AMERICA HEAR MY WORDS [PROPHETIC EXHORTATION, WARNING TO THE BODY OF CHRIST et al]

America, you began well - the men who formed your foundation called on Me to make their way clear - those who believed in Me - interceded with great power in My strength to bring forth this land of promise.

You have done well in much - and well you know those things for you recite them daily to remind Me - it is good.

Body of Christ - you are to be the soul of this nation of promise - but instead you have sold much of yourself to gain the comforts of the flesh forgetting how My Son lived on the earth - owning nothing He wouldn't give. I test you daily - Body of Christ, and you do not even notice. You are too busy striving for a tomorrow that may never come. Your life and who you are is not found in what you will accomplish tomorrow - your life is who you are right now in this moment.

Who are you in the face of the hungry? Where is the fount of your love in the face of divisiveness? When others express My Truth in another way - why do you insist it be your way alone? KNOW THE TRUTH FOR YOURSELF - LOOK INTO MY WORD AND KNOW THE TRUTH FOR YOURSELVES AND THERE WILL BE NO DIVISIVENESS OR RANCOR IN MY BODY ON THE EARTH. Do not argue man's rules and divide the Body of Christ. Have I not said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand?"

Do you dare to call yourself a Christ follower and still hold bitterness in your heart against your brother? Do you dare to call yourself a Christ follower and out of your mouth damn the lost to eternal damnation? How dare you damn what I weep over? Have you known the sinner for generations before he was born? Do you know and have you seen the strategies and tactics of the enemy that has distorted his vision and twisted his soul into painful contortions? So you dare sit in your earthly throne of judgment, little king, and display your pompous benevolence on those you wish and damn the soul I love? I will take you from your throne and crush it into dust. I will show you the torment of those you condemn until you cry out for mercy for your soul - cry out for mercy for your own soul - as you should NOW be crying out for mercy on the souls tortured in bondage.

If America be your throne - My determination will not falter. I will throw out the whole basket of fruit for the rotted has destroyed the good.

You have one season to tend your tree. Begin now asking Me what remedy you might use to bring life to what remains. I will look for My Love to spread abroad to the right and to the left. I will look to see if forgiveness is flowing in your midst - I will look into YOUR heart of hearts - INDIVIDUALLY - even as every branch and leaf is inspected for insects and decay.

If I do not see the Body of Christ reflect the Glory of My Son in this nation in one season - I will begin to destruct your false throne and raise My throne in a land you never expected.

Do not say - "What of him - what is he doing?" - for you will raise My anger. Look to your own heart and be fearfully careful to follow the instruction I give you in the days of your life. I look for a humble and willing heart that continues even when it stumbles - that one who is ever walking towards My Son until that life disappears into His Own. I will not handle the hard heart - the stiff neck, for it will destroy itself.

If your heart is good you have much to rejoice in and many blessings of surprise and fulfillment await you. If your heart is bad - rejoice in your darkness quickly for your time is short.

Come - Come - Come - My Heart yearns to give you all things that we might rejoice together - Come into the flow of My Love and be swept up in it's Powerful current - You will be filled with life and deposit life every place you touch with your hands and every step you take with your foot.

This can be a glorious day - it is for you to choose - hold that future before you and walk your life into Mine. Know My Word - Know My Word. Your very life and the lives of your children depend upon My Word. Know My Word FOR YOURSELVES-and do not only listen to man." -------------- Note: This is not a word of ruin and devastation but one of hopeful promise. God is Love - all He is asking is that His Body on earth reflect that Love by loving each other and loving the unloved. He is not asking for perfection - only that when we stumble we do not give up but GET UP and KEEP GOING FORWARD INTO HIM. He asks that our hearts be humble and that we give an accurate accounting of ourselves to be what He asks of us to be - His Hands and Feet on the earth. In Joel 2:12-14 directly after the description of the destroying army sent to envelope God's people due to their sins he says, "Yet even now," declares the Lord, "Return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, weeping, and mourning; and rend your heart and not your garments." Now return to the Lord Your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger abounding in lovingkindness, and relenting of evil. Who knows whether He will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him, even a grain offering and a libation for the Lord your God?"

Luke 20:9-16,NAS "And He began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard (a vine and vineyard is a scriptural picture of Christ and believers) and rented it out to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time. And at the harvest time he sent a slave (a slave is someone who does not have freedom over his own destiny - he is forced labor to another - much as a sinner who does not know the freedom in Christ is a slave to sin) to the vine-growers that they might give him some of the produce of the vineyard; but the vine growers beat him and sent him away empty-handed." (Much the way false Christians beat the sinners among them with words of judgment and condemnation. Christ on the earth - never condemned a sinner who came - only the hypocritical believers in religion. Have we sent any sinners away empty-handed?) "And he proceeded to send another slave; and they beat him also and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. And he proceeded to send a third; and this one also they wounded and cast out. And the owner of the vineyard said, "What shall I do: I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him. But when the vine-growers saw him, they reasoned with one another, saying, "This is the heir; let us kill him that the inheritance may be ours." And they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him." ("And the King will answer and say to them, "Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these, even the least of them, you did it to me." Matt. 25:40) "What, therefore, will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others." And when they heard it, they said, "May it never be!" Isn't this what the Lord just said concerning America - that He would tear down our self-righteous throne and set His Throne in another nation we would never expect?

Luke 13:6-9 NAS "And He began telling this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it, and did not find any. And he said to the vineyard-keeper, "Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground? And he answered and said to him, "Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer; and if it bears fruit next year, fine; but if not, cut it down."

Matthew 7: 1-5 NAS "Do not judge lest you be judged yourselves. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it shall be measured to you. And why do you look at the speck in your own brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me take the speck out of your eye," and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to take the speck out of your brother's eye." What would you think if you saw a man walking down the street - poking himself in the eye - beating himself with his fist-slapping himself in the face or cutting his fingers to the bone? I'm sure it wouldn't be "Well that's the life for me!" Yet the body of Christ walks through the earth doing just that - just how attractive is that for unbelievers? Some of us express our praise with instruments - some of us do not - some of us are more comforted by one truth than another - the only and most important line of demarcation is the Blood of Christ. It is the one undeniable, uncompromised truth - when He appears in the clouds we will remember nothing but that.

John 21:15-17 NAS "So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, Son of John, do you love Me more than these?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, "Tend My lambs." He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love Me:" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, "Shepherd My sheep." He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you love Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You." Jesus said to him, "Tend My sheep."

According to The Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible - the word "lambs" in verse 15 has its root in the phrase "to ramble freely". The word "feed" in verse 16 has its root in the phrase "revolve around".

Wasn't the Lord instructing Peter to allow his life to "revolve around" those who tend to ramble and might very well stray and be lost - much as in the parable of the lost sheep? Living in this way puts the life of the Christian at His Master's direction and not his own.

The Lord provided me with a living example of what He wants from us as His people just a few hours before He spoke this word. A couple days before, my husband suffered several strokes and was in the hospital. At the age of 56 after being a homeschool mom with not many "saleable" talents I am faced with the need to go to work. After leaving the hospital on this day I stopped for gas on my way home. Not having the slightest idea of how I will meet the financial needs growing by the minute - my mind was spinning with questions of the Lord, my soul felt numb and my body VERY tired. As I pumped the gas into the car I noticed a man who appeared to be homeless speak to a woman at a nearby pump. I sighed to the Lord, "Please don't let him come to me - I can't deal with this right now." Just as quickly - the man turned and came straight to me. "Ma'am, do you have any spare change? I'd like to buy a hotdog inside." My first thought was to dismiss him gently but the Lord seriously checked my heart. Instead I found myself saying I would buy him supper when I finished pumping my gas. Together we went inside as the Lord instructed me to buy for him exactly what I would want to buy for myself. I told him to choose a sandwich and I handed him a bag of chips. I knew I'd want a cold drink- he chose a Coke. As I went to pay, the Lord reminded me that each night after supper I like a small piece of chocolate. "What would you like for dessert?" I asked, "Cake, or candy?" "Oh ma'am," he exclaimed, "This is a lot." By then we were standing at the candy and he said, "Oh I love candy. This is my all time favorite." Before I could pay, the Lord reminded me of what a cold and blustery day it was and the sun was going down. "Would you like a hot cup of coffee after that?" I found myself asking. "Oh, that's okay ma'am, I've had coffee today." I paid for his meal including a large cup of coffee when he was finished - as the clerk asked if I also wanted a lotto ticket. "Jesus takes good care of me-no thanks." I heard myself say. and He does. The experience was real - but it was one of those times that seemed so automatic and yet not - it was purely a gift from the Holy Spirit who led me through in spite of my own reticence. I am not sharing it now to proclaim my purity - Lord knows that would be a lie - but to encourage myself and you to live your life "revolving around" the lambs that "ramble freely" and could be killed.

I truly believe the Lord has given the Body of Christ in America - one season - one season to "get it right" or we WILL LOSE THIS NATION. I do not know what is meant by "season" - if it be our natural season of a few months or a spiritual season. I DO know this: the picture of a teen being asked to do a chore came to mind. If he goes as soon as he is told and does the work with a willing heart-even if there are mistakes made in ignorance-grace is given with further instruction. However, if he or she sits at the TV. ten minutes longer - and finally, reluctantly goes to his work - judgment will reflect that. Excuses and buck passing are not acceptable. WE ARE TO BE THE LOVE OF CHRIST MADE MANIFEST IN A DARKENED WORLD - we MUST keep encouraging each other to listen to the Holy Spirit and do His Will - not our own will, but His. We NEED to ask the Holy Spirit to overshadow each one of us with the instructions for each day that we might make His Praise Glorious!!! Please - let's love each other and look at those enslaved around us through His Eyes - as we would want Him to look at us.

Thank you so much for your reply and the ping to your last!

The Spirit didn't compel me to the message nor did He set off alarms against it.

I don't know the speaker at all and thus do not know the fruits, so it is "quarantined" anyway. But I will say that the revelation of gifts is Scriptural - Paul speaks of gifts in Corinthians - that we each get them and they are different from person to person but work together in the body of Christ.

BTW, concerning gifts - a long time ago I prayed asking what gift He had given me so that I would know where to concentrate my efforts (and thus what to avoid LOL!) The response I received in the Spirit and Scripture was the person of Barnabas - who was noted as working in the background, one who encouraged others to stay in His Light no matter what. So that's what I try to do.

This deserves it's own thread, if anyone cares to bother. I'm pressed with weaving tasks . . .

"CHRISTIANITY EXPLODING Worldwide"
"THIRD WORLD sending MISSIONARIES"

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Christianity taking over planet?
New book makes case it's fastest growing faith on Earth.
[-April 28, 2005 © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com ]

What is the fastest-growing religion on Earth?

Most news reports suggest it is Islam.

But a new book makes a compelling case it is a new, or, perhaps,
old form of biblically inspired evangelical Christianity that is sweeping
through places like China, Africa, India and Southeast Asia.

In "Megashift," author Jim Rutz coins a new phrase to define this
fast-growing segment of the population. He calls them "core
apostolics" - or "the new saints who are at the heart of the
mushrooming kingdom of God."

Rutz makes the point that Christianity is overlooked as the fastest-
growing faith in the world because most surveys look at the traditional
Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church while
ignoring Christian believers who have no part of either.

He says there are 707 million "switched-on disciples" who fit into
this new category and that this "church" is exploding in growth.

"The growing core of Christianity crosses theological lines and
includes 707 million born-again people who are increasing by
8 percent a year," he says.

So fast is this group growing that, under current trends, according
to Rutz, the entire world will be composed of such believers by the
year 2032.

"There will be pockets of resistance and unforeseen breakthroughs,"
writes Rutz. "Still, at the rate we're growing now, to be comically
precise, there would be more Christians than people by the autumn
of 2032, about 8.2 billion."

According to the author, until 1960, Western evangelicals out-
numbered non-Western evangelicals - mostly Latinos, blacks and
Asians - by two to one. As of 2000, non-Western evangelicals
outnumbered Westerners by four to one. He says by 2010, the
ratio will be seven to one.

"There are now more missionaries sent from non-Western nations
than Western nations," he writes.

This trend, says Rutz, has been missed by Westerners because the
explosive growth is elsewhere.

Hundreds of millions of these Christians are simply not associated
with the institutional churches at all. They meet in homes. They
meet underground. They meet in caves. They meet, he says, in secret.

And what is driving this movement?

Miracles, he says.

"Megashift" attempts to document myriad healings and other powerful
answers to the sincere prayers of this new category of believer,
including, believe it or not, hundreds of dramatic cases of resurrections
- not near-death experiences, but real resurrections of actual corpses.

"When I was a kid in Sunday school, I was really impressed that
3,000 people were saved on the Day of Pentecost," he writes. "I
thought, 'Wow, that'll never happen again!"

But, Rutz says, it now happens around the globe every 25 minutes.

"By tomorrow, there will be 175,000 more Christians than there are
today," he writes.

The essence of Rutz's book is about how Western Christians can
tap into what he sees as a mighty work of God on Earth.

"Very few people realize the nature of life on Earth is going through a
major change," he writes. "We are seeing a megashift in the basic
direction of human history. Until our time, the ancient war between
good and evil was hardly better than a stalemate. Now all has
changed. The Creator whose epic story flows through the pages of
Scripture has begun to dissolve the strongholds of evil. This new
drama is being played out every hour around the globe, accompanied
sometimes by mind-bending miracles."

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I have dreams of things that have come to pass. I am in tears, in confusion and in need of comfort. I see what I dismissed my whole life comming to a head. I always had dreams, ones so unreal, because they became real. I am adopted and have no idea where I am from. I have my parents and bro's they have not taught me religion or shown me the bible, yet I know it, and I feel it. when I was younger I hid in a shed to hide from my "uncle" who liked to "play". I saw an image, like the virgin marys. I am not proclaming to be special, like you say, but I feel like I am mean to see things, experience things and pass through trials. When I was pregnant with my oldest, I was homeless, so I went with this lady who was into church. I attended what people call "laying hands" and the lady told me things about my "dreams" and told me to listen. I was told of the three sons I would have(I had no Idea what I was having) and that they would be made to preach the gospel. I have seen them on their own, speak of god, one of my sons has dreams of disaster, he says he misses Jesus! I swear I don't tell him things to say, he said he saw me die. I feel scared and I know that people judge so I hope that u can give me light in my darkest in lonelyness. I believe and have always seem to find, that I meet people who say they feel a white spirit. My mom called a psycic hotline joking around, and they spoke to her about the daughter that is not from her womb, but grown from her breast. They said that I was going to pass through trials and she would wory and we would lose touch, but that I would be o.k and I would be important to people. People would push me away and people would welcome me in because I carry this orah? I can;t explain all this I am rambling, and I am staiting the truth, I ask you see this as a peer-taking and not as a joke or to be rediculed \If you are interested I can tell u more.

I can't describe the feeling in my heart. I am scared because I have felt the way you are posting. At night I lay awake I feel the storm litteraly. I saw it in the horizon, slowly building, around people living without a care, I know I have much to offer but I wonder when I am going to say it, Sep.11 I woke up and knew what I was going to find on the t.v,I comented to my husband that something major happened. I had the t.v. off! I dream in this presence, and I walk in the path where moses seperated the sea. I smell the water and feel the wind blowing, slowly simmering. I dream that I am in a school yard suddenly the planes started to land people crying and I see them falling like bricks,I dream their is a plane I have to board and we are celebrating a new year, or something like that, Presidential election I think,.I am with my father and my family. and then there is bombs and fire, we board this plane and I wake. I dream that I see a zepplin type blimp and it drops what looks like a plastic ball. I wake. I dream that there will be a quake that leaves a heart shaped carving on a mountain,.people will flock to see the miracle and then I die in the dream, I am in heaven I think and I hear my sister(I have never met)and I hear God say it is not my time I have his work to do. I have to say I have had these dreams in the most part in this last year, except the mountain carving that one was when I was 9,I had that dream. I have a recuring dream where I hear the wind and the smell of rain is strong I look out my window and I am consumed with peace. I am scared I have to admit. I am not free of sin and I want to follow what I have always been given as a guide, I literaly walked in Compton, Long beach 12 yrs. Alone in the night days as a runaway and I aleays was safe!I write fast to make shureI post what I have to say

Thank you so much for sharing from your heart your sensitivities concerning spiritual matters!

Many people – some of whom I know personally – have been receiving the last few decades a sense of pending doom in the world, the end of days. Some of these sense specific, great catastrophes and horrors which are declared in Scriptural prophesy, coming to pass in our day.

If such dreams cause any Christian personal discomfort, then he must turn to Jesus Christ in urgent prayer and surrender to Him. God is in control. The Great Tribulation which will come to test everyone on earth is His will. We must pass through this stage for His new heaven and earth to be established, for Jesus Christ to come into His promise. Trust Him. The same One who is bringing this tribulation is able to keep you from it:

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. – Revelation 3:10

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. – I Thess 5:9-11

In my view, Christians who have visions cannot compare them directly to the visions of other Christians. Some have a sensitivity to judgment, others to grace, others to wisdom. But they must all agree with Scripture and glorify Jesus Christ. If anything contradicts Scripture then we know it is false and we must remain in earnest prayer asking God to be released from such false visions.

I am also particularly drawn to the visions of children. Jesus tells us in the Sermon on the Mount that false prophets can be known by their fruits, and children are mostly still innocent and thus more likely to evidence the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control. Well, perhaps not self-control (LOL!)

At any rate, when a child speaks of Jesus as someone he knows personally, I listen up. When a child remembers a near death experience I listen up. Likewise, I am interested in the visions of Fatima which were received by children. No doubt children have great imaginations, but fantasies don’t arise in a vacuum and most children have not yet perfected the skill of deception.

Concerning commercial psychics, I urge you to stay away from them. The profit motive itself sets off alarms in my Spirit.

EXCELLENT, wise, anointed input, AG

I agree entirely.

Holy Spirit is our Comforter in all situations with the Peace that passes understanding.

Interestingly, I'm often more at peace from Holy Spirit in the midst of great crises than at other times. I guess it's easier to lean on Him, listen to Him when there's no other alternative--LOL.

A journal with the dreams in it to prayerfully ponder over time is a good way to sort out what's anointed and what's normal nightly brain maintenance. Also, some such are for personaly consideration and edification and some for other individuals and families, groups. And, some for wider Body of Christ distribution. Having them down in a journal helps facilitate Holy Spirit input about each one.

God's best to you HR24.

Angel-Gal BTW, is a great gal to contact by FREEPMAIL if you wish more private exhortations. I'm open similarly.

Blessings,

Small Straws In A Soft Wind
by Marsha Burns

May 4, 2005: Job 5:7 "Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward." Do not be surprised when you face difficulties; it is the way of life. Rather, take every opportunity to trust Me, says the Lord, for only in troubling circumstances will you know My mercy, favor and grace. Rely on Me to bring you through to victory. And, be careful not to deny the troubles that you face or blame others for wrecking your life. You alone make the choice to trust and believe or to deny and deceive. You must release yourself and others from the burden of blame and face life with the courage to trust Me in the midst of your storms. 2 Timothy 1:12 "For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day."

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A Happy Surprise

Meri Burlingame

May 4, 2005

as posted on FETB-C

Mary has always been a great encourager and hope this blesses and lifts you up! Meri

A Happy Surprise

Mary Clark

barnabessie@earthlink.net

April 28, 2005

In a vision, I saw a piece of stationery. There was a profile sketch of a smiling young girl. She had a mass of brown curls spilling in all directions on her head.

Here is what the Lord wants to tell us:

I am in the process of changing things, beloved.

I want you to look on these changes with wide-eyed wonder.

I want you to accept them with an open heart.

The world would have you following after the ways of the world, but it is My plan to free you of the world in every respect.

I want to deliver a message to you through My servant this day.

I want you to know that every word that I speak is spoken with tenderness and love. Look on these words with acceptance and know that My heart is full today – full of a yearning to draw you tenderly into My bosom.

Know that I accept words of repentance. I grab them and hold them close to My heart.

And know this first and foremost: I am leading you into a new hour with Me -- an hour of great tenderness.

It is My desire to see you rise above your circumstances.

It is My desire to see you blessed soundly. It is My desire to give you an ornament – an ornament that the world will look on in disgust, but you, My beloved, will wear proudly, because you will know that My hand delivered it.

Just as the young girl has been given the gift of a mass of curls on her head, you will be given something wonderfully unusual – something that will catch every eye – something that can only be described as lush and most pronounced.

I am calling you into a new time of cleansing. I am making some changes to which many of you will happily respond, but just as many will drag their heels not wanting to advance into this place.

I am telling you this now – today – because something is about to surface in your lives of which you have known nothing. Let us call it a surprise. Let us call it a happy surprise.

But know this, beloved: This happy surprise will establish you in this new place in Me. It will surprise and delight, but it will not delight the world.

This happy surprise that is coming to My beloved will confound the world in such a way that anger will rise.

This anger will be directed at you.

This anger will cause a sadness to come over your heart, if you don't maintain your focus on Me.

So I am telling you this day that I am doing a work in hearts.

I am about to present something wonderful to those who are following hard after My heart, and you will suffer persecution from the world – a persecution that you have never known.

But I will be with you.

I will sustain you, and you, My beloved, will maintain happiness beyond words – beyond all of your comprehension!!!

These are My words of truth this day.

Receive them with an attitude to move forward in Me, come what may, and know that you have been singled out for such a time as this to walk in My truth – be established in My truth, and know the fullness of joy which My truth brings to one who is sold out – sold out for their Jesus!!!

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Meri Burlingame
Onalaska, WA 98570

renewedhope@tds.net

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