The Holy Spirit reveals truth to understand our God: How precious are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am with You!,                        ( Psalm 139:17-18).

Every scripture  written is to awaken us of the great God, so we know Him….. This is to have eternal life, the knowledge of the Lord. Every Word written  reveals or points to the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Lord Jesus Christ then points us to the Father who loves us….. As Jesus Christ told Philip in John 14:9, Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen the Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, show us the Father?

Now we have the Holy Spirit within us, our hope of glory, directing us to the Word, Jesus Christ and all that has been written…..

When we sleep, we are not conscious of our surrounding area.  When awaken in the morning, we are alert to the light of the day that has approached us. We can live without God in our lives, He will let us….. as we close the Door on  Him,  He keeps knocking on ours to reveal our need for Him,… the Great I AM. He wants us to awaken to Him as we awaken to the dawn of each morning, God willing…… Is that why the Lord is also known by the name, the Bright  Morningstar? Hmmmm….

Do we see that we are kept sleeping or unaware when we choose to live in the dark? When we do not choose Jesus Christ, we have chosen darkness.  But what happens when grace, the Light of God, awakens us to Him?  Do we see the Light that is hidden by our eyes?  Ahhh, but to our spirit man that light has awakened us as the sun awakens the dawn.

Then it is written, As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness, ( Psalms 17:15).

Beloved, now we are 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, ( 1 John 3:2).

Is time a place to learn to die to Adam’s race and awaken to the life we live in Christ forever? The psalmist says when I awake, I am with You.

The Spirit of grace awakens us to a need of a Savior… as we are dead or asleep in our trespasses against  God. Then His gentle blow of His breath, we awakened as if we were born for the first time…. God awakens us to life, first to the life out of our mothers womb, then again when we awaken to our Savior…. We awaken in our spirit to hear His voice and know the touch of Love, the Son of God as He births us as His children….

All of a sudden we see His hand in all of creation…. We wonder at His wonderment.  We are lifted up high in His love as  we  float  in the blue clear sky of  His grace. Every breath we take we now know His hand is involved in as He blesses us, guides us as His children—— maturing us  in to sons and daughters of God……in Christ Jesus.

Before we had no knowledge of a God so loving and so close to us…. as close as our breath. We were closed off or asleep to Him….. because without the knowledge of the deep love of our Savior, we are dead or asleep to Him as well as our deep state of darkness. We have really yet to learn the depravity of our state without Jesus Christ…..

Sometimes we feel like we are going through hell, but I believe hell…. life without God, is beyond our imagination or understanding of the intensity of the darkness that exists. It is written  the angel of the Lord poured out his bowl of wrath on the beast and his kingdom. The kingdom of the beast became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain of the darkness! ( Read Revelation 16:10).

Before Christ, we put all we had in what others thought of us and to keep up with the              ” jones”, ( who are they anyway!).   We thought and believed and received the newest fashions were the all and the end, except when they would come out with the next year look or the next new teckie gadget. We believed that was our end, our goal…. but it leaves us empty and searching for the next thing to distract us…. from the real Truth.

Our sleep state keeps us locked in the today and not the tomorrow. Nor do we ever look up to see Him looking at us….. There was a closed door because of our unbelief, that we had no sense to look for Him or even need Him today….

Through our crisis’ in life  may  awaken us to a need of something deeper and higher in life. A life richer than the consumption of things to get in this earth…. because we realize that no matter how much we have and not have, the emptiness of our consumption left us still missing something…. Yet we are in the dark or asleep, unable to correct or fix  our hunger to be something important to someone…… to be noticed…..What is the point of me being here? Right……?

Isn’t that what we all want to be noticed and told we are important enough to love?….. Well, you are noticed and very important to the Creator….. He made us all with all unique crafted personalities to be fitted together in a great mosaic temple of God….. A spiritual house….

You are never out His sight or plan….. He never turns His love off…..He always is calling us home, calling us higher and deeper to Him…. So that we might know the width and length of His love in Christ……

The gentle awakening to the open door to heaven, Jesus Christ. The Door that opens to our faith. The Door opens to a realm which we never could grasp because of our sleepful state. But now as we walk through the Door cleansed of our sin because of grace….. as we walk through carrying no extra weight…. being free of our guilt of never measuring up to the standard of God…. He then calls us His own and starts raising us all together in a spiritual house of God.

He slowly takes the sleep from our spiritual eyes so that we see to fall in love with this great God…. He blesses us with His awakening slowly as the sun rises in the east. First, we see the darkness lighten a little, then greater and greater is the light that He bears through us by His Spirit.

Jesus spoke in Matthew 13:43, Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear!

Sometimes we miss the plan of the Lord or His working in us because we are still sleeping or in the dark on His motive or purpose for some of the trouble that comes our way. The Holy Spirit consistently blows out the darkness in our thinking and ways which are dead at the cross with Christ Jesus…. so  we awaken to a greater degree of Christ in us, our only hope of glory. He awakens us to His endless love. The Eternal Living Water that flows Life through us and out to others….

The more we die to our self centered ways in Christ, the more we awaken in His realm or kingdom….. We are now alive in our spirit, where His Spirit dwells in us. This is where His Life Eternal is!

The Spirit of God loves to sanctify our house or dwelling so it is fit for the King of Kings. He is gentle as we are young and as we grow in the Spirit, He is ruthless.

O Father, when we awake and arise, may You only see Your Son, our King’s image with in…. May You see His beauty through us. Thank You for the glorification of Your Son through Your children. We love You and thank You for being the greatest God that loves us through everything.  May we never let go of You as You never let go of us.

We bless You forever and ever for Your Love has never failed us! May we allow Your love to fill us so that our love never fails YOU. Father, I ask to keep us close in more grace so we abide in Your Son. Father, restore what has been lost in the testimony of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Father, it is written for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea, ( Habakkuk 2:14).  Fully awaken us to You and the power of Your Word, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

My heart is steadfast,of God, my heart is steadfast;

I will sing and give praise.

Awake, my glory!

Awake, lute and harp!

I will awaken the dawn.

I will praise you, O Lord,among the peoples;

I will sing to You among the nations. For Your mercy reaches unto the heavens, and Your truth unto the clouds. 

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be above all the earth,

( Psalm 57:7-11.)

Selah!

The above scriptures states God’s intention and Who He is…. from Genesis chapter 1 through the revelation of Jesus Christ made manifest in this world and still continues for….. God is the Light and we are sons of light….Scriptures in Genesis 1:3, Then God said let there be light; and there was light. John 8:12, Then Jesus spoke to them saying again, saying, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.     You are all the sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness, (1 Thessalonians 5:5). 

The King’s kingdom surrounds Him.  So He walks in the midst of His people, the kingdom of God is within each of His people. We are His kingdom when we abide in Him…. Our King Christ Jesus is the Light of the world and the Truth. We are His vessels in His hand as He rules and reigns as He has been given all dominion. When He moves His vessels, light and truth are being manifested….. which evil hates…..Evil likes the dark where chaos reigns.

Let us remember in His presence is fullness of joy. The purpose of our lives is to live and acknowledge  the Lord’s presence in our every day lives.   He leads us in our journey into His land, actually the Land is Him as He is the Way, the Door and the Promise, the land…..

It is more vast than the universe for He is Creator, the Uncreated One…… The journey is Him….. We seek after all of Him for all of Him to be glorified by our lives. Remember, eternal life is to know God and His Son that He has sent to us!  He is the land of far distances and yet, we are in His land….yet, there is so much more to see and abide in!

He is like a mountain, yet He is the Power that keeps the waves at bay…. He is  like the heat of the sun and like the cold wind blowing the snowflakes, and each are different…. just as He created us with a distinct fingerprint. There are no two humans ever have been and will be that has the same fingerprint as you do!

Let us keep on searching the height and depth and width and length of Christ in us and for us! He is the land of far distances that we will never ever finish learning and ascending into….. yet, I do not want to quit, I have to keep seeking and searching Him out….. He is like eating only one potato chip, it is never enough…..Or riding a horse, one ride is never enough! So is living in Christ….. His love leaves me wanting to know Him more. So come on!!!!! Let’s keep going beyond the obstacles of naysayers, of the doubtful, of those who had the same mind set as those who told Columbus, he was foolish to think the earth was round. St. Paul and St. John never quit receiving instruction and revelation from the Holy Spirit about the Lord and the Kingdom of God… I thank God they had the courage and boldness to keep going and receiving for all of us.

He has planned our journey for each one. For we are His, and all different, but all the same… We need Christ Jesus to be complete, for we are complete in Him. My journey is different than yours and yours is different than others…… That makes God sooooo God. Only He could customize each one of our journey with Him. The Holy Spirit’s job is not unlike the servant of Moses, who brought back the bride to Isaac through the wilderness. He makes us ready to see the Lord as He is….

So who represents the lighthouse?

The church is the lighthouse…. us, not any buildings, us, the followers of Christ. We hold the light and truth of Christ for all to see or not…..The church is the Lord and His body…. The Lord is the head and is very much in His body….. Can you say you are the head of your body but not in your body…. no….. Christ in us the hope of glory.

Remember the warning of our King when we forget to put the One as the reason for us here!

Nevertheless, I have this against you, you have left your first love,                  ( Revelation 2:4).

Let us remember why we are here before the King. We grow daily from strength to strength or glory to glory in His presence as we behold the King and become as He is, worshiping in truth and Spirit Him…. This process is a God thing, but how good it it is to dwell with King and His children.

As it is written in 1 John 3:2, Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet 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.

His presence is required for the church to be His body and just not a gathering of people. Let us be alert to keep His face before us so He will not remove His lampstand.  We always want to have in front of us the desire of our hearts….Our King! There is no struggle to put the desire of our hearts before us…..we go after what we want in this life. I pray as we search our hearts, that we find it is the Lord.  In keeping the Lord as our Obsession, we will also know the desires of His heart. We will not be in the dark on the Lord’s plans and hapenstances, which are really His doing.

Let Him see, as He walks in our midst holding us in His right hand in all authority and righteousness, fruit that is to His liking and likeness. May we know that He reveals Himself through us, His children. We reflect His light drawing others into His light.

May He walk through us  and be blessed and pleased. May He see our hearts are pure in our search for Him and not for a name or fame, fortune …. We are strong in walking the cross. There be no thieves and liars or slanderers left among us in His church or temple, which is our hearts!

Let Him see that His lampstand is burning in prayer. As the Lord taught us, He went to the mountain top to pray and commune with His Father first before He did…… Let us follow His instructions of work to produce eternal  fruit. Our ideas will not avail His lasting fruit for the King and the kingdom.

When the world comes in to seek help…. They are seeking Him, we can do nothing but bring them to Him. He calls them and chose them to come to Him, by His grace. May the Spirit of God reside so strong that we hear from the Holy Spirit what needs to be spoken, healed, or cast out.

It is imperative to have the knowledge that His presence is within us. The Spirit of the Lord will give all that is required through His people that hear. But let it be said those who are seeking leave knowing the Lord and not us. They are the Lord’s work and His vessel as they start their walk in the journey with the Lord.

In the Old Covenant, King David, told the people to sanctify themselves that they may bring up the ark of the Lord to the place David had prepared for it. Now we are the ark of the Lord….. the place He prepared for His Spirit…. We need to maintain the separation of the world from us and be set apart for Him alone. We should die daily to the world and its ways and awaken to the Lord’s way in the light and truth.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, ( Philippians 2:12-15).

The Lord’s body will remain through all the storms that seas throw to destroy…. His body remains in the world as the True Light of the world until our Heavenly Father says time is up. Our God’s love will never fail….. He strengthens us in His might so that we may persevere as His lighthouse.

I pray we are all growing in the grace of the knowledge of the Lord in our lives…. I might have assumed something by my words….. I asked how you are growing in the gift of God that you asked for in 2015…. Well, to me, everything I receive is a gift from Him….. Whether it is waking up in the morning…. Paying the bills, driving to and fro safely…. blessed health…. so on…..

Some of things that you requested from the Lord are gifts….. They may not have been the spiritual gifts written in the word…. They might have been healthy children, fruits of a healthy marriage, new job, a car that does not break down…. as to boldness to speak about the Lord to others…. or for increase of faith, grace, patience, good health…. so on…. However…

It does not matter what you asked, the receipt of your requests from the Lord are a gift….. So how is your gift growing? Remember, sometimes things are the opposite of what we expect so that the Lord can bring about now what is not and take away what is……..

Keep watching and living as you know the Lord hears and answers His beloved children, for all things are yes and amen in Christ Jesus…..There are other gifts that are registered in you that will manifest as you are working out in faith your answer from the Lord.

His work is hidden but always produces much fruit in us……so keep watching! Let patience have her perfect work.

As the Lord is watching us in our midst….. He looks at you, He asks- Who do you say I am child? Bless Him with your continued growing list. As your list is growing so is He growing in you!

Wow! What a Light I see in His children! What a gentle smile the Lord has towards us….. That is gift, a great gift…. His smile. He is our Treasure. Nothing compares to our King Jesus Christ. No one…… Keep seeking and watching…..Remember, He is seeking you, watching if you are seeking Him!

Remember beloved, we shine His love, truth, and hope to the lost, not ours, so rest as He is Light! God bless those who want to put out the Light of the world within His followers…. The more darkness tries to cancel the Light, the more the Light shines through all darkness showing and pointing to the Truth: Jesus Christ is the Savior. The Only Begotten Son of God, who is King of kings and Lord of lords…… He rules and reigns at the right hand of the Almighty forever and ever!

Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven and on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father,                       ( Philippians 2:9-11).

Arise, shine;  for your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising, ( Isaiah 60:1-3).

Praise God and all of His might! We are arising in the Lord, shining the Truth! Amen !

Selah!

This sturdy lighthouse is still shining its light to weary sojourners defying the strength of all storms! Sometimes the storms look like they are designed to destroy this beacon of light. Why does the sea really want to destroy the light that has brought many a weary lost mariner home safely?

The waves of stormy seas have been banging against this little sturdy lighthouse for decades, but it still stands to show the way to storm weary trodden ones. It has been through hurricanes beating on its stones. But it remains shining the light of life. Lightning has struck its red roof but it has not fallen, nor penetrated the structure. Yet, it has remained shining the light of life. Out of all the beatings, its light appears to shine longer and brighter pointing the way to safety…..It is incorruptible and indestructible.  The folklore is said of the Secret that lies inside this beacon of Light.

As we look deeper, we find the foundation of this little lighthouse is on the rock. The rock has lifted the lighthouse higher than the undercurrent. This rock has protected the purpose of the lighthouse to all generations. It stands taller and brighter through all the stormy seas can throw at it.

It stands today, showing the wear and beating of stormy seas, but it stands strong in patience and humility, knowing it will not be destroyed until every last sojourner has made it safely to port.

As you walk in to the little sturdy lighthouse, we look up to the light and see the winding wood staircase circling around a beam of solid wood made in the shape of a cross.

Everyone who enters the lighthouse, puts their first step on the stair leading up, yet all they can see is the large beams in the shape of a cross. Folklore tells that some have seen a man of huge stature hanging there with His blood dripping on the floor with a crown of thorns on His brow and nails in His hands and feet. His hands and feet are pierced as the nails bind Him to the beams of the cross.

They say this man looks up through His intense suffering and smiles at them saying, I have been waiting for you to come. His eyes have such intense love for each that enter, that they have stumbled over the little stair leading up. They end up on their knees in awe of the presence of this Man.

They say they have never met anyone like Him before. He takes their breath away, and if they  were in pain or hunger it has ceased to exist. All they remember is His intense eyes and His gentle smile. Yet, they are consumed with awe of His strength during His endurance of this ruthless pain and suffering. There has been no Man like Him before or after that resembles such a Conqueror or a King. 

The stories that are told are too numerous to mention of those who met with the special Man on the cross.  His little sturdy lighthouse has remained  an open door for shelter, as they enter and meet this Man that resembles a King. Many speak of the most heartening smile of this spectacular Man, as it has melted the most frosty of hearts. There are rumors stating that they never left the same as when they entered. The rumors even state that they have been made brand new!

The journey has just begun into a land that is of far distances. The land of this King has called us at this time. But all must enter through the bottom of the stairs, at the foot of the cross. This is the beginning of the cross for those who enter in His Land. All are drawn as His love is poured forth for and before us.

As Jesus Christ said to Peter written in Matthew 16:17-18, Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, 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,  1 Peter 2:4-5.

The Spirit of grace is filling His temple, His body or His lighthouse with Himself…. We go in one way and we are never the same again from the touch of this Son of Man…. He is different. There is none like Him and that draws us unto Him forever.

Who is this One who is so meek as a Lamb? Yet, this suffering He has endured shows His strength of a lion, a King who loves even unto death to bring life to His people.

Who is this King of glory and strength and love?

Then He took the cup, and when He gave thanks He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. And He said to them, this is My blood of the new covenant which is shed for many, Mark 14:23-24.

But He kept silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

Jesus said, I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven, Mark  14:61-62.

Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors. And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your head, O you gates! Lift up, everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory, Psalm 24:7-10.

Then Jesus said to them, A little while longer the Light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light,  John  12:35-36.

And I will pray to the Father and He will give another Helper, that He may abide with you forever- the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans, I will come to you. A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.

At that day, you will know the I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love Him and manifest Myself to him, John 14:16-21.

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen. Also the heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly,  Isaiah 32:3-4.

Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; they will see the land that is very far off,  Isaiah 33:17.

Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway? Take out the stones, lift up a banner for the peoples! Indeed the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the world: Say to the daughter of Zion, surely your salvation is coming; behold His reward is with Him, and His work before Him. And they shall call them  The Holy People, the Redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken, Isaiah 62:11-12.

Welcome to His land and His heart. This is heaven!! The door is open, enter into the gates of thanksgiving and praise. Within the lighthouse, there is our King.

Behold, He is now seated above the cross shining with brillant hues not found on this earth!

Enter in and come, as He reveals Himself to all who seek! 

Selah!

 Part 1

If you had tickets, I am sure you used them! If not, with most of America you had a TV view of the Superbowl. I know it is a little late for America’s great game, however, there is another super bowl that the Lord is very interested in…..

He is the Winning Team, by Himself  and yet, we get the benefits! We happen to win because of His grace! Hey, He called us to be His! How awesome is that! That is why we watch the Super Bowl, right? We watch to see who the best team of the year is????? What about eternity with the Lord King Jesus Christ won all for us……I want to be on the winning team, as everyone does, right?  Let us make sure we are…… Let us make sure we know Him and He knows what house we are from…..

We hear a lot of songs of longing to go behind the veil. I also hear songs of the Holy Spirit requesting us  to- come up here. Well, by our faith, we have entered into heaven’s realm and we are seated in heavenly places…… Do you think that there is more available? Let us think about what the Lord’s view of the Super Bowl……

Behind the veil there is a huge super bowl, the throne of God……The cost is greater and the rewards are higher than we can think or imagine. The vessels that the King chooses to use are within His touch and voice…..He uses His vessels by His power, not theirs….. His and His alone, He will always get the glory…. not man or woman, infact He will use the weakest on the team or army because the power will be of Him not mans.

There seems to be layers of discerning to uncover as we climb the steps of the Lord’s leading regarding our journey.  When we set out on our race to go higher, we go deeper first…. The roots have to be strongly grounded in the Word. In the grounding process, we are put through the potters wheel as He makes us complete as a vessel useful in His hands. This has been His desire from the foundation of the world.

Our journey is as wide as it is long, in fact it is forever and everlasting to know the Lord and all He has prepared for us because of His great love.

Do we dare to ask to go behind the veil deeper with the Holy Spirit ….. Will we bear the cost of going deep? Sometimes the journey is so deep we may feel we are drowning? It may even seem that there is no help but God’s that will get us through alive.        Exactly!

He is smiling as His plan is being established in our lives for His purpose and His love…… He is God and we are not. He is our Savior and we can’t even save a gnat from death! We learn our utter dependence on the One who was and is and forever will be. This is the way of Lord, He leads us through the wilderness as He did with Israel. He leads  us through the wilderness so we may enter in to His Land fully- Him….. The Lord is  full of far distances! His ways are magnificent!

Behind the veil, the work of the Lord’s Spirit is done in secret…. Yup, the secret place of the Most High. The sufferings of the Lord as well as the pleasure of the fellowship with Him….. Friends share everything, right? Husband and wife share everything, right? So our Lord desires that with us, right?

Some of the stuff we share already has been crucified on the cross. He can not share that….. We will worship Him in Spirit and truth. It is His job to tell us  by that action or thought or word, we left the abiding in Him to reign in our carnal flesh.  It has to die as He did on the cross…… Our flesh now has to be torn so the room is there for the resurrection power of Christ to dwell. He is working on His bowl!

Friends have to be proven trustworthy, as the Lord does with us….. He is determined to make us One with the Father, the Son and by the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit hands out the tickets to those who mean business with the Lord. If we are seeking His face….. the ticket will be presented to us… guaranteed…. The Holy Spirit is about His business…..Maybe He hands them to all, but some do not realize they have been offered because other offers came in along side….. Some maybe picked another ticket instead of the ticket of the high calling of  God in the Lord Jesus Christ.

The word super in Strong’s concordance is to super abound;- abound much more, exceeding. The word bowl in Strong’s concordance is a sacrificial basin, a dish for holding blood or wine, a cup of oil, to depress, a basin as in deepened out, something advanced or deep.

Well, within the veil, the Holy Spirit is busy deepening us out through dark and hard adversities so that we may then carry the Testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. The walk of faith by night…. not by sight!

We will hold super abounding oil representing the Holy Spirit and the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Perfect Sacrifice from God for God, as we are the recipients. Our love will be squeezed out  as wine and our obedience to holiness as a sweet smelling aroma poured forth before the Lord.

The Holy Spirit is offering all to be a vessel or bowl for and unto the Lord…. If we are Christians, we will be vessels unto to the Lord. But as Paul, the Apostle, states in 2 Timothy 2 : 20-22, 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 any one cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

This is an opportunity to get off the sidelines and get into the game or the battle for the Lord today….. We have been picked for His team or army, if you will…… Will we use our Super Bowl tickets from the Holy Spirit, or will the tickets be found lost in our junk drawer because we did not hold His offer as a treasure. A treasure work offered from the Father’s heart to be His.

He offers all to get behind the curtain and let His secret work begin…..We start at the bottom of the cross in the dirt, as we see the Lord on the cross as He suffered for us. But as we grow in the Lord, we climb the cross of the Lord, as the Holy Spirit holds our hands and feeble hearts…. We climb the cross because we are being deepened by the Spirit to be holy and separate unto Him, so that we may be filled with His Resurrection power. His body is alive and living by the power of God.

So what are we going to do with our Super Bowl tickets? Save them for next year, so that they get lost in the junk drawer or…hand them in with shaking hands and tender hearts, saying I do not understand all that lays before me, Lord….. but I trust you. Your will be done, I know if I die, I will arise by Your love, which is You.

Selah~ Bowl spiritually means our heart! ~ Selah

Let is be said by the Lord of us- Your fruit is found in Me. Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right; The righteous walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them, Hosea 14:8-9.

I  hope that is the reality that you have found in  the love of God towards His children, and that includes you and me!

If it is not, I dare you to rest in the truth that He has chosen you to be His child born again from heaven. He has called His sons and daughters in Christ Jesus from the foundation of the world as written in Ephesians 1:4, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation that we should be holy and without blame before in Him in love…..

Wow! Is that not just beyond awesome…. We have always been in God’s mind. The plan of Jesus Christ  to redeem us from the unholiness and blame of the separation from our God. Only God could do that!

Now, by the grace of God, we are brought close to the Lord through the veil that was torn by Jesus Christ’s flesh. We can enter in…..to His realm, to know His love, His life…. Though He never stopped loving us, but because of the greatness of the Great IAM, we could not approach Him.  Let alone have a relationship….. or have knowledge of Him by truth and grace in the gift of the Spirit, as we treasure now.

So His love is so outstanding when you sit before Him, His love makes us feel we are the only ones in His eyes…. Yes, He looks at us through His beloved Son…. but the plan of God was wanting to spend all of eternity with your presence in His!  This is outstanding news…. Amen? Yeah!!! Amen!

Now the best news will be when we can look at each other in Christ and see His favorites in each other. Then treat each other as we would treat God’s favorite…. We want to be treated that way by others, but it starts with us first…..

How about we see and treat each other as though Christ’s home is within each of us. We then act through the love we have in Him and from Him towards all the brethren… as we know that we are all His favorites because we abide in His Beloved Son…..Jesus Christ showed us the great tenderness of our heavenly Father….loving, correcting, guiding us by His Spirit.

It is easy to see Christ in others and love them and see how God treasures them, if you already know you are treasured in God’s eyes.

We cannot give what we do not have…. We cannot see the love and the kingdom of God in others if we do not see the kingdom within us and His great love establishing us in His Son, Jesus Christ.

So we can also conclude that if people are looking for worst in each other, it is because they are seeing the worst in themselves. But the good news and truth is  we are dead in the baptism of the cross of Christ and have been resurrected with Him in new life. Do you believe that?

I think if we did, we would not slander, gossip, judge…. break the rules that Jesus Christ have laid down before us…..( My paraphrase), Love God with your all and treat everyone as you want to be treated…. We would not be taking the commands lightly if we really saw the holiness of the Lord in us and His desire for that to arise in us.

We can only give what we have—– godly qualities or carnal flesh. However, we are admonished in Galatians to watch our sowing and reaping, for we will receive the work of our hands, mouth and the source, which is our heart.

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

The works of the cross in each of our lives will be evident in how we treat the brethren and “brethren to be”.  Why judge before the time as Paul writes to us. What are we judging anyway?

How much Christ is in each other or how much darkness we see in each other?……If we are looking for darkness, we are growing the darkness within each of us…. However, if we look for the Light of Christ, hidden in His vessels…. We will see the Light of the world as the Light of the world is growing in us. We will comprehend how much Christ loves us and see why that love exists and pours forth for each other…. No mushy gushy touchy feely affections that fleet in a moment or sound great in a hallmark card…. but deep down living love by the Spirit of God, seeing Christ and showing Christ in the brethren….. No matter what fleeting feeling feel comes by us!

Love opens the door and offers the sight of  the staircase of ascending in Christ’s love to all…..We can share that vision with all or close the door by our own darkness seeing only darkness in our brethren. Our choice again.

Let us choose to love and grow in the Light as Christ is growing within us….. or choose to see the darkness  and let the Light of Christ diminish by the harshness of hate and works of the flesh.

We have choices everyday to live in His love and grace and pass that on to each other by seeing their worth in our Heavenly Father’s eyes or we can choose to be in darkness. The problem is as we continue this misguided path we won’t know how dark that darkness is until the day of reckoning with the Lord.

As Paul admonishes us in Romans 8:5-8, For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then those that are in the flesh cannot please God.

It is wise to stand with the word of God written on the brethren than stand against God! For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified, these He also glorified.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Let our King Christ Jesus find us not speaking against the brethren, whom He died to redeem because He loved us all! He is in our midst! After all, we are speaking against His own body! We are speaking against Christ?  What was the sin that Jesus Christ said that would not be forgiven????? Do we understand what He meant when He spoke out the rule of heaven in regards to the Holy Spirit and His work?

How is your gift from the Lord for 2015 growing?

Who Do You Say I AM for your brethren or neighbors or nations far away?

Your love, My King, never ends or fails for each one of us! Lord, I pray that we seek open eyes to Your great love within each of us to shine and spread throughout Your body as we love as You. Let us draw Your Light out from within each other by Your love flowing through us.

Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. For he who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him speak pace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their prayers; for the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, ( 1 Peter 3:9-12).

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down on the beard, the beard of Aaron ( Jesus Christ), running down the edge of His garments. It is like the dew of Hermon, descending upon the mountain of Zion; for there the Lord commanded the blessings- life forevermore!, ( Psalm 133).

Let us be found obedient that we love as He loves to the best of His Light within.

Selah!