Don't ever let your days become too busy to include Me in them! If you're too busy to take Me with you in whatever you do, then you're too busy! If you're too busy for God, then you're too busy! If you're too busy for love, then you're too busy!
(II:325)
You don't have to feel bad about being busy! You just have to include Me in your business! Don't lock or leave Me out! Just take Me with you in whatever you do! Consult Me, acknowledge Me, check in with Me! (II:420)
Don't let the enemy distract you with busy-ness, don't let him keep you busy, busy, busy, too busy for Me and what I've got to say to you! No way of taking care of My business if you're too busy for Me. (II:603)
Folks have got to see the love manifested in flesh and blood in order to break out of their barriers brought on them by that spirit of busyness, and it's a lot more important to Me that you be living samples of My Love, than just another accomplisher. (III:155)
You have to know what your product is, and what exactly it is you're selling and trying to sell. If it's Me, then make it clear!
And if it's something else, then take into consideration whether that is really a worthwhile cause to be putting your name, your time and effort behind it!
Is it something you wouldn't have to be ashamed of being affiliated with or having advertised for when we'll be considering your earthly works in the halls of Heaven? (III:244)
You’ve got to mean business about My business! (III:355) Keeping busy is good. But listening to Me is better.
So, don’t feel too bad about not being busy enough for others, and their criticizing you for the time you’re spending with Me! Ultimately it will turn out that you made the wiser decision. Doing what you could, based on the right input.
Keeping folks busy fending for their survival is one of the enemy’s standard procedures of keeping them away from the opportunity to listen to Me. (17:14)
…Calamities
You must work hard to prepare for the calamities that are about to befall the World. And just like Noah needed My exact instructions in order to be able to build the first ship in history, so will you, if you wish to survive the flood of iniquity. The time is truly drawing near and you’re feeling the vibes of impending doom. Do what you can and I will do what you can’t.
The battle royal between those who trust in the flesh and those who put their confidence in the Spirit; those who choose Me for their Captain and those who choose to be the captains of their own fate; the former will sail their boats safely into My harbor; the latter, in their blind rage of pride and ego will crash into an iceberg, like the Titanic, and great will be the calamity and the cries of woe thereof.
Once you have delved into My spiritual world of trust and where Eternity reigns and everything that lives and breathes knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that I'm in perfect control of everything, then you can convey that same peace to others as well.
Calamities may be all around, but you won't be heard to fret. People will wonder, "How can they be so calm while the whole world is tumbling around their ears?" And then you can let them know that it is so because you have been with Me.
Overcomers praise no matter what, regardless of any circumstances or conditions, regardless of any calamity, any problem, anything that might not be going their way. They know that despite all it may seem like, in the end, everything's going to be alright!
You may think your present state is a calamity. One day you will see that it was the best thing that could have ever happened to you, because instead of continuing to cruise along in your life in indifferent complacency, your present crisis is just one of those factors to pull you out of that rut and routine, making you desperate enough to cry out to Me and ask Me to change things.
It’s those times when you cry out to Me desperately that cause things to change for the good.
What makes you “real” is the suffering I bring across your path without you trying to evade it. You “eat” it, and you don’t insist on Me having this cup be removed from you, but say, “Nevertheless, not my will, but Thine be done.”
Everybody has hard times and trials and sufferings in My service, but they don’t always swallow the depth of all that there is to learn from them. Not everyone is willing to really face the ugly truths about themselves that have brought their fate upon them.
Some even refuse to recognize the calamities that befall them as such. They insist that everything’s okay. And in an optimistic sort of way, they’re right. Everything is going to be alright, so by faith they can say that everything’s alright already.
Unfortunately, things have got to turn worse before they really get significantly better, and refusing to see the signs of the times, even their manifestations in one’s own life and family, isn’t always conducive to really learning the lessons behind what’s going on…
Things are usually not as bad as they seem to you, and a lot does depend on whether you’re going to take on the attitude of “all is well” (2Kings 4:26), even in the face of calamities, or not.
The best preparation for any calamity that might befall you is to stay close to Me, in tune with Me, and in prayer, since I for once can protect you from the worst, and secondly strengthen and comfort you if it should hit you anyway.
Your strength and faith in the face of calamities will determine whether what you have is real gold faith that’s not going to go up in flames like paper money and paper money faith.
I need you to remain trusting, even in the face of seeming calamities!
If you learn to see things My way, you'll learn to view the hardest parts in life not as the worst, but as the best. You used to see My crucifixion as something dreadful, something that people wonder why it had to happen, until you realized that this was actually the main purpose for which I came, My greatest task and most important "job," My destiny.
Even so it is with your crosses. You may dread them and you may rather have those cups pass from you, like I wished, but afterwards you'll see that they were actually the most valuable and most important parts of life, without which things would never have been the same... no victories won over the enemy, no precious lessons learnt... no beauty for ashes...
The blackest night of My Life, My crucifixion, My darkest moment ever, was also My greatest, most glorious victory!
I let them waste Me, devastate Me, completely wear Me out and wipe Me out, but in this I found the strength that never runs out. I was willing to give all, not holding back, and in return I received all.
Victory is to be able to grab hold of My peace and heavenly Big Picture of My organized structure of everything in spite of the temporary chaos the devil tries to create. He may show you that devastated landscape he left you in in the spirit, but you've got to see My heavenly landscape and beauty of what's going to be and what really is in the heavenly realm, beyond all that ugliness the devil's trying to create!
Sometimes you feel devastated.
You realize how close you are nearly every moment of your life to the point of losing everything, when all you will have left of your substance will be your naked soul standing before Me.
Not the figure of how much wealth you’ve acquired, how “big” you are in terms of numbers and figures, just you, your soul, who you really are.
I have let your world come tumbling around your ears, in order for you to assure them that I'll still be there to hold and catch them when theirs will come tumbling around their ears... You will have learned and experienced My realness, My Presence in times of trouble, and you will have a very real faith to offer to people.
Calamities happen. My crucifixion was the epitome of all calamities, and you’re learning what pattern they follow: After the death follows hell, and that’s where you’ve got to stay for a little while, until I’m ready to pull you out or the Father puts you pack on your feet!
…Care vs. Indifference
Indifference is one of the prevailing sicknesses of society. (I:512)
You've got to realize how ferociously the enemy fights you! There's no way you can afford to be indifferent or half-hearted about it! (II:274)
Love equals the ability to show you share the excitement, instead of quenching it with the usual indifference and
"coolness."
Don't just remain "cool" or indifferent, but get excited! Spread some fire! (II:465)
Caring for others is what life, the universe, and the whole purpose of existence is all about. (III:58)
People will recognize that what you've got is something special, and they can't just ignore it or be indifferent to it. (III:61) It's easier and more natural to want the tangible, the visible, rather than the invisible, the eternal, when your children are concerned with temporal matters, and only with the momentary satisfaction, the here and now, oblivious to there and then... indifferent to it. (III:245)
If things would be going too smoothly for you, you'd simply become too comfortable, too complacent, too much at ease and too indifferent about the state of the world, you wouldn't be moved into action to change something for Me. (III:366) Those who are truly interested will always be a small minority compared to the indifferent masses. (III:585)
The attitude “The Lord will always do it for me, no matter what” can sometimes be somewhat snobbish and even wrong, if it causes you to be indifferent to the way you come across at people. (III:591)
…Chance
The only chance you have is to bring the matter before Me. I’m your only chance! – The only chance for anyone to make it up that straight and narrow way which leadeth unto life, your only chance to avoid being sucked down that broad and wide gateway that leads to destruction. I, the Gardener, with My sharp ax of My Word, am your only chance against the devil’s evil magic weeds.
The moment you realize that you don’t have a clue what to do and call on Me, then I’ll have a chance – the only chance there is – to right the wrongs. (I:285)
It's not an exclusive thing to have Me as a chatting partner, Advisor, Helper and Counselor, it's something available to anyone who would only dare to give Me a chance.(I:498)
Those people out there are the reason you're still there.
Give them a chance! Give them the benefit of the doubt! You need to give them a chance before they can give Me a chance.
Give them a chance to give Me a chance! (II:566)
Give people a chance to give Me a chance! I work in all their lives, and the Father lets the sun shine on all of them, the evil and the good, and He sends His rain on all. ‘Let it rain!’ Let My goodness rain on anyone! (II:650)
By feeding your enemies, you place fiery coals on their heads (Pr.25:21,22), searing their conscience and their minds with an imprint of something that happened there that they won't forget, and that they will be held responsible for. They're being given a chance that might turn their life from "not much of a tale to tell" into a beautiful adventure. (III:109)
Whenever you get the chance, pray! It will make all the difference in the world. It will show that you're relying on Me and on the Spirit to get it done, you're not just trying to pull it through in the flesh. You're giving Me a chance to work that way.
Just give Me a chance to work through you, to shine through you!
You're saying "yes" to Heaven when you stop to pray and give Me a chance to work through you. (III:122)
If you leave things up to chance, or even the remote possibility that there is such a thing as chance, you're sunk. Only if you realize that all things come from My hand and are - contrary to what may seem at first glance - carefully planned, are you able to appreciate all the factors in your life for what they really are, the tremendous blessings in disguise you so often take for granted.
You've got to be so absolutely sure of My hand and My doings in your life, of My involvement in it, that you don't fall for that illusion of chance for one minute... the delusion that perhaps everything is ruled by a universal cast of the dice, and the outcome is as uncertain as anything else in this life... (III:248)
Just give people the chances necessary to stand before you clean and aright, just as I give you a new clean chance every day!
Wouldn't you love it, too, if people wouldn't hold any of your past failings against you, or even their own negative notions toward you, and if they would just give you a chance to be accepted within their circle of tolerance, give you a chance to hear you out and listen to what you've got to say? (III:283)
Give Me a chance to prove that it's worth it to trust Me! (III:286)
The sooner you learn to get all your strength from Me and to put all your trust in Me, the higher are your chances of making it. (III:342)
Mankind wouldn't stand a chance if we just left this world over to the devil completely.
We're having to give him certain leeway, access and entrance and even power over this world, according to the degree that man's choices enable him to, but always and only "thus far and not further." (III:352)
When you see all that’s going wrong, it seems overwhelming and you feel like you don’t stand a chance. But even some apparently puny, seemingly futile and desperate efforts to change things are better than doing nothing at all in resignation.
Even a little progress is better than none, than standing still. (III:416)
Just the fact that you are so desperately dependent on Me for anything ups the chances that you’re going to stick with Me till the end. (III:423)
My goal is to get you to let Me do it through you, and as long as you may look as if you had all things rigged up oh so wonderfully by yourself, the chances are a lot lower, that that’s going to happen. (III:431)
Give Me a chance, and watch Me go to work in others’ lives!
You’ve got to have enough love and faith to give everyone a chance. (III:447)
I need you to turn to Me for Strength, even if I have to make you feel temporarily deserted by everyone else.
As long as you still put your hopes in anyone or anything else, you don’t really stand a chance. (III:588)
Sometimes it’s actually quite good when for a change there is nothing else you can do but pray, because you’re giving Me a chance then, to show what can be accomplished by letting Me do it and giving Me a chance to work by commending the thing into My hands. (III:604)
You want to be the kind of soldier that is going to stand a chance to win a battle, and isn’t just going to be shot down easily because of a lack of mobility. (IV:27)
Your only hope, your only chance, is trust in Me. (IV:46)
When somebody’s mind is made up about something you have relatively little chance to change anything about that, and you just have to let them go through the consequences of their choices. (IV:58)
I will always give you the strength you need to make it through your struggles, as long as you look up to Me, consider and acknowledge Me and give Me a chance. (IV:86)
Give Me a chance in spite of the protests of your rational mind or its sheer inability to handle Me and the entire concept for which I stand, the concept of love! (IV:100)
A life without Me is an empty life, and you can change their lives from an empty into a full one.
Give Me a chance to change their lives! (IV:108)
The problem that seems to be so big and immense, I would just like you to indulge Me with and give Me a chance! (IV:109)