Oh, the amount of trees, the amount of groves that can be planted through the love, through the understanding of the love of God. The fruit can be expanded ten, twenty, a hundred fold. For when you penetrate and make it your life's goal to understand the deep abiding love of the Father in Heaven, and the blood, and the mercy, and the forgiveness, and the grace of God, and begin to make this your wellspring, and your root, and what you're really, really, really after, everything else will pop out on your tree without even thinking about it: eyes will open, limbs will grow, people will be filled, things will happen out of a deep, deep well of the love of God

So, if you would have that best portion, if you would be a Mary, if you would look for that which the Lord is really, really interested in, go deep into that chapter of the Bible. Ask God for new understanding the depth, the height, the breadth, and the importance of the love of God that the Apostle Paul spoke of. All these other things will be added unto you who make the book of Corinthians the mainstay of their life.

        Oh, I'm calling, I'm calling, I'm calling my church into the deep love of God, into the mercy of Christ. That's where the peace and the rest is: in knowing that your sins are covered. There's not a thing you can do to save yourself. Confess your sins; walk in peace one with another and experience the great love of God and let God bear the fruit on your tree. Let God pop out all over you. Let that wellspring rise up from within you of deep compassion and love.

And it's not that you don't walk in any love or any measures of love, but I'm talking about a great love; I'm talking about a divine love; I'm talking about a flow of God's love through broken vessels like a torrent, like a river and it is available. It can be given to the churches. It shall be established in the coming days. The love of God will be what sweeps the churches!  There's not going to be another move of fancy gimmicks or tricks; there's going to be a move of the love of God among his people. And it is this great, great, great, great, great love that is going to trigger end-time revivals. As people just can't sit in churches any longer and they are compelled to go forth and say,

        That is going to be the motivating factor and force in the Church in the coming days. It won't be evangelism; it won't be to fill the pews; it won't be this or that. It will be because you are concerned about other people, because you really want to see them enjoy what you are enjoying, because you want to share with them the depths of what God has put in your heart. You want them to know the love of the Father; you want them to feel the forgiveness of their sins. You want them to know what you know inside - that you're forgiven, that you're clean, that you're whole, that you're going to Heaven and you want to share it. You want that poor drug addict to be like that; you don't want him to live in that depression; you don't want to see him shooting stuff in his veins; you don't want to see people destroyed. You want them to partake of what you've been able to partake of. That will be the motivating factor in evangelism in the coming days.

The hurts that have come upon you will build the flame of love in you. Love is going to pour out of you like a river: the love of God, the compassion of God, the tender mercies of God are going to be pouring through your life. And many will be healed through your ministry: healing emotionally, healing spiritually, and yes there will be physically healing as well. But the greatest healings that will come through your hand will be those of restoration: restoration of spiritual damage, restoration of broken homes, restoration of bruised hearts and broken bleeding people.

You are going to be like a "fish magnet". You are going to walk out and people are going to stick to you saying, "What do you have? What do you have? I know you have something. I need help. Help me, help me, help me!" They are going to be so attracted to your spirit and they're going to say, "I know you have something; what is it? Help me; my life is crushed. I don't have anyone, can you help me?"

        Oh, councilor, teacher, you will bring them to the One who can help them. You will tell them of the one who can restore their life, who can give them back hope, who can sooth their broken damaged burning spirit. As He ministers the healing balm of Gilead to your problems, your situations, and as you experience the greatness of the tender mercies of God in your spirit, mind, heart and life, it will then be transferred even through osmosis into others.

Believe in the Lord with all your heart. Believe in the goodness of your God who has pity upon the estate of his handmaiden, who sees, the God who can be moved with compassion, the God who is touched with the feeling of your infirmities, Hannah, the God who hears the silent cry from the knees in the night hour in your bedchamber when no one is around, no one knows. The heart is crying to the Father who created it and the Father is moved with compassion upon all of his children, upon all of your problems.

        Keep crying, keep praying, keep bring the petitions up to the throne of the Father, plead the blood of Christ, and confess your faults, confess your shortcomings and let your Father pour the salve - the balm of Gilead into your tormented souls. He will heal; he will restore; he will give great grace to his church. He will give great power to his church; he will give great miracles to his church as they move and understand and comprehend the love of the Almighty God.

For it is love that you were created for. It is love that motivates you. It is love that you're so looking for. It is love that turns you on like a flame and a fire. And it is the love of God, the love of God, the love of God, the love of God, the love of God, the love of God, the love of God that is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost. Oh it is the deep love for God. "You love God because he first loved you, not that you first love him, but that he first loved us. He shed his blood for us and he came and he put his love in our hearts for him. Oh, we love him because he first loved us. He put that love in us for him and we love him, we love him, we love him."

        Yea, though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death we'll fear no evil for our God is with us. We're not exempt from trials; we're not exempt from hard places, but we are exempt from hating. The love of God is upon us. We are cherished by our Heavenly Father. The love of God is coming to the church. The love of God is coming to the church.

The heathen that sit in darkness they've seen a great light; they've seen a great light; they've seen a great light! And that light is the light of the world, Christ Jesus. You are part of bringing that light to the dark places. You are part of bringing that missionary effort to the dark places of the world. Say not, that I have not affected any nation; say not, that I have not affected any people for you have and you shall and you will be of greater effect in the coming days as the love of God so permeates your being.

        There is going to be a heart cry to go forth and to bring this gospel to those who do not see, do not hear it and cannot comprehend. Your God will make a way for you to fulfill the commission and the calling that he gives you. Be at peace concerning the things that you are walking through now but know in your heart that the day it coming when you will fulfill the great commission that is upon this planet. And you are fulfilling and you are doing what I've called you to do; but you will do greater and more powerful things in these coming days. Even as the love of God comes and energizes and fills you with divine knowledge, wisdom and compassion for those that are lost.

Ways that you didn't dream of to communicate the gospel are coming to you. Dreams that you didn't dream of are coming to you. It's a tremendous commission that I have upon you. There are many ways to skin a cat; there are many sides to a problem, many ways, many ways to solve things. I will solve these things, and I will move some things and I will do what I've promised you I will do for you.

        As one who seeks wisdom and as one who seeks to understand the deeper things of God, I say this day, you shall understand more, you will comprehend and you will receive a calmness. There's a peace that's going to come upon your spirit. There's a calming balm of Gilead coming upon you and you are going to speak as one who is wise, as one who has knowledge of God, as one who has the peace of God permeating that which he says.

Fear not. The days are coming when prayers you have prayed even a long time ago, a long time ago - they have been sitting on the shelf waiting, waiting, waiting for the appropriate day - are going to be answered; the angels are going to bring them down and you are going to receive that which the Lord has laid up for you in Heaven. For there was a time of maturation that had to come about; there was a time of growth that needed to happen and your life and in your existence. But I say to you, the time's coming short; the time's coming short when the Lord is going to release things you have prayed about for a long time and you will see the fruit of them in your life. So walk on with the Lord your God and seek the peace of God; seek the peace and the calm waters of the Holy Ghost.

        The greatest sign and the greatest wonder will be the love of God in you. You're going to understand. You'll have a deep well of compassion for people - for those who are broken and lost and out of the House of God. You will evangelize and go out and get them and you will be an effective tool for reaching the broken and the lost as you understand the depths of what it's like to be broken and lost and without God. You will teach, you will pray and you will go and get others and bring them to the House of God.

As you are faithful to what he give you, he will give you more. As you are faithful in the house of God, as you are a faithful servant of mine, as you are faithful to pray, faithful to intercede, as you keep knocking and knocking and knocking, and believing and crying and seeking the Lord, the Lord your God is going to answer you. The Lord your God is going to answer you. The Lord your God is going to answer you - prayer for your family, prayers for friends, prayers for those you love, prayers for the church. I will see your faithfulness and I will reward you and I will come and bless you. There will be more opportunity for things in the church and the things of God, but your main ministry is that heart of intercession, that locked on heart of intercession for those that I've laid into your spirit.

        I will reward accordingly, saith the Lord. I will reward accordingly with how faithful you are with what I give you to do, not with what I give you to do, but how faithful each one of you are with what I give you to do. Faithfulness, faithfulness, faithfulness to the task that I've given, faithfulness - that is the key to the reward of God. If I've called you to go to the nations, then I reward you for how faithful you are to do it and if I've called you to stuff notes in the pews out in the sanctuary then I reward you for how faithful you are to do that! It's not the task you are given that determines the reward in Heaven, but it's how faithful you are to that which I give you to do. Do you not understand the parable of the widow who gave the mite? She out gave the priest!

        "Yes, yes, yes, Lord; yes Lord I will. Yes, Lord, I'll go. Yes, Lord, I'll answer that call."

        There's a call upon you, there's a call upon you and it's the call of the Most High God for you. Tender is the call; tender is the night; tender is the call upon you. I will not force you; I will not put your arm behind your back. I will not threaten; I will not put any pressure upon you ever. But I call you, whosoever will may come. Whosoever will may come. There is work to be done and there is a place for you. Should you so desire, I will anoint you. I will bless you.

I will give you feet to run with, feet of fire. You will have feet of fire to run upon the mountains of God. You will have the flame of God in your right and left hand. Your voice will be a two-edged sword that comes out and reaches into nations. You will speak the word of the Lord; you will be used to bring multitudes into the kingdom of God. I would have a ministry for you of bringing them in of bringing them in, simply speaking about and for the kingdom and the love of God. You are called to bring them in, to usher them in, to tell them - those that are dead to bring them to life in the Lord. Choice saith the Lord; I give you choice. I will bless your life. You chose; I will bless you.

~ a prophecy by Don Franklin ~

@ CHC Intercessory Mtg. 7-31-01

        Comments:  This prophecy given in one setting during an intercessory prayer meeting, but actually it was spoken over a half a dozen separate people. When transcribing the meeting, it was realized that the words of the Spirit flowed from one individual to another and the subject within the messages remained the same. That is why they have been kept together as a whole message.

It's sort of like when a parent sits all of their children down in a room to discuss a matter of discipline or praise. They may point out to each child what they need to work on, as well as praise each one on what they are doing well. That is what the Lord was doing on this particular morning - focusing on his love, his mercy and how we are to express his heart to others to reach a lost and dying world for him, for as each one does their part and is faithful to that which he calls us to do, then it can be done.