Translation from Spanish
Today I saw a forest in a vision. A great axe was passing through it, cutting down some trees, and they were falling. Then I heard: “The felling of trees has not ended.” I said to the Lord, “Lord, it is hard for me to deliver this kind of message,” but I felt a holy fear that moved me to obey.
Then the Father said to me: “My little daughter, tell them what I am doing. Tell them that My hand is stretched out and that I am pruning. Tell them that I have not finished with this pruning and that another season is coming, because I must prepare the ground so that what is new can grow. Tell them that I love them, but I must warn them that the time for waiting for many to respond to the call has ended.”
The Lord kept urging me to speak again about what He is doing and about what is happening in the spiritual realm in this time, because we are entering a new era and many changes are taking place. Just as someone prunes trees and removes what must not remain before entering a new season, the same thing happens in the spiritual realm.
A cleansing is taking place in the house of God. A spiritual pruning is underway. Trees that are not bearing fruit, or are not bearing good fruit, are being felled. The Lord is cleansing the forest of His Kingdom. He is removing those trees to plant new ones, trees that will bear good fruit.
[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 someone does not obey what the Lord is requiring of them, after a period of grace, God must act. Then He uproots what is unprofitable and plants new things, or He takes away the task He gave someone and gives it to another, because there are things that must be fulfilled for God’s plan to be established on the earth.
We can see a similar principle in the parable of the talents. If you bury what God gave you to steward, the Lord will take it from you and give it to another.
[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.
In these days, time is accelerating, and one of the consequences is that the waiting period between the moment when the Lord calls someone to carry out a specific task and the moment when that person responds to that calling is getting shorter.
I must fulfill My purposes, says the Lord. I must establish My divine plan. Every piece of the puzzle must be in its place, and every piece that refuses to be where it belongs will be removed and replaced by a new one that is willing to be there.
Noelia: That is why 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 very much, they take a step back or want to do it their own way, becoming the Sauls of this time. And because the Lord must fulfill His heavenly plan, the Sauls are discarded and replaced by the Davids of this time.
Even in my own life I have had moments when I said, “Lord, I don’t want to do this anymore. I don’t want to continue with this calling. I don’t want to continue with this task,” because there is a lot of suffering a person has to go through to respond to a calling like mine.
But the Holy Spirit has made me feel a fear of God and has made me understand that if I do not fulfill what God is asking me to do, I myself could end up being cut off. I have felt that I am going to die if I do not do what God formed me in my mother’s womb to do.
Because I have a calling as a watchman and I see what is happening in the spirit, I feel the responsibility to speak, despite the reproach and mockery I receive from those who believe that someone who calls people to repentance and to get right with God has a condemning heart and does not understand the grace of God.
In these days, the Lord was showing me that many masks came off during the COVID pandemic. The Lord tested the hearts of many pastors, and not all of them passed, because many cared more about receiving the sheep’s money than feeding 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 was showing me that many of the trees that have fallen in this time are pastors who had been called to feed the sheep, heal the injured, rescue the captives, and come alongside the lonely in the midst of the pandemic.
During this time, their hearts were exposed so that the sheep could see that they were ravenous wolves who only fed themselves. But God cannot be mocked, and those trees that only appeared to bear good fruit are being cut down.
Despite all this, the Lord says that He is still opening a door through which many can still enter, if they are willing to respond to the calling God placed on their lives, if they want to repent of not having responded earlier or of having responded in their own way. The door is still open for those who want to repent of having strayed from the path.
I am calling people to repentance. Although many trees have fallen and judgment has been decreed for some who failed the test, 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: despite his mistakes, David 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 on the path the Lord prepared for you.
How many of you want to enter through this door of opportunity that God is still opening? This is a time of red alert. I feel it in my spirit, and I have shared it with some brothers and sisters. Even when someone responds to God’s calling, their very intentions have to be examined in this time.
Many are not entering through God’s door of opportunity because of fear. Others simply are not doing so out of rebellion, because they do not want to do things God’s way, but rather their own way.
There are ministers of God who began on a straight path, but later 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 he himself may not be able to see.
[Psalms 26:2] Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
In this time, our prayer has to be: “Lord, search my heart and show me what is hidden, what I cannot see, what is crooked, dark, and rotten, those things I have grown used to and think are right, even though in reality they are not right before You. Help me become upright again. What are the things You called me to do, the things I told You no to so many times? 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 have to lift up in this time to be found faithful, clean, and upright, and to be able to keep walking on the path of righteousness that God prepared for us.
The Holy Spirit was warning me that, although this felling of trees and this cleansing of the house have already begun, the pruning process will continue for a while longer. Not all will be cut down, but many will be pruned, and this process will continue so that the trees that allow themselves to be cleansed will bear even more fruit than they have borne 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 ends, we will work more effectively for the kingdom of heaven and will bear fruit of better quality and in greater quantity.
In this time, the barren fig trees, those trees that did not bear fruit, are also being cut down.
[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 did not bear fruit are being cursed by the Lord so they will wither and never bear fruit again. In their place, the Lord is planting new fig trees that will bear good fruit: fruit of obedience and righteousness, fruit that 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 from the one 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 of us. And in this time, the Lord has His eyes on that too.
I ask you: Are you faithfully stewarding what the Lord gave you? Are you bearing fruit at the level God expects of you, or are you bearing 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 is supposed to yield. And when someone is doing things only to fulfill an obligation and nothing more, the Lord will make sure to show them that they are not being faithful with what has been given to them.
Many of you are doing what the Lord called you to do on sheer momentum. You are doing it only to fulfill an obligation, and your focus is not on the work God gave you. Many are giving 5% when they should be giving 100%. It is like getting on a bicycle, starting to pedal, and then holding your feet still while the bicycle keeps moving on its own momentum.
I want to testify that lately 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 as for everything I have given you to steward for Me, I will require it of you, and I will make you see how much you are producing in each aspect of your calling.”
Lately I have realized that it is not just about obeying the Lord and leaving it at that; it is not just about speaking the messages God gives me for His people and stopping there. It is about this: one hundred percent of my heart, my strength, and the resources the Lord has given me must be focused on my ministry.
I have realized that I can bear even more fruit than I had been bearing, and as I realized this, I saw that there was a certain negligence I had picked up, which the enemy wanted to use to snare my heart and hold me back so that I would not realize the breadth of God’s calling in my life. Then the fear of God came to me and made me see that I was beginning to hold my feet still. But the Spirit said to me, “Keep pedaling.”
Although I was walking in my calling, the Spirit has confronted me personally so that I would realize 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. For that to happen, I have had to search my heart, examine the motives in it, and see how I am stewarding the time and resources He is giving me.
I share this with you because some say, “I am doing what God commands me to do,” but perhaps the Lord wants them to do more.
That is the extent to which the Holy Spirit is confronting His Church in this time, while the servants of the devil are putting their hands to work in their master’s fields with greater dedication than before, because that is what this time requires. How much more should we understand that the Lord is demanding more of His children in this time, because the prophetic moment we are living through 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 stir you to stop and think, to reflect on everything God has given you, and to ask yourself whether you are exercising good stewardship in every area, whether you are using and imparting all the precious stones God placed in your hands.
Get moving, little ones, says the Lord. Get moving, 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 rise up in Me, says the Lord. But I am still opening a door through which I want those who are willing to repent and work for the kingdom of heaven to enter.
Noelia: I see that the Holy Spirit is calling and stirring people’s spirits in this time. Some of you cannot sleep, because you feel that restlessness, that fire that burns in you and does not go out. It is God calling you to respond, to put your hands to the harvest and go to work, becoming servants of the kingdom of heaven.
I am still calling many to come to their senses, says the Lord. I am cleansing others so they will bear even more fruit than they have been bearing until now. Things will keep changing, and they have to change so that you can enter this new spiritual stage. Many things will be removed to clear the ground and allow new plants to grow.
Little ones, says God, I am calling you again through many trumpets to wake up and rise up in Me. And those of you who had detached yourselves from the Vine, today I invite you to return and be grafted into Me, so that, as I nourish you with My sap, you can begin to grow.
This is an alert, says the Lord. These are dangerous times, and whoever does not know how to heed the sound of the trumpet will fall. Therefore, wash your ears and allow My voice to penetrate, little ones. And after you have heard the instructions, begin to move.
Noelia: I see that many of those who are sitting will get up and begin to work for God, but others will lie down.
This means that whoever continues as they are and does not understand that they must be transformed in this time will not only be unable to move forward, but will go backward. They will go backward because they refuse to get up and begin walking in what God called them to, because they refuse to put right what they need to put right before God, because they refuse to repent and recognize that they have been wrong in certain areas.
The one who stays still will no longer be able to remain in the same position for much longer, says the Lord. The one who does not get up from the chair will fall from it.
Noelia: Therefore, everyone must examine their heart and seek God in the secret place. Whoever needs to repent, let them kneel before God and get right with Him before this axe passes through and sweeps away whatever it must sweep away, before the fig trees begin 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.