"In Beholding Him" (Devotional)

The Lord has me reading and meditating on this 31 day devotional book by Andrew Murray called "The Believer's Secret of Living Like Christ".  It's a book that I've used for years to learn and grow from and to see Jesus from different aspects of His life and habits.  Though I haven't spent time in the book in quite a while, it has been refreshing and enriching to once again read these pages and let the Holy Spirit bring new truths to life again in my spirit.  Reading and meditating on the words in this chapter "In Beholding Him" set me up for the morning service yesterday as I was caught up in the wind of His Spirit that blew through the house and was taken up into His glory.  Oh it was glorious!  Thank You, Lord, for that glorious experience! It was so rich. More Lord, more!

 

                                     "In Beholding Him"

"But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory

of the Lord are changed into the same image, from glory to glory

even as by the Spirit of the Lord."

2 Cor 3:18

     Moses had been forty days on the mount in communion with God. When he came down, his face shone with divine glory.  He did not know it himself, but Aaron and the people saw it (Ex 34:30). It was so evidently God's glory that Aaron and the people feared to approach him.

     In this we have an image of what takes place in the New Testament.  The privilege that Moses alone enjoyed is now the portion of every believer.  When we behold the glory of God in Christ, in the glass of the Holy Scriptures, His glory shines upon us and into us and fills us until it shines out from us.  By gazing on His glory, the believer is changed through the Spirit into the same image.  Beholding Jesus makes us like Him.

     It is a law of nature that the eye excercises a profound influence on mind and character.  The education of a child is carried on greatly through the eye; he is molded very much by the manners and habits of those he sees.  To form and mold our character the heavenly Father shows us His divine glory in the face of Jesus.  He does it in the expectation that it will give us great joy to gaze upon it, and because He knows that, gazing on it we shall be conformed to the image. Let everyone who desires to be like Jesus note how he can attain it.

     Look continually to the divine glory as seen in Christ. What is the special characteristic of the glory?  It is the manifestation of divine perfection in human form.  The chief marks of the image of the divine glory in Christ are these two: His humilitation and His love.

     There is the glory of His humiliation.  When you see how the eternal Son emptied himself and became man, and how as man He humbled himself as a servant and was obedient even unto the death of the cross, you have seen the highest glory of God.  The glory of God's omnipotence as Creator and the glory of grace which humbled itself as a servant to serve God and man.  We must learn to look upon this humiliation as real glory.  To be humbled like Christ must be to us the only thing worthy of the name of glory on earth.  It must become in our eyes the most beautiful, the most wonderful, the most desirable thing that can be imagined--a very joy to look upon or think of.  The effect of gazing upon it and admiring it will be that you will not be able to conceive of any glory greater than to be and act like Jesus, and will long to humble yourself even as He did.  Gazing on Jesus, admiring and adoring Him, will work in us the same mind that there was in Him, and so we shall be changed into Him image.

     Inseparable from this is the glory of His love.  The humiliation leads you back to the love as its origin and power.  It is from love that the humiliation has its beauty.  Love is the highest glory of God.  But this love was a hidden mystery until it was manifest in Christ Jesus.  It is only in His humanity, in His gentle, compassionate, and loving relationships with foolish, sinful, hostile men that the glory of divine love was fully seen.  The soul that gets a glimpse of this glory, that understands that to love like Christ is alone worthy of the name of glory, will long to become like Christ in this.  Beholding this glory of the love of God in Christ, he is changed into the same image.

     Would you be like Christ? Here is the path.  Gaze on the glory of God in Him.  In Him, that is to say; do not look only to the words and the thoughts and the graces in which His glory is seen, but look to Him, the living, loving Christ. Behold Him, look into His eyes, look into His face, as a loving friend, as the living God.

     Look to Him in adoration.  Bow before Hiim as God.  His glory has an almighty living power to impart itself to us, to pass over into us and to fill us.

     Look to Him in faith.  Exercise the blessed trust that He is yours, that He has given Himself to you, and that you have a claim to all that is in Him.   It is His purpose to work His image in you.  Behold Him with the joyful and certain expectation; the glory that I behold in Him is destined for me.  He will give it to me; as I gaze and trust, I become like Christ.

     Look to Him with strong desire.  Do not yield to the slothfulness of the flesh that is satisified without the full blessing of conformity to the Lord.  Pray the Lord will free you from all carnal contentment with present attainments, and to fill you with the unquenchable longing for His glory.  Pray most fervently the prayer of Moses, "Show me Your glory."  Let nothing discourage you, not even the apparently slow progress you make, but press on with an ever-growing desire for the blessed prospect that God's Word holds out to you: "We are changed into the same image, from glory to glory."

     And as you behold Him, above all, let the look of love not be lacking. Tell Him continually how He has won your heart, how you do love Him, how entirely you belong to Him.  Tell Him that to please Him, the beloved One, is your highest, your only joy.  Let the bond of love between you and him be drawn continually closer.  Love unites.

     Like Christ!  We can be it, we shall be it, each in our measure.  The Holy Spirit is the pledge that it shall be.  God's Word has said, "We are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."  This is the Spirit that was in Jesus, and through whom the divine glory lived and shone. This Spirit is called "The Spirit of glory."  This Spirit is in us as in the Lord Jesus, and it is His work to bring into us and work within us what we see in our Lord Jesus.  Through this Spirit we have already Christ's life in  us, with all the gifts of His grace.  But that life must be stirred up and developed; it must grow, penetrate into our whole being, take possession of our entire personality.  We can count on the Spirit to work this in us if we but yield ourselves to Him and obey Him. As we gaze on Jesus in the Word.  He opens our eyes to see the glory of all that Jesus does and is.  He makes us willing to be like Him.  He strengthens our faith.  He works in us unceasingly the life of abiding in Christ, a wholehearted union and communion with Him.  He does according to the promise; "The Spirit shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine and shall show it unto you."  We are changed into the image on which we gaze from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.  Let us only understand that the fullness of the Spirit is freely given to us.  He who surrenders himself to be filled with the Spirit will experience how gloriously He accomplishes His work of stamping on our souls and lives the image and likeness of Christ.

     Beholding Jesus and His glory, you can confidently expect to become like Him: only trust yourself in quietness and rest of soul to the leading of the Spirit.  "The Spirit of glory rests upon you."  Gaze on and adore the glory of God in Christ; you will be changed with divine power from glory to glory; in the power of the Holy Spirit the mighty tranformation will be accomplished, and "like Christ" will be the God-given experience of your life.

My Lord, I do thank You for the glorious assurance that while I behold Your glory, the Holy Spirit is changing me into that image of Your glory.

Lord, grant me to truly behold Your glory.  Moses had been forty days with You when Your glory shone upon him.  I acknowledge that my communion with You has been too short and passing, that I have taken too little time to come under the full impression of what Your image is.  Lord, teach me this.  Draw me in my meditation to surrender myself to contemplate and adore until my soul at every line of that image may exclaim: This is glorious~ this is the glory of God! O my God, show me Your glory!

And strengthebn my faith, blessed Lord, that, even when I am not conscious of any special experience, the Holy Spirit will do His work.  Moses knew not that his face shown.  Lord, keep me from looking at self.  May I be so taken up with You as to forget and lose myself in You.  Lord, it is he who is dead to self who lives in You.

O my Lord, as often as I gaze upon Your image and your example, I would do it in the faith that the Holy Spirit will fill me, will take entire possession of me, and so work Your likeness in me that the world may see in me something of Your glory.  In this faith I will venture to take Your precious word, "from glory to glory," as my watchword, to be to me the promise of a grace that grows richer every day.  Your blessing is ever ready to surpass itself and to make what has been given only the pledge of the better that is to come.  Precious Savior! gazing on you it shall indeed be so, "from glory to glory." Amen

"In His Use of Scripture" (Devotional)

Here is part of a devotional called "The Believer's Secret of Living Like Christ". It is a 31 day devotional by Andrew Murray that has so fed and impacted my life throughout the years. This chapter on the use of scripture just needed to be shared to encourage and inspire you to read, feed and meditate on His Word daily.

 
                                        
                                "In His Use of Scripture"

"That all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning Me."

Luke 24:44

What the Lord Jesus accompished here on earth as a man He owed greatly to His use of the Scriptures.  He found in them the way marked in which He was to walk, the food and the strength by which He could work, the weapon by which He overcame every enemy.  The Scriptures were indeed indispensible to Him throughout His life and passion: from beginning to end His life was the fulfillment of what had been written of Him in the volume of the Book.

It is hardly necessary to attempt proving this.  In the temptation in the wilderness it was by His "It is written" that He conquered Satan.  In His conflicts with the Pharisees He continually appealed to the Word: "What saith the Scripture!" "Have ye not read!" "It is written!" With His disciples it was always from the Scriptures that He proved the certainty and necessity of His sufferings and resurrection: "How otherwise can the Scriptures be fulfilled?" And, with His Father in His last sufferings, it is in the words of Scripture that He pours out the complaint of being forsaken, and then again commends His spirit into the Father's hands.  All this has a very deep meaning.  He Himself was the living Word.  He had the Spirit without measure.  If anyone could ever have done without the written Word, it was Jesus.  And yet we see that it was everything to Him.  He demonstrated that the life of God in human flesh and the Word of God in human speech are inseparably connected.  Jesus would not have been what He was, could not have done what He did, had He not yielded Himself step by step to be led and sustained by the Word of God.

The Word of God is called seed; it is the seed of the divine life.  We know what seed is.  It is that wonderful organism in which the life, the invisible essence of a plant or tree, is so concentrated and embodied that it can be taken away and made available to impart the life of the tree elsewhere.  This use may be twofold.  As fruit we eat it, for instance, in the corn that gives us bread; and the life of the plant becomes our nourishment and our life.  Or we plant it, and the life of the plant reproduces and multiplies itself.  In both aspects the Word of God is seed.

True life is found only in God.  But that life must have a means to be imparted to us.  It is in the Word of God that the divine life takes shape, and brings itself within our reach, and becomes communicable. The life, the thoughts, the feelings, the power of God are embodied in His words.  And it is only through His Word that the life of God can really enter into us.  His Word is the seed of the heavenly life.

As the bread of life we eat it, we feed upon it.  In eating our daily bread, the body takes in the nourishment which nature prepared for us in the seed corn.  We assimilate it, and it becomes our very own, part of ourselves, it is our life.  In feeding upon the Word of God, the powers of the heavenly life enter into us and become our very own--the life our our life.

Or we use the seed to plant.  The words of God are sown in our heart.  They have a divine power of reproduction and multiplication.  The very life that is in them, the divine thought, or disposition, or powers that each of them contains, takes root in the believing heart and grows up; and the very thing of which the Word was the expression is produced within us.  The words of God are the seeds of the fullness of the divine life.

The Lord Jesus was entirely dependent upon the Word of God and submitted himself wholly to it.  His mother taught Him. The teachers of Nazareth instructed Him in it.  In meditation and prayer, in the exercise of obedience and faith, He was led, during His years of preparation, to understand and appropriate it.  The Word of the Father was to the Son the life of His soul.  What He said in the wilderness was spoken from His inmost personal experience.  "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." (Matt 4:4) He felt He cold not live unless the Word brought Him the life of the Father.  The Word was to Him not instead of the Father, but the vehicle for the living fellowship with the living God, and He had His whole mind and heart so filled with it that the Holy Spirit could at each moment find within Him the right word to suggest just as He needed it.

If you would become a man of God, strong in faith, full of blessing, rich in fruit to the glory of God, be full of the Word of God.  Like Christ, make the Word your bread.  Let it dwell richly in you.  Have your heart full of it.  Feed on it.  Believe it.  Obey it.  It is only by believing and obeying that the Word can enter into our inward parts, into our very being. Take it daily as the Word that is proceeding out of the mouth of God, as the Word of the living God, who in it holds living fellowship with His children and speaks to them in living power.  Take your thoughts of God's will, and God's work, and God's purpose with you.  The Word taught you by the Father will enable you to fulfill all that is written in the Scriptures concerning  you.

In Christ's use of Scripture the most remarkable thing is this: He found Himself there; He saw His own image and likeness.  And He gave Himself to the fulfillment of what He found written there.  It was this that encouraged Him under the bitterest sufferings, and strengthened Him for the most difficult work.  Everywhere He saw traced by God's own hand the divine way; through suffering to glory.  He had but one thought to be what the Father had said He should be, to have His life correspond exactly to the image of what He should be as He found in the Word of God.

In the Scriptures our likeness too is to be found, a picture of what the Father means us to be.  Seek to have a deep and clearer impression of what the Father says in His Word that you should be.  If this is fully understood, it is inconceivable what courage it will give to conquer every difficulty.  To know: it is ordained of God, I have seen what has been written concerning me in God's book; I have seen the image of what I am called in God's counsel to be.  This thought inspires the soul with a faith that conquers the world.

The Lord Jesus found His own image not only in the institutions, but especially in the believers of the Old Testiment.  Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David and the prophets were types.  And so He Himself is the image of believers in the New Testament.  It is in Him and His example that we find our own image in the Scriptures.  "To be changed into the same image, from glory to glory, by the Spirit of the Lord" we must in the Scripture-glass gaze on that image as our own.  The Spirit teaches us to take Christ as our example and to gaze on every feature as the promise of what can be.

Blessed is the believer who has not only found Jesus in the Scriptures but also in His image the promise and example of what he is to become.  Blessed is the believer who yields himself to be taught by the Holy Spirit to not dilute the Scriptures but in simplicity to accept what it reveals of God's thoughts about His children.

It was "according to the Scriptures" that Jesus Christ lived and died; it was "according to the Scriptures: that He was raised again, all that the Sriptures said He must do or suffer He was able to accomplish because He knew and obeyed them.  All that the Scriptures had promised that the Father should do for Him, the Father did.  Give yourself with an undivided heart to learn in the Scriptures what God says concerning you.  Let the Scriptures in which Jesus found the food for His daily life be your daily food and meditation.  Go to God's Word with the joyful expectation that through the blessed Spirit, the Word of God is full of divine purpose in you.  Every Word of God is full of divine life and power.  Be assured that when you use the Scriptures as Christ used them, they will do for you what they did for Him.  God has marked out the plan for your life in His Word; each day you will find some portion of it there.  Nothing makes a man more strong and courageous than the assurance that he is obeying the will of God.

O Lord, my God! Thank you for your precious Word, the divine glass of all unseen and eternal realities.  I thank You that I have in it the image of Your Son, who is Your image, and also my image.  I thank You that as I gaze on Him I may also see what I can be.

O my Father, teach me to understand what a blessing Your Word can bring to me.  To Your Son, it was the manifestation of Your will, the communication of Your life and strength, the fellowship with Yourself.  In the acceptance and the surrender of Your Word, He was able to fulfill all Your counsel.  May Your Word be all this to me too. Make it to me, daily through the power of the Holy Spirit, the Word proceeding from Your mouth, the voice of Your living presence speaking to me.  May I feel with each Word that it is God coming to impart to me something of His own life.  Teach me to keep it hidden in my heart as a divine seed, which in its own time will spring up and produce in me in divine reality the very life that was hid in it, the very thing which I at first saw only as a thought.  Teach me above all to find in it Him who is its center and substance the eternal Word.  Finding Him, and myself in Him, I shall learn like Him to count Your Word my food and my life.

I ask this, O my God, in the name of our blessed Christ Jesus.  Amen.

Mercy Seat Revelation & Empowerment

“And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.”

Exodus 25:22

"Meet Me at the mercy seat, and there I will meet with you and speak to you between the wings at the mercy seat."

It is these words that I obeyed and followed and met with the Lord yesterday. With a heaviness in my heart and not able to wait till I got home, I parked my car in a vacant parking lot to seek the Lord at the mercy seat, I began to call on His mercy and grace for my family and the people, desperate for a breakthrough. I heard Him say, "I did it all already. I paid the price. I shed my blood. I gave my life. I broke the curse. It's all been done, now YOU go and appropriate it."
I began to thank Him for all that He had done, for His blood, for His sacrifice, for His love, for the payment of His life for our life. I began to apply and appropriate the blood of Jesus to my family, and to the different people that the Lord brought to my mind, over each family member, their house and their minds, their property and their finances. I began to declare the truth that the blood had broken the power of the curse, the power of the enemy, and that the devil had no power over them. I began to declare them purchased, redeemed, and brought back into right graces with the Father again and declare that they are blessed, redeemed and prospering, that the blessing of God was upon them. 
I began to speak life over them, that the spirit of death had been broken and rendered powerless, that poverty and lack had been broken, fear and doubt had been broken, chains and bondages of addictions broken. I began to declare that life, health and prosperity was theirs because of what the blood had purchased for them. The Holy Spirit filled that car. It was a powerful time of prayer and thanksgiving for all that was ours for the receiving. I felt the power, presence and anointing of God as I prayed and was encouraged in my spirit when just minutes before I was so heavy and weighted down. God had lifted me up out of the pit and set my feet upon the Rock of Jesus Christ and made my eyes and my head to be high above my enemies. I praise God for His Holy Spirit and this place of grace at the mercy seat that He has promised to meet with us. It's here that He reveals His heart and releases His mercy and grace and wisdom to the passionate and desperate one that will seek Him with their whole heart.
I thank You, Lord, for this fresh revelation and power in prayer. I thank You for empowering me to declare the truth of what has been purchased for us and to speak these things into the atmosphere. I thank You that as I declare and speak these things in faith that they create what they say. Like You, Father, I create with my spoken words. Thank You for bringing me back to this truth again. Your Word says, "They overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony."

We overcome by the power of the blood, our acceptance and appropriation of the blood of Jesus, and our declaration and testimony of the truth of what it's purchased. We declare it in the midst of the adverse circumstances. We change the circumstances by the power of our words. It's in our God given DNA. We declare Kingdom reality to change and create and bring forth those Kingdom manifestations.
Help me Lord to establish this foundational truth and principle in my life and to stay in continual praise for all these things You have done. Help me to faithfully seek You here at the mercy seat, to practice these truths and to see the fruit of them so that I may teach them to others. Amen

God's DNA in You

Laminin - the glue and rebar of the human body, the protein molecule that holds your body together.
Watch this YouTube clip on Laminin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e4zgJXPpI4
I don't believe it's a coincidence. I believe God showed it to us as a picture of His DNA in us.

For those that will believe, the cross, the blood, and all it purchased for you is part of your very DNA, it's part of God, your Creator and Father's DNA inside you; and it's greater than your rebellion, your pride and your self-will, because "greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world." If you will only believe and turn your heart to God, this DNA is able to break through all of it and bring you back to who and what you were created for.

God created you and knew you were going to need redemption from your sin and waywardness, and He placed the DNA of His life source in you before you were even born.  He had already staked His claim on your life, impregnated your body with His love and a declaration and statement of Whose you were and how you were to find your way back to Him and to your divine purpose.
The cross, the blood and the resurrected life of Christ Jesus in you is your source of renewed life and hope.  When you've come to your "dead-end" and you give up on all your attempts to "fix it", then your life surrendered to His by accepting the cross, the blood and His life in you will be your "new beginning", a life set on coarse and on a journey of life changed and transformed by God Himself. When you do this, you step into your inheritance and the journey of your divine purpose.  It's God's DNA in you. His life in you waiting to be surrendered to and embraced.

May this word and this little video clip about laminin encourage you if you have a loved one that is lost or away from the Lord. The cross is embedded in their very cells. As you continue to pray for them the Holy Spirit will breathe on them and bring them to that cross to receive the revelation of Christ in them.

A Testimony of His Healing Power

As I left my house the other morning with the revelation of this last posting "Go Out With Joy", I left saying, "I am going out with Your presence, Lord, and being led forth with Your peace, and the mountains and the hills of impossibilty are breaking forth before me."   Saying those words, "going out with Your presence" did something in me that day. Instead of a focus on His joy and victory, my focus and awareness was of His presence in me, the awesomeness of His power and abiding presence in me that I was carrying with me into my day, the knowing that nothing that the enemy threw my way would be able to stand or erode at my victory and joy, because "in His presence (that abided in me) was fullness of joy, and I was taking it with me. 
My day was different that day. It was a day that was "full of joy" but yet rested and peaceful. And at the end of the day, the Lord set up a divine appointment. I called my mom to see how she was feeling, as she had been having some back pain and wasn't getting the relief from it from resting, heating pad, etc. I was scheduled to go over to her house after work for her to sign some papers that we were working on, and when I called she was nearly in tears because the pain was so great and none of her pain medication was relieving it. She wanted to make sure I was still coming. I confirmed that I was, and knew then that the Lord had set this up so that I would take "His presence" over to her, lay my hand on her back and let Him heal her. On my way over to her house, I was confirming in my spirit and with the Lord His Word in Isaiah 53:4 that Jesus borne our sicknesses and carried away our pains. When I got to my mom's place I laid my hand on her back, the place of pain, and I told her, "Mother, Jesus took your pain." I just let my hand remain there as she closed her eyes and took in that word and we sat quietly letting the Lord and the anointing move through my hand. Then she said, "OK" and instructed me to go get the papers that we needed to sign and take care of. We completed that, and before I left, I laid my hand on her back again, and I said, "Mother, Jesus also healed you.", and once again, she closed her eyes, and we sat quietly as the Lord and the anointing flowed through my hand and into her body.
The next morning I called her to see how she was feeling, and she was so excited!  She said, "I wanted to call you last night at 10 o'clock, because when I got up at that time to go to the bathroom, my back wasn't hurting at all!"  Even this day, two days later, she is still pain free!  So praise the Lord, we were both excited and encouraged by what the Lord had done through this divine appointment. The Lord encouraged me in that He showed me how that "abiding presence" in me will be used to heal as He brings the opportunity to me, and to remain focused on His presence in me, seizing the opportunity as it comes for Him to work and be glorified through the gift of healing that He wants to activate in me.
I testify of this to bring God the glory of what He is doing, but also to encourage others as you read this to embrace the revelation of Him in you, the Anointed One that lives in you and works through you as well, to yield and respond in faith to the opportunities that He brings into your path.
God wants to move mightily through His Body in this hour and through our hands as we "take His presence with us" and seize the opportunity.

Go Out With Joy

I've been hearing in my spirit, "Go out with joy and be lead forth with peace, and the mountains and the hills will break forth before you."  These mountains of impossibility that stand before us will break and shatter before us as we go forth in the joy and victory that is ours in Christ Jesus.

After a few tough days that challenged me in this word, I was asking the Lord, "How do I go out of this secret place that is so sweet and joyful and go into a world that seems to instantly and constantly erode at my joy, and be successful in this Word that You've given me?"
I heard the Lord say, "In My presence is fullness of joy. Learn to take My presence, that abiding and resting place in Me, with you wherever you go. When My presence is your focus and goal and constant quest, you will find it. You will find Me when you seek Me with ALL of your heart. The problem lies in that of your divided heart, seeking Me, but at the same time seeking your own comfort and pleasure in other things, not fully surrendering ALL to Me.  My love and grace are sufficient for you for all that you are facing.  Keep your eyes and heart focused on Me. My blessings and the life that I give you are more satisfying and fulfilling than any that you will find in the world."
O Lord, forgive me for my divided heart, for seeking my own pleasures above Your presence and righteousness in my life.  Forgive us as a Body for allowing the pleasures and comforts and things of this world to distract us and draw us away from You.  Lord, give us undivided hearts.  Give us a hunger for Your presence alone, Your presence that superseeds everything that comes our way.  Give us that passion to know You, that passion and persistance that is stronger than life's circumstances and the world's enticements.  You alone, Lord, are who and what we need.  You alone, Jesus. 
O Lord, as we find and embrace Your heart and life, locking our hearts around Yours, we WILL be able to "go out with joy and be led forth with peace, and the mountains and the hills WILL break forth before us", and it will ALL be to Your glory.  Amen and amen

She Stood Up & Prophesied

This last Sunday the Lord showed me two visions in the Spirit. In preprayer before the AM service as we were praying together in our heavenly prayer language, we hit a vein where we all reached the same sound and began to flow and rise in unity together in this single sound. I felt and could see in the Spirit as we rose up in one accord and then we began to fly as one single eagle high above the mountain tops. Those mountains that were SO large, now as we rose above them into that spirit realm that we were created for, appeared only as a flat  plane. (The circumstances had not necessarily changed, but we were now living high above them in victory. Our whole perspective had changed in this high realm, and we were not effected by them any longer but were living and soaring above them.)

Then later during the PM service the Lord gave me a vision as we spent the evening soaking in His presence. I saw the Bride of Christ lying face up on the ground and she was waking up. And as she woke up she could only lift her head, because she had all these cords that were stretched across her and that had her tied down. In her inability to move she could only lift her head and look around, and she saw large mountains all around her. Then I saw angels begin to move quickly and cut and severe the cords and cut her free. Then I saw her begin to rise up and stand to her feet, and I heard in my spirit "Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered." Then I saw as she stood up, she was HUGE! She was SOOOOO TALL! She stood soooo high in that spirit realm that she was created for and then she began to point her finger down to the people and to the earth, and she began to prophesy. She began to prophesy and command with authority, "Wealth of the wicked, be transfered now to the righteous! Wealth of the wicked, be transfered NOW to this house of God as a sign and a wonder that the blessing of God is upon this house because His presence is in this house." I felt in my spirit such a strength and power and authority that was flowing out of her. The Lord showed me that she had woken up from her slumber and found herself tied and bound by the things of this world. And I believe in response to the intercession of Jesus and His co-laborers, His intercessors, that angels were dispatched and began to cut His bride free from these cords, and she began to rise up into that realm of the Spirit that she was created for and began to release the power of His spoken Word, and it was being done.
This vision so encouraged and strengthened me and empowered me to begin to prophesy and declare things, those things that were not as though they were. This place high in the Spirit is where we were created for. As we get free from the entanglements of the world and rise up to this place, we see from a whole different perspective and are empowered by His Spirit to live and operate in a whole different strength and authority, one that's God given.

       "You will know the truth and the truth will make you free."
                                                  John 8:32