18 September 2004

New Covenant

We are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood but against the evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against those mighty powers of darkness who rule this world and against wicked spirits in the heavenly realm –

And God’s purpose and intent was that through the church the manifold wisdom of God be made known to the angels and powers which are in the heavens:

And the wisdom of God is shown in a mysterious way, and it is hidden but God ordained it before the world for our glory - a plan kept secret from the beginning of time:

For since the world began no ear has heard and no eye has seen a God like him who works for those who wait for him – a God who said I am creating new heavens and a new earth so wonderful that no one will even think about the old ones anymore – and it pleased God to tell his people that the riches and glory of Christ are for the Gentiles too - for this is the secret; Christ lives in us and this is our assurance that we will share his glory – and through Christ God has given us the privilege and authority to tell everyone everywhere what God has done for them so they will believe and obey him bringing glory to his name – for the good news was promised long ago by God – the good news that his Son Jesus Christ came as a man and was born into King David’s royal family line – and that we never forget that Jesus was a man and born into King David’s family – adopted by his foster father Joseph which made him the legal heir to King David’s earthly throne and so likewise by adoption we become legal heirs with Christ to God’s heavenly throne –

For through Christ we become a new person and we have to stop evaluating Christ by what others think of him and as though he was merely a human being – For we are not the same anymore and we do not use the same old ways that we used to evaluate others for the old life is gone and the new life has begun – just as the old earth and heavens are passing away and the new earth and the new heavens are being newly created by God just as we are – for the old is gone and the new is already here –

For God declares to man what is his glory – declares to man what are his thoughts: declares to man the power held in his word – the power of his new covenant – the power of the forgiveness of sins – and he has won a mighty victory by his power and holiness – he has announced his victory and revealed his righteousness and he has remembered his promise and the whole earth will see the salvation of our God and the victory we will too see in its completeness as God now sees it in its finished and glorified state of complete holiness -

And in the splendour of his holiness Jesus intercedes for the sons of God and through his constant intercession he takes the sons of the Father into the holiness of his splendour and when combined with true repentance from the heart and the acknowledgement of the entirety of the truth as it was and as it is and as it is still to come – as it is presented to us- instilled in us - and reminded unto us then the procession of God’s word and wisdom is made manifold and manifest and the procession of his holiness takes its full stature as he now proceeds without anymore delay or interference –

Jesus stands before the Father as a man so we can stand before Satan and all God’s enemies as the sons and daughters of God – co-heirs of his great Kingdom – sons and daughters who by the same light which blinded us so as we may see truth in all of its glory – with that same light go into the world with Truth which penetrates and divides spirit and soul and joints and marrow thoughts and hearts as it did so free us and set our feet on the solid ground of Christ Jesus - for we are in the nature and of the power of God Almighty who is Spirit but having on a garment of flesh so as to obtain and then sustain his purposes and his will –

Jesus stands before the Father as a man so we can be sons/daughters who manifest the eternal answers to all questions – and the eternal solutions to all God’s problems – to be the undeniable proof of the reality of the impossible - and to work with the power of the thoughts and actions and heart of God himself – so as to bring order with the maintaining of self control – for it is Christ’s love which controls us and the word in us – love which takes our thoughts and actions and heart and empowers us for as his new covenant of the forgiveness of sins strips us of the power death held over us - so it is replaced with the power of eternal life that Christ Jesus holds out to us – bringing to the world words which come straight from the heart of Christ – words which bring division and bring down strongholds and then raise up in Christ Jesus those once who were held captive by the practises introduced by the enemies of God - because the word of God which proceeds out of our mouth does come from a heart which is centred on unity and oneness and all of which is of the eternal – and that is all of which is of God – a heart which knows and sees the eternal rewards – it is having his words in their right place and at the right time and in the right order for full power - for any time used to be the right time for us- but not anymore – for now the time that is right for the Lord is the only time that is right for us – right for us to bring word and action into one so his fully written and spoken verse is given its full unleashing of power as it is released in the order of his mind and his heart and then from his mouth - for all of which comes from his mouth is what we live on and by for as he speaks order comes and chaos is diffused in our minds and hearts and spirits and there stands our Lord God Almighty - as the world disappears around us and the noise of it cannot be heard for that is how centred on the Lord we have to be as we live in a world of madness and chaos for what the Lord is going to do will require our full attention and our focus solely on him as he takes action and moves in unprecedented power and speaks to us through his actions - for this is when the reasons of why we have to listen to him so as to hear him and to know all the ways he communicates with us comes into its full revelation - as now the fuller revelation of our God and his Christ and his Holy Spirit are seen as he who is eternal draws all into its eternal state –

And so natural it is to be for us, to be listeners of Jesus Christ and followers of the Lord and ones who are with him to the very end of the age – for then it is so natural for us to be kings and lords in the order of Jesus Christ…sons and daughters in the order of Jesus Christ –and to live our mortality in the same order Jesus lived the mortality of his flesh before his eternal resurrection -

For all of who he is was already encoded into us when God spoke his image and plan into us for he gave us much and much is to be manifested out from us if our hearts are of that of a king in the order of the King of kings himself.

For he is a God who gives us needed boundaries and discipline and rules and commandments to give order and to establish the fullness of our heritage in us – Because he is a Father who knows how to raise sons back to life – who knows how to raise sons back to eternal life - sons to be the inward and outward manifestation of his eternal miracle of word given to them by the Son who is also God himself in the victory of word made flesh -

For without God in our life we destroy our life – he gives order and placement – and defines his commands and raises them out of his word when the time is right for them to glorify him and for us to lead him into his victory by being kings who can rule and lead subdue and multiply the eternal victories of God – for amid the upheaval of the world is the serenity and the peace of a God who gives us permanent entrance into the realm of the eternal King and Lord and his glories and then into battle in full regalia as we ride with the power of the promise sealed in our hearts - and with the regal finery not only draped over us but stamped into our soul - for we are rich in Spirit and we are born of God in our hearts for our flesh counts for nothing when our heart is joined with our Father’s and his Christ - it is that our flesh gave us the means to be of the manifestation of Jesus in a world created by God and for God - but also to be ones who live in Spirit and in Truth for that is where we meet and understand the heart of our Father and the bounty of his Kingdom and the fullness of his eternal paradise -

For there is dimensions of being kings in the order of THE KING – and kings on whom his crowns have to be set – for it is being crowned with God and all of what and who he is – is for God to finally crown all of which his eternal word stands for and holds in its grasp for when it unfolds and releases - all is as it should be –

For his very image defines his crowns and raises them to where they have to be set into place - and the light of his whole life is the light of his crowing glory and is its unharnessed glow – and can only truly and fully be represented and manifested through and by Jesus Christ – for only Jesus can reveal the lustre of its great presence because he is void of sin or deceit or lie or malice but overflowing with the bounty of all riches and all glory and only he can bring forth the majesty of God’s unprecedented love which held a forgiveness which is of such richness and power that it powered out of his mouth and flowed from the cross of salvation covering the mortality that sin had brought unto men to raise it into immortality which God had delivered unto men - for it is a love and a forgiveness no other could carry or display or maintain for only Jesus had what it took and it poured out of him in the form of blood - in the form of what is eternal - for we did not know what forgiveness was until it was given to us – for the eternal had come and he was telling us what had come and what was still to come.

Love one another as I have loved you Jesus said for then it will prove to the world that you are my disciples – for to be a disciple you have to obey his commands and all of the commands of God lead to eternal life and when we love as Christ has loved us, we have moved from death to eternal life and our eternal life increases when we come to know God and Jesus Christ which releases the power of God through us –

And they will know the Lord’s disciples by the power of how he has loved us – as it brings us into the truth of the image of God as we become the image of his love – to love each other through the power he gave us –through the Spirit he gave us – through his word he gave us for that is how he loved us – by giving us commands which lead to eternal life and to the life the eternal has for us : and we move into it when we take on what the Lord said when he told us he would never leave or abandon us but would be with us till the very end of the age : and take it into our souls and hearts and take the depth of how he loved us and apply it to each other in the full context of the way the Lord applied it to us - for he applied it from a heart which knew the temporary, but which had its longing and its contentment in what was still to come - and what is still to come is the permanence of the never ending when the commands of the LORD come into their eternal glory and open up and all merge into one as the full revelation of Jesus Christ is made manifest and revealed in its eternal splendour -

For as the Lord listened to the Father, in the same way he did teach us how to listen to him - and to what is said in the temporary, but which comes from the eternal and which is the eternal - and as we listen to hear what is not said but what is of the Spirit and the heart of God, the new commands which give unfolding of the positions in the kingdom to be filled - the commands of the new come alive in us and to us and speak to us in the language of the kingdom which seeks out its kings and lords and all who are in God’s royal procession, and its revelations will cease to lay dormant, but reveal to us not the window into the royal life and royal family of God but lay open the very palace of the King himself – because we listened so as to learn how to love with Christ’s love which never abandons or leaves but is of a loyalty which seeks out the real and true measure of Christ in us.

For it took a miracle for us to live in the miraculous - for us to live in God and God in us, but Jesus gave us the power of his life and the life of power when he gave us ears to hear and eyes to see and mouths to speak and legs to walks and minds to think and hearts which were created anew – for he has loved us each so uniquely and so powerfully as he leads us into the greater - and that is not only the multiplication of outward ministry or to think that all victories are the victory of God – for the true and pure victory is inside of God – and we lead God to victory when we enter into the heart of God and take the victory held in it and merge it into our hearts and give celebration to it as the strongholds are brought down and the enemies of God are turned into the sons and kings of God and his Kingdom.

For who can fully know and write about how God has truly loved us to its full extent and to what degree of power his love has reached and not walk off this earth and into the heart of the Lord in the fullness of our flesh and in fullness of our spirit - for there is power in his love which will take us off this earth just as it took Jesus out of the heavens and placed him amongst the enemies of God - for God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners –and restored us to friendship with God while we were still his enemies for such is the immense love of God for the eternal riches and glory of his Christ and for his Kingdom to be the bounty and the everlasting joy for all -

Love each other in the same way as I have loved you is to be so much more – so much more then our misinterpretation of what JESUS meant - for to fumble through the command is not to obey it – to evaluate Jesus and his words as we evaluate others and other things is to fumble our way through his words and to powerlessly display an injustice to his greatness - for what he has given us he has already refined and perfected by his own fear and his own suffering and his own discipline he received from the Father - and it is his touch of brilliance which is held in his commands which makes it so able to be given to us and then come out through us as we obey his command - and for God to be seen in all of his glory in the sight of his enemies through the disciples of Christ Jesus because we are unified by a love which is so fiercely loyal to our fellow disciples – a love so fiercely loyal to Jesus Christ himself that it cuts through everything of the world which sets itself up against God - and lays it bear and reveals its wretched and pitiful and poor condition for all the injustices done against God and his Christ and his Holy Spirit will be revealed as the new command of Jesus is followed through and made manifest as the power of his word is proven true ~

And the truth of Christ in us, is to be seen and displayed in ways which will give a foretaste of its finished state - of its eternal state - to have his word and Jesus himself written onto our hearts and what is of the untranslated inscribed into our souls - and to have flowing out of us what has pinned us to the wall with its power of revelation as the divine hand of God came down from the heavens and made us be still and to know that he is God – for the finger of God gives us the written command and he writes it upon our flesh and his Spirit gives us the revelation of the command and seals it into our hearts as the Holy Spirit helps us to really see with eyes the Lord has given sight to – and helps us to truly hear with the ears the Lord has opened – for how deep are his commands for they are far more of a deepness to search than what it may outwardly display for each word is for a different reason and filled with passion and purpose and motive and desire – the desire to see all things be of the eternal state for the temporary state has passed and the new is here – the new is in our midst and it is making itself known because the Lord is manifesting more and more and as the King manifests more and more so do the kings who reign with the King ….

For how the Lord has loved us is still yet to reach its full revelation!

For he loves us by revealing himself to us – and not only making known to us what is his and what is his Father’s but then giving them to us –

For Jesus alone brings activation to all of which he releases to us – for he is the miracle of a restored and now resurrected relationship with God which will see us be transported into positions which only the King of kings and the Lord of lords can lead us into - for they are truly of his domain and of his splendour and of his inheritance – but the Lord came and showed us all that we should have always been able to do, and then gave it to us at its higher and greater level which would never pass away - for this time we were given Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit for the new covenant was about to begin and what was bringing all into the eternal was about to be poured out in the form of flesh and blood and Spirit and Truth –

And to bring in the new covenant he met us where we were - in a boat in the middle of the lake and powerlessly striving to row against a strong wind for we were on the sea of which we were to take rule over and to subdue and we were afraid of it and in fear of the wind which seemed against us – just as we are afraid and doubt and strive powerlessly when we do not listen or obey the word of God to us – for there was nothing about us that made us ready for God to visit us – we had nothing to show him of his victory – nothing to show him of which would glorify him – nothing to show him which would bring him joy – but he came with a heart full of eternal forgiveness and eternal love which cannot end or be brought into disorder even when it moves and takes its stand in the world which is passing away – the power of an eternal perfect love is the love which brought Jesus to us and was a manifestation of God which transcended all else of which he had been replaced by – and as God loved each of us he gave expression of his power and of his motives and of his reasons and the principles by which he lives by - and out of this his miracles manifest and his teachings come alive in our hearts and the new covenant becomes more real and tangible and speaks Gods heart to us - for what he wrote in his own blood he sealed with his own Spirit for there is no other power or love through which miracles can manifest because there is nothing about God which is manufactured or man made – nor is it man induced nor can it be destroyed or trodden on for it is higher than us and we can never reach to where it is without Christ in us - and it has not come into being over a period of time but was always in its fullness of power and it does not rely on the response of another human to operate because God can operate and exist outside of his creation as well as within it –

For the power of God moves his whole person into a dimension which is unequalled and unobtainable by us unless Jesus is the central core – the central person – the central manifestation - for he is the one who gave God his release in his most pure and uncensored form – he showed us but it was not recognised – he taught it to us but it was not comprehended – he lived it but it was ridiculed – he stood for it but it was not upheld – he planned our salvation and built the road to his kingdom out of his word of truth and he expressed and manifested what is eternal - expressed it in its eternal form and it came to us in all of the ranges of its dimension because it was God operating at his level and with his divine intelligence – the powerful lasting eternal expression of God for as he expresses the hugeness of what he has prepared for those who love him – and we love him when we obey him and we obey him when we listen to Jesus - for his love is for Truth and that is how he loves us –

For the truth is- he has so much more for us which has already been prepared by him – prepared and waiting – for the royal garments are ready - woven in the truths of God and all of which his kings are to be crowned with are all of which God is and was, and still is to come – for it is not only the garments – but also the kings who are to be woven with the truths of God - for they already have on their heads the crowning glory of Christ Jesus the Eternal and Blessed One.

For that is where his passion lay - in his love of the eternal and what it has held in it : from he saved and healed and resurrected and taught and guided and watched and waited and anticipated and savoured for he knew it was eternal and that is his victory –as he watched and waited through all of the victories of which were of the temporary for he knew the victory of his King – that the victory of his Christ was eternal - he knew the victory of Jesus : not our victory to come to Jesus – but the pure victory that Jesus came to us – that he rode forth to us and with triumph in his heart and his eyes ablaze because he knew what he would return with - because he knew what he had been given to release and he knew the battle which came before it and the battle which will come after it – for what he had to release would never end or cease to exit –

For Jesus Christ is the eternal victory of God - and it is in every look in his eyes in every miracle of his word for every word of God is a miracle in our hearing and when we listen to Jesus we remember God the Father gave us the ability and power to obtain wealth – the ability and power to hear the miracle of God held in Jesus Christ which is our entire wealth and the greatest of wealth of his kingdom.

For is that not the crown of crowns!

Is Jesus Christ not the crown of crowns for he enables us to hear the miracle of God and to see the splendour of him and to be made privy to the secrets of the kingdom –

For how he alone does glorify God - and release all of which are held behind the doors of his kingdom - for the opening of one Truth upon this earth gave way for the floodgates to stand open before us –and for the LORD OF GLORY to ride in and release the scroll of the Father’s heart –

And there is not one crown which will be set upon any of his kings which has not been held in the deepest parts of the Father in the room of his eternal victories and each rises out of its deepness and in holiness graces the heart of the Father as the blood of Christ anoints it - for not one of his crowns will be given out unless the Father calls them forth and passes them through his hands and seals their ownership as they are send forth by the miracle of his Son - the procedure is righteous and regal and ordered – anticipated and long waited for - and all around the throne of God will witness what is of the eternal : what is of the heart of the eternal Father : and witness our eternal Lord Jesus as the multiplication of his crowns is made manifest as Jesus multiplies them and glorifies not the kings who will receive them but the Father who gives them and who created them - just as the Father does not glorify any of the kings before him - but the King of all the kings who was with him in the beginning - for Jesus is our crowning glory – and so we are already glorified - he is the crown of crowns and the glory of glories – the one who leads the procession as the sons and daughters who came through him are given their crowning and made ready to be kings in the order of THE KING OF kings - lords in the order of the Lord of lords – and sons in the order of the Son of God - for the KING will always be THE KING and the Lord will always be the Lord and the Son will always be the Son - and the kings who reign with him will always be the kings who reign WITH him - for it is always with Jesus and always because of Jesus and if that is ever an issue – or ever in doubt – or ever not enough that we reign with him – if our heart still has a covering of wealth over it which is not of the kingdom or for the good of the kingdom then the crowns of his magnificence will not be seen for what lights them is the extraordinary light of the Father and his forever oneness and fierce loyalty to his Son Jesus Christ - for Jesus is first - and then the sons and daughters who come from the light and truth of Christ - Jesus is always first and then through him come the victory of the sons and the daughters of God - and then the victory of the kings and lords of God – and so the procession does continue for God is without end but never without glory ~ never without majesty ~ never without wisdom and never without power ~

And as Christ who is the wisdom and power of God leads us in the royal procession we do not turn around so as to look at each other for every where we turn we will be seeing Jesus for we have understood how futile it is without him – and know that he is the one who leads us - who stands beside us – who is forever surrounding us – the one who never leaves or abandons us –

For he is the one who really looked at us, and loved us as he lifted our burden of sin as his forgiveness poured over us – for he is the one who is real and true and faithful and loyal – he is our King who leads us into kingship with him – for he never did leave us but waited for us to come to this moment when his words have truly been eaten by us - when we have so feasted on him and drunk of him that now he is able to be seen by us more clearly - for his words which are Spirit make what is unseen seen by us – for he waited for us to turn and see the King of the kingdom – and the kingship he had prepared alongside our Sonship and Daughtership -

For he is the King – he is the Kingdom and the wealth of his Father’s Kingdom which can never be destroyed – he is our Lord and God who waits for us to turn around - for when we do we will not see the world nor its money nor any of its treasures or trappings – not anything will we see but he who is eternal and all of the eternal of which he has prepared for us –

For everything is moving so fast and being brought into its eternal form and capacities, into the great oneness of which there is no end – all which is to be removed is being removed – as God judges his own first – separates and divides for the Lord in his coming is moving all into its position for the Eternal One is on his way and the eternal with reign for there will be no more of the temporary there will be no more of that which comes and goes - and if we are leading God to victory then we are to be prepared as ones who are eternal in our thinking and in our actions and in our obedience to his instructions – for there is no precedence except the Lord who is from everlasting to everlasting - because it was kept for the last for when it comes there is no turning back there is no time to go into the house and to collect our things for it is upon us and God in all of his gentleness in all of his greatness is now in all of his swiftness when none of his words will be delayed any longer and all of which he has spoken will be performed and fulfilled.

It is time for the eternal to take its place for it has been declared and JESUS himself has activated all of which he is releasing and so it is now the full and eternal miracle of God will take its form and its place of honour and its rightful stand - for what is of the everlasting takes precedence over what will not stand the refining fire of our Lord Jesus Christ – for as we are fuelled on the power of his everlasting love we then love others in the same way he has loved us and then the voice and strength and might and truth of Christ will prevail and bring down all strongholds which stand against him - which stand against the immortal God who is our only stronghold and our only hope of Glory and our only hope of having any life at all – let alone an everlasting life of royalty and splendour and blessings and wealth and love and compassion – of salvation and everlasting joy – of beauty and righteousness – and honour and life and glory –

For he indeed did crown us with grandeur the moment we were born out of his eternal word which is Spirit - and we are to be ones he called into his kingdom and not stay as ones who strayed and rebelled – to see that the kingdom is not what we first saw but now is changed by Christ in us - by the unveiling of his manifold wisdom - by his choice to include all in the promise of the riches and glory held in Christ – changed by his eternal victory which is already at hand and moving in fast to take of its glory –

For he shows us the greatest of things when we do the greatest thing – when we stop and listen and turn completely to the way of the Lord and love as he has loved us – for his ways are in the highest of places and his thoughts are of no compare for to compare them is to bring them down but it is for us to rise up to meet them – for that is where he has placed all the things of the kings and of the kingship which belongs to God – for they are all in the highest of places and we rise to take hold of them – we have to push past the barriers of our own minds and deliver to God the fullness of Christ in us – in our flesh our heart mind soul and spirit – the fullness of Christ in us which will break down the final and last barriers and strongholds as he gives us the ways to do it and the power to do it – because we too love what is of the eternal - we love the love of God and allow it to power through us as it forgives and brings into submission all of those whose thoughts and hearts are not held captive to God’s Christ -

For we have lived in the world and we have seen the world and tasted of its fruits: but then we turn and we are in a new place – a place built from spiritual wisdom - a place which feeds us on what God lives by – and we have a new heart which is capable of holding what will never pass away - and new eyes which can see into places which once were sealed – and new breath which enables us to breathe under water and a new life which never ends but continues to increase - and then the Lord says there is more – and he takes us further into what is of no end and waits for us to see what is hidden in his word and what is hidden in what he did not say for there we find the more of God and as we find the more - the more of Christ can manifest and the more of him which manifests is signifying how close he is to arriving in person : for as his manifestation on this earth increases then that is a gauge as to how soon his return is – for as he moves in closer to take of his imminent return in the flesh so he will be seen in manifesting in and through flesh which is already upon this earth – for what is happening in the heavens will be manifest on the earth and what is manifested on the earth releases more in the heavens - and that is what he is doing and why his return can be tasted for it is the victory of Jesus Christ that we are tasting –

For what is still to come is what he has been giving us a foretaste of so we are prepared to be swept up in it when it arrives for when it comes the eternal comes with it ~

And we give you eternal praise and thanks Father for being a God who said I am creating new heavens and a new earth so wonderful that no one will even think about the old ones anymore and for being a God who was pleased to tell his people that the riches and glory of Christ are for the Gentiles too ~

And you have won a mighty victory by your power and holiness – and have announced your victory and revealed your righteousness and have remembered your promise for the whole earth will see the salvation of our God and the victory of his Christ - and we will see it in its completeness and in its full glory as God does now so see it - and our hearts will indeed be joined in an eternal celebration of everlasting joy ~

THANK YOU FATHER –THANK YOU JESUS –THANK YOU HOLY SPIRIT ~