A New Foundation
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May 22, 2025
Hello brothers, sisters, Heartdwellers family.
May we all respond immediately when God calls us to cooperate with His grace to build a new foundation.
It was early dawn, and I was so tired, I remember Jesus had asked that I get up at this time to seek Him and do the Lord’s supper but I was exhausted, I was sincerely going to tell the Lord sorry, and just go back to sleep; but I had lost my peace. Then I felt led to get a Rhema and Jesus was asking me to respond to the grace being given to me now to build a new foundation. So, I decided to press in and began to worship. When I felt prompted to end my worship and begin my Lord’s Supper, the last song Holy Spirit played was called New Foundation. Do you think Jesus was trying to get his point across? I chucked.
And the Gospel reading I received really ministered to me. It was
Luke 24
Jesus Appears to the Disciples
36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement…,
[Chuckle] And it’s funny, guys, don’t we just do that? When Jesus gives us a promise or a Word, sometimes we struggle with faith to believe, out of joy and amazement, like, Lord, is that possible? No, You couldn’t do that, Is that really possible? I just thought that was funny as I’m reading this to you guys…how sometimes, doubting, and faith can look a little bit different.
So, He said…
…he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in their presence.
44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
When I got that reading in my Lord’s Supper what stuck out to me is when Jesus asked the disciples, “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts rise in your minds?” I know the Holy Spirit was asking me the same thing. And in verse 44 when Jesus said, “This is what I told you while I was still with you…” It was as if Jesus was saying, “This is what I have already told you; the things I have asked you to do, the promises I’ve told you what you are going through now I have already told you all of this. Everything must be fulfilled, like My Word is bond. Everything I say will come to pass. So I came before the Lord
Good morning Lord what’s on your heart?
Jesus began,
“Why so many questions and doubts in your heart, My beloved little one? Thank you for joining Me today and making it a point to press in despite your tiredness and even sleepiness. I want to talk about new foundations that I am building within you and all My brides.”
Yes, you gave me that Rhema last night that if I work with the graces you were giving me at that very moment then I would be building a new foundation. Then You also played a song called New Foundations. I know for me, it usually means more graces to do Your will.
“Yes Beloved, I am the foundation, the stone which the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone, (Matthew 21:42) and I desire to be the foundation of your life and that of all My brides. I am the Rock and a sure foundation, (Isaiah 33:6 ) for anyone who puts their full trust in Me. There are many foundations My people can build on. They can build on their ability, their own strength, and self-confidence which many in the world do. They can build on the favors, and reliance of man, again which many in the world build on. You can build on your wealth and excess finding security in your possessions like the rich young ruler. You can build on the rapport with others which becomes the fear of man which is indeed a snare for anyone who has that foundation.
“All of these foundations are weak, will not sustain through the heat or fire or storm. These foundations will indeed crumble in time. And lastly, you can build on your own self-rightness, making your own path for your salvation and holiness. Now that is the saddest foundation of all because although you think you are serving Me you are indirectly serving yourself.
Just an aside, I just felt the Lord wanted me to share, and example of how you can indirectly serve yourself by setting a path for you, of your own holiness or your own salvation.
Salvation basically means, saving or deliverance. So, one example, I would say, is when I was in the process of courtship with Derrick at the time, I just remember going through so much and so desperately wanted to talk to somebody about it. I needed someone to lean on, someone to confide in, some to share the things; my struggles… I just remember, his best friend was a pastor, and I had the Heartdwellers group as well. But it go to a point where the Lord wanted me to draw back and not share so much of the sufferings that were going on and even share with his friend, the sufferings that were going on, because for me, it was a source of relief, a source of sharing my burden.
It also was a source of feeling like, if I tell his pastor friend, he can then talk to Derrick and get him to reroute certain things or make better decisions. And I realized I was marking out my own salvation because my salvation was then in his friend. If I just could talk to his friend, if I just could communicate to him, then things would just get better in my situation. So some of you may be in a situation where it’s just something that small, or the Lord may say, it may seem easier to talk to this person, to get help from this person. Yes, it could be finances; you’re really struggling with finances, you’re really in need of something and the Lord says, “No, I don’t want you to ask anybody, I need you to trust Me. So, maybe it would be easier to get a loan, or it may be easier for you to borrow from this. It may be easier for you to ask this particular person to get finances or to get help o donations. And the Lord says, no I need you to trust Me, I’m going to provide for you.
He did the same thing with me as well when I lost my job and I was looking to and fro trying to, once again, make out my own way and the Lord had different plans. So, sometimes, like I said, Jesus is saying He has a path already laid out for us. In our mind, we are thinking, well, you know, this path seems a lot, if I get help or I get assistance from this or do that, then it’ll alleviate my suffering, or it will assist me in what I want my outcome to be.
And the Lord wants us just to really trust Him. So, I hope that makes sense. I just wanted to interject that, when He mentioned trusting in your own self-righteousness. Because self-righteousness is just…in your own righteousness, like really trusting kind of in yourself. So, when you make your own decisions, by yourself, thinking that your ideas or thoughts are better than, maybe, the Lord’s way, that is when we get into self-righteousness, because we are thinking of our own way, and making a path for ourselves. Back to the Lord…
Jesus continued
“I have a sure path marked for each and every single soul, very unique, I may add. It’s full of twists and turns and ups and downs, trials test, contradictions, victories, valleys, and mountaintop experiences. But in all of this, you must follow Me. You must walk with Me when I walk, run when I run, wait when I am waiting, and be still when I am still. We must do this together with Me leading at the helm. If you lead yourself in any way be sure you will find yourself shipwrecked and derailed at the end of it all.
“The graces that I am releasing to you and all My brides is one of courage, one of faithfulness, and one of hope to continue moving forward taking one step at a time in obedience to My will, moment by moment.
when you are stretched, when you are weary, When you are weak and tired I will be your strength. I will do it in and through you if you would listen and obey with full trust and confidence in the plan that I have for you. In a soul’s life there are many times when I have to break down and rebuild, and many times when the soul, like you, breaks down.
“The breakdown happens when unbelief, doubts, anxieties, and fears creep in to cripple or hinder the forward motion of faith. The more you take forward motions of faith, which is cooperation with My grace, your foundation gets stronger and sturdier because that means you are growing more and more in Me with My grace. The more you question, doubt, walk in unbelief, and disobedience, what we build begins to crumble. The good thing is, I never give up. And in My mercy, even when all is [that] left is rubble and sometimes scraps, or even ashes where boulders of faith used to be, I can make it beautiful again when a soul cooperates with My grace again in the moment. I am that good and indeed I make all things new. This is a continual journey of breaking and building breaking and building within a soul.
Unlike man, I never give up and if the soul continues to turn back, cooperate we can rebuild. The longer and faster a soul returns back to Me in faith the stronger their foundation becomes, the more leaps of faith they take, the sturdier their foundation is because how does one conquer the world? By faith in Me Simple (1 John 5:4)”
“So, we have begun again, My little one. A new foundation is being built again for you in this season as you continue cooperate with Me. That goes for all My brides. Do not look back on the former things. But don’t you see? I am doing a new thing. It springs up even now, if you would but have faith to simply believe and cooperate with the grace I am giving you now.
“Some may wonder what that looks like or what that that means. Let me explain, My doves
“If you get a whiff of inspiration about something and no longer brush it off but step out in faith to do it, that is you cooperating with My grace. If you feel a pull to prayer, although tired or distracted, rather wanting to do something, else but you obey that nudge, that is you cooperating with My grace. If you feel you should be doing something I asked of you, taking a step to reach out to others with My love despite your fears, and have the courage to do it, that is you cooperating with My grace. I am leading you somewhere.
“When met with scorn, frustration, impatience or even anger by others but you respond with virtue instead, that is you cooperating with My grace. When you feel dry, lack of feeling or desire to do ministry work, fast, pressing in but do it anyway because you feel that tug in your heart, that is you cooperating with grace. It’s you, stepping outside of yourself, your fleshly desire, and natural impulses, and imitating Me in any way to do the Father’s will, that is you cooperating with grace and working with Me to build a sure and new foundation even now. So, waves of graces have been now given to each of you. Work with it, My brides, and let’s build something new.”
That was the end of Jesus’ message.
I want to share a Rhema message with your guys, that I pulled, that kind of summed it all up.
On the front it says:
When God calls you to do something, your do it whether the door will swing open or not.
When God calls you to have faith, it will be when the doors seem closed.
On the back it said:
DO IT!!
I felt this scripture also resonated with me, concerning the new foundation, which is in Christ, because the Lord is wanting us to all to build, right now, in this moment, whatever He is asking you to do.
1 Peter 2:4-7
4 As you come to him, a living stone nrejected by men but in the sight of God
chosen and precious, 5 oyou yourselves, like living stones, are being
built up as pa spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, rto offer spiritual sacri-fices sacceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it stands in Scripture:
t“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,
a cornerstone chosen and precious,
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
“The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,”
Amen
God bless you, until the next message.
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