Faith...

Praise the Lord for Faith....
Hebrews 11:1 says that Faith is the substantiation of the things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Many people are born with a particular religion and base their faith on the objective teaching, practices and rituals that have been passed on to them since birth.  The Apostle Paul was a good example for he was one of the foremost leaders in the Hebrew religion. He  zealously defended his faith and arrested many believers who lived contrary to what he was taught and practiced. It was only when he met Christ, the anointed, as a shining light on the road to Damascus that he was converted. It was by a baptism or immersion into the Holy Spirit.

From that day onward Paul changed course regarding his faith, because he had received a personal revelation regarding  the substantiation and realization of the reality of the Spirit of Christ within his being.  A little later he followed the same course of those whom he formerly persecuted. Christians who previously also had had the same realization upon been baptized and immersed into the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. What a change had been wrought in Paul's life and what an assurance of better things that were to come. Paul being a Hebrew was turned upside down regarding his former belief system, especially after receiving  a subjective revelation or substantiation of the things hoped for, the conviction of things  not seen.

It was not long after upon having received the Holy Spirit that he no longer cared about the outward forms and doctrines of his former religion. From his later writings we can see that he only cared for the Spirit of reality that was now real and substantiated into his mind, emotion and will. Paul's natural zeal was not diminished neither, but actually increased since He had been chosen and anointed by Christ himself to proclaim the message of salvation to the Gentile Nations baptizing or immersing them into One Spirit, One Body for Christ corporate expression allover the earth.

 In Acts chapter nine, when he met the anointed one, the Lord said," Saul, Saul why are you persecuting Me? Saul answered "Who are You Lord?" and Jesus answered and said," I am Jesus whom you persecute". He had no realization that in fact he was persecuting the Body of Christ. It was here that he received a further revelation of the Body of Christ.

Paul first received a personal revelation of the Christ as the anointing subjectively. The Greek word for the anointed is Christos and the English name is Christ, moreover the anointed in Hebrew is Messiah. Many people today believe in Christ and the Messiah yet there faith is still based upon a mere objective knowledge. Unless we enter into a subjective experience of Christ we only know and have the outward teaching or dogma regarding Christ. The fact is that the Messiah, Christos,Christ, or the anointed one is already here. Acts 2:4 tells us that on the day of Pentecost when the believers were gathered together they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of Christ  had descended upon and within them and that was the beginning of the Church, the Body of Christ.

We should not wait for Christ or the Messiah. By simply opening our hearts to Him we can receive instantly  many blessings and have the realization of the substantiation of the things hoped for, even to the point  as Paul of becoming convicted of the all things that are related to Christ. When the heart  turns to the Lord, the veils are taken away and the anointing makes itself at  home into our hearts. It becomes real to us in a subjective way. Today's believers whether Jewish, Greek or Gentile all over this world enjoy this wonderful Christ into which they have been immersed or baptized and have become the Body of Christ.  Our Faith includes the substance of the unseen reality of Christ, the infilling of the Holy Spirit and His Body since we all have been immersed into One Body and one Spirit.

If you like to know Christ subjectively, simply pray "Lord Jesus reveal yourself to me as you did to Paul and all the other believers. Come into my heart, fill me Lord with Joy and Peace.  Fill me with your Holy  Spirit, baptize, immerse me into you Lord and fill all my heart Lord so that I can substantiate  you as the anointed One and become part of your Body, your corporate expression and dwelling place on earth.  Praise You Lord Jesus.   Amen...

With our first love....

Loving the Lord with our First Love…

I was impressed this week regarding the work God that He is doing in our midst, a work that is revealed in one of the many signs of the book of Revelation. There is a conclusion to everything, even in the scriptures. The book of Revelation gives us the conclusion of Gods purpose upon  earth and His intention and desires are clearly laid out for us in the last book of the bible.

 In was in the beginning of the scriptures in Genesis 3:15 after the fall of mankind, that God spoke to the serpent who deceived Eve and said that her seed would bruise his head. In Genesis we see a woman and her seed that would bruise the serpent.  At the end of the bible in the book of revelation chapter 12 we can see the woman again and a man child that will be caught up to God and to his throne and that there was a war in heaven and the old serpent that is called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole  world. He was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out of the heavens with him. Here we see the old serpent again and many partners with him, fallen angels.  The old serpent had become a dragon and the dragon persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child and desired to devour the child. (Rev12:4) We should not think that we are alone in this universe or in this world. I  Praise the Lord for the woman who is bringing forth a man child and God who has protected her and the man-child during her persecution by the dragon, the old serpent who is cast upon the earth.

 Furthermore, Revelation 12:1 speaks of a woman clothed with the Sun and the moon underneath her feet that has a crown of 12 stars upon her head. This vision refers to God’s people on the earth, including the Old Testament and New Testament believers. The stars signify the patriarchs or forefathers of the Bible who were called by Him to express Him and to carry out His dominion over all the earth.( Genisis1:26).  The age of the moon refers to the Old Testament believers and the age of the Sun to the New Testament believers.

The believers in the New Testament became partakers of Christ who came as a great light to enlighten them. They formerly sat in darkness. All those who believe into Him and receive Him as Light become the true believers upon being Immersed or baptised into the reality of the anointing. Once enlightened regarding the true essence and divinity of God, they all become part of the woman that shines as a great light. John 1:9 says, “ that He was the true light, which enlightens every man that comes into the world”.   Furthermore  Acts 13:47 tells us that the Lord commanded the believers that they had being enlightened to become a light unto the Gentiles for the salvation of all mankind unto the ends of the earth. So the light of Christ is shining today from within the believers . They become the true testimony of Jesus in many churches that shine as lamp stands all over the earth for the salvation of whosoever believes into the true light. It is God’s will that all men should be saved and come to the full knowledge of his will. ( 1Timothy 2:4)

Furthermore  the woman is producing  a man child. It signifies  a stronger part of the majority of the believers, that all belong to the woman.  At the conclusion of the bible in Revelation  12:11, we can see the overcomers, the stronger ones who overcame Satan by the blood of the lamb, the word of their testimony and they did not love their soul life even unto death. They are the ones who truly love God with their first love, not loving this world nor the things in this world. To become the stronger ones within the woman or the man child we should be as the over comers and take the blood of Christ to be cleansed from every transgression, sin or offence of which we become aware off, especially once we have been enlightened by the light that is revealed trought the reading of His word. The light is in His Word, it is a light unto our feet that makes us to walk  worthily of our calling.

Recently I saw that in the book of  Revelation chapter two, the majority of the believers had left their first love. They simply cooled down or sat on the fence regarding the Lord and were in danger of losing Gods testimony, the expression of God manifested in the church in Ephesus, a shining  lamp stand.

The anointing or the Spirit said that they needed to repent, they needed to have a turn in their heart regarding their pitiful condition and situation.  From the word we can see that they actually committed an offence, a sin for otherwise they would not have had to repent.  Although they were zealous of good works, they labored and endured many hardships while bearing all things because of His name  (Revelation 2:2), they neglected to love the Lord with their first love.  They considered themselves to be ok, yet with the Spirit it was not ok.  Today the Lord is calling for the overcomers, to produce the man child while He is walking in the midst of the churches,  many local churches all over the earth.

Loving the Lord with our first love actually means is to give Him the preeminence in our being. The Lord reminded me regarding Saul.  King Saul was told by God to not keep any of the sheep and oxen when he conquered the good land for Gods kingdom and expression upon the earth. Saul kept the best of the sheep, but Samuel came to Saul and said that it is better to obey than sacrifice. Today many believers sacrifice many things to the Lord, yet when He speaks to them a word that He desires,  they do not obey.  Sometime the Spirit as the anointing  or the Lord within our human spirit may ask us to do something for Him. For example speak a word for him in the meeting or some loved ones and we do not obey. By doing so we do not let His light shine to those who are still in darkness regarding the purpose of his coming and his desire for all mankind to be saved and come to the full knowledge of His will.  His will is to express Himself trough a corporate people to carry out His dominion over all the whole earth that will consumate into the Millinial Kingdom and His reign for ever and ever.  I realize that we must give heed to the light that is revealed to us in His word and that is spoken to us in these days. let us not lose the shining testimony before Him upon the earth.

The Lord is calling for the overcomers today!.  Become an overcomer by keeping yourself in the light of His word and join yourself to the word according to the revelation that the anointing is showing you.  We should not let our traditions, culture, religion or any good work that is even about God and for God become a replacement that will hold us back from loving the Lord with our first love. It is only then that we will overcome and become the stronger part within the woman, the man child. The overcomers bear the true testimony of Jesus and it is in them that the enemy has no ground. They reign in life and the Spirit regulates or rules over them regarding the things He desires until He will build his Church as He promised and that is  a true testimony and expression for Him upon the earth.   

Whenever we read the scriptures we should join ourselves to the word of God. The word of God will set us free from the deception of the glory of this world and all its falsehood and usher us into the realty of God, the essence of the triune God, The Father, Son and Spirit and build us into a corporate dwelling place to shines now in the present days and forevermore.

 Let us  exercise our whole being, especially our mind to muse upon his word and understand it according to His desire and will as it is written and revealed to us from last book of the Bible, the book of Revelation. We need to continue to Love Him with our first love and practice His word as it is written. Practice the word as we see the light regarding God’s intention and desire by dropping all our concepts regarding tradition, religion, background and culture  and simply trust in Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith. Let His word speak  and dwell in us richly. And last but not least let us exercise our will to read the scriptures daily, for by doing so, we will enter into a relationship of the Spirit and life so that we can grow and mature in the divine life until all the attributes of God become real, revealed in us and expressed trough us  wherever we meet with the other believers for the perfecting of the Saints unto the building up of the Body of Christ.

Paul planted, Apollos watered and God causes the growth. Let us do all things unto God for His Good pleasure and will upon the earth as in heaven until we all rejoice with him in the heavens. Let us all become the overcomers  to bring Him back to reign and rule with Him in the coming kingdom. Praise the Lord.