But without a parable He did not speak to them, And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples, ( Mark 4:33-34).
Take heed what you hear, With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him, ( Mark 4:24-25).
If we were there when the Lord spoke these words, we would have looked at each other and said, huh? What do you mean if we have more? More of what? What will be taken away? Huh? But as we know Him, we know the Lord as the Truth and the Light of the World….. The Word of God is the Light and Truth which paths our footsteps to keep us in Him, from all evil. We must grow in our understanding……. He bids us to come and hear and abide…… Always this has been our God’s way.
When we hear something, we are judging what we hear according to what we think, believe and have experienced in the past……. Our Heavenly Father is seeking those who have a quick ear to hear and then do….. We are not to reason with our carnal reasoning but to line all with the Word of God….. The first and most important judgment that should trigger within us is: be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath, as written by James 1:19. But there is more to have ears to hear, we must have the Spirit of God within to illuminate our understanding so we may retain and move with the Spirit of God in certainty of the way He is leading us. We will not retain anything we do not desire. Check yourself on how well you listen to something you do not care about versus about what makes your heart stop a beat……. Our ears are balances as on a scale judging our heart.
The Holy Spirit within us will confirm or quicken to us the affirmation or not if the words we hear are from God or not…… If they are, woe to us if we reason away the Holy Spirit’s guidance because it is not make sense or is unreasonable……. The ways of God hardly make sense or reason to the carnal mind. Our Great I AM is seeking for those who seek Him in faith. Faith never makes sense….. or else it would not be faith…… How many people understood the walk of the Lord and all He spoke of in His coming death and resurrection….. None! It had not been done before so there was no experience or presidence. They still did not receive His Words after He rose Lazurus from the grave……. God does things before us and to us that are marvelous and grandious because He can! But we must deepen our quickening to know His ways so we may walk with One who holds our life in His hands.
The Israelites limited God even after they saw the parting of the Red Sea and deliverance from their enemies. They limited I AM because of their unbelief in the wilderness. The same God that fed the multitude daily in the wilderness is the same God that fed the loaves and fishes by His Son. Each time His people asked how can this be done in this wilderness?………. How can we feed this multitude with these few loaves and fishes?…… Then how many remained with the Lord when He referenced Himself as the True Manna from heaven?
The parables helps us to understand a God who is mighty and magnificent in all His ways. In His greatness, He has given us ears to hear which in the Hebrew- Strongs Concordance- means to broaden. He desires us to broaden our horizons with His ways, renew our mind in knowing Him. When we know Him in greater measure. It is easy and quick for us to know- ohhhhh this is God saying this to me….. I must do it or I must stay away for now….. Therefore, we may understand and discern our own hearts versus the ways of God. When we are close to someone we start to understand their ways and how they think…… though a lot of them may still remain a mystery, we grow to know them in a greater measure…… Men say they will never understand women. Women can not understand why men have a hard time understanding women……We may know our God, but we will always need to grow in greater measure of our knowledge of Him. Our Great God is so vast, we will always be learning about Him….. Is this the meaning of John 17: To know our God is eternal life? ….. Eternity will not be long enough in searching to understand all of Him.
Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My Covenant then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words you shall speak to the children of Israel.
So Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which the Lord commanded him. Then all the people answered together and said, all the Lord has spoken we will do. So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord. And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever. So Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.
Then the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of the people. You shall set bounds for the people all around saying, take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death, ( Exodus 19: 5-12).
Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled, ( Exodus 19:16).
We see the similar commands for us today…… God sticks to His plan, we must change and adhere to His. He has bestowed upon us all that we need to change by His Spirit into His family of sons and daughters of God.
Now this was initiated by God in the third month as written in Exodus 19:1, In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the wilderness of Sinai.
In the next couple of chapters the laws were given to Moses. Then Moses read the Words of God aloud to the people and made a sacrifice unto the Lord…. And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words,(Exodus 24:8).
The gathering said they would obey all the words of the Lord God Almighty……. Then……it is written in Exodus chapter 24:1, Now He said to Moses, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar.
Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, an seventy of the elders of Israel, and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity. But on the nobles of the children of Israel He did not lay His hand. So they saw God, and they ate and drank, (Exodus 24:9-11).
I think that is so cool……. They saw God and ate and drank with Him……. A Father’s Day!!!!!
This all happened in the third month or day or week…… The Lord’s day is as a thousand years so…… We do not know how long this was going on, but it was going on…… Come up here to hear is the point…… Come up here to hear…….. Leave all behind and come up here to hear …………
This day is His way: He comes to us. He give us His Word. He demands a sacrifice because He is a holy God…… So holy is I AM that He could only offer Himself to get rid of the rebellious nature of man…..Then He commands us to adhere to His Word and by this we are sanctified and will be complete by another three days of His good pleasure.
Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases, ( Luke 9:1).
After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go, (Luke 10:1).
The Word of God was presented in Jesus Christ, the Son of God and was given into the disciples to be His witnesses of the Word spoken and manifested before us…. Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God is also the sacrifice of the New Covenant….. The Lamb of God who was sacrificed before the foundation of the world….
Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and deliver Him to the Gentiles; and they will mock Him, and scourge Him, and spit on Him, and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again, ( Mark 10:33-34).
And He said to them, Go tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected, ( Luke 13:32).
Until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, which He said, you have heard from Me; for John truly baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.
Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him saying, Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? And He said to them, It is not for you to know times and seasons which the Father has put into His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight, (Acts 1:2-9).
Our God calls His gatherings. The trumpet is blowing. Have we asked the Holy Spirit to prepare our heart in the understanding and the wisdom of God to have our ears ready to hear His Word today……. The Spirit of God is speaking…… we are gathered with our King into the heavenly places today…… Do we give our ear to attend?
Let us notice the forty days-God had it rain for forty days in the days of Noah and the ark…… Never done before. Moses was up in the mount of God for forty days receiving the plans for something new….. Never had been done before- yet……The plans of the tabernacle and the commandments of God were then revealed………. The Israelites in the desert or wilderness for forty years to learn to walk by the commands of God- never been done before. They did not make the cut but two…… and the next generation.
Ninevah repented by fasting forty days and nights—- Never been done before in that city…….God relented on His coming judgment. Ninevah was restored…..
Jesus Christ out in the wilderness for forty days- triumphing over the devil and his schemes…..never been done before………He triumphed. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, walked about the earth for forty days in His resurrected state….. Never been before in a resurrected body. What about us now witnessing the death and burial and resurrection of the Lord by His Spirit…..?……. Let us renew our mind to heaven’s meaning of the forty as not a trial but as we have never walked this way before with our God, but He made a way by His greatness, so now we can….. Let’s just do it ……. AMEN and AMEN.
God likes the” third day” in His gatherings with mankind…….. His plans are perfect and glorious. He discloses His plans to us prior to them manifesting, but we miss the understanding because we reason it or do not understand because we keep looking back to what He did in the past, instead of His way. When we do the over the shoulder routine, we limit our vision to comprehend the new days ahead for us to be established in with God. He knows our frame and our thoughts, and still completes His plan without our comprehension—– Thank God for His great and abundant mercy…… But He is still working out His purposes now and today……. Let us be as little children who believe all in wonder and awe and then glee to witness the manifestation of His plan before us and walk in them boldly.
The fourth day is the result of all living things reproducing after their own kind in the third day of creation- check it out…..The fourth day in creation, the Light rules and the moon rules as a lesser light in the night-The Light divides from the darkness……. and so do His people…….. We are to be the representatives of our God. Our origin is from heaven and we are heavenly people by the blood of the Lamb of God and our testimony and we do not love our lives unto death and live as overcomers as scripture states in Revelation 12:11.
After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will show you things, which must take place after this. Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold a throne set in heaven and One sat on the throne. And He who sat there was like a jasper and sardious stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads. And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the Seven Spirits of God,
Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and back, ( Revelation 4:1-6).
We are the nation representing the sea of glass gathered around the throne of God. Today, in the Spirit, we are gathered around the throne of God and His Son…… to hear and glorify His presence….. The same God who presented Himself to Israel is the same God who is presenting us today in the Spirit…….and saying- come up here to hear. He says come and we will sup together. He is the same God who invited the gang with Moses up and is still inviting us up today…… Are we coming this Father’s Day…… The Lord’s Day????
The Lord first came down and now He calls us up….. He longs to gather His children as the Lord spoke of His heart cry to gather Israel around Him like a hen with her chicks, but they did not hear and were not willing as written in Luke 13.
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven,( Hebrews 12:22-26).
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars diminish their brightness. The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; the heavens and earth will shake; but the Lord will be a shelter for His people, and the strength of the children of Israel, ( Joel 3:14-16).
Come, and let us return to the Lord, for He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. After two days He will receive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His sight. Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, like the latter and the former rain to the earth; ( Hosea 6:1-3).
Here we are included in the third days of God’s plan. Now we walk out His purpose as in the fourth day of creation as well as all the ” next day” after His third days as written……… As written in Exodus He gave the plans to Moses to build the tent of meeting and tabernacle on the third day…..The Israelites were to walk in His Word and obey all He had spoken to be overcomers as they gathered around His tabernacle. This was to be His “moving” Mount Sinai.
Today, the Lord by His Spirit is building His temple in each of us and collectively as His nation, the glass sea. For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, ( Hebrews 2:11).
He has prepared a place for us to sit and hear. Partaking of the Covenant of the Lamb of God opens our ears and takes the blinders off our eyes…… He wants us to eat, so to speak, and partake of all He has for us, His Word…. He has gathered us around His throne today…… So we may hear and learn and glorify Him all our days on this earth and for all eternity.
We join in with all His witnesses singing our new song as written in chapter 5:9-14: You are worthy to take the scroll, and open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth.
Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice: Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom, and strength and honor and glory and blessing! And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, forever and ever!
Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you, what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen, ( Hebrews 13:20-21).
The gathering around the throne of our God and His Lamb is continually and we can hear the call-come up here to hear so you may know what is coming from what was and is. When we pray every day and every night, every minute and every second, we are gathered around the crystal throne of Son of Man…… We are gathered around His throne…….to reign as kings and priest for our God as written…… Let us learn to live in the fourth day of creation- to have a nation, family set apart for His pleasure and will. A Tree of Life reproducing after itself and healing the nations!………. The Lord has shown us what He is and what is His will regarding the Light bestowed upon us to live out the fourth day in overcoming and reigning by Him and in Him and through Him- We know by His Word in study and prayer…… We are gathered unto Him. Only our God. His mercy is beyond our understanding for us to be included in His plan and purposes from the foundation of the world.
In His great love, let us grab with gusto all by faith that is before us in His plan and look to live what has not been done before but in the mind of our God. Let us live in His story and give the Author and Finisher of our faith great joy and pleasure in seeing His Word manifested in His people, the sea of glass who gather around the throne of God. A Light to all nations that point to the Desire of the Nations.
If we are to reign with our King today- as it is in heaven it shall be on this earth and what is bound in heaven is bound on this earth….. What does the fifth day resemble? What about the sixth day……. The seventh day? Hmmmmmmm…. Michael Smith wrote a song a while ago called – The Throne…. in late 80’s or early 90’s. The Spirit is awakening us to the gathering around the crystal throne today……Come up here to hear…….Jesus Christ made a way to- come up here! Let us not miss this day and receive all that He has died to obtain us to Him and in Him and His work through us to the glory of our God and our King.
In Your great suffering, You have bestowed with in me Your resurrected power.
In Your Name, You have given me Your authority over all powers and principalities.
In Your fellowship, You have given me more than I could ever think or imagine.
In Your path, You have given me Your strength to keep my eye and hand on the plow.
In Your Voice, You have given me great peace for You are always I AM, present.
In Your hand, You have always given me perfect guidance.
In Your Love, You have given me Your all and everything.
In my love, I cannot live a day but where You are, I need and desire to be.
What great Love are You, My King, for I need never cry – Oh, where is the One who holds the world in His hands and my heart.
Oh no, never. For all to see, the One who loves me, is always here keeping me.
There is no greater Love than My King has for His bride. What can I offer this Great King but all of my days,
Sing His song of praise and honor and all glory be to the One who sits on the throne.
Selah!
My Children,
Be still and know I AM. Did I AM not tell you beforehand of tribulations and trials coming upon the earth. Such hard times have not yet been on the earth but are. I AM has spoken of signs in the moon and stars. The distress and unrest in nations and all the seas roaring….. But I AM has made a way, let My peace possess your souls… for I AM. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Words will by no means pass away. Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For I AM has warned that snares from the enemy are set on all who dwell on the face of the earth….. So I AM bids you to watch and pray always so you may be counted worthy to escape these things that will soon come to pass….. Alas, some snares are here today, even today. Abide in Me, be found in Me and when the Day approaches as you stand before the Son of Man, you will be known.
I AM longs to walk with you, but you do not come to Me. I AM longs to gather you all in My arms, but why do you run from the One who holds all your days in My hands….. Here is I AM, the way to true peace and joy is found in your rest in Me…..The way to heaven is only by One Man, One Son. The Lamb of God who laid down all to gain you to I AM…… In knowing Him, Jesus Christ, and receiving I AM’s arm outstretched is your only way to obtain eternal life……I AM again has come and is wooing you all to come to Me. Why do you not heed My Words, you do not own your days. Your tomorrow is not promised. You do not know what tomorrow will bring, however as you dwell in I AM, you will be found with Me.
This has been My plan to spend time with My creation….. Alas, the enemy has sowed seeds of tares to steal My harvest of children to Me…… I AM has made a way for you to enter in to a life that is beyond all your life as is today…… In I AM, your tomorrow will hold My promises. In I AM, all your tears are kept in My bottle of remembrance. In I AM, is your name written on My palm. In I AM, you are with Me, the Ancient of Days. In I AM, your prayers are heard, written and answered. In I AM, you are forever in My hand. In I AM, you have found the Love who never fails. In I AM, you will never thirst. In I AM, you will never hunger. In I AM, you will always be known.
In what of My offer does not meet your need? Alas, do not be deceived….. I AM is here for you and is calling you this minute to come. When the night is darkened by fears, remember My Words which will never pass away and call out to Me. I AM is waiting and is answering you….. Do not fear, little one. I AM is here. Come into My outstretched arms and receive My grace and mercy. Be washed in My blood and be hidden in I AM all your days………. Come to Me. I AM loves you with an everlasting love.
SELAH!
