Sunday, March 30, 2008

When the Two Wheels Meet

Another rule is the going forth in the royal prerogative of the will that is immersed into and become one with the power of the Holy Ghost. We may remember that Christ the Lord, upon doing any great or marvelous cure, put forth the sovereignty of His will, as when he said to the leper, "I will, be thou clean." Sometimes He put it to those who He perceived had faith in Him saying, "What will ye that I should do unto you?" And no less was effected for them than they desired the Lord should do for them. These expressions of our Savior's may be a ground rule for us to follow and ought well to be regarded by us, for in the will is the highest power when it is united with the will of the Highest. When these two wheels meet in one, they are the swift running chariot which nothing can cross or stop, in which the Bridegroom with His bride, Sophia, ride most triumphantly together over all things, namely, over rocks, mountains and hills which are all made a plain before them and seas dried up.

What is able to resist a will that is united with God's will before which everything must stoop and bow! This will, whenever it goes forth, always accomplisheth its enterprise. It is not a naked will that wants its garment of power-- impregnable almightiness is with it to pluck up, to plant, to kill and to make alive-- to bind and to loose, to save and destroy. All of this power will be centered in the royal free-born will which we shall come fully to know and to understand as we are made one in the Holy Ghost. Then may we go forth, safe and secure in the divine will, to glorify the great ELOHIM, whether in body visible or invisible.

THE PROCLAMATION OF THE JUBILEE

Ye glorious, wondrous few, Arise!
God's heralds true; throw off your mortal guise.
Now lift your sweet, loud-speaking trumpets high;
Now -- let your jocund levets fill the sky;

Tell, tell the drowsy world, their GOD is nigh.
Now let eternal song unbounded flow
With torrent deep, serene, majestic, slow,
Disdaining art's control,

Now, NOW -- let your inspired seraphic strains,
In mighty numbers roll!
Proclaim, proclaim the gracious Jubilee,
And set the sin-bound captives free!

Proclaim, proclaim aloud, the mighty jubilee
That sets each world of captives free!
And ye fair Virgin Daughters of the morn;
Zion's first blossoms, from NEW SALEM born:

High Paradisical Maidens -- appear;
The Virgin Queen's attendant graces dear,
Haste, haste away
And join your powers unanimous to proclaim

THE WONDROUS YEAR;

The great, the good, the NOW revolving day;
Full period circle bright, of endless fame --
Arise and shine
Illustrious troops of Heroines divine;

Celestial Amazons; untaught to yield,
With Heaven aspiring ardor's sprightly vigor fill'd
In this, the virgin's day, most forward bent
Zealous, their very Heroes to prevent,

In terrible -- majestic -- gay Parade
Hell's fierce embattled Legions first to invade;
With orient beams of light.

Scattering the misty gloom of night,
And chasing every black Infernal shade.
Illustrious Heroines!

Arise! Arise, and Shine."

by Jane Leade who
lived in the late 1600's
and reached in and partook
of an age to come, one of God's
heavenly spies

Friday, March 21, 2008

Your Words Have More Power Than You Think

"My colleague Lynn Reddick relates a story from a friend of his, gospel singer Candy Hemphill Christmas. It's about a childhood friend of hers named Bobby:

Over the years he became rebellious as anger, bitterness, and resentment took root in his life - against God, his parents, and his church. His life became consumed with drugs as he gradually became shackled with addictions.

One day Bobby disappeared. His brokenhearted parents didn't know if he killed himself with an overdose or was murdered by a drug gang. For two years they didn't hear anything from their son, not one phone call or letter.

He simply vanished.

Bobby's dad felt the crushing grip of months of pent-up frustration and pain while driving on the outskirtsof the Arkansas city where he lived. He pulled his car off on the side of the road, got out and walked off some distance from the highway. He pointed his finger towards the north and yelled with all his might, "BOBBY, COME HOME!" Turning to the south, he shouted in the wind, "BOBBY COME HOME!". To the east and west, the same words.

Two days later, this dad heard a knock at the door. There stood Bobby. Bobby was home.

It didn't take long before his dad asked, "Son, what brought you home?"

"Dad," Bobby said, "I was sitting on the front porch of an old shack on the edge of the desert in Arizona, stoned out of my mind. A wind started blowing and suddenly grew stronger. Dad, I could have sworn that I heard your voice in the wind, BOBBY, COME HOME! And Dad, I got here just as fast as I could." [end quote]

Proverbs 18:21 "Life and death are in the power of the tongue."

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Troubling the Water

John 5

"Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the Sheep Gate. This pool in the Hebrew is called Bethesda, having five porches (alcoves, colonnades, doorways.)
In these lay a great number of sick folk, some blind, some crippled and some paralyzed, waiting for the bubbling up of the water.
There was a certain man there who had suffered with a deep-seated, disorder for 38 years.
When Jesus noticed him lying there helpless, knowing that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, Do you want to become well?
The invalid answered, Sir, I have nobody when the water is moving to put me into the pool; but while I am trying to come myself, somebody else steps down ahead of me.
Jesus said to him, Get up; pick up your bed (sleeping pad) and walk!
Instantly the man became well and recovered his strength and picked up his bed and walked. But that happened on the Sabbath.
So the Jews kept saying to the man that had been healed, It is the Sabbath and you have no right to pick up your bed - it is not lawful.
He answered them, The Man Who healed me and gave me back my strength, He Himself said to me, Pick up your bed and walk!
They asked him, Who is the Man who told you, Pick up you bed and walk?

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Yes, WHO IS THE MAN????? Who is the Man that becomes the troubled, moving, living Waters of Life to creation???

And yes, we know this story at the pool of Bethesda is a day in the life of a man named Jesus who lived 2000 years ago, but that singular man Jesus was made both Lord and Christ and became a life-giving spirit that enChristens all who partake of that same spirit that raised him from the dead. And that Spirit is growing up in us to arrive at equal-status with our Elder Brother that enables us to become the same Living Waters of Life to creation. We become those who trouble the waters.

Just what does it mean to trouble the waters?....or the moving of what waters?

Our first allusion to this is with the First Mover, God.

Genesis 1:2 "...The Spirit of God was moving, (hovering, brooding) over the face of the the waters."

God was The All in One or He was all in Himself or self-contained prior to creation or prior to becoming All in all. This is God who is the Great Plenum, The Void, that is completely filled with everything that is possible or with the potential to be all things but yet has become no-thing. The Void is not a great absence, in other words, but a Great Presence of All Possibility.

The impossible becomes possible when The First Mover, moved. When S/He moved or brooded over the waters of Himself, we became.....we became the individualizations of God. We are God's ideas of Himself in all of Its infinite variety. He is the Father of Spirits. The Son is always the Father being expressed. What was once the invisible attributes of God are now made visible through God ex-pressing or pressing out of Himself his Son.

His Infinite Variety

"[The purpose is] that through the church the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known..." Ephesians 3:10

We are the expressors of the many-sided wisdom of God in all of its infinite variety in our union with Him.

The Pool of Bethesda (which means.."house of mercy")

I want to suggest that the moving of the water in this story is in fact teaching that this Pool of Possibility will birth a manifestation of real Life when it is troubled or moved upon. We become those who trouble the waters out of just a state of what is probable into the possible.

Matthew 18:19 "Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven."

If two agree, if they agree as one, then the two become the ONE.

If they are "touching"....touching what???......they are, in fact, touching, troubling, moving, brooding, over the waters, the waters of the Great Void of All Possibilities, calling those things that are not as though they were just as it was shown us in Genesis in the beginning.

God is teaching us how in our Now...it is not enough to just know what we are, we have to know how to move in the Now that we are.

That is what real prayer is....it is movement upon the face of our deep....our True Self, our Godself. It is the calling forth from the grave, or the place of the unseen, into the seen, or into manifestation.

Speaking of the faith of Abraham and how he would become the Father of many nations we are told:
"Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed......
As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be." Rom 4: 16-18

This is how we birth into being "our nations", our inheritance in Christ.....by troubling our waters, calling up from the deep those things that Spirit says are ours.

Let's agree to give this world some "trouble"....the likes of which they have never imagined possible....troubling them into true Life and Liberty.....moving over the face of the deep and calling those things that be not as though they were...Calling them healed and whole and perfect in Christ Jesus.

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

30, 60, and 100 Fold Fulfillment

I know that most are familar with the thought that the number 3 shows divine
completion or resurrection. And why is that?

Two straight lines cannot possibly enclose any space. Three lines are required to form a plane figure ...length, breadth, and height are necessary to form a solid. And three is the symbol of the cube, or that which has solid contents, just as two is the symbol of the square. So three stands for that which is solid, real, substantial, complete, and entire.

[Here is something very interesting to do: draw a box or a cube, and then fold down each of its sides, and you will amazingly find that it forms a cross.....the cross embraces all dimensions, the heighth, width, and depth of God's love for his creation. Also it was the Holy of Holies that third innermost section of the tabernacle that was the perfect cube in measurement....the cross was embedded as the heart of the tabernacle as well as Solomon's temple.]

Everything that is considered to be complete is marked with the number three.

God's attributes are: omniscience(all knowing), omnipresence(everywhere present), and omnipotence (all powerful).

Spirit = I Am
Soul = I Am Conscious
Body = I Appear

What completes time: past, present, and future.

Thought, word and deed, the sum of our abilities.

Good, better and best, our knowledge of qualities.

Matter consists of the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdom.

Noah's ark of salvation was three stories high and 300 hundred cubits long.

The Old Testment had a three-fold division referred to by Jesus himself as the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms. [Luke 24:44 ...that everything written concerning Me in the Law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled"...then he opened up their minds to understand the scriptures.]

Then there is the fullness of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

How about Christ as prophet, priest and king?

On the third day of creation the earth was caused to rise up out of the water, symbolical of resurrection life, just as Jesus' body (his earth) did not see corruption but was raised up on the third day and prophetically indicated that his corporate body would as well rise the third day.

Jesus told a parable about leaven being hidden in three measures of meal...we are that meal of three measures, body, soul and spirit....and he is the light that lights every man coming into this world. This "leaven" will eventually leaven the whole lump and God will be all, in all of every man's three measures.

There were three great feasts that completed the year that Israel was commanded to keep: Passover, Pentecost(Feast of Weeks), and Tabernacles.

There were three divisions of the tabernacle and the temple, Outer Court, Holy Place and Most Holy Place.

There were three veils in the tabernacle; the outer veil to inner court, the inner veil to the Holy Place, and the innermost veil to the Holy of Holies. http://www.kingsolomonsastonishingtemplesecrets.org/

It takes two or "three" witnesses to validate truth. Here are a few examples of the threes:
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

Saul David and Solomon

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

Peter, James and John (Jesus three witnesses to his transfiguration, Peter represented faith, and James represented hope and John represented love...these three elements are necessary to be activated in us to experience transfiguration and that is why, I beleive, that Jesus particularly chose to take them with him to the high mountain)

Three parts of Israel's journey: out of Egypt, thru the wilderness, and into the Promised Land.

Completeness of divine judgement:
Numbered, weighed and divided: "God hath NUMBERED thy kingdom and finished it. Thou are WEIGHED in the balances and found wanting. Thy kingdom is DIVIDED and given to the Medes and Persians.

Faith, Hope and Love, repeated five times as the gifts of grace.

Three-fold nature of temptation:
The lust of the flesh

The lust of the eyes.

The pride of life.

Eve fulfilled each when tempted:

Tree good for food,

Pleasant to the eyes,

To be desired to make one wise.

Man's three great enemies:
The World, the flesh and the devil.

The three witnesses: the Spirit, the water and the blood.

The Divine Being:
Which was, and which is, and which is to come.

His people are:
Loved, cleansed and crowned.

The good ground produces:
some 30 fold growth
some 60
and some 100

Salvation, Holy Ghost Baptism, and Fullness of the spirit

Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification.

30 - spirit salvation
60- soul salvation
100 - body salvation

The reason, I believe, that the number 60 is used, is because it is a double of the 30 showing that the experience of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost is the "double portion" anointing. The numbers in and of themselves are not what's important but what they point to.

Jesus knew that he was talking to people who were familar with the OT and they knew the story of Elijah and how Elisha received the double-portion anointing. Jesus was anointed with the spirit without measure(the 100-fold reality...Why do I say this? Because all power both in heaven and earth was given to him....in his glorification being able to know everything that God knows and and to do everything that God can do).... and the word plainly teaches us that the Baptism of the Holy Ghost experience is our earnest or downpayment and guarantee of acquiring the 100-fold abilities that Jesus had. It is what enables us to press on into all the fullness of God as Jesus. It is not a graduation ceremony, in other words, but is an initiation into learning to know his voice and be taught by his spirit and being empowered. Some dispute this, I know, saying that if you are filled with the spirit that that means you are 100% filled. But until more room is made in the "inn" ie, your consciousness, you are not prepared to receive and birth what you are not yet in the place to receive. The infillings of God's spirit is ongoing. We are saved, we are being saved and we shall yet be saved.

The disciples were told by Jesus to go into the upper room to be filled...if they did not go where they were instructed and had not been in that place, they would have missed his appearing. In fact, of the 500 he appeared to after his resurrection, only 120 were moved to obedience. As we learn to know his voice and are obedient to it, we are moved into places of greater capacity or receptivity.

The spirit acknowledges our completness in him as 100%, or He calls those things that are not as though they are, [are not what?...are not yet in full experiential manifestation in our earth, even though they exist in God's mind as completed] but our souls or understandings are continually being expanded in ever greater measures, and my body, my creation, groans [intense labor pains] inwardly for its redemption from earthly sensualities and the grave which will reveal our 100-fold manifestation as a fullgrown God Man....that new creation species completed in him spirit, soul and body.

We each have had individual experiences in our spirit, soul and posssibly bodies being caught up into the heavens, but I know in my spirit that there is a corporate birthing of a 100-fold people to appear in this earth. This is the birthing of God's Firstborn Corporate Son that Jesus, the singular son only typified. These sons will be in the full grown image of their Father and, therefore, will also be enabled to bring many sons to glory, for they are life-giving spirits.

It will be the Quantum Leap made by a people that transcends all earthly limitations who come and go between realms as the Spirit directs them....those who go in unto the Lord and minister unto him garbed in their linen garments of righteousness and then come out unto the people after doffing their linen and donning their woolen garments (sheepskins)to appear among the people or the rest of the sheep. Eke.44

(some of the above three's have been gleaned from Bullinger's facts on numbers in scripture)

Peace, love and joy,
Karen