LOVE

LOVE

Love’s real meaning and purpose is being lost in today’s society. I would dare to say both in the world system and also in the church. God’s Love creates courage, resilience, faith and good character toward all mankind. The world’s expression is “Love is Love” so anything goes; there is no standard.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but the who does the will of God abides forever. I john 2:15-17

The world system pushes a love that can be any kind of relationship as long as you just “call It love.” It creates a weak emotional kind of character that is really uncertain of what it believes and moves through life on total feelings. It is love that worships self and seeks to satisfy the flesh at any cost. The bible calls it lasciviousness which means an unbridled sexual desire, often accompanied by shamelessness, lewdness, and a disregard for sexual purity and decency. It undermines human dignity, and Gods pan for human relationships. The world calls this love. Believers must guard their hearts from this spirit creeping into their lives.

The truth is God is Love! God is the origin of Love! He loves us, His creation, so much that He would give His only son to die for the sins of every human being who would receive that truth. Jesus is truth! He embodied truth. His love was truth, it was pure, strong, purposed and without favoritism. He was not afraid of pain or persecution, suffering for a cause, or enduring for a greater cause. Much of Christianity has so watered down the real meaning of walking in love. Love is not living by any other standard other than the word of God. It does not create a passive mixture or compromise what is right and what is wrong to make peace or avoid trouble. It is not a love that cowers or bends the truth because it is not popular. God’s love has a modesty that is hard to find today even in the church.

God’s love is so much higher than ours, so much deeper, so much wiser that it can only be experienced by having His own Spirit born within us. We can only discern by His own Spirit within us what and how high or wide or long His love will go. God’s love has eternal purpose and even in His judgement He loves in order to give people mercy and save them from an eternal darkness.

Finally, my reason for writing this word is that we, disciples of Christ, must not allow the world system to give us weak standards to guide our lives. We cannot allow weak fearful ways of  self-protection or self-gratifying love to creep into our lives. We are to be bold and courageous warriors of truth. Are we standing for what is  the pure truth of the word. Do we live with a surrender to the inner voice of God in us or is our conscience seared from so much compromise and mixture. We have to live by the pure word of God in every single area of our lives. You cannot have genuine love without pure truth. Love can be hard, Love can be painful and even be hurtful, but it has an end purpose to save and perfect. I just feel deeply that believers must search their hearts and lives on this matter of what is truly means to walk in the love of God.                    Janee

LOVE

LOVE
Love’s real meaning and purpose is being lost in today’s society. I would dare to say both in the world system and also in the church. God’s Love creates courage, resilience, faith and good character toward all mankind. The world’s expression is “Love is Love” so anything goes; there is no standard.

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but the who does the will of God abides forever. I john 2:15-17”

The world system pushes a love that can be any kind of relationship as long as you just “call It love.” It creates a weak emotional kind of character that is really uncertain of what it believes and moves through life on total feelings. It is love that worships self and seeks to satisfy the flesh at any cost. The bible calls it lasciviousness which means an unbridled sexual desire, often accompanied by shamelessness, lewdness, and a disregard for sexual purity and decency. It undermines human dignity, and Gods pan for human relationships. The world calls this love. Believers must guard their hearts from this spirit creeping into their lives.

The truth is God is Love! God is the origin of Love! He loves us, His creation, so much that He would give His only son to die for the sins of every human being who would receive that truth. Jesus is truth! He embodied truth. His love was truth, it was pure, strong, purposed and without favoritism. He was not afraid of pain or persecution, suffering for a cause, or enduring for a greater cause. Much of Christianity has so watered down the real meaning of walking in love. Love is not living by any other standard other than the word of God. It does not create a passive mixture or compromise what is right and what is wrong to make peace or avoid trouble. It is not a love that cowers or bends the truth because it is not popular. God’s love has a modesty that is hard to find today even in the church.

God’s love is so much higher than ours, so much deeper, so much wiser that it can only be experienced by having His own Spirit born within us. We can only discern by His own Spirit within us what and how high or wide or long His love will go. God’s love has eternal purpose and even in His judgement He loves in order to give people mercy and save them from an eternal darkness.

Finally, my reason for writing this word is that we, disciples of Christ, must not allow the world system to give us weak standards to guide our lives. We cannot allow weak fearful ways of self-protection or self-gratifying love to creep into our lives. We are to be bold and courageous warriors of truth. Are we standing for what is the pure truth of the world. Do we live with a surrender to the inner voice of God in us or is our conscience seared from so much compromise and mixture. We have to live by the pure word of God in every single area of our lives. You cannot have genuine love without pure truth. Love can be hard, Love can be painful and even be hurtful, but it has an end purpose to save and perfect. I just feel deeply that believers must search their hearts and lives on this matter of what is truly means to walk in the love of God.                                          Janee

“THE PURE RAW POWERFUL GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST!”

THE PURE GOSPEL THAT TRANSFORMS
The pure gospel, the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Christ Jesus is the good news of the gospel. Jesus is the power of God to those who will believe it for it creates a new creature in Christ, it transforms lives, changes hearts, causes the spirit to become alive to God again.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
The pure gospel of the work of the cross is the power of God to those who are being saved. It is the life of dying to the flesh and living in the resurrection power placed within us through Christ. It is the work of pouring His righteousness into us, His holiness. It is the process of being conformed into His image.

I Corinthians 1: 18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God
The RAW, PURE, most POWERFUL Gospel is to exalt, lift up and reveal Jesus Christ, the King of kings, the Lord of Lords. Jesus life on earth revealed the Father God. He taught the Kingdom of God. It is a heart Kingdom that operates spirit to Spirit. There is no lack in the Kingdom of God because all things are possible with God. Jesus revealed and gave us the ability to live exactly like He did. He gave us the ability to have the same communion with the Holy Spirit and intimate relationship with the Father God.

He gave us the Holy Ghost who lives with us and IN us forever. (John14:17 & 23)                               He placed within us the complete Godhead that we might be complete in Christ, lacking nothing. (Colossians 2:9-10)                                                                                                                                                                      

Jeus gave us the baptism in the sweetheart of Heaven, the baptism of Love to experience the measure of His great love, He gave us the baptism of power enabling us to live in His grace and truth, and the baptism of fire that we might destroy the works of darkness as He did. When God breathes on something or someone it lives, it becomes what it is supposed to be. There will be no limits. It will be explosive to the enemy plans. To God be the Glory!   JANEE

Church at a Crossroad!

This word started with the Lord telling me I was at the end of the current dimension place in the Spirit. I had unrest. I knew I must push on, push up, change some things, and go into higher dimension in order to go forward with Him. We are always needing the fresh work God is doing. We must have new wineskins to hold the new wine of God’s spirit. The new wine is for the wedding. It is preparing us for the wedding feast with Jesus. The new wine is the strength of His joy, it’s peace, it is courage, endurance and freedom. It is the Holy Ghost work in us as we hold everything with a slip knot, surrendered, yielded and humble resisting the devil and drawing close to God to let Him change you and touch your heart and spirit. All we are and All we have belong to God Our lives are not our own. We have been bought with a price to be completely redeemed to our beginning destiny in God. J.H.

“Word for the church!”

The  Church is at a Crossroads in the Spirit as are many others.  You stand at the threshold of the fresh move of God? Which way will you go? Will you choose to stay in the comfortable place with old wineskins of traditional use and move with the ornaments of man rather than the raw power of God? Will you choose to stay where it is safe, where you know how to move. Or will you choose to risk the mess, the uncertainty and be uncomfortable in a new place where you have to trust God completely. God is pouring out His new wine. New wine cannot be poured into old wineskins or both are lost.

Will you choose to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit in intimate relationship? We cannot follow or only listen to the many voices of other streams of ministry. We must prayerfully listen to our inner most being where Holy Spirit speaks and not copy others in what they do or how they do it. True fruitfulness with power only comes from intimacy with the Lord.

Will you open your heart to change, to new ways, to let Holy Spirit teach you and lead you? Or will you choose to stay in yesterday; With the mind set of things that have happen in your life previous? Or will you not fall back but move on with the Lord into a whole new chapter of life, a new beginning, a new chapter? Will you let him heal all the past , strip away what is no longer working, stand in a place of awe and wonder because you have never been here before. Will you let him give you His mind and a whole new Holy Ghost grid? Will you let Him take you where you have never been and see God like you never have?

A new beginning requires a surrender, a yielding, a submission to new methods, new thinking new wineskins that only Holy Spirit can give you as you surrender to His move. God never changes in who He is but He is always changing His methods…for the Spirit River is always moving and changing its current and course.

You must pack up the past in your suitcase allowing the Holy Spirit to pack only what He wants you to carry into your new place in Him. He will never let you lose what God has accomplished in you, but He will strip away what is no longer effective.  Church there is change needed for the new wine, for the new move of God. It will not look like what you have known. It may be messy at time, it may mean new songs, giving up the order you are used to or completely letting God just rearrange everything. He may pull up, tear down and then build up a new powerful church where the walls are the fire of God, and the glory of God dwells in the midst.

The Lord wants the church that will leave all tradition and step out into the new day, the new age where Holy Spirit is creating His bride for His coming. He wants it to be all about Jesus and your heart. He wants the soul of the church to be fastened tightly to its head, the Lord Jesus. He wants the spirit of His church to be adventurous in Him, unafraid, unmovable, full of agape love, fully consecrated and fully alive in Him that the Fathers  work of the Kingdom might be accomplished until Jesus returns. He wants the church to become the sons of God, mature and moving in His authority on the earth from a heavenly place where He has seated them. He wants to bless and favor the church that will humble themselves in utter dependance  and fully yield to obedience at all costs.

The Lord says to His beloved church “Do not miss the day of your visitation for I desire to come and abide with you forever. You cannot stay where you are and affect your community and surrounding area. God calls you to do what you cannot do. You must enter a new dimension of my Spirit in worship and bring down powers that hinder my move. Seek Him for it! You must let your worship break chains that bind this community. You must  forget about yourselves and enter an open heaven letting your praise be upward to the heavenly places. You must decree the words of the Lord in praise and worship that will bring Kingdom change. The fields are white for harvest.      Janee Hawks

JESUS YEARNS FOR HIS BODY

JESUS YEARNS FOR HIS BODY

I feel like Jesus is so hungry yearning in His heart for His body to be one and do the greater works He so wants to do, but He has to have His body do them. He is only on the earth in His body….us! He is our head; we are His body. He empowered us with the same indwelling Holy Spirit as was in Him in order to accomplish and finish the work He started. We are not lacking anything to accomplish this for Him. His Divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness through knowing Him.

If we can keep His fire burning in us every day and walk in surrender to Holy Ghost within us, we can give Him great joy. That will be our strength. Oh Lord I pray for your body on the earth to rise up, to wake up, to see you, to hear you, and to give everything in complete surrender for you. Oh Father, I pray in Jesus Name, for a generation of all ages, and colors to arise wearing your glory, each one in their place, like a gold chain that links us to You Jesus our head. I pray for Your body to be beautiful in holiness, powerful in Your might, white as snow in Your purity and unstoppable in Your love.

Janee Hawks

THE GOLDEN LAMPSTAND

   The Golden Lampstand:  EXODUS 25:31-40; 37:17-24   HEBREWS  8:5 & 9:1-5

CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY! Colossians 1:27 The Son.

In Him was the life, and the life was the light of men John 1:4

Gods power, His life, and His love are all in His lampstand in our inner man.

The 7 Spirits of God, the 9 fruits, the nine gifts. I Corinth 12; Isaiah 11:1-3

The OIL, Holy Spirit the anointing in you. I john 2:20; 2:27

God the Father: One solid piece of pure gold

The golden lampstand is Heavenly. The pattern of the one in Heaven was shown to Moses on the mountain and he was told to make it on earth as it was in Heaven. It was placed into the Holy Place as the only light in the temple. In the new covenant in Christ the believer would receive the Lampstand into his inner man as the light of the Lord. It was to be placed so the light would always shine forward. God’s light is always shining forward into the present and future, never in the past. The lampstand was a hammered piece of work, made of pure gold. We too in our journeys with Jesus are a hammered work for it is the trying of our faith that works in us the  pure gold. This light was to burn day and night. It was to be an eternal light that would never go out. It required keeping the flame of His love and His light burning brightly in us. The Oil for our lampstand is Holy Spirit. This Reminds me of the old song, “Give me oil in my lamp  keep it burning, burning, burning; Keep it burning til the break of day.” Lord let us be of the five virgins who bought plenty of oil to keep their lamps burning until Jesus arrived to take them home.(Matt.25.)

The fire in the lamps reveals the 7 spirits of God, the fire of God that is in Christ and therefore in us. This fire flows out of the love of God that is in us. The 7 spirits of God are listed in Isaiah 11:1-3 speaking of Christ as the branch, the stem, the shoot from Israel. Israel is our roots, and nourishment is found for us in our roots. Jesus came to us as the redeemer and all the promises of God came from our roots. Revelation 5 tells us these 7 spirits were sent out into all the earth. Likewise, in us they are God in us flowing out. The 7 spirits are “The spirit of the Lord, The spirit of the fear of the Lord and spirit of knowledge, the spirit of wisdom and spirit of understanding, the spirit of counsel and spirit of might.

As believers, what is within us is revealed in this lampstand. The Shaft, Jesus was made unto us Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption.(4 knobs on shaft) 1Corinth 1:30. In Revelation 4 you can see Christ is the Lion, the Eagle, the man, and the calf which represents the 4 Zoa or the abiding presence of Christ in us. His very nature is within us that we can obtain through His promises (2Peter 1:3-4).

From the shoot are the branches on each side. On one side there are 3 knobs-flowers and on the other side there are 3 knobs- flowers. These reveal the gifts of Holy Spirit that flows from us and the fruits of Holy Spirit that is in us. God wants us to have love and power to reach out and build the Kingdom of God. To be the light of the world, the light on a lampstand as Jesus spoke of, we need both love and power as He modeled for us.

The scriptures teach us the lampstand is personal, in every believer. It is in each body of Christ, the city, the nation, the world. In The Ephesians church of Revelation 2:1-7 it is revealed that this lampstand burns in us through our intimate love relationship with the Lord Jesus. It burns out of love; It burns out of faith; it burns out of surrender to the Holy Spirit and His ways that are so much higher than ours. It does not burn out of a religious head knowledge of works; it burns out of pure devoted love for the Lord Jesus which results in love for others as well. So as many sang in church as a small child, “Don’t let the devil blow it out.”  Treat offense, unforgiveness, critical attitudes, judgmental attitudes, and pride as venomous snakes that will poison your inner man and keep your light hidden or in darkness. (I attached notes with this and a picture).

Lastly and briefly Zechariah chapters 2&3 says, there is a prophetic lampstand now in Heaven whereby two witnesses are pouring out oil through pipes attached to the large bowls of oil. It is to rebuild the church on earth, a church without walls, a church with a wall of fire around it and fire in its midst. This oil, anointing, is purifying the priesthood and empowering the kings of the earth.  The heavens are opening to this church. We, the believers, are the kings and priests of the earth. (Rev.1:6) We are to finish the suffering and the work of Christ on the earth and build His kingdom, preparing the way of the Lord.  We are to speak double Grace to it as we build “Not by might, not by power but by My Spirit says the Lord.” There is so much more to these chapters….to be continued.                         Janee Hawks

The lampstand Scriptures

O.T. Temple, patterned after the one in Heaven:

  • Exodus 25; 31- 40
  • Exodus 37:17- 24
  • Exodus 27: 20- 21
  • 2 Chronicles 13:11

Hebrews 9:1-5 The earthly sanctuary, copies of the true one

We Are the temple, the habitation of God:

1st Corinthians 3:16-17  2nd Corinthians 6:16   1 Peter 2: 4-5

Ephesians 1:17-18…Picture of the Lampstand through Holy Spirit in us

What the lampstand means in us….POWERFUL  Proverbs 20:27  I Corith.2:11

 7 Spirits of God…Fire of God     Isaiah 11:1-3

Understanding the Lampstand & 7 Spirits of God

  John 1:1-4 His light is the life of man

Luke 11:33-36…we are to shine as the sons of that light

Matt.25:1-13 Keep plenty of oil for your lamp

Rev. 2:5…Burns out of first love

Rev. 4:5…Fire of God

Rev5:1-7 sent out into all the earth…Isaiah 11:3-5

Zechariah 3 and 4: The lampstand to finish the work of Christ on the earth

Kingdom building with the body of Christ, The Priests and Kings of the earth…Connected to the Head, the Lord Jesus Christ

Are going to receive Heavenly Oil from two witnesses who stand at the Lampstand in heaven to finish the work not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord, and the 7 spirits of the Lord, the fire of God.

Unable to get the picture to post:   Janee Hawks

“NO ONE”

“NO ONE!”

As I was reading I John 4 this morning in the amplified, the Lord began to speak to me.These are my thoughts from the Lord , I believe. Jesus revealed fresh to me again His love.

 What I am seeing is there is no one like Jesus, and no one who can love us more than He does. I am seeing Him in a fresh new light of how much He gave everything out of  His love for us. He gave up His glory in heaven with the Father to become like us so we could become like Him. He will never return to that some place. He is a resurrected man, 100% God, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords now, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.

In the beginning with God, Jesus existed as the word of God. He was the second person of the Godhead. Three persons, one God, each with His Divine character and purpose. The counsel was set over the fall of man on Gods beautiful earth. The word of God chose to strip Himself of His current place in Glory to come to earth in the form of a baby and live out for 33 years what it was like to live in a fallen world as a real human. He remained sinless all His days feeling love for mankind, knowing it was His love and mission to pay the price for their sin debt of revolt. Satan had taken mankind captive, and He was sent to set them free.

What was burning into my spirit was how much He loves us. What caused Him to suffer, to be abandoned, to pay the price of our sin debt with the worst death anyone could have because of His  deep love for us. And Jesus, more than anyone else knows our every trial, test, challenges, and heartaches because He was tempted in every way we are. He experience it all. There is nothing we go through that He cannot understand as He too experienced everything we do. Jesus conquered the cross out of love for us. He conquered pain and sorrow out of love for us. When He took His last breath He said, “It is Finished!” He changed everything for us.

Out of love for us, knowing us like no other, Jesus gave us the way to live with Him forever. He gave us the way to be just like Him. He gave us the chance to exchange the fall we were born with for His divine nature at the cross. He gave us the chance to experience freedom from the devil’s orphanage in which we were bound. He set us free from ourselves and showed us the path of liberty though the power of Holy Spirit.

He understands mind battles we face, the raging emotions, and the breaking of our wills. He has so much compassion for us. NO ONE could love us more or know us better. We are His pearl of great price he bought with His own life. We are His treasured possession, the apple of His eye, His bride, His body. He sees us washed in His blood forgiven and grieves at anything that would hinder us from His presence. He can hardly wait for us to become His complete redemption, a beautiful spotless bride forever. We complete Him and He completes us. WOW, What a Savior, what a friend, what a love! NO ONE can understand me like He can , No one can understand you like He can. No one could ever love us more than He does. His love for us is perfect!

Jesus made it possible for us to be resurrected in Spirit, Soul and the final redemption, a glorious new immortal body as He has. He awaits us in Heaven as 100 % God and 100% man. There is no one ever to exist like Him,  but we have a chance to follow Him and become as He is forever.  He is the Way, the truth and the Life! This is the only door. There is no substitute. No one has ever done what the Lord Jesus has done.        NO ONE!

  We must know Him in this great love, for He is our life.  As we chose to believe, obey and live in an intimate relationship with Him now in this fallen world the roots of our hearts will go down so deep into His love. We will keep conquering from His victory until He comes to change it all. He owns the title deed to the earth, and He will prevail. Right now, He wants to prevail through His body on the earth. We will prevail through this same love that He loved us with and gave to us through the power of Holy Spirit. As He walked in the power of the Holy Spirit so must we every day. Holy Spirit reveals Jesus to us, keeps us in His heart, hearing His voice, feeling His touch and fuses His supernatural power into our human strength. His love for us is beyond our human understanding.

This love is so much higher than we can even comprehend. It is so beyond us that we need to Ask the Father to reveal this love to us in a way that we may truly know this incredible Savior , Jesus Christ as He deserves to be known. Just to know that Jesus lives in me is to know that His love is in me. Deep within our spirit let it arise and fill us with the overflowing love that will bring Him great joy. It will spill out in miracles of love and power to this world who so desperately needs Him. Remember He said in His word “As He is, so are we in this world.”.

       As I finish writing this Jesus , I am weeping in my spirit over this fresh revelation of How much you know me in every way. You understand me like no other and You love me like no other. You love me with a perfect love that  never ends, it will always be there. Nothing can separate me  from Your love Jesus. How great is this love. I have known this but now as you reveal a fresh revelation to me, I am changed again and falling in love with you again and again. This love revelation draws me into your heart. Help me life in your heart. Let this bless others Lord.                       J.H.

 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven ad dearth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height- to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fulness of God Ephesians 3: 14-19 NKJ

 

 

“KINGDOM PEACE STORY”

“KINGDOM PEACE STORY”

Janee Hawks

Lord, we ask you today for real peace! Peace is “freedom.”  Webster says peace is freedom from war, violence, and all disturbances that would keep you from quiet tranquility or mental calm and serenity. 

Peace is a heavenly commodity that has to come to earth through the kingdom of God. It is His gift to us who believe and see Christ Jesus for who He is. Jesus said when he went away, I will not leave you comfortless but I will give you another in My place. He will be My peace in you.  Peace I leave with you, it is My gift to you, and it is not the same as the peace the world gives. This peace that is so beyond our understanding is found in communion with the Holy Spirit who Jesus has given to His own. 

I want to share one experience that has made this truth a reality that lives in me.  In 1970 I experienced a peace that I knew was supernatural and would always be with me.  My three-year-old son died after five days in a hospital struggling to live due to a tonsillectomy. Respiratory complications existed in recovery room and he was not able to regain the damage done.  I leaned into Jesus who I was just getting to know. He graced me with a holy peace and wrapped His arms of strength around me. The strength of His peace gave me a sense of security. Even though there was the shock of crisis and the deep grief of loss I was able to function in a calm state of serenity. In the weeks, months and years to follow I was to learn about His peace and His great faithfulness in the midst of the worst crisis I could imagine.

 In the midst of this particular lengthy life-storm I was divinely kept in a state of freedom from damage and despair. It was real peace. The peace rested faithfully in my heart and mind. It was not dependent on what difficulties I had to face going through a funeral, or telling his two sisters why he was no longer with us. It was not dependent on the rough days ahead for me of missing his smile and giggles, or his hugs and kisses. When I had to remove his clothes and toys from his room my tears flowed like a river but it felt that they were being kept and used to wash away my grief.  When I had to set the table without my little son’s plate my aching heart struggled in desperation for comfort and I found it in a divine person who knew pain and heartache beyond any man. Jesus shared His comfort with me and now I know how to share comfort with others.  This Peace had His strength in it that enabled me to do what I would have never believed I could do. I found a part of me that I did not know existed. There were times of grieving that I felt so life-less and despondent but as I leaned into Jesus it would change. Looking back the best description of what I experienced is it seemed like a liquid healing ointment would touch me and was being smeared on my heart. I know now it was the love of God. You see this became Jesus revealed to me. This touch was a person; it was Jesus, who has been my faithful redeemer and friend now for 38 years. And it was Holy Spirit; Who Jesus gave as His gift to be in me and with me. And through every trial of life I am still learning to lean into His Peace more and more. 

You do not find real peace when your bank account is full, or when your job is secure, or your health insurance is paying the doctor bills. You don’t find real peace when life is handing you all sunshine and roses. You find real peace that passes all human understanding in great trials, impossible challenges, and the raging storms of life. His treasures are found in dark lonely places of emptiness, pain and brokenness. He is very near in times of trouble and so ready to show us who He is for us. He is always there to give His peace.

Today this country is facing a storm of great velocity that will shake the lives of many, including believers. People need the Lord. This world cannot find this kind of peace until the King of peace returns again to the earth. His Kingdom is peace. Jesus Christ is real peace personified. He gives Himself to us in the gift of the Holy Spirit Who will forever be with us and in us regardless of the worst circumstances. Holy Spirit is comfort and much more.

Lord, again, we ask you today for real peace! There is hardly a nation, a family or a person who is not in need of this real peace today.

But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you. “Peace I leave with you; My [own] Peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.] John 14:26-27 Amplified

“KINGDOM PEACE STORY”

“KINGDOM PEACE STORY”

Janee Hawks

Lord, we ask you today for real peace! Peace is “freedom.”  Webster says peace is freedom from war, violence, and all disturbances that would keep you from quiet tranquility or mental calm and serenity. 

Peace is a heavenly commodity that has to come to earth through the kingdom of God. It is His gift to us who believe and see Christ Jesus for who He is. Jesus said when he went away, I will not leave you comfortless but I will give you another in My place. He will be My peace in you.  Peace I leave with you, it is My gift to you, and it is not the same as the peace the world gives. This peace that is so beyond our understanding is found in communion with the Holy Spirit who Jesus has given to His own. 

I want to share one experience that has made this truth a reality that lives in me.  In 1970 I experienced a peace that I knew was supernatural and would always be with me.  My three-year-old son died after five days in a hospital struggling to live due to a tonsillectomy. Respiratory complications existed in recovery room and he was not able to regain the damage done.  I leaned into Jesus who I was just getting to know. He graced me with a holy peace and wrapped His arms of strength around me. The strength of His peace gave me a sense of security. Even though there was the shock of crisis and the deep grief of loss I was able to function in a calm state of serenity. In the weeks, months and years to follow I was to learn about His peace and His great faithfulness in the midst of the worst crisis I could imagine.

 In the midst of this particular lengthy life-storm I was divinely kept in a state of freedom from damage and despair. It was real peace. The peace rested faithfully in my heart and mind. It was not dependent on what difficulties I had to face going through a funeral, or telling his two sisters why he was no longer with us. It was not dependent on the rough days ahead for me of missing his smile and giggles, or his hugs and kisses. When I had to remove his clothes and toys from his room my tears flowed like a river but it felt that they were being kept and used to wash away my grief.  When I had to set the table without my little son’s plate my aching heart struggled in desperation for comfort and I found it in a divine person who knew pain and heartache beyond any man. Jesus shared His comfort with me and now I know how to share comfort with others.  This Peace had His strength in it that enabled me to do what I would have never believed I could do. I found a part of me that I did not know existed. There were times of grieving that I felt so life-less and despondent but as I leaned into Jesus it would change. Looking back the best description of what I experienced is it seemed like a liquid healing ointment would touch me and was being smeared on my heart. I know now it was the love of God. You see this became Jesus revealed to me. This touch was a person; it was Jesus, who has been my faithful redeemer and friend now for 38 years. And it was Holy Spirit; Who Jesus gave as His gift to be in me and with me. And through every trial of life I am still learning to lean into His Peace more and more. 

You do not find real peace when your bank account is full, or when your job is secure, or your health insurance is paying the doctor bills. You don’t find real peace when life is handing you all sunshine and roses. You find real peace that passes all human understanding in great trials, impossible challenges, and the raging storms of life. His treasures are found in dark lonely places of emptiness, pain and brokenness. He is very near in times of trouble and so ready to show us who He is for us. He is always there to give His peace.

Today this country is facing a storm of great velocity that will shake the lives of many, including believers. People need the Lord. This world cannot find this kind of peace until the King of peace returns again to the earth. His Kingdom is peace. Jesus Christ is real peace personified. He gives Himself to us in the gift of the Holy Spirit Who will forever be with us and in us regardless of the worst circumstances. Holy Spirit is comfort and much more.

Lord, again, we ask you today for real peace! There is hardly a nation, a family or a person who is not in need of this real peace today.

But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you. “Peace I leave with you; My [own] Peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.] John 14:26-27 Amplified

“The Christmas Baby”

“THE CHRISTMAS BABY “

HE SAID YES! 

 What is the depth of meaning in Christmas and a baby Jesus in a manger? The story began in eternity past as God the Word, being of the Triune God head, said yes to do what it would take to save mankind and earth. You see He was called the Word. He said yes to becoming flesh. He said yes to leaving all the glory of Heaven and His place beside the Father to be born like a human as a baby. He said yes to humble Himself as the most vulnerable human, a baby. He said yes to become just like us, with all the human experiences, feelings, pain, trials, & temptations. He said Yes, to encounter all it meant to be a human in a world that had been stolen by the Angel called Lucifer. They called him Jesus because He was sent to save. He said yes to giving his life, shedding His blood to cleanse all the rebellion or revolt against Heaven and mankind. He experienced everything in life that any of us would and died the most horrific death known to man on a cross after severe beatings and cruel persecutions.  

Think a moment of what I just said and put yourself in this picture. What kind of love is this? What kind of love would completely give everything, your life, position, peace, your whole state of being; becoming something else in order to save your enemies who were lost in a rebellion.  That is the depth of meaning to this Christmas baby who said yes. This baby, the son of God, was the Word who became flesh, a man, yet 100% God. He said yes to experience in every way what we experience, to feel everything we feel and to be persecuted his whole life for who he was, and finally to go the cross for every one of us to be able to say yes to Him and His plan of salvation. The whole creation groans in Lucifers domination over earth but because of this Love that said yes, the title deed to the earth has been redeemed back to the Father God. This Christmas baby grew, lived, and died and now reigns as a resurrected man who is 100% God, called the King of Kings, The Lord of Lords. He will return to bring the earth into the light of His peace, joy, and the greatest of all His love.  What kind of Love is this? It actually can live in you and me. This is the reason for the Christmas baby that said YES! Will you say that kind of YES to Him?                                                                                                                Janee Hawks