Blooming in the Desert

8/4/01

Gloria Shepherd

http://www.angelfire.com/ga/GardenofJesus/

My children, I am lifting you up from the depths of despair, and filling

you with my glory, and resurrection power in this hour.  Press through

the desert of your heart, and you will see the blooms of the desert

coming forth out of the dry parched wilderness you have had to endure.

Come into my gates with thanksgiving this day, for I will turn your

mourning into joy, and your hearts will I fill with gladness and the joy

of heaven.

Out of the wilderness and the desert places, I am bringing forth the

beautiful blooms and flowers which fill the earth with the fragrance of

heaven.   

For many of you, have cried out to me, Father, I cannot bear this burden

anymore. help me, Father, I cannot do this a minute longer.  You have

cried out with a loud voice to heaven, and I have answered your cries,

my little ones with this word from my heart this day.

I say to you my beloved children of mine, do not despair, for it is out

of these hard places, you will be pressed through to the places of

refreshing now.  It is in those places of unpleasantness, that I

strengthen you and teach you to endure.  How could you know the

sweetness of my presence and the pleasantness of my love, if you have

not tasted of that unpleasant bread, and have not been pressed hard in

the wilderness of the desert?  For out of the desert  of your hearts,

the desert blooms come forth and bloom with their beauty.  With just the

dew that falls on the dry desert wilderness in the morning, the

beautiful flower in the desert blooms.  So it is with you my child, when

the dew of the morning comes in over the parched dry places, the flowers

begin to spring out of the parched soil of your heart.  So rejoice my

beloved ones, and sing the song of the morning, for I have brought you

out of the dry desert wilderness this day.

So let your heart be filled with joy & thanksgiving for in this very

hour there is a blooming in the desert.