Awakening: The Deep Sleep (The Deep Sleep Trilogy Book 1) by Victoria Boyson Read Free Book Online

power it possessed. “This stone has the ability to release the faith of the Kingdom. Strong enough to crush doubt, it has the power to awaken faith, and My faith is the power of the kingdom released for such a time as this – the season of the kingdom.”

    “One more thing before I release you,”
Jesus said.
    “I have given My life to receive My bride; she is the most treasured possession I have. I, alone will present her to the Father to complete His joy. Yet My great treasure and heaven’s anticipated delight has been treated with disdain by many. Brutally and heedlessly, liars have attacked My true followers and they have suffered cruelly.
    “Without fear of reprisal, thinking they were for Me, they have slashed at My beautiful bride. Warn those who will repent of My displeasure for their cruel actions, for I will soon shower the unrepentant with terror – they loved to curse, so they willwalk in their curses, chaining them to darkness. I have come to show mercy, I seek even those who would condemn My bride, but My love is accomplished through repentance.
    “My dear friends,” He continued, “you must tell My bride that it was not I who abused her – I have come to restore her, to fill her with My glory – the glory she was destined to live in. She is My glory and I will restore her!
    “Seekers, you must love My bride like I would love her. I am asking you to lay your lives down to see her restored to Me.”

Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves.
    —Matthew 10:16 NLT
    AS THE PROPHETIC HOST left their comfortable subterranean meeting place, motivated by Time to hurry to those still asleep, they shared such a bond with each other that they did not want to be parted. They formed a kinship which only comes from truly understanding one another through the sharing of similar callings and burdens.
    With one final embrace to last them for a long while, they left each other and began the long harrowing journey to the place of their calling. Their minds were filled with all they had shared together with the King, and it took great urging to send them on their way.
    As Beloved started on her journey, her thoughts were filled with the life-changing joys she’d experienced in the mountain. The remembrances of the tranquility and harmony of the prophetic host she’d just left continued to flood her thoughts with the warmth of true friendship. Her heart wanted so much to stay, for she had found it to be a place of great safety and comfort.
    She reflected on all they had shared together
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of the power they’d experienced and, most of all, the treasured friendships that conveyed such powerful acceptance. Truly, it had been a supernatural acceptance which she had previously imagined could only be experienced in heaven.
    Traveling past the sandy coast at the base of the mountain, she eyed again, in the distance, the sunny fields of grace she loved so dearly. But the longer she let her mind dwell on her memories of the mountain’s treasures, the more the loneliness of the fields of grace became an increasingly stark contrast to the joyous experiences she’d had with her friends.
    Beloved longed for the companionship she’d left, and her reflection drifted toward the plight of her friends. It suddenly dawned on her she could travel at least some of the distance
with
her friends. “Yes,” she thought, “Why did we part ways so soon? I could travel with them and I would not have to be alone.”
    Her mind was decided. She would leave the fields of grace and try to find her friends. Heading back up over the forest-covered hills tapering down the mountain, she ventured in her quest. “That’s not too far from the fields,” she reasoned to herself, “I could surely find my friends there.”
    With this thought in mind, Beloved determined to give way to the impulse to leave the path that had become so familiar to her, where the Lord had revealed Himself to her