Dec 27, 2002

The way that you have desired to go and the path that you have desired to walk, and the things that you have wanted from me is not a popular path. It's not a popular path !!! If you look for those in high places to come along side, to put their approval and to put their arms around you, to call you to walk with them. You'll be disappointed.

For I did not call you to walk the popular path, but I did cause you to walk the path that I have put within your heart to walk. I gave you the desire and I gave you the unction. I gave you a hunger to walk under the anointing of the prophetic.

I have cut away from you the things that were not of me and I have prevented you from walking into paths that were not of me. And I interrupted your path in the places that you wanted to go because of your enthusiasm, excitement and your desiring to. I saw danger up ahead and I prevented you from doing it. Do not look for the approval of man. Do not look for those that are in high places to say, come on up here with us. Come and stand with the mighty man.

There is a place where I will send you down into the low places. To pick up the one who has been left on the side of the road. I will send you to that one, and I will use you as the Samaritan, to that one. That , even those who have been religious and those that have been Levites pass by. And I will send you to pour in the oil and the wine. I say to you, if you look for mans approval, you will be disappointed. But if you will look to please me, the day will come, when they shall say, come up here with us. Come and stand, by the Mighty man of valor. Then I shall say, Look how he doesn't need it, so I will give it to him. He doesn't need it, so I'll give it to him.

I've made you to be a truth speaker. One that will have truth in your mouth and will speak it. I've taught you also to temper it with mercy and with grace. I've told you to speak the truth and the truth would deliver. And the truth would set men free. So speak truth. Speak that which is truth.

Let truth come from your mouth and lips. My truth. And even as you speak truth and the other side of the sword that is painted with mercy and grace, it will bring healing to the rejected. It will bring healing to that one who has been lost and forsaken.

Remember, not always popular, but you will walk in truth and will be known as one who will set many free.

Dec 27, 2002

You are one of many that have cried out in the hours of the night, in the early morning hours. And you have said in your heart: Oh, God! I'm so tired of the sham! I'm so tired of that , which is not real in your place! I want to see reality come forth!

And the Lord says: I would have you know and others around you know this day, that the REAL GOD is coming forth, with the REAL MOVE in my place.

It will not be dramatized by men. It will not be the theatrics of the professionals that will be coming forth. But it will be the TRUE Word of God. It will be the TRUE ministry of God. And it will be the TRUE gifts of God in operation.

Instead of being dramatized, they will be criticized. Instead of men being loved like you, they will be hated. They will be hated in my place of ministry. And the REAL will be hated by many, says the Lord.

But I would have you know this day, that I am putting something within you, that will come forth. That will push against men's ideas, and men's methods, and men's theatrics and men's dramatization, says the Lord.

Because I am coming forth with the REAL FIRE. And it will burn up all of the strange fires that have been brought forth in my place of ministry. I will remove all of the strange acts. As I come forth in the action of my power, like I plan to do in my place.

All of the strange fires will be put out, and all of the strange acts will be done away with. And only the real will come forth when I move, says the Lord of Hosts.

I Am Going To Kick The Bushel Basket Off Of You

Dec 27, 2002

The day that I am going to kick the Bushel basket off of you is soon to be upon you. For you have been a light. But so far I have hidden you. And I have not allowed you to come to the fore-front. And I have not allowed your voice to be heard. And I have not allowed you to come into prominence. And I have not allowed you to come into full authority.

And I have not given you a place of honor. Neither have I given you a place where your voice would be heard and where respect or authority would be. For those things are for an appointed time, but it was not yet the season.

There was still work that I was doing within you. And heat that I was applying to your life. There were things that I was taking you through. And there were relationships that I was allowing you to make right. Both, from the past and to the present.

But I declare unto you that the day is fast approaching, where I shall kick the Bushel basket off of you, and the light shall be clear, and it shall shine brightly.

And people shall look and they shall even say: The Word of the Lord is really in you. The Word of the Lord is truly in you. And you shall say, Look how they have changed towards me. For I have been here all along.

Child, it was not them that changed, but it was you that changed. And it was My Spirit in you, and it was the integrity of My Word that I have placed within you. And the changes that I brought. And it was the pressure that I applied to cause the change to come.

It is coming and is nigh upon you. That I shall remove the basket off of your light. And you shall be seen as a bright light in a dark place, says the spirit of God.

For, I will give you the pieces to the puzzle that have been missing. But this time it shall come forth in humility. This time it shall come forth in tenderness. This time it shall come forth with a servants heart.

And the Word of the Lord, even as Joseph of old shall be received with wisdom. They shall say, this is a wise servant, says the Lord.

Do not be impatient, nor grieved within yourself for those who would not hear you. But say only in your heart, When the timing is right, God will do it! For I am truly with you and I will cause you to be a success, says the Spirit of the Lord.

Matthew 5:15- Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.-kjv