suffered, these who have lost much, these who question My love for them in the face of this adversity. Yet they do not see that My arms are open wide to embrace them and hold them tight, and to help them come to know Me, to draw nigh to Me.

133. This disaster has caused a widening of the eyes of those who have become comfortable in their evil ways, those who think they have their lives in control, who think they are master of their own fate. Where do those who hold tightly to thoughts of self–preservation run when catastrophes like this happen? Where are the mighty and strong nations, those that think they are invincible; where is their power in devastation like this?

134. Oh, how foolish the world is to think that they can remain bloody and unbowed before Me! How naïve are those who esteem their power more powerful than My creation! Many have chosen to thumb their nose at Me in defiance, proclaiming that they can survive and even be better off without Me. But such arrogance only leads to destruction, for in their defiance of Me they have in truth made a pact with Satan; they have given him more rein in their lives, and they reap the anguish of such a treaty. Yet it is the poor of the world who suffer most.

135. This wave of destruction was not from My hand, although I allowed it because of the willfulness of this idolatrous and evil world. In choosing to defy Me, in choosing to lift their hands against Me in rebellion, they have shaken hands with the Dark One, and the power of his reign is stretching far and wide, even affecting the world as you know it. He and his minions have spread far and wide across the Earth‚ wreaking havoc, destruction, pain, war, hatred, and pestilence wherever they tread.

136. Why did I not prevent it? Why did I not hold back the destruction, even though it pains My heart to see it? Man must choose; he must see the error of his ways. He has defiled the beauty of the Earth; he has turned to hate, greed, and destruction. Man has chosen the path of darkness, and in so doing he must realize that he will reap the dividends of such wrong choices.

137. Oh‚ but how it saddens My heart to hear those who fail to see the error of their way, and instead turn and question Me, saying that I am uncaring, that I have spewed forth My wrath upon the Earth. I wish that the poor and suffering could see and understand that I am indeed a God of love and mercy. I know their plight, I see their suffering, and I wish to lift them out of their misery. I long to draw them close to Me, so that they can experience the beauty of My love.

138. In man’s eyes, natural disasters seem like random acts of destruction caused by Me. Wars and disease are in some ways more explainable, because man is often the perpetrator of these evils. But what caused the devastation of this tsunami, and why were so many lives washed away?

139. There is a simple answer: It was not My hand that caused this wave. I allowed it, yes, but I allowed it because men’s choices have drawn them further and further away from Me and My ways. They have chosen the way of self, of self-preservation‚ of arrogance, of defiance, of iniquity, and sadly, those choices come with consequences.

140. This is a sign that the End draws nearer. It is not the first, nor is it the last. There will be more such disasters that will engulf the world. There are choices made every day in the world that cause much more hurt and destruction than this tsunami through the uncaring coldness of man, and yet the world still turns a blind eye.

141. The sickness, pestilence, starvation, disease, war, domestic violence, and civil unrest that every day steals and destroys lives are choices that man has made—choices to turn a blind eye, choices of greed over sharing, choices of selfishness. And how often do you hear of this pain and suffering caused by man? Very little, because to hear it would prove that man is the perpetrator of much of the devastation that floods the Earth.

142. It is so much easier for people to shake their finger at Me, to tell Me of My neglect of humankind, or to declare that I am unloving, merciless, and cruel through the desolation that is felt every day throughout the world. But how often is the finger pointed back at man, at the world as you know it, for its lacks, for the pain and anguish it is responsible for? Very little!

143. I shed tears for those whose minds have been confused by this tragedy, who feel that I have neglected My children. It also hurts Me when those who profess to know Me herald the news that it is a judgment from My hand, because while it did serve as a reminder to those who have erred from My side‚ those who have chosen a road of defiance against Me, the message of judgment is not the main message I wish those who are suffering to hear‚ because it is not My message to them.

144. The message of judgment is for those who have stood arrogantly against Me, those who hurt and destroy the world and its people through their wars, selfishness, and greed. Many in the West are naïve about the real plight of the world. There are many who live a life of ease, unaware of the hurt that ravishes the world on a daily basis through man’s bad choices.

145. The priorities of countries like the U.S. and Britain, which are willing to sink billions of dollars into wars that devastate whole countries just to satisfy their own greed and lust for power, only increases the suffering of the poor nations around the world. These supposed world powers will be brought to their knees, for they have caused hurt and devastation to the world, and have much to answer for before Me. They show more concern for the wars they fight, for the soldiers whom they have thrust into wars that were unnecessary and that have only caused desolation to countries, than they do for those who suffer from natural disasters, sickness, hunger, and disease.

146. All such disasters are a test. They test every single person on Earth. What is the test? The test is when they search their own hearts and see where they stand. It moves them further forward in faith‚ or further away in rebellion.

147. This is not really that large a disaster. Man has taken upon himself to inflict even larger disasters upon himself, and yet little is said. When men seek and desire something they want, they will wage wars, destroy nations, kill hundreds of thousands, displace millions, and claim in all self-righteousness that it was needed and justified. These things go on almost every day in many places around the world. Yet so few pay attention or take notice. Even large so-called natural disasters have caused less loss and suffering than man’s wars, which men have always justified and praised.

148. Yet in allowing this one disaster to happen‚ it has captured the attention of almost every person on Earth. And each of them has had to take notice. Will you judge Me and conclude that I am unrighteous and unloving in allowing such things, and yet turn your heads away from all other sufferings that men inflict upon each other? Or will you sit up and take notice that there are many things beyond your control‚ events that you cannot predict or contain? Will you acknowledge these things and realize the utter humility of your position, and instead turn your heart toward My love and My power?

149. There is so much beyond this world! Death can be tragic in how it comes about, and how tragic it is depends entirely upon each person’s concept of what lies beyond. If you truly believe in an afterlife, a world of spirit beyond the physical, then you cannot so quickly judge that such things are indeed tragic, for they may also be wonderful deliverances and entrances into that next world.

150. And what of the suffering survivors? It seems more tragic for them, and in many ways it is. They are left at the mercy of their fellow man. The dead or “transformed” are entirely in My hands, and My love and My heart is with each of them, and they are indeed better off.

151. But these who remain, remain at the mercy of their fellow man. And what is that mercy? Is it just? Is it fair? Is it good? Now the world sees the tragedy and feels the pain, and wants to help. But it is too little and far too late. Had the hearts of men been moved to help their fellow man prior to this and to have mercy and to have pity on the poor of the world‚ then this tragedy would not be what it is. Why are so many without and destitute and suffering so? Had men been helping each other all along, then there would not be the tragic and dire situation that exists now. Had the heart and compassion of man been moved for the plight of the poor in their everyday life, they would have been better prepared to endure such disasters.

152. Those who have suffered the most are those who were poor and needy before this happened. Those who have weathered this the easiest and are already recovering quickly are those who were richer and better prepared, and able to respond quickly and efficiently. The dire situation before you now exists due to the selfishness of the rich. They did not want to give before to help the poor. And now when their situation is so beyond bearable, many do want to give. I have allowed this to touch their compassion. Yet let it stand as a testament to their lack of compassion before this.

153. I have allowed this to happen as a test. It tests the rich and makes them think again. It tests the nations as a whole and makes them consider the plight of the poor, for it is the poor who suffer most from this. It tests the hearts of people and makes them take account of their own soul. They either blame Me for the suffering or take knowledge that it is partly their fault. They become convicted and want to help or they grow bitter and hard.

154. The rebellious will harden and will judge Me as cruel and harsh. Yet, where were they when these same poor had to grovel to the rich nations of the Earth for their very livelihoods, and for any semblance of a decent life? The rich came to many of these places as playgrounds at the expense of these very same poor. Will they judge Me? Their very lives and hearts judge themselves! They would doubtless not have noticed or done anything had not some of their own rich been lost with the poor. And now they have a situation that they cannot ignore. They have to give now, whether they want to or not. They give now, some even against their will, because they are being looked upon by all the peoples of the world‚ and they seek only to gain good standing for themselves. And will they judge Me in this?

155. This is the test: How will each person receive this? Will they let their hearts grow soft and feel the pain of the poor? Losing some of their own loved ones has touched them to the point that they begin to understand and see the suffering of the poor. Some of these rich have lost loved ones, yet they can return to homes that are still standing in other countries, with food and assistance aplenty, and their wealth intact. Yet the poor have not only lost loved ones, but have lost everything‚ what little they had. Will this touch the hearts of the rich or will it only be a show?

156. What does it take to touch hearts and change them? Sadly, it often requires tragedy and hurts. But these types of hurts are for a good reason. They are to soften hearts and give those who have so much the chance to see the need of others, their fellow men, and help them.—To have their hearts truly touched and changed and their eyes opened to the needs of others. And others who do not soften their hearts will only grow harder and colder and less aware of or caring for the needs of the poor. These, sadly, bring more suffering upon themselves and others.

157. Pray for the world. Pray that the softened hearts will wake up and take heed to the need. Pray that all will see My hand in this in a good way.

158. Although this calamity was of catastrophic proportions, it is nothing compared to the cataclysmic events of the Endtime foretold in the Bible, which are soon to come upon the Earth. This was a precursor of those events and part of My preparation process. Yes, the cost in human life was great‚ but nothing less would have grabbed the world’s attention.

159. As is always the case with so-called natural disasters‚ I am using this one to shake up people and nations, and to force them to make decisions. Will they turn their attention from the trivialities and material pursuits that normally dominate their lives and be touched enough by others’ suffering to do something about it‚ or will they turn a blind eye and deaf ear and go merrily on their selfish way? Yes, thousands of lives were cut short, but many millions more who remain alive are now in the valley of decision, where their places in the next life are being determined. Pray for the survivors and the bereaved, but pray most of all for those whose places in the afterlife are hanging in the balances.

160. Not everyone is having the right reaction or making the right decision, but millions are, and I will bless them for it, both in this life and in the life to come. Have I not said that those who sow in tears will reap in joy? In this life they will reap blessings of supply‚ health and protection according to their desires and needs. But even more important, they are getting their hearts right with Me and their spirits in shape. They will therefore be more in tune with Me and better prepared to make the right decisions as the events of the Endtime unfold and the days become even darker. Those who make the right choices now will also be rewarded in the world to come, as I have promised to reward every prayer or deed of compassion.

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Letters to the editor

161. (Mama: ) I’m so thankful for the Lord’s viewpoint on this disaster. Besides providing insight for the Family, however, the Words He has given can also be shared with the world in one way or another, through the “When Disaster Strikes” tract, through sharing parts of this GN with your friends and contacts and General and Active members, and even through such witnessing avenues as letters to the editor of local papers. Even though it’s been some weeks since the tsunami, it’s still in the news, and because this fresh Word from the Lord is so different from what most of the mainstream media has been saying, some papers might be very interested in it.

162. When we asked the Lord about the possibility of using letters to the editor to get out His message, He said that would be a good idea both now and in other situations as well:

163. (Jesus: ) Letters to the editor are a good way of getting out My message in almost any situation, commenting on various social or religious issues when I confirm the time is right and you have My approval. Many in the world use them to express differing viewpoints, to mention that an article said this, but they say that instead. You, however‚ can not only do this, but can pass on My message at the same time, in addition to your own opinions. This converts your letter to the editor from a negative viewpoint to a positive viewpoint.

164. In the situation with this tsunami, you can use letters to the editor to express My love and compassion for the victims and survivors of this event, to express My indignation at those who would blame Me for a lack of love and concern, and to pass on the truth in many ways. (End of message.)

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What Happened in the Heavenly Realm

165. (Mama: ) In the previous messages the Lord gave about the survivors of the tsunami, He provided a few glimpses into the spirit world. In the following visions and messages, He really pulls the curtain back to reveal what happened the day of the disaster, how Heaven is responding, the feelings of the new arrivals (including a message from one young girl), and His wonderful promise that many new spirit helpers have been released to help!

166. (Vision:) I see great war in the spirit. There is turmoil in the spirit world. Many are standing at attention and ready to fight. Others are ready to act in other ways. The feeling is that something very important is happening. It’s part of what the world will go through before the Great Tribulation comes to pass. There is an intense feeling coming to me and a call to be on guard in spirit, that time is growing shorter and things are moving fast.

167. Now I can see a bit more. It’s right after the tsunami hit and many people arrived in the spirit world. I see many spirit beings receiving the souls of those who perished and comforting them. The departed are confused, not knowing what happened to them. All their questions are being answered by these spirit beings.

168. Some of their ancestors and friends who went before them are there too, comforting the newcomers. It’s a big job, but all is done in decency and order, as if they knew it was coming and were prepared for these people’s graduation.

169. It’s amazing how organized it is and how peaceful the atmosphere has become in just an instant. There are no more tears from those who have just arrived. Many have been given a chance to be saved and they are entering the courts of Heaven. Others have chosen not to receive the Lord. It’s decision time for everyone‚ and most of the newcomers see how wrong they were on Earth. They now see the light and know the truth! It’s beautiful. My heart is moved and I’m crying to see the mercy of the Lord.

170. They are so happy to know Jesus, and have come to the realization that this was the only way they could’ve come to know salvation. Their old life is nothing to them anymore‚ and although their hearts reach out to their loved ones still on Earth, they feel they can help their loved ones on Earth in a much better way from the spirit world.

171. They are praising God and thanking Him for being able to finally understand freedom of spirit. They are singing loudly now, and all of Heaven rejoices for the victory. It’s the victory, some say, and others are starting to dance and sing to the King of kings. Out of what looked like chaos‚ there is victory! Praise the Lord!

172. (Jesus:) No more tears for these, My loved ones, for deliverance has come to pass! No more sorrows, for they are free from the chains of the world and the Enemy. Now their souls are free to serve Me. Now they have been comforted and they understand. I have called many to Heaven to help their people from the spirit world; they will be trained to fight for their people in spirit. They will become mighty men of war in the days of darkness to come.

173. The tsunami seemed devastating, and it was. Many are suffering because of it. Many have also found comfort and solace in My arms. I am the true Father and I do not forsake them!

174. As I have said, this present world has been given to the Devil, and many of these disasters are orchestrated by him. This is just for a short time, for he knows I will return and his works will be no more. As you have read in My Word, earthquakes, pestilences, disease, and many more sad events will hit the world in the days to come. Many people will suffer from these and won’t understand why. Many of them will blame God and judge unrighteous judgments. Many will be confused, sad and bitter; many will lack as the result of these disasters.

175. All this will come to pass as part of the process the world must go through during the Time of the End. The Devil has been released to act on Earth in order to test the souls of men. Will they come to Me for comfort? Will they turn from their own ways to seek the truth? Many are being given the chance to find the truth.

176. It is a time of choice for the world. Will they choose to lift their eyes up to Me? Many will‚ but others won’t! Woe unto those who don’t see the light and the meaning of these things, for they see the signs in the skies but don’t understand the warning that comes with it. It is a sobering time for the world and for My children around the world.

177. The Devil knows his time is short, so he is releasing his evil and pain. His spirits are flooding the world through the cracks in the Earth’s surface, and many vile spirits are on the move.

178. But greater am I in you than he that is in the world; for I have made the world and it is Mine and I will take it back. This has been My promise from the beginning, and it will be fulfilled.

179. Be not weary in well doing, but put on the whole armor of God. Your time to shine is coming‚ for greater am I in you than anything the world and evil can bring against you.

180. Did you think the many changes the Family is going through were just for the sake of change? Did you think I brought the year of strengthening only because I want something new? Now you can better understand why it is so important to strengthen your spirits. Now you can understand how important this year of strengthening is.

181. Time is shorter than you think, and blessed are they that, like the wise virgins, receive the warning and prepare, for they will be ready for perilous times. Those of My children who have their lamps full of oil, like the wise virgins, I will use and protect and give strength to lead and guide others in the right path. Those who know they are nothing without Me will I empower to do exploits in this coming time of great darkness in the world.

182. Many will come to the light because of your obedience. Many will be strengthened because of what you have given Me. Many will be saved because of your faithfulness. You are My hands and heart, My feet and arms to reach, love, and guide the blind in spirit. I have no others to be My guiding light to the world.

183. You will see the mighty power I am about to pour into your lives because of your obedience and your choice to follow closely. You will experience full possession and be as one with My body and spirit.

184. The time is coming and it must come to pass. Whether you’re ready or not, it will come. It will bring joy to many after the pain and sadness. But what if you are not ready? Will it be the same for those who aren’t ready? No, it won’t‚ for they will suffer more than they need to suffer and it will be harder.

185. This is My call to arms to you, My Endtime army! Take hold of your spiritual weaponry and fight with all your might to set the Enemy back on his heels and deliver his captives! Be good soldiers, ready for battle, knowing that the victory is yours. Be ready, I say. Be ready!

186. I am calling many away from the Earth and into a heavenly realm. There is a large humanitarian effort going on in the heavenlies. Pray for this work in the heavenly spheres, for it is massive. As these thousands upon thousands enter the spiritual realm, a mighty work is taking place.

187. I have four groups of people coming into the spirit world through this disaster. The saved are the smallest group. They are quickly ushered into Heaven‚ and joys await these few, who are overcome with joy, and their sorrow is no more.

188. Then there is the second group, those who would have been saved if they had heard the truth. They were very close to salvation, but did not know how to grab hold of it. I am taking them, one by one, through the steps of salvation. They are a simple group to deal with, because they only need the truth presented to them, which is much easier to do in this realm.

189. The third group is also small. That is the group that is incorrigible, who cursed Me or My Father while they died‚ and who are destined for the Devil’s realm, where he has a job for them. They too have already been whisked away.

190. The fourth group is the group of the majority of these thousands. This group is not much less than 90 percent of those who have died in this disaster. It is made up of those who have been under such demonic influences in their lives that they have not had a chance to know there was a truth to seek. They are lost, confused, and their spirits were nearly buried in the mud of the false religions or materialism they have lived in.

191. For these, I have sent spirit helpers who now have the big job of tenderly and methodically bringing them in step by step. It will take a tremendous amount of love and patience to care for them. The mud of their false religions—whether Hinduism, false Christianity, Islam, or materialism—must be cleared away. It must be replaced with truth step by step. We must see how they respond. These are those who have not had the opportunity to choose which way they wish to go because their spirits have been so covered by mud from the Enemy.

192. When a man is dying of thirst‚ water must be spoon–fed to him to protect him from shock. So must I remove the mud of lies that the Enemy has engulfed these dear ones with, and then My laborers will tenderly spoon–feed them the water of life to see how they respond. It’s a slow, laborious labor of love that is now taking place for each of them, as we tenderly bring them out of the darkness to where we can present the light to them. Only after much tender care will they even be in the position to make a choice, and for now they must receive that tender care in abundance.

193. So, although it might seem odd to you, I call on you to pray for the spiritual forces in Heaven who are now dealing with these masses. For these are the rescue workers with the greatest job before them‚ and one of great importance.

194. I have brought the thousands killed by this tsunami into the spirit world for this purpose, to cleanse them of the false religions that have engulfed their lives and to give them this opportunity to receive the light.

195. I’m glad to see My children return to Me, just as they are glad to return to the arms of their Husband, Creator and Lover. They are the blessed ones‚ the spared ones, the few who have run the race well, and have come Home rejoicing and receiving My “Well done.”

196. Not all rejoice at first. Many are ashamed and embarrassed, and stand there weeping. But in the end all rejoice, and we all cry tears of joy at the miraculous and joyous reunion of hearts and minds, spirits and bodies. There are so many who are thankful to be Home again‚ so many who are freed from earthly life and the chains and shackles which held them down.

197. They romp and play and fly now! They laugh and sing and dance! No longer are they bound by the flesh. They are free, and we have a great big party planned for them all.

198. As I said, they are the blessed ones. They will return to help those on Earth who will suffer greater and even more horrendous disasters than this one. These came to be with Me the easy way. I took them quickly, and even though some did experience pain‚ it wasn’t unbearable, and I rescued them in time to not make it so bad.

199. If you would ask them how they feel, most will tell you that they are happy to be Home and happy to not have to go through what the rest on Earth will go through. For the days will come when men will seek death and not find it. Those are the days these ones have been released from.

200. (Spirit being: ) I am free now, free, free with no more pain or suffering, no more earthly problems. It’s so new, so wonderful. I am so thankful to Jesus for bringing me Home. Thank You Jesus! I love You. I always have. I knew that there was someone who was watching out for me, even if I didn’t know Your name or never heard about You before. I knew I had a Big Brother who would come and rescue me and take me to be cared for.

201. My name is of no consequence. I was a young girl brought up on the northern shores of Indonesia. My family was very poor. My daddy was a fisherman. He has not come here yet, but Jesus says he’ll be here soon. I am here with my mommy and younger sister, and we are happy to be home, free and safe from all danger.

202. It was very quick. It was dark and cold and I couldn’t see anything. I tried to cry out for my daddy, but nothing happened. I remember I closed my eyes for a second and when I opened them again, everything was warm and bright and colorful. I have never seen such beautiful, wonderful colors in my entire life! It is just so pretty up here, and I can’t wait for my daddy to come too.

203. My parents were Muslims who believed in God and tried to do what was right. Jesus gave my mommy another chance when she died. My daddy will still have to decide, but Jesus said that if I pray hard and do my part, I can influence his decision as well.

204. My sister and I were very poor and were alone most of the time. We’d walk the beach together or play in our hut, but we knew that we were loved by our parents. We would often play make believe with our dolls‚ that Allah and his sons would come and play with us. Now I know that Jesus was there with us the whole time. Even though some may look at our earthly bodies and curse God for taking us, I am happy and thankful. My life has improved by leaps and bounds, so much so that I would do it all again if I could.

205. What is hardest for me is that my daddy couldn’t come with us right away. He suffers the most, because all that he held dear and close to him is gone now. Now he must decide to trust the God that he believes in. This will test his faith and make him a better man while he is still on Earth. He was already a simple but honest man. Now he will have a stronger faith to do what is right and to follow close to God. I will pray for him, and my sister and I will go to him in his dreams and talk to him. We will cheer him up and help him recover from his wounds and injuries. Everything will be okay now. Jesus said so.

206. It would have been nice if those who help my daddy now would have helped us before. It wouldn’t have cost much to get a better bed or a door on our hut‚ but I guess that’s not the way things work in the world. I don’t know much about those things. All I know is that before I lived a lonely, poor life, but now I am like a princess and I am so happy at what has happened.

207. Don’t cry for me or any of us who have passed away. We are happy and better off now than before. Jesus knows best. Remember that.

208. I protected My children, those of My Family‚ and even others who know Me and whose lives are needed on the planet at this time. Others died longing for Me, and it is this longing that I am satisfying now, as I am drawing them into My arms and close to My bosom.

209. Those who did not desire to know Me, who cursed and hated Me in the moment of this disaster‚ have only gone to their fate and their sad reward a bit sooner than they would have, had they remained alive.

210. But for those who desired to have Me, to know Me, and to be with Me, I have prepared a special place. We were so glad to receive these dear ones in Heaven, who, had they stayed on Earth longer‚ would have had a harder time receiving Me, due to the culture of the lands they were from, plus their own mindsets of self-reliance and independence. But now they have joyfully entered My embrace, and they are so happy to be with Me and with many of their loved ones here in Heaven.

211. So now the ranks of My present-day departed children have suddenly grown. You will have many more helpers for your task of reaching the lost of these lands. Many of them will be whispering into the ears of their loved ones still on Earth to receive Me, to listen to the missionaries, to find Me now, while alive‚ so they can enjoy Me and My love and happiness now, before they get to Heaven.

212. Those who are newly arrived in Heaven are exulting and rejoicing in the beautiful realities they have found. They are not sad or desolate, but they are as lost children who have come home, to Me‚ to the arms of their Father. They are so joyful that they want this warm joy for their loved ones still on Earth, so they will be speaking to them, preparing them, giving them thoughts that will make their hearts ready ground for the Gospel.

213. These countries affected by the tsunami will now have a cloud of spirit helpers, joyful departed ones who will be hovering over those lands, pleading and interceding for the lives of their loved ones left behind. They now know the blessings of Heaven, the joy of My love, the peace of My care, and it is their fervent desire that others of their country should know this as well. So they will help you. They will be your helpers, dear ones.

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214. (Question: ) Lord, You say those “who cursed and hated Me in the moment of this disaster have only gone to their fate and their sad reward a bit sooner than they would have, had they remained alive.” Does that mean You judged people who were caught in the tsunami according to their reaction to it, or is it more than that?

215. (Jesus:) It is much more than that, dear ones‚ for I have not dealt with men according to their sins, nor rewarded them according to their iniquities. If I did‚ who would stand?

216. No, I did not judge those who were caught in the tsunami only on their reaction to it. I judge the heart‚ the life, the spirit of a man. I speak here of those who did not desire to know Me on Earth, who rejected God while they were alive and who continued rejecting even as they were dying, many of them cursing the heavens for their death. I speak of those who rejected or cursed or hated Me time after time, up to the last. These are the ones whose reward is sad, and I am sad that they made such poor choices, for I would have all men to be saved. I work even in the hearts of those who have never heard of Me to get them to acknowledge God and believe in God, to prepare the way for their salvation. But not all men will believe or receive‚ and those who will not do indeed meet a sad fate. (End of message.)

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What Happened in the Netherworld

217. (Mama:) The Lord also reveals what took place in the netherworld on the day of the earthquake, telling us in several explicit messages that Satan’s forces were released on the Earth, even naming their leader‚ and then advising us what this means for us in the year of strengthening ahead of us.

218. (Jesus:) On the day of this disaster, December 26—not yet 24 hours past the earthly celebration of My birth—Hell belched and spewed forth Cyclor and his legions. This was no ordinary earthquake from the depths of the sea. On this day there was a great rumbling from the pits of Hell, and in the netherworld Satan opened his cavernous gates and out came Cyclor and his legions of demons. His power has now been unleashed to touch and hurt the Earth and the peoples of the Earth. His time has begun, and so must the Earth and the physical elements be touched in cataclysmic and catastrophic ways before the final end of days will begin for all the Earth.

219. Did I not reveal to you what was soon to befall the Earth? Did not the vision reveal legions of demons standing in ranks, square formations awaiting the command from Satan himself, whereby they would be released upon the world? (See “New Spirit World Power,” ML #3522:150-154, GN 1113.) This day were these legions released, and even the physical earth reeled and moved and opened as Hell spat forth its fury against Me and against My renewed and attacking brides—My Endtime army. Satan has gathered a great army in retaliation.

220. Cyclor has been unleashed—Satan’s underling—who has been given power over the seas, over the earth and over the atmosphere, over all the physical elements of Earth. Now will begin great stirrings of the Earth, for this earthquake—Hell’s unleashing—marked the beginning of the physical and spiritual realms merging as has been foretold.

221. So many look to Me—some even in sincere and genuine wonderment—as to why I, the God of love‚ could allow a disaster of such magnitude and fatality to happen. I answer you by asking you this: Would you have Me delay My coming, My loves? Would you have Me close the book upon My prophetic words of promise and Scripture and delay the course of the world? Would you have Me turn back the hand on Earth’s clock? Would you have Me preserve lives rather than move the Earth toward what has been foreordained since the beginning of time? Would you have Me deny My Word? Would you have Me, as your Husband, delay our union—the day I long for? Would you have Me spare earthly lives but lose so many more eternal souls? Would you have Me change your destiny?

222. My loves, even this—though tragic and catastrophic—must happen for the Scriptures to be fulfilled and for the events of the Endtime to be played out. This and many more such catastrophic events shall you see before the End of days. Satan has unleashed his fury at the army I am amassing, and great has been the loss of life. Great has been the sorrow, but I claim the final victory in bringing many into My arms through this. The Earth—even in her heaving and fury—has yielded many unto Me. These are the blessed ones—although in their wake they leave much sorrow. Weep not for these, for they are safe with Me. Weep for the lost who do not yet know Me.

223. Yes, thousands have been lost, but so many more thousands—yea, tens and tens of thousands—will come to Me because of this. Satan has unleashed Cyclor, and the unleashing has sent waves that have claimed the lives of thousands, but you have no idea what fruit I will claim from this!—Waves upon waves, rings upon everlasting rings will be the ripple effect from this disaster in the spiritual realm. This has already caused a great stirring in the hearts and spirits of My children within all circles of My Family, and a great widening of the eyes of the peoples of the Earth.

224. This is only the beginning. The bell has tolled out the last Christmas where the Earth lies dormant and asleep; now she has been awakened and her travail will begin. Now begins your time, My children, My conquering and attacking army—your time of reaching the lost and the peoples of this Earth as never before. Now you must reap the harvest. Now you must reap as you have never reaped before, before it is too late for many. Great was the movement in the spiritual realm on this day—December 26. Let this sober you, My loves, as to the urgency of reaching the lost.

225. (Note from channel: As I usually do when I receive specific names, I looked up the meaning of the word “Cyclor.” It’s not actually a word, but the words directly preceding it like “cyclic” and “cyclo” all have something to do with circles or rings. So it seems that its root meaning pertains to “circles.”)

226. Another reason for these events is that I am allowing Satan’s forces to be released to test man. This is necessary that each may have the freedom to choose Me or to choose the realm of Satan.

227. This event was a manifestation of the release of many of Satan’s followers, who have been held in check in the netherworld until this time when they will be allowed to go into all the Earth to tempt the children of men.

228. Do you remember My words to you that dear Matthew so faithfully recorded? Look at them again and understand. For there shall be wars and rumors of wars‚ distress of nations, and great earthquakes in diverse places. All these things are the beginning of sorrows.

229. This is but the first of many such events that will be coming to pass quickly in these days, and they are the beginning of sorrows. Satan’s minions are being released upon the Earth so he can offer his substitute for love, his false security, and his deceptive peace to those who reject My love, My security in trusting in Me‚ and the true peace that passes the understanding of the mind.

230. Many will turn to him, thinking they have found an easy way to be happy while living for themselves, but will only find sorrow and destruction. These earthshaking events that are coming on the world as never before are the beginning of those sorrows as the forces of Satan are allowed to burst forth from their imprisonment within the Earth and to flood the Earth with their hellish influence.

231. Man will have to choose whom he will serve, and though for a short time Satan’s way will appear to be good and beneficial, yet it will soon show itself for the works of hell and sorrow that it really is! Through it all, just as with this disaster, I will preserve and work in the lives of each person. I will never allow any event, great or small, to touch any life unless I know that it is either for their good or as a judgment on those whose cup is full.

232. So even if I choose to bring Home some of My children of David who are highly called in these times‚ it will only be because they have completed their task on Earth and have even more important work to do on this side of the veil in bringing the final victory to pass. Some have asked in their hearts why in the days leading up to these events, I had called a number of the Children of David home through different accidents and sicknesses. Who could be better chosen to help coordinate the ministering to these multitudes? Who has striven more to become all things to all men and learned great wisdom in the care of so many of every nation on Earth than these precious ones? If you could see them, each one as they glow with such joy at the prospects of organizing this great relief effort of feeding and growing these many, many lost sheep who have flooded into this realm, you would understand and see My wisdom and plan.

233. Many of you wonder what caused this awesome display of the power of nature. One of the main reasons is that the days grow darker and time is growing shorter, and as man gives himself over more to the Son of Perdition, the Earth itself is yielding more to Satan. Thus he is given more room to work. Yet he is still under My control, and I will not let anything happen that is not within My plan to work for good in some way.

234. The Evil One musters his forces and power is given unto him, for now is his time. He calls his forces to him. And I tell you that in part this tsunami was caused by the release of demons bound in the deep. They have been freed, for now is their time to walk the Earth once again. This earthquake was a physical manifestation of their release. Their fury and hate and destruction goes before them. They are strong evil ones that are now free after long imprisonment to do the bidding of their lord, who knows that his time is very short.

235. Hold fast and stand strong, for darkness now takes hold, but then comes My light. It is the final countdown.

236. The tsunami was sent by the Devil to herald the arrival of the hordes of evil spirits that he was releasing from the center of the Earth through this earthquake. The Devil was elated by the release of these hordes of evil spirits, because he sees this as another great step in his progress toward taking over the Earth. He sent the tsunami as his grand shout of joy, to show the world his evil power. It was as if he was clapping and yelling loudly in his excitement over this step.

237. Many more evil spirits are now roaming the Earth‚ seeking men to latch on to in order to influence them in the Devil’s evil ways. You will find a great increase this coming year in the evil lies and propaganda that are given to the people of the world. These emissaries from the center of the Earth were released to take these lies to the people and to administer the Devil’s lies and deceits to the masses.

238. This is why I led for the time of renewal to take place in 2004. The children of David will no longer be able to afford taking in the System’s dainties, because they are becoming more riddled with poison. The evil spirits that were flooding the world have increased, and the Devil’s doctrines and propaganda will therefore increase dramatically as well this year.

239. The System dainties that you can safely partake of are becoming fewer and fewer, and the poison in these dainties is becoming more deadly. Therefore, I sent the renewal in 2004 to break the children of David away from these pleasure crutches to prepare you for this influx of deviltry in 2005.

240. The year of strengthening will be a mighty year full of resounding victories! I will accomplish all that I have planned for the preparation of the Family this coming year, to make you ready for the Endtime. It will be a victorious year‚ but these victories will not come to you without a fight.

241. You must gird up your prayer loins, for this must also be a year of prayer. The time for a lazy prayer life is now past. You must stir yourselves up frequently, daily and fervently, so that I can bring you through with great peace in the midst of the storms ahead.

242. It will be a year of battle‚ but a victorious year. And at the end of 2005 you will be able to look back and say proudly, “We have fought by our Husband and Commander’s side, and we have won. We are now ready and raring to go into the battles of 2006. Watch out, Devil‚ here we come!”

What Is the Significance of These Events?

243. (Mama:) In the following messages the Lord gives more details about the significance of this earthquake and tsunami, and what it will mean both for the future of the world and the Family. He explains how the Enemy is using these events to prepare the world for the coming of the Antichrist, explains that we’re entering a new stage of the Endtime, and constantly emphasizes the shortness of time.

244. (Jesus:) In ages past, great disasters such as this one have brought down the empires of men. The winds and waves, the wild rushing of the sea, the shaking of the earth or the explosions of volcanoes have put a stop to men’s wicked cities or nations and have changed the course of world events.

245. This disaster will also change the course of world history, but rather than bringing down an empire‚ it heralds the beginning of the last empire of man, the one-world empire of the Antichrist. It is not the event which draws open the curtain on his rule and reign, but it is another factor which leads that way, and does so strongly, preparing the hearts of men for his coming.

246. The Asian tsunami was a global disaster, affecting many nations, and the world has struggled to cope with its effects. Hundreds of thousands in a dozen nations have died or been injured, and millions are without food or shelter or the means to continue their life—no home, no job, no income, and little or no hope.

247. The nations affected are among the poorest on Earth already, and are finding it difficult to handle the refugees, the reconstruction, the aftermath of this catastrophe. Many lack the resources and the ability to cope. And, while the richer nations and many private aid groups are eager to help, there is poor organization and coordination, a duplication of efforts, too much of some things and too little of others, and no long-term plan. They could do so much more and do it much better if they were willing to work together, to unite, to make it a joint effort and a unified command, to pool their resources and their personnel.

248. As the people of the world look on, they begin to think that it would be good if the world were more united‚ if there were at least some multinational body to handle disasters such as this one—to make the poor nations yield their stubborn pride and sovereignty so that they could receive the help and aid they need, and to make the richer nations yield their stubborn pride and sovereignty so that they could work together in such situations. They begin to think that global problems such as this require global solutions, global bodies.

249. There is the United Nations, but in many ways it can do little. Rather than the nations of the world being subject to it and yielding to it, it must be subject to them and yield to them, and it is often ineffective. It does what it can to help, but could do far more if it had the power and resources to do so.

250. These problems cross the minds of the peoples of the world‚ and they help to prepare the way for the Antichrist, who will one day arise with the solutions to these problems in the form of more unity, a more united global response to wars and terrorism and diseases and catastrophes and refugees and economic inequality, and the many other problems plaguing the world—many of which the Enemy has caused or aggravated or stirred up! “We need to come together more,” the Antichrist will declare, and he will have just the plan and be just the man to implement it, under the Enemy’s own power!

251. So this disaster, and the disasters yet to come in the days of the End‚ help to prepare the way for the Man of Sin, convincing the people of the world of the need for such a man and such a plan. The common people of the world are becoming more and more fed up with their nations and the politicians who run them, their inability to help the poor, to put an end to injustice and war, to rein in their burdensome taxes and unjust laws, their corruption and inefficiency.

252. “Why can’t someone put a stop to African suffering and wars‚ to the massacres in Sudan‚ Somalia, Congo, Uganda, and other places? Why does Haiti stagger from one catastrophe to the next, under one inept leader after another? Why are the rich so very rich and the poor so very poor? Why do millions of poor perish from malaria and tuberculosis and other diseases while millions of rich worry about their baldness or their wrinkles or die from the effects of obesity? How can nations get away with oppressing their own people or wantonly attacking other nations without consequences? Why isn’t there a solution to the constant carnage in the Mideast? How can the religions of the world get together and work together more, rather than their followers killing each other?” In all these matters the nations of the world, and even the United Nations, have proved ineffective. But the Antichrist has a plan, and he just waits for the right moment to present it and implement it, and that moment draws nearer all the time.

253. So this Asian tsunami is not only a sign of the End, of great earthquakes and floods in various places, but it helps to prepare the way for the Man of Sin and the End of Days, as well as the greatest day of all, the day when I can return to gather My Own to Me in the clouds! Keep looking up‚ for the day of your redemption and total renewal draws closer!

254. Large events of this kind always signify much change in the attitudes of man and the course of his history. I want to open your eyes to how this disaster will be used to further the Antichrist agenda. The ACs are more firmly in control of the world than many people realize. Even you, My Family, do not always understand how entrenched they are and how their decisions affect so much of what happens in the world—even that which many consider chance, or the natural course of events. This disaster plays into their hands in many ways, some of which I will reveal to you.

255. For one thing, anything which causes widespread fear and concern is always a good thing for the ACs. People who live in fear are drowning men and women who will accept the lifesaver that they have to offer—in the form of world government and a superman leader. In this particular case‚ however, the two agendas which can be most furthered through the fear, confusion, and subsequent hand-wringing and hindsight are increased surveillance and increased personal monitoring through ID cards, especially through chipping.

256. Some even now say, “Oh, if people only had their own chip with their unique ID and it could have been monitored via GPS, we could have saved some who were lost at sea, or found some who were stuck in the wreckage before it was too late.” You can be sure that disasters of this kind will be used to continually prep the populace of the world for accepting measures of this kind. Many wonder how the world will be persuaded to take the Mark, something so sinister and evil. Situations like this provide the answer in that it begins slowly with altruistic motives, and little by little‚ like a drop of water on a rock, people’s resistance is worn away, and what was once unthinkable becomes completely normal and acceptable.

257. There is also a cry for greater monitoring of the environment, with better warning systems in place to warn of impending disasters. Again, this plays into Antichrist hands. Those who seek to unite the world under one government have no problem with sending up more “weather” satellites and implementing more monitoring of the Earth. Under the guise of helping mankind, they put systems into place that can serve double purposes. What seems to serve can also enslave. The motive of trying to help gives many with sinister motives the perfect guise for putting into place the framework that will be needed to bring the Antichrist kingdom to full power.

258. The ACs are quick to realize how this disaster can serve their plan. You must look deep beneath the surface and understand that although good is done, evil is also done, and little by little, the AC is readying himself for the final revelation. Be wary, My children. Be on guard, and do not slack in your preparations. Do as these wicked ones do and seize each opportunity to advance your own strategies to bring My Kingdom to pass on Earth. Don’t be caught sleeping, for your Enemy is not sleeping. Always be ready‚ always be training and preparing and becoming more powerful and ready in spirit than you were the day before.

259. This disaster is in a very special sense an important and significant “sign of the times,” both for My Family and for the world. Did I not warn when I was instructing My disciples, “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes‚ in diverse places”? I told them that all these are the beginning of sorrows (Mat.24:7-8). I say to you now that this earthquake that triggered this mammoth wave and flood of sea waters was no ordinary earthquake, and the flood that it sent to the shores of all those nations was no ordinary flood, and the dramatic results on the Earth and in the world of men and in the Endtime scheme of things was not ordinary! This, I’m sure, is very clear to you even without My saying so, and it’s also clear to the world that it is something very “unique and earthshaking” that has occurred to start this new year.

260. This cataclysmic disaster marks the beginning of the era of the end of the world in the most real sense of My Words. It has truly started at this moment in time, as the year 2005 begins. I allowed this huge catastrophe at this time to draw a very clear line in the sand so that the whole world and everyone in it will be forced to sit up and take notice that the days are now being counted till the End.

261. Things will begin to snowball like never before, and more signs of the times will begin to appear, including even greater “natural disasters,” the greater emergence of all kinds of evil and war, inspired and perpetrated by Satan as he uses the evil men in his control to hasten his soon-coming takeover of the world. With this event, I have “opened the floodgates” and have removed the bonds that held Satan back. “And now ye know what withholdeth‚ that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let‚ until he be taken out of the way” (2Thes.2:6,7).

262. The signs of the times will be so obvious now, to those who see‚ that there will be no doubt that the End is upon you. So watch and pray, My beloved brides of the End, for all these things which I have spoken are true and faithful. Get ready for the things which I have been preparing you for all your lives, for they are here!

263. This tsunami at the end of the old year, after the end of My birthday and at the beginning of the new year, signals a somber and eerie alarm in the hearts of men worldwide. It is the tsunami warning of more than just a flood of water on the Earth. Instead, it is a warning of a flood of evil pending for the world.

264. The physical is a representation of the spiritual. Just as this physical wave, this dark tsunami‚ washed upon many countries in Asia, so is the Enemy preparing and amassing his forces of darkness to wash upon many countries this year. Those who are alert and have moved in spirit to higher ground will be spared. Those who ignore the warnings will be washed away.

265. It’s very simple for you, but not for those in the world. They are like those who see the weird things happening and run down to the beach. They are like the glazed-eyed tourists who cannot discern the signs of the times. They linger, toying with the foolishness of this present time, not seeing or understanding what is building up out at sea and heading toward them at the speed of a jet plane, soon to overpower them, overtake them, drown them, and leave them bloated on some beach to rot before the world.

266. These are the warning signs, the “shots across the bow” that I give the world as you enter these days. This is the last call for many that are blind, to open their eyes or perish.

267. For you in My Family and for all those just and righteous people who remain on the Earth, it is a signal that the storm approaches and that you had better get busy preparing for the flood of evil that comes. And it will come‚ in many places, in many ways.

268. For some countries it will be swift and destructive, while for others it will take longer. But however it comes, it will come as surely as the night follows the day. So be warned and let your hearts be sobered toward doing My full will in complete obedience and desperation.

269. Hold on to the laser lamps of My Spirit and the new weapons that I have given you, and reach out in the darkness to save those about you, bringing them to the higher ground of spiritual safety through knowing Me and receiving Me.

270. I will use you to save many in these Last Days. I will use you to pull many sincere and searching hearts to higher ground. Great will be the masses that flock to you for safety, just as your Father David saw in his dreams of the volcanoes that were erupting and the floods of water that were washing over those in the lowlands.

271. Be wise, My children. See things in the spirit. Observe, take to heart, and then obey and follow through, not only for your sakes but for the sake of the lost. I wish that none who need to be gathered up to the hills of safety be lost. I wish all My sheep to make it to the mountain passes‚ that they should not be swept away in the floods of darkness of the night. Be like the faithful shepherds who lead My sheep up, up and away, safe from harm or danger, safe from the claws of the Evil One.

272. Woe to the inhabitants of the Earth and of the sea, for the Enemy is come down unto you‚ having great wrath! Greater things than these shall you see in the days to come, but greater shall be the miracles of safety and protection for you, My children.

273. When the Enemy throws floods at you, you will be able to stop them. When there are fires all around you, I will keep you as you walk through them without even the smell of smoke. In danger and in tribulation, My mighty hand will perform wonders for you that you have only dreamed about.

274. Let this disaster show you that time is of the essence and preparations must start now. The war is coming, and you must sharpen your weapons and use them lest you be caught unawares.

275. I will not give many more warning shots before I allow the Enemy to begin his attacks. So pray, be on guard, watch, and be sober. Lift your hearts to Me in desperation so that you can be used of Me and come out shining ever brighter in the darkness that will surround you.

276. Though the darkness will be great‚ your light will shine brighter than ever. So let your light shine and let all men know that it is the light from Heaven, the light I give you, Me, My love, the Bright and Morning Star.

277. This is a wake-up call to the world, My warning that the days are evil and that time is short. As many were reveling and drinking in the Christmas and New Year’s week, I sent this as a somber warning that things will not continue as they have been.

278. This disaster has touched many worldwide, so the message has reached many nations. It has been a sobering time, a time to think more about Me and My plan for mankind. It has been a signal to wake up and leave the wild partying and reveling, to look to Me for strength and counsel and guidance. Many in the world have become hardened to My warning message. This will help them to receive My Words, and to believe them. This has brought a great sobering‚ and a greater sense of the true values of life, throughout the world.

279. I want those in My Family to look at this event as a sobering reminder of how short time is. There are millions of My sheep who await who may not be there tomorrow. So as the Family enters this “year of strengthening‚” I want them to keep this event in mind to help them to keep the vision of redeeming the time, for the days are truly evil, and reaching the sheep. That is the reason that I want My Family to become an offensive, on-the-move army, so that they will be able to reach the lost while they still have the opportunity and the time. That is the vision I want My Family to keep during this year. This disaster is a very important and sobering reminder. So please take it to heart and let it burn within you to cause you to do all you can as a Family to continue to yield and obey and move forward so you can become that army on the move, to launch the attack and go forth claiming the land and all the souls who are waiting to receive Me and My love before the days of evil arrive.

280. Times of great turmoil and confusion such as the world has never known before are about to begin. I do not make mistakes; I do all things in great love and mercy according to My perfect plan. I allowed this disaster‚ and I removed many poor little ones from this Earth and brought them to a much better place where there will be no more pain or suffering and where they will be free from the horrors of this world. I knew that they would be better off here on this side than left there to go through the events that will soon be taking place all over the world. So do not feel bad for them, but prepare your hearts and spirits so that you will be ready to accomplish your tasks as My Endtime brides and so that you may reach out to those who remain who are still hungering. Pray for those in this world that are Mine, that they might find Me and that I will keep them in the days to come.

281. This disaster is a major sign of things to come, and a sign that the Endtime is just around the corner. So keep your eyes and ears open. Don’t let the Enemy come in with lethargy and compromise, but stay on the attack so that you will be prepared. Keep making the steps necessary to become the offensive wartime army I need you to be. Redeem the time, for the days are evil! Life is short, as this event so clearly shows, so reach the sheep while they are still alive. Love Me, love your brethren while they are still around and while you still can, and pray that you can reach all those who are waiting with My love and message while there is still time and relative peace and stability to do so. It won’t be around much longer.

282. I allowed this disaster as a sign to all that the days of this world are fast coming to a close. The time is coming and is now here in which many of the signs that were foretold will come to pass. For this world has seen much hate and much conflict in these days‚ and just as there is now an increase in wars, so shall there also be an increase in natural disasters.

283. I didn’t allow this disaster just as punishment, but so that My Words may be fulfilled‚ so that you might know that the End draws nigh, that the time is fast approaching when this world will be turned over to the Evil One. You, My brides, can take this as a sign of what is to come, for this is just a foretaste. I have warned you through My Words of old, so think it not strange that such things come to pass.

284. Did I not say when I was on Earth that there would be earthquakes in diverse places, and then the End would come? This is but the beginning of sorrows. The geological balance that has been maintained throughout the ages, keeping My children safe, is being overturned, and there will be disasters of cosmic proportions, as I foretold.

285. This event was not a judgment on mankind as was the Flood‚ but I allowed it as a warning, a check to make men understand the reality of the world that they live in.

286. As the scientific age has progressed, it is so easy for man to think that he is in control, that he has a handle on things, and that he can thus control his own destiny. There have been cures discovered for terrible diseases that killed many in the past. There has been space exploration, so that man begins to believe he can rule the heavens. There has been the development of weapons of mass destruction‚ so that the superpowers feel they can annihilate their enemies easily if they have to.

287. All these things have made man more and more confident. It is not as in the past, when the life expectancy of a normal man was shorter and there were many vicissitudes of life. When life was more uncertain, then people felt a greater need for Me‚ and the world was more godly.

288. Now, although I did not sweep away all these people in judgment, as I did in the time of the Flood, I did allow this disaster as a warning to the world that they are not in control of their destiny, no matter how developed and how civilized and how technologically advanced they have become. All the computers in the world would not have helped one person who was in the path of the tsunami!

289. I allowed this to happen for many reasons. One of the main ones is that it’s a wake-up call, not only to the world, but to the Family. You have turned a corner and the world has turned a corner, and things will never be the same again.

290. This was another event in the chain of the “beginning of sorrows.” Although this event seemed natural, there were spiritual forces behind it. Remember‚ the Devil is the destroyer of life.

291. This is just the beginning of many climactic events, as I have predicted in My Word. There will be several big earthquakes yet to come, and the intensity will be greatly multiplied. You are on a fast track to the events of the Time of the End.

292. Have I not said that the Earth will reel to and fro like a drunken man before the day of My coming? This will lead up to the biggest earthquake of all times, during the Wrath of God‚ that will surpass the “days of Peleg” when the Earth was divided (Gen.10:25). “Every island shall flee away and the mountains shall be made low.” “And there will not have been an earthquake as great as this since man first walked the earth” (Rev.16:18,20).

293. This will help adjust the Earth, to help bring in a moderate climate as your Father David has foretold, for the people who live on the Earth during the Millennium. As this tsunami actually made the Earth wobble on its axis a little, so this last big one will change the tilt of its axis back to the degree on which I had ordained it, at the beginning with the Garden of Eden. There will still be cycles and seasons, but not the extremes that you have today.

294. But you and all My children will not have to worry about that final mighty earthquake. For I will come and gather you from the four corners of the Earth before that day, from every nation.

295. So hold on, My loves. Hold on to the vision of the coming of these big events and work while it is yet day, for the night soon cometh, and the night in some countries will come quicker than others. I am calling all men everywhere to repent and to strengthen themselves in My Word and to work the works of Him who sent him. As you go and preach this Gospel to every tongue and every nation, then shall the End come.

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Quake rattled the Earth

(Reuters) The deadly Asian earthquake may have caused the planet to wobble on its axis‚ scientists said. Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth’s center during the quake caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or one millionth of a second‚ faster and to tilt about an inch (2.5 cm) on its axis. The Earth’s poles travel a circular path that normally varies by about 33 feet, so an added wobble of an inch is unlikely to cause long-term effects, he said.

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296. I am using this event to wake and shake the nations to the fact that time is short and the End is drawing near. Did I not predict that this sort of thing would happen more and more as you approach the End? If you will look at the statistics‚ you will see that all these “natural disasters” are steadily on the increase.

297. I allow these things for two reasons: One, to wake up the world and get them desperate, causing them to repent of their sins and turn to Me. I use these things to cause them to lay aside their games and distractions and to think deeply about life and death and its meaning, to ask themselves serious questions about what they have done with their lives.

298. I also use these things to remind the elect that time is short‚ that the End approaches and My children need to do all they can to reach the lost and get out the message while they still have the time. I use these things to wake up My children, that they should not be deceived into thinking all things continue as they have been.

299. Many even in the ranks of My children have fallen asleep‚ thinking that the Endtime will never be, that they have time to go their own way and do their own thing. But let this be a warning that time is getting short. You have no guarantee for tomorrow. You who can perceive the signs of the times need to understand that this is one of the indicators of where you are on My Endtime timetable. The hour is fast approaching, and there are many living in indecision, unable to read the signs of the times, having been lulled to sleep by the cares of this world.

300. This is your opportunity to help those who are lost to see that the hour is late and they are not saved. Many have been broken in spirit and are searching for that which is eternal after witnessing the briefness of their world. So use this opportunity to share My message and to give My Words to the hungry and needy. Preach the Word, give My message, for time is short!

Be a Greater Witness Than Ever!

301. (Mama:) Great disasters and tragedies soften men’s hearts and make their minds more receptive to the truth as they ponder why these things happen and how quickly their own lives could change, the shortness of their time on Earth and how fickle fame or fortune or possessions can be. It’s an ideal time to witness, and the Lord gives us lots of good counsel on how to witness‚ how to pray for those Family members who are working and witnessing at disaster sites, and how we can all be relief workers, bringing relief from pain, hopelessness and despair.

302. (Jesus:) In this disaster, many have seen that life can be blown away like the chaff. All that they have lived for, all that they have built, all that they have accumulated and have spent their life on can be washed away in a second, and none of these things that they now hold dear can save them from such a disaster.

303. There will be much soul-searching, for many will have had their eyes opened by this experience‚ and they will seek the truth. Many of those who have forgotten Me will once again find Me, and I will ease the pain and the sorrow‚ and in Me they will find their strength.

304. This is also a practice ground for you, My Family, to be bright beacons in the darkness, to spread My love and joy in such calamity—to lift up the weak and to comfort the brokenhearted. This has been your mission from the beginning, and although you might not be able to make everything better in the physical, you will be able to give them the greatest gift ever, one that can never be taken away from them. They will be assured that they have a better place to go to, that their loved ones have also gone to a better place‚ that they will experience no more suffering or pain, and that all wrongs will be made right.

305. Through this disaster I also give you a glimpse of what you will do in the future, for the wheels have been set in motion and the signs that I have promised must come to pass. But with these disasters I will open the doors for you to be greater witnesses than before, and not only will you be more fully anointed with My power, but the people who go through these disasters will desire the truth and will be hungry for the light and hope that you have to offer.

306. So although this disaster seems great and many did lose their lives and many more suffer‚ I allowed it so that you might prepare with more urgency and with more desperation, and so that you might get this foretaste of what your roles will be and how you will be used.

307. For not only will more of these disasters happen‚ but in the future many mighty miracles will be performed by you, My brides. You will heal the sick, raise the dead, feed the multitudes, and protect many from such things. It is an awesome thing to imagine, but that is why I bring these signs now, so that you might prepare with the knowledge that more is coming and that I need each of you to be prepared in spirit—prepared by having a close link with Me, prepared by working with your spirit helpers, prepared in being fully possessed by Me, and prepared in having great faith that I can move mountains on your behalf. You will be filled with My power and with My Spirit, and many will look to each of you for guidance and for answers.

308. I will continue to bring more of the survivors to My side during this time. I will free them forever, and I will bring them to My bosom where they will know no more pain or suffering, and evil cannot touch them. So trust in this, that even though more are dying and continue to die, it is in My mercy that I take them, and they will only know the pain for a little longer. I hear the cries of the suffering and I will make haste to deliver those I can, and to help those who need peace and who must continue to go on for a bit more.

309. Pray for them, because they need your prayers. Your prayers allow Me to release many of My angels and spirit helpers to help open the hearts of these people to Me and to prepare them for what is in store for them.

310. Those of you who have gone out among them will also need the prayers of many, for you’re each a light in the darkness and you must shine brightly. You must give of yourselves, and it will cost a lot. When you are surrounded by so much pain and suffering, it will be easy to get weighed down with the hopelessness of it all. That is why you must avail yourself of My power to be able to rise above and to see things as I see them, and to pour out and be the vessels that I need you to be.

311. You are My emissaries, and even though you might feel that your efforts are small and that you are only able to touch a few, each one that you reach is important to Me. I love each one of them, and each one that is able to come to Me and know Me will be worth all that you give in order to save them. So do not belittle your job, whether you are there in flesh or whether you are upholding your brethren through your prayers, for you are fulfilling what I have for each of you to do in this situation.

312. All of you must prepare, for days such as these will come again. Many will again be called to the forefront and many will again have to be the support team. You are a team, and through this disaster you will become an even closer-knit team.

313. Let this be a call to arms‚ My dears! You have been strengthened and renewed, and now is the time to reach out. There is yet work to be done to strengthen your defenses, but now is the time to go on the attack and fight for the souls of men.

314. Let this be a rallying call to all My children, for although the need is so great now, it will be even greater in the future. So rise to the occasion and do all you can to reach those in need with My love and light. People look for an answer, and only you have the answer that they need. Seek out My lost sheep that need Me and save them, for they hunger and thirst for My love and the time is right. Many now see the shortness of time, the brevity of life‚ and look for answers. Find those people and give them My answers.

315. This is but a small taste of things to come. Take full advantage now of the training these experiences will give you. For as the need grows greater and greater, the world and My sheep will expect more and more of you. This is but the beginning of a great harvest that will be reaped for Me. So answer the call! Put the weights and sins behind you that you have been delivered of and answer the call of the hungry and needy.

316. You, My brides‚ will be a light in the midst of darkness. As disasters continue to plague man more and more, some by the forces of nature and others by the hand of man, you will come into the calling that I have long prepared you for.—To be light and comfort unto the nations. You will stand strong and do exploits! You will feed the multitudes not only bread but My Words of life. You will feed both their bodies and their souls. You will heal their bodies and minds and hearts.

317. As the world gets darker and more disaster-prone, the structures of man that are supposed to help people cope with these things will fall apart and will not be able to save the people, but you will. You will come to the fore. Then all will know that you are Heaven-sent and they will believe your message, and none will be able to gainsay nor resist. You will stand head and shoulders above all‚ and the people of the world whose minds are not darkened beyond hope will look to you.

318. The days will grow ever darker, so be prepared. You will be called upon more and more to lead people. The rulers will see that you have something that they could never give. You have the power to heal minds and spirits, and your power to heal bodies will grow and grow. Great demands will be placed upon you, and you will rise to the occasion, for this is your destiny. This is what I have trained you for‚ to be a light in the midst of gross darkness. You will defend the faithful, feed the needy, heal the broken in body, warn those in danger of things not seen as yet, and win souls to Me. You will give nations the chance to choose Me.

319. As much as I hate to see suffering‚ pain, and hurt, I must allow Satan room to work, to give the world a taste of Hell, so that they may choose between Me and him, between light and darkness, between Heaven and Hell. I must let him do his part in bringing chaos, destruction and disaster‚ then fake peace, persecution of My children, and all his evil maladies on the world in preparation for My return, My rule, and My peace.

320. Man has chosen the path of sin, and I must let him reap the consequences of these decisions. Satan plagues the world with his horrors, while I beg and plead for men to come to Me and in Me to find all good things—peace, safety‚ protection, love, harmony, truth, meaning, light and answers. Each one must choose which side they will be on.

321. The quicker the Endtime plays out, the sooner I will be able to return to end all suffering, sorrow, pain, and everything that is evil, and replace it all with purity, beauty, healing, restoration, and forgiveness. These disasters and difficulties must happen, for they play a major role in the Endtime.

322. So I once again plead with you‚ My children, to preach the Gospel as fast and furiously as you can, to fulfill the requirement of “the Gospel being preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations” (Mat.24:14) so that the End can come as quickly as possible.—The end of all horrors, and the beginning of a new and perfect world where things are governed in My love, righteousness, and according to My perfect will.

323. I call all My children who will hear to listen. I will not keep repeating Myself, for you have heard Me say this time and time again. Things will not continue as they have been. The lines are being drawn, and I will hold every man, woman and child accountable for the truth they know, whether vast amounts as you in My Family have‚ or even a snippet of truth as many in the world have.

324. I hold you accountable to do what you know should be done to reach the lost while there is still time and while the sun still shines. The days ahead are dark, and the light of My truth must shine from your hearts, mouths and hands like never before. Seize the day, win the world, reach the lost‚ and deliver the message I have given you before it is too late and you lament at how little you are able to do.

325. While there is freedom to speak the truth, do so with boldness! Proclaim My love to all who will receive. Help Me by doing your part. Be like the angel of the End that will circle the globe and deliver My message to the lost.

326. (Dad) Although this disaster seems like such a huge event now and so cataclysmic, it’s just a foreshadowing of things to come. Soon you will become accustomed to big, significant events happening regularly.

327. Soon there won’t be those in the Family who are still double-minded, wavering, and unsure about the truth and validity of the Endtime, because you’ll all be so busy “instructing many” and taking your places in the final scenes of this world’s final play.

328. This is a time to “look up” and to “rejoice, for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luk.21:28). Of course it’s sobering, and you want to do and should be doing everything you can to witness and win and help and save those who have been directly affected; but as far as how it personally affects you, it should encourage your faith to see God’s Word being fulfilled.

329. It’s a time to reach out, to witness, to help, to bring light, answers, comfort‚ and Jesus to the world. It’s not a time to let your faith waver and ask questions like, “Why does God allow disasters?” You’re supposed to know that already, and if you can’t remember clearly‚ you need to study the Word on the topic and get busy doing your part to use this event as an avenue to witness, to win souls‚ and to help others.

330. Strengthen your faith in the Word so the Lord can use you as “one who understands among the people” and you’ll “instruct many” (Dan.11:33). Praise Him and trust Him, for He does all things well. Remember that He’s in full control, and He’s not going to let a thing happen to any of His children without His express permission.

331. As the days grow darker, you’re destined to shine brighter than ever. So get busy, get witnessing, and use this as a catalyst to focus outward, to feed the sheep who are looking for answers, and to proclaim the truth far and wide for all to hear! Take your place in teaching Jesus’ Words and perspectives to those who so desperately need them and who are now open to receiving them. Use this situation for all it’s worth by getting out and witnessing, helping and loving the Lord’s lost sheep. Give your all, whether it is in prayer, in witnessing‚ in financial support to those of your Family who are on the scene to help, or all three. Be strong! Lead the people to Jesus by tenderly gathering them in to the folds of Jesus, David, Maria, and Peter.

332. Do your part to help turn this disaster into a Romans 8:28 for all involved by leading the lost to the source of true life, love, power‚ protection, happiness, peace, and everything that is true, just, heavenly, and pure.

333. For the children of the world it is yet another opportunity to choose—to choose whether to wake up, to search for truth and the meaning of these things, or to harden their hearts. There have been many choices already in each person’s life, and there will yet be more. The hearts of some will grow harder, and colder in rejection and delusion, and the hearts of others will be opened, softened‚ made desperate and hungry for Jesus, for answers, for comfort, peace and hope.

334. Your job is to be there for those who are hungry, seeking, searching, and desirous of the truth‚ no matter where they are. Feed the sheep!

335. How could God allow such a horrible thing to happen? You read the answers from many religious leaders, and although some, such as the Muslims, come close to part of the truth, none are able to give an answer that shows My love in allowing this.

336. It’s therefore of utmost importance for the children of David to give out the truth about these disasters. Explain not only why I allow these natural and destructive disasters, but also why I allow war. Man is hell-bent on humanizing all explanations. So you‚ the advocates of the truth, must speak out loud and clear! Even many sincere Christians are not able to give the answers the world seeks concerning the great suffering and sorrow that exists in the world today. So along with the Endtime message that I command you to preach, I tell you to also preach the truth about why disasters occur and why I allow war.

Please see the following Letters and pubs for an explanation of “why war” and what the Lord thinks of it:

[ ]“Sex Works,” ML #306:20-24, Vol.3

[ ]“Where Poppies Grow,” ML #368:22-41, Vol.3

[ ]“From Whence Come Wars,” ML #601, Vol.5

[ ]“Why Wars,” ML #1326, DB1

[ ]“World Currents 101,” ML #3447:41-47, GN 1031

[ ]“The tragedy of war‚” END 23

[ ]“How humanitarian is it to kill people for killing people‚” END 24

[ ]“Religion is unfairly blamed for the world’s wars,” END 30

[ ]“War is wrong‚” END 52

[ ]“Wickedness of war,” END 61

[ ]“War propaganda,” END 70

[ ]“God’s position on war,” GP tract

Why disasters: The Lord’s viewpoint, and what ours should be:

[ ]“Medusa Touch,” ML #955:16-19‚ Vol.8

[ ]“Why Disasters,” ML #959, Vol.8 or DB 1

[ ]“The Rescue,” ML #2296, GP poster

[ ]“Unnatural Disasters and Churchianity‚” ML #2318:8-20, Vol.18

[ ]“Prophecies Received at the HCS for the Kobe Earthquake Situation,” ML #2970, DB 12

[ ]“Storm washes away hopes for future in Central America,” END 13

[ ]“The unnatural disaster was caused by human greed,” END 14

[ ]“Global warming could cause droughts‚ disease, and political upheaval,” END 41

[ ]“Catastrophes climbing,” END 49

[ ]“Death and Destruction in Bam,” END 69

[ ]“Wild weather in the U.S.,” END 71

[ ]“When Disaster Strikes,” GP tract

337. Those who have passed on are in the light‚ but many of the survivors of this disaster live on in darkness. It behooves the children of David to continue to give out My message of love through tracts and mass methods such as radio shows and television shows, to help even the poor have a choice. Continue to reach the rich who can finance these operations. Turn on the educated to helping you to pour out the Word in great quantities to give even the poor the chance to have the light come into their lives. For it behooves the rich of the world to feed the poor not just physically‚ but spiritually. And I call the children of David to reach those with the power to do so.

338. This is why the children of David must pull back from so much energy being spent on feeding the poor, and turn to reaching the rich and educated. You can help the poor even more by reaching the rich and the educated and those with power in their lands, and as you minister to them, they can help you to minister to others more than ever before. Let your hearts break, My children, for those who die without the light. And turn your broken hearts toward reaching those with the power and influence to shed the light on even the smallest in the land. This is the commission of the children of David.

339. Endtime events are very much like this tsunami, for each event is racing towards its destination unseen until it reaches “land.” Those who perceive the events are like the early warning systems that some countries have in place to warn others of the events that are to come. When compared to the vast majority of those in the world, you, My children, are like the lone warning buoy warning of the coming doom and dangers of the Endtime. Some will heed your warning and others will not, but that does not lessen the importance of your warning.

340. Many felt that because tsunamis of this magnitude happened so infrequently, a warning system wasn’t needed or wasn’t worth it, but as you can see now‚ it would have saved many lives. I want to warn you, My children‚ not to become complacent in delivering My Endtime message and warning to the world. Do not let the complacency of the world seep in and cause you to feel that what you’re warning people about will never happen, for the day will come when those who scoffed at My message will be the ones who will be weeping and looking for answers. Will your last words be, “If I only had‚” or will you be satisfied, knowing that you did your best and that you remained true to My message?

341. While countries around the world bring aid and supplies to help those in need, so few are bringing the balm of healing for the spirit that each one desperately needs. While there are some who try to comfort, there are so few who have My light and truth‚ and none who know Me as you do. This is your chance to shine, My children. This is your chance to reap a harvest like never before, for there has never been a time when the hearts of the people of these fields have been more ripe and desperate for My truth. There will be many obstacles to overcome, such as bitterness and resentment and blame toward Me, but show My love to each one you meet and they will see that My love is greater than any loss—that My love will cover all hurt and pain if they will but receive it.

342. I ask that you be faithful witnesses to the truth that you have and to the message that I have given you. Do not let your hearts fail because of the suffering and because of the great tragedy. Let it rather stir up within you the conviction of My Spirit to witness like never before to win others to Me and to share My love and Gospel with all you meet, for you never know when a day could be your last. Life is short‚ and there are so many who have not been reached with My love.

343. In My love I brought many needy home unto Me, but there are many, many more in this life who are in great need, who live as if they are dead, who are under the waves of hopelessness and despair. Rescue these, My loves. Give them the hope and love that you have received. Give them strength to go on and to believe that there is more to this life than what they can see all around them.

344. All that you have to forsake and give up in order to reach these poor and needy will seem as nothing when compared to the mighty harvest that will be won as a result. This is but a foretaste of what is to come when My children will be called upon to go out and minister to the many, many dying and needy ones all around the world. This has happened in many situations, and those who were not involved in these efforts but read the testimonies might think that they could never do something so great as others did. However‚ I tell you that those who were in these disaster situations did not feel ready or prepared, but as they obeyed and let Me pour through them, they became the vessels of love and comfort that I needed them to become. So will it be with all My children who find themselves in these situations. As they yield to Me and let Me work through them, then they will become the vessels of My love that I need them to become.

345. It all starts today with learning to yield to Me and letting Me use you in whatever way I want to. Then when the time comes that you’re faced with thousands of needy souls, it will just be one more yielding to Me, one more saying yes to My will and giving My message to those in need. You are each destined to do great and mighty works for Me. Sometimes those mighty works will be miracles of supply or protection, calling down fire from Heaven, while other times it will be a great yielding to Me and opening up your heart and mind and allowing Me to pour through you. This type of miracle is no less miraculous than calling down fire from Heaven, for it requires great faith and yieldedness to allow Me to work through you in whatever way I see fit. Each day you are drawing closer to the End and each day you will be called upon to do greater works, whether greater miracles or greater yieldedness, but whatever I ask of you, it will be more than the day before.

346. I want you to get into the habit of expecting more of yourself and of giving Me more, not just being content with doing the same thing or believing that you’re only capable of doing what you know you can do or have already done. It’s time to start stepping into the role that I have ordained for you—that of being My leaders of the Endtime. There are great roles that need to be filled in the Endtime play, and each of you has a place and a calling, and in some cases I will call upon you to play several roles. But it’s up to you whether you will choose to play the role that I have ordained you to play or whether you will take on a supporting role and be content to not be challenged. I am calling you each to be My relief workers, to bring relief from pain, hopelessness, and despair. I am calling you to be ministers and doctors of My love, to bring relief and comfort to the spirits and hearts of those affected, for this is one part that no medicine or drug can heal; only I and My love can do so.

347. You have been training for this all your life. You have been studying and preparing to be My Endtime witnesses since you could quote verses. Now it’s your chance to use all that you have learned. Just as doctors have to train and study for years and years before they can practice medicine, so too have you studied and trained for these days that are upon you, the Endtime. Now it’s your chance to put into practice all that you have learned and to be My witnesses, ministers and soul doctors. You can be My love to these in need.

(From the spirit of a man who is still alive, who miraculously survived the tsunami and even rescued his own family. It was like he himself is still a normal person with all his faults and failings, but inside, almost unknown to his carnal mind, his spirit is calling out and searching for answers.)

348. I am the spirit of one who escaped death in the tsunami. Why do I call out to the children of David when I am alive and not dead?—Because, although I am more open in the spirit, I am still very bound in the flesh, and a thousand questions about my life rise up and crash in on me like the tsunami itself. I must know! I must find out!

349. My brush with death and the miracles that happened to keep me alive have given me a great desire to know why. What is the greater truth that lies behind the events of that day? Why did I live when I should have been the first one to die? Why was I able to rescue my whole family when so many others perished? Who was it that helped me and spoke to me in that terrible moment of desperation? This is not the first time I have been so close to death. This is not the first time I have felt His great presence.

350. I am a surfer who was out in the water when the tsunami hit. I know the power of the sea, because much of my life I have played on the back of the sea, catching waves and riding them. It is a thrill to be so close to something so powerful and be able to not only survive but even harness some of that power. I am good at surfing, but not that good—not good enough to do what I did. There was Someone else there with me, Someone far greater than me, Someone Who could even command the sea. I called out to that Someone to help me, and He did—now I want to know Who He is.

351. I had a strange feeling about going out surfing that day. It was not so much a dread of impending doom as a feeling of detachment from life‚ a feeling of being partially elsewhere, somewhat outside of life and away from people and problems. I’d had a little difference with my wife the day before that carried over to the morning. That put me into a bit of a pensive mood, wondering what our lives were all about.

352. I knew enough of the sea to know that something was very wrong. I felt the swell rising. I saw the water receding from the shore. I turned and saw the great wave rising. In an instant I knew—I just knew—this was a killer wave come from the depths of Hell. My family was in the hotel, probably watching me. There was no turning back. Everything was instant and instinctive. Every skill I possessed was needed now, right now, and much more.

353. This wave was huge beyond belief. I knew I must fight with everything in me to stay on it. I was riding a wild animal risen up from Hell. I could not lose my courage. A voice spoke within me, steadying me, guiding me, encouraging me. The speed at which I was going was incredible. The wave surged forward, hungry for destruction. I fought to stay up, and nearly fell at one point. I would have been dragged to my death by my own surfboard, as it was attached to my ankle by a cord. There was not time to undo it and little point in trying. I had to succeed.

354. Miraculously, I was able to ride the wave and work my way over so I was heading right for the hotel where my family was staying. The wave just kept going, smashing boats and washing before it swimmers and anything else in its path. The hotel was coming up fast‚ and I feared I would be driven into a tree or smashed into the debris or the hotel itself, but just as I was at the hotel the wave weakened and I was able to drop down and free myself and escape the terrible current that pulled so many back out to sea and to their deaths.

355. I ran into the hotel, raced into our room and grabbed my family. “Come on,” I yelled, “we have to get out of here now and get to higher ground before the next wave hits!” We hurried down the steps and out of the hotel, running up the road that led away from the beach and up into the jungle. I don’t know where I got the strength, but I nearly carried my loved ones. “Don’t look back! Keep going!”

356. We ran and ran until exhausted. At last we reached a point high enough to be safe—at least safer. We collapsed on the ground. In the distance behind us we could hear the screams and the crashing and crushing sound as more waves hit. I hugged my family close to me. We wept, but we were spared.

357. Now my spirit searches. It reaches out for answers. Why me? Who can tell me why I and my family were so miraculously spared when so many died? Who was there by me in my most desperate hour of need? Can you tell me? I long to know. I need answers.

Wield the Weapon of Praise

358. (Mama:) The Lord has repeatedly told us how important the weapon of praise is. In the message that follows, He explains how we can not only make use of praise ourselves but can show and teach others how to praise Him even in the midst of this difficult situation, and thereby receive more comfort and peace.

359. (Jesus: ) I woo and love and pour out blessings‚ but man has a way of wondering why I don’t give more, and taking and spoiling what I do give him. He spoils it through pollution and murmuring and greed. He spoils it through war and fighting and killing his neighbors. He spoils it through his selfishness.

360. There is very little thanks coming My way these days from man. Most are wondering, “Why me? Why do I have to suffer? What have I done to deserve this lot in life?” Even those with plenty wish they had more. The world is in the age of murmuring, and through their murmuring and selfishness‚ they have walked away from My blessings.

361. This event of Christmas 2004 seems an awesome one, but it’s only the beginning of sorrows. There are many more to come. Only those who learn to thank Me for My blessings, whether they are Christians or Muslims or Jews or Hindus‚ will have the grace to rise above the sorrows the Earth and its peoples have now entered. Praise, My dear children, is already setting you apart from the masses, and it will do so even more in the days to come.

362. You must praise! Praise is not only a weapon that will help you be strong and powerful in these Endtime days, but it is the weapon of liberation that you can use to set people free. Teach them to praise Me and you will be drawing them out of the darkness into the light. You can’t stop the darkness that is rapidly encroaching on the Earth. But you can chase it away and push it back through praise.

363. Praise is not only the most needed weapon for the children of David and their survival, but it’s the most important weapon you have to give to the children of the world. Teach them to praise, and you have taught them to survive. Teach them to praise, and you have taught them to overcome. Teach them to praise, and the Antichrist and his people and powers will not be able to defeat those wielding it. Give this weapon to all My people, for those who wield this weapon, no matter what their nationality or religion, will rise above.

364. As you know, I promised that if I am lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me. So teach people to praise, and you will find them coming to Me in love and peace and comfort. Give the masses this weapon of praise‚ and by giving them this weapon, you are leading them to Me. Yes, continue to tell them about Me, but also give them the weapon of praise.

365. You must continue to get out the millions to the billions. You must continue to distribute My message in tracts far and wide. You must continue to hold your mass meetings where you reach the school children. You must continue to tell people how much I love them, and about Me, the real Jesus. And you must give them the weapon of praise.

366. (Jesus is weeping.) If My children would wield the weapon of praise, the sorrows of this life would quickly pass away. I wish to draw people nearer to Me. But doubt and sorrow and murmuring on a massive scale are separating people from Me more than any other problem. Defeat the murmuring in their lives by teaching them to praise.

367. I now commission the children of David to wave the banner of praise far and wide, and hold it high! For by giving the children of the Earth the weapon of praise, you give them the tool they need to overcome the darkness that is encroaching upon the Earth and is quickly eating it up.

The Lord’s Powerful Protection

368. (Mama:) The Lord kept many of His children so wonderfully from this tsunami‚ like one dear Sri Lankan missionary who miraculously escaped the flood with all his orphans and his entire family. Others were hindered from being on the beach at the moment the floods came, or were even sitting up in the hills in church or taking time in His Word. And others went through the flood but called out to Him and were saved.

369. Still, other Christians perished in the floods or lost loved ones, with children or parents or brothers and sisters being swept away‚ and I know this must weigh on the minds of some of you. You probably wonder if you could handle such a situation, whether the Lord would protect you and your mates and your little ones in similar disasters, and some of you might be a little anxious about the future. We asked the Lord for some reassurance and some promises that we could claim for the future, and He responded beautifully.

370. (Jesus:) I said in My Word that there will be pestilences, wars, famines‚ and other such disasters that will rock the world in the time of the End. They will be a sign of the waywardness of the world, the darkness that fast approaches and tries to drown out the light. There will be other more devastating events that will take place, that will be used to shake up the world. Some people will see them as such, and yet others will harden their hearts against Me and will choose the way of destruction. But all will have had their choice—some in this life and some in the life to come.

371. But let your hearts be comforted, My brides, for even though the times of Great Tribulation are yet to come, My eye will be ever on you. I will always care for My Own; I will look after you, even as I cared for you during this tsunami. I need you as My messengers to the world. You are My angels of mercy. You have access to My mind, so that you can minister to those in need, helping them to find Me.

372. Few Christians in the world today have the gifts that you have through prophecy and asking Me for My insight into situations such as this, and so many somewhat blindly proclaim their view on such disasters, and don’t always proclaim the full message I wish to give. They give a portion, which is sometimes confused and lost in their own interpretations and personal opinions.

373. That makes your job all the more important‚ because you have the truth‚ you have the faith, the greater understanding of My love and mercy. You who have known Me intimately as My brides have such an edge over the churches and other Christians, who in many ways practice a religion of the past, a religion that has become stale, passive, and rigid because they have compromised and have not lived up to the full teachings of My Word.

374. That is why I have called you out as My prophets of the End, those who will boldly proclaim My message throughout the world. Your ministry of comfort to those who have suffered is recognized on all continents‚ for people see and feel and know that you have something that no one else has. Your faith is pure, your love for them is motivated by Me, and your compassion is a reflection of My own. The message I have given you to spread far and wide throughout the world is one of the purest resemblances of Me‚ because you have known Me as few others have.

375. So let this motivate you to continue to draw closer to Me, so that I can use you to the full. I will increase the power of your message, and as you go forth to spread My message, I will protect you. I will surround you with angels of protection and safekeeping, so that you can perform the greater works and miracles that I’ve promised you will do in the days to come.

376. My dear ones, I know some of you are tempted to worry about such disasters affecting you or your family, your mate or your little ones, and this causes you to be anxious in mind. Fret not yourself about these things, for have I not said that sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof? I will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able‚ so why do you worry? You have My promises and you are My brides whom I love dearly and care for greatly, so take no anxious, fretful thought for the morrow and what it might or might not bring.

377. Have I not said that the floods of great waters would not come nigh thee, and was not this the case in this disaster? In days of old did I not even open the Red Sea for My servant Moses and My people, and dry up rivers and streams for My servants, so that they walked across on dry land? Did I not even tell the wind and the waves‚ “Peace, be still,” and there was a great calm? And have I not promised that you will do even greater works than I did? Did I not promise that I would give My angels charge over you‚ to keep you in all your ways? So have I promised, and so will I do it.

378. Listen for My voice, obey Me and My checks, and you will continue to be safe and well cared for. You are very precious to Me‚ My brides, because I have so few of you, and I treasure your love for Me and your service for Me and all that you do for My children. Be at peace about the future. Strengthen your faith with My Word and My promises of protection.

379. If any disaster should befall you, you must trust Me that it is My will and that I have a greater purpose in it. I will either keep you through it or will bring you Home to Me, where there is no more death or sorrow or pain, for these things will have passed away for you. Whether you live, you live unto Me, and whether you die, you die unto Me. Either way‚ My dear ones‚ you are Mine and nothing can ever separate you from My love. No man, no flood‚ no disaster can ever pluck you from My loving hands.

380. Have peace and faith regarding these matters. Remember, the Enemy would try to cause you to fear the future, to doubt My love and care‚ to wonder about My promises of protection. Fight him through praising Me in advance for My care and My protection, and then you will simply be able to say to him, as My servants of old did, “Our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us, and He will deliver us! But even if He doesn’t‚ we will not fear the future nor you, Satan, for we’re sure of His love and we’re certain of your doom! So beat it! Get out of here and quit bothering me, for I refuse to fear! I claim the keys of faith and trust and peace‚ and for you and your evil spirits, I claim the keys of imprisonment. The Lord rebuke thee and the key craft blast thee and the archangels smite thee, in the name of Jesus and by the power of the keys of the Kingdom!”

381. Why worry? You’re in My hands‚ and I love you and yours!

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20/01/2010

art of war 4

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Art of War, The–Part 4

Karen Zerby

GN 1152 FD/MM/FM

By Maria 3565 10/05

1. Our weapon focus for this GN is prayer—and specifically‚ our talking to Jesus. Prayer is essentially our communication with Heaven, and as such has two sides—our communications, petitions, requests‚ or intercession; and the other side of receiving from our Husband, hearing His voice, and being in tune with Him—the other side of the conversation. In this GN we’re going to focus on the side of our communications with Him. And then in an upcoming GN we’ll focus on prophecy, the side of hearing from Him and receiving from Him.

2. Prayer—communing with the Lord and committing things to Him—is a topic that the Lord has given us so much good counsel on already. It’s probably one of the most oft-repeated principles throughout the Word. Because the Lord has talked about it so much, many of you have probably grown quite familiar with His prodding and counsel along these lines. It’s one of those huge spiritual resources that could solve so many of our problems‚ propel us forward in this war, and bring so much good and progress, and yet we haven’t totally grasped it, harnessed it, or learned to use it properly.

3. When I was asking the Lord what counsel He wanted to give us on this topic that would help us to really “get it” in the spirit‚ He explained that there aren’t a bunch of amazing tricks to prayer that we haven’t uncovered yet. Using prayer as a weapon is very simple and straightforward‚ but what makes all the difference is:

1) Actually doing it, using it.
2) Making it count‚ making it quality, learning to focus, persevere in prayer‚ and put forth the spiritual effort needed to bring results.

4. Laboring in prayer, as the Lord has often referred to it, is actual spiritual labor. It requires a lot of self-discipline and concentration to focus your prayers, and to keep up that focus for any length of time. It requires desperation, and in order to be desperate, you have to be stirred up. So while the answer to the question of how to be more effective in prayer is very simple, the implementation is not easy. It requires a lot of work.

5. In a future GN, I’m going to share with you some of the messages that our Home has received for our prayer mornings. Nearly every prayer morning (twice a month)‚ I ask the Lord to give a fresh message about the power and importance of our prayers, to help us be motivated and challenged to stir ourselves up and really put forth the effort in the spirit that prayer requires. We’re putting those messages together for you so that you can use them for your prayer vigils, prayer days, etc. It helps tremendously to be reminded of how much the Lord depends on our prayers, how much they accomplish in the spirit.

Prayer is active service

6. (Jesus:) I know you are tempted to be weary of My frequent requests that you pray for situations or needs. It’s just one of those things that doesn’t come naturally for man, and I understand that, and I’m willing to make it easier for you. But I can only make it so easy, and then it falls to you to “take up your cross” and bear it bravely and just do it because I say so (Luke 9:23; 2Tim.2:3).

7. As a soldier, there are many things that you may be asked to do that are part of the duties of being a soldier. You may be asked to do guard duty that keeps you up all night. Something like that isn’t “fun” or something you jump at the chance to do naturally. Such things are, however, a part of the life of a soldier and must be done in order to fulfill your duty and live the life you have chosen.

8. Prayer is one of those things. It requires a lot of work, but it returns great dividends. You know this, and I know I don’t have to extol the virtues of prayer again. But I will give you some counsel on how to make your prayer times more powerful and how to incorporate prayer into your life as part of your active service to Me.

9. Notice that I said “active service”? Prayer is not inactivity; prayer is not just sitting back and doing nothing, neither is it a waste of effort. Prayer is the essence of your service for Me. I want to repeat that. Prayer is the essence of your service for Me. It is by prayer that you show your dedication to Me and your service and loyalty.

10. Prayer is the sacrifice by which you prove your rank and your honor as a warrior. It is one of the basic requirements for any soldier in this outfit. Prayer is the fundamental upon which the war for this world is fought, and it is the starting point for every miracle.

11. Prayer is not a secondary weapon in your armory; it is a primary weapon. Prayer isn’t a sideline back–up plan should you get in a tight spot. Prayer is the plan. Prayer is the strategy. Prayer is the ball in soccer, rugby, billiards, or any ball sport. Without prayer the heavenly game of your spiritual life would cease to exist.

12. Prayer is the fundamental fabric of the spirit world, and it is the framework of all the storehouses of the spirit. Prayer is the lifeline of the spirit world and the foundation for all action in My Kingdom. Prayer is as inseparable from your life as the air you breathe. Without prayer there would be no release of power, no spiritual energy, no action, no accomplishments, no miracles. Prayer is the critical ingredient to your spiritual life. Prayer is the action which creates action. Everything is dependent on prayer.

13. Because of the importance of prayer, I remind you again and again that you must use it, live by it, swear by it, and depend on it. Prayer is so important, but it is one of the least used and most attacked weapons in your arsenal. Satan has a whole division of his forces assigned to distract and keep you from prayer. They will use any tactic and they have every bit of Satan’s power available to them, because it is the single most damaging act to Satan’s kingdom. If Satan can get you to not turn your weapon on, to not use your equipment in the battlefield, he has triumphed over you.

14. Prayer is like the electricity that powers the spiritual tracking and defensive equipment. It is the offensive batteries, the fuel which powers the missiles against him, the starting point for every offensive against him. This is why it is his major focus in any battle to keep you from praying, or from praying effectively.

15. In any run-in with Satan or his imps, his first tactic is to attempt to prevent you from praying, because once you pray‚ you turn the power on, you light up your flamethrower of the spirit, you initiate all the other spiritual weapons to work on your behalf.

16. Prayer is the building block of any defense or offense against the Enemy. If you don’t pray, you have no power‚ no answers‚ no miracles‚ no supernatural intervention. Prayer is the “on” switch for every spiritual action and intervention in your life.

17. I want you to realize just how important prayer is. It is so fundamental that it is the first thing to be attacked by the Enemy. This is why he makes you weary of prayer. This is why he makes you think it has no results, and is just a chore and drudgery.

18. He tries to tell you that “it’s too much effort to reach for that switch to activate your defenses. It doesn’t really have an effect and you’re just wasting your time praying, so why do it?” Why do it? Because the single act of flipping that switch powers up the spiritual forces and begins the process of defeat for the Enemy.

19. I want you to grasp this at a fundamental level. I want you to cut through the crap that Satan has been feeding you and see that activating your prayer life is the single most powerful step a Christian can make in his life for Me‚ because through prayer you access all that Heaven has to offer.

20. Up till now you’ve used prayer quite a bit. You’ve reached for and flipped the switch‚ which has begun to perform the miracles of supply and overcoming you needed. I’ve been showing you how you need to use it more, how you need to use it to hear from Me, how you need it to bring the miracles you need‚ how you need it as your display of dependence on Me. But you still haven’t gotten it.

21. You need to understand that prayer is the step you must take to get everything you desire and need from the spirit realm. If you don’t pray, My hands are tied. This is the rule I have set in place. Unless you flip that switch, things aren’t going to happen.

22. You are in the control bunker. You have command of all the defenses and weapons of the spirit world. But unless you take the step to activate those weapons through prayer, nothing—and I repeat, nothing—is going to happen in your favor. You’ll just get overrun, because the Enemy knows that the base defenses have been neutralized, the shields are off-line, the weapons are powered down, and you are a sitting duck. Get it?

23. I think you’ll agree with Me now how important prayer is and why you must pray even when you don’t feel like it. It really doesn’t matter if you feel like fighting or not. When the Enemy shows up, you have to fight him. He doesn’t work on your timetable or try to fit things into your schedule. He attacks any time and any place, and will do whatever he can, whenever he can, to get in and cripple you.

A soldier does not have the luxury of deciding upon each new day whether he will fight or not. A soldier with that privilege is not fit to be in the war. Wake up in the morning‚ let the realization of the battle dawn on you suddenly, and without thought, get up and fight that battle.—Winston Churchill (speaking from beyond)

24. Don’t give room to his spies and infiltrators who would try to stop you from activating My power for you. Don’t listen to his little imps who try to disable your defenses before an attack and give Satan free rein in your life. Get militant and realize that when you’re praying, you’re being offensive and deadly in the spirit world.

25. Keep your finger on that switch and be ready to turn it on instantly and fully. Don’t just give it a little flick, but shove the throttle to full and make a complete connection to release all the power available and destroy the attack of the Enemy completely!

26. Don’t settle for a momentary burst of power. Every time you pray, no matter what for, or how many times you’ve prayed for it before, or how you feel, throw that switch to full power, put all your effort into it, and mean every word you say.

27. Much of the problem is that you don’t really mean what you say. You don’t go about prayer purposefully and intentionally. You often mumble a few words which you interpret as a prayer, but that’s like nudging the dial without really intending to turn it on full blast.

28. It’s your watered-down prayers and your unbelieving prayers that are the problem. It’s because you’re not fully utilizing the power available to you that you don’t have more faith in it. If every prayer you prayed was prayed wholeheartedly, with feeling, passion‚ intent, and desire‚ you would see miracles left and right and there wouldn’t be a question in your mind about how effective prayer is!

29. The reason you’re not seeing more answers to prayer is because you’re not praying! I don’t consider your little “ho hum, gotta rattle off a few repetitious lines here” attempts at prayer, to be prayer at all. What I’m talking about when I call prayer a weapon is meaningful prayers‚ where every word that leaves your lips is a curse upon Satan’s power, an affirmation of My power, and a powerful spell spoken with emotion which will bring the full force of My power down on Satan’s head again, and again, and again!

30. I expect your prayers to be powerful, intense, meaningful, and full of faith. I expect you to believe in every word you are saying—not just spitting out repetitious lines like you were reading the weather report. I expect and demand emphatic and believing prayers from My brides in order that I might give you the answers you desire.

31. Do you believe?—Then show Me by making every word spoken in prayer a believing word. Make every letter of your prayer count. Make every prayer, no matter how great or small‚ a believing prayer, and I will answer you. Start the wheels of My Spirit turning by giving the “on” switch a wholehearted shove to full power, and watch what I can do.

32. Make My day! Make it happen! Let Me at the Enemy! I’m raring to go! I want to answer your every need, but I can only do that when your every request is made meaningfully and like you actually expect the heavens to crackle and thunder with My power at every request.

33. Expect miracles with every word you pray. Demand power with every word that enters your prayer. Pray meaningful, expectant, powerful prayers for everything. Slam your fist into that “on” switch and let it feel all the power you can muster. It was designed to take some real force‚ so use all the force and intent I have given you to throw that switch powerfully and watch Me take over.

34. Got it? Prayers prayed in full faith, believing that I will answer, intending to take hold of the victory, will bring answers. Every prayer should be an intentional reaching for all the power of Heaven. Pick up the power of Heaven by taking hold of Heaven by your prayers and using Heaven’s power to answer your needs.

35. Let Me hear your effectual, fervent prayers, which, as I’ve promised in My Word, will avail much! Power-filled prayers bring miracle-filled answers. Nothing else will do. I expect to hear an instant surge in the power of your prayers‚ starting today. Don’t utter a word to Me unless you believe it. It’s an insult to My power when you say a few words, not really expecting Me to do My part, because then I can’t!

36. Give Me fire, give Me belief, give Me all the power you’ve got‚ and I’ll answer with all that I’ve got! It’s a two-way street. You give it all you’ve got and I’ll do likewise. Pray effective prayers by being deliberate, specific, and fervent. Try Me! (End of message.)

War in the spirit carries no shame like the wars of the flesh. There is no shame in relishing the slaughter of Satan’s troops. There is no innocent blood to be found, so spill his with pride. Count it honor to give no quarter, and to be thought of as merciless in his camp.—General Douglas MacArthur (speaking from beyond)

Keys to motivation and effectiveness

37. (Question:) As the Lord said above, one of the main reasons we don’t have more faith in prayer, and why prayer doesn’t “work” as much for us, is because we often don’t pray with full desperation. We haven’t mastered how to maintain that focus, as Dad said in “Prayer Power,” focusing that beam strongly and constantly, which brings strong results. How can we learn to have more desperation in prayer?

38. (Jesus: ) Desperation in prayer is the second most important factor in what makes a prayer powerful. The number one factor is faith—the belief that I can and will do it. But this message is about desperation and why it matters so much that you really and truly want to see the answer to your request, and how you can demonstrate and achieve the proper level of desperation.

39. The reason I require you to ask in prayer and strive in prayer is because you need to take an active part in the prayer process, for I have forbidden Myself to do it all for you. The way the rules of this Earth are set up, almost everything that you can do for yourself, you must do for yourself, and I’m not going to step in for you and do miraculously what you could do physically. Yes, you need to depend on My power, but that is after you have met and satisfied the conditions and circumstances that you are physically able to take care of. You have to come to the limit of what you can do, and you have to put the rest in My hands, before I can take over.

40. In prayer‚ the “what you can do” part is to accurately, fervently, and desperately present your requests to Me, and to use the spiritual weapons at your disposal, which make your prayer as effective as it can be. That’s all I ask. It sounds so simple, but if you are really honest with yourself, it’s probably one of the hardest things for you to do. Almost all of you would find an hour of hard physical labor less taxing than an hour fighting in focused, desperate prayer. It takes more out of you than it would appear, because in the spirit it is real work, real action, and it requires bringing your mind and thoughts into captivity and taking on a praying spirit.

41. I take it seriously when you cry with your whole heart. I know it costs you and that you have really put forth an effort. Prayers spoken in faith and desperation are infinitely more effective in bringing the answer to pass than a prayer that is spoken but not meant.

42. It’s not a complicated process to be desperate in prayer—it’s simple, but it takes work. What it mainly comes down to is you deciding in your heart that you really, really, really want the answer, that you for sure need Me to do a miracle‚ and then asking Me accordingly.

43. I will tell you this plainly—too many of you pray as if you don’t care whether I ever answer or not. Too many of you pray as if you know that you’ll pray again later for the same thing, and thus you never give it your all. Too many of you pray as if you don’t think that what you’re praying for is really worth your time or focus, and these things stand in the way of My full answers.

44. It is My delight to answer your prayers, and I do the best I can with the prayers you give Me. But like the story of Sophie and Mrs. Stoneheart, the materials you send up ahead can be the difference between a shack and a mansion.—Or in the case of your prayers, the difference between partial or delayed answers, and miraculous, decisive‚ supernatural answers.

45. There are more victories that you could be winning in prayer if you would just put your hearts behind your words. Again, this isn’t difficult to do. It’s an almost instantaneous decision that happens in your mind when you first begin to intercede for a request. You need to take a minute to ask yourself whether you want to see this request answered or whether you’d be fine with the situation continuing on as it is.

46. For your personal requests, or big requests such as Mama and Peter’s health or someone in a dire situation, it’s usually easy to give it an adequate amount of desperation, and this is also why you’ve seen such miracles in the health of the king and queen and in the lives of the many Family members I have preserved from life-threatening accidents or have brought back from death’s door. There is usually a lot of desperation behind these requests, which is why you get answers.

47. But when it’s the request of someone you don’t know, or a situation that doesn’t seem that important or relevant to you, or even something that you’re used to praying for so continually that you’ve become familiar with it—like My financial supply, for instance—you very often don’t give it enough of a push for it to really release the power of Heaven. That’s where the technique of putting yourself in the place of that person or situation comes in very handy. You need to empathize with the person you are praying for, and ask yourself if you were there, how much you would want this answer.

48. The end goal of these before–prayer thoughts should be you deciding that, yes‚ you do need this prayer answered, and to you or to someone else this is an important matter, one which needs My attention and intervention. Then all you have to do is ask for it, or agree in your heart with the one doing the praying. Use your other spiritual weapons as well, as much as you can incorporate them, knowing that they speed things along and add greater punch and effectiveness.

49. I don’t require special words, special actions, or special emotions. All that is required is that you come before Me in prayer as someone who is truly desirous of My answer, who cares about that request being met‚ and who is not okay with the situation continuing as it is.

50. It’s more about your heart than about your words. If your heart is right and the desire is there‚ then the words will express accurately and powerfully enough the feelings of your heart. It’s when you don’t care enough that you rattle off a quick prayer that may say all the right words, but really has no power behind it.

51. Some people get scared off by the word “feeling,” because it makes them think that it’s something they have to work up, and they worry that they won’t be able to pull that off, especially if they’re someone who doesn’t often get a lot of feeling and tangible manifestations of spiritual matters. I want to put you at ease as well as challenge you by saying that desperation in prayer and feeling desirous of My answers is in reach of anyone. Anyone can get the feeling of wanting an answer or wanting a situation to change. This isn’t hard, and so I expect it from all of you.

52. Everyone knows what it’s like to really want something and then to be quite persuasive in asking for it. The potential for that kind of supplication lies inside everyone, and that is effort that I expect from you when you are coming before My throne in prayer.

53. Whether or not you’re the one praying aloud makes no difference. You can still be making the decisions that you want to see change and miracles, and thus back the person up in prayer by agreeing with them in your heart, listening to their words of prayer, and letting those words speak for your heart as well. Every person who truly “agrees” with the prayer and doesn’t just check out because it’s not their turn, multiplies the power of the prayer being prayed. They don’t just add to it, they multiply it. That’s a lot of prayer power, and explaining it shows you why I’ve emphasized in all My Word through the ages the importance of united prayer, where you agree together and support one another.

54. To be truly desperate also includes using your other weapons, like praise, the keys, spirit help, etc., because that’s fulfilling your end of the bargain by doing everything you possibly can, and using every conceivable weapon and support at your disposal‚ so that you completely exhaust what can be done by you in the natural‚ leaving only room for My spiritual power to take over and bring the answer.

55. It’s not a work of the flesh, in that you have to hit every single base and claim every key and every helper each time you say a prayer. But it does mean that you do whatever is appropriate for the prayer you’re praying and make sure that you’ve presented your case before Me with enough “umph,” you’ve fought in the spirit with all the power available to you, so that you can say that you’ve done what you could.

56. Doing all you can also means being willing to pray for something more than once, and sometimes many times. I’ve explained that sometimes you must be importunate in prayer, repeatedly asking Me and fighting for the answer until I bring it along. Some situations require more than one prayer to bring the answer to pass. But if each time you ask you are desperately asking and desirously wanting‚ you can be sure that you will have to ask much fewer times than if you half-heartedly present the petition‚ assuming that of course you’re going to have to present it again, so this time is no big deal.

57. I’m asking that you expend yourselves in prayer for each request. I’m asking that you deliver your souls each time you pray by using your knowledge of the spirit world and My workings and fulfilling the conditions on your end, and praying a powerful, desperate, heartfelt prayer that fully takes the request out of your court and puts it into Mine. It’s not the length of time you pray nor the words you say. But whenever and however you pray, it should come with your full desperation behind it, your full want, your full desire‚ and your full soul. You have to want it, you have to expect the answer, or it just doesn’t carry much weight.

58. If you want a picture of how desperation in your prayers appears to Me‚ and how My hand is moved on the behalf of those who are desperate, picture yourself on a “Consider the Poor” mission, feeding starving people who have been malnourished and underfed for some time. You have bags of food to hand out to those who are waiting, and a large crowd has gathered around asking for food.

59. Some people are standing nonchalantly with their plate in their hand, but they aren’t looking at you, nor are they really holding their plate up or saying much. They’re just waiting there, or even wandering off away from you, and the feeling you get from them is that their need isn’t all that urgent, and whether you give them their food now or later, it won’t make much difference.

60. Others‚ though, are looking into your eyes and pleading and crying and thrusting their plates toward you, saying, “Please, give us food. We need it so much, please give it to us now! Thank you for coming, you have saved our lives!” Who do you think you’d feed first?

61. That’s what I expect in the spirit. I don’t ask for much, but I must leave the ball in your court to do what you can, if you expect to receive the answers in prayer that are going to win you the war. I ask that you care, that you exert effort in the spirit to desire My answer, to exercise your faith in asking for it‚ and that you show Me through your prayers that it matters to you, and that you really, truly need that miracle.

62. That’s what motivates Me to give you results. When you are lethargic or half-hearted in prayer, not only does it show that it must not be that important or timely for Me to answer you, but it also shows that you are unwilling to put forth the small bit of effort required to push that request through, and it is a great display of a lack of love on your part toward those for whom you should have been praying.

63. When you go to pray for something, if it helps motivate you‚ take a minute to consider what the opposite of the answer would be. Do you want this person to remain sick? Do you want this trip to go badly? Do you want to be low on funds? Do you want this spiritual problem to persist? If you consider what could be the result of My not intervening, it may help you to realize how very much you do need Me to get involved, and you will pray accordingly.

64. That’s what desperation is—knowing how much you need Me, and then asking as if you really believe that you need Me. I love to answer those kinds of prayers.

65. Please remember that it’s not a work of the flesh. If you give Me your all in prayer, knowing you need My help and asking for it in faith, and are using all the weapons at your disposal, then that is enough. You don’t need to feel that there is some new level of spiritual desperation you must attain to each and every time you pray. If you deliver your soul in prayer, then you’ve done what you could, and that is enough. The rest is up to Me. (End of message.)

So what if the Enemy looks like the victor today? Many a victory is handed to the men who appeared as the losers and the damned, yet they fought on and fought on and fought on, until the enemy had no choice but to give in to their persistence. The Enemy will be the damned tomorrow if you persist today.—General George S. Patton (speaking from beyond)

Diagnostic test

66. (Mama:) As the Lord has given in past “Art of War” GNs, here’s a list of questions that you can ask yourself, to help determine what your weak areas are in the area of prayer, and give you some good ideas of where you can start to improve and become a more effective prayer warrior on a daily basis.

[ ] 67. When I pray, do I talk to the Lord as if He were right here with me—with passion, friendship, faith, love, appreciation and intimacy, or am I stiff and formal, stuck in a rut, or using a lot of unnecessary “Lords,” “Jesus’s,” and “amen’s”? [Jesus: The way you answer this question tells a lot about your prayer life. The more in the habit you are of praying often throughout the day, the more natural it will come, and the easier it will be to talk to Me as the very real person that I am.]

[ ] 68. Do I pray out loud often and spontaneously? [Jesus: I'm not talking about long prayers here, just simple acknowledgments of Me‚ and committing the details of daily life to Me. If you can build this habit of praying frequently and spontaneously, you'll be much more in the habit of casting your cares on Me, and you'll be benefiting a lot more from My strength and miracle-working power. It's part of the art of dependence.]

[ ] 69. Am I faithful to take my daily 30 minutes of intercessory prayer vigil? Do I have a plan for when, how, and with whom I will do it? Do I consider intercessory prayer vigil part of my job and responsibility to the Lord, and as such, give it the priority it needs? Do I do my best to make that 30 minutes focused‚ quality time?

[ ] 70. Am I in the habit of praying silently when I’m in situations where it would be difficult to pray aloud? (For example‚ while out witnessing and my partner is doing the talking, while on the phone waiting to get through to someone, while on public transport, etc.)

[ ] 71. Do I pour out my heart to the Lord personally on a regular basis, committing all my needs and personal concerns to Him?

[ ] 72. Do I spend time in prayer every day asking for our Husband’s help in my work? Do I pray for the work/people I’m involved with/responsible for on a daily basis?

[ ] 73. How much do I labor in prayer for our Home’s children and young people?

[ ] 74. Are the times of united intercessory prayer in our Home alive and stirred up and effective? When it’s my turn to plan a prayer vigil or prayer time, do I take at least a few minutes to ask the Lord how to make this time effective and worth everyone’s time? Do I enter in fully when someone else is leading the prayer time?

[ ] 75. Is my first reaction to a need or problem to commit it to Jesus‚ and ask Him to take care of it‚ even before I stop to hear from Him about solutions?

[ ] 76. When I read the news, do I pray for world leaders and others the Lord lays a burden on my heart to pray for?

[ ] 77. Am I in the habit of starting all my conversations and activities with prayer? Or have I slacked off in praying for my food, praying for the night, or praying before starting to cook or wash dishes, etc.?

[ ] 78. Do I take time to ask the Lord about my prayer habits whenever I notice I’m not praying as much as I should be?

[ ] 79. Am I willing to ask for united prayer when I need it, and do I avail myself of the power of united prayer on a regular basis?

[ ] 80. Do I ask others to pray for me or with me when I need extra spiritual support to help me fight and win tough battles?

[ ] 81. Do I take time to intercede before the throne for others when I know they’re discouraged or battling?

[ ] 82. Do we as a Home, and/or teamwork of any kind, take sufficient time to pray at the beginning of our meetings, or are we in a hurry to jump into discussion?

[ ] 83. If I counted up all the times I communicated with Jesus in one day, would it come to at least a two–digit number?

[ ] 84. Am I in the habit of including and acknowledging the Lord in my recreation and free-time activities?

[ ] 85. What kind of progress have I made in my prayer life in the last three months? Do I have personal goals and a plan for improvement in this area?

[ ] 86. Do I have a difficult time expressing myself in prayer out loud or in public? If so, am I practicing at every possible opportunity?

[ ] 87. How faithful am I to make use of our spiritual weapons in my prayers, by claiming the Lord’s promises, calling on the keys, calling for the help of our spirit helpers, rebuking the demons and hinderers, actively praising the Lord in my prayers, speaking intimately with the Lord when appropriate, taking time to hear from the Lord and receive His take on the situation, etc.?

[ ] 88. Do I make an effort to put myself in the shoes of the person or situation I’m praying for on a regular basis, so as to stir up the effort and desperation that moves the power of Heaven?

[ ] 89. Am I a faithful “operator,” in that I turn my thoughts of someone or needy situations into a prayer for them? [Jesus: Many of you have the gift of sympathy or empathy, and you could be such powerful prayer warriors if you would take those thoughts of love and empathy and turn them into prayers, which move My hand.]

[ ] 90. Is my first reaction to a needy situation or dilemma to commit it to prayer? [Jesus: If you're working on learning the art of dependence, this is a very important step in leaning on Me and My power, versus tackling situations or problems in your own strength.]

[ ] 91. Do I “wield” my weapon of prayer as the powerful, “deadly to the Enemy” weapon that it is? Or do I casually fling my weapon around haphazardly, without thought or care about where it goes or even if it accurately hits the mark?

[ ] 92. How long has it been since I asked the Lord how I can become a more accomplished and skilled prayer warrior?

[ ] 93. Do I fight to focus and concentrate and enter into the spirit of prayer, especially in united settings when I’m not the one praying and it’s easier to space out? [Jesus: Praying effective prayers has nothing to do with length or eloquence in prayer, but it does mean putting your spiritual eye to the "scope" of your weapon of prayer and aiming on target in prayer—being specific, precise, focused and concentrated in your prayers.]

[ ] 94. Do I rebuke and defeat Lethargy right from the beginning of my prayer time by stirring myself up in spirit‚ and being on guard against sleepiness or distractions?

[ ] 95. How effective am I at using the weapon of praise in my prayers?

[ ] 96. Do I pray in tongues when the situation calls for it?

[ ] 97. Do I truly believe the spiritual principle that the battle is fluid?—That so much is dependent on my prayers, and that my taking ahold of the weapon of intercessory prayer will influence the outcome of each battle? [Jesus: If you can open your spiritual eyes to grasp this concept, it will be much easier for you to labor in prayer and be effective in prayer, because you will have the motivation that you need.]

More ideas for making prayer more a part of your life

98. (Mama:) Here is some more good counsel from the Lord with a variety of ideas you can try, or ideas that might inspire other ideas that would work better for you. I pray that you’ll have the perseverance and motivation to find what works for you and your Home, because the results of more prayer will make your life and work and everything so much better!

99. (Jesus: ) When you pray, you can be using many of your spiritual weapons in one shot. You can be using the weapons of praise, your spirit helpers, the keys, humility, and brotherhood all in one shot. You’re also practicing the art of dependence. Using prayer more, and more effectively, is a key to using all your weapons more consistently.

100. When you look at prayer that way—as a way to grow in the use of many of your spiritual weapons—making the effort to incorporate more prayer into various aspects of your daily life seems much more worth it, and a lot more like the tremendous blessing it really is.

101. You have so many pages of wonderful words describing the power of prayer‚ the effects of your prayers, the importance of prayer, etc. Now it’s largely a matter of figuring out how to use that power more often, more consistently, and more effectively.

102. One idea is to try taking a special “prayer day.” This is different from your monthly prayer day. This is a day where you determine to stop either at certain times throughout the day (such as every hour, or every other hour) or before every new activity‚ and commit your works and activities to Me, as well as put in a request for someone else. Make a conscious effort to “pray without ceasing” both for your work and Home, as well as for those on the prayer list, and others you know need your prayers.

103. At the end of the day, stop and take a few minutes to think about how I blessed and helped you because you made a concerted effort to actively seek My help, depend on Me, and wield the weapons of the spirit. You can also ask Me to speak to you about the unseen results of your prayers that day. I guarantee that as you take this one step for Me—to commit to taking time for prayer many times throughout the day—I will take two for you, and you will be hooked on using prayer more.

104. That is a good start‚ but then how do you keep up the momentum? The next step is committing to a longer prayer push, and since it takes about 6 weeks to form a new habit, that could be a good length of time to shoot for—or you can ask Me to show you what will work for you. This prayer push will fit in nicely with any other new weapon pushes you may be having‚ and help you make quicker progress than you otherwise would have in every aspect of your spiritual and physical life.

105. Once you’ve committed to making that push, you need to plan it so that you have lots of variety. Asking Me for personalized counsel on how to go about this is of course essential to getting the most out of this prayer push. Even if you don’t get any outstanding ideas, the fact that you’re asking Me about it will cause Me to bless and enhance your efforts, and make it easier for you.

106. The more variety you have in your prayers—both the ways you pray and the topics you pray for—the more alive and interesting your prayer life will be, and the more you will look forward to and enjoy it. The more you enjoy your prayer times, the more you will have them‚ and the more you will put into them‚ and you will start creating a positive, upward spiral of powerful prayer, miracles, victories and supply.

107. One idea you can try is to have a theme/way to pray for each day. This would be something to do throughout the day, whenever you have a free moment, and most of these you can do either alone or with whoever you happen to be with at the time. You can write up the “way for the day” on your mirror, post a sign on your Home bulletin board, write it in your notebook‚ or remind yourself in whatever way works best for you. Here are some starter ideas you could use as themes for various days:

108. * Claim one specific key for each of your friends/sheep/contacts throughout the day.

109. * Claim a spirit helper for each person in your Home to help them in their work today.

110. * Pray and claim key promises for the encouragement, anointing, and inspiration of someone you’re having a hard time getting along with, working well with, communicating with, or understanding.

111. * Choose a child in your Home and pray one-sentence praise prayers for the progress that child needs to make.

112. * Pray power-packed phrase prayers for all those suffering afflictions. Try to pray for everything they might need—healing, rise-above power, wisdom in medical decisions, supply, comfort, endurance, relief from pain, openness to lessons I want to teach them, miracles, encouragement and strength for their loved ones and those caring for them‚ and anything else you can think of.

113. * Focus on praying for the young people who have left the Family. See how many spirit helpers you can activate on their behalf, and how many specific demons you can bind and rebuke.

114. * Go through the key promises in the “former member” section of the key book, claiming and praying them one at a time, till you have finished the section.

115. * Pray in tongues for yourself, your anointing, spiritual growth, health, and anything else you personally need every time you are alone.

116. * Pray for the young people in your Home or area, especially the JETTs and junior teens. Think about their specific likes and talents, and ask Me to enhance those gifts for My glory, and give them opportunities to shine and be fulfilled using them in My service.

117. These are just a few ideas, and are helpful for those who have a hard time thinking of things to pray for or ways to pray. If you already have a long personal list of things you need to pray for, by all means feel free to use that.

118. Some other ideas you can try:

119. Set personal “prayer times” during the day, to help you get in the habit of praying at many different times throughout the day. You can schedule your daily prayer vigil time in five-minute segments throughout the day if that will help keep you in “prayer mode” more of the time.

120. Ask Me to send you a spirit helper to remind you to pray—one who will check you and help you to get stronger in your prayer habits. Ask them to speak to you, and get to know them and how they want to help you and work with you.

121. Have a prayer partner or partners, and make a commitment to pray a short intercessory prayer with each other every time you see each other.

122. If you are not currently in the habit of praying for your food, work on making that a habit‚ and incorporate a short intercessory prayer into your prayer for the food.

123. Take two or three prayer requests that you would really like to see miraculous answers to, and focus on praying for those desperately and fervently every day for a week, two weeks, or however long I show you to focus on these particular requests.

124. Keep a running list of answered prayers, and refer to it whenever you are tempted to get weary in prayer.

125. Ask Me to take you on a spirit trip, and increase your understanding of the power and importance of prayer. Ask for a life-changing spiritual experience, one that will transform your prayer habits. Stretch your faith, and expect a prayer–habit–changing experience, and I will give it to you.

126. Claim the key of intercessory prayer when you pray for your day. Activate it on your behalf, so that it will help you remember to pray, and hit the mark of My highest will in your prayers.

127. Make a “contract” between you and Me. Ask Me what I’d like to see you do in prayer, and what you can expect of Me in return. Then hold Me to My Word, and hold on for a ride of miracles and answers to prayer.

128. Get some written prayers in prophecy, and keep them in a convenient location to pull out and use whenever you need them.

129. Say a short prayer every time you drink a glass of water.

130. Make “prayer reminder” T–shirts (fun parent-time activity idea) with cool prayer quotes or slogans on them, and wear them whenever convenient.

131. Pray an “around the world” prayer, thinking of as many different situations as you can that need prayer in different countries around the world. You can also make a list of helpers that help the different areas and call on their help.

132. While reading the Grapevine, stop and pray for the people and situation after reading each article. (You can do this with the FSM too‚ if it’s a testimony mag.)

133. Use the Grapevine prayer list to pray for those who are sick.

134. Make a list of all the different projects the Family is doing around the world and pray for them.

135. Give each day of the week a prayer theme, then concentrate on those requests throughout the day. For example‚ Monday—healing, Tuesday—Home needs, Wednesday—around the world or certain countries, Thursday—the children, Friday—witnessing contacts‚ Saturday—Mama and Peter, Sunday—Home members.

136. If none of these ideas “do it” for you, ask Me what will. I will most certainly come through with a perfect, personalized plan to help you make prayer the integral part of your daily life it needs to be. I love you! (End of message.)

Question to ask the Lord:

137. A large part of being an effective prayer warrior—one who excels in using the weapon of prayer—is believing in the power of prayer, knowing that you are going to effect great change through being faithful to use and wield this weapon in faith. Ask Me if there’s anything—any obstacle at all—in your life or heart that is standing in the way of that belief, or in the way of you actively picking up this weapon of prayer and wielding it consistently and faithfully.

Introducing Sonale

138. (Mama: ) It was when we were asking for a message for one of our bimonthly prayer mornings that the Lord revealed Sonale.

139. (Jesus:) Today I introduce to you a new helper—one whose command is to teach you more sophisticated prayer skills. This one will instruct you in the art of prayer warfare. As Natalia instructs and leads you in praise, and as Ellya instructs you in calling on the keys, I give you Sonale. (Note from channel: I heard the pronunciation of this name as “Son’–a-lee” pronouncing “son” like the name “Sonja,” and then with a short “a” and a long “ee.” Son-a–lee.)

140. Sonale is a master in prayer warfare. She is a bold warrior as she fights with the weapon of prayer. Her skills far surpass that of the conventional. She will teach you how to use the weapons I have given you with greater speed as well as precision.

141. Tune in to her voice and let her instruct you. She will guide you in how to aim your prayers. She will train you in how to project your prayers, how to zero in‚ shoot, and hit your target right on with greater skill. She will train you in perfecting your aim. She is a master in prayer warfare and will train you in the same. She will help you aspire to master prayer warriors as well—a commission that commands unlimited power.

142. Thank you, My loves, for rising to the challenge! Sometimes you may feel that your prayers go unnoticed by others. Yet the effects of your labors as well as the effects of your prayers are seen and heard and felt around the world and beyond.

143. When you stand firm and unmoving, aiming accurately your prayers, you are changing the course of history. You hold in your hands the unlimited power to do all things. Learn to wield it well, My loves. Perfect your aim, perfect your skills‚ and win the world! (End of message.)

Prayer pointers from Sonale

144. (Mama: ) Here are excerpts of some of the prayer pointers we’ve received from Sonale. I don’t want you to feel deluged with so much new information that you can’t assimilate it all, so I’ve boiled down these points from quite a few different messages, received by different channels. But the main point Sonale brought out again and again was simply to put everything you have into your times of prayer if you want to be truly effective.

145. So the Lord’s counsel above still stands: It’s simple to be effective and powerful in prayer, but it’s not easy. It requires a lot of hard work, and that’s where you have to really call on the keys of strength and spiritual fortitude, and then put forth the effort to concentrate, focus, and fight in prayer.

Getting on the “Prayer Channel”

146. (Sonale:) Prayer is a battleground. In prayer is where spiritual war is waged, where the outcome of the battle is decided. Prayer is a battle taking place right before your eyes, and how much you want to be involved in the battle, how effective you will be in fighting, depends on how desperate you are.

147. In order to be most effective in prayer, you can’t be thinking about how tired you are or how uninspired you may feel. You have to set all feelings and possible difficulties aside and focus on the battle of prayer that you must fight and win. You must be willing to give it all you’ve got, whether you’re praying for five minutes, for half an hour‚ or even if it’s for a couple of seconds. You have to be completely “there” in the spirit, completely focused on your hand-to-hand combat with the Devil and his minions.

148. You’ve been given many tips, much has been revealed to you about the power of prayer and how to wield this marvelous weapon, but when it comes down to it, your desire to fight and win—also known as faith and desperation—is the most important ingredient in prayer.

149. You must learn to enter the place of prayer—also known as the spirit of prayer, or the channel of prayer—in the spirit. This is when you have dedicated your time, your focus, your thoughts, your goals—everything is given to Jesus, and you are ready and willing to fight. In this spiritual “place” of prayer, we can help you to know what to pray for and how to pray.

150. You can tap into that channel of prayer‚ and we can help you, if you are open and receptive and willing, and giving everything you have to your times of intercession.

151. The Enemy and his cohorts wish for you to stay blinded and forgetful of the real warfare, and they do this differently for each individual. They try to make you weary in prayer. They try to make prayer seem routine and mundane, just “the same old thing.” They enhance feelings of tiredness or other physical distractions. They will use anything they can get their hands on to knock you out of sync with your prayer channel.

152. Here in this place of prayer, on this battleground, you can get the real perspective. You can see what’s really happening in the spirit world, and you can sense how the Enemy is attacking and even get glimpses of what is ahead, what to preempt and fight against through prayer. Your spiritual eyes are opened in prayer; your channel is opened to the warnings and signals that we’re trying to get across to you, and this is very important.

153. This is one of the first places that lethargy is manifested for some of you, for Lethargy attempts to dull your senses to the importance of prayer. Or if you pray despite that tactic, he tries to get you to pass the time with a half-hearted prayer in order to ease your conscience that you did your part.

154. But if you really want to be strong spiritually, if you want the weapon of prayer to take effect, you have to constantly be stirring yourself up. Desperation is the key that will keep your prayer channel clear and keep you on the cutting edge of the offensive warfare that you’re involved in.

155. As you stay stirred up and desperate in prayer, you will be able to be aware, to foresee what is on the horizon, and the Enemy won’t be able to catch you unprepared.

156. (Question:) Does this mean that we would be warned just through intercessory prayer, without hearing from the Lord in prophecy? If so, can the Lord tell us more about this?

157. (Jesus:) This is and always has been one of the big benefits of prayer—that as you speak to Me, open your heart to Me, pour out your soul before Me, you connect with Me and thus have more of My perspective and My thoughts, even if you don’t ever stop and hear from Me in prophecy.

158. Of course, you in the children of David have the advanced weaponry of prophecy, so you probably don’t think much of connecting with Me simply through praying and letting Me direct your thoughts. But this happens to you too, and the more you pray and pour out your hearts to Me, commit things to Me, the more control I have to intervene when you need it and do miracles for you. But your times of intercessory prayer and connecting with Me also give Me more chances to get through to you with important warnings, thoughts, questions, ideas, etc., which you can then take further and seek Me about in prophecy. So it all works together.

159. This is another example of how powerful and effective it is to use your various spiritual weapons in conjunction with one another. As you pray, I will bring things to your mind that you can then ask Me about and receive greater insight on. And as you seek Me in prophecy concerning My will in various situations, I will direct you in how to aim your prayers so that they are the most effective and bring the most results. It all works together. (End of message.)

More pointers from Sonale on how to be effective in your prayers

160. * Articulate in words (in your mind or out loud) your prayer request, who and/or what you’re praying for.

161. * Picture in your mind the answer to your prayer being carried out according to the Lord’s will. Picture the persons you are praying for, if possible, or the situations that need help as you pray. This increases your faith‚ without which your prayers can’t be answered.

162. * Picture or imagine your prayer as a smart bomb hitting the target you are aiming at.

163. * Imagine the Evil One and his dark spirits being blasted to bits in a direct hit by your weapon of prayer.

164. * Call on specific heavenly spirit helpers to intervene and intercede in special ways that are unique to their area of expertise. For example‚ Elixor and Almathor for relief and healing, the Chiefs for times of hearing from the Lord‚ etc.

165. * Thank our Husband, Jesus, for the answer‚ no matter how He chooses to answer your prayer.

166. * Be importunate prayer warriors, not tiring or ceasing to pray for your request as needed.

167. * Feel personally responsible to give the person or situation the support in prayer that they need. Know that your personal prayers, or contribution to the united prayer time, will make a difference, and then pray as if others are counting on your help.

168. * When you are entering a time of prayer‚ start by asking the Lord to clear your mind. Ask Him to remove all thoughts of your own, for they hinder your effectiveness.

169. * Call on the keys of the Kingdom and use their power to get the results needed.

170. * Put your all into it. Don’t think that you can put it partly aside in your mind and that it’ll still have the same effect, because it won’t. When you ask the Lord to clear your mind, this makes it easier for you to focus on the prayer, and to block out everything else going on.

171. * A prayer is only as effective as the one praying it wants to be. Put your full power that the Lord’s given you into that period of time.

172. * To better aim with your prayers, think about the ones you are praying for. Put yourself in their shoes and put forth the same effort as if you desired those answers for yourself. This will give you a greater desperation and also a desire to see results.

173. * There is little in this world that cannot be prayed for and that the Lord will not answer if it’s within His will. So keep that frame of mind when you pray, that there is so much the Lord wants to be able to do for each of you. Miracles are promised, and He will do them.

174. * Direct your prayers and focus to the Lord, for He is the One Who will answer them. If you are thinking about something else or are distracted in any way, your prayers won’t be as focused on Him.

175. The secret to having powerful prayers and praying prayers that really get somewhere and do something is that you don’t just do it to go through the motions or to reach the time allotment of prayer that is required, but that you make each petition and each request a part of your complete being.

176. You can pray with your lips, but not really put your heart and spirit into it. If you want to pray a powerful prayer, you have to give your heart, mind, spirit and whole being to that prayer. It’s like you are using a force and you have to get the power from all around you and from within you. You have to gather the force from your heart, mind‚ and spirit, and then you shoot that prayer up. The more force you gathered, the more powerful the blast that is shot to the heavens, and the more power the Lord has available to use on behalf of the one you are praying for.

177. When you’re taking the time to have prayer vigil, go into that time with the desire to make the most of the time. Not just to pass the time quickly‚ but to make full use of the time to get all that power shooting up to Heaven and bouncing back onto those who are in need.

178. It is as your Father David explained—your prayers are like holding a flashlight whose beam bounces off the Lord and onto those you are praying for. If you want to get the power going strong, if you really want to shoot those prayers straight‚ if you want to make a difference with your prayers, then you have to pack a punch into them! You have to let your whole mind and heart and spirit become one with that prayer. You have to gather the power and then shoot it out. (End of message.)

More instruction from Sonale in the art of prayer warfare

179. (Sonale:) Learning to pray is learning to fight. It’s more than just an avenue through which you can talk with the Lord. Prayer is the entranceway to miracles. It is through your prayers that you invoke the power of God to work on your behalf. When you fight in prayer, the tide of battle changes; things happen, hearts are changed, lives are transformed, and miracles are wrought, because you are availing yourself of a mighty weapon of the spirit world.

180. A key to being efficient prayer warriors is vigilance. Prayer has been a big part of your life, and as is the case with anything you are accustomed to doing, it’s easy to grow familiar with it, or to not pay as much attention to its development. However‚ as you know, the spiritual warfare has intensified, and prayer is one of your key fighting weapons. It is through your prayers that you call on the keys; it is through your prayers that you give honor and praise to our wonderful King. Besides being a weapon in itself, prayer is a vehicle for many of your other spiritual weapons.

181. There are many different types of prayers, and your fervency and vigilance of spirit affect the dynamics and potency of your prayers. Learning to pray more effectively is like a marksman enhancing his skill.

182. (Channel:) I see a young man, an archer. He’s holding a large bow, one of the more sophisticated bows they have nowadays, like the ones they use in archery competitions. He’s standing very still, poised and focused. He has his arrow in the bow, and it’s pulled back quite far, as if he needs that arrow to go a very long way. He’s concentrating very intently on his target. The interesting thing, though, is that just looking down the length of the course in the direction that he’s pointing the arrow‚ I can’t see a target anywhere.

183. Suddenly, it’s as if I am now the archer, with the bow in my hand, as focused as the young man was. Now I understand why I couldn’t see the target—its distance is beyond what the human eye can see. The awesome thing is that when I have the bow in my hand and I level it ready to fire, something happens to my vision—I can see things very, very far away. It’s almost like the vision in my one eye is enhanced to where I can see as if I were looking through a scope, like snipers or target shooters use on their guns. I have my left eye shut, and as I lift the bow, the vision in my right eye is increased dramatically.

184. Not only does this increased vision in my right eye provide clarity and range that I was unable to see before, but it’s like I’m able to calculate the exact distance, gauge the direction and strength of the wind, and I know how much I need to pull the arrow back in order to make my arrow go the needed distance to hit the mark.

185. Once I have all the calculations sorted out‚ and the arrow is aimed right on target, I release it. The arrow flies through the air, going further than any arrow could go. It’s like it travels halfway across the Earth and lands perfectly on target, on a nasty little demon. When it hits the demon‚ the arrow seems to explode, and the demon vanishes.

186. I try again, only this time I don’t seem to have my one eye closed quite as tightly, and because of this, the optimal vision I had in my other eye isn’t quite as good as in the previous round, and the calculations don’t seem as accurate either. I let the arrow go, but it doesn’t quite hit another demon; it falls into the ground nearby and explodes. The explosion sort of destabilizes the demon and he loses his balance, but he’s not destroyed like the other demon I hit straight on.

187. (Sonale continues:) Through prayer you are targeting the attacks of the Enemy, and that is why it’s so important to aim right. You have to close your carnal mind and open your spiritual one to make the most of your prayers. In the physical you don’t always see the target—the demon or sudden attack of the Enemy. But when you know of a problem and you lift that bow and point your arrow in the right direction‚ your spiritual vision is increased. You shut your one eye, like shutting out the things that would distract you from fully focusing on your prayers and hitting the target. And when you have it right‚ you release the arrow, and it hits its target.

188. Sometimes you don’t even know the intensity with which you need to pray. But the Lord does, and He’s sent me to help you to know how to direct your prayers, with what fervency they need to be prayed, and even what will be the most effective way to pray. My mission is to help you in the art of prayer, and in this day and age, that has become the art of prayer warfare.

189. You have to target the Enemy’s attacks directly, in a focused manner. You have the spiritual insight through the gift of prophecy, through the keys, to be able to hit your target dead–on‚ to get rid of those imps with an explosive arrow of prayer. But it’s only really effective if you tune into it in the spirit, if you get your focus and mind off the things around you, and become that spiritual prayer archer.

190. You become masters in prayer by putting forth the effort to put on God’s mind. When you are dedicated to praying‚ and praying effectively, I and others like me are able to instruct and lead you in your prayers so that they are accurately focused and released. When you put forth the effort that you can, then we are enabled and activated to help you to accomplish even more through prayer.

The spiritual intensity with which you pray determines how successful your prayer attack will be.

191. Here are some key elements to becoming more effective in prayer:

• Focus. Learn to focus your prayers. See the obstacle and claim the miracle you desire in order to destroy it.

• Be specific in what you pray for, and what you want to see happen.

• Faith. You need faith to believe that the Lord will do the miracles you are requesting, and you get that faith through His Word, by being strengthened by the promises He’s given in His Word.

• The keys. When you use the keys in your prayers you are combining two powerful spiritual weapons against the Enemy; you are defying the seeming impossibility.

• Stand on God’s promises. Even when you don’t see the immediate results of your prayers, as you stand firm on the promises the Lord has given you, and keep sending prayers in that direction, you stir God’s hand to action to work on your behalf.

192. As the quote says, “Prayer is not the least you can do; it’s the most you can do.” That is something you should be faithful to remind yourself of, because often the Enemy will attempt to discourage you when you pray, telling you that your prayers are not working miracles, and they are not being as effective as our Lover has promised they will be. But as you stand strong in the spirit of prayer‚ as you fire those prayer arrows at him with precision, you’ll see that the power of prayer does work, and is very much an active part of the spiritual warfare that surrounds you.

193. Call on me, Sonale, when you enter your times of prayer, when you take time in prayer vigil. Call on me to help you to be the prayer warriors that you need to be. When you call on me I am able to instruct you in how to pray, and what types of prayers are needed for the specific prayer requests that will make your prayer times so much more effective.

194. Prayer is an opportunity to avail yourself of so much spirit help! You have Ellya to help you as you call on the keys; Tola and Tor to instruct you in key power; Natalia to teach you to use praise in your prayers; and you have me, Sonale, to help you in knowing how to pray and to instruct you in the art of prayer. We are only a few of the host of those who play an active role in helping you to learn the art of these spiritual weapons you have in your hands. So don’t fail to call on our help and avail yourself of Heaven’s power as we instruct you in their ways. (End of message.)

195. (Question:) Do we have to ask Sonale to speak in prophecy in order to benefit from her help, or do we just need to call for her help?

196. (Jesus: ) Sonale will speak in prophecy and give instruction regarding the art of prayer warfare whenever you ask her. But she will also be a ministering spirit who leads through nudges, thoughts‚ feelings, or her very presence when you call for her to be present during your times of intercessory prayer.

197. So it’s good to ask her to speak to you from time to time and help you improve your strategies and techniques. When you have a big need or big request to pray for, you would probably find it helpful to ask her for any specific counsel she might have about praying through that particular miracle.

198. But she’s also available for you to simply call on when you enter a normal time of intercessory prayer, and simply through having summoned her (or one of her helpers) and having them present in spirit when you pray‚ she will make a big difference, for she will nudge you in spirit, remind you of things, and help to direct and influence your prayers so that they are as powerful as possible. (End of message.)

The Miracle Warriors

199. (Mama:) Recently the Lord reminded us of another band of warriors that He revealed back in 2000‚ in “Action Through Prayer, Part 5,” who help to bring about the answers to our prayers. The Lord recently revealed more about how they can help us to become more skilled and efficient prayer warriors, and specifically how they can help to “run interference” for us against distractions. I know I certainly need their help, and am starting to call on them! They are the Miracle Warriors.

Miracle Warriors

(“Action Through Prayer‚ Part 5‚” ML #3414:46-57)

(Spirit helper:) You on Earth are called prayer warriors when you wield the weapon of prayer. We in Heaven are called miracle warriors, miracle deliverers when we help answer your prayers. You pray the prayers, and thus you wield the weapon of prayer. We, the ones who help to bring your request to pass at the behest of our Lord and King, are your miracle workers. We work to bring to pass the will of God through your prayers, through your desperation, and through your importunity and faithfulness in prayer.

We fight the demons of Hell and wage powerful warfare in the spirit, in order to intercede on your behalf or on the behalf of those for whom you’re praying. We transform impossible situations through the miracle-working power of the Lord’s Spirit entrusted to us. We change circumstances and events. We move hearts, we change minds‚ we touch lives. We move the workings of the spirit world according to the power infused in us by Jesus.

We are your miracle workers, your prayer partners in the halls of Heaven. When you pray a prayer with real desperation, with power and with faith, we start to work in the spirit world right away. Not a second is lost, not a minute is wasted. As soon as you utter your prayer, we begin to work in earnest on your behalf—sometimes even before you’ve prayed your prayer. When we know you’re going to pray, we begin to adjust things in the realm of the Spirit to prepare the way for the answer to your prayer.

There are also prayer warriors in Heaven whose sole job is to pray for you. Some prayer warriors pray as Jesus did, that your faith will not fail you—that you will hold on. Some pray for your health. Others pray for the many other aspects of your life. You can call on our wonderful Husband and Lover to ask that these prayer warriors in Heaven intercede on your behalf, and they will not cease to pray for you.

Even as Jesus prays for His children, so are there hosts in the Heavenly realm that also pray for you. But their ministry is different than ours, the miracle workers. These ones pray for you. They intercede on your behalf. They come before the throne of Heaven to be your advocates and to plead your cause. These are the prayer warriors in Heaven. But we are the miracle workers, the miracle warriors, those who fight the Enemy, those who work miracles through the power of the Lord’s Spirit in us.

There are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of miracle warriors in Heaven. We are strong and well trained in the art of spiritual warfare, mind influence, changing physical circumstances, giving checks‚ encouraging‚ delivering healing, leading and guiding‚ and much more. So much goes into the answers to your prayers—so much work in the spirit world, so many details, so much thought and love and diligence.

We who work miracles in the Name of Jesus are at your beck and call through prayer. We cannot do the miracles or work the wonders or change the course of history without your cooperation through prayer. Without the power you give us through your prayers, we are helpless and cannot fight for you in the spirit‚ or change situations, or create the circumstances that you need for a miracle.

You must call on us through your prayers. When you do, we are abuzz with excitement! There’s nothing that we love more than to help the children of David, to answer their prayers. You keep us busy, and we love to fight on your behalf‚ to wage spiritual warfare on your behalf, to fight the demons of Hell for your sake.

We’ve trained long and hard to be worthy of such a special honor and privilege of being Heavenly miracle warriors. We treasure our place, we treasure our job‚ and we give it all we’ve got. We love the fight, the challenge, the excitement in the spirit, and we love waging war against evil and conquering it with good! We love to see the Spirit of the Lord prevail. We love to see evil forced back and the light of victory shining in its place.

The only thing that saddens us sometimes is when you don’t pray. We can see the big picture. We see the problems, we see the needs, we see the struggles. When you don’t pray in such times, we are disappointed and saddened. We’re saddened because we know how much even just one prayer could do. We’re bound until you pray, until you ask for help, until you ask for miracles. If you don’t pray, we’re powerless.

We cry tears of sadness sometimes, because we see how wonderful a situation could have been if you had only prayed. We see how an answer could have come if you had only prayed. We see how the circumstances could have been changed if you had only prayed. We see the miracles that would have taken place if you had only prayed. We cry for you, that you may one day realize the full power that you hold in your hands through your prayers.

But most of the time we’re happy. We’re thrilled‚ we’re inspired, we’re excited! When you pray, we can work the miracles and do what’s needed in order to answer your petitions and requests. Don’t ever neglect to call upon us, your miracle warriors of the spirit. You’re the prayer warriors—you have to pray in order to unleash our power and avail yourselves of our help through the power of the Lord’s Spirit. So pray, and we’ll be working behind the scenes, behind the veil of the spirit, to perform miracles for you on behalf of our Lover and Husband, Jesus. (End of message.)

200. (Jesus:) These Miracle Warriors are a very great, powerful group of saints and helpers and angels and warriors of the spirit.

201. I want to reveal a new way that they will help you, if you will ask for their help. There is a division of them that are trained to help you focus accurately in your times of prayer. They even fight for you against the distractions of the Enemy who would love to come in while you’re praying. You have to ask for their help in that part in order to fully benefit from it, and that’s a good thing to do whenever you are feeling distracted.—Call for the help of the Miracle Warriors. They’re already standing by, ready and able, and are waiting for your prayers to be prayed so that they can take action.

202. Many times they already have things lined up in a way to bring about My will in answer to your prayers. They’re hoping for a certain amount of power in order to bring about the best possible conclusion and answer. They’re eager to direct your prayers so that they are focused and targeted just right, and they would love to also help ward off the Enemy’s distractions while you’re praying, so that you can really release the full power they need to bring full results.

203. Sadly, it often happens that they’re ready and waiting, but your prayers don’t really pack the punch that the Miracle Warriors were hoping for. The power trickles out instead of flooding out. They do the best they can with it, but they would love to help you generate more power.

204. So call on them for your times of prayer, asking them to block the Enemy’s distractions, to bring to mind your spiritual weapons that you can use, and to help you focus your prayers just right. They’ll be right there—some will run interference for you and keep the Enemy’s distractions at bay, others will be handing you the various spiritual weapons and directing you in how to aim them, and others will be standing by at the actual “hot spots” that you’re aiming your prayers at, ready and lined up to put into motion whatever is needed to bring the answers to pass.

205. They’re the Miracle Warriors, My loves, and as you learn to make prayer a more offensive part of your weaponry, call for their help, and you’ll feel the difference! Most of all, Heaven will feel the difference, and will be able to accomplish so much more on your behalf! (End of message.)

206. (Question:) Do we need to call on them in order for them to be able to help us?

207. (Jesus:) They are assigned to bring about the results of your prayers. That is their mission and ministry and commission, given them from Me. They do that whether you acknowledge their presence or not. If you do acknowledge them, then they are given extra power at times‚ or extra leeway. But it’s not like they’re greatly hindered in answering your prayers if you don’t call on them. You’re calling on Me, and I’m delegating the task to them of bringing about the specific results that are within My will, and that’s good enough.

208. However, if you want them to help you in your focus and concentration during a time of prayer, that’s a time when you need to call on them specifically. Obviously you wouldn’t feel the need for that with every little prayer. But if you’re going to have a time of prayer vigil or an extended time of intercessory prayer that you really need to focus on without distraction‚ it’s well worth availing yourself of their offer to help keep the Enemy at bay, and they will help you to put greater power behind your prayers. They will make it easier for you to fight in prayer. They will run interference for you. (End of message.)

209. (Mama: ) When we stir ourselves, our Lord and Husband stirs Himself, and all Heaven is stirred on our behalf! We have to put the whole chain of events into motion. So Lord help us to do our duty and pray!

210. I love you very much, dear ones, and Peter and I are proud of you for taking this training so well. I know you’re eager to put it into practice, and as you do, the Lord will do His part and provide you with the power, the miracles, the anointing, the victories you’re seeking—and even more. He will surprise you with all He has in store!

211. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, the things that God hath prepared for them that love Him” (1Cor.2:9).
With love and admiration for each of you,
Mama

New key promises to use in your times of intercessory prayer

The keys of praise escort you into My presence‚ and whatever you ask of Me, I will do.

The Enemy may try to attack, but he cannot override My plan nor breach the impenetrable aura of protection and security I give you when you pray and claim the keys in desperation, humility‚ and obedience.

The master keys of praise unlock the doors of power‚ plenty, fruitfulness, protection, health, happiness, and pleasing Me. Use them when you pray to unlock your need even more speedily.

Call on the keys and I will turn every battle into a victory, every difficulty into a blessing, every problem into a solution, and every prayer into an answer.

The keys are empowered to change lives, hearts, and situations. When you call on them, there is no limit to how far My Spirit will go in order to answer your prayer.

I will change minds‚ touch hearts, and do miracles of supply for you as you step out and claim the miracle-working power of My keys.

I am able to supply your every need as you claim My keys and stand on the promises in My Word.

I will keep you from the attacks of the Enemy in every way‚ whether outside or inside attacks‚ on your health, your work, your equipment, your channels, or your situation, as you and your mates call continually, desperately, and fervently on the keys.

Who can stand against My power? Who can prevail against the keys? Who can fight against God and win? No one! And nothing can stop you when you are performing My will and calling on the keys.

Through your prayers and calling on the keys I will perform all that I have promised.

Call on the keys that cannot be defeated and that bring victory in every situation. No matter how difficult or impossible the situation may seem, the keys of victory will win every battle you send them to fight in.

Every obstacle that stands in the way of victory will be ground to powder as you intercede in prayer and use the keys of praise. Launch the keys of praise and send them forth like an army tank to run right over that obstacle and smash it to bits.

Letter links

[ ] “Desperate Prayer‚” ML #384, DB1
[ ] “The Operator,” ML #700‚ DB1
[ ] “Heavenly Communication,” ML #1957:1,22-26, 30-55, DB8
[ ] “We Must Pray!—And Pray!—And Pray Again,” ML #2783:3-6,8-9,12-13,15, DB11
[ ] “Thought Power,” ML #3155:4-14,17–23,27‚29-32, Lifelines 24
[ ] “Goals for 1998,” ML #3160:43-51, Lifelines 24
[ ] “When You Pray, Things Happen,” ML #3173:7-11‚19-24‚29-32,44-51, GN 778
[ ] “Action Through Prayer, Part 1‚” ML #3319:8-13,71-80, GN 923
[ ] “Action Through Prayer, Part 2,” ML #3325:2-3,9–14,17-18‚21-27,32-44,74-81,87-92, GN 930
[ ] “Action Through Prayer, Part 3,” ML #3339:2-15,104-109, GN 933
[ ] “Action Through Prayer, Part 4,” ML #3340:88-103, GN 944
[ ] “Action Through Prayer, Part 5,” ML #3414:28-33,46-70,77-82,86–87,123-130, GN 1000
[ ] The MOP: “Prayer” (excerpts)
[ ] Good Thots, “Communion With God: Prayer,” 10,11,37,97,110,113‚170,184,193,195‚196‚240, 243, 374,424
[ ] FJWL 1, #18,174‚183,194
[ ] FJWL 2, #496
[ ] Word Basics: “Prayer,” #3,7

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16/01/2010

Promiseses of the Futureness!

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Table of Contents • Called, chosen, and faithful! • The gift of humility through weakness • Greater darkness, greater light!—And encouragement about the second and third generations! • A new Psalm of David! • Staying pure! • A little glimpse into how the Lord makes all things right … • More about Pete’s progress in Heaven! • Push Activated, and make slippery children of David! • Wings out of weights • A tip on connecting with your spirit helpers • The Hall of Warriors!

By Maria 3573 10/05 GN 1160 FD/MM/FM / Feast 2006 This GN is to be read privately during the Family Feast 2006. My dear Family‚ 1. In this GN I want to share with you a potpourri of messages that those in our WS Homes received for me for my birthday. It’s become somewhat of a tradition now for our folks in WS to ask the Lord a variety of interesting questions and then present the messages to me on my birthday, as a combined gift from everyone in WS. They know what I love best of all! And one reason I love these birthday messages so much is because many of them are very helpful to Peter and me in our shepherding and care and guiding of you, our precious Family. The Lord always pours out a lot of insight and instruction about the needs of the Family overall, and Peter and I are so thankful to be able to have that instruction! 2. This year someone asked the Lord for a long list of questions about things that I might find interesting or helpful. Then that list of questions was passed around to our WS Homes, and each person picked two or three questions that they had the faith for. The result was a wonderful variety of instruction, counsel, new spirit helpers introducing themselves, previously known spirit helpers giving further information and counsel‚ and lots of encouragement and promises about our future. I want to share some of that encouragement with you, my loves, because it’s about all of us and our future, and I know it will be encouraging for you too. 3. There’s no way I could share all the messages with you—there were over a hundred‚ as some people in WS took time to receive two or three—so this is just a sampling of some of the ones I thought you’d find interesting. I hope to share more of them with you in future GNs, time permitting, especially some of those about spirit helpers and the spirit world and spiritual phenomena. 4. These messages are in no particular order, and are simply meant to be feeding and devotional reading. I pray they are an encouragement and strength to you. With much love in our Husband, Who always has a bigger capacity to give than we do to receive, Mama Called, chosen, and faithful! 5. (Jesus:) I’m proud of you for restructuring the Family! You’ve taken on a monumental job‚ and along with this, you’ve fully applied My warning in “Builders Beware” and you are ensuring that not only adequate but plentiful ballast is kept in the House of the Family. 6. Thank you, My dear love, My darling, for clinging to Me so faithfully. I promise to take you from mountain peak to mountain peak of victory. As the Family climbs this mountain of restructuring and finally reaches the summit, I will take them from mountain peak to mountain peak at that time. That means I will make broad and large advances with the Family once the structure is built, strengthened, and in full operation. 7. It’s like the butterfly. First it’s a worm, crawling along the ground, hardly going anywhere. But when I transform it, the progress it makes and the distance it flies defies what could have ever been imagined for that crawling worm! 8. The Family is in the cocoon right now. The future Endtime events look so large compared to what this enclosed worm looks like right now, that it is very easy for the carnal mind to wonder how the Family could ever attain to the feats I have promised. Well, that could also have been said of Moses and the Israelites in the wilderness, and of many of My people in the past. 9. What you must understand is that I am all–powerful. I’ll say it again: I have all power! That means nothing is impossible to Me. I am the Creator of the universe and I formed all that exists. With that in mind, it’s easy for you to see how I could pick up this butterfly of the Family and cast it into the air where it would take off, powered by My breeze. And that, My love, is exactly what is going to happen. 10. Once the Family has built and reinforced the structure that I want, once they become the vehicle that I need, once those who are going to stick it out and become what I want them to become do so, once I have this crew firmly in My hands, this instrument, then I will pick it up and inhabit the House of David, of Maria, and of Peter. 11. “Oh,” you say, “don’t You already inhabit the Family?” Yes, I do, as much as they let Me. But yieldedness is a pivotal thing, and in order to be inhabited‚ they must be yielded. As they yield to Me, I enter. Once they have taken on full yieldedness through obedience, I will enter fully and take over the reins of their heart as I did in the beginning, to where when I say to go‚ they go. Right now, up to this point, they often go when I don’t say to go. But in the future it will not be so. When I say to rise up, lift up your voice and spare not, they will do so. When I say settle back down and go to your Homes, they will do so. 12. Right now I am building that army. I have set up the required structure, and once that structure is inhabited and up and running with yielded hearts, the next step will be the expanded Family. That is putting on the wings. And once the wings have been fully put on and have become a fully integrated part of the body, I will use those wings. I will blow upon the wings and they will lift the body and take it places where they could not go on their own. 13. This is why it is so important for the Family to put on the wings. But they couldn’t put on wings until the structure was straightened out. This is what is happening now. Once the body is fully strengthened in the cocoon, and once it fully develops the wings‚ and once the wings have stood the pressure that makes them a full-blown part of the body‚ I will lift up the entire creation onto My Spirit, and she will fly high and all the world will notice. 14. I will begin to give message after message to the nations, and they will take note. The reason they will take note is that little mouthpiece of Mine, the Family, will say something and then it will come to pass. And then you will say something again‚ and it will come to pass again. This will continue until it gets to the point that the pharaohs of this world realize that there are prophets among them. 15. Yes, you will be My prophets among the nations, spread around the Earth, yet a cohesive nation and mouthpiece speaking to the nations of the world. That, My loves, is what I have planned for you. 16. But that is just the beginning of your real ministry, your real calling. This is what I have been aiming at, and it is what I will do as you continue to obey Me and to yield to the slightest call of My voice, that when I say “go there,” you go; when I say “do this,” you do it. You don’t question it or muse on it, but you act at My behest. 17. In the recent past you became a lazy house. You wandered in the wilderness outside the System. But now I have raised you up again and called out My Gideon’s band, and you have proven thus far that you want to take up the task. 18. I promise that as you follow Me now, when you are ready, I will lead you out onto the world stage and I will speak to the nations through you, and not only to the nations, but to the people of the nations, that they might hear My voice, that they might know that there is a God in the Heavens and His people upon Earth, that Satan’s grasp might be foiled and that My lost children might find hope in the land. 19. You are My called-out ones, the Last Church‚ the Ecclesia. Many will come to you, and you will become powerful as a unit—for that power will be needed to stand up in the Last Days. You will not receive power for your own sake‚ but rather power to stand up in the Endtime days and to do My job. That is why I will make you powerful, so that you can use that power to preach the Endtime message to the nations, and to reap the souls who wouldn’t find Me without that message. 20. So come! Are you ready? Well, you’re getting ready. And through this restructuring and strengthening now, I will make the transformation necessary to use you, My loves, as the Endtime Church, as I have promised in My Holy Word. You are called and chosen. Now be faithful. I love you. (End of message.) The gift of humility through weakness 21. (Mama:) Most of the messages I’m sharing with you in this GN aren’t about me personally. But I thought you would appreciate this one, even though it’s more personal, because it goes to show that if the Lord can use me to do my job, He can use any one of you to do anything wonderful and amazing! Thank the Lord, He is so wonderful. He’s even wonderful enough to make up for all our lacks‚ and not only that, but to use our lacks for His glory. Thank You, Jesus‚ that I am so weak that I need You so much! 22. (Jesus:) I have made you a simple woman who needs a lot of help, who is very dependent—not only on Me, but on others. You are so unlike your Father David, who was strong and bold and brave and domineering and even pushy at times. I created him that way for a divine purpose, and he fulfilled that purpose beautifully. 23. I have made you differently, and sometimes you get discouraged about your lacks and failings and weaknesses. Whenever the Enemy tempts you to get discouraged because you’re focusing on your weaknesses, remember these words: “I have created you this way.” 24. This is the way that I have created you. I have designed you and I have made you. I have made you weak that you might glorify Me through your weakness. I have made you incapable. I have not made you eloquent; I have made you simple. And you must be honest about these things—honest with those you work with, honest with your flock, honest with your mates, and honest with the world. 25. Weakness is a great strength. Some of the greatest men and women of God were able to accomplish the most when they were in their weakest state. I said through the Apostle Paul that you should glory in afflictions (2Cor.12:9-10). Even the Apostle Paul’s bodily presence was weak, and his speech was contemptible (2Cor.10:10). When they saw him, they were not impressed with his outward appearance. But his witness was with conviction! I have chosen the weak things of this world to confound the wise (1Cor.1:27-29). That is part of My plan. The weaker you are, the stronger I can shine through, and the more My Spirit can come through. 26. My queen, I have made you weak, and that makes you humble. I make each person differently, but when you look at your weaknesses and the Enemy tries to discourage you about your weaknesses, I want you to remember that I am the One Who made you that way. You must glory in that weakness. You must bring forth that weakness. You must magnify that weakness and let it keep you humble‚ for there is no greater gift, no greater sample, no greater opportunity for My Spirit to work‚ than when there is a spirit of humility. 27. This is a gift that I wish to give to the children of David—the spirit of weakness, the spirit of humility. And if they are a humble band of soldiers, if they are a humble band of prophets‚ if their strength comes from their humility, they will accomplish great things for Me. This is a virtue that the children of David must continue to convey, and you, as My queen, can lead them in this direction—the direction of weakness, the direction of humility, the direction of lacking in self-reliance and self-confidence, but having great confidence in Me. 28. Although you, My Family, are a called and chosen generation, and although you are special in My eyes, your special anointing, gifts, and talents will be manifested in the soil of humility. You will be led by the weakness of your queen. The world may look at you and laugh, but in the end they will be in awe at what I will accomplish through such a pitiful, weak, incapable band who focused not on their weakness, but rather used it to be a strength. Through this weakness‚ humility came forth, and through this humility great works were manifested. 29. So, My queen, continue to be a sample of weakness, that the world might be confounded, and that My Spirit might work, and that My miracles might come through and be performed. The world will be in awe, for they will see My Word being fulfilled, that My strength is made perfect in weakness. 30. Oh, how weak I felt the day I was crucified. How helpless I felt. How like a failure I felt. I knew I was fulfilling the role My Father had for Me, but the feeling of failure was overwhelming. I was crucified in weakness, but the power of God lived on in Me. 31. When you as a Family must suffer the disdain of the world—which you have and will continue to—I will be there and I will work miracles through you. I will perform My will, and it will be because of your weakness. It will be because of your humility. It will be because of the very things that the Enemy uses to discourage you. 32. I will use these weaknesses to glorify Me and magnify My Word and allow My message to come through. Then you will see the real weapon of praise in action, when you can thank Me and glorify Me for your faults, failures, and weaknesses, which allow Me to be strong and to work in you. 33. So go forth in weakness, My queen, leading My humble army into battle. Though the Enemy will laugh and the scoffers will scoff, My Spirit will prevail and will overcome and I will be glorified. (End of message.) Greater darkness, greater light!—And encouragement about the second and third generations! 34. (Jesus:) Although dark clouds are on the horizon—and they most assuredly are—I will use these days of darkness to push the Family further into the light. Darkness never has to overcome; in fact, darkness can easily mean victory for the children of David. 35. I must allow this darkness to come, and to even spread rapidly. It is time. Man has rejected Me and My truths over and over again‚ and now it is time for the rapid spread of darkness. It must take place. The time is now. You won’t see this darkness this month, nor will you even see it this year or the next in full, but the coming events that will bring on great darkness are now being orchestrated. 36. As I told you at the beginning of 2005, the tsunami was the Devil’s herald to the world of the evil spirits he had released. These evil spirits are now at large, and there is a great company of them. For the most part they have been working quietly, as they organize and get in place. They are finding the most influential and yielded pawns they can to work through. That’s their priority in these days. 37. Take heed‚ My children. It is imperative that you not let down your guard in the atmosphere of today’s darkness. There are demons everywhere that would love to rush into any spiritual space that’s left unguarded, or infiltrate it. I have created the rules so that the places guarded by My Spirit are where My children either empower My spiritual beings or draw on their help. You empower My forces through your obedience, and you draw on their power and take advantage of their help through your prayers. It’s up to you.

38. You wonder, “What about the millions of Christians worldwide? What’s their role in what’s happening? What can they do to prevent the darkness from being so pervasive?” It’s not a question of what they can do but what they will do. I have enough saved children in this world to put a full stop to the machinations of the Devil. They could stop his program if they would, but they won’t. Instead, as you’ve seen, they are often active members in doing and promoting his will. 39. Some of the greatest warmongers in the United States are Christians, those who profess they know Me but whose deeds are a testimony against Me. Some of them are saved—saved in the sense that they will continue on for eternity, and will even have a place of service for Me. But what a sad place of service awaits them. It will be a testimony against their choices for eternity. Their greatest service for Me in the next life will be one of manning the booths that teach the lessons of, “If I only had.” Or in some of their cases, those booths will also be teaching, “If I only had not.” They will continue to teach from their dandy—in fact, horrific—bad examples. This is their lot, the fruit of their choices. 40. Back to the current day. While the rich North is turning away from Me either in word or in deed, the poorer or less knowledgeable nations are floundering. The world is therefore ripe for the rapid spread of darkness that is occurring. 41. And how will this affect My children‚ especially My children of David? It will shoot them forward into the light! The darkness will have a wonderful effect on My Family, for it will block My children from the ways of the world that they currently find attractive or hunger after‚ and shoot them forward spiritually! 42. Many in the Family today are making the right choices, and yet they still aren’t going forward as exuberantly as they could or even should. They try, but they had previously fallen so far behind that they don’t know how to go forward as much as I wish them to. They are still gradually being strengthened‚ and this is where the darkness will work to your advantage. Because My disciples are making the right choices, they are now in line to be catapulted forward into My light‚ and the catapult I will use is this darkness that is going to engulf the world. 43. If I were to give you specifics about how this darkness will look, it would fill most of My faithful children with fear. But by just telling you that the darkness is coming, and giving you the promise of how it will bear great fruit in the lives of the children of David, this focuses your hearts on the light and promises, while giving you only minor apprehension. I am focusing your attention on the light, and the darkness is going to push you forcibly into the light. That, My children, is pure joy! 44. You will not be forsaken; in fact, you will be very well cared for. The care I will be giving you will be so strong that the world will take note. I will set up all of My children, each within the realm I have placed them, as a beacon of light to the world. 45. Today you may look as if you are weak and floundering. Many are trying to be disciples, but come from backgrounds of such deep-seated weaknesses that even in their efforts to be My full-time disciples today, they often fall very short. But they are choosing to go forward, and that is what matters to Me. I look on the heart and the love and obedience and faithfulness therein, not just the outward success or failure. They are willing and yielded and they have their hearts in the right place, and therefore they are in the right place for Me to shoot‚ or perhaps even shove them forward into places of being My beacons of light to their part of the world. 46. This is true of your first generation‚ and of your second and third generations as well. Each generation has its battles. Your younger generations struggle so much, and I have given the answers and the solutions, but sometimes the fruit doesn’t seem to match My promises because of the things that hold them back. 47. I understand that familiarity with My words and My ways holds back many of the second and third generations of the Family. It is a battle they must fight. I also fought battles during My time on Earth. I went through 40 days and nights of fighting the Devil to give Me the final preparation needed before My ministry began. My Father used the darkness of the Devil to catapult Me forward into being a beacon of light. 48. So will I use the darkness that is about to engulf the world to do the same for the children of David of all ages. Many are making choices of yieldedness and discipleship, yet they still struggle in reaching for the goals set before them. You could look at these disciples and wonder what they’re waiting for, why they don’t do more with all I’ve given them. But they will. All those who are doing what they can today, when the time comes that the darkness is fully apparent—and this day is almost upon you—these disciples of Mine will turn on and will receive the power that they have been lacking. 49. They are making the right choices today, but they still are unable to be fully active for Me. They are held back by familiarity with My words and ways. But I see their choices‚ and I will have mercy upon them concerning their familiarity. And when the darkness does indeed engulf the world, My children of light will shoot forward and become the beacons they have been called to be. 50. Encourage yourselves with these words. Those of you who are parents, shepherds, bellwethers‚ and in positions of responsibility especially need this encouragement. Many times you become discouraged, wondering when the Family will wake up to the full, pure discipleship that I’ve been consistently calling you to. It will happen. Continue to keep your ranks clean and pure and called out, and trust Me to turn these yielded but sleepy ones into powerhouses for Me, and strong beacons of My light to the world. 51. I have given these Words because it’s important for My bellwethers and shepherds to not lose faith that the preparations will bear fruit—the full fruit of radical discipleship that I’m calling those born and raised in the Family to live. 52. Continue, My queen, to lead them along the path of the right choices, to encourage them to fight, to forsake the world, and to stand strong. When the time is right, their keys will be turned and they will be My strong and radical beacons of light. 53. Many in the Family today are much like David was for years before his life’s work took off. They are faithfully plugging along, doing a little here and there, trying to serve Me, trying to give their lives for Me‚ but not breaking forth into being the powerful and consistent beacons of light that I’ve created them to be. 54. However, just as with David, when the time was right, because he had been making the right decisions, he had been willing to be a fool for Me, he had been willing to forsake all‚ he was in the right place at the right time, and I turned his key and he broke forth and never turned back. 55. The same will take place with the second and third generations. Continue to lead them down the right path and encourage them in making the right choices. For it is My promise, when the darkness takes hold in the world, that the key of David will be fully enacted in their lives, and they will break forth as the thousands of radical little Davids that I have ordained them to be. They will no longer be held back by familiarity, but they will burn brightly for Me and lead many away from the darkness into fully embracing the light. 56. They will be so very strong that you will be in awe! You’ll look at them and think, “These are the children I knew who served Jesus, but never seemed to have the full conviction needed. Now look at them! They’re new people!” And indeed they shall be. 57. Rejoice, for this promise is true. Continue to lead them along the path of light and the right choices for today‚ so that they will be in line for this empowerment. And when the time comes, I will turn the key of David for each of them and they will light up the world with My radical truths for this day and age. It will be done. (End of message.) 58. (Mama:) I asked the Lord if this applied to our first generation too, as I know many of you probably feel the same as Dad felt in those days before he started the Family. You probably wonder if this is all that is in store for you or if there’s more to come. Our wonderful Husband answered: 59. (Jesus:) Yes‚ My loves, there is so much more to come! I gave this message through a mother who loves her children and longs to see them fulfill their destiny—her concern was primarily for them. But these promises apply to all My children of David who have stuck it out thus far and are making the right choices—choices which are strengthening them and preparing them to explode for Me when it is their time. 60. Each of you, My loves, will fulfill your destiny. Not one promise that I have given about your future, your ministries, the far-reaching effects of your witness, will lack fulfillment. All will be fulfilled wonderfully, and at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, the most common note of praise will be amazement at all that I was able to do through little old you. So hang in there, the best is yet to come! (End of message.) A new Psalm of David! 61. (King David:) I have a special, unique little gift for you, my dear queen. The Lord has asked me to write a brand–new praise Psalm for you‚ using a tone and style similar to the Psalms. 62. In order for this to work, I’ll need to write the verses in my earthly tongue, but dear Shakespeare has kindly volunteered to translate them for me so that they retain the same beautiful poetic style as the Psalms in the King James version of the Bible, but with a modern touch. I hope you enjoy this, and we both wish you a very happy birthday. 63. (Mama: As much as I love this gift from King David, there are a couple of verses of this new Psalm that are embarrassing and humbling for me to share with you. They’re the ones where it talks about my humility and greatness—because I know without a doubt that any goodness or love that shines through me is only from Jesus. Without Him, I truly am nothing, and that’s why I really don’t like drawing any attention to myself, and don’t feel worthy of any credit at all. 64. (All that to say, I didn’t want to share this one birthday message with you, but one of my helpers prayed about it and got that it would be doing the humble thing for me to let you enjoy this beautiful new Psalm. And you can just skip over those portions about me if you want to, ha! Praise the Lord. He sees us so differently from the way we see ourselves. He loves us in spite of ourselves. Isn’t He wonderful?) The hand of the Lord is strong and wide; it stretches over His people and shelters them from their enemies. The enemies of your soul encompass you about like raging waters. They seek to envelop you and destroy you; they are without mercy. But so great is the Lord, and so great is the power of the keys He has bestowed, that a plain path is formed through the midst of your enemies so that you may walk to the other side unscathed. The Lord will dry them up so that they are become as dust, and are blown away so that they cannot be found. So will you be saved and so will you serve the Lord with happiness and great joy. Your enemies will stand in awe when they plainly see the mighty hand of the Lord defending you. Your enemies will stand in awe when they see the peace that is upon you and all of the children of David, in spite of their vicious attacks. Your enemies will stand in awe when they see that through the power of trust in the Lord and in the monumental power of the keys, His children have become a mightier army than ever. For the armies of the Lord have been steeped in the Word of the Lord. They have bathed in it and have swum in it. They have heard it and they have spoken it. They have planted it deep in their hearts, and they have picked it fresh from the fields of the spirit and have enjoyed the fruits of their labors. We will praise the Lord for the mighty power of the Word, for it is life and power and it is magnified even above His name. Sing praises unto the Lord and tell Him plainly of your love for Him. Magnify His name and His Word with the song and the dance, for He is worthy to be praised. His queen has spoken the Word of God into the ears of the children of the Lord and she has put it upon their lips. In humility and love has she taught the children of the Lord. The humility of the queen is stronger than the pride of her enemies, as fire overcomes straw. The love of the queen is stronger than the hate of her enemies‚ as the sun pierces the darkness without contest. Oh‚ that all of the children of the Lord adorned themselves with the same love and humility. Oh‚ that they would love the Word as does the queen. Praise the Almighty with all of your heart, and let words of praise be upon your lips, for He is great. The Lord loves His bride with a passion that surpasses the imagination of man, and has prepared gifts for her that cannot be conceived by the mind. As a bright star, so is the bride’s love for the Lord strong and visible to all the nations. Thus will the love of the Lord shine brightly and reward her with every desire of her heart. Staying pure! 65. (Jesus:) I have given many promises about your future. I have promised many things for you and for the Family, and your future through My eyes is bright! 66. The Family is drawing closer to Me as a whole and as individuals, and this can only bring about greater blessings and rewards. In these next years‚ you will start seeing more physical manifestations of My power as each person draws closer to Me and fully implements My counsel. 67. As you fulfill your part of the bargain, as it were, I will be able to punch through with many more mighty miracles than I am able to at present. Your greater closeness to Me will enable a much fuller and greater understanding of the keys, as well as a better knowledge and ability to harness their power in a more obvious way. 68. As My children get themselves out of the way and become My yielded vessels‚ as they become better channels and better conduits for My power to flow through, the results will be amazing. As they allow their faith in My Words to them to grow, as they continue to reject the trappings of this world and put on My mind‚ they will be unstoppable.

69. This strengthening is already underway. The Family is that much closer to being able to fully harness and avail themselves of the full power that I have made available to them. The renewal was a giant leap ahead, for many of My brides were made aware of how they had become entangled, how their minds had been trapped, or their time diverted, or even wrong attitudes towards fundamentals of the spirit world were formed through desiring and partaking of things that are not strengthening, uplifting, or faith-building. 70. Many of My brides, however‚ have not yet fully forsaken this world and all that it stands for, and this is a hurdle that will need to be crossed. Many have forsaken much and have seen how their lives, hearts, and spirits have been strengthened and renewed, but there remain unforsaken patches, “Huddersfields‚” in their lives. Whether it is a desire to “fit in,” or a hankering for certain things that they know are wrong and have forsaken in theory but not fully in practice, these things stand in the way of My being able to fully use them. 71. Forsaking these things of the flesh takes time. I do not force My children to leave it all behind, for I need willing volunteers. I need those who have gone through the mud and seen that this world and its attitudes and ideals are not where it’s at. I need those who are happy to forsake any vestige of that life and worldly priorities or mindsets in order to be more fully used of Me. 72. Many of your young people in the Family care a little too much about the opinions of others. They are happy with the role they have been playing of fitting in well and also doing something “good” and “useful.” They are aware that this will not always be the case—they can’t always “fit in” as the days grow darker. These days are fast approaching, the time when My children must be more single-minded. They must choose, because they will not suddenly and automatically not be a part of the System anymore. Yes, it will get dark fast at the end, but if they have the attitude of trying to fit in now, then in the end they will not be the separated, called-out brides that I need. 73. I need My brides to forsake the things of this world more fully now, not to slowly allow more of the System to seep back into their lives until they are in need of a second renewal. 74. It’s a slow process, but if they keep forsaking a little more each day—coming before Me about an attitude they may have, and if it’s not of Me, then getting rid of it; coming before Me about some possession they want or have, but that I have whispered to their heart may be distracting them in their service for Me; coming before Me about any aspect of their lives that I bring up—then I will slowly purge away that which is not of Me. 75. I will not ask it all at once‚ but one step at a time I will bring them along‚ and patiently I will help them to see what is and what is not of Me. Slowly will I cleanse them and purge them and make them white, that My pure energy may flow through their conduits fully and freely. 76. Many think that it is inevitable that they will settle back into their ruts and desires and cravings for the things of this world. This is an attitude that needs to be changed. If they are desperate and are listening to My voice and asking Me each step of the way, each time they need to make a choice, each time they are tempted with something, I will not allow them to sink back, to stop making progress, to go back to the muck and the mire that I have pulled them out of—providing they follow the counsel that I give them. If the sincere desire of their heart is to follow closely, then they can remain close through asking Me everything. 77. In most cases it’s not the big things that draw them slowly away. It’s those “little” choices that are “too small” to hear from Me about, that “will be okay just this once,” or “it seems fine‚ let’s do it.” Those are the pitfalls that will lead them back down the path, away from My full possession. 78. The other main enemy of being fully possessed by Me is pride. Not even the angels are able to be possessed or used by Me if there is any pride in them. For how was it that so many fell? They allowed the pride of Satan’s words to take root, and in allowing themselves to think that it was their power and strength that could save them, and attributing all that they had accomplished to their own power and might, they shut themselves off from My pure power. And their light, and the light that was in them, then turned to darkness. 79. They now live in servitude to the one who promised them they had power of their own. They had none in themselves, but were created as conduits of power to carry out My will. They are now in servitude to the source that corrupts, twists, disfigures, warps and destroys, and it is destroying, disfiguring, and warping them. 80. My brides‚ to avoid being caught in a similar trap, let My pure, loving, true life-giving power be what flows through you. Forsake any vestige of pride that would try to draw credit to you, that would seek glamour, fame, or recognition through your use of My power. For this will only get in the way of My being able to use each of you to the full. (End of message.) A little glimpse into how the Lord makes all things right … 81. (Mama:) Following is another message directed to me personally. It’s so beautiful, it makes me weep with thankfulness every time I hear it. I wanted to share it with you because it shows how the Lord works everything out, and while we are taking care of His work, He takes care of those dear to our hearts so perfectly. It also gives some very interesting insight into the spiritual realm and how things work there. 82. (Annette, woman in Heaven:) While I am not a spirit helper assigned to help you specifically, the Lord has let me introduce myself to you. He said that now is the right time. Maria‚ I have been waiting for this opportunity for a while now, and I am glad that it has at last come. 83. My name is Annette. I have not been in Heaven long‚ probably a few years in Earth time. There isn’t much that’s special about me. On Earth I was just your average woman, a wife and mother of two. I was a godly, caring woman, but I was not anyone great or famous; you haven’t heard of me before, though we briefly met once in passing. I don’t think you will remember me, though. While on Earth I loved my husband and children dearly, and still do‚ of course, very much, so when I died relatively suddenly, it was very difficult for all of us, especially for my children. 84. Since coming here‚ other than some unexpected special training I’ve been receiving, the Lord has granted me my heart’s desire, and that was to be able to be close to and to care for my children, to watch over them like a guardian angel. I have a son and daughter, like you. They have had many ups and downs since my passing, and sometimes it’s difficult and heartbreaking to watch them make their own decisions, often the wrong ones. 85. But I have stuck as close to them as possible, always there for them, speaking to their hearts and trying to direct their spirits. Sometimes they listen and sometimes they don’t, yet I patiently and lovingly remain there for them, night and day, as any mother would. I’ve used every opportunity I’ve had to try to help them to make the right choices, and to help them be able to come to know Jesus in a more personal way. 86. As I said‚ I have also received special training from our Husband and from others since coming here. At first I was rather surprised to be receiving such close and personal training from Jesus and some of the greats here in Heaven. I was honored, of course, but a little puzzled by it. One day not too long ago, things became a little clearer to me. Our Lord took me on a stroll by a lake of Heaven where He said He had a special favor to ask me, He had a special assignment for me. 87. He took me on something of an interactive pictorial history of a young man’s life, as well as the life of his mother—a woman that somehow seemed vaguely familiar to me, though I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I watched their lives from the time she conceived him till the day he died. I felt every joy and every pain, prayed every prayer. That mother was you‚ Maria. The son, Pete. 88. For what in Heaven was but a brief moment‚ I lived your life with Pete. And then our Husband asked me if I could take all my love for my children and all the care that I have been trying to give them and channel it to Pete instead. He asked me if I could be Pete’s primary caregiver during this time in his life, and He said that in return He would care for My children as only He can. 89. He said that if I gave my all to caring for and helping your son during this time, He would do the same for mine. And as an extra bonus, to make this an offer I couldn’t refuse, He said I could ask you to pray for my children. The prayers of Queen Maria are powerful in Heaven, for she has the ear of the King and the keys of the Kingdom. Our Lord will not refuse you, and all Heaven awaits your command. 90. I have waited many months for this opportunity to present this request to you, for in Heaven there is a proper time and place for each thing, and we must keep our Lord’s timetable. But Jesus has told me that now is the time to present myself to you, to tell you what I am doing for your son, and to request your prayers for mine. 91. I love your son, Maria, and I care for him as my own. I am with him day and night; I pour all my heart and soul into him. He is heeding me more and more, and he is learning‚ although there is still a long way to go. He is being loved and cared for. I love him as you would. I ask you now to love my children for me, to pray for them, for your prayers will do what I could not do‚ not even from here. Our Husband will answer. 92. And then continue to do what you must do. Continue to feed and strengthen your flock. Persevere in the ministry our Lord has given you. I don’t know exactly how Jesus will answer my prayers for my children. My hope is that they will come to know Him more through someone in the Family, or through the Words you pour forth from our King. I can’t know how our prayers will be answered, but I know they will be, and that in time all will be well. 93. All is well with your son, Maria. He is safe; it is much better for him here. I am with him continually, helping him, speaking to him, and he is listening. He doesn’t know of our arrangement, he only feels my love and acceptance of him. He only knows that I have always been with him, since the moment he arrived here‚ trying to help and care for him. I am helping him to grow and to change, to become the man he could’ve been, and can yet be. 94. I love and care for him as only a mother could, Maria, and I will continue to. (End of message.) 95. (Question:) Is someone else taking care of Annette’s children while she is on this mission to help Pete? 96. (Jesus: ) Yes. When I asked Annette to take on this new role of caring for Pete—which I knew would take the majority of her focus and energy—I promised her that I would care specially for her children in her absence. She gladly accepted this offer, because, being in Heaven‚ she can see behind the scenes and knows how diligently I fulfill My promises‚ and so she had not the slightest concern about the welfare of her children. She knows that while she is tending to My business and has placed them in My hands‚ I am caring for them as only I can. 97. The same principle applies when I ask things of you on Earth, except often you can’t see what’s going on behind the scenes, so it’s a big test for you. But when I say that I’m going to care for something, believe Me, I care for it and make provision for it as no one else can. 98. Annette’s children are being cared for by spirit helpers who are giving them their full focus and attention. Annette is still involved to some extent and regularly checks up on them and gives counsel and input to those spirit helpers. So she is still involved‚ and is very happy with this arrangement—knowing that her children are being well cared for, and that she is fulfilling a very important role too in caring for Pete. (End of message.) 99. (Question:) Annette said Mama’s prayers will do what she cannot do, not even from Heaven. What does that mean? How can anyone on Earth do something that those in Heaven can’t do? 100. (Jesus:) Many of the departed are set free through the prayers of their loved ones on Earth, or even through the prayers of people on Earth whom they have never met. Your Father David prayed for spirits who wanted to be released, and they were set free—such as Edgar Allan Poe, the people on the treasure ship, and many more. 101. The prayers of those on Earth are powerful because it takes great faith to believe and pray. I have told you that things happen when you pray. Annette knows this, and that is why she understands that the queen’s prayers will do things that not even she can do from Heaven. 102. This doesn’t mean that spirit beings in Heaven are powerless or wimpy in their spiritual powers, for they are strong and powerful in many ways. But the Family on Earth has also been given spiritual weapons which are real and powerful to fight the attacks of the Enemy and to usher in My victories. Prayer is one of your powerful weapons, and although you might think that the prayers you utter on Earth can’t possibly be as powerful as the prayers that are uttered in Heaven, it is not so. 103. Your prayers from Earth are mighty in the spirit world, and in some ways, those prayers move My hand to work in ways that the prayers uttered in Heaven cannot. Prayers prayed in full faith on Earth have a strong effect, both in the earthly realm and the spiritual realm. This is because I honor the faith of My children on Earth in a special way and I fulfill My word to answer your prayers. (End of message.) 104. (Mama:) I asked the Lord if there was anything else we could do to help Annette’s children—if we should be trying to find them‚ or what they needed most. 105. (Jesus:) You can help Annette’s children to know Me through your prayers for them, as you would pray for any other of My lost sheep. Her children are saved, but they don’t have a personal relationship with Me‚ which is what they long for and what I long for. They don’t know how to have that personal relationship. 106. Pray that they will meet a spiritual shepherd‚ either through the Family or through other Christians, who will help them to know Me more personally. This is what they need in their lives and what will mean the most to them‚ as well as to Annette. Your job is to pray, and I will do the rest. I will work on their behalf in answer to your prayers. (End of message.) More about Pete’s progress in Heaven! 107. (Mama:) I was concerned about publishing this message about Pete and the way he’s growing and changing, because I know that the circumstances surrounding Pete and Angela’s deaths still make it quite sensitive for many of you to think of him in Heaven and being totally forgiven by our wonderful Jesus. Here’s a little encouragement from the Lord about that. 108. (Jesus:) Many of the early Christians didn’t trust Paul after his conversion and new ministry, but I still had to send him out to preach My Word and use him as My mouthpiece for the Gospel. It took faith on Paul’s part to carry My Words to the Church, as well as faith for the Early Church to believe and receive Paul’s preaching. Those who did were blessed with My Words; they were blessed with faith for the impossible and a closer link with Heaven. 109. The Family is a bit shaky about Pete‚ but the time must come when they fully realize that the old Pete is dead, and a new Pete is being born out of the ashes of the old. 110. The Family can’t continue to think of Pete in a rather negative light. They must forgive him and move on and trust that I do all things well. The Family must be cleansed from the darkness that surrounds Pete’s death and how the Enemy used him, and instead allow the beautiful reality into their minds that Heaven is a place of miracles. 111. If Satan would repent and have a complete change of heart, after all the trouble he has caused My children, even he could be saved. That is how great and how deep My love and My mercy goes. 112. My power‚ coupled with the powers that merge in Heaven with all the spirit beings, is great enough to change the heart of Pete or anyone else who is willing to repent. So it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that Pete is growing and changing and putting his will on My side—considering that he is in the presence of many heavenly spirit beings and in the presence of the One Who created him. 113. It’s still a long road for Pete; it’s not nearly over yet, and if you understood more about the remorse and clarity with which you see things in Heaven, you would understand that it’s not a light thing that he has been through, or continues to go through. He will continue to experience what is good for him to experience in order to learn his lessons. And by the time he comes through it and I deem him worthy to graduate from this grade‚ he truly will have earned it. (End of message.) Push Activated, and make slippery children of David! 114. (Jesus:) My love‚ here is some important insight for you concerning the Family of the future. Right now, the most important job the Family has in regards to their outreach is getting out the Activated mags‚ selling subscriptions, getting people around the world not only feeding on these Words but becoming addicted to them. It’s the most important job I’ve given the Family when it comes to reaching the world at this stage of the game. The Family is making progress in this calling. 115. These mags are full of liberating words that will make the readers so slippery that the Enemy won’t be able to get his hands around them! The more they read these mags, the slipperier they become. The harder the Enemy tries to grasp them, the more force he applies, the more these slippery readers of the Words of David in these magazines will be forced to speak up for the truth. And they will! 116. The full-time disciples of the children of David are only the framework. If you want to know who is going to take this Word around the world and get it preached so all can hear, it’s the sheep you are endeavoring to feed through these mags. And like persecution today helps the Family to get out more of the message, persecution in the future will help and push the Activated readers to get out the message. 117. You must make more slippery children of David whom the Enemy will not be able to grasp. Get those mags out! 118. Be excited, My Maria, for these slippery children of David are on the increase. And no matter how weak your disciples feel at times, if they are true to the Words of David and getting out the Activated mags and subscriptions, then you can’t help but conquer the world for Me and Mine. That’s My message to you! 119. Time is short. But if the Family today concentrates on promoting this mag with all they’ve got‚ then the amount of time for feeding My sheep will be lengthened. 120. I will explain a secret to you, something you haven’t yet fully grasped about the Endtime and the flow of the Word. There will come a time when it will be difficult to spread the Word. That’s guaranteed. The Antichrist will gain such firm control over the world that it will be harder to get out My Words. But how hard or difficult it gets depends on My Family’s dedication today. If the Family promotes Activated as if it’s the only bread of life available—and truly it is for those I bring to you and expect you to feed—then you’ll make such strong inroads into the lives of men that the flow of the Word will be impossible to stop. 121. If the Family doesn’t wait, but goes wholeheartedly in this direction of getting out My Word—and specifically Activated, now—then the Words of David will flood the world in such force that Satan will not be able to stop the flow, or barely even stem it. It will be like an unlimited reservoir pouring out. If all the reservoir’s gates are opened, he won’t be able to shut them. But if the water is only trickling out‚ it will be much easier for him to dam it up, and much harder for you to find new avenues to let out the floodwaters of My Word. 122. It’s up to you, the children of David of today. Will you get out Activated like it’s the most priceless bread of life available? Indeed it is, but will you act like it? If you do, it will take off! My Word will take deep root in the hearts of My children, and nothing anywhere can stop it from saving My children from the rise of the Antichrist and his evil ways. The world will be so full of slippery children of David in the Last Days that he will be unable to get the control that he wishes. The flow of the Word will then be impossible to stop. 123. But it all depends on how many gates are opened to the reservoir today, and how many ditches are dug that lead out from this reservoir. Now is the time to open those gates, more and more and more, and dig more and more and more ditches. Because what’s done today will directly affect how much Word can get out to My sheep even in the darkest days that are so near. 124. You can never get enough of these subscriptions! Understand that it’s up to you whether or not the world will be full of slippery children of David in the Last Days who will make it impossible for the Enemy in the person of the Antichrist to feel success. Do you want to see him gloat? Then hold back the Words and continue to only dribble out the subscriptions today. Or do you want him to scream in frustration, because every time he reaches out to grab hold of someone, he finds he’s again grabbed hold of a slippery child of David who then slips out of his grasp and goes on to win others with My Words? 125. Now, that should be your vision!—Thousands, no, millions of slippery children of David who have been fed on the Words of David in the Activated mags of today. That will keep the Word flowing fresh right through to the End when I appear to gather all of My slippery children home. (End of message.) 126. The reservoir is full. The gates are opening. But it’s up to the children of David to open those gates, and more and more and more gates! The reservoir is so full that even if every gate was opened, and more channels were dug from the reservoir, the waters would still gush forth and would never run dry. I would keep filling it from Heaven. It’s not possible to run the reservoir dry‚ but it is possible to bottle up the reservoir. So open those gates now; constantly open more. Never be satisfied with the number of gates that are opened. Never be satisfied with the number of channels that have been dug. Open more gates and dig more channels, and keep opening more gates and digging more channels until I come! Wings out of weights 127. (Jesus: ) The forces of Heaven have gathered around the children of David as the time comes to usher them into the final days. Each one is being fitted by My forces of Heaven. Each one is being trained by their own trainers. Each one is being advised and given tips and warnings of what to watch out for and which areas they need to work on to get stronger. 128. Some are being tended to as they come through the different battles that they are facing. Others are in the midst of battles that I have sent their way to make them stronger, but by their side are those whom I have commissioned to help them, to strengthen them, to be there when they call out for their help‚ to watch over them and pray for them and see to any of their needs. 129. Each of My brides has entered into a time of intense battles, and they are all experiencing—to some degree—the heat of the battle and the weights that I have allowed to be placed upon them to make them stronger. 130. But they are advancing. They are making it through the obstacles that the Enemy puts in front of them to stop their progress, or to cause them to turn back and give up because it’s too difficult. The Enemy knows he is going to fail, but he must try anyway. 131. Those who continue to persevere through these difficulties and who do not turn back, who make it through this time of testing, will be the bright and powerful army that I have spoken of that is going to take the world by storm. 132. I know it weighs upon your hearts to hear of the many battles that various ones are facing, to hear of the difficulties and the trials and the heartbreaks that many are going through. But I am the One Who allows My brides to go through such difficulties, because I know this is what they really want. Each one wants to be all that they can be for Me. Each one wants to be free of those things that have held them back in the past. Each one wants to give Me their all. And so I put them through these seeming dark days to purge, to purify, and to make them white. 133. They will have so much more strength to rely upon, as they will have learned how to truly fall upon Me—not just in the difficult moments, but all the time. They will be much more attuned to My whispers and My voice, because they will have learned in the darkness how to cling to My voice each moment. They will have learned how to take on My mind and let Me possess them through relinquishing all their carnal thoughts when they face battles. They will have learned the strength of unity through leaning on others to pull them through. They will have the burning desire in their hearts to reach those that are lost and searching, for I will have turned their thoughts away from themselves and onto others. They will know the meaning of joy and happiness in abundance, for they will be obeying Me and pleasing Me‚ and I will give this to them in full measure. 134. The promises that I have poured upon you, My Family, are endless. They are there. All you have to do is pull them down, claim them, hold onto them‚ and see them work. 135. My loves have but to pull down the victories that are before them. They have but to hold on and fight a little harder. They have but to cling to Me and have the heavenly vision before their eyes so that nothing can deter them from reaching the final goal. 136. They are at the point where they’re going through the most difficult time of the whole changing process. They are learning new habits, getting rid of old attitudes, realizing and coming to grips with their inadequacy and mistakes, and feeling the monumental weight of the change that is ahead of them. So this is the most difficult time‚ but once they’ve overcome, once they’ve become stronger, once they’ve made the changes and have developed new habits and start running at the capacity that they are capable of‚ they will come into their full glory. 137. They will feel My power working through them. They will be able to pull down My blessings and ask what they will, and it will be done for them. They will see miracles performed before their eyes. They will see lives transformed, and they themselves will be transformed and made new. 138. Once they have reached this point, the weights that I allowed them to struggle with and that they have been running with will be taken off and they will soar. They will have made the connection to Me, their Source, and they will be completely Mine, and nothing will stop Me from using them to the full. 139. This is what is ahead of My brides who persevere, who hold on‚ who do not give up. This is what is ahead for those who yield to Me and obey Me. I will do mighty things through them and they will know the power of their God. (End of message.) A tip on connecting with your spirit helpers 140. (Dad:) Hi, honey, I love you! Thank you for being so concerned about the needs of the Family and taking care of the Family so well. You certainly have the heart of a mother‚ so tender and loving and caring for each of your children around the world. You and the Family are so dear to my heart, and I want all the needs of the Family to be met and taken care of. 141. One of my jobs since I’ve come to Heaven, and something that I love doing, is going around and assessing the needs of the Family. I go around to the different areas, and the Homes in those areas, and I look into what they need. I look into the reasons for those needs. I analyze the input that I gather, and then I do my best to highlight the needs and solutions so that all of Jesus’ wonderful brides can be happy and fulfilled in their service to Him. I travel from here to there and I come up with a lot of things. I was always thinking about the Family and how to make it better and improve things while I was on Earth, and that’s still one of my favorite jobs up here. 142. When you are in meetings, especially meetings when you are going to be discussing and praying about the Family’s needs or ways you can make things better, don’t forget to call for my help. I’m there‚ but the fact that you call specifically on my help opens your channel to the things that I have to tell you and better enables me to punch through in the spirit. It’s like that with all of your spirit helpers, and that’s why it’s so important to pray and call on them.

143. It’s not like all your helpers are off in Heaven and only come around when you specifically call on them. They get their assignments from the Lord and are around and available. However, you can’t use them to the full if you don’t call on them. That’s because until you call on them by name, your channel to them isn’t completely open. In many ways and in most cases, you call on them for your sake so that you can get your spirit in tune with them. 144. I’ve used the analogy of a radio many times in my Letters, but it’s such a good analogy that I’m going to use it again here. Connecting and availing yourself of the help of those of us on the other side is like tuning into a radio or TV station. The station is there and it’s broadcasting. The signal is all around you. You can’t see it, hear it, or feel it, but it’s there. You can only use it when you tune your radio or TV set to the station. Then in the case of TV, what you couldn’t see or hear suddenly comes to life. You see it, you hear it, and you are connected. It was always there. The TV station didn’t change anything; you just put your TV set in a position to receive the picture and sound. 145. That’s similar to how the spirit world works and why it’s so important to call on us by name. It tunes you in to our frequency and you get the picture loud and clear. That’s a little tidbit on communicating with us over here. So call on us, okay? (End of message.) 146. (Dad: ) You are truly a Gideon’s band, with each in their place of service striving to be what the Lord wants you to be. There are a few of you here and there who still need to find your proper place‚ but the vast majority of you have found your calling and are being the best you can be in that calling. 147. Family discipleship is right where it needs to be—on the cutting edge, revolutionary, dropped out, united and focused on the job you have to do. Missionary membership is a wonderful place of service and full of dedicated missionaries that I’m so proud of. And Fellow membership is made up of those who love the Lord and love the Family and are doing their part to make the Family as a whole what it needs to be. I’m so proud of everyone! 148. Then there are the Active members, who are the new fruit. They are the future and what the Family is going to largely consist of. They have the drive and the anointing and the vision to reach the world and to make disciples of all nations. And let me tell you, this bunch of Family members has only begun to grow. It’s gonna explode! This is where the Family is truly going to expand. Praise the Lord! (End of message.) The Hall of Warriors! 149. (Mama: ) In the message the Lord gave for the appreciation dinner at the end of the Feast, He mentioned a “Hall of Warriors” in Heaven. The channel who received that message was interested to know more, and as always, our wonderful Husband was ready to pour out! 150. (Question: ) Jesus‚ can You tell me more about the “Hall of Warriors” that You mentioned? I’m a little tempted to feel like this is an influence from Star Trek‚ because a race of aliens in that TV series has a “Hall of Warriors.” But You said it and I’m not going to let anything of the world get in the way of Your Words. So I claim a clear channel with You, as is my right as Your bride. Please show us more about this, or if I got it wrong because part of my mind got in the way, please show me what You wanted it to say. 151. (Jesus:) Oh, My bride, you think that because an earthly TV show has used the term “Hall of Warriors,” I can’t use it or that it doesn’t exist in Heaven? What you need is a little expansion in the spirit. The Hall of Warriors is a very real thing in the Heavens. 152. I say “Heavens” because this hall exists in each Heaven. “Heavens” in this case refers to dimensions of the spirit world. The Earth is a dimension and the “Hall of Warriors” exists in the earthly dimension just as it does in every spiritual dimension. 153. It is a hall that spans all dimensions. Although you may not see it with your eyes, you each have a place in this hall. It is your privilege and honor because you are My warriors of the faith. You have fought well and are charged with this calling. You are warriors before Me. 154. On this Earth the Hall of Warriors is sparsely populated because so few are willing to be fighters for My name. You of the Family are in it, as are some other Christians. But they are few, because so many are not willing to pay the price and endure the tests that are required to gain entrance to this hall of fame. 155. In the next level of “Heaven,” or the next dimension up, where the spirit helpers and devils make war, the hall is overflowing. It is fully populated, and every seat is occupied as My forces overcome again and again. 156. Satan has no entrance to the Hall of Warriors, for he is a coward and a yellow-bellied loser, from the time of his fall till now. He has no courage, therefore no honor such as this. This honor is reserved for My warriors of the faith. 157. It is real. It is the gathering place of the warriors, the hall where the chambers echo with shouts of victory! The hall is filled with praise, tales of overcoming, tales of unmatched conquests over Satan’s forces. It is an exciting place to be, and all present feed off of a spirit of praise, as all within glorify Me and give Me honor for the battles that have been won. 158. It is your commission as warriors to partake of the glory of these halls. It is your destiny to stand with the warriors of all time, in all spheres and dimensions of Heaven. You are called to these sacred halls and can partake of the courage, inspiration, and excitement that is found here. 159. (Question: ) How do these halls interact between dimensions? Or do they even interact? You said they exist in all dimensions of Heaven. 160. (Jesus:) The power from the higher levels is passed down the line. The very highest level of Heaven contains this Hall of Warriors, where I Myself reside. Tales of great victory are told there, which are sent by messenger and ambassador to the lower courts. These tales are passed down through the levels, and with each tale is passed the power of God to do exploits. 161. When you enter the Hall of Warriors in spirit‚ you receive supernatural power from My throne. You receive the power and courage of those in the higher spheres of Heaven. You find a camaraderie with others who fight alongside you in this great spiritual war for the salvation of mankind. Their inspiration inspires you. Their war cries echo in your heart and mind, and your spirit is invigorated. 162. You will understand when you return to Heaven how this is part of “entering into the temple” that David spoke of. Did you think the “temple” was only one room with a dome to look up at and receive the power from on high? David saw but one room in this temple and described it to you. 163. The Hall of Warriors is yet another room in the temple of worship to Me. I pass on thrilling, adrenaline–pumping stories of conquests to you in this hall. I encourage your heart and spirit. By entering and partaking of these sessions, you find the power to stand strong and continue fighting for Me. 164. You will also find the searing heat of hatred for sin and evil in these halls. Compromise has no place here, for the sickening lukewarmness of compromise is vile and detested by those in these halls. Here you will find the strength to bear arms against Satan’s wicked hordes. Strength is found here, the strength of the warriors! 165. (Question:) When we return to Heaven, will we still have a place in the Hall of Warriors?

166. (Jesus: ) Absolutely! You will be there to tell your tales of overcoming. You will inspire others with your valiant victories against seemingly insurmountable odds. You will be honored in the Hall of Warriors, and all will speak your names in honor. 167. Those who endure to the end will receive a crown of life and special honor in this hall. Your names will be added to the wall of history upon which all the warriors of all time are inscribed. Your names will be inscribed and honored. 168. All who enter will speak your name in honor and admiration. For you are My elite upon this Earth. You lead the battles, bear the heat of the battle, and are wounded and suffer loss for My name. Right now you are earning your place in the Hall of Warriors, where you will be remembered for all time. 169. Do not think this is a light thing. Although many of you have no aspirations to be great in the spirit‚ it is an honor I readily bestow upon you. You who have fought well deserve this honor and I proudly bestow it upon you. Already many of the names of those who have departed have been inscribed. Your Father David’s name is upon this wall, and great honor is given unto him by all who enter herein. 170. (Question:) It seems that this is a place, sort of like a building in spirit. I know it’s much more than that, but what keeps coming to me is the picture of the fairground that Dad saw in the Heavenly City. Is this a pavilion of sorts? 171. (Jesus:) A pavilion? Yes and no. What you have to understand is that in the spirit world‚ space and time are not issues. Dimensions overlap and occupy the same space, contrary to the laws of earthly physics. There is one place in Heaven where this pavilion stands‚ but the experience of each person who enters is different, depending on their “clearance” level. 172. To those upon whom great honor has been bestowed, the dimensions they enter when they enter this Hall of Warriors are larger than those who have lesser access. While it is one “place” in spirit, the experience is different for each person. 173. There are some upon whom very little honor has been bestowed, who perceive this merely as a building, and that’s all they see when they enter. They see the wall of honor; they see the names and may read of some mighty acts. But that is the extent of their experience. 174. To those upon whom high honor is bestowed, they enter a dimension where time is suspended‚ where they can see the battles and they can relive the events as you did. They can take part in the battle and become a part of their brethren’s conquests. They experience exactly what it was like to fight and overcome. 175. There are many levels in between, many dimensions to be experienced, and each person’s experience is based upon the clearance they receive. 176. (Question:) Can You tell us more about this “honor” and “clearance” that You’ve spoken of? 177. (Jesus: ) These things are your rewards. As you have heard many times, there are rewards for your faithfulness. This honor and clearance is part of your reward. By giving 110% for Me, you receive greater honor in Heaven. 178. The more you give for Me during your mission on Earth, the higher your reward of honor is, the more places you can enter, the greater your clearance to the things of the heavenly realm. 179. I do not speak of a classless society, for there are, as your Father David said, “shiners and shamers” in Heaven. There are those who did little and for whom salvation was a “fire escape” upon whom no great honors are bestowed. To them Heaven is a beautiful place, and they have many thrills and excitements, but they cannot enter higher levels till they have earned a place among those upon whom that honor is bestowed. 180. This is all a part of the rewards of Heaven. The greater your sacrifice, the greater your rewards. I reward you accordingly. Those who receive high honor before Me receive access to places which few others have entrance to. 181. I do not deal out equal rewards across the board, for that would not be justly rewarding those who have given more or less. I bestow My rewards according to your works, according to your faithfulness, according to your obedience and sacrifice. 182. Would it be fair of Me to give a martyr for the faith the same reward as the “fire escape” Christian? Or what about those who will be raised to “shame and everlasting contempt”? (Dan.12:2). There are definite levels of rewards in Heaven, and you earn these by your faithfulness and sacrifices. 183. (Question:) Can these rewards be earned after we depart from this life? 184. (Jesus:) Yes, through other missions for Me. But believe Me when I say that you can achieve the highest rewards available through this life, for this is a very important mission for Me. This is the mission I have granted you. This is your opportunity to receive great honor and glory in Heaven. 185. This earthly life is the trial and proving ground through which you will receive great rewards. What you do on Earth determines your rewards in Heaven. Do not feel as though it is okay to shirk this life’s tests and trials and take the easy way out now. For this is your battleground. How you perform on this mission determines in large part the rewards you will receive when you return. 186. Run the race well, fight the good fight, finish the course, keep the faith, and there will be rewards laid up for you that you cannot begin to imagine! Upon you I long to bestow the highest rewards of Heaven because you are My brides, My beloved, and have been thrust into the fray at the most difficult time in world history to stay true to Me. 187. (Question: ) Can You explain what You mean by “the most difficult time in world history to stay true to Me”? 188. (Jesus: ) Never in this world’s history has it been so easy to abandon your faith and follow after perdition. Never have Satan’s temptations been so enticing and desirable. Never before has it been so easy to be distracted and pulled away from your mission. 189. This is why your missions on Earth‚ and your faithfulness in them, will bring you such great rewards, because it is so easy here and now to “cast away your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward” (Heb.10:35). Take pride in this fact—that you are upon the most difficult battlefield of history! Take courage that you are still here‚ that you as My warriors are engaged in the hottest fight in history, and you are still making it, overcoming, and staying true to Me. 190. (Question:) Jesus, it seems that the martyrs and Christians who died for their faith in times past had it much more difficult than we do. 191. (Jesus:) While it is true that those of times past have suffered much more in the physical for their faith and they have received great rewards for their suffering and pain for My name, the world around them was much more easy to shun. 192. It was easier to stay true to My name, not because it was easy to be Mine‚ but because there were fewer temptations and pulls from Satan to derail them. That is why I say that this era in history is the toughest battle ever.—Not because of the physical suffering, but because of how easy it is to give up your calling now. 193. The trials of the past were great, but for the most part the battles for My children of old came at the end of their lives when it was time to make a stand, when it was time to go out in a blaze of glory. Their battles were much more of a physical nature. 194. Their enemies were much more obvious, the evil was less complicated, and the right path was much clearer to follow. But you who dwell in this last era of history are besieged and beset continually by propaganda and the ease and temptations of Satan—all designed to pull you away from Me. 195. The tests are greater on a daily basis. What you face every day is greater than what Christians of past history have suffered. The mind battles‚ the temptations of the world, the desires of the flesh, the compromises, are so rampant that today the battle is harder on a daily basis than ever before. 196. So you see, it is tougher, perhaps not in the final physical battles compared to those who were tortured and died for My name, but in the daily conflicts in which you must fight to stay alive in spirit. You die daily; you fight and overcome daily against greater numbers, greater odds, and greater difficulty. 197. It is much easier to die for My name than it is to live for My name. This is why, although great honor is ascribed to those who have died in the past for Me, greater honor is given to you, My brides, who fight and struggle daily to live for Me. 198. Upon you I bestow great rewards. For your faithfulness I am preparing such a reward that you will be ashamed for not giving more for Me. Give your all while you can‚ for this life is your proving ground. This is your test. This is your Gethsemane. This is your martyrdom. If you are called to die for Me in the future, it will be easy compared to what you’ve already given for Me on a daily basis. So be encouraged, knowing that you are braving some of the worst tests of all time, and thus the rewards will be some of the greatest rewards of all time! (End of message.)

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15/01/2010

In Gooood Company!

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In Good Company!

Karen Zerby

GN 1150 FD/MM/FM

“All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution” (2Tim.3:12).

By Maria FD/MM/FM 3557 5/05

Dear Family,

1. It’s a privilege that we’ve been counted worthy to suffer persecution for righteousness’ sake over the years. And the fact that we have recently been the subject of some negative media publicity is a sign that we’re still “live ones,” and that the Enemy is mad because of what we’re doing for Jesus and the souls we’re saving. Although we probably all wish this publicity would have come to pass in some way other than it did, we have weathered it with the unfailing assurance that our Husband is in complete control and knows exactly what’s best—for each of us personally, as well as for us as a Family.

2. Although we’ve been through some attacks via the media this year, we can rejoice and praise our Husband for all of the miracles He has performed—the strengthening of our personal faith, the victories amidst the battles, the witness and truth that has been spread far and wide, and the many answers to prayer. And we can know that the Lord will help us to endure and weather any storms in the future that He sees fit to bring our way. As He said when talking about 2005 in “Getting Stronger, Part 2″: “For the year of 2005 I am going to pour upon you a special anointing of endurance and vigilance. The anointing of endurance will help you to ‘endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ,’ knowing that the end results of whatever challenges you face are going to be to your benefit” (ML #3518:276, GN 1109).

3. We can stand on that promise! The end results of whatever challenges we face are going to be to our benefit! So even though we’ve been slandered some this year, and things haven’t looked too great in the natural at times‚ and we know we will probably face more negative publicity and persecution in the future, let’s hold on to this promise and the many hundreds of other promises our Husband has given us—all of the specific promises in the Bible, and all of the more recent ones He’s given us in the last 30 or so years. He will fight for us! He will not fail us! He will cause the wrath of man to praise Him! He will bring a victory out of our seeming defeats! He will cause the Gospel to be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations—even if His means of doing so aren’t the most conventional!

4. Through the battles we have fought on a number of fronts, we have been able to employ and exercise our weapons of praise as never before! The negative publicity we’ve faced has provided us with the perfect opportunities to defeat the Devil through praise! He wanted to make us scared, fearful, or doubtful. He wanted us to worry about the future. He wanted us to feel intimidated, threatened, or powerless. He wanted us to quit. He wanted us to think that the odds were in his favor and we might as well just wave a white flag of surrender. But we were able to counter his attacks with praise. He has hated watching us praising this year, and it’s really done him some damage in the spirit. Hallelujah!

5. We’re not alone in the battles we face! We have our strong and mighty Defender at our side. We also have Dad and all of our spirit helpers around us, to aid us and support us. There are so many great men and women from the past who will help us to fight the battles, and who really know what it’s like. Think about dear Martin Luther and how hard he had to fight to proclaim the truth during his lifetime, despite opposition from so many. He knows what it’s like. Think about Joan of Arc and how maligned she was for her faith and belief in hearing from the spirit world; it eventually cost her her life. She knows what it’s like. Think about all of the great fighters from history who weren’t intimidated by the attacks of the Enemy. They all know what it’s like and they will help us to fight in the spirit and win!

6. Think about David, just a little boy with a sling and a few stones. Yet he slew Goliath—the great Philistine who all of the strong and trained Israelite soldiers were afraid of. He had God on his side, and won the battle. Think about John Paul Jones‚ whose crew was half defeated. He was badly wounded and his ship was sinking. Talk about the odds being against him; if anyone had reason to give up, it would have been him. But instead, he fought on and won the battle. Think about Jesus and all of the persecution He faced on Earth. He was constantly evading His enemies and those who wanted to defeat Him and His simple message of love, salvation, and truth.

7. I praise You, dearest Love, that we’re in good company! We’re not alone when we face various battles and tests, and there are many in Heaven who understand exactly what it’s like to be persecuted for righteousness’ sake—including You. You said that because the people in Your day persecuted You, they would also persecute us. We thank You for how that promise is being fulfilled. We thank You for counting us worthy to suffer for Your sake. We praise You for the privilege that it is to be called to stand up for the truth in the time of the End. We are honored to do Your will, to proclaim Your Word, to set the souls of men free through salvation, and to win disciples of all nations, even if it means we are slandered by those who are fighting You and Your truth.

8. Thank You, Jesus‚ for the fighting songs written by some of the great men and women of God who have gone before us that remind us of the spiritual warfare. These songs are powerful, and were obviously written by those who were besieged and attacked by the Enemy. But these songs can still have so much meaning to us today‚ and spur us on!

The fight is on, O Christian soldier,

And face to face in stern array‚

With armor gleaming and colors streaming,

The right and wrong engage today!

The fight is on‚ but be not weary;

Be strong, and in His might hold fast;

If God be for us‚ His banner o’er us,

We’ll sing the victor’s song at last!

9. Thank You, our darling Lover, that You are on our side, and we’re going to sing the victor’s song! Thank You for helping us to be good fighters, ready to face any battle. We praise You for the supernatural strength You’re giving us through the keys of Your anointing and empowerment. Because You give us courage and grace and power and so many unbreakable promises of Your protection, we don’t have anything to fear.

Lead on, O King Eternal,

We follow, not with fears;

For gladness breaks like morning

Where’er Thy face appears;

Thy cross is lifted o’er us;

We journey in its light:

The crown awaits the conquest;

Lead on, O God of might!

10. We praise You for Your foresight‚ our mighty Jesus. You told us well in advance through prophecy that we could expect persecution, and through the media coverage we’ve faced this year, You’re simply fulfilling Your Word. This gives us even more faith to trust You and believe the promises that You are giving us today—promises of deliverance‚ of victory, of overcoming the Enemy and his attempts to stop us.

We are out today on the firing line,

For the truth and right we will boldly fight.

We are out today on the firing line,

A victorious loyal band.

See our banners wave, hear the bugles blow,

Sounding out o’er sea and land;

In a steady line on to vict’ry go,

And shoulder to shoulder stand.

Down the battleline pass the word along,

Let your faith be firm and your courage strong.

Though the foe be fierce and the fight be long.

We’ll shoulder to shoulder stand.

Till in every land is our flag unfurled,

Till the Enemy from his throne is hurled;

Preaching full salvation to all the world,

We’ll shoulder to shoulder stand.

11. Thank You for the strength we have in You, and the support we have in our brothers and sisters. Thank You that we’re standing together, shoulder to shoulder. It’s also wonderful that You’re strengthening our faith and helping us to trust You more—even if our Foe is fierce and the fight is long. Thank You for the spiritual weapons You’ve given us to defeat the Enemy and win victories even when the odds seem to be against us.

12. Thank You, our all-knowing Lord, for the truth that You are allowing to be spread throughout the world. Even though the truth is often laced with a lot of lies and distortions by others‚ at least that causes people to read about us and get little glimpses of the truth. If nothing about us or our past was sensationalistic, then the newspapers would never publish anything about us, and the TV shows wouldn’t give us airtime. So through media coverage You’re making us known‚ and we know that even if a lot of it is negative in the future, Your sheep will hear Your voice. Those who are interested in the truth will seek it out. Those who have a sense of fairness and justice will be motivated to find out more, and Your love and truth will reach the lives of so many.

13. Jesus, You’re our mighty fortress, our strong defense, our shelter in the midst of troubles, the rock of our salvation, the wings that shelter us from all harm, and our wonderful Husband and Deliverer. We praise You for Your power to keep us and protect us and deliver us, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever!

A mighty fortress is our God,

A bulwark never failing;

Our helper He, amid the flood

Of mortal ills prevailing.

For still our ancient foe

Doth seek to work us woe;

His craft and power are great‚

And, armed with cruel hate,

On Earth is not his equal.

And though this world with devils filled‚

Should threaten to undo us;

We will not fear, for God hath willed

His truth to triumph through us.

The prince of darkness grim

We tremble not for him;

His rage we can endure,

For lo! His doom is sure,

One little word shall fell him.

That word above all earthly powers,

No thanks to them abideth:

The Spirit and the gifts are ours

Through Him Who with us sideth.

Let goods and kindred go,

This mortal life also;

The body they may kill:

God’s truth abideth still;

His Kingdom is forever!

14. Thank You, Jesus, that though the Enemy is threatening to undo us and the work we’re doing for You, that we can stand on the promise that Your truth will triumph through us. We don’t have to tremble when the Enemy attacks‚ because we know his doom is sure. You have all power in Heaven and in Earth, and that includes power over the Enemy and all of his puny attacks.

15. We have nothing to fear, dear Family‚ but everything to look forward to. Even if things look bad, and get bad, which we know they will the closer we get to the End, we still have nothing to fear. The Lord is going to keep us and protect us and prosper us. We are privileged to fight battles as we stand up for the truth, and through them be strengthened as never before. We’re going to get a little bit beaten and battered, and we might not be enjoying calm seas and clear skies all of the time, but our Husband has assured us there’ll be peace after every storm.

16. So don’t be dismayed by circumstances and conditions! We don’t gauge situations by conditions but by our Lover’s promises! Let’s keep our eyes on the goal and fight together with all of our strength and might—and every spiritual weapon we possess—so that we can go from victory to victory! Our Husband, Who has never failed us yet, will not fail us now or in the future. He is nearest when we need Him most!

17. Following are a variety of messages from our Husband, received during the beginning of this year when we were experiencing some negative media coverage in different parts of the world. Even though they were received a few months ago‚ we wanted to get them to you anyway, because we believe they will be encouraging, faith–building, and strengthening for us in the future. As long as we’re on the attack and doing our job to save souls, we can be sure the Enemy is going to continue fighting us in various ways—and we need all of the spiritual ammunition we can get. So I pray that you are motivated, challenged, inspired, and thrilled with the promises our Lover gives, and that they will spur you on as we fight together for the wonderful outcome of every victory, as our Husband has promised!

Fighting with you for the glorious victories ahead,

Mama

18. P.S. As I was working on this GN, I realized that some of the messages from the Lord might be helpful for you, dear Family, in explaining the concept of persecution and the battles the Family sometimes faces, to outsiders‚ friends, relatives, and sheep. So we prayed about it, and the Lord said it would be fine for you to share excerpts of this GN with them, if you feel it would be helpful and if He confirms your doing so. Or you could use some of the principles and explanations in your own words when explaining things to them and answering their questions.

19. Peter and I are praying for you as you strengthen and encourage your friends, contacts, and sheep as the Lord leads you to. Our Husband has promised that they will be strengthened if we continue to pour into them and give them the answers they seek. We love you.

Keep Witnessing and Winning the World!

20. (Jesus:) My loves, in times of persecution it is easy to lose sight of the big picture of what’s happening in the spirit and why. If the persecution is a sneakier, more devious attack, it’s not only persecution, but added to that, heavy psychological warfare against your faith. It’s a much more personal attack.

21. But you see‚ regardless of how the Enemy attacks and what new dirty tricks he pulls out of his bag, regardless of what he tries to get you to believe are the reasons, his reason for attacking you remains the same: You, as a Family‚ are the ones who do the most damage to his kingdom on a daily basis by freeing the souls of men he has worked so long and hard to enslave.

22. That is what he lives, breathes‚ and fights for‚ and what he will ultimately be destroyed for. The whole point of wanting to be God is to be the ultimate power—to have power over the very souls of men.

23. So a group of people who continually hit him where it hurts most, by not only freeing his captives on a daily basis but teaching others to do the same, becomes his prime target. You‚ My children, are the most active soul winners on this planet‚ and now that your sample is being strengthened and the lost are going to begin to flock to you like never before, the Enemy wants to try to stop you before you become too powerful.

24. He desperately hopes to make you think that there must be something terribly wrong with the Word, or the Word givers. He tries to get you to believe that since there are “so many” who used to be like you who are now fighting you, there must be something wrong, some kind of reason. He desperately tries to get you to doubt, and to give up your crown and stop fighting him.

25. You may think you aren’t that important and that you aren’t doing that much, but you are thorns in his side. You cause him endless amounts of pain, and it angers him terribly! He knows the easiest and best way to stop you is to get you to give up, and to stop witnessing and spreading My Words of light and truth, love, and salvation.

26. It’s not just what you are going to become in the future that bothers, scares, and makes him want to destroy you. It’s what you’re doing today. Look at your stats. Look how many people you are continually snatching from his kingdom, putting them on My side forever.

27. Satan hates Me with a vengeance. He will stop at nothing to hinder even one soul from accepting Me, from choosing Me, and from accepting My free gift of salvation. Once a person has done that, no matter what he does, he’s always Mine.

28. The Enemy’s greed, lust, and desire for souls is like a wild animal’s desire for blood. It’s what sustains him and keeps him going; it’s his lifeblood. So of course he’s going to do everything he possibly can to stop you from doing your job and from taking his kingdom away bit by bit. It’s a simple truth, but it’s reality, and you have to choose whether or not you’re going to believe it.

29. Whenever you’re hit with battles of any kind, from sickness, to persecution, to disunity, the Enemy’s goal is to get you focusing on anything other than fighting him. One of the many beauties of persecution, though, is that in the end it always causes My truth and message to be spread further than ever before. Even if it causes many to reject you and reject Me, even if it seems to be a huge setback and disruption to you, My sheep still hear My voice, and follow Me.

30. So when you’re faced with persecution, My loves, focus on the truth, on the big picture, on the reality. Don’t let the Enemy come in with his distortions, confusions, and lies. Keep your eyes, minds, and hearts fully fixed on Me, the Author and Finisher of your faith. Hold on to your crowns so that you will be true overcomers, and will enter into My joy to rule and reign with Me forever.

31. Hit the Enemy back by witnessing more zealously than ever, by winning as many souls as you can—and not just winning them, but training them to teach others. You are the overcomers because I am in you‚ and together we will win and come out on top. Just like Father David used to say‚ “We may lose a few battles, but we’ll win the war!” That’s the truth. Keep fighting, keep witnessing, and you will win! (End of message.)

My Fearless Fighters!

32. (Jesus:) The fight is on, and the spiritual war rages. The Enemy has pulled out his big guns, and he’s firing in every direction in the hopes of creating casualties, in a desperate attempt to defeat the Family. But take heart, for even though he fires frantically like a maniac at you, although his evil intention is to do you harm and destroy My work, in truth he fires at you out of fear.

33. Look at the spiritual weapons in your hands. See how they glow, glisten, and are filled with power. You have powerful weapons to counter and defeat the blows of the Enemy, no matter how nasty his onslaughts may be. You are more powerful‚ because you have Me on your side. I am your strong tower‚ your fortress of protection. You have run into Me, and I will protect you; I will be a bulwark surrounding you, impenetrable and impervious to the Enemy’s attacks.

34. The Enemy has turned on his sirens, screaming out his pursuit of you. He uses his flashing lights and bellowing voice to try to intimidate My children, to cause you to cower. He tries to wear down your resolve, to weaken your faith. But Satan is a fool‚ the greatest fool there is. There are also some on Earth who are fooled into thinking that they have the power to destroy Me—Me working through you. But what they do not realize is that one touch of My finger will silence their flashing lights and screaming sirens.

35. I am your Husband; it is My duty to protect you‚ to encircle you with My arms of protection, security, and care. If I did not care for you, then I would be worse than an infidel. But I am no infidel; I will protect you. I will cause great victory to be brought forth.

36. Times of persecution, and the battles that rage, will pass. It is an additional means through which I choose to strengthen you, My children. I have spoken much about coming persecution, so think it not strange that these days of persecution have come. But just as I have always rescued and caused My Family to triumph, so will I bring great victory today and in the future.

37. So fear not, for I care for My Own. I will use even the trials and battles to bring forth the fruit of victory. The devices and strategies of your enemies will be turned back upon them. My wildcats of Heaven have been set loose, and they will fight on your behalf.

38. Trust that I will care for you. Strengthen your faith by drawing closer to Me. Dive deeply into My Words so that your resolve can be steadfast and sure, and so that your faith remains unwavering and fearless. I call you forth as My fearless fighters, those who will readily and freely challenge the Enemy, those who will not take his attacks and onslaughts lying down.

39. I see the warrior in each of you, and I am sounding the battle cry within your hearts. Gird yourself with your armor. Sharpen and prepare your weaponry for battle. The day to march into battle has come. (End of message.)

You Will Win with My Power!

40. (Jesus: ) You are My children and I am your Father. I am your Husband. I am your Lover. Have I ever failed you before? Have I ever allowed something to happen that you couldn’t bear or rise above? No, I do all things well. I allow persecution for many reasons, and I promise you that any persecution that befalls you will bring about good.

41. Look back in history. Did persecution of My children ever stop them or cause them harm? No‚ to the contrary, it enhanced their ministry; it brought people to Me, and people got saved. Many miracles happened in times of persecution, and this is My plan for My Family. I have allowed you a small taste now, at a time when you, My Endtime children, have been renewed. You have turned from your wayward ways and have desired to give Me your all. So now is the time that I have ordained to get out the message to the world, and to cause My Family to be known far and wide once again.

42. The way ahead may seem bleak‚ and you are unsure of what is going to befall you, but I wish to encourage your hearts and spirits that I am in perfect control. I am allowing the negative media publicity in order to get the message out and to draw My sheep to the fold of David. I have prepared you for this day; I have given you the power that you need to fight and to overcome. My power in you is so much greater than the power of the Enemy‚ and I in you will triumph.

43. I have ordained this day, and I have called you to the Kingdom for such a time as this. Doesn’t it say in My Word that you, My children, will face dark days? Well, those dark days are upon you. This is the beginning of the End. But I have also promised that for you they will be glorious days—days of miracles, of witness, and of reaping.

44. I have given you all that you need for the days ahead, and for the days that are upon you, so fear not. You have no reason to fear, for you are in My hands and I will protect you. As long as you’re faithful to use the weapons that I have given you and to not make a move without My leading, I will keep you safe under the shadow of My wings. You will not only be protected, but you will gain ground from the Enemy as you launch your attacks and win. You will win with My power.

45. Nothing can stop My rain, and nothing shall. The Enemy seeks to destroy you‚ My brides, for he fears you greatly‚ and he sees that his time is quickly drawing to an end. He also sees that his plans to weaken and destroy My Family have come to naught. He sees the great army marshaling its forces against him; he sees the strengthening and the great returning of My children to Me, and he’s scared. He’s mad, too! His plans have failed, so he’s on an all-out attack against you.

46. In his pride he is trying to stop My Own; but he cannot, for I am more powerful, and I will not lose. I will turn his works of evil on his own head. I will bring destruction to his plans. I will wreak havoc upon his minions! I am the Lord your God, your protector and your strong arm.

47. Trust in Me, for I will cause even the words of your enemies to glorify Me. March on strong! The fight has begun and I lead the way to victory. (End of message.)

Nothing Can Beat My Royal Flush!

48. (Jesus:) “And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” Today is a day of rejoicing for My Name’s sake, of counting yourselves worthy to suffer for My Name. The Family has gone over the top and will now be advancing and taking back territory from the Enemy, and this infuriates him!

49. He has been preparing this card, the ace up his sleeve in the form of negative publicity, for a while now, and he’s finally seen what he thought was his best shot at playing it—trying to get you all while you were still as weak as possible in his eyes. But what he has once again not seen or counted on was your fighting spirits, your cohesiveness, vision, and unity, which only increase and crystallize in times of attack. So he has pulled his ace out and stacked the deck the best he could‚ only to realize that nothing can beat My royal flush.

50. The Enemy has gone over the top and exposed himself, and this will yet bring him and his cause much harm, setback, and problems. He has touched the apple of My eye and slapped Me in the face! Will I, God and Master of the universe, walk away from the challenge? No, My loves. Even now My hand envelops and surrounds each of you. Even now heavenly key craft hover over each Home, and over all who entrust themselves to My care. Your guardians and helpers in the spirit world work double-time to protect you in every way, to prepare the way ahead of you, to comfort and strengthen, to empower, and to ensure that not a hair of your head is singed unless it is somehow going to be for your greater good, that it somehow will cause you to fulfill a greater role in My eternal plan, which you will be happy and grateful for in the long run.

51. Nothing will come of the Enemy’s attacks. Nothing! His attempts will fade out and be overturned as surely as a mile-high wall of water covers the weak beginnings of a brushfire. The Enemy thinks his fire is big and the field is ripe for it, but he has no idea what a flood of water I will unleash in return.

52. I am a God of love and mercy, and of forgiveness and longsuffering, and I love even those who fight against you, because I am married to the backslider. But I must protect you who stay by My side and who love Me in return. I must protect My work and My cause, and I will do so.

53. You have nothing to fear, My loves, nothing to worry or fret yourselves over‚ and everything to rejoice and unite for! You will come through every battle victorious, and this year will crystallize your efforts—the strengthening and uniting I am putting My Family through.

54. The world is engaged in a spiritual warfare, and all must make choices. All are being driven to a choice, either for Me or against Me. And as men choose, they are drawn closer to the side they choose—either Me or the Enemy—and we each gather our forces and prepare for more and bigger clashes.

55. Rejoice, praise, love, and thank Me for all that I am allowing in your lives. Thank Me that I’ve seen fit to let the End draw this much nearer, and that the Enemy’s attacks will strengthen and propel you forward in a way you could not have done on your own. Although in the media you will always have tribulation, be of good cheer! Your good works and the firsthand witness and testimony people see in each of you will overcome the world and speak much louder than news articles or television coverage ever could.

56. Be faithful in this: Know that your personal sample, your witness, the smile on your face‚ your words and deeds of outgoing love and consideration are your witness to the world and your final triumph. Those in the world will ultimately believe what they have seen, and those who are in any way open to Me will be touched and moved by the contact they have had with you, and they will know you have been with Me.

57. Your personal sample is ultimately the most important. Every time you touch another’s life, every time you so much as walk by a person‚ you are documenting your future and affecting their life, or you should be. Every loving look, every smile, every prayer‚ every word of witness, every deed of kindness, honesty‚ selflessness or love will help turn this tide of media coverage. So make your contact with others memorable, and help people to feel and see Me in you and in all you do.

58. People will forget most of what they read in the newspapers or hear and see on the TV. But they won’t forget the love you give to them, the truth you share with them, and the way you—through My power and spirit—improve their lives for the better.

59. Think about the story of the blind man in the Bible, the one that I gave sight to. Afterwards My enemies said to him, “Don’t you know what this man has done? Why are you associating with Him? He’s a sinner.” And the man said, “I don’t know what He has done. I don’t know if He’s a sinner. All I know is that once I was blind and now I see” (John 9:24-25).

60. In essence, what he was saying was, “I don’t care what you think about this man. I don’t care what He’s done in the past or what you think He’s done. All I know is that He gave me the most precious gift that anyone had ever given me. He gave me my sight. He loved me enough to care. That’s all that matters to me. I experienced His love firsthand.”

61. People are going to say the same things about you when they feel your love, when they know you care, and when they receive the truth from you.—Especially in the future when there will be more miracles of healing, deliverance‚ hearing from beyond, etc. Those you help will say to your accusers: “We don’t care what you say about these people. We don’t give a damn about their past or any of their mistakes. All we know is what we have seen and heard and experienced. This is how they have helped us. We have nothing but good things to say about them.”

62. So forge ahead, fight, witness, and love as if there were no tomorrow, and you will swell the waters of My love and witness, with which I must now flood the land.

63. Climb off the fence of indecision, rid yourself of your last reservations, and go all the way for Me, in everything. Allow Me to protect and use you as a tool in My hands now, and to make you a part of the mighty wave that will soon cover the land with greater works and undeniable signs of My power, before great darkness then covers the Earth. Come with Me‚ unite, strengthen yourselves. Make firm your calling and commitment, and stick to your convictions and principles. Things are getting hot!

64. Now is not the time to toy around with negative thoughts or doubts. It’s time to stand firm and fast. Be strong in Me, and make full use of all that you have learned and studied your entire lives. It’s time to stand on your own two feet and be strong disciples, to come to Me for the answers to any questions and doubts, to embrace My Words—the personal words I give you, as well as the written Word—and to stand tall and strong for Me.

65. I don’t just need soldiers. I need officers, those who will embrace their training and live up to their full capabilities; those who will believe, be, and do for Me what I know they are capable of; who will recognize and embrace their destiny. (End of message.)

Leave It to the Lord!

66. (Dad: ) Will the Lord not care for His Own? You’re the apple of His eye, folks! Don’t forget that! The Lord’s got everything under control, and whatever He allows is working toward His greater purpose and plan.

67. Oh, Jesus, help Your children to put their trust in You! Keep them in Your mighty hands, Lord. Help them not to stray from Your protection, but to stay within the safe haven of Your walls through fervent prayer and desperately seeking You for Your will. Jesus, I’ve seen Your power firsthand, and I know You will not fail to protect and preserve this Family. It’s Your work, Lord. It’s Your doing, and we praise You that You’re going to keep it going strong right till the very End. Hallelujah! Amen?

68. Wow, it’s getting exciting! Things are heating up! You should be excited, because the Lord is getting the chance to work miracles‚ and He’s going to come through for you. It takes impossible situations for Him to really show off His power. And boy, does He like to show off when the time is right! Claim the keys of miracles and watch Him work. Praise the Lord! He’s going to do it. (End of message.)

The Lord Holds All!

69. (Dad:) “His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.” Sing with me. “Why should I be discouraged? Why should the shadows come? Why should my heart be lonely, and long for Heaven and Home? For Jesus is my portion, unfailing Friend is He. His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.” “I see His hand of mercy. I feel His loving care, and just the time I need Him‚ He’s always near.” Isn’t He always more than near? Isn’t He an intimate Lover? Doesn’t He hold you close? I know you feel it, because I felt His love too. It was different when I was there‚ but not that much different.

70. He really is the Lord over all, and when you need Him He is always, always there. So don’t be worried if your Enemy comes nipping at your heels, because He is the Good Shepherd and He has a big stick with an incredible wallop. You don’t worry about a little ant biting you, because you can just squish it. That’s how the Enemy and his forces are to the Lord—little pests running around trying to get into the honey or the cookies. You don’t have to fear them. You just need to ask the Lord to keep things under control with His spiritual pesticide—and He will. There is nothing to worry about when you are in His care. You will emerge victorious.

71. You’re desperate and fighting together, and that’s the beauty of persecution. You needed this battle. You went through the renewal and you’re all washed clean, but the Lord and I can’t let you slide back—and without another incentive to keep gaining ground, you’d fall back in some areas. That’s what this media publicity is doing; it’s causing you to be so busy that you have no time to look at the other things around you. You’re not half as tempted by the world, because you’re desperate for the Lord’s protection. And seeing what the world has done to some others makes you not want to fall into that pit.

72. The Lord is allowing this for the good of the Family. There have been tremendous victories. There’s been tremendous change in the spirit. Now the Lord is cementing those changes through this little bit of persecution, to show and prove why He had us make those changes—because without the renewal, many would have fallen by the wayside over this calamity and resultant media coverage.

73. “Trust and obey, for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey!” That’s right. Trust Him. Rely solely on His strength and power to bring you through, and He will. He will not suffer one hair of your head to be harmed.

74. When you hear the waves roaring, do not fear. Do not fear the Devil’s threats. The Devil has nothing on you‚ no hold, none at all. The Lord holds all, and has the whole playing field in His hands. So trust and love Him‚ and He will not let the Devil get in a single foul play without His full defense team in place. And I’m right with you! I have a vested interest in all of you being well cared for and taken care of, because you’re my children in spirit, and I will personally entreat the Lord for each one of you.

75. A three-fold cord is not easily broken. Jesus, you, and I are going to fight and get through anything together and gain glorious victories! I can tell you that much—the victory will be glorious! (End of message.)

When You Think of Persecution…

76. (Jesus:) When you think of persecution, think of Daniel in the lion’s den. Think of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace. Think of Elisha surrounded by his enemies, but having no fear as he showed his servant the fiery host that was on his side. Think about King Herod, who was eaten by worms, the lowliest of creatures, for his blatant disregard for Me.

77. Think of Moses crossing the Red Sea, and the host of Pharaoh’s forces that were drowned as they pursued. The children of Israel did not have to do a thing to fight their enemies at that time; all they had to do was follow My leading. I swallowed up their enemies when they followed where I led My people.

78. Think of the Philistines taunting and ridiculing Samson, My chosen one, and how I defeated and brought to naught all they were trying to do‚ and gave the upper hand to My children when Samson brought down the house upon all the noble men and women of his enemies. Think of David, who defeated the giant with just one little stone.

79. Think of the more modern miracle of how I won the victory when the Boxers were just about to take over the fort in Peking by sending legions of angels to fight on the side of My Own. (See Treasures‚ page 652.)

80. Are you not more beloved in My eyes because you love Me intimately—not just as friends, but as lovers? Have I not promised that greater works than these shall ye do? Well, My loves, you have nothing whatsoever to fear, and all the promises in My Word to look forward to seeing the fulfillment of.

81. So stand fast in your knowledge of My words of things past and things to come, and know that things will only get better and more exciting, for you are on the right side. You’re on the side of the Creator of all things, and there is nothing that can ever counter that. I love you, and I will not fail you in any of My promises to you! (End of message.)

The Day of March Has Come

82. (Jesus:) My beloveds, I know the battles are hard. It’s not easy for any to face the ferocity of Satan’s wrath against you in this day, but it is for a purpose.

83. You have longed for the time when you can fight for Me, when you can stand up for Me, and when you can defend your faith. You have desperately sought Me to restore your convictions and your spirit, and I have done so. You are strong enough for the battles of today, My loves, because you depend not on your strength but on Mine. You are ready to face new conflicts, for what stirs within you is the Spirit of God, and the power of the keys will deliver you.

84. Fear not! Do not be afraid of your enemies‚ because I am with you and I will not forsake you.

85. This is the year of strengthening—strengthening through conflict. This is the hour for which you have trained and prepared. Therefore gird on your armor, the whole armor and weaponry of God, and let the power which I have instilled in you be manifested. Prepare yourselves, for the day of march has come! (End of message.)

You Are My New Church

86. (Jesus:) I have called you out of the System. I have commissioned you to come out from the world and stand as beacons of My light in the midst of darkness. The Family is different and will never be accepted by those who love the ways of the world.

87. You are My new church. The Family is My hope of the future, My army of dedicated disciples who will fight the future battles until the final victory is won. You will be persecuted and despised by those who do not want change‚ who do not want anything different from the status quo or their normal churchianity. I have taught and trained the Family for this time‚ for these days of the End, and for persecution.

88. Some will fall away, but this is part of My plan, My loves, in order to purify the Family, so that the army that remains will fulfill the commission I have entrusted you with—to preach not only salvation by faith, but the meat of the Word.

89. You are not like any other Christians. You are radical and militant in your faith to follow Me and to obey My will. Not everyone will agree with you. But this is the test of faith that I have planned for the Family, for this is what will strengthen you and cull out the weak, and leave the full–of-faith soldiers that I need.

90. The battles of the future will be like none the Family has fought before‚ but I will be faithful to arm you with the weaponry of the spirit and to lead and guide you through each battle to victory.

91. Do not look at circumstances, but focus on the keys, which are mighty to deliver you through every battle. You will see the manifestation of their power and the power of your many spirit helpers as the need arises. I will never leave you, but will always be by your side to direct your steps according to My will. (End of message.)

The Enemy Is Defeating Himself

92. (Jesus: ) I have given My promises in the Bible and throughout the centuries that I will protect and keep My children. It is not your job to ask when persecution will come, who will bring it‚ or how it will affect you. It is your job to believe that when it comes, I will protect, provide for, and see you through every persecution you face.

93. You, My Family brides, can be thankful that you suffer persecution for your righteousness’ sake. You are not being persecuted for your evil, for your lack of obedience, or for your failure to do the job. You’re being persecuted because you are doing the job, because you are reaping a harvest, and because the victories you have won scare the Devil to death!

94. In taking up the challenge and making the correct choices to be the Endtime army I have destined you to be, you terrify Satan. He figures that since his inside attacks haven’t worked, he must launch outside attacks on you. He figures that he must now take more vicious action against you, because his inside attacks have been thwarted.

95. When a country expels its enemy’s diplomats and spies and other agents, the expelled country often seeks vengeance. You’ve kicked the Enemy out of your midst; you’ve sealed the breaches, making it impossible for him to reenter. So he now has to launch an outside attack against you to try to break your ranks and create chinks in your armor so he can get back in.

96. He is infuriated that you have seen, exposed, and demolished his secret workings in your lives and Homes. In his anger he is blinded, thinking that an outside attack will open the holes again, cause My Family to compromise again, and give him entrance once again. He thinks that you’ll weaken, but he doesn’t see that it only makes you stronger and creates in you a greater desire to do My will.

97. He is strengthening you and he doesn’t even realize it. He’s defeating himself in his desperate attempt to reenter your midst and begin to cause you trouble again. He’s so stupidly blind that he doesn’t see that what he is actually doing is performing My will and making you even more aggressive against him. He’s going to lose more captives because of this. They’ll begin to join your ranks in droves, and that is what terrifies him the most.

98. He looks into the future and sees thousands of captives being taken from him, but he doesn’t know the specifics of how this is accomplished, and how his attacks will actually bring about his own defeat. So he launches this attack hoping that it’ll significantly diminish your power and authority, but what he doesn’t see is that in time, his actions cause the future to come about‚ and his attacks cause the victims in his grasp to be freed.

[Box:]

99. (Question: ) Does publishing this reveal the Lord’s tactics to the Enemy, making him aware of what the Lord has said and giving him foreknowledge of these things? Would the Enemy then change his plans?

100. (Jesus: ) That would be hindsight rather than foresight, because the Enemy has already launched his offensive. He just does not imagine what the results will be right now. He thinks he will succeed‚ but not only will he not succeed‚ but his own attacks will cause him to be even more defeated. He imagined evil against you, and it turned into good instead.

101. No, it is not a problem if he becomes aware of these things. Satan does not believe My Word anyway; he spends his existence trying to prove it wrong‚ trying to show the universe that he can win over Me, trying to prove that he will be the ultimate victor rather than Me. He knows My power and has great respect for that, but has little respect for My Word. (End of message.)

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102. By being so blinded by his own hatred and vengeance, he doesn’t see that he is defeating himself by these attacks on you. By shoving his foot out in an attempt to kick you, he will miss you and kick himself in the face and knock himself out. It’s pretty dumb from My perspective, but I know it’ll work My will and strengthen you, so I allow it.

103. In fact, I encourage it, because I know that it is self-defeating for the Devil, and I can’t wait to see the look of terror on his face when he realizes that all this time when he thought he was doing you harm, he has been accomplishing My will and performing a service to you. While he thinks he’s destroying you, he is actually saving you and making you into a greater threat to his power and kingdom!

104. So take heart, pluck up your courage, and realize that you are only getting stronger because of this. The Devil is defeating himself and strengthening you, and preparing you to be an even greater threat to his kingdom. He’s opening the back doors to his kingdom by throwing his army against your spears‚ and you will be able to launch a crippling attack against him.

105. Fight with all your might! Stand strong! Hold the defenses even as the Devil throws himself against your spears. Hold fast, knowing that he destroys only himself and his own forces, and through this you will gain a great victory that will open the door for the future era of greater works and a greater ministry, with greater fruitfulness and a greater number of disciples and souls won than at any other time in your history.

106. Take courage, knowing that all these things come to pass for a reason, and that reason is to propel you faster and more determinedly into the future of promises that I have made to you. This persecution is like a giant rocket to thrust you out of this stage and into the next. Hold on, because the destination will be terrific! (End of message.)

In My Good Time…

107. (Jesus:) Persecution is just one of those many situations in which you have to trust that I know best and that My plan is being moved along, even if it’s nowhere near as fast or as direct as you would like it to be. If there’s one thing that you can depend on, it is that My ways are very different from your ways‚ and the way I choose to deal with people and situations is almost always different than what you would do‚ or what you think you would do if you were in My shoes.

108. Humans are generally too impatient, and you don’t see the big picture much of the time. In many ways, this is not your fault. You don’t live in a place where time has no effect, and you are not all-knowing. You can’t see the future like I do. You’re not Me, and too often you look for something that is too hasty or not in My nature to do, and you feel disappointed or let down if I don’t do it.

109. In the Old Testament there are many precedents for plagues, sudden judgments, even fire directly from the blue sky to consume and destroy the enemies of My people. But that was before I came and atoned for the sins of mankind. Since that time there have been fewer instances of sudden judgment and many more examples of My repeated patience, time and again, waiting for your personal choices to play out, to see if before the end you will choose the right way instead of the wrong.

110. Isn’t that a lot more like the God you know and love? Isn’t that a lot more like Me? I’m merciful with you and I don’t smite you for your slightest errors, nor bring the full penalty of the law down on you each time you make an infraction. So doesn’t it make sense that I would also be merciful with your enemies—even those who have committed grievous errors against Me? It is in My nature to let each person’s choices come to their own end for the most part—to let people play out their lives and see what they make of them.

111. In some cases I have been known to act suddenly and to judge severely‚ but in most cases this is not what I do. This isn’t to say that I don’t intervene in the lives of your detractors and apostates. I do. I try My best to bring circumstances into their lives that will either help them to turn back to the light or at least to stop fighting against Me. Or if they resolutely choose to fight Me by fighting you, I bring situations that are more like obstacles, things that trouble them, make life difficult for them‚ and I try My best to contain their damage.

112. Your majesty of choice would have no meaning if you could only choose to do good. If you had a certain limit of bad that you could do, and then I’d smite you severely or take you out of the world altogether, it wouldn’t be a choice. People would be good not because they truly believed that it was the right thing to do, but because they feared Me and My judgments. I think you know by now that that runs contrary to My plan for the world. I want to see love and goodness out of the purity and generosity of your hearts, and also out of gratitude for what I’ve done for you—not because I’ll kill or maim you if you don’t love Me and please Me.

113. So just as you choose to do good, your detractors in some ways have the right to choose to do evil. And in many cases I allow them to continue doing so, as long as it doesn’t hurt you, My brides, or My work, beyond what I am willing to put up with. You might feel uncomfortable at times and like persecution sure isn’t easy, but there hasn’t been anything yet that has been too hard for you to bear, or anything that has caused My work to be hindered irreparably and that has resulted in many souls lost.

114. You’re being strengthened through these struggles. I would not have you live in a world free of all opposition until you come Home to be with Me. These battles are for your good, and if I intervened and stopped all your enemies as quickly as you would have Me do sometimes, there would be no enemies left, and thus no battle, and thus no victory.

115. Some of you just need to hold your horses until the Millennium. Then you’ll have a world where righteousness rules and reigns. Then you’ll have a place where everyone will know Me, and those who oppose Me will be judged according to My righteousness. But until then, you’re going to have to walk by faith more than by your sight.

116. You’re going to have to be patient, knowing that the prayers you pray for your own safety and security, and those that you pray against the actions of those that are fighting you, are being answered by Me in the ways that I know best. As I have promised, nothing can harm you that I don’t allow. So you can safely assume that whatever I do allow is somehow good for you and is somehow good for My plan.

117. No grandmaster ever won a chess game without losing a single piece. There are always some seeming setbacks in the greater battle, and you need to be patient when you suffer these, knowing that I have a plan, that you’re not suffering needlessly‚ and that in good time I will answer each prayer.

118. Also rest assured that your enemies are not without troubles and tribulations. There is much that I am doing in their lives as you pray, and much that I have yet to do to show them that they are on the wrong track and that they must turn around if they hope to regain their happiness and rightness with Me.

119. When you think about your enemies, I want you to keep in mind the illustration that Father David’s mother would use with the train set. She would demonstrate that when you’re on a course that is contrary to My plan and will for you, I put obstacles on your track, things to hinder you, to make you pause, to slow you down and try to get you to wake up and see that it’s not My will for you to travel the path you’re traveling.

120. But in some cases people will just push the obstacles aside as if they didn’t even see them, forcing Me to bring bigger things into their lives, then more and more, until either they wreck the train of their lives of their own accord, or they become so numb to My intervention that I leave them be.

121. That is a very sad outcome, and those people can do a lot of damage while being used of the Enemy. But as I’ve said, it’s rare that I interfere with their majesty of choice, lest I remove their chance, no matter how slim, to turn back to Me and repent as the apostle Paul did.

122. I should remind you that there have been many wicked men and women throughout history who turned back to Me and did great works in My Name and led many others to know Me because others were faithful to pray for them, to witness continually to them, and not give up hope. If I had just smitten those people while they were in their sins, they never would have become what I knew they could be.

123. So it is good to pray that I will do what I know is best in the lives of your adversaries. It is good to pray that I will hinder their efforts to hurt you and My work in whatever way I know is best. You should also pray that they’ll pay attention to the “stop signs” I put on their tracks, and that they’ll wake up and realize that they’re heading down a very bad road, and that they’ll turn around and go back and seek Me.

124. You are not impotent to effect change in the lives of others. Your prayers can accomplish so much. Anything that is within the scope of My will to do, I will do for you. As I have said, this most often includes things like stopping, holding back, restraining, or turning, revealing, exposing‚ and changing. Those things I will do for you.

125. But unless I have revealed to you for sure that it is My will, you must leave the specifics of judgment with Me, because I have the long view and I know best. Rest assured that in My good time‚ you will triumph as justice and judgment are done. (End of message.)

Your Enemies Will Be Checkmated

126. (Jesus:) Fear not them which kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear Me. And since you have been fearing Me and doing My will‚ therefore I will bless and prosper you. Those in My Family are My chosen ones, those who have stood through thick and thin these many years, and I will not fail or forsake you. I will not suffer you to fall at the hands of those who hate you, those who rise up against you.

127. Look at King David and how his enemies sought to defeat him. Even his own son tried to wrest the kingdom away from him. But I kept him through every attack, and he died peacefully of old age. I will extend that same protection to you, because you have been faithful to Me.

128. You know in your heart that the Family has done the best they can do in serving Me. Yes, mistakes were made. You’ve made mistakes, Father David has made mistakes, Maria and Peter have made mistakes. Everyone in the Family has made mistakes. Everyone in the world has made mistakes‚ because you’re all sinners. But one thing you know is true: You have all been steadfast in your devotion to serving Me and preaching the Gospel‚ winning the world with My love, and laying down your lives to do it. Because of that, I cleanse you of your unrighteousness; I forgive your mistakes and I don’t hold them against you. I will not cause your mistakes to be revisited upon you or to cause you harm.

129. Your hearts are right with Me, and I say that you are a people after My Own heart, even as David of old, and your own King David‚ were men after My Own heart. So fear not, neither be dismayed. Remember that I have promised you victory, and even the battles will not be as intense as you fear them to be. The Devil’s greatest power is in fear, so he tries to exaggerate how bad things will be. Don’t be complacent, but don’t give in to negativity either. Be ready for the fight‚ but don’t be worried. Remember that I can cause you to win the battle without even “firing a shot,” just as I did for the children of Israel several times when they cried out to Me and praised Me.

130. Although your enemies don’t realize it, everything they do works into My plan somehow. They think they are thwarting My plan, but what they don’t know is that I have been prepared for this and have woven it into My plan. It might not have been My first choice for how things would play out, but besides My plan A, which would have been for them to have made the right choices and forsaken their bitterness, I also had plan B, in case they did not. And I have plans C, D, etc.‚ depending on the choices they make.

131. All of these plans reach the same end result—the continuation of your ministry throughout the world, and the fulfillment of My plan that you will shine as lights in the darkness, bringing many to Me through your witness. The Activated vision and Family Homes building strong, lasting works will not be defeated or even derailed. The strengthening of the Family through the new structure will not be derailed or defeated.

132. It’s like a chess game. I’m the Grandmaster, and no matter what moves your enemies make, even if they seem to capture an important piece or put you in check, I am able to maneuver around them and bring them to checkmate in the end. So don’t be afraid of their moves or how things might look on the board at present. Often in a chess game, one side may make a move that appears to put the other in a difficult position, but it’s part of the strategy to inspire overconfidence in the one who is attacking‚ who then falls into the trap of the defender and is defeated. Your Enemy will fall into his own trap and be checkmated. (End of message.)

My Family Will Survive and Thrive

133. (Jesus:) As King David so aptly put it, “I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away‚ and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found” (Psa.37:35-36). Your enemies are spreading themselves like a green bay tree, showing off their supposed power, but they are no match for Me and My power.

134. Your enemies are digging a ditch for themselves that they will fall into. I will simply use their folly to accomplish good. I will use them as instruments in My hands to drag out more “dirty laundry” so that you can then—with My wisdom and My anointing—clear up any confusion, misconceptions‚ and misunderstandings. Then, in time, there will be little new left from the past that the Enemy, through your enemies, can use against you.

135. Their pride will be their downfall. As I have told you, My wheels of judgment grind exceeding slow sometimes, but they grind exceeding fine. And all the while the wheels of My revolutionary racer of the Family will keep speeding you along the road of My will. You might lose a few passengers when things get hot, but that will only make you drive forward ever faster for Me.

136. Do not fear for yourselves and your loved ones, or for your queen and king. Do not fear for anything, but put your trust in Me. This battle is Mine. I may allow your enemies to play a little part, and then surprise them by turning all of their attacks into victories for My children.

137. Remember that your enemies, even your most vicious ones, are your helpers. I’m allowing them to do their thing for a little while, in order to strengthen the Family. But then I’ll pull the rug out from under them and bring you a full and complete victory.

138. When the Enemy attacks, or when your earthly enemies pull out all of their “evidence,” lean hard on Me. That’s the time to trust, not to doubt. That’s the time to fight. Their attacks and accusations are like wounds that soldiers get in a battle; they can feel pretty bad, but you must never let them cause you to give up. Just keep looking to Me and clinging to the truth that you know and believe so strongly in your heart.

139. The stinky and ugly gases of the attacks will seem to choke you and fog your way. But then My purifying air of answers and truth will be released at the call of your prayers, and by the actions you take in accordance with My will, to cleanse and remove all of the evil, dirt, and filth of the Enemy.

140. Trust Me to keep you and all of your loved ones around the world. Trust Me to bring victories out of seeming defeats‚ because that’s what I specialize in.

141. You will not regret going through this time; you will come out so much better for it—much more effective fighters, stronger in faith, and better able to face the future. This is not the end‚ it’s only the beginning. Your enemies and their lies will come and go, but My Family will survive and thrive despite anything.

142. Stand on My promises, My loves. Victory is not just a possibility, but it’s the guaranteed result of this battle, if you fight to the finish! (End of message.)

You Will Go from Strength to Strength

143. (Jesus:) As you remain faithful, following step by step, depending on your new weapons, learning to call on your spirit helpers‚ you will go from strength to strength. Yours will be a deep, abiding faith that will not be moved. Yours will be a treasure in the heavenlies that cannot be touched. Yours will be a reward everlasting. (End of message.)

I’m Marshaling My Forces

144. (Jesus:) The days grow darker, and the hearts of men have grown cold, and will only grow colder in the days to come. Yes, 2005 will be a big year—a year where the lines will be clearly drawn. The Last Days are upon you, and the days ahead will wax worse and worse. As you’ve seen, the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005 has already brought much with it.

145. Do not be surprised when I work in mysterious ways throughout this year‚ for all will be a fulfillment of things I have already spoken to you of. I am preparing and marshaling My forces for the final days of battle for this Earth, placing each one that is yielded to Me in the position that they can be most used in. I have a plan and a purpose in everything that I do, even in the things that aren’t My highest will but that I allow to happen because of people’s choices and decisions.

146. Keep your eyes and ears open and pointed up toward My Spirit. Look up, and keep looking up, for your redemption draweth nigh. Keep your heart and spirit as clean and close to Mine as possible, for I have called, and now I am choosing who will be My vanguard in these Last Days. Stay close to Me, so that you will hear My call clearly and be prepared to do My highest will, whatever it may be. (End of message.)

Faith Mentality!

147. (Jesus:) My loves, you must replace your fear mentality with a faith mentality. Fear should not be your first response to attacks of the Enemy—or at least not for long. Right now it’s natural for you to be shocked or taken aback somewhat by these drastic attacks of the Enemy‚ because up until now you haven’t seen these tactics. But as the days grow darker, you must learn to fight such a reaction of initial fear and replace it with faith.

148. You must fight with all you’ve got! Part of your war tactic needs to be faith in the face of your Enemy, no matter what he throws at you. Faith doesn’t come from the arm of the flesh; it’s not something you can work up. You must claim faith through the keys, and then expect that I will answer your prayer and give you the faith you need.

149. Have faith that I am all-powerful and ready to send you legions of angels to fight by your side. Trust that I can do anything needed to arm you with the power you need to fight any battle as you claim it by faith. Expect that My promises stand firm and cannot be broken no matter what fears or doubts the Enemy whispers. Shout back in his face, “Liar! Fear has no power over faith in God!”

150. Stop thinking fearful thoughts, which only gives the Enemy more room to send more fear. The minute you’re hit with fear, fight! Use your gift of faith. Claim My Word and fight to replace fear with faith.

151. You need to fight for a mindset change from thinking fearful thoughts about persecution and attacks of the Enemy, no matter how drastic those attacks might be. Fight for a full-of-faith mindset. Determine through the power of the keys and prayer that you will have a faith mentality‚ for this is one of your most powerful weapons in battle.

152. It’s available for each one of you, My brides, right there at your fingertips through My Word, My key promises, and the power of your spirit helpers. Don’t let it go to waste. Don’t dwell on the fear tactics of the Enemy. Fight for your faith! Wield your faith! Have a faith mentality no matter what! These are the days you’ve been preparing for all your lives‚ this is what you’ve been training for‚ planning for, praying for! Don’t let the Enemy’s fear mentality stop you from inheriting My promises.

153. You deserve the fruits of faith! You deserve the power and strength and anointing that a faith mentality will bring to you. So don’t give up your reward. Fight for it! Have faith, and don’t let one single thought of fear slip by without replacing it with My promises. (End of message.)

Remember Who Is on Your Side

154. (Jesus:) Remember Who is on your side. Remember that the omnipotent God of the universe loves and cares for each of His Own, and that I, the God Who sees every sparrow that falls to the ground, am watching over you and stand ready to protect you, defend you‚ and cause you to be victorious. There should be no doubt or question in your mind as to whether you will emerge victorious from any battle, for you are fighting an Enemy that is already defeated.

155. I will defeat the devices of the Enemy, and I will do this in My Own time and in My Own way—but you can rest assured that I will do it. I will fight for you, and I will avenge Mine Own and vindicate you before the world, yea‚ before all the universe and all of the spiritual realm.

156. This is not a small battle contained only to this small planet; this battle represents the polarization of the forces of good and evil that is occurring at this time. The choices that people make from this time forth will more definitely secure their place either in My camp or that of Satan. Choices that are made from this time forth will move people toward their destiny with greater force and greater speed than ever before.

157. The light within you, My children, will grow stronger and more powerful by the day, just as the darkness within those who are in rebellion against Me will grow stronger by the day. It is this very darkness, however, that will expose them and defeat them.

158. You have nothing to fear, for as long as your trust is fully in Me, I will defend you; and more than defend you, I will aggressively seek out and destroy the efforts of those who lift their voices and hands against you, My anointed ones. (End of message.)

Be a Warrior Who Loves the Fight

159. (Jesus: ) The Enemy is the author of fear, for fear has no place in Me and in My Word. You are to fear Me—not out of dread or worry of the consequences, but rather out of respect and reverence. Fear of the Enemy is believing that he is more powerful than Me, and you worry about what he can do to you.

160. The Enemy is trying to get you to look at the waves, to worry about each wave and wonder if it will sink the boat. Then another one comes, and you wonder if that will sink the boat, and on and on it goes; you’re tossed by every wave that comes. If you allow your carnal mind to take over, you will constantly be “seasick” and tossed by every wave of fear that comes crashing down around you. Whereas if you put your faith in Me, your Captain, and trust that My ship will not sink but will bring you safely to the shore of My Heavenly Kingdom no matter what storms beset it, then you can laugh out loud at each wave that rises high above and threatens to sink your ship, for you have faith in Me and My ability to save and keep you.

161. Yes, the media wave that has come crashing down on your ship has been a mighty wave, and has knocked many who are on deck up against the rigging and has made them have to hold on for dear life. But do not fear the waves, or the ones that are to come, because I have forewarned you of these things. Just keep the lifeline of My Word and your connection to Me secure, and you will remain on board‚ and the waves will not be able to sink you.

162. I built this ship to last, and it will not be sunk as long as you continue to man your posts and obey My orders. Even if the ship gets battered and damaged, know that it will only serve to strengthen the crew and to prepare you for the future when the AC and his entire system are trying to stop your work for Me. In that day you will be hated of all nations for My Name’s sake. But what is that to thee? Follow thou Me!

163. Do not allow fear to enter in and cause you to become defensive, or to think that you somehow bring attacks upon yourself. The attacks are from the Enemy because you have done the right thing in witnessing and winning souls for My Kingdom, and because you are such a threat to the Enemy and to his system and his plan.

164. Did you notice that the Enemy isn’t really that concerned about the other Christians in the world today? Sure, there are those who receive persecution or ridicule, but are they making the front page or national papers? Are they the ones everyone wants to interview? It’s ridiculous to think that a small group of only several thousand is making headlines and such a splash and is being targeted by the Enemy’s big guns! But it’s because you’re not just some small group that really isn’t that important—you’re the Enemy’s prime target, his most dangerous enemy!

165. That should make you feel pretty good that you’re hitting the Enemy where it hurts!—That the Family is once again being seen as a serious threat to the Devil’s plan for world domination. The Enemy has tried many different ways to stop you. He first tried to get the Family to compromise and to settle down, to cool off, and to become lethargic and complacent. But that didn’t work, because I exposed his plans. He then tried to get many to turn away from Me through vicious lies and an outright attack on the young people, trying to literally pull them out of the Family‚ but again that failed.

166. The Enemy was convinced that his plans would work, because he saw the foothold that he had in so many of My children’s lives. But then when those footholds were lost and his presence was cast out through the renewal and he was not able to enter again afterwards, this enraged him and he decided to vent his anger!

167. This attack was an outright reaction of anger and hatred aimed at My king and queen because of their faithfulness to give My Words and to not compromise or to tone down My message, but to give it out even if it meant that they would lose large numbers and be trimmed down once again to a Gideon’s band.

168. Through this attack the Enemy thought that he would cause the Family to run in fear and to hide out, to cower and to compromise in order to not be associated with this attack. He somehow thought it would divide the Family and turn even the most loyal against Mama and Peter. But that is where he was wrong, for this attack has only served to strengthen the Family and to unite you!

169. The Enemy is deluded and drunk with his own power and pride to think that he can stop Me! It doesn’t matter how many times I thwart his plans and save My Own, he still thinks he will win—but he never will!

170. These attacks will only serve to strengthen you, My children. If I didn’t allow these attacks, then what would happen to you if all of a sudden you were attacked on all sides without any preparation or prior experience? True‚ I could keep you, and I will in situations that you’re unfamiliar with. But in My wisdom I am allowing these attacks to prepare you for what is ahead.

171. So do not allow fear or dread to enter and cause you to wonder if you have what it takes. You will have what it takes when it’s your time to stand before the media or to blast the Enemy’s lies to bits, for the power of the keys will fill you, and My words will flow forth and cut through the darkness brilliantly!

172. This is what the Enemy fears—My children speaking out, all with conviction, saying the same thing with one voice! This is the testimony of My truth, and it speaks louder than any lie the Enemy can muster and attempt to smear you with. Though his lies are slimy and icky, and though his attacks are vile and filthy, yet they will be burned away with the heat and fire of My Spirit! Nothing that the Enemy can conjure up will be able to stand against My truth!

173. The truth is what the Enemy hates, because he has no power against it. You are the living proof that his words are lies. Even if you never utter a word, just the fact that you are at peace and show such love one to another, this speaks volumes over the Enemy’s lies and is like a mighty flood that washes away the filth and distortions.

174. So fear not, My loves, but believe. Believe in Me and in My power to work through you to bring to pass all My promises to you. Fear not what man can do to you, for his power is nothing compared to My power, and nothing that he can put together can override or disrupt My plan and My will. My truth will march on to victory right over the forces of evil and all their lies.

175. You, My children, are destined to win! You are the ones who will defeat the Enemy and his forces and will be the leaders of this Endtime war. Others will follow in your wake, but you will break the forces and the line of the Enemy‚ and will cause him to retreat and cower in fear. Though there be a thousand enemies, you will defeat them all with My power!

176. Never let yourself get put on the defensive. Never feel that you are in the minority, for I am on your side and with Me you are the majority! You cannot lose as long as you stay close to Me and fight by My side. Even if you feel weak and your knees are knocking, claim the keys of boldness and you will find strength that you know not of. Claim the keys of praise and you will find such power to fight the battles that it will seem a joy to you!

177. Learn the art of fighting! Learn the art of defeating the Enemy and reveling in the battle! Every warrior loves the fight! It is only when a warrior is idle and not fighting that he becomes weak and feels uncertain about his abilities. But it is when he sees the Enemy and knows what he must do, and does not doubt for a minute that the Enemy will be destroyed, even if he dies fighting, that he is strengthened.

178. This is your calling. This is your vocation. This is the life that you have chosen—that of a warrior! So stand tall now and form the line. Do not allow the Enemy to place one toe across that line, but cut him down and defeat him!

179. Although you may be afraid, allow Me to turn this fear into praises to Me for the strength that I will give you to rise above. As you praise Me you will be unleashing the full power of Heaven to fight on your behalf. As you allow Me to turn your fears into praises to Me for the victory, you will be turning every attack of the Enemy into a victory and will be using his own weapons against him. So praise and do not fear, but trust that I will conquer your Foe! (End of message.)

Some well-known Christians persecuted for their faith

Stephen (Acts 6–7), first martyr of the Early Church.

Paul (Acts 9-28)‚ beaten, stoned, imprisoned, and finally beheaded by Nero.

James, the brother of John (Acts 12:1-2), killed by Herod.

Peter, executed in Rome.

John‚ imprisoned, underwent an attempted execution by boiling in oil, and was finally exiled to Patmos. (According to Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, all the apostles except John were martyred.)

Justin Martyr (100–165), young Roman philosopher who became a Christian and took up his pen to defend the faith, and was later beheaded in Rome. He was one of countless early Christians persecuted and killed by the Roman Empire.

When the Roman Empire became the Holy Roman Empire, persecution did not cease. In the Inquisition period, which ranged from the late 1100s through the 1500s in several European countries‚ hundreds of thousands of men and women were imprisoned, beaten, tortured, or killed for their faith, including the Cathars, who were eradicated.

John Wycliffe (1330-1384), English philosopher and religious reformer who supervised the first English translation of the Bible. He denounced abuses in the Roman Catholic Church and suffered constant harassment, persecution and trial.

Jan Hus (1370-1415), Czech religious reformer who was persecuted by the Catholic Church, imprisoned, and sentenced to burn at the stake.

Joan of Arc (1412-1431), French visionary who laid down her life for the will of God, and was burned at the stake by her English captors.

Martin Luther (1483-1546), German priest who began the Protestant Reformation‚ and endured many attacks by an enraged Catholic Church.

Huldreich Zwingli (1484–1531), Swiss theologian and reformer who attacked unscriptural Catholic practices and was killed in a battle between Protestant and Catholic forces.

William Tyndale (1495-1536), British priest who translated much of the Bible into English, and was burned at the stake.

John Calvin (1509-1564), French theologian persecuted by the Catholics because of his support for the Protestant Reformation.

The Huguenots (1500s), French Protestants, were severely persecuted by French Catholics, with whom they fought eight bitter wars in the late 1500s. On August 24, 1572, St. Bartholomew’s Day, the French queen mother and the king caused thousands of them to be massacred in Paris and elsewhere in France.

John Knox (1514-1572), Scottish priest who suffered imprisonment and exile as a leader of the Reformation in Scotland.

In 1614 Christianity was outlawed in Japan‚ and many thousands of Japanese Christians were executed for refusing to renounce their faith.

George Fox (1624-1691), English religious leader and founder of the Quakers, was frequently imprisoned for his beliefs, as were many other Quakers.

John Bunyan (1628-1688), English lay preacher sentenced to jail for refusing to stop preaching; he wrote Pilgrim’s Progress while imprisoned.

William Penn (1644-1718), English Quaker who wrote and preached on religious liberty and was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he refused to recant. Later released and granted land in North America to settle a debt to his father, he immigrated and founded Pennsylvania.

William Carey (1761-1834), British missionary to India, who overcame church opposition before he was allowed to become a missionary, and once in India‚ was opposed by the East India Company, which was hostile to his mission work.

Robert Morrison (1782-1834), British minister and the first Protestant missionary to China, who endured harassment from the British East India Company and persecution from the Chinese empire while he translated the New Testament into Chinese.

Adoniram Judson (1788–1850), American pioneer missionary to Burma who endured years of imprisonment and suffering.

John G. Paton (1824-1907), Scottish missionary to the New Hebrides Islands (South Pacific), who converted many of the natives from cannibalism to Christianity, although he suffered great hardship and persecution.

William Booth (1829-1912), founder of the Salvation Army, who underwent a heresy trial by the Methodists and suffered a great deal of persecution because of the militant image of the Salvation Army.

Hudson Taylor (1832-1905)‚ British missionary and founder of the China Inland Mission, who endured persecution from the British for his unorthodox method of “becoming one” with the Chinese and persecution from the Chinese for witnessing.

Amy Carmichael (1867-1951), British missionary to Sri Lanka and India, where she risked her life and faced kidnapping charges many times to save Indian children sold by their parents to Hindu temples for prostitution.

Since its birth 2‚000 years ago, research shows, more than 70 million Christians have been martyred. More than half those deaths were recorded in the 20th century alone. About 160,000 Christians are expected to die for their faith this year.

Christianity Today editor David Neff recently wrote: “The typical Christian lives in a developing country, speaks a non-European language, and exists under the constant threat of persecution—of murder, imprisonment, torture or rape.”

“And what shall I more say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword‚ out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured‚ not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned‚ they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (of whom the world was not worthy) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect” (Heb.11:32-40).

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Art of War 4

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Art of War, The–Part 4

Karen Zerby

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By Maria 3565 10/05

1) Actually doing it, using it.
2) Making it count‚ making it quality, learning to focus, persevere in prayer‚ and put forth the spiritual effort needed to bring results.

Prayer is active service