This life is for endurance and purifying

6/10/25 10:07 PM
Alison Pound

Hi Jonathan,
I trust this finds you well. Things are certainly heating up in your nation. From where I sit, it looks like chaos has taken control. I pray for you and your family, that you will hear God's voice clearly guiding you in the coming days. 
I have the following word for posting on 444. I am preparing under the Lord's direction, to publish a number of words that have been sitting in my journal, some for years. This direction He has given speaks louder to me than any current event. Time is short, get your affairs in order. Prepare to endure imminent tribulation. That's the message coming over the top of everything. 
Blessings,
Alison.

This was given to me in November of 2018. The Lord said it is to be published.

I am not happy with the state of My church.
They are not built to endure. They have not equipped themselves to endure hard things.
These hard things include sicknesses.
I test My children. This is written in My Word yet My people do not read it. They pass over the book of Job. Instead running to all manner of prayer healers, looking for instant healing. Not looking for what they can learn from this difficult time that I have allowed in their lives.
I do lift My Hand. I take down the hedge of protection just a little. Not because these loved ones have done anything so wrong, to displease Me, but because those I love the most, I chasten the most that they may grow to perfection and be counted worthy to be a part of the bride.
For not all will be a part of My bride.
And not all will endure to the end.
My church have joined the ‘bless me’ club which has long been taught in the churches. If they are not healthy and prosperous they immediately seek prayer that this will change. Rather than go through a process that will teach them much. All would wish to avoid pain. But I wish My beloved to endure pain. And after a time, I will let the healing come.
For each, it is different. I am dealing with each one according to their hearts.
Remember I know your heart.
I will bring other people into the lives of each one that they may use gifts I have given to bless and heal. When one is sick, call the elders that they may anoint with oil. This is written in My Word. This is training for those young in the faith. They must come to Me for everything. And as they grow, I will stretch them.
Now for these who walk in the last days and will have great tribulation, how will they endure if they have not been tested and purified? They must not love life unto death. But be willing to sacrifice all to follow Me.
This life is for purifying. The next is for purity. For you shall not gain perfection in this life. But you must seek after Me the author and finisher of your faith, with all your strength and with your whole heart. For what good is it to be given your health and your prosperity back only to turn away from Me toward the things of this world? For you will lose your eternal security.

2Cor 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and ETERNAL WEIGHT of glory;

James 1:2,3 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

James 5:10-11

As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

1 Peter 5:10

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Job 1:1-22

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually. …

May the Lord encourage you and give you understanding.

Alison Pound.

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