I the Lord grieve...
Yet I desire to bless...

Word Received by Dr. Mary Craig
Wednesday, August 3, 2022 3:00 A.M. (home)

I grow weary with this people. I the Lord grieve as My people continue in their wicked ways, walking in the light of their own wisdom and not according to the wisdom of My Word and My ways.

What does it profit them? Their hearts will not receive My counsel. They are slow to believe. They have long been anxious and crying out, but not for Me, save to have Me approve the desires and devices and plans of their own making.

Am I not God? Do I not give counsel? Am I not Sovereign and holy? Am I not God only Wise?

These behave as sons of Adam—that First Adam who listened to another word, rejected the Wisdom of God, and heeded the voice of the Serpent speaking through the deceived.

Your nation seeks to manipulate to achieve a desired result. But it leads to death and destruction, doctrines of devils; all of it, being caught up in the body and personal ambition and appearance and the spiritual but unholy, perverse, whoredoms and error. The flesh is at war against the Spirit, and who do they think will win? Who has won?

But these operate by the spirit of disobedience. They lie and do not the truth. They are deceived. These are artificial, plastic hypocrites. I have warned of their being turned over to a reprobate mind.

Mine, however, though I am grieved and vexed, insulted, quenched, lied to, and limited, I will not abandon.

Some I will take lest they go deeper into the darkness, caught in snares of their own making.

Some I will snatch from the fire that fascinates them and captures their souls’ attention.

Some I will continue to separate, sift, sort, sanctify, and strike with the rod of chastisement that they repent and return, coming to their senses, for I am a consuming fire, a holy fire. I am a refining fire and Repairer of the Breach. I am the Breaker and Master of Breakthroughs.

I will get the attention of those who are Mine whose hearts have wandered and turned to idols. Hosea. In the Valley of Achor, a door of hope. And I will rescue them from their troubles when they call upon Me, the LORD. I will deliver them from the evil one.

As they make their way out of the pits of destruction they themselves dug, I will be to them Jehovah Shammah. I will guard and hover and watch and intercede as their faithful High Priest.

I will remain faithful to My Word, to keep them and lose none. May they remember the Lord their God to fear Him. For I am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers… I have shown My mercy and My goodness. (Exodus 33) I am not a man that I should lie nor the son of man that I should repent. I the Lord do not change. My face is against those who do evil, yet I desire to bless and to heal and to restore and to deliver.

⁴“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁵You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ⁶but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. ESV

So I say, Repent that I might shine My countenance upon you.

Notes: See Exodus 34:14; https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/God,-Jealous

1 Peter 3:12; 2 Timothy 2:8-13 ESV –

⁸Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, ⁹for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! ¹⁰Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. ¹¹The saying is trustworthy, for:

If we have died with him, we will also live with him;
¹²if we endure, we will also reign with him;
if we deny him, he also will deny us;
¹³if we are faithless, he remains faithful—
for he cannot deny himself. 2 Timothy 2:8-13 ESV

Little children, keep yourselves from idols [or, guard yourselves from the idols.] 1 John 5:21