I attended a prayer breakfast today. (Tuesday June 19th) The
guest speaker was Pastor Gary Whetstone.
He spoke dynamically about “what is God doing NOW? What is HE speaking
NOW?” He spoke on our purpose is to have
Christ revealed through us. And then we
prayed. The 15 minutes spent in prayer,
were spent in a vision for me.
Things that God has been speaking to me for the past year and a half
and some beyond that, suddenly all seemed to come together and click- like
interlocking pieces of a puzzle but this was knowledge and understanding.
God’s speaking to me today, began in the car on the way there. I was
listening to a very old Integrity Hosanna Praise and Worship tape called “Glory
, Honor and Praises,” by Kent Henry. One
of the songs talks about the Secret Place; he who dwells under the shadow of His wings. it is there we will find
everything that we need…
So, as we began to pray, I asked the Lord if He would come speak to
me. Immediately, HE was standing in
front of me and speaking, to me but not just to me, but to all who would listen; “Come draw near to
me, in the secret place, it is there you will hear, it is there you will see…”
And then, as if to demonstrate this very concept, I was now seeing two different scenes at once:
Jesus standing in front of me and enfolding me into himself until I had melted
and disappeared under “his wings” HE was in human form and yet somehow reminded
me of a huge bird inviting me to come nestle under His wings and snuggle
against His breast. As I came close, it appeared as though he had wings and as
he embraced me, I was covered by his wings and disappeared under that embrace…enclosed in these huge white
wings.. (remember visions are sometimes symbolic- and this spoke to me of “abiding under the shadow of His wings.” (Ps.
91: 1,4)
Behind Him, I could see Jesus and the Father. Father God was huge and mammoth, sitting on
The Throne, and enveloped in bright white light. I could barely make out His
form. I could not see His face just this blinding white light. Jesus was
standing with arms outstretched side to side and He and Father God melted
together into one huge light and then Jesus would step away and emerge and be
glowing, totally encased with this light that looked like electricity or
lightening. Then He would step closer again and “mesh or melt” back into the
light emanating from Father God. As I watched this taking place, He spoke to me
and said, “as you draw nearer and draw close to me, you draw from Me what you
have need of. Just as I and my Father
are one, so too, you and I will be one and you will receive what I have and
what I receive from Him.” I saw this
tube then form between the two scenes and connect from Father and Jesus to me and Jesus. (It was like a pipeline
feeding downstream if you will.) Then scriptures began bursting into my mind
and with them new understanding.
“As a man thinketh
in his heart, so IS he.” (Proverbs 23:7. Matthew 12: 34-5, Matthew 15:18) “Abide
in Me and I in you” (John 15:4) Then He
said, “You have asked ME into your heart. If as the man thinks in his heart-he
is…then you ARE identical with and to ME, (Christ.) because I AM in your heart.
Realization: We ARE Christ in the earth… “as he is, so are we in this world.” (1John 4:17)
Let me put it
another way: I was born in America, so I am an American. But I can just as easily say, “I am America.”
We are to be one
with Him even as He is one with the Father…
We are His body, it is US, His body that is to fill and overflow in the
earth with the fullness of HIM. (Eph. 1:23) Not that we ARE God, but we ARE CHRIST- His
likeness, His Fullness, His Representation upon this earth. His goodness… “In HIM we live, In HIM we move and IN HIM we
have our being.” (Acts 17:28) We are ONE. We live out of that oneness, our
very life and essence is found ONLY in Him! We are immersed in, surrounded by,
and merged with Christ. Tie-dyed. Inseparable.
(A dear brother stood up afterwards and said just that Scripture!)
I have actually EXPERIENCED
that scripture, over 18 months ago in a hospital room, warring against death,
and standing for life for a loved one. (Along with others) God spoke to me that
Scripture and made some things very real to me about our life and being, being
IN Him. (I also saw that loved one, who could not see very well, light up like
a Christmas tree and smile at someone who came into the room. Someone I could
not see, but she could see, very well! Ten days later, she went “home”
peacefully.)
The reason it is so
crucial to come into the Secret Place is it is there that our minds get transformed and renewed as we behold
Him. It is there, that we become
transformed more and more into His likeness and image, the very one that He
sees us already as. It is there that
revelation explodes into our being and the Word takes on life and shape, apart
from and off of the written page as it becomes living revelation inside of us! (2Co 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the
Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by
the Spirit of the Lord.)
We carry the Life
and essence of God with in us. “But we
have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the Excellency of the power may be
of God, and not of us.” (2Corinthians 4:7)
Sweet people, HE
bids us come! He stands ready to receive
each of us and to give us what we have need of to not just make it in this
life, but to excel, to over come, to be victorious and victors! He paid the
price, he made the way, The Throne Room is open to us, indeed He invites us to sit down with Him in
it!
Every delightful
thing He has made you to be, just walk it out as you draw from Him. Likewise, every ugly and nasty thing- these
are contrary to who and what He is, and what He has made you to be. So, repent
and then let your consciousness be filled with His Presence and with Knowledge
of Him and those things will have to GO!
There is so much more than what we have, what we know, what we have
experienced. There are things waiting
for us, things He has reserved in Heaven, not for the sweet by and by not for
when we get up there. But for us to pull out of Heaven now and bring them to
earth to be experienced and to be a part of life down here. He has treasures, both old and new for me and
you! Be apprehended, so you can
apprehend…(Philippians 3:12)
Selah! Meditate on that!
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