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Ascend to Mt. Zion

Ascend to Mt. Zion

Psalm 24:3-6 Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive blessing from the Lord, And righteousness from the God of his salvation.This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face. Selah

Repentance, Obedience, Wisdom, Righteousness = new realm of love and power for those who walk in them.

This is the path and reward of those who seek God in truth and spirit. You can’t seek truth and it not change you; for it’s of the purest love.

  • Repentance = turning from the ways dictated by mankind’s wisdom to God’s ways in ALL things. Ezekiel 18:30
  • Obedience = in love, following the leadings of God. 2 John 1:6
  • Wisdom = acting in the ways of God; resulting in peace, rest, power, love James 3:15-17
  • Righteousness = acting rightly; the result of acting in perfect wisdom Prov 2:20

These concepts tightly fit together reflecting different aspects of the same truth. For those seeking the True God and being prepared by the Holy Spirit, they’ve partly abided in them by the power of the Holy Spirit within them. Eph 4:29-32 Walking in these principles bring an abundant life and more so now as the new age dawns; the Age of Righteousness; when we can walk perfectly unto eternal life by the fullness of Christ.

At Christ’s second coming, He is filling us and making us truly righteousness to abide in eternal life with Him. Christ gave the remission of sins; enabling us to walk the path of repentance. Acts 2:38, 10:43 As His Day dawns, He is giving the fullness of His Spirit enabling us to walk in the fullness of righteousness. Receiving the fullness of His Spirit is the realization of the promise of salvation. 1 Peter 1:10, Rev 12:10, Psalm 25:12-13

Righteousness Reign

In this earth, righteousness will soon begin its reign in power where unrighteousness has prevailed. No one could fully walk in righteousness until the fulfillment of the times when Christ would begin the establishment of His Kingdom upon the earth; the new Jerusalem, Mount Zion. Psalm 25:13

Those of you who have lived and been trained by the Holy Spirit are very blessed. You’ve tasted how the power of the fullness of Christ’s spirit within you transforms your soul from one of death to one of life; from a place of darkness to a place of light. No more will you cast a shadow of darkness, but a brilliant shadow of light as the fullness of Christ comes upon you.

Until the end, no one has lived with the fullness of God except for Jesus as we witnessed because He couldn’t die. But as the new age dawns, the fullness of God will come upon those prepared vessels as it’s the time when Christ is glorified. His glory is what He accomplished; giving His pure Spirit to fill thus redeem mankind and destroy sin/death forever. In the fullness of righteousness; there is no death. The Holy Spirit has been the guarantee of receiving this fullness of Christ. When that fullness comes upon those prepared, the Kingdom of God will begin to be established on this earth and righteousness will begin to reign. 2 Corin 5:5

With righteousness reigning, if you walk in unrighteousness great tribulation will come upon you. The turmoil is to move you to repentance from all your lawless ways to the ways of God. If you seek repentance, which is to learn and to walk in obedience thus the wisdom of God, your life will transform into the most amazing oasis of peace, beauty, power and love. Thus peace for the righteous; tribulation for the unrighteous. Isaiah 57:1-6, 19-21, 65:13-15, Matthew 24:37-44

In receiving this fullness of Christ, you will be as He is; thus you will see Him fully. 1 John 3:2 He is most magnified and glorified when we are like Him; in being less we can’t comprehend His full glory. As Christ became a part of human flesh so we could know Him; He is lifting us up to be like Him so we can truly know Him thus glorify Him. John 17:22-24

Christ is coming as a purifying fire. If you are prepared in truth and receive Him, it will be a glorious transition because you’ve learned all He is, is all you desire. If you aren’t prepared in truth; then you’ll cling to your lawless ways because you think they are good though they are evil. Those deeds will bring great turmoil to your life.

Seek God in truth and spirit; which is beyond all man-made images of who He is (i.e., religion), into a place of pure spirit. Learn about Him, from Him. Do this and you will be greatly blessed because you will be called Christ’s brethren; sons of God. John 6:45, Psalm 25:4-5

Repentance is having great understanding that God is perfect love and that is what you truly desire. For those who now walk this path; they will receive the inheritance of the first born of the sons of God; which is a level of love thus power this world has never known.


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Moving Into Your Inheritance

Moving Into Your Inheritance

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Selling Your Birthright

The eternal Spirit, who created all things, has a fatherly nature that desires to give us the most incredible inheritance so we lack nothing for eternity. Luke 12:32 He desires for our spirits to overflow with the eternal treasures; love, truth, joy, delight, power, liberty, and peace. And eternity starts NOW for those who come to Him, in truth and spirit. Isaiah 55:6

We were created to be the family of God. By making us a part of Himself through Christ’s spirit in us; we are able to abide with Him always in the perfection of love. John 1:12 There is nothing that God will hold back from us because the world is His, He lacks nothing and He loves us. Psalm 34:10

How incredible this birthright. Our Creator, the perfect Father, is giving us all that is His and above all, Himself.

How do we come into this inheritance?

We choose to sow love.

Before us is a choice: to embrace our birthright into the eternal kingdom of everlasting goodness or to remain consumed by the fleeting lusts of the world, which ultimately destroy our souls. And people are far more bound by lusts than they realize.

Lust controls and rules us. It drives us to fulfill its call only to the debasement and dishonor of ourselves and others. It produces harm, suffering and affliction amidst its ravenous emotions. Conversely, love is gentle and kind, and desires to be received and returned. The former comes from the depravity and debase nature of this world full of corruption and lies, the latter from the infinite source of purity.

Hebrews 12:16 lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

The life of Esau is an illustration of choosing the lust of the world. He sold his birthright in which all would be his as the first born son for a pot of stew. In his blindness, he thought he was going to die from hunger, so what good was a birthright if he was dead? Thus, he gave it up.  This symbolizes how people exchange the Kingdom of their true Father for the fleeting lusts of the world.  Isaiah 22:12-14 When these are our pursuit, we destroy ourselves and harm those around us. Spiritual blindness causes people to give up glory for shame. Isaiah 64:4-5, Romans 8:13

Our Creator desires the best of everything for us; for this is love. By giving us His spirit through Christ, we are able to “see” and thus pull our head out of the sand of false images and see what the God of love is giving us. But we must seek to “see” because of the multitude of false images and love is received.

Will we remain in the lusts of the world signified in all the images it promotes? What is beautiful, successful, powerful, wise .. what is God (ie Religion). James 3:15-18 This world is full of images that people worship with their resources: time, money and lives. While God and all His characteristics are without images, thus not of religion, because He is far beyond what any image can contain; Satan is the god of images. When we desire and feed the images of this world, we worship Satan. When we desire the purest of love and feed it; we worship God.

We accept our inheritance of God when we sow the truths of God, which are of love. In sowing the lust of the flesh; we neglect sowing the righteousness of God and trample upon His wisdom and inheritance to us. It keeps us separated from the true love, peace, joy and life that is without end and continually increases. You can’t serve both lust and love for they are contrary to one another. This justification harms and imprisons many. Serving lusts of the flesh reveals a heart destitute of love; a heart that doesn’t know God. John 17:3 Thus, it grieves His Holy Spirit which desires to sow righteousness in our souls. This is why God hates this mindset. Romans 9:13 Your mind is your destiny.

The truest love can only come from a union with the source of love. God wants to pour His love upon us, but as love is gentle and is to be received; we must come to Him. He has already extended His love to us; now we are to embrace Him by seeking the truest purest of love in all areas of our lives, for this is now He manifests Himself to us. Isaiah 66:2 If we seek, He will open our eyes.

Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; So He turned Himself against them as an enemy, And He fought against them.

Our choices are starting to manifest as God is coming to establish His kingdom. You don’t want to be unknowingly fighting against God, you won’t win. Righteous love will reign. Seek to know God’s love in truth, so you can choose it. You live by what you know. The lusts of the flesh will manifest in the gruesome stench of death they create in those who cling to them; while the love of God will bloom into a magnificent garden of delights beyond what has been previously seen or known. Our lives are bearing the fruit of our hearts; may they be full of the truths of God, thus the love of God.


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Christ’s Spirit as Lightning

Christ’s Spirit as Lightning

Luke 17:24 For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day.

Psalm 18:19 He also brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in me.

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TODAY – Enter God’s Rest

TODAY – Enter God’s Rest

Hebrews 4:7-8 again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.”  For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.  For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

Hebrews 4: 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

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Attune to the State of Your Soul

Attune to the State of Your Soul

Matthew  6:19–20 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

1 Corinthians 15:1-2 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you–unless you believed in vain.

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The Glory of Christ in Us

The Glory of Christ in Us

 

Psalm 2:7-9 I will declare the decree:
The LORD has said to Me,
‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
8 Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron;
You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel

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The Purpose of Forgiveness

The Purpose of Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a powerful characteristic of God’s love enabling us to transform into eternal creations.

Forgiveness has been misunderstood as a type of covering so we can remain in sin. Yet, the purpose and gift of forgiveness is to create an environment for us to grow out of sin and into righteousness, thus into eternal creations. Proverbs 12:28 To willingly remain in our sin is to trample on the forgiveness of God. Christ gave us His spirit NOT so we remain in sin/death, but that we would have the power to break free from it.

Forgiveness is the ability to see someone in true love after they have sinned against you. The love absorbs the hurt from their sin; so, if repentant, they can grow and learn in a safe harbor of love. 1 Peter 4:8 True forgiveness is an exchange between two people; one giving forgiveness and the other receiving forgiveness. In this exchange healing occurs.

Atmosphere for Growth

God’s forgiveness provides us an atmosphere to grow. In His love, He forgives us of our wrongs as His love absorbs the hurt we caused so we can stay connected to Him; the One to deliver us from the lies that cause sin. Forgiveness enables the dross, the unrighteousness, to be burned so we can become precious jewels as we were intended to be. Proverbs 25:4 Without it, we could never break free because we would be severed from the source, God, who assembles the truth in us so we can be free from sin. John 8:32

You see, we’ve all been in prison, a prison of our minds for believing lies instead of the truth. Isaiah 42:7 In believing the lies, we act in unrighteousness. When we seek wisdom, truth and love from God; He starts to open our eyes to the lies; thus our unrighteousness. At that point we also understand our need to be forgiven by God. What we find is God’s forgiveness is an ever gushing stream so we can remain in His presence and therefore learn and grow in His righteousness. It’s always there in abundant amounts. It allows God to use our sins and their consequences to teach us and direct us to the paths of life. God remains by our side and leads us out of the pit of lies, rung by rung, that keep us bound and transgressing His perfect will, ways and love.

Thus, the power of forgiveness is to learn the lessons of truth that save us. James 1:21

When we desire to live according to God’s ways, we embrace His forgiveness, thus His love. If we aren’t learning; we aren’t abiding in His forgiveness, but are trampling upon it. Thus to know His love; we must receive His forgiveness. If we receive His forgiveness, our lives show it because righteousness is being sown in our soul. Isaiah 33:6

In forgiveness, God gently works with us transforming us into holy creations. He makes the transition into righteousness peaceful and gentle as we willingly follow His lead. He unravels our twisted soul of lies with the least amount of stress and turmoil. However, if we reject it by not repenting and learning, we face torment that we bring upon our own soul. If there is no repentance, we aren’t accepting His forgiveness. Hebrews 6:4-8 Thus, there is no exchange and no healing.

Forgiving Others

Once we understand and receive the forgiveness God gives, then we give it to others. Luke 6:37-38, 40 For we give what we are and what we have. We do as our teacher.

True forgiveness sees the transgressor in love. Because forgiveness is of love, when we forgive someone it means we are continuing to see them in love. In our love for another, we absorb the hurt they caused as they are trying to grow and learn. In that atmosphere of forgiveness and love; the transgressing soul can grow. If they aren’t trying to grow, repent, then they are harmful to us and we can’t continue to engage them because it only causes harm. Without the repentance; no healing exchange occurs. Matthew 18:21-22

When our hearts are hardened, we don’t or won’t see another in true love.  Instead, because of the hurt they have caused we build spiritual walls that block our love to them. We don’t give them a chance. If we harden our hearts toward others; we also are hardening it toward God, for it’s His will that we forgive. Matthew 6:14

Our forgiveness fosters others’ growth. If we don’t offer forgiveness, we prohibit their growth and ours. John 20:23 We neglect to give the love they need for their soul to heal, thus ours. Matthew 18:18

May we all truly receive and give forgiveness so that we are sowers of righteousness in us and others.