Born to the Battle - 26 January 2007

To our very dear friends,

As I was spending time with the Lord Jesus earlier, I sense that he said to me.

“Wendy – there are many, MANY OF MY CHILDREN WHO HAVE FOUGHT WITH ALL THEIR STRENGTH TO SEE THE PROCLAIMATION OF MY GOSPEL across the earth at this time. These are my sons and daughters who have stood and fought day after day with little encouragement, yet facing so much opposition. These are the ones who have stood against the taunting Goliaths of this present age every day of their earthly lives. And even though their arms are weary, still they fight on. These are my beloved warriors who fight each day in the High places of the earth. I would comfort them and encourage them.

FOR ALL WHO ARE WEARY – YOU WERE BORN TO THE BATTLE – YOU WERE BORN FOR THE BATTLE
For the Lord would say – “Oh, my child - I who have held you up with my strong right hand – I who have held you and undergirded you – I would say to you that even from before your conception I knew you – and I foreordained you to be born into the earth for such a day and for such an hour. You were born TO the battle – You were born FOR the battle.

I HAVE SEEN THE PRESSINGS AND STRETCHINGS
And yes, there have been seasons that you have said in your heart – Lord – I am weary – Each day I have fought in the battle – each day of my existence in your kingdom I have known war – And yes my child – I have looked down upon your life and your ministry for me and seen the pressings and the stretchings – the pressures and the persecutions as you have fought for My Kingdom. That even each day you have had to gird yourself with my glory and my strength even as one who goes out to war as the warriors of old. Yes – and even as my servant - King David was to me a Psalmist and a Prophet – yet he too was born TO the battle and he too was born FOR the battle.

EVEN AS I TOOK DAVID FROM THE SHEEPFOLD – SO I HAVE TAKEN YOU
And even as I took David from the sheepfold, when he was but a youth – for his love and his devotion to me and the things of my kingdom – and his worship had risen consistently before my throne – So even as I took my servant David from the sheepfold – yes – so I have taken you. For it was by no mans hand that I raised you from the dust and out of your ragged garments. And I placed a crown of gold upon your head. And I put a new song within your heart. And day by day, month by month, my child – I took you from the sheepfold. And I taught you how to WAR.

I AM BRINGING FORTH MY WARRIORS

For it is in this day and it is in this season that I bring my warriors forth to do battle. For even now my church stands at the brink of a new outpouring of my spirit that even will herald in a last day move of my spirit,” says the Lord. “But in this dispensation in the earth, the kingdom of God comes by violence to be wrested from the powers of darkness - and the violent take it by force.

And so NOW is the time – NOW is the season of the warrior – NOW is the time. NOW is the season of the rising of those of my children that I have hidden in the backside of the wilderness – in the cleft of the rock of my Son. Now is the day and the hour where my warriors come forth. For you were born TO the battle – and you were born FOR the battle.

And I have equipped you with my Holy Spirit and with my FIRE,” says the Lord of Hosts. “And even as you have been trained up in the hard places and the wilderness of testings of faith and endurance.

Of storms and challenges and persecutions – these things that have been your foes in the past shall become your meat and your weaponry to fight in this coming season.

I AM CALLING MY WARRIORS TO WAR AND TO WORSHIP
For I have developed in you – my endurance – and I have grown in you fortitude and the strength of my Kings of old. And even as David fought with one hand and worshipped with the other – so too I am raising up in this day and in this hour – WARRIORS, WARRIORS, WARRIORS all across the earth – from the North and the South – from the East and the West – who will war with one hand – and worship with the other.

For I am calling my warriors in this last church age to war and to worship – I am calling all who I birthed for the battle – to war and to worship – for the strength to endure – and to persevere – and to wage a mighty deathblow to the enemy shall come from your worship in the SECRET PLACE – in the cleft of the rock.

For it is there that even as I poured out my strategies to my servant David. And I shall pour out my strategies unto YOU.

THE FIRE OF MY PRESENCE SHALL FALL
So seek my face – my warrior – seek my face – Call upon my Name – Draw into my presence. And the fire of my presence shall fall and consume says the Lord – the FIRE of my presence shall FALL and CONSUME,” says the Lord, “ And you shall be girded with strength for the Battle. And you shall be girded with power and with might and with divine strategy to prevail against the gates of Hell.

Lift up your weary arms, my son, my daughter – make straight the crooked paths – For you were BORN to the battle – You were BORN to war.