I dwell in the secret place of the Most High and abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust!” Psalm 91:1-2.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Do you know Me as your place of safety, stability, light, peace, comfort, and blessing in a troubled world? Do you know Me as your place of perfect protection, deliverance, victory, strength, and as a garrison against evil in a world filled with the darkness of the swamp of uncontrolled flesh? Do you trust Me to always be there to receive you and My strong arm to rescue and hold you from being pulled into the undercurrent of darkness? If you do, then you can truly say to Me and of Me, “My refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust,” and know without a doubt that I will deliver you from the snare of the trapper and from the deadly pestilence. That I will cover you with My angelic host and be your refuge where you can abide as your home always. And that the truth of My Word planted in your heart and spoken by your mouth in answer to all the comes against you in this world is your sure shield and bulwark.
I am your refuge of rest, instruction, refreshment, and revelation. When you know Me you will immediately turn to Me in confident love and seek the answers, guidance, strength, peace, and joy you need.
All people have within them a longing for a home where they truly belong and are at ease knowing that they are accepted, appreciated, protected, guided, and above all loved unconditionally. I am your true home where you belong, but very few people know this and are looking for their “home” in all the wrong places, just trying to belong, and Satan is more than willing to draw you into a “family” of sin and darkness to belong with others he has led into the lustful fascination of the swamp of sin and death.
When you know Me, you will be at ease and find the home your heart is longing for in Me. You will run to Me first when a trial, threat, fear, or a temptation to be pulled into evil, immorality, or deception comes. You will never hide in shame for you will know that I gave you the gift of Jesus to take care of that. And if you should fail by giving into the weakness of your flesh, you will come to Me immediately to be cleansed of your sin and for cleansing of all unrighteousness that has tried to enter you, you whom I have made righteous in Christ.
If you know Me, you know I am there for you no matter what the issue is, whether from without or within. If you but turn your heart to Me, I will draw you back out of the dark undertow of evil into the light, to drink again of the pure water of the river of life, and keep you safely in Christ, your true place of refuge and deliverance, your fortress and your place of perfect protection no matter where you may be. There is no snatching out of My hand and that is where you are in Christ Jesus your Lord.
If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of death. If I should say, “My foot has slipped,” Your lovingkindness, O LORD, will hold me up. When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul. Psalm 94:17-19.
Keep your heart inclined towards Me and tender towards Me and I can always show Myself strong on your behalf. My eyes are going through the earth searching for the hearts of those that are turned towards Me, for it is those I can draw to Christ and through Him into My everlasting arms. Hearts hardened into the darkness of evil that attracted them in the fascination of uncontrolled emotions and lusts of the flesh has pulled them into a swamp of profligacy that it is almost impossible to draw them out of. These people are trapped by Satan in a false refuge of sin. Do not get sucked in. I have sent you the Light of the world, stay in that Light.
“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.” John 3:19-21.
This is as of the days of Noah. Evil has come in full force and is parading in public places. Deception with the deep secrets of Satan being paraded as wisdom and enlightenment based on the false fascination and exultation of sensual pleasures, immorality, perversion, and unclean spirits has slithered its way into homes, families, governments, and nations through mass media, schools, “experts”, and those whose minds are blinded by Satan to the truth of the good news of Salvation, the truth of who I am and who I made you and empowered you to be. The truth of My Word of life that will set the world free of its addictions, depression, poverty, violence, and uncontrolled emotions and lusts that are destroying the souls I planned and made for beauty and majesty, dominion authority, to reign in life forever with Me. Godly people should not even speak of the things people are doing today least they too be defiled.
But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them; for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth, proving what is pleasing to the Lord. Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. Ephesians 5:3-13.
But this should not take you off guard. I have warned you of this many times in many ways and given you the instructions of just what to do. My Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron. 1 Timothy 4:1-2.
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; avoid such men as these. 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
This is not the time to retreat and give up. There are souls to be rescued! It is time for you to contend for the faith. It is time to fight the good fight of faith for yourself and for others and for Me and you will surely win if you stay attached to Me. I will fight for you, with you, and in you, for it is I who am your strength and power. Not by your human might, but by My Spirit in you and on you.
But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate, that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which He will bring about at the proper time. 1 Timothy 6:11-15.
When Potiphar’s wife tried to pull Joseph, the son of Jacob, into her dark world of sensual lusts and uncontrolled flesh with no integrity or thought of the reckoning, Joseph did not stay around her to be sucked in, he fled. And that was the best thing for him to do, get out of the temptation before it got into him.
Contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Jude 1:3-4.
Avoid the wiles of these people that are trapped in the flesh, devoid of the Spirit.
But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.” These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit. Jude 1:17-19.
What you need to understand is that if I can find at least an iota of love in a person’s heart, I can rescue and help that person. I can save them. You know this is true, for I tell you that those who love are known by Me and born of Me.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 4:7-8.
Also, in the judgment of those who have not had the opportunity to be believers, in the judgment of Christ that I show you in the gospel of Matthew on the “ethnos (ἔθνος)” which is translated as “nations” but literally means pagans (everywhere else it appears in the New Testament it is translated as “gentiles”) or those who do not know of Me, I judge them by actions of compassion, such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, caring for the sick, etc. that they did that for believers (Christ’s “brethren”), and if I can find those works of love, I can save them. Matthew 25:31-46. But if I cannot find anything but evil, hatred, selfishness, and lust and not even an iota of love or faith there is nothing I can do for that person. There are some, and not just a few, for which I grieve and Jesus wept, that have so totally given their heart and life to Satan that his realm is entrenched there and I cannot move them out of it.
But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever. Jude 1:10-13.
For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned. Hebrews 6:4-8.
So what is your answer?
But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way. For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints. And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Hebrews 6:9-12.
My answer is simple but profound and requires diligence on your part: Stay as a branch on the vine of Christ, stay in Christ, abide in My Word, and offer the world the Word of life that can save their souls. Preach the Word, sow the Word, grow the Word, live the Word, be My Word to the world, show them Me, show them the joy of My love, set them free to their destiny. Sing My Songs, Spirit sent songs from Heaven filled with My Word to the world! I so loved the world I gave them My Son, but they have forgotten, give Him again to the world in your songs, your words, your life. I am with you, who can be against you?
Therefore, thus says the LORD, “If you return, then I will restore you, before Me you will stand; and if you extract the precious from the worthless, you will become My spokesman. They for their part may turn to you, but as for you, you must not turn to them. Then I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; and though they fight against you, they will not prevail over you; for I am with you to save you and deliver you,” declares the LORD. Jeremiah 15:19-20.
Tread down Satan under your feet with the truth over his lies! Be My royal priesthood praying in the Spirit and bring Me spiritual sacrifice—the blood of the Lamb! Intercede with Jesus your great High Priest. The prayer of you who are righteous in Him with My own righteousness can accomplish much. I have equipped you for just such a time as this.
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25.
You are not alone in this. Be at peace, do not let your hearts be troubled, do not let them be afraid. John 14:27. It is My desire that all people be saved and come to know the truth. And I have given you your great good Shepherd to go with you in search of the lost and to keep you safe from all that would harm your entrance into eternal life.
Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13:20-21.
Do not let the world, the flesh, and the devil encroach on your territory. Stay in the Kingdom of Light, for I rescued you from the power of darkness and translated you to the Kingdom of My Beloved Son who is the Light of the world, and as His follower you will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life. Do not let anyone, even family or friends, pull you back into darkness. Stay in the light and bring them into it as well.
So many are letting themselves be pulled, drawn, and even jumping with both feet into the polluted world of false fiction, video characters, artificial lives, characters who act out immorality, perversion, and violence in games and stories that weave them into webs of lies and deception as reality. False stories that have pulled them into darkness that they have learned to love, that is addicting them to solitary confinement at a computer screen, gaming and drinking in forbidden filth. Do not even look at those things, the media screen, including social media, can trap your eyes and blind your mind to truth. Keep yourself in My love. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who is My Word.
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. And have mercy on some, who are doubting; save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh. Jude 1:20-23.
I love you. I am your refuge and your fortress, and I am with you. Shine like bright lights in the world, holding fast to and holding forth for all the Word of Life! Do not grumble or complain, hold your head high for the second coming of Christ is quite near, even at your door. The window of the time remaining is closing soon, go swiftly forward while the door of the Kingdom is still open by grace to all who will just turn their heart to Me. That is all I need to enter in and show Myself strong on their behalf by drawing them into My Son so that all sin is gone. Just one spark of love and set the heart ablaze with My love when you feed it and fan it into flame with My Word.