Translation from Spanish
Today I saw a vision of a forest, and among the trees a great axe was moving through. The axe was cutting down some trees, and they were falling. Then I heard, “The felling of trees is not over.” And I said to the Lord, “Lord, it’s hard for me to deliver this kind of message,” but I felt a holy fear to obey.
Then the Father said to me, “Little one, tell them what I’m doing. Tell them that My hand is extended and that I am pruning. Tell them that I’m not finished with this pruning and that another season is coming, because I have to prepare the ground so that the new can grow. Tell them that I love them, but I have to warn them that the time of waiting for many to respond to the call is over.”
That’s what the Holy Spirit was telling me this afternoon, and He was urging me to share again about what the Lord is doing, about what’s happening spiritually in this time.
Right now, we’re entering a new season, a new era, and many changes are taking place. Just like when you prune trees and remove what’s not supposed to be there before a new season begins, the same thing often happens spiritually.
There’s a cleansing happening in the house of God. There’s a spiritual pruning taking place. There’s a felling of trees that aren’t bearing fruit or aren’t bearing good fruit. The Lord is cleansing the forest of His kingdom, removing these trees to plant new ones that will bear fruit, trees that obey the Lord.
[Matthew 7:19-20] Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Many say, “The gifts and the calling are irrevocable,” but when you don’t obey what the Lord is asking of us, after a time of grace, God has to act. Then He uproots what’s of no use and plants new things, or takes away the task He gave to one and gives it to another, because there are things that must be fulfilled so that God’s plan can be established on earth.
We see a similar principle in the parable of the talents. If you leave buried what God gave you to steward, the Lord will take it away and give it to someone else.
[Matthew 25:24-29] Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
These days, time is accelerating, and one of the results is that the waiting period between when the Lord calls someone to a certain task and when that person responds to the call is getting shorter.
I have to fulfill My purposes, says the Lord. I have to establish My divine plan. Every piece of the puzzle must be in its place, and every piece that doesn’t want to be where it belongs will be removed and replaced by a new one that does want to be there.
Noelia: That’s why the word “obedience” is key in this time. The Bible says:
[John 14:21] He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Many say they love God, but when the Lord asks them to do something they don’t like, they step back or want to do it their own way, becoming the Sauls of this time. And since the Lord has to fulfill His heavenly plan, the Sauls are discarded and replaced by the Davids of this time.
Even in my own life, there have been moments when I’ve said, “Lord, I don’t want to do this anymore. I don’t want to keep going with this calling. I don’t want to keep going with this task,” because there’s a lot of suffering you have to go through to answer a calling like mine.
But the Holy Spirit has made me feel a fear of God and helped me understand that if I don’t do what God is asking of me, I could end up being cut off myself. I’ve felt that I’ll die if I don’t do what God formed me for in my mother’s womb.
But since I have a watchman’s calling and I see what’s happening in the spirit, I feel a responsibility to speak, despite the consequences—despite the reproach and mockery—because many think that those who call for repentance and for making things right with God have a judgmental heart and don’t understand the Grace of God.
In these days, the Lord has been showing me that many masks fell during the COVID pandemic. The Lord tested the hearts of many pastors, and not all passed the test, because many cared more about receiving money from the sheep than about shepherding them.
The Lord brought to my mind the prophecy against the shepherds of Israel who fed themselves:
[Ezekiel 34:2-6] Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
The Lord showed me that many of the trees that have fallen in this time are pastors who were called to feed the sheep, heal the broken, rescue the captives, and accompany the lonely in the midst of the pandemic.
During this time, their hearts were exposed so that the sheep could see that, in reality, they were ravenous wolves who only fed themselves. But God cannot be mocked, and those trees that seemed to bear good fruit, but in truth bore rotten fruit, are being cut down.
Despite all this, the Lord tells me that He is still opening a door through which many can still enter, if they want to respond to the call that God placed on their lives, if they want to repent for not having responded before, or for having responded, but in their own way. The door remains open for those who wish to repent for having strayed from the path.
I’m calling for repentance. Although many trees have fallen and judgment has been decreed for some who were not approved, there is still an open door for those who want to obey and do things, not the way Saul did, but the way David did, who, despite his mistakes, was a man after God’s own heart.
Mistakes will be made, because none of us is perfect, but what matters is that your heart keeps the right motivation as you walk the path the Lord prepared for you.
How many of you want to enter through this door of opportunity that God says He is still opening and that He keeps open for those who receive a new chance? This is a time of red alert. I feel it in my spirit and I’ve shared it with some brothers and sisters. Even when someone responds to God’s call, even the intentions must be examined in this time.
Many are not entering through this door of opportunity from God out of fear. Others simply don’t do it out of rebellion, because they don’t want to do things God’s way, but their own way.
There are ministers of God who started out on a straight path, but then strayed because they began to love money, offerings, and the things of the world. In this time, the Lord demands self-examination and repentance.
In Psalm 26, David asks the Lord to search his heart and reveal to him the sins that maybe he himself can’t see.
[Psalms 26:2] Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; Try my reins and my heart.
In this time, our prayer must be: “Lord, search my heart and show me what is hidden, what I can’t see and what is twisted, dark, rotten, those things I’ve grown used to and that I think are right, even though they aren’t before You. Help me to set things straight. What are the things You called me to and so many times I told You no? Because now I do want to respond. Now I do want to obey. Cleanse me with hyssop, Lord.”
[Psalms 51:7] Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
This is the kind of prayer we must lift up in this time to be found faithful, clean, upright, and to be able to keep walking the path of righteousness that God prepared for us.
The Holy Spirit warned me that, although this cutting down of trees and this cleansing of the house has already begun, this time of pruning will still continue for a while longer. Not all will be cut down, but many will be pruned, and this time of pruning will continue so that the trees that allow themselves to be cleansed will bear even more fruit than they have until now.
We are in a time when everything is being shaken, and in order to move forward and enter a new spiritual level in our lives, we have to go through this pruning process. But once it’s over, we’ll work better for the kingdom of heaven and we’ll bear fruit of better quality and in greater quantity.
In this time, the barren fig trees are also being cut down, those trees that did not bear fruit.
[Matthew 21:19] And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
The barren fig trees that didn’t bear fruit are being cursed by the Lord so that they dry up and never bear fruit again, and in their place, the Lord is planting new fig trees that will bear good fruit—fruit of obedience and righteousness—which the Lord expects and demands to receive.
The Bible says:
[Luke 12:47-48] And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Look at this principle: to whom much was given, much will be required, and to whom much was entrusted, more will be asked.
Many of us are working in the harvest, but not all of us are producing what the Lord expects from us. And in this time, the Lord also has His eyes on that.
I ask you: Are you faithfully managing what the Lord gave you? Are you bearing fruit at the level God expects from you, or are you just giving the bare minimum?
Our God is a God of love, but also a consuming fire. Our God is a kind God, but also severe. And in this time He is demanding that each instrument yield what it must yield. And to the one who is doing things just to fulfill and nothing more, the Lord will make sure to show him that he is not being faithful with what he has been given.
Many of you are doing what the Lord called you to do out of inertia. You do it just to fulfill, and your focus isn’t on the work God gave you. Many are producing 5% when they should be producing 100%. It’s like getting on a bicycle, starting to pedal, and then letting your feet rest while the bike keeps moving forward by inertia.
I want to testify that in this time, the Holy Spirit has confronted me personally, saying to me, “Look at everything I have given you. How much are you producing for My kingdom? And of all that I have given you to manage for Me, I will require of you and I will show you how much you are producing in each aspect of your calling.”
In this time, I’ve realized that it’s not just about obeying the Lord and nothing more, it’s not just about delivering the messages God gives me for His people and stopping there. It’s about one hundred percent of my heart, my strength, and the resources the Lord has given me being focused on my ministry.
I’ve realized that I can bear even more fruit than I was bearing, and when I saw this, I realized there was a certain negligence I had slipped into, with which the enemy wanted to hook my heart and hold me back so I wouldn’t see the full extent of God’s calling on my life. Then, the fear of God came over me and showed me that I was almost starting to take my feet off the pedals. But the Spirit told me: keep pedaling.
Even though I was walking in my calling, the Spirit has confronted me personally so I would see that I could do much more than I was doing for God, and that the Lord wants to take me to a new spiritual level and to greater glory. But for that, I’ve had to search my heart and my motivations, and take a hard look at how I’m managing the time and resources He’s giving me.
I share this with you because some say, “I’m doing what God tells me to do,” but maybe the Lord wants you to do more.
That’s the point to which the Holy Spirit is confronting His church in this time, because it’s a glorious time when the servants of the devil are putting their hands to their master’s fields with greater dedication than before, because that’s what this time demands. How much more should we understand that the Lord’s demand of His children in this time is greater, because the prophetic moment we’re living in requires it.
The purpose of this message is to wake you up and show you how far the Lord wants to take us in this time, and to provoke you to reconsider, to reflect on everything God has given you, and to ask yourself if you’re exercising good stewardship in every area, if you’re using and imparting all the precious stones God has placed in your hands.
Activate yourselves, little ones, says the Lord. Activate yourselves, because the axe of the Kingdom is passing through the forest of My house. I am cutting down trees at the root, trees that thought they could keep drinking from My waters and absorbing the light of My Kingdom forever, without bearing good fruit and without blossoming.
With this I am giving you an example of what can happen if you yourselves do not activate yourselves in Me, says the Lord. But I am still opening a door, and I want those who are willing to repent and work for the Kingdom of Heaven to enter through it.
Noelia: I see that the Holy Spirit is calling and stirring up spirits in this time. Some of you can’t sleep, because you feel that restlessness, that fire burning inside you that won’t go out. It’s God, calling you to respond, to put your hands to the harvest and get to work, becoming servants of the Kingdom of Heaven.
I’m still calling many to reconsider, says the Lord. I’m cleansing others so that they will bear even more fruit than they have until now. Things will keep changing, and in order to enter this new spiritual stage we are entering, things have to change, and many things will be removed, leaving the ground clear to plant new plants.
Little ones, says God, I call you again through many trumpets to wake up and activate yourselves in Me. And to those who separated themselves from the vine, today I invite you to return and be grafted into Me, so that, as I nourish you through My sap, you may begin to grow.
This is a warning, says the Lord. We are in dangerous times, and whoever doesn’t know how to hear the sound of the trumpet will fall. So wash your ears, little ones, and let My voice penetrate. And after you’ve heard the instructions, start moving.
Noelia: I see that of those who are sitting, many will rise up and begin to work for God, but others will lie down.
This means that whoever continues as they are and doesn’t understand that they need to be transformed in this time, not only won’t be able to move forward, but will go backward for not wanting to get up and start walking in what God called them to, for not wanting to fix what needs to be fixed before God, for not wanting to repent and acknowledge that they’ve been wrong in certain areas.
Whoever is still won’t be able to remain in the same position much longer, says the Lord. Whoever doesn’t get up from the chair will fall from it.
Noelia: So each one must examine their heart and seek God in intimacy. Whoever needs to repent, let them kneel before God and settle accounts with Him before this axe passes and destroys what needs to be destroyed, before the fig trees start to dry up.
Let us cleanse ourselves and allow ourselves to be transformed by the mighty hand of God, so that He may find us worthy to escape the things that are coming.