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Never fear what you hear, child. The only one you are to fear is Me.
You have been listening to others, and to things that have caused fear
to enter your heart. You are to allow nothing to enter into you that
would cause you to fear. Every word, or thought that comes to you,
must be judged by you, and discerned, and then properly dealt with.
Cast down those things that cause you to fear, to doubt, to waver in
your faith, and to be burdened.
I have not given you the spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a
sound mind.
Prepare yourself for changes. I have told you this repeatedly. One of
those changes is that hearts of men would fail them for the fear of
the things that are to be soon experienced upon the earth. Have I told
you to fear? I have told you to come to Me, and to sit at My Feet, and
to rest and refresh yourself in My Presence, and to learn of Me, and
to be strengthened for the times ahead.
I have not told you to look around at what everyone else is doing, and
to listen what all of the others are saying, without coming to Me
first. You must keep your focus. You must remain solidly upon My
Foundation that I have established you onto. Let nothing distract you
from My Presence. Remain In Me!
Everything that I have told you concerning your walk with Me, I will
certainly do, as you walk it out with Me. Do not think that I will
change My mind. What I have told you, is what I will do. The only
change that will occur is the change that comes from your choices
along the way. The choices you make affect your path, and your future.
Trust in Me. I will not fail you. My Word is true.
I have My Timing for all things, and it won't agree with your concept
of what My Timing should be, so you have to die to your ideas and
completely trust Me in your life. My Ways are not your ways, and My
Thoughts will not be in agreement with your thoughts. You must weigh
all things according to My Word, and by My Holy Spirit. Then you must
choose to walk in My Truth or in your own understanding. I know what I
am doing, and just when to do it, in
your life. You cannot see everything that I am doing. Trust in Me, and
do not fear anymore, but cast all things at My Feet.
I said in Hebrews 4 that I have a place of rest for My People. But few
enter in, and truly and sincerely partake of Me. I am always
available, but few indeed come. Few come and choose to remain there
with Me. Some come in, and then immediately go back out, but they only
have a taste, but are not transformed. They miss the intimacy and the
fullness of what I would have given them as they came to know Me. Oh,
that My People would come to Me, and remain In Me, and truly know Me!
These are those who will be overcome with fear, because they have not
known Me, the Prince of Peace.
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God's promise of entering his place of rest still stands, so we ought
to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to get there. For
this Good News--that God has prepared a place of rest--has been
announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good
because they didn't believe what God told
them. For only we who believe can enter his place of
rest. As for those who didn't believe, God said, "In my anger I
made a vow: `They will never enter my place
of rest, even though his place of rest has been ready since
he made the world. We know it is ready because the Scriptures
mention the seventh day, saying, "On the seventh day God rested
from all his work." But in the other passage God said,
"They will never enter my place of rest." So God's rest
is there for people to enter. But those who formerly heard the Good
News failed to enter because they disobeyed God. So God set
another time for entering his place of rest, and that time is today.
God announced this through David a long time later in the words
already quoted: "Today you must listen to his voice. Don't harden
your hearts against him. "This new place of rest was not the land
of Canaan, where Joshua led them. If it had been, God would not have
spoken later about another day of rest. So there is a special
rest* still waiting for the people of God. For all who
enter into God's rest will find rest from their labors, just as God
rested after creating the world. Let us do our best to enter that
place of rest.
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