So, You Have an Opinion!
by Ernest Angley
August 1992
Man’s opinion is a belief not based on certainty. God does not speak man’s opinions; He speaks the absolute truth. What He says is certain. We are to have God talk—and nothing less—to take on the conversation of His righteousness and holiness. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation (I Peter 1:15).
It makes no difference how strongly you believe what you are saying; if it is not the thought of God, it is your own opinion unfounded on absolute truth. Don’t give an opinion you are unwilling to stake your life on.
Why would you be so careless to give advice to others when you don’t have the mind of the Lord? It’s dangerous. If people ask you what to do about a matter that you don’t have the mind of the Lord on, simply tell them you will pray. They may not be satisfied with that answer, but you must handle your advice in the right way.
Wrong opinions have destroyed much of God’s work in the past, caused calamity, hampered and hindered. God has decided He’s not going to put up with it any longer. You have a right to have opinions, but you have no right to use them on anyone else until you take them to God. The opinions you give, you are responsible for. If God hasn’t okayed that opinion, your name is on it, not God’s. You will give an account before God for any destruction, any hurt your opinions may cause.
All opinions should undergo the Word test. You are going to have to be more careful, saith the Lord, than ever before. The Bride of Christ is being formed, and you will want to be a part. Much will be required of the Bride. She will walk, talk and be like Jesus; her opinions will be like His, saith the Lord.
Judgment Begins at the House of God
The Early Church took on the mind of Jesus, helping, blessing, bringing people into the Kingdom. They were teachers, evangelists, helpers and witnesses. Many of the young, the old, the in–between served God in holy perfection.
But Ananias and his wife Sapphira had a different opinion; they lied to the Holy Ghost, and God killed them. And great fear came on all them that heard these things (Acts 5:5).
We don’t know what calamities await the congregation of God’s people in this last hour throughout the earth. In the past God has put up with much, and now He can’t do it, saith the Lord. Judgment begins at the house of God.
Jesus said, Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned (Matthew 12:36,37). You are judged by everything you say. Living in the Word is the only way you will be all the Lord requires. Daily the Lord is weighing us. There is no need to be in doubt about your position in the Lord. The Bible is your scales. If you don’t willingly bring your life to God’s scales, He will weigh you anyway, and you will come up lacking, for you have not listened to the Holy Spirit.
Examine Yourself
How do you regard your opinions? Do they make you feel superior to others? If so, they are not of God, but of self. Opinions are thoughts that haven’t been tested. Do you cherish your ego too much to take your opinions to the testing board, the Word of God? Opinions freely given cannot be taken back. Handle the opinions of God the way you would God Himself, with great, great humility and holy sacredness.
What kind of mind do you have? Examine it. Do you have a sober mind, a mind holy and dedicated to God? Is your mind one that will accept the thoughts the Lord gives? Many minds are so cluttered with self that God’s thoughts cannot penetrate.
What opinions come out of a mind leeched by Lucifer? Minds full of anger, malice, resentment, bitterness, grudges and wrath send out corresponding opinions. Think of opinions formed in such minds in the midst of God’s people. How destructive they have been in the past! Many have been destroyed because of wrong opinions. Others have narrowly escaped destruction, remaining spiritually crippled, maimed.
When the Holy Spirit lives inside you, how can you excuse your leeched mind? There is no excuse, saith the Lord. We’re in the final hour. You will either be taken in the Rapture or be left.
Think On These
Thoughts are opinions. The Lord is careful in teaching us what to think on and the kind of thoughts to have. It’s essential, saith the Lord, for each child of His in this last hour to have the mind of Christ, nothing less.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise,think on these things (Philippians 4:8). When you think on the things that are true, you have true opinions. Taking honest thoughts gives you honest opinions. If you accept that which is just, think upon things that are just, you have just opinions, saith the Lord. Think on things that are pure, and you have pure opinions. Thinking upon lovely things brings lovely opinions. Concentrating upon that which is of good report instills good report opinions. This verse in Philippians is a prescription for every child of God. If you don’t abide by this verse, saith the Lord, you will fail Him in this hour; and you will not be without spot or wrinkle but spewed into the Tribulation Period.
What kind of mind do you have? The Lord wants you to be filled with the Spirit, speaking to yourself in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 5:19,20). Don’t speak to yourself with farfetched opinions and thoughts that don’t edify. Never harbor envy, malice, strife or anger. Draw on God’s strength in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Make melody in your heart to the Lord.
Defeat the Thoughts of the Enemy
Thoughts from the devil may intrude into your mind. If you pass them on as opinions, you put your claim on those thoughts no matter how destructive they are. Unpleasant thoughts come to all of our minds, but we need not use them or let them become ours. The Lord will not keep those thoughts from lodging; you must do it. You are a free moral agent; it’s up to you to defeat thoughts the enemy brings. God has given you power to do it. If you reach out to entertain the wrong thought, to embrace a foreign opinion, it becomes yours, not God’s. You use it, something reeking with the stench of the devil.
A mighty price has been paid so you could overcome the enemy. Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden to have the thoughts of God. A beautiful life it was—as long as they claimed no thoughts other than the thoughts of God. The thoughts of God belonged to them; the first man and woman stayed pure and clean at first with the thoughts of God. Only when they accepted the opinion, the thought of Lucifer were they destroyed. They weren’t destroyed by the devil presenting them his thought; they were destroyed the moment they accepted it as their own, the moment they failed to use the thoughts of God to defeat the thoughts of Satan.
When you accept a thought as yours, it becomes yours; your mark is on it and you must give an account to God for it. It’s dangerous to gossip, to give wrong opinions, to be insulting. Just because you think you are doing the right thing does not mean you are right. God is letting you know He does not think or judge by man’s opinion.
Destruction through wrong thoughts comes because of the condition of the mind. During the great reign of the Early Church in the purity, greatness and power of God, the people were not divided. But then the backsliding began to take place. They turned from the thoughts of God that had defeated the enemy. Clamor, confusion and false doctrine entered, driving out the Spirit of God. These are the very obstacles that have kept the Spirit of God from the body of Christ, preventing His work from being accomplished. The mind must be sober, delivered from all anger, malice, bitterness, resentment, evil–speaking, clamor, criticism and complaining. The Lord said these hindrances were not to be in the Church.
The Church should have been aflame these two thousand years, but the light of God almost went completely out. People missed the greatness of God by closing their minds and hearts to divinity that wanted to live within. Paul said, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20).
If you are embracing the Truth, you glory in Christ living in your heart. If not, you might excuse your carnal thinking by saying everyone has that kind of mind. No they don’t. Jesus, in fact, told us to even love our enemies: But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven (Matthew 5:44,45). You don’t have to like your enemies, but you must love their souls and not seek to destroy them. You want them saved. God may not like them either, but He loves their souls.
Wait upon the Lord. Decide with the apostle Paul that I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me (Philippians 4:13). When you can do all things through Christ, you have the right opinions. You do not bow down to wrong thoughts, or have tantrums, mad fits.
Vengeance Belongs to God
If you are seeking the destruction of another, you have taken vengeance into your hands and out of God’s. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord (Romans 12:19). Taking vengeance into your own hands puts you in jeopardy. This is the hour of great deliverance, and you should be too busy helping bring in the harvest to want to take vengeance on anyone. God will do a much better job with your enemies than you could ever do, so turn them over to Him. God knows how to deal with enemies, how to give them punishment. He has promised to handle our enemies, but the devil wants you to dwell on evening the score.
If you deal underhandedly with people, you will have to give account for it. Double–dealing is spite work, devilish work. Some people live for getting even, for teaching others a lesson. They need to learn the biggest lesson: they are on their way out from the blessings of God, a target for the devil to rob of everything. God is the one to decide what others deserve, not you.
When you are “bumped”—under stress—your true colors fly. Do you want vengeance for every little slight, real or imagined? Your desires illustrate the kind of mind you have. Accepting the devil’s thoughts of getting even as your own opinion will put you into the Tribulation Period should the Rapture take place while you are alive.
If you die with vengeance in your heart, you will go to hell even though the devil makes you think you are going to Heaven. Will you change course before that happens? Will you be strong enough to stand in God’s Truth? Are you so weak now that you let the devil influence you to spew out hurtful opinions?
God’s Spirit Works through the Mind
Either God or the devil gives you thoughts. O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps (Jeremiah 10:23). Your steps are directed through your thoughts. For the Lord to direct you, His Spirit must work through the mind. The greatness of God is in the soul of a born–again Christian, but the Spirit of God works through the mind.
Do you embrace ungodly thoughts that clutter the mind, saying you cannot help yourself? The Lord has given the remedy, saith the Lord, and there’s no excuse. The Bible tells us that those who hold the Truth in unrighteousness are without excuse: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them (Romans 1:20,32).
People have excused themselves again and again down through the years, knowing what they were doing was wrong. God won’t accept it. You will not be excused if you refuse to go God’s way. God is not the God some people think—those who have created a fictitious God in their minds who lets them by with their sin. God will accept no sin.
I’ve met many deceived people who never have actually been saved—they just think they have been. That’s the reason they act the way they do, why they are in so much trouble, why they cause problems with their opinions and think they are all right. They are all right with self, but not with God. They have blocked His Spirit from working through their minds.
You have the truth, the greatness of the Holy Spirit, saith the Lord, being poured out, not sprinkled. You have entered a different time, and you can cross over a border into all the greatness of God, as the river of God flows to you. It doesn’t matter about your childhood, how much you’ve been scarred; that has nothing to do with it, saith the Lord. Everyone can be delivered; everyone can be set free. Since there is a river of God’s power flowing, there is no excuse, saith the Lord. No need to think the Lord will excuse you because you are scarred. He will not. He has looked, seen you and He is supplying everything you need. If you are too stubborn to use it, you are in jeopardy. That’s what the Lord says about it.
Thoughts That Bridge the Gap between God and Man
God is warning you about your opinions because He greatly loves you. Some of you stand at the place you will either accept the whole truth or reject it. If you go on into the greatness of God now, accepting thus saith the Lord, you will be able to put your opinions into perspective. If not, you will be destroyed. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:8,9).
The separation between your thoughts and God’s thoughts is as drastic as the separation between Earth and Heaven. To bridge the enormous gap between God and man, God has given His thoughts to the new creation made in the righteousness and holiness of God. You have been given this. You will not grow into a new creation; you are going to step into this greatness, saith the Lord.
Some of you think you will grow into this greatness: it’s always “I’m going to” and never “I have done it.” The Lord didn’t say He would patch you up, He said He would make you a new creation. Some people have accepted only enough of God to patch them up. They took a big dose of “do better” and did worse. Patching is not healing. God is not coming after patched up people, but after those made new in the blood of Jesus, filled with the Holy Ghost and living without spot or wrinkle.
You had to change your ways and take the ways of God when you received salvation, and it’s the same with your opinions. Change your opinions and take the opinions of God. God has made it possible for you to have His thoughts, and when you take them, you will have His opinions to serve.
True Repentance
Jesus died for every one of us. He gave His all for all so you could have all of Heaven’s best; but you must accept it. When you receive salvation, you receive a new life. Some of you, however, have excused yourselves; you haven’t had a new life, saith the Lord. The Lord has been displeased. You’ve alibied and excused yourself, thinking God went along with you. He did not.
When you truly repent before God and give your life to Him, you have a new road to walk. You pass through the gate leading to eternal life, and leave the world behind. Your spirit decides to humble itself before the Lord, crying: Take the whole world, but give me Jesus!
When God saves sinners, He saves them through and through. If they walk in His righteousness, they have His righteousness. Any healing needed, God will take care of. The grace of the Lord is sufficient. God said, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness (II Corinthians 12:9). You don’t have to wait for His grace to become sufficient; it is sufficient when you step into the new and living way.
Cast Down Imaginations
Under the Law, people couldn’t get rid of their opinions and thoughts; but now under grace, the Lord tells you what your thoughts can be. He gives them to you, the things to think upon. Carefully, God schools you, sending the Holy Spirit to be your teacher and guide.
Much damage is done by opinions. When people begin exchanging opinions, they are in trouble. Some, for example, give opinions why a sick person is not healed. God holds them responsible. I would never tell a person why he wasn’t healed unless the Lord gave me the reason. Trying to figure out why others are in difficulty is really not your business. There should be no guesswork when it comes to others; if you are guessing, you had better close it off, or your own salvation—if you have any—is in jeopardy. You’re in the pathway of destruction.
Speak the things of God. The Lord wants to use your mind, but He can’t use it when it’s cluttered. Many have never had a mind deliverance. Their emotions color their thinking, and they cannot bring the wrong thoughts under subjection.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (II Corinthians 10:3–5). Every thought you have that is not right exalts itself above God in your mind. Every thought, every imagination that exalteth itself above God must be cast down. If you’re imagining things and letting those thoughts be yours, you are in trouble. Do all kinds of disruptive ideas and imaginations come to your mind? You don’t have to be afraid; just don’t entertain them, don’t accept them, don’t put your mark on them. You don’t possess those thoughts any more than you would possess a bird flying overhead. But if you let them land and build a nest in your mind, you are in trouble.
I ask you again: What kind of mind do you have? In a forceful way, God wants you to see what is in your mind. Find out the kind of mind you have and you will know the manner of person you are. Be ready to clean out your mind, to be rid of all clamor, bitterness, resentment, anger, desire for vengeance, so you can take on the greatness of God.
Love Never Grieves the Holy Spirit
Speaking the truth in love…grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ (Ephesians 4:15). When the Bible speaks of growing up, it doesn’t mean getting rid of sinful ways; you were supposed to leave those behind when you received salvation. It means to mature in accepting more and more of God. You are pure and clean when you are born again, mind and heart cleaned out, a new creation. How could you be a new creation, how could the Lord make you new if the old way of thinking remained? A snake pit mind of bitterness, anger and viciousness is not the born–new mind.
Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice (Ephesians 4:30,31). By hoarding the wrong things in your mind, you grieve the Holy Spirit. If you grieve the Holy Spirit, if He lets you know you are grieving Him and you don’t stop, you break the seal of your salvation, opening the way for the devil to enter the soul. Bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, evil speaking, malice all grieve the Holy Spirit. You can’t have the Holy Spirit and still keep destructive opinions within.
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you (verse 32). These are the thoughts of God, the opinions from God for you. Not calloused, not stubborn but be tenderhearted. The Lord gives the new creature Heaven’s forgiveness; it’s your birthright. When someone asks for forgiveness, forgive as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you. If they were insincere, it’s their problem. You’re free. It’s bad enough to be aggravated by man, but to destroy your peace in the Lord and send your soul to hell by grieving the Holy Spirit would be a tragedy. Understand what God is saying about the mind.
Walk in Love
Take on the mind of Christ and you can forgive as He forgave. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5). If you don’t take on the mind of Christ, you can’t forgive the way you ought. How can you forgive when your mind is leeched with spirits of hatred, anger, bitterness, resentment and vengeance?
Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us (Ephesians 5:2). We are to walk in the great love of Christ. How can you walk in love and hate at the same time? It can’t be done. How can you walk in love and carry grudges, malice and anger in your heart? To walk in love is to accept love. If you don’t know what love is, you are not going to accept it. Failing to recognize love when you see it, when you meet it, you lose out.
Walk in love, the same great love that Christ loved us with when He gave His life for us. In that love you can forgive not only your brothers and sisters in Christ, but your enemies; for you’ve taken on His mind. His love is the reason you can forgive those in sin who despitefully use you, wrong you or persecute you unjustly. You know their destination: hell for all eternity. But if you keep your soul pure you will be in Heaven for all eternity.
Inconvenient Jesting
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks (verses 3,4). Do you talk foolishly or do you talk with the sense of the Lord, the wisdom and knowledge of God? Foolish talking or jesting means to taunt, tease to such an extreme that others are wounded. Some people are cruel in jesting, insulting and yet pretending they were joking. It’s deceiving, cunning. I’ve had to pray for people who were the object of someone else’s idea of humor. Cruel words don’t come from those who are right with God. Many have the habit of telling people what they think and then calling it a joke: Don’t be upset: I was just joking. If you were not joking, you are lying. Don’t tease unless it’s fun for the one being teased, too.
Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it, That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (verses 25–27). This is a strict scripture, one you will have to face to get out of here, saith the Lord. If you make the Rapture, you’re going to have to meet the requirements of this verse, or you will be left—and that’s thus saith the Lord. It’s all spelled out. If you don’t have the right kind of mind, if you don’t take on the mind of Christ and be rid of mind clutter, there is no need for you to plan a Rapture; it will never happen for you. That’s what God is saying to you. Jesus is coming for the glorious Church without spot or wrinkle.
Some say they don’t believe people need the Holy Ghost to make the Rapture. If you believe I’m a servant of God, you either believe you need the Holy Ghost to make the Rapture, or else you believe I’m lying. Three times God has told me that those living on Earth when the Rapture takes place will need the Holy Ghost to make the Rapture. I put my life on the line that it’s true. Will you put your life on the line that it’s not true?
Recently as I stood before a group of people, I saw a spot about the size of a half dollar appear on two–thirds of them, on their foreheads, black, black. Never before had I seen anything like it. Others are wearing spots like those. It’s not for me to go up to you and tell you if you have a spot. I pray for you. I ask God to deal with you. I fast for you, cry for you, hope for you; but I don’t take the place of God. I don’t say things unless the Lord tells me to say them.
This message could mean life to you; it could mean the Rapture and all the greatness of God. Think about your opinions. Are they God’s opinions? Seek God’s opinions, what God would have you say, what God would have you answer. God should be paramount in every life. You protest that you are all right—but what’s God’s opinion? I want God to let me know I’m all right. Have I wounded anyone today? Have I said anything that shouldn’t have been said? Was there any action, Lord, that would have offended, hurt or hindered anyone?
Your opinion of being ready for the Rapture is not good enough; you must have God’s opinion. Know from God that you are ready.
Hunger and Thirst after Righteousness
Young people, get down to business, saith the Lord; see yourselves as you really are and be filled to the brim with the Holy Spirit, deciding you want the things of God. If you hunger and thirst after God you will be filled. God’s called you to come into His greatness. He called me to come in, and I went. God was thrilling and exciting as I walked, lived, dined in His presence. I left the world behind. Pleasure seeking is not the path God brought me. I left all the friends of the world. Some people stay with their friends in the world, thinking to bring them in, listening to their music. I didn’t do that. I separated one hundred percent. When old friends came after me, I had the strength of God to say No, I’m not like that anymore. I’ve changed. I’m saved. The Lord has saved me. I was as bold as sixteen lions. The grace, the power of God did it. Fasting, praying, I lived in the presence of God.
Young people, get down to business with God. You won’t be lonely. I wasn’t lonely. I was filled up with the Spirit of God. On Saturday nights I left the young people’s service walking on clouds, eager for Sunday morning to come so I could return to the house of God. That’s the reason the Lord gave me so much. He said, Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled (Matthew 5:6).
Only God’s Opinions Count
Noah lived in the days of opinions, opinions, opinions. But all the opinions were wrong except those of the Noah family. Where did Noah get his opinions? From God. There isn’t going to be a flood was the opinion of the others. Something is wrong with that Noah. He’s a disgrace to us all, to his relatives. Aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews had nothing to do with him. Their opinion of the Noah family was wrong. God’s opinion was the only one that counted. He thought they were fine, His children doing His work.
People have opinions of what God is going to do—and then it doesn’t take place. Those weren’t God’s opinions but thoughts of their own hearts and spirits. Elijah, on the other hand, had an opinion when he stood before Ahab saying, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word (I Kings 17:1). Where did Elijah get that opinion? From God. What he said came to pass. Speak the things of God; think the thoughts of God. God is making Himself available, giving you great thoughts of love, edification, blessing and strength. Those are the opinions that edify the believers and bless others.
If you don’t bless people with your speech, you are not using God’s opinions. It’s time for us to yield to God. Let God help you; empty completely of self. Decide you will never excuse yourself before God again, never act in opposition to God’s opinions. Be a blessing to your family, to the Kingdom of God. Live the truth every day wherever you are. Live it in your home, on your job. God’s calling you into His greatness and you must be dedicated and consecrated. Dedication to God is not just for Sunday in church alone; it must be in every aspect of your life. Be careful about your opinions, even to family members. Make sure they are God’s opinions, that you are speaking the truth.
Many times I refer to my mother. Even today I’m amazed the way she spoke God’s opinions; what she said came to pass. I saw in her life consecration, dedication, fasting, praying, the love for God’s Word—she treasured God’s Word more than life. Because her trust was in the Word, opinions flowed beautifully from the Word into her spirit, and she delivered them. She had God’s answers for me when I was a child. I didn’t have to seek help outside the home; the answers were in our home. Seven children, and we had our help in the home. My mom didn’t seek to give her opinion to others; they sought her out and asked her questions. If Mom didn’t have the answers she would tell others the same thing she told her own children, “I’ll help you pray about it.” People who really have the answers don’t offer their opinions unless they are asked.
Cry out to God
Jesus has taught us how to love and has given us His love to do it with. No need to say we can’t; the Lord gave His love to us and the strength, wisdom and knowledge to use His love. Step into the greatness of God if you expect to be taken in the Rapture. It’s the walk of the holy, consecrated, dedicated life.
We are either in the pathway of God’s grace or else in the pathway of His judgment. If you don’t have every sin out of your life, you are on the judgment path no matter what you think. Repent and receive forgiveness; let the Lord wash away your sins in the blood of the Lamb. Don’t let any sin linger in your heart one moment longer. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh (Matthew 25:13).
If you have anything in your heart unlike God, you cannot lift holy hands to the Lord. Cry out to God right now: Oh, God, I want your help. I want your deliverance. I want to be like Jesus, to talk like Jesus, to think like Jesus, to love like Jesus, to bless like Jesus. I want to shine the light of Jesus. I want you to be proud of me, Lord. I want to be your child in everything. I want to walk like you, to be like you, to think like you, talk like you. I love you Jesus! Bless me now, Lord.
Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord: I am the One that spoke through my servant. I gave him the words to speak; they’re my words and mine alone. And I am dealing with you because I love you. I am reaching for you with all the compassion of Heaven and with all of Heaven’s help being offered. Your hour is a late one, and I am seeking to help you in every way that I can. And I am reaching to you with all of my love. I am offering you everything that you need to be free, to walk with your Lord in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
Do not excuse yourself any longer because I cannot excuse you. I have given you everything, but you have not used everything. You must use what I am serving daily, night and day, so you can be an overcomer, a Jesus overcomer in this last hour.
I sent my Son, and He showed you how to live as a human being. And the steps that He made—He made those steps for you. He was showing you how to walk and where to walk. He made every step so that you could make the same steps.
Many of you have defeated my power in your life by doubting and by excusing yourself, but no more. I have opened your eyes. Now if you close them, you close them to go into darkness, you close them to remain blind, saith the Lord. I have opened your eyes to the way that I want you to be. You have heard my thoughts…not my servant’s thoughts, but you have heard my thoughts for you. And I have given you these thoughts in love and compassion; and now it’s up to you to walk in my love, to walk in my grace, to walk in my wisdom, to walk in my knowledge. If you reject my greatness, I will reject you, and I will take no responsibility for what happens to you. I will take no responsibility, saith the Lord. I am offering you everything, offering you my power that Lucifer cannot defeat. I am offering you my light that darkness cannot penetrate. And if you close your eyes to my truth now, you will remain in darkness, and your life will be total defeat, saith the Lord.
The river of God is flowing. You have it; you have His opinions. Now use them.
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