Let’s start this devotional with a scripture that
caught my attention about two to three weeks ago. This scripture is predominantly about wisdom,
how wisdom was there from the beginning.
Wisdom is the principal thing and of greater value than all gold. Right at the last verse of Proverbs 8 my
spirit was stirred to go a bit deeper into it, because it was echoing a desire
in my heart.
PROVERBS 8:
30
30 Then I was by him,
as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always
before him;
The part that caught
my attention and stirred my spirit, was “I was daily His delight” and the
prayer at that moment of my heart was, “Lord, you are my delight, but I want to
be your delight. I want to be in such a place that I am daily with you.” Because this is about creation, the spirit of
wisdom was a co-worker with Yeshua in everything that He created. My prayer was, “Lord, I want to be that
delight for you, always next to you.
Always busy with what you are about.”
My eye caught the commentary at the bottom of the page in my Bible on
that verse. It reads, “I was as one
brought up, literally I was beside Him as an architect or master workman. He along with the Father and Spirit was the
co-creator of all things, daily His delight.”
In the time we are
going in the workers will be working with Him and they will be the light. Let’s read John 1 where we will hear the same
echo, we read in Genesis 1.
JOHN 1
1In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The
same was in the beginning with God.
3 All
things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.
4 In
him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And
the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6 There
was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Going back to being
brought up with Him as a master workman, being His delight, Father gave me a
dream. This dream was short. It was basically about a donkey standing in
his camp and a man, dressed in a very smart royal blue suit, gave the donkey a
loveable hug. The donkey placed his head
on his shoulder, hugging him as well. That was the dream. Father has given me the gift of
interpretation for dreams and I am very grateful for that. Immediately I knew the interpretation. The interpretation was that He was saying to
me, “I want you to embrace the call upon your life.” There was a reason why He was showing me the
donkey and the man in the office suit.
The man in the office suit speaks of Yeshua, our High Priest. The royal blue speaks of priesthood and the
suit the office of a priest. The
donkey we know is a workhorse, an animal that is used to carry a load, a
burden. The donkey is also a humble
animal. Yeshua was riding on a donkey
when He came into Jerusalem in the triumphant entry, as a humble servant. Of course, we know that He will come on a
white horse as King of Kings. Also, He
came on a donkey so that scripture could be fulfilled.
This donkey speaks of
humility, servanthood and the workman.
He was saying, “I need you to embrace that which I have called you
to.” Many of us are aware what He has
called us to. We are aware of how He is
preparing us, but sometimes, we have not yet embraced it and have not entered fully
into it, because of various things that we still hold on to. I address that in my devotional called,
“Honoring the call”. So, there is
embracing that is required, a certain shift in the spirit that needs to take
place in order to be that person by His side.
Walking in step with Him.
Wherever He goes, you go, what He sees, you see, what He hears, you
hear. There is an embracing of His
rulership over you. The person coming to
him, Yeshua the High Priest, is the person that wants to ride on the
donkey. He determines where the donkey
will go and what He will use it for. The
donkey has to be subject in complete surrender to Him. Immediately this makes me think of Psalm 32.
PSALM 32
8 I
will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide
thee with mine eye.
9 Be
ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth
must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
First, He is talking
to us saying, “I will instruct you. I
will teach you. With My eye I will guide
you.” We hear: instructions, teaching
and guidance. Then He says, do not be
like the horse or mule that has no understanding where I have to use a bit and
bridle to pluck the mouth to go this or that side. I have to enforce and continually
discipline. We always say, “as stubborn
as a mule”. Do not be stubborn, do not
be stiff-necked that I cannot turn you to a certain side, but be humble,
submissive and embrace the call that is upon your life. Embrace it with your whole being. Then, He wants us to be unbridled and so in
tune with Him that we know exactly what He wants from us without Him having to
place a certain amount of pressure on us to go into a certain direction. There is this intuitiveness. In horse shows there is no bridle, but the
horse knows exactly what the rider requires of him. They do amazing tricks and it is amazing to watch
it. He wants us to be that unbridled, so
in tune with the Spirit as His workman.
The question we need to ask ourselves is what will it take for us to be
so intuitive? What will it take for us
to be so clear that we hear with such perfect understanding? What will it take for us to be guided with
His eye? Not our own eyes, but His
eye? What will it take to know what to
speak and allow Him to speak through us?
What I am getting to is that, that submission brings us to that place of
intuitiveness in the Spirit. A
sensitivity to Him in the Spirit, to Him that is in complete control of
us. Of course, when Father spoke to me
about this, He reminded me of Matthew 11.
MATTHEW 11
28 Come
unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take
my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye
shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For
my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
When you think of
something that is heavy laden, you immediately think of this donkey with these
heavy bags on either side. Maybe we can
liken these burdens to our burdens.
Maybe the one side is literally emotional burdens, difficulty in life
and suffering. That we are heavy laden
and we walk slowly, not enough focus, we are not in tune and are dragging our
feet. Maybe the other side is sin,
things we have not dealt with, that we have not laid down yet, things we still
hold on to and it breaks our speed. And
we have on either side this burden and He is saying to us, “Come to Me. I want you to come under My yoke.”
When you come into a
room, sometimes the door is low and you have to bend down to come in. In order to come in or under it requires you
to bend your neck and to humble yourself.
We know that a yoke is that of two oxen.
The yoke looks almost like the letter “M”. They used a strong ox and a weaker ox to come
under the same yoke. The strong ox,
which is the word “Aleph”, meaning the beginning and the end, Yeshua who is our
strength, our ox. The pictograph of
strength is an ox. He is our strength
and He is saying, “Come under My yoke. I
will carry the most as the stronger ox. Give it to Me. Give Me what you are carrying and I will
carry that, but then you carry My burden.
Mine is light. I will carry yours
and you can carry Mine. Exchange My light one for your heavy one, because I am
strong.” This stronger ox has the
strength to teach the younger and weaker one what pace to walk, where to walk
and the fallow ground is ploughed. This
younger ox then learns how to walk in pace with the stronger one. The muscles develop and he knows exactly what
is required of him. Day in and day out
he is walking under submission under the same yoke of the stronger ox. This is what it means to be a workman with
Him. It is to come under His yoke.
When I did some
research on this, I found out that this yoke means covenant. He is saying, “Come in covenant with Me. A life for a life. My strength for your weakness, My provision
for your lack, My wisdom for your foolishness.
Everything that I have is yours, and everything that you have is
Mine. Your burden becomes My burden and
My burden yours. Come under My yoke and
let us walk in unison.” This is why
Father many times have said to me the words,
“Walk in the knowing
that we are one.”
This is the same as to
say, “Walk in the knowing that you and I are in covenant. You never walk
alone. You may feel alone, but because
we are in covenant, you never walk alone.
Whatever you need, I will be that for you. I am the strong ox.” He wants us, whether a weaker ox or a donkey,
the point is, is to come under His yoke and walk in covenant with Him. This requires submission and obedience. In that process of walking in covenant with
Him there is a teaching that takes place.
There is a guidance and He guides us with His eye upon us.
I was thinking of our
journey with the Lord. In the beginning
we come out of “Egypt”, the world. In
Hosea it reads,
HOSEA 2
14 Therefore, behold,
I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably
unto her.
This is exactly what happens to us when we are saved. We are lured into the wilderness. We feel that everything will be great now
that we are saved, but we find ourselves where everything is going anything but
great. There are trials and temptations.
This is why the Israelites were longing for the fleshpots of Egypt, because it
was much easier. They did not like the
manna and wanted the fleshpot, wanting it easier. However, He lures us into this wilderness to
speak tenderly to us. It is in this
wilderness seasons that we grow the most.
It is in this wilderness seasons that we learn how to recognize His
voice and His ways. We come into
covenant with Him and He starts teaching us to walk with Him. In the beginning, we always try to catch up
with Him. Then, we come to the point
where we run ahead of Him. Until we
realize we have to walk in step under His yoke with Him and that He will guide
us in such a way. He is so patient,
long-suffering and good to us. Every
season is only for a certain amount of time, having a specific purpose. Whatever we have not learned in that season,
He will come back to again. Maybe we do
a season over or the season is extended.
The point is, He knows exactly what He is teaching us and what He is
working in us. This is why His promise
is to us, “I will perfect that which concerns you.” After the wilderness you get to Canaan. When you come out of Egypt, you come through
the Red Sea into the wilderness, until you reach the Jordan. The Red Sea speaks of salvation and the Jordan
River speaks of a complete and utter death to the self-life.
In Song of Solomon, we read…
SONG OF SOLOMON 8
3 His
left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
4 I
charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love,
until he please.
5 Who
is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised
thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she
brought thee forth that bare thee.
6 Set
me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as
death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire,
which hath a most vehement flame.
7 Many
waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give
all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
With her head on His
shoulder, they are coming out of the wilderness. In the beginning she is lured into the
wilderness, but once she comes out of the wilderness, she is leaning on her
Beloved. That leaning speaks of a
complete and utter dependence. It speaks
of her bridal love that is so vitally connected to Him. But it speaks mostly of her walking with
Him. She is not ahead of Him, not behind
Him, but clinging to Him and holding onto Him.
There is a rest. She is leaning
on her Beloved. She has entered into His
rest. She makes a statement of how she
is leaning on Him. His left hand is
under her head and His right arm embraces her.
Her head is on His chest. Much
like John who laid his head on Yeshua’s bosom.
She is telling Him how much she loves Him and saying, “Set me as a seal
upon your heart and upon your arm.” Then
she declares her love to Him that is a jealous love like the fire of hell and
that nothing, waters, trouble or tribulation will quench her love for Him. Much like Paul saying that nothing will
separate him from the love of God. There
is this absolute revelation of the love she has for Him and the love He has for
her.
At that time, they
used to have a seal ring, or signet ring that they sealed documents with. They would sometimes wear this ring not
necessarily on their finger, but with a string around their neck. She was lying on this signet ring with her
head, making an impression on His heart.
She is making an impression on that seal saying, “Don’t forget me. Wherever You go, let me continually be on
Your heart.” We know that the word says
in Psalm 139…
PSALM 139
17 How
precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18 If
I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am
still with thee.
We are impressed upon His heart. This Bride is impressed upon His heart. There is absolute unity and she has come into
His rest.
The examples of Egypt, the Wilderness and
Canaan, can be described also as the body, soul and spirit. When unsaved, the body speaks of that which
is given over to the world, the soul speaks of the wilderness within, the mind,
turmoil and struggle of life. Then
Canaan speaks of the spirit, the place of rest and where the Bride is to abide
in. We can also use the example of the
temple. We have the outer court, the
inner court and the Holy of Holies.
These three examples tell us of our journey, that we are the temple and
the different dimensions that we are made of.
When we look at the outer court, it was the part that was the busiest
when it came to the priestly service.
The part where all the sacrifices were, blood and gore and everything
had to be sprinkled. The whole burnt
offering and having to wash themselves before they could enter. It was very busy with many people
involved. In the outer court there was
natural light, in the inner court there was the Minorah and in the Holy of
Holies there was neither natural or artificial light. There was only the glory of the Lord and the
arc of the covenant with the mercy seat.
When they came into the inner court there were less activity and less
priests allowed. It was a place of
service. We can liken it to the place of
ministry. Ministering unto the Lord,
worship, prayer and still active, but not as active as the outer court. Then we have the Holy of Holies. There was a thick curtain or vail that
divided it from the inner court. In my
devotional called, “Our high calling of God” I speak about how this is the
place we are to abide in. Coming into
this place you no longer speak. There is
no longer an activity that is required than just to be still and know that He
is God. This is the place of quietness. And yet, we read in Hebrews 4 that Yeshua has
made a way for us to come boldly into the throne room of God to obtain mercy
and grace in a time of need. We can come
with boldness. There is a certain
disposition that people come into the throne room with boldness. Some come into this place out of an
identification of being the sons and daughters of God. Almost like your Father has an office, you
know where this building is, and because you know He is your Father you can
come into His office at any time, whether there is a meeting or not. You can come with boldness to the throne of
grace, because you are an heir and are allowed to walk in. This is true and we need to be able to
identify with that kind of thinking.
However, God in His holiness, has also established for us as His
priests, not to take liberty with His holiness and with the fact that we can
come into His presence. He does not want
us to have a light weighted attitude towards His holiness. He wants us to understand that as priests
there is a certain requirement to come into His presence. Otherwise, He would not have shown us the
journey and given us the examples. We
know that in Yeshua we can have this boldness and He wants us to come in.
I was led to Psalm 24 and it starts with
the magnitude of His sovereignty.
PSALM 24
The earth is the Lord's,
and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2 For
he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
2Everything
He has created is His and making a declaration of His greatness. Knowing that, He asks…
3 Who
shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?
or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He
that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto
vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He
shall receive the blessing from the Lord,
and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
He is making a requirement of those who want to come
into the Holy Place. He is saying,
“Those who come into this place, know that there is a certain requirement of
you. I need of you to have a pure heart
and clean hands. I need of you not to swear
deceitfully or lift up your soul unto vanity.”
We understand that we can see this on a very superficial level. A pure heart you can look at as, “I do not
want to kill anyone and I am forgiving.”
Or, you can see it in a way as, “Lord, you know that my motives are not
always right. Sometimes I do things in a
religious way and it is for myself.” It
can be much deeper. This is why Yeshua said that those who have looked upon a
woman with lust have committed adultery.
The requirement of the New Testament is much greater than the Old
Testament. It always goes to the deeper
part of our hearts. Always goes to the
motives and intents of our heart. The
same with the hands, “Lord, I do not want to kill anyone; I do not have blood
on my hands.” He requires of us that our
hands will be clean in whatever we do.
The word says, “Whether you eat or drink, whatever you do, do all for
the glory of God.” Everything your hand
touches must be done for the glory of God.
This is what the hands stand for, what you do. Are you really doing it out of pure
motives? Remember that it is out of the
pure heart the looking, the hearing and the speaking comes. This is why He mentions all these
things. The same can be said about
lifting your eyes unto vanity. What you
place your eyes on, the things of man and where your focus is. Not just something you occasionally become
aware of, but whether you have laid the axe to the root and you no longer
living that way anymore. You are so set
apart unto Him, because you have one purpose and that is to come into that Holy
Place. Remember, as a workman you want
to come under His yoke. You want to come
into that place of covenant with Him, which is His rest. Then He says further in Psalm 24…
5 He
shall receive the blessing from the Lord,
and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This
is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
When I read the name “Jacob”, I thought, “What a
strange thing to say in Psalm 24.” We
have the example of Jacob in the book of Genesis that had two wives, Leah and
Rachel. Jacob is a type and shadow of
Yeshua who has two brides, the Gentile and Jewish Bride. He is saying that this is the generation that
seek thy face. The other day I was
reading Hebrews 11 talking about Enoch that did not see death, but was
translated. And then it says…
HEBREWS
11
5 By
faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found,
because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this
testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But
without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must
believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
I thought of the word
“seeking” and that this word is divided into two words – “see” and “King”. I see the King. This is what the seeking stands for. Do your eyes continually see the King? Do you still seek His face? Are you part of the generation that seeks the
face of Jacob? And then He says in Psalm
24…
7 Lift
up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the
King of glory shall come in.
8 Who
is this King of glory? The Lord strong
and mighty, the Lord mighty
in battle.
9 Lift
up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the
King of glory shall come in.
10 Who
is this King of glory? The Lord of
hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
In the commentary of
my Bible, it states that the Levites were responsible for opening the
gates. They were the porters. What are those gates? Here is Yeshua talking about how He has made
everything and that everything belongs to Him and He says that He will declare
His blessing over those who seek Him.
And then He stops at the gates.
Why can He not just enter in? He
stops at the gates and He is saying that the Levites must open the gates. What do the gates represent? Well, we have an ear gate, an eye gate and a
mouth gate. We have various different
gates in our life. That which we allow
into our gates will determine what is on the inside of the soul and He wants to
come in. The King of Glory, strong and
mighty in battle wants to come in through our gates. We are the temple, outer court, inner court
and Holy of Holies. He wants to come
into the gates and be in control of the gates.
Are we priestly when it comes to our gates, so that we can open up to
Him and the King of Glory can come in? To
manifest Himself and come and dine with us?
He says in the Word, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock.” The King of Glory waiting at our gates. Will He enter when those gates are
defiled? Will He enter? In Genesis 17 God is making covenant with
Abram and says the following…
GENESIS 17
1And when Abram was
ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and
said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
When I read that, “walk before Me” it does not mean do not
walk in front of Me, but “walk in the knowing that I see all things. Walk as one that knows that I know what
enters into your gates. Walk as one completely
aware that I require of you to be perfect.”
The word “perfect” in the Strong’s, is the word “Tamim” and it means
complete, whole and total. The Lord God
is saying to us, “Walk before Me complete and total.” He was speaking to Abraham and we are the
children of Abraham, his seed that lives by faith. He is requiring of us to be complete and
whole in our disposition towards Him. With
everything, with regard to what we allow in and what we allow out, asking us to
be perfect in that area. This is quite a
requirement of us. To be perfect and
total. To be completely given over in
absolute surrender like that donkey in order to come under His yoke and be in
covenant. “Make covenant with Me.” In Philippians 2 it says that He stripped
himself and He is requiring of us to strip ourselves as well. To strip ourselves from all our
strengths. Of everything we hold on
to. In this week that passed I spoke to
someone saying that our greatest strength in the flesh is usually our greatest
weakness in the spirit. I was talking
about his technical ability, understanding and reasoning of things that the
Lord God wants to use. However, He has
to sanctify these things. Even the gifts
and talents that He gives us have to be sanctified. It has to be circumcised and the flesh has to
be removed from it so that it can be completely given over to Him. That is part of the gates. He is waiting on
us to be total in all our categories.
Everything that we do. Not just
in ministry, but whether you are making food, clean the house or taking care of
the children, teach or your job, everything must be total towards Him. For instance, I was talking to my daughter
about a TV program we have been watching.
I have been feeling uncomfortable about it and she said to me that she
is also not too sure about it asking me to pray and hear from the Lord. I said to her, “My girl, this is my
standard. When I watch anything, I ask
myself, “If Jesus was sitting right here with us, would we watch this with
Him?” Ask yourself that question when
you go to a movie, “Will He sit here with me, will He be comfortable or will I
be ashamed to be here? Will I be ashamed
with what I have just said now and will I be ashamed with the type of friends I
am still connected to, because I am not willing to let go? Will I be ashamed of what I listen to or what
I watch if He was with me?” The problem
is that we think He is not with us. The
problem is that we think the HOLY Spirit is not seeing through our eyes and
hearing through our ears. He wants us
completely given over in all our categories.
This extends everywhere.
ISAIAH 50
4. The Lord God has
given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in
season to him that is weary.
5.He wakeneth morning
by morning, He wakeneth my ear to hear as the learned. The Lord God have opened my ear and I was not
rebellious, neither turned the way back.
(Think of the donkey…)
Once again, I am bringing this back to Psalm 32: 8 – 9 about
the horse and the mule, having been taught by Him and then coming into that
place of hiddenness. I truly believe
that the Bride must now be in that place of the Holy of Holies where she is so
given over to Him. In unity, leaning on her Beloved, she has made that
impression upon His heart and has come into covenant with Him, yoked with Him. Why am I saying this? I am saying this, because there is a great
burden upon His heart for what is to come upon this world very, very soon. A great burden. He wants us to give our burden to Him, under
His yoke, so that we will take His yoke upon us. He is not saying that we should take
everything that is His, but to come under His and walk together under His
yoke. Have you given up yours for
His? Have you come sufficiently into
that place where it is just about Him?
When you come into the Holy of Holies it is no longer about you. In the inner court it can still be about you,
still about your requests, praying for various things and worship, but when you
come into the Holy of Holies, it is only about Him. There you do not speak. There you come in Him.
This is one of the statements that came from Paul which is
quite significant. He constantly used
the words, “IN HIM”.
ROMANS 8
1There
is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For
the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of
sin and death.
3 For
what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending
his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the
flesh:
4 That
the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 For
they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that
are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For
to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
When we come into this
place of unity with Him it becomes a place of life. His life.
The King of Glory has entered in and we then live from that life. I heard a sermon this week and this person
said something that caught my attention.
He said, “You have not lived until He has lived through you.” I just thought, “Man, that is spot on!” You have not lived until that Resurrection
Life is your life. This is what Paul
constantly spoke about. Paul was that
continuation of the Christ life after the cross. The resurrection life, the life of Christ in
us. Just like Yeshua is the Patterned
Son whom we are to walk as He walked, so Paul is the Patterned son as Yeshua
was. This is why the demons said,
“Yeshua we know and Paul we know, but who are you?” The two were the same. The same life was emanating from them, the
same authority. The same unity, vitally
united to God. Everything was given over. This is why Paul could say with boldness,
“Follow me, as I follow Christ.” Do you
understand who Paul was? I am not saying
Paul was God, not at all. I am saying
that Paul was showing us in the same way that Yeshua was showing us what man is
with God. And, that man is only man with
God as God intended him to be from the beginning, with the Spirit of God, which
is the very life in that man. This is
His purpose behind us giving all. It is
not because He wants to take our fun away.
It is not because He is so jealous that He cannot share us with anybody
else. It is because His heart is beating
for this world, and He is waiting for those who will be so total in Him, who
will covenant with Him, which means you give your life, everything. That will covenant with Him and come under
His yoke for those He has a burden. You
cannot come under that burden fully until you have given fully, until you are
total.
When I hear the word
“holy”, where Yeshua told His disciples, “Be ye holy for I am holy”, I hear the
word whole. I do not hear just
consecrated, set apart and sacred, but I also hear whole and complete. Those words are the words that Yeshua prayed
in John 17.
JOHN 17
21 That
they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also
may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And
the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as
we are one:
23 I
in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the
world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father,
I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that
they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before
the foundation of the world.
25 O
righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and
these have known that thou hast sent me.
26 And
I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love
wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Alone…He calls us to
simplicity, solitude and silence. These
are words that I discuss in my book called, “The Enochian Bride” on my Free
Books Page. You can download it in
PDF. It is about the Enochian walk from
the bridal perspective. It talks about
this oneness with God. The word says
that Enoch walked alone with God. The
word ALONE has the word “ONE” in it.
That oneness speaks of wholeness.
It is not divided. It does not
have many parts, it is still. It is
still in all its categories. The
distractions wanting your attention has all settled down and there is a
singular eye wholly devoted, seeing only the King. He wants to bring us into that oneness. That intuitive, wholly devoted to His purpose
and end into the Holy of Holies to carry His burden and walk in step with Him
as His workers. Yeshua prays, “Father,
that they may be one as we are one. That
they may silence all the voices. That
they may be one and one in us. Father,
as I am one with You, and You with Me.
That they may be one in us. That
they may know that You love them the same way that You love Me.”
The Father loves us
the same way He loves the Son, because we are IN the Son
When you come into the
Holy of Holies, in that place, it is because you are IN Him. You are no longer seen. You are one with Him. In all your categories you have left all
behind. Your heart is perfect towards
Him.
2 CHRONICLES
16: 9
9 For the eyes of
the Lord run
to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of
them whose heart is perfect toward him.
Is your heart perfect
towards Him? Is your heart whole? Is
your heart “one”? Have you silenced all
the voices? A few years ago, He said to
me…
“If you want to hear Me speak TO you, you have to
silence all other voices. Then I have
your ear. If you want Me to speak THROUGH
you, you have to silence your voice.
Then I have your mouth.”
“When I have your mouth, I have you.”
Why did He say that?
JAMES 3
2. For in many things
we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and
able also to bridle the whole body.
Have you silenced the
voices that wants to take away that oneness with you and the Father? Have you silenced your voice? The voice in your head that says, “I will
never be able to hear what He says to me.”
The voice of insecurity that says, “I am not called to this.” The voice of reasoning, “I think I must say
it like this, or maybe they will do this”?
The thoughts that run…have you silenced that voice? Have you silenced the voices from the outside
world? That speaks of all the calamities
that will happen? Have you silenced the
voices of the many Christians, everybody that wants to lay an egg? Have you silenced the voices of the media,
the voices of teaching after teaching and sat with the Word and He who is the
Word? Have you learned what it is to
wait in silence?
What happens when
somebody speaks softly? You incline your
ear. He says in Proverbs “Incline your
ear unto me.” When somebody speaks
softly, you want everybody else to keep quiet, so that you can hear. Have you silenced those voices that He can
speak to you and so that you can learn, like the mule, “I will instruct you and
teach you in the way that you should go”?
Can He instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go, because
you have a listening ear? You have an
ear of the learned? You have learned how
to hear from Him, because you have silenced the voices. Have you learned to be still and know that He
is God? Your own voices in your head, your
own opinion you so eagerly want to give to everybody or about whatever
happens? Even if you know what is the
right thing, have you learned how to wait?
Maybe it is not you who is supposed to speak? Does He have your mouth, your ear, does He
have your eyes that you can see? Can He
show you things in the spirit? Is the
Spirit stirred in you like Paul when he looked upon Athens and grieved in his
spirit, because the Spirit had the whole of the man? Does He have you? He wants to bring you under His yoke. When you come in that place, under His yoke,
IN Him, because you are truly one with Him to the degree that you have given
all, and that life in you will be His life in you; what will happen is that you
will say with Paul, “I no longer live, but the life that I live, I live by the
faith of the Son of God. (Gal.2:20).
This is the place of DIVINE FAVOR in God. The place of the Holy of Holies IN the Son. When He looks at you standing before the
mercy seat IN His Son, as a royal priesthood, a living stone built up into Him
as the body, the Bride, and you say Lord, “What is Your burden?”, which is the
office of the priest and prophet. They
asked Jeremiah, “What is the burden of the Lord?” Do you know the burden of the Lord? He speaks to you that burden, because you
have the ability to hear His burden, because you have a hearing ear and you
have silenced the voices. In that
moment, you receive that burden, because you see who you are praying for, in
the light of how He sees that person.
Not because you know what to pray for out of your reasoning and logical
conclusion, but because you have waited on Him to receive His burden and it
becomes yours. You are under His yoke
and you are walking with Him. You are
not telling Him to follow you, you are following Him. You are next to Him, the Bride leaning on her
Beloved. And He shares His HEART. Not just His opinions and ideas, but His
HEART. And you wake up with agony that
feels as if your limbs are torn and you can say with Jeremiah, “My bones are on
fire with the word, with the burden of the Lord.” Because you are so vitally united to Him and
you intercede and fall on the ground, because the weight of His burden is upon
you. You share in His burden, because
His heart is beating in you. You see what
He is seeing, you speak what He is speaking, you hear with His hearing and are
moved by the Spirit of God. And you no
longer live, but you are hid IN Christ, with God (Col. 3: 3). You are no longer, because He has taken you
like Enoch.
ISAIAH 58
11 And
the Lord shall guide
thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and
thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters
fail not.
12 And
they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise
up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer
of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If
thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy
day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him,
not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine
own words:
14 Then
shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord;
and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee
with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Not doing thine own
thing…not operating from your own reasoning, your soulish part, or the outer
court part, but you find your operation from out of your being IN Him. That is what it means to be in His rest.
In the time to come,
He is going to send out His workers and they will live and have their being IN
Him. Just as Paul says, “For IN Him we
live and move and have our being.” It is
from this place of unity we will work.
So that the manifestation will be of the Son of God in the same way
Yeshua was here being the manifestation of the Father. In John 14 says….
JOHN 14
8 Philip
saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9 Jesus
saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known
me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou
then, Show us the Father?
When I read this, I
realized that it was the Father saying to Philip, “Have I been so long time
with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?” Here I am.
You want to know Me, I am IN the Son.
From chapter 13 Yeshua says, “The works that I do is not Me, but the
Father in Me. The words that I speak are
the words I hear My Father speaks.” He
was yoked with the Father, one with the Father, in covenant with the
Father. He was whole, complete and
totally given over to His Father. He was
seated with His Father in heavenly places, in that place of such unity that
what He did was out of that unity, completely given over. Paul, is an extension of that and so will we
be. There is not going to be a situation
where we can write down step 1 – 3 before I speak, because I am going to Mars
Hill to confront the philosophers. I am
going to tell them exactly where it says “this and this”. No. It
is the Spirit of God that will take over and will be a manifestation of the
wisdom of God, because He has given us the mind of Christ. We cannot operate from the mind of intellect
and reasoning, but from the power of God.
This is why Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2…
1
CORINTHIANS 2
4 And
my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That
your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
People will be persuaded not by clever words or reasoning
because we think that we can by intellect and reasoning persuade people, but
people’s hearts will be pierced, because the Word of God is the discerner of
the motives and intents of the heart. It
pierces between bone and marrow, into the depths, the marrow of the
people. This is what the Word of God
will do through His workers, because of their vital union with Him. So vital that the King of Glory will come in
and will display His glory through His workers.
They will speak and it will be with power, they will command and it will
be with power and the devils will fear and tremble. They will say, “Yeshua we know, Paul we know,
Alain, Ivan, Chantel and Simoné we know.
We know them by their vital union with Christ. When we look at them, we see Him.” In the same way we will be the manifestation
of the Son. This will be the
manifestation of the sons and daughters of God, which the creation is waiting
for. They who have been brought up with
Him and have been daily His delight, His master workmen next to Him, always
delighting in His presence. He will be
their delight and is His delight even now.
This is what He is requiring of us…to come under
His yoke. In the time to come, the place
where we will find ourselves the most is in that place under His burden. For nothing will happen unless we have first
come under His burden to know the burden of the Lord. We will operate from out of that place. Out of the place of being yoked with
Him. When we come out of that place, we
will have a clear understanding of what He requires of us, intuitively by our
union with Him. We will not be stubborn
as the mule and the horse, but with His eyes He will instruct us. We have
developed a learning ear and eye to see.
We need to find ourselves now in that place. Our praying becomes His praying. When we come to the mercy seat in boldness to
obtain mercy and grace, it is because we are effectively IN Him, IN the Spirit,
walking by the Spirit. We are IN that
place and when we pray it is the Son that prays to the Father. As Paul said, “I no longer live, but the life
that I live, I live by the faith of the Son of God.” Not your own faith, but His faith. The Son of God’s faith is ours and it is the
place of divine favour. There is such a
place of divine favour where you come into His presence and you can ask Him
whatever you will, and you know that you know, that you will receive it. It is a place of divine favour. It is a place of rest. This was His controversy with Israel. They did not enter, because they did not
believe. Not believing that there is
such a place of divine favour, in such union with Him. They were not jealous to come into such a
place. They were not zealous to come
into such a place. When the Bride
declares her love to the Bridegroom and that she is so jealous for that union
with Him, to be so imprinted upon His heart, she does not want anything to divide
them. She is wholly devoted to Him. This
is why He says to her, “With one look of your eyes, I am overcome. I am overcome by the whole hearted devotion
that you have for Me. It overcomes Me and I will give you anything you
ask.” Whatever you ask in My Name, ask
the Father and He will give it to you.
Have you come into that divine place of favour with Him, because you
have given Him your all? Because you
walk before Him perfectly? Have you
allowed the King of Glory to enter your gates, because you have cleansed your
gates and consecrated it completely and wholly to Him?
It is time.
