STEP INTO OFFICE

STEP INTO OFFICE

I was busy with a devotional that Father have started yesterday, but as I was typing it, I felt restless.  A sense that it was not flowing.  The whole time what He has revealed to me this morning keeps playing in my mind and that He wants His Body to know this, apart from the group I shared it with this morning. 

Last night I had a vision of a hand coming out of the clouds.  The fingers outstretched.  The first thought that came to me is that of the five-fold ministry.  These are the Apostles, Prophets, Teachers, Evangelists and Pastors for the purpose of building up the church in the fullness of Christ into maturity.  Now there are many other gifts He has given His children, but some know that Father has called them in this office.  These are not gifts, they are offices in the Church.  

I have posted "Enough is enough" where Father made it clear that judgment will start with the house of God.  That He will shake.  Previously I posted "Allignment, then Assingment". These all go hand in hand. This is in order to use us in the coming Apostolic Age. Our foundation that we are so deeply rooted in has to first be shaken.  And don't we know that our Father knows perfectly well to do just that.  His judgment on us is indeed so that our foundation may be shaken, so that we may be uprooted not just from that comfortable declining chair, but to get our "office shoes" on.  To step into office.  For this He has to get us to take off the shoes of childishness, not that of immaturity but that of drinking milk, whilst we should be eating meat by now.

Now is the time where He is shaking us so that we may get up, put on our shoes and focus on that particular office He has prepared us for.  To not be distracted by everything around us, but to know that the time is upon us where it will no longer be about anything but the Kingdom of God.  I have a sense in my spirit of new alliances that will be made, a moving and shifting of pawns if you may, to be set in place.  Are you willing to let go of what was, so that you may embrace the new life that He has promised.  For there will be a price to pay as you get up from your comfy chair.  Are you willing to place all on the altar, so that He may shift you and you may step into that which He has prepared?  And who is to say that it will be within a group...are you willing to walk alone?  

The judgent is a shaking of foundations as well as a moving and a shifting.  Make loose, set right, and allow the Spirit to move you where He desires.  FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS - this remains the essence of the season.  If you know that He has called you for any of these offices, then you are to be about building up the church in maturity in Chrst Jesus, in love.  You are to focus on that office and perfect that which is still lacking.  Put away the childish things and distractions and be willing to step out by faith.  The just shall LIVE by faith.

Please Read:

Ephesians 4: 11 - 32

11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

1 Corinthians 3: 1 - 3

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

I have fed you with mild, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, nither yet now are ye able.

For ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

LOVING YOUR ENEMIES

 

LOVING YOUR ENEMIES

Yesterday I came with a clean slate before Father enquiring what He wants me to write about.  In fact, nothing I write is because it is initiated by me, instead I wait on Him.  So this devotional is no different. 

He said, “I want you to write about My love”. 

“No easy task”, I replied, thinking who is truly sufficient to talk about His love.

I was surprised to see the direction He went in with regard to this subject – loving your enemies.  This morning I also woke up with the number 341 on my heart, and the Holy Spirit kept on repeating it to me until I eventually searched for it in the Strong’s Concordance.

H341 – The word Oyeb – enemy (personal or national)

אֹיֵב ʼôyêb, o-yabe'; or (fully) אוֹיֵב ʼôwyêb; active participle of H340; hating; an adversary:—enemy, foe.

Should there be any doubt in my heart that He wants me to specifically talk about this, especially in the current political climate right across the world? 

I watched a YouTube video of someone yesterday that differs vastly from my doctrinal view.  In fact two videos came my way of which the one I was very disappointed.  It is obvious the Lord is using these two people in dreams and visions and that He loves them very much.  And there are many more out there. Why does God use people who are obviously deceived?  Why is He using them with dreams and visions that very often are undeniably from Him?  This bothered me because truth is vital in this day and age.  I felt almost as if He was letting it “slide”.  I know this is not true, but it was  troubling me for a while now and just made no sense.  My first response was utter disgust because this lady completely disappointed me in her view of the Lord and was downright blasphemous!  I immediately unsubscribed.  When I asked Father His view on it, He reminded me that there was a time when I was very deceived myself whilst serving Him.  And He used me then and loved me right through it.  He simply said, “They are still My children”.  All I could do was cry about the mercy He has shown me. If He did not where would I be?  If He just left me to go on my wayward way, whether out of ignorance or disobedience, where would I be today?  Where would you be?  The question for me now is, “When is it a wolf and when is it sheep deceived?”

Maybe we are quick to say that they are not our enemies, but I am reminded by our Lord’s admonishment regarding our enemies.  We are to love them. Of course we would like a middle ground on this one, and yet He is calling us to be perfect.  Saying that perfection in Him is only done in this way…by loving our enemies.  Not begrudgingly tolerating them at best, or endure or bear them patiently and be nice.  He is saying, “Love them”. 

I have been aware of how easily the children of God become offended.  We are so fickle when it comes to anyone that disagree with us or disappoint us.  So easily we write someone off, because they no longer hold our interest or the perfect picture we had of them.  Do you still get offended if your hard work is not appreciated, or you hear that someone spoke ill of you  to another?  Do you still break down when you do not receive that love from your wife or husband you so desire?  These are all the categories He uses to mold us into vessels that will be able to contain His unconditional love.  But are you seeing it as He sees it?  And so instead of lovingly enduring and praying for them, we let them go on their way, never even considering that we are to pray and intercede for them.  We are offended because they have moved on and in our hearts it serves as confirmation that we were right.  But are we?  What is it that He wants?  Sadly one infraction is all it takes to make a relationship crumble.  Jesus said blessed is he who are not offended in Me.  This is not a blessing for those who do not get offended. This is a mode of being for those who are in Him…they are blessed.  And therefore, because of their unity with Him, they are not offended.  For can God be offended?  Does our sin offend Him?  God is not insecure.  That would indicate that we have a certain control over Him.  But He is holy and what He requires is this perfection.  He is love, and love endures all things, bears all things, believes all things and hopes all things.  Love can suffer the loss of esteem and affection and not be offended.  It knows that the saints are in different places of maturity.  It does not need that affirmation. 

Our love for Him is not measured by how we show Him affection, but by how we love one another.  “Peter, loveth thou Me, then feed My sheep”.  If we cannot love our friends, how shall we love our enemies, those who have every intention of causing us suffering and even death?  We cannot feign this love when it comes to our enemies. 

Only Christ in us can love like this.  Are we not to welcome this pruning that produces more fruit that we may be able to love this way?  Is our testing then not our blessing?  For it is our provision.  Can you believe that they are employed for your ultimate sanctification so that He may baptize you with His fire?  We read in Matthew 5 that He says that we are to love our enemies that we may be sons of God.  This is God’s provision for sonship.  Except your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the Pharisees, you are in no way to enter the Kingdom of God…God is ultimate!

This love transcends doctrinal differences and even truth as we see it, that is to say it does not override it, but rather love covers a multitude of sin.  This is not a mandate to overlook doctrinal error, but rather to love in spite of them.  But do you have an ear to hear from Him what He requires of you to do.  When to speak and to speak the truth in love?  Will that truth be spoken in authentic love?  

The capstone of being perfect as your Father in heaven is loving your enemy, domestic or nationally...or any other kind.  What are we then to say of the patriotic fervor going through this world.  The beating of wardrums are getting louder right across this earth.  Can you bear to love your Democratic or Republican neighbor?  Can you dare to love the Iranians, Chinese, or Russians?  Those Communists that embodies the spirit of anti-Christ?  The Word says in Matthew 24: 12, And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.  If love has grown this freezing cold now, how will it be at the end of the tribulation?  Do you get offended when others wear masks and you do not?  Does it offend you that they are willing to take the "VC" out of ignorance and are unwilling to listen to reason? Have you considered the fact that the decline of the temperature of your love for those brethren in Christ, that do not feel the same way as you about all these topics, are the very agenda of the enemy.  To cause our love to wax cold as we judge each other in our hearts whilst outwardly saying "I love you with the love of the Lord"? What then will your response be when your enemy throws you in prison and threatens your life.  The eye of self-love will only see an enemy who is to be feared and resisted.  But will we be able to see with His eyes, knowing all.  For He knows this enemy was treated so badly in life that indoctrination was inevitable.  Where his circumstances was that of a poor little boy that had no mother and father, but decided that the only way to survive is to join his country's military.  Every time the enemy ensured that blows were given that will install into him such a pure hatred for that which is of God, that all he can do is hate.  Can we see with His eyes?  

Whilst I was typing this, a friend of mine started talking to me on whatsapp.  Little did I know that it would be a divine appointment.  For some reason we started talking about the present fears that are enveloping this world and how everyone in the last year have become so opinionated.  One has to ask, "Are we serving the same God?"  She started giving me her testimony of when she was raped a few years ago.  I did not know about this.  She is such a soft hearted person and my heart just broke.  She spoke a bit about how this man had every intention to degrade her by getting up afterwards and laughing at her.  Wanting not only to violate her body, but also to leave His mark on her soul.  But she said the following to me, which I believe Father ordained to be in this devotional.  She did not know what my devotional was about.

"What he thought would destroy me actually came and added to my worth and my worth in Christ, and he did not even realize it.  And now today I can say "Praise you Lord for that which you allowed in my life."  

She said that the enemy has tried to put a mark on her, but he failed.  Because her whole heart is already marked and she fears no mark.  Her body may be here on earth, but she resides in heaven. She said even though he was violating her body, the truth is, it was His body.  She soon realized that she was not going to allow what he wanted to leave behind in her through this horrible act, to cause her to be imprisoned.  But rather, as one going to him in prison now and saying, "For you I pray that you may know Him".  

This touched me so deeply and her view is so different to so many.  What got me was her childlike faith.  So secure in the Lord.  And this is the heart of it...faith worketh by love.  The word says that he who fears has not been made perfect in love, for perfect love casts away ALL fear.

Paul was a prolific Pharisee with quite a resumé.  Doing God's work according to him, he took an eye for an eye very seriously and from his hands many believers of "The Way" were killed and inprisoned.  That was until he saw Stephen with the glory of God on his face as he was being stoned to death.  His next meeting was with the One he was actually persecuting.  For persecuting them, was persecuting Christ.  And the man who once killed because he thought he was doing God's work, gave his very life for those he once hated, even unto death.  This is the same man that wrote of the love that took him captive. The love that hopes all things, believes all things and endures all things.  I am reminded of Richard Wurmbrandt's autobiography called "Tortured for Christ".  Each time they found him praying they would brutally beat him under his feet until they became a pulp.  One day the prison guard stormed into his very tiny room and demanded to know why he was praying when it was obvious that his friends, family and God have forsaken him.  And he replied, "It is not for them I am praying, but for you". Out of all the testimonies, especially of those who were martyred, the love for their enemies was their enemy's undoing.  Jesus said, as My Father sent Me, so send I you.  

In these last minutes of this age and knowing He has shown me what I will have to endure, I no longer see spiritual power for doing great miracles as my utmost need.  For when I am weak, His strength is made perfect when I will be in the midst of those who will seek to kill me.  Those who will want to violate my body...His body.  The issue is not will I be able to display great miracles and power, but will I display His Divine love?  That is the power and manifold wisdom of God...the love of God for His enemies. Art Katz says that God has a propensity towards His enemies and He wins them over with His love.  Stephen's death was the soil upon which Christ could plant the Seed of life. In the same way many will lay their lives down so that their enemy may find Life. Where the heartbeat of this world is to kill, murder, divide and hate, will my heart beat with His love?  For whilst I was still a sinner, He died for me.  Greater is our debt to Him than any man can owe us, and yet He died for us.  Oh, how I need His love! 

Please Read:

1 John 4: 16 - 21

16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

19 We love him, because he first loved us.

20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Matthew 5: 38 - 46 

38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.

41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN FEELIN

 

"YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN FEELIN"

I spent some much needed time alone with the Lord for 3 days.  I was like a little kid.  I felt such a drawing unto Him to just worship.  I desired to be filled with His love afresh.  Such a consuming longing to be with Him alone without interruptions, like two lovers finally getting their time alone.

This time was different though.  My longing for Him and to worship Him completely overshadowed any desire to receive anything from Him.  Loving Him was enough.  This reminded me of a beautiful lady that told me that she made something for Him as a present.  This caught me off guard as I realized that I never made anything for Him as a present ever.  I may have made something about Him, but not as a present for Him.  I could only conclude it was because I thought that He did not need anything from me.  He is all sufficient.  What possibly could I give Him of any worth?

But lovers give.  They give liberally with a desire to overwhelm the object of their love with their love. God is love and He is the lover of my soul.  He has captured my heart and every cell of my being belongs to Him.  My whole being vibrates with love for Him.  I desire Him.

There were moments in these 3 days that I checked in upon this world only to find out that in the everyday things, even good things, He has ruined me.  Nothing held my attention.  I cannot help but remember those magical moments when I frst fell in love.  In fact, being in love is just one of the best feelings ever!  Nobody else exists, an infatuation overtakes all your senses and you become a helpless romantic.  All you can think about is the one you love.  Leaving little love notes or poems.  Lavishing all your time and attention on the object of your love.  There is just nothing quite like being madly in love.

We are the object of His love.  Psalm 139 says that He cannot stop thinking about us, and that when we sleep and wake up the next morning, His thoughts towards us are more than the sand of the sea.  He says in Song of Solomon that He has a jealous love over us.  He wants us all for Himself.  

My daughter asked me the other day why she was not feeling so in love with Him anymore.  In my stupidity I got all religious and told her that the honeymoon phase is over and that it was now time to work on the relationship, just like any husband and wife have to do once they have grown used to each other.  "The thrill is gone" song comes to mind.  What I said to her is in fact a reality and we have to grow in maturity.  We all eventually get pass the honeymoon phase of our marriages, and what used to be cute just isn't anymore.  However, we learn to compromise through the years and accept our spouses, warts and all.  We like to talk of this kind of love as good wine that have matured.  But His love is better than the finest wine.   And we look on the new converts as so beautiful, but yet so immature in their first love for Him.  And so, once we have "lost that lovin feelin", no more cute poems and love letters are written.  No more secret kisses when nobody can see. Or the wink across the room that causes the butterflies in your stomach to go wild...and no more flowers.  

In Revelation 2 He calls us back to that first love.  And I have to be honest that I thought that, that first love meant only that He is first.  But now that I think about it, I think it is also a passionate love for Him.  Bridal love.  It is that infatuation, the gift giving and the exhuberant display of love, even in our thoughts.  He is calling us to love Him like lovers do.  We have matured in our love for Him so much that there is no more romance.  Sadly our earthly marriages mirrors our spiritual marriage to Him at times.  When we read Song of Solomon we are confronted not just with the very explicit love for the Bride, but even the Bride for her Bridegroom.  And of course, ours is a spiritual love.  And unlike our earthly spouse, He never changes.  No warts and no bumps, except the lashes on His back and gaping holes in His hands and feet...the public display of His love for His Bride.  We are the object of His love.  

When was the last time you have been drunk with the wine of His love?  When last did He ruin you for what is happening in this world?  Is He still the object of your love, or has He become one of the objects of your love.  And if you do indeed say that He is the object of your love, when last have you been ravished by that love?  When last did you worship Him and express your love for Him as one that is infatuated with Him?  

He is in love with you.  He says that just one look of your dove's eyes ravishes Him.  He desires you.  He knows everything about you, and seeks opportunities to whsiper "I love yous" to you.  He cries with you and laughs with you.  He surrounds you with beauty all day and the love He has for you is only slightly mirrored in that overwhelming feelings you have for Him at times.  He has never "lost that lovin feelin" for you.  When last was the time that your wanting to be with Him was not because you wanted to get away from this world, but because you cannot bear another second not being with Him?  When was the last time that all that was between you and Him, was not issues, not things about Him or any other lovers you picked up along the way, but just the LOVE you have for Him and the LOVE He has for you?  Not what you want or need.  Just an union of sweet abandonment in utter adoration?  Allowing Him to wash over you and your love overhwelming Him?  Pure devotion, mutual participation in the dance of love with Him where nothing else exists.

Have you "lost that lovin feelin"?  Then return with all your heart and do not stop untill you find yourelf in the arms of your Lover.  He is waiting for you.

Please Read:

Revelation 2:4-5

4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Song of Solomon 5

5 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

BILL 421 (Word received 04/01/21)

 

Bill  421

(1 Samuel 4: 21)

Ichabod!

 

I have written My own Bill even as you have and my judgment over this nation is ICHABOD. 

My glory will be removed from you and I will not hear. 

Your enemies shall overtake you, as you have been overtaken by your sins.

They will ravish your households and take away your children, for you have turned to man in a time where you were to call out to Me.

You have casted your vote, and so have I.

The hour has come where all men will know that I AM God.

The hour has come where you will cry out to Me, but I will turn my face away from you in anger, because you sought me not in the time of peace. 

I have given you your Saul, and because you have not chosen me to rule over you, you will therefore become slaves of him whom you serve.

But to the righteous that cries out to me day and night I will answer in a time of need, for they have chosen Me.  I will protect them for they are Mine.

The whole world will see your derision and will laugh and will ask, “Where is her former glory?” and I will say “ICHABOD!”

 

  

Scripture ref:

1 Samuel 4: 21 – 22

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory is departed from Israel”: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

And she said, “The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.

1 Samuel 8: 6 – 22

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord.

And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee:  for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.

According to all the worlds which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken Me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.

And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you:  He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horseman; and some shall run before hic chariots.

And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.  And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive yards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us. That we also may be like all the nations: and that our king may judge us; and go out before us, and fight our battles.

And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.  And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king.  And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.

STAY IN THE CURRENT (Word received 03/01/21)

STAY IN THE CURRENT 

WORD RECEIVED 3/01/21

 

As a small leaf is subject to the current of a river and the course that it takes, so you are to be subject to the current of My Spirit.  In order for you to be taken with My current you cannot be weighted down.  And so are you to leave all behind if you are to be taken.  

As the year progresses, so the river will increase in the currents until you find yourself in white waters where bolders and rocks overshadow.  But the current of My Spirit will take you through into the glorious bliss of silence when I take you deeper.  First a slow steady current, then white waters, then the deep.  So are the seasons you will find yourself in, in this year.  Will you be as light as a leaf on the current of My River so that I may take you wheresoever I wish to go?  Will you surrender to My promptings?  When to speak, when to go, when to be silent and when to do?  

For who can predict the movement of the Spirit except you have the mind of God?  Even so if you do not trust Me and set your mind on Me, the river in you will turn into a storm and you will be weighted down.  Therefore, let go and and set your mind on things above.  Be light and allow My Spirit to guide you, for those who trust in the Lord and set their minds on Me will be kept in perfect peace.  

Have I not said that peace will be your umpire?  Therefore, examine yourself whether you are at peace, and let go of all that which weighs down.  The depths of stillness are for those who perservere and trust.  Therefore, search your hearts and lay it down.  The River is moving.

In the same way the current of destruction will increase ever more this year.  In which current will you find yourself wave after wave?  Will you be in Me, abiding continually in Me as I told My disciples?  Or will you be taken up in the current of this world?  Will you be taken up in the current of this world where fear will increase and faith will decrease?  Choose now in which current you will abide and stay in the current.

Please Read:

Isaiah 59:19

King James Version

19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.

Isaiah 43:2

King James Version

2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

Psalm 46 King James Version (KJV)

46 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

11 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.