Most of us know this scripture of Jeremiah 33:3. So we need to call to out to our King….. Ask for directions, even men! A man’s step are of the Lord; how then can a man understand his own way?, ( Proverbs 20:24).
Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, for in You do I trust; cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You. Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies; in You I take shelter. Teach me to do Your will, for You are My God; Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness, ( Psalm 143:8-10).
Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge; for it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; let them all be fixed upon your lips, so that your trust may be in the Lord; I have instructed you today, even you. Have I not written to you excellent things of counsels and knowledge, that I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth, that you may answer words of truth to those who send to you?, ( Proverb 22:17-21).
My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; for they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh, ( Proverbs 4:20-23).
No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord, for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord, For I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more, ( Jeremiah 31:34).
It is written in the prophets, and they shall all be taught by God. Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me, (spoken by Jesus Christ in John 6:45).
I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, the church, of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God, which was given me for you, to fulfill the word of God, the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.
To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus, ( Colossians 1:24-28).
As written in numerous scriptures our great God tears down, so then He rebuilds…… and this has been done over and over again. Another way of saying it, He shakes what is not His and allows it to fall, so then He may restructure His will of what is lasting for eternity. He reestablishes His foundation….. He has done this through out all time and is in the process of doing it now, if we have ears to hear and eyes to see the times. All things grow until their fulfillment in time according to the Almighty God. As written in Zechariah, there is a house being built for wickedness as there is also a house or temple being built in God, us! So……
What remains is Christ is all and in all….. and this is our hope of glory….. or our only hope of glory…… If we give the Holy Spirit our ear, He will gladly fill it with the manifest will of our Lord. We must allow the discipline and the setting apart at His request in strict obedience….. When we think about it, how can anything be more important than sitting with God, the Beginning and End, the Creator of the universe? Nothing, nada, zilch, nada…. is more important than His call. There is a cost. Will we allow our trust be in our God through the cost?
There has been no admiral or general that has not paid a tremendous price for the wisdom and courage to gain overseer of the ranks of men……Paul was found small in the eyes of the Lord and men. Even at the end of his days all forsook him but for a few. His closeness to the Lord, brought on towards himself great aggravation from men and hatred from the devil. Yet, He was so close to the Lord that He was entrusted with the stewardship of the complete and perfect will of the body of Christ. This revelation of Christ has carried us on forward many years and will till the end of this age and even into the new…. Yet, look how this man who gave his ear and then his heart and his entire life to the Lord, is known now….. We thank God for Paul who answered the call as Saul to become Paul through God’s Words and Spirit.
And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
And it shall be that which ever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain.
If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
In that day “HOLINESS TO THE LORD” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts, ( Zechariah 14:16-21).
Today how do we celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles? We celebrate the Lord of the Sabbath everyday, for we rest in His presence, in Him.. Do we not also celebrate Passover everyday as well as the Feast of Tabernacles? We celebrate the Lamb of God daily and His love. We think of Him and His gift of eternal life that He died to give us…… We also celebrate the Gift of the Spirit to dwell with and within us…..daily!
When the seventy years of banishment from their land had passed for Israel. The Lord stirred King Cyrus, ( Gentile king), to rebuild His temple….. This is written in the Book of Ezra.
The work of God by the power of the Holy Spirit is established, when?….. The evidence is the body of Israel were as one mind. God had chosen certain ones to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple…… The king furnished all supplies and funds to get this job going. Our King also has supplied all things for a holy and fiery body of Christ in His Spirit.
Ezra 3:1. And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man in Jerusalem.
The priest and the governor at that time arose and built the altar of God in verse 2…… This has been done again, through our Lord Jesus Christ as High Priest and King…… He offered Himself as the Burnt Offering on the altar of God. And again, God’s temple is being built….. by whom?
Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you are also being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
( Ephesians 2:21).
Now who is on the altar? In one little chapter three of Ezra which holds only 13 verses, five times it is mentioned the people of God burnt offerings unto the Lord! Do you think the Holy Spirit is trying to get our attention here? The people of God offered up burnt offerings to the Lord over and over again. There are five verses which mention burnt offerings in a 13 verse chapter!
Though fear had come upon them because of the people of those countries, they set the altar on its bases; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and evening burnt offerings.
They also kept the Feast of Tabernacles, as it is written, and offered daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day. Afterwards they offered the regular burnt offering, and those for the New Moons and for all the appointed feasts of the Lord that were consecrated, and those of everyone who willingly offered a free will offering to the Lord. From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, although the foundation of the temple had not been laid. ( Ezra 3:3-6).
Now in the second month of the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priest and the Levites, and all those who had come out of captivity to Jerusalem, began work and appointed Levites from twenty years old and above to oversee the work of the house of the Lord.
Then Jeshau with his sons and brothers, Kadmiel with his sons and the sons of Judah, arose as one to oversee those working on the house of God: the sons Henadad with their sons and their brethren the Levites, (Ezra 3: 9-10).
The names that were chosen to oversee the building are linked to Jesus Christ…… Jeshau—- Jesus …… Kadmiel- First, Before, Presence of God…. Almighty……..Judah- Father of the sea- ( nations), roar, territory……according to Strong’s Concordance.
When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there were 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, and the Spirit gave them utterance,( Acts 2:1-4).
The Overseer, Jesus Christ is watching over us. He filled us with His Spirit to be the building and help build. The Governor is the Foreman over the building of the temple of God…. He is ever diligent to keep to the plumbine….. The Plumbline is the Lord Jesus Christ….The Illuminator and Revealer of the Word of God, Jesus Christ is the Holy Spirit. This is how we learn and become part of the body of Christ. As the people left their captivity, they burnt offerings to our God…… We also left captivity and we also are the burnt offerings to our God as we are being built into the building of God.
Romans 12:1-2, states: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
2 Corinthians 4:15-16, And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God and they shall be My people.
So how do we live Christ is our only hope of glory and living the perfect and acceptable will of God?
2 Corinthians 4:6-11: For it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not destroyed- always carrying about in the body of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh….
This is the way of the Lord and also the vision and heart’s desire our Almighty God:
Revelation 21:22-23, But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city had no need of the sun and moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.
Revelation of Jesus Christ 22:3-6:And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be written on their foreheads. There shall be no more night there: They need no lamp nor light of sun, for the Lord gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.
The Holy Spirit is our light, for we see through His eyes. There is no darkness with Him….. He makes darkness flee. We then live by the Light of God today! There can be darkness of dark around us, but with the glory of God within us, we see through all darkness….. Our God is our hope today. We must live in His word and His Spirit completely. If we do not understand, let us wait on Him to reveal all….. Let the Spirit of God perfect our patience as the Lord’s. The Holy Spirit is not a fast food drive through……We need to renew our mind and ways according to His and slow down in and live from His peace.
Today, or in this dispensation, we are celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles…. We are being built into a spiritual Temple of the Living God……. We are the living sacrifice being burnt as a pleasant offering unto the Lord, by suffering we learn obedience. But this is the perfect and acceptable will of our God for His city, His chosen bride….. So let us turn off the world and tune in to His whispers and get our strength, courage. His presence is our spiritual vitamins to keep us healthy and fully active and living by His active word within.
As we join in the heavenly chorus, He is good and His mercy endures forever!!!! Praise be to God. Praise be to the Father. Praise be to the Son. Praise be to the Holy Spirit. Praise be to the Holy One! The Three in the Only One. Who was and is and is to come! Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty. We love you.
For His good and perfect will to be established through us,——- there has to be persecution….. Ezra chapter four starts with the adversaries of God. Jesus Christ also spoke of the persecution that arises for the Word sake written in Mark 4. Check it out. After Pentecost, persecution arises its head……What was, is and will be until the end of time.
This is where we learn to build endurance and strength in our dependence in God and God alone. We also can get offended at the Lord for our lack of understanding of His ways and turn away……Spend time with the One we love, so in the day of the fire, we just burn brighter. We also get the blessing for those who do not get offended at the Son of Man and turn away when times get tough. In Him, we are safe. We will always find refuge. Remember as written : we can do all things in Christ who strengthens us.
We only have enemies when we are threat…….. but, then our test, trials burn the chaff away……We remember that what ever is meant for harm, God will turn it to good for those who love Him. We know the end of the story. We would rather have the enemy of God to be our enemy then be an enemy of God and be on the wrong side!
So beloved, we are the vessels of the Lord which have on their head -holiness……The name of our God…… Holy, Holy Holy Lord God Almighty as written in the end of Zechariah. Even us! Wow! What a great God we worship! Amen! Let us rejoice and celebrate that our daily lives we live and breath the Sabbath, the Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles. I know there are more feasts however, these seem to be the most vital to the Lord. So let us celebrate and revel in His great love that we have been chosen to live at such a time as this.
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who lives but Christ in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me, ( Galatians 2:20).
Selah!
My Children,
My grace is sufficient for you in all that pertain to this life. There is a never ending supply by your request….. Ask of I AM. My hand is not shortened. My yoke is easy and My burden is light….. If the burden you carry is heavy, alas, can it be from I AM? As seeds float through the air to find good ground, so are the seeds of evil as well as the Words of I AM. They look for what field they may take root and grow rapidly, even multiply. Your heart is where the cares and passing vanities are rooted and allowed to multiply. I AM has spoken you cannot serve two masters. Man will despise one and serve the other. Your heart and soul is a territory being fought over, My children.
Forsake pride as a viper in your heart. As I AM has spoken, when a devil leaves a man that has been washed clean……and his house is empty, the evil spirit will come back unless Someone stronger has taken up in that dwelling. I AM instructs you into the way of righteousness and My Spirit within empowers you to walk in I AM.
Do not despise I AM’s correction. As it has been written, if there is bitter envy and self seeking in your hearts and then there is a lie against the Truth. These thorns are of the flesh of men, they are demonic. The one who allows these to flourish like a weed, will also be known from the actions of his heart by I AM. Do not be deceived, My Holy Spirit is a seal of protection and guidance over My Incorruptible Seed. I AM here watching the care of I AM within your heart. If the weeds overtake your heart and suffocate My work…….What will be? The fire of My Spirit will burn away all I AM not….. Allow the burning today. All0w I AM to flourish and grow so all may be known by I AM. My yoke is easy and My burden is light. The freedom is yours to walk from glory to glory in My Spirit, if you dwell with the Everlasting Fire of God.
Great reward is there in obeying My Truth and My Spirit. Bring to your mind often the Words I AM has spoken by My Spirit. They will keep you on the narrow road in I AM. Alas, the road to destruction is wide and yet binding. Unless, you come into My everlasting covering of My blood and forgiveness…. In the Great I AM is the altar of My forgiveness and cleansing of My eternal Blood flowing over you, even today. In the Great I AM, is the Everlasting River of Life flowing from My throne to carry and overtake you into Eternal Life which is the knowledge of I AM. Do not forsake your grace, even today.
What you dwell in is what you will become at the end of your days. Where I AM dwells in is eternal. Take heed to the ways of My Spirit and cut off your hand if it causes you to sin. Take out your eye if it causes you to covet and lust. From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. I AM never has stopped pursuing My beloved. My heart longs for ones whose heart is never stopping in pursuing I AM.
My Holy Spirit is the overcoming power of this world. He who has the Holy Spirit has overcome the world. The dual walk will turn My water and the dirt from walking in the world into the mud that allows you to be stuck in earthly passions…… When the rain comes, does not the water wash away all the filth? Yet, you pray for revival…… Are you ready for the dying of the heart desires toward the enemy of your soul? Are you ready to turn your back to all and follow I AM?
Ask of Me for a greater supply of My grace…… The Spirit of grace comes in like a gentle river but alas the power of His flow destroys the lies in men as in the days of old…… Do you want revival for I AM and My kingdom or for your desires? Will I AM grow greater or your kingdom? Pursue I AM, you have all, even revival. Allow My Spirit revive in you, My children. You request the Fire of God. In this, you do well. When He comes, He convicts of ones in sin, of righteousness, and judgment……..I AM’s Spirit is holy and Truth……. Will He find welcome this day in ones who call after Him? For I AM the Spirit of Fire. All who are in I AM are consumed in My love. Are you ready for all that I AM……. ?
I AM. My servants will be found where I AM. Come to Me. I AM withholds nothing, alas, are your ears prepared to hear and see all I AM? Prepare the way………for I AM.
SELAH!
