DIVINE UNITY - Vblog #10 - by Kriston Couchey

DIVINE UNITY - Vblog #10 - by Kriston Couchey

Excerpts From  "Breaking The Mold" - By Kriston Couchey

 DIVINE UNITY (Pages 35-36)   

      Communion, community, common unity: these terms describe what those led by the Spirit have in common; UNITY. This communion (common union) is not based upon a church affiliation, doctrine, leader, or location. It is based upon: “…the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” Complete unity with God is our destination in the kingdom. The kingdom will be released fully in those who learn to walk in union with the Holy Spirit regarding the heart and purposes of God. Not just obeying Him, but coming into agreement with His judgments and heart. The Bride of Christ is in complete agreement with the passion and purpose of God’s heart toward creation.

In this new day of the kingdom advancement we will see the progressive union of God with His children as He purges the earth of its rebellion and pride. As a groom consummates his love for his bride; so the Lord is consummating a union with His people that will express the very essence of God’s divine nature.

When those who walk with God in union enter fellowship, worship, and mutually encourage one another; you will see an even Greater Glory. This is an outpouring through those who have gathered unto Him as His body. Each one has first individually learned to walk in union with the king as the head, and then in communion with their brothers and sisters.

… and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, and the angel (messenger) of the covenant, whom ye desire: behold, he comes, said the LORD of the hosts.

God is fitting together a temple made of living stones that is at this present time scattered and coming out of wilderness trials and purification. But they are coming together in this time of earth’s upheaval and turbulence as a wave of refreshing to the earth. God is dwelling in His glory in these, and their common union is that they are partakers of His Spirit in nature and authority. They have learned to be at rest with God IN them and they IN Him. They have learned submission and accountability to God, and have come to maturity seen in obedience out of love.

COMMUNION IN COVENANT

There is coming a power and glory pouring forth from those walking in the “common unity” of the Spirit in the One Covenant of The Blood of Jesus. Truly this is the Wedding Covenant of Union with Christ. If you are led by the Spirit, you are His child, and are already in a completed covenant of unity with everyone else in heaven and earth who is one with God. In the One Covenant of “Common union” with God and each other, power will be released so mightily that many people will move beyond their old alliances and allegiances to their own church “communities”, denominations, leaders, and organizations.

The communion of the saints will be seen in the broader sense in its reality; as what God has deemed in “union” with Him is blessed, and that which is not in union with Him will not endure. You will know those in union with Him by His heart, His presence, and His power expressed in those He chooses to glorify; for we are the Glory He now chooses to clothe Himself in. He is the Glory we are clothed in. The new day’s work of God is going to be characterized by one thing: LOVE. By this ALL men shall know we are His disciples. The body will fully express what the Head (Jesus Christ) has created it to express; the divine nature of God seen in the person of Jesus Christ. God is pouring out a baptism of His Love and goodness to bring unity of purpose, heart, and vision to His people in this new day.

THE ONE COVENANT IS SUFFICIENT (page 59-62)

If the one covenant of Love given in Jesus is not enough for a group of people to work together in unity, will making another one of our own do any better? There is the bond of Peace in the Spirit. There is also a bond of “covenant” That men make with each other that is an agreement out of a need to “secure” relationships.

In I Sam. 20:14-17 Jonathan loved David like His own soul, but Jonathan made a "Covenant" with David out of fear of David changing his position toward him when he was in power. Fear has no place in the kingdom. Jacob and Laben made a covenant out of dislike to keep each other away. Covenants were made when one or more parties were unsure of the trustworthiness of the other. It is called a bond or “binding”. It is a need for security or surety that causes men to make extra-biblical covenants that bind together. Where is our security? Not in the bindings of church memberships or covenant relationships, it is in the Lord alone. Jesus told us to not swear (make a covenant) at all, but to let our yes be yes and our no be no. Anything more then that is of the evil one.

When two agree on something it is technically covenant. Agreement is a required component of the Body.  But that agreement is in the Holy Spirit, who gives us unity in the Spirit that is a “bond” (binding) of peace. Intentionally making a “binding” covenant not based on the Spirit’s “bond” as basis for relationship turns what should be a love relationship into law. People cut covenants to keep people or relationships secure, when all we need to really do is give people to Him for safekeeping in the first place.

If we need to make a covenant to keep a group of people loving each other and sticking together, then Christ’s love is not enough. It is better to live in the one Covenant of selfless Love; the one made by Christ’s shed blood. His blood is sufficient and His covenant is too. It is all one sided with the Lord. He cut the covenant with us because we were the untrustworthy party who had unbelief or doubts. God cut covenant to get rid of that unbelief and doubt in Him. Any covenant other than Christ’s is a division that separates us; it is an added covenant that devalues the ability and worth of the one covenant of His blood to bind us ALL with cords that cannot be broken.

There is a depth of brotherhood and love in the Spirit when He is in control and moving in power. In this setting, the constructs of men are meaningless. When the Spirit of God is moving in power, memberships, hierarchies, and institutional divisions become insignificant. This has been true of all powerful moves of the Holy Spirit. There is a unity in the Spirit that binds people together across all barriers and this is the NORMAL state of the church. We must learn to know one another by the Spirit in these days as the Lord will be rapidly moving ministries to many places to equip in a fashion that NO church denomination, apostolic network, or covenanted ministry can orchestrate. If we only trust the bonds of our membership, network, denomination, or covenant group we will miss God’s messengers.

The old ways of binding and uniting people will keep people sectarian and stunted.

When church government is a plurality of leadership that recognizes the across the spectrum need for cross pollination of the body, we will see great glory released to the body. This can only be fully realized when we start seeing ALL are in ONE covenant together. Many are in need of being brought the reality of the completeness and unity of covenant all His children already have in Christ.

COVERING EACH OTHER IN COVENANT

In the Body of Christ we are covered as we come into agreement with the Holy Spirit and then with others who have also come into agreement with the Holy Spirit. This covering comes from communion (common union) in the covenant that ALREADY EXISTS in Christ.  When Christ manifests in His body, those who are in agreement with the Holy Spirit in prayer, word and worship become a covering for each other as they partake of the one covenant in submission to one another. As Christ is released in edification, encouragement, and even correction; we protect and care for each other in the Love of God. This has NOTHING to do with a leader, and is an ever broadening and widening reality that will be fully manifest body wide in the Kingdom Age.  

You will not find the modern church concept of coverings ANYWHERE in scripture. The covering doctrine has given to men what ONLY belongs to God; our unquestioning, unwavering submission and contrition. It took me years to break free of the guilt and fear that comes from the “covering” doctrine. It is fear that keeps people bound to this false doctrine. Being part of the covering or "under authority" teaching does not mean you are evil. But, adherence to this doctrine systemically gives place in the body for someone other than the Lord to control, dictate, and take the place of “head”.

The covering doctrine is about being connected to leadership INSTEAD OF Christ. Many use "Covering” as a means of keeping people submitted to their doctrines, agendas, or leadership without question. For those unfortunate enough to have come under this influence, to disagree with your “covering”, or hear something from God they don’t agree with is to be unsubmitted to God and vulnerable to the devil. I have good news for you, it is not true. You have no need that any man teaches you, (definitely not me) but the anointing within you teaches you. He will teach you things men may not agree with. Go with the Holy Spirit and not the “covering”. Trust the anointing He has put in you by His Spirit.  This is a work of the Spirit that makes available to people all of the teaching, direction or correction we need. 

When the Lord told me I was to marry the woman who is now my wife, this is what He spoke: "She will be a covering for you". Wow, what a shock of a statement. But it has been truer than I could have ever imagined. She does not exercise authority over me. She has great influence on me and sways my heart with love; just as the Bride sways the heart of the Groom. But when her prayers open a path in blizzard (seen even on radar) for us go to a place of ministry, I must say, "she is a covering for me". I cannot imagine the impact of her prayers for me. My mother is also a covering for me with her prayers. She doesn’t exercise authority over me to bring me into submission to her agendas, doctrines, and church structure. But she certainly can speak to me the word of the Lord, and I must submit to the word if it is Him. I must submit to the voice of the Spirit in anyone speaking by Him, even my own children.

DIVINE UNITY-THE CITY CHURCH

DREAM - ONE CITY CHURCH

I had a dream in which I was going to church in a city. I was going with some others to this big church and as I was walking to the building a women stopped me and said, "For every great leader there is a denomination!" I realized that this is very true.

For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?~Paul~ Paul saw the same tendency of men in his day to form divisions in the body according to the leaders of his day. We have seen the fruit of this error manifest fully in the church. Whether it be a network of churches under and apostle, a fellowship of churches, or a mainline denomination; Many churches associate almost exclusively with a leader or administrative head-quarters that "heads" the group of churches. Most "churches" do not fellowship and relate with all other believers in their location, but according to those who agree with their doctrine or are subject to the same leadership regardless of where it is located.

As the dream continued, we entered into an auditorium in a building that was separate from the "main" church building. After looking again from outside the auditorium, I realized that the building actually adjoined and was part of the one main church, and shared the same stage and pulpit. I then realized that even though it was a different building it still was part of the larger church. As I pondered this it hit me! There was only ONE church in the city.

THE CHANGING CHURCH

One of the great changes coming to the ekklesia in this hour of transition is the changing structure and expression of the church. Those submitting to the cleansing and moving of the Holy Spirit in this hour are going to begin to recognize and walk in a unity of the Spirit not seen since the initial days after Pentecost. Old structures and divisions that have separated and bound people to a single man or movement are going to disappear. It will be important to recognize that the tie that binds us together is the bond of peace found within the Holy Spirit. Any bond with a man or ministry that hinders or undermines the ONE covenant of union in Christ Jesus is going to be seen as divisive and sectarian.

If you are led by the Spirit, you are God's child, and are already in a completed covenant of unity with everyone else in heaven and earth who is one with God. In the One Covenant of "Common union" with God and each other, power will be released so mightily that many people will move beyond their old alliances and allegiances to their own church "communities", denominations, leaders, and organizations. There is coming a move to unity of believers in a city or region. The true church will learn to organize and relate based upon location and not division. You will begin to see and recognize those Father has given authority to be elders of cities or regions.

ONE CITY CHURCH, MANY GATHERINGS

People will gather regularly in cities and regions in groups ranging from small house church groups to church groups in buildings. The difference will be the unity of Spirit in which all the children of God relate. One "head" means all are of the same body, and are the same church. While groups of a region will meet in separate houses or locations, they will all come together from time to time for worship and equipping at city or regional events. Ascension gifted individuals will be brought in to release kingdom realities that affect the whole body, and not just a small part of it. There will be those who travel to the small groups equipping on a smaller scale, but will be part of the team of elders recognized by all. The Lord Himself will orchestrate by the Spirit the equipping for each city/regional church. Cross pollinating of truth and revelation will cause deeper maturity to come to the common believer.

UNITY RELEASING BLESSING

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that runs down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard, that goes down to the skirts of his garments; as the dew of Hermon, that descends upon the mountains of Zion; for there the LORD commands blessing and eternal life.

The reason the church has not seen the power and presence of God released in a more profound and broader scale is division among brothers. He commands blessing and eternal life where brothers dwell in unity. As the church becomes more and more unified we will see clearly the blessing of God in abundant life flowing in every aspect of kingdom life. There is one kingdom, one church, one head, and one body. When the body is functioning in unity, the glory of God will be released in great measure. As much as this seems unlikely to some right now, it is already beginning to happen, and will be accomplished here on earth as it is in heaven.

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Edited by Moderator on 09/06/2011 at 1:27pm

Divine Government Of God Part 1 and 2 by Kriston Couchey

DIVINE GOVERNMENT OF GOD - Part 1 Divine Structure Vblog #13 - by Kriston Couchey
DIVINE GOVERNMENT OF GOD - Part 2 Divine Authority Vblog #14 by Kriston Couchey

HEAVENLY FAMILY PATTERN (#019)

FROM REPLICA TO REALITY
Christ Jesus came to restore the reality of the kingdom of heaven on earth. Since the fall of Adam there had only been a facsimile or picture of the kingdom of God in an institutional structure of patterns in the Jewish religion to picture a type or shadow of the future kingdom. In the fullness of time, Jesus came bringing with Him the potential restoration of the kingdom from heaven to replace the Old Testament order that had foreshadowed it.

A great tragedy occurred shortly after the first few centuries. The work of Jesus and the disciples to restore the reality of the kingdom of God to the world was perverted. The church was deceived into returning to a form of the religious institutional shadow of the past and mixing it with the work of Jesus and the disciples. The original, pure heavenly pattern Jesus brought was perverted and the reality of the heavenly kingdom on earth was altered.

In more recent times, kingdom minded people understood that the governance of the world was to be patterned after the government of Heaven. During the last several centuries since reformation began, there has been an effort to pattern the church after Heaven's government. This attempt to replicate the heavenly government on earth has been a step in the process but is not the final design of God.

God does not desire to only replicate the government of heaven on earth. He fully intends that the earth be governed with the government from heaven. This is to be direct governance of the church and the world from heaven on earth by the Spirit of Christ Jesus through the Holy Spirit in the sons of God. The kingdoms of this world will not become like the kingdom of our God. They shall become the kingdom of our God.

Holy Spirit led reformation leading to God's original patterns of governance on earth has begun. It is yet in the early stages. However, this is a major step toward the reality of the kingdom of God from heaven ruling and reigning on earth.

THE HEAVENLY GOVERNMENT
The government in heaven is entwined with the kingdom government of earth. In God’s pattern, the government of earth cannot be separated from the government of heaven.

The government of heaven is a FAMILY RELATIONAL structure. God chose to define Himself to man in terms of family relationships. The great SPIRIT GOD who is beyond description and "omni-everything" chose to be FATHER. In Scripture, heavenly relationships are spoken of in terms of family. FATHER has one first-born SON, who was with the Father from the beginning. The FATHER, SON, and HOLY SPIRIT are all ONE GOD in heaven. If it were possible for you to spiritually stand in the fire of the heart of God, the three would be there as one. There would be no distinction; the three are truly ONE GOD. The holy angels relate in the heavenly household as God's holy servants or messengers.

What is missing in this picture? The WIFE of God and many more Sons! Wow! This is getting huge! Are we about to discover why God spoke the earth into being, made mankind in HIS OWN IMAGE, and breathed HIS BREATH into man? Is it not God’s purpose that the earth be an extension of heaven filled with many Sons among whom FATHER DWELLS and from whom His beautiful BRIDE comes forth and becomes the WIFE of God?

The government of God on earth is the government of heaven and earth. In this sense, the heaven on earth is a direct intimate part of the government in heaven. Likewise, the government in heaven is directly and intimately connected with the government on earth. The Bride or Wife/Mother and Sons on earth are an intricate and intimate part of the family of God. (There is no gender distinction here; all can be Bride and all can be Sons.)

Since most all church and world institutions are currently NOT functioning in real kingdom government, coming into kingdom living is a great change. The secular fallen world governments have no direct connection with God. At best the church and Christian influenced world governments function as replicas as men seek to represent God on earth. In the kingdom reality we do not represent God but become a part of the family of God. We intimately relate in the family and flow the actual work and ways of God into the world by the Holy Spirit.

This is a major shift from the replica or foreshadowing of the government of God that God’s people have attempted to live in to this day. This is a major breakthrough in becoming what God desires us to become, ruling and reigning with Him on earth now. It is God ruling through His heavenly family pattern of government in the world.

With only a facsimile of the kingdom of God, we have not been able to bring down the government of the enemy. He continues to have a great influence on the governments of religion, business, education, entertainment, and nations of the world. However, the enemy kingdom is not a facsimile but the direct work of evil spirits. This has led to the church’s failure to reclaim the world for God. As the transition from replica to reality takes place, the kingdoms ruled by the enemy will begin to fall under the superior strength and power of the true kingdom of heaven.

HEAVEN'S FAMILY PATTERNS
As we continue to move into actually living the kingdom lifestyle, the patterns that govern our lives must become those that govern heaven. This means major adjustments in how believers live in the world. We are not just talking about the adjustment from the worldly, evil patterns of society; we are talking about adjustments regarding believers seeing, understanding and walking in the principles of heaven-style living on earth by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The first principle is that there is only one God and one Head of all. God is Head of all things. There is one authority in heaven, the authority of the Father. The throne of God is the absolute rule of all. The kingdom of God on earth is not separate from the kingdom in heaven. The throne of God is the seat of all government at all levels in the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. There is no replicated authority.

Secondly, there is no distance and therefore no need for any form of delegated authority. God does not delegate His authority as King of all. Our heavenly Father, through Christ by the Holy Spirit, is potentially available directly to every person on earth at all times. God's authority flows through His people but it always remains His authority. All authority in heaven and on earth is given to the Son Christ Jesus.

Through the Holy Spirit, the Son and the Father can indwell mature Sons in the many member Body of Christ on earth. Great authority flows through the Body; but it always remains God’s authority. The holy angels are sent with specific authority for specific tasks; however, it is always the authority of God. It is not delegated or given over to them but flows through them.

The sent servants on earth flow in gifts and authority. The gifts are like tools and may remain as part of the person or may come and go as God wills. However, the authority is never part of the person. It only flows through the person. No one is given delegated authority from God. The gifts of apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd and teacher are tools for service--not "offices of authority." God's authority can flow through all human beings including those who carry these gifts; but again, it remains only God's authority.

In the beginning, man was given dominion on earth and the ability to choose to obey or to disobey. But God did not give man the authority to disobey. Disobedience is rebellion to God and obedience to the enemy. Man’s disobedience to God (sin) submits to the enemy as an authority and releases the enemy to have a measure of authority in the world. In disobeying God, man seizes authority he was not given. He makes himself an authority apart from God. Functioning as an authority apart from God is the original sin of Adam.

Thirdly, God and everything in Heaven is completely holy. The kingdom of God in heaven and on earth is altogether holy. Nothing that defiles is allowed to enter the kingdom of God. Every member of the family of God must be completely holy just as He is holy (Rev 21:27).

This is very different from the cheap version of what we have called the "kingdom of God". Yet this is the reality of God and His kingdom. Most who think they have entered the kingdom of God have only begun a journey of complete cleansing and total death to sin as they become fully alive unto God (Rom 6:11). The kingdom of God cannot rule on earth without a holy people who flow the authority of God to govern the earth.

Fourthly, God is love and His kingdom is established and sustained by love. The love of God is the power that changes the hearts of men and cleanses the earth. Love is the predominant principle and law of the kingdom of God in heaven and on earth. Love permeates heaven and the kingdom on earth. Nothing in the kingdom works without love. Without love there would be no faith, no hope, no redemption, no mercy, no grace, and no life. Love is the glue that holds the kingdom together and is the pure source of obedience.

The heavenly family is connected by love. The Father loves the Son and the Father's love reaches toward all mankind. The Son loves us and gave Himself for us at the cross. The Father so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.

We are probably more accustomed to thinking of the love relationship with God in the sense of "agapao" love. Scripture speaks of the "agapao" love in the family (social, moral, ready-to-serve kind of love). It also speaks of "phileo" love in the family (deep, tender affection, cherishing above all else, characterized by consistency).

1 Cor 16:22: If anyone does not love (phileo) the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed....
The heavenly family pattern includes social love and a deep, tender affection flowing from the Heavenly Father and the Son Who becomes the Bridegroom and Husband of the Bride/Wife. The same love also flows to the children. The heavenly family pattern is relationship through love including tender affection. Apparently, according to the above verse there is a curse attached to not having the "phileo" kind of love for the Lord Jesus Christ.

The kingdom of heaven pattern is the Bride/Wife (Bride of Christ) loving her Husband (Jesus) with deep, tender affection to the point of complete submission with worship and adoration. The Husband (Jesus) loves His Wife (Bride of Christ) to the point of giving Himself for her and caring for her with deep and tender affection. The work of the Husband (Jesus) is not complete without the Wife (Bride of Christ).

THE KINGDOM ORDERS AND PROVIDES
The spiritual government from heaven is the absolute, supreme, above all else, authority that provides all life and establishes all order in heaven and on earth. Earthly institutions of life and order or supposed to flow the design and substance of the heavenly spiritual government into all natural life. The heavenly family pattern should be visible in the earthly family institution, business institutions and all governmental institutions.
 All aspects of spiritual and practical needs of mankind and the planet are provided for through the heavenly family patterns of government both in heaven and on earth. The Wife of God does the business of the kingdom on earth and brings great honor to her Husband. Proverbs 31:10-31 paints a picture of the government of God carried out by the pure and holy Wife of God. The Lord safely trusts His heart to her and there is no lack of the work of the Lord being done. She never does harm or brings reproach to the Lord. She is industrious in business. She is strong and powerful in the Lord. She provides for the poor and needy of the world. The Lord is known through her and governs the affairs of the world. She is honored and will rejoice in times to come. She speaks wisdom and kindness into the world. She is diligent and not idle. She is blessed and praised by her children. There will be much fruit of her labor, which will not be lost. God's Wife's works will praise her and bring glory to God.

Proverbs 31:10-31"Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies.
The heart of her husband safely trusts her, So he will have no lack of gain.
She does him good and not evil All the days of her life.
She seeks wool and flax, And willingly works with her hands.
She is like the merchant ships, She brings her food from afar.
She also rises while it is yet night, And provides food for her household, And a portion for her maidservants.
She considers a field and buys it; From her profits she plants a vineyard.
She girds herself with strength, And strengthens her arms.
She perceives that her merchandise is good, And her lamp does not go out by night.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff, And her hand holds the spindle.
She extends her hand to the poor, Yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy.
She is not afraid of snow for her household, For all her household is clothed with scarlet.
She makes tapestry for herself; Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Her husband is known in the gates, When he sits among the elders of the land.
She makes linen garments and sells them, And supplies sashes for the merchants.
Strength and honor are her clothing; She shall rejoice in time to come.
She opens her mouth with wisdom, And on her tongue is the law of kindness.
She watches over the ways of her household, And does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children rise up and call her blessed; Her husband also, and he praises her:
"Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all."
Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, And let her own works praise her in the gates."

The government of God comes from the spiritual but is practical and real. Every aspect of life in the world is dealt with through the provision and work of the Father, the Son, and the Bride/Wife by the Holy Spirit. The heavenly kingdom family pattern governs the natural family, business, and political governments. It is God's only plan for governing of all matters spiritual and natural, in the kingdom of God.

PATTERNS OF LIFE
New Jerusalem is the great pattern-city of God. The patterns of life are coming down from God to form and shape the Bride of Christ. The other great pattern-city, Babylon, has imposed its patterns of rule upon the earth. As God's people fall in love with Him and become one with the Lord, the kingdoms of this earth will become the kingdoms of our God. New Jerusalem patterns of life will be planted into the hearts of men and then brought forth into the world.

The book of Genesis (the book of beginnings) is filled with patterns of New Jerusalem life. The Garden of Eden with its God-given patterns of life and ruling are New Jerusalem patterns of kingdom order.

God's rule on earth is governed as a Heavenly family.

Notice the divine image of the heavenly family in God’s natural creation.
God made man in the image of God and breathed the life of God into man.
Jesus is the image of God and the Spirit of life is within Him.

Genesis 1:26,28, Amp: God said, "Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all of the earth, and over every thing that creeps upon the earth." And God blessed them, and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it (with all its vast resources); and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
Adam was given dominion on earth. (Notice that Adam was not given dominion over other people.)
All authority in heaven and on earth is given to Christ Jesus.

Mat 28:18: And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth."
Adam was created and communed with God before having a wife.
Jesus was with the Father from the beginning and also had no wife.

God formed a wife for Adam from Adam's body.
God is forming a wife for Christ Jesus from His Body.

God instructed man to leave his original state and be joined to and cleave to his wife.
Christ Jesus left His original state in heaven to be joined to and cleave to His Bride/Wife.

The man and his wife are to be open, transparent and intimate with one another.
Christ Jesus and His Bride/Wife are to be open, transparent and intimate with one another.

The man and his wife are to become one flesh (one with one another).
Christ Jesus and His Bride/Wife are to become one.

Genesis 2:18-25, Amp:  Now the Lord God said, "It is not good (sufficient,
satisfactory) that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper meet (suitable, adapted, completing)  for him." And out of the ground the Lord God formed every (wild) beast and living creature of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them, and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was its name. And Adam gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the air, and to every (wild) beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper meet (suitable, adapted, completing) for him.  

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and while he slept He took one of his ribs - a part of his side - and closed up the (place with) flesh instead of it; and the rib or part of his side which the Lord had taken from the man, He built up and made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then Adam said, "This (creature) is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of a man."   

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not embarrassed or ashamed in each other's presence.    
The husband is to deeply and tenderly love his wife.
Jesus loves the church (Bride/Wife) and gave himself for her.

The wife is to be subject, submit, and adapt to her husband.
The Bride/Wife of Christ is to be subject to, submit to and adapt to Christ Jesus.

The husband is the head of the wife.
Christ Jesus is the head of the church (Bride/Wife).

Ephesians 5:22-24, Amp: Wives, be subject - be submissive and adapt yourselves to your own husbands as a service to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the church, Himself the Savior of (His) body. As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
The wife is instructed to see that she greatly respects and admires her husband.
The Bride/Wife of Christ has this same respect, reverence and worship for her Husband.

Ephesians 5:33: However, let each man of you (without exception) love his wife as (being in a sense) his very own self; and let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband - that she notices him, regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates and esteems him; and that she defers to him, praises him, and loves and admires him exceedingly.
God's patterns always work. Nothing else will produce the kingdom life we all desire. Our only choices are to adjust to God's pattern or try to adjust God's pattern to us. I think we know which choice will work and which one will not. We can always find the love and grace in God to fulfill our part.

Please note there is a distinction between "man and woman" and "husband and wife." Man and woman are the same being with no distinction in the spiritual realm. Husband and wife are places of service and are without gender in the heavenly family pattern. Marriage of man and woman is an earthly replica made from the heavenly family pattern. It is only a type or shadow of the Heavenly Family.

In the spiritual realm there is no male or female, Jew or Gentile, bond or free.
Gal 3:28: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
The heavenly family patterns take precedence over all earthly replicas or types. It is the real from which all life is to be patterned. Earthly replicas are not extended into heaven.

Because people have such great involvement in marriage in this life, it is mistakenly assumed by many that marriage continues in the spiritual realms of heaven. Jesus made this clear to the Sadducees when they brought Him a challenging question regarding whose wife a woman would be in heaven when she had had more than one husband in this life. Please do not be greatly concerned about missing "being married" in heaven. Experiencing the fullness of your heavenly marriage to your husband, Jesus, for one moment will wipe away all of your concern.  

Mark 12:24-25: Jesus answered and said to them, "Are you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God?  For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven."
In spiritual matters there is no male and female. The more completely we live in the Spirit, the more we experience no male/female difference. The more we live in the earthly realm, the greater we envision male/female differences. There are differences in our earthly experience but not in our spiritual position or functions.

When God took a part of Adam to build up Eve, it seems obvious that He removed much of the emotion from Adam and placed it into Eve and left most of the ego in Adam. This makes male or female more suitable for certain functions in life. This is particularly evident in the rearing of children.

CHILDREN IN THE HEAVENLY FAMILY PATTERN

Natural children possess all the potential of adults. They have gifts, personal qualities and attributes, but they are immature and undeveloped. Years will be required for them to develop natural maturity in order to use their innate abilities. Though some may mature more rapidly in an area than others, to some degree they are all tied to time to produce maturity.

Spiritually, maturity is not as directly tied to time. A child may possess powerful gifts and reach maturity to use them in a short period of time. On the other hand, some fully mature adults may not have developed spiritually at all.

The parents have a major part in the development of children.

In the heavenly family pattern for natural children, the husband/father (like Jesus) and the wife/mother are both corporately involved in the development of their children. The mother is equipped with all the tenderness and attributes needed to nurture the babies and help them develop to maturity. The father/husband has strength and all the power of heaven to provide protection and security for the fledgling child. He also has wisdom and knowledge to train the children.

The children feel extremely secure under the care and protection of their strong, loving father and tender, loving mother. The father's strength instills feelings of safety in a child. His loving firmness gives them great assurance that firm boundaries exist for their protection. Only the special strength and love of their father can provide the security of discipline and protection they need. Small children are very sensitive to their mother's feelings and attitudes. Because she feels safe with her Husband, the children feel safe.

Boundaries, rules, discipline and laws are part of the training and development of the immature. The children's primary response is to obey their parents.
Ephesians 6: 1-3: Children, obey your parents in the Lord (as His representatives), for this is just and right. Honor (esteem and value as precious) your father and your mother; this is the first commandment with a promise:  that all may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.
God's pattern is for the children to be obedient and honor their parents. Children growing up in the heavenly family pattern easily come to know God. They see Him in their parents. They have a clear view of God’s love in the love their father has for their mother. They are trained to reflect God's love as they see their mother respect and praise her Husband, their father. They understand God's love and know how to respond to it with loving respect and submission.

I think we can all see that the godly natural family mirrors the heavenly family. The heavenly family pattern translates into the earthly reality of lives and families. We are moving toward the reality of the rule of God through Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit in His people on earth as it is in heaven.

The Heavenly Family Pattern is the same for all types of corporate relationships including all kingdom business and governance.

BUSINESS IN THE HEAVENLY FAMILY PATTERN
God, through Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit is to be the HEAD of all businesses and governments. Some of us have begun to accept the reality that Jesus is the head of the church; but it might be a big step to realize that, in the kingdom of God, Jesus is also the head of each person and all businesses, schools, governments at all levels, and any other corporate work or structure in the world. In the kingdom of God there is nothing that is not under the headship of Christ.
God will flow His authority through mature Sons to carry out management functions. However, He will not delegate His authority. The King is the rightful owner of all the assets of the kingdom. God's empowerment and direction comes with the call and opportunity to serve in managing a portion of the kingdom. All things are for Him and through Him and nothing in the kingdom is done without Him. Our love relationship and intimate oneness with God provides the happiest, most productive life possible. As the Bride/Wife of God we are overjoyed beyond measure in the glory of our Husband/Father/King.

We saw earlier in the discussion on Proverbs 31 how the Wife serves her husband by meeting the needs of people and the world around her. The purpose of business and all other activity in the kingdom is to glorify God by providing for the needs of people and the world around us. All this is done according to His direction and from a motivation of pure love.

Every part of the heavenly family pattern rules in all forms of business. Employment is as permanent as marriage. Children (newcomers or immature) are loved and trained the same as in the heavenly pattern. Everyone looks to Jesus as Head and follows His leadership flowing through the Holy Spirit in those serving as father/husband, wife/mother and children. Everyone submits to one another and to the other person's place of service in the kingdom order (family). The focus is always serving by meeting needs and never is the focus on gaining personal wealth to consume upon our lusts or to meet only our needs.

God never intended that business or any other activities become competitive means of personal fulfillment of greedy motives. Competition, greed and other such things are patterned from Babylon and cannot exist in the kingdom of God.

Secular and godly are not opposites. In the past, there has been an inaccurate assumption that there was a division between secular and godly. The kingdom of God encompasses all life. The proper distinction or division is between godly and profane. The world is not inherently evil and is being redeemed and returned to the kingdom of God.

The heavenly family patterns of God's government for families, businesses, churches, and every aspect of human life are New Jerusalem patterns coming down now from God to form and shape the Bride of Christ. The enemy's patterns that have ruled in the world are harlot patterns from "Mystery Babylon."

Excerpted from Kingdom Growth Guides.

Keep on Pursuing Love
It Will Never Fail,
Ron McGatlin

http://www.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net

The Judgment And Wrath Of God Vblog #16 by Kriston Couchey

THE JUDGMENT AND WRATH OF GOD - Vblog #16 -by Kriston Couchey
HARLOTRY OF BABYLON (#020)
 
There are two great, ruling cities from which mankind can receive patterns for life. We have previously written regarding the great ruling city of God, New Jerusalem, the Bride of Christ City. The other great ruling city is Babylon, the Harlot of the devil, which has planted its harlot patterns throughout the current world system. Babylon's patterns have produced great riches for some. She is extremely enticing and beautifully clothed in wealth. Yet, inside, she is full of filth and abominations, a habitation of demons. 

Babylon must fall. This great religious and political system with all its patterns of life is judged of God and is coming down. Before the patterns of New Jerusalem can rule, the patterns of Babylon must be dissolved. The people seeking to enter the city-of-God lifestyle must have the Babylonian patterns and ways broken, removed from their lives, and replaced with New Jerusalem patterns. The Babylonian system has been deadly to the saints of God. Many have fallen and many are in captivity to Babylonian ways. God�s people are warned to come out of Babylon lest they share in her sin and receive of her plagues.
 Revelation 17:1-6: Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication." So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. And on her forehead a name was written: "MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement. 

Revelation 17:15,18: And he said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues." And the woman whom you saw is the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.
Revelation 18:2-4: And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a habitation of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird. For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury." And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues."        
What a great contrast between the harlot city of Babylon described in the book of Revelation (chapters seventeen to nineteen) and the beautiful Bride-City of God, New Jerusalem, described in Revelation (chapters twenty-one and twenty-two). The beautiful Bride of Christ lifestyle is filled with the glory of God abiding with man and man living in God�s very presence partaking of a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and the Lamb. Tears are wiped away and curses broken. Men and women are thankfully serving God and joyfully praising Him.

Just as there is a natural Jerusalem and now a spiritual New Jerusalem coming forth, there was a natural Babylon that was destroyed and now a Mystery Babylon that is being destroyed. Many patterns that began thousands of years ago in old Babylon are traceable throughout ancient history and up to the present time. Ancient Babylon was the first great-walled city after the flood. Noah�s great grandson, Nimrod, built it. Noah begot Ham; Ham begot Cush; and Cush begot Nimrod. 

Babylon became the birthplace of idolatry that spread throughout the ancient world and was passed to empires and civilizations throughout history.  Nimrod and his wife, Semiramis, were the first people to be worshipped as gods. Although different names were used in various cultures, they were similarly worshipped in much of the world, and can still be easily recognized in many religions today. These patterns were subversively planted into the Christian religion. Churches today are still affected by them. This nation (the good old U.S.A.) and much of the world are primarily ruled by the patterns of ancient Babylon. The patterns found in Nimrod and Semiramis of ancient Babylon are very similar to the dynamics of worldly families, businesses, churches, and political governments of today.  

Genesis 10:8-12a: Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.  He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, �Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.� And the beginning of his kingdom was  Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, and Resen. 
The word  "before" in the statement "He was a mighty hunter before the Lord" could be translated "against". Nimrod was a mighty man "against" the Lord. By some means, he and Semiramis tapped into the darkness of mystical and occult powers. A departure from the patriarchal faith had occurred. It is represented by some profane history that Cush had become a ringleader of apostasy. Nimrod added mystical, demonic powers and knowledge to his natural strength and became a powerful force on the earth, conquering all those around him. 

Nimrod was the first to wage war upon his neighbors, the first to train troops with exercise and hardship, and the first to build towers and walled cities for battle. Nimrod exercised strong control over men. They were enticed with unbridled self-gratification. Everywhere Nimrod went there were extravagant parties with orgies, dancing girls, music, games, and anything that brought self-gratification. Nimrod also controlled others by locking up the mysteries of science and sorcery that he had discovered and releasing them to men only when they were under his control. He used confession of sins and faults to control. When he had enough information on others and they were awestruck by his great display of magic, he could easily control them.
 
Nimrod was suddenly cut off in the midst of his glorious career. Mystery surrounds his disappearance, but it is believed he met with a violent death while on one of his expeditions. Semiramis, whose feminine beauty hid her immoral, manipulative, deceitful self, had usurped her husband�s attributes before his death. At his death, she fully took over her husband�s place.  

Semiramis, in her licentious ways, gave birth to a son after Nimrod was gone. She told people that Nimrod had reappeared in the person of a posthumous son. She held the son up as God and the people worshipped him. They worshipped her as the mother of God. Eventually, she became the predominant goddess overshadowing the son. Thus, through deception and manipulation she took over the assets and attributes of Nimrod and continued her lavish lifestyle. 

Semiramis was seen as both the mother and wife of her husband. Nimrod was seen as the husband and the son of his wife. She was revered as the "Mother of God".The image of the "Mother of God" with the child in her arms spread throughout the idolatrous world. Semiramis is said to have finished the wall of Babylon and thus became the goddess of fortresses and towers. The "Diana of the Ephesians" mentioned in the New Testament with her crown of towers is identified with Semiramis. 

Babylon became known as a great center of extravagant wealth and revelry, a monument of glamour to the accomplishments of man, a place of harlotry and sorcery, a place of great wizardry, great human knowledge and discovery, and a place of competition and contention. However, its primary characteristic was spiritual harlotry.  

Spiritual harlotry is seeking to fulfill our own needs and desires apart from God. God is our provider and desires to meet our needs in every area of life. If we look to anything or anyone else to meet our needs, we are looking to another god and are involved in spiritual harlotry. Harlotry and idolatry are very closely related. Harlotry is looking to an idol (another god) for what our Heavenly Father should provide for us.  Spiritual harlotry is selling our purity to meet our needs. It is self-seeking and self-serving.  

It is easy to see how the bad heart-tree is a harlot tree. Spiritual harlotry is seeking to meet the needs of our life-structure on our own, instead of trusting God to take care of us. The good heart-tree is a bride tree, in which we are able to trust God to meet all of our needs and satisfy our wants.

Babylon is a harlot system, a means of meeting human needs and selfish wants apart from God. Babylon is ruled by a spirit of harlotry and is characterized by competition, immorality, and sorcery.    
HARLOTRY IS SELF-SEEKING AND SELF-SERVING: It is seeking to meet my own needs and desires apart from God.  
COMPETITION IS SEEKING POSITION OR CONTROL:
Some characteristics are: Contention, Strife, Thieving (taking), Lying, Deceit, Manipulation, Seduction, Control, Dominance, War (fighting), Overlord, Tyrant, Backbiting, Murder, Greed, and Covetousness.  
IMMORALITY IS SEEKING PLEASURE OR ENTERTAINMENT:
Some characteristics are: Lust, Fantasy Lust, Fornication, Sexual Perversion, Unclean, Overeating, Overplaying, Overworking, Over-resting, and Reveling (partying).  
SORCERY IS SEEKING POWER OR DIRECTION:
Some characteristics are: Occult, Witchcraft, Hypnosis, Mind Control, Mind Power, Humanism, Intellectualism, Astrology, Psychics, and New-Age Junk. 
Much of the world has taken giant steps into Babylonian harlotry in recent decades. Games and "playing" have become a major part of the western world. Gambling lotteries and casinos have spread widely across the land. Sexual perversion and recreational immorality are accepted as normal behavior. Psychics are now openly viewed by many as a valid source of direction for their lives. Competition has intensified as people struggle for control in families, businesses, governments, tribes, and nations. Computer and video games, gambling, spectator sports, recreational drugs and alcohol, entertainment, and other recreational industries probably already represent the largest segment of production in the western world. Are we seeking from another god what our true God desires to supply? 
 WORLD WAR
Many skirmishes and wars continue to be fought within the Babylonian world system. Men and nations compete for the assets of the world to gratify themselves. There is no end to the struggles for positions of control and possessions in the Babylonian jungles of social structure.

However, the greatest war of all time is the all out win or die worldwide war between Babylon and New Jerusalem (the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light). The war is between the harlot and the Bride way of life ruling the world. Christ Jesus has already won this war and has provided victory over the evil Babylonian kingdom of darkness. The full manifestation of this victory waits for the hearts of mankind to align with Christ Jesus. This involves human beings turning from their harlot lifestyles and becoming the righteousness of God in Christ. The pure, holy, glorious Bride of Christ is the fulfillment of the victory Christ Jesus purchased with His own blood.

Therefore, the war is now within the minds and hearts of mankind, especially those who are called by His name. The god of Babylon strives with much success to limit the faith of the people of God. His greatest tool is spiritual blindness to kingdom of God reality. When God's people cannot see and cannot hear Him clearly, false concepts can be planted that prevent true faith from developing. What man believes in his heart determines the release of the rule of the kingdom of darkness or the kingdom of light.

The war is about faith to believe that the kingdom of God is now available on the earth. The enemy has destroyed the faith of most religious people. They simply do not believe that the kingdom of God that Christ came to purchase can manifest now. The enemy has perverted the word of God and caused most people to believe the planet is to be destroyed and not redeemed. The enemy wants you to have no faith for the kingdom of God now and no hope for the planet to become restored.

This blindness and loss of faith in the kingdom of God is not new. Works of Babylon were firmly implanted in the church before the fourth century. By the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the English Bible was translated, there was almost no revelation of the kingdom of God on earth. This present life and world were seen as hopelessly evil and lost. The planet would have to be destroyed, a new planet created, and Jesus bodily returned for there to be any of God's kingdom on earth.

This led to what I consider to be the most grievous of translation errors in our English Bible. In 2nd Peter the translators deviated from their own translation rules to cause the word to say the "elements" of the earth will be burned up in judgment. Going back to the original language, it is absolutely obvious that without any doubt Peter was speaking of the rudimental elements of evil that would be completely destroyed.

The word translated "elements" is "stoicheion" (stoy-khi'-on), which means something orderly in arrangement, a basal, fundamental, initial serial, and constituent. In other words, "stoicheion" means the basic, foundational, principles of an order. In this passage it specifically refers to the foundations of the evil order affecting earth, not the physical elements of the planet.
 This is the only time this word is interpreted to mean physical elements in the Bible.
 "Stoicheion" is used seven times in the New Testament; in every case it refers to basic principles or rudiments, either of the doctrines and oracles of God or of the evil world order. In no other place is it interpreted as referring to the physical elements.

(For a detailed study of this passage see Chapter 7 of the book The Seventh Millennium.)
 God is looking for a kingdom people.
God is calling forth a people that will break through the Babylonian darkness, and renounce their harlot lifestyles, and renew their minds to the mind of Christ by the Holy Spirit. The kingdom of God waits for God's people to change their mind-set from seeking life and pleasure from other gods to a pure love relationship with Christ Jesus our Lord and King.

Will we become the Bride or continue in our harlot ways? The world waits to see the reality of the New Jerusalem lifestyle and the love and power of the real kingdom of God. Multitudes will come to the real thing; however, multitudes will continue to seek other gods until they see something more real than what the church has produced in past centuries.

In prayer renounce the Babylonian ways in your own life and rebuke the enemy in the name of Jesus. Ask Father to fill your heart with the life and concepts of the New Jerusalem lifestyle.
 Keep on Pursuing Love
It Will Never Fail, Ron McGatlin

http://www.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net 

The Kingdom Of God and the Governments of Men - Video by Kriston Couchey

The Kingdom of God and the Governments of Men - Video
The goal or vision of God is that HIS kingdom would come and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

What is His will? There will be no more sin, no sickness, no death, no grief, but in His eternal kingdom established on earth (which is the will of God), His will is done perfectly, His kingdom is executed perfectly as the heart of all are in complete union and oneness with Christ who is becoming the "All in all" in the endless age of the fullness and increasing reign of His kingdom.

Example: Today we have doctors and physicians which is a good thing and a blessing. I believe doctors are ordained of God to help us in an age where sickness is still reigning in the lives of many. But God's perfect will is DIVINE HEALTH. While many who know and love God are in the health-care field, the health-care field is a temporary aid until the time that Divine health is the norm and sickness and death are fully placed under his feet (we are His body and by extension His feet!)

The goal in this case is that divine health would be that which REMOVES THE NEED for doctors and the whole system upon which the system of health-care is built.

If you are called to health-care system , you MUST be in it for obedience sake, but it is not our destiny, and it is not our hope. It is secondary function that must end in the age of the kingdom being fully established.

Much has to do with our vision. God is bringing us to perfection and complete oneness with Him on the earth. If you don't believe that then you can be happy looking to the security of men's systems, if you do, then your goal is to preach and establish the kingdom which is not dependent upon these ending systems.

This means economic, political, religious systems are ending and we must begin to establish God's kingdom, which is the only system that will remain in this unfolding age. Daniel's dream interpretation saw that ALL the nations of men (and their supporting systems)will be shattered into dust as the rock uncut by human hands crushes it and grows to be the mountain of God, (His kingdom).

Our goal is that Christ be the "all in all" that nullifies the need for systems that have been a temporary aid in times of darkness. BUT, the light is coming and even now dawning!!

Kingdom Assignments

Kingdom Assignments

This is a time for you to walk in great precision by taking care of the things of the Kingdom.  You will need to take precious time in My presence to be able to hear and see correctly.  There is much going on around you to distract you from the necessary order of life.  Your steps are ordered in My Word and My plans are always according to the Word of God.  Well ordered steps will mean much in the days ahead so make haste to come running to Me with every little detail of your life.  I will always listen, hear and answer the prayers of My Spirit so pray in tongues continually for it will lift you to new heights in Me, says the Lord.

¹⁵See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, ¹⁶Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.  ¹⁷Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.  ¹⁸And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Eph. 5:15

Prophetic Word For 2012 - The Dromedaries Are Coming

PROPHETIC WORD FOR 2012

THE DROMEDARIES ARE COMING



6 The multitude of camels shall cover your land,   the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah;       All those from Sheba shall come;  They shall bring gold and incense,  And they shall proclaim the praises of the LORD. Isa. 60:6


In 2011 we saw both the goodness and the severity of God.

As I sat down to pray I heard in my spirit, "The dromedaries are coming".  

In 2012 we have great expectancy having just come through a most difficult year. Our hearts are filled with thankfulness to our Father for keeping His hand on our lives.

Many have come through deep tests and trials. At times you have even asked questions wanting to be sure you were on the right track but through the difficulties and tests you have been found faithful. Often painfully God dealt with you as sons and you have come out on the other side, walking in a deeper level of commitment and holiness.

Many of you have been hidden and are not yet known to man as you have been hidden for God's future purposes. God has not forgotten you but He has been doing a lasting work in your life. It will not be about your ministry but Christ in you (his sent ones) that will go forward and do great exploits in His name. You have learned to give Him all of the glory!

The government is upon His shoulders and He came to establish His kingdom in the earth. The Kingdom of God is within you.  In 2012 we will see a positioning of many of His apostles and prophets in the earth.  These sent ones will not be concerned about titles, but will want to see the body of Christ mature that the harvest might come in.

The body of Christ is being realigned on His axis. There will be much more shifting in the body of Christ and in the earth to bring about His Divine purposes.  Truly, His Kingdom is being established in the earth without delay.

The church has come short of His glory in her prayer life and intercession and God is calling leadership to a greater level of commitment in the prayer closet. How can you expect your sheep to do what you do not do? No longer will you be able to get through on a few minutes of prayer but will need to be serious,and to watch and pray! Life and death are in the power of the tongue and you need to line up your mouth with the Word of God.  What you declare and decree holds weight so put a watch at the door of your mouth.

These dromedaries (sent ones) may not come in conventional packaging but will be designed by God Himself so do not miss the hour of your visitation.  There will be those sent into your midst to help you labour in the vineyard.

Pastors you will need to release the control of your house to Me that My apostles and prophets might be moved into position.  I will no longer tolerate Pastors controlling their sheep but am looking for those that will lay down their lives for the sheep daily.

These dromedaries will come bearing their gifts and you need these gifts operating in your midst. Eyes and ears that have been sharpened by years of training are needed for the work of God, to survive and flourish and all gifts of the Spirit need to be flowing. Test and try every spirit but receive those that I send to you.

Home churches are being established throughout the land and many will leave the conventional churches and seek out these smaller, more personal groups as there are those there that will allow the Holy Spirit to have His rightful place. The church is being moved out of the four walls into the highways and byways and you need to be prepared to minister to people, anywhere, anytime and any place the Spirit of God quickens to your heart.  You have been given the message of My Son Jesus and you must take it to the people being instant in season and out of season.

I am Divinely linking My body together and My bride comes from every kindred and tribe and you must learn to love.  It is by the love you have one for another that men will know that you are My disciples.



In 2012 determine in your heart to take time in My Word. Let Me show you the treasures in My Word as you study to show yourself approved to God.

Much has been written about the world situation and many have been filled with fear of the future. Time spent with Me will help you to overcome fear and you must be determined to root it out of your life.  Learn NOW to put your trust in Me for ALL your needs for man will not always be standing with you.

Continue to pray for the world situation. Remember that you are in this world but not of it.The Kingdoms of this earth are being shaken but there is no confusion in heaven. You are seated in heavenly places and all things are possible to those that believe.  As believers you have the answer to the worlds issues, for I Jesus came to seek and save those that were lost. I AM the ONLY answer to mans dilemmas and to this world situation.

I will never leave or forsake you. Continue to see to the needs of the poor. Open your hearts to the needy and remember that you are My hands and feet in this fallen world.

I have heard the cries of those hidden ones longing to take My Word to a lost and dying world. They are willing to pay the price even with their life.  Many will be sent in the years ahead and some will not return. You will overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of your testimony.  Those that are willing to lay down their lives will gain life eternal.

In 2012 many "sent ones" are being positioned and many are being released to do the work of the Kingdom. Pray for them!  Be willing to receive them in your midst and remember that one that ministers the gospel is also worthy to be supported in that work.  Freely you have received,freely give.



Patricia Hamel

January 2, 2012
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