Do Not Lose Faith

Some of you have been in an intense battle for some time now, feeling as though you are barely keeping your head above water in the fight. I say to you today, wipe clean your armor, for I shall finish the battle for those of Mine who have labored long on the battlefield. Wipe clean your armor, for it shall be put away to fight with another day. This day have I clothed you with a new mantle – a Mantle of Victory, for you have won the battle you are in.

I have told you that you are in a Season of Prayer, and so you are. You are in a Season of Prayer to save lost souls, prayer for Me to increase your territory, and prayer for strength and refreshment for the next battle.

The enemy sees the Mantle of Victory on you, but this does not guarantee you will win every battle, so do not allow pride to enter in. It is a symbol that your endurance has been tested and tried, and you have come through.

You will need endurance more and more for the coming battles, for they are long and arduous ones. I always prepare My People for what lies ahead of them, if they are surrendered to Me. Those who refuse My refining will not be ready.

Do not lose faith when you see unprepared ones fall in battle, for they were not willing. It was not My Will. I desire all to be prepared. I draw you to what will best prepare you, but many refuse Me, preferring worldly pleasures to My preparation times.

Remember I have told you this.

NOTE: When the Lord spoke about not losing faith when you see unprepared ones fall in battle, I saw that many will die in disasters and attacks coming, not because He wills it, but because of their refusal to be prepared, to be trained to hear Him and obey Him, etc. Others in the faith will blame God, but it is not His doing, it is their own for not allowing Him to be Lord of their lives in every way, for not being willing to spend the time with Him, listen for His Voice, and clear the sin out of their lives. He does not want us to see others perish and blame Him is what He is saying here. That’s what He meant by “Remember I have told you this.” He means remember I said this when you see that happen. Also, our spiritual armor is something we put on every day, but in our present battles that He shows us we have won, we can go into prayer over now and get ready for the next one.

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Romans 5:3-4 (ESV)

3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

Hebrews 10:36-37 (ESV)

36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37 For,

“Yet a little while,

    and the coming one will come and will not delay;

James 1:2-4  (ESV)

2 Count it all joy, my brothers,[a] when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Matthew 25:1-10King James Version (KJV)

1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.