DEBRA WESTBROOK

This is the Day - Consecrate Each Moment to Me!
April 19, 2008

Psalms 118:24
24 This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. NKJV

"Rejoice in the Day!

There is a creative power resident in the day for I have created it and I am in it. Do not despise the day of small beginnings.

Allow Me to direct your day. Do not allow your day to be held captive to your own wishes and desires, your vain imaginations. Let the day expand in Me and My desires for you and My plans for you.

The day is creative in Me! Don't waste time!

For each day that marches forward holds within it precious seconds, precious minutes and precious hours. Consecrate yourself in the day unto Me and give Me your time and I shall work My plans and purposes through it.

Do not look too closely at tomorrow for it is this day that I have called you, each of you, to rejoice in. Rejoice in Me in My day of creative power - this day.

Time marches on yet I interject eternity into each day, each moment so that it comes alive with eternity in Me. One day is not like the rest -for I am a creative God. Open your eyes to look at the day - for in it I shall reveal Myself in great and glorious ways.

Time marches forward into Me - into My return. It is then that in the dispensation of the fullness of time all shall be gathered into Christ. Time will be gathered into Me and captured by eternity and that which you did in time that was of eternal value shall remain. All else shall burn away. There is much to behold in the day.

I am in the day for I have created it for My glory. While the world orders its day by its own wisdom and schedule, I say to each of you, do not let time hold you captive to its own desires - the desires of the world. Release your time to Me and I shall use that which you give to Me for My glory and breathe eternity into it. This day is mine. I created it. I own it. Enter into where I am going and you shall never be disappointed."

Ephesians 5:15-16 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. NKJV

Proverbs 3:5-6 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. NKJV

Come Lord Jesus!

April 12, 2008

"Have I not called many of My children to fast in these days? For it is in the fast that I shall birth within them a clear sound of triumph accompanied by divine longing for Me. It is in the fast that communion and union with Me shall be first and foremost. Yet the overflow of this time of divine intimacy shall bring forth fruit within a sound that shall resonate deep within them from communion in the secret place. It is there that I shall meet with you.

Fasting shall prepare a voice to arise within you - a voice that is in divine agreement with My Spirit that calls forth "Come Lord Jesus!" This voice shall be the sound of intensity, desire and passion - in agreement with heaven. Heaven shall indeed meet earth and indeed the sound of joy and rejoicing shall accompany the joining of the Bride's voice calling for her Bridegroom. Just as fasting produces natural hunger pains - so shall it create within you a divine hunger to know Me -hunger to know Me above all else in you life. Increasing passion for Me and Me alone within each of you shall only be satisfied through intimacy with your Beloved.

It is I that call you to come apart. It is I that woo you to the secret place to commune with Me. It is I. Do not deny the sound of My voice seeing you in the driest times of your life. Have you not considered a fast? For fasting is not a ritual or a tradition but a diving wooing to deny oneself, to decrease, so that I may fill you afresh and anew. It is not what you DO for you can DO nothing apart from Me. It is what I do in you as you respond to My call to come apart to be with Me. Just respond to Me and My grace will bring you to that secret place and draw you close to Me."

Matthew 9:14-15
Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?" 15 And Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. NKJV

Revelation 22:17
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. NKJV

John 3:29-30
29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
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Follow Me!
April 8, 2008

"I have brought you out by a way that you had not known, to a place that you did not intend to be or did not really see. I asked you to follow Me.

In following Me, I am teaching you and have taught you to only look to Me. I have cautioned you about looking to the right or to the left for in doing that you would lose your way in peripheral vision.

I have asked you to look ahead and to focus on Me and in focusing on Me you would not lose your way in the non-essentials that bear nothing of eternal reality in their substance.

It has not been an easy way for any of you. For I take each of you by a narrow path that is formed by the truth of the light of My word and is forged by the reality of experience that is worked out through simple obedience to My call upon your life.

I am raising up an end time company of people that have been disconnected from any earthly kingdom that demands allegiance to its ways which run contrary to My ways. For My ways are higher than your ways and My ways may seem foolish at times but I say to follow Me.

Move in Me and live in Me and have your being in Me. This is not the time to make any decisions outside of My perfect will for your life. Time spent in the secret place of My presence will reveal what I have planned for you at this time. When I am silent it is because I am teaching you to focus on me and me alone and to reject the cacophony of noise that comes from the world around you. Yet I am in you and in that place, that secret place there is a peace that surpasses understanding.

The world would make decisions at this time based upon a future that they create in their own mind through presumption and assumption. They think that things can only get better and life will go on as it is. This future is created in the darkness of their own thinking based upon their own wisdom. Look around you. So many follow the desires of their own hearts building their lives on the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.

This should not be for any of those who call themselves My children. For my ways are not these ways. This narrow path that you find yourself on is one that I have called each of you to walk on in these times. Do not seek to understand the path. Seek only to follow Me and in following Me I will give you understanding with each step of faith that you take in Me and in Me alone. This is not a time to question. This is a time for simple obedience.

I am working a clear revelation of eternity in your hearts. A hunger for eternal reality. A desire for eternal reality. To live above all that you see, having an eternal perspective in Me. Truly being in the world but not of the world. That is My desire for each of you. Forsaking the kingdoms of this earth and following a path to a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God."

Hebrews 11:8-10
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; 10 for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
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Hebrews 11:13-16
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. 15 And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
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Hebrews 12:1-2
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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Proclaim My Excellence!

April 2, 2008

"I am indeed raising up a people who shall show forth the excellence of My Name and the excellence of My character throughout the nations of the earth! I shall shine forth with the excellence of My ways among the nations and none shall dispute or disregard that I alone am God. For My Name and My honor have been devalued through a people of mixture in times past. But I am raising up in this very hour, burning and shining lamps who shall indeed bring forth the light of My excellence throughout the earth.

Who is excellent? I alone am He. I am God. There is no other. Do you know this? Can you perceive this? No, My children, you cannot fully know or perceive yet, but you shall grow in revelation in this hour that is upon My church.

The excellence of My Name shining through the lives of my trusted servants throughout the earth shall forge a path of light through the darkness. Excellence shines bright in darkness and will light a way clear and sure before My people.

When my people devalued My Name and My character through words that flowed from lives of unbelief and earthly wisdom, they essentially stripped the essence of the Divine from their lives. Many have created a God in their own image - small and manageable and able to be understood. Everything in My Word contradicts this - everything.

When you shall begin to truly see Me in the coming days, then you shall truly know Me. In seeing Me you shall know Me as I bring light to your ignorance of eternal reality. It is then that I shall birth and bring forth a new spiritual language from the mouths of My holy servants that shall indeed proclaim an excellent God.

Begin to proclaim My excellence into the darkness of the world and I shall indeed show forth My power and My glory. Rise to the revelation of My excellence in all you say and do."

Ps 8:9 O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!
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Ps 150:2 Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness! NKJV

Isaiah 44:6 6 There Is No Other God "Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: 'I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God. NKJV

Isa 42:8-9 8 I am the LORD, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images. 9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them." NKJV