The Lord recently spoke to me very clearly ,"There is a presence you long for so there is a praise you must have." We must be presence driven in all we do. As Moses said to the Lord in Exodus 33:15, "I do not want to go where your presence does not go with me."

I do not want to do anything or go anywhere the presence of the Lord does not go before me to sustain me, to carry me and surround me for His glory. As I thought on this I penned the following words as they flowed in His anointing. May they speak and bless you with His presence.

"Lord, I must have your presence. It is more to me than this life I live
As the song goes Lord, I need Your presence more than the air I breathe,
More than the song I sing, much more than anything."

Lord, I want your presence with me every moment of everyday.
I want it to be the fragrance I wear; an aroma of your peace.
Let your presence be the atmosphere created around me at all times.
May Your presence be the clothing of my spirit, because I put you on
May Your presence be the strength of my spirit, because I practice it.

I cannot afford to take it lightly or neglect it or take it for granted.
I cannot afford not to seek it like a precious treasure of all time.
I cannot settle for Your gifts without Your presence.
I cannot settle for Your ministry power without Your presence.
I cannot settle to serve You but without Your real presence.

I cannot feel your presence with my emotions; I sense your presence with my spirit senses. But I can feel your power when it comes through your real presence. Therefore I must learn to be aware of my spirit.

When my spirit is fully alive, mature and well I sense your presence.
When you Holy Spirit quicken my spirit I can sense presence and feel power.
My spirit must become strong, mature, and 100% surrendered to Holy Spirit.

(My spirit must have steady diet of His living word; run the race for truth with single focus and submissive heart, pray constantly the prayers of faith, give praise, thanksgiving, worship always, at all times, in all things.)

Holy Spirit's presence is the breathe (O2) my spirit breaths.
The voice of God (word) is the food of my spirit.
The life of the flesh is in the blood, but the life of my spirit is in the indwelling power of Holy Spirit.

The praise from my heart connects my spirit soul, and body to Holy Spirit.
My praise draws the complete Godhead to me.
My praise keeps my atmosphere in the Kingdom of God.
My praise hinders and defeats the enemy.
My praise brings His presence upon whatever He tells me to do. SELAH

My praise is relationship at it's highest in that it is my affections of faith toward Him. Kiss the Son. It is my access to where He is and draws Him to me. It causes me to go into the heart of worship as I make Him the total object of my worship. I am changed into His likeness, as He becomes the greatest love in my life. I will become like the one I love the most and I will worship the one I love the most therefore when I worship Him with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength I become like him. (2 Corinthians 3:18)

Zion is calling me to a higher place of praise. It becomes my highest praise when all I am responds to who you are; it becomes my highest praise, just to know you.

We must be well diggers, like Isaac in Genesis 26:19 who dug again the wells of springing (unfailing) water, of His father Abraham for the enemy had stopped them up. We need to go deep unto deep to the well Holy Spirit is in us and drink of the water of life in Christ. This water revives, refreshes, restores and heals our whole being.

Dig deeper into the wells within us to release the violent praise of destiny and to release the warfare praise of victory. We must learn warfare praise to bind the enemy with fetters and chains, to execute judgment and vengeance. (Psalm 149).

We need to come to the Rock and break our vessels on the Rock and let our depths be poured out again to release a fountain flowing deep and wide to all around. This quenches all other thirsts and destroys the distractions and old debris that have always stopped us up. Our current distractions are cares of life, and our old debris are mostly our old habits and thinking patterns that God did not give us.

We need a praise that is as natural to us as the clothes we wear and as the breath we breathe. We practice being in His praise and therefore sensing His presence as we do eating, dressing, and breathing. It comes out of us easy, automatic, and constant. It is the word on our lips in at all times and in all things. It is the beat of our hearts that God smells as sweet incense that draws Him so us. It is our life to be praise on the earth. We are called to be a people of praise unto our God. (I Peter 2:9; Romans13:14)

We need throne room praise: (Revelation 4,5)
It will have one object: He is our praise. (Dueternomy 10:21) He is exalted. It will be effective for it brings Him to us and lift us to Him. (Psalm 22:3) It transforms us. (2 Corinthians 3:18) It provides what we need. It will be pure as we live and move and have our very being in Him. (Acts 17:28) It takes us up to a higher place where we fall down before Him and lay all our crowns at His feet, which in this life enables us to stand in victory, freedom, and destiny.

See Scriptures below:

John 14

vs 13-14 – Jesus said, "Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again and again. Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst-not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life." – Message

vs 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. – King James Version

vs 14 But whoever takes a drink of the water that I will give him shall never, no never, be thirsty any more. But the water that I will give him shall become a spring of water welling up (flowing, bubbling) [continually] within him unto (into, for) eternal life. – Amplified

John 7

vs 38 – He who believes in Me [who cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me] as the Scripture has said, From his innermost being shall flow [continuously] springs and rivers – Amplified

vs 38 – Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him ."of living water. – New International Version (Note – The King James Version says "fountain of living waters")

vs 37-39 – On the final and climactic day of the Feast, Jesus took his stand. He cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way, just as the Scripture says." (He said this in regard to the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. The Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.) – Message

Psalms 149

vs 1 – Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, And His praise in the assembly of saints.
vs 2 – Let Israel rejoice in their Maker;
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
vs 3 – Let them praise His name with the dance;
Let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp.
vs 4 – For the LORD takes pleasure in His people;
He will beautify the humble with salvation.
vs 5 – Let the saints be joyful in glory;
Let them sing aloud on their beds.
vs 6 – Let the high praises of God be in their mouth,
And a two-edged sword in their hand,
vs 7 – To execute vengeance on the nations,
And punishments on the peoples;
vs 8 – To bind their kings with chains,
And their nobles with fetters of iron;
vs 9 – To execute on them the written judgment-
This honor have all His saints.

Praise the LORD!

Introduction: Part One

"Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Lord is there is perfect liberty." Wow! What a scripture in 2 Corinthians 3:17

What can we say? The Holy Spirit is the Lord over the earth now because of our Divine Redeemer, Jesus Christ, who purged creation and destroyed the sinful revolt with His lifeblood. Holy Spirit, as the third person of the Godhead was sent out from God the Father to the earth by Jesus Christ to live in and with all those who would believe through His life, death and resurrection. Now do not take lightly those three words, (life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ) for they speak of us experiencing a life-changing encounter with a living God for the rest of our lives. It is a supernatural event that lasts for an eternity. You must be living in this event to know Holy Spirit and understand He is Lord on the earth for you now.

Jesus Christ is God the son and a resurrected man who has become the first fruits of a resurrected immortality for all those who will wholly follow Him in this temporary life. He is the Lord of all Lords; the King of all kings who reigns from heaven at the right hand of God the Father. He lives constantly to search our hearts with His word and intercede for us to be fully sanctified body, soul, and spirit that He might present us blameless before the throne of our Father God.

The Holy Spirit is the Lord on the earth today exercising the will of God on the earth. He is the powerful source of freedom for all creation. He is the divine person who empowers the Kingdom of God to come and take dominion over the earth again restoring all creation God's Divine intentions. His mission is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and fill the earth with the love of God. Holy Spirit in and with believers, the body of Christ will fill the earth with knowledge and truth, wisdom and power, and the authority and dominion of God. Listen carefully now, God has ordained that HOLY SPIRIT move His Kingdom come and His will be done in and through the body of Christ. Holy Spirit performs all that was accomplished on the cross of Christ in the lives of believers and He is the power of the resurrection. He lives here with us to convict the world of sin and righteousness that they might be saved.

He lives here in each believer to accomplish the victory over sin, the system of the world, and the kingdom of the devil. He lives here in and with each believer to accomplish their personal destiny of existing. He knows why each one was sent to earth. Holy Spirit longs to fill lives with the everlasting and enduring love of the Father God for His creation.

"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
Wow! What a scripture in 2 Corinthians 13:14

We are to have communion with Holy Spirit if we have given our lives to the Lord Jesus Christ. But do we know Him? Communion is receiving within from another and giving into another. It is deep unto deep. When two come together giving up a part of themselves to become a part of another then the two become a strong bond, which resembles both but has greater abilities. In physics it is called a covalent bond the strongest of all element bonds. So think with me, right now in this temporary life do we give unto our Divine partner who is eternally in us and with us our daily thoughts, our activities, our dreams, our heartaches and pain, our abilities and possessions to be used, and our lives to be set apart for His use only? What we give daily to Holy Spirit, especially our undivided focus and uncompromising heart will result in a great divine exchange of His heavenly nature and God's favor over our lives.

"Now hope does not disappoint us because the Love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us."
Wow! What a scripture in Romans 5:5

Holy Spirit is the sweetheart of heaven as He comes to awaken genuine love in us and fill us with love beyond our human capacity. He keeps us in the love of God as we surrender to obey His voice from deep within our hearts. He alone can empower us to choose love that will overcome even to bless our enemies. In life's worst circumstances as we surrender to our divine companion within, this love comes pouring into our hearts when it seems impossible to love. Without His love we are all lost. Friends of God we are deceiving ourselves and drifting around in our religious speedboats in vain if His love does not motivates our all. We are going nowhere unless all that our lives consist of in word and deed, is not being divinely overlaid with His genuine love.

"You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies: You anoint my head with oil: My cup runs over."
Glory to God! What a scripture in Psalm 23:5

He will prepare a table before us in the presence of our enemies that nourishes us, satisfies us, and strengthens us with the delight of His presence and provision. The enemy cannot touch us at this table, nor can he steal or rob from it. He just has to watch us get whatever we need from our Lord. The Lord feeds us fresh bread from heaven we call revelations and meat, which is the sustaining wisdom of the age for conquering in the great plan of God. He gives us spiritual drink, like the living water to make us fully alive. Also He fills us with new wine to intoxicate us with passionate love for Him and compassion for others. He pours His holy oil over us to keep us submerged with the supernatural works in the glory of God.

"These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. Peace I leave with you My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you."
Really think on this Scripture from John 14:25-27

Holy Spirit will teach us all things if we communicate with Him in the language He gives to us. It is a direct line to the God of all knowledge and ability needed in this world. The supernatural language of heaven comes within the believer through surrendering to the full atmosphere and power of Holy Spirit and then through it we can naturally pray and speak the perfect will of God. This language is not of the fallen nature of man but is found in the redemption of Christ and when believed and received becomes naturally supernatural to the believer in Christ. It will release Kingdom in you and around you for the Glory of God. You will be able to communicate and pray the perfect will of God when you do not know how to pray. Holy Spirit is our teacher, our revealer of all that is truth and our discerner of all that is deception. He will protect us from the error and subtle spiritual confusions of this hour. He is the one who shows us our past or our present for good purposes and the future when it is needed in the plan of our lives. He is the peace within us that Jesus gave and left with us. The world cannot give this but if we totally rely on Holy Spirit we will have His wonderful presence and assurance that He will never leave us in any of the circumstances of life.

He makes our Jesus so real and so alive to us. He longs to teach us to know the Father like Jesus did. When Jesus left the earth He handed the baton to us and sent Holy Spirit to us to fill the earth with the Kingdom of God. Holy Spirit is longing to empower and release the greater works and gifts of Jesus Christ to His body on the earth today.

Holy Spirit is that unseen Divine person that daily walks with you and talks with you. He is the one who is faithful to the end for you. He is your strength when you are weak, and your power when you are too strong in yourself. He is your eye to see what God is saying to you. He is your ear to hear the voice to obey immediately. He is your hand extended to the one in need. He is your reminder of truths of which you have lost sight. He warns you when you are in danger. He gives you solutions to many of your problems and practical answers to your daily life questions. He gives you insights of what is happening around you and in you. He shows you how to find what you lost. He cherishes you, as He knows the Father does. He challenges you to higher standards of living, He commissions you to serve the Lord on your chosen path of destiny. He always points you to the narrow way to live a testimony of Jesus Christ before all creation. And one day He will lift you above it all to a final salvation, a final glorious state, into a final inheritance and immortal body for which you were born again into the Kingdom of God. How can we resist Your Spirit, grieve Him, quench Him, and even reject Him! How can we neglect so great a salvation? Help us see this Lord I pray!

To be continued………

Body of Christ, like never before it is time "to fix unmovable your spiritual focus on knowing and exalting Jesus the King. His Kingdom must come to earth as it moves in the hearts and lives of His people, keeping them full of love and faith." We, his people must follow intimately the most important person on the earth today the one who makes all that is Kingdom happen in us and for us, HOLY SPIRIT.

This summer, as the Lord has directed, there is a focus on the book of ACTS, JOHN, JOEL, and EZEKIEL and our desperate need of knowing communion with Holy Spirit and walking in the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. There is a direct but subtle attack against the Spirit of God and all He gives us and our critical need of having communion with Him. We neglect the power of speaking in the heavenly language of the Spirit we have been given, which would transform us and our surroundings in so many ways. Many are yielding to a religious spirit that is dressed up in clothes that look very much like the Holy Spirit, having a form of godliness, but no real power or love of the truth. In these final days of God winding up His great plan on the earth, the darkness will get darker and more powerful, as the Light of God arises to it greatest days of penetrating through the darkness in power and love to see the harvest of the earth. But we will not be able to rise to meet the challenges of this hour without knowing and operating in the all the fullness of the Holy Spirit. It will not be by might, by power, but by my Spirit says the Lord. It is about the Kingdom of God that the King Jesus bought back to us with His own life, that we might be redeemed back to our place of glory with God , perfect communion and fellowship, righteousness, peace and joy. We are His body on the earth, to do the works of the Father, the greater works, which will accomplish His will and bring His kingdom to the earth in culture, values, nature, language and lifestyle. He has invested His all into us to accomplish His will, and it can only be done in the same manner Jesus did it, by complete submission and obedience to the Divine person, Holy Spirit.

I do not even feel adequate or worthy to approach this subject as if to know enough to expound on, but what little He has shown me I desire to share with you. I hunger and thirst for more constant fullness of His glory in my life as I am sure many others do as well.

"What is the glory realm? It is the realm of eternity. It is the revelation of the presence of God. It is the manifestation of His presence. He is glory. He is everywhere, but glory is the manifestation of that reality. Earth has the atmosphere of air, whereas the heavenly atmosphere is glory, His presence. When glory comes down, it’s a bit of Heaven’s atmosphere coming down to us, a taste of His manifest presence." – Ruth Heflin

If Christ be in you then that Glory is in you. He is the air of your spirit, the atmosphere of the Kingdom of God within you. Christ,the Glory of God ,is the wisdom of God in you and the power of God in you. Christ in you richly and fully sets you apart into the Glory of God. Christ in you redeems you back into the original plan , placing you into the righteousness of the Glory, clothing you with the righteousness of His glory and giving to you the power to live and move and have your very being in the righteousness of His glory. (I Corinthians 1:24,30)

We were made for the GLORY: Man was created in Glory and clothed with Glory. Every part of him, every cell, every inch of his outer and inner man was overlaid with Glory. Just as the picture of the temple in the Moses day so was Adam in the beginning and so does redemption in Christ Jesus buy this place back for us. We are destined for the Glory and to be clothed and overlaid in it. The glory of the latter temple shall be greater than the former. (Genesis 1:26-28; Exodus 25:8-22; Haggai 2:9)

The ark of the covenant is the glory of the covenant that is placed into , or enclosed into our spirit by the Holy Spirit. The glory is covenant. We are enclosed; we are hid, in Christ with God. In other words we are hidden, enclosed, and overlaid with the Glory which is Christ in us ,the hope of Glory. His divine nature is our gold. The glory is a mercy seat, not a judgment seat, It is a place of rich manna from heaven,which is His present voice speaking to us from heaven. It is a place of rich testimony of who He is and of His will written or etched by the anointing of God on our hearts. It is a place of supernatural power in us and through us. It is a place where angelic ministers of fire minister to us day and night. It is a place of the marvelous light of His glory that shines in us and through us and to us. This greater glory is housed in an earthen vessel that the excellency of its greatness will give glory to God and not to man.

The ark of the covenant was made first. The ark of covenant is the beginning in us. There is no temple to complete or to build for the Lord until there is an ark of covenant in us first through the Lord Jesus Christ. We must be born again into the Kingdom of God. When we are born anew by the Holy Spirit, the ark of the covenant is within us and the temple can be completed. That good work God has begun in you He will then complete. Those who have been born into the Kingdom of God are a habitation of God, through the Spirit of God. They are living stones, built up into a house of God, a holy temple, a holy priesthood, a peculiar people; the people of God. You cannot be converted into a denomination or church body without this born again supernatural encounter with the Triune God. The ark of covenant must be first. Your spirit must be made new and overlaid by the glory of God so that your whole temple can be built with overlaid gold which is Christ in you, the glory. (I Peter 2:4-5; Colossians .1:27)

The glory which the Father gave to Christ has been given to us by the Lord Jesus. As we come into Him and before Him and look with a single focus into His glory we are looking as in a mirror at the glory and we are changed, we are transformed in that place like no other place. If we continue to come up into that place, to climb the mountain of the Lord, and to abide in His holy place we will be continually changed from one state of glory to another. Glory will increase in us in the same manner as faith increases in us when we exercise it in the trials of life. Gold is weighty and when we are changed from glory to glory in the trials of life gold forms in our nature and it is called an eternal weight of glory for us. So count it all joy when tribulations come knowing that it is perfecting and completing you, the temple, overlaying every part of your inner and outer man with His glory which is His gold. In Moses' day there was a curtain keeping the ark of covenant separated from the rest of the temple, but when Christ paid the ultimate price of redemption on the cross, the veil was rent into and the way was gloriously open for the presence and power of God to fill the whole temple with Glory.

Rejoice the way is made for you to enjoy the greater glory of the latter house of God. Jesus Christ is your hope of Glory. If Christ be in you and if you are allowing the Holy Spirit to form the mature stature of Christ in you then you are an open gate and an everlasting door that can open gates and doors anytime for the King of glory to come on the scene. (Psalms 24) Jesus Christ is the King of the Glory. He rules the Glory, He reigns over it; He is the Glory. When the King of Glory is ushered in to any scene, any situation, any place, or life He is the Lord of Hosts and all battles are won, all provisions are made, all is healed, made whole, changed, refreshed and delivered. Psalm 15 is a ticket for the silver shuttle that takes you to the throne.

All that we know in this world or experience in this world is not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us when Jesus returns. All creation groans waiting to see the manifestation of the Sons of God in their final redemption, the redemption of their bodies into the likeness of His glorious resurrected body. We will be made just like our Lord and King of Glory, and once again God's original intention will be reality; God dwelling with man, and His redeemed creation complete in an immortal house of glory. (Romans 8:18-23; Philippians 3:21)

So church "how great is our God" that He would place us in His Glory. He responds to your faith, He loves to see your faith, and He responds to your hunger and thirst. All He asks is for you to respond to Him. All He asks is for you to come to Him. The Holy Spirit will lead us into the riches of His glory if we seek Him first and make the Lord the greatest pleasure and greatest possession of our lives.

If you are one who professes Christianity, please be sure you have the ark of the covenant secure within you. If not you do not have the Son of God in you then you do not have life eternal. Please make sure you are born again into the Kingdom of God by the Holy Spirit and not just a convert of a denomination or church. Be sure you have not just made a mental assent to know about Jesus Christ and what He did but have no supernatural encounter with a living Christ, with the Holy Spirit, the ark of the covenant in you, Christ in you , the hope of Glory. It is a matter of life and death.

Arise church of the living God ,shine with His love for Christ is in you. Your light has come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon You. (Isaiah 60:1)

Don't miss reading the scriptures below……………

Colossians 1:27 – "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."

John 1:14 – "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

John 17:22 – "And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one."

2 Corinthians 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."

2 Corinthians 3:9-10 – "For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth."

Philippians 4:19 – "But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus."

I Thessalonians 2:12 – "That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory."

2 Corinthians 4:17 – "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."

Ephesians 1:6 – "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved."

Ephesians 3:16 – "That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man."

Psalms 3:3 – "But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head."

Romans 8:18 – "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."

Matthew 25:31 – "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory."

I Chronicles 16:27 – "Glory and honor are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place."

Romans 9:23 – "And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory."

Hebrews 9:5 – "And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly."

Matthew 6:13 – "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen."

Revelation 21:23 – "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof."

Ezekiel 3:23 – "Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face."

Ezekiel 10:4 – "Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory."

I have been constantly seeking of the Lord for direction to stay on course with His great plan for this season. Recently He spoke to me: "I will not leave you without instructions." I was impressed to go to Joshua and the Lord began to show me that 2007 was the year for many in the Kingdom of God to cross over to a promised place in Him of living fully alive in the Holy Spirit. I spoke some of it in our ministry only later to find the Lord is speaking it to many others as well. I believe each one receives it a little different so I will share what the Lord has given to me.

First of all the picture given us in Joshua of God's people crossing over the river Jordan to the promised land foreshadows where God is with the church right now. Jesus Christ is our Joshua, our commander in chief, our Lord of Hosts and He is calling us to a Holy Place in Him, where we must take our shoes off to stand there. According to Hebrew custom that is to relinquish all our own self-rights to everything. We must follow His voice, the instructions of the Spirit without question, or doubt, or hesitation as they did even though it had never been done this way before. Every thing was going to change. The manna raining down from heaven would cease. They would not be fed in quite the same manner. Now they would eat the fruit of the land. There would be great reform that would take a battle but would end in great rest and peace.

The church has been in the wilderness living far below the victorious life of richness in the Holy Spirit. We have been continuing our traditions while living in Babylon held captive by the idolatrous system of materialism, humanism and immorality. God wants to set His church free to live much higher in holiness, righteousness, mercy and justice. God is ready to complete His latter house of greater glory out of those who have surrendered to becoming living stones He can smooth, shape and cement together in love with other stones. God is creating a house made without hands that will come forth to do great works on the earth not by might or power, but by the Spirit of the Lord. This Promised Land is a life lived in rest as we live and move and have our very being in Christ. It is a life of victory over the soul led life. It is learning to live only on fresh bread from heaven and drink new wine from the Spirit. It is partaking of the rich milk and honey that comes from a Holy Spirit led life. God is saying to the church today that it is time to cross over the waters of Jordan. It is a baptism of death to the soulish realm, as you leave the place of living for God out of the power of your mind, your own will, and your sensual emotions. It is crossing over to the empowerment of a fresh new life in the spirit fully surrendered to the power and love of God by the Holy Spirit.

God is grieved today as He looks at the rejection of the Holy Spirit today. He is the last person of the Godhead to come to earth for the redemption of mankind. We as a people quickly turn to follow social comforts in religious circles, we follow soul ties, and we easily turn to eloquence, entertaining or a safe gospel environment. We have a form of godliness but continue to deny our greatest need, the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives and the love He pours into our heart for the Lord Jesus. We resist Him, we grieve Him, we quench Him, and we do not welcome His transforming power in our lives and think nothing of it. In our fear of not being respectable, acceptable, proper and religiously correct we have become dry, complacent, indifferent and think we have need of nothing. Religious man-made traditions and counterfeit substitutions of the move of God are killing us. God help us!

Crossing over was a process of a total of 10 days for the children of Israel. It was a testing period for them. The number 10 means a testing time. During this time of testing they would find the strength and courage needed as they focused in absolute faith on the commands of the Lord, with their mouth and mind, mediating day and night in it. On the third day the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant stepped into the river Jordan and God showed up with a mighty miracle to part the waters all the way back to the city of Adam. The third day is significant and speaks of God revealing Himself on earth with resurrection and miraculous power. It was harvest time as it is now in the spiritual realm and the Jordan was out of its banks which spoke of a great risk to step in and cross over. Today we see the waters of judgment rising in the earth. You might say it is out of its banks. But we follow His instructions at all cost. To live by faith is always a risk, but God always shows up to do the miraculous when He sees faith. We must pass the test of faith. The waters parting clear back to Adam was significant as it points to our inborn fallen nature. The Lord says when we step in to cross over he will part the water of all our past sins, wounds, and bad experiences clear back to our beginning so nothing will hinder us from a total victory. Wow! Jesus Christ the last Adam, the Lord from heaven, made it all possible. It took them seven days to cross over. The Lord says it is 2007 the year for His people to cross over to this land of rest. The number seven symbolizes rest as God rested on the 7th day and his work was complete. God longs to see His people come into the fullness of the Holy Spirit where they will find rest and their inheritance. This inheritance is the work that will complete the destiny of your life and it will flow into the next generation.

God gave instructions that the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant were to go ahead of the rest and step in first. The Ark of the Covenant was the glory of God; the very presence of God with them. They had never been this way before. They were used to following the cloud by day and the fire by night. They were to follow 2000 cubits behind it as to see where to go. It was a new way, a new anointing; they had not seen it done this way before. The manifested presence of God among us is to be carried and followed with carefulness, reverence, and full surrender as we cross over in this baptism on dry ground to the other side.

God's instructions were to proceed for victory with the armed men at the front, then the priests blowing the trumpets and carrying the Ark of the Covenant and behind were the rear-guard. The process of possessing had an order to follow. As we go forward the battle ready intercessors must be in the front winning the battle in the heavenlies first. Then the prophets must blow the trumpets in Zion. This is the voice of God, which decrees and sets in motion the will of God. Next the glory of God must be living in the midst of us and free to move within the midst of us, and then the rear-guard must be in place keeping the back protected from the roar of the enemy. With this in place, all the people can now move forward to possess their inheritance. Each on of us is promised a Kingdom destiny in this time on the earth but it is only found in this place of utter dependence on Holy Spirit living.

They crossed over and set up stones of memorial for what God had done for them. The memorials are for training the next generation. The greatness of God and His works must always be passed on to the next generation by the memorials of testimony so they can go upward to even higher ground with God.

The next instructions were to camp at Gilgal, which was a place of deep consecration and circumcision of the soul. They celebrated the Passover here as well. They returned here to camp many times in the process of possessing the land. We must camp often at the place of deep calling unto deep with God, where He reveals what needs cut away out of us and then we commune with Him in a fresh new way, partaking of all He did for us in his body and all He bought for us with His blood. We move from this place refreshed, reformed, and ready to conquer new territory for the Kingdom of God.

To be continued…

Scriptures for further study:
Joshua 1-5
I Peter 2:4-5
Daniel 2:44
Romans 2:28-29
Joel 2:1
I Peter 1: 7
Hebrews 10:38
Romans 12:1-3

These words penned by the Holy Spirit in Paul grip my heart: "That I may lay hold of that for which Jesus Christ laid hold of me." Oh Father God, make the reality of the heart and power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ alive in us, body, soul, and spirit. Paul writes with such passion "I count all things loss for the excellency of knowing Christ Jesus." Paul's heart cries from his pen to be found in Christ, "that I might know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead." He says, "Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected: but I press on that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me."

Paul possessed the enduring love for the Lord Jesus through his submission to the Holy Spirit dwelling within him. This love would take him through all the trials and tribulations he would face as he proclaimed the gospel wherever God sent him. The Apostle Paul endured to the end that he might be counted worthy of becoming a son of the resurrection. He laid hold of the fellowship of sufferings and the power of the resurrection to receive the prize of the high call in Christ Jesus. He will know the final redemption, to be manifested as a son of God, changed into immortality with a new glorious body fit for the new heaven and earth.

Humanly we know "eros" love, the sensual kind of love, and we know the "phileo" love that enjoys being with the people who like what you like and do what you do. While these are a part of our human nature and can be healthy under God's boundaries they have been perverted and polluted. Religion is built on man's soulish ambitions, which tends to produce only a phileo type love where there is one mold and into it all must fit. The world thrives on the "anything goes sensuality," an eros kind of love. Because these same seducing spirits are at work in the church today, it is getting more difficult to tell the difference between the church world and the secular world.

Western church we live in Laodecia (Revelation 3). We are challenged not to be rocked to sleep in comfort and become indifferent and apathetic to the eternal perspective of life. The real experience of the power of the resurrection in our lives is the heart of the gospel, but it is in danger of becoming just a theory, a concept, a tradition, new clothes, or an Easter egg hunt. We live in a lukewarm religious society, which is in desperate need of an awakening to the real enduring love of God that will know Him in the fellowship of His sufferings and the power of His resurrection. It is the agape love that will endure whatever it takes to possess the power of the gospel of the Kingdom of God in Christ Jesus.

The heart of the resurrection is the cross of Christ. The cross stands in the very center of time and eternity for all creation. Without the cross there would have been no resurrection for any of us and no redemption for our cursed world. The Christ of the cross was God's great love for the world. While we were still rebellious sinners, God watched His only begotten Son suffer beyond any man and die in the place of all mankind, paying our complete sin debt, providing our healing, and releasing us from death and hell. There would be no resurrection without the love that drove Jesus Christ all the way to the cross to endure the suffering unto death. There would be no hope of immortality, of everlasting life. He could have called 10,000 angels to his aid at any time, but He did not. It was the agape love of God in Christ that endured to the end for you and me. That same love is available to us through the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead, the HOLY SPIRIT. We have a cross to take up as well, but we also can live and move and have our very being in the power of His resurrection. Wow! What a great salvation! We must not neglect it.

Listen and really hear this; it was that same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead that was with him enabling him to endure the cross. That Spirit is the Holy Spirit that pours the agape love of God into us. It is that Spirit that dwells in you and with you if you know Christ as savior and Lord. If you go after the things of the spirit and not the things of your fallen nature then the Law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus will draw you into His love and lead you victorious through life no matter what it holds for you. The sons of God are those that are led by the spirit of God. That same Spirit will pour this incredible enduring love of God into your heart for whatever you face in life. Out of love for Jesus and others you will lay hold of that resurrection power for which Jesus laid hold of you. In every hardship, trial, distress or weakness you will know faith and patience to inherit all things the Father has to give you now and in eternity. And if that same spirit dwells mightily in you it will flow from you into this world for others.

Look at the early church that knew this love within them. They endured much for Jesus and it produced the resurrection power of God in them and through them. They turned the world upside down with the Gospel. Think how Paul surely experienced and knew this power of love as he was stoned at Lydia, knowing the sentence of death in his body, yet as the disciples prayed he arose and went back to the same city that stoned him to preach the gospel. What about Philip after he preached the gospel to the Ethiopian on the road, baptizing him and was suddenly caught away being translated 25 miles away? Do you think Stephen knew this enduring love as he was martyred for declaring how he saw the Lord and heaven open before him? Then there is John the beloved who, as history tells it, was boiled in oil, was made blind by poking out his eyes, and thrown on a rocky desolate island to die. His enduring love produced the power of the resurrection as he still saw the unveiling of the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. John wrote it down as the book of Revelation. He was then released from the Island to die a natural death of old age.

The resurrection power has been given to form the sons of God on the earth, the kings of the earth and the priests of the earth. Believers, we are kings and priests in training. The whole creation waits and groans to see the manifestation of the sons of God. All creation waits anxiously for us to come into the fullness of who we really are in Christ. We as believers have been given the dominion of the earth. It was lost in the fall of Adam and Eve, but gloriously redeemed back to us in Christ Jesus. Do we know who we are and what we are to be doing on this earth? Do we experience the authority we have been given? Do we know that the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is in us and with us every day as our divine companion? He is with us to make us the Kings and priests of the earth; the sons of God who are led by the Spirit of God. We have been so completely saved by His death, so oh how much more are we given by His resurrected life now and eternally. Selah!

See many Scriptures references below. If you are really hungry then search this out. Find Him in the word. He is there.

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References

Romans 5:10 – For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!

Romans 8:32 – He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all-how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

Revelation 1:5-6 – And from Jesus Christ the faithful and trustworthy Witness, the Firstborn of the dead [first to be brought back to life] and the Prince (Ruler) of the kings of the earth. To Him Who ever loves us and has once [for all] loosed and freed us from our sins by His own blood, And formed us into a kingdom (a royal race), priests to His God and Father–to Him be the glory and the power and the majesty and the dominion throughout the ages and forever and ever. Amen (so be it).

Revelation: 5:10 – You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth." See also I Peter 2:4-5

Galatians 3:26-28 – You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God,
and they will reign on the earth."

Galatians 4:4-7 – But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.

See Also

John 11:25-26
Philippians 3: 7-11
I Thessalonians 4:14-18
I Corinthians 15: 17-19; 15: 42-58
Hebrew 2: 1-11
Luke 20:27-40
Romans 4:20-25; 5:1-5; Chapter 8
Galatians 2:20
Acts 7:54-59; 14:19-22; 8:26-40

As I write, I pray that HOPE will be renewed in your mind and heart today as you read a now word from the Lord for many of us in the body of Christ.

What has God spoke to you? What has God promised you? What has He promised you in His word? What has He promised you personally through confirmed prophetic words or through your own personal time with Him?

If He never speaks a personal word to your inner man, He has spoken enough through His Holy Scriptures to give you an abundant life throughout eternity. My question is this: "Are we really grasping within our being that God means to fulfill every word He has spoken?"

God is a God of hope. God is hope. Where God is there is always hope because of His unconditional everlasting love for us. His love hopes all things, bears all things, believes all things and endures all things. His love never fails. Hope knows with God all things are possible. What is impossible with man is possible with God. Hope knows that nothing is too hard for the Lord. Hope knows God always makes a way where there is no way. Hope knows that even in the deepest darkest pits of life His everlasting arms are underneath to sustain and lift. Hope knows that nothing can ever separate us from His great love. Hope knows He loves us just because we exist. Hope knows God makes all things beautiful in His time and can resurrect anything that has died and bring back anything that has been lost. Hope knows that even in our greatest failures He can turn them around for good and cause us to triumph in them. Our hope, all our expectations are in the Lord alone.

Father God wants us to know deep in our spirit that He called us into His beloved Son with great HOPE and expectancy of what we would become in Him. God invests in us and puts His hope in us. He is longsuffering, patient and full of mercy as all things in our lives work together for our good conforming us into the image of His Son, Jesus Christ. He eagerly anticipates our becoming a testimony on the earth of His love, His forgiveness, His mercy and His power. God hopes in us that the character developing within us will produce a fragrance of life on the earth that is the fragrance of His Son. He looks at us, counting on us to become the salt and light of this world in Christ Jesus, the embodiment of His justice.

God spoke to the patriarch Abraham that he would be the father of a great nation. His descendants were to come from him and Sarah his barren wife that would number as the stars of heaven. From that time until the time of the birth of the promised child was 25 years and both Sarah and Abraham were in the natural too old to have children. (See Romans 4)

BUT, as Abraham did, if you do not doubt and can only believe and keep believing that God is well able to perform what he has spoken; if you can hope and keep hoping even when in the natural it is impossible then you will see your promise fulfilled. You will see it, experience it, enjoy it, and watch it become all it was intended to be.

Abraham just believed and obeyed God and it was accounted unto him for righteousness, yet he never knew the advantage of the better covenant we have in Christ, as the Sprit of God can now live in full measure with us and within us writing His will on our hearts

Hope within will cause us to persevere through to the end. Scripture teaches us that we are saved in this hope of God's final redemption to return all creation to His divine intentions in the beginning. We persevere in hope knowing we will see the day of our final redemption when our bodies will be changed into the glorious likeness of our Lord becoming as He is. Hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope in what God says even if we do not see it, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. (Romans 8: 18-27) So hope believes in what you cannot see but you plan on it, prepare for it and can almost feel it in your bones. This hope is drawing us to persevere into the eternal purposes of God now in this life.

"Therefore we do not lose heart, even though our outward man is perishing; yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light afflictions, which is but for a moment m is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things, which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things, which are seen, are temporary, but the things, which are not seen, are eternal." – 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

Hope causes us to live in purity. We know the word says, "Now are we the sons of God and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone that has this HOPE in Him purifies himself just as He is pure. "(I John 3:1-3) So because that word is absolute I just keep pressing forward every day in that hope, becoming pure in Him knowing that one day I will see Him and then finally be just like Him. That hope draws His purity to me.

Hope will anchor your life into His presence. It is the anchor that secures our soul into a safe place where the Lord dwells. Hope will anchor our minds, our emotions, and our will into the presence of the Lord through all the storms life may bring to us. Because God swore by His word and His name that His promises to us were absolute and immutable, we find consolation or HOPE in all life's situations that He will do exactly what He says He will do. Through this hope we anchor our lives steadfast in His presence behind the veil where there is total peace, mercy and power. That hope draws His presence to me. Take time to read it in Hebrews 6.

Hope is the womb of our faith. We will receive nothing from the Lord without faith, for the just shall live by faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (See Hebrews 11:1) It is the hope we have for what we cannot see that seeds faith, nourishes it, and grows it in our hearts so faith can be birthed from us. Faith causes actions, substance, reality, and finally evidence.  It is the hope that works like a catalyst to convert our faith into substance and evidence, turning the realities of our lives into the truth that God has spoken to us. Hope will draw like a magnet pulling all that lines up with His word and His will for us into our desperate realities. That Hope will draw God's goodness to you.

Your heart speaks, so if there is hope in your heart it will produce faith and if faith can live long enough in your heart to get out of your mouth in effectual prayer and powerful decree it will bring about great and mighty promises. Your heart must create a witness; it must agree with God's will, it must line up with principals and truth from His word. Your heart must speak hope first or you will never develop the faith to speak and act, overcoming the oppositions to the supernatural power of God. So in the likeness of God, we in Christ can call those things that are not as though they are. What is in your heart must come forth in your words and works with creative power to see "His kingdom come on earth in your world as it is in heaven."

If we have lost hope or if we obey God with no expectation of what he will do then lets repent. Let's move hope into all our life situations. So in our spiritual activities like worship, prayer, teachings, witnessing to others, or just living life, let's expect, anticipate and hope for all God says he will do. Whatever you do in obedience to God, do it with an expectancy of what you want to see Him do. Express it to Him. Expect what you know He wills or has shown you to happen. Expect Him to do it no matter what thoughts you have or the feelings you have. Submit to God and resist all fear and failure. It does not matter if you are always understood or accepted when it comes to moving in God. Resist the negative thought and feelings. You may do it afraid, but do it in hope. Just obey God and let all your expectations be in God. God will respond to your expectations and will draw His favor and power to you and into your sphere of activity.

Hope on when nothing is going right, Hope when all you see is the dark, Hope when time is running out, Hope when hope requires the impossible, hope when you cannot feel, cannot see, and cannot tell which way to go. Hope when you feel afraid to speak, hope when you are afraid to be misunderstood, afraid to be rejected or persecuted for doing what God tells you to do. If we can stand in Hope on every word God has spoken or speaks now, it will anchors our lives into His will and secures our abode in His presence. His word is all that will last. This hope will create the faith to move the mountains in our hearts and our mouths and in all the issues of life. If Christ be in us, then so is hope, for Christ in us is our hope of glory. If we don't live out our lives drawing from the well of hope within us we will fall into apathy, indifference, and become nonchalant about our purpose and calling in the Lord. So friends, as for myself, I want to think big, and be a can-doer who hopes for the greatest, I believe it will draw God to me.

A true disciple of Jesus Christ is a leader and will lead others to the one true Master, through truth and integrity. The love of God that draws others into the Kingdom comes from the genuine faith and pure heart of the disciple who keeps a good conscience within, toward God and toward others. Jesus Christ was the embodiment of truth. He lived truth, spoke truth, was consumed with truth, clearly discerned truth and was purely led by the Spirit of Truth. All that He did was because of truth. All that He said was truth resonating from His being. All that He knew was because of His communion with the Father and from the Spirit of Truth who taught Him. The Master stood in opposition to all that was not truth. He was consumed with truth, clearly discerned truth and was purely led by the Spirit of Truth. In Christ, who is truth, we must live and move and have our very being.

Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the Life." (John 14:6) "We are set apart for God just as He was through truth. God's word is truth." (John 17:17-19) "The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and life." (John 6:63) "And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever- the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you." (John 14:16-17)

The Spirit of Truth is relentlessly faithful to witness truth.

Leaders must wear the belt of truth that secures the wholeness of our being. The Spirit of Truth that abides within us and is with us will lead us into all truth. In every issue of life He will teach us what is the Father's way. He will shed light on lies and deception. He will witness to us what is spoken or done that does not line up with truth. The Spirit of Truth is relentlessly faithful to witness truth. He will always warn when truth is not the priority in us, or when we are not transparent before God or others. He will always warn us when deception is present. We cannot afford to pass over His precious witness in our spirit.

As leaders we must stay in close communion with the Spirit of God within us to recognize His gentle warnings. If we are too strong in our own self our ways may seem right but they are not the meek and lowly ways like the Master that leads us into the real rest of Spirit-led life. We must surrender completely and constantly to know the witness of the Spirit of truth within us. We keep our conscience alive with truth to stay in tune with God's Spirit. He will set us apart for God by His truth. The greatest truth of all must be our own examination of our own condition. We must face the truth within our own selves first for if we do not we can produce a religious form with no power.

I Corinthians 11:31 – For if we searchingly examined ourselves [detecting our shortcomings and recognizing our own condition], we should not be judged and penalty decreed. [by the divine judgment].

Integrity is a fruit of loving surrender to our Lord Jesus.

Integrity is the most valued possession of a leader and other quality character traits will tend to be present when truth is the solid foundation of the heart. Integrity will live in truth at all times. Integrity will speak truth when it is hard. It will see the truth though it is hurts at times. It will suffer what comes from standing for truth. Integrity does not leave out part of the truth in order to make things easier. Integrity operates in the wholeness and completeness of truth. Integrity is not stubborn or self-centered; it is a fruit of loving surrender to our Lord Jesus.

What was started in the Spirit will never be completed in the flesh.

Leaders, disciples of the truth, we must always judge ourselves in truth. We may be doing spiritual things but trying to accomplish them in our own fleshly nature. When God does a work in us giving revelations and gifts, we cannot bring that good thing to its fullness in the flesh. What was started in the Spirit will never be completed in the flesh. We will never produce a habitation for the presence of God by anything other than our complete surrender to the Spirit of Truth.

Galatians 3:3 – Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?

Leaders must know that His way is the only way

Leaders, you must know that His way is not your way, but it is truth. You must realize that you sometimes do not know your own heart. Sometimes you are blind to your own self-stubbornness. You must keep your own heart with all diligence by constantly bringing it to the Lord's light in prayer for out of it are all the issues of life. In the area of ministry a good leader knows that the Lord may choose to witness His will through another person. It will not always come directly from you. A leader who cannot submit to the truth from others and through others is too strong in self. He resists the Spirit of truth. A good leader will not resist or ignore truth that requires them to change or do things a different way. One sign of a good leader also is their desire to prefer others and see others excel in their gifts and abilities. In all relationships or situations of personal life, work, or in ministry, the Spirit of truth desires to lead you. His way will always be higher. His way will without fail usher in the presence and power the one true Master, the King of glory.

We must love the truth at all cost

Our enemy is the Father of lies. He has power over us through lies. Jesus said when the enemy comes he will have no claim on me, for there is nothing in Me that belongs to him and he has no power over Me. (John 14:30) There was no lie in the Master and the devil had no power over him. We as disciples and therefore leaders must follow this pattern not giving any place to the enemy who seeks our destruction or make any provisions for the flesh. A servant or disciple is not greater than or above his master.

We cannot come into agreement with a lie. We cannot allow a lie to plant within us. We must not make decisions believing a lie. We must align our hearts and minds with the whole truth in order to become all He has planned for our lives. Simply, we must see who we are without Him so we can see who we are in Him. We must live in His truth over every issue of life to stay detached from the deception of this day. We must love the truth at all cost. We as leaders in the Kingdom of God must be led continually by the Sprit of truth so we can discern when truth is spoken by anyone and where truth exists in any place or situation.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 says, "The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

Leaders you can always know the truth in any given situation or words. When you are surrendered to the Holy Scriptures and the Spirit of Truth, He will discern within you. Jesus says, If you abide in My word, you are My disciples (leaders) indeed. And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. Where the Spirit of the Lord is free there is a great presence of the person of Jesus Christ and His power will follow both in you and through you.

More to come on the real leaders in the Kingdom.

A true disciple of Jesus Christ is a leader, as he will do the same things his master does. He will experience the same things his master does. He will say the same things his master does. As he walks and talks in the ways of the Jesus Christ, the Supreme Master, his life will draw others to follow the One True God.

There is a leader in everyone of us, for the very image of God is in us all and He gave everyone that capacity and desire to rule and lead over the earth. A great majority, even in the name of the Lord, are their own masters and they habitually lead others with controlling pride gratifying their own ways and desires. You cannot love your own life more than Him and be His disciple, His true leader. You cannot love any other life more than Him and be His disciple, His true leader. You can only love and serve others with God's love when Jesus is fully the first love of your life. Therefore, lets examine what it means to be a true disciple, a true follower of Christ, and a real anointed leader in the Kingdom of God.

Hear the words of Jesus carefully:

Luke 14:26-27 – "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple (Real leader) 27 And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. (Real Leader)"

Leaders listen, if you come to God believing that He is and that He rewards those that diligently seek Him then you must hear these words from Jesus. No other can take that first devoted place in your eyes, your mind or your heart above Him. To follow Him fully there will be times when you still must be able to see and hear past even the ones you love the most to see and hear the pure voice of the Master and follow the mind of Christ above all else. The greatest influence in your life must be the Masters voice and will. You must fear no other above Him.

A LEADER IS A FOLLOWER…. Jesus did all He did only as he heard it from the Father in heaven by the power of the Holy Spirit. He is our example, our pattern and our Master. He could do nothing of his own. His will was totally given over to the will of His Father. Even though He was the Son of God, He willing chose to give up His own rights to become like us that He might save us. We too must be willing to give up our rights, riches and comforts to see others saved. He became the first fruits of what we could become from living in Him. He was the sin bearer of our sins, the deliverer who set us free from our fallen nature and the power of Satan and the constant Savior for us all. We must be consumed with the fire of this kind of love in order to become His ambassadors of deliverance for others. All Christ did was done in the power of the Holy Spirit who was in Him and with Him to teach Him and to move through Him. So it is with us. His great victory came as He followed in perfect obedience, total submission, and complete surrender. Jesus was the "leader of all leaders" He led the way to God. The way our Master took is the only way we can take. There is not another way that leads to life. The leader who cannot follow like the Master is not a leader at all.

Read carefully what Jesus said:

John 5:19 – "Jesus said, Most assuredly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner."

John 6:38 – "For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me."

John 8:28 – "Then Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.

John 14:10 – "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
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A LEADER MUST LEARN TO LISTEN… Jesus did only what HE heard the Father say and saw the Father doing. We must have eyes and ears to see and hear in the spirit above the voices of the world, above the voices of our friends, above the voices of the dearest ones we love. We must hear and obey the voice of our Master above the voice of the one we live with, our own spouse, our parents, our children, our best friends, or we cannot truly lead others. We cannot see the ways of those closest to us as always right above the heart and mind of the Master. We cannot blindly take agreement on any matters concerning those we love the most above the heart and mind of the Master. Is love blind? The answer is Yes and No. Yes, in our natural love we can be blind to see only the one we hold so dear; But the answer is no in the Spirit, as we must see Him clearly above all else and be blind to any other above Him. We must see Him above all others. We must love the master above all else and listen to Him more than anyone else until His voice is clear no matter whom it comes from, where it comes from or how it comes. The real leader must listen out of ultimate love to Christ's voice above all others and be able to humbly hear His voice through any source at any time.

John 5:30 – "I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me"

John 12:49 – "For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.

This article is the beginning of more to follow on examining the Lord's true leaders today. Following this article there will be more to expound on the statements below.

A real leader is the greatest follower
A real leader has learned to lean and leans to learn.
A real leader hears "one voice" above all others.
A real leader is a faithful lover
A real leader is a surrendered servant
A real leader is a consecrated steward
A real leader is lowly and meek in his ways.
A real leader is bold and courageous
A real leader knows where and how to abide.
A real leader is tied to the cross with the cords of love.
A real leader is a golden vessel of Christ's nature poured out.
A real leader is a demonstration of Christ's power

More to come……………………………

CORPORATE FAST JANUARY 7-21

Trumpets of Zion will be starting a fast together and joining other ministries as well on January 7th at 6pm. God has instructed TOZ to consecrate ourselves unto Him in fasting food, time, and money. We will fast our normal habits of all three unto God according to His direction to each of us for 21 days January 7th-28th 2007.

MEETING OF WORD AND MINISTRY: WEDNESDAY'S JAN 10-31

We will also be holding meetings for the word of the Lord and ministry of the Lord on Wednesday nights at 7pm-9 pm through January 10th-31st.

If there is an urgency in you to get a hold of God, then do not miss these meetings.

We will focus these four weeks on "empowerment from the Holy Spirit for 2007". That will include revelation on securing the "oil in our vessels," not just our lamps. The time will be given to Holy Spirit to make us ready for this day of the Lord and prepare us with His might for the"much mores" God will be in believers, for believers and be doing through believers this year of extremes . God will be defining His move on the earth and those who are His own, called, chosen, and faithful.

Due to the class on Wednesdays we will be changing the regular prayer meeting at least through January (or until further notice), from Wednesday night to Friday night. (Note that there will not be prayer on January 26th).

Regular prayer Friday night through January will be from 8:00pm until ???.

SPECIAL WORSHIP AND PRAYER GATHERING
OPEN TO ALL
FRIDAY NIGHT JANUARY 19TH
AT 7PM
FOR ALL AGES. ALL ARE WELCOME.

Plans are being made to continue this night of worship and prayer on the last Friday night of each month to continue after January.

Keep checking the web site for final information.