The storms are raging. The battles are intensifying, but My love prevails. You must not lose focus. You must not allow the enemy to take you out of My hands or lose your footing in Me. Do not look at the storm, but look up to Me. Grab My hand and know that I am leading you through it.

You need to know that I am right here with you. I have not left you and I am not going to abandon you. I am always here.

It is time to stand. Quit complaining and start rejoicing. Quit finding excuses and just praise Me. How many times do you want to continue to go around the same mountain and go through the same type of storms before you finally buck down and do what I have asked you to do and to learn?

The breakthroughs are there, all you have to do is reach out and take them. My promises are coming all you have to do is rejoice knowing they are on their way. Every weapon and tool is there for you to use to fight the battles and to weather the storm, use them. Quit allowing the enemy to cause you to fall into the valley of despair. Quit allowing the enemy to take you down the road of “I have to understand”. You need to reach up and just trust Me that I am here and in control. All you are required to do is what I have asked. If you do not remember it all, look in My word. Reach out and see that everything is worth it all.

See that you are not alone. I do not send My soldiers out to battle alone to be ambushed and set up. I send My soldiers out together. I put together those that will strengthen one another. You were not put together to tear down. Quit fighting amongst yourselves and fight together the enemy that keeps attacking. When you find yourself completely alone you know that it is not of Me. I have given you angels to assist you in each and every task that you face. I have taught you how to use them and I will continue to teach you as you use them.

Many of you do not want to do the extra work it takes to do what I am asking in this hour. Step out of your footprints of lethargy and just do it. Leave all the complaints and excuses behind. All they are doing is destroying the purity that is in your heart. It is robbing you from entering into the level that I am taking you into.

You need to realize that you have been swallowing the meat that I have been giving you whole instead of chewing it up so it could be digested properly. You take what I give you and practice it a few days and then let it wither and fade away. This is not what you are to be doing with what I have been giving you. I want you to really learn and gain the wisdom and knowledge that I have been giving you. I want you to be able to hold onto it and really allow it to go down deep into your spirit. I want it to become a part of you so that the enemy can no longer take it from you.

Open your eyes and see the truth today. Let go of what you cannot change. Let go of the ‘ifs, ands, buts, whys, and hows’. Let go of the ‘shoulds, coulds, and woulds’. Let Me show you what is really going on and not what your human eyes see. But be very careful in asking this because there will be times that the information I give you will be hard to digest and see. You need to keep your eyes on Me and not man.

Every man has flaws. If you keep your eyes upon Me, their flaws will not affect you in your walk with me. You will see the truth and just pray for them. You will not judge them, ridicule them, and hold things against them. But you must first fix your eyes upon Me.

You must quit allowing the storms and battles to blow you off course and instead keep your eyes upon Me and know that there is a designation, a goal to where you are headed. I am your compass, your guide, your map, and I know every route that will get you there.

Take My hand today. Let go of all the things that you hold onto that is not yours to carry. Give them to Me. Put your eyes upon Me and let’s do great things together. Chew the meat that I am giving you and allow the maximum amount of My wisdom and knowledge to take place in your life and watch what will take place.

The battles and storms will not seem so intense and they will strengthen you and not weaken you. I am right here, pulling you up to stand firm knowing I am fighting with you. I have sent reinforcements to get you through each and every thing you face. Do not look at what you cannot change but only to those things I have asked you to do. Quit trying to please man.

Only look to please Me, your Father, the maker of the Heavens and Earth, and the Maker of you. I love you My children. I am never more than a whisper away. Grab My hand today and let’s get back up and push through.

“He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.” (Psalm 40:3, NIV)

“After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the LORD and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying: “Give thanks to the LORD, for his love endures forever.” As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.” (2 Chronicles 20:21-22)

“Then, led by Jehoshaphat, all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD had given them cause to rejoice over their enemies.” (2 Chronicles 20:27)

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”(2 Timothy 3:16-17)

“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Ephesians 2:10)

“Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed–not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence–continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life–in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing.” (Philippians 2:12-16)