Six Rhema

Dear Friends, A few weeks ago i spoke a WORD at our Sunday service at Christian Family WorshipCenter. Since that time the MOST HOLY SPIRIT has kept it burning in my spirit. Several nights ago i was told to write and send out.... so in obedience i share. Be blessed Bob in Miami

 

Times and Seasons             - 12/1997 - Prophecy

They Just Don’t Know         - 12/1997 - Prophecy

I Must Be Poured Out         - 12 1997 - Prophecy

Every Word (or The Word)  - 1997? - Prophecy

The Dark Sayings               - 1/1998 - Prophecy

7 Moves                              - 2/1998 - Article/Prophecy

 

 

 

Times and Seasons

Bob Neumann, 12/1997

My son, for a long time now we have talked about the TIMES and SEASONS. Much of what I have spoken to you must now be shared. MY people still wander in the wilderness lacking in so many ways. But MY DAY has come upon them just as it is written “as a thief in the night”. MY TIME has come and the SEASON has changed yet so many are still out there sowing seed, so intent on their own works that they never saw the reapers overtaking them.

After all this time son, so many still claim MY WORK as theirs, believing that there is privilege for them where only service is expected. Claiming their 'rights' in the public arena, proclaiming MY KINGDOM as here in the market place in the strength of their own arms. Once again attempting to label as MY HABITATION what simply a den of thieves. Demanding that I bless what is good only in their eyes.... BUT NOT MINE.

Even now as many that will read these MY WORDS there are some who will say to you: “GOD does not talk like that...”. But they leave off the two critical words 'to me'.

You often pray son that I would just take you home. But it is not yet time. You still struggle with the “WHY” of it all. You ask for 'more faith' and keep asking for forgiveness when you stumble and fall. When children are learning to walk the task of “simply standing” is the first impossibility that must be solved. So is it in the spirit when MY children attempt to stand in their own strength. AN IMPOSSIBILITY.

You chose to stand in MY STRENGTH and to be upright before ME. The goats and sheep are all MINE. While many babies have been birthed in MY HOUSE, some may learn to crawl. But few who learn to stand will walk upright before ME. As Paul taught finishing the race is not enough. MY RULES are explicit and many have run hard and long only to stand in shame before ME disqualified....

AS IT IS WRITTEN MY MERCY is given to MY sons who OBEY ME. The GOSPEL of the KINGDOM, THE MESSAGE OF MY SON is in OBEDIENCE TO MY WILL. Did HE not say “not my will Father, but yours be done...”. And from His MOUTH came the WORDS “FATHER FORGIVE THEM ....” SO ALSO WILL YOU SAY THESE WORDS. But now speak to them that they must see the purpose behind all that I WILL NOW DO. That there is a set time to the PLANS and SEASONS that I have ordained by MY WORD. And that time is now. Many like you have chosen to stand before ME, to listen for MY VOICE and to OBEY MY WILL. And they speak out specific parts of a whole that now takes place. So let those who desire to stand approved in MY EYES begin to assemble the pieces and see all that I have ordained from the beginning.

In spite of the lies that so many of MY babies and sheep prefer over MY TRUTH, I AM not a GOD who is distant and aloof. Nor do I change. Within the totality of MY WORD all things are available to those who have WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT. For nothing is hidden from those who diligently seek ME. For that reason the DAY of DARKNESS has come. And because they do not know ME they will not see the PATTERN and PURPOSE that MY LOVE dictates will befall mankind and the whole world. For WISDOM can only begin when the FEAR OF THE LORD is in their hearts. And because I desire that none would be destroyed, the DAY OF THE LORD has begun. AND SO FEW HAVE YET NOTICED IT. In their materialism and their self-centered complacency did not, would not, learn of ME in the LIGHT. So now they must seek ME in the DARKNESS.

 

 

 

They Just Don’t Know

Bob Neumann, 12/1997

Son, because you have asked I will share this TRUTH.

MY Judgment is neither vengeful nor petty.

MY Judgment is HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS.

 

Many who refuse MY Correction suffer because they would not change. They chose sin and death over mercy and life. There are many who you have ministered to will not repent, and will walk away holding onto the 'things' in their lives that are killing them.

Samuel, MY son, so often have you prayed and wept before ME asking ME to heal and to restore. Many I have TOUCHED and you rejoiced and gave thanks to ME. But there are those who I did not touch and your heart broke for them...just as MY HEART BREAKS. Like you many of MY DEAREST children, MY FAITHFUL servants, pray unknowing prayers. And all look inward for hidden sins, bondages, that would diminish your ability to touch MY HEART. OH MY CHILDREN....your brokenness before ME is like GOLD IN THE FURNACE.

Man taught you failure to force MY HAND is a sign of a “lack of faith”. IT IS A DOCTRINE OF DEMONS. Over time you all must LEARN THE DEEPER TRUTHS that only come through MY WORD. LIKE PETER AND JEREMIAH I WILL TELL YOU....so don't look to any man unless I send you. Did I not send the 12 to MY SON?

Children, any prayer that requires ME to overlook iniquity or rebellion I CAN NOT RECEIVE. I HEAR ALL PRAYERS FOR I AM GOD. AND I AM HOLY. Likewise I hear all manipulative and contrived prayers, but seldom do I listen because I know the state of the heart. Those that I do listen to I, in LOVE answer, but not to bless....but to chasten. By giving them what they 'demand' from ME they bring trials and testings upon themselves. Ask them this, son: “Do you REALLY KNOW how much I love you?” Then ask them how much they must go through before they will remember ME. Children, how bad must things get before you realize something is 'wrong' in your world. I love you too much to allow you to ignore ME any longer. That what I now do is because I love you so much and do not want you to be cut off from ME in ETERNITY as so many are separated from ME right now.

Children, so many know of ME but have never submitted to MY WILL. I KNOW MINE AND MINE KNOW ME WITH MORE THAN THOUGHTS AND WORDS. Children, so many say they 'love' ME but do not hear MY VOICE. EVEN MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE AND FOLLOW MY SON.

But to you who call ME GOD AND FATHER yet have never heard a WORD from out of MY MOUTH....so how could you obey ME. CHILDREN WHO LOVE ME OBEY ME. To many of you still are going through motions and emotions. You say you worship ME...but without obedience worship is just a cheap form of sacrifice.

WORSHIP WITHOUT OBEDIENCE IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF BEING DOUBLEMINDED.

MY sons, MY daughters....speak to the children who hear not MY words all that I have shared with you.

MY JUDGEMENT WILL NOW WEIGH THE NATIONS IN MY BALANCE. MY JUDGEMENT WILL SEPARATE THE WHEAT FROM THE TARES. MY JUDGEMENT IS NOT BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL. IT IS A DARK AND TERRIBLE DAY.

 

 

 

I Must Be Poured Out

Bob Neumann, 12/1997

Children, I must be poured out, FOR IT IS WRITTEN....

I MUST BE POURED OUT, I MUST FLOW, I MUST FILL.

All flesh will feel ME, yet very few will receive me.

All MEN will hear ME and tremble in their fear.

Very few will listen for MY VOICE in the midst of their 'storms'.

And of these who will obey MY WORD that is in their Heart?

 

So many read the words but so few comprehend the message.

When the Prophet Joel warned of the GREAT and TERRIBLE DAY of the LORD it was because he heard and saw and felt…

so he obeyed MY VOICE and wrote it down.

Few ever listened for MY VOICE, but I WAS THERE.

And to all those who would seek, I AM STILL HERE to teach…

 

I AM the WORDS and I AM the GIFTS.

I AM the ONE who empowers, strengthens, and anoints.

Within the WORD I AM called by many NAMES and Manifest MYSELF in MANY WAYS.

THE BREATH OF GOD.

THE FORMER AND LATTER RAIN.

THE BURNING BUSH.

THE OIL OF GLADNESS.

THE BALM IN GILEAD.

 

I AM WISDOM.

I AM THE COMFORTER.

 

Many Images I have given you because your need are so many.

Many Names I have given taught you so that you might call out to ME.

I AM ABBA and I AM LOGOS and RHEMA and I AM RUACH.

AND I AM ONE.

AND I AM HOLY.

 

Children, few of you truly know ME and this is the source of MY GRIEF.

Little children have no trouble seeing and hearing ME in everything around them.

For in their simple prayers and guileless innocence there is simple faith.

Simple acceptance. Faith unpolluted. Faith without strings attached.

And I do not add the strings...

 

Each Image that has been given to you has been simple and direct.

Yet you do not accept the simple when offered.

 

IT IS WRITTEN....MY SPIRIT WILL I POUR.....

Why are you still anticipating that has been and still is?

Are not MY servants and handmaidens speaking MY WORDS to you?

Are not young and old alike seeing MY WILL in DREAMS and VISIONS?

Do they not give report unto you as I HAVE DIRECTED them?

What is wrong?

Hasn't anyone noticed all the 'SIGNS and WONDERS' about you long enough for you to realize IT IS DONE?

Has anyone understood that the reason I AM POURED out upon you is to renew your minds in the POWER of MY WORD!

To cleanse you and to conform you into THE IMAGE of THE ANOINTED AND OBEDIENT ONE who poured HIMSELF out for you. HE whom the IMMERSER spoke of would “baptize IN SPIRIT AND IN FIRE”.

This THE MIGHTY ONE HAS DONE for I AM, yet still you do not receive ME.

 

What is it that you seek, a heavenly sprinkle of 'Holy Ghost Goosebumps?

A quick jolt of something you can call 'power'.

You make a big show of “inviting” ME into your midst's either forgetting or denying part of MY ESSENCE...ETERNAL AND OMNIPRESENT.

You ask for ME to bring HEALINGS, DELIVERANCES, PROSPERITY, JOY, FREEDOM, LAUGHTER, EMPOWERMENT.

BUT YOU THEN REFUSE TO LET ME FLOW....

AND I MUST FLOW

 

You preach so many good sermons about putting “GOD IN A BOX” yet restrict MY flow at every turn...at every stronghold.…

 

I AM POURED; AND I MUST FLOW FOR I MUST FILL ALL WHO RECEIVE ME.

You keep doing the potter/clay thing so well, yet I MUST ASK...when is it finished?

When you say? When you decide?

When will you see the PURPOSE of all that has been spoken, all that has been written?

You enjoy the breeze and the rain.

You sing about the “LIVING WATER” and the “NEW WINE''.

 

You pray for the oil to drip down and the fire to fall when it adds to your sermon.

But I tell you falling fire must be caught in an Anointed Vessel.

False fire and wild fire are all around you and you must pass through it.

Do not stop in the middle of it to throw yourselves pity parties to wallow in.

 

Children you must pass through that which is eating away at you.

You keep asking for HOLY FIRE not knowing that you must be immersed and held

under till the dross is removed, the clay is baked, the steel is shaped.

 

The clay needs the FIRE with each glazing it takes.

The gold will need the FIRE for seven smeltings to be purged.

But the steel seeks the FIRE over and over till THE MASTER'S pleased with HIS HANDIWORK.

 

WHO AMONG YOU DESIRE THE FORGE AND THE HAMMER?

WHO AMONG YOU DESIRE THE LONG HOURS OF THE KILN?

WHO AMONG YOU DESIRE THE REFINER'S FIRE AND HIS MOLD?

 

Children; it is well to seek the GOLD I offer. But who will take the FIRE to serve THE LIVING GOD.

To be shaped and developed as a VESSEL of HONOR, a TOOL of THE MASTER, a WEAPON of THE KING.

 

IT IS FOR THIS PURPOSE I AM POURED SO I MAY FLOW AND FILL.

 

 

 

Every Word (or The Word)

Bob Neumann,

Note: Please understand that this word is to the rebellious who continued in sin and refused to repent and come to correction, having been given ample time by the Master. They are those who have grown complacent in their own self-righteousness and personal idolatry whom God has given over to a reprobate mind (Romans 1:28-32).

 

MY son, what more can I do for them? I gave them Covenant after Covenant. The Last was sealed by the Blood of MY LAMB. What more could I give; what more could I do?

Presently there are many running to and fro across you land “Looking For” many things. Some hunt for a “MOVE”, but never see MY HAND protecting them. Some thirst for a “FLOW”, but never drink of what I offer them. Some hunger for some “MEAT”, but will never feast on MY WORD. Some go “BEGGING” for a WORD...ANY WORD....from any man, but will never take time to wait in MY PRESENCE and to listen for MY VOICE.

So I ask again what more must I do for these rebellious children who make so much noise; yet will not listen. From the largest to the least all are given equally all the Gifts and Blessings and Favor that I have to bestow on MY LITTLE ONES. Yet so many lack where they should have plenty. Grace and Mercy I give to those who ask, but Wisdom and Discernment must be sought out.

Son, what is the greatest lie presently assaulting MY PEOPLE? YES, son, there are many. At least one for every TRUTH in MY WORD. But the greatest spawns all the others.

The Greatest Lie is still the First; when the enemy says to you “Didn’t GOD say....”. And man adds to or takes away from MY WORD. All the enemy’s lies begin that way and because many of MY SHEEP may hear MY VOICE but do not study MY WORD they will be deceived.

And is it not written; “study to show yourselves approved...”. Here son is the root of this iniquity. Many of the shepherds and watchmen MY PEOPLE have chosen for themselves have taught MY LITTLE ONES that your ‘walk’ with ME begins at the cross.

IN TRUTH IT REALLY ENDS THERE. That is why MY SON said to pick up YOUR Cross and to follow HIM.

Children, the one thing “you lack” is what keeps you from ME. And that is “Being SELFLESS”. Salvation begins at the Cross for Grace and Mercy flow to you from THE BLOOD of MY LAMB. But it is your cross that is your stumbling block.

Is also not written that you must be crucified with CHRIST so that you may live? Each time you fail to pick up your cross first and then follow MY SON, you will stumble, you will fall, and you will listen to the deceiver. Your shepherds and your watchmen entertain more than they teach. That is because they feel the need to appease you over obeying ME. And popular in their repertoire are the “MYSTERIES” of GOD.

What MYSTERIES? Did I not say to come to ME and I will show you things you know not of? Did I not say that all that is whispered in the Darkness will be shouted out in the LIGHT? Your teachers betray you when they serve themselves and not ME. They teach the easy and the comfortable according to their eyes and put aside MY COUNCIL and MY WORD. And when I send a servant to speak MY WORD in Season they may listen, but how often have they headed MY Warnings. Just as the enemy know MY VOICE and cringes, so to do the wolves within the sheepfold.

Even in the midst of Babylon did MY Prophets speak to MY PEOPLE. Daniel had read and studied so when the Time of Restoration was near he cried out to ME in Knowledge. Trusting that I and MY WORD would be accomplished in the appointed time he interceded and repented for the sins of his people.

Ezekiel spoke repeatedly to MY PEOPLE of MY COMING JUDGMENT, but they would not take heed. Did not Isaiah say that MY children, in the midst of their rebellion say to MY SEERS; “see not!”? And to MY PROPHETS ; “speak not! for we do not wish to be confronted with the HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL”?

Son, is it any different today? Did I not say perilous times would come? Did I not say that Love would grow cold and evil wax worse? Did I not say that there would be a time when they shall call Good evil, and Evil good? LIGHT darkness, and DARKNESS light? So often your teachers and shepherds teach in part to deceive, but often it is because they know not MY TRUTH, MY WORD. Yet they speak of themselves as men of the spirit and men of the word. Unless they repent and seek ME they will surely one day call out to ME, “LORD, LORD...”.

Did not MY SON SAY; “IT IS WRITTEN, THAT MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT OUT OF EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD”? YES, children;

“EVERY WORD”

...! Not some words! Not the few words that tickle you ears or ease your minds and spirits that refuse the conviction of the MOST HOLY SPIRIT.

Like Paul said to the Galatians; “Who has deceived you?”. Why are MY CHILDREN foolish? Why do they cling to childish ways? Because the wolves have told them lies.

But let ME speak to those who seek Wisdom. Listen as eagerly to MY DARK SAYINGS as eagerly as those you perceives Light. You have surrendered so much to the enemy that you have so little ground left to make a stand on. The wolves have joined the false shepherds to silence the Servants I have sent.

But soon now not only will I shake all the mountains and hills but I will cast down all that is not of ME. I do not speak of years, but in days and weeks. All ready the tremors have begun all around you.

Listen Children. I created both Day and Night and they are GOOD AND PERFECT in MY HANDS. Light and Darkness are Mine. MY GREATEST Victories on your behalf occurred in the NIGHT, in the DARKNESS. So why do you fear darkness? Only one little darkness I created to deposit the enemy into.

And did not MY SON say that the GATES of HELL would not prevail against those of you I have called out of Darkness? Oh Children; so many of you would not shine while you had the day around you. Now that the Night has come you must shine. And the level of your luminescence increases two ways. More of ME in you, or the greater the Darkness is that surrounds you. I will have both, but only one would please ME. YET I WILL EXALT MYSELF EITHER WAY.

 

 

 

The Dark Sayings

Bob Neumann, 1/1998

Children, Believe ME With All Your Hearts when I SAY;

I WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE NATIONS.

I WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE PEOPLES.

 

It is good if you believe it, better if you do it. There are so many believers yet so few 'doers' among you. And what, MY children, am I speaking of? MY WORD. NOT PART....ALL.

You like MY “BEHOLDS”, but not MY “WOES''. Why? Little children have many likes and dislikes that originate in the child's judgment. Do you really trust that Eternity is balanced on your childish ways? Then you must seek MY WAYS and not your own. Put aside your pet interpretations of reality. Your philosophies, theologies and theories created to separate yourselves from your brothers and sisters. Put them aside and seek out MY WAYS and MY WISDOM. And within the totality of MY WORD is all WISDOM. Within the Fullness of MY SON , MY SPIRIT has breathed all into you. All has been given to you if you choose that which is TRUTH.

Are you that much unlike Solomon? He built MY Temple out of the treasures his father David had stored. He followed the plans and stayed true to the blueprint he was given. But he also built his own palace and a palace for one of his wives, Pharaoh's daughter. He also burned incense on the HIGH PLACES. It was not because of his 'righteousness' that I spoke to him in the “NIGHT SEASON”. It was because of MY COVENANT PROMISES to MY SERVANT, his father David. I called out to him and he answered ME. And when I offered to give him his hearts desire he chose service to ME by choosing MY KINGDOM and MY PEOPLE first. So by seeking MY KINGDOM first I gave him POWER, WEALTH, and WISDOM. But he did not repent so WISDOM served HIM little it seems. LEARN FROM THIS LESSON.

Are you any different? IS there not ONE in whom a much GREATER COVENANT is established? WAS THERE A MORE FAITHFUL SERVANT OR OBEDIENT SON THAN MY ONLY BEGOTTEN, MY LAMB WHO WAS WITHOUT SPOT OR STAIN. You ask for Wealth, Power, and Wisdom all the time; but did you choose MY KINGDOM over everything else. Did MY SON not show you MY WAY and example MY KINGDOM for you? DID HE NOT TEACH YOU; “SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS...”. I know you have children, but haven't you figured out that there is a profound difference between 'saying it' and 'seeking it'. But you still expect the 'desires of your heart'. That is what you have been taught over and over, isn't it. SO what is wrong? Are you standing on the TRUTH, MY WORD? OR are standing on something else and do not know it yet. SOMETHING LESS.....

If I show you the TRUTH, would you receive it? If I spoke of GREAT and MIGHTY THINGS that are to come; would you believe them? I HAVE. You see MY DESIRE toward you has been always for good and not evil. MY DESIRE is that none should perish, but it has always been up to you to decide. I have given you ALL, and I continue to send MY Servants to remind you of what I HAVE SAID. For There Is Nothing New Under the SUN. Just misplaced, ignored, or buried.

To your fathers I have spoken in “DARK SAYINGS”, MY SON taught in parables, and MY SPIRIT in prophecies, dreams, and visions. YOU WERE GIVEN GREAT WEALTH AND A PROFOUND BLUEPRINT to build with. Nothing has been hidden from those who seek MY RIGHTEOUSNESS. You look for MY VOICE when you should be listening. Still you want to “see”, to be entertained by “signs and wonders”. So when they say they got “it” over there....you go out to the desert to see. Then you hear 'rumors' about the upper room you hurry there. You are blown about by every breeze of the supernatural. HOW WOULD YOU KNOW EVEN IF IT WAS ME, if you won't listen? SO MANY THINGS DECEIVE YOU.

I AM A GOD THAT CAN SPEAK OUT OF THE WHIRLWIND.

I AM A GOD THAT CAN SPEAK OUT OF THE FIRE.

I CAN SPEAK TO YOU FROM THE MOUNTAINTOP OR FROM THE DEEPEST PIT THAT YOU HAVE FALLEN INTO.

I AM YOUR GOD AND YOU MUST HAVE NO OTHER.

HOW I CHOOSE TO SPEAK TO YOU IS MINE TO CHOOSE.

 

CHILDREN, I CHOOSE TO SPEAK TO YOU IN THAT STILL...SWEET ...VOICE THAT ELIJAH HEARD. THE VOICE THAT MY SERVANTS HAVE ALWAYS LISTENED TO. FOR YOU SEE THE SERVANTS THAT PLEASE ME ARE THOSE WHO SET THEIR HEARTS ON ME AND FOUND THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS. AND THEIR SPIRITS CALLED OUT TO ME STEADFAST IN OBEDIENCE IN THE FACE OF DEATH. IT IS WRITTEN...”AS DEEP CALLS TO DEEP''. The RIVER grows continually deeper as it grows wider. TO SEEK ME is to go out into the DEEPEST WATERS and cast yourselves into ME. The DEEPER you ENTER ME the DARKER AND COLDER the WATER gets. But you say “DARKER”, “COLDER”...that can't be GOD ! That is because you have limited ME in your eyes and cut yourself off from ME. That is why I call out to you now. If you will not learn of ME then learn from your mistakes. Accept the fact that there are things wrong in your life. That I offer much more than what you have settled for. Trust not your emotions and lean not on your own wisdom and understanding. BE STILL, AND LISTEN.

So much of what you have received is not MY WHOLE COUNCIL. To many of you miss the obvious. Yet too many of you who have raised question to those who have taken charge for you have been “beaten down''. They have told you “never question GOD”. And defend themselves with the words “Touch not the LORD'S anointed”.

Really? Were not all MY SERVANTS TOUCHED? Beaten, chained, mocked, spat upon, and murdered? Where is their truth? their anointing? DID NOT MY SON SAY TO LET THE CHILDREN COME UNTO ME

AGAIN I SAY...

LET MY CHILDREN COME TO ME.

BRING ME YOUR QUESTIONS, YOUR PAINS, YOUR BURDENS, YOUR FEARS

AND I WILL BE YOUR FATHER.

I WILL NOT TURN AWAY ANY WHO SET THEIR HEARTS ON ME.

LOOK FOR ME IN THE WORD.

LOOK FOR ME IN YOUR CLOSETS.

CALL OUT TO ME AND I WILL HEAR YOU AND I WILL ANSWER YOU.

 

 

 

7 Moves

Bob Neumann, 2/1998

YES, LORD there are times where I can only sit and ponder at what is swirling around me. To see the culmination in “present knowledge” of the world being conformed for the “END TIME GAMBIT” just as IT WAS WRITTEN. And then to be still as the MOST HIGH breathes upon and into me “revelation knowledge”. As one mirrors the other I still have that remarkable sense of wonderment and still look upward and ask “why?”.

ABBA never seems to tire of hearing my “why LORD” 's. you would think maybe I would have outgrown it by now. When I first called upon HIS NAME I had so many “whys”.... And too many 'whines' too. And HE put up with it all to a point. Now my 'whines' are much fewer...but I still fall too often.

But why seems always on my mind. There was a time where every day something would push a button and I had to ask. In my 'youth' I ran an emotional gauntlet, as I would hear things spoken/taught that I could not accept.

Sometimes it was a simple lack of knowledge...and sometimes it was discernment simply lacking foundation or focus. To “know” something is wrong without seeing the error is frustrating. The expected outcome was to go to the one who always knows, ABBA. And if I did not seek ABBA I would find myself reacting out of my emotions. anger, fear, confusion. In other words 'offended'. Every time I heard the WORD twisted to manipulate the sheep...every time I heard the WORD corrupted and defiled to sell an idea...every time I saw HIS SHEEP USED, ABUSED, and REFUSED I wanted to react in like manner. But that was not ABBA'S WAY. Vengeance is HIS ALONE... so I learned to stand watch. So I learned HIS WORD AND HIS WILL. And HE taught me to respond, not to react. To respond to the needs of HIS SHEEP when and as HE directs. To respond through THE WORD and THE GIFTS. To intercede before HIM. To STAND and to WALK.

Fear of the LORD.... Kneel in silence before HIM and ego shrivels. Stand before HIM to give answer to HIS complaint.... Yes you are obviously 'dead'.... But HE listens and instructs...HE chastens because HE understands us far beyond our comprehension...and this brings WISDOM by which discernment is honed and tempered in HIS FIRE. Do I still get offended...not really, “dead” men can't be offended...can't have an agenda...can't have preferences as we think of them...can't have any human emotion... but I have never cried and grieved like I do now...I have never laughed and rejoiced as I do now...nor have I seethed with anger as I do now.... Because it is HIS HEART I feel beating and HIS thoughts that run through my mind. Yet I still don't like to wait...still feel lost and frustrated and vulnerable and powerless and alone at times.... But it just makes me run faster to HIS ARMS...

So strangely, at least at the time, on the first Sunday in January as my pastor preached his “STATE OF THE CHURCH” address ABBA and I began to reminisce about all those cute 'sayings' man has come up with as their pet slogan for the year. I remember the banners I’ve seen and the tapes I’ve heard pushing religious sound bites.... The battles won in 91... much to do in 92... more of thee in 93... the open door in 94.... Barely alive in 95... in a fix in 96... and I realized that the laughter was not as humorous as it began...when GOD laughs, in the psalms... it is to mock the enemy...our idea of HOLY LAUGHTER is not the same as what I have heard in the field of battle where the TRUTH about “the joy of the LORD is my strength” gains a whole new meaning. The churches' worldly ways do not bring ABBA any joy whatsoever...I used to wonder and ask why all the time until HE TAUGHT me the meaning of the doctrines JESUS spoke of in Rev 2-3. So I wait and abide until HIS TIME.

The next Sunday pastor continued his message and I got one to.... not a cute jingo...but a pattern, an outline for the year ahead. Or the last battle...take your pick...

So I listened and obeyed...as usual it means to write it down...now I have heard and read many words concerning what will be. All seem right in one aspect or another... let me rephrase this...after you ignore all the crap and crud that is unscriptural, new agey, self-promoting, irritates the MOST HOLY SPIRIT, and gives you the kreepy krawleys in the discernment nook in your spirit...it is all of GOD but needs to fit into the puzzle somewheres...and none of us got it all or know it all...yet...but soon....

So I wrote down what at first glance could have been a beginning to somebody's seven-part sermon.... But a lot of the brethren have seen seven parts/pieces/waves/ moves/etc. and I know HE LIKES TO KEEP THINGS IN SEVENS.... So instead of asking why I asked what.... And I got a lot more than I was looking for...but now I know it is not yet all.... Let me explain... HE said it is not what the church plans or expects to do that in this next year...I get the impression that not to many actually took the time to ask HIM HIS OPINION.... But it isn't anything new I regret... [LORD, for what we are about to receive may we be truly grateful]

In Psalm 98 it states:

3 let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.

HIS NAME IS HOLY...and it is YAH....which means as all of us know means “I AM”....but in the original HEBREW it can also mean “I BE”....since before last Yom Kippur one verse, and one verse alone runs through my being and it overrides almost everything else....

10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. If like David we could say....

46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

Then we would probably in no need for what GOD is about to do. If “we” spent as much time exalting HIS MOST HOLY NAME as we spend on church stuff HE WOULD NOT HAVE TO DO IT HIMSELF... but then is this all a big surprise to HIM?

David it seems knew more than we for he also wrote…

13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.

9 For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.

Then again this may be something HE has awaited and planned for sense the foundations of the world were laid.... and HIS LAMB was slain.

In Psalm 118 we have this WORD...

16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:

 

This year HE WILL DO VALIANTLY....

it will be a time of DRAWING....

it will be a time of DISCERNMENT....

it will be a time of DIRECTION....

it will be a time of DISCIPLINE....

it will be a time of DEVOTION.…

it will be a time of DEPLOYMENT....

it will be a time of DESTRUCTION.…

 

Basically these are all that will be done BY HIM, IN HIM, AND THROUGH HIM....

IN HIS CHURCH, BY HIS CHURCH, THROUGH HIS CHURCH....

If we take them one at a time, which I did, each has a specific meaning, a specific timing.... That there was coming an intense drawing away from self and toward.... HOLINESS, OBEDIENCE, SERVICE..... That there would be an intense growth of discernment of that which was of GOD.... The knowing between the GOOD and that which is BEST.... That there was a new direction that all of us would discern to HIS PURPOSE AND HIS KINGDOM... and because of this we will seek HIS DISCIPLINE in our lives.... And it will fire a devotion for HIM that will override everything else in our lives.... And then we will be DEPLOYED, a military term for being placed in the right place 'for the appointed time'.... And the DESTRUCTION will begin.... Remember the IN..the BY...the THROUGH..... Now that alone would have been enough, except the LORD OF HOSTS is EL GABOR....MY CAPTAIN....HE warned us of the enemy's infiltration and subversion of HIS CHURCH in Mat 24.....4 times HE said DO NOT BE DECEIVED.... And then HE TRIED TO WARN US REPEATEDLY about doctrines of men and of demons.... And then, finally HE told JOHN of three doctrines/spirits corrupting and controlling within the “7 churches of Asia”.... which seem to be doing fine in present day America.... So HE just happened to mention what would come against HIS PEOPLE and each move taking place....

THE DRAWING will be opposed by “a spirit of Hesitation”.

THE DISCERNMENT will be opposed by “a spirit of Slumber”.

THE DIRECTION will be opposed by “a spirit of Self-Centeredness”.

THE DISCIPLINE will be opposed by “a spirit of Complacency”.

THE DEVOTION will be opposed by “a spirit of Lukewarmness”.

THE DEPLOYMENT will be opposed by “a spirit of Stagnation and a spirit of Mocking”.

THE DESTRUCTION will be a time of loss and a time of wrath...…

 

This I do not yet comprehend too well, but I am learning.... And then HE gave me specific scriptures for each.... THE DRAWING is based out of HOSEA 2 and ISAIAH 5 (and Song of Solomon 1:4.) now this last verse I have added.... because three weeks later I gave a word in the 'local' body....

Oh my children, my children, this past year I have taken you through so much to draw you to me. You have been sifted and you have been shaken. You have been broken and torn. I have seen your tears and I have heard your cries. But children I was always with you, always for you. I walked with you in the good times and in the bad. When you noticed my presence and when you did not. But now the seasons have changed and the time to walk has passed. It is now time for you to run. All of you will run. Most of you will be running in fear, running in pain, running in doubt, running in desperation, running in panic. But you will be running to me. You will be running to me because everything else you have looked to for your strength, everything else that you trusted in, everything you placed ahead of me will cease to be.

For I will bring down and destroy all that is not of me.... So you will be running to me for safety. You will be running to me for provision. You will be running to me for healing. You will be running to me for protection. You will be running to me for there is nowhere else to run and be saved.... Among you there are some who have run to me. Now they will run with me. Running through the streets proclaiming my kingdom. Running to the highways and the byways to bring in the last who will fill me banquet chamber.

Running with me into the darkness to bring in the lost and forgotten, the ignored and the abused. And among you there are a few who have walked with me, those who have even ran with me. Now it is time for you to run before me. For I shall send you before me to run down the enemy. To run down the wolves who kill my sheep. To run down all that stands against me. For I will send you running ...running against kings and princes, against cities and strongholds. You will run before me in my authority.

You will run in my strength. You will run in my spirit. You will run in my name.

Now you have to wonder are these one at a time...or are all happening as you read this? I guess it all depends where each of us are.... in which direction we are running? Now I got a couple ideas...but maybe it is time to wait and listen a little more.

SELAH

Bob in Miami