Lattice Work
Dec 31st, 2007
“Truly, I say to you that I am not impressed by grandeur & aggrandizement. I am not impressed by huge buildings & grandiose decorated buildings. My concern is for the temples of God in human form. THIS is what I died for. This is what I came to save. I did not die for building programs & edifices. I came against traditions of men, & the status quo. I came to DEMONSTRATE My heart towards humanity, not buildings. And in this next year, many will fall away from the buildings & programs of men to seek MY FACE more than traditions of men, & idolatry to men.
I am seeking out a people for MYSELF. I want a flexible church that is willing to lay down it’s life for it’s fellow man. Even in poor nations, they have learned this abomination of My word, to glorify structures, & programs, & men, & hierarchy. But I will tear down once again the greed & distortion that has filled My church. I will build a church that is fluid & flexible, loving & full of GOOD FRUITS. I am as desperate as you are beloveds to change the church that bears My name. This year you will see many more fall away from faith because of disappointment with what they thought they knew of Me. So much apostasy has filled My church.
But now I will build a lattice work of believers that will intercede for each other, & not COMPETE with each other, but BUILD UP ONE ANOTHER, & LOVE ONE ANOTHER, WITH MORE THAN WORDS. THAT WILL LAY DOWN IT”S LIFE for the BRIDE - Link, upon link, upon link. It will not rape My bride, or steal from her, or disdain her. Just as a plant grows up & stretches itself out on a lattice, you will see My true church begin to interlace itself with other true believers. They will agree together on what is most important. They will see eye to eye on KEY issues of MY HEART. Truly JUSTICE & MERCY will kiss each other.
Isa 35:8-10 NKJV
8 A highway shall be there, & a road, & it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for others. Whoever walks the road, although a fool, Shall not go astray. 9 No lion shall be there, Nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it; It shall not be found there. But the redeemed shall walk there, 10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return & come to Zion with singing, With everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy & gladness, & sorrow & sighing shall flee away.
Without HOLINESS, NO ONE WILL SEE GOD, I’ve said. Without holiness, you cannot walk in apostolic anointing. I WILL BRING YOU FORTH LIKE GOLD into a place of holiness where you can worship ME in spirit & in TRUTH. You cannot have justice without TRUTH. You cannot have holiness without TRUTH. You cannot walk in the Spirit without TRUTH. You cannot walk in love without TRUTH. I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH & the LIFE! I AM TRUTH. He who loves ME, must love TRUTH.
Isa 26:2-6 NKJV
2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in. 3 You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You. 4 Trust in the LORD forever, For in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength. 5 For He brings down those who dwell on high, The lofty city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He brings it down to the dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down — The feet of the poor & the steps of the needy."
Isa 59:4-8 NKJV
4 No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words & speak lies; They conceive evil & bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch vipers' eggs & weave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, & from that which is crushed a viper breaks out. 6 Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, & the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, & they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting & destruction are in their paths. 8 The way of peace they have not known, & there is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.
My church for a long time has not been concerned with justice & truth. It has been more concerned with self sufficiency, prosperity, & self-centeredness. It has made a business of the work of the Kingdom. They have built empty cisterns, casting it’s bread not on waters like it needs to, but throwing away it’s money on luxurious living & not really meeting the needs of the poor, the widow, the orphan, the homeless one that is broken & mentally ill, the single mom who has been abandoned by her husband. They have instead OPPRESSED the poor. They have given an impression of helping but without a true vision from Me for how to do it often. Works alone is dead religion. THE LIFE is in the BLOOD. Think on what that means. IT IS THE WAY OF THE CROSS. WHO IS WILLING TO PICK UP YOUR CROSS & WALK? WHO IS WILLING TO LAY DOWN YOUR PLANS & I MEAN ALL YOUR PLANS & PICK UP MINE?
How many of you are willing to just take in ONE PERSON to help them & treat them with KINDNESS & generosity instead of stinginess & selfishness? Who truly has the gift of HOSPITALITY? Hospitality is LOVE OF STRANGERS. If you want the promises of Isaiah 58, then you must walk that way. There are many who know this, & have embraced MY WAYS. But way too many have no concept, because they have been taught to protect self, & to cling to self centeredness through the prosperity only message instead of a message of SELF DENIAL, & GIVING, rather than just receiving. People don’t want to give unless they get something in return.
Look at the ministries who lure people to give, by giving them a GIFT! Is that what I taught you ? Did I say, give only if you can get something back ? Again there are many faithful who do give generously without a thought to themselves, like the poor widow who gave her mite. But I tell you there are far too many who only think of what blessing they may get by giving.
Beloveds, I want you to give with JOY & without constraint. So I am changing your heart motivations & attitudes to come into alignment with MY OWN ATTITUDES OF HEART. I want you to be pure of heart, that I might BLESS YOU with the best of gifts, of MY GLORY & RIGHTEOUSNESS, MY WISDOM & STRENGTH. I am maturing your thinking, purifying your hearts, that you may be filled with thankfulness also for what I have blessed you with, & that you would understand that all you have comes from MY blessing on your life, not your own EFFORTS.
Come away with ME beloveds in this new year, & supplicate, intercede, & worship ME in the beauty of holiness, & I will FILL YOU WITH MY LOVE & POWER, that you may overcome any entrapments in your heart & souls. LEAN ON ME. LEAN ON MY UNDERSTANDING for I have much to teach you, much to yet pour into you. COME! For I AM doing a wonderful work in your day. I AM doing a NEW THING. COME !”
Luke 6:27-33 AMP
27 But I say to you who are listening now to Me: [in order to heed, make it a practice to] love your enemies, treat well (do good to, act nobly toward) those who detest you and pursue you with hatred, 28 Invoke blessings upon and pray for the happiness of those who curse you, implore God's blessing (favor) upon those who abuse you [who revile, reproach, disparage, and high-handedly misuse you]. 29 To the one who strikes you on the jaw or cheek, offer the other jaw or cheek also; and from him who takes away your outer garment, do not withhold your undergarment as well.
30 Give away to everyone who begs of you [who is in want of necessities], & of him who takes away from you your goods, do not demand or require them back again.
31 And as you would like & desire that men would do to you, do exactly so to them.
32 If you [merely] love those who love you, what quality of credit and thanks is that to you? For even the [very] sinners love their lovers (those who love them).
33 And if you are kind & good & do favors to & benefit those who are kind & good & do favors to & benefit you, what quality of credit & thanks is that to you? For even the preeminently sinful do the same.
Acts 2:45-47 AMP And they sold their possessions (both their landed property and their movable goods) and distributed the price among all, according as any had need.
46 And day after day they regularly assembled in the temple with united purpose, and in their homes they broke bread [including the Lord's Supper]. They partook of their food with gladness and simplicity and generous hearts,
47 Constantly praising God and being in favor and goodwill with all the people; and the Lord kept adding [to their number] daily those who were being saved [from spiritual death].
2 Cor 9:10-12 AMP And [God] Who provides seed for the sower and bread for eating will also provide and multiply your [resources for] sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness [which manifests itself in active goodness, kindness, and charity]. [Isa 55:10; Hos 10:12.]
11 Thus you will be enriched in all things and in every way, so that you can be generous , and [your generosity as it is] administered by us will bring forth thanksgiving to God.
12 For the service that the ministering of this fund renders does not only fully supply what is lacking to the saints (God's people), but it also overflows in many [cries of] thanksgiving to God.
1 Tim 6:18-19 AMP [Charge them] to do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal and generous of heart, ready to share [with others],
19 In this way laying up for themselves [the riches that endure forever as] a good foundation for the future, so that they may grasp that which is life indeed.
Heb 13:16 AMP Do not forget or neglect to do kindness and good, to be generous and distribute and contribute to the needy [of the church as embodiment and proof of fellowship], for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Priscilla Van Sutphin
