Fierce Jesus

Lightening and Thunder

I was walking through my house the other day and the Holy Spirit flashed a picture onto my inner brain screen. As I stopped and began to reflect on what I was seeing a word came to me explaining the picture. As soon as the word came to me about the first picture, a second picture flashed onto the screen. As I began reflecting on the second picture, a second word came explaining the second picture. But we'll get to the meaning of the two visions in a little bit, so keep reading.

I’ve often thought these things are like lightening and thunder. Quite often when I’m praying the message the Lord is sending starts out like a little flash of something in the distance. The response is the same as if I saw a flash of lightening out of the corner of my eye like, ”Hey wait! What was that?” If I’m not careful, or if my own heart is not in a listening mode, I could easily overlook what was happening and miss out on something wonderful.

As I stay in a state of communion with an open listening heart toward the Lord, then the picture gets clearer and either the voice of the Lord (the thunder) is inside the picture or it comes in way of explaining the picture. This is the way the Holy Spirit works it with me anyway. I thought it was worth the explanation because it may be happening to someone else in a very similar fashion, but you aren’t really aware of it.

On Being A Good Listener

But the main point for all of us is this: When you are in a place of communion with the Holy Spirit, there comes a point where you need to do less of the talking and more of the listening. With me there is always a clear transition point between where I am immersed in the presence of the Lord and having my heart in a place where it can hear Him communicate. I think the ideal life is to be in the place of communion all day and all night, every day and every night of our short but meaningful lives.

My impression is that the Holy Spirit is always speaking and it’s just that we’re not always listening. His passion is to elevate our perspective on things in life so that we are able to see them as He sees them. When we see as God sees and understand as God understands, we can then act in life making our choices in accord with very high and eternal things, elevating our acts far above the influence of mere mortal, earthly and even demonic influence.

The Whole Point Of Jesus Appearing

Isn’t a life of interaction with the Holy Spirit the whole point of Jesus coming? Jesus came to restore in us the ability to hear God speaking to us by the power of His Holy Spirit within us. There are five main themes in scripture that we often seem to lose sight of. I decided to outline them below because at the heart of all scripture is an incredible, incomparable message of salvation for mankind and all creation:

1. There was a war in heaven.

Lucifer, one of the highest of God’s angelic creations became enamored with his own beauty and power. His pride and self-emulation caused him to crave the role of God in the universe, and he led the angels under him (who also corrupted themselves in this evil folly) on a quest to subjugate God. The result of this loser’s quest was that all of them were removed from their places in the divine order and were cast out of heaven and down to earth by God’s mighty power and judgment. These spirit beings became satan and his angels and demon principalities and powers and might and dominions.

“How are you fallen from heaven, Oh Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, you who did weaken the nations! For you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also on the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet you will be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit [the region of the dead]. Those that see you then will gaze at you in astonishment and consider you saying, ‘Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that one that shook kingdoms? That made the world like it was a wilderness, and destroyed the habitable places and refused to open the house of his prisoners?”, (Isaiah 14:12-17).

2. God made man in His own image and likeness.

Adam was created from the dust of the earth and animated to life by the very breath and Spirit of God. Adam was here with a mission to finish the crushing and judgment of satan (the devil) and his angels. God planted a beachhead in earth and called it Eden. From Eden, under the guidance of his relationship with God, Who would speak to Adam daily, the man was to expand his influence in the earth until the glory of God filled the earth entirely and the devil and his minions would be bound and destroyed forever.

“And God created man in his own image, in the image of God did he create him; male and female did he create them. And God blessed them and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and re-plenish the earth, AND SUBDUE IT…”, (Genesis 127-28).

“And the LORD said, ‘I have pardoned according to your word: But as truly as I live, ALL THE EARTH WILL BE FILLED WITH THE GLORY OF THE LORD”, (Numbers 14:20-21).


3. Adam fell by listening to the voice of satan, subjugating us all.

Adam, the one sent to subjugate the evil one, became the battleground because he was God’s instrument for satan’s destruction. But Adam, choosing to disregard the voice of God, embraced and followed instead the communications of satan and thereby brought all of mankind in subjection to the spiritual world of darkness and the byproducts of it, which is death in all its forms and hell (demonic harassment) in all its forms.

The soul of man became dull to the voice of God, but God in His eternal mercy and love for mankind promised to remedy this problem. God promised mankind a Deliverer would come and restore man’s ability to commune with God, know His voice, follow His voice, enjoy in life all the benefits of the supernatural powers of heaven and defeat once and for all satan according to the original purpose.

“Because that when they knew God, they did not glorify him [fully honoring him] as God, and they were not thankful to him either [for all he had done for them]; but they became void and empty in their imaginations of him, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing themselves to be wise ones, they had actually become fools…and since they no longer wanted to retain God in their knowledge or count him worth knowing, God gave them over to their wants and their minds became reprobate and they did reprehensible things and they conducted their lives as those void of God”, (Romans 1:21-22 & 28-29).

4. Jesus the Son of God and Savior appears to restore man to God.

The curse that Adam brought upon the entire human race could only be broken by one method, and it was a tricky proposition to say the least. A man would have to live an entire life in communion with and response to the Holy Spirit only, without ever, not even one time, mingling his response to life in harmony with the voices of darkness like Adam had done. But to break the curse and the control of satan over men it had to go farther than this. The sinless man would have to die as all men had died and reveal to satan, who had the power of death, that death could not hold him, because in Him (Jesus) there was no sin (no allegiance with darkness). This is the tricky part because a man without sin (one who has only lived by the guidance of the Holy Ghost) can’t die.

So in order for Jesus the sinless Son of God to die, He had to take on Himself the sins of the entire world (past, present and future). So God, who dwells in the realm of eternity and not in time, commanded the sins of all time to be placed upon Jesus and by placing on the sinless one all of our sins, Jesus was then able to die. But once He died and descended into hell, with nothing truly in Him (Jesus) to which satan could attach any claim, any normal legal rights or power of darkness that were present in all other men because of Adam’s sin were non-existent in Jesus, the Son of God. Death could not hold Jesus. The power of satan had no claim.

By death Jesus triumphed over hell and death, rising from the dead and coming back to life, death being unable to hold Him. The resurrection of Jesus from the dead was the sign of satan’s defeat over a new kind of man that would put their faith in Jesus and what He had done for them by taking their sins on Himself. It is by our faith in Jesus work that we can once again turn our heart toward God to become a listener and follower of His Spirit (His voice). We become free to live a life of choosing the way of the Spirit just as Jesus did.

“For when we were still in a totally helpless condition, in due time Christ died for us who were void of God. For it is a very rare event when someone would willingly die for a man who is righteous [one having done everything well], and even far more rare if someone would even entertain the thought of dying for a man who is just a really nice guy. But understand this, God publicly demonstrated his love toward us, in that while we were still sinners [acting out our lives under the power of darkness], Christ his only Son died for us. How much more then, now that we have been declared by God to be absolutely free of all claims and punishment against us [from the evil one], we will be saved from the coming wrath against all evil by him (Jesus). For if when we were enemies, we were reunited to God by the death of his Son, how much more, now that we have been reunited with him, will we be saved every day by his ongoing resurrected life working within us”, (Romans 5:6-10).

5. Eternal Judgment is on its way.

Everything is headed toward a final climax. There will be a day when time will be no more and all men, those who believe in Jesus and those who reject Him, will stand before the throne of God and receive their final judgment. Eternal Judgment is final judgment and what is determined to be true of all beings (man and angel) at that time will remain forever, eternally irreversible. This judgment will extend itself on three levels.

The first and second levels will have to do with whether or not a person accepted God’s offer of salvation out from under the control of darkness by accepting the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus His Son for them. Or, did men reject such a great and merciful offer, deciding instead to stay under the control of darkness, because they loved darkness and its works more than light. They that love darkness will have what they wanted, winding up in the same place of eternal damnation as satan, their leader in ultimate defeat.

But the third part of eternal judgment will have to do with all those who did believe in Jesus and accept the Fathers offer of salvation. All those who believe will stand before the throne of God while their lives will be examined with regard to what from their lives is worthy of reward. To state it simply, those things that are worthy of reward before the throne of God are only those things that were wrought in us out of our communion and acting according to the voice of the Holy Spirit.

“When the Son of Man will come in his glory, and all the HOLY ANGELS with him then he will sit upon the throne of his glory; And before him will be gathered all nations and he will separate them one from another just like a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats…Then will he say also to them on his left hand [the unfavorable hand], ‘Depart from me you who perpetuate the curse, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels’…And these will go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous [the believing] into life eternal’, (Matthew 25:31-46).

“According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, but someone else does the building on that foundation. But let every man take care as to how he builds on that foundation. For there is no other foundation that a man can possible lay [under him], other than Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, or wood, hay or stubble; [We will find] every mans work will be revealed exactly for what its true substance is: for that day will reveal it all, because his work will be scrutinized as if by an intense burning flaming fire; and the fire of that day will prove every mans work as to what sort it [truly] is. If any mans work remains which he has built on the foundation [of Jesus Christ], he will receive wonderful reward. On the other hand, if any mans work is burned up in the fire of that day, he will suffer his losses: but he himself will still be saved; yet so as by fire. Don’t you get it, that you are literally the very temple of God, and that the Spirit of God has taken up His residence inside of you?” (1st Corinthians 3:10-16).

Did We Miss Something?

Sometimes I think we missed the whole point, myself included. We’re busy teaching people how to act like good church folks, building tiny little kingdoms, while God is calling out to the hearts of men and women to commune with Him in the etrnal, heavenly anointing and power of the Holy Spirit and daily act out their lives according to the instructions received by the Spirit. It is by acting in accord with the Spirit that the true works of God are performed.

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God”, (Romans 8:14).

I often wonder how much of what we have come to call church life or Christian life is simply more wood, hay and stubble. How much of what we do today is representative of the actual practice of Jesus in the gospels or the apostles in the book of Acts? Where was the investment of Jesus and the apostles time? What lifestyle did they lead that brought such total upheaval and impact in their world?

On the outside of what we’ve come to claim as church everything looks good. It LOOKS Christian doesn’t it? It has all the earmarks of it. We talk about Jesus don’t we? We have worship and we sing about Jesus. We pray for the sick and we preach don’t we? We give to the poor and the needy and that’s certainly Christian. And we support missions, so that’s got to be Christian. We certainly have the form down. In fact, we could probably go across the entire planet and reproduce our own brand of the form in every village and town because we know our form and what it’s supposed to look like that well. But Jesus had a different view:

“Not everyone that says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will enter into [experience] the kingdom of heaven; But the one that DOES THE WILL of my Father, which is in heaven. Many will say to me IN THAT DAY, ‘Lord, Lord, haven’t we prophesied IN YOUR NAME? And IN YOUR NAME cast out devils? And IN YOUR NAME done many wonderful works?’ And then I will profess to them, ‘I was never deeply intimate with you. Depart from me for you are simply workers of iniquity [self-will, idolatry, your own way]”, (Matthew 7:21-22).

When THE DAY arrives, how much will I have from my daily life experience that was actually IMPERISHABLE? How many of my acts will be shown before all to have been born out of the guidance of the Holy Spirit and go on record as gold, silver and precious stones [imperishables] being the results of living out under the influence of the Spirit, acts born out of intimate communion with Him? How much of my living will be shown to be worthless ash, the residue of that which was not born out of the eternal imperishable dimension of the Holy Spirit?

Help! The First Foundation Stone Has Gone Missing

Hebrews chapter six covers a series of MUST HAVE foundations critical to a successful relationship with God, at least from His perspective. It tells us that these foundational teachings are what under gird the lives of those who go on to experience the full maturity of their relationship with God. In one sense we could say that all of scripture can be placed into the context of these six foundations. In our education system, these things would be the equivalent of elementary school.

“Therefore, leaving the elementary stage of the teachings of Christ [the Anointed One], let us go forward into expanding levels of maturity: NOT LAYING AGAIN the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the teachings regarding the baptisms, and of the laying on of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment”, (Hebrews 6:1-2).

Let me point out first that these are teachings regarding Christ or the Anointed One. Keep in mind that whenever Christ is referred to it has something to do with the “anointing” which is the Holy Spirit. I often wonder how much better off the church world would be if we invested our time in training people how to live in communion with the Holy Spirit. Then people would learn how to be the servants of God instead of the servants of multiple programs that have the look of Jesus but don’t often have the power of Jesus in them. If it doesn’t have the power of Jesus in it then it just might not be worth doing. In fact it’s more than likely a diversion from the true impact of the kingdom of God.

Stop Doing Empty Stuff?

Yes, the very first foundation stone laid next to Jesus in a believer’s life says, “Stop doing dead works. Repent of them. Turn away from them.” And what are dead works? Dead works are actions that do not flow out of the life of Christ as expressed within the individual’s relationship with the Holy Spirit. A work apart from God is dead. There is nothing of His touch in it.

Isn’t the reason for our problems in the first place due to our living outside of the grace and glory of God? We lived according to the course of this world and outside of the continual influence of the Holy Spirit and our lives were a shambles. Isaiah the prophet said it this way, “All we like sheep have gone astray; WE HAVE TURNED EVERYONE TO HIS OWN WAY”, (Isaiah 53:6).

“And you He has made alive, who at one time was dead in trespasses and sins [acting out according to the influence of darkness on you]; Where in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air [satan], the spirit that now energizes the children of disobedience…”, (Ephesians 2:1-2).

Repentance from dead works is a call from God to alter our entire base of living. We no longer live life out of a base of our own way and out of the philosophic view or influence of demon spirits to which Adam subjected us. We alter our base of existence by turning from the influence of lifeless actions to the influence of a life lived through a communion with the Holy Spirit, the active power of creation itself. Whereas sin destroyed our ability to commune with God and hear His voice, Jesus came to restore our ability to commune with the Spirit of God and to hear Him speaking to us in our inner man. Acts performed under the guidance of the Holy Spirit are acts of God.

Repentance is NOT a call to “stop doing bad stuff and go to church you slimeball”. It is a call to come to Jesus, receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit and start living life from a dimension that is bathed in the very life of God, far above and beyond rudiments of this world. Out of that relationship of interacting with the life of God, a person’s own soul alters in amazing and positive ways. You cannot predict with exact certainty the unique postitive impact that will have on each individual choosing to participate in the life.

The Life Of Enoch

Enoch was born into the world about 622 years after the fall of Adam. He was the seventh generation of man from the Garden of Eden. There was something different about Enoch in that he somehow found a connecting point with God where most, if not all other people didn’t quite get it. It says of Enoch:

“And Enoch lived sixty five years and begat Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters; and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty five years: and Enoch walked with God: AND HE WAS NOT; FOR GOD TOOK HIM”, (Genesis 5:21-24).

When it says of Enoch that he “walked with God” it literally means “he walked up and down, to and fro, AND WAS CONVERSANT”. Enoch had found a stream in which he ran a running conversation with God. It doesn’t mean he was just a blabbermouth before the Lord. It means Enoch was engaged in constant TWO WAY CONVERSATION.

The amazing thing is this. There was something so satisfying to God in the communion of Enoch with Him, that one day Enoch just disappeared. Enoch didn’t die he was just physically translated by God into heaven. Enoch was a foreshadowing of something yet to come.

There are a lot of things that could be said about this, one of which is that the number seven (Enoch being the seventh from Adam – Jude 14) is the number of rest or completion. God set an example for us in that on the seventh day HE RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORKS. So we see Enoch, THE SEVENTH from Adam exemplifying a life of COMMUNION WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. Listen to Hebrews 4:9-11:

“There still remains therefore a full and complete rest to the people of God. FOR, THE ONE THAT HAS ENTERED INTO HIS REST, IS THE VERY ONE THAT HAS CEASED FROM HIS OWN WORKS, AS GOD DID FROM HIS. Let us therefore be zealous in exerting all of our efforts to enter into THAT REST…”

The rest that waits for the people of God is identified here as CEASING FROM OUR OWN WORKS. And then we are encouraged to apply ourselves to entering into that place where we have ceased from our own works [dead works] and letting the works of God, prepared for us before the very foundation of the world, come alive in us. By this we become the very instruments of God in the earth revealing the glories of His throne. This only becomes possible through living a life of communion with the Holy Spirit, as exemplified in Enoch, the seventh from Adam.

A Preview Of Coming Attractions

There is an event coming that I think I want to be part of, hoping I have grown enough in faith to a participate. It is the same event the apostle Paul talked about wanting to participate in if at all possible. You see the scriptures teach that Jesus will not come back until every thing that opposes Him and all that is contrary to Him has been subdued under His feet. Then the very, very LAST ENEMY to be defeated by His power within His people will be physical death itself.

“Then will come the end, when he (Jesus) will have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have put down ALL rule and ALL authority and power. For he must reign until he has PUT ALL ENEMIES under his feet. THE LAST ENEMY THAT WILL BE DESTROYED IS DEATH”, (1st Corinthians 15:24-26).

“Behold, I will show you a mystery: NOT ALL OF US ARE GOING TO EXPERIENCE PHYSICAL DEATH, but all of us are indeed going to be physically transfomed. In a moment, as quickly as the twinkle in a person’s eye, at the sounding of the last trumpet: for the trumpet will definitely sound, and the dead [believers bodies] will be raised and they will be new and incorruptible bodies, AND WE WHO ARE ALIVE AT THAT MOMENT AND YET REMAINING HERE WILL ALSO BE CHANGED. For, this corruptible body must put on incorruption, and this mortal body must put on immortality. So when this corruptible will have put on incorruption and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will this saying be fulfilled that has been written in the prophetic scriptures, ‘Death is swallowed up in victory. Oh, death where is your sting? Oh, grave where is your victory?’ The sting of death was sin and the strength of death was the law. But abounding thanks should be raised to God, which has given to us the victory over both these things through our Lord Jesus Christ”, (1st Corinthians 15:51-57).

“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL, AND WITH THE TRUMPET OF GOD: and the dead in Christ will rise up first: THEN WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN will be caught up together with them in the clouds to MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR: and so will we forevermore be with the Lord”, (1st Thessalonians 4:16-17).

We are told the LAST ENEMY to be faced and defeated by the people of God is death itself and it all seems so simple on paper doesn’t it? The seventh [last] trumpet blows and the believers here and remaining suddenly pass from physical mortality into physical immortality and never experience physical death. I’m all for that! Sign me up!

Yes, it looks good on paper, but I’m thinking there is a lot that comes down in way of defeating all the powers of darkness before the point where the faith of these final people looks directly into the face of death, and refuses to blink. I'm thinking there are a lot of victories small and large that have to add up before they move boldly toward the enemy of death to stare it down. I’m guessing that whatever is entailed will mean complete confidence in the guiding voice of the Holy Ghost speaking within them for that last and final triumph. But that's just me. You may have a different take on it and that's okay with me. Listen to the apostle Paul:

“That I may KNOW HIM [being deeply and intimately acquainted], and THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made CONFORMABLE TO HIS DEATH; if by any means I MIGHT ATTAIN TO THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. Not as though I had already attained to it, or have already reached the full development of maturity: but I continue to pursue onward with the goal of grabbing hold of the very purpose I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. My bothers, I do not consider myself to reached that goal yet: but this one thing I am sure to do, I will not rest on the things I have already attained to, but reaching out toward those things that still lay out ahead of me, I PRESS ONWARD TOWARD THE MARK OF THE ULTIMATE PRIZE AND HIGH CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS…For the life we live flows to us DIRECTLY OUT OF HEAVEN, from where also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who will change our lower level body that it may be fashioned just like his own glorious body, ACCORDING TO THE SAME POWER BY WHICH HE IS ABLE TO SUBDUE ALL THINGS TO HIMSELF”, (Philippians 3:10-14, 20-21).

What About That Holy Ghost?

I hope you received something from the detour we've been on here. I hope something in these words raise questions for you and inspire you to seek after the Lord, learning to find the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking inside of you. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE POINT OF YOUR REDEMPTION. The things Jesus said regarding the gift out of the Holy Spirit to His friends ought to ring in our ears:

“He will SPEAK TO YOU…” (John 16:13)

“He will GUIDE YOU…” (John 16:13)

“He will COMFORT YOU [come right along side you, mentor you]…” (John 14:16)

“He will BE IN YOU…” (John 14:17)

“He will TEACH YOU…” (John 14:26)

“He will BRING JESUS INSIGHTS TO REMEMBERANCE…” (John 14:26)

“He will PROVIDE PROOF AND EVIDENCE [testify of] JESUS…” (John 15: 26)

“He will REVEAL TRUTH [what is real through God’s eyes] TO YOU…” (John 16:13)

“He will speak words STRAIGHT FROM THE THRONE OF GOD…” (John 16:13)

“He will REVEAL THE FULL GLORY OF JESUS…” (John 16:14)

“He will REVEAL THE INVISIBLE TREASURES OF HEAVEN TO YOU…” (John 16:15)

“He will REVEAL FUTURE EVENTS TO YOU [prophecy and prophetic gifts]…” (John 16:13)

“He will CONVINCE THE WORLD TO BELIEVE IN JESUS THROUGH YOU…” (John 16:8-9)

“He will CONVINCE THE WORLD OF JESUS POWER THROUGH YOU…” (John 16:8-10)

“He will BRING JUDGMENT ON DEMONIC ACTIVITIES THROUGH YOU…” (John 16:8-11)

“He will ENABLE YOU TO BEAR DEEPER AND DEEPER REVELATIONS OF GOD…” (John 16:12-13)

“He will CLOTHE YOU WITH DYNAMIC POWER FROM GOD…” (Luke 24:49)

“He will TOTALLY DRENCH YOU [baptize you] IN HIS PRESENCE…” (Acts 1:4-5)

“He will GIVE YOU A SUPERNATURAL PRAYER LANGUAGE SO YOU CAN COMMUNE WITH GOD DIRECTLY FROM YOUR SPIRIT…” (1st Corinthians 14:2, 10, 14-15)

He will GIVE YOU A SUPERNATURAL PRAYER LANGUAGE SO YOU CAN BUILD YOURSELF UP IN THE POWER OF FAITH, GOD’S LOVE AND THE SPIRIT OF MERCY…” (1st Corinthians 14:4, Jude 20-21)

He will ASSIST US WITH OUR WEAKNESSES WHEN WE PRAY IN HARMONY WITH HIM USING OUR PRAYER LANGUAGE…” (Romans 8:26)

He will HELP US PRAY SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THINGS USING OUR PRAYER LANGUAGE EVEN WHEN WE AREN’T SURE WHAT WE SHOULD BE PRAYING FOR…” (Romans 8:26)

He will ALWAYS MAKE INTERCESSION FOR US ACCORDING TO THE VERY SPECIFIC WILL OF GOD FOR OUR LIVES…” (Romans 8:27)

He will ALWAYS CAUSE EVERYTHING HAPPENING IN OUR LIVES TO WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD AS WE PRAY IN HARMONY WITH HIM…” (Romans 8:27-28)

He will ALWAYS CAUSE OUR LIVES TO BECOME MORE CONFORMED TO THE VERY IMAGE OF JESUS AS WE PRAY IN HARMONY WITH HIM…” (Romans 8:27-28)

He will REVEAL TO YOU THE WISDOM AND DEEP REVELATION OF GOD’S INFINITE KNOWLEDGE…” (Ephesians 1:17)

He will REVEAL TO YOU THE HOPE OF GOD’S CALLING ON YOUR LIFE…” (Ephesians 1:18)

He will REVEAL THE RICHNESS OF GOD’S SPIRITUAL AND NATURAL PROVISIONS TO YOU…” (Ephesians 1:18)

He will REVEAL TO YOU THE ABSOLUTE EXCESSIVE NATURE OF GOD’S INFINITE AND UNLIMITED POWER TO YOU…” (Ephesians 1:19)

He will REVEAL TO YOU THE AWESOME POWER AND TRIUMPH OF THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS FROM THE DEAD…” (Ephesians 1:20)

He will REVEAL TO YOU THE AWESOME AUTHORITY OF JESUS AS HE IS SEATED ON HIS THRONE WITH ALL POWER IN HEAVEN AND EARTH…” (Ephesians 1:20)

He will REVEAL TO YOU THE ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH OF JESUS OVER ANY AND ALL POWERS OF DARKNESS…” (Ephesians 1:21)

He will SHOW YOU THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JESUS POWER WORKING WITHIN THE LIVES OF HIS PEOPLE…” (Ephesians 1:22-23)

He will REVEAL TO YOU THE VERY SPECIFIC THOUGHTS OF THE UNLIMITED GOD OF THE UNIVERSE FOR SPECIFIC NEEDS…” (1st Corinthians 2:9-16)

The Father WILL GIVE US AS MUCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AS WE CAN CURRENTLY HANDLE…” (Luke 11:9-13)

I’m A Fan Of The Holy Spirit

Wow! That was fun. I haven’t done something like that in a long time AND I’M SURE THERE IS MUCH MORE THAT COULD BE SAID. Do you see why I am a fan of the Holy Spirit? He is the connecting point to EVERYTHING about the life we have been joined to through our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the very life stream of God to us.

Jesus said, “I’m going away, but I’m sending the Holy Spirit to take the place of my physical person here. I’m coming back to you, but you will find both me and my Father in the person of the Holy Spirit.” I am convinced that if we found a man in the desert and led him to Jesus, and then taught him well how to commune with the Holy Spirit, even though we may not have had a copy of the Bible, we could come back years later and find him flourishing in the life of Christ.

I’m not putting down the Bible, because I love the scriptures. They feed me and guide my life in God. The scriptures teach me how to commune with God, having been saved by the blood of Jesus and filled with the Holy Spirit. The Bible is the Holy Spirits autobiography as He has moved among men upon the earth. But we have to remember, the Holy Spirit wrote the Bible.

Oh Yes, That Two Visions Thing

In the first vision I saw Jesus and a group of men in an open field. I was in a wooded area about ten or fifteen yards from them. Jesus was there with them clothed in white and He had on a vibrant multi-colored robe over the white clothes. It was dazzling in appearance.

The men were resting on the ground where a blanket had been laid out and they were smiling and laughing as they tried to eat their meal and drink their wine. They were laughing hard, you know, like the milk out the nose type of laughing because Jesus was standing and talking. He was smiling this huge smile and His eyes were sparkling as he regaled his companions with hilarious stories.

Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, “When it comes to friendship, there is no greater lover of His companions than the Lord Jesus Christ.” As I was thinking about how cool that was the second vision started.

In the second vision I saw an incredible horse, strong and powerful dressed in full battle gear. His nostrils were flared and he was galloping fearlessly at full speed toward enemy lines. His battle gear was jet black with blood red trimmings and tassels and plumes also the color of blood. But riding the back of the majestic horse was the Lord Jesus. He too was dressed in full battle gear in the same color black with blood red trimmings and He was driving the stallion forward, agressively into the fray of war.

His demeanor was no longer Jesus the friend. There was fierceness in His eyes and in His face was a determination that was terrifying to look at. In war there was nothing nice about Him at all. This was the face of ferocious anger and of a battle experienced Lord of War who knew no fear of war or of any enemy. The Spirit of destruction and judgment radiated from Him and His steed.

Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, “When it comes to war, there is no greater warrior and no man more fierce than the Lord Jesus Christ. "

Your Greatest Friend In Life - Your Greatest Ally In Battle

The Lord was telling me something in these two pictures of Jesus. We have no greater friend than Jesus. He is kinder than one can ever imagine, more fun than one can ever imagine, and more loyal to one than can ever be imagined. There is no company he enjoys more (other than the Father) than the company of His companions.

On the other hand, there is another side of Him that so despises the darkness that harms men, women and children and seeks to keep them from joining their spirits with God that He is terrifyingly fierce in His anger toward the evil. It is with this same anger and judgment against the evil principalities and powers that He calls for us to join Him in destroying.

The Spirit of God is going to pour out on the warriors of God the spirit of vengeance toward the darkness and a people will rise to share in Jesus fierce anger toward spiritual wickedness that is destroying men. I need to make this VERY clear that the anger is not toward men, but toward the spirit powers that drive men to perform evil and anger against the effect of these spirits as they spiritually and physically damage men, women and children.

At the same time, these companions of the Lord Jesus in war will have poured out upon them the Spirit of Companionship with Him that will be demonstrated in ways unseen before. There will be a favor of God upon His warriors. God will care for them in unusual and very demonstrative ways. Those are the guys I want to hang with.

And, that's all I've got to say about that.

Randy