"Instigating Circumstances"
Aug 6th, 2007
thru Priscilla Van Sutphin
www.upstreamca.org

Prov 15:15 AMP   All the days of the 
desponding & afflicted are made evil 
[by anxious thoughts & forebodings], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances ].

Phil 4:12 AMP   I know how to be abased & live humbly in straitened circumstances, & I know also how to enjoy plenty & live in abundance. I have learned in any & all circumstances the secret of facing every situation, whether well-fed or going hungry, having a sufficiency & enough to spare or going without & being in want.

“I am instigating circumstances that will take you into the transitioning that I want for you.  I am leading you & guiding you, in the midst of turmoil to the abundant place in Me that I have for you, so that the purposes I have for you will be fulfilled in this hour.


Tempest & storms, disasters & groanings will cause many to move into new positions & new places where I want to use you in this hour.

There is a deposit of My glory inside you, but I am about to AMPLIFY My glory in you that the world will take notice!  

My abundance is for demonstrating My Kingdom.  My abundance if for sharing with the poor of the earth. I AM abundant in mercy & abundant in GRACE.  

I AM abundant in peace, joy, kindness, LOVE, & forbearance. I AM ABUNDANT LIFE.  

HE Who has ME has abundant life compared to others in this world.  Without ME, you cannot DO any good thing.

Life & abundance are in MY HANDS.  Yet many will turn away in this hour presuming that they can have it apart from ME. 

True success in the Kingdom of God is not measured by land ownership, how big your house is, or how well you do in business.  

These are WORLDLY measures.  In other nations Christians do not have money to have large CD collections, stereos, book collections to explain the gospels, big homes & cars, etc. 

Many cannot even read. But they love ME with their whole heart, & they commune with ME daily. 

While you in the western world are lulled into passivity by your many things, they are passionate enough to suffer with ME.

You worry about what THINGS you may lose. They have to worry about losing their very lives. Their women have their pastor-husbands thrown in jail for months, & have no way to earn a living.  

Some women are left to beg for coins to feed their families, while you won’t even share your meals with the homeless & poor. 

You have cars & electronics to communicate with people in the world & are blessed among all nations, yet do not see that you are standing on shaky ground as your economy is at death’s door.  

Your governors & your congressmen have sold you as slaves to the nations, but you think you are free.

  YOU HAVE EYES BUT DO NOT SEE. 
YOU HAVE EARS BUT DO NOT HEAR.  
WHEN WILL YOU ASK FOR YOUR BLINDNESS TO BE HEALED?  When your blindness becomes madness? Then will you see? 

You think you are RICH but you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind & naked, in need of eyesalve.

Rev 3:16-22 NKJV  16 So then, because you are lukewarm, & neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.  
17 Because you say,'I am rich, have become wealthy, & have need of nothing' — & do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, & naked —   
18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; & white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; & anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.  

19 As many as I love, I rebuke & chasten. Therefore be zealous & repent.  20 Behold, I stand at the door & knock. If anyone hears My voice & opens the door, I will come in to him & dine with him, & he with Me.  21 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame & sat down with My Father on His throne. 
22 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."'"  

“It is time for HUMILITY to have it’s way with you. You have been proud & unswerving in your arrogance.  But I will make you a new heart America.  
I will make you to know that I ALONE AM GOD.  
You will become servants to others. You will no longer play the harlot with the nations, perverting their sons & daughters with your worldly music & entertainment. 

You will long for the days you have seen. You will cry out to me in your anguish & I will once again make you to know ME.  

You will no longer serve the gods of this world.  You will no longer laugh at or honor idolatry to other gods.  I will give you a new heart.  

I will give you a new SPINE to be able to STAND & say NO to idols - That you would no longer serve those other gods, nor to serve the BEAST who will demand your worship!

YOU ARE MINE AMERICA & I WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME. FALSE PROPHETS HAVE LULLED YOU TO SLEEP WITH HUMANISM, DEMANDING SOFT WORDS & THEIR QUEST FOR MONEY YOU SEE NOT.  

O THE SPIRIT OF SLUMBER HAS COME & TAKEN OVER MUCH OF THE CHURCH.  BUT I WILL SHAKE IT LOOSE BY MY POWER DISPLAYED THROUGH VESSELS OF GOLD. 

YOU WILL SEE TRUE PROPHETS TAKE THE LEAD NOW.  NOT TO BECOME RICH, BUT TO DISPLAY MY POWER IN THE EARTH THAT ALL MAY KNOW THE TRUTH OF MY CHARACTER.  

MY LOVE IS A FLAME THAT CANNOT BE QUENCHED.  MY LOVE DIVIDES. MY LOVE IS A CONSUMING FIRE THAT DIVIDES THE FLESH FROM THE SPIRIT.  

MY LOVE IS NOT PLACATING.  MY LOVE IS NOT IMPURE & APPROVING OF FLESHLY WAYS.  MY LOVE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PROUD & ARROGANT ‘I’s’, ‘me’s’, & ‘my’s’!

There is nothing in heaven or on earth that takes precedence over ME. My glory does NOT PUT SELF FIRST.  

NOW LOOK AT YOUR PRIESTS & PROPHETS AMERICA & TELL ME THAT THEY HAVE  NOT DONE THI?  YOU WILL SEE THE TRANSFORMATION BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES. 

YOU WILL SEE THEM REPENT OF THEIR HARDNESS, & LIES. YOU WILL SEE THEM BOW TO ME. YOU WILL SEE A SHAKING TRANSFORMATION OF ALL WHO HAVE LIFTED THEIR NAMES BEFORE MINE!  

AND YOU WILL TREMBLE & REPENT FOR PUTTING MAN ABOVE ME.  YOU WILL TREMBLE & REPENT FOR NOT HAVING MERCY FOR THE WEAK & BROKEN.  

I KNOW HOW TO HUMBLE THOSE WHO ARE ARROGANT IN HEART!  A NEW DAY ARISES BELOVEDS. PREPARE YOUR OWN HEART FOR HABITATION!”

Isa 2:11-12 AMP The proud looks of man shall be brought low, & the haughtiness of men shall be humbled; & the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.  12 For there shall be a day of the Lord of hosts against all who are proud & haughty & against all who are lifted up--& they shall be brought low-- [Zeph 2:3; Mal 4:1.]

Isa 57:15 NKJV For thus says the High & Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high & holy place, With him who has a contrite & humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, & to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 

Rev 13:4 NKJV    So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; & they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?" 

1 Thess 5:18 AMP   Thank [God] in everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful & give thanks], for this is the will of God for you [who are] in Christ Jesus [the Revealer & Mediator of that will].

2 Thess 3:16 AMP  Now may the Lord of peace Himself grant you His peace (the peace of His kingdom) at all times & in all ways [under all circumstances & conditions, whatever comes]. The Lord [be] with you all.

Heb 13:5 AMP  Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, & craving for earthly possessions] & be satisfied with your present [circumstances & with what you have]; for He [God]  Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor  give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not,[I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor  let [you] down ( relax My hold on you)!

Prov 28:14 AMP   Blessed (happy, fortunate, & to be envied) is the man who reverently & worshipfully fears [the Lord] at all times [regardless of circumstances ], but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

Isa 60:1 AMP    ARISE [from the depression & prostration in which circumstances have kept you--rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, & the glory of the Lord has risen upon you! [Zech 8:23.]

1 Cor 13:7 AMP    Love bears up under anything & everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, & it endures everything [without weakening].