On The Twelve Days of Christmas
Priscilla Van Sutphin
Dec 12th, 2004
I had gotten up, unable to sleep, and at the computer, I started hearing the song, “On the twelve days of Christmas My True Love gave to me” It also occurred to me to find out more about why they say there are twelve days of Christmas in the song which article I’ve included a link to so you can see for yourself...http://www.cresourcei.org/cy12days.html
Then He said:
“I am a Good Father Who gives good gifts to My children.
I sent My most precious gift to you in the form of My Son Who was willing to lay down His life for you. So it is at this season of commemorating that
occasion that I speak to you about honoring. I honor him who honors Me.
I brought you life that you might have life and that abundantly ! But many have twisted what I think of in the way of abundant life to mean having a lot of “things”. Abundant life is much more than things beloveds. It is the character of man that is supposed to be a reflection of My character that is his most precious gift to the world and those around him or her.
It IS a time of giving. But there is so much you can give without just giving things. What if you gave a promise of prayer, or a promise of fasting for three days for someone…something that really sacrificed something in your life besides money ? There are things you can give in the way of doing something for someone that requires a bit more than just buying a gift that would impact their lives. So EXPAND your thinking My beloveds and reach into eternity also for some gifts that will count much greater in the expanse of time.
Your thoughtfulness to others instead of impatience would be a good gift to give. Your kindness in considering those who protect and serve you would be a wonderful gift. So many people give above and beyond the call of duty in their lives, but the world gets calloused and impatient at this time, striving to get things for others, and be everything they think people want them to be, when what people want may be a spot of your time, your presence in their midst…to enjoy your company maybe. The best gifts are those you cannot measure.
I want you to know that I too at this time am going to pour out some gifts that are immeasurable. I am coming to bring many gifts to My beloved at this time of year. I have gifts of freedom, healing, deliverance, lights and wonders, visitations and translations, spiritual signs and wonders, miracles, and revelations. I am going to put on a spectacular light show in this time
that will capture the attention of the world in the days to come.
Take time to think of the real reasons you celebrate in this season…and reflect on the sacrifice I made to provide for you the life you now have.
I am a generous Father, so pour out MY generosity this year. Do something for someone who can’t pay you back. Demonstrate My love instead of your impatience this year in little acts of kindness and patience. Do something extraordinary and pray for a stranger ! Spread the LOVE you have received from Me - to some who don’t know Me ! Spend TIME with those you love and with those who need to know My love ! Give and it will be given back to you !
Luke 6:38 NKJV Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you."
Matt 7:11-12 NKJV If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! 12 Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Matt 25:37-40 NKJV "Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' 40 And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'
Luke 6:30-31 NKJV Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not ask them back. 31 And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.
Dewdrops Of Love And Kindness
Priscilla Van Sutphin
Dec 7th, 2004
“I am releasing love and holy kindness as you worship Me in spirit and in truth. As you sow to the heavens, I am pouring down rain. As you worship in the beauty of holiness, I am releasing My Holy Spirit and more will come than you can imagine. Rain, and more rain, will fall.
Zech 10:1-2 NKJV Restoration of Judah and Israel
Ask the LORD for rain In the time of the latter rain. The LORD will make flashing clouds; He will give them showers of rain, Grass in the field for everyone. 2 For the idols speak delusion; The diviners envision lies, And tell false dreams; They comfort in vain. Therefore the people wend their way like sheep; They are in trouble because there is no shepherd.
Do not be concerned about your life. Do not be disturbed by the events of the day. I AM WITH YOU. My rod and My staff will comfort you. I am the Good Shepherd. I search for the one who is lost and abandoned. I look out for My sheep. Nothing shall snatch them out of My hand. I keep My promises to you. I am a FAITHFUL FATHER. I am stirring up desire for the One above all Who can bring peace to this world. I will display My kindness, My goodness, My love in powerful ways. You need to speak forth the TRUTH in LOVE to all around you. Be not dismayed by their faces, their looks. Say what I have put on your tongue to say. Release LIFE to those in darkness.
Bless those who you see every day who don’t know ME. Bless the place where you work. Bless your fellow employees. Bless your bosses, and the owners.
Be one who breathes My life into situations and people. Change the atmosphere around you by speaking LIFE and blessing. Let the kindness of Your God flow through you to those on the street, in the marketplace, in the workplace and where ever you go. Be SALT and LIGHT where you are. Call for the rain. Call for the latter day rain. Be releasers of LIFE to the world.
BELIEVE that I will back you up. You are My sons and daughters. Would I not back you up, even as a parent stands up for their child in daily life situations ? I never abandon you. You are my precious treasures. Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Abiding is integral to releasing LIFE. Apart from Me, you can do nothing. Praise Me in all things. PRAISE and watch how I can turn even the most desolate hearts around.
Seek My wisdom and you will be able to answer rightly anything that is asked of you. Seek My love and kindness that you can give it out to the lost daily.
Be My ambassadors of freedom and liberty ! I WILL DEMONSTRATE MY GLORY. YOU need to trust ME in this fully, then you will see what you have longed to see.”
Isa 30:22-23 NKJV You will also defile the covering of your images of silver, and the ornament of your molded images of gold. You will throw them away as an unclean thing; You will say to them, "Get away!" 23 Then He will give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread of the increase of the earth; It will be fat and plentiful. In that day your cattle will feed in large pastures.
Isa 45:8 NKJV "Rain down, you heavens, from above, And let the skies pour down righteousness; Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation,
And let righteousness spring up together. I, the LORD, have created it.
Jer 5:24 NKJV They do not say in their heart, "Let us now fear the LORD our God, Who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season.
He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest."
Hos 6:3 NKJV Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD.
His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter and former rain to the earth.
Joel 2:23-27 NKJV Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the LORD your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you — The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month. 24 The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
25 "So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, and the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you. 26 You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; and My people shall never be put to shame. 27 Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the LORD your God and there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame.
Grim Reaper or Harvest
Priscilla Van Sutphin
Dec 11th, 2004
grim reaper noun
death especially when personified as a man or skeleton with a scythe
Rev 1:18-19 NKJV I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
1 John 3:13-15 NKJV We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
James 5:19-20 NKJV let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.
“I said, that he who does not love his brother abides in death !
Many of you still battle because you have not died enough and been raised to life in ME ! You still do not love your brother. You still have not learned that this is the whole of life, to learn to love !
And if you love your brother, you will do whatever you can to prevent his death ! Imagine you see your 2 year old child starting to step off the curb and cross a busy street ! Would you stop him ? Of course you would. You do not want him to be annihilated/crushed, or maimed ! Yet every day there are those in the spirit who are dying. They are dying because they don’t know ME. They do not know there is LIFE in ME !
The church has so little power to raise the dead, because you lack compassion and love for your brothers and sisters ! You are not willing to rescue that one from death who is walking towards it ! If you want power in your life, then you will become a deliverer ! You will want to see people set free. I’m not only interested in the church, but all who are made in MY image ! I am longing for the lost to know ME. Are you willing to lay down your lives as I did ? Are you willing to lay down your life and pick up Mine ?
I did not come to heal the well, but those who are sick and dying !
If you want power to raise the dead and do miracles, then you need to be concerned over what is on MY HEART ! What is on My heart is to set people free from the law of sin and death – to rescue as many souls as possible out of the darkness. If you are passionate towards Me, then you will be passionate for what is on My heart, and not just what you want for your own life !
It is time to grow up in Me, to be healed and delivered of the things that hold you back from the fullness of My love ! Therefore, I am testing and trying you and bringing a true maturity to My church. If you suffer with ME, then you will share in My glory ! But so many want to avoid the suffering part because of course that is a great cost. Will you not offer yourselves willingly in the this day of My power ? I tell you the truth, I will make you ready if you are just willing to say YES to MY WILL. I will prepare your heart, mind, soul and give you the GRACE to do so ! You are My beloveds, and I am Your’s. I will never leave you nor forsake you. I was the fourth man in the fire, and I will be with you through whatever fire you have to walk through in the rest of your life. I will not leave you comfortless. I LOVE YOU and adore you. This is soon the hour of My vengeance on all who have opposed Me ! Wake up the sleepers and prepare them for what you KNOW is ahead. Perilous times are ahead I’ve told you. Open your mouths and TESTIFY ! Take the sickle in your hands and reap, for you will reap what you have not sown in these days ! Many have gone before you and now you will
reap a great and awesome harvest for Your King !
1 Cor 15:25-31 AMP For [ Christ] must be King and reign until He has put all [His] enemies under His feet. [Ps 110:1.] 26 The last enemy to be subdued and abolished is death. 27 For He [the Father] has put all things in subjection under His [Christ's] feet. But when it says, All things are put in subjection [under Him], it is evident that He [Himself] is excepted Who does the subjecting of all things to Him. [Ps 8:6.]
28 However, when everything is subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also subject Himself to [the Father] Who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all [ be everything to everyone, supreme, the indwelling and controlling factor of life ]. 29 Otherwise, what do people mean by being [themselves] baptized in behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?
30 [ For that matter], why do I live [ dangerously as I do, running such risks that I am] in peril every hour? 31 [ I assure you ] by the pride which I have in you in [your fellowship and union with] Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily [ I face death every day and die to self ].
Rev 2:10 NKJV Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Rev 12:11 NKJV And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
Rev 18:7-8 NKJV In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.' 8 Therefore her plagues will come in one day — death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
Rev 21:4 NKJV And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.
Heb 11:5-6 NKJV By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
1 Cor 15:52-58 NKJV in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
55 "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?"
56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Ezek 33:11 NKJV Say to them: 'As I live,' says the Lord GOD,'I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?'
Song 8:6 NKJV Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon your arm;
For love is as strong as death, Jealousy as cruel as the grave; Its flames are flames of fire, A most vehement flame.
Song 8:6 AMP Set me like a seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm; for love is as strong as death, jealousy is as hard and cruel as Sheol (the place of the dead). Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame [the very flame of the Lord]! [Deut 4:24; Isa 49:16; 1 Cor 10:22.]
Song 8:6 Darby Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol: The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, Flames of Jah.
A Wonder to Behold
Priscilla Van Sutphin
Dec 6th, 2004
Wonder: OT:6382
pele' (peh'-leh); from OT:6381; a miracle: KJV - marvellous thing,
wonder (-ful, -fully).
OT:6381 pala' (paw-law'); a primitive root; properly, perhaps to separate, i.e. distinguish (literally or figuratively); by implication, to be (causatively, make) great, difficult, wonderful: KJV - accomplish, (arise ... too, be too) hard, hidden, things too high, (be, do, do a, shew) marvelous (-ly, -els, things, work), miracles, perform, separate, make singular, (be, great, make) wonderful (-ers, -ly, things, works), wondrous (things, works, -ly).
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The Lord spoke: “ A Wonder to Behold” and I asked what He wanted to say and He said…
“Surely the Almighty, Your Lord and God is a Wonder to behold !
I AM the Creator of the Universe, the Author and Finisher of your faith.
Nothing is impossible to Me. And I want you to set your expectations much higher. For I am going to do a marvelous work in his hour, and you will certainly be in AWE and WONDER at all that I do.
I am treading and I am wedding. I am trading and I am raiding.
I am setting in place and I am taking out of place.
I am restoring and I am ordering all things in their proper place.
I am waiting and anticipating a mighty and marvelous WONDER.
I will do the impossible.
I will lift Myself up in the eyes of all in the earth.
There will be no excuse for unbelief.
Do not think I came to bring peace I told My disciples. The members of your own family will be against you. I have come to separate and to cause division between what is holy and what is unholy.
For what is holy cannot dwell with what is unholy.
So there is division right now, and there will be more.
You might think it is the enemy causing this division.
But in most cases it will be because of a different level of love and holiness causing this kind of division. For some are only pretenders to the throne and
are wolves in sheep clothing, while others are My true flock.
The doubleminded cannot dwell with the single-eyed !
My sword is drawn, and there will be separation from all that is unholy in My true believers, and in the world. I know who will say yes and who will say no.
So do not marvel when you see these things happen My beloveds.
Know that I am in control. I am testing and I am trying for there is much to be done and I am preparing a bride that will walk in GRACE and LOVE.
Do not feel that you have failed Me, because of making mistakes again.
You have been being tested and tried and tried again, so that you will learn your lessons that will take you to the next level.
I am coming and sweeping clean My threshing floor.
I will burn up all the dross in your lives, and you will be empowered for the next stage of your journey. Do not be anxious for anything. I have made promises that I keep. I will not suffer you to go through anything I have not seen ahead for. When you go through the waters, they will not overtake you.
When you go through the fire, you will not be burned, because I will be with you. I am EMMANUEL…God with you !
I will not allow anything to happen which is not meant for your growth and development in character. Have you not said, “Lord, I want to be like You !” ?
I am only answering your heart’s desire, though in a moment you may have forgotten you said it. I did not forget. I am making you into a most beautiful bride. I have seen to every detail of your life. I knew ahead what decisions you would make. And I am very pleased with the way My work in you is coming. This momentary affliction will pass, and you will be catapulted into your destiny as time escalates and leads into a myriad of events that will test the hearts of all men.
Rejoice and be glad, for My time is soon coming. Do not be disheartened or nervous about anything. Did I not care for Elijah when there was nothing to eat, I sent him Ravens. When the children of Israel were hungry I sent them quail, and manna. They did not go without. Supernatural salvation, and deliverances from evil abounded in the times of the apostles. It will once again happen as then as you walk in trust and FAITH in ME.
Believe for greater things. Believe in the miracle of multiplication. Do not limit Me. But think BIG in what I can do for I am a BIG, BIG GOD !
You will not have to strive to receive what I will pour out freely !
I want you resting in My arms My bride ! Come and fellowship with Me.
Take in My WORD, and eat of it, and be encouraged to FAITH.
For I said, “ When I return, will I find faith on the earth ?”
Encourage yourselves DAILY and sing to each other in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Delight yourself in ME, and I will lift you up.
You will rest in the shadow of My wings.
Day and night I search for the soul that longs to commune with Me.
I am not a rejecting God. I love you and love spending time with you, no matter what you are doing. Keep your MIND STAYED ON ME, and I will keep you in perfect peace. Do not dwell too much on current events, though awareness is good, dwelling on them can cause you to lose focus on what is really important to you ! Keep your eyes focused above all the circumstances. Your longings for ME will be filled My beloveds. I am coming soon to thrill and captivate you with many signs of My manifest love
and GRACE. Truly all will wonder at the amazing things I will do !
Be expectant. Walk in FAITH !”
Isa 29:14 NKJV Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work
among this people, a marvelous work and a wonder; For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden."
Isa 20:3 NKJV Then the LORD said, "Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia,
Ps 71:7 NKJV I have become as a wonder to many, But You are my strong refuge.
Deut 13:1-4 NKJV Punishment of Apostates
"If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, 'Let us go after other gods' — which you have not known — 'and let us serve them,' 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Isa 29:14 NKJV Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work
among this people, A marvelous work and a wonder; For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden."
Acts 3:10 NKJV Then they knew that it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
NT:2285 thambos (tham'-bos); akin to an obsolete tapho (to dumbfound); stupefaction (by surprise), i.e. astonishment: KJV - amazed, astonished, wonder.
The Secret Garden
Priscilla Van Sutphin
Dec 9th, 2004
Isa 30:15 NKJV For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel:
"In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength." But you would not,
“I know a place where the music is fine and the lights are turned down low.
I know a place where we can go…” [ old song from the 60’s – Petula Clark I think] came to mind.
Then the Lord said:
“There is a wonderful place of reknown, where I meet with My beloveds if they are willing to go. It is a quiet place where we can commune together and talk and just listen to the sound of the birds and leaves on the trees rustling. Where we can smell flowers, and grass and there is a warmth of fellowship there that cannot be found in other places. Serenity is a sweet place of communion. Sometimes the music needs to stop, and the world be blotted out to hear more clearly…so that all you hear is the sound of nature and the senses are fine tuned to hear other things. If you surround yourself with noise and talk all the time, how can you hear My voice ?
I am found in the still small voice. And it is in this place of peacefulness and thoughtfulness that I can be found. A place of quietness and rest ! There is a rest for My beloveds that so many know nothing about. They think they have to strive and perform, and even in the striving, they at least are trying to commune. But they don’t know how easy I’ve made it – that it’s in quietness and in REST that you can be restored. It is the opposite place of the world’s striving and busyness ! So it is also a place of warfare !
It seems that some would think what a farce that is to think you don’t have to DO something in warfare. “ You just can’t lay down or the enemy will walk all over you !” But that is not the whole TRUTH My friends. REST is a powerful weapon in the striving, quick fix world of this age ! There is a time for fighting, and there is a time for letting ME do the fighting…and allowing you to REST IN ME ! It seems incomprehensible to many. But that is the secret garden. It is a place of REFRESHING and RENEWAL ! So don’t think that constantly praying, and constantly striving is the only way to push through. When a woman gives birth, it is not by pushing her arms and legs.
It is by the muscles of the womb contracting that she gives birth. If she strives it actually fights against the birthing process. Then the blood goes to the limbs instead of to the muscles of the womb where it is needed ! The mother has to cooperate with allowing the womb to do it’s work, which is a built in natural mechanism regulated by hormones and nerves, not by her striving, except when the pushing phase comes. So NOW is a time for resting in ME. And when it is time to PUSH, then I will catapult you into action !
Come to My garden and allow Me to touch you – to heal and deliver you from all the ravages of the enemy. Let me destroy all the distractions. Give your heart FULLY to My purposes, and all the rest of your efforts will be effort-LESS. I will help accomplish things in fullness of FAITH, if you will just TRUST ME more fully, and trust your EFFORTS less. Self sufficiency is NOT faith ! I know it fights the ways of the world to do this. But how can you grow in FAITH if you can do it yourself ? Think of that for a moment-Selah !
This is a secret that all the mystics of old had to learn. And when they learned it, of course came great opposition, for it offends the natural mind.
Surely one has to meet the Lord’s effort half-way is one common idea ! But it is MAN’S idea, not MY idea ! It is lie. TRUST in the LORD with ALL of your heart, and lean not on your own understanding ! I will fight FOR you, IF you will LET ME ! But so many of you strive. Remember what happened at Jericho…All they had to do was march around the city once a day for seven days. Remember what happened with Gideon and his men ? Thousands were arrayed against them. They had only 300 men. They did not use swords even, but just blew TRUMPETS, and dropped the pitchers that held torches!
That pitcher represented the flesh, allowed to drop to the ground and be broken. The torches represented the FIRE of the Holy Spirit. All they had to do is blow the SHOFARS – and deliverance CAME, and the enemy turned on themselves and killed each other…CONFUSION went through the camp of the enemy.
And so it will be in these times for those who will TRUST IN MY WAYS.
Come to My garden and let ME share with you MY STRATEGY for what I want you to do. Come and let me share with you My secrets – My love – My JOY - My kindness – My patience – MY self control ! STOP TRYING so hard, and just COME to ME.
Matt 11:30 NKJV For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
Eccl 4:6 NKJV Better a handful with quietness than both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the wind.
Isa 32:17-19 NKJV The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever. 18 My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places, 19 Though hail comes down on the forest, and the city is brought low in humiliation.