A Turning Coming
Brenda Dowdin
25 Nov 2003
A couple of months ago the Father spoke to me about a turning coming. For many of you a mountain is standing in front of you. This mountain seems insurmountable, But GOD!
The Lord is arranging a "turning" for you. A way around the mountain that stands in front of you. Break-through coming around the end of the month of November. If you need a miracle, it gives the Lord a perfect opportunity to show you his mighty arm in your life! He loves to let you see the strength of His right arm! His muscles! (smiles)
New things are ahead, adventures in Him. Watch him orchestrate divine appointments for you. Watch Him make a way in the desert and bring you fresh food and water. Watch Him water your thirsting soul like you have never known. It is a season and a day where we will know and say, "God has surly been in our midst!" This is a day where God wants to give us such confidence in His ability to take care of us. To cause us to so entirely trust in Him....we will know that our security comes from Him, and Him alone! And in this season we will find a sweet rest in Him!
I am opening doors, arranging deliverance from the oppressor and lifting up my banner over my Beloved people. You will feel my presence come upon you. You will know my nearness. Oh, you will hear my voice. Clarity of hearing is being released, it is a time to draw up in to my presence. I have much to say, and impart in these coming days. Many are lost and hungering for my nearness. They will feel my nearness through you ~ who know me. They will know my love through your arms of love. They will hear my words through your lips. They will sense my wooing as you take my heart to them in the streets. They will see my miracles in your lives and hunger for my intervention in their lives as well. Oh Beloved, let me use you to glean my lost from the fields. They have been left behind, and I hunger for them. That they would know my great love for them. That they would come to eat at my banqueting table. I have bid them come, these are those who are in the bi-ways, the allies of life. They don't know of me, but I do them. I purposed them in my heart, and have destinies for them. Each one, I love. Each one, I adore. Each one, I would die for. Tell them this, please, tell them this!
I sense there will be those who the Lord will up root and transplant in different cities, different jobs, moving to a different home. Watch for the Lord to bring it all in to alignment as He places you where He wants you. A divine intervention of the Lord. Keep tracking with the Lord, as you are on His Glory Train. Stay on the track, let him take you around the mountain. He always makes a way for His own!
Great blessings to all of you!
Finding A Place of Rest
Brenda Dowdin
Dec 6, 2003
A few evenings ago I was really longing to spend some time with the Lord. I longed to hear His voice, and I had many needs and issues "pressing me", and I was seeking answers! ( A women with a mission!) I found my favorite place to pray in my home. I knelt at my love seat on my sheep skin rug. (The rug reminds me that I am in constant need of my shepherd. He always knows best!)
As I knelt there it wasn't five minutes and I was sound asleep. I fell into a deep sleep for about three hours. It was only 6:30pm when I first knelt to pray. When I woke it was 9:30pm, I was still in the knelling position when I woke, and it had to be God, because my legs weren't asleep and I felt rested and refreshed.
On awaking He started to talk to me and He re-assured me that all would be fine. Just to let Him work out the details of my life.... and just to rest in Him.....
I have pondered this "different" time or season of prayer.....
and I have asked the Lord this, " Did I just "poop out" and fall asleep, or what?"
This is what I sensed from the Father for myself and His Body........"My Beloved, I have divinely given you seasons of rest in your life. Seasons are just that...short blocks of time to refresh and rejuvenate you for the next season you are entering. Enjoy this time, bask in my presence and let me refresh you. Go when I say go, Rest when I say rest. I promise you, you will not miss out on one divine appointment. Actually you will have more "God Encounters", as you are "still" before me, then all the running around can muster!"
Last week the Father was speaking to me about Tulips. Yes Flowers! I love flowers, I think most people do! They express the Fathers heart towards us! His love towards us! The beauty of His presence, the fragrance of His nature.... is much like a flower. Flower faces open up and smile at the sunshine and then.... they emit the most incredible fragrances, especially some of my mothers garden roses! Hum, I can smell them now, especially the large red roses!
But, back to Tulips..... Tulips are planted in the late fall. While they are under ground you can't see them, they are a hidden thing. But, it is while they are under ground, and hidden, that they are germinating and growing into something very beautiful. They are at rest, they aren't striving to become a Tulip, they just are one! Then about mid February, in the dead middle of winter they begin to push up through the ground. Then suddenly they bloom! They are the first flowers to spring forth! They contain the promise of the new season before them! A thing of Beauty coming forth! As I look back again to my nap, it was three hours long. A season is three months long, tulips are planted in the fall season and come up in the middle of winter, around three months after planting the bulb. (Mid February.) If you are in a "winter season"..... don't fret about it. Enjoy it. Bask in His presence, enjoy the resting time. Many things are building in you, things you can't see and don't know about yet! Many things are ready to spring forth. Its just around the corner, around the bend! A new beauty of His presence is about to be emitted through you to those who come near you. The promise of a new season just ahead, around the bend in the road!
As you rest He is filling you with more of His glory, more of His very presence. Yes, as you rest He is preparing you for your new season in HIM!
Isa 45:3 "I will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden riches of secret places, That you may know that I, the Lord, Who call you by your name, Am the God of Israel."
Isa 42:9 "Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them."
Psalms 98:1 "Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory!"
Blessings beloved, find hope, rest, and refreshing in this season!
Come Up Higher
Brenda Dowdin
10 Dec 2003
Happy Holidays Beloved!
This last week the Lord has been waking me between 4:00 and 5:00am to get up and spend time alone with Him. It has been a glorious time in His presence. The following is what I am sensing from the Father......
Many of my Beloved are in a time of hiddenness. While they are there - it appears outwardly that nothing is happening, but radical changes are taking place. I am tearing down old man made structures and erecting my Kingdom in the hearts of my people. In the midst of this re-construction lumber is flying, nails are sailing through the air. This structure is being built quickly. Oh, yes as you are walking it out it seems S L O W, but trust me.....When you come out of this season you will stand amazed at all the work I have done in you in this short time and season.
As I was asking the Lord about "Transitioning" this morning into the next season, this is what I sensed from Him. "Beloved, one is always transitioning from one abode to the next, yes, even from one season into the next. While you are in your current season I am preparing you for the next." God is always moving forward and always asking us to move with His cloud of Glory!
It is time to ascend!
Early last year, Peggy, our Area President for Aglow, said she kept getting this one word from the Lord, "Ascend!" I believe that is what the Lord is saying! "Ascend!" There is a supernatural ability, a new release to do just that, and it wasn't there before. As I have worshiped the last three days I have felt like I am soaring on the heights with my maker. There has been a "shift in the spirit." I encourage you to come up higher and soar with our Beloved. As I have been doing this....this morning came a reverent fear, a holy fear of His presence I haven't ever felt. It was like Moses and the burning bush. I thought wait a minute Lord, something just changed here.......Hum, what are you up to?
This is what I also sensed........
During this time of quietness, hiddeness, the Lord is really wanting to take His Bride to new heights, and dimensions in him.
Queen Esther was prepared for her King, and before she could walk in to this "new place of intimacy",..... she was in that "hidden place," the "place of preparation", a place of being "set apart",.....for His purposes. She obediently humbled herself to this time of preparation......we are indeed in this place. It is a good place... and the Father is busy working on the inside of us, as well as the outside. Its during this time that He has much to speak to His people, and much to impart to prepare us for the next season.
As I have been ascending in worship the Lord has given me two miracles this week..... I want to share them in hopes it will encourage you to come up and ascend to a new place in Him.
First miracle.
On Sunday afternoon my children and I went to a new Christian Bookstore called, "Believers Market". While in this awesome little store we had a divine appointment. A sister that I know was in there sitting at a little table drinking coffee with a friend of hers. My friend had - had a dream about me several days before and had been asking the Lord to bring me to her so she could share the dream. Well, there I was, and she shared the dream and confirmed many things the Lord is doing in my life. As I was there sharing, the friend of my friend was being ministered to by my testimony. Then we began to pray. My friend prayed for me and I prayed for her friend. As we were praying we prayed the wind of the spirit would rekindle a fire in my friends friend. At that same time a huge gust of wind came up and blew and shook the windows and the door in this little store. Then came the rain and the rainbow. The clerks in the store were in awe. They came over and said, you must come over here, the Lord has heard your prayers and here is a double rainbow. We were in awe and the Lord is so awesome!
Second miracle.......due to circumstances out of my control I was left with a debt that wasn't my responsibility. The man that I now owed came to my office yesterday and said this to me. "Hon, don't worry about the bill, I don't want you to pay it!" My debt was forgiven! All I could do was cry and Thank him and thank the Lord......He is truly my provider and husband.
Did I deserve these awesome miracles? No...But God! But God is so good to us. I ascended in worship and He came down and invaded my life with his awesome, wonderful presence. He brought the wind when we prayed, He forgave the debt I couldn't pay. He is so very faithful, and I am so very grateful.....
I know I am in "need" of more miracles, but am grateful for these two!
Lord, I agree and pray with my Brothers and Sisters in Christ, that their miracles are on the way. Ascend and watch Him invade your life with His very presence!
Lovingly, Brenda Dowdin Feather River Area Aglow