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The Battle is Among You

Randal Dowdy • Sep 11, 2023

Do You See the Battle Lines Form?

 

In August 2022, the Lord said, “Hear my words and write. The battle is among you. Do you see the battle lines form? The skirmishes? My children, those who call me Lord, have peace. My hand will cover you. My right hand will guide you. Fear not, for I am the Lord, the God of Jacob. As I fought for him and my people, I will fight for you. The victory is mine. This I have seen, this I know. Who can stand against Me? Have faith, for I am a good God. Hear the word of the Lord. Cities will crumble. Power structures will cease. Who will govern the people? Who will be their judge in dispute? Satan seeks to destroy. I, the Lord, will fortify. I, the Lord, will raise a broken land in strife and chaos. I, the Lord, will rise from the rubble born of man. The destruction of their land lay upon their shoulders. Have my people listened? Do they pray? Do they seek a Lord who listens?


You, in your folly, struggle with this very thing. How much more does a man struggle who has not seen, does not know, and fails to believe? Idols have been sought for comfort. Do idols bring peace in war? Are their foundations secure and their pillars mighty? I, the Lord, am good. I, the Lord, await the cries of my people. Do I hear them now? Their voices are silent. Soon, their voices will cry to me, and my mercy will be great. I, the Lord, will listen. I, the Lord, will forgive their folly, their worship of idols made of man. What must I do for the people to see? What must I allow? Why must I watch misery fall on many? My heart weeps for what comes. My people are asleep. The enemy gathers openly as my people slumber. They cling to their idols, the things of old. Why must they suffer in the least? They suffer because they do not listen.


Your country crumbles before your eyes. I have called you to tell them, to awaken them from their slumber. Does your voice shout from the mountain tops or whisper in silence? I say, shout. Blood will be on your hands if you do not. Plots of evil are seen by few. People hide their eyes from what comes. I, the Lord, watch as a country of God crumbles to the deceit of few. Their ways are not hidden from the Lord. My judgment over evil awaits. Listen intently to my words. Wake up, my people. What must I allow? What must you endure before the voices of repentance I hear? My heart weeps: I see what comes, each thing I know. Why must this misery cross before me? Why must it fall on those I love? My heart weeps. Write no more, for the Lord, your God has spoken.”

By Randal Dowdy 12 Apr, 2024
After my quiet time this morning, the first thing on my to-do list was transcribing day 1435 from my journal. I begin numbering the days since the shekinah glory of the Lord descended on our home, which lasted for ten days in March 2019. About two months after the encounter, the Lord began speaking to me about future events and has continued to do so. During the last five years, the theme of the Lord’s words has not changed. If we do not repent as a nation, he, in his goodness and love, will bring judgment on our land. In reading the second and third chapters of Jeremiah this morning, I could not help but think about the parallels of the times. As God brought judgment on Israel, he will bring judgment on the United States. We have forgotten God. “Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.” Jeremiah 2:32b We have sought evil, not goodness. Our gods are idols of money, things, power, and status. “Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have changed their glory for worthless idols. Be appalled at this, O heavens, and shudder with great horror.” Declares the Lord. Jeremiah 2: 11-12 God has often told me, “Your country as you know it is no more.” God, in his love, will bring judgment on our land, but it will not last forever. “I will frown on you no longer, for I am merciful, declares the Lord. I will not be angry forever. Only acknowledge your guilt.” Jeremiah 3:11 excerpt On the 13 th of February 2023, the Lord said, “I have heard your praise. My courts sing my praise as you sing my praise. I, the Lord God, am worthy of all praise. A man desires to prophesy, but does he listen to my voice when I speak? Do the people listen to the words I give them? No, they laugh and mock, refusing to believe words so grand, words full of wonder and truth from the Lord on High. Those who do not listen will perish—the folly of their unfaithfulness their downfall. Why do my people not listen? Why do my teachers not speak against the evil before them? Why do they not cast it to the pit by the mighty name of the Lord God, Jesus, on high? Their ignorance will be called out; their leaders will be held accountable for their lack of faithfulness to the truth of my word. My word, the word of Almighty God, has been polluted, distorted, cast aside, and thrown into the dung heap. My heart weeps. I have no choice. I, the Lord, must act. I will lay waste to the idols man has worshiped, to the cities built in honor of themselves. Parents have not told their children. Such is the way of wickedness. Such is the way that fools follow the foolhardy. Parents will be held accountable for their children; they will be held accountable for themselves. I, the Lord, made them. I, the Lord, made all things to bring honor and glory to me, to have my creation sing of my goodness and faithfulness. I, the Lord, did this for the fellowship of man. I, the Lord, made all that is, the stars, the heavens, and all that is in them to bring me glory, for man to see that there is one greater than he. I have healed the sick in my faithfulness. I have pulled man from the pit of death in my faithfulness, in the love I have for every man and creature I have created. Has man marveled at my wonder? Do they see the mighty works of my hand and know that one exists greater than them? No! They have squandered my faithfulness for the lusts of the flesh, for the temporary pleasures born of the evil one. Eyes have been blinded in numbers unseen for all creation. Yet I, the Lord, patiently wait for man to look to me, to look to the love and faithfulness that created them. But they look not. They look upon themselves with wonder at the things they have created with the hands I have given them. They have shouted their praise, not praise to the Lord. When cities fall, and the earth has washed away under their feet, will they cry out to me? O, they will cry out. They will cry out and curse the God of judgment, the God who has brought calamity to their land. They will raise their hand as it falls to the depths of the earth, never to be raised again. This is the thing I, the Lord, must do. Can wickedness exist with holiness? My cloak will not be stained with the ignorance of the wicked. I, the Lord, will not have that. I, the Lord, deserve none of it. But I, the Lord, will hear those whose hearts cry to me in repentance. Those whose eyes see what their pride has brought them, why their arrogance has rested pain on their doorstep. They will cry out to me, and I will listen, for I am a good God. I, the Lord, will gather them to my bosom and protect them. I, the Lord, will shield them under my wing as disaster unseen falls upon the land. Cities will burn, and houses will crumble; herds and flocks will hunger and thirst, looking for land to graze and water not found. My people, young and old, will understand that there is but one God, and I am he. There is one God who can shelter and feed them, but one God who can save them from the storm born of mercy. There is one God, and I am he, the Lord God Almighty, who saves.”
By Randal Dowdy 03 Apr, 2024
On March 8th, 2022 the Lord gave me these words. "The time is upon you. I have had my fill. Man says there is no God. If there is a God, where is he? My voice will thunder, declaring my praise. Mountains will tremble, seas will roar, a song by my mouth and true to my glory. Watch the hand of the Lord shake the foundations of the earth. Watch as I, the Lord, declare my presence and authority. Watch! Is love not declared in my authority? If not, then where is it found? Is it found where no caring exists? Where there is no heart for others? Is love found when widows starve, when children go hungry? Is love found when man thirsts for water, the means of existence? Man does not find love in these places. Only the love of the Lord is found. Do men full of the world's wealth care about the fatherless, those in need? Do they look upon them in their squalor and weep? They sit in high places of their own making, not caring to see beyond their selfish desires born out of deceit and wickedness. I, the Lord, have had my fill of their gluttony and perversion. Can their might save them in the presence of their maker? They will be turned to dust, those I have chosen. Others will repent as they behold the hand of the Holy One. I say I have had my fill. My people are slaughtered by wickedness, those not caring to believe that a God who judges looks upon their deeds in disgust. Their eyes will see the destruction of idols, those things their evil hearts have exalted above me. The one who gave his all out of love. The one who gives each breath they take. Who cares for their children? Those forgotten in their misery. Those sold to men for profit. Those sold by vile men to inflict pain and misery in abuse of the weak. I, the Lord, care! I, the Lord, spew them from my mouth. I, the Lord, will show my hand of thunder to them. Striking them blows from which they cannot recover. I, the Lord, will crush their wickedness.” “My people, those forgotten by man. Those who suffer on account of me will see the hand of the Lord fall on their oppressors, never to rise again. The oppressed will see their God, see their protector. They will see the one whom they have cried to for justice. The one who holds their tears. They will see their tears filling the lungs of their oppressors, drowning in the misery they have brought. They will see the love of the Lord born of the authority He carries. They will see the love of the one who has not forgotten. The one who loves them without end.“I say repent if you are guilty. Repent if your heart is vile. Repent of idols born of self, born of the treasure of an evil world. Repent if you have led others astray. Repent of your sin. Call out to the one who gave it all, who has the power to cleanse you. Call to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those who slumber wake up. Those who blind their eyes to suffering open them. Hear the words of the Lord. Bow low in their presence. Tremble at their authority. Have peace in the love that surrounds them. Have peace in the love of Him who speaks to them. See the lord of love. Worship Him, for He is your King.
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