Saturday, December 31, 2016

2017 - Year Of Repentance

Note:  I have just lost all my commentary on the following post.  I have been kicked off the internet numerous times in the hours I have been working on this post.  I am done for tonight. I am only posting my Journal entry..as the LORD gave me the words.

2017 - Year Of Repentance



The Words GOD Gave Me for 2017
Saturday, December 3, 2016     
“Cry, Cry…what shall I cry?”  ….from Isaiah 40…….2017 – Year of Repentence
I was just sitting in my recliner enjoying some of my favorite CD’s, thinking about the Presence of the LORD, and I heard;  June 17, 2017 – Day of Mourning.”
What?????  Did I hear you???  What is the meaning of that?
“Day of discouragement”   6-17-17
LORD? What is the meaning of THAT?  America’s last stand???
“Choose wisely”
“Rejoice in the LIGHT – Again, I say, R-E-J-O-I-C-E (that your name is written in the heavenly books)”

Thursday December 29, 2016
…Sing the song of the Redeemed;  for God dwells in the praises of His people.

 Was thinking about the LORD’s Prayer and the 23rd Psalm…both so well known....GOD’s will being done on earth...”Were my current prayers in accord with the will of GOD?”
I do not want to be found praying against the will of GOD! 
I heard a voice, not an audible voice,  but in my heart;  “Daughter of Israel, sing unto me thy praise.”
I thought to myself…what shall I sing?
“Sing the song of the redeemed.”  “Look it up”
 What is the song of the redeemed????  So, I googled it.  I was surprised to find that there are several songs with that title. I listened to several.  My favorite was:
“Song of the Redeemd” by Anna Purdum    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky6p3nx5ylQ
Revelation 14:2-3 
At the end of the song these words were typed: 
Every song was once a “new song”.



  “Cry, cry what shall I cry”...this has been going around my hear like an earworm!!!!
So, I looked it up and read it again.

I copied it from the KJV and the RSV

Isaiah 40:6King James Version (KJV)

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

Isaiah 40:6Revised Standard Version (RSV)

A voice says, “Cry!”
    And I said, “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass,
    and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.

The LORD is looking for true repenctence.   
2 Chronicles 16: 9      KJV
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

2 Chronicles 16:9      Revised Standard Version (RSV)
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show his might in behalf of those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
So, this is what I believe GOD is saying by His Spirit to me:
“Repent personally and corporately for all the evil that has been revealed in this country in the past few months, …. Even, what may yet be revealed.  (Wiki Leaks has, up to this point in time, never been wrong). In times past, before GOD rendered judgments (or some call them the Pleadings of the LORD) , He first revealed the sins of a people/nation.  If they repented, they were spared or blessed in some way…if not, they went into war or captivity or even destroyed.  In the event of Korah…Numbers 26:10…the earth opened up and swallowed them up. 
I think, we are at a time in history that we must repent, or we might be facing one of the above!  Also, IF …..we are in the end time of the End Times… we had better be on our knees! Because,  without GOD’s protection, we will be toast!  The Bible says that an Angel is sent out to put a mark on the forehead of everyone who is sighing and crying for the abomantions being done in the earth. 

Ezekiel 9:3-5Amplified Bible (AMP)

Then the [[a]Shekinah] glory and brilliance of the God of Israel (the cloud) [b]went up from the cherubim on which it had rested, to [stand above] the threshold of the [Lord’s] temple. And the Lord called to the man clothed with linen, who had the scribe’s writing case at his side. The Lord said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, throughout all of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh [in distress] and grieve over all the repulsive acts which are being committed in it.” But to the others I heard Him say, “Follow him [the man with the scribe’s writing case] throughout the city and strike; do not let your eyes have pity and do not spare [anyone].
There is also another mark or seal:
Revelation 13:16
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:


I am not sure where we are in history…perhaps we are in the last few years. I have always felt that I would still be here when Jesus returns….but so have many others through the years.   All I know for sure, is that many of the prophecies of the Bible have come to pass in my lifetime, that were impossible in years past, because of lack of technology.  
Lack of technology is not a problem today.  The doubling of computer processing speed every 18 months, known as Moore's Law, is just one manifestation of the greater trend that all technological change occurs at an exponential rate. 

More commentary to come at a later date.

May you have a Blessed New Year!
Karen

Sunday, January 3, 2016

2016 - Year of Recompense???



2016 --- Year of Recompense???

Dear Ones, 

Good morning! It's a glorious sunshiny Sunday… January 03, 2016!

How did you spend your New Year’s Eve?  What are you envisioning for 2016?  Two questions we all think about… one way or another!
 
Years ago, I inquired of some very good friends, “What do you do on New Year’s Eve?”    They gave a quick glance at one another and then quietly spoke, “We don’t go anywhere. We spend the time in prayer and seeking GOD’s will for the coming year.”

What a wonderful tradition!  I decided then and there, I would do the same.  I cannot think of a better way to bring in the New Year than with GOD’s blessings!  So now, that has become my tradition…spending New Year's Eve at home seeking the LORD's guidance for the coming New Year!    

Reading through my journal entries of past years, I can see now how GOD has worked in my life through this time I have set aside for HIM each year.   Sometimes GOD has given me a complete sentence to ponder for the future... but mostly just a word or two, sometimes He has given me a Bible verse location or a partial verse or phrase…meaning it was up to me to “search it out”! Always, GOD has given me a "word" in due season.  It is written :
Matthew 6:33         Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

At the beginning, I was just seeking a prophetic word for my life and my families.  But, as the years have gone by, I could see that "Word" could also be applied to the body of Christ as well.  Usually about the time I think of writing Christmas cards, I start wondering what the “Word” will be for the coming year. The past several years, God has given me a "Word" before I even began to seek Him concerning the coming year!
I was lying in bed on December 26, 2015 at 12:59 AM...just thinking about the recent family Christmas...the things of the past year. It occurred to me, …..I had not even thought about asking GOD for a "Word", nor had He given me one for the coming year! 

It was at that moment I clearly heard the Holy Spirit ask me, "What did Elisha do?"
When GOD asks me a question, I pay attention because I know He wants to reveal something to me!  I understood I was to do a search on the life and ministry of Elisha. ... To seek out the WORD so that I would find the "word for 2016". I think it is "Healing and Restoration" for my families and also for the body of Christ, both Jew and Gentile.

However, as I sat down to write in my journal for the first entry of 2016; @ 8:38 AM, Saturday, January 2, 2016....
I found myself writing across the top of the page ….  2016-Year of recompense.
Recompense….what exactly does that mean? 

The first verse that came to mind was…”render her double for her inequity is great ..  

Revelation 18:6    (English Revised Version)           
“Render unto her even as she rendered, and double unto her the double according to her works: in the cup which she mingled, mingle unto her double.”

The second one was a little more comforting: 

Ruth 2:12           (King James Version)
The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

There are more writings/verses on the "rendering of vengeance than good towards men on earth ... I am thinking that it will probably be both... Healing and restoration of the body of Christ...bringing the family of GOD together & also wicked men getting their reward for the evil they have done ... Each man in their own time...
In the late 1990's, my Bible Study ladies & I sponsored a 3-day seminar on Prophecy at Penalosa. The speakers, "Mike and Kay McQuiddy", were from Colorado Springs, wealthy business people who found Jesus ...following their fall from wealth. Anyway, he spoke of a time soon coming which would truly be, "The best of times and the worst of times at the same time." This was my introduction into eschatology.  Mike spoke of a man whom  he believed to be a great man of GOD, Henry Gruver.  Henry  calls this season of time, "the multiplication factor";... Whatever is in a person will be multiplied ... The glorious church doing signs and wonders…. and the great powers of darkness of the evil forces coming together for the time of the end ....known as The Great Tribulation, or as the scripture says... "The time of Jacob's trouble."
The times we live in today are surely the last minutes of the end times spoken of in the Holy Scriptures.   Never before have we had the wisdom and technology to understand the prophetic events  spoken about in the Bible. We do now understand these events ……as they come to pass before our very eyes in the headlines of the news! Truly we hear the news speak of wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes in many places, sink holes…erratic weather, persecution, beheadings… evil men working their evil deeds without fear of recompense from the people.

Yet, millions of people world-wide are giving their hearts to Jesus!   Some from the Middle East even saying that Jesus appeared to them in a vision!  Even more astonishing is this except from the internet: 

“More than 25 prominent rabbis from Israel and abroad recently issued a statement calling for a renewed look at Jesus, Christians and the New Testament faith. Quoting from their own sages, these outstanding  Orthodox rabbis are not ashamed to exalt the name of Jesus, welcoming the carpenter from Nazareth back into the Jewish fold."..........................."And there is more. “After nearly two millennia of mutual hostility and alienation, we Orthodox Rabbis who lead communities, institutions and seminaries in Israel, the United States and Europe… seek to do the will of our Father in Heaven by accepting the hand offered to us by our Christian brothers and sisters,”  


(Above Paragraph is Quoted from a posted internet article from  “Israel Today”:  Orthodox Rabbis Bring Jesus Home for Christmas  - Thursday, December 24, 2015 |  David Lazarus)


Yes, it is the time of Joel chapter 2: 

Joel 2:28              KingJames Version (KJV)
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
We do indeed serve an AWESOME GOD!
May the Blessings of the LORD GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob be upon you and overcome you in 2016!

Peace …Shalom ,
Karen