Or maybe we are a bride for Christ with strings attached? Are we? Do we still want the fame and the glory and the accolades of men? Do we want people to think highly of us? Did the Lord? I believe the Lord only cared what our Heavenly Father thought of Him….. Will we be courageous enough to delight only in the Father’s approval when and if others find fault….?
Will we ascend to the hill of the Lord by His Spirit too? As we listen to the Lord’s words and realize the hate He received from His own creation……. Do we really walk the way He did?….Here in the western world? Our brothers and sisters in other countries have no strings attached…. They have forsaken all for His name sake, some have lost their lives, others their families and others their home land… Have we here? Are we preparing our hearts to do the same here in America? Do we keep going for Christ even if the job may be lost for our beliefs, our business, our families, our home? Do we even conceive that scenario in our hearts so we will not bow before any but Christ and His Word if it arises in America?
Hear the Lord’s words to us, His bride: If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
If you were of the world the world would love its own. Yet, because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
But they will do all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
He who hates Me hates My Father also, ( John 15:18-23).
If we had followed the footsteps of Paul, we would see one totally sold out to the name of Jesus Christ….. Why because God had revealed the Lord Jesus to Paul. Paul saw the Lord was revealed in Paul….. The revelation of Jesus Christ made Paul only go one way- the Lord’s way. Paul was a very mighty straight arrow in the hand of the Lord.
First of all, have we had a revelation of the Lord? It does not matter if others have , we need to sit before the Lord until we have. He always manifest Himself to those that love and obey His word as stated in His word, John 15. Set our heart before the Lord and in faith believing His word is alive. If we were to go to McDonalds and were very hungry. We see other people go to the counter and eat and, yet, we do not go and get what we need to fill our stomachs. Yet, the food is right there….. I am not comparing McDonald’s food to our Lord, because there is no comparison.
But I am using the above for an example that the Lord is before each one of us and we cannot be “too busy” to be before Him and hear Him. When we sit before then the osmosis change happens to a sold out- totally love hungry soul for their Lord.
We must know the Lord for ourselves and not through others……pastors, teachers…….even the complete fivefold ministry that is still, even though many say not….. The Lord’s gifts to men have not stopped even if men say they have stopped…… God is unstoppable and so is all His grace and gifts unto men for the equipping of His people until the mature or complete body of Christ is established before the throne of God as written in Ephesians.
Paul had great revelations that surpassed the current day knowledge of the will of God through the apostles. Paul had gone his way to allow the Lord to saturate this knowledge and revelation into Paul until all was left was Christ before Paul’s sight. Peter did not understand all of what Paul had received but had the fear of the Lord, not to get in the way of the Spirit of the Lord.
Beloved, please know the Word of God and His way and voice. Spend time with the Lord and He will grant the grace to do this, if we mean business. Just because a person has microphone and a platform to speak from does not make it from the Holy Spirit. The words may tickle us or make us feel self righteous but not lead us to the cross. The cross is where His ways and thoughts and purposes are implanted in us.
We will not be deceived if we walk in the Spirit of God. He will preserve us and keep us close with Him ….. We will not be duped or deceived. He will awaken us to any danger, any false teaching that leads us astray. We have the open heaven today in Christ Jesus. We are seated with Him in the heavenly places in Christ.
All things are ours in Christ. ALL THINGS…..His protection, His healing, His faithfulness, His strength, His grace, His love, His authority, His Light, His Spirit…… All things are ours in Christ. Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come- all are yours. And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s, ( 1 Corinthians 3:21-23) ….. He will manifest Himself to us……as written in John 14:23, Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come and make Our home with him.
The Holy Spirit is manifesting the Son of God within us and we can hold no strings or attachments to this world. Our Great God has chosen us for His dwelling place…… How can anything be better than that, beloved. Rejoice for our God has come……yet, do we still hold have in our heart attachments to this world that should be killed by our own will?
The Holy Spirit gives us an adventure everyday….. Looking for our God’s hand is exciting in our everyday occurrence. Looking for His renewal of our youth like the eagles. Or His mighty angels standing guard against harm. Or getting the plans of our Lord and seeing them manifested in our every day lives is exciting. Praying in the Spirit with the Holy Spirit and seeing things that are become not so what is of heaven is…… How awesome is that….. There is no comparison of joy and fulfillment to any tie on this earth compared to being a world changer in God’s kingdom.
Beloved, we can be content with God on our Sunday songs and church service…. But He is greater than that….. Sometimes the Sunday worship does not make room for Him with the agendas of men….. It is written in many of the gospels that Jesus walked into their synagogues and it did not mention they were His synagogues……Why?
You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and My people shall never be put to shame. Then you shall know that I AM in the midst of Israel: I AM the Lord your God and there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame.
And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also on My servants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, ( Joel 2:26-29).
The adventure of the Holy Spirit within us and guiding us is what is needed for us not to fulfill the lusts of the flesh as written in Galatians. God is so much more than what is taught in a 45 minute weekly service. What kind of marriage would we have if we only talked with our spouse and listened for a 45 to 2 hour service once a week? That would not be marriage, let alone a relationship. This new dispensation is about relationship and fellowship with the Holy Spirit and the Father and the Son……. We have an open heaven to go and meet with our Creator-who knows what is in store for us this day and the next….. He has all the answers and He is the Answer…. And better than that, He reveals unto us His heart and secrets of His to be prayed out on this day.
The way of the cross is the way of the fellowship with our God…… He gives us the grace to die to ourselves and live unto Him in all righteousness….. If we believe and love Him which should be found greater than the love of the world and our desires. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness, ( Romans 7:5-10).
We have been crucified to the world and world has been crucified to us. As written by the Spirit that dwelt in Paul, But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world, ( Galatians 6:14).
When the Lord ascended to the hill of the Lord…… What was the hill? The place where He died….. The cross…. When we sing about ascending to the hill of the Lord, do we realize we are saying….. Yes, I want to ascend to You, my King….. I will ascend to the cross and die so You may live through me, my King….. I die with You because I want You to be my all and everything.
He desires a clean empty vessel for His Spirit to work within…..as written in 2 Timothy chapter 2—- There are vessels for honor and dishonor….. Check it out!!
Our life is lived as in Galatians 2:20, I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put of the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is no Greek, nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all, ( Colossians 3:1-11).
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil. Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it, ( 1 Thessalonians 5:15-24).
In 1 Corinthians 14:39, Therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues……..
When we sit with the Lord, we get to know the Holy Spirit and His way with us and others. As written in Isaiah 11- we have received in the Person or the Presence of the Holy Spirit upon us:
The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes nor decide by the hearing of the His ears: But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins, and faithfulness the belt of His waist.
Then we have written the gifts or the manifestations of the Holy Spirit working through us: There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills, ( 2 Corinthians 12:4-11).
Walking in the Spirit of God is very vast and wonderful….. He is full of wonderous marvelous manifestations for the profit of all……. I heard someone preach that the Holy Spirit was upon us for only getting people saved……. He is greater than only obtaining the hearts that are called for the salvation of God…… He is our Guide and Helper and Giver of all things that pertain to life and godliness…….and help us escape from the corrupted world. We have available before us such a wonderful eternal life to live in the Spirit of the Lord TODAY. Let us cut away all that hinders us to fly with the Spirit of God now, while we have now. So the world may see the wonder and wonder! Most important, does the body of Christ see the wonder of His Holy Spirit dwelling within us? Do we? Let us not be found as a bride with strings attached on her gown.
He is the Giver of all things that will help show all – the body of Christ and the world, God is among us…… Hear Him today!
SELAH!
There is so much more for you that I AM has prepared for you. There is no limit placed upon you, but what you have allowed. Fight for the liberty you have found in I AM. Why put limits on a limitless God? A God who has limits is not a god…. Where is it written in My Word to not prophesy? I AM the Spirit of Prophesy. Where is it written to forbid prayer in the language I AM has bequeathed with in you. Where is it written that all the manifestations of My Spirit is for the unsaved only? Do My people not manifest healing miracles today? Is all that is required of you in My shed blood in the redemption of your life is that you do not dwell in hell?
Alas, man has lowered the standard of I AM. The standard of I AM is not of man. As it is written by My Spirit says the Lord of Hosts. The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
My arms are still outstretched for all. My blood still speaks today. I AM has lifted the standard of My Kingdom in the Son of God, Jesus Christ. His countenance can be seen within the hearts and smiles of My own. I AM knows My own. Their names are written on the palms of My hands. Rest assured, I AM is ever the same yesterday, today and forever…… I AM was, and is and is to come…… as My Spirit is whispering to all today….. Come to Me, all those near and all those and far…. Come- hear Me while you can today.
As for all who dwindle down the Word of My power to suit your doctrines and unbelief. There will be a Day where your words will judge you against MY Word. May your words always point to I AM and all things are possible with I AM because I AM. Woe to those who reveal their lack and say it is Mine. I AM more than enough for you and all creation, oh still of little faith today….. After all has been revealed….Is I AM finding faith in this generation?
Believe and come to Me, then you will see what I AM has planned for you…… Higher than any mountain that you may climb and deeper than the darkest part of the sea and wider than all of the span of the universe is MY Love for you. Come to Me.
