Sunday, December 29, 2013

"I WILL TURN BACK YOUR CAPTIVITY BEFORE YOUR EYES..."

The LORD is perfect. He is just....so....perfect. Coming home on the train, as He spoke through me to encourage Reggie, who was racially profiled and inappropriately treated because of his race; the Lord spoke to him of the little girl that i was - Jewish - being persecuted by all our neighbors, not being allowed to walk on their sidewalks, go into their houses, even walk on their lawns or play with their children...because (even at age 5) i was accused of "killing their Jesus"....

And this early morning (up all night reading, catching up on this weeks bible readings)....reading Zephaniah 3:19-20:

19 Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.
20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord.

There are not enough words to speak of how i was tormented as a child for being Jewish - so much so that i became ashamed....i am humbled and honored that the LORD PURSUED ME - He literally CHASED ME DOWN and apprehended me - because He knew who i was and who He called and destined for me to be - so much so that i am still undone by His love and His words for me to encourage and strengthen me -

He is always in the midst of thee - always....
Trust Him.

His Messenger
December 29th, 2013
4:25 a.m.

Monday, October 7, 2013

SOUL HYPE

The Lord has been talking to me about this (to talk to all of you) for awhile.  There are no articles about this, no specific way to "google" it - it is not something you can do a "search" on at your favorite on-line bible scripture site....it is something that you have to sit at the feet of Jesus to learn about.

What IS soul hype?  What does this have to do with God?

Well, actually it has NOTHING to do with GOD.  BUT it is something charismatic evangelical etc preachers USE - it is a STYLE of preaching - that has nothing to do with teaching truth or holiness or humility. 

We all know that our "soul" is mind, will and emotions.

HYPE: means "to stimulate, excite, agitate, create, exaggerate; to gain interest by using flamboyant dramatic methods; in many cases it is considered a "trick" - however when preaching is concerned the Lord has said it is not necessarily a "trick" but it IS a method designed by MAN that has NOTHING to do with Jesus.

You know - just watch Rod Parsley.  Watch so many preachers.  Their tone inflection, their voices rising and falling, changing vocal intonation - maybe parading back and forth, dropping the microphone, standing with arms outstretched.  Jumping up on the furniture.  Saying things like, "I'm gonna go on the other side of the room they're acting better..."  TRYING TO ELICIT a specific response from the listeners.  I've heard Joyce Meyer (not flamboyant but dramatic - say things like "I'm preaching better than you're acting" - and then the people cheer and applaud).

DO YOU HEAR WHAT IS BEING SAID HERE?

It is a style of preaching used to hype - pump up - almost like a pep rally at a football game - - - i even hear preachers saying that if you DO NOT jump and shout and run and scream you have "lost the fire" or "are in sin".

THIS is the style of preaching of Rod Parsley.  Even his substitute preacher guy named Manny - preached the EXACT SAME WAY - it was overly dramatic theatrics. 

i cannot even imagine Jesus preaching the sermon on the mount using these styles of preaching.

THE WORD draws.  HOLY SPIRIT draws.  PREACH FROM THE HEART.  PREACH FROM HUMILITY!  PREACH from that place where you have basked in His presence, His glory, and come out with your face aglow and your words humbled and awed!

The Lord had me email Sister Dee in Africa - she and i were talking about soul hype in "christian" music and preaching way back in 2009 - i couldn't find that email so i wrote to her and she prayed and responded thus:

"There have been many exposes of soul hype in the church but I don't have any on my computer so I can only do as you and Google it and go to where the Lord leads...BUT MY SIS THE PEOPLE WON'T HEAR YOU..THEY HAVE BEEN DEAF AND BLIND AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE SO..UNLESS THE LORD GIVES YOU THE WORDS BY HIS SPIRIT TO SPEAK TO A FEW..IT IS SICKENING..FATHER I PRAY IN THE NAME OF JESUS THAT YOU LEAD RHONDA TO THOSE YOU WOULD CALL OUT FROM UNDER THE HARLOT CHURCH AND GIVE THE WORDS TO SPEAK AND THAT THE PEOPLE WILL HEAR YOU LORD.
BLESSINGS" ~DEE

THEN the Lord just had me google it (a few minutes ago) and led me to an amazing article by J. Lee Grady (Editor of Charisma Magazine) about this subject (sort of) - a few of his defining comments:

"Some American preachers today wow their crowds with dramatic stories, film clips, trendy graphics and motivational hype. It sounds good initially. But sometimes, after the applause, we realize it was just a bunch of ear candy. What we need in today’s pulpits is less scripted sparkle and more messy, raw, honest, tear-stained pleas from broken men and women who are aflame with the Holy Spirit. Rams’ horns came from animals that had been sacrificed. Only consecrated preachers who have died to self can preach a message that will bring down a spiritual wall."

"What we need in today’s pulpits is less glitz and polish and more gut-level honesty."
(J. Lee Grady - Charisma magazine)

Beloved - don't get sucked in.  Ask Jesus to SHOW YOU HIS TRUTH IN ALL THINGS - from the church you are going to, to the style of preaching therein.  AND adding this here - do NOT LET JUST ANYONE LAY HANDS ON YOU - you have NO IDEA what their belief systems are - NONE - and there is a transference of SPIRITS by the laying on of hands.  Good grief last year at the pool i had been "missed" after not being there while sick - and a lady came up to me and asked where i'd been - the Lord allowed me to tell her and she started to lay hands on me - and prayed to MARY mother of JESUS.  It seriously hurt her feelings when i asked her to get her hands off of me (it wasn't quite that blunt) - but Mary was just a woman NOT someone we are commanded to pray to! 

This is NOT nit-picking.  There is a holy, righteous, awesome Jesus who asks us to YIELD OURSELVES unto HIM so that HE can preach THROUGH US.  He doesn't need flamboyant ways - He doesn't need you to whoop and shout and dramatically orate to keep people interested (or from falling asleep).  HIM THROUGH US - Jesus, the SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER. 

Just let Him speak.
Look for those who JUST let HIM speak.

We ONLY need the Holy Ghost.

God bless.

His messenger
09-26-13 through 10-07-13

Sunday, June 9, 2013

The Pleasure of God - The Wrath of God



The Lord speaks to me day and night.  It is when He asks me to share it with you that i come and do as He commands.  He is stressing His anger at those who curse, persecute and judge me and at the same time He speaks His love and promises to me as one who is obedient unto His ways...no matter what.

As you know, there have been continual tests and trials here for me.  i have not begun to share the half of what is happening, but HE knows.  For some reason, the treatment by so-called believers affects me way more than those who are not believers...because those who do not know Jesus cannot truly be expected to act like Jesus. So while their comments, deeds might sting the flesh and hurt the soul, it is NOTHING compared to that which is perpetrated by those who claim to know Christ.  Whether it is an ungodly act, or rudeness, or acting out of the will of God; whether forgetting your promises to be faithful to this ministry, or be it words under the guise of 'counsel'.  There is nothing worse than those who forget that they are expected to act NOT like the world but better and higher than the ways of the world.  Who are to approach all they encounter by asking Holy Spirit, "Lord, show me who this one is to You."  You are not permitted to approach them out of your intellect or reason - what YOU think to be right...NO!  You are to approach them ONLY AS the Lord Himself gives you utterance. 

But then, if you have not truly surrendered all that you are - ALL - then you cannot help to act like the lost.

The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but He by no means clears the guilty - visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.  It is no small thing to defy God. 

As much as i hate it, i am still in this human body.  And i react to suffering sometimes with hurt and/or tears.  So many 'believers' say, "But you're still human...of COURSE your feelings are going to get hurt."   TRULY i say unto you - JESUS IS GREATER THAN OUR HUMANNESS, OUR FLESH!  If i were as crucified to the flesh as i would like to believe, none of any of what people do/don't do would not matter.  And truly at the end of the day (as well as the beginning) - I KNOW THAT I KNOW THAT I KNOW that the ONLY person i can trust and who deserves my trust and who will never fail me - not ever - is Jesus.  I consider it an honor to fellowship in His suffering, and i do ask Him always that any and all things be used for HIS GLORY, to crucify me all the more, that He may see something in me that pleases Him. 

(Let me add as He speaks it - the third thing He has been stressing to me is the importance of my Jewishness. But that is for another day). Although He WILL permit me to proclaim that it is my heritage as a Jew that makes my calling and assignment for Him that much more different, makes it unique.  He has created me to be HIS.  Only HIS.  He has created me to follow.  He has made me walk in humility.  He has made me walk in obedience.  He has caused me to walk in holy righteousness.  He has made me as one who is faithful to only Him, neither looking to the left or to the right - one He can trust to not waver compromise or quit...who is faithful to always come to HIM - whether it be for direction, wisdom, encouragement.  And He is always always always faithful to wrap His arms around me, to let me literally FEEL His presence, His embrace, His heartbeat against my cheek.  He created me for Himself - and it is only His own good pleasure that He shares me with anyone.

And He would have me add that my love for Him in NO WAY diminishes His love through me toward the brethren.  I am anointed and called to be His.  He makes me obedient to that calling.  It is an honor.

First His promises toward me this day:

"My eye shall always be upon you, my faithful daughter, that you may dwell with Me and serve Me."

"You, beloved one, are under My watchful eye.  My watchful eye never leaves you.  I AM always ready to step in on your behalf, I AM only a whisper away."

"For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please and it shall prosper."

He said also: "Have I not commanded you?  Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."

And other things which i cherish and are private and i hold close and dear to my heart...words from My Love.

Much of this was to assure me that the words of a fellow believer unto me personally - who was calling into question my office as prophet, my assignment, my way of hearing God, my way of approaching the brethren - all of it was being called into question as if i was in error.  But i know Jesus - i know His voice - i hear Him day and night; there isn't a person on the planet who can be or should they be more to me than Jesus is to me...He is my everything, my all in all.  Jesus knows my heart, He knows what He has called me to do.  He knows that requires perfect hearing; it also requires much suffering along the way.  He is faithful to keep me going; if i have a moment of weakness in the flesh that in no way nullifies the entirety of the rest of all that He has for me to do.  Instead of calling into question my entire walk, would not a fellow believer embrace me and encourage me?  But how can they do that if they are coming out of their own reasoning and not from His Spirit?

The Lord showed me a word today that also confirmed His truth - HIS truth - about who i am to Him and what the devil is trying to accomplish:

"The enemy is working hard to try to convince you that there are major problems with your spiritual life and calling.  He has drawn your attention to issues that are exaggerated and out of proportion, things they have NOT sought my wisdom about.  KEEP CALM.  Trust Me to continue to give you My wisdom and direction."

WOW.  Right on the mark.  As always. 

He also said to tell all:  "My messenger Rhonda comes under the authority of the Son of God - woe unto those who would oppose her."

His final word (thusfar - more as He commands) He told me to share:

THUS SAITH THE LORD:  "How unfortunate that even those who profess to be Mine do not believe the magnitude of My sending My prophet, My messenger unto them.  They shall see...in their own lives - the measure of favor bestowed unto her is bestowed unto Me, and thus unto them.  But woe unto the disbelieving - their word curses, persecutions, judgments - done unto Rhonda are done unto ME.  It shall not go well with them and their offspring," saith the Lord. 2:13 p.m.

He also proclaims: "My Spirit shall not strive with them forever.  It is a fearful thing to see Me at the end of My patience and mercy.  For it is no small thing to defy Me," saith the Lord.

Who has ears to hear....

via His Messenger
June 9th, 2013
12:50 pm - 3:03 pm

Sunday, February 17, 2013

PROPHETIC DREAMS - Lions Vs Snakes

 The Lord gave me two prophetic dreams in the last few days....the first was about lions. The second was about seven snakes. I love that the dream about "good" came first - in dreams (prophetically) lions are biblical symbol of rulership/king (OT) and Jesus Christ as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Lions are thought of equally as destroyers and saviors. They were believed to be destroyers of evil and champions of light and life. The second dream (snakes): in dreams and visions, snakes indicate the presence of darkness and demnism as demons favor their images as representations of powers and authority (see Genesis 49:17).

The Lord has seriously been stressing these are the last days - the ultimate battle of good vs evil, light vs darkness. Not only in those in the world without Jesus Christ, and also in the church as this is the time of the great falling away and those not wholly His turning away from Him once and for all, but in the grand scheme, the supreme rulership of all - Jesus the Christ over satan the deceiver.

If you think your life as you know it is the way things are (in the natural) you are living in the world and in the seen and not in the realm of His Spirit/Kingdom and the unseen. It is NOT about life here on earth - this is our training grounds, our preparation to rule and reign with Jesus for all eternity. GET INTO HIS PERFECT WILL before it's too late.

I remember you all before His throne of grace and mercy, and it is my honor to serve His purposes with you, my fellow believers in all that is Him.


listening ALWAYS ONLY UNTO HIM
In His Unfailing Love,
His Messenger

POPE RESIGNS

I'm sure you have heard the news that the pope is resigning....HBO did a huge expose a week prior to this about how this pope exclusively handled all sex abuse cases in the catholic church. TWO lightning bolts hit the vatican after the resignation. 

Today (02-16-13) there was a 4.8 magnitude earthquake in Rome.

ONE YEAR HEALING MIRACLE - Anniversary














Today - February 16th - is the one year anniversary of the removal of the 70 pound and 20 pound tumors from my body, when Jesus proved Himself (yet again and for always) my Love, my Life, and spared my life for His sake and His glory and a day does not go by when I don't not remember and I do and will continue to give Him ALL GLORY HONOR AND PRAISE all the days of my life

In His Unfailing Love,
His Messenger

ASTEROIDS & METEORS









An asteroid came historically close to earth today AND a meteor shower hurt many in Russia? hmm i remember this movie -it's called Armageddon!

 Signs of the times - we're in the last days - believe it

 YOU were chosen for this hour. Do you KNOW how many saints LONGED to live during this time? 

Jesus has a plan for you, to walk for HIS GLORY. 
Are you separate from the world? 
Have you died to self, to flesh? 
Are you prepared to live the remaining days for JESUS?

 There is NO FEAR - for when you are HIS you are hidden in Him!
Rejoice for your Beloved is that much closer to coming for you!

 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty
 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge
and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,
and from the noisome pestilence.
 He shall cover thee with his feathers,
 and under his wings shalt thou trust:
 his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night;
nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
 nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness;
 nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand;
but it shall not come nigh thee.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge,
even the Most High, thy habitation;
 there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

 Psalm 91: 1-11 - TRUTH to those who are wholly HIS OWN

listening ALWAYS ONLY  UNTO HIM

In His Unfailing Love,
His Messenger