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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hmmmm…….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on the earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, yet once more, indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selah!

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strong word for the believers….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Therefore as the Holy Spirit says:

Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, they always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways, so I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter My rest.

Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin,           ( Hebrews 4:7-13).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selah!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As Peter wrote in 1 Peter 2:5, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel!

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

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

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

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

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

If we live according to the word written in Galatians 2:20, I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved Me and gave Himself for me.

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

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

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

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

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

As states in Colossians 3: 1-11, If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.

Set your mind on things above, not on the things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in the them. But now you yourselves put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all in all.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selah!

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selah!