Have Great Faith

Hello, brothers, sisters and Heartdwellers family. May we all receive the grace to preserver in great faith.

Mother Clare posted in our group chat today a message she received from the Lord. Jesus was saying that a spirit of discouragement has been released on the entire body of Christ. The sluggishness, the weariness, the dryness, the heaviness many of us are feeling is because of this spirit of discouragement. He was encouraging her to take heaven trips and write them down because they bring encouragement to the body.

I was feeling, and many others in the group, this constant feeling of heaviness and lack of connection with the Lord. I knew it was a cross and I had to carry it until the Lord lifted it. I was feeling it rather physically, as well. Even one of the intercessors had a strong sense of despair wanting to give up and end it all. I knew this was an assignment from the enemy and it was hard.

I then pulled a Rhema during one of my low moments and it read:

“Have great faith.”

Great faith means to simply believe greatly. Believe even for a long while. Believe what seems impossible.”

I took a deep breath in the midst the heaviness to receive this fresh word that seems like a breath of fresh air, as I said, “Lord I know you’re still with Me—with Us.

Being preoccupied with a spouse who is sick, then me getting sick, then having a family visitor who required some attention and care, needless to say I had been very busy and exhausted these past few days.

So today was a bit slow as I had to rush to help someone go to the hospital in the morning. I made it a point that when I got home I would do the Lord’s Supper today and sit to hear from the Lord. I needed Him.

Upon receiving Him I came before the Lord saying,

Good day Lord, it has been a while. Sorry for my many, many sins that caused a breach in the midst of my suffering. And sorry for giving in to so many distractions. Thank you for strengthening me today, Lord, I can feel your strength and your peace.

Thank you, Lord.

Jesus responded,

“Well, Beloved it’s the prayer of submission you said last night. I heard your sincere cry for help after you fell into the enemy’s trap because of your pride and self-love. Share what happened.”

Oh Lord really? Oh, man, Jesus. I say, Jesus has no chill, guys [laugh] but I’ll share, Lord.

Well family I decided to get readings from Imitation of Christ, (this was last night) from Mother Angelica’s book, and Imitation of Mary. Both Mother Angelica and Imitation of Mary were talking about silence. Blessed Mother was very clear that basically I needed to keep my mouth shut when I suffered offense or wanted to share how I felt. I knew she was talking about me and my beloved. It had been a rough couple of days with all the other sufferings of sickness and everything else. We had both become a bit impatient with each other on certain things and I was always finding myself having something to say. So, I made it a point after these readings, “Okay, Blessed Mother, give me a spirit-of-shut-up and let me just pray”. I made a choice in my heart to do that that evening. We had lights out last night where the electric in the whole city goes out, as it is today, and it was hot and sticky.

After I made that prayer in my heart, My beloved came in, and made a comment that didnt sit well with me. Everything was telling me, “hush, be quiet, don’t say anything, don’t respond, react in love.” Please—my flesh won, and before we knew it we were toe to toe. Huhh, [exhale] once we both ended I realized the Lord warned me about this—if only I would have stayed silent. I was so weary at this point, of the back and forth—and more so weary of my flesh. I always failed these tests. Jesus would give me a heads-up of a land mine of strife. I would tell myself “Okay, I can do this.” Then my pride and self-love would kick in and take over instead, falling right into the enemy hands. So, I was finally over myself and asked the Lord to please help me.

“Well, Beloved, your prayers were answered, and will continue to be when you put yourself in last place and think less of yourself and more of Me. Decrease so that I may increase.

Oh Lord, it can be so hard sometimes, but with your help I know I will continue to persevere.

“I am raising up My brides to have great faith, great faith in believing the impossible. Everyone, from the greatest to the least, in My body is being stretched. It is true there is a spirit of discouragement that has been released and assigned to My body right now, because of what is just around the corner.”

What is that Lord? I feel like we have been waiting for a long time for something, and it is suffering upon suffering…. Sorry Jesus, I am just being honest. But I know souls matter. Please help me to remember that. Help us all to shift our minds to living our lives to save souls.

“Oh, I have many consolations around the corner for My beloved brides. Do you think that you are suffering alone? Do you think that I would take you down a long arduous journey of trials that are leaving many utterly hopeless and not have great consolation in store upon passing through the turbulent waters? You need consolation as much as you need trials. Both are necessary to your formation and to your soul. Suffering draws you nearer to me. It’s a mystery in which I give Myself entirely to you. For the souls who can truly grasp that, then no amount of suffering would be wasted. It trains you in empathy, compassion, and in perseverance. Consolation lifts you up, releases your burdens, refreshes you and restores you to continue forward in this race, in this journey of love with Me. So always remember the extent of your trial will be the extent or measure of the consolation that is coming. So, stay encouraged, My beloved brides. Do not give up now.

“There is so much going on in the world, so much darkness, so much pollution even in My church. Satan is after your purity, the purity of your hearts to cause you to wane, faint, doubt, and lose your faith in Me. Lose your faith in my goodness, lose your faith in my ability to turn everything evil and around to work for your good. But he is the loser and will continue to lose every time if My beloved brides would preserver in great faith.

“Faith is the substance of things hope for and the evidence of things not yet seen. Waiting, takes great faith, suffering takes great faith, believing what seems so farfetched or incomprehensible because you have done all that you could do and have seen no change, but you continue to pray and still believe—that is great faith. That is the faith I am raising in My brides in this hour. Just as the Jews were asking for a sign, so are my people asking for a sign in these times as many are losing their faith in Me. But it is not the signs, wonders and miracles that I am after—or will do to draw many to Me. It is you, My brides, it is the small little ones, the nothings, nobodies who have persevered in the waiting, persevered in their suffering—Trial after trial, battle after battle, you who have believed when the years have passed you by and you still have hope in what you have been praying for. When you prayed, and your prayers were not answered, or rather even the opposite happened but you still believe, that is what I will use to be a witness in my church. Those who have fought the good fight of faith—that is what my church needs. That is what will sustain my body because you can then encourage and equip the rest of the body to fight the good fight of faith with the things that are soon approaching. The ANTI CHRIST and the false prophet can also do signs wonders and miracles. So, if your faith in me is based solely on what you see and experiences through miracles and signs you can easily be deceived or rather easily discouraged when a miracle you were hoping for doesn’t happen and that becomes what you chase and that is what they will give you.”

Revelation 13:11-14

11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. 14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It

Jesus continued.

“However, those whose sole faith is in Me, they will know Me. In knowing Me you will stand above every tactic of the devil in faith because you know My heart, you know My ways and you know My love. You have been chasing me, enduring with me, persevering with me and you will continue to stand with me amidst the worst of persecution which will be a great testimony of faith to all who are floundering and on the fence. So, My beloved brides, please stand with me. Simply believe greatly in all I long to do and will do for you and through you.”

That was the end of Jesus’ beautiful message.

Oh Lord, thank you for giving us great faith. Amen.