The Terrain has Changed: A Word to you Lonely Elijahs ...

The following "word" will bring comfort and support to some (as myself) and turn others completely off ... i post this because it coincides with what i believe i'm also hearing from Holy Spirit (we're in a spiritual transition from one season to another) and not to cause controversy or debate ad-nauseum (i most certainly won't but of course you've got your own free will) ... So if you're blessed by it be blessed, and if you're turned off then reject it ... For as with all "words" and "prophecies" time will reveal ... AmenTHE TERRAIN HAS CHANGEDA Word from the Lord received 31st January, 2005Cheryl McGrathhttp://www.greatsouthland.org/prophecy05.htmlA WORD TO THE FORERUNNERS"If you have run with the footmen and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses?" (Jeremiah 12:5).The first section of this message is addressed to the Lord's "footmen", or forerunners. In Old Testament times the footmen were selected soldiers who ran ahead of the main army in order to scout out the land and prepare for its arrival.The church worldwide is currently experiencing a severe season of transition and change that will ultimately reveal the true Bride of Christ and expose an antichrist religious system built on the false foundations of man's pride and intellect. The word "antichrist" does not mean "anti-Jesus"; it means "anti-anointing". It is a mindset that despises and persecutes anything or anyone born of the Spirit of the Living God, who is the Anointing. The Name Jesus Christ means Jesus the Messiah, (or Yeshua Ha Meshiach), the ANOINTED ONE (Psalm 2:2; John 1:41; 4:25,26; Lk 4:18, etc). Let us not be deceived - the antichrist mindset acknowledges Jesus, but denies His Anointing, thereby exalting flesh over the Spirit. In the present season, the Lord is busy establishing His own church as He said He would, even while a false religious system blindly continues to expand and represent itself as "the church of Jesus Christ."Let us understand this time of transitioning is NOT simply aboutwhether to hold meetings in church buildings or in houses. To argue in such terms is to diminish the immensity of the Spirit's present work in the church as the Bride is being called out and prepared for the final stages of this current age. It is about the Spirit and the flesh, who are at war (Gal. 5:17). Only those who live and are ruled by the Spirit of God will discern the nature and timing of the Spirit's work in the church (1 Cor. 2:14-16).Many of the Lord's servants, in the wisdom and timing of the Lord, were called as forerunners in this transitioning process and have been "running ahead of the army" for some time now, even years. These are those who the Lord called out of denomination-alism in order to form an arrowhead for the Spirit's thrust of majorreformation of the "ecclesia", or those who are called to be Christ's (Rom 1:6). In a spiritual sense, these forerunners have been scouting the newly emerging landscape, adjusting their vision and their footsteps to the unfamiliar terrain and gathering necessary understanding of previously unexplored expressions of "being the church", as opposed to "going to church."For a great many of these forerunners the experience of being part of that "arrowhead" has been a costly one in terms of extreme loneliness, isolation and unjust accusations of rebellion from those they once walked with in the Body. However, the lessons they have learned and the brokenness gained from having endured and overcome in this place will prove to be of immeasurable benefit to the Bride in the days to come. These forerunners are the "nameless, faceless" ones spoken of by several prophetic voices during the 1990's. For the most part they have been hidden and crafted by the Lord until His perfect timing and they will not look like or sound like the former leadership models the church has come to rely on. Some of these footmen-forerunners have been scouting ahead for (what seems to them) a very long time, and their weariness is being compounded bydiscouragement and frustration as they wait for the movement of the main army. For those of you reading this who recognise yourselves as part of this company, the Lord has a specific word:He says "the terrain is now changing. This new terrain is no place for footmen and requires the power of horsemen. How will you transition to the next stage of what I am doing if your strength has already run out? Let each one answer for himself and herself. Let each one seek Me for the answer, for you cannot do such a thing."As I contemplated this question in prayer, I considered the weariness and discouragement I had been personally battling throughout the first weeks of the New Year, and I knew that I did not have an acceptable answer. I was then given to see that indeed the only way for the forerunners to keep pace was in the fullness of Christ and the total emptiness of themselves. This truth was etched further into me in recent days as I was led into a deeper understanding of what it means to "love our lives not unto death." This is not something that we can do by determining to do it.The strength of "self" as central to all things is so solidly entrenched in the human heart only the love of Christ Himself can bring each of us to a place where we love His Life more than we love our own. It is only then that we truly begin to understand the often repeated statement: "it's not about me, it's about Him." No matter how many times we say it, or assent to it's truth, we cannot walk in it until the power of His Life in us has broken the power of "self-consciousness", "self-exaltation" and "self-preservation". Then it is that we can truly witness with Paul "It's no longer I that live, but Christ......."As I allowed the Holy Spirit to search my own heart for the answer the Lord was seeking, I was reminded again of the account of Elijah in 1 Kings 18:44-46 - "Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said "There is a cloud as small as a man's hand, rising out of the sea!".... the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel. Then the hand of the Lord came upon Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel." Even as the storm clouds dramatically and suddenly rolled in upon Elijah, so too is the spiritual atmosphere in and over the church experiencing dramatic and irreversible change. Even those who have been waiting and praying for such change will be challenged by the magnitude of the shaking and rearranging the Lord is determined to bring to His household. Yet, here we see that not only did Elijah contend with the horses of Ahab, he ran by foot ahead of them. How? By the Spirit of the Lord alone, for there was nothing in Elijah's own strength or stature that could enable him. Horses represent power. There is a way for the footmen to contend with the challenges of this new terrain and run with the horses and horsemen, and it is in the power of the Spirit and by no other means. The Lord is asking if His forerunners are ready to adapt to this new terrain, which will require a shift in focus.The Lord continued to speak: "Many of the footmen have run individually, aware only of their own footsteps, their own path, and their own goals. But now the terrain changes and they must see what I see - a company of horsemen riding. And they must see themselves no more, but see the company, and themselves as part of that company. They must take in and adjust to the wider view."If you are a forerunner or part of a forerunner ministry, the message is to look up, look around, stop what you are doing long enough to survey the new surroundings. For things are changing and the isolation many have known in this place is going to pass away. The Lord wants His forerunners to be ready and alert to the new season. There is grace and strength for the discouraged and weary, but the new terrain requires submission to the Spirit and dying to the fear of man as never before. Stay close! There is no other Rest but the Lord. He will enable you!ConclusionI wish once again to stress that as the Body of Christ moves further into the transitional process, we must grow beyond merely defining this transformation in terms of whether to meet in traditional church buildings or houses. There are believers meeting in houses who are still captive to the "temple" mentality with its hierarchy and law-keeping. And there are believers meeting in denominational church buildings who are free enough to meet with the Body in any physical setting because they understand that the true church finds unity and fellowship only in the Spirit.This transition is about much more than the mechanics of where the church should come together or how the church should function corporately. It is about whether to continue compromising with a flesh-dominated religious system, or abandoning compromise for the spiritual house of living stones, at any cost. Eventually, every believer will have to choose one of those two places. May the Lord give us grace and humility to understand this is all about Him, and not about us."He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad." (Matt. 12:30)

you know bro rahman, it is good for the prophets of the Lord to know that they have company. God always sends comfort when we need it most whether we realize it or not. It's good to know that we are not crazy and also that we will be called heretics and have all kinds of thngs said and done against us in the service of God. But praise Him for He will hold us up and train us for the work!

Rahman, I posted the following on a thread Chanin started this morning. I copied and pasted it here because it is so fitting:"I believe the judgement is against the false church or religion, if you will. Here in North America, there's a huge, I mean huge amount of churches filled with religious people who are going to hell. The proclaim that they are Christian, but they are pharisees. I believe the judgement of God has already been issued to separate the false from the true, and those who do not respond to the call of God to examine themselves, but resist him because of spiritual pride, will be left to their own deception, and great will be that deception. The deception will be so great, that they will think they are doing God a favor when they kill those who oppose them. It will actually be this false church who will persecute the true believers. What may look like a judgement because of our suffering persecution is actually a blessing because Jesus said, "Blessed are you when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." Matt 5:11 & 12.The actual judgement of God will be the leaving of people to their own deception. They will simply be groping around in their nakedness thinking they are rich and fully clothed."Obviously God is saying the same thing in many places. Love, Dian.

we will really get a sense for how few we are at the moment when the tribulation begins and those who jumped on the Christianity bandwagon for prosperity say "I didn't sign up for this..."

...those who jumped on the Christianity bandwagon for prosperity say "I didn't sign up for this..."Amen brothers. In my own experience, there is nothing that impoverishes our faith quite like prosperity. Gods' judgement on our economy may be His keenest grace.MC

Ironman you wrote;"it is good for the prophets of the Lord to know that they have company. God always sends comfort when we need it most whether we realize it or not. It's good to know that we are not crazy"Amen ... i get much comfort to keep in mind that even an OT prophet such as Elijah (with the actual God given ability to call down fire from heaven) was succeptible to feeling all by himself to the point that God had to reassure him that he wasn't ... i've often wondered how in the world Elijah could have been afraid of Jezebel in God's so tangible way of communication with him, when we NT prophets have only to rely and react to what we "believe" we are hearing from the still small voice of Holy Spirit, but i digress ... With us it's just one continuous step of faith, often times fretful, after another ... Even after my Jonah experience there had been times when i've just wanted to throw the towel in regarding my "past season" assignment to my pastor, but our Lord would always speak to me somehow thru either waking me up at exactly 3:10 a.m. to lead me thru some scriptural encouragement to keep on keeping on, or thru a sermon on TV, at church, on SI, or a book, or a dear saint like sister Dian who pm'd me today with this Art Katz teaching which i've got to share ...Sons and Daughters of Godhttps://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=3330... or sometimes by just out of the blue filling me up with His presence to tears and ministering to my spirit/mind as you so aptly put it in assurance, "No Rahman you are not crazy ... You are being obedient to My will" ... Oh bless His holy name! ... You know a little while ago Holy Spirit ministered to me about the life of Joseph, and told me then that yes i was in fact being held as His prisoner in His "prison season" for my life and that i was to be like Paul and Silas in the prosess singing praises to him in that situation instead of my crying, bellyaching and freting about when i'd get out ... God is so amazing in that as soon as i decided to do what Holy Spirit said it was not long after that He sent me a new "word" of encouragement about "staying or going" that i told you about ...i know i've made a breakthrough! ... And i know that there are things happening in the supernatural right now that are about to shake the very foundations of satan's wicked kingdom, seperating wheat from chaff, sheep from goats, pure gold from fools gold, and the promotion of a great falling away, but more importantly the great congregating of His glorious unspotted Bride set to task of His (i believe) final great harvest via the outpouring of the mother of all Revivals beginning here in America!Two things have been going over and over and over in my spirit/mind lately that even tho saved as long as i've been seem so brand new to me right now to the point that i speak them out loud in a holy amazement, and they are: - i'm justified in Christ Jesus ...- and that faith IS! ... In this my "new season" the more i go on with God in His continuance of my calling i've concluded that it is definitely Him, and not me, prompting me ever onward, for i certainly wouldn't be choosing on my own to take on the "self" pulverizing brokeness, extra measured faith and prerequisite holiness required to become a deliverer of "thus saith the Lord" (especially) to such "a rebellious house" ... If it was left totally up to my own power i know without a doubt that i'd still be numbered amongst the latter and not the former ... But by His amazing grace Has He determined royal priesthood for a wretch like me ... How can anyone worth their salt not return such love to a God like that! ... Amen

Brother Karl,i posted my reply to what you stated on this thread over on your "Testimony" thread ... All of us in Christ was once "lost", but now we're "found" ... What a friend we have in Jesus! ... Amen

Sister Dian ...So good to see you(r) post! ... :-) You wrote;"Obviously God is saying the same thing in many places" ...Praise the Lord, and thank God for the internet because without it i'd not know as much for where He has me stationed i seem to be the only one who hears/sees what i hear/see Holy Spirit saying/showing to me ... There was a time when i tried really hard not to be drawn any deeper into what i once secretly delegated as my "weirdness", but my time here on SI and many of (not all) the subsequent "prophecies" and "words" that i've learned that others like myself are hearing from all over the world has been most encouraging to me, and so often a "confirmation" in that these saints are hearing in the spirit the same thing i hear ... There is strength in numbers, for there is no way now to convince me that so many of us can be hearing/seeing/sensing the same thing regarding God's pending movement in the spirit, without His Spirit whispering in our ears what He's hearing from heaven! ... PS - Our Lord used you to my blessing with the Art Katz sermon ... Man, did i identify! ... Confirmation! ... :knockedout:

Brother Mike you wrote;"there is nothing that impoverishes our faith quite like prosperity".Man that is so sad but true ... :-( A while back in my listening to (Orr) i believe it was, regarding the History of Revival, he said that the thing that stunted the Revival in the US that started in the 1950's but abruptly fizzled, was due to the fact of our booming post WWII economy ... Folk were just to busy seeking after earthly treasures which all of a sudden were so available, so revival didn't have a chance ... Brother Orr also said that in Revival's history any nation that missed two in a row of God's free will offering of Holy Spirit outpouring became destined to what amounts to "reprobation" ... i agree with you 100%, "Gods' judgement on our economy may be His keenest grace" ...

bro Rahmanyou know walkng in the faith that it is God who is speaking to me and dealing with me in spirit seems to get easier with time and with people bearing witness to the spirit, or should I say the spirit in another bearing witness. The other day james and I were praying and God ministered to us in a new way and as we discussed it afterward (as is the case all the time) he may see something in the spirit and not say anything about it but when I bring it up he can relate to it. It's really cool that God would reassure us like this.at the beginning sometimes I felt as though I was crazy but the more and more God deals with me the more I know it is him at work. Now that is not a thing I can prove to anyone or convince anyone about and so some brethren dismiss that as fantasy. It's all good though, it seems most people thought the prophets were looney anyway :)You said you can feel things happenning in the spirit that are about to shake up satan's kingdom, I've been shown the enemy's armies on the move, but even so the warrior angels of heaven are also making preparations. the world at this point is largly oblivious to these and other things happenning in the spirit realm, but when they break through into the natural...Now is the time that we begin to go out and say "thus saith the Lord" I get the feeling that we will know just how the prophets of old felt when they were sent out...

Brother Ironman this is exactly one of the reasons "Terrain" speaks to me so ...QUOTE:The Lord continued to speak: "Many of the footmen have run individually, aware only of their own footsteps, their own path, and their own goals . But now the terrain changes and they must seewhat I see - a company of horsemen riding. And they must seethemselves no more, but see the company, and themselves aspart of that company. They must take in and adjust to the wider view."If you are a forerunner or part of a forerunner ministry, the messageis to look up, look around, stop what you are doing long enough tosurvey the new surroundings. For things are changing and theisolation many have known in this place is going to pass away .The Lord wants His forerunners to be ready and alert to the newseason. There is grace and strength for the discouraged and weary,but the new terrain requires submission to the Spirit and dying tothe fear of man as never before. Stay close! There is no other Restbut the Lord. He will enable you!Praise God that He saw fit to make your calling in a "fellowship" of your spiritual peers ... ;-)

MT PRESENT TESTIMONY:Why "The Terrain has Changed" speaks so much to me ...As some of you may know our Lord has had me for the past 20 years (most vigorous and ended at the begining of 2004) on what i once concidered an odd assignment to my pastor ... He's used me as both a voice and a scribe in His "thus saith the Lord" to my pastor stating in 1999 that He'd set an open door before our church, and that pastor was to be prepared to lead us thru it at God's appointed time ... Then at the beginning of 2004 to both relay His "word" and "instructions" towards our congregation being prepared to "repentance and holiness" to going thru that open door ... As with all the other messages pastor was polite, but who was i? ... Then in May of 2004, i heard our Lord say in my spirit, "Rahman cease, for you have done all that I require of you in this season ... I will handle it from here" ... i can't begin to tell you how relieved i was about the first part, but became increasingly concerened about the second part" ... The Lord's word "season" really stuck out in my mind and excited me because to me it meant that another "season" was soon coming ... But what overshadowed my anticipation of something "new" coming (for i was dog tired of the old) was my pondering of what did it mean when God said, "I will handle it from here"? ... That sent me into instant intercession for my pastor who i have affection for, for God had never sent me with a "word" to anyone else in our congregation regarding this ... Then when at the end of 2004 pastor attempted to capsulize into 40 days the 40 week "instruction" of cleansing Holy Spirit had me write out for the taking of the congregation thru "the open door" into the New Year of 2005 i actually became afraid for my pastor ... It was like my pastor got convicted as 2004 began to wind down and did something that reminded me, i don't like to say, of Saul ... i'd long been crying out to our Lord prior to 2004 that i felt like i was in a box where He had me, imprisoned, at which point just recently He thru His lesson to me concerning Joseph let me know that i was in fact His prisoner, in His prison, and that i could not be released until He deemed the proper time, but in the meanwhile i should be thanking and praising Him like Paul and Silas ... God is so amazing in that as soon as i decided to do what Holy Spirit said it was not long after that He sent me a new "word" of encouragement about "staying or going" ... A sister (reluctant prophetess) called me about a month later to tell me about an in house prayer meeting and that our Lord had told her that His "word" to me would come forth there ... Three Saturday's later at 6 p.m. sharp i was the first one there fully expectant to hear from God ... Then after about two hours of corporate prayer out of the mouth of a fellow (reluctant) prophet (brother Ron) i'd never met before this "word" out of Jer.40: 4 & 5 came forth for me ..."And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go. Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go".The following is contained in a post to Ironman on 4/1/05, on brother Jeff's "Days Are Evil" concerning this same subject ... i wrote to him ..."That Monday asking Holy Spirit's leading i did some commentary study on this scriptural passage that just blew my mind ... i've always said that i've never read anywhere in scripture where even thru the direst of circumstances God did not provide for His "spokesman" ... i've read/listened to Jeremiah on a number of occasions but this particular passage had never jumped out at me ... Notice that in such a seemingly God forsaken place as Jerusalem and the lands surrounding it after it's Babylonish devestations God provided the captain of the gaurd to give "victuals and a reward" to the prophet ... Man! ... talk about divine provision of needs ...i found it amazing that at this point in Jeremiah's life God gave him a free will choice with no judgment from God as to what Jeremiah chose ... Jeremiah apparently had a piece of property in Israel that he could have taken his victuals and reward from the captain of the gaurd to and in essence it seems to me could have become a retired "prophet" ... Jeremiah didn't choose that and neither have i for i'm still to young to be retired and i'd miss the continued type of fellowship with Holy Spirit that my calling affords ...Jeremiah also could choose to stay with the "left behind" folk he prophesied to, who by my estimation never seemed to be able to "get it" as to what Jeremiah's message was ... That's the lonliness ... That's excatly how i've felt in my prior season of service, particularly so in the past 5 years ... Jeremiah chose to stay with Gadeliah, Gadeliah was killed ... Then somehow those remaining left behind hardheads in Israel got Jeremiah into more difficulty by kidnapping him and taking him to Egypt ... Ughhhhh ... God forgive me if my motive is wrong for my choosing to go with the captain of the gaurd to Babylon has much to do with the fact that i'm weary of ministering to folk whose only response seems to be blank stares (but again He's given me a free will choice w/ no strings) ... Bottom line is i don't want to be retired, but i'm tired of the box i've been in for the past 20 years for now it seems so small and confining, so my only logical, reasonable option of continued service and new spiritual adventure is to move on to Babylon ...My thinking is that in Babylon as with Daniel, i will at least have spiritual peers (equal fellowship) and contemporaries like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego who also "get it" - which is something that i sorely lack at present ... If it were not for SI i'd be totally locked up inside myself as to it's discussion/sharing with fellow saints ... And then also there's is a certain intriguing mystery i feel as to just what being a "spokesman" in Babylon will mean ...Since recieving that "word" last Saturday i've come to see "the Captain of the guard" as the Holy Spirit, and that i have nothing to fear in Babylon at all because He Himself has promised to look after me ... i've got my spiritual bags packed, i'm ready to go when He says, and do anticipate the next congregate of believers He assigns me to by the river Chebar ...i think things are about to get even more interesting in this "new season" of His plan for my life ... All i'm waiting to hear from Him now is "Rahman, let's go"! ...And then WHAM!!! on 4/6/05 He sends me: "THE TERRAIN HAS CHANGED" ... Some may call it coincidence, i'm calling it the difference between the terrain i've "foreran" thus far in my past season to that very different terrain i'm about to encounter in my new ... Praise God!These are the passages from "terrain" that really spoke to me:UOTE:These forerunners are the "nameless, faceless" ones spoken ofby several prophetic voices during the 1990's. For the most partthey have been hidden and crafted by the Lord until His perfecttiming and they will not look like or sound like the former leadershipmodels the church has come to rely on. Some of these footmen-forerunners have been scouting ahead for (what seems to them)a very long time, and their weariness is being compounded bydiscouragement and frustration as they wait for the movement ofthe main army. For those of you reading this who recogniseyourselves as part of this company, the Lord has a specific word:He says "the terrain is now changing. This new terrain is no placefor footmen and requires the power of horsemen. How will youtransition to the next stage of what I am doing if your strength hasalready run out? Let each one answer for himself and herself. Leteach one seek Me for the answer, for you cannot do such a thing."As I contemplated this question in prayer, I considered theweariness and discouragement I had been personally battlingthroughout the first weeks of the New Year, and I knew that I didnot have an acceptable answer. I was then given to see thatindeed the only way for the forerunners to keep pace was in thefullness of Christ and the total emptiness of themselves.QUOTE:As I allowed the Holy Spirit to search my own heart for the answerthe Lord was seeking, I was reminded again of the account ofElijah in 1 Kings 18:44-46 - "Then it came to pass the seventhtime, that he said "There is a cloud as small as a man's hand,rising out of the sea!".... the sky became black with clouds andwind, and there was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went toJezreel. Then the hand of the Lord came upon Elijah; and hegirded up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel."I See A Hand Sized Cloud (1Kings 18:41-45) ...https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1887&forum=40#12134Even as the storm clouds dramatically and suddenly rolled in uponElijah, so too is the spiritual atmosphere in and over the churchexperiencing dramatic and irreversible change. Even those whohave been waiting and praying for such change will be challengedby the magnitude of the shaking and rearranging the Lord isdetermined to bring to His household. Yet, here we see that notonly did Elijah contend with the horses of Ahab, he ran by footahead of them. How? By the Spirit of the Lord alone, for there wasnothing in Elijah's own strength or stature that could enable him.Horses represent power. There is a way for the footmen to contendwith the challenges of this new terrain and run with the horsesand horsemen, and it is in the power of the Spirit and by no othermeans. The Lord is asking if His forerunners are ready to adaptto this new terrain, which will require a shift in focus."Lord God by any means necessary, please do whatever you have to do in/to me, and every other saint, to the bringing about of your REVIVAL of your Church, to the honor, glory and good use towards your will being done, and your kingdom coming upon earth, as it already is in heaven ... i believe with all my heart, soul, mind and spirit that the Mother of all Revival's is coming to America, and that it will engulf the globe in the harvesting of souls, and by God if it doesn't in my lifetime it certainly won't be because i didn't excessively believe it, beg it, plead it, and shed tears to Father, Son and Holy Ghost toward its fruition ... Make it rain! ... Amen

I sometimes feel like a lonely Elijah

Brother Ironman this is exactly one of the reasons "Terrain" speaks to me so ...and I can bear witness to that!

You're as "sparse" in your posts as i am "writative" ... :-P You wrote;"I sometimes feel like a lonely Elijah"Why? ... How so? ... Care to elaborate? ...We "lonely" Elijah types believe in praying for one anothers strength in Christ!Br. R

Br. Lahry ...i certainly can identify, no saint who knows the routine would want to be sent as a minister to ministers, but i can tell you that when you hang in there long enough for Holy Spirit to diminish your "self" almost down to an unpercievable level you'll stop taking "rejection" so personal and begin to intercede deeply for your rejectors because it's really not you that's being rejected ... It's not about you, me, or anybody else, it's all about JESUS!"And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to. And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty. And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled. And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some ... Mark 12:1-5You wrote:...is one of a string of churches I've left behind. Why? Rejection. As soon it is recognized that there is any measure of anointing on your life, the pastor becomes petrified of you, and turns a cold shoulder to you....a very cold shoulder. I've sat with them in private and shared my heart. I've told them that I did not come to displace anyone. I only wanted to find a gap to fill in the wall. Oh happy day they exclaimed. But when reality set it, it's the same old thing. Isolation.I didn't start out in my christian walk to minister to ministers. But I often found myself doing that. Getting back to the topic, I love ministers, I really do. I crave their fellowship. I want to share the excitement and passion of living for Christ with them. The usual pattern is that they will set me down and ask me enough questions to find a "weakness", which isn't very hard. Then they focus on that to attempt to assasinate me and belittle my ministry. All I was sent to do was love them and encourage them. I'm an exhorter to the depths of my soul. I'm not anywhere to tell anyone how to do their ministry. I'm just there to encourage them to take time for God, and He will ignite them with the fire of His will and purpose. Most however just seem to freak out. It breaks my heart. More, it grieves the Spirit of God that lives within me.Jeremiah wrote;"O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause" ... Jer.20:7-12Sound familiar? ... The fire shut up in our bones unctions us past ourselves as God's instruments towards whatever purpose He has laid aside for us ... So in all humbleness of heart heed this passage ..."Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you ... Matt.5:10-12Same then ... same now ...

Man brother Lahry ... can i identify with this also ... You wrote;"The Lord let the rhema of His word abound in my heart about the measure we use to judge others, and how it is the same one we get judged by. He simply asks, "have you ever done that to Me, Lahry". Tears swell in my eyes as I bow my head low and say "yes Lord". "Did I forgive you, Lahry". "Every time, Lord". "How often do you forgive, Lahry?????" "Everytime Lord".That's the same way i hear Him reasoning with me in my spirit at times, on a first name basis ... Just reading that put those hot tears in my eyes and i'm at work ... But the "filling" doesn't care about place or time ... i used to never cry, but all during the year of 2003 Holy Spirit took me on a Jeremiah journey, revealing to me the pain of what Jesus is enduring (beginning with me) because of our waywardness, and i wept for a solid year, all towards preperation of making me His message in deed first prior to word ... My Christian journey thus far has certainly not been dull ... i love it (now, because i didn't always) and feel so privledged that God would even concider using a wretch like me to any specified purpose past His great commision to us all ....And this quote by Tozer;"God crucifies without pity those whom He wishes to raise without measure" ...... is as my grandchildren would say, "off the heezy"! ... This is a wonderful saying and going into my SI archive ...You continued;"I can tell you this much, Rahman, I would not turn back" Aaaaaaaaaaaaa-men! ... Ironman and i were talking the other night and we both came to the conclusion that we've become addicted to God at this point in our lives ... That wasn't always the case for most of us, but once one has crossed over into the Holy of Holies just once His Shekinah becomes totally addictive ... Those special times of intimacy experienced with Holy Spirit when He's preparing/has you on assignment more than makes up for all of the fretfulness of rejection or whatever else satan/man may have for you ... i've come to the conclusion that in comparrison to Christ's cruxifiction being only rejected of men is a walk thru the park! ... You concluded;"Oh that I could only succeed the way I desire to. Yet I know I am not a total failure either"Ditto! ... But brother Lahry here are two scriptures that i keep in mind on this one ..."And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong" ... 2Cor.12: 9;10"But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty" ... 1Cor.1:27So my beloved brother in Christ be strong in our Lord Jesus and in the power of His might, and having done all to stand ... STAND some more! ... Amen!

Bro Rahman and bro LahryBro Rahman like I told you on saturday I see a few more people running next to me now, soon there will be a whole army of such saints on the move. Bro Lahry, the people of God are indeed a peculiar bunch. Being hated is a legacy and we should wear it like a badge of honor, if Christ was not spared death on a cross, it is certain we will suffer persecution in the coming times. At church I would oft hear people praying for peace yet God would tell me to pray for whatever it will take to endure what is to come. Thank you for your words.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that being available for His use is more important that attempting to make a "splash". I know that is poor venacular. Probably poor spelling too. this is off topic you know someone told me once that the mind reads the 1st and last letters in a word so spelling errors don't often affect reading ;-) I'm kinda learning that the job of a prophet is hard but at the end of the day, the work is God's and He will see it through.

Br. Ironman,You wrote;"Bro Rahman like I told you on saturday I see a few more people running next to me now, soon there will be a whole army of such saints on the move"Aaaaaa-men, and i welcome such camaraderie ... Lord knows how tired i was of being alone ...God bless brother Greg and SI as his vehicle of letting His once lonely Elijah's know we are note alone ... Maranatha!

Maranatha indeed! This thread is throbbing with life Brothers. Thank you for your heartfelt sharing. I can feel the joy inside the pain. Hallelujah! Amen.James

An observation and a question ...Lonely Elijah's (656/27) ... Faithful Intercessors (21/0) ...https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5233&forum=48

Greetings again ... :beard: For sometime now, especially in the last 5 years, our Lord has had me on a mission of proclaiming our need of repentance to purity of worship and holiness of living or chatisement is coming, which largely went unheeded and got me labeled as a real "doomster" ... Then at the beginning of this year i heard Him say in my spirit to "cease" as i had done all that He'd required of me in "this season" of my service and that He would "personally" handle it from here ... i was most relieved at first but then that began saying to me, "The Refiner's fire is upon us" ...Shortly after it dawned on me that our Lord had said "this season" of my service which said to me another season's coming, i began to pursue God as to what that might me ... As usual He took His own good time then answered me with a "word" from a brother out of Jeremiah, then came "The Terrain is Changing" which i posted ...On my way to work yesterday morning i heard Him in my spirit say that my first season of use by Him to His Church was in attempts of "preventing" judgment, and that my second season of service by Him to His Church will be in aiding during judgment ... i relayed this in an e-mail to a very dear brother just yeterday where i intimated ...Quote:"i feel like a special agent for God on His mission, but on a need to know as i go basis ... God knows excatly where i'm at right now because it's exactly where He wants me to be ... He never wants me to be to sure of myself and i believe that's exactly why He's always just feeding me enough feedback to keep me inching along" ... Then today i get this second "word" via Strom's Anzac list that so coincides with all that i believe i'm hearing from Holy Spirit ... i've been beseeching our Lord lately to cleanse me if i'm operating out of delusion but all i keep getting is signposts pointing straight ahead to what the unprepared are gonna feel like is "The Twilight Zone" >>>>>>>>>>>>>"The URN in the WILDERNESS"-Susan Cummings (Apr 20, 2005)The Lord gave me this mini vision earlier today, and several timestoday, off and on, since then. It does not leave, and this is what hesaid to me about it...I saw this vast place of flat land and not much vegetation, but a lot of rocks and rough landscape, with a few scrub brushes and things. It was not the desert, but a wilderness area. In this area, were scattered pieces of broken pottery or vessels lying scattered and in a discarded manner.A wind began to blow upon the pieces and they began to lift up off of the ground and to come together and to attach together and fit as if they belonged to each other, even though each piece was different in every aspect. They began to form into an urn of some type. It became a huge urn and it sat upon the ground and was all different colors as it was made up of all the different pieces that were lying around, and yet, they all fit supernaturally, as if they were all from one piece formerly.The Lord then stood next to me and said,"What you see before you is the Season of Refining that has now closed for My Remnant. I broke My Vessels and scattered them and brought them fully into My Fire and drove every bit of identity from them, so that nothing of their former selves would interfere with My new plans for them in this new season. All that was against me was stripped from them, and broken into ashes, and removed by My Breath, as it blew all traces of flesh out of them, and also it released the hearts that were bound within, and caused them to be released and to beat again.""The wilderness was the Season that has now past. My Remnant are rising up into their places and coming into an understanding of who they are, and their purpose in Me. I have taught them and hand fed them as they walked with Me in the lonely and barren times. I have been their sole portion and their provision. They know both My Love and My Severity. They embraced My judgments and will now stand in the Hour of Justice that will burn across the globe.""The Urn that you saw standing is My Remnant that will be poured out in the earth. They are the Vessels that I will live through, and be released through, as I perform My Will in the earth. I am filling My People with Myself. I have shown you this. You carry a portion, just as they will and are. I will come forth out of My People in many ways. I will come forth as I choose to, and do My Work, and it will not be as the world or the church would want or desire, or even expect, for I alone am God, and not a man. Man cannot know Me, unless He is one with Me. My Ways are not man's ways or the church's ways.""My Word will bring division to those who are Mine and those who are not. The breaking has begun and the separation is beginning to increase greatly, and great will the chasm be between, for no one will cross over to the other side anymore. Either they are Mine or not. I showed you the splitting of the heart and it will come. For I will divide the hearts and spare those who will come to Me. I do have a People who love Me as their God and who love no other besides Me.""Great turmoil will increase as the division increases, for many willtry to save themselves and play in the safe place, but the only place there will be is in My House. You know the Truth, and you must walk in it, and must show the ones looking for Me the way. You must run your race and not try to fix the pieces that fall, but call them forth into obedience to Me, and I will fix those who cry out to Me.""This is not the same as the Season of Refinement. This is the Season of Resurrection and the coming together of the dry bones of My people in the earth. I am not only moving in America, as I am moving in all nations. The Hour has come, for Mine to come to Me fully, or be left to the opposite side. Just as when I called to My people to come to me through Moses upon the Mount, and those who heard Me, came to Me, and those who didn't perished in the great shaking, so it shall be again.""I will no longer tolerate lukewarmness in My House. It will be hot with Me or cold without Me. I am a Consuming Fire, and My People will burn and be consumed with Me, or be empty sepulchers. I have shown you the Tents of Meetings. I have told you to ignite My Tents, as I have many who are now doing so, as you are. You must not stop. For the Urn you see, is the corporate rising up of My Tents.It has begun, and My people are rising up.""Go and look in the Urn."I walked up to the Urn and looked inside. It was full of water. Itlooked like water. I reached in and felt the water. It was cold and felt inviting. The Lord stood by Me and nodded. He said to me, "It is not water. It is the oil that comes through the pipes of My Light and fills the bowls that will burn with My Fire. I am filling them with My Living Oil, and am igniting Myself within them, through them, and upon them, so that no man can say that they have done this. For it is a heavenly fire that man does not have, and cannot. It is Holy. It is Me."Then, the Lord said to look in again.I looked in again, and it was full of Fire. The Lord smiled this time,and reached in Himself, and gave me some of it. He said to Me, "This is the greater portion that has been reserved for My People in the last Hour. It has been held back, for it is Holy, and I will not give what is Holy to a generation that did not treasure it above all else. My Holiness is the pearl of great price. My Word is to be sought after as that pearl and reverenced as such. I am the Living Word and the Holy Fire. I will not give Myself to those who do notlove Me nor want Me."The Lord said to look in again.I did look in again, and this time, there was a great storm in the Urn. I was surprised. The Lord said then," I told you the Storm was coming. It is now upon the earth and will hit. The Storm will bring the full division of Mine from those who are not, and bring My Justice. The Remnant has made herself ready and is awaiting my breath to now bring about the full restoration. That is now begun also. I am moving them into their places. They will stand, under my Hand, as I pass over the earth.""Do not be concerned with when it will happen, but be concerned with those who I have given to you, and raise them up, as I told you to. You know what to do, as do all who have My assignments, now it is time to do so. For the breaking forth now comes and so does the division. Do not shrink back because of the opposition, but run with My Mission, and see Me gather Mine to Myself. Thetime is drawing close for the Unveiling."The Lord said to Me one last time, to look into the Urn.I did so, but felt apprehensive this time. He nodded and so I looked in. There was black death in the Urn. He nodded gravely and said to me, "Yes. The black death will come, and it will claim many. I have warned and called and cried out, and few responded to Me, even now. What is to be, will now be. The death comes from the Urn, for My Vessels are instruments of My Mercy and My Wrath. They will speak forth whatever I tell them to, and they will do My Will. My Word will judge all men. Every man will choose their fate. My Word has indeed already gone forth, and it is now being brought forth, for many plagues have begun, but will increase, as the hearts now harden.""You must go and trust Me. If you do not fulfill your destiny and if you choose to disobey, you too will perish. All who deny Me will perish. Either on this earth or in eternity, forever apart from Me. No man is exempt. Even you. You know Me, and have My Word living in you, and know My Presence, and have partaken of My Fire. You have no excuse and must follow Me. Do not waver, but go, and give my Word as I reveal it to you, and fear not, for I am with you, andwith all who are Mine.""The winds are blowing and the breaking will only increase till theseparation is complete, as I said, so go, for the hour is late, and the people await Me. For I am the Shepherd and I will gather My Flock unto Me and shepherd it in the midst of the darkness and great will be it's Glory as I rise up within it, in the earth."The Lord then walked away and I was there standing by the wilderness.-Susan Cummings.See also ... :beard: The Wilderness is a Preperation Place - not a Permanent Residence ...https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5409&forum=35