Entwine your heart with Mine one last time

The Father says today,

"As I have written your name in the palm of my hand, you have entwined your heart with mine. Take my hand Beloved, and let me lift you up out of the sorrow. While everyone is celebrating a new year, you are still grieving over the loss. I am not One to walk over your pain so flippantly or handle you so casually. You have counted the cost. You have lost much. Let Me embrace you, says the Lord of Hosts, and let's have one last cry together. I have never left you. Let everything fall to the ground, it's time to change your clothes. As the tears fall one last time, see the past be absorbed like rain into the earth never to torment you again. You have felt like you don't belong for far too long and those grave clothes are tattered and ready for the trash. You don't belong in a graveyard of regrets or mistakes by others. You belong with Me, says the Father.

"A shower of truth and of blessing is cascading down you now, cleansing you of the memory of last season's sorrow. They will no longer have power over you. Right them down, one final letter of release. Divorce yourself from the visual and the physical abuse the enemy has bombarded you with, divorce yourself from the false words and the lies and the threats. Receive the washing of my word and your new garments.

"A new body, a new perspective, a new way of doing things and a new way of existing. I want you fully alive and fully awake to live and declare everything I have done for you. Reach up your arms and let me clothe you with the finest linen. Though your sins were as scarlet, you are now white as snow. Your skin is clean. Your mind is renewed. Your heart is whole and healed. This year you will see that you belong. This year you will experience relationships with others that will support the plans I have for you. The dried-up branches have already been thrown into the burn pile, they are already gone and the fullness of new life already pulsates within your veins. You will believe in My promises for you with such audacious faith and adoration that you will see your sorrows no more. The soil is ready. The land- the new territory- the new relationships the new location the new way of living is before you. No crossroads here, you have entered your promised land and signed the papers!

"The land is yours, now what will you do with it? You have room to grow now, and no tyrant will be able to condemn or control you because you know who you are! It is one thing to hear Me say you are mine, and quite another to believe it. Now you will walk in it! When you are asked, Who are you? you will answer without compunction- I am my Beloved's, I am a ruler and reign over this earth. I have my Father's eyes, and he has given me all of his authority. The adoption papers are more than final- This year you will look like me, you will sound like me and you will act like me! It is time for you to rise as my child and receive your inheritance, declares the Father!

On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:

How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury[ a ] has ended! The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows, and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression. All the lands are at rest and at peace; they break into singing. Even the junipers and the cedars of Lebanon gloat over you and say, “Now that you have been laid low, no one comes to cut us down.”

"Once more, I will speak to you tenderly. Now, I will dress you as my beloved Bride. You won't step out in confusion or defensive pride but you will be bewildered as your children run into your arms. Those whom you have stood by their side, even those who were unaware- those nations of children will run to you and ask you to dress them and prepare them like small Esthers so that they know that they know that they know that, They were made for a time such as this!

"See how I have established a place for you, says the Father. In all humility, while you were still healing, you stretched out your arms and your hands and gave when you had nothing left to give. While no one witnessed this, I did. I saw you on your knees in the long nights praying and fighting for a new group of believers- a land of children who did not yet know their Father, learn my name and discover who I am. I saw you teach the homeless and love the poor into knowing that I am with them and I am forever for them. Like miniature Skywalkers walking the land without knowing their identity, they discovered their birthright in the bottom line of an adoption paper. I am your Father, and because of your introduction, your prayers and the late-night phone calls, they now know who they are.

"Get ready, because the weeping, the robberies by your adversary, the mishandling of who you are is being paid back in full force because My Force is with you! The Force of all of heaven is with you! The Force of the cloud of witnesses is with you! And all of heaven is within you! The table has turned! When you know your identity, you know your authority!

"And by whose authority do you speak but mine! I have given it all to you- ALL! Things you forgot about in the past season, not just the past year, will be revisited to you and the prayers you prayed will manifest miraculous revelations of my power in you!

"Many have confused the Bridal company with satin and white shoes- you, who made yourself humble and faced the mudslingers will rise with a new robe of righteousness. Your children will surround you like a strand of the finest pearls in honor. The church will behold her people, once broken but now redeemed, as a mother who beholds her children. You will stand as one, and I will exonerate you before the eyes of men, before the eyes of your adversary and you will have the privilege of seeing your enemy for who he truly is and exclaim, Wow! Is this the one who terrorized me!? (Isaiah 14:12-17)

See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me. Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you. Lift up your eyes and look around; all your children gather and come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride. “Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away. The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.’ Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was left all alone, but these—where have they come from?’ ” Isaiah 49: 16-21

"As you put away your Christmas tree and your many traditions you will remember My words, you will remember the battle I launched on your behalf, but your sins you will remember no longer. Your repentance is final. Don't return your Christmas present, refuse to be talked out of the gift of your repentance. Raise your head up in dignity once again and remember whose colors you wear- you are white as snow, your robe is white and I have spent great time and paid attention to every intricate detail with the linen I have made for you.

“To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again. Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you. Isaiah 54: 8-10 TPT

You say, What if they come again? What if the enemy comes again? There is no longer room for what if, but what is. My words are final. Your enemies will surrender to you every time. Believe it. I said it and I meant it, and now because you know your authority you will declare it and see the word of truth pierce through the barriers and the counter-attacks. Continue to seek me every time. Learn from King David and seek me EVERY time!

If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; whoever attacks you will surrender to you. Isaiah 54: 15 TPT

And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc; no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the LORD. Isaiah 54:16-17

"When I say you are healed, you are healed. When I say you are delivered, you are delivered. You will not sit waiting for the enemy, but you will move forward in an aggressive offensive attack against your adversary because you know who you are- your authority is sure! Your Defender has defended you! Now it is time to reclaim the land and relocate the captives into a safe land. To those who have inherited land, prepare your space and make ready your borders. Can you hear them? The captives come running to you, says the Father, you will not need to look for them or sift through the earth to find them. I will lead them to you and they will run into your arms as you have run into Mine. I love you. I am proud to be your Father.

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