Pastor, our meeting today was definitely ordained by God. It was a joy to behold your love and zeal in serving Jesus Christ, our Lord!  If you will receive it, I would like to share some of what God has laid upon my heart, hoping that it will edify and encourage you in your walk to follow His will, knowing that in ministry you are usually doing the giving and at times need someone to speak into your life and build you up to fight the good fight and endure.

First off, It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter (Pr.25:2). And, The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant(Ps.25:14).
 
We know that God doesn't reveal everything in the divine mystery of Jesus Christ to everyone, But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (1 Cor.2:10-14).

The things of the Spirit of God are spiritually discerned, they seem absolutely foolish to the natural mind of man. Jesus encountered this when, From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him (Jn. 6:66). Why did these disciples leave and become offended? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you (JN. 6:53). He had told them something that they could not understand with the natural mind. They rejected Him and left from following Him only to reveal that they were in the natural and couldn't understand spiritual things. When He questioned them about their murmuring, he also gave a clear revelation about His words; It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life (Jn. 6:63). God's words are primarily understood as Spirit words. God is a Spirit.

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath (Mar. 4:23-25). It takes the revelation of the Spirit of God to understand His word. We must hear what the Spirit of God is saying; for the flesh profits nothing. Man's ways are not God's ways. The carnal leadership of Jesus' day rejected Him because they couldn't control Him. He operated by the Spirit and was not under the bondage of their law. For this He was crucified!

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now (Gal. 4:29). Please know dear brother, that all ministry in the new covenant is done by the Spirit of God. All ministry that is done in the flesh or preaching that is done with a carnal understanding of the Word profits nothing and actually kills and brings forth death in them that hear it. Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life (2 Cor. 3:6).

Please don't receive this as judgmental or condemning in any way for that is not the intent nor the spirit of this letter. I want to be an encouragement to you to seek the Lord for a fresh and new revelation of Himself; to seek the Lord for clarity concerning His purpose and will for your life and ministry. Now is the time! I sense that you are at a crossroads, a deciding point; one that will affect the rest of your life and ministry. I believe that God wants to furnish you with something fresh from His Word.

For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ (1 Cor. 3:11). And, Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain (Ps. 127:1). God wants to give you something fresh that will give stability for the times that are ahead; some revelation that will endure through the storms and the testing fires for the days ahead; for Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is (1 Cor. 3:13).

Oh, dear brother, with all the love of Jesus Christ in my heart I write to you to be absolutely clear about God's direction and will for your life. Now is the time! Now is the time to seek Him for every move before you make it. Can you hear? Can you hear the Spirit of God call unto you? He has something fresh for you! I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches (Rev. 3:18-22).

Repent... What does it mean? RE = to do again, PENT = to confine or constrain - where we get the expression "pent up emotionally" or " pensive in thought". So, the word repent has the meaning of "again confining yourself". Or "to confine yourself again". Confine myself again to what? Confine or constrain myself again to the Word of the Living God, Jesus Christ! Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away (Matt 24:35). Brother, I want to encourage you to confine yourself to the Word of God, and the Spirit of God. All the doctrine and traditions of men are a lie. They will not endure. The Spirit of Life in Jesus Christ, which is revealed through the written Word, is all we can trust and is the only Life that will endure.

Isa 55:6-11 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.


                                                                               Love, In Jesus Christ