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The High Places

Without going to the details of my dream this morning, part of the message is this: The Lord is dealing with the ‘high places’ of the West. And it will happen sooner than expected. To the Bride / Church of the West, remove all that is tarnished, all that does not reflect the Light and Personhood of Christ. Prepare, prepare quickly!

However there is a laurel, a victors crown for those who ascend the Mountain of the Lord with clean hands and a pure heart, while yet He is tearing down the ascents of impurity, falsehood, and idolatry.

There is a changing of the guard, and it will be quick. Like a shift change while on the clock of employment, suddenly one will be gone and the next will be there. This is hour to Ascend to the Mountain of our God. Give Him worship and give Him praise (without mixture)!

”As soon as He was approaching [Jerusalem], near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the entire multitude of the disciples [all those who were or claimed to be His followers] began praising God [adoring Him enthusiastically and] joyfully with loud voices for all the miracles and works of power that they had seen, shouting, “Blessed (celebrated, praised) is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory (majesty, splendor) in the highest [heaven]!” Some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples [for shouting these Messianic praises].” Jesus replied, “I tell you, if these [people] keep silent, the stones will cry out [in praise]!” As He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it [and the spiritual ignorance of its people], saying, “If [only] you had known on this day [of salvation], even you, the things which make for peace [and on which peace depends]! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. For a time [of siege] is coming when your enemies will put up a barricade [with pointed stakes] against you, and surround you [with armies] and hem you in on every side, and they will level you to the ground, you [Jerusalem] and your children within you. They will not leave in you one stone on another, all because you did not [come progressively to] recognize [from observation and personal experience] the time of your visitation [when God was gracious toward you and offered you salvation].” Jesus went into the temple [enclosure] and began driving out those who were selling, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a robbers’ den.”“
‭‭Luke‬ ‭19‬:‭37‬-‭46‬ ‭AMP‬‬

”The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness of it, The world, and those who dwell in it. For He has founded it upon the seas And established it upon the streams and the rivers. Who may ascend onto the mountain of the Lord? And who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to what is false, Nor has sworn [oaths] deceitfully. He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, And righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation (description) of those who diligently seek Him and require Him as their greatest need, Who seek Your face, even [as did] Jacob. Selah. Lift up your heads, O gates, And be lifted up, ancient doors, That the King of glory may come in. Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O gates, And lift them up, ancient doors, That the King of glory may come in. Who is [He then] this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory [who rules over all creation with His heavenly armies]. Selah.“
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭24‬:‭1‬-‭10‬ ‭AMP‬‬

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Welcome Summer

Today is the first day of summer on the Gregorian calendar. Through gratitude and praise, and I am believing this new season will be filled with restoration, joy and fruitfulness in abundance.

🍓🍇🙇🏼‍♀️🙏🏻

”Then all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been driven and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered a great abundance of juice [of the grape] and summer fruits.“
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭40‬:‭12‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

Judah (Praise) – Gedaliah (Yah has become great) – Mizpah (watchtower)

Praise the Lord, for He is great and worthy to be praised, He will be magnified in your life and He will watch over His word to perfect it in you and perform it. Great is our God!

Blessings!

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Appointed Times

Many are entering their appointed time and season. The days the Lord has written in your book from long ago. The many who have been faithful and walking out their salvation for years, some very quietly and through all the lack of understanding and doing your best to overcome trial after trial. There comes “a time”, an appointed time. The day that seemed like it would never come. But these are the days says the Lord… believe and continue to follow the narrow Way. Your diligent preparation was never in vain. His grace has led you here for such a time as this. The Lord is releasing fresh wind over your vision, because it’s your time to run!

”You will arise and have compassion on Zion, For it is time to be gracious and show favor to her; Yes, the appointed time [the moment designated] has come.“
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭102‬:‭13‬ ‭AMP‬‬

”Then the Lord answered me and said, “Write the vision And engrave it plainly on [clay] tablets So that the one who reads it will run. For the vision is yet for the appointed [future] time It hurries toward the goal [of fulfillment]; it will not fail. Even though it delays, wait [patiently] for it, Because it will certainly come; it will not delay.“ ‭‭Habakkuk‬ ‭2‬:‭2‬-‭3‬ ‭AMP‬‬

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The Place Of In Between; leading and mantling the generations

I believe it’s important as new generations of fathers and mothers in the faith are rising to mention that while the Lord tests us He does not provoke us.

”Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to the point of resentment with demands that are trivial or unreasonable or humiliating or abusive; nor by showing favoritism or indifference to any of them], but bring them up [tenderly, with lovingkindness] in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.“ Ephesians 6:4 AMP

This language isn’t meant for only the home life, though applicable to how we treat the “children of God” entrusted to us, and anyone we relate to is an opportunity for trust.

It seems we are at a tender place of the ‘in between’. In the process of the changing of the guards, rising and repositioning, dismantling and re-mantling.

Let us not quench the Holy Spirit by leaning to our own understandings. Even when Elijah was entrusted with the opportunity to mantle Elisha, he tested him though did not provoke him. The only tests we are required to ‘pass’ are Gods, not man’s – and yet even so we can not abandon the order of submission, honor and love. And clearly in this illustration of Elijah and Elisha, God uses man to test man. This is where we need discernment; is this God initiated through man, or man initiated through self understanding?

In this place of ‘in between’ our actions in fathering and mothering at large may be well-meaning and unintentionally harmful, though in this tender place we need to be careful not to provoke and break the spirits of the children of God (I am not however referring to genuine discipline and consequences to sin, and unrepentant hearts).

And for that matter, regardless of age, title, or position, we are ALL the children of God. From a wide lens we are able to comprehend that we are to be subject to one another in Love regardless of how we relate, whether co-parenting, co-laboring, co-leading, father to son, son to father, peer to peer, etc.

”“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers [a reconciliation produced by repentance], so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse [of complete destruction].”“ Malachi 4:5-6 AMP. In this passage the goal is heart connection before land repossession. It shows us what the Lord values, He is prioritizing heart restoration over land restoration. Yet there was a consequence for the unrepentant, loss of land equates with loss of inheritance. We see the same principle in the book of Jeremiah, ”For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call on Me and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear [your voice] and I will listen to you. Then [with a deep longing] you will seek Me and require Me [as a vital necessity] and [you will] find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will restore your fortunes and I will [free you and] gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’“ Jeremiah 29:11-14 AMP.

The point is blessing and restoration is found in the heart of the Father. Even the prodigal son in the parable in Luke 15 had to return home (repent) before he was fully restored after he carelessly wasted his fortune. In this parable the father who restored the “spiritually dead son” did not provoke his obedient elder son to jealously, though this is what ensued after his elder son thought he had been treated unfairly because of the celebration of the unwise younger brother after he returned to his fathers house.

And this is the difference; We cannot control other’s reactions, but we can as fathers and mothers, leaders, and servants of one another in the faith encourage and restore without provoking the other ‘children of God’. The father in the parable above did not provoke his elder obedient son, yet the sons heart was revealed in the story, and yet not to a place of shame, but simply the heart of the Lord in goodness and joy revealed his heart posture. With understanding of the father’s heart now clear, he could either join in the celebration or not.

In essence when we provoke we perpetuate the orphan spirit and religion, whereas when we allow God to test the hearts of man it leads to genuine advancement and or repentance, and restoration. We may be instruments called to protect and build the Body, purify and unite the House of God, to lead others to His ways and paths, though in all these things we should be careful to subject our understanding and will as all flesh are under the Mighty Hand of God.

Above all, whether learned patterns or reliance on our own understanding, may we remember love covers, and the Lords grace is sufficient as we navigate much uncharted territory.

In the place of in between may we consider, ”This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.“ 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 NIV

”If we [claim to] live by the [Holy] Spirit, we must also walk by the Spirit [with personal integrity, godly character, and moral courage—our conduct empowered by the Holy Spirit]. We must not become conceited, challenging or provoking one another, envying one another.“ Galatians 5:25-26 AMP

Jesus, help me to humble myself under Your Mighty Hand, may our endeavors be for Your Kingdom to come, on earth as it is in Heaven.

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Power and Persecution

I woke this morning hearing 1 Peter 4:4. I did not turn to the Scripture immediately, and later began watching a video I was led to by the Spirit. While watching, I opened my Bible to the above Scripture reference, “”In [connection with] all this, they [the unbelievers] are resentful and surprised that you do not [think like them, value their values and] run [hand in hand] with them into the same excesses of dissipation and immoral freedom, and they criticize and abuse and ridicule you and make fun of your values.“

In connection with the excerpt of Evangelist Lester Sumrall below, I believe the Lord is beginning to prepare His Church for persecution. What’s even wilder is that much of the persecution will be from her ‘own members’.

I’ve spoken about this a few years back, though this is one reason of which I believe the Lord is returning for a remnant. Not all in the Church Body will be the Bride. This in essence, speaks to the parable of the 10 Virgins in a sense, 5 wise and 5 foolish. There are many in the Body who are not actually conformed to the entire Gospel. When persecution becomes more prevalent this is when we will see an even greater falling away. Within the Body, there are persecutors and unbelievers of the power of the Gospel, and there are also persecutors because they DO ‘believe’ but are not operating in the same power because they did not go through process. These are the foolish virgins, they have not been through the crushing to produce oil, and they say “I want some of yours, give it to me!” and so covetousness ensues them. Some can not receive you, perhaps jealousy, fear, etc. though none the less living a life in the full resurrection power of the Gospel will cause others to behave in such a way (as written of in 1 Peter 4:4 using other adjectives from different versions) that you will be judged, criticized, maligned, spoken evil about, slandered, abused, vilified, made fun of and ridiculed but the Lord will have sent you. Though pressed, the persecuted remember all the evil can not compare to His resurrection Life; because divine union has afforded them their delight in suffering with The Christ.

Your “own” will reject you. Yet when we look at the life of Jesus no less did He endure, His creation despised and rejected Him, His own hated Him too.
Therefore, the most wise preparation we have is this; allow yourself to be buried with Christ that you may rise with Him.
To the victorious Love and forgiveness will be their banner.
Hallelujah!
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”But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”“
‭‭I Peter‬ ‭4‬:‭7‬-‭8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

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Eternity’s Frame

We need a palate and a mindset for eternity once again!

As “we are what we eat”, Lord may we be consumed with zeal and knowledge for Your House, eternity’s Home, and for all those who will enter through Your Door.

”That’s when his disciples remembered the Scripture: “I am consumed with a fiery passion to keep your house pure!”“ John‬ ‭2‬:‭17‬ ‭TPT‬‬

”My love for you has my heart on fire! My passion for your house consumes me! Nothing will turn me away, even though I endure all the insults of those who insult you.“ Psalms‬ ‭69‬:‭9‬ ‭TPT‬‬

”For zeal for Your house has consumed me, And the [mocking] insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.“ Psalms‬ ‭69‬:‭9‬ ‭AMP‬‬

If Jesus endured the cross and its shame for you and I, then surely we can deny our flesh, misunderstanding and persecution, insult and injury (that is really only to our pride) that we would live in the reality of being joined with Him now AND the hope for eternity’s life in Him forevermore.

What are you doing today / what are you becoming that is of true worth? Does it carry eternal value?

Do your heart and affections gain Heaven’s attention?

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RAISED TO LIFE IN YOU

What you thought was the end of you is the container of life for Him.
Can you imagine it being said, “the hope of Glory lives in them”?

It is true, the very Bread of Presence we have received,
we die but not to grieve
Life eternal found and forever I shall be bound to my Savior,
and my Love
I will be emptied as You laid Yourself down for me,
that I may hear You call my name,
Oh my dove
You place your left hand under my head, and raise me to life with You
In the Spirit we are One,
In the Spirit is found all liberty
In the Spirit I live my truest life in Thee

This Life in me, it is Christ, do you see?

”To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.“ Colossians‬ ‭1‬:‭27‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

”His left hand cradles my head while his right hand holds me close. I am at rest in this love.“ ‭‭Song of Songs‬ ‭2‬:‭6‬ ‭TPT‬‬

”[For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope] That if possible I may attain to the [spiritual and moral] resurrection [that lifts me] out from among the dead [even while in the body].“ ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭3‬:‭10‬-‭11‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

”Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, Because we know that Christ (the Anointed One), being once raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him. For by the death He died, He died to sin [ending His relation to it] once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus.“ ‭‭Romans‬ ‭6‬:‭8‬-‭11‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

”I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.“ ‭‭Galatians‬ ‭2‬:‭20‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

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Upon His Shoulder

We give Jesus the cold shoulder when we do not trust Him.

He is alive
He is a person
He should be your husband

”For your husband is your Maker, The Lord of hosts is His name; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of the whole earth. For the Lord has called you, LIKE A WIFE who has been abandoned, grieved in spirit, And like a wife [married] in her youth when she is [later] rejected and scorned,” Says your God.“ ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭54‬:‭5‬-‭6‬ ‭AMP‬‬

The above chapter is named, “The fertility of Zion”. And coincides with 1 Peter 2; the Lord led me to these passages today by word of knowledge, I didn’t realize at first He was piecing them together.

”like newborn babies [you should] long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may be nurtured and grow in respect to salvation [its ultimate fulfillment],“ ‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭2‬:‭2‬ ‭AMP‬‬

Grow in respect to salvation … salvation is not a thing, salvation is a person. Jesus is the Word, we are nurtured by Him, and grow into respect in ultimately fulfilling the calling to be His wife.

”Come to Him [the risen Lord] as to a living Stone which men rejected and threw away, but which is choice and precious in the sight of God. You [believers], like living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house for a holy and dedicated priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices [that are] acceptable and pleasing to God through Jesus Christ. For this is contained in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a chosen stone, a precious (honored) Cornerstone, And he who believes in Him [whoever adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] will never be disappointed [in his expectations].”“ 1 Peter‬ ‭2‬:‭4‬-‭6‬ ‭AMP‬‬

Another depiction of the mature Bride; she was once barren though now redeemed consistently yields fruit, never disappointed because of her respect and trust in the Lord her Salvation.

One of the names of Zion is, “my delight is in her”. Our covenant with the Lord is meant to be a delightful union. ”But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels [in festive gathering],“ ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭12‬:‭22‬ ‭AMP‬‬
The city of the LIVING GOD …

The new priesthood is coming forth, living stones who form a pure bride who rests her head on His shoulder (revering Him for the weight of sin paid), she now governs together with her High Priest/ Bridegroom King.

Lord let it be said of me Your delight is in me. Lord may we say of You, our delight is in You. For surely it is true, all our fountains are in You. ”The singers as well as the players on instruments shall say, All my springs (my sources of life and joy) are in you [city of our God].“ Psalm‬ ‭87‬:‭7‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

”Who is this one? She arises out of her desert, clinging to her beloved. When I awakened you under the apple tree, as you were feasting upon me, I awakened your innermost being with the travail of birth as you longed for more of me.“
‭‭Song of Songs‬ ‭8‬:‭5‬ ‭TPT‬‬

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Honoring The Lord

The Church at large must cultivate an atmosphere for the Fear of the Lord, or else it will cultivate and cut us. This means we must confront compromise, even in our behavior in His House. We act like He is not the One in Authority. If we will give Him His place He will take it; it is better to offer to Him than it be taken from us.

Stewarding His Presence means we teach people by even the most basic shepherding how to honor the Lord in His House. Our behavior matters, our conversations matter. This is not control, it is wisdom at its infancy stage. Sometimes we forget that sheep need to be led, by even the most simple gestures. (We all do, sometimes I forget). The more we talk about setting an atmosphere for an abiding Presence void of chaos, carnal chatter, with healthy guidelines, the more we will practice honoring His Presence and will naturally receive much more from our encounters with the Lord, or even from our Church attendance – for when we encounter Jesus we encounter the riches in His glory, for He is the very place of abundance.

When we revere the Lord as Holy, we will receive much more because that is Who He is.

Right now the sword of the Lord is cutting to conform us to the image of Himself or cutting to cast away. To this I plead, “take not thy Holy Spirit from me!”

”The [reverent] fear of the Lord is the beginning (the prerequisite, the absolute essential, the alphabet) of wisdom; A good understanding and a teachable heart are possessed by all those who do the will of the Lord; His praise endures forever.“ ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭111‬:‭10‬ ‭AMP‬‬

”The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord is the beginning and the principal and choice part of knowledge [its starting point and its essence]; but fools despise skillful and godly Wisdom, instruction, and discipline. [Ps. 111:10.]“ ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭1‬:‭7‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

”But the Lord of hosts is exalted in justice, and God, the Holy One, shows Himself holy in righteousness and through righteous judgments.“
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭5‬:‭16‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

”For it is written, You shall be holy, for I am holy. [Lev. 11:44, 45.]“ #‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭1‬:‭16‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

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His Name Is Holy

I can hear the burning of fire, I can feel it in my bones …

Some of the “best”Christian influencers do not have the influence of Heaven, they are not affluent in the ways and Presence of the King! Prepare for a ‘season’ of burning, yes even in the House of the Lord; every evil alter that exalts itself in the Name of Christ that is Antichrist will be burned down, for they have honored Him with their lips though their hearts be far from Him.

From the least to the greatest, inferior kingdoms will be made low. The true remnant is rising, I see a vision of a remnant of people across America. Some are standing tall, and others only half their height, and others lower still. There’s another changing of the guard, and even what we thought was a remnant is now being sifted, for every inward part the Lord KNOWS. For some every time they begin to rise, there’s a “bop on the head” that aims to push them low, however I see the Lords Hand of true justice and it is His Hand that judges and brings the proud man low. For He will remove the false hand that strikes His people, and He shall break the string of corrupt puppeteers that aim to control. The Lord loves Justice and He will bring into His Light even by Holy Fire. With tangible fire consuming my head and face I hear, “Humble yourself, humble yourself in the sight of the Lord, before His Mighty Hand wipes away those who will not repent and bow low.”

The Lord will exalt and unify for His glory the true remnant rising, and the false He is sifting like wheat. The oppressed will rise again, and the true Body will unite and help each other, it is a time of exponential growth. The growth is not in numbers per se, it is the maturation of the true Bride. Not all who stand tall are false leaders, though the Lord is removing the lampstand of some of the goats, for the Name of the Lord God is Holy.

”Then the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. And the idols shall utterly pass away (be abolished). Then shall [the stricken, deprived of all in which they had trusted] go into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the earth from before the terror and dread of the Lord and from before the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake mightily and terribly the earth. [Luke 23:30.]“
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭2‬:‭17‬-‭19‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

”In that day the Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and lovely to those of Israel who have escaped. [Jer. 23:5; 33:15; Zech. 3:8; 6:12.] And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who is recorded for life in Jerusalem and for eternal life, [Joel 3:17; Phil. 4:3.] After the Lord has washed away the [moral] filth of the daughters of Zion [pride, vanity, haughtiness] and has purged the bloodstains of Jerusalem from the midst of it by the spirit and blast of judgment and by the spirit and blast of burning and sifting.“
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭4‬:‭2‬-‭4‬ ‭AMPC‬‬

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