Prophecies on Yieldedness
PROPHECIES ON YIELDEDNESS!-By Maria 2/96
Dear Family,1.Over the last year, the Lord has been pouring out His Words to us! He's given us revelations, He's given us comfort and encouragement, He's given us counsel on many different subjects. He's answered all our questions. It never ceases to amaze me that He speaks to us so specifically, clearly, and with such perfect insight and marvellous wisdom.
2. One topic the Lord has spoken about in a number of prophecies is the importance of yieldedness. As we all know, yieldedness to the Lord and His will plays a paramount role in our lives, as it does in the lives of all Christians. Your yieldedness determines the degree to which the Lord can use you in His service. It also has a great deal to do with your happiness and contentment.
3. I'd like to share these wonderful messages from the Lord with you. Please read them prayerfully, asking the Lord to show you everything He has for you, so that not one word will be wasted, and you will benefit personally from the many important lessons contained therein. Of course, not everything in a prophecy given to or about one individual is applicable to another; nevertheless, there are always many important things which we can learn from the experiences of others and the counsel the Lord has given them.
4. Since the prophecies are very simple and clear, they speak for themselves, and there is no need for me to include explanations after each one. I have limited myself to commenting only on those points which I feel need some slight clarification.
5. May the Lord bless you and make this reading time a very fruitful one. I love you, and am proud of each of you for being willing to be what Jesus wants you to be.
The Contentment of Yieldedness!
6. (Prophecy, Jesus speaking:) Yieldedness brings contentment! He who has a yielded heart and a yielded spirit has contentment, for he has faith that that which he does and that which he experiences is of Me. He doesn't fight against it, he doesn't kick against the pricks, and thus he is content. But he [who is] of an unyielded spirit and an unyielded heart fights against it. He kicks against the pricks and becomes discontented and unhappy.
7. As he that is unyielded does not have contentment, neither does he that comes to Me with set plans and set ideas, saying, “This is the way that I wish for it to be. This is the way that I feel it should be. This is the way that I want it to be.” For he whose mind is set and not open to Me cannot receive the things which I have for him, things that go contrary to that which he thinks, the things which are truly the plan and will of God.
8. When the mind is set and is not moldable, not fluid, it becomes hardened, and it becomes very difficult for it to receive the things of My Spirit. When the plan is set in the minds of men, it is more difficult for them to be yielded to Me and to the things that I want to do. But the minds and the hearts that say to Me, “Not my will but Thine be done,” are moldable, are flexible, and thus can receive that which I give, and thus are more content and happier.
9. The root of discontentment lies in the heart and mind of man, when the mind is set and the heart is set and they are not open to that which I have planned, designed, and ordained.
10. Look at these matters with an open and yielded heart, not having set down the plan which you have decided in your own mind. For when you set the plan within your own mind and it doesn't work out according to that which you thought, you are disappointed and think that things aren't going well. But if you come to Me with an open heart and are prepared for all that I have for you, then you will see that I do all things well.-Even though I may not do things the way that you have planned, nor the way that you have thought.
11. Oh, what peace and contentment comes to the hearts of those who are open to Me, whose minds are not made up! When I bring forth something new, they flow with it and say, “Yes, yes, I will go here. Yes, yes, I will do this,” because they don't have their minds made up as to how things should be. When I bring forth new things, they do not say, “Oh, it cannot be this way! I do not wish for it to be this way, I wish for it to be that way! I have already decided in my mind the way it should be, and that's how it should be, and it should be no other way!” He that reacts in such a way when he hears of the moves of My Spirit and the will of My Spirit has great discontentment and great turmoil, for he does not yield to Me.
12. But he that is open and willing to receive with an empty heart, not full of self, not full of his own plans, not full of already-decided decisions, shall have great contentment, peace of heart, and peace of mind.
13. So be moldable! Be open and be prepared for those things that I will show you. If you will receive them with an open heart and an open mind, and if you will be willing to move according to My plan and operate according to that which I show you, you shall have contentment, and you shall have peace, and so shall your struggle cease. For in Me there is great peace, and in Me is great contentment for him who is yielded and open and does not have his mind made up.
14. Operate according to the plan of God and not the plan of man, and you shall have rest in your heart, rest in your mind, rest in your soul, and rest in your spirit. You will know just what contentment and such rest can bring! (End of prophecy.)
The Root of Unyieldedness!
15. (Maria:) A very precious and faithful Family member wrote to me asking if I would pray for him, as for years he has been fighting a battle against an angry, impatient spirit. The following is what the Lord said to him.
16. (Prophecy, Jesus speaking:) You are like a gardener in My Kingdom, and I have given you a choice plot of land which is your place of service in My Family. I have given you many, many valuable seeds to plant in your garden, which are the many gifts and talents that I have given you.-Your gift for witnessing; your gift for singing and song writing; your gift for composing music; a gift of good looks and strength; a fighting spirit in the face of obstacles; a will to stick, even when things go wrong.
17. Also, I have given you many blessings, and many experiences in being used in many ways, travelling in many countries.-And especially in giving you a beautiful family, a wife who loves you, and precious children who love and need you. So this is your beautiful garden that I have given you.
18. I am the Master Gardener. I am the Master Landscaper. I have placed in your hand these seeds, and you have planted them and watered them and tended them. But as I look upon your garden, I see that there is an ugly, evil weed that is defiling it, and it has been a troublesome, bothersome weed. In all the years that you have faithfully tended your garden, there has been this weed, and many times you have gone after it with a zeal! You have tried to root it out. You have chopped it down and you have burned it. You have so wanted to rid your garden of this ugly weed.
19. But to rid your garden of this weed, you must go down deep beneath the surface and the topsoil. You must look much deeper and find the roots, for there is a source of this weed. There is one root deep down that is the source of this weed.
20. It is from this source that it sends out its little runners, and the little weed will pop up here, or it will pop up there, and you'll go chasing after it to try to cut it down! Then you'll run over there to that corner of the garden and cut it down. Then you'll run across over there and cut it down, and it just keeps popping up here and there and here and there! Even though you cut it down, it still keeps popping up again. That's because the root is underneath the surface, where you can't see it. That's what you must go after! You must dig down and grab that root and chop it out! Pull it out by the hand of faith so that your garden can be forever rid of this ugly, bothersome, evil weed!
21. This root has many branches. It is solid and strong and embedded deeply in the soul of your garden plot. It is a root of unyieldedness. If you want your garden plot to be beautiful and free from this evil weed, then dig down deep and cut out the root of unyieldedness and all the sins that go with it. Yield yourself completely to Me and say, “Not my will but Thine be done!”
22. When you have absolutely no plan of your own, when you are completely moldable in My hands, when you are willing to give up anything, to pay any price, to suffer any sacrifice, to be nothing in the eyes of those around you; when you completely yield yourself to Me and the only thing that you want in your life is to be free from these things so that you might have Me and My Spirit more abundantly, then you shall find deliverance, and your garden plot shall be more beautiful than ever before! It shall flourish! You shall continue as My faithful gardener, and people will look upon your garden plot and they will marvel at the beauty, and it shall glorify Me.
23. Many shall come to you and behold your family, your children, your gifts, your talents, your songs, and it shall glorify Me and it shall be a testimony of My greatness! Once and for all it will not be the great you that they will see, but they will see a humble gardener, one who lifts up his hands and says, “Behold, it is not me that has created this beautiful garden, it is the Master Gardener-all glory to Him!” (End of prophecy.)
Keep Your Heart Soft Through Yieldedness!
24. (Maria:) The following prophecy was given for a person who had been unyielded in various ways for a period of time. This message shows the dangers of not yielding to the Lord even in the smallest ways, as unyieldedness breeds further unyieldedness.
25. (Prophecy, Jesus speaking:) Oh, the danger to those who choose not to yield unto Me. Oh, the danger to those who choose to only yield a part of their heart unto Me, who yield much, but will not yield all.-Who hold on to one part of their heart and say, “I will give of the other parts, but I will not give of this part, for this part is mine and I will not yield it.”
26. Those parts of the heart that are yielded unto Me are Mine, and I protect and keep them. I hold [that part of the heart] within My hands. I keep it warm, I keep it soft, I keep it moldable. But the part that is not given to Me, I cannot hold and keep soft, and it hardens. Though the rest of the heart is soft and moldable, this part of the heart begins to harden, and it grows harder. As it grows harder, it grows bigger, for unyieldedness breeds further unyieldedness.
27. He that will not yield in one area begins the process of the hardening of the heart. I will continue to try to keep the rest of the heart soft and moldable and warm, but as the hardness continues to grow, I have less to work with, until the heart becomes divided, one part hard, one part soft. To the soft part of the heart I can speak, I can kiss, and I can blow the warmth of My breath. But the hard part of the heart receives not these things, and thus is open for the attacks, for the words and the breath of Satan, the Enemy, the Devourer, him with the hardest heart of all. This hardness becomes his territory. And while I work on the softness of the heart, as I massage it and warm it, so does he work on the hard part of the heart, to make it even more rigid.
28. There are parts of this one's heart that are soft and moldable, but there is a part of her heart that is rigid, very rigid. She must recognize that the hardness grows, and it has grown, and it continues to grow, and thus I have less softness to work with. The only way that the hardness of heart can become softness of heart is if all of the heart is given to Me, if all is yielded to Me, so that I may again begin to work on the hardness; that I may again begin to breathe the warmth of My breath upon it; that I may kiss it with the warmth of My kisses and the warmth of My Love, so that eventually it may become fully soft once again.
29. But this requires great forsaking-the forsaking of self, the forsaking of selfishness, the forsaking of this one's own ways and own desires and own demands. This is a choice that she must make: Does she wish to have the softness of heart? Or will she allow the hardness of her heart to continue to grow and grow until it becomes as a heart of stone-unyielded, unwilling, no longer moldable, no longer soft, but only hard and rigid in its own ways and in its own desires?
30. Oh my daughter, place your heart in My hands that I may massage it back to life-full life! Let Me shatter the hardness of your heart. Let Me remold and remake it, through the tender touch and warmth of My hands upon your heart.
31. The choice is yours. For I do not force My Love and the warmth of My loving hands upon your heart, but I am there, ever ready, ever willing, ever able to soften that which is hardened. But you must desire it. You must ask for it.
32. But know this, that if you desire it not, then shall the hardness continue to overcome the softness. Then will you have less of Me. And know that as the heart goes, so goes the spirit. For he that has the soft, warm, moldable heart is he that is soft and moldable in spirit. And he whose heart has become hardened does also become hardened and rigid in spirit.
33. As the spirit goes, so is your life affected accordingly. For he who has a soft and loving and moldable spirit is loved, is desired, is wanted by those around him. But he that is hard in spirit is not wanted or desired by those around him. So the condition of your heart affects all aspects of your life.
34. The amount that you allow Me to hold, to mold, to warm your heart, directly affects all that you do, all that you are, all that you will be. So give Me your heart, all your heart, My loved one, lest the hardness overwhelm you. Let Me breathe on it, let Me kiss it, let Me warm it, let Me melt it. Do not hold back from Me. Do not hold back any part of your heart, for in doing so you give a wedge, a place, to the Evil One.
35. As a cancer that grows from a small cell until it overwhelms the strength of the whole body, so is the area that is held back from Me-the unwillingness, the unyieldedness to let Me have full control. And this grows and it grows until it damages and it weakens and will eventually destroy, if it is not stopped.
36. So give Me your heart, My loved one, that I may hold it in My hands and that I may heal it completely, softening all parts. But you must give it all to Me, so that I can work on all of it, so that it may once again become moldable, warm and loving. (End of prophecy.)
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37. (Maria:) The next prophecies from the Lord and a
spirit helper were given for someone who'd had repeated serious problems with
unyieldedness in some areas of her life. The overall message from the Lord
is one of strong correction and warning about the dangers of wrong attitudes
and ongoing unyieldedness. The Lord explains how she would yield eventually,
but because her yielding was often so delayed, coming only after she had
gone the wrong direction for a while, she had to endure a lot of
disappointment, discouragement, depression, defeat, and agony of spirit that
she would otherwise have been able to avoid. When she would see the error of
her ways and finally decide to yield-which she often did, thank the Lord-it was
much more difficult for her to get back on the path of yieldedness than it
would have been if she had chosen to yield right from the beginning.
The High Road or the Low Road?-The Choice Is Yours!
38. (Prophecy, Jesus speaking:)
Oh, that this one would just yield and would just say “yes,” for a simple “yes”
would bring the relief that she seeks. But her “yeses” are so delayed and
are fraught with such hard work. When she comes to a crossroads, instead of
taking the upward road, she starts on the downward one. After going downward
awhile, she realizes this is the wrong direction. So then she must climb
upward over the steep cliffs and the jagged rocks, and thus she cuts and
bruises herself and works so hard to get to the upward road that she was
supposed to be on in the first place. When she gets on it, she sees that this
is the right way, the right path, and she goes merrily along her way.
39. (The picture is that the higher
road slants upward and the lower road slants downward, so the farther you go
on the downward road, the further away you are from the upper road. When
she realized she was on the wrong path, she couldn't go back the way she had
come, but instead she had to climb straight up the cliff from the low to the
high road. It wasn't as though choosing to travel on the upward road was so
terribly difficult or required an expenditure of great self-effort. When you
came to a crossroads it only required a simple “yes,” a yielding to the Lord,
for you to take the path of the high road. As she traveled on the downward
road, it was like the road represented time. She could not turn around and go
back in time to the point where she made the wrong decision and get back on the
upward road. The only way to get from the lower road to the upper road was to
climb the steep cliff joining the two.)
40. (Prophecy continues:) But
then comes another fork in the road, and instead of just saying “yes” and
continuing on the upward path, she resists and she kicks and she fusses and
she fights and she starts downward once again, only to later realize that she
is heading the wrong way and that she must climb the cragged edges once again.
She must once again go through the suffering, the torment, the pain, the
torture, the depression, the discouragement and the defeat, until she finally
drags herself up on to the high road and goes merrily on her way.
41. But the solution is so simple!
She must only say “yes” and follow the high path from the beginning! These
choices are not choices that are only put before her, but before all of
My children. Day by day My children must make choices, they must decide to take
the high road or the low road. If they miss the high road, they can still get
on it, but it's very difficult and they must work at it. But if they just say
“yes” at the crossroads, they carry on in the high way and they progress and
they grow and they're strengthened. They don't waste their strength climbing
from the low road to the high road; instead they use their strength for My
service and My purpose.
42. The choice of the high road is
just that! -Simply a choice! When you choose it and you walk on the high
road, things are so much better. Though the high road has its battles and there
are boulders in the way that must be overcome and pushed off or climbed over,
it is not like the cragged edges or the steep cliffs that must be climbed when
you miss the high road in the first place. (End of prophecy.)
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43. (Prophecy, spirit helper speaking:) She should
say “yes” to us, for we try to help her. We try to show her the high road.
We point the way. We turn her that way and we say, “This is it! This is it!”
But she says, “No! I want to go my way! I want things to be my
way! I don't want it to be someone else's way, I want it to be my
way!” And thus she starts down her low road. But then she sees her way is not
the way of happiness, but the way of death, and thus she has to start her high
and hard and difficult climb.
44. Oh, that she would just listen!
Oh, that she would just listen to us. Oh, that she would just listen to
others. Oh, that she would just believe that her way is not the right way. Her
ways are not our ways. Her thoughts are not our thoughts.
But if she would say “yes,” simply “yes,” then her thoughts could be our
thoughts, because we would have an opening in the Spirit to get through to her
and to influence her mind and her heart and her spirit more easily.
45. But when she is stomping her
feet and saying, “I want my way!” there is nothing we can do, for the
barrier between her mind and heart and us is too thick, and we cannot get
through, so we must let her go her way. Then we have to work to help her to
understand and to make the hard, hard, hard climb. But these are her choices,
and this is of her own choosing. Because she wants her way and insists
on her own way and her own thoughts, she cannot accept the things that we try
to show her, and it makes it difficult for her to even accept the Word, the
Words of David, because she is constantly saying, “I want my way!”
46. As the times grow darker and more
difficult, the children are going to have to learn to listen to us and to seek
us for our guidance, and for our strength, and for our wisdom, for the gifts
that we are unto them. Now is the day of the whispers. Now is the day when
those who will listen will hear, and those who refuse will not.
Many things, both there and Here, are changing, and the way we will all operate
together will change. For the days ahead are dark days, and we must all work
together in a new way. Now all must make choices. All must begin to hear
the whispers and to yield and to say “yes.”
47. We are no longer allowed to
hedge her about so closely. She is going to have to decide. She is
going to have to make her own choices now. We are there to help, we are there
to lead, we show the way, but she must stop demanding and insisting. She must
begin to yield. For the path from the low road to the high road is going to be
much steeper and much longer a climb, because the low road descends even faster
and the high road ascends even steeper; thus the further down the low road she
goes, the further away from the high road she is.
48. So her choices are important.
She must choose. She must choose this day whom she will serve. If the Lord be
God, serve Him! Say “yes” to Him, and follow closely. But if Baal, the Baal of
your own desires and your own mind and your own insistence be god, then serve
him. (End of prophecy.)
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The Lord Gives Us Time to Yield
(Maria:) 49. When applying
this counsel to others or trying to help them in their decision-making,
remember that if God is anything, He is Love, and He sees each one of us
through the eyes of Love. And even though He knows our faults and failings
and our mistakes, when He thinks about them, He doesn't think, “What should I
do to punish them for those things?” Instead He thinks, “How can I help
them to overcome those things so they will be happier and more fulfilled? How
can I do it in the way that will hurt them the least and help them the most?”
50. Just remember, dear ones, He's
in love with you! How do you see the one who you are deeply in love with?
How do you view their faults? Even if you are aware of them, don't you usually
try to overlook them? Don't you try to give them the benefit of the doubt? This
is the way Jesus is with you. This is the way He wants you to be with each
other, and not just those that you particularly like, but each one that you
interact with.
51. Also remember that Jesus looks
on our hearts, our motives. He knows the thoughts that we can't even
express, that we hardly understand ourselves. He is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart. Even though each of us needs love, each of us
is different. “Man looketh on the outward appearance, but God looketh on the
heart.” We have to be careful not to apply our own standard of yieldedness to
everyone else right across the board. You can't say, “Well, I yielded to the
Lord in this area for X amount of time, so everyone else should be able to do
the same. I had tremendous jealousy battles, but the Lord delivered me and I'm
completely free of them, so everyone else should be able to have the same kind
of victory.” Or, “I'm in a similar situation as someone else, but I don't have
the same battles with loneliness as they have, so there must be something wrong
with them.”
52. Remember that not only does the
Lord treat us differently, each as the unique individual that He has made, each
with different reactions, different abilities, different amounts of time needed
to understand our problems and to overcome them, etc., but He also allows us
some leeway when we are trying to make decisions and we are trying to learn our
lessons. He gives us time. He doesn't just slap us down at the first sign of
unyieldedness. He has patience and takes it into account if we are trying and
praying and wanting to yield, if we are saying, “Lord, I believe-help
Thou my unbelief!”
53. If you're still in the time of
decision then the Lord gives you time, especially if the point you are
trying to yield on is not urgent. The Lord knows you can't work on everything
all at once, so in some areas He's more lenient, depending on your situation,
the lessons you need to learn, and the urgency of the matter in question.
54. So you can't make blanket
statements about the timing of how the Lord works in individuals' lives. You
can't say that if a person doesn't yield to something right away, his heart
will get hard and stony. Maybe it will. Maybe it won't. You don't know. Only
the Lord knows! So the best thing to do is to give people the Word and let them
make their own decisions.
55. When you're making decisions,
remember that the Lord has mercy and gives us some time when we're in the
process of deciding to yield. He does everything He can to help us make the
right decisions, and even if we're having a difficult time yielding, even if we
are momentarily unyielded, if we see the error of our ways and ask His
forgiveness and do our best to do whatever it is that He's asking of us, He
will readily and lovingly forgive us.
56. This does not mean, however,
that there is no need to even try to yield right away, or that we can just
entertain our little unguarded moments and act like spoiled children if
something doesn't suit us or if we don't get our way. We have to ask ourselves,
“How many unguarded moments will the Lord allow?” The danger is that unyielded
reactions can quickly become a habit. Certainly if we allow such
unguarded moments frequently, it won't please the Lord, and it will cause a
gradual dulling of our spiritual senses. Each time you allow yourself to react
in the wrong way, it becomes easier and easier for you to do so the next time you're
tested, and like the prophecy warned, unyieldedness leads to more
unyieldedness. So even little unguarded moments can eventually lead to serious
unyieldedness if not wholeheartedly fought against.
57. As you prayerfully study and
read over the prophecies in this letter, remember that while the Lord
allows you to make a choice between being yielded and being unyielded, and He
is not going to force you to be yielded, at the same time He is showing you the
dangers of unyieldedness, which should be a good motivation to yield! He's
warning you how difficult you make it for yourself when you don't yield or
listen to others.
58. When you're making decisions
and choosing whether or not to yield, remember, you bring problems on yourself
when you're set in your ways, not open to His Word, and determined to do things
your way. Unyieldedness makes it nearly impossible for the Lord to help
you. The longer you refuse to yield, the more difficult it is. The more you go
the wrong direction, the harder it is to get back to the “high road” of the
Lord's perfect will. So the safest thing to do is to yield.
More Thoughts from the Lord & Dad On Yieldedness!
59. (Prophecy, Dad speaking:)
The way to be used mightily is not to be doing things in your own strength, but
to be tapped into the Spirit, and to be operating by the power of God, by
the might of God, by the strength of God! The way to be used mightily is to be
doing the thing that God Himself wants you to be doing, and the only way you
can find that out is by seeking Him, by being yielded to Him, and by really
hearing from Him and knowing what is His will.
60. I don't have to tell you that
sometimes His will does not coincide with our own plans, our own desires and
our own wishes; sometimes, yes, but not always. The problem with so many is
they get led around by their feelings or the things that they think they
should do, and they don't really seek the Lord. They don't listen to the
counsel and wisdom of others either. So often their minds are made up as to
exactly what they want to do, and it doesn't leave any room for others to help
them, or for us on this side to get through.
61. In the end they often learn the
lesson, but often at the expense of a lost opportunity, of a bus that's
missed. How much better it would be if they would seek the Lord, if they would
pray with others, if they would know exactly what it is that the Lord wants
them to do.-And it's not past finding out!
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62. (Prophecy, Jesus speaking:) I have said that it
is the day of choices, and as you make your choices to please Me and do My
will, I put before you a greater selection of choices to please you and to make
your life happy and fulfilled. Each step that you make within My will in order
to please Me will bring you closer to your own happiness, and you will find the
way widening and the choices becoming greater.
63. If you choose your own path,
the choices within your life become more and more limited as you step away from
Me and away from My perfect will, because you choose to be more in control
of your life. But as you give up the reins to Me and let Me control your
life, instead of feeling you will be stifled and controlled, a greater anointing
awaits you! The choice is yours! (End of prophecies.)
