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      • Walk the paths of righteousness  ~ teaching by Bonnie Franklin
      • God's love is like a river  ~ a song by Bonnie Franklin 
      • From a heart of prayer for Paul Cain  ~ by Bonnie Franklin
      • Vision of Paul's torn mantle   ~ by Bonnie Franklin
      • Prayer for Paul  ~ by Bonnie Franklin
      • Do not forsake your calling   ~ prophecy by Don Franklin
      • I am the essence of love  ~ prophecy by Don Franklin

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I'm Calling the Minutemen of God     Prophecy by Don Franklin           11/04/04

          I will once again have a clean table before Me and I will raise up out of the House and out of the lineage of David, men and women after my heart who will not deviate from the truth, who will not turn from that, which I put in their heart, who will not sacrifice unclean sheep on my altar for their own benefit, for their own purpose, for their own kingdom building, saith God, and I will level that, which has been done and I will begin anew.

And oh, I found a man after my own heart in this one you call Bush, in the White House.  And I have put defiance in him, and it is a godly defiance of the powers of evil on this planet, of the powers even of  the Church that would seek to control him.   And he goes to the prophet of God; he calls for the prophet of God because he trembles

     He likes the roughness of this prophet.  He likes the “smell of camel’s hair” upon this one.  He loves to see the dust being shaken off of his garments as he “comes from the desert screaming” and yelling and prophesying the Word of the Lord in the fear of no one.  He fears no one; he fears no one.  He admires this; he admires the independence; he admires the fire.  He admires the power of God upon this vessel and he says, “Oh, I’ve found a brother.  I’ve found a kindred spirit.  There’s something I have in common with that one.  He and I know the same God.  He and I walk in the same spirit.  Oh, come to my table and sup, oh Prophet of God.”  And even unknowingly he has supported this one financially.  Even unknowingly he’s given gifts to this prophetic household.  I tell you there is favor with the prophets; there is favor with the prophets.

     The Word of the Lord will dominate in the coming days.  The Word of the Lord will be what runs this nation.  The Word of the Lord is coming unto your political leader.  The sheep have cried unto their Heavenly Father; he’s heard their cry; he’s answering their prayer.  He’s by-passed leadership.  He’s by-passed everything and he’s heard the cry of his people and he’s going to answer with fire on the altar in Washington and he’s going to burn the dross out of this nation.  He’s going to burn the dross out of the churches.  He’s going to burn the dross out of those that would manipulate and con and deceive my people. 

      There is a day breaking upon this nation, and it is even upon you now where great glorious opportunity is being handed to the Church.  Now will the Church rise and prevail in this day?  Will the Church answer the Lord?  Will the Church even ignore leadership that would suppress it and go on and press in – in intercession and into the things that the Lord shows them – and demand to have godliness back in this nation – demand to have the leadership that it deserves put over it.  Call onto God; call onto God; call onto God. 

     As my people cried out of Egypt so they’ve cried out of this nation and I have sent you a deliverer.  I have sent you one who has the power to break the darkness that has prevailed over this nation and he is supported by a base of millions of Christians praying for him.  So keep praying.  He is your president; he is your help; he is your salvation in this hour.  He is the hand of God to you and he will set up a “dynasty” that can rule in this nation in my favor.

     Come along, saith the Lord, and join this mighty band; join what is called a political movement.  This is not a political movement; this is a move of God.  This is a move of God on the political machinery of this nation.  It is because of my people’s intercession and prayers and cries to me.  They are sick of the wickedness.  They are upset by what the liberals have done. 

        I say to you, keep interceding; keep praying and you will see the liberal base shrink.  It will get smaller and smaller and smaller as those that have been deceived defect from their ranks and come over to righteousness.  You will see a defecting from the democratic ranks in the coming days and people will drop what they have been told and they will run to the House of God and they will run to the  right side of these issues.

        And they will begin to support godly men – not necessarily what you would call republican or democrat and there are godly men in both parties.  There are Zell Millers in the Democratic Party who will rise up and defy the evil that is there and begin to speak the truth. 

       Righteousness is not a party.  Righteousness is a heart right with me and it can be an independent; it can be democrat; it can be a republican.  It can be many forms.  In fact there are many denominations, but righteousness is righteousness.  And when I find a righteous man in any party I will exalt him and I’ll lift him up.  It is not that one party does not have its sins; they do, but they are willing to repent and they are willing to say, “We’ve been wrong” and they are wiling to go forward and say, “We’ve got to correct this; we’ve got to correct that and we want what God wants.”

     That’s why they have the favor of God.  That is why the Republican Party right now has the favor of God on it.  They are willing to repent.  They are willing to close down the openings of Satan.  They are wiling so say, “We missed it here; we missed it there; we’re going to change this.  Let’s please God; let’s try to find a way to make things right.”

     They have received favor from the Lord, but if they turn from God they too will be cast down.  I do not play favorites.  I don’t endorse them because of any certain doctrine or thing that they do, but they have my blessing right now, and if they continue to walk the way they’re walking they’ll continue to have my blessings.  But if they turn, I will pull them down quick as lightening and they will fall to the ground and I will exalt another party.

     There’s great favor upon this nation right now.  Great favor is falling.  This is your time; this is your season.  And I’m taking you back to a time when my people did not differentiate between the king and the priest.  Serving the Lord in a nation meant not only going to the temple and worshipping and sacrificing and ministering to the priest, but it also meant serving the king who was the political leader of the nation, and there was no difference in my people’s eyes.  They were all anointed of God.  It was all service to God, whether you were in the king’s court or you were in the priest’s court.  It was all God and it shall be this way in this nation, saith the Lord.

     I am doing something new.  You can’t even comprehend what I am doing in this White House.  This is not a four-year thing.  This is the beginning of a coronation and a reign in this nation of righteousness for years and years and years and years and years and years to come!  I’m setting it up.  I’m laying the foundation.  This is a groundbreaking historic moment, as much as the first coronation of a king of England.  There is a coronation happening in this nation of a kingship of God.

     And I no longer want you to think of secular and Church realm.  It is all me.  The political realm is no different from the Church realm, saith the Lord.  It is one, saith the Lord.  It is one.  Those are my men.  Those are my positions over my buildings.  That’s my White House; that’s my Congress; that’s my Supreme Court; that’s my Mall; that’s my city!

     Those are my men and you are to serve them.  I’m calling you to go forth and serve the political process in this nation.  I’m calling the Church to meld into the political process and become one.  There’ll be no division; there’ll be no division.  You will think of them as members of your church.  You will think of those buildings as cathedrals of God.

     I’m taking down the division that has been brought in this nation – the lie that was brought forth by Satan that there would be a division of Church and State.  There’s no division.  There’s no division to a godly nation founded by godly men for godly purposes on this planet.  Now stand up and be ye men and take it back, saith the Lord.  Kick the Canaanites out of the land; kick the perverts out of the land; kick the deceivers out of the land.  I want my buildings back.  I want my system back.  I want my men in power.  Now have the guts to stand up and take what is your heritage.

	Your father, George Washington, your forefathers, cry out to me, “When will they stand and kick those men from our city?  We handled them a godly heritage.  Why have they traded it in?  What lie has been perpetrated upon them that they would believe that they have no part in the running
of the nation – that they are stuck in little buildings with steeples on them and they don’t dare come out and say a word.”

      Stand up and fight; stand up and fight.  I’m calling the “Minutemen of God” to the nation’s capital.  You will haul the enemy out – “hand to hand combat” – out of the buildings, out of the offices, out of the country, and you will usher in a move of God that will free the nation.  Now stand and stand ye strong in the Lord, strong in the Lord.

      You must know your ground.  You must know your heritage.  You must know this is a godly nation founded with godly purposes with godly men as your forefathers; and you must link arm in arm with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and you must fight for the good of this nation – wouldn’t be the first time there was a “civil war” in this country and although bullets and bombs will not fly, there will be a fight that righteousness will prevail.  The righteous indignation and anger of God will come upon my servants and they will begin to confront the powers of darkness that has hijacked the leadership of this nation. It is a historic moment.  This time, this day is to live on and on and on into the future.  Lift up your eyes to a new vision in America – One Nation under God.

  ~ prophecy by Don Franklin, November 4, 2004 @ CHC Prophetic Prayer Mtg. Lakeland, FL ~

     My children have seen me weeping and concerned for loved ones of late who are struggling with their walk in this life, as the enemy of their soul, who sees the prophecies, who sees the calling and the gifting, reaches out and tries to destroy them before they can fulfill the life the Lord has spoken over them.  

     When they asked me about it, I told them the story of a man who was once an alcoholic and one day his wife could not take it anymore.  She told him, "You can choose to live with Jack Daniels or you can choose to live with me, but you can't have the both of us."  That wife was Laura Bush and at that time, the Devil was trying to destroy her husband, yet he had a wife who was interceding.  And George W. went on to renew his walk with the Lord, and go to church, teach Sunday school, go to Bible studies, and God raised him up to fulfill the prophetic promises over his life, as he became the president of our country and the leader of the free world.  

     He chose the right path.  There was another path - a path of despair.  Yet, somehow the Lord gave him the grace and the strength to leave the old ways behind and begin life anew.  Many of us, too, have destinies and promises over our lives.  May we stand on the side of God and believe that he will bring forth that, which he has promised, as we walk the paths of righteousness.

     My husband gave a prophecy recently where the Lord talks about us doing our ministry unto him everyday, that it never stops; we are always ministering whether we know it or not.  That encouraged me, because I recently went back to school teaching in order to help pay for our kids tuition and I was thinking, "Lord, this is not where I want to be and yet I am willing to pick up sheaves, like Ruth, so that my children may eat of the good of the land and be in godly schools surrounded by godly teachers who are praying for them."  

     Yet my job is in a secular school and a secular atmosphere, but the Lord really encouraged me as two people came up to me recently - and one is my employer - and they both said almost the same thing:  they are so very happy I am here; they have someone to talk to; they are able to make it through this year because of my being here."  I didn't know I was ministering when I was being a friend or just being me, and  yet even our very presence can usher in the Lord's angels as they accompany us into the workplace.

     Someday again, I believe, the Lord's healing power will rest upon his chosen vessels to such a heavy extent, that even as they would walk through the marketplace, through the hospitals, through the schoolyards, that those with illness and disease will receive a touch from the Lord as his healing power for both inner healing and physical healing flows like a river out of his Spirit and into our spirits and out to touch a hurting and dying world.  

     I believe that the releasing of the Lord's healing mantles are at hand.  The Lord was showing me in Romans recently that he bought not only our salvation, but he bought for us righteousness and holiness, and that will be the requirement for those chosen to wear the mantles of healing - a walk of holiness.  And it is possible, for did not the Lord's disciples walk this walk?  Did not prophets of old walk this walk, for their shadows and very bones still contained the healing virtue of our God. 

     Those who will be at the forefront in this next move will be ones who walk and breathe and live a holy walk, a pure walk.  And it will be not of ourselves or of our own strength, but He who lives within will cover us in his glory and just as we have seen our country's Commander-and-Chief rise to the occasion.  Our spirit man will rise to the occasion to receive the mantles of the Lord. 

     They will not be gifts of healing, but walks of holiness and purity.  They will require much, much sacrifice of the flesh and self and earthly desires, but shall it not be worth it to see the pure anointing of the Lord visit this earth once again as we become love slaves unto Him, our Lord and Savior?  May we live to see that day of his river again overflowing - a river of love, a river of joy, a river of peace, a river of health and healing unto the hurting people of the world.

       I've had a supernatural connection with Paul for 15 years seeing him in so many dreams and visions, and not knowing why.  I've seen his mom in heaven praying for him. Sometimes when I wake up I know in the spirit how Paul is feeling that day.  I've asked the Lord many times, "Why do you show me all of this stuff ; why do you want me to know?"  His answer: "So that you would have the heart to love and care."  Many times the Lord showed me Paul leaving the ministry place he was in and going to the next one months before happened. I saw the angels release him from Wimber's ministry. I saw his return to Kansas City. There was a dream of him in Rick's home and ministry before he arrived and another where Paul told me he was leaving - all months and sometimes years before they took place in the natural. 

     One time the Lord told me to make Paul a pot of chicken soup; I didn't know what God meant. Then I had a dream of Paul in a hospital bed where I brought him a book - "Words from the Father for Paul Cain".  I went on to make two books of prophecy for Paul over the years containing all of the visions and dreams I've had of him and other prophets - anything that had to do with the prophetic movement, poems for the prophets, many of Don's prophecies - a lot of what is on our website, but other that we were not allowed to share publicly.

     12 years ago, we were in prayer and Don gave a prophecy where the Lord said that we would stand by the side of Paul Cain one day, and neither one of us believed it. And then we heard an angel of the Lord speak saying, "I am Gabriel who stands in the presence of the Almighty and I testify to the words He has spoken." That's just one of those words you tuck away in your heart.  When the prophets released statements of Paul several weeks ago, as I was driving and in tears praying for him, and the Holy Spirit brought back that experience to my mind and said these words, "You were told you would stand by his side." Then I believe the Lord showed me a meaning for those words, "Stand by his side," is something one does in comfort.  You stand by the side of one who's accused. You stand by the side of someone going through great physical pain or turmoil and you are there as a support and also sometimes as a shield. 

     Then in the Spirit realm I saw Paul standing in the dirt. There were those with stones gathered around to stone him and I saw my husband, Don, stand between Paul and the men who were throwing the stones, putting his body as a shield between the angry mob and the elder prophet.  When I got home, I went to the computer, because I had a sense and a knowing that Paul would check the website soon for prayers concerning him at this time, and I began to type and pray and cry and post my prayer there on the page of prayers for Paul.  On the night of the election, Paul did come and he was touched by those words - by the prayers of the people from around the world for him.

     Father God, sometime ago you gave me a dream and you showed me Paul sitting all alone in an airport terminal with a leather suitcase.  The flights came in and the flights went out, but Paul had no where to go.  Finally after sitting there for what seemed hours, he got up and made his way back to his empty hotel room all alone.  I wept as I sensed the intense depression and loneliness, which surrounded him.

   At the time I thought you were showing me that Paul had  searched all over the world and been involved in so many ministries, and yet none lit a candle to the ministry and the church that he knew could exist in you - the one he's been searching for all of his life.  I called friends and emailed others close to him urgently asking them to pray for Paul, because I could sense his sadness and depression.  You only showed me a fraction of the loneliness, only a fraction of the pain.  

     Now the dream has become a reality and there really is truly no where for him to go, but to you my Lord.  And yet I feel and sense your great, great love, your grace, your compassion, oh Gentle Savior.  No, you don't condone our sin, and you don't accuse either.   Are you not the One who said so long ago, "Let him who is without sin, cast the first stone."

     I have no stones to throw, my Lord, only tears to let fall. I have no accusations to say, only prayers and intercession.  I will never give up, never, my Lord, on the dreams and the visions you have given me for your servant.  For he is your servant and he is your son, whom you love.  I will stand by his side in love knowing that your blood covers all of our sins and mistakes, everything that we knowingly or unknowingly do.  Each day is a new day in you, and you count the good days, the good minutes, the good moments in our life and you lay them on the scale with the price that you paid for our Salvation.  We are all lost without you, Lord.  Our righteousness is as filthy rags.  We are miserable sinners; we are but dust in the sight of your glory.

     Forgive us our sins; wash us clean in the Blood of the Lamb.  Take our hand in your hand and help us to walk again renewed in you.  We still believe in your dreams - the dreams and visions you have placed deep within our spirits.  We will not give up on the dreams of God.  We will not give up on the dreams of God.  We will not give up, on You, oh Lord.  You are our only hope and our only Salvation.  In you we find Eternal rest and peace.

     Comfort, my brother Paul this day.  Fill him with your Spirit.  Cleanse him and may he wear white robes of righteousness in your sight.  I call for many, many angels to encamp round about him pushing the hordes of darkness aside.  Comfort and strengthen his mind, his heart and his soul.  Come be his friend and the lover of his soul.  May he find total and complete wholeness and joy, yes, joy in your presence.  Cover him with your thoughts night and day, night and day, night and day.  Love on him, I pray.  May he be yours now and forevermore.   ~ Bonnie Franklin

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  Vision of Paul's torn mantle:  

        Several years ago, I had a vision of Paul as he lay at death's door; he was in my home bed ridden as I was feeding him chicken soup.  He had placed his mantle in my husband's care for safe keeping. It was known among the ranks, of two prophets who both argued and fought over Paul's mantle saying, "I'm the elder." "No, I'm the elder."  "I'll receive it."  "No, I shall."  Words became blows and blows became swords but each was an equal match to the other.  Finally, under the cover of night, one of the prophets comes upon the other unawares, pulls out his knife and stabs his brother from behind.  It's a deadly blow, and the one with the knife pulls the other off to the side of the road and leaves him there to die.  The next day, there is a great procession and funeral for the fallen prophet; the people follow behind his body not believing he is gone as it is placed into a sarcophagus within a crypt.

     My husband lingers there, as do I, when in from the shadows comes the prophet who had slain his brother.  Seeing the glint of the knife in his hands still with the telltale signs of blood, my husband turns from his mourning to angrily say.  "Do you come to fight with me now?  Hasn't enough blood been spilled this day? You two, who could not come to terms in friendship, who could not join arms to fight side by side, you two, who could have united the brotherhood, yet chose instead to rip and tear at each others' kingdoms, you who could not even sit together at the table of the Lord, and chose to fight endlessly so consumed by your lust and desire for the mantle of another, that you would even take it from him while he yet lives... if it's this mantle that you desire so badly, that you would kill your very brother just to lay hold of it, then you two shall have it!"   

     Reaching inside of his cloak my husband pulls out the mantle of Paul Cain from around his neck ripping it asunder from top to bottom.  One half is thrown to the prophet in the shadows, and the other half he gently wraps around the stone figure of the prophet who was slain saying, "Though I was your enemy, but you were never mine."   The prophet in the shadows throws the torn portion of the mantle to the ground, as he stomps upon it saying, "I have no use of a mantle that's ragged and torn."

     When all is quiet and the prophets have gone, I slip from my hiding place having witnessed all that took place.  With tears I reach down to pick up the portion of Paul's mantle from off the ground, then turn to retrieve the other half from off the figure of stone.  Taking them to my secret place, the pieces of cloth are sewn by hand back together again with a scarlet cord and kept hidden from view.

     Some time later, Paul begins to reminisce of his mantle saying he wished he had it to hold onto just one more time.  I say, "But it's here; it's been here all along," and reach into my sewing basket pulling out the mantle and placing it into his hands once again.  He runs his fingers over the scarlet cord with tears coming into his eyes, but then he calls over a young lad who is playing nearby and places the mantle around his shoulders.  Then Paul slips into eternity with his laughter echoing down the hallways as he hears the young boy scamper about giving words of knowledge about everyone in the house just as he had in his younger days - naming everyone's sins.

        I'm not sure at all what all this means, and I don't even want to know, yet what I do know is that the Lord has given me a heart of a mother for Paul; it's been there for many years and I know he has his purpose in it.  It is a heart that will shield and love and help.  We are going to fight the hordes of darkness coming against those with a prophetic call upon their lives.  We are here to protect and to defend the prophetic words of the Lord and there would not be any without his prophets. What does it say on the Roundtable website..." Dedicated to preserving the prophetic word of the Lord."  The theme song for the ministry is "Lord, have mercy."  It's the cry of our hearts.

     This is a house of hope. Our home is to be a safe place, in order to redeem, in order to restore, in order to protect, and to never give up on the dreams of God until he says to stop praying, as he spoke to Samuel. Until that day comes we will pray and obey and believe in the dreams of our Lord for his sons and daughters that his perfect will for their lives would come forth upon the earth. 

      The first thing that I would do is challenge your concept of what church is. Church is a group of believers anywhere, any time, any place on this planet. The first church started after the resurrection of Christ and it consisted of a group of people in any location whether it was the Upper Room or the well or the street or the side of a hill or the marketplace. It was Christians gathering together. What is a church, but a gathering of many little ministries. A corporate church is the gathering of individual ministry and that is what forms a major church, but the individual ministries go on and on and on until the day that you stop breathing. 

     So, while yes, you must have a vision of what you consider to be a corporate church, never, never loose sight of the individual ministry that you possess, because every little stream makes up the big church as you call it. But individual ministry goes on and on and on despite what happens with any group, any denomination, any nation. Your Elijah ministry, your Deborah ministry, your calling before God never ceases. No matter what happens to a group you may be in or out with. Your individual calling goes from the time you get up in the morning ‘til you lay your head down at night! Even in your dream life your calling goes on.

     So while you can be concerned about a nation, a denomination, a particular church or group that is fine. But you do need to take your focus off that and realize that you have an individual powerful anointing, mantle and calling before the Almighty that nothing or anyone can stop. You may be woven out of many different groups. That’s fine. But your calling is what matters. Do not forsake your calling when (a) your nation is in trouble or (b) your church is in trouble. That does not affect your call.

     Unless I have specifically rebuked you for disobedience, it actually is none of your concern. Your concern is to everyday get up and if you feel like singing, then you sing to God. The birds sing to God whether there are hurricanes coming or not. They don’t care what happens in the Bahamas. They don’t care what happens off the coast of Africa. They don’t care what the weather is like anywhere else in the nation. When they rise in the morning, they lift their voices to God and they sing.

     So it is with you. You have an individual calling before me and I want to hear you sing to me, even in the roughest of hurricane seasons. When things are seemingly going out of kilter in political areas or in church areas or in other areas, that should not and does not affect you. 

     Zero in on who you are before God and what you are. If you are an Elijah then there are times you are going to be brought before the king. And everybody’s going to be buzzing and talking about you and saying, “Why aren’t you in the ministry and where are you and why aren’t you on the frontlines and why aren’t you confronting Jezebel?”  It’s because I’ve pulled you aside to commune with you in a cave and teach you. I have Jehu ready to nail Jezebel; I don’t need you. I need you at times to shut up and draw aside with me and humble yourself and learn lessons. Don’t worry about other people’s callings. Fulfill that individual call that’s in each one of your hearts and you will be on time and be where you’re supposed to be when you’re supposed to be.

     It’s not that you have an “I don’t care what happens to anyone else attitude.” You do care, but there’s nothing you can do about it. What can you do about the storms off the coast of Africa? What can you do about the politics of Europe? The only thing that you can effectively do is be on your knees communing with me and being in my perfect will for you. That’s the best thing you can do, because then there are times when I can flow through you and give a word or direct something to help a situation.

     But unless I place you into the key pivotal authority position over a church, over a nation, over a situation, you cannot affect it. What you can affect and what you can change is your own walk and obedience with me – that you have power over. You have power over your own house. You can tell your children to come and go. You can tell your husband to do this or that. You can affect what happens in your own home. You have authority over that home. No one has the right to come into your home and demand that you do the dishes at a certain time. That’s been given to you. That’s your authority sphere. Within your own realm of authority you have power over things, but once you walk outside of that and it has not been given you authority to you to control, there’s not much that you can do.

     So you’ve got to be able to let things go. You’ve got to be able to let people rise or fall according to the choices they have made, because you will rise or fall according to the choices that you make. If you choose not to do your dishes, if you choose not to take out your garbage, your house will stink and it will be your fault – not your neighbor's, not somebody else’s. You have authority. You have responsibility. That’s your job.

     You can’t be held accountable for your next-door neighbor’s house and what condition it is in. It is not your responsibility. So it is with many things. You’re not held accountable for the condition of certain situations. It’s not within your hand, so relax. You’re only held accountable for that, which I put you in authority over. You are accountable to stay up with me, current and you can get up everyday and be happy. 

     There is such misery in this world. Everyday people are dying. Everyday people are sick. There are people rejoicing and people passing away everyday. Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. But it’s O.K. to have a bubbly joyous spirit even when there is calamity around you. If it’s not your personal calamity and you didn’t cause it, then you have nothing to do with it.

     Rejoice, I say and again learn to rejoice through the calamities and trials that hit this planet and come upon situations, because that is your strength. The joy of the Lord is your strength. If you have not disobeyed me, if you have not neglected your duties, then you have every full right to get up in the morning and rejoice even as the birds of the air do. 

     You cannot change things. You’ve not been given authority. That’s why those who have been given authority are held incredibly into high account, because what they do affects literally thousands of people around them. They’re given great honor, but they’re also given great responsibility. So be not many teachers knowing that you shall receive greater condemnation and correction.

     Take out your own garbage. Do your dishes and be thankful that your authority sphere protects you even from great judgments that fall. Moses hit the rock and missed the Promised Land. Be thankful that you’re not in charge of millions of people. Be thankful that hundreds of millions of dollars are not under your leadership realm and that you are to give an account for it.

     You know, all you have to do is give an account for what I’ve given you and I said I would not overload you. It’s an easy thing. You can give an account for what I’ve given you. I haven’t overloaded you. If you’re overloaded, it came from somebody else; it did not come from me and I tell you, throw those burdens off your shoulders. They are not yours. I did not burden you down so low that you cannot walk. I did not put things on you that you can’t carry. You put them on yourself or you let other people put their problems on you so they could go fishing - so that they can go fishing! And then you bear their burdens and their responsibilities and their problems. 

     What nonsense, saith the Lord. I’ll poke a hole in their boat and they’ll drown out in that lake for their laziness and their slothfulness and their abuse of what I’ve given them. I’m about to sink some boats and there’s nothing that you can do to stop it, so wake up! Smell the coffee, saith the Lord.

     Enjoy your life. Have a good day. Rejoice in your Lord. You’ve not failed under your authority sphere. You’ve kept your house clean. You’ve taken your garbage out. You’ve done your dishes. You’ve taken care of your children and your responsibilities. Why do you have such a long face? Others have neglected their duties and they will pay the price for it.

     I’m an equal opportunity employer. I’m fair, saith God; I’m fair. I will not allow you to judge those that I’ve placed in certain places, but that does not mean that I will not judge them if their correction is not swift and sure. Just as it is with you, your children are not allowed to rise up and spank or bring correction upon you, but correction does come from many forms. It’s there; it’s there.

        I am not unfair and I am not unfair even to those that I correct. I give them space. I give them season. I give them time to repent over and over and over. I delay my judgment even upon you and your house; I delay my judgment. I do not judge you every time you make a mistake, but I do send you a lot of correction. So I do with everyone in every position. They are given chance after chance after chance to change, to repent, to think, to mend their ways and then eventually when nothing will turn them, then correction comes. That is how the mechanics of the Kingdom of God work. 

        But get excited about what you’re individually called to because my burden’s easy; my yoke is light and you can do it. And throw off the burdens of other people. They are not yours. I don’t require you to take care of ten households while other people go fishing, and you go clean their house. What nonsense. Let each one clean their own house.  You’re not a slave. I didn’t make you a slave. I didn’t put you in bondage and chains and demand that you work your whole life for someone else. I made you lord of the creation. I made you free. You have but one Father in heaven. Call no man on earth “father” – one Lord, one baptism.

     I’ve given you freedom in the Holy Ghost. Stand up for your freedom. Don’t allow people to enslave you, to make you lords of their manor, to cause you to serve while they drink lemonade and play croquet. I say, “No.” You are free; you are free to serve me.

     And my field is vast. It’s worldwide. I can plug you in anywhere, anytime I choose. Start looking up and let your radar scan the sky. Begin to talk to God about some things. Begin to ask God, “Hmm… what can I do for you, God? What else do you have available? Is there something else that I can do for you that might even be fun?”

     Ah, my burden is easy; my yoke is light. My burden is easy; my yoke is light. My burden is easy; my yoke is light. My burden is easy; my yoke is light – mine is. Other people’s burdens are iron yokes of depression and oppression and huge bondages. If you find yourself in a yoke that is not easy, that is not light, cast it off, saith the Lord. 

     Come back to me and say, “Lord, is there some place where I’ve allowed myself to be ensnared here and that I really shouldn’t be in or belong?” And if you’ll ask in sincerity, I’ll show you what to do. I’ll show you. I’ll show you how to gracefully get out of things. I’ll show you how to break contracts that you got yourself into that I never asked you to and now you can’t get out because (a) it’d be socially embarrassing and (b) it would look like you’re a traitor or (c) you’re so hooked into it you don’t know how to function without it. 

     But I’ll show you how to get out of these contracts. I’ll show you how to break free, saith God. I’ll give you the wisdom I gave Solomon. There’ll be a solution to this that no one had thought of even, to free you from even the self imposed trap you’ve walked into – the times you committed yourself when you shouldn’t have. That’s ok. It’s how you learn, but go back to the premise of your own house, of your own responsibilities and the freedom that I’m allowing each believer to have. 

     I don’t want you weighed down. I even said, "...as the birds of the air ... as the lilies of the field..."  I take care of them. I desire to array you, to take care of you as the birds are taken care of that you could get up and simply trust me and have a good life. It’s actually that simple.

I am the Essence of Love ~ prophecy by Don Franklin  11/15/04

     I am faithful.  I am truth.  I am love.  I am fidelity.  I am everything that you have been looking for.  I am that essence.  But you will not find it outside of me; you will not find it outside of me.  Do you want someone to be faithful to you all the days of your life?  Do you want to be loved?  Do you want truth?  Do you want honesty?  Do you want clarity?  Do you want all of these wonderful attributes?

     They emanated and exist in me.  I am these things and you may bump into them at times in other people.  You may sense it even on them, but it is of me.  It is of me.  It is of me in them, through them, moving on them and in them at times and when they begin to deviate from me, then a mixture comes in and you are confused because you thought that, that person was totally honest.  You thought that, that person was totally faithful.  You thought that, that person was totally loyal to you, because at one time you felt something on them.

     Well, what you felt was my spirit operating in and through them.  I am loyalty.  I am faith.  I am truthfulness.  I am honestly .  No flesh can manifest these things of its own accord.  They are fruits of my spirit of me in them.  So, it is me that you crave.  It is me that you want and I will not give you to another.  I will not let my glory go to another, to the arm of flesh.  I have stripped away the vale of humanity that all may see and my understand that I and I alone possess these virtues, these things that you love.

     So, cling to me.  Come to me.  I am the One who pardons you for all your transgressions.  There's no malice in my heart towards you.  I've got nothing but love to give you.   Do not run from me.  Do not hide from me.  I am the very life spring of your existence.  I am the healer.  I can heal you.  I can heal your emotional wounds, your mental wounds, your physical wounds.

     But there is a free will that stands between me and you and when you pull yourself back and even when you run and cleave to another flesh vessel it breaks the communion between you and I and I am not able to pour myself into you in a fullness and a revelatory desire that I have to show you who I am and what I am.

     I am here to reveal who I am to you, what I am to you.  I am everything to you that you need.  You get thrown out into a desert and I'll have an angel appear to you.  If you're cast out of the camp as Hagar was and the angel of the Lord comes and sustains you in an unsustainable place, I am that to you. I am the One who can sustain you in a desert.  I am the One who can be your friend when no one wants you.  I AM, that I AM, and I'm going to teach the church who I am.  I'm not flesh.  I exist outside of natural order and yet I break in by my spirit and you touch me and go, "Oh, I want more of that!"  

     And you run to and fro even trying to find it in each other and it doesn't exist or it rests for a moment then it's gone as a vapor, and then you're confused because you see the flesh of the vessel and you're hurt because you trusted that vessel.  All of that has to shift now to me - to the One who cannot hurt you, cannot betray you, cannot and will not abuse you.

     Lift your eyes up, children.  Your life has just begun; your life has just begun.  I say a word to you this day, your life has just begun with God Almighty.  I'm going to manifest myself to you in the coming days in a special and an awesome way that you may know the Most High, the God of Moses, that you may know the God of Elijah.   You're going to know what these guys knew.

     Open your heart and your mind unreservedly to him who loves you.  Dive into his Scriptures and fall once again in love with your God and not with your church, not with the arm of flesh, but fall in love with the attributes of your God - with holiness, with charity; with love, with fidelity; with loyalty - only it will all be wrapped up in me.   You will look for loyalty from me alone.  You will look for fidelity from me alone.  You will look for sustenance from me alone.   You will not even consider the arm of flesh in these things knowing how faulty and how much they can fail.

     But oh, you will cleave and cling unto me, your heavenly bridegroom, for all of these needs to be met and there will come the great communion.  It is even the great mystery of the Church.  It is the moment when the consummation of the marriage happens and there is a closeness and a union that cannot be broken.   You're about to come into the bridal chamber with your heavenly lover and become one, saith God - one heart, one purpose, one mind, one knowing of perfection of God Almighty.  I long to reveal my heart to you, my attributes to you, and I long to have you solely cling to me.  That is the gospel.
 

  Prophetic Roundtable Newsletter - with Don & Bonnie Franklin

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