Season 7: Moving Forward
A season of change and innovation is upon you. It seems as though you have stalled in all your pursuits, but for everything there is a time of growth, so that plants can reach maturity before bursting forth from the soil, to become that which was contained in the seed. I have planted and I have watered. I have tended the garden to ensure that when new life bursts forth, it can grow unhindered. Just as there is a perfect time for seeds to be planted, so that they will come forth in their right season, so it is in the life of My saints that there is the perfect time when the seed of the Spirit that I have planted will burst forth and blossom in the best conditions for it to reach full maturity.
In seasons of growth there is no point of reference to determine if you are growing or not. In the life of My saints this is called trust and faith, believing that all things will work out and promises will be fulfilled. The ever expectant hope that this faith brings is the very life and vitality contained within My Word and My promises to you. The early disciples lived in the expectant hope and assurance that I would come again and each day was filled with an overflowing joy based on My promises to them, the assurance coming from the knowledge that I would never leave them, nor forsake them and an understanding that the temporary trappings of this life were not the prize to be sought after, or given any credence as to My blessings upon them, but the joyful assurance that we would be together forever in a world too wonderful for words to explain. As they came to depend upon Me and Me alone, I showed them little glimpses of the glory laid up for them having seen in the spirit and being assured by My Words to them, whatever life brought their way, they thought of little consequence in light of the glory and rewards laid up for them.
Many will tell you that you’re too old because of your physical age, and your society is cruelly targeting the elderly not valuing them for anything, based purely on image and the world’s system. There are many who have been hidden for My purposes in the end times. They are unknown to the church, but the church as it is, is not My true Bride but one which has usurped the office of My bride, putting out mixed and wrong messages of My true nature. Relationship is developed in the quiet hidden places, the backwaters of life, and is dependent upon you coming to know Me, love Me, honour Me, trust Me, no matter what circumstances or indeed the church dictates. The church has indeed become like the world in many ways, your value being determined only by results and not relationship.
Life begins anew each and every day. Let your yesterdays be just that. Today and Now, are the only hallmarks and guides that you will need. All your yesterdays with their disappointments, regrets, failures, are just a training ground to bring you to have absolute trust and faith in Me and Me alone. In what else could you have such assurance? Money in the bank, investments, wealth? All these I can give in an instant, but they are not the issue of life. From them only death can proceed if they become the objects of your worship, your desire or your affections. Put your affections on things above not on anything that belongs to this world. I will supply your every need as My Word says and it is surely so. Blessings and favour that you cannot contain are yours. Receive them by faith and cease from your doubting.
It is time to move forward and lay hold of the promises I have spoken, now is the Opening Season of your life. Treasures that had been hidden, you will find. Experience the big picture; stop looking at small insignificant situations. I AM bigger than all of your problems and trials and sufferings. I AM the Big Picture. It is about Me and what I want to do for you, not what you can do for Me. As much as I appreciate the sentiment of “saved to serve” it is rather insulting to Me that I desire to enslave you rather than as My Word says, “I have come that you may have life and have life to the full!”
The problem is not with Me, but in your thinking! When did I ever say you are not worthy? You are worthy because of what I have done and it is insulting to infer that the laying down of My Son’s life was not enough to make you worthy of all that I have decided to give you and do for you. You are worthy because I made you worthy. You cannot earn righteousness or right standing with Me by your works. “Simply for the believing”, all of heaven and its resources are available to you and no other way.
I have done it! Believe it! Receive it! Walk in it! Live it! Stop stumbling along life’s highway like a poor blind beggar, tripping up on your own fears and unbelief. Call unbelief what it is – SIN! Confess it and repent of it and start receiving what I have been trying to give you for years. Priceless wine simply for the asking. Simple believing faith is all that is required.
Excerpt From: Thomas A. Petterson. “G.I.F.T Godly Insights for Today.”
Australian eBook Publisher, 2014. iBooks.
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