Have I not asked you, being a body from the very beginning, to bring forth that in the earth which I have laid My hand on you to bring forth? says the Spirit of Grace. And I caution you again and encourage you again and solicit from you again, as My dear children, to bring Me gold tried by fire, says the Spirit of Grace. And I do not speak specifically of the trying of fire by testings and trials of which your faith will often be, but I am asking you to come and complete the purging process, says the Spirit of Grace.
Do not trade your gold for brass. Do not trade your gold for brass, for have I not asked you? Have I not selected you? Have not I cautioned you that I have not selected you above others – that you would go in a way of pride or arrogance? Yet I have given you a calling that no one can achieve in the earth except through prayer and except through fasting, says the Spirit of Grace, except through going into My Word and the things of depth and promise.
Have I not given you a mandate from the very beginning? says the Spirit of Grace, and I have gathered your hearts and souls here as one to bring forth that mandate of prayer, says the Spirit of the Lord. Go into Me like you never have – determined in this year to come that you will make this a place of prayer inside of you like you have never known.
Many will grab you by the shoulder and by the arm and say, “Come do this with me.” The natural tendency will be to show your love to them and to show your allegiance to Me, says the Lord, that you would involve yourself in this and that and the other, but I say unto you as a church, and I say unto you as elders, and I say unto you believers, that what I have laid My hand on you for, as kings and priests, is to go into the prayer closet.
Many will reason, and your natural mind will reason, and Satan will come and say, “I’ve called you to the streets, and I’ve called you to feed the poor, and I’ve called you to do all these things.” And yes, in Me I will bring those things to pass, but it will not be through an operation of the flesh like most of the Church knows. But I will bring forth in you an exact replica of My Firstborn, the One who walked in front of you. Yes, He fed the poor, and yes, He brought forth ministry everywhere He went. It was because He knew Me in a private place. It was because He continued to purge Himself continually and walk in a place of commitment to Me, says the Spirit of Grace.
I am asking you to narrow your vision like never before. I am asking you to zero-in like never before. I am calling you, says the Spirit of Grace, to become laser focused like never before. Busyness is not a sign. An over-busyness is not a sign unto you or a confirmation to you that great works are being done. And yet there will be times where you will be very busy doing My work, says the Lord.
Listen and hearken. I have few – I have very few who are willing to do this. I have very few who are willing to hide themselves in the secret place and go into My Word and go into My Spirit and to deny their flesh. The flesh will give you many opportunities to minister in My Name, and yet I will work a work there as much as I can, but I have a very select few who will hide themselves and bring forth the anointing that causes a citywide and a statewide revival, says the Spirit of the Lord.
So, I am asking you, kings and priest, I am asking you to come away with Me to a place that I have solicited from you for many, many years. And I am pleased with you, says the Spirit of Grace. I am not disheartened with you, but I am pleased with your effort so far, but I am asking you not to quench the Spirit – in not listening to these very words and reasoning them out in your own mind saying, “That is a man speaking; that’s a man speaking, but I hear from God.” Listen to these things; judge these things, says the Spirit of the Lord. Judge them by the Word.
Understand this, that I have called you aside. I have called you to be a peculiar people unto Me, says the Lord. I have called you to walk in the spirit and deny the flesh, and yet when you pray, you’ll move mountains, says the Lord. The earth has not seen people like you in many generations. I am asking you to come away with Me, My beloved. I am asking you to come away with Me, My beloved. Know Me in intimacy and know Me in My Word like you have never known before. Let your world that you live in become a place of peace and quietness.
I promise you by My Word and by My Spirit that none of you, including the one speaking now, have come into the place of peace and quiet like I have for you. There is a stillness that will direct your day. There is a stillness that will direct your life. There is a stillness that cannot hear the offense. Deafened ears cannot hear, and yet you will move out of a place of authority in My Spirit, continually moving mountains and moving things in your life. And yet ears are still dull of hearing, for many of you presently and many who will hear will think of other things and only hear this partially, but when you come to another place, you can hear it in more depth. And more depth will bring you to greater depth, says the Spirit of the Lord.
I say unto you that your entire life is to be consumed in Me, says the Lord. Give unto Me what brass and what silver cannot – I desire the fruit of the earth. I desire a great harvest, says the Spirit of the Lord. I desire that all of you walk in all the gifts of the Spirit, all the gifts of the Spirit flowing through you. I desire that Joel’s army, the army of the last day, will flow together. No weak and no sickly among you is My desire, for I have chosen you as a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people unto Me.
2 Timothy 2:20,21 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
Revelation 3:18 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.
Song of Songs 2:10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: