My Children, My Children, saith the Lord.  So many needless struggles you endure. Do you not know? Have you not heard? Have I not spoken that you must yield your flesh up to me as a sacrifice? Have I not said you can not honor me with your lips and yet live to fulfill the appetites of the flesh? Have I not said in the Scriptures that the flesh wars against My Spirit and My Spirit against your flesh? Why then do you cling to that which honors me not? Cut it off before it defiles you any further. Cut it off so that I will not have to cut you off. Marvel not that I speak this to you in this fashion. I have chosen you from among men that through you I may show forth my Glory and what I am able to do with My Children once they have yielded to me.  I chose you for a unique purpose that only you can fulfill. Your time together is short and I have much to do in this time in each of you. Allow My Spirit His freedom to shape and purge you. Did I not tell my Children in Jeremiah to go to the Potter’s House and see how the potter shapes the vessel? If the vessel refuses to yield under the hands of the potter it is removed and smashed and another piece of clay takes its place.  Watch and guard yourself that you yield only to me saith the Lord.  You must recognize the weakness of your flesh and how they cause you to stumble.  Guard up your loins for I am about to test you.  You shall be led through the fire and through the water.  You shall pass under the hammer to shape you and harden you for My Kingdom’s work.  It shall not be pleasant but it is necessary.  These tests are not to punish you nor destroy you but to reveal to you the bondage of your flesh. Test your Spirit and see which spirit you are of. This is not to discourage you but to purge you of your defilement. I shall lift up a standard before you to bring you your deliverance.  Call upon me…yield to My Spirit…stop striving and walking in strife. Let My Peace rule your life.  The Peace that I have given for you.. even in the midst of the storm. You may grieve now but you shall rejoice later, for such victory and power you shall see. Take heart My Children, it is only for a season and it shall pass. Even as a summer storm…it is intense but soon it is over and the birds sing once again and the earth is clean, the air pure and life springs forth. You must learn to yield continually to me, saith the Lord and allow me to order your conversation (lifestyle) a right so that my Glory shall be revealed. Be not fearful nor resentful for that is the flesh and it must be silenced. Be not unbelieving nor rebellious for there is no place in My Children for these. Have I not said, “Before I do a new thing I tell my people, by My Prophets, so they might  be prepared. Did I not in Egypt as the destroyer passed through the land? Shall I not speak before my judgments come upon the land so My Children might be prepared and warned. You have been warned…prepare yourself for these tests and trials shall surely come to pass.”