April 2001

We have learned that the coming of the kingdom of God to the earth is also the coming of the Spirit and power of God to the earth, specifically to the lower heavens of the earth, to fulfill a distinct, divine purpose in all the world. We have also grown spiritually to understand that the kingdom of God has many parts or elements, each part having a definite purpose to fulfill in the earth. It is also our understanding, by the wisdom of the mind of Christ, that the kingdom of God does not come to the earth all at once. The kingdom comes to the earth in parts or segments and at different times, each part having a distinct purpose to fulfill for that specific period.

The first coming of the kingdom of God to the earth spiritually took place when the Seed of Christ was planted within the Lord's people (Lu. 17:20-21). That Seed, though the smallest of all seeds, took root within the Lord's faithful elect (Mt. 13:31-32). Then that small Seed grew to become the throne of Christ within, establishing the spiritual reign of Christ in the lives of His elect. And when the reign of Christ was fully established within us, we then had no will of our own. The will of God then became our will! Our only desire and objective now is to do the perfect will of our Father in heaven. This will confirm the truth that the absolute and total reign of Christ is now within us.

Since Christ now fully reigns in our lives, so that we desire only His will, the next, or Davidic, phase of the kingdom of God will come to the earth, and it has. The will of God is the constitution, the code of conduct in the kingdom; it is the divine arrangement under which all mankind shall eventually live; it is the law of the Lord for all the elect to live by in this new Day of the kingdom of God on earth. The absolute and perfect will and ways of our Father are the principles by which all the elect are to live now. The coming of the Davidic phase of the kingdom of God to the earth is also the coming of the throne portion of the kingdom of God to the earth. It is the time of the establishment of the reign of Christ over all the world.

Christ is not going to reign some day; He is reigning over all the earth now, in the initial or Davidic phase of His kingdom reign. The Davidic phase of the kingdom of Love (God) in the earth is that portion of the kingdom reign of Christ that must defeat every enemy and put them all under the feet of Christ. When this Davidic phase of the kingdom is fully established, fulfilling all our Father's purposes in this world for that portion of His kingdom, the next phase of the kingdom of God will then come to the earth. That will be the Solomon phase of the kingdom of God! Then righteousness, peace, joy, prosperity, and the salvation of the Lord, will be fully established in every area of this world for the benefit of all. What a wonderful and glorious future our Father has planned for this spiritually darkened and sin-burdened world! And we are privileged to have a part in bringing it all to pass!

Some do not see this new kingdom Day and God's purpose for it, so they continue on in the old, dead ways of the past, totally unaware of the will of God for this new Day. Others put more confidence in man and in his systems than they do in the sovereign purposes of their Father. The prophet Jeremiah prophesied of these, when he said, "Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath (a barren or nude juniper bush) in the desert, and SHALL NOT SEE WHEN GOOD COMETH; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited" (Jer. 17:5-6).

"Cursed" is not a nice word! I hesitated to use it, but could not find a translation with a better word. This word tells us exactly what the Lord intended to say. Yet, it is the Lord's prerogative to curse and His alone, not any man's. We are instructed of the Lord to "bless, and curse not" (Ro. 12:14), including our enemies and those that persecute us. This may be a difficult lesson to learn, but we must learn it well if we expect to have that wonderful ministry of reconciliation.

There are untold millions of people today, many of them Christians, who are in that state of spiritual blindness. They are persuaded by the carnal mind to trust in man and in man's corrupt ways. They cannot see that the Lord has already begun to turn things around in this old world, and do something good for mankind. To trust in man and make flesh the arm in which they put their confidence indicates those who have departed from their Lord. They will be like a juniper bush in the wilderness, which has been denuded of leaves and branches by the hot, dry, scorching winds of the desert. They will be restored later, but will not be among the firstfruits. The elect are the Lord's firstfruits; their total trust and confidence is in the Lord and His kingdom. Their eyes will be opened by the Spirit to see that the goodness of God (Love) is now coming to the earth in the power and glory of His kingdom.

May the Lord give us all hearing ears and seeing eyes, that we may hear and see all our Father is doing in the earth in this great Day. THE GOODNESS OF LOVE IS COMING TO THE EARTH, in the power and glory of the kingdom of Love. And may we see Him and believe Him! Beloved friend, the goodness of Love (God) is coming your way, in the Spirit and power of the kingdom of Love! He comes first to His firstfruit saints, then to all others. There is nothing you can do to be worthy of Him; there is nothing you can do to work your way into Love's graces; and there is nothing you need to do that will bring Love's blessings and benefits your way. He is coming your way; and the only thing you can do to receive Love when He comes is to BELIEVE HIM! Jesus said, "This is the work of God (Love), that ye believe on Him whom he hath sent" (Jo. 6:29). The sum of all true, spiritual work is that we believe Love (God) and His Word!

And may the Lord give us all a new heart and a new spirit. May He enable us to see the new kingdom work our Father is doing in this world, and to hear His new kingdom word! There are many, abundant promises for those who will put all their trust in the Lord and in His pure and unadulterated Word. The prophet Jeremiah continued his prophecy of blessings for the faithful elect, by saying, "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful (afraid or sorrowful) in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit" (Jer. 17:7-8).

The divine order for this new Day is, there shall be one-hundred-fold fruitfulness in the lives of all the Lord's elect. There shall be endless fruit in our lives for His glory! The thirty-fold and sixty-fold realms are passing away. This is a new Day! It is the new Day of kingdom increase, for we are passing from the old church order to the new and greater kingdom order. The kingdom of God has now grown and increased to include one-hundred-fold fruitfulness for all the elect. But in order for us to bring forth one-hundred-fold fruit in the blessed kingdom of our Father, we must put all our trust in the Lord. We must have ended our trust and confidence in the flesh and in man's corrupt ways, including especially the religious and governmental systems of man. We must now transfer that former, misdirected trust to the Lord, and make Him our entire hope and every bit of our confidence.

When we do this, by the Spirit of the Lord, we shall then become as trees planted by the rivers of waters. Our spiritual roots will then extend to the mighty river of God, and we will not even see when the searing, scorching, destructive heat of the late summer comes spiritually. Our spiritual lives will remain green and growing throughout the years, even in times of spiritual drought. Then we shall become the tree of life that will provide saving, healing virtue for all the people of all the nations of this world (Rev. 22:1-2). The result of this divine sustenance and renewed Life for us will be one-hundred-fold fruitfulness in the kingdom of our Father!

One-hundred-fold fruitfulness is the result of a life that has been planted as a tree alongside the great and mighty River of God. That person has grown spiritually, from a mere seed within them, to become a great tree planted along the River of God, by the Spirit. They shall drink of the refreshing waters of that overflowing River of His Life. They grew spiritually by enduring their tests and trials, and by overcoming the many problems and challenges of this life, by the power of the indwelling Christ. The Tree of Life, which they are becoming, grew and increased from a tiny Seed to become a strong, flourishing Tree. So also is the River of God growing and increasing with the increase of God. This is the kingdom of God in action in all the earth and more specifically in our lives!

No doubt we all know of Ezekiel's prophetic description of the River of the Spirit. By the Spirit, the prophet was given a spiritual eye to see the waters of Life that were flowing out from under the house of the Lord. Ezekiel saw that a man with a measuring line went forth to measure the waters coming out from under the house of the Lord; he went out a thousand cubits to measure the waters. The first time the measurement was taken, the waters were to the ankles. The second time the man measured a thousand cubits, the waters were to the loins. The third time the same measurement was taken at the same point, they found that those waters had become a river that could not be crossed. That River of Life became waters to swim in (see Eze. 47:1-5); it had increased to become an overflowing River of the abundant waters of the transforming Life of Christ (Rev. 21:6, 22:1-2).

Then Ezekiel was brought to the river where he saw "at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other." Each tree along that River of Life represents individual sons of God. We are those trees by the side of the River of Love! Each of us are drawing strength and Life from Christ Himself, Who is that pure River of God. As we draw from Him, we shall become the great Tree of Life, which is the body of Christ or the company of the sons of God. That Tree shall be the very fullness of the Life of Love (God), providing spiritual sustenance and restoration life for all the nations of the world.

The word of the Lord by the prophet Ezekiel continued with this anointed message: "And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever THE RIVERS SHALL COME, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish (symbolic of people), because THESE WATERS SHALL COME thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither THE RIVER COMETH" (Eze. 47:9). There is GOOD NEWS in the earth today! The great and mighty, overflowing and superabounding River of Love is coming to the earth! If we could see it, we would see that all Heaven is astir because of what is happening there! The angels are sounding their trumpets! Lightnings, thunderings, and voices are coming forth from the throne of Love! The four and twenty elders are aware of a fresh, new move of the Spirit coming from the presence of the Lord to the earth. They are getting up from their seats and falling down before the Lamb, because of the glory of the Lord that will come to the earth, which they are seeing. Those elders are worshiping and praising Him that liveth forever and ever. They are casting their crowns at the feet of Him Who reigns supreme in all the earth. They are giving Him the glory, the honor and the praise that is due Him, for they know that He alone is worthy (Rev. 4:4-11, 11:16 & 19:4).

When the four and twenty elders fell down to worship the Lamb, each one of them began to play their harps. They also had golden vials full of the prayers of the saints, which they offered on the throne of the Lamb, indicating that the time of fulfillment for all those prayers had finally come. Not only were the four and twenty elders playing their harps, but they were also singing a new song unto the Lamb (Rev. 5:8-10). And the song they sang was a song of praise and thanksgiving to the Lord for redeeming us to God by His blood out of every kindred, tongue, people and nation. Those elders also gave thanks to the Lamb for making us kings and priests unto God, and for giving us the power and the authority to reign over all the nations of the earth. While all this spiritual activity was taking place in the heavenlies, the voices of many angels were heard around the throne. The number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; it was an innumerable company of angels or heavenly messengers. And they all sang with a loud voice, saying, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing" (Rev. 5:8-14).

All this wonderful and magnificent spiritual activity is taking place in the heavens of Love's Spirit because other portions of the kingdom of Love are coming "down" from Love (God) out of heaven to the earth. From reading the scriptures, it is apparent that when anything of a spiritual nature takes place in the earth, much excitement takes place among those in the heavenlies (if such an emotion exists in the realm of Spirit). The pure and perfect goodness and righteousness of Love are coming from the heavens to the earth! Another portion of the kingdom of Love is also coming to the earth; it is the mighty River of Love's Life, Light and Glory! Like everything else of the kingdom of Love, those portions of Love's kingdom will come to the earth gradually, with no prior disclosure or announcement, and without observation. This will change the world progressively, step-by-step and from glory to glory. And only by the Spirit can the elect know that Love is now doing a new and wonderful thing in the earth!

Something else is coming from heaven to the earth and it is described in Isaiah's prophecy. "Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation COMETH; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. And (when His salvation has fully come to the elect of earth) they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken" (Is. 62:11-12).

Love wants us to know that our full and complete salvation, which is the salvation of our entire being including our bodies, is coming from the heavens of His Spirit to the earth. When He appears to complete our salvation, Christ will bring our rewards with Him. He will reward His saints with that portion of kingdom blessings that corresponds with their high calling and their individual walk with the Lord. The prophet also tells us that the Lord's work is "before him." In other words, there is much work yet for Love (God) to do. Love will work during this great Day like He has never worked before. Love will complete all the work He has already begun, bringing His people and eventually all mankind to the completeness and fullness of pure and perfect Love. And we shall be called "The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken."

The prophet also prophesied this anointed word of the Lord: "Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners out of it" (Is. 13:9). Obviously, the King James translators had a negative mind when they translated this passage. For example, the Hebrew word, "akzariy," which is translated cruel, actually means terrible or cruel, of harsh action, implying deadly, and in a good sense brave (from Strong's). But from reading the King James translation, you get no idea of the good sense intended here in the original language.

Both the second and third phrases of this verse do show clearly that the Lord is moving against the sinners with His passionate anger and wrath to devastate and bring to ruin the guilty one. But we need to properly understand just who the guilty criminal is in this verse before we attempt to interpret it. The words, "the sinners," refers to the criminal, or to the one accounted guilty. And that "criminal," that guilty one, is the man of sin that is within us all. It is against this man of sin within us all that the wrath of God is directed, not against sinful mankind in general. It is not God's plan to destroy any person of the billions of earth's inhabitants because of their sins, but to save them all from their sins and give them of His abundant Life.

To more correctly interpret this verse, we should say it this way: The day of the Lord is coming (which is in agreement with the date this prophecy was given, but for us today, we know it has already come). This day is terrible, of harsh action, burning with the Lord's brave and sincere passion, and has as its good purpose the destruction of the man of sin within us all. He shall destroy the works of the carnal man on this day, and will bring to ruin and desolation that guilty criminal within us all (see Is. 13:11), which is the man of sin. Amen and amen! The goodness of our Father is being revealed for the Lord's elect on this great day, which is the day of the Lord, or the day of the beginning of the reign of Christ in the earth. He shall deliver us on this Day by destroying the man of sin that is in every one of us. What a wonderful Day this is when we can see it as it really is, according to Love's pure and unadulterated truth and purpose!

Also on this Day, the Lord said He would do this as well: "I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even A MAN than the golden wedge of Ophir" (Is. 13:12). A man is growing to maturity in this day; it is the manchild company, the sons of God, or the body of Christ. This corporate man will be made more precious than fine gold by the Lord Himself, for He dwells within them in all the power, glory and authority of the kingdom of Love. The term "the golden wedge of Ophir," is a reference to the source of the finest gold available in that day, which was the gold of Ophir. From the mines of the region of Ophir the Israelites obtained the most precious and highly refined gold in the days of Solomon. When the Lord completely delivers us of this Adamic man of sin, which is within us all, we shall then become that MAN that is more precious than the finest gold of Ophir. That MAN shall then be the savior of the world (Obadiah 21). He shall show forth the spirit and power of reconciliation and restoration to all mankind, bringing deliverance to the whole, groaning creation.

Another prophet, the prophet Malachi, also prophesied of this Day. He declared, "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch" (Mal. 4:1). Every prophecy about this great Day speaks of deliverance, restoration and salvation, not of war, destruction or desolation for mankind, when properly understood by the mind of Christ. There is but one man who does wickedly, and that man shall be made as stubble on this Day, to be burned up in the fiery oven of the presence of the Lord. And that one man is the carnal, Adamic man, the man of sin that is in every person. The Lord shall bring forth the fullness of His salvation on this great Day by removing that old man of sin from all mankind, beginning with His elect and chosen ones.

The prophet continued his anointed prophecy, by saying, "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts" (Mal. 4:2-3). Christ, the Sun of righteousness, shall arise with healing and delivering power for those who truly fear or respect His name, which includes His nature and His authority. By this rising of Christ within them to deliver them, or by the reign of Christ to put every enemy under their feet, those elect ones shall then ascend to the highest of the heavens to commune with their Father, in the Spirit and by the Spirit. They will grow up spiritually to tread down the wicked man that is also within them. That old, carnal man shall then be as ashes under our feet, thus bringing "him" to "his" final end.

The prophet Micah also spoke of this Day, when he said, "the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh" (Mic. 7:4). The watchmen are those who have the ability of a prophet. The word "watchmen," from the original means to lean forward, to peer into the distance, by implication, to observe, await (from Strong's). The watchmen are all the elect of this great Day. They are leaning forward and looking up to the realm of the Spirit. They are observing all that God is doing now, believing it, and awaiting all He shall yet do in the earth, by His Spirit. Each of the elect is a prophet, for the Lord has anointed them with the Spirit and power of Elijah. They have the ability to see in the Spirit and to restore, by the power and authority of the spirit of Elijah, which is that portion of the Spirit of God that restores all things.

Back in the days of Moses, he had just appointed seventy elders to shoulder some of the responsibility for the Israel nation and people. The Lord came down in a cloud in the midst of the people and anointed the seventy elders with the same spirit that was upon Moses. After this, two men among them began to prophesy in the camp. One young man ran to Moses and told him about those two who were prophesying in the camp. Joshua asked Moses to forbid those two men to prophesy. But Moses replied, "would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them" (see Num. 11:24-29). In this new Day, the Lord has raised up and anointed the best trained and the most mature of His people. He put their feet on the path to sonship, and has also anointed each one of them with the anointing of the prophet Elijah. This made is possible for them to see in the Spirit and to minister restoration, by the Spirit and power of Elijah, which was given them by the Lord.

The day of thy watchmen is also the day when "thy visitation cometh." In other words, this Day is also the day of our visitation. It is the day when we shall be visited by the Spirit of the Lord. In that visitation to come, the true sons of God shall experience their full salvation. They shall be transformed in their bodies and brought to a full and complete manifestation of their sonship, which is the manifestation of the sons of God. It will be that blessed in-a-moment, in-the-twinkling-of-an-eye experience, when they shall be changed into the full image and likeness of the risen and glorified Christ of God.

The Spirit's Work: To Give the People A Desire For the Lord

There is an obscure and little-known verse of scripture tucked away in the Proverbs of Solomon that has been mightily quickened to me by the Spirit. And it is this word: "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life" (Pro. 13:12). What a wealth of truth there is in this verse, especially when the Spirit quickens it to us and reveals the many-sided truths of the kingdom of Love that may be found in these few words.

The blessed hope we all have is for a better and more fulfilled life without sorrow, pain and suffering, in the kingdom of our Father. This is our true, inner desire; and it is supported by many scriptures and by the Spirit of truth. This blessed hope is not only our hope, it is the hope of every person who has ever lived, or who will yet live, in this world. Generations of people have come and gone, yet every one of them nurtured this unrealized hope and desire within them. It may not always have been expressed outwardly, but that hope, that desire, was within every person nevertheless. And so it is today! Every man, woman, and child has within them this blessed hope. They are nurturing that hope within, looking forward to the day when that blessed hope and desire will become a living reality.

The blessed hope of the benefits and blessings of the kingdom of God are often expressed by many of us. When we desire a better job, or home, good health for our family, financial prosperity and security, and a life free of the worries, concerns and frustrations of this world, we are expressing that desire. Although many achieve these benefits in this life, they may not be fully aware that the reality of the blessed hope within them has not yet been fully realized. They may assume that a better life in this world IS the blessed hope, even though the reality of it can only be found in the Spirit.

Those who are spiritual will suffer the heart sickness described by Solomon. They know that the things of this world can never satisfy, nor can those worldly things replace the blessed hope of the kingdom of God that is within them. All people everywhere have this blessed hope within them, even though they may mistakenly believe that the things of this world are satisfying that inner desire. But the real hope that is within us all awaits the fullness of time! It is all coming to us in the power and glory of the fullness of the kingdom of Love! Thus, the real, true hope, the hope of the kingdom of Love, has been deferred or delayed. And "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick."

Is your heart sick because this blessed hope is deferred? Is there a longing for reality in your life that you know has so far been unfulfilled? Look up, lift up your heads and rejoice, for the morning of this new Day is soon to dawn when that blessed hope will no longer be deferred! The desire that we all have within us for the blessings and benefits of the kingdom of Love shall then be brought to fruition. When that blessed hope, or that desire within, is deferred, we are then like a fruit tree that has not yet grown to maturity, to bring forth fruit. But when, like that fruit tree, we are fully grown, matured and perfected, the divine purpose for our very being, or our inner desire, shall then be fully realized, to become desire fulfilled and hope realized. And "when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life." The original word translated "desire," means a longing, a delight, to wish for, and includes satisfaction.

The great secret or mystery regarding the fulfillment of all things in the kingdom of Love is with the Lord. The Spirit of Love is the Key that must unlock all the unfulfilled, prophetic promises of God. Unless the Lord opens the doors of kingdom blessings and benefits, they shall all remain tightly closed. Unless the Spirit of the Lord fulfills the blessed hope and desire within us all, that hope and that desire is deferred or delayed. That hope and desire shall remain as a deep, dark secret within the inner recesses of our spirits, awaiting the work of the Spirit to awaken that desire within us, and make it a tree of life. And the Spirit of the Lord is beginning to do that work now within His elect. I know He is doing it within me, and I believe He must also be doing that same kingdom work within the lives of all who are called and chosen to walk with Him unto His fullness.

Father is even now awakening the desire for the blessings and benefits of the kingdom of God within His elect. Hope shall no longer be deferred! The desire for the kingdom has come! Hope deferred made our hearts sick, but the desire for His kingdom has come, thus reversing that deferment and canceling the postponement that was against us and that was making our hearts sick. No longer is hope deferred, for the desire for our Father's kingdom is being awakened within us. And that awakened, renewed, revitalized and rekindled desire for the kingdom of Love within us is becoming a tree of life, by the Spirit of the living God. What glorious wonders await us all in this great Day of the kingdom of Love on earth! Blessed be the Name of the Lord, Who always does all things well!

The Lord has awakened the desire for the kingdom of Love (God) within us, by His Spirit. He has also put us into the school of the Spirit, to teach us to hear His word, and to receive new truths for this glorious new Day in which we now live. To walk with our Father in the light of this new Day, we must become more spiritual. Our past level of spiritual understanding will not suffice in this new Day. New things are now coming forth out of the heavenlies of God's Spirit to the earth, and we must be able to hear what the Spirit is saying in this new Day. Since the desire for our Father's kingdom has been awakened within us, by the Spirit, the new truths of the kingdom of Love await our new understanding of the higher and more superior ways of His kingdom. We must be changed by the Spirit! Then we shall be taught new things in the school of the Spirit, for this new Day. And our ability to change begins with repentance!

Repentance enables us to turn away from the dead past, and to embrace, with some measure of understanding, the principles of this new Day of the kingdom of Love. Repentance prepares us and makes us receptive to new truths! It makes us pliable and flexible, so that we will easily bend to the perfect will and ways of our Father for this new Day. There is a new kingdom highway for us to walk on in this new Day, and we can only walk it in repentance and humility! Repentance keeps us humble before the Lord and before others, while we walk a unique, new spiritual path that has been reserved only for Father's elect and chosen sons from before the foundation of the world. Others may assume that we are proud and arrogant because of our high calling in God, but the tests and trials of this life will keep us repentant, contrite and humble. Repentance was required in the beginning of the church age (see Acts 17:29-30 & 26:20), and it is just as necessary today, for we have entered another new age in God's economy.

Although we see a need for repentance and a turning away from the things of the past, there are many experiences of the past that are useful and necessary in this new Day. For example, the Lord has led us through the years so that we now know the way He leads us, how He leads us, and what He uses to lead us day by day. Only by experience can we know the way of the Spirit for our individual lives. The Lord usually leads us differently than He does others. He will give dreams to some to lead them in the right path, and others will receive visions from the Lord. But all of us have been trained to HEAR the Voice of our Beloved. Those experiences of the past should be remembered and cherished, for by them our Father trained us to hear His voice and then to be obedient to that Voice.

Jesus said, "I am the Good Shepherd and I know and recognize My own, and My own know and recognize Me. The sheep that are My own hear and are listening to My voice, and I know them and they follow Me, And I give them eternal life, and they shall never lose it or perish throughout the ages - to all eternity they shall never by any means be destroyed. And no one is able to snatch them out of My hand. My Father, Who has given them to Me, is greater and mightier than all else; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand, I and the Father are One" (Jo. 10:14, 27-30, Amplified).

To be able to hear our Lord's voice is, I believe, the highest privilege ever afforded to any man. It is a high and holy privilege learned through sometimes difficult but necessary experiences in this life. Very often through the years, I heard a voice speaking within me and directing me as I ran an errand. For example, there were times when that inner voice would tell me not to leave home without taking a part that I needed to replace. The voice was so still and quiet within that my carnal mind overruled that voice and I went on my way to run that errand. When I arrived at the destination, I often discovered that the voice I heard was the correct voice - it was His Voice - and I would have saved myself another trip if I had listened to Him. But I did not know it was His Voice until the experience was over. In this way we have often learned to hear the Voice of our Beloved. I have had many such experiences, and I am sure you have also. Through those minuscule and insignificant but necessary experiences, we learned to hear and obey the Voice of our Beloved.

I am sure I told this experience before, but it merits repeating here. While ministering to thousands in Nigeria over forty years ago, the Lord spoke a word within me, informing me to tell the lame to get up and walk in Jesus' Name. Since I had been trained to hear His still, small Voice, I recognized it as His Voice, and did what He told me to do. When I told the lame and the halt to get up and walk in Jesus' Name, they got up and walked as if they had never been lame. The thousands of people present began to shout and praise the Lord when they saw the lame walking without the cane or walking stick they brought with them when they came to that meeting. Hundreds of Nigerians accepted Christ as their Savior because I obeyed that still, small Voice within.

Multitudes were healed, delivered and saved during those meetings. But just as important for me, for the kingdom of God, and for the whole creation, were those experiences of hearing, knowing and obeying His voice. Every experience we have had of a similar nature, which taught us to hear, know, and obey the Voice of our Lord, no matter how insignificant those experiences were, was a necessary part of our training unto sonship. It is that same Voice that will speak to our innermost being when we have reached the top of the mountain of His presence and glory. That Voice will call to the Spirit within us, changing us into His image and likeness, and releasing the whole creation from its bondage to sin and death. This will result in a much greater deliverance than anything we have witnessed in the past, for this is the Day of one-hundred-fold fruitfulness in the kingdom of God.

What a wonderful and glorious Word this is for all the elect: "The sheep that are My own hear and are listening to My voice, and I know them and they follow Me, And I give them eternal life, and they shall never lose it or perish throughout the ages - to all eternity they shall never by any means be destroyed." These three things are vital and necessary in our relationship with our Father: hearing, listening, and following Him. The sheep that are His own, who are the elect and chosen sons of God, hear and are listening to His voice. The wording of this passage tells us that the Lord is always speaking, for His own "are listening (continually) to My (His) voice." The most important thing any of us can do now is to hear, listen to and obey His voice. Most Christians serve and worship the Lord by busily praying, witnessing, or speaking. Rarely will they remain quiet long enough to hear and listen to their Lord. But that is not true of the elect! They hear their Father speak, they listen to Him, and they also follow Him. They know this is the only way they shall be transformed, to become fully matured and perfected, manifest sons of God.

We hear and listen to His Voice and we also follow Him as He leads us. In hearing, listening, and following the Lord, we are being changed to receive eternal life, or the abundant Life of Christ for the eternal future. "And they shall never lose it or perish throughout the ages - to all eternity they shall never by any means be destroyed." Amen and amen! Furthermore, "no one is able to snatch them out of My hand." We are safe and secure in the hands of our loving, merciful and caring Father! He will complete the work He has already begun in us, for His glory! And nothing or no one, whether human or spirit, shall ever take us out of His caring, masterful and creative hand!

The Multitudes of the World Given a Desire for His Kingdom

Father is awakening the desire for His kingdom within His elect. I also sense by the Spirit that He is doing the same thing in the lives of many others who are out in the world, without the knowledge of God and His kingdom. Father cannot possibly gather all the unsaved of this world into the churches, temples and houses of man's religion in this Day. But He is going to awaken the desire for the kingdom of God within each and every one of them, wherever they are, regardless of the circumstances in their lives, and without gathering them physically into churches or buildings. Then those multitudes will come to Christ, acknowledging Him as their Savior, Lord and King! They will also seek Him and His truth! Then they will desire the reign of Christ in their individual lives! This could be taking place now in the lives of some in this world, without any earthly announcement, and without being seen or observed by any others any where in this world.

The Spirit revealed to me that He is even now dealing with many other people in this world, who are far from God. He is speaking to their innermost spirits, by His Spirit, making them aware of His presence, His power and His kingdom, and is drawing them unto Himself. Without the old, customary, churchy, altar calls, and without the sinner's prayer being prayed over them, people are being drawn to the Lord, by His Spirit. He is awakening that desire within them for the kingdom of God, that they might know the King of all kings and His saving, delivering power. Then they will know that He alone is able to give them the fulfillment of their innermost desires and the realization of the hope that was once deferred but which is now being awakened, to be fulfilled in their lives. And when that desire within them is awakened by the Spirit, it will become a tree of life. That awakened desire will give them a new Life, which will become within them the Life of Christ in fullness! The Spirit of the Lord will make it real for them, just as He has for us!

The next few verses of the thirteenth chapter of Proverbs tells more about the Life we all desire, and reads as follows: "Whoever despises the Word [of God] brings destruction upon himself, but he who (reverently) fears and respects the commandment [of God] shall be rewarded. The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death" (Pro. 13:13-14, Amplified). With all the kingdom truth that is now coming forth, by the Spirit, it is obvious that the Lord is leading us to seek for that Life that will transform us and raise us up to the fullness of Christ. The kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom. Therefore, the truths of the kingdom are truths that pertain to the Spirit, and to the way and the Life of the Spirit of God. It is also the Life of Christ that will deliver the whole creation from its long and painful bondage to sin and death, by the Spirit, and establish the fullness of the kingdom of Love in every segment of the groaning, travailing creation, that the Lord alone may be glorified.

The word of the Lord and His commandments are now coming forth in the midst of the elect and chosen ones, by the Spirit. It is God's Word that we should respect and obey, which will give us our rewards in His kingdom. To ignore our Father's Word is not something the elect will do, for we are of those who reverently fear and respect His holy Word. We obey Him with unwavering faith and love for our Father and His kingdom. Our respect for the Word of God, as well as our obedience to that Word, will reward us with His Life. As we walk with the Lord in the light of this new Day, we realize His teachings are as a fountain of Life, helping us avoid the snares of death.

Everything about this new Day and the truths now coming forth are appointed of the Spirit to bring us to maturity. More than ever before, we may hear the Spirit saying, "the Sun of righteousness (is) arise (arising) with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall." It is time for us to grow up! The time has come when we must put aside the childish things of the past and grow to full maturity in Christ. There was a time when prophecies flourished and were greatly anointed of the Spirit. But now, prophecy is failing, for the Spirit is no longer anointing that which was inpart and of the past. Tongues once blessed the people of God, but they too, have ceased. We once enjoyed the knowledge given and revealed by the Lord, and that has also vanished. But Love never fails - never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end.

"For our knowledge is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect), and our prophecy (our teaching) is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect). But when the complete and perfect [total] comes, the incomplete and imperfect will vanish away - become antiquated, void and superseded. When I was a child, I talked like a child (saying all the things a spiritual child will say, such as prophesying and speaking in tongues), I thought like a child (thinking in terms of church order and church administration), I reasoned like a child (promoting the ways of man); now that (or, when) I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside" (1 Cor. 13:8-11, Amplified).

The coming of another portion of the kingdom of God to the earth is also the coming of more of Love to the earth. And Love, which God is, is that which is complete, total and perfect. Nothing can ever be added to Love, for He is perfect and complete. And nothing can ever be taken away from Love; for He is inseparable, indivisible, and is one in and with all that exists spiritually! There is nothing in the universe that is greater than Love! God is Love, and He is greater than all! There is nothing that shall ever supersede Love, for the Love that He is is greater far than anything else could ever be.

The divine standard for this new Day now tells us that if we have become an adult, spiritually speaking, we are done with the childish ways of the past and have put them all aside. A spiritual child revels in the childish ways of the past. He or she enjoys those childish ways, and continues to work and labor feverishly under the old church order. But when we grow up and become spiritual adults in the more glorious kingdom of our Father, we will then put away the childish toys of the past, and will receive with joy that which is perfect and complete, which is more of Love, or more of God and His kingdom.

The real truth of the matter is clearly stated by the apostle Paul. He wrote to say, "But when the complete and perfect [total] comes, the incomplete and imperfect will vanish away - become antiquated, void and superseded." Moving from church order to the higher kingdom order, or from Pentecost to Tabernacles, is not a matter of us making up our carnal minds to walk a certain spiritual path. Paul makes it clear that when the complete and total comes, which is Love or God in greater fullness within us; the incomplete and imperfect will simply vanish away. The old order will then become antiquated, void and superseded. We just need to drink in of the Spirit of God and receive more of Christ, as He is being revealed in this new Day. Then all the old, dead things of the past will simply fall away from us. The new Life within us will drive out all that is dead and of the past!

Several years ago, I looked out a window and saw an apple tree as it appeared in the dead of winter. When I looked more closely, I saw that a few apples were still clinging to that tree, blowing in the wintry winds, even though most of the leaves had fallen off. I watched that apple tree all through the winter and saw that those old, dead apples continued to hang on to that tree. When Spring arrived and the sun warmed things up a bit, the sap started to rise in that apple tree. Sprouts appeared on that tree, to show that leaves were forming because of the new life within the tree. Then, those dead apples began to fall off that tree because of the new life that now flowed within that apple tree. So it is with us! When the new Life of Christ, as He is revealed in this new kingdom Day, enters into us, all that old stuff will simply fall off of us. When the complete and perfect Christ comes into us, all that was of the inpart and imperfect realm will vanish away!

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