February, 2005

Greetings from Vero Beach!

January was another heavy travel month for me. Nevertheless, it was a blessed time with the Lord as I worshipped my way across four states, met many brothers and sisters in the Lord, saw many healed and set free, and enjoyed a number of divine appointments and encounters along the way. God makes every ministry trip an awesome adventure. Praise His Holy Name!

As I was returning to Florida from Mississippi, I drove through the worst storm I have ever had to drive through in my life time, and I’ve driven through some really nasty ones, every kind imaginable. As I came down through Mississippi there were funnel clouds dancing around in the midst of a lot of rain. As I came closer to Louisiana, the storm intensified and the wind grew much stronger. As I crossed Alabama, it intensified even more, and by the time I hit the Florida border, it was absolutely impossible!

There was a very dark system that was enveloping the western part of the Panhandle of Florida, and a dark fog so thick that you could not see the tail lights on the car ahead of you. I drove with my flashers on. The rain pounded the car on all sides, just as it had pounded the house through Hurricane Frances. There were tractor trailers on both sides of me, and I was shocked to see how close they were to the car as they passed by. Unbelievable!

I was unable to get off the road to get a hotel room and gasoline until I reached Mariana. Prior to that there was no power anywhere!  As I came close to Mariana, I saw that there were street lights down there, so I told the Lord, “This is where I get off!”  Believe it or not, I got the last hotel room! 

On my last try the clerk said there was just one room left and it was on the second floor. I said, “Are you going to tell me there is no elevator, too?” She said, “Yes!” I told her that it was o.k. for I would crawl up the steps if I had to, all I wanted to do was dry out and rest. By the time I got up to the room, I said to the Lord, “Knock me out!”   Praise His Name, He did just that! I slept until 6:00 AM when I heard Him say to me, “Get up and go NOW!” So I hurried to dress, threw everything in the car and took off. I had three hours of easy driving for it was clear. However, as I turned on to I-75 it began to rain, but it was bearable. Nothing like the day before! As I turned on to the Turnpike it grew worse, and by the time I reached I-95 it was impossible again. It was moving in from the southwest.

Thank God that it didn’t last too long before it lightened up. Just about the time it did lighten up, I noticed my car pulling to the right. Then it began to shimmy real bad. As I turned in to Vero Beach the wheel began to turn to the right in a jerking motion. Nevertheless, I made it home. And I was so glad to be home. Only God knew! Safe, sound and dry!!!

The next day I took the car to the repair shop, and I told them what was happening. No sooner had they put the car up on the rack and the head mechanic came running to get me to come and look at one of my tires. The left front tire had split all the way around yet remained on the wheel. The two mechanics were amazed that I had made it back. They could not figure out why it had split as it did, and what had held it on. Immediately I thanked God for His keeping power, and they both had to agree with me. Only God!!!

A NEW ERA! 

The following day I had to head north again, but this time I was traveling up the East Coast.  Throughout the trip I would pray for a little bit, and then I would worship for a little bit. Soon the Lord began to share with me concerning the prophets that He is raising up and sending out in this hour. As He did, it brought back a lot of memories of the days in the 70’s when He had me in His training camp. Let me just say here that the training and discipline that He puts those He Himself raises up is excruciating. I mean to tell you it can be downright painful! It doesn’t take long to find out what a lonely walk it is either, for there are very few who are willing to live such a consecrated lifestyle.

He began by saying that we have entered a new season, a new era, if you will. He went on to tell me that in this season the prophets He is raising up will be doing some really strange things. Extraordinary things! He went on to say that He is raising up a company of prophets who will act as an abrasion to the Body of Messiah. He said that some of what He will require His prophets to do will really cause others to question the manner in which His prophets are walking.      

 He went on to tell me that He is raising them up from every part of the world, and not many of them are known, nor are they really well versed. “But they are very well versed in Me”, He said. He told me that He has made them strong and their faces are set like flint.  He said, “They will not heed the voice, the system, or the politics and manipulations of man or minister. They shall not need or require man’s favor or reward, for those I AM raising up and sending forth are a strange and wonderful breed dedicated and holy unto the Lord. They can not be bribed or corrupted. Their master is neither mammon, nor fame, nor favor, but their master is the mighty Holy One of Israel.”

The Lord went on to say, “They will arise and come forth with a fierce countenance, for they do not listen to the voice of man. They have been trained in the wilderness, or desert place, where they heard only My voice.  They will follow only My voice!”

He reminded me of the way that I had been terribly misunderstood, despised and rejected. Also, the way that I had been refined by fire, over and over again, but then chosen in the furnace of affliction. He said, “You can be bought by no man, ministry, pastor or elder! You are Mine, and Mine alone! You speak only My Words, and do only My deeds. So it is with those I am now raising up and sending forth!” 

I was thinking about some of what I had gone through when He told me to prepare the Church. “Tell them they are coming! There have been only a few of you out there until now, and I have confirmed your words with My hand! Now ten more shall arise close behind, then twenty, then one hundred, then a thousand, like fire spreading across My Church. They shall raise their voices in judgment against the false systems of My Church. They shall raise their hand like Elijah did, and My signs and judgment shall come forth.”

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I Samuel 1-6

It was a little more than a year ago when the Lord took me to I Samuel to begin speaking about the Religious System. At that time, He likened Eli to the Religious System, and his two sons to the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church. Since that time He has continued to bring to light the false system of the Church, and as I travel in ministry, He points out those things that grieve His Spirit.

One of the very first things He showed me about Eli was the fact that he did not discern or judge by the Spirit. When Hannah went to the Tabernacle to pray to the Lord, a spirit of travail came upon her, and she was praying out of great anguish and sorrow. Eli, the priest, accused her of being drunk. Eli had no understanding of intercession or travail at all. He did not discern her actions by the Spirit of God.

As soon as He pointed this out to me I remembered a very intense prayer meeting that I was in one time in Jerusalem. I don’t recall now what the crisis was, but the Lord had called several hundred of us together to stand in the gap for the Land and His people. All at once a spirit of travail moved in on one of the intercessors, who was on her face before the Lord, as we all were. The leadership became irate, went over and shook her, picked her up, and very quickly removed her from the room. Immediately the Presence of the Lord departed the room. The Lord said to me, “Do you see? Those who are a part of the Religious System have no discernment! They do not judge by My Spirit! They condemn everything that they do not understand. They have a form of godliness, but deny the power thereof.”

The Lord uses me quite often in travail. I can recall a few years ago when I came down off the platform  in a place where I was ministering, and another minister came over, took my arm and said, “Myrna, the Lord said to tell you that your travail is felt in the nations!” Is it any wonder that the enemy works through the Religious System to keep the Body of Messiah from hearing the anguish and sorrow in the heart of God? At the same time the Lord was telling me that He was calling His people to come apart with Him, put their head on His chest to listen for His heart beat, I had one pastor tell me, “I want fun stuff in my church, not tears, weeping and wailing!” How sad!

The prophet Joel tells us that the Lord says, “Turn to Me now, while there is time. Give Me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping and mourning. Do not tear your clothing in your grief, tear your hearts!”  He goes on to say, “The priests who minister in the Lord’s Presence, will stand between the people and the altar, weeping. Let them pray, “Spare Your people, Oh God!” Brothers and Sisters, that is the Word of the Lord to all of us today! We all need to hear His heart beat, and then walk in that beat! We must learn to discern one another by the Spirit!

Eli was a deeply pious man, but he was a lax or careless father who had absolutely no control over his two sons. Eli refused to restrain his sons, but instead pampered them. His weak warning to his sons was no substitute for definite discipline. The Lord, through a nameless, faceless man of God, pronounced divine judgment on Eli, and his whole household, because of his failure to discipline his sons.

Phinehas and Hophni were selfish, to say the least. They disgraced their priestly office. They put their own desires ahead of the Word of God, and the needs of the people. They had no respect for the Lord, or for their duties as priests. They were overbearing! They were lustful, seducing young women at the entrance of the Tabernacle! Their sin was very serious in the Lord’s sight, for they also treated the Lord’s offerings with contempt. The Scriptures tell us that the Lord looks upon the offerings of His people as precious! They are to be handled with care.

What I am going to say now might seem harsh, but know this: What the Lord tells me to write or speak, I will write or speak! He has called me as a Watchman, a scribe, and a mouthpiece! He told me many years ago, if I do not write or speak what He gives me to write or speak, He will bring judgment upon me without any warning whatsoever. I have always heeded that warning, for I’ve seen His judgment fall upon others. I choose to walk in the blessings of God, not under His curse. I do not want anyone else’s blood on my hands either. It is my desire to see everyone out from under the curse, and walking in the blessings of God.  That is certainly His desire as well. He is moving at this time to bring conviction and repentance first to the leadership of the Church, and then to those in the assemblies. He said that He will continue to shake, scourge and burn! “I AM coming like a whirlwind across the land, and nothing will be left untouched. No one will be left out! All will have to make a decision for or against Me!”

The Lord is saying that the Church is unclean! The Church is carnal! There is about to be a great uncovering of sin! It will all be exposed! The days of Ananias and Sapphira are returning. Let all false prophets take heed! Let all ministers of the Gospel take a good hard look at what happened to Eli! We will see ministers drop dead behind pulpits!

The Lord is uncovering homosexuality and lesbianism in the Church, and there is more of it than you can imagine, even among leadership. He is uncovering all immorality in general. There are pastors who know that there are individuals and couples living in sin in their congregations, but they don’t even weep over the sin. There are couples on ministry teams in the Church who are living in sin, the pastor knows it but permits it. The Lord is saying, “All fornication and adultery, sexual sins in general, will be judged! I have seen enough!”

The Lord is uncovering the greed and marketing in the Church. Also the way the offerings of the people are being handled. He is dealing with all pride, arrogance, false motives, pretense, hypocracy, self will and selfish ambition. He said that they look out for only themselves!

 He said the god of entertainment and showboating has taken the place of true worship. And the competition, jealousy, manipulation, intimidation and control are a stench to His nostrils. He is saying to many pastors, “Let My people go! They are My sheep! Stop pointing them to yourself! Point them to Me! It is My House, not your House! I AM head over My House!  I AM weary of hearing Christians say I belong to _______ Church, when in truth they belong to Me, for they were purchased with My Blood!”

He went on to say that there is no fear of God in the Church!  He, His Name, and His Word are not really reverenced as they should be. The women that He Himself has raised up, anointed and sent out are not treated as they should be. “My Word shall be carried forth by men and women alike! There is to be no distinction!”

Recently I have had four different people, all within the Religious System, write me to say that I should not say these things! I should cover the sins He points out to me! However, the Lord is saying that the Church is in the mess that it is in because of the hidden, covered up sins all these years. It is a mess because the people have only heard about the love of God, and nothing of the justice and judgment of God. And because of that we have seen how many women and children sexually abused in the Church. We have seen how many brothers and sisters hurt by the Church, and end up walking away from the Lord because of it. We have seen how many scandals in the Church, all of which profaned the Name of the Lord. I could go on and on, but the Lord said to tell everyone, “2005 will see My judgments in all the earth! The whole world will know that I AM God, and I AM the God of Israel, and there is no God like unto Me!” 

“I will right the wrongs that have been allowed in My House! I will bring the correction that is long overdue!”

He went on to say, “My judgments will cause a mighty influx of souls to come in to My Kingdom. As I continue to bring My judgments, you will see signs and wonders as you have never seen before.”

“Yes, 2005 will be the year that I raise up My chosen ones! Those who will teach My ways in Truth will be sent forth! They will not go forth with the dead doctrines of man either, but with My Living Words of Life! I AM raising up a new breed of shepherds who will show the way! They will lead and prepare My people! They will teach My people the difference between the holy and profane. Yes, My servants of humility and love will replace those who have been unfaithful”  

Through the years I cannot tell you how many times I have been invited to speak to a congregation and when I arrive I am immediately pulled aside and told not to mention the word repentance! I’m told not to mention the Holy Spirit! I’m told not to even speak of sin, but to preach something light hearted. So let me say here and now, if you do not want to hear what the Lord has put upon my heart, then do not invite me to speak to your congregation. I am not a man pleaser, but strictly a God pleaser. I can speak only what He allows me to speak! Nothing more and nothing less!

The Lord said, “The lost are dying under unimaginable circumstances, but this is not shaking up those who are nice and comfortable! It is not changing the “feel good” messages coming from many pulpits either. I will bring a refreshing to the Body of Messiah, and cause the ministers to be consumed with a burden for souls, if you will pray it in!” 

“Call for the wailing women! Call for the men who know how to war in My way! Let the ministers weep between the porch and the altar for the souls of this world who are lost in darkness. My heart is not willing that any should perish!”

Brothers and sisters, fear God and give Him glory because the hour of His judgments are come!

WORSHIP HIM!

“I AM your Bastion of Hope! I AM Hope that endures forever! I AM the eternal Hope of mankind! Good and evil falls upon both the righteous and the wicked! But those who Hope in their God will never be put to shame! They have an eternal promise and reason for being! You are only strangers here! Your home is in Heaven! I AM a mighty God and you are My children! So do not forsake the Hope that lies within you! Know that no matter what comes, I AM with you! I AM Emanuel! I AM always with you! I will never leave you nor forsake you!”  He truly is our only Hope, Church!

WORSHIP HIM!

About Women in Ministry

“The Lord would say that because the men have blocked and locked out the women from ministering in their anointing and callings, My Daughters of Destiny” have been raised up in this last hour and yes, they will have the anointing and compassion to set others free … to release them from their heavy yokes. Because they have borne their yoke of oppression with patience and a right attitude, I AM now breaking their yokes by My Anointing.

“Those men whom I have called will either recognize this and repent and come along side of them, or they will harden their hearts even more, and a thick darkness will come upon them with bitterness and evil thought. Their candlestick will be removed. Yes, the reaping has begun, and many have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. What little they have will be taken away, and given to the servants, who even while in bondage, did manage to produce fruit.

“Fret not for the judgments that are falling around you, for they were given warning and a space to repent. As I told the young man who wanted to first go and bury his mother and father … “let the dead bury the dead.” But you, who have life within you, go and be fruitful and multiply, for truly the harvest that is coming is great, and I need laborers for the days ahead. Those who were first shall be last, and those who are last shall be first.”     

“Every tongue that rises up against you and My Daughters of Destiny will become a curse upon themselves. There will be a great separation between those of the Light, and those who are given over to “delusion.” Trust Me to protect you and to cause My Words to go forth in power and in authority. I will watch over My Word to perform it. Remember Ananias and his wife. Many will reap what they have sown, and the fear of the Lord will be re-established in the earth as My servants proclaim the message I give them by My Spirit. Many, many man made church buildings will have ICHABOD written over them. Let the dead bury their dead, and seek not the living among the dead.”

This Word from the Lord was sent to me by Mona McReynolds as I came in from a lengthy road trip, and I am grateful for her obedience in sending it along. Thank you so much, Mona!

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I want to take just a moment to say that I network with many dear Pastors, Prophets, and Apostles, both men and women, who love the Lord will all their heart. They truly are sons and daughters of Zadok. Sons and Daughters of righteousness, if you will. They weep for the Church, as well as the lost. They embrace Truth in His House. They are feeding and equipping His people. They are harvesters! They are preparing! They are worshippers, lifting high His Holy Name! They walk in the favor of God! They are part of His Remnant! They shall be greatly used in these End Times. How I thank God for them, and pray that the dear Lord will multiply them.

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Thank you for all of the lovely cards and letters I have been receiving. They speak strength and encouragement, and for that I am so grateful! Thank you, too, for all of your prayers and financial support. Together we have surely been making a tremendous difference both here and in Israel. Shalom.