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SIN CONSCIOUSNESS

(Condemns us and discounts the power of the Cross)

 

I’ve heard, "We are only sinners saved by grace" as far back as I can remember. But I cannot find anything anywhere in the scriptures after Jesus that says this statement is true.

2Cor.5:14-21; Rom.8:1-11, I do however see that sin consciousness is bondage to the law and the "church" has kept God’s people in this lie for long enough. It has kept the body of Christ under condemnation, in weakness, feeling inadequate, feeling they have failed God and that no matter how hard they try they can never meet the standard God expects or requires of them. None of this is truth, we have believed lies but they were only for a season and that season is over now. Your dilemma here will be to either accept, believe and then receive what God has predestined for you since the beginning of time or stay bound awhile longer.

Jh.1:29; Rom.5:18-21; Rom.6:6-7; 1Jh.3:5-9; Jh.1:11-13; 1Pet.1:23, Now a little Rexie 1:1 God took away the sins of the whole world (past, present and future) and He freed all men. The Adam man or natural man died when Jesus gave His life on the Cross. His death gave all men a new life and we are a part of that new creation. Whoever is born of God cannot sin and we are born of God not of man. We are born of God’s seed, which is incorruptible. Don’t get confused here I’m not speaking of doubt or unbelief here I’m speaking of all the things the body is bound to in the flesh.

As Christians we have all claimed that we are a new creation, but we have continued to walk in the condemnation of the old man and its mostly because we’ve bought the lies of man over the truth of God’s word, we’ve read it but I guess we thought it was for some other place and time. 1Cor.5:7 the old man, that old leaven, the Adam nature, that I’m nothing but a poor sinner attitude, has to die so that the new man the God man, the one who will do all things through Christ can come forth, 1Cor.15:45-49.

All of this that we’ve read helped me to see that we are not of the first man Adam made of dust and destined to till the earth in failure but we are of the last Adam, Jesus the Christ, who has nailed the old man to the cross with Himself and we are the new creation no longer bound to this earth and it’s failures 1Cor.15:22. We are free, freed by the power of the blood of the Lamb. Freed of guilt, of shame, of having to live up to the expiations of others as well to what we expect of ourselves. We are also free from the condemnation that comes with sin plus we are free to be all God says we are to be, and He did it all through Calvary.

A few weeks ago we went to a church in California and the pastor there was preaching some really good spiritual truth so of course we got excited and agreed with a few "Amen’s, hallelujah’s and preach it" and I guess we made him and everyone nervous because it got real quiet and then the once anointed man of God who had just stood at the pulpit changed and in his place now stood a law given flesh monster, and he was telling the people they needed to be up front at the alter repenting for their sins. Not only that, but they needed to be weeping in shame before God and asking for His forgiveness. This was all fear, bondage and condemnation. This pastor had some truth and he should have been showing the people Gods love and freedom.

Then a few nights later I heard a young man say, "Well God can’t use me the way I am, I’ve got to get myself right first". I hurt so bad for this young man and this church, they were being so deceived by religion. Now don’t loose me here; I’ll be the first to agree with you that I mess up and I get angry to fast but it’s still all under the blood. It’s been (past tense) forgiven. Everything I’ve ever done or will ever do has been forgiven. It was paid for at Calvary but that doesn’t mean I’ve got it all right yet. I still go to the Father (in my religiosity) and say I’m sorry I messed up and I’m sorry I get angry at myself when I blow, I know I’m forgiven long before I get to You. But I’m still learning that I’ve been set free from all this condemnation, and that the Lord is still getting rid of a few more of my religious boulders and that soon (in His time) the Lord will have me thinking right (with the mind of Christ), in the mean time my Father keeps regenerating me, renewing my mind and changing me into His image. Thank You Jesus, I don’t have to beg and weep and beat myself up because I’m not good enough or I missed it. Even when I knowingly have made a bad choice and have done something I knew was wrong, I’m still clean and forgiven in my Fathers eyes. Thank You Jesus once again!

So when I mess up and can finely get over myself I go to God, He already knew I messed up I know I messed up but I also know I have a covenant, and I’m learning I can come before Him and answer Him with His words which are the words of my testimony, things like, "Father by Your grace and with Your help I’ll not do this again." The guilt and the condemnation aren’t there, I’m not trying to make myself conform to any preconceived ideas of what God expects of me. I’m His son, He loves me, I’m forgiven and He is the one who has done all the work to make me perfect in His sight. So I’m learning to leave my sin consciousness at the cross with the old man, not because of anything I’ve done but because of His blood, Heb.10:19-22. I’ve been freed to enter into His presence without guilt, to be loved by Him and to have awesome fellowship with Him. His blood covers every hopeless feeling; every feeling of guilt, every hurt, all shame and every condemning accusation that comes at me, for it is Satan who accuses.

Rev.12:11, "And they overcame (everything) by the blood…and by the word of their testimonies" Rexie1:1. This jumped off the page at me "by the blood and by the word". I’ve already shown you how the blood covers us at every turn but what about this "word" of our testimony?

Testimony means, "Proof" and the only place I know to get proof is the Word, either the written, ie the Bible or the spoken ie the Father. So why does the "church" always ask everyone to give their dead dried up testimonies? All I ever heard out of them was 15 to 30 minutes of glory given to the devil and a praise God He saved me at the end. That doesn’t glorify God it glorified the devil. It makes the devil bigger then life and it gives us a teeny tiny God. But when we put the word of God in our mouth and decree His greatness, His abilities, His forgiveness, His love and His transforming liberating power that has made the way for us to become His son, then we have truly given a testimony.

Now Philp.4:8 tells me I’m to think on, meditate on, concentrate on things that are true, things that are of a good report and things that are praise worthy. Sin, guilt, failure, shame and condemnation do not fit into this category nor do they fit what the Word says we are to think on. Concentrating on God and His abilities will change our thinking and set us free. Ask God to give you this life changing revelation. Because when you can understand these things you will be able to defeat the thoughts of guilt or shame that sneak up on you, and then you will start answering your accuser with the blood and the "word" of your testimony.

In and of ourselves we can never conform to what God wants us to be, He alone transform us. We can never justify anything before God, that’s what the blood is for. We are not here to live up to anyone’s expiations nor are we here to expect anything of anyone else. We’re not here to condemn anyone for what they do or say nor are they here to condemn us. On the contrary everyone is here for God’s good pleasure and it pleases Him to cleanse all of us from all unrighteousness.

The only way left for us to fall short is for us to doubt or not believe what God says is true. So I guess if you chose to doubt or not believe what God has said you will remain "just a sinner saved by grace living in fear", for a longer season, Heb.3:12-19. Don’t feel condemned here, you are still God’s child and you will still get to be with Him, you just won’t have the victory to enjoy here and now. Rom.14:17.

LORD BE THE KNOT IN MY ROPE?

Why is it that God is always pushing us? Why is it that He never wants us to get comfortable, that He never wants us to feel adequate or equipped for anything He asks us to do? In fact He prefers it when we are totally unprepared, unequipped, inadequate and at the end of our rope!

Jonah was at the end of his rope in the belly of the fish and he was ready to let go of what he thought was right fare and just. He let’s God have it, and in Jon.2:10 God took control the fish vomits him out on the beach and Jonah did what he didn’t want to do or believe was the right thing to do.

In Matt.14:15-17 the disciples tell Jesus, ("It’s late, we’re way out in the boon docks, everyone is tired and hungry Lord send the people back to town so they can grab a burger" Rexie 1:1). Now what is up with this? Didn’t Jesus just heal thousands? Wasn’t God there with them all day? Why then didn’t the disciples feel equipped to handle this little job? Now Jesus has had a rough day too, He has lost John the Baptist whom He loved very much and He wants time alone with His Father to renew His strength. But thousands come to where He is and He is moved to heal their sick. So they are all drained to the max, it’s late, everyone is hungry and the disciple’s act like Jesus just gave them a mountain to climb and God went south on them. Sort of like Jonah in the whale, sort of like us when God says do something. We go into that "Duh" mode, the "What? Where? How? You want me to say what? Go where? Do what?"

So in verses 18-19, Jesus shows them again, "Bring it to Me" or "Give it to Me" He says. He takes it, blessed it, (or gave it to the Father) broke it, (prepared it) gave it back to them (now anointed to do what it was sent for) and then the disciples were able to (give or multiply) something for God.

Are you getting a picture of something here? Jonah gives it to God because he has exhausted his abilities, his strength, and his understanding of what God wants, God blesses a broken Jonah anoints him and then Jonah is able to give out what God wants. The disciples exhausted their abilities, couldn’t figure out what Jesus was trying to get them to see, they gave up their ideas (like the burger joint) and gave it to God. He blesses it, breaks it and gives it back to them to multiply it, and all of this is taking place right in the middle of one of Jesus and His disciples worst days, makes sense don’t it? When we are the weakest God performs the greatest. 2Cor.12:9; and Phil.4:13.

The stories are all the same through out the bible and in our own lives, whatever was or is given to God, He will first bless, then break and then (it or we) will be able to give out what is from God. It was all set into motion before the foundations of the earth. Jesus was sent to show us the pattern it would take; He received direction from the Father, gave it back to the Father (because as a man He had no special abilities other then He listened and obeyed when the Father spoke), the Father blessed it, (prepared it) He broke it (the human factor from Jesus life) and then Jesus (now prepared and anointed) could give it out, multiply it. In this story in Matthew, Jesus is at one of His weakest points, He needs strength from the Father and God uses this weakness to show how strong He is when we are losing the grip on our rope. It’s in this place we give up our intelligent, our abilities, our way of thinking, the end of our rope and it’s then that God can use us, He can be the Knot we hold onto.

I read a story once that had a line in it that read: "There will be no knights in shining armor in God’s Kingdom". Now I know why, because we will be full of dents and chinga darea’s. We will be tired, tried and humbled saints when we get to the ends of our ropes and we will only be looking to God for that "Knot" to hold onto. There is only one way for His greatness and glory to be seen and that is manifested through vessels He has broken for His use.

As God’s sons we have to give Him our lives, give Him back the dreams and visions that He gave us, they belong to Him. Then He will break the pride and self-sufficiency off of us. The sooner we learn that it isn’t us, that it has nothing to do with our abilities, and that it doesn’t start with what we believe God has given us, and oh yes, get rid of that I’ve arrived attitude, the sooner we will see miracles. When we have a grip on this God will give us more of His power and anointing, to multiply for Him.

Don’t feel out on a limb here, every time God has given anyone a job to do for Him, that person’s abilities, along with their circumstances, have made the job look impossible. Look at Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Ruth, Easter, Jeremiah, Joseph, Jesus, you, me and the list goes on and on. In and of ourselves we are inadequate; we couldn’t do anything to please God from out of our abilities. We are just like all of those that went before us and sooner or later we get to the end of our ropes and we do just like they did, we cry out to God to put that Knot in the rope and we slowly learn to give all we have to Him. Don’t get confused here this is a good place; the more we do this the more we grow spiritually. Thus becoming more and more dependent on God and His abilities and less and less dependent on me, my, mine and ours. Thinking we have a big part in God’s plans can cause rope burn and bring us to the end of our ropes much faster then loving, listening and trying does, and it’s because He loves us that He brings us to this place where we can understand it’s not us at all but it’s all Him.

This subject covers such a wide area it’s hard to give an example here. But I guess last week up at Dewey’s would be a good one. You already know Dewey and his wife, Eileen they are ordained ministers of God doing a work up in Michigan most of you know that Dewey has SCI (spinal cord injury) or paralyzed from the neck down. Now to me this in and of itself is an impossibility for anyone, but not for God. Trust me when I say Dewey knows how inadequate he is, he knows the struggles he has with his mind, his family and his body. He knows that his best efforts and his circumstances are both totally unreal as far as natural man sees it. (Maybe he is in a better place for Spiritual growth then we are.) Dewey knows the work God has given him to do is needed to help God’s people but he also knows that’s it’s totally impossible for him to get it done in the natural. I’m sure he feels like the disciples here in Matthew, because God has told him, "Give My people something to eat". Does he hide, quit, and run? In his mind, yes he does. Does he stress and wonder what God is doing? Yes, just like us, but it’s part of the breaking process and Dewey is learning this faster then I am, to give all he has to God and then watch out because that’s when the miracles start. We were able to see this played out last week while we were up there; everything that could go wrong did, everyone was depressed and drained and it was time for church to start. Dewey was in bed, no nurse and no wife to get him up and we are sitting around wondering what should we do. Dewey called Chris into his room, spoke to her, she shut the doors and we just knew he was getting up. (Getting up is one of the most painful times for Dewey). But he had called upon God and given it all to Him, if God wanted church, God was going to have to do it. Dewey had nothing to gain in fact he knew it would hurt either way, but it was on God. Church started about 30 min. late but it was awesome! God touched everyone there. Why? Because Dewey got himself out of the way, he gave all he had to God and God multiplied it, we all ate and were filled. As God had done for Jesus, so He will do for us too! Dewey got a double blessing that night because God kept his body from hurting while Chris got him off of the bed and into his chair and then back onto the bed from his chair, this rarely happens in Dewey’s life.

The Lord is going to show us all things that will seem way out of our reach and far beyond our abilities. We will all respond with the "I can’t do that" thing, but shut your mouth and listen and you’ll hear, "Bring it to Me". Give it to Him, (all, everything you are and have) it only looks pitiful to us but when it’s in His Hands, He will bless you by breaking you preparing you and then in His anointing it will grow and multiply.

When we learn it’s not us, it’s not our abilities, it’s not what we have or what we’ve been trained to do, (Dewey has a lot of wisdom and can figure out things that are really hard, he is also a computer wiz, but all of these talents wasn’t going to feed the 12 to 15 people who had come to his house for more of what God had waiting there). It was God who would do the impossible that night because Dewey had listened and obeyed.

So when we feel all is lost, when we can’t do anything to help, when the knot in our ropes can’t be found then God can do the impossible and we’ll find The Knot. Hold onto Him, He will do what is necessary when we become willing and obedient and He will be at the end of our rope, just waiting on us.

 

DOUBT KEEPS US OUT

Maybe what I’m going to talk about will be old hat for some of you and if it is then I want to know why we don’t see more miracles. I believe it’s because as the body of Christ we have only just begun to understand what it truly means to be filled with, empowered with and controlled by God! Or should I say, possessed by Him! If His word is true, if He truly lives in us as the scriptures and we say He does, where are the miracles? Where is the power? Well I think a key lies in Eph.1:17-19 amp. Under-

standing and believing what God has invested in us. Scripture tells us over and over "we were ignorant" but now we are filled with His presents. He isn’t ignorant and He doesn’t want us ignorant either. He wants us to know Him, His plans and His purposes.

We’ve studied for over a year how God desires a deep intimate relationship with us. And what comes out of such a relationship? We get an intimate understanding and knowledge of each other. We know He already knows us like that, so who is this relationship for? US! It’s so we will understand His greatness and power that lives within each of us. When we understand this He can minister through us much more. Every believer knows about the Spiritual powers of God but they don’t believe God will be manifested through them. They can live holy lives, walk in love (to a degree) and understand faith, but still stay functionally ignorant to the POWER that lives within them.

We need this knowledge, this revelation, and this relationship in order to walk in the kingdom here on earth. 2Pet.1:2 amp, God wants us to increase in the knowledge of Him. Why? So that we can walk in His power and fulfill the purpose for which He has sent, called and chosen us. But our concept of all of this is greatly lacking. We’ve bought the lies and seen ourselves as unworthy to house the Creator of the Universe. Humanity may have been there after Adam but after Jesus and the Cross we are no longer unworthy. We are a new creation in Christ.

For too long the religious have kept us in the past, they have kept us ignorant and we have only experienced a glimpse of God’s power, Jh.1:17; and Eph.4:17-18. The truth was written for those filled with His Spirit not the religious and carnal. They tend to twist it to fit their purpose, 1Cor.2:13amp. Quit limiting yourselves to man’s interpretation of God. Let Him reveal His secrets and mysteries to you Himself through His Spirit, your teacher.

To help us understand this better we need to dig a little deeper into the Hebrew culture and their understanding of God. I always liked the fact that John the Baptist may have doubted Jesus was the One. It gave me comfort when I doubted God. But with a little time, effort and digging I discovered this, Matt.3:11; Mk.1:7-8; Lk.3:16; Jh.1:27 & 33, all have 2 things in common.1. Each was about the "One to come" and 2. Each said, "He’d baptize with the Holy Spirit". John is about to die and he hasn’t seen prophecy fulfilled and he believes he will see this, so why hasn’t it happened if he is about to die. Look at Lk.7:11-19, Jesus has just stopped a funeral, hundreds of people are watching, He tells the dead man get up and the crowd goes nuts. John’s disciples come and tell him how great things are going with Jesus, and he asks them to go ask Jesus if He is the One? In other words Jesus is doing great and mighty things, healing the sick and raising the dead but I’m looking for more than what you’re telling me, Rexie1:1.

Jesus said the same thing in Acts 1:6-8 that I had found in the gospels and I think it’s a key to Johns question; "was Jesus the One"? Keep in mind that Jesus is dead and risen here. He’s been with the disciples over forty days teaching them about God’s kingdom. (What I’d of given to be a mouse in the corner then) being taught by the resurrected Christ, awesome. In v6, they ask, "lord, is this the time that Israel will reign"? Rexie1:1.

I started connecting the dots here. What was it that they and John thought this baptism with the Holy Ghost was going to produce? Again a look at history: Israel has been a conquered nation and is now under the Roman Empire. So what does their being baptized with the Holy Ghost have to do with Israel regaining anything? Are you connecting dots yet? These seemed like silly questions in the face of such awesome times, (dead people getting up, lepers healed, their sitting with the risen Christ). But when we consider the disciples background, how they were taught about God and all the mighty men of Israel, I’m sure their understanding was much different than ours.

Think on this, every picture I’ve ever seen of Samson made him look like Rocky or the Terminator. If this was true, why were the Philistines always trying to figure out where his strength came from? Duh! Bulging muscles! No mystery! Judges 14:6, 19 and 15:14, it wasn’t Samson at all; it was God empowering him as the Holy Spirit came upon him.

Therefore being raised in this culture they understood the power a man possessed if he were immersed in the Spirit of God. Their whole history revolved around super natural happenings of God through men. So when Jesus said they would be baptized in the Holy Spirit they thought that meant it was time for Israel to rise up. After all if one man, Samson, could do all he did, think what all of them could do. Unfortunately for them, fortunately for us, they were seeing spiritually.

Look at Acts 1:7-8, Jesus told them don’t be concerned with restoring natural Israel, that was God’s thing, but to witness power, healing, deliverance and redemption to the world. It was all spiritual not natural and they did, as you know, become Samsons in the Spirit.

So now back to John. He was looking for the One to come, the One who would baptize man with the Holy Spirit not just with water. He saw it like the disciples, as rising up an army that was consumed by the Holy Spirit, who would do great and mighty things. Remember baptizing was basically John’s ministry, so he was looking every day; each time he baptized anyone, (like thousands) for the One to come, the One coming after him who would baptize with the power of God. So nearing his death he was wanting to see this, wanting to know if Jesus was the One he thought He was. That was why he wasn’t to impressed with all the awesome miracles. John understood the power behind the baptism in the Holy Spirit. This man, the greatest prophet ever born to a woman, could see the reality of thousands of men and women full of the power of God. That’s why he was looking past all these awesome miracles Jesus was doing and wanting to know, was He (Jesus) the One? John and Jesus’ disciples knew something that most of us are blinded to. They understood the Power behind God filling His people with Himself.

Look at Matt.3:13-15, John isn’t just saying, "Oh no Jesus, you need to baptize me". Duh! John wants the Holy Spirit a thousand times more then Jesus wants the water baptism. John knew the importance of being filled with the Spirit of the living God. I don’t believe we really do. John’s whole life was for the One who was coming, and yet Jesus said we are greater than John, Lk.7:28. John was the greatest as far as the Old Covenant, but Jesus had come to bring a New Covenant, a new order and a new creation. John was born of woman, but all of those who came after Jesus (the firstborn of many brothers, Rom.8:29) were born of the very Spirit of God. The words Jesus spoke in Lk.7:28 should send us all into a Holy Ghost Explosion, the least of us is greater than John the Baptist.

So where is the power? What about Jh.14:12, where are the greater works? I believe it’s because we don’t understand what being filled with the Father, Son and Holy Ghost really means!

I’ve heard people say, "Being filled with the Holy Ghost means speaking in tongues" and that’s all they get because that’s all they believe and expect. What do or did you expect when you were filled? Are you like John and the disciples, believing for All the fullness of God to manifest through you or are you like the guy who believed for tongues? Maybe you’re still blinded to the fact that this is all very real and we were put here to be a part of it.

Look out people because there is a remnant who doesn’t much care about their inheritance in Christ but rather cares about His inheritance in them so that’s why their understandings are being disturbed. They don’t see what God can do for them, but they see what He is THROUGH them. They won’t be caught up in self any longer, but rather in the secrets and the hidden mysteries of God. They will live Col.1:27, they will be like Christ in the earth. Take time to KNOW Him, then, not only will you be able to connect the dots you’ll know who really lives inside you. God! Gen.1:26 and 2Cor.5:17-21.

AUTHORIZED BY GOD

Ps.8:4-6, this used to make me ask a lot of questions. Like, lower than Angels? I thought I was made in God’s image. Mindful of me? I thought He knew every hair on my head. And "son of man" making me think of Jesus yet v6 makes me think of Adam. However, since we’ve entered into this new realm with God and we’ve been looking at a few things in the Hebrew culture, this passage makes sense. In Hebrew "son of man" (emosh ben adam) man in his weakness not "Son of Man" the Messiah. Angel in Hebrew means (God, gods or spiritual being). Mindful, well His book showed me that He is and has been and will always be mindful of man. It was His plan.

We read last week in Gen.1:26 that God created man to give him dominion over everything here on earth. Ps.8:6 says "dominion over the works of His hands". Def: Dominion = Supreme authority. We may have lost this "supreme authority with the first Adam but we got it back through the Second Adam. So where is it? Where is this awesome power and authority we are to have received from God?

Now, if God had never given this to man, man could not have given it away. Right? But through disobedience Adam gave (transferred) his authority over to Satan, Lk.4:6. God didn’t give authority to Satan, Adam did. Adam stepped out from under God’s headship, which produced a major problem for him and his descendents, until Jesus came defeating death hell and the grave. Thus as a man, taking back the power and authority given to man by God. Now through Jesus Christ man can once again have this God given authority, Lk.9:1; Matt.28:18-20.

Isa.53:12, says via Rexie 1:1, "Through Jesus (the man) and His obedience to the cross, He became the Intercessor filling in the gap that Adam put between man and God", 1Tim.2:5 and Rev.5:9-10.

1Cor.15:22, through Jesus we are restored back to the Father, right back to walking and talking with Him, plus authority and power over all the works of His Hands. If you remember, we read last week in 2Cor.5:18-21 and Eph.6:10, God rules where we are, through us. God gave this awesome authority to mankind that He might manifest Himself through them. We are God’s body and representatives on this earth. We are the ones with His message of restoration. We are the ones who will set the captives free. We are the ones who will expose Satan’s illusion of power over God’s people. But because we don’t use this authority much, we, NOT GOD, allow this illusion to continue.

What if all of our waiting around for God to pick His time to move was a misunderstanding or lack of understanding on our part? What if He were waiting on us to start our work? Jh.6:27-29, the work isn’t that hard; just believe God, that’s it. What do we do with Heb.10:12-13? Who is going to do this? And what about Rom.16:20? Under your feet!

God gave the children of Israel the Promised Land, but they had to fight to possess it. So do we have to fight too? I think every day is a fight. I fight to hear God above the roar of the world around me. I fight to spend time with God in all my daily rushing to get things done. I fight to trust and believe for what He says is mine. I fight every day to be more like my Father. So yes, I think we have to fight to possess what God has given us. Then like He did for Israel, He will give us the power to take back what the enemy has stolen. The victory is already ours through Jesus, we just need to get a hold of it, keep it, and possess it. God delegated this to us. The definition of Authority is delegated power. God delegated us to do a job no one else could do and we can only do it if we believe what He says.

Jh.15:7-8, Abide. I looked up the definition of abide. It means to endure without yielding, withstand, to bear patiently, and to accept without objection. I had never read this passage with such an understanding. So I read it like this: if we endure, withstand, bear and accept without yielding or objecting to what God says and not doubting we will ask and it will be done because then God is glorified. Why? Because then God’s power and authority, that’s coming through us, is under His control and direction.

I thought a good example of this authority-yielding thing was the story of the Roman Centurion in Matt.8:5-10. Jesus said He had not found such great faith in anyone, not in the Jews or the believers. This soldier understood authority. He understood delegating a job to someone. He also knew how to humble himself in the since that he knew it was in the power and authority of God that Jesus would heal his servant. He yielded, accepted and believed without objection and it was done for him. Then God was glorified through Jesus because both He and the centurion believed.

We must learn to understand and accept what this soldier knew, because we too are under Authority to speak God’s word, touch lives, hear and obey without objection or question.

Matt.16:19, keys represent responsibility and access to something valuable. Everything I’ve ever taught you in this class has made you responsible to God. As far as I can tell everything He has revealed to us in the last few years demands growth and this brings responsibility. Responsibility gives us access to everything Jesus had and that includes coming before the very throne of God as His sons. If that isn’t access I don’t know what is!

Col.1:9-13, Satan has no, none, no more authority over a child of God. He and his cohorts are God’s enemies and they do like Satan did in the Garden. They make us question God, His gifts and His Authority. That’s why we must put everything that is not of God under our feet. We are here to possess, rule, and have authority over God’s enemies. We are not here to believe Satan’s lies, his deceptions nor become his servants. We are here to bind these lies and loose the Kingdom.

God has ordained, ordered, destined us to understand and have the knowledge we need to walk worthy of our Father. He has not ordained us to walk this walk in ignorance, beaten down or hopelessly lacking. It PLEASES God to increase our knowledge of Him and to strengthen us through His power because then the world will see Him through us. God qualified us. He counted us worthy to be partakers of this inheritance. And as children all we had to do was accept what Jesus did. But now we are grown and we must believe all of what our Father says. Then He can finish what He has purposed, Philp.1:6 and 1Thess.5:24.

We must know, believe and accept Whose we are and Whose Power and Authority we walk in. 2Cor.10:7-8, Paul brags just a little here or glories just a bit in the authority his God allowed him to walk in. But my point is he knew Whose he was and he knew from Whom his authority came. He didn’t listen to or care what the religious thought or said because his feet and his faith were planted firmly in his God. Paul was unyielding in his pursuit to be possessed by God. He abided in his God and his God abided in him. There were no objections from either side.

Lk.9:1-2; Lk.19:13; Lk.10:19 and Jh.17:22, we too have been given this assignment to "do business" as the authorized representatives of our Lord. Plus we have His Word that it PLEASES Him to give us all that He has. He is the one who will hold the fort until He sets foot on earth again, but He will do it through us.

Mk.4:21-25, tells me many things but the most important one was that some things might appear hidden from us. But if we look and listen we will hear His truth in everything He tells and shows us. Our understanding and knowledge of Him will increase. However, if we do not believe and receive His truths, we will lose what little knowledge and understanding we have. Leaving us ignorant of His will and to His ways.

So what will you do with His Authority? What will you do with what He has chosen to do through you?

TRANSFORMED

Lk.17:34-37, Praise God that He has revealed to us the truth hidden here. We are the two people. If I am in bed or at work, it’s just me (all by myself). God isn’t referring to homosexuals here. He meant one man in a bed, yet the man was two men, the natural man and the God man both in one body. 1Cor.15:51-53, says we are going to be changed and the corruptible will become incorruptible.

Then God showed me, Matt.17:4, Peter is desiring that the heavenly and the earthly dwell together on the earth. It wasn’t possible at that time but it is possible in us, the Davidic kingdom. Within us the kingdoms of the heavens come into a closer union with earth. This took me to the "Feast of Booths or Tabernacles". This feast takes place 50 days after Pentecost and points toward the fullness of time. I looked up Booths in the Bible dictionary and it gave me Lev.23:39. I kept reading and v.42 caught my eye, "you shall dwell in booths."… Booths = Tabernacles: shelters made of boughs. So I went to the dictionary and found the definition of bough = a branch of a tree, a main branch. This made me think of, Rom.11:16 and 25 and Jh.15:1-5. Are we the "Feast of Booths"?

We have just participated in the Passover and May 28th -29th will be Pentecost (the gathering or the harvest). The July Festivals represent the latter rain or His second coming. July 1st, Feast of Trumpets = refers to the wedding of the Messiah, the gathering of the nobles and beginning of the Messianic Kingdom. July 10th the Feast of Atonement = Face-to-Face with God. This was the Holiest day of the year. July 17th –18th is the Feast of Booths or Tabernacles. So, it looks to me like, we are the booths, or the dwelling place of God, 1Cor.3:16-17; 1Cor.6:19; Eph.2:19-22; 2 Cor.6:16.

We are sort of like the aliens in the movie "Cocoon". They came here in the cocoons. Inside the cocoons were spirit beings full of light. We too are like aliens (sent by God to live here but not to be a part of it) and these bodies house our spirits, which house the Creator of the universe or the LIGHT.

You already know what I believe about being born of the first Adam, NOT! You also know my beliefs about the (carnal, harlot) "church". So you should all know I don’t believe we are only human, created to remain ignorant to God’s ways and then just get through life the best we can and die. NOT! I believe we are here because God chose us to be here. I believe that we are His sons, chosen by Him for His purpose. And I believe that within each of us lives the Creator of the Heavens and the earth. I also have my own thoughts on that dieing thing.

God has allowed a time of darkness and error in the church, but I believe now is the time to dispel the darkness for the church within the "Church" and its done by the glorious LIGHT that lives within the sons of God. I pray that the Truth and Light of the Spirit shine into each heart and mind that is truly seeking to be Transformed. Its time for the remnant to let go of the words that have held us in this bondage to doctrine, traditions and made man laws. It’s all part of the flash realm and the time has come for us to drive out the bondwoman (carnal mind set) and her children (doctrines, laws of man and tradition). They are not a part of us; they are part of the Adamic nature. Accept the offer of LIFE and TRUTH Jesus spoke about in Jh.5:25-29. Awaken all you who were dead to the truth. Believe and be Transformed back to what you were when you were with the Father before the foundations. Take back the throne of your minds and let Christ reign. He will then give us the fullness, Col.1:27 and Eph.4:13-24.

God is showing and revealing things to us like never before. We are living in a time, which I’m sure, all the greats in the Bible believed and hoped for. It’s a time, which I’m not sure I understand but I’m very excited about. Things we are learning and dates are lining up perfectly with Jewish history. Their Feasts and important days are in sink with our calendar this year like never before. God is waking up the God Man within the chosen.

Just like God prepares the animals to know when its time to migrate or ready themselves for winter, He is preparing His chosen (the remnant, the church within the "Church") and we are hearing things the body doesn’t hear. And seeing things the body doesn’t see, not yet anyway.

This remnant, these sons are not just ordinary Christians. They are a little different than the body or "Church", as they have learned a little faster that you can’t make God’s word fit what you are doing. The "Church" claims to be filled with the Spirit, but they lead the Spirit instead of the Spirit leading them. They insist they are born again yet refuse to accept that those who are born again cannot sin, 1Jh.3:9 and 5:18. Every (divided nation, oh sorry, denomination) has their own little set of rules and their explanation of the new birth and what walking in the Spirit means. What Christ in you is and who the sons of God are. They all have their ideas but they fall real short of what God says and the chosen remnant has always wondered why. They have always wondered why they never fit into any "Church" as hard as they have tried. More than likely they were asked to leave different churches because they couldn’t conform to their agendas. They have gone into many things without God and came out the other side with Him and stood in awe of the God that wasn’t in a box. They have learned to seek God and avoid most of mans beliefs. They have found they can walk, talk and have a personal relationship with God. But most important they are learning they are not who they were told they were. They are finding they live in this world but they are not a part of it.

God is preparing His remnant for a new realm, "the Spirit Realm". Not the imaginary realm the "Church" believes it’s attained, where they have reached holiness while the rest have it. I’ll use that movie "Matrix" again because it’s so powerful. All the people in the movie lived and went about their lives in a mindset that said everything was all right. Yet everything around them was blown to bits and they were in rags. But they believe the lies and received the lies and lived in an imaginary world. They couldn’t see reality.

The remnant however is seeing the true reality and will attain its glory while the rest of Christendom goes on as usual for a season. This reminded me of 2Cor.5:1-8. Now if you just read it like I have many times, you’d think about dying and being with God in heaven. But if you read it in the Spirit, seeking the hidden things, maybe you’ll see it like this: We know that if our earthly house, tent, is destroyed (2 men in a bed) (discovered, found out, exposed to the truth) we have a house from God, made by Him not our earthly parents, forever in the real realm. Those who know this grown (eagerly seek) desire our true life in the real realm. Once attaining this we will never be found naked like Adam, when he left the real realm (where he walked with God) and entered the flesh realm (outside the Garden separated from God). For we who are in this flesh realm groan and are burdened, not because we want to be rid of this body but rather be more fully clothed in truth and this flesh puts on the immortality that God has waiting for those who will seek it.

God has prepared us for this very thing and guaranteed (promised, pledge) it by His Spirit that what He started, He will finish. So be confident in Him, knowing that while we are somewhat at home in this realm we will be much more at home in the real realm with Him, instead of in and out of it like we are now. We are to walk in the real realm not in the sight realm. And we will be so pleased when the flesh (sight) realm is left behind and we walk in the Spirit realm with the Lord.

Maybe Philp.2:5 and Philp.4:13 can make more sense now. The mind of Christ is finally starting to take over and when it does, immortality will overtake us too! We will do all things through Christ because this worldly realm won’t limit us.

We are standing at the threshold of a new truth. God wants many of us to believe, accept and receive the real realm. We have been on a Spiritual journey and we’ve been led there by God’s Spirit, to find the reality of what has been stirring on the inside of us. Maybe we thought it was out there somewhere (we sure were looking hard enough) but it was in us all the time. We were outside, way out there, looking for the way in. We just didn’t know who we were that’s why we were so lost.

Our test and tears haven’t been in vain and we are not nut cases in the kingdom. We have been on a journey and we never turned back or quit. Oh we may have stopped or camped a time or two but we never did like Abraham’s father or the "Church". We never stopped, built our city, named it and died or stopped. We never stopped because we were being driven by God’s Spirit, for such a time as this.

The "Church" may be stuck with seeing in part for awhile longer, thus not allowing the perfect to come. I wish I could say they were going the rest of the way with us right now but most have turned aside already. Loving the things that belong to this flesh (sight, false) realm. They still belong to God and He will do as He sees fit with them. They are all saved and belong to Him. They just haven’t been driving in the same vehicle as we have. Remember God took all of the Israelites into the wilderness, then through it and right to the door of the "Promised Land". Yet only a few believed, the rest doubted, did not believe and died. They still belonged to God.

The parable of the sower tells us in detail how God’s people miss the best because they fail to receive and partake, Heb.4:1-3, maybe these verses will be more enlightening now. Apostle Paul wanted this real realm more than he wanted life and he made it clear in Phil.3:8-14.

So stop or go, we are Gods. But, if we sow to the Spirit not to the flesh, forgetting what’s behind us including what the "Church" has done and leave it all in the past because its dead, our works are dead. This is a new door and God is doing it from here on out, not man, not flesh, just Spirit. His Hands His Words! His thoughts! His Ways! Not man’s! Ya can’t go forward if you’re backing up. It either says, "DRIVE" or it says "REVERCE". You can’t do both.

Taste and see, have you’re real eyes opened, accept, receive and be TRANSFORMED.

BLINDED EYES WILL SEE

Rev.3:15-19

Are you listening?

2Cor.3:14; 2Cor.4:3-4; Jh.9:39; Jh.9:1-7, Blindness comes in many forms but it never came to stay where the Light or (Truth) of God was planted. I read Jh.9:1-7, from this revelation, and related it to our spiritual blindness. I got some real meaning out of it; you try it after this study and see if it doesn’t open our eyes.

The message of the Kingdom has been veiled to the "Church" in the past but these are the days when God will remove that veil. He is causing blind eyes to see and His Light is beginning to shine on His many mysteries. Isa.60:1, says, "Arise and shine for your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you". Not only is God’s glory being revealed upon us but it’s about to burst forth from within us.

We are His children, His seed, and now what Dale has said is exactly what is happening within us. Most of you know Dale always says, "He is looking for a rupture not a rapture". He means, he is looking for God to burst forth from within him; he’s not looking to get sucked up out of this world and into never never land.

Millions are sitting around with the seed of God on the inside of them, yet their hold-ing onto the world and religion more dearly then to that which is within them. Oh Christ is returning but it won’t be like the "Church" is expecting. He’s going to surprise them the same way He surprised the Jews. How can this be? Easy! C.A.C. Christ Already Came, in you! In me! Now I know why Jesus spoke so much about the deaf the blind and those bound (in darkness to the law and the ways of the world).

2Thes.1:10-12; Col.3:1-4; 1Jh.3:1-2; Col.1:27, Christ is here, in us, NOW! So who and what will we believe? Are we going to believe the ways of the world, the ways of religion and bondage or are we going to believe the WAY of God and His Word? All we need is a glimpse of the true nature that abides within us and we would gladly give ourselves over totally to God for His processing and possessing. I know we would gladly give up self to become ONE with Christ if we just could get a glimpse. And since your still here, I believe you’re seeking the truth and looking for that glimpse. I believe God is drawing you from all the places He has scattered you. I believe He is bringing you out of the tombs of religion, dead theology and demonational blindness. I believe He is causing you to lay down your flesh and it’s desires and I also believe that He is bringing you into the reality of His Kingdom within you.

If any of this is going on in you, then be ready for persecution because you’ve quit talking about God like the rest of the "Church" and you’re starting to experience Him. You’re starting to live the Kingdom, HERE, NOW, not in the sweet by n by, and religious spirits hate eye openers, truth and freedom.

God wants to live through us and His Word is sharp enough to divide the two men in the bed and separate you from this world (His enemies) thus making you pure. He will give us the necessary revelation and the proper understanding of Himself and Praise God He will do NOW not later. Don’t accept the lies that we have to die and go to heaven in order to be like Christ. Jesus didn’t and we don’t have to either. The "Church" has had its hope in the wrong things. Their hope is to die and go to heaven or get raptured out of here in order to get it right. Our hope is Philp.1:20-21, to see the fullness of God manifested in us and become the true dwelling place, the true temple.

Matt.5:1 says, "Seeing the multitude He went up on a mountain.." Did Jesus know something we don’t? He saw them and went up, away from them. To be able to see and understand the things of God we need to come up and get away from the things of this world, things that blind. Our thinking has to be elevated above our natural thinking, our minds must be renewed, 1Cor.2:14. In Rev.21:10 it says, "Carried away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain". Did God take John out of and away from his natural thinking so he could see, hear and understand what God was saying and showing him? Isa.57:15 says, "God is the High and Lofty One, who dwells in the high and holy place. God has to elevate our thinking above the natural so He can dwell fully in us. Matt.17:1, Jesus took them away from the world so they could receive a great revelation. God lifts us up to new heights of revelation in Him; we need only to humble ourselves and receive it.

Take a closer look at Matt.5:3-12, would our natural thinking let us believe we could be all Jesus taught here? No way! He was revealing the character of the "new creation" or the god man. Ps.119:130 says, God’s Word gives light; He is the Light living through us. Religion wants us to bind the darkness and loose the light. I thought a minute about that and felt something was wrong. If I’m in my bedroom and its dark, I don’t bind it. I turn my light on. Having Christ inside us allows us the awesome opportunity to accept the truth and turn on that Light within us which will drive out all the darkness, even our darkened thinking. It’s not out here somewhere to bind or loose it’s within us. He said when we seek Him with all of our heart, we’d find Him and trust me when you do there is going to be a rupture! Turn your LIGHT on NOW! SEE the truth that is within.

It’s the same oh same oh, God’s people accepted what man said but Matt5 shows us our true walk, the walk of the new creation. In our natural minds it’s impossible because we’ve tried and failed but that doesn’t nullify the Word of God. I believe it just wasn’t time and you see we didn’t give up. We kept seeking Him and now He is giving us that glimpse. Seek it, crave it and see who really lives through you. Then you’ll begin to live that godly life and you’ll see the transformation-taking place, in this new creation.

Look again at Matt.5:3, "Blessed are the poor" some doctrines stop there. The Catholic Church took this clear over to a vow of poverty. Poverty doesn’t cause you to be blessed or happy, it can cause worry. But we are blessed in God. Others like to teach more on the last part, "theirs is the kingdom of heaven" and if you walk in the kingdom you are always blessed with prosperity. This is the sign they use to see how godly you are. The truth is a poor Christian can have the whole bank of Christ full of riches and a rich Christian can be bankrupt going to the same bank.

To me poor in spirit would mean we don’t have anything in our human spirits, which is a great place to be empty because then God can fill it up with His riches. He can’t fill what is full. So I felt this was telling me if my human spirit was empty, lacking and seeking fresh manna, then I was blessed. I kind of felt like I should be empty every day so God can fill me up with fresh manna. What filled me yesterday isn’t good today. I can’t live on yesterdays experience even if it was good because it was for then and I’m in the NOW. If we can learn to walk by faith not sight we are in the NOW and we can walk the walk of the new creation in the Spirit. We have to quit looking back at the hurts and failures of our PAST. And we have to quit wishing our FUTURES would be better. Its bondage and it keeps us blind to the Kingdom, because the Kingdom is in the NOW!

To me, knowing, I in and of myself can do nothing in this natural realm shows me how empty or poor in spirit I really am. And this encourages me to push on, to knock, seek and cry out to God for the fullness of His Spirit to rupture within me so that He can be seen. Pastor Tim talked Thursday night about the Deep calling to the deep, Ps.42:7. He explained it different then I have but its all what God is saying to us now. God truly lives on the inside of us and nothing gets any DEEPER then that. God planted Himself in us before the foundations of the earth. So when He calls forth that which He planted deep within us, He will come forth and it will be a rupture! Like Lazarus from his grave we’re a little bound (in lies, religion, flesh, etc.etc.) but don’t worry God is stripping us of all of that and clothing us in His righteousness causing His light to shine through us. Remember that "river of life" we’ve heard so much talk about? Well it’s going to be coming out of us just like in Gen.7:11-12. God is causing a rupture deep in this earth! And He is going to cause a flood to come up out of that earth, called the "River of Life".

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven". We are not going to this place when our body dies, it isn’t something we gain in the sweet by n by. The Kingdom of Heaven is within you, NOW, receive your sight and see!

WHO DO WE MANIFEST?

Rom.8:19; 1Jh.2:18; 1Jh.4:3-6

Are we manifesting Christ or the enemy of God the Antichrist?

Are we glorifying the world and it’s ways or are we showing the world the Christ within us?

Def. of Manifestation: Is evidence, a public demonstration of power and purpose, 1Cor.2:4.

We here have crossed that line, drawn in the sand by the religious, but in order to stand strong, I know we need to experience Christ for ourselves. We all know about this Kingdom walk and we know the spirit realm is very real. We have great knowledge that we don’t even comprehend yet. But have we experienced Christ?

Def. of Experience: A conscious apprehension of reality, what’s gained by actually feeling or doing something. Philp.3:12.

We have all heard that the "Outback" and the "Claim Jumper" have fantastic food. But have we experienced it? I haven’t, so all I have is what someone else has told me. God doesn’t want that kind of relationship with us. It was all right while we were growing but rupture time is near and we need an intimate relationship with Him now. Unfortunately we were taught we couldn’t experience this with God and its kept Christians bound up in what I call the "the baby crib". The place where we need everyone to think for us, we never experience the freedom of the Spirit because we don’t know we can. Were we stay angry over our boo boo’s and we hurt the ones we really love. It’s the spirit of antichrist not Christ and we have to grow up. Christian bookstores speak loudly for the "Church" today. Shelf after shelf is full of self-help books. We don’t need to look for help, our help lives within us! We don’t need books to help us deal with our hurts we need a living experience with our God. We need to let go of our old way of thinking (it’s the antichrist thinking) its against God. Anything other then Christ’s way is our way, self-knowledge, the world’s ways, to put it plan and simple, it’s the spirit of antichrist 2Tim.4:3-4 and 3:7.

If you’re sitting here listening to me I know you’re born again. This means we are to be a new creation (someone born of God). This is something I also believe that God, via the "Church" has kept us from experiencing until the proper time. Believing Jesus died for our sins and accepting Him as our Savior is only the start of our experience in this Kingdom walk. To be able to experience Him and then to manifest Him to the world is, Christ in us the hope of glory, exploding all over the world. And He will to do it through us! Trust me being transformed by God will be an experience, having this corruptible put on the incorruptible or very nature of God will be an awesome, Gal.3:27.

Now right here we could get lost on a doctrinal rabbit trail so I’ll do my best to make this very clear. I don’t care if you were baptized in a river, a pool, the tub or a sink. I don’t care if it was in a jail, the zoo, on a deathbed or in a speeding train. I don’t care if they said in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost or in the name of Jesus. Because God said, Jesus was the embodiment and fullness of the Godhead. So I don’t care which way you did it, you took the first step to having a full experience with God.

So don’t let religion; tradition and doctrine rob you of your time and your experiences with God. God wants this more then we do, so ask Him to show you where the hold up is. Believe, receive and you will manifest Him.

When I first committed to my walk with God I wanted to be just like Jesus. I went to church and tried to be good. I listened hard to the preacher but never got any victory in my walk. I never even realized Jesus was continually pointing me to the Father because the antichrist (doctrine) had my head full of "Church" or works, not God. I was never offered true information only religion. In fact what I got was quit the opposite: I was told to "Try hard to be good, repent always, do my best, then when I die I could be like Jesus". Well thank God, He didn’t let be stay in bondage long, He opened my eyes and His Word, Eph.5:6-17. As wrong as their teaching was in the Spirit it was truth, because I did have to die daily to who I thought I was.

That just reminded me of another thing the "Church" was allowed to blow totally out of proportion. When I was a child going to church with my mom, our pastor preached hell, fire and repent and repent and believe me people wore out the carpet in their sin consciousness. Get a grip I was a little child how bad could I be, but we believed it. As I grew church changed, it flip-flopped when the world did. Everyone put on their happy faces; no one could let you know they needed help. Sickness wasn’t something God had a part in. And wealth was how you judged someone’s walk with the Lord. Where was God in all of that? Where was the manifestation of His LOVE? It was mostly the spirit of err or the spirit of antichrist.

Maybe the "Church" needs some of the mourning Jesus spoke of in Matt.5:4. I know it might sound like a contradiction, but if we look at it from what I’ve been saying it makes sense. I’ve looked at my life and I’ve seen a lot of places I want God to change me. Mostly I hate not being able to love like God does and that makes me mourn real fast. Def. of Mourn: is to feel grief over something. I don’t know if it affects you like that but it affects my walk and me and I think the word mourn fits what I feel. I’m not talking condemnation here, just a true, deep desire to see Christ manifested. I want to experience, to feel, to be one with the Christ that God put in me. So I seek God so He will show me my heart, to show me where I need to be change. That could cause us to mourn too.

Don’t go getting religious here either and try to twist this up with that positive confession stuff or "but sister I’m the righteousness of God in Christ". Don’t flip out that one that its condemnation and you don’t receive it or the one I hear all the time, "that was then, I’m not back there". Yes all of these statements are very true but not if you are using them to cover up something God is trying to deal with you on. "Blessed are those who mourn, (who want to be corrected and changed) for they shell be comforted.

I also looked at righteousness using, Eph.4:24. It’s a right standing in Christ, its not a blab it and grab it possession you earn. God works it in the new you and you experience it as you walk in it. Doing and saying things that are right won’t do you much good if your heart doesn’t desire a complete make over. Our walking and talking right (in the religious sense of the word) is only our attempt to cover up the antichrist spirit our old man walked in.

I’m not saying go nuts here, cry, beg and feel condemned, we are all forgiven. I’m saying ask God to show you where He wants you to come into agreement with Him on an area. God is our LIGHT turn Him on and tune in to His voice He will lead you. I think that’s the kind of mourning that will change our lives and bring healing, restoration and peace not all the self-help books, Isa.61:1-3.

Our goal is to be One with the Father. I know we have been given much knowledge about scriptures, our promises and our inheritance but we still have a ways to go before we fully manifest Christ. Apostle Paul always says things that push me, things like, "Now is the day of salvation". That isn’t after my body is dead and I’m in heaven, that’s NOW. Christ in us the hope of glory, that’s NOW. Rom.7:24; Rom.8:2; 1Cor.15:26 and 1Cor.15:51-57. This is my desire, to see Christ fully formed and manifesting in God’s chosen, in those here and I expect to see it soon! I know once we each begin to experience the life of God within us we will never be content to live our old life. Because the seed deep within us will draw us continually into the Father’s presents and we will never be happy with the old ways again. If you’re waiting to die and go to heaven you’re in the wrong class, study, or arena. Because this group of son’s is about to enter into the greatest manifestation of God the earth has ever seen. I want you to see, believe, receive and experience Christ with me.

Two Kings will never sit on the same throne; it’s either the antichrist or THE CHRIST! Are you with me?

I HUNGER AND THRIST

Guess what? I’m hung up in Matt.5. I think you all knew I would be. We’ve looked at v.3and 4 and I didn’t look long at v.5 because if you remember we went over this once before. I think I related meekness to a stallion of great strength under full control. Being meek is NOT being weak, its controlled strength. Webster’s says, "Meekness: endures injury with patience and without resentment", sounds like God to me, fully in control. I thought Matt.11:29 and 1Pet.3:4 helped explain meek pretty well. Jesus referred to Himself as gentle or meek, yet He calmed the sea, defeated death hell and the grave, commanded demons and the list goes on and on. That wasn’t weakness that was the epitome of controlled strength. 1Pet. shows us meekness from our god-man side. In that realm is the only place we will enjoy true meekness, our flesh man cannot it wants control. Don’t forget I’m looking at Matt.5:3-11 as the character of the new man the god man, or the spirit man. And oh yes, the new creation does inherit the earth.

Matt.5:6, I saw this as a hunger and thirst to have the soul man or outward man changed as our inward man is perfected. When we remain under condemnation and bondage to the "Church or law" we are continually worrying that we have sinned. Or that what we have done isn’t forgiven. Or we’ve done things we believe God can’t handle. This messes up our hunger, because all of these things consume us and don’t leave room for the One we are to hunger for.

I remember all the condemnation the "Church" put Dale through over his cigarettes. He got to a place where he was consumed with getting rid of his smoking problem. He believed if he could quit or if he could get God to deliver him he would have a greater walk with God. Cigarettes became his hunger not God. Religion teaches us that we must stop doing things that God doesn’t like. I believe if this were true, no one would ever be transformed into His image. God sent His Son for the sinner, for those who were bound. He didn’t come for the righteous and perfect. Duh! There were none, no not one. Millions of God’s people are hungering for all of God and they are still smoking, or have other habits, their lives may look messed up to them or to the religious but that’s only because they bought the lie. God sent Jesus to free us from our bondage and lift condemnation from us. Hunger after Him and all these things will have to leave, Matt.6:33.

Thank God, He gave Dale the truth, oh Dale still has his cigarettes but his hunger for God overtook the bondage and condemnation. His hope isn’t in his ability to quit; it’s in his God’s ability to do what He wants with him. Besides I asked God why He didn’t just deliver Dale and God said, "Because then his head would be so big He’d even have a hard time dealing with Dale." So this way God and Dale have a great relationship, Dale stays humble and God stays in charge (Ha-ha) and fills him with His righteousness.

If we hunger and thirst after righteousness, God will fill us, Rom.3:21-26. The world and the "Church world" both have so many things that they want us to focus on but it all keeps us from seeking our Father. It keeps our eyes on the "tree of good and evil" or keeps us so busy doing stuff we don’t focus on the Father and what He is saying. Col.3:1-3, says seek the things that are above, above what? Above our natural thinking, at least set your mind to aim in that direction, it’s a start. Could you imagine what could happen if for one hour every Christian on earth would stop their minds from worrying about tomorrow, their families, jobs, anger, divisions and whatever else we focus on and just seek God’s face, my God Jh.17:20-23 would be a reality. Awesome, we would actually be ONE.

God never said to seek healing and prosperity or demons to fight or even His blessings. He never said seek a position in the "Church", He said be the CHURCH. These things are not bad but they shouldn’t be what we are seeking like we read in Matt.6:33. So what is it your hungry for? Our true blessings or happiness comes as we are filled with God’s presence not as we seek things.

I know the teachings on dieing daily but I don’t know if a lot of it is truth. I know I am to die daily to my desires but God has shown me where I’m not really doing anything other then seeking Him as hard as I am capable of at this time. He takes the things out of me, as I look to Him and not them. That way I never notice there gone, I didn’t need them anyway, I was taught I did and so I thought I did.

I looked at 1Cor.15:45-57 to show us the victory in our struggle. This outer man is going to be changed regardless, our need is to seek Him and keep our minds off of ourselves. We may have habits, problems and flaws in our outer man but once God rises up within us, our outer man will bow to God. As much as I’ve disliked what or how God has done in my life and as much as I’ve turned my back on Him, He has never quit drawing me into Himself and I have never quit believing in Him. I can’t, He lives in me and we are becoming ONE.

This doesn’t come overnight; it comes with patience and seeking on our part and the time to process us on God’s part. I know some believe this is a blab it and grab it experience or what I call the "Burger King Club" they want it their way and they want it now! But God told me, "Time was made for my processing". So I believe we need patience, Jer.29:13; Heb.11:6; Lk.21:19. According to Strong’s # 5590: Soul is the seat of our affections, will, desires, emotions, mind, reason and understanding. If you want every inch of you to be possessed by God, seek Him and be patient. God is going to possess every part of us, inside and out.

We have read the "Hall of Faithers" in Heb.11 and I know we’ve all wished to be like some of them. I’ve gone over most of their good points and their bad points with you. I looked at David again, as bad as David was; his heart was seeking hard after God. God blessed and punished David but David never quit seeking God’s face, Acts 13:22. To be like these men and women we need only to seek God like they did. Making a choice to keep God first. Did they all do this all the time? NO! But they did all they could at the time, and they never had the intercessor we do. So when you fail, get up, look up and keep seeking hard after Him who has apprehended you. We can make it where others fell short, "Thank You Father for Jesus and for what You’re doing in us today".

God takes us just as we are, all our flaws, we can’t give Him anything. Our lives are for His pleasure. He takes our nothing and transforms it into His image. If you don’t want God’s character formed in you, I feel sorry for you. You need to seek God while there is still time. The only reason you are here is to be filled fully with His presence. So check yourself before you wreck yourself.

We know its impossible in the natural to become what God says we will be, we’ve already tried and failed. We have heard people say and I’m sure some of us here have said, "I want to be holy, perfect, or like Jesus or someone else in the Bible but if God don’t do it, it’s not my fault". I’m going to use Rom.5:17 to approach this. My reason being there are two keys here we tend not to use when we cop this attitude. The keys are, Receive and Gift. It says, to those who receive! It doesn’t say to those who are given. God does not give to some and keep it from others we do that. His gifts are for whosoever. Everyone is given grace but who will receive the gift? Our little bit of faith, plus receiving the gifts of God, when mixed together bring God’s life into us and He take’s us into His realm. Everything God gives us is powerful, grace is more powerful then the law of sin and death. But we must receive the gift. Reality is you are either born of God or your not. Either you’re receiving or you’re perishing. If you are truly born of God receive what He says and He will live His life through you. We cannot produce the life of God but we can receive it. So if you’re not beginning to manifest the character of God then you have received the wrong stuff. You signed for the wrong package; you took the keys to the go-cart and left the keys to the Gold Cadillac on the table.

You’ve heard that saying, "We are what we eat"? So I’m saying eat Jesus, eat God, put His Words in and swallow. Then like Dale says, you’ll experience the honey from the ROCK. When you hunger and thirst after God you will be filled, He seems hard to swallow (accept, believe, understand) but He isn’t, He is sweet.

I’m going to read you a word a man received while he was hungering after God, I liked it and I felt it applied to us too.

"Behold, I stand at the door of your consciousness and knock, and if you will receive Me, I will come in and feast with you, drink with you and you with Me. I long to enter into My garden, into sweet communion with you every day. You may not always sense My presence within you, but I say to you I Am there, deep within your being. Seek and I will bring you into an understanding of My Light and revelation knowledge of My Spirit that I placed within you. You will begin to experience Me more and more as you seek Me and the fullness of joy that is in My presence you will find. By learning to feast on Me you will be able to turn aside from the cares of this life and enter Mine. With childlike faith you will call on Me and discover that just calling Me is like ointment pouring over you. I answer the cry of a hungry heart. I don’t look at your outward condition I look way beyond the faults; I look deep into your being and I see the Seed of My life; and I speak to that life. I water and nourish that Seed and I bring forth within you the glorious magnificent life that I Am. I cultivate within you My incorruptible indestructible Seed. I bring forth from within you a life that will not know defeat or failure. If you will learn to (lay or sit) at My feet, you will come to know Me in such a wonderful way. You can only give back to Me that which I bring forth within you. You can only love Me when you experience (receive) My love flowing within you. If only you will lay aside all that you are and receive Me, you will discover that I Am, That I Am. I Am within you, everything that you need and at every moment of the day. Forget natural strength; learn to depend on Me and when you cry to Me from your heart, you shall know that I Am your Strength and your Deliver. Your deliverance shall come, not from without but from within. I shall rupture forth from within you and become your LIFE." AMEM!

FATHER FORGIVE THEM

Lk.23:34

My focus here is Lk.23:34 but that took me right back to Matt.5:7, "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy". As I read this again I noticed there seemed to be an order to the way Jesus put these things. To be or have what Jesus said here, we’d first have to start with being emptied, in order to be filled fresh daily with the life and character of God. Then we’d realize where we lacked God’s character and hunger for change in that area. Then as we built our personal relationship with God we’d begin to experience Him coming alive in us and then could come the morning over what we would then will know (about the things God doesn’t want in us, because they are not from Him) would makes sense. He doesn’t want it in us and neither do we and we can morn for the change. God meets the hungry heart and awakens it, He fills our every need and we hunger for more and all of this brings about the character of someone who can be merciful.

To be a merciful person we need to experience all of this with the Father. Otherwise we’d never accept that everything we have or will ever have came through God’s grace. I talked last week about the two things it takes to experience God. 1. God gives (gifts) His grace being one of them. 2. We accept or (receive) them or they sit on a shelf somewhere in our minds collecting dust. Two weeks ago, Pastor Tim spoke about not comparing ourselves to anyone else. Turn to 2Cor.10:12-13, I think Paul understood this. A merciful person doesn’t compare themselves to others; they only compare themselves and others with what God says or shows them. They covet God’s mercies and this enables them to give mercy. Why? They received God’s gift of mercy and were then able to give out from the same fountain. You can’t give what you don’t have. You have to receive in order to give.

The Kingdom was never based on what we did but on what God did. It has nothing to do with our works but rather the fact that we are His. I used to get mad at myself because I was always trying to be Christ like and act right. I was always angry with God because as hard as I tried to be what the "religious world" said I should be, I failed. I was judging myself according to what people said. I wasn’t comparing myself with what God said. God has been very good to me in this area and He got me away from the "religious world". He put me into a wilderness where I had to depend on and listen to Him for everything. A place made just for me where He could become my life. I guess I soaked it up like a sponge because I learned to love me for who He said I was and He is showing me I can love people I know I never could. I know I’ve learned to look at people different and it’s because He looked at me different. Do I understand it all? No, not yet but I’m real sure I will. I think once we begin to understand what is going on between God and us, when we begin to see that we are going through this because God wanted it we well also understand where it is all leading us to, and we will crave it. It will be God Himself flowing out of us! By then I’m sure we won’t care how other people judge us because we will be confident it is God they are judging. Sucks to be them, I was there once. Anyway hopefully by that time they will be able to see God in us and then they can be lead into His freedom.

I guess what I’m trying to get you to see is we had a religion that told us Jesus lives inside us. We were taught that when we were saved, Jesus took up residence. However we never experienced that revelation. His death not only saved us from our sins it made Him a Life-Giving Spirit. We need a revelation of this Life within us so that we don’t keep trying to become something, (whatever it is the "Church" is trying to become). They have His Life inside them but they never experienced it because they think they have to do something religious I guess. It’s His gift to us, get out of the religious bondage and receive it.

I don’t believe Jesus was setting up a new religion or a new standard here in Matt.5. I think all He was saying was, "If you’re a new creation, if I truly live in you, then this is how you will start acting". Because God will expose all of the junk religion and the world have placed in you. He will expose everything that isn’t from Him. Are being good and acceptable isn’t a true image of who we are and we won’t get the true image until we kill self. So quit running away every time God shows you something that’s wrong take a stand and face it. Actually this is a very good stand because we are then running to our Father not away from Him. Forget what you’ve learned from man and seek the TRUTH. God will bring you into Himself and fulfill what’s been missing in you. I kind of imagine it like being sucked through a mirror. We see what we will be in our heart (or on the other side of the mirror) but right now we only see our image looking back at us but we’ve learned that the reflection isn’t who we really are; we are going through the mirror.

2Pet.1:2-11, if you received Jesus, receive this word also. In Rev.1:5-6 it says He has made us priest and kings. In the Old Testament the priest carried the Ark around on their shoulders or on the outside. The Ark held the expression of God inside it. So wake up here and receive this revelation we are the Ark and we are carrying around in us the awesome presence of God! All of God’s people were called to be priests and kings, so be one!

God’s presence doesn’t come with soiled authority like the "Church world" thinks. It doesn’t come with hate, prejudice, condemnation and expectations. God’s authority brings you into agreement with Him. He wants us to get the plank out of our eye first, Matt.7:2-4. Peter said we were many things in 1 Pet.2:9 Lets go there and say them out loud. "I am chosen, I am a priest, I am a holy nation and I am special to God". However slinging this around like the "Church world" does won’t get it deep down inside of us. The "Church" doesn’t have this revelation and it doesn’t have them. That’s why they struggle with every move of God and every little thing that God does to process them. Rom.10:3 and Gal.2:21.

God has told us these things over and over and I want you to hear them again because faith comes by hearing. Eph.1:17-20; Gal.2:20; 2Cor.5:17 and Col.1:27. The life we are living is for Who is on the inside of us, it’s not ours. It’s not anything we have done its just who we really are, God’s private property. If we express love today and hate tomorrow we are still living by the "Tree of Good and Evil". Face it; we express what we hold in our hearts. Out of the abundance (Def: an overflowing quantity) of the heart the mouth speaks. Jesus was able to speak mercy at the Cross-because His heart was overflowing with understanding and mercy, (Lk.23:34). True mercy has a desire to relieve pain and suffering. Mercy has no "IF’S" in it. "If you treat me nice I’ll be nice" or "If you will then I will". Even when people do us dirt we are going to be able to say with love and mercy, "Father forgive them".

Eph.1:13-14, says we are sealed or marked this is a pledge or mark made by God on or in us to secure our future. So that when it is time for Him to fully activate the Seed He placed on the inside of us it will come forth, and it will produce after its MAKER, after its OWN kind. We have a contract a covenant with God that says He will bring that Seed to maturity, or into the fullness of Christ. He started this whole thing and He will bring it to its finish, all we have to do is believe and receive what He has promised. Let Him have your life it belongs to Him anyway. Once we said "yes" we became God’s private property, He will never let go of us, He will sort of "hound" us until we submit to Him totally. It’s not really force its really true love.

A merciful person will react to wrong like Jesus did at the Cross. When someone wrongs us and we hold that wrong in our hearts, that person is in our power, Jh.20:23. So how are we reacting to wrong? What character do you see being formed in yourself? When anyone (Christian or not) wrongs one of God’s anointed they definitely do not understand what they are doing, read Lk.23:34 again. "Father forgive them because they don’t know what they are doing". A true revelation of God’s kind of forgiveness will free us from condemnation and also from condemning others. If you are in this bondage, run to Fathers arms and receive His forgiveness for yourself. Then you will be able to give forgiveness to those who hurt you.

Unforgiveness is a major human or carnal flaw; praise God He can deliver us from it. Matt.18:21-22 Peter is asking Jesus a very important question here. How many times must we put up with the same person doing us wrong? How many times do we have to take this? Jesus taught them using this parable in verses 23-35. He was saying, there is no way anyone could pay the debt for the wrong done to God, yet it is forgiven day in and day out because of the "Cross". Through the "Cross"-no sin is too big that the Blood cannot cover it. All sin is paid for! And this is the very character of God that will live within us.

If you don’t want this character, then verses 33-35 apply to you. That’s why receiving God’s character is so important to us. God has forgiven all we have done or will do. So why is it we have such a hard time forgiving others a much smaller debt? We don’t need Matt.7:1-2 in our lives, we need God’s character. God must show us this carnal nature within us so that we will want it removed. If God is really dealing with you in an area seek hard after Him and He will help you. Unforgiveness and resentment lead us away from seeking hard after God and into holding grudges, rage; anger, hate and even murder, none of these are the character of God. Begin to experience God flowing through and out from you to others and you will begin to see things like pride, self, the desire to get even and the desire to hold onto hurts become a thing of the past. God gives us His truth the world gives us lies. Now it’s up to us, what do we do with it? Can we start tonight and say from our hearts, "Father forgive them, because they truly do not know what they are saying or doing". And Father thank You for forgiving me!

CHANGE MY HEART OH GOD

We sing this song: Change my heart oh God, make it ever true, change my heart oh God, I want to be like You. Guess where this song took me in the Scriptures? You guessed, Matt.5:8. Well we are finely at verse 8 anyway but I was getting a little confused here. "Heart" was messing me up because I’ve been taught a lot of wrong things. So I went David, a man after God’s heart. Ps.51:10 and Ps.34:18. I’d also heard "heart and spirit" were the same thing. So I went to Prov.15:13 and Ezek.36:26, I think this says they are not the same thing.

Now we know we have the "Well of Living Water", "Christ The Life", our "Everything" plus the very nature of God, living inside of us in our spirits or the real us. I assume we all believe that the purpose of our spirit is to contact, receive from, have a relationship with and worship God. Because it has to be done in spirit and truth, Jh.4:24. None of this has anything to do with our natural mind or natural man, its all spirit. 1Cor.6:17, says we are joined in one spirit. Our spirit is joined to God and to each other’s spirits its not joined to the natural man. What other reason would there be for Paul to say "renew your minds in Rom.12:2? Receiving Jesus energizes us with Divine Life; we then hunger for God’s presence to fully consume us thus transforming our minds back to spirit where we originated, Praise God! Back in God again!

Jh.4:24 says it real clear. God is Spirit, we are really spirit and we connect in the realm of the Spirit. The whole purpose of our spirit is to commune with and worship God.

I’ve heard many people say, "I received a touch from God" or "I felt God touch me" it hurt me because I wanted to experience that touch from God also. I never understood what that meant until I started writing this. I knew I couldn’t touch God in the natural and I always figured He defiantly didn’t want to touch filthy man, (boy religion can mess you up). Now I see it different, its like God is electricity or the source of Divine Life. God the Son is the station where the electricity is stored or the place where the Divine Life gets stored. The Holy Ghost is the line through which the electricity moves or through which the Divine Life moves. Then there is an outlet or Seed running deep inside our walls or inside us. But we can’t turn on our light until it’s plugged into the outlet or the Holy Ghost. It’s the only way the electricity or God can flow through us. If I stick my finger into an open outlet I am going to feel that energy, ZAP! So touching God is a matter of spirit nothing natural and I won’t let my mind cheat me again into believing I can’t be touch by or touch God. It doesn’t matter what we’ve done, how many times we’ve missed God or how bad the world says we are. When we stick our finger (exercise our spiritual right) into the open outlet (God’s Spirit) we will be energized (Zapped) by His Divine Electricity. Jesus made the Way regardless of our condition and gave us the right to stick our finger into "The Outlet!"

The pure in heart shall see God. Not the eyes that have blinders placed on them by (the religious world and the world around them). Its seeking God and going through His possessing that will purify our hearts. When we received what Jesus did at the Cross. We were sanctified or set apart for the Father. Then His character had to be worked or shaped in us we must be changed. It’s a process we have to go through to be transformed into His image and likeness. Its like Paul said in Gal.2:20, he died that Christ might live in his flesh. It’s an experience Paul went through in the realm of the Spirit. He met God and received from Him.

God is pure love and as His pure Spirit flows out of His chosen people the "religious world" will finely accept what God says. They will receive what God has for them through us. The world doesn’t want this "religious God" that the "Church" portrays. The world is starved for the True God, the one who will accept them where they are and love them through everything.

Motive, ambition and pride can’t come into the Kingdom. So decide now if you are taking this walk, what is it you want people to see in you? As though we had anything really to do with this. Matt.6:1-5 made me think it’s always wise to check our attitude. You know my saying, "Check yourself before you wreck yourself". If we are doing anything to be seen or appreciated by men our motives are really messed up and God needs to intervene. Don’t loose me here in this Matthew praying thing. I was using it for a point not a program. When you spend time alone with God and He directs you to pray for someone, do it. Just don’t do it everywhere you go to be seen, that is part of an impure heart.

I’ve spoken before about the "prosperity gospel" and most of you know my views on that. For those who don’t I’ll give you a little summery. Prosperity is good as long as it comes through a pure motive. Walking in the "Kingdom walk" will prosper you in every area of you life. Prosperity in the Kingdom isn’t measured in material gain, or health. So this is an area to check yourselves in also. Why do you give? Or maybe do you give? Are you stuck in the 10% mode or have you graduated? Are you hungering after more from God in wisdom or in the ability to love and forgive like He does? Not many in the "prosperity gospel" hunger for these blessings. Again I will say, nothing is wrong with material blessings. It is Godly motives, attitudes and pure hearts that will know what to do with such blessings.

This took me way out, so join me. Have we ever asked God to bless us with suffering? No! I didn’t think so. Turn to Phil.3:10 and Job 13:15, they, I am sure, did not like their circumstances nor did they turn there hearts away from God. They circumstances pushed them harder toward Him. They were not concerned with weather God met their needs or killed them Himself. I know our covenant is greater because Jesus said, "If we seek the Kingdom of God first, all these things would be added to us". But to do this our whole being must come under the authority of God’ Spirit. Then we can seek God’s kingdom because we are seeking from a pure heart.

Matt.12:34-35 and Matt.15:18, "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks". So I figured from this our heart was the door to who we really are. Everything that comes into us or flows out of us must go through the door. Our heart is where our attention is focused. The Kingdom of God has nothing to do with head knowledge He is the HEAD! The kingdom message is for the heart. Its not a religious person or program its an experience with a living God who wants to touch you. What we set our hearts on and allow into them is what we will show the world. I think this is where the "religious world" fails to keep going on with God and its because of mans head knowledge. This walk isn’t a head relationship; the head of man cannot comprehend God. This is a heart relationship, which eliminates our head and touches our spirit. It matters not how far you feel you are away from God, no matter how messed up you feel. All you need to do is turn your attention to God (with your spirit) and touch Him. This isn’t a hope or a chance it’s a positive because you just entered His presence.

Since we were on the "pure" path here tonight I decided to look up the definition of "Pure". It means, unmixed, not mixed with anything, free from everything that might taint, alter or lower the quality of. "Bingo"! Our hearts are mixed because we seek God but we also seek other things. A pure heart seeks only Him. Ps.86:11, "unite my heart" Why would he say that? Because he knew that as hard as he was seeking God his heart was divided. We too are mixed with the things of this world and we become divided. I think Paul walked through this too, turn to Rom.7:24-25. Don’t get lost here, Paul is born again and we know how hard he sought after God. But he says, "Oh wretched man that I am". Did he see his heart as being divided? How many times have we heard God’s voice (through a word from a man) we lit up and knew God was speaking to us? Then we left the building and lost it. We were behind the veil, 2Cor.3:16 but when we left our hearts became divided. For a moment we were like David, we could have danced before the Lord in naked purity and holiness. We were there, in His presence, but we took our eyes off of God and but them on Bath Sheba and our hearts became divided.

I think Paul gave us the key to the door of our beings in Philp.4:8 and Rom.8:6. Set our minds on the things of God. Most of us spend our thoughts on worrying about our families, problems, money, health and jobs. That’s our first mistake; they are God’s problems once we have set our hearts on Him. So what do we spend our time thinking about? What do we talk about most?

Singleness of heart, a pure heart, seeks the Kingdom of God and His righteousness first. We become undivided as we seek Him not jobs, fun, family, ect.etc.etc.

Our heart is like a house that God wants to move into. There are many rooms in His house. And He will clean and purify each room as He moves in. When all that has consumed us has been cleaned out (our possessing) He will have moved totally in and His presence will fill the house. Nothing will ever be able to fill our hearts again because He will have it all! So lets set our minds on Him. Let Him fill each room and subdue our will, emotions and thoughts. Then we will see Him, GLORY!

…………..What a deal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you ever wondered who the heck you really are. Not who we are told but who you really are. I know I am a child of my heavenly Father, an inheritor of all things. All things past and present and in the future, are mine to grasp and hold on to. But that does not seem to answer the question, Who am I?

Well I started to ask my self and then I thought, Hey! Hey! Hey! I am that which is the promise. I am that which can not be removed, as I am that which was spoken of to Him before the foundation of the earth. I was crucified with Him and for Him before the Word came to earth. I am Christ’s inheritance, from the Father to a Son, from the Son to a brother. What a deal!!!!!!!!

I am that which was spoken of in the heavenlies, I am that which was spoken of in my Fathers throne room. I am from the seed that sits on the right hand of the Father. I am that promise. I have read where my Father has sworn an oath and an allegiance to the highest authority and that is Himself. And who could be any higher--------none that I know of. So He swore unto Himself, and as God can not lie then it is a guaranteed, sealed and a done deal.

What a deal a child of promise. I came into this world only having to believe on a promise. Sent from a Father above to a child below. All that was required was for me to stand on my faith and a positive belief of a promise. A promise and a belief and solemn oath.

A promise, a promise and when God makes a promise, He swears to the highest authority, He can swear no higher than unto Himself. His word is His glorified bond and truth. God will not lie, nor make deals, and most of all He will never cheat us or rob us of any promise. What a deal!!!!!

As a Father who is also all things to us, not as a man. But as a Father and our God, He can not and will not ever fall short on His word. As a child of promise He only and at all times only has my best interest in His heart. Because what is wonderful and excellent for me is only His wanting desire for me. That desire is that I should prosper in all things.

As a child of promise He has allowed me to be crucified with Christ before the very foundation of this earth, and before Adam was and before Eve was we were. That before there was I was too. Before in the beginning, I was that word that was before all time. I knew you before you were in your momma’s womb. And all I had to do was believe to receive, this allowed me to ask for forgiveness and to be open to receive the blessings of sonship. This sonship has allowed me to learn of my Fathers ways. To learn to love Him as He has and will continue to love me.

My Father is not complicated, He is a simple God, He only requires that I am an obedient child and that He receives all the love and honor that is due Him. I can

not out do Him or out give Him. As it is His wish that I should prosper in all things. It is His wish that I would become the son that I should be in Him. That’s all that there is to it. Then my Father has allowed the human race to have and intelligence quotient, a mere mind in which to think and that is a very loose figure of speech. As we have this small minute gray matter for a brain; so we now take this simple plan and we totally misconstrued and complicate our beliefs in our promise of who we are, in Him.

And we free willingly do this with every fiber of our mind. Then we can hear our selves say, " Oh! Father, I have messed up again, please don’t look at me as I am naked and not a single fig leaf to be found anywhere. There is no fig leafs big enough to hide mans stupidity and his own self ego of his own worth and position in society. Oh, Father protect us from our own folly and our wretched self and our overt indulgence in our own self worth that seems to be placing us in our own private hell on earth. When your promise says we were designed in your image and have told us we were to rule and reign on this earth.

Thank you Father for giving such a sweet deal and forgiving me of taking my own authority to complicate and compound my confusion with the rest of the turmoil in this world. Wait a minute, just give me the mind of a child, that just and simple mind of visions, and a newness of all that is around me. So I maybe become the inheritor of the mind of Christ, and the wisdom and the peace of all understanding. Allow me to live in the fullness of your promises to your child, your love child.

Is this the part where we say lean not unto your own understanding; but come to me as a child. Oh, but to finally realize that it is not required of me as a child of promise to have to work for the fulfillment of the indwelling of the promise that is in me. I am finding that 3 things are required on my part of the promise, #1 trust in Him, #2 believe with all my heart and #3 to stand in my faith and not be shaken. Not hard at all, but if given enough time I will probably figure a way to complicate and eventually totally confuse my self and then try to convince myself of all the reasons of my unworthiness. What a deal--------DUMMY.

It says to the child of promise, that I have the best of everything. That I am guaranteed the promise of love eternal, and I have nothing more to do than accept what has been purchased for me in the shed blood for the remission and for the sins of all mankind. There is nothing I am able to do to gain it, as it has already been done for me and with me. All I have to do is seek and ask and all of my promises are available to me as a son of the true and living God. I have a promise that I am to prosper in all things that are of Him and for Him; which are directed to me from Him.

We are the inheritors of a gracious and loving Father; who all things belong too. And what Father would want His child to miss out on His promises to them, none

that I know of, especially my heavenly Father. We have not come to the realization that all things great and small belong to Him, and as inheritors of the promise they all so belong to me and you. What a deal!!!!!!!!!! This is the best deal in town and no Ed McMahon will come knocking at your door, it is by special invite from the Holy Spirit. You have heard of Fed-X, this is from the glorified Holy Spirit Express, a personal soul delivery from the Great I Am.

What a deal, am I blessed, you bet your sweet bippy I am. I am the benefactor of a promise of blessings and more blessings, will I have trials and tribulations along the way, you can count on that too. But it is what I do with my trials and tribulations that allow me to see and reach for all of my blessings. Sometimes they come fast and sometimes they come slowly and the slowness maybe only the way I perceive them, as all things only come when my Father sees that it is the proper time and not always in my time.

Ask Me for what you want; and it is my desire to give you those good and proper things that will prosper you, but remember that if you ask not--- get not. Our Father wants to know the desires of our heart, our yearnings, or our needs. But remember that all things are not in His will nor will they benefit us in any way. But He still desires to know the these things, because if they are important to us then they are important to Him, and then again, and then again you may find out that they are not exceedingly beneficial to us.

Ask Me and I will give to you that which will make you most prosperous to you and to Me. AS WITH ALL THINGS THEY SHALL END UP GIVING GLORY TO THE FATHER, as we are His glory. What glorifies Him will also ultimately in the end glorify us, as we are His promise. Then as the promise children, we can do no more than to glorify our Father, and our God and our Love, what else is there that could be possible in this realm of our life. We are the by product of a promise to a promise from the promise keeper, our Father.

And I see my heavenly Father saying," If I had not made a promise. Then why would I have ever made you in my direct image. Would I want any less than the best for you. Why would I want you to have any less than I have to offer to you. Why would I not expect you to come into the fullness of the realization that you are me on this earth. As I am so shall you be." Would a Father want any less than He has to offer His children. What Father would say I have created my children to have less and to be under achievers, to never be able to reach the mark of the high calling that has been placed on his or her life. What child of a king was destined to be a stable boy? Yes we have been placed at the bottom but never, was this His purpose for us to remain at the bottom, but to diligently seek His ways and to grow and prosper in Him. Because in Him are all things and in Him and through Him we are allowed to rise to our proper status in this realm and the eternal realm. As the son’s of promise, as the son’s of promise until the never end. WHAT A DEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

We are the promise, the children of promise. We are that promise, that portion of His promise. A portion is a stipulated part: one’s part or share of something seen and something not seen. A portion of a promise, is a portion that is set aside, it is a special portion. It is different than the rest. #1 of things material-as in an inheritance; as in #A Gen: 48:22, "Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow." God has taken our share from captivity, so we can be set above the rest, to be used as a light unto the world. #B Joshua: 24:32, The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried at Shechem for 100 pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of the children of Joseph. This was their inheritance, it was set aside. But to the children of promise: God has given us a place to rest our bones, our rest is in Him. This is our portion a rest in Him. #C John: 4: 5-7, So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the 6th hour. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." Now Jesus comes to Josephs inheritance from Jacob which was an inheritance from above. His ground; but in this ground is a well, and Christ is served. The one who came to serve is instead served. And He is served the good water from the inheritance. A portion from above by the well deep from below, the well from within. A portion of the promise. God is in the promise. And do we not drink from our portion from the flowing well of Christ. Where man may never thirst again. And our portion says that in the well flows many living waters. Hello living waters, oh child of promise. What a deal!!!!!!

#2 of good things. Of good things, such as: #A, Spirit/ #B, Lord/ #C Spiritual Riches and to me these are good things, really good things, really, really, REALLY GOD things. 2 Kings 2:9, And so it was, when they had crossed over, that Elijah said to Elisha, "ASK! What may I do for you, before I am taken away from you?" Elisha said, "Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me." Now as I see this no one else got this promise or this portion only Elisha, what a promise; what a deal. He asked for what he couldn’t see, and believed it would happen. That he was who he was supposed to be and would receive it. Elisha’s promise was only to watch, watch what was from above. Ask what you may, and again I say ask and watch what you may; but watch for your portion from above. That is where your promise is; from above. And Elisha watched and in a moment, and in a moment he received his promise for him, from Him. And for faithfulness he received from above his portion and then the double portion. This double portion was his inheritance, not from Elijah but straight from God. Elisha was running the course in good faith, and so his double portion set him above the rest of his brothers. He was made separate unto them. And are we not told to be yee separate unto them. Our portion, our promise, from above to be blessed and to be set above the rest of our brothers. What a portion, what a promise and definitely a good deal. A sweet deal, a GOD given deal and an oath.

So as Elisha do we take our promise from above or do we take promises our promises from below. I am finding more and more to lean completely on the promises from above. As these are promises that are sworn in the heavenlies and not man made bologna. These promises are not meat bound by skin; but are the true meat to His children.

A short thought from Acts 13:32 and 33; " and we declare to you glad tidings—that promise which was made to the fathers. God has fulfilled this for us their children." All the promises are to the children or the son’s of God, this will determine how you perceive yourself; I am a son, not a child; nor are you as we are growing into maturity so as to be able to receive and recognize who we are in God not God in us. If we diligently seek God we will find out who we are in the promise and that the true son’s are the remnant factor of His love. These promise will allow us to be the benefactors or the non benefactors. The benefactors know who they are and the non benefactors are the lost and unusable. If you know who you are you can not be swayed with the wind, but if you do not recognize who you are you are blown around with the chaff and have to continually be found in a daze in the maze of this world from below. So do we reach for the high calling and try to hit the mark, and we still may fall short, or do we just do as the world tells as to who we are not and will not be able to become. Or do we stand as Elisha and watch and receive that double portion, hello watchman of the double portion. And to the children of the promise we can have that double portion and more because in us is the fullness and the completed work of Christ, we are His completed works. And He said," today it is finished, Father I have done all you have sent Me to do, and as You and I are one so are they one with Me."

In this verse we find the word promise, or epangelia [ep-ang-el-ee-ah], Both a promise and the thing promised, an announcement with the special sense of promise, a pledge, or an offer. Epangelia tells what the promise of GOD is and then gives the assurance that the thing promised will be done. What a deal, a done deal.

2 Peter 3:13 says: And who is he who will harm you if you become followers of what is good? Now if we are followers of our heavenly Father, and try to work in obedience of what He has for us as the promised son’s of His, then who can harm us. Can you hurt God or take away what He preordained to happen from before the foundation. No you maybe allowed to physically harm me, but you can not touch that which I am given from above, or whoa be unto you who touch my anointed ones. If I am a child from above then you as Christ showed can do no more to me that I am willing to allow you to do. For did not Christ," say you can not do anything to Me that my Father will not allow you to do unto Me." So I say do what you must, but do it quickly as it is not for you to do but only the will of my Father.

If we are the promise children of God then 2 Cor, 1:20-22, is for us. For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. [through who, I believe it said Us] Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is GOD, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

Or in our words what a deal it’s been signed sealed and delivered. I saw this as all the promises of God are in Him, and did not God say I knew you before I put you in your mothers earthen womb, the vessel I chose to spew you out at this given time and the water flows from the womb you enter in the water, and many rivers shall flow. And in Him amen it is finished and I say go forth be fruitful and multiply on the earth, to establish My kingdom which has come on earth as it is in heaven. We are opening and closing the doors. We are opening the doors of the heavenlies and closing the doors of the earthly kingdom. To the glory of God through us. How is this being done; no more; or no less; than through the Christ in us the direct image and that portion of His promise that we are to rule and reign on this earth. To the son’s go the promise to start to rule and reign and this is done when we accept our responsibilities as to who we are in Christ. The son’s of the living God. Who ushers in the kingdom, non but; the son’s of God. Who is establishing the good works and the promises of the Father, only His own, from His own oath, His sworn promises=us. Now He who establishes us with you in Christ. And does it not say in and through Christ all things are possible. And did not Christ say I have come to fulfill the law and in Me is and am I not the law and the promises of the heavenlies, and am I not the promise of the Father, and am I not the first of many brothers, am I not the first to come and to go back, am I not the first of many to be resurrected in this way, and in Me is the glory and the amen of My Father. And as you and I are one are you not as I am on this earth. And if you are my brother are you not a son as I am. Listen again to this part. We are to realize that what was said has already been said in the heavenlies, So try it this way "Now He who has established us with adjoining Spirits in Christ, and have we not been anointed with the oil of our blessed assurance which is from God, who also has sealed us as son’s and as son’s has given us a Spirit of like minds as the minds of Christ and placed this in our hearts as a guarantee, so as we would forever know, that we can not be removed from our responsibilities as to who we are and as to what we are to do as preordained son’s of the most high God, the true living God who resides and reigns over His son’s.

This establishes you as a son and a benefactor of all that is good and righteous and allows the privilege and the honor to do His good works and pleasure on this earth for Him through us His manifested son’s. So as I can best see this we are established and anointed and we are sealed and have been given to the Spirit. So does that mean that the Spirit came to us or did God give us to His Spirit. What Father allows something that good to happen, that it would not be His express pleasure to give of His self directly from His self and may I say to His self, or I wish that you would proper in all things. If I want my son to have something that is good and of mine I do not send it by someone else I want to give and see the delight on his face, as I want to be the one who shares in the glory of the moment. Now I said this was a guarantee and so does the word of my Father so lets look at the word guarantee: or arrabon [ar-hrab-ohn]; A business term that speaks of earnest money, a part of the purchase price that has been paid for in advance as a down payment. Arrabon is the first installment, which now guarantees full possession when the whole is paid later. Arrabon describes the Holy Spirit as the pledge of our future joys and our delight in heaven. The Holy Spirit gives us a foretaste or a guarantee of all things to come. Now it says that we were with God before the foundation of the earth and that we were crucified with Christ before the foundation of the earth. Then if this is so this was the first installment of our promise, and the second death on the earth was the fulfillment of that promise it was to seal the guarantee. What a deal, promised, sealed and delivered the whole package for all to see. Now this part of our joys and delight in heaven, this is not to be seen as where my joys will be. My joy and my delight is to be the best son possible that I can be to my Father. As I learn to try to achieve this in and through His eyes and heart His will and domain will also become the joys and delights of my heart. This joy and delight of His and mind will only reach it’s peak of desire as He and I become one of like mind and beliefs as this not only fulfills His needs in me but I in Him. As what son does not want to be like His Father, as He so shall we be. What king wants a prince to be one of another country and not be brought up to be a ruler of his own domain and to obtain all the promises of his father and all the riches of his father through the promise of who he is in the bloodline and the bone of his bone. I think this may describe a little more who we are and what the overall plan is for us. We are the inheritors of all that is good and righteous, we are the son’s; the princes that are designed to rule and reign and I for one am trying to realize that I have been given authority over all things and I am able to place all things under my footstool.

I have been given authority from my Father to do as He does and to talk for Him and to be His eyes and to do His will on this earth for Him. And when I am doing this and acting on His behalf and I am in His perfect will, then I can also hear Him say, "this is my son in whom I am well pleased," and what is He saying about you to day. Is He saying I am well pleased my good and faithful servant, that my son is giving Me honor and glory and that when they look at him all they can see is Me in him. When we realize who we are then we can proclaim What a deal, I got the best of both worlds. I have a place in the heavenlies and I am an established part of the Kingdom of God in this world, for all to see. Look out satan another prince, a child of the King, is coming into your full view; and his eyes have been opened as to who he is in Christ and my eyes show me that you have already been bound and that I have been set free indeed, and as a son you have no power over me. You lost your power before the foundation of this world. So can I just say this to you satan it’s very personal, " Back off loser and make way for the son’s, you can not and will not ever be able to stop us. Look out world a son is arriving and unto you a son is born; who has been established and sealed and has received My Spirit so he can prosper and do my glad tidings in the earth.

 

Psalm 119: 1-14; this is out of the God’s Word bible. I liked the way it sounded!

#1: Blessed are those whose lives have integrity, those who follow the teachings of the Lord. For the son’s of promise it said to me walk in the way- in the law of the new covenant, the covenant of Christ.

#2: Blessed are those who obey His written instructions. They whole heartedly search for Him. For the son’s of promise it is those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with their whole heart. We are always looking for that which is from above.

#3: They do nothing wrong. They follow His directions. They; the son’s of promise learn His ways and they talk His ways.

#4: You have commanded that Your guiding principles be carefully followed. For the son’s of promise we try whole heartedly to be diligent in our process of keeping His precepts in all phases of our life.

#5: I (or in this case us) pray that my ways may become firmly established so that I can obey Your laws. For the son’s of promise, that is to keep His statures or to give honor, fear, and reverence to all that belongs to Him, So that all I am taught will always allow us to stand firm on the Rock of Ages.

#6: Then I will never be ashamed when I study all Your commandments. Now for the son’s that told me that I was to stand on 2 commandments. Which was to love my Father with all my heart and to love my neighbor as myself and if I can get these right all the others were written on my heart and these were already fulfilled by Christ. And as He is in me we have already fulfilled these by honoring the 2 which is love.

#7: I will give thanks to You as I learn the regulations, which are based on Your righteousness. For the son’s of promise, He said we are one with Him so we must act in our righteousness, and fulfill the honor of His glory that has been placed upon us. And for this act of love and grace and mercy that has been bestowed upon us as far back as before the foundation of time as we know it. The more we learn of our Father the more upright we will walk and talk as we are in His image; His direct image and for this I give thanks and honor that daily I learn His regulations. Praise Him with uprightness in your heart; a heart that totally belongs to Him.

#8: I will obey Your laws. Never abandon me. Now for the son’s of promise this was screaming at me the words obey and obedience and if you don’t grasp it, it don’t matter. Just obey, just be obedient to the Word. Now as a son if I don’t obey does God abandon me. I think not, but He sometimes gets very, very still and I feel abandoned. And this is for the soul purpose that I will also be still and in that moment I will seek Him. My promise says that "I will never forsake you." Or was this the same cry from Christ on the cross in that moment of silence and all the sin fell upon Him and He said, "My God My God why have you forsaken Me." And in a moment of silence His Father reached out and touched Him and He gave up His Spirit to the sweet surrender of His Father, as He had obeyed all of His Fathers laws

#9: How can a young person keep his life pure? He can do it, by holding on to Your Word.

For the son’s of promise, it always keeping His Word and His promises etched in your heart. This is done through obedience of the Word and to the Word and the promise of who you are in Him. Will you make mistakes as a son? You bet you will and that is all right as it is not what is on the outside but it is a heart matter. The heart matters as your heart is the heart of God. And the heart of God is the Word placed and instilled upon you. And mistakes are no more than mere pebbles that we walk over and learn as we allow the Word to direct us. I see these pebbles as the small stones being cast away to give you the heart of God. And He said He would give us a new heart.

#10: I (us) wholeheartedly searched for You. Do not let me wander from away your commandments. For the son’s of promise, what could be anymore scarier than to realize that our love could be so deep rooted in Him that we have a fear of displeasure; of ourselves in His sight. When I was with Him before the foundation; I was with Him. But since my natural birth happened I was departed from Him. And I have searched for Him and now that I am one with Him, I beg Him not to let me drift away again into that pit of helpless loneliness. That spot in time when I did not keep the promise that was etched upon that wretched heart of mine. When my heart was directed only by my self indulgence of my needs and not Your needs Father. I have searched and I have found that which was not lost, as my Father was there all the time. As my flesh was so bound by the overtly placed commandments of mankind, that I willingly walked in ignorance. But Father, daily our eyes are being reopened to the commandments of Your love for us.

#11 I have treasured Your promise in my heart, so that I may not sin against You.

As a son, Father if I treasure what You have placed in my heart. And I hold on to all of what is spoken to me and I act in a Godly manner; in all that I do. Father help us; your son’s to be what we were promised. Forgiven and forever loved by Your grace and mercies and in my redemption I will be found spotless and sinless. Father what greater pleasure can we have been given than just that small promise that says, "I love you for it is a matter of the heart."

#!2: Thanks be to You, Oh Lord. Teach me Your ways. As a son, what greater knowledge can I have than when I am taught directly from the Master. If we expect to learn our Fathers business and I am to be like Him on this earth. Then Father You are my source. If my Father has given me life and I am to live my life for Him and through Him in this realm, then we need to pray Father you alone teach me Your ways, so I will not be found ignorant of the truth. Thanks be to You Abba Father

#13: With my lips I have repeated every regulation that comes from Your mouth.

As son’s we must continually confess what we know of the Father, Continually, and Continually as in never ceasing. You want more infilling then we must speak more. And eventually that is all that will be on and our minds. That mind of Christ we so pray to receive. I say if nothing is repeated, nothing is advanced or gained. What purpose does it do to know our Fathers ways if we will not preach it to another living soul. And where there is silence you have created a dead and still God in your heart. From God’s mouth to your ears, and from your mouth to another ear and so on.

#!4: I find joy in the way shown by your written instructions more than I find joy in all kinds of riches. As the son’s the written instructions are given to us to use as a guide to the treasures of our hearts. The instructions were set so we would be able to find our promises and to be able to prosper and to help us to reach the mark of the high calling placed upon us. We will find the proper instructions to help build upon heavenly treasures and not earthen treasures. These instructions are a guide and a map to the inner throne room. We know we can enter the throne room, and enter with boldness, but even so there are right and wrong procedures. There is things to be taken in and things to be left outside. There is things to be taken out and things to be well left alone. Or, let me see; there was a man who new the God of the ark of the covenant, he loved the God of the ark of the covenant. But the directions said to carry and not touch with unclean hands or did it say do not touch only if you have to. So he touched and in an instant he became not Uzzah friendly, We become more worried about riches than our inheritance and the instructions, do not touch. All my joys through instruction will be counted as my riches. So as I see this Uzzah had no joy in the morning and no riches. We were told that we were given joy and peace as his promise, all we have to do as inheritors of all the cattle on the hill is just read the instructions, it’s just that plain and simple. The written word will take you to the living word, the spoken word direct from the throne. I gave you eyes to see and ears to hear and a heart to hold on to my promise. That son’s and a Father is one.

Now I really liked this one in Psalms 119:19, in the NKJV, it says, I am a stranger in this earth. Do not hide Your commandments from me. Now in the bible God’s Word says, I am a foreigner. In this world. Do not hide Your commandments from me. What I am trying to say is we are momentarily displaced son’s, and we are sent to act on behalf of our Father on this earth. And as we are being awakened to this fact we now need to stand on our promise as son’s and act accordingly doing only that is given us to do. Our promise is to act just like Him, as Christ said, (Al/101) " I do as My Father does, I see what My Father sees, I hear what My Father hears, and I will act as My Father while I am here. And so what are you doing son, what are you doing with your promise.

We as promise children have a promise of things eternal. In Psalms 11: 3-7, it says; #3- If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do? #4- The Lord is in His Holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids test the son’s of men. #5- The Lord tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates. #6- Upon the wicked He will rain coals; Fire and brimstone and a burning wind Shall be the portion of their cup.

#7- For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness; His countenance beholds the upright. Now if we had no foundations in Him and all was destroyed, then the righteous would also have been destroyed, and we would have no part in Him on the earth. Now we have a promise of the Christ in us our eternal hope and glory

and a promise that we would be the living temples. Christ Jesus said," that he who has the Father and the Son would have the Christ in him." Is He watching us? Yes from the inside out and from the outside in! He sees us from above and from with in the earthen vessel. And I see Him blinking His eyelids and we will yet be tested one more time so His eyes may behold what His promise is doing. And if we are His righteousness you can now understand why we are tested, daily tested. It is for the growth of the righteousness within to flourish and to be made manifested for all to see. Now I see the rest as a promise of what would happen to us if we were not counted as the seeds of Christ, this is not our promise but this is a reward for us, as not being counted as the wicked and the violent, but as true followers of Christ, and a child of the living God.

In Psalms 119: He has promised His son’s of promise to be allowed to walk in liberty, to carry the Word, to always have hope, to have comfort in our afflictions, we will always sing a new song in our hearts, He is our portion of the promise to us. He will always give us grace and mercies according to His Word. And we are allowed to forever carry His Word in us. We are always going to be a temple and a living sacrifice to all around us. And then to make sure we are never to be among the lonely; He in His wisdom allows us to be as Adam and we can fellowship day or night with Him. And as Adam He has given us helpmates, and soul mates and many brothers within which we can walk with and these are all of like faith. And if you don’t believe this look at who is your true friends and those that have walked away and those that are unshaken and stay.

In Isaiah 61: 5-11, #5- Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the foreigner shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. #6- But you shall be named the priests of the Lord, They shall call you the servants of your God. You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory you shall boast. #7- Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, and instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall posses double; Everlasting joy shall be theirs. #8- For I the Lord love justice. I hate robbery for burnt offering; I will direct their work in truth, and will make with them an everlasting covenant. #9- Their descendants will be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people. All who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the posterity whom the Lord has blessed. #!0- I (we) will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God (my Father); for He has clothed me in garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks Himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with jewels. #11- For as the earth brings forth it’s bud, As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, So the Lord God will cause righteousness to spring forth before all the nations.

Now we will see the promises of the Lord come about to the son’s of promise, which is us. It says people will come, those who we know not of to do our tending. Will we be any different than the Levites, those chosen of God to honor and praise and to serve Him; no we are in that same category.

Except we are chosen son’s before the foundation. We will be called priests of the Almighty God, and it will be for their glory to please God with giving of offerings and alms. There is no shame in us we are the benefactors of that double honor and in this factor our name will be a name of honor, because the name of Christ is a name of honor and glory. If you did not understand this we are in the direct image and where is our double honor. All I seen here was promises one after the other. These are more of our promises; these are a double portion straight from the throne to the children who are destined to rule and reign. So we must greatly rejoice so our souls will continually be at peace and fervently remain joyful. We are constantly clothed in salvation and His righteousness as we are the jewels that are given to Christ for His adornment. He has given us a robe of righteousness to Christ can wear us for the world to see. Listen to our portion of this promise; As a bridegroom decked with ornaments and as a bride adorns herself jewels. I have seen Christ as our bridegroom with ornaments on Him which are us, we are the ornaments that He proudly wears. In us are His jewels, His pride, His promise, and His portion, HIS <>HIS<>HIS, we are His. No matter how it may seem at this moment in time or God is causing to honor our portion of the promise. As the good ground produces in spring that new bud and all good things to look at and eat of, so shall we also be a part of that portion. In the end we will receive that which has been promised, so just stand firm and all things shall come to pass in it’s time; in God’s time frame.

We are the promise, a portion of that promise, and the children of promise. Son’s of promise set before the foundation of the earth. We have been set apart from Him for Him for His good pleasure and for His good works. We are that portion which Christ was told He would receive. A promise is a pledge to do or not to do with that which has been given to you, so what are we doing with our portion. We are the receivers of His promise- to do for Him on this earth before the nations as we have been sent in His image and His commandments. As He is continually for us who can be against us-no one.

I watched a movie once and my Father has brought this back to my memory, but in a spiritual light. It was called a Field of Dreams. I saw these dreams as visions for us. Now this man builds a baseball field, but he constantly hears a voice telling him to build a baseball field, and it says and yet they will come. No one can hear this voice or see this vision that has been set in motion. And this motion was set when he declared it would happen. And in this tall cornfield he sets this in action and all the while he still hears, "and they will come." And at the completion of this diamond, from the corn stalks they came, the old players, the dead and gone players, they came, and they played. First the dead came then as if by a miracle they looked and there was a line of cars for as far as the eye could see, and they will come, and then they will come. And in all this , this man had spent all he had just following a voice that repeatedly said," and they will come." And in this spending as they came and they did not no why they came they were just compelled to go and I imagine by a voice that just said, "you must go." And they paid him money to enjoy this diamond in the middle of the corn. First the ear then the stalk then the corn. And they all came driven by a force to play and be happy as one. We are in that Field of Dreams now, today this moment. The seeds in the corn patch have been planted and we are commanded by our Father to tend that corn. And when we raise that corn will we also not raise them dry bones back to life. Those old bones and these new bones. The bones that scream out bone of His bone , draw near and raise them up. If we build on the foundation in us that foundation that was set before the foundation of the earth, I believe that we will hear that small still voice deep within that is starting to roar as a lion in the lambs body, "and they will come."

In Exodus 12: 23-27, We read; #23, For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the 2 door posts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. #24- And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever. #25- It will come to pass when you come to the land which the Lord will give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep His service. #26- And it shall be, when your children say to you, "What do you mean; by this service." #27- "that you shall say, It is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households." So the people bowed their heads and worshipped.

Now this practice for us was completed before the foundation. The Lord will pass through and remove our adversaries. I am His so He will remove all that is set in front of me to be removed. Our is that the spot where He said, " if you only had the faith of a grain of mustard seed , then say be thou removed from before me." I saw this as the pass over in 3 parts; the lintel as God the Father and the door post on the right as Christ Jesus and the other door post as the Holy Spirit. I see the shed blood on the door jambs as the shed blood of Christ Jesus and all the blood was from the Father to be applied for all who pass through. And the blood was applied from the basin with the Hyssop. It was applied from the top to the bottom. We will tell our children that the lintel and the door posts represent the cross of Christ and the basin of blood is the same as the pool of blood at the cross, that there is more than enough to go around. As it was never intended to run out it is there for all eternity. This is God’s promise to His son’s once covered always covered from generation to generation. This is God’s promise to never forsake us, it is a blood covenant from a Father to a son. Christ as our blood sacrifice, guaranteed our redemption and our eternal anointing, it can not be wiped off or washed off, but it can be blessed and allowed to prosper beyond our wildest imagination. The door post and lintel was a reminder of our coverage on this earth. That the trinity would live in us forever and would be manifested for all to walk through as into the temple. As the world is our Egypt, the blood bond covenant insures us a free Passover, we are that which comes back out of the house of the Lord with the blood applied. Remember no one can enter us if the blood is not applied, and I say the blood is applied so let those that must enter us. Will all stay; No, but those that are chosen to apart of the Son and the son’s will remain set and rooted forever. They are not the chaff but are the good wheat.

In Deut. 1: 10-11, In these verse is a key; #!0- The Lord your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude. #11- May the Lord God of your fathers make you a 1000 times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you! Whew wee, what a promise; what a deal. I just don’t know what to say. That apparently there is more than one of us, or this is a large body and not all have been awakened. The part that got me was the as the stars in heaven, multiplied and a 1000 times more numerous. As we multiply we keep being blessed. We are that blessed generation, blessed beyond our wildest imaginations. We are no more and no less than supercharged and super blessed son’s, who are waiting for the rest of the multitude of multiplied a 1000 times over. And we are here today, blessed and more blessed a 1000 times blessed. We are blessed from the heavenlies to the earth, from the top of our head to the souls of our feet, we are just blessed and blessed. I don’t know about you but I am just blessed.

In Deut. 6: 1-3, We again read about our crossover. #1- "Now this the commandment, and these are the statues and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, #2- "that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statues and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

#3- "Therefore hear O’ Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the Lord God of your fathers has promised you- a land flowing with milk and honey. As we make this transformation from the natural into the manifestation of the Father. We must do a crossover from this side of the Jordan River to the other side of our promised inheritance, we need to keep and possess all that has been given and allotted us. To keep His commandments of true love, to Him and one to another. His judgments, and His ordinances, and His statues, and His promises of who we are in Him for our crossover. These things must be known in this land as we are the inheritors of that which flows with milk and honey, from this also is what flows from us to the others. The land of the Rock in which flows milk and honey our nourishment, the flowing love of Christ to us and for us to share as the son’s. Christ is our land as we are rooted deeply in Him. We are that parcel of the Rock for this era. Not tomorrow, but now, please don’t deny who you are and what you have been set apart to do, Oh’ son of the living God.

Remember that you are that portion that which was spoken of before the foundation of the earth. And in you are all the promises and that portion of Christ.

That portion which has come to light to be manifested for the moment and that moment is now. I tell you to reach and grab that which is your rightful inheritance SON. Do not trade your birthright as Esau did, come to the light and out of darkness, ye son’s of the most high living GOD.

With all my love, you’re brother and a son of the true Father …………Al

P.S. WHAT A DEAL, YOU BET.

 

 

REFLECTIONS

There is a creek behind my house,

I go there every now and then.

My vision blurs down to the tiny smooth stones

and I’m reminded of way back when.

Years ago there was this great big rock

at the bend of that cold cold bend.

But the floods of time have washed it downhill

and its memories are all that remain.

The stream runs easy on this summer’s day

the pebbles are moving real slow.

But knowing down deep, to the last little stone

they have miles and miles to go

 

Donald G. Holt

June? 2001

Country House