What will He see as He enters our places of worship, our homes, our hearts? A battalion ready for preparing His way? A host of disciplined children/ army in the Spirit standing on the Truth of the Word and knowing our warfare is spiritual and not carnal?…..Will we notice that He comes to embrace us? Will we know His embrace and His love for us?

Will He find us studying our navel’s? Attempting to try to fix ourselves still? Have we accepted our death on the cross and the reborn nature of God to be our strength in every weakness, which are a lot? As the Lord said, the flesh profits nothing. Are we the mighty men, ( women), of God, weak in ourselves but strong in Him? Strong in prayer, strong in faith and belief of convictions because we know He is within us?

What if  fighter pilots in our armed forces kept trying to  correct themselves in flight? Disaster magnified, right?  They rely on the skilled training of their superior officers and the radar that sees what they don’t….What if they were flying they thought, hmmm….. Can I do this manuever, what if I do it wrong? Maybe I didn’t get my patience to work yet….. Maybe I ,I, I, I, I….It is not about I, or me or my……. It is about Him, the RADAR, He will guide and lead us…. He works His work through us in flight/ faith.

No, it would be a disaster to let that mindset of doubt and self focus behind our fighter jets….. Our mind set has to be on our Lord, a fixed gaze, so we are looking and calling HIM, HIM, HIM, HIM! Listening for our next step and move….listening for His heart to know what to pray and walk out in faith, not just for us, for the body of Christ, the nations…..Complete our mission from His plan. He will enable us to be all we need to be-in Him- for Him to accomplish His purpose….

The pilot relies on his or her training and the discipline of the school. As we are to also rely on our training, the word of God, and lean heavily on the Holy Spirit within, to complete the mission…… It is not about us and trying to fix ourselves…. What if Gideon’s army of three hundred started to stop to question themselves and lost focus on God’s instructions for the coming battle? The battle is not up to ourselves, our God fights our battles… All we have to do to is go to the front lines, follow His instructions and stand in our belief that the mountain will be moved. The walls will fall down because of the name we call on that is above all others, Jesus Christ.

Our fight is on our knees. Our discipline is to stay in prayer and faith knowing that all we have asked and believed our God for will be accomplished. Do not let go of Him until righteousness has budded forth from His hand….. Do not give up. Do not give in. It will take all perseverance and true grit to remain in prayer and wait in faith. But He will answer, because He rewards our faith.

Do we have the discipline? Do we have the perseverance? Do we have the guts to stand through the trials of our Lord Jesus? The trials that come to us are for us to bear the same reproach as our Lord. We do not in ourselves have anything to make it, but He in us, all things are possible….. It’s HIM>

DO WE STAND IN FAITH IN OUR GOD KNOWING THAT WE HAVE ASKED THE MOUNTAIN BE MOVED INTO THE SEA AND IT WILL?

Do we need a committee before we pray, or do we just pray- talk to our Heavenly Father as we would our own earthly father or friend? Have we experienced the sweet taste of answered prayers in our life with our God as our Heavenly Father? How sweet the taste of victory when we know how our God hears our cries and by declaring the name of the Lord Jesus Christ- which every knee has to bow….. The enemy is silenced and removed….. How sweet the victory….How great the mission joined with our God.

A man came from Defence of the Bible to Mr. Spurgeon and asked him to become vice president of the organization. Mr. Spurgeon’s reply, My dear brother does a lion need defending? Just loose Him, and that it all that is necessary………Amen! Our faith looses our God.

What if one day, your earthly father called you….( Now if your earthly father was not okay, pretend or use a godly superior in place.) He calls you and said, hi son or daughter, I want you to know how I love you so, more than this world….. But I have to let you know they have locked me away here. They have barred my way…… We think how could they do that?

Then we would ask, who did this? So we would confront them, right? Hey, let my father out….. right? He never answers but shows you where he is….. A hospital.. They have locked him in a room in the hospital, so he cannot do anything. They have barred HIS way!

Now, what would we do, if we could? In the flesh, we would probably handle it, but this is more a spiritual matter…. A hospital represents the church…. So who would “they” be that barred our God?

Yes, again they tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. They did not remember His power: the day He redeemed them from the enemy,          ( Psalm 78:41-42).

When He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works?

Now He did not do many works there because of their unbelief, ( Matthew 13:54,58).

And when He come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, Do you believe that I am able to do this? They said to Him, Yes, Lord. Then He touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith let it be to you,        ( Matthew 9:28-29).

The way we persevere  through our faith and experience of our Lord is by living with Him. The reason we will fly another mission is because the last one He brought us through. Not by our might, skill or power but by the Spirit of the Lord. But one important key to victory is our experience of hearing the Lord’s instructions as we are in flight so we obey above all. It is always, Yes Sir!

We first learn His discipline within ourselves then He takes us into the fighting arena of the heavenlies, always with Him… We have been tested on our skills of our faith to call on His name and stand, knowing the enemy has to back off and submit to the name that is above all names…..the Lord Jesus Christ.  The fight is not ours…..

It is not our great dialogue of words, it is One Name that is above all powers in all nations….. The Lord Jesus Christ, our King of glory.

We could not get off the ground in any plane without the engine, right? Well, the engine is the Holy Spirit within us. We have to be in His Holy Spirit School…… We have to be trained in His discipline, the Lord’s discipline…..His ways are triumphant. So we follow His ways, right? Right!

We are the Lord’s army. Any army waits for the  direct orders before any move. The enemy of darkness has his rank and file also….Who’s army is more diligent?

The Lord’s ways would put our American Admirals and Generals in a head spin….. March around the city for seven days and the walls will fall down….. Go up against a giant with 5 stones and a sling…… Take down a tremendous army with only three hundred men and some torches and broken lanterns. A warrior and his armor bearer took down 20 men in ½ an acre of land in the enemy’s camp. Also, go this way around the mulberry bushes! They all triumphed in battles because they obeyed and in faith went forward.

Faith is stronger than any man made artillery. If you question that, ask any military officer that has returned from war and stood on Psalm 91.  We have the strongest weapon in our quip, if we get up and move out of comfort into the adventure of God.

He has a plan, we are either helping it manifest or helping His enemy. Someone very wise said, for evil to triumph, all that has to be done is good men do to nothing. Our something is by all prayer and supplications let our request be known unto God!

All of these victories written in the word were because they knew God was with them. They either followed the orders, or took a leap of faith, that with God, they can achieve the victory for God’s camp, even if they were out numbered.

This is such a time that we can live the word of God out before us….Let’s let GOD out of the box that we have put Him…… by our unbelief…. Let us repent and get our work out in our faith muscles…. It will hurt for a while, but will produce the fruit our Heavenly Father is seeking!  He loves to reward those of faith for it is written: But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him, (Hebrews 11:6).

All is possible with God, even with us as His army! He is the Force and the Power, we are His broken lanterns illuminating His Light. So the sooner we leave trying to fix ourselves and get into rank and file. He will make His motley crew into His faithful witnesses…. It is not about us being perfect but mature in the knowledge of God….

The knowledge of God is the beginning of all wisdom and fear of the Lord. The help is not from our past, it is gone by His blood. The help is not in our stockpiling for the future, our days are numbered and belong to Him. He is our future and our Exceedingly Great Reward. Do we believe He has us in His hands? Do we truly?

He who descended is also One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things. And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and some teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, ( Ephesians 4: 10-13).

We will be perfected by Christ, not to be perfect in our selves, but to be filled up with Him as our fullness, His perfection reigns in and through us!

Should we start to see the reality of our situation by keeping God in a box or the place that we feel comfortable in keeping Him. Do we dare to allow Him to intrude past Sunday mornings and bible study on Wednesday’s into our lives? Dare we, humbly ask Him to forgive us for not allowing Him to reign over us ?   Not allowing Him to work His work in us?  Do we mean business with the Lord of hosts?

Are we are willing to sacrifice and forego T.V., fun times, sports, games, shopping, sleep, to be available when He needs us on our knees? Do we mean business on changing the course for the Lord’s people or not?

Do we leave what is vain and go join His rank? Do we wonder if Satan is laughing at his succesful plot to keep the Lord’s people distracted, especially the youth, with all the technology available? Evil’s plot of being so busy, that there is nothing left for God in our hearts, minds, let alone our lives….. is  B- being ,U- under, S- Satan’s, Y- Yoke…..Hmmmmm.

The mighty men and women who will follow the lead of the Holy Spirit by faith as His army will achieve great exploits for His glory. Hey, sometimes we do not need to leave our home, but we have to leave the earthly distractions and be available…. What is important?

Allowing our Heavenly Father and His Spirit reign in our lives to spread victories for future generations by removing the mountains today ? He entered into time to capture us, and gave us life beyond time…….Is He due our time?

Our justification to do this or that to waste time will slow our progress. Being honest here regarding this country, do we have time to waste or is it time to tighten our belt straps and roll up our sleeves like our nation’s predecessors? Do we see the signs of the times?

Look what sacrifice this country was built on. Ponder the great faith that simple men and women stood for to start the nation of America knowing God will take care of them. He made a way for them even through hardship because to stay where they were, they refused!…… Do we stand in that great faith now? God has not changed! God was not put in a box by their unbelief, we all thank God for those mighty people that ventured out to find a way to worship God in a new land.

When Jesus walked the earth, it was quite noted, that most of the faith that He encountered and was astounded were outside the Israelites…… Jesus Christ also stated, when He returns will He find faith on this earth?

Was this comment  made by Jesus  for us to ponder regarding us today? Would His own people, believers of King of kings, Christ Jesus, loose their faith,hope, and belief as the Israelites did when He walked the earth?

As Peter said, be it not so, Lord!

Or we can go on as business as usual as the Lord spoke in Noah’s day….. Or we can awaken to the signs of the times and make a way for the generations to follow to live in peace in worshiping our God and His only Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ…..

Jesus Christ died and so did we with Him on the cross over two thousand years ago…Do we live in the newness of His life so the truth of God is confirmed in us. We die daily but we also grow in the newness of His life daily.  Our death to our ways is progressive as His growth in us. What does that look like in real life?

Die to controlling our lives and live unto His. Die in our comfortable life, turn to Him for our only Comfort. Die to being king of our compartmental lives, allow Him to govern our mornings, afternoons, nights, evenings, nights and even our weekends!!!! Die to doing what we want, when we want, and live unto the Great Rewarder in trust.

Die to our self image to others, allow Him to fill us with His image. Die to our fear of men and live to the Great Audience of One! Die to our foolish plans of the future and trying to control, allow Him to be our Inheritance and Future. If we have been given everything we need today, He will so do the same tomorrow, by our trust and faith in Him. Die to trusting our own intelligence and reasoning mind, allow God to be our mind in Christ….

Are we living as the Word of God instructs, God being number ONE….. If Paul or Daniel came to our home today….. what would their response be- pleased or shocked by our life style? Well, One greater is in our midst, do we see Him? Let’s really make time to make the Word of God our Food and Sustenance instead concern of food for the body alone.

Die to the fear of loosing our health, allow the Healer to live in us to restore our health and our souls.

Die to the fear of death, as Christ Jesus stole death and has the keys, so we can live free in Him, escaping the second death……So there is no fear in the first, if we trust Him.

ALL THIS REFLECTS OUR FAITH OR LACK OF>>>>> DO WE LIVE IN FEAR SO OUR REACTIONS ARE FEAR BASED WHICH ARE EVIL’S DIRECTIONS?

DO WE LIVE BY OUR FAITH IN THE ONE WHO LIVES  AND REIGNS FOREVER !!! THE ONE WHO HAS US IN THE PALMS OF HIS HANDS AND OUR NAMES ARE INSCRIBED ON HIS HEART….. DO WE BELIEIVE IN HIS EVERLASTING LOVE? DO WE BELIEVE HE WILL KEEP US?

THEN IF YES> call on Him, we pray and we stand for You to bring Your plan, Heavenly Father, to fruition in the lives of Your people.

Every time, we want to complain or gab about the state of affairs, let us turn to prayer…. Let our words count and not be idle… Let us go to the One who is the Controller and Ruler of all men and their doings. The hearts of the kings are in His hand and He determines what course they will take as written in Proverbs.

In prayer, we ask and thank our Father, that evil has to submit to the authority of the name of Jesus Christ. His evil works are bound by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank You, Father as darkness raises his ugly head, You already have a plan. May we have ears to hear and a heart to understand to  follow You in faith. We stand our ground knowing that the name of Jesus Christ every knee has to bow and submit.The plans and works of evil are bound and will not prosper…. So we thank You and need You. Help us keep the focus on heavenly things, knowing that You have heard our prayer and evil is bound and backing away.

We love You, Heavenly Father. We are sorry that we put You in a locked room with our unbelief… Father, please help our unbelief….. Teach us to increase our faith so we are prepared and fully equipped with the prayer knowledge that is needed for the times we live….. In Jesus Christ’s name, we ask and pray… Give us the strength to keep close, so close we hear You and know Your great embrace…. Give us eyes to see You are here with us…. You have entered! Give us the ears to capture Your words. Give us Your strength so we are strong to carry Your instructions out and complete our mission. In Jesus Christ’s name, we ask and thank You. We love You.

The  Holy Spirit speaks, let us hear what He has to say: Let Him OUT! Equip our faith in our mighty God! Hear Him roar!

Selah!

P.S. When Jesus entered the temple and overthrew the money changers. He did not say, It is written My house shall be a house of preaching  or a house of teaching. He called His house a house of prayer for all nations….. it was allowed to be made into a den of thieves…. Our Father is looking for worship in Spirit and Truth- communion with Him, which is a life of prayer to Him, where He is – is the Kingdom of God……( Mark 11:17). We are His temple now as stated in 2 Corinthians.

This is an urgent warning to His people today……… Loose our God in our hearts and lives….Let Him loose, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, will take care of business through us!

As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth. I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe You sent Me. And they glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that they world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me, ( John 17:17-23).

If we remember how God had Noah built an ark for the coming Flood, we will also be wise to hear the Words of Jesus’ prayer…… as He is our Ark, our Rock of safety now.

Those words of our Lord are our Refuge. Those words are our instructions for the basis of our faith. Those words are our life to live out on this earth today….. They are our purpose. They are our goal. They are our crowning glory that we abide in…..The Word of God is our Lord Jesus Christ.

The glory of Christ in us is outstanding when we contemplate it. Our God never quits loving us. He never quits giving us His all……So He has made it available for us to give Him our all by the words of the Lord in the above scripture…. Do we see that?

The Lord has called us out of the world…. He has called us into Him and He into us…… Totally for His purpose and will…. we live that out minute by minute….As we learn Him, we live Him in our experience of His narrow road before us.

We are in the design of the Master Artist. He knows where we are to be in His next stroke of His Guiding hand……

Walking by His Spirit is not kind to the flesh of men….. but it is the best for every step we take, we take towards the map that enfolds to life eternity before His Presence.

We have been given His glory. We have been given His grace. We have been prayed and prophesied over by our Savior, who’s prayer is never forgotten…. He is the Word and His Word will always be accomplished.

This walk is not about us…..Nope…. It is about glorifying our Lord…. Showing the world how the Father loves us, even us, as He loves the Lord…..Showing the world the glory of the Lord in us, though they might not have eyes to see, but they wonder….. Yes, we are a wonder and a sign of what can happen when the Lord’s hand is upon us and His Spirit is within, when we turn to Him in repentance and belief…..We also get to experience the width, depth, height and length of His love! Come on into the Ark of God, His Beloved Son, our Lord…… Come and believe in God’s great love for men.

We were no different then the world but the Lord and His grace……Yes, but the Lord entered our lives and look what His death, resurrection and reception back into heaven has accomplished for those that believe….. Yes, see the Lord…. See the Lord, it is not about us…. It is about Him…. All about Him…. Even the last words of our Heavenly Father that are written in regards to Jesus on this earth were…. This is My Beloved Son, hear Him!

So hearing Him, as we obey our Heavenly Father, is imperative in being changed from glory to glory by obedience to obedience in knowing Him…. as we know Him, then we are in union or communion with Him…..We will walk like Him, talk like Him and have a single mind towards God, like the Lord.

There will be no separation. This union resembles when God shut the door on Noah and his family in the ark. They were with God and separated unto Him….. They lived out their faith for 100 years as Noah built the ark in obedience…. Noah lived out or proved he wanted to obey God and live a life towards Him.

Noah lived 100 hundred years building an ark as God had instructed. Life went on day after day for years…. The sun rose in the morning and set in the evening through many Springs, Summers, Falls and Winters….. So people went on living their lives. As written ignoring the man who was building an ark when there was not even a drop of rain had ever hit the earth…….

But what were the people’s reaction when they saw Noah and his family climb into the ark after all the animals? What were their actions when they started to see these black clouds forming in the sky never seen before ?

Then we contemplate on the words of the Lord in Revelation 21:5-8, Then He who sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said to me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. And He said to me, It is done! I Am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.

He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and He shall be My son.

But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

The Lord is sending out His word to all today….. As Noah was hammering away on the ark. The Holy Spirit is hammering away at our hearts and conscious.

What if the Lord showed us what would be the rewards of our actions?

What if every time we obey His words and commands, we see the growth of His Spirit within us… What if He showed His light illuminating us in the Spirit? Would we be more diligent to hear and obey His voice? What if we see the our souls being as the house in Bethany He chose to visit on the earth so often through the scriptures. A place where He is honored and listened. A place of love and devotion to Him and Him alone…..

Just to ponder what if’s a minute….. This is possible because….. all things are possible in God….. And if we call on His name, believe in His Son in our heart and follow in obedience, we are abiding in His Son….. What if all the agendas in men were done and all we did daily was to seek His word and seek the strength to obey, even when we will be deemed a fool? What could be accomplished by His Spirit within us…. What if we really set our hearts on prayer led life or life spent in union with God?

What if we saw all the response from heaven on our prayers…….Would we make all the more time to pray for others and know He is answering….Can we believe if we do not see? Is He a God that He should lie?….. He said anything we ask if believing we should receive….. Do we believe because we cannot see?

All is possible in the life of His Spirit, all is possible….. From the least to the great, all shall know Me, says the Lord, as written in the Gospel of John.

So let us live by His Wisdom as written in Proverbs 8:33-36, Now therefore, listen to Me, My children, for blessed are those who keep My ways. Hear instruction and be wise, and do not disdain it.

Blessed is the man who listens to Me, watching daily at My gates, waiting at the posts of My doors. For whoever finds Me, finds life, and obtains favor from the Lord; but he who sins against Me, wrongs his own soul; all those who hates Me love death.

Hmmmm…….

Now, on the flip side…… What if we could see each lie we speak against the truth- God- and men are a chain that binds us forever in eternity in the lake of fire…… unless we repent and turn to in faith to Him with all our hearts. What if every lie that we speak, we see ourselves with a shovel digging a hole for the one we lied about, but we end up in the hole! Then we are tormented hearing every lie we have spoke over and over again reminding us of our hate? With no chance of repentance? Unless, we repent and turn to Him in faith with all our hearts NOW, this is our reward.

What if every word spoken against the Lord and His creation was brought up before us now? We will be held accountable for every idle word spoken…… for the Lord said His Words are the Judge. I f we contemplate our words versus the Judge being THE WORD OF GOD! Do we think He might be biased on His Word being the Truth versus ours when we speak contrary to HIS?

What if we saw every time we judged a person, we are slapped on the back of the head? At least, we would know how evil that is, right? Right. We would remember quickly not to judge others…..We are all the same in need of a Savior and love….. What if when we point the finger, the four that are pointing back to us speak out loudly all our weaknesses or sins…. Would we stop?

If we see in the Spirit the truth of our actions toward the Lord and others, we would be slow to speak, quick to forgive and unless we want the word or action to come back on us, we would watch and guard our hearts and mouth…. Right ? Right….. We do not own our days, heaven rules in lives of men….. Time to man up is today when we hear His Spirit speak!

Maybe to know whatever we do will come back on us, in faith, in love, in kindness, in truth, in justice, in the fear of the Lord, or in God. The Holy Spirit will bless us with His expansion within us.

Now, if we are in the flesh, in hate, in covetousness, in jealousy, in rage, in idolatry, etc…. we are making our place in the lake of fire, where God’s presence is withdrawn from man’s knowledge…..Eternity is a long, there is no end. It is a good thing to have the fear of the Lord.

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

If the people in Noah’s day saw what a rain cloud was or a storm or a flood, what would have happened?…. Would have they changed their heart towards God?

If we are given the sight of the unseen realm in the Spirit would we admit our darkness and come to the Father, through His Son and know we need forgiveness from Him and others. No denying how we need a Savior.

We have been given this opportunity here and now to grasp on to the Lord and never let go of Him…. We have been given the truth in the word of God as to what will happen to every man, a believer in Christ Jesus as well as a non-believer….

We can choose to be sanctified by the Truth of God, His Spirit now. We can allow the beautifully prayed Words of our Lord be fulfilled in us…. or…not..as the Word of God warns over and over again, for example as written in Galatians 5:16-26: I say then:walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, ad the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders,drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law. ( Those that choose to live by the Spirit are living a higher way than the law.)

And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Remembering the words of Jesus written in John 17:21…… that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

We have the strength of God within us to complete our life walking by the Spirit of God and acting from the Spirit’s instruction…. We also have the perception of our actions and thoughts to reflect our God or not…. We have been given the spiritual discernment to walk this life of faith. We also know the fruits of others so we may pray for all so we all may be one with the Godhead….

We learn quickly what brings death to us and others and what will bring the resurrected life of Christ  in us and others…..We may be fooling ourselves, well, a little…..we all know the truth of ourselves….but nothing is fooling our God, who sees all and knows all.

May be if we saw our words as seeds and our actions as gates and fences. The seeds are planting hope and faith in others as they hear and our actions, as gates and fences, build the strong foundation of love for them …. or we can plant seeds that will fall void in the hole we think we are digging for others because of  no light only darkness. We end up in the hole and the fences and gates are actions that will bind us in that horrible pit.

So we choose humbly to bring a beautiful bouquet of fragrant flowers of Christ to our Lord and Heavenly Father. Let the Godhead see a magnificent garden of life and life abundantly as His words are building and constructing our lives and others.

Sooooo….. I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me, ( John 17:23).

It is all about Him in us, through us and from us as He gathers more in Him….. So our love can be made perfect……( mature). We can speak all the truth in love and love all in the truth in Jesus’ name.

As it is written Christ in us, our only hope of glory…….Lord, we want all of You in us. Lord, You make all things new.. We walk out our newness of life because we died with You on the cross and listen to the Spirit of God alone. We thank You the Word of God, the Seed of Life and Hope for us. In You may we pour forth out of our mouth Your life of Your Word and Your Spirit be our hands and in our actions…. so that You are glorified by us and we are glorying in You.

May all our lives glorify Your name, Your presence and Your great love!

We Love You! May You be pleased with the gardens of our heart and lives!

Selah!  What is the meaning of giving the Lord our all? Didn’t we die with Him on the cross? Does He want us before the spiritual death of us on the cross? What of our all pleases the Lord?

Because…… our mind is fixed on Him, the Lord Jesus Christ. We shall live in perfect peace because He is our Peace. Peter took his eyes off the Lord when he walked on the water to Him and started to sink…. Well, if we learn and train ourselves to keep our eyes on the Lord, we, too, will be walking above the troubling waves that are roaring against us….. We shall be safe in His peace that keeps us beyond all our understanding.

Now it came to pass when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land…… and in those days there was no king in Israel; ( Ruth 1:1)

Joshua 21:25, In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the wheel. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make.

Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? says the Lord. Look, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel! ( Or any nation- He sets up and tears down).

The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil. I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.

And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build up and to plant it, if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit.

Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

And they said, That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will everyone obey the dictates of his evil heart.

Beloved of the Lord, do not be concerned on the happenings of the day….. This is not news to our God….. Remember He knows the end from the beginning. As written in Psalms 2, we learn when men raise their fisted hand against the Lord….. He laughs! So do not loose heart, be strong in the Lord and the power of His might.

Why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and His Anointed saying, let us break Their bonds in pieces and cast away Their cords from us.

He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure:

Yet, I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree the Lord has said to Me, You are My Son, today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession. You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel. Now therefore, be wise, O kings; be instructed, you judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in the Lord.

The Lord comes with refiners fire to all….. as written – O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the Light of the Lord……..in all wisdom and understanding as it is written regarding the “Christ walkers”.

As written in Hebrews 12:22-29, But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on the earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, 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.

Let us live with our faith strong in our God….Let us remember that our home is in the kingdom of God. We are ambassadors in this earth…. America is a nation but we belong to our God’s kingdom that is eternal…….

When we trust God, we allow Him to shake what needs to be shaken…. Yes, the shaking is imminent. Yes, He is coming because He has been here as King before us….though people may acknowledge no King is in our midst, He is here, the great I AM.

Yes, we will be strengthened in our faith because we will be aware of our helplessness to fix anything or come to know our great weakness, which then allows His great might to resurrect all situations, that we breath and live in as the shaking begins. Things that can be shaken and loosed will remain that way, the things that can be shaken and yet remain in tact are eternal and that is His purpose….

It is no different when we shake the sand of the towel from the beach…. The foundation of the towel remains but everything that is not from the original towel, gets bumped off! God is God. He wants us to be from Him alone, not man’s lofty ideas and systems…. God is ever growing and increasing and He wants us to be also….. No stagnant belief system that is not originated by His Spirit—–He removes all our crutches so we may walk on our faith in Christ alone – like Peter walking on the water in pure faith in our Lord…the Lord alone!…. Our prayer is to and before our Heavenly Father alone…… Our studying before the Godhead alone. We have only one Teacher as Jesus Christ says, and He will teach all things as written in 1 John…..

I thank God for the Truth of that scripture for all that are in prison in countries who prohibit the word of God to our brothers and sisters in the faith of Christ. I know they are kept strong in their faith in distressing times because the Holy Spirit is there as their Comfort and Guide as well as our prayers.

So as things are shaken and changing, so must our faith be changing from glory to glory, from strength to strength….to bow to no other religion, government or false god…..God shares His glory with no other. He sets up the rules and He is the Umpire….. He can call time out, or foul or out at anytime He wants.

There are many voices speaking, but allow God to capture our ears for such a time as this…. Let us be diligent to hear His voice and receive His guidance and instruction…..As James instructs us in chapter 1:19-20, So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

The spirit of the world will always try, ( notice the word- try), to usurp the Lord but will not win.

So we must continue on with our own heart becoming the place of the Lord’s heart…. Right…? Right!

If we are betrothed to One and He kept trying to call us and to get our attention but we put others and things before Him? What will happen to the state of the relationship?

What if our One kept nudging us to hear Him because He has something to say, but we turn and rather watch T.V. or go shopping,……. What will happen to us growing in His likeness? (  Did you ever notice how some couples married along time start to resemble each other?  They have the same smile or twinkle in their eye as their mate—- Selah!).

What if our One sent us love letters upon love letters and we never read them but left them on the coffee table….. What do you think would happen to our relationship?

Would we know our One’s heart? Would we be breaking our love covenant the first commandment, which is not unlike the marriage vows, we say when we are committing to each other…… Yes…..

The Lord left us two commands……When we know the Lord, we love Him….. If we love the Lord, we know Him……If we do not love the Lord, we do not know Him…..and we cannot do the impossible, love our neighbor as ourselves. We need His love in us to love as He.

Our High King of Heaven, is our Husband….. He is speaking to us. He is wooing us. He has bestowed on us many gifts especially Himself and His shed blood.

The knowledge of the Lord will be our only stability of the current times we are in…..He is calling and speaking to us all the day and all the night….. Let Him capture our ears and not the news, facebook, or gossip and tales that fail….. Let us learn and be taught by His Spirit of the Lord. Let us allow the revelation of Him capture our attention and fill our hearts with His great wonders and His great love.

Kings will rise and kings will fall, but our King will outlast them all. Let us adore Him as His bride should. Let us keep our eyes focused on the Lord and be ready for the life of testimony that pours forth from our broken vessel….a fiery pure devotion of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Remember we are in the Potter’s house…..We are not our own, we are His…..What He does in the rise and fall of any nation is His business, we may intercede, but the ultimate plan is His made from the foundation of the world. But He does listen to His people’s heart and relent.

Moses and Israel came to a crossroads in the beginning of their journey in the promised land….. Moses went up the mountain to learn from God Almighty. The people got discontent and built a false god, a calf…..of pure gold….

Moses came back down to give the ten commandments from the Lord and saw the idol worship. His anger was shown as he throw the calf back into the fire and made the congregation drink the melted mess….. Then he said whoever is on the Lord’s side- come to Me!- Then he instructed every man to put on his sword.

There was going to be a division of beliefs.. I know this is the Old Testament but remember Jesus spoke similar word’s also in Matthew 10:34-40, Do you think that I came to bring peace on earth? I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be of his own household.

He who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses His life for My sake will find it, He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.

God always brings light. So as we walk through the coming days, there will be decisions we make which either allow us to fall from our position with the Lord or stand strong in the Lord and His grace….. Our choice will be the Lord’s favor or delight versus man’s approval and favor…. We are choosing today. We can choose to give our time to allow the Lord to build His home within or we can allow vain and frivolous time wasters to fill our heart. I pray we spend our time strengthening our position in the Lord and His might.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through he resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith- the salvation of your souls. ( 1 Peter 1:3-9).

Let us be prepared for the coming of the Lord. Let’s read His love letters to us, His beloved.

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to His power that works in us, to Him be the glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Heavenly Father, we ask that Your Spirit do Your exceedingly abundantly above all we ask and think work in us by Your power in us…. Come Holy Spirit of joy, we love You and welcome You in us to point us to our Beloved King…. Make our home fit for our King as we bow in His great mercy and grace which upon us.

My daughter, My bride, do not fear, only believe- believe in My neverending love for you. Rest in Me, My beloved.

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let him who hears say, Come! And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely, ( Revelation 22:17).

Selah!

Perhaps everyone will listen and turn from his evil way, that I may relent concerning the calamity which I purpose to bring on them because of their evil doings. And you shall say to them, thus says the Lord, if you will walk in My law which I have set before you to heed the words of My servants the prophets whom I sent to you, both rising up early and sending them but you have not heeded, ( Jeremiah 26:3-5). ( The words of Jesus, the Word of God, being also a Prophet.)

Gather yourselves together, yes gather together, O shameless nation, before the decree is issued or the day passes like chaff, before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you, before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you!

Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth, who have upheld His justice, seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger.

The great day of the Lord is near; it is near and hastens quickly. The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter; there the mighty men shall cry out. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation, and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities and against the high towers, ( Zephaniah 1:14-16, 2:1-3).

The “day of the Lord” came to Zephaniah’s generation. It was a dark time for Israel. Darkness ruled their land. Somehow we tend to apply the Day of the Lord to the end of time and the final judgment of mankind…. However, there have been many “Days of the Lord” throughout time as in the Flood. When the Lord’s judgments are made manifest, it is a hard time for mankind… However, it is also a great opportunity for man to turn and know their God. By the way doesn’t A.D. mean the year of the Lord?

God does tear down what is unholy before His eyes, however, God loves to restore and renew…. As He promised destruction through the prophet, He also promised restoration through the coming Messiah…. Jesus Christ came to restore us to God, but that does not stop the correction or judgments of God in our lives….The final judgment of condemnation to the lake of fire, we are freed of in  our belief in Christ Jesus. He is faithful to righteousness and destroying in us what is not righteous. As He builds His house with in us pleasing within His sight. As it is written by Paul in 1 Corinthians 3:16-17,

Do you not know that you are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

As written the “day of the Lord “or the reckoning with their God happened to that generation. They were held in oppression until they were taken away from their land and held as captives in a foreign land…. They had fallen far from their promised land and their covenant with God.

Even though time has still remained, that generation and numerous ones to follow had to live in captivity without their rights to worship the One True Living God. Now, we all know history and there have been and are terrible things happening upon this earth for over the past two thousand years…….Is it the Lord’s day or not?

Jesus Christ took the anger and the lack of righteousness in men for all men on Him. The day He died on the cross, He took all the iniquity and sin from men from the beginning of time until the end. However, the wrath of God is still available for those who do not turn and believe in Jesus Christ and get clothed in His Spirit….

The Lord is righteous in her midst, He will do not unrighteousness . Every morning He brings His justice to light, He never fails, but the unjust know no shame, ( Zephaniah 3:5).

His mercies and judgments are upon the earth daily….. We study His creation and know there is God, if we are wise….. He gives us our breath, let alone all of His provision through out our lives here…. Yet, He gave us time to spend time with Him, do we? He gave us ears to hear and eyes to see, do we seek Him out?…… Let  us be found knowing Him as He is ever searching us by His  Spirit. He is in our midst, so let us be diligent to live before Him as our Audience of One.

He makes Himself known by His works, His Word and His signs and wonders, and His servants….. He has not hidden Himself…… There is great wisdom in living by the knowledge and fear of the Lord. Respecting His Love and sacrifice of His Son as the writer of Hebrews warns us in chapter 6:4-8, For it is impossible for those who were enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for cultivated, receives blessing from God; but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

Strong word for the believers….

God’s plans are known by His spoken word as written in Isaiah 55:10-11: For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

So if the word is sent out by the Lord and it will be fulfilled, then why is there so much disobedience in the heart of His people? Why do we stray so easily away from the love of the Lord to be satisfied with the world’s dainties as fleeting as they are? Why are people still lead to do what is right in their own eyes, as if we had any capacity to judge righteously? Is it the lack of the presence of His Spirit- who always bring with Him, the fear of the Lord?

Why does the human heart reason that we can have both Christ and the world? Even when the Lord says not. A heart will still only worship one thing….It is up to us, to instill discipline to honor our God as our only ONE desire…..or we live for our own desire…… Hmmmmm……

Relationship, relationship, relationship leads to a strong cord of commitment……. God is faithful to us, however, we live in a generation where it is okay to be here today and be gone on something else tomorrow. God is changeless and ever waits for our companionship…… Our relationship with Him is His priority.

God is a perfect Father and wants His children gathered around Him to love Him…. As we love Him, we honor Him and obey Him as well as the laws of His household…..We give Him preeminence. As we behold Him, we are changed into His likeness from glory to glory…. He always rewards those that seek Him, always! He is a Great Heavenly Father, who so love us!

He has not kept silent and His words have been made known. America has no excuse……This country was founded on the word of God. If it weren’t for God, this country would not be America…. The people came to this land to seek religious liberty….. If they weren’t leaning on Him for the making of this country….. we would not be here as this country would not be America.

What happens to the word of God when we hear Him? For it is written in Hebrews 4:12, For the word of God is living and sharper than a two edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart.

So when His word goes out and accomplishes what it is sent to do, why would there not be 100 % return of fruit for God from our lives?

The writer of Hebrews again warns us to be aware of the goodness of God and He is not to be taken lightly or should we neglect Him….. Hebrews 2:1-4, Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

Let us study the word and have more of an understanding of our own weak hearts. We always go after what we desire….. So if we do not desire the relationship with the Lord, He knows… However, that does not stop Him from loving us….. He is God. We are to love Him with everything we have.

There is little difference in the expectation of our children. We do not expect maturity in a first grader compared to a a senior in high school… Same with our heavenly Father…..So let us come to Him, young or old, as His children. Let us learn from His word. Let us be humble in hearts so we may grow in understanding as the Holy Spirit will illuminate each of our hearts

We want to get close to You, O Heavenly Father. Bring the fire of Your Spirit within to awaken us to Your eternal life and Truth…. Come Spirit of grace, teach us learn and discern what is dark within our own hearts. We may then confirm it has died on the cross with our King so we may continue to grow in our Savior’s image. We want to be a sweet smelling fragrance of our Lord’s house… In Jesus’ name, we ask.

but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end, ( Hebrews 4:6).

Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy?

Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good. And let your soul delight itself in abundance.

Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you- the sure mercies of David, ( Isaiah 55:1-3).

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 called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin,           ( Hebrews 4:7-13).

Jesus thoroughly explains what happens when His Word is shed abroad in us in Luke 8. There are five sets of hearts, ( actually six, the ones that do not come to even try to hear Him!), that are in front of Him as He speaks…… He already knows who will believe Him. He knows who will do His will and who will fall away from Him because of His word. But He is faithful to present His word to all.

Jesus taught the great multitude that gathered to Him in Luke 8:5-8, A sower went out to sow His seed. And He sowed, some fell by the wayside, and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it.

Some fell on rock; and as soon as it sprang up, it withered because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it.

But other fell on good ground, sprang up, and yielded a crop a hundredfold. When He had said these things He cried, He who has ears to hear let him hear!

In chapter 4 of Mark, verse 20, the Lord separates the good ground into three dimensions: But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit; some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.

The Lord explains each heart and the degree of hardness that makes the word of God fail in the human heart:

In verses 9-15, and 18, then His disciples asked Him, saying, What does this parable mean? And He said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest given in parables, that – seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God, those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

But the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for awhile and in time of temptation fall away.

Now the ones that are among thorns are those when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

But the ones that fell on good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.

Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has to him more will be given;and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.

Yes, the Lord’ s day is terribly awesome and we do not know when His approaching in judgments. A better way to understand is, the Lord is present and in our midst, but we do not know when the hand of the Lord’s will be moving. But the truth remains, He is coming to return in all of His splendor, but He is with us now!  Shall we be wise or be as fools in the fear of the Lord?

If we believe, all things are possible within our lives….. All things are possible, even the gift of a new heart making us born from heaven….. and are now children of the living God.

As we believe in Christ Jesus and turn from our wicked ways, He is faithful to give us a new heart that if after Him- His word and commands……Then we have to be His disciple to go the distance and renew our ways and thoughts to His……and be a good ground for His fruit to grow.

Holy Spirit, please reveal our hearts to us. Give the grace and courage to live in Your Truth. As we see the ways that are not righteous within, we humbly bow before You to make way for Your grace to take over and remake us into our Lord’s image…. A perfect heart of obedience is what we need to do the hard things in following the word of God. We want our Lord to take over our heart! Please do not leave us alone until all defilement in our thinking and our heart and ways are dead and burned by Your Holy Fire…. For we are on holy ground, You are in our midst, lest we forget.

When we hear the word of the Spirit speaking to us every day, we must be sure we still maintain a soft heart or soft ground for the seed, the word, of God to take root and grow and mature….. We have to cultivate our soul in His continued presence and to increase faith to a fuller stature in Him. God always want to increase Himself in us…. we must allow Him.

All things are possible to those that believe in God….God is always gracious to us because of the blood of Jesus Christ to wash us clean and make us His children at any time. He is gracious to set our course in Him with fire by His Spirit within.

There is no length that He will not undertake to welcome us with open arms…. The problem is not with Him, never has been…. It is with man. We have this stupid strong carnal issue—– pride. It will keep the Door shut on salvation received in any one’s heart. Pride is evil to the core and is the killer of man’s soul for through all time.

Pride will also keep people in spiritual prison through their lives as well as through their eternity….The owner’s of pride will be kept from the presence of the Holy One not just for life but for eternity, but they will remain in the company of their oppressor for all eternity- Satan or Lucifer- the dragon……

Heavenly Father, we ask and thank You the word of Christ dwells in us richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord, (Colossians 3:16, paraphrase for prayer).

For this reason, we thank God without ceasing, because when we received the word of God which we heard from others, we welcomed it not as the word of men but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectively works in us who believe, ( 1 Thessalonians 2:13, paraphrase for prayer).

We know, Heavenly Father, You know what is in our hearts. Yet, You still love us with Your great love. In Your love, we can fall down in humility and ask for our hearts to be good ground for Your Son. We thank You for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. For You are there in our future as well as have been with us in our past, as You are in our midst today. So where You, we live in You! Only You could do this great sacrifice of giving us Your Son, so we may dwell with You forever. Set our hearts on fire for the reality of knowledge of Your great love that we have in Jesus Christ, by the presence of Your Holy Spirit.

Please keep us close to You in Your power…. We are weak, but Your power is made perfect in our weakness. So we glory in You because of Your great love for us. May we  join with Your Spirit in alignment to make our hearts fit for our King. You lift us up because we can not. You are our Peace, we have none without You. You are our Light for with out You, we are in darkness and fear. You are there as Friend when we are alone. You are Protector when we are in the battle. You are our Warrior when we try to stand with knees shaking above all coming against us. Your Love engulfs us when we cannot see why in the hardships  but we  settle in Your great love and trust in You alone.

You are the Greatest God and IAM is all we need….. We need a lot, Father, and You have met all we need… You are our Sufficiency and our Rest. You are our Wit, Wisdom, Understanding and Might, as we are not in our selves. You are all we need…. You are our Guide as we cannot lead ourselves. You are our health and life if ours has diminished. You are our Life and Resurrection for we are dead in ourselves.

You ARE THE GREAT I AM! We love You and praise You!

May we bless Your name forever and ever! Amen and Amen!

Keep the list going of all the needs the Lord is to you as the Great IAM!

Join this nation of believers this Sunday, the 28^th of June, to call2fall….. Please set aside this day to prayer and fasting for the strengthening of His people so this nation may turn to honor our God and His King, Jesus Christ….( P.S. Fasting is not to get God to move, but enhances our ability to hear and draw nigh to Him. Let Him know we mean business.)

Come Holy Spirit,  Your Consuming Presence sets our hearts in fire!

Selah!

….but fools despise wisdom and instruction, ( Proverbs 1:7). Let us be found to be wise men and women in regards to the instruction of God…..So  we can conclude there are two sets of people walking this earth……the wise and the foolish…. Let us be found as His disciples being built into His wisdom, understanding, prudence, counsel and might, the knowledge and fear of the Lord……This is His Spirit dwelling within us as we dwell within Christ.

As Jesus spoke to His disciples in Matthew 10:26-28, Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.

Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light, and what you hear in ear, preach on the housetops.

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

A house built by obedience to the Lord! That is what we are, beloved, a spiritual house being built by the Lord with our obedience. Every time we obey the promptings of His Spirit, as well of course, of His commands….Or we can live by the fear of man——which kind of fear are we choosing to live by?

If we fear the Lord, we will obey Him….There is more value than fear, this is loving Him…. If we do what He says, we love Him….. for the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts…..so we can love Him…..It takes God to put His love in us to love God……!  Fear of the Lord is wisdom and is proof of the Holy Spirit living within us…… However, love is greater for love never fails.

We are being built by a strong foundation that will stand strong through any storm that comes to test our foundations….Foundation of our faith is spelled out in our belief in the Son of God, Jesus Christ as all the law is fulfilled. Plus our walking in the obedience of the two commandment that Jesus Christ left us: Mark 12:33, And to love Him with all the heart, with all understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

As Peter wrote in 1 Peter 2:5, 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.

When we start with the Lord, we start at the foundation of the faith……As Paul states in 1 Corinthians 3:11, For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

As we grow in our faith, we grow in the knowledge of God which is eternal life…..So the works and fruit we bear will hold strong through the storms  against our faith. We will come out not smoldering or overwhelmed  as we go through the fire and the water as they rise our way……

Paul continues in verses 13-17 of 1 Corinthians, Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver , precious stones, wood, hay, straw,each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy which temple you are.

There again, fear of the Lord is a good thing!

The Lord is very faithful to have us remain faithful to Him…… He is on a set purpose and will not change….He expects us to leave the dross behind and draw near to Him daily- even minute by minute….Or as is in the military- He gives an order…….We then obey and return to our Commanding Officer to receive the new orders…..Not all are “doing” commands, some commands are to sit before Him and learn to listen and be still…. As we start out, short periods of time of waiting, then longer to stretch our faith and our trust in His unfailing love. We learn and come to know and understand that He is God and we aren’t.We bow to His greatness as well as His great love. As we grow we learn that being outweighs the doing if He is not within the action.

If we draw near to Him on every move, He is ever ready to reveal Himself to all that love Him with a pure heart…… Hey, He starts with any motive of purity as a foundation of love and has us grow from there in seeking Him in a pure heart…..

But if we are stubborn on our own way and just want Him for the comfort move after death into the unknown…..He will meet us with that same tenacity that we drew away from Him….. He tries and tries to get our attention. God is relentless in His pursuit of us. He reveals His way is life and ours is death if we do not adhere to Him…..

If I was driving a car and the passenger saw a big hole ahead, but I wasn’t paying attention… The passenger first says in a normal voice- hey watch that hole up ahead…..I don’t hear…. The next time, the passenger, says it louder and then louder and will even shout until the passenger gets my attention. So the Lord with us….. He sends His shouts to us to return to Him. Do we hear? Do we see His signs of shouting anywhere? I hope so……

So many times the Lord warns and warns us to return to Him, so He may relent and stop the impending judgments to His children…. Though they do not understand and receive not the word,….. He is faithful to His nature of mercy.

Are the warnings being said now over America ? He spoke through His servant warning His people for two years before an earthquake happened in Israel…. Amos prophesied to awaken the nation in the coming judgment…..for a full two years. Jeremiah spoke for over 11 years for Israel to change their ways back to God before a nation came to conquer them. Then again, there is faithful Noah witnessing for 100 years building the ark before the Flood…..In the days of Elijah, it did not rain for 3 and ½ years….as to get the king and Israel’s attention….. Did they turn? Do you know?

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether, (Psalms 19:9)

Now we have been given warnings also as in Amos and the other servants of God, are we making the changes in our heart and lives to show the Lord? Are we sorry, ashamed and are coming back to Him? Are we proving to Him that we know that He is our All and Everything?

In chapter 4 of the prophet Amos, it is written that God had send little warning signs to get the people’s attention……. and they did not have ears to hear… also. The Lord speaks in verses 6-11, Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places; Yet you have not returned to Me, says the Lord.

I also withheld rain from you, where there were still three months to harvest. I made it rain on one city, I withheld rain from another city. One part was rained upon, and where it did not rain the part withered. So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water, but they were not satisfied; yet you have not returned to Me, says the Lord.

I sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt; your young men I killed with a sword, along with your captive horses; I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils; yet you have not returned to Me, says the Lord.

I overthrew some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning; yet you have not returned to Me, says the Lord.

Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel!

For behold, He who forms mountains, and creates the wind, who declares to man what his thought is, and makes the morning darkness, who treads the high places of the earth- the Lord God of hosts is His name, ( Amos 4:12-13).

If the righteous will be recompensed on earth, how much more the ungodly, ( Proverbs 11-31).

So we pray that we have ears to hear the Lord and eyes to see and a heart to understand….. as we pray and receive His great grace in understanding and knowing Him, we learn His gentle nudging. The nudging may be for us to go ahead or stop and wait….

So if we are quick to hear and obey, we then hear His whisperings of instruction of love to us….. So if we get off the narrow road, we will not need a M-80 to a tidal wave to get our attention to stop and turn to Him again.

We pick up again the gentle whisperings and nudging of the Holy Spirit as we again add to the building of His temple within of obedience.

If we live according to the word written 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.

As we grow in Christ, our house is getting stronger and larger. As written in Psalm 119, He is enlarging our heart to complete the course of His commands.

We need Christ to love the Lord with all our heart….. We need the strength of Christ to obey His commands….. We need Christ to love our neighbor as our self… So as we are to grow as the building of the Lord …..the only way to grow is in Christ…. So we die daily to ourselves and live for Him…..

Then we will be found blameless before…. Him….. He is the only ONE’s opinions that counts for He is the God, whom we stand before daily….. His eyes are ever watching us and caring for us…as well as watching us to see if we are watching for Him…..

Our relationship with the Lord can be so close as He will let us know what are His plans concerning building up or tearing down a nation or what is the answer for another….. He will show us what is coming and help us to be strong for the battle that is coming against His people…..to awaken and pray and gather them back to the Lord.

But we have to lean into Him, not games, not T.V., not talking to everyone else, but Him alone. It has got to be You and me, God….. for a set time daily….. No breaking the appointment……Would we break the appointment with a President or a Queen? No…. Fear of the Lord is a good thing…. Knowledge of WHO HE IS keeps our lives focused on the MAIN THEME for the reason we are here….. HIM!

As states in Colossians 3: 1-11, 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 the 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 the them. But now you yourselves put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off 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 neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all in all.

The Spirit of grace will strengthen us to complete the will of God in each of our lives as we walk with a pure heart towards God…..He knows when we mean business for He knows our hearts better than we do!

If we lean into His love and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask…….we will receive greatly from Him!

Whether judgment comes to any nation or area, we will know and be prepared to help others turn to Him before it may be too late…. for we do not own tomorrow- God does…… for He is God….

He changes not——So let us come to the Changeless One and allow Him to transform us into His image, be His home….We will be completely built by the Holy Spirit for our King to dwell and find pleasure….Let us send out the aroma of the sweet smelling sacrifice out of our obedient home to God! May the aroma of Christ be pleasing before His throne…. May He be enthroned in our lives and homes today…

Let us return to Him today! Do not be concerned if we do not know how to return…… Ask Him, He will tell or show us! Trust Him to obey for He already holds our heart, even if it is hard and stony…..He still cherishes that we give our lives to Him….. He makes all things new! Trust Him and love Him.

America, let us hit our knees and offer up our lives as a living sacrifice pleasing acceptable to God. Let us be transformed in our mind so we may live and prove the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Let us be built in a spiritual house of God and a sweet smelling fragrance to Him.

Let us be like a rose to our King. How can anyone not smell a rose and not know there is a great Creator, whose beauty is like a delicate rose, yet has only received many thorns from His creation.

Let us be the fragrance of His pleasure, Christ in us, an obedient house…… As written in 2 Timothy 2:19-21, Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: The Lord know whose are His, and, let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

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 anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and is useful for every good work.

We then are His and He is ours…..The love so strong that death cannot separate. Even the darkness cannot separate His love from us…..All the storms, all the adversities, all the tribulations cannot separate us from Him….. even the destruction of the earth…..For we will be found in Him if we hold to obedience in our house, our heart…..as we keep Him, the Main Theme, God…. as number ONE in our priorities.

The way of the just is uprightness; O Most Upright, You weigh the path of the just. Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O Lord, we have waited for You; the desire of our soul is for Your name and for the remembrance of You.

With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. Let grace be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness, he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

Lord, when Your hand is lifted up, they will not see- but they will see and be ashamed for their envy of people; Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them, ( Isaiah 26:7-11)..

As written in confirmation of His Word over and over again, we are told: The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the legacy of fools, ( Proverbs 3:35).

O Heavenly Father, please forgive us for not obeying your commands and loving you with everything we have. Come, Spirit of grace and stir us up into the love of God. May Your great fire start within and never stop consuming what is displeasing to our Heavenly Father. Give us a new heart of obedience. May we discern all of our thoughts and actions so we may overrule them  and focus  above where our King is seated.

Only You, Heavenly Father, can give us a heart to run after you. We need You. We are sorry for not knowing You first above all else…. We are sorry for taking You for granted as though all our days are ours and not for us to live for You…. Please forgive us in the blood of Jesus…. We are sorry for compromising Your truth to the world… Please forgive us and please guide us into transformation into Your Son’s image and strength and knowledge to turn from the world’s spirit.

Please give us Your strength for we are weak men and women. Please lay within us the steadfastness and boldness of Your Spirit to stand and not bow to the world’s spirit. Thank you for the tenacity to stand in the face of threats of any cost against us…. Help us to remain steadfast to You only through the coming days and years…. May we live and die as the testimony of You and be Your light on this earth.

As we stand with Paul in 2 Thessalonians 1:12, that the name of the Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in us, and us in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thus let all Your enemies perish, O Lord! But let those who love Him be like the sun when it comes out in full strength, ( Judges 5:31).

Even so come, Lord Jesus, come. The Spirit and the bride say, COME!

Selah!

Did you ever wonder where that saying came from? The heat of the sun is beating on us…… Hmmm. It does feel that way in the middle of summer depending on where you live….That intense heat of the closeness of the sun, doing what is does best- shine it’s light on all, but it also brings the heat of it’s neverending fire…..Nothing is hidden from the heat of that bright sun…..Even when the clouds are out we still receive the light we need to see in the day…… So…….

Now let us look at Daniel 12:3, Those who are wise shall shine, like the brightness of the firmament. And those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.

Do you wonder why the scripture did not say the sun?..…. References as His people shining  as Jesus even mentioned mostly referred to the sun as in Matthew 13:43, Then the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

In Strong’s Concordance, the word firmament says an expanse. However in digging deeper,  the word firmament’s root comes from Hebrew word- raqa. Raqa means to pound the earth as a sign of passion and to expand by hammering, to beat, to make broad.

So the Lord’s people shine as the brightness of the firmament- so what do you think the Holy Spirit meant by this specific word firmament….. The word of God written in Jeremiah 23:29, Is not My Word like a fire?, says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks in rock in pieces?

So what is His purpose for us, His body, His testifiers in this world?

His people are as He is in the world, is not what is written? So the light of Israel will be for a fire, and His Holy One a flame, it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day, ( Isaiah 10:17).

So if we are to be as fire in the world like the firmament, and we are as He is- How can we come to understand the Lord’s purpose for His people in these days?

I watched till thrones were put in place. The Ancient of Days was seated; His garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, its wheels a burning fire; A fiery stream issue and came forth from before Him, a thousand thousands ministered to Him; ten thousands times ten thousands stood before Him, the court was seated, and the books were opened, ( Daniel 7:9-10).

This description of the Almighty also resembles the description of the Son of God, Jesus Christ….. as written in Revelation 1:13-16, and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a flame of fire; His feet were like fine brass as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; He had in His right hands seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.

Can we get near the Son of God and not get burned? What about the Ancient of Days?

The prophet Isaiah speaks for the Lord on that question, Isaiah 33:14-17, The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has seized the hypocrites; who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes,who stops from hearing bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil; He will dwell on high; His place of defense will be the fortress of the rocks; bread will be given him, his water will be sure. Your eyes shall see the King in His beauty; they will see the land that is very far off.

We know in ourselves, we would be burnt to crisp before our God, but for the blood of Jesus Christ. We in ourselves have no righteousness, for we are no different then dirty rags- You and I know rags in a fire are a fuel to ignite a bigger flame. So….. this is not news to the Holy One. He prepares the way of the Lord consistently and constantly…..before man’s eyes and ears.

So can we get near the Son and not get burned? Malachi 3:1-7:

Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

But who can endure the day of His coming?And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderers soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the Lord, and offering in righteousness.

Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the Lord, as in the days of old, as in former years.

And I will come near you in judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans and against those who turn away an alien because they do not fear Me, says the Lord of hosts. For I Am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob, yet from the days of your fathers, you have gone away from My ordinances and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you said, in what way shall we return?

I was watching in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him before Him, Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away. And His kingdom the which shall not be destroyed, ( Daniel 7:13-14).

In Revelation, it is written, the Lord has eyes of fire and in 4:5, and from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the Seven Spirits of God.

The throne of the Almighty, Ancient of Days is of fire. The Son of God has eyes of fire. The Holy Spirit is represented as Seven Spirits of God….as seven burning lamps of fire.

So how do we get near this Great and Awesome and Magnificent God…..Though He is so awesome, He draws us close by His never ending burning love towards us…..

Are we ready? We might study lions. We may know everything there is to know about lions, at least, we think we do until we walk into the presence of a lion in the wild, in his turf…. The knowledge of the lions will not put the breath back in our lungs as the lion comes near….. How much more the Lion of the Tribe of Judah? Are we really ready? I do not know if we will ever be “ready” to meet the Uncreated One—-but we remain steadfast and keep watching for His return…. Even so, come, Lord Jesus, come says the Spirit and the bride.

In His great fire of love for His bride, He has given her the time here to prepare for His ever approaching return…..His fiery furnace of His Spirit, the refiner’s fire, to be with and in us.

As written in Isaiah 43:2, When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame shall not scorch you.

Then He continues His purpose of our transformation in verses 7-13 of chapter 43 of Isaiah, Everyone who is called by My name, whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have formed him.

Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear and say, it is truth.

You are My witnesses, says the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I AM He. Before Me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after Me. I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no Savior. I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, and there was no foreign god among you; therefore you are My witnesses, says the Lord, that I Am God. Indeed before the day was, I am He; and there is no one who can deliver out of My hand; I work, and who will reverse it?

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction, ( Proverbs 1:7).

When the Son of God, the High King of Heaven, returns. There will be a fiery judgment for His enemies for they refused to return….. to their Creator. A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken! Who can but prophesy?,( Amos 3:8).

His judgments come to us at any time as He sits enthroned today, tomorrow and forever….. His judgments come and He is manifested but we do not know when He will be fully manifested before our eyes as He is….. His judgments manifest Him as well as His work in creation…… So watch for His appearing…. We do not know- let us prepare our hearts and be filled with His fiery love!

So, beloved, who call on the name of the Lord, we are growing or being transformed into His fiery image from glory to glory by the Spirit of fire, Himself! So though we are near the Lord Jesus today, as close as within! He will not scorch the person He creates in Christ Jesus….. Yes, our chaff, our carnal nature is burning away minute by minute….. but, we are His as His hands are creating His good purpose through and in us. Is that not why Paul wrote- I die daily in 1 Corinthians 15:31?

We are His sea of glass mingled with fire in chapter 15:2-3,in Revelation as written: And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image, and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.

They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God,, and the song of the Lamb, saying:

Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints! Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy, for all nations shall come and worship before You, for Your judgments have been manifested.

So we can conclude if we are with the Son today, we will not get burned for we will be as His fire on this earth hammering the Light into the darkness……We will be speaking Light Be and know as written in 1 John 3:1-3:

Behold, what manner of love, the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are the children of God: and it has not 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. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself just as He is pure.

Can we get near the Son? Absolutely! Will we get burned- absolutely ! The new creation is being made complete in Christ Jesus. Only our carnality will burn as the chaff…… What about the ones that choose not to go near the Son? They shall experience His fire for all of eternity, which is known as the eternal burnings of hell or lake of fire.

However, as written in Daniel 12:3: Those who are wise shall shine, like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.

And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God,  (Revelation 15:2).

Let us bow to the workings of the Holy Spirit to rid us any mark of the beast or his image and the number of his name, which is complete corruption from within  out. The spirit, soul and flesh are completely corrupted with out the blood of the Lamb and His Spirit in man. …… Let us allow the Holy Spirit to transform us to His fiery image, our Savior!

Are we ready for the Lion of the Tribe of Judah on His turf? Can we anticipate to breath His fiery air today so we can live in His flame of Love tomorrow?

Remember Christ will be all and in all…….Let us be found as He is in this world and His, when He watches us today and tomorrow! Always being transformed from glory to glory into His image being a hammer in the earth!

Instead of praying for revival and reformation, maybe we should pray for the humility to be transformed into His image…….For it is written in Ephesians 4:10, He who descended is also One who ascended far above the heavens, that He might fill all things.

For as it is written: Mark 9:49, For everyone will be seasoned with fire and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt,    ( salt purifies!). So what do we need to throw in the fire as our own sacrifice to be close to the King of glory?

Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, ( Daniel 12:10).

Let us then in humility bow before the King today while we do not see Him as He is but believe He is an awesome Consuming Fire…. and live in appreciation of what great God He is. Let us be formed or beaten in His image by the Spirit of Fire and grace…. while we have grace.

We will be burned by the Son, now by His mercy and grace or later without any mercy…….. No brainer to me!

Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are those that put their trust in Him, ( Psalm 2:1).

What shall we offer in the fire confirming our steadfastness in our faithfulness to the King? What can we show Him now, this minute, this next hour, this next week? A sacrifice something that builds His character within and makes us give Him our time and devotion that He is worthy. Do we  mean business in repentance and turning to Him bringing America into His vision one heart at a time?

He made His sacrifice to gain us, what sacrifice will we make to gain Christ?

Selah!

God always seems to move strong when the deep of darkness covers the earth…. This is no surprise to Him as He always knows the end from the beginning for He is the Alpha and Omega. He uses the evil to bring His good purpose.

So when stuff happens to us that is far from LIGHT…..know this is His opportunity to bring His good purpose.  Hey, do you notice as darkness is getting darker, the chaos seems to be increasing among men? As scripture states there is no peace for the wicked….However, this saddens the heart of our Father, for He wishes no one perish….but all turn and repent.

So what is going to be His next move….Darkness covers the earth, then God is . It almost resembles a chess game, however, I believe, He check mates all the moves of darkness with His King…. Thank God for He is God and Heaven Rules in the sons of men.

We get invited in His story when He hovers over the void of chaos and speaks Light from the written word in Genesis….. He has been doing it ever since….. The earth was the void, then He spoke out His plan in one word- Light be…..

All creation enfolded before our eyes for us to know our God….Then time went on and we became estranged from our Maker. Man became dark so the flood came because God repented He made man…… My heart breaks when I read that scripture in Genesis.

The water came and washed away the darkness that was covering the earth…. He spoke again Light be…..

Then darkness fell again and He called out Abraham to start a Light be – in a nation, His family…….to show the earth that there was God and He was God — worship Him and view His love over His people.

Then came His government over the tribes of the lineage of Abraham……….As time went on, the difference between other nations and Abraham’s lineage was their history with God. However, the descendants of Abraham’s actions weren’t so holy towards God and others…. So He let some fire burn through to purify them in Egypt…The slavery was allowed for them to seek their God again. When times get hard, man remembers that he has no answer or power to deliver himself, only God. Then if wisdom takes over, man calls for God.

When darkness was the greatest in oppression over His people, He showed up as Light- be…..A hope had been put in the earth for the Israelites- Moses…..His light in this earth, representing Him and all His ways and thoughts were transferred through Moses……..The law was given to His people to live according the LIGHT.

Light Be again started with Joshua and the new generation that would move pass the deliverance out of Egypt and enter into the promised land……Light be- They were as grasshoppers towards the darkness, but His Spirit said Light be and overtook the darkness of the land…..His people moved on to their inheritance, but not without some battles of faith…..

Time moves on and so does darkness over the land…. chaos reigns as His people of the land lose their vision and get complacent. The victory over darkness started to diminish as the dark ways started to seep into the hearts of His people…..

The foundation of God’s nation is His word, and when the Word or God is not obeyed, the wall of protection start to crack in any nation. Darkness seeps in like a flood through the cracks.  Darkness  will again cover the lands…… even the rulers and shepherds of His people were darkened with the veil of lies. They believed the dark more than the truth that the Light brought.

Then He said Light be- anointed a man to who His light would shine through for he was a man after His own heart…..He was to remind the people to heed to His ways and not their own hearts and see how magnificent God is……. Light won …….. for awhile….However, ebb of darkness seeping into His people’s heart has been happening over and over again…Why?

Alas, the heart is deceitful as written in Jeremiah 17:9-10, The heart is deceitful by all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

So as God would send another messenger to shine His light,  the earth would reflect the sun shining on men for some years as the noonday sun…… Then there were days untold that even the moon was darkened by the night….. The days turned into years and then when things couldn’t get any darker….. God said….. LIGHT BE!

And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through Him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world, ( John 1 :5-9).

Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Light of the world and spoke the Light into the hearts of men……And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who comes to the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been in God, ( John 3:19-21).

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life, ( John 8:12).

As long as I Am in the world, I Am the Light of the world, ( John 9:5).

Then the Lord preparing the way for us to understand while He went to the cross speaks: 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).

The intention of the Godhead was to have a family full of His Light showing the goodness of God through their lives and blessings and corrections…….This was no surprise to the Godhead that man didn’t follow the Lord with their hearts but their own desires……

So in His plan, He knew that He had to give man a new heart- filled with His Light—- the law and statutes would be written upon our new hearts as written in Ezekiel 11:19-21, Then I will give them a one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God. But as for those whose hearts follow the desire for their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their deeds on their own heads, says the Lord God…..( If you want to know abominations that God detests, they are written in Proverbs 6:16-19. I believe all detestable actions that God hates  take their root from these seven, even unbelief).

So as Jesus ascended to His throne…..He sent the Promise of His Light to all those that believe….. So He sent His Light to LIGHT BE in His people…… Christ, our hope of glory….. The Light of the World… as He is so are His people……We receive our new heart and our filled with the Holy Spirit….. The Light of the world as the Lord will dwell in the midst of His people as written.

Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance, ( Acts 2:3-4).

The order to Paul, the apostle, from the Lord and to us as His children of Light…..I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me, ( Acts 26:17-18).

Now as the disciples of Christ walk this earth generation after generation, our Heavenly Father is gathering a family of Light……. Calling us out of darkness to LIGHT BE……..Again…. God never ceases from His purpose…For He is LIGHT.

For it is God who commanded light to shine our of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us, ( 2 Corinthians 4:6-7).

It appears that God has said Light Be over and over as man keeps speaking folly. We won’t repeat the mistakes of the past….Of course, we won’t…..hmmmm… Want to make a wager on that reasoning?

Man has shown to be fools as written, instead of learning from history, we tend to just repeat the same mistakes because we are acting from our darkness and not the Light: As a dog returns to its own vomit, so a fool returns to his folly, ( Proverbs 26:11).

We receive the Light, we must keep speaking Light Be….Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion with has light with darkness?, ( 2 Corinthians 6:14). That does not mean not to witness as it shows us in wisdom to not blend with the world but be a leader, being different as we are–leading them to the Light.

Israel made the mistake of joining the other nations and then the mixture came…..I know when you mix white with black, you get darker color….. mostly gray…..The mixture of their society culture versus God’s will never mix…. God’s light becomes dimmer and there is no showing of His goodness….. Darkness has started to seep into His Light Be, the foundations are cracked…..

As before, time repeats itself in the heart of men. However, in this age, men who have tasted the goodness of God and turn back to darkness, not only grieve the Holy Spirit but bring severity of darkness on themselves.

This is not news to God as He knows the heart of men and how fickle we are…. so He still is speaking LIGHT BE…..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, ( Isaiah 60:1-2).)

Now we are His LIGHT BE here on this earth at this time…… if we choose to remain in Him, the Light of the world and deny any darkness…… Remember to be speaking LIGHT BE……. JESUS CHRIST IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIGHT OF MEN…… Come to Him today! Come to the Light, He has taken care of the darkness in our hearts…… He will wash us clean to be as white as snow….. so we may all gather together those that are to walk in the LIGHT as He is the LIGHT.

Now as the darkness is getting darker, there will be another LIGHT BE! God has not kept the growing darkness a secret. It is mentioned over and over again in the letters of the New Testament….. So we get our warning and strength to be bold and full of the Light of God as we walk from glory to glory….We are then witnessing the strength and heart of our God…. He is God of war….. There is even a book written of the wars of the Lord! He is mighty in war and strong in battle….. So His Light Be will  BE! He is Consuming Fire—– remember!!!!

What do you think that next step will be in the Godhead’s plan? ARE YOU READY?

Are you ready? For He comes as a thief in the night, when you least expect Him, the LIGHT WILL BE! Then we will see the Light that has been hidden from our sight shine like the noonday sun…. The righteousness of our God within will shine as He is…..

Even so, come, Lord, the Spirit and the bride say come, Lord Jesus, come!

We are ready!!!?????    Come Lord- we call forth LIGHT BE! Light in Strong’s Concordance is to set on fire! Hmmmmm……

Amen!

A question for meditation- Will we burn if we go near the sun today? Why?  Then contemplate on the One who created the fire ball in the sky,  the One who said LIGHT BE!

SELAH!

How soon do we forget the Truth…..if we do not protect what goes in our ears and what we see with our eyes….we can easily loose our way in the Truth of Christ.

Then He who sat on the throne said, behold, I make all things new. And He said to me, write for these words are true and faithful.

And He said to me, It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.

He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My Son.

But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death, ( Revelation 21:5-7).

Let us go back in time to the Flood…..Let us remember what is written in Psalm 29:10: The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, and the Lord sits as King forever.

He is enthroned at the Flood as well as the judgment to come. He is the Beginning and the End….. He is forever. He sees all and knows all….. Nothing is hidden from His sight……So…. back to Noah.

Noah received the word of God. He was told of the coming flood. Noah accepted the news. Noah then was instructed by God to build an ark for his own family as well as two of every kind of beast, bird and creeping things that God instructed to go to Noah.

Think about this, two of every kind of living creature that God wanted to preserve walked, ran or flew to Noah…. and hung out until it was time….. To me, that is so outstanding. The living creatures came from all over the world in obedience to the power of His command. …..God is so awesome. I wonder why the people in the area of Noah did not receive the Lord’s word seeing the amazing view of all these creatures coming to hang with Noah…..

Think about the lions, the tigers and oh yeah, the bears and deer, wolves, all hanging together…. waiting…… for the day of the Lord. Maybe all the neighbors did was complain about the zoo and amusement park growing in Noah’s land….. We miss God with our prejudices so many times!

Many missed the Messiah because of their prejudice also. Hmmmmm…………………………..Are we dull now and missing the signs the Lord is manifesting today?

In between the instruction from the Lord and the actual completion of the ark….. Noah was warning people of the coming judgment….. Did anyone hear this time ?

So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

And God said to Noah, the end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them, and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch, ( Genesis 6:12-14).

In scripture, it appears that it took Noah 100 years to build the ark…. I could be wrong on that…. but Noah is brought on the scene when he was only 500 years old…. Then flood waters were on the earth when he was 600 years old as stated in the verse 5:32 and 6:6 of Genesis.

Noah was building this ark which never had been needed or seen by humans before…. There was no rain on the earth prior to the Flood. So as human nature dictates our actions, the people came to look and probably asked….What are you doing there? They probably said Noah was crazy as they also accused our Lord…… As I wrote last blog, God’s ways are right side up as we always look at things upside down from God….. His ways are different….. They are that way on purpose….. He is always trying to get our attention so we may turn and believe.

Noah was then testifying for 100 years of the coming judgment….. Did anyone have ears to hear?

Well, it is written that only Noah’s family of eight,( 2 Peter), were saved from the judgment…. Then we can assume that no one believed or took heed to the testifying….

Do we have ears to hear today as the Spirit is speaking through His people….. Are we hearing…..????

As Jesus instructed the people to watch and understand: But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.

Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming,                   ( Matthew 24:37-42).

Even so, Lord Jesus, come. The Spirit and the bride say come!

Then the Lord said to Noah, come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation,                     ( Genesis 7:1).

There was judgment at the Flood where our King was sitting enthroned over the happening….. Heaven rules, not men…..Our King will sit over all happenings on this earth….. totally justified in His actions for He is righteous in ALL His judgments.

Noah and his family were saved from the first death, and the others were not……. Jesus, the Messiah, had not come yet to deliver all that would believe- from the second death….. which is eternal condemnation. 

So everyone that was destroyed at the Flood and any further judgments in time on this earth still had a opportunity to believe in Jesus Christ as their Needful Justifier, our Savior…. And escape the second death, and have eternal life.

As written in 1 Peter 3:18-20: For Christ also suffered once, for the sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, by whom also He went and preached to to the spirits in prison, who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

The people that have been destroyed on this earth were locked in prison of death until they were given a chance to believe in the Lord and be saved from the second death…….

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles- when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged account to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.

But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers, ( 1 Peter 4:1-7).

The preaching of the gospel now is for men to turn to God today and hear Him today for their eternal place is at stake.

The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord, ( Romans 6:23).

For it is appointed for men to die once, but after this judgment, ( Hebrews 9:27).

Hear His cry for returning to Him through His Son, Jesus Christ….. God has prepared an ark for eternal salvation in His Son so we may choose eternal life in Him. If we do not choose Him, we have chosen eternal damnation. The King will still be enthroned this Day, no matter what we choose!

There is a choice….. we may loose our life here on this earth, but as we are diligent to keep our Lord in our hearts by living His way, by His Spirit,  we can be assured we live in Him today and forever. We are and will forever enjoy His presence and be in His Light.

This is the message for our ears today: Revelation 21:5-8,

Then He who sate on the throne said, behold, I make all things new. And He said to me, write, for these words are true and faithful. And He said to me, It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.

He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.

But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

In Christ, is our Safe Haven. He is the Ark of the Tabernacle of God….. He is our Rest and Hope. There is no place on this earth or in heaven that is our home but in Christ Jesus, the Son of God. We are all in need of our Savior, no one excluded or justified before the Almighty without our Lord in our heart. NO ONE.

Let us hear and live with the fear of God. The fear of God does not make us cowards, but that we run to the One who He has given Himself as the appropriation for our sins. Let us live in fear that we do not trample on the cross, death and resurrection of our Lord….Let us live as doves to Him and lions against evil.

Men did not listen to the warnings prior to the Flood as only eight were saved. Now the warning is about the coming judgment of fire….but it is eternal fire- forever….. Let us have ears to hear and hearts to receive His Word, His Son.

If men who saw the building of the ark and the gathering of all the living creatures before their eyes did not repent, how will men  with the lack of a grand visible sight of warning, turn to repent today! Except…… through His city on the hill! His witnesses testifying on this earth……. Are you ready? Prepare the way of the Lord….. for we do not know the day or the hour….. May be today…. Are we ready to embrace the Mighty King who is strong in battle…… He is coming for His bride…… Are we ready? Are we ready to broadcast this unpopular, not comfort food, but the truth?

Hey, let us be wise and be found in His grace and the knowledge of Him….. Who is worthy of all honor and praise and our faithful love at all costs.

Let us receive the truth and live and be free in Him…. Or we can choose to remain in pride and deny the coming judgment of the second death, eternal fire. No one will pass from the first death, but those who believe will not be hurt by the second death.

All liars means all liars…….Let us ask for grace at our time of need of repentance and strength to abide in the Lord and obey His commands. For His Day is a Great and a Terrible Day!

He is an awesome God. He is a Consuming Fire…. He is Great and is greatly to be praised.

Let us bow in His Love and Beauty of Holiness and be His volunteers as He rules in the midst of His enemies…..as He said in John 12:24, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it produces much grain…

But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings; by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, but the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of truth, but the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers and yet true; as unknown, and yet well know; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things, ( 2 Corinthians 6:4-10).

Let us die daily to live in Christ, so we remain His Light pointing to the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, our Savior and King during easy times preparing for harder times as it is promised…..Are we ready? Are we preparing ourselves so we may endure through the night knowing He will bring the dawn?

The dark will be getting darker so the LIGHT ON THE HILL SHINES TO CHRIST JESUS.

So as the dark increases let us: Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad, ( 2 Corinthians 5:9-10).

For the love of Christ impels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again,            ( 2 Corinthians 5:14).

As the world goes on as in the days of Noah, let us prepare the way of the Lord, first in our hearts, then the Light from within us will show the way….Let us not be caught unaware as in the days of Noah……….For our High King of Heaven is enthroned  today and tomorrow….Heaven always rules in the kingdom of men….Let us not be deceived, but awaken to His righteousness.

Even so come, Lord Jesus, come….. the Spirit and the bride say -COME!

We love You!

Selah!

The ear that hears the rebukes of life will abide among the wise. He who disdains instructions despises his own soul. But he who heeds rebuke gets understanding. The fear of the Lord is instruction of wisdom, and before honor is humility, ( Proverbs 15:31-33).

Do we hear and see what is coming from the Lord? Do we see the handwriting on the wall?  Or should we just blow the warnings and signs off like the people in the days of Noah?

Many killed the prophets, saying they were lying when they spoke of the coming Judge….. However, wisdom or lack of will be known in our fruits ripening in the future. Wisdom is the ripened fruit of understanding and humility practiced today…. Pride’s ripened fruit is ignorance of the knowledge and fear of the Lord. Pride’s fruit bears death and destruction  as well as grieving the Holy Spirit…..Pride is death, as the second death will not be pardoned on that soul.

So the warnings of the Lord were ignored and soon the invasion came from hostile countries that imprisoned and put in bondage the country of God….. They turned their heads and hearts from following the commands of God. They called them grievous and burdensome…. They enjoyed partying and playing. They continued in the worship of their idols. As in the days of Noah………

The current scores of sports teams will not matter when we as frogs in a slow pot of water reach the boiling point…. The frog was lured into reasoning that all was okay, he was doomed to die not realizing what was brewing against him. The sales at stores or trends at the beauty counters will not matter when imprisonment of bondage has been manifested which has closed them down. The reason being???? Our freedom to worship our King of Eternity, our God, has been slowly allowed to be diminished first in our hearts, then our land.

May we wake up in this country and repent by turning our hearts fully back to the Lord. We need to be ruthless in getting the rights of our God back in this country. How? Grace, mercy, grace, mercy…… as the Lord endures forever.

When each heart repents and turns away from their evil ways…… and turns to a life of prayer or talking first to the Lover of our soul. Asking, seeking and knocking in prayer with our God….  He is waiting for His children to come and speak to Him. Let us start here with Him.

Are we willing to drink His cup? Are we willing to pay the cost? Willing to die to live? Are we willing to leave this country in this shape to our children’s children? For they will pay the hard cost if we do not….

Hear and give ear: Do not be proud, for the Lord has spoken. Give glory to the Lord your God before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light, He turns it into the shadow of death and makes it dense darkness. But if you will not hear it, My soul will weep in secret for your pride; My eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive,                ( Jeremiah 13:15-17).

Is this scripture spoken over America in the heavenly counsels today as spoken to Jerusalem in Jeremiah 18:11-12?

Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying thus says the Lord: Behold I AM fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

And they said, that is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will everyone obey the dictates of his evil heart.

Let us remember, King of heaven rules yesterday, today and forever! God wins….. Shall we make sure we are known by the King and we know Him…. He knows whose house we are! I know where I live, don’t you ?  So does the Spirit of God….

Shall we be diligent to welcome the winepress of suffering knowing it is our way of ascendancy and our trials are our ways of exaltation in Christ….. Let us live rightside up in God’s eye. Let us have our lamps burning with the oil of His Spirit sending our heart’s love before Him during the day and during the night.

Remember what is written in Hebrews 6:1: Therefore, leaving the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection (maturity or fullness of Christ), not laying again the foundations of repentance from dead works and of faith to God.

So we may surmise to go on to the fullness or maturity of Christ, there will be chastisement from our Loving Father…..but it is to bring peace and righteousness as also written in Hebrews 12:5-11, And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, do not despise the chastening or discipline of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him, for whom the Lord loves He receives. If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.

Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it…….

What wonderful fruit we will bear as we allow to our Father to steer us unto His fullness, growing and maturing to the sons and daughters of God. We have His Spirit within us during the corrections or judgments of the Lord. The judgments of the Lord on the world, they go it alone until they call on the name of the Lord….. But He is with us….. Let us be disciple’s of the Lord.

Remember to be okay with men, which is caring what people think, so we bow to their ways even when we are convicted that is against God and His ways. When we need to lie to gain friendship, jobs, increase of finances—- to bow to the spirit of the world. When we allow fear to rule our lives versus love…… We then live for men and not for God. We are then heading for death with God…..I learned this from a very humble man of God, if we bow, we will burn……

However, if we love Him and live for Him, we will rise in Him and to Him. We will be on the outs with men and their rebellion as was our Lord!…. The second death has no hold over us…..Can it be said tonight, if we will lose our breath, the second death holds us captive or do we hold life eternal in Christ with in our hearts where our faith lives?

Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against falsely for My sake, ( Matthew 5:11). Many have been going through this in the past and today. They are the heroes of our faith. Let us prepare to walk as they do….. If we hold  in prayer those brave ones locked in prison today…..and for many days past….. As we pray for those hiding in horrible places because of their faith as they treasure the word of God as they share different scriptures back and forth with each other……..We pray for the strength to remain steadfast to our King during the coming days as those brave souls.

May we grow in the faith knowing that nothing will separate us from His love, may we turn from the deceiving spirit that says that God doesn’t love us if all this tribulation is upon us! The Lord warned us of trials manifesting in all different ways, but that we were to remain in Him and there we will find our peace- that is beyond all understanding…..

That is our walk of faith…. through the shadow of death, He leads us as He has led many other saints in His life and Light….. This is His way….. It is not comfortable to the flesh but we can know our God and do great exploits in His name because He knows us….. There is union with His Spirit from our daily walk in and out as we go through stuff…. We win, because He is with us and His love never fails! He delivers us from all adversities!

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:  For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor power nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, not any created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord, ( Romans 8:35-39).

Father, may we remain diligent before Your face – seeking You and Your ways in our hearts, so as the Seeds of a fragrant flower are sent spreading over the country by the wind of Your Spirit bring  a rising of the Tree Of Life in the hearts of this country…. May our faith and tenacity in knowing You are a Rewarder of those who seek You be found pleasing in Your eyes. Extend to us the grace to know we live and pray only before You, our Audience of One.

Selah!

The national day of prayer is a necessity, however, we should be found in prayer every day, whether the nation announces it or not….. We should be in our secret place with the Lord more than in any other activity for the Lord or others.

Our conversation should be more with the Lord during our days than with men….. So when things happen, we are not surprised or dismayed but we are aware of the signs of the times. We are not surprised by the happenings of men and kingdoms of this world….. We hear from heaven and are told what to pray…. This should be our way daily with our Lord. Then we will have a very sure word from the Lord in our response to any crisis.

Christ followers in this country should prepare for the coming of correction or chastisement or judgment. Pick what ever word you want that makes you feel more comfortable. It is written that judgment comes to the house of God first in 1 Peter 5.

I know no one likes that word- JUDGMENT, but…. we need to wake up and be aware of how we have strayed from the standard God holds- Jesus Christ, His Son, the Word of God….. as God’s rights are being rejected out of this country…… The wall of protection is lifted, it has been deteriorating for a while now…The cracks in the walls have allowed the weakening of our foundations that built the nation in God. The spirit of the anti-christ has been slowly putting deception in the ears of those who are not wakened and wanting the truth as written in Thessalonians.

Are we prepared in steadfastness in our faith or will we get offended at God when stuff happens in this country or any where in the west?………. God has not kept His ways a secret…. nor has His people been silent trumpeting the warnings of judgment are coming…..

Could the great falling away be coming to those that get offended in this generation?

And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me, ( Matthew 11:6). The trials are to test men hearts. We call some events trials in the sports arena…. Why? Because they are scheduled to test the skills and endurance of the members…… Same with God! Some may choose to get offended at God and turn from Him……. Why do some turn away?

God’s love is way higher and deeper than our understanding, so we have to hold on and trust Him through all that comes to us- hardship and blessing….. As matured sons and daughters of God, we should handle it because He has given us all divine power to prove the Son’s image in us as walk through the fire and water….. if it is in our heart to remain faithful to Him, no matter what.  Some may turn away in bitterness. Hey, how is this a loving God and He is not what they thought God was…. God was made in their image as they were lacking knowledge of God, sooo.…..

God’s shaking is for the eternal to remain and all else be gone…. The season of pruning is coming upon His people and the nations. As it is written in Daniel 11:35, and some of those of understanding shall fall, to refine them, purify them, and make them white, until the time of the end; because it is still for the appointed time.

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may found to praise, honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith- the salvation of your souls,( 1 Peter 6-9 ).

Peter mentioned all our faith will be tested by fire—– The fire leaves alone what is pure….but burns up the false doctrine that have lodged as beliefs and are strongholds which is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ or the leading of His Spirit…. but is from the earth, man made.

We can use this opportunity from the Spirit of Truth to seek the truth—- Jesus Christ, the Word of God- He will reveal Himself to us if we are seeking Him in honesty…..Yes, it will be hard. In fact, some times even shattering, but that is okay…. Our Lord holds us in His hands and will not let any that are His be taken from Him. Let us trust Him to shine His spotlight on any false strongholds that we believe and let them fall down to pieces. After all He is a Jealous God, but He is Good!

What will the Watchers from heaven view in our buildings where we are to worship the Lord and the Lord alone? Will they see the super bowl parties and or movies playing at church? Social events for the people? Or will they see numerous buildings holding fiery intercession for Christ’s name sake to be honored and for the people to come out to Him from “Babylon”.

The Spirit of God took Ezekiel into the temple and allowed Ezekiel to see the unspeakable worshiping of false gods from the leaders and people in charge were doing in secret…… I wonder why the Spirit of God just showed Ezekiel what the leaders were doing?    Hmmmmm….. 

Have people changed so much in this generation versus the one that lived on the earth when Ezekiel walked on this earth? If your answer is yes, then I have to question  the outstanding numbers reflecting the unborn deaths or remind you of the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah, is there any resemblance in the current day? The holes in our armor or our faith reveals what comes from compromise or mixture with men  listening to men rather than listening to heaven, the Spirit of God.

What if it happens there are no buildings left to worship the Lord anymore… for it is forbidden….? Will we be strong in the Lord, to pray and remain diligent in His name, even if we are alone and threatened? Will we know He is with us and is our All Sufficiency?

What will happen to us if we do not stand now when it is not difficult….. Where will be the stamina when everything around speaks of death… Death to those who call on the name of Jesus Christ…. Will we have the ‘true grit” that will go literally to the cross or prison if we are called to that?

If we do not grasp the grace of the Lord today when it is green out, how will we have the stamina in His knowledge and grace to hold strong in allegiance to our King when the green has turned to death. If we do not work the discipline that is needed to die to the world today and make time for Him, how will we be sustained? Who will sustain us, if we have not been faithful  now to our King? Our God is merciful, but He is also a Consuming Fire- not to be messed with or are we to think greasy grace was His idea.

Do we think it might be time for a little boot camp discipline for ourselves now? Are we prepared to remain faithful to Christ, no matter what? I know I am weak, I am asking often in faith that His strength be made perfect through me….. I cannot do anything without Him….. But I prepare myself for this day and ask as the day may approach that I may remain faithful to Him….. I am praying for what may happen- preparing for endurance and steadfastness to Him and Him alone today. I am leaning on My Beloved today so that what may occur tomorrow, I know how to lean on Him through each moment.

Do we sit in our pride and think that won’t happen to us here in America? Do we not see the cup of iniquity filling that is against the Lord and His commands? Do we not see the hands of the Lord allowing things in this country to change so that we may receive the chastisement that is due to this generation?

May we realize of the coming opportunity to know what Paul meant that he wanted to know the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if by any means, we may attain to the resurrection from the dead according to Philippians 3:10. When our lives are filled with adversity and hardship, we grow in Him or in bitterness…..Either take the lemons and turn sour or make lemonade with His grace. Our choice……

As it is written and spoken from our Forerunner in Matthew 10:39, He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

We need to grow in Him now when we have been given the time to hear and turn to Him today.

We will not make it in a marathon if we do not stretch our capacities daily to make it for the long haul….. This concept is the same for us spiritually…. We need to stretch our faith, allowing God to grow in greater measure in us so that we may remain faithful to the end of the marathon.

Now we will have available to us to suffer for His name sake.…. As it is written For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him. If we endure, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He will also deny us. If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself, ( 2 Timothy 2:11-13).

Do we not see? We are given a chance to stand for our faith in Christ Jesus and the Truth….. We lose our comfortable standing with the latest current trend of today’s society…. If we remain in good standing with the neighbors and the work place….. however, we lose our stand with Christ…..Hello, let us weigh this out—- Men’s opinion wins over God’s smile and neverending love and  living in His Presence forever?….. No contest for me!  Preparing our hearts in standing today for Christ, will grow our roots deep for greater storms ahead.

He remains faithful to Himself. Do not rely on what was said way back when we said we believe in Him. Today, if He speaks, make sure we have an ear to listen—- Today….. not yesterday, not tomorrow… We might not have tomorrow…. Are we living to show the blossom that leads to the fruit that remains faithful to righteousness at all costs to us…..?

Are we willing to take a chance of ignoring this great God and His rights on this earth?…. Have we no fear of the Lord today? Has Satan filled our thoughts with such lies that we do not see the Truth anymore….. nor stand for it? Has the trend of men and the rebellious spirit makes us bow to them or will we be faithful to the Lord? Who is more important to us? Status with men or with the King of Heaven?

Nonetheless, those that want God and want all they can get of Him, will have the opportunity to stand in the testimony of the Lord…..If we die, we die because we live….. We have prison over us, we will be free in His Spirit. We do not fear who can kill our mortal lives here, however, we do fear and love the One who holds our eternal life in His hands…. We will trust Him in conforming us to His death, so that we may know the power of His resurrection from the dead…..Remember, when we awake we shall be found in His likeness!

Remember the second death holds no power over us…. Praise be to Him who holds our breath in His hands.

Now many will read this and say, this is way out…. We will not experience any correction or judgment from God… What about His mercy…… His corrections and judgments are His mercy……so that we may be instructed in righteousness and turn to live…..TODAY!  We may have today on our mind, but He has eternity on His.

Remember in the Flood, there were only eight that we saved from the waters overflowing……..Only 8!!! Eight remained on the earth, however, this age is regarding not just this life but all of time and eternity….. This is what is given to all men to make a choice… for we will be judged according to the works of our hearts….. and our choices.

There were many prophets that spoke warning to the people of God to wake up and turn their hearts away from idol worshiping and back to God. They spoke to people morning and night to repent and clean their garments in warning…….

Well, the Lord is warning this country to awaken to righteousness and turn away from covetousness and adultery with God. Do not mistake His longsuffering for acknowledgment of the lack of righteousness in this country. God is very precise in His decisions, He knows when the cup of iniquity for every country will be filled and has already planned the judgment or blessings if they turn and repent…..

It has already been established, He knows the end from the beginning…. Remember, He wrote the Book! However, if a country truly repents and changes the ways and laws back to righteousness, He has shown to relent on the judgment…… So do we sit idly by or do we ask for His mercy to change the hearts of the kings back to Him….. the hearts of leaders in the church and government….. But the National Day of Prayer has passed! So should we wait until the next year to ask, seek and knock?

He who has ears to hear, let him hear! But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their companions, and saying: We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we mourned to you, and you did not lament. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, he has a demon. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, look, a glutton and winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!

But wisdom is justified by her children!, ( Matthew 11;15-19).

Do we need a show to go to our prayer closet and petition for our Lord’s mercy? Are all our actions for the showing before man or God?  Do we know we live before the Audience of One 24/7?  Do we really understand that our Jehovah does not sleep or slumber but is aware of every heart and every action and every cry and every curse we do before Him?

We thank You, Heavenly Father that Your mercy is neverending. Please give us more understanding of how great You are so we may bow before You giving the love that You deserve and all honor….. May You be exalted as we seek You to know You and to ask for more of Your love to love You as we should and others…. In Jesus Christ’s name, we ask. Thank You for Your mercy that You want speak to every heart, may we have ears to hear You today.

Selah!   Part II – On What Is Coming Around The Corner….