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Alot of the times we tend to just share the good parts of our walk with the Lord but we don't tend to be vulnerable enough to show the real intimate or hard parts. The last few days I have been dealing the onslaught of spiritual attacks again both mental and physical but overall still spiritual. Some were revealed to me as to where they are coming from and others were not but I knew one thing I wasn't about to allow the enemy to come back in and put his foot in a door so he could come back in and reside in my temple and steal my peace or my joy. If my car could speak it would have a lot to say. It is where I go when it's been too cold to set on my front porch. It is where I have gone to war in the spirit many times for my family, myself, for friends, and whatever else. It's where I have worshipped, praised, cried, prayed, and got deliverance. I woke up this morning and I knew I needed to go spend time with Papa God. I wasn't going to leave until I felt something lift. As He led me into worship, I saw a rushing river and in the center were these steppingstones and where the steppingstones were, it was very calm, and the water was perfectly still. I saw myself on the first steppingstone and then Abba appeared and He was ahead of me on the stone that was one step in front of me and He had reached His hand out for mine and He carefully helped me to step across onto each stone until I made it to the other side of the rushing river and had placed my foot onto the solid ground. When I reached that side He wrapped His hands around my face and kissed my forehead and then hugged me. It was in the moment I felt perfect peace. He placed me back on steady ground. Thank you Father! I could feel whatever had been trying to come back on me was no longer there. I felt to take these pictures today (despite my dirty windshield and messy appearance) during that time to say it doesn't matter where you have to get, it doesn't have to be perfect, and it doesn't have to be well put together. You don't even have to know what to say or do but all He wants is for you to set with Him. Often times it looks messy but no matter the place or the time He is there waiting to meet you so He can place you back on that same steady ground that He placed me back on today. And don't get up until He meets you there. Sometimes it means having to press through and press in but it's worth it! I felt someone needed to hear this today!

Oh man... this is where the road down the narrow way really begins. I thought I was on the journey before but truthfully my journey just began. #theunraveling #FreedomInChrist #revelation #theoverflow

Religion will tell you that you have to work for and strive to be loved by the Father. (We have to get right first) The Father says you don't have to do anything but just RECEIVE (right where you are) KNOWING that you are loved so DEEPLY by Him. So many are walking around not knowing who their Father is. They know His name but they don't know His heart. They know His word but don't know His character. They have taken on the Orphan identity despite them coming into the understanding that they have been adopted and grafted in. I used to think and act like an Orphan despite still loving Him but I'm praising Him for setting me free and for bringing me into the revelation of His truth that NOTHING I do can make Him love me any more or any less than He does right now. Did you know when God looks at you He sees His son? Yup:) John 14:11 - Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me... When Jesus gave His life for us upon the cross He took on our sin. Thank you Lord it's DONE! The blood covered it. He stood in our place. Then in Acts we we're given Holy Spirit.. who now lives in us. Now as a child of God our goal is to be loved by Him and to love Him. Then when we can grasp that, receive that, and let Him fill us up to overflowing than that love can pour out onto others. It transforms us. Love changes from EROS(Worldly) Love to Agape(The Father's)Love. When we come into our true beloved identity and we KNOW who our Father is and who we are in the Father than we stop walking around like Orphans beating not only ourselves up but everyone else up to and then we can begin to have that intimate relationship with Him. Then once that is established in us than we can work WITH Him and He can work THROUGH us to help bring His Kingdom to earth. (We aren't His slaves) We can finally walk out our journey (WITH Him). Fruit will begin to grow and show. We have to TRUST that He will do a complete work in us and He will finish what He began.

Philippians 1:6 - being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ. Thank you Lord!

Begin with Him beloved. Be Still in Him and Set at His feet. Be a Mary and not a Martha in this season. Cut out the distractions and all the noise (both the good and bad noise) and just set with Him. It is in that intimate place with Him where we are transformed, renewed, it is where we find our strength, our peace, our identity. We are given wisdom, revelation , and so much more. You are not an orphan. You are HIS!

And it's not what He can give us but just because He Is.

Receive. Just Simply Receive.

©THEJOURNEYWITHBRIDGETMARCUS

Beloved, it's not the church's job to fill your lamps up with oil. The source of where you get your oil is from the one who is already inside of you. The one who produces it and pours it out. It's there made available for you every single day! So many of us run dry during the week and then come running to the church on Sundays and Wednesdays (if that) expecting to get enough to coast them through until the following time they are in church. Beloved YOU ARE the church. When you go to church that is your chance to pour out from the overflow onto others. It's not your Pastor's job to keep your lamps filled. It's YOURS! Get into the secret place. Read the word of God. Get into worship. Spend time in communion with Him. Break Bread with Him! Be Still. Receive! Stop running to others to get your oil lamps filled and go to the main source yourself! If you do that than you will NEVER run out! Amen! Want to know why some churches are dieing or dead? Because people come with empty oil lamps expecting to get oil from other empty oil lamps or better yet trying to get the Pastor's oil. Take time to personally be poured into so you can pour back out to those around you. The song, "This Little Light Of Mine" has been in my heart all day. What you carry matters! Many times we pray asking Holy Spirit to come when in truth He's already there/here. He's inside of you. Beloved, it's already done. We are never having to wait on God. God is the one that is always having to wait on us. Wooo... Thank you Lord! Thank you God! Thank you Holy Spirit! Thank you Yeshua! I have just been in a place of Thanksgiving the last couple of days. Just speaking Thanks and giving praise. Sometimes that's all that needs to be said. He deserves it. Now, go fill your oil lamps up! He's waiting!  Podcast #3 coming soon!

MATTHEW 25 (TPT)

A Parable about Ten Virgins

1“When my coming draws near, heaven’s kingdom realm can be compared to ten maidens who took their oil lamps and went outside to meet the bridegroom and his bride. 2-4Five of them were foolish and ill-prepared, for they took no extra oil for their lamps. Five of them were wise, for they took flasks of olive oil with their lamps. 5When the bridegroom didn’t come when they expected, they all grew drowsy and fell asleep. 6Then suddenly, in the middle of the night, they were awakened by the shout ‘Get up! The bridegroom is here! Come out and have an encounter with him!’ 7So all the girls got up and trimmed their lamps. 8But the foolish ones were running out of oil, so they said to the five wise ones, ‘Share your oil with us, because our lamps are going out!’

9“ ‘We can’t,’ they replied. ‘We don’t have enough for all of us. You’ll have to go and buy some for yourselves!’

10“While the five girls were out buying oil, the bridegroom appeared. Those who were ready and waiting were escorted inside with him and the wedding party to enjoy the feast. And then the door was locked. 11Later, the five foolish girls came running up to the door and pleaded, ‘Lord, Lord, let us come in!’

12“But he called back, ‘Go away! Do I know you? I can assure you, I don’t even know you!’

13“That is the reason you should always stay awake and be alert, because you don’t know the day or the hour when the Bridegroom will appear.”

I just prophesy over you tonight that your hunger for everything that is of the Kingdom of God is coming back to you. That your joy is returning. I see you dancing like David without a care in the world of who is watching because your eyes is firmly set on the Father. You have captivated a heavenly audience. I just speak life over all the dead and dry places in your life. I feel like some of you need to be reminded... don't forget the promises that He has spoken to you. He is not a Father that would lie. The other day as I was spending time with Him I saw three angels. One was breaking ground and preparing the land to receive the seed. The other held the seeds that went in behind the other one and as the ground was prepared the angel dropped the little seeds into the ground. Following that angel was another one with a watering can and was watering the ground that held the seed. And when they were done all three stood there watching and all of a sudden what they had planted began to sprout up. As I saw this 2 red cardinals (in the physical) came and set on the ground near by to where I saw the Angels in the spirit. I heard in my spirit to get ready to see the promise! So many of His children have been tending and breaking the ground, so many of His children have been planting the seeds, many have come along and did the watering. And you have been standing waiting and watching to see the harvest. It's coming says the Lord. It's coming! Get ready to see the fulfillment of the promise. Amen! Thank you Lord! Praise you Father