To all the Saints, the following is a condensed Word that the Lord began giving us in May of 1997. Feedback is appreciated.
"There is a new move of God on the horizon. God wants us to be prepared for that new move; He does not want us to be left behind, AND SO HE WARNS US IN ADVANCE SO THAT WE WILL BE READY.
Many in the Church are in danger of being left behind IF THEY SEE THEMSELVES AS ALREADY HAVING ARRIVED, RATHER THAN AS STILL ON THE JOURNEY. All that we have so far--Tongues, baptism in the Holy Spirit, signs and wonders, miracles--these things are all very important, and they will continue; they will not cease to exist. But they are not the end of the Journey. The Journey ends when Jesus Christ has at last been crowned King of Kings and Lord of lords, and begins His Reign on this earth. Everything until that time is preparation for that time.
We need to be open to whatever God has. If we see ourselves as rich, full, in the know, in need of nothing, then we become the Church of Laodicea, and we will be spewed out of His mouth. Not that we will lose our Eternal salvation. But WE WILL BE SPEWED OUT AND DEEMED UNWORTHY OF THIS NEW MOVE OF GOD. King Jesus will say to us, "You did not see yourselves as needy and wholly dependent on Me. Instead, you saw yourselves as being rich Spiritually, because of the Spiritual revelations that you have received to this point. Therefore, you are not worthy to be amongst those who will lead this New Move. I would have had you ready. I warned you to prepare yourselves, to ever be alert. But you did not take my message to heart; you saw others as needy and lacking and YOU DID NOT REALIZE that I was speaking to you."
And so this is the message to the Church: BEWARE. Beware that you do not become complacent in your hunger and thirst to know more of Me. BEWARE, lest you, like the Church of Laodicia begin to see yourselves as "in the know" Spiritually, rather than weak, humble, poor, needy souls. BEWARE that you do not allow the enemy to deceive you into believing the message that I gave you was for someone else. it was for you.
BEWARE or you will become another landmark . I want you to be ON THE CUTTING EDGE of this new move. I want to do through you what very few bodies of believers have allowed me to do through them in the past: I want you to let go of everything you know (not despising it, for I have told you not to forget, and not to despise, the landmarks [Deut.19.14; 17.17]), but to be willing to put these very things that I gave to you in the beginning down on the altar, that you might be able to pick up a new thing, a new word.
BEWARE, LEST YOU DISMISS THIS MESSAGE OUT OF HAND. Have I asked you so much to be open? Is it too great a thing for Me to do something new in your midst? Do you know better than I?
BEWARE."
To the messenger: "Plead with them and say, Do not reject Me. Do not turn away from what I say. I would weep over each one that I lose because THEY DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE DAY OF THEIR VISITATION. THIS IS THE DAY OF YOUR VISITATION. I will do a new thing in he land. Shall I not tell you in advance, so that you will be ready. Why, then, would you reject my message to you? Why do you turn from my words and choose instead to go in your own way. Do not do what is right in your own eyes. Do as I say to you. Listen to what I am saying to you. Listen with your heart. Would you close your heart to me? Would you turn from me now, after we have come this far together. Will you reject me, as Israel rejected me. Oh, how many times I would have gathered them in my arms, and they would not.
Is it such a hard thing that I have asked of You, to be willing to embrace change?"
On 6/24/97: 2 Chronicles 29.36: And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God prepared the people; for the thing was done suddenly. God wants to prepare the people so we'll be ready. If we wait until we see the changes happening it will be too late. It will happen suddenly--just as with Joseph--who was imprisoned and enslaved for 13 years--was suddenly released from prison and elevated to a position of immense importance. So it will be now--it will come suddenly, and if God does not prepare us first, we will miss it. In essence, this message is God saying to the Church, "Please, let me get you ready."
Terry and Jo Cotter Meriden Ct