"INVISIBLE WARFARE"
JOY INTO MOURNING
MOURNING
INTO JOY
Word from the Lord to the
Body:
Donna Carrico
"Delight in the Joy of the
Lord for your Joy will be turned into Mourning as you see what is coming
upon my people"
I saw a brown dirty fence with barbed
wire. It had brown wood sticks (like the ones you use as tomato stakes)
mixed in with the wire at the bottom part. I realized this fence was to
keep the Christians "in", not the enemy "out".
I was barefoot and in dirty, ragged,
brown, torn prisoner clothes and felt my hands tied behind my back. My
eyes had been plucked out and stitched shut. My tongue had been cut out
and my voice box was injured. The stitches on my eyes and the ones that
kept my mouth shut were not pretty, not professional at all. They reminded
me of scarecrow stitches.
And yet--I REALIZED I COULD BE IN THE
PRESENCE OF THE LORD IN MY MIND. They could do all they could do to my
body, but they couldn't get to my mind. OR COULD THEY?? My ears were not
harmed because that is the way the enemy can get to our minds.
The Lord is showing us that our minds
are THE LAST BATTLEFIELD!
AND WE ARE NOT READY!
We must learn to protect our minds.
We must learn how to go the SECRET PLACE--without music without words
spoken out loud without the laying on of hands or ANY EXTERNAL STIMULATION.
That can only be done with practice.
We must really learn to bring every thought into captivity as the word
says.
(2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV) Casting down
imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge
of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
We must learn how to do SPIRITUAL
BATTLE IN OUR MINDS AND SPIRITS.
That is the only way we will be able
to withstand the persecution that is coming upon God's people.
We must learn how to fight the enemy
in our minds - not with our bodies.
This does not mean we are to quit
how we worship and warfare now, but we must BEGIN TO PRACTICE in our minds:
"INVISIBLE WARFARE"
This is the name the Lord told me
to call what I am trying to explain.
We are in SPIRITUAL WARFARE TRAINING
and we are becoming accustomed to God's presence. We CAN call on the angels
through our minds.
We CAN call fire down from heaven
from our minds.
We CAN be in His Holy presence IN
OUR MINDS.
We CAN do ALL things through Christ
who strengthens us.
Stephen saw the Lord as he was being
stoned to death.
(Acts 7:55-56 KJV) But he, being
full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory
of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, {56} And said, Behold,
I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand
of God.
We CAN TOO!
The Scripture also tells about turning
Mourning into Joy in James chapters 4 & 5. This is a portion of that
passage:
(James 4:7-10 KJV) Submit yourselves
therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. {8} Draw
nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners;
and purify your hearts, ye double minded. {9} Be afflicted, and mourn,
and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
{10} Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you
up.
The rest of the chapter 4 and 5 are
to remind us of what is expected of us.
As always Father God always makes
a way and he gave us Jesus to turn our MOURNING INTO JOY.
In the passage in Luke Jesus is speaking
to the Pharisees in the temple as He read from the scroll:
(Luke 4:18-21 KJV) The Spirit
of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel
to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance
to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty
them that are bruised, {19} To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
{20} And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister,
and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were
fastened on him. {21} And he began to say unto them, This day is this
scripture fulfilled in your ears.
You will notice that Jesus closed the
book (after verse 19) and said this scripture was fulfilled in their ears
that day!
Yet that is not all of the Scripture.
The rest of the original passage can be found in Isaiah 61.
(Isaiah 61:2-9 KJV) To proclaim
the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to
comfort all that mourn; {3} To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion,
to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment
of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees
of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
{4} And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former
desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of
many generations. {5} And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and
the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. {6}
But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers
of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory
shall ye boast yourselves. {7} For your shame ye shall have double; and
for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land
they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. {8}
For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I
will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant
with them. {9} And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their
offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that
they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
You will see that Jesus stopped short
of speaking of the day of vengeance and the mourning and what He has for
us - HIS BRIDE - His "trees of righteousness", His Priests and Ministers
of God. He also stopped short of the warnings to the people He was speaking
to that day. But they knew what the rest of the passage said and that is
why they were filled with wrath and tried to throw him over the hill, yet
He escaped.
The rest of that passage is for us-HIS
BRIDE. He has opened the book in Heaven-the Old Testament-to reveal to
his Prophets and servants exactly what the fulfillment of the prophecy
means.
(Revelation 5:6-10 KJV) And I
beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and
in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having
seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth
into all the earth. {7} And he came and took the book out of the right
hand of him that sat upon the throne. {8} And when he had taken
the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before
the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours,
which are the prayers of saints. {9} And they sung a new song, saying,
Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for
thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every
kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; {10} And hast made us unto
our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
He is beginning to open the seals that
comes after the passage above.
(Revelation 6:1-2 KJV) And I saw
when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise
of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. {2} And I saw,
and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown
was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
The ENEMY is the same: THOSE WHO DID NOT
ACCEPT JESUS TO BE THE MESSIAH. Those who are like the Apostle Paul that
are zealous modern day Pharisees, and those who have chosen to follow an
anti-Christ new age belief system, and those who have refused to accept
that Revival is real and God's power can truly change lives and be manifested
in many ways.
They are still our ENEMY and they are
still persecuting and will continue to persecute BELIEVERS until Christ
returns in ALL HIS GLORY to claim his Bride and bring peace as only He
can bring.
TO HIM BE ALL THE GLORY FOREVER, AND
FOREVER, AMEN
In Service to my King, Donna Carrico
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