Dream of 1000 ft wave in San Francisco Bay 05-23-12

Dream of the 1000 Ft Wave and San Francisco Bay 05-23-12

I laid down to sleep at 3:16 am. I dreamed that I was in California with people that we knew. We were out in the San Francisco Bay, way out past the bridge and we were all in a ship. We were also with others also in our ship. I saw Charles and Julie and Ann, and others I knew from California, and we were all together in a ship off shore in the SF Bay. We were waiting for something. We were standing on the deck of the ship and our faces were into the wind. I then saw the 1000 ft wave coming and it was approaching the SF Bay where we were all in the ship. There were other ships and boats also out in the Bay also that I could see, but I only recognized some of those who were on my ship. When I saw the wave coming, I raised both my hands straight up towards the sky. The others saw me and did this also. I knew that we were going to be lifted up upon the wave.

Then I was aware of the Statue of Liberty. I knew she was looking out towards the wave too, just like we were. I could feel her beside us in the water in SF Bay. I saw her torch in her hand and it was lit. She had her hands up and the torch was burning. She was waiting for the wave also. Her face was set firm and she did not look at anything but at the wave approaching.

Then suddenly, I was lifted up and I was sitting on her left shoulder way up in the air. I could feel her shoulder underneath me and she still had her arm raised and the torch was still burning. The wave was still coming. I knew that we were in the SF Bay and that she was in the Bay with us. We were out in the Bay past the bridge. She was in the deep waters off shore, and I was sitting on her left shoulder and then suddenly I began to slide down her shoulder and then down her arm, and then down her robe and when I got to the bottom of the statue, I was standing in New York. I then heard these audible words being spoken to her from heaven, "This is the way, walk ye in it." I woke up and looked at the clock and it said 4:12 am.

Note: it was between the times of: 3:16 am to 4:12 am; So I looked up scriptures the Lord quickened to me about the times:

Ephesians 3:16 May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality].

Ephesians 4:12 His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body (the church),

Isaiah 30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

SF Bay link: http://www.holydieexplorer.com/the-golden-gate-bridge-is-a-lasting-symbol-of-the-citys-history-in-san-francisco/

Wave link: http://surfemporium.co.za/2011/03/18/big-wave-surfer-sion-milosky-dies-at-mavericks/

Note: in the picture above, a 60 ft wave hit the San Francisco Bay area on 3-18-11 and a famous surfer died in it.

Ephesians 3:18 That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God's devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it];

-Susan O'Marra

05-23-12

Dream of People Walking Around As Trees

Dream of People Walking Around As Trees - 05-22-12

This morning, I dreamed of being in an area with many people. A man came up to me and said he needed my help. He had something growing out of his forehead. It looked at his forehead and it looked like a twig was growing out of his forehead. It had a small stem and a bud on it. He wanted me to pull it out. I wondered how he got a tree seed to sprout on his face. I was concerned that if I pulled it out that it might take a part of his face or skin with it. I told him that I could not pull it out and that he had to go see a doctor. Then, the dream then shifted and I saw several other people walking around and they each had tree branches growing out of them. Some branches were growing out of their heads, some had branches growing out of their chests, or others had them growing out of other areas their body. Some had short small twig-like trees growing out of them, and others had bigger tree branches growing out of them. Some of their branches were blooming and some had only leaves on them. All were in various stages of growth and maturity.

What was interesting to me was the people themselves. I overhead some of the people saying that they did not want the tree branches to grow out of them because they wanted to be like normal people. Some of the people did not like the area that their branches grew out of and some said that they wanted them to be less noticeable. I saw a few of the people that were smiling and walking around enjoying their new found growth. I then turned and looked around, and saw lots of other people in the dream did not have any branches growing out of them at all. This phenomenon was affecting only certain people among the masses. I was just about to talk to one of them when I was awakened by my husband to go to the morning prayer watch at our church.

The interpretation is obvious, as we are the oaks of righteousness, God's plantings.......but the deeper issues as seen in the above experience is that we have a tendency to not want God to come as He wants to, but we want it our way........and the Lord wants us to open up to Him, and let Him do what He wants to in us, through us, and among us. Also, whether we like it or not, God is going to come how He wants to, when He wants to, and He will use who He wants to.......but will you be among them? We have to say yes to God and let Him have full control, and make us into what He wants us to be! God is manifesting Himself in our midst right now, can you see Him, or feel Him? He wants all of His Children to enter in and to come to know Him intimately and fully, and then let Him out, into your lives and into the lives around you!

Scriptures:

Psalms 1:1 BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather. 2 But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night. 3 And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity].

Psalms 52:8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in and confidently rely on the loving-kindness and the mercy of God forever and ever.

Psalms 92:12 The [uncompromisingly] righteous shall flourish like the palm tree [be long-lived, stately, upright, useful, and fruitful]; they shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon [majestic, stable, durable, and incorruptible]. 13 Planted in the house of the Lord, they shall flourish in the courts of our God.

Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the [uncompromisingly] righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise captures human lives [for God, as a fisher of men--he gathers and receives them for eternity].

Isaiah 6:13 And though a tenth [of the people] remain in the land, it will be for their destruction [eaten up and burned] like a terebinth tree or like an oak whose stump and substance remain when they are felled or have cast their leaves. The holy seed [the elect remnant] is the stump and substance [of Israel].

Hosea 14:5 I will be like the dew and the night mist to Israel; he shall grow and blossom like the lily and cast forth his roots like [the sturdy evergreens of] Lebanon. 6 His suckers and shoots shall spread, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree and his fragrance like [the cedars and aromatic shrubs of] Lebanon.

The Habitation of the Lord is His Resting Place, the Place of His Feet:

Isaiah 60:1 ARISE [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you--rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you! 2 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and dense darkness [all] peoples, but the Lord shall arise upon you [O Jerusalem], and His glory shall be seen on you. 3 And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. 4 Lift up your eyes round about you and see! They all gather themselves together, they come to you. Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried and nursed in the arms. 5 Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and tremble with joy [at the glorious deliverance] and be enlarged; because the abundant wealth of the [Dead] Sea shall be turned to you, unto you shall the nations come with their treasures. 6 A multitude of camels [from the eastern trading tribes] shall cover you [Jerusalem], the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all the men from Sheba [who once came to trade] shall come, bringing gold and frankincense and proclaiming the praises of the Lord. 7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you [as the eastern pastoral tribes join the trading tribes], the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on My altar, and My glorious house I will glorify. 8 Who are these who fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows? 9 Surely the isles and distant coastlands shall wait for and expect Me; and the ships of Tarshish [shall come] first, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God, for the Holy One of Israel, because He has beautified and glorified you. 10 Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; for in My wrath I smote you, but in My favor, pleasure, and goodwill I have had mercy, love, and pity for you. 11 And your gates shall be open continually, they shall not be shut day or night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations--and their kings led in procession [your voluntary captives]. 12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you in that day [Jerusalem] shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly laid waste. 13 The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the pine [trees] together, to beautify the place of My sanctuary; and I will make the place of My feet glorious. 14 The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending low to you, and all those who despised you shall bow down at your feet, and they shall call you the City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 15 Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I will make you [Jerusalem] an eternal glory, a joy from age to age. 16 You shall suck the milk of the [Gentile] nations and shall suck the breast of kings; and you shall recognize and know that I, the Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. 17 Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; and instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron. [Instead of the tyranny of the present] I will appoint peace as your officers and righteousness as your taskmasters. 18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor devastation or destruction within your borders, but you shall call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise. 19 The sun shall no more be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you, but the Lord shall be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory and your beauty. 20 Your sun shall no more go down, nor shall your moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shall be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended. 21 Your people also shall all be [uncompromisingly and consistently] righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, that I may be glorified. 22 The least one shall become a thousand [a clan], and the small one a strong nation. I, the Lord, will hasten it in its [appointed] time.

Isaiah 61:1 THE SPIRIT of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor, and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound, 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord [the year of His favor] and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, 3 To grant [consolation and joy] to those who mourn in Zion--to give them an ornament (a garland or diadem) of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment [expressive] of praise instead of a heavy, burdened, and failing spirit--that they may be called oaks of righteousness [lofty, strong, and magnificent, distinguished for uprightness, justice, and right standing with God], the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified. 4 And they shall rebuild the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former desolations and renew the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations. 5 Aliens shall stand [ready] and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. 6 But you shall be called the priests of the Lord; people will speak of you as the ministers of our God. You shall eat the wealth of the nations, and the glory [once that of your captors] shall be yours. 7 Instead of your [former] shame you shall have a twofold recompense; instead of dishonor and reproach [your people] shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double [what they had forfeited]; everlasting joy shall be theirs. 8 For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong with violence or a burnt offering. And I will faithfully give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant or league with them. 9 And their offspring shall be known among the nations and their descendants among the peoples. All who see them [in their prosperity] will recognize and acknowledge that they are the people whom the Lord has blessed. 10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. 11 For as [surely as] the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring forth, so [surely] the Lord God will cause rightness and justice and praise to spring forth before all the nations [through the self-fulfilling power of His word].

God is fulfilling every prophecy right now, they are unfolding as we walk them out. Each one in it's timing. Let God have His Way, and let God fully in today! You are to be that visible expression of the Lord in the earth for all men to see!

Daniel 4:11 The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth.

-Susan O'Marra

05-22-12

I Do Not Want My People To Struggle

"I Do Not Want My People To Struggle"

I heard the Lord say, "I do not want My People to struggle." So, I wrote down the next things the Lord said:

"When I called My People to walk with Me in intimacy and in My paths, I did not intend that they would struggle in their relationship with Me, but I intended that they would yield fully to Me and enjoy My Presence each day. I have desired that My People would delight themselves in the knowledge of Me and also with Me. I do not struggle in Myself to know you, nor do I struggle to find or to seek you. Yet, My People struggle with knowing Me. Know that I am within you, and I am always with you! I am aware of you at all times! I want you to become even more conscious of Me within you and with you. I want My People to cultivate our relationship even more. I want them to open wide unto Me. I want to reveal Myself to each of you in even more deeper ways, so that I can satisfy your deep longings and desires. I want to also lift you each higher."

"I chose each of you before I ever made you, and I chose for you each to be born in this generation for My purpose. I have not forgotten one thing that I have planned for you, nor am I unaware of everything that is happening right now, for I made your paths for you. I made them in such a way, that you would find Me and know Me in each step you take. I have tailor made your lives to match My desire for you, and so that you as you did, you would know My joy. I take great joy in being with you and in walking with you. I do not take pleasure when you doubt Me or choose to walk away from Me in your choices. I made you for fellowship with Me, and also for you to come into an understanding of the things that I have for you to do in the earth."

"I want My People to walk in the joy of My liberty each day, as they commune with Me in intimacy. The days activities are not to dampen My voice within you, nor are they to block out My face as you go. I want you to learn to see Me wherever you are, and to hear Me speaking wherever you go. I am with you always. You need not ever be without My council or My help, for I am surely your only source of Life! I desire to flow through you at all times, you just have to draw upon Me from within you. I am speaking in the earth, in the heavens, and in My People. But do you see Me, and do you hear Me? Listen, and understand that I shall not fail to fulfill My part of your life. I also do not desire that you fail to fulfill your parts, so I am reminding you that you must open your spirit more fully to Me, so that I can fully live through you and accomplish My full will through your lives."

"You must sharpen your awareness of Me, and shake off the slumber that keeps you from being ever mindful of Me. Do not struggle to know Me, for I am within you, and you only need to open more fully to Me, and you shall see Me and hear Me even more clearer. There is nothing to fear in the earth, nor in the heavens, but you are to fear and reverence Me alone. I am in full control of all things in the earth and also in the heavens. But why do My Children still become anxious as they go? It is time to draw from deep within yourself, and as you do, you will tap into a deep reservoir from within your spirits, and it shall cause you each to rise up and stand tall, even among those who live among the shallow, dry places in their lives. You are to be My fiery witnesses, and you must show them the way to commune with Me, by the mirror of your own intimacy with Me!"

"I am revealing Myself to those who seek for Me and to those who call out for Me. I know each one, and I know how to speak to them and to reveal Myself to them, so that they can receive Me. I do not struggle to save My Children, No! I have made the way, for each to come to Me everyday. I know the very minute they shall open fully to Me, and I also know those who will turn the other way, and also who will walk away from Me. You are not to struggle in your lives trying to gain favor with men to make spiritual advances for Me. No! I have already laid out your course, just walk it with Me, and live it with Me! Remember, I am the Door by which you come in and go out, each and every day. I lead you through each day, and I provide for you each faithfully, each step of the way. I will bring you out into the fullness of each day that I have ordained for you. Know that this is true! You just have to walk with Me, and trust in Me, and I will surely fulfill My Words concerning you! Do not struggle to figure things out, but know that I am at work and I am opening up new things for you. Do not struggle in your thoughts, but let Me in more! Let Me have your fears and your doubts and your troubles, and let My inner peace within you break out!"

"I am the past, the present, and also the future. I made all things, and just as the works of death are still working in the earth, so also are My works! I came to destroy the works of death, of sin, and of the devil. You are to do this also, and you do this by walking with Me, and by obeying all that I tell you to do, and by embracing all that I reveal to you and also teach you. It is time for change, and even for great change. You must learn to flow with Me as the changes come. I am teaching you as you go, so that I can accomplish all that I desire within the new days ahead of you. If you will let Me do this, then My joy and peace will fill your heart and mind, and you will greatly and deeply shine!"

Scriptures the Lord quickened to me:

Psalms 139:15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought [as if embroidered with various colors] in the depths of the earth [a region of darkness and mystery]. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them. 17 How precious and weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

Hebrews 3:10 And so I was provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and intimately acquainted with them.

Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me early and diligently shall find me.

Jeremiah 29:13 Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Joel 2:12 Therefore also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning [until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored].

Romans 6:9 Because we know that Christ (the Anointed One), being once raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him. 10 For by the death He died, He died to sin [ending His relation to it] once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. 11 Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus.

John 10:9 I am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out [freely], and will find pasture.

Romans 8:28 And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

1 John 4:15 Anyone who confesses (acknowledges, owns) that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides (lives, makes His home) in him and he [abides, lives, makes his home] in God. 16 And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. 17 In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world.

1 John 2:13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know (recognize, be aware of, and understand) Him Who [has existed] from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have been victorious over the wicked [one]. I write to you, boys (lads), because you have come to know (recognize and be aware) of the Father. 14 I write to you, fathers, because you have come to know (recognize, be conscious of, and understand) Him Who [has existed] from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong and vigorous, and the Word of God is [always] abiding in you (in your hearts), and you have been victorious over the wicked one. 15 Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

Acts 22:14 And he said, The God of our forefathers has destined and appointed you to come progressively to know His will [to perceive, to recognize more strongly and clearly, and to become better and more intimately acquainted with His will], and to see the Righteous One (Jesus Christ, the Messiah), and to hear a voice from His [own] mouth and a message from His [own] lips; 15 For you will be His witness unto all men of everything that you have seen and heard.

Philippians 3:8 Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege (the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and supreme advantage) of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him [of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and clearly]. 10 [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]

Ephesians 3:16 May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality]. 17 May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, 18 That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God's devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]; 19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! 20 Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]--

Luke 4:43 But He said to them, I must preach the good news (the Gospel) of the kingdom of God to the other cities [and towns] also, for I was sent for this [purpose].

Acts 26:16 But arise and stand upon your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, that I might appoint you to serve as [My] minister and to bear witness both to what you have seen of Me and to that in which I will appear to you,

Ephesians 6:10 In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides].

Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Susan O'Marra 05-18-12

The Crown, The Horses, and the Battlefield

The Crown, the Horses and the Battlefield 05-13-12

Just before worship, I turned to pull down the overhead screen, when I saw a great crown hovering in the air right in front of me in the church. It was hovering up front in front of all the people. It was very large, maybe about 6-7 feet long and 3-4 feet thick, and it was all of gold and had ornate carvings in it, with brilliant jewels set into it. Then as soon as I had seen it, then it disappeared.

Zechariah 6:9 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,10 Accept donations and offerings from these [as representatives of the] exiles, from Heldai, from Tobijah, and from Jedaiah, who have come from Babylon; and come the same day and go to the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah. 11 Yes, take from them silver and gold, and make crowns and set [one] upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, 12 And say to him, Thus says the Lord of hosts: [You, Joshua] behold (look at, keep in sight, watch) the Man [the Messiah] whose name is the Branch, for He shall grow up in His place and He shall build the [true] temple of the Lord. 13 Yes, [you are building a temple of the Lord, but] it is He Who shall build the [true] temple of the Lord, and He shall bear the honor and glory [as of the only begotten of the Father] and shall sit and rule upon His throne. And He shall be a Priest upon His throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between the two [offices--Priest and King]. 14 And the [other] crown shall be [credited] to Helem (Heldai), to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to the kindness and favor of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, and shall be in the temple of the Lord for a reminder and memorial. 15 And those who are far off shall come and help build the temple of the Lord, and you shall know (recognize and understand) that the Lord sent me [Zechariah] to you. And [your part in this] shall come to pass if you will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Philippians 4:1 THEREFORE, MY brethren, whom I love and yearn to see, my delight and crown (wreath of victory), thus stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. 2 I entreat and advise Euodia and I entreat and advise Syntyche to agree and to work in harmony in the Lord. 3 And I exhort you too, [my] genuine yokefellow, help these [two women to keep on cooperating], for they have toiled along with me in [the spreading of] the good news (the Gospel), as have Clement and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the Book of Life.

2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

James 1:12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

1 Peter 5:4 And [then] when the Chief Shepherd is revealed, you will win the conqueror's crown of glory.

Revelations 2:10 Fear nothing that you are about to suffer. [Dismiss your dread and your fears!] Behold, the devil is indeed about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested and proved and critically appraised, and for ten days you will have affliction. Be loyally faithful unto death [even if you must die for it], and I will give you the crown of life.

Then I saw a great hand appear in the church, the Hand of God, and it went throughout the church moving amongst the people as they sat listening. The Lord was moving things in their lives; rearranging things according to His Purposes.

Ephesians 1:4 Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually (hand) picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love. 5 For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]-- 6 [So that we might be] to the praise and the commendation of His glorious grace (favor and mercy), which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor, 8 Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding (practical insight and prudence), 9 Making known to us the mystery (secret) of His will (of His plan, of His purpose). [And it is this:] In accordance with His good pleasure (His merciful intention) which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him, 10 [He planned] for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages to unify all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, [both] things in heaven and things on the earth. 11 In Him we also were made [God's] heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance; for we had been foreordained (hand) chosen and appointed beforehand in accordance with His purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His [own] will, 12 So that we who first hoped in Christ [who first put our confidence in Him have been destined and appointed to] live for the praise of His glory!

Then, during worship, I saw several battlefield scenes.

I saw horses that were nodding their heads up and down in the predawn light on the battlefield. There was breath coming from their mouths and noses. It was hazy and thick like a heavy fog was blanketing the battlefield. The horses had bells on their harnesses and they were softly ringing as their heads nodded.

The next scene came a few minutes later.

I saw the same thing again, only this time I saw that there were a great many of us all standing on the battlefield dressed in heavy armor. We had our weapons at our sides. We were standing side by side all in rows. We were all standing still, waiting. The horses and the riders that were also among us had armor on. They were also ready and were standing erect and still. The air was heavy and thick with dew or fog that had settled on the battlefield in the predawn light. I could again see the air coming from the horses mouths and noses. The horses were restless and nodded their heads in anticipation of the battle to come. The riders helmets were gleaming in the dimmed light and they did not break their focus to look around. I could smell the earth in it's richness as we waited for the light to dawn on the new day before us, and for the fog to clear so that the battle would be clear. -The end of the visions.

The Heavy Fog or Mist:

Genesis 2:6 But there went up a mist (fog, vapor) from the land and watered the whole surface of the ground--

Hosea 14:5 I will be like the dew and the night mist to Israel; he shall grow and blossom like the lily and cast forth his roots like [the sturdy evergreens of] Lebanon.

Joel 2:1 BLOW THE trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on My holy Mount [Zion]. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of [the judgment of] the Lord is coming; it is close at hand-- 2 A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and of thick mists and darkness, like the morning dawn spread upon the mountains; so there comes a [heathen, hostile] people numerous and mighty, the like of which has never been before and shall not be again even to the years of many generations.

The Horses and the Battlefield:

Deuteronomy 20:1 WHEN YOU go forth to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than your own, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you. 2 And when you come near to the battle, the priest shall approach and speak to the men, 3 And shall say to them, Hear, O Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies. Let not your [minds and] hearts faint; fear not, and do not tremble or be terrified [and in dread] because of them.

Proverbs 21:30 There is no [human] wisdom or understanding or counsel [that can prevail] against the Lord. 31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but deliverance and victory are of the Lord.

Zechariah 10:1 ASK OF the Lord rain in the time of the latter or spring rain. It is the Lord Who makes lightnings which usher in the rain and give men showers, and grass to everyone in the field. 2 For the teraphim (household idols) have spoken vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility) and the diviners have seen a lie and the dreamers have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Therefore the people go their way like sheep; they are afflicted and hurt because there is no shepherd. 3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds [who are not true shepherds] and I will punish the goat leaders, for the Lord of hosts has visited His flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as His beautiful and majestic horse in the battle. 4 Out of him [Judah] shall come forth the Cornerstone, out of him the tent peg, out of him the battle bow; every ruler shall proceed from him. 5 And they shall be like mighty men treading down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle, and they shall fight because the Lord is with them, and the [oppressor's] riders on horses shall be confounded and put to shame. 6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah and I will save the house of Joseph [Ephraim]. I will bring them back and cause them to dwell securely, for I have mercy, loving-kindness, and compassion for them. They shall be as though I had not cast them off, for I am the Lord their God, and I will hear them.

Susan O'Marra

05-13-12

Susie's Healing Testimony

Here is an example of what the Lord is doing......it is time to believe!! -Susan

To: iohgmin@live.com
Subject: George & Susie ( Susie's Healing)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 02:21:26 -0700

Dear Patrick & Susan,

We have fantastic news for you. Today, May 16^th, Susie had an appointment with the gastroenterologist who first diagnosed liver cancer in Susie in June of 2008.

The doctor gave us the results of the ultra sound which Susie had prior to the colonoscopy in Aprils 2012. She said the ultra sound, which was “read” by an MD radiologists reads: THE LIVER IS NORMAL IN SIZE AND COLOR with no sign of cancer. The doctor said excitedly, “You don’t have any cancer. You are healed.”

The gastroenterologist said she has performed many liver transplants for over 10 years and has never seen a patient recover from this stage of liver cancer. She said Susie could not have been operated on because of where the cancers were located in both lobes of the liver. She was not a candidate for a liver transplant either because of the severity of the diagnosis. The doctor said at the time of diagnosis that Susie had only a few months to live and would not have been able to wait for a donor.

The doctor is a Christian and she said, “This is a miracle from Jesus, and you are the only patient I have ever seen recover from this stage of liver cancer.”

We give ALL the glory to Jesus for this tremendous miracle and thank ALL those who have held up Susie in prayer during this ordeal. Psalm 118:17 “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.”

Susie will always share her testimony of healing where ever we go, especially in Japan, and around the world.

God bless you, your family, and your ministry!

Love & Prayers,

George & Susie Shelton

Spirit, Soul, and Body

"Spirit, Soul, and Body"

You are a spirit- you have a soul- and you live in a body, while you live your life out in the earth.

Your spirit is connected to heaven, and your body is connected to the earth.

Your soul connects your spirit with your body, so that you can operate in both realms, and live in both realms.

You are a triune being- body, soul, and spirit- just as God is a triune being: Father, Son, and Spirit.

The Father, in heaven: the Son, was on the earth: The Holy Spirit connected the two together, and Jesus operated in both realms at once.

John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. KJV

AMP- 13 But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future].

Ø Colossians 1:17 Christ existed before all things, and in union with him all things have their proper place. NLT

Ø Colossians 2:10 So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority. NLT

Ø Ephesians 2:6 In our union with Christ Jesus he raised us up with him to rule with him in the heavenly world. NLT

Genesis 1:26 God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth.

Galatians 4:6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Colossians 2:9 For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine nature]. 10 And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead--Father, Son and Holy Spirit--and reach full spiritual stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority [of every angelic principality and power]. 11 In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but in a [spiritual] circumcision [performed by] Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh (the whole corrupt, carnal nature with its passions and lusts). 12 [Thus you were circumcised when] you were buried with Him in [your] baptism, in which you were also raised with Him [to a new life] through [your] faith in the working of God [as displayed] when He raised Him up from the dead. 13 And you who were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature), [God] brought to life together with [Christ], having [freely] forgiven us all our transgressions, 14 Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond) with its legal decrees and demands which was in force and stood against us (hostile to us). This [note with its regulations, decrees, and demands] He set aside and cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to [His] cross. 15 [God] disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged against us and made a bold display and public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him and in it [the cross].

1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ESV

Ø KJV- And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ø NAS- Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ø NIV- May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ø TM- May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together—spirit, soul, and body—and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ. The One who called you is completely dependable. If he said it, he'll do it!

Ø AMP- And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah).

Ø NLT- Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.

Ø CEV- I pray that God, who gives peace, will make you completely holy. And may your spirit, soul, and body be kept healthy and faultless until our Lord Jesus Christ returns.

Ø NCV- Now may God himself, the God of peace, make you pure, belonging only to him. May your whole self—spirit, soul, and body—be kept safe and without fault when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

Ø GWT- May the God who gives peace make you holy in every way. May he keep your whole being—spirit, soul, and body—blameless when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

Ø CEB- Now, may the God of peace himself cause you to be completely dedicated to him; and may your spirit, soul, and body be kept intact and blameless at our Lord Jesus Christ’s coming.

Ø GNT- May the God who gives us peace make you holy in every way and keep your whole being- spirit, soul, and body- free from every fault at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ø ASV- And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ø YLT- and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Ø DT- Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly: and your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ø DRT- And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things; that your whole spirit, and soul, and body, may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Ephesians 1:16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. 17 [For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him, 18 By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones), 19 And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength, 20 Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places], 21 Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come. 22 And He has put all things under His feet and has appointed Him the universal and supreme Head of the church [a headship exercised throughout the church], 23 Which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all [for in that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who fills everything everywhere with Himself].

Ephesians 3:16 May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality]. 17 May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love,18 That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God's devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]; 19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! 20 Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]-- 21 To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen (so be it).

John 1:16 For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received [all had a share and we were all supplied with] one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and even favor upon favor and gift [heaped] upon gift.

Colossians 2:5 For though I am away from you in body, yet I am with you in spirit, delighted at the sight of your [standing shoulder to shoulder in such] orderly array and the firmness and the solid front and steadfastness of your faith in Christ [that leaning of the entire human personality on Him in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness]. 6 As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him. 7 Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving. 8 See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men's ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of] Christ (the Messiah). 9 For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine nature]. 10 And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead--Father, Son and Holy Spirit--and reach full spiritual stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority [of every angelic principality and power].

Susan O'Marra

05-13-12

"Ascending the Ladder and the Preparations to Come"

"Ascending the Ladder and the Preparations to Come Vision 5-8-12

I was lying upon my hotel bed when I saw myself in the Spirit climbing my familiar long white ladder into the heavenlies. As I waited at the top of the ladder, my fiery eagle came flying by and I got onto its back and he flew off with me riding upon him. We then began to fly upward into a swirling massive whirlwind, steadily climbing higher and higher, till we reached a heavenly summit. At the top was a platform and I saw that there were also many other platforms just like mine all across the heavenlies above the globe. Many other people had also climbed their ladders and had ridden upon their eagles to the top of the summit too. Their platforms were all in the heavens and each had their individual landing area designated for them to come and go from. I looked, and an angel was waiting for me to follow him. I walked over to him and we then went to an area where there were many others waiting. We were led to an open, circular, arena-like area. The seats were stacked in tiers much like our stadiums on earth would be and we all took a seat nearest to us. Our seats formed a circle around a platform below us. In the midst of the platform was a model of the earth that was spinning in the air above the platform. Off to the side of that was a large screen that was attended by an angel. Whatever was shown on the model of the earth would also be projected and amplified onto the screen so that all of us could see what was being shown on the globe. The attending angel was speaking and was pointing to various points on the globe. He then would transmit the info onto the screen and it would be seen by us who were sitting in the seats above.

-Then I was transported to another scene.

I saw an angel dressed partially in mail and also in silver plated armor, with a thin silver band upon his forehead and he had long blond hair to his shoulders. He had suntanned looking skin. He was very regal looking but also very resolute in his gaze. He was measuring me as I noticed him. He had a long handled spear-like instrument in one hand and his other hand was resting at his side. He seemed to be pleased to see me. I waited for him to speak. He finally spoke after a few minutes. He said, "I am a Preparation Angel, and my job is to prepare you and the Body of Christ for the things just ahead of you. There is much more that is about to break forth upon the earth and the majority of the People of God are not prepared for these things sufficiently enough. I am here to hasten your preparation."

As he spoke, my mind raced to think of what we have or haven't done yet. I saw that he stopped speaking when I was thinking these things and he sternly looked at me. I abruptly stopped and made myself focus more upon his words. He nodded and continued. "You are all experiencing breakthroughs in this season upon the earth, and this must increase. But you must also realize that when breakthrough and changes come, so also do the corresponding effects of those changes and breakthroughs. For every spiritual event or movement, there is a natural effect. For every natural event or movement, there is a spiritual effect. Many are being caught up in the freedom of their breakthroughs, which is a joyous time for them and it is to be rightly enjoyed; but too many are relaxing and are becoming lazy in their prayers and watchfulness, so much so that they are not alert to the nearing of the corresponding effects that are soon to be upon them. Some of these effects are good because every good thing produces good fruit. But this will also bring forth much upheaval from the enemy who is seeking retribution and retaliation because of your progress and achievements in the realm of the Spirit and in the earth. You are not to be alarmed at this knowledge I bring to you, but you are to be fore-armed for and with this knowledge. I have come to prepare you and to arm you for the battles ahead."

"You have been given the right to fight in the battle for the harvest and for the fields of the world. Many are being faithful as they labor and many have fought bravely as they have learned to stand their ground and to advance as they grow proficient in the use of their new weapons they have been learning to use. But there also has been a degree of self confidence that has set in within their hearts, and that has begun to undermine their dependence upon Christ in the battles, and so they have weakened without knowing it, and are in danger of falling to the temptations that are coming shortly. The enemy sees this and is setting up his ambushments. You must focus your faith upon Christ alone, and not in yourself or in your achievements or spiritual successes. It is right to rejoice as you gain ground, but you must never forget that it is by His Grace that you stand and it is by His Power that you prevail. Many are not attentive in their prayers and have not been building themselves up in prayer before the Lord. You must strengthen yourself in your inner man, and draw from Christ your daily portion and much needed wisdom. You are entering a time of testing for all nations, and you must build your endurance and patience upon Him to continue to advance."

"I am here to help His People to focus their faith upon Him and to remove all that hinders your endurance and continued progress. Much of this could have been done by them if they had prevailed and had not slacked off, but now you must have angelic intervention to be able to maintain your progress and to attain even greater advances. The enemy sees your determination to learn and to grasp the truths necessary to proceed, but you must remember it is more important to allow the Truth to be formed into you, than it is to grasp it with your minds first. If you will learn to become what He reveals to you, then the understanding will flow forth from that revelation inside of you. Too many are seeking to understand the deeper truths first, and are not receiving them into their beings sufficiently enough to be changed by them. So they fail to apprehend the necessary growth of the truths and are still lacking in their maturity. This is why many will stumble in the battles ahead. You cannot afford to try to reason your way through breakthroughs and victories in the battles. You must win them through the Truth that prevails within you, then you will automatically transform everything around you by those truths that live within you."

"It is for this very reason that the enemy will rise up and retaliate against the Lord's army, because of the great Light and Truth of His Presence that is beginning to shine forth from them as they advance in their prayers. The effects of His emerging Light is bringing changes to the earth and to the heavenlies. You have begun to see this in the rise of the severity of your natural weather events and in the various regional upheavals. This will only increase as the spiritual battle progresses. You must not focus upon the earthly changes and even the political changes, but you must press even more firmer in prayer and deepen in your faith in Christ! It is your spiritual advancements that have birthed the natural travails that have only just begun to go deeper in the earth. You will see much more occur as the effects of your prayers mirror the degree of the harvest that also unfolds. For the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, and so shall be the response of the earth and also the response of the enemy. As his dark forces are being driven back, the light and life is also increasing in those areas. While other areas that are not moving with God will see the effects of the withdrawing forces of the enemy as they go, and greater warfare will result. I must awaken the Body and help to prepare them for the coming counterattacks. You must also rise up and be watchful and be diligent to pray and to guard each other as you progress in the Lord each day. It is not a time to slacken and to let down your guards, but you must strengthen your lines and get even more of the Father's designs!"

"The Lord is calling many more of His People to now climb higher and to gain understanding in this hour. It is time for the saints to seek the deep things of God that have been reserved for your day, for in these truths, you will find your daily purposes and your guidance for the very issues that will rise up shortly before you in the earth. He has made provision for you, but you must seek for it and strive for it each day, and pursue His truth with all of your hearts. He will speak to you as you seek Him, and He will show each of you just what you must do in your area. You cannot copy the battle plans of another area, or do what others are doing in their respective regions, for your area and region is prepared just for you to reap it. Your battles will be uniquely yours and your enemies will be those that you have been purposed for, and have been anointed by the Lord to overcome. You cannot fight those that you are not assigned to fight. You must focus upon that which the Father assigns to you, and then you must be faithful and diligent to do all that He shows to you to do. Those of you who are leaders, you will come and go among each other in other regions to strengthen and to encourage one another at times. You will also be sent to fight among those that are weak or unprepared, when the Father deems it necessary. But you must always focus upon that which the Lord sets before you to do. You have been set upon the wall of your areas and you must all fulfill your calls."

"Prepare your minds for action, and set your hearts to seek Him even more. The Flooding of the Lord's Light has begun in the earth, and it will pour stronger out of you as you progress, and this will only increase as your prayers increase and as you obey His voice within you each day. Do not fail to watch and pray, for this is your strength and your wisdom for each day! Draw your strength from one another, and deepen in your love for one another, for this will keep you in the bonds of peace, and the Lord's Light among you all will ever increase! Watch for distractions to increase in your areas and give them no place, but drive them out from before you with haste! Give no attention those things that do not hasten your knowledge of Christ and of His Word. Your Joy and Strength comes from knowing Him and from Him being formed within you. The more He is formed within you, the more His Light will flow out of you. As He is lifted up and is seen through His People, then the Lord will draw men unto Himself. You are His Instruments in which He reaps the fields of the earth. You must not fail to bring forth the full measure and to reap through your prayers the Fathers greatest Treasure! You must prepare and prevail! This is the time to rise up and to set your sights on things above and to receive even more of His Love. For within His Love is all that you will need and out of the measure of His Love that you receive and daily apply, your cup will overflow and will never run dry! He alone can strengthen and satisfy! Get ready. Prepare to move greatly in prayer, for you have only begun to climb the heavenly stairs. You shall climb more, and go even higher each day. You come and go, and grow, and flow. The more you increase in your ascent, the more His strength and wisdom will never be spent! Remember these things, for I shall hasten your training as you obey this Spring. Summer will open with the changing of many tracks, and Fall will unleash new and greater attacks. You must not be among those who spiritually lack. By winter, My Church will be hitting the true center."

Ephesians 2:10For we are God's [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].

Colossians 1:10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

Isaiah 57:14 And it shall be said, "Build up, build up, prepare the way,remove every obstruction from my people’s way."

Jeremiah 46:3 "Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle! 4 Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your armor!

Jeremiah 51:11a Make clean and sharp the arrows, take up the shields or coats of armor [and cover your bodies with them]!

2 Chronicles 26:11 Moreover, Uzziah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king’s commanders. 12 The whole number of the heads of fathers’ houses of mighty men of valor was 2,600. 13 Under their command was an army of 307,500, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. 14 And Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging. 15 In Jerusalem he made engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones for slinging. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.

Nehemiah 4:¹ Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. ² And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?" ³ Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, "Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!" ⁴ Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives. ⁵ Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders. ⁶ So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work. ⁷ But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. ⁸ And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. ⁹ And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night. ¹⁰ In Judah it was said, "The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall." ¹¹ And our enemies said, "They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work." ¹² At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, "You must return to us." ¹³ So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. ¹⁴ And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes." ¹⁵ When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work. ¹⁶ From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail. And the leaders stood behind the whole house of Judah, ¹⁷ who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other. ¹⁸ And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me. ¹⁹ And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another. ²⁰ In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us. ²¹ So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out. ²² I also said to the people at that time, "Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day." ²³ So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon at his right hand.

Job 4:3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. 4 Your words have held firm him who was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.

Hebrews 12:1 THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us, ²Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. ³Just think of Him Who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself [reckon up and consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds.

12 So then, brace up and reinvigorate and set right your slackened and weakened and drooping hands and strengthen your feeble and palsied and tottering knees, 13 And cut through and make firm and plain and smooth, straight paths for your feet [yes, make them safe and upright and happy paths that go in the right direction], so that the lame and halting [limbs] may not be put out of joint, but rather may be cured. 14 Strive to live in peace with everybody and pursue that consecration and holiness without which no one will [ever] see the Lord. 15 Exercise foresight and be on the watch to look [after one another], to see that no one falls back from and fails to secure God's grace (His unmerited favor and spiritual blessing).

1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

-Susan O'Marra

05-08-12