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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Ahava Love Letter - "Chain Link Made Strong"

"Chain Link Made Strong"

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.” (Eph. 6:10 NKJV)

Dear family of friends,

Recently I received a prophetic word of encouragement. During these past two years of awaiting a transition into a new season, I was growing weary of the journey. I needed to hear from the Lord.

Here is a response from Him, through a prophetically gifted man,

“Son, I am making things strong again. I really saw this chain link and it was weak. When it was pulled it was almost to the point of ripping and breaking, like a chain link. You could tell it was very weak in nature. God began to show me that it was about to be strengthened, it was about to be hardened, to be fortified to the place where it can’t be broken.

And I asked the Lord concerning you, what is this I am seeing? And God began to show me that the chain link represents your life. It represents things in your life, overwhelming stress, of the decision making you had to go through recently, and all the different things you having to face, and God says, “Son I am making you strong. I’m giving you the strength and the momentum of the power and the presence of My Holy Spirit to begin to go forward and make this thing happen.”

“Son you are strong in the Lord, in the power of My might. You are at the head and not the tail. You are above and not beneath. You are a man of virtue, a man of strength, a man of power. The Lord began to show me that you are going to begin to experience in this next season even the strength to be creative enough to start a new move, to start a new thing, if you will.”

“Son, you are alive in Me. You are strong in Me. Don’t look at yourself and say, “Lord, but I don’t have the capabilities, the means, the funds, to do a journey, to do a destiny, to make something happen, to even invest money, to even do any of this stuff.”

“Yes you can. You are strong in the Lord and the power of My might. You can do exceedingly abundantly above all that your old nature, your old man couldn’t do. That’s what I do in you. I do the exceedingly, abundantly above all that you are able to ask or think. Therefore if I am in you that means you can do exceedingly abundantly above all the old nature, the person you once was did, because now you are a different person, you are a changed person.”

Receiving encouragement along the way can certainly help us keep going along the way. I pray your journey is one marked with signs of His blessing, as your road continues forward.

Ahava to my family of friends,

Steve Martin

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Ahava Love Letter #44 Date: May 22 in the year of our Lord 2012

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Ahava Love Letter - "Don't Stop"

“Don’t Stop”

“…yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest

by her continual coming she weary me.'" (Luke 18:5 NKJV)

Dear family of friends,

Day in and day out. Same old same old. Been there, done that. Cliches’ we have heard, or said, often. They can become tiring sayings, and yet may represent our present situation in life.

Our daily prayers may end up being the same ones we have petitioned for the last several months, or longer. We can grow weary of coming to the Lord and repeating what we presented yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that. Do our prayers we give by rote have little effect? Is it time being wasted, to share our heart each day with the One Who said we would have the abundant life? Read on.

“Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, saying: "There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, 'Get justice for me from my adversary.'

And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, 'Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.'"

Then the Lord said, "Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:1-8 NKJV)

The ungodly judge said he was getting weary of the widow continually coming to him, and so just to stop it, he avenged her (definition: to exact satisfaction for (a wrong) by punishing the wrongdoer.) In the above parable, Jesus goes on to say, in comparison, that God hears His own elect, who pray to Him day and night, and tells us to keep in faith, for He will speedily respond. That encourages me.

Though we often grow weary from pressing on, as we seek Him for His chosen path and planned purposes, He Himself encourages us to keep going. It doesn’t seem like He gets tired of hearing from us. Rather, the Word says that He Himself is bearing long with us, and promises that He will answer quickly. (Even if His “quickly” seems like eternity to us!) By pressing on, we are expressing faith in Him as we await His answer. He expects nothing short of us – to maintain ongoing faith in Him.

Don’t stop going forward. Your faith will be rewarded. That we can be sure of.