Terry Casales - September 21st, 2022
(Photo: Terry Casales)
Have you ever had someone put gum in your hair? The more you have tried to take it out the more it seems to stick to your hair? And the more you try to remove it the more frustrated you get? Beloved, allow Me to pour My oil of gladness over you. Allow My oil to penetrate every part of you that feels stuck by old mindsets and by the words of others who have tried to stick their stinking thinking on you.
Just like oil can help free up that gum in your hair, so can My fresh oil of gladness free you from the spirit of heaviness. It is time to allow Me to do the work of renewing your mind and cleaning up the tangled mess in your mind and heart that has kept you from moving forward with Me.
To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.” - Isaiah 61:3 - NKJV
And, even when you have given up trying to untangle your hair out of frustration and have decided to cut that part of your hair off yourself, take time to pause and ask Me to give you the wisdom and the help to preserve, nurture and to restore what is good and help it to continue to grow. There is more than one solution to what you are currently facing.
Beloved, do not allow yourself to grow impatient in the process and do not allow the pain others have caused in your soul to take root like weeds and choke the life out of what I have commissioned you to do. Allow Me to continue to do the healing work in your heart and soul to prepare you for this new era. Allow Me to remove everything that has been blocking and trying to create delay in your progress with Me.
Catch us the foxes, The little foxes that spoil the vines, For our vines have tender grapes. - Song of Solomon 2:15 - NKJV
Beloved, wait on Me and allow Me to show you what you must do as you cross over into this new season of your walk with Me. Do not use Me as a last resort after you have tried every other solution in your own understanding to try to remove those things from the enemy that keep coming at you and sticking to you and seek Me first in all things for I Am always here to help you along the way to where you are going. Beloved, making course corrections is necessary if you want to get to the right destination with Me.
“In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.” - Proverbs 3:6 NKJV
“My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor detest His correction; For whom the Lord loves He corrects, Just as a father the son in whom he delights.” - Proverbs 3:11-12 NKJV
“My son, let them not depart from your eyes— Keep sound wisdom and discretion; So they will be life to your soul And grace to your neck. Then you will walk safely in your way, And your foot will not stumble.” - Proverbs 3:21-23 NKJV
Stop trying to fix everything yourself and know that you have the One who is your ever present Help in times of trouble. You are not alone in this. All you have to do is ask Him and He will come running to your side as your Father who loves you.
“For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” - Matthew 7:8 NKJV
“And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”” - Matthew 21:22 NKJV
“Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” - Hebrews 4:16 NKJV
“If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.” - John 14:14 NKJV
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