Blessings to you that read and support and carry the BURDEN of It Is Written MINISTRY through any kind of way...

I want to thank God for another year to continue on HIS work among the PEOPLE of GOD... but like PAUL I feel tired and ready every day to see the FATHER and weary of this WORLD... My being here now is more for the people than me, now... BUT I thank God for a chance to reach more people...

Gen 32:22 But he rose up that [same] night and took his two wives, his two women servants, and his eleven sons and passed over the ford [of the] Jabbok.

Gen 32:23 And he took them and sent them across the brook; also he sent over all that he had.

Gen 32:24 And Jacob was left alone, and a Man wrestled with him until daybreak.

As I was in prayer for our Sunday service God told me to tell the PEOPLE that it is time to CROSS over the FORD of JABBOK and enter the SEASON of SURRENDERING all to the LORD....

My Son and DAUGHTER danced to the song... MY heart BELONGS to you LORD... as I was listening to the WORDS God asked me..." If My people heart belong to me why are they so busy giving their HEART to everyone that DOES not LOVE me nor KNOW ME...WHEN do they HEART really belong to ME..."

I began to weep because I saw the people that I was suppose to TEACH to surrender completely to GOD and they ALLOWED man to take MORE of their HEART...and they fool their self saying I BELONG to you GOD and when they BELONG TO MAN... I wept because so many want to say they belong to God and gave all their self to HIM and they compromise this love to share it with those that do not want to please the FATHER....

Jabbok is the place where Jacob wrestled with the Lord. It is where he made his total surrender to God... It is where HE had to fight to change....Many of us look for change in a year or wait for CHANGE to come with a SEASON... WHEN God is saying YOU have to cross over to get your CHANGE...God have brought SO many of you to this CHANGE but there was a REFUSING of over CROSSING over.....Your victory is in a FIGHT of your life....YOU have to cross over to walk in new...You can not just expect it YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FOR IT.... Many made Christianity a SIMPLE do nothing, but is a STAND... A change, a Walk...Sacrifice daily...

Jabbok means "a place of passing over"..... It also stands for struggle; to empty and pour out..... There can be no glorious victory over self and sin until you go to Jabbok.... You have to CROSS over that FORD... and you have to do it alone .... We must face ourselves and be emptied of all evil desires and selfish ambitions.... COME on it is not in the YEAR it is in the CROSSING over... No matter what is declared it is what YOU CROSS....

Many talk about Jacob as if He was a SORRY no Good Christian... I do not see that ... I see him as a FIGHTER a MAN that knew what GOD gave MEANT more than anything on this earth... and he was willing to TAKE from those that despised it...

So over and over again, we appease! We sin and confess, weep and confess, try to think our way out, schemes, justifications, excuses, plans - all in vain....All we have to do is get up and CROSS the FORD of JABBOK and begin to SURRENDER all to GOD...

I want to show what God wants from us... See Jacob went to BETHEL before JABBOK... Many people STOP at BETHEL... Bethel means God's House... It represent The BLESSINGS of GOD... Read- Gen. 28:20-22

At Bethel Jacob saw the LADDER which Supernatural it was an AWESOME experience...BUT like most Christians today Jacob saw the angels and what they carried...He saw the heavens open and focused on the gold....Just like most that DECLARE the victory but never talk about the CROSSING OVER....Bless me, Lord! Prosper me in all my ways!....BLESS my walk...BLESS MY MINISTRY....Bless my family and then I will bless YOU back... THEN I can be a BLESSING to the CHURCH..... Then I'll serve you! Then I'll pay my tithe! Give it to me so I can give it back to you!... How many of US miss the GREAT PRESENCE of GOD because we are so focus on the GOODS...

Many have walked away from the place where they are to CROSS over because they went back to BETHEL.....PROPHET have DEGREED a Paradise and God said YEA but CROSS OVER...

As an Apostle with a PROPHETIC Mantel, I have seen those that flock to BETHEL and want to Stay in the place of SECURITY....Not because it is God's House but because they are looking at the GOLD...Jesus DIED for more than what we can GET... We have made it a RELIGION of EASE and GREED....BUT we miss the fact that STRUGGLES make us STRONG... Sometimes we need to try to attempt the impossible and WRESTLE with some thing we know we have no chance in winning....

CROSS OVER!!!! Many come to me claiming they are a PROPHET but they TEACH from the idea of BETHEL... The place of GOD is going to give everything... They have not yet even crossed over to say...GOD have placed MIRACLES in my hands, such as MOSES and I am sent to SERVE... I am sent to suffer for YOUR COMFORT....At Bethel it is a EYE to getting....BUT at JABBOK it is a PLACE of GIVING....Giving in to a NIGHT of STRUGGLE.. A night of contending in the impossible,...

NOW think about it.... Jacob for years SURVIVED on HIS wits and KNOW how... On trickery to get what HE want... BUT at JABBOK none of that WORKED... HE HAD to come face to face with WHO he really was....He was forced to TELL HIS name SEE His CHARACTER... WHAT is your NAME...WHO do man say YOU are is the question you have to face at JABBOK.... NO more TRICKERY... No more SCHEMES... It is YOU and ME says GOD at JABBOK... COME on and CROSS OVER...

"Look at yourself - what you've become! No excuses now! For once in your life, face reality! Face the truth - be deadly honest - or there will be no victory!" .... NO victory with out crossing OVER!!!!!!

At Jabbok all the DRESS up the clothing that one put on to LOOK like HIS brother is taking OFF.... No more dressing up like ESAU... at JABBOK you have to tell YOU NAME, You have to see YOUR SELF... So many years of looking like some one else until Jacob HIS self COULD not see what GOD wanted IN HIM... At Jabbok you can not be a PHONY...At Jabbok God straight to the INSIDE... Many only see the out side and they see YOU playing dress up... They see what YOU want them to see... The see the ANOINTING... They see the gift, but at JABBOK... GOD says WHAT IS YOUR NAME??? What motives is hidden.... Why are you TRULY on this JOURNEY... Is it because of WEALTH...Is it because I feed you??.... Or do you really want to SERVE ME???.... Your new NAME waits FOR you at JABBOK.. Your CHANGE is waiting for YOU to wrestle all night long.... YOUR change is inyour CROSSING OVER...

GOD BLESS....

Before I stand Before man on God's behalf

I have to stand before God on MAN'S!!!

His living Ram's Horn

Apostles Henry & Tonita Patterson

Salt & Fire Network and It Is Written Ministry

http://itiswrittenministry.com

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