21-April-2022_on the gifts
[A message for someone enduring illnesses one after the next.]
(Jesus speaking: ) I’m desperate for people to reach out and take hold of the gifts that I am giving; the gifts that make you whole. 
They are not entirely free, that is to say they do involve some sort of a cost. A cost of self will and endeavours, and mostly the pride of life; their image. For to take in part of Me requires some change in you. You can’t have a part of Me and yet still keep all there is of you that pertains to the current planet you live on. 
Receiving the gifts of the spirit are more like a trade—you take in something from My realm that will require you to give up in a sacrificial way, something that you may hold dear. 
It doesn’t come freely and easily for Me either, for these gifts that I offer to take the place of pride or worldly pursuits cost Me somewhat to give them--because they are living gifts and it takes life to give life. 
Take the gift of Salvation, what did it cost? It’s free yes. But it costs the person sorely who dares to receive it when it’s not the “fashionable” thing around; when receiving Me instead of the ways of the place they living, is a dangerous and heart breaking thing to do. And of course it initially did cost My life on Earth. 
So to receive Eternal life may or may not initially cost you your early life, but certainly your personal comforts in most or many places.
But there are other gifts and all these are also more of a “trade”. It’s good to realise this. For to “trade” does require your efforts. You can’t just have people giving you freely things, while you just take in and absorb and receive, sitting there more and more comfortable and fed by the day, fattening with material and spiritual blessings. For My gifts to truly be the blessing that they were designed to be, it’s more like I’m handing you a tool, rather than a nice-to-have item. 
I might say, “Here’s a shovel” and give it freely to you, though it cost Me doing all the hard and hot metal work and so forth to make it. I give it to you because I know you are going to be hungry if you don’t get digging and planting in the plot of land that you are sitting wearily on. So in return, you get working to plant some food crops in return that can be shared with the workers that I send there to help you. 
I give and you work, and in the end the job gets done.
But if you were to just sit there, under the shade of an oak, pining why you didn’t have some many nice things, and had no intention of doing anything, would it make Me wish to give to you?—That is to say to trade with you?
So I have a gift for you, but the cost will match it—the cost of a change; the cost of stirring up things that might have gone on drowsily sleeping; the cost of being the you you have always been. 
You don’t have to take this gift, but it may cost you a heap more if you don’t, for the gift is a as a tool to help sustain your life and the lives of others. There are other gifts and they each have their benefits, pluses and minuses, and what it may cost you in the long run.
When receiving the gift of prophecy, this one here was told the cost would be in the department of missing and being separate from her loved ones and family, and being in a nearly constant state of aloneness or being set apart. That was one of the costs. But will it give life to others, and will it drown out the voices of the death promoters? Will it save lives that might not have been saved if she had chosen to hold on to what she had and to not receive the gift that would cost her somewhat, initially? 
So in offering to you this other gift, it too has power to save both yours and other’s lives, keeping you all in the race right up until the final moments of your glorious winning for My Kingdom. Both you and others will be enabled to “finish your course” and won’t be knocked out of the ring prematurely. 
But it may cost you somewhat. I know it will. But will it be worth it? I am sure. Or I wouldn’t offer you something that was just a cost. I just see if you are worthy of the rewards that these gifts I offer do give to the receiver. If you can manage a bit of loss in one part of your life, then you can be abundantly rewarded in return.
So what will this gift do for you—it will break down your image of who you wish to be, on a daily basis. You will resemble more a disciple who does what I bid, in the littler things. You will be as a hand to help, as a minister of love, faith, and healing. But these things won’t be as a showy, radiant, glowing ministry, for you must stay out of sight.
Did you know that this single gift of My Spirit, when activated in the lives of people on earth, is enough to bring the whole filthy system down?
That’s why I entrust these gifts into the hands of My faithful believers, those who are willing to let these gifts go to work, for they will be the demise the system and evil work of the day. I won’t let My people take upon them the credit for the works that I am allowing Myself to do through them, for that would defeat the whole purpose. The victories won are to cause people to cry out to Me as their hope and help. 
Whereas if a human brings fame to themselves rather, or even if people look to them (like the lame man and people around were looking initially to Peter and John, rather than to the real source of the power) then the source of their power will be turned off. For the whole point was to turn the eyes of all to the God who can do the impossible. For it is not in uplifting the gifts imbedded in a human that will change the world all the way over to the right side, and defeat evil; but in people calling on the Name of the Lord, then they will be saved. 
Can you be a faucet? Just a tap. That’s all I need. Can you bring water that brings healing? What water? My Spirit. I need taps that will turn on and just let My Spirit flow through them; through them in prayer; through them in touch; through them in the Word of God that they freely share, for this is what will cause the reaction that starts the change. 
My Spirit needs to touch a person in order for them to be made whole, and I need someone who is willing to channel that Spirit.
So what will it cost? Whatever drives away My Spirit will have to go, for if all you are to do to bring healing to others is to let My spirit flow through, then you can’t have anything blocking the way. So in order to operate this gift freely, it takes having less, rather than having something more in order to do the job. Less of your will and ways at a given moment when you are to transmit the love healing power from Heaven. You can’t be a consideration at that moment, but only whatever I need you to be doing at that moment when My spirit leads you to do something to bring more healing and life, and My Spirit into someone’s life and body too. For those moments, you have to be on the back burner, and My will on the front, at the foremost. 
This means, in practical terms, if you are in the middle of doing one thing, and you are focused on getting somewhere, that instead, you might need to be open to delays or a momentary shift of focus and putting your plans or purpose off to the side when My Spirit calls you to help someone who needs your gift of healing to be activated right then. 
It might take getting sick, so you can be touched with the feelings of knowing what it feels like to be unwell for long periods of time, as the feeling helps you to pray with more empathy. And this is one of the hardest costs of all, for it truly is giving of yourself, to go so far as to be unwell so that you can truly care and keep giving the gift of healing to others. If you know what it feels like, you’ll care more, and when you care, then the prayers you pray will come with greater force and get greater attention. 
Having the gift of healing doesn’t mean you are free from every illness and disease, nor does it mean that every person you pray for that is unwell will receive instant healing, if that isn’t the best for their faith at the time. But since you aren’t in it for the glory, it won’t bother you too much. And since it’s out of your hands if they are healed or not, or when the power is released to do so, you simply deliver the living water to them, you allow My Spirit to start to work in their life, and you let Me do the rest. I couldn’t do it if you hadn’t been the channel to start the flow of power. I do need vessels in flesh and blood to work through. That’s just the way it’s set up. 
If there are no vessels that want My Spirit, and who let it flow through and out of them on to others, I can’t pass it on and I can’t bring healing. That’s why I sent My disciples out to heal the sick, because I needed to pass the gift of healing through a person. 
I commanded preaching the Word—more of a spiritual ministry; as well as healing the sick. I in my life time did both, lots. My disciples did both. Both are the most desperate needs to be satisfied, for both sustain life; and when either are non existent, then death takes over the globe. These two go hand in hand. 
Not every disciple is meant to shine out with both of these gifts; some do; but others shine more in the “healing and helping” department; and others focus more on the “giving the Word out to the nations”. But if you give out the Word, you will be bringing healing; and if go out to “heal the sick” you will find the biggest need, and the reason that they got so sick in the first place was due to a lack of the Word in their life, and in order for them to stay healed they are going to need to change their diet of what they take in to their heart and mind. Any faith healer has to have a good stash of the Word to pass on, or healing won’t  come, and if it does briefly, it won’t stay that way for long. They have to get the Word into their heart and mind on a daily basis, hourly preferable; all the time ideally.
So faith and healing work hand in hand. With the Holy Spirit working, it will provide both—the Word of God and give life. 
And now comes the fun bit:
What will you get in return for giving yourself in this way, a bit of yourself to Me, so I can replace that bit with a gift of My Spirit? 
All the people whose lives were either restored, or lengthened, or enlivened and truly living in fullness with full ability, who have been watered with My Word, will go on to do some amazing things. Just think, the effects of each of those lives and who they in turn will touch, will come back to you and you’ll share in the rewards. You won’t just reap the benefit for giving your life to Me, but benefit and be amply rewarded through all the good that comes through the lives of the people who gain healing and get strong in My Spirit. 
You feel much of your life is behind you and has not been used for any great feats for God? You feel you have little to show in the “souls and salvations and ministry for the Lord” department? 
That’s why I am now giving you this gift, if you will take it, for in bringing health and life to others, you are multiplying your impact on Earth for the good, suddenly, to exponential amounts. 
Will you fill that roll? Will you be the vessel who allows My Spirit to flow through you, and touch a life here and there, in your quiet and humble way. A prayer here and there can save so many lives, and cause them to yet go and help more. 
And it’s not just physical lives that I’m trying to heal, for some who you pray for will die. But it’s that often in healing the body, if they turn fully over to Me and start taking in the Word of the living God, it’s their spirit that starts to heal and be set free, and this is really the goal. It wouldn’t be nearly enough if everyone on this planet were healed, right now. Is that correct? That’s not going to change things, only make it worse in many ways, if hearts of healed and “super bodies” people are facing the darkness and keep plunging the world into the darkness. If they use their health to do evil, then health now would be a bad thing. 
What is needed isn’t the outward healing, but My Spirit taken in by each one, on a daily, even hourly basis. If healing activates this hook-up, this connection to Me, so that I can then fill and sustain and teach and lead and inspire that person every day, and they truly can be as a bit of Me on this earth, then that is what will truly make a good change over all. 
Will people hear about you? Will you be as some famous healing evangelist? No. For since supernatural healing is as pulling out a card at the bottom of a house of cards, and it will bring many of the evils of this world to a downfall, it’s not something the world wants to have around, and will stamp out any such persons, as quickly as possible, who sport this gift. So it can’t be a “sport”, that is to say, a game or something worn on your sleave, advertising to all. 
Just when I lead you to pray for an individual, either with them or privately, that you do so. And you keep your heart open for My Spirit to lead you, at times, to engage in conversation and interaction with people who need healing.
It’s not something that will take a whole lot of time, but will have a major impact. 
Or maybe I will lead you to have special prayer for certain types of illnesses to depart that are plaguing different people, and you pray a “group prayer” for nameless people, and I will hear and will answer, and many will turn to Me as a result of your fervency in prayer.
So will you accept this gift from My hands? 
I love you and need you.
(ended 5:55)