The Father Says Today — October 2020
Daily prophecy for October, 2020, republished with the kind permission of
Prophet Russ Walden of Father’s Heart Ministry.
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October 31, 2020. The Father says today, make it your determination to know nothing beyond Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I say to you that the foolishness of The Cross and the foolishness of preaching is your secret weapon against all the assaults of the enemy. You are not helpless, and you need not look to outward things for security, for My Name and My Spirit are in you and on you in the midst of every struggle. Fret not, neither be dismayed, says God, for the wisdom of men is not your defense, My Name is your defense against all comers. Man puts up his fists and vainly seeks to defend himself, but you need only to speak My Name, and the bastions of the enemy will fall, and his cohorts will desert the field of battle. For I am with you as the God of armies, making Myself known in the conflict that you might overcome and conquer.
I haven’t called you, says the Father, because you are sophisticated or intellectual. I have called you and set My name upon you because you were willing to be base and foolish in My Name. The world will never respect you but observe their end and rejoice, for My strength is made perfect in your weakness. Your wisdom and your understanding do not derive from experience or academics. I AM your wisdom, and I have caused the Spirit of Understanding from My throne to enter into you and cause you to look THROUGH the situation when everyone else only looks AT what is going on and is deceived. The wisdom of this world is foolishness in My Kingdom so let your glory be anchored in who I AM in your life, for you are hidden behind the veil where nothing shall hurt or harm you in any way.
October 30, 2020. The Father says today, by My Hand the breaches in the land will be healed, and that which is taken out of the way will be restored to the paths of righteousness. The world turns a blind eye to My Work but make up your mind to judge rightly and refuse the lie of those incapable of uttering the truth. They see hard things and drink the cup of trembling, but for you, I have allotted the yoke easy and the burden light that you might rest in Me far from the raging of godless humanity. Rest is your portion, says God, and the bread of peace is that which I will feed you at My table. I take no delight in the destruction of the wicked, yet they will wander in a salt land where there is no rest till they say blessed is He that comes in the name of The LORD.
Look up, says God, and rejoice, for you are the sheep of My Hand and among those who feed in My Pastures. You will lay down in peace, and your sleep will be sweet. You will man the bulwarks of intercession and know that My Spirit rules over all bringing light from darkness and salvation to the oppressed. I aAMyour help in adversity when man cannot deliver. I tread down the enemy and cause you to do mightily because you know Me, and you choose to see what I AM doing in the earth and not focus on those things the enemy is threatening. I have drawn you out, says God, and I have put a separation between the righteous and the unrighteous till the storm is past, and the winds of blessing once again blow in your land.
October 29, 2020. The Father says today, I AM your Help when no help can be found. No matter what men’s promises might be, even great leaders fail and fall, but My Power is everlasting. The things that you don’t know and cannot change — leave them to Me, for My Superintendence over your life is ongoing even when all forsake and leave you. Lean wholly on Me during this time, knowing that I will keep you safe and secure from every threat. In your vulnerability and inability, My Love is made manifest, and My Strength is made perfect. Mortal men show themselves to be but dust, but I have brought you from the dust and seated you in heavenly places in Christ.
Know then that you are not without recourse, even when every door slams in your face. When man’s answer is “no,” My promise is still “yes, and amen.” When men tell you nothing more can be done, My power from on high is just beginning to work to deliver you out of your grave and lead you to My table where you will eat and be filled with every good thing. Your hunger will be satisfied. Your eyes will be opened, and though you be bent over in shame, I will fully restore you and support you amid all opposition.
October 28, 2020. The Father says today, My Kingdom doesn’t just bring joy — it IS joy. No more postponement and no more delay. I AM giving you joy right now. When the angels assigned to you look at your face today, they will say your smile is just like your Father’s! Be buoyant. Be focused. Keep your attention on My Goodness and My Sovereignty. Never EVER make allowances for not being happy. Joy is My identity and My character. Joy is your inheritance and your portion. Receive My joy. Accept even the stigma of joy because those around you will judge your buoyancy of spirit to be a sign of a lack of maturity. Those that think that way have no clue how ignorant they are of My priorities in their lives.
Be joyful! He that sits in heaven shall laugh. Let laughter be your first response to every challenge. Laughter and joy in My Spirit will deflate the enemy. The enemy thinks he has you on the ropes and about to be defeated, then joy comes. You smile, and say “is that ALL you’ve got devil?” That is the warrior spirit, says the Father. That is the audacity of a favored child in My Kingdom. You are favored, and you are My Entitled One. Step into the conflict today and extract victory from defeat and joy from heaviness, and I will give you beauty for ashes in an unprecedented way.
October 27, 2020. The Father says today, your prayers have requisitioned an answer from My Throne. I’ve heard you in a time appointed, and the angels are working to bring about deliverance, provision, and restoration in your situation. As a High Priest over the altar in the heavens, the sacrifice laid down 2000 years of My own body is become the very basis on which I involve Myself in your affairs. My hand now moves to lift the heavy burden and to let you go free, saying unto you, “according to your faith, so be it unto you.” As a father stands ready to minister to the needs of his children, even so, know that I am quick to answer and immediate in My response, for now is the day of your salvation, and today is the accepted time for the shift that I am bringing into your life.
When you pray, says God, you never have to do so as though to overcome My Reluctance to move in your life. I AM not reluctant; neither am I holding out on you. Though others have taught to the contrary, know that I place no premium upon suffering, lack, or injustice in any regard. The blows intended for you are fallen upon Me. The deprivations you face I carried in My earth walk, becoming poor, destitute, and deprived that you might be filled and blessed with every good thing that pertains to life and godliness. Come away, My beloved, from the sarcastic, the pessimistic, and those who are harsh in spirit and angry in heart, for I would give you peace. Though high-minded men revile you in their hearts, I will console you in the secret place and satisfy you fully with every good thing. This day My love envelops you, and My power keeps you safe from every intrusion and assault against you.
October 26, 2020. The Father says today, I have heard the slander of the enemy against you, and I AM moving to occupy them elsewhere far beyond your borders and your boundaries. Their criminal acts and the blows aimed at you fell upon Me 2000 years ago, beloved. I was rejected so that you could be accepted. I was wounded in the house of My friends that I might set the solitary in families and anchor you in your tribe. In the deepest part of your being, I conceived you not of the earth but of the heavenly substance, even the incorruptible seed. You are not limited by the restrictions of your earthly birth or station in life, for I have set you in the heavens, seated in Me far above all principality and power.
Men’s loving-kindness is a cruel thing, and their pity is as cold as the grave. Cursed be he who trusts in man or makes the arm of flesh his strength. The unruly horde set their traps in secret, thinking no one will stop them, but I have heard your cry. The response of heaven is resounding to your bitter complaint. The unholy alliance and their ill-conceived plans they have muttered against you in their hatred will only define their own end, for I have loosed My arrows against them and embarrassed them in their own land. This day your captivity is broken. Like a bird, you are released from the snare of the fowler to rejoice and celebrate in the safe place I have prepared for you that you might be engulfed in My presence, even in the face of your enemy, says God.
October 25, 2020. The Father says today, I have separated you for the work of My Kingdom. Elisha is not the only person to pick up a mantle fallen down from heaven upon his shoulders. There is a mantle and a calling upon you, and this day, I call you up to your higher destiny. Old things are passed away. All things have become new. Your life is not just some random casualty of a biological outcome, My beloved. I called you before you were in your mother’s womb. In the hall of unrealized souls, when the sons of God sang for joy, I brought you out and established your sitting down and your going out and the times and days of your sojourn upon the earth. Your life counts for something. There is a ministry portion on your life recognized in heaven and now to be established on the earth. Don’t be confused or misled by those who look through you like you don’t exist or that you don’t matter in the larger scheme of things.
I’ve called you, says the Father, and I’ve anointed you. I’ve put My words in your mouth that you might go out and speak My Word. From your father’s loins, I called your name. At the moment of your birth, I opened the book of your days, and this day, a new chapter begins. The page is turned on the things of the past, so don’t look back. Don’t look back to the things behind you but look to the things that are ahead. Don’t hem yourself in with preconceived ideas about what you should be doing or what others think your obligations are. This day I break off of you the illegitimate authorities with their illegitimate responsibilities and illegitimate words that they have spoken over you. You are free. You are now set at liberty to serve Me, so open your eyes and see, verily see your destiny come to fulfillment, even this day.
October 24, 2020. The Father says today, your time of separation is over. My sanctuaries are open to receive you and energize you for the day ahead. Drink deeply, for My glory is that which uplifts you and invigorates you lifting all oppression, heaviness, and frustration. My tender mercies are enfolding you, and the salve of My Grace are soothing every wound and every bruise you’ve carried from the abuses of the past. My banner over you is love and are flowing over you as wind to freshen your spirit and give you the reassurance needed to put one foot in front of the other and walk out of the captivity of the enemy.
Listen, says God, to the angel choirs that gather around you in the night seasons. The splendor of My shadow covers you and shelters you from every encroachment of the enemy that seeks your life. As the prey is taken from the paw of the bear or the mouth of the lion, so I have ransomed you this day. Feel My grip upon your life. You are not exposed, and you are not neglected in any way. Those who plot to destroy you? They are as nothing; as the small dust of the balance that has no bearing on the weightiness of My glory overshadowing you this day. The liars are silenced forever, but the anointing of My Spirit is resting upon you as you dance and rejoice in My presence as a bride with her bridegroom advancing each day in deeper intimacy with Me.
October 23, 2020. The Father says today, My voice speaks to you in the silence between your own thoughts. Be still and know that I am your rescue and your salvation. Outside of your dependence on Me, there is nothing but disappointment and false promises. My word is sure, and My strength is more than sufficient to save, heal, and deliver no matter what things look like outwardly. Why would you let worry paralyze you or fear to cause you to run and hide? Stand up straight and go forward in faith. Exercising your confidence in Me is all about being willing to risk and willing to go forward when everything in you wants to retreat and give in.
When all the energies of the enemy to hurt you are spent and exhausted, I AM just getting started releasing My power to bless you and put you over in life. Go ahead and trust Me. Go ahead and laugh the laugh of faith, for the outcome you are reaching for is made certain and sure by My promise. Though the battle is white-hot and the war is ongoing, know that you will be left standing with your testimony intact and your vision undimmed by the struggle when the smoke clears. Trust Me, says God. Rely on My Word. Lean with your whole heart and personality on who I AM in the situation, and you will never be ashamed.
October 22, 2020. The Father says today, I’ve heard you in a time appointed. Though My presence may seem far away, know that your faith is registering strongly in My immediate presence right now. You may feel feeble and overwhelmed but know that who I AM on the inside of you is a present reality putting down all rule, and every principality ranged against you. You may feel like you are in a prison of pain and impoverishment, but I AM your paradise of protection even when you are surrounded by disappointment and heartache. My wrap-around presence engulfs you in My glory, and because of that glory, every need you have is spontaneously met in response to your faith-filled prayer.
Receive this day the richness of the vaults of heaven, for they are laid up in store for you. I have accorded you this day the privileges of royalty, for you are a king and a priest authorized to tread My courts at will. When the tide of unrest and suffering seems inescapable, I will pour out upon you in a moment of time, eons, decades of stored up blessing and favor to put you over and bring you to release from every snare of the enemy. Though you make your bed in hell, know that joy comes in the morning. Though weeping endures for the night, keep your mind stayed on the fact that I AM the Daystar arising to dispel the clouds of doubt and bring you into your safe haven, and that right quickly, says your God.
October 21, 2020. The Father says today, the enemy is coming up empty in your life. He reaches out and he executes his plan, and it blows up in his face, for I AM your protection and your preservation. I have hidden you in the high places of My glory, where he is breathless and asphyxiating on the rarified atmosphere of My presence. The ambush and the snare he laid for you his own steps will lead him to, and he will be stopped and held fast by his own treachery. Know that I AM with you. Know that I will never deliver you over to the desires of those that hate you. I act in your life not based on your sinless perfection but because of the provisions of Calvary, where the blood that was shed becomes your defense in every struggle you face.
The angel armies this day have awakened to the sound of the voice of their Commander. They will not relent, and they will not go easy on the enemy, for I have declared, “that will be enough of that!” They prowled around, they spied out your liberty in Me, and they boiled over in rage because I set My love upon you. Choose not to be alarmed; instead, lean back your head and rest in My embrace. Feel and hear the laughter of heaven rumbling in My breast at the ludicrousness of the enemy’s futile plans. I will make an end, and they will be no more. I will remove them far off from your life, and you will rejoice, for they will seek you and not be able to find you. They will plan and come up in confusion every time. Have no fear or , dread, for I AM your help as a Father helps his child that stumbles and falls. I AM right with you to trample down the foe and bring you quickly into the place of safety.
October 20, 2020. The Father says today, My Justice is walking through the nations, working equity and truth for the godly. My Hand is sweeping through the halls of government to unseat the wicked and give the impoverished, the prisoner, and the oppressed reason to celebrate My Goodness. Fear not, says The Father, for the hearts of rulers are in My Hand, and I resolutely turn them in the direction that I would have them to go. I set one up, and who will overthrow My Counsel? I put one down, and who will disannul My Decision? Their thirst for power will go unsatisfied. The weapons of their warfare will crumble to dust in their hands. I will shatter the teeth of the ravenous lions. They will dissolve like snails in the slime and be cut off from My Treasuries.
Learn justice, says The Father, and walk in fairness toward those around you. See My Hand at work and let your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth. On the day I join the battle, run to the high tower of My Name and be safe. Realize that before any other consideration, you are Mine, and I AM yours, and it is My Kngdom and not the hand of man that rules over the affairs of state! They will toss, and they will turn, but they will not escape the conviction of My Spirit. They make loud boasts against My anointed, but in nothing shall they prevail for it would not matter if they put their seats in the high places of the earth — from the highest throne in heaven, I will bring them down and work righteousness on behalf of My beloved, says The Father.
October 19, 2020. The Father says today, My grace-fountain is flowing freely over you this day. My default posture toward you is lovingkindness and mercy even when you kick against the goad of My leading. I AM not some cosmic ogre, glowering over you with a grimace of displeasure, just waiting to squash you like a bug — those who project that image have Me all wrong. I AM your shelter, not only when you get it right, but when you falter as well. My hand is upon you, not just your spirit man but your soul as well. I AM looking out for you emotionally, in the decisions of your will and the struggles of your mind. I AM ever extended in compassion to you and consistently drawing your attention to the yoke easy and the burden light. You’ve asked Me, “LORD, do things have to be this hard?” No, they don’t. When struggle defines your life, remember My Word says, “the way of the transgressor is hard.” Make the adjustment and know relief will come.
The Father says things are the way they are because of what you are doing. If you want something different, you must do something different. Come to the negotiating table of My presence, says God. I AM here. I AM listening. I AM not ignoring you or secretly nodding in approval at your pain. I AM ever shifting the axis of your situation to bring you under the shadow of My embrace, into the protective covering of the wings of the cherubim where you will find rest and respite from the terrible troubles and frustrations that rage in the outer courts of human misunderstanding. I AM Love, and I am the personification of constant care. The fierce and brutal assaults against you do not originate with any plan I have for you. Come to Me this day and rest your head on My shoulders. Climb up in My lap and let your Daddy make it all better. You are My child, and My embrace is here just for you this day.
October 18, 2020. The Father says today, deemphasize the natural man on the inside of you, and the spirit man (where I live) will stand up and take dominion. You were not created for deprivation, downturn, or to live out your life as a victim. When the flesh complains, whimpers and murmurs against the Spirit and against My word, militate boldly against it. As I carried My Cross to the hill of Golgotha, even so, you must carry your cross by saying in your soul, “I must decrease that He might increase on the inside of me…” I AM the ultimate territorial Spirit, says the Father, and there is unclaimed territory on the inside of you that must yield and must be conquered for My promise and your destiny to be established in your life.
Know this, says God — there is no outward conquest without the inward defeat of the motions of the flesh, the demands of the natural man, and the objections of the carnal, unreasoning mind. This is what growth in the Spirit is all about. I stand at the door and knock, says God, and there are many entrance ways on the inside of you that yet stand barred to My Path. The initiative is yours to open and to yield and say “yes” to Me even when you are being stretched and being challenged. I know you don’t always understand. My ways are not man’s ways, but if you choose — if you make a quality choice to accept My word and stand on My promise, you will never be disappointed.
October 17, 2020. The Father says today, be willing to be clueless in The Kingdom. Abraham went out into the land of sojourn, not knowing where he was going. This is a strategy that worked out well for him, and it is a tactic in life that will put you over when nothing else will. Know this — My Peace will take you where your finite understanding will never go. Being clueless, not having to have all the answers, is the key to appropriating in your heart the peace that passes understanding. My Peace will take you where understanding will never go. Be willing not to require explanations, rationalizations, and clarification for every step you take. Just know this — when you commit your spiritual stride to the point of no return, I will enlarge your steps beneath your feet and cause even your mistakes to prosper.
Relinquish judgments, analysis, interpretation, and the need to comprehend. Your mind can only perceive the very faintest outline of the overall thing that I am doing in your future. If you limit your cooperation to only what you can understand, you will never experience the over-the-top total breakthrough I have for you. If you want what you’ve never had and want to go where you’ve never been, you must let go of the human, natural demand to know the why’s and wherefores of what I AM asking of you. Most people’s destiny dies on the vine of refusing to step out into the unknowing where My Glory awaits to manifest the substance and give them good success. I call you this day to that unfamiliar territory of stepping out. You won’t be disappointed, and you will not falter or fail, for I will be with you every step of the way.
October 16, 2020. The Father says today, I have sent the promise of the Father upon you. I have endued you with power from on high to clothe you with glory, and out of that glory, I supply every possible need you will ever have. Draw on the glory. Press into The Glory. My Glory is My Kingdom, and My Kingdom is My Glory. In My Kingdom is total and all-encompassing fullness. You were not designed to be empty but to be full. Fullness of life, fullness of joy, complete supply, and irrevocable life cannot be diminished or depleted in any way. This is that with which I am clothing you. This is your spiritual wardrobe. This is what I modeled for Peter, James, and John on the Mount of Transfiguration.
When Gideon went into battle, I clothed Him with My Spirit. When Saul came into the company of the prophets, he became another man, saturated with My Spirit. When David danced before Me, the Tabernacle of David was established. The Tabernacle of David is not a place of visitation but a place of abiding habitation. David’s testimony was not about an occasional visit. Make your testimony as David’s, saying, “I will abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Move this day from visitation to abiding. This is your portion. This is the promise that came 2000 years ago, and it is the promise that is coming now, and the promise that will come. My Promise, My Power, and My Glory have come; they are coming and continue to utterly pour out upon you to put you over in life, to raise you up in My Image, and to put down all rule and opposition coming from the enemy.
October 15, 2020. The Father says today, My fear insulates you from My wrath. When you choose The Fear of The LORD, you ascend into My wisdom and into that rarified atmosphere of ascendancy over every principality and power ranged against you. The councils of the uninformed understate the reality of My wrath but understand and know that My wrath exists. I hate evil with a perfect hatred, says the Father. It is My wrath that necessitated the suffering of the Cross — the suffering I endured to open to you free and unrestrained opportunity to move from the place of wrath into the position of unmitigated and undiminished favor. This is not based on your worth or your accomplishments but because of the work of The Cross. Two thousand years ago, I poured out to the dregs My full and complete wrath toward sin and the awful cost of transgression — all on your behalf and to your benefit.
Accept My pardon and My mercy this day with a comprehensive understanding of all that is your portion of My goodness. Within the parameters of the applied work of The Cross on your behalf, there is nothing to be found but the loving care of a benevolent Father. Beyond those boundaries — the provisions of redemption, there is nothing but outer darkness. Purpose in your mind to stand in the earth as an ambassador of the kingdom of light where life is found for whosoever will. Bid them come from the highways and the byways, for this is the Bridal season, and the supper of the Great God is set. The attendants stand ready to serve up My bounty. Know that I have commissioned you and equipped you. This is your day of assignment. This is your season of fulfilling the destined purpose for which I sent you into time and space from the hall of unrealized souls where you were kept in the heavens from before the foundation of the earth. I choose you this day, says the Father, and in your faithfulness, I will recompense you and accord you a place at My table.
October 14, 2020. The Father says today, because I have time, you have time. Your chronological age has nothing to do with the viability of your destiny. I made you a tree of righteousness, rooted and grounded in My love, full of sap and full of strength. The world around you despises the grey head and worships at the altar of youthfulness, but I say your youth is renewed like the eagles. You will run, and guess what? You won’t grow weary? You will walk — you will progress by steps, and you won’t grow faint or exhausted with the effort. You are not building for a scant few years left for you — you are building for eternity, not with wood, hay, or stubble but with the solidity of who I AM and what I’ve promised over and again in your life.
Go out in your day and redeem the time. Take hold of time and make it your servant by the authority of the shed blood of Calvary. Realize that when you walk in the path that pleases Me and aligns with My mind and heart, I will establish you when you sit down, and I will go with you when you go out. My blessing is hunting you down this day. My goodness is tracking the works of your hands and the steps of your feet. Never allow past bitter experience to speak louder to you than the truth of My Word. Circumstances are fleeting, but My Word stands forever. Take My Word in your mouth and let it lodge deeply in your heart. Set yourself and resolve yourself to be a faith believing believer and not a fly by night professor who gives up when contradictions loom above you. This is your set season. Again, this is your set season, and as you obey and lay down your life before Me, you will never be disappointed.
October 13, 2020. The Father says today, the veil is rent, and the way is made open into the Holy Place. I tell you this day come boldly into My presence. You are no more limited to the mere shadow of things to come, for I have made a place for you here by Me at the table of My substance. Receive My substance today. Eat to the full and be satisfied with all that Calvary affords you. There is nothing spiritual about withholding or suffering when the price was paid 2000 years ago for you to receive and rejoice. I AM bringing you this day out of the cyclical drain of religious striving into the benefits of the finished work of the Cross. In the Cross, all sufficiency for answered prayer is found by the exercise of your faith, so receive all that My Son died to provide even this day. Receive gladly and receive without cost and without a price, for it is My delight to give you The Kingdom.
There is a body in the earth, says the Father, that reflects My Purpose of which I am the head. Take your place in My extended Purposes. You are not a random life lived separate or isolated from others. I AM the God who sets the solitary in families, and in My Family, there is a deployment for you and function for you to fulfill. When you are rejected or set aside by religious mentalities, don’t be offended or wounded in any way. Keep sojourning, for there is a people I will establish you in the midst of where you will be fitted and perfected into a vessel of honor and not dishonor. I have called you, and I have anointed you. There is a ministry portion on your life, and this is the season and time for destiny to be fulfilled and My glory to be seen in your land. Reach out in faith. Forget the past. Let go of past things for yesterday’s manna always breeds worms. Receive the fresh-baked bread of My Purposes for you today, and all will be well, and needs will be met as you take your position among the ranks of the faithful in My Kingdom.
October 12, 2020. The Father says today, the deep aquifers of My Spirit are breaking up under your feet for an outpouring of My Blessing and favor in your life. The siege gates are opening, for the enemy has fled. The spoil of wealth and supply that the world has hoarded and held back from these My people are open and available this day to satisfy and meet every expectation. What of those that believe not? What of those who have hunkered down under a fear mentality? They will see of My goodness, but they will not partake, for the stampede is on and the outpouring is now. For the naysayers and conspiracy mongers? All they see is darkness on the land and gross darkness on the people, and that is their portion. For those with the eye of faith? They see nothing but the morning spread on the mountains and My great army going forth to take the prey from the mouth of the lion, even My young ones from the paw of the bear.
There is no fear in the kingdom, says the Father. There is no terror or trepidation in love. Let the superseding law of love and the law of faith this day bring the substance of those things desired from the unseen into the seen even in your life this day. There is a place here by Me where the plowman overtakes the reaper, and the seed you sow produces a harvest before it hits the ground. Don’t look at the serpent coiled at your feet, look at the judgment I took on your behalf, and those things at your feet will have no power. Look and live, says God. Look and overcome. See with the eyes of faith. Command your eyes to see THROUGH the situation, not just AT the problem. Remember that you are where your attention takes you. What you fill your mind with becomes the raw material your tomorrows are constructed of. Do you really want your life to reflect the fear, the terror, the conspiracy theories, and the lies that abound in the land? Guard your heart and partake deeply of the narrative of My word, and your future will be secure, and you will come into your blessing place without fail.
October 11, 2020. The Father says today, there is not one prayer you offer up that My angels are not standing by. The perfume of your prayer ministers to My Spirit and cause the lintels and posts of the door of My Throne room to smoke and vibrate with the resonance of My Glory moving to act on your behalf. When prayer proceeds from your lips, My Angels gather them and offer them as living coals on the altar of incense before My Throne. Let them always be a sweet savor in My Nostrils. Remove from the fragrance of your prayer the pungent odor of unbelief and the acrid aroma of murmuring or complaint. Let worship and praise be in your prayers as sweet cassia and myrrh, for beloved, I delight to experience your continual and heartfelt prayer.
Know always that not one desire or need expressed from your lips is ever regarded as casual or unnecessary in My presence. As they did with Daniel’s prayers, the angels that attend your life will come for your words and hasten them to My altar. There they minister to Me and will be afterward cast like coals of fire back into the earth where there will be lightnings and earthquakes in the Spirit as I move heaven and earth to answer your petition. As I turned the sundial back by degrees for Hezekiah so I will shift the very inner workings of the cosmos to answer the faintest cry of faith from your lips. Receive this day the answer, and the approbation of heaven. Pray always with all prayer, intercession, and supplication. In so doing, you fulfill the priestly ministry assigned to you as an attendant at My altar in the glory, and you will be rewarded.
October 10, 2020. The Father says today, the oppression of the enemy is lifting. I will never allow man to swallow you up. The day in and day out pressure and distress will leave now, and My Peace is settling over you like a warm blanket. They’ve been trying to put the squeeze on you, but MyWword to you is to press into the pressure. When you press into the pressure, you will break out into The Kingdom, and The Kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy. Never see yourself as disenfranchised or disinherited. Your entitlement is based on the work of redemption, and your inheritance originates on My Throne, not in the cruel mercies of man. Give them no thought and pay them no heed. There is only one thing to pay attention to: do your ways please Me? When your ways please Me, I will compel your enemy to be at peace with you whether he wants to or not.
The table of My generosity is spread before you. The enemy looks on and is helpless as you partake to the full and drink deeply of the New Wine of My Spirit. This is your time of refreshing. This is your time to delight in the vintages of My vineyard and to celebrate the goodness of My benevolence in the land of the living. You will live and not die and will declare My goodness in the land of the living. Your tears? They are in My bottle, every one of them counted before they ever fell in rivulets down your cheeks. I will pronounce blessing for every tear, and for every grief, I will return joy — unspeakable and full of Glory. My Glory is opening over you like a cosmic aperture of light and energy pouring out upon every need, and every area of concern in your life, says God, for that is your portion by My hand even this day.
October 9, 2020. The Father says today, I have heard you in a time appointed. Can you take now for an answer? I AM not hiding from you — don’t hide from Me. I AM not a far-off God. I AM as near to you as your hands and feet. I AM standing between you and the assault of the enemy, assuring the outcome of your circumstance and the resolution of your situation. Let your mouth pray. The voice of the enemy might reverberate on the earth, but your voice echoes in the heavens and moves angels to bring your prayers as coals to My Altar. The past is the past. Though their hatred is very much alive, My love for you is what determines what happens next. They bring up your failures and your transgressions, but I have put those things as far as the east is from the west — they don’t figure into My plan for your tomorrows.
Resist fear and anxiety. Let all those cares be displaced in your heart with praise and worship and trust — deep trust in My faithfulness. Refuse to run from what is ahead. Refuse to live in denial and shame. Don’t hide from the situation but face it head-on because I AM here, and I AM working. More are they that are for you than they that are against you. They lay awake plotting and scheming all night long, but their intentions against you are in vain. In vain do they set their trap and in vain do they smile their mirthless smile assuring themselves that your downfall is imminent. That is the lie. My promise is the truth. The hand of My deliverance is bringing the gavel down in your favor. The drawn swords of the enemy will be turned back and destroyed, and you will be sustained even from this moment and come out of the challenge rejoicing in My love and celebrating My faithfulness.
October 8, 2020. The Father says today, I judge you by My strength, not by your weakness. When I look at you, I measure what I do next by your dependence upon Me and not any other thing. Your faith and your absolute leaning upon Me with all of your heart, soul, and being, determine what happens next in your life. There is no need to summon up human bravado or some pseudo-spiritual frame of mind, for I AM not impressed by any such thing. When I come, I AM looking for one thing on the earth, and one thing in your heart, and that is Faith. Faith moves the mountains. Faith brings the unseen into the seen realm and establishes a heaven-on-earth reality in your situation. Focus on that. Build yourself up by praying in the Holy Ghost. Build My Faith into yourself through the hearing of My Word and the whole topography of your life will be altered to the good.
When you are under pressure in the situation, choose to press into the pressure. N ever retreat and never surrender. When others say there is no help for you in God, say of your soul, “God is My Helper.” When others suggest I have forsaken you because of some imperfection or failure, give them no heed. Know that My Name and not your sinless perfection is the basis on which I act to save and bring you out of many waters. Know that I AM your rescue today. I’m the hero, and the Cross is enough. Make a definite choice to act and think in a contrary way to the demands of the situation. When you are struggling and facing impossible odds, do what I would do in the situation. Be an imitator of your Father in heaven, for I will never leave you and never forsake you. I will underwrite your faith and see you through until the circumstance changes, and you come out on the other side blessed, intact, and singing with praise and jubilation in your soul.
October 7, 2020. The Father says today, why concern yourself with the losing team? Satan and all his forces were defeated 2000 years ago on Calvary. I AM on the inside of you, always causing you to triumph, so suffer not the devil to speak into your life. The enemy is always putting his narrative out there every day of the world, seeking to destroy your faith. Muzzle his whispering and his slanders against your confidence in Me, and your faith will soar to new heights. It doesn’t matter what he thinks, and it doesn’t matter what he is planning. When the enemy does his worst, I will do My best, and we both know how that is going to work out, do we not?
I AM with you, says the Father, and I will never leave you nor forsake you. Set your affection and your attention upon who I AM in your life and where I sit behind the veil of eternity. Heaven’s resources are ever transmitted to you on the conduits of the mandates of your faith. The enemy’s plans? They are nothing. The plans of man? They cannot separate you from your destiny in Me. Hearken — hear and declare what I am saying and doing and not what the enemy is saying and doing. Pull back from those who are using the anointing I’ve given them to propagate something other than the good news. This is your now time and your now season. The enemy is defeated, My throne is exalted and you are coming out of captivity on time and on target to receive all that I have promised.
October 6, 2020. The Father says today, go low and worship. When the pressure is on, and there seems to be no end in sight, realize that you can’t solve the problem on the level of the problem. At that moment, choose to respond in humility and contrition. The enemy of your soul has no defense against humility. When you adopt humility as your default response in the heat of the moment, every assault of hell against you will be rendered inert and ineffectual to do any harm. The enemy cannot understand humility and cannot even see you when you adopt the cloak of humility when all others are prating fools. He will flail about unable to find you because in humility, you will move in ways that he cannot anticipate or come against.
Say to your soul, “there is nothing to fear.” Calm yourself and refuse to react. Trim your words and go down inside where My kingdom dwells and worship at My altar. Your prayers are coals laid upon My altar that are a sweet savor before My throne. Your prayers open the heavens and bring the resources of My Kingdom to bear in your situation when nothing else will help. Forsake all false dependencies. Refuse to be intimidated by those who think they are in charge of what happens next in your situation. I AM here. I AM working. I AM bringing about a best-case outcome on your behalf as you set your love upon Me and quietly trust knowing that in nothing will you be reduced or damaged in any way.
October 5, 2020. The Father says today, My People will be willing in the day of My Power. I AM restoring to you this day the dew of your youth. Strength from on high is coming, and all weakness and disability are fading away to nothingness. Receive My Dunamis Power, says God. Know that I am the sinew of your strength and the stamina in your legs to stand and make known My Testimonies on the earth. You will live and not die. Death is not your portion. Disease is not your portion. I will put none of the conditions upon you that I put upon the Egyptians as it were — for My covenant with you is a covenant of life and a covenant of strength to bring you out of the place of weakness and fainting into the robust experience of overcoming in every situation and circumstance.
You are in Me, and I AM in you, says the Father. The environment and ecosystem that sustains you in the earth originates in heaven, and in heaven, there is no failure, no death, no disability or loss or heartbreak. Rise up to your destiny. Get “God-inside” minded in all things you are facing today. Reject the counsels of unbelief and the false doctrines of unanswered prayer. Let My Word speak louder to you than your circumstance. Distance yourself from those who claim I have suspended My Promises in your life for any reason. Suffering is not your portion for the Cross is enough. Sickness is not your portion for the work of Calvary is sufficient. You are free this day. You are whole this day. This day you walk in newness of life as never before.>
October 4, 2020. The Father says today, I AM the God of life and life more abundantly. No more waiting and no more standing in line or pressing your nose against the glass of someone else’s testimony of victory and blessing. The future is yours. The supply of heaven is yours. There is no lack, and there is no deficit in you in My Kingdom, so lay hold on that reality by the mandates of faith and see My kingdom manifest out of the unseen into the seen in your situation. Beloved, money is a defense, and wisdom is a defense, but wisdom gives life to those that find it. Let’s do the math, says God. My HJeart is to add to you and to multiply you and increase you beyond all that you could ask or think. I place no premium on limitation, restriction, or impoverishment, for I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health. Set your attention not on what you need but on where I AM taking you. Down on the inside of you where My throne abides is all the wisdom and understanding necessary for you to stage a walk-out of the captivity and restriction that is taking your joy. You aren’t being punished.
You’ve wondered what you’ve done wrong or if I AM tormenting you for past transgressions, and none of this is true. When I went to the Cross, the beatings and stripes that I bore thoroughly addressed even the darkest iniquity in your life. All your sins, all your shortcomings, those hidden and dark things? Mark them PAID in FULL, for the Cross is enough. I have no penance for you to pay, no purgatory of suffering for you to be kept in chains behind the bars of your own regret. Accept forgiveness. Know that I’ve placed those things as far as the east is from the west. My invitation now is to the yoke easy and burden light, even in the mundane, every day cares and needs that you have. I’m all about more than you could ask or think. Trust Me. Listen to Me. Act on My Word and believe My Word. Allow the full force of the mandates of your faith to dictate your next decision, and the heavens will open, and you will walk free from the heaviness and poverty of spirit that has tracked you for so long.
October 3, 2020. The Father says today, salvation is come out of Zion. I AM not an absentee landlord in your life, says God. I see the enemy that encamps round about you. I AM working, and I AM moving on your behalf to reshape your expectations and outcomes completely. You will not come to naught. You will not falter or fail. I will war on your behalf as in the day of battle when I accompanied Joshua into action with hailstones and mighty acts of power. The workers of iniquity have said they will eat you up as they eat bread, but My word is that I will break the jaw teeth of the roaring lion, and you will put your foot on the enemy’s neck and rejoice in triumph and victory. I will scatter the bones of the enemy that camps against you and put to shame those who despise My name and pollute My testimonies.
Move forward now, says God, for your captivity is broken. Rejoice now for more are they that are for you than they that are against you. Look through the situation and not just at those things that are coming against you. See My hand at work. Align yourself in declaration and decree with what I am doing and what I have promised in My Word. Come up to the high place, and again I say to you come up higher. I have prepared a place for you here by Me where ruling and reigning is a reality now and not just some distant concept in eternity future. You are a king, and you are a priest now. I AM underwriting your faith and bringing a profound shift into your circumstances as you think like I think and do what I would do in your situation, for I AM in you, and I AM working with you both to will and to do My good pleasure.
October 2, 2020. The Father says today, you will never exhaust My goodness in your life. I AM ever attentive to bring My favor and lovingkindness online in your situation at every turn. Expect My mercies to be renewed and recharged every morning. Anticipate abundance, expect things to work out on time, and on target to fulfill your highest heart’s desire and greatest dream fulfilled. It’s not a fantasy. It isn’t unrealistic to believe Me for precisely what I promised to you and had in mind for you 2000 years ago — life and life more abundantly. The enemy? Destruction is his portion. The deceitful tongue? It is condemned. The enemy will be plucked out of his place and rooted out of your life. You will search for him and not find him for all My paths are peace, and in peace, I will keep you and increase you and enlarge you every day of your walking.
I AM vining Myself in you and branching Myself in you this day. Abide in Me. See with My eyes and hear My sound like the sound of many waters washing away yesterday’s shame and disappointments and refreshing you with new mercies moment by moment. I place no premium upon suffering. I so despise suffering and heartache that I carried them all on your behalf on the Cross, even to the grave that you might be free to know the fullness of My promise in every area of your life. Those things that you cannot control? Leave them to Me. Those things that make you angry and bring doubt? I know they exist — cast all those cares on Me for I care for you. Unclench your fists and relax your shoulders. Rest in My embrace. I AM here. You are not alone. You are not forsaken. People come, and people go from your life, but in faithfulness, I will sustain you, and in lovingkindness, I will bring you out to your blessing place.
October 1, 2020. The Father says today, My Blessing in your life is measured by the Cross, not by your track record. You have run into the high tower of My Name. The blood is upon your doorpost. When you cry out to Me, the predicating factor that determines a positive answer where you are concerned is not based on anything you have or have not done. I’m not checking to see how spiritual you are or how hard you’ve been working for My Kingdom. When I look at you, I choose to see the Lamb seated on the throne of your heart and nothing else. Receive that mercy today. Cease from your own labors and enter into My Rest. You have nothing to prove, and there is nothing you can earn from Me that Calvary hasn’t already provided.
Trust in the finished work of redemption, says The Father. I see your heart, and I know your struggle. When sin surfaces in your character, understand that the answer is running to and not away from Me. Cease trying to earn your way out of punishment or disqualification. Sin is a symptom. It symptomizes a need to press into My Presence. I have ordained that you grow up into the full measure of the stature of Christ in your life, your person, and your character. When contradictions to My nature show up in your responses to the people around you, make a choice to retreat to My Presence. Look full in My face. When you see Me, you will be changed into My likeness, and the chains of sin and transgression will lose their hold. This is the inward path and the way that leads to life. Make it yours today, and you will experience all that the Cross affords and that right quickly.
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Hooray! You truly are a mighty prophet of God. We are so blest to have you as a body of Christ. These words are so timely, uplifting, encouraging, bullseye, and very accurate. What an anointed man of God. Looking forward with anticipation to your powerful messages. Thank you so much and shalom.