We have moved back into our home in St. Augustine, Florida. We had it rented while we had gone out of state for awhile……
Well, we came back to the right address but the house was in bad shape. To say, it was dirty inside and out is very much an understatement. There were things which had more than four legs set up their living abode. It seemed there were generations that had taken over…… So that speaks of the state of uncleanliness that had set up house…….
The address was mine but not the house any more…..
Now being on the prophetic side of the mind of Christ that He has given me, I saw a symbol of His way with His believers now…….and mankind.
The men and women of this earth are brought by the blood of Jesus Christ. We are all His. We are bought with a price, the most powerful and precious shed blood of the Lamb of God. The blood of His life shed for us all, if we choose to hear and receive His salvation today!
Now He has redeemed us back unto God,…… but the house of which He plans to dwell needs His blood to wash us clean….. Inside out….
We think we are okay without His blood, really? We see ourselves okay with out Him? Really?
If so, pride has not just budded – it has bloomed…. But, do not be mistaken,,,,,,,,
The flowers fade as the grass is cut down and is blown away by the wind….. What will happen to pride which is lodged firmly in our heart at the end of our days as we stand before the King? ….
As our works say, we did not need You through our life….. We went our own way….. He may say, well, I do not know what house you are from…… Hmmmmm….
Silly me, He did say these words! Find them in His Word….Keep reading, and I will show you…..
When I got back into our house…. I first hired a couple of women to help clean the kitchen and baths…….I spent alot of time on the refrigerator and freezer. Then they cleaned the floors and windows and cabinets……
The inside had to be cleaned with clorox and water…..I was hoping the clorox would get rid of the bugs because of the strong smell….I know my nose was clean from those strong fumes….. But the bugs prevailed…….
I vacuumed three times a week so there was no food or doggie biscuit crumbs for them to enjoy as a meal,…..but bugs were found as we turned on the light at night……
Even in night, He sees all for nothing is hidden from His sight, even the intents of the heart of every man. Can’t hide from God……If this may be how you think, then you are deceived….. God is all encompassing consuming fire. There is nothing hidden from His sight. This is the reason why God sent His only Son.
Why do we want to hide? He is the Best Friend I have ever had in my life….. He has given me life and life abundant……as I abide in Him and let His Word abide and take root in me. The adventures of walking with God are unbeatable and unmatched competition on any worldly temptation…… No one can compete for my heart to tear me from His feet……
Maybe I am nuts, but I think to be called to sit at His feet and hear His Words is the highest place to be in the time of life He has given me.
His feet are the place where the saints of God sit as depicted in the Word of God in Deuteronomy 33:3…. Check it out…..
Bugs seem to be a part of life if you walk with the King…… Bugs come to the light….. They are hungry for food…..
Then the exterminator came and if I see anymore, they are belly up….May they continue to be found raising their many legs to heaven in Jesus name.
Bugs cannot be transformed by God’s hand but only human beings——Only the caterpillar- a worm- HMMMM…….
He warns us to be cleansed by His blood and allow His Spirit within us to cleanse us from all unrighteousness so we live now unto God bearing His fruit to life and not fruit to unrighteousness leading to death as written in Romans….. Check it out in your new Bible!
I started to see what Jesus Christ meant as He said this warning after the beautiful beatitudes He spoke…..He wants us to check our attitude under His Word from the Beatitudes.
Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?
And then I will declare to them, I never knew you depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!
Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:
and the rain descended , the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on the at house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand:
and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall, ( Matthew 7:21-27).
I have scrubbed every place that can be scrubbed….. I poured a clorox cleaner on the tiles and left it there to penetrate the dirt that had accumulated……This reminded me of how the blood of Christ cleansed us….. so that we may become……….?????
As Romans 8:29: For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among the brethren.
Made into His image………
Yes, the blood and then the Word of God takes root and starts to grow in us His life and kingdom. As we abide and partake of Him, the Son of God………
His Word and presence is abiding strong within all who believe. We expand our capacity for Him to put His Words into us.
Then we get understanding and wisdom and knowledge of the King and His kingdom. We must turn to Him and leave the world behind.
The house I had left clean to be a blessing- when I returned was not found that way. Let this be a heads up to all who think partaking of the world ways is going to cut it with the King who has eyes of fire……. Do not be deceived. Pray for open eyes to His Truth…. He is Truth.
Uncleanness had moved in and taken over…… But….. the blood of Jesus and what He had done in my life- I knew I could restore my home to its proper clean way……By His name and alot of clorox!
We had a covenant with the renters and a property manager and they did not keep the covenant…… Hmmmmm- Who does this remind me of?
The Word of God written is His Covenant with us…. All the Words we are to abide by ….. God keeps His covenant with people. There have been two- and He keeps His side for He is faithful,…… but people do not keep their side to Him…..
But God-——–….. sent His only Son Jesus Christ to take the brunt of our disobedience…… He shed His blood and cleansed all the people that turn to Him and believe.
But then we follow Him and lean on Him as we start our journey on the narrow road in Him….. But the road is narrow but wide is the grace of His kingdom…. There is much to learn to walk in Him and understand…. That is why the Holy Spirit is His property Manager over His house…..
He cleanses and then sent His Property Manager, Holy Spirit, to manage His dwelling place of our heart….. We are sanctified and are being sanctified as written in Hebrews….. Check it out.
We know- we need Jesus Christ and He knows it also……. We accept the sacrifice of the Lamb of God in our place….. Then we are born new from above….. and His Spirit comes to clean house……We are cleansed from our sins, but a renewal of our mind and habits need to be done away with so we may be aligned with the ways of God.
We got bugs! But Holy Spirit gently and diligently always makes the Word of God come alive in our hearts and He is like clorox on any thing that is against the way of God….. Any lawlessness or unrighteousness with in our mindset,
He is faithful to show us and cleanse us from all sins and bad habits. He is the power that allows the divine nature of God to reign in righteousness in and through our hearts,
But then there is more than the eradication of sin- Sorry, Baptists,,,,,, There is a lot more to God giving us His only Son….. As we partake of Him, our eyes are opened and we can partake of His life….
We can live a supernatural life by His exceedingly power to us who believe. Holy Spirit governs us into His kingdom and His great power to live a divine life as written in 2 Peter. Check it out…… There is more from Him for us than we have even touched upon yet.
He is never ending and there is more for us that He has stored up if we are earnestly reaching to grasp His grace because His love is everlasting….. You coming with me? There is much more to see and know of this great King…..
Should we not be alert and watch for Him? Hear Him? Know we are before the Audience of One daily? Minute by Minute….. We are never alone…..Never.
He always leads and cares for His own……Though there may be perilous days for us but this is always the way of His beloved….. We must know this…..He will always deliver us from every affliction and the plans of the enemies will fall into their own pit….. as written.
And on our end, the resurrection power of Him resides in us in a larger capacity…… God reigns and God rules in the affairs of all mankind……He was King over the flood during Noah’s time and He is still reigning…. Do not be deceived or intimidated from the Goliath’s……
We are the Elijahs and Davids and Pauls in the making of His hand…..
Even through the night of darkness, He is our Light…. He is our resurrection power within us to overcome all things from this world….. We come up higher because He has brought us there and partake of the table He has set for us in front of our enemies…….Only our God and His love that never fails can do this……..
So back to cleaning…..
The clorox, so to speak, is like having the fragrance of Christ to the world around us…… The fragrance of Christ is convicting and ruthless in pointing out mankind ways which are offensive to the throne of God.
We are His house. It is written in 2 Corinthians, we are the temple of God. He is holy and we are to be holy and clean as He wishes us to be.
The Word of God is a also a purification to our mind and ways that are antagonistic to the Holy One….. Reading the Word keeps the dust off our feet as well as our mind and heart of being in the world but not a part of it.
When we keep our eyes on Whose temple we are…… We keep our ears soft to hear His slightest sigh or His movement…….We keep our eyes on watch and follow His gaze to know where His eyes have put His fire on…… All this is the watch and seat He prefers before Him.
I am slowly getting the house that is my address back to be my home….. It has been a long process and will continue for a while……
The process from being children of God to His sons and daughters is also a long process but we must be purified and allow His ways to clean us and teach us. Remember…… His ways are higher…..but He is revealing them to us who have a hunger for Him……
Look up….. Listen up……. Come up…… Sit with Me and learn from Me, for I AM lowly……. My burden is light….. Learn of Me and be Mine……. I AM knows you but I AM wants you to be from My house…… My kingdom is where I AM and should be found within you.
If I AM comes to your door and knocks, will I AM recognize your body as His? My house is filled with I AM, Wisdom and Understanding and Sanctification and Righteousness and Justice are I AM that I AM.
Please, Father God, expand the capacity to understand more of You in me…. Find Your house in me filled with Your fragrance and knowledge of You… May I be filled with Your eternal fire of Your Spirit. May Your face always be before me as Your cross is implanted in me pouring forth Your fire and truth. You are God and there is none other but You…… You are all and in all before me and may it be so within me….. May this prayer be prayed and found on the lips of His saints.
As we listen to His reply to His beloved:
Your heart is My domain. The fragrance coming from your open window is pleasing to My nostrils. The words that come from your heart to Me is a sweet melody to My ears. The look of wonder and hope in faith towards Me makes My heart leap in strength to pour forth in My Beloved. My hidden kingdom ways fulfilled in My bride as I AM makes her shine from the inside out revealing My glory as her love encompasses I AM. Though My bride may be unlearned of the world, the world will know she has been with Me for the Christ of God, resides here.
Let it be found within Your beloved, Sir. By Your grace and love, we shall stand full of Your strength in endurance because Your Word shall never fail or pass away.
Let us hear His reply to His beloved:
All of My children who have presented themselves as a living sacrifice, an altar of the fire of their love towards I AM shall have My reward……The inside transformation revealed will form My Mosaic Temple beautifully created by My Spirit and My blood and the Word of their testimony. See My beloved, laid her life down to be raised in Mine,
Oh, the wonder of His glory divine. Glory divine found by Him as we abide in Him and He in us- His transformation in us takes place again and again. From glory to glory we go forth ….. Just as from strength to strength, we find the exceedingly abundant power that works within towards us who believe….
So Beloved, take heart, His Property Manager, Holy Spirit takes care of the house of God…. Listen to His lead and check our ways of the world at THE ONLY DOOR for we do not need them anymore. We have risen in Christ, because we have died with Him too….. So we can lean on Him all His way through. His Spirit shows the Door of grace open wider and wider each day….So we are raised in the newness of Him from glory to glory as His Day approaches.
Be glad and rejoice…… His power and grace gets rid of the nasty bugs in our house and lays them to rest in the tomb and will never be found again.
So rise in His grace and be made new. Never turn back to the past but grasp ever so tight to His Word as He brings His Day to view as the morning sun rises in our hearts. Shout for joy, He knows our name and knows we are His because we have left our old man in the tomb and will never be found again. The One who has called you has also planned for you. He has seen you before the world was and is orchestrating His perfection in and through you…… His love never fails.
And His love has not failed you and nor will He ever…… Come and know Him today while He can be found…… Leave the road that leads to death and death eternal…. Come to eternal life today that is found only in Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Know Him and may it be said today of you, He knows whose house you are of……
Put on the new garment from His hand that is before you today….. God is not changing for us, we are being made new into His image…… He is changing us…….. Change is good…… The mountains may be low being cast into the sea or high but through all the days of time……. Our God reigns.
Romans 11:26: And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.
Romans 12:1-2, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Galatians 2:20: I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
SELAH!
+Let us rejoice for we are known by Him and know where we are going!
