Word of the Lord on Pursue:

Set your eyes on Me like flint and don’t look back. Pursue Me with all of your heart, mind, soul, and strength. As you pursue Me, My presence will pursue you and overtake you. This is a season of intense love and intimacy between the Bridegroom and His bride. My Spirit will comfort you in your hurts and losses. My desire is to pull you close to me and bind up your broken hearts.
This is a time to pursue what the enemy has stolen from you. I declare, says the Lord, that you will recover all! And not only what you have lost, but seven times more you shall recover. For when the thief is caught, he must repay seven times.
Purse, says the Lord, the things I have called you to. It’s time to take them off the back burner and to move forward. The time of delay is over. Did I not say, ‘Dream Big?’ For what you have dreamed is of me. Satan has tried to kill, steal, and destroy the dream but I am resurrecting the dream and the call. Pursue Me and you shall recover ALL!

Word of the Lord for Possess:

In this season I have called you to possess the land. It’s time to advance! Every place the sole of your foot shall tread, I will give it to you. I am calling you to go into the dark places with your light to shatter the darkness! I’m sending you into the enemy’s camp to redeem the land, all of what the enemy has distorted and corrupted and to pull people out of the clutches of hell. As you are salt and light to every place I will send you, you will be dispelling and displacing darkness in proportion to the glory and light you bring. So, let me completely possess you spirit, soul, and body that you may be a vessel of glory fit and meet for the Master’s use.

Word of the Lord for Persecution:

Beloved of God hold firm to your faith and make sure your feet are securely planted in the Rock of Your Salvation for times of hardship and persecution are on the horizon. But do not fear for I will never leave you nor forsake you for I Am an ever-present help in times of trouble, says the Lord of Host. Just as I made a distinction between My children in the land of Goshen and the people of Egypt, I will make a distinction between My children who are the sheep of My pasture and the wicked. Cling to My words for they are life to all who find them and health to all their flesh; My promises I shall not forsake!
The trials of this season will separate the wheat from the chaff. Know the God whom you declare to serve and obey him and put away lawlessness. Yes, gross darkness will cover the earth, but My glory will be seen upon you My Ekklesia! There will be a remnant in the land who will not bow to the god of this world nor compromise their integrity for the sake of worldly gain.

Word of the Lord for Passion-

My passion for My bride has not diminished, says the Lord. I am jealous over you, My Beloved, My Ekklesia, for I will not share you with another or this world. I yearn for My bride to be with Me, but I am longsuffering not wanting anyone to perish. I’m coming for a bride without spot or blemish. My bride must adorn herself and make herself ready for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. We are in the eleventh hour and the door is about to close. I am drawing you with cords of love. Do not resist and be stiff-necked as those in the wilderness who tested My patience, and do not do despite to the Spirit of Grace, but repent and return to your first love. Come out from among the ways of darkness, the ways of the world, and be a Bride separated unto Me, and I will receive you unto Myself.

What does Passion Mean?
Passion: Strong emotions, desire, yearning, hunger, ardent affection.
Passion: The suffering and death of Jesus- The Passion of the Christ.

Christ’s Love towards Us:

1 John 3:1a(NKJV) Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!

Romans 5:8(NKJV) 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 4:9-10(NKJV) 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

John 1:12-13(NKJV) 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Romans 8:15-17(NKJV) 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

The Passion of the Christ:

Isaiah 53:2-14(NKJV) 2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him,
here is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
9 And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 52:14(KJV) 14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
Isaiah 52:14(NLT) 14 But many were amazed when they saw him. His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human, and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.

Mark 15:33-34(NKJV) 33 Now when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Colossians 2:13-15(NKJV) 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

Our Passion for the Lord:

1 John 4:19(NKJV) 19 We love Him because He first loved us.

Psalm 42:1(NKJV) As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.

Matthew 5:6(NKJV) 6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.

We Need the Fire of God

Luke 3:15-17(NKJV) 16 John answered, saying to all, “I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Abiding in Christ

John 15:1-10(NKJV) “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

1 John 4:14-16(NKJV) 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Return to Your First Love

Revelation 2:1-5(NKJV) “To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, ‘These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands: 2 “I know your works, your labor, your (perseverance) patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; 3 and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary. 4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.

Today is the Day of Salvation

Romans 13:11-12(NKJV) 11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Hebrews 10:28-30(KJV) 28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

Hebrews 10:28-30(NKJV) 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The LORD will judge His people.”