AYou will arise and have mercy and loving-kindness for
Zion, for it is time to have pity and compassion for her; yes, the set
time has come [the moment designated]. For your servants take
[melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins] and show pity for her
dust. So the nations shall fear and worshipfully revere the name of the
Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. When the Lord builds up
Zion, He will appear in His glory; He will regard the plea of the
destitute and will not despise their prayer@ (Psalm 102:13-17,
Amplified).
Prepare the way of the Lord. Return to
the Lord your God in humility of heart. The time of compassion has come,
even the set time for the restoration of My church. I am even now
arising with mercy and loving-kindness for My church. As you turn to me
with all of your hearts I will not be to you as in former days when you
provoked me to wrath with your ways. But I have purposed in these days
to do you good and to bring forth My divine work. I am restoring My
temple, even the Tabernacle of David, the fallen hut. I will repair its
breaches and remove its reproach. I will have a holy habitation for the
revelation of My glory upon this earth. I will be exalted among the
nations and they shall fear My name. I will be exalted in the earth and
all men shall know that I am the Lord God Almighty and there is no
other.
I have called you for such a time as
this. I have heard the cries of My servants who have wept over the
fallen ruins of My church. And I will give ear to your prayers, I will
regard the pleas of those broken in heart over the condition of My
temple. Prepare the way for the return of My people. Cast up a highway.
Take up the stumbling stones of iniquity and set up a standard for My
people. Lift up your voice like a trumpet and call My people back to the
Lord God, even to their first love. Turn unto Me with all of your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning until every hindrance is removed
and communion is restored. For I am a gracious God, merciful and full of
compassion, and I will have mercy once again upon My people to bless
them and to restore them to Myself.
I have yearned for My people. I have
longed to gather you to Myself. I have called you. I have brought you
forth. I have sent My word and My Spirit unto you. But you have chosen
your own way. You have not recognized and honored the day of your
visitation. So I have withheld My presence and kept My glory to Myself.
I have reserved My weeks of harvest for the fullness of time. But now I
will have pity upon My people and reveal My mercy once again. Return to
the Lord your God that you might glorify Me in the day of your
visitation. I will dwell once again among My people and tabernacle in
the midst of My church. I will take away her reproach and restore her
glorious heritage in the midst of the nations.
Set your hearts and your minds to seek
My face. I am doing a new work in this hour, a work of My Spirit. Do not
look to the former things or consider the things of old. For this is a
new thing that you have not known or seen before. I am taking you a way
you have not gone before. I am building My church, even a holy sanctuary
for the ark of My presence and My holy articles. I am building a temple
without the hands of men but by My Spirit. Open your hearts to Me and I
will lead you in the way I have made. I am bringing forth My people in
newness of life, even in My resurrection life and power that I might
appear in My glory.
Make ready for this day of My coming. Set the trumpet
to your lips and sound an alarm in My holy hill. Call My people apart. Set a
fast and call a solemn assembly. Gather My people and sanctify the
congregation. Let none be exempt. Take with you words and return to the Lord
your God. Let My servants weep before Me and pray for My mercy and I will
regard your prayers that My church would be raised up from her desolations.
It is the set time of the Lord, the day of restoration. It is time for My
church to arise out of her prostration, to come forth, even the
manifestation of My sons and My daughters. Return to the Lord your God and I
will heal you, I will deliver you and raise you up once again to live in My
sight, a mighty host. Seek My face and I will surely come unto you.