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I wrote this newsletter last winter. I was told to hold it until now. Essential keys for healing.http://www.deepwatersministry.com/pdf/TheGospelOfTheKingdom.pdf

01/21/2014

Prophetic word Sunday January 19, 2014

I had a dream last night regarding a principal of a Far Rockaway school that The New York Post has been running articles on now for weeks. She drives around in a BMW, renovated her office like a high powered executive does, makes over $140,000 a year; yet the kids attending the school don’t have text books. The children do not have art classes, gym classes or a nurse’s office. The school has been labeled the school of “no.” Most of the parents barely make ends meet, yet they are required to have their 5th graders attend a bizarre graduation event where the girls dress up like brides and the boys like grooms. The principal dresses in a white bridal-like dress as well. The outfits and cost of the party is over $250.00 per student, paid for by the financially strapped parents. There is a picture that ran in the Post of this school principal wearing a fur coat and clownish make up all over her face. I saw this picture of her in my spirit during the worship; which is what I saw in my dream.
In my dream of this woman in this get up, I saw that over her head was a veil holding back the blessings of God. While I was gazing up at this, the Holy Spirit started to speak. He was very excited about what He was telling me. He said just like Aslan had to rip the dragon off of Eustace in C.S. Lewis’, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader because Eustace couldn’t go deep enough to do it himself; the Holy Spirit was going to get His claws into the canopy of Jezebel’s and rip out the “no.” My dog Samantha was with me in the dream and her name means fragrance. I knew this had to do with a deep deliverance necessary for the Bride to become truly fragrant. A deep deliverance within us resulting in our becoming Christ- centered instead of self-centered. This will break Jezebel’s hold on us, but there was something else; some sort of victory over Jezebel herself. Again, the Holy Spirit was very excited about it.
So during the worship when the Holy Spirit brought this scenario up again I heard Him say that Jezebel has had access to Jesus’ Bride long enough. For Jezebel’s desire is to keep My rocks, My living stones, far away from their promises and their destiny. Her false bridal scenario has cost my people, but I say that her “no” shall now become My yes. For I am ripping through the veil in a way only I can.

I felt impressed to explain the passage from C.S. Lewis,’ Voyage of the Dawn Treader referred to in the prophetic word. I wrote about this concept in a section of a piece I once wrote under the subtitle: The Scratch Off. In the piece I was explaining a dream I had about a scratch off lotto ticket.

The scratch off:

The concept comes from a book written by C.S. Lewis from His Chronicles of Narnia series. In The Voyage of The Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis introduced a new character to the series: cousin Eustace. Eustace means “fruitful.” It is keeping with repentance that we become fruitful.
In the story Eustace goes after gold: not good gold i.e. the faith walk; the opposite: money. He gets a gold bangle caught on his leg. It cuts into his leg, his walk and causes him great pain. Bangles are a symbol for me. These are the things the Lord strips off of us that we’ve adorned ourselves with other than Him (See Isaiah 3:16).
The gold Eustace went for was cursed and he turned into a dragon. How he was delivered of this fate was revealed in a conversation Eustace had with his cousin Edmund after the fact. In the exchange below the symbol of the scratch off will jump out at you:

"Well, last night I was more miserable than ever. And that beastly arm-ring was hurting like anything - "

"Is that all right now?"

Eustace laughed - a different laugh from any Edmund had heard him give before - and slipped the bracelet easily off his arm. "There it is," he said, "and anyone who likes can have it as far as I'm concerned. Well, as I say, I was lying awake and wondering what on earth would become of me. And then - but, mind you, it may have been all a dream. I don't know."

"Go on," said Edmund, with considerable patience.

"Well, anyway, I looked up and saw the very last thing I expected: a huge lion coming slowly towards me. And one q***r thing was that there was no moon last night, but there was moonlight where the lion was. So it came nearer and nearer. I was terribly afraid of it. You may think that, being a dragon, I could have knocked any lion out easily enough. But it wasn't that kind of fear. I wasn't afraid of it eating me, I was just afraid of it - if you can understand. Well, it came close up to me and looked straight into my eyes. And I shut my eyes tight. But that wasn't any good because it told me to follow it."

"You mean it spoke?"

"I don't know. Now that you mention it, I don't think it did. But it told me all the same. And I knew I'd have to do what it told me, so I got up and followed it. And it led me a long way into the mountains. And there was always this moonlight over and round the lion wherever we went. So at last we came to the top of a mountain I'd never seen before and on the top of this mountain there was a garden - trees and fruit and everything. In the middle of it there was a well.

"I knew it was a well because you could see the water bubbling up from the bottom of it: but it was a lot bigger than most wells - like a very big, round bath with marble steps going down into it. The water was as clear as anything and I thought if I could get in there and bathe it would ease the pain in my leg. But the lion told me I must undress first. Mind you, I don't know if he said any words out loud or not.

"I was just going to say that I couldn't undress because I hadn't any clothes on when I suddenly thought that dragons are snaky sort of things and snakes can cast their skins. Oh, of course, thought I, that's what the lion means. So I started scratching myself and my scales began coming off all over the place. And then I scratched a little deeper and, instead of just scales coming off here and there, my whole skin started peeling off beautifully, like it does after an illness, or as if I was a banana. In a minute or two I just stepped out of it. I could see it lying there beside me, looking rather nasty. It was a most lovely feeling. So I started to go down into the well for my bathe.

"But just as I was going to put my feet into the water I looked down and saw that they were all hard and rough and wrinkled and scaly just as they had been before. Oh, that's all right, said I, it only means I had another smaller suit on underneath the first one, and I'll have to get out of it too. So 1 scratched and tore again and this under skin peeled off beautifully and out I stepped and left it lying beside the other one and went down to the well for my bathe.

"Well, exactly the same thing happened again. And I thought to myself, oh dear, how ever many skins have I got to take off? For I was longing to bathe my leg. So I scratched away for the third time and got off a third skin, just like the two others, and stepped out of it. But as soon as I looked at myself in the water I knew it had been no good.

"Then the lion said" - but I don't know if it spoke - "You will have to let me undress you." I was afraid of his claws, I can tell you, but I was pretty nearly desperate now. So I just lay flat down on my back to let him do it.

"The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart. And when he began pulling the skin off, it hurt worse than anything I've ever felt. The only thing that made me able to bear it was just the pleasure of feeling the stuff peel off. You know - if you've ever picked the scab off a sore place. It hurts like billy-oh but it is such fun to see it coming away."

"I know exactly what you mean," said Edmund.

"Well, he peeled the beastly stuff right off - just as I thought I'd done it myself the other three times, only they hadn't hurt - and there it was lying on the grass: only ever so much thicker, and darker, and more knobbly-looking than the others had been. And there was I as smooth and soft as a peeled switch and smaller than I had been. Then he caught hold of me - I didn't like that much for I was very tender underneath now that I'd no skin on - and threw me into the water. It smarted like anything but only for a moment. After that it became perfectly delicious and as soon as I started swimming and splashing I found that all the pain had gone from my arm. And then I saw why. I'd turned into a boy again. You'd think me simply phoney if I told you how I felt about my own arms. I know they've no muscle and are pretty mouldy compared with Caspian's, but I was so glad to see them.

"After a bit the lion took me out and dressed me - "

"Dressed you. With his paws?"

"Well, I don't exactly remember that bit. But he did somehow or other: in new clothes - the same I've got on now, as a matter of fact. And then suddenly I was back here. Which is what makes me think it must have been a dream."

"No. It wasn't a dream," said Edmund.

"Why not?"

"Well, there are the clothes, for one thing. And you have been - well, un-dragoned, for another."

"What do you think it was, then?" asked Eustace.

"I think you've seen Aslan," said Edmund.

The scratch off: a willingness to endure a true stripping. Not our vain attempts, but by way of an encounter with the Lord Jesus so we can bear fruit that lasts. I remember one time after a pretty painful scratch off I said, “Lord, I watch Christians running around doing their own thing, but as for me I am constantly being stripped by you.” The Lord’s reply was immediate: “It is because you are willing.”

10/15/2013

Prophetic word October 6, 2013

Jacob received a high calling from God, but he tried to execute it in his own strength. Jacob means, “deceiver” and it was through deception that he tried to walk in his calling. Shipwreck upon shipwreck, and yet God blessed him. It was at the point where he was paralyzed, where his deceptions could take him no further. Where he and his family could be destroyed, everything lost by a vengeful Esau; it was at that point when he wrestled with God. It was at that point he saw God face to face.
The wrestling match was over Lordship. Jacob broke and the Lord manifested the point by dislocating his thigh. Jacob’s walk was different from that point on and he would be reminded of it each step he took. God is the Great I Am; he was not. The Lord gave Jacob a new name, Israel, which can mean, “God’s soldier” (as well as “God rules”). He would be the Lord’s soldier and take orders from Him, no longer trying to move in the call of God through his own strength and deception: God rules. Israel knew He wrestled with God and prevailed (Israel can mean, “prevails with God”). In other words he wasn’t killed! He saw God face to face and prevailed.
I had a vision of spiritually paralyzed people being touched by God. They too were like Jacob. They received major calls on their lives and they too tried to bring it about in their own strength, which is deception. They got out of the wheel chairs they were in and they were taken into rehab. They had to learn how to walk all over again. I saw them walking holding onto to parallel bars which were on both their sides. They had to learn how to walk with each step parallel to heaven’s. On earth as it is in heaven. The Lord said He is boxing certain people in so much, just like he did with Jacob, where they know they are paralyzed. They have to seek His face because they have run out of moves. And that is when Jesus will reveal to them He is Lord and they are not. That is where the transformation will occur and the noticeable mark in their walk from that time on.
We must seek the Lord’s face. We must repent of the sins that so easily entangle us that keep us from Him. As He wrestles us over these things we must hold onto Him and not let go until He blesses us.

05/22/2013

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05/19/2013

Greetings,
Of the thousands of prophetic words I have given out in a congregational setting there are some that stand out; that seem to have a higher level of importance to me. Whether given out with unction or not, these words have hit the top ten percent of prophetic words I have prophesied. It is hard to express to you what I mean; it is just a knowing I have in my spirit. The following word I gave out, with an unction that took me over 15 minutes to get over, has been added to the list.

Be Careful What You Pray For: Prophetic Word May 19, 2013

Be careful what you pray for, I might just give it to you. And understand there is a lot less grace and more evil each day in my permissive will than in my perfect will.
Pray instead, “Not my will, but your will be done,” and “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
For was not the man who desired to do business in a city for a year instructed to say if it is the Lord’s will?
Was it not my disciples who understood they needed to get out of the boat after being out all night without bringing back a catch? And wasn't it I who then instructed them and after that told them to get back into the boat and head out into the deep?
You must get out of the boat by laying everything down. All your prayers even if they are promises given by Me must be laid down. For your focus on these things is causing you to miss what I am doing in the now; for I am found in the now.
(The prophecy stopped then picked up again.)
I had a vision of the Lord sweeping up shipwrecks into a brown dust pan. Brown is the color of humility for me. I understood the Lord was cleaning up the shipwrecks of His people who humble themselves by seeking His face.
I heard the Lord say, “The devil desires to lure my people with one of his apples which will only cause another shipwreck. I am telling you that I am cleaning up the messes of the past through My redemption. This is not the time to be going for apples, this is the time to seek my face and watch me turn around for good in your life the things the devil meant for evil. But this all must be done in the deep. Did I not instruct my disciples to head out to the deep water? You will not be able to discern the lure of the enemy if you stay in the shallows. You must go deeper in me.”

When this came to me I was reminded of a couple who are pastors. For years they prayed that the Lord would open a door for them and He did. It was clearly the Lord doing it. I recently had two dreams about these people. They were seen in the dreams as being burnt out, toiling in their own strength. Over wrought with endless tasks, appearing in my dreams totally exhausted, they stood at a podium and tried to say, “Whatever doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.” Thinking this was an exhortation; they fumbled it and couldn't remember the old adage.
Around 10 years ago, for roughly a year and a half, an emphasis of the Lord’s expressed through dreams, visions, and other revelatory communications was this: Right before a major move of God the devil was going to prepare custom made apples for the people of God (I wrote about this in: With All Your Heart A Prophetic Look At Ways We Are Holding Back.) I believe we are in this hour. I do not fear the devil in this; I fear the Lord who, if we continue to persist in our pestering, will give us His permissive will for our lives instead of His perfect. Comfort zones are not permissible now. We must press onto the high calling in Christ Jesus and grab hold of why He grabbed hold of us.

01/11/2013

Greetings,
I feel impressed to share a prophetic word I gave out along with two dreams I recently had. All three were within a week of each other and all three I believe communicate a directive from heaven.
Diane Scalchunes -- December 30, 2012:
During the worship I had a vision of two scenarios involving an individual which were contrary to the promises of God for their life. I hadn’t thought about these scenarios before, they were presented to me during the worship. I then heard a scripture I had gotten two times earlier in the prayer room: “casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7 NKJV).
What was brought to my attention next was this: This morning the Lord woke me up with a song in my spirit. After examining the lyrics I found the song dealt with a fortress with mine fields and barbed wire protecting it. It was a metaphor for a highly guarded heart. In the song a bridge was to be built that was able to get past all of that.
The Lord then said He was going to pe*****te even the hardest of hearts. That we who are believing God for our loved ones, for the harvest, standing in the promises of God for them, should let go of the last bit of residue of striving we have left in our spirits regarding them. There was a grace available to do so: casting of cares grace.
Earlier in the prayer room when I heard 1 Peter 5:7 two times after that I heard, “Ding done the witch is dead.” This refers to Jezebel who is the queen of control. She is the one who is influencing us when we strive in situations instead of striving to enter into the rest of God (Hebrews 4:11-13). We must allow the Lord to remove the last residue of striving, which is Jezebel’s domain, so we can align with heaven and see its promises come upon the earth.

Dream 1:
Jesus came to my house as Davidic worship. He showed me a blue print of the ancient ruins: of the Tabernacle of David being restored. He went outside the house and He started to build. I asked him if He needed any help and He said no. What He needed me to do was move my car away from where He was building. My job was to instruct those who came in after me to park behind my vehicle. (Vehicles to me represent ministries.) All throughout the dream the Lord was saying that He is doing something new and the old has to be put down.
The Lord has instructed me throughout the decade that when He moves it is going to be messy and we are not to get our hands involved “straightening up.” This dream has further fueled zeal within me to stand against any religiosity that rants: “This is not how things are done!”

Dream 2:
I was sitting in a movie theater (which represents a move of God to me) watching the beginning of a movie. Next to me on my left was a friend who I have seen throughout the years as being aligned with me during the move. On my right was someone who represents intercessors to me. In front of him was Jesus as Lord of the Harvest. My friend on my left and I were settled in to watch the movie, but the person who represented intercessors kept bothering Jesus. He kept trying to get his hands into the symbol for me which represents the harvest that Jesus was wearing. Finally Jesus turned around and rebuked him, saying something like: “I am the Lord of the harvest!” After Jesus turned around I told the person to be still.

“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”(Ps 46:10 NKJV) I believe the word is clear. The Lord is going to be exalted when He moves and we must take our hands off now. The irony of all this is any striving we do must be aimed at entering in and dwell in His rest.

Agape,

Diane

11/15/2012

I sent this newsletter out to my mailing list early September; weeks before the election and hurricane Sandy.

http://www.deepwatersministry.com/pdf/TellThem-WarnThem-Aug2012Newsletter.pdf