My children, as sounds of destruction and despair blast around you and linger in the atmosphere, you must be able to still praise Me and hold onto your hope. This is what is getting ready to happen My little ones. Life as you know it is very short and it is going to change very quickly and swiftly, like a thief in the night. The question I have for you today is will you go down with the destruction and judgment that is passed or will you stay standing, praising Me, and stay steadfast to what I have promised you?

As the Israelites waited to be released from the slavery and imprisonment of Egypt, they had to watch the destruction come to Egypt until the Pharaoh obeyed what I had requested and commanded of them. Those who followed and obeyed the Pharaoh were punished because they disobeyed Me in the loyalty to his sin and his commands. My children had to rely on Me to fulfill My promise and My word that I would pull them through it and they would receive what I had promised them. They had to trust that I would get them there and not conform to the world that they knew.

You are also going to have to be at that place of seeing what is going on, knowing that I am in full control. I will be able to protect you, and bring to pass all that I said. But know this you must follow My instructions and not the ones of the world. You must not go the way of “Egypt”. You must be able to stay strong and be of good courage as these things come to pass. You must be able to keep your life in order and be able to follow every direction that I give you at any second at any time. You must not turn back or you too will receive the destruction that is taking place.

You must get into the place where you shall abide in My shadow and be in My secret place and dwell in My shelter. You must know who I am and what I am doing. You need to get before Me and seek Me. You must lay down those vain imaginations of things that only your human mind can comprehend and come into the heavenlies so I can really show you what is going on in the supernatural, spiritual realm. Man cannot comprehend what I am doing. You must be walking in the spirit to be able to rise above and understand all things as they unfold. You must be there so that you know the truth and are not blinded by the enemy or the deceitfulness of the world.

Understand the enemy is throwing ever tactic he can your way to get you to fall so that you cannot stay in My protection during this time. Stand My little ones, Stand. Do not give up. Press on and press forward in Me. I am doing so many new things and so many more new things are to come. I am changing and rearranging the things that you once knew. You will see the light and the truth and they will not be what you thought. You will be able to see it for what it is and rise above it. You will be able to walk in newness, go with My flow and stay in My arms where you belong.

There is destruction, devastation, and deconstruction about to take place. I am bringing the world to its knees and stripping it naked to bring the people to the place where they can see the error of their ways. It will either bring them to repentance or they will turn their backs completely. That decision will find them in the place of not having Me and not being able to return. I have told My children these days would come and you are only feeling the beginning, the brush of the storm that is about to take place. You are just feeling the breeze of the wind that is about to hit before the real heavy stuff comes in. Then there will be a peace but it will not be over, because just like a hurricane you must go though both sides for it to be totally over. When the storm is over change shall surely begin to take place. Many will know that I am the one true God and a move of My Spirit will sweep the land and hope will be restored for a time and celebration will break out. A move of My Spirit will surely take place before the end comes and the enemy will know he is no match for Me or My children. You shall surely see My hand at work from the beginning, through the middle and right up until the end of this storm and it shall not stop there.

Hold on My little ones, hold on. Get yourself prepared for the storm. Come and know who I am for your self. Get your places and yourself marked for Me and know what tools that you will have to use to survive. Know what I have promised you and build yourself in Me as strong as you can. Learn how to walk in and understand My spirit. Know where your protection lies in Me, and just hold on. And as you do this never lose your praises to Me. Your praise will see you through the darkness and will keep your strong. It is in the praises little ones. You must learn to cut loose and just praise Me. Just as David learned to praise Me, you must praise Me now so that you can continue to praise Me through this storm.

Take heed to My warning today and My instructions to you. There are not many days left before the real winds begin to blow on the world. Hold onto My hand and I shall bring forth My promises through it all, but keep your eyes on Me and not what you see for what you see is for the destruction and repentance of “Egypt” for what they have done to My children and to Me. Do not fall into “Egypt”, but stay ever so close to Me, Praise Me, and know that I am keeping you safe and no harm shall come to you. Get prepared little ones, get prepared.

Exodus 12:23-27 (NIV) 23 When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.24 Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants. 25 When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. 26 And when your children ask you, What does this ceremony mean to you? 27 then tell them, It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians. Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

Exodus 15:12-13 (NIV) 12 You stretch out your right hand, and the earth swallows your enemies. 13 In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling.

Psalm 91:1-2 (NIV) 1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

Hebrews 13:15 (NIV) 15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.

1 Corinthians 2:14 (NIV) 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

Isaiah 43:2 (NIV) 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.”

2 Corinthians 12:9-10(NIV) 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.