A Call to Maturity
(Be not as Sheep without a Shepherd)
We have seen many of late that have been coming “out of the woodwork.” These individuals have a call on their lives or have flat out been “Chosen of God” having come out from their many caves wherein they have lived - or out from under the control of false or misguided shepherds. These have and are now still coming forth.
We see clearly now they are out from under the control of the “hireling” shepherds, but they are still as sheep without a shepherd. While in gathering I prayed to the Lord and said, “Dear Lord, I see the Holy Spirit in these, I see their giftings working... why do I not perceive your presence?” The Lord replied that His presence will come when things are put in order. This is why He is sending His chosen Apostles and Prophets. The Lord showed me that there was a rampant attempt in these meetings to “exercise the gifts within each; in an attempt to acquire or gain the presence of the Lord." When what is necessary - IS that things come into order that the Lord might be the head and THEN their gifts would manifest in God’s intended way and by and through His compassion these would come forth.
The Lord revealed to me quite clearly that these gifted individuals had escaped the rule of false shepherds, but because of the abuse they had endured under them, they were cautious and even fearful to come under anything that resembled “leadership.” The Lord is bringing to His house order, structure and leadership, but many, if not most, are not willing to have this because all they have known is the abuse of those SELF-proclaimed leaders of their past. But the Lord's word was that those whom He is calling, those Apostles and Prophets have such a deep heart of compassion and the heart of God that it IS NOT, and WILL NOT be a burdensome thing as we have seen in past abuses.
Unless His people come into this structure, the building of HIS TEMPLE through and by His Apostles and Prophets, with Evangelists, Pastors, and Teachers... we shall NOT come into the maturity needed to go into the fields which are even now ripened for Harvest. He showed me how, without a shepherd, each one of us have fallen back on the only thing we have known... old forms of Pentecostalism and so forth. He desires and is calling us OUT of that and into the structure that is coming forth through the Apostles and Prophets. Many fear this as another control thing rising up, but it is not. God is imparting the wisdom and the structure He wants for His house and it is NOT a thing from which man will build a kingdom for himself. It is coming forth from the true hearts of - Apostles and Prophets who do not have even the heart to proclaim themselves as such - and even “shirk such titles and try to avoid the name tags," but whose hearts are set in anguish and grief at what they see in this present state of God’s people; wandering - in each his own way, doing the best they can. It is the heart of these God is raising up, NOT TO CONTROL, but to bring love, forgiveness, tenderness and instruction into the way God wishes for His temple to be built and how, we as HIS living stones, are to be rightly fit together with each other.
The word of the Lord is this: “Drop your seeking after me as though you were prophets of Baal, wherein you try harder to achieve my presence even unto the slashing of your own spirits as if to bring me forth." Rest now, and seek the house I build and the counsel of those I send, for I send to you in this time the Apostles and Prophets I have chosen to build My temple and My house that it may stand strong and with integrity before the world. Rebel not; for there is nothing to rebel against... you rebel at the old images of the taskmasters who were over you in the past. You rebel over those who proclaimed authority over you, who wounded you, but I am come to build My temple and My house and not to abuse My sheep, but to bind up their wounds in love and to bring them into their place and position as I have chosen them to work and to reap the fields in this time.
I shall NOT be the head of that which has no form. I shall not be the head of that which is NOT a body. Come into that which I am raising up. Come into the revelation of the structure and of the temple as I am proclaiming through My Apostles and Prophets, where there is peace and healing and gentle pasture. For it is true that unless you do, you shall remain as a sheep without a shepherd and shall wander in frustration looking for the coming of My presence and it shall not come upon you - until you are come into what I build; for there shall be no head of that which has no structure and I AM THE HEAD. It is not a thing to fear, for my true Apostles and Prophets are servants to my sheep and NOT taskmasters. They bring with them and in them the power I give to them to heal up your many wounds. Fear not the Apostles and Prophets I send, only remove yourselves from those who proclaim ALOUD that they are apostles and prophets, for as they proclaim aloud, and have some go before them heralding them as such - THEY ARE NOT - for the proclamation of themselves is not my heart. Whom I have set as apostles and prophets are of a humble heart and spirit and whose hearts cry out for the health of my sheep and these have a burden for the lost. Lay down your excesses and come before my presence and give place to the voice of my chosen ones who are set forth to build my temple and my house. Seek for them, ask of me where and who they are, and be of an honest heart- not seeking your own glory or trying to recapture glories of the past - and I shall bring you under the covering that is of me. I am the head, but I am the head of a body that is set in order. I am not come to be Head of a “dismembered” thing. My presence shall fill the Body when it is come into the order that I have set forth and will be established through the revelations I bring forth through my Apostles and Prophets." Be not as scattered sheep, but come now into my fold and take your place in the temple I build and am building.”
Footnote: These Apostles and Prophets will have the fruits of the Spirit. They will NOT be controlling, abusive or be of a mind to “whip the sheep”... this has been the way of the church, but God is building a living temple where those who are set in this office will be as you have never seen before... with a loving compassionate, tender heart - exemplifying the love and compassion of Christ - that will shine through them to His sheep.