Transformation and real CHANGE. Even bringing back to live what was death or seems to be death....
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PRESSING INTO HIS TRANSFORMING PRESENCE THROUGH FIRE ZEAL AND PASSION A BREAKING THROUGH TRUTH THAT BRINGS YOU DIRECTLY IN GODS TRANSFORMING PRESENCE
A FREE GIFT FROM PROPHETIC LIVE GIVING CHANNEL MINISTRY’S TO THE UNIVERSAL BODY OF CHRIST
There is no copy right on this Book, but know that only the Author is responsible for the writings and he is been held responsible before His God as it is handed over to him to serve with it the Body of Christ. Please do not misuse it or multiply this for gain to sell or to run with it for yourselves, making a Ministry of it, because you would bring a heavy curse and a reproach from our Father over your live. These writings are not mines but of my heavenly Father and of His Kingdom, I have only written down what He has learned me and what I have heard and seen. Be wise and handle it with care!
In Gods Service and in His commission
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INTRODUCTION – PART 1 Isaiah 57:12-16 I will tell you of your righteousness; I will expose your so called good deeds; your doings (and the value of them), but surely know that (what you have made with your hands) will not help you. 13 When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you! The wind of My breath will carry them away, a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge, shelter and protection in me shall possess the land, and he shall inherit my holy mountain. 14 And it shall be that I will say, "Build up, build up rebuild and, prepare the way, clear away the rocks and stones, remove every obstruction out of the way from my people." 15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also within him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble one, and to revive the repentant heart of the contrite. 16 For I will not contend and fight against mankind for ever, nor will I always be angry; for if I did al the people would pas away, and all the souls would wider away and be consumed before Me. From me proceeds the spirit, and I have made the breath of life. Amplified 1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come and has come, is now there that judgment must begin and will begin at the household (the family) of God: and if it first begins at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? Judgment is not the same as condemnation; surely not, much more is it one of the many ways of chastisement and rebuke, who is been implemented and executed to adjust and to correct a wrong attitude of heart and character problems, but also to Educate, to discipline, to teach, to train and to prepare us, to school us, to become mature Adult Christians. It is Gods GRACE/MERCY when He comes over our lives with His chastisements to correct, to train and to school us. And it is Gods MERCY and GRACE that we come out of It, healed, fortified, made stronger and anointed. But that is the reason why God puts us through many fires; yes He brings us in His Fire! He wants us to be radiant and to reflect His glory just like His Son; that we show forth His glory; being prepared for the wedding day. But this can only happen and become real when we do not flee away from His fatherly hand admitting and coming into agreement with His chastisements, His corrections and His way of educational treatments. It will only come to existence through a repentant heart, through suffering and obedience. 1Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers and their cries for help: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. 1Peter 4:12 Beloved, think not that it is a strange thing, concerning the fiery trial which is to try and to test and to proof you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, for so you become partakers inasmuch you suffer with Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. After having written this Book in German and Dutch languish, the Spirit of God compelled me to write it also in English. With writing this Book I give heed to the assignment which God, in His great Mercy has given me. I should write about the things which He did let me hear en that what He has shown me. Now I have written it all down so that others can understand what His will is. I myself am in the midst of a process of being transformed after His Image and likeness. After 20 years of discipleship He is making me NEW; and the only thing that I need to do is to sit at His feet and to come in agreement with that what His will is and to say YES to what He wills. It started all at 25 of January 2006 with a heavenly vision, which the Lord our God has shown me in His great mercy. I have written down the heavenly vision which God gave me for the church of Christ and all the other things which God taught me which has to do with the Assignment He has 3
given me; that is to let you now what the Spirit of God says to the Church of Christ, that is to you. It is written down and you can learn now to see and to know what Gods will is for you and for the Universal Church. At the end of August 2007 the Books God gave me to write – from which this is the first one in a series of 5 – are written down in German and in Dutch languish and at the beginning of August 2007 I started to write the same things down in English. With the help of the Spirit of God and His GRACE and MERCY it will be done! Furthermore, the Spirit of God told me to let you know that you should not read this book on a normal way that you are used to read a book. But you should start to read this book for your self aloud! Speak it aloud, read it aloud so that you can hear the words. But when you read this book without speaking and utter it ALOUD, than it will accomplish not all that much. But when you start to read this book ALOUD to yourself, so that you can hear it, than mountains will be shaken rocks removed and stones will be taken away and a Royal way for the King of Kings will be rebuild within your live and heart. The devil has no problem with a Christian, with a Pastor, Teacher, Evangelist Prophet or apostle who reads in the Bible 42 ours a day; But who, o who, when that Christian starts for himself to SPEAK the Word of God ALOUD. Than blessed is the man and the woman who read the Word of God SPEAKING it ALOUD! The devil knows very well how much power there is in the SPOKEN word. Therefore is it his goal that we curse ourselves daily with the words which we SPEAK! It sounds a little bit strange, but the book you have in front of you is a HEARING and DOING book. This means; you have to read it so, that you are speaking it to yourselves. And I know for sure that the Holy Spirit will not wait all that long and than suddenly He will be there. And than do what He says that you should do. Try it out! God blesses your hunger to have more and more of Him. It was at the start of 2011 as I was working at a revision of this book, that it became very clear to me that I had to divide this book also in 2 Parts as I had done with the book about warfare and strategy about Joshua, Gods mighty Hero! I hope you will remain Blessed as you further on study Gods word and will for your live.
Love and Blessings Apostle Prophet Minstrel Johannes John
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CONTENTS
ENTERING INTO GODS GLORY Heavenly vision: Entering into Gods glory. Bible scriptures that support the revelation you will find at the last pages of this book.
A prophetic vision: “the death hearth being touched.”
Chapter 1 – Page 13
PASSION OF THE HEART, SURRENDERING AND ENTHUSIASM
Passion, surrender and enthusiasm Solomon 8:6 The nature of humanly passion and divine passion Passionate hunting and our actions Breaking through our limitations Can you still be passionate when you are weak? But what is, when we have fear and anxiety? Fear doubt and unbelief shall not inherit Fear and anxiety versus zeal passion and surrendering! A special Message – Directly out of the throne of God - Let the Grace of God not work in vain into your live! Three logical steps of positioning yourself in the right position! Without the mantel of Grace you can not come into Gods presence. There is a solution for all those who have fear and anxiety. Passion zeal and desire, versus lukewarm or being halfhearted Passion zeal and enthusiasm is what we all have! All our feelings and emotions are useful for God! Harmful destructive emotions! A testimony: Tied, Tangled, and distorted.
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OUR WILL VERSUS GODS WILL Ephesians 5:17 Be then not unreasonable, but do see and understand, what the will of God is. Why wills God and why am I willing? Do I have to will anything? When your will is not in line with Gods will, than you are in big problems. Passion of heart and zealous fire gives strength makes me persuasive and enthusiastic for that where my will is focused on. Satan has a desire and an appetite after your fleshly passions and zeal’s. The rulership of the Holy Spirit is totally different. I waited for you every day! A Prophetic Word: „A word of the father and the Son.
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DIVINE LOVE PASSION AND ZEAL HAS AN OPEN TRANSPARENT HEART It is the most precious what we have; our heart! A complete humiliation! The zeal and love - passion off Jesus! Divine passion and zeal serves! The word of God is full of passion who finds faith. Do we need this passion to give expression to our faith? But I have against you!
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GRASPING AND TAKING THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITH VIOLENCE Priority number one: protos. Be zealous, hunt, covet and grasp first off all after Gods Kingdom! Some outlined structures What is the Kingdom of God? Gods Kingdom made visible! Time for war! Two possible ways to live as a Christian. An embassy of Gods Kingdom Never without your will! We exist, just like God Out of three who are “one.” God’s conditions to be able to receive His kingdom or to come into it! The only ambition of Jesus is Gods kingdom. There is always the demand for fruitfulness.
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THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN PART 2 Chapter 5 –
FIRST HEARING, THAN SPEAKING Chapter 6 –
SPEAKING WHAT HE SPEAKS TESTIFYING WHAT HE WILLS; SPEAK SO! Chapter 7 –
HEAR THE WORD OF GOD, SPEAK THE WORD OF GOD, SPEAK TO THE SPIRIT, SPEAK AS COMMANDED EZEKIEL 37
Chapter 8 –
FORM AND STRUCTURE TWO OF A KIND Chapter 9 –
INHERITANCE Chapter 10 –
UNDERSTANDING AND COMPREHENDING THE GOOD, PLEASING AND PERFECT WILL OF GOD
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In my vision I am standing in front of seashore with a very large see. It stretches himself out completely over the whole horizon, from the left to the right. From the beginning of the seashore, from the height where the dunes start, I see a fence, which actually should have in fact no meaning at all, but nevertheless it stands, and it is there. In front of the fence I see a crowd of people standing there. In the same moment I know that this crowd of people are Christians who are looking at a very impressive view and sight of the see. Just like they do, I look in the direction of the sight of the see. You can see very well that a gigantic wave, far away on the horizon is preparing itself to roll to or direction. It seems as high as a scratching tower and It comes lashed as by a hurricane in the direction of the seashore. And it comes closer and closer. In the air above this huge gigantic wave and above the see, I see formations of big dark grey clouds and above these clouds is a turbulent storm. It looks like the wind power of a hurricane. The Lord Jesus lets me know that it is the Spirit of God who is moving and swaying above this gigantic wave. My impression is: The Storming wind of Gods Holy Spirit brings forth this gigantic wave. The Christians who are standing behind the fence; They are longing also to be on the seashore – to come close and near this wave - just like all the other Christians who already have gathered on the shore and who seemingly are waiting upon something. But the Christians behind the fence they stay there where they are and they let the fence hold them back. Then the Spirit of God starts to speak to me audible so that I can hear Him speak with my ears and He explains what the meaning of this is. “This gigantic wave is a wave of His Spirit who is coming ahead of us. But the natural limitations where with we have limited our selves and the humanly predetermined limitations, they will keep us away, afar of and they will make it for us unattainable and impossible to come in this wave of the Spirit of God and to move with this wave of the Spirit of God.” This is why you have seen those Christians who stayed behind the fence And they did not come any further. The Spirit of God clarified: “Very often it is simple religious restrictions and limitations, who mankind have instituted in the past of the history in the form of tradition; which are even there today in new tradition. They will surely hold you back to move on with this wave of the Holy Spirit.”
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Than everything is going verry fast and with a great speed! Through a turbulent storm, wind and water are being mixed, mingled and become as one (Word and Spirit). Than suddenly there is coming into existence a mighty storm wind which is pulling up those – who are standing upon the shore – in the midst of the mingled water and wind. THIS IS NOT THE RAPTURE. I look high above me in the air and see how something like a gigantic cloud is been formed. I am able to see in the cloud and to recognize something which looks like fire and smoke, mist, vapour, something like a lightning or a light giving white vapour. In the midst of this bright lightning or light giving cloud there are the saints, the holy ones, those who are separated; and al around them and scattered everywhere, little flames of fire. And then I hear a loud voice who says: Those who do not prepare themselves for the coming of Gods glory, will simply miss it and can not come into this movement of the Holy Spirit. Then there are thoughts in me who are coming up like: This is why many Servants of God all around the world in this moment are preaching about judgment and his glory. And it will expand even more and more.
Then I hear Jesus saying: This is why I constantly cry out: Let me, sanctify you and cleanse you, purify you, and do not forget your first love! Please come closer to my heart, repent and ask for forgiveness. I forgive willingly with great pleasure, with whole of my heart, but you seek me with your whole heart and you who listen also! Than I ask the Lord my God; what can we do to break through these fences?
He answered me: Passion, love passion, fire and zeal will break through these fences and tare them down and will bring you directly into my presence. The last significant details of this revelation will be revealed to you somewhere on the way while you are reading.
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PASSION OF THE HEART, SURRENDERING AND ENTHUSIASM We start of with a discovery, traveling journey in Gods word and together we are gone try to find out the deepest depth of that what passion of the heart, passion itself, surrendering and enthusiasm in fact really is; two key scriptures are Solomon 8:6 and Deuteronomy 6:5 What I so far have noticed until now, is that passion has everything to do with passion of the heart, the soul, with zeal, excitement and every form of being zealous or enthusiastic 038 prothumos. We however shall in the course of our spiritual adventure see and recognize that enthusiasm ore passion has very much to do with an active belief and trust. But just as well we will recognize, so as I have seen and recognized, that passion of the heart or the soul, love passion, are linked together inseparably with suffering. And there are three things that are linked inseparably to each other, namely; 1 Love. 2 passions or passions of our soul and: 3 pain and suffering. With Gods help; we will dive very deep into this theme and with the Word of God we will make this fast and solid to confirm these things so that we can begin to understand how they have a directive influence in and over our soul live. I will give an example - on this discovery travel - of some persons who by their enthusiasm and passion or zeal have gained great victories. And I will give also examples of persons who by lack of enthusiasm and passion have failed and have been defeated. And as a result of their lack of passion they could not come into their full inheritance. At first and at the start of or adventure we study our two key scriptures: Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal ribbon upon your arm; for love is strong fierce, vehement as the death, jealousy, passion of the heart and soul passion 001 qin'ah' is as hard, strong and mighty as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire and glowing 002 resheph coals, 003 'esh, a most vehement flame, a fire of God. 7 Many waters cannot quench this love (of God), neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for this love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly scorned. Passion and love go hand in hand; you can not separate them from each other. This passion and surrender is a fire of God a glow and flames flashing of the Lord. This passion and enthusiasm is a torch, a fire and a flame of god. God is passionate, full enthusiasm and a zealous jealous god. He is devoted, passionate, full off zeal, fire and divine love regarding its beloved or regarding that what He loves. The second scripture is: Deuteronomy 6:5 and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart 004 lebab, and with all your soul 005 nephesh, and with all your might. Passionate love, heartfelt zeal and surrendering or yielding to God has in every way something to do with our emotions and feelings. Passion surrendering and the yielding of or hearth and soul desires for an activity of the soul or better said it expresses itself by and through the emotions and feelings of our soul. Very often however we cannot break through to come to this passionate love to love as God loves because our soul is still sick and not yet healed; and even sick of many wrong passions. And because of that the soul is counted as a part of our flesh it has an enormous impact 13
upon or heart and it has its influence with the accompanied consequences for our life. We in any case should love the lord our God passionately with zeal and a heartfelt passion: With our mouth, with our hands, yes with our entirely body. And yes, with all the God given emotions and feelings he has shaped and formed within us. Passion of the heart speaks of giving yourselves and of surrendering, of throwing yourselves in the arms of somebody else and trusting that he will hold you as you fall. A good example of it is Peter who walked on the water. It was his enthusiasm, his zeal and passion which made possible the impossible. Heartfelt passion and zealous passion brings with it however also suffering, only alone because of our faithfulness to be trustworthy till in the death. Therefore, we do not say for nothing: “Do you want this man/woman in good and bad times in times of health and sickness… Until that death separates you from each other? Only, the passion, the zeal the fire and enthusiasm which comes from god and His divine Agape love can keep a heart faithful and hold through in the midst of tribulations, of the fire of sickness and bad times. Doesn't god love us with full passionate heartfelt emotions, with zeal and a fiery passionate love? Isn't god a jealous god? 1 Corinthians 10:21,22 you cannot drink out of the cup of the Lord and out of the cup of demons. You cannot partake and eat of the table of the Lord and eat of the table of demons. 22 Shall we provoke and inflame the Lord to jealousy 006 para – zeloo? Are we stronger than he? Emotions and feelings belong to the passions of our heart and soul, they are distinctive marks and characterizes the passion of our heart and soul and the whole realm of sexuality and love, the hugging, and kissing touching and the expression of our love towards that what we love. This whole realm of passion we can divide it into two distinctive and different passions.
THE NATURE OF HUMANLY PASSION AND DIVINE PASSION To recognize the difference of these two different passions is not all that difficult. The passion of the human nature characterizes itself through selfishness and egoism. This passion seeks to please itself and is focused for its own gain. Divine passion is however a passion of sacrificing oneself in seeking to please the other to give oneself for the benefit of the other and not for your self. It is a passion of serving and through sacrificing oneself to live and to bring live to live in all its fullness. That we may be able to discern really sharply the differences between these two passions, we have to learn to know what it characterizes to have Gods own true divine love. The better I now the genuine, the real and the true passion from God al the better al the false will become more evident and visible. Therefore we will evaluate the REAL DIVINE LOVE We will therefore take a sharp eye upon the REAL DIVINE LOVE. For all well known of course, but nevertheless I hope that I can give you some more light concerning the bible passage who speaks so glorious, delicious, tasteful and attractive over the divine love and who praises her so highly. I will extract parts out of that passage; I will amplify them and translate them out off the root text to clarify and to magnify it so that we get a sharp beautiful picture of the most life-giving love there is in the entire Universe: The divine passion of love and its fire, zeal and enthusiasm. Perhaps different of what you know from your bible, but you can look it up for yourself in the Strong’s 14
Concordance. To make it even more easy for you to proof if its good and acceptable, I have added an extract of the meaning of every word in a separate folder, so that you can study it for yourself and see if that what I have written down is correct or not! Do not take everything for granted but test and taste it. The Word of God is always explained, illuminated and amplified with the Word of God! And interpretation comes only through the light giving power and anointing of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love endures long (eternally) is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy nor is she boastful or vainglorious; 5 she is not arrogant, inflated with pride, rude or unmannerly. Gods Love within us does not insist on its own way and it does not insist on its own rights for it is not self seeking; it is not touchy, it is not irritable or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong] 6 it does not rejoice at wrong, at injustice and unrighteousness but rejoices when right and truth prevail. 7 Love bears up under anything and everything that comes and that is, Love believes all things, and is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless, and under all circumstances it hopes all things, and it endures everything and all things without weakening. 8 Love never fails, never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end. 4 Love 007 agape endures long (eternally) is patient 008 makrothu'meo and kind 009 chresteuomai; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy 010 zeloo nor is she boastful 011 perpereuomai or vainglorious; 012 phusioo Magnified The unselfish divine love is longsuffering, endures eternally, she is patient and tender hearted, it does not lose its patience, is friendly, lovingly, this love is not envious, she has no envy or greed, this love is not boastful, boasting with vain things, who lifts itself up and gives praises and approval of itself to put itself in the limelight to become famous or to get glory. She does nut puff itself up by pride and an arrogant behavior or thinks higher of itself as she is. 5 She is not arrogant, inflated with pride, rude or unmannerly, 013 aschemoneo. Gods Love within us does not insist on its own way and it does not insist on its own rights for it is not self seeking; it is not touchy, it is not irritable or resentful bitter 014 paro'xuno; it takes no account 015 lo'gizomai, of the evil 016 ka'kos done to her [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong] she thinks no evil and has no evil thoughts. Magnified She does not act unsuitable, indecent, offensive and impolite, she seeks, strives, desires and does not covet to that what is of profit and benefit for itself, she does not insist on its own way and it does not insist on its own rights for she is not self seeking; she does not become embittered, disillusioned, offended or hurt and critical; she can not be embittered (poisoned), she does not become wrathful and let her self not be instigated, she cannot be provoked and does not account the evil done to her. She does not account the evil actions, the malicious operations, the crimes, the bath deeds done to her body and to her soul. 6 She – the divine love - does not rejoice at wrong, at injustice and unrighteousness, 017 adi’kia but rejoices when right and truth prevail. Magnified She cannot rejoice herself concerning the iniquity of the heart, and the injustice in her live concerning the perversity of violent actions that wounded her (the body and the soul), she finds however joy and great pleasure in and over the truth. 7 Love coverts All things, Love bears up 018 'stego under anything and everything that comes and that is, Love believes all things, and is ever ready and eager to believe the best of every person, its
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hopes 019 elpizo are fadeless, and under all circumstances it hopes all things, and it endures 020 hupo'meno, everything and all things without weakening. Magnified Love covets all things, it protects and hides that we may not be humiliated and ashamed, and that we do not need to feel guilty. She endures and bears everything, she believes everything, she glances ahead, looks forward, hopes and expects everything, she is perseverant, she will not draw back of, even under hardships, sufferings, troubles and tribulations, she keeps on holding her position attaining victory’s and she will not withdraw or resign and give up or try to escape and flee; she is in everything persistent and determent she will not give up, in and under everything. (She has the character of a hero) 8 Love never fails, never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end. (It’s eternal) Human passion is covetousness, lust and every manipulation done to satisfy the appetites of the Body and the soul. Galatians 5:19-21a Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, shamelessness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, 21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. In all these passions or as the Word of God says - works of the flesh – is the greatest mark and the character of this al selfishness, egoism and self-centered self interest. This is however not so with the fruit and the works of the Holy Spirit. The passion of the fruit of the Holy Spirit is entirely different. This divine passion is completely unselfish, selfless and always prepared and ready to bring sacrifices, yes even prepared to give its own live for the benefit of the other. The passion which comes from God and springs up out of Him, this passion is enflamed, ignited and set in fire and flame through the love 007 Agape for God and for the other. First in a relationship with God and then to the one you live with; your wife and children. The humanly love or the love which originates merely or only from the soul has the flesh as inflaming resources, provisions and nourishment for the soul and thereby it will express itself. The recourses, the provisions and the nourishment for the soul come to us through the senses of or flesh; the eyes, the ears, just all the senses which are not under the authority and the rulership of God, the Word of God and the Holy Spirit. Anger arises and comes up, rage envy and negative jealousy, selfishness, greed, desire, covetousness and so on! These passions and zeal’s, expresses themselves – and when they have reached a full ripeness – they will be expressed in excesses, in untamed and unbridled, orgies and each form of impurity. They are passions; and it is a passion a zeal and a fire and an enthusiasm, which makes that we do worship (adore – respect – honor) things and situations and circumstances of life; which will result definitely and inescapably in idolatry and worshipping of demons. When some of these different forms of passions are expressed in or lives - which do originate from or soul - then we have been seduced by wrong passions and actions which are against Gods will. Well who is not deceived by his own heart? I did also! But the GRACE off God is so GREAT that even in or sinful state there is ENOUGH GRACE AND MERCY to covet all of or sin. So that even when we see or sinful state we now that we are accepted and loved and that only Jesus can clean us up from everything in us what is working against Gods will. This false covetousness and passions can be several things. The most important character of it however is that it is always something that pulls us away from god and that which hold us back to come, or to remain in His presence. And then already have these forms of passions found themselves a place in our heart which can do their devastating work when we do not give God the Authority and the permission to deal with these wrong passions. 16
So it is possible that EVERYTHING can become an idol; when we ourselves give it a place to abode in our heart. When however God and its lovely Son always come on the first place, and when we Love Jesus and His word passionately, with great desire; Then it cannot be else, as that we want to give Him a place and room to abode in our life’s and in or hearts, and with it comes that we want to remove EVERYTHING out of or lives what is differently as Jesus his nature and what go’s against His character and what displeases Him; and that we want to remove everything out of or lives and out of or hearts; yes everything what tries to hold us back of coming or staying in an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, the son of God, the Father and the Holy Spirit; Yes everything what could seduce us and makes that or eyes are no longer focused on Him; that is what we want to see killed. And to destroy these works and deeds of the flesh, to kill and demolish it with fire zeal and passion should be one of or passions and one of or main goals. But without the GREAT LOVING MERCY and GRACE from or Father it will always be just a willing and not a doing. But it is possible to come to God and to have a heart which is in a constant state of repentance – through an intimate relationship with the lover of our soul – and this state of repentance is and brings forth a great joy for the hearth and the soul. For when you come to this state of rest in His GRACE, you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit are willing to do the work and to bring a transformation to pass. And you know that He can do it and that you are unable to change your nature, your heart; but although you can not change yourself, He needs your will and your agreement so that He may do this DIVINE WORK with you TOGETHER! Later on we will learn more about this and then you will see that you have already been given the keys but that you do not know how to use them.
It is like sitting upon a treasure box, having the keys in your hand and you never opened it. But together we will open it and you will be amazed what than will happen. So, let us go to the Song of Solomon.
PASSIONATE HUNTING AND OUR ACTIONS Song of Solomon 2:15 Catch us the foxes, (the works of the flesh and the demons) the little foxes that spoil, ruin, mess up and destroy the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom." It is not: Catch me the foxes! It is catch US the foxes. This means it is a working together but that He is the one who is doing the main thing. He is not doing it for Himself, but He is doing it for THEM, for both of them. She hands Him over the garden (soul) and asks for His help. Catch us please that what destroys my soul which is or place of coming together. Help me to hunt, to kill and to destroy the foxes. 17
Hebrew 12:1 Therefore then, seeing that we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the truth], let us also like them strip off and throw aside every hindrance (let us demolish, destroy, tear down, tear of from us, throw out of our way each unnecessary ballast and weight, each burden and each obstacle) and the sin which reaches us always so easily and surrounds us so quickly, the sin which hasty and fast, masterly, deftly and cleverly deceives us and cleaves to us on a very subtle way making us slow; therefore let us run with patience and a constant perseverance and with an active passionate will in the fight and the battle who lays in front of us. Let us fight the fight which God commanded us and the appointed pursuit, and the battle that is set before us. The divine love – the passion of heart – says always: I give ALL, one hundred percent, and she doesn’t want to hold anything back and she wants to pay the price to give itself as a burning sacrifice. Song of Solomon 5:2-8 I slept, but my heart stayed awake. [I dreamed that I heard the voice of my beloved as He knocked at the door] Hark! My beloved is knocking upon the bedroom door. "Open to me, my darling, my love, my treasure, my lovely dove, my perfect one; for my head is wet and soaked with the heavy night dew, my locks with the drops and the wetness of the night." 3 I had put off my garment, how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet, how could I soil them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my heart was thrilled and moved within me. [But He could not open the door for it was LOCKED from the inside.] 5 (After I woke up) I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. 6 I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned away and was gone. My soul fainted within me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer. 7 The watchmen found me, as they went about in the city; they beat me, they wounded me, they took away my mantle, those watchmen of the walls. 8 I adjure you, O daughters and women of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick for love. Who was then here most passionate? Both are very passionate and full of passion to each other, which is very clear. I believe however that the bridegroom is the most passionate, the one with the most passion. He waited almost a complete and an entire night that his beloved would finely unlock the door so that He could have an intimate fellowship with her. So that He could kiss her, love her and hug her. But she did not wake up and stood not up! A complete night is He knocking on her door. But she continues to sleep and does not wake up and at the end of the night the dew lies as a mantle of water upon His head. “For my head is wet and soaked with the heavy night dew, my locks with the drops and the wetness of the night." Except that he must be very cold, he feels left alone and betrayed. She has locked the door from the inside and after trying to unlock the door through the hole in the door, without success, because she had locked the door from the inside, which He couldn’t know; He comes to the conclusion that His beloved seems not to have that love and the desire after Him as He desires to be with her. After a whole night of waiting and knocking and trying to get in and to UNLOCK the door of her Heart, He leaves her alone, he hides himself; and perhaps He just simply wants that she feels and knows how her live is without Him. So that she notices, and truly knows how it is without her beloved! By the time that she awakes and she has noticed that He it is, who loves her soul so very dearly, who knocks at the door – and that He it is who is trying to get in; by that time, she than finely stands up, to firstly unlock the door and to open the door for her beloved, but by that time He is no longer there. The passion and the zeal she expresses, to find her beloved, who is gone, is full of fire, 18
passion of heart and of surrendering. Because of her zealous and passionate seeking to find Him who loves her soul so much she is been beaten and tortured and even wounded, but she does not stop from seeking Him, and it seems as if it has no meaning at all that she is been wounded because of her passion for her beloved one. She wants to find Him that loves her SOUL so passionate. She keeps on seeking Him with all the strength which she has. Divine love always gives everything and applies always all strength which she has to show forth and to express that she loves whom she loves, to die for that love and to live for that love, so spending and giving and bringing forth live. Courage, bravery and heroism are going along with enthusiasm and passion, with fire and zeal of heart; for the night and all her dangers could not hold her back or stop her of bringing her self in danger because of the love for her beloved one. She loves Him exclusively with her whole heart, with her entire soul and with al her strength. I find this, one of the most impressive examples of divine love and a one hundred percent total surrender how she gives her self and expresses her love until the point of suffering and pain for the love of her beloved. As I had already said, passion and suffering are inextricable joined to each other. All love which is and comes from God is able to love within the eyes off death, and is able to keep on loving through all the pain and the sufferings of live. Courage was her companion and yes she searched Him and was prepared to bring sacrifices to find Him. She was willing to PAY A PRICE for her beloved. For her He was the most outstanding man, the most precious, even more as her own live. Suppose, that she not had the passion to look for him and not the fire and the zeal to go into places of danger! This means that she had not, a one hundred percent surrendering of her heart and that it was not divine love but only of the soul, stated that she was encouraged, motivated and stimulated by divine love. When it was only of the soul - her motivations – what for an associated and related expressions could we find then and what could we possibly identify? Would she wake up? Would she have been seeking Him in the night? Well, passion of the soul and self-centered zeal has mostly worry, anxiety and fear accompanying them. That means no courage, depression, and discouragement and even self-pity. Fearfulness is an attitude of our heart, of our inner man and will certainly not bring forth passion of heart. No it brings forth fearfulness and or heart will be formed in a character and the nature of frightfulness. Yes it even brings our heart in a state of panic. And we can do than nothing anymore. We are than like a mouse which looks frozen in the eyes of the snake which makes her heart tremble for fear. But that snake belongs to be under the feet of this mouse. He who has fear and anxiety shall have no real fire or zeal to love, that enables to love passionately. This is impossible! He or she will find nothing like strength and power to be able to make a firm decision. Courage and heroism belongs to the passionate, to the man and women with divine passions. Passion gives us power; enthusiasm destroys limitations and makes us able to break through borders: we go beyond and exceed over restrictions which we normally would never surpass. What both is true for the negative actions and deeds in our lives as well for the positive live giving actions and deeds in our lives. This is why passion can be attached to an active faith, to believe and hope. In fact, because off the jeopardy and the danger in the darkness of the night which was always luring; she would normally never have been gone out in the night to seek him. In a normal situation a woman would never ever have done this, that was altogether much too dangerous, but her love and her passion broke through the limitations of culture, tradition and the limitations she had put to herself. So you can only hunt after the foxes with passion and with a spirit to fight and to battle against that what tries to destroy or garden, which is our soul. In the love relationship with Jesus He will 19
hunt together with you the foxes and they will be destroyed! But as I already have said, is it not: Catch me the foxes! It is catch US the foxes. This means there is and has to be a working together. But Jesus has no legal rights to go into that what is of our one, not any sooner as that we ourselves give Him the legal rights and ask Him for help. And so she hands Him over the garden (soul) and asks for His help. Catch us please that what destroys my soul which is or place of coming together. Help me to hunt, to kill and to destroy the foxes. And He will do this because they are living in a relationship and the place of where they are meeting each other and loving, hugging and kissing each other, should stay beautiful and in a perfect state, so that they both can stay in a wild passionate love without being disturbed by intruders.
BREAKING THROUGH OUR LIMITATIONS Peter broke also through his own limitations. He broke even through the natural limitations and restrictions which nature has subdued mankind. The result was that he walked upon the water; but only because he passionately believed the words which Jesus personally had spoken to him. Don’t you think that the others would have tried to hold him back of jumping out of the boat? Peter couldn’t swim, as most of the fisherman could not swim; but he jumped out of the boat without any fear for drowning and walked to Jesus. Nothing could stop him to go to Jesus; not even the circumstances of a big storm who was sweeping up the waves. Than think about David; he also did things which you normally never ever would do. Or what do you think of Joshua, he also broke through the natural limitations, because of his love for God and through his passionate heart to serve God with al his heart. And many others have broken through their own limitations, the things which they are able to do in the natural and this because of their love-passion for God, for Jesus his will and His Word. Do I serve a supernatural God or who or what am I serving? If I do not want to break through the natural borders what for a meaning or what kind of value has my faith? If I do not want to live in the supernatural and can not believe it, what is then my Christian life for a life? In Hebrews 11 we find a long list of man and woman who were passionate and zealous in dreadful, impossible and hopeless situations. They found hope and faith because of the attitude of their heart to give themselves to God completely (100%) without looking upon the situations and circumstances of their lives. These are the ancient heroes of God, with God. Names such as: Abraham - Moses – Joseph - Gideon - Samuel – Elijah /Elisa - Isaiah - Jeremiah - Hanna, mother of Samuel - David - Paul - Ester - Job - and even many more. At the history of these men and women that loved God passionately and served him with all their heart, you can recognize very well that you do not necessarily need to be strong to be able to be enthusiastic and passionate. No, that is not always necessary.
CAN YOU STILL BE PASSIONATE WHEN YOU ARE WEAK? The answer is yes: it is possible to be passionate even in your weakness or then when you are weak. This is possible, because passion is a character trait of your heart; it is a structure and an attitude of your heart. Well, at first, it has nothing to do with our emotions or feelings, this passion. This sounds totally contrary to that what we have taught you till now. But this is because you do not know yet the overall picture, but we do, so wait a little bit and we will explain it to you. Than you will see and understand it. Weakness is just a condition which will melt away through surrendering to God with passion. Does the Lord or God not say? “Let the weak say I am strong, let the weak say I am a warrior.” 20
If that would not be possible, than God would not say it! Or is God a liar? Is Gods Word true or is it not true? It is important that you BELIEVE that it is possible that you in your state of being weak are able to show strength and passion and live a passionate live which comes from God. Zechariah 12:8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble, weak and not strong (in his own strength) among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. Isaiah 33:23a then is the prey of a great spoil divided; even the lame take the prey. 24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: (weak, not strong, not a warrior) because the people that dwell therein shall have forgiveness of their iniquity. Doesn't god say here, that when I have forgiveness of debt and sin, that I do not need to be weak, but strong? Isn't it so that when I learn to know God, which I firstly learn to know His MERCY and his GRACE? Isn't it so that Gods Word says that; he that KNOWS his God (personally and intimately) that he will do great and mighty deeds? Isn't it personally and intimately that you can live in the GRACE and MERCY of god? Joel 3:10 Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior." Yes he that is weak is nevertheless strong; but not in his own might or strength, no in the strength of the Lord God, in Gods power and might is the weak strong. My surrendering and my passion to God, is that what makes me strong. For it is His power, that makes the weak strong. It is not my strength which does me take off like an eagle in the air, no it is his all-powerfulness, his might, his strength which does make me leap with the strength of a hero, and which ensures that I can pursue my enemies until they are entirely and completely destroyed. Therefore, I will cheer with passion, I will cheer, with a crow in my mouth because I am strong in the power of His might and with great joy I will go in the battle, fighting fights against my enemies. Because I know that He is my strength and that He will strengthen my hands and that God makes me able and capable to fight, to battle in combat, to wrestle and to overcome! That what is in fact strong and stronger as we are - in our physical condition – is been beaten, is been smashed down, and defeated by the weaker one: and this just because we have made an allied bondage and have joined ourselves with God. Therefore we have the strongest of the entire Universe at our side! So who dares to say that he is not STRONG with God at his side? God has great pleasure to fight and to battle for those who are weak and He has chosen those who do know and acknowledge that they are in a weak condition. For actually we all are! But who dares to admit? 1Corinthians 1:24 But unto them and for them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, is Christ Jesus the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness wisdom of God is wiser than that of men; and the weakness of God is stronger than that of men. 26 For consider your call, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, and not many mighty, nor many noble, are called: 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound (to make speechless, to confuse and to amaze) the things (the men) which are mighty; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are. 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. 30 but you are of him in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us, (this is you) wisdom,
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and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 therefore, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord and of the Lord. (That he knows Him)" Wasn’t Peter weak at the moment that he jumped out of the boat? Wasn’t Joshua not unable to tare down the walls of Jericho out of his own strength? Many, many man and women in the Bible show us and give us an example of their weakness and how they found strength, power in and through their passionate love and cleaving to God and were thereby made able to do the impossible. For those who walk with God is nothing impossible.
BUT WHAT IS WHEN WE HAVE FEAR AND ANXIETY? Can God actually do something with someone who is fearful and who has a timid or an anxious spirit? Well, at first God can do nothing with a person who is anxious and scary, because he that fears has no faith! Faith and fear can never go together. Fear is as a lock; it closes and locks the door of our faith. Fear works like a virus; it is contagious and infective as a plague! When you are with people together that have fear and anxiety, then you can be very sure that you certainly will be infected with fear. The best thing you can do to avoid to be infected is to stay away from the places and the gatherings were such people meet, and to keep away from those who constantly pronounce and speak their fears. Do you want to be infected by faith? Than go to the places where they speak and pronounce their faith. With all due respect, but I do not want to be enveloped with brothers and sisters in the lord (unbelieving believers) and unbelievers who are anxiously, fearfully and who do nothing else as to speak and to pronounce their unbelief; these are those, which say: It’s over now; there is no hope anymore in this situation! O´ and what is when it is cancer? Impossible is one of their words, just like; never will this situation change. These are the words which they have in their vocabulary, together with many other words where with they pronounce their fear, their anxiety and their unbelief. And you are what you speak! And that is not what I say, but much more is it the Word of God that says this! In another chapter I will go deeper into this. But what is even more, we bring curses upon our selves and upon our lives by speaking unbelief. Psalm 1:1-3 blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law (WORD - WILL) of the LORD; and in his law (WORD - WILL) does he meditate (SPEAKING) day and night. (He/she speaks Gods Word and Will.) 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. Merciful as God is, he wants to encounter us in our fears and or worries; like for example he did by Gideon. And although that Gideon had a fearful heart God met him. The anxious fearful Gideon changed (became transformed) trough a PERSONAL word from God to him, in a man full of belief, and an enthusiastic person who wishes passionately that what God wants. His fear and anxiety melted away because of that God came upon his way and because of that he had an encountering with the living God! Through this encountering with God, he finds belief, zeal, enthusiasm, passion of heart and came into heroic actions through the Words spoken out - from God - over his live: You mighty hero! Mighty man of God! Magnified
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When we want to be released of fearfulness, from unbelief and anxiety it is really fundamental: important, indispensable, vital and crucial for our lives, for or soul that we have an encountering with the living God. We can say also: We only need one encountering with the living God to become changed and to see the beginning and the start of a transformation to become a passionate believing Christian, full of fire, rather than to be a fearful, doubtful Christian full of worries and unbelief. But to continue to remain a passionate, believing Christian full of fire and zeal it is necessarily fundamental: important, indispensable, vital and crucial for our lives, (for or soul and heart) to have and to stay in a permanent intimate relationship with God. And now we will have a look at Gideon how God is doing and working this out in his live. I find the encountering between Gideon and God just a great delicious example of what God can do with a man who has fear and anxiety in his heart. This however will change in the course of the encountering with God. God encountered Gideon and came upon his way because Gideon his heart screamed and searched for God, despite all the circumstances he was in. Gideon very certainly had his thoughts about the whole situation of Gods people and why they have to undergo the cruelties and the oppression of their enemy; and why God has left them. I think that he has called very frequently to God and shouted for help: God, let a miracle happen! Take us out of this bondage and slavery! Judges 6:11 Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor." Well and than, this miracle happens, and in the first moment Gideon does not notice it at al. He cannot yet hear what is been said to him. At the moment himself he does not understand the measurement, the depth and the range of the words God is speaking to him. But some time later this would change. Gideon was not able to hear on a correct way and he did not know how he should rightly approach the Words of God, else he had known that God was willing to fight for his people with Gideon as His militant warrior and hero! His mind and his thoughts were still full of doubt, fear, unbelief and anxiety. And the first thing what comes out of his mouth is an accusation into Gods direction. “Yes, yes, God wants to be with us? Why has this all then happened? Where is then this great, miracles God? No, he is not there, He has left us!” 6:13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? And where are all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? But now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. The God full of mercy and GRACE is not responding upon these words, because God knows that Gideon is speaking from his tormented soul. And in our life it is not much differently. God is not reacting upon our complaining and He will also not go in discussion about it; but when He reacts, than God shows us the solution of the problem. And this is which I already said, most of the time not on the way we have thought or what we would like! Do you really think that God responds, reacts and takes action upon our complaining and whining and murmurings, and that he 23
answers that? Well, be happy and blessed that God is not responding upon these words and that he is ignoring it. Gods answer comes with MERCY/GRACE and that is not what we actually expected. God does not go with you in discussion about your problems, because he has the problem already solved. But do you really want to you hear what God has to say about your problems? If you do, then your chances are highly increased and much greater than before to come out of your problems. But when you think that God has to solve the problems by the way that you think that He should solve the problems; than you have a bigger and larger problem as your problem is. In that case actually your problem is not your problem but then you are yourself the problem. Instead of discussing with us our complaining, He shows us the solution of the problem! And this is not always the way we like it! 6:14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? And certainly and obviously is it so that when God speaks with us that we must firstly see and look into the eyes of or own unbelief. So it was with Gideon and within my own live it was exactly the same! How could he than deliver Israel out of the hands of the Midianites? I am only very small, and one of the littlest tribes of Israel? We are not many! Gideon is looking upon the natural limitations because firstly he only thinks within the natural boundaries and because he is still been controlled by that what his soul has learned him, and what his soul dictates him. 6:15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. Is that with us not the same thing? Do we not firstly think the same way? That we look firstly at our own natural potential possibilities? Within my live however it was exactly the same. I looked upon my own natural potential! No good education and no high IQ, and just like Gideon a little man! Bible school, No! God did not allow me to go! Then you do not come very quickly into a ministry, because you must show forth something; some paper, some schooling, some Bible education and Bible school training! Even the minister pastors (shepherds), the teachers and the evangelists do not ask what God has in mind for you. Anyway: the unlearned, unschooled, Gideon hears from god and it puts his entire live completely upside down. After that Gideon has presented his problem to God, and God has listened to him in all patience; Gods answer upon Gideon’s words is devastating. The assignment which God gave him was already difficult; but God is making it even more difficult and just impossible. No help of the other tribes of the Israelites no, only Gideon and his tribe must defeat the midianites, as one man. 6:16 And the LORD said unto him, surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. After a while it starts to come through to Gideon; that it is not by his own strength, or his own natural potential that he will slay the enemy, but that God himself will be with him; so that he can do the impossible. He knows that he can never ever accomplish the assignment and the commission which God gave him without Gods help.
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It is very important that we recognize, in the task and the assignment which God has given us that we can not accomplish where we are called for to do, without Him. When I can do it only with my own natural potentials is it not a work of God. Remarkable is here however that Gideon is not saying no, to that what God wants and to the plans God has with Gideon. He knows his own incompetence, his incapability and his weakness of heart very well. But he knows also very well Gods MERCY and Gods GRACE. The history of Israel is full of the finest examples from man and women from God, who in their weakness found favor GRACE and MERCY in the eyes of God. 6:17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then show me a sign that it is you, who talks with me. And what does Gideon, he brings a burnt offering to God, and it is the fire of god that burns up the sacrifice in a supernatural way. He encounters God in his state of fear and doubt, but comes then however through his faith and belief in God to an active expression of his faith in the form of worship. Worship as a response upon that what God speaks to you personally is the highest form of faith and trust! It is not for nothing that the Word of God says that only those who worship in Spirit and truth shall enter the kingdom of God. Worshippers shall inherit everything what God has to give and has already given. After that Gideon had heard the Words God spoke, and after that God has Gideon given the capacity to understand these words with his heart, and to comprehend and to grasp what God is really saying; than slowly in him arises courage and bravery. “Lord God please confirm, back up and verify that it’s you that has spoken these words to me; this is what Gideon has in his heart and in his mouth. For he starts to understand that God wants to be with him and that God wants to battle against his enemies. My first impression was that Gideon handles here a little bit disrespectful with God, asking for some sign. But I believe that God did not think anything like that, and that God was actually very pleased about his reaction to ask boldly for a sign. Because for something like that you need to have faith! And God responds and answers on the way like Gideon knew from the Stories he had heard from the priests and the prophets, with fire just, just like He did with Elijah the man of God who walked with God in the ancient times. And a holy fear arouses within him as he understands that he has seen something of the glory of God. 6:22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O LORD God! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face. 23 And the LORD said to him, Peace be to you; fear not: you shall not die. Let us go back to the moment where God pronounced and spoke: “Gideon, the Lord your God is with you. You mighty warrior! I believe that Gideon wrestled with that which God had spoken over him, and that he grasped the words: “you mighty warrior” and the words: “have no fear”. He hold on to these words with faith and started to speak to his soul, or to his self. “I do not need to have fear or doubt anymore because God has said that to me; and God is not a liar. When God has said that, than it is possible and he will make it possible.” After that, Gideon worships God by building an altar. 6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it God is peace: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Take your father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the 25
altar of Baal that is of your father, and cut down the grove that is by it: 26 And build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove (the obstacle) which you shall cut down. Doesn’t that remind us to something? What is it that will hold us back to come in Gods presence? In our vision it was a fence. It are always the wrong passions who function as a fence and a hedge which brings separation between God and me. What an enormous passion had those people whom especially for Baal planted a forest so that there would always be enough provision to put upon the fire. It is idolatry and tradition that God entirely wants to destroy. Two passions meet each other here on this height! The Human passion and the divine passion! Gods plan is a burning altar for God on the same place where demons have had their dominion and their occult religious feasts. Now that Gideon has started to have a relationship with God, he receives also instructions what he has to do. Remember? Together they will hunt the foxes! Together they will hunt the enemy! Now he knows and believes – without a shadow of a doubt – that he does not need to fight and to battle in his own strength, but that it is God who is fighting for him; he is more than willingly to do what God has instructed him to do! He knows that he has to pay a price to do Gods will. His own family will not be all that thankful because through his actions he will open up and make visible the idols in their hearts. Judges 6:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants and he did (exactly) as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night. GIDEON DID IT AT NIGHT! WE WILL DO IT HOWEVER BY DAY. ON BROAD DAYLIGHT, EXACTLY ON THE WAY AS ELIJAH DID IT. BUT FIRSTLY WE GIVE OURSELVES AS A TOTAL BURNT OFFERING TO THE LORD! 6:28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built. 29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing. 30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it. 31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? Will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar. 32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar. 33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel. 34 But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew upon a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him. The most significant fights that have to be fought, is the spiritual battle. Because of that Gideon destroyed the false gods and their temples it was for Gods people obviously to see and to recognize that these gods were no gods at all. It are always firstly the false idols and the demonic altars of false pictures, thoughts and false demonic passions in our life, soul and heart which must be destroyed; where after then gods altar of pure worship can be build and find a place in our life and in our heart and soul. The reactions and the consequences of Gideon his actions are evidently; Anger, hate, prosecution and assassination are coming and arousing up within the hearts of Gods people.
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There is much more to say about this, but we go further to the bible text which tells us more about how God is dealing and handling with those who are fearfully. He does not reject them, but he sets them very clearly restrictions. They will not gain the victory such as those, who go into the battle with passion fire and zeal without fear! Judges 7:3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the men, saying, whosoever is fearful, afraid and trembling, let him return go back and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained (only) ten thousand. Those who have fear (for the war) can turn around and have to go back home. They are been ordered to go home. They are not allowed to go into the battle with the other warriors. It is very certainly not a shame and not a disgrace to turn around and to go back home when you have fear in your heart and when you are afraid for the war and the battle that is in front of you. Gideon knew very well how the condition of his heart was at the moment that God met him; he also had fear, doubt and unbelief in his heart and had to take care of his heart not to let fear or doubt rule again his heart. God himself had taken it of from him, with the Words: “Have no fear!” It would be very unwise to go into the fight and the battle with fear and frightfulness. God does not want us to fight and battle with fear and trembling. And because of that there are in the Word of God some rules and regulations for war; rules who lay down whom, and when someone may be integrated in the army of God. One of those rules is that timid, shy, fearful men cannot and may not participate in the battle and the fight of war. Because it could happen that they infect and contaminate the heart of the brave and courageous men who have no fear and who do not hesitate to throw them selves into the battle. One of these rules for war is: That men who are only married for a short time, may not come along in the battle for war. These men have to take care of it that they will have children, offspring and have to take care of their own wives. For it could happen that they perish in the fight and the battle and another man takes his lady. The same thing is with those who have bought themselves a vineyard and still have to work at it. All these rules and regulations have a very deep spiritual meaning. What then remains are those that “are free.” Those free men can go along in the fight and the war to obtain the victory for country and family. Not all have been called to battle in the front line. Just like that not all are warriors so as that not all are called and chosen by God to be an Apostle or a Prophet. But we all must have the heart of a warrior and a fighter. David did not go and was not integrated into the army of Israel, for he was still too young to volunteer. After a certain age men could go and have to submit to serve in the army of Israel. Therefore David was not involved in the fight because he was still too young and had to take care of the sheep. But although he had to take care of the sheep, he had to fight his fights against bears and lions who tried to steel the sheep. And with us it is the same thing. We also must fight our fight for every day live. But how shall we do this with fear, doubt and unbelief?
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our soul is paralyzed. And that is exactly what the devil wants. When that happens; then he has brought us exactly there where he wants us to have - in a passive attitude and a state of unbelief and in an attitude of withdrawal: of changing direction, of helplessness, despair, and in an attitude from running and hiding. And I now where I am talking about, for I lived many years like this. Gideon and his people lived in the same attitude; but let us have a look at Moses and Israel for a closer look upon this fearful attitude. Six hundred thousand men did not come into the Promised Land, and could not obtain their inheritance because they had fear, anxiety, unbelief and frightfulness in their heart; yes they trembled for Amalek and the Canaanites. Only Joshua and Caleb came into the Promised Land because they had another spirit as all the others! Two of 600,000 men had another spirit and had another attitude as the rest. Which spirit did they have? Fear and anxiety have so many kind of faces and expressions: Fear for being without a job, fear for sickness, fear for losing your wife and children, fear for death, contact fears, fear for people, fear of living, fear for father and mother, fear for authority persons, fear of giving love and fear of receiving love; Fear to go bankrupt and each other financial fear. For the women; the fear for children, the fear for bareness, fear of going wrong, or fear not to be good enough; for example on school, or as a mother and father or as son and daughter. I think that this list of several types of fears lets extend itself with still very much more different fears; but nevertheless take a look in your own heart, in your soul and in your live, have a look around! Perhaps you will find still other types of fears and anxiety’s. Make for yourself a list and write them down, and what is even better take that list and hold it before the Lord. Just take a timeout now, and speak with God about your own weak points in your life. Admit them and have the courage to see your fears in the eyes. Read this list aloud and bring it for God and ask the Holy Spirit to come in this; for only He can change it. And God is heaving a heart full of passion and the will to change it into your live. After that! Than you go on with reading and listening. Take THIS TIME WITH GOD. He is waiting for it. God does not find it terrible that you have fear and anxiety in your heart, for also Adam and Eve had fear and anxiety in their heart at the moment that God appeared for them. But they had this fear and anxiety because they had sinned. (Think this over!) But that we try to bury our fears and anxiety’s which are deep down in us, and that we try to bury them even more deeper and that we even so try to hide us; and try to ignore and to deny our sin - that we do not allow God to meet us in our fears and that we do not give God the time and the chance to make our hearts whole – that is what is hurting the heart of God our father the most. God could only help Adam and Eve because they confessed for God where they feared for. Fear and doubt is one of Satan’s temples which have to be destroyed and must be pulverized, to be blown away as dust in the wind whereupon Gods Spirit burns up completely the rest of the substance, so that NOTHING remains of it. Fear is one of the most important demonic temples which have to be destroyed in our lives and in our soul, because FEAR kills and destroys unrelentingly all of our faith. Furthermore, fear and anxiety carry pain in itself; it causes and does pain arise, it produces pain and suffering and this in our body and in our soul! Fear and anxiety have some more very important side-effects. Gods word says: these are the fruits of fear and anxiety, namely: No faith, active unbelief and nonchalance or dispassion. These have all a paralyzing function on the relationship to God, to our nearest and dearest and certainly upon our prayer live; yes, upon our whole life and upon everything we do or not do. And upon every relationship we have. Nonchalance and dispassion was one of the things in which I was deeply entangled and knotted: "ah, well let’s see that tomorrow." And things likewise! 28
FEAR AND ANXIETY VERSUS ZEAL, PASSION AND SURRENDERING Fear, anxiety and doubt will not find a passionate and zealous prayer live (a passionate relationship with god), and it is impossible that nonchalance or dispassion will move us to a prayer live and unbelief keeps us far away from a passionate conversation with god. And exactly like Adam and Eve we hide ourselves behind a bush, a hedge plant or under a tree. Anxiety and fear does not trust, it takes us into captivity and it drags us to unbelief.
Fear does not speak full of trust and faith about his beloved, and it does not believe what she hears, of him, “who loves her soul so dearly,” and that what He speaks. She cannot believe His Words, although she very gladly would do this. It is her fear and anxiety which makes that His Words become powerless and ineffective, yes even without any form of meaning. The opposite of it is that passion shall not stop with speaking passionately about her beloved. It believes everything what he says and what is His opinion! Passion of the heart seeks in every situation a chance to exchange their feelings and emotions with their beloved. His or her praying with God (the dialog and the speaking with god) is not static, but much more alive, in a flexible way and very intensive. It is very certainly not a Pharisaic languish. It is a dialog and a speaking with God with the beginning, the basis and its origin in KNOWING him personally, in the confidence and the belief which he or she has in God. The passion, zeal and fire of our heart and soul finds courage, bravery, valor and faith, prays enthusiastically, with yielding and surrendering itself with passion to God. He knows that he is safe and protected and he does not worry about his or her security. His or her security is God himself, which is his or her castle and refuge. Fear and anxiety will not throw themselves in the fight and in the battle without that she is selfconfident, self-assured. Fear tries to protect itself, but this is not possible, moreover it is impossible; because our fights and our battles are firstly spiritual. And therefore – because of the self-defense she/he runs away, withdraws itself, in an attitude of running and hiding, and even tries to defend this attitude of withdrawal so trying to protect itself.
NOBODY IS ABLE TO PROTECT HIMSELF OUT OF HIMSELF, TO PROTECT HIMSELF FOR THE DEMONIC SPIRITUAL POWERS IN THE AIR We position ourselves in a place of vulnerability when we have the courage to show and express enthusiasm and passion of heart for the things of God. But God will protect us and will give our soul the strength and the power which it needs not to be wounded. When we full of enthusiasm and passion are standing on Gods side and when we love Him passionately; totally, with whole of our heart, than He will also stand to us and this full of passion and zeal. One of the most beautiful examples of this, I still find, is David: He dances full of zeal, passion and enthusiasm excited for his God, full of surrendering and passion of heart; and who laughs at him? His own lady! Normally it would have hurt him and would produce much pain in his heart. But he does not stop with dancing for the Lord and God protects his heart to become wounded. So he keeps on giving everything to God what he has and what he is, and this with passion, with zeal and with fire.
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With EVERYTHING what God has given him is he saying to God; I LOVE YOU MY GOD. I AM YOURS and YOU ARE MINE! MY GOD! Another example is the son of Saul; Jonathan. He fights alone with his weapon- bearer, against the army of the Philistines. He placed himself in a position of vulnerability and trusted completely upon God. Another very good example is Daniel in the lion-din and Sadrag, Mesag and Abed Nego. It was their passion and their surrendering to God that made that the fire could not hurt them and that the mouths of the lions remained closed and were bound. Yes, they were ready and prepared to die to do that what God wills and what He wants. Another thing which has to do with fear and anxiety is that fear and doubt will not open up the heart, nor shall she lay down her heart at the foot of the one that loves her heart so passionately. Because fear and anxiety makes that she cannot open up her heart, because he or she is a prisoner of his own fears and anxiety’s. She believes the fear of her soul more than that which it hears and sees of her beloved! For with the eyes and the ears of fear she looks and hears. She sees the things differently as they really are. It believes the fear of her heart and soul and speaks and pronounces that what she believes; and the result of it is, that she binds and attaches herself even more and more to her unbelief and fear whereby the fear and the pain and the hurt only increases more and more; moreover is this so, because she pronounces and speaks out her fears and unbelief; and by doing this he/she becomes a temple of demons of fear and unbelief. Proverbs 21:23 He that keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from trouble, anguish, distress, affliction and tribulation. (This will keep his soul out of many different fears.) Magnified Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Romans 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, fear and anxiety upon (in) every soul of man that doeth evil, (missing the goal – or he who sins.) of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; Magnified We go now to a special Message which my Father gave me while I wrote this Book and I had to ad it into it. It is a word directly from the throne of God.
LET THE GRACE OF GOD NOT WORK IN VAIN INTO YOUR LIVE!
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Can the Grace of God work in vain in our lives? Yes very surely, this is possible.
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Wherefore do I receive Gods Grace? For I do not receive Gods Grace just like this: to receive a nice Grace. God is doing nothing without a purpose; God is not like that, to do something without a purpose. Gods Grace has a purpose.
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Where do I receive Gods Grace? Well this sounds like a simple question, but it is very important that we answer this question and that we understand it; that we understand that it is only in Gods presence were we in reality receive Gods Grace.
It is only His Grace that makes it possible to come into His presence and to cleave to Him. But to be able to cleave to God and to have a deep intimate relationship with God there has to take place a reconstruction and a transformation within us. Some things have to be tarred down to be transformed, to be restructured within our heart and our Soul so that we are able to understand God, so that we can here Him and so that we can come in agreement and in a perfect harmony with his will. What is the place where I will be restructured, reformed and be created a new, where am I being reformed, restructured and transformed? Well, it is in God his workplace where I will be reformed, restructured, remodeled and transformed. And this is very surely not the place were God not is; for this modeling, forming and transforming work is Gods work and therefore I have to be in a place where God is working and where He can work. And this is the place of His presence. It is only in His presence where I will be remodeled, reformed, and transformed after His Image and likeness so that God the Father can have a deep intimate relationship with you and me; and with every other who receives this Grace. This is why you receive the Grace of God. Is that not a lovely thought? Okay, there are three logical steps which position me in the right position, for I have to position myself in the right position. I do not receive Gods Grace to depart from him and to live my live just as I lived it before I met Gods Grace. For this I didn’t need to receive Gods Grace, because I can live on just as I lived without Gods Grace. That’s no problem; therefore I do not need to receive Gods Grace. But I do need to receive Gods Grace to be able to come into His presence. When the mantel of GRACE is upon me than I am been made able to come into His presence.
THREE LOGICAL STEPS OF POSITIONING MYSELF IN THE RIGHT POSITION 1e Step is: Surrendering – worshipping – honoring – and bowing down before God. This is heaving a heart of worship and praise, honoring Him – showing great respect, fearing God. I do not mean to have fear like a dog with the tail between his legs, no with this is meant having great honor and respect, truly great! And this is the first step of positioning yourself that it may become possible to be reformed and to become transformed to the Image and likeness of the Son of God. This step is very important! Without this step of SURRENDERING WITH PASSION and giving yourselves completely and whole, you can stop and just forget everything. It is all or nothing. God gives ALL or EVERYTHING and that is why He is also asking everything from us! 2e Step is: Seeing – hearing with open eyes and with an open heart – recognizing and understanding what God shows me (what He wills) is the second step to position your self to become changed and transformed. It is a spiritual seeing and looking into the word of God with an open heart to see and to recognize what the Spirit of God is speaking to me personally; not that what He is speaking to the church, no that what He is speaking to me personally. For this I have to have an open heart to recognize, to understand, to comprehend and to grab what He is showing me what HE WILLS! This is the second step to position ourselves in a position that makes it possible to be changed and to be transformed. But this is still a moving yourselves to a position where this possibly could be done. It has not yet taken place! But it are steps we have to do so that God can make a start to remodel, to reform and to transform us. And still there is a third step we have to do so that God can start to do this transforming process.
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In this second step is it very important that we start to recognize, to grasp and to understand what God wills with that what He shows and reveals to me. God is not a God who wants to stay a far-off and that we do not understand Him. I know there is a Bible-scripture in the Old Testament that quotes that Gods thoughts are much higher as our thoughts, and this is true, but this does not mean that this has to stay like that. For when I come into His presence and when I have positioned myself into His presence than God will start to remodel, to reform and to transform us which brings with it that I will start to understand God more and more. I will start to recognize, to understand, to comprehend and to grasp how the Father is thinking. For the Father wants that we recognize, comprehend and understand how he wants to do this work of transformation. In the time that I wrote this, my Father gave me an example, an illustrative picture. He showed me a picture of a patient who lies on the doctor table. Than suddenly the doctor pulls a knife to start to do a surgery on the patient who has placed himself on the surgery table. The patient didn’t know what was happening to him, so he jumped up and started to scream and to yell: Stop, stop! And the doctor stopped. After that I saw the same picture again and I could see that the doctor was explaining the patient what he wanted to do, how the patient started to understand and to recognize what the doctor wanted to do and wherefore he had to do what he wanted to do. This made that he came into a position of surrendering himself to the will of the doctor so that the doctor could do exactly that what had to be done at that moment whereby he could be healed as quick as possible. I think that you have recognized now and that you understand the spiritual principle. 3e Step is: That you come in line with Gods perfect will, coming in agreement with Gods will and testifying and proclaiming Gods will; that we start to confess and to testify Gods will and even to proclaim it. Yes that we start to speak Gods will. What you have seen and recognized in the second step, and that what you have heard, that is what you now start to speak, to talk. You start to come in agreement with the Word of God, you speak Gods word; you are proclaiming Gods Word and you start to learn – and that’s a process – to work together with Gods greatest worker and helper who is at your side, which is nobody else as the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God who comes and who stands at your side and who speaks to you in commission of the Father and who represents the Father; so that you can understand, comprehend and grasp what the Father wills, what His will is. And that you can say and that you can give you’re YES and you’re OKAY! Than, you start to come in agreement with the (perfect) will of the Father. In the chapters who are laying in front of us, I will teach these Kingdom principles and we will go very deep into this. Okay, now we can go to or first Bible scripture from which verse 21 is the key-verse. Roman 6:17-23 17 But thanks be to God that you were slaves of sin, Some are still a slave of Sinn and that is the reason why I put you through all these teachings; so that you will be no slave of Sinn anymore and that you come in a position that: but you obeyed from the heart the form of doctrine (that what is in Gods Word) which you were delivered to. With this I mean that you have been delivered to the teachings of the Word of God and that what I teach you is that I do deliver and expose you to the educational schooling instructions of the Word of God and that when you start to obey whole heartedly to the same word, which is the will of God, that you will be no slave of Sinn anymore. 18 And having been set free from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness. 19 I speak as a man on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as you presented your members (eyes, ears, hands and so on) as slaves to uncleanness (impure actions and thoughts) and to lawless act unto lawless act, 32
so now yield your members (eyes, ears, hands and so on) as slaves (love slave) to righteousness unto sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, (not really having the rulership over your temple, over your soul and spirit. God has no control over you and it is your soul who is ruling over you.) There you were free (and still a slave) and had no part unto righteousness. 21 Therefore what fruit did you have then in the things over which you are now ashamed? Well we know which kind of fruit we had and or still have! It brought many problems in our lives; many pain, hurts and sufferings, thorns and prickles who gave us many pain and which will bring us finely to death. Different forms of death, emotional death, physical death, the death of the soul and many other forms of death. For the end of those things is death. 22 But now being set free from sin, (having the mantel of Grace upon your live) and being enslaved to God as love slaves, you have your fruit (because you are partakers of that what is of God, because you cleave to God) unto sanctification, and the end (of this fruit) is everlasting life. That is the fruit you will have when you cleave unto God; that you will be purified and cleansed and be even more and more separated that you may become a partaker of Gods holiness and Glory. This finely leads to the eternal everlasting divine live. Without sanctification and purification; without coming in a position that your soul is being cleansed and purified: Without this we will not see God. We will come to this Bible scripture which will make it all very clear. 23 For the wages of sin is death, (this is the fruit of sin) We are not under sin anymore and the rulership of the will of the sin can not rule anymore in and over or lives; when we do know how to be partakers of Gods grace and when we do know how to work together with the Grace which God grants us in His goodness every day. When you do not work together with the Grace whom God grants you every day and which stands to your disposal than is the Grace of God working IN VAIN (fruitless – you stay barren) and you will not be reformed and transformed and recreated after His image and likeness. You continue to be in the state of a baby and you will always have and be surrounded of the fruit of your sin, from which the end is the fruit of death. But the free gift of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord. And although the Grace of God and the everlasting live is a free gift – we have to learn to work together with the Word of God, the Will of God and the Holy Spirit to position us in the right position. 1 Corinthians 15:1-2 But, brothers, I reveal to you the gospel (which is the presence of Gods Kingdom) which I preached to you, which you also received and accepted, in which you also stand and firmly hold on to, 2 by which you also are being kept safe, You are being kept save into it because the mantel of Grace is upon your live through the work upon the cross what Jesus wrought for you. But this is a work which has been done upon earth and God still wants to do a heavenly work on you and within you in the heavenliest, directly in Gods presence.
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2 by which you also are being kept safe, if you hold fast to the word which I preached and taught to you, Than you will be kept save through the mantel of Grace who is effectively working; than it will do his work and be effective. But when you do not hold on to and when you do not align and adjust yourselves to the teachings and the instructive education which I have taught and presented to you onto I have exposed you (which I also did) than you’re FAITH, was and is in vain; it was and is futile, fruitless, barren and unproductive. unless you believed in vain. (Without success, without fruit, producing nothing, being idle - barren) You will have gone through all the pain the hurts just for nothing. It is very important to understand this rightly, to recognize and to grasp this. For the Grace of God is not just Grace; and that’s it. God has a purpose and an intention or a goal with His grace. And the purpose and the intention from Gods Grace is that we are being transformed, remodeled, reformed and that we experience a transformation after His image and likeness so that we can live with God in a deep intimate relationship. There is Grace so that we can come into his presence. But what is, when we do not come into His presence? Well, okay; when we do not know how to come into His presence than that’s something different; but when we do not want and have a desire to come into His presence and when we do not want and have a desire to be reformed, remodeled and to be transformed than there is something completely wrong with you. You have to be transformed; you must have the will and the desire to be changed, to be reformed and to be remodeled. It should be the greatest cry of your heart, because for this Jesus has died; that this transformation process could have a start. That is the fundament! But there has to be build something upon it because else the fundament of GRACE is been laid down for nothing; meaning the GRACE of God has worked in vain in your lives. What and who makes that you are been transformed after His Image and likeness? You! Yourselves? Can you chance yourselves in a “spiritual” human being? No, you can not; you are not able to it. You can not reform and remodel your soul, definitely not. You can change some behaviors and habits but this does not mean that the structures which are in your soul have been changed. You have changed your behavior and habits a little bit through your will but your soul is not transformed and the old structure is still there, you only have buried it a little bit deeper with your will. And it is as if all the old habits aren’t there any more, but they are still there. Let the times come and the situations change; that our soul comes under a great pressure, than you will see how quickly the old habits will come up to the surface. And than suddenly you are again full of rage and anger and you wonder were it comes from, for you thought and you didn’t knew that it was within you. But it is still there. And it is as if a grey wall is been painted with white paint; it looks like white but it isn’t. O it looks very well, but than there comes a stormy rain and gone is the white paint and everything is there again! And I know very well where I am talking about. And what do you have that you did not receive? (By GRACE) When there is or has taken place some kind of transformation, did you receive that by GRACE or did you receive it because you have done such good things and worked so hard for it, because you have done so much with your own sweat and blood? No! You only received it THROUGH GRACE. And if you received it, (THROUGH GRACE) why do you boast as if you did not have received it? (By the Grace God has given and granted you)
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For there will be no human being who will be justified and acceptable through his own deeds and works of the flesh as only through GRACE and FAITH, through FAITH and GRACE. And this beloved children is the ONLY way. Ephesians 2:4-10 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even we being dead in the trespasses of our sins, He made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are being saved), 6 and raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, Raised up together with Christ – my spirit is brought back to live again – now we live together with Christ Jesus. But than it comes: We are also lifted up together with Him in a heavenly place, the place of His presence. We are there, but we can not see it yet. This is a spiritual truth which you can not comprehend or grasp with your mind, this is impossible to grasp with your mind and even not with the senses of your soul. But it is the truth and nothing but the truth which you can only believe with your heart. This is the reality and a greater reality as what you can feel, see or discern with the senses of your soul or what you can grasp and think with your mind. This here is a spiritual truth which you can only GRASP with FAITH and through FAITH. Faith makes that your spiritual eyes are been opened up for this. You are seeing than into a spiritual world with opened eyes. You are not longer blind, but you are seeing. This here is a spiritual key and so enormously important for you to grasp. When you do not understand this key (with your heart) than you can not press through into Gods presence. 6 and raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenliest in Christ Jesus, Well, what does this mean? It means that we are at two places at the same time. This sounds maybe strange and mysterious into your ears, but this is the truth and nothing but the truth. Our spirit who is brought back to live with Christ has his place and a position in the heavenly realms, directly before the throne of God in Christ Jesus. Is this not beautiful; that the Spirit of God even lives in my spirit, my own spirit who lives also within me! This why the Kingdom of God is within me! And there is even much more to say about this, but not now. So, in the heavenliest in Jesus Christ! My spirit is in the heavenliest in Christ Jesus. Well, where is my soul, where does it have his place? My soul is still here on earth and I am still here, but I am also up there! And this is so glorious; that from the moment of my rebirth, that we have with and in Christ once more (like Adam and Eve) a LIVING spirit, which becomes with CHRIST a place and an INHABITATION in the heavenly realms before the Throne of God. From this moment on we are LIVING heavenly creatures and new earthly creatures both in one. This is why the Kingdom of God can come upon earth through us. And he did it; He has raised us up TOGETHER with Him to make us alive anew and has given us TOGETHER with Him a place in Christ Jesus in the heavenliest as Jesus is seated in the heavenliest. And you can only believe it, for you can not grasp it with your mind or your intellect, nor can you feel it. It will only become reality through FAITH. And believe me, it is true! And although you can not feel it or see it with your (natural) eyes, believe it! This is why the Word of God says that we are hidden in Jesus Christ and that we can not see it – with our natural eyes – what we really are in Jesus Christ. But with the ongoing developing revelation of the Glory of Jesus Christ we will see time on time again more and more who we are in Jesus Christ.
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7 That He might show in the coming ages the exceeding great riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For it is nothing else, as PURE GRACE and it is nothing else as the mantel of GRACE who is over our lives; my spirit brought back to new live again, the Spirit of God who comes within my spirit and my spirit who receives a place with Christ in the heavenly realms. I am still on earth but also in the heavenly realms. That is why I am already now in the throne of God. This has to do with having open eyes where Revelation three speaks about. We will go into this Chapter even deeper into this and than you will understand and comprehend even more. 8 For by grace you are saved, through faith, and this is not out of yourselves; You didn’t save yourselves nor did you put the mantel of grace upon your live yourselves; for this is impossible. No, God has given it to you and laid it upon you so that you can come into His presence, in the heavenly realms, in the throne of God, having a place where He is. And now we are going unto it; and now it is really becoming interesting: THIS IS WHY GOD HAS GIVEN US THE GIFT OF GRACE: So that we can walk and stay in His presence. Let the Grace of God not be and work in vain into your live, please not! 8 For by grace you are saved, through faith, and this not out of yourselves; (GRACE WORKING THROUGH FAITH). Do you believe that what I have quoted and what I have written down – for I have written down nothing else as Gods Word, the will of God the Father, the ideas, the plans and the imaginations of God the Father! I wrote down the truth and nothing else but the truth – when you would just believe this, for God did love you so much that He gave and sacrificed His only Son for you – do you believe that it is the truth? I believe it without a shadow of a doubt. I believe not that the Father would have lied to me! I believe EVERYTHING what He says to me, for He is FAITHFUL! Believe me, the GRACE of God is ONLY working and finds his effectiveness THROUGH FAITH. It is the gift of God; 9 not of works, that not anyone should boast; 10 for we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus Is this not miracles and beautiful! We are those who are been changed, who are been reformed and transformed; In Jesus we become and through Jesus we are been changed and transformed after the Image and likeness of the Father and the Son. unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in these works. Only in these works should we work, for only these works will glorify the Father and it is these works that are in perfect agreement with the Kingdom of God, with the perfect will of God the Father, with the plans and the decisions of God the Father. Okay I just wanted to address this in short. In another chapter I will go much deeper into this. 2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers (co-laborers of Christ) together with Him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain, (that it is not ineffective, fruitless and for nothing.) We have to come in the right position and position us so that God can make a start to transform us and therefore you have to know that you are in the throne room of God, for you are already there. You do not need some weird and flaky experience by closing your eyes and starting to imagine that you are starting to lift up to the throne room of God. You are using than YOUR OWN imagination 36
and fantasy and this can be very dangerous. I have heard some things about this principle and - I see in the spirit how the Spirit of God is shaking with his head, he is not at all in agreement with this – and the Father shakes his head and asks himself: “Why do they not come into my presence, in this secret room just through FAITH.” For yes, you are already there and you do not know it. And by the mercy and Grace God has given me I am privileged to teach you how you by Gods GRACE AND FAITH can come and break through in Gods presence. This is why the GRACE OF GOD is available for us. She is there so that we can come into His PRESENCE directly to the heart of the Father! 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Do not pull a car with an Ochs and a horse. Or do not pull a car with a mice and a cat. Do not go the same way as the unbeliever. For what partnership does righteousness have with lawlessness? (or how can they have fellowship with each other) And what fellowship does light have with darkness? There is nothing what they have in common and there is no relationship and fellowship between these both. When I turn on the light the darkness has to vanish. 15 And what agreement does Christ have with Belial? (The devil and demons) What kind of agreement or oneness has Christ with demons: with demonic temples, with demonic spirits, with demonic ideas, with the structures of this world, with the plans of this world? Nothing, nothing, totally nothing, there is no agreement or fellowship between these both. There is no relationship or agreement or something like that between Christ and the flesh of this world and the demons. They are actually enemies. Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever? What is there for an agreement, fellowship and relationship with an unbeliever? I have my place in Christ Jesus in the heavenliest and with my spirit I have there a place in the throne room of God, in the presence of God, through faith and not through emotions, yes through faith I am in Gods presence. What for an agreement and bondage have I than with those who are in the world, who can not even come into Gods presence, and who do not have a place in the throne room of God, where my spirit is, where I am; because I am there! I am in two places. But although I am up there I can leave this place and can go to the places and to be with the man and women who are not in this place. This means that I go to there place. But I can stay (permanently) into the throne room of God, the secret place, through FAITH and not through feelings and emotions, for the Word of God teaches me very clearly that I AM ALWAYS IN THE SECRET CHAMBER, that I am always in Gods presence. I am in Christ and lifted up with Him in heavenly places; and therefore I am ALWAYS in His presence. And here comes the big question: Why am I than not experiencing this? Well exactly here at this point we come back to the three steps; for this has all to do with the condition and the position of my soul. My spirit is there, but there is a distance and a gap between that what my soul is experiencing and that what is in the spirit. But these are the things we will learn about, step by step. So let us come back to our scripture again: 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what agreement hath Christ with Belijahl (devil and demons?) Or what part hath he that believeth with an unbeliever? 16 37
And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God, (I, you and we, we are an inhabitation of the living almighty God) Even as God said, "I will!” “I will and I have a zealous passionate desire and longing within me, within my heart and in my soul to live in you.” God has a passionate desire to live and to abode in you with His glory, with His fire, with His passion, with His love, with His joy, with His peace – in you He wants to live and with you He wants to walk. And this on the same way as he walked and talked with Enoch and as God the Father had fellowship with Adam and Eve before the fall of sin. This is a desire and a burning inward fire within the heart of the Father for you. I have a zealous passionate desire and I am longing after it to live and to abode in your temple to walk among you and to live in your temple and to put my attributes within them. "I will" dwell in them and "walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people." Lev. 26:12; Ezek. 37:27 17 (my nation and my Kingdom) therefore Therefore that God the Father has such a zealous passionate desire to abide and to live in us, therefore . . . . Because of this, "come out from among them" Come out of Babylon! Come out of the world, be not one of them. Come out of all these comic, weird thoughts which are in your mind and in your thought live, those who are in your heart. We have spoken about Gideon how he destroyed the altars and how this was an example for the things which have to be destroyed within your own soul. We talked about it that we have to hunt the foxes and that we have to do it TOGETHER with Jesus Christ, our beloved. Well we will go even deeper into this. "and be separated," says the Lord, Separate yourself! You should start with separating yourself just like God has separated your spirit. He took your spirit and separated it to give it a place into Jesus Christ and is now with Jesus separated and being set apart into the heavenly realms. Now it is unto you that you start to separate and to set apart your heart and soul and body unto God. “And do not touch the unclean thing,” We do not talk about the unclean things in your temple; no it says that we should not even touch the unclean things and to all these things belongs also that which is outside – the things of the world. And when we start to obey this and to do this; because the GRACE of God comes and therefore He has given you especially this GRACE; when you start not to touch the unclean things: the unclean thoughts, the unclean motivations and all different kind of unclean things . . . . Than I will receive you, adopt you. (That you may enter into His throne room.) This means that when you believe this that your spiritual eyes are been opened up and that you will start to see where you are – IN GODS PRESENCE. This is what you will start to see when you firstly see, recognizes, understands and comprehends what has to be cleaned up – this is the step 38
where we already have talked about – after that or at the same time you can very quickly come into the presence of the throne room of God. And than says the Father further: And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons" and daughters to Me, says the Lord Almighty. 2 Sam. 7:8, 14; Isa. 43:6 This means that when it is in your heart to separate and to set yourself apart for God the Father and that you want to come out of Babylon and out of the structures of these world and that you do not want to cleave to it anymore; and that you want to detach and separate yourself of unclean thoughts who are in your soul, or where they are; it is than that the Father adopts you and that He starts to educate you, to reform and to transform you after His Image and likeness because He has accepted you as a son and daughter. And this work of educating and transforming where is He doing this? He is doing this in the holeyest of holiest, in Christ Jesus, in the heavenly realms, in the secret place directly in Gods PRESENCE; near and in His throne room. And this place is within me! God’s kingdom is within me; His throne is within me because my spirit is in the heavenly realms and my spirit is also here upon earth. My spirit, who is brought back to live and reborn, is in direct relationship connected with the holeyest of holiest with the place and the position where the Father, the Holy Spirit and the Son of God are. Some of you are able to grasp and to understand this; but not all. But that is ok, for it doesn’t matter in which stage of maturity you are – important is that you position yourself in a position that God the Father can start to reform and to transform the things which are for that moment on the list. For we are under GODS GRACE and it needs time that things will be transformed. But although things are not INSTANTLY changed and transformed, we stay under the MANTEL OF GODS GRACE. So do not stop with positioning yourself and STAY IN GODS PRESENCE as much as possible. Start with staying into Gods presence by FAITH and very soon you will become even more and more conscious of it that YOU ARE THERE in the secret place, directly in the PRESENCE of His almighty transforming power. You ARE THERE! The Word of God speaks it very clearly and without any misunderstanding; YOU ARE IN CHRIST, IN THE FATHER in the heavenliest! That’s your place NOW! 2 Corinthians 7:1 Then having these promises, beloved, which are for us The promises where we so even talked about: that God wants to live in and through you and that He wants to walk with you and that He is willing to accept us and to adopt us as His sons and daughters. That He wants to educate you, to train and to form you, to reform and to transform you more and more after the Image and likeness of the full stature and the manhood maturity of His Son. That we have a good intimate relationship with the Father and that He can give and entrust us from His authority to give us responsibility to be representatives of His Kingdom. These are already many things why the Father is educating and transforming us. Therefore, for all these things has God the Father given HIS GRACE and for this stands His GRACE to our disposal every day. FOR THIS THE GRACE OF GOD HAS COME TO US. So please, do not let the Grace of God work in vain in your live! You can have as much GRACE as you need to achieve, to accomplish and to complete Gods purposes and function for you. There is more than enough GRACE for you that your heart and soul can come to rest. Please! Nobody, not one soul, needs to have and to stay with feelings of condemnation when there is still some form of sin within your live and soul. Take and run into the ARMS OF GRACE OF THE FATHER, for He has abundantly more than enough GRACE into His heart as there is sin upon the whole wide world.
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2 Corinthians 7:1 Then having these promises, beloved, which are for us let us, cleanse ourselves Well, of course we can not and are not able to cleanse ourselves, but with this is meant that you start with separating and setting yourself apart; that you start to stay away from and to come out of; and that you start to position yourself in Gods presence whereby you can call it a form of cleansing yourself from defilements after the flesh and spirit or with other words defilements of the “SOUL.” from all defilements of flesh and of spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (Through setting apart and separating us) Fear God through great reference by worshipping, praising and glorifying Him; and by making my will in my heart to His will; that the will of God the Father comes always on the first place. Meaning: that there is nothing else more important, bigger and stronger in my heart as the will of God and the will of God only. This is the fear of the Lord God practiced and made visible. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-7 Furthermore then brothers, we beg you and we admonish you in the Lord Jesus, that you follow the instructions as you received and have learned from us how you ought to walk and to please God that you abound more in this and that you attain greater perfection. 2 For you know what commands and orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 for this is God's will, that you live in sanctification, (unto purification) (that you belong whole to Him) The reason for this sanctifying our selves is that my SOUL becomes cleansed and purified and thereby transformed so that I anew become the ruler over my soul together with the Spirit of God; and master over my feelings, emotions and over my thought live, yes being the ruler over my soul. Whereby, at the same time I can press into the presence of God. 3 This means that it is Gods will for you that you abstain from fornication, that you should be consecrated, separated and set apart for a pure and holy living and that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice. It is my soul that pulls me down time on time again but it is my spirit who is already in Gods presence. So, I have to come in agreement with my spirit who is under the rulership of the Holy Spirit who brings me in agreement with the perfect will of God and the Holy Spirit and then I can jump just like that into His presence. And suddenly I am there. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 For this is God's will, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication, 4 each one of you to know to possess his vessel (his wife and his own body) in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, even as also the nations do, not knowing God; 6 not to go beyond and to overreach his brother in the matter, because the avenger concerning all these is the Lord, even as we told you before, and solemnly testified. 7 For God did not call us to impurity, but to sanctification. Hebrews 12:13-15 and make straight tracks for your feet," that the lame not be turned aside, but rather healed. Isa. 35:3; Prov. 4:26 14 eagerly and fervently pursue peace and holiness (through sanctification and purification) with all, without which no one will see the Lord, When we do not hunt passionately and zealously after piece and holiness, through the sanctification and purification and the setting apart of our live and soul unto God; through staying away from and leaving and going out from places, circumstances and such things; and when you do not let yourself guide (by the Spirit) into a continually process of sanctifying and purifying of your
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WITHOUT THE MANTEL OF GRACE YOU CAN NOT COME INTO GODS PRESENCE Without that you BELIEVE that the mantel of GRACE is upon and over you’re live through the blood of Jesus; without believing this, you can not enter into Gods presence, for you have to BELIEVE IT! And when you believe this, than you can come without delay into Gods presence! And also if you do not feel it, you are in Gods presence! Every moment and every second of the day you can press into Gods presence. For there is nothing that could hold you back, no demon, no Satan, no might, no power, no nothing what is upon or under the earth to come into and to stay in Gods presence. There is nothing anymore between my spirit and Gods presence, for my spirit is in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus. But the mantel of Grace will only be as effective as that I am willing to go after the purification and the transformation of my soul. This is why it is so very weird, strange and bizarre what is been taught so here and there how to come into Gods presence, into His throne room other as through FAITH. I tackle this thing now, for I have talked with my Father about this and I tare down these strange and bizarre thoughts how to come into Gods presence other as through FAITH. Now that you know how to come into Gods presence you will understand it and recognize how wrong it is. Some teach, that you have to close 41
your eyes and that we than should start to use our imagination and that we are gone make a trip through the first heaven, the 2e heaven and that we will see how angels are guiding us until we are in the throne room of God our Father in heaven. I do not know what it is, but it is not Gods way. This is completely ridiculous and absurd for the Word of God quotes very clearly that my spirit is already in Christ Jesus in the heavenly realms and even in the Father. So I do not need to use my imagination (fantasy – fiction) or something else like that to come into Gods presence. I go into Gods presence THROUGH FAITH, I press into Gods presence through FAITH AND GRACE! The mantel of Grace is upon my live and upon your live through the blood of Jesus over our lives. Therefore is it that the mantel of Grace is upon your live. And I need this mantel of GRACE EVERY DAY! 2 Timothy 2:19 However, the foundation of God stands firm, (Jesus Christ, crucified and risen) having this seal, "The Lord knew those being His;" Num. 16:5, also, Let everyone naming the name of Christ depart from unrighteousness. 20 but in a great house not only are there vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honor and some to dishonor. 21 Then if anyone purifies himself from these, (who are within him) he will be a vessel to honor, having been sanctified and made useful to the Master, having been prepared to every good work. What the Spirit of God for now is saying with this is; that when I cleans myself from the unclean vessels within my soul, the unclean demonic vessels, that I than can be used through the Father for the good work He has in mind for me. So it will be than that I am a useful instrument. I am not only under the GRACE of GOD but I also have positioned myself in a position of His presence where the cleansing purifying transforming work of the Hoy Spirit can be done and where my soul is been made perfect without any spot or wrinkle and transformed after His Image and likeness.
You are now so clean and pure, transformed and restructured, yes grown up to a spiritual maturity that I can start to use you for the honor, the reputation and the glory of my Name and that you may represent my Name in and through the good works I have prepared for you to do. Let everyone naming the name of Christ depart, leave, flee and stay away from unrighteousness. 017 adikia 2Timothy 2:21 Then if anyone purifies himself from these, (who are within him) he will be a vessel to honor, having been sanctified and made useful to the Master, having been prepared to every good work. For which good work are you than useful? You are than useful for the Works which the Father has prepared for you from for the foundations of the world. And to find out what these works are for you, you have to go into the presence of God. I can not tell you this – unless the Father reveals it to me and gives me instructions to give it to you – and you can not tell it yourself. You can do all kind of things but than, are it definitely not the good perfect works which the Father has prepared; than for these you have to go to Him and to HEAR from Him! I end this part with the glorious key verse in the letter to the Corinthians and with the thoughts: Let the Grace of God which is over your live and which is able to be effective not become ineffective and in vain, working in and over you’re live for nothing.
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Please go and position yourself so that you can press into Gods presence that you may be able to be transformed after His Image and likeness. Look again please, very closely to the three steps I laid down before you! Although you maybe would forget everything; do not forget the three steps of positioning yourself for these will make it possible to be transformed. 1e Step is: Surrendering – worshipping – honoring – and bowing down before God. This step is very important! Without this step of SURRENDERING WITH PASSION and giving yourselves completely and whole, you can stop and just forget everything. 2e Step is: Seeing – hearing with open eyes and with an open heart – recognizing and understanding what God shows me (what He wills) is the second step to position your self to become changed and transformed. 3e Step is: That you come in line with Gods perfect will, coming in agreement with Gods will and testifying and proclaiming Gods will; that we start to confess and to testify Gods will and even to proclaim it. Yes that we start to speak Gods will. 2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom from bondage. (He gives freedom to come into His presence which is the potters table.) And that is the holiest of holies – the most secret place – the place and position in Gods glorious presence. It is the only place and position were I truly can be reformed, restructured and can be transformed after the Image and likeness of the Son of God. You are not being transformed in the church and in the church gatherings! Sounds this strange into your ear? Well, you can not be reformed, restructured and transformed in the church when Gods presence is not there. You can only be transformed into Gods presence, the place of His throne. You can not be transformed through many preaching’s and through all kind of teachings. When you can not appropriate into your live, what I teach you, than it will work out nothing. When these teachings bring you to understand how you can position and have to position yourselves to come into Gods presence, in the heavenly realms than they can be a help and a guideline to stay and to abode into the most secret place. But in the church and the gatherings itself you can not be transformed. This is a thought you must quickly forget, for you will only be changed, reformed, restructured and transformed in the heavenly realms which is within you; because you are been made to a temple and your spirit is been brought back to live again and has now his place and abode in Christ Jesus, in the heavenly realms, before the throne of God. And because of that you’re spirit is before the throne room of God and the Holy Spirit close near to Gods throne; therefore you are also in the throne room of God. And this right on, at this moment! You do not feel it, yet you can believe it: Go into the throne room by FAITH, press into Gods presence by FAITH. It is so overwhelming glorious; and were you are totally unimportant. You can be on the toilet, you can be at your work, you can be in church or not be in church; but you are in the most secret place in the presence of the almighty God and it doesn’t matter were you are, you can be transformed to His Image and likeness EVERYWHERE! You are not being transformed because you go to the church. It can help you and it should help you but it is not the place; the place is within you, in your innermost being. 18 But I, with unveiled and uncovered face, I look, watch, see and observe, as looking into a mirror (the word of God) the glory of the Lord, (in His presence) and by doing this (and allowing God to do His work in me) (I am being transformed into the same image (which I see) from glory to glory, worked, build and formed and transformed through and by the work of the Spirit of the Lord. (In agreement with my will) 43
This is it! A special Message from the throne of God: for the body of Christ. This can help you to comprehend, to understand and to grasp how you can very quickly press into Gods presence. Let the Grace of God not work in vain into your live. That we cleave unto God and desire with passion after Him as a lover; that we have a desire for His heart and His live, which He wants to live in and through us; therefore God has given us HIS GRACE. For this we are created and made after His Image and likeness. Than will we shine forth his Glory and will we proclaim and testify to the world His works and this only through or lives which are been transformed to the Image and likeness of His Son. We will go back to address the fear again! But I had to ad this Special Word about Gods Grace so that you are even more stirred up to listen and to press into the presence of Father God Himself.
THERE IS A SOLUTION FOR ALL WHO HAVE FEAR AND ANXIETY It is the Word of God himself which is the solution to all our problems and who hands to us the means and the way to be delivered from all our fears and anxieties. But the Word of God is only as effective as I have trust in the one who speaks it and when we speak and pronounce it. Su just start to read aloud the following bible-scriptures: Certainly, I do know that this is not an instant solution and that it takes time and this because you have to bring all your fears at His feet. How we do this on a most effective way, you will learn in the chapters which are lying ahead of us. 2 Samuel 22:4-7 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; 6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; 7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. 2Chronicles 33:11-16 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with chains, and carried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in affliction, fear and trembling, he besought and cried to the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 And prayed unto him: and he was entreated (found grace in Gods eyes), and God heard his supplication, (pleading) and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew (recognized acknowledged) that the LORD he was God. 14 Now after this he built a wall outside from the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah. 15 And he took away the strange gods and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. 16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thanks offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel. Manasseh did exactly the same thing as Gideon had done. They called to God in their fears and in their suffocations and God came, visited them and changed the situation of their lives. God delivered them out of all their fears, suffocations, and out of the heaviness of their live. Also Manasseh became a leader and a deliver in waging warfare with God and fighting the enemies. But this time it was mainly the inward enemy of idolatry, of worshipping false Gods. We also to have to fight the Inward enemies; so inward and outward enemies have to be battled. Manasseh learned through anxieties, through times of heaviness and fear to scream and to call upon God; and God heard and delivered him; and he stayed delivered because he served God passionately just like 44
Gideon did. He destroyed in his own live firstly all the demonic temples and after that God enabled him to destroy the idols in his house and in his tribe. Psalm 18:6 in my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. Psalm 31:9-18 have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble and in fear: mine eye is consumed with sorrow, with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 10 For my life is exhausted with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength failed because of mine iniquity (sin), and my bones are consumed (dry). 11 I was a (visible) reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me outside fled from me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a bruised and broken vessel (soul). 13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. 14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God. 15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. 16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake. 17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. ”For I am in trouble and in fear: mine eye is consumed with sorrow, with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 10 For my life is exhausted with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength failed because of mine iniquity (sin),” Who doesn't know these feelings? It is as if my stomach, my inner most being turns itself around and my appetite to eat is completely vanished. It is as if a storm of emotional feelings (which you can not describe, nor can you put your finger on it) are raging through your soul reaching up and entangles your heart with fear, coldness, rage fury and despair! These feelings and emotions will spoil our day for a great deal considerably. And we very often and frequently allow just simply that these emotions and feelings are there and let them remain controlling us. We bend under it and will become to be deformed by these emotions/feelings and their rulership. We are controlled by our soul which sees only upon the situation and we react upon it because our soul is the dictator of our actions and passions. But this way it may not be and it does not have to remain like this, that your soul and your flesh is the ruler over your live. I remember a servant of Elisha, Gehazi; he became also very anxious and frightened at the next situation, as we shall read. Elisa reacted however in the same situation entirely different as Gehazi. The servant had fear, but Elisa was full faith and trusts upon God that He would protect him. The soul of the Servant controlled him, but Elisa made use of the authority which God had given him. 2Kings 6:8-23 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp. 9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down. 10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice. 11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel? 12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber. 13 And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan. 14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and 45
they came by night, and surrounded the city about. 15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host surrounded the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? Elisa saw directly that Gehazi was struck by fear and anxiety. And therefore he spoke: 16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that are with them. 17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; to see how the situation really was and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. 18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. 19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria. 20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see how the situation really is. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw how the situation really was; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria. Therefore run, flee and seek protection in the shadow of the almighty God and your fear shall melt away like snow before the sun. Psalm 63:7,8 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings (In your presence) will I rejoice. 8 My soul Cleves onto thee: thy right hand upholds me. Solomon 2:4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. 5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. His banner over you is his divine love, and this love drives out of your heart all forms of fear. Or do you think that when Jesus has such a great love for you, and embraces you so dearly, kissing and hugging you with his grace and his breath of live, that there will be any thought of fear and anxiety? And it is He that loves your soul so very much that He was wiling to give his own live for it! 1John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. Amplified and Magnified. In the Love 007 Agape there is no fear or anxiety, these both do not go together; the perfect love drives out the fear, throws, pushes and catapults 021 ballo it out of my heart. For fear bears 022 echo suffering, pain in itself. Who still has fear is not yet matured to the perfect 023 teleioo fullness of the maturity of the divine love 007 Agape. Is that not interesting? That fear and anxiety has (echo) and carries pain, hurt and suffering in itself, it brings and creates pain, hurt and suffering from itself. It has the pain in itself; one time more and the other time something less, but it carries pain, hurt and suffering in itself. It is even so that fear and anxiety are inseparably linked together. Okay, we return back to or first topic. Passion! I believe however that we have now a very good impression of what divine passion can do for our soul and how it is a medicine to all forms of fear. We know now that the divine love from God is saturated with passion, zeal, fire and love passion or passion of the heart.
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PASSION ZEAL AND DESIRE, VERSUS BEING LUKEWARM OR BEING HALFHEARTED I have consulted the dictionary to see what she says about lukewarm. And I found a lot of things, but the most important one was “the absence of passion.” But all the other things I will list them down here. Also the synonyms explain a lot. And it is really a powerful list. I will start with a statement what Luke warmness is:
Slowness and being unable to act (being unable and taking no decisions) – neglect – passivity – indifferent or lack of showing interest – laziness – dreaming – (not living in the reality) – being lax, sloppy - being rude – emotionless (emptiness and absence of emotions) carelessness. Being lukewarm is a Character: for you do not lukewarm, you are lukewarm and it is something you can be. And when you are lukewarm it is a part of your personality and Character. Okay, on the next page I have written down a list which describes the Character of a Lukewarm Person or describing it with other words, a halfhearted person! So do not have the fear to look at your selves in the mirror of how God is describing a lukewarm Christian. I myself have to do this also, so that I can see what God wants to change in my live.
LUKEWARM CHARACTER / HALF HEARTED CHRISTIAN IS ABSENCE OF FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS; SHOWING LITTLE OR NO INTEREST, HAVING NO ENTHUSIASM. HE OR SHE IS UNENTHUSIASTIC, WITHOUT FIRE ZEAL AND PASSION. Lax: lazy, laziness – on of the dead sins. No activity, lack of discipline, weakness, no desire. Indifferent: unwillingly, lack of giving importance to, being neutral, unengaged, inactive, not moving, lack of partiality, selfish, thoughtless, no caring for, irresponsible. Unmannerly: impolite, unfriendly, rude, not gentle, careless, inattentive, unconcerned, foolish immature. Weak: intemperance, excess, no control, not being in command, feeble, forceless, without power, no strength, lack of will, no determination, no willpower, no strength of character, death. Uncommitted: not willing, not ready, not prepared, not coming in agreement, and not able to be bound or attached to relationships. Passive: lack of energy, lack of will, being resistless, not having the will or the energy to resist or to fight and to battle against, death. Slow: idle, ineffective, vain, futile, unproductive, barren, fruitless, non effective, INACTIVE, death. No fighting: depressive, no joy, dreaming, sleeping, daydreaming, - not living in the reality – trying to escape, hiding, fleeing, listening to lies, believing lies, death. And many more of this kind of characters who all finely lead us to some form of death; Physical, spiritual or a death from the Soul. In the following chapters we will go much deeper into this and you shall see that this topic or subject of Luke warmness will be weaved as a red line through everything which the Holy Spirit 47
urged me to write down. In all what comes it will be visible. The Bible scriptures which I will present to you now, after this will have now a very much more intensive power of depth and speech as before you read the list and the amplification of the Character of a lukewarm Christian. It will definitely have more depth now and we will be more able and competent to see and to hear what the Spirit of God speaks to the church and to us personally. Revelation 3:15,16 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot, nor boiling, fervent: 024 Zestos I would thou wert cold or hot. 024 Zestos 16 So then because thou art lukewarm 025 chliaros, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Acts 18:25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent (speaking with fire zeal and enthusiasm) 026 Zeo in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. Zeo has the meaning of: that what boiling hot is, it is rages, sparkles; love, zeal for what is good or bad. You see very clearly the word family with 024 Zestos. Romans 12:10,11 Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; 11 Not slothful in business; but fervent 026 Zeo in spirit; serving the Lord; Amplified: be not slow, lazy and lax; but be enthusiastic, spirited, full zeal passion and enthusiasm; serving so the Lord. Ephesians 5:18,19 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord 1 Thessalonicens 5:19 Quench 027 Sbennumi not the Spirit.
PASSION ZEAL AND ENTHUSIASM IS WHAT WE ALL HAVE! There is so much what we can do with passion, what we can do with great enthusiasm and with full surrender of our heart. And we do it! But mostly we are not even conscious over it that we daily do live out our passions. But is it good and live giving what we all do so passionate? What does the word of God say in a letter written by Paul: 1 Corinthians 6:12 All things are allowed; permissible to me, (all forms of passion) but not all things profit (are helpful good, profitable for me to do, when considered with other things) 32 Sumphero. All things are allowed; permissible to me, but I will not be ruled by any. I will not become the slave of anything of them or be brought under its power or rulership. Amplified 1Corinthians 10:23 Translated out of the German HVA: You say that all things are allowed? This may be true, but not all is good and profitable for you. Yes, everything is allowed, but I will and shall not be controlled and mastered by anything. You live to the rule “everything is allowed! My answer upon this is: But not all what is permitted is also good. Everything is allowed but not everything builds up.
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I made a little list to help you to think over the things which we all can do with zeal and passion. But the list is surely not complete, so maybe you can make your own list and complete it for yourself. This will help you to make you more conscious about the things you do with passion and zeal. Playing football
Working
Quarreling
Car driving
Visiting Cinema
Watching TV
Fighting
Discussing
Kissing
To fondle
sex
Teaching
Listening
Speaking
Helping
Serving
To Love
Hating
and many more!
In all these things feelings and emotions are involved. Some more and some less, but some emotions of our soul are always involved. It is simply so that, God has created humanity with the capability to express with his actions his feelings and emotions, yes God has given us a soul. Now I want to ask you the next question; where do we have invested our hearts in, or where is our heart in? Before you answer now this question I can tell you that were your emotions and feelings react upon, that there also our heart is and that this it is what we have given a place in our heart. So where do our emotions jump up? What is the roadway they take? By whom or by what kind of thing are our emotions addressed or by what are they jumping up and by what are they ignited; where are my emotions and feelings reacting upon? Do we like to football with passion? Or are we passionate lovers who are going for it to be touched and to be fondled without seizing? Or are we somebody who always full enthusiasm takes everything in his possession and who passionate pulls everything to himself; men and souls as well as the possessions and the properties from others? Than we also have a passionate stealing; but just as well you can tell with zeal and passion undue jokes. And with passion and zeal there is then not very much good which is coming out of or mouth. We are and become what we speak. God’s word is very clearly about that. There is nothing more important than the control of our tongue and of that what we speak. We can also hate with passion: Our neighbors, our own spouse, a television program, the sin in our lives, the lie, and so on. Perhaps you have noticed it already that we concerning our feelings and emotions are going into another direction. Hate can be positive and negative! All of our emotions and feelings can be positive our negative. For we have emotions which God also has and knows. All the emotions which we have, God has them also. But the source and the initial point the origin of Gods emotions and feelings are ALWAYS HIS DIVINE LOVE! We may and must learn how to express and to communicate our emotions just like Jesus and the Father would do it; Love and care with passion, yes even our enemies. Hating with fire and zeal the sin in our own lives; regretting with passion, Lamenting, weeping, repenting and turning around from wrong decisions. Fighting and battling with passion and zeal against sin in our lives and against the demons and the whole army of the devil. Praying with enthusiasm, speaking with God (the Holy Spirit and Jesus) and then it can not be else as that we are been ignited and are burning like the thorn Busch of Moses. And suddenly we will see that the fire from God within us is burning and you will not be able to quench it anymore and this fire will not devour nor consume us.
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ALL OUR EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS ARE WITHOUT EXCEPTION USEFUL FOR GOD AND APPLICABLE God can use all our emotions and He wants that we learn to apply them and put them into action to fully express what we love our hate. This is what we should love with GREAT PASSION! Deuteronomy 6:5 and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal ribbon upon your arm; for love is strong fierce, vehement as the death, jealousy, passion of the heart and soul passion 001 qin'ah' is as hard, strong and mighty as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire and glowing 002 resheph coals, 003 'esh, a most vehement flame, a fire of God. 7 Many waters cannot quench this love (of God), neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for this love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly scorned. This is what we should fight against with hate! We are allowed from God to do this and that with great passion and enthusiasm. Hebrew 12:1 Therefore then, seeing that we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the truth], let us also like them strip off and throw aside every hindrance (let us demolish, destroy, tear down, tear of from us, throw out of our way each unnecessary ballast and weight, each burden and each obstacle) and the sin which reaches us always so easily and surrounds us so quickly, the sin which hasty and fast, masterly, deftly and cleverly deceives us and cleaves to us on a very subtle way making us slow; therefore let us run with patience and a constant perseverance and with an active passionate will in the fight and the battle who lays in front of us. Let us fight the fight which God commanded us and the appointed pursuit, and the battle that is set before us. All our emotions and feelings are applicable and relevant to present the Image and likeness of the Father to a lost world; but firstly to our spouses and our children. But when our feelings and emotions are not conducted guided, lead and controlled by the divine nature (Galatians 5:22) and through the Holy Spirit and the word of God himself; than it will always be a mere emotion of the soul and than it will be only a fleshly earthly nature which we will have. And than it will always be our emotions (soul) that control us and give direction to our lives: positive our negative. This means that when I have to feel joy: that the circumstances in my live have to be good, to have joy. David had this problem also! But he learned the secret of taking control over his soul through speaking to his soul. He said something like: “My Soul it doesn’t matter how you feel, BUT I WILL (This as a key) that you praise God and worship Him; I do not know why you bend and bow down so deeply within me, but God is at my side and therefore I will always praise and worship Him, for He is my power and my strength. As you see I have “but I will” underlined; and in chapter two I will go much deeper into this. For it is an important and major key how you can release the passion of your heart. You can now already think it over, for it is important, decisive, vital and crucial for whole of your live.
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Psalm 42:5 Oh my soul, my inner self, why are you cast down and moan and bend down within me? Hope and trust in God, for I shall yet thank Him for the salvation of His presence. Trust upon Him means: waiting upon God, expecting him, putting your hope and trust upon Him, to covet for him. Psalm 23:3 He restores and quickens my soul; He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. 33:20 Our soul keeps on waiting for God; He is our help and shield. 21 For our heart rejoices in Him, because we trust in His holy name. 22 Let Your mercy be upon us, O God, even as we trust in You. 35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him? 41:4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. Also David recognized that the only help for his sick soul is God himself. David knows that his sick soul is bad and asks and pleads to God with passion and surrendering that he makes his soul whole, he screams for the restoration of his soul. You can state without any doubt that he asks God to clean, to purify and to sanctify his soul, yes that his soul is separated to be set apart unto God; which we also need very desperately. For yes, our spirit has come to live whereby the Spirit of God can make now his inhabitation in us, but our soul is still in need of deliverance and needs to be saved, to be cleansed and to be purified. The word of God warns us that without going for sanctification and purification, our soul shall not see the Lord. Hebrew 12:14 Eagerly pursue holiness and peace with all, without which no one will see the Lord, 15 watching diligently that not any one lack from the GRACE of God, (see that you get enough from it – for God has it for us in great abundance) so that not . . . Ephesians 5:26 that He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of the water in the Word, 27 that He might present her to Himself as a glorious bride, not having any spot or wrinkle, or any such things, but that she might be holy and without blemish or fault. 2Corinthians 7:1 Then having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse us from all defilements of flesh (body and soul) and of spirit (let us be cleansed and be purified through our beloved Jesus who is the heavenly Word himself and is more than able to do above what we can fantasize or imagine) and pursue the purifying, so perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Amplified Hebrews 9:14 How much more will the blood of Christ (who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God), purify your conscience from dead works for the serving of the living God! Magnified: How much more than shall the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ (Who through the virtue of His eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God), (to make our inner men new again – our soul) purify you and forgive you from your sin, (which will finely lead to death) and free your conscience from dead works to make you free to serve the living God!
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For it is and it stands as it stands, that zeal and passion for the greatest majority takes place within and through our soul, and therefore will the divine passion only break way in and through our lives when the soul is under the rulership of our spirit (which is brought back to live again) who stands under the rulership of the Holy Spirit. Therefore it is so that in our lives it depends on who has the rulership or the sovereignty over our live; our soul or the brought back to live again spirit who is standing under the rulership and authority of the Holy Spirit. He who has the rulership determinates the character and the nature of our zeal and our passion which we have. For we all have passion; only how do I appropriate and how do I give expression to my passions! 1 Corinthians 6:12 All things are allowed; permissible to me (every form of passion out of the heart and soul), but not all things profit 028 Sum-phero (are helpful good, profitable for me to do, when considered with other things). All things are allowed; permissible to me, but I will not be ruled by anything. I will not become the slave of anything of them or be brought under its power or rulership. Magnified
HARMFULLY DESTRUCTIVE EMOTIONS! Harmfully, not constructive life giving, destructive emotions and feelings are at the beginning (of our Christian live) very certainly still a part of our nature, and we can not talk them out, nor can we speak them away or do as if they are not there. Very often we take this one Bible scripture – which I will quote in a minute - that says that everything is been made new. But this means that a new fundament has been laid and that a completely new start has come. 2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore from now on we know no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, from now on we know him not any more after the flesh. 17 Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things perish and are passing away; behold all things have recently made of a new kind. While we are going through all the teachings you will see and recognize that this is more than true. Some things are been made new, but not or soul! This is a process of saving. What should we do than with all these fears, with my anger, my envy, my hate and bitterness? Do we kill and bring to silence all our feelings and emotions on such a way that these emotions seem not to be there? How comes it that we think that God is a God without great emotions? For a Christian who lives without passion, zeal and fire presents such an image from God to the world. And it is very obvious that we think like that, for to us - generally - are those most spiritual, who CONTROL SELF their emotions, by denying them, by burying them and oppressing them, keeping them down and reducing them. What your soul has so carefully buried and hidden in the deepest parts of your inner men has to be brought to the service. You, yourself has to recognize what it is, where upon you have to give your yes. Without your yes, your authorization and your permission, God can not and will not start to make your soul whole. He can show you what the problem is, and where you have hidden and buried it, but it is unto you yourself to say: “Okay, God come into . . . ; and than you describe where you have found were the foxes are. It is for God necessary that He hears you’re “YES” and that He gets the PERMISSION and the authorization from you to do HIS WORK. Something further on the road I will go much deeper into this Kingdom principle so that you can perfectly recognize and understand why this is necessary so that thereby you know how perfectly to corporate with Gods perfect will for your live. 52
Most of the time we burry and hide our fears into the deepest parts of our inner men; And that especially with deep emotional pains, and wounds of the soul. Most of the time we do not understand that all these negative emotions have their origin in fears which produce hurt and pain and that there is only one way to get rid of these pains and to be healed of it. The first thing is that we have to encounter the pains and the hurts anew; with other words, we have to face the negative destructive emotions to let God come into these fears which produce these pain and hurts. The only way is that we have to face again together with our God the pain and the hurts; we have to go through it again. We have to see and face it into the eyes and by personally speaking and communicating with God about these fears and pains, handing it over to Him; we can be healed of all these destroying emotions. And for a lot of other reasons there is no other way! Father God is already waiting impatiently that we ask Him, allow him and authorize Him, to come into our soul to heal us from the tormenting fears and pains from the past and the now. We must however recognize those different types of fears, pains and hurts, which have made our soul sick and who are the cause of our false passions and wrong zeal’s. That can be martial arts, the television, the computer or your work, your own woman or husband, your children or your car; yes even your mind and intellect can be a slave of wrong passionate thinking (dead works) whereby you are using it full of zeal and passion to bring forth death into your live; And so many other kind and forms of passions: Demonic altars and idols which we adore and protect. And if you believe it or not, but it are demonic temples and altars who are been protected. Woe o woe, when we lay hand on these wrong passions and zeal’s. Think at what happened with Gideon and Elijah and Paul! So what are you gone do now? Are you opening up your heart now and let Him come into your soul? Do you start to talk with God about it and give him the right to let him touch everything? When your answer upon these questions are yes; than Jesus, the Father and the Holy Sprit can come and start to begin to touch and lay a hand on al these things which you hand Him over into His hands to be touched and to be made whole again. This is not always simple and it goes not without pain. We must however go through it if we want to have a healthy and after the Son like image soul. But have no fear and be of good courage to go into this battle, for the Spirit of God has been sent from the throne of God to assist you into this fight, to empower you and to strengthen you so that you can go through it. And I know were I am speaking about: You do not need to hunt the foxes alone! Why does God not heal our soul just like that? Why is He not healing our sick soul just like that? One word of God is enough, or is it not? The first answer why He is not doing this just like that: is because God is not a burglar, or a housebreaker. He does not break into your soul; no, He nocks at the door of your heart and you yourself have to open up the door. Just like in the Song of Solomon, she had locked the door; and He that loved her soul so dearly could not come in without that she opened up the door. He calls, and calls and calls. But she keeps on sleeping, restlessly from within and a little bit moved, but she does not wake up, so that she could open up the door for him. It is not possible for Him to come in because she has locked and secured the door from the inside. Doubt, fear and unbelief secures and locks always the door of your heart to Him who loves your soul so very dearly. And then he is doing a last attempt and tries to unlock the door from within, through the whole of the door. But it is not possible for him and His efforts are without success. And then he goes and he hides himself. You yourself must decide if you let Jesus come within and if he may touch these fears pains and hurts to make your soul whole. And He will say time on time again: Here I am, and then it is completely unto you to say yes, or no! It is your decision. It could even be so that you say: yes, and that nevertheless you do not
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Tied through the selfishness of this world, Bowed down like a slave through burdens I have imposed myself. Nothing changes, as just being more tied, tangled and distorted. My soul tied, winds itself in pain, which I have imposed myself. His hand on me after a long time; I see and recognize the way out, A light breaks through in my darkness. Grace brings to live what is dry and death. Remorse, repentance, my soul shredded. But his grace keeps me standing in my lonesomeness. Can not change myself; But I grasp his grace in his light. This light functions as a mirror and shows me, everything totally distorted. Beneath is above, and above is beneath: And beneath to his feat I have now laid myself down. The best place where I can be. Here He comes into my soul. Hurtful, yes very much! He untangles the ties, takes lovingly burdens away; Burdens I have imposed myself. He comes with power and passion within me and I say not no; At the same time everything is been wiped clean. 56
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OUR WILL VERSUS GODS WILL From this moment on we are leaving the trail of passion to have a look at that what God says in relation and in association or in connection to “Will and willing.” But we shall see very quickly that we actually didn’t leave the trail of passion and zeal although it looks like that; for you have need of a strong Biblical will – which is in agreement with Gods will – when you want to love all that with passion what God loves and that what He accepts and allows that were you may be passionate for. The first thing is, I must have a will to love my God passionately en my next one (my wife, husband and children). Marcus 12:29 and Jesus answered him, the first of all the commandments is: "Hear, o´ Israel. YAHWEH is our God, YAHWEH is ONE, 30 and you shall love YAHWEH your God with all your heart, and with all your soul" and with your entire mind, "and with all your strength." This is the first commandment. Deut. 6:4, 5 31 and the second is (similar) like this, "You shall love your neighbor (the one who is directly living with you) as yourself. There is not another commandment greater than these. Lev. 19:18 32 This is what we have to will; and when we do not have that will, than we have a big problem. Before we go deeper into this we will have a look at the structure which speaks about will and willing. And this means we gone look for some Bible-scriptures who speak about will and willing. Revelation 22:17 and the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And the one hearing let him say; Come! And the one thirsting, let him come; and the one desiring with a strong will, let him take of the water of life freely. Philippians 2:13 for it is God who is working in you both to will and to work for the sake of His good pleasure. Matthew 6:10 Let Your kingdom come; let Your will be done, as it is in Heaven, also on the earth. 18:14 So it is not the will of your Father in Heaven that one of these little ones should perish. 26:42 Again, going away a second time, He prayed, saying, My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me without My drinking it, let Your will be done; (than I am prepared to do your will.) Luke 11:2 and He said to them: When you pray, say, Our Father who is in Heaven, hallowed be Your name, let Your kingdom come, let Your will be done on earth as it also been done in Heaven. John 6:39, 40 And this is the will of the Father sending Me, that of all that He has given Me, I shall not lose any of it, but shall raise it up in the last day. 40 And this is the will of the One sending Me, that everyone seeing the Son and believing into Him should have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day. Acts 21:14 And he (Paul) not being persuaded, we were silent, saying: The will of the Lord be done.
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Ephesians 5:17 For this reason, do not be foolish, stubborn and unwilling, but understand what the will of the Lord is, but understand what God wills from you. Magnified Let me explain you what it means when God says; I want you to understand; It means that: God wants, desires and longs with great passion and zeal for it, that you understand, know, recognize, perceive, and comprehend, (that you can grasp) what His will is for you. That you are aware and conscious of Gods will and that you identify yourself with Gods will the good, pleasant and perfect will. So be not Stubborn: A knows it all, Immovable, inflexible, unwilling, unenthusiastic, difficult and unbending. Without understanding, determined, in wrong. 1Thessalonians 4:3 For this is God's will 029 thelema, your sanctification 030 hagiasmo, for you to abstain ap'echomai from fornication 031 porneia, 4 and that each one of you knows to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, even as also the nations do, not knowing God; ap'echomai; AV-abstain; withdraw, refrain, give up. Stay away from. (Strong’s Concordance) 1Thessalonians 5:18 In everything (not for everything) give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you. 1Peter 2:15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God wills it, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. Matthew 16:24,25 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me and follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life (SOUL) shall lose and destroy it: and whosoever will lose destroys and kills his life (SOUL) for my sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose, destroy, his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 20:25-27 But having called them to Him, Jesus said, You know that the rulers of the nations exercise lordship over them, and the great ones exercise authority over them. 26 But it will not be so among you. But whoever desires and wills to become great among you, let him be your servant. 27 And whoever desires (is wiling with a strong will) to be first among you; let him be your servant; One thing is in anyway so sure as Gods Throne who will stand in all eternity, that when God had not willed anything; that He would not have created and formed the earth; Than he would not have created the animals and mankind would also not have been there. But God willed, longed and had a strong passionate desire to create form and to model human mankind; a creation made formed and modeled after His Image and likeness; one of His own kind. That God has a will and comes thereby in to in active doing is very obvious, but why is God willing as He wills?
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WHY WILLS GOD; AND WHY AM I WILLING? To understand how important our will is, we have to ask ourselves these questions! The Question is now: why is God willing and or why do I will? God the father desired and longed for it to create humanity, to form and to model Adam and Eve because He wanted to give an expression to that what was in His heart: His ETERNAL LOVE! Humanity should be an expression and a reflection of God Himself, of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and they should live in a close relationship with the Father. This is why the Father said: “Let US – Father Son and Holy Spirit – make men, let us form shape, build and model them after our IMAGE and resembling us.” This is what was in the beginning; a wish and an idea in the heart of the Father and this is why He, the Father, is the origin of ALL FATHERHOOD. Before that there is a will for something, there is always a cause, a reason or with other words: an idea and this is why there is a will and why I will! So why am I willing? What is the cause for me willing something? When you can not clearly answer this question for everything you want and what you are willing, than there is something that lives you and than you are being lived and you do not live yourself. Sounds this very spooky and strange in your ear? Well, this explains why Paul in one of his Letters to the Romans denotes something like: “What I actually will and desire is not what I do, but that what I am not willing is what I do.” So, something else or somebody else is willing for me stronger as I will. So our will must be very important! Can we have a strong will? Can we have a weak will and what is it that makes our will strong and indestructible? With Paul we are thus in good companionship when we have the same problem and find in our selves that we are not able to do always the good thing what we actually are willing to do. Paul had the same problem as you and me, but he knew also the solution for this problem. Romans 7:19-25 For the good thing I desire, is not what I do. But the evil I do not desire, that is what I do. 20 But if I do what I do not desire, it is no longer I who is doing it, but the law of the sin dwelling in me. 21 I find then this law within me, that when I desire to do the right thing, that evil is present and going along side with me. 22 For I have a delight in the law (word and will) of God according to my inward man; 23 but I still see another law in my members (the sensitive appetites and will of the flesh) which wars against the law of my mind, (of that what I understand and speak) and it takes me captive and holds me as a prisoner by the law of sin which is ruling in my members (the sensitive appetites and will of the flesh). 24 O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. Amplified and blown up. The German translation “Hoffnung für allen” expresses it even stronger. “I will time on time again do the good, and still I do the bad thing; I hate and detest the evil, but still I do it. When I thus time on time again do that what I do not want at all, than it is very obvious: that I am not ruling over myself, but the sin within me, which seduces me time on time again to al kind of evil actions. Every time I go through the same experience: I want to do the good thing, but still I am doing the evil thing. There is no greater desire within me as to fulfill Gods will (law). But I still act to a law other than as the one who lives within me. This law battles against that what I with my inner men have recognized as good, and it makes a prisoner of me. It is the law off sin, which dictates and rules that what I do or not do. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me out of 61
this slavery that leads to death? Thanks to God that I am already delivered and freed of it through Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2:3 Among whom we all also before times belonged to and acted and lived after the passions and lusts 032 epithumia of our flesh 033 Sarx, doing the wil of the flesh fulfilling the desires (strong will) of the flesh and of the mind 034 dia-noia, (not knowing, not recognizing, perceive, and comprehending the will of God), and were by nature the children of wrath, (compelled to Gods wrath) even as the rest. Magnified The German translation “Hofnung für allen” Also we . . . , as we stubborn and selfish lived, determining our own live; we gave our selves and surrendered our selves to false passions en seductions of sin. Is it possible that with us it is actually the same? That we do not do what we want (WILLING) and we do not succeed in doing the good thing which we actually long and desire (STRONG WILL) for to do. Or is it even so that we do not want anything? (NO WILL); or do we only want evil and bad things? What do you want? What are you WILLING? Can my WILL grow and become stronger? Or should my will become lesser and smaller? Okay, I have something for you to think about; take your time and listen very carefully to that what the Spirit speaks! Sharpen the ears of your heart and listen!
I love my wife very dearly, I want (I AM WILLING) to make her happy and to see her pleased. For this I am prepared and willing to do or not to do everything. But, am I doing this now for my selves, or for her? Am I willing that what she wills, because I love her so dearly, or am I willing what I will laying my will upon her? Do I actually ask for that what she WILLS, what she desires and longs for; am I interested for that what she wills? Am I alive or death? Do I really want to love her who loves me so dearly? Do I ask for what she wills, what makes her angry, what annoys her and offends her? Do I ask for that what she dislikes and what she hates? When yes, then I do also ask her for that what she likes, what pleases her, what she loves and what makes her passion glow: I ask for her WILL in all circumstances off live and I strive for it to adjust my will to her will so that we both are willing the same thing, so that we can live in peace and harmony together. Am I willing this so, so; or do I have a strong WILL and do I appropriate my will to achieve, to attain, to realize and to accomplish this harmony for both of us together, or do I use my strong will for my own live, for ME; for my passions! And after that it will maybe be her turn?
DO I HAVE TO WILL ANYTHING? How would my live be when I do not want anything, I do not want to make any decision; or is there actually something I want? I live just like so . . . . From one day in the other. Every day again and again; on one or on the other way live will go on. When this is (just for a part) a structure in your live - as it was in my live - then you can be very sure of it that the will of somebody else as you, will decide for you! This can be your husband or your wife, but even your children. This can be some church leaders; but very sure is, that it will be firstly Satan himself and his demons. For he has a strong will to will for you; and this strong will for you is to go after you to kill, rob, to steal
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and to rape you on every way you can not imagine! He wants to steal everything from you and also that what you have now! So the question is: WHAT DO YOU WANT, WHAT IS YOUR WILL? Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good. For to will the right thing is present and within me, but to do the good I do not find. HVA I know very well that within me dwells no good, therefore I will never be able to do (out of my self) the good thing, regardless my efforts. Everything what God has for us will ONLY BE RECEIVED by FAITH, so that no flesh will be able to show off; but your will is decisive, vital, crucial, fundamental and determent for your live; because it gives and dictates the directions you go in your live. It predefines future situations. Let me give you some examples whereby the will determined live and situations. Mark 6:25 And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I desire (which is the expression of a Strong will) that at once you give to me the head of John the Baptist on a platter. Matthew 26:15 said, What will you give to me, and I will deliver Him up to you? 39-42 And going forward a little, He fell on His face, praying, and saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will. 40 And He came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And He said to Peter, So! Were you not able to watch one hour with Me? 41 Watch and pray, that you do not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 42 Again, going away a second time, He prayed, saying, My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me without My drinking it, (I am willing to do your will) let Your will be done. Luke 15:17,18 But coming to himself he said, How many servants of my father have plenty of loaves, and I am perishing with famine. Rising up, I will go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I sinned against Heaven and before you, 19 and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants. John 3:8 The Spirit breathes where He desires (strongly wills), and you hear His voice; but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes; so is everyone who has received birth from the Spirit. Romans 9:16 For He said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will pity whomever I will pity." Ex. 33:19 16 So, then, it is not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of the One showing mercy, of God. HVA decisive is thus not, how much somebody does and works but that God gives him GRACE! It is one of both: Grace or my own works? I stopped with doing my own works and have thrown myself COMPLETELY upon the GRACE of God. Am I now not responsible anymore, for it is God who wills and when He not wants what then? Well, yes for sure am I responsible! I am responsible for the Grace I did receive and that I work rightly together with Gods GRACE that Gods Grace does not work in vain in my live. I have to appropriate the grace of God rightly and I should take care for it, or have to go for it that I become COMPLETELY FREE of the rulership of the flesh. Let us therefore keep on going forwards in Gods Grace; so that we can see and recognize what our share is what we can do; enabled with the power God gives us to do His will. For even the doing of His will is been granted to us by His Grace!
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James 3:4 Behold, the ships also, being so great, and being driven by violent winds, they are directed by a very small rudder, where ever the impulse of the one steering desires and wills to go. 5 Even so the tongue is a small member but it has great influence, control and rulership. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. HVA And even great ships that can only be moved forwards through strong winds are been governed steered and controlled by the pilot where ever he wills! Here in James 3 we find a Bible passage which shows us very clearly where my responsibility is. The Word of God positioned us with these words in a position of being self responsible for that what we create in our lives with our words and WILL! The situations of my live will break way through the decisions of my own will. And I rule and control, bring movement in the ship of my live through the words which I speak chosen with my WILL. I activate my WILL through speaking it and this is wherefore I have chosen! My words are the expression of my will and although I am willing it consciously, mindful or unconsciously and unaware, it is ALLWAYS the expression of my will. It is the will of the nature of sin or these of Gods will! But with my words I testify, bear witness, give evidence and confirm “WHAT I WILL, AND WHEREFORE I HAVE CHOSEN WITH MY OWN WILL. The daughter of the wife of Herod desired with a STRONG WILL the head of John the Baptist! This was not her own will, but it became her will through the statement of her words which were in agreement with the words of her Mother. The Mother willed for her! And her mothers will become her will. Her will was been expressed and judged by the words she spoke. We get that what we speak! Let it be for live or for death. Jude expressed also his WILL! His will gave way to the substance and essence of his live. Can you see how important, significant, vital, essential and fundamental your will is and how decisive, directive and ruling it is for the substance of your own live and your soul; and that this especially determines where you will spend eternity? Can you understand now why Gods Word tells us; “let your yes be yes, and your no be no! Everything unlike that is not of God.”
WHEN YOU’RE WILL IS NOT IN LINE WITH GODS WILL, THAN YOU ARE IN BIG PROBLEMS! When you are not WILLING to receive Gods Grace, than God can not help you! But He wants to help you and you desperately are in need . . . of His help. Let me ask you some questions? Is that what God wills for me good or not? Is it not the very best and the most excellent thing He is WILLING for us? The whole Word of God is designed, intended and determined to be a guide to let us know HIS WILL, that what God wants, what he desires with a passionate zealous fire of his will and why God is WILLING as He WILLS. Actually and sure enough He truly only is WILLING the VERY BEST for us. To show us and to perform this will, He has given us therefore the most precious and the most excellent best He has; and he did that so that He could give us “His creation” EVERYTHING whereby we would be made more than able to come back in an intimate relationship to our heavenly Father and creator. He is more than willing to deliver us and to set us free from the things which destroy our lives. He is doing it and He has done it. Did He do it for him self, out of a selfish
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reason? No, He did it for us! His divine love compelled Him and He was WILLING to give himself away and to even die for us! Are we not prisoners of or sinful live? Yes we are, just like Paul says are we prisoners and slaves of the sinful WILL of the flesh or with other words the soul. Our own soul (without the rulership of the Holy Spirit) tares us down to give the rulership to the flesh. But our will has his inhabitation in our renewed, brought back to live spirit and fights and battles against the rulership of our flesh (soul). But in this battle our will does not need to battle alone, for the Holy Spirit has come into our spirit to live together with me; and before I go deeper into this let me tell you the following thing: Passion, passion of the heart or love-passion gives power and strength and enables us that we are fixed, concentrated and targeted upon that what I will. When I start to will what God wills (doesn’t Mather how weak this will is) because I love Him; for He has proven His love for me so evidently and clearly and because He is doing this every day; than He will work in me that I will accomplish the doing of His will. He will enable us that we can do as He likes, when our WILL is in agreement with His will: for God is ALWAYS WILLING and He wills always the most excellent very best for us. But He can not give us His very best just like this. This is why He is very often in a position of waiting. He waits upon us that we understand, know, recognize, perceive, and comprehend, what His will is for you and that our will comes in line and in agreement with His will. And actually there are then no boarders or limitations anymore to that what God can do for us. Important is however that I do not start to work it out myself – Abraham did that also – but that I give Gods Word and the Holy Spirit room and space to work it out into my live. And here it is how we do that: Through my faith and trust or with other words through an active faith I start to speak what God has spoken, I speak that what Gods word says. And in so doing this that I speak what Gods word is speaking I come into an agreement with Gods will and because I speak where I have faith for, Gods Word will make a start to change my live in the areas where I have received faith for. And when there is not yet faith (absence of doubt) for that what you have recognized as Gods will for you, than keep on pronouncing Gods Word and will; And this on such a way that you hear yourself and that you understand and comprehend what you are speaking. FAITH IS ON THE WAY! Because, through the hearing of Gods Word, and pronouncing it your self, FAITH IS BEEN WROUGHT. This is a spiritual law of Gods Kingdom. It is the divinity and the glory of Gods Word, who produces this fruit. It is not or works; it is a WORK of GRACE from God. On this way your soul shall be renewed and be made whole; when you continually surrender yourself to His Word, to His thoughts and to his will by speaking and pronouncing it. What than happens is that you start to release the control over your soul and the Word and will off God starts to rule over your soul. But firstly you come into emotional feelings of dieing from your inner man and this in many different ways. After a while you do not react any more upon the appetites and the demands of the rulership of your soul, you let it go and you come into an emotional state of feelings to loose your soul. You start to speak to your lying soul the will of God and slowly but surely the rulership of God is taking over the control over your soul. One of the things in this process is that you start to hunt and to tare down your own soul, yes even to kill it. Give me some time to explain it – in a short moment you will understand it. Don’t go away – keep on having faith and do not let your mind take control over your faith. Let faith take control over your mind. You die in and through the Word that you have faith for and after a while you shall experience within your soul the working effective resurrection power of God, to bring your soul into full live. And this is the moment that you experience that He is truly the shepherd of your soul. But before that this happens there are times of giving up to hold fast to your soul and to try to save it for 65
yourself. We will read some Bible scriptures about that and every time that you read in your Bible “LIVE” it is in the root text “PSUCHE” or SOUL. After that we have been through these Bible scriptures I will even go deeper into the Kingdom principle of “LOOSING” your soul, for the WILL of Jesus, which is also the WILL of the Father. Matthew 10:38,39 And whoever does not take up his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39 The one finding his SOUL 035 psuche shall lose it; He shall destroy it, bring it to an end and ruin it, bring it to death 36 ap-ollumi. And the one losing, destroying, ruining and putting to death 36 ap-ollumi his SOUL 035 psuche for my sake shall find it. Matthew 16:24-26 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny, forget, lose sight of his own interest 037 apar'neomai, himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will (try of his self) to save sozo his life shall lose it, He shall destroy it, bring it to an end and ruin it, bring it to death 36 ap-ollumi: and whosoever will lose, will destroy, ruining and puts to death his SOUL 035 psuche for my sake (for the sake of me) shall find it. 26 For what is a man his profit, if he shall gain the whole world, and still lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Luke 17:33 Whoever seeks to save sozo his SOUL 035 psuche, he will lose it 36 ap-ollumi. And whoever will lose 36 ap-ollumi it, he will preserve it. Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, he has to deny himself, to forget and to lose sight of his own interest and he has to take up his cross daily, and follow me. 24 For whosoever will save his SOUL 035 psuche shall lose, 36 ap-ollumi it: but whosoever will lose 36 ap-ollumi his SOUL for my sake, the same shall save it. 25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose 36 ap-ollumi himself, or be cast away? John 12:25,26 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat that falls into the earth dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25 The one who loves his SOUL 035 psuche loses 36 ap-ollumi it, and the one who hates his SOUL 035 psuche in this world will keep sozo it to everlasting life. 26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will also be. And if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him. The senses of our physical temple exercise their rulership every day, and they give our soul every day tasks and messages! But how and what kind of assignments and messages receives our soul from the senses we have? What do I see every day with my eyes? Where upon are they focused and upon what are they focused? Do I look TV and let it just come over me without filtering it? There comes to it; what do you hear? And if I will or not, I give my SOUL messages and assignments; for that what I hear and see has a controlling influence and an impact upon my soul. And if I like it or not; it will have a ruling influence upon my soul, yes upon my live. Do I hear daily worldly music? And if I believe it or not, or like it or not, the music and the texts will make that my soul will be structured, formed and modeled after that what I hear and see. It will model and form me even than when I am a Christian; and even more when I am still a fleshly soulish Christian. Even when you have not understood and you can not comprehend the texts: after a while they will still have their destructive influence and impact. Think at the ships and the little ruder which is our tongue! Do I look every day to violence? It will form and brand me. The end result will be that the soul, which is formed and structured and being marked by that what it knows; begins to express itself by that what it knows. The soul will express itself through our body, by means of words, or shouts (which it knows), through screams, through battle and fighting,
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The soul has learned nothing else as that what it knows and therefore it will never be able to express itself in a different manner as that what it knows. Our soul controls our live! On some kind of way it will always become and be visible what is in our soul. It will be visible with what I have equipped the habitation and the environment off my soul. It will be seen what has been widely spread within my soul. It will be visible how and by what we admitted to be formed and to be structured. What is in our heart will evidently come out of it. The unclean thoughts: the wrong passions and wrong fantasies; the passions of our flesh and of our soul which is also counted as to be flesh. Everything wherefore we have passion will become visible and will be seen. To visualize this rulership of the soul I have created a scheme. The following scheme that you will see, pictures the influence which the soul exercises upon our live every day. In this scheme it is the soul which has the rulership and the control through the senses of my body. That what is able to exercise the greatest influence has the rulership and controls the kingdom of my soul. And that marcs, signifies and denotes the character and the nature of my passion, of my zeal and of my spiritedness; it signifies that what we desire and what we covet; that what I strongly will!
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SATAN HAS A DESIRE AND AN APPETITE AFTER YOUR FLESHLY PASSIONS AND ZEAL Our zeal’s and passions belong to God who has created us, to Him only and not to Satan should or passion be focused. God has created us so that we are able to love Him with passion fire and zeal. This makes Satan green for envy and jealous. And also for this reason is he on the move with his whole demonic army to make that your passion and zeal will be inflamed in the area of your flesh and your soul. He will do everything so that your passion and your zeal and fire will not anymore be aimed and focused upon the one that loves your soul so dearly; his will is that our passion and zeal is been focused upon him and upon our selves, our flesh and our soul and upon all our self-centered actions. For he knows very well, that it brings us in a twirl which tares us down to eternal death. And when our focus is upon one of these two: upon him or ourselves, than is it for him very easy to enslave us, to rape and to kill us. On this way we are been incorporated to his army of slaves, to fulfill the will of Satan. The end goal is the destruction of “WHOLE” humanity! The demons have their functionality from out of the level and the stage of the soul. They receive an inhabitation, which we build for them in our soul, with our passions. On this way we open up the doors for the inhabitation in our soul for the housebreakers. They live and remain in our sinful emotions, our zeal’s and our passions; in our sick bad soul and our destroyed emotions who are broken down into pieces. From this stage they are ruling to manipulate and to control us more and more into the direction of futility, perishing and death. They steel, rape and murder our lives, our souls, our wives, our children, our houses, our cities, our lands and our nations. Only God can together with us stop this death train. It is our sinning (things we do AGAINST GODS WILL) which gives demons the right and what enables them to live us and to control and to rule over our lives. Our will is been manipulated, oppressed, suppressed and restrained; and this on such a way that we think that we do not have an own will anymore. But because of that our will is also in the realm and the abiding place of our spirit the demons will never be able to destroy it. NEVER! Our will is been suppressed and oppressed more and more and is been manipulated; this will take some time, we do not recognize this immediately and very often it takes years of a slowly decline before we start to recognize it. Satan is very surely one of the greatest imposters, manipulators and magicians there are. He lies that well that you think it is the truth. He can manipulate you and make that you take decisions and you think that is was you who have made the decision; but in reality it was Satan and is his helpers who manipulated you to bring you to that decision. Ephesians 2:1-3 and He worked in you who were once dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you then walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler Archon (Satan) of the authority (the enablement they have) of the air, the spirit (demons) now working in the sons of disobedience, Among whom we all also before times belonged to and acted and lived after the passions and lusts 032 epithumia of our flesh 033 Sarx, doing the will 029 'thelema of the flesh 033 sarx fulfilling the desires (strong will) of the flesh and of the mind 034 dia-noia, (not knowing, not recognizing, perceiving, and comprehending the will of God), and were by nature children of wrath, (compelled to Gods wrath) even as the rest. Magnified The German translation “Hoffnung für Allen” Freely Translated: And although that you were death through your sins and trespasses and the missing of the goal he has brought you to live with Christ. You walked into this and like this in times before in dependency and in obedience tied to the time spirit (mode, fashion, style and trends of the ages) of this world, 68
tied to the spiritual powers and might’s who exercise their rulership in the air and who are still effective in those (Christians) who are disobedient and do not want to obey God. Among whom we also before times belonged to and we were just like them controlled and ruled by our own lusts and wrong passions through the will of the flesh. We lived out or own wrong passions and our own ideas and were just like them children of rage and wrath and bestiality; and because of this we stood rightly under the heavy reproaches and afflictions of God. Didn’t Paul say something like? Romans 7:19-23 For the good thing I desire, is not what I do. But the evil I do not desire, that is what I do. 20 But if I do what I do not desire, it is no longer I who is doing it, but the law of the sin dwelling in me. 21 I find then this law within me, that when I desire to do the right thing, that evil is present and going along side with me. 22 For I have an delight in the law (word and will) of God according to my inward man; 23 but I still see another law in my members (the sensitive appetites and will of the flesh) which wars against the law of my mind, (of that what I understand and speak) and it takes me captive and holds me as a prisoner by the law of sin which is ruling in my members (the sensitive appetites and will of the flesh). The German translation “Hoffnung für Allen” expresses it even stronger. I will and long for time on time again to do the good, and still I do the bad thing; I hate and detest the evil, bit still I do it. When I thus time on time again do that what I do not want at all, than it is very obvious: that I am not ruling over myself, but the sin within me, which seduces me time on time again to al kind of evil actions. Every time I go through the same experience: I want to do the good thing, but still I am doing the evil thing. There is no greater desire within me as to fulfill Gods will (law). But I still act to a law other than as the one who lives within me. This law battles against that what I with my inner men have recognized as good, and it makes a prisoner of me. It is the law off sin, which dictates and rules that what I do or not do. Magnified It is our Sin who creates an inhabitation for demonic powers. We are building with our sin a temple for the demons. Now, behind the act of my Sinn, stands very often a passion, a lust, a desire and some form of enthusiasm; but ALWAYS OUR WILL, manipulated or not. We are so or so been manipulated through our own “SENSES.” For they decide what we have to think and what we have to feel, they decide over that what we want (our will). And when I let them and react upon this, than it will make me his prisoner. Romans 6:12-19 12 So let the sin not rule in your mortal body, to obey it in its lusts. (The wrong passions and zeals) 13 Neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness 017 adi'kia. to sin, but present yourselves to God as one living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to serve God. 14 For your sin shall (and can) not rule over you anymore, for you are not under the law, but under the grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under the grace? Never ever! 16 For do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, that you are slaves to whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or obedience (to Christ) to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that you were slaves of sin, but you obeyed from the heart the form of doctrine (guidelines) to which you were delivered. 18 And having been set free from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness. 19 I speak as a man on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness and to lawless act unto lawless act, (Satan and his demons) so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto sanctification.
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THE RULERSHIP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, FOR HE BRINGS EVERYTHING BACK TO LIVE But it is just like Paul said: “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me out of this slavery that leads to death? Thanks to God that I am already delivered and freed of it through Jesus Christ. Demons can and will depress and oppress our will very surely, but they can not destroy it; they can weaken it, but they can not completely paralyze it. Why not? Well, because we have Gods Holy spirit who has made his inhabitation within our brought back to live spirit – who is in direct contact and attached to our will. And this on such a way, that our will has a place in our soul and in our spirit. It is our will who can be DIRECTLY ATTACHED (can be friends of) to Gods Holy Spirit within us. Our WILL is the door which opens up our heart and our soul for Gods WILL! (HIS KINGDOM)
Our will is the door which lets in (what I will) or shuts out what I do not want to come in; as well the negative powers who are having every day their impact upon your soul – the housebreakers – as also the healing miracle working power of Gods Holy Spirit who wants to reveal Gods Kingdom to you, in you and through you! Philippians 2:13 for it is God who is working it in you (He is making it able) both to will and to work and to accomplish the deeds, doing it, (and this after the might and the power of His almighty GRACE! for the sake of His good pleasure. Magnified. And when I will – and it is unimportant how weak this will is – than I am able to make a decision; Let it be only the will to WILL, to have a strong WILL which is after Gods will. God will make it possible and He will make us able by His good almighty GRACE! And the stronger I will, the more there comes up within me a flaming fire of a passion and a zeal which is AIMED AND FOCUSSED UPON GODS WILL; Upon His love and upon His heart. And suddenly we ARE in HIS DIRECT PRECENSE. Passion and zeal is thus a STRONG EXPRESSION WHAT I DESIRE AND WHAT I WILL, EXPRESSED THROUGH MY EMOTIONS! For the will is an emotion too; this is why it has also a place within my soul. And because of that my feelings and emotions are strongly involved by the expressions of my will, will my feelings and emotions be used to be able to express the different kind of passions; my lusts, my enthusiasm, my spiritedness and all my passions, false or good. And also our physical temple is involved in the expression of the passion of our WILL! Passion and fire is equally STRONG WILL! Here you see a scheme and a picture of the soul ruled and controlled by the Spirit of God.
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A definition of passion could be: That what comes into existence when I love something strongly, give it a central, important place within my heart and where emotions and feelings are strongly attached to; and that what I will, with the measure how much I desire it, how much I covet it and want to poses it and want to be a part of it or want to make it to a part of my heart. I can recognize passion everywhere in my live where my heart and soul “reacts” upon; Positive or negative, destructive or live giving. The strength, the power and the force of my will determines the measure and the amount of my passion, zeal, spiritedness, enthusiasm and FIRE! God has created us on such a way that we express with our body our emotions. With this we can make visible what our soul wants to express; this can be positive or negative, live giving or destructive; but we express what is alive in our soul; and therefore it is so that the languish of our body is the languish of our soul and what she is speaking. When our physical temple is but not only controlled and ruled through our soul, and stands under the firm rulership of the Holy Spirit, controlling and mastering our soul; than it is possible that our temple becomes the expression of that what the Spirit wants to say. God is than not just speaking through words but also through the nature, through my silence and through every expression and attitude of my temple can He speak. Well, just think about this: When God can use a donkey to speak to a prophet and the trees in the field and everything He has created; much more can He do it through us, the crown of His creation. We, who are by HIS GRACE formed, modeled and created after HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS. In another Chapter we will go deeper into this. God commands us not just for fun and without any good profitable reason: Deuteronomy 6:5 and you shall love the LORD your God with ALL your heart (PASSIONATELY) and with ALL your soul, (your whole soul live) mind, intellect, emotions, will and with ALL your might, (with all our strength, energy and ability – your physical temple) 71
ALL IS ALL; it is nothing less as 100%. Everything what we have and what we are should be activated and be used and can be used and be activated to express our love to our God. This is what Gods desire is from us, He is longing for it. This means that when we do something for God or want to give Him something that we should better do and give it with passion, zeal and fire. When we live for God and with God, how can we not live passionately and with a spirited zeal and fire through our live? Of course, I know that this can be very uncomfortable and prickly for those who are not living in passion for God, with zeal and fire for their love one. But should we therefore stop to live a passionate live, giving our selves with ALL our hearts (PASSIONATELY) and with ALL our souls, (your whole soul live) with whole our minds, our intellect, with our emotions, with our will and with ALL our might, -with all our strength, energy and ability’s – through our physical temple? I know that it is not always easy for those with who I am living with to live with me. That’s very obvious and clear. But do I live firstly for God or do I live firstly for those I am living with? Do I want to please my God or do I want to be a people pleaser. Do I want to listen to humans or to the Holy Spirit, who prompts me time on time again to express my love with passion, fire and zeal to Him that loves my soul so dearly with a never ending Love.
I WAITED FOR YOU EVERY DAY! We can now say “without a shadow of a doubt” that with ALL your heart is with passion, fire, zeal and enthusiasm; because than we give everything what we have and what we are with a strong WILL. And that than is been given what is able for us to give at that moment that we give ourselves to God. God does not desire something that you can not give! Everything that you can give in the moment of passionate surrendering is in the eyes of our heavenly Father equally to 100 percent or ALL, a whole burnt sacrifice. And do you want to know why this is so? Well let me explain you this! This is so because in the moment of complete passionate surrendering it is your heart and you’re WILL, which is COMPLETELY standing behind it; it is your strong passionate decision and it is your choice and this is an expression of your will to give God everything for what you are able to give at the moment of surrendering. Because somebody is audible louder and because he is able to be more transparent, this does not mean that he has more passion for God. It should be so, but this is not the obvious thing to recognize a passionate man or women of God; because we can all shout and be loud without the right passion. Somebody can love it to show himself like that, but this is a thing we DO NOT NOW! For we can not see and discern what is in the heart of men; this is something that only God knows and only He can discern and see the deepest intensions of your heart. God sees the hidden things of your heart; your will and your motivations, and He knows to value them rightly. And therefore can less in our eyes be much more for God. So let me encourage you with these words: When you hear from others that your surrendering to God is not enough, not big enough, that they something say like: “You have to love God more and surrender yourself more to God” And you know that you lay down everything open to Him; Well more as giving and surrendering DAILY your whole heart and SOUL to God you can not do. The Spirit of God asks you now, the following question? Did God ever say to you? You shall love the LORD your God with ALL or whole your HEALTHY, GOOD FORMED AND MODELED heart and with ALL or whole your HEALTHY, GOOD FORMED AND MODELED soul, and with ALL your might, HEALTHY, GOOD FORMED AND MODELED PHYSICAL TEMPLE!
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No, He never has spoken something like that and there is no place into the Word of God where such a thing is been written down; not on earth and not in the heavenly realms is something like that been spoken or written down. But still we do handle and manage our lives as if God would have said something like: that we only can give Him ALL when we have a healthy, good formed and modeled heart, soul and temple! This is a LIE! And even believing this a little bit, will make that we restrain our selves to come in a BELIEVING – RECEIVING position to RECEIVE ALL that what the Father has for us; but most of the time we only go to God, and take time for Him when our lives are not so heavy. But even than we will not surrender whole of our heart and soul with passion and zeal to Him; although within this there is a great secret hidden how to be transformed to His Image and likeness. It is no one else more as God himself who desires that you come with your hurt, deformed heart/soul and temple to Him and that you worship him in this condition and that you love Him with ALL what you can give at that moment. And He will encounter and meet you and start to heal and to transform your heart/soul and your physical temple. And from this moment on your love and passion will start to grow and to increase when you come before His presence. You shall start to experience how much God – who is your heavenly Father – loves you passionately, regardless and despite the condition you are in; and how He embraces you as dirty and muddy and filthy as you are and takes you in His loving arms and says to you: I HAVE GRACE AND MERCY FOR YOU IN MY HEART MORE THAN ABUNDANTLY AND GREATLY ABOVE THAT THERE IS SINN IN YOUR LIVE; BECAUSE I LOVE YOU UNCONDITIONALLY – I WAITED FOR YOU EVERY DAY THAT YOU COME INTO MY PRESENCE. PLEASE ALLOW ME TO LOVE YOU? PLEASE RECEIVE MY LOVE AND GIFT OF GRACE? And then when you are coming, worshipping in His presence – broken or not – He will start to change and to transform you. And yes, our soul is rejoicing in the worshipping, for this is wherefore our soul is been created. But although or soul is rejoicing in His presence there is no one more as our Father who has the greatest joy and pleasure when we are coming worshipping before His presence. This is not because He likes and has pleasure to be honored – although he has, no this is because we are then in a position where He can GIVE US GENEROUSLY EVERYTHING HE WANTS TO GIVE US – LIVE AND QUALITY OF DIVINE LIVE ABUNDANTLY TILL IN ALL ETERNITY. Don’t you think that the “UNSELFISH” God has a specific goal that we should worship him? God wants that we worship and honor Him; so that He can change and transform us to His Image and likeness. Easier can it not be: through Faith and Surrendering to God with a passionate heart; not by works, but by faith! And this makes it possible for ALL to be transformed to His Image and likeness, to the Image and likeness of His Son, the first off a new creation of human beings. Is it not the most open moments of my heart and soul when I lift up my face to God to worship and express my love in my worship? Am I not changed after his Image and likeness through seeing His Glory; through being in His presence? Am I not changed as looking into a mirror after His Image and likeness, reflecting His Glory, His characters and all His qualities? But it is even more as just reflecting His Character and beautiful glory; it is becoming ONE with Him. He in me and I in Him. Well, healthy, whole and formed after His Image will my heart and soul ONLY IN HIS PRESENCE! So we should always worship God, with all I have, regardless how I feel and regardless how sick my heart and soul still is; when I do this, than I will see and it will become visible how God starts to work in my live and how He starts to touch everything what I lay down at his feet and what I lay into his hands. Gods will for us is that it go’s well with us, just as it go’s well with my heart and soul. 73
2Corinthians 3:18 But we all with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord (the Word of God) in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord Spirit. HVA - A German translation. But we all are standing with an uncovered face before God, mirror and reflect His glory! The lord Jesus changes us through His Holy Spirit so that we become more and more like Him and more and more become a partaker of His glory as this is been worked through the mighty working power of the Holy Spirit. Amplified and magnified This is the ultimate goal of the Father with us: That we start to reflect his glory and radiant His presence and that we become partakers of His glory. At the start of this book I shared a vision and I promised to share some more details with you. Well here it is: At the end of my vision or heavenly impression, I have seen Christians –
In the midst of this bright lightning or light giving cloud there are the saints, the holy ones, those who are separated; and al around them and scattered everywhere, little flames of fire. That are those who are been pulled up into Gods presence! From out of this position they are been commissioned and send with an assignment and they went in the ministry of the Father! And I have seen how they were covered with the glory of God. They went with the Glory of God upon and in them in the assignment God gave them; and they went to and fro so going over the whole earth to fulfill GODS PERFECT WILL. And you, when you let yourself prepare now for this day, than you will also be with it, that you may bring the Glory of God to a lost world; and to do the work which the Father has prepared for you from for the laying of the foundations of this world, so being an partaker of Gods work and His glory. The lord Jesus changes 039 meta-morphoo us through His Holy Spirit so that we become more and more like Him and more and more become a partaker of His glory as this is been worked through the mighty working power of the Holy Spirit. Amplified and magnified Romans 12:2 And be not conformed 041 suschema'tizo to this age, but be transformed 039 metamorphoo by the renewing 040 ana'kainosis, of your mind 107 nous, in order to prove by you what is the 1good and 2pleasing and 3perfect will 029 'thelema of God. In a later Chapter we will talk more about this and than we will go much deeper into this Bible scripture. To end this Chapter over the will: I share with you a word directly out of the throne of God, out of the heart of the Father and the Son.
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A Wo r d o f t h e Fa t h e r a n d t h e S o n The Father says: When you are willing as I will And when you in you’re weakness of the flesh and spirit seek earnestly and relentlessly after my will; Than surely I will come to strengthen you And to give you from My power and strength, So that you like upon wings of an eagle can come to me. And I will show you around in My Kingdom and that what is mines will be yours: Yes, my will is that you inherit everything what is from me: My strength and Power, my glory, my nature, My personality: My Kingdom. For this reason my Son did give his live, So that you can be with Me and that you shall be with me. Jesus says For my will is that you are also there where I am; in the Throne of my Father. So do not stop with touching our hearts. I will come with everything for all. And lay down everything before me, so that I can touch it. For my will is, to make everything new: Your thoughts, your speaking, your faith, your families, and your love, just everything. When you do not pull yourself back, than I will also not pull myself back For I love you with my Eternal love.
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DIVINE LOVE PASSION AND ZEAL HAS AN OPEN AND TRANSPARENT HEART It is the most precious thing what we have, our heart! Out of our heart springs up and come’s forth our live, our wishes, motivations, our passions and desires and in our heart grows and develops our personality. When we open up our heart than is everything what makes me me, visible and nothing is uncovered or hidden. This open transparent defenceless surrendering attitude is a very vulnerable position, and this asks for a great trust and faith that we will not be wounded again when we are that transparent. And than I do ask myself, where do I find such a place where I am able to open up my heart and to put myself in such a vulnerable position? Yes a position that I am even able to sacrifice myself for the one we love so dearly! The natural - not the divine love - is not able to do this; only the divine love which comes from God is able to sacrifice itself on such a way that it brings forth live. When you are on such a way open and transparent than you are actually shedding you’re live and soul as a sacrifice to and for the ones you love and with whom you are living with. You must reckon with it that you will always be rejected and not be understood, but it is the only way to bring forth live in the heart of the one you are living with. YOU HAVE TO DIE! YOUR SOUL HAS TO BE A SACRIFICE FIRST FOR GOD AND THEN FOR THE ONE YOU ARE LIVING FOR; YOUR WIFE AND CHILDREN. Much more is to say about this, but not now and not here, not in this Book. For this daily ATTITUDE, we need to have the DIVINE LOVE PASSION. And we know where this love has its origin and from where it starts to flow. It starts to flow from out of the heart of the Father, coming out of the throne from God, flowing into our hearts through the inhabitation of the Holy Spirit within us. He is bringing it with him and has the assignment to make us a PARTAKER of this DIVINE LOVE! “Ask and you shall be given, for all those who believe; and this without measure in all abundance! Romans 5:5 And the hope does not put us to shame, because the love AGAPE of God has been poured out in great abundance in our hearts, through the Holy Spirit given to us; Ephesians 3:16 That he would grant you (GIVING GRACE AND MERCY), according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened, to grow and to increase in strength with might, power and enablement’s by his Spirit in the inner man of your SOUL; 17 that Christ may dwell and always be present in your hearts (spirit and soul) by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love AGAPE, 18 May be able to comprehend, to understand and to grasp with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; (of the Love of Christ) 19 And to know the love of Christ, which is far more higher as all knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness (ALL) of God. (Father Son and Holy Spirit) 2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 77
2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory (HIS GRACE AND LOVE) of God in the face and the expression of Jesus Christ his live. Magnified This divine love is more than able to open up his heart and even to sacrifice his live for the one who he or she loves so very much. And no man has a greater love as the one that gives his SOULlive and sacrifices it for his wife: children, neighbours and for the enemies. It will always be so that divine love passion has the courage, the valour and the boldness to place itself in a position of vulnerability; and that it will always make his heart transparent, regardless if this love is been replied and answered or not; she gives and surrenders always full of passion and love. I found some Bible scriptures in the New Testament who express and show forth on an excellent way this transparent passionate surrendering of the heart. And I want to share them with you as an example of the divine love and the transparency of heart. Luke 7:37,38 And, behold, at a sudden time a woman, which was a sinner, who lived in the city entered the house in the city, of which she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, laying at the table of the Pharisee and in her hand she brought with her an alabaster jar with an very expensive ointment, 38 This women went to the table where Jesus was and kneels down behind His feet, and wept so intensively that His feet became wet of her tears, and than she began to wash his feet with her tears, (which were like warm rain) after that she started to dry His feet with the hear of her head, and in doing so she did not stop to kiss His feet passionately, where after she anointed His feet with the expensive ointment. (Freely expressed and magnified) A woman full of sin, from who the people said of her, that she was a prostitute comes to Jesus and in the line of or text it will become very clear that she was a prostitute. It was not just an ordinary woman; no it was a woman with a soul who was not ones but hundreds of times been abused and raped. For many, many years was her soul been tortured and tormented, wounded and hurt through all the man of the city, despised and made to an object of the lust of animalistic passions. For this women, were all man the same – animals who wanted nothing else as to covet and to satisfy there lust – but Jesus was totally different. At the moment that she met Him He looked her into the eyes and what she saw were eyes which looked at here and expressed a deep respect and a great value. She could not look away; He had eyes, which she had never seen by any man. His eyes were full of love, pure and clean and it touched her soul. For many years she did not allow that any man could touch her soul. Nobody was able to touch her soul; this is what she took care of. O yes, they could touch her body and even posses it for a certain time, but no one could touch her soul. Than this is what she had learned, that at times when she opened up her heart and soul that this would make that her heart and soul would be wounded time on time again. But He, who was a man, has touched her soul on such a way, which she had never experienced in whole her live. A love so tender, so gentle, so perfectly – without any form of lust and covetousness – a love who wanted to give her everything. She could not understand how this could happen, how was He able to touch her soul? After the first moment that she had met Him it did not let her rest anymore. And from that day on she was there where Jesus was, she was always around Him. And what she did see was a “LOVE” so holy and perfectly as only a love who could come from God. He gave away without expecting anything in return. He spoke also about his enemy’s and that He was greatly moved and concerned about the condition of their soul and that He loved them. And than He also spoke about it that He had come to take away the sin of man: that He is the lam who dies for the world to bring men back to the heart of the Father. This all and a lot of other words and things He had done; did 78
not let her rest anymore; and so she came to believe in Jesus Christ without that others could have noticed it. Than on a certain day she took a decision; she would go to Him to speak with Him and . . . . Give Him something? What could she give a man of God, no the Son of God. She would give herself and everything she had! And so she took al her saved money and bought of this money the “most expensive ointment” she could find, the price of what a working man could earn in one year. Only the best was good enough for Him, who loved her SOUL so dearly. His love was 10.000 times better and more different as from all the man she new. And on that day she found herself in front of the door of the Pharisee where Jesus should be. Would they open up the door for her? Would they let her in? “I have a gift, so she thought – a very expensive and a precious gift – this is what I will show them and than surely they will let me in.” The spirit of God was working very hard, that this woman would break through her own natural limitations, and she did, she surpassed borders and limitations through her passion and surrendering of her heart which a normal woman would never ever have trespassed. Fore a woman had nothing to seek in a congregation of man. There comes to it that she is a prostitute and as such she is knocking at the front door of a Pharisee, an important man with great influence in this city? Well, a greater contrast you couldn’t have. Normally they would hunt her away. But she went to the house of the Pharisee and knocked at his door and they opened the door for her. She became an audience to the King of kings and to the lovers of lovers. After that they let her in, she could not hold it back anymore, everything came up and she had to express her love for the one that loved her SOUL so intensely. We do not know what this woman has done to get in, but one thing is for sure; they would never ever have let her in, not now, not here, in this meeting of man. But than: a voice! “Master, there is a woman at the door and she wants to see you? But we know her; she is a well known prostitute in this city! Shall we send her away, (But I think that they wanted to hunt her away, although they said send) so that she will not disturb us anymore? But the answer of Jesus is devastating for them, and He answers: “I know her, its Mary, let her come to me.” They opened up the door and let her in! And so this woman came into a meeting of man, where the law would never ever have given her permission to! And we would also not! And with her she had this alabaster jar with in it the most expensive ointment you could buy on the market. At that time such a jar was on such a way sealed and closed that you have to break the neck of the jar or break the seal where it was sealed with, to be able to pour out the perfumed ointment and to let it flow. Alone the value of an alabaster jar was already so expensive that only kings and high royalties could have been in the possession of such a jar, filled with an even more expensive ointment. Which I already said, you have to work a whole year to be able to pay the price of the ointment which was in the alabaster jar.
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immediately. She starts to cry with a heart full of passion, expressed through the emotions of her tears. At the same time she is laying her hands around the feet of Jesus and full passion and surrendering she starts to kiss His feet, while she is still weeping, expressing the deep passionate emotions of her heart. And now it is becoming very intimate - and very personally – with a gentle gesture she loosens up her long hair, and it falls down upon the feet of Jesus; She takes her hair – given from God to the women as a beauty, as a glory, a splendour and honour – and she starts to dry His feet (which are filthy and dirty from the dust of the street) with her beautifully long hair. And so she makes her own beautiful hair dirty and filthy; but the feet of Jesus become clean and dry. What a passionate, humiliating humble surrendering attitude; how vulnerable, harmful and helpless is she positioning herself by showing on this way how much she loves Him and how thankful she is. Thankful for what? Or do you not think that she has her heart completely opened up, transparent? And this in a world ruled and controlled through man? What I see, is that she completely has put her trust in the love and the protection from Jesus, that He would be her shelter and save refuge. And we where upon do we trust? “And still kissing His feet,” she takes the jar in her hands and breaks the neck of the jar to release the perfumed oil. It flows and streams over her hands dripping over the feet from Jesus while she starts to massage His feet with the perfumed oil. And it is a miracle that the Pharisees do not jump up full of anger and envy to stop what is going on here – but Jesus doesn’t stop her, nor does He interrupt her in that what she is doing; for He is the ONLY ONE who has seen her heart. The jar BREAKS and the whole room instantly is been filled with the delicious, beautiful smell and fragrance of this most expensive ointment. And a royal kingly fragrance is been spread through the whole house and even the passengers who walk along the house where they are in, smell the sweetness of the fragrance of the oil who is been poured out over Jesus his feet.” So it is how it should be with our soul: only when she breaks, when she loses itself, her will in Him, when she completely and in full surrender lays itself down at the feet of Jesus, than will the perfume of the royal kingly character of Jesus be spread and recognized and this for all who are in the direct area and even over a great distance do we spread than the fragrance of Jesus our love one. And so we spread and proclaim the smell and the fragrance of our lover Jesus. Only on this way will His character become visible in us and through us; At His feet, in His presence! We read on in Luke 7:39-50. 39 But the Pharisee who had Jesus invited, seeing this with great eyes, he spoke within himself as his thoughts were: This man, if he really were a prophet, than he would have known what kind of woman this is who touches him; for we know all that she is well-known as a sinner and a prostitute in this city. (Jesus interrupts his thoughts) 40 and answering, (the thoughts of the Pharisee), Jesus said to the man, Simon, I have a thing to say to you. And Simon answered saying, Teacher, say it. 41 There were two debtors to a certain creditor: the one owed five hundred denary and the other fifty. 42 but they not having a thing to pay, he freely forgave both. Then which of them do you say will love him the most? 43 And answering, Simon said, I suppose the one to whom he freely forgave the most. And He said to him, you are right Simon, You have judged rightly.
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What now happens is so important, that I strongly have to address it to bring it to the light. At the moment that Jesus started to speak with Simon, for a short moment Peter and the other men in the room thought that Jesus his attention was turned away from Mary and that they got again His attention. But it is not at all like that. Jesus gave Simon Peter a question (actually addressed to all) and when they would answer the question rightly, the same answer would judge the attitude of their hearts. Do not forget that Jesus is always able to look in our heart. It was a question that would bring to the light what this woman did and this would even judge the hearts of the men. O how much wisdom is here hidden in this one question? Wisdom like; “Simon did I not forgive your sin? How much do you love me? Can I take the guilt away from those who are guilty with me? When I have forgiven you why do you not allow me to forgive others their sin? Who loves more Simon, you or this woman? Believe me, Peter did understand this question very well and the answer that he gave brought into the light the intensions of his own heart and even of the men who were in the room. And after that Simon answered the question rightly Jesus turns itself away from Simon and the other man – leaving them alone with their own thoughts; giving His attention and love to Mary who loves His soul on a way which the men in the room can not understand, nor comprehend. 44 (Jesus turning his attention away from Simon and the other man) and turning to the woman, He said to Simon, Do you see this woman? (And Jesus is still looking into the eyes of the woman) I came into your house. You did not give water for My feet, (to clean my feet from the dirt from the street) But she washed My feet with her tears and wiped off (the dirt of the street) with the hairs of her head. 45 You gave Me no kiss, but she from when I entered in did not stop fervently (with passion and zeal) kissing My feet. 46 You did not anoint My head with oil, but she anointed My feet with (this precious) ointment. 47 For this reason I say to you, her many sins and great debt are forgiven, for she loved much (therefore she expressed so much love). But to who little is forgiven, he loves little. (Again, but now directly to the woman) 48 He said to her, your sins are forgiven. Now it’s done, Jesus has taken a stand beside the prostitute, defends her and has let himself in with her live; and than he even says to her that her sins are forgiven?! 49 And those reclining with Him, the other guests began to say within themselves, who is this, what for a human is He, that He can forgive sins? 50 but Jesus said to the woman, your faith has helped you and saved you. Go in peace. What we see here is a woman who “BELIEVED” that Jesus could forgive her sin. And we know from that what Jesus said that by faith she already had received the forgiveness of her sin even before she personally met Him. This was the reason why she expressed so much love by washing His feet with her tears and drying and cleaning them with her hair. Everything she did was an expression of her FAITH. It is as the word of God tells us: “faith without works of expression is death.” Well, most of the time we understand in this that if we do not (self) change or lives and do the right things that or faith is dead. But with this is meant that when I BELIEVE – HAVE FAITH as Gods Word is teaching it us, that HE WORKS THE WORKS WITHIN US! For never will we be justified through or own deeds and works. That this woman believed was a WORK from GOD and the Holy Spirit! Because she had heard Gods Word with an open heart and started to believe even 81
before she had the courage to seek Jesus for an intimate encountering. Her passion, her surrendering and her will, gave expression to her faith. God gave her to will and enabled her to do. Here it was very clearly an active faith; and I believe for as far that I am able to see and to recognize it, that passion, love passion, spiritedness and enthusiasm almost always brings forth and produces an active faith. The agape love from God is ALWAYS passionate, spirited, and full of fire and zeal, FULL OF FAITH! The agape love from God has the passion and zeal of the heart in itself; she is a devouring fire to all unrighteousness, she is the surrendering and sacrificing love itself, for her nature is selfless. She seeks to a hundred percent surrendering; she seeks for it to give itself away! She loves without being loved. This is why the agape love is able to sacrifice itself for the one she loves. 1 Corinthians 13 This woman is one of the many examples we can find in the Word of God and from one of the many examples like Elias and Elisha, King David and Ruth and Rahab I want to give still a second example and this is one of Jesus Himself. But this is not the example how He full of passion and zeal died for us; how He loved His cross! His suffering: His dieing, the highest expression of love of passion and zeal. No, it is an example of zeal and passion of heart from Jesus where He is in the upper room with His disciples and how He lays His heart and soul at their feet.
THE ZEAL AND LOVE-PASSION OFF JESUS John 13:1-9 And before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He should move from this world to the Father, loving His own in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 And supper having occurred, the Devil having put already into the heart of Simon's son Judas Iscariot that he should betray Him, 3 Jesus knowing that the Father has given all things into His hands, and that He came out from God, and goes away to God, 4 He rose up from the supper and laid aside His garments. And taking a towel, He girded Himself. 5 Then He put water into the basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe off with the towel with which He was girded. 6 He then came to Simon Peter. And that one said to Him, Lord, do You wash my feet? 7 Jesus answered and said to him, what I am doing, you do not yet know. But you will know after these things. 8 Peter said to Him, You may in no way wash my feet to the age. Jesus answered him, Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me. 9 Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, not my feet only, but also the hands and the head. 10 Jesus said to him, The one having been bathed has no need other than to wash the feet, but is wholly clean. And you are clean, but not all. We can say very much about this one Bible passage, for there is very much to explore and to discover here; but I just want to enlighten a facet about the passionate surrender of the heart and the soul of our beloved Jesus. To have a good understanding of what Jesus actually did, is it very important that we know that the washing of the feet was a very low service which in the richer families was done by the slaves or by the woman when there were no slaves. To understate this we read the following Bible scriptures. Genesis 18:4 Please allow a little water to be taken and You wash Your feet, and rest under the tree. Genesis 19:2 And he said, Behold, now, my lords, please turn into your servant's house and lodge, and wash your feet; and rise early and go to your way. 17 And the slave ran to meet her and said, Please let me sip a little water from your pitcher 18 And she said, Drink, my lord. And she hurried and let down her pitcher on her hand and gave him a 82
drink. 19 And she finished giving drink to him. And she said, I also will draw for your camels until they have finished drinking. 20 And she hurried and emptied her pitcher into the trough. And she again ran to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. 1Samuel 25:41 And she rose up and bowed her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let your handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. Matthew 20:25-26 But whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. 27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your servant; 28 Even as the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.
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starts to fill a bowl with water. And this is the moment where upon they must have known what Jesus wants to do. But no one asks Jesus and has the valour to ask Him. Maybe they look at Simon with eyes like; “why didn’t you do that; washing the feet, you have invited us?” But it is still silent and no one asks Jesus and they all just let it happen. They all let them selves wash their feet through their beloved Jesus. And I am very sure that they all shame themselves that not one of them was willing and humble enough to do this work which normally a slave or a handmaiden would do; even John the bosom friend of Jesus wasn’t humble enough to do this work of a slave. We see that, except that what is happening, that the love for His disciples Jesus brings Him to a point and a position to give Himself completely. In the encountering of the moment that Jesus is willing to wash the feet of His disciples, He is laying down at their feet His whole heart and soul; showing and expressing them how much He loves them. As a lover He washes their feet. As a loving Father, He is washing the feet of the children. “Who has seen me, has seen the Father.” They can accept and answer this surrender full of love or reject it. Jesus always looked for a way to reach the hearts of the people and to touch them. Jesus always seeks for a relationship from heart to heart. And this is what the Spirit of God allowed me to see and what He revealed me that it is that what Jesus showed to his disciples; his heart and soul surrendering and giving himself away. Frome Jesus side there is a 100 percent surrendering and a willing heart to give and to do everything so that they can continue to have a deep intimate relationship with Him. He washes them clean so that they all can experience an ongoing and even deeper relationship. 6 He then came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, Lord, do You wash my feet? 7 Jesus answered and said to him, what I am doing now, you can not understand it now. But you will know and understand what I have done later. 8 Peter said to Him, in the whole eternity you may not wash my feet. Jesus answered him, unless I may not wash your feet, you will have no fellowship with Me. (you will not belong to me) 9 Simon Peter said quickly to Him, Lord, not my feet only, but also the hands and the head. Magnified Right on that moment they could not understand it, for it was much more than just the fellowship they had with Jesus at that moment; no, much more had it to do with that they could have an ongoing fellowship with Jesus beyond His death and resurrection; and it pointed to how He would cleanse them with His live and blood so that they could be a part of Him. Fore they were not yet born again; not any sooner as after the outpouring of the Holy Spirit with Pentecost. Not any sooner as after the baptizing with the Holy Spirit, started the rulership of the Holy Spirit over their lives and souls and were they enabled to understand, to see and to recognize what it all signified what Jesus had said and done with His live and His words. This is why Jesus said: What I am doing now, you can not understand it yet. But you will know and understand what I have done later. (After that the Holy Spirit has come) So I believe that we can see very well here and recognize clearly how a passionate Jesus is laying down His heart and soul, how He gives Himself completely for the love of his students, his followers and disciples, expressing it in the washing of the feet. Extra note - John 17:6-11
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THE WORD OF GOD IS FULL OF PASSION WHO FINDS FAITH When our faith, our believing and trusting in God is been counted as righteousness through the actions and fruit of faith; than are passion, fire, zeal, enthusiasm and love passion an expression of the faith we have, actively or passively. And now think back to 1 Corinthians 13 and the Song of Solomon, the highest song of LOVE! And than afterwards read Hebrews 11; and than tell me if you can recognize passion, enthusiasm, fire and zeal within the faith they express into their actions; into the fruit of faith! Let us read Hebrews 11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence and a being convinced of things not seen, a solid ground, and assured fundament. (An absence of doubt) 2 For by it the elders obtained a good and honourable report. 3 By faith we understand (not by knowledge) that the ages (time frames of this world and what is on it) were framed by a word of God, so that the things which we can see have not come into being and into existence out of the things that appear, or out of the things who are visible. Magnified 4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. And by it – this faith - he, being dead, yet still speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and he was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He exists and is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. 7 By faith Noah, having been warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he was afterward going to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he went. 9 By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of the same promise with him. 10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 By faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him who had promised to be faithful. 12 Because of this came into being from one, and that of one having died, even as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore. 13 These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they who say such things declare plainly that they seek a fatherland. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they stretch forth, longed and desired after a better fatherland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them. 17 By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. And he who had received the promises offered up his only–begotten son, 18 of whom it was said that in Isaac your Seed shall be called, 19 concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from where he even received him, in a figure. 20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff. 22 By faith, Joseph dying remembered concerning the Exodus of the sons of Israel and gave orders concerning his bones. 23 By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child. And they were not afraid of the king's 85
commandments. 24 Having become great, Moses by faith refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 25 choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time, 26 esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. 27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. 28 Through faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest He who destroyed the first–born should touch them. 29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed seven days. 31 By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace. 32 And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah; also David, and Samuel and the prophets, 33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the strangers. 35 Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. 36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings; yes, more, of bonds and imprisonments. 37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, and were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented. 38 The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth. 39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise, 40 for God had provided some better thing for us that they should and could not be made perfect without us. Well what kind of faith can it be that enables us to go through these enormous hardships, through pain and hurts, sufferings and afflictions, refusing to be a part of this world and not wanting and desiring for the lusts of this world? And still come as a victor out of it! What kind of faith can that be? Can that be a faith in an impersonal God, a faith in powers and might’s? No! No only FAITH, BELIEVE and TRUST in a personal God, who is like a Father who is willing to give everything for His children, yes even His live, so that they ALL can come back in His lovingly Father Arms, this is what will enable us to go through this. Faith in a God who loves us with great emotional feelings, with passion and zeal, a God who is jealous and wants to have us whole for itself; so that He can give himself fully and completely to us. We are being loved through a passionate loving God, who wants to lead and guide us safely home. His love for us – which is surrounding us daily – gives us the power to go through great sufferings and to hold on until the end of our last breath. We know through FAITH that He who has promised it, is FAITHFUL and TRUSTWORTHY and that His Word is YES and Amen. He has greatly proven to us that He is a faithful and trustworthy LOVING God who with GREAT PASSION gave to us His only begotten Son, to be sacrificed for our sin; demonstrating and expressing with how a great passionate zealous love He LOVES US! Upon this is my FAITH GROUNDED.
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pain, hardships and shall she stay solidly grounded in times of richness and blessing; shall than our hearth not go astray when we do not LOVE HIM WITH PASSION, full of the fire of LOVE and zeal? I can tell you that WITHOUT the AGAPE, DEVINE PASIONATE LOVE, we will NOT be able to hold the ground in FAITH! Our marriage will strand and adultery with the world is guaranteed. I have a Word from the Throne of God which I have to deliver here and now:
BUT I HAVE AGAINST YOU! That you have left your first love and that you are not ZESTOS, hot, spirited, full of fire, passionate and full of love-passion, enthusiastic and zealous, strongly desiring for your Bridegroom who is full of expectation and desire, longing for you, and can not wait for the day of the reunion. Therefore He has sent His friends everywhere to clothe His Bride with great glory and splendour, to prepare her for her Wedding day. These friends and servants of the Bridegroom speak to her heart and soul of His great desire after her and how beautiful she is in His eyes; how He loves and desires her soul more as all the treasures of this earth. She is the most precious for Him! For this He was willing and prepared to sacrifice His live to WINN her heart; it was His wedding-price which He with full surrender and passion of heart paid with great joy. These servants and friends of the King speak what the Bridegroom has instructed them to speak! They are a love letter to her! Maybe this will IGNITE HER HEART and she will wake up and prepare herself to meet Him? Yes it is necessary! We need to have the AGAPE passion, zeal and fire to be able to express what we believe; it is a genuine and truly substance, it signifies and it characterises our Christian faith. Actually should Hebrews 11 be enough to be able to see this clearly: but one example out of the Old Testament I will give you to show you how crucial, vital and fundamental passion and zeal is for the expression of my faith and the consequences of having it or having it not. 2Kings 13:13-20 And Joash lay with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne; and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. 14 And Elisha had become sick with his illness in which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept on his face, and said, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and its horsemen Elisha stayed until the last breath of his live a passionate and zealous man before God, full of fire and enthusiasm. Even on his sickbed he still had this character and than he met with his fire and passion this king full of fear and weeping before his sickbed; which he gave instructions in what to do. 15 And Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows. And he took bow and arrows to himself. 16 And he said to the king of Israel, Cause your hand to ride on the bow. And he caused his hand to ride. And Elisha placed his hand on the hands of the king, 17 and said, open the window eastward. And he opened. And Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of deliverance of the Lord, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria; for you shall strike the Syrians in Aphek, until it is finished. 18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took the arrows up. And he said to the king of Israel, Strike the earth with the arrows. And he struck three times; after that he stood still and stopped. (With striking and hitting) What than happens is that a passionate zealous man of God full of fire is agitated and disturbed - and this is surely justified – over such a cold and lukewarm attitude which the king is expressing here; with hitting the ground with the arrows only three times. There is no expression of passion to recognize, no enthusiasm, no fire, no joy! No, commitment, fervour, and zeal, nothing of that all could be recognized in that what he is doing. No Joy over the victory which God grants him in His 87
GRACE, nothing of that all. As I have already said ones: When we do something for God we should better do it with passion and zeal; if we just see a small possibility than do it with zeal and passion. Elisha did it also! We can do it with football and with an emotional film; so why doesn’t God get our passion and zeal? Why do we waste our energy unto things which bring us finely into idolatry (Admiration) and worshipping of demons? Where is you’re heart? It is there where you have your PASSION! 19 And the man of God became very angry with him, and said, By striking five or six times, then you would have stricken Syria until it was completely finished and destroyed; but now, you shall strike Syria only three times. 20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of Moab came into the land, at the beginning of the year; 21 and it happened, they were burying a man; and, behold, they saw the band, and threw the man into the grave of Elisha. And the man fell and touched the bones of Elisha, and came alive, and rose on his feet. 22 And Hazael the king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. 23 And God was gracious to them, and pitied them, and turned toward them, for the sake of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and was not willing to destroy them, nor to cast them out from His presence as yet. 24 And Hazael the king of Syria died, and his son Ben–hadad reigned in his place. 25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz returned and took the cities out of the hand of Ben–hadad the son of Hazael that he had taken out of the hand of his father Jehoahaz in battle. Jehoash struck him three times, and he brought back the cities of Israel. He did not come to the final victory which the Father God had planned for Him and for Israel. And with our own lives it will be the same.
Believe me; it will only be the passionately, the violently, aggressively militant ones who are able to take and to grasp the Kingdom of God. In the next Chapter I will teach much more about this Kingdom structure. We believe in the passionate love which He has for us? Our answer upon this is a complete and full surrendering to Him and His will. What do we do now with the God given will and the passion He placed within us? What do we do with this passion and zeal, with our fire and enthusiasm? How do we express and canalise it? The wholeness of our SOUL and the wellbeing, or becoming whole is so IMPORTANT, that I can never highlight, underline and emphasise it enough. For only a whole wellbeing and healthy SOUL and HEART will be able to fully express and to make visible this passion and zeal; but never the less is it for God enough when we give ALL what we give, what we are able to give at this moment. And I want to bring to your remembrance with love the “prophetic Words of the Father and the Son” which he gave you in Chapter 2. We have come now to the end of this Chapter and the start of a new chapter. So what is it that we should do, as priority number one, and this with zeal, fire and enthusiasm? Should we pray more and start to dance and to become more loud and noisy? Screaming aloud with a cry of war in our mouth? Seeking Gods face more seriously? And so on . . . . This is all good and not all that bad, but this all is not priority number one. You are shocked? Very well! Not your own efforts and zeal can bring you closer to Gods heart, but YOUR OBEDIENCE! “You shall love the Lord your God . . . . Into what is our first and highest priority which is in agreement with GODS PERFECT WILL?
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GRASPING AND TAKING THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITH VIOLENCE Seek 042 zeteo firstly 043 protos; This means that we have to covet, to desire without ceasing and to grab without stopping, after Gods Kingdom and this as priority number one (we have to give it the first place in our lives, we have to put it in front of everything else). What would you think? Can we take hold of and capture the Kingdom of God without the passion, fire and zeal of Gods Holy Spirit? Can we covet after it and make it our own without that? No, this is impossible! The Word of God quotes and says very clearly that it are the spirited, zealous and passionate Christians; that these are the ones who find the valor and the bravery for who it is possible to take hold and to capture the Kingdom of God, yes to make it their own. We have now come till here and when you have understood everything what I have taught you about passion, zeal and fire, what lays behind us, and when you have given it a place in your heart and not in your mind, than everything what comes now will stand in a totally different light as you have ever seen it or have learned to know it. And I am completely convinced, without the shadow of a doubt, that it will enable you to see and to recognize how you personally can enter into the Kingdom of God, taking hold and capturing it, making it your own. Faith - biblical faith – shall attach itself with divine Biblical passion and zeal and this will make of us militant violent, aggressors, so enabling us to take hold and to capture the Kingdom of God, making it our own. God has never said that it is an easy thing to press into the Kingdom of God let be, to making it our own. But EVERYTHING is possible in Jesus Christ, so let the weak say I am strong! I believe that as Christians, following His foot steps, this is the most important thing that we should do in the time that we live here upon earth.
BE ZEALOUS, HUNT, COVET AND GRASP FIRST OFF ALL AFTER GODS KINGDOM! Matthew 6:33 But seek 042 zeteo first 043 protos (priority number one; we have to give it the first place in our lives, we have to put it in front of everything else), and seek Gods 029 'thelema will) the kingdom of God and His righteousness, (live in agreement with His will, that what pleases Him) and (when you do this) all these things will be added unto you. (He will take care of everything you need!) Covet with passion after it, desire for it and be zealous to enter into Gods kingdom and His rulership; this should have in our lives the first and the highest priority and it should have the greatest importance in everything we do in our whole live. And when we covet with passion, desire and zeal after the will of God to enter into the kingdom of God, than will all the other things we need or which we can use, be given unto us. With other words the blessings are running after us and we do not need to run after the blessings. This is a word and a promise of God the Father to us. But first the things are on, which the Father has put into the front row. 89
And to take care of that we do not keep on hanging with the question, what is than actually the kingdom of God; Jesus gives us many different kind of parables about the Kingdom of God. And further on we will go some deeper into it, so that we get a clear sight about what the Kingdom of God is and what it means. For that what I do not know what I do not understand and what I can not recognize and see; that I can not seek, nor can I grasp or fight a battle for it. I have to have a “clear” sight on the target or the aim which I want to reach and to go after. I have to know what I must do or not do! I can not fix my eyes my whole live long upon something which is not clear, which is not comprehendible and not understandable! And when I do not understand it I can not grasp it nor can I take hold on it; but about that later on more in our teachings. Luke 12:31-34 But seek 042 zeteo just the kingdom of God and all these things will be added to you. (Given to you as a present, as an extra!) 32 Stop being afraid, (of being worried and troubled) little flock, because you’re Father was pleased (He had great pleasure in it) to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions and give alms. Make for yourselves purses that do not grow old, an unfailing treasure in Heaven, where a thief cannot come near, nor the moth can corrupt. 34 for where your treasure is, there your heart-soul (your passion, zeal and coveting) will be also. Colossians 3:2 Think over 044 phroneo the things which are above, set your affection upon these things, grasp after and think over the things which aim your thoughts to that what is above and not to the things which are upon the earth. Strongly magnified. Anyway, we have to covet, to desire, to long for and to be zealous after the Kingdom of God and its righteousness. On the same way should we desire for the spiritual gifts and crave passionately for it 042 zeteo. In Colossians three, in the root text is been written that we have to have 044 phroneo, and that we have to practice phroneo. And this means that all our senses, or attention, or sight and our thinking has to be aimed upon that what is from above; and this only possible through the Word of God and knowing the will of God. Do you see now how important it is to have the fire of God and the passion of God? Be zealous, hunt, covet and grasp with a militant violence after the Kingdom of God. But only when it is a violence which is in agreement with Gods will, and not violence against flesh and blood, but against wrong thoughts and demonic strongholds that have to be destroyed. With the same passion and zeal we have to seek after the will off the father. And now comes the key verse, a very important one, which is in agreement and in perfect harmony with the “divine passion and zeal:” Matthew 11:12 But from the days of John the Baptist until now, (today) the kingdom of Heaven suffers violence 045 bi'azo, and the violent one 046 bias'tes, seizes it, grasps it and takes the same with violence 047 har'pazo. And the (heavenly) storm troops are taking it in; they grasp and take it with violence. Strongly magnified. The Kingdom of God suffers violence means that there is a violence which is been appropriated and aimed directly unto the Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom of God breaks through and makes his way with violence. Well both explanations are correct and true; although in the root text it is very clearly that it are individuals and persons, who grasp with violence after the Kingdom of God. The word Biazo has in the root text the following meaning. Biazo: An expression which has the meaning that you have to use or that you are using bodily, physical power and that you appropriate or put them into action to achieve and to realize a certain goal and target; such as taking in, and storming, invading and attacking of a stronghold a castle or a fortress. And Biastes is the person, the violent militarist, who practices, uses and appropriates a 90
militant violence to take in that stronghold, the castle, a fortress or a city or to complete, to attain and to achieve a certain goal. In the time that Jesus lived this is an expression been used under the Military to express what kind of effort has to be used to take in a city, a castle or a stronghold! Luke 16:16 The Law and the Prophets were until John; from then the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is pressing 045 biazo into it with violence. (Violent aggressors who grasp 047 harpazo it) Strongly magnified The Kingdom of God is been grasped, snatched, grabbed and captured with violence, it is been taken hold of through violent aggressors with great effort and involvement of body, soul and live, with a passionate enthusiasm and effort to take in the kingdom of God or to go into the kingdom of God, pressing into it; like making a path and a way through a great crowed of people. You have to keep on pushing through to be able to come to your wife and children who are at the other side of the crowed. You can hear their voices and you keep on pushing through until you reach them! This as an example! What comes with power is the good news (gospel) of the Kingdom of God! So what is the good news? What does is mean that the Kingdom of God has come? Well, it means that a new rulership has come and is come and is broken through from heaven to earth to place and to position itself here upon earth, and Jesus, the Son of God the Father is the King of this kingdom, who represents the rulership of this kingdom. Well yes, it is a kingdom that comes and has come with violence and power to perform with authority its strength and violence, but not without our will! In everything what God wants to do through the rulership of His kingdom, He is friendly and serving us and as a servant Jesus is asking if we are wiling that what He wants? In everything He addresses our own will. You could compare it a little bit with a millionaire who comes to you and says the following thing: “You can have everything off me: for I have given everything to be able to give you everything. Freedom is mines and you can have it! You do not need to be a prisoner anymore, I paid what you were guilty off, I paid the price.” For sure He knows that we are prisoners of the will of our own sinful nature! This is what He had to battle against, went through and was a victor over it. So He knows about it. Ephesians 2:3 Among whom we all also before times belonged to and acted and lived after the passions and lusts 032 epithumia of our flesh 033 Sarx, doing the wil of the flesh fulfilling the desires (strong will) of the flesh and of the mind 034 dia-noia, (not knowing, not recognizing, perceive, and comprehending the will of God), and were by nature children of wrath, (compelled to Gods wrath) even as the rest. Magnified
SOME OUTLINED STRUCTURES Before we go on to enlighten what Gods Kingdom is, I will go with you through some great outlined structures, whereby you will get a good overview of some of Gods aims and final plans. It is very important that you are able to see this, for than you can better understand why, how, and for what the Kingdom of God has come. Starting with Adam and Eve; God had to punish and to discipline the sin of Adam en Eve because God is a righteous God. He had punished Satan for his sin – and that was even so before that Adam and Eve were created – and therefore he had to punish our sin also and all people with similarly sin. If it would be possible to rescue and to save his fallen creation, than somebody else as His 91
creation had to take and to receive the punishment which Adam and Eva and their ancestors deserved to be punished with. Now that Satan had manipulated Adam and Eve on such a way that humanity fell into sin – whereby we became a slave of our own sinful nature – God had to correct and to discipline humanity and this is why humanity is been cursed and received the punishment that he had to live “without his living spirit.” God had warned them: “when you eat, you have to die!” The consequences of it was that he could not longer be aimed upon the heavenly things but only upon the things of the earth; and he was cut of from God and was not able any more to have an intimate relationship with the Father. The times that he heard the voice of the Father through the wind of the trees, and that they spoke with each other about the things of the day, were now gone forever through the act of sin. Now humanity was his own god. But the Father had already a plan and an idea how to restore and to save His fallen creation. It was in the heart of the Father that He would save His beloved creation. Somebody would take the punishment upon him, so paying the debt of guild and work a ransom, freeing them of the guild of their sin. And the Father – who is the root and the source of all fatherhood – was prepared and had the will in His heart to give us the most precious of that what He had; His only born Son. And after that He had spoken with His Son about His idea to save their creation, Jesus was prepared and had the will in His hart to take upon himself the punishment which was actually meant for us; so taking upon him the curse which is upon the human creation. On this way He was been slaughtered as a lam before the foundations of the world. O´ how much wisdom is there in the eternal one, He who lives out of time and who is without a beginning or an end! Here is the foundation and the birth of the Kingdom of God here upon earth. In fact that Jesus became flesh here upon earth (visible material) – the Word of God – made that Gods kingdom became visible here upon earth; because Jesus represented in everything He did the will Thelema of God His Father. Through this He brought the kingdom of God within our sight. We can see and recognize the performing rulership and authority of the kingdom of God in the live of Jesus, but entering into the kingdom of God can only someone who similar as Jesus has a “living spirit”. Someone created after Gods Image and likeness. Being created after the image and likeness of God means that you are able: to speak to think and to feel like God feels. Later on we will go much deeper into this. For now I only address it. God’s kingdom is spiritually and not earthly or fleshly! And although it is spiritual it has the ability to rule and reign over all what is and over that what is not, or that what is for us invisible and that what we can not see. God the Father rules and performs His rulership through Jesus Christ, the Word of God. The Father rules through His Son! Who is able to take hold of this, let him take it! Before that we were born again (our spirit), we stood under the rulership of our own soul with his sinful will. And because of that our spirit is been born again and brought back to live again is it now possible for the Holy Spirit to have His inhabitation in our spirits. And now He is asking – the word of God which became flesh together with the Holy Spirit – if He, with us together may take over the rulership over us, so that He may give us back the rulership over our live and soul. It is He who has the intention to set us really free! His rulership is a rulership of serving. And then there comes too it that we should not forget: It is only the Lord our God himself who has the complete overview over whole of my live. He oversees the whole plan, every structure and the way my live go’s. He sees my thoughts, my wishes and my willing; WHICH WE DO NOT! We could receive from Him this overview and we could ask for it; and He will answer us for as much He is willing to let us know. But mostly God shows us only a little part of the whole view; for He knows that we would be overwhelmed with it and that we could not handle it. Coming back to the kingdom of God! God’s kingdom – His will and His 92
works, the performing executing authority of Gods kingdom – comes FIRSTLY to deliver us from the slavery of our sinful nature and the rulership of it. The Word of God comes and has come to make from us a living spirit so that we can hear the Father again in the trees of the wind. And although we are now born again, having a living spirit, we are still under a form of slavery of our sinful nature. But this can be changed very quick and radically when we learn to let God do His work. What we should let do his work, is the LIVING CREATIVE Word of God. We must allow Him to do His work in us to bring firstly a separation between that what is good and bad, between light and darkness and between that what is right and wrong. Hebrew 4:12 For the word of God is living, and powerfully 048 energes working, active and productive and sharper than any two–edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of both soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern, to judge 049 Kritikos the thoughts and intentions of the heart. The Word of God is able to judge the thoughts, the motivations and intensions of our feelings, and the attitudes of our heart. Magnified Gods Word separates and shows, makes clear and evident what are the thoughts who are coming from God and which ones are our mere soulish thoughts, or thoughts and ideas coming from demons. When we recognize these differences, than we can ask God for help and He will show us the way out of it. 1Corintians 10:13 No temptation, seducement, attraction, and trials in times of problems 050 peirasmos has taken hold of you except what is human; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able to bear. But He has worked on it that with the temptation, you can also escape it, that there is a way out, an exit 051 ekbasis, so that you can bear, hold on, keep on going, and exist 052 hupo-phero in the in the time of temptation, seducement, attraction and the trials in times of problems. Freely translated from the root text. In these times of troubles, trials and tribulations, the times of the temptations, and the seducements who are taking place, is it very important that you receive eye salve to be able to see and to recognize where these seducements and temptations come from, so that you are able to bring them to the Lord. God has no problem with the sin in your live which you recognize and see, because therefore Jesus has died. So, this is not the problem for the Father! That there is still sin in your live is not dramatic! But what is bad and a tragedy, is when we hide or sin and do not want to bring them to Him, in the light, after that we have seen and recognized it. This is for the Father a tragedy! Who doesn’t hide his sin or tries to excuse them, after that he has seen and recognized them is a man or woman after Gods heart. Let me give you an example! David had the same problems with his soul as that we have! His soul, tempted him, seduced him and brought him to sin! But after that Nathan the Prophet opened his eyes for the sin he had committed in his live, David was directly prepared to admit his sin and to work atonement, to be reconciled. He was ready to take upon himself the punishment he deserved. And because of that he didn’t hide his sin God was able to forgive him and to let him live. How good that Jesus has died for all our sin and that we DAILY can RUN to the throne of GRACE, so that we can let our heart and soul be cleansed and let it be made more beautiful from day to day. Being chanced to His Image and likeness, to be formed after His character and personality is learning to STAY in His GRACE under all circumstances, what enables us to stay into His presence; This and only this enables God our Father to change and to transform us to the Image and likeness of His Son, in His presence.
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With me, in my live it was so that as I had sinned, I always spoke to myself and has spoken words over my live like; “Man, what are you bad, you are really evil! Will this ever change sometime? I hate myself!” I saw very well that is was wrong what I did, but I couldn’t let it, I couldn’t stop doing it. But still I promised my wife and my children, and even my God, not to do it anymore! I had only one wish and one cry of my heart and that was to be the husband and the father they longed for, and a son of God that would please the Father. Yes, I wanted to improve and to better myself, but this is not possible, as only maybe for a short time. But after a while I slipped back and dropped down every day in the same sin again; the same bad attitudes and character flaws. And I didn’t understand anything anymore? I saw my sin; and it bitterly disturbed me, it hurt me and I deeply regretted my sin. And still God didn’t chance it into my live, why not? I have not understood how He can change my heart and renew my soul; and there was no one in my live who had taught me about it or who could teach me about it. Today I know why nothing changed into my live because the Father himself has learned me why. My heavenly Father taught me how I can die to my old nature and how to rise up in His new nature. He is changing me, and not I myself. Today I am very thankful to my Father that I did not succeed to live a sinless live out of my own human strength, or out of the strength of my own will. Today I am thankful that I had to fall so very often. Even when you live a sinless live, it does not mean that your heart and soul is changed to the personality and the character of the Son of God. It is only an iron mask we have put on and which is tormenting us every day. It is a mask without joy and happiness and without emotions. It is cold and chilly. Just like the Pharisees, who were inside full of demons, full of envy, murder and without love! Yes, most of the time is it so that we firstly try to change ourselves, that we ourselves try to better and to change our old nature. No, not like that! You have to bring yourselves just as you are, with your whole personality and being to the Lord your God. This is the only way which makes it for God able to loosen you from. . Fill it in for yourself . . . to set you apart (to sanctify). And than, and not any sooner, starts the renewing process, the cleaning process. And this Refining, purging, cleansing and purifying process is not what we do. We only surrender to Him who has created us, with the knowledge that He only wants the best for us. On this way our thoughts will be consecrated or be set apart for Him, just like our feelings and emotions as our heart and whole our soul. What is unclean speckled and dirty has to be cleansed and to be purified. This has to be done so that we do not stay only fleshly, soulish Christians, but that we grow up in to the maturity off the full stature of Jesus, the Son of God. This means that the rulership of our flesh or of our soul has to be killed and to be destroyed, for else we can not take hold, grasp and take in possession the kingdom of God, our right of inheritance. Luke 13:24 Labor, strife, battle and fight 053 agonizomai for it that you are able to enter in through the narrow gate, (the eye of a needle) for I say to you that many will seek and try 042 zeteo to enter in and they will not be able to enter in because they are not strong enough and not able to exercise and make use of passion, fire and zeal in the battle and fight. They will not have the strength for it 054 ischuo. Freely translated out of the root text. Matthew 19:24 And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. How good that there are Biblical books for children, for in one of these I have learned many years ago, the deeper spiritual meaning of the eye of a needle. We shouldn’t think by this at a 94
needle and a line, but much more at a very narrow gangway, a passage which gave a camel the entrance to enter into a city. When he wanted to enter into that city, than he had to bow down upon his knees; crawling through a very narrow gateway. If he wanted to come through this narrow gateway he had to lay down all his baggage, all his belongings. Only on this way he fitted through the gateway, the eye of a needle. This is how God wants that we strip of ourselves fully and totally and that we loose ourselves in Him, so that we are able to enter into His kingdom. And as you can think there is much work to do if we have much luggage. Ok´ lets go back to the kingdom of God. Matthew 23:13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom 055 basileia of Heaven before men; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to go in (you are an obstruction for them). Matthew 7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom 055 basileia of Heaven, but ONLY the ones who do and accomplishes the will 029 thelema of My Father in Heaven. Basileia Translated out of the root text: The royal kingly rulership as territorial area, the region, district and the position of rulership, but also the royal power and might and the ability to execute, to perform and to accomplish the rulership of that kingdom. The kingdom of God, the Basileia!
WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD? Is it visible? Yes and no! The kingdom itself is not what we can see with our visible eyes; but we can see the performance, the manifestation of the rulership of that kingdom and the expansion of it, the increase, the growth and the development of Gods kingdom. To clarify this, let me give you some examples out of the Word of God. Isaiah 42:6-9 I, God, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations; 7 to open blind eyes, to deliver the prisoner from the prison; those who sit in darkness from the prison. 8 I am God; that is My name; and I will not give My glory to another, nor My praise to engraved images. 9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and I declare new things before they happen, I cause you to hear. Lucas 4:18,19 The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me. Because of this He anointed Me to preach the gospel (Message of the kingdom of God) to the poor; He has sent Me" to heal the brokenhearted, "to preach remission to captives and new sight to the blind," to send away the ones having been crushed in deliverance, 19 to preach an acceptable year of the Lord." Isa. 61:1, 2 Lucas 7:22 And answering, Jesus said to them, Going, report to John what you saw and heard: "Blind ones see again;" "lame ones walk about;" "lepers are being cleansed; "deaf ones hear;" dead ones are raised; poor ones are given the gospel. (Message of the kingdom of God) Isaiah. 35:5, 6; 61:123. And blessed is he who is not offended in Me. The Word Gospel means in the root text “a good happy message,” the message that Gods kingdom is broken through to humanity and that Gods kingdom is now been made visible and has come within our reach, so that we can get in touch with it. Now it is possible to come under a different rulership; a rulership, who leads us to eternal live, the live who was intended to be for Adam en Eve and all his ancestors. Our heavenly Moses has come to deliver us out and under the hands of the slavery of Satan and his demons away. 95
GODS KINGDOM MADE VISIBLE! Everywhere where Gods kingdom becomes visible, we shall see that He delivers the captivated, the ones who are bound and in jail, that blinds get their eyesight back, that sick get healed, that the deaf hear again, that the death are raised up and that the poor hear the good message of the Kingdom of God. Yes the demons are been driven out, and His rulership is been made visible. All that, is the visible evidence that the kingdom of God has come to us, for every one that opens up his heart for it, that it has come within our reach and that we can get in touch with it. The kingdom itself is not visible, but everywhere where this kingdom has a right of rulership and everything where this kingdom has rulership over, is been made visible through the sovereign performing manifestation of the execution of his might and power to bring forth live and live abundantly. This happens when the kingdom of God is been made visible. We come than under the rulership of this kingdom been executed in an area or a place where it can execute his might and authority and we can see what happens under the authority of this kingdom. When He shows us His omnipotence, doing miracles in our lives, than this does not mean that we are pressed through and have entered into His kingdom. Even than when miracles and signs around me and in my live are visible, does this not mean that I am in His kingdom. It does not mean that I am a heavenly citizen. Roughly seen, there are three positions we can have in relationship with Gods Kingdom.
1. You are no Christian, and therefore there is no protection of the King and His Kingdom. 2. You are a Christian and a heavenly citizen under the protection of Gods Kingdom. 3. You are ruling and serving with the King in His Kingdom.
It are two totally different things if you live under the protection and the authority of a kingdom, or if that you are allowed to have a co rulership with the authority and the might of that kingdom. The last one is an embassy of the King of that kingdom with the inherent full ruling authority; well, lets say, you are sitting together with the King in His throne. Well, Gods will is that we press into His kingdom and that His kingdom presses into us, that we are been saturated and flooded with this kingdom. His will is that these both become as one. When we press into Gods kingdom more and more, than will ALWAYS His kingdom be made visible in us. It is the divine nature of Gods kingdom to flood and to saturate everything with His personality and His nature, but not without my will and not without my agreement. Who presses through into His kingdom more and more will be changed to the nature and the personality of the ruler of this kingdom, if he wills?! Okay we go on reading some Bible scriptures. Matthew 3:1-2 Now in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 and saying, Repent! For the kingdom 055 basileia of Heaven has drawn near. Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent (turn around)! For the kingdom 055 basileia of Heaven has drawn near. Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit! For theirs is the kingdom 055 basileia of the Heavens. 96
Matthew 5:10 Blessed are they who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake! For theirs is the kingdom 055 basileia of Heaven. In the Book of Matthew, Matthew speaks of the Basileia, the rulership of Gods kingdom who has come near. So near, that we are able to get in touch with it and be blessed by it. The will of our Father God is that we anew come to a rulership with Him; and therefore is it essential, crucial and fundamental that we ourselves grasp and take hold of the kingdom of heaven, that we make it our own, that we learn the principles, the nature and the character upon which this kingdom is practicing His rulership and I say it again: making it our own. The kingdom of heaven is our “inheritance” wrought and worked through the atoning sacrifice upon the cross. This rulership and reignship is what God the Father wants and desires to share with us just like he was desiring to share it with Adam and Eve; ruling together over this planet earth. The Father has designated, chosen and elected us humans to rule and reign with Him. But this is ONLY POSSIBLE through the divine nature laws and principles of Gods Kingdom. We shall never come to our full inheritance when we do not learn to know them, or when we are not willing to learn to know them. His chosen people will perish and die through lack of knowledge of the principles of the divine nature laws and of the, dynamic, explosive, Effective executing power of the KINGDOM OF GOD! And to learn to know these divine nature laws and principles of the kingdom of God is NOT difficult, complicated or hard to learn. A great mind or intellect is not necessary and even so much more an obstruction and a barrier; but an OPEN HEART THAT BELIEVES, is enough to understand and to comprehend the divine nature laws and principles of Gods kingdom. Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor 056 ptochos in spirit! For theirs is the kingdom 055 basileia of the Heavens.” Ptochos: Destitute of wealth of learning and intellectual culture which the schools afford (men of this class most readily give themselves up to Christ's teaching and proved themselves fitted to lay hold of the heavenly treasures) Colossians 1:9-13 For this cause also, from the day in which we heard, we do not cease praying on your behalf, and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 10 for you to walk worthily (through metamorphose) of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work (His work on you and into you) and growing into the full knowledge of God (through a personal love relationship with the lover of your soul); 11 being empowered with all power according to the might of His glory, to all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for a share of the inheritance of the saints in light, 13 who delivered us out of the might of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom basileia of the Son of His love, 1Peter 2:9-12 But you are "an elect race," "a royal priesthood," "a holy nation," "a people for possession (to be Gods ownership)," so that "you may openly speak of the virtues (His marvelous works and deeds) of the One who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; you who then were "not a people, but now are the people" of God; "the one not pitied (without GRACE) then but now pitied (have found GRACE)." Hos. 1:6, 9 2:1, 23 11 Beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain, withdraw, withhold, to stay away from fleshly lusts which war against the soul; 12 have a good behavior among the nations, that in that which they speak against you as evildoers; by observing your good works, they may glorify God in a day of visitation. 97
Ephesians 2:4-10 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even we being dead in the trespasses of our sins, He made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are being saved), 6 and raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenlys in Christ Jesus, 7 That He might show in the coming ages the exceeding great riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you are saved, through faith, and this is not out of yourselves; (GRACE WORKING THROUGH FAITH). It is the gift of God; 9 not of works, that not anyone should boast; 10 for we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in these works. Magnified John 17:24 Father, I desire 057 thelo that those whom You have given Me, that where I am, they may be with Me also, that they may behold My glory which You gave Me, because You loved Me before the foundation of the world. This is Gods perfect will for your live; that you are there where Jesus is, in the throne of His Father. Not only than when He has come back, no, today right on this moment. It is your right of inheritance to walk in the heavenly realms today, by faith, seeing and recognizing the glory of the Son of God; day after day, being in His presence which is the way to be transformed. So it can be that God shows us His kingdom and reveals it to us through mighty miracles and signs, but with this, we are not yet into His kingdom. We are not any sooner into His kingdom as then when we have given ourselves over into the hands of the one who has paid the ransom for us to deliver us from the might and the rulers of the darkness of this world – and when we have granted Him to be Lord and God over our lives; than, and not any sooner, we have come to a position that it could be possible to be formed and to be transformed so that we can come to the place of our destination. That is to say, to rule and to reign as kings and priest with Him from out of the place of His heavenly throne. This is the place where we are after that our spirit is been born again; is been brought to live, raised up and so has God given our spirits a place in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus. This is a very great secret! It is not something you can see with your natural eyes, but with the eyes of faith you can see it. Practice and focus your faith upon this and within us will grow an assuredness and an unwavering knowing that you have NOW a place in the heavenly realms. When your live is hidden in Christ Jesus, where is than your live now? Is it not there where our beloved is? Is it not very close to the heart of the Father and the Son? Yes it is! That we understand and comprehend this is very important because your live has to become an embassy of Gods Kingdom. And if you feel it or not, it is the truth and its better to believe Gods Word more as your soulish feelings; else you can never come to the rulership over your live and over your soul!
TIME FOR WAR! We live in a spiritual time for war; and we are waging war against the whole army of Satan, to take in that what is the God given right of our inheritance. And your first right of inheritance is that you get back the rulership over your own live and soul, so that you can serve and love the Lord your God with whole your heart and soul; and this freely in freedom. Satan and his demons had power and a right of ownership over your live through sin and curses that were upon and over your live; but Jesus has died for your sin and trespasses, taking all these sin and curses that testified against us upon Him, upon the cross; and so taking the punishment away. He grants us GRACE! And now there is no condemnation anymore for you!
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Therefore, Satan and his demons have no legal rights anymore upon your live and soul, to keep you bind and tangled to hold you into his kingdom to work his works. He has to let you go, for it is the LAW OF GRACE (who is standing over the LAW OFF SIN) who is ruling over your live. This is your right of inheritance as a son and daughter of the living God. Satan is not any longer the rightful owner of your live and soul, and he has no right anymore to accuse you of your sin before God, because you are bought free (the ransom is paid) from under the hands of Satan away, to become the owner of God himself and you are free of accusation, there is nothing anymore against you, because Jesus paid the price of your guilt. You are free and you can go where you want to go! Your will is not longer entangled to the will of sin, whereby you gave demons the right to come over you and to control your soul and thereby your live. It is fundamental, crucial and vital that you claim the rights of your inheritance; that you grasp it and do the things necessary to receive them. And when you do this, than it’s yours and no demon or devil or what might or power under and above the earth can take it away from you anymore. This is one of the many divine nature laws and principles of the KINGDOM OF GOD. How you can claim the different rights of your inheritance in Christ Jesus I will clarify in a later chapter. God is your Father and He has adopted you as son and daughter with the full right of inheritance. His will is to reform and to remodel your live; and in Christ Jesus He has given you EVERYTHING what you need to be able to be victorious over all that you have to conquer and need to overcome. And because of that we have given ourselves freely under the rulership of Satan and his demons; Satan has the rights which we have given him on several ways, to rule over our lives. And in the same way we have to reverse, to cancel and to abolish the rights we gave him. But to be able to do this is it essential that we first come into a position which puts us in a place of authority and might over Satan and his demons. And exactly that is what has happened through the sacrificial work Jesus wrought upon the cross; and because of that you have handed yourselves over into the hands of the only true God and his GRACE. Therefore is it only a partial saving that has taken place at the moment of your rebirth. But exactly here lays the start and the beginning of Gods kingdom in your live. His living Word, died upon the cross, has brought back your spirit to new live again and given it a place in that same living Word of God away from under the rulership of Satan and his demons away. And the Holy Spirit of God makes now His inhabitation in your saved and brought back to live spirit and starts to work at the second saving phase. It is the Holy Spirit that teaches you about your inheritance you have in Christ Jesus and it is He who teaches you to rule and to reign together with Him. He is not doing this with great strength or a form of violence, but He is doing this with great love and passion. And it is nobody else as our beloved Lord Jesus who comes with us in a deep love relationship through the Holy Spirit. He has made a way, but we for ourselves have to decide if we want to go that way; a way which leads us directly to the heart of the Father in a relationship with the Word of God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. A start is been made and He who has started this work has to bring it also to and end, not we!
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TWO POSSIBLE WAYS TO LIVE AS A CHRISTIAN There are for us two possible ways, two kinds of ways to live as a Christian with God here upon earth. The first one:
1 - The first way of behavior and conduct is that you live your live without the direct influence of the rulership of His kingdom (His Word and will) in your live and over you’re live. This means that you are still lord and master over your soul, over that what you think and that what you want, over your feelings and over your emotional live; and that you maneuver yourself with this behavior in a very dangerous position; well, this should be very clear now and o so obvious: because Satan’s will is not that you bring your soul and heart under the rulership of Gods Word and will, (Gods kingdom), for this is what he really hates. Because when you do that, he looses the grip upon your live and he looses more and more ground over and in your soul to be able to manipulate you and to exercise His influence over you to keep you in bondage through your hurt, damaged and wounded soul, through your thoughts and ways of thinking, or through demonic guided thoughts, and through your own will who stands under the rulership of your soul. These are the atmospheres of influence of Satan and his demons, these are his targets: your hurt, damaged and wounded soul, you’re emotional live and your thoughts and ways of thinking and your will who is under the influence of your soul. This is why he has a hold on your soul live. The only thing I have to do, to become again captivated and enslaved through the tentacles of Satan is: NOTHING! The only thing I have to do, to become again a slave of the will of the sin is: NOTHING!
To become free and to stay free I have to do something: but to return to the land of Egypt I do not need to do anything. Just keep on sitting where you are and do not move, keep your breath, be silent and do not wake up the demons; than you can be very sure that the flood of darkness comes over you again as a mantle of death and hell, and you will feel the pain and hurts again which will go along with it. And before you know it you will be bounded again in chains, making stones of clay to build the temples of demons. And with this I sell my inheritance, my first birthright. Ones saved is not always saved. Without the influence of Gods rulership over my live and soul, it will bring me sooner or later always back to Egypt. God’s word speaks not for nothing about the “lost ones,” those who are fallen away from the true faith and his works. The golden calve is been formed, modeled and created. . !! And this means that there is no love for the truth and that they are not passionate, enthusiastic and full of fire, 024 zestos, boiling hot and full of desire after the Bridegroom, longing and desiring to hear just one Word of their beloved, who loves their souls and lives so much that He sacrificed His live and soul for them. Where is the minstrel, the troubadour, the lovers who are drinking in the love He has for them? Where are those, who have lost their soul to the bridegroom?
2 – The second way, of behavior and conduct to live with God is that directly after being born again you surrender yourself to Gods Word; which enables you to come in a position of receiving as much GRACE as necessary; that Satan can not accuse you anymore although your soul is not yet in a perfect whole condition. His GRACE is as a shield around you and you are able to concentrate yourself more and more upon Gods Word and will. You surrender yourself in FAITH to that divine Word that speaks over His will for you so that the rulership of your soul finds an end, giving the 100
Word of God a chance to sanctify and to clean your soul and remodeling your soul as God has designed for you it to be. Give God and His Word together with the Holy Spirit the right and allow them to work and to remodel your soul live! On this way you shall lose the live of your soul to find it back again in God. He will guard, protect and watch over your soul and keep it save for you. No one is able to grasp your soul out of His hands as only YOU! He shall start to work at it that you’re thought-live, the structures and the way you think will be changed to the divine nature and the way of thinking of the Father and the Son. And His rulership which is a rulership of serving will become visible over your live and will begin to start to manifest itself over every area of your live; over your sexuality, over your finances, over your health and it will give you power of live and great joy. He has come with His rulership to you, to bring you a healthy powerful live, and live abundantly. In Him He will bless you and it will go well with you. You’re soul is been sanctified and been set apart to be cleansed and purified (through the living creative working Word) and your spirit starts to reign and to rule together with the Holy Spirit over all the senses of your body, your temple. And this means that you anew are – just like Adam and Eve before the fall of sin – your own master over your own physical temple together with Gods Holy Spirit and the Word of God. This book is a route map about the way to this rulership. But this is by no means a way without hurt and without suffering and pain. Nobody shall become a partaker of His glory when we are not prepared also to be a partaker in His sufferings. This suffering is the suffering process of crucifying our soul live. There is no other way as the way of behavior and conduct to live with God as that Jesus has set before us. My beloved, has also sacrificed and crucified His soul as a sacrifice of tears, so that my soul does not need to suffer that much as that He has suffered for me. But I have to go through a likewise experience as the Son of God. I have to die and to shad a lot of tears to be able to press through into the divine live of Christ. So I say with the Words of the apostle Paul: “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” 2Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sake, for your profit, that the super abounding grace may be made to abound through the thanksgiving of the greater number, to the glory of God. 16 Because of this, we do not faint, but if indeed our outward man is being decayed, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us an eternal weight of glory, surpassing moment by surpassing moment; Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
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that which could bring us anew to rebellion. And this is in anyway everything where our soul has made a covenant with, a form of friendship what makes that the flesh and the soul keeps on having their rulership. And that what we see as friends, as allies, as partners and as buddies, is an open aggression, hostility and an enmity against God and His kingdom. And God will fight against it and He will kill it so that you can be truly free. Revelation 19:11-16 And I saw the Heaven being opened. And, behold! A white horse, and He sitting on the white horse having been called Faithful and True. And He judges and wars in righteousness. 12 And His eyes were as a flame of fire, (sees all purifies all) and on His head were many diadems or crowns, He having a name that had been written, which no one knows except Himself; 13 and having been clothed in a garment which had been dipped in blood. And His name is called The Word 058 Logos of God. 14 And the armies in Heaven followed Him on white horses, being dressed in fine linen, white and pure. These armies in heaven on white horses are we, when we have come together with the Holy Spirit anew to rulership. The white Horse is symbolic for the Spirit of God: Word and Spirit who form together a UNITY. 15 And out of His mouth goes forth a sharp sword, (Hebrews 4:12) that with it He might smite the nations. And He will shepherd them with an iron rod. (A scepter) And He treads the winepress of the wine of the anger and of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 And He has on His garment and on His thigh a name having been written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. And here we see our destination! We are these KINGS, and we belong to the heavenly hosts to rule and to reign with Him. Revelation 1:6 and made us kings and priests to God, and even before His Father, to Him is the glory and the might forever and ever Amen. Revelation 5:10 and made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign over the earth as kings. Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is the one having part in the first resurrection. The second death has no authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will rule and reign with Him a thousand years. The rulership of Gods kingdom is the rulership of the divine Word. For it doesn’t matter what God does, what He wants to do, or what He is doing, He is doing it through His Word. He is doing it through His Son. This is why Jesus is been called and named as “the Word that has become flesh.” The Word and Jesus are one and the same Person. God’s kingdom is His living, creative Word in us. When I do not want to be submissive and obedient to the will of God, the king and His Word, than I am in the eyes of God a rebel in his kingdom. And this brings me in a position which makes it for me IMPOSSIBLE to press through more and more into Gods Kingdom. But when I will as Gods wills, than this will bring me in a position of great benefit, and is this is an advantage to press on forwards more and more into the kingdom of God. We shouldn’t look at the kingdom of God as an static place or an certain area; no, we should see it much more as the omnipresence (always being there) power of God, with all his capacity’s and all the unlimited potential possibilities. It is able and gifted with the divine nature to saturate and to flood everything and to fill it with His glory, with His nature, with His personality and with His unlimited eternal live. 102
Gods Kingdom represents “His will,” executes this will and brings it to pass. God’s kingdom (the rulership of the Word of God) brings in our live and in every other live the will of God the Father. God’s kingdom represents the thoughts of the Father, His decisions, verdicts and His judgments, and very surely also His emotional personality. A Father God without emotions I do not know! God, who is my Father, is passionate, full of fire, jealous, the greatest lover of my soul, a Father God who fights and battles for me and hunts al mine enemies away; a God who with great passion has given His live for me. Who wants to learn to know the Father with a great passionate, emotional heart and soul? Than just read on and do not stop and recognize how He has battled for your soul and how He is still fighting for your soul. Galatians 5:22-24 But the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long–suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 meekness, self–control. Against such things there is not a law. 24 But the ones belonging to Christ crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. Acts 13:52 And the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit. Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit and the Word of God that wants to make visible, here upon earth, the kingdom of God as a mighty serving ruler. First in your own live than around you in the lives you are able to touch with Gods kingdom authority flowing through you. Matthew 25:34 Then the King will say to those on His right, Come, the blessed of My Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
NEVER WITHOUT YOUR WILL Gods will, will never trespass, infringe, violate overrule, override and dominate your will, nor will He take control over your will. No, this is not how God wants to rule; much more is He looking for an affiliation, a relationship in working together so that you together with Jesus can come to a rulership as He had intended it to be at the start of human mankind with Adam and Eve. Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue (control and discipline) it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over birds of the heavens, and over all beasts creeping on the earth. And this rulership was been executed in an eternal relationship with the Father. Adam and Eve who ruled and reigned as two bond partners over the earth and everything what is in it and on it. This is why we have a Bride church and a Jesus as our Bridegroom. Together they will rule and reign as it was intended to be with Adam and Eve; Adam who is a type and a picture of Jesus and Eva who is a type and a picture of the Bride church. This is also why the man is the seed giving person and why the woman is the one who receives the seed. Out of Adam Eve was formed, modeled and build. And out of Jesus Christ the second Adam, God the Father modeled, formed and build Jesus a Bride church. Adam was brought in a deep sleep and while he was sleeping God formed in that moment out of him a woman. And here it comes now! Jesus Christ, the second Adam, slept for three days and created out of Him a woman, the Bride church. Ephesians 2:10 for we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. 103
Adam said: “This time this one is flesh of my flesh.” And Jesus will be able to say: “This time this one is word of my Word.” John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word 058 Logos, and the Word Logos was with God, and the Word Logos was God. 2 He, the (word) Logos was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being, into existence through Him (the Word Logos), and without Him (the Word) not even one thing came into being that has come into existence. Magnified Jesus was with God and He was God. And everything what has been created, heaven and earth, the animals and the plants, the birds and the universe and humanity; just everything is been created, formed and modeled through the Word of God which became flesh here upon earth. John 1:10-14 He was in the world, (the Word of God, Jesus) and although the world came into being through Him (the Word), yet the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own possession, and His own did not receive and accept Him. 12 But at all those who received Him, (have letting Him into their hearts) to them He gave authority, might and power to become children of God, to the ones believing into His name (Word of God), 13 who were born not out of the blood, nor been born out of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but who were born out of God. 14 And the Word Logos became flesh (visible and within or reach so that we can get in touch with it) and lived among us. And we beheld His glory, glory as of an only begotten Son from the Father, full of grace and of truth. A German translation: HVA says it like this: And I translate it. And despite that He lived and walked among them and that the world was been created through Him, the people did not recognize him. He came in the world but the people did not open up their hearts for Him. But those who opened up their hearts and believed in Him, those He gave the right to become children of God. They did not become that because they belonged to a chosen elect nation, and also not through human multiplication and birth. This new live gives God himself to them. The Word became human and lived and walked among us. We ourselves have seen His divine glory, a glory who God only gives to His only begotten Son. God’s forgiveness full off love, GRACE and FAITHFULNESS have come to us in Him. (Jesus Christ) What a glorious view, vision and sight of the Word of God! And Satan his will is that we and those in the world remain blind for His glory; but especially those who are Christians and followers of Christ. 2Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image 059 eikon (embodying expression and personality of God himself) of God. We will go now even a step further and we gone have a look at the hidden Image and likeness where we have been created in.
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OUT OF THREE WHO ARE ONE” Genesis 1:26 And God said, let Us, (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) make, form and model man in Our image, (with the same structure, nature and reflection of Gods nature Himself, an expression of what God is) according to Our likeness;
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You have a will, emotions and thoughts and with your body you are able to express them and to give form onto them and to create them into existence. Another very resembling likeness which I see is that God just as we humans are able to SPEAK! God spoke: “Let there be light, and the light was been formed and created: right? Ok, you as a human being, created after Gods Image and likeness, you have become the ability to create with your words and to form and to model with your words and this although you are not always conscious about it. And although human mankind lives in a separated condition, broken and divorced from the relationship with God; you still have the ability to form and to model others who HEAR YOUR WORDS, to form them after Gods Image or to curse them. This is why the control of the tongue is so VITAL, FUNDAMENTAL important for within there lays LIVE and DEATH! And if you believe it or not; “you are a product of that what you think and of that what you say and speak over yourself and from that what others speak over you.” When persons in authority like your father and your mother, keep on saying time on time again, that you are tiny, and you are not of value and more of such kind of words; than you will mature and grow up to such a person; But only than when you let it into your heart, when you give it a major place of importance into your heart. And when that happens: you start to speak what you have heard and what you have kept and saved into your heart. And you start to believe it! And that what you speak, this is what you will become and what you will be. These are the fruits which you will produce and that for the most part through the speaking and pronouncing of your own words. So we recognize now that the words which you give a place into your heart (the treasury room) that they will ALWAYS: form, model and give a structure to your SOUL, (and also to others) if you like it or not. This will always happen for we are created after the Image and likeness of God! On this way you form and model your soul (or we let it be formed and modeled) positive, or negative; destructive or live giving. Luke 6:45 The good man brings forth good out of the good treasure of his heart. And the evil man brings forth evil out of the evil treasure of his heart, for his mouth speaks out of the abundance of his heart. (For where the HEART/SOUL is full off, this speaks the mouth – the mouth speaks that what is plenty and abundantly in a rich measure in his heart; he speaks out what has found a place in the hidden rooms of his heart) Magnified I will not go any deeper into it for now, but in a later chapter we will go much deeper into this. For now – I just touched it (THE SPEAKING) to give you an impression of the Rulership of the Word. It is very obvious that the kingdom of God is much more as just power, who heals, blesses you, strengthened you and who gives you faith. To enter into Gods kingdom and to receive it you have to fulfill some of Gods terms and conditions. There are conditions you have to fulfill before you can start to grasp to the kingdom of God and to make it your own. 105
GODS REQUIREMENTS TO BE ABLE TO RECEIVE HIS KINGDOM OR TO COME INTO IT And these are 1.
Faith – for without faith we are blind in his kingdom and we can not please God. Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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Our righteousness has to be more excellent as those of the scribes and the Pharisees. Matthew 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed, be greater, bigger better and more excellent as the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no way enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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I have to see Gods kingdom and I must be able to recognize it. John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, if one does not receive birth from above, be born again (his spirit brought to new live) he is not able to see the kingdom of God.
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1 Faith. Who does not believe that there is a God and that He is a rewarder to them who diligently and passionately seek Him; can directly stop with seeking and searching for Gods kingdom. 2. Your righteousness has to be bigger as of the scribes and the Pharisees. This means that you have to come to a righteousness which is satisfying for God; for those of the scribes and Pharisees isn’t. Matthew 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed, be greater, bigger better and more excellent as the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no way enter into the kingdom of heaven. Romans 10:3 For being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God. You shall never come to a righteousness that God requires which is satisfying for Him, by trying to produce it with your own righteousness, a self doing good. It is flesh and flesh produces flesh. And because you know now that our fleshly activities, manners and conduct has his origin out of the SOUL (Sarx / flesh) can this flesh never inherit the kingdom of God. Only what is out of, and from the Spirit, is able to inherit the kingdom of God, to go into it and make it your own. Your own motivations and strivings to do something good, creating a self righteousness is for God something like a dirty cloth, a muddy mantel. And because God has in his wisdom decided to handle all this as sin, you have to come to a righteousness that is far more excellent as of the scribes and the Pharisees, else you are totally and completely lost. Therefore can you only come through faith to a righteousness that is satisfying before God! Isaiah 53:6 We all, like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way (his own manner of conduct); and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity (sin) of us all. The only way who leads and directs you to a righteousness that is pleasing and satisfying before God is: that you accept the sacrifice of Jesus for your sin, which He for us in His death took upon the cross and carried away; and you only need to believe this; to believe that this GRACE is there for you and is available for you every day of your life. Than will your faith and believe – in that what He has done for you – be counted before God as righteousness. Through FAITH and GRACE you will become than a partaker of the righteousness of Jesus. This is a righteousness that is pleasing and satisfying before God; because it is the righteousness of His Son and His perfect state of being where you will be a partaker of, through His sacrificial dieing in your stead. Through faith you enter in, into the righteousness of the Son of God. For He is the: perfect, blameless, innocent, righteous one. Only on this way and no way else, you can come to a righteousness that is bigger and much more excellent as of the scribes and the Pharisees. This is why the word of God says that Jesus died for the evil and the good ones. I think you can understand that now. Philippians 3:9 And be found in him, to be one with Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, (by doing good) but the righteousness which is in Christ Jesus through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is granted by God grounded upon FAITH (granted out of and through GRACE and FAITH) Magnified 3. To be able to enter the kingdom of God you firstly have to see it and to recognize it. That means that you have to have open eyes of your heart to be able to see Gods kingdom. And because of that the kingdom of God is spiritual you will only be able to see to recognize and to
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discern it with your brought back to live spirit, through FAITH. The faith of God is the spiritual eye, wherewith you can see the invisible kingdom of God. John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, if one does not receive birth from above, (his spirit brought back to new live) he is not able to see the kingdom of God. (He has no sight upon it, stays blind for it and is therefore not able to adjust his live to it, and will therefore wander around as a lost one.) 4 Nicodemus said to Him, How is a man able to be born again, being old? He is not able to enter into his mother's womb a second time and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, if one does not receive birth out of water (Word) and Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God, he can not come into it, he is not able to take it in and make it his own. Magnified Before that you can aim and adjust your life upon a target or a goal you firstly have to see it, you have to know where it is, you have to know the direction, you have to know the way; after that you can start to move yourself into that direction to achieve your goal. Open up the eyes of your heart and understand with FAITH how you can take in the Kingdom of God and make it your own. 4. You have to know and to fulfill the will of the Father. This means that your will is not in charge anymore, but that the will of the Father is more significant and leading. And you learn to recognize the will of the Father ONLY through the words of Jesus, His Son; who represents the Father in everything what He is and in what He does. Who has seen Jesus, has seen the Father. To live in a way and a conduct that pleases the Father and which is a live worth living for, you only need the Word of God; for in the Bible, the Word of God you find everything you need to be able to live a live after Gods will. And for the more detailed individual and personal commands, guidelines and instructions of the Father, you only need to ask for wisdom and the Father will grants you freely when you are in need of it. Matthew 7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom 055 Basileia of Heaven, but ONLY the ones who do and accomplishes the will 029 thelema of My Father in Heaven. 5. Obedience! After that you have learned to know His will, is the next thing your obedience to the will of the Father; or an obedient heart. Through your obedience you will learn that the Father always wants the best for you and has planned the best for you; although maybe it not always looks like that or feels like that. Your obedience makes us to champions conquerors and to over comers. Romans 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; Hebrews 5:8 Though he was the Son of God; yet He learnt obedience by the things which he suffered; Romans 2:8,9 but to those (also Christians) disobeying the truth, out of self interest, and obeying unrighteousness, onto those will be anger and wrath, 9 trouble and pain on every soul (Christian or not, believer or not) of every man that works out evil, both of Jew (the believer) first, and of the Greek (the not believer). 108
Hebrews 3:18,19 And to whom did "He swear" "they would not enter into His rest," except to those not obeying? 19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief. Disobedience is in Gods kingdom nothing else as rebellion, stubbornness, being stiff-necked, self willed, and the sin of witchcraft and idolatry and this has no place in Gods kingdom. 1Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great a delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying of the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 23 for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected (through your disobedience) the word of the LORD, (to throw it down upon the earth) he hath also rejected thee from being king. Magnified 1Peter 1:22,23 Having purified, cleansed, your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unpretended brotherly love, love one another fervently out of a pure heart, 23 having been born again, not by corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the living word of God, and remaining forever. 2Corinthians 10:5,6 with the Word of God we are pulling down imaginations and every high wall, every high thing lifting up itself which go’s against the knowledge of God, and so we bring into captivity every thought into and under the obedience of Christ, 6 and having our readiness, being ready and all set to avenge all disobedience, whenever your obedience is completely fulfilled. Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents (also spiritual parents) in the Lord, for this is right. 2 Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise), 3 so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth. Romans 10:16 But not all obeyed the gospel, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our testimony and or preaching? Romans 6:17,18 but you obeyed and were submissive from the heart to the form of doctrine (that what is in Gods Word) which you were delivered to and became your guidance. 18 And having been set free from sin, you were enslaved and became servants of righteousness. Magnified All thoughts and ways of thinking which are not after the nature and the way where upon Jesus thinks, have to be captured to be captivated and to be dragged down; this means that your thinking has to be brought to obedience to Gods Word and will. Disobedience to Gods word and will is nothing else as uncovered, open and naked rebellion. But disobedience is not; when you make mistakes and failures because you have no knowledge or understanding. What you do not know there you can not be punished for. It can look like disobedience and still not be it, for disobedience is a condition of the heart. Disobedience is in you when you know and recognize what is the truth and you I do not want to act upon it. Disobedience is acting and saying willingly no against knowing better; acting against the truth; but is also than disobedience when you do not seek God to be able to do His will and when you continue persistently carrying on in doing your own selfish will. The end of this is that if you have not in your heart to will as God the Father wills, that you have a disobedient heart, you are disobedient. Colossians 3:1-10 If then you were raised (from death to live) with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Be mindful and think about the things from above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life has been hidden 109
with Christ in God. 4 When Christ our Life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. 5 Therefore put to death (hunt the foxes and kill them) your members which are on the earth: fornication epithumia, uncleanness, wrong passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry), 6 on account of which things' sake the wrath of God is coming on the sons (Christians) of disobedience, 7 among whom you also once walked, when you lived in these. 8 But now also put off all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, shameful speech out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds 10 and having put on the new, having been renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, Obedience is like a door, she opens itself and lets in; the good as well as the evil. Disobedience closes the door of your heart and at the same time it gives demons the right to come into your live, for my disobedience is obedience to sin and unrighteousness. So it is Gods rulership controlling your live or these of demons and this very surely in this end time war; and believe me there is nothing between it, you serve God or demons! 6. You have to have a childlike attitude to be able to receive the kingdom of God. Matthew 18:3 And Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, Except that ye be converted, transformed and chanced and become as little children having a childlike attitude, ye shall not be able to enter into the kingdom of heaven. Magnified Becoming like children has everything to do with the inner attitude of your heart. An innocent child will not doubt the words of his father; he will maybe not completely comprehend them, but he will believe them without the shadow of a doubt. 7. Grasp to the kingdom of God, with a great passion of heart and with a zealous fire of spiritual violence to make it your own. Matthew 11:12 But from the days of John the Baptist until now, (today) the kingdom of Heaven suffers violence 045 bi'azo, and the violent one 046 bias'tes, seizes it, grasps it and takes the same with violence 047 har'pazo. And the (heavenly) storm troops are taking it in; they grasp and take it with violence. Strongly magnified. Luke 16:16 The Law and the Prophets were until John; from then the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is pressing 045 biazo into it with violence. (Violent aggressors who grasp 047 harpazo it) Strongly magnified Matthew 7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom 055 Basileia of Heaven, but ONLY the ones who do and accomplishes the will 029 thelema of My Father in Heaven. Summarizing some things: To be able to see the kingdom of God and to enter into it and to receive it, you have to press through to Gods righteousness; you have to know the will of the Father and you have to fulfill it, you have to be obedient to that what you have recognized, you have to believe that God is and that He is a great rewarder for those who passionately seek and have a desire for Him. You have to have open spiritual eyes, you have to have a childlike attitude of FAITH and TRUST, and you have to will as the Father Wills. These are the conditions that have to be fulfilled when will you be able to start to INHERIT the kingdom of God! When you want to be capable, skilled and gifted to grasp the kingdom of God; than is your passionate, zealous obedience to the Word of God and His commands a form of behavior and a conduct of violence, a military 110
aggression, a fighting attitude of a victorious warrior which enables you that Gods kingdom breaks through in your live like a mighty STORM WIND! And this is than directly the last condition to be able to take in the kingdom of God!
THE ONLY AMBITION OF JESUS IS GODS KINGDOM Jesus has spoken a lot about Gods kingdom and when he spoke about it, He always spoke about it in parables. He gave natural examples that clarified and explained a spiritual truth. There are parables in the Word of God who speak more directly about the kingdom of God and there are some who speak less directly about the kingdom of God; but all the preaching’s, all the teachings and almost all his words who Jesus has spoken and taught to the people was to bring Gods kingdom in our reach, in all his facets, in all the different kind of expressions and manifestations, that we may be able to touch it, to see it and to enter into it and even make it our own. What is Gods kingdom? How does it come and how does it function? What is it that I have to do and how can I enter into it? What happens with my live when I do not enter into Gods kingdom? These are all things where Jesus spoke about and which He has lived out in front of his disciples, showing them and us the way! The Father has Jesus his Son given and handed over all authority and might over heaven and earth; and this means that Jesus is been given rulership and authority to bring and to gather everything in and under the rulership of His kingdom. And when everything is brought to obedience and the last rebel is been brought down, even death, which is the last enemy; than will Jesus hand over and give the Father the kingdom. But until than Jesus has to rule and wage war executing His authority to bring down the nations to His feet. And in the teachings about the Lion of Judah we will go much deeper into this. What is a kingdom without a king? Therefore is Jesus the king over the kingdom of the Father! What is a king without a nation, without the inhabitants? Therefore are we His people, His chosen and elect nation of kings and priests. This is how our king wants to rule and reign with us together over the earth with peace, harmony and righteousness. Firstly in and over or own lives and further on in and over our family’s; and than even further and further over our neighborhood, our city, our land, bringing down nation for nation until the whole earth is full of His glory and wisdom. So, we can see very clearly now that Gods kingdom is first of all the might and power of the divine living creative Word of God. He speaks and it comes to existence; for everything what is and is been created is been created formed and modeled through the divine Living creative Word of God. The rulership of this kingdom is that the divine creative Word of God executes brings to pas, where to it has been send (from the throne of God) and it will NEVER be without creative miracles wonderworking power, it will not return void. It has divine power and ability’s who are from God Himself, from His nature, it is God Himself. The rulership of this kingdom executes always in everything the will of the Father. It represents and fulfils His perfect will. Those who are willing to execute and to do His PERFECT Will; shall become a partaker and a co laborer of the rulership of this Kingdom because they have the character and the way of conduct and behavior of the Son of God and will therefore be able to become an instrument in Gods hands to execute HIS PERFECT PLAN AND WILL thelema, upon the earth. It is ONLY Gods perfect will thelema that holds and has in itself the 111
rulership authority of the KINGDOM. Everything else in the kingdom of God is rebellion and a self executing power of self willed interests; or also the representation of my ideas and my own affairs, or those of the underworld, the kingdom of this world and the god of this world. You come more and more under the rulership of Gods will, or you are been enslaved into the army of Satan. Gods KINGDOM comes with great might, power and GLORY and you can not compromise anymore, the time for compromise is over! It is Gods kingdom or the territorial might of Satan, the prince king and god of this world. It is fighting or dieing. To end this chapter we talk a little bit about the fruit of the kingdom of God and than we go on to the next chapter about “first hearing and than speaking.”
THERE IS ALWAYS THE DEMAND FOR FRUITFULNESS. God’s kingdom produces fruit: In the Kingdom of the Father and the Son we always have divine fruit and divine seed. And the divine seed is always the living creative Word of God which produces these divine fruits. The seed is Gods Word and is able to produce spiritual fruits, which we are not able to produce. When we have come in the territorial area of Gods rulership and His kingdom and under His authority; and we submit and allow this authority to work and to handle in our lives and soul, than it can not be else as that we – as the ground wherein the seed is sown - will produce divine fruits. God’s kingdom comes with, power and might (dunamis - dynamite), that is for sure; but He comes not as a housebreaker and will therefore always ask for our PERMISSION, to be allowed to work in us. God is seeking for our cooperation and therefore He needs to have our signature, our yes; God I allow you to do . . . He needs or signature to be able to press through with His kingdom and His will against the god of this world and his demons. O yes, for sure, the earth belongs to us, but we have handed it over and let Satan take control our lives. And what is ours belongs now to him, for we are his slaves, unless . . . . ? In Christ Jesus us is been given back the rulership over our lives and we have received now a rightful authority to be able to say NO, against the powers and the tyranny of the demonic powers in our house and in the air. And for this reason God our Father has given us weapons which are strong, mighty, powerful and more than able to tear down and to destroy every wall and every prince and power in the air; and to take captive every thought and intensions of the heart which are not after Gods will. No weapon which is arrayed against us and it doesn’t matter what kind of weapon the enemy invents, shall be prosperous and successful in stopping us to do GODS THELEMA; This is one of the many rights of INHERITANCE of the matured sons and daughters of God. Sorry, but not from the baby’s and from the teens, no from the matured sons and daughters of God. Matthew 3:10 And now also the axe is laid down unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which brings and produces no good fruit is cut down, and will be cast into the fire. John 15:2-6 Every branch in Me (the Word) not bearing fruit, He takes it away; and each one bearing fruit, He prunes, so that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already pruned because of the Word which I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in Me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, unless it remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. 5 I am the Vine; you are the branches. He that remains in Me, and I in him, this one bears much fruit. For apart from Me you are not able to do anything. 6 Unless one remains in Me, he is cast out as the branch and is dried up; and they gather and throw them into a fire, and they are burned. 112
But God the Father is a God full of mercy and will very surely do everything what is possible so that you in His kingdom will produce fruit. A beautiful parable about producing fruit is the following Bible scripture: Luke 13:6-9 He spoke also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 7 Then said he unto the vinedresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbered it the ground? 8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone stay in the ground this year also, I will and shall dig round about it, and dung it: 9 And if it than after that bears no fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shall cut it down. In Gods kingdom there is always the demand and the requirement for fruit; when there is no fruit on the trees, than judgment is standing before the door. For it is not only that the tree is futile, fruitless and ineffective; it sucks also the nurturing substance out of the ground whereby the surrounding trees get less as they could have and to it comes that it absorbs and takes up a piece of ground where a fruitful tree could have its place. And so it is nothing more as righteous to take the three out of the ground completely with its roots, to make place for a tree that produces and brings forth fruit. Matthew 7:19 Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and is thrown into the fire. Luke 6:45 The good man brings forth good out of the good treasure of his heart. And the evil man brings forth evil out of the evil treasure of his heart, for his mouth speaks out of the abundance of his heart. (For where the HEART/SOUL is full off, this speaks the mouth – the mouth speaks that what is plenty and abundantly in a rich measure in his heart; he speaks out what has found a place in the hidden rooms of his heart) Magnified God gives us time, seasons and opportunities, but when we than bear no fruit? Well the answer we know! But luckily it is not unto us to produce these fruits and that it is the Word of God himself who produces these fruits. The only thing what is necessary, is that we have a willing and obedient heart, so that it can produce fruit in our lives. And so we can easy go on living and breathing through, for it is not unto us to produce these divine fruits into our lives. The only thing that is been expected from us is to say YES upon Gods will and to surrender ourselves to Him and that we learn to come in agreement and work together with His will. Everything else will Jesus do. You have come now to the end of Part 1 of Pressing into His transforming presence and the rest will be continued in Part 2.
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Ezekiel 1:4,13 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. 14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. Isaiah 57:12-15 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. 13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; 14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. 15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come and has come, is now there that judgment must begin and will begin at the household (the family) of God: and if it first begins at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Hebrews 12:10-15 2 Corinthians 7:1 1Peter 1:15,16 1John 3:3 Romans 8:12-14 Romans 6:12-14 Galatians 5:16-19 Romans 13:14
- God educates His children. - separating from. - Adjust and direct your live to God. - Sanctifying of - Killing of the flesh through living and being guided after the - Spirit of God. - Sinn will not be able to rule. - Be guided and directed through the Spirit of God. - Pull on the Lord Jesus Christ!
Judgment is not the same as condemnation; surely not, much more is it one of the many ways of chastisement and rebuke, who is been implemented and executed to adjust and to correct a wrong attitude of heart and character problems, but also to Educate, to discipline, to teach, to train and to prepare us, to school us, to become mature Adult Christians. It is Gods GRACE/MERCY when He comes over our lives with His chastisements to correct, to train and to school us. And it is Gods MERCY and GRACE that we come out of It, healed, fortified, made stronger and anointed. But that is the reason why God puts us through many fires; yes He brings us in His Fire! He wants us to be radiant and to reflect His glory just like His Son; that we show forth His glory; being prepared for the wedding day. But this can only happen and become real when we do not flee away from His fatherly hand admitting and coming into agreement with His chastisements, His corrections and His way of educational treatments. It will only come to existence through a repentant heart, through suffering and obedience. 1Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. Isaiah 55:6-8 - Seek the Lord then with Him is much Grace and forgiveness of sin. Isaiah 65:1-3 - Not seeking, but being busy with wrong passions?
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Isaiah 66:2 2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. 1Peter 4:1,2 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. Magnified Therefore as Christ Jesus has suffered, you should be prepared to take upon you His sufferings. Who had to suffer because he belongs to Christ, over this Person will the power of sin lose his might and power. As long you live hear upon earth, do not let yourselves in and let not guide and direct you, the humanly passions and the lust thereof, but let yourselves guide and being led through the WILL of God. 1Corinthians 11:31-32 For if we would judge 65 dia-krino ourselves, we should not be judged 79 paideuo. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. Hebrews 12:4
- Resist until bleeding, throw aside, lifting up a standard..
Proverbs 12:1
- Whoso loveth instruction, reprove and correction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
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God reproves and corrects us because He loves us.
Matthew 3:11 indeed I baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: 12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Isaiah 33:14-17 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; 16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. 17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. (Inheritance given) 1Peter 4:8
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Thoughts about Passion What is passion without suffering? What is love without passion? What is passion without love? What is love without mercy? Passion without suffering is no true love! Love without passion is no real surrendering! Passion without love: that is me upon the throne of my heart. And love without mercy is a love, death and buried and me upon the throne of my heart.
Run away for suffering and pain, The dieing of every day, through love, passion And a merciful surrendering Escape for it, avoid it and run away for it. Hold tight and hold fast to the live of your soul. As sand in your hands it will be Falling through your hands like water In the desert your live will be.
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Give yourself away, your tine, your live. Loose your soul, yourself And the Lord your God Will revive and renew it from day to day And give your soul His live. .
I want to have passion with suffering, Because I want to love with a true love and affection I want to love with suffering. Because my desire is to love and to care with a true passion And to love with mercy till in death.
Be blessed and walk with God, like Adam and Eve and Enoch, Walk with the Father like Jesus, Be a Mighty son and daughter who has fellowship with the almighty God doing great and mighty exploits for the Kingdom of our Father, Be a Mighty Warrior with God at your site establishing the Kingdom of God in your live and in your surrounding area.
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