We serve an awesome and magnificent God and Creator. He is indeed Sovereign, great in majesty and wonder. The tedious task of going over all the folders and files on the recovered external hard drive (over 280,000 plus files) is still going on.
I have opened about 20,000 files. What an undertaking, but necessary. It is about half and half on the recovery, meaning a little more than half is recovered, but a little less than half is lost (corrupted).
That being said, I was scanning the external for viruses when I decided to click on a folder. As I quickly glanced over the titles, one caught my eye. It fit so appropriately with what has been posted recently, yet it was given to me in 2008. God does indeed go ahead of us. He truly is the Alpha and Omega.
It was the only article I looked at today on the external, as I had other pressing matters to attend to. It is posted below. May it bless you as it did me. All glory to God alone!
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Oct 1, 2008
7:27 pm
Be Still and Know
Why look at
the natural? It is ever changing. Look into the spiritual, for I am the same
yesterday, today and forever. Call
things that are not as though they were.
Where is your faith? Where is your love?
Shall you
not go forth in victory? I have told you
of the victory, just as I did the warriors before you. They sought their God, just as you are told
to seek Me.
I assured
them of the victory – THEN they went to battle.
Thusly, I have told you also, but you struggle to believe the
impossible. Yea, with man it is impossible, but with Me all things are
possible.
In order to
move into the LIFE and the POWER I have promised you, you must DIE TO SELF; put
to death the old man so the new may come forth.
Every part of your being is crying out.
You cannot give up on what you hope for; for you believe My words, yet
Satan and his strongmen entice you, ‘Has
God said?’
Be still
and know that I am God. I will be
exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth. It is not by might, [your strength] nor by power, [your
willpower] but by My Spirit… [says the Lord of hosts]
It is
written that the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:
who can know it? Many will speak this
saying you cannot trust yourself.
Who lives
in you? My sheep know My voice; the
lambs will learn their Shepherd’s voice as they mature. Who is He that searches the heart? Who is He that sees the heart and knows you
better than you know yourself?
For after it is said about the heart being
deceitful, it is written that I the LORD search the heart (I test the mind, the will, the heart), even to give every man
according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. [Jer 17: 9,
10]
Who knows the number of hairs upon your head? Did I not say that before you were in the
womb I knew you? Did I not say that it
is I, the Almighty God who formed you in the womb and brought you forth?
Set your face like a flint [determination]
and seek the Lord your God with prayer and supplications, and with fasting;
with humility [sack cloth] and
lowliness [ashes]
I am here with you. I hold your
hand as a child and shield you. I
protect you. Who points you to the cross
of Christ? Who tells you that you must
deny self, pick up your cross daily and follow Christ?
Would Satan or any devil tell you this? Nay, and I say to you, do in the physical
what I have required of you. That is
obedient faith.
Yea, a
man may say, You have faith and I have works: show me your faith without your
works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
But
will you know, O vain man that faith without works is dead?
For as
the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
[Jam 2:18; 20; 26]
It is done in the spiritual for it is I alone who does the work and
brings it forth.
Cross over your Jordan and leave your wilderness and the old man
behind. Step out in faith despite outward appearance. Once you pass over, abide in Me
and see what your faith and obedience brings.
You will see full restoration, healing, deliverance…body, soul and
spirit.
Yes, it is a great thing you believe for. Yes, it is a great promise,
yet if you desire to do the greater works, there is a cost. Lay down your life and you shall gain
it. Through it all, I shall be
glorified.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose
it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. [Mat 16:25]
In these days, you have felt a great heaviness; a great burden – a
travailing. You have a sense of loss; a
sense of aloneness, a time of great solitude.
You have entered into your own garden of Gethsemane for your time is
now come. I have brought you to the end
of yourself. I have stayed with you
through the false labour. The real labour begins. Now is the time to enter in; in great
anguish, sorrow and travail.
I hold your hand and bring you through. Yea, My child, I have prepared you for such a
time as this. I have heard your vow to
serve Me and obey Me without any hesitation. Did you not think this would be
tried (tested)?
You must let go of all of your past… a complete death to self. Do not grieve, but rather rejoice that you
have found favour, mercy and grace in the eyes of your King. Truly it is marvelous and beyond your
comprehension, yet I say to you that this is no hard thing for Me.
Now is the time! It is not
just about you; it is about others also and through it all, I will be
glorified. Continue to pray and stand in
the gap. Offer up praise with
thanksgiving. Fast when I lead you to.
Press in to the secret place of your Most high God, for I am surely
for you and not against you.
Forgive. Forgive others; forgive
yourself. Trust Me with what I have
spoken to you.
It is no hard thing for Me to perform.
Again, do not try to understand why or how – simply obey and give
thanks. Satan and all his chief captains
and princes and all his armies can do nothing to stop what I have decreed,
though they shall try. They are very real enemies, but I am He who gives you
victory over your enemies, for I AM the LORD of the battle. Victory is now…
Again I say, who points you to the cross? Who poured out their blood for the sins of
mankind? Who tells you to seek first the
kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you? [Mat 6:33]
Who tells you to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with
all your soul and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and to love
your neighbor as yourself? [Mat 22:37]
Who holds the stars in the heavens?
[Is 40:26] Who orders the winds and the seasons? [Mat 8:26, 17; Eccles 3:1] Who calls things
that are not as though they were? [Rom 4:17]
Who took the keys of hell and death from Satan? [Rev 1:18] Who gives you the VICTORY BEFORE
the battle? [Josh 8:1-35] Who knows the
end from the beginning? [Is 46:10] Yes,
I AM the Lord God of Abraham, Jacob and Isaac.
I AM the Lord God of Israel. I
am He. Beside Me there is no other God. I will not share My glory with another. I AM that I AM
Rebellion is as witchcraft.
Unbelief rides with rebellion.
Fear has torment. Selah
Test every spirit to see if it is of Me or not. Beware and on guard. Seek Me and I shall guide you. [Prov 3:5, 6] I know your frailties. Obey Me in all details. Begin this day. Step by step.
It must go forth now or not at all.
Trust Me. It is for your sake (and the sake of others), but for My
glory. Trust and obey. Fear not; I strengthen you. I did not stop doing miracles or great
works. It did not end with the
apostles. I am the same yesterday, today
and forever. [Heb 13:8]
You cannot shake off what I have promised you, for it is deep within
you. You cried out for truth. Yes, I am
truth. I am love. I am the way. I am life.
The sword is proved worthy, purified and hardened in the fire [where it is hard hit, molded, shaped] and
in water [where it hardens and
strengthens], then it is used as a mighty
weapon in battle.
Go through, go through, go through.
I am with you. Believe Me for the
things I speak to you. Believe My word
and keep it in your heart and upon your lips.
Satan and his armies, those assigned against you, will war against you,
to wear you down, break you down, make you think you are crazy by using My word
against you, just as he did in the desert against My Son, as he tempted
him.
And just as he said to Eve, he will bring doubt and confusion and even
ask you, Has God said? He will even imitate My voice to establish confusion and doubt, to rob you of
your destiny.
Yet as you cry out to Me for truth and wait upon Me, I will still his voice and the voice of your
flesh. You will know the truth and the
still peace shall sweep over your spirit.
Wait, I say, wait upon Me.
Without faith, it is impossible to please Me, for it is faith that
puts to death unbelief. It is trust that
puts to death doubt. It is My love that
will rid you of your fear, casting it out of you. Selah
Now is the time. This is your now. Press in, trust and obey. I love you for you were bought with a price.
My Son’s blood covers you. You shall
overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of your testimony, and you shall
love not your life, unto death. [Rev 12:11] Believe Me for the things I speak
to you, for My sheep know My voice and another they will not follow.
I am Sovereign. Be still and
know that I am God…
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be
exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth. [Ps 46:10]
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings
as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. [Is 40:31]
for His glory alone
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