• Small Straws In A Soft Wind by Marsha Burns — August 26, 2008:

Awake, arise and return from your distractions to ongoing fellowship with Me, says the Lord. Many things have demanded and even required your attention, and you have been seduced away from pure devotion to your God. Silence your flesh, and come away to spend time in My presence. I will encourage and strengthen your body, soul and spirit. Don’t delay; respond to My wooing.

Nehemiah 1:9 ‘If you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for My name.’

Today I decided to begin pulling from my journal in hopes that you will be blessed and find your place in the wait.

• The Jews are being called to repentance. Jer. 7
• What is this word saying to me, here in this place… the wait?

Hear the word of the Lord & worship! (I must hear your word(s) & respond in worship!)

Amend your ways & I will cause you to dwell in this place. (With a heart of true repentance, I will dwell in my place of promise.)

Trust not in lying words, for if you truly amend your ways & execute righteous judgment, then I will cause you to dwell in this place. (I must be aware of the lies of the enemy, changing my ways & executing righteous judgment, then, I will be brought out.)

Behold, trust not in lying words, they cannot profit! (I must be exhorted to keep this watchful eye, as the lies of the enemy will produce no fruit!)

Will you sin not & go into my place, (Shiloh: The Messiah, The Second Coming/Advent), where I am; I am to come? (I must keep a clean heart & press toward HIM, my promise!)

I spoke to you early in the AM & you heard not, I called & you answered not, (In those quiet hours where I failed to respond, I must hear! I must answer! I must be obedient to His voice!)

Therefore I will (execute my judgment & wrath) upon these, (those who turn back as w/Israel). (I must prepare for His judgment to come while remaining steadfast under His covering! May His mercy & grace be abound as move out…! I shall not turn back!)

Pray not, intercede not, for I will not hear you! (Does this not refer to those within & without who refuse to hear?? For me, to be careful to pray in this place, just as He says.)

Do they not provoke me to see my anger? I have called them to obedience & they will not hear! They went backward & not forward! (Let not any of this judgment fall upon me! I will hear; I will follow! May your abundant mercy be abound as I have fallen backward, & I must move FORWARD!)

You will speak & they will not hear! I will cause them to cease & the land be made desolate! (As w/Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, I will exhort some who will not hear & yet cont. to turn back. This will cause them to be unfruitful & desolate. Of such, I must be removed. I have to focus my efforts on producing fruit in this seemingly dry land! I must repent & recv. from the living water daily & become refreshed to the pouring in & the pouring out! I must again be yielded to your purpose, the higher call to where you are, Shiloh, I come!!)

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