Would you think Paul reigned in life even in the midst of prison? Would you believe he did more so there than ever before?
What is the Great I AM’s view of reigning? He sent His only Son! Yet He reigns…….
Would it be the best seat at a feast?
Would it be as a famous one- known and thought highly from people? Having great fortune in life ranking above others?
Would it be a life of sacrifice for the betterment of all?
Would it be a life that is laid down to help others raise up?
Would it be living a life that has been given to you by God when everyone around you thinks and says you are totally missing the mark? Would it be living out what God has spoken no matter the cost? If there is no cost, why is it worthy of our attention?
Paul said in his letters….. All abandoned him but couple of men. Hmmm, who is Paul’s life taken after or resembles? Does his life reflect his Boss?
This same Paul,who has given us such rich study revealing the Lord, was thought to be austere and forgotten. At the end of it all, he is wearing a victor’s crown.
Let’s see if we know where the King of all kings is sitting now……But on this earth, our Mighty King looked as though he had lost. He was scourged and hung with all the false accusations by the crowd who turned against Him which He had healed and fed and taught……but that Resurrection Day, His friends got the real story!
If we think our lives will resemble any other path other than His way if we call ourselves after His name- Jesus follower, we are mistaken in our deception. Jesus Christ came and was a threat to Satan……. If our lives are being lived in the presence of Him within us, we shall also be a threat to evil……If we are not a threat we are apart of Babylon…… Let us make sure we exist in the house of the Lord and not the house we think and made to be the Lord’s and is not……. What a day will be the Lord’s Day if we are mistaken….. Do we hear His voice? Jesus states in John 10- His sheep hear His voice above all others.- We hear and listen.
We live from the inside out. We live by the Son of God, and as dead, His rising us up in us. We must not equate the way kings and businesses act today and assume that is the way of the kingdom. That is the contrary thinking that led Israel to want a king instead of God Almighty. They wanted to be like the other nations. The other nations had a man leading them, instead of God Almighty. Hmmm, what does this remind me of.???..… This same thinking allowed most of Israel to ignore and miss their Messiah…… They were looking for a savior to reign as king……. not a Savior that would die to save them acting as their King.
They missed their visitation…..The Son of God walked in their midst reigning through the wilderness of their lives showing what is coming through God that day and now this day. He was here to show the way….. to a better life or to show the way to eternal life and abiding in the Kingdom of God. This is the way to know their God.
They missed their visitation because their ideas and hopes were not lined up with the Word of God…Their thoughts and hopes were lined up to what they wanted. He is the Creator and He writes the rules……. Babylon has theirs too, contrary to God…… Which one shall we choose to follow today? His or theirs…… What we hope for or what He has promised……. However, the way of His is a narrow path that leads to life. Remember, He said few would find it.
He is in our midst today…… The Holy Spirit is indwelt in each of His children who have received the Son of God by faith and have been reborn into His kingdom.
So let us not get bewildered when things seem contrary to the way of the world as we follow the Lord’s instructions. Do not be deceived by the tele vision either….
For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
You are already full! You are already rich! You reigned as kings without us- and indeed I could wish you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!
To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten and homeless. And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; being defamed, we exhort. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
I do not write these things to shame you, but, as my beloved children, I warn you. For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
Therefore, I urge you, imitate me,( 1 Corinthians 4:7-16).
Remember, Jesus’ own crew thought Jesus missed the mark as He was arrested……Not to mention, all His teachings that did not make sense to the reasoning mind. They were constantly in a state of shake- up.
The King was showing them His way which is sooooo contrary to our way, the world..…. We must have our mind renewed to His.
There is a saying – commands are for servants- and having the same mind is for sons.
Where are we today? Do we do the needful thing today? Do we do what we want? What is the sifter of our thoughts and actions today…… Do we judge ourselves according to the word of God or according to what others are doing and saying?
Is this not God’s way revealed to us through His Son by His Spirit? A way that is not popular….. A way that takes the bold and courageous to new levels. A way that takes Christ in us to make it through triumphantly.
Jesus Christ was baptized in the Spirit without measure and then led immediately into the wilderness to be proven just after the Almighty spoke from heaven….. This is My Son, in whom I am well pleased as written in Matthew 4. Check it out.
He is with us – in the Beginning. There you are with Him in your Beginning. An encounter which is etched ino each heart forever, we meet the Savior….. Then the path gets narrow as what was spoken is tested to see if we allow the word to work us or allow the word to become a vain imagination. We have a choice. Stand and wait….. or blow His word off……. Do we do what we want or do we keep our hand on the wheel of our faith and remain steady. Though the winds may blow as the waves rise, we decide where we stand. Even though everything is as opposite from what was presented to us in His Beginning of our apocalypse, we decide: do we stand or do we fold?
Know Him and His faithfulness, if I were to tell anyone what God wants from us today…… This would be it…… Know Him and His faithfulness. We hear Him and wait. The doing is in the waiting. Circumstances change like the wind’s direction….We stand the best in the north wind. Yes, we are proven in our trust in Him…..and wait until what was spoken in the eternity of His is known in our reality…Our reality is where we stand and believe…This is the walk of faith by night…… It may be the evidence does not show He is with us, He is…… His Word is proven in us….The result for Him is Christ is in us as our hope of glory. And He comes shining through…
Here we learn to reign in patience. Here we learn to reign in trust. Here we learn to reign as faithful. Here we learn discernment. Here we learn the deeper level of the Word of God, His heart. Here we learn to wait and enjoy doing the rest in Him…… Here we learn true fellowship with our God. Here we learn the strength and mercy of God found in His grace. Here we learn to reign in Christ Jesus.
Paul was busy setting up churches going here and there and then….. Paul’s path got very narrow. He became still….. All looking on Paul’s life would have thought,- Oh my, he must of done something against God to be in prison-….. But, God had a different plan….. Paul was a man of action…. Paul needed to be in a place where heaven was allowed to be all consuming that the earth responsibilities were brought to nothing. The one thing became writing what He saw in Christ Jesus to his family, us….. and also witness to authorities in Rome. He remained faithful and true to the Uncreated One.
Paul was urged to reveal all he had seen in the reality of the King to the future generations that were trotting on the King’s pathway in the days to come……
Joseph had a God dream and that dream was to be fulfilled. God was with him in the beginning and through the middle in the dungeon and at his reigning.
King David was given the oil poured lavishly all on his head. David was anointed to be king. He was hand picked by God through His prophet, Samuel….. Then David went through the dungeon…… The proving of the Word of God was implemented as he was on the run for his life from King Saul…..He was running for his life as well as running into the fullness of God’s plan……. As he ran from Saul, he also was proving his kingship…. God works in David were completed here. These are the steps of the King……. and His army…… His bride….. His own.
This saying popped into my head many years ago….. Every David has a Saul like every party has a pooper…… So David was proven and tested to then become the acting king of Israel.
We must see God uses everything to good for those who are called according to His purpose. This means everything- evil and good that happens to us to prove the Word of God spoken over and in us….. so Christ may grow mightily in us….. our hope of glory…..Him
Kings slay dragons and giants…… If there were not any dragons and giants to prove his reign, how would he stand through the trials and temptations of king?….. What kind of king would reign in righteousness and wisdom? How would his people know he is a worthy king? God proves His own by His Word.
Everyone knows the ways of men…. When all fed and comfortable, we tend to descend to the sleep mode…..We get like a bear getting disturbed from our nap when awaken—– growl.
We must learn to reign when there is no alternative….. When there is no alternative but lean on the name of the King of all kings and Lord of all lords…. We see. We learn. We then have another strength hanging in our belt of faith. We grow in Him.
These strengths we can pull out on every battle that ensues us and watch. His Word is faithful and true. Jesus Christ reigns on high.
As we stand before Him in prayer…… Can we see Him? Are there other things in His way….. or things in our way to Him? How do they get removed?
Did you ever think of school as going to the wilderness everyday? Some classes I certainly did……. Some classes were as climbing up a muddy hill… Well, Holy Spirit’s school is trying and full of discipline, but He is so fun. Yes, I said He is fun. He shows us things that only God could know about us and puts them in parables or enigmas so we can figure them out…… He loves to give us little quizzes. He also delight in us always!!!!
Holy Spirit is always measuring Christ in us. Measuring our hearing and obeying, our patience through the tribulation, our endurance, our joy….. He measures the knowledge we have of God- for this is eternal life. We do believe even when it looks like God has forgotten what He said to us. We rest in Him and wait. Knowing He did not forget……And the big temptation is to think and accept that He never spoke that word. Satan wins if we think we missed it and blow off the fellowship we had with the Lord and the words that were spoken.
The Lord is in His holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven, His eyelids test the sons of men. The Lord tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates. Upon the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates. Upon the wicked He will rain coals; fire and brimstone and a burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness; His countenance beholds the upright, ( Psalm 11:4-7).
So all of this walk is to prove sonship….. Our King went through the testing and silly us, if we think, we are not also going to be proven…… For what you ask? I will gladly tell you….. The shining image of the Son to come to fullness in His body, bride, army, etc. The King has been promised a reward, us……. in Him.
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,which none of the rulers of this age knew; for if they had known, they would not of crucified the Lord of glory.
But as it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.
But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man does not receive things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ, ( 1 Corinthians 2:7-16).
Moses, Abraham, David, Joseph and Paul had such a rich history with God…… Yet, if any would look at their lives from the natural eye, they would not agree. I guess that is why the crowd told Moses to go up and talk with God…… They wanted to stay far away from the God that thunders and lightnings.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one’s praise shall come from God, ( 1 Corinthians 4:5).
Did you get that? Each one’s praise shall come from God!!!
The school of Christ is not for wimps. The study is demanding. The rewards are outstanding. The life in Christ is worth all. Training in sonship for the God of the universe should be all consuming and everincreasing as is our God. Do you think Joseph was glad he hung in there in God when the famine came? He was able to keep his family alive through the drought.
King David was honoring God through the den and the woods…. through living in the enemies camp, through the loss of all, through the gain of all, through his reign, through his fall. David honored God through it all…… A man after God’s own heart.
Jesus Christ paved the way with His precious blood…..There is more to His sacrifice towards us than getting a free card-stamped pass hell and go into heaven….. Are we up for the challenge? No….. Will He make us ready and able each second? Absolutely! His grace is beyond all we can think or imagine. His love never fails……He is proving us so our love in Him will also not fail.
As He is – so are we in the world. As He is- so are we in the world.
As He is – so are we in this world. As He is, so are we in this world………
Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to dwell in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons, ( Ruth 1:1).
Remember, to rise up in life….. There also must be death…… Life leads to the cross as the cross leads to life……There is no life without the cross and no cross with out the life of God eternally……
We must obtain His life, His Christ- His way…… Meet Him at the cross……and we meet Him there often. For in this death is our life and life abundant…. Every time we meet Him there, we increase in Him as He is right there. And He is enthroned in the Majesty we are absorbing and making Him known from our unknown. As the cross is laid on us is His power of an unending life…. Be still before Him and allow your ears to hear Him speak.
Guess what? There is no line or ticket required- just believe…. Just go right on up. He has His eye on each of us at all time in His eternity…..He is waiting and there is no line! We do not have to wait at the cross to meet our Savior King…. He is waiting for you and me then and now and always….. He holds us captive as we speak together of things from the Beginning. Then this fellowship has a peak into the End…… which never Ends as all things are brand new. Just sit before Him and enjoy the view…. We must see things from His view for this is key for following His steps laid before us for now and always.
Behold, the eyes of the Lord is on those who fear Him. On those who hope in His mercy to deliver their souls from death and to keep them alive in famine, ( Psalms 33:18-19).
So if Christ in us is our hope of glory…. as written in Revelation 11:1-4, Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying, Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there.
But leave out the court which is outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty two months.
I will give power to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth…..
Who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of aliens.
Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.
They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented- of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.
And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us…….Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God,
( Hebrews 11:33-40, 12:1-2).
I suggest we continue to read the rest of chapter 12 of Hebrews…… Let us measure our walk in His…. for Holy Spirit is always. Our God loves to measure! Holy Spirit, shine Your Light of Truth on our beliefs and shake the false so the truth may remain growing to a larger measure within us.
As men speak of God before we take it as the Gospel of Truth, let us make sure it is in the Gospel of Truth. Famine may come and it may not be the hunger we may think it is…… Some think they are full and see the Lord and go away empty. Some think they are hungry and empty and see the Lord and go away full. Some do not even know there is the Lord awaiting their presence in His court, then they live in perpetual famine. Others may suffer nutrious food and water but feast on the Words of the Holy One and never suffer hunger or thirst and are full.
So it all depends on the view of the heart of each soul to know- do I reign in life in Christ today or do I reign in life in the world?…… Which life wins the crown? Which life wins the eternal crown? Which is the way to reign in life ? The way of life that pleases the sight of I AM….. that we choose to follow this day! Though it may be hard and full of cliffs and heights…. We beckon to go because we can hear His calling echoing in the tombs of our empty soul. He once was there but has called out here and we follow His steps leading us into His known and our new known that was unknown.
Here our feet crunch in the snow as we follow into the vast and wide distances of His land, the kingdom to come is here with in us now….. Are you up to follow? Come and see, what He has planned for you and for me. Leave all behind and come and find the greatest treasure known to mankind. His heart beat you will hear as you draw near….. The aroma of frankincense and myrrh is fresh and tingling to our senses as they start to fall away dead to all…. The flight of my spirit is now alive and all these new elements in me are bound to survive. knowing without seeing. Seeing the inside out. Knowing what is coming about. Sickness falls away and healing takes it place. Our emptiness gets full in Him. What could not be before is found supernaturally in you and me because of the love of our Great King. Holy Spirit, we know and any other that is soon to go. We hear heaven’s morse code and display the meaning so all can know. This is heaven on this earth….. The King is here in you and me and is reigning His life in ours for all to see. This is the life He has intended for us to be.
The life we live, we live by faith in the Son of God who loved us and gave Himself for us.
Selah!!
Children.
Do you cry out to Me as though I AM not here? Do you not know I AM within? Where is My Kingdom that dwells? Is the path you desire the one that I AM has called you on? Do you not see as I AM has called you to see? Do you not stand on what I AM says you are to Me? Who has told you are naked? Do you not see you are in the presence of the King? I AM here listening and yet you speak as though I AM not……. Do not forgot My love is endless and greater than any from this earth.
I AM is as no other. I AM different than the voices you let in. Why do you listen to others that are not aligned to Me? You are as I AM on this earth…. So let all fall away but the Seed I AM has placed within….. You have flourished and grown but from the inside – only this is known….. The fruit of Me is found and seen from My people who are true to Me. Do not be deceived. True sons and daughters are seen as shining the Light for all to see….. This is of Me. Grace and love abounds…… as snow from the sky falls to cover the barren earth bringing nourishing life to all. As is I AM, My Word gives life to all. The Truth is found in the abiding of My life. My Word abounds in those who are given the grace to receive what they hear and see. They live from My kingdom as this is their priority. Ever increasing is I AM found in the ones who carry My Word to all around.
Know Me, then the stranger voice will not find its place and disrupt My peace. The building of My temple starts on the foundations…… Know your God and allow Me to know you. This fellowship is way for growth in I AM…… Be still and know I AM, God. I AM covers the waters of the sea so all may see then know I AM the Lord of all ……Hold this Truth in your heart, do not allow it fall away and part.
The ways of men that speak of I AM are not always as what you see and hear… Listen to Me, and you will learn how to perceive. Do they resemble the pages written of Me? Do they hold truth as I AM? Or do they forsake My way for their gain? Are these the days that were spoken about of warning to My ones? Know Me and then the Truth you shall see? Then, My child, you will remain free. Remember the last shall be first and those that are first, shall be last…… Do you not see the way of My kingdom is humility. Righteousness and peace are the marks of My heart. Again, do not let this Truth part.
Hear My voice and let these Words of I AM resound from their lips…… Then I AM renown. Wolves wait for their prey as weak, but behind them I AM stands. My roar is heard across the enemy lines-they are strong for in them I AM. Take your fangs of what I call Mine. If you do not perceive your night will never be Light in My Day.
I AM found in My own…. This was My plan from I AM then and now and will forever be….. Do not disrupt My call in them from Me….. I AM will forever be. See My friends come from far and wide and lay down their lives to be My bride. Do not despise the day of small Beginnings, for My Seed is planted. I AM spoke the End from the Beginning for those who are called and hear the love I AM has born them from My side. These are My bride. Hear this: you have been called to be My bride….. Do not delay! Come through the gate of My bloody Cross> Stand in the flow that will cover you all the way through….. Look and see what you are to Me,…. you are all new…. Walk with Me and I AM shows how much a treasure you are to Me…. You, then stand in the love that I AM has called you from. Walk with Me and I AM shows you what is to come.
The walk is narrow but filled with Treasure for your delight. The knowledge of I AM fills your life into eternity for you are My bride. I AM will come through you and all will find the Truth…..Then knowledge of I AM, their First and all in all, shall come flying into their hearts through their night. I AM then brings them to their Light. Then all will know: I AM with you through it all. I AM with you always even through the night bringing their Day to the dawn. I AM does not forsake My own…. I AM with you forever and ever….. This I AM wants all to know.
All shall hear My voice when they have met Me at My cross. This is My gift to all who come to the cross and turn from their ways because they believe this day. This is where I AM has given them new life in Me. Do not call what is covered in My blood unclean before Me.
Hear My voice whisper to you…… This is how I AM brings you through. Hear Me speaking My love song to you.
Wait- in the waiting you always will see what I AM plans for thee…. My love never fades as the flower but stays on in My power… Do not fear but be free in My love. This is what I Am called you to be-forever loving the love I AM has for you in Me. Here is the place where you slay the bear, the lion and giants. Here is where you stand and the lions do not feed on you but those who dug the pit entrapping you….. Here stand with I AM as I show you what I AM has planned. Be still all the earth, I AM has risen from the seat to see My bride coming to Me. Watch and join the throngs sing to Me. The nations that tarry will fall in a hurry. Come now and sing to the King. I AM enjoys their voice rising as the sound of many waters for all to know their King is among them now and forever….. Stand still and come to Me for the time is short for all to come to Me and believe.
Selah!! Selah!!!
