I woke up with so many thoughts and they are not mine alone

 I woke up with so many thoughts and all of them fell in place

The Father has been giving me these thoughts over the past two weeks and I know that they are assembling themselves to speak a profound truth that must be pronounced very soon. He does things with me that have a timeline of not as much the immediate as they are about the future as in the next few months to a year from now. Believe me when I tell you I believe these things can be bared out in scripture and I plan to mark them all down here and then work to fill it all in as I can. For the time being I believe it important to collect these thoughts and place them here for safe keeping so that I can refer back to this document and pray over it and ask Father for confirmation on my efforts and to see if what I am doing meets with His needs and time line. 

2nd Chronicles 7: 12 - 22

 12Then one night the LORD appeared to Solomon and said,

“I have heard your prayer and have chosen this Temple as the place for making sacrifices. 13At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you. 14Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land. 15My eyes will be open and my ears attentive to every prayer made in this place. 16For I have chosen this Temple and set it apart to be holy—a place where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.

17“As for you, if you faithfully follow me as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations, 18then I will establish the throne of your dynasty. For I made this covenant with your father, David, when I said, ‘One of your descendants will always rule over Israel.’

19“But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the decrees and commands I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods, 20then I will uproot the people from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make it an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations. 21And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled. They will ask, ‘Why did the LORD do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?’

22“And the answer will be, ‘Because his people abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why he has brought all these disasters on them.’”

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To now view the temple through the eyes of the Lord Jesus which as He stated to the religious who questioned Him, He referred to the temple not as the building anymore but to His self, His corporeal body and stated that if they were to tear down this temple that He would raise it after 3 days. Jesus also tells us in John chapters 14 to 17 of how He and the Father are one and in His prayer to Father He states openly that as He and Father are one that He prayed that we would be one with Him and then we would abide in Him and in the Father simultaneously and we would dwell together. Can you begin to see the rope of three cords? Does not the word imagery not point to the binding of three cords and how they are stronger together? We are to dwell in Jesus and He dwells in God our Father and our body, namely our heart becomes our temple as it is the dwelling of the Holy Spirit. Take a look at the scripture here above and see how God our Father states that He now dwells in our temple (our heart) and that as long as we abide with Him and follow after His ways and abide by His statutes and commandments that He will dwell within our temple. If His people who are us, will humble ourselves and not become fixated on our sinfulness but rather fix our eyes upon the victory of His son, our Lord Jesus Christ and confess our sins to Him and accept His grace which He stated to Paul that it was sufficient and receive His cleansing just as Isaiah received cleansing from the angel with the use of the white hot coal to his lips, that He will continue to dwell in our temple (our heart) and He will heal our land (our life). For as He already states, we are to be as David, a person after God's own heart. Not to be like the heart of God but instead chase after God's own heart. To pursue God's heart in the same way a lover pursues after the one who has won his heart. To woo God, to court God, to be spiritually intimate with God to the point where nothing is kept hidden from God and all is laid bare. We are to cultivate and nurture our place of spiritual indwelling where the spirit of God resides. As demons spend every minute we are awake speaking to our spirit and encouraging destruction of our relationship with the Holy Spirit, we in our waking hours and minutes must counter act this continual bombardment and intense sabotage of our joy in the Lord with words and thoughts and deeds of affirmation not only to our own spirit but also to our fellow brethren who also attempt to walk in the light of God's love. By physically and mentally taking time to grow our spirit in the light and presence of God's holy word and to speak and proclaim any and all words from the holy book over our own person, we then administer the antidote of the noxious and ultimately deadly virus of hatred and loathing of goodness and light and love. We cure our soul's lack of justice and righteousness by injecting our spirit with words. The devil uses words to bring down our temple and we then are weakened and we feel as though we are losing the good fight and we feel shame and failure and we invite God to go elsewhere, that our heart is so wicked and there is nothing in there but filth in light of God's pure love. But God....but God! But God gives us the out, He provides the way to lessen and lighten our soul's burden and to raise ourselves up out of the grave of despair and spiritual decay (just as we are told that there is nothing that we cannot bear in this life because God will always provide the way out) similar in concept of when Christ Jesus raised Himself out of the grave. It is with words, Jesus tells us the sword of the spirit is the word of God, so says it in Ephesians as Paul tells us how to prepare for spiritual battle every day. 

My friends allow me to bring this to a conclusion; I awoke with the spirit of God assembling these thoughts and it is for me to distribute them to you. A time is coming and woe it is almost at hand that we must be ready as with the warriors of Gideon's army to wage a great spiritual battle in the name and service of our LORD. It is nearing the time when humanity is about to blow the final trumpet and the beautiful and righteous king Jesus will call up the dead in Christ first and they will assemble at His side to come back and meet the demonic in the air and a great battle will ensue. On the earth also a great battle will ensue with those who curse God and spit when speaking His name will call upon their dark lords and false gods to wage war upon the remnant church on the earth and to overturn and overthrow the kingdom upon the earth. We have no way of attempting this battle on our own because by ourselves we are desolate and destitute of any and all goodness but God....but for God! When we call upon His name and seek His face and turn once again, at every turn, after every point in time of our choosing lust of the eyes and the flesh over the loving ways of His heart then we become valiant again, we become radiant again and He infills us and clothes us in the marvelous light. We are once again filled with His mercy and forgiveness and we are again able to exhibit and extend with grace the same level and depth of mercy and forgiveness offered to us. Jesus reminds us using the parable of the unforgiving servant and his king, that the servant was shown a great kindness and forgiveness by the king and a huge debt was written out of the king's ledger regarding this servant but when opportunity came for this same servant to extend the same for another who owed him a great debt that forgiven servant instead exacted merciless punishment upon that man and chose to hold him in suffering in darkness until the last penny was extracted from his flesh. You see we cannot go through our life like this thankless and self invested worthless lot, we are to be like our good Father and repeat and extend the grace and mercy which has been extended toward us each and every time we cried out for it from the One who truly loves us. We can only apply the helmet of salvation when we know how and by whom we are saved, we are saved by grace through faith and that not of ourselves but from which was given to us by God Himself so that we may know and believe in His only begotten son, our Lord Christ Jesus. Ephesians Chapter 2, vv 4 - 10. 

My brothers and sisters let us not fall for the ploy of satan the deceiver and allow ourselves to fixate upon our own sin but instead turn your gaze upon the cross of Christ, the one who when was raised upon that cross drew all men unto Himself. Do not be caught up in your own scrupulous disposition (to show reluctance on grounds of conscience : HESITATE) do not hesitate to reach out for the hand and grace of Christ Jesus to accept more grace and more grace because He is sufficient to enable us to carry out our assignments and to achieve victory according to the master plan of God our Father. Do not wait, do not terry but instead bathe in His enormous and compassionate light and be cleansed as Isaiah was cleansed and went on to carry out the Lord's will. Call out, cry out and be washed again, over and over and refresh your spirit in Him, amen. 

You Are Worthy of It All

 Hello my Father how are you ? 

MY Son, it is good to hear from you again it has been a while

I apologize for my absence, I have allowed myself to become distracted. I have missed you too. My Father I have been long in doing this because of so many reasons but the biggest is the one you know about. It is from my time at that other church and how my family was split in two. It hurt so much. They were my family...

I know my son and they are my family too, they are all my family, my sons and daughters and it hurts me so to see them not get along, to not behave and to not Hear each other. This is why I want to speak with you, it is about your healing. Has it been enough time that has passed that we can look at this together? 

Yes please my Father I would like that and I need you in this.

Tell me about what still hurts you, tell me about the open wound and how is it to be healed? 

Now my Father the pain of separation has been traded with pain of years gone by and pain of those who have passed on into your kingdom. The friends and their families whom I will not see until we are together in your house. I miss them so and I miss that period in my life when it felt as though you were opening up a door for me and making room for me at your table. So much growth went on there and so much revelation and I was in awe of it all. I was being accepted for who I was and what I could offer. The separation was like a closing of a door in heaven and I couldn't bear the hardest rejection of all. To possibly have the door of heaven, the blessings you poured out on me, stop and I be told I was too much this or too much that or not enough. Rejection Father from you is the deepest cut my heart could receive and I hurt for years and I cried for years and I cry now as I write this post. I know now that you did not and have not rejected me and that your tender heart is still soft for my love as your son. Dear Father I know time cannot be replaced and nor should it be because what lies behind is gone and in the dust but it is about what lies in front of me now is what I should be fixed upon. Father I feel as though I am starting all over again and I look at John and he has had to start over so many times and he just sees it for what it is, a time period gone and what is it that You have put before him? Such a loyal and loving son you have in John. 

Yes, John is one of my favorites but you are all my favorites 😄            

My Father I will end here but only for this letter, I will need to do this slow but I will do it. I want to be back where you had me (my mind still wants what was) but I see now I am to leave what was and embrace You in what lies before me. Father make me new again please? Father, what should I do and what should I say? Thank you Father for not closing that door on my heart. I love you. 

Are You a Cooking Pot or a Car Tire?

 Good morning one and all, this morning my angel of inspiration woke me with a word, refine....refinement...to cleanse and to clean up, to warm with the heat of pressure and circumstance. These are my short definitions but you are welcome to insert your own. 

At times people will use the word, "test" because we see it written and used in the Bible and it is a good word to describe a process which involves putting something through experiments of tinsel strength, of durability and use over and over to prove its loyalty to the user. But dare I state here when it comes to human beings, something of flesh and blood, bone and marrow that we need to quantify what the Holy Spirit works inside of us with a different term. Something more gentle, "gentle?" Yes. We are not a pair of shoes nor are we a kitchen pot, we are a lovingly formed creature developed within the palm of the Potter's hand. We are not a tire on a car or a shovel in a coal mine, we are people with hearts and with minds and a will and a soul. The Father's word tells us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, in today's vernacular we are complicated. I have a few scripture quotes to add here;

Ecclesiasticus chapter 2 verse 5

. 5For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity

1 Peter chapter 1 verse 7

 7so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Zechariah chapter 13 verse 9

9This third I will bring through the fire;

I will refine them like silver

and test them like gold.

They will call on My name,

and I will answer them.

I will say, ‘They are My people,’

and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’ ”

You may think I am cherry picking the Word but I seek to save time and to show that either in the Hebrew scriptures (old testament) or in the New Testament the term refinement is used and God's intent is not contingent upon our behavior but upon His promise. In an agreement there are two parties and both agree to do something for the other, there is an exchange. For a person who invites Christ Jesus into their heart to live there forever more Jesus states to us in the gospel of John that wherever He is invited along with the one who sent Him they will come and abide there and the three shall become one. If you called upon Jesus in your hour of need and you were sincere then He took you at your word and He and the Father have come to dwell with you in your heart and they love it there but they have noticed some spring cleaning needs to be done thus the necessity for the refining. You see they like the house but they don't care for the junk furniture you picked up along the road of your life and they are opening the door to your soul and the pressure you feel is them shoving those big ugly pieces out the door of your soul and shoving it to the curb. 

Finally in closing I leave you will the book of James, chapter 1 verse 2

2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Life brings along its own trials amen? Some we willingly walk into and other situations are brought upon us by outside agents but nevertheless we find ourselves undergoing "Refinement" amen? 

Remember, jewelers refine precious stones and precious metals.

You are worth much much more to God than a watch or a neckless, you are worth much more than any of that and He wants to show you off out of love that He has for you . You are being refined, remember that.