“I AM your fortress.

“I want you to think on this word – fortress. Consider it in military terms, for that is its origin. Fortresses were built for complete protection of an army against an enemy. They were built to be strong, with high walls. They were built with places of lookout for soldiers to see into the distance what may be coming. They were built with heavy doors to be closed and fastened shut. The desire of an enemy was to ‘take the fortress.’ If the fortress was taken – broken into – the army within could be taken. But as long as the fortress held, the soldiers within were safe. The fortress remained constant, unmoving. If a soldier left the fortress to go out into the field, the fortress behind him was of no use to his safety in the moment.

“I AM your FORTRESS. Do you allow Me to be such in your life? Do you stay within My bounds as I have designed for you? Or do you venture outside, where you are easy prey for your enemy? This is why I tell you again and again to only go where I command you to go. When you go as I command, I AM your living, continuous fortress. But if you step outside of My Will for you, you indeed are easy prey for an attack.

“And so I ask you to reflect on this: in what parts of your life, even your daily living, do you step outside of My Fortress for you? Are all of your words aligned with Me? Are all of your actions aligned with Me? Your thoughts? Most of all, allow Me, the Lord your God, to be the Fortress around your thoughts. For all words and deeds begin with a thought. Expunge thoughts not of Me immediately – by this I AM able to act as a fortress around your mind. Consider not only sinful thoughts of wrong actions. Consider also sinful thoughts of disbelief in Me. Thoughts of hopelessness, helplessness, weariness. Thoughts of ‘I can’t.’ I AM the God of I CAN. There is no ‘I can’t’ as you abide in My Will for you. For I never call you without fully equipping you. If you ever feel you are in a ‘holding pattern’ in waiting for a ministry or calling I have promised for you – do not fret or be impatient. For I AM preparing you for that calling – and when you are fully ready and equipped, I call you out.

“I AM YOUR FORTRESS. Meditate on this great promise from the Lord your God. Do not become so familiar with the reading of this word that you no longer take to heart the gravity and fullness of this promise. Amen.”
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Notes:

II Samuel 22:1-4: And David spoke the words of this song to the Lord in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said, “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge;
My savior, You save me from violence. I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.”

Psalm 91:1-4: Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

Nahum 1:7: The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and He knows those who take refuge in Him.

II Corinthians 10:3-5: For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ…

Hebrews 13:20-21: Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. 

Philippians 4:13:  I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

II Timothy 3:16-17: All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. 

Philippians 1:6: Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

James 1:2-4: Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Psalm 32:8: I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.

In light of the events of last night, the Lord led me to these words He spoke about Trump last year shortly before his inauguration. These words are playing out today. Every time President Trump is protected from harm, remember it’s due to our prayers as the Lord’s ekklesia. We are His called out ones who declare God’s will over our nation and the world. Our prayers and declarations, led by the Lord, are more powerful than any scheme of the enemy. The Victory is always ours as we follow the Lord’s leading.

This word came on January 2, 2025:

“The end of the road is near. The road you have been walking on in America. A new road lies ahead of you. It is rocky as well. The rockiness does not last. This road leads to peace and prosperity for America – if people choose to follow My will for the nation.

“For now – I call Mayday, Mayday! Danger lies within for your nation and your President. Evil ones seek to kill him, My chosen leader for America at this time. Some who seek to kill are very near to him. They must be flushed out. Call upon My angels to do so. Pray and declare the protection of President Trump and all those who are with him. And their families. Declare to Me night and day for their safety. Call out to Me to expose the plots and schemes before they can take place. Call to Me for judgment and recompense. Call to Me for discernment for Trump and those loyal to him.

“You cannot rest, My People, for there is still heavy work to be done. I hold back certain events of My choice as a part in the bigger picture. Only I know the complete timeline of all My joyous plans for America. As you ask for My help in your nation, remember YOUR part in the fight for freedom and holiness in your country. You must stay close by My side and obey Me quickly when I call. Hold nothing back from Me – and I will hold nothing back from you.

“From ancient times I have planned this, these days. Do not think I am ever surprised or taken aback by the enemy’s attacks. I know ALL, I see ALL. I do not call My People to worry and fret and fear. You are above those things. Those are the world’s reactions. You are not of the world. You fight FOR your world, yet you rise far above it as you fight. Did My Son not say the Kingdom of God is taken by force? YOU are that force. BE it. Be the force to be reckoned with against the enemy’s wiles. Be the force that sends demons running, clears out entire areas and cities and communities from evil, and calls on My Holy Spirit to dwell, protect, and lead.

“When you feel weary, remember that I specifically called you and fashioned you to be born at this time, during the fight for My Kingdom on earth. Look to Me for power and strength and endurance. I know you far better than you know yourself. I know your capabilities through My Hands, while you may look only at your frailty and tiredness of the moment. Every moment is in My hands and moving toward My Great Picture for the future. Ask Me to infuse energy into your moments, even while you set your eyes far ahead on the prize that lies before you. You work not just for today. You work for the future. Some of the seeds you sow in a moment will not fully grow for years. I challenge you to have eyes to see the little sprouts before you. If you are looking for a large tree when it is still the tiniest sprout, you will miss it. And you may even trample it. DO NOT TRAMPLE MY NEW BEGINNINGS. Ask Me for eyes to see new growth, for wisdom in watering and nurturing, for patience as growth takes place.

“Arise now. Pray and declare My Truth – and take back your nation of America to once again be a Nation Under God. I will never leave you alone in this. I will guard and guide you. Only obey as I call. And it will be well with your soul.”
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Notes:

Hebrews 1:14: Are they [angels] not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Isaiah 35:4: Say to those with anxious heart, “Take courage, fear not.
Behold, your God will come with vengeance; The recompense of God will come, but He will save you.”

Isaiah 46:9-10: “Remember the former things long past, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying, ‘My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure.’”

Matthew 11:12: “From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force.”

Isaiah 40:29: He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power.

Galatians 6:9: Let’s not become discouraged in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not become weary.

Job 8:7: Though your beginning was insignificant, yet your end will increase greatly.

Philippians 3:13-14: Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Zechariah 4:10: Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin…

This word from the Lord came on August 23, 2024–before He called me to start this blog. This timeless word is short but runs very deep. May He give you revelation as you meditate upon it.

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“I would like to tell you that you are loved. That you are cherished. That there is no one like you in your uniqueness. For I fashioned you to be YOU. A unique creation designed to do My Will and hear My Voice. To commune with Me. To bask in My Love and Glory. 

“When you come to Me and listen, you learn more about yourself. For I know you even better than you know yourself. I designed you. I know every intricate piece and particle of you. As you give all of yourself to Me, I reveal more of who you are. The best you is the YOU who follows My destiny. To stray from My destiny is to lose out on seeing your greatest potential. In Love I bring back those who stray. In Love I even make up for lost time. 

“Love is gracious and kind and everlasting. I AM Love.”

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Notes:

Psalm 139:1-5, 13-16, 23-24: O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up. You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on my tongue, behold, O Lord, You know it all. You have enclosed me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me…For You formed my inward parts. You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are York works, and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. Your eyes have seen my unformed substance. And in your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them…Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my anxious thoughts. See if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Ephesians 2:10: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 1:17-19: …that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe…

Isaiah 46:10: I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, “My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.”

Romans 12:2: Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:1: I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Psalm 138:8: The Lord will accomplish what concerns me. Your lovingkindness, O Lord, is everlasting. Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

This morning after I recorded God’s word to us, I learned that President Trump will be reading a passage for America Reads the Bible, a week-long public reading of the entire Bible, starting tomorrow, 4/19/26. The passage President Trump will read is II Chronicles 7:11-22. I find it very significant that he is reading the passage that contains God’s promise (verse 14) to His people: “[If] My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

Do you see what God is doing for America!? And His word to us today speaks even more about His promises for His people and this nation:
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“What do I say to you today? I say to you that you are made in excellence. My excellence. You are made to carry My Glory. You are made to revel in the Victory of My Spirit. You are made to reflect Me in all that you do and all that you say. Such is the way of My People.

“Do you think you can do this on your own? Do you think you have the wherewithal? The vitality? The knowing? The energy, and endurance, and discerned thinking? You have none of these things without Me. For all of these things belong to Me. And I freely share them with My People – to the extent they are willing to accept. To the extent you are willing to walk in these things.

“How much Victory do you want in your life? In the life of your family, your marriage, your nation? You shall have your Victory to the extent of which you seek and believe in Me to provide. To the extent of which you cry out to Me. I, the Lord your God, give only good gifts to My People. And I long to shower you with more and more of My good gifts. Simply ask. And be willing to lay your lives upon My altar as a living sacrifice for Me. When you give Me all of yourself, I am free to give you all I desire to give you. And what I desire is to great overflowing – more than you can dream of.

“I could force you to Love Me, to give Me your all. I could force you to be My servant. Where is the true godly Love in being forced? I seek from you Love for Me as I have Loved you. Such Love can never be forced but is given freely, willingly, and joyfully.

“Annex yourself to Me. Place yourself legally and willfully under My Power of Guardianship. Annex to Me your family, your nation. Live daily in complete Trust of Me and what I am doing for the nation of America. Call upon My legal rights to your nation in the face of your enemy’s attempts to take it over. He does not, and never has, owned America. From the foundation of the earth, America has been Mine. Now watch with expectant eyes as I supernaturally move over America to cast down evil and bring forth the greatest blessings this nation has ever known. Praise Me now for these blessings of present and future. Praise Me now and trust in My protection of you and your holdings during this time of transition in America from evil systems to good. And truly all will be well with your soul. You will be free to live and walk in My Peace during all the required shaking within your nation – MY NATION.

“Spoken by your God, who never lies, who never falls short. Who abundantly blesses all who have Faith in Him. Amen.”
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Notes:

God’s use of the word “annex” was interesting and surprising to me. I looked it up to see its various meanings/nuances:

Annex: 1. to incorporate within the domain of a country, state, etc. 2. to add to something earlier, larger, or more important. 3. (archaic) to join together/unite.

Isaiah 43:7, 21: …Everyone who is called by My name, and whom I have created for My glory, whom I have formed, even whom I have made…The people whom I formed for Myself will declare My praise.

II Corinthians 4:6: For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Matthew 5:16: In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Philippians 1:27:  Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that…you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel.

I John 5:4: For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

I Corinthians 15:57: But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

James 1:17: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Psalm 84:11: For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Romans 12:1-2: Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 10:10: …I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

Luke 10:27: …You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind. And, love your neighbor as yourself.

Jeremiah 17:7-8: Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose trust is the Lord. For he will be like a tree planted by the water that extends its roots by a stream, and does not fear when the heat comes;
But its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious in a year of drought, nor cease to yield fruit.

Psalm 2:7-8: “I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord: He said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, and the very ends of the earth as Your possession.”

Psalm 22:27-28: All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before You, for Kingship belongs to the Lord, and He rules over the nations.

Isaiah 26:2-4: Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, the one that remains faithful. The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever, for in God the Lord, we have an everlasting Rock.

John 14:27: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Numbers 23:19: God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Matthew 25:21: “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful over little; I will set you over much.”