A Word through Denise Lagrimas Email: chosen91@juno.com http://us.geocities.com/chosen91ministry/index.html January 17, 2002

There is a call going out across the land.

The voice of God is speaking to His creation.

If we will just stop and listen, we will hear the cry of the Lord calling to His own. I have heard Him calling in that still small voice saying "return to me", "return to me".

There is almost a desperation in His voice and urgency of sort. I sense in the spirit this call has gone out to all the prodigals. Many have walked away for various reasons. Many have stopped their ears so they did not have to hear the Lord crying over their disobedience and hardened hearts but this time there is no hiding from the Lord God, who will cause all to hear Him.

Everywhere we turn the voice of the Lord is there. In the night while we sleep... He still calls out to them. "Return". In the days amidst life's pressures and woes He cries out to them "Return"!

I sense that in these last days we will see a return of the prodigals in record numbers. I see many sons, daughters, and pastors and leaders who have walked away coming back. They will flock to the saints saying "I want to come home!! I need to get back to the place I belong. Show me the way home for I have sinned against heaven and want to be right again!"

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PREPARING HIS BODY FOR THE RETURN

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I sense the Lord is also preparing us as a body to receive these lost and wounded and those who have squandered their inheritance with the best we can offer. With the best robe and a great celebration preferring one another and exhibiting true love. He is asking us to receive them with honor and not judgment, nor jealousy.

God will rejoice over their arrival and pour out his forgiveness as well as his blessings. The greatest of gifts to us is unmerited forgiveness, we don't deserve it yet He gives it...How much more should we receive the prodigal with forgiveness and restore him to where he belongs. Somewhere something went wrong and we must make it right.

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"YOU ARE MY SERVANT AND SHALL NOT BE FORGOTTEN"

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"He who feeds on ashes, a deceived heart has turned him away that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say I hold a lie in my right hand. Remember these for you are my servant I have formed you, you are my servant and shall not be forgotten. I have blotted out as a thick cloud your sins and transgressions Return to me for I have redeemed you, Sing oh you heavens for the Lord has done it! Shout all the earth. Break forth in singing Oh mountains for the Lord has redeemed His own and glorified himself in Israel." Isaiah 44:21

Those who have held the lie of the enemy for so long will hear the voice of our God and they will be like a child and drop the lie and come running home....We must be ready to receive them with joy and thanksgiving. Many of us know or have a prodigal in our family or fellowship and many of us have ministered through much weeping and tears. We always walked away saying "Oh God when will they come home?"

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THE WORD POURED OUT IN TEARS

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God is saying "They are coming home NOW!! Your labor and tears have not gone unnoticed nor has the Word you poured out in tears gone out in vain for it has accomplished what it was sent out to do. I will cause the ears of the distant ones to hear me in the wind, in the rain, in the raging storms as well as in the quiet of the night. I will call them back to Me and you will see them coming and you will see the scattering of those who held them bound. Prepare your house with singing and dancing, prepare a King's table, for the lost have been found and they are seen far off in the distance as they make their way home. Receive them with a joyful heart for once they were dead but now are alive again. "

Beloved I offer this as an encouragement for all of us who have been praying and crying out for our loved ones to come home. God is faithful and desires them even more than we do. Lets be diligent in our prayers for them to have attentive ears and open hearts.

Be blessed in Jesus name

Denise Lagrimas

(See Denise's Testimony below about being on America's Most Wanted - Published one other time on THE ELIJAH LIST

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FROM A FORMER SUBJECT OF "AMERICA'S MOST WANTED!" -- DENISE LAGRIMAS

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We often share our testimony publicly and have shared on Christian television in Virginia (which went into five prisons here and in Jamaica) and in prisons & jails whenever possible.

The crime that placed us on America's Most Wanted was robbery and drug related and the reward that was offered for us (because we went on the run) is what caught the attention of "America's Most Wanted."

Our crime placed us in a book called "Ridiculous Crimes and the People Who Commit Them."

We share whenever possible because we know there are many like us who are just needing to meet Jesus. Our lives are transparent because all we desire is to show how Jesus can take such throwaways and make them useful gifts. You can find parts of our testimony on Aglow International Prison & Jail ministry web site and in a news magazine published by Core Ministry Called "Christian Inmate News" this month.

Our life is to see Jesus lifted up and all men & women free in Him. I am just silly enough to believe that Jesus Christ can transform a whole city where there is no need of a jail because the people love Jesus too much. That is our prayer for our area.

We have a 600-man facility and we are touching as many as possible. All it takes is one and you get the whole family. It did mine and He is no respecter of persons.

God Bless!

Denise Lagrimas