It is time to pick yourself up and dust yourselves off and see where I am taking you. Quit fighting Me. Quit seeing all the bad that needs to be changed and just let it be done. As you focus on Me and what I am doing with you, the pruning, cutting, and the removing will not be so hard. You will be able to have peace and see that there is hope to be purified and that I can use you as long as you yield and surrender and continue to move forward.

Do not allow the enemy to play tricks with you with My Words. Do not allow the enemy to have a foothold with discouragement or place an oppression of failure around you. Remember I chastise those who I love and you have asked Me to keep My hands heavy on you so that you do not fall. I have taken those words seriously that you have spoken and I am using them to keep you.

So look up this day and know that I am moving and bringing great things in your life and all you have to do is yield and see that I am in full control. You also need to see that no one is unstoppable or unable to fall. Do not get cocky and arrogant when I use you and do not underestimate your opponent. Always be looking to Me and letting Me have the lead and you will not have to worry about opening the door to the enemy.

I love you and I want you to dust yourself off today. I want you to see the errors of your ways so that I can bring you higher and higher in Me and that nothing will stop you from all that I am bringing you to do because you will be at the place to see that without Me you can do nothing. But you will also enjoy being with Me and seeing all things are possible.

“Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.” (Romans 8:8)

“Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.” (Luke 17:33)

“Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” (Matthew 16:24)

“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” (Matthew 6:33)

“Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.” (Romans 13:14)

“Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.” (1 Peter 2:11)

“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world–the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does–comes not from the Father but from the world.” (1 John 2:15-16)