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Dear Survivor (A Prophetic Letter from the Lord)
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"Hiding Place"
Douglas Sands Christian Midi Collection
(1) I HAVE NOT COME TO DESTROY YOU
Dear Survivor,
Thank you for coming to meet me today. I have waited a long time to talk with you. You have skirted around the edges of your existence thinking about coming to meet me and wondering what would happen if you did. Would I hurt you like others have in days gone by? Would I cast you out? Would I look at you with anger? Dear one, know this, I am not here to cause you further pain, but to restore you to the place that you were meant to be all along. The process of restoration has begun the moment you came to sit with me, but you must be willing to open your heart to listen. You must be willing to hear the things that are not easy to hear and be willing to count them as a blessing and not a curse. I am most willing to change the course of your life if only you will spend time with me and learn the value of all that I am and apply that knowledge to your life. I have so much treasure to give you in the coming days. It is a treasure chest full of wisdom that will pull you up from the darkness of the past, that place that you think is too dark for anyone to change. It is the place that you even hide from yourself at times because it is so hard to think about. Rest assured that I am well aware of your pain. I have not come to destroy you but to build you up so that you can come to me with more and more ease and find joy in our time together.
Your Abba
(2) COME TO ME THROUGH MY SON
Dear Survivor,
Now that you have come to me, I would that you understand exactly what has kept us apart in the past so that it does not interfere again in the future. You see, dear one, you were born into sin, and that very sin keeps you from loving me and allowing me to heal you fully and perfectly. That is why I sent to you my very own Son, in the form of a man. He came into the world and the world received him not. They hung him upon a cross to die a terrible death in much agony. I allowed him to be the perfect sacrifice to pay for your sins. If you will but receive this into your heart and allow it to penetrate deeply you will know that it is true. My child, when you call to me I will answer you now because of this man's blood covering over the entryway of your heart. Even as you call out his name, Jesus, there is power in that name in the realm of the spirit. Do not fear, child, for in this way I am well able to conquer the forces that have been working against you for such a long time. You must first trust in My Son, and be willing to turn away from those things that you know to be wrong. Listen closely in your heart. You will know what things I am talking about. I will help you to understand. I will help you to turn away from wrong and do what is right. Yes, I have forgiven you and will cause you to walk a new way. My mercies are new each and every morning for you now. You will see. Watch and see, child.
Your Abba
(3) TAKING A BOLD, NEW STEP
Dear Survivor,
I see you taking a new and bold step away from things that you were so entrenched in, that were weighing you down with great fear. You have many questions that I long to answer. Sometimes you wish you could understand the answers to these questions all at once. If I were to answer you, you would not be able to comprehend yet. Some things, my child, take time. Are you willing to wait until I say it is time to discuss some of it? My hand of blessing is coming to you, but it will only come to you as you turn over each piece of yourself and your life to me. Please remember, my child, I cannot change what you do not allow Me to have. I understand your fears and worries. You are worried that I will betray you as you have been betrayed before. I am not a man, that I should speak lies to you. I am the One who holds all truth and am incapable of lies. I shall reveal truth to you one day at a time. When I speak to you, I shall not speak with condemnation for those days have long passed away. My Son has made that possible. I shall speak to you so that you will know truth and be set free by it. My heart beats wildly with anticipation of that day when you shall take into your heart what I know and be freed by it. For today, be aware that I am here to comfort you with My Presence. My Presence is manifested (made tangible) in your worship and praise of My Son's finished work on the cross that brought you to Me.
Your Abba
(4) MY MIND IS MADE UP!
Dear Survivor,
My mind is made up. I do not love you one minute and hate you the next. I have not stopped loving you when you cry. I have not ceased loving you when you are angry and afraid. My heart is set upon you for you are my child, so precious to my heart. Others have turned you away, I shall not. I long to comfort you in your times of agony and dispair. Even the tears that fall from your eyes shall not turn my heart from you in disgust. I am not ashamed of you, child. You are the apple of my eye, the joy of my heart. When you hurt, my heart breaks, but I allow you the space you desire, so that when you come to me it is by your own choice. I shall never manipulate you or force myself upon you. I long to comfort you and bring you peace in times of distress. My Word, the Bible, holds promises that come to pass when you believe them. Let faith arise in your heart so that I can pour into you that which time and time again has been drained out of you. Let my love transform your heart so that it can expand enough to hold what I have to offer you.
With tenderness,
Your Abba
(5) YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL TO ME!
Dear Survivor,
Have you looked at yourself lately? Even in the hardest of times, you are so beautiful! I see the inner workings of my Spirit moving within you. I see what I have created you to be. You are emerging like a butterfly from a cocoon. Your heart is made pure simply by trusting Me. I know that you do not see yourself the way I do. You see what others have spoken upon you. You feel the painful effects of these things and find it difficult to shake them off. I see what you are becoming, and it is what I have fashioned you to be from the very beginning of your life. Even though many have spoken dark sayings upon you, I break the very power of those lies so that you can walk in freedom. For you see, my child, when I am for you, who then can be against you? Who's words matter more than my own? Shall the created speak more powerfully than the Creator? Listen to me while I tell you again: you are beautiful to me. Only I have the right to judge you, for I am the one who brought you into being. Do not hold onto those lies, but release them before me. Even as you have been forgiven of your offenses, allow that same forgiveness to manifest within your heart toward others. In this way, you give no more power to the adversary of your soul, and you grow more and more lovely, and less and less bound.
Your adoring Abba
(6) I HAVE BEGUN A GOOD WORK WITHIN YOU
Dear Survivor,
Who can take you out of my hand? Who can thwart what I have begun? Even the very trials that you endure shall work towards bringing you closer to me and my purposes. Do not count your trials as punishment, rather see them as something to learn from. I shall teach you when to hold onto something and when to let go of it. I shall teach you more and more about yourself and who I have created you to be. I have begun a good work in you and I shall certainly not stop until it is completely finished. Remember that every good and perfect thing has come from heaven above, so grow thankful for each of the blessings you find. Be thankful in the hard times as well for I will bring good out of it all. Lean into the peace that only can I give you and learn to be led by it, for in doing so, you will find that peace becoming bigger inside of you. Confusion shall have no place within you when you learn that your past cannot control the future that I have planned for you. Do not allow yourself the opportunity to settle into thoughts of self-pity for it is there that your peace disolves so quickly and your hope fades into fear once again. Look up and see that I have you firmly by the hand and am not willing to let go of you unless you demand it to be so. The road that we walk together is the path to victory and overcoming. Let me encourage you to stay with me on this path.
Your Patient Abba
(7) LET ME CARRY THAT BURDEN
Dear Survivor,
I see you carrying the burdens that others have placed upon you. It weighs soo heavy upon your back. You are used to the weight and do not even seem to notice it sometimes. But your body notices and reacts to the pressure upon it. Child, let me lift those heavy burdens off of your shoulders. Give them to me for I am the only one able to carry them without being broken by them. I am strong when you are weak. You have mascaraded as a strong person for too long. You have worn the mask of "being tough" for such a long time that it has appeared to be part of your face. I tell you that it is not your strength that will bring you into the rest that you need. My strength is perfect and it never gives out. My joy is the strength you need. So lay down the expectations that you have put upon yourself. Lay down what others have decided you should do and say. Put down what they require of you. Come and see what I have required. I have required a contrite heart, a heart that is willing to be humble and submissive unto me. It is my great pleasure to carry your bags for you, and usher you into deep and peaceful rest.
Your Abba
(8) I WANT YOU TO BE FREE!
Dear Survivor,
Sometimes you wonder how I can expect anything of you at all. You say to yourself, oh it is just TOO hard! Can't I have a little bit of leeway in that? I tell you, that if I were to allow a little bit of sin, I would have to allow a lot of it. For there is no big sin or little sin, but it is all disobedience and every disobedient act distracts you from the life of purity that I am calling you to. I am calling you to walk in total freedom! Nothing less will do for my special child. I want you to be so free inside that your heart feels that it is dancing in a field of flowers on a bright sunshiny day! I have none of the darkness that you have known for I am completely FULL of light. I am calling you into the light to be free from darkness. My plans are good for you even when they are hard. And the pain that you feel as you lay down your own will and cling to mine is to be soon swallowed up in the joy of my Spirit welling up inside you. It is a glorious moment for you when that happens. I shall teach you what it feels like to be free. I shall move you past your own desires and into mine, for my desires are not that you be controlled and manipulated. Those days are over. My desire is that you freely lay down your own will and learn what is my will, for only my plans include what is right and what is full of blessing in the end.
Your Holy Abba
(9) WHY DOES IT HURT SO BAD?
Dear Survivor,
I hear you crying out to me saying: "if you love me so much then why does it hurt so bad?" It is almost as if you are closing out even the spark of sunlight that would come to surround you with peace. For am I not still the same God who lifted you up many times before and carried you during the times of troubles and adversity? Am I not the one who has the power to calm the wild seas and bring you into a safe harbor once again? Truly I say to you, my child, that I am not weary of your cries. I am not tired of caring for you and picking up the pieces and putting them back into proper order. I am here for you. I am here even when it hurts and when you cannot see through the clouds. Oh yes, I am yet here to guide you. I do not remove the pain all at once but allow you to grow through the pain, learning what is necessary in your life to be free. Do not run from the pain, or push it away, but embrace my presence in your pain and there you will find that I am bringing you into a deeper understanding of who I am. You will know then that I am well able to keep you in good times and bad, for I am not a good-time-only-friend who runs when you have troubles and sorrows but a friend who sticks closer to you than a brother should. So let not your heart be troubled, I am with you even now, showering you with my love and strength and ready to bring you through this storm in the same manner in which I brought you out of sin through my Son, Jesus Christ. It is by faith that I can move you into the direction of my great peace which exceeds all your human understanding and keeps your heart set upon the Rock, Jesus Christ.
Your loving Abba
(10) THE MASTER PLAN IS FOR YOUR GOOD
Dear Survivor,
I am not without a master plan. I have it all drawn up in advance so that you can know without a shadow of a doubt that I am working to bring forth that which I have promised you. My plans are for your good and not for evil. I shall bring you into a land of plenty which includes plenty of joy, plenty of peace, plenty of love and plenty of hope! I am the God of "plenty"! I am rich in mercy, rich in love. My grace is free but it has never been cheap. The price I have paid is the life of My dear Son. The price you pay to follow me is simply to lay down your former life to find it all new again. Now the God of plenty has come to show you that there is a better way than you have previously thought of. All of your own ideas can never amount to as much as I have planned for you. Let me unfold MY master plan to you day by day and step by step. I will not show you all at once, but as you walk it out in obedience you will know more and more my unveiled desires for your life. And as you come forth in this new step of obedience I will set you into a place where you cannot be hindered nor set back by the attacks of the enemy. Yes, they will still come, but they will not be successful in harming you. I have set my seal upon your forhead, and you are mine! No one can take you out of my hand.
Your Abba
(11) DO NOT LISTEN TO THE LIES!
Dear Survivor,
Someone has been screaming in your ears lately! Who is it that speaks with you, child? Is it I? My child, please remember that I come to you in a still, small voice, while your adversary speaks quite loudly of your mistakes in the present, past and future. He will tell you that you are unwelcome in my house. He will tell you that you are unworthy to sit at my table. You will hear him tell you that you are unfit to partake of the blessings I long to give you. He will look for every opportunity to demonstrate to you exactly what he wants you to believe. I want you to set your face like flint against him when he comes to taunt you with his evil lies. Wage war with my Word for it has the power to cause him to flee from you. If your heart does not condemn you child, then I do not condemn you either! The truth is that when there is a serious problem, I will come to you and knock on your heart's door to find a response from you. We will talk it over, and I will tell you firmly but gently what I expect of you in the future. The shame you feel for just a moment will pass as you repent and experience my forgiveness and immediate acceptance. The things that I ask of you will draw us closer together and not further apart. They will also bring to you the fulfillment of my good promises which are based upon your obedience to my desires. These things will bring you rich blessing as well and bring you into a place of joyfully abounding in my presence! Always remember that by trusting in my dear Son's death, you are free from condemnation. Jesus paid the price. I can no longer see your former sins that you have repented of for they have been thrown as far as the east is from the west. I choose to remember them no longer, nor hold them up to you in the present or the future. So rest in my love for you now and see that I am the one who is on your side.
Always abounding in grace,
Your Abba
(12) BE FILLED WITH MY CONFIDENCE
Dear Survivor,
I cannot move beyond the parimeters of your faith, so trust in me to do the things that you need me to do. There is nothing that can separate you from my love except your own unwillingness to surrender to it. I am more than capable of handling all the things that you are so wrapped up in worry over. Man will tell you to do what you can do and leave the rest to me. I say unto that as you put the entire thing in my hands I will show you what to do and what to just wait upon. It will all be in my hands, not just that which "you cannot do". Even your doing is of me, for have I not led you to be doing what you are doing? I will even keep you from making the wrong moves in the future. Do not fear that you are in the wrong place or that you are not moving according to my perfect desires for when I train you to listen to me you will know by your spirit when you are in the wrong. I shall set you on a course that is not for destruction but for power and put you in a place of victory. This victory is sure for I have surely paid the price for it. I have set you upon a rock, a hard place so that you can learn what it is to be solid. I am that Rock. I am the place that is immovable and sure. Stay with me a little while, while I fill you full of confidence in what I am doing within you.
Your Abba
(13) COME, SEE HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU
Dear Survivor,
My best to you each morning is wrapped up in the sacrifice of my Son. Come and kneel before the old wooden cross and take it all in. Take in the sights and sounds of the crowd, and the pounding of the nails. Let me reveal to you what happened on that day. As you get a greater glimpse of the depths of my own suffering, you will never again wonder if I care about your hurts. For in the grief I have felt even in watching my Son die a horrific death, and the torment He felt in those hours of agony you will know that I am well acquainted with those kinds of feelings. You see, I and my Son are one. We cannot be separated. I am not a God who cannot be touched with what you have and are continually going through. I am not a God who cannot love deeply and grieve as you know grief. What you have undergone in your times of loss is nothing compared to the pure glory that will be revealed when you see me face to face, for it will melt like snow in a warm ray of sunlight! I am the ressurection and the life! I come to ressurrect your heart and mind. To give you a fresh, new way of seeing things. So come, dear child, and experience the sight of the cross. As you meditate fully, you will know what grace is really all about. You will see things the way I do and you will know the power that will set you free from wondering if I really love you.
Your Abba
(14) NO SIGNS OF SPRINGTIME
Dear Survivor,
I see that you long to grow again. You have been in a holding pattern of wintertime that has seemed to know no end. There have been no signs of springtime along the way. The days that are gloomy with subtle gray skies seem dull compared the bright sunshine that you long for. You are tired of waiting on the breakthroughs that never seem to come to you. You are weary in well-doing, my child. And it appears that there is no recourse available to bring you into a place of lush green pastures with streams of cool refreshment to your soul. Call upon Me, and I will answer you. It is time for you to turn around full circle and stop expecting bad things to happen. It is time for you to begin to see what I am seeing. For I see things in a totally different perspective. I shall lift the lid on the things that have been keeping you captive in the winter season. I shall show you where it is that you need to surrender to My hand. And I will pour upon you mercies that are new and fresh every morning so that you will know that I am with you. Even now my child, I am walking beside you while you cannot see Me. Do not dispair, only believe. This season will not last forever. You will see new life burst into full bloom as surely as I have said it.
Your Abba
(15) THE HOOK
Dear Survivor,
There has been a hook that has sunk into your heart, child, and it is causing you anguish and pain. Each and everytime that you move the sharp part of the hook sinks in deeper and brings more pain to your soul. This hook has a poison tip to it and that poison brings an infection which has raged within you like a mighty storm. Do you know what has you raging? It is the sinful lie that you have believed and that lie has brought a curse upon you so that your will prevents me from moving past it to bring you the healing that you so need. Oh child, how I long to draw the poison out of you, but I must do so at your own bidding, by your own choices, and by your desire to surrender to whatever it may take in order to be brought into wholeness. There is another hook that I would place within you, and while the tip will bring pain for a moment, it will not bring infection, but purity and perfect peace to your heart and mind. Let me anchor you in my love, my peace, and my provision. Let me search your heart and shed light on the source of infection within you, whereby you can know that I am drawing it out of you once and for all. There will never again be anguish in that same place again once I have touched you with my hook of holy love, for it is the arrow that pierces the soul and divides the truth from that which is a lie. Child, when the Son has set you free, you shall be free indeed. So even as it is hard for you to move, I say, stay in one place: the place of resting before Me, so that I might unleash my love upon you and bring you restoration.
Your Abba
(16) GOING ON TO THE JOY OF LIVING
Dear Survivor,
Whatever has become of the things that used to be? Where have they gone to? The days have been swiftly marching by since the time when you were so heavily influenced by the powers of darkness. What used to be, is no more. You see, the light has been filling every corner of the room and bringing to your view all the bright colors that you did not previously see. There are many wonders to behold, child. Things that I have made for your eyes alone to behold. I have wonders in store for you. The days of darkness are over when you step into the fullness of the Light. This light is the light of My presence and it shines into those places where you have never had light shine into before. Do not allow fear to hold you back...for what it is time to see is no longer going to bring you deep suffering but will bring you liberty from that suffering. It is time to get on with the joy of living. The life I have given you is to be lived out in liberty and joyful expectancy of a bright new tomorrow. Hold onto the promises my child and you will see that yesterday's sorrow is becoming today's joy.
Your Abba
(17) CHILD OF GRACE, I REJOICE OVER YOU
Dear Survivor,
You are my child of grace. I rejoice over you, cheering you onward toward your victory. There is nothing I would not do to see you succeed in Me. In the past, I was waiting on you, that I might pour out My love upon you, My favor, My grace. Now I see that it is you who is waiting on Me! I tell you with a certainty that those who wait upon Me shall gain new strength and will rise up like a bird soaring high upon the winds of My Spirit. There it is that you will see the clear blue skies with rainbows so bright and beautiful shining after the storms. How I long to scoop you up in my tender mercies and hold you close to my heart! I draw you in to Me. I shall never overwhelm you with the terrors you have known from other masters. I am the Good Shepherd who cares for His sheep. My sheep should know My voice. Listen while I sing over you and rejoice. Listen to the sound of My passionate love for you! If what you hear sounds like cursing it is not MY voice! My heart is made tender toward your cries. Call out in faith that I will answer. I have wonderful things to show you. I have wonderful things to impart into your spirit. These things will overshadow every fear you have inside and take you to a new world of joy!
Your Adoring Abba
(18) DANCE AT THE THRONE OF MERCY
Dear Survivor,
It is my greatest desire to bless you with all that you desire and all that you need. You are learning that My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are my ways your ways. There are things that still stand in the way of your receiving all that I offer unto you. When you come to me with heaviness of heart, doubting the love I have outpoured upon you it is a dividing wall between that outpouring and your life. So abolish that which would keep you from rejoicing. Set the questions aside and come dance at the throne of mercy where you have been set free from your sins. Know that I am ever-presently working for your healing, for your deliverance, and for your victory in all that you face. The very place of deepest sorrow and mourning will become like a rushing river watering your heart and bringing forth the plan I have established since the foundation of the earth. There is nothing I will not do to help you succeed, but it must be MY plan and not your own that you run after! Even if that plan be delayed, because of rebellion, I shall bring it to pass in due season as I wait for your heart to agree. Oh child, I will carve out a place of refuge for you under the shadow of My wings. Come and dance in the light of My endless love and compassion where mercies never die and your spirit can soar as high as the heavens and break open the showers of blessing upon your life again.
Your Abba
(19) BREAKING UNWHOLESOME BONDS
Dear Survivor,
Today I come to break the bonds that have been keeping you attached to those things that are not wholesome. For there has been bonding as even an infant bonds to a parent, to the things of the world and not things of the Spirit. In that bonding you have relied on those things as a means of your security and your strength. You have sometimes been unable to see that I am greater than these things. It is My wish to re-parent you on the inside. I am greater than these things, but I have always left the choice up to you. When you surrender and declare that you are utterly unable to do the breaking, you will find that I am the Breaker. When you declare your need for a Deliverer, you will know that I am there to set you free. When you come before me helpless and afraid you will walk away knowing that I was the One able to empower you and give you boldness that no one else could give you. Today I am here to break off the chains that you hold out to Me and to settle within you the issues that have brought to you great frustration over the years. Today I am bringing light to your eyes, not in the natural but in the Spirit. When you seek to understand, I want you to know that I will not show you in the natural but in the Spirit. For those who ask for wisdom must know that it is not the wisdom of men that I give but the very wisdom of heaven which is far greater sometimes than our natural eyes can see. So I will enlighten you as you come to Me seeking wisdom and understanding apart from the things of this world. Call upon Me and I will answer you, and show you wonderful things which you have never seen with natural eyes but now with the eyes of the Spirit you will see and understand fully just what I am trying to say to you.
Your Abba
(20) WHERE AM I IN THE SILENCE?
Dear Survivor,
Where am I in the silence, in the days when you have sought to know and understand what is happening to you and still do not know? Where am I when the earth shakes and your cries seem to bounce back from the skies above? Where am I when nothing seems to change within your circumstances and you are weary of waiting another second longer?
I tell you that I am there when you cannot feel Me there. These are the times to lay aside the questions and the words that penetrate your thinking and simply call upon My Name for it will never fail you. My Name has power over every other name. Say it. JESUS: Lord of the storms. JESUS: who bore stripes to bring a river of healing to your brokenness. JESUS: rejected and despised of men. JESUS: Mighty Warrior over powers and principalities, Deliverer from darkness. JESUS: Risen One, Champion, Victor over death, hell and the grave. JESUS: Holy One living in you so that you might be holy and found blameless before Him on that great day of judgement to all. JESUS: Merciful Shepherd, always abiding in love and compassion. JESUS: Worthy One who deserves all the honor and praises. JESUS, JESUS, JESUS! Say The Name. Say it again, until you KNOW that the questions do not matter more than The Answer. I am the answer. Say The Name.
Your Abba
(21) I HAVE NOT LEFT YOU WITHOUT HOPE
Dear Survivor,
Is there any place you can run to in all the earth and not find My Presence there? Who can escape the might and beauty of the Lord? For it is not with your own hands the world was created, nor with your own voice that things came into being. Look at the blazing light in the evening sky and know that I am still in full control of the earth. I have not left you without beam of sunlight nor ray of moonlight, nor will I ever leave you without hope. I have come that you would have abundance of life. That abundance is not in worldly treasure but in the glory and splendor that My Presence brings to ordinary days and even nights which would be full of desolation. For in My Presence nothing can harm you. Though the body waste away, your spirit shall behold the newness of life worth living in the beauty of holiness. Out of your belly will flow rivers of living water so fresh, sparkling in purity. Come delight in Me now. I have much waiting for you.
Your Abba
(22) BROKENNESS HAS A PURPOSE
Dear Survivor,
I see your heart when others see only your tears. I see the purposes I have called you to, and not just today's struggle to endure. When you lean on Me you will not lean on your own understanding. You will see that brokenness has a purpose in your life, which is to mold you into that which I have created you to be. If a seed falls to the ground, it can be reborn after it dies and grow to be a mighty oak. It is in surrender of your ambition and pride that I can raise you up into My glories. When you fall down before Me, know that outside of this process there is no grace, for I give grace to the humble and those contrite of heart. It is by My mercies you are not consumed but I have dealt with you bountifully. Therefore, rejoice. Again, I say, rejoice! I bid you to seek My face with diligence and there My hand will meet your own and guide you, direct you, and comfort you with peace.
Your Abba
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