The American stood on top of the globe
With his fingers in his ears and his eyes squozen shut.
And I heard a voice say,
If your fingers offend you, cut them off!
And if your eyelids do, cut them out too.
Better to see and hear what the Spirit says to the heart
Than to wind up in
Hell
With your members in tact.
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1Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and roused me, as a man who is awakened from his sleep. 2He said to me, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it with seven spouts belonging to each of the lamps which are on the top of it; 3also two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left side."
And of the Holy Spirit
Who Is in Need Around Me?
More than I love my holiness?
Unmappable
Death, where is your sting?
1Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the
17On His arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18
Jesus: They will know you are Christians By your LOVE. Ghandi: I like your Christ. I don't like your Christians. Because they are so unlike your Christ.
A Fire Shut Up in My Bones
But if I say, "I will not mention Him or speak any more in His Name," His Word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot. Jeremiah 20:9
From God's Aching Heart..
Come. I have called you by your name. And I want you to be called by Mine. I have run out to meet you with My arms open wide and I have sent them to prepare the fatted calf to celebrate your arrival. You were lost, but now are found, and you have found your way to Me. The heavens rejoice! But none more than I, Beloved.
Don't miss the beautiful images hidden in the Word
focus and read hungrily, wait on the Lord and they will appear
The Essence
Beloved Child of Mine, you who have lived in My home and in My Love for so long and have yet allowed a part of your heart to be hardened as stone, won't you reach out with Me to Love and recover those who have been lost from Our home?? Won't you let your heart break with Mine over their suffering? I did not say, They will know you are Christians by your LAWS. I said, They will know you are Christians by your LOVE. Can you please tell Me why that is Not the first thing that comes to people's minds when they hear the word 'Christian' in this country? I am waiting for you to change your heart, to join in their suffering, in My suffering, until all have come safely into the fold. I need you to be on My side before I restore all things, permanently. Please walk in My footsteps and lay down your life for the love of the lost--I call you not to rail at them, but to pull them away from the rail over which they are on the verge of falling to their deaths.
The fear for your own salvation and the hardness of your heart does not come from Me. Trust Me to keep you safe and cling to this lifesaver-- Love that is perfect and complete-as it can only be through Me--casts away all fear-and does so with attitude! Love drives you through the fear to victory--the victory where you let Me use you as My rod and staff to rescue those who will otherwise perish. You are My hands and feet and voice--you are My Body. I have chosen to make you the instruments of My salvation. When you are stiff and afraid and more concerned about your own welfare than that of these little ones, you foil My efforts. And that's causing some considerable delay.
Dear Children, if they don't know you for your love, I don't want you to call yourself by My Name! That, My Beloved, is what I meant when I solemnly warned you, Do NOT take the Name of the Lord your God-My Name-- in vain. It is only to be used by those who have surrendered to My love so that they can become My Love Poured Out. Please be My love poured out, and discover how I can fill you faster than you can pour. You will feel My Love for you far more when you make others feel My Love for them. When you pass the finish line and enter into the fray of celebration, you will find that your greatest reward, after Me, will be those you've carried with you, on your backs, across that line. We will savor that reward together, and forever.
The fear for your own salvation and the hardness of your heart does not come from Me. Trust Me to keep you safe and cling to this lifesaver-- Love that is perfect and complete-as it can only be through Me--casts away all fear-and does so with attitude! Love drives you through the fear to victory--the victory where you let Me use you as My rod and staff to rescue those who will otherwise perish. You are My hands and feet and voice--you are My Body. I have chosen to make you the instruments of My salvation. When you are stiff and afraid and more concerned about your own welfare than that of these little ones, you foil My efforts. And that's causing some considerable delay.
Dear Children, if they don't know you for your love, I don't want you to call yourself by My Name! That, My Beloved, is what I meant when I solemnly warned you, Do NOT take the Name of the Lord your God-My Name-- in vain. It is only to be used by those who have surrendered to My love so that they can become My Love Poured Out. Please be My love poured out, and discover how I can fill you faster than you can pour. You will feel My Love for you far more when you make others feel My Love for them. When you pass the finish line and enter into the fray of celebration, you will find that your greatest reward, after Me, will be those you've carried with you, on your backs, across that line. We will savor that reward together, and forever.
What You Will Find Here
There's kind of a mixed bag here--mixed but not minced. The focus is on seeking to know the truth, to know our own hearts, to know the heart of God, to pursue the beautiful purposes of God in our lives, to acknowledge the ways we have fallen short of those purposes-- not only in our individual lives, but in society as a whole-for which we bear great responsibility--to urge us all to let the Holy Spirit soften the places where our hearts have turned to stone, to learn to hear Him and to obey Him, to get shaken up out of our lethargy (I'm thinking of Charles Wallace in the presence of the Big Evil It in A Wrinkle in Time, almost falling under its hypnotic spell, but ultimately triumphing, when he turns away from focusing on himself and his will to focus on the love in his heart instead, and Love conquers Evil). . . Some of these postings are essays in kind of an academic/literary tone, but most are much easier to read in terms of form and structure (not so jolting with the disjointed, stream of consciousness style and probably off-putting vocabulary of the former), but perhaps not in terms of content. The Bridegroom is preparing to be united with His beautiful bride--she must be whiter than snow, in brilliant gleaming robes, without spot or wrinkle. Lovelessness and Hypocrisy are Enemy #1 (Yeah, I'm counting them as one because I think they come hand in hand). Perhaps not every post will resonate with you--perhaps not even one--but I pray that they will stir up your heart and mind to get off and/or stay off the mindless conveyor belt of warm bodies with cold souls and no apparent effect on the world around them--get off to be agents of Truth, and Mercy, and Justice-agents of the Most High God, pouring out His love in all its many forms everywhere we turn. This is the mission. For those who choose to accept it. Let's Roll!
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Isaiah 55:11
So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void but shall accomplish that which I please and shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Straight from the Source. . .
The Golden Lampstand and Olive Trees
1Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and roused me, as a man who is awakened from his sleep. 2He said to me, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it with seven spouts belonging to each of the lamps which are on the top of it; 3also two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left side."
What Do You See?
4Then I said to the angel who was speaking with me saying, "What are these, my lord?" 5So the angel who was speaking with me answered and said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord." 6Then he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying, 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts. 7'What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of "Grace, grace to it!"'"
From Zechariah 4: The Oil of Healing
And of the Holy Spirit
The Hands that Have Laid the Foundation Will Also Finish It
8Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 9"The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. 10 "For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven will be glad when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel--these are the eyes of the LORD which range to and fro throughout the earth." 11Then I said to him, "What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?" 12And I answered the second time and said to him, "What are the two olive branches which are beside the two golden pipes, which empty the golden oil from themselves?" 13So he answered me, saying, "(Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord." 14Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who are standing by the Lord of the whole earth."
Zechariah 4 NASB
Who Is My Neighbor?
Who Is in Need Around Me?
The Parable of the Good Samaritan, Luke 10:25-37
25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"26"What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?"27He answered: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"28"You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live." 29But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" 30In reply Jesus said: "A man was going down from
Do I love the wounded
More than I love my holiness?
Lamentations 3:17-26
I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. So I say, My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord. I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, the Lord is my portion. therefore I will wait for Him. The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
Glorious Waves
Unmappable
Lazarus Rises
Death, where is your sting?
The Death of Lazarus in John 11
1Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary
7Then he said to his disciples, "Let us go back to
17On His arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18 Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem
32When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." 33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 34"Where have you laid him?" he asked. "Come and see, Lord," they replied. 35Jesus wept. 36Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" 37But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"
38Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 39"Take away the stone," he said. "But, Lord," said Martha, the sister of the dead man, "by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days." 40Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" 41So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me." 43When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" 44The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go."
Hosea 10:12
Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord until He comes and showers righteousness on you.
Joel 2:28-32
And afterward I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants both men and women I will pour out My Spirit in those days. I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord will be saved.
That Your Names Are Written in Heaven
18He replied, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. 20However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."
I Have Plans for You!
11For I know the plans that I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans for prosperity and not for calamity, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call on Me and I will answer you, you will pray to Me, and I will hear you. 13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:11-13
If I must choose Righteousness or Peace, I will choose Righteousness.
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
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