Stand Up Straight Under the Arm of the Lord

“Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.” Isaiah 48:17 ESV

There are presently wars and rumors of wars spreading over the earth. Jesus, in Luke 21, said these days would come and told us to stand up straight and look up to Him.  Come rest in the Lord’s strong arms. Come receive His loving instruction on how He wants you to follow Him with other brothers and sisters in Christ. Surrender the heavy false yokes of fear, doubt, grudges, and other sin that are weighing you down. Come to Him and let Him take these things off your shoulders. Then take only the yoke of His Arm around your shoulders. His yoke does not weigh you down, He lifts you up so you can stand up straight. As you do this, the Holy Spirit will pour out of you splashing upon people around you. Then they too might come rest in His love.  We are about to experience both wonderful and challenging times on the earth. Come rest and stand strong, He is with us, even to the close of the age.

At this exact time, April 3—8, many years ago Joshua and all Israel were about to defeat the fortified city of Jericho. The walls came tumbling down because the Lord’s people sought, trusted, and obeyed the Lord’s instructions. This Friday, April 5 at 630pm at River of Life in Cedar Rapids we will gather at our Come Rest Ministries Awakening of Love and celebrate the fall of Jericho and seek the Lord for His instructions to fight spiritual warfare His way so many in our city and nation will be saved. Carol and Mark Blomberg will share music the Lord has led them to compose about trusting and obeying the Lord to defeat our modern “Jericho” so many will come rest in Jesus in these challenging times and be saved. Others are bringing friends who need healing.

I remind you of my friend Seth who just celebrated his 14^th birthday and passed the 4^th anniversary of being paralyzed in surgery upon his legs. I ask you to continue to pray for Seth. The Lord continues to give many of us faith, hope, and love for Seth to be completely healed. We don’t understand why the full healing has not been manifest yet, but the Lord tells us in Mark 11 to have faith to move a mountain we must not doubt and continue to trust to Lord, let go of any grudges we are holding in our heart against anyone, and believe we have received the miracle and it will come on the Lord’s timetable, not ours. When I was with Seth four years ago at the hospital in Minneapolis, I heard the Lord say in my heart, “Tell Seth to ask Me to heal him, trust Me to heal him, and work with Me.” Please pray that Seth will be healed and stand up straight under the Arm of the Lord! Please pray that Seth will follow the Lord’s instructions and also that we in the community of faith will follow those instructions as well. There continues to be great financial costs building up for the family. Their van just failed and had to be junked. With no reserves, they need the Lord to provide them a new van that can work with Seth’s wheelchair. Please agree with me in prayer that a new van will be given to them! We continue to believe for funds which will also send Seth to Project Walk in San Diego for more restoration, until the Lord heals him. Please prayerfully consider sending a financial gift to the Seth Jackson 2CAMiracle Fund.

Make the check out to River of Life Ministries, memo-Seth Jackson Fund and mail your check to:   

 River of Life Ministries

3801 Blairs Ferry Rd 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402

No matter how immoral our culture becomes, no matter how many dictators rattle their sabers and launch their missiles---the Lord is saying to all of us, “Fear not. Stand up straight. Ask Me, trust Me, work with Me. Seek Me, find Me, follow Me, proclaim Me.” As we follow His instructions, the walls of the enemy will fall and many will come to Jesus and be saved forever!” Christ has died once for all. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.

Come Rest in His Love,

Dick Speight