The above scriptures states God’s intention and Who He is…. from Genesis chapter 1 through the revelation of Jesus Christ made manifest in this world and still continues for….. God is the Light and we are sons of light….Scriptures in Genesis 1:3, Then God said let there be light; and there was light. John 8:12, Then Jesus spoke to them saying again, saying, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.     You are all the sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness, (1 Thessalonians 5:5). 

The King’s kingdom surrounds Him.  So He walks in the midst of His people, the kingdom of God is within each of His people. We are His kingdom when we abide in Him…. Our King Christ Jesus is the Light of the world and the Truth. We are His vessels in His hand as He rules and reigns as He has been given all dominion. When He moves His vessels, light and truth are being manifested….. which evil hates…..Evil likes the dark where chaos reigns.

Let us remember in His presence is fullness of joy. The purpose of our lives is to live and acknowledge  the Lord’s presence in our every day lives.   He leads us in our journey into His land, actually the Land is Him as He is the Way, the Door and the Promise, the land…..

It is more vast than the universe for He is Creator, the Uncreated One…… The journey is Him….. We seek after all of Him for all of Him to be glorified by our lives. Remember, eternal life is to know God and His Son that He has sent to us!  He is the land of far distances and yet, we are in His land….yet, there is so much more to see and abide in!

He is like a mountain, yet He is the Power that keeps the waves at bay…. He is  like the heat of the sun and like the cold wind blowing the snowflakes, and each are different…. just as He created us with a distinct fingerprint. There are no two humans ever have been and will be that has the same fingerprint as you do!

Let us keep on searching the height and depth and width and length of Christ in us and for us! He is the land of far distances that we will never ever finish learning and ascending into….. yet, I do not want to quit, I have to keep seeking and searching Him out….. He is like eating only one potato chip, it is never enough…..Or riding a horse, one ride is never enough! So is living in Christ….. His love leaves me wanting to know Him more. So come on!!!!! Let’s keep going beyond the obstacles of naysayers, of the doubtful, of those who had the same mind set as those who told Columbus, he was foolish to think the earth was round. St. Paul and St. John never quit receiving instruction and revelation from the Holy Spirit about the Lord and the Kingdom of God… I thank God they had the courage and boldness to keep going and receiving for all of us.

He has planned our journey for each one. For we are His, and all different, but all the same… We need Christ Jesus to be complete, for we are complete in Him. My journey is different than yours and yours is different than others…… That makes God sooooo God. Only He could customize each one of our journey with Him. The Holy Spirit’s job is not unlike the servant of Moses, who brought back the bride to Isaac through the wilderness. He makes us ready to see the Lord as He is….

So who represents the lighthouse?

The church is the lighthouse…. us, not any buildings, us, the followers of Christ. We hold the light and truth of Christ for all to see or not…..The church is the Lord and His body…. The Lord is the head and is very much in His body….. Can you say you are the head of your body but not in your body…. no….. Christ in us the hope of glory.

Remember the warning of our King when we forget to put the One as the reason for us here!

Nevertheless, I have this against you, you have left your first love,                  ( Revelation 2:4).

Let us remember why we are here before the King. We grow daily from strength to strength or glory to glory in His presence as we behold the King and become as He is, worshiping in truth and Spirit Him…. This process is a God thing, but how good it it is to dwell with King and His children.

As it is written in 1 John 3:2, Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

His presence is required for the church to be His body and just not a gathering of people. Let us be alert to keep His face before us so He will not remove His lampstand.  We always want to have in front of us the desire of our hearts….Our King! There is no struggle to put the desire of our hearts before us…..we go after what we want in this life. I pray as we search our hearts, that we find it is the Lord.  In keeping the Lord as our Obsession, we will also know the desires of His heart. We will not be in the dark on the Lord’s plans and hapenstances, which are really His doing.

Let Him see, as He walks in our midst holding us in His right hand in all authority and righteousness, fruit that is to His liking and likeness. May we know that He reveals Himself through us, His children. We reflect His light drawing others into His light.

May He walk through us  and be blessed and pleased. May He see our hearts are pure in our search for Him and not for a name or fame, fortune …. We are strong in walking the cross. There be no thieves and liars or slanderers left among us in His church or temple, which is our hearts!

Let Him see that His lampstand is burning in prayer. As the Lord taught us, He went to the mountain top to pray and commune with His Father first before He did…… Let us follow His instructions of work to produce eternal  fruit. Our ideas will not avail His lasting fruit for the King and the kingdom.

When the world comes in to seek help…. They are seeking Him, we can do nothing but bring them to Him. He calls them and chose them to come to Him, by His grace. May the Spirit of God reside so strong that we hear from the Holy Spirit what needs to be spoken, healed, or cast out.

It is imperative to have the knowledge that His presence is within us. The Spirit of the Lord will give all that is required through His people that hear. But let it be said those who are seeking leave knowing the Lord and not us. They are the Lord’s work and His vessel as they start their walk in the journey with the Lord.

In the Old Covenant, King David, told the people to sanctify themselves that they may bring up the ark of the Lord to the place David had prepared for it. Now we are the ark of the Lord….. the place He prepared for His Spirit…. We need to maintain the separation of the world from us and be set apart for Him alone. We should die daily to the world and its ways and awaken to the Lord’s way in the light and truth.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, ( Philippians 2:12-15).

The Lord’s body will remain through all the storms that seas throw to destroy…. His body remains in the world as the True Light of the world until our Heavenly Father says time is up. Our God’s love will never fail….. He strengthens us in His might so that we may persevere as His lighthouse.

I pray we are all growing in the grace of the knowledge of the Lord in our lives…. I might have assumed something by my words….. I asked how you are growing in the gift of God that you asked for in 2015…. Well, to me, everything I receive is a gift from Him….. Whether it is waking up in the morning…. Paying the bills, driving to and fro safely…. blessed health…. so on…..

Some of things that you requested from the Lord are gifts….. They may not have been the spiritual gifts written in the word…. They might have been healthy children, fruits of a healthy marriage, new job, a car that does not break down…. as to boldness to speak about the Lord to others…. or for increase of faith, grace, patience, good health…. so on…. However…

It does not matter what you asked, the receipt of your requests from the Lord are a gift….. So how is your gift growing? Remember, sometimes things are the opposite of what we expect so that the Lord can bring about now what is not and take away what is……..

Keep watching and living as you know the Lord hears and answers His beloved children, for all things are yes and amen in Christ Jesus…..There are other gifts that are registered in you that will manifest as you are working out in faith your answer from the Lord.

His work is hidden but always produces much fruit in us……so keep watching! Let patience have her perfect work.

As the Lord is watching us in our midst….. He looks at you, He asks- Who do you say I am child? Bless Him with your continued growing list. As your list is growing so is He growing in you!

Wow! What a Light I see in His children! What a gentle smile the Lord has towards us….. That is gift, a great gift…. His smile. He is our Treasure. Nothing compares to our King Jesus Christ. No one…… Keep seeking and watching…..Remember, He is seeking you, watching if you are seeking Him!

Remember beloved, we shine His love, truth, and hope to the lost, not ours, so rest as He is Light! God bless those who want to put out the Light of the world within His followers…. The more darkness tries to cancel the Light, the more the Light shines through all darkness showing and pointing to the Truth: Jesus Christ is the Savior. The Only Begotten Son of God, who is King of kings and Lord of lords…… He rules and reigns at the right hand of the Almighty forever and ever!

Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven and on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father,                       ( Philippians 2:9-11).

Arise, shine;  for your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising, ( Isaiah 60:1-3).

Praise God and all of His might! We are arising in the Lord, shining the Truth! Amen !

Selah!

This sturdy lighthouse is still shining its light to weary sojourners defying the strength of all storms! Sometimes the storms look like they are designed to destroy this beacon of light. Why does the sea really want to destroy the light that has brought many a weary lost mariner home safely?

The waves of stormy seas have been banging against this little sturdy lighthouse for decades, but it still stands to show the way to storm weary trodden ones. It has been through hurricanes beating on its stones. But it remains shining the light of life. Lightning has struck its red roof but it has not fallen, nor penetrated the structure. Yet, it has remained shining the light of life. Out of all the beatings, its light appears to shine longer and brighter pointing the way to safety…..It is incorruptible and indestructible.  The folklore is said of the Secret that lies inside this beacon of Light.

As we look deeper, we find the foundation of this little lighthouse is on the rock. The rock has lifted the lighthouse higher than the undercurrent. This rock has protected the purpose of the lighthouse to all generations. It stands taller and brighter through all the stormy seas can throw at it.

It stands today, showing the wear and beating of stormy seas, but it stands strong in patience and humility, knowing it will not be destroyed until every last sojourner has made it safely to port.

As you walk in to the little sturdy lighthouse, we look up to the light and see the winding wood staircase circling around a beam of solid wood made in the shape of a cross.

Everyone who enters the lighthouse, puts their first step on the stair leading up, yet all they can see is the large beams in the shape of a cross. Folklore tells that some have seen a man of huge stature hanging there with His blood dripping on the floor with a crown of thorns on His brow and nails in His hands and feet. His hands and feet are pierced as the nails bind Him to the beams of the cross.

They say this man looks up through His intense suffering and smiles at them saying, I have been waiting for you to come. His eyes have such intense love for each that enter, that they have stumbled over the little stair leading up. They end up on their knees in awe of the presence of this Man.

They say they have never met anyone like Him before. He takes their breath away, and if they  were in pain or hunger it has ceased to exist. All they remember is His intense eyes and His gentle smile. Yet, they are consumed with awe of His strength during His endurance of this ruthless pain and suffering. There has been no Man like Him before or after that resembles such a Conqueror or a King. 

The stories that are told are too numerous to mention of those who met with the special Man on the cross.  His little sturdy lighthouse has remained  an open door for shelter, as they enter and meet this Man that resembles a King. Many speak of the most heartening smile of this spectacular Man, as it has melted the most frosty of hearts. There are rumors stating that they never left the same as when they entered. The rumors even state that they have been made brand new!

The journey has just begun into a land that is of far distances. The land of this King has called us at this time. But all must enter through the bottom of the stairs, at the foot of the cross. This is the beginning of the cross for those who enter in His Land. All are drawn as His love is poured forth for and before us.

As Jesus Christ said to Peter written in Matthew 16:17-18, Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ,  1 Peter 2:4-5.

The Spirit of grace is filling His temple, His body or His lighthouse with Himself…. We go in one way and we are never the same again from the touch of this Son of Man…. He is different. There is none like Him and that draws us unto Him forever.

Who is this One who is so meek as a Lamb? Yet, this suffering He has endured shows His strength of a lion, a King who loves even unto death to bring life to His people.

Who is this King of glory and strength and love?

Then He took the cup, and when He gave thanks He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. And He said to them, this is My blood of the new covenant which is shed for many, Mark 14:23-24.

But He kept silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

Jesus said, I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven, Mark  14:61-62.

Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors. And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your head, O you gates! Lift up, everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory, Psalm 24:7-10.

Then Jesus said to them, A little while longer the Light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light,  John  12:35-36.

And I will pray to the Father and He will give another Helper, that He may abide with you forever- the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans, I will come to you. A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.

At that day, you will know the I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love Him and manifest Myself to him, John 14:16-21.

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen. Also the heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly,  Isaiah 32:3-4.

Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; they will see the land that is very far off,  Isaiah 33:17.

Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway? Take out the stones, lift up a banner for the peoples! Indeed the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the world: Say to the daughter of Zion, surely your salvation is coming; behold His reward is with Him, and His work before Him. And they shall call them  The Holy People, the Redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken, Isaiah 62:11-12.

Welcome to His land and His heart. This is heaven!! The door is open, enter into the gates of thanksgiving and praise. Within the lighthouse, there is our King.

Behold, He is now seated above the cross shining with brillant hues not found on this earth!

Enter in and come, as He reveals Himself to all who seek! 

Selah!

 Part 1

If you had tickets, I am sure you used them! If not, with most of America you had a TV view of the Superbowl. I know it is a little late for America’s great game, however, there is another super bowl that the Lord is very interested in…..

He is the Winning Team, by Himself  and yet, we get the benefits! We happen to win because of His grace! Hey, He called us to be His! How awesome is that! That is why we watch the Super Bowl, right? We watch to see who the best team of the year is????? What about eternity with the Lord King Jesus Christ won all for us……I want to be on the winning team, as everyone does, right?  Let us make sure we are…… Let us make sure we know Him and He knows what house we are from…..

We hear a lot of songs of longing to go behind the veil. I also hear songs of the Holy Spirit requesting us  to- come up here. Well, by our faith, we have entered into heaven’s realm and we are seated in heavenly places…… Do you think that there is more available? Let us think about what the Lord’s view of the Super Bowl……

Behind the veil there is a huge super bowl, the throne of God……The cost is greater and the rewards are higher than we can think or imagine. The vessels that the King chooses to use are within His touch and voice…..He uses His vessels by His power, not theirs….. His and His alone, He will always get the glory…. not man or woman, infact He will use the weakest on the team or army because the power will be of Him not mans.

There seems to be layers of discerning to uncover as we climb the steps of the Lord’s leading regarding our journey.  When we set out on our race to go higher, we go deeper first…. The roots have to be strongly grounded in the Word. In the grounding process, we are put through the potters wheel as He makes us complete as a vessel useful in His hands. This has been His desire from the foundation of the world.

Our journey is as wide as it is long, in fact it is forever and everlasting to know the Lord and all He has prepared for us because of His great love.

Do we dare to ask to go behind the veil deeper with the Holy Spirit ….. Will we bear the cost of going deep? Sometimes the journey is so deep we may feel we are drowning? It may even seem that there is no help but God’s that will get us through alive.        Exactly!

He is smiling as His plan is being established in our lives for His purpose and His love…… He is God and we are not. He is our Savior and we can’t even save a gnat from death! We learn our utter dependence on the One who was and is and forever will be. This is the way of Lord, He leads us through the wilderness as He did with Israel. He leads  us through the wilderness so we may enter in to His Land fully- Him….. The Lord is  full of far distances! His ways are magnificent!

Behind the veil, the work of the Lord’s Spirit is done in secret…. Yup, the secret place of the Most High. The sufferings of the Lord as well as the pleasure of the fellowship with Him….. Friends share everything, right? Husband and wife share everything, right? So our Lord desires that with us, right?

Some of the stuff we share already has been crucified on the cross. He can not share that….. We will worship Him in Spirit and truth. It is His job to tell us  by that action or thought or word, we left the abiding in Him to reign in our carnal flesh.  It has to die as He did on the cross…… Our flesh now has to be torn so the room is there for the resurrection power of Christ to dwell. He is working on His bowl!

Friends have to be proven trustworthy, as the Lord does with us….. He is determined to make us One with the Father, the Son and by the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit hands out the tickets to those who mean business with the Lord. If we are seeking His face….. the ticket will be presented to us… guaranteed…. The Holy Spirit is about His business…..Maybe He hands them to all, but some do not realize they have been offered because other offers came in along side….. Some maybe picked another ticket instead of the ticket of the high calling of  God in the Lord Jesus Christ.

The word super in Strong’s concordance is to super abound;- abound much more, exceeding. The word bowl in Strong’s concordance is a sacrificial basin, a dish for holding blood or wine, a cup of oil, to depress, a basin as in deepened out, something advanced or deep.

Well, within the veil, the Holy Spirit is busy deepening us out through dark and hard adversities so that we may then carry the Testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. The walk of faith by night…. not by sight!

We will hold super abounding oil representing the Holy Spirit and the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Perfect Sacrifice from God for God, as we are the recipients. Our love will be squeezed out  as wine and our obedience to holiness as a sweet smelling aroma poured forth before the Lord.

The Holy Spirit is offering all to be a vessel or bowl for and unto the Lord…. If we are Christians, we will be vessels unto to the Lord. But as Paul, the Apostle, states in 2 Timothy 2 : 20-22, But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.

Therefore if any one cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

This is an opportunity to get off the sidelines and get into the game or the battle for the Lord today….. We have been picked for His team or army, if you will…… Will we use our Super Bowl tickets from the Holy Spirit, or will the tickets be found lost in our junk drawer because we did not hold His offer as a treasure. A treasure work offered from the Father’s heart to be His.

He offers all to get behind the curtain and let His secret work begin…..We start at the bottom of the cross in the dirt, as we see the Lord on the cross as He suffered for us. But as we grow in the Lord, we climb the cross of the Lord, as the Holy Spirit holds our hands and feeble hearts…. We climb the cross because we are being deepened by the Spirit to be holy and separate unto Him, so that we may be filled with His Resurrection power. His body is alive and living by the power of God.

So what are we going to do with our Super Bowl tickets? Save them for next year, so that they get lost in the junk drawer or…hand them in with shaking hands and tender hearts, saying I do not understand all that lays before me, Lord….. but I trust you. Your will be done, I know if I die, I will arise by Your love, which is You.

Selah~ Bowl spiritually means our heart! ~ Selah

Let is be said by the Lord of us- Your fruit is found in Me. Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right; The righteous walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them, Hosea 14:8-9.

I  hope that is the reality that you have found in  the love of God towards His children, and that includes you and me!

If it is not, I dare you to rest in the truth that He has chosen you to be His child born again from heaven. He has called His sons and daughters in Christ Jesus from the foundation of the world as written in Ephesians 1:4, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation that we should be holy and without blame before in Him in love…..

Wow! Is that not just beyond awesome…. We have always been in God’s mind. The plan of Jesus Christ  to redeem us from the unholiness and blame of the separation from our God. Only God could do that!

Now, by the grace of God, we are brought close to the Lord through the veil that was torn by Jesus Christ’s flesh. We can enter in…..to His realm, to know His love, His life…. Though He never stopped loving us, but because of the greatness of the Great IAM, we could not approach Him.  Let alone have a relationship….. or have knowledge of Him by truth and grace in the gift of the Spirit, as we treasure now.

So His love is so outstanding when you sit before Him, His love makes us feel we are the only ones in His eyes…. Yes, He looks at us through His beloved Son…. but the plan of God was wanting to spend all of eternity with your presence in His!  This is outstanding news…. Amen? Yeah!!! Amen!

Now the best news will be when we can look at each other in Christ and see His favorites in each other. Then treat each other as we would treat God’s favorite…. We want to be treated that way by others, but it starts with us first…..

How about we see and treat each other as though Christ’s home is within each of us. We then act through the love we have in Him and from Him towards all the brethren… as we know that we are all His favorites because we abide in His Beloved Son…..Jesus Christ showed us the great tenderness of our heavenly Father….loving, correcting, guiding us by His Spirit.

It is easy to see Christ in others and love them and see how God treasures them, if you already know you are treasured in God’s eyes.

We cannot give what we do not have…. We cannot see the love and the kingdom of God in others if we do not see the kingdom within us and His great love establishing us in His Son, Jesus Christ.

So we can also conclude that if people are looking for worst in each other, it is because they are seeing the worst in themselves. But the good news and truth is  we are dead in the baptism of the cross of Christ and have been resurrected with Him in new life. Do you believe that?

I think if we did, we would not slander, gossip, judge…. break the rules that Jesus Christ have laid down before us…..( My paraphrase), Love God with your all and treat everyone as you want to be treated…. We would not be taking the commands lightly if we really saw the holiness of the Lord in us and His desire for that to arise in us.

We can only give what we have—– godly qualities or carnal flesh. However, we are admonished in Galatians to watch our sowing and reaping, for we will receive the work of our hands, mouth and the source, which is our heart.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to the flesh reaps corruption, but he sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life, (Galatians 6:7-8).

The works of the cross in each of our lives will be evident in how we treat the brethren and “brethren to be”.  Why judge before the time as Paul writes to us. What are we judging anyway?

How much Christ is in each other or how much darkness we see in each other?……If we are looking for darkness, we are growing the darkness within each of us…. However, if we look for the Light of Christ, hidden in His vessels…. We will see the Light of the world as the Light of the world is growing in us. We will comprehend how much Christ loves us and see why that love exists and pours forth for each other…. No mushy gushy touchy feely affections that fleet in a moment or sound great in a hallmark card…. but deep down living love by the Spirit of God, seeing Christ and showing Christ in the brethren….. No matter what fleeting feeling feel comes by us!

Love opens the door and offers the sight of  the staircase of ascending in Christ’s love to all…..We can share that vision with all or close the door by our own darkness seeing only darkness in our brethren. Our choice again.

Let us choose to love and grow in the Light as Christ is growing within us….. or choose to see the darkness  and let the Light of Christ diminish by the harshness of hate and works of the flesh.

We have choices everyday to live in His love and grace and pass that on to each other by seeing their worth in our Heavenly Father’s eyes or we can choose to be in darkness. The problem is as we continue this misguided path we won’t know how dark that darkness is until the day of reckoning with the Lord.

As Paul admonishes us in Romans 8:5-8, 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 that are in the flesh cannot please God.

It is wise to stand with the word of God written on the brethren than stand against God! For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified, these He also glorified.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Let our King Christ Jesus find us not speaking against the brethren, whom He died to redeem because He loved us all! He is in our midst! After all, we are speaking against His own body! We are speaking against Christ?  What was the sin that Jesus Christ said that would not be forgiven????? Do we understand what He meant when He spoke out the rule of heaven in regards to the Holy Spirit and His work?

How is your gift from the Lord for 2015 growing?

Who Do You Say I AM for your brethren or neighbors or nations far away?

Your love, My King, never ends or fails for each one of us! Lord, I pray that we seek open eyes to Your great love within each of us to shine and spread throughout Your body as we love as You. Let us draw Your Light out from within each other by Your love flowing through us.

Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. For he who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him speak pace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their prayers; for the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, ( 1 Peter 3:9-12).

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down on the beard, the beard of Aaron ( Jesus Christ), running down the edge of His garments. It is like the dew of Hermon, descending upon the mountain of Zion; for there the Lord commanded the blessings- life forevermore!, ( Psalm 133).

Let us be found obedient that we love as He loves to the best of His Light within.

Selah!

Who bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord who has heard our report? So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, have they not heard? Yes, indeed:

Their sound has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. 

But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says:

I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.

But Isaiah is very bold and says:

I was found by those who did not seek Me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.

But to Israel he says: All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people, ( Romans 10:15-21).

God ways do not change, we are to change to align to His ways….. So if the plan of God is to bring to jealousy to the nation of Israel…. Do you not think that He is still bringing “some” to jealousy to maybe move us to seek the Lord much harder…. so to speak- take Him off of our comfort shelf? Maybe allow God out of the nice pretty box we put Him in? ( As though He would fit !).

He is a great God and has wonderous things for us and is still doing them…. But we have to have eyes to see them and heart that is searching after Him. What is the Lord showing you about His great plan that includes you?  Seek Him, love Him and He will reveal all!

There is great life offered to us by the finished work of the cross….. but the Holy Spirit is very faithful to put the cross in our daily path so we die daily so that there is room for the resurrected power of the Spirit to live through us…..

We hear from our Lord daily, He has not stopped speaking to His children….. If we are not hearing it is because we quit listening. There are too many voices louder in our hearts that have greater power over us than the Lord!

But then, look at verse 20 in chapter 10 of Romans: I was found by those who did not seek Me;  I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.

So the Lord has plans for who He wants to show Himself too…. We are not God, we cannot make a formula to follow to seek Him…. It is about the heart that He changes and moves in us towards Him…. But what we can do is be diligent in showing the Lord we mean business about learning about Him…. as we put Him first and ask to enlarge our heart to follow His commands as written in Psalm 119:32.

We need His Help, which He sent in the Spirit of God….. Now when I became committed to the Lord. I expected to hear His voice to guide me….. I did not want to listen to my own anymore because it led me to disaster and death.

So by faith, I heard and obeyed His sweet gentle voice. He became My ALL. Each day, I listened and watched for Him…. as I looked for food and water for my body. His voice settled this longing in my heart and soul. There is nothing better than to be in communion and fellowship with His Spirit which is our Helper and Comforter and Guide in this dark night of walking by faith in a corrupt world.

Why do you think Jesus said to us in Mark 10:15, Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.

Man says God only speaks through His word now….. Jesus Christ, the Son of God says, My sheep hear My voice……Man says their is no need anymore for the gifts of the Spirit….. God’s apostle Paul says— You must walk in the Spirit and be led by the Spirit.

Man says there are no more prophets or prophecy…. Paul, the Apostle, says do not despise the Spirit and do not despise prophecies.

Why is there such a contradiction between the preaching in the building of churches and what is written by the inspiration of men by God, who are building up the body of Christ. His church is a living breathing organism. This is the new creation in Christ, the body of Christ.

If we are the body of Christ, should we not live by the anointing of Christ in us, which is the Holy Spirit living within and on us? Jesus Christ gave us His Spirit to live by in Him as a command….. This was not left as an option from the Lord…. If there is question about that, then I suggest for you to read the Gospel of John 14-17.

Our ignorance of the written word limits our walk with the Lord….. Jesus Christ started His ministry on earth after He was anointed by the Spirit of God…..  We have been given the Holy Spirit to teach and guide us.   Before we trust in what man says…. we need to be sure the word lines up with the Word of God and know and hear that the man or woman was approved by God. How do we know that man was approved by God?

One way is to tell if the fire of God in you is stirred up to believe the unbelievable and live in the inconceivable life that is available to us in God.  That our faith grows larger in God and sees a greater vision of His love and power….We see the Father’s heart and know we can conquer all obstacles in the strength and power of Jesus Christ’s name.

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us and then was equipped to do the Father’s will when He was baptized with the Spirit of God…..We also need both the Word and baptism of the fire of the Spirit of God to live the Father’s will and walk humbly in the Spirit of God’s direction….in faith, because His direction is the Light though we see only darkness of night in the natural’s eye.

As we listen to the Lord and not man, the limits of the life that is available to us in Christ is limitless….. Man puts limits, but God says in Ephesians 3:20, Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

Choose this day, who are you going to believe? Who died for you? Who provided the Comforter and Helper and Guide?

Get in the word of God and see the benefits that you may be missing, especially the hearing of His voice….. because if you are His sheep, you hear His voice. God said it, I believe it and I live it…. What about you?

Grow in God’s grace and knowledge of the Lord—— Woe to the ones who are speaking God does not want to speak and guide His children today by His Spirit.

God’s love never fails…… Let us continue to climb the heights of His majesty of love and the depths of His sufferings of being misunderstood by His own.

God’s love never fails….. Who do You say that I AM? He is asking today—– Hear His cry of His heart of love toward you? Do not fear, just believe!

Selah

And every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another, ( Mark 9: 49-50).

In prayer one day, I saw the Lord’s hand shaking a container full of salt. The salt was popping out all over the place while the little white container was upright in the Lord’s hand. The container was not turned upside down as He was shaking it.

I asked, why am I seeing this and He said, My shaking of vessels is good. The vessel and I see what comes out as I shake. 

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

Let you light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify you Father in heaven, ( Matthew 5:13-17).

Salt is a purifying agent. We have been born again with the Incorruptible Seed. The Lord’s Spirit is the salt that comes out of us when we are shaken…… or not…… the fleshly spirit of man can come out of us too, when we are shaken by the Lord’s hand.

So when I saw the Lord’s shaking a salt shaker and white grains of salt  coming out and spreading all over the earth. I have to say that is good and it is God’s work in us and through us to the world. But we have to check to see that our flavor and fragrance is of the Lord. As we maintain ourselves in the word and in prayer of His presence, we keep our focus on the Lord. This keeps our season or fragrance of Christ. We then have not been corrupted or spotted by the world’s spirit, we will remain seasoned with the flavor of Christ.

In His presence is the seasoning to keep the fire of the altar burning within. May the world then see and know God is here today in our midst. God is watching and God is wanting to talk to them…. then may they turn to Him today as it is the day of salvation.

So do not fret when the shaking starts…..because: whose voice then shook the earth; but now has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven. Now this, yet once more, indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire, ( Hebrews 12:26-29).

If we have been faithful in walking in and with the Spirit, when we are shaken the seasoned salt of the Lord’s presence will come popping out of us spreading His knowledge for His glory.

This is a good thing! This is one of our purposes, beloved. The spreading of the Incorruptible Seed, Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God…..as Savior of the world, their Savior.

If we are shaken and some things pop out that are not of Him, well, thank God for His mercy. He will give us the grace and fire of His Spirit to keep going and eradicate the carnal parts that have been crucified at the cross in Christ. In other words, the Holy Spirit will cut at the root that which is taking up space which is owed only to Christ. He expects our obedience in the death of ourselves at the cross….. as things pop out, He is faithful to purify us for the fullness of measure of Christ…..but He also expects our agreement and humility in this process. This is good.

Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.
For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

For we are not, as so many peddling the word of God; but we speak in the sight of God in Christ,      ( 2 Corinthians 2;14-17).

I know when I shake the salt shaker to season my food, I expect to taste the salt! If I don’t, something is wrong and I throw the salt out….. Does not the Lord do the same thing?

Maybe this helps explain the words of Jesus Christ in John 15;2-8, Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vines, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

I AM the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.

By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

As we abide in the Lord, our Source is Him. Our strength is His and we are strong as we abide in Him…..Christ in God will continue to become all and our all. Then our heavenly Source is as salt or fire in our lives and pours out from our lives…. He is incorruptible. So as we take our new birth from heaven and our only Source that we live by is God’s power. We do not go to rely on the world’s wisdom or ways and take strength from other sources, including ourselves. We shall remain seasoned for such a time as this, His light through us will not be diminished by corruption.

He answered and said to them: He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels,and they will gather out of His kingdom things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

I much rather be pruned and corrected by the Holy Spirit now then let any corruption reside in me that I refuse to die to and leave behind. I pray that His love always draws us so close, we would rather suffer the pruning or chastisement now, then lose our seasoning of the hand of the Lord on our lives. May our drawing towards the Lord in His righteousness be our choice always. Lord, we need more grace and to live and abide in as Your great mercy surrounds us in Christ Jesus.

We never get upset when our mechanic says there is a leak in our brake line, do we? Well, I hope not. We are appreciative that they found it today! We gladly pay them what is the value to fix the car correctly! Why? Because our lives and those we love are at stake in a faulty brake line in our car……….Hello……….!

When our Holy Spirit advises that there is a leak that is allowing the incorruptible resurrected life to run out and our life in Christ is at stake….. Should we not be appreciative also of the great awakening that He gives us to correct our lives before it is too late……Is it not more valuable as our eternal future is at stake?

Lord, may we have eyes to see and hears to hear and a heart to receive what bread You are giving us today!

Father God,

May You bestow upon us greater vision of the value of Your grace and mercy we have in Your Son, Christ Jesus. May we seek Your Heavenly Guidance as You shake us to see what comes out, may it be pleasing in Your sight…… Help us be faithful and be Your salt in this earth in Christ Jesus.

We know the Acts was the book written of the new dispensation of God by the actions of the Holy Spirit through those that believed in Jesus Christ…. Well, let it be said of us, as the followers of Christ in Acts 17;6, But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.

As Paul states and we learn and walk in a greater measure daily from strength to strength: 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,                                      ( Galatians 2:20).

Check list for realizing your gift from our Heavenly Father for 2015….. Lest we forget to press in:
Are you walking daily as a recipient of your gift from the Lord for 2015? Do you realize the increase of God’s gift in you?

When the shaking occurs, now who do you say I AM ?

Are you enjoying the shaking as well as the peace as the shaking is going on simultaneously?

That is a God way! You are blessed, beloved. Be enveloped in His great love!

He is still holding you in the palm of His hand, even as the shaking occurs….

because He never lets go. Trust Him and see His infinite love that never fails for you!

I am anxious and anticipating as the new creation is continuously being revealed that the Lord has planned for His beloved!

Selah!

Clearly, you are a epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on the tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we think the sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life, ( 2 Corinthians 3:3-6).

For it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed- always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

So then death is working in us, but life in you. And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I believed and therefore I spoke, we also believe and therefore speak, knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God, (2 Corinthians 4:6-15).

We all know the scripture of the beloved John the Baptist spoke of which songs and prayers have been declared many many times….. Lord, You must increase and I must decrease…. right? The above scriptures show how that is manifested in our lives…. the glory of God is shown through our lives as the reflection of the Lord’s image is displayed. However, to have that happen, our carnal life and attitudes have to be declared dead at the cross and removed….. as wind of the Spirit is blowing through us so Christ may increase.

How does that happen? By many afflictions, the glory of God increases because the deliverance of the hand of the Lord moves in our happenstances. As Paul states the truth revealed in the mystery of Christ in 2 Corinthians 2:9, Yes, we had the sentence of death in our selves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us.

This godly principle is true in all our happenstances that the Lord allows for our faith to grow in His ability to pull us through all darkness and death and allow the power of His resurrection to rest in and upon our lives….. This is living the mystery of godliness….

But woe, it is not for the strong of heart or self confident, or independent….. It is for the weak in spirit, the down trodden, the oppressed, the incapable, the least of the best and the most despised…. if that is you, come and be taught of the Lord and live in the power of His might….. for we already know our power and might is without any merit…. We already know we are failures in need of the love and strength of our Savior. We gladly lay down our lives for His work in us as His new creation.

Paul confirms how the Lord can use the nobody’s of the world to be His warriors as stated in 1 Corinthians 1:26-31, For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.

But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us the wisdom from God- and righteousness and sanctification and redemption- that, as it is written, He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

The last verse is the reason why all this struggle is pursued hotly by the Spirit of God….. that no flesh may glory in His presence….. in fact, in His presence, seeking His face, we disappear as we see Him…. after all, He is God…. and He is awesome, but He is good.

So as we continue to seek the Lord in ways that we never have allowed to venture…

Did you ask the Lord a question as what you desired from Him for 2015?

Did He respond?

Did you receive the answer by faith?

Did you start living the response by faith?

Did you make mention of the new revealed knowledge of Jesus Christ because of this response in thanksgiving?

If not, start and if you have, see what He has in store for you this coming week….

After all is said and done, keep watching…… for He looks for those that He can show Himself strong on their behalf….. but we also have to keep watching and waiting for His appearing…..As He does, let us tell Him, we want to know and live in the knowledge of His presence 24/7…..

So….. therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and work of faith with power, that the name of the Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ, ( 2 Thessalonians 1;11-12).

We are called by a great God to be His vessels…… What kind of vessels are up to us….As we grow in the knowledge of the Lord and the power of His might, may we also grow in our love…. When we grow in our love towards Him, the fear of the Lord is also growing so that we might not take lightly the work of the Holy Spirit.

So as Paul also states in Romans 11:22, Therefore consider the goodness and the severity of God; on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.

Our God is an awesome God….. He is worthy of all honor and glory from His children.

So, let us rejoice in the mercy of our great God who has called us to be His living epistle of His great love and grace.

Look for Him as He is looking for you looking for Him!!!!

Selah !

The Lord asks us this question today. May our knowledge and growth in the Lord in 2015 be strongly established. May our experience of allowing the Lord “to be the Lord” be greater on 12/31/15 than today. However, I have to caution you, the ride will be challenging in our faith…… and why not…. if we are bowing to our awesome God. Faith is an action that needs to be worked like muscles….. So let us grow in faith mightily in 2015 as He reveals Himself.

Some say they know the Lord. But the most important question is…. does the Lord know you? Is He involved in our everyday life or are our days so tightly booked with our own agenda, that there is no room left for Him…. We tend to be very controlling in our lives in order  we do not have to handle the unknown of the next minute, hour, day or week or year. In so doing, we are sadly forsaking the life in the Spirit learning Christ as Lord.

If we are that controlling of our lives, then we miss out on the wonderful experience of the revelation of Jesus Christ in our lives, acting as Lord and King. We miss out as His great love  pulls us higher in His ways and plans. He puts us in tight spots so that our faith moves His hand. Then we know Him in a different Light. We then grow in the righteousness of the Lord and not our own….. May we allow ourselves to see there is nothing about us that is good but His neverending love for us. We can do nothing good without Him.

Instead of making resolutions of the coming year, I double dog dare you to answer the question of the Lord to yourself. Every tight spot or circumstance we are going to be in the coming year, instead of being upset about it, let us look for the place that He allowed so that He may show Himself strong in our weakness.

Let us look for the unveiling of a new revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ in our daily stuff! Get out of the boat and let Him teach us to walk on the water- new heights, new depths, new widths, new lengths of His love surrounding us and catching us and lifting us…. in the Father’s arms.

Today, as He is looking to enter your life to bring you into His realm in greater measure, He is asking…..

WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?

What is your answer and I pray that the lists are as many and neverending as eternity.

Be strong in the Lord and the power of His might.

May the prayer of Paul be our way of life in Christ as he said in Phillipians 3:8-12, Yet, indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God through faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

But to get to the place, where we can live with the heart position of Paul’s towards the Lord, we have to also live this prayer also….2 Corinthians 12:9-10, And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

As the Holy Spirit enters our churches and homes, may He find us reflecting the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ in our hearts and living the adventurous life of His. Jesus Christ alone is worthy of all our bragging rights!

I have asked so many souls if they know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. Sadly, their answers are that they go to such-such a church….. Their savior is the church they go to and are involved with, they do not know the Lord…..What is the reflection in their answer?

God help us in America, but what if one day, it is forbidden to go to any assembly forming to worship the One True God and His Son…. What will happen if our dependency is on the gathering instead of the One who we are gathered to center on?………. Who Do You Say That I AM ?

That question needs to be answered by each one of us. So when the Lord’s Day is here, He can say, I know you with His loving smile.  Hey, when the storms come, then we will be fully equipped to stand strong in the power of His might because we know He will carry us through…… We already have the Testimony of Christ within us….. Be sure of this, the storms are coming!

Let 2015 be dramatically different than all other years…… Filled with His Divine Presence in the Resurrected power of His life abundantly acting in our lives and through our lives.

May this year be the year that has never been before as we reveal the Lord Jesus Christ as our reflection in greater measure just as the moon reflects the sun….

May we shine HIM…. as He knows who we say HE IS…… our Great I AM.

Selah!

I might suggest that most of this coming year resolutions will be forgotten by the end of 2015 or we just start them again on 1/1/2016…… If you think I am mistaken, do you remember what your new year resolutions were made for 2014? Hmmmm……My question is why do we need to make adjustments at the end of a year? Yet, we even do it over and over again, thinking that we might get different results but the same results occur, right? The reason is we are using the same methods- relying on our own strength.

If the day is the day of the Lord’s, are we not to live to seize the day? The discipline we lacked last year, will be the same this year and the next unless we terrorize ourselves into the truth of God…..without Him we can not do anything.

Yes, the Lord is awesomely terrible and terribly awesome…. That is our God. However, He is mighty and we need His might to overcome anything in our human realm. He is strong and we need His strength to overcome anything in human nature. He is wonderful, but He wants our all, so what is holding us back? So until we lay our all down and let Him who is All, be our all…. we will continually fail. In our weakness His power is made perfect. His word will always establish His word! In the flesh there is no good thing, we can do no good thing without Christ. If we do any good thing, it is because of Christ, not us…..nor should we give glory to any but God.

May I make a suggestion to change the tradition of failure over the past New Year’s Day….. Ask the Lord, what He wants for this day…. because He only gives us the day we live…..

Ask Him, then spend the New Day with Him in quietness. Let Him be God in directing our day and our days to come…. for remember He knows the end from the beginning because He is the Alpha and Omega….

Let us ask Him for His guidance for discipline, for giving, for forgiving, forgetting the past, for being made into His new creation and resting in Him…

Offer ourselves as a living sacrifice this day and let Him show Himself strong through you and me and become victorious in Him…and conquer through His power. His strength to realize and know our helplessness so He can be our Help. So then we can have this year be His best through us.

Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings to the Lord at Gibeon in 1 Kings 3:4-6, Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

At Gibeon, the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask! What shall I give you?

We have our lives to give now as a living sacrifice, an acceptable offering. When we seriously meet the Lord with “true grit” intent, He meets us with the same intent. As written in numerous places as well as 2 Samuel 22:26-28 and Psalm 18, With the merciful You will show Yourself merciful; with a blameless man You will show Yourself blameless; with the pure You will show Yourself pure; and with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd. You will save the humble people; but Your eyes are on the haughty, that You may bring them down.

Solomon requested in verse 9, Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge the Lord’s people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of yours? The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. Then God said to him, because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, behold, I have according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you. And I have also given you what you have not asked: both riches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days.

Now here, God spoke with a condition—— So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statues and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days, ( 1 Kings 3:3-14).

We have all been called as our God’s priests and kings. So we all also have the same responsibility and honor to offer ourselves to the Lord…. We all know what is in our lives that needs to be eradicated. But to receive the heavenly gifts is in the hand of the Giver….. He gives as we ask with a pure heart of faith in His love…. Not for our gain but for Him, then for others. When we lose ourselves we gain all, because we gain Christ.

So in diligence, let us meet the Lord everyday, for everyday we live is a gift. In receiving life, let us offer ourselves to Him and wait. What will we ask for if He awakens us in a dream one night and says- what is your desire, my child?

What will be our answer…. Do we want to grow bigger or greater? Why? Whose eyes are we trying to please?

May everyday of 2015 be of divine grace and His Resurrected Life in His fullness upon and in us.

Or we can stick to your resolutions and be in the same state on 1/1/2016.

Choose Life or death this day. If we choose today and then again tomorrow, to draw near Him, it is written He will draw near to us….. In the Lord and in His day, He will grow us into what He has designed for each one of us in His plan….. He will prune this and burn this and let more light shine on this and that in our hearts and the fruit of the Lord will grow in and off our lives… for Him and His glory…. We will show ourselves in Him as we grow from glory to glory…. What a year in the Lord to live when we live for the Lord in each day we are given….. Let us look boldly for the adventure He has planned each day, before we know it all things are made new! Happy Lord’s Day, each and every day!

Selah!

Think about this for a minute….. The revelation of the Word of God…..Make manifest the Word of God. All the Word has been fulfilled in Christ Jesus, the Son of God. The blessings and cursings are exposed now as the Word of God or as the revelation of Son of God, Jesus Christ, because He is the Word.

Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen, (Revelation 1:7).

As we studied the Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ, we saw the activity of the Word being made manifest on the sons of men…… There is one thing all creatures that are created will and have experienced is death….

But then what did Jesus mean when He said this in John 11:25-26: Jesus said to Martha, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though He may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?

John 8:51: Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.

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.

Was Paul alive and did he die naturally or spiritually when he wrote this scripture? How did he die and still write the scriptures for us? In what manner?

When we die to Adam’s race in the spirit, we then are reborn into the sons of God as scripture states in John 1:11-13, He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Not only did the Word become flesh and dwelt among us, beholding His glory, full of grace and truth…. but now His Spirit full of grace and truth resides in our flesh….. because we are now the children of God growing into the sons of God in Christ Jesus.

The image of Christ in symbols as written through out the Word is the Lord’s character revealed. Remember what Jesus said if you have seen Me, you have seen the Father…….in John 14:9. The very character and essence of God is revealed through the Word of God. This Word of God is growing His children into the sons of God by the power of the Spirit…

So the image is of Christ coming from us and not our old nature’s image…. for that old image is dead. Yet, Paul stated in the letters that He dies daily too. So this is the way of the cross and growth of Christ in us.

So as we are celebrating the Babe in the manger, helpless but mighty for He is the King of all, let us not settle for just His birth in the flesh, but let us reveal His birth and growth in us….today… and the Holy Spirit’s work in us into the sons of God. Our Heavenly Father wants a family in Spirit and Truth.

We do not give gifts to each other as if we were still babes, we give each other gifts as to the age we are now. We may celebrate His birth, but He is no longer a baby….. He is King of kings and Lord of lords…. and His dominion will never cease and always increase. So should we in Him.

This is our King, Christ, the Lord Jesus: 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. His delight is in the fear of the Lord, and He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of 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, ( Isaiah 11:2-5).

He is no longer a babe, but Judge of His creation because the Word of God judges the hearts of men. For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing, even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, ( Hebrews 4:12).

This is the Babe, the Word of God, incarnate. He has grown into the Son of God and has completed His work for His kingdom as the Lamb of God, now He is King and Ruler over all.

As He also says in another place: You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek; who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered, ( Hebrews 5:6-8).

So, if the Spirit of God now dwells in us…. Are we not also going to grow from children into the sons of God through the suffering and death of our flesh?  What we want versus what is the way of the Lord? Is that what Paul meant as he said he died daily? All his dreams, his agendas….  Jesus, as well as Paul, and many other saints, were forsaken by the brethren at very hard times.

Is it not written in Isaiah 11—-He will not judge by His eyes or word of mouth, but by the Spirit of the Lord? Are we not to do the same? Alas, we need the anointing of the Holy Spirit to obey? We are to judge by righteousness and humility…. Poor in spirit, not necessarily poor in finances, but poor in pride  and self righteousness. It is written in James 2:5, Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?  Is this the only way of the Lord? If we call ourselves followers, then we shall walk His way!

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 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, saying: I will declare Your name to My brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You. And again, I will put My trust in Him. And again, Here am I and the children whom God has given Me, ( Hebrews 2:9-12).

But Christ as a Son over His own house, who house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden Your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, they always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways. So I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter My rest.

Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily while it is still called ‘today’, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, while it is said, ‘today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, ( Hebrews 3: 6-15.)

These scriptures are about the grown up Babe…… He is our Lord and Savior and the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord…..So we do not loose our confidence in our faith…..It is important not to get swept away by tradition and forget the True Reality of the Living God in our midst. Let us make sure we celebrate HIM!

Our worship is not of tradition but in the Spirit and Truth now….. No other way is acceptable to our God. If we are His children growing into His sons, then we will be about our Father’s concerns and have put aside the childish things….. Armies do not let their weapons down, how much more should we be on guard not to get swept away by the deceitful pressure of the world’s spirit.

Tradition usually starts because a certain time God moved and this was so glorious that we think if we do the same thing over again the results will be the same….. Rarely does that happen…. Pretty soon all the traditions are for our flesh…. hoping that it will be a special time like last time….. We have gone back to a place because the last time it was so wonderful and yet, it was God’s grace all over the whole day….We forget that the day is the Lord’s. If He does not get the glory for the beauty of the time, then it will never be the same again, in fact, sometimes it looks like the blinders are taken off…. We wonder why we even went there at all! Traditions can become ruts that make us do the same things over again hoping God’s hand will show up…. It won’t and it puts a burden on us to do everything perfect just like last time……hoping that it will be great again…..It turns into works of our flesh instead of faith. We tend to look for the feeling and goosebumps instead of how He showing us Himself….. love, blessing, giving, righteousness, forgiveness. Let us be looking for HIM!

It is better to stop the traditions and see what God has in His plan for His day and others hearts. Life in Christ is the best adventure for He is in our midst doing something in secret, waiting for us to seek what He is up to! Love is poured out in our midst every second……Let’s look for Him today and not be too busy in our inn for our King.

Be on guard against the world’s spirit and rejoice in the God who is with us then, now and forever…..He is worthy. He always has loved us with an everlasting love….. Hey, His love never fails.

Christmas means to celebrate Christ! So let us celebrate Christ and leave the traditions alone….. See what He has planned for you as you look for Him as the Gift in the Tree of Life.

Selah!