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The Enemy of Your Promise

The enemy of your promise does not have to completely destroy that promise. If he can’t get it all he’ll be satisfied with stealing a vital piece of it. That is the job of the detractor spirit. A detractor is something that takes away. It steals away pieces and takes away value from the whole making it incomplete, not fully functional, not fully serving its purpose. A detractor takes a spray can and paints smudges on a beautiful statue and vulgarities on a clean wall. A detractor draws a mustache on an exquisite painting. If someone notices a lady and says, “Isn’t she beautiful?” the detractor responds, “Yes, but her nose is too big.” That spirit has a way of making things or people look and sound unattractive, unworthy or unuseful even though they may have legitimately been at one time. It devastates or, at the least, depreciates. It loves to make the promise of God appear difficult or unattainable. We just need to realize though, that if God promises, He is the One who brings it to pass. Beware all detractors that get in the way of God’s moving toward fulfillment. He performs that which He promises (Rom.4:21). “…and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.” (Rom.4:21)

About to Come to Light

MELISSA — What God has been doing is about to come to light.  This is not the end.  It’s the beginning.  We are standing on the shoulders of all of those generations that paved the way before us. They prayed for this day and we GET TO LIVE IT.  “Arise [from spiritual depression to a new life], shine [be radiant with the glory and brilliance of the Lord]; for your light has come, And the glory and brilliance of the Lord has risen upon you. For in fact, darkness will cover the earth And deep darkness will cover the peoples; But the Lord will rise upon you [Jerusalem] And His glory and brilliance will be seen on you. Nations will come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.” Isaiah 60:1-3 (AMP) 

God Intends the Earth to Feel His Effect

KATHY — One morning in the pre-daylight hours while sitting in the presence of Father God, in a vision, I watched the sun rise. As I prayed in the Spirit I saw a sudden split in the heavenlies. I cannot completely explain what I was witnessing, I simply knew God was moving and intended the earth to feel His effect.  Suddenly I began to call the names of those persons I longed to be impacted by these mighty movements in the heavenlies.
I went to the scriptures searching for more understanding of the vision.  Isaiah 64 seemed to describe the vision, “Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains [high places, man’s ideas and imaginings] would tremble before you!  2  As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, [come in force and power that causes change and reaction] come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you! 3 For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.  4 Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.”  (NIV)  (The third excerpt of Kathy’s vision will be posted 6-12-23.)

May Our Children Flourish and Our Barns be Full

“May our children flourish in their youth like well-nourished plants; may our daughters be like elegant columns, carved to adorn a palace. May our barns be full of all kinds of crops; may the flocks in our fields multiply by thousands, and even ten thousand, and may our oxen be heavily loaded with food. May no enemy penetrate our walls, nor take us captive, nor let there be alarm shouts in the squares of our cities. Happy are those who live like this! Happy are those who have God as the Lord.” —Ps.144:12-15 NLT

God’s Intention Developing

MELISSA — Back in the day, I used to have my own darkroom where I developed pictures.  The process it took to walk out with a picture is quite remarkably like the past era we have been in.  You start in a very dark room with a safe light, take a piece of light sensitive paper, put a negative between the paper and a white light and it burns an image on that paper. Now, you can’t see that image… yet.  Next you put that paper in DEVELOPER, but you don’t just leave it there.  You have to agitate that paper until the image starts to appear.  Then you move it into a stop bath which stops the developing process.  You don’t want an over-developed picture, it’s overdone. You agitate it some more to make sure the picture stops developing.  Then you move it into something called “fix” which gets rid of extra particles and keeps the final product from being sensitive to light.  Agitate some more.  Then finally, the picture gets put into a water bath to clear it of chemicals so it is ready to be presented.  Oh, you agitate it some more to make sure those chemicals are washed off.  Lastly, you let that picture dry and it is ready to be presented.  That’s just the process it takes for the picture to be developed.  The film development, the captured/intended image, happens in complete darkness! 
This process is a great picture (no pun intended) of the original intention of God being developed on this earth.  There are intentions developed in secret so the enemy cannot touch them.  Then they go thru the process of birthing the image of God.  You notice the agitation required for the image to be fully developed, but also notice there is development, movement, fixing and washing.  Come on!

The Threshing Floor, the Process but the Promise

SFMV#20 “The Threshing Floor, the Process but the Promise”
From Central Texas Marty reads Scriptures and prays for our victory.
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A Vision of 39 Months

KATHY — I awoke early, feeling called to sit in His presence.  The evening prior I had a strange sense that the heavenlies were pregnant, ready to birth, ready to burst forth.  I felt a pressure, a fullness of time like something awesome was eminent.  I prayed in tongues not understanding what was stirring in me.  It was still before dawn, but in a vision I watched the sun rise.  On the horizon, the skies were heavy and low, not dreary or foreboding, rather pregnant with purpose and promise.  I realized God had bid me into His presence to agree and call forth that which was ready to birth!  As I prayed in the Spirit, I saw a bursting out, a sudden split in the heavenlies.  Powerful rays of light formed a corridor to earth and something awesome fell through it.  It impacted the earth in what looked like an explosion, an upside down mushroom that sent whirlwinds in every direction.  I was watching His will “being done” on earth as it is in heaven, as literally and as powerfully as something from the heavenlies colliding with this earthly realm.  I was in awe knowing I had just seen something coming to pass; yet I was aware the heavenlies were still pregnant and not yet fully delivered. (More to come in the next few says from Kathy’s “A Vision of 39 Months)

God and His Word Stand Forever

As the people of God assemble today, may they be taught, reminded, encouraged, assured that God’s Word is just like Him, “the same yesterday, today and forever”. May the people of God encourage one another to stand on His unfailing Word so that as the wind blows and the waves crash, the house will continue to stand. The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.” (Isa.40:8, NKJV)

Power of Accusation

MELISSA –This is where the power of accusation comes from: Proverbs 18:21 “Death
and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit
thereof.” Proverbs 11:9 “An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbor”
Prov. 15:4 (MSG) “Kind words heal and help; cutting words wound and maim.”
It is the epitome of “using your powers for good and not evil”. There is power in
our words because God intended it that way so we can make a difference when
we speak. The problem is that we tend to forget that it goes both ways.