Is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and who loses his life for My sake will find it, said Jesus to His disciples and us in Matthew 10:38 & 39…..

The second letter to the church of Smyrna, the Holy Spirit is letting Jesus Christ’s followers, He is in charge. There is nothing in this universe that happens that His sovereignty is not involved…. nothing.

May we grow in the knowledge that our flesh life here on this earth is not the all! May we seek God for His Wisdom to know this life here is just a launch pad for the manifestation of our real life in Jesus Christ for all eternity…. Maybe we need to change our out  look at our life here as a school where we will be promoted or not. All  is depending on our  walk of faith in allowing the Spirit to prove  Christ’s image to manifest through us and follow His way .

Since Jesus Christ addresses us in this letter as the First and the Last, who was dead and came to life in verse 8, chapter 2. He is our Beginning and our End is in Him, and then where we begin again as a new creation in Him…..It is All in the Son and will be forever more….. May we focus on the End that God does…. Christ will be all in all….. Everything else that is not Christ won’t be……

So the Holy Spirit is diligent to prove in us the image of Christ and God allows His good to come from plans of evil….. So if we get thrown in prison or whatever adversity that the devil cooks up against us…. God will turn this trial to His good because we love Him and trust Him in all things—– right?  We may have to speak this often: Lord, my life  I commit to Your hands and trust in You regarding the outcome.

There are many saints that have laid down their lives for Jesus’ name sake and are in the process now as we live and breath free here in America…… for now……   But we better prepare our hearts and minds for persecution of that kind. We must learn to toughen up our inner man and totally weaken the flesh and its complaints against hardship….. Remember carry our cross……..

One day the opportunity may come across our door…… Do we really believe all we need is Christ?

The devil can mess with our lives and if you do not believe that then explain to me all the trials and tribulations and adversities that David, Jesus Christ, Stephen, James, Peter, Paul….. God in His sovereignty allows stuff, however, they can not touch the glory of God within us or stop the Spirit within us. The truth that our mortal body will be changed to an incorruptible body should allow us to grow in our faith and stand strong in keeping the Testimony of Jesus Christ……. The devil wants  to shut up our mouths on the Testimony of Jesus Christ and the rights that God has in His creation….. by whatever means he can.

I pray we have a heart revelation of our need to strengthen our inner man where His Spirit dwells and weaken our carnal nature. It may be that today all looks well, but a perfect garden is not promised us here. Can you see the sign of the times that there is a storm brewing….? The time is short. Let us prepare by growing in strength our hidden lives in Christ to make sure we are standing strong in Christ after the storm.

Jesus told us in Sermon On The Mount about who will be standing and who will be destroyed after the storms come,( Matthew 7). Only those who live the sayings of Christ .

Let us have our faith strengthened  as the many who were delighted they were counted worthy to suffer for Jesus’ name in the Books of Acts!

We know how it hurts our eyes when someone shines a light in the dark!  Expect a reaction as Jesus told us ! Nonetheless, keep shining Him!

Selah!

Can I ask a question?

Is the salvation offered from God part of getting our ducks lined up in a row? We have a plan for our retirement, we have our funds set aside in our 401k or IRA accounts. We have our house and we can even take care of our retirement out of this world……… the salvation of God through Jesus Christ…..  Is that the way God intended His Son to be, our convenient plan?  Only maybe to be dealt with on our sick or death bed?

The Holy Spirit speaks to us what He has heard from the throne in heaven….. Our King and Savior, our First  Love, has said we have left the place that He has for us  ( actually in Him), to be where He is….. He sees us operating our salvation from the horizontal view.

Thanks Jesus, we have Your salvation. We now can handle things from here. We will continue to do things that we feel is right and comfortable to us. There are some leaders of churches say that the gifts  Jesus gives to the church  are no longer needed  (Ephesians 4;10-15).  Where is that written in the Word? As I have also heard the gifts that the Holy Spirit gives are no longer needed( 1 Corinthians 12;1-14). Where is that written in the Word? It is that 2+2=5 syndrome of man’s pride running a muck again…. We cannot change the rules or plans of God, without receiving a great penalty.

It is written in Hebrews 13;8, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.  Jesus Christ, our King,  views us from His throne. What does He see in this generation?  Does His eyes of fire see us without vision and knowledge of the truth so that we are easily deceived and led to  perish?

It is  written in 2 Timothy 3;16-17, All Scripture is given by the inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, and thoroughly equipped for every good work.

There are certain situations where the core beliefs and foundations in this country are trying to be changed and are being changed. Why should the church be upset? When the very foundations of God that has been written in the Bible by God, The Holy One, The Ancient of Days, is being changed to suit our unbelief by His people.

Jesus stated in Luke 18;7-8, And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?

There was a king that threw a great party. All people came from many nations to be a part of the party.  He blessed everyone with great benefits and also established rules that are a part of His kingdom.  Everyone went home with joy of the benefits and rules. They vowed to follow Him and honor Him with their lives because they loved this King, for He was great.

Time went on,  the people’s lives went on with the business of the day. Storms came. Every body seemed to have a trouble of here and of there. They started to grumble and wanted a quick fix.  They started to complain against the King. They forgot His rules and started to make their own. They made their own because they didn’t think the King would help them or noticed any more.

Well, He noticed. What do you think the Great King will do with that treason? Hasn’t this happened before?

If I remember correctly, it did. Was it not called the fall of man? Yet, the Holy Spirit mentions in chapter 2;5, Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to quickly and remove your lampstand from its place- unless you repent.    Hmmmm…..

Does man always repeat history of man with the same mistakes with out learning?… Selah! Didn’t we yet  learn that there is another voice  from the deceiver? An enemy of God and the King whispers in our ear an easier way. The enemy portraying an easy road for our carnal nature so that we turn away from hearing and obeying the Word of God……

Only God can give us the grace and diligence of heart to love our King, our Savior, as we should through the good and bad….and the ugly of days…..The fall of His bride from the heavenlies will not accomplish the fullness of God’s heart and plan. Another way to view,  we are His body in this walk of faith by being faithful on this earth. We are not a part of His body if we are not found in faith. We live by heaven’s rule, not by our sight, but by God’s eye and word for us.

Can you and I have  a part of our own body out of alignment with our mind and be okay? If some part of our body is out of joint, we usually stop to get this part aligned or fixed, right?

The Holy Spirit is sending a message to get back into alignment with the King, if not He will  remove our lampstand from its place.  In verse 20, chapter 1, Jesus Christ says the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches. 

We need to repent of our independence, then turn to be dependent on and desire for His Absolute Lordship as He  reigns over us. We ask for His mercy and grace that from today we shall live faithfully with that rule, no matter the cost. The Holy Spirit is here to enforce His reign.  The King is correcting the parts of His body that are out of joint….

Who is the Tree of Life to us? The Tree of Life is our Treasure or Prize even our life……… If we live without the Tree of Life as our Sufficiency and our Vital Need, we are out of line with the Head, the Lord Jesus Christ….. He died to give us His resurrected Life…. Life eternal, abundant forever and ever. Beloved, that resurrected Life resides in us  now…..or should be!  Let us not take the rewards of our God lightly!

Heavenly Father, forgive us and our self centered hearts towards You and Your Son, Jesus Christ. Please renew us in Your Holy Spirit of fire. Please enlighten our understanding with Your Wisdom so that we may see our true condition. May we have a courageous heart to receive Your rebuke and correction.

Give us a steadfast spirit in our inner man to remain faithful in honor and love to Your Son in this day. May we as Your Son’s bride be His voice  sounding like many waters in the wilderness crying out prepare the way of the Lord, for He is coming and all eyes shall Him.  Please hear and answer us as only You can give us the grace and love to love You our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Your Holy Spirit as we should…. for we have no clue. In Your graciousness give us eyes to see and ears to hear what Your Holy Spirit is declaring to us. In Jesus Name, we ask this and say we love You and thank You for Your mercy and grace to us.  Amen.

May You give us the endurance to keep our eyes on our Prize, Jesus Christ, as His eyes are always on His prize, us, His Beloved. All honor and glory and praise belong to You, forever and ever…. We love You. Please increase in us the love to love You rightly as we should and burn away the dross of selfishness… in Jesus name, Amen.

Selah! Give us eyes to see our Audience of One, please.

Who is the Him in the first verse of chapter 1 of the Book of Revelation?

Verse 1&2 state:The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him  to show His servants- things which most shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw.

Well, we can go back to John 16;13, Jesus describing to the disciples: However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you in all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

So the purpose of the Holy Spirit is to reveal Jesus Christ.  Remember when Jesus asked each of the disciples … but who do you say that  I AM? Do you have ears to hear Him ask us now?- But who do you say I AM?

When we start to answer Him, the Holy Spirit is ready to reveal every aspect, character, strength, ability and purpose that He is to us…. So ask Him to give  eyes to see and ears to hear and a heart to understand that we may see as John saw this Great Savior, the I Am.

Then  we  come to understand our purpose in the revelation of Christ. If we allow the Holy Spirit to take us to the depth of the ocean  in knowledge of Him…..which has no end. Then to the heavenlies of His reign in  mercy and grace….. which as far as the east is to west for those who He chose and love Him….. We still will have only scratched the surface of knowing Him.

When the Holy Spirit rides us into the depths of God, we have some very hard, yet, wouldn’t trade moments for the world, times.   These experiences open the door to start to scratch the surface in understanding the Son of God.

I mentioned a couple of blogs back regarding Esther and the custodian she received to help her prepare for the king. So Holy Spirit is our Illuminator  to the Son of God, our King. He teaches us His ways and proves us into His likeness.

He will take us as far as we want to go into knowing the WHO the Great I Am is……..The symbolism that describes the Alpha and Omega will begin to grow in us… The more we grow in the Light will equal how far we allow the Holy Spirit to show  where our thinking and ways are still operating from darkness. We have to obey the His hands of cleansing, beautifying us for the King. As we receive the experiences and knowledge  of the True  Light of the world, then the more we understand and grow in His likeness and darkness in us flees away.

Come on get on the White Horse, the Holy Spirit, in the Book of Revelation that His army rides….. Take a ride into our God. It is not for the faint heart. The Holy Spirit wants those that seek Him with all their heart….. He wants us to mean business, that we will not stop asking until He carries us into His realm: the Truth of our God, the sufferings of our God, and  to come to the never ending love of our God.

Remember Christ will be all in all….. John witnesses in 1 John 1;1-7 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life– the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write you that your joy may be full. This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness , we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

I can never take for granted the fellowship, our life in the Spirit, that is ours in Christ Jesus with our Heavenly Father….. Never because………verses 4-6:

Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, and to Him be all the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

The above scriptures, beloved, really, really chew on this…. We have the open door to fellowship with Him who is and who was and who is to come, the seven Spirits who are before His throne and Jesus Christ, the Faithful Witness….. How wonderfully exciting is this life He offers us!

How incredible and unbelievable but this is our God’ s desire toward us. Come on in, sit at the table that He has set for us before our enemies….. Rejoice, He is in our midst!

Let’s ride……..Selah!!

Yes, of course, 2+2=4 always. What would you do if you had  a teacher telling you or your children that what was written in the math books was wrong. The teacher kept teaching their own version of math. They ignoring the math books, made up their own math. Unheard of, right? Hmmmmm….

Well, I have a question for you? What is the Testimony of Jesus Christ?  Is the Testimony when He found you and saved you from your own path of destruction?

If the Lord returned today, would He find faith in His people? Would He find us allowing the Holy Spirit to bring out the Testimony of Jesus Christ to the fullest? Does He see the Holy Spirit in charge of His flock? Have we disciplined ourselves to know the discernment of His own Spirit within us to know His voice and His way?

Why did Jesus Christ come from the Father?  I know the fundamental reason was to save us from our sins, but there is some deeper purpose of the Father’s heart here, that we need to have illuminated to us.

When Jesus Christ walked the earth, He looked like any of us, except He knew Someone in the Highest Place. He revealed our Heavenly Father to us….. We never knew God as a Father prior to Jesus’s day on this earth…… Our Heavenly Father wanted us to know Him as Abba.  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?

Jesus Christ is our Savior. However, He was presented to our eyes and ears a Divine Nature in a man form. Jesus Christ was so different from us, but like us in humanity. But His ways and purpose were definitely heavenly directed. He was a Divine Deity in a man. The Second Person of the Trinity showing us God’s heart, His ways and His intention for mankind.

Jesus’ ways and words were and still are a puzzle to the natural man. That is the closed heaven or the veil of unbelief until we turn and believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and our Savior and King.

The  rift of sin and disobedience had a closed heaven that Jesus Christ came to open. So then there was little understanding of God so everyone did what was right in their own eyes….. Sort of like  believing that 2+2=5, well, because 2+2=4 is so closed minded. Selah!

Jesus came to set the standard again…. and His standard was high, way out of our reach. That is why He came as a Savior and King of Heaven, then to send to us His Holy Spirit to dwell in and with us….. Now His standard is or should be ours. What a King!!!!!

The scripture states in 1 John 5;10-12, He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

It is also written in Revelation 19:10 as John was listening to a voice that came from the throne in heaven and….I fell at this feet to worship him. But he said to me, See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus Christ is the spirit of prophecy. 

I do not know how it has trickled down that our story of Jesus taking over our lives is the Testimony of Jesus Christ. I have scriptures to prove what is God’s witness. Our stories are great, however, they are dim to the shining of the glory of God and truth  that our words should testify.  The words that Jesus Christ spoke on this earth was the Testimony of our Heavenly Father. He always pointed to the kingdom of God or to our Heavenly Father….. He was reflecting His Father and soon to be ours! Peter and Paul had great testifying opportunities….. Their words spoke of the scriptures showing that Jesus Christ is the Christ and Son of God. The testimony is not about us, our testifying is and should be of Jesus Christ.

So as we start to read chapter 1 of the Book of Revelation, please meditate on the symbolism of the description of the presentation of the Great I Am……  His Holy Spirit now is given  to reign in and through us. He is our Light to the spiritual realm, as well as, the Holy Spirit  shows the world now Jesus Christ, through us…. Selah!

There are two steps that John spells out for us in  1 John 5;4-5, For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And is the victory that has overcome the world- our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is number one- we  believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and only He can save us from our sins,  we also have been born again from heaven.

#2-1 John 5;6, This is He who came by water and blood- Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.  John 14;16-17, And I will pray to the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever- the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him no knows Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

John 15;26, But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.

So we can conclude that if we want to testify of Our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, we need God’s Spirit within us. We need Him to tell us what He hears from heaven and tell us of things to come…. as well as illuminate the ever growing revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

If you haven’t got yourself a copy of my book, pick one up and join the study!  The title is Jesus Christ, The King Of Kings And Lord Of Lords, The Judge Of His Creation.

If you want to be baptized with fire as the first followers of Jesus, ask our Heavenly Father because Jesus Christ said in Luke 11;13, If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!  Hey, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever- Hebrews 13;8. The Father and the Son still want their Spirit to be in and with us…Jesus stated in John 4;23, But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.

Selah!

So ask! Do not give up until you receive the Third Person of the Trinity who will be with you forever! Then we can do the work that comes from and through God and not work for God!  Huh?…… Selah!!

We have this blessing now, where the Holy Spirit illumines our paths…. He never uses a lamp to do it either! We do live in the dark because we are now walking by faith…. We have sight in this natural world but the spiritual world is dark to us…..Except when the Holy Spirit sheds His knowledge and wisdom in our hearts so we may see what is in the spiritual world, known as the heavenlies….He illuminates our path so we will not stumble from the plans of the evil.

Hey, you do know that we are seated with our Lord in the heavenlies now….. What does that look like?—– Read the last chapter of the Book of Revelation. However, in the last chapter, all darkness has gone and we are no longer blind to the realm of the Spirit…. We will see  constantly  the Presence of the Holy One and we need no lamp. He is our Eternal Light and Life forever…. and darkness has flown away. All praise and honor to our God!

Until then, we live by the presence of the Holy Spirit within us, Christ in us, our hope of glory. As we continue to grow in our walk with God, our walk in the Spirit also increases. We learn to wait to hear from Him. No matter what is going on, we wait… Why? Because nothing is hidden from His sight. He sees through the darkness and the deceitful plans of  evil against us and His Truth. We have to master our patience and wait….. He will always let us know of the  attack and His plan, because the battle is His…. We are His.

You know the work of God is going on when the enemy is consistently trying to hinder or stop it. The Book of Nehemiah shows us that as the men of Israel were busy rebuilding the walls and the temple of God. The people of God were waking up to take their stand in God. The enemies of God were very content that the people and the work of God was  abandoned and got quite agitated that the work of God was starting.   God had stirred Nehemiah’s and Ezra’s heart to start raising up His people again…..Not  one plan of the enemy stopped the work of God.

Are we there today in this country? Are you and I called to be a Nehemiah or an Ezra. Are we called to strengthen the broken walls, the entries that evil has free entrance into our lives, churches, neighborhoods and country?   Maybe we are called to have the Spirit of Elijah? That our heart prays and repents  so that the children’s hearts are pointed towards our Heavenly Father, eagerly desiring the Spirit of Christ to dwell in them.

May be we are called to be like John the Baptist, making a bold announcement to make straight the way of the Lord…. Prepare yourselves America for your God and Lord Jesus Christ…..Jesus is coming!

In His way, we are called….. to be bold, strong, and full of courage for our God and His rights as God in our lives if we call on His name. How can we do that if we have not been able to do it up to now successfully? What is missing? Or maybe we should ask Who is missing?

Jesus Christ told His disciples ( and us), to wait for the Third Person of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit is the Power on High that Jesus told His disciples  He would send. They were to wait.   The same message is for us too!  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, (Hebrews 13;8). His orders to His army are no different then as they are still standing for today.

All the programs and agendas of the churches in this country….. Have they helped us be the Light on a hill? Have they impacted heaven’s realm on this country? Man’s work is a tainted fountain.

The only fountain that is clear and powerful is from the throne of God. The Holy Spirit works His work through us, the only glory given is to God and His Son, Jesus Christ… He leads us so that our lives and others see Christ will be all and in all.  His purpose is to help us reveal Christ in us and to the world.

Until this world folds up like a garment and tossed in the fire….. we are in a battle. We are called not to sit but stand in the strength of the Lord and His might, the Holy Spirit.  Let us now  repent and wait until the fire power of Headquarters  comes again to renew us. We cannot  be His Light without His Light in us, the Holy Spirit.

Let us join in as God’s people in Acts 4;24, So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them, who by the mouth of Your servant, David have said: Why did the nations rage, and the people plot vain things? The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ. For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done. Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that will all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.

And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

Thank You, Father, that You hear our heart cry. We need You and all of Your Son by the power of His Spirit, so that  Your will be done in Your people. Thank You that we may have the discernment what is of Your Spirit and what is man’s agenda and planning. May we be in step with Your heartbeat and Your purpose at this time for this nation. May we be attuned to plan of heaven so we may impact the earth with You!  That all may know You are the only One True Living God! Amen!

Hear the Shofar of Heaven calling you to anoint you for the battle………

Selah!

One thing is for certain, we face the battlefront  on our knees for sure victory.

Selah……