Rescue from the Wilderness

Dear beloved reader,

This blog addition is from a Brother Brad from Colorado. It was posted without any comments concerning this vision and scriptures for a season. As I ponder this vision of the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, scattered and left in pieces, it has provoked me to go deeper into His heart.

That deeper cry has birthed the next 3-5 Blogs which will be about the "Unity of the Spirit" and the putting together of His body.

I want to thank Brother Brad from Christianity Confesses for His love and dedication to the Lord. Please check out His website that is linked to our site as well.

Thanks Brad!
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Beloved Readers,

As I sat at the piano with the Bible I opened to Psalm 121 the Lord had me read it once through.

1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
where does my help come from?

2 My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;

4 indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD watches over you—
the LORD is your shade at your right hand;

6 the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;

8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.

Then he opened my spirit to this vision.

I saw myself "the Body" lost in a valley with hills all around. I was marooned there stranded as though wrecked or something. I had a map but not one part of my body knew how to read it. No part of the Body knew which way was up, there is no legend and no key. The map is worthless.

Then I hear the call of the Lord to come up the hill where I would find help but which hill? Which direction did it come from. I, "the Body", could not figure it out so we split some parts of the Body went up that hill, others went that direction, while others followed me. I had split up.

Then I, "the Spirit", had found the Lord but the rest of me was left in the wilderness. The parts that had followed dropped off because they were too weary to continue or had given into the fate that they were stuck in the wilderness forever. I, "the Spirit", however had continued and found the Lord. Some fell and were left behind due to injury and other did not believe rescue was possible.

Then I, "the Spirit", bowed down before the Lord and worshiped Him. I worshiped the Lord Almighty with songs from the heart, but the song was missing something. The song was not full because part of my body was left behind in the wilderness. I begged the Lord to send back the Holy Spirit to retrieve my whole body. That way the I, "the Bride", could be whole again and complete. I said to the Lord, "Lord what good is your bride with out hands to hold, feet and legs so I can go with you, hair to caress, and a bosom to hold you." I begged the Lord not to leave His bride in pieces in the wilderness but that he would go and gather His Bride and restore her to health, not cutting off one member. I said to the Lord, "heal my body so that the gardener would not cut of a single branch from the vine." I pleaded with the Lord to go and gather my body from the wilderness and connect it back together so that I, "the Body of the Bride", would be one on the day of the great wedding. The day that the New Jerusalem would be given as a gift to the bride. "Lord make me whole again", I, "the spirit", cried out to the Lord.

Then the Lord looked upon me, "the spirit of the Bride", the only one to make it out of the wilderness, His eyes told me that my body would once again be united. He told me that when the day of the great wedding comes He would make His Bride whole once again.

As I reach the conclusion of this time of ministering to the Lord he showed me a final picture; The Lord in the wilderness where I had been forsaken gathering the fallen pieces of the Body.

Dear Readers, I encourage you no matter where you live to worship the Lord Jesus Christ. Bring yourself to His feet daily. Climb the hill of the Lord, find the maker of heaven and earth. Sing praises to Him. Then when He is ready He will go into the wilderness's of your life and start to gather the fallen pieces of His body.

Which direction will you go when the Lord calls you out of the wilderness? Will you know how to read the map without compass and without a key or legend? The thought of being stranded in the wilderness of this world without the knowledge of how to find my way to the safety of my Lord and savior. Dear reader if this is you seek out the Lord, learn to hear his voice, search for Him daily so when the time comes you will know which direction He would have to take out of the wilderness and into His Palace.

I pray this has blessed each of you.

Mahalo and Aloha.

The fire has come: Beyond Tithes and offerings PT11

The blessings of the Lord upon you Dear Readers,

I am writing to all of you who frequent this web site! Our God is an awesome God and is moving so powerfully here in the Western USA and Rocky Mountain states! Words can even describe God's awesomeness! This is a much longer teaching than I thought. This is the third draft. It has taken me 8 hours to write this! It has been a labor of love, but under great attack. I lost all the edits twice and had to do them over. I pray you will not stop reading this because of it's length but open your heart to the hidden power in the Word of God!

There are so many churches and ministries working for the Lord. All of them are asking for your prayer and financial support rightfully so. The question for us today is where should you place the precious finances God has entrusted to you? May I state as being a Pastor for 24 years, that your tithe belongs to the storehouse of where you attend. They are entrusted with your care and welfare and should be faithfully supported by your tithes and giving. The question I am addressing is where does God desire you to sow your offerings and where to put it?

All I can say on this topic of genuine giving is this, "that all we are, all we have, all we will ever be" is the only offering that will truly satisfy His heart. This is the same offering He has given to us, and the offering He commands us give one another. "Love one another as "I" have loved you. "

This is a most precious commandment. It is a treasure in the heart of God for it involves the truth of His word to us, "no greater love than this than a man lay down His life for His friends." I have found that this total commitment or abandonment to the Lord requires great suffering from time to time. A dear precious sister in the Lord had to reminded me this week of this truth again.

This thought of "filling up the sufferings of Christ," is not new to me and it never has been. There are many ways suffering comes into our lives. We suffer because of sin's effect in the world. We suffer the consequences of our own sins upon our lives and family. We suffer because we have sowed wrongly and make wrong choices. But there is a suffering that comes, not by sin or any other reason, accept the walk on Gethsemane Road!

This is not a road of "self suffering." There are many in the Body of Christ suffering with a "martyr spirit" that is not of God, it is just stupidity! But there is a suffering that comes by the road God has caused us to walk upon. I was rightly reminded this week that Jesus, the Son of God, had to LEARN OBEDIENCE through the things He suffered. Yes, beloved He suffered at Calvary, but He truly suffered through out His whole life on earth.

Can you imagine having the power to heal everyone, everywhere all the time and can only use that power as the Father wills? Imagine having the power to feed the whole world and not allow one person to be starving? Imagine having the power not to let his "earthly Father Joseph die!" Think about the pool of Bethesda where the angel troubled the water for healing and Jesus walking by all those waiting to get in to be healed, and only being allowed to heal one blind man!

There is a purpose when "suffering comes into our lives when it is not caused by sin!" A purpose that will cause us to trust and cling to Him as never before. It is here the Lord works the "giving up our life for Him" in living reality. It is here we learn with Job, "thou you slay me still will I trust you." I was Pastoring a local church many years ago when the Lord spoke to me these words, "It is not enough for the sheep to lay up their lives for the Pastor's, but the Pastors are to lay up their lives for the sheep."

I knew this word was to bring me new understanding into the ministry call God had upon my life. This understanding came in the late 1980's. The Lord revealed that with our present understanding Pastor's see the people who come to their church to help them fill "THEIR MISSION!" I was taught that the people who attend the church are there to help us with "OUR PLANS, OUR VISIONS, OUR CHURCH CALL!" There is an absolute truth in that, but the way that is expressed in a church is misinterpreted by us leaders, the Lord revealed to me. It is not intentional and I am blaming no one. It is just a fact that God need to bring into the open.

This was not easy for us leaders to understand. It sure was not easy for me to see because that was what I was taught to believe and build. The Lord in His love and grace stated that this understanding is upside down. I needed a revelation from the Lord to correctly understand the way His body is made to function together in unity. I could not understand this concept until I began to understand His extravagant love for His body.

The true purpose of the Ascension gifts of the five-fold ministry is to serve. He has actually called us to get underneath God's people to lift them up in answering "their call" first before "our call and church vision can be realized. We as "Holy Spirit Ascension gifts"are called to pour out our life for those the Lord allows us to shepherd or be sent to. The Lord requires of us to make a diligent seeking of His heart to teach us His love for each under our care, and to show us each person as He sees them.

We are required to spend much time with Him for His needs and the needs of His people. Only in that place of seeking can we hear from God to know his heart in building and serving the saints in the power of the Holy Spirit. Beloved, this change of understanding that He worked in me quite early in the ministry was critically important to understand the work of the Third day that is now upon us. In the last few years the Lord summed up this understanding with this statement to share, "I do not want you to build a church, or a ministry, but establish the Kingdom of God in men's hearts."

This change of understanding allowed me by the grace of God not to see His people for my need or to help me fulfill my call or vision! I began to see how BEAUTIFUL AND SPECIAL each person is to the Lord. My call was to be given fully, poured out completely in helping and lifting the precious saints to become that beautiful gift God made them.

When God sends me to an individual, church or region, I don't minister in the way that we would call "normal ministry." I can not go to a meeting and just bring a message, pray for a few folks, leave and get an offering. God has sent me there to pour out my whole life to those He brought me to. Many days that means laboring all day and night with very little sleep or even time to eat.

I was taught in the early days of ministering not to let the people get "to close" to you. We were taught to keep an "arms length" apart from the people. Today so many ministries have Body guards, chauffeurs, security to keep the people away from them. I understand that from a security stand point and it might be necessary, but very few ministers linger after a service to be with the Lord and His people. Where did that come from, the heart of God? Before meetings even start God often moves in building His people. There are divine appointments, encounters and prayers that may be released even before a service start or after it is over. We must remove the "off the clock" mentality from his ministers.

We are on the Lord's time and not ours, and we are called to pour out our lives as a drink offering until the Lord says we are done. I know I can not stop until God says I am done with you. Often I have to stay and continue to minister to the Lord and teach the hungry ones on staying and lingering in God's presence as Joshua did.

In Mexico, I had to stay at the keyboard for 45 minutes until the Pastor's son came back to say goodbye. He had a heart like David and was a true worshipper. The Lord's manifest presence waited for the young man to come. I had to keep playing the keyboard until the Lord drew Him back. The young man came back and I had to tell Him the Lord was waiting here for him like Joshua. The presence of God flooded Him immediately. He fell under the Holy Spirits power for the next 45 minutes weeping and crying in His presence.

Could you imagine if I did "normal ministry" and didn't wait? I was dead tired in my Body, everybody else left and was eating at the table, but God required more of me. Did I love Him enough to stay there? What if the young man didn't come back? It was risky and costly to obey the Lord. What was everyone else thinking of me? I do not write these things to lift me up in any way. I just did what God required and God did the rest and gets all the Glory!

After many meetings, God would have me instruct worship teams, leaders or youth to encourage and strengthen them in what God had done in their hearts at the meetings. This takes a lot of time and energy. The question is who do we belong to and how much do you love them? I am not saying these things to boast, GOD FORBID! When we travel or here at home, my day often start at 5am and stop after midnight! I needed to understand that the call God has given us is costly and it is not done 9-5 Monday through Fridays or just on Sunday's and Wednesdays.

Until we realize that we are called to "fill up the sufferings" of Christ," we can never truly get underneath His precious ones to lead them to Him to fulfill their calling. It is costly to be a servant of God beyond any thing you can imagine, but with the greatest of rewards as God's people grow in love with Him and one another!

You are probably wondering what this had to do with giving? Everything beloved reader, everything. God is restoring Shepherds after His own heart and true ministry that will esteem the other better than themselves. One of the other sufferings that has come in ministry is in the area of finances. When the Lord called me to answer His call, I was only 2 weeks old in the Lord. I had never heard God speak to me before and wasn't expecting Him to at this service.

I was in Virginia at my Sister's church as the Preacher was giving His message, the Lord had me turn to Mathew chapter 10. I read the section about the selection of the twelve, but as I read the part of their commissioning my heart began to burn and God began to speak. He had me read this chapter and write in my bible, Building Block #1.

Mat 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and charged them, saying, Go not into any way of the Gentiles, and enter not into any city of the Samaritans: Mat 10:6 but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Mat 10:7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Mat 10:8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons: freely ye received, freely give.

This may not be a place we would look to answer the question of where does God want me to place His money, but it really is if you have ears to hear. FREELY YOU HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE. I have spent the first part of this article sharing with you the cost and price to answer the call. I needed a deeper understanding of what it meant to "lay my life down for my friends or to "pour out my life as a drink offering." I had freely been given this Ascension gift of the Lord and I had to 100% freely give and pour it out. This was God's commandment. As I read a little further this verse was like a FLAME in me and I knew though I was only 2 weeks old in the Lord, that this was a WORD from GOD to me.

Mat 10:9 Take no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; Mat 10:10 no wallet for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

I did not understand the suffering and persecution I would face because of this word. There is a divine reason He sent out the twelve and told them not to provide for themselves. I am writing this today to answer the question, where does God want me to sow my finances. First fruits go to your local church, but what about the other giving we are called to do.

Every single ministry is asking for your financial support to fulfill their vision. So where do you put your seed? There is a giving that must be birthed a new with this new third day arising in our midst. The heart of this giving is what the Lord longs for between us, love for one another as He has loved us. Our present understanding of sowing involves giving to ministries or people who are in need.

Many give to TBN, K-LOVE, CBN and these ministries are doing the work of the Lord. But I can say this, I have had people who have supported their ministries call them when we had a need, and they would not help. Why, I don't know? Perhaps God would not allow them to help so we could trust Him deeper. The point is however, LOVE must be the root of all that we do including the motives of our giving.

When the Lord gave us the "Ascension gifts of the five-fold ministry" He called them GIFTS. What are you to do with a gift given to you? You are to cherish and care for it. That is why they are gifts. With my old understanding of church, my call was a job, though I never treated it that way. God is my employer and I am His employee, therefore I am not a gift where God has sent me, I am a worker!

Everyday we go to McDonald's and workers serve us there, do we really have any real connection or love bonds with them? No! He sent the Apostles out taking nothing with them for a Holy divine reason. "The workman is worthy of His wages." How serious is this to the heart of God we shall soon see. Many are not going to like this teaching and may even listen to voices of accusation say, He just wants my money! I can't stop that from happening, but for those who have an ear to hear there is something deep and wonderful the Lord wants to release in your heart for the days to come.

There is a deeper dynamic in giving that God wants to bring to His church. It is rooted in absolute love for one another. Today our giving should not be based on what makes us feel good but what makes God feel good. This is a wonderful truth set forth in Phil 4:10-14.

I know many ministers have suffered great lack in their ministries and hardly make it day to day. Other ministers have great abundances available to them and live very well. I can't judge or understand this disparity, perhaps God will make this clear in the days ahead. But I do know, there is SOMETHING TOTALLY MISSING IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE HEART OF GIVING IN OUR NATION! As we examine these verses of scripture let us get the heart of God concerning the Love the Body should have for these Ascension gifts.

Php 4:10 But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it. Php 4:11 But I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be dependent on myself.

Notice the words "that your care for me has come to life again." I do believe that in this new day dawning this will come alive in the heart of the Bride for the gifts God has given her to help her. The Apostle goes on to say I won't mention my needs, but does tell THEM HE HAS THEM, and He is able to be dependent upon himself.

Oh how leaders and the Body of Christ love that scripture. I have heard many times, "Paul made tents, why don't you." I have often replied I will as God leads or tells me to. Many have gotten angry at these words, and even some church leaders get anxious when a new work comes in town, because they are afraid people will start "GIVING" to the new work. I have seen them even raise up against that new work just to keep the money in their ministry or church.

Php 4:12 It is the same to me if I am looked down on or honoured; everywhere and in all things I have the secret of how to be full and how to go without food; how to have wealth and how to be in need. Php 4:13 I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength. Php 4:14 But you did well to have care for me in my need.

Paul understood this and suffered it in His own life. He was accused of not working for wrong motive and then for working for wrong motives. Yet in suffering he learns the secret of contentment whether full or hungry, wealth or in need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. None of us can predict what we will have or not have, but we must learn to be content in all circumstances. I am still learning this every day more and more.

Verse 14 says, "But you did well to have care for me in my need." He now establishes from the heart of God that this is something that is WELL PLEASING TO GOD! When the Lord called me and sent me forth, He gave me this word of instruction:

Mat 10:9 Take no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; Mat 10:10 no wallet for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

This is a hard concept for the church and it's leadership to understand. I realized that this call would not allow me to have office hours, nor could I take this call and make it a 9-5 job. I could not take Monday's off just for a day off, because the Lord doesn't take a day off with me. I had to learn that rest is in God, and He knows exactly when I should rest or go away for a time of refreshing.

I had to learn to follow His Spirit's direction and instruction not just for the sheep, but my family and all God was going to send me to. My heart's desire is to be able to travel at my own expense and not have to receive even an offering, but God had to correct me here! He had to show me that was the pride in my heart that didn't want to be dependant upon Him or anyone else. He had to show me, "the workman is worthy of His wages."

Many times I cried out to the Lord why? I could go out and get a "secular job"again and provide for myself. Many in the early days of the ministry call suggested that I do that from time to time. Leaders even said let him die, he is worse than an infidel! I understand the persecution involved with the call of Mathew chapter 10. As the fruit of the calling became more evident, God silenced many of these lions voices against me.

I cried many nights because of those words hurting and wounding me. I begged God to tell them and help them understand what He asked me to do, but often He did not do that. As a missionary it is a little easier to try to "raise support." Which we still do. Many words have come about starting a Christian company and the profits go to the work of the ministry. This would lighten the burden on God's people. Beloved, we have tried to do both. But do you know where we end up, right back to where we started from?

He says, "whatever city I send you, don't take gold, silver a wallet or any means of support." Isn't that kind of a stupid requirement, God? You know what people are going to say, "he just wants your money, or we don't have enough for ourselves how can we help you." The Lord's answer to this is, "that is exactly what they will say, and this is the attitude I need to expose in the hearts of my people."

Beloved, when the Holy Spirit came on Pentecost, the first fruits visible after the fire came upon them was that people "no longer considered what they had their own." WOW, talk about miracles. People who had lands and properties sold these lands and laid them at the Apostle's feet. The Bible said, there was not one needy one amongst them,(Acts 2:42-47) because they loved each other as we have never seen before in history or even now. They laid their life down one for another as the Lord had commanded. The rich and those who had resources, gave to those who had not, and everyone was taken care of. This is not communism, this is HOLY COMMUNION!

Why would God send the apostles out with that command, take nothing with you, for the workman is worthy of their wages? The reason is to BUILD MUTUAL LOVE BOND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE GIFT THAT WAS SENT AND THOSE TO WHOM IT WAS SENT! Again this concept of love, starts with recognizing that God is not sending you "workers," or even employee's but GIFTS!

1Co 9:9 For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?
1Co 9:10 Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.

1Co 9:11: If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world? 1Co 9:12 If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more?

This is where we need great understanding in our heart of giving. Beloved this heart of giving is above tithes and offerings! Why did the Lord send the 12 out to minister requiring them not to take any provision with them? He wanted those they were sent to, to understand the precious gift God was sending them from Him, and to cherish and love those gifts like they would Him! I am not going to make a lot of new friends with this message I am afraid, because it is not popular. Beloved these messengers were sent in love to you by God.

In the early days of the church, these gifts were not chosen by an elder board or a commitee of unspiritual men and woman. They were chosen by the Holy Spirit in whom Spiritual men recognized God's will in selection. They weren't paid employees! They weren't salaried positons as we know them to be, they were servants of the most High God, GIFTS FROM THE LORD!

You may not like to hear this word on love-bond giving yet, because our understanding has been about TITHES and OFFERINGS or sowing and reaping to get things from God.That is easy for us to see, maybe not so easy for a few. It is easy because it seems not to require the "laying down of our lives for one another." It is not a real "costly type of giving." It may hurt a little, but it is not the laying down type found in the books of Acts chapters 2 and 4.

In our present type of giving we can choose what, where, when and how much to give. In the midst of this kind of heart and understanding in God's people, He gives His command to go forth to the disciples and take nothing with them. WOW GOD! You see Beloved, God is not stupid! He is so wise! In this sending, He was requiring a love for one another that is more than giving to a CHURCH, A MINISTRY, A MISSIONARY WORK! He is requiring a LIFE FOR A LIFE, or a REAL AND GENUINE LOVE BOND!

Here is where the suffering part is required of the disciples, and this may explain why many ascension gifts of the Lord are suffering financially. (By the way, I forgot to tell you where these ascencion gifts are found. Ephesians 4:8-14)

But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.

Paul is writing this not to these gifts, but to those to whom the gift was sent. He would never demand their support. True love never would demand this. Paul knew that if He did demand what should be given to him by GOD, the relgious people would use that against him. Yet He still mentions this truth to the church in Corinth. He wanted them to understand that taking care of God's messengers was something GOD WANTED! It would show to the world a love that has not been seen, as if they were taking care of the Lord Himself.

The messengers also had a commission to freely give all that God had give to them for those in need. They were called to pour their life out as a drink offering for the care of the church as Paul himself had done. He commands the gifts to love those they were given to as if they were taking care of the Lord Himself. THEY COULD NEVER DEMAND PAYMENT for their labor with the heart that comes from God Himself!

Love is a sacrifice, a willing one that will lay down their lives for their friends. It must be laid down by all of us one for the other! Those who sow to the spiritual good of all should be able to live by what others have sown and reaped of their natural provision. Look how wise God is!

Many times in answering the call of God upon us, we have suffered financially. God has poured through us and many have been blessed, changed and transformed by the manifested presence of the Lord. However; the giving has not ever matched what He pours out and gave to those that we were sent to. In my early years this would hurt me greatly, but as I have grown in the Lord, I realize these things I needed to learn on how to willingly suffer for His name sake and for those God sent me to.

The hard part for me today is to teach about these love-bond principles because those who would read these words, and are not for or rooted in the Lord, would try to accuse me of teaching these things for my own gain. I think that is why the Apostle Paul said he would not demand this payment from them, though he mentions he had the right to do so. He was more concerned on teaching what the heart of God was concerning love bond relationships between the ascension gifts of ministry and the saints of God.

However, He did write these words to teach them giving love in spite of what others may have accused him of. Where does God want you to place His precious provision He has given you? I can't answer that for you, but I am laying down some principles from the Word of God. Through out answering the call He placed upon my life in ministering to His people, I had to learn to love God's precious ones no matter if they returned the love back or not.

This is not an easy process for a young minister to learn. I would cry sometimes why is God blessing minister so and so. They don't even love the sheep or preach the real word of God. I was angry with the Lord over this. I told Him, I did all He asked me to do, gave all I had and He was letting me suffer. I waited for His reply. What do you think He answered me with? Henry, you poor thing, I am so sorry this is hurting you.

No Beloved reader, He said, "Henry your righteousness is but a filthy rag." Talk about getting mad! I was livid with the Lord. I said, "how can this be my righteousness, you aske me to do this?" He told me then, "I am not going to provide for you because you serve me or do these things. I am going to provide for you for one reason and one reason only, I ABSOLUTLEY LOVE YOU! That was it for me. I hit the deck and wept like a baby.

Why did I have to learn this heart of God. God knew someday I would be sent out and often I would not have a penny to go, or to eat, or even pay my bills. What would I do then? Leave my call? Would I go get a job to provide for myself and give up the calling for a bowl of soup? I almost did a couple of times in those early days. Thank you God for great grace. I had to learn that I could NEVER DEMAND PAYMENT from God's people not in real life or even BURIED IN MY HEART! Let me give you an example of this:

I was Pastoring many years ago in Connecticut and we had a precious couple come and minister to us in song. They were anointed and sang like song birds. We loved to have them come and minister often in our church. When they first started coming they never asked for anything but a love offering. When they came and ministered, God always touched my heart to bless them abundantly.

I often gave way above the offering received from the congregation. After a few years, their ministry grew very big and they got caught up in the "Christian Circuit!" The big boys club! One day they called me and asked if they could come to minister at the church, but this time they sent me a list of expectations in the mail. It was not a list of expectations but demands I am so sorry to say. I had to pay for their airfare, hotel, meals, expenses and a love offering. It was a "DEMANDED of me" or they would not come.

Their reasoning for this change in heart was they got "stiffed" by many churches who held back part of their offerings for themselves though they told the people that the whole offering was for them. Beloved, they weren't lying, this does happen! I told them I have not ever done that to them, and asked them if they were not blessed when they came. They said, "yes Pastor always." I told them I could not meet those demands and I was sorry.

The letter broke my heart when I read it. The Lord told me they could not come, and I had to tell them why? It was not easy, and they got very mad at me and I never heard from them again. Paul writes, "But we make no use of this right."

Neither can I! I am praying that as the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, we would choose a better way beloved. I pray that we would never even have to mention this as a demand or a right to be cared for. I am writing this today with a desire to see God's people understand the Word of God and our mutual need for one another. My prayer is that we can truly give as it has been freely given to us, but none of us have the right to demand it ever! With that said, let us still see beloved Bride of the Lord what is required in love concerning these ascension gifts God sends you.

1Co 9:13 Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar?

1Co 9:14 Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.

Do we really want to hear the TRUTH beloved, or shall we stay in the only tithes and offerings type of giving? My prayer today is that you Beloved Reader would allow God to open your eyes in this matter. If you will, God will allow you to see your Pastor differently and those who God sends to you. You will see your Pastor doesn't deserve a paycheck, He deserves to be loved as the Lord loves you.

My prayer for us Pastor's and leaders is that we won't see our call as a job with hours and offices, but a laying down of our lives for God's people, no matter what the cost of price. My prayer is that God would begin to realign our thinking as we enter this new day! It is going to be quite important for us to have correct understanding of our responsibility in furthering the Gospel financially. I have never demanded anything where God sends me. I don't even ask for an offering unless the people ask me. I tell them do what God has placed in your heart to do.

I do send out emails and letters to let those who say they love us and want to help as the Lord leads. I do tell them what our needs are to pray for and to see if God would touch their hearts to help, but the rest is up to the Lord and His people to respond as He wills. BUT I CAN NEVER DEMAND IT!

I can not even do the most popular things like selling books and tapes for profit, or giving them as gifts for an offering to the ministry. I can't send out marketing letters that many ministries get from marketing company's trying to get your money. I can not use gimmicks, tricks, or be involved with back room deals that many in the Body of Christ are using now to get money.

I can not fill up my calendar to preach at different churches to "make a living." I can not plan meetings to get money. Again, I don't say this to boast how good I am, many days I anquish over these things! What should I do Lord? What is a good idea to raise support? How do I go forward and trust in the Lord!

Beloved,God is still working here in me in this area, but wants me to teach these truths for anyone who might have an ear to hear. But the next scripture God has burned in me.

1Co 9:15 But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

Over the years, God has brought a few faithful saints that God has worked this in their heart to help us and receive us with this kind of love. To this we give God praise, but we have learned to love those precious saints that have not had this worked in their heart as well. This is the Holy Spirit's work to convince His precious ones of this truth, not ours.

Ours is to just pour out our life as a drink offering for the Lord wherever God sends us to pour it out. In this context, you might gain understanding of the beauty of the Philippian church in their relationship with the Apostle Paul and His calling as a missionary and their giving to hHim. Let us read this:

Php 4:15 And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only; Php 4:16 Because even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need.

Did you ever ask why Paul wrote this out in the open for every generation of Christians to see?This church welcomed Paul as a gift. They demonstrated this love as required in Mathew chapter 10. They understood that this workman was worthy of his wages! This church sent not just support once but twice to help him answer the call upon His life.

Paul writes to them these truths. He was not looking for a gift for himself, but for the WORK GOD CALLED HIM TO DO! He told them this kind of giving was WELL PLEASING TO GOD! He told them he was looking for the FRUIT which would be CREDITED to their ACCOUNT BY GOD! This giving was not a normal giving to God in taking care of him. This giving was a PRECIOUS PERFUME POURED OUT TO GOD FOR HIM!

Php 4:17 Not that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your credit.

The Apostle Paul rejoices over this type of giving. This giving didn't come out of hype, offering them books or tapes, or what they were going to get back teaching. This giving came forth from the HEART OF LOVE ALONE! He did not demand payment for His expenses, traveling, or any such thing. He rejoiced in the fact that GOD'S LOVE MANIFESTED IN THEM BY GIVING AND CARING FOR HIM. THEY HAD A HEART TO PROVIDE FOR ONE OF GOD'S MESSENGER GIFTS!

Listen to the beautiful words Pauls says to them about their giving. He says that their giving is a SWEET SMELL and A PERFUME and a OFFERING WELL PLEASING TO GOD! Isn't that more than a TITHE AND OFFERING?

Php 4:18 I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

As I close this writing today, I want you to know that I intended to continue the series on "The flame of the Lord," but this is His heart being revealed to me today. Many Christians claim this next promise of blessing as their own, but they have not given with the same heart of those in Phillipi to the Apostle Paul.

This released blessing came forth of GIVING BEYOND TITHE AND OFFERINGS! This blessing came when they understood what LOVE REALLY is, and the responsibility of that love required fin Mathew chapter 10, "take nothing with you as you go, the workman is worthy of His wages."

Beloved Reader, I pray you hear this clarion call this day! This is a word from the Lord to us to bring the divine release God desires in this third day! If we do not begin to see the Holy Love required in Mathew chapter 10 and 1st Corinthians 9:9-11, we will miss the blessings that Paul writes here: "and my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in Glory."

Pastors, ministers and sent ones, we too must understand the cost of this love with no expectations or demands! That is not easy! It is against the popular teaching as well! No greater love than this, then to lay down His life for the sheep. Can we as ministers share with those being sent what it cost to come, yes! Can we demand it to be paid, NO! Should we not go to them, if they won't pay? That is up to you to decide.

As for me, I must go where God sends me no matter what, and I do ask God to provide for the means to go as I should, I believe! We must allow the Holy Spirit to show us all how to love this way in our giving. It is a privlege to be sent by God as a gift, and a privlege to be received where you were sent as a gift from God. I pray we learn to treasure each gift of God that we all are. Those who are sent and those receiving the one being sent are one family, and God wants to provide for all of us to have enough!

So where should you place your money? First remember, it is not yours, but Gods! Second, do you love the messengers God has sent you, and do you love the people God sent you to? Then give has God has given you the measure to give to those gifts, then it will be pressed down, shaken up and pouring over as He desires. To all who hear that call this promise awaits you.

Php 4:19 And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.

If this word or the fruit of this ministry has blessed you, and the Lord puts in your heart to support us financailly we are grateful! That is not why this word was written. It was written to declare the love-bond giving that comes from the Third day of the Lord. A giving that will love one another as I have loved you. We do have a donation link on the home page for those who feel led to sow a seed in our lives. Go to the home page and click on the donation link! We are blessed if you do, and blessed if you don't. No strings are attached to this word!

If God touches your heart to do something for your Pastor, leader, missionary worker, go do it now, before the enemy talks you out of it!I want to say one more time and make it perfectly clear, no one who reads this is obligated to send one penny to us, it is freely given! I pray this word has touched and prepared your heart for the giving that is about to come in the New 3rd Day that is here!

Shalom!

The Fire has come: A Divine Change Pt Part 10

Greetings Beloved Reader,

My prayer for all of us is that we understand the moment in time we are now experiencing with the Lord. So many Christians are unaware of the deep intimate work the Lord is desiring to do in our hearts in preparing us to be a people made for His Glory!

In 2008, a divine change has come. I have written in our prophetic alert about the Western Gold Rush, and I am seeing this happen more and more each day. A Flame of God's burning presence has come to His hungering ones that is transfiguring them with Glory. The remarkable thing to me is that it is the 25 and under age group that is responding to this flame the most.

I have been blessed to watch the Lord gather these young ones to Himself and set them on fire with repentance, brokenness and His Glory. Many of these young ones are leading intercession with a burning passion throughout our region. The testimonies I hear from them is this, "we have never seen or felt the Lord like this in our lives. His fire is burning in us and all we can do is cry out to Him to establish us as His army."

Beloved, their is such an awakening happening in the hearts of the youth that is unparalleled to what I have ever seen. I have seen and attended youth conferences and rallies and they have been wonderful, but what I am witnessing now is EXTRAORDINARY! What is making this moment so extraordinary is whom they are seeing. They are seeing the Revelation of Jesus Christ as seen by John on the island of Pathmos.

In the Book the "Anointing of the Moment," God spoke to me about a changing of the day from the second day to the third day. He spoke to me that we are in a season of overlapping of the two days. Another words, these two days are existing at the same time. That is impossible in the natural realm, but not the super natural realm. The Lord can multi-task and work throughout time as He sees fit. (If you want to order a copy of the book, go to resources link on the http://www.flameofire2007.org/ site, it is worth the investment)

We have taught in the previous lessons about the conversation with Jesus with the Pharisees concerning Herod's' threatening against Jesus in Luke 13:32. I am not going to scripture reference them here since I have done that in all the preceding blogs. You can look for these references there if you like. When the Pharisee's came and warned Jesus of Herod's threatenings, Jesus said, "go tell that fox, that today and tomorrow I do healing and miracles, but on the third day I finish my course."

I wrote also in the previous blog the parallel truth found in Hosea chapter 6 verses 1-3. It says He has torn us, so He can heal us, after 2 days He will revive us, but on the third day He will raise up that we might live before Him. This teaching is going to be on these words, but on the third day He will raise us up. That is exactly what the first 4 chapters of the book of Revelation bring forth to our understanding.

The third day begins with a DIVINE CHANGE in our REVELATION of who JESUS IS NOW!
Most of the church still sees Jesus as their Savior and some as the Baptizer of the Holy Spirit. Many have gone on a little deeper to know Him as Healer, Provider, Friend and more. But on the third day a DIVINE CHANGE becomes necessary for the the people of God. A change that will take us past our present knowledge of God who is working in our midst, to the REVELATION that HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY AND FILLING US WITH HIMSELF AND MAKING US ONE! This new REVELATION of Jesus is going to be the answer to the prayer that He prayed in John chapter 17:22-24: Listen to His prayer

Joh 17:22 And the glory which you have given to me I have given to them, so that they may be one even as we are one;

Joh 17:23 I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.

Joh 17:24 Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

This is what John the Beloved is going to see on the Island of Pathmos. This is the FACE to FACE Revelation of Jesus that is HERE right now as He stands in the midst of His church as a Refining Fire!

Most of us Christians believe in our minds that Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We even have written songs about this fact, but have we really seen or understood that HE IS THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS? If we have seen or known like this, we would never be still living the lives we are still living before him filled with luke warmness. This seeing the Lord as King Eternal is the very change that is necessary to complete the work that the Lord through the Holy Spirit has started in us. Beloved, I would dare to say that without this REVELATION of JESUS as KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS, we won't be able to fully change. (1Jn 3:2 My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is. )

How are we going to see the revelation of Him like this? That is a very good question to ask. We have written about Malachi chapter 3:1-3 as the condition for the Lord to come and reveal Himself in this manner is to be seeking Him diligently. We have stated that when He comes, He is coming as a Refining Fire and Fuller's soap. In 2007-2008 a call has gone forth from the Spirit of the Lord to come and WALK, DANCE or STAND in the very FLAME OF GOD! With this prophetic call, the Lord is bringing forth the revelation of the Holy of Hollies as our destination and dwelling place.

The Lord has begun to have me declare the sound of the war trumpet being sounded to His church to come dwell and live behind the veil. Most of our present church meetings bring us right up to where the veil has been torn in two, but very few have entered into the REALITY of the REAL LIFE IN CHRIST that lies behind the veil in the Holy of Hollies. The LIFE OF GOD HIMSELF, JAHOVAH GOD! That is what John is about to experience on the island of Pathmos. He is going to see Jesus Christ the one he so loved, as GOD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF!

We can not "go on to know the Lord" as it says in Hosea 6:3 without HIS COMING TO US AS A DAWN! The DAWN represent the beginning of a NEW DAY. OR A NEW REVELATION! In the book of Revelation chapter 1, We literally SEE THE DAWNING OF THIS NEW DAY! This new day is nothing less than the true and final REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST TO HIS CHURCH!

In 2004, I visited the Kansas City House of Prayer that Mike Bickle started. I was able to receive prophetic ministry from their prophetic team. One of the young ladies on this team spoke this psalm over me and said this is what God is speaking to you.

Psa 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein. Psa 24:2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.

Psa 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? Psa 24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully. Psa 24:5 He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, And righteousness from the God of his salvation. Psa 24:6 This is the generation of them that seek after him, That seek thy face, even Jacob. Selah.

Psa 24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in. Psa 24:8 Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle.Psa 24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in. Psa 24:10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory.
Selah.

Beloved Reader, this was a prophetic word released in the depth of me for our generation and why I am writing these blogs. Psalm 24:3 begins to speak of the INGREDIENTS NECESSARY to experience this REVELATION of the Lord as King of Kings. The question that burned in me through this prophetic word was, WHO IS THIS KING OF GLORY? What a question the Lord asks prophetically in this psalm. This psalm begins by declaring that everything belongs to the Lord. Then it ask a question, WHO CAN COME UP THE HILL OF THE LORD?

Who can come up the "mountain" of the Lord another translation writes? Who can begin to see God as He really is as the King of Glory? Then the psalmist gives us the answer in verses 24:4, HE THAT HAS CLEAN HANDS AND A PURE HEART! What does the Lord come to do in Malachi chapter 3 but to purify the priests like silver and gold. This would be having clean hands and a pure heart.

I pray you remember the historical truths of these events found in Revelation chapter 1 and psalm 24. A cry is going to come forth in this psalm, "Lift up your heads Oh ye gates,and be lifted up you everlasting doors. And the KING OF GLORY WILL COME IN. WHO IS THIS KING OF GLORY, THE LORD STRONG IN BATTLE, THE LORD OF HOST! This prophetic prayer is going to be answered as John the Beloved is going to be lifted up as an everlasting door to show us the King of Glory. He is going to reveal to us the REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST THAT IS COMING ON THE THIRD DAY TO THE CHURCH!

John was the Apostle that Jesus loved. He was the one that constantly put his head upon Jesus chest and loved him so much. If anyone should recognize Jesus intimately it was John. Yet it is this same John that is about to have encounter with Jesus he just was not prepared for. He was going to see the Lord in the Spirit as HE REALLY IS AS GOD ALMIGHTY!

I am going to try with the grace of God to expound this event that God prepared for him and for us 2000 years later in these blogs as far as it has been given to me. This Revelation is still be revealed and will continue to be until we see Him face to face. There is a hunger rising up in the hearts of His bride that is beginning to burn like an oven as we have never seen before. This burning desire to come into the FLAME OF GOD is bringing the presence of the Lord into our hearts as a flame of fire to refine us like gold and silver. At the same time it is also doing something supernatural with us as well. This FLAME OF GOD is actually beginning to lift us up out of the "earthly, carnal, and partial" revelation of Jesus as our Savior, to see Him as LORD OF LORD AND KING OF ALL KINGS!

This is what begins after 2 days, the revelation of Jesus Christ as He really is even BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, Praise GOD! The revivals or former moves of God over the past 300 years have awakened us to God's presence once again, but the revivals of the past and present have not been able to "finish the work." The finishing work of God is going to take a deeper and to us a "new revelation" of who He is! Why is this important to us? Because the church was brought into its birthing process by a revelation of who Jesus really was 2000 years ago. Let us see the beginning of the birthing process of the church in Mathew's Gospel chapter 16:13-18.

Mat 16:13 Now when Jesus had come into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he said, questioning his disciples, Who do men say that the Son of man is? Mat 16:14 And they said, Some say, John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. Mat 16:15 He says to them, But who do you say that I am?

Beloved, that was the QUESTION of all QUESTIONS! The Lord was seeking an answer that had to be REVEALED FROM GOD HIS FATHER to usher in the birthing of the church. Jesus asks the disciples two questions. First, who do men say that I am? This question is what most of the church history is based upon. We have learned about our present Jesus through the teachings of men for the most part.

We go to church on Sunday and listen to messages, teachings brought through Sunday and Wednesday services. In these services men through the Holy Spirit tell us who Jesus is. The original question of Jesus has echoed for 2000 years. The disciples past answer and our present answer to this question represents two part of the tabernacle, the outer courts and the Holy Place.

In this place of "having services" men are used to reveal who the Lord is by teachings, sacrifices and offerings or tending to the instruments of God found in the Holy Place. However, none of these things could cleanse the conscious of the true worshippers then and they can not today. So many people in the Body of Christ today feel so unworthy to come through the veil that was torn in two for them. They are laden down with guilt, comdemnation, sadness and unforgiveness that they cant even LIFT UP THEIR HEADS! Thousands of years ago, God touched a psalmist that would see our day and cry, LIFT UP YOUR HEADS OH YE GATES, AND LIFT UP YOUR HEADS YOU EVERLASTING DOORS!

All throughout this nation, God has been pouring out His great love to LIFT THE HEADS UP OF THOSE WHO HAVE AN EAR TO HEAR AND EYES TO SEE! Beloved the heads that God is lifting up in this present moment are not the heads of the unsaved, but the heads of His body and are going to church in such comdemnation. So many believers are condemned, filled with sorrow, guilt and shame because they are not living the "perfect Christian life" that they keep working harder and harder trying to earn God's love and favor. This has made a generation of believers that don't really "know the Lord as Himself." Many know Him for what He has done, what He provides, how He heals. The majority of Christians know the Lord for His works and what He provides, and not His ways of intimacy and love.

Our present generation of American Christians when asked this same question Jesus asked the disciples of who do men say that I am may come up with the same answers as 2000 years ago. Some say you are John the Baptist, some say you are Elijah or Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. Their answer seems staggering to us when we see how they walked with the Lord every day. Did the disciples really know who He was? The disciples that had been with Him from the beginning of the ministry, did they truly know Him as God Almighty?

The Lord continues this discussion with the disciples and personalizes the question a second time. BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM? WOW, BELOVED! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS QUESTION? I AM NOT EVEN SURE I DO AS I WRITE THIS! Jesus wanted to test and see if they could truly see who He is! Peter replies, the other 11 do not. Did Peter beat them to the punch? Or in contrast were the 11 clueless to who He really was. Listen to what Peter and Jesus say to one another in this dialogue.
Mat 16:16 And Simon Peter made answer and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Mat 16:17 And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven. Mat 16:18 And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell will not overcome it.

Peter says, YOU ARE THE CHRIST THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD! Right here in this moment the birthing process of the church begins. It begins with a REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST AS THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD! Why is this important to us. It is this beginning revelation that causes a travail to come forth to birth the church into it's purpose. The travail begins with a REVELATION OF JESUS.

I am going to bounce around, so I pray you can follow the flow of the Holy Spirit with me. I am going to have to continue this in other blog writings because there is so much the Lord wants us to see and understand. To understand the significance of this beginning revelation we have to go to the book of Zechariah chapter 4:1-9. I am going to put the whole chapter here, but I am going to focus with the grace of God on just one scripture for now! Please keep this for your reference notes because there is much in this chapter that will guide us in the book of Revelation.

Zec 4:1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep. Zec 4:2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have seen, and, behold, a candlestick all of gold, with its bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are upon the top thereof; Zec 4:3 and two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.Zec 4:4 And I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

Zec 4:5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord. Zec 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts. Zec 4:7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, unto it. Zec 4:8 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Zec 4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you.

This is where the Holy Spirit is bringing us understanding to understand the DIVINE CHANGE that we are now entering into is. This is how we can see the overlapping of the two days. How can the Lord have two days functioning together at the same time? Many in the Body of Christ are saying we are at the close of the second day, and they are right. Many in the Body of Christ are saying that the THIRD DAY has begun, and they are right.

There has been much bickering on what day we are really in, and the answer to that question is that WE ARE IN BOTH! THEY BOTH ARE RIGHT! Which day you are living in as a Christian is determined upon where you have allowed the Lord to bring you. Are you being led with Peter, James and John up the mountain of transfiguration to see the THIRD DAY, or are you with the 9 still living at the base of the mountain where they could not cast the devil out of the boy?

I can not tell you how or why some are hearing this and going up the mountain and some are not, but I can say those who are not are going up the mountain are getting pretty angry with those who are! Most of the church leadership are unawares of this place of spiritual lifting the Lord desires us to see on this Mount of transfiguration or understand the process.

This can bring great confusion in our midst with those who are seeing this process. I pray that we could all relax a little bit and give each other grace and love. Those who are not yet seeing this overlapping of days love the Lord and so do those who are seeing it and proclaiming it. Can we not just let God test and prove all things and shine the light in a greater way? There are some sadly that are seeing and rejecting this present work of God. All we can do is pray for each one to see the Lord as He wants to be seen and trust the Lord with the rest.

The Bride of the Lord has heard His call and she is coming up the mountain. They have the first revelation of Jesus already in their hearts, "you are the Christ the Son of the living God." This is the alpha or the beginning birthing of the church that was to be born on the day of Pentecost in Glory! (Romans chapter 8. Zech chapter 4, John chapter 2) There is another birthing that will bring forth a "new revelation of Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the FINISHING WORK OF GOD.

Zachariah is going to prophecy this FINISHING WORK it listen: Zec 4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it! Do you see it Beloved Reader? He (whose hands started the work) that has begun a good work in you, will be FAITHFUL(whose hands will finish the work) to COMPLETE IT? The hands of Zerrubabel our nothing less prophetically than Jesus hands who is in charge of building the Temple of God.

Jesus asks the disciples, "Who do men say that I am?" They answered Him by what they heard spoken, " Some say you are Elijah, some say Jeremiah." Jesus says, BUT WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM? Here Beloved in Mathew we see the corner stone or BEGINNING REVELATION OF THE CHURCH BIRTHING: YOU ARE THE CHRIST THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD!

But Zerrubabel hands are also going to finish the work as well, SO ARE JESUS'S. what is the last book of the Bible called. THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST TO HIS CHURCH! This revelation is not like the "beginning revelation" of Jesus as savior. This revelation is going to come to John the Beloved as a "voice like many waters coming from BEHIND HIM!" He does not recognize this voice, nor will He recognize this side of Jesus." Jesus has to REVEAL HIMSELF ALL OVER AGAIN TO JOHN AS THE KING OF GLORY FOR HIM TO UNDERSTAND HIS END-TIME PLANS." BELOVED THIS IS THE SAME HANDS THAT STARTED THIS WORK IN US. NOW WE ARE GOING TO SEE THE HANDS OF JESUS FINISHING THE WORK IN US. IT WILL BE BIRTHED BY BRINGING FORTH A REVELATION OF THE GLORY OF JESUS CHRIST AS GOD ALMIGHTY.

This is a DIVINE CHANGE of THE REVELATION OF GOD! A finishing revelation that God Himself is laying in His Church as a FINISHING STONE! This stone is going to release in us what Jesus said from the cross, "FATHER, IT IS FINISHED! ARE YOU JUMPING UP AND DOWN YET? Listen to the last part of verse of Zechariah 4:9, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts has sent me unto you.

This Revelation begins in the book of Revelation with a divine change of the "voice of the Lord." Today go home and re-read John's description of Jesus in Revelation chapter one and pray over this before the next time we get together on this blog site. Allow the Holy Spirit to open your heart to the "new day" that is dawning and in our midst. Zechariah 4:10 tells us how important this "little truth" of the beginning of the third day overlapping the second day is. Let us read this together.

Zec 4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things (beginnings)? for these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; these are the eyes of Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

Yes Beloved reader, this is a small thing to many in the Body of Christ right now. Many are completely unaware of the DIVINE CHANGE that has come.This change will finish the work Jesus has begun in us, and we will see the Glory of the Lord being revealed in us (Isaiah chapter 60.) This Finishing moment begins with a SECOND REVELATION of JESUS CHRIST!

This second revelation doesn't save you, the first one did. The second revelation brings the finishing of what He started into our life. The timing of these events begins with Jesus asking us in our day the same question He asked His disciples, "BUT WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?" What will our generation say back to Him? That depends on our true hearts desires. If you are desiring the Lord to come to your temple like a refining fire, then the Lord will work in you the very REVELATION HE GAVE TO JOHN ON THE ISLAND OF PATHMOS!

This PRESENT generation is going to say, know and experience the FINISHING WORK OF GOD AND DECLARE IT WITH A GREAT BOLDNESS! THIS GENERATION OF "BURNING ONES", THESE "HOLY ONES" OF THE MOST HIGH GOD,WILL BEAR WITINESS OF WHO HE IS RIGHT NOW: Listen to the voice of God in the youth that is now here:

YOU ARE THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, HE WHO IS AND WHO WAS, AND WHO IS TO COME. WE WILL FEAR NOT, BECAUSE YOU ARE THE FIRST AND THE LAST, AND THE LIVING ONE. THE ONE WAS DEAD, BUT BEHOLD YOU ARE ALIVE FOREVERMORE, AND YOU HAVE THE KEYS TO DEATH AND HELL!"

Beloved this was the true purpose of His revealing to John HIS FULL GLORY. This REVELATION OF JESUS is to declare a DIVINE CHANGE HAS COME to the church! If we will just come to Him and WALK INTO THE FLAME OF GOD. The Holy Spirit says," He who has an ear to hear, what the Spirit says to the churches . A DIVINE CHANGE HAS COME and these very words you are hearing are to burn in your heart so we can have the testimony: That we have been with Jesus and kwow Him as KING AND LORD!

Rev 1:8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. Fear not; I am the first and the last, Rev 1:18 and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Until next time Beloved!

The Fire has come: On the third day: Pt 9

Greetings in the Lord Jesus Christ,

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Today we again will examine the present work of the Holy Spirit in preparing us to become a bride of the Lord. In our last blog we wrote about a prophetic word found in the book of Hosea chapter 6 which reveals the Lord's heart for us in these last days. Let us review it!

Hos 6:1-3 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him. And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth. (ASV)

The Basic Bible version of verse 3, And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

The word of God in Hosea tells us that after 2 days God would revive us. Revival is the word that is synonymous with the second day or the years of the 20th century. In the first and second day after Christ's death and resurrection the Lord knew that His church would need to be revived. Revival is what everyone in the second day has prayed to come to the Lord's church to revive her out of her sleep.

Beloved, this is hard to hear for many of our readers, revival is not what is God is sending in this hour, God may blow His Spirit in nations and locations as He wills, and they will have God's manifested presence as they have up to now. However: There is a deeper work of God as the answer to what we need in this hour and it is not revival. It is a revolution or a complete change.

This revolution is something we have not seen before and it comes from the Lord appearing to those who are seeking as a Refining Fire and fuller's soap. This appearing of the Lord in the Spirit that we have written about from Revelation chapters 1-4 is going to revolutionize our life as on the day of Pentecost but greater. Every rival in the last 2000 years had a beginning and an ending point. Revival has a purpose in the first two days of the new covenant,up until now, but for those who have an ear to hear what the Spirit says to the church, they are entering into the third day that is now here.

There is a present work of the Holy Spirit in the third day that is "much different and deeper" than in the first two prophetic days of the church age. Again, I want to hearken back to the words of Jesus to illustrate this point and then continue the discussion on the "present work of the Holy Spirit in this dawning moments of the third day. Beloved, The second day is coming to close but it is still here for most of the church, but to those who have an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church, the third or seventh day has begun now. This overlapping of the days is what God told me was called, "the anointing of the moment."

It is quite difficult to understand the overlapping of days in the Lord's time frame, but the only way I can describe it is like the 400 year of silence between Malachi and John the Baptist. When John the Baptist came on the scene to preach the message of repentance and the coming Messiah, he stood at the threshold of the closing of the 4th prophetic day and the beginning of the 5th day.

No one in their time knew or could see the changing of the day. John was commissioned to be a "voice crying it the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord. He open the door and became a "prophetic bridge" between these two days. For those who received his message and were baptized, they entered into the beginning moments of the new day. John and all those who came entered into the new at the midnight hours of the new day. John waited for the one who's shoes he wasn't able to carry. John was a voice between the two days connecting them together until Jesus became manifested. Then John's testimony was that I must decrease and He must increase.

I could write so much on this topic, but I must take you to the last verses of the Book of Malachi and its prophetic announcing of the "anointing of the moment" or the bridge in our time between these two days. Mal 4:5 See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared. Mal 4:6 And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse. In Mathew 11 Jesus describes John the Baptist ministry in this manner:

Mat 11:8 But what went you out to see? a man delicately clothed? Those who have fair robes are in kings' houses. Mat 11:9 But why did you go out? to see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet. Mat 11:10 This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you. Mat 11:11 Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. Mat 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven is forcing its way in, and men of force take it. Mat 11:13 For all the prophets and the law were in force till John. Mat 11:14 And if you are able to see it, this is Elijah who was to come. Mat 11:15 He who has ears, let him give ear.

John the Baptist was a "doorway" between the old and the new covenant. He proclaimed the "anointing of the moment" to his generation. "The message was "repent, the kingdom of God is at hand." His message was, "prepare ye the way of the Lord, make the crooked places straight."
He was a forerunner for his generation. That voice is being heard once again in our generation as well. There is a voice beginning to cry in the wilderness of our day, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, but different and deeper. For this voice is announcing the Omega God is here and His finishing work is about to revealed.

At the end of the 6th day and the entrance to the 7th day, a bridge is being declared and built. An anointing of the moment is here to lay a extension between that which is, and that which is to come. The day happens at a midnight hour! That hour was recognized when John began to proclaim the coming of the Lord. Today it began declaring the "coming of the Lord in the Spirit' first to the church, and the revelation of the end -time events that will usher Him in the physical.
One of the signs of this coming is that the Spirit of Elijah, that forerunner spirit would begin to turn the hearts of the Father to the sons, and sons to the Fathers. Beloved, in 2007 and 2008 we are witnessing this with our own eyes as the Fire of God comes in our midst. There are testimonies of this work from Colorado to Arizona and many other places as well.

Often times there is great misunderstanding about the transition between these days, and I have heard some begin to teach about this third day from a position of "superiority" over others. This so grieves the Holy Spirit. The important thing to understand about the Third day is that it is a "divine shift " not a new movement or teaching to be marketed. It begins with a shift or change of priorities, plans, purposes in our lives to come into absolute oneness with the Lord's purposes for our lives.

In the second day we have grown much in knowledge about the Lord, but we have not really grown in the knowledge OF THE LORD! The knowledge I speak of is not an intellectual biblical study of the Lord, but a heart to heart fellowship in and with the Lord. At the close of this second day, the Christian bookstores are filled with all the "knowledge about the Lord." In 1992, A word was given to a brother that the "Lord was going to be dissected no more." He said to this brother that the church has cut Jesus into pieces in their understanding. Most churches kept the parts of Him they like and threw the rest of him away.

The Lord spoke to this brother that day would brings a great famine in the land, not for bread or for water, but for the REAL LIVING WORD OF GOD! The Lord said, I will be dissected no more! In the first two days of the church age, the church started with a blaze of Glory from the day of Pentecost for the first 200 years, but then something happens within her.

The relationship with the Lord Himself gets replaced by a religious system until Martin Luther comes with the message of saved by grace alone and establishes a reformation in the 1500's. In His day, the knowledge of the Lord was only obtainable by Catholic Priests. The Catholic Church leadership taught in Luther's day that only the priests could understand the things of God and the bible. They believed the people were not spiritual enough to know God for themselves.

Martin Luther was a man of the "anointing of the moment." He was in a place between two periods of time. One period of time, the dark ages of the church was coming to a close and a new day was dawning of the knowledge of the Lord. He literally stood at the half way point of 3000 years since the word of the Lord came to him in the 1500's. God's revelation to him that one can not be saved by being good enough, but by grace alone through faith in the atonement of Jesus blood was a monumental shift of priorities, plans and understanding. Truly this was a "Holy Revolution!" It was not a revival. Why? Because this revolution has not ceased. Today millions have been saved by the revelation of that is by "grace you have been saved, through faith. It is not of yourselves, but it is a gift from God lest any man would boast."

This revelation of the knowledge of God changed the face of the earth and started a series of restorational truths over the last 500 years. Bishop Bill Hamon writes about this in many of His books. Check out Christian International website for books on this topic. What I want to discuss today is our present transitional period of time. Even though we have much knowledge about the Lord, we to in a sense have been in a spiritual period of dark ages. That is the purpose of revival to wake us up from the dead and put us on the path again. We know there was the revival of the evangelists in the 1600. 1700's. The 1800's had tent revivals through out America and the world.

In 1900 another "anointing of the moment" came at Azusa Street. In a little back room shack people began to seek the face of God earnestly again and stayed in prayer like in the upper room until the Holy Spirit Baptism poured out upon them. This outpouring of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit was not a revival, but another revolutionary point in church history. It was a revolution because it has not ended either.

Coincidentally, it began at the beginning of the 1900's or just before the change of the day that would come 100 years later. Today there are hundreds of millions of people baptized in the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, prophesying, etc. Though many in the Body of Christ would like to reject this outpouring, it just does not go away, nor can it go away.

It is a real moment in History because with this outpouring of the Holy Spirit, signs and wonders started to be seen again above initial salvation. People were healed of diseases, cancers and all types of sickness. Devils were again being cast out of people. The Lame were walking, the blind were seeing because God sent out His power upon His thirsty ones again.

This again was a prophetic word uttered by Jesus that parallels the word in Hosea chapter 6. Listen to the words of Jesus again. Luke 13:32 And he said unto them, Go and say to that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am perfected.

I want you to notice the "present work of the Holy Spirit" in the first two days. Jesus tells the Pharisee's to go tell that fox. Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures, TODAY AND TOMORROW! Beloved Reader, this speaks of two days! Today and Tomorrow I cast out demons and perform cures. Along with salvation this is most of the knowledge that the church has of the Lord. The non-Pentecostals know salvation, the Pentecostals know gifts, power, etc. Beloved, Hosea chapter 6 and Luke 13:32 does not end with these signs as the last picture of the Lord. PRAISE GOD.

There is something BIGGER AND MORE, that must come forth from the Lord to fulfill the words He said from the cross, "IT IS FINISHED!" In Luke 13:32 Jesus adds, and the third day I am perfected." (ASV) Another translations says, "On the third day, my work will be complete." (BBE) On the third day there is going to be a completion of the work Jesus started. The work we have written extensively about found in Malachi chapter 3: 1-3. Jesus the refining fire was again going to come to His house (you and me) of those who are seeking Him.

This coming or presencing of the Lord would not be like we knew Him in the "today and tomorrow." This coming would be so different Malachi writes, "who can endure the day of His coming, and who can stand when He appears." The writer infers that the Lord who we are seeking is coming to manifest Himself in such a way that everything we have known about Him will not be good enough to endure or stand in during the coming days. For when He(Jesus) comes He shall come as a REFINING FIRE AND FULLER SOAP!

The real meat of this word is what these past 9 blogs have been about. For when He (OR WHEN HE APPEARS) comes there is a "finishing work" that must come. This work begins at the close of the second day with a call to come and sup with Him and Him with you. This calls allows you to enters the third day, because there is a door standing open in heaven. Revelation 4:1! And a voice calls like a war trumpet, Come up here!"

It is this voice of the "come up here", that the Lord is interested in us embracing. The Lord desires us to come up out of the natural carnal life where we are at the end of the age to where He is and "be seated in heavenly places with Him." We must invite Him in not as savior, but as a FLAME OF FINISHING FIRE, that has come to complete the work He started in us.

For this to happen in our lives we can no longer dissect and pick and choose the parts of the Lord we like and throw away the rest. We can not rest our faith on church or on our own church doctrine alone. For much of what we believe is still in part and incomplete for the fullness has yet to be revealed to us fully! We are not to throw away the tenants of faith as Paul writes to the Hebrews in chapter 6:1-3

For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God, The teaching of baptisms, and of the putting on of hands, and of the future life of the dead, and of the judging on the last day. Now we will do this, if God lets us. It is now the time of the "if God lets us." The third day has begun.

It is important we understand our timing as I have written before, and what day and time we are in. Some of you reading this word are at the end of the second day, hungering for more of God but just may not know what that is. Some of you have entered the third day and realize a great change is needed in the church, and you are pressing in to find what that change is. Others have tasted the third day and will never be the same. The tasting of the third day causes you to come out of living in the outer courts, or day one. It causes you to have gone past the Holy Place with all it's gift in day two. It brings you to the place where you find the "access"through the veil of His flesh into the Holy of Holies or the Third day.

The Baptism of Fire birthing in this moment in time is the work of Godthat is needed to have us enter fully into this third day. This is where we learn to live and abide with Him forever and ever. In Malachi 3:3, the word of God says, that the Lord will thoroughly purge the Sons of Levi, (the priesthood) and purify them like gold and silver! He is doing that in those called into the flame right now sothat they may bring to Him offerings of righteousness as the Priests of the Lord.

These offering are the finishing work of God in our heart. They are the offerings of absolute obedience and surrender to His will. These offerings come from a heart that knows that they "are not their own anymore, but have been purchased with a price." These offerings are given from a pure heart that can see God. A heart that can know God for who He is and what He desires! Offerings that come from an absolute love sick heart abandoned to the Lord Himself.

I am not sure why I have to explain the timing of these things and the transition between these two days, but I must to help clarify the "present work of the Lord in each day." In Luke 13:32-33 Jesus says, "on the third day I will be perfected." He was already perfected! He was the perfect Lamb of God who was slain. He gave His life perfectly to death to be raised up on the third day.

What does this little utterance mean to you and I? Jesus said I will be perfected on the third day. Hosea 6:1-3 speaks of what that perfection is, and why the Fire has to come now to do it. I pray you have ears to hear this, for many of you are still doubting this present work of God. If you dont' jump into the flame of God soon, you may find yourself on the outside trying to get in to the wedding feast.

Hos 6:1 Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help. Hos 6:2 After two days he will revive us , (what is the definition of revival? Raising the spiritual dead and giving us life. This is the work Jesus is doing on the today and tomorrow.) This is what revival has brought us in the first two days of the church age, but there is a third day dawning now!"and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him. (BBE)

Another version of this scripture says, "After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him." (ASV) This is the word the Body of Christ needs to hear and embrace, and what the present Fire is preparing us for. Hosea declares that, "That He will raise us up, and we will live before Him." Not when we die, though that is included, but a "spiritual lifting" that will bring us up to the "spiritual full position" we are to have as full grown sons. As full grown sons and a bride to the Lord we are truly prepared for our ministry with the Lord to the nations as a WITNESS!

On the third day we won't be "doing witnessing" anymore. We will be a WITNESS, and then the end shall come! Are you excited yet. All this intense fire, all this inner dealing and purifying and circumcising of our hearts is not for nothing, but to become something, THE FINISHED WORK OF THE LORD. In the first and second day, He is curing and driving out devils, in the third day He will complete the work He has started in us. PRAISE GOD forever!

On the third day something NEW happens, HE WILL RAISE US UP. This is what the beginning 3 chapters of Revelation prepare us to do. They describe the intense revelation of Jesus Christ as He is, as a refining fire and fuller soap. This is the OMEGA or finishing revelation of Christ that will complete us in Him. This revelation of Jesus as He is in His Glory is the entrance way into His heartbeat and to see Him face to face.

Without a shift or a change, we can never enter into the fullness of the Lord. We can not because He said He is coming for a bride without spot or wrinkle. He will never negate His word or lower His standards which says, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." It is the purity of the heart He makes in us that will make us a Bride without wrinkle of spot! This pure heart is a SPIRITUAL POSITION which can only come about as we enter the "anointing of the moment." This entrance is into the very FLAME OF GOD!

Beloved, listen to the promise of the THIRD DAY to us. "HE WILL RAISE US UP, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE BEFORE HIM!" (Hosea 6:2) What an honor beloved to be raised up out of the state of luke warmness and loosing our first love found in Revelation chapters 2 and 3 to becoming a "spiritual place for the Lord to dwell fully" granting us direct access to His heartbeat and His desires. This direct access and receiving His desires in our hearts and obeying them is what He calls, "THAT YE MIGHT LIVE BEFORE ME!"

In the first two days,(2000 years) God has been discected by men in the pursuit of the intellectual knowledge of who He is. This intellectual pursuit of knowledge of God (LOVE) without experience gets so embedded in the church, that the church looses their first love for Him and must repent or loose His presence in her midst. Beloved that He says to Laodecia, "that you say you are rich and in need of nothing, but you are poor, blind, and naked." What a heart breaking thought that our Jesus is standing on the outside of the door to our hearts (the church) trying to get back in. He is knocking on our hearts at the close of the second day and beginning of the third day to get back in to His house where he belongs. His cry is for us to share a deep heart to heart relationship as we sup together with Him. This is what it means to begin "TO LIVE BEFORE THE LORD AND WITH THE LORD" from His perspective.

In these first two days, He is working miracles and deliverance, yet we (His body) still doesn't even know Him personally as He desires." Yet in the midst of this, He opens a door for us to see Him in a new way,and He reveals His desire for us to come up into this heavenly place of oneness as a bride and bridegroom with Him. He even shows us the way up is through REFINING FIRE!

I recieved this word from a brother today to confirm this in my heart. There has to be a cutting away of the flesh between these two days to finish and live in the Spirit of God. This cutting away is to develop our senstivity to the whispers and desires of the Lord and bring Him instant obedience from a pure heart of love. This will bless His heart like nothing else.

Then Beloved, we will truly know Him in His fullness and not discect Him into parts any more! The Flame of God has come to prepare a bride to go up and be with Him ,and to go forth on the earth with her leaning upon Her Beloved. The third day is NOT ABOUT REVIVAL, but about ANOTHER REVOLUTION! Let us read once again this Holy Revolution:

Hos 6:3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth." This new day will cause us to receive and do something new, HAVE KNOWLEDGE AND TO GO AFTER THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD! (THIS IS WHAT ETERNAL LIFE REALLY IS, TO KNOW HIM THE ONE TRUE GOD AND JESUS CHRIST THAT HE SENT. JOHN 17:3) NOT THE ONE WE DISCECT FOR OUR PLEASURE, BUT THE LORD OUR GOD WHO WAS, AND IS, AND IS TO COME!

We will expand on this thought next time, for we need to continue seeking His wisdom, "his going out is certain as the dawn." This is what the Lord is having me to speak and explain to those who have ears to hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The message being that between theclose of the second day and beginning of the third day there is an "anointing of a moment" "a spiritual bridge being made in the spirit of the forerunner," to enter the third day. The day begins with a REFINING FLAME, THE SON OF GOD IN OUR MIDST!

Don't miss your timing beloved to get into the Flame of God and be refined like gold. It is worth it and more. It is happening now to those who have an ear to here. IT IS AS CERTAIN this very moment as the DAWN that is arising in our midst.

Until Next time,

SHALOM!