a house of prayer for the nations

The Lord has more and more been placing Israel on my heart…

I have just finished reading a very interesting study booklet written by a brother in the USA concerning the relationship he believes exists and will exist between Israel and the USA…

The USA and her allies…

I believe a lot of what he shared is of the Lord – the vast majority in fact – there were certain things I couldn’t get a witness for but the vast majority I did…

We – the Church – the Gentile Church have been guilty of neglecting the people of Israel…

I am coming this day to repent to Israel…

I am repenting to Israel – the physical descendants of Jacob’s 12 sons – for neglecting you in my presentation of the Gospel…

Jesus – Yeshua – your Saviour and your Salvation, through His Apostle Paul spoke to me and to all of the Gentile Church and told us that the Gospel was to the Jew first and then to the Gentile…

I (we) have forgotten this, I (we) have forgotten to always focus first on you the people of Yeshua – Jesus your Saviour…

He loves you…

Jesus loves you…

He has placed this on my heart…

I love you and I have chosen to stand up and protect you – right now and also when you enter into the Time of Jacob’s Trouble…

I have been blind…

I have not understood God’s word – Yahweh’s word – in the scripture about just how important you are to Him and just how crucial you are in terms of the Salvation of the World…

I have read Yahweh’s word – for Yeshua is Yahweh – in scripture, “for as much as you have done it to the least of these My brethren you have done it unto Me” and have not understood the contextual meaning of what He was really saying…

Now I do…

I am sorry for not putting you first in my life – in my intention in terms of sharing the Gospel with you first, in any kindness done to you…

In my priorities…

I have not put you first…

You come first…

And I now put you first…

Your Salvation will be the Salvation of the World…

As many as the Lord our God will call to Himself…

You are our brothers and sisters in the Lord – as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself – and there is a time coming where every single physical descendant of the 12 sons of Jacob will know the Lord (will know Yeshua) as their Lord and Saviour – as their Messiah – and in that day it will be “life from the dead” for us the Gentile Nations who have sought to protect you and bring you unto the Lord…

We are one – all of us from all nations on the face of this earth – who know Yeshua (Jesus the Saviour) – but you are the natural olive branches and you will be grafted back in again to your own tree – we are not the tree – you are – we are grafted in as wild olive branches – you are the natural branches…

We (I) repent for taking away your tree…

For neglecting you and in doing so for neglecting Yeshua (Jesus) Himself…

We (the Gentile Church) have been under a curse – a curse of poverty and a curse of barrenness – in bearing fruit for God…

This will not be reversed until our priorities are reversed and we take your salvation seriously – we make your salvation our number one priority…

I have done this in my heart…

I am sorry for not having done this previously…

I now understand that the salvation of my nation – and of all the nations of the world – is linked to our (the Church in our nation’s) attitude towards you…

Where you have lived in our nations and we have neglected you we (I) apologise…

I will not neglect you any longer…

I do not know what to do but I know that the Lord will show me…

I will protect you and encourage you to come to know Yeshua with whatever I have at my disposal…

I am sorry, could you please forgive me and could you please forgive the Gentile Church for treating you in this manner – we have treated you in this manner for quite some time – many generations – and we are sorry, could you please forgive us and in so doing break the curse off our lives?

The Blood of Jesus (Yeshua) is our only Plea – may we all be found covered in His Blood as He comes to reign on this earth from Jerusalem (Mount Zion – the City of the Great King – the Lion of the Tribe of Judah – your Messiah – He is coming, coming to reign on the earth)…

I have submitted myself to Him – your Messiah – I have joined myself to Him – He wants you – the physical descendents of the 12 sons of Jacob – to join yourselves to Him also – this is His Passion – I am feeling it – He is longing after you with a Holy Longing – He is calling you back to Himself – Come to Him and find life in all its fullness – He is your Salvation – He is your Saviour and He loves you…

Let the Blood cover us all…

Love in the Lord,

Andrew

http://www.johnthebaptisttv.com/bbpress/topic/2041/page/3#post-34899

“To all those who call themselves by My Name, I am coming, I am coming in judgement, I will cleanse My Temple, I will not tolerate your sin, I will remove your sin and if you cling to your sin I will remove you from this earth”, declares the Lord…

“I am coming for a Pure Bride, a Perfect Church, I will be Glorified in the earth through My Church and if you are not part of My Church you will be destroyed”, declares the Lord…

“I am not going to tolerate your sin anymore”…

“You will be Purified or you will be removed from this earth”…

“My People will be One, I died to make them One and they will be One”…

“I have waited for this time in history and now I will move to refine My People and make them One”…

“When I come I will come for a Bride without Spot, Wrinkle or Blemish, I will be Glorified in My Church”, declares the Lord…

“Judgement has begun in the House of God”…

“I will no longer tolerate your lies”…

“If you lie to Me I will remove you from this earth”…

“I am a Holy God and I inhabit Eternity, I know all about you, all about what you think and what you do, what you think about Me and what you think about your fellowman”…

“I am against you when you harden your heart against Me and against My Servants who prophesy in My Name”…

“My Prophets have been rejected on this earth, my Prophets have been scorned, men have appointed themselves rulers in My House whom I have not appointed”…

“I am against these rulers and against all who follow them in direct rebellion to Me”…

“I will not be mocked”…

“I will not be mocked”…

“I will not be mocked”…

“I am coming and I am coming with Fire”…

“I am coming with Fire to Purify My Bride and I am also coming with Fire – the Fire of My Anger – to execute Judgement on this earth”…

“I will not hold back the full fury of My Wrath on all who dwell on the earth who refuse to obey Me and submit themselves to Me”…

“I am God and there is no other”…

“I will be Exalted in the earth and all the world will know that I am God when I execute My Judgements in your midst”…

“My People will tremble before Me, they will see that they are protected by My Wings and they will be in Holy awe of Me”…

“As My Judgements spread throughout the earth the Church will humbly and boldly proclaim My Truth and all whom I draw to Myself will be saved”…

“My Church will submit to Me”…

“I will Lead My Church”…

“Anyone who will not submit to Me will be destroyed in the Fire of My Anger”…

“I will not tolerate sin in My Church”…

“Humble yourselves before Me”, declares the Lord…

My soul waits in silence for God only; From Him is my salvation. (Psalm 62:1 NASB)

I have been blessed by what a sister from the North Island has been sharing with me about waiting in silence before the Lord…

I have committed to live the rest of my life in this silence…

It is a silence of spirit, it is a silence of heart – an inner silence…

An inner quietness…

An inner rest…

The Lord gave me this scripture recently,

There will be silence before You, and praise in Zion, O God, And to You the vow will be performed. O You who hear prayer, To You all men come. (Psalm 65:1-2 NASB)

And yesterday He gave me this scripture,

Who, then, is the man that fears the Lord? He will instruct him in the way chosen for him. (Psalm 25:12 NIV)

Another scripture was brought back to mind this morning,

Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway. (Proverbs 8:34 NIV)

I had a very encouraging conversation with a brother from the North Island last night…

We discussed what the sister from the North Island had shared and he felt a real witness for what she was sharing…

This morning as I started my day (so to speak) I waited quietly on the Lord…

He will establish this in me, in us – individually – first…

Then He will bring together those of us who He has established this in – first locally and then nationally…

As the sister saw…

I know that He will do this…

This is the place from which He can speak…

He will establish it in His time…

Love in the Lord,

Andrew

I read last night about a certain “christian” organisation…

I was very saddened by what I read…

I hate control…

Father, in Jesus Name, I pray for this “christian” organisation, an organisation which says that it represents You and I pray that You would go to the root of control in this organisation…

I pray that You would remove the root of control from this organisation…

Replace this root of control with faith in You – with a belief that You would provide…

Set this organisation free to serve You…

Whatever is not of You in this organisation – remove it…

Come Holy Spirit and fill this organisation with Yourself…

Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty…

There is no control…

Come Holy Spirit and breathe on this organisation…

Fill it with Yourself…

Come Holy Spirit and remove from this organisation all control…

Open their eyes to see that we are new creatures in You…

We are not to introspect ourselves…

We are not to strive in Your Presence…

We do not need intermediaries between us and Yourself to dictate to us what Your will is…

Thank You Lord that You speak directly to us through Your Holy Spirit…

Imitate me as I imitate Christ…

Leading by example…

We join with those who we see the reality of Christ in…

Not with those who seek to manipulate us via control…

If you have to give something to receive something, i.e. “you do this and then we’ll let you ‘minister'”, then that is submitting to the spirit of control…

If anyone has a, “you do this and then I’ll have a relationship with you – I’ll ‘open up’ to you”, kind of attitude then this is not of the Lord…

The Lord says, “come and receive from Me”…

The Lord says, “I have accepted you and forgiven all your sins – come into My Presence and enjoy fellowship with Me”, to those of us who know Him…

We are in the Lord’s Presence – those of us who know Him – from the time when Jesus breathed on the disciples and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit”, we have the Holy Spirit abiding in us permanently – He will not be taken away from us…

When the Lord convicts us (as believers) of sin it is “sin within us” which He is removing and when He is removing it we confess it and it is gone…

It is not an “over and over” process…

Confession to others achieves nothing unless it is prompted by the Holy Spirit…

Confession of sin must come from the person doing the confessing – the desire to confess – and cannot be done in fear or in a feeling that you will “miss out” if you don’t confess…

If you don’t have peace to confess then don’t confess…

If you confess and then find that nothing has changed (i.e. you need to confess “over and over and over”) – that the root has not been broken – then your confession was not instigated by the Holy Spirit…

The Holy Spirit doesn’t bring condemnation, He brings conviction and transformation…

I have really felt the need to confess (at times) and then have suffered the loss of the relationships which I had with the ones I confessed to…

They were not able to handle my confession (or that was the way it appeared to me anyway)…

I did not (I believe) confess to these ones out of fear – I had a sense from the Lord (I believe) to confess – but they were not able to handle it (or that was the way it appeared to me) – but the Lord used my confession to honour the James 5:16 principle (show me Lord if there was fear in my confession or panic and remove it from me – do not let me fear or panic)…

Whether the people you’re confessing to “get it” or not or support you or not just the plain honesty of admitting “sin within you” in a specific and honest way – as long as it is the Lord placing this on your heart with peace and no compulsion – is enough for the Lord…

I have experienced deliverance from this sort of confession where the things I’ve confessed have been broken and as I look back are no longer a problem…

Yes, further layers emerge but you see the progress…

If I have a sense of unease or a sense of distrust towards anyone to whom I get the urge to “confess” then unless the Holy Spirit overwhelmes that and gives me His peace – I refrain from confessing anything to that individual or that group of individuals…

It appears that I have digressed but I have not…

Control loves to beat you over the head with “sin within you” and try and make you believe that it is you…

When it is not broken – because control initiated the confession (forced confession) – then it loves to condemn you and get you to doubt your own sincerity…

What control hates is the truth that we are new creations – sin within us is not us…

It hates that scripture in Romans 7 because it is that very scripture which spells its demise…

There is therefore (because of that scripture in Romans 7) now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus…

To be able to hear from God we do not need to first introspect ourselves to see if there is any sin in us…

Of course there will be sin in us…

God has His own timetable for removing this from us…

We are justified in His Blood…

We come boldly to His Throne of Grace by the Blood of Jesus…

We hear from God because He loves to speak to us not because we seek Him so strongly that we twist His Arm to speak to us…

If the Lord wants to speak to us He will speak on the basis of His Grace not on the basis of our performance…

Having begun in the Spirit are we now being perfected in the flesh?

No…

Control is the enemy of true intercession…

True intercession is completed by the Holy Spirit through our new selves…

Our new selves are completely untainted by sin…

Sin is not an issue for the new self of a believer being able to hear from God and communicate with God…

Once the Holy Spirit brings conviction of “sin within me” to any area of sin in my heart then He deals with it…

I have seen this…

He deals with it…

I’m surrendered to this and He deals with it…

At the same time as He’s dealing with it He’s also given me words from Him…

It is two distinct operations going on in my life – the strengthening or growth of my new self (which starts off like a baby – but a pure baby) and the removal of “sin within me” from me…

I am not what I was before I was saved…

I died and my life is now hidden with Christ in God…

I share all this to say that if you are invovled in any organisation where that process of “forced sharing” or “forced confession” or “jumping through hoops” before you can “minister” or giving up your “autonomy” to hear from God directly to have to “hear” through others – if you are involved or committed to any organisation where this is occuring – this is not from God…

You need to get out…

I am not going to “name names”…

We all stand directly before the Lord…

Some of us have been shown more things by the Lord than others – that doesn’t give us (if we are one who has been shown more) the right to act as an intermediary between God and someone else…

That “curtain” was destroyed when Jesus died on the cross – it was torn from top to bottom…

There are no “classes” in Christianity, i.e. not an “upper class” and “lower class”…

Not a “ministering” class and a “non-ministring” class…

Not a “on the stage” class and a “sitting in the pews” class…

Not a “professional” class and a “non-professional” class…

We are all one in Christ Jesus…

Yes, there are Apostles, yes, there are Prophets, yes, there are Evangelists, yes, there are Pastors & Teachers…

But these come “underneath”, these come “underneath” to support the individual believers (or in the case of the Evangelist the individual “pre-believers”) to develop a direct relationship with the Lord…

The Apostle, Prophet, Pastor & Teacher – in the Church – are appointed to be “underneath” (like a hand “underneath”) holding the Church in the palm of their hand so to speak, lifting them up to the Lord – not a closed hand but an open hand so there is clear daylight only between each individual believer and the Lord – so each individual believer has a direct relationship with the Lord and not one through someone else…

This is the function of the Apostle, Prophet, Pastor & Teacher in the Church to make the way open for each individual saint to come freely into the Presence of God by the Blood of Jesus…

The function of the Evangelist out in the world is to do the same for the “pre-believer”…

No one can get inbetween Christ and His Church…

There are no intermediaries…

Christ is the Mediator…

No one else…

I feel it on my heart to speak the vision which God has given me…

I feel that there are many around the world who have this same vision…

Others have seen it before…

It is not new…

But it is now time to speak it and to believe it that it will surely come to pass…

Smith Wigglesworth had the following things to say…

During the next few decades there will be two distinct moves of the Holy Spirit across the church in Great Britain. The first move will affect every church that is open to receive it and will be characterised by a restoration of the baptism and gifts of the Holy Spirit.

The second move of the Holy Spirit will result in people leaving historic churches and planting new churches.

In the duration of each of these moves, the people who are involved will say, “This is a great revival” but the Lord says “No, neither is the great revival but both are steps towards it.”

When the new church phase is on the wane, there will be evidenced in the churches something that has not been seen before: a coming together of those with an emphasis on the Word and those with an emphasis on the Spirit.

When the word and the Spirit come together, there will be the biggest movement of the Holy Spirit that the nation, indeed, the world has ever seen. It will mark the beginning of a revival that will eclipse anything that has been witnessed within these shores, even the Wesleyan and the Welsh revivals of former years. The out pouring of God’s Spirit will flow over from the United Kingdom to the mainland of Europe, and from there will begin a missionary move to the ends of the earth.

(Smith Wigglesworth, 1947)

… Shutting his eyes again, he said, ‘I see the greatest revival in the history of mankind coming to Planet earth, maybe as never before. And I see every form of disease healed. I see whole hospitals emptied with no one there. Even the doctors are running down the streets shouting.’

He told me that there would be untold numbers of uncountable multitudes that would be saved. No man will say ‘so many, so many,’ because nobody will be able to count those who come to Jesus. No disease will be able to stand before God’s people… ‘It will be a worldwide situation, not local,’ he said, ‘a worldwide thrust of God’s power and God’s anointing upon mankind.’

Then he opened his eyes and looked at me and said, ‘I will not see it, but you shall see it. The Lord says that I must go on to my reward, but that you will see the mighty works that He will do upon the earth in the last days.’

… The idea that I would get to see this revival was almost overwhelming. And in the last decade or so, I believe we have seen this revival begin to sweep the earth. We have seen amazing moves of God in Africa… Recently, I was in China and met with the underground church. I was told there are at least forty-five million Full Gospel Christians in China. I discovered a depth of prayer and integrity there that I have not felt anywhere else in the world… So I believe we are seeing Wigglesworth’s prophecy begin to be fulfilled. We are seeing the first stages of it.

(Lester Sumrall recounting a conversation he had with Smith Wigglesworth, the source states that Lester Sumrall died on 28 Apr 96)

Sources:

http://www.propheciesfortoday.uk.com/listC.php?id=145

http://www.ourchurch.com/member/p/propheticwords/index.php?p=1_2_-B–FONT-COLOR–blue–SIZE–3–Historic—-prophetic-words-up-to-2003

Hudson Taylor had this to say…

I have seen a vision. I saw in this vision a great war that will encompass the whole world. I saw this war recess and then start again, actually being two wars. After this, I saw much unrest and revolts that will affect many nations. I saw in some places spiritual awakenings.

In Russia, I saw there will come a general all-encompassing, national spiritual awakening, so great that there could never be another like it, From Russia, I saw the awakening spread to many European countries. Then I saw an all-out awakening, followed by the Coming of Christ.

(Hudson Taylor, 1855)

Source:

http://a-word-in-due-season.blogspot.co.nz/2009/09/hudson-taylors-prophecy.html

Tommy Hicks had this to say…

VISION OF THE BODY OF CHRIST AND THE END-TIME MINISTRIES

My message begins July 25, about 2:30 in the morning at Winnipeg, Canada. I had hardly fallen asleep when the vision and the  revelation  that  God  gave  me came before me. The vision came three times, exactly in detail, the morning of July 25, 1961. I was  so stirred  and  so moved by the revelation that this has changed my complete outlook upon the body of Christ, and upon  the  end-time ministries.

The greatest thing that the church of Jesus Christ has ever  been given lies straight ahead. It is so hard to help men and women to realize  and  understand the thing that God is trying to give his people in the end times.

I received a letter several weeks ago  from  one  of our native evangelists down in Africa, down in Nairobi. This man and his wife were on their way to Tanganyika. They could neither read nor could they write, but we had been supporting them for over two years. As they entered into the territory of Tanganyika, they came  across  a  small village. The entire village was evacuating because of a plague that had hit the village. He came across natives that were weeping, and he asked them what was wrong. They told him of their mother and father who had suddenly died, and they had been dead for three days. They had to leave. They were afraid to go in; they were leaving them in the cottage. He turned and asked them where they were. They pointed to the hut and  he asked them to go with him, but they refused. They were afraid to go.

The native and his wife went to this little cottage  and  entered in  where the man and woman had been dead for three days. He simply stretched forth his hand  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus Christ,  and  spoke the man’s name and the woman’s name and said, “In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I  command  life  to  come back  to  your bodies.” Instantaneously these two heathen people who had never known Jesus Christ as their Savior sat up and immediately began to praise God. The spirit and the power of God came into the life of those people.

To us that may seem strange and a phenomenon, but that is the beginning  of  these  end-time ministries. God is going to take the do-nothings, the nobodies, the unheard-of, the no-accounts. He is going  to  take every man and every woman and he is going to give to them this outpouring of the Spirit of God.

In the book of Acts we read that  “In the last days,”  God  said, “I  will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh.” I wonder if we realized what he meant when God said, “I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh.” I do not think I fully realized nor  could  I  understand the fullness of it, and then I read from the book of  Joel: “Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord  your God: for he hath given you the former  rain  moderately,  and  he will cause to come down for you the rain, the  former  rain,  and the latter  rain” (Joel 2:23). It is not only going to  be  the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, but  he  is  going  to give  to  his  people  in these last days a double portion of the power of God!

As the vision appeared to me  after  I  was  asleep,  I  suddenly found  myself  in  a  great  high distance. Where I was, I do not know. But I was looking down upon the earth. Suddenly  the  whole earth  came  into  my  view.  Every  nation, every kindred, every tongue came before my sight from the east and the west, the north and  the south. I recognized every country and many cities that I had been in, and I was almost in fear and trembing  as  I  beheld the great sight before me: and at that moment when the world came into view, it began to lightning and thunder.

As the lightning flashed over the face  of  the  earth, my  eyes went  downward and I was facing the north. Suddenly I beheld what looked like a great giant, and as I stared and looked  at  it,  I was  almost  bewildered  by  the sight. It was so gigantic and so great. His feet seemed to reach to the north pole and his head to the  south.  Its arms were stretched from sea to sea. I could not even begin to understand whether this be a mountain or this be  a giant, but as I watched, I suddenly beheld a great giant. I could see his head was struggling for life. He wanted to live, but  his body was covered with debris from head to foot, and at times this great giant would move his body and act as though it  would  even raise up at times. And when it did, thousands of little creatures seemed to run away. Hideous creatures would run away  from  this giant, and when he would become calm, they would come back.

All  of a sudden this great giant lifted his hand towards heaven, and then it lifted its other hand, and when it  did  these  creatures by the thousands seemed to flee away from this giant and go into the darkness of the night.

Slowly this great giant began to rise and as he did, his head and hands  went  into the clouds. As he rose to his feet he seemed to have cleansed himself from the debris and  filth  that  was  upon him,  and  he began to raise his hands into the heavens as though praising the Lord, and as he raised his hands, they went even unto the clouds.

Suddenly,  every cloud became silver, the most beautiful silver I have ever known. As I watched this phenomenon it was so  great  I could  not  even  begin to understand what it all meant. I was so stirred as I watched it, and I cried unto the Lord  and  I  said, “Oh  Lord,  what  is the meaning of this.” and I felt as if I was actually in the Spirit and I could feel the presence of the  Lord even as I was asleep.

And  from  those clouds suddenly there came great drops of liquid light raining down upon this mighty giant,  and  slowly, slowly, this  giant began to melt, began to sink itself in the very earth itself, and as he melted,  his whole form seemed to  have  melted upon the  face  of  the earth, and this great rain began to come down. Liquid drops of light began to flood the very earth  itself and  as I watched this giant that seemed to melt, suddenly it became millions of people over the face of the earth. As  I  beheld the sight before me, people stood up all  over  the  world! They were lifting their hands and they were praising the Lord.

At that very moment there came a great  thunder that  seemed  to roar  from  the  heavens. I turned my eyes toward the heavens and suddenly I saw a figure in white, in glistening white – the  most glorious thing that I have ever seen in my entire life. I did not see the face, but somehow I knew it was the  Lord  Jesus Christ, and  he stretched forth his hand, and as he did, he would stretch it forth to one, and to  another,  and to  another.  And  as  he stretched  forth  his hand upon the nations and the people of the world – men and women – as he pointed toward  them,  this  liquid light seemed to flow from his hands into them, and a mighty  anointing of God came upon them, and those people began to go forth in the name of the Lord.

I  do not know how long I watched it. It seemed it went into days and weeks and months. And I beheld this Christ as he continued to stretch  forth his hand; but there was a tragedy. There were many people as he stretched forth his hand that refused the  anointing of God and the call of God. I saw men and women that I knew. People that I felt would certainly receive the call of God. But  as he  stretched forth his hand toward this one and toward that one, they simply bowed their head and began to back away. And each of those that seemed to bow down and back away, seemed  to  go  into darkness. Blackness seemed to swallow them everywhere.

I  was  bewildered  as I watched it, but these people that he had anointed, hundreds of thousands of people all over the world,  in Africa,  England, Russia, China, America, all over the world, the anointing of God was upon these people as they  went  forward  in the  name  of  the  Lord. I saw these men and women as they went forth. They were ditch diggers, they were washerwomen, they  were rich  men,  they  were poor men. I saw people who were bound with paralysis and sickness and blindness and deafness. As  the  Lord stretched  forth  to give them this anointing, they became  well, they became healed, and they went forth!

And this is the miracle of it – this is the glorious miracle  of it  – those people would stretch forth their hands exactly as the Lord did, and it seemed as if there was this same liquid fire  in their  hands. As they stretched forth their hands they said, “According to my word, be thou made whole.”

As these people continued in this mighty  end-time ministry, I did not fully realize what it was, and I looked to the Lord and said, “What is the meaning of this?” And he said, “This is that which I will do in the last days. I will restore all that the cankerworm, the palmerworm, the caterpiller – I will restore all that they have destroyed. This, my people, in the end times will go forth. As a mighty army shall they sweep over the face of the earth.”

As I was at this great height, I could behold the whole world. I watched these people as they were going to and fro over the  face of  the earth. Suddenly there was a man in Africa and in a moment he was transported by the Spirit of God, and perhaps he was in Russia, or China or America or some other place, and vice versa. All over the world these people went, and they came through fire, and through pestilence, and through famine. Neither fire nor persecution, nothing seemed to stop them.

Angry mobs came to them with swords and with guns. And like Jesus, they passed through the multitudes and they could not find them, but they went forth in the name of the Lord, and everywhere they stretched forth their hands, the sick were healed, the blind eyes were opened. There was not a long prayer, and after I had reviewed the vision many times in my mind, and I thought about it many times, I realised that I never saw a church, and I never saw or heard a denomination, but these people were going in the  name of the Lord of Hosts. Hallelujah!

As they marched forth in everything they did as the ministry of Christ in the end times, these people were ministering  to  the multitudes over the face of the earth. Tens of thousands, even millions seemed to come to the Lord Jesus Christ as these  people stood forth  and  gave the message of the kingdom, of the coming kingdom, in this last hour. It was so glorious, but it seems as though there were those that rebelled, and they would become  angry and they tried to  attack  those  workers  that  were  giving the message. God is going to give the world a demonstration in this last  hour as the world has never known. These men and women are of  all walks  of life, degrees will mean nothing. I saw these workers as they were going over the face of the earth. When one would stumble and  fall, another would come and pick him up. There were no “big I” and “little you,” but every mountain was brought low and every  valley was exalted, and they seemed to have one thing in common – there was a divine love, a divine love that seemed to flow forth from these people as they worked together, and as they lived together. It was the most glorious sight that I  have ever known. Jesus Christ was the theme of their life. They continued and it seemed the days went by as I stood and beheld this sight. I could only cry, and sometimes I laughed. It was so wonderful as these people went throughout the  face  of  the  whole  earth, bringing forth in this last end time.

As  I  watched from the very heaven itself, there were times when great deluges of this liquid light seemed to fall upon great congregations, and that congregation would lift up their hands and seemingly praise God for hours and even days as the Spirit of God came upon them. God said, “I will pour my Spirit upon all flesh,” and that is exactly this thing. And to every man and every  woman that  received this power, and the anointing of God, the miracles of God, there was no ending to it.

We have talked about miracles. We have  talked about  signs  and wonders, but I could not help but weep as I read again this morning, at 4 o’clock this morning the letter from our  native  workers. This is only the evidence of the beginning for one man, a “do-nothing, an unheard-of,” who would go and stretch forth  his hand  and  say, “In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command life to flow into your body.” I dropped to my knees and began  to pray  again, and I said, “Lord, I know that this time is coming soon!”

And then again, as these people were going about the face of the earth, a great persecution seemed to come from every angle.

Suddenly there was another great clap of thunder, that seemed  to resound around the world, and I heard again the voice, the  voice that  seemed to speak, “Now this is my people. This is my beloved bride.” And when the voice spoke, I looked upon the earth and I could see the lakes and the mountains. The graves were opened and people from all over the world, the saints of all ages, seemed to be  rising. And as they rose from the grave, suddenly all these people came from every direction. From the  east  and  the west, from the north and the south, and they seemed to be forming again this gigantic body. As the dead in Christ seemed to be rising first, I could hardly comprehend it. It was so marvellous. It was so far beyond anything I could ever dream or think of.

But as this body suddenly began to form, and take shape  again, it  took  shape  again in the form of this mighty giant, but this time it was different. It was arrayed in the most beautiful gorgeous white. Its garments  were without spot or wrinkle as its body began to form, and the people of all ages seemed to be gathered into this body, and slowly, slowly, as it began to form up into the very heavens, suddenly from the heavens above, the Lord Jesus came, and became the head, and I heard another clap of thunder that said, “This is my beloved  bride for whom I have waited. She will come forth even tried by fire. This is she that I have loved from the beginning of time.”

As I watched, my eyes suddenly turned to the far north, and I saw seemingly destruction: men and women in anguish and crying out, and buildings in destruction. Then I heard again, the fourth voice that said, “Now is My wrath being poured out upon the face of the earth.” From the ends of the whole world, the wrath of God seemed to be poured out and it seemed that there were great vials of God’s wrath being poured out upon the face of the earth. I can remember it as though it happened a moment ago. I shook and trembled as I beheld the awful sight of seeing the cities, and whole nations going down into destruction.

I could hear the weeping and wailing. I could hear people crying. They seemed to cry as they went into caves, but the caves in the mountains opened up. They leaped into water, but the water would not drown them. There was nothing that could destroy them. They were wanting to take their lives, but they could not. Then  again  I  turned  my eyes to this glorious sight, this body arrayed in beautiful white, shining garments. Slowly, slowly, it began to lift from  the  earth, and as it did, I awoke. What a sight I had beheld! I had seen the end-time ministries – the last hour. Again on July 27, at 2:30 in the morning, the same revelation, the same vision came again exactly as it did before.

My life has been changed as I realised  that  we  are living  in that  end  time,  for all over the world God is anointing men and women with this ministry. It will not be doctrine. It will not be a  churchianity. It is going to be Jesus Christ. They will give forth the word of the Lord, and are going to say, “I heard it so many times in the vision and according to my word it shall be done.”

(Tommy Hicks, 1961)

Source:

http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~revival/hicks.html

All three of these visions (and I believe there are others which I’m not presently aware of) are speaking of the same thing – The Great End Time Harvest which the Lord is about to accomplish on the face of the earth…

The Great End Time Harvest is fast upon us…

The Lord has been preparing us…

He has us where He wants us…

Darkness has “done its darndest” to hinder this work…

It cannot hinder it…

People have grown discouraged in waiting for this work…

But the Lord has kept His People faithful…

His People who He has appointed to take part in this work…

Others have seen it…

They have gone on into their reward (as Smith Wigglesworth said) – another is coming to my mind from this city who has also “gone on” into his rest who had this – Revival – on his heart…

They have “gone on” but we remain…

Those of us who remain – who have this on our hearts – whose hearts “leap” when we read these words – I mean “leap” – it is to us who the Lord would speak and He would say…

“It is for this hour which I have appointed you”…

“You will be My Spokesmen upon this earth”…

“Both men and women – you will be My Spokesmen upon this earth”, declares the Lord…

“My Spirit is coming”…

“He is Coming and He will not remain silent”, declares the Lord…

“My Name – the Holiness of My Name – is at stake – and I will protect the Holiness of My Name”, declares the Lord, “Among you by Glorifying and Exalting My Holy Name in all the earth,” declares the Lord…

“There will be no doubt that I am among you”, declares the Lord, “When I come upon you in power to complete the work which I have commissioned you to complete – not to you only but to all My people all around the world”, declares the Lord your God…

“You have believed, others have believed also”…

“To all who have believed, I am coming, I am coming with Healing in My Wings”…

“Healing in My Wings”, declares the Lord…

“To perform among you things unheard of from the foundation of the earth”, declares the Lord…

“The power which will be released through you will be unheard of”, declares the Lord…

“Unheard of power will be released through you and you will know that I am the Lord in the day which I release My power through you”, declares the Lord…

“My power”, declares the Lord, “Will transform nations”…

“Great will be the power of My Anointing”…

“Great will be the power of My Anointing”…

“Great will be the power of My Anointing”…

“My Church shall be one all across the world”…

“All across the world My Church shall be one”, declares the Lord…

“Great will be the power of My Anointing and I shall achieve this in its time”, declares the Lord…

“In its time I shall achieve this”, declares the Lord…

“Declares the Lord who’s Name is Holy”…

“I, the Lord your God, have Spoken it and I will achieve it in My time”, declares the Lord, “And for My Glory”…

“For My Glory Alone I shall achieve it and you will know that My Name – My Holy Name – is the Lord – the Creator of Heaven and Earth – the Rewarder of all who diligently seek Me – I AM the Lord your God, kneel before Me and do Me homage”, declares the Lord…

“Kneel before Me – I AM your King – I AM your Soon and Coming King”…

“My Name is the Lord – I AM your King, you are My subjects – I AM your Lord, My Name is Jesus – I AM your Soon and Coming King – Kneel before Me and do Me homage”…

“I AM the Lord your God, the Maker of Heaven and Earth and I declare to you this day that I am coming”…

“I am coming to take the Kingdom which has been prepared for Me by My Father and you will be with Me in My Kingdom if you humble yourselves before Me and do Me homage – in this day – at this time – and no later – as King of your lives”…

“I am coming to take this world for Myself – anyone who stands against Me will be destroyed by the power of My Wrath – the Father has entrusted all Judgement to Me – I am coming – prepare yourselves to meet Me – Your Soon and Coming King”…

“I speak with Fire – with Fire in My Eyes”…

“My Eyes Flame with Fire”…

“There is Fire in My Eyes”…

“Submit yourselves to Me and live”…

“Submit yourselves to Me and live”…

“Why would you die?”

“My Name is the Lord – I have compassion on You – I am offering you salvation – why would you die?”

“There will be no compassion after this time”…

“This is – this coming move – the last offer of compassion before I return to reign”…

“I will judge, I will condemn and I will assign all who rebel to their place in the lake of fire and brimstone”…

“My Name is the Lord”…

“I come in Love”…

“Do not despise the offer of salvation which I make you”…

“I love you and I want you in My kingdom”…

“Will you come?” declares the Lord who has mercy upon you…

“I will have mercy upon all who come to Me in sincerity of heart, turning away from their old way of life and turning to Me in submission and reverence”…

“Respect towards Me is to receive My offer of salvation”…

“I love you and I want you to come”…

“I, Jesus, am speaking to you – I want you to come, I love you and I want you to come – I died for you – I chose you to be alive at this time in history to see the things which are happening at this time in history and I have a plan for your life – for you to know Me in the fullness of your salvation, if you were just willing to give yourselves to Me – don’t hold back, I am speaking to you – don’t hold back, I love you and have a plan for your life – a plan which involves Me – a plan which I authored in love for you – uniquely for you – I love you – come to Me and I will give you rest”…

“I, Jesus, am speaking this to you – My Name is the Lord, the Creator of Heaven and Earth – I am coming – get ready for My return”…

All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious concerning me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you. (Psalm 139:16b-18 NIV)

The Lord has given me revelation of this (verse 16b) before but did so again recently to an even greater level or degree (and added revelation of verse 17 & 18)…

Praise You Jesus…

It is an amazing fact that our God has planned and carefully monitored our entire lives…

Everything which He has permitted is used for His Glory and for our good…

Always both together…

Never one by itself…

Always both together…

I am speaking of those who know Him…

This is why Paul (or the Holy Spirit through Paul) tells us,

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! (Philippians 4:4 NIV)

&

give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (1 Thessalonians 5:18 NIV)

We are to give thanks in all circumstances because,

we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. (Romans 8:28b NASB)

We are called to enter into His Rest…

This (this revelation, this understanding) is His Rest…

This knowledge of His Sovereignty in our lives is peace to our souls…

But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. (Psalm 131:2 NIV)

It covers us with His peace…

Nothing which happens to us is outside of His will – what He has already decided to permit – for our lives…

Nothing that happened to Job was outside of God’s will for his life…

God used all things which Job went through for his good…

God did not permit Job to “go down”…

God protected Job…

God protected Peter…

Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers. (Luke 22:31-32 NASB)

God protects us…

who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. (1 Peter 1:5 NASB)

This place of understanding is a place of rest…

Love You Lord, Thank You for Your care of us, in Jesus Name, Thank You Father, Thank You Holy Spirit, I love You Jesus, You are my Best Friend, Glorify Your Name in all the earth, Amen & Amen

I want to repent on behalf of the European settlers and on behalf of Queen Victoria and all who represented her for the travesty which we committed against the Maori people of this nation when this word – Rangatiratanga – was changed by the European translators of the Treaty of Waitangi from the Maori version of the Treaty – which the Maori Elders read, understood and signed – to the English version (where the meaning of the word was reversed) – which was trustingly (without understanding ‘the switch’) signed by the Maori Chiefs and Leaders – giving sovereignty of this land (by stealth and deceit) to the Crown…

I am of English descent through my mother…

My mother was born in England…

I am of English & Scottish descent through my father…

My father was born in New Zealand…

I was born in New Zealand…

My wife is of Cook Island descent through her mother and father…

She was born in Rarotonga…

The Maori word Rangatiratanga means,

sovereignty, chieftainship, right to exercise authority, chiefly autonomy, self-determination, self-management, ownership, leadership of a social group, domain of the rangatira, noble birth.

The source for that definition is the Maori Dictionary…

http://maoridictionary.co.nz/index.cfm?dictionaryKeywords=rangatiratanga&n=1&idiom=&phrase=&proverb=&loan=&search.x=15&search.y=8

This is what the Maori Elders and Chiefs wanted to retain when they signed the Treaty of Waitangi…

They were saying to the Crown in essence,

“Yes, you can come and live in this land, yes, you can come and share this land with us, but we retain ownership of this land – you can live here, we will let you co-exist with us in this land but we will retain ownership of – sovereignty over – it”…

This meaning was reversed in the English version…

When the same Treaty means two completely different things in two languages signed by both parties which version should take precedence?

The version understood by both parties…

There were English representatives there who knew what the Treaty meant in Maori and also knew what the Treaty meant in English and there were also English representatives there who knew that these two meanings were not the same and that the English version was deceptive and discriminating against the Maori Elders and Leaders who (unwittingly) signed this – the English version – trusting the white man to be dealing fairly with them…

What have they (the Maori people) reaped for falling into this deception (not that it was their fault)?

They have reaped a loss of mana (their mana is linked to their land)…

A stripping of the authority which they were meant to carry for this land (which was given to them by God – by God Himself)…

What have we – the white man – reaped from this deception?

We have been under a curse (because of our deception, because of our greed and because of our rebellion against God – lying in His Name)…

We have been under a curse of poverty (God has not honoured us for breaking the Treaty – the Maori version of the Treaty – which we made with our Maori brothers and sisters and He will not honour us until we do)…

The reason that this nation is in debt and has struggled with poverty is because of the sin which we – the white man – committed against our Maori brothers and sisters that day when we deceitfully – like Jacob of old – stole their birthright from them…

I am not proud to be writing this post…

I am guilty, I stand guilty…

I am sorry…

To all my Maori brothers and sisters in this nation I say, I am sorry…

I do not want to own your land…

It is your land…

It is not mine…

It is not ours…

It is yours…

I am sorry for robbing you of your land…

Please forgive me and please forgive us – the white man (and white women)…

I am sorry for betraying your trust…

I am sorry for not looking after and recognising your interests…

I am sorry for robbing you of your land…

For God to move in this nation this issue must be settled…

I was asking the Lord this lunchhour what the curse was over this land and this is what He reminded me of…

I have known this for a number of years…

I was talking to a Maori brother on Sunday afternoon as I drove back from a prayer gathering and this came out of my mouth that this needed to happen but it didn’t happen in that car ride…

I feel to post this as my part in this process…

I’m sure there’ll be (and has already been) a lot of repentance on this…

There will be major redistributions of wealth resulting from this…

I am ready for this…

There will not be Revival in this land until this issue is resolved…

The Church must be given back to its Maori Leaders…

We – the European believers – in this nation need to acknowledge our Maori brothers and sisters in the Lord – just as in the natural we need to acknowledge the Maori Elders and Chiefs…

We need to give the Church back to its Maori Leaders…

That is not to say that the Lord can’t use European leaders but we need to get permission to exist – to co-habit – in this land even in the Church world or Church sense…

I really believe this…

A humbling of ourselves under true biblical authority…

And I believe that the people of the land (Tangata Whenua) who know the Lord are the ones who we need to “line up under” to get their blessing for everything we seek to do for the Lord in this nation…

I really believe this…

I have no idea what this means practically (to myself) but I’m sure the Lord will show me…

So to my Maori brothers and sisters I say,

“Sorry and for my part I will not steal your land any more or take anything which rightfully belongs to you, I am sorry”…

To my Maori brothers and sisters in the Lord I say,

“Sorry and for my part I will not steal your part in the plan of God for your destiny in this nation, I will “line up under” you in the sense of getting your blessing for what I am seeking to undertake for the Lord in this nation – in fact in this post I ask for your blessing for what I am seeking to undertake for the Lord in this nation – will you please give me your blessing for this? – in Jesus Name I pray that we would all be one in this nation and that you – the Tangata Whenua – would be given the mana which you deserve – under God – in your own nation – He established our boundaries – and He brought you here – He also brought us – the white man (and all other cultures) here but we should not have stolen your land and your mana – your authority – from you – I am sorry, will you please forgive me, Love in the Lord, Andrew”…

May we work together in this nation – all fulfilling our part – in our place – in the place which God (our Lord Jesus Christ) has planned for us towards this end – that this nation would display His (the Father’s) glory and be filled with His Holy Spirit – that the Holy Spirit of the Living God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) would permeate this land until all know that He is Lord to the Glory of God the Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord and in the Power of the Holy Spirit of the Living God, To God be the Glory, in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord, our Saviour, our Redeemer and our Soon and Coming King, To God be Glory in all things in the Church and in this nation along with all other nations throughout the entire world, in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord we pray, in Jesus Name, Amen…

For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge. Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— for we walk by faith, not by sight— we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences. We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Himin this way no longer. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2 Corinthians 5 NASB)

I’m sitting at the airport in Auckland…

My plane has been delayed…

I’ve just finished a conference (a work conference) and been to see a friend in Auckland and now back to the Airport…

I discussed some verses out of this chapter with my friend…

He’d previously mentioned to me a verse out of this chapter…

I felt to look it up again (the whole chapter) as I’m sitting here now…

What an amazing chapter…

There is so much in this chapter…

When Jesus died on the cross you died with Him…

Do you know that?

Even if you are not a believer you died with Him…

Did you know that?

That’s what this scripture says…

That’s why Jesus is “the Saviour of all men especially of those who believe”…

Do you know what it means that you died?

What that means is that all you have to do is believe this and it is yours…

If you died then you are not under the Law…

Did you know this?

If you believe that you died with Christ then it will become a reality for you…

You are on His Heart…

He died specifically for you…

He died specifically for each and every one of us…

And each and every one of us died with Him on that cross…

Thus the way is open for you to believe and receive the Gift of Eternal Life…

“God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them,”…

Wow…

Do you know what that means?

It’s like a covering has been created by the Lord it’s like the whole world is under God’s Grace – in a temporal sort of way – waiting for them to repent and believe what He has already accomplished for them…

If you are no longer under Law but under Grace it means that you are no longer striving to please God – or find your peace with God – under your own self efforts…

If you believe that the Lord has made this provision for you then this provision will become yours and never be taken away from you…

The Lord doesn’t want it to be taken away from you – He wants you to receive it…

That’s what He’s begging, He’s appealing for you to do…

Take it freely, it is yours…

No matter how bad a person you’ve been He is asking you to take it freely – He is offering it to you freely…

Praise His Holy Name…

Do you see how close you have been brought to the Lord…

He’s done all the work…

Cry out to Him for faith to believe in the free gift He has offered you…

We know from scripture what a great salvation we have been offered…

Too good to be true…

But it is true…

God blessing us who believe in His Provision with His heaven…

With His forgiveness…

With His acceptance…

With being heirs to His Throne…

Joint-heirs with Jesus…

All sins forgiven…

Remembered no more…

Amazing…

Imagine not having to strive anymore…

Imagine being free to do what you really know in your heart you should be doing…

Imagine doing something which has real purpose…

Imagine spending the rest of your life telling others about this message – this “too good to be true” message…

You don’t often hear “good news” stories…

This is a good news story…

It truly is…

The true gospel is a good news story…

God has said that all who sin will die and suffer an eternity of torment and punishment in a lake of fire and brimestone where they can’t die but can experience the guilt of their decisions which they made during their lives forever “over and over” – bad news…

God has also said that when He – in the Person of His Son Jesus Christ – died on the cross and His Blood (Jesus’ Blood) was shed that He became the substitute for our sin and was punished on our behalf, “One died for all, therefore all died”…

We all died…

Wow…

That’s good news…

But, we must receive this gift…

It does us no good if we don’t redeem our voucher (so to speak)…

We must redeem it before we die otherwise it is no longer valid…

That’s a choice which we need to make…

To be forgiven for our sins we need to admit that we are guilty of committing them…

We need to admit that we were not capable of paying for them ourselves…

The Lord was the only One who could deal with them…

As we receive His free gift we know that we are surrendering to Him…

He gave up His Life for us and we are now giving up our lives for Him…

They no longer belong to us…

We are not promising the Lord to try harder and try to change ourselves or try to become better people…

We are surrendering the control of our lives over to the Lord for Him to do whatever He likes with them…

It is an unconditional surrender…

The “white flags” are up…

We are coming in to be apprehended by our Lord…

He is now our Master…

Is He a hard task master?

No He is not…

He enables us to change and He doesn’t put any guilt on us to threaten us to change…

We are forever selected for His team and we’re not dropped due to form issues…

We are never dropped…

He keeps coaching us until we reach His heaven…

Every mistake and failure is a learning experience and He always causes it to work together for good…

He never demeans us or makes us feel “that small”…

He tells us the truth about ourselves but He tells us in a loving way and in a way which empowers us to change and become more like Him so we can understand Him better and walk with Him all the days of our lives…

He is not conditional…

He is unconditional…

That’s good news…

I just feel to say that if you read this and you feel that you would like to give yourself to the Lord and believe in your heart that you died with Him and so you are now no longer under the Law but a “new you” now has commenced living – a new you which is “young” and needs lots of impartation of truth to grow but is perfect in the sight of God and always will be – cannot be corrupted – then I encourage you to give yourself to the Lord…

As you receive His free gift He will come and dwell in you in the Person of His Holy Spirit…

He may put on your heart to be baptised in water (He may not do this right away but then on the other hand He may) He may also put it in your heart to be baptised in the Holy Spirit (again He may not do this right away but then again He may), He may place it on your heart to read His word (the scriptures), He may place it on your heart to meet with others who believe in Him – basically whatever He places on your heart – follow this peace – wherever His Peace is follow this – He has a specific plan for your life – He knows exactly what you need and He knows how He is going to achieve this…

Whatever happens know that He loves you and once you give yourself to Him and receive His free gift of Eternal Life He will never leave you or forsake you…

You will go through hardship, you will go through rejection…

You will be hated for receiving this free gift…

It will hurt, it will not be easy…

You may lose all your friends…

You may even lose your wife or your husband or your children or grandchildren – not everyone will appeciate this decision which you have made…

But the Lord will and He will reward you richly with His Presence and His Peace…

Even if sometimes He seems to hide His Face from you (there are reasons for this experience – He is strengthening your faith in Him) – He is always with you and He will never forsake you even when you can’t “feel” Him with you…

You may even be called to physically lay down your life for the Lord, i.e. die for Him, but He will enable you to do this…

He doesn’t promise you a kingdom or vindication (or even to be appeciated or understood by others) in this life but He does promise you both (and a family who understand you and love you) in the life hereafter (and that is forever) and after He returns to earth to reign we will reign with Him for a thousand years (following which He will create a new heaven and a new earth in which righteousness dwells (we will be there with Him)… 🙂

Love you in the Lord, I wish you well with your life in Him, You will be blessed and you will behold His Salvation…

Feel free to contact me on andrewjameshorton555@gmail.com if you have any queries or questions you’d like to discuss or if you just want someone to chat to about these (or any other related) issues before the Lord…

Love in the Lord,

Andrew

The Discipline of God is for our own good…

Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. (Hebrews 12:10 NIV)

It is not based on hatred…

Yes, it is based on hatred towards our old selves…

Towards our flesh…

God hates wickedness…

Our flesh is completely wicked…

(Having said that, “but God demonstrates His own Love to us in this, while we were still sinners Christ died for us” – Amazing Love – so at the same time He both hates and loves those who do not yet know Him through different sides of His Character…)

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God…

But God does not hate our new selves…

Our new selves are completely pure and cannot sin…

So we see we have a contradiction working within us…

“Sin within us” or our flesh or our old self is incapable of doing anything righteous and our new self is incapable of doing anything sinful…

“Behold the Kindness and the Severity of God”…

We are the recipients of God’s Kindness towards our new selves…

We are the recipients of God’s Severity towards our old selves…

“For you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God”…

The joy is that we (the old self) died and our (new self’s) life is now hidden with Christ in God…

So when we experience the Lord’s Judgement against “sin within me” it is not towards us…

It is towards what used to be us before we were saved…

I am no longer my old self…

I am my new self…

So I welcome the Judgement of God into my life – focused on my old self – because I know that there is no Judgement of God focused on my new self and any Judgement of God which I am experiencing focused on my old self is “all good” cos it’s getting rid of “the body of this death”…

The ancient’s (Romans) used to attach a dead body onto the back of someone on “death row” and have them wander through the streets before their impending death so that everyone could see that they were “goners”…

Christ has done the same with us… 🙂

We (our new selves) wander through life with a decaying corpse (the body of this death) strapped to our back but the good thing is that this decaying corpse is decaying – literally falling off us and our new self is being renewed day by day…

So our new self which starts off life like a new born baby gets stronger and stronger and stronger and the decaying corpse gets lighter and lighter and lighter as we grow in the Lord…

Heading towards being with Him forever in heaven…

We have the daily reminder of what we were and are humbled to see what we are becoming…

We are growing in Grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ…

So we gladly rejoice in the Fire of God being applied to our flesh as we know that it will burn it away…

Whatever is gold, silver or precious stones will be enhanced by the Fire and whatever is wood, hay and stubble will be burnt away…

We welcome this now as we know that we will have less to be ashamed at before Him when we face Him on that day if all these things are being dealt with now…

He has already forgiven us…

He is coming to bring us a salvation “without reference to sin” when He returns…

Knowing that we’ll never experience His Wrath for our sin and knowing that He has fully forgiven us and that all we will hear from His Mouth is “Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of our rest” is enough to melt any of us to think “I don’t want to meet Him with this “remainder” of sin in my life – I want to be pure for Him, He has given me so much” (not that we can strive to try and achieve this – everything needs to be in His timing)…

Not because we have to – He has already pronounced us holy – but because we want to…

yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach– (Colossians 1:22 NASB)

We do not want to shrink away from Him at His coming…

Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. (1 John 2:28 NASB)

And we won’t cos we know that it is He Himself who is at work in us to take the remainder of “sin within us” away and we know as we’re in that “surrendered place” where we are just letting Him “have at it” that any of the remains at His coming will be burnt up when we see Him face to Face – His Eyes are a blazing Fire…

It’s better that we’re Judged now rather than experiencing that pain when we see Him face to Face (we know that His Heart will beam with joy to see us but we also know that His Eyes blaze with Fire – I am not afraid – Praise You Jesus – I am not afraid – Hallelujah – Thank You Jesus – Thank You Jesus for delivering me)…

We know that whatever shape we see Him in it will be a last Fire which we will pass through to enter into His Glory…

I suppose what I’m saying and what I’m seeing is that I want this in my life so when it comes time to enter into His Glory I will not have anything left to be ashamed of (but I also see that wherever I get to in this process is in His Grace – I am covered in His Grace and I am content – pressing on but content – there’s a tension in me – a holy tension – accepted but pressing on)…

This has nothing to do with forgiveness…

This has nothing to do with relationship on God’s side…

This has everything to do with relationship on our side that we don’t want to be found to be a disappointment to God – not that we could be as He has already forgiven us – but that we don’t want to be (practically) – we want to bring Him joy with our lives and gratitude as we start to understand just what exactly it is that He has forgiven us from and how much He has loved us (we do not want to grieve Him because we love Him, because we love Him we do not want to grieve Him)…

Jesus spoke some pretty straight things in Revelation 2-3…

That is the same Jesus speaking who Loves us so dearly and has forgiven us from our sins…

And yet He is not pretending that the “sin within us” isn’t there…

He’s open about it, He’s real about it…

He calls a spade a spade and He wants to remove it…

As we know His Grace, we are the ones who can respond to these scriptures with understanding…

We know His Heart…

We know what He wants for us…

We know that He is not self-seeking, He is seeking our heart…

We know that He is seeking His Father’s Glory and that He is also seeking our well being…

He wants us to be one with Him…

“Ask and you shall receive that your joy may be full”…

Thank You Jesus we ask for an understanding of Your Love to us Lord in Your Discipline and an understanding of just how holy we want to be (practically) before You at Your coming…

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (2 Corinthians 7:1 NASB)

The Fear of God for me is my reverential respect of who He is…

It is actually based on His Love for me, because I know that He has forgiven me completely and will never mention to me (“without reference to sin”) my sin because He has forgiven it and removed it as far away from me as the East is from the West – because I know this I fear Him…

He has my respect…

I feel guilty when I rebel against His Love or against His Grace – there is something inside me which just can’t do it – the Fear of the Lord or my respect for Him is this “thing”…

I just can’t do it…

When I still believe I’m under Law I can rebel and I can sin…

But when I see this complete forgiveness there is nothing to rebel against any more…

And as I see this in more and more areas in my life sin continues to drop off…

In the Fear (or Reverence) of the Lord…

Psalm 50 is an amazing Psalm which I “stumbled upon” this morning and was really blown away by (one verse in particular really blew me away)…

The Mighty One, God, the LORD, has spoken, And summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth. May our God come and not keep silence; Fire devours before Him, And it is very tempestuous around Him. He summons the heavens above, And the earth, to judge His people:

“Gather My godly ones to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.

“Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you; I am God, your God. I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me. I shall take no young bull out of your house Nor male goats out of your folds. For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine. If I were hungry I would not tell you, For the world is Mine, and all it contains. Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats? Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High; Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.”

But to the wicked God says,

“What right have you to tell of My statutes And to take My covenant in your mouth? For you hate discipline, And you cast My words behind you. When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, And you associate with adulterers. You let your mouth loose in evil And your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son. These things you have done and I kept silence; You thought that I was just like you; I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes. Now consider this, you who forget God, Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver. He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me; And to him who orders his way aright I shall show the salvation of God.”

It was the phrase,

May our God come and not keep silence;

which really caught my attention…

The preceding phrase really started to get my interest also…

And summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

And this one also…

And the earth, to judge His people:

We will experience this in our day…

I really believe that…

It reminded me of a word which I got last year…

https://ahouseofprayerforthenations.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/christs-church/

I went back to that word after reading this phrase,

May our God come and not keep silence;

And realised that that phrase was used in that word a number of times…

I am coming and I will not be silent…

Four times to be exact and I didn’t know that that verse in Psalm 50 existed until this morning (obviously I’ve read it before but I’ve never “seen” it before this morning)…

I believe that this is very significant and whatever Judgement we receive we must (as those of us who know the Lord) know that it is to purify us and to keep us from being destroyed (condemned) along with the world…

But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world. (1 Corinthians 11:32 NASB)

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. (John 3:18 NIV)

It is His Blessing on our lives (to judge or discipline us – not for the purpose of condemnation), it proves that we are not illegitimate children but are His true sons…

If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. (Hebrews 12:8 NASB)

On the one hand we are so safe and so secure in His Hand but on the other hand once He has established that security in us it then frees Him to “go to town” on the remainder of sin in our lives as we see what He is doing…

We know our acceptance in Him is secure and He thus knows that we can handle the discipline process which He allows to come our way…

This could come our way through the enemy, through the enemies demons, through other unredeemed people, through other redeemed people who are practically unredeemed in certain areas or even through our own unredeemed remainder of flesh…

However it happens or through circumstances or any other living thing or object He (the Lord) will get through to us…

It is His Blessing on our lives…

We endure it…

If enabled by Him we can rejoice in it ( 🙂 )…

We can thank Him for it…

Sometimes it’s just enough to endure it and keep going – that’s all we’ve got…

but in this place of Grace – it is worth it…

It is worth it cos we see He’s thinking of us at our face to Face meeting (He wants us to be pure for Him – for our sake)…

I see this now…

I love You Jesus…

You are my Lord and my God…

I long for that face to Face meeting with You…

I’ve always been scared…

I’m starting to see that I have nothing to fear…

I am letting go of my fear…

And I am starting to trust Your Love for me…

Your Love for me is Perfect…

and this is the response which I want to give You…

a perfect response of pure gratitude before You on that day…

I am so grateful for Your reception of me…

I see myself accepted and welcomed…

I am so grateful…

Thank You Jesus…

Thank You Father…

Thank You Holy Spirit…

I want to be found worthy of the acceptance which You’ve given me…

Make me worthy Lord, I know I am in You, make me worthy in practice on that great day (and I know that You will whatever “level” I get up to in terms of my “readiness” but I strive ahead in this place of Grace to know You more – Thank You Jesus – You truly are a wide and open space and all the words You’ve given me about wide and open spaces are coming true – “this Grace in which we stand”)…

Thank You Jesus…

🙂

I feel to speak of the Grace of God… 🙂

We each who belong to God are under His Grace…

I know and have met (not necessarily in person) a few different people (who know the Lord) some from New Zealand and some from around the world…

I know that all of us (who know the Lord) – wherever we are, whoever we are all around the world – we all need the same thing – we need to know that the Lord loves us and accepts us just the way we are…

“How can the Lord accept me just the way I am?” I can hear you say…

Well, He does this because of His Grace and because of His definitions…

If God were to call me a chicken then I would be a chicken – even if I looked like a very human chicken :-)…

If God  calls me a saint then this is what I am – even if I look like a very sinful saint… 🙂

You get my point…

Who is the highest authority in all the universe?

God is…

Who is a higher authority than God?

No one…

Who has a right to define us?

No one but God…

Who has a right to put a label on our lives?

God does…

No one else…

If God labels me as a saint – as He has (because I belong to Him) – then who has a right to label me as anything else?

No one…

This is why God tells us – although He asks a rheotorical question – that no one can bring a charge against God’s elect…

Can you imagine the fear and the trembling of someone who brought a charge against one of God’s elect?

Can you imagine that person being whisked into the Presence of God and standing before His Throne?

“I’ve just got a question to ask you”…

“What Lord?”

“Who gave you the right to define one of My Children as not being one of My Children?”

The silence would be profound…

I don’t think that any of us would do that again…

I have become almost hushed when it comes to speaking against others…

I do not want to be found speaking against one of God’s elect…

I would rather keep my mouth shut and speak about the truth – what I know to be the truth – than to talk about others and pass judgement on them – whether they know the Lord or not – how do I know what is in their hearts, what state they were in when I happened to see them doing something which I didn’t fully understand – how do I know at the end of the day what is in their heart or what the Lord has defined them as?

The simple answer is that I don’t unless the Lord has revealed this to me…

And if the Lord has revealed this to me it is for the purpose of prayer…

If the Lord wants to release a Righteous Judgement through me then He can…

I am surrendered to this but I am not keen for it…

I would rather point all to Christ…

He is the Judge…

He is the Lawgiver…

He is the One who is able to Save and Destroy…

I am not that one…

and I never want to be…

I don’t want to have anything to do with Judgement…

I want to leave this to the Lord…

Even the Lord wants to leave this to Himself…

His Heart is Love – His Heart is to bring reconciliation with Himself…

He wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth…

So do I – no matter what they’ve done to me…

Grace is something which God decides to do…

Because we had nothing to do with our salvation we also have nothing to do with keeping ourselves saved…

We have nothing to do with our final destiny (we all deserve hell but some of us – whom God has chosen – will experience heaven)…

God has not appointed us to wrath but to experience salvation as His word says, for those of us who know Him…

We are safe in His Hands…

We are one spirit with Him…

No man ever hated his own flesh…

We are His own flesh – He nourishes  and cherishes us – if He were to punish us for our sin – in a legal sort of way – He would be hating His own flesh – He cannot do this…

He can not punish us – in a legal sort of way – for sins which He has already forgiven and “taken out of the way”…

When He returns we read,

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him. (Hebrews 9:28 NASB)

“without reference to sin”…

The sin issue has been covered from a legal perspective…

God right now has continuous fellowship with me and every other one of His saints…

This fellowship is not broken by sin…

Yes, we can grieve the Holy Spirit…

But the fellowship between God and us is not broken by our sin…

We do not have to confess (or try to) every time we sin in an effort not to break fellowship with the Lord…

Because the Lord has defined us as our new self – and our new self cannot sin (1 John 5:18) – then we are in unbroken fellowship with the Lord…

Hallelujah!!!

We talk to the Lord about our sin – “sin within me” – out of relationship…

As the Lord brings it up He renews our mind – we have the Mind of Christ – and transforms us and as He does we repent to Him for these specific sins which He shows us…

When, for example, the Lord delivered me from pornography, when the day came (and there was a lot of preparatory stuff before this) He said to me, “You have not been trusting Me for your pleasure”…

That broke me…

I heard His Heart…

He was sad that I hadn’t been trusting Him for my pleasure (in the sexual area)…

He was sad…

He wasn’t angry…

He was sad and that broke my heart…

It fell off…

What followed was a 5 month period where I had no interest in pornography whatsoever…

I was amazed…

I was having amazing times with the Lord, I was hearing His Voice…

I honestly couldn’t believe that He’d actually delivered me…

Something happened – a betrayal which really hurt me – at the end of those 5 months and I found myself again attracted to pornography – but it wasn’t the same – it didn’t have a hold – like it used to – on me…

I saw as the Lord brought me out of that time that my bitterness towards those who had betrayed me had allowed the tormenters (as Jesus said) to come back and torment me…

As I repented for my bitterness and my unforgiveness (which He enabled me to do) again the pornography fell off…

There just wasn’t the pull or the interest in it…

There was another time (about 18 months after this time) when again I felt the loss of a friendship with someone who I had become quite close to and felt the pain of loneliness – of being (or feeling) completely alone where I wished I could see some pornography to try and relieve my pain…

The Lord brought me through that experience…

I am not saying that I am sexually perfect – the Lord is still dealing with me – but what I am saying is that He delivered me from that bondage to pornography out of relationship…

My new heart which loves Him was saddened that I hadn’t been trusting Him…

That was what broke it off…

It was not legal…

It was not Law based…

It was not punishment based…

Fear involves punishment…

It was not fear based…

Anyone who fears (punishment) is not yet perfected in Love…

The Grace of God is that we who know the Lord are no longer punished for our sins…

He does not treat us as our sins deserve as the scripture says…

He treats us in Love…

We are disciplined for our own good that we may share in His Holiness…

I also remember at a similar time (to the initial deliverance from pornography) another word He said to me, which really set me free from a deep root of coveteousness (of which pornography was a major part) in my life…

He said, “Coveteousness is wanting anything which the Lord hasn’t given you”…

I found after He said that that I lost all desire to own anything…

It was amazing…

I don’t care if I never own a house, or a car, or a this or a that, I honestly don’t want anything apart to be debt free, have food for my family, clothes for my family and somewhere for us to sleep at night (doesn’t even need to be our own place) – like Paul said, “If we have food and covering we will be content with that”…

That place was attained for me by the Lord speaking, “Coveteousness is wanting anything that the Lord has not given you” through my new self as I was on a run one night (minding my own business)…

Amazing…

The things which the Lord has said, or the understanding which the Lord has suddenly given, when this happens, suddenly your entire life is changed…

The transformation of the mind…

So we see that Grace is not fear based…

We also see that Grace is not Law based…

We also see that God is not treating us (those who belong to Him) as our sins deserve…

He has already placed us under Grace…

We are not under the Law…

Thus we are not cursed…

Thus we are already blessed (with Abraham the believer) as the scripture says…

We are partakers of the covenants of promise…

We are the head and not the tail…

I am speaking in the Spirit…

We are above all rule and authority, seated with Christ in the heavenlies in our new selves…

As the Lord releases prayers we pray for His Glory…

We have authority to pray every prayer which the Lord releases to us in this state…

We have no authority to make up prayers of our own or go “1+1=2” in our own knowledge but as He releases the prayers we have authority to pray them…

Whether these things are things we’ve experienced or not…

If He releases a prayer in His Grace and wants us to pray it – then we should pray it – as it has authority and power in the Spirit (and He must have prepared us sufficiently to be able to pray it if He has put this on our hearts and given us the words to pray)…

I am not under Law…

I am blessed…

I am persecuted…

I am suffering…

I am undergoing hardship…

I am not perfect (practically)…

I am perfect (positionally)… Hallelujah!!! (There is nothing wrong with the Blood of Jesus Christ and there is nothing wrong with the new self which He has given me – both are incorruptible – Hallelujah!!!)

I am still empty in many areas…

I still have sin in my life…

And yet I know that all these things are not me and they are not where the Lord is taking me…

They will “drop off”…

Even when I seem incapable of “dropping them off” myself I can stand and say, “I will overcome” knowing that the Lord will overcome within me…

Cos He always has…

This is what I’ve seen…

There’s never been anything which He hasn’t overcome or told me that I will not overcome…

I honestly know this…

There is nothing that I will ever face which I cannot overcome in His Grace – knowing that He will “pull me through”…

That position of “waiting upon the Lord” is so powerful and fills you with such knowledge that even as the enemy brings condemnation and hopelessness and emptiness and a loss of hope the Lord within you will not permit you to doubt that He is in control, He is working all things together for good…

Love never fails (falls over) or falls down…

🙂

The Lord never falls down…

The Lord has an amazing plan for each of our lives who know Him…

The enemy knows this plan…

He seeks to abort it and us from this plan…

The Lord allows him a lot of flexibility in this…

It is a cosmic struggle (at the end of the day) between the Lord and the enemy (refer Job)…

But we are not pawns in this cosmic struggle – God causes all things to work together for good…

We do not go down for the count…

We are always protected by faith for a salvation ready to be revealed to us in the final time…

He (the Lord) will use all that comes against us from the enemy to rid us of our flesh…

To rid us of everything that can be shaken so that only what can not be shaken will remain…

Praise His Holy Name…

He is the Great Overcomer…

We overcome in Him…

Nothing can overcome Him…

He submitted Himself to death and death (in the power of the Holy Spirit) was not able to overcome Him…

He rose from the dead…

And so will we…

As we submit to the death which He allows to come over us we will rise…

We will rise to newness of life…

As He completes the work (the messy work) within us we are transformed (practically) from glory to glory…

Praise His Wonderful Name…

Thank You Jesus…

Thank You Father…

Thank You Holy Spirit…

Nothing can resist His Grace…

He is for us…

No one who is against us can conquer us…

David won a battle against a giant because the giant defied the armies of Israel…

David knew that he was defying the armies of the Living God…

The Church is the Army of the Living God on earth right now…

We have an ememy who has defied the Army of the Living God…

He has said, “who can defeat me”…

“Come out and fight against me”…

We, those of us who know our God – those of us who know our relationship with our God, say back to him (to the devil himself and to his hordes) metaphorically, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted. This day the Lord will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the Lord does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the Lord’s and He will give you into our hands.” and we say this in the Spirit as the Lord releases this to us on no basis of any righteousness of our own but on the basis of the Lord’s Own Righteousness and our understanding that He is with and will Fight For the Church of the Living God on earth as He has given All Authority to His Church on earth at this point in time to complete the Work which He left us here to complete…

We know no matter how “beaten up” we get by the enemy for making these pronouncements against him (in the Spirit) that the Lord will sustain us…

Even if like Daniel’s three friends He actually chooses not to deliver us…

We are bold because of our love – because He loves us and removed our reproach from us…

We are one spirit with the Lord – we are inseparable from the Lord – anyone who touches us touches the apple of His Eye…

Anyone who touches us touches His Jesus…

And He will not leave that unpunished…

He will get His Retribution…

The enemies’ days are numbered…

Our blood is precious in the sight of God…

If it is spilled and falls to the earth He remembers…

And He will repay…

There is a boldness in this place of Grace…

A Holy Boldness…

Jesus experienced this…

A complete lack of interest in Himself as He knew He was OK – He was looked after…

God the Father “had His back”…

Does Goliath belong in our land?

Who has Goliath defied?

Is the Church meant to be living in fear and trembling of Goliath in their own land?

He is a defeated foe…

We are not under Law but under Grace…

When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him. (Colossians 2:13-15 NASB)

The certificate of debt of each believer in Jesus has been taken out of the way and nailed to the cross…

In His own body…

He took all these certificates of debt in His own body…

And He carried these certificates of debt away – away from us and away from us for all eternity…

He disarmed the rulers and authorities (the principalities) and made a public show of them…

He triumphed over them…

We are to uphold this victory in the world…

In the Church which is His Body…

This is our mandate…

It is for His Glory that we do this…

Demons cannot continue in their jurisdictions when we are not under Law but under Grace…

If the People of God in a location come in unity under Grace then they can dispell the presence of darkness from among them…

We have the power in the Spirit to dispell the presence of darkness from amongst the Church of the Living God – from amongst our jurisdiction…

Israel was given a jurisdiction which Goliath was trespassing in…

The enemy is trespassing in the jurisdiction given to the Church of the Living God – He must be evicted…

And evicted quickly…

He is a reproach and a taunt to the People of God…

He cannot stand against the Blood because the Blood represents the Grace of God…

He has no weapons against the Blood…

The Law is his weapon…

Guilt is his weapon…

Condemnation is his weapon…

Lists of sins which are contrary to us and condemn us…

None of us in the Church have any of these lists remaining…

He has no “dirt” on us…

We are free…

Even if “sin within us” is still committing certain sins, he still doesn’t have any “dirt” on us cos it’s not us committing those sins but sin within us…

We are new creations…

We (our new selves) do not sin…

The old is gone, the new has come…

In the Mind of God “It is Finished”…

It has already happened…

The paradigm has shifted…

I am not under Law (because I died and my life is now hidden with Christ in God)…

Because I died I am no longer under the Law’s jurisdiction…

But under the jurisdiction of Grace…

It’s like I’m invisible to the devil…

I slip through his fingers…

He only knows Law…

He only knows condemnation…

All his allurements into sin are to then turn and bring condemnation…

He can’t do that to a saint of God who knows they are no longer under Law but under Grace…

We see that he can only do to us what the Lord allows him to do and no matter how much that hurts us it is for our good cos God only allows him to touch us when it is for our ultimate good as it was for Job…

Love You Lord Jesus…

You are the Overwhelming Conqueror…

I love You Lord…

Thank You Father…

Thank You Holy Spirit…

Thank You Lord Jesus…

Thank You Lord…

As I was worshipping the Lord on Saturday I got this song…

I am coming, I am coming, I am coming, To set you free…

I knew that it was the Lord speaking…

He then told me to go upstairs and play Monopoly with my sons and that there would be more coming later…

He told me to go back down later on and the song continued with another tune…

The Blood will rise, The Fire will fall, The wall of division, It will crumble, The Lion of the Tribe of Judah, He will Roar, And we will come together…

I sang this over and over along with the first part which He’d given me earlier…

As I sang the first part earlier (or it might have been when I was singing “My All is on the Altar” – that song which I mentioned in the previous “Coals of Fire” post) He showed me the fireballs falling from heaven – I was seeing Christchurch – and they were hitting all who belonged to Him in this city…

I’d been very affected by the possibility that certain ones who believed in Him in this city who were in defiance to Him would be removed in a similar manner to what happened to King Uzziah…

He showed me that this would not occur – that there would be a softening of hearts who believed in Him in this city…

As I watched the fireballs falling from heaven I saw that…

Later on as I got the second part I was reminded of what He’d shown me previously on 10th August when I joined with others who had organised a night of prayer for Christchurch where I saw the Blood prophetically rising from the ground – showing that It had cleansed the land and rising over the roofs of the houses and then increasing like in the Flood to fill (cover) the whole earth…

I also remembered a conversation with a prophetic friend of mine a number of weeks back where he shared a vision he’d had of Jesus as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah standing on the Port Hills and Roaring…

As I sang, “The wall of division it will fall” the word I really got or the picture I got was that it would disintegate like a stone (thick stone) wall turning into powder – I changed this word to “crumble” but the orginal word was “fall”…

I saw walls of division between those who really know Him in this city disintegrating, in fact it was a one time action – like instantaneous…

The Lord has those who will believe in Him in this city covered…

The Blood will rise from below indicating a complete break with our past – tainted as it has been…

The Fire will fall from heaven indicating an infusion from heaven of the Fire of God into our lives – those who believe in Him or will believe in Him…

The wall of division will crumble so that all of us who truly believe in Him in this city will be One – One in the Holy Spirit – the Blood and the Fire will achieve this – a “coming together” under Him…

The Lion of the Tribe of Judah Roaring – I believe is prophetically significant of a specific event which will occur in this city – everyone will know when He has Roared…

And after He Roars – we – those of us who remain who believe in Him or who will believe in Him will come together…

We will be One in Him…

This is what I saw (this is the interpretation which I believe He gave me)…

I submit this for discernment from those who read this – Lord, You know what I saw and You know if that was of You, I believe it was Lord but I submit it back to You for Your discernment through Your Body that Your way and Your plan would be established on earth as it is in heaven for this city, this city which bears Your Name, If there is anything in this word or in my interpretation of this word or anything in any other word (or interpretation) which I’ve had which is not of You please show me Lord and remove it from me, Let all words which are mine fall to the ground, Let all words which are Yours be established in Jesus Mighty Name – Thank You Lord, in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen

In my early Christian life I went through a lot of pain endeavouring to confess each and every wrong thought, action, motive, etc, that I thought I had in an effort not to lose fellowship with the Lord…

Unfortunately I had believed that I needed to do this to keep fellowship with the Lord…

Coming to the end of myself in a depression experience really sorted that out for me…

I saw that I was taking over the role of the Holy Spirit and basically introspecting myself to death…

Coming out of that experience I realized that God accepted me as I was – in whatever state of “imperfection” which I found myself…

God accepted me – I saw later – because of what He had defined me as…

We are not to focus on sin…

We are to give ourselves unreservedly to the Lord – as a spiritual act of worship – offering ourselves on His Altar and leaving ourselves there…

After this occurs we just respond to the work of His Holy Spirit in us…

He convicts us of sin…

He enables us to repent…

He enables us to confess…

He enables us to say sorry…

I do not say sorry for my sin because my conscience convicts me…

No, I wait until the Holy Spirit convicts me because with His conviction comes the desire to repent and change…

Comes the heart breaking genuine Godly sorrow…

Nothing happens when we “keep score” on our own lives and mechanically go through the motions of confessing our sin…

This more than anything else freed me from introspection…

I am not examining myself…

Like Paul says, “the One who examines me is the Lord”…

The Lord really does examine me…

He is always bringing things to my attention…

But this is “painless” to me cos I’m not trying to make it happen…

Even if something is “killing me” in terms of really being on my conscience I do not “lift a finger” until the Lord shows me that it is something which is on His Heart…

Because our consciences can condemn us – but God is greater than our consciences (or our hearts) and He knows our hearts…

What I’m trying to say in the couple of sentences immediately above is that our consciences can be under the control of our flesh (our old selves) – they can also be under the control of the enemy – in certain areas because of control he has held in the past…

God is greater than our consciences…

We can offer up our consciences to be placed in the Fire with everything else…

I honestly believe that as we offer ourselves on God’s Altar as living sacrifices we become like coals of fire in His Altar…

The burning may be slow or quick in different areas but we will remain there for all time – until we reach heaven and go through the final fire where anything which is left of our flesh is burnt away before we enter heaven – I am speaking of those of us who know the Lord…

So I don’t see confession as an onerous thing – it is created within us by the Holy Spirit…

The Lord said to me when I was in Manila, “Do not strive in My Presence” and in the same prayer time He said, “Do not resist My Holy Spirit”…

Here is the balance…

We walk in this surrendered place…

“Do not strive in My Presence” – i.e. don’t try to “help God”, i.e. don’t strive in the flesh to try and perfect yourself…

“Do not resist My Holy Spirit”, – i.e. when I show you something and bring conviction and bring motivation to change do not resist Me, go with Me on this and do what I empower and motivate you to do…

This is my pattern of life…

There is some sin in my life which I do nothing about at all…

It is there and I know that it is there…

I am being honest…

But I am not condemned…

The Holy Spirit has not “put His Finger on it” as yet and I know He will…

I am already surrendered to be destroyed in those areas…

I am not striving to destroy myself – I am waiting for Him to destroy me…

I’ve tried hard enough in the past and I know where it leads – it leads to despair…

It is a one way track to condemnation and placing me in a powerless position in the hand of the enemy…

The amazing thing about the Lord is that we are protected by His own “operating schedule” for our lives…

He has forgiven us for all our sins…

He brings conviction and Godly sorrow and the ability to repent for specific sins which means that that sin “falls off” in our lives, i.e. we don’t do it anymore…

Only He can do this…

Confession isn’t meant to be an “over and over and over” thing…

It is meant to be a “once off” thing for each layer of that particular sin in our lives…

When God does it it is a “once off” “finishing off” of that particular layer of that particular sin in our lives…

I have experienced this myself…

Thus we are not going “round and round the mulberry bush” with the Lord and with our consciences…

We have had our “hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water” as the scripture says…

Our consciences are not our condemner – our consciences are not our indicator of whether we’ve sinned…

Yes, for an unbeliever they are…

But not for us – the Holy Spirit is…

If He is not convicting us – we shouldn’t try and step in and tell Him He isn’t doing a good enough job…

He isn’t convicting us cos it’s not His time to convict us about that particular sin…

When we’ve entered into His Rest we trust Him to complete this transformation in us without our “intervention” or “taking over” or wanting to “be in control”…

This is our rest…

This is entering into His Rest…

Love in the Lord,

Andrew

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing Him who is unseen. (Hebrews 11:27 NASB)

The Lord gave me this verse (the last half of this verse) this afternoon as I went to have a late lunch and spend time with Him…

for he endured, as seeing Him who is unseen. (Hebrews 11:27b NASB)

This is what He’s given me for my life…

We were having a chat…

He was asking me what I wanted in this life…

I answered, “You”…

He asked me again…

Again I said, “You”…

He asked me a third time…

Again I said, “You”…

I asked Him if He wanted to ask me again…

He indicated “No, I knew that was what you would say”…

He had just shown me that if I wanted nothing good in this life and didn’t expect anything good in this life until I met Him in Glory that I’d never be disappointed (never have an unmet expectation) in this life…

I’d surrendered to that…

It was worth it…

Then He asked me what I wanted…

He’d prepared me for this…

Then He said some things which I won’t share…

Suffice to say it was along the lines of when He asked Solomon what he wanted and when he responded wisdom He said He would give him so much more…

but I didn’t want to hear it…

I just wanted to hear Him…

I just wanted Him…

He told me that He delighted in me…

I won’t go into the details…

I wept…

I didn’t care that I was in a public foodcourt…

His affirmation of me is enough…

It is all I need…

Then He gave me this verse…

We will endure, seeing Him who is unseen…

He will be our portion in this life…

I am going through deep waters at this time…

He has met me in my sorrow and in my pain…

I praise Him for He is always enough…

Thank You Jesus… 🙂

This is the crux of surrender…

This is the crux of why Jesus is God and is in submission to the Father…

He chose to submit under the Father…

The Father chose what would cause Himself the most pain…

Losing His Son…

He did this because He loved us…

Amazing Love how can it be that Thou my God wouldst die for me – as Charles Wesley said in his hymn “And Can it be?” (“And Can it be that I should gain?”)…

I see that this lies at the crux of our relationship with the Lord…

How much are we willing to yield to Him…

How much are we willing to let go of for Him…

Because He says so…

Because He requests it…

Our wives?

Our children?

Our grandchildren?

Our lives?

Our futures?

Our notoriety?

Our image?

Our happiness?

Our comfort?

Our experiences?

Our plans?

Our desires?

Our longings?

Our deep seated desires?

Our relationship with God?

“Our relationship with God?”, you say, “how could God get me to sacrifice that?”

Jesus sacrificed His with the Father when He was separated from Him for those 3 hours on the cross where He endured the Wrath of God on Himself for our sin, when He became sin so that we might become the Righteousness of God in Him…

What if God causes us to sacrifice the intimacy which we know with Him to go through a “hiding of His Face” experience or worse, like Job went through?

What if?

I have been through times like this in my life…

I didn’t do it very “gratefully”…

There’s something in my life right now – which I won’t go into – which is also “wrestling” with me with respect to this…

The Lord allows these sacrifices to test how much we really love Him…

You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. (Deuteronomy 8:2 NASB)

Not just His commandments as in what is written in scripture but also His personal commandments which He gives to us through His Spirit…

Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. (Galatians 5:25 NIV)

I am in a situation where He has made me promises – as He did to Abraham with Isaac – and then He is calling me to let go of those promises – sacrifice them – to seek Him in an even deeper way…

I used to stand on the promises of God – the personal promises of God – like Paul told Timothy to do,

This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you fight the good fight, (1 Timothy 1:18 NASB)

but now I’m seeing that there is a willingness in me to sacrifice these – some which seem very enjoyable indeed “happy, happy, joy, joy” type promises – to be nothing and appear like nothing and continue to be nothing, to be a nothing, for the rest of my life…

I’ve actually come to a place where I’ve tossed up whether I should write any more on this blog…

I am willing…

To be unknown and to be a nothing…

There is nothing freer than to have no desires…

To not care whatever happens to you in your life…

There is a freedom from anger when you let go of every expectation which you might have…

Abraham was called “the friend of God” – no one else has ever been called that specifically in scripture…

Why was this?

He had a child of promise – huge “happy, happy, joy, joy” promises were linked to this son, Isaac…

In him (Abraham) and through him (Isaac – ultimately Jesus) all the nations of the earth were to be blessed…

But God said,

“Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” (Genesis 22:12b NASB)

Now I know that you fear God…

Wouldn’t God have known?

Apparently not…

I have had these experiences with God…

I am not going to share the details – that is not appropriate here…

When He knows that we fear Him and we feel His Pleasure it is so much better than anything which we have ever felt before…

Incomparable…

He leads us there and He leads us away from there…

He carries us…

Reach out to Him, He wants to carry you…