May 2004 archives

Isaiah often streamed into the testimony of Jesus, as the Spirit tends to do, but it was into His Suffering that people typically notice the most. The Suffering Servant passage reveals that part of Jesus in ongoing suffering to accomplish the things of THe Father. The film The Passion has this same seed within it, and is entering people worldwide. Last week it entered Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and beyond.

To know Jesus as He Suffers is to know Him also in His Resurrectional Force. They go together and are being co-released so to speak in the Spirit! The Power in Him is connected to both His suffering and His triumph. The Cross is again being preached in the most vicseral and directly impartational manner. The Cross is our entrance into heaven now, as well as into what is meant by "resurrection life". I still like this term, the abundant life, though its been overused--what it means to me, is to enter more of The Actual Life of Christ HERE ON EARTH. Lots of us are having much more daily heaven experience, not just occasional worship moments, but ongoing vision and incarnate awareness of His Presence in our every day. But the focus is not just on experience, it is being returned to the Cross, and actually moving in what it opened us to.

I think that this is the right focus, as it is the single act which revealed the Father most overtly in history, and it is also the actual path into heaven right now for every person. There is no other way to enter heaven, but through the cross.
David goes into this over and over even before the cross had occured in space and time--confession itself, is based on the reality of the cross. We confess assuming that the cross and its power is real and can be made ours.
So as many are ascending higher. Many are seeing angels, and really hearing God on new and practical levels--not just as an upper storey mystical experience, but as a daily diaper changing one. As this happens, God starts preaching the cross. This film comes out, and His People are riveted to His Side!

....as the darkness increases so will the Light. May His Light and Truth guide us to that Holy Hill (psalm 43:3)...as the darkness is allowed to run rampant, so His tremendous Power is being poured forth. The Father cannot help but gather what is His, as a hen gathers her chicks---as the darkness is made manifest, so His glory will shine as never before...this later temple may look like less, but just as the second temple had more glory so will this one--this one in His People already gathers Light....as people see the witness of who He is In His People, this witness will draw men to Him....as the choices become more obvious between His World and Ways and the ways of evil....we will know one aother in and through Christ!
A new level of incarnation of Jesus in His People. The Light makes the darkness apparent! WE will all be forced to cling to Christ, to love-clutch His Garments--to actualy BE in Him! As if through fire, this hour, judgment begins with the house of God--already the sons and daughters prophecy, the old dream dreams, the spirit of Elijah released. His Witnesses start to stand!
the deeds of men will be separated from His deeds. IT will be obviouis where the church has built from on its own apart from Him, and what He actually built. All things not built IN HIM will falter shake and crumble. The time of separation has come--separating the dead works of man from the works of His Spirit. Word without power will no longer hold weight. Incarnate words of fire and life are falling into His People...the time of true spiritual poetry-word in Power, word in Him..word from Him...word as Him--Jesus is streaming into, through and onto the earth, making His True Kingdom known to man---and we are His Living temple, living stones in Him being built as a dwelling place for the Father....
Jesus is The Truth, The Way, The Life.
Light, love and life are teethered together within Him. Light comes--the understanding His Presence brings; then Love enters where blindness once was; then Life teems forth!!
Compassion increasing between His People--real radiant Love, quick to forgive, passionate to lay down our lives for one another--deep concern without judgement--unrighteous judgement banished from His Courts within His People..replaced by the encouragement of prophetic life words, songs, touchings by His Holy Spirit.
To Life!!