As I was praying this morning (1/2/2023), I was reminded of the blacksmith, creating a sword…the fire; the heat of the fire; and the forming of the metals; blended metals to make it stronger; the pounding that occurs to strengthen the metals together; and through that process, more fire, more pounding, more shaping, more molding and forming…more fire and water. Isn’t that exciting?  This is how He is forming and shaping His people.

Visualize the forming of the sword and what it takes to shape that sword. What does it look like? Now see the tremendous heat involved, to mold it, shape it, and pound it into the perfect sword.  It takes different types of metals to make it stronger. Now think about the people around you spiritually, (even non-spiritual) teams of people that help in this process, different metals, different substances, shaping the perfect sword. Different types of pressure required to form and shape the perfect sword). 

God is Removing the Dross – Waste or Foreign matter. He knows just how much Fire and Water, cooling we need to be strengthened for the task ahead. The building and shaping of His Kingdom. His people, His Bride…Have you been in the fire lately?  Have you felt the heat?  This past year, when dealing with people, situations, circumstances, did you find some of the ugliness, waste or foreign substance, rising to the surface?  Hopefully, being removed…Right?

God allows this, to bring about His purpose in us and through us, that is, if we have surrendered our lives to Him and yielded to this process. Dying to self and yielding to Him.  Surrender, give it all over to God. He knows what He’s doing. For us to take that new and perfect form, we must cast off the old.  To truly become an unbreakable team, the metals must be blended, crushed, broken, and pounded, feeling the heat of the fire, to be shaped and molded into His image.  We are being poured into the mold of Jesus, and Jesus into us. 

2022 had been a year of God, preparing His people. The process continues bringing out the result that God has already prepared from the very beginning, for each and every one of us.  Here we are, growing stronger, and still in the process. 

Some are ready to be sharpened, some are ready to polish, and to shine. Some are ready to be activated and be positioned. A weapon for war! An instrument for His Kingdom purpose.  What does your weapons look like?  What is the shape of your sword?  Have you been sharpened this past year? Are you in the pounding stage? 

Surrender all…for this is a year to shine! 

God is shaping his people, his children, his warriors, for the final battle outcome, even though we are still in the process, the final outcome will be beautiful, where light overcomes darkness.   Our weapons are not carnal, fleshy, but mighty and powerful! Our voice (His Word), sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing the souls of men, and the spiritual realm.  We have shouts of victory and triumph in our veins!  Shouts of war, silencing the enemy, and bringing war upon the darkness as we shine forth His light.  This is why we must yield to the purifying fire.

We are creating portals, Gods people of prayer, war, and worship. Declarations, proclamations and exhortation…opening the portals of heaven, speaking from positions of heaven to Earth.   A position of victory as sons and daughters of God. The bride of Christ, the army of God, warriors of the Lord.  We are the ones arising in the times of darkness and chaos, where No weapon formed against us will prosper. We shall arise and overcome the dark places in the earth and heavens, making the paths straight. 

God is making us ready. It’s a time to decree, declare, and proclaim. It’s a time to be sharpened in the Word and Spirit. When we are adept in the Word and Spirit, we become swords in His hand.   It’s a time to be strengthened in Him, for battle. “The battle belongs to the Lord”.  We belong to the Lord. 

• Clothed in the whole armor of God! It’s a time to speak the word and make the path straight. We are preparing the way. Declaring the coming of the King. And for the church to Arise and shine. The groom is calling, we are to be ready. A Time to Shine! A Time for war! 

• God showed me in a session of deliverance when I was wearing his armor, and I thought to myself, I’m not worthy to wear your armor. He said, that’s ok, I will wear You as my armor. He was saying that I was more than enough to fulfill his purpose, and to be clothed in his armor, and that he trusted me, to be His warrior on the earth. You are more than enough! Declare this for yourself!

• My deliverance came from that declaration. He said I Am worthy! No longer an orphan, but a son! 

We are His righteous people. (I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus). 

He is in me (His Spirit), and therefore I am Righteous. *(Declare this) 

2 Corinthians 5:21 For our sake He made Christ to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness]. Amp 

Isaiah 54:14-17 “You shall establish yourself in righteousness (rightness, in conformity with God’s will and order): you shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you. Behold, they may gather together and stir up strife, but it is not from Me. Whoever stirs up strife against you shall fall and surrender to you. Behold, I have created the smith who blows on the fire of coals and who produces a weapon for its purpose; and I have created the devastator to destroy. But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced]; this is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to them as their justification], says the Lord”.

We are his vessels. We are his instruments. We are his tools and armor. When we feel unworthy, He says, “I will wear you, for I have created and prepared you for my purpose. You are My Righteousness in the earth.  You are My Image on the earth. My sons and daughters! I have given you my Ring of inheritance, My Robe of Righteousness. Walk in my Peace, for this dark world needs (you) me.  Wear Me,  “I Am” your Armor! Do Not Fear, for “I Am” with you! I will never leave or forsake you!  I will not separate Myself from you. I have given you My Spirit, therefore it is I who lives in you”. 

• We are His Righteousness! His Authority! And His Justice in the land.  We must see ourselves as He sees. Worthy! 

• He shall activate us as He has prepared us. He has made our paths straight, and now we are to make the paths straight for others.  It all belongs to the Lord! 

2 Corinthians 5:21 “For our sake He made Christ to be sin who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness]”.

Romans 3:21 “But now the righteousness of God has been revealed independently and altogether apart from the Law, although actually it is attested by the Law and the Prophets”.

Romans 3:22-26 “Namely, the righteousness of God which comes by believing with personal trust and confident reliance on Jesus Christ (the Messiah). [And it is meant] for all who believe. For there is no distinction Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives. [All] are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the redemption which is [provided] in Christ Jesus,

Whom God put forward [before the eyes of all] as a mercy seat and propitiation by His blood [the cleansing and life-giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation, to be received] through faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over and ignored former sins without punishment.  It was to demonstrate and prove at the present time (in the now season) that He Himself is righteous and that He justifies and accepts as righteous, him who has [true] faith in Jesus”.

Romans 1:17 “For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith [disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith]. As it is written, ‘The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith’”. [Hab. 2:4.]

2 Corinthians 10:4 (NASB1995)  “… for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses”.

What a time to live. I am convinced that we, His people, have been created for this time. What an absolute honor it is to be living and serving Him now. He has endowed us with everything that we need to thrive in this time. We must, however, tap into that provision and strength. His Word is Power. His Spirit is Power. Obedience, Fruits of the Spirt, Vocabulary, and Sacrifice is Power. We absolutely require His power in this time.

God is ready to manifest His KIngdom on the earth. He hears the cry of all creation. He hears the blood of the martyrs. He sees the rebellion of mankind. Nothing escapes Him. He also sees the maturity (or lack of) in His people. All of this is important and moving, but one other thing that is very important is timing…

As I work in the garden, I am watching for the time of harvest. If I let the fruit/vegetable go too long or pick before it is ripe, I will not get a good crop. Yeshua knows about the garden. He is the Tree of LIfe. He is Lord of the Harvest. He created a garden for man to dwell, be productive and commune with the Father. His original plan was beautiful. We have strayed from it. However, our Father is a good father and He is in the process of bringing His people back to the garden.

Seedtime and harvest is always going on in the microcosm of life. I believe that the time is here for a macrocosmic change. We are entering a new era…not season…ERA! Not to return to the old, but a Reformation and Reconstruction.

God is ready for HIs people to manifest His kingdom on the earth.

You might ask, “Hasn’t the church been doing that?”. I ask you, Do we look like Him? Do we think and act like Him? Do we have the results that He had? I think you would agree that we don’t. However, the reasons for this are not because we haven’t wanted the results. We have been building on a faulty man-made belief systems that have been created and disseminated throughout this faulty church structure of many many years. We’ve been off target and missed the mark…(sin means: Missing the mark).

However, we have come into a very special and prophetic new Era. These are some things that I see, hear, and believe are happening:

1. God is dismantling faulty, demonic, man-made structures in His Body and in His Ecclesia.
2. God is transforming our belief systems. He is obliterating old paradigms of misunderstanding…immature understanding of His word and His actions.
3. He is calling His people to a deeper relationship, trust, and holiness in preparation for an invitation to a deeper level of covenant. Some will move from Servanthood to Friendship. Others will go from Friendship to Sonship. Still others will move from Sonship to full inheritance. Lastly, He will offer us a bridal covenant.
4. With authority, comes responsibility, so He is getting us ready for more responsibility and preparing us to rule and reign with Him. He is conforming us to the trustworthiness of His Son.
5. He is shaking the whole of creation for the reason of setting us completely free of demonic systems in which we have trusted and found comfort. He wants and will have a pure and undefiled bride that yearns only for HIm. Idolatry will cease as our dependance on our Lord is revealed.
6. He is dealing with His enemies and bringing down corrupt leadership and systems. He is obliterating the “Celebrity Minister” mentality.
7. He is breaking the chains off of all those who will be His. The return of the prodigals and the harvest of souls is now upon us.
8. He is ending the old era and bringing us into the new. A complete Reformation has begun.
9. He is going to demonstrate to all of mankind and to the principalities and rulers that He alone is God Almighty.
10. He is building fortitude in His people. Strength, courage, trust, faith, hope, love, and a kingdom mentality. In the stripping, we will find the simplicity of the garden once again. He is setting HIs people free from the paralysis of fear. He is showing HImself strong on behalf of His people as He builds an ecclesia that will not be moved.
11. He is turning HIs people into faithful witnesses of His power and love. We will walk in His glory and out of US will come rivers of living water.
12. He is uprooting the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that has been rooted in His People. It has been watered and tended for hundreds and hundreds of years. He is taking us back to the tree of LIFE in Christ Jesus and giving us an eternal perspective. The “good/bad” paradigm and it’s evil limitations is being exposed. Evil and the fear of death will no longer rule over our souls or bodies.

With all the changes and the challenges of this new time, we must keep our perspective. You must see from His perspective. It is possible because we are seated with Christ. We have the mind of Christ and we are able to hear His voice. The Holy Spirit shows us, teaches us, and reveals to us everything we need to know. Ask Him to open your ears and your eyes. DO NOT look at happenings on the earth from a carnal eye. Ask the Spirit to show you how it is viewed in heaven. Then agree with God. Become a partner in His plan and purposes. Don’t speak against the things that God is accomplishing…even through what you would perceive is “bad”.

We see things on the earth as good or bad…but this is not the way of the Kingdom of God. All things are for our benefit so that we grow into HIm, and complete our purpose for being on the earth. We grow especially grow during our challenges…especially in the harder times. This experience on earth is a training ground for eternity. God has His sights on us in His eternal plan. He is not only preparing us for this age, but He is preparing us for the next age. We have an eternal purpose in the Kingdom of Heaven. Trust that He knows exactly what we need to be ready for this time and for future time.

Be encouraged my brothers and sisters. He is with us, preparing us for Kingdom purposes. Love each other. Help each other in this time and speak God’s blessings over each other. Get ready…for the Kingdom is coming. It is within us and we are beginning to comprehend it and lay hold of it.

I revisited my last post and found it even more apropos today than in June. Please read it if you have not.

Even in the last week, it has become very clear to me that we are in the middle of a cosmic war of good and evil. We, the body of Christ, have insight into the plan of God and the final outcome of the ages. God has given us His written word, His Spirit , His Prophets, Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Hope, and Faith so that we are not caught unaware of His strategic moves in this last chapter of the church age. The only way that we remain clueless is a misled desire to remain ignorant. Deception helps the fearful, ignorant, and non-committed along in their plight to avoid God’s call to see the truth and act accordingly.

The comfort that the American Church has lived in has made His Warriors weak and lazy. I saw a video from an Afghan Christian man in ministry that was so very saddened by the fall of his country to evil terrorists. His disappointment and fear of the future was easily seen and felt. However, facing probable persecution and death, he ended the message with these words, “We will not stop preaching the gospel of Christ. We will die for our faith in Him”. Such resolve first shamed me and then encouraged me that if called to die for my faith, like this man, I can do all things through Christ.

So we as the ecclesia are in the war whether we see it clearly or not. It has come to our own shores in a very stealthy and sophisticated way. The right and left, the blue and red, the colors of our skins, the amounts in our bank accounts, our geo-political and medical differences. We must see things now more strategic in our approach and thinking. God is the perfect military strategist.

Our fight is NOT against flesh and blood…Not against people. Our fight is against principalities, powers, mights, dominions, and evil spirits in wicked high places. Our fight is with spiritual beings, and misled ideology. We, who are also spiritual beings, must take the battle out of the natural realm of events that are changing minute by minute. We must take the battle to the realm of the spirit. In the power of Holy Spirit, we fight using our spiritual tools: prayer, prophesy, decree, declaration of God’s Word, walking in holiness, praise, worship, and faith to defeat our enemies All this we do from the other side of the Victory! The victory is ours already!

All military groups have a lingo, a code of language that is hidden from their enemies. God has this and we see it in the parables that Jesus told. Those parables were meant to be revealed to only those who had ears to hear. God is still speaking to His people who have ears to hear and eyes to see, and hearts prepared to understand. What does he use to give us insight into His end time strategies? He uses EVERYTHING.

We can see God in EVERYTHING if we have eyes to see. We can hear Him in Everything if we have ears to hear. Who opens our eyes and ears? He does, by His Spirit. The Spirit of Revelation and Understanding and the Spirit of Wisdom and Counsel. They have been sent to aid us in understanding this hidden code…this mystery. God wants to reveal secrets to us. Ask Him for the assistance of His 7 manifold Spirits of God.

I have found that God is revealing deeper and more mysterious things lately. Hard sayings and things that shake my paradigm. Things that I have to meditate on for a few weeks to be able to understand the meaning of what He says or is attempting to show me in scripture, visions, or dreams. I am asking more questions and rethinking things that I have thought for years. I have admitted that I was stuck in religion and the archaic understanding of past revelation or the revelation of others. Some things that I believed have been solidified while others have been challenged and realigned to His plumb line.

I suppose, that if we believe that God does not talk to His people in these days, we would not contemplate any of this. However, I believe God does talk to us and that He wants to talk more. I’ve asked Him to show me more of the strategic end time plan and I believe that the symbolic language of the Spirit is part of His communication so that His hearing people will grasp His meaning while the non-hearing crowd and the evil spirits cannot understand.

Military code language goes back pre-history It is presently extremely sophisticated. Smoke signals to encrypted computer codes…It is given to the Ecclesia (by Holy Spirit) to decode and interpret the mysteries that are now being revealed. Understanding brings Wisdom…or Wisdom brings understanding. Ask for the Spirit of Wisdom to bring understanding to the things that are difficult to comprehend. We need this powerful gift of God more than ever.

I revisited my last post and found it even more apropos today than in June. Please read it if you have not.

This coming Rosh Hashana (Feasts of Trumpets) is the beginning of the Hebrew year 5782. It points to His people becoming the Habitation of the Lord. There is so much more that I can say about the new year. Like seperation, war, division, sanctification and more (I encourage you to investigate).

For what purpose will this Habitation reveal? It is also the decade of the Mouth. In 5781 He instructed us to get control over our mouth, our words, and bridle our tongue. This next year He will use our sanctified mouths burning with the coals of holiness to prophesy like never before. Prophetic prayer will look like a battle field and a healing prayer meeting. He makes His habitation in us so that we can be about our Father’s business of making His enemies His footstool and proclaiming Isaiah 61…bringing it to life in our generation. Jesus brought this scripture to life when He announced His mission in the synagogue. He is reviving us, and instructing us to pick up His mantle. We are to live and move in the Word and the Spirit of the Lord in our generation. In our Lord’s Name we will battle and we will heal. We will subdue His enemies and we will deliver the captives. We will bind the strongman and we will preach the gospel. We will plunder the enemy’s camp and we will do miracles. He comes to anoint us to proclaim His favor upon those who repent and His vengeance upon His enemies.

Even in the last week, it has become very clear to me that we are in the middle of a cosmic war of good and evil. We, the body of Christ, have insight into the plan of God and the final outcome of the ages. God has given us His written word, His Spirit His Prophets, Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Hope, and Faith so that we are not caught unaware of His strategic moves in this last chapter of the church age. The only way that we remain clueless is a misled desire to remain ignorant. Deception aids the fearful, ignorant, and non-committed along in their plight to avoid God’s call to see the truth and act accordingly.

The comfort that the American Church has lived in has made His Warriors weak and lazy. I saw a video from an Afghan Christian man in ministry that was so very saddened by the fall of his country to evil soldiers. His disappointment and fear of the future was easily seen and felt. However, facing probable persecution and death, he ended the message with these words, “We will not stop preaching the gospel of Christ. We will die for our faith in Him”. Such resolve first shamed me and then encouraged me that if called to die for my faith, like this man, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

So we as the ecclesia are in the war whether we see it clearly or not. It has come to our own shores in a very stealthy and sophisticated way. The right and left, the blue and red, the colors of our skins, the amounts in our bank accounts, our geo-political and medical differences. We must see things now more strategic in our approach and thinking. God is the perfect military strategist, and is bringing UNITY to his body as we face true evil.

Our fight is NOT flesh and blood…Not against people. Our fight is against principalities, powers, mights, dominions, and evil spirits in wicked high places. Our fight is with spiritual beings with evil ideology. We, who are also spiritual beings, must take the battle out of the natural realm of fickle people and events that are changing minute by minute. We must take the battle to the realm of the spirit. In the power of Holy Spirit, we fight using our spiritual tools: prayer, prophesy, decree, declaration of God’s Word. We are to walk in our Lord’s armor: Righteousness, holiness, truth, praise, worship, faith, and proclamation. God has defeated our enemies and we will execute that victory in this realm!

All this we do from the other side of the Victory! The victory is ours already! We are already seated with Him. If we remain earthly minded and near sighted then we will not be able to see the truth of our Victory. But lifted up above the natural circumstances, we can see God’s strategic plan and implement it in the natural realm. We must be like Joshua and Caleb who saw the victory from the other side of Jordon. They determined that their supernatural God was well able to give them the land. However the other spies looked only on the natural size of the giants. This scenario was played out over and over in scripture and we can easily see the pattern explaining God’s Almighty power over His enemies. David, Jesus, Paul & Silas, Gideon, Elijah, Deborah….on and on.

We must see from God’s perspective and hear strategies from heaven. All military groups have a lingo, a code of language that is hidden from their enemies. God works in this way as well. We see it in the parables that Jesus told. Those parables were meant to be revealed to only those who had ears to hear. God is still speaking to His people who have ears to hear and eyes to see, and hearts prepared to understand. What does He use to give us insight into His end time strategies? He uses EVERYTHING.

We can see God in EVERYTHING if we have eyes to see. We can hear Him in everything if we have ears to hear. Who opens our eyes and ears? He does…by His Spirit. The Spirit of Revelation and Understanding and the Spirit of Wisdom and Counsel. They have been sent to aid us in understanding this hidden code…this mystery. His Word is ALIVE and speaks to us. God wants to reveal secrets to us. Ask Him for the assistance of His 7 manifold Spirits of God. They are imparting end time strategies to us. His messenger angles whisper in our ears. His Spirit guides us into all truth. His Word shows us patterns and cycles.

I have found that God is revealing deeper and more mysterious things lately. Hard sayings and things that shake my paradigm. Things that I have to meditate on for a few weeks to be able to understand the meaning of what He is saying or is trying to show me in scripture, visions, prophetic prayer, prophecies, or dreams. I am asking more questions and rethinking things that I have thought for years. I have admitted that I was stuck in religion and an archaic understanding of past revelation or the revelation of others. Some things that I believed have been solidified while others have been challenged and realigned to His plumb line.

I suppose, that if we believe that God does not talk to His people in these days, we would not contemplate any of this. However, I believe God does talk to us and that He wants to talk more. I’ve asked Him to show me more of His strategic end time plan and I believe that the symbolic language of the Spirit is part of His communication so that His “hearing” people will grasp His meaning while the non-hearing crowd and the evil spirits cannot understand. God does things regardless if we hear or understand. However, for us to partner with Him in this season, we need understanding and resolve.

For instance, Rosh Hoshana in the Summer of 2021, marks a beginning of a 50th year cycle…A Jubilee year. If we understand what that means, we can move through the season in faith…faith in His word.

Leviticus 25:10 “Proclaim Liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his family”.

This is very interesting to me because God’s word is playing out in my life. My daughter and Husband moved in with us a couple months ago. Their home buying aspirations ‘fell through’ with the increase of real estate. My son just moved home from Lakeland today as he prepares to go to Jesus School in Orlando. Interestingly school starts September 7th which is still part of Rosh Hashana. I look at this and it is clear that God is on the Move!!!! I prophesied at our prayer meeting with Shilo last week about Yeshua being the cloud rider and that He is ON THE MOVE! God speaks to His prophetic people in ways that are hidden in His appointed times. We must discern the mysteries in the times and seasons of God.

God has highlighted this Jubilee to me so what else can we expect? Read Lev 25. Renewal of family; Prodigals returning home to the Father; Consecration; Proclamation of Liberty throughout the land; Return of Wealth, Property, and Blessing; Walking in the Rest of God; Ceasing from your own Works; Unity and Fairness with your brother; Fear of the Lord; Walking in His laws and ways; Security; Fruitfulness; He will command His Blessing on us; A realizations that we are citizens of heaven…sojourners here; Redemption; Restoration of generational belongings, anointing and callings; Slaves set Free; Godly rule; Servanthood to God; Deliverance.

Reading Leviticus 25 sounds like a Great Reset! The enemy would try to pervert God’s plan to bring Jubilee to His people. But those of us who have ears to hear, eyes to see, and a discerning heart can see the truth in the scriptures. God is allowing us to understand the mystery of His Plan in the Jubilee! Let us hold fast to His Word and see from His perspective. Don’t listen to the loud yapping of the enemy as he tries to institute his reset. WE BELONG TO THE ALMIGHTY, MOST HIGH GOD WHO IS WELL ABLE TO DELIVER US FROM THE HANDS OF OUR ENEMIES AND GIVE US THE PROMISED LAND.

Military code language goes back pre-history to present and is now extremely sophisticated. From smoke signals to encrypted computer codes. Ask God to give you ears to hear and eyes to see the mysteries and strategies that He is now revealing to His Holy People. The mysteries revealed will give us understanding, hope, peace, faith, and point us to the grand unveiling of the Mystery of the Bride and her eternal purpose.

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”.

How do we become a great and mighty nation and manifest that in the earth?  The challenge that religion (Christianity) has faced for centuries is how to get the believer to align his/her soul (mind, will and emotions) by influence of spirt to Spirit interactions with Jesus, and then to manifest that fruit in the body…correctly articulating and manifesting the kingdom of heaven on earth.

Jumping right into the main text for this week’s discussion. 

Philippians 3: 9-10 “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:  That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;”

We must continue to decode and extract out of Paul’s life experiences with Jesus’ principles that changed his internal configuration, allowing him to possess and walk in wisdom and insight like not many before him in his day. His position with God or ‘location’ in God changed.  Our aim must be to uncork this Kingdom of God technology, download and decode Paul’s writings so that we may accurately comprehend.  We must eradicate the old program (errors in our comprehension and understanding).  Then, reprogram our faulty internal configuration.  That upon a reboot we, like Paul, are able to possess and live from an internal position and divine understanding that was afforded patriarchs like Paul, Moses, David, and Abraham.  If we can do this, like those that have gone before us, we can impact our generation, our family, our local community, city, state, and nation. It is through positions of revelation, divine understanding, realization of authority, correct application, and living by the Word and Spirit of God fully integrating our inner being that we will be fruitful and multiply (make disciples).  Through God, His Word, and His Spirit, we are made a great and mighty nation. 

To access these positions or the location in which we are living from, one must reconsider Genesis 3.  After Adam and Eve had taken and eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God called to man, “Where are you?”   We want you to see this with fresh eyes.   God was asking Adam and Eve where they were located.  You see Adam and Eve allowed their souls (mind, will and emotions) to align with a principle, concept, thought that was not aligned with the will, plans and purposes of God.  Because of this single action of disobedience, sin was birthed in their hearts and made manifest in the flesh.  They were no longer ‘at home’ in the location in which God positioned them. That location was prohibited to them and they had to leave the garden to live in a lower existence.

What do texts like Galatians 5:16-26 speak to us?  Could the intent of the writer be to convey to us that we are to walk in the Spirit, and then we will not fulfil the lust of the flesh/soul.  Consider, Galatians 5:17, for the soul desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the soul.  They are in conflict with each other.

Taking into consideration how we just viewed the Genesis 3 experience, with this understanding in mind, we can see the script running in the background of Paul’s internal operating system.  Paul throughout his life is debugging and patching his operating system, seeking to be conformed into the image of God. We see Paul in his writings continually testing the word for himself and then submitting himself to follow it.  Seeing, hearing and reconfiguring the internal configuration of his soul to align or position himself with God.  Paul’s accuracy was determined by his heart position, not his outward actions.  His outward actions CAME FROM his heart’s location with God.  Hearing God accurately is a key ingredient to Paul entering the next assignment in God and affecting the earth in the way that he did.  Paul understood that hearing God was the most important resource on earth.  This is why Paul made the following statement:

Philippians 3:1-16 “Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.  Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, lookout for those who mutilate the flesh. For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.   Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained.”

When we look at the Christian Religious structure today, do we see this type of mindset in operation in us who say we are saved and have given our lives to the Lord?  Do our lives display an example of one living under authority?  Does our manner of life, honor our King? These are the million-dollar questions of the hour confronting many believers and have done so since Religion was birthed in the earth.  It is the reason we see so many “Doners” exiting religious churches…You know…those that say they are “DONE” with the faulty structures in the church, just as Paul was done with institutionalized Religion of his day and had come to the location of a single pursuit in life.  That pursuit was to hear and see Jesus, resulting in him walking in the image of God.   Nothing else mattered as Paul sought to walk in and manifest the kingdom of heaven on earth.   On a local and national level, Paul responded to the crisis and challenges of the day as the expression of the kingdom of heaven in the earth.  Paul sought to do nothing else but the will, plan and purpose of God.  He simply incarnated and embodied what he saw Jesus do and say. 

We too in this hour must patch and debug our internal operating systems, taking authority over our souls (mind, will and emotions) and aligning with the will, plans, and purposes of God, so that our souls give birth to righteousness, resulting in the manifestation of the kingdom of heaven in the earth.  Just as Paul in his day was salt and light and left the cycle of sameness (same old thing, continuing to walk in circles and never entering the promise land),  we too, are the salt and light of the earth and must leave the cycle of sameness and thus inheriting the Promise of Transformation into the Image of Jesus.

 Creation is crying out for the manifestation of the mature sons of God.  The lives of true believers must be transformed into the expression and manifestation of the kingdom of heaven in the earth that the world will see Jesus.  Building on a correct foundation results in the manifestation of the Ekklesia of which Jesus said He would build and that the gates of hell would not prevail. The Building of the Ekklesia must start with the Reconfiguring and Realignment of our understanding of the foundations in which HE LAID.  We can no longer build on a faulty man-made foundation. 

Lord, help us to fully integrate Your true image…Your presence and Your word so that we can demonstrate Your Kingdom.

by Casley Cormier

Pressing onward with last week’s topic, when we read biblical text that speaks to being fruitful, and multiplying, being a great and mighty nation; how do we see that?  What do those words mean to our inner being… to the internal dimensions of our being as we operate in the earth?

Let’s jump right into the main text for this week’s discussion: 

Philippians 3:9-10 “…and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith.   That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and may share in His sufferings, being made conformable (becoming like Him) in his death”

What was Paul attempting to convey when he wrote his letter to the Philippians? What drove him to make the powerful statements like the one aforementioned.   What experiences caused his internal configuration to shift to such a degree that it would deliver him to a place of a greater dimension of understanding who Jesus was.  The statements he made requires deep consideration and pondering.  One must ask oneself:  How do I see Jesus?  How am I experiencing Jesus, and am I intimate with Him?

In Matthew’s letters, Jesus asked this thought-provoking question, “Who do men/people say the Son of Man is?” and “Who do you say I am?”.

Matthew 16:13-16 “When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”  They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”  “But what about you?”, he asked. “Who do you say I am?”

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

In John’s letters, Jesus says the following:

John 5: 30 “I can of mine own self do nothing.  As I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of Him (the Father) who sent me”.

In Mathew’s letters, Jesus says the following.

Matthew 13:44-46 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid.  Then in his joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it”.

I think when Paul is writing to the Philippians in Chapter 3, he was pulling and drawing upon intimate experiences with Jesus, like the one mentioned above.  For Paul to arrive at the place of desiring nothing more than to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto death.    

“Know” in the Greek is “Ginosko”. Please see this word as personally, intimately, and experientially knowing something.   We can see in Mathew 1:25 in the Septuagint where a derivative of this word (eginosken) is used in ways that implies physical intimacy of which produced children. Take a seed and multiply it.

Religion (Christianity) would have one only know about Jesus and never come to the place where one becomes impregnated with Jesus and is able to be fruitful and multiply, and to become a great and mighty nation in the earth.  Religion (Christianity), because of its roots in paganism, cannot activate movement and the momentum that is capable of propelling the believer into intimacy with Jesus that produces an internal architecture/infrastructure that will carry the purpose of the Lord to its full realization.  In fact, because of its roots in paganism, Religion attempts to restrict the believer’s entrance and access thus preventing the believer from experiencing intimacy with Jesus and the Father.

Religion (Christianity) would have us continue to walk in the current understanding of Jesus by observation from afar.  Thus, the believer is unable to enter the internal operation and configuration that frees one to live out life from the internal promised-land position, which causes one to possess and extend the kingdom of heaven in the earth.  The believer today continues to wander in the wilderness or live in captivity in Egypt/Babylon with no point of direction or reference because of how they see Jesus.  We must dial in our scopes (our sights) in this age or season.   We must know Jesus and the Father.  We must abide in them and be transformed from the inside out.  This will cause us to manifest the Ekklesia in the Earth.   Jesus spoke of an Ekklesia that He would build and that the gates of hell would not prevail against it. 

Are we the Ekklesia that He has built?  We must see that practicing Religion or the Christianity of today may need to be realigned.   Practicing our belief, as we have understood it since the birth of America, is a good thing. However, the greater question that must be resolved is:  Is it the right thing?  Is it righteous, profitable, and does it align with the character, nature, purposes, plans and will of Jesus. 

Does this “thing we do” called ‘Religion/Christianity’ correctly image Jesus and His kingdom in the earth? 

When reading scriptures that speak of God’s command or blessing to be fruitful, and multiply and to be a great and mighty nation, we must ask how we see or apply that to our lives.  What do those words speak to the internal dimensions of our existence and being as we operate in the earth.

Adam Genesis 1:28 “And God blessed them (male and female), and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the bids of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth”.

Noah “Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”  “Genesis 9:7-9 “And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. And God said unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, Behold I, establish my covenant with you, and with your seed (offspring) after you.”

Abraham Genesis 18:17-19 “And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?  For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.”

The writer of Hebrews emphasizes this blessing in Hebrew 6:13-14 “For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, Saying, surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”

Jacob Genesis 28:3-4 “And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, you shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take a wife from there of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother. And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a multitude (company) of people; And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you; that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.”

Joseph Genesis 48:3-4 “And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, and said unto me, Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people; and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.”

Israel Exodus 1:7 “And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.”

Please keep in mind one cannot dispossess what one does not possess from an internal configuration and operating principle. What I mean is that if you do not fully believe, accept and walk in the truth of this covenant promise, you cannot inherit the promise.  In this age/season we must reexamine how we walk; apply those scriptures in life, coming to the place where we possess/own the fullness of the scriptures, preserving knowledge and giving instruction. Babylon continues to attempt to erase knowledge of the kingdom of heaven in the earth. We must see Babylon as a counterfeit kingdom in operation in the earth.  The ekkleisa (Governing Church with authority and power) is supposed to be the conscience of the world.  We are to be fruitful, and multiply, to be a great and mighty nation as we preserve knowledge of the kingdom of heaven and give instruction according to the ordinances, statues, judgements, plans, purpose, strategies, and will of God.   Go out into the world and through influence, occupy till Jesus comes…Until the kingdom is made manifest in every system and area of life!