A Reality Check For These Last Days

Heather Butler

December 17^th 2005

Dear Brothers and sisters, I have struggled with sending out this word, this reality check pierced my own heart and made me look again. It wasn’t an easy time but essential as I began to see how various things have crept into our ministries and sewn themselves within the fabric of our lives. You may well be as startled as I was to receive this, but none the less it’s a word that needs to be looked at, chewed over and swallowed down by us all. I apologise for not sending this out sooner Every blessing Heather.

I was woken by the lord at 5.00am this morning, and believe I was given this word for the church.

This word also speaks to me, and I can see that I have a few things to deal with too, so lets have a look together shall we.

Proverbs 22-11/12 amp version. Proverbs 22 - 17.

Proverbs 22-11/12

He who loves purity and the pure in heart, and who is gracious in speech, will for the grace of his lips have the king for his friend. The eyes of the Lord keep guard over knowledge and him who has it, but He overthrows the words of the treacherous.

Proverbs 22 - 17

Listen, consent and submit to the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge.

As I sit hear this morning, I hear a cry from the depths of my heart, a voice that is shouting more clearly than I have heard before.

"Bring my people back, some are wandering away from the path that I have set before them, and are being drawn towards a false light".

As I sit and ponder what this could mean for us as a body of Christ and as individuals, I begin to see a picture unfold in front of my eyes. It's a tapestry, and woven within it are flaws of every kind. From a distance the tapestry looks beautiful, but take a closer look and you will see that there are a few stitches that have been caught and have snagged the material, distorting the other stitches around it.

What is this Lord?

There are many within the church today who are looking for the supernatural in all the wrong places. There is no revelation greater than what is written in my book. The church is being caught up into areas of new ageism, Celtic mythology, all tied up within the great deceit that was foretold would come upon the church. It is a lie that all roads lead to heaven, my people perish through lack of vision. Get back to my word, what do my proverbs say. There is wisdom greater in my word than in the ancient texts of many ancient tribes.

Get back to the word. Look at my Son, stop focusing on things that will distract you, look at Him. What did He say, where did He go, what did He do! The church is guilty of hiding my Son, they have covered Him in many fleshly garments that are not His that do not belong to Him. These garments are so heavy that they have hidden the truth that sets people free, and they have replaced that truth with every act of idolatry, and fanciful teaching that those who want their ears tickled with are looking for.

What is more supernatural than a man condemned to death rising from death after three days! What is more supernatural than the healing of the blind the deaf, every infirmity . What’s more supernatural than the rod of Moses, the pillar of fire, the parting of the sea. Church look again, see with my eyes focus.

What use is the Gospel if it is left unspoken, of what use is my word if you dress it up and its true meaning is lost. Can you not see, the blind are leading the blind into many forms of paganism and this is in my church!

The Church has lost the true meaning of signs and wonders, the reality of the cross, the reality of the word that brings forth the supernatural in everyway, its not disguised its there for all to see but you are guilty of misrepresenting it of hiding it.

Saints, if you are to stand with me until the end, you will need the truth of my word in its entirety within you. You will need to know what it says, and how you are able to wield it against the enemy in every area that raises itself up against the will and purposes of God.

There is a strong current within the body that is drawing them into the depths of every deceit, a rip tide of the enemy that is drawing my beloved away from the truth of who I am and they are drowning in the perilous seas of apostasy.

Raise up your voice, bring sound doctrine, turn away for a season from the books, the authors, the men and women of God that you admire. Start to focus on my Son. He is the one who gives revelation and illumination, He is the one who is the Holy Spirit within you that enables you to bring healing, insight, prophesy, wisdom, revelation, freedom.

This is the start of a new season of truth, truth to live by and to die for. A truth that sets men free, but also a truth that will accuse many who have wandered from its pathway. It will be life to some, but death to many.

I offer you my word as a standard today right now. Put down the books for a season, and get back to the reality of my word. Don't worry about the strategy, the plans, I have that all in hand everything is in place, everything is ready for that final thrust in these last days.

I know this is a hard word, I know that getting back to the basics, and the foundational truths is hard, but its what you build your life upon in Him, anything else is like building the house upon the sand.

Repentance is a beautiful thing, don't run from it, I draw you into that place of repentance, for allowing the allure of the world to affect you, don't fear repentance, welcome it, because it is in this place where we meet, where I wash you clean and you are set upon that road of victory in me once again.

DON'T LOOSE SIGHT OF ALL THAT I HAVE GIVEN YOU. GO BACK TO WHEN YOU FIRST BECAME A CHRISTIAN, LOOK AGAIN AT MY PROMISES OVER YOUR LIFE, LOOK AGAIN AT THE WORDS I SPOKE OVER YOU, THEY HAVE NEVER CHANGED.

Does this seem harsh, I know it does, but I see the other side of what this false doctrine and teaching is doing to you eternally, and to those around you.

Stop focusing upon what is my business, you don't need to know which angels to send where, you don't need to know how many for each task! So long as everything is in my hand all you have to ask for is the release, the breakthrough, the rest is up to me, stop trying to tell me how to do my job! I know how to do it. The responsibility is mine, the battle belongs to me, all I ask of you is that you stand with me.

Learn to be more simplistic in your approach to people who do not yet know me, you are speaking a foreign language to them. Many today are un-churched, they don’t understand what Salvation or redemption mean. They don’t understand what being saved is, or what repentance is.

My word is my word, it doesn’t say anything more than it says or any less. Everything you will ever need is written there. Books are plentiful and carry a revelation of my word within each one that is inspired by my Holy Spirit, but you have to learn to ensure that each book lines up with my word. There is much you can learn from the testimony of others, and there insights, but don’t loose sight of the one book that you need to be reading every day alongside all that you read, so that you can test for yourself the reality of the truth within it.

I am preparing you, calling you into that place of complete submission to my word.

You are the one that I love, the one that I died for, and nothing is more important to me than having you at my side, than having your attention, your focus, so that you will not fall away in these last hours.

You were created with great potential within you for the final glory to come. You were created to be carriers of the light, a vibrant bright light that reaches into the depths of the darkness exposing and rescuing the lost. Pulling them out of the pits of despair. There is a supernatural realm that is real, that is waiting for men and women of faith and the word to call down and bring into being on the earth. All that the Father has placed within His word is available for each of you to use. You have been given the keys to the kingdom of Heaven, to bind up on the earth whatever is in opposition to my will, and the permission to loose upon the earth all that is waiting for you to release in my name so that my perfect will is done.

There is much spoken about a shift that is coming, and there are many that have taken place already, this is a shift of the mindsets that have been placed within you because of the times that you are living in. Don’t be afraid, this is not going back, this is going forward and stepping out.