We read the last letter to the churches from Jesus Christ, the letter to the Laodiceans.  Jesus Christ presents Himself as the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God in verse 14 of chapter 3. It really matters the origin or root that we are from…. What do you mean, lady?….

Well, in the Book of Gospel of John, it is written 1;12-13, But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those that believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Someday, only, the Father knows when this world will burn up in fire. As Peter states in 2 Peter 3;10-14, But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in godly conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless…

The new heavens and new earth are where the new creation ones born from above will dwell. As it written in Hebrews 12;22-24 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 firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

As we study this letter  along with all the other exhortations, let us follow the instructions of Hebrews 12;25-29, See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice shook the earth; but now He has promised saying, Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.  Now this, 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 fear. For our God is a consuming fire. 

We can all stand in agreement that God is an wonderfully awesome God. Well, through His Son, the Firstborn from the dead, we live and shall live forever if we abide in His love and commands, (John 14).   We would be foolish to think that we can live on this earth once we have tasted of the goodness in His Son in His grace and mercy and sacrifice and despise His promises of our inheritance with no consequence.

Sometimes we  are deceived in the here and now. We loose the vision of the Uncreated One’s  eye that knows and shows us the end from the beginning….. We let go of heaven and touch the earthly ways.  We loose the ability to hear of His voice warning us.  What is His warning to the Laodiceans?

God had great plans for the Abraham’s lineage. Isaac was his son born by the promise of God. God wanted Abraham to know God was behind the birth of Isaac, the promise. Abraham and Sarah were too old to bear children, however, nothing is impossible with God.  God’s will was to give an inheritance through this child, Isaac. Then Isaac produced two sons, Jacob and Esau. Jacob supplanted Esau. He tricked Esau in trading his inheritance as the firstborn for stew. Now through Jacob, Israel was brought forth….. God’s plan for a nation that was  set apart for Him and His glory….. but Esau lost out to be in the greatest of God’s plan.

We have an inheritance in our Lord. This world is not our destination, it is not our home for those that call on the name of Jesus Christ.   The Apostle John saw our inheritance in his vision of heaven and the visions that the Book of Revelation speaks.  He wrote in 1 John 1;15-17, Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world- the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life- is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

I believe John is speaking from first hand experience as he saw the heavens and the earth roll up like a scroll from the face of God Almighty in the day of judgment, the Day of the Lord. It is foolish to lack the knowledge of the exhortations of the Lord. We need to have understanding of His ways so that we may humble ourselves and then turn in repentance to align ourselves with His will.

In verse 16-17, So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing- and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked-.

This rebuke is not to the world, this is to His people, His church.  The Father has called us to be His own in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ sees His inheritance getting tarnished by the deceit of the evil one. They fell for the lust of their eyes and flesh and the pride of life…..Did they flunk the test of temptations in their wilderness?  How are we doing in the testing in our wilderness? Just a question, how far away from His presence do you think the Lord spews out those who are lukewarm? Would you think that could be rejecting something from His body that doesn’t agree with Him? Hmmmmm…… Selah!

We have to know and learn the way of the Kingdom of God is upside down,( actually right side up), from the ways of the world. Jesus Christ spoke this in Luke 16;15, You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Choosing to be big here, we jeopardize our greatness in God’ plan. Big is just big in this world. But to be used for the greatness of God’s plan, well, that should speak for itself, …. I hope. The greatness of God’s plan and His reward is everlasting. This world’s wealth and fame is here today, and gone tomorrow, but most important to realize is that we have chosen the lesser. It is a lie  from our enemy saying we can have the best of both worlds…That is not the truth.

We missed the test if we have gone after being big here. We have gone after the fool’s gold. It looks real but alas….. it is only a mirage of the True Reality. Then we have to search out ourselves in  what means did we bow to get that fool’s gold?   What did we compromise to win the big?

Jesus Christ counsels us in verse 18-19, I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore, be zealous and repent.

What is the gold that the Lord is speaking? Where is the eye salve? Big doesn’t work in His eyes, but us choosing the greatness of our God does….. Why does the Lord keep bringing up those white garments? Why are they so important to Him? What is the symbolic meaning of gold? Big today or the greatness of being in His plan and tomorrow’s promise of the Lord….. Choose before you today……

There may be shame and not fame.  There may be slander instead of men’s praises.There may be loss and not gain of the earth’s dross, (riches). There may be  hunger and even death from this earth yet, there is resurrection and hidden manna for us to feast on….. Which is the greater? Which is the higher way? Which is the way of the cross? Which is the way of our Lord’s?

… Too much food here to eat at one study time, we will pick up our great God’s plan up next blog…. God willing.

Selah…… To be a vessel pouring out His greatness or be big in  a moment and loose our greatest potential. There is a cost for both, which  is the wisest choice and the worthiest cost to bear? Whose eyes do we live before? God’s or men and why?

Okay, Jesus Christ has set before us an open door, and no one can shut as He spoke  to the Philadelphia church in chapter 3 of Revelation……. Do you see where the door is? Is the door  open in the spiritual realm or in the natural?  This news also means that no one on the earth or in the heavens can shut this door. So do you see it? Where is it? What does that open door mean to us and to Jesus Christ?

Okay, we know as written  in John 10; 9, Jesus states, I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 

Now in verse 12, the promise to the  overcomer from Jesus Christ, He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out from heaven from My God. And I will write on Him My new name.  What are we to overcome here and how?  Is the answer in the open door?

So where is the door? Do you know? He is the One who has the key of David. He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens.  Does this have to do with the kingdom of God and what is loosed in heaven is also loosed in earth and what is bound in heaven is also bound in the earth….. when His people pray in His name?

Do you think that this door has to do with our authority in prayer? As we learned before  we are to do all things through Christ. As He  strengthens us in His Spirit….. we then can complete His will here on earth regarding the Kingdom of God….. Remember, it is written in 2 Corinthians 3;17, Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord, is there is liberty.… From what?  Darkness, yes, darkness loses their hold  when we pray over others in bondage and even to the nations.

To think, that we have been given that authority in Jesus Christ’s name to spread His Light and knowledge of the Kingdom of God in union with Him!  We did learn that without Him we can do nothing….. So in Him we  have found pasture and comfort of the Lord, now we should pray for others that have not—-YET!  What a privilege we have in binding what is not allowed in heaven on earth and loose what is in heaven to be on this earth…. I wonder if we live  to the importance of this authority that He has bestowed on us. A life of action in prayer and if need be…  then do…. but first live by prayer and communion with God….

We can even pray for those of the saints that are in hard places for His name and help them by His name….. The saints prayed for Peter and the angel of God showed up and released Peter…..There is no limit to a life of prayer with Christ. No excuses, no need for money, or plane tickets or gas money, just a heart for their Heavenly Father’s  family and faith that He answers all prayers of His children.

Our Lord is well pleased with this church. Why?   To the One who holds the world in His hands and knows the End from the Beginning, we ask to know You and love You better…. I live to search Him out. I want to know what is important to this Great God…. You too?

The rewards from Jesus Christ in verse 12 are very awesome….. I would also point out that this is His will for His people that call on His name….. What does a pillar do in a building? Why a pillar?  What do pillars symbolize? What then are we to be as pillars?

Also notice that we do not go out anymore….. in John 10; 9, we come and go to pasture.

In this little verse our King of all kings has passed us as overcomers…..I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which come down  out of heaven from My God, as Jesus Christ states in verse 12…… The word write from Strong’s concordance in Greek means describe….. Selah…… And I will write on him My new name…..Think about that word describe in place of write…..

As overcomers, we will be the description of our God. Does that mean we will be an open book , with no deceit, reflecting the unseen God?….. Do you think that is the Father’s heart and plan? Remember when Jesus told Philip in John 14; 9, Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, show us the Father?

As the Holy Spirit continues transforming us into the image of the Son of God, let us remember the inheritance that Jesus Christ died to give us. We are His inheritance and He is ours…. We get all of Him and He will seek us out until He gets all of us. Let us not resemble Esau who despised his inheritance for some stew of this earth.

Let us look to the pleasure of our King and our Heavenly Father. We are to live here as living stones/ testimony to the etchings of our God,  in and through, and all over us,  pointing to our  God, the Uncreated One. Let’s be the sharp arrow from the quiver of our King to His enemies of darkness, the impostors.

The word crown also means to spread out, be separated unto, protection.    Hey, did you notice we already have a crown?  Read verse 11. What is His purpose for us to have crowns here on earth? What are we to hold fast to so that no one take our crowns?   So there is some one after our crown? Who and why? For what purpose?

When Jesus Christ walked this earth with the 12 guys. The common people loved Him. They delighted in Him….. But the ones who didn’t, were plotting His death. Why?  They did not want Jesus to get His inheritance, us, His people.  They tried to take His crown by sending Him to His death. He never lost His crown……In His kingdom there is only one way to keep our crown…Do you know the way? Hold that  answer close to your remembrance for the days ahead. The same spirit that tried to stop Jesus Christ is still here in this age trying to stop the Spirit working through us…… The spirit of this age will lose, but we are in a battle….. We do know the end from this battle, however, there are always casualties, so let us ……Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong , as Paul instructs us from 1 Corinthians 16;13.

We could stay on this letter for a long time…. Please take time to meditate on the rich food that is in this letter….. This church resides in our Lord’s heart…..He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Selah!

Join us in our study of the Book of Revelation, pick up my book: Jesus Christ, The King Of All Kings And The Lord Of All Lords, The Judge Of His Creation. We are studying chapter 7 of my book and are in chapter 3 of the Book of Revelation….  Love to have you join us.

We all have seen broken windows or graffiti painted on the walls of churches. We all think it is so sad the lack of respect or honor towards the Lord…..Well, He looks at His house, which is us now, the church, the same way! He does not like it if we allow the graffiti of the world to be allowed to be on and in our bodies, (the walls), in our minds,( the windows). Now I am not talking about tattoos but that can be included, there are  more damaging graffiti out there that gets on or in us, that defiles the temple of God! The defilement turns us unclean before the Lord !

When God showed Ezekiel the temple and the abominations that were going on there, the Lord called that defilement of the place where He puts His name….. The same goes for us now,  we are the house of His name and Spirit. As Paul writes we are now the temple of the God….in 2 Corinthians 6;16-17, And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living. As God has said: I will dwell with them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people, therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Almighty God.

The precious Blood of Jesus cleansed us from our sins. Do we really understand the abominations of God ? What is sin from His viewpoint?  Our lives will reflect the knowledge, fear and value we have of the Lord and His house.

I see  the flow of His blood as He looks down at me from His cross with those never ending love eyes, as I look up at Him in awe. I go there often, for I am learning to see how He sees, sometimes, I think I live there in the Spirit. Is that His plan?…..Is that the heavenly place?  The lowest place for the King of all Kings is  really the Highest in the eyes of God?Hmmmm…..So if we are followers of the Lamb, what does that mean for us? Selah…..

The lives of the people of God that were committing abominations, worshiping false gods,  defiled His house in the days of Ezekiel.  They had the law from Moses for their knowledge, now we have a close and upfront personal fellowship with His Spirit….. Our lives reflect our pursuing  the knowledge of God or not….See our heart reveals our walls, windows and doors of His temple today.

What does verse  3;1 of  Revelation and Zechariah 4;6 &7 have in common? Our King presents Himself has having the Seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, (the messengers).   This salvation is by grace, grace and more grace and by the Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ said in verse 4,  You have a FEW names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white for they are worthy.

What are the works that are not found perfect before God as written in verse 2?  Perfect in Hebrew in Strong’s Accordance means mature or complete…..If it is written in Colossians 2;10, that we are complete in Him. We can conclude that the works are to be from the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, not of our own making and doing…

When we do a project “for” God and we can boast of it, as it were us…. that is a spot!  That is pride and independence….. Jesus Christ did not pray in John 17, that we would now be independent of Him and the Father in doing works!  No, not at all! In John 17;21,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 that You sent Me……

Even Paul went on to say in 1 Corinthians 1;26-29, For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things that are mighty; and the base things of the world and things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.

It is a wise way to allow the Holy Spirit to blot out our pride now, then we get blotted out from the Lamb’s Book of  Life later. We need to understand what the Holy Spirit is saying to us.

Jesus gave us clear instructions in His example in John 15;1-6, I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

The works that are perfect that God desires comes from union with God. As we abide in Jesus Christ, we are simply the branch. God supplies the Sap, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the fruit is eternal because it is all from God… just as our Salvation is from Him…. We can not save others only be the vessel or vine that supplies the Word and His Spirit does the work in the hearts of people…. We are in union with God as He works His work through us as we abide in Christ. He then calls the work perfect because He loves the fruit! It is all His, from the Beginning to the End. As long as we remain in Christ, we are with the One that is the Beginning and the End…. Christ will be all and in all.

We can get kicked off the team here! It is written by God! God’s rules! He said and that settles it!  It is written in red even! Look at verse 5&6, He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments,  and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess His name before My Father and before His angels.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.   SELAH!!!!!

Okay….. Then Ezekiel views  through the hole very hard things that the elders and leaders of the temple were committing against God in Chapter 8 of the Book of Ezekiel. They were worshiping idols that were painted on the wall….. I guess for today, it would be the internet, maybe pornography, games or movies, even business matters…. Anything that would be a abomination to the sight of our Lord that His people are allowing in their life that is deceitful and a lie against the Truth….. as it is with the head so goes the body….

What would you do if the Holy Spirit showed up behind you one day and took you to the pews of the current day church…. and then spoke to you…… Look behind the bibles in the holder. So you obey and lift the bible out and see a pornographic magazine there,( by the way, it had a brown paper covering the pix, but the title of a magazine was seen).  You hear His sad voice say, child, this is how My people are living and they think that I do not see.

In Jeremiah 23:23,   Am I a God near at hand, says the Lord, And not a God afar off? Can anyone hide himself in secret places, so I shall not see him?, says the Lord; Do I not fill heaven and earth?, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 23; 28,  The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is chaff to the wheat?, says the Lord. Is not My word like a fire?, says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

As we read through the letter to Thyatira from Jesus Christ, the Son of God who has eyes like a flame of fire and His feet like fine brass, are we realizing WHEN the Word of God is being manipulated to suit peoples taste buds, and a tickling to the ear?

What if we only ate dessert day in and day out…. only did what we wanted to do as children always wanting to play? What if we really ate the Word of God so that we could be mature children of God. Mature ones that discern  both good and evil as the writer of Hebrews chastises us to be.

If we ate dessert always, first of all, our teeth would rot as well as our insides. We would be good for nothing…Sort of like branches of a tree that are not producing fruit. They are so weak from lack of  healthy nutrition that they are rotten…. Rotten branches fall during a storm.

We are not to live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. If we know the Truth of the word, we will know when deception and false teaching is being taught by  false leaders; prophets, priests, apostles, pastors, teachers, evangelists, kings,  and presidents.

We will have the discernment to identify false teaching;  it is not burning me,   it is not challenging me,   it is not convicting me….. This word does not urge me to know or to love God more.

Let us put the word of God in our hearts deeply….. so when a rat comes along disguised as a person of God, we can tell a rat is a rat or a wolf is a wolf and not be deceived, even if they have a following. Remember, Satan has a great following by those chasing after signs and wonders, he can deceive by outward appearances and deceptive sweet words….to tickle the ears of the unlearned.  Satan knows the Word of God. Check out chapter 13 of Revelation.

Those that have ears to hear, hear what the Spirit is saying to our hearts today. God is love and He is jealous over His people…. We do not want to despise His word and perish.  His word is the knowledge of God illuminated by the Spirit. The word states that My people perish for lack of knowledge…. knowledge of who and what? God and His ways.

We do not want to fall into the hands of the living God. He hates those that commit adultery with Him, He is a jealous Husband…. As verse 21-23 of chapter 2 states: And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.

Adultery with the Lord is worshipping another false god….. as a god. It is putting some other thing, person, habit above Him….. as first place in our lives….. That is breaking the first commandment that He gave us to live by….. We are to love Him above all else and with all we got and what we don’t have, His grace will supply to complete the command…. (my paraphrase)….. God said it and that settles it.

Our God is a great and awesome God who deserves all honor, worship and all praise for evermore from His people….. Let us have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying today to us so that we may turn from our wicked ways and then He may heal our hearts and then our land. If He seems far away, the fault is not His. Our ways against Him have built a wall of separation. The wall  is our doing, not His….. However, His blood will cleanse us from all sin, if we turn away from the sin and wickedness and ask His forgiveness……He is faithful and His love never fails!

If you study the Truth, you will know the counterfeit a mile away. Remember, God’s word lifts us up into the heavenlies, where we can see as God sees.

God’s grace is the strength of God, not to taken for granted or despised.

As Jesus Christ stated in verse 25-27, But hold fast what you have until I come. And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations- He shall rule them with a rod of iron; they shall be dashed to pieces like a potter’s vessels’ – as I have received from My Father. 

God Almighty makes the rules and woe to the one who raises their fist to manipulate or try to change them and deceive mankind for their fame, name and gain. Selah!

As the sheep of our Lord Jesus Christ, let us only know and have ears that recognize the Lord’s words and ways….. Let us know Him, our Shepherd, above all else in our lives and be true to Him. As Jesus warned His disciples in Matthew 10;16, Behold, I send you out as sheep as in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

Let us be wise in the ways of God, and not be as what Forrest Gump says, stupid is as stupid does. Selah…..

Did you ever notice when you view from a high place, it is almost as if you can see forever? Why is that? Why did Paul want us to see ourselves positioned above in the heavenlies with Christ? He first told us that Christ is seated there in chapter 1.  Paul then proceeded to tell us that we are there also in the heavenlies seated with Christ in chapter 2.

Did your focus change when you read and then saw yourself seated in the heavenlies with Christ? The world’s view as well as our view of our own lives changes doesn’t it?

Well, the Holy Spirit wants us to see from the view He does…… from heaven above.  We can see from the letter sent to Pergamos that there are currently holds or ties of the world in the followers of Jesus. These ties make us bound to the earth or the worldly ways instead relying on the power of God as our Sufficiency and Refuge. We die to the world and live to Christ.   Walking in the Spirit is  trusting our God for all things. Unless…..

Our own hearts  show us our deception if we want the Lord  to make our lives full of success according to the world or even the western churches standards of success.  Selah…

Remember God did sustain the Israelites in the wilderness for forty years, even their shoes did not wear out….. His arm is not shortened now for us, in fact, with the Holy Spirit within us , our abundance of His life is without limit!  We should be choosing the higher life and cutting the ties that keep our thinking and desires earthbound……How can we bow  to accept any  means of sustenance that the world has to offer as  our highest goals or desires in this life?

The best standard of the world is as dung compared to the value of knowing and living with  our God daily in close fellowship. When God answers our prayers and we hear His voice to lead us here and warn us of this or that……How can that be measured with this earthly plain? However, we can not have both!  The Giver of all, our Great God, who gives life to the dead and who chooses now to reside within us…… or……. this earth which is beautiful because He created it but it is fallen because of man’s ways choosing to close out the God that created it!   Choosing the higher life seems to me as a no brainer here, right?

We have died to the world and the world has to died to us. We live only to Christ…. We are after His fame and His Kingdom’s growth, not our own here….. We cannot serve two masters.

We deceive ourselves greatly, if we live  what the world says to do to be okay and also do what Jesus Christ says and be okay with Him….. We will lose that battle as the Holy Spirit spoke saying to us from the One who has the sharp two-edged sword.  Jesus Christ says in verse 16 of chapter 2, Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.

 We have to live by the Truth that has been given to us. God has given us the grace to carry and live by His Word, or by the sword by His mouth.

We consistently have to monitor our Food intake…. Where are we getting our comfort and satisfaction and peace?  What is the purpose of our Food….. Is it to grow us spiritually or naturally? What are we chasing or pursuing with our waking moments? We may be busy with tasks of the day, but our heart can be turned towards our God.  We can take a minute and let Him know we love Him or ask our need of Him….. Our dependence on Him in our every breath should show us, that we need Him in all things…..big and little.

Where is our view? Is it from above with our King?  Are we pursuing His rights and His heart? Are we seeking earnestly to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God…..

Expect great views from above revealing the lies and deceptions of the enemy….. We will be lifted up above our enemies as we partake of  the Table of Lord that is set before us…..

Peter saw as the Lord saw in Acts. Paul also saw as the Lord saw and, of course, John and many others. If the same view was available to them, cannot we partake of the hidden manna that they lived in?   Ask and keep asking…..

Remember God respects our faith. He also tests us, not tempt, but tests us to show us our heart desires. He does not do this for condemnation but for our illumination to let go of the lesser for the better….  He wants us growing in His Spirit as His Spirit will be growing in us, taking a greater reign in and through our lives.

So what is your new name that is written on the white stone that the Lord gives?   Keep asking and don’t give up….. I have seen people stand in a line for hours, even days, to get some thing that will be soon outdated or broken or for a show, rides…..

How much tenacity do we have to pursue the One we cannot see, but we believe is waiting…

How much stamina do we have to live before the Audience of One as we believe He is watching…..

How much love does the One who is watching and waiting have for His own ?

He has shown us  by stretching out His arms and dying to be with us…. We show our love by dying to the world on our little cross, so we can be with Him where He is……

So we can understand His view that He has died  and rose to share with us….. Let us have eyes to see the True Value of the Gift of God to His children……His heavenly children being made into the image of the Firstborn of the dead within them, so we can be with God forever.

Remember, as Paul wrote in Galatians 6:7-8, Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For He who sows to His flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting choice. 

Every minute, we make a choice towards Him or away from Him. Ask for His strength or grace  to go towards Him. He is here with us.  Remember how He loves us, His beloved….. His love now resides in us to die for Him to the world and maybe this natural life…. Are we prepared to go to death for His name sake if put before us ? Selah….

The greatness of our God is that He is willing to share Himself with us, but we have to turn away from the world’s stuff that is occupying our hearts and give Him the place to grow in us the Tree of Life by His hidden manna….. Are you hungry and thirsty for His Everlasting Food?…. Do you hear the dinner bell ringing?……. Come up and get it!!!!