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Saturday, October 28, 2017

Lana Vawser: "Weary Ones, You Will See the Seeds of Promise Faster Than You Realize" - THE ELIJAH LIST

Lana Vawser: "Weary Ones, You Will See the Seeds of Promise Faster Than You Realize"

THE ELIJAH LIST Oct 28, 2017

From the desk of Steve Shultz:

This is a "wow" word for the weary ones out there...for sure. I think many have dealt with great weariness in seasons past, and are so ready for a breakthrough from God. This latest word by Lana Vawser is like living waters...that will bring refreshing where needed.

See if you relate to this word of the Lord by Lana:

"Many of these weary ones have been battered. They have been bruised. They have been beaten around in this season; but they have remained faithful... I say unto you today, My beautiful ones: You WILL see the seeds of promise, the seeds of obedience, the seeds of praise and the seeds of declaration, come to fruition—faster than you realize."

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"Weary Ones, You Will See the Seeds of Promise Faster Than You Realize"

Lana Vawser, Brisbane, Australia

The Lord is releasing wisdom to the weary right now. He showed me many in the Body of Christ that are still SO WEARY and feeling discouraged because of circumstances surrounding their promise(s).

These "out of left field" events that have come and challenged the promise and shaken the promises have left many in such a deep place of weariness. Yet there's another fight for hope, yet another fight to continue to stand, yet another fight to continue to keep believing and keep hopes up. The Lord showed me many feeling disorientated again, like their heads are spinning and questions are bubbling up again.

Wisdom for the Weary

"In the fire you have found His heart more than ever. In the fire you have found Him in a whole new way. He is increasing your eyes to see and ears to hear—to carry the wisdom of Heaven for your own life and to encourage and edify others."

I felt the Lord's heart so strongly for these weary, disorientated ones. I heard Him say, "WISDOM is coming to the WEARY." He is releasing divine wisdom, insight, clarity, discernment and encouragement for what is going on right now.

There is a deeper level of revelation coming to the weary ones regarding where the Lord is leading them, what the Lord is saying and what is before them, that is going to heal their hearts. It is going to heal the weariness.

I heard the Lord say:

"Many of these weary ones have been battered. They have been bruised. They have been beaten around in this season; but they have remained faithful. They have remained in the place of intimacy with Me, where their hearts are continually leaning into Me and open to Me. They have not turned their hearts to another, but they have continued to seek Me in purity, and worship Me in the mystery, and continue to lay themselves before Me again with their hearts crying out to Me, 'Lord, I don't understand, but I love You! Your will be done, Your will be done. My life is Yours.'

"I have heard these cries. I have heard the sacrifice of praise. I have seen the obedience and My heart is moved by the weary ones that have continued to remain faithful to Me in the discouragement, in the ferocious battle and in the pain. I say unto you today My beautiful ones: Come to Me, all who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. There is a rest coming upon you, My beautiful ones, that is going to rejuvenate you, refresh you and fill you afresh with joy, expectation and vision for the future.

"Disappointment, weariness and discouragement in the battle has stolen so much of your joy, so much of your passion, and so much of your vision for the future. Many of you have been targeted with an assignment from the enemy to steal the promises and the seed of breakthrough that I am releasing to you and you have been unaware. (Photo via Pixabay)

"The weariness has caused an exhaustion to not be able to fight much more. But today I declare to you, My beautiful ones, the truth: YOUR HARVEST TIME IS UPON YOU and the adversary is attempting to take you out through exhaustion and weariness before you enter your HARVEST season.

"I say unto you today, My beautiful ones: You WILL see the seeds of promise, the seeds of obedience, the seeds of praise and the seeds of declaration, come to fruition—faster than you realize."

Where There Has Been Great Weariness, You Shall Now Carry Greater Wisdom of My Heart

"Become intimate with Him in whatever you do, and He will lead you wherever you go. Don't think for a moment that you know it all, for wisdom comes when you adore Him with awe and wonder and avoid everything that's wrong. For then you will find the healing refreshment your body and spirit long for." (Proverbs 3:6-7 The Passion Translation)

My heart was full of the pleasure of the Lord for how many of these weary ones have become intimate with Him in the weariness, in the waiting, in the discouragement and in the pain. They have laid down their lives recognizing more and more that they do not know it all, and have simply adored Him with awe and wonder in the darkness; walking with integrity, following His voice.

"Healing and refreshment is upon you!" I heard the Lord say. "Where there has been great weariness, you shall now carry greater wisdom of My heart."

"He is releasing divine wisdom, insight, clarity, discernment and encouragement for what is going on right now."

Through the battle and through the journey you have continued to seek His heart and cry out for His wisdom—even in the places where you didn't understand. The Lord has heard your cries, and you shall now carry greater wisdom and insight of His heart concerning your circumstances, your present situation and future.

In the fire you have found His heart more than ever. In the fire you have found Him in a whole new way. He is increasing your eyes to see and ears to hear—to carry the wisdom of Heaven for your own life and to encourage and edify others.

"As wisdom increases, a greater treasure is imparted, greater than many bars of refined gold. It is a more valuable commodity than gold or gemstones, for there is nothing you desire that could compare to her." (Proverbs 3:14-15 The Passion Translation)

Heaven's Kiss

I saw many of the weary ones. They were nervous, anxious and almost fearful about what is coming next or whether they are moving in the right direction—whether what they heard was God or not—because the battle and the "out of left field" hits of the past have left them feeling so disorientated and unsure. The Lord's heart sees your anxiety; He sees your fear. He sees your nervousness and He sees your heart crying out, "Lord I want Your way!"

I heard the words, "Receive Heaven's kiss"and instantly I saw the seal of the Lord's FAVOR upon directions and hearts' desires. (Photo via Max Pixel)

You are about to see Heaven's kiss of favor upon the pathway! God is about to confirm to you in such a beautiful, deep way—with great favor—that you are moving in His direction. He will confirm you have heard His heart, you have seen correctly and He is watching over His word of promise to you to perform it and fulfill it. There will be great joy in the increase!

A deeper bubbling of praise and adoration for our beautiful Jesus is going to explode out of you. He is taking you into depths of the revelation of His heart and Word that will leave you undone, and you will know weariness no more. You will see the springs of refreshment from His heart bring those weary places of your heart back to life again.

He whispered, "Weary ones, you are about to see with your eyes, the reward for your faithfulness to Me."

Get ready to dance with Him in the rivers of wisdom's refreshment! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)

Lana Vawser
Lana Vawser Ministries
Email: lanavawser@gmail.com
Website: www.lanavawser.com

Lana Vawser is an active member of the Australian Prophetic Council and releases prophetic words for the Body of Christ and nations, and is featured regularly on The Elijah List and in Charisma Magazine. She is also an itinerant preacher and revivalist who is traveling regularly with her family, seeing powerful moves of God. Lana has a strong, prophetic voice and has a heart to see the Body of Christ develop deep intimacy with Jesus and actively hear His voice each day. She also has a heart to see people set free and walk in all that Jesus has purchased for them as they carry Christ into their world each day, awakened to His nature and who they are in Him. Lana is married to Kevin, and they are living in Brisbane, Australia, with their two sons.

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Monday, May 29, 2017

The Battle in the Race - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

The Battle in the Race

Now Think On This

Steve Martin

“Hold firmly to the word of life; then, on the day of Christ's return, I will be proud that I did not run the race in vain and that my work was not useless.” (Philippians 2:16-17)

Memorial Day in the United States of America is a special day we annually set aside to honor the fallen – those men and women who sacrificially gave their lives to keep freedom free in our nation, and for the many other nations that we have stood with over these many decades. They chose (or were drafted) to join the fight in war. They ran to the front lines, armed with weapons for battle, to keep evil from further encroaching on European, Southeast Asia, and Middle Eastern lands. And to take back that which was stolen by the enemy of our souls, Satan himself.

These tremendous engagements on the battlefield took months of preparation for those men and women, prior to the vicious entanglements. They didn’t win without a tough fight. For millions, that fight cost them their lives.

We give thanks with a big “Thank you!” to all men and women who have served in the Armed Forces - the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and the Coast Guard!

The Bugler Boy and the flags of the US Armed Forces

Crown Memorial Park cemetery in Pineville (Charlotte) North Carolina

(Photo by Steve Martin, May 27, 2017

Many of us enjoy attending sporting events. We have a local or national team that we give our money, time and sometimes hoarse voices to in cheering them on. Though in no way would I ever compare them to paying the same price it dearly costs our soldiers in the USA Armed Forces, they too have been prepared to meet on the field of “battle”. For that I too commend them.

I too loved playing high school baseball, for the teamwork we had, and the discipline required to go onto the Iowa State Finals in 1972. Lessons learned for life.

Columbus High School baseball teams 1972-1973

(Part of the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Roman Catholic education system)

Waterloo, Iowa

It takes discipline to excel. It takes daily commitment to do, to be prepared to run the race and win the game, each a battle in itself, and later the hard-fought, victorious championship, or world war.

As Paul says in Hebrews 12:1-3,

“Do you see what this means — all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running — and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins.

Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed — that exhilarating finish in and with God — he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.

When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls! (”THE MESSAGE)

To be ready for the life struggles that we all do face today, and will face tomorrow, we must be ready. We must be armed. We must put on the full armor the Lord has provided, or else we won’t make it. The one who hates, steals, kills and seeks daily to destroy our souls doesn’t play fair. We must be prepared.

“Use all the armor and weaponry that God provides, so that you will be able to stand against the deceptive tactics of the Adversary. For we are not struggling against human beings, but against the rulers, authorities and cosmic powers governing this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm.

So take up every piece of war equipment God provides; so that when the evil day comes, you will be able to resist; and when the battle is won, you will still be standing.

Therefore, stand! Have the belt of truth buckled around your waist, put on righteousness for a breastplate, and wear on your feet the readiness that comes from the Good News of shalom.

Always carry the shield of trust, with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the Evil One. And take the helmet of deliverance; along with the sword given by the Spirit, that is, the Word of God; as you pray at all times, with all kinds of prayers and requests, in the Spirit, vigilantly and persistently, for all God’s people.”

(Ephesians 6:11-18, Complete Jewish Bible)

Jesus did not promise us a rose garden - without a fight. It takes a willing spirit to say, “Here I am. Do in me what needs to be done, so I can do what I have been created to do.”

Can you say that? Can you pray that if you can’t say that now? The Holy Spirit is our Helper. Ask Him.

Be prepared. Get ready. The fight has been going on for centuries, ever since the time of Adam and Eve in the garden.

If you are weary from it now, Jesus can refresh you. His heart is to make yours strong, to walk in your purpose and what you have been created to do.

If you need more training - discipline yourself in prayer, read His instruction book we call the Bible, and stand with those who have the same kindred spirit to hear and obey.

Then run the race set before you - to win., Let your life be counted among those who, with Jesus Christ at the Marriage Supper of the victorious Lamb of God - will together celebrate His glorious victory over death and destruction. It will be worth whatever cost He asks us to pay.

There is no other life worth living, than the one He has chosen and called you to live.

He is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Awesome God, the Savior of the world - for both the Jew and Gentile -Yeshua HaMashiach Himself.

Now think on this,

Steve Martin

Founder

Love For His People, Inc.

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Now Think On This - In the Year of our Lord 05.29.17 - #286 – “The Battle in the Race” – Monday, 7 am - Memorial Day 2017

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Monday, January 30, 2017

The Battle for the Heart and Soul of the IDF - Tsvi Sadan ISRAEL TODAY

The Battle for the Heart and Soul of the IDF

Monday, January 30, 2017 | Tsvi Sadan ISRAEL TODAY

Topics:

Israel

The IDF has been at the center of passionate public debate since last year's speech by Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan, at the time the army's deputy chief of staff, on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day.

His remarks on Israeli society kicked up a firestorm that refuses to subside. According to Golan, Israel today reminds him of the "horrific processes which developed in Europe – particularly in Germany – 70, 80, and 90 years ago, and finding remnants of that here among us in the year 2016."

The general's harsh statement was perceived as left-wing ideology the type of which has been firmly entrenched within the IDF's upper echelons, resulting in questionable moral codes that severely hinder the army's very purpose to protect Israel.

Particularly annoyed by this is the religious community, which sees the liberal values of gender equality and LGBT rights as especially aggravating since those directly contradict Jewish religious laws. One of the harshest critics of the IDF is Rabbi Zvi Tau, head of Har Hamor Yeshiva. Among the national religious yeshivas, the prestigious Har Hamor is branded as "national-Orthodox," a relative newcomer among the Zionist religious movements that are typically lenient.

R. Tau, who previously insisted that the IDF leadership had no mandate to alter Jewish culture, spoke recently with the heads of religious pre-military academies (mechinot) to discuss whether or not it was permitted for their graduates to serve in the Israeli army.

The discourse, published by the religious portal Kipa, reveals the depth of the crisis between the religious community and the IDF.

To clarify, R. Tau is adamant that young religious Jews should not be give the option to refuse military service. "If for a moment we'll be left without an army, we will have no country … on account of some who have fallen flat on their faces should we not do what is right?" he questioned.

Tau's remedy is to strengthen religious education so that the students would find the inner strength to resist the army's insistence on doing what is wrong. "Is there any other place in the world where, as a matter of abiding principle, men and women are bedded in the same place … are these human norms?" he wondered. "This is how one loses sanity, the basic norms of God's image in human beings."

Tau, therefore, is calling on religious soldiers to pay the price for being forced into unlawful norms. "The people of Israel have stood firm for two millennia of exile," he said, "and here is someone holding on to the new demon of post modernism, he will try to make us leave our religion? We are willing to take part in whatever is asked, but not in this madness, not in this beastly behavior."

This battle over the army's spirit is far from over and shows at least one thing - that unlike in the past, attempts to fundamentally alter the army's culture can no longer go unnoticed, nor can the army afford to ignore the challenges it faces from devout Jews.

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Friday, April 1, 2016

The battle is just beginning... - Faith Driven Consumer

Are you sick and tired of being marginalized, ridiculed or—worse yet—persecuted simply for living out your Christian faith?

From the persecution of Christian bakers, florists, bed-and-breakfast owners and T-shirt makers to legal subpoenas of pastors’ sermons and the stifling of the Christian viewpoint in high schools, universities, the marketplace and workplace, there’s a massive suppression taking place that discriminates against us as Faith Driven Consumers.

As depicted in the movie GOD’S NOT DEAD 2, our basic rights as Americans are being denied. We are being eliminated from culture—the free expression of our Christian faith is even now being criminalized.

Who’s leading the charge? Corporate America.

Major brands that you and I spend our hard-earned dollars with every day—companies like AT&T, Bank of America and Comcast—are actively creating second-class citizenship for Christians. This, in spite of the fact that we Faith Driven Consumers comprise 41 million Americans—17% of the adult population—and spend a whopping $2 trillion annually.

Need proof? Check out the glaring gaps. The Faith Equality Index assesses the faith compatibility of top brands. See for yourself how your favorite companies are treating you compared to the customers and employees they prioritize and value.

So what can you do about it?

Go see real life played out in GOD’S NOT DEAD 2 this weekend at your local cinema.
Join the movement: Sign the #GodsNotDead2Us petition to let companies who falsely claim to support “diversity and inclusion” know that true diversity means treating Christians equally with other groups.

Every week we have one-on-one conversations with America’s corporate leaders asking them to treat Faith Driven Consumers like you equal to others in their rainbow of diversity. Largely they have done nothing to stop their discrimination. Why? They tell us it’s because you aren’t putting as much pressure on them as other groups do.

Truth is stranger than fiction. This important and timely movie is a dramatization of real life. Take action before your voice is silenced.

Join the movement now.

Sincerely,

Faith Driven Consumer
http://www.faithdrivenconsumer.com/

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Burn Within - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

Burn Within

Now Think On This

Steve Martin

“And they said to one another, "Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?" (Luke 24:32, NKJV)

Sometimes I feel like the apostle Paul did when he spoke about still doing that which he didn’t want to do. I can’t find the Scripture, but at some point he gave a sigh, or even more so wrote of his ongoing frustration, in seemingly doing the same thing over and over. And he wasn’t talking about that thing being a good thing.

He too wanted it to stop so he could move on with other challenges. He wanted to pass this test so he could graduate to the next class, or as we so often hear these days, “go to the next level”. (We must be riding an elevator?)

Maybe you think the same at times? You do something, say something, or think something about another, and then find yourself having to repent all over again for doing the same thing all over again. It gets frustrating. “When will I ever learn?” as we continually battle the same temptation, or even yet, the same sin, over and over again.

Contending for perfection is part of the ongoing battle we are in. Not only are there battles without and about us but we continually face the battles within ourselves. Because we are fighting in the spiritual realm, it works its way down into our natural being.

But we have hope! As this war within rages on, we can experience a burn within, which I believe is the Holy Spirit’s refining fire, to cleanse us of all that dirt, filth, and such. We are being conformed more to the image of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and it is an ongoing process.

The apostle Peter (or as more accurately the Jewish versions of the Bible say, the “emissary” Peter) also wrote of this ongoing burn within us. He too was inspired by the Holy Spirit to remind his followers of this very same thing.

“Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and temporary residents not to give in to the desires of your old nature, which keep warring against you; but to live such good lives among the pagans that even though they now speak against you as evil-doers, they will, as a result of seeing your good actions, give glory to God on the Day of his coming.” (1 Peter 2:11-13, Complete Jewish Bible)

It is a fact. The old nature, the one we had before coming to repentance, and finding salvation which is only found in the Lord Yeshua (Jesus), still tries to come back at us - those old (and new) desires and temptations to give in and give up. We will still battle in the ongoing war within, always trying to wear us down and take us out of the war raging around us.

“Stay sober, stay alert! Your enemy, the Adversary, stalks about like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Stand against him, firm in your trust, knowing that your brothers throughout the world are going through the same kinds of suffering. You will have to suffer only a little while; after that, God, who is full of grace, the one who called you to his eternal glory in union with the Messiah, will himself restore, establish and strengthen you and make you firm. To him be the power forever and ever. Amen.” (1 Peter 5:8-11 CJB)

Thank God, that even as Jesus did while here on earth, conversing with those disciples after His resurrection, He has now given us His Holy Spirit to walk and talk “with us on the road”, while still opening the Scriptures to us, revealing while always teaching, in order to refine us and mold us into His holy image.

Next time, probably today, when the temptation comes my way, to think ill will of another, or when I am fighting the temptations that so often come, and will happen, I must effectively make the choice to stop the thought before it prolongs in my mind, and resist.

By the Lord’s grace burning through us, those things which can so easily drag you and I down can end, in order that we can carry on with the bigger challenge, that of proclaiming His gospel in word and deed, to a world that is burning up in so many other ways.

Now think on this,

Steve Martin

Founder

Love For His People, Inc.

P.S. I would be most grateful if you'd share this encouraging word with your family and friends. They might need it. You can easily use the social media icons below. Thanks! Steve

We are blessed when the ministry receives gifts to bless the families that we do in Israel, India, Pakistan and the hurting ones here in the USA. You also can share out of the abundance you have been given.

Love For His People, Inc. is a charitable, not-for-profit USA humanitarian organization started in 2010 to share the love of the Father in the nations.

Contribution checks can be sent to:

Love For His People, Inc. P.O. Box414 Pineville, NC 28134

Todah rabah! (Hebrew – Thank you very much.)

Please share Now Think On This with your friends.

Email: loveforhispeople@gmail.com

martinlighthouse@gmail.com

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Twitter: martinlighthous, LovingHisPeople

Blogs: Love For His People, Now Think On This

Full website: Love For His People

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Now Think On This - In the New Year of our Lord 02.04.16 - #240 –“Burn Within” – Thursday at 3:30 am

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