Message From My Father

Oh beloved, you cannot in this season look to the temporal. You dare not in this hour focus on those things that presently surround you. For even as it is in the circumstances of this Earth that seem at present so fruitless-and even as the branches in your life seem to be bare and without bud-surely I would tell you that all things around you and outside you, your finances, your work environment, your ministry, your Church situation-and child, even that which you call impossible, even that which no one knows or guesses nor could imagine...

I tell you, I am He who walks with you, I am He who is beside you in the midnight hour as much as in the light of the noonday sun. I am He who has seen and who has heard all that you have secretly within your heart and that which your heart has broken over. For I am the God of the secret places in your heart and I alone have seen the tears fall over that which no one guessed, not even those closest to you.

And when you had no strength to bear those secret things, so you found strenth in Me. And when you had no reason to carry on, you found meaning and reason in Me. And so beloved, this day I implore you-look up beyond this temporal life to that which is eternal-to that which shall be written in the great and marvellous Book of Life. And seek to be counted in the pages of this wonder. For surely on that great day when the Books are opened and My Father Himself would wipe every tear from your eye and the old order is passed away and all mourning is finished and My Kingdom is come in all its glory-on that day beloved-all that is built on the sands of temporal and earthly things shall be burned up even in a moment as a vapour. But that which you have done for Me, when you felt that you had no strength, shall be recorded. And that which you did for another-where there was no gain, but you did in My place on My behalf and in My Name-this shall be recorded.

All your tears weeping for a lost generation, all your prayers seen only in the secret place, all the wounds of battle within this presen Church age...the scars and the aching of heart and the souls that were saved for My sake...and My Gospel that you preached faithfully and unstintingly, even when you were bare and dry, yet you faithfully proclaimed...this shall be recorded.

And the poor that you helped and the bowed down that you raised up...and the men and women that you took time for and discipled...and the encouraging words you gave even when no one encouraged you...Oh yes My child, these are the things of your life that shall be written in the Book of Life.