The Habitation of the Lord

As I was worshipping the Lord, He began to plant a seed in my heart. The seeds of God are planted, but the seed is only a hope of what is contained in the seed. If we meditate on the seed, give it water and sunlight (study it out, speak to it, gaurd it, and hold on to expectation) we develope faith and we then know that a sprout will come up through the ground in a few days. In a few years we will see that the small seed contained a giant fruit tree whose branches reach up and out to give God praise and produce food and more seed.

As I meditated on what He was saying to me, I had a vision. I was standing in the temple of the Lord…in the Holy Place. The curtain opened and I was invited into the Holy of Holies. The Ark was beckoning me forward and I knew that the Blood of Yeshua had made my entrance possible. The Word of the Lord came to me and He said that a shift is here. He has called and spent many years calling the prodigals home. Those that would not return because of His goodness, will now be shaken further and harder as He confronts the lawless. But, like a seed, I have great hope for them. I was once “them” and we all have the potential to be “them”. Oh how I am thankful that He rescued me and that I endured the shaking that He sent my way so that I would return to Him. I refused His gentle nudges, but my stubbornness brought His shaking and great sorrow to me and those that loved me. However, in the end, I returned to God and became a blessing to my entire family. Joy of my salvation touched them all. So I tell you that the shaking is necessary for the stubborn prodigals to return to Him. Don’t be dismayed at what is coming upon them. They, like the seed in the ground, are covered in earth (flesh) and God has to crack them open. He must remind them that they are destined to become a great tree, a habitation for His glory. Don’t fear, just water them in prayer and shine your light on them.

The next thing He said to me was a scripture reference in Hebrews 10 about preparing a body for Him. He said that He is preparing a body for His habitation. He is ready to reward those that answered His call. He will make a habitation in them so that He can display and demonstrate His AWESOME POWER and GREAT GOODNESS.

We, as believers, have been living in the Holy Place… the time of the learning and living by the Word (table of showbread) ,getting acquainted with and moving in the Spirit (menorah), relying and communicating by Prayer (alter of incense). A shift is here. We are to take all that we have learned and move into the Holy of Holies by the Blood of the Lamb. To do this, we must SEE through the curtain by the Spriit of Revelation and Understanding. They are the two that pull back each side of the curtain so you can see the splendor of the Presence of God. The manna in there, the law is there, the prophetic destiny is there and you see that it is YHWY God that presides over it all.

In the Holies of Holy we find our Sabbath…our rest. In His presence there is no striving, no fear, no lack, no flesh, and understanding of who He is and His sovereignty. In His presence, He rules over our sustenance, provision, and our destiny. Why and how can we live in fear when He is in charge of everything in our lives. In this place, we know that we were created for Him alone. In His Presence we develop complete trust in Him. In His presence there is JOY. He is exactly what we need at this juncture.

As we face the things that are coming on the earth, we must do so from a position in the Spirit…in the Holy of Holies…in His Presence. In that place, we see things from His perspective. We see things in faith, hope, and love. As we walk connected to the Spirit of God, we can see the deeper meanings or purposes of the events to come. We will not be afraid or dismayed. For we hold that rod of Aaron that points to our prophetic destiny and we, like David, eat the showbread as we live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. We will walk by the law of God that has bee deposited in our hearts by his holy scriptures.

So we know some of the things that are coming. Let me tell you they are not what is important. The importance of them is that they are a tool to shake the nations of the world and all those in Babylon (the Beast system) for the purpose of showing the peoples of earth that YHWY is God. The events are a tool to: Call his people out of Babylon; Convict the sinner; Show His goodness to those in bondage; Save the masses; Free the captives; Demonstrate His power over all diseases, iniquity, and sin; Display to the principalities and powers that He is the final authority and has the final Victory.

As these events speed up in frequency and intensity, seek God for the deeper meanings. Live in the Holy of Holies. This earth is ready to be exposed to the presence of God. To us, He is life, however, to those in darkness, He is a fearful and awesome Rock of crushing. To us, He is our refuge but to the wicked, He is their storm. He is our joy and our salvation. However, those that continue to align with wickedness will be full of sorrow and eaten up with bitterness.

God said that He is preparing a body for His habitation. The scriptures say in Hebrews 10:5-7 “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”

Of course, this scripture is referring to Yeshua being given an earthly body. Think of the body that was made for Him. YHWY chose a devout and holy woman who was called to be the mother of this God Man. He planted His seed within her by the power of Holy Spirit and she bore our Savior. Think about the symbolism as we are being transformed into His image, made a holy people, a royal priesthood. We are destined to become His Bride. God is transforming us to prepare us for His Son. He is choosing and has chosen from the beginning those who will become a habitation for His presence to dwell. This should be our concern and pursuit as citizens of heaven…Pursuing those things above.

He is preparing a body for His habitation in this final episode of this Earthly existence and he started with Adam. Yeshua is the 2nd Adam and God will complete the work through Him. We are His Body becoming His Bride and we will make His enemies His footstool.

Hebrews 10:12-16: “But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,  waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.  For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”

See how God is dealing with His enemies and sanctifying His people with one great event. Dr. Michael Lake says that the devil plays checkers while God plays 10 dimensional chess. Don’t allow yourself to be this way. When you get wrapped up in the worldly news or happenings, you can be blinded to the bigger picture. Look deeper, think higher, and ask our Helper to show us the meaning behind the façade that we see on the news.

John, by the Spirit, quotes Yeshua in chapter 14: 20-25, “On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you. Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.  Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me. All this I have spoken to you while I am still with you.  But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.”

The purpose of God was to build a habitation that He could dwell in. The shadow in the Old Testament was the Ark of the Covenant, but the true is revealed in us now. We are His ark…His dwelling place and He is ours.

The things that are coming will include grievous things and suffering, but keep proper perspective…God’s perspective…and walk in obedience and the love of God. Paul, by the Spirit, speaks of this in Colossians 1 starting at verse 22: “And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, He has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister. Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.  Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.  For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.”

The suffering that we endure works to His glory. To those who only see in the natural, the suffering has no purpose and will cause many to fall away. But for those of us who understand, that same suffering will transform us into the image of our dear Lord. We are not better than our Lord who endured great suffering for the purposes of the Father. We, too, must endure to the end and fulfill the will of our Father in heaven.

God uses our tears, our pain, and our suffering to mount up judgment upon our enemies and His. Psalm 40:13-17 “Be pleased O Lord, to deliver me! Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether who seek to snatch away me life; let those be turned back to dishonor who delight in my hurt! Let those be appalled because of their shame who say to me “Aha, Aha”! But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!” As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer: do not delay O my God!

So you see, as we suffer, He uses it to bring dishonor upon the enemy and He delivers us in His time. The Baptism of suffering brings the final baptism of Glory. We are coming to those baptisms. As the apostles suffered and died to lay a foundation for us, we see that their suffering brought the power of God as thousands upon thousands believed, were sent out, and the “ecclesia” was birthed all over the world. That outpouring of suffering brought an outpouring of glory. This latter rain will bring more…more suffering and MORE GLORY. What is the hope of this glory? CHRIST IN US!

Read all of Isaiah 32, but I will highlight verse 18. In the midst of the shaking, and the judgment, and the suffering the prophet reminds us of this: “My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

Build a lifestyle of abiding in His Presence. Take a break from the worldly news and events that change from minute to minute. Spend time with the unchanging God…He will transform you and prepare a habitation in you so that you can show forth His Glory.

There is a seed in you! It is the seed of an Ancient tree that will bring food and shelter for many in the time to come. The seed is named “The habitation of the Lord”.