"WHAT
YOU DEEM AS DEFEAT, I CALL ' TRIUMPHANT OVERCOMING'"
For those newer to the ELIJAH LIST, Sandy Warner, author of this word, is also
the author of the very first book the Elijah List EVER carried.
Below is a great word that applies to actually MOST readers on the Elijah List.
The Lord is telling you what HE sees in you and what you've gone through in
your life.
Take special note how it contrasts or seems OPPOSITE of how you see YOURSELF,
as you look into the mirror of your life.
I hope you'll get her book, "101+ Ways God Speaks And
How to Hear Him."
Sandy Warner's book can be ordered at: http://www.elijahshopper.com/detail.aspx?ID=566.
I also do not feel it is coincidental that her book was the first one in our
store. God wanted to communicate many concepts of hearing God speak ---in PLAIN
ENGLISH to His Body. At that,
Be blessed as you read this word and as you read her book.
Merry Christmas,
Steve Shultz (and Derene too!)
Publisher, THE ELIJAH LIST
www.elijahlist.com
"WHAT YOU DEEM AS DEFEAT, I CALL
'TRIUMPHANT OVERCOMING'"
By Sandy Warner, PonderWord
swauthor@usa.net
www.thequickenedword.com
Dec 22, 2003
Precious one, what a courageous journey you have taken and how proud I AM of
you to have trusted Me in sharing My Words. This has
been a journey of faith. While you were yet a youth in My Spirit, I called you
and gave you many signs of confirmation upon your life. You were so insecure
that the mere thought of it made you tremble! How I love challenges! (Smile, dear one!) I had special assignments in mind just
for you. You were perfect for the job.
I began by giving you My Words, but I called you to pray them instead of
sharing them. You were My intercessor, partnering with
Me in matters of importance to My heart. All along the way, I continued to give
you confirmations, My signs that you really were
hearing Me, and growing along the way. This was a journey of faith, for you had
no person to give these Words to, or no one to give you a direct confirmation.
I taught you to fly on the wings of faith as you held onto My
confirmed Words.
"What a Story of Overcoming!"
I gave you the promise that one day we would be married as one, as happens to
others of My fold. I said I would give you My Word as
a two-edged weapon to soften the hearts of men, and to pierce the demonic
spirits. This weapon would never run dry, for it is dipped in My eternal fountain of blood. This weapon would bow so low
as to touch the ground in humility, then grow up as a
pure white mantle, softly caressing your shoulders in governmental authority.
This weapon would be like tall angelic wings covering you from behind.
You have accepted My Words of promise over your life. And what a story of
overcoming! Against all odds, against every demonic current and onslaught, you
continue to travel upward and press into Me. Whenever you come to the end of
your rope, you lie spent before My feet, even as a salmon who has come home to
spawn.
"What You Deem Defeat, I Call
Triumphant"
My bride! What you deem as defeat, I call triumphant overcoming. You may feel
beat up and dented having stood against all odds, but what you do not know is I
that I plant mysteries in many of My children for them
to discover. I have planted one inside your own spiritual womb.
I have planted many children in your own particular womb who are following the
same path as you, My beloved. Your journey will be
multiplied over and over again, as I plant My Words of promise within the
insecure ones, and they also will take the courage to trust Me
and follow My promises into fulfillment. These are My
triumphant ones who so love Me, that they will reach beyond the limits of their
own insecurities to go wherever I send them. They will fly on the wings of
faith, built through one loving confirmation at a time. When My Words come to
pass within their own lives, they will become My signs
to a broken and crippled world.
"I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I
will send to the nations: to Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow,
and Tubal and Javan, to the
coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they
shall declare My glory among the Gentiles."
(Isaiah 66:19 NKJV)
-Sandy Warner
swauthor@usa.net
www.thequickenedword.com