THE BURNING

About 3 1/2 weeks ago on a Wednesday while eating lunch I experienced an alarming intense burning in my stomach, could not swallow because of the burning pain and had a tremendous amount of mucus that kept forming in my mouth so I went outside and repeatedly kept spitting it out. Kathy was warring in tongues but was insisting I go to the emergency room because she was thinking it was an allergic reaction to something I was eating. It was fish with spices used in blackened fish which I do not like anyway. (I was thinking this is not the fire I had been praying for). I agreed to go to the hospital.

We were with a friend from work who was driving, Kathy was texting and calling friends to pray and I was hanging on to Life but trying to let go of the pain. It took us about 15-20 minutes from the time of the attack until we reached the hospital and as I was walking toward the emergency entrance the pain was lessening and there was only a tinge of the pain left by the time we reached the door. When the doctor came in to see me the pain had gone. Hallelujah!

The folks at the hospital were nice enough but I did not want any of their testing (expensive guessing) and meds (toxins). I did let them do an EKG, the results of which proved to be better than normal and really left them scratching their collective heads. No peaks in either direction up or down.

Kathy and I believe it was an attack and prayed and took dominion accordingly. I’ve since that day not had any similar encounters. Hallelujah again!

The following Friday morning, as I was driving to work, I was thanking the Lord and proclaiming, declaring and decreeing my deliverance and freedom from any and all attackers because of what Jesus did and what I believe He is doing.

It occurred to me as I was repeating the phrase, “I live, and move and have my very being in Him,” that since He is my all in all that I do live and move in wisdom, knowledge and understanding. My number one statement to the Lord for years has been, “I do not understand” for any a number of things but  for the first time that I can recall I said aloud, before I even thought of what I was saying, “I have understanding”.

I realized that I have, since I was born out of God and baptized in His Spirit, through Him understanding and then remembered February of 1981 when He appeared to me and said to me, “I’ve been here all along”. 

He is my understanding. So I began verbalizing, "In Him I walk in understanding, I move in understanding and I live and have my very being in understanding". It is the same for every attribute of God that I have been seeking for myself (and others) which includes, but certainly in no way is limited to agape love, true knowledge, true wisdom, true power and might, true faith, truth itself.

The word declares that He "…became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption" (1 Cor.  1: 30). In verse 24 is said, “…but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”

I again say, "Hallelujah and thanks be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit who delivered me from the attackers and destroyed the works and plans of the enemy!!".

LOVE CONVICTS

While praying in the shower last November with my eyes shut and seeking the face (presence) of Christ, it seemed as though I did see his face and the thought came to look into His eyes. What I saw in a nano-second glimpse along with some understanding in my mind was that it is the Love of Jesus that convicts of sin. When we have a glimpse of Jesus we want to be more like Him, we are moved to be like Him, we want to repent, we want to accept the right standing He freely gives so that we can be closer to Him. Truly, when we see Him as He is we are changed(1 Jn 3:2).

                His Love draws us to Him. There is no fear. Perfect Love casts out all fear (1 Jn 4:18). He wants His absolute best for us. That is why He comes to us by the Holy Spirit to ever remind us of our righteousness in Him and to reveal to us that He has already given us His best.

                My desire is to walk with Him. That desire is put there by Him because He wants me to walk with Him. Therefore with that desire comes the ever increasing desire to repent of anything and all things that would keep me from his side. Like Eve came from the side of Adam so out of His side we came (Jn 19:34) and to His side we belong, seated with Him in the Heavenlies (Eph 2:6), established in earth with His authority (Mt 28:18-20) to take back all that was stolen by satan.

                This Love is different. He comes not this time with respect to sin (Heb 9:28) but unto deliverance out of the realm of darkness and into His Kingdom, His rule and reign, His dominion of Love. Here we learn that we must grow into that Love and we can know that we are growing if by any measure we are increasing in the knowledge of that Love, because nothing, absolutely nothing can keep us from His love (Rms 8:39).

                Some guideposts, markers, measures along the way to our growing up in him are if we are: increasing in patience, kindness, gentleness, never seeking our own will in a matter, loving others and laying our soulish desires aside for others needs. Freely we’ve been given therefore we must also give. Being dead to self and alive to God we can hear His voice and do the works of God that have been prepared for us to do.

                What then are the works we are to do? To know Him and the Son He sent and make them known. There it is. Simple as it seems there are plenty of trials, tribulations and enemies of God that stand in the way. Fear not! We’ve been given all authority in Christ to be who He purposed to be.

                  Can you too now say, "I am that I am in Christ?"

HEAVEN BENT

I know I’ve been given this life to live. But how do I make it a life that will count?

Where is the race that is appointed me? Where is the steed on which I’m to mount?

Where are the words when I’m anxious to speak? Where is that mountain I’m destined to climb?

Why when confronted do my knees grow weak? Why have I found no good in me?

We have all asked similar questions to no avail.

The answer is simple, just hidden behind a veil.

But now the veil has been rent; my soul's free and Heaven bent.

Because to go on and on to only pretend I know what’s best, in the end

I’ll only come once again full circle to where I began.

So I’ll press on, press on and in, to that place prepared deep within,

Where I’ll find eternal peace, where I’ll find my soul’s ease,

Where I can give up every heavy thing, where I’ll find an awaiting King.

Leaving behind once and for all everything that caused me to fall,

Casting off now with all finality every trace of remaining sensuality,

Giving up all things corrupted  in lies so I may see Truth with my eyes.

Yes, the veil has been rent in two; Jesus’ blood was shed for me and you.  

FIRE POTS

  Surrounded by chaos I shut my eyes to pray. Immediately I saw a vision of the Statue of Liberty with an actual flame burning and heard, "Yes there is a Statue of Liberty and this nation has sent its sons and daughters around the globe to take and defend liberty for others and yes, this nation has sent its sons and daughers around the globe to proclaim the liberty found in the Gospel. But I have My sons and daughters of liberty and I am filling them with the well springs of life and soon they will burst through the darkness, coalesce with the Light and fall back to the earth."
  Then I saw a map of the United States and fire pots falling as rain from heaven, first in northern Nevada, then in Kansas and Nebraska, then in Mississippi, then Florida and then the whole continental USA.
  There is more, infinitely more of God to be revealed to His Chosen in the Now of God. As the saying goes, "Get ready!"

THE KING'S KINGDOM

While shaving this morning and reflecting on the first post made yesterday to my new blog I heard these words, “To whom much is given much is required”. I immediately dropped to my knees and asked for His forgiveness because the vision I had posted was received 25+ years ago and although I have shared the vision many times I have not lived up to what was revealed.

The Lord is impressing me with the thought, “Make your words few”, meaning do not embellish what He has said. He is more than able to make Himself understood to those who have ears to hear.

As I was driving to the office I was praying, “Thy Kingdom come…” and suddenly it occurred to me that the King has come and therefore the Kingdom has also. In another aspect it has never left from the beginning although Adam chose to show allegiance to another, the great usurper. Jesus has utterly destroyed (please understand this as a completed act) the authority of satan and his followers.

John 3:16 says, “God so loved the world…” all that he had created in the beginning, which includes man. So “He sent his only begotten Son”, who is the “exact representation of the Father”, “so that all who believe in Him shall not perish but have everlasting Life”.  The Son waits in Heaven until His adopted and mature sons (Gr.  huios), restore unto Him all that had been stolen (Acts 3:21).

We have a mission and have already been commissioned to complete it (Matt 28:18-20). The word GO in verse 18 is an acronym for “God’s Ordination”, so go now in the authority of the Son.

THE DRAGON

     

     This being the first of what my bride and I hope to be many communiques to the ekklesia I thought it would be a meaningful disclosure of how our Lord Jesus uses me. He communicates most often to me through visions which are messages He wants to convey to all His chosen ones. The following is one of those visions.

     On a bright and clear afternoon around 3:00 pm some 25+ years ago I was driving West and heading home from work. I was not thinking of anything in particular when all of a sudden everything went black. For an instant I thought I had gone blind.

     Then there appeared in full and living color from horizon to horizon (don't ask me to explain how I knew that it was horizon to horizon, I just knew) an extremely huge dragon. The colors of the body were greens, blues and yellows. Its head was to the right and tail to the left.

     As I looked at this huge dragon I was suddenly drawn up high to see two huge angels standing on each side of me and just enough in front that they could extend their arms in front of me to protect. I was then back in my body. The dragon turned its head toward us. The most memorable were the eyes which were like a volcano's fire, swirling reds, oranges and yellows and filled with bitter hate and rage.

     I was in no fear. Then the dragon spewed fire toward us, enough to engulf. However, the fire stopped about four feet in front of us as if it had hit an invisible shield. Still no fear.

     Suddenly from over my left shoulder came a white laser like shot hitting the tail. Then in rapid fire came four more shots up the body of the dragon until the last hit the head. The dragon was gone immediately and in its place where the tail had been came Jesus astride a white horse and leaning to His left with an outstretched arm reaching down for me.

     I raised my left arm to grab His and asked, "Where are we going?" He responded, "To My Father", and suddenly I found myself back on the freeway.

   For several days I tried to determine how far I had traveled during the vision and came to the conclusion that when caught in the Now Dimension of God there is no time and therefore had traveled no distance in this dimension. During this time I also was inquiring of the Lord as to the interpretation of the vision.

     Of course the dragon represents satan. The fire is the only fire he will ever know. Angels protect us. The number five is the number for grace. The laser lights represent the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ who destroyed all the works of the enemy. Jesus is the way for us to go to the Father and is ever interceding for us.

     The overall message is that our enemy and his works are destroyed and we need to accept that as the overriding message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Truth that it is.