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The Valley of Sacrifice - a prophecy by Don Franklin	Jan. 19, 2003

Who is this that rises from Edom? Is it not the Lamb of God, the One who has washed his robes in the blood of redemption? Know ye not, there is a place reserved for Him and Him alone – in your hearts and in your fellowship.

Do not take the place of the Holy Spirit. Do not take the place of the Son of God, but make room for Him, for He truly is the King of Glory. He is the head of the Body. He is the reason that you live and breathe and move. He is the reason that you assemble. He is the prime mover. He is the most important thing in your life. It is not this earthly temporal structure, the people around you, the families that you belong to. It is not your jobs, your identities, your nation. But it is He who has come out of Edom who was hung upon the Cross, whose blood bought your redemption. He alone do you owe your allegiance to.

=You do not owe your allegiance to a nation; you are no longer of this world. You do not owe your allegiance to a church; you are no longer of a church system. You do not owe your allegiance to one another, but you owe your allegiance to the Son of God, who paid for you, who bought you with a severe price, a severe mercy, whose blood was shed centuries ago looking down through the corridors of time that He would see you, even in this day, and He gladly went to that Cross and shed His blood. Now I’m calling you to gladly go to your crosses, even though some of you are unwilling, and pay the price that I require, that others may go free.

And I will set before you the joy of the Lord in this, and it will be a secret bond and a secret communication between you and I. And others will say, “Oh, what a foolish thing you are doing!” “Why are you wasting your life in this barren desert?” “Why are you giving of yourself in such a way when there is no appreciation, there is no seemingly earthly response or reward for your effort?”

But if you will do that which I’ve called you to do and hang upon a tree for Me, and see down through the corridors of time that which I am laying before you, and if you will understand the joy of the Lord that will be set before you for the task that you accomplish, then this will be the meat that moves you. This will be the thing that gives you sustenance when others do not even see how you are surviving in the desert that you are in. So, go ahead and obey the Lord in your life. Go ahead and do the things that He’s called you to do and know that there will be a secret joy within, there will be a meat provided unto you that others know not of. There will be great reward in the coming days for your sacrifice to God unto the altar of Salvation.

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BECOME A LIVING SACRIFICE FOR THE LORD
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And I would say, I am the God who dwells amidst the sacrifice. From the beginning I have dealt with sacrifice. There is an ancient and an honorable thing in sacrifice, and I am calling my people now to become and to give and to be sacrificed unto Me. Drop your wants, your wishes and your wills and become a living sacrifice for the Lord your God to consume. When you were young, you did go where you would, but when you are old another will take you where you do not even want to go, yet you will become that sacrifice unto and for Me. And I dwelt in the sacrifice of Abraham, even the sacrificing of his son upon the altar.

And there is a mystery of godliness in sacrifice. Most people do not understand the term, the word, the inclination of sacrifice, but there is a holy thing when someone sets their life upon the altar and sacrifices not just their possessions, but themselves unto God. I am calling some of you to become living sacrifices unto Me and it is a good thing, even though it will be a painful thing at times, but in that sacrifice nuclear spiritual fuel will be released upon the planet and upon the Body.

It was the sacrifice of Christ that bought salvation and it was a sacrifice, a bloody painful sacrifice. You cannot take the pain out of Christianity. You cannot take the sacrifice out of religion. But all the accomplishments that can and will and shall happen when someone truly sets themselves upon the altars of God and sacrifices their future, their dreams, their wants, their desires as an offering unto God.

It is the closest thing when a human being has his wishes, his wants, his dreams, his goals, his aspirations, to set all that you cherish and all that you hold dear upon the altar of God and say, “Burn it, and take me and send me and do with me what you will.” It is the epitome of God; it is the epitome of self-sacrifice unto Me for the benefit of others. It is the love of God in motion, in action, and this is where I am calling my Church, my intercessors to first - that realm of self-sacrifice.

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WHEAT FIELDS WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE NATIONS
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The kernel of wheat goes into the ground and dies. It bears much fruit. But standing alone, only one stalk shall come - what you want, what you desire, what you dream of – that’s all that will ever happen with your life. And that happens with many; they refuse to die; they refuse to go upon the altar of God and give in. But to those of you who will give in, I tell you, that wheat fields will spread across the nations with your sacrifice. You will receive much heavenly reward in your account.

Do not say, “It’s too late, I’m an old woman, an old man…” because in one instant, I can credit to your account that which others have taken a lifetime to accomplish. Don’t say, “I’ve entered the race too late.” Have you not heard the parables? Have you not understood that those who came late got paid the same as those who came early? You say, “Well, this is not fair.” Since when has it been fair? I am the Lord your God and I choose what I desire to choose, and I put men in prison and I take them out, and I lift them and I lower them – from individuals to whole nations are lifted and lowered at my command. And if I choose to pay a worker the same wage that I paid someone who has worked for Me for years, then what is that to you?

Why do you care what I do with each other? That is carnality; that is earthly thinking. Simply lock unto God and fulfill the call on your life and don’t worry about left or right, up and down. I’m going to set all the books straight in the end anyway. No one is getting away with anything. You can bank on this; you can count on it; you can go to sleep on it; you can get up and walk on it. No one is getting away with anything - from the highest to the lowest - everything will be brought into account. So if you’re worried about “so and so” doing this or doing that, or getting ahead, or running here and there, or getting out of this… forget about it; forget about it. Simply concentrate on your own walk, your own calling.

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DO THE THINGS THAT GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO
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Make sure that your steps are ordered the way that the Lord would have them, because I will bring into account every individual who is brought before Me, and the rewards will be handed out. And your rewards and your positioning will come simply from what you’ve been asked to do and what you’ve obeyed, and no one can change that. No one can intervene for you and change things. You have to make the sacrifice. You have to be obedient. You have to do the things that God has called you to do. If you are faithful to those callings, then your reward will be determined by that.

I tell you truly, many who have raced ahead are going to have a small reward in Heaven. I do not reward according to what you have accomplished in the natural, but I reward according to what you’ve been obedient to when I’ve asked you. And many have raced ahead in the Kingdom and built huge empires, yet their reward will be small. It will not be great because they have not accomplished that which I told them to do for Me; they accomplished that which they desired to do.

I’ve asked many a ministry to back up and set things down and not go forward, and they have pressed ahead anyway, thinking they were doing Me a favor. And they’ve done many things in the Name of God and I’ve spoken of this, and I said many will come to Me and say “Lord, Lord, have we not…” Yes, you did in your own will, in your own desire to build your name, to build your kingdom, to build your version of the Kingdom of God, but it was not I, saith the Lord.

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LED THROUGH THE VALLEY OF SACRIFICE
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And even though sometimes, these things have been used and people have been helped, it was not the perfect will of God. It was not the calling of God on many vessels. And many vessels have settled for second and third place and they are very, very uncomfortable and there is not much joy in their life because they do not have the full will of God that was laid out for them; because that will, many times, led through the valley of sacrifice, and death, and isolation, and rejection, and torment, and they would not enter into the sufferings of Christ; therefore, they have not received the highest calling in Christ.

Fear not, to enter into the valleys with God. God will pull you though, in and out, and up out of them, and you will have true spiritual advancement, true spiritual reward in your life. Do not take the easy pathways through life and through spiritual things. Take the pathway that you know the Holy Ghost is calling you into, even if it means isolation and suffering at times; because God will come, and God will lift you, and God will promote you; and when he does it will be true spiritual mantles, true spiritual anointing, true spiritual fruit in your life.

It is much better to suffer for ten or fifteen years under the hand of God and then come forward to do one great work for God, than to advance yourself and receive the acclaim of men and come up short in the books of God. So, be patient in your preparation, in your trials and in your sufferings knowing that the Hand of God will eventually lift and place you and reward you for your faithfulness. And if you would know the truth, I see faithfulness much different than you do. When the widow put what she had in the offering, it was considered more than all of the temple priests, and all that they had given. God sees and understands things differently than men. You must understand that the reward of God is based upon what the Holy Spirit has called you to. If all you have is the two mites, it may end up more than what the leader of the temple gave. Think of this.

Think of these parables and realize that these things can be activated in your life that you can do great things for God, even though you are small and insignificant. And to this day that woman’s sacrifice is remembered as it was said it would be. It is still spoken of – how she out gave the temple. So hear, hear what the Lord would say of you, what the Scriptures would say of you. Imitate what you see in the Bible, not what you see around you, and you will be blessed.