Word of the Lord Released January 21, 2009 by Prophet Phyllis Ford PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION I am preparing and shifting things for your good; so allow me to position you, and the things that concern you for your advantage. I am doing these things so that you may be able to make great strides by accomplishing much in a short time. For I am opening doors and making ways in the wilderness, so that you can connect with the right people and set circumstances in order--- not just to be helped, but to make a difference and help others in the process. So stay before me, pray before me so that you may receive every instruction, as I reveal key plans ahead. You will have to maneuver around some things because traps and snares are also being set up by the enemy to keep you from accomplishing or even making the right decisions. So seek me concerning everything you do. From now to next Tuesday, (a seven day window) I will be getting things prepared for a full restoration, but this does not mean---lay back or sit back--- but to actively apprehend so that things may be done, completed, and the next thing is in place to do and perform.  I will set in place others who are like-visioned to assist you, support you, and even pray you through. Be sure and very sure immediately after my help and relief comes---watch for signs of trouble---the enemy will be seeking to take from you the very things I have laid before you. Look to me so that I can show how to move around the obstacles. Stay alert in prayer, because it is your key to having and walking in a peaceful demeanor. I will be teaching you new things to keep as you as you walk through the new paths before you. Be strong and very courageous, because the Lord your God is with you and I am going before you to prepare your way. Set disciplines in your life.  It will keep you on your feet.  Because you will have to walk in this new discipline in order to make it through victoriously. But, hear me clearly: this is a time that I have prepared for my people, and I am moving forward to assist you at every hand. This is a time that you must move forward now, strike the ground with all that is in you; because by doing so you are gearing yourself for this new time, this new season that I place before you, saith the Lord God. I am God, and I am the one that has determined your outcome. Jeremiah chapter 29 is very significant now, especially verses 11-15: there are even keys in those scriptures and even the why’s that I have prepared for my people in this hour. So run with all that I have placed in you. Run, and don’t be weary. Run, for this is the season of your calling. Run, I say, run to make your mark in what I have called you to do. Don’t look to the world for validation.  Don’t look to the wind to determine if this is the time to sow, but look to your God.  Speak to your God.  For I am here - ready to hear and even jettison you to the place where you need to be in this hour, says the Lord of Host. There is a sense of swiftness in the flow of the Spirit, the kind that you must get into the rhythm, catch the rhythm and move with it. So things are more accelerated now, and I am pushing things forward and moving things aside. The winter season is giving away to the spring and the time of fruitfulness has come.  Things that are not bringing forth bud and seed should be laid aside for the future or discarded entirely, because they are in the way of what I am doing and saying now. Listen for the still small voice of instruction; the enlightenment of scripture, a simple example, because I will be in them: leading and guiding you--- saying here I am---I am coming this way. This is also a time for inventions and creative things, completing things, and receiving final instructions - putting the finishing touches into play. This is a creative time and a time of diligence, so don’t allow the flesh to be docile and lazy and not fulfill all that has potential and presence in this time. Do it, dream it, and make it happen.  The time is now—the set time for favor is now. Favor is looked upon, most of the time, as the time that things happen for man because of My divine intervention. But favor at its best is when I have breathed upon the situation and the person and everything within him comes alive; everything under the canopy of My favor is possible, because I am the missing element that has been added. Things that hadn’t worked—now work.  Doors that were there but not opened—now open. Ideas that have been dormant begin to come alive. That’s favor at its best. New revelation concerning my word and my way will be made clear. New understanding concerning things that I have been speaking to my people will now come alive; and everything will begin to fall into place. So hear me as I whisper in your ear and breathe life into nostrils. For, I am forming you and completing you according to my plan. Remember, there is a certain time of deployment, because a certain need and set of circumstances in time have arrived----I say to my people, “Behold, for your redemption draws nigh. I will protect your way and mark out your journey and your path. Move forward and touch not any unclean thing. “ Prophetic Insights: I was awakened this morning at 4am and while in prayer the Lord downloaded this word to me. It was clear and concrete and I wrote very quickly as if to keep pace with the Word that the Lord was speaking to me. There was so much that the Lord spoke in revelation concerning the 29th chapter of Jeremiah, and I wanted to share some very relevant things that the Lord shared with me, so I will share them in this place. When Jeremiah spoke the word of the Lord to the people in the 29th chapter, He was speaking to the elders, priest and prophets concerning being taken into captivity (inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem).  He spoke to them and instructed them to build and plant, take wives and marry—beget sons and daughters and increase so that you won’t diminish.  Then, I begin to hear the Lord. What He was saying was that just because you are in Babylon, carried away as captives , don’t let where you are limit you or define you. If Christ is in us, then we will flourish and grow, and wax strong in the things of God. If we let our mindset limit us or hold us back, we will miss some things that He is preparing for us now. We cannot let our limitations and fears keep us from seeing the Lord strengthen and help us to accomplish things at this time. So, being in Babylon didn’t determine how they should act or think. The real question is---is God in us? Will we follow Him? He’s not limited in His thinking and we shouldn’t be either. Jeremiah Chapter 28 and 29 warns us about false prophets in that day. He warns through Jeremiah for us not to be deceived by false prophets. The Lord showed me something profound that when we begin to speak with words of fear and hatred, and we are not good subjects of our present government - speaking words of truth and righteousness in love, respect and honor—(according to Romans 13, 1 Timothy 2:1) we don’t represent Him. If we don’t walk in His love, we can’t represent Him.  Therefore we can’t say that we are His mouthpiece nor speak on His behalf (with words of bigotry and prejudice all the time saying ‘thus saith the Lord’).  We must live by His word.  What makes a prophet true or false---comes down to what doctrine He believes. True prophets carry the Lord’s spirit and nature.  Remember, they that know their God shall be strong and do great exploits. There is nothing dominated by man’s will that God can’t handle. Commentaries say that during this time Ezekiel and Jeremiah were the true prophets of that day and they spoke literally the same things during the same time. We must be very careful that we don’t let our hatred speak for us in a time that God knows what has occurred and has allowed it to occur. So prophets and intercessors: be careful what you say. You can’t prophesy with hatred in your hearts and reflect God’s truth. Sometimes the greatest captivity we experience we allow to reside in our minds.           Seize the moment, for we are in a suddenly season where all things are through Christ. Pray and get His instruction, wisdom, and favor. He is ready to hear and walk you through this newness of His Day. May you accomplish much in this window of time and beyond!! NOTE:  If you desire to have Prophet Phyllis come and expound upon this word that God has shared, giving further insight into what God has revealed, contact her at carpenterstouch1@aol.com .