February 2010
I Trust In Thee O Lord
With my hands lifted up
And my mouth filled with praise
With a heart of thanksgiving
I will bless Thee, O Lord
February 7, 2010
My child it is during this time that I look to your trusting Me. I do not look behind to remind myself that you trusted me previously but I am the God of future. I don’t live in the past and neither should you. When you trusted Me for last years provision did I not provide? You were only let down if you didn’t get what you want but for those who knew My will and walked close to Me you were not let down. I worked all circumstances out to My advantage and My favor, I am King and this should suffice but many are discontent during this New Year and I hear it. I hear the rumblings. I hear the chatter. I see the unbelief and the doubt. I see your confusion because you compare your past with your present, thus robbing yourself of today and denying yourself a future filled with promise or hope. When you use answers from your old test to solve today’s problems you will only meet with frustration. You cannot compare your future prospects to your past failures otherwise you will always meet with constant defeat. My child if you must compare anything, compare your past victories to your future success. I am the God of the future as well as your past and if I was with you then I will be with you now. I am asking you to walk by faith and not by sight at this time. Does My word not say the just shall live by faith? For without faith it is impossible to please Me. You need faith to come to Me. You must believe I am and that I reward those who diligently seek Me. For with man it is impossible but all things are possible to them who believe in Me. I am not a man that I should lie and what I said I will do, I will do. Can I say the same of you? Will I be able to count on you during this next season? Do you really trust Me or are you still gauging your future by your past?
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I am the God of opportunity
My child I have opened the doors of opportunity for you. Not just one door but many doors. You can only walk through one door at a time but I have already setup the sequences and events for your blessings as you walk in obedience through each and every door I have established for you. I am not a man that I should lie. What I said I will do I will do. When I open a door no man can shut it up and when I close the door no man will open it. I have not lied but I will do what I promised I would do for you in 2010. Only walk through the door of opportunity when you see it. I did not say you would easily recognize the door but as you walk in obedience to the will of My Spirit so your eyes shall be opened. I will place circumstances before you, I will place needs before you and if you look closely you shall see a door that I have opened for you therein. You can miss the doors and you can miss the chance to go through as you know the lifetime of an opportunity is only as long as the opportunity exists. The more spiritually discerning you are, the more obedient you are the more doors you will navigate through. I have set up a maze of events and circumstances just for you. To ultimately bless you. To bring you out of a curse, to release you from poverty of spirit, of mammon and of health. I will to bless you. Do you want it? Then walk according to the Spirit and not the lust of your flesh and you shall see 2010 will not resemble or be a repeat of 2009 unless you choose to do nothing to change it. My challenge to you My child is to walk in the Spirit, by the Spirit and through the Spirit then you shall find great rewards and meet with great success. The doors of opportunity have already been prepared and are already opened. Look for them, search for Me, follow Me through each open door and I will lead you out into green pastures. You cannot rush or hurry either as this will not develop the fruit of the Spirit in you. Follow Me in these next few months through every open door if you can.
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What shall I say to the people Father and this is what I heard,
"My son build Me the place that I have shown you. Truly the fruit on the vine shall be for healing & for deliverance. My words shall flow freely as freshly pressed grapes,Worship Me as you work and as you play among the vines.A vineyard has been given to you during this season and the fruit of the vine will produce healing & deliverance. Deep emotional healing will happen as they come to eat and drink in this vineyard. Many helpers will come serve in this vineyard and yes you will oversee the workers. Build it and they will come. My vineyard's fruit will be healing for the masses.
The fruit of the vine will be sweet in the mouth but bitter in the belly. I will heal deliver and set free from these vines and many will come to wander around just soaking in My presence. Freely you have received My son, freely you will give." January 5th 2010
My Children I see how dry & barren 2009 has left many of you but as I promised you I will send the rain. I will soak the soil of your parched ground. Some of your hearts have small fissures while some of you have furrows. Even though your heart has splits and cracks so these were allowed to be, so My rain could be suckled more deeply into you. As My rain comes down and fills these wounds they will slowly dissolve so the ground becomes rich & full with the anointing of My word. Receive the rain it is coming.
He Has Prepared the Way.
One Drop
11/13/2009
It's the silence before the bang that gets us. That is when the world is going in slow motion. Everything around us at that moment seems surreal, almost like watching a movie, except it is our movie.
The recent economic crises has placed a lot of us in situations we did not believe we would ever be in but here we are. We have had to replace, remove and possibly relocate in order to accommodate the new and all the while Father God watches as we go through the process. Yes everyone is going through a process but how we cope will determine not just the outcome but our future. No test or crisis lasts forever we all know that but long after the test or crisis is over the pain and suffering can continue, much like someone who goes into surgery and is given drugs for pain only to be addicted long after.
Which ever station you may be in at this time, be it beginning middle or end of your situation, please do not become addicted to the pain. You can easily diagnosis yourself at this very moment to find out if you are.
Do you complain about things you have lost,replaced and removed or do you complain about having to relocate? Do you most often talk about these things or have you pulled through surgery to talk about the new future ahead of you?
If we know situations change and any every crisis has an end then we must gracefully allow it to end. When we continue to cry about the pain of any given situation long after the event is over we have become an addict.
When we remain a hostage or a victim to the past we deny the power of Christ and His ability to heal, deliver and save us. It is only when we make a willful choice to let go of one for the other we will be free from the bondage which desires to keep us.
Jesus has made a way for each and everyone of us to not become victims in our times of testing and transition. Father God has given us the ability to hold His hand through out times of testing and trials. He has overcome the world and all its possible hardships and with this we can go through this present time looking into a much brighter future.
If you are addicted to pain, present or past, it can end today if you will only make another choice.
Recite this out loud and allow God to minister to you right where you are.
Jesus I do not want to be addicted to the pain of the past or my present situations. I will not allow the present crisis or the ones to come make me an addict or chronic complainer. I willfully hold your hand as you also hold mine through every situation and crisis. My future is brighter than it is today because every day is getting brighter and brighter and better and better. All hopelessness is gone. I will not fail but I will pull successfully through this present situation and or crisis. I am not a victim of the past nor am I a victim of my present situations. My circumstances past or present do not nor will they dictate my outcome.My future is brighter and better than what ever I am presently walking through. With God's help I am in control of my life and through the shed blood of Christ on the cross I am healed delivered and set free. This day I am free from being an addict of past events and I will not become an addict anytime during these present situations and circumstances. Thank you Jesus.
If this word word has ministered to you please write to me and give a high five.
Until then stay blessed
Tom
The Devils Trap Door
October 28th 2009
My child when you miss the mark you miss the mark. When you are off you are off and when you are wrong you may not always know how why or when you are off but the fruit is always evident in the end. How many times have you started with good intentions, only to find yourself frustrated and confused?
Confusion is not of Me. Doubt is not of Me, Fear is not of Me. How many time have you found yourself frustrated begging for Me to show up, to speak to you?
I have heard you say, “God do something do anything I don’t care.” Yet silence continued to mock you long after your tears had stopped. My child I am not deaf. I hear you. You just don’t understand why I don’t answer you.
On too many occasions prayers and petitions do not get answered because they are asked amiss. Many times you may think because you can formulate the words then send it heavenward that I will answer it, after all I am so big how could you miss? Yet when prayers are prayed according the flesh they barely make it off your lips before hitting the ground. Vain repetitions also do not go very far and normally wind up being trampled underfoot in the pile called ‘It must not have been Gods will pile’ These are the things you wanted and didn’t get so you assumed it wasn’t My will. Well you were right on two counts.
Those prayers were coming from your desire/will and they were not mine. Don’t you remember the prayer of your youth or the model prayer to which Jesus referred?
Our Father in Heaven hallowed be Your name,
Your kingdom come, Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven…
If this scripture is true when would there ever be a, it’s not His will pile of unanswered prayers around your feet? If My will is being done in earth as it is in heaven then I am not the one amiss. I do not have a pile of unanswered requests around My feet.
When one seeks Me with all their heart and there is no selfishness involved, why wouldn’t I answer you? When you desire My will to be done verses yours then you will see the doors and windows open up to you.
It is My desire to bless all My children, what is stopping you? It’s not Me.
Let us pray:
Father I do not need witnesses or an audience to validate my unanswered prayers. I do not wish to bring forth people who have seen and lived with the frustration that comes from my unanswered prayers. I come to you alone. I alone am responsible for my unanswered prayers. I could not even begin to count how many I asked amiss nor can I recall when I even started praying this way. Father, forgive me.
I have not sought your will first but my own.
From this day forward I relinquish my authority and my will to you Father.
I no longer want to walk being led by the lust of my eyes, the lust of my flesh or the pride of life. Let your will done on earth as it is in heaven, starting with me.
Father I open my heart. I will wait patiently and I wait quietly for you to speak to me by your Spirit & through your word right now.
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There Is No Place Like Home.
October 15th 2009
Have you ever heard these expressions, Home is where the heart is or where your treasure is, there your heart will be also? They seem to be saying the same thing but actually only one of them is scriptural. It would be the second one. It can be found in Matthew 6:21.
Dear friends how many times in life do we hear things or understand things in part and yet we believe we understand the whole of the matter? We all have been guilty of this at some time or another in our lives, have we not? It is in keeping with this thought that I bring you this month’s letter entitled, ‘There is no place like home.’
Home sweet home. The place where breakfast is served with a smile, lunches are made with love and prayers are said through out the day for your safety and return. In the ideal setting God lives in the center of your house and everything revolves around Him but how many times do we go hunting for Him as if we lost Him or He is hiding from us? Am I the only one who can’t seem to find Him especially when I need Him the most?
Ok, so what’s the big deal breakfast is not served all the time and you rarely are given a good morning smile. So what if lunches aren’t made with love some days? Maybe I’m just not feeling it. Does it really matter?
Everyone gets got caught up watching some daytime shows and I forget to pray for you once in a while. Does it really matter?
The truth is, yes it does matter. We may not have children going off to school any more. We may also not have spouses heading off to work but it still matters. It matters to God to remember Him. He is the one who lives in the center of our house. If we gave our life to Him and He holds our heart in His hand then how far can we go without touching our heart and still live? What can we do and how far can we go before we are no longer connected to our own heart?
Our heartstrings can be broken but not totally severed because we are eternally connected to Him. Yet if not careful we can live very independently outside of Him. Our heart will stop being soft and tender. In time it will start becoming callused and eventually hard like a rock. He will hold the still almost lifeless heart in His hand and pray that the person who left it behind will return to claim it once again. He prays for our return to once again reclaim what we have lost. He understands the trials and tribulations that are in this life and this is why each and everyday Jesus visited with His Father.
Oh yes Jesus loves His Father but more than that He gave His heart to Him. It excited the Father to see His son come on his own volition to visit Him, to fellowship with Him but He also knew His child was also checking the condition of his heart daily. When Jesus came to the Father he could not help but see his Father holding his heart in His hand. In these moments faith trust and confidence were developed as this man who was the Son of God learned to totally trust the one who held his heart. Jesus trusted what He heard his Father say. Jesus trusted what he saw his Father do. He held onto the one who held his heart.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart also be. So what is our actual treasure?
Is it Father God? Is it the fact He holds our heart in His hand? Is it the fact that even though we travel throughout this life if we stay connected our heart will remain soft and tender? Is this the treasure? What exactly is our treasure and how do we define it?
Is treasure treasure, even if it is not buried? What is the value of your treasure and have you looked at it lately?
It is our prayer for you during this season that you do not rob yourself of your inheritance and de value what He holds as precious. He loves you and cares for you.
Blessings
Prophet Tom
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The spirit of Control
October 5th, 2009
I sat mesmerized before the open window. So much so that I didn't even hear Him come in. The warmth of His hand upon my shoulder made me feel a little uncomfortable. He didn't say anything but stood silently right behind me. He knew I was in deep thought. He knew I didn't want to be disturbed but He also knew it was time for us to go. I pulled my thoughts back into my head and closed the door hoping He didn't notice and with the best smile I could muster I turned to Him and said, Let's go Father I know it's time.
When He smiled He poured forth such a sweetness that I could almost taste it. The more deeply He looked into me the brighter His countenance became. It shone even brighter in my darkness. He knew the things I hid away in my heart and the things that I would rather just as soon forget but even though He saw everything He still loved me. I had a harder time with myself.
How come giving up control was so hard? Over all these years it seemed that the sinful things that entangle us with the cares of this world were easily distinguishable and subdued in time but the spirit of control seems to appear and disappear on its own accord. I was ashamed it had not been conquered yet.
I hear Him saying, "Are you ready to go?"
Yes Father I am. I guess I am as ready as I will ever be. Let's go and with this we turned from the window and headed for the stairs.
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How far is far?
I looked into His eyes as His hand grabbed mine as we started on our way. I knew I could trust Him, yet I didn't know where we were going exactly. When He and I travel together like this I dream about the endless possibilities of what could be and yet over all these years they seldom turn out the way I think. He is asking me to go on a journey with Him and I said yes.
In July 2008. Father said He wanted to visit me. He meant visit literally. He said He wanted to spend some time with me. Although many christian people mocked the possibility, my Father showed up. For 21 glorious days and nights we laughed we cried and we played together. We grew closer than I ever thought possible. He showed me that He is my Father and I am His son. That experience changed me.
I have thought often about the events that transpired last year and even more so as July 2009 passed. It reminded me that a year had gone by. I didn't ask Him to come last time and I didn't know when He would visit like that again, if ever.
I cannot say I am favored or special but this I do know. He has come as of recent and He has asked me to go on a walk with Him. I call it a journey, He views it as a walk. My mind conjures up beautiful things we might see. He knows I want to see glory and I want to hear heavenly music but most of all he knows tommy wants to be with Him where ever that may be.
I will chronicle as much as He allows me.
Because of the events taking place I felt to reduce my website to the most basic form I could. I am sure through the process of time the website like myself, will re- emerge better than ever. I covet your prayers during this time and like I said I will write often.
Blessings
Tom
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OTHER RECENT WORDS :
It is time for adventure and excitement says the Lord but not all are wanting to get on. At this time far too many of My children act like they are taking a trip to the amusement park. You will pay huge fees to get in but then explain to friends and family why you don't go on any rides, well except the ones you want to go on of course. My child you are paying a very high cost by going to the amusement park of nominalism. Fear and doubt and a myriad of other things prevent you from being the adventurer I have actually called you to be.
This time frame in history can very much seem like a roller coaster ride for many of you mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually and financially. I have not let go of the controls at all but I am trying to loosen the grip of fear, panic and dread that covers you. I hear your thoughts saying, "It seems such an unfitting time to laugh and have fun, how undignified" and yet My child I see you did pay the price of admission but now you refuse to give into the experience.
Saying you trust Me is an easy thing to say but more awkward to live. If you only do what you want and go where you want, where is the glory? Where is the victory when there is no risk? Feeling safe with limited movement and multiple restrictions is not freedom at all but bondage. It grieves My heart to hear My children singing songs of freedom when they sit on benches watching real children playing. Being careless and carefree is something unmistakable when you see it. Far too many of My children are sitting and not playing. I also know freedom when I see it. Don't deceive yourself I will not be mocked.
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Father God Wants To Answer Your Prayer
What man is there among you who if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? or if he asks for fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Therefore whatever you want men to do to you, do also unto them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:9-12
Father God wants to marry some people in this season. His desire is to accomplish natural and spiritual unions at this time. Will all be married during this season? The answer would be no, because many are still in a season of preparation, but there are those who are ready. It is vitally important to know your time and your season. It is important to understand this because Father God is on the move. He is moving among people, visiting churches and igniting fires in various regions. He is coming to marry those who are ready.
Father says, There are those who have not stolen nor used the people for selfish gain and we go to them because they have been seeking Me. I see the plights and I see the situations that surround you. I see the enemy who would encamp around about you and lay siege to your city. I see the devastation that he has caused and I see the casualties. Call out to Me one last time as a woman in labor and see if I will not deliver thee from thy adversary. I will do great and mighty things in your midst and I will set the captives free.
Behold I come and I bring My ministers with Me. I travel with the Prophets and I work through the Apostles. Healing and restoration will be your portion and your treasuries shall not be empty but I say what the enemy has stolen he will repay many times over, not just in money but souls. Deliverance and salvation are sure gifts I give to you but healing virtue will also flow. I have come to restore peace and order in My house. I have come to marry My people in the natural and the spiritual. I will pass many over to go to those who call upon Me and many will say, "But don't all Christians call upon you Lord?" and to this I would say, "Why do you call Me Lord Lord and do not do My will, why do you not obey Me?"
To those who think I should come I will not and to those who believe all hope is gone behold your bridegroom comes.
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Be still my soul be quiet my heart so the king of glory may come in. Be still my heart from all your labors and be quiet my soul so the king of glory may come in. Cease from all effort, cease to restrain, be still my soul so that he may capture me.
Allow the works of the flesh to fall off me as an evening gown wilts to the floor. I lay naked, I lay awake I am alone and I wait for thee.
Be still my conscience be still for our lover will come. He has promised he would if we wait for him, if we are still. I am trying to be in this way but the quieter I become the louder the waiting is perceived.
Rest from trying, rest I say from works of the flesh. Even in trying do you produce effort. A man cannot nor does he have to produce any effort in death but just succumb to it, to accept it, to embrace it with now effort. The life Christ lived was effortless, it was seamless, a perfectly woven tapestry of the Father’s love demonstrated through humanity.
I desire to cease from works. Will I ever be able to use less and less effort to do what I desire to do, not exist? Death comes so slowly yet if I try to expedite it I suffer once again from my own works. Lie down and be still my soul, be still and wait for him.
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Nigeria:
Word June 4th 2009
Part 1 of 2
My child, My child, how I have longed to hold you. I have reached out to you on many, many occasions and you denied my hands. I have sent some to walk among you and for a reason you embraced them.
Yes, many have accepted the message when it was first presented to you. You listened to the white mans message about My son. You walked to the crusades receiving many miracles from the hands of My evangelist but daily I see your numbers diminish. My house is becoming increasingly empty with each passing sunrise.
The light exposes both sinner and saint that still dwell in My house. I do not write this to condemn you but to excite you. Nigeria I see your situation. I do not come to vindicate My children as some have been praying. I do not come to remove the money launders from among you nor any wickedness you could perceive, for there is much.
I see the false teachers and I see the charlatans. I see the mechanical preachers who are nothing more than leftovers from some by gone crusade and even these do not move Me.
I see the drug trafficking and child slavery. I see your prostitution and I see your embezzling. I see money, which changes hands for favors. I see and understand your system and I see the corruptness of it. I see My children disillusioned and full of despair.
I see My children who once stood upon strong foundations of faith looking at their empty pockets. Many have been bitten by the spirit of compromise. The faith you once had doesn’t seem to sustain you any longer and the temptation to convert knocks at your door. Poverty runs rampant through the streets like children with guns but I say I see all this as well. I could go on, I could continue telling you all I see but My child it is not what I see that moves Me to come.
Nigeria your wickedness does not provoke Me to come and pass judgment nor does your righteousness extol you. Many times in your past have you thought you were the righteousness of God but it was only My light shining on you. My light has shone on your nation as a whole. I have seen all the people, I have seen all the faiths, I have seen all the corruption and I have seen all the perversions. I have passed judgment and it is not what many think or have been praying for.
Do you think you can also control how I answer your prayers? I do not judge according to what a man sees outwardly but I judge according to what I see and I know inwardly. Nigeria I am looking at your heart as a nation. It is as black as coal and what was lukewarm has grown cold. Truly you have left your first love but this all about to change. I remind you I do not come to condemn nor rebuke. I do not come to chastise. I do not come to punish the infidel nor create a jihad against all who do not believe. For when I come all will believe.
Sickness, poverty and disease ignore religious beliefs and will even violate the most devout believer no matter his status in the organization or political office. These spirits know no boundaries that you are aware of but they are bound by My supreme authority.
Nigeria I do not come to you with a rod of judgment and condemnation as many have suggested but instead I come because I am sovereign. Nigeria who shall command Me?
Who among your most noble can command Me? Who among your wisest gives Me counsel? Who among the religious tribes can control Me once I have made up My mind? Who can deter Me from what I have set out to do? Who shall stand against Me when I have spoken? Nigeria I tell you I have come in the past but you have seen nothing yet.
Nigeria the evangelists and missionaries that came, but are now gone, were my servant’s who tilled the soil. They labored among you spiritually and they removed the rocks and the roots from the earth but they could not command the sky or the spiritual entities that hovered there. On occasion you would glimpse light and for a moment you would rejoice in the light. Just as quickly night came again and so did your discouragement. Lies of abandonment have abounded for a very long time. It was not long after you also started to believe them because of the wickedness in the land. Many in the household of faith are not walking in the light but in shadows. Poverty, disease and constant fighting have worn you down and taken its toll. With each crisis you give up a little more ground. The enemy thinks he is taking back what My servants have toiled for and yet even he is deceived.
As in the days of Eli, so are there among you My ministers. I see into the very bedrooms and storehouses of your ministries. Another prophet looked into a hole in the wall of the temple. I also see this with many of the ministers there among you Nigeria. I see all these things and more but it is not because of these things I come. I do not come to destroy or condemn but to build up. To seek and save those which are lost.
Nigeria darkness has hung over you long enough.
I come because I am sovereign and it is time. It is your season. It is time for a visitation.
I am coming…
LIGHT SLICES THROUGH DARKNESS
The word of the Lord is sharper than any two edged sword. My word not only penetrates darkness but slices through it my child. It separates darkness from light. My light actually slices open the very bowels of darkness exposing the enemy and his schemes. He has no plans than I cannot expose. He has no darkness that is so great that it can keep you captive. By My Word do I gain entry into the dark places. My Word does not only expose darkness but eradicates it. My Word will totally destroy the works of darkness. Be My arms, be My legs, be My eyes, be My mouth be My ears . Walk in Me, talk in Me and you will see sickness and all manners of disease be sliced off in Jesus Name.
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The fire of God has been lit in Riverview Florida. Prophet Tom has been there, Prophet Junior DeSouza has been there and Prophetess Agatha Taylor just left there.
Father God would not send such a consortium of ministers to one place without having a specific plan for that region and or church. It has been a divine connection between all of us and Father intends to use and reuse us again as a united team.
Our heritages include but are not limited to Brazilian, Puerto Rican, Afro-American, Italian, French Canadian and Dominican Republic. There are no divisions between us. There is no prejudice between us. We are united in one front for one cause, that would be Christ. Our purpose is to set the captives free and our banner is love.
The Lord has told me Riverview is just the beginning. My future prospects include Hamburg Germany, Uganda East Africa, The Dominican Republic and various cities here in the USA. Please inquire of each minister for their specific itinerary schedule and when Father permits all will assemble together.
We are no longer carrying a flame, we are the flame.
Father God has literally set this specific group on fire and everywhere we go it will ignite the fires of a purging revival.
The days of a one man show are over. The days of team concepts are over. Unity of spirit will prevail over the agendas of man. No longer will man plan activities for God.
Father will go Himself and He carries with Him the keepers of the flame. Our flame is not an external flame that can be judged by men but of the internal kind which resides in the heart and can only be judged by God.
We are standing in the shadows, we are dancing in the shadows. Yet our hearts long to be in your presence, so we can worship you. Lord help us.
Teach us to move into your presence. We want to linger in your presence. Teach us how to dance in your presence. Teach us to walk circumspectly before you so you will not be ashamed. Teach us your ways. Show us your mercy. Let us walk in your grace.
Heavenly Father continue speaking to us and through us, your children and your servants.
The Lord started something in Riverview Florida on April 5th 2009. Now He is drawing His people even closer to himself through these up coming events. Come journey with us as we draw closer to Him.