After burying my soon to be 21 year old dog today, I sat with The LORD, still crying.

He spoke very softly to me, “My daughter, everything happens for a reason and I answered your Prayer that I would take him when it was ‘his time’ and you would not have to ‘put him down’ and I heard your heart and answered your Payer.  He is at peace.”

I will always cherish Nikki’s unconditional love that God blessed me with for over 20 years.

I start crying again every time I remember the day I got him and God chose him for me.

“Many unexpected things are on the horizon.

Do you remember when I said to you about six months ago to ‘make yourself ready for what is coming’?

Change is here in many areas.

Many good changes shall bring healing love to some recent bad changes.

I AM revealing many betrayals and exposing many lies that have caused so many to be drowning in despair.

So, be sure to stop and check your heart often before making any change or moving in a new direction,” says The LORD of all.

“It is preparation time for the prophesied moments of the outpouring of My Spirit.

I AM visiting many who are calling on Me for restoration and reconciliation, who are also harboring resentment and anger and desiring to get revenge.

Reconciliation is difficult and costly for both the offended and the offender.

Even when the offended forgives or cancels the debt by not bringing judgment or desiring to end the relationship, there is a cost to pay.

The cost for the offended one is in withholding judgment and being willing to offer the possibility of a true restoration of the relationship.

But the cost for the offender is Repentance.

In many cases, both must change their heart and repent,” says The LORD.

“I AM filling willing hearts with bold love for it is a taste of my eternal Hope for all. 

So Love well and send it to others who are hungry for real Love.”

As I thought about this and how prevalent it is in our world, I was reminded of what Jesus said in Luke 17:

‘So watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you, and says, “I repent”, forgive him.”   Luke 17:3-4.

As I meditated on the whole chapter, I realized, many times we do not like what someone says, and harbor it in our heart, but seldom see it as an offense when it really is.

I have told the story many times of how Jesus taught me forgiveness has nothing to do with feelings.

It must begin as an act of obedience to The LORD, and little by little your walk it out every time you see that person and soon your realize, you no longer remember the offense.

The LORD said to me,  “A true forgiving heart hungers for Redemption, even if the person continues to do the same type of things that offended you.

Godly forgiveness bypasses our soulish emotions.

It always hungers for the relationship to be restored to Godly goodness.”

I always stop and think about Jesus last words as he went to The Cross,

“Father, for give them for they know not what they do.”  Luke 23:34.

In this past season in intercession, I have found myself seeing that picture of Jesus as I prayed for some people who were filled with anger and resentment.

We must seek God’s Mercy and Grace as we embrace true Forgiveness.

Beloved, always pause and remember Paul’s words in Romans 12, where he said without equivocation,

“Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written, ‘It is mine to avenge: I will repay,’ says The LORD.”   Romans 12:19.

May you go forth in Holy boldness being a picture of His Love, even in the atmosphere of critical voices and pointing the finger from those who are caught up in offense and judgment.

“I AM raising up a true Army of The LORD to encourage those who have been flooded in the natural to the point of drowning and flooded in The Spirit with sudden breakthroughs they have waited for.

The desired breakthroughs in the midst of devastation in the world are on the heels of many betrayals and changes you never saw coming!“

The LORD then began to instruct me for my immediate direction…

• I DECLARE to you that you are on the fringe of a massive Breaker Anointing that will bring Restoration and Encouragement to victims of the massive flood damage throughout your land.
• I DECLARE you are being made ready to be a picture of the Father’s Heart in the midst of great devastation.  You shall bring healing love to the wounded and devastated in this hour.
• I DECLARE I AM sending you forth to let My Light shine in the dark despair taking place in the world.   You shall pave the way for the end-time revival that I have promised for this time.
• I DECLARE it is time to stop and check your heart.  It is time to be honest with yourself regarding what is in your heart.   Ask of Me and I will show you your heart that you be cleansed of all unrighteousness.
• I DECLARE it is the now time for you to allow The Holy Spirit to take the lead for you are facing many winds of change.  I AM filling you with courage to follow hard after His lead and listen to His voice of wisdom.”

As He spoke to me, I found myself in a time to agree with Him quickly and DECREE to Him what I must do to be obedient to His Declarations to me.

I said, “Thank you LORD!”

• I DECREE that I see myself as The LORD sees me.  I have been delivered from the spirit of deception.  I will not walk in the pride of my heart.  I will walk in humility and grace.  I will follow hard after you.
• I DECREE that I have learned to be honest with myself and when I ask The LORD to show me my heart, I am asking Him to give me an honest heart.
• I DECREE that I am humbled and honored to be a called to carry His heart and I will endeavor to keep my heart with all diligence as I grow daily in the knowledge of what that truly means.
• I DECREE that as I ask The LORD to show me my heart, I will begin to take steps to ask Him to open up my heart to understand where I have had any blockage that kept me from understanding or moving forward in obedience to His plan and vision for me.
• I DECLARE that everything is becoming clear and I can focus and move forward when The LORD says Now, come and Follow me.
• I DECLARE that my house is built on the solid ROCK. I shall not be moved.
• I DECLARE that The LORD is my advocate and I run to HIM, pouring out my heart with all diligence, trusting HIM to cleanse and heal and restore me in every area of my need.

Prayer

Holy God, I say you alone are worthy of all my Worship, the Devotion of my heart, all my Trust, all my Praise and all the Glory of my life.

I give myself to you totally.

You alone are LIFE and you have become my LIFE.

You are my true FATHER, my redeemer, my true FRIEND and the true end of all things.

I love You.  I trust You.  I worship You.  I give myself totally to You.

Jesus, thank you for coming to ransom me with your own life.

I give myself over to you completely.

I am forever grateful for the blood you shed for me for my cleansing and healing.

I am so thankful for The Cross and your sacrifice for me through which all my sins are atoned for and removed.

Jesus, I receive you as my life, and I triumph in your resurrection, through which you have conquered sin death, judgment and the evil one.

Thank you that I reign in life through your life.

With great gratitude, I receive your hope, love, faith, joy, goodness, wisdom, power, and strength afresh today in Your Mighty Name!

“A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.”    Proverbs 16:18-19 NKJV.

 

~ Sandi Holman

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Sandi Holman of Matters of the Heart website was called to The Nations as an End-Time Handmaiden in 1984 and served on staff with YWAM Singapore and YWAM Charlotte in missions.  She later experienced a Divine Encounter with The LORD when He came into her Prayer Room and said, “I have come to put a sword in your hand and was given special instructions on how and when to use it.”  Sandi is now an Author, Prophetic Intercessor, Seer, Chaplain, Teacher, Speaker, Counselor, Blogger who has also served as an Online Pastor and an Interim Pastor for a Mennonite Church.

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