Things that we just accept as normal or say well that is just the way I am, rather than want to or be willing to change those areas. But yet we complain when the wind blows and things start to shake a little. We complain when the Lord allows any kind of shaking in our lives because we don't want to change. We complain how horrible things are that happen to us and ask God how can you do this to me and ask Him, "Why God, why??". I kept hearing Him say yesterday "My people don't understand. They complain about the rough times that come but they don't realise that I have tried to get those embedded areas with a soft wind, with a soft voice. Yet they have not heeded it, they refuse to change and when they do change it is a surface change.
There are so many embedded areas that they won't let Me in. So out of my love for them, I allow the rough times. Unfortunately, it is during the hard times that My people tend to look to Me. It is not my desire to see them hurt or having to go through these things but I have to get to the root issues. The issues of the heart. I desire to see them free from all that would entangle them, all that would keep them bound. I desire to see them rise up out of the ground and out of the place of being walked upon and spit upon by others. I desire to see them get their heads out of the mud and look to me and allow me to make them pure and holy and walk around with my glory upon their face instead of the mud and the shame that covers it now."
I kept hearing the Lord say "My church has in the last couple of years experienced my wind of renewal that has come and renewed them, renewed their faith even in Me. It has brought joy back into their lives and even a peace. But yet I say to you that a different wind is about to descend upon you. A wind of shaking, a wind of purity. But yet you say well we are already being shaken. I say to you that you have not yet began to feel the shaking that is coming. The strong winds have not begun yet. But know that I will allow the strong winds to come. I desire a bride that is pure and clean before Me. I will allow as much of a wind/storm as possible to bring out those embedded areas in your lives, so you will begin to trust Me in them and allow me to heal you in those places.
"This strong wind will come to My people, My church first and then to the world. All that you know it to be now will be no longer. All that you have thought to be stable will no longer be stable. Only those that are of pure hearts and minds will be able to stand. Only those who trust Me fully will not lose hope and faith during the times that are ahead. Will you let the winds of purity reach the depths of your heart and everything you are? Will you allow me to change every area of your life to be like Me? Are you willing to set aside all for Me? Will you allow the winds to uproot all that is embedded or will you make a hole deeper for yourself into the mud?"
"This is the day and the hour of true revival, where hearts and not just heads and minds will be turned to Me. Where people will give all or nothing. Will you let it blow in and upon you? Will you trust Me with the storms/winds and know I will not harm you? Will you trust Me with all? Will you give all to Me?"
"My will is that you be made whole and pure.....will you let Me do it in you?"