Proclaiming Christ with Authority

COVER LETTER

Dearly Beloved:

The Lord reigns — KING OF THE FLOODS!

I’d like to share with you a conversation I had this week with the Lord, while walking down a road I call “my Emmaus Road.” This is an isolated, one-mile stretch where I go to be with Jesus.

On this particular day, I felt burdened down with cares, cares that are common to all believers. Mostly, I felt inadequate in prayer; I was overwhelmed by the hurts and needs of family, friends and those who write to our ministry.

I lifted my hands to heaven and prayed aloud, “Oh, Lord, help! I need your embrace. I need your hug, your touch. Lord, I know I have preached to others, ‘Just take it by faith. Stand up and fight the enemy.’ But right now, I can’t stop and evaluate my faith. I don’t know how to measure it. I don’t know if my faith is weak, strong or almost insufficient. So, please, just embrace me.”

Then I prayed, “Lord, you said if I loved and obeyed you, you would manifest yourself. You would make me know and experience your sweet presence. Right now, I desperately need your arms around me.”

I walked and waited, resting in his promises. And Jesus did embrace me. He whispered in a still, small voice, bringing to my mind Scripture after Scripture, building my faith and assurance. He overcame me with these loving words: “I speak peace over you — my peace, the same peace that I have in glory, not like any peace of this world.”

Beloved, the Lord Jesus is ready and waiting to embrace you this very day.

Stop judging yourself, and quit listening to condemning lies from Satan. If you fret over past mistakes, or wrong decisions when you got ahead of the Lord, he has promised to turn your mistakes into blessings. So, stop asking the wrong questions, such as, “Why?” “Is the Lord judging me?” “Is this an attack from the devil?”

Get alone with Jesus, and give him unclocked, quality time. Pour out your feelings, worship him, and lift your hands to him in adoration. Then pray the prayer I prayed: “Lord, I need your embrace. Put your arms around me and hold me.”

“The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee” (Deuteronomy 33:27).

God bless and keep you — and embrace you!

In Christ,
DAVID WILKERSON

DW:bbm 7.3.06