My children, it is time again to really search your hearts and your walk with Me. So many of you, My children, are struggling just to follow Me in the situations and circumstances that you are facing in this time and season. So many of you are giving misery the upper hand and allowing it to consume you. You are allowing the little persecution that you are going through to destroy you and your walk in Me. What happened to My strong soldiers? What happened to the “I will follow you no matter the cost” servants? What has happened to the determination of My faithful children to follow the leading and guidance from Me without questions asked? If you cannot stand the pressures and persecution you are under now, you are far from being ready for what I have warned you is coming. You must rise above what you are going through and you must start walking in My fullness of the things I have given you to walk in if you are going to make it.

The enemy is working overtime on you, My children. He is causing you much distraction and devastation to those around your life so that he does not just effect you but also others and causing the support system to be weakened. The enemy knows that if he can keep these support groups from coming together and causing much destruction to them individually. Then he can stop them from fighting him in the power and authority that I have given in the unity of those who come together in My name. You need to really open your spiritual eyes and see what the enemy is really doing to you, My children. You must wise up to what the enemy is really doing. You must get your eyes off of yourselves and focus on Me and allow Me to show you what is really going on. You must walk in all My ways and walk out your salvation on a daily basis. You must not take Me for granted and disrespect Me or My ways or My servants. You must get your acts together and see that there is more to it than what is happening to you. Get out of your self-pity and selfishness. Get out of the mindsets that all is lost and that you have to let the enemy have his way in your life.

You must get back the fire and desire to follow Me. You must get back the fire to want to see others come to the cross and follow Me. You must get back the praise in your heart and the songs flowing from your lips once again. You have quit praising Me, My children. You have become like the Israelite children and become complainers and being only about yourselves. Do not be like them. Get back the love and praise in your hearts and in your lives. Become the strong and mighty warriors and servants that I have called you to be.

Do not miss the promise land, My children. Do not let it become corrupt and tainted with sin. For the promise land is to be holy and pure and full of My glory. Your promise land is to give Me the honor and glory and to be used for My kingdom. Your promise land is the blessings and promises that I have to give you. Do not let it fade away and not come to pass. Do not allow the enemy to take this from you too.

The persecution and devastation that is coming is going to be so much greater than what you are going through right now. The things that you have been going through up to this point have been to prepare you for knowing what to do and how to handle what is coming. Most of you, My children, are failing miserably. You allow the enemy to steal, steal, and steal some more. When are you going to use the tools that I have given you and taught you against him? When are you going to say enough is enough and do something about it? When are you going to tell him that no matter what you are going to be about your father’s work? Rise above and come into the heavenlies with Me, so that you can do these things. You do not have to do this alone. I have angels waiting, watching, and prepared for you to call on them and put them on an assignment. I am here ready to direct, guide, and be right by your side to see you through victory, after victory, after victory. The enemy can only have as much power as you will allow him to have over you and how you allow it to affect your life.

You must walk into this, My children. You must get it right. There is no more time to waiver or dwell in self-pity. There is no more time to allow the enemy to pull you away even for a second. It is time to man up and become the children I have called you to be. It is time to walk in My strength and in the ways that I would have you to go and to walk in My fullness. It is time to get yourselves prepared that even if you were being beaten and tortured and in prison for My sake that you would still worship Me and praise Me and be about My business. That even if these things were happening to you that you would not have your eyes on the situation and the pain, but on Me and the fact that you are still mine. Search your hearts and walks with Me. Get yourselves right and lined up with Me. Get your hearts in the place that they need to be. I desire to use My children in this hour and dispensation, but I cannot do this the way that you are. It is time for drastic changes and new life styles. Do not delay today. It is time for great repentance and determination to get it right. Do not allow the door of grace to be shut on you. Heed Me today and get into the place that I have told you to be in. No more wasting precious time!

1 Corinthians 10:10-11 (NIV)
10 And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.
11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Psalm 135:14 (NIV)
14 For the Lord will vindicate his people
and have compassion on his servants.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NIV)
18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Psalm 91:11 (NIV)
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;

Psalm 34:7 (NIV)
7 The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him,
and he delivers them.

Psalm 95:1-11 (NIV)
1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and extol him with music and song.
3 For the Lord is the great God,
the great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5 The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
7 for he is our God
and we are the people of his pasture,
the flock under his care.
Today, if only you would hear his voice,
8 “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 where your ancestors tested me;
they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’”