For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul (Mark 8:36,37)? These verses bring to us the value of souls. We are handling souls; souls are the business of the Bride today, for souls are the business of Jesus, and the Bride is a part of the body of Jesus Christ. What will we give to save those souls? Any price we pay will be a small one in exchange for souls. To win souls, even our very lives are a small price. Souls are just that precious.

What kind of hands will hold those souls? God’s people are responsible for the lost throughout the earth. You who have Jesus for yours have taken on that responsibility; you have claimed a discipleship and a close relationship with Him. You have claimed a daily walk with Him—walking hand in hand, side by side—and that makes your first responsibility to be souls.

What kind of hands did Jesus use for souls? Hands of love, compassion, sacrificial hands, hands of longing for humanity to change, to be born new. Jesus had hands of amazing grace—tender, watchful, caring hands…nail-riven hands. Some people would not accept His sacrificial hands of love, compassion and longing to bring their souls into His bosom. But others, when they realized those nail-riven hands were stretched out on a tree, were overcome with His love; they surrendered. In His precious blood He wrote their names in the book of life.

Our Greatest Responsibility

To be representatives of Jesus Christ, we must know that our calling and greatest responsibility is souls, souls, souls. We can’t afford to let souls slip through our fingers. Souls are slipping through fingers now that would not be lost if there were more hands with the love of Jesus, more with His compassion, His sacrificial spirit, His longing, His amazing grace, His tender spirit and watchful, caring ways.

We are careless sometimes about souls. It takes holy hands to hold to souls. I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting (I Timothy 2:8). Lift up holy hands for service. If you don’t have those holy, obedient hands of faith, souls will be lost. What a responsibility! Without those true Gospel-trusting hands in God and the blood of Jesus, souls will slip through your fingers and plunge into hell.

Some people say they are church-attending Christians, yet they don’t have the right kind of hands for souls. Many people are dying lost—many have already died—because God’s people, called by His name, failed to have the right kind of hands. In this last hour, it’s a must: The Bride, saith the Lord, will have the right kind of hands, hands just like the hands of Jesus when He was here.

Jesus, in the form of flesh, had hands of clay, but that divine Spirit and divine blood flowed on the inside of Him. Partaker of His divine blood if you are a child of God, you have His divine blood in your soul. With divine blood in your soul, you can be a soul winner, but you must have nothing less than the hands of Jesus. You can never be like Jesus unless you have hands like His. Look what was in His hands of clay; see what those hands did. Recognize the touch of Heaven He gave with those hands.

You who are obedient to Him have become His hands. His people are supposed to be His hands, the real hands of Him today in this old world. But how terrible when hands are injured, damaged, marred with disobedience. Those hands are not beautiful like His, not filled with God’s love, grace and faith.

What kind of hands are yours today? Are they hands giving nothing but glad tidings of the Gospel, serving people the truth? Are they obedient hands, hands to serve the Master, every finger and every thumb trustworthy? Each muscle, each nerve that operates the hands flowing with God’s Spirit, power and love must be alert to the fact that we hold souls, so many, so precious, so valuable.

You know if you were to drop a fragile, priceless vase it would be destroyed. Almost breathlessly you carry it, making sure nothing is in your way to stumble over. Yet, so many of God’s people carrying souls more valuable than all the riches in the world, never watch where they are going, how they walk. So easily they could trip and drop this precious treasure of souls as they carelessly allow themselves to be drawn to the world. They would never be so neglectful carrying the world’s treasure, but would lay everything else aside. The mind they thought they couldn’t control is under control now; they’re concentrating. The importance of what they’re carrying, how valuable it is, is foremost. If this fabulous vase slips through their fingers, if one finger fails, everything could be lost. Every finger in obedience, under subjection, is holding just right to that priceless treasure.

Are you that careful with souls, or are you indifferent? Looking at the world’s treasures, do you treat souls as though they were worthless? In souls you have something eternal. The Lord told us that if His children failed, multitudes would die and go to hell for all eternity.

The Heart of God

Carefully, many hands must go forth with His message flowing, reaching souls, working with all patience. The Lord in giving you the greatest responsibility on planet Earth—lost humanity—has entrusted you with His very heart. Your task is so important that He promised to never leave you or forsake you, that He would walk every step with you. He promised you that you could follow in His steps. Not veering to the left or right, not considering the hour of the day or night, you have forgotten yourself in the urgency to carry souls.

When you carry lost humanity, go out into the highways and hedges, gathering them with love, compelling them to come in. The Lord said, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled (Luke 14:23). All the Bride’s attention is centered on souls; it’s her heart, her life because, I say again, it’s God’s heart. Any hour of the day or night we will get up to cry out for the lost that we carry in our hands. We have so many, so many to carry. Hands must be anointed to break the yokes that hold souls in the devil’s bondage, anointed to set the captives free. We must have the anointing of God.

Danger awaits those who move away from His footsteps. You can lose your sense of balance, stumble, going any other way but the straight and narrow. Not everyone will carry the anointing. You have to be a certain kind of person to carry His anointing, to carry souls in your hands and not let them be destroyed, to carry them right to Calvary and place them at His precious feet. Here they are, Jesus! Here they are: Save them! We have used your Gospel to bring them to you, Lord. Save every one of them! We don’t want one to be lost. We have been so careful, Lord. We haven’t counted our own lives dear. Lord, we have kept our eyes on your footsteps and on the souls. Nothing could take us away from your steps and from bringing the souls to you.

We, the Bride of Christ, feel our responsibility night and day, and we are so careful with our lives, careful not to stumble, not to fall. We make sure it is His message we give. We pass on no gossip; we don’t speak harmful things. We give the truth. We don’t talk about our brothers or sisters in Christ and cause them to turn away. We are so careful. We say only things that would edify. We don’t dare grumble and complain in their presence. We dare say nothing less than “Jesus never fails.” Nothing less than “Jesus loves you and He died for you. He will do anything for you.” His story we use, not ours. We know what we carry and that we will destroy our anointing as well as souls if we do not walk like Jesus, for those souls could plunge right through our fingers. Oh, God help us, I say!

We must have hands that are not selfish, but yielded hands that put lost souls first ahead of self, family and friends. Lost humanity, related or unrelated, we don’t separate because we look upon them all with His love, hold them in our hands with His hands, and He doesn’t separate. He loves all. Yielded to Him lest we fail in any way, we carry these souls in His name night and day. Hands for the Master’s service, hands for the Master’s use, hands in service win souls and bring souls to Him, giving top priority to God’s work.

You can decide what kind of hands you have. Selfish hands? Do you look out for yourself first of all? Oh Jesus, the Bride cries, we love you so much! By your love we are possessed. By your compassion for the lost, we are held in captivity. We can do no less than bring in the lost. We are your prisoners, Lord, just like Paul was. Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ (Philemon 1).

A New and Living Way

Anything for Jesus’ sake to bring in these millions and millions—not a few, but many millions—the Bride will do. We will be careful, Lord, to not do anything that would make them doubt your love and greatness, careful with every word we speak. Your plan of salvation will shine and glitter before them as we proclaim by the way we live what salvation has meant to us. We will think of eternal souls, what those souls would have been had Adam and Eve never sinned. Through the fall of man in Eden, their images became marred. That boy, that girl, that man and woman without Jesus…nothing like God. Their eyes don’t see like God; their ears do not hear like He hears. Their tongues do not speak the language of God—the love language—only the corrupt, degraded language of the world. But the second Adam, Jesus, came and made it possible for souls to be re-created in the likeness of God.

There is the new and living way. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh (Hebrews 10:19,20). We found it, the new and living way; we won’t betray it by anything that would cast a worldly reflection on it. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17). A new creature just like Jesus will walk like Him, love like Him, think like Him, using His mind to do His work.

Noah Held Seven Souls

Noah had just seven souls in his hands; he couldn’t get any more. No matter how much love he used, the rest slipped through his fingers. But he saved seven even though it took a hundred and twenty years to build the ark for their safety. Sacrificing everything for those seven souls, he had no life of his own. He had denied himself fellowship with brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, parents, grandparents—all his kin, except those seven souls. He met the responsibility of seven souls.

What can we do? We have the responsibility of multitudes. Look at Noah’s obedience, how he found grace with God. Think of all the hours, days, months and years he put into building that ark—for seven souls. What will you do to save seven million or seven hundred million? What will you do when you think of Noah and all that he went through, all the foul talk that was spewed out toward him? Evil spirits came his way through human beings. He couldn’t take time to pay them back; he didn’t have that kind of spirit. What price he paid! Was it worth it? He fought discouraging words of people and the devil who said over and over that it wasn’t worth it. Even if a flood were to come, they sneered, it wouldn’t be enough to float such a huge boat. Noah could have been discouraged and quit many times, but he didn’t let the devil use the tool of discouragement on him; he didn’t take time with the devil. He was too busy building the ark. Let Noah’s dedication be a lesson to all of us. His mind was fixed on one thing: I must build the ark and save these seven souls. In doing so, my soul will be saved also. Eight souls total. Putting great value on souls, Noah worked a hundred twenty years to save them.

Abraham Had the Right Kind of Hands

Abraham held souls in his hands. He held Lot and Lot’s family. What if he had failed? But with great love and faithfulness he held them out of the destruction of Sodom.

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? he asked the Lord (Genesis 18:24). Yes, the Lord said, He would spare the city for fifty righteous people. Abraham bargained with God for forty souls, then thirty, twenty, and at last he asked if God would spare the city for the sake of ten righteous souls. I will not destroy it for ten’s sake, the Lord answered (verse 32). But even ten righteous souls could not be found in that wicked city. Abraham held the souls of Lot’s family in his hands with all the faith and love of God that he had. He did all he could. Lot’s wife fell through his fingers on her own, not because Abraham failed. She took her plunge on her own into eternal darkness, eternal damnation; but Lot, because of Abraham, was on his way out. He and his two daughters were saved.

We can’t hold on to all the souls. Some will drop into hell. Souls dropped right out of Noah’s hands and into hell when he was here. No failure existed on his part, and there was no failure on Abraham’s part. What if Abraham had not had the right kind of hands? What if he had not had God’s love and faith? Lot and his daughters would have perished in Sodom.

Do you understand the responsibility that is yours? It’s not just your own family at stake; it’s lost humanity throughout the whole world. If you are to be a member of the body of Christ, of the bridal company, you can’t fail no matter how you feel; you must not fail or multitudes will die and go to hell. Don’t give over to your feelings, to self in any way, but walk in God’s faith all the way.

Moses Held on to Souls

Moses held great numbers of souls in his hands, three or four million. It’s true that many fell through, but it wasn’t Moses’ fault. He was obedient, humble and meek. On Mount Sinai Moses received two tablets of stone on which the Law was written by the finger of God. But meanwhile down in the valley, the Israelites had turned from God to worship a golden calf. God was going to destroy them all at one time, but Moses interceded: Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book (Exodus 32:32,33). Moses wasn’t talking about the book of life, but the book of blessings. Moses was willing to exchange his blessings for the lives of those in the path of God’s judgment. When an angry God said to Moses: Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation (Exodus 32:10), Moses stood there holding on to souls while God was talking. And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people (verse 14).

Surely we can stand and hold souls while not God, but the devil talks. The devil is saying, Let go. It’s a hopeless thing you are doing; it won’t work. It isn’t worth it. You are sacrificing too much. You have no life. But the devil is the father of lies. You have abundant life whether you know it or not, abundant life. Remember, because Moses held on, God spared the lives of many who would have been destroyed.

The Lord Wants You to Have This Message

What kind of hands do you have? If Moses, Abraham and Noah had hands that could hold onto souls before Calvary, how much greater can we hold on after the miracle of Calvary! Their hands were not washed in the blood of the Lamb—all sin removed—like ours have been. We look at hands made new through the blood of Jesus. The hands that had done evil are no more. The new creation, the new hands, come through the grace of the Lord. Oh, the Lord wants you to have this message! He woke me up early this morning to talk to me. I wrote as He talked. He wanted you to have this fresh from His heart, wanted you to know He is depending on you, that you can’t fail Him in any way, can’t stumble or be careless with all those souls. If the numbers were just seven or just three, you couldn’t be careless. A soul is eternal, either living with Jesus in Glory forever or suffering a living death in hell. The soul will always exist in one place or the other.

Souls keep me going when I don’t feel like it. I see the multitudes that the Lord showed me: Tell my people, He said, if they fail, these will die and go to hell. I beheld multitudes, multitudes with no way to number them. No matter how I feel, beaten down to my knees, my face in the dust again and again, I still hold on to souls. I never lose the vision of the souls nor the responsibility.

Oh, child of His, you must feel this responsibility so you can pay the price. It will be the greatest price ever in this final hour because so many souls are at stake. Each one of God’s totally obedient children will pay a high price. We can only pay it by denying self, denying self.

Spurned by His People, Paul Turned to the Gentiles

Paul once said he was the chief of sinners, but the grace of God turned his life around. He tells us about the price: I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh (Romans 9:1-3). Paul meant he would have willingly given up his blessings from Christ—not his salvation—if it meant souls would come to Jesus; he would have relinquished all his blessings if that would have saved his brethren, his kinsmen. Oh how Paul wanted the Jews to be saved! He held them in his hands with all the love that God had given him. And God’s grace flowed to him in a great way. He held on until God said His grace would not work for his people unless they accepted Christ. They can’t be saved without the blood of Jesus applied to their hearts. Paul, I know you’re under a heavy load; I know how you feel. I went among them, Paul, as their elder brother. They mistreated me in every inhuman way they could think of and finally killed me. I even prayed on the cross, “Father forgive them! They know not what they do.” But they said, “Yes we know. We don’t want you. Away with you! Let your blood be upon us and our children.” There is no help for them, Paul, unless they accept my sacrifice, my blood, my broken body. Now Paul, let go.

Imagine how Paul felt when he had to let go of all those souls who refused Jesus. My God, how he must have cried! He was in great sorrow daily, but the Lord finally got him to let go. Paul, now bring those hands of love and obedience here to this people you once put no value on. You and your people have counted the Gentiles as dogs, but I’m sending you to them, for they will accept my love. Gather them to me with your hands of faith and love. Gather them to Calvary for me. Tell them the story of grace. Paul, you know the Law to the letter, now separate Law and grace for people—my Law, my grace. Show the greatness of grace to the Gentiles, and you’ll turn many to righteousness.

So Paul went forth to the Gentiles. Study his missionary journeys, what he went through, what price he paid. Paul never let go. He held the Gentile people in his hands, a people that he once considered worthless and unclean. Suddenly they were more valuable to him than all the silver and gold in the world, more valuable than his very life. And so he walked among them, loved like Jesus, talked like Jesus, believed like Jesus and swept them from their dark, dark night into the light of God’s holiness, into the paths of righteousness. How did he do it? He did it with the same power we have to work with now: God’s faith, love, grace, greatness. We have it all, but we must use it. We must yield to it. Thus saith the Lord: If this message does not touch your heart…you are afar off and not nigh unto me, saith the Lord. If this message does not penetrate into your innermost being, you’re not right with me, saith the Lord. I am speaking to you, you, you my people, saith the Lord. This is my message. This is my love and my heart and my amazing grace. And if this doesn’t reach into your innermost being, you’re not really right with me, saith the Lord.

What kind of hands do you have? Paul had the right kind of hands, but not the right kind of people. He was sent to a foreign people. Our America today has many people who want nothing to do with God, from lawmakers on down; and now we, like Paul, must look to the nations.

The Lord is saying, Hold the heathen! Hold them with your love. Bring them in from the ends of the earth. Bring them in, people who have never heard my name, who don’t know I died for them. Bring them in! They have never had a Bible; bring them into the truth. I give them into your care. I place them into your hands, oh Bride of mine. Don’t let go. Every soul is valuable, and so many of them will be won. Don’t let go. Don’t worry about those around you who have rejected me. They’ve had their opportunity, and they’ve passed it by. Many of them will never come to me. Don’t let them hinder you. If you look at them, you will stumble and lose the souls that could have been won. But with my love and my greatness, you will hold them.

Could You Bear to Fail God?

What kind of hands do you have, Child of God? Are your hands careless, unconcerned, disgruntled, lukewarm, blind? Hands without vision are blind hands, deaf to the call of God. What kind of hands? What can take your attention from your responsibility for the lost? One person saying something hard to you—can it take your mind completely from your grave responsibility that the Lord has entrusted you with? What a trust He has put in you! Will you let a little something get your attention? Just because you are being mistreated, will you fail God? Look at the souls you hold and say, I can’t fail these souls. If I fail these souls, I have failed the Lord. I’ve failed His death for me. I’ve failed His mighty works for mankind. I’ve failed the pouring out of the Spirit that Joel the prophet saw 2,500 years ago. I can’t fail. I can’t fail! I have just a limited number of days left, a limited number of hours, moments, seconds. Every moment is precious. I can never be guilty of letting the devil steal any of that precious time by getting my attention. That precious time must be given unto the Lord to be used to bring in the harvest. I will walk with you, Lord. I will talk with you. I will not vary from your footsteps. I will stay in step with you no matter the cost. I will walk in your steps and sacrifice all for souls.

How carefully do you handle the lost? Would you give your life for them? Paul was willing to die for his nation, willing to make any sacrifice.

Numbers Don’t Matter; Obedience Does

Hands can be out of place in crucial times. All hands should be in place now that proclaim the Savior. It’s the hour of God’s victory, the hour of the Gideon victory when every man stood in his place; every hand, every finger, every thumb was in place. Gideon thought he needed a lot of hands to hold on for victory, but not so. The Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many (Judges 7:2-4). The Lord told Gideon He would test the remaining people. When He had finished, only three hundred out of the thirty-two thousand Gideon had started with were considered by God to be fit. But it was Gideon’s three hundred that God used to win a great victory. And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled (verse 21).

You can’t look at the crowds in false doctrine, fanaticism or lukewarmness; you can’t look at those who have failed or those who are turning back. Stand in your place and keep your eyes on Jesus, on His faith, His love, His tender care, His gracious yearning for you. Help satisfy His desire daily by bringing souls to Him. Will you dare use those fingers for self when you could use them for Jesus and lost humanity? Will you dare give those fingers to the desires of self and the little group around you, trying to please just a few people and not God?

Enoch Pleased God

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God (Hebrews 11:5). The Bible doesn’t say his wife or his children pleased God. Enoch pleased God whether his family pleased Him or not. In pleasing God, he may have displeased those closest to him; but he was the one the Lord translated.

You will be the one to make the Rapture if you please God. If those around you are pleased, fine; if not, so be it. You must please God; stand in your place of amazing grace all the time. Not unless you are in that amazing grace are you standing in the place of His love, faith, tenderness and kindness, serving these things to others. If you are not serving Jesus, you’re not in His place. The devil has moved you, shaken you out—perhaps momentarily—but you are on the wrong ground serving the wrong things.

Are your hands fussing hands, hands of strife, turmoil? Then they are not holding that treasure of souls for God worth more than all the wealth of the world. Your hands—are they hands with a grudge? Then you are not holding souls. Hands of vengeance? They are not holding souls. Hands without Calvary’s tears? They aren’t holding souls. Hands with a mind of vanity, vain, vain—what emptiness—hold no souls. Hands with malice, hands of bitterness, hands with wrath and anger, hands that speak evil, hands that grieve the Holy Spirit let souls slip through their fingers.

Awake thou that sleepest (Ephesians 5:14). The call is on now, saith the Lord. If you don’t wake up, you’re not going to wake up. In this great, final hour, you must be wide awake if you make it through to Rapture ground. You must have clean hands to lift up before God, the only kind of hands that will hold the multitudes, the masses of humanity that are on the way to destruction, eternal damnation.

Now, with God’s love, with God’s faith you have them; you are holding them. Will you let anything take your attention from these souls? Will you let anything put you into a spirit of indifference, lukewarmness? God help us!

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness (Ephesians 4:24). The new man has the new hands, hands speaking the truth in love (verse 15). Not fussing, hating, bickering, put on the hands of love. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another (verse 32). Forgiving hands, forgiving whatever people do to you. Forgiving hands aren’t bitter over the injustice done to you and others, the crimes. Through the love of Calvary, look at those who mistreat you. The knowledge of what they can be in Christ gives you courage. You see them for a moment in their degraded state, covered with sin, but then you look through the blood and see how they can be cleansed, made whole just as you were cleansed and made whole, pure and holy.

The formula for holding onto souls—cover the wrong with love, and what you can’t cover with love, excuse for the sake of millions and millions of lost humanity. Excuse, forgive and hold on in the Spirit of Jesus.

Jesus Didn’t Let Go

What if Jesus had let go of you and me? What if He had turned us loose in those trying times? But He carried us all to Calvary. The devil did everything he could to get Jesus to let go, offering Him all the kingdoms of the world, but Jesus held souls.

Deny self like Jesus did when He was here on earth and be a real disciple in this final hour. Be rid of selfishness, of worrying about what others may say. When you carry opinions of others, you fail to carry souls. You lose them; your hands are being filled with garbage. You drop souls for a handful of garbage.

What does it matter what people say or do? Wicked men spit in Jesus’ face, beat it to a pulp, but He held souls and He didn’t let them go. Audacious men plucked out His beard, mocked Him, shamed Him in every way they could, but He opened not His mouth. He had too much love for lost humanity. He was holding so priceless a gift for the lost that He gave all His love for it, every drop of His blood.

God gave Isaiah, that great prophet of God, a picture of the Crucifixion. As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him (Isaiah 52:14; 53:3). My God, the sight! People couldn’t bear to look upon His face, it was so beaten. That awful crown of thorns He wore—let’s not add any thorns to it. Don’t you think He has suffered enough, given enough, been shamed enough?

The Crucifixion didn’t look like a gift to many, but it was a gift that held souls with love, washed sins all away, made people new like the first Adam and Eve before the fall. Ears of the yielded ones opened as they listened to the voice of the Lord. Their eyes could see the love, the glory and power of the Lord. Holy, Lord God Almighty! Holy, holy is the name of the Lord! Those who killed Jesus couldn’t get the souls He had washed in His blood away from Him. Even when they nailed His hands to the cross, they couldn’t take those souls. He held them with love, grace, faith.

Oh, Child of God, the Lord has put much confidence in us, great trust. This last hour just before the Rapture is awesome, fearful. You can’t be careless ever again. The Lord gave me this message for you. I didn’t study it; He just gave it to me. I ’m simply the delivery boy, here to deliver Thus saith the Lord to you concerning lost humanity.

Jesus loves you with an unending love; He is eager for you to finish your work, to bring souls to Him, and then He is eager to take you home, so eager He is coming Himself for His Bride. He isn’t sending angels after you; He Himself is coming almost to earth, well within sight, and His power will change you who are saved and filled with the blessed Holy Ghost. Caught up as though drawn by a mighty magnet, you will be with Him, meeting in mid-air and carried by His greatness all the way to yonder shore. I’m sure we will leave without saying good-bye we’ll be so happy to look upon His face, the One who died for us, who carried us in those wonderful hands and wouldn’t let go. There wasn’t enough pain, shame, disgrace, torture to make Him let go.

Will you let go of the souls you hold? When the enemy is trying to make you disgruntled and hard to get along with, when you want to even-up the score, yield to God. If you don’t, those fingers will separate, and souls will be lost, souls will be lost.

God Is Dealing with Each Heart

Hands that hold souls speak that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers (Ephesians 4:29). If you are going to hold these souls in your hands, if you are really going to bring in the harvest, you will have to cut out anything unlike Jesus. The Lord shook me in a prophecy recently when He let us know that we are coming to a crossing. You must be ready to go across or you won’t make it, that’s thus saith the Lord. It’s the first time He has mentioned the crossing. He has dealt with you, tried to separate you from everything unlike Him. He has tried to get you to be wholly, wholly His. He has tried to get you to put on the love bridle and keep it on, to say only those things that edify and bless, but He is not going to let you destroy the multitudes, saith the Lord. He is going to separate His fingers of love and let you be, saith the Lord. Oh my God! What a fearful time it is! God Himself is dealing through His mighty Spirit with each heart.

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil (Ephesians 5:16). Are you redeeming the time? Is your time a profit to God? How much benefit does God reap from your time, from the hours He gives you day after day? How much benefit? He is the only one who serves you time; He’s the only one who can stop the clock for you or keep it going. Are you redeeming the time for Him, or do you grumble and complain, thinking you are doing too much? Are you forever watching the clock when it comes to God’s time? But on your own time, is the clock out of mind? You don’t think of time when you recognize that you carry something so valuable as souls, worth more than all the wealth of the world. This treasure is so fragile that if you let go a tiny bit, chaos can result.

Forget the clock, forget pleasing self. Know your responsibility is greater than anything else. The Bride will carry such a responsibility, saith the Lord. Each one of the bridal company will carry this responsibility, saith the Lord. Each member will be without spot, wrinkle or blemish; and that’s the reason each one will have hands that will hold onto lost humanity just like the hands of Jesus. The Bride’s hands will be like His with the same strength, the same love and grace.

You Must Have the Holy Ghost

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father (John 14:12). Jesus walked the earth in the form of a man, yet He was very God. As very man He knew He couldn’t have completed His mission without the Holy Ghost. Jesus told the disciples He was going back to Heaven and would pray the Father to send the Holy Ghost to live and dwell in His obedient followers. Father, they can’t make it without the Holy Ghost. You sent the Holy Ghost upon me when I was baptized by John in Jordan, and Lord, they must have Him as their comforter and guide all the time.

It’s a must for each member of the bridal company to be filled, thrilled and operated by the Holy Spirit Himself. You will not get out without Him, saith the Lord. You’ll not get out of here on man’s opinions; you’ll get out through my Word, saith the Lord, through my truth, saith the Lord, through my power. And the ones who reject the might of my power will not get out.

Who is man to reject the power of his God and then dare claim the benefits of what the great God of the universe has promised? What value are you to God, and what value will you be to Him in this final walk? The responsibility is indeed a grave one, so great that we’re overwhelmed by it again and again. But with the voice of the Lord in our ears and the vision of God in living reality, we will not fail. Nothing can stop us now. We’ll go all the way, all the way.

Don’t think about someone else’s hands, don’t check them. Check your own with what God has told you, and find out for sure what kind of hands you really have. Now is the time to know. Don’t let one tiny seed of deceit linger in your mind, deceiving you.

Many are in such a habit of grumbling and complaining that it becomes second nature to them. Some people fail and disobey God so much it seems they don’t even know what they are doing. You can become immune to the Holy Spirit through disobedience and arrogance, or you can come to abundant life in Jesus, into the whole new and living way. Don’t excuse yourself, but excuse others and put them into the hands of God under the blood of Jesus’ love and leave them there. Put those who have wronged you under His forgiving Spirit, and they won’t be your responsibility any longer. Why be responsible for that which is worthless to you?

Your responsibility: souls, souls, souls. God has ordained it so. He gave this grave responsibility to His disciples: Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15). Go, go! Bring souls to me! So we are going, and we’re gathering the souls, like stars without number. To me it’s exciting!

Years ago I would seek God in revivals for just a small number to come to Him, not knowing I later would witness thousands coming to Jesus in a moment of time, so many that there is no way to number them. That’s really living, the true life when you can serve Jesus to so many. You have that opportunity, but you must have serving, obedient, loving, caring hands to serve Him. You can’t serve Him any other way.

Thus Saith the Spirit of the Lord!

Oh, saith the Spirit of the Lord unto this people: I have gathered you unto me. I have spent so much time to teach you, to bless you, to help you so you could carry my love and my faith and my goodness to the inhabitants of the earth. You must not fail. You must not fail. I have loved you, cared for you. I have kept you when you didn’t even want to be kept. I have protected you when you felt no need of my protection. Many of you have been so nigh unto destruction and nigh unto death, and I spared you for this hour. I have claimed you as my treasure, but if you continue to rebel and disobey, I won’t be able to use you. And in your disobedience, remember, you have let go of multitudes of souls, multitudes, multitudes.

If you fail me now, you will have failed yourself. If you fail me now, you’ll go into darkness. If you fail me now, you will lose the path of light. Night will be your destiny and the devil will give you his arrogance that momentarily you won’t even be afraid of the night—but you will be afraid of it later.

Your soul is in jeopardy, not just the souls of those I have ordained you to bring into my Kingdom, but your own soul is in jeopardy. You must walk holy. You must be upright, righteous all the time. You’re not going to be able to go to the left. You’re not going to be able to fail and fail. The day is far spent. Night is at hand. You must work my works and do my work while it’s yet time. The night cometh, the eternal night.

You can be an overcomer. I’ve offered you all the power you need and more to be an overcomer. I offer it to you daily, and yet you let the enemy give you his spirit of arrogance and indifference, and turn away from my gracious, abundant supply. The devil offers you nothing but destruction, and yet he blinds your mind, your eyes, your spirit; and you walk alone because you walk without me. You stray to other paths, and then you’ll try to find your way back. But the hour is late now, and you won’t find your way back, saith the Lord.

Oh, God, help us not to fail! We need to cry unto God until we know our hands are just like Jesus’ hands, until we know those hands have no arrogance, no disobedience, no failure in them when it comes to God, that they will not let go of the souls. Those hands represent the whole you. Cry aloud unto God, cry aloud for the blood while you yet have time. Today is the day of deliverance; today is the day of salvation. Cry until you know those hands have nothing but love, compassion, mercy, tenderness and pure, clean words that will edify and bless. Be determined in your heart that you will never fail God, never let souls that you hold in your hands slip through your fingers. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Souls are the business of the Bride of Christ today.