STAY ATTENTIVE TO THE PLACE OF BLESSING
Prophecy given through Barbara A. Williams, July 15, 2001

Now the Lord is urging and exhorting us to return to the place of blessing. "Return to the promises," says the Lord. "Return! Return! Return! Return your attention," says the Spirit of God. "Return your attention and your focus on Me and on what I've promised you," says the Spirit of God. "Return and focus your attention totally on Me 100% and learn how to stay attentive to the place of blessing," says the Spirit of God. "Stay attentive to that place of relationship with Me - that is a place of blessing. Stay attentive to that place of fellowship with the saints -- which is a place of blessing. Stay attentive to that realm of thought-life that is connected to Me - that is a place of blessing," says the Spirit of God. "For it is a place in the Spirit, but it is not outside of you," says the Spirit of God. "It is a place where you can dwell in My thought-life; where you can dwell in My being; where you can dwell in My presence - and that is a place of blessing," says the Spirit of God. "Not just spiritual blessing, but is a blessing of the fruit of the Spirit growing strong in you. It is a place of emotional stability for you; where there won't be any up's and down's - it is a place of immense & enormous blessing from Me. It is a place of blessing.

"And this place of blessing must be maintained," says the Spirit. "This place of attentiveness must be maintained," says the Lord. "This place of knowing and having awareness and having an anticipation of the answer to come and the promise to manifest fully, must be held by you," says the Lord. "It must be held. It must be held!" says the Spirit. "Because if you move away from the place of blessing, then it takes longer for Me to locate you and pull you back into the realm of blessing again so that you can receive what I have for you.

"And many times the enemy makes you restless at the place where your blessing is about to manifest," says the Lord. "So avoid restlessness. Avoid boredom. Avoid feeling like you need to do something else," says the Lord, "and get back into the place of blessing. Get back into the realm of anticipation. Get out of the realm of boredom and apathy and lethargy and not knowing and wondering and wandering, and letting your mind wander, and fantasize about what you should be doing instead of..." says the Spirit. "Come out of that place. Harness yourself. Pull yourself into the place of My thought-life and My ways and seeking Me and worshipping Me and being attentive to Me and praising Me and letting Me consume your thoughts and your time," says the Spirit of God. 

"For that is a place of blessing," says the Lord. "That is a place where I dwell. And only those who have patience to stay in the place of blessing will reap the harvest, and will reap the fruit, and will reap the reward that comes from the One who patiently waits for the harvest. The Husbandman patiently waits to bring forth the fruit of the harvest," says the Spirit of God.

"So stay out of impatience. Stay out of boredom. Stay out of discouragement. Stay out of depression. Stay out of all the lower places. Stay out of all the earthly places. Stay out of all the sensual places and come up higher where I am. Come up higher where My wisdom is. Come up higher where My thoughts are. Come up higher where My ways are," says the Spirit of God. "And I will surely bring forth and manifest that which you desire. I will surely... and I will let you see it grow. I will let you watch it grow. I will reveal to you things that you have not seen before that will give you understanding to know when your promise is about to break forth," says the Spirit of God. "I will show you these things. But you have to abide with Me. You have to be in a place where I can find you. You must be in the place where I am. Because surely I will not come down, but you must come up. Surely I will not violate My law," says the Spirit of God. "But surely - as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven, and it waters the seed so it brings forth bud on the earth - I will surely allow you to ascend to where I am, so that you can abide with Me, and what's in your Spirit will certainly spring forth and it will come forth into total manifestation," says the Spirit of the Living God. 

See Isaiah 55:6-11