The old favorite song says, "I will cling to the old rugged cross" and so what does that mean to us who love Him and serve Him day after day? Is it just a song we sing to comfort our religious needs or satisfy our church programs? I hope not.

Jesus Christ absolutely was the Son of God and He came to us in order to cling to that old rugged cross between heaven and earth. As the blood dripped and His life on earth was drained out a great sin debt was paid. A triumphant victory was won that would finish the complete work of redemption for all mankind, the earth, every universe and all that exists which all belongs to His Father, the "ONE" TRUE CREATOR GOD.

One day the whole universe and every human being will know that the blood of this King of all Kings, and Lord of all Lords, has cleansed the whole eternal creation from a great revolt of sin and rebellion. This prideful fall first took place in the very throne room of God by His most anointed cherubim Lucifer, now called satan, the deceiver, and the Father of lies.

The real issue here of the old rugged cross is what we do with this great Divine transaction of God in Christ becoming a man like us in order for Man in Christ to become God-like. The real issue is whether we who know this Jesus as our savior will apply all He accomplished there on that old rugged cross to our lives.

Will this sacrifice He made for us cause us to live free from all the sin and curses of our own family generations. Will we really believe that our own fallen natures have no power to control us as we live a lifestyle of forgiveness and repentance? Do we take a stand of faith against sickness and resist all the power of subtle evil forces of the dark satanic kingdom? I pray Christ's true church will arise to this fullness.

How can we let the darkness of unbelief blind us to such a great salvation like we have been given? How can we let the Father of lies, rock us to sleep in the cradle of complacency right in the comfort of the light. How can we refuse the fresh heaven sent bread and Divine new wine that is being served us from the hand of our King Jesus? Only those who will hear what the Holy Spirit is saying are partaking.

Every day the system of this world mocks our God, wars against our biblical principals and robs us of our Christian freedoms. How can we go on our merry way to maintain our independent self-sufficient way of life? The system of religion has become a powerless, sick, and greedy form of hypocrisy. The religious system is plagued with seducing spirits that bring the saints of God down to a lower level of living. Doctrines of devils are seeping into the very core of humanity like water to a sponge. The church has been given precious treasures in the promises of God and powerful tools through the spirit of truth yet we do not know enough to contend for the faith and the purity of the gospel of the Kingdom of God. With our self-centered control we take the very life, love and power out of our midst by keeping Holy Spirit grieved behind the bars of our fears.

I said all that as a wake up call, sounding the alarm that time is of the essence. We must humble our selves under the mighty hand of an awesome God who is moving with great velocity, shaking all that can be shaken. His mercy abounds in all His chastisements or allowed judgments that come, in order to rain righteousness and peace down upon our lives and bring new life into us again. He speaks in order to breathe His breath into us again. He speaks to raise us up into a victorious church that is radiant with His glory.

If you are clinging to this old rugged cross in faith and obedience to all it has bought you, then you should be ready to live this life now on the other side of the cross in the power of His resurrection. The other side of the cross is the Holy Spirit living in you and with you. The resurrection of Christ changed everything and it will change everything for you. This incredible force of divine energy and creative force has a source. He is the Holy Spirit, who moved in the creation of the world and He is the power that raised Jesus from the dead. Yes, Holy Spirit is the power and life source on the other side of the cross.

Be encouraged; get up shake yourself off from the old fallen nature for it died at the old rugged cross with Christ. Stop putting all your focus on dying and start believing and living on the other side of the cross. Stop yielding to the old man and yield to the Holy Spirit who will empower your right decisions. Stop looking at that old man, stop giving him attention, stop letting him have his way and all his affections met. He is lost and cannot get into heaven. Set your heart like the sun sets every day to live in the new man in Christ. He will make heaven.

Let the Holy Spirit become your Divine companion now for He intends to be with you and in you forever. Let Him be your guide through all life's issues and your power source to do what can't be done. Let Him be the sweetheart from heaven who fills you with God kind of love. He will reveal Jesus to you through the Holy Scriptures and as you trust and lean into Him you will learn His voice. Let Him change you now and one day HE will clothe you with immortality and give even greater life eternally in the presence of the Father God.

It is going to happen. The church of Jesus Christ is going to arise to the Glory destined for this time in history. God will have a church that reaches maturity and lives in the fullness of Christ. This church will be believers who possess the truth of "the old rugged cross" as gold in their hearts but live and move and have their very being in the resurrection power of a new life on the other side of that cross. We must choose it and persevere in this hour to possess all God has given.

Pray with me: "Father God, in the name of your strong Son, Jesus Christ we ask forgiveness for living in lack, unbelief, deception, seducing spirits and worldly pleasures of no eternal value. We ask you to cleanse us from all that separates us from You as we believe in the power of that precious blood that was poured out for our sin.

Fill us with the power of the Holy Spirit as we surrender to Your truth and give us the grace to receive the resurrection power to live on the other side of the old rugged and precious cross of our Lord Jesus. Amen."

Scripture references:
John 14:15-18
Romans 5:5
Romans 6

The heart is the center of our being in the natural and in the spiritual. It was created by God to pump the blood through our bodies that carries all the life nutrients and oxygen to give us the breathe of life. The Bible says the life of the flesh is in the blood. (Leviticus 17:11) God is the creator of our spiritual heart as well, for we were created as spirit, soul, and body (I Thessalonians 5:23).

Heart problems are still the number one killer of mankind. I would dare to say it is still the number one killer of God life in us as well. The life of God's Spirit flows out to every area of our lives from our spiritual heart. The fullness of Christ in us is all about the condition of our heart.

Jesus said it is all about the heart when He said the Kingdom of God is within you. It is in the center of your spiritual being. The Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. He prayed for the Kingdom to come to earth for God's will to be done. It starts in the hearts of born again men and women, then spreads to the heart of a family, the heart of a church, the heart of a community, and even the heart of a nation.

God does not see perfect lives; He sees hearts. He looks past all the outward to see the pure integrity of our hearts toward Him. He looks to see a heart humble before Him. He sees the genuine motives of hearts to do all they do out of love for Him and He rejoices. God looks upon the hearts desire to worship no other God but Him. God is near to the heart that is in dire pursuit to be free from the revolt of a fallen nature of pride and lust lodged within every heart of all mankind. This is why our hearts must be diligently guarded and given over to the heart healer, the heart keeper, and the heart maker, our creator God.

The heart pumps the blood through the avenues of our veins and arteries to reach all of our bodies. The Spiritual heart can pump the blood of Christ through all the avenues of our lives to create His DNA in us. Jesus Christ shed the life of his flesh, his righteous blood so all the sins of our blood could be forgiven. Sin is passed through the blood. Jesus gave us a sinless blood that we might become like Him. He gave us the right to become the sons of God meaning we could actually by faith, be a partaker of His Divine nature, His DNA in us. We could have a heart like our Father God. We could have His likeness. Wow what a God! Our Father God went even further when He gave us His own Spirit to live within us as the one who sheds His great light upon our hearts to keep them spotless and blameless enabling us to see truth about our own hearts. If our hearts are in love with truth, and with being close to Jesus then there is lifestyle of genuine godly repentance that keeps us with clean hands and a pure heart.

Jesus taught that it was the things that come out of the heart that defile a person. He taught the parable of the soil and the seed in Matthew 13 showing us about our hearts. God always plants His life seed, His word in our hearts. We need good soil, good hearts to bring it to fullness of the fruit of destiny in our lives. Jesus said only 25% of the rich seed of His word that He plants in hearts ever produces 30, 60 and 100 percent crop of God life in us. Why?

Jesus gives 3 main reasons. He said because many think they must understand it with their natural mind first it never takes root in their hearts and therefore they never produce any fruit of real life. Hebrews 11 teaches us that it is only by faith (believing truth with the heart) that we understand.

Secondly many will receive it with joy but do nothing to grow deeper and go further into the things of God and therefore their root system in Christ is very shallow and when tribulation or persecution comes their spiritual life withers and produces not fruit.

Thirdly He said some would allow all the cares of this life and the riches of the world to choke out the Christ in them and therefore become unfruitful in their lives. They produce nothing that glorifies the Father.

The fruit that was produced was received in the good heart soil. That is the heart that chose the path of faith, of brokenness, of humility, of truth at all cost and allowed the Holy Spirit within to break, soften, remove rocks of iniquity and fertilize the soil of the heart with God love.

Jeremiah cried to a people, to a nation who was losing touch with all God had given them and done for them to get in touch with their heart. Hear these words that still ring with great power over all of us today.

"Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose HEART departs from the Lord, for he shall be like a shrub in the desert and shall not see when good comes." – Jeremiah 17:5-6

"Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord, For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes: But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the heat of drought, Nor will cease from yielding FRUIT." – Jeremiah 17: 7-8

"The HEART is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked: Who can know it? I, the Lord, search the HEART, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the FRUIT of his doings." – Jeremiah 17:9-10

"So the Lord cries out today again to His people, to His nations, "break up your fallow ground; and do not sow among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of our hearts, you men of Judah (you who are called by My Name) and inhabitants of Jerusalem. (who are inhabitants of my Kingdom) Lest my fury come forth like fire and burn so that no one can quench it." – Jeremiah. 4: 3-4

All of us who call ourselves Christians need to examine our hearts before God. For as our Lord says in the last days iniquity will increase and the love of many will wax cold. We who call ourselves the Lord's must depart from iniquities(2 Timothy 2:19), we must keep our hearts with all diligence for out of it are all the issues of life (Proverbs 4:23). Heart trouble is iniquity; heart trouble is a killer of Christ in you.

Pray this with me from your heart: Father, Our God, we surrender our hearts again. Our hearts were created for your love. Our hearts were created to worship you only. Our hearts were created to be holy before you. Our hearts belong to the Kingdom of God not to this world system. Create in us a new heart that beats in the rhythms of your love, in tune with the will and pleasure of your heart. Open the eyes of our hearts to new avenues of God-life, to healing oils of your spirit, to the refreshing winds of genuine repentance. Let the fruit of our lives produce your goodness. In the mighty name of the strong Son of God, Jesus Christ! Amen!

The solid foundation of God stands having this seal: The Lord knows those that are His. Beloved Church of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, we must examine our faith that we do not neglect so great a salvation that has been given to us in Christ Jesus.

I believe the Lord wants to call something to our remembrance today. Do we as His church, His people, really know with experience what is in us because of Who is in us? Do we really realize the power that is within us? So we access what resides within us to live this life as the victorious glorious church that we are destined to be. There is nothing greater in this world than Christ within His genuine disciples.

We must know and experience in life, that greater is He in us than he that is in this world. Christ living in us is our hope of glory. Beloved God wants to do something inside out with His own people beyond our ability to ask for or even think of according to the "power that works within us." Holy Spirit is the God on the earth today and wants to move through us without measure. Jesus promised us as He left this world that He would give us another who is just like Him and He, the Holy Spirit, would be with us and in us forever. Church, within us is all the power or authority we will ever need over all the powers of darkness. Within us is all the love we will ever need even to love when it seems impossible. His peace is within us to remain like a solid anchor in the midst of every circumstance we face in this life. Within us is all the joy we will ever need whether life gives us roses or lemons. Within us is His divine faith to rise up above all the issues of life and defeat the flesh, the world system and all demonic plans of satan to rob, steal, and kill God’s creation.

The power is within us. We need not put our faith in God coming down to sap us into shape. He has already come and done all we would ever need to be more than conquerors in this life. Too much we look for something out there when Christ is within us. We need to look within. We need to live from the One who is within us. We are complete in Him. All the Godhead is in Him and therefore in us. Christ in us is all the truth and grace we need, all the wisdom and knowledge we need. Christ in us is fellowship with the Fathers love and the privilege of communion with Holy Spirit our divine companion forever. Christ in us is every good and perfect gift. Christ in us is the supply of all that pertains to life and godliness. Christ in us is freedom from our own fallen self. His divine nature is in us. He is freedom from the powers of sin and rebellion, from the attractions and pride of this world system, and from all satan would disguise as good. He must sit on the throne of our hearts as ruler. Our hearts and lives must become a home where can God rest, and find pleasure.

Let me speak to you church as the Lord spoke to me. The Christ, the anointed one, the Holy Spirit of God lives in you. He is perfect in love, a love greater than any other, and a love that is relentless and absolute. It is a love that will lay down its life for even an enemy. It is an unconditional love that never fails. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! Thanks be to the Lord Jesus Christ because He is in you this love is IN you. If it is in you then you can believe and choose it in the hardest of situations. You can live this life choosing His love instead of your own. Then His love will become a part of your nature and great fruit will grow from your life. He says in I John 2 that if you will choose to live a constant lifestyle of obedience to His commandments and voice then He will perfect this love within you.

We can accomplish great things in our lives but if we are not releasing His love in our daily lives through simple obedience then our accomplishments profit us nothing. Our works without holiness and obedience will be burned up on that Day of Judgment. Love is more than great faith or great prophecy; it is more than great giving or great sacrifice. Love is not those things alone. The Lord says he that loves me keeps my commandments. He says if you love me then keep my commandments and I will live with you and manifest myself to you. Love is simple; just obey the Lord in all areas of life.

 And when you fail, run to Him for He is your mercy seat and His blood will cleanse the confessing heart of remorse for hurting Him. He comes quickly to the heart that fears Him with a fear of losing closeness to Him.

Listen beloved, within us is the unspeakable Joy of the Lord, which is always there and can always be our strength. It is His Joy in us. Yes we can know it for it is in us. When deep calls to deep God is calling to our deep for us to know what resides in our being. With Joy we draw water (God-life) out of the wells of salvation. The wells of this great salvation that has been given us in Christ Jesus are inexhaustible. When we please Him and do His will His delight is in us and then our joy can be made full. His joy remains in us as we abide in His love and obey His commandments. Joy is seeing His will done and experiencing His delight within us. Joy is experiencing His presence because He enjoys our company. Joy is experiencing the pleasures at His right hand because we have lost our desires for the desires of His will.

Beloved we cannot live from anything that is dead. You who are His are dead and your life in hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3). You were crucified with Christ yet you live, but it is not you but Christ that lives in you and you now life this life by the faith of the son of God who loves you and gave himself for you (Galatians 2:20). The graves clothes of our old fallen nature must be removed by our choosing to surrender to the Holy Spirit within us. We must arise out from the graveyard of all the past life and habits. We must live in the resurrected power of a new life that resides within us, Christ in us.

Today we must know Who lives in us, do His will daily and hunger to please Him in all we think, speak and do. We need to check which road we are travelling today in the church. Is the path we are travelling, that narrow road of which our master spoke where real life is found. We need to check ourselves for who really sits on the throne of our hearts for this road requires that complete abandonment to Him. The reward is a real freedom superior to anything this world could offer. This path calls us to live life with an eternal perspective for eternal values? This is the path of a true disciple of the Lord Jesus, and if you find yourself on this path then the Holy Spirit is calling to you today, let the God within arise and let every enemy be scattered. Let the mighty one who is in you, out of you. Jesus said the Kingdom of God is in you. The Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Let Him be free within you first to clean the cup and dish of your life on the inside, not just the outside. Let Him be exalted in you so others will be drawn to Him. Let Him be great in you as to move through you to accomplish His will on the earth. He came to heal and save it.

"The Power is within you!"

Jesus open the eyes of our hearts that we may know by the revelation of the Holy Spirit the power that lies within us, your body on the earth. We pray that you may receive from our lives all you died to give us. We ask you to shake us of all that does not measure up to your righteousness and holiness. Let only the Kingdom of God remain in us and in our lives. Amen.

Scripture references: John 13-17; I John; Ephesians 1,3; Colossians 2

This is the season of the dove. As we enter the Christmas season you may put a dove on your tree. If so, think of this scripture and know we are in God's time to birth the dove of His own Spirit in our lives. The dove is symbolic of the nature of the Holy Spirit. As the Holy Spirit is honored and obeyed in our lives we take on more and more of His nature, His mission and His anointing. It is the season of the dove, for God will birth the dove of His Spirit in many lives who are hungry and thirsty, seeking and doing His will. First of all the dove birthed in us will bring us into "purity" of flesh and spirit for without holiness no man will see God.

There can be no mixture of clean and unclean, worldly compromise, or tolerance of sin.
As God has said, He has given us these precious promises: Read 2 Corinthians 6:16-7:1
"I will dwell in them
And walk among them.
I will be their God,
And they shall be My people."

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Iniquities like pride, fear, jealousy, gossip, judgment, anger have no right to find a place in the lives of a believer, for if they are allowed unchecked they will defile your spirit and your love will grow cold. But as we choose to live in this fear of being separated from the Lord, we will cleanse ourselves of all that does not glorify Him in the flesh and spirit perfecting His holiness. Then the dove of peace and purity will rule our lives as we overcome in the righteousness of Christ. Peace can then rule our minds, our hearts and in every issues of our lives because we surrender it all to Him. God promises He will be God for us, so who can stand against us; He will be God with us in all things never to forsake us; He will will be God in us, to dwell as Father to us with the glory of His presence. Wow!

The dove has no peripheral vision. It is single focused on what is most important before him. Holy Spirit ruling in us will create a single focus on the eternal values of life through the eyes of the Lord Jesus. The Holy Spirit only has eyes for you as He longs to bring you to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. If we will choose to have a single focus it will create a single mind that can know His will. It will create a single heart fixed on the eternal prize of knowing the Lord Jesus and letting Him live through your life. Nothing else this world has to offer can compare to knowing the King, the creator of all that exists.

The dove is faithful, loyal and a possessive lover of its mate for life. It mourns over any separation. The Holy Spirit is our loyal companion for life eternal. He is the lover of our soul and grieves over any separation caused by our own way. As we submit in all our ways, surrendered unto obedience the Holy Spirit fills us with the love of the Father God. God's love will be known by others and seen as we love one other and love our enemies.

There are many more things to compare with the Dove and the Holy Spirit in us, but let's focus on the scripture that has inspired this word. The Lord compares us to sheep who must be guided and cared for at all times. Sheep must have a Shepard. As the preceding scripture reads; though we lie down in the green pastures of the sheepfold, we are destined to become doves in the Holy Spirit. It seems to be another paradox of the Kingdom of God as the way in is out, the way up is down, the way to receive is to give and so on. We are destined to mount up with silver wings because we have allowed the process of refining fires to purify the power of our flight in the Spirit realm. Silver is symbolic of the judgment of refining fire that purifies us. God let our spirits be purified from all uncleanness that the works of our lives in the Spirit are as the doves with silver wings pure and brightly shining with His glory.

Listen to Malachi 3:2-3 –
But who can endure the day of His coming?
And who can stand when He appears?
For He is like a refiner's fire
And like launderers' soap.
He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver;
He will purify the sons of Levi,
And purge them as gold and silver,
That they may offer to the LORD
An offering in righteousness.

We are destined to be like the dove whose feathers are gold for we are destined to be clothed with the divine nature of the Lord Jesus Christ. When our faith is tried in the fires of life's tribulations, we have the chance to root deep into Him and become like Him. Speaking in the context of the preceding scripture "Our feathers begin to look gold to the Father and the Dove is being birthed in us."

Listen to I Peter 1:7, "that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ."

Father God today as we look at this word make it a living word within us. Create in us the "Dove of Your Spirit." Create in us the nature of Your very own Spirit, the mission of Your Spirit as we surrender to live and move and have our very being in Him. Create in us the anointing , the presence, and the power of your Holy Spirit. Birth the Dove in us as we hunger and thirst to know You. We surrender and pray In the mighty name of the Strong Son of God, Jesus Christ.

Click here to review “The Wind is Blowing Part 1” to keep continuity.

There is most assuredly a divine wind blowing across the earth causing great transitions and repositioning in the lives of many. The "system" of this world is rapidly coming into the fullness of rebellion against God and its ruin will not be far away. Nations, governments, cities, and seas will see great shakings. "Through it all," as renovating storms come, I do believe America will change from its state of moral corruption into a people who know and love the God who graced them to be a great nation on the earth.

The churches of Jesus Christ will be shaken to expose their man-made traditions and its lack of Holy Spirit love and power. The Holy Spirit is God working on the earth today and He alone is the builder of the Kingdom of God within the church and through the church. The church is the salt of the earth and the light to this world. If what we are and what we build is not the Kingdom of God that Jesus and His apostles preached then it will not withstand the storms coming or the seducing spirits of deception. Only His kingdom will rise in His glory to see justice come and His will be done on the earth as it is in heaven.

God is preparing His church right now to become the laborers of the earths harvest. He is calling out the deep in His people shaking the lives, the leaders and the ministries to reveal what lies in the depth of their soul. As God’s word says deep is calling unto deep. He is working to bring to the surface out of our inner man what we are really made of, for He wants to fill His church with the holiness and character of His Son who will return for a victorious glorious bride who has been made ready. If we believe, we will see the glory of the Lord.

So church how do we conquer now in such a time as this in a day when we see that many are falling prey to the masked seducing spirits and many are failing to see they have a destiny God designed for them? "Not by might, not by power, but by My Spirit says the Lord." The most serious problem in the church is that many confessing believers today are forsaking the very fountain of living water, the supply of the Holy Spirit and have built themselves stale religious cisterns of water that leak and will not hold in the day of trouble. These that refuse the fresh river of Holy Spirit life will become swamps and marshes that will eventually be given over to salt or, in other words, hardness of heart. (Refer to Jeremiah 2:13, 2:19; Ezekiel 47:11)

The life-giving river flowing from the person of the Spirit of God is like unto a real living rushing river that is always moving and bringing change and fresh life within and without. Everywhere this river is allowed to flow it brings new life, fresh water, and healing streams. A cistern of water may seem good but it is not God given like the fountain of living water of His own Spirit. Cisterns of water are stationary and grow stale over time. They have a form of life and godliness but no power. Many religious cisterns have been made down through the church age in all cultures around the world. Religions have produced great wars in our world and have produced pride and division in the church. Religion has cast deadly judgments to many Holy Spirit revivals that are a mighty move of God. The spirit of religion blinds you from seeing Christ.

The devil himself loves religions. He formed them in a counterfeit disguise of God’s one real plan of salvation in order to deceive and destroy mankind. It was distorted religion without love that killed Christ. And it still is killing Christ in believers and churches that deny the move and power of the Spirit of God.

You cannot conquer the influence of the world system, the fallen nature within, and the forces of the devil’s kingdom today with a man made religious cistern of water. You cannot be the conqueror Jesus died to make you without the living waters of the Holy Spirit. Jesus came in the power of the Holy Spirit and left this world promising that same Holy Spirit to come to all who would believe and receive empowering them to continue His work on the earth until He returns. We are left here to learn to love and to be His body releasing His power to see His will done on the earth.

In the heart of Christianity there must come another "wind of regeneration" that rebirths the church back to its real head, the Lord Jesus Christ and into a lifestyle of knowing and communing with the Spirit of God. The Father in heaven is jealous to see everything His son died for become a supernatural reality in the lives of believers. It is not the "good things" that will withstand the storms coming but it is only the "God things" whether it is in a Christian’s life, a family, a ministry or a Christian business. If we cling to something that seems good like a nice comfortable, safe cistern of religion that is familiar and we can understand it; then we could totally miss the God things that will take us far beyond our own limitations into His fountain, His stream, His mighty river and out into a great sea of human impossibilities where His Kingdom comes.

Jesus looks at us still today, to every genuine believer and says,

"The kingdom of God is within you."

The Father God looks to each on of us today and says,

"Glorify Me on the earth, abide in the Son, produce the fruit of My Kingdom for I have sent you My promise. I sent you another, My own Spirit, who comes out from Me to be the source of power in you and with you forever. God is in us and with us. (Selah) He will keep you from deception for He is the spirit of truth that will teach you ALL things and lead you through all things. He will pour love into your heart as you obey My word and My voice. He will speak of Me and tell you things to come."

Church, how can we so easily quench the moving of God’s very own spirit for our own lifeless move? How can we resist Him choosing to make our own path some other way, and grieve His big heart of love with all our other loves? Lets fall down and be broken on the rock of Christ Jesus repenting before a mighty Father and call out again for an outpouring of God’s Spirit on our lives and our churches.

Scripture references: John 13-17; Luke 20:17-18; Luke 24:49; Acts 2:4, 2:38

To be continued in Part 3

The wind begins to blow as a soft gentle breeze and gently picks up to a wind that rustles the trees, then it begins to blow with an audible noise moving things around a bit and finally it is a strong gale of wind changing everything in its path. The wind begins to blow with such intensity that it moves the dirt off the ground; it takes all humidity and debris out of the air. It topples what has been planted and even uproots them.

The winds of great change are blowing across the whole earth today. Our world is changing in the seas, the cities, the nations, and the governments. The winds of great transition are blowing on the earth and its intensity is increasing gradually. America is changing, our world is shifting, and there is coming an awakening to a new world order.

We live in a day of great deception for all mankind. We live in a day of great transition, both good and bad. While the deeds of darkness are increasing so also His glory is rising even more to its greatest heights of power. Where sin abounds His grace will much more. His mercy and justice will prevail. We are preparing for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The earth is being prepared for the curtain to open on the scene of Revelation Chapter five when the Lamb of God, the Lion of Judah steps up to the throne and opens the books of final judgment on the earth. These are the days that will answer the prayers of the saints down through all the ages of time and the Kingdom of God will come to fill the whole earth with the knowledge of the Lord. Jesus will reign visibly on the earth.

I thank God that He is the one who changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings Daniel 2:21. "For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand or say to Him, 'What have You done?'" Daniel 4:34b-35. Those who belong to the Lord have no fear for He holds the whole world all in His loving and most powerful hands.

The wind of God’s spirit is blowing in the very same way in the church of Jesus Christ. Changes are happening in the lives of believers today, among many families, individuals, jobs, locations, and destinies. The breath of God is blowing to uproot all that is not firmly planted in the Kingdom of God, yet with great mercy He gently brings freshness, rebirth and resurrection into what has died. It is blowing gently to redirect many lives into God given destinies. It is blowing with a great velocity against the presence of demonic strategies that hinder many from fulfilling their life calling.

We must be alert and awake to the days that are before us. We must watch and pray. Watch meaning you are always looking at more than the temporal busyness of this life. You are looking for the Lord. You are always seeking to be where the Lord is for you. You are looking at ways to increase the fruit your love to glorify the only one who deserves your worship. Only the Lord Jesus Christ has died for the sins of the whole world; for every person on the face of the earth He has taken the penalty of sin and exchanged it for peace with God. He alone deserves our whole heart and life.

I sense Holy Spirit is strongly encouraging us all to keep the focus on the eternal values of this life and the eternal perspectives that are shown through the natural things. We must alert our ears to hear the voice of God all around in the external events happening in this world today. We cannot afford to bury our heads in the sand and ignore the change that is happening. If we choose to do that we could be caught unaware and swept away in the very subtle deception of this day. We could be blinded to our own conditions and become hard of heart, growing deaf to the still small voice of our inner man that warns us of the storm clouds appearing on the horizon.

We have nothing to fear but "ourselves" The "God of Self" is ruling the world and dominating the church. But God is present in a mighty way in our world. He is in control. He is changing His people. He wants our whole life so He can save it in the days ahead wholly and forever. It is really quite simple. He first love you 100% with His whole life so you could love Him back with 100%, all your heart, all your mind, all your soul, and all your strength and your neighbor as yourself.

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God is doing a great work in the lives of those He knows are His; for we are the workmanship of the Lord created in Christ Jesus. Therefore we know all things in our lives work together for good because we are called of God and love Him. God is causing many to "lose all to win" the eternal inheritance and prize awaiting us. This losing all is a heart issue and the issues of mind patterns, desires, soul ties and habits. In some cases it may even be houses, lands and jobs.

If those who belong to the Lord will put off everything concerning the old nature, which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts and put on the new man, which was created in Christ then true righteousness and holiness will flow within. The Holy Spirit is within to renew in the spirit of the mind to His word and His ways. Believers are to have the mind of the Spirit, the mind of Christ. The word renewed in the Greek is a derivative of neÑov, which means "recently born, new man, or new self." Every believer must experience his or her mind born anew in the Spirit. The mind must go through a complete metamorphous. That can only happen as surrender takes place in obedience to the Word of God and the work of the Holy Spirit. Many keep their hearts divided by mixing the new man in with the old mindsets and learned ways. The result is "no real change." Even for some of God's great ones some of these old patterns of thought are their worst enemy. Except we allow a new mind to be born in us we will not encounter the fresh new and constant regeneration of the Spirit of God. If the old does not pass away all things cannot become new. If the old wineskins are not exchanged for new wine skins God cannot pour in the new wine of the Kingdom for this hour. It could be said, "can you lose your mind to find His?"

God is working on many to lose their minds, to deflate their old mindsets in exchange for a newly born mind of the Spirit, the mind of Christ Jesus. The church of Jesus Christ's greatest need is to live and walk in the Spirit. Like Paul the apostle, believers have a need to count all of the heady religious knowledge and accomplishments of the past total loss for the excellency of knowing Christ who was killed by those with this religious knowledge. Only then can blindness be healed and God can be seen in all things and all the experiences of the past can be seen through the eyes of Christ and all that is destructive to the Spirit can be eliminated.

God is wrecking the religious suits His church is wearing so He can clothe her with the fine white linen of Christ; His rich righteousness. It is a new garment of royalty and wisdom. God is wrecking puesdo-spiritual mindsets, which present themselves as super spiritual but are mostly surface without real substance. To be spiritual is to be genuine, real and naturally supernatural. God is working havoc on our perfectionist molds that war against a free spirit. These molds bind many to their own man-made works that produce weariness. The Father God wants to see abandonment, which creates a resting in the Spirit. Holy Spirit wants us to let Him exchange this mold for all the riches of wisdom and power that are in mind and person of Christ Jesus. We must surrender to a work of losing to be winners.

Remember this scripture: Let me give you a fresh revelation from it. "Therefore, If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away: behold all things have become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17) Holy Spirit says, If you stay In Christ Jesus meaning you must stay attached to the vine for you are only a branch. The vine, Jesus, is all that gives you life. So you must obey His word to abide in Him. You cannot slide by without doing what you know is right and stay attached. So if you stay in Christ the vine then all things, that means everything, all things in your life will be made new and kept fresh. Our flesh is like the grass, and all its loveliness like the flower of the field. The grass withers, and the flower fades. But the Spirit-word in us will stand forever fresh and new. God will be giving you new wineskins for each new level of faith, or grace or glory you reach. The old things that are stale and not productive will pass away and all things will become new. He will give us new wineskins for new wine. Yesterday's wine is old and not fresh enough or strong enough for the battles of today. He has saved His best wine for the last when the wedding of the Lamb and His bride is drawing near. His new wine will intoxicate you with His love and energize you for the battles before us.

"For the solid foundation of the Lord is sure having this seal, the Lord knows those who are His. " – 2 Timothy 2:19

"For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." – Ephesians 2:10

"Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish that I may gain Christ." – Philippians 3:8

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.