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Word from Father God

3/27/2021

I AM coming!  I AM coming for My harvest!  I AM coming for My bride!  I AM coming to bare ALL in My light!  ALL darkness will be laid bare in My light.  My justice is coming! 

Those who know My voice will be led to security and comfort and peace and will be protected under My wing.  If you do not know My voice, come now and spend time with Me to get to know My voice because I AM coming soon.  The gavel of My justice is striking the ground.  For those who do not know My voice or follow Me will be shaken.  The time is very near.  Come now!  Come now to know Me.  Know me as a good good Father.

I AM Absolutely Good!  I AM Absolutely Good!  I AM Absolutely Good!

So many eyes are on their government instead of on My government.  My Government is coming.  It's coming to make right ALL that has wronged my children and the Earth.

I AM the Father, Your Father, and you are My Family.  Why do you think the enemy is so against fathers and family.  It is because he thinks he can steal the knowledge of my Perfect Love from my children.  But NO!  I Say!  I AM the Father!  And My Love will never fail, never cease and will never not be freely given.  I AM desperate to gather ALL my children to Me for a huge bear hug.  So, come now!  Come now!  I have been waiting.  I love you!  Yes, you!  There is nothing you can do or have done that can end My love for you. 

My Love has been poured out.  The sacrifice of my son, Jesus Christ, for the redemption of the World, was My prime example of how deep My love flows for you!  I AM delighted in you.  You make Me laugh.  You make Me smile.  You bring Me great joy!  There is nothing to fear, nothing to be afraid of, just come to Me and conversate with Me so our relationship can grow and be restored back to the beginning when we walked together and hung out in the garden and enjoyed just spending time together.  I AM waiting for you!

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A Life of Obedience PART 2

How did God and man live together between Genesis 1:27 and 3:28 before man hid himself from God? What was the relationship between man and God like before the fall? Man was completely dependent on God for everything and obeyed God in everything. After man ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he became twice bitten for he now perceived and sifted all things through the conscience realm of what he believed to be right and wrong or good and evil. Self now replaced God, so to speak, in his life. Being ruled by self through our conscience, however, presents an unavoidable problem for everybody’s conscience is different. We are taught right and wrong by our family, friends, teachers, culture, etc. What is right to one is wrong to another and since “self” now rules, conflict becomes inevitable. It is absolutely futile to try and live this way. The only answer is to return to being directly ruled by God.
  
To return to God, then, and not be self-ruled or ruled over by man, we must be:
1. cleansed of an evil conscience by allowing the mind of Christ to be formed in us and
2. stop eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil for it only continues to feed the carnal mind and keep us enslaved to that mindset.

Man in his primitive state knew only God and not self. That is why Jesus said, “And this is life eternal that I may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom that hast sent” (John 17:3). This is the wonder of eternal life. Eternal life is living in this higher realm where we eat only from the tree of life. Until man reaches this higher realm where he is completely caught up in God and not self, he will continue to be self-ruled and man-ruled. It really all boils down to obedience.

There are two kinds of obedience. One is based on the conscience of right and wrong. We do it because we are told to do it “or else”. The other obedience is a spontaneous response by one’s nature. The second type of obedience enables man to live in harmony with God because he is able to sense Him by his (man’s) spirit. This is what is required of us to enter into and abide in the kingdom living under God’s direct rule.

God is presently in the process of delivering us from being both self-ruled and man-ruled to bring us back to the simplicity of being directly God-ruled so that we can once again abide in the presence of God. The mind of Christ overrides good and evil so we are to live above right and wrong and be ruled by the living Spirit of God only because the mind of Christ can only accept what comes from God Himself. For example, even though it is right to tell the truth, it may not be a good thing to do. For instance, if a person has received a report that he is going to die due to a terminal illness, are we going to speak the truth of his dying or are we going to speak life to Him? Sometimes what is required is not the truth but words of life. Words of life come from the higher realm. God does not come from a place of right and wrong; Jesus took care of that. He comes from the place of life. This is a new and living way that we are to abide in. We have a High Priest who has made this way open to us. By applying the blood removing all doubt and self-condemnation, we are able to experientially enter beyond the veil into the very life of God Himself.

This is how we identify the sons of God “for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God” (Romans 8:14). Living and walking in the Spirit means that we have reached a place in God where our heart’s conscience has been purified of self whereby we have the boldness to enter the Holiest of All by the blood, the life and the love of Christ for we are in Christ Himself who has taken us beyond the veil where we are able to see the Father through pure hearts having become centered in the life of God Himself. Here we are able to sense the spontaneous knowing of the will of God due to the intimacy we share with Him. There is no more the need for the law due to this intimate knowing of Him. It is written in our hearts and has become supernaturally natural for us to obey Him.

This is the higher life of living above the “do’s and don’t’s” and the “rights and wrongs” no longer taking offense or giving offense. It is where we satisfy all the laws of God by loving Him with all our mind, heart and soul and loving all others as we have come to love the new self hidden in Christ. When we really love someone, we “sense” their being; we just know what they’re thinking or feeling. It is this transparency that the Father so desires for it is what makes a relationship real and genuine for there is no more hiding or covering up due to shame. Being completely open in this way, we can see the glory of God.

There is a value to obedience that we need to be experientially taught in order to appreciate it. Righteous obedience means that we live to do God’s will; living above that which is right and wrong where we sense, feel, taste, think and know God to the point that our spirit knows His Spirit. This is the meaning of eternal life that we may experientially know Him the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent.

……to be continued

A LIFE OF OBEDIENCE (Part 1) written and compiled by various brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ

"The areas in which we fail are due to the lack of the living word in our life. The power of the word is not in persuasion; the power of the word is life."   William Hinn

Adam and Eve set the pattern being the first created in a state of nakedness coupled with innocence. God so ordered it so that in and by the fall, man would get what he lacked, a conscience. It is by the means of a conscience that man discerns good and evil. Gaining the knowledge of their nakedness and wretchedness caused them to cover themselves (fig leaves) and hide. Here we see the origin of consciousness or self-awareness that was added as a result of the fall. Conscience is the knowing of one’s self. Immediately upon their eyes being opened, they became self-aware causing them to be ashamed and to cover themselves from being exposed. One’s conscience indicates the nature of what one understands and perceives about one’s self. To perceive right from wrong is one of the faculties of the conscience. To condemn or justify is another one of its functions.

It is important to understand that before the fall, Adam and Eve were not holy or unholy; they were innocent, pure and undefiled. They were created in His image and likeness but were like a child, unproven and untried. If they had been holy, they wouldn’t have been able to sin. Being in the likeness of God means possessing a God-consciousness. The likeness, attributes, and characteristics of God came after the fall for they are not given but produced.

Man was created without a self-consciousness. Like a newborn with its mother, it is only aware of itself in relationship to its mother. Before the fall, Adam and Eve were God-conscious and only aware of themselves in relationship to God. They had no concept of right and wrong, good or evil; no sense of self-consciousness. Being God centered and not self centered, they saw themselves only in relationship to God. After the fall their "center" changed. No longer conscious of God’s presence, they became relationally independent of God and became self-centered.

What caused their "center" to be moved? Disobedience. When God introduced the law, "thou shalt not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil less you die", He introduced the harsh reality of obedience vs. disobedience for it came down to

OBEY AND LIVE DISOBEY AND DIE

For the first time, obedience was on trial and became the link that kept man connected to God.

God ordained that in and by the fall, man would receive what he never had before -- a conscience. Having a conscience is a product of the fall. Their conscience having been awakened caused them to immediately feel condemned and so they covered up their being exposed and hid. They gained knowledge but lost their peace. Snared in fear, doubt and insecurity by their newly discovered conscience, they felt compelled to hide themselves from God. This was all planned ahead in the foreknowledge of God so that He could transform man from innocence to holiness.

Some students of the Bible have divided the Bible into seven dispensations:

1. The dispensation of innocence (before the fall)

2. " " " conscience (after the fall and before the flood)

3. " " " human government (after the flood)

4. " " " promise (Abraham)

5. " " " the law (Moses)

6. " " " grace (Jesus Christ)

7. " " " the kingdom (the Father- 1 Cor. 15:24)

We will be addressing only the first three having to do with government. The dispensation of innocence is when God directly ruled in the lives of men. In the dispensation of conscience, the principle of self-rule reigned. In the dispensation of human government, the principle of man ruling over man reigned.

Before the fall, there was no sin barrier between God and man. God directly ruled man. There was no intermediary. When that failed, man was immediately demoted to self-rule through the rule of his conscience. From the time of Adam’s eviction from the garden (kingdom) to the time of Noah’s departure from the ark, man was ruled by his conscience. Under this self-rule, man failed again and God judged this dispensation by the flood (Romans 2:14). The conscience was purposed by God to keep man from falling further through self-government but when the conscience became so seared, it failed to function as God knew it would so God ordained another dispensation where man would rule over man by force (Genesis 9:6). After the flood, God told Noah "who sheds man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed". Since man was no longer being directly governed by God or able to govern self, he was demoted even further by God authorizing man to rule over man. Not long after, there was the beginning of cities and nations where man’s laws ruled over society.

Even today, it is sad but true that Christians just like those in the rest of the world need to be ruled over by their own conscience and by man. Even though both governing agents fail as they must, it reveals the need to return to God’s direct rule in one’s life. In the lower states of government, man is reduced to repeating over and over again his mistakes creating havoc and

chaos due to his own confusion thereby creating a state of lawlessness which exists not only in the world but in the church. Hence, the need for God’s ordained five-fold ministry to edify and strengthen the church because man is still under the rule of man until he comes back under the direct rule of God in his own personal life. Until then, God rules indirectly through His chosen servants until we all come into the unity of the faith where it is no longer necessary for man to be subject to man for he is directly subject to God (Ephesians 4:11-16)

What we need to understand is that our conscience will never lead us to God. We have to look no further than Adam and Eve for it was their conscience that caused them to run away and hide from God due to self-condemnation having lost their God-centeredness and having become self-centered. Because of this condition, man cannot come to God without God.

If the likeness of God is to come forth in us, we must come to understand that we are out of control. Our conscience or self-rule has failed us miserably and man ruling over man is no different. We must return to God directly ruling in our lives if we want to live in His kingdom.

Before the fall, Adam and Eve enjoyed the abundance of all of God’s creation while being completely unaware of the grace, love and goodness of God. They just received it because it was all they had ever known so they didn’t have the capacity to appreciate God and His kingdom. They just took both God and His kingdom for granted. There is a lot of truth in the saying that we don’t know what we really have until we lose it.

Now it is easier to understand their nightmare after the fall. For the first time, Adam and Eve are experiencing fear, doubt and insecurity; in other words, separation anxiety from the only one they had ever known. How are they to survive without the presence of God? Think about it; it was not until they heard God’s voice that they came out of hiding. The voice of God confronted them and brought them out of hiding. When the reality of what we are is met by the reality of who God is, there is salvation.

God saves us to draw us into His kingdom but for that to happen, we must live above our conscience and out of a consciousness of God directly ruling in our lives. Kingdom life is living in His presence; being God-centered once again. This is where a true death to self occurs. If we are living our lives centered in God, we are not aware of self. Therefore, there is no "self"; there is only God. Once again, we are back under the direct rule of God but this time it is different. Now there is a deep appreciation for who He really is and all that He has done for us. We no longer take anything for granted for we now realize that it has been grace all along through faith that has enabled us to appropriate His finished work. To live, then, in the presence of God, we must go on a journey and pass through the realm of conscience and live in the kingdom above it. "And this is life eternal that they might know Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou has sent" (John 17:3). KNOWING GOD IN THIS WAY IS ETERNAL LIFE.

The mind of Christ is absolutely above right and wrong; above the conscience realm. It is above good and above right. It condemns all that is wrong but does not necessarily approve of all that is right and all that is good. A "good" idea may or may not be a "God" idea. The mind of Christ only accepts that which is of God.

Most believers live in the realm of "If I do this, then God will do that" trying to keep God happy through performance. They function under the idea that as long as I am on good behavior and do good things, God is pleased with me. But as soon as a problem occurs that seems to be working against them, self-condemnation kicks in and we fall into the mindset that "I must have done something wrong" (currently or in my past). This is where the war takes place -- in the conscience.

The hard truth is this. We have been set up by God to learn by experience the value of His reigning in our lives; to come to that place where we actually desire the mind of Christ to rule over and above our fallible conscience and for our King to set up His kingdom in and through our hearts. This "knowing" in our minds and hearts causes us to experience eternal life here and now. The loss of this knowledge has been producing death in us up until now. Eternal life is not a "place"; it is a Person. The conscience has been a barrier to the Tree of Life. The will of God can only be found in the Tree of Life for the Tree of Life is the mind of Christ and the heart of the Father. Living in the "above" realm, then, sets us free from our circumstances controlling us. Instead, we walk above our circumstances.

"Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water" (Hebrews 10:22). Once we have been delivered from self-rule (our fallible conscience), we discover the boldness to enter beyond the veil. "Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new and living way which He consecrated for us through the veil that is His flesh…." (Hebrews 10:19).

There is a new and living way that is above conscience that has been made open to us by our great High Priest; our minds having been renewed unto the mind of Christ, our hearts cleansed by the blood and our bodies washed with pure water. Therefore, "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering for He who promised is faithful…" (Hebrews 10:23).

to be continued…..

FALSE DOCTRINES !?!

False doctrines. What are these exactly? Well, to me, they are simply the vain imaginations of man (his opinions, his thoughts, his ideas). I’m sure there are a thousand debates out there as to what False Doctrines are and yet it seems a lot can be traced back to someone whose eyes were opened to a truth and instead of waiting on God to expand on that truth they took it and expanded it (even warping it) with their own imagination, thereby creating a false doctrine and even at times, a new "religion", which was then passed on from generation to generation.

We need to remain vigilant when reading and listening to others, even our elders, prophets, preachers, teachers, family, friends, etc. Because the TRUTH of the matter is that we are all man and only God can personally insure to us that something is truth. We need to always remember to bring EVERYTHING we read and hear to Him for the truth. Continually guarding our hearts and our minds. Being very careful what we speak, because if we speak something that we are not 100% sure is God’s truth, we are then the very perpetrators of giving life to false doctrine.
Mic 7:5
- "Do not trust in a friend; Do not put your confidence in a companion; Guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom."

Phl 4:6-7 - "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."

1Ti 6:20-21 - "O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane [and] idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith. Grace [be] with you. Amen."
In this hour, these days, we need to be vigilant. We’ve got to keep up the good fight against false doctrine, against complacency, against idols, against all the things that keep us from the Father and His love. Trying not to grow weary. And when we do become weary, we need to remember to go to the source of ALL ENERGY, the Father, and ask Him to renew and revive us. We cannot do it ourselves. Doing it ourselves is what always gets us into trouble.

Isa 40:31 - "But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew [their] strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint."

Recently, the weariness has been my experience. Both physically and spiritually. For months now, I have been physically tired because of a real physical condition and it has coincided with a weariness I’ve had spiritually. I don’t believe for one second its coincidental. I believe that the Father is showing me the correlation between the two for a learning purpose. Haha, isn’t always a learning experience? Just as being weary physically has caused me to have less patience and motivation, its also caused me to become lazy, depressed, more emotional. Similarly, the spiritual weariness has caused me to be less motivated in spending time with the Father and I began to believe God didn’t want to use me, or that He didn’t need me, or that I had nothing to offer. I was feeling useless and disconnected from God. I was spiritually depressed. I stopped going to meetings about a month ago because I thought I needed to close myself up in my "closet" and only be with God. I felt I needed to hear what He was saying, and not from all these other voices (myself, elders, preachers, teachers, family, friends). I was listening to all of these voices and not listening for His and somewhere along the way my fellowship with other believers became more important than my relationship with the Father. THAT CANNOT HAPPEN. It needed to stop. But instead of asking Him "what should I do?" and waiting for His answer, I jumped ahead to what I thought was a "good" idea. Well, isn’t it always a "good" idea. But instead of helping me, it only hurt me, because instead of getting in my "closet" and seeking Him, I became lazy and indulgent. And instead of getting to my knees to find an answer, I laid down and went to sleep. Well, I’m awake now and asking for God to help me because I can’t break out of this on my own, I need Him. All I can do right now is seek Him for answers and direction.

I truly believe that I am not the only person this has been happening with. I believe its an epidemic in the body of Christ and its members need to WAKE UP and begin to seriously and diligently seek His direction and renew their relationship with the Father so that His work can truly begin in this day! It is definitely needed! I hope and pray this gets to the person(s) who needs encouragement in this hour. Be blessed!

Isa 52:1 - "Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come to you."
 
Rom 13:11 - "And [do] this, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation [is] nearer than when we [first] believed."

Eph 5:14 - "Therefore He says: "Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light."

Luke 9:32 - "But Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep; and when they were fully awake, they saw His glory and the two men who stood with Him."

HOW DO I FOLLOW GOD?

So, I know I haven't written anything in while but I have always wanted this blog to be about what our Heavenly Father wanted me to write about or share and it not be of myself.  So I try to wait for Him to direct me on when to write things and what to write about, which is actually really hard for me, because my personality is to be organized.  Writing something every now and again and sporadically posting blogs is not my personality at all but in total contradiction to it.  If it were up to me, I’d be posting something once a week just so that the blog was organized, and in fact, my fingers are constantly itching to write something, anything all the time!  But I wait, because I don’t want it to be of me.  So that's just a little background as to why my posts are sporadic, which I'm sure is for my teaching benefit anyway. Ha ha.  I'm not sure if anyone reads these posts or not or if they are just for me but it doesn't matter because its all His and how He wants to use it is totally and completely up to Him.  That being said, I really felt an urging from Him to write this post about FOLLOWING HIM and my experiences of late regarding what He's been teaching me in this.  So, here it goes.

Am I following God or am I running ahead of Him?  The scriptures tell us that we are to follow God.  But, how do we follow Him?  There are foundations to this that we must fully understand and begin to experience.

The First Foundation:  CONTINUALLY HEARING HIS VOICE.

We must ask the Father to make us an ear so we can hear Him. "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” John 10:27 

Continually hearing His voice is exactly what He's been teaching me for a long while now. Recently, I was struggling with something I really felt the Father had told me to do regarding a situation in my life. And just as I was in the process of doing this, He then stopped me and had me going in a completely different direction. Since then (which has been a couple of months now) I've been chewing on this experience wondering if I had heard wrong initially in that situation or if it wasn't even His voice. But what He recently showed me was that I didn't hear wrong and it was His voice.  He was teaching me to continue to hear Him. You see, one of biggest issues concerning following God in our lives is our propensity to hear Him on something and then take off with it on our own instead of continuing to hear from Him throughout the entire course.  For example, a professional race car driver is trained to hear the directions being given to him through the earphones he wears throughout the entire race. He doesn't just listen for the first few laps then take the earphones off and continue the race all alone. He is directed by the boss the entire race and in that direction is backed up by an entire crew, never having to do anything alone. Can you image if a race car driver had to do everything on his own?  That wouldn’t be a race worth watching.  The scripture says that we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses and to set aside every weight and sin and to run with endurance the race that is set before us (Hebrews 12:1).  Another example of this is in our own military.  Our military teaches individuals in the armed forces to hear and follow commands in much the same way as my recent experience.  They will order you one minute to do one thing just to turn around and order you to do the opposite the next minute.  This is an exercise that teaches immediate obedience to the command and it has its purpose.  Its saves lives.  Aren’t we considered God’s army?  Then in order for us to save lives, we must be able to obey His voice immediately at all times without question.

The Second Foundation:   DENYING YOURSELF AND TAKING UP YOUR CROSS THROUGHOUT THE DAY.  

 We must deny ourselves (our wants, our desires, our needs, all of our flesh) all day every day.  “Then He said to [them] all, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.’” Luke 9:23  (This verse is repeated two other times in the New Testament in Matthew 16:24 and then again in Mark 8:34.)  According to the Strong’s Concordance, the Greek words for daily in that scripture are “hēmera” which means the day, used of the natural day, or the interval between sunrise and sunset and “kata” which is a preposition that means “throughout”.  So in other words, Jesus is saying to take up your cross throughout the day.  Does He mean for me to do this ALL DAY LONG?  Yes, He does.  And, it is necessary, as our flesh (our wants, our desires and our needs) get in the way of following Him throughout the entire day.  It would probably be true to also say our flesh gets in the way of our hearing Him throughout the entire day as well.  Taking up our cross throughout the day is of such importance its recorded three separate times (do not think this is a coincidence), and in fact, Jesus states that if we do not do this then we are not worthy of Him.  "And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.” Matt 10:38   I so desire to be worthy of Him, don’t you?

The Third Foundation:  SERVING GOD.

We must be about serving God, not ourselves.  "If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him [My] Father will honor.” John 12:26    Webster’s Dictionary defines “serve” as “to be of use” and “to be worthy of reliance or trust” and “to be favorable” and “to hold an office”.  I had no idea of the vastness of this word until tonight.  WOW!  I can’t even begin to elaborate on this yet (maybe this will be for another post).

So, in conclusion (for now), if I am hearing Him, taking up my cross all day long and serving Him then I AM FOLLOWING GOD and guess what?  Not only is He before us, but He is behind us too!  HE’S GOT YOUR BACK!  "For you shall not go out with haste, Nor go by flight; For the LORD will go before you, And the God of Israel [will be] your rear guard." Isa 52:12  So, if I am following God and He’s got my back, then I have nothing to worry about!  “. . . If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” Romans 8:31-32

ISAIAH 51 - "Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the LORD: Look to the rock [from which] you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit [from which] you were dug.  Look to Abraham your father, And to Sarah [who] bore you; For I called him alone, And blessed him and increased him.”  For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.  "Listen to Me, My people; And give ear to Me, O My nation: For law will proceed from Me, and I will make My justice rest as a light of the peoples.  My righteousness [is] near, My salvation has gone forth, and My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands will wait upon Me, and on My arm they will trust.  Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath. For the heavens will vanish away like smoke, the earth will grow old like a garment, and those who dwell in it will die in like manner; but My salvation will be forever, and My righteousness will not be abolished.  Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, You people in whose heart [is] My law: Do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their insults.  For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but My righteousness will be forever, and My salvation from generation to generation."  Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD! Awake as in the ancient days, In the generations of old. [Are] You not [the arm] that cut Rahab apart, [And] wounded the serpent?  [Are] You not [the One] who dried up the sea, The waters of the great deep; That made the depths of the sea a road for the redeemed to cross over?  So the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness; sorrow and sighing shall flee away.  "I, [even] I, [am] He who comforts you. Who [are] you that you should be afraid of a man [who] will die, and of the son of a man [who] will be made like grass?  And you forget the LORD your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth; you have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, when [he has] prepared to destroy. And where [is] the fury of the oppressor?  The captive exile hastens, that he may be loosed, that he should not die in the pit, and that his bread should not fail.  But I [am] the LORD your God, Who divided the sea whose waves roared--The LORD of hosts [is] His name.  And I have put My words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, that I may plant the heavens, lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, 'You [are] My people.' "  Awake, awake! Stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, [and] drained [it] out.  [There is] no one to guide her among all the sons she has brought forth; nor [is there any] who takes her by the hand among all the sons she has brought up.  These two [things] have come to you; who will be sorry for you?--Desolation and destruction, famine and sword–by whom will I comfort you?  Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net; they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.  Therefore please hear this, you afflicted, and drunk but not with wine.  Thus says your Lord, The LORD and your God, [Who] pleads the cause of His people: "See, I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, the dregs of the cup of My fury; you shall no longer drink it.  But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to you, 'Lie down, that we may walk over you.' And you have laid your body like the ground, and as the street, for those who walk over."

WHY DO I STILL STRUGGLE WITH EARLTHY THINGS?

Today I just wanted to write a little about what has been going on with me internally and what it seems the Father is trying to ingrain into my being and my heart. I have been struggling so much with the idea of God truly providing everything (and I mean everything) for me and having the Faith to trust that His Will will be done no matter what earthly struggles are going on. And that I don't have to struggle with that stuff, and that I just need to give it to Him to deal with and believe He will. Well, I can tell you that this "giving my earthly struggles to Him" is such a hard thing for me to do. I don't even really understand why. I KNOW that it is so much easier on me if I do. I KNOW He always comes through, always! I KNOW He is my provider. Just because my mind knows it doesn't mean my heart has fully conceded to it.

Jesus clearly said in Matthew 6:25-34, not to worry about food or clothing (which signifies earthly struggles to me) and that life was about more than that stuff. "Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?" He also said the Father takes care of all His creation, and in fact, that we are of more value to Him and not to worry. "Therefore do not worry . . ." "For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things." "But seek FIRST the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you."

So if I am truly seeking the Kingdom of God why I am worrying about silly things like paying $650 to fix my car or worrying about where the money will come from to pay the rest of the bills. Why do I let it irritate me so much to have to let go of the money He ultimately provided to me.  Is it not all His anyway?  Doesn't He know all things to come?  Don't I trust that He knows better than I?   Yes, yes,  and yes!  However, I've been having to go to the Father over and over on this and ask Him to please change my attitude, help me to not be irritated about it, help me to not even care (worry).   Because even though I KNOW, I haven't conceded to it in my heart.  For in retrospect of what God is all about and what I want to be for Him, money has no significance what so ever. But because we live in a world that is all about the dollar, it is very hard for any of these things to truly be ingrained into our being or our hearts so that we no longer have these earthy struggles and worries unless we allow the Holy Spirit to do it in us. This is definilitley something that is still being worked out in me and all I can do is continue to pray and ask the Father to please complete it in me and rest in it. AMEN!

OH TO REST AS MARY

Luke 10:38 - Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house.
vs. 39 - And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' [fn] feet and heard His word.
vs. 40 - But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me."
vs. 41 - And Jesus answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.
vs. 42 - "But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her."

God has been bringing this passage back to me over and over again the past few months. I am so like Martha in this world, always about serving and doing and worrying and being troubled. I find it quite convicting that the scripture states she was "distracted with much serving." Because I myself am consistenly distracted with this life we live hear on this earth. There are so many distractions to keep us from hearing His Word! Oh brothers and sisters! We so need to be less distracted and more about hearing His Word! How much are we missing of Him by allowing these distractions to keep us from sitting at His feet and hearing what He has to say.

Just imagine that you were there in that house that day when Jesus was there visiting. Would you really want to be about serving or sitting at His feet and hearing what He is saying? The thing is He is here visiting with us every day, but we are all too distracted to hear Him. Who really comes to sit at Jesus' feet and listen to Him?

Jesus says in vs. 42, "but one thing is needed and Mary has chosen that good part". What a huge revelation is in these 12 simple words.

Only one thing is needed? You mean, you don't need me out here in all this caous running around? You only want me to sit here? What is sitting really? Isn't that resting? You mean, you only want me resting? This puzzled me and was so hard for me to grasp in my being because the church has always been about doing this and doing that and serve here and serve there and "why aren't you doing something!?" Does this mean we can be lazy and lay around all day and everything will be ok? Of course not! That is not what this is saying at all. You see when we are resting in Him and listening to Him, HE IS DOING! HE IS SERVING! He is doing this through those who are listening to Him and resting in Him. HE IS HEALING! HE IS MEETING NEEDS! HE IS MAKING WRONGS RIGHT! He is doing all this in the midst of daily activities and schedules. HE IS LEADING HIS SHEEP! Instead of the sheep going off doing their own thing and then getting ravished by the wolves.

You see, when you are resting and hearing Him, He takes you to those who need healing, who need clothing, who are hungry and thirsty. He takes you to meet the needs of others and He causes you to make wrongs right. Because, how can you obey what He is saying to you if you aren't listening? How much more is He wanting to say to us if we were willing to continually rest in Him and listen? I can only imagine how quickly His Kingdom would come if we all practiced what Mary did.

And finally, this is why Jesus says that she had "chosen the good part." We can do alot of the things the scriptures tell us we should be doing in our own strength and our own will and our own minds, but this isn't the good part because it isn't complete. The good part is doing it all in HIS STRENGTH, HIS WILL AND IN HIS MIND! HE IS GOD, not us. HE KNOWS ALL, we don't. We all need to learn to take ourselves out of the equation and allow God to COMPLETE HIS WORK! Allow HIS KINGDOM TO COME!

DREAM, INTERPRETATION & WORD FROM THE LORD

God has worked so much in me since the last time I posted on here. He has shown me over and over again how much easier all this is if I just stay in Him and not worry about any of the rest. I now understand that the child I so long for will be given to me if its His Will for me and I am now satisfied with that answer. He has shown me that He longs for us to love Him just as we long for His love. There is a place in Him that only his children can fill just as there is a place in me that only He can fill.

A couple of months ago, the Lord gave me a dream. At the time I believed it was for this one person whom the Lord told me it was for; however, God has continued to stir this dream up inside of me while giving more light and further interpretation to it and now I know this dream is meant for all God's children as well as the Word of the Lord which was given to me following the dream.

The DREAM:
There is a fortress and inside in an inner room is a child sitting alone in the room in a chair. The room is completely empty. There is a woman there, who is a witch, who torments the child. She cannot physically harm the child but she does torment him emotionally and mentally. My heart aches for this child and I just want to break in there and grab him and take him far away from there, but I know that if I do the authorities will take him from me and return him to her, as the child is there legally. She is the legal guardian. Also, she would be very angry if I were to take him away from there and once the child is returned to her she would take her anger out on him and the torment would be that much worse for him. I am then given the correct way to handle the situation and I'm told to "set up watch" next door so I can then get the "proof needed" to legally free the child from this woman. I go next door (which is like a tower) and I "set up watch" in the room at the top and there are others there with me and we wait to get the "proof needed".

The INTERPRETATION:
The child in the dream represents the new heart which God gives us (Ezekiel 11:9 and Ezekiel 36:26). The new heart is child like which is why God says to come to Him as a child. (Matthew 19:14 - But Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children.")

The woman (witch) in the dream represents the enemy that torments the new heart with all of our failings and sins keeping our new heart locked up in bondage and unable to grow closer to God, which He is calling us to do.

"Setting up watch" represents praying and waiting on the Lord to give direction and following His way and not ours or obeyeing when He speaks. Our way never accomplishes freedom only God can do this. (Habakkuk 2:1- I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart*, And watch to see what He will say to me . . .) and (Isaiah 21:8- . . . I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime; I have sat at my post every night.)
*ramparts means - fortification or a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place. Other versions of the Bible have this word as "watchtower".


WORD FROM THE LORD (for those who will hear):
I have brought you out of the house of bondage and you have not obeyed My voice. Judges 6:8-10
You have lied about the Lord and said “it is not He” and “neither will evil come upon me nor shall I see sword or famine”. And the Prophet becomes wind for the Word is not in him. Thus shall it be done to him. Jeremiah 5:12-13
Do you not fear Me? Says the Lord. Will you not tremble at My Presence? Who has placed the sand as the boundry of the sea? By a perpetual decree that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, yet they cannot prevail. Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it. But you have a defiant and rebellious heart. You have revolted and departed. You do not say in your heart, “let me fear the Lord my God who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for me the appointed weeks of the harvest.” Your iniquities have turned these things away and your sins have withheld good from you. Jeremiah 5:22 -25
Also, I have set watchmen over you saying listen to the sound of the trumpet, but you have said you will not listen. Stand in the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where the good way is and walk in it, then you will find rest for your soul. But you have said you will not walk in it. Jeremiah 6:16-17
Return backslider, says the Lord and I will not cause My anger to fall on you for I am merciful. I will not remain angry forever. Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord your God. Return O backsliding child, says the Lord, for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. Jeremiah 3:12 -15
HEAR MY WORDS or behold I will certainly bring calamity on you – the fruit of your thoughts. Because you have not headed My Words nor My Laws, but rejected it. Jeremiah 6:19
If you hear My Words my covenant with you will be . . . ISAIAH 54 -
"Sing, O barren, You [who] have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, You [who] have not labored with child! For more [are] the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman," says the LORD.
"Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, And strengthen your stakes.
For you shall expand to the right and to the left, And your descendants will inherit the nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.
"Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you will forget the shame of your youth, And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
For your Maker [is] your husband, The LORD of hosts [is] His name; And your Redeemer [is] the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth.
For the LORD has called you Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful wife when you were refused," Says your God.
"For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But with great mercies I will gather you.
With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you," Says the LORD, your Redeemer.
"For this [is] like the waters of Noah to Me; For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, So have I sworn that I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed," Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
"O you afflicted one, Tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted, Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems, And lay your foundations with sapphires.
I will make your pinnacles of rubies, Your gates of crystal, And all your walls of precious stones.
All your children [shall be] taught by the LORD, And great [shall be] the peace of your children.
In righteousness you shall be established; You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; And from terror, for it shall not come near you.
Indeed they shall surely assemble, [but] not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.
"Behold, I have created the blacksmith Who blows the coals in the fire, Who brings forth an instrument for his work; And I have created the spoiler to destroy.
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue [which] rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness [is] from Me," Says the LORD.

AMEN!