“The whole life of the good Christian is a holy longing.

What you desire ardently, as yet you do not see…

by withholding of the vision, God extends the longing,

through longing he extends the soul,

by extending he makes room in it.

Let us long because we are to be filled…that is our life, to be exercised by longing. ”

~ St. Augustine

OUR CONSOLATION

CONSOLATION:

Comfort...sympathy...solace...compassion..pity...

relief...help...support...encouragement...reassurance...

Herein is our Lord our everlasting consolation...our hope through grace...our unspeakable joy and confidence by faith in His gentle grace...the easiness of His yolk upon us...and the lightness of His burden...

As we flee to Christ for refuge to lay hold upon hope...he becomes our strong consolation...our anchor for the soul...it is both sure and steadfast...because of our High Priest Jesus, who has gone beyond the veil before us and intercedes in our behalf...

This same Jesus who patiently endured all the same sorrows as we ourselves...until he obtained the Promise...

And now are we heirs of that Promise (true believers) a way to the end of all strife...

Do you have faith?...Then have it in your receiving of it, your believing of it, your praise of it...for He is Faith...that Word that is settled in you, that confidence, and REST...from legalism and strife...

You are the workmanship of His hands...come to Him in the order to which he has appointed and drawn you forth...He is working in you to will and do His good pleasure...you are not the product of man...

Let your happiness be in not being accused or condemned...for your doubts will only condemn you and destroy faith in God's Word...

Whatever is not of Faith...is sin...

Think on this...

To this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that He might be Lord both of the dead and the living...

Accuse not your brother...judge him not...walk in the Light...for you both will stand before the judgment seat of God...Every knee will bow, and every tongue confess to God...

Each of us will give an account...

Rather...love...forgive...and leave the accusing spirit before the Throne...you be the consolation by God's Spirit, that He is to you...

Freely He has given...freely give...

He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds...

Only God knows what forces have come against this soul

burdened down with care...

Sometimes a root of bitterness...revenge...hate...and unforgiveness has broken the heart, mind and spirit to the point where, only the KNOWLEDGE of HIM will heal...

That is the Gift of all Gifts to us...

Holy Spirit...Reveal Christ...that we might live in the Power of His Consolation...the Power of His Redeeming Love.

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and comfort (consolation) who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God." Corinthians 1: 3-4

SPIRIT WORD

LETTERS FORMING WORDS...

FOR WHAT...FOR WHOM?

TO FIND RELEASE FROM WITHIN?

TO FIND REASON FOR BEING?

AN OFFERING...TO REACH...TO HOLD...TO KEEP...WHAT?

IT'S ALWAYS LIKE A DREAM DANCE...

IN A MIRAGE OF IMAGINING...

WANTING LIFE TO FILL THE EMPTY PLACES,

WITH SUNSHINE AND THE MELODIES OF MY HEART...

I CAN HEAR THE RAIN IN A STORM...

COOLING THE FURY IT KNOWS NOT...

LIKE A FRIEND THAT STICKS CLOSER THAN A BROTHER...

DRIVEN BEFORE IN DELUGE

BUT ONE IN THE SAME...

FROM WHERE DID IT COME...THE TWIRL AND BEND OF IT ALL?

WHO SHALL SEE?...WHO SHALL SAY...

I'LL TAKE A BREATH OF LIFE TODAY?

LET ME SPEAK WITH SPIRIT WORDS...FULL OF SPIRIT'S SONG

LISTEN CLOSELY WHILE I PAUSE IN FLIGHT TOWARD HEAVEN'S THRONGS...

NO WORDS WILL EVER TELL YOU...WHAT YOU MUST COME TO SEE...

OR FILL YOUR EMPTY HEART AND SOUL BY LISTENING NOW TO ME..

BEND YOUR HEART...SURRENDER...LIFT YOUR EYES IN FAITH

TAKE THE HAND OF WHO YOU KNOW...WILL ALWAYS MAKE YOU SAFE...

TRUTH...AND LOVE WILL GUIDE YOU..

I REALLY NEED NOT TELL...YOUR SEARCHING HEART HAS ALWAYS KNOWN...

LIKE OCEAN SOUNDS FROM SHELL...

WORDS NOW FILLED WITH POWER...WORDS NOW FILLED WITH MIGHT...

WILL NEVER LIFT YOU HIGH ENOUGH...TO HOLD YOUR WINGS IN FLIGHT...

IT'S SPIRIT COME TO GIVE YOU...THE REASON YOU SHOULD FLY...

SPIRIT GUIDES US HOMEWARD...

BEYOND THE STARRY SKY.

LORD...I'VE COME TO THE PLACE WHERE THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO SAY...

AND WHAT I AM HEARING IS THAT YOU ARE BLOWING THE TRUMPET...

WARNING US TO COME AND GATHER UNTO YOU...TO LISTEN...TO RECEIVE CORRECTION...

TO BECOME DISCIPLINED...TO LEARN HOW TO RIGHTLY DIVIDE YOUR WORD, FROM WHAT IS FROM THE FLESH AND WHAT IS FROM YOUR SPIRIT...

TO BOW MY KNEE FROM THE HEART, AND CONFESS MY ALLEGIANCE IN COVENANT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE YOU...IN TRUE REPENTANCE, AS YOUR MERCIES ARE RENEWED EVERY MORNING...

TO GET READY...TO BE PREPARED...NOT JUST IN WORD AND DEED...BUT IN THE POWER OF YOUR SPIRIT...

GIVE ME HINDS FEET FOR SUCH HIGH PLACES...THAT I MIGHT BEHOLD FROM THE HEIGHTS, THE WONDERS OF YOUR LOVE...

HOW YOU HAVE HELD FROM ALPH TO OMEGA THE WORLD IN YOUR HANDS...FROM THE VERY BEGINNING TO THE END...

THAT YOUR WORD IS THE SAME, YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER...SAYING...

"COME, LEARN OF ME...STEP OUT A LITTLE BIT DEEPER...TRY TO EXHAUST THE WORD OF MY PATIENCE...OR REASON AWAY THE IMMUTABLE AUTHORITY OF MY WORD."

LORD...HOLD ME FAST

LORD I STAGGER AT YOUR WORD...
EVEN IN YOUR WARM AND SAFE EMBRACE...
FOR I HAVE HEARD THE SOUND OF A TRUMPET...AND THOSE SHOUTING IN THE WILDERNESS..."PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD!...PREPARE! MY WRATH IS COME...

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING...VAPOR AND SMOKE...
BURNING FLESH AND CRIES FOR HELP...CRIES FOR MERCY!
MY EYES ARE CLOSED TIGHT AND MY BODY TREMBLES AT THE SIGHT OF SUCH DESTRUCTION.

..
MY ONLY SAFETY IS IN YOUR STRONG EMBRACE...HIDDEN UNDER THE SHADOW OF YOUR WING...IN THAT SECRET PLACE...

HOLD ME FAST LORD...HOLD ME FAST...

I TRUST YOUR LOVE...I TRUST YOUR WORD SAYING,
"PEACE BE STILL." WHEN ALL AROUND ME THE STORM RAGES.

LORD...HOW EVEN THE NATIONS RAGE...
HOW THE EARTH QUAKES AT THE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR PRESENCE...
YOU ARE COME!

WITH SWORD...AND LOVING KINDNESS...EVEN IN YOUR PATIENCE YOU ARE NOT WILLING THAT ANY WOULD PERISH...

BUT THE WICKED WILL BE WICKED STILL...THEY SHALL RECEIVE THEIR REWARD...
HOLD ME FAST LORD...HOLD ME FAST.

THE DAY OF THE LORD IS COME UPON THEM...AND HOW QUICKLY THEY NOW RUN TO YOU SAYING,
"LORD, LORD"...AND YOU ANSWER...
"I NEVER KNEW YOU"

OH LORD...EVEN MY GOD, HOLD ME FAST, HOLD ME FAST...

LORD, MAKE ME STEADFAST, WITH A BACKBONE OF STEEL...SO THAT I CANNOT BEND OR SWAY FROM YOUR TRUTH, OR YOUR CALLING UPON MY LIFE...

STRENGTHEN MY HANDS AND WEEK KNEES...WHEN MY HEART IS TROUBLED AND FEARFUL...MAKE ME STRONG AND UNAFRAID...

LET MY BLINDED EYES BE OPENED, REVEAL ANY WICKED WAY IN ME...
UNSTOP MY EARS...THAT I MIGHT HEAR CLEARLY THE WORD OF YOUR MOUTH AND FOLLOW NO OTHER...

EVEN NOW...BEFORE THAT GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY...LET ME LEAP WITH THE JOY OF YOUR FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP...

FOR YOU HAVE DELIVERED ME FROM MY LAMENESS...AND TOUCHED MY TONGUE WITH COALS OF FIRE, THAT I MIGHT SING SONGS OF PRAISE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS...

IN THE WILDERNESS LET YOUR LIVING WATERS BREAK FORTH...EVEN STREAMS IN THE DESERT...

YOU ARE CALLING YOUR PEOPLE TO HOLINESS...TO CONSECRATION...UPON THE HIGHWAY THAT LEADS TO TRUTH AND LIFE...SINGING SONGS OF DELIVERANCE WITH EVERLASTING JOY!

OH LORD...HOLD ME FAST

Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways...Such knowledge is too wonderful for me...Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; If I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settleon the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me. If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the night become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you, the night will shine likethe day, for darkness is as light to you....Psalm 139:1,2,3, 7-12

ISAIAH 61:11

AND HE WILL MAKE ALL THINGS NEW...

HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY...

BUT HIS WORD WILL LAST FOREVER...

FROM AGE TO AGE HE IS THE SAME...

THE SEED OF HIS WORD WILL FLOURISH...

THE SPIRIT OF HIS WORD BRING LIFE...

DEATH SHALL BE SWALLOWED UP BY LIFE!

FREE INDEED

If it's possible...just sit there for a few moments...take a deep breath...and let yourself relax...
I don't know if you are a Christian or not...I don't mean, what church do you go to...but do you confess Christ as Lord of your life...has he come to dwell in your heart...and you KNOW it...
Maybe you're not sure anymore...your tired of words, your life is a mess, no one seems to understand...they don't have the answers you need...
Maybe you're all alone...your heart is full of grief and sorrow...
Breathe....Breathe...Let go...Surrender
Right now...allow the Holy Spirit to come...Surrender
Let Love come...
I know that you can feel His presence...
What you have been crying out for...
Has come...
SURRENDER
Lord...hold this one fast...draw them to your breast...
Reveal yourself to them Lord
Speak to their heart
Be their All in All...meeting their most urgent need___"YOU LORD"
Let them laugh with the unspeakable joy of Your deliverance...
With the faith and trust, that only you can give...

KNOWING HIM

I don't know how many times over the years, that I've made the remark, questioning, "How do I know, that I know God? How do I know that these teachers and preachers, prophets and such, (all claiming their own interpretations of the Word to be authentic, are not just their own insights, interpretation, and acquired knowledge?

An then "the Word" spoke the WORD into my heart...saying,

"This is the way you can know that you know me...if you keep my commandments.
if you say that you know me...and you keep not my commandments...you are a liar...and the Truth is not in you...

If you keep (guard, persevere, nurture, abide by, fulfill, honor, and obey) my WORD...in this will LOVE be perfected in you...to HEAR my WORD is to KNOW my WORD, for I AM the WORD...

When you have received the Spirit of my Word...you most surely received Love...I AM the God of Love...

Behold...what manner of Love I have given you as a free gift...even that I have called you my sons and daughters...

Your quarrel is not with flesh and blood...no!...but rather, be MY WITNESS and TESTAMENT to the TRUTH...

The world will never know you, or understand who you are...because they do not know Me...
In this are you made manifest...by my own righteousness...and my love which you have in unity with your brethren...My Spirit witnesses between you, concerning who you are, and who I AM...

If you have received the witness of men...I tell you that the witness of God is greater...and this is that witness...He that believes on the Son of God, has the witness within himself...that God has given us eternal life, and that LIFE is in HIS SON...

He that has the Son (dwelling in his own flesh) the hope of Glory...has eternal Life...for He is the Life...
He that does not have the Son of God, does not have LIFE.

The Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding (knowing...unction) that we may come to fully know and be fully alive! in Him that is Truth...
This is the True God...and Eternal Life...
Hear Him!

Remember: This is how you recognize the Spirit of God...It is my Spirit that causes the spirit in you to leap within, at my coming...come in your flesh...I AM is come...
Greater is He that is in you...than he which is in the world...
He that loves not, knows not God

Remember the Sadducee's and the Pharisees...who could not confess, that Jehovah had come in His fullness, presenting Himself through His only begotten son Jesus...
How much more will you be rejected for claiming that the risen Christ has come into His temple, bought with great price, and not made of human hands...

His Kingdom in you, come in the flesh, ruling and reigning by His WORD and SPIRIT...
You are the bread and wine that He partakes of...that which is poured out in love and sacrifice toward a wicked and perishing generation...

Those who have ears...let them hear...

HE COULD HAVE CALLED TEN THOUSAND ANGELS

I SPENT HOURS TRYING TO FIND JUST THE RIGHT PICTURE OF ANGELS FOR THIS POST...AND THERE WAS NOT ONE THAT STRUCK ME WITH THE AWESOMENESS OF WHAT SO MANY FACED IN SCRIPTURE...

OH THERE WERE PICTURES THAT WERE AMAZING IN THE EXHIBITING OF ARTISTIC TALENTS...BUT MOST WERE OF FANTASY, AND THE VISIONS OF OUR FLESH MIND...

IN TRUTH...THE REALITY OF THESE SPIRIT BEINGS WOULD SEND US TO OUR KNEES...SOME HAVE EVEN MISTAKENLY THOUGHT TO WORSHIP THEM...AND MOST OF THE PICTURES DREW OUR ATTENTION TO WORSHIPPING OF ANGELS...OF IMAGE IDOLS...

THESE HOLY, IMMORTAL AND INNUMERABLE BEINGS ARE ABOVE US, BEHIND US, AROUND US, AND BEAR US UP AS MINISTERS OF GOD...

HOW THEY MANIFEST THEMSELVES FROM SPIRIT TO INCARNATE HUMAN FORMS IS A MYSTERY, THAT IS WELL LEFT TO THE WISDOM OF GOD...

WE KNOW THAT THEY POSSESS A WILL AS EVEN WE DO...THE FACT THAT LUCIFER (SATAN) HIMSELF CHOSE TO REBEL AGAINST GOD, AS DID THOSE ANGELS THAT FOLLOWED AFTER HIM...

THERE REMAINS NUMBERLESS RANKS AND ORDERS OF ANGELS THAT SERVE THE LIVING GOD IN HOLINESS...

THEIR MINISTRY TOWARD US AS BELIEVERS IS MIND STAGGERING...TO GUIDE, PROTECT, DELIVER, COMFORT, AND MINISTER TO US WHO ARE HEIRS OF SALVATION...

AND WHAT A WITNESS OF THEIR MINISTRY IN CHRIST'S LIFE...
AS A MESSENGER...ANNOUNCING HIS CONCEPTION...HERALDING HIS BIRTH...SUSTAINING HIM IN ALL HIS SORROWS AND AFFLICTION'S...WITNESSING HIS RESURRECTION...AND ACCOMPANYING HIM TO HEAVEN...

THEY WERE PRESENT AT THE WORLD'S CREATION...MT.SINAI...IN A SHEPHERD'S FIELD...THE CROSS...AND WILL FILL THE GALAXIES WHEN CHRIST RETURNS...AND SATAN IS BOUND...

THEY HAVE/DO/AND WILL HARVEST SOULS FROM ONE END OF EARTH AND HEAVEN...

THEY RIDE CHARIOTS OF FIRE...AND WAR AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS IN THE INVISIBLES THAT COME AGAINST US...

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE CUTE AND BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CHERUBS...THE CINDERELLA AND CINDERFELLA ANGELS YOU COME UPON IN PICTURES OF ANGELS...

PERSONALLY...I'M A LITTLE SUSPICIOUS OF THESE ANGELS OF LIGHT THAT CATER TO MY EYES AND EMOTIONS, AND HAVE NOT LEFT ME WITH A SENSE OF THE POWER AND MAJESTY OF THE LIVING GOD...WHO HAVE NOT LEFT ME WITH THE SENSE OF WHO I SERVE AND OWE ALL MY ALLEGIANCE TO...IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH...

THEY ARE MADE MANIFEST...ONLY AT GOD'S BIDDING...THEY ARE SENT AT HIS COMMAND...THEY ARE NOT TO BE CALLED UPON...THERE'S ONLY ONE NAME THAT WE ARE TO CALL UPON...THERE'S ONLY ONE NAME IN WHICH THEY COME...IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS WILL AND PLEASURE...

THEY ARE REAL...THEY ARE MIGHTY...THEY ARE STRONG IN OUR BEHALF...THEY ARE SERVANTS OF THE LORD...

JESUS COULD HAVE CALLED TEN THOUSAND OF THEM TO DELIVER HIM FROM THE CROSS...BUT THE WILL OF HIS FATHER WAS HIS CHOICE...

AND WHETHER IT'S ONE OR A MILLION...GOD WILL SEND THEM TO DO HIS WILL REGARDING YOU...

THANK HIM, PRAISE HIM, HONOR HIM IN THIS TRUTH...TRUST HIM IN THE MINISTRY AND PURPOSE OF THEIR ACCOMPANYING IN YOUR LIFE...

SING WITH THEM, WORSHIP WITH THEM, DANCE WITH THEM, GIVE HONOR AND GLORY AND PRAISE...LET THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH BE FILLED WITH THE AWESOME SONGS OF DELIVERANCE OF OUR GOD...

There is joy before the angels of God, over one sinner who repents...Luke 15:10

"AWAKE!...AWAKE, YOU WHO ARE SLEEPING, AND RISE FROM THE DEAD, AND CHRIST WILL GIVE YOU LIGHT...

SEE THAT YOU WALK CAUTIOUSLY, NOT AS FOOLS, BUT WISE...REDEEMING THE TIME, BECAUSE THE DAYS ARE EVIL...BE WISE IN UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE WILL OF THE LORD IS"... Ephesians ********************************************************************

NOW

BELOVED...RECEIVE GOD'S GRACE, THAT YOU MIGHT REIGN THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE BY JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD...

YOU CANNOT LIVE IN SIN AND ABOUND UNTO GRACE...IF YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF DEAD WITH CHRIST THROUGH BAPTISM...BURIED WITH HIM...

YOU MUST THEN BE ALIVE UNTO HIM BY THE GLORY OF THE FATHER WHO RAISED HIM UP AND MADE HIM ALIVE!...KNOWING THAT CHRIST BEING RAISED FROM THE DEAD DIES NO MORE...DEATH HAS NO MORE DOMINION OVER HIM...FOR IN THAT HE DIED UNTO SIN...HE DID IT ONCE...AND NOW HE LIVES UNTO GOD...SO YOU TOO MUST RECON YOURSELF DEAD UNTO SIN, BUT ALIVE UNTO GOD BECAUSE OF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD...

QUIT LISTENING TO THE DESTROYER OF YOUR SOUL...HE WILL BEAT YOU DOWN WITH CONDEMNATION AND ACCUSATIONS THAT WILL NEVER LET YOU RISE UP OUT OF THE SOIL YOU'VE BEEN PLANTED IN...

IF YOUR VERY HEART CONDEMNS YOU...THE LORD GOD REMAINS FAITHFUL...HE WILL NOT DENY THAT SEED THAT HAS BEEN PLANTED IN YOU...HE WILL NOT DENY HIMSELF...

BUT BE NOT DECEIVED...DO NOT YIELD YOURSELF TO SIN AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, BY THE SUBMITTING OF YOUR WILL TO IT...FOR YOU HAVE BEEN PURCHASED AT GREAT PRICE...AND GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED...

THEREFORE, NOW, YIELD YOURSELF FROM YOUR HEART TO THAT FORM OF DOCTRINE WHICH WAS DELIVERED UNTO YOU...

YOU HAVE BEEN CALLED AND MADE FREE FROM SIN, NOW, BE MADE FULLY ALIVE UNTO HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND BEAR FRUIT OF HIS HOLINESS.(gleaned from Romans 4)

IT'S ALL IN THE HANDS

THERE WAS A DROP INTO GOD'S ENDLESS SEA
AND IT WAS ME...
I MADE RIPPLES, SO MY MOTHER SAID
DELIGHT TO SOME...TO SOME SHEAR DREAD.

THE TOUCH OF MOTHER'S SOFT WARM HANDS
THE LOVE THAT ENTERED VIRGIN LANDS

TAUGHT ME TO WONDER...AND SET ME FREE
TO WALK AND TALK...AND JUST BE ME.

YOUNG AND CURIOUS I ROOMED TO SEE
WHAT ROUND THE BEND...AWAITED ME

SOMEHOW I ENDED ALL ALONE...LOST AND EMPTY
NOT KNOWING HOME

I CAME TO DRINK AT A COMMON WELL
AND MET A MAN WHO TOLD ME WELL

HE SMELLED OF CEDAR AND DESERT ROSE
AND CAREFULLY SPOKE THE WORDS HE CHOSE.

THROUGH ENDLESS DAYS AND DARKEST NIGHT
I SEARCHED FOR HIM WITH ALL MY MIGHT
WAITING, WAITING ON THE SHORE
WHERE HE FIRST CALLED ME ONCE BEFORE

LIFES BARBED WIRE FENCES RUSTAND ALL
TRIED TO KEEP ME FROM HIS CALL

THROUGH DARK TREED FORESTS OF THE NIGHT

THERE BROKE A HEAVENLY GLORIOUS LIGHT

I FELT THE HANDS OF GOD REACH DOWN

I DARED NOT MAKE A SINGLE SOUND

THEN AT HIS FEET I CRIED, "DEAR LORD"

MY HEART WAS CHANGED WITH SPIRIT SWORD

HIS HAND REACHED DOWN AND TOUCHED MY HEAD

HE BID ME RISE UP FROM THE DEAD

I DID NOT KNOW JUST WHAT HE MEANT

TILL HE PROMISED TO TAKE ME WHERE HE WENT.

I KNEW HE'D RISEN FROM THE GRAVE

I KNEW HE'D COME TO SURELY SAVE

BUT DID I HEAR HIM RIGHTLY SAY

I'LL COME AGAIN FOR YOU SOMEDAY

TO BE WITH ME...YOU'LL NEVER DIE

AND LIVE IN MANSIONS BEYOND THE SKY

THE WORDS HE'D SPOKEN FLEW ON BY

FOR SEEING HIM HAD MADE ME CRY

"MASTER, SAVIOR, KING AND LORD.

TOUCH ME WITH YOUR SPIRIT SWORD

NEVER LEAVE ME ALL ALONE

GIVE TO ME A LIVELY STONE

LET IT BE WITHIN MY HEART

WORDS ENGRAVED TO NE'R DEPART

TILL YOU COME, LIVE SO IN ME

THAT ALL MY LIFE YOUR LIGHT I'LL BE

AND SPIRIT CAME TO DWELL WITHIN

THE WORD MADE LIVE TO CONQUER SIN

ONCE AGAIN HE BID ME WAIT

IN PRAYER AND SOLITUDE THE STATE

TO TEACH MY SPIRIT TO BE STILL

TO LISTEN CAREFULLY FOR HIS WILL

MR MOSES CAME TO BE THE ONE AND ONLY MAN FOR ME...

NOT BY CHOICE...BUT GOD'S OWN HAND

HAD PICKED AND SEALED THE LIFE HE PLANED

CHILDREN BORN, THEN CAME THE GRAND

THE GREAT SOON FOLLOWED, LIKE GRAINS OF SAND

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, KIN AND FOLK

FILLED OUR LIVES, LIKE STORIES WROTE

SO MUCH TO LEARN BOUT LOVE'S BLESSED TOUCH

THE SMELL OF CEDAR, AND DESERT ROSE

THE WORD THAT'S CAREFULLY SPOKEN RARE

THE WORD THAT LET'S ONE KNOW YOU CARE

SO GENTLE SWEET... THAT BIRDS WON'T FLY

BUT FEEDS THE TRUTH SO THEY WON'T DIE

THOSE HANDS THAT TOUCHED MY JOURNIED LIFE

I'VE LAYED TO REST IN SORROWED STRIFE

THAT STORM THAT COMES, YET SOON IS PAST

WHEN FAITH PROCLAIMS, "THEIR HOME AT LAST"

THIS ONE THING SURE

THAT YOU MUST SEE

THIS ONE LIL DROP FROM GOD'S GREAT SEA

HAS COME TO RIPPLE AND TO FAN

TO HAVE YOU COME TO UNDERSTAND

LONG AGO FOR YOU AND ME

A MAN NAMED JESUS CAME TO BE

GOD'S ONLY SON

CAME TO DIE

UPON A CROSS THEY HAD HIM LIE

THEY TOOK HIS HANDS AND NAILED THEM DOWN

AND PLACED ON HIM A THORNY CROWN

IF YOU WILL IN THIS QUIET HOUR

LET HIM COME IN SPIRIT POWER

YOU'LL SMELL THE SCENT OF DESERT ROSE

AND CEDAR FROM THE CROSS THEY CHOSE

YOU'LL FEEL THE TOUCH OF HIS DEAR HANDS

AND KNOW WHAT DEAD MEN UNDERSTANDS

THAT LIFE HAS COME AND SET YOU FREE

IT'S IN HIS HANDS...JUST LOOK AND SEE!

PREDESTINED

"For whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope...

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

That you may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...

Receive one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

Now I say...that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, for this cause I will confess to you among the Gentiles, and sing unto your name...

And again he said, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people...

And again..."Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles and exalt him all peoples...

And again..." Esaias said, "There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; In him shall the Gentiles trust...

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."... ROMANS 14:1

You may be asking..."how do I fit into what I just read?"

Well...first of all it depends on if or not you are a (((REAL))) JEW...ONE WHO FOLLOWS JEWISH LAW, THROUGH THE LETTER OF THE LAW...CIRCUMCISED INTO THAT FAITH, BY BIRTH OR CHOICE...

OR ONE OF THE COUNTLESS HUMAN BEINGS THAT ARE NOT...THEY ARE OF DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES, BACKGROUNDS, GENDERS, AND FAITHS WHO MAY OR MAY NOT CALL JESUS LORD...

THOSE WHO CALL LORD, LORD...YET ARE NOT CIRCUMCISED OF SPIRIT...BORN BY THE SPIRIT OF HIS WORD, ARE NOT OF THE CIRCUMCISION OR THE UN CIRCUMCISION...

THAT'S AS FAR AS I WANT TO GO WITH THAT DISCUSSION...I AM NEITHER QUALIFIED NOR SANCTIFIED TO SPEAK OF SUCH THINGS...

THIS ONE THING I DO KNOW...IF HE HAS CALLED YOU...IF YOU'VE COME TO HIM...THIS I KNOW...HE DOESN'T CARE IF YOU ARE JEW OR GENTILE...BLACK, WHITE, OR ANYTHING IN BETWEEN...MALE OR FEMALE...RICH OR POOR...

HE'S COME TO CLEANSE YOU IN HIS OWN BLOOD...THIS IS A WORD YOU DO NOT NEED TO UNDERSTAND...BUT ACCEPT BY FAITH...OUR FLESH BLOOD IS CORRUPTED...WE ARE DEAD SPIRITUALLY BECAUSE OF IT...IT HAS SEPARATED US FROM LIFE...SPIRITUAL LIFE...AND THEIR IS ONLY ONE WAY TO BE MADE ALIFE SPIRITUALLY...AND THAT IS THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF HIS WORD...THROUGH THE WASHING OF IT...THE ANNOINTING OF IT...AND THE LIFE GIVING POWER OF IT...IT IS RECEIVING HIM IN ALL OF HIS FULLNESS...HIS SEED...THAT SEED OF THE FIRST BORN...THAT SHALL TAKE ROOT IN YOUR AND MULTIPLY IN HIM...

MY MESSAGE IS TO "YOU" MY PRECIOUS FRIEND...YOU WHO HAVE GOTTEN THIS FAR ON THIS PARTICULAR BLOG POST...YOU WHO HAVE COME FOR, WHATEVER YOUR REASON MAY BE, AND HUNGER FOR HIM, THIRST FOR HIM, WANT HIM MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS LIFE...

LORD...RIGHT NOW I PRAY FOR THIS DEAR ONE THAT LONGS FOR ANSWERS...THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES...THEY ARE CONFUSED ABOUT HOW TO PRAY, TO ASK, TO RECEIVE...THEIR WORDS ARE LIKE AN ACHE IN THE CENTER OF THEIR CHEST...DESPERATE TO BE RELEASED...BUT IT ONLY COMES FORTH AS GROANINGS...

SEARCH THEIR HEART LORD...KNOW THEIR HEART...EXPOSE THEIR HEARTS BETWEEN THE TWO OF YOU...BRING THEM TO REPENTANCE IF NEED BE...AND IF THEIR HEART CONDEMNS THEM...I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE THAT YOU WILL NOT DESPISE THEM...YOU ARE ALL FORGIVING, MERCIFUL, AND TO BE TRUSTED...FULL OF GRACE...THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE ONE...YOU WILL NOT DENY YOURSELF...

DRAW THEM TO YOURSELF LORD...INTERCEDE FOR THEM...PRESENT THEM BEFORE THE THRONE OF YOUR FATHER, FOR YOUR NAMES SAKE...REVEAL YOURSELF...AND SAVE TO THE UTTERMOST, THIS ONE WHO HAS COME...

LET THAT WHICH YOU PREDESTINED BECOME SANCTIFIED IN THEM THIS DAY...THIS I ASK...THIS I PRAY...IN YOUR NAME...BELEIVING...AMEN AND AMEN

i LOVE YOU PRECIOUS ONE...COME AGAIN, ANYTIME, WE'LL SIT TOGETHER AND FIX OUR EYES ON HIM...IN WORSHIP AND IN PRAISE...MINISTERING UNTO HIM

THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY, COME!

"You said you felt uncomfortable in your skin...that even when you are dressed, you feel naked and ashamed...

You know you can't hide from Me...not your body, your soul, your spirit, your thoughts...

The very fact that you feel anything at all is because you are standing in My Love Light, and it reveals to Me all that you are or ever shall be...

You have finally come to the point where you know that it is futile to try and change yourself, or deliver yourself from the bondage that you find yourself in...

My Love has drawn you once again to My side...I am here to help you My beloved...My arms are open wide to receive you...

Come and let Me wrap My Robe of Righteousness around you...come and learn of Me...Let My Spirit and My Word birth you into New Life, making your flesh, of My flesh, and your bone, of My bone...a New Creation!...a New Heart!...a New Mind!...with ears to hear, and eyes that see.

In this moment...you forgot your nakedness...for these moments you had ears to hear...your eyes were fixed on Truth...you saw the Way...I AM THE LIFE!...you have heard My Voice.

Come...Choose Life."......John 3:16

This morning as Mr. Moses and I sat down for breakfast...and we bowed our heads to say grace...there was a moment of silence...

That moment that we are ONE with Him who loves us...That moment when we stand in eternity before Him in the Presence of His fellowship...

That waiting of expectation, that we do not once again waste even one breath in empty words of thanksgiving...that longing desire to give true thanksgiving from the heart...wanting Him to partake of our desire to acknowledge Him in the receiving of His abundant provisions...

"Lord...let us be satisfied with pleasing you."

The words rolled over me in warm waves of agreement, as my husband continued on with asking the blessing...

I just sat there with the first sentence still echoing in the inner depths of my being...

I didn't hear the remainder of the blessing...for Spirit had spoken...He had given Life and Anointing to the one sentence He wanted me to receive...

It wasn't pre-meditated grace or obligated grace...it was His Grace that had come...

"Lord...let me be pleasing to You."

In my living...my giving...my worship and praise...for all of my days...pleasing You.

THE WORD AND THE SWORD

II SAMUEL 23: 1-4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBnLIzZuNNM


HOW QUIET THE NIGHT


THOUGH I HAVE HEARD THE SOUND OF THUNDER AND RAIN





I SIT HERE WAITING TO HEAR THE SOUND OF YOUR VOICE...TO REFRESH ME AGAIN





SWEET SPIRIT OF LOVE...COME BEARING HIS NAME


BREATHE ON ME LORD, THAT I MAY PROCLAIM





YOUR WORD MADE ALIVE...YOUR WORD EVER NEW


LIKE THE DAWNING OF MORNING, SPRINKLED WITH DEW.





INSTRUCT THIS VESSEL...WITH THE OLD AND THE NEW, GIVE OUT OF YOUR TREASURE WHAT THE ANCIENTS KNEW...





WHAT THIS NEW CREATION HAS COME TO RECEIVE,


THE SOUND OF YOUR VOICE, MAY IT NEVER LEAVE.





SPEAK IT IN FIRE, REFINE ME TODAY...


IN WORDS FITLY SPOKEN, TO SHOW ME YOUR WAY





RENEW A RIGHT SPIRIT IN ME, NOW, MY LORD


WITH RIGHT USE OF WILL


THAT LOVE BE MY VISION


MY SPIRIT BE STILL





LET ALL WHO COME NEAR THEE


FIND COMFORT TO SHARE


A WORD KINDLY SPOKEN


A WORD THAT YOU CARE





GIVE LIFE I MAY CLING TO


IN HOPE AND ALL PEACE


LIFE FREELY GIVEN...THAT NEVER SHALL CEASE





IN QUIET REFLECTION


MY HEART GLADLY SINGS


THE WORDS I AM HEARING


WITHIN MY HEART RINGS





I SING HALLELUJAH!...I SING PRAISE THE LORD!


I SING LORD BE WITH ME...THE WORD AND THE SWORD.





Is not our fellowship with Him? Do we dare to speak what He speaks to our heart? Oh yes, yes...Proclaim it aloud! Let the fellowship of His Spirit be the witness of His Life in you...Walk in His Light...Walk in His Spirit...Walk in His Truth...For this is the Way...I tell you this that your joy may be full and complete................Shebet