Dear beloved reader,

This blog addition is from a Brother Brad from Colorado. It was posted without any comments concerning this vision and scriptures for a season. As I ponder this vision of the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, scattered and left in pieces, it has provoked me to go deeper into His heart.

That deeper cry has birthed the next 3-5 Blogs which will be about the "Unity of the Spirit" and the putting together of His body.

I want to thank Brother Brad from Christianity Confesses for His love and dedication to the Lord. Please check out His website that is linked to our site as well.

Thanks Brad!
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Beloved Readers,

As I sat at the piano with the Bible I opened to Psalm 121 the Lord had me read it once through.

1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
where does my help come from?

2 My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;

4 indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD watches over you—
the LORD is your shade at your right hand;

6 the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;

8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.

Then he opened my spirit to this vision.

I saw myself "the Body" lost in a valley with hills all around. I was marooned there stranded as though wrecked or something. I had a map but not one part of my body knew how to read it. No part of the Body knew which way was up, there is no legend and no key. The map is worthless.

Then I hear the call of the Lord to come up the hill where I would find help but which hill? Which direction did it come from. I, "the Body", could not figure it out so we split some parts of the Body went up that hill, others went that direction, while others followed me. I had split up.

Then I, "the Spirit", had found the Lord but the rest of me was left in the wilderness. The parts that had followed dropped off because they were too weary to continue or had given into the fate that they were stuck in the wilderness forever. I, "the Spirit", however had continued and found the Lord. Some fell and were left behind due to injury and other did not believe rescue was possible.

Then I, "the Spirit", bowed down before the Lord and worshiped Him. I worshiped the Lord Almighty with songs from the heart, but the song was missing something. The song was not full because part of my body was left behind in the wilderness. I begged the Lord to send back the Holy Spirit to retrieve my whole body. That way the I, "the Bride", could be whole again and complete. I said to the Lord, "Lord what good is your bride with out hands to hold, feet and legs so I can go with you, hair to caress, and a bosom to hold you." I begged the Lord not to leave His bride in pieces in the wilderness but that he would go and gather His Bride and restore her to health, not cutting off one member. I said to the Lord, "heal my body so that the gardener would not cut of a single branch from the vine." I pleaded with the Lord to go and gather my body from the wilderness and connect it back together so that I, "the Body of the Bride", would be one on the day of the great wedding. The day that the New Jerusalem would be given as a gift to the bride. "Lord make me whole again", I, "the spirit", cried out to the Lord.

Then the Lord looked upon me, "the spirit of the Bride", the only one to make it out of the wilderness, His eyes told me that my body would once again be united. He told me that when the day of the great wedding comes He would make His Bride whole once again.

As I reach the conclusion of this time of ministering to the Lord he showed me a final picture; The Lord in the wilderness where I had been forsaken gathering the fallen pieces of the Body.

Dear Readers, I encourage you no matter where you live to worship the Lord Jesus Christ. Bring yourself to His feet daily. Climb the hill of the Lord, find the maker of heaven and earth. Sing praises to Him. Then when He is ready He will go into the wilderness's of your life and start to gather the fallen pieces of His body.

Which direction will you go when the Lord calls you out of the wilderness? Will you know how to read the map without compass and without a key or legend? The thought of being stranded in the wilderness of this world without the knowledge of how to find my way to the safety of my Lord and savior. Dear reader if this is you seek out the Lord, learn to hear his voice, search for Him daily so when the time comes you will know which direction He would have to take out of the wilderness and into His Palace.

I pray this has blessed each of you.

Mahalo and Aloha.

Labels: A vision from the Lord

The blessings of the Lord upon you Dear Readers,

I am writing to all of you who frequent this web site! Our God is an awesome God and is moving so powerfully here in the Western USA and Rocky Mountain states! Words can even describe God's awesomeness! This is a much longer teaching than I thought. This is the third draft. It has taken me 8 hours to write this! It has been a labor of love, but under great attack. I lost all the edits twice and had to do them over. I pray you will not stop reading this because of it's length but open your heart to the hidden power in the Word of God!

There are so many churches and ministries working for the Lord. All of them are asking for your prayer and financial support rightfully so. The question for us today is where should you place the precious finances God has entrusted to you? May I state as being a Pastor for 24 years, that your tithe belongs to the storehouse of where you attend. They are entrusted with your care and welfare and should be faithfully supported by your tithes and giving. The question I am addressing is where does God desire you to sow your offerings and where to put it?

All I can say on this topic of genuine giving is this, "that all we are, all we have, all we will ever be" is the only offering that will truly satisfy His heart. This is the same offering He has given to us, and the offering He commands us give one another. "Love one another as "I" have loved you. "

This is a most precious commandment. It is a treasure in the heart of God for it involves the truth of His word to us, "no greater love than this than a man lay down His life for His friends." I have found that this total commitment or abandonment to the Lord requires great suffering from time to time. A dear precious sister in the Lord had to reminded me this week of this truth again.

This thought of "filling up the sufferings of Christ," is not new to me and it never has been. There are many ways suffering comes into our lives. We suffer because of sin's effect in the world. We suffer the consequences of our own sins upon our lives and family. We suffer because we have sowed wrongly and make wrong choices. But there is a suffering that comes, not by sin or any other reason, accept the walk on Gethsemane Road!

This is not a road of "self suffering." There are many in the Body of Christ suffering with a "martyr spirit" that is not of God, it is just stupidity! But there is a suffering that comes by the road God has caused us to walk upon. I was rightly reminded this week that Jesus, the Son of God, had to LEARN OBEDIENCE through the things He suffered. Yes, beloved He suffered at Calvary, but He truly suffered through out His whole life on earth.

Can you imagine having the power to heal everyone, everywhere all the time and can only use that power as the Father wills? Imagine having the power to feed the whole world and not allow one person to be starving? Imagine having the power not to let his "earthly Father Joseph die!" Think about the pool of Bethesda where the angel troubled the water for healing and Jesus walking by all those waiting to get in to be healed, and only being allowed to heal one blind man!

There is a purpose when "suffering comes into our lives when it is not caused by sin!" A purpose that will cause us to trust and cling to Him as never before. It is here the Lord works the "giving up our life for Him" in living reality. It is here we learn with Job, "thou you slay me still will I trust you." I was Pastoring a local church many years ago when the Lord spoke to me these words, "It is not enough for the sheep to lay up their lives for the Pastor's, but the Pastors are to lay up their lives for the sheep."

I knew this word was to bring me new understanding into the ministry call God had upon my life. This understanding came in the late 1980's. The Lord revealed that with our present understanding Pastor's see the people who come to their church to help them fill "THEIR MISSION!" I was taught that the people who attend the church are there to help us with "OUR PLANS, OUR VISIONS, OUR CHURCH CALL!" There is an absolute truth in that, but the way that is expressed in a church is misinterpreted by us leaders, the Lord revealed to me. It is not intentional and I am blaming no one. It is just a fact that God need to bring into the open.

This was not easy for us leaders to understand. It sure was not easy for me to see because that was what I was taught to believe and build. The Lord in His love and grace stated that this understanding is upside down. I needed a revelation from the Lord to correctly understand the way His body is made to function together in unity. I could not understand this concept until I began to understand His extravagant love for His body.

The true purpose of the Ascension gifts of the five-fold ministry is to serve. He has actually called us to get underneath God's people to lift them up in answering "their call" first before "our call and church vision can be realized. We as "Holy Spirit Ascension gifts"are called to pour out our life for those the Lord allows us to shepherd or be sent to. The Lord requires of us to make a diligent seeking of His heart to teach us His love for each under our care, and to show us each person as He sees them.

We are required to spend much time with Him for His needs and the needs of His people. Only in that place of seeking can we hear from God to know his heart in building and serving the saints in the power of the Holy Spirit. Beloved, this change of understanding that He worked in me quite early in the ministry was critically important to understand the work of the Third day that is now upon us. In the last few years the Lord summed up this understanding with this statement to share, "I do not want you to build a church, or a ministry, but establish the Kingdom of God in men's hearts."

This change of understanding allowed me by the grace of God not to see His people for my need or to help me fulfill my call or vision! I began to see how BEAUTIFUL AND SPECIAL each person is to the Lord. My call was to be given fully, poured out completely in helping and lifting the precious saints to become that beautiful gift God made them.

When God sends me to an individual, church or region, I don't minister in the way that we would call "normal ministry." I can not go to a meeting and just bring a message, pray for a few folks, leave and get an offering. God has sent me there to pour out my whole life to those He brought me to. Many days that means laboring all day and night with very little sleep or even time to eat.

I was taught in the early days of ministering not to let the people get "to close" to you. We were taught to keep an "arms length" apart from the people. Today so many ministries have Body guards, chauffeurs, security to keep the people away from them. I understand that from a security stand point and it might be necessary, but very few ministers linger after a service to be with the Lord and His people. Where did that come from, the heart of God? Before meetings even start God often moves in building His people. There are divine appointments, encounters and prayers that may be released even before a service start or after it is over. We must remove the "off the clock" mentality from his ministers.

We are on the Lord's time and not ours, and we are called to pour out our lives as a drink offering until the Lord says we are done. I know I can not stop until God says I am done with you. Often I have to stay and continue to minister to the Lord and teach the hungry ones on staying and lingering in God's presence as Joshua did.

In Mexico, I had to stay at the keyboard for 45 minutes until the Pastor's son came back to say goodbye. He had a heart like David and was a true worshipper. The Lord's manifest presence waited for the young man to come. I had to keep playing the keyboard until the Lord drew Him back. The young man came back and I had to tell Him the Lord was waiting here for him like Joshua. The presence of God flooded Him immediately. He fell under the Holy Spirits power for the next 45 minutes weeping and crying in His presence.

Could you imagine if I did "normal ministry" and didn't wait? I was dead tired in my Body, everybody else left and was eating at the table, but God required more of me. Did I love Him enough to stay there? What if the young man didn't come back? It was risky and costly to obey the Lord. What was everyone else thinking of me? I do not write these things to lift me up in any way. I just did what God required and God did the rest and gets all the Glory!

After many meetings, God would have me instruct worship teams, leaders or youth to encourage and strengthen them in what God had done in their hearts at the meetings. This takes a lot of time and energy. The question is who do we belong to and how much do you love them? I am not saying these things to boast, GOD FORBID! When we travel or here at home, my day often start at 5am and stop after midnight! I needed to understand that the call God has given us is costly and it is not done 9-5 Monday through Fridays or just on Sunday's and Wednesdays.

Until we realize that we are called to "fill up the sufferings" of Christ," we can never truly get underneath His precious ones to lead them to Him to fulfill their calling. It is costly to be a servant of God beyond any thing you can imagine, but with the greatest of rewards as God's people grow in love with Him and one another!

You are probably wondering what this had to do with giving? Everything beloved reader, everything. God is restoring Shepherds after His own heart and true ministry that will esteem the other better than themselves. One of the other sufferings that has come in ministry is in the area of finances. When the Lord called me to answer His call, I was only 2 weeks old in the Lord. I had never heard God speak to me before and wasn't expecting Him to at this service.

I was in Virginia at my Sister's church as the Preacher was giving His message, the Lord had me turn to Mathew chapter 10. I read the section about the selection of the twelve, but as I read the part of their commissioning my heart began to burn and God began to speak. He had me read this chapter and write in my bible, Building Block #1.

Mat 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and charged them, saying, Go not into any way of the Gentiles, and enter not into any city of the Samaritans: Mat 10:6 but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Mat 10:7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Mat 10:8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons: freely ye received, freely give.

This may not be a place we would look to answer the question of where does God want me to place His money, but it really is if you have ears to hear. FREELY YOU HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE. I have spent the first part of this article sharing with you the cost and price to answer the call. I needed a deeper understanding of what it meant to "lay my life down for my friends or to "pour out my life as a drink offering." I had freely been given this Ascension gift of the Lord and I had to 100% freely give and pour it out. This was God's commandment. As I read a little further this verse was like a FLAME in me and I knew though I was only 2 weeks old in the Lord, that this was a WORD from GOD to me.

Mat 10:9 Take no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; Mat 10:10 no wallet for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

I did not understand the suffering and persecution I would face because of this word. There is a divine reason He sent out the twelve and told them not to provide for themselves. I am writing this today to answer the question, where does God want me to sow my finances. First fruits go to your local church, but what about the other giving we are called to do.

Every single ministry is asking for your financial support to fulfill their vision. So where do you put your seed? There is a giving that must be birthed a new with this new third day arising in our midst. The heart of this giving is what the Lord longs for between us, love for one another as He has loved us. Our present understanding of sowing involves giving to ministries or people who are in need.

Many give to TBN, K-LOVE, CBN and these ministries are doing the work of the Lord. But I can say this, I have had people who have supported their ministries call them when we had a need, and they would not help. Why, I don't know? Perhaps God would not allow them to help so we could trust Him deeper. The point is however, LOVE must be the root of all that we do including the motives of our giving.

When the Lord gave us the "Ascension gifts of the five-fold ministry" He called them GIFTS. What are you to do with a gift given to you? You are to cherish and care for it. That is why they are gifts. With my old understanding of church, my call was a job, though I never treated it that way. God is my employer and I am His employee, therefore I am not a gift where God has sent me, I am a worker!

Everyday we go to McDonald's and workers serve us there, do we really have any real connection or love bonds with them? No! He sent the Apostles out taking nothing with them for a Holy divine reason. "The workman is worthy of His wages." How serious is this to the heart of God we shall soon see. Many are not going to like this teaching and may even listen to voices of accusation say, He just wants my money! I can't stop that from happening, but for those who have an ear to hear there is something deep and wonderful the Lord wants to release in your heart for the days to come.

There is a deeper dynamic in giving that God wants to bring to His church. It is rooted in absolute love for one another. Today our giving should not be based on what makes us feel good but what makes God feel good. This is a wonderful truth set forth in Phil 4:10-14.

I know many ministers have suffered great lack in their ministries and hardly make it day to day. Other ministers have great abundances available to them and live very well. I can't judge or understand this disparity, perhaps God will make this clear in the days ahead. But I do know, there is SOMETHING TOTALLY MISSING IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE HEART OF GIVING IN OUR NATION! As we examine these verses of scripture let us get the heart of God concerning the Love the Body should have for these Ascension gifts.

Php 4:10 But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it. Php 4:11 But I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be dependent on myself.

Notice the words "that your care for me has come to life again." I do believe that in this new day dawning this will come alive in the heart of the Bride for the gifts God has given her to help her. The Apostle goes on to say I won't mention my needs, but does tell THEM HE HAS THEM, and He is able to be dependent upon himself.

Oh how leaders and the Body of Christ love that scripture. I have heard many times, "Paul made tents, why don't you." I have often replied I will as God leads or tells me to. Many have gotten angry at these words, and even some church leaders get anxious when a new work comes in town, because they are afraid people will start "GIVING" to the new work. I have seen them even raise up against that new work just to keep the money in their ministry or church.

Php 4:12 It is the same to me if I am looked down on or honoured; everywhere and in all things I have the secret of how to be full and how to go without food; how to have wealth and how to be in need. Php 4:13 I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength. Php 4:14 But you did well to have care for me in my need.

Paul understood this and suffered it in His own life. He was accused of not working for wrong motive and then for working for wrong motives. Yet in suffering he learns the secret of contentment whether full or hungry, wealth or in need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. None of us can predict what we will have or not have, but we must learn to be content in all circumstances. I am still learning this every day more and more.

Verse 14 says, "But you did well to have care for me in my need." He now establishes from the heart of God that this is something that is WELL PLEASING TO GOD! When the Lord called me and sent me forth, He gave me this word of instruction:

Mat 10:9 Take no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; Mat 10:10 no wallet for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

This is a hard concept for the church and it's leadership to understand. I realized that this call would not allow me to have office hours, nor could I take this call and make it a 9-5 job. I could not take Monday's off just for a day off, because the Lord doesn't take a day off with me. I had to learn that rest is in God, and He knows exactly when I should rest or go away for a time of refreshing.

I had to learn to follow His Spirit's direction and instruction not just for the sheep, but my family and all God was going to send me to. My heart's desire is to be able to travel at my own expense and not have to receive even an offering, but God had to correct me here! He had to show me that was the pride in my heart that didn't want to be dependant upon Him or anyone else. He had to show me, "the workman is worthy of His wages."

Many times I cried out to the Lord why? I could go out and get a "secular job"again and provide for myself. Many in the early days of the ministry call suggested that I do that from time to time. Leaders even said let him die, he is worse than an infidel! I understand the persecution involved with the call of Mathew chapter 10. As the fruit of the calling became more evident, God silenced many of these lions voices against me.

I cried many nights because of those words hurting and wounding me. I begged God to tell them and help them understand what He asked me to do, but often He did not do that. As a missionary it is a little easier to try to "raise support." Which we still do. Many words have come about starting a Christian company and the profits go to the work of the ministry. This would lighten the burden on God's people. Beloved, we have tried to do both. But do you know where we end up, right back to where we started from?

He says, "whatever city I send you, don't take gold, silver a wallet or any means of support." Isn't that kind of a stupid requirement, God? You know what people are going to say, "he just wants your money, or we don't have enough for ourselves how can we help you." The Lord's answer to this is, "that is exactly what they will say, and this is the attitude I need to expose in the hearts of my people."

Beloved, when the Holy Spirit came on Pentecost, the first fruits visible after the fire came upon them was that people "no longer considered what they had their own." WOW, talk about miracles. People who had lands and properties sold these lands and laid them at the Apostle's feet. The Bible said, there was not one needy one amongst them,(Acts 2:42-47) because they loved each other as we have never seen before in history or even now. They laid their life down one for another as the Lord had commanded. The rich and those who had resources, gave to those who had not, and everyone was taken care of. This is not communism, this is HOLY COMMUNION!

Why would God send the apostles out with that command, take nothing with you, for the workman is worthy of their wages? The reason is to BUILD MUTUAL LOVE BOND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE GIFT THAT WAS SENT AND THOSE TO WHOM IT WAS SENT! Again this concept of love, starts with recognizing that God is not sending you "workers," or even employee's but GIFTS!

1Co 9:9 For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?
1Co 9:10 Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.

1Co 9:11: If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world? 1Co 9:12 If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more?

This is where we need great understanding in our heart of giving. Beloved this heart of giving is above tithes and offerings! Why did the Lord send the 12 out to minister requiring them not to take any provision with them? He wanted those they were sent to, to understand the precious gift God was sending them from Him, and to cherish and love those gifts like they would Him! I am not going to make a lot of new friends with this message I am afraid, because it is not popular. Beloved these messengers were sent in love to you by God.

In the early days of the church, these gifts were not chosen by an elder board or a commitee of unspiritual men and woman. They were chosen by the Holy Spirit in whom Spiritual men recognized God's will in selection. They weren't paid employees! They weren't salaried positons as we know them to be, they were servants of the most High God, GIFTS FROM THE LORD!

You may not like to hear this word on love-bond giving yet, because our understanding has been about TITHES and OFFERINGS or sowing and reaping to get things from God.That is easy for us to see, maybe not so easy for a few. It is easy because it seems not to require the "laying down of our lives for one another." It is not a real "costly type of giving." It may hurt a little, but it is not the laying down type found in the books of Acts chapters 2 and 4.

In our present type of giving we can choose what, where, when and how much to give. In the midst of this kind of heart and understanding in God's people, He gives His command to go forth to the disciples and take nothing with them. WOW GOD! You see Beloved, God is not stupid! He is so wise! In this sending, He was requiring a love for one another that is more than giving to a CHURCH, A MINISTRY, A MISSIONARY WORK! He is requiring a LIFE FOR A LIFE, or a REAL AND GENUINE LOVE BOND!

Here is where the suffering part is required of the disciples, and this may explain why many ascension gifts of the Lord are suffering financially. (By the way, I forgot to tell you where these ascencion gifts are found. Ephesians 4:8-14)

But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.

Paul is writing this not to these gifts, but to those to whom the gift was sent. He would never demand their support. True love never would demand this. Paul knew that if He did demand what should be given to him by GOD, the relgious people would use that against him. Yet He still mentions this truth to the church in Corinth. He wanted them to understand that taking care of God's messengers was something GOD WANTED! It would show to the world a love that has not been seen, as if they were taking care of the Lord Himself.

The messengers also had a commission to freely give all that God had give to them for those in need. They were called to pour their life out as a drink offering for the care of the church as Paul himself had done. He commands the gifts to love those they were given to as if they were taking care of the Lord Himself. THEY COULD NEVER DEMAND PAYMENT for their labor with the heart that comes from God Himself!

Love is a sacrifice, a willing one that will lay down their lives for their friends. It must be laid down by all of us one for the other! Those who sow to the spiritual good of all should be able to live by what others have sown and reaped of their natural provision. Look how wise God is!

Many times in answering the call of God upon us, we have suffered financially. God has poured through us and many have been blessed, changed and transformed by the manifested presence of the Lord. However; the giving has not ever matched what He pours out and gave to those that we were sent to. In my early years this would hurt me greatly, but as I have grown in the Lord, I realize these things I needed to learn on how to willingly suffer for His name sake and for those God sent me to.

The hard part for me today is to teach about these love-bond principles because those who would read these words, and are not for or rooted in the Lord, would try to accuse me of teaching these things for my own gain. I think that is why the Apostle Paul said he would not demand this payment from them, though he mentions he had the right to do so. He was more concerned on teaching what the heart of God was concerning love bond relationships between the ascension gifts of ministry and the saints of God.

However, He did write these words to teach them giving love in spite of what others may have accused him of. Where does God want you to place His precious provision He has given you? I can't answer that for you, but I am laying down some principles from the Word of God. Through out answering the call He placed upon my life in ministering to His people, I had to learn to love God's precious ones no matter if they returned the love back or not.

This is not an easy process for a young minister to learn. I would cry sometimes why is God blessing minister so and so. They don't even love the sheep or preach the real word of God. I was angry with the Lord over this. I told Him, I did all He asked me to do, gave all I had and He was letting me suffer. I waited for His reply. What do you think He answered me with? Henry, you poor thing, I am so sorry this is hurting you.

No Beloved reader, He said, "Henry your righteousness is but a filthy rag." Talk about getting mad! I was livid with the Lord. I said, "how can this be my righteousness, you aske me to do this?" He told me then, "I am not going to provide for you because you serve me or do these things. I am going to provide for you for one reason and one reason only, I ABSOLUTLEY LOVE YOU! That was it for me. I hit the deck and wept like a baby.

Why did I have to learn this heart of God. God knew someday I would be sent out and often I would not have a penny to go, or to eat, or even pay my bills. What would I do then? Leave my call? Would I go get a job to provide for myself and give up the calling for a bowl of soup? I almost did a couple of times in those early days. Thank you God for great grace. I had to learn that I could NEVER DEMAND PAYMENT from God's people not in real life or even BURIED IN MY HEART! Let me give you an example of this:

I was Pastoring many years ago in Connecticut and we had a precious couple come and minister to us in song. They were anointed and sang like song birds. We loved to have them come and minister often in our church. When they first started coming they never asked for anything but a love offering. When they came and ministered, God always touched my heart to bless them abundantly.

I often gave way above the offering received from the congregation. After a few years, their ministry grew very big and they got caught up in the "Christian Circuit!" The big boys club! One day they called me and asked if they could come to minister at the church, but this time they sent me a list of expectations in the mail. It was not a list of expectations but demands I am so sorry to say. I had to pay for their airfare, hotel, meals, expenses and a love offering. It was a "DEMANDED of me" or they would not come.

Their reasoning for this change in heart was they got "stiffed" by many churches who held back part of their offerings for themselves though they told the people that the whole offering was for them. Beloved, they weren't lying, this does happen! I told them I have not ever done that to them, and asked them if they were not blessed when they came. They said, "yes Pastor always." I told them I could not meet those demands and I was sorry.

The letter broke my heart when I read it. The Lord told me they could not come, and I had to tell them why? It was not easy, and they got very mad at me and I never heard from them again. Paul writes, "But we make no use of this right."

Neither can I! I am praying that as the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, we would choose a better way beloved. I pray that we would never even have to mention this as a demand or a right to be cared for. I am writing this today with a desire to see God's people understand the Word of God and our mutual need for one another. My prayer is that we can truly give as it has been freely given to us, but none of us have the right to demand it ever! With that said, let us still see beloved Bride of the Lord what is required in love concerning these ascension gifts God sends you.

1Co 9:13 Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar?

1Co 9:14 Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.

Do we really want to hear the TRUTH beloved, or shall we stay in the only tithes and offerings type of giving? My prayer today is that you Beloved Reader would allow God to open your eyes in this matter. If you will, God will allow you to see your Pastor differently and those who God sends to you. You will see your Pastor doesn't deserve a paycheck, He deserves to be loved as the Lord loves you.

My prayer for us Pastor's and leaders is that we won't see our call as a job with hours and offices, but a laying down of our lives for God's people, no matter what the cost of price. My prayer is that God would begin to realign our thinking as we enter this new day! It is going to be quite important for us to have correct understanding of our responsibility in furthering the Gospel financially. I have never demanded anything where God sends me. I don't even ask for an offering unless the people ask me. I tell them do what God has placed in your heart to do.

I do send out emails and letters to let those who say they love us and want to help as the Lord leads. I do tell them what our needs are to pray for and to see if God would touch their hearts to help, but the rest is up to the Lord and His people to respond as He wills. BUT I CAN NEVER DEMAND IT!

I can not even do the most popular things like selling books and tapes for profit, or giving them as gifts for an offering to the ministry. I can't send out marketing letters that many ministries get from marketing company's trying to get your money. I can not use gimmicks, tricks, or be involved with back room deals that many in the Body of Christ are using now to get money.

I can not fill up my calendar to preach at different churches to "make a living." I can not plan meetings to get money. Again, I don't say this to boast how good I am, many days I anquish over these things! What should I do Lord? What is a good idea to raise support? How do I go forward and trust in the Lord!

Beloved,God is still working here in me in this area, but wants me to teach these truths for anyone who might have an ear to hear. But the next scripture God has burned in me.

1Co 9:15 But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

Over the years, God has brought a few faithful saints that God has worked this in their heart to help us and receive us with this kind of love. To this we give God praise, but we have learned to love those precious saints that have not had this worked in their heart as well. This is the Holy Spirit's work to convince His precious ones of this truth, not ours.

Ours is to just pour out our life as a drink offering for the Lord wherever God sends us to pour it out. In this context, you might gain understanding of the beauty of the Philippian church in their relationship with the Apostle Paul and His calling as a missionary and their giving to hHim. Let us read this:

Php 4:15 And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only; Php 4:16 Because even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need.

Did you ever ask why Paul wrote this out in the open for every generation of Christians to see?This church welcomed Paul as a gift. They demonstrated this love as required in Mathew chapter 10. They understood that this workman was worthy of his wages! This church sent not just support once but twice to help him answer the call upon His life.

Paul writes to them these truths. He was not looking for a gift for himself, but for the WORK GOD CALLED HIM TO DO! He told them this kind of giving was WELL PLEASING TO GOD! He told them he was looking for the FRUIT which would be CREDITED to their ACCOUNT BY GOD! This giving was not a normal giving to God in taking care of him. This giving was a PRECIOUS PERFUME POURED OUT TO GOD FOR HIM!

Php 4:17 Not that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your credit.

The Apostle Paul rejoices over this type of giving. This giving didn't come out of hype, offering them books or tapes, or what they were going to get back teaching. This giving came forth from the HEART OF LOVE ALONE! He did not demand payment for His expenses, traveling, or any such thing. He rejoiced in the fact that GOD'S LOVE MANIFESTED IN THEM BY GIVING AND CARING FOR HIM. THEY HAD A HEART TO PROVIDE FOR ONE OF GOD'S MESSENGER GIFTS!

Listen to the beautiful words Pauls says to them about their giving. He says that their giving is a SWEET SMELL and A PERFUME and a OFFERING WELL PLEASING TO GOD! Isn't that more than a TITHE AND OFFERING?

Php 4:18 I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

As I close this writing today, I want you to know that I intended to continue the series on "The flame of the Lord," but this is His heart being revealed to me today. Many Christians claim this next promise of blessing as their own, but they have not given with the same heart of those in Phillipi to the Apostle Paul.

This released blessing came forth of GIVING BEYOND TITHE AND OFFERINGS! This blessing came when they understood what LOVE REALLY is, and the responsibility of that love required fin Mathew chapter 10, "take nothing with you as you go, the workman is worthy of His wages."

Beloved Reader, I pray you hear this clarion call this day! This is a word from the Lord to us to bring the divine release God desires in this third day! If we do not begin to see the Holy Love required in Mathew chapter 10 and 1st Corinthians 9:9-11, we will miss the blessings that Paul writes here: "and my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in Glory."

Pastors, ministers and sent ones, we too must understand the cost of this love with no expectations or demands! That is not easy! It is against the popular teaching as well! No greater love than this, then to lay down His life for the sheep. Can we as ministers share with those being sent what it cost to come, yes! Can we demand it to be paid, NO! Should we not go to them, if they won't pay? That is up to you to decide.

As for me, I must go where God sends me no matter what, and I do ask God to provide for the means to go as I should, I believe! We must allow the Holy Spirit to show us all how to love this way in our giving. It is a privlege to be sent by God as a gift, and a privlege to be received where you were sent as a gift from God. I pray we learn to treasure each gift of God that we all are. Those who are sent and those receiving the one being sent are one family, and God wants to provide for all of us to have enough!

So where should you place your money? First remember, it is not yours, but Gods! Second, do you love the messengers God has sent you, and do you love the people God sent you to? Then give has God has given you the measure to give to those gifts, then it will be pressed down, shaken up and pouring over as He desires. To all who hear that call this promise awaits you.

Php 4:19 And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.

If this word or the fruit of this ministry has blessed you, and the Lord puts in your heart to support us financailly we are grateful! That is not why this word was written. It was written to declare the love-bond giving that comes from the Third day of the Lord. A giving that will love one another as I have loved you. We do have a donation link on the home page for those who feel led to sow a seed in our lives. Go to the home page and click on the donation link! We are blessed if you do, and blessed if you don't. No strings are attached to this word!

If God touches your heart to do something for your Pastor, leader, missionary worker, go do it now, before the enemy talks you out of it!I want to say one more time and make it perfectly clear, no one who reads this is obligated to send one penny to us, it is freely given! I pray this word has touched and prepared your heart for the giving that is about to come in the New 3rd Day that is here!

Shalom!

Labels: The Fire has come

Greetings Beloved Reader,

My prayer for all of us is that we understand the moment in time we are now experiencing with the Lord. So many Christians are unaware of the deep intimate work the Lord is desiring to do in our hearts in preparing us to be a people made for His Glory!

In 2008, a divine change has come. I have written in our prophetic alert about the Western Gold Rush, and I am seeing this happen more and more each day. A Flame of God's burning presence has come to His hungering ones that is transfiguring them with Glory. The remarkable thing to me is that it is the 25 and under age group that is responding to this flame the most.

I have been blessed to watch the Lord gather these young ones to Himself and set them on fire with repentance, brokenness and His Glory. Many of these young ones are leading intercession with a burning passion throughout our region. The testimonies I hear from them is this, "we have never seen or felt the Lord like this in our lives. His fire is burning in us and all we can do is cry out to Him to establish us as His army."

Beloved, their is such an awakening happening in the hearts of the youth that is unparalleled to what I have ever seen. I have seen and attended youth conferences and rallies and they have been wonderful, but what I am witnessing now is EXTRAORDINARY! What is making this moment so extraordinary is whom they are seeing. They are seeing the Revelation of Jesus Christ as seen by John on the island of Pathmos.

In the Book the "Anointing of the Moment," God spoke to me about a changing of the day from the second day to the third day. He spoke to me that we are in a season of overlapping of the two days. Another words, these two days are existing at the same time. That is impossible in the natural realm, but not the super natural realm. The Lord can multi-task and work throughout time as He sees fit. (If you want to order a copy of the book, go to resources link on the http://www.flameofire2007.org/ site, it is worth the investment)

We have taught in the previous lessons about the conversation with Jesus with the Pharisees concerning Herod's' threatening against Jesus in Luke 13:32. I am not going to scripture reference them here since I have done that in all the preceding blogs. You can look for these references there if you like. When the Pharisee's came and warned Jesus of Herod's threatenings, Jesus said, "go tell that fox, that today and tomorrow I do healing and miracles, but on the third day I finish my course."

I wrote also in the previous blog the parallel truth found in Hosea chapter 6 verses 1-3. It says He has torn us, so He can heal us, after 2 days He will revive us, but on the third day He will raise up that we might live before Him. This teaching is going to be on these words, but on the third day He will raise us up. That is exactly what the first 4 chapters of the book of Revelation bring forth to our understanding.

The third day begins with a DIVINE CHANGE in our REVELATION of who JESUS IS NOW!
Most of the church still sees Jesus as their Savior and some as the Baptizer of the Holy Spirit. Many have gone on a little deeper to know Him as Healer, Provider, Friend and more. But on the third day a DIVINE CHANGE becomes necessary for the the people of God. A change that will take us past our present knowledge of God who is working in our midst, to the REVELATION that HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY AND FILLING US WITH HIMSELF AND MAKING US ONE! This new REVELATION of Jesus is going to be the answer to the prayer that He prayed in John chapter 17:22-24: Listen to His prayer

Joh 17:22 And the glory which you have given to me I have given to them, so that they may be one even as we are one;

Joh 17:23 I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.

Joh 17:24 Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

This is what John the Beloved is going to see on the Island of Pathmos. This is the FACE to FACE Revelation of Jesus that is HERE right now as He stands in the midst of His church as a Refining Fire!

Most of us Christians believe in our minds that Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We even have written songs about this fact, but have we really seen or understood that HE IS THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS? If we have seen or known like this, we would never be still living the lives we are still living before him filled with luke warmness. This seeing the Lord as King Eternal is the very change that is necessary to complete the work that the Lord through the Holy Spirit has started in us. Beloved, I would dare to say that without this REVELATION of JESUS as KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS, we won't be able to fully change. (1Jn 3:2 My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is. )

How are we going to see the revelation of Him like this? That is a very good question to ask. We have written about Malachi chapter 3:1-3 as the condition for the Lord to come and reveal Himself in this manner is to be seeking Him diligently. We have stated that when He comes, He is coming as a Refining Fire and Fuller's soap. In 2007-2008 a call has gone forth from the Spirit of the Lord to come and WALK, DANCE or STAND in the very FLAME OF GOD! With this prophetic call, the Lord is bringing forth the revelation of the Holy of Hollies as our destination and dwelling place.

The Lord has begun to have me declare the sound of the war trumpet being sounded to His church to come dwell and live behind the veil. Most of our present church meetings bring us right up to where the veil has been torn in two, but very few have entered into the REALITY of the REAL LIFE IN CHRIST that lies behind the veil in the Holy of Hollies. The LIFE OF GOD HIMSELF, JAHOVAH GOD! That is what John is about to experience on the island of Pathmos. He is going to see Jesus Christ the one he so loved, as GOD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF!

We can not "go on to know the Lord" as it says in Hosea 6:3 without HIS COMING TO US AS A DAWN! The DAWN represent the beginning of a NEW DAY. OR A NEW REVELATION! In the book of Revelation chapter 1, We literally SEE THE DAWNING OF THIS NEW DAY! This new day is nothing less than the true and final REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST TO HIS CHURCH!

In 2004, I visited the Kansas City House of Prayer that Mike Bickle started. I was able to receive prophetic ministry from their prophetic team. One of the young ladies on this team spoke this psalm over me and said this is what God is speaking to you.

Psa 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein. Psa 24:2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.

Psa 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? Psa 24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully. Psa 24:5 He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, And righteousness from the God of his salvation. Psa 24:6 This is the generation of them that seek after him, That seek thy face, even Jacob. Selah.

Psa 24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in. Psa 24:8 Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle.Psa 24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in. Psa 24:10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory.
Selah.

Beloved Reader, this was a prophetic word released in the depth of me for our generation and why I am writing these blogs. Psalm 24:3 begins to speak of the INGREDIENTS NECESSARY to experience this REVELATION of the Lord as King of Kings. The question that burned in me through this prophetic word was, WHO IS THIS KING OF GLORY? What a question the Lord asks prophetically in this psalm. This psalm begins by declaring that everything belongs to the Lord. Then it ask a question, WHO CAN COME UP THE HILL OF THE LORD?

Who can come up the "mountain" of the Lord another translation writes? Who can begin to see God as He really is as the King of Glory? Then the psalmist gives us the answer in verses 24:4, HE THAT HAS CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART! What does the Lord come to do in Malachi chapter 3 but to purify the priests like silver and gold. This would be having clean hands and a pure heart.

I pray you remember the historical truths of these events found in Revelation chapter 1 and psalm 24. A cry is going to come forth in this psalm, "Lift up your heads Oh ye gates,and be lifted up you everlasting doors. And the KING OF GLORY WILL COME IN. WHO IS THIS KING OF GLORY, THE LORD STRONG IN BATTLE, THE LORD OF HOST! This prophetic prayer is going to be answered as John the Beloved is going to be lifted up as an everlasting door to show us the King of Glory. He is going to reveal to us the REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST THAT IS COMING ON THE THIRD DAY TO THE CHURCH!

John was the Apostle that Jesus loved. He was the one that constantly put his head upon Jesus chest and loved him so much. If anyone should recognize Jesus intimately it was John. Yet it is this same John that is about to have encounter with Jesus he just was not prepared for. He was going to see the Lord in the Spirit as HE REALLY IS AS GOD ALMIGHTY!

I am going to try with the grace of God to expound this event that God prepared for him and for us 2000 years later in these blogs as far as it has been given to me. This Revelation is still be revealed and will continue to be until we see Him face to face. There is a hunger rising up in the hearts of His bride that is beginning to burn like an oven as we have never seen before. This burning desire to come into the FLAME OF GOD is bringing the presence of the Lord into our hearts as a flame of fire to refine us like gold and silver. At the same time it is also doing something supernatural with us as well. This FLAME OF GOD is actually beginning to lift us up out of the "earthly, carnal, and partial" revelation of Jesus as our Savior, to see Him as LORD OF LORD AND KING OF ALL KINGS!

This is what begins after 2 days, the revelation of Jesus Christ as He really is even BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, Praise GOD! The revivals or former moves of God over the past 300 years have awakened us to God's presence once again, but the revivals of the past and present have not been able to "finish the work." The finishing work of God is going to take a deeper and to us a "new revelation" of who He is! Why is this important to us? Because the church was brought into its birthing process by a revelation of who Jesus really was 2000 years ago. Let us see the beginning of the birthing process of the church in Mathew's Gospel chapter 16:13-18.

Mat 16:13 Now when Jesus had come into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he said, questioning his disciples, Who do men say that the Son of man is? Mat 16:14 And they said, Some say, John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. Mat 16:15 He says to them, But who do you say that I am?

Beloved, that was the QUESTION of all QUESTIONS! The Lord was seeking an answer that had to be REVEALED FROM GOD HIS FATHER to usher in the birthing of the church. Jesus asks the disciples two questions. First, who do men say that I am? This question is what most of the church history is based upon. We have learned about our present Jesus through the teachings of men for the most part.

We go to church on Sunday and listen to messages, teachings brought through Sunday and Wednesday services. In these services men through the Holy Spirit tell us who Jesus is. The original question of Jesus has echoed for 2000 years. The disciples past answer and our present answer to this question represents two part of the tabernacle, the outer courts and the Holy Place.

In this place of "having services" men are used to reveal who the Lord is by teachings, sacrifices and offerings or tending to the instruments of God found in the Holy Place. However, none of these things could cleanse the conscious of the true worshippers then and they can not today. So many people in the Body of Christ today feel so unworthy to come through the veil that was torn in two for them. They are laden down with guilt, comdemnation, sadness and unforgiveness that they cant even LIFT UP THEIR HEADS! Thousands of years ago, God touched a psalmist that would see our day and cry, LIFT UP YOUR HEADS OH YE GATES, AND LIFT UP YOUR HEADS YOU EVERLASTING DOORS!

All throughout this nation, God has been pouring out His great love to LIFT THE HEADS UP OF THOSE WHO HAVE AN EAR TO HEAR AND EYES TO SEE! Beloved the heads that God is lifting up in this present moment are not the heads of the unsaved, but the heads of His body and are going to church in such comdemnation. So many believers are condemned, filled with sorrow, guilt and shame because they are not living the "perfect Christian life" that they keep working harder and harder trying to earn God's love and favor. This has made a generation of believers that don't really "know the Lord as Himself." Many know Him for what He has done, what He provides, how He heals. The majority of Christians know the Lord for His works and what He provides, and not His ways of intimacy and love.

Our present generation of American Christians when asked this same question Jesus asked the disciples of who do men say that I am may come up with the same answers as 2000 years ago. Some say you are John the Baptist, some say you are Elijah or Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. Their answer seems staggering to us when we see how they walked with the Lord every day. Did the disciples really know who He was? The disciples that had been with Him from the beginning of the ministry, did they truly know Him as God Almighty?

The Lord continues this discussion with the disciples and personalizes the question a second time. BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM? WOW, BELOVED! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS QUESTION? I AM NOT EVEN SURE I DO AS I WRITE THIS! Jesus wanted to test and see if they could truly see who He is! Peter replies, the other 11 do not. Did Peter beat them to the punch? Or in contrast were the 11 clueless to who He really was. Listen to what Peter and Jesus say to one another in this dialogue.
Mat 16:16 And Simon Peter made answer and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Mat 16:17 And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven. Mat 16:18 And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell will not overcome it.

Peter says, YOU ARE THE CHRIST THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD! Right here in this moment the birthing process of the church begins. It begins with a REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST AS THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD! Why is this important to us. It is this beginning revelation that causes a travail to come forth to birth the church into it's purpose. The travail begins with a REVELATION OF JESUS.

I am going to bounce around, so I pray you can follow the flow of the Holy Spirit with me. I am going to have to continue this in other blog writings because there is so much the Lord wants us to see and understand. To understand the significance of this beginning revelation we have to go to the book of Zechariah chapter 4:1-9. I am going to put the whole chapter here, but I am going to focus with the grace of God on just one scripture for now! Please keep this for your reference notes because there is much in this chapter that will guide us in the book of Revelation.

Zec 4:1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep. Zec 4:2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have seen, and, behold, a candlestick all of gold, with its bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are upon the top thereof; Zec 4:3 and two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.Zec 4:4 And I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

Zec 4:5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord. Zec 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts. Zec 4:7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, unto it. Zec 4:8 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Zec 4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you.

This is where the Holy Spirit is bringing us understanding to understand the DIVINE CHANGE that we are now entering into is. This is how we can see the overlapping of the two days. How can the Lord have two days functioning together at the same time? Many in the Body of Christ are saying we are at the close of the second day, and they are right. Many in the Body of Christ are saying that the THIRD DAY has begun, and they are right.

There has been much bickering on what day we are really in, and the answer to that question is that WE ARE IN BOTH! THEY BOTH ARE RIGHT! Which day you are living in as a Christian is determined upon where you have allowed the Lord to bring you. Are you being led with Peter, James and John up the mountain of transfiguration to see the THIRD DAY, or are you with the 9 still living at the base of the mountain where they could not cast the devil out of the boy?

I can not tell you how or why some are hearing this and going up the mountain and some are not, but I can say those who are not are going up the mountain are getting pretty angry with those who are! Most of the church leadership are unawares of this place of spiritual lifting the Lord desires us to see on this Mount of transfiguration or understand the process.

This can bring great confusion in our midst with those who are seeing this process. I pray that we could all relax a little bit and give each other grace and love. Those who are not yet seeing this overlapping of days love the Lord and so do those who are seeing it and proclaiming it. Can we not just let God test and prove all things and shine the light in a greater way? There are some sadly that are seeing and rejecting this present work of God. All we can do is pray for each one to see the Lord as He wants to be seen and trust the Lord with the rest.

The Bride of the Lord has heard His call and she is coming up the mountain. They have the first revelation of Jesus already in their hearts, "you are the Christ the Son of the living God." This is the alpha or the beginning birthing of the church that was to be born on the day of Pentecost in Glory! (Romans chapter 8. Zech chapter 4, John chapter 2) There is another birthing that will bring forth a "new revelation of Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the FINISHING WORK OF GOD.

Zachariah is going to prophecy this FINISHING WORK it listen: Zec 4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it! Do you see it Beloved Reader? He (whose hands started the work) that has begun a good work in you, will be FAITHFUL(whose hands will finish the work) to COMPLETE IT? The hands of Zerrubabel our nothing less prophetically than Jesus hands who is in charge of building the Temple of God.

Jesus asks the disciples, "Who do men say that I am?" They answered Him by what they heard spoken, " Some say you are Elijah, some say Jeremiah." Jesus says, BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM? Here Beloved in Mathew we see the corner stone or BEGINNING REVELATION OF THE CHURCH BIRTHING: YOU ARE THE CHRIST THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD!

But Zerrubabel hands are also going to finish the work as well, SO ARE JESUS'S. what is the last book of the Bible called. THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST TO HIS CHURCH! This revelation is not like the "beginning revelation" of Jesus as savior. This revelation is going to come to John the Beloved as a "voice like many waters coming from BEHIND HIM!" He does not recognize this voice, nor will He recognize this side of Jesus." Jesus has to REVEAL HIMSELF ALL OVER AGAIN TO JOHN AS THE KING OF GLORY FOR HIM TO UNDERSTAND HIS END-TIME PLANS." BELOVED THIS IS THE SAME HANDS THAT STARTED THIS WORK IN US. NOW WE ARE GOING TO SEE THE HANDS OF JESUS FINISHING THE WORK IN US. IT WILL BE BIRTHED BY BRINGING FORTH A REVELATION OF THE GLORY OF JESUS CHRIST AS GOD ALMIGHTY.

This is a DIVINE CHANGE of THE REVELATION OF GOD! A finishing revelation that God Himself is laying in His Church as a FINISHING STONE! This stone is going to release in us what Jesus said from the cross, "FATHER, IT IS FINISHED! ARE YOU JUMPING UP AND DOWN YET? Listen to the last part of verse of Zechariah 4:9, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts has sent me unto you.

This Revelation begins in the book of Revelation with a divine change of the "voice of the Lord." Today go home and re-read John's description of Jesus in Revelation chapter one and pray over this before the next time we get together on this blog site. Allow the Holy Spirit to open your heart to the "new day" that is dawning and in our midst. Zechariah 4:10 tells us how important this "little truth" of the beginning of the third day overlapping the second day is. Let us read this together.

Zec 4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things (beginnings)? for these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; these are the eyes of Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

Yes Beloved reader, this is a small thing to many in the Body of Christ right now. Many are completely unaware of the DIVINE CHANGE that has come.This change will finish the work Jesus has begun in us, and we will see the Glory of the Lord being revealed in us (Isaiah chapter 60.) This Finishing moment begins with a SECOND REVELATION of JESUS CHRIST!

This second revelation doesn't save you, the first one did. The second revelation brings the finishing of what He started into our life. The timing of these events begins with Jesus asking us in our day the same question He asked His disciples, "BUT WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?" What will our generation say back to Him? That depends on our true hearts desires. If you are desiring the Lord to come to your temple like a refining fire, then the Lord will work in you the very REVELATION HE GAVE TO JOHN ON THE ISLAND OF PATHMOS!

This PRESENT generation is going to say, know and experience the FINISHING WORK OF GOD AND DECLARE IT WITH A GREAT BOLDNESS! THIS GENERATION OF "BURNING ONES", THESE "HOLY ONES" OF THE MOST HIGH GOD,WILL BEAR WITINESS OF WHO HE IS RIGHT NOW: Listen to the voice of God in the youth that is now here:

YOU ARE THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, HE WHO IS AND WHO WAS, AND WHO IS TO COME. WE WILL FEAR NOT, BECAUSE YOU ARE THE FIRST AND THE LAST, AND THE LIVING ONE. THE ONE WAS DEAD, BUT BEHOLD YOU ARE ALIVE FOREVERMORE, AND YOU HAVE THE KEYS TO DEATH AND HELL!"

Beloved this was the true purpose of His revealing to John HIS FULL GLORY. This REVELATION OF JESUS is to declare a DIVINE CHANGE HAS COME to the church! If we will just come to Him and WALK INTO THE FLAME OF GOD. The Holy Spirit says," He who has an ear to hear, what the Spirit says to the churches . A DIVINE CHANGE HAS COME and these very words you are hearing are to burn in your heart so we can have the testimony: That we have been with Jesus and kwow Him as KING AND LORD!

Rev 1:8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. Fear not; I am the first and the last, Rev 1:18 and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Until next time Beloved!

Labels: The Fire has come

Greetings in the Lord Jesus Christ,

I want to thank all the faithful readers for coming to this website and our first time readers. This website has been viewed in 11 nations and 57 cities throughout the world all in our first month. Praise God to whom all blessings flow!

Today we again will examine the present work of the Holy Spirit in preparing us to become a bride of the Lord. In our last blog we wrote about a prophetic word found in the book of Hosea chapter 6 which reveals the Lord's heart for us in these last days. Let us review it!

Hos 6:1-3 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him. And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth. (ASV)

The Basic Bible version of verse 3, And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

The word of God in Hosea tells us that after 2 days God would revive us. Revival is the word that is synonymous with the second day or the years of the 20th century. In the first and second day after Christ's death and resurrection the Lord knew that His church would need to be revived. Revival is what everyone in the second day has prayed to come to the Lord's church to revive her out of her sleep.

Beloved, this is hard to hear for many of our readers, revival is not what is God is sending in this hour, God may blow His Spirit in nations and locations as He wills, and they will have God's manifested presence as they have up to now. However: There is a deeper work of God as the answer to what we need in this hour and it is not revival. It is a revolution or a complete change.

This revolution is something we have not seen before and it comes from the Lord appearing to those who are seeking as a Refining Fire and fuller's soap. This appearing of the Lord in the Spirit that we have written about from Revelation chapters 1-4 is going to revolutionize our life as on the day of Pentecost but greater. Every rival in the last 2000 years had a beginning and an ending point. Revival has a purpose in the first two days of the new covenant,up until now, but for those who have an ear to hear what the Spirit says to the church, they are entering into the third day that is now here.

There is a present work of the Holy Spirit in the third day that is "much different and deeper" than in the first two prophetic days of the church age. Again, I want to hearken back to the words of Jesus to illustrate this point and then continue the discussion on the "present work of the Holy Spirit in this dawning moments of the third day. Beloved, The second day is coming to close but it is still here for most of the church, but to those who have an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church, the third or seventh day has begun now. This overlapping of the days is what God told me was called, "the anointing of the moment."

It is quite difficult to understand the overlapping of days in the Lord's time frame, but the only way I can describe it is like the 400 year of silence between Malachi and John the Baptist. When John the Baptist came on the scene to preach the message of repentance and the coming Messiah, he stood at the threshold of the closing of the 4th prophetic day and the beginning of the 5th day.

No one in their time knew or could see the changing of the day. John was commissioned to be a "voice crying it the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord. He open the door and became a "prophetic bridge" between these two days. For those who received his message and were baptized, they entered into the beginning moments of the new day. John and all those who came entered into the new at the midnight hours of the new day. John waited for the one who's shoes he wasn't able to carry. John was a voice between the two days connecting them together until Jesus became manifested. Then John's testimony was that I must decrease and He must increase.

I could write so much on this topic, but I must take you to the last verses of the Book of Malachi and its prophetic announcing of the "anointing of the moment" or the bridge in our time between these two days. Mal 4:5 See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared. Mal 4:6 And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse. In Mathew 11 Jesus describes John the Baptist ministry in this manner:

Mat 11:8 But what went you out to see? a man delicately clothed? Those who have fair robes are in kings' houses. Mat 11:9 But why did you go out? to see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet. Mat 11:10 This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you. Mat 11:11 Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. Mat 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven is forcing its way in, and men of force take it. Mat 11:13 For all the prophets and the law were in force till John. Mat 11:14 And if you are able to see it, this is Elijah who was to come. Mat 11:15 He who has ears, let him give ear.

John the Baptist was a "doorway" between the old and the new covenant. He proclaimed the "anointing of the moment" to his generation. "The message was "repent, the kingdom of God is at hand." His message was, "prepare ye the way of the Lord, make the crooked places straight."
He was a forerunner for his generation. That voice is being heard once again in our generation as well. There is a voice beginning to cry in the wilderness of our day, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, but different and deeper. For this voice is announcing the Omega God is here and His finishing work is about to revealed.

At the end of the 6th day and the entrance to the 7th day, a bridge is being declared and built. An anointing of the moment is here to lay a extension between that which is, and that which is to come. The day happens at a midnight hour! That hour was recognized when John began to proclaim the coming of the Lord. Today it began declaring the "coming of the Lord in the Spirit' first to the church, and the revelation of the end -time events that will usher Him in the physical.
One of the signs of this coming is that the Spirit of Elijah, that forerunner spirit would begin to turn the hearts of the Father to the sons, and sons to the Fathers. Beloved, in 2007 and 2008 we are witnessing this with our own eyes as the Fire of God comes in our midst. There are testimonies of this work from Colorado to Arizona and many other places as well.

Often times there is great misunderstanding about the transition between these days, and I have heard some begin to teach about this third day from a position of "superiority" over others. This so grieves the Holy Spirit. The important thing to understand about the Third day is that it is a "divine shift " not a new movement or teaching to be marketed. It begins with a shift or change of priorities, plans, purposes in our lives to come into absolute oneness with the Lord's purposes for our lives.

In the second day we have grown much in knowledge about the Lord, but we have not really grown in the knowledge OF THE LORD! The knowledge I speak of is not an intellectual biblical study of the Lord, but a heart to heart fellowship in and with the Lord. At the close of this second day, the Christian bookstores are filled with all the "knowledge about the Lord." In 1992, A word was given to a brother that the "Lord was going to be dissected no more." He said to this brother that the church has cut Jesus into pieces in their understanding. Most churches kept the parts of Him they like and threw the rest of him away.

The Lord spoke to this brother that day would brings a great famine in the land, not for bread or for water, but for the REAL LIVING WORD OF GOD! The Lord said, I will be dissected no more! In the first two days of the church age, the church started with a blaze of Glory from the day of Pentecost for the first 200 years, but then something happens within her.

The relationship with the Lord Himself gets replaced by a religious system until Martin Luther comes with the message of saved by grace alone and establishes a reformation in the 1500's. In His day, the knowledge of the Lord was only obtainable by Catholic Priests. The Catholic Church leadership taught in Luther's day that only the priests could understand the things of God and the bible. They believed the people were not spiritual enough to know God for themselves.

Martin Luther was a man of the "anointing of the moment." He was in a place between two periods of time. One period of time, the dark ages of the church was coming to a close and a new day was dawning of the knowledge of the Lord. He literally stood at the half way point of 3000 years since the word of the Lord came to him in the 1500's. God's revelation to him that one can not be saved by being good enough, but by grace alone through faith in the atonement of Jesus blood was a monumental shift of priorities, plans and understanding. Truly this was a "Holy Revolution!" It was not a revival. Why? Because this revolution has not ceased. Today millions have been saved by the revelation of that is by "grace you have been saved, through faith. It is not of yourselves, but it is a gift from God lest any man would boast."

This revelation of the knowledge of God changed the face of the earth and started a series of restorational truths over the last 500 years. Bishop Bill Hamon writes about this in many of His books. Check out Christian International website for books on this topic. What I want to discuss today is our present transitional period of time. Even though we have much knowledge about the Lord, we to in a sense have been in a spiritual period of dark ages. That is the purpose of revival to wake us up from the dead and put us on the path again. We know there was the revival of the evangelists in the 1600. 1700's. The 1800's had tent revivals through out America and the world.

In 1900 another "anointing of the moment" came at Azusa Street. In a little back room shack people began to seek the face of God earnestly again and stayed in prayer like in the upper room until the Holy Spirit Baptism poured out upon them. This outpouring of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit was not a revival, but another revolutionary point in church history. It was a revolution because it has not ended either.

Coincidentally, it began at the beginning of the 1900's or just before the change of the day that would come 100 years later. Today there are hundreds of millions of people baptized in the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, prophesying, etc. Though many in the Body of Christ would like to reject this outpouring, it just does not go away, nor can it go away.

It is a real moment in History because with this outpouring of the Holy Spirit, signs and wonders started to be seen again above initial salvation. People were healed of diseases, cancers and all types of sickness. Devils were again being cast out of people. The Lame were walking, the blind were seeing because God sent out His power upon His thirsty ones again.

This again was a prophetic word uttered by Jesus that parallels the word in Hosea chapter 6. Listen to the words of Jesus again. Luke 13:32 And he said unto them, Go and say to that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am perfected.

I want you to notice the "present work of the Holy Spirit" in the first two days. Jesus tells the Pharisee's to go tell that fox. Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures, TODAY AND TOMORROW! Beloved Reader, this speaks of two days! Today and Tomorrow I cast out demons and perform cures. Along with salvation this is most of the knowledge that the church has of the Lord. The non-Pentecostals know salvation, the Pentecostals know gifts, power, etc. Beloved, Hosea chapter 6 and Luke 13:32 does not end with these signs as the last picture of the Lord. PRAISE GOD.

There is something BIGGER AND MORE, that must come forth from the Lord to fulfill the words He said from the cross, "IT IS FINISHED!" In Luke 13:32 Jesus adds, and the third day I am perfected." (ASV) Another translations says, "On the third day, my work will be complete." (BBE) On the third day there is going to be a completion of the work Jesus started. The work we have written extensively about found in Malachi chapter 3: 1-3. Jesus the refining fire was again going to come to His house (you and me) of those who are seeking Him.

This coming or presencing of the Lord would not be like we knew Him in the "today and tomorrow." This coming would be so different Malachi writes, "who can endure the day of His coming, and who can stand when He appears." The writer infers that the Lord who we are seeking is coming to manifest Himself in such a way that everything we have known about Him will not be good enough to endure or stand in during the coming days. For when He(Jesus) comes He shall come as a REFINING FIRE AND FULLER SOAP!

The real meat of this word is what these past 9 blogs have been about. For when He (OR WHEN HE APPEARS) comes there is a "finishing work" that must come. This work begins at the close of the second day with a call to come and sup with Him and Him with you. This calls allows you to enters the third day, because there is a door standing open in heaven. Revelation 4:1! And a voice calls like a war trumpet, Come up here!"

It is this voice of the "come up here", that the Lord is interested in us embracing. The Lord desires us to come up out of the natural carnal life where we are at the end of the age to where He is and "be seated in heavenly places with Him." We must invite Him in not as savior, but as a FLAME OF FINISHING FIRE, that has come to complete the work He started in us.

For this to happen in our lives we can no longer dissect and pick and choose the parts of the Lord we like and throw away the rest. We can not rest our faith on church or on our own church doctrine alone. For much of what we believe is still in part and incomplete for the fullness has yet to be revealed to us fully! We are not to throw away the tenants of faith as Paul writes to the Hebrews in chapter 6:1-3

For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God, The teaching of baptisms, and of the putting on of hands, and of the future life of the dead, and of the judging on the last day. Now we will do this, if God lets us. It is now the time of the "if God lets us." The third day has begun.

It is important we understand our timing as I have written before, and what day and time we are in. Some of you reading this word are at the end of the second day, hungering for more of God but just may not know what that is. Some of you have entered the third day and realize a great change is needed in the church, and you are pressing in to find what that change is. Others have tasted the third day and will never be the same. The tasting of the third day causes you to come out of living in the outer courts, or day one. It causes you to have gone past the Holy Place with all it's gift in day two. It brings you to the place where you find the "access"through the veil of His flesh into the Holy of Holies or the Third day.

The Baptism of Fire birthing in this moment in time is the work of Godthat is needed to have us enter fully into this third day. This is where we learn to live and abide with Him forever and ever. In Malachi 3:3, the word of God says, that the Lord will thoroughly purge the Sons of Levi, (the priesthood) and purify them like gold and silver! He is doing that in those called into the flame right now sothat they may bring to Him offerings of righteousness as the Priests of the Lord.

These offering are the finishing work of God in our heart. They are the offerings of absolute obedience and surrender to His will. These offerings come from a heart that knows that they "are not their own anymore, but have been purchased with a price." These offerings are given from a pure heart that can see God. A heart that can know God for who He is and what He desires! Offerings that come from an absolute love sick heart abandoned to the Lord Himself.

I am not sure why I have to explain the timing of these things and the transition between these two days, but I must to help clarify the "present work of the Lord in each day." In Luke 13:32-33 Jesus says, "on the third day I will be perfected." He was already perfected! He was the perfect Lamb of God who was slain. He gave His life perfectly to death to be raised up on the third day.

What does this little utterance mean to you and I? Jesus said I will be perfected on the third day. Hosea 6:1-3 speaks of what that perfection is, and why the Fire has to come now to do it. I pray you have ears to hear this, for many of you are still doubting this present work of God. If you dont' jump into the flame of God soon, you may find yourself on the outside trying to get in to the wedding feast.

Hos 6:1 Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help. Hos 6:2 After two days he will revive us , (what is the definition of revival? Raising the spiritual dead and giving us life. This is the work Jesus is doing on the today and tomorrow.) This is what revival has brought us in the first two days of the church age, but there is a third day dawning now!"and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him. (BBE)

Another version of this scripture says, "After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him." (ASV) This is the word the Body of Christ needs to hear and embrace, and what the present Fire is preparing us for. Hosea declares that, "That He will raise us up, and we will live before Him." Not when we die, though that is included, but a "spiritual lifting" that will bring us up to the "spiritual full position" we are to have as full grown sons. As full grown sons and a bride to the Lord we are truly prepared for our ministry with the Lord to the nations as a WITNESS!

On the third day we won't be "doing witnessing" anymore. We will be a WITNESS, and then the end shall come! Are you excited yet. All this intense fire, all this inner dealing and purifying and circumcising of our hearts is not for nothing, but to become something, THE FINISHED WORK OF THE LORD. In the first and second day, He is curing and driving out devils, in the third day He will complete the work He has started in us. PRAISE GOD forever!

On the third day something NEW happens, HE WILL RAISE US UP. This is what the beginning 3 chapters of Revelation prepare us to do. They describe the intense revelation of Jesus Christ as He is, as a refining fire and fuller soap. This is the OMEGA or finishing revelation of Christ that will complete us in Him. This revelation of Jesus as He is in His Glory is the entrance way into His heartbeat and to see Him face to face.

Without a shift or a change, we can never enter into the fullness of the Lord. We can not because He said He is coming for a bride without spot or wrinkle. He will never negate His word or lower His standards which says, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." It is the purity of the heart He makes in us that will make us a Bride without wrinkle of spot! This pure heart is a SPIRITUAL POSITION which can only come about as we enter the "anointing of the moment." This entrance is into the very FLAME OF GOD!

Beloved, listen to the promise of the THIRD DAY to us. "HE WILL RAISE US UP, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE BEFORE HIM!" (Hosea 6:2) What an honor beloved to be raised up out of the state of luke warmness and loosing our first love found in Revelation chapters 2 and 3 to becoming a "spiritual place for the Lord to dwell fully" granting us direct access to His heartbeat and His desires. This direct access and receiving His desires in our hearts and obeying them is what He calls, "THAT YE MIGHT LIVE BEFORE ME!"

In the first two days,(2000 years) God has been discected by men in the pursuit of the intellectual knowledge of who He is. This intellectual pursuit of knowledge of God (LOVE) without experience gets so embedded in the church, that the church looses their first love for Him and must repent or loose His presence in her midst. Beloved that He says to Laodecia, "that you say you are rich and in need of nothing, but you are poor, blind, and naked." What a heart breaking thought that our Jesus is standing on the outside of the door to our hearts (the church) trying to get back in. He is knocking on our hearts at the close of the second day and beginning of the third day to get back in to His house where he belongs. His cry is for us to share a deep heart to heart relationship as we sup together with Him. This is what it means to begin "TO LIVE BEFORE THE LORD AND WITH THE LORD" from His perspective.

In these first two days, He is working miracles and deliverance, yet we (His body) still doesn't even know Him personally as He desires." Yet in the midst of this, He opens a door for us to see Him in a new way,and He reveals His desire for us to come up into this heavenly place of oneness as a bride and bridegroom with Him. He even shows us the way up is through REFINING FIRE!

I recieved this word from a brother today to confirm this in my heart. There has to be a cutting away of the flesh between these two days to finish and live in the Spirit of God. This cutting away is to develop our senstivity to the whispers and desires of the Lord and bring Him instant obedience from a pure heart of love. This will bless His heart like nothing else.

Then Beloved, we will truly know Him in His fullness and not discect Him into parts any more! The Flame of God has come to prepare a bride to go up and be with Him ,and to go forth on the earth with her leaning upon Her Beloved. The third day is NOT ABOUT REVIVAL, but about ANOTHER REVOLUTION! Let us read once again this Holy Revolution:

Hos 6:3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth." This new day will cause us to receive and do something new, HAVE KNOWLEDGE AND TO GO AFTER THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD! (THIS IS WHAT ETERNAL LIFE REALLY IS, TO KNOW HIM THE ONE TRUE GOD AND JESUS CHRIST THAT HE SENT. JOHN 17:3) NOT THE ONE WE DISCECT FOR OUR PLEASURE, BUT THE LORD OUR GOD WHO WAS, AND IS, AND IS TO COME!

We will expand on this thought next time, for we need to continue seeking His wisdom, "his going out is certain as the dawn." This is what the Lord is having me to speak and explain to those who have ears to hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The message being that between theclose of the second day and beginning of the third day there is an "anointing of a moment" "a spiritual bridge being made in the spirit of the forerunner," to enter the third day. The day begins with a REFINING FLAME, THE SON OF GOD IN OUR MIDST!

Don't miss your timing beloved to get into the Flame of God and be refined like gold. It is worth it and more. It is happening now to those who have an ear to here. IT IS AS CERTAIN this very moment as the DAWN that is arising in our midst.

Until Next time,

SHALOM!

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Dear Beloved Reader,

I pressed the publish button instead of save before I was able to proofread this. So hopefully this edition you are reading is proof-read a little better. You probably found out by now, I am not the best proof reader or typist. Thanks for you patience with me!

The book of Hosea the 6th chapter vs 1-3 is a prophetic word to our generation of the Lord's end-time plan. Let us read the following verses:

Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him. And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.

In our previous teaching, we have examined the present work of the Holy Spirit concerning the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have mentioned that the Lord Himself has come to stand in the midst of His church as a "refining fire" to prepare us to rule and reign with Him. We also have said that this "presencing" of the Lord in Revelation chapters 1-3 is for the whole Body of Christ, but few will recognize this. The revelation is for every believer but it has a condition: He that has an ear, let Him hear what the Spirit of the Lord says to the church.

This present work of Fire from the Lord's presence is for those who have an ear to hear? This flame of His presence is working in those who are not slumbering, but are sober and vigilant in seeking the Lord. This present work of the Lord is the deepest, hottest, intense work of purifying the Lord has ever done. This is the day He has longed for. It is the day to prepare for His wedding as He presents to Himself a glorious church without spot, blemish and wrinkle.

This is the season where all the church (the 10 virgins) are called to get ready to answer the call to go out and meet Him at the midnight hour. It is also the time of divine choosing on whether you will be prepared to enter into the marriage supper or not. Revelation 19:7, " and the Bride has made herself ready." We also know it is a time of separation of the wise and foolish virgins. Out of the 10 virgins, 5 will be wise and 5 will be foolish! The wise virgins have something the foolish do not. They have EXTRA OIL! Oil always represents the Holy Spirit. All 10 virgins will wake up at the call, and all with have oil in their lamps. This is the oil of salvation that caused them to be virgins. Some of these wise and foolish virgins will also have the oil of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

The difference between the foolish and wise is that the wise virgins will have the "EXTRA OIL" to put in their lamps as they go out to meet Him, the foolish will not. As we read this parable in Mathew 25, that when all the virgins awakened the 5 foolish realized they did not have the oil needed to go out and meet Him at the moment He called. They beg the wise virgins, give us some of your oil!

The wise give a reply that is startling. They say no, go out to the DEALERS and buy your own, less there not be enough for you and us! The wise virgins aren't very Christian are they? You would think they would have shared their oil like good Christians do. However; they do not give them some of their oil. Why? I believe the answer to that question is another "nugget" for us to chew upon. It was impossible for them to give them the extra oil, or they both would not make it to the marriage supper. The oil is also a symbol of the Holy Spirit's working in a heart. All 10 virgins have a lamp and they all had oil in them. The 10 virgins received the Holy Spirit at salvation and some may even have the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Each one of them had oil in their lamps to work in the present moment. So why was it necessary to have EXTRA OIL!

The extra oil is what these 8 teachings have been about. The extra oil is about the Baptism of Fire and the inner workings needed to prepare a Bride for the Lord. The oil in the lamps of the 10 represents salvation and ministry gifts and working hard in ministry for the Lord. Each of the 10 virgins had some measure of oil in their lamps. We don't know how much each had, but we do know they had enough to keep their lamps burning. What they ALL did not have was extra oil to KEEP THE LAMP BURNING!

Revelation chapters 2 and 3 show us exactly the condition of the church at the close of the 2nd day and the opening moments of the 3rd day. They have lost their first love and Jesus is standing on the outside of the church, knocking on the door and inviting those who can hear, to open the door for him to have intimate supper with them and them with him.

This intimate supper is the very workings I have spoken about. The "door openers" are the wise virgins that invite Jesus into their hearts a second time for a deep working of the Holy Spirit. The wise virgins have welcomed him in and now are allowing an intimate supping together with the Lord to happen. This supping with the Lord is His ability to examine the house (which represents the hearts of the wise) to expose every trace of darkness. This supping is allowing the Lord to be intimate with us as a "refining fire and fuller's soap." This is the deep work of the Holy Spirit and Fire. This fire is coming to consume the dross or all the mixture still in our lives.

It is an intense fire because it is going to reveal our "true heart motives" in everything we say and do. It is going to burn and do nothing less than conform us into the image of Christ. Very few Christians will want this process to be done in their life because it requires the deepest humility and brokenness. Who wants to see themselves as they really are in God's eyesight? Those who love Him will! Those who love His work may not. This process requires to get us naked and real before and God and one another. This process requires absolute honesty and integrity and the desire to see the Lord as He wants us to be seen. It requires us to be naked in front of each other even with all our flaws, blemishes and spots.

It is time beloved to remove the religious mask we have been wearing. As we studied yesterday, the 7 churches in Revelation had no idea of what their spiritual state was in the sight of God. In Ephesus, they lost their first love but were working hard for the Lord. Yet, even to them He told them to repent and return to their first love for they had fallen from the heights of love they had for him at first. The Lord warns them to repent or else I will take my candlestick (my presence) from your midst. The last church at Laodecia they are even worse. Their eyesight is so off concerning their spiritual condition they proclaim, " I am rich and in need of nothing." The truth of their condition in God's eyesight said, "you are blind, poor, pitiable and naked."

This is the difference between the wise and foolish virgins. The wise virgins will be open to the "Truth" of their spiritual condition. Some of them will be alright like the church at Philadelphia, and others will need to change. Some will have a reputation of being alive, but our dead. These wise virgins in the time of the Lord's visitation will CHANGE! They will repent and do what the word says and "buy the Gold tried by the fire." This Gold comes when we repent and allow the Lord to change us through our circumstances that He uses to remove the dross from our hearts.

This working of the Holy Spirit is now beginning to burn in the Western USA and the Rocky Mountain states. The Lord gave me a word about the Gold Rush of the 1800's on how everyone in the east came west to GET THE GOLD! The Gold was so valuable to make them rich, they were willing to "change their life." They were willing to move from the east to the west to get a chance to find the GOLD! They gave up their life as they knew it to find this gold and maybe become rich.

The church at Laodecia said they were rich, but were poor! They were at best luke warm and the Lord is about to spew them out of his mouth because they are not hot or cold. His admonition to this church was to go "buy the Gold tried by the fire." To buy this gold we must allow the Lord to examine your hearts, and bring us to a place of true repentance. This is where the elements He needs for preparing His bride can be found. The gold that God needs from our lives is brokenness and humility. He tells us in His word, "that a broken and contrite heart, He would never despise."

This brokenness and contrite heart is in contrast to the arrogant heart found in Laodecia. This arrogance was produced by loosing sight of their first love, and replacing that love for Him with working for Him. The church has begun to boast of the "much done" for the Lord instead of the "well done" that comes by the quality of the work and not the quantity. Jesus is coming for His pure and spotless bride who obeys out of love not reward. Not every believer will be a bride or an over-comer. Only those who qualify, those willing to pay the price to be His will be a bride. This over-coming quality has to be produced in them by the flame of God, Jesus Christ.

The bride must over come all selfishness, self-seeking, self-righteousness, and have developed in her the heart of brokenness, meekness and humility. The bride must become "poor in spirit" to inherit the kingdom of God. She must develop a pure heart so they can see God. she must hunger and thirst after righteousness so she can be filled. This is the quality that the wise virgins have purchased from the Lord. This is the EXTRA OIL needed to be a bride and make it to the wedding day.

The foolish virgins are the ones that either do not have ears to hear, or the ones that hear and don't obey His call to come and walk in the flame. They are like the man who builds his house upon the sand when the wind and waves come "great is the fall of that house." The foolish virgins lack something very important to their spiritual development, the desire to be ready.

The foolish virgins are unaware that the Lord requires us to "work out our salvation with fear and trembling." These foolish virgins are content just being saved. They are happy going about their life as business as usual. They go to church on Sunday and pay their tithes. They even may work in a ministry or even attend Wednesday night service. Their spirituality is based upon "their own understanding of God." They are satisfied with the "workings" of God and not God Himself. Let us read Mathew 25:1-13 fully to understand the real tragedy of the mistakes the foolish virgin are about to make.

Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, the friends of the bride, who took their lights, and went out with the purpose of meeting the husband. And five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For the foolish, when they took their lights, took no oil with them.

Here is their mistake number one. They take their lamps. (The lamps represent their initial salvation. Remember in Mathew chapter 5, they are not to put their lamp under a bushel, but out to be seen?) What the foolish do not bring is extra oil. We already spoke of what that extra oil was. It is the inner workings of the Holy Spirit's fire to remove the spots, blemishes and wrinkles in our lives. It is the work of preparing us for being a pure and spotless Bride.

The foolish are content church goers totally unaware that the day for the Bridegroom to come calling was sooner than they think. The foolish thought they still had time to get ready or worse didn't plan to get ready of all. There hearts was I am OK, your OK, why should we change. Once we are saved, always saved is their mentality. But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

Do you see the difference beloved reader? The wise took EXTRA oil with them. Beloved reader do you have extra oil to take with you if your Jesus/Bridegroom called you tonight. Have you been honest with the Lord? Are you seeking the refining fire to burn up everything that is not like Jesus in your heart? Are you crying out "search me O God and see if there is any wicked way in me? Or are you content going to church, giving your tithe and doing your ministry? Are you content with living a mixed life of the best of the world has to give and the best of God?

It is this heart of the foolish virgins that would not be prepared or desire to have the extra oil to finish the journey. The Wise want to finish the course set before them. They want to be married to the Lord. They want to please Him in every way, so they are not afraid of the light or the Fire of God to search, sift and remove all the darkness in their hearts.

Now the husband was a long time in coming, and they all went to sleep. In the last blog, I wrote about spiritual timing. I mentioned to you that we are in the season of "60" minutes and not the TV show. We are in a time where we must hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to the church and make ourselves READY! This call of preparation has been there for 2000 years, but the intensity of it's fulfilling moment has now come to the church in the 21st century. Revelation chapter 1 is the awakening that comes before the call to go out and meet Him. A new and deeper revelation of Jesus Christ is now available to those listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit so we won't miss that call.

The entire 1o virgins are portrayed as sleeping when the call comes after such a long wait. But the sleeping time for the wise and foolish is quite different. The wise are prepared to wake up and go and be with Him. The foolish are not prepared when they wake up and now want the wise to give them some of their oil. We have already written the wise can not give it to them. The extra oil is the personal work of fire in your heart preparing you to be a bride. This personal work can't be given to another human being. Each person must get this oil for themselves from the Fire of God's love exposing and cleansing their hearts.

The wise say even if we could there is not enough for me and you, go to the dealers and buy for yourself. If you were to share the work God has done in your heart with another, the part you give away would now hinder you from entering in yourself. So the only thing the wise can tell them is to "allow the process they have received from the Flame of God to do the same work in them." Now here is the great tragedy that makes my heart break. The foolish start to go and get what the wise had in their hearts or buy the extra oil. They might even begin to surrender to the deep inner working of the fire that God wants to do. But while they are on the way to get this work done in their heart look at what happens:

But in the middle of the night there is a cry, The husband comes! Go out to him.
Then all those virgins got up, and made ready their lights. And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lights are going out. But the wise made answer, saying, There may not be enough for us and you; it would be better for you to go to the dealers and get oil for yourselves.

And while they went to get oil, the master came; and those who were ready went in with him to the feast: and the door was shut, after that the other virgins came, saying, Lord, Lord, let us in. But he made answer and said, Truly I say to you, I have no knowledge of you.

The Bridegroom comes while they went on their way to buy the oil! This breaks my heart so much. They finally get the message that the Bridegroom has called and they need to get ready. They finally get the understanding their hearts have to be purified and prepared for their bridegroom. They finally have the desire to go out and meet Him! But on the way to get the extra oil that the wise virgins already had, THE MASTER CAME!

He came on a day and at a hour the foolish virgins did not perceive,and were unprepared for. This is where so many in the Body of Christ are right now. Stuck in this same place of religion or business as usual, that their hearts are not prepared to go out and meet Him. Can you imagine being on your journey to get that oil, an a voice says 'Here I am!" So you look all around and you Jesus waiting there and you do not have what you need. Now you have to run and try to get yourself ready in a hurry. As you turn to see Him, you also see the wise virgins entering the the marriage supper doorway. They enter into the door where the feast is taking place and the LORD HIMSELF CLOSES THE DOOR!

The foolish still don't quite understand the finality of the choices they made wrongly during the season of preparation. They finally approach the door and knock upon it expecting they can still get in. They cry to Jesus, LORD, LORD LET US IN! Then the voice of the Bridegroom rings out, "Go away from here, for I have never known you." I ever was intimate with you. You never allowed me to come in sup with you and you with me. Oh dear Lord, do you understand this church of the living God?

I pray that you will not let that happen to you. This blog is written to warn you not to miss your hour of visitation from the Lord. This is the time of the "refining fire" like never before. This fire is going to burn so hot that every trace of sin is going to be removed from our lives. As this cleansing power works in your heart, you begin to fall more and more in love with Jesus every moment. You understand that this work must be done and you embrace it and welcome the Flame of God in the deepest recesses of your heart.

If you don't listen to His voice today as you are reading this blog nor head the warning it is bringing and not repent, then you may find yourself being rejected as well. You too may here the bride groom tell you, "Go away, I never knew you." Which position do you want to be in? The position of the wise virgins or a foolish ones? You and I have a divine choice to make now, and more choices in the future.

So what will you do dear reader. Will you ask the Lord to help you get ready in every area of your life to be His bride? Or do you want to go on living your Christian life as it is now? If you do choose correctly to become a wise virgin than His Glory awaits you. If you choose to become a foolish virgin, even by not choosing, then the door slamming in your face awaits you. I pray that each one of you will chose life and not death by following on to know the Lord as He wants you to know Him.

At the end of this parable a word to all of us who are waiting patiently for the Lord is given as instsruction. Mathew 25:23 declares, "Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour of your Lord's coming. Be ready beloved and don't miss your hour of visitation! This is our destiny moment. The time of the "Anointing of the Moment!"

Shalom!

Labels: The Fire has come

Hello Beloved Reader,

As many church leaders pray for revival to come to our nation, there is another cry coming forth from the Bride of the Lord. It is not a cry for revival, but the cry of desperation to be with her lover, Kinsmen/Redeemer.

The one characteristic about revivals at least in the last 200 years is that they have a beginning and usually have an ending. Perhaps our prayer should not be for revival, but for the Finishing Work of the Lord, the Omega Work that must come to the church of the Living God.

The Finishing work of God does what its name says, it finishes us! When that happens beloved, we won't need another revival, or a new move of God. We will be complete in Him! Praise God!This is exactly what the present work of the Holy Spirit has come to do within the hearts that are seeking Him.

In Revelation chapter 3:14-20, the church at Laodecia is the last church that the Spirit of God speaks to and it is a strong word of correction. This church is called the luke-warm church and is danger of being spewed out of the mouth of God. This is in contrast with the first church in Ephesus the Spirit of God speaks to in Revelation chapter 2:1-7 who has deserted their first love for the Lord. and is in danger of the Lord removing their "candlestick" from their midst. This candlestick represents the "presence of the Lord' in their midst.

These two churches are like book ends to the rest of the words addressed to the other 5 churches. The Lord spoke to me that these churches were both natural churches in the days that these things were written, but also allegorical to the entire church age. The Lord also spoke to my heart, that all of these churches taken together would be the condition of the Body of Christ is in just before His return.

To understand the present work of the Baptism of Fire, we must understand that these 7 churches represent our present spiritual condition, and for the most part we are not in very good shape. The Lord has given me the gift to interpret dreams as He wills. In the understanding of the nature of God given dreams, He told me to pay attention to the beginning and the end of the dream. The beginning and the end of dreams usually speaks of what the dream is about. He also taught me to pay attention to the details in the middle. These details usually speaks of the problems, instructions or directions that are needed for understanding the purpose the dream was given.

The Holy Spirit instructed me that the book of revelation is not a book that should be understood just in chronological order, but must be discerned by "moments" and not time as we know it. He spoke to me and said much of this book would happen simultaneously during these last days period. He gave me a vision of an ocean with many waves and said the highest wave I saw was what He is doing presently. He told me look again, and I saw several waves at the same height and again He said this is what I am doing all at the same time.

This understanding has opened my eyes and hearts to see this book from a different perspective. Again I will remind you, that I willingly submit these things to you to discern by the Holy Spirit, for the Spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophets. So I humbly submit these things to you. You are free to disagree with them if the Lord shows you something different.

Since this book was shown to me as waves upon the ocean, He told me to pay attention to the beginning of Chapter 2 and the end of chapter 3 which is what I want to write about in this blog session. As I mentioned earlier, the first church in Ephesus had a serious indictment against it. This church was doing many good things. It was working hard for the Lord, and testing those who say they were Apostles and were not. He also said their works were more numerous then in the beginning. Juxtaposed to that comendation is this one "frightening" word of rebuke: "NEVERTHELESS, I have this ONE THING AGAINST YOU, You have deserted me your first love. You have abandoned the love for me that you had at first."

Beloved, at the end of the church age, the end of the 2nd day and the beginning of the third day, Jesus says to us, "you have deserted me your first love." He tells this church in Ephesus and the "church" today, that we should REMEMBER FROM THE HEIGHTS WE HAVE FALLEN! That is a tremendous statement of correction! In light of all this church was doing for the work of the Lord, He speaks to them about the heights they have fallen from the high place they had when they first knew the Lord.

Can you imagine the Lord examining your life and telling you all that you did was good, but in relationship to what He truly desired you have done NOTHING and you have actually FALLEN from the place you started your journey with the Lord? WOW! What would you do? Would you hear His word of correction to this church and to us as his people, REPENT! Would we obey and give our hearts to return back to your first love, and then do your first work?

American Standard version says:
Rev 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked:

Here is the Lord's rebuke to the church at Laodecia,"You say you are rich and in need of nothing!" Again in both of these churches they were "unaware" of their true spiritual condition. This is true with a vast majority of believers in the Body of Christ! If we pay attention to the beginning and ending of these two chapters, we see Jesus standing in the midst of the church in the midst of the 7 lamp stands. These 7 lamp stands represent the fullness of the church age! 7 is the number of completeness and the lamp stands represent the fullness of His presence.

This is so important to us because the book of Revelation is all about the fullness of His presence, authority being established forever and ever in reality! So in the day that Jesus chooses to reveal Himself in His fullness to the church they have done two evil things. First, it has abandoned Jesus as their first love. Second, the church says they are alright with God and in need of nothing.

This is sadly the heart in many of the church in America. This has come about by disconnecting ourselves from the true life that exist in the true vine Jesus Christ, and trying to get our spiritual life from the branches (the church) instead of the vine. Because we have deserted our first love Jesus Christ, we have become luke warm by filling our hearts with "church" or the things of the world. It is hard to imagine that deep in our heart we are filled with sin, mixture and the world so much that we can't even discern our spiritual condition.

Our lack of discernment of our spiritual condition is the reason whythere is no genuine repentance happening in our nation or in the world. Maybe once in a while we have a little flicker that we should repent, but not much more that a flicker. The church in America is very good at seeing the speck in our brothers eye. We also are pretty good at seeing the sin in the world, and shake our head and say "at least I am not as bad as them." But what we have not seen is our true spiritual condition. We have not been willing to see the "sin" that is still in our life. Some preachers have recently said that "they don't have to preach about sin anymore. They just preach about the God that loves them and wants to bless them."

It is with this backdrop of the churches end time spiritual condition that the book of revelation begins. In Chapter one John the beloved is about to get a "new" revelation of Jesus Christ as He really is in the present. This is John that put his head on Jesus chest. He is not going to have a revelation of the Jesus he knew on earth, but the revelation of Jesus Christ as GOD ALMIGHTY, THE FIRST AND THE LAST, THE BEGINNING AND THE END! This revelation of JESUS CHRIST is about to cause him to fall on His face as a dead man in the sight of the living God. So powerful is this voice that calls him up, that it sounds like the VOICE OF WAR TRUMPET!

This revelation of Jesus in chapter 1 we will go into detail about in the next blog. This revelation sets the stage for all of chapter 2 and 3 in revealing the true state of the church in the last days. It comes with one message, REPENT, and HE WHO HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS TO THE CHURCH!

Beloved, the sin of abandoning Him as our first love and first desire is an act of the greatest disrespect for Him as our God. It reduces this intimate fellowship with God to a place of working for God as our Employer and we His Employee's waiting for our paycheck. "Well done, good and faithful servant." Did you notice how many times the Spirit of God says, " I KNOW YOUR WORKS AND WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING, BUT I HAVE THIS AGAINST YOU! If works alone was the measuring stick of our spirituality with God, then there would be no indictments against the church in any of these cities or in the end time as well. However, working for God alone is not the measuring stick that God uses to measure our spirituality, FAITH THAT WORKS BY LOVE IS! To this church in Ephesus He declares, "You have deserted the LOVE THAT YOU HAVE FOR ME AT FIRST!"

I pray you that you are getting understanding into the heart of God as I write this blog, because if a majority of God's people in our nation does not recognize our need for repentance we can never change. The church can never grow up until we realize what the Lord desires truly are, and that is for HIM TO BE FIRST LOVE OF OUR LIFE! He must be ABOVE every other thing always and forever. He alone deserves FIRST PLACE AND HONOR in our heart for what He has done for us in reconciling us back to God. He is so jealous over us, that He reveals Himself to John "one that Jesus loved" in His full power and Glory that even John the beloved didn't recognize Him. We must never grow content with yesterday's knowledge of the Lord. We must "press on to know the Lord more each and every day."

John's revelation of Jesus ih this chapter is so needful for us today because many Christians in America only know Jesus as the lamb of God who gave his life for the sins of the world. Beloved, this is the entry point of our relationship not the ending point. Not many believers press on to know Him as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Beloved, He is not coming back as a lamb to take away our sins, but as the roaring Lion of the tribe of Judah to put all things under His power and dominion.

Thank you Father that Jesus will forever be the "Lamb that was slain" and by that sacrifice of His life we are saved. But He is so much more than just a Lamb, He is also the King Eternal, the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last! This REVELATION of Jesus Christ that John witnesses as the Alpha and Omega God is the power of God to finish the work the Lord has started in us. This is brought forth in the 1st Chapter of Revelation verse 4-6 as well.

Rev 1:4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne; and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood; and he made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

And He has MADE US TO BE A KINGOM, TO BE PRIEST UNTO HIS GOD AND FATHER!
This is the testimony of those who over-come and allow to do this deep work of the FLAME OF GOD in their heart. This is fruit of those who will return to their first love and genuinely repent!
As the Lord reveals Himself in Revelation chapter 1 as the Alpha and Omega we get a picture of what He looks like now of His personal Being. We see the character traits of many of His features that have a purpose for us to understand the work He must do in us in chapters 2 and 3. We will take that undertaking of study in the next blog. For now we must understand that this Jesus, the one that stands in the middle of the 7 lamp stands with feet like bronze or a hot oven is the FLAME OF GOD that will finish the work He started in us.

He is appearing in His church today to purify her and prepare her as a bride ready for the marriage supper of the Lamb. To recieve this finishing work in our hearts, the Lord needs our participation and cooperation with His desires. We must allow Him to have complete access to our hearts by our actively seeking Him as a Refining Fire. This work is conditional and is based upon this one statement, " If anyone has an ear to hear, let him hear. This is the condition necessary to enter the Rest of God or the 7th day rest reserved for the people of God. Beloved we must be ACTIVELY SEEKING the Lord to "Hear" His present word of correction to the church and to be changed in His presesnce by that very word. The second condition is that we must "REPENT! This means to turn around 180 degrees and change the direction of our life or we will face OR ELSE of God."

I don't particularly like "OR ELSE," The OR ELSE of God is for Him to remove our lamp stand from His place. It means that He will come and fight against us with the sword of His mouth, or o throw us on a bed of affliction and strike your children dead by tolerating Jezebel. The OR ELSE of God will cause the Lord to come as a thief in the night when we don't expect Him . Yes Beloved, this JESUS CHRIST is speaking LOUDLY to His church with the GREATEST WARNINGS ever given to His people.

Why would He speak to us this way, isn't God love? Yes, He is! Again we must view these two chapters from the beginning and ending perspective. In Revelation chapter 1, He comes to stand in the midst of His church as a Flame of Fire. He has eyes of fire to see the true motives of the heart, and feet like bronze to burn up everything not like Him in our lives. Why?

This is the saddest part of this blog for me to write. It is the saddest because I want you to see where Jesus really is in relationship to the majority of the church called by His name. Revelation chapter 3:20-22:

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches."

Do you see where Jesus is? Jesus, the lover of our soul was supposed to be in the center of our hearts. He was supposed to be the reason why we live, move and have our being. Yes, beloved we say all the "right things" and even sing the "right songs," but the truth is that HE IS NOT FIRST. HE IS NOT OUR FIRST LOVE IN AMERICA"S CHURCH, HIS WORK IS FIRST!

In America, the needs of men come before the needs of God. That is why we have "seeker friendly churches." That is why we have reduced the Glory of God to a "service" or a meeting. We have replaced passion for Him with 16 weeks of church vision. We have replaced the Glory with a "purpose filled life of who we are in Christ." These are good things, but the attention of most of our efforts is all about God meeting our needs and us meeting the needs of men.

There is truth in these needs and they are not to be neglected, BUT THEY NEVER WERE TO BE FIRST IN OUR HEARTS! The Lord was to be FIRST ALWAYS! We have put our needs above God so much we have worshipped ourselves and what we do for God above God. This is "false ministry idolatry." We base our whole life on "what we do for God" instead of the God in whom we do these things. Many in the Body of Christ are convinced that "well done" good and faithful servant means "much done."

Beloved it is not the "amount" of work we do for the Lord that matters, but the heart in which we do the work. Is it out of our pure love for God and man?" Without love we are a useless nobody and a clanging bell 1st Corinthians 13 tells us. When Simon Peter received the revelation of Jesus being the Christ, Jesus told Him, "flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father which is heaven revealed this to you, and upon THIS ROCK, I will build my church."

What a wonderful moment for Peter! YEAH GOD! But a few minutes later this same Peter is going to be rebuked directly by Jesus. Jesus is going to tell his disciples on how he is about to suffer be crucified and rise again. When Peter heard this He immediately rose up and said, "Jesus, God forbid, THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO YOU!"

Jesus immediately looks at Simon Peter and says, "STAND BEHIND ME SATAN, FOR YOU ARE CONCERNED WITH THE NEEDS (THINGS) OF MEN AND NOT THE NEEDS (THINGS) OF GOD!" This was a strong rebuke was it not? The great sin in America is that satan has deceived us into putting the second commandment above the first. The first and greatest commandment is to LOVE THE LORD THY GOD, WITH ALL THY HEART, SOUL, MIND AND STRENGTH! The second commandment is to LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOUR SELF!

We the church in America have put the needs of people above the needs of God. We have services that are limited by a time frame BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN'T HANDLE TO LONG WITH GOD! REALLY! We have 3 services on Sundays to meet the needs of people, so we must limit them to two hours or less. This way we can have more people. We choose how many songs to sing, how long we can worship. We choose the number of announcements, how long the preaching is to be. We choose how long the ministry time is as long as we can get everyone home for Sunday dinner.

We bring the Superbowl into church because this way the men will come out instead of staying home and watch the game. We have to come up with new and creative ideas to reach the youth, the singles, the elderly, etc. These things are NOT WRONG in themselves and much of these things need to be done. But do you see what we are doing?

WE ARE PUTTING THESE THINGS ABOVE SPENDING TIME WITH THE LORD! WE ARE PUTTING THESE THINGS ABOVE SEEKING HIM. WE PUT THESE THINGS ABOVE TEACHING PEOPLE TO REALLY KNOW HIM AS A PERSON. WE PUT THESE THINGS ABOVE HEARING HIS HEART BEAT, GETTING HIS PLANS AND STRATEGIES AND JUST BEING WITH HIM AS A FRIEND!We are so people pleasing and seeking we HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW FAR WE HAVE FALLEN FROM MEETING THE LORD'S PERSONALLY!

How dare you say that to me, Pastor Henry! Who are you to judge us? I am not, remember I am one with you. This is us, not them to me! It is the Lord who is judging us in the books of Revelation 1-3. He is the one telling us our spiritual state. He is the one that says He has "one thing against us." David's cry was "one thing I desire of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the presence of the Lord all the days of my life, and inquire in His temple."

David got the "one thing" right. Today's church in America has gotten the "one thing" wrong except for a small remnant of believers. The spirit of anti-christ has so gotten a hold of the church that we have reversed the order of the great commandments and put men's needs above God's. I realize this is hard to hear and could be easily misunderstood. It is not that our works are wrong in themselves. What is wrong is when we worship the "work" above God. When we worship "our success" above God this is idolatry in the name of God!

When people's needs supersede the need of the Lord of us being with Him, and replace the Glory of God with a "service, meeting, training time," then we have lost our FIRST LOVE. So strong is this spirit that the last church in Laodecia, CAN'T EVEN DISCERN HER SPIRITUAL CONDITION! That is what I am writing about in this blog. This is us, American Church!Here is the good news, There is a REVOLUTION of the Holy Spirit FIRE OF GOD that is about to change all that! Now you can get excited! We have become so blind in this nation, that we say WE ARE RICH AND NEED OF NOTHING!

Yet, look at where Jesus is in Revelation chapter 3:20! He is standing on the outside of the church, knocking on the door! I know, I know, you always thought this scripture was the "invitation" to the lost and dying world. It is not! This book is not written to the lost, but the SEVEN CHURCHES! Jesus after 2000 years is standing on the outside, trying to get back in!OUCH!

He is outside because we abandoned our first love for Him and because of that all of Revelation 2 and 3 was allowed to come into the church of the living God. With that said, you can begin to understand Revelation chapter 1. That Jesus Christ returns to His church IN THE SPIRIT to those who have an ear to hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to the church. He is standing in the midst of the 7 golden lamp stands as a REFINING FIRE AND FULLER SOAP!

This appearing is not being seen by the vast majority of Christians. Why, because they are not seeking His face as their vital need. But there is a remnant, a Peter, James and John that are being led up the mountain to see Him like this! Everyone can come, but only a few will respond because only a few are listening. Remember Malachi 3:1, "and the Lord WHOM YOU SEEK, shall SUDDENLY COME! Do you see the condition to this REVELATION that will bring a SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION of the Lord's finishing work? YOU MUST BE SEEKING HIM as your FIRST LOVE! You must be seeking to live in the FLAME OF GOD with all your heart and be willing to be changed.

That is the voice that is beginning to cry in the wilderness here in the western USA and mountains states: PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD! This is the work that is beginning to be done here where you can come and BUY THE GOLD TRIED BY THE FIRE! THE WESTERN GOLD RUSH HAS BEGUN! It is not a geographic location that matters, but there is a work begining to happen here to awaken a bride to her feet. Praise God!

In the next blog, we will study Revelation chapter 1 and it's meeting for us today. I pray this word has convicted you as it has me, to return with all our heart to our first love. I pray that we would repent of putting the second commandment above the first, leaders of the Lord. I pray we will begin to bring God's people back to Him and to listen for His very heartbeat and become one with them as a bride and bridegroom. May it be so Lord Jesus, now in our day!

Shalom!

Labels: The Fire has come

Greeting Beloved Readers:

I have gotten a lot of heat sometimes by talking about the "third day revelation" that has dawned in our new millennium time as we wait for the Lord's return. There is so much teaching and attempts to narrow down the events of the end-times that Christian Bookstores shelves are filled with books about how things are going to unfold. There are even popular Christian fiction series like left-behind that have sold millions of copies to those longing to understand the events that are yet to come.

I am probably the least person on the planet to discuss these deep prophetic unfolding. I do not have the degree's that others may have on these topics so I am not an expert in any way. Nevertheless, the Lord has chosen to speak to me concerning some of these end-time events and plans to help prepare His Bride for His return.

I am surely nothing special and just one little voice out of many that are speaking in this hour about the events to come. Yet, I can not keep still and say nothing when these things are burning in my bones like Jeremiah! My purpose of writing about these events and the third day is not to make a new doctrine, or a new movement or any such thing. My purpose is just so we can be prepared for He, who is to come! My hearts cry from the Lord is that we would be as wise virgins ready to go out and meet Him at the midnight hour when the Bridegroom comes calling. My prayer is we will follow the Lord to have oil in our lamps and extra oil to finish the journey to go out and meet Him.

So dear reader I am trusting in two things. First, that the Lord would unfold to us His desires and plans for the "now" moment we are living in. Second, that you will take all that I write to the Lord for His discernment and understanding if these writings are from Him or not. If they are from Him, then to ask the question to the Lord, How can I walk in these truths and finish the race?

It is so important that we rightly understand the times we are living in or we will not be ready for His return and it will come upon us as a thief in the night. The day will come upon us as unawares as the Lord removes our candlestick by not returning to our First Love and our First Work. Nothing would break His heart and mine more than to not blow the trumpet while there is still time to change and have many miss the call of the Bridegroom. It would devastate me to see the foolish knock at the door and the Lord say depart from me, I never knew you! God Forbid! It is critical for us to understand the present work of the Holy Spirit and of Jesus in this hour.

Beloved, Today April 7, 2008 Jesus is standing in the midst of His church as a refining fire and fuller soap. He is standing there just as John the Beloved saw Him in Revelation chapter 1-4.
There is a present work that our Chief High Priest, Intercessor must do in our lives for our preparation to be married to Him, and we must understand that work or have the door closed on us as well.

Revelation chapter 1 gives us a picture of this "change of day," this "change of time and dimension." The Lord had me write a book about it in 2004 called the "Anointing of the Moment!" This book is written to explain some of the work the Lord is about to do and is doing now in the church. He told me that this book would represent 20 minutes of spiritual time. I don't have a clue on what that is. He told me I would write 3 books about the "timing of the Lord." The second one would be called, " The Highway of Holiness, a way in the wilderness." These blogs are going to be part of that book. This book would represent a second 2o minute period of time as well. The third book, I can not release the title yet, but it will be the last 20 minute of spiritual time we have to get ready for this marriage day.

I wish I could explain more of what that means, but in quite honesty, this is all that has been revealed to me to present. I do know this, that the first book, "the anointing of the moment" is happening right now, and so is the beginning of the second book, "the highway of holiness."
So I pray that your heart would be open to this "present work of the Lord" in our hearts. It may require for you to put aside some of the preconceived ideas we have all had about the "coming of the Lord," as we have known it.Th is is why I believe the book of Revelation was written in such a mysterious way. It has so much truth in it that is hidden for specific moments in time.

For me the hidden parts that are being revealed have taken me from Revelation chapter 1 to Revelation chapter 4. Again, I only have a part of the understanding of it. The bible says we know in part and we prophecy in part. So my little bitty part must fit into what others have received from the Lord as well. I don't have the whole picture and truthfully no one else does either no matter how much we have studied. These events have to be first revealed in and by the Spirit of God, and then they must be revealed in the natural to be seen. This is a long prelude, but a necessary one for all of us to gain understanding of what the Lord is doing now and is about to do for all those who have ears to hear and eyes to see.

Today's teaching is called, "Learn of Me." This scripture is found in the book of Mathew chapter 11:28-30, let us read it:

Mat 11:28: Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

We have spent much time teaching about the "Flame of God in our first 5 lessons!" How John the Baptist prophesied that Jesus would baptize us with the Holy Spirit and with FIRE! If you have not read the preceding 5 blogs on this topic, I encourage to stop here and go read them or this blog will not make a lot of sense to you.

This "flame of Yah Jovah" is His burning presence, His Glory and His Shekinah! It was the very way He chose to reveal Himself to Moses. He took an ordinary bush and consumed it with Himself, but the bush itself was not consumed. Have you ever asked yourself this question, " God of all the ways to reveal yourself to Moses, why a burning bush?" Believe it or not, it is a very important question to ask and a very important answer to hear.

As aforementioned to you, the bush was an ordinary created thing God had made. It was going to become extra-ordinary because it was going to be consumed with God Himself. Why did you do that Heavenly Father? I believe, God chose an ordinary bush to show us His end-time plan. I believe the scriptures bare me out on this because the two men who stood with Jesus on the Mountain of Transfiguration were Elijah and Moses! Both of these men were men of FIRE! One found the fire and the mountain and was led by the fire in the wilderness, the other was commissioned to call down "FIRE from heaven and confront the false prophets of Baal who the false prophetess Jezebel had placed in Israel.

Both of these men for lack of a better term could be called "FIRE-MEN!" As I mentioned in the earlier blog, a time would come when God's remnant would begin to seek Him again earnestly as their vital need and when they did He would show up and come in their midst. Malachi chapter 3:1-3 speaks of this coming. "And the Lord who shall seek shall SUDDENLY come to His temple! And who shall stand when He appears, and who can endure the DAY OF HIS COMING! For He will come as a REFINING FIRE and like FULLER'S Soap! And He will sit as a refiner of gold and silver and thoroughly cleanse the Levites to bring forth to the Lord offerings in righteousness. (paraphrased from earlier quotes in the previous blogs) Notice the words, the Lord whom you seek shall SUDDENLY COME? In Acts chapter 2 vs 1-4, the bible says:

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come,they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Yes beloved, this was an "anointing of the moment" for the disciples. They were gathered together, set apart waiting for the fulfillment of the promise of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. On that day of Pentecost the church was birthed in a BLAZE OF GLORY! All 120 men were transformed or transfigured by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit who appeared to be upon them as FIRE! Notice the word says, and it SAT UPON each of them.

This was the "alpha" moment of the churches day of power. They received power from on high to start the work Jesus left them to do in the nations. What happened to that Glory, that power on display over the last 2000 years? When you read the book of Acts and see all that they did in the power of the Holy Spirit, you don't get a picture of their Christian life consisting of going to a church service on Sunday and Wednesday. You also don't get a picture of them having Christian concerts, Chicken dinners, Marches for Jesus or any other such thing to get people's attention.

What you do get however; is a picture of this: A RADICALLY REVOLUTIONIZED PEOPLE CHANGED BY THE POWER OF THE FLAME OF GOD IN THEIR LIFE! THEY WERE NEVER THE SAME AFTER THIS OUTPOURING! They preached and ministered in the "flame of God" with signs, wonders and miracles. These signs just didn't accompany the "clergy" or the "hot preacher" on TBN, but it filled "all that believed and received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Men who were chosen to distribute food as deacons were doing astonishing miracles testifying of the resurrection of the Lord. No gimmicks, no glitz, and no glamor was this fire that filled them. It was God's visible GLORY IN HIS TEMPLE!

There were no CD's, no tapes, no books, no conferences or seminars and no ipods were seen, just the FLAME OF GOD"S HOLY SPIRIT BURNING IN THEM! That is what you see in the bible Books of Acts if you would be honest? So what has happened to us over the last two thousand years that we no longer see this fire or even believe there was a fire that came down from heaven.

Most Christians think Pentecost was a one time event or some new movenment. Many don't believe Pentecostals are even saved. Fellow Christians believe Pentecostals are demon possessed because they speak in tongues as the Spirit gives them utterance. Many other believers mock the Holy Spirit baptism in peoples lives as them just being emotional or fanatics and even call them "holy rollers!"

That being said, that is not what this blog is about to discuss what happened on the day of Pentecost was real or not, but rather, the "what is to come" from the flame of God. John the Baptist prophesied that Jesus would baptize them with the Holy Spirit and Fire! Why two separate utterances here, Holy Spirit and Fire?

The Holy Spirit and Fire aren't they one in the same thing? The answer is yes! The day of Pentecost was the flame of God revealed in the heart of men. This outpouring STARTED the work and it has lasted up to this day, though at times only through a small remnant. But in these last days God is not done sending His fire! For He is a consuming Fire and His desire is to make everything, everywhere one with the nature of that fire. It is in these last of days, when all the wine has seemingly run out, God is going to CHANGE WATER INTO WINE AND FINISH THE WORK HE STARTED IN US! PRAISE HIS NAME!

Maybe someones light bulb went on with the last few sentences. He wants to make everything, everywhere one with His nature of Consuming Fire. Now we go back to review of Moses and the question of why God chose to reveal Himself as a flame burning upon a bush that was not consumed. Here at this mountain under the first covenant God begins to reveal to us His end-time plan. He is going to take an ordinary bush that He created for Himself and fill it with Himself as FIRE!

He is going to consume this little old bush in the intensity of His Glory, but it will not be consumed, destroyed or be harmed in any way. This ordinary bush was going to be made ONE WITH HIM IN HIS NATURE AND CHARACTER! OUT OF THAT ORDINARY BURNING BUSH WOULD COME A VOICE THAT WOULD DECLARE THE NAME OF GOD! I AM, THAT I AM!

Are you seeing this GLORIOUS EVENT TO COME Beloved reader? On this mountain Moses was going to see the OMEGA work of God or the Finishing work that would make the created thing one with the creator and not be consumed, condemned or destroyed. HALLELUJAH! Since this was in the days of the first covenant, God used an inanimate object like a bush to show His Glory being consumed with FIRE! Don't you see why I am writing to you to come and live and walk in the very FLAME OF GOD?

In the new testament. we are going to see the same picture, but this time the fire is going to come directly to God's hand made temple itself and not a bush. The bush was to be a pointer (a prophetic picture of what is to come) to the fact that God could consume something with Himself as He is, and the created thing (the temple of the Holy Spirit) would not be destroyed. (1Co 6:19-20, Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.)

His temple made of FLESH AND BLOOD is going to be made whole. It is going to be made complete. His temple will be a house fully flooded with God Himself. On this mountain we see the miracle that is yet to come! We are going to be changed (transfigured with Glory) to be a reflection of His name, filled with His presence, and become His voice on the earth as a witness and then the end will come!It is here on a high mountain once again, God chooses to show us what His finished work as a REFINER' S FIRE is going to look like in a human being!

When is this going to take place? Let us read Mathew chapter 17: verses 1-3:

Mat 17:1 And after six days:

Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: and he was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his garments became white as the light. And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with him.

When Moses went up that mountain he said to his wife, "I must now turn aside to see this great site." Yes Beloved, Moses had to turn aside or change His direction to see who God really is. Moses saw the future on that mountain. He saw how God could take the ordinary (a plain old bush) a bush that was a weak thing subject to die a natural death and God filled it with His presence for Moses to see. This ordinary bush in this moment of time was going to be a "reflection of God's glory!" This burning bush was going to be a place where "the voice of the Lord would be heard again. This bush was going to be a place where God would speak His divine instructions and plans to a man outwardly.

On the day of Pentecost all this present revelation of Moses was going to change. From that Glorious first FIRE day and forward we no longer have to hear the Lord's voice through prophets or men, but God can speak directly to us through His son in our heart. (Heb, 1:1-2) In this human heart God established a NEW AND BETTER COVENANT! Read Hebrews chapters 8 -10 to find this in the Word of God.

On this glorious day for Peter, James and John, the bible makes this statement, "And after six days Jesus, took with him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and he brings them up into a high mountain apart. Now go on with me here Beloved, did you catch the first 5 words,"and after six days Jesus, takes Peter, James and John? OK, maybe it is just me, but where are the other 9 disciples? How come Jesus didn't take all of them up there? Could this mean something important for us to understand the end-time events that are about to come?

Notice we don't know anything about the first 6 DAYS? Just after 6 days Jesus took them apart, up the mountain to see something no man has ever SEEN BEFORE! They are about to get a revelation of I AM, THAT I AM. Their revelation will not be as Moses understood this Glory that is to come would be, but as He now plans to reveal this same Glory filling HIS TEMPLE, the Body of Christ!

Follow me a little bit more, I know this is getting long and I should stop, but I can't, SORRY! After 6 days! Remember what I wrote about in yesterday's blog? Do you remember what Jesus said to the Pharisee's when they told Him Herod wanted to kill him?

Luke13:31-33,"At that time, certain Pharisees came to him and said, Go away from this place, because Herod's purpose is to put you to death. And He said, Go and say to that fox, I send out evil spirits and do works of mercy today and tomorrow, and on the third day my work will be complete. But I have to go on my way today and tomorrow and the third day, for it is not right for a prophet to come to his death outside Jerusalem."

I pray we grasp this prophetic utterance Jesus speaks here. He says, "Go tell that fox, today and tomorrow, I do miracles and cast out devils." The book of 2nd Peter 3:8 says, "But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day." A day is like a thousand years in God's spiritual time. From the death of Jesus to the year 1000 is one day, From the year 1000 to the year 2000 is another day, and then the year 2000 begins a THIRD DAY!

Jesus tells the Pharisees, that He is going to work today and tomorrow, or two days. When the day of Pentecost came with fire, He empowered His disciples to go forth for two days. If we trace history back from Adam until Christ many believe it has been 4000 years or 4 days. If we add 4 plus 2 we get 6 prophetic days. I am not saying the physical years are the same, they very well may be, but I know as prophetic days they are. After 6 days Jesus takes them up a high mountain. Interesting to note that after 3 days there was a wedding at Cana and there the wine ran out. Could it be that after 6 spiritual days, our spiritual wine is all out as well? Were there not 6 clay pots that were empty needing to be filled again? So why does the bible say, " After 6 days Jesus...?

Here is why: AFTER 6 Days, Jesus takes Peter, James and John up the mountain. Notice this is not a time when they were not dead or raptured. Matter of fact neither were the two men on the mountain with Jesus dead, Moses or Elijah. Peter wanted to make tents for all them to sleep. You don't make tents for dead men, you bury them! This "after 6 days represents a "period of time, an anointing of the moment" to bring about a DRASTIC CHANGE in our revelation and understanding of who Jesus Christ really is as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Up until this day, we understood the Lord from the perspective of Moses who saw a bush on fire and not consumed. In that bush was the tangible presence of God's glory in which a voice spoke to Him and gave Him directions. God called that place Holy, so Moses had to take the shoes off his feet. Many thousands of years later on another mountain another object of God's creation was about to be consumed with fire and not be consumed by it.

This time it was going to be a human being's body. A body that was made out of flesh and blood just like ours. A body that would eventually die and decay like a tree. But this earthen vessel as weak as it is has a special purpose in the heart of God. This body was made to contain the same fire that consumed that bush and was not destroyed. This body made of flesh and blood, God himself said "I will live in them and I will be a God unto them, and they will be my people"

Peter, John and James were about to see the fullness of God's end-time plan for the remnant that is going up the mountain with the Lord. The other 9 were left down on the bottom to show us that not all will come up to this place of REVELATION! These three are going to be known as THIRD DAY PEOPLE! Third day, not because of time or space or a new doctrine, but because of the REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST they are about to witness. They are going to be called to testify of what they saw and heard on that mountain in the years that awaited them.

They were going to see the GLORY OF GOD FILL THE TEMPLE! A temple not made with bricks or stones, but one made by the very hand of God with flesh and blood! This human body was going to be a place consumed with the presence of God's Glory and not be destroyed or harmed in anyway like the bush Moses saw on the mountain. Just as that bush would be to this day a place where Moses saw the REVELATION OF GOD and heard HIS VOICE, so will the nations come to the brightness of arising, as we "ARISE AND SHINE FOR THE LIGHT HAS COME, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD HAS RISEN UPON US!" (Isaiah 60)

I am going to have to stop now or this will become a book itself. There is still so much more to write about. I hope this is getting you excited in your spirit, for God has saved the best wine for last. This third day revelation is not a movement. It is not about 2 classes of Christians or any type of superiority. It is about those who are hearing the call up the mountain with the Lord for that FINISHING WORK to be completed in their lives. It is about those who are willing to come into the fire naked and unashamed and be changed by the refining fire. This third day revelation of Jesus Christwill bring forth a Bride coming forth from the wilderness leaning upon her beloved!

This is the Glory and the work that John is going to witness on the Island of Pathmos in the book of Revelation chapters 1-4. It is here in these chapters, we will begin to understand the nature of our God as a consuming fire, and His end-time plan to form us into a Kingdom of Priests and Kings to our God. We will explore these chapters hidden meanings so we can learn of Him and His ways, and become a bride made ready to marry the Lord. Are you hungry for more yet?

I am going to close with some scriptures from the book of Mathew 11:28-30. Jesus says, "Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls; For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard."

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Dear Beloved Readers,

In the book of Hosea chapter 6, we find an important prophetic utterance from the prophet. This statement reveals the plan of the Lord for us through the ages and the last events of this prophecy are being fulfilled now in our life time. Let us look at this prophetic word.

This is from the Bible in Basic English version:

Hos 6:1 Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help. Hos 6:2 After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him. Hos 6:3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

Here is another translation from the American Standard version:

Hos 6:1 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. Hos 6:2 After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him. Hos 6:3 And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.

We have studied that in Malachi chapter 3 the Lord has an intention for us. His desire is to awaken us to become His bride forever and ever. The Song of Solomon describes the process of development necessary to become a Bride for the Lord. The whole book is about a God who hides behind the lattice, waiting to see if we would notice Him. A God and Lover in whom we can ravish His heart. A Bridegroom who tenderly draws us ever closer to His heart. A Lover who doesn't see our flaws, but the love He planted in us for Him and compares us to the finest horses in Pharaoh's chariots carrying the very King Himself. He says, that His bride has dove eyes, or their focus is singularly on Him. He calls her the choicest amongst all the daughters and a Lilly amongst the thorns.

In this book we see a Lover, a King, and a Husband waiting patiently for His bride-to-be to see, love and abandon everything for Him, though she be black and comely! What a beautiful description of His abandoning love for us to draw us in such a fashion. So strong is His desire to be one with us that He withdraws His tangible presence from us not to hurt us, but to draw us deeper to seek Him like we have never seen or known Him before. He even keeps us enclosed as a garden where no other love can satisfy us until our love for Him is awakened. He says, " I charge you ,oh Daughters of Jerusalem not to awaken love, until it pleases." Another words, I won't let the church, ministry, leadership ever or anyone take the place of my love in her heart."

This usually brings great discomfort to our lives, because our life in Christ has been based on getting and receiving things and gifts from him and loving him by our works. But this can never satisfy the heart of a King. He wants to be loved just because He is worth being loved. The whole story of the Song of Solomon testifies of this great work in those who long to be married to the King. Her testimony in the end of the Song on Solomon is, "I am my Beloveds, and His desires are towards me." She comes out of the wilderness leaning upon him alone, ready to go into the vineyard not in her own power anymore but with a complete and entire leaning of her personality on the Lord her Bridegroom. Interesting to note that the definition of faith in the amplified version of the bible is the entire leaning of our personality and confidence in the Lord alone. So what we see here is the Bride is called to live the true life of faith. (please read chapters 1-8 to find these verses so you can ponder on them.)

In the Book of Hosea we begin to understand the process of this development by these words,
Come and let us return to the Lord. These are the same words found in the Book of Isaiah chapter one, let us read them.

Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isa 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: Isa 1:20 but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.

Do you notice the two calls to come of these verses a divine plea from the Lord? Come now and let us reason together being one, and Come now and let us return to the Lord being the other. This is so important for us to understand for the Flame of Love to prepare us rightly for our wedding day. The deep inner workings that the flame of God can produce can only work in those who answer this call to COME!

In Song of Solomon chapter 1, we learned in our last blog there is a prayer of desire that comes forth from the Bride-to-be. This prayer crys, "Draw me, we will run after you, O King bring me into your chambers." This simple little prayer of desire allows the LORD in the power of the HOLY SPIRIT to come and personally intervene in your life. Wade Taylor former President and founder of Pinecrest Bible Training center call this the approbation of God or His favor upon our lives. This means God singularly has received permission from you to work in your life as if you were the only one ever created. This will bring about intense dealings in your life by the Lord to develop the quality of charachter needed to be His bride. This is the place where the "wise virgin" find the extra oil they will need to go out and meet the Bridegroom at that midnight hour.

In this process, the Lord uses the situation and circumstances that come into our lives to bring "refinement in our nature and character from our self-will to become one with His character and nature which is selfless." This is not an easy process and some times can be quite painful when we don't understand and "kick against the pricks" or rebel against this divine work. But the pain will never destroy us, but cause us to grow nearer to Him.

Many in the Body of Christ don't want to hear this kind of knowing the "ways of the Lord." Many preach this inner works as suffering but from a wrong perspective. Some leaders in the Body of Christ preach suffering as a "work" where we can prove our love for God by being martyrs for Christ. I call this the Martyrdom syndrome.

Beloved, I do not ever choose suffering nor do I look for it. Whether I look for it or not, it does come from time to time. What I do (what comes out of me) in those times of suffering is what the Lord is after in our development as a Bride. If what comes out of me isn't of His nature or character a divine correction, discipline or chastisment may be necessary to prepare me and cause me to desire to seek the Lord for the change He must work in me.

It is the attitude of the heart in these circumstances that will prove whether or not I will qualify to be a bride of the Lord. These "pressing, tearing and uprooting times will set in motion the divine choice within us whether I really want to develop His character in me or not. I can choose my own ways in these times of suffering and try to change myself (which I have done in the past). I can even choose to make my own way out giving up my birthright for a bowl of soup. However, if I can learn the prayer of Job in the most difficult trials of his life when he said,
"though you slay me, still will I trust you," then He can refine me like Gold and silver and prepare me to be His bride.

When suffering does come into our life by our own sin or just be curcumstances, it only has one purpose. The purpose is to develop a deeper dependence upon the Lord alone for our source of strength. It produces the ability to lean upon and cling to him and never let him go lest we die. The suffering in these trials, if we cooperate with the Lord, usually comes to bring a deeper fire to burn up the pride,self-sufficiency and selfishness in our lives.

The trouble or trials come to remove any doubts and unbelief that still remains in oursoul even if we have walked with the Lord for a while. The Lord's desire is to present to Himself a glorious church without spot, blemish and wrinkle. He must come now(in our time of visitation) and remove these spots and blemishes from our hearts. That is why Malachi chapter 3 verses 1-3 are so important to us if we choose to grow up in the Lord.

Verses 1 through 3 testify that when the Lord whom we seek shall suddenly come to His temple. The prophet goes on to say, "who can endure the "day of His coming?" And who stand when He appears? For when He comes, He is going to SIT (take His rightful place of authority in our life) as a Refiner of Silver and Gold. He is thoroughly going to purge the Sons of Levi like gold and silver, THAT THEY MAY BRING TO THE LORD OFFERINGS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

The definition of righteousness in the Unger's Bible dictionary says, "Being conformed to God's will, plan and desires for our life and His way of doing things." In Mathew 6:33 we are commanded to "seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. With this admonition we have a wonderful promise that "all these things will be added unto us." Jesus teaches us the ways of God are to Seek God's councel, instruction and Hisways, not our own understanding or our own ways.

Beloved, this is what the Flame of love has come to do. The Fire will remove the "my will" from our life until we can say "not my will, but yours be done." OUR WAYS or in the word of Frank Sinatra, "I DID IT MY WAY" must be removed forever, once and for all from our being! This is the purpose of His coming to His church in the Spirit on the Lord's day in Revelation chapters 2 and 3. He comes with blazing eyes of fire and feet that burn like burning brass.

He come now in our generation to bring the finishing change to complete the work He has started in us when we were first born again. His work is to make us become a Bride. He comes to bring a fire of finishing to perfect us called a Baptism of Fire! In Revelation chapters 1-4, He reveals Himself as the one that Has eyes of fire and searches the hearts and intention of every action. (Revelation chapter 1;14-15, 2:23 amplified version)

Nothing escapes the eyes of the Lord. His eyes are spoken of as eyes of fire in Revelation chapter 1:14. He is described also to have feet that burn like bronze. This Lord of Malachi chapter 3 is revealing Himself to us right here and right now in 2008. He is ready to refine those who pray, "Draw me Lord, we will run after you," like gold and silver. Are you ready for Him to come and sup with you and you with Him? In the next blog I am going to explain what the fire comes to produce for the kingdom, but in this blog I want to examine the timing of the Lord so we do not miss our time of visitation.

I have spoken about God's approbation, His favor as He works through our circumstances and choices we make, good or bad to bring about His purpose for our life. When we choose wrongly we often go through a period of suffering that God has to work through since we made the wrong choices. In these wrong choices, we must learn why we made them ,and what His real desire for us was for us in these circumstances. We need to learn what was the right choice in God we did not choose. This is such a hard lesson for some because of the spirit of rejection that has dominated them. When God comes to correct them, they see Him as a hard task master ready to destroy them instead of a loving God that wants to show them where they went astray by THEIR OWN CHOICES NOT HIS!

So often we blame God. Why didn't you stop me? Why did you allow me to suffer? Why didn't you love me enough to stop me or save me from going through this? How this must break His heart as we put the blame of our failures upon His character of love for us instead of seeing the miserable results of our sins that still plaque this world. Even when Christians see this, they still blame God for not being loving enough to allow all this to happen to them in the first place. Many form this opinion of Him because they do not understand the nature of God is LOVE, and He never chooses evil for us. The Lord always provides a way out of the evil when we choose to cling to Him in the midst of the fire.

Free Will is a hard concept to understand with God, but it is His eternal nature. Love can only love freely, and it never forces the object of that love to love in return. The greatest act of love is to allow your creation to choose to love you or not, knowing they may reject you and the love you bring anyway! Wow! I hope you see how vulnerable the heart of the Lord is towards us to give us that choice! Can you begin to understand how it breaks His heart when we reject Him and love the created things he has made more than the Creator?

Hosea chapter 6 begins with a call: Come and LET US return to the Lord. In Genesis chapter 11 mankind said, COME LET US MAKE BRICKS, LET US BUILD A CITY, A TOWER AND LET US REACH INTO HEAVEN AND LET US MAKE A NAME FOR OURSELVES! This is the very heart and nature of sin itself. Let us (mankind) be like GOD ALMIGHTY! This nature is inherent to all of us in our fallen nature, and it is the reason why we must be born-again of the Spirit of God to have that nature changed from darkness to light.

Unfortunately most of our thoughts, actions and patterns have been shaped by that"Let us" mentality. We, to often I am afraid, want to be the leader and author of our life instead of God. That is why in Romans 12:2 says we must have our minds renewed by the word of God. We can only have the renewal or new mind when we answer the call to "COME AND RETURN TO THE LORD", and seek Him for it! The Lord whom you seek, shall suddenly come! Who can stand when He appears and who can endure it. I Can't! It makes me fall on my face like a dead man!

Hosea chapter 6 verse1 describes the process of developing this new mind by tearing down the old one. " He has torn us, and He will heal us! It seems kind of mean to tear us, but when we understand the "how He will do it" it is not as difficult as we could imagine when you are wrapped in HIs arms of love. The Fire will come to refine us as it did with the Hebrew boys in the fiery furnace, but all that happened to them was the rope bonds that held them were removed! They didn't even have the smell of smoke on them, and neither will we if we begin to cooperate with the work of the Holy Spirit. Hosea chapter 2 verse 14 explains this process:

Hos 2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, (Woo her by love to let me do this work in her) and bring her into the wilderness,(this speaks of a place of divine separation from all activity including churchy stuff) and speak comfortably ( Hebrew word: tenderly) unto her. (Do you see how He will bring the flame? Tenderly if you will let Him bring you to the Court, Brad saw in the last blog) Hos 2:15 And I will give her her vineyards (this speaks of means to do bring about this change by true repentance)from thence, and the valley of Achor (Hebrew word: trouble. This trouble is like a day of reckoning where we answer the question, will we stand before the Lord naked, exposed as we are, yet be unashamed for His love will remove every stain?) for a door of hope;(Do you see this? The very thing we are afraid of being honest and real and exposed in front of God and one another is a DOOR OF HOPE for us who will say, YES LORD SEARCH ME!) and she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. and she shall make answer there, (the desert is the place of separation where you must make the same choice as you did when you were first saved. This choice will allow the Lord to bring His finishing work to your life by a Baptism of Refining fire!)as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. Hos 2:16 And it shall be at that day,(the day He comes to His house, Malachi 3) saith Jehovah, that thou shalt call me Ishi, (my husband, yeah God!)and shalt call me no more Baali. Hos 2:17 For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name. (notice who is doing the work..for I will take away the names of Baal out of her mouth)

Hos 2:18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely. Hos 2:19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. Hos 2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know Jehovah. Hos 2:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will answer, saith Jehovah, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth; Hos 2:22 and the earth shall answer the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they shall answer Jezreel. Hos 2:23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them that were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God. (Here God will give you all He has to complete you into the image and likeness of Jesus as his bride! This is finishing work and the fruit that will come forth from our life in heaven and on earth!!)

The Lord is going to tare, and smite us, but ONLY as WE RUN TO HIS LOVING ARMS! Only as we run to the JUDGE OF THE COURT, as Brother Brad wrote in the previous Blog can we see God as He is and be changed BY HIS TOTAL FORGIVENESS. Then we can bring offerings of righteousness to the Lord or give Him what we were created to be! WHEN WE ALLOW THE FLAME OF LOVE to do it's work to purge, cleanse and purify us bringing the dross (all the things not like His nature in us) to the surface, then we can be changed and transfigured with Glory! It is the Flame of God (WHO IS PERFECT LOVE) that can remove the spots, blemishes and wrinkles from our lives by the full power of the "NOT GUILTY He paid for by His blood and by sending the Baptism of Fire to complete it. Beloved ,it is from that same cross Jesus said these perfect words of love, "IT IS FINISHED!"

As I close this blog, I want you to understand the timing of WHEN THIS WORK IS TO BEGIN, because many Christians are so busy working for the Lord they are missing the WORKING OF THE LORD! THE TIME HAS COME AND NOW IS HERE TO DO THIS FINISHING WORK! He desires to do this refining in our life NOW to prepare us to be His Bride. Hosea 6:2 begins to unfold this "now" timing to us, "After 2 days He will revive us!

What has been the great cry of Pastors, Evangelist and Men and woman of God over the last 3 centuries? What are we all still praying for in this nation? REVIVAL! We still want to have REVIVAL meetings or MOVES OF GOD! For the last 3 hundreds years God has brought REVIVAL and MOVES OF GOD to the earth! This is proof of this process of God desiring us to "Come and let us return to the Lord." This is the work of the second day and the first few moments after 2 days! Jesus speaks of this when they come and speak to Him about Herod, "

Luke 13:32 And he said, Go and say to that fox, I send out evil spirits and do works of mercy today and tomorrow, and on the third day my work will be complete. Luke 13:33 But I have to go on my way today and tomorrow and the third day, for it is not right for a prophet to come to his death outside Jerusalem. Luk 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not! Luk 13:35 Now see, your house is waste, and I say to you, You will not see me again till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.

Beloved, Something GREATER THAN REVIVAL IS COMING! REVIVAL is not the finishing work of the Bride! It is only the call to "return to the Lord!" There is more to come! After two days HE WILL REVIVE US! (Beloved REVIVAL is not the destination, it is the awakening, but there is more)

BUT ON THE THIRD DAY, HE WILL RAISE US UP! (YEAH GOD, DO YOU HEAR THIS BELOVED READER) THAT WE MAY LIVE BEFORE HIM! Beloved reader, this is not a REVIVAL MEETING, this is the REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST TO HIS CHURCH AS KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORD FIRST, THEN TO THE WORLD IN THE JUDGMENTS THAT ARE YET TO COME!

IT IS A HOLY REVOLUTION IN THE BRIDE OF THE LORD TO SEE THE KING OF GLORY COME IN, AND BE CHANGED IN THAT GLORY. THE BRIDE WILL BEGIN TO ARISE AND SHINE FOR THE LIGHT HAS COME, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHALL BE RISEN UPON HER ! WE WILL SEE THE LORD AS HE WANTS US TO SEE SEE HIM, AND BE WITH HIM WHERE HE IS NOW, NOT WHEN WE DIE! HE HAS GONE TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR US SO THAT WHERE HE IS, WE SHALL ALSO BE! Gloria A Dios!

In the next blog we will try to develop this thought and see the ingredients that God needed to bring this work about in our hearts. I hope you are getting excited for the He, "Who is yet to come."

In His love always!

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Dear Readers,

I hope you had a chance to read the blog by Brad Buscher. A voice crying from the wilderness is beginning to be heard in our nation. From the West and Mountain states a cry is coming forth: prepare ye the way of the Lord! The Gold Rush is here! The Lord gave me a word about it posted in the Prophetic Alert!

Brad's blog demonstrates what it means to buy Gold tried by the fire. So this is the time and lay naked before God and one another and buy the Gold!

I want to encourage all of you who read this to add to the heart of what God is speaking to you to our site. I will read them and determine if and when they should be posted. If I do not post your submissions, understand that it may be a timing issue or just a no from the Lord for me to do so. It may be a genuine word from the Lord, but this site is just not the site to post it. He may have you submit in a different place, so please don't be offended. I just must obey the Lord!

Also I want to encourage all of you who are going to this site, to be patient with me in writing or posting more. We are seeing a fire begin to burn in this part of the country and much is happening. I love to write and post the things God desires for me to say, and I will as soon as I get a release to do so, but your writings to must be heard as well. This site is for that purpose.

If the writings either on the blog or on the prophetic alerts or Word of the Lord pages have blessed you or have a witness to them, please drop me a line. You can by posting a comment, or sending me an email listed on our site. We have had 16 countries and 144 cities view the site.

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Thanks again, and please read the blog by Brad Buscher, you will be blessed!

Beloved in the Lord,

I am posting this blog from a dear brother, Brad Buscher who labors in the Lord with us and an integral part of the Northern Colorado House of Prayer. Brad has a heart to passionately love the Lord and has received a revelation of confession and intercession for ourselves, family and regions. I have linked his blog to ours, so please view it when you can. (Christianity Confesses) This article is an awesome example of the revelation of God coming forth for the people in Northern Colorado. It is a testimony of the the "Western Gold Rush" that God has shown me. Please read it and receive the impartation of what God is doing in the Mountain and Western States in the USA. Brad's wife Emily is also a part of the regional center, leading worship and intercession bringing people deep into the presence and the heart of the Lord. They are a family burning with the flame of God's presence and have a heart to spread that flame of love everywhere God sends them. We love them very much and appreciate their love, call and service to the Lord and us!

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Dear Readers,
As a guest I would like to first thank Rev. Henry Falcone for this opportunity to post on his blog and share with you a bit about what the Lord is doing in our region of northern Colorado. This past week has been amazing and the best way to describe it is that the fire is getting HOT. The Lord has been showing us some wonderful things in our times with Him in worship at the Northern Colorado Regional House of Prayer. Please read with me as I describe what He showed us during one worship/prayer session this week.

This particular worship session was is two parts that played out in reverse order. What I realized afterward was that it was a two part picture presented in reverse order. I will describe it to you as it was presented to me.

Part 1 - setting- His court room: There I sat in the court room of the Lord. I could see all that was happening. The Lord was seated on the bench and I found myself in chair of the accused. When told to stand I could hardly speak. It was my turn to present a defense to the Lord. All I could do was confess. I had heard that if you confess all in this court and leave nothing out the Judge will be merciful on you and he was. Once I started talking it became easier. Then I could not believe the things I was telling Him, things that even I had forgotten about. Things that no one else knew. When I finished, it was time to hear the verdict and the sentence for my crimes against His Kingdom. Just before He spoke, my lawyer spoke, and all He said was, "remember me". Then the Judge proclaimed in a loud voice, "I find nothing by which I can convict this man." And I was free to go.

As I continued to play and worship the Lord I was left with the feeling that truly "Better is one day in His court than a thousand elsewhere" Psalm 84:10. This was a new meaning to this verse, until this vision, I had always envisioned this "court" as a garden.

Part 2 - setting- The world: I was experiencing an inner monologue; my friends are telling me that if I turn myself in, to this Authority, then I will be set free. But I am so afraid all I can do is run. I run from any authority even those that want to help me. I am told that I have to go tell all and leave nothing out. But I am convinced that it will be the end of me. I am told that the court appointed defense attorney is amazing. But I am scared. I am sure that they have it out for me.

Then I find my self standing in the Great Hall. In front of me is a double door the size of which intimidates me. As I stand there, knowing the fate and judgment that awaits me on the other side, I cower on the floor. That is when I become aware of the guard that is standing beside the door. A large man in perfect shape. Dressed like a Roman soldier with large white wings folded behind his back. He must be at least 9 feet tall. He speaks to me and the sound of his voice created immediate trust. He says to me, "I know your scared but you made it this far, let me take you on in." I say to him that I am scared and I know that death lies beyond that door. How can I go into the court of the King un-summoned? He replied, "If I go with you, you will not be harmed."

Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, The Lord showed us that our court date with Him is coming, if it hasn't already. And that day, though hard going into it, will actually be the BEST day. Just think of it-the day of ultimate judgment only to have every sin pardoned! And being told you are free to go! It almost makes me speechless, but at the same time, I must be vocal and tell everyone, shout it from the mountain tops! I urge you to turn yourself in. Throw yourself at the mercy of His court and tell all. Because better is one day in His court than 1,000 on the run or in hell. I know it is scary to face His authority and it should be. This judge is righteous, unwavering, incorruptible. He follows the Law put in place by Himself. He does not change because of popular opinion polls. But just remember who your court appointed lawyer is. God's own son Jesus. Your Wonderful Counselor is the Judge's son with whom he is "well pleased". He is The Way and THE ONLY Way. Lean on Him and you will find yourself in court telling all, only to find the sentence is freedom.

I hope this gives you some idea of the power of worshiping the Lord. You will never regret waiting on the Lord. I promise you that. I hope this encourages you to seek the Lord, worship Him will all you heart mind and soul. And I look forward to future promptings to share with you again. Until then, blessings be upon you from Christ the Lord.