Finally, the air has cooled, the fans are turned off and as I sip coffee on the back deck watching the morning light, I look to the East and a morning star appears above the treetops. This has been a pattern of mine for years but this morning I asked myself when did this start? When did I start receiving so much joy and peace just sitting still?
Fishing. When I was around six or seven years old, my three older brothers were busy with their lives, so by default I guess, my dad would take me fishing early in the morning. Four things I learned about myself and fishing.
First, when fishing with dad it was OK to eat a candy bar and drink a soda at 5 AM.
Second, I did not have to brush my teeth or comb my hair and I got to wear my most comfortable clothes; you know the favorite worn jeans with a few holes, I usually pulled them out of the dirty clothes hamper.
Third, once we would leave the bait shop, and get to the “secret” pond there was no noise, only the sound of the early morning birds, locusts, a few frogs and the slow rhythm of the soft waves under our rowboat. If we had to talk, we would whisper as if on an undercover mission to sneak up on the fish.
Fourth, the truth is that I never really liked fishing at all, I just liked hanging out with my dad; just the two of us.
My dad was never a “church goer” and today I rejoice in that. Because he taught me early on, the value of just being quiet in the presence of God’s creation.
PSALM 46
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble,
Therefore we will not fear...
The Lord of Host is with us...
Come behold the works of the Lord...
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariot in the fire.
Be still and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!
The Lord of hosts is with us...
I am sorry I must use my discernment gift to connect these dots, but it seems that everyone is so distracted by this wave of deception that we can’t think about anything else. People of The Kingdom of God, please read, look up for yourselves and then get back to what Jesus has called you to today!
Rules of connecting the dots:
Who gets the money? Always, always, follow the money trail.
Who is getting the glory?
What is the purpose of a thing?
I did not know what the acronym BLM stood for, let alone that it was an actual organized group until a few months ago. I thought it was just another seared conscience group of violence. So, in my own investigation (it did not take long) I discovered it is basically a money laundering front for the Democratic Party. Follow my steps:
Internet: type BLM – 2. Click Home Page – 3. Click Donations, what do you find? ActBlue financial clearing house. 4. Click on ActBlue – 5. Click about us under their “Fine Print” page. Below are copies from their web site, which is legal to copy if I give the original source, of which I do.
Campaign Finance Laws
ActBlue, ActBlue.com, “Want Blue States?”, and “The online clearinghouse for Democratic Action”.
Political contributions are governed by campaign finance laws. ActBlue makes its best efforts to ensure that all contributions made on the ActBlue site are in accordance with these laws. Nonetheless, you have final responsibility for ensuring your own compliance.
For example: ActBlue will not permit users to make donations larger than $2,800 to any federal candidate.
Other Laws
Donations to charities (501(c)(3) organizations) and social welfare groups (501(c)(4) organizations) are not subject to any contributions (copied as is from site) limits. You may make unlimited donations to these groups on the site.
ActBlue is a nonprofit organization (did you get that) that builds tools Democrats count on to run their own small-dollar fundraising programs.
ActBlue Charities is a registered charitable organization formed to democratize charitable giving. A copy of our latest financial report may be obtained by emailing info@actblue.com or calling (617) 517-7600. Alternatively, our report detailing our programs, a financial summary, and the percentage of contributions dedicated to our charitable purpose, along with a copy of our license, may be obtained from the following state agencies: FLORIDA, GEORGIA. MARYLAND, MD, MISSISSIPPI, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, PENNSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA, WASHINGTON, WISCONSIN, WEST VIRGINIA, WV.
CONCLUSION
Rules of connecting the dots:
Who gets the money? Democratic Party, Joe Biden in this case with just over 119 million so far in 2020.
Who is getting the glory? Well the fake news says that Black Lives are getting the recognition they deserve but, in my experience, the ones getting the money also get the glory.
What is the purpose of a thing? Fake news says that it is all about getting justice for Black Lives, triggered by a horrible death of a man being taken into custody that was murdered.
I am concerned that Black Lives have been deceived to believe that this movement of horrible violence would bring about some reform.
I see that BLM movement seems to spring up in riots just before an election.
I am concerned that some BLM financial donators may not know where their donations are going.
I am concerned that foreign financial donators (who legally cannot give to an USA election campaign) could use this clearing house to insert money into the Democratic Party unnoticed.
I am concerned that the whole nation, if not world, has been distracted to the degree of blocking our sight of “other things” being slipped through our country.
Wonderful People of The Kingdom of God on Earth:
You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
2 Timothy 2:4
I know we all want to correct the wrong, champion the underdog and stand for righteousness but we must pick our battles wisely. You are being watched by the world. The entire world has access to everything you post online. I know you want to give a thumbs-up on an “off colored” post, but as The Ekklesia, The Called-Out Ones from Satan’s kingdom of darkness to Jesus’ Kingdom of light, we may be the only witness someone sees.
Now that we can see what is going on, may we stop engaging and get about our Lord’s business.
Some call me a romantic, an idealist or a dreamer who is out of touch with reality but this March 30th 2015 I am starting my 15th year of being crazy in love with my wife Sandy Spencer. With this overwhelming desire to race home every day after work just to be in her presence, I have been given a partial inside glance of how Jesus views His Bride to be.
I was studying with a friend several years ago and he just blurted out;
…everyone knows who the Bride of Christ is!
Do you know who the Bride of Christ is? Do you think you are in that company? Are there any qualifications that are expected to be met? Can you point out those that are the Bride of Christ and those that are not? What is her purpose both now & in the future?
In this hour of prophetic fulfillment many religious people will try to persuade you to make eternal decisions based on Heaven or Hell; what a pathetic existence of fear based teaching. Yes Heaven & Hell are very, very real but our motivation of eternity cannot be based on NOT GOING TO Hell therefore Heaven is a better alternative. Our eternity is not based on where but on whom. The Bride of Christ is NOTHING without the Groom: Jesus.
I will give you the answers right up front, if this speaks to you then enjoy the details that follow.
The Bride of Christ is…
Real people.
Gentiles not Jews, not composed of Old Testament Saints.
In love with Jesus, the Son of our Living God.
The ones that have submitted to the cleansing & purifying of His Word.
Not the whole Church but a called-out body, from a called-out body.
Many are called but she will be chosen from the called by a set of virtues.
The 100 fold; not the 60 fold or 30 fold chosen from the same ground or field.
Prepared for the rapture event that starts the Wedding Feast.
Will be caught away in the rapture event.
The rapture of the Bride is the first fruits offering of the barley harvest.
John’s vision of the 24 elders with crowns (not the multitude) Revelation 4.
The ones that say: “Come.” Revelation 22:17.
The Bride can be also be identified by 5 crowns or rewards for her earthly service:
Victor’s Crown: overcoming the desires of the flesh 1Corinthians 9:25.
Crown of Righteousness or Watchers Crown 2 Timothy 4:8
Crown of Life: remaining faithful in persecution James 1:12, Revelation 2:10
Crown of Glory: leading those in your influence with a righteous example 1 Peter 5:1-4
Again, the one true motive behind all of this service is because we are so crazy in love with our Lord Jesus, thankful for his: life, death & resurrection, living in full faith that He is preparing a place for us and that He can’t wait to have His Harold proclaim: “Behold the Bridegroom cometh!”
If you realize you are not in this company of The Bride of Christ, make yourself ready…choose to be chosen!
We must mix all of the scriptures with faith or they remain as just words on a page. Over 40 years ago I was seeking Truth and I was given the very Word of God that pointed me to God’s Son Jesus and The Holy Spirit or the “Spirit of Truth” that teaches me all things! Wow what a package deal!
A Storm is Coming and our Lord God is about to speak!
Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm: Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. Job 40: 6-7
What is the purpose for looking into the appointed times of God? To keep us awake; ever praying, serving and witnessing of the great love of Jesus knowing that this season of Grace and Mercy is quickly coming to an end!
1. God’s Calendar
Understanding God’s Calendar that He established with Moses concerning “appointed times” was first based on remembering the first Passover in Egypt and then the other Feasts which all had their beginning & ending according to the “new moon” or the tiny crescent moon in the sky. Prideful man cannot just assume what day it is, he must “LOOK UP” and calculate from each “new moon”!
Sabbath, Shemitah, Jubilee – just as every seventh day was laid out by God as a Sabbath day of rest, every seventh year or Shemitah year was designated as a Sabbath year or a year of rest and at the end of every seven Shemitah years (or 49 years) started the year of Jubilee (or the 50th year)!
Don’t let the word “rest” fool you; Jewish understanding is that they only got rest, blessing & refreshment IF they followed the way and commands of God all week then a Sabbath, all year for 7 years then a Shemitah, every Shemitah for 7 Shemitahs then a Jubilee!
Harbingers – But what if they did evil and did not follow the ways of God? They would receive Judgment instead. If God’s people were not faithful, our loving God who wanted to give rest & blessings would always send Harbingers or a series of warnings to help His people repent & get back on track so He could bless them.
So what does this have to do with America? Just as Israel was a nation created by God, God blessed it, that is until the nation rejected God, and God sent warnings, Harbingers. Israel did not heed the warnings which brought national judgment. In the same way America was founded as a Jesus Faith based Nation, and dedicated itself to the service of God, through the founding fathers. Just as Israel was not faithful to her dedication and was judged, so America has not been faithful to God who has blessed her and established her; to which we have seen God’s warnings or Harbingers (the major ones based around the Twin Towers September 11, 2001). Not only has America not repented as a Nation, America has gone just the opposite direction; actually denying that this country was built on Christian values, plus God’s Word is on the edge of being illegal (considered a book promoting hate-crimes and the name of Jesus cannot be used in public prayer.
Current note: more Jews still live in USA than any other place except Israel. God always had to use hardships to get the Children of Israel moving; in this case, moving back to Israel. American Harbingers should be a warning at least to the remaining Jews to get moving back to Israel.
2. Current Calendar
September 24, 2014 was the start of a 7th Shemitah year. March 20, 2015 is the exact midpoint of the Shemitah and sundown September 13, 2015 the exact end of the Shemitah year on the Hebrew calendar day of Elul 29 and the start of the 50th year; The Year of Jubilee.
3. Signs in the Sky
Back to “looking up” to the moon and the sun.
Blood Moons – Understanding the importance of the moon and “appointed times” we look at a lunar eclipse or eclipse of the moon (called blood moons; as at the moment of eclipse the moon turns red). Jewish understanding is that a lunar eclipse is a “sign” for the Nation of Israel and that a solar eclipse or eclipse of the sun is a sign for the sinful world or Gentile Nations.
March 20, 2015
To understand why I would consider the solar eclipse on March 20, 2015 to be a judgment for the Gentile Nations especially USA we must zoom our lens out a little farther to look at an amazing sequence of lunar eclipses called Biblical Tetrads (groups of fours) in this case 4 blood moons that eclipse on God’s calendar of appointed times declaring the start of Jewish Feasts. This has only happen in this order twice in the last 500 years and this will be the eight time since AD 1 plus it will not happen again for about another 600 hundreds years.
If the odds of Biblical Blood Moon Tetrads are not great enough to grab you attention; put a solar eclipse right in the middle of the four blood moons and have it land on the Jewish New Year. The odds of that happening are not one in a million/trillion – the odds are so slim that I could not get all of the zeros on this page!
4. Follow all of the overlays on this year’s calendar.
2014 – 2015 four blood moon total lunar eclipses all falling on feast days with a solar eclipse in the middle landing on the Jewish New Year plus landing in the middle of a Shemitah Year but not just any Shemitah Year the seventh in a row which ushers in the Year of Jubilee on September 13, 2015.
Blood Moon – Passover, April 15, 2014
Blood Moon – Tabernacles October 8, 2014
Start of Shemitah – September 24, 2014
Solar Eclipse – midpoint of Shemitah – March 20, 2015
Blood Moon – Passover, Evening of Saturday April 3, 2015 to Evening of Sunday April 4, 2015
Feast of Unleavened Breads: April 4-11
April 4-5 – Pagan Holiday Easter – First Fruits Barley Harvest
May 23, 2015 Feast of Weeks (Pentecost): May 23-24 Full Barley Harvest (count 40 days)
End of Shemitah & start of Year of Jubilee (Elul 29) September 13, 2015
Feast of Trumpets: September 14-15
Day of Atonement: September 23-24
Blood Moon – Tabernacles, September 28, 2015 (possible catching away of the Gentile Martyrs saved after the rapture of the Bride).
Feast of Tabernacles/Shelters/Harvest: Sept. 29 – Oct. 5
The Eighth Day: October 5-6
5. Fact Review about Blood Moons & Israel
What is significant about this? A tetrad of lunar eclipses on feast days has only occurred two times in the last 500 years; 1949/50, and 1967/68. During each of those tetrads of total eclipses Israel was at war.
“Though Israel was declared an independent state sixty years ago in 1948, the war with its neighbors began after its first day and lasted for a year. Therefore, the first lunar eclipse of 1949 occurred during this war for the establishment of Israel. The next tetrad began on Passover 1967, which was just six weeks before the Six-Day-War. Therefore, these two significant wars of Israel were covered by each tetrad period.”
6. Fact Review about Shemitah Years & the USA:
For instance, the five greatest economic crashes of the last 40 years – 1973, 1980, 1987, 2001 and 2008 – all occurred in Shemitah years – those God set apart as Sabbath years. In 2001 and 2008 they coincided precisely with the exact end of the Shemitah year on the Hebrew calendar day of Elul 29. (d)
As You Wake
Father God has established appointed times on His calendar to “meet” with His people, given us signs in the sky to get us to look up and remind us of those appointments and has given us prophecies in His Written Word for us to prepare for those appointments. Now the wind is blowing, a storm is brewing.
*Mark Biltz: The Feasts of the Lord (a), Blood Moons (d).
*Jonathan Cahn: The Harbingers (c), The Mystery of the Shemitah (b).
A Storm is Coming and our Lord God is about to speak!
Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm:Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. Job 40: 6-7
America; I write this to you in advance so that when you hear the Voice of the Lord, you will know it to be true. The Word of our Lord turns from a Nation to the individual people.
Father God has already given America opportunity to repent as a Nation but instead America has continued to drift down a slippery slope, and has come to the edge of the cliff. Now our Lord will address the Individuals who live in America because the storm will fall on the just and the unjust.
As You Wake, Remember this
Oh America, you have drifted from your ways, you have turned you back on you purpose and calling in this life, you have removed yourself from the protection of the One who established you. Did you deceive yourself to believe that there would be no consequence?
“He (God) makes the nations great, then destroys them; He enlarges the nations, then leads them away. He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s people And makes them wander in a pathless waste. They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.” Job 12:23-25
As You Wake, Remember this
Father God has established appointed times on His calendar to “meet” with His people, given us signs in the sky to get us to look up and remind us of those appointments and has given us prophecies in His Written Word for us to prepare for those appointments. Now the wind is blowing, a storm is brewing and we will probably be in the eye of the storm very soon.
A Storm is Coming and our Lord God is about to speak! A Word of the Lord to America. By Thomas, an Apostle to those of like faith.
Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm:Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. Job 40: 6-7
America; I write this to you in advance so that when you hear the Voice of the Lord, you will know it to be true. The Word of our Lord turns from a Nation to the individual people.
Father God has already given America opportunity to repent as a Nation but instead America has continued to drift down a slippery slope, and has come to the edge of the cliff.
Awake oh Sleeping Drifter
America as a Nation has drifted from:
Humility & Holiness of God’s Grace and Mercy to Prideful tolerance of all sin
Honoring the name of Jesus to denying His name in the public place
Consulting the Bible to outlawing the very book in public places
Following The Holy Spirit to consulting “mediums” & evoking the occult
Celebrating God’s sacred marriage covenant to legalizing base & unnatural practices
Protecting the unborn to genocide of our children
Spiritual freedom in Christ to religious & political bondage
Freeing the slaves to enslaving the free
Missionary Nation to a Nation where other countries now send their missionaries
Blessing the children of Israel to turning your back on them and stealing their homeland
Oh America how you have drifted, drifted to sleep.
Oh America once you were a great light to all the world and now you have drifted into a sleeping darkness that will soon be forgotten; mentioned only in a whisper of old man’s story.
Oh America you are not mentioned at the end times of the Bible for a reason; for you will not be there, you will be swallowed up into another, you will be unrecognizable.
Awake oh Sleeping Drifter
Father God has established appointed times on His calendar to “meet” with His people, given us signs in the sky to get us to look up and remind us of those appointments and has given us prophecies in His Written Word for us to prepare for those appointments. Now the wind is blowing, a storm is brewing and we will probably be in the eye of the storm very soon.
There comes a time when our lives would be much better if we would just look up.
Our dog Cowboy is getting up in years and surely his sense of smell is better than his eyesight. In the woods he was on the scent of the elk that linger on our property especially in the winter. Nose to the ground, at the edge of the pond with a full charge forward…it would have been much better if he had just looked up. Like a “slapstick” cartoon he actually ran into the largest elk of the bunch; he yelps, takes a submissive roll to his back and then slides into the pond.
In the past 40 years walking with Jesus, I have discovered three types of people:
Group One:
…those that drift aimlessly down the river, their compass is what “feels” good and usually with no goals or sense of direction. They have the thought that they cannot affect their destiny, therefore they try to “experience” everything with no consideration of consequences from choices or worse; lack of choices. They seem to have a lot of “drama” in their lives, little depth of truth, fleeting pleasure and little happiness. These remind me of those in Philippians 3:18-20 “…who set their minds on earthly things.” (read the rest below)
Group Two:
…those who crave knowledge and have mastered the Bible: “knowing” everything about the Jewish calendar & feasts, understanding the prophecies of end time eternity, dazzling those around with their expertise of the “tions” salvation, sanctification, redemption, justification, resurrection, dispensations, elections, predestination…blah, blah, blah. Possessing such great knowledge results in a life of: rules, laws and legalism but no relationship with the very Author of the Bible. This reminds me of Martha the sister of Lazarus in Luke 10:40 “…Martha was distracted with all her preparations…”Or the verse in Matthew 13:14 “In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
Group Three:
…these may look like they are aimlessly drifting, but in reality they are fighting the current and headed toward a predetermined destiny. They may consume large quantities of Bible information but more like a treasure hunter learning as much as they can about the author of the book. They are constantly looking up as Mary (the other sister of Lazarus) did when she sat at the feet of Jesus; listening, learning in a relationship with the one who was speaking. Luke 10:39 “…Mary, who was seated at the Lord’s feet, listening to His word.”
Like our dog Cowboy, perhaps we would all be better off, if we just looked up.
Luke 21:28And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Revelation 4:1After this I looked (up), and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.
Philippians 3:18-20For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Psalm 46:10Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!
The Word of God is full of Keys of Truth that unlock Life Mysteries!
Know Truth & be Set Free!
We must mix all of the scriptures with faith or they remain as just words on a page. Over 40 years ago I was seeking Truth and I was given the very Word of God that pointed me to God’s Son Jesus and The Holy Spirit or the “Spirit of Truth” that teaches me all things! Wow what a package deal!
March 20, 2015 Fear not! I am telling you this in advance so you will know that God is: in control, has a plan and wants to get your attention.
This is not the end of the world. Once the Bride of Christ returns with Jesus after the Tribulation recorded in The Book of Revelation, we still have 1000 more years on earth.
What to do now?
1. If you are not sure of your eternal destination please read these verses in your own bible: John 3:3, John 3:16, Romans 6:23, Romans 10:9, Acts 4:12, Ephesians 2:8-9 and click on my website and follow the steps. www.TheBibleGuy.com
2. If you are sure of your relationship with Christ then encourage yourself with the assurance of these verses: Read all of I John then read the Gospel of John 3:36, John 5:24 & John 17:3, Plus refresh yourself with these verses on Water Baptism; Matthew 3:11, Acts 2:38, 10:47 and then the assurance of Baptism Romans 6:3-5.
3. Now take your family through these same scriptures with actions of repentance, salvation; starting with your inner circle: those who live in your house. Then work your way outward to other family, friends, face book acquaintances etc.
Imagine with me that God pulled back the spiritual curtain that separates time and you gained some information in advance of an event that would shake every family in the nation like never before. Imagine for just a moment that you were shown this information so that you could prepare for it. Not to prepare to capitalize on your neighbors suffering but to be useful as an End Time Ambassador of Christ. This truly is what happened with apostle John and what he saw recorded in Revelation 17 & 18.
Imagine this Future Event: You “saw” the government make it illegal to speak the name of Jesus, illegal to own a Bible and illegal to broadcast Biblical programs, illegal to assemble, thus; shutting down every church building in the nation. You “saw” that you were quarantined and would be leading your family spiritually in your own home all by yourself. You would be teaching the Bible, praying over your children, worshiping with your wife, eating your meals in remembrance of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection until He calls us home. You would be covertly testifying to those around you of the saving power of Christ and you would be baptizing those who come to Christ.
Coming back to the present time, you are tempted to doubt that you can fulfill such a calling. No professional clergy, no building, just you and Jesus with your Bible and the power of The Holy Spirit. Do you feel equipped to spiritually lead your family in the way of our Lord?
That is why I am writing to you, it is not only my calling but also my great honor to encourage you in this path of equipping.
How did you do, did the picture seem a little freaky? Could you ever see yourself leading your family spiritually? I mean YOU leading them at home, not leading them to a religious institution to have another lead them spiritually. Even if the event of the closure of the church buildings never happened, the truth is that you are responsible before God to lead your family and the great news is that God has given you everything you need to fulfill His calling! He has given you His: Word, Salvation, Power, Provision, resources, Son Jesus, His Holy Spirit who lives in you and leads you, and today He has given you me.
The Picture Continues – Phase Two
The first picture I gave you was the soft and easy picture, Phase Two will be a little tougher, our Lord wants you to “see” and prepare for both.
Next Imagine with me that God pulled back the spiritual curtain and after the closing down of every church building, thousands more sprung up. But what seems like a great movement of “the church” is actually a movement away from God Himself. A new wave of coexistence and a co-mingling of True Faith with tolerating the teaching of false doctrines. Have you heard of the latest religious fad name Chrislam? It is the false doctrine that Christians, Muslims and Jews all originated from Abraham (which is true, “Father Abraham had many sons”) But the lie is that we all worship the same God. We do not! People, family, friends, coworkers, classmates asking you to go to church with them, quilting you and shaming you to go to church with them and you have to say no. Why? Because this is not the True Church that Jesus is building. This is the Wide Gate in Matthew that leads to destruction and also the whore Babylon in Revelation 17-18 that we are told to come out from among. With this “new wave” the Name of Jesus is removed, the Holy Word of God is nullified by lies and traditions of men and even though there may seem to be an appearance of godliness THERE IS NO POWER! From such you must prepare to exit, run home and lead your own family spiritually.
Now can you see that you will be teaching the Bible, praying over your children, worshiping with your wife, eating your meals in remembrance of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection until He calls us home? You will be covertly testifying to those around you of the saving power of Christ and YOU will be baptizing those who come to Christ.
You have been called to be an End Time Ambassador of Christ (and today I confirm that call) you are to prepare so you will be qualified.
Pray with me: Father God I receive the call lead, guide and teach me by Your Holy Spirit. Prepare me to lead my family, and touch the world around me with Your Truth, Love and Power in Jesus Name. Amen.
Knowing where God lives: 40 Yrs. with Jesus – December 18, 2014 – Day 142,563
Picture from: vineandbranchworldministries.com
There are keys and then there are master keys.
Knowing where God lives or where His Presence is or where He invests His: time, energy, resources and life has become the most valuable master key in my life.
Isaiah 57:15a (NKJV) For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit…
I have discovered some religions practice one or the other but have not found one that practices both. See if you can understand the master key here.
Contrite and Humble but no reverence for the Holy
I have been in meetings where broken people have come to the end of themselves, cried out to God and have fallen on the floor laughing uncontrollably. Quoting the verse Isaiah 61:3 (NKJV) “…The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness…” but then observed as the “flesh” takes over and they start barking like dogs (no reverence).
Legalistically Reverent but no intimate experience
On the other hand I have walked into meetings where everyone is legalistically threatened to enter like an old-fashioned library; most of the women wore grey with their hair up in buns and the men cowered like passive pets. They were trying to honor God who dwells in the High and Holy Place but actually made Him unreachable altogether.
The Master Key is to live in both! Tips I have discovered…
When I pray in public, I formally pray to our Father in Heaven (the High and Holy Place) in The Name of Jesus; referring to Jesus as Royalty; my King, my Lord, The Son of God! In contrast when I pray in the presence of our small group or my family or just all by myself; the atmosphere in the room turns more informal.
My language and worship dive deep, personal and intimate. There is no concern here for formalities or ritual. This is the place where my spirit prays: deep to deep. A place where there is no concern for time or schedules. It is the time of true confession and repentance and worship and deep joy with great hope and incomparable faith. The place where God dwells: in a contrite and humble spirit while maintaining reverence for the High and Holy!
The Word of God is full of Keys of Truth that unlock Life Mysteries!
