I saw leaches, blood suckers, sucking the blood out of people. The Bible says the life is in the blood. The people were so lifeless and weak. Then the Lord showed me they were sucking the life of Christ out of Christians, the Blood of Christ and then using the strength the Lord intended for the Christian against the Christian. Christians were weak because of the loss of the Blood of Christ. It was shocking to see. Many were on the verge of death. I cried out to the Lord, “What can we do?”

He said, “Apply the salt of the eternal covenant to the body of Christ. Salt makes leaches drop off. People with “salt” rubbed on them will not get leaches. We must apply the salt of the covenant, renewed obedience and focus on the Lord. For some this was so strong they needed to literally take a pinch of salt daily and proclaim the renewed covenant and ask the Lord Jesus to strengthen them.

Then I saw many leaders, especially big name prophetic ministries. (I did not see any ministry in particular.) The Lord said, “Many started building My Kingdom and ended up building their own kingdom. When My sheep need a Word to follow they give them words that will make them stay with their ministry (what do the people want to hear) and not true Words for strength.”

I knew the river of judgment would come but it’s not quite time yet. This is the time to warn people about the coming judgment and to tell people to make the Lord the priority of their lives, they need to learn to listen to the Holy Spirit and focus on the Lord to prepare for it.

Then I saw a hand take burning coals and ashes from the altar in heaven and sprinkle it across the USA. I saw this again and again, which means it is established. So I asked the Lord what it means. It is the ashes and coals from the fire of judgment. It is not time for the fire of judgment, these ashes are for a warning. They will cause boils to come on many Christians, especially leaders. Boils of trouble and misery on a personal level as a warning to turn to the Lord and His priorities. They must pray about what matters to the Lord and do what matters to the Lord only. A few already do this and they will not have boils. A few will repent and turn quickly to the Lord’s way and priorities but many will not and the boils will continue until they perish. The boils can only touch the fleshly things, their personal lives, where they really live. It brought great agony.

I cried to the Lord for mercy for the Lord’s church and leaders concerning this. The Lord said, “NO!”

“Why?” I asked. Then He asked me, “Why did you spank your grandson today?” He had been rebellious and disrespectful to me. I knew if I didn’t spank him and then lead him in repentance these attitudes would take root in him and grow and eventually destroy him.

The Lord said, “I am sending the boils as a warning to turn them back to me in true repentance because when the fire of judgment falls it will be too late.” He likened it to Egypt when Moses sprinkled the ashes in the air and the Egyptians had boils so severe they couldn’t stand before him. He sent them as a warning to them to let His people go. Their agendas were fighting against God’s will. It was a warning but they hardened their hearts and perished.

He also likened it to the children of Israel when they were told to apply the blood to the doorpost of their houses and not go outside that night because the destroyer, the death angel, would strike. Those who believed obeyed and those who didn’t perished. The Lord is saying repent and return to My protection for the boils (troubles) are coming as a warning and in the days ahead the fire will come as well.

He said, “Many of my people have lost the fire of their first love with Me. People that keep the fire of God burning in them obey. You can remove leaches with fire. Leaches will not come where the fire is. The fire of God in you also turns away the fire of judgment. It will not harm you when you walk in His fire of love.

Let us repent, turn to God, apply and renew our eternal covenant of salt with Him daily, receive the renewed life’s flow from the Blood of Jesus Christ and kindle again our fiery love for Him.

The Rock Fence

When I was a farmer, young enough to work the land, I had a big farm. I grew many things, wheat, corn, barley, flax but most of all I grew thorns. I know what you’re thinking; why would anyone grow thorns on purpose? Now I didn’t say I grew them on purpose, I just said I grew them. Those thorny things grew every where, just about the time I would think I had rooted the last of those troublemakers out the wind and rain would come and soon they would sprout up again. Yep, they would just pop up like popcorn all over my fields.

I don’t mind telling you that it was plenty discouraging. I had to work so much more than other farmers. I had to constantly root those things out. It was back breaking, hot, miserable work I tell you. Not only that but because the thorns grew so quickly they would choke out my good crops. Because of those thorns my crops wouldn’t produce very much at all and what they did produce was not a good quality. Other farmers would get 50-75 bushels of grain per parcel but I was lucky to get 20 bushels and those 20 bushels were not good quality. So I worked longer and harder and got less return and bad quality but what was I to do? The land was all I had. No one wanted to buy it from me after they saw what I went through with it. So I couldn’t even sell it and try to buy a better farm. I was stuck with it.

Now I want to tell you that I’m a praying man. I always have been. I’m talking about being a Christian of course. Never a Sunday passed that I wasn’t in Church with my family. I always paid my tithes no matter how tough times were and believe me they were plenty tough. I always kept something back to give those in need and to encourage others. Sometimes all I could give was a little time but I’d find something to give. I knew the Lord’s way is to give so I also must be a giver.

One hot sweaty summer’s day when I had been pulling out thorns for most of the day, my back ached and my hands bled, I just couldn’t take any more. I fell to my knees tears streaming from my face and cried out to the Lord praying. “Lord,” I said, “Look at me Sir. Here I am. I have been faithful and obedient to you as best I know how. I try to keep my hands and heart clean and right before you Lord. Then why am I cursed with these thorns that make my life hard and miserable. Oh Lord,” I wept, “Have mercy on me and help me.”

Then the Lord spoke to me, “Get up,” He said, “Why do you talk to Me like this is My doing? Am I so cruel and heartless to do such a thing? Am I a bad Father to My children? If I am so evil and mean as you say, then why do you serve Me and love Me? I have not done this thing. You must repent for even thinking it was either My hand that caused it or My lack of care for you that allowed it. Up with you and repent, then I will tell you what you must do.”

That’s when I realized how foolish I had been to blame God. Then my tears became tears of shame and repentance instead of self-pity as I asked the Lord to forgive me and to show me what the true source of the problem was and what to do about it.

The Lord spoke to me again. My heart thrilled to hear Him. Even His rebuke is precious to me because all He says is right and good. I knew He was going to give me a good answer to my problem. Even His correction is to protect me from danger. “I’m listening Lord and with Your help I will do whatever You say. I have already determined to obey no matter what it is.”

“Go get your wheelbarrow and return here.” He said.

So I went and got my wheelbarrow and returned to the same spot. “Fill the wheel barrow with rocks from your garden. With every rock you pick up plead the Blood of Jesus.”

“Yes Lord.” I said though I was tired I set to work. It didn’t take long to fill the wheelbarrow with rocks because on top of every other problem I had with my garden this was very rocky soil. It just seems to breed rocks.

“Now what Lord?” I asked.

“Go to the edge of your property and dump it,” The Lord said. So I did. “Now what Lord?” I asked.

“Keep doing that until all the rocks are gone and there are rocks all around your property.” The Lord said.

I wanted to tell the Lord I had tried to remove the rocks before and it never works. I wanted to say I was too busy just trying to survive and too wore out from just trying to have enough to exist to go through such a process. But I knew I had better obey and with a right heart attitude. I could see this wasn’t going to be accomplished in a day but I set my heart to obey regardless. This was going to be a lot of work but harvest time was over, such as it was, so I could work on the Lord’s project now better than any other time.

Day after day I gathered rocks and pleaded the Blood of Jesus. I worked from sun up to sun down every day until the last rocks were gone and there was a pile of rocks around all of my property. I sure was glad to have that miserable task over with. Now I would get the answer to solve my problems and meet my needs. “Now what Lord?” I asked.

“Plow the land.” The Lord said, “Plow deep. Then go again and pick up the rocks the plowing brought to the surface and stack them on top of the other rocks about your property. Do this 3 times and then return to Me for more instructions.

I guess you can imagine the look on my face. 3 more times I was to plow and pick up rocks. But it’s no use asking the Lord for help until you’ve obeyed and accomplished His last directive. I was desperate for an answer and desperate people obey. I was tired of picking up rocks; it was back breaking work I tell you. But it’s what the Lord told me to do, so I did it. It took me days but finally it was over. The rocks were gone from the land and piled high like a wall all around me. Then I returned to that same spot and asked the Lord, “What now?”

“Go to the wall on the South corner of your property.” The Lord said, “There I will tell you what to do.”

So I went. I knew the Lord doesn’t give us the entire picture all at once but one piece at a time. Until we have obeyed the last piece of the puzzle we won’t get the next piece. “Stand on your wagon and look over the wall you have made.” The Lord said, “Whose land do you see?”

“Why that’s farmer Smyth’s farm.” I answered

“Is he your friend?” The Lord asked. I am sure the Lord knew the answer but He asked me just the same and I had to answer.

“Uh, well no sir, he’s not.” I said a bit embarrassed. “You see Lord some years ago we both set out to buy a bull. It was a fine bull indeed. I went and bought the bull for a good price. I didn’t know farmer Smyth was trying to buy the bull too. He was very angry. He thought I did it on purpose. He thought I tried to trick him and cheat him. I tried to tell him that I didn’t know he wanted the bull too but he didn’t believe me. Now he hates me; he does me harm and speaks against me whenever he can.

“Listen,” said the Lord, “Repent of his sin that has lodged in your land as a curse, because his heart curses you. Then forgive him and pray for him. Once you have done these things break the curses he sent, break them from you, your family, your home, and your land by the Blood of Jesus. Anoint this wall of rocks with oil and say this wall is witness from this time forward that I have done this man no harm. I have forgiven him. Now the Lord will protect me from any curses sent my way because my hands are clean and my heart is innocent and pure of sin.

So I did as the Lord commanded me. Seven times the Lord took me to different places on the wall and each time there was someone angry, bitter or jealous against me. Sometimes I had done wrong and needed to repent and sometimes it was for no real reason. Each time I repented of their sin in my land planted there by their words and curses. I forgave them and prayed for them. Each time I removed the curse from my land by the Blood of Jesus. Each time I anointed the wall as a witness that I was innocent of sin and asked the Lord to protect me.

Then the Lord said, “Every day plead the Blood of Jesus over you, your family, your home, and your land. Rebuke every curse spoken against you, felt against you, sent against you and every assignment of the enemy against you by the Blood of Jesus Christ. Claim the Lord’s protection and blessings saying the covering and the eternal covenant of the Lord is on me. Amen.” So I thanked the Lord and did as He instructed me. I tried to not only do what was pleasing in His sight but keep my heart attitudes right as well and if I messed up at all I was quick to repent.

That next Spring I planted my grain wondering if it would be different this time. The grain grew but there were no thorns. At harvest time I had a full 100 bushels per parcel of land. It was just like Isaac in Genesis 26: 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him. I was so grateful. The Lord had removed the curse that came from others and not from Him. He showed me that the devil had stirred these men’s hearts up against me to be angry and curse me in their hearts, words and deeds. Some of them were even Christians. They didn’t even realize the enemy was using them and their wrong heart attitudes against a fellow Christian, which is against the Lord Himself. “What you have done to the least of these,” the Lord said, “you have done to me.” Because I was righteous before God the devil was angry with me and pushed weak willed Christians to be used against me to curse me.

The next year farmer Smyth was very sick. I went to visit him and pray for him. He didn’t know that when he allowed anger, bitterness and unforgiveness in his heart it cursed him more than it cursed others. Can a man hold fire in his bosom and not be burned? I tried to get him to repent but he wouldn’t. I was very sad for him. He’s not a bad man really; he was just deceived. I sincerely asked the Lord to have mercy on him and prayed much for him. I was deceived until the Lord finally revealed the truth of things too. It could have just as easy been me had the Lord not intervened.

His health went down hill rapidly. He was very near death. Then he called for me to come. He saw death was near and he was afraid now to stubbornly hold his feelings and attitudes of sin. Why do we wait? He asked me to forgive him, which I was glad to do. He asked me to pray for him that the Lord would forgive him and restore him, which I did. He was a broken man. Then to his surprise I prayed for his healing. “No,” he said, “there’s no hope of that for me. The doctors say I will die but at least now I will die in peace with my heart right with God. How foolish I was to hold my anger. What did it benefit me? It only brought me great harm and separated me from God. I have been too foolish. I cannot be healed.”

I told him not to say such things bringing curses on himself. All things are possible with God. We will turn to Him and He will have mercy on you. You must not allow yourself to speak otherwise. So I prayed and he improved but only a little. I sought the Lord for an answer just as I had done for myself, for the Bible says we must love others as we love ourselves. Then, the Lord answered me. “He has been an angry man and made many enemies. His land is full of curses.”

“He is not well enough to remove them Lord. Can I do it for him?” I asked.

“Yes if you choose to.” The Lord said, “Bring each wheelbarrow full of rocks to him and plead the Blood of Jesus over them. Tell him to forgive everyone and every situation that has offended him and I will honor it.”

It was long hard work but I knew it was the right thing to do. His ground was very hard to plow because he had stopped farming many years before because of his health and because he had such bad crops. But finally the work was done and he began to get well. It took time but by the time of Spring planting he was plowing the fields himself. He was a changed man. It took facing death for him to realize that going to church and just saying he’s a Christian is not enough. There must be a heart change. And a Christian must never plant offenses, which is just another word for curses because it tears down the walls of the Lord’s protection around us so the enemy can come in and do much harm, even to the point of death.

We must be wise to the enemy’s tricks when he tries to get us to be offended and curse a fellow Christian and be quick to remove them if we slip up. We must never blame the Lord when our walls of protection are down. It is the devil that comes to steal, kill and destroy, not the Lord. Now I have a wall of God’s protection about me and I am aware of the rocks of curses and offense the enemy throws my way daily. I do not keep them, I remove them a pray for the one the enemy is using.

What about you, is it possible that you are missing your blessing by the curses of others that cling to you or by your own offenses. If you have thorns and rocks in your garden you need to find out why and remove them. Then let the Lord rebuild His wall of protection around you. So if you’re attacked and troubled check your wall, check your time in the Word, your relationships with the Lord and others and look for things from within and without that may be tearing down your walls. But never blame the Lord.

Sometimes the biggest gap in our wall is unforgiveness of self and self curses. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Be quick to forgive yourself and reconcile to yourself. The Holy Spirit will show you what to do. Get to know Him and work with Him. He is your teacher, helper and guide.

Amen