There are people who think that they have an in with God, who think that they are like "buddies" with God, they have their arm around God in their thinking, and they and God are friends, and that they and God are "best buds" as you will, and that God will do what they want Him to do.

But I tell you, the Holy Ghost will not be manipulated; He will not be controlled; He will not be sucked into false friendships. The Holy Spirit will anoint whom He will anoint. He will come down and He will spin things left and then He'll spin things right, and then He'll turn them upside down and then He'll choose things and He do them as He chooses.

        So, don't try to box in what I'm going to do and how I'm going to do it and who I'm going to use, but just get in that flow and stay there. And you are going to seem a little bit strange to some of the people around you but that's o.k. That's o.k. If you're locked up in that flow and you're flowing in that flow, you're going to be one of the ones that the Holy Ghost grabs and uses.

And those who refuse to come into what I am doing in this end-time, and in this planet right now, are simply going to be bypassed. They're not going to be disciplined; they're not going to be rejected; they're just going to be bypassed and they're not going to be in the forefront of what I'm doing.

        So, get your self caught up in the Holy Ghost and get your self caught up in intercession. It says to encourage your self; it says to pray always; pray without ceasing. Call unto God; call unto God for your life, for your ministry, for your calling, for your children, for your future.

Once again, although I make covenants with the Nation of Israel, and although I make covenants with people and churches, I also make individual covenants with those Joshuas and Calebs and Deborahs who will not give up even though the nation around them is not going to go in. I'm telling you there are those who will cry unto God, and cry unto God, and cry unto God, and cry unto God. And even though ten thousand around them do not go in, they will go in!

        I will keep my Word, saith the Lord. Say not, that you are like John the Baptist out in the wilderness crying all alone and no one hears you and there is no purpose to your crying. You will announce the forthcoming of the next move! There is a purpose; there is a reason for you to be crying out to God day and night from your heart and your spirit.

Did I not visit John on the Isle of Patmos all alone? Don't worry about being alone! You are not alone! The Father is with you; the Son is with you; the Holy Ghost is with you; you are not alone! You are not alone! You are not alone, saith the Lord. The Father is with you; the Son is with you and the Holy Ghost is with you; you are not alone!

     Say not, that I don't know where you are! Say not, that I can't use you! Say not, that you're not important unto Me! But I call you to cry unto Me, and cry unto Me, and cry unto Me and then listen to Me and do as I tell you and I will lift you up and I will use you, saith the Lord.

        There is hope for the individual. You are not caught in a chain of events that you can't control. You are not caught in a system that will continually hold you back and kick you down. You are not caught in a trap that you cannot get out of. The Lord your God can lift you in a heartbeat and send you crashing against the shores of this nation.

So fear not. I'm preparing you, preparing you, preparing you, disciplining you, teaching you those things that would please Me, that when I lift you - when I bring you forward - you will not stumble; you will not fall; you will not rebel against the hand of God upon you.

        Keep praying; keep crying. If not for anything else then just for yourself so that you don't go down the tubes like you see others around you going down. Lift your voice to God day and night. Give your heart to God day and night and the Lord will be faithful to you, and the Lord will come to you, and the Lord will make a way for you where there is no way!

You will hear the still small voice saying, "Go here; do this; visit this one." You never know what's going to happen when you get there; you never know what that still small voice is going to open. You never know when you go to that yard sale it's going to open into a wide place for you, but just simply be in obedience to the tug, to the anointing, to the call of the Holy Ghost within you in trying to follow God as you know God. And so what if you error; so what if you make a mistake. There's always the next time in your learning process to hear God and move with God.

        Stretch out, children; stretch out and hear the Lord in your heart and do the best that you know to obey Him, and God will take you by the hand and God will lift you and God will guide you and God will be your father and God will be your foreword and your rearward guard. And it doesn't matter what happens to anyone else around you; it doesn't matter what happens to movements. What matters is what happens between you and Him.

So, lock into your individual calling with God and fit into the corporate calling where you can, but treasure that individual calling. Supply, supply, saith the Lord. I call for supply from you. You pray unto Me; I answer you. I am a covenant keeping God to the individual.

        Although drawing opposition from Pharaoh, Israel cried unto the Lord and the Lord heard them and sent the deliverer into the land to bring his people out. And those who are crying unto God this day will receive a deliverer. I will bring them out.

And if those around you drop in the Wilderness from disobedience, then let them drop! But keep your eyes on God; keep crying to God; keep believing God. Even if those around you fall back and say, "No, He won't deliver you," do not listen to the cries of those who are failing God; but hear what God would say to his people this day, " I will deliver you! I will make a way for you! You are not tied to the destiny of those who are failing. You are tied to the call of God upon your life!"

~ a prophecy received by Don Franklin @ CHC  Tuesday Intercessory Mtg. April 17, 2001 ~