What Do We Do Now That We Have Left The System?

What Do We Do Now That We Have Left The System?

Clay Sikes

March 21^st, 2012

Many have been called 'out of the systems of men' in various categories, from churches and ministries to business and banking. The systems of men are failing at an alarming rate, which begs the question, "Where do we go from here?" This universal inquiry besieges the masses, as many have sought 'home church' and Christian businesses as a possible solution to what has been left behind. For most, there is a recognition that though we have 'come out' physically, there is perhaps more that must come out of us. The wilderness has purpose.

The system is not only a structure organized my man, but also a mindset in each human being and one that takes years to adjust. That is why many so-called home churches have taken on the look and feel of a church, swapping the 'church room' for the 'living room.' Is wandering in the wilderness necessary? The very small company of Joshua and Caleb thought so.

We sense certain finality when we have departed the system; yet with time, there also remains an emptiness that interrupts those initial feelings of 'finality,' which carries with it the idea that there must be more, much more! The price of truly leaving the system is costly and somewhat daunting - the fullness of completion only comes after patience has had her perfect work. The Children of Israel wanted to return to Egypt when challenges came: they wanted the comfort and security that Egypt held, albeit as slaves.

Many 'called out' ones have returned, failing to realize that the wilderness experience had purpose. It is not enough to get delivered 'from;' we must get delivered 'to,' and here is where the rubber meets the road. Wandering, following the cloud and being fed manna requires extraordinary patience. Perseverance that ONLY God can produce is a required attribute, as this explains "many are called, few are chosen."

I encourage all who are 'out' of the system to "wait upon the Lord," as your wandering has a distinct destination - it is called the "Promised Land." You may feel disjointed, disconnected, discombobulated, and disfigured, but 'wait!' God will lead you with the cloud by day and by fire at night. He will feed you manna while you stumble and fall in the wilderness, but wait! Just before entering you will see the promise, and you will also see the giants, but it is yours - take it!

Israel Came To Kadesh Barnea by Ron McGatlin

Israel Came to Kadesh Barnea
by Ron McGatlin

There is a fresh move of God before us. The wind of the Spirit will blow upon the fires of God wherever a spark of revival ignites the spirits of those who seek God with their whole hearts.

The joy of the Lord awaits those who will make room for the Holy Spirit to fill their hearts and lives with the life of Christ – those who will unreservedly yield their lives as living sacrifices to be transformed by the renewing of their minds to the mind of Christ. The promise of empowered life by the grace of God unto righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit awaits those who will enter by faith into God’s promised kingdom life.

Failure to Enter the Promised Land

Moses led the children of Israel through the wilderness from slavery in Egypt to Kadesh Barnea at the edge of the Promised Land.

Deu 1:19:  "So we departed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the mountains of the Amorites, as the LORD our God had commanded us. Then we came to Kadesh Barnea.

The chosen people of God were free from the bondage of severe servitude as slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt. They had miraculously come through the great and terrible wilderness to the edge of the promised land of freedom. Yet, they were not able to get free from the restraints of the slave mentality that was within them. Though they experienced the miracle working power of God delivering them from Egypt and through the wilderness, they were still thinking like powerless slaves and did not perceive the awesome power and love of God that was with them to strengthen them to possess the land.

Instead of going in and possessing the land, they sent twelve spies in to spy out the land to evaluate the strength of the inhabitants to see if they would be able to take it, though God had already told them that He had given them the land. Of the twelve spies ten came back with a bad report of what they saw in the land. They saw it was a fruitful and bountiful land. However, with their slave’s mentality they looked with their natural eyes upon the giants in the land and apparently disbelieved the promise of God.

The potential was there to enter into the promised life with God in the land of righteousness, peace, and joy. Two of the spies, Joshua and Caleb, believed God and tried to encourage the people that God was with them to give them strength to take the land.

You know the story, how that the people believed the bad report and all the people turned back to the wilderness for forty years of wandering. The ten spies that brought the bad report suddenly died with the plague and only Joshua and Caleb remained. Every adult person who had received the bad report died over the next forty years in the wilderness having never entered the land of God’s provision.

The entire generation of people failed to enter the promises of God because of the ten who brought the bad report. The bad report of a few had prevented a multitude from entering the greater provision and freedom of God. Only their children who grew up in the wilderness were free from the slave mentality and willing to fully enter into the promise of the Father.

Entering the Promised Spiritual Kingdom Now

We have seen and are seeing this scenario played out again and again. A few who are unwilling or unable to be set free of their present lives of religious prideful mentalities and personal insecurities, take a look at the new land of Holy Spirit outpouring and give an inaccurate bad report of what God is doing. Thereby, at least for a season, they not only fail to enter, they also prevent others from entering into the outpouring of the Spirit of God that is bringing the kingdom of God life now to those who will receive it.

Cities and regions may be affected by the viral spreading of bad reports about the reality of what God is doing. People believe the fearful reports of the spies and never experience the fullness of the truth of the kingdom of God in their lives now.

These people may have come a long way across the wilderness from their past religious bondage or worldliness, yet they are unwilling to release the remaining traditional views from the past that occupy their “promised land” within themselves. They may have traded their bondage to religious systems for another inner bondage of believing that what they desire of the kingdom life is not available to them in this season.

They may be excitedly but erroneously looking ahead to sometime in the future when they believe God will make the kingdom life that they desire available to them or their descendents. In so doing they miss the outpouring of God’s Spirit that is now bringing the life that they desire and with their critical reports they lead others to miss it as well. Their reports tend to squelch the move of the Spirit by turning people back to their belief that what they have is all there is for them now in this season.

The Power of the Eternal Word

Those who listen only to God and seek Him at any cost are overcoming their lingering religious mentalities. They are overcoming their preconceived ideas of what the outpouring of the Spirit and the coming of the kingdom should look like. They are entering into the realm of the Spirit and receiving the spiritual kingdom of God now.

The eternal Word, Christ Jesus, is alive in them by the Spirit of God. The fire of the living Word is burning within and pouring out in prophetic truth that releases the fire of God to burn away the past and release the excitement of the life of God alive and flowing again. Only God can produce such flaming truth that in one moment ignites a real fire from heaven in us, transforming everything and bringing extreme life of God in and through us.

These become laid-down lovers of God. Their previous mind sets and preconceived notions based on natural and religious life apart from living by and walking in the Spirit are wiped away by the glory of the kingdom of God lifestyle. Their love for God and His love in them for others erase all their doubts and fears of unreservedly yielding all they are and all they have unto God to be used as He chooses.

His desires become our desires.

Natural human desires fade in the light of His glory and the presence of His Spirit that fills our spirit and soul. There is no desire to strive or connive to gain or achieve anything in this life. There is no need for more of anything temporal to be fully satisfied and filled with joy of the Lord.

The values of human social order and pretending are repulsive in the reality of His presence and provision. In God’s spiritual kingdom, the masks and fake love of insincere and deceptive human sociality with all of its lies of phony peace and empty flattery have no place in the presence of the love of God. Life is full and truly abundant whether we have much or little of this world’s goods. Our weakness becomes His strength as the promise of the Father, the Holy Spirit, empowers us to overcome and walk in victory over all the works of the flesh and the devil.

His love in us by His Spirit fills us to overflowing with love that is real and endures all things. The outpouring of the Spirit is an outpouring of love that leads to great faith and joyous hope that releases power to rule in righteousness. Thus, the kingdom of God is upon the earth in glory.

The kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ~ Paul 

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ Paul

Keep on pursuing Love. Love never fails
and His kingdom never ends.

Ron McGatlin

www.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net

The destination is clear! In My Father�s house. by Henry Falcone

The destination is clear! In My Father�s house.

by Henry Falcone

The destination is clear, "for where I am you shall also be!" I have gone and prepared a place for you and I have come back to get you so that "where I am you shall also be." Who can hear the "truth" of these words? Who will gain the access to my heart through them?

As the coming events unfold upon the earth that will shake everything that can be shaken, where will you be? Will you be where I am? Will you truly know in reality where I desire you to be and remain?

The storms are coming! The whirlwinds are here? The trumpets have sounded the alarms! Judgment is coming? My Glory will be seen! Miracles are about to come forth? But I ask you, "where will you be?
 
In My Father's house there are many dwelling places (homes). And when (if) I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to Myself, that where I am you may be also.

Where will you be? Will you be found in me? I said, "I will take you to MYSELF, THAT WHERE I AM, YOU MAY BE ALSO! There is a place you must rise up to now in these final moments. There is a place I have prepared for you from before the foundation of time for you to be in. When the judgments came upon Egypt I had a place to "hide my people." They were hid in Goshen." I had made a "place for them." A place of safety in the midst of the greatest judgments the world has ever seen since the flood.

So what shall I do now in the time where the greatest judgments creation will ever see come forth? Where will you be? Will you know I have made "Goshen" for you? I said, "when I return, I will take you to myself, that where I am you shall also be."

I am already returning in my "parousia." I am enveloping all those who are coming to be with me in true love and intimacy. I am revealing my heart, my end time plans to those who are "my friends" so this day will not come upon them unawares. Where you will be in the day that is about to unfold.

My "beloveds' I have prepared a place for you and now I am coming back to bring you to that place, to myself, so that where I am you shall also be. That is the only place of safety for you in the storms and things that are to come.

Does not my Word tell you of such a place of safety. Psalm 91 is not just a "message" but the very place I have made for you that are hearing my voice to be safe in this hour. It is your Goshen. "

HE WHO dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand]. I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust!

For [then] He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.[Then] He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you trust and find refuge; His truth and His faithfulness are a shield and a buckler.

You shall not be afraid of the terror of the night, nor of the arrow (the evil plots and slanders of the wicked) that flies by day, Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor of the destruction and sudden death that surprise and lay waste at noonday.

A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you. Only a spectator shall you be [yourself inaccessible in the secret place of the Most High] as you witness the reward of the wicked.

Because you have made the Lord your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place, There shall no evil befall you, nor any plague or calamity come near your tent.

The destination is clear, I have made a place for you beside me, so that where I am, you shall also be. "In the secret place with Me." In the place of abiding love will I keep you safe from all the snares of the enemy, but you must desire this place. You must see this place and you must learn to live and lift your body, soul and spirit to be with Me, so that where I am you shall also be. I am your Rock, the God in whom you can trust.

I promised to keep those who desire me safe though they have little strength. I have promised to provide a "Goshen" for those who are overcomers for these last moments of time. I promised it in my Word.

You must hear me my love, I have prepared a place for you. The destination is clear. Who is seeking to find this place and dwell here with me forever. Who will allow me to empty them so they abide in me alone, for apart from Me you can do nothing. Listen again to my promise to you to provide you a place of safety in the hour of trial to come upon the earth.

Revelation 2:7- 11

^"And to the angel (messenger) of the assembly (church) in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the Holy One, the True One, He Who has the key of David, Who opens and no one shall shut, Who shuts and no one shall open:

I know your [record of] works and what you are doing. See! I have set before you a door wide open which no one is able to shut; I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept My Word and guarded My message and have not renounced or denied My name.

Take note! I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not, but lie--behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet and learn and acknowledge that I have loved you.

Because you have guarded and kept My word of patient endurance [have held fast the lesson of My patience with the expectant endurance that I give you], I also will keep you [safe] from the hour of trial (testing) which is coming on the whole world to try those who dwell upon the earth. I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one may rob you and deprive you of your crown.

Do you believe Me my love? Do you believe my words? Do you believe that I truly have made a place for you to come, so that where I am you shall also be. I called it "The Secret Place of the Most High God," and in that place, I went away to prepare a place for you to come, so I can BRING You TO MYSELF, so that WHERE I AM, YOU shall also BE! 

The destination is clear, do you perceive it? Do you understand what I mean that we are to "be together in My Father's House, the Secret place?" The place of safety, (your Goshen), as the hour that will try the world unfolds. I will keep you safe in the "hour that is about to come." My call is to all my people the "many," but with tears in my eyes, only the "few who are called" will find it.

It is open to all to come to me, but few will pay the price to truly find me, know me for who I am. I have given you the secret and mysteries to unfold my love for you and how I will keep you safe in the times of trouble. Remember,  In my Father's house there are many dwelling places,  If it were not so, I would have told you; for I am going away to prepare a place for you. And when (if) I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to Myself, that where I am you may be also.

Behold at the midnight hour a "shout" Go forth and meet the Bride groom. (Matthew 25)

"And He said to His servant to go the invited guests and tell them "all things are ready come and eat." (Luke 14)

The destination is clear: In my Father's house there are many dwelling places! He that has an ear let him hear what the Holy Spirit says to the church.

Edited by Henry Falcone on 03/07/2012 at 11:02pm

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Henry J.Falcone
Flame of Fire Ministries
www.flameoffire2012.org
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General Overseer

The Inward Journey to Upward Life by Ron McGatlin

The Inward Journey to Upward Life

By Ron McGatlin

The major shift and transformation taking place in our world is first an inward spiritual change of focus � a turnaround from our previous mindsets. The journey into the spiritual kingdom of God involves moving from life that was guided by natural reality into a life in spiritual existence unseen and nonexistent to the natural man � a life that can only be perceived as it is revealed by the Spirit of the Creator of all life. It is life in the source of all life: spiritual and natural, living as created spirit beings in the Spirit God � a life reinstituted in that from which it was created.

The shift is from living and walking in the natural to living and walking in the Spirit. The transformed life is first lived in the spiritual unseen realm of God within us and in heaven as we abide with Him in heaven and He abides within us on earth. Our spirit having become one with His Spirit transforms our spirit being into sons of Spirit God living in spiritual heaven and walking in the Spirit of God on natural earth (1 Cor 6:17).

All life changes for us as we no longer live as a natural person dependent upon our natural minds, wills, and emotions to guide us through our lifetime of natural life on earth. Our spirits become one Spirit with God in Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit filling our spirit with the heavenly life of Christ. His far more dominant Spirit becomes our living Spirit within as we become one Spirit and one flesh with Christ (Eph 5:31-32)
Our spirits feed basic foundational life guidance into our souls that works out into and through our bodies. Our minds, wills, and emotions become His mind, His will, and His emotions. Thus our bodies become His body. His life is our life. His limitless life becomes our limitless life. His supernatural love and power become ours. We become as Christ is in this world (1 John 4:17). Our allegiance and sincere worship and praise of abandoned love are focused entirely upon God (Col 3:2).

Our natural life purpose and function is changed, transformed.

For the most part our natural minds have been focused on accomplishing varied goals or objectives in this life. These motivational targets were considered worthy or unworthy of our effort according to our mindset. Our life energy and time, our very lives were invested according to our personal goals and objectives, our reasons for living.

Goals and objectives always exist in every life whether they are perceived as such or not.

The lower levels of goals may be derived from natural needs and desires without specific thoughts in the mind. The base animal-like nature guides and motivates the simple natural person to take some action to supply base needs and desires of life. The moral compass of the person serves as a balance to check the actions to be taken. These actions can range from criminal acts of taking by force or devious fraud to working hard and long to meet needs and desires. The laborer's appetite works for him; his hunger drives him on - Prov 16:26.

In this fallen natural life guided by the �tree of the knowledge of good and evil,� human good leads to a more compassionate and benevolent life of natural affections and moral ethics derived from an inner base of human understanding in comparing one thing or person with another and justifying some and condemning others. The natural human life guided by knowledge without God has no solid foundation or standard and will sink into the darkness of the guidance of other spirits of darkness, other gods.

In my lifetime of 79 years we have personally observed a major downward swing of the moral compass of the western world. Strong nations that once based their fiber of moral ethics, to a significant degree, upon the Bible have abandoned that guide and become severely weakened in the corruption of fallen world lust and greed eroding rapidly toward severe weakness, need, and lack which eventually leads to captivity to other nations and bondage.

The Now Kingdom of God   

While nations erode into chaos and captivity, the inner workings of the kingdom of God is growing rapidly and steadily into place. The upward life of the inner kingdom is moving God�s people from natural life into realms of heavenly spiritual life to eventually bring forth the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. The kingdom of God is come to earth in Christ Jesus within His body.

The inner and upward move into kingdom of heaven living is in great contrast to the outer natural life of chaos and bondage. A massive process of purification to holiness will eventually move from within God�s people outward to re-establish a new natural life in the world. No longer a natural life apart from God in a fallen world, but a natural life of the reality of life in the Spirit ruling and reigning as kings and priests in a redeemed world that is being restored to God�s original creation plan and purpose.

"Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.� ~ Jesus

Keep on pursuing Love. Love never fails
and His kingdom never ends.
Ron McGatlin
www.openheaven.com basileia@earthlink.net

Our Becoming a Wheel Within a Wheel

Our Becoming a Wheel Within a Wheel
by Wade Taylor
www.WadeTaylor.org


All that Jesus did in condescension through a single body in His first coming, He will again do through a corporate body in preparation for His second coming.

At this present time, those who will be this “corporate body” are being “made ready” to function in manifest glory, as being a living martyr, so only Jesus will be seen. We are very close to the time in which Jesus will come to these “overcomers” (saints), to be glorified.

“And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power; When He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.” II Thessalonians 1:7-10

This passage of Scripture describes the “glory,” which will be manifested through those whom the Lord has prepared for this purpose.

“And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.” Ezekiel 1:4

This is a picture of the corporate Body of Christ functioning in glory, which will lead to the establishing of the government of God in the earth.

“The appearance of the wheels and their work was like to the color of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.” Ezekiel 1:16

We are living at the end of the “sixth day,” during the time in which Jesus is beginning to reveal His manifest glory in order to prepare “overcomers” for His ultimate purposes. This is the “wheel within a wheel” – our lives merged into His life, in order to become the expression of His life, which will greatly affect the nations and all mankind.

“Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with its four faces.” Ezekiel 1:15

This represents our lives as being “fully submitted” and “moving” with Jesus – “one wheel upon the earth” – Jesus coming to be glorified in His saints. Thus, the wheel, and the will of God can be thought of as being synonymous, as each speaks of our moving together with Him in glory, harmony, and obedience.

This glory is a moving glory in which we are being made aware of His manifested presence in glory, and in which we are learning how to function under this high level of anointing and enabling power.

“Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings... their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.” Ezekiel 1:5-6, 9

“And every one had four faces.” This speaks of our identity with the Lord as being spiritually mature - overcomer, bride, son, and man-child. Each of us has a different part and function within this “wheel.” Having “one likeness,” is our lives being so yielded that we become the manifest expression of His life, so we can function as being the “corporate” body of Jesus.

“And every one had four wings.” Each of us has built within us the ability to move in the realms of the Spirit.

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31

“They turned not when they went.” This act of obedient submission begins within us (wheel), and then it will expand outwardly from us (wheel within a wheel) until it fills all the earth.

“And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.” Ezekiel 1:14

This speaks of total commitment and obedience with a single eye, and also of “spirit-transportation,” which will increasingly take place in the days ahead.

“As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.” Ezekiel 1:13

Not only are we cleansed and purified in glory (Isaiah 6:5), but we are also being changed “from glory to glory.” Our appearance being as “burning coals of fire” speaks of our being under a heavy anointing, and experiencing clear spirit-perception and direction by our relating to, and functioning through the seven spirits of God - seeing and understanding what others neither see nor understand.

“…I have ordained a lamp for My anointed.” Psalm 132:17

“I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head like the pure wool: His throne was like the fiery flame, and His wheels as burning fire.” Daniel 7:9

“A fire goes before Him, and burns up His enemies round about. His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.” Psalm 97:3-4

This speaks of the “word with consequence” – the rule of a “rod of iron,” in a relationship of functioning with Jesus in His manifested glory, through Holy Spirit fire, which requires a high level of spiritual hearing and obedience.

“Wherever the spirit was to go, they went, there was their spirit to go… when those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up opposite them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.” Ezekiel 1:20-21

The “wheel” is the Lord (Head) coming in His glory - manifesting Himself through the wheel that is within this wheel - our lives within His life, to accomplish His end-time visitation in which multitudes will be saved, and the Kingdom established. As a result, “every eye shall see Him” (Revelation 1:7).

“When He shall come to be glorified in His saints….” II Thessalonians 1:10

The “wheel in the middle of a wheel” speaks of the Lord sovereignly coming into our lives through divine intervention, to move through us to accomplish His purposes. This transcends any faith or ability that we may have. Because this is a very high calling, a commitment and purity of life is required that is beyond that which is required of others.

“Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon you, and His glory shall be seen upon you. And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.” Isaiah 60:1-3

This speaks of our being caught up through a specific act of intervention (a part of His coming), into His manifested glory, in which we will be given the ability to function with authority in the purposes of God. We are living in the last days, in the final time of preparation, in which those who respond will be brought into this high level of corporate unity, becoming so one, with one another and with Jesus, that we become the expression of His life and ministry.

The greatest visitation this world has ever experienced is yet to take place with a two-fold purpose. First, the out-calling of a people into a cooperative relationship with the Lord. Second, the judgments on the nations, which will take place through the corporate functioning of this “wheel within a wheel.”

At this present time, the Lord is beginning to lift “forerunners” into His presence – those who are beginning to experience a “taste” of the age to come.

“And have tasted… the powers of the world to come.” Hebrews 6:5

After our rightly responding to this process as forerunners, we will be enabled to function in power, having a foretaste of kingdom authority with consequence.

“And he that overcomes, and keeps My works to the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of My Father.” Revelation 2:26-27

This relates to the functioning of this “wheel within a wheel” moving in His manifested glory to establish the government of God in the earth.

“And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.” Ezekiel 1:19

The Lord is preparing a corporate bride that is “clothed with the sun” (Son), who, through direct personal revelation, will be “caught up” to have a part in the visitation that will come to mankind (the wheels were lifted up).

“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.” Revelation 12:1-2

She being “with child, travailing in birth” speaks of intercession. Just as Mary became impregnated to birth our redemption through Jesus, so also today, there is a body of intercessors who are being “impregnated” to birth the coming time of transition (intervention). As Mary, we do not need to understand how or why. Rather, we simply need to “present our bodies as a living sacrifice,” and obey.

We will not come into this overnight, but there is a progression that will bring us into this higher level of intercession. Our part is to make ourselves available and then allow the birthing process to have its full work within us. Our effectiveness in this birthing process will increase through experience.

“And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up to God, and to His throne.” Revelation 12:5

The Word tells us that both the “man-child” and those who are “overcomers,” will rule all nations with a “rod of iron.” These are one and the same, and are seen by Ezekiel as being the “wheel within a wheel, which moved on its four sides.”

These “four sides” function in harmony and unity. As an “overcomer,” I am being qualified. As a “bride,” I am totally submitted to the Lord. As a “son,” I enter into a cooperative relationship with the Lord in the outworking of His purposes. As a “man-child,” I move in delegated authority. Since there is neither male nor female in the Body of Christ, these are representative types.

The heart of God is reaching out for a people who are “willing” (as Mary was) in the day of His power, who as “intercessors” (a corporate Mary), birth the purpose of the Lord into the earth in this day. The Lord always moves through, and accomplishes His purpose through human agency.

Experientially, we must go through a gradual unfolding progression of the workings of God to bring us to the place where, as overcomers, we are ready to be caught up into this “wheel within a wheel.”

Only then can the Lord say to us:

“Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things; enter you into the joy of your Lord.” Matthew 25:23

A Living Word for Your Spirit by Wade Taylor

A Living Word for Your Spirit

 

By Wade Taylor 

 

God created all that was created in "six days" and on the "seventh day," He rested.  Each of these days was an indeterminate period of time in which a particular aspect of creation was accomplished.

Peter limited these days to specific time periods by saying, "a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day."

Of this time, "six days" relates to man's time, and the "seventh day," to the Millennial Kingdom of God.  The first four, "thousand year days" relate to the Old Testament, and the next two, "thousand year days," to the Church Age.

This time (six days) came to an end in the year 2000, and the time of transition into the Millennial Kingdom of God (seventh day) began.

"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me... He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." Revelation 3:20, 22

This "door" is at the end of the Church Age and is at the point of transition from the Church Age into the Millennial Kingdom Age.  This is a conditional promise to those who have a "hearing ear."

The Apostle John was transported from his time, to the end of the Church Age, and he heard the voice of the Lord, knocking.

"After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up here, and I will show you things which must be hereafter." Revelation 4:1

It is very important to notice that this door opened only when John heard the voice of the Lord knocking, and responded (After this I looked).  The result of a right response is being able to hear "things which must be hereafter." Jesus is yet knocking on the door of our temple, seeking those who will hear and respond.  Thus, our ability to hear spiritually is very important.

When Jesus was twelve years old, He went into the temple of His day and time, and astounded all those who heard Him (Luke 2:42-47).  When Jesus becomes twelve years old in His corporate body, He will again come into the temple.  This time, He will come within the temple that we have become.

"Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?" I Corinthians 3:16

During this year, 2012, when Jesus becomes twelve years old in His corporate body, He will begin to come within His present day temple (us).

"When He shall come to be glorified in His saints...." II Thessalonians 1:10

All that Jesus did in a single body, during His first coming, He will again do through a corporate body, in the progression of His second coming.

The end-time visitation of our Lord is about to begin, as the final judgments have been delayed.

"Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon you, and His glory shall be seen upon you. And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising." Isaiah 60:1-2

In the Old Testament, the glory came "upon." In the New Testament, the glory comes "within."

May each of us who desire our Lord's best, separate ourselves from all that could hinder our hearing the Lord's knock upon our spirit.

If we respond, as John responded, Jesus will come within our "temple" to affect the world of our day and time, beyond anything that has ever been seen.

And the Gentiles (unsaved) shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising."

The greatest visitation ever is about to begin.

Wade E Taylor
www.wadetaylor.org