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Morning Meds With Izzy Herriette & Co - Monday - APR 18, 2011 -

My Father has such a way about Him. I'm pulling out the armory of verses to stand upon for "mine enemies coming against me"; when in an effort to locate that verse on Google, I stumble/fall smack into the middle of this greater story:

http://blog.jewishaz.com/item/2011/02/surrounded-by-enemies

(If you don't read the story - you won't get the "message" of this article.)

O Lord, thank you, for bringing me to right and promised "balance"; as you said in your word, you would do. Amen.

Do you know that moments after I wrote this article, yesterday, I received a phone call (while I was yet in tears over someone who had "turned against me") and they invited me to lunch! Enemy number one -conquered.

Is our GOD - GOOD - YES HE IS!

IS HE "FOR US" - YES HE IS!

DOES HE CARE ABOUT US - YES HE DOES!

Thank you, LORD!

Psalm 125:1,2 - They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed; but abideth for ever. as the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

Psalm 88:8 - Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Psalm 23:5 - Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Glorify His name and look always unto Him for ALL things!

Izzy Herriette & Co/Ginger Renken

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Morning Meds with Izzy Herriette & Co - Saturday - APR 16, 2011.

My family loved fishing, so much so, that my mother tells the story of how she was out on the lake in labour pains before one of us was born. The Lord knew that all of those hours with my Christian father, fishing, would take on a symbolic meaning between my Heavenly Father and myself, in later years of my life.

I'll never forget, one Sunday morning after I'd preached, I left Church so agitated. I said, "Lord, what is wrong with me? What is this, Lord?" His answer came in a vision that truly astounded me:

I was a little girl, running alongside Jesus. He had a "string of fish" hanging from His left hand, where I was jumping up and down. I was so excited and anxious in a good way, begging to know from Him, "How many did we catch, Jesus? How many did we catch today?"

Oh, my heart just leap within me at the sight and message of that vision! What a wonderful and powerful One is my Heavenly Father!

I'm still "fishing" with Him today!

Matthew 4:18,19 - And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Always have your poles with you, ready to fish, wherever He may lead you!

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Morning Meds with Izzy Herriette & Co - Thursday - APR 14, 2011 -

I've been pondering, as of late, the "walk in the Spirit"!

In all of my meditations surrounding this, I've had to truly focus in on and dig deep, to ask the LORD, "Am I truly walking with YOU? Am I hearing You, LORD? Am I following in the steps that You have prepared and ordained for me each day?"

2 Corinthians 13:5 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not yourselves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

We are told plainly in scripture, of the "fruits" of the Spirit, which I'm sure most of us are very aware of  and perhaps, even a little too familiar with:

Galatians 5:22,23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance ...

All excuses aside we truly are able to walk out our lives in these "fruits" listed.

I guess this morning, in this particular instance, God is appealing to a more "intimate" searching.

Psalm 139:23,24 - Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

It would seem to me that the LORD is calling, wooing even, to learn whether or not we are hearing his voice and His instructions, according to the Spirit of God within us. Are we listening? Are we really involved in that life that He desires to lead us into?

Here are the verses that spoke to me - in all of this probing of mine - with Him:

John 10:37,38 - (Jesus speaking to his disciples before the crucifixion) - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in him.

All through my years of walking with the Holy Spirit, I have been judged, over and over again. Which is not all bad. Actually it is a good thing. People who questioned the authenticity of my faith, then went on to judge the works of Jesus/the Father, in my life. Many who have had doubts, were won over by the works of God, displayed in my life.

I desire, more than anything else in this life, that I am always allowing Him to display Himself through me - His authenticity. We cannot accomplish this, apart from living in that intimate place with Him, where His is the only voice we will follow after!

John 10:4,5 - (Jesus speaking) - And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him; for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him; for they know not the voice of strangers.

I find it worthy to "note" that Jesus himself, speaks of this "hearing" just prior to the statement he made of the works of the Father in his own life and ministry.

John 12:49,50 - For I have not spoken of my self; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting, whatsoever I speak therefore even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

John 14: 10,11 - Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself; but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do because I go to the Father.

Where is the evidence of "Christ in you the hope of glory"? Is your life emulating much outward truth, that Christ dwells in you richly? I pray so, today, for you as well as for myself, that we see a mighty increase of this in our lives; especially for "this day and hour" that we find ourselves living in, right now! Amen.

Selah - (Hebrew - pause and calmly think on that.)

Izzy Herriette & Co/Ginger Renken

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Morning Meds with Izzy Herriette & Co - Saturday - APR 9, 2011 -

This morning, I came upon a photo of a beautiful "scroll" that someone placed on facebook. The photo, here today, does not happen to be the one I saw. I actually selected this one, as I prefer it over the other.

Later in the morning, I heard the Holy Spirit speak to me in my meditations, "Unroll the scroll." I knew, instinctively, that He was relating this statement to the days of my life. In other words, as the old saying goes, "Open up the books".

He began to speak to me about my future, asking me who would be the scribe, to pen the pages dictating my story. Following this He spoke these scriptures:

Isaiah 47:12,13 - Stand now, with thine enchantments and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them, they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame, there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before it.

I hadn't realized the extent of those controlling my life, until that moment, when the Holy Spirit began to reveal something very powerful to me. I saw how many expectations were being placed upon me by the people I love. I love many. The LORD laid out before me a little "video-like" presentation of myself, running in this direction and that, trying to fulfill every demand placed upon me. Suddenly, I halted. I stopped. I quit running! Peace and self-confidence came. My God-confidence was restored as well.

Of course, there could be more than one lesson in this particular message today. Many are not aware that, to participate in any of the forms of fortune-telling mentioned above, is a very dangerous practice;something God directly speaks against. He is the One and only who knows the future clearly. To think otherwise will only lead us into paths of destruction.

Whether it be voices such as these, or those of peers and/or loved ones, or even our own ... God wants us to follow only one voice; that being His! His instructions, only, will lead us into safety, security and prosperity for every area of life.

Who is creating the very details of your life on your behalf? Is it you? Is it the LORD? Or are you like me and there are many dictators over your days and ways?

Lord, I pray today, open the scrolls and let us see what YOU would write for us there on each individual page. Let us run to follow after those dictations!

God Bless the story of your life, from this day forward and forevermore. Amen!

Izzy Herriette & Co/Ginger Renken

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Morning Meds with Izzy Herriette & Co - Friday - APR 8, 2011.

Joshua 13:1 - Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said to him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.

Upon opening to this verse, early this morning, my thoughts went directly to a "word" given me on June 15, 2003; as I was in preparation for a morning service I was to teach that day. This powerful instruction from the LORD, was recorded at that time, and is now documented in my book Manifesto-Before the Cock Crows:

June 15, 2003 - (This day just as the day before 9/11/01, when the Holy Spirit overshadowed me and spoke with such a powerful prophetic message!)

I was getting ready to go preach our Sunday morning church service when the LORD spoke to me again:

"Ginger, there is a rollover coming- a changing of the guards." Instantly, I knew that this "word" was coming with the same importance as that of the 9/11, that had come to me. It came like a trumpet blast! He said, "There are many Generals who will be going from the earth in not so many days." He told me that _______ would be going soon.

He continued, "They (the Generals) have no idea that they were and are still in so powerful a spot!" He said they didn't understand that they were called, chosen, raised up, multiplied, and magnified, because of the great "roundup" that He knew about all along. He was organizing it for this time! He said He had brought them up with great strength and magnitude of power and that all that they had become was absolutely of His doing! He said it was a "mighty, mighty work that He had done for a divine purpose!" Further, He spoke, "The masses in the world will not diminish but the generals will be going on, many of them coming home to be with Me."

This message was then and still is - so very urgent - in the mind of God! He told me that it is "imperative that the Generals have a comeback to tell the generations under them that they must 'come up' now!"

The elder generation must exhort and admonish the generations remaining after them. "They must come up stronger than their predecessors!" This is something that is so loud in the bowels of God right now! There is a great, great stirring in Him over this matter.

God said, "There has been in the earth, through these elders, an awesome, anointed, and appointed work for such a time as this, that has taken place over the past twenty-five to fifty years.

He told me that there must be a communication brought to this generation - to cause them to comprehend, grasp and grab hold of - to take the mantle upon themselves.

They must come to terms with the reality of it all - the size of it all - the importance of it all - to God! They must be able to comprehend the depth of what He has thus far accomplished in the earth by these "elder Generals"! They have accomplished the task given them - and now - God must have an ever-increasing momentum take place! He is "hot" to reveal this to His Church, right now, that they understand perfectly where we are, what is happening and what needs to happen next. This is exactly what is happening, as God sees it today, even at this moment! I believe that we must line up with these words - that we might have the victory and that God may be glorified - because His people have heard His Word and are taking their places with that Word out of obedience.

These are crucial times and we must be in right order, after the whole, complete, right, revealed plan of God. This is critical to the outcome of the fulfillment of God's will in the earth - now.

This momentum can only come by those who will be left in charge!

God is very concerned with the skill as well as the level of fire in the up and coming generation. He said, " I must have the full attention of this generation. I must have them understand that this is an hour of solemnness'!"

This generation must get in with God - get in with those Generals - who can impart by verbal communication, by laying on of hands, and by passing on the anointing. Their anointing can and must be passed on!

We must have the same "quality" of men as those who are preparing to leave us behind. Or, God shows me, the work that has been built up to this point will be lost. He cannot afford for this to happen - especially not at this particular time - this day and this hour. He is performing His good and perfect will, and we must come to terms with the reality of it and get locked in with it all immediately!

These are days when there is no time to waste! We cannot afford to be slow in our responses to God now! We must be alert. This is an hour of high strategizing.

God needs His people to be the ones on top or above! He does not need us being "slaughtered" because we aren't listening at this time. He is trying to equip us, to thus, prepare us for things coming that we know not of! We must have an ear to hear what the Spirit has to say. This is the hour for that as no hour before.

There is so much transpiring that our eye has not yet seen! Be assured of this one thing, nothing is out of the view of God. He knows and sees all. And He will take of that and impart it to us as we still ourselves before Him to hear what He would say to us.

This is a day to begin to speak less and to hear much more! Our victories will come by hearing what the Spirit has to say!

Will we understand that now? Will we "set ourselves" apart for that now? We really must if we love the LORD! We really must! We determine the outcome of the will of God in the earth. Our choices affect everything.

We must be like men of war. At this precise time, every shot counts! We will pay a price for the shots that miss the target. We can't afford to be sloppy at this time." ...

Copyright 2005 / By Ginger D. Renken - Excerpt from Manifesto-Before the Cock Crows - 2004

Since that June 15, 2003 date, as you well know, many of the Generals have gone on just as the LORD said. Patriarchs in the eyes of God.

Do we not see that this is "the hour" spoken of back on that day? Has not our day become a day of fulfillment for all words spoken above?

We must RISE UP - CHURCH! THIS IS OUR FINEST HOUR! Where are we?

Selah (Hebrew - Pause and calmly think on that.)

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Morning Meds with Izzy Herriette & Co - Wednesday - APR 6, 2011 -

As is obvious to any faithful follower of Morning Meds with Izzy Herriette & Co, I haven't been "on" as of late, in my commitment to this particular site.

Today, I will place here, rather quickly, something the LORD just shared with me and told me to post here for today's "word" to you:

I had just returned from a meeting in Branson, MO., and had been contacting ministries all that summer, regarding the book "Manifesto-Before the Cock Crows."

I'd no sooner gotten my bags unpacked, when in the Holy Spirit, there came yet another "radical stirring"! The Lord directed me towards the piano. I sat down there and He began to pour out a song for the youth ministry that I had just seen in Branson. He told me, through this song, that there were coming "tumultuous" days and times ahead! I shook, physically. Just more of what I'd already been shown in 2004. "Lord, really! Why? Why does it have to come, Lord?" And every time I'm told something like this, by His Spirit, I can hardly take it in! I knew this would be for the world at large. It had very little to do with that youth group, other than that He wanted them to be prepared, to minister to the youth at this crucial and trying hour and time.

After the song was written, He quoted two scriptures to me, followed by these words which He spoke tenderly to me, "In days to come, people will get really good at calling upon me."

I knew that those words and scriptures were indicators of a people being in tremendous need, as a result of extremely trying circumstances coming upon them unawares!

I placed the scriptures on these little tags, just to have them setting before my eyes, to remind me of His words to me that day.

Three years have gone by now, and I can honestly say that I can and have seen the very thing that those words spoke of on that day, come to pass! There have been now, to this date, SO MANY DEVASTATING CIRCUMSTANCES CATCHING FOLKS EVERYWHERE "UNAWARES"! Wouldn't you agree?

And now I literally weep before Him in prayers over the world. And as I am in those prayers, as of late, a prophetic song given me in 1980, continues to come and play in my spirit. I can't recall all of the words ... but these I do recall ... My husband and I did a new recording of the song in the fall of 2010 and are still ironing out the wrinkles; for your hearing soon:

Oh, Lord
All the people in the world
Who are cryin'
People who are dyin'

Hear them Lord
Satisfy their soul
Wash them Lord
Cleanse them
And make them whole

Take all their cares
Their worries and their fears
Drown them now, O Lord
In the passion of your tears

Help them to know
That you really are there
Help them to know
That you really do care

Hear them when they cry
Hear them when they sigh
When they reach out from their heart
Not knowing why

See them Lord
See them as they nearly
Break beneath the load
Carry their burden Lord

I know that the song is applicable to every single day in this earth and to every single person on any given day ... but I know ... I really "know" ... this song was prophetic of "this day"!

The Lord always hears our cries. And I know that He is close and wants to come in and help!

Revelation 3: 20 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

John 14:21 - He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

If you find yourself in a situation or circumstance today, which requires help beyond yourself, why don't you reach out in faith to the One who promises that if we come to Him, he will in no wise cast us away but will hear and answer us and make His resources available unto us. He is a Good God!

God bless you! God bless America! God bless the nations!

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Morning Meds with Izzy Herriette & Co - Sunday - APR 3, 2011.

What would make for "rest" for you today?

For some reason the Lord continues to speak to me about the subject of "rest"!

A few mornings ago, before I could even fully awake, I sat straight up in bed hearing this word: convalesce.

This wouldn't mean so much to me but upon awaking one morning early, only a few weeks ago, the Lord began ministering to me about that "sweet rest" that we should always be experiencing "in Him". A few days following, a sister prophesied the very same thing to me, in a way that was unmistakably the LORD!

con·va·lesce (knv-ls)

intr.v. con·va·lesced, con·va·lesc·ing, con·va·lesc·es

To return to health and strength after illness; recuperate.

To regain one's health: come around (or round), gain, improve, mend, perk up, rally, recover, recuperate. See health/sickness.

In meditating upon all of this collective information, I began to really hone in on the voice of the LORD over this matter.

I know how many are struggling these days, and I am not exempt. Many are suffering financial challenges and we are all "pressed" with things that are taking place in our world on a global scale; politics, social behaviors, natural disasters and mysterious occurrences. Difficulties on many new levels are facing us everyday.

All of these can cause such worry, anxiety and fear in our lives; unrest! God is calling us today, to be reminded that in Him, we are delivered from all such emotions. These responses to life, left undone and not corrected/changed by the Word of God, can lead to illnesses. Depending upon how long one operates in these contrary ways, will determine how ill they may truly become, and for what length of time they might remain in those conditions. When we come to the LORD, His immediate ministry unto us, is to DELIVER us from ALL things belonging to "such a state as this"!

We really could consider our being changed in God, as "convalesce" - couldn't we? Think on that!

When we come to the Kingdom of God we are literally stepping into a place where none of these negative and harrowing emotions exist!

How well we know the LORD and His Word, how much we truly TRUST Him and His promises to us, will be revealed in our walking in new paths where we are FREE from all that bound and held us captive, prior.

Our new life in Christ, will be a convalescence of sorts, where He will be bringing us into a healing from all of our former days, when we walked outside of the LIFE that He has for us!

Luke 4:18 - The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.

Have you been in a convalescent "mode" since coming to know the LORD? If not, you really need to press in to know Him more, as this IS what He does in our lives when we are truly walking with HIM!

Check it today, won't you? And begin to get your blessed "rest"!

Blessings

Izzy Herriette & Co/GInger Renken

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