I knew in the beginning of this year and I had an urgency in my spirit that I had to get my body prepared for the difficult days ahead.  I knew that the physical body had to get well and be strong to live through these final days to help others because this is the “Harvest Time.”

Heaven forbid that the “Harvest Time” becomes a cliché to God’s people.

God chose me, and He chose you to occupy this earth and to work the harvest fields in the very last days and hours before the end of this age. We are not here by happenstance. That’s a hard thing for most people to realize and completely comprehend – and what’s even harder is to grab a hold of the very thing God ordained for you to do before the foundations of the world in this season!

Some people have lost the vision of their life’s purpose, or have given up because of the hardships and spiritual warfare that have been leveled at them in an effort to abort the very reason God created them. Some are so pushed down and “capped up” that what God has worked in them, and the deep wells He has dug in their spirits through the trials of life, are like geysers building up pressure but unable to break through and spring up.

I want to encourage you all to hang on to your calling – hang on to your purpose that you know God called you for – for God is re-digging those wells and there will come forth a river of Living Water that will never run dry!

Remember the joy that you had years ago when God placed a vision in your heart to do something grand for His Kingdom. Remember the passion that springs up from spiritual wells that are deep within you. Forgive yourself and others and don’t allow condemnation to paralyze you. Today is a new day and yesterday is gone forever.

Never forget that your God is on your side! He will help you – and He has not given you any illusions! If you have a vision of working for the Lord, it was given by God because the devil wouldn’t put it there! And if you really want to see things happen in your life, do something for someone else… that’s the way the Kingdom works. What you do for others, God will make happen for you!

I know that I’m not alone in this thinking. There are so many of my friends and family that I’m hearing from who are getting down to business when it comes to their health and other things they need to accomplish before things come apart. Why is it that we spend so much of our time, and our lives really, putting off things that are important because they are uncomfortable or difficult? It’s a tendency for most of us to procrastinate until there is no more time!

I’m so thankful for friends like John Shorey who are wise and who inspire others, including Jim and I, to be wise and to prepare ahead of time for things that are surely coming. The Body of Christ needs to hear more from people like John instead of heaping up those teachers and preachers who say comfortable things (2 Timothy 4:3); things that they want to hear instead of things that they need to hear!

It’s a beautiful time to be chosen to be alive on the face of this earth. God chose you; He chose me at this time of history. Don’t let anything hold back the deep wells of God’s spirit within you. Remember all the times He has been faithful and then spread that faith like an anointing oil over those you come in contact with.

God chose you and nothing that the devil throws at you will change that. I want to encourage you to dream again! Don’t let the devil steal your dreams! Straighten your back and lift up your head – for the Lord is on your side!

Love,