Many of My people who have tasted, seen, and known that I Am good and that My mercy endureth forever have turned aside. Some have even turned back, some have become lukewarm.  They have lost their focus and they have lost their purpose.  They have been blessed and they have entered into some measures of blessings, and they think that is their purpose.  They think that is their focus.  But you see, they have gone after that which cannot satisfy! 

            Many who are coming to My church say that they are members, but My members look like the Head.  They are members of the body and the Head is part of the body where there is commitment, there is faithfulness, there is soberness, and there is joy – fullness of joy!  For in My Presence there is fullness of joy.  In that joy there is strength, a strength that passes all understanding, a strength that cannot be obtained or gained any other way.

            Do I not say in My Word, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you?”  Some have bowed their knee to the god of things. Some have bowed their knee to mammon.  Some have said, “We do not need Him, because we are rich already, and we are increased with goods.”  But they do not know how poor they are!    

            I have laid down a plumb-line in My Word.  Blessings come upon the wings of obedience.  If there is no obedience, then the wings of blessing do not fly over, do not deposit, and do not give that which I have ordained for My people. Many who call themselves Christians do not look like the Christ, and do not speak or think like the Christ, and they do not act like the Christ.

            This is the day and this is the hour that I desire to give of My power exceedingly, abundantly, above all that can be imagined, hoped for, dreamed of, asked or thought.  It is the time when you must be the vessel that is pure and that is clean so that you can hold and withhold and withstand My power.  It is a time that I desire to charge My people, to edify My people, and to lead them on from faith to faith, and from glory to glory.  But I must ask for obedience in the small things before I can give the great and the big things.

            For it is the hour of My greatness, saith the Lord.  In My gentleness I desire to give to you and to others My greatness.  It will come on the wings of obedience!  I Am calling My people to focus upon Me, and to have My purpose, to have “The Cause” which many have forgotten and laid down by the wayside.  They are going forth with a mighty frown.  They are not saying they are going forth with peace, for they know deep within they do not have the God of all peace, the Savior of peace, and the Holy Spirit of peace working upon and within their lives.  So they have no peace, saith God, for peace comes on the wings of obedience.

            I Am calling My people to take another look at obedience.  I Am calling My people to have no other gods besides Me.  I Am calling My people to bow their knee only to Me, and only then will they see My full power and authority.  They will then be able to decree, and they will be able to speak to the atmosphere, and they will be able to even speak to the land.  Having done all to stand, they will be able to stand.  No storm will cause them to fall.  No storm will be able to disintegrate them at all.

            I Am calling to the small.  I Am calling to one and to all.  It is the time when you must look into the holiness of My face, into the mercy and the goodness – My goodness and My Mercy.  It is the time when I desire to pour upon you the grace that you have never experienced.  It is time for My people to know that the blessings do come. For I have ordained them and I have covenanted with My people that they shall be blessed, but they must remember that a covenant is two-fold.  It must be fulfilled on their side as well as on My side.  Their side is obedience to Me, saith the Lord, and then I will pour out abundantly and I will pour out superabundantly.

            I Am calling My people back to obey Me, saith the Lord.  For obedience is the message of the whole Word of God. Obedience is the message of the Gospel, the glorious Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ which is the Kingdom of God.  The blessings of the Kingdom of God manifest when the King is King, and when He is Lord.

            I have laid down line upon line in My Word, saith the Lord.  Not one Christian who is a real Christian would knowingly add to or take away from My Word.  Real Christians believe My Word should be spoken as the very oracles of God, and that it should be interpreted as I have given it.  But many of My people, for lack of knowledge (which they have refused), are destroyed, not by Me, but by their own lack of knowledge.  The way they add to or take away from My Word is to veer off the plumb-line. They see My Word, but say, “I can do it just a little bit this way.”  No!  I mean it is to be done the way I say it should be done, saith God.  That is where the blessing is.  That is where the multiplication and increase and the blessings are.

            This day, make that commitment to this decision, “I am going to walk according to the Word, believe the Word, speak the Word, and act on the Word just as the Word says.”  If My Word does not say it, I do not care who has said it, and I do not care what book has been written, and I do not care what you have watched, if it is not My Word, then it is not My Word!  So I Am expecting this of My people this day and in the future, to be on the mark in My Word. 

            For have I not said through My Prophet (though you may not consider him a prophet, but I do) that 2006 would be the year of heaven upon earth?  I’m trying to get My people in a place that I can pour out heaven upon the earth, and pour out heaven upon them, saith the Lord.  But you see, it is a matter of trust!  As they trust Me, I Am able to trust them.  I have to trust them and know that they will use the gifts that I Am placing upon them - the anointing, the mantles, the increase and the prosperity - for Me.  Take it all in the basket and in the bundle of life and you will surely see, that I the Lord thy God, I expect loyalty.  I expect faithfulness, and I expect not only that you will trust Me, but that you will be in a place that I can trust you!

Prophecy by Bobbie Jean Merck

Faith Christian Center Church

Joliet, Illinois

July 24, 2005