Wrestling with the Father- Face to face!

I hear the Father say,

"Don't set your promises down, pick them up and hold on tight- you get to have them all if you like! I am strengthening you, right now I am strengthening you. Do not think for a moment that I won't respond to your request for help and for time away with me. Lean on me, you don't have to wrestle with me. I am giving you a break. Draw away. Take advantage of the provison I have already provided for you. Take advantage of the time I want to give to you so you can make sense of things, so that you can hear me clearly. Pull away into my arms in the hour, the days I have given to just you and only you! You get to have a mental health day on me, Beloved. Take that time to pull away and listen to my voice- you find yourself alone, but you are not alone. I have established this day for you to hear me and lean on my understanding. Go where I am drawing you, close the door and seek my counsel. This day is yours.

"I am taking you into a precise place and you are going to want to hear my voice on this, says the Father. Think of Jacob- contend for your deepest heart's desire. The day has broken Beloved! You have wrestled with me into the long dark hours of your night- it's time to Rise up! The day breaks, it's time to receive your NEW NAME-

"Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed." Genesis 32:28 NIV

I am seeing where many have had sore legs, knees or have recently experienced surgery or corrective procedures with hips, legs and feet. The Father shows me that for those who are needing this type of attention to their physical bodies, that he is providing time to get away with him face to face and to heal. Appointments and time resting rather than wrestling with reasons and excuses will bring healing and restoration but most especially undivided time with Jesus. He will speak through dreams, visions, and prayer as you put your feet up and rest, listen, believe and receive. The time of contending has reached its heiatus, the breakthrough is before you and now the Father is strengthening your physical body as he is strengthening your spiritual body.

You have seen the Father face to face and you will share your stories to other members of the body of Christ who have only heard about the Father's love. Your face will be shining as you share everything the Father has done on your behalf, you will share who He is and bring Him with you into the place of meeting so others will know who He is- that deep kind of knowing that will circumvent those who never knew Christ but thought they did- those who at this hour would be asked to depart (Matthew 7:21-25) will fall on their knees in relief as they realize the difference between the temple of the Lord and the Lord of the temple.

Jesus has found his Jacob's and he is going to use their personal testimonies of wrestling with God to bring about revival and revelation of the person of Jesus to the body of Christ. The Father is strengthening the legs of the body in a very profound way, moving the church and assembling the body to run and not grow weary. Connections between other churches and other groups of believers are very important for this season. Mission trips will take on a completely new look, for the connections will become familial connections where distance won't weaken the connection, but through encouragement, strengthening and comfort healthy relationships between members of the body of Christ will be forged and not just across nations, but across denominations. An aliance between bodies of believers and denominations will be like the ligaments and joints that join the bones of the body of Christ together. This will bring about great unity! Jesus is calling to all of us to enter into this season of extravigant presence where we will see the Father face to face.

I hear the Father say again,

"You have prevailed. You have seen me face to face by contending for the freedom of yourself and for others- you have broken through the barrier of betrayal by the spirits of Judas and Jezebel and Ahab. Your prayers are still suspended in the atmosphere like mist calling out to Me, says the Father. Your words will not fall to the ground. I have heard your cries and I have responded. Before the next night falls, you will conclude that the call upon your life is clear. You will know what to do next. I will confirm everything through the witness of two- count this as the first, Beloved. Understand what I did for Jacob and you will understand what I do for you. I have brought you through the land of Canaan and into your promise land. There you will return where you came from, clasp the hands of those who do not yet know and bring them forth into their promise and purpose. There will be a well worn path between other lands into the promised land as you bring them out of captivity and into a place of revelatory hope, says the Father. I will not look away.