I Have Not Forgotten You, Says The Lord

    I feel there are many people that feel like the woman in this picture. Have you felt like you've

had to walk alone, maybe even feeling forgotten by the Lord? Many people need a word of

encouragement right now. If you focus on the news, it can look bleak and frustrating .

Or, if you clue in to some of the prophetic headlines, it can encourage yourfaith. God is exposing things and bringing things to light so that they can be dealt with. A

few days ago I saw a headline on Yahoo News "Decades-long injustice - Judge dismisses two

convictions," in regards to two men that were wrongly convicted concerning the death of Malcom

X. Many prophetic voices have been speaking for a while now about the fact that God brings

exposure, and deals with injustice. As I was praying the other day, God encouraged my faith with

a prophetic word. I believe it not only applies to specific individuals, but it is also a word for

America. God IS moving in many ways that we can't always see, so keep your eyes on the Lord,

not on what may or may not be public knowledge. He often seems to take a long time, but when

He moves, things happen suddenly without warning. I have seen Him do this many times in

people's lives!    

    

There are things coming! Change is coming! Says the Lord. Yes, you have heard it from the

mouths of My prophets, yet many have said in their heart, “This is impossible. This is too big even

for the Lord. For I have hoped in vain, and I have listened to prophetic words that did not come to

pass. And you have said in your heart, “I do not want to get my hopes up again just to have them

crushed.”

    But this is what the Lord says: “Is anything too difficult for the Lord?” Did I not say that if you

believed, all things are possible to those that believe?” You feel forgotten, but that is a lie from the

enemy. I know you have waited and the pain has made you feel as if I will not fulfill My promises

to you, even to this nation, but I have not forgotten you,” says the Lord. You feel as though your

prayers and best efforts to maintain your faith have not fulfilled your purpose. You feel like giving

up, retreating in your faith. This is what the Lord says: 

“At just the right time, I will respond to you.
On the day of salvation I will help you.

I will protect you and give you to the people

as my covenant with them.

Through you I will reestablish the land of Israel

and assign it to its own people again.

I will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out in freedom,’

and to those in darkness, ‘Come into the light.’ Isaiah 49:8-9. 

    Those who put their trust in the Lord shall never be put to shame. And the Lord would say to you today, “Do not look at what things appear to be in the natural. Fix your eyes upon Me. For I am the God of the unexpected. I am the God of the impossible. What is impossible with men is possible with God. Do you believe I am able to do what I have promised?"

Who can snatch the plunder of war from the hands of a warrior?

Who can demand that a tyrant let his captives go?

But the Lord says,

“The captives of warriors will be released,

and the plunder of tyrants will be retrieved.

For I will fight those who fight you,and I will save your children.” Isaiah 49:24-25

God is working behind the scenes, so keep the faith and continue to declare His word, for it is hearing His word released into the airwaves that encourages our faith and also puts His angels on assignment!

The Drought is Over

Word of the Lord for the Body of Christ January 5, 2016, given by Norm Gagnon (transcribed from audio tape)

It’s January 5^th , 2016 and I’m sharing some thoughts from God for His children. I just finished in a worship session and the Word of the Lord came. He wants to touch those with a childlike faith a childlike heart. What God put on my heart is that God was tired of seeing His children like the paralytic beggar at the pool of Bethsaida, waiting and begging for someone to put him into the pool. He had been crying out, “God, I see that there is water…a place where miracles happen, a place where miracles will transpire, but no one is there to bring me into that place.” And God said, “I am going to come and bring my children to a place to be lifted up from their weakness and lifted up from the spiritual lameness, where the Spirit of the Lord can come wash over them.” “You will be a people who will not be begging for My presence or begging for someone to come into that place and provide that transportation for them but they will be children of the Lord that will rise up and walk in His presence. He is looking for those that have a childlike faith and a childlike heart that will sense the newness and the sweetness of His presence. There’s been a 7 year drought in this area, in this region of Southern California. There has been a drought for His children but it’s over; the winter is past. The refreshing has come. It’s time for His presence to come. As Peter cried out, “These are days of refreshing, ” God will refresh His children with a sweetness of His Spirit, a sweetness of His presence. It’s a sweetness that will take away the restriction, the constriction that has brought His children to a place where they no longer experience the joy, where they no longer feel the freedom to dance, or they’ve questioned as to whether God’s presence could even be felt anymore. God says He is going to bring a rain of His presence that will bring a freshness that takes away the cloud from your minds. It will take away the restrictions away, and the double-mindedness and doubt as to the will of God and where you’re to be. There will be such a confidence to know that you’ll say, “I am in the midst of God, I am being directed by His presence.” There will be such a confidence in your life of knowing God is with you that you will be directed to others that are hungry and crying out for a taste of Him. This is the now time, it’s the time for Him to pour out on His people now, and it will be the sweetness of His Spirit that will attract others. People with a childlike heart and a childlike faith will yearn for His presence. They will want to be close to their Father, and their Father will draw them to Him. God is going to wipe away confusion. He is going to eliminate the despair, the discouragement and the depression that comes from a soul that is hungry and desiring His presence, to be joyful and set free. As God is pouring out His presence, it will bring miracles. There will be healing miracles of the body and of the mind. God is in the midst of His people healing their minds. There is a cry from this nation and a cry from society to deal with the mental anguish that people are feeling every day. People are desperate to get any sort of medication to deal with their depression and their hopelessness, but you can’t medicate hopelessness. Only God can come in and bring a refreshing and a new hope, a new heart and a new spirit. This is what the Lord says: “I AM going to give you a new spirit. I am going to give you a new heart and a new mind, and it’s going to come where it will come and bring you into a place where there will be no more excuses concerning what I can do or what I will do. These will be a people who will be prepared to go where I send them. At any moment, they will be prepared to be sent forth to take My presence to others. There is not going to be a question as to “How is God going to do it?” “How am I going to get there, or all that God will do to bring you from point A to point B. “There is just going to be a vessel that says, “Yes, Lord, I am filled with Your water, the newness of Your sweet wine and the newness of joy.” “I will pour it out on a dry heart, a dry land and dry lives to those that will be excited to be set free by the Lord.” There is a sweet wine of His presence that comes, a graciousness of the Lord, that once it touches you, you will bring that kindness, that graciousness and sweetness to the hearts of those that are hardened and hurt by life and they are crying out for something new. This is the hour when God is pouring out on San Diego county, and He’s pouring out on those whose lives have been on hold. Those with a childlike heart who have been on the edge, where they haven’t known if they could go on any longer. They’ve been holding on so long they’ve been full of despair, and God says, “This is it. “The enemy has known this was coming and he has tried to constrict God’s people from trying to receive everything that God has for them, but God is going to release joy, grace and He will lead them out of where they’ve been in hiding. It’s those with childlike hearts that will lead them. It will be those like David who danced before the Lord that will lead them. It’s those whose faith has been constricted. It will be those who have a childlike heart that will lead them out,” says the Lord.