27 March 2004

Solitaire

The true loneliness of the journey of Christ ~
The true loneliness of the life of God ~
Is as a ~
Solitaire – a single gem set by itself - a single beautiful gem set alone – surrounded and held with such honour and with such dignity and uplifted poise and authority - for all which surrounds it is only there to lift it higher – only there to give it exaltation – so that its superbly crafted workmanship is perfectly presented, so the solitaire has the full attention; the entire focus; and receives all the glory - as the love of all creation for the solidarity of the fullness of our God, lifts our God into a poise and position in which his exaltation and the honour that besets him, exceeds what is the excessiveness, and is now the epitome of the entirety of love which is of God and which is God, and has now been placed where it can only belong - set and uplifted by those who have placed their loyalty and commitment to the Lord above all else – for it is a loyalty – a commitment that sets our God amid the surrounds of a love which is of the capacity to lift him to the greatest of heights, and to exalt him with the passion of one whose beholding of him has reached it point of unequalled excellence – the beholding of the Lord as he was beheld by the word of his love, and as he does behold the love of his word – the true and perfect exaltation of a true and perfect God ~

The truth of God’s word is a solitaire gem – Jesus the solitaire set apart by himself as the chief cornerstone – set apart as the only foundation which can be eternally built on - for even as he is the foundation, he is also above all else and the only one all else can cling to and be set around and onto – he is a gem of such unmatched significance that once he pierces your heart, with all his qualities and angles and his perfection of cut, and all of which have made him the solitaire, the flow of the liquid properties of his word of truth enters your bloodstream and your blood is cleansed by the entrance of Christ who is the truth of the word, and who is the word of the truth – cleansed by Christ and his word – by Christ and his flow of life, and his flow of blood, and his flow of eternalised proportions and his unequalled dimensions….so as to give that which is without, all of which is.

The liquid properties of God’s word is seen in how he pours himself into us without spilling a drop – for his blood did flow and cover his body and run down every crevice in his beaten flesh and flow down onto the ground, but he did not spill a drop onto where it was not meant to flow - it is how his word runs over us and saturates us and infiltrates us – penetrating through us and into us as its sweet taste stays on our lips – as the sweet thick essence of its honey binds it to our mind and hearts, as it melts into our form and as we melt into its form, and as it powers through us as a surge of rushing waters as it moves always to cleanse and to bring righteous adjustments and alignment to our being and nature - moving so the outflow and overflow of our love is now brought back to its initial pure level, so it now can now grow and develop and be centred in the heart and life source of God who is love, and to take on the more of its properties and to take on its form and demeanour – to take on its light and its transparency as it spreads and covers and fills as all of its cellular activity gives voice to the God of all creation – to the God who is love down to its very finest drop and down to its most infinite and blinding core of which houses the truth of the reality of life - for there is nothing about God which condones and gives life to anything which does not take its link back to unconditional love - which does not take its every action and word back to the original source of its being….
The love of God is to be deeply planted in rich soil and is meant to always be taking on the form of new growth - and as it grows and comes into the maturity of the God ordained use of its qualities, the offshoots from the fortress of its seed will bear the same mighty force and immortal qualities, for it then travels back to its primary source and joins as one with it – not to be separate again and not to even see where it merged and joined its master again, for there can be no inherent distinction between the two - there is to be no distinction between our love and the love of God, for such is the power of it to change all and everything, and to bring all and everything back to their God likeness; and back to their love of God for that is what is natural, and that is what sustains us and keeps us propelled and moving in the direction of light – we may call it a whole lot of other names but it is the qualities of God – it is the love of God – it is God – and to release his name from our lips in a manner befitting his majesty, is a release of love and its power -it is a release of God and the power of his eternal love - for his Name cannot go out from us and not shatter all it comes in contact with - maybe not manifested in our sight – but it has been dispersed forth by the power of creation, and the love of God is what fills his word and what his word speaks of - for there is nothing which is not said by the Lord which has not flowing through it the love of God for his creation and the love of God for his word ~

To take of the true loneliness of the journey of Christ, and the true loneliness of the life of God is to see how set apart we are when life in its great and it predestined form - when life in its uncut and uncensored form comes to reside and live through us as the willingness and the eagerness of the life in us accepts the more of the life of God, and moves with it to join it, and to flow with it instead of against it – when we block out all the undercurrents of all other teachings, all other words and all other superficial dalliances and come to where it is indeed the solitaire we seek to see, and truly the solitaire who we are becoming so much like - as we move into isolated, solitary and lonely places, for only in this separateness can we feel the companionship we have always craved – only in the isolation of lonely places can we experience the fullness of the relationship we can have with our God, as our desire to be alone with him moves in us constantly, relaying to us an urgency to come to know our Lord more and more - to seek out the knowledge of his life and to take of his understanding so as to tear apart all of which is a false representation of our Lord and his Spirit.
But the loneliness their hearts speak of is the loneliness of minds in full understanding and control - of hearts rendered and in undying out reachment to the far corners of themselves - it is a loneliness from which does come the precious aloneness - and it is an unrewarding aloneness when we base our rewards on what can be applauded by others and what is of a substantial gain to us – but what the reward is to those who seek it, is the reward of living in the now as if we are living in the eternal senses whether in the past or future - the same way God is living, for he is always in the now - for the now is wherever our God is - and he is all and everywhere at all times.

And it is not only the loneliness of a Father for his family, but it is the loneliness of a heart for the return of what has gone out from it – for the return of its own – for there is no part of God which remains separate to him - there is no part of his life and his love which will not return to him, and whether we see its outreach to us in the way it comes to do its work or not – it will return to join up with he who is the source of all things - the source of all love - he who is love - and he who dispenses all of love in the only way that enables it to clear a pathway back to the Lord - for it will be indeed a highway paved in tears and coated in thick blood; a highway to the highest of what God has yet to reveal ; for the revealing of it can only come from the shedding of many tears and from the many coatings of his blood - as we are sanctified and purified and made ready to receive all of which he has yet to make known to us.
When God dispenses his love – when he dispenses himself – that is what opens for us what is the heart of all creation – he opens to us what remains and resides in total loyalty to only God, and in total submissiveness to only God, and what remains and resides in only where he has allotted it to stay, and that is nowhere within our earthly viewing unless God has moved to move all things into where we can see and hear – and that is through Jesus Christ who is our only access point - for Jesus and Jesus alone is the only one who makes any unveiling of God to us possible – there is no other way for us to see what is so pure and holy – and although walking away from him is possible through our gift of free choice – it is also Jesus who makes it an impossible feat for those who have never lost their first love for him – for he alone is what our bodies of flesh are meant to hold, and what our souls and spirits are destined to forever embrace ; and that is the splendour of Christ Jesus.

For the whispers and silent words of the Holy Spirit have brought into our being the unfolding of his splendour – not what looks splendorous but what is splendour – that which is the splendour of God – he brings to us the brilliant distinction - the Godly lustre – the distinctive brilliant splendorous lustre of God - he gives us the splendour through which the deliverance of the Holy One takes his entrance -
The Holy Spirit, the power of all creation – does not cease to bring distinction and separation to the lustre of God - as opposed to the false lustres and glitter of a world in total distress and chaos – a glitter which seeks to hide the disintegration of what it holds so close to its heart – it is made very distinct to us by the Holy Spirit so we can see the difference between God and men – so we may see the difference in what we had in the world, to what we are now being given and do now indeed have - The Holy Spirit is the master of all genius and does in all insight just what the Father desires, and just what Jesus intends - he is always in the forefront moving and bringing splendour into its powerful presence, so all of which the Lord does call forth to come into the sight of all men for the purpose of all men to understand more about him – so it can have its holy point of entrance - for it must pass through the glorious splendour of God for it is to be shown as being distinctly from God, for it emerges with his lustre - and men have to learn the difference - there is nothing from men which is of any offering to God when it comes through their access point, which is a heart set on the world needs and the so called good of mankind - the so called good of mankind is an insult to God when the only thing good about men is when God is abiding in them and them in God – then and only then may they have correct discernment in relation to what is good for all creation – all else our Lord spits out - he vomits it out as many times as it rises up to him, for the only good thing for the world – the best thing – the only thing for the world is the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he sent ~ it is God and the Spirit of his word - the Spirit of all truth.

For his word to us is instilled in us - infused slowly by degrees – drop by drop and makes what is to come a part of us, just as it is a part of Christ - and it cannot be separated from us now as it cannot be separated or be held apart from Christ Jesus, for such is the power of God to bind all things of himself to us when his Holy Spirit has made his dwelling in us to maximum capacity.

Yes - the doors of great royal and regal standing are now closed and all the chests and vaults have been locked again as the Lord watches to see what we have done with what he has given us out of what is of the eternities of God – out of what is of the indescribable, out of what may come to us as incoherent – of what may come as a display which outreaches what our minds want to hold, and what our hearts can bear to carry – for it is the private collection of the Lord – it is God as if we are looking and partaking of him through the magnification of a microscope and knowing what we are seeing and taking our journey through is but one inch of him, is through but one drop of his blood, and one touch of his finger – and one revelation of his eternity.
It is the Holy and righteous Lord’s private collection of himself – collected and held private by he who has seemed to be the only one interested in knowing what there is to know - the only one who is interested in living all there is to live, and the only one wanting to be really alive to live what life has to offer of itself and not what the world has to offer of itself –
For the Lord did see and live amongst what the world had on offering - and he lived what life in its pure form had on offering - and he is the only one who knows the road to both, and what the consequences of each direction are – for he did live in the purity of life’s qualities, and he did live what the world had to offer - but what the world had to offer was taken in by him and put where it belongs by the obedience of a man who knows and loves God – for Jesus was able to take of the world and what it was and what it offered men – and instead of condoning and living in the flesh and heart mind and spirit and soul all of which the world typifies and all which the world uplifts and loves – he took the world and all which was in it and reconciled it back to the Father – that is how he lived what it had to offer – that is what living life is – that is what living God is - he took of it and gave it back to the Father by paying the ultimate price which has to be paid when we live in the world of sin and depravity and fail to take our whole being to the Lord in full repentance and reconcile our life at the level of our humanity with life as it is within the Lord – with life which is the Lord himself.
We live it without God – Jesus lived it with God – and the Lord’s way is the only way we can stay in the world without it consuming us – for it gives nothing back to us but death – as it only brought Jesus death, but he used what he knew the world would give out to him and turned it around so that death was defeated and the world was conquered and life and truth as always reigned supreme –

It is the all so private collection of what is held in life as only God knows it – and as now we can know it if we come through Jesus Christ - for out of the sacrifice of Jesus the man and Jesus the only true God, did come a private collection that did come from the Father, and was put into action by the Son, and given its release by the Holy Spirit – a private family collection that can only be held in the protective power of the Lord, who spread out his hands to open the way for us - for it is of such a divine nature that what we see the Lord showing us as he unfolds each finger of his hand - has in itself a cavalcade of mighty new dimension – a new realm of now new entrances into the word of God –
And what he did speak to us to make known and heard on earth and in the heavens - now has now had released within it a new realm – a dimension which holds to the maximum - and then the more of it soars through into the extremities – it holds the many hard teachings, the more hard lessons, the multitude and variances of Christ who is the endless themes which are woven into and through his word – he is the endless message of the good news of our salvation - he is the endless message of what is yet to be known about the all of what God holds for our eternity – he is God’s word of perfection - he is God’s life of perfection
And he brings and gives us the hardest of teachings so we can abide in the revelations yet to come - for they will come and not only be disbelieved and thrown to the side as so many other revelations of our God, but will come when we least expect them – for so perfect is the timing of the release of his word to us – a perfection which sees the due release of what it is to be perfect –
To enter into where there is no place for injustice, or indecision, or division, and no place to say no to life – and no place to say that God has not already done everything for us – lived everything for us – gone everywhere before us – and that he has not already made way for us now to live a private collection of the more of him while still living on this earth – for within his private collection – there is his private collection of each of us if we would only look through the album our Father has of our growing years, and how he has matched each of our years with that of our brother and his growing years on this earth, so we can see where we are in relation to him and where we are in relation to our abiding in him – this is his private hand made collection put together by a heart which sustains all things, and by a heart which lives all things - and it is the life of God and the life in God which sets before us the solitaire of our life – setting it in such a perfect setting – for all he presents to us about himself and about us is set in complete and perfect love and understanding of us, so powerfully perfect that it takes us daily to cross of Christ - for it is the power of the cross that makes life in us what it is meant to be – which allows God to dwell in us and to be who he is meant to be – it is the power of the cross which gives resurrection to our God and then it is our God who gives his resurrection to us –
But can we bear it when he speaks it to us - when he steps in close to surround us and to take us into the full embrace and then into the full life of he who is the Resurrection ~ can we bear to hear and know all of what the Resurrection has given life to ~

For the Lord did hold open many doors to us so we would see what he had for us to yet see – so as what he had for us would come full on into our sight and hearing - so as to take its position in our hearts, as our minds worked overtime to bring all into some sort of order – to bring what was never to be contained or held down in vessels - into vessels which would encircle it but never restrain it or be adverse to its nature of total freedom.
All the concealments which blind us to all of which is of the Lord’s were held open for us by the hands and fingers of one whose patience endurance stands alone by itself – one whose unimaginable grace has yet to fine a suitable partner – and one whose mercy is beyond what cannot be sustained without love which is untamed and knows no bounds and is not lead by lust or jealous greed - for it took the wind of holy enlightenment to sweep in and clear the way and make all ready for the ushering in of who is without blemish - the ushering in of the unspoken eternities of our God, and to make way for the yet to be revealed glorious and sometimes shocking details which go to make up and bring to completion the full revelation of Jesus Christ.

The length of time the doorways to the heavenly features of our Lord stayed ajar and remained in their controlled state of openness which allowed insight into what they would always live to conceal and keep protected and shielded in holy places of untouched glory - was a proportioned length of time when a great release of our God was indeed a greater release for our God - as the roar of his Spirit and the pain of his flesh and the splendour of his presence made known its intentions.
For the mighty doors which yield to no one but the Lord and those who are just like him - may be sealed – may be locked and covered in silken glory but on what side of these towering magnificent partitions which guard the Lord of life and his word and his pleasures and his delights and his core of powerful raging inferno - what side of them did we stay on when they came back to their meeting point – did we stand back as they came to their closure – did we stand aside to let them pass us by leaving us only feeling the rush of air as they came to join and meet with the Lord - or did we realise that they were opened for us so we would step into the more and not just look at the more, and admire the more and hope for the increase of the more from a distance - for all is at a distance if we have not gone ahead and now stepped into it - we are to have remained behind the closed doors for they did open to take us in – for the Lord opened himself to take us into himself - and as we remain in Christ and as he remains in us, it is for us to stay inside the rooms and in amongst the hiding places of our God – for we cannot explore them from the outside, and it was for us to take our entrance through the priceless opening made available to us by Jesus Christ when it was presented to us, and then for us to continue to stay there with our Father and to continue our walk and our journey as we took our now starting point from where we had asked to be brought to, and from there where we had asked to go – and it will be only through our excessive submission to the Holy Spirit - done in obedience and humility that we will be able to do this, for we have to have full guidance from our God as he takes us through himself for what we will see and live is without doubt what sent our Lord to the cross - and is without doubt what is held in his resurrection ~

When the doors opened it was for us to move with the Holy Spirit over the threshold – and now into a new existence - for it is the Holy Spirit who can only move us into what is going to be freefall, what is going to be more and more the walk of Jesus - and we have to go in his movements and it is only the depth of our commitment to Jesus which makes it possible for us to move as one with him, because we are going so deep into the all of our God and his Christ, and into areas of the Holy Spirit which have been held at a distance from us – that it is imperative we know that we are asking for what has not yet been released – what has not yet come into the light of revelation yet – for we will find ourselves on the same road with the same dust over our feet and our bodies as Jesus did - and will hear exactly what Jesus heard – and feel unimagined anguish and pain as we see and feel what only the Lord could see and feel in this world of such sin – it will be the realness of the real walk of Jesus –
We have to be lead by the Holy Spirit to find where our hearts and love does belong - we know they belong to the Lord – but it is now can he take them to places we may not want to go because of the deepness of what he is now telling tell us -
Knowing the all of God is much more than having his power manifest through us.
It is for us to stay in the secret places of our Lord for that is why he opened them to us for he knows what is yet to be spoken and heard – it is staying there and waiting for him to move us on – to move us where we need to be for he opened them to us because he is ready to let us see first – and then the world see what and who he is – to let the world have a taste of what is perfect and what does comes from perfect perfection – a taste of what is the original – of what is and will never be held back – God is unleashing on the world what is undesirable to the world – what is unthinkable to the world – what seems impossible to the world for it has for so long been under the guise that it marks out and controls its own destiny – and what it says goes – and what it does is permanent and durable – it has no conception of what is real and what is not - no understanding of the chaos and the destruction – nor of the life which is to come.

And for us not to stay in the secret places and hard teachings of our Lord is to do and think as the world - and to walk away from any part of him is to leave a part of our Lord out of our life, and to allow the world to move in – and to walk at a distance from the Lord is to lead a part of our lives separate from the all we have been shown – and that part of our life would be the all of our lives, for whatever and however we lived from that point on would be of no measure, when we had been given everything and believed and accepted only half - when we have been presented with the solitaire and craved for all else which falsely glitters around it – there would be no measure which would compensate – no amount of formal word in us will fill the gap left when we had been given access into the private world of word both spoken and written – and word unwritten and unspoken – and have been given access into the heart of the word himself to see past what is written and to see into what is yet to come into the life our God and what he has yet to live for himself - we have been given access through the cavalcade of new entry points which have appeared and begun to spread their wings as they opened themselves up as the Lord’s voice gave his permission for them to spread their glory so we could see through their feathered outstretched wing span - these are new entry points which the Lord has brought into existence for the sole purpose of raising the elect of the Holy Spirit to where they can go into the Lord and bring out in the same way as the Holy Spirit – so we are ready to take our journey into the greater things when the Holy Spirit takes his leave from us –

For the Holy Spirit is freed from his dwellings within us – for it is the word in us which sets him free – the intensity of the revelations of the word in us sets him free from vessels whose containment of the word and their mastery of the word – is in the sameness of the Holy Spirit as he is in the sameness of the Father and the Son - for we have been given all entry points – and have all access to the revelations which still have to come to their fulfilment so as to bring completeness to this age so the next age may make its entrance.

So it is as the Lord’s chests and vaults came into our view it is not only for us to stand in amazement – and to gaze at their beauty – and then to have a look inside as the Lord raises the covering for us – but is for us to see into their beauty and see the face of that which is plain in appearance – for in the face of plainness is hidden the true beauty which is beyond what we could first see – what we could first take in - for its beauty is beyond appearance and there are no words to express or give expression to what we see – just as it is that within the plainness we have to search out to see that which is of beauty to God - for out of the ordinary is what comes the extraordinary - but if we cannot look with a heart centred on only the truth of God we will never ever see what the Lord truly sees – and we will never be able to sink to the depths of the Lord and be submerged in what is not - to see what is - and to look into what is - to see what is not – for within the pattern of the Lord’s elaborately carved chests is the pattern of all creation - and in the ornateness of his vaults is etched the winding road of his complex emotions – and in the aloneness of his high and wide and deep doors is the loneliness of the journey of Christ and the loneliness of the life of God - for all of the Lord is crafted into everything that is him and everything that belongs to him - for he has to give expression to himself, but we will never see what he has hidden and how he has hidden it, if we do not see him and look for him in all and everything that he presents to us – for his word has already been spoken into his vaults and chests and rooms and doors and hallways and empires and his word is there for us to see – it is a work of art; God’s word –
It is the only thing which can be seen in unlimited ways and each way a different and new insight – it is to run our hand over what it has crafted out – to run our fingers through the carved out features, is the Lord’s word taking us to forbidden places which cannot be expressed or spoken out – to wind our hearts down the etched winding road of his complex emotions, is to go into an area which is explosive with word, but with word that is of the liquid nature and can only be felt as it expresses the solitude, the aloneness and the loneliness which does come with life – which does rest in the pockets of life and all it is – and of all its journey we have to take ourselves through – sometimes without company – and standing apart – isolated – and remote from human habitation – standing in a loneliness which is seated in the deepest part of our God – and only standing in it with Christ are we enabled to have its full shattering effect brought into holy and perfect understanding within us –
The loneliness of humanity is separate and at a distance from the life of the Lord who sustains all creation – when the Lord walked with us – he felt the loneliness in us – the loneliness of all God’s creation to its full degree –
We feel it when it is covered in sin, and then we move closer to the world – the Lord felt the all of it and moved us closer to God - for us to feel the all of it would have killed us – we would not have survived what wrestles against us when we are completely separated from God – we are numb to it – for we are so covered over with what is of unimportance – of what has been born out of our separation and denial of him, that we do not even feel those nails in our hands and in our feet – we walk around and we feel nothing - we do not feel the lashes against our backs or the crown of thorns which is ripping through our skull – and we do not even know we are bleeding to death - we don’t hear the insults made against our Father, and we do not know of the cross which is lain across our backs – we are so numb to our separation from God that we did not even feel it when we witnessed Jesus taking the fullness of our punishment for us – what we had on us was manifested in Jesus – the nails and cuts and wounds and the floggings and the thorns – but it made no impression on us and we felt no compassion and we saw no reflection of ourselves and the full depth of our loneliness - we felt no love and we did not see any familiarity with him - our brother and our Lord was a stranger to us – and we felt nothing for him and did not even know that as we stood and jeered him that it was us we were seeing – we were seeing the condition of ourselves – of what our separation from our God does to those who are not meant to live separate from him – we were seeing in all its plainness – in all its truth, the magnificent beauty of our God – for his magnificent being was changed in our sight for us to see our wretched condition, to see manifested what loneliness does to us when we take of it and move closer to the world, for we think that there is something in the world which can resurrect new life in us – new love in us – but Jesus came and stood in the gap so when we went to turn to the world for our resurrection and our life and our love, we would see he who is the Resurrection and the Life - and we would turn and repent and follow him out of the loneliness and into the aloneness with the Father - that we would follow him and never stop or turn back to see what we left behind, for if we did we would have taken our eyes off the resurrection and the life and all we have would now be taken away from us.

For on the cross Jesus did bear the full degree of the unbearable pain of the separation from God – Jesus took the loneliness which the world did reside in, and he suffered it, and he changed it with the glory to an aloneness with God – Jesus reconciled our loneliness with the peaceful solitude of God and brought us into an aloneness which is being set apart in holiness so as to partake and now live in the solitude and wilderness of the peace of God - for we can never begin to live it if we have not accepted that the loneliness and the separation that the world offers has been taken in its full measure and been lived by Christ for us – and at the completion of the suffering of it - it was changed with his splendorous glory into an aloneness and solitude with our God – giving full view to the innate beauty of the place of solitude - for it is seemingly so plain and ordinary – without fancy garments or sparkling alluring jewellery or the sounds of gaiety but is so extraordinarily captivating – for to be in the lonely places and the places of total solitude with our God is to see the intricate beauty and detail in every thread of a thought which is balanced and held so delicately in the Lord’s mind as it takes its passageway to his heart – it is to see lonely places as they are – that they are the opposite to how the world sees and lives them –
It is the reverse of how the world sees them for when we are in Christ they are the grandest and most exciting places we could ever be – for out of the lonely and solitary places did come the greatest of gift to us – for out of the lonely places did Jesus always return to continue his journey which had a destination of where no other man would go for the love of the Father – the gap between us and God was too extensive for anyone else to fill expect he who fills and brings life to all things.

The Lord took what is unbearable for us to stand up and endure under - he took it and paid the price - and then he turns that which is unbearable back into its original form, and the unbearable becomes the purposed suffering and divine knowledge and understanding of the Holy One - for our blindness has been turned into sight, our deafness into hearing, our flesh into usable vessels, our minds into the mind of Christ our hearts into the heart of Christ, our loneliness into the superb aloneness of God and with God, and our numbness into the magnificent and excruciating pain of Christ as he lives more and more in us and us more and more in him – there are no limits to what God bears for us and there is no lonely stretch of road we can travel without the Lord at our side, when the Lord is the road we are travelling down, and when he is every avenue and every pathway and every mountain and every deepest of depths we submerge ourselves in – when he is every vault and chest and room and vision and dream and wild expanse and eternal wilderness and all and every ravine and canyon spring that we bend to drink from – when we see that he is the highest point of our existence – the pinnacle of our eternal life and the one and only perfectly cut solitaire –
And that once we have stepped over the threshold of all which is of the Lord’s we find they are of no fixed form - that they no more seem of the confines of a room or vault or chest – for their appearance on the outside was a refection to us only of what we saw it to be – and it was only what we could see until we stepped into it, for they did not portray or give any insight into what they were indeed holding in the greatest of honour and highest esteem – it was a reflection - an outward display of their truth in the only way that God can masterfully portray and give manifest presence to them - for he is a connoisseur of all works – a virtuoso in any field and gives liberally as well as holds in tight concealment deep insights - the revealing of which will depend on our hearts desire for full and complete unification with him - for within the unification the flow between us and the Lord is like the flow of blood within a heart – like the flow of blood within one heart –

There is no way to cover or hide what God has made or how he has made it – or hide or cover who God is – for there is nothing to conceal God from us if we are looking with the same heart as Jesus - for inside the word of truth there are no locks or concealment – just as once inside the rooms of God the rooms have no door or walls or floor – for we are inside he who is without form and without limit and once inside there are to be seen no access or entry or exit point ……for once over the threshold of the world of God there is only the full unhidden truths of who he is - the blinding realisation that the truth of God is the truth of us – that everything we see in him is everything about us – that he is trying to tell us he is who we are, and that we are allowing our former lives which we led before Jesus came and stood in the gap – we are still allowing the residue of what has been put to death to come between us and the Lord – that we still have moments when we flash back and feel a familiar loneliness or an all too familiar pain which always seems to tear our hearts in two - and we attach it back to the world instead of taking it and reaching into God with it to go deeper into him, knowing that the reconciliation and the payment of it has been fully made, and that what we now feel has been changed by God’s glory into its original form, and we do not take it back to the world anymore but we offer it up to the Father as the sweet fragrant offering it is – the offering of suffering which is the price we now pay – the privilege we now have if we want to come to know the all of our God – and when we take it to him we know him a bit more, and live as the world a bit less – We have to come to see that as we looked at Christ on the cross and saw all his flesh had endured - it is what we did look like to our Father, and when we come now through Christ, and as we take on his appearance our wounds of the world are now transformed in the sight of the Father to the wounds of Christ and he begins to see Jesus in us – the love of Jesus in us as it takes on its own presence - the all of Jesus in us as he sees his Son again walk this earth through his chosen vessels - the suffering of Jesus in us as he took on our loneliness for now our tears are truly his tears - it is when the cross of Christ is now carried by the true sons and daughters of God – for it is never too late to acknowledge our brothers visit to us – our Lord’s visit to us - never too late to repent that we did not recognise or know him – never too late to be jealous for every word said about our God, and never too late to let ourselves feel a taste of the true loneliness of the journey of Christ ; and the true loneliness of the life of God; it is only ever too late when we have the all of God surrounding us, and we are surrounding the all of our God, and we then take it to where we think we are the replacement of Jesus Christ within the heart of the Father - and so then begin to live this dangerous delusion out in the natural realm - but it was not us who did hang on that cross – and it was not us who did stand in the gap for our God when he did look for someone - it always has been and always will be Jesus who is the solitaire of the Father’s heart ; and it is always us who are there to exalt and honour and praise him, as we come to learn to watch just as the Father does - for then we will see in the same way what it is in all of it complexities that which is in our Jesus which makes the Father want us to be just like him - and when we see it with the heart and understanding of the Father we will be just like him - for the knowing knowledge of it will transfigure us - for he and the Father are one and our oneness in Christ is our oneness with the Father and so it is when we see Jesus we see the Father – and so it will be that when the Father sees us he sees Jesus and when Jesus sees the Father he sees also us watching from within him for we too want to sit and watch from a place of solitude – want to watch he who is the solitaire of the Father’s heart.

So we are now to reconcile what we have done with what is of the Lord’s - and what is of the Lord’s is every tear and every drop of blood and every heart wrenching cry of agony as the word of God is forsaken and left in abandonment – when every avenue of betrayal has been walked down and given exaltation to – and when the God of all lets his voice be heard us, and his arm be seen by us, and his risen body be witnessed , and his wounds be touched - so we may believe - so we may see the way of repentance and glorify him instead of abusing him - so we would learn the value of honouring him and not despising him – so we may feel the pleasure in praising him instead of ignoring him – and the privilege in living every second with him instead of wasting our time denying that every second of our life comes from him – so we may see the value and the great reward in loneliness when that loneliness had to be lived to bring us into an exquisite aloneness with God and in God, which would supersede and give meaning to the path of loneliness as it was in the world, for the worth of it now cannot be compared because of its enormous impact on our coming to know our God and what he carried and lived for us - for once he lived it for us we could live it through him in but now not in the way of the world - but in the way of the truth and life of Christ - and we see loneliness and the pain of separation as a gem which does go to surround and give exaltation to the magnificent solitaire – for all which is privileged to surround it will have been brought down a pathway which makes them eligible to uplift the Lord with hands and hearts which now are familiar with the suffering of Christ and have a deep awareness of the depth to which it runs - and our praises and honour and thanks and exalting of him is in its increased measure, for the increase is heard in the heavens for the magnitude of the increase is a sign of our full realisation of what life with Christ and in Christ and for Christ is really all about – for the all of it is now flowing down without any hindrances for we gave our heart and our love to the Lord and meant it when we said it was all his and he could take it wherever he may want to go with it -

When we allow the Holy Spirit to call to us into total excessive submissiveness and to fully debrief us then we will know where we are – and what is happening, and what we are seeing and what we are feeling – we will know indeed on what side of the threshold we are standing …and know where it is that we now belong and have to be if we are to continue in the ranks of the Holy Spirit’s elect -

To know that it is in the solitary places where our hearts and the completeness of our being is taken into the light of the glory of the revelation of Christ, and we are at peace for we are in peace - and we are living in peace with God – and living in solitude in the peace of God is a part of the continuum of our work when we choose to reside and live only in and for and with Christ.

For the solitary does reveal more to us than what the world sees as so alive and full of activity – for how can we live in the extraordinary constancy of God when the busyness of the world is what we are comparing and seeing as the same as the busyness of God – that what we call brimming with life from the worlds point of view is to God a lonely place to be in – the world is a lonely place to God unless Jesus is in it – and now again he is to be seen walking this earth through us – until he again walks it in his own body of flesh –
And it is that what the world sees as a lonely uninhabited place, is for God the true and real centre and core of what is the power and sustenance of all life – for the continuum of the work of the Father is of no comparison to the work of men when men are not working only for the good of our God – with only his interests filling their hearts – for the best interests of the world is already under the full control of our God - and it is now who is looking out for and working for the full and best interests of our God –
And what is best for him is what drives us unrelentingly – the urgency of the return of our Lord is rising and can be tasted if we have come into his closeness – So taste it and feel it and live it and let the loneliness which we had in the world before Christ was seen by us – let us feel that magnificent moment when the glory changed it into its magnificent original form – when the blood of Christ washed it clean and out of it did emerge – covered in the splendorous lustre of God – did emerge our gift of aloneness with our God – our separation now not from God - but our separation as now being set apart for God –
Let not the world which God created out of love be a lonely place for him anymore - it is for us to display Christ through us in this world God so created – so the Father can watch and enjoy and take pleasure in seeing his firstborn come into fullness of his perfect character and glorious nature – to see the earth having walked over its surface the feet of he who is the beginning and the end – to see his presence in the world one more time – and this time through the creation he holds together by the power of his word – it will be the last time Jesus will be seen and speaking through his creation in this way before he does return to take his place beside and with those who will welcome him just as the Father welcomed him when he returned back to his heavenly dwelling after he had presented himself as the lamb of God - and after he was slain and after he was risen –

So did we step back as the doors of God began its movement to come to a close - or did we step forward and follow our Lord when the opening extended out to us – so that when the entrance was closed we were standing where the Lord was standing; right in the centre of all of life – right in the midst of the heartbeat of the Father and right in the core of the Holy Spirit …as he then soared us right to the centre of the heart of the one who suffered separation from the Father so the Father would not have to suffer the separation from us any longer - for our Lord is allowing us to come to a point where we know him so well – so well that as he carries it always so do we - so the truth of the pain of Christ is the truth of our life without God – for he carried it and then dragged it to where it would be nailed to a cross of reconciliation - a cross of the resurrection of the life of God for he was dead to us and is now alive in us ~ he was dead to the world but is now alive in the world through us …
The resurrection of Jesus Christ reaches into far off solitary places which have yet to witness what God did do through the death and raising up again of his Son – through the death and raising up again of himself –

For we have yet to see in his fully unveiled glorious splendorous form the full depth of what he paid for – we have yet to see the fullness of the lustre of who the Resurrection is - and what his resurrection made possible for us - of what his resurrection does carry until it is time to set it free as the revelation of it sings out to the heavens and the revelation of it plays out in the heart of the Father – for it will play out in his heart the full and superb private collection of that which is the resurrected opera – the beautiful rendition of Christ resurrected – of Christ Jesus the Resurrection and the Life ~
The beautiful and astoundingly amazing and gloriously detailed opera of God which was once dead but is now alive forever and now in its more powerful resurrected form ~ a form which will now see the completed masterful purpose of the eternity of the Resurrection ~
Always perfect timing – for the release of God’s all so perfect revelations of Jesus Christ are timed to perfection and released according to he who is the perfect one - the one who can only bring into existence all of which is of total perfection and of eternal endurance.

AMEN
PRAISE
HONOUR
THANKS
GLORY

20 March 2004

God’s Eternal Cup of the Newness of His New Life

Just as the Lord’s word comes back to him to set him free from his dwelling, so does his word come into his eternity with him to be what it is yet to be -
For his word was sent forth to set free all in its omnipresent path – and it will always lead us back to the Father for his word speaks of freedom - his word is freedom – and it cannot hold back when it is released, and it cannot withhold the intention of its purpose when it returns back to God, as he draws it in to merge with the full breath of eternal life, and to then release it again as they go into the eternity of their lives, in the power of the word of truth to now set free God’s eternity, as the dynamic energy of the truth of the magnificence of the greatness of God is exclaimed and heralded into all the unknown and untamed and yet furthest of horizons, which are still awaiting the breathe of life to reach its outstretched groans, as its embrace reaches out to take of him – to hold of him – to be a living part of him – and to be a part of his eternity - for such a prized possession it is to be a part of the eternity God has chosen for himself.

It is truth now which will go into the furthest of hinterland - it is the truth of God which has to keep going and forging into where it has not gone – for truth cannot be subdued or hidden or kept in restraints, for it is what releases the more of God – it is what expands and brings our God into the all of himself.
For the further out we go is the further we go into what is unplanned and yet without breathe -
And the further we go is the more we enter into all which is not yet encaptured by our imaginations, and all which is not yet within our hearts reach, and so the more the language – the more the ways of communicating and interacting and the making of interchange will not be able to be understood by us - or heard by our form of hearing, or expressed by our ways of interaction – it will be of a sublime sensitivity and tone and of a frequency and a dialogue which are of such a new combination because it is born out of the newness of God – and it is not the same as the communicating language of New Jerusalem - for it is beyond the newness of New Jerusalem – it is the new which is yet to be made in its newness or known in its nature or understood in its defining properties - it is the new which will come out of the all things new which God is creating - a new releasing of the heart of our God after all of his written word has been fulfilled and all his written word has come into its completed form…for then it is for God to move into word unprecedented – for the Amen of God has now moved again into the unseen dimensions of the eternities within him.

The Lord can only take us so far at this time, for we cannot go further into areas which are of no existence yet - which have no breathe in them yet - for the time is not right, and we are not right and our life with God is not completed or yet brought into its boundless excessive extremes, and we are yet to come into excessive humble obedient submissiveness – for even though our teaching is extended and being stretched and his ways are being more enlightened to us, we have yet to join as one with the full revelation of the Lord.
For now as we climb and this unfolding is given, we see it all disperse off into different directions and some of us will be taken down different pathways of the Lord and through different preparations – but the highest of preparations will be what is unseen and unknown to everyone but the Lord, for it is only he who knows the fullness of the journey of which we have asked for – and the fullness of it is guarded and held securely by him as it fills and gives rise and manifestation to his empire of visions – for it is us who make up his empire of visions and who take our place in his visionary tower which stands in the midst of them, and they are all brought into the centre of God’s heart where they will be appraised by God and given his approval to go forth into his creation and bring about what is to happen so the sons and daughters of the God most high can be gathered from the four corners of his outstretched land mass and come into where they are given over into the hands of the Holy Spirit to bring about the changes, as the workings of his great power does take its stand against all which does not portray and reflect and represent God at the most purest of levels.
Levels where we see pureness in its manifested form as we are opened up to see in the face of God’s eternity, the fullness of pure perfection as held in the face of God which is now to be displayed in all of its eternalised features – for all he is, his face does hold – and all he is, will his eternity display in a way which has been kept aside - for the display of it is the creation and the beginning of the new life of it.
For what God’s eternity seems like, it will not be – for what it will be, will be always ongoing – for it will never reach its conclusion for the breaking forth of God, the creating of the feast of the more of God will not cease for he has in him many eternities to live – for our God is now living himself – he is living the wonders of himself – and forever there will be a display of the fire within him – a fireworks display of the grandest proportions as the three of them anticipate and then come into the enjoyment of all the eternities which are awaiting them – to delight in all the eternities in them - as all the eternities are them –
It is the living of eternity in God eternal style – to live finally in the way he has been trying to - to reveal himself to us in all his greatness and for the drop of himself he could only give us in this age – to then become the flood of himself as all now has been done and completed, and now we are to see him and where he wants to roam, and with whom he desires to share it with, brought into the vibrancy of the perfection of his word – for then he takes the perfection of his word and brings it up to new heights and now his word is for him - his word now is just for him - for it is when the bright morning star will be seen in its original form when we enter into this realm of majesty unprecedented – into the realm of God unprecedented - into the realm of God unimagined and God even more undefinable - and how sweet that does flow - for it is a mountain of liquid myrrh; flowing words which cannot be formed on lips or be set on a page ; words kept for the extreme pleasure of God - a liquid mountain of pure feasting and holy indulgence - if we have come to know our God and the treasures of his life – right from the first gifts and treasures given him at his first arrival upon this earth…

What it all is - what it will take – is shown to us and can be seen by us either in its New Jerusalem form, or in its extended and unseen form that is beautifully crafted within Christ, and held guarded and protected in him by the power of God – formed in Christ Jesus because it is Christ Jesus… for the testimony of Christ in us – Christ in the world - is already the testimony of God in his eternity – heard but unheard for such is the tongue of its deliverance - such is its power to spearhead our thinking and our preparations and bring them into the heights of the Holy Spirit – the Holy Spirit and the fullness of the kingdom of God which he moves in – his full strength and the full deliverance of the kingdom of the fullness of God – and it is for us to take the all of it and to be without recoil, not to be taken aback, or to be slayed by the weight, or the cost, or the enormity of it – it is to feel the almighty unsurpassed strength of the love of God and what it really is, and what it really holds and what it always accomplishes – for it is only the immense love of God – the immensity of God which can stand under all which prevails and rides against it – for God is Love – and no one – no one can conquer him – no one can destroy him – and no one can annihilate the Love of God – the only form of love which can be destroyed is human love because it is corrupted and is a counterfeit of the original – and will stay corrupted and a counterfeit as long as God is left out of it - for to leave God out of it is to not have it – to leave God out of it is to withdraw yourself from his creation - and to live on the edge of the more of God, can also be to live on the sharp point of instantaneous annihilation …for the edge of God has a double side and both sides sharply define and separate and strike with the truth of God; and always make known to us the power and destination of his word - and its destination is always at the side of God eternal – it comes to us and leaves the deposit of God’s promise to us, but always returns back to the Father in its continuum of fulfilling only the will of God .

It is now for us to be brought back to the present with what we have been given of the future, to do the work needed - firstly in ourselves – and then in the world – hard and constant work - but a work which has a poise about it – the poise of Christ which becomes seen, as the consistency and persistency of God’s work drives us to climb higher into the elegance and poise and stature of Christ, as we listen longer, and as we learn deeper - for the edge for each of us is set before us, for it will always be coming to meet our growth at where it is - but it is where and at what edge we stop at, which will fashion out for us the life which is without limits – or the life which seems without limits, but is within the limit of an eternity - for there will be many times to us that we appear to be standing at the edge of God – at the very limit of our walk where our journey seems to have reached its summit, and we feel an intense satisfaction and a fulfilment which may take us into rest, and the Lord will watch and wait to see if we resolve within ourselves more of Christ, more of what we have been shown and given, or if we reach out to take and accept in our hearts that we are at the top of our desires and so believe we are at the top of God’s desires as well - And he will not tell us if there is more or less, or what is ahead, or what we have missed, or what we may still have - it will have to be the life of God and the life of us – the amount of God in us and the measure of God we have reconciled with our human condition - that will be the measure God receives back from us - for the measurement we have watched him pour from his oneness into our cup of humanity and then weighed against the measurement we have reconciled – the difference of these will be what places us where we can only be – either amongst what is planned and written - or amongst and a part of what is unplanned and unwritten and not even thought of, but at the same time what is felt in eager anticipation and earnest expectation – and that will be amongst what has to be dared to lived if we wish to come into the knowledge of it – for not all will be told to us beforehand – not all will be revealed and displayed with such grace from the Father – for what he does reveal, is to take us to what is yet unrevealed so we may come and open the door of revelation ourselves - for we have stood on the same ground as God and know of the rooms which are in our Father’s house, and we know that even the doors which conceal the priceless treasures would never open to us unless they see the fullness of the Lord in us, and feel the eternity of his touch in us; for all of what is of Gods waits to feel the rich flow of the touch of the eternities of God from within those who are his priceless vessel through whom he unfolds the liquidity of his word - the liquidity of his being…
For God has in him what stretches back into liquid word - that which no one will ever feel or know about or hear about or experience unless we experience it through God, and are prepared to share the experience only with him - tasting of it and drinking of it with him as when it was in the realm of pure liquid word which has come straight out of the fire of God’s heart - and it will stay as liquid myrrh until the moment it is poured out and lived - and then its liquid form wraps itself around those who are eating and drinking out of the deep ravines of the all of the heart of God, and its flowing liquid form comes into us and we will no more ever be the same – for we have running through us a part of God which pertains to the holy deep of his make up/ of his soul – a releasing of what will make us sons and daughters of our Father - released and given only by our Father according to his will, and only to one or ones who know the powerful and passionate truth of the life of the Father – of the life he has with his Son – to how we know it, is to how we can be a son or daughter to him –
Many measurements and many callings, but only hidden in the depths of our Lord will be the true source of our eternal relationship with him –
There are many different avenues and all will lead us to a part of God – but it is to know what path leads to what part of him, and what treasure speaks the new language of him - for all his treasures are to reveal his greatness and his many facets, and the unveiling of the all of them could take us into eternity without even the Lord touching on anything which is deeply personal, or even close to his private sanctuary, or even anywhere near his rooms which open up into a fathomless depth of his heart and soul – but it is to reach with hands of liquid passion, and with hearts of pure myrrh so as to hold the all of the Lord which will give access to where he resides within himself ; that is the jewel of his treasures – the jewel which sits in solitude and awaits us, just as the Father does.

Search we can, but it is only by the will of our Father if we indeed find it - for as we search he searches us to find the corresponding jewel in us, for the two have to be joined together and made one for it to come into its completed state of existence within us and for us to be moved into the most private and hidden eternal pathways of which our God will only tread – of which our God and those in him will be only beckoned into ~

There is no other way for us to go further out of the eternity of New Jerusalem unless we have gone outside of it while we are still in our human flesh – for that is when and how the Lord wants it introduced to us – it is here we will make our decisions and then it is from our decisions the Lord makes his decision on where we have right of way to go within him – he takes the all of us and processes us within his glory to release what it is we truly hold in us – releasing in a drop the whole magnitude of our make up - all and everything about us brought to him in but a drop of his blood, and from the power of the truth of what we are held in, does the aroma of our drive and our passion and the life of Christ within us come forth all in its heightened state, as Christ in us merges with the heart of he who searches out all hearts – only our God knows where we are truly meant to be and only our God can take us there.
For the Lord has been pouring himself out to us into our cups of longing and yearning and pining, and he is giving us what we are asking for but do we know what to do with it now as its measure continues to pour out to us.
Do we know the worth in it –do we know the measurement in God’s cup -
Do we know what each of our steps does do to the Lord’s outpouring – to his declarations – to his presence – he comes to us in all different ways but it is to receive his presence in the way he wishes it to be received – in the way he wants to come to us and be seen by us – it is us making it so the Lord is released and free to manifest his person, his face, his kingdom, his bounty - the physical presence of his grace, his humility, his gentleness, his fire and his all and every part of himself –
For they all have a physical presence and to see all of it - that is personal revelation – that is the true revealing of our relationship with him - when the true manifestation of himself to us - all of him, his nature, his character the fullness of each of his movements - when seen by us as it extends into eternity after eternity – for we are seeing not only his form – his face and his other features as we would see in the physical form of a man, but it is we can see physically his grace and his humility and his wrath and his patience and his endurance – we can smell his passion and the fragrance of his anticipation - every part of him is to be seen in its full form, and will be when we have entered into where our life truly begins in the Lord, as we take on the pinnacle of our role of why our life was given to us by God – given to us in the hope we would look past everything put in our path to really see just him - to really know just him – to really love just him, as he is - that we would want and love just him alone, even if he had not one thing to offer to us –

It is to know what door to open to come into the presence of the full revelation of our own being – to know behind what door does stand our full existence in God - to see it standing in elegance as God in us takes his regal position within his vessels – for it is of good courage to enter into all his rooms - to go to all the doors and to accept and bring into ourselves what is revealed behind them, for they will all take us to where we will stand in the presence of God – and then to take the full presence and stature of him into our bodies of flesh - and when we see God in us we truly see a vessel which is of the perfect formation to hold he who is God – and we will see what God so desired from his vessels - and how they are to be prepared to hold what no man would ever hold in himself – for the miracle is - God who holds and sustains all things within himself allowing a prepared vessel to hold he who holds all things – for us to wrap ourselves around him and to feel what he feels in proportion to who we are, and for him to then do his work through us as he did through Jesus Christ –
That is the fullness of the perfect understanding that our God has concerning all of which he gave life to – knowing perfectly how to bring us to where we are meant to be as he pours out of himself freely, so we may experience him and his all powerful, all knowing, and all present qualities – for he is allowing us to feel what it is like to sustain all things within our being when he permits us to be filled with Jesus to the full measure of the all of him – for us to carry and surround all which is life, all of who is the word and the truth of God, and all who is the entire and complete power force of all and everything - he is allowing us to sustain and hold all things as he does - and when we relinquish that offering of himself; we move from taking in the all of God to skimming the surface of him, and that will get us to the surface of his life with him now, and the surface of his life in eternity later on - if we do not know how to sustain and contain all things within ourselves now, and learn how to maintain our self control and know how to perfect the releasing of his power in all its forms as the creator does, then we can never go back to learn it when this earth passes away – if we cannot carry the fullness of God and let him show us what it feels like to hold he who holds and sustains all things with his powerful word - if we do not do it now, in this age and at this time - then we will never be able to carry the fullness of him through all of his eternities - so how much of him we hold and surround and carry within our earthly vessel is paramount to how much we will be able to hold of him in eternity - for as he enters and lives his eternities he will be increasing and extending, and we have to be able to hold the extra dimension for it is to be as he extends we will extend for so perfectly have we merged into him and he into us – for it will be when oneness and sameness with God comes into receiving its complete and justified glorification, as the manifestation of it is now is taken into the eternal realms to live its existence at the highest and at the ultimate point of God – the farthest point of God which has yet to reveal itself.

Where we want to go in Christ is so personal, so individual that the Lord cannot generalise this part of our walk – for to generalise it would not be the truth of it and it is the awesome power of the truth of it which is going to see it fulfilled for the Father – for the truth will not cease to go ahead even if it takes no one with it except God alone – the truth does not depend on us - it just reveals itself and lights the way for us and will then take off without us, for the speed of its coming and now the speed of its moving onward and upward will accelerate for God’s written word is coming to a close and this form of expression to us is going to meet with what is waiting to herald in eternity after eternity and all the new ways of God –
And all the new ways which are waiting to have their lives lived with God in all of his eternities will not relinquish their pride of place in his life….all of which is to be new is too hungry for the newness of God – the newness which will come out of the newness…for it is only man who chooses to relinquish what God wants to give them - because mankind thinks that our eternity is going to hand all things to us on a silver platter – that eternity will provide for us what we could not be bothered accomplishing and going after while we were on this earth .. but eternity is for God …and his eternity is waiting breathlessly for the Lord to step into it, and it only has eyes for him….it only awaits his voice and stands eager to do his will – to give up what it is, and to become what the Lord wants it to be – nothing and no one is going to be eagerly looking at men, if men have not already found their way into the all of God - for all of creation knows that God has given us everything, and if we do not come into eternity with the everything of God then we will be where we will be - and life will go on to its destination and move into where many will have no rights to enter - for when we relinquish what God gives us, or wants to give us, we have relinquished and given up any rights to go any further into his eternity with him ~
But all of the newness and all the wonders which await our God will move in and fill the gap left by us for our God will never feel the pain of loss or the pain of unrequited love again – for that is the hearts desire of the eternity of God – to see him fulfilled and delighted and pleasured, as his life is taken up to where only God deserves to be – at the pinnacle of his life – of his existence – at the pinnacle of total and absolute joy….of newfound freedom …and the ecstasy of living in the freedom and in the love of his Word.

Do we have the growth and stamina and the hunger that matches and surpasses the hunger of the newness of God – can we measure up and come into God’s eternity with the same passionate fire - do we have the determination to be a part of his eternity - and do we know what a prized and much valued possession it is to be a part of the eternity God has chosen for himself – can we match God’s eternity and its desires it has for him - do we have the unequalled strength and courage and love and anticipation to now take what is of our God’s and do with it what is best for the kingdom of God – and that is what is best for our God and his life –
Will we go forward refusing to relinquish any part of him; and any part of what the freedom of truth is powering forward to bring into the life of Father Son and Holy Spirit – do we want it so bad that the pain is excruciating – the pain of separation from our Father is so unbearable that it drives us forward to rip open eternity ourselves so our Lord can step into it with regal elegance - so he can step into his eternity of vision and dreams for they are now dreams and visions which are a manifested reality -
The priceless opening has been made for us by Jesus Christ so that we may always go with him wherever he goes - the opening is there if we want to come into God’s family in the prescribed manner – the way is there – the truth is there – the life is there – and if we make it – it is because the Lord gave us everything, and we used the everything he gave us to its full and righteous measure - we used all of everything he gave us so as to bring our Father into his eternities with sons and daughters who are just like him – who love just him – who want to live with just him - and who are eagerly awaiting and earnestly anticipating what the newness of God has yet to display and herald in – and are wildly desiring to see what the eternities which are within our God have yet to release- for there is never a place where he could stop revealing himself to us, and where we would say I am satisfied with what I now know - because our God has not even begun to live his life yet – he has not even scratched the surface of living the fullness of who he is – he has not even started to lift his feet and take flight for when he does the all of everything – the all of the new heavens and new earth and the new holy City will know it – and will feel it – and they will respond with a mighty roar to the moment our God again shakes the heavens and earth as he takes flight and enters into where he has only dreamed of going - where he has longed to go - for all the untamed wilderness and all and everything which has yet to experience his visitation have been calling to him and reaching out to him since eternities past -
And when he steps into new breath and new life the mighty exploding power of the newness of love eternal; of the embracing of all which is beckoning him – of the embracing of the freedom and love of the word; will be felt by those who reside on the earth and in New Jerusalem – for they will witness the repercussions of the Lord stepping into eternity and tearing it into - but they will never be a part of it – they will feel the almighty movement of the eternities as they are torn apart to make way for the entrance of our Lord so he may now tread into the newness of himself - but they will never follow him or know where he goes or know what he does - it will only be God and those who walk in sameness with him - who are just like him – now walking in the same direction with him – with the same intensions - coming from the same heart as they are all driven and are desiring of the same things –

So for us now we are to take what the Father has issued out to us and find out how we can bring all into its fine tuning within us who are his earthly vessels - and find out how we can bring our Father into his eternity, and how to be the sons and daughters who can and will release it to him – how to be a son who knows what his Father wants, and how to be a daughter who knows what her Father wants – it is not for us to imagine what it is – it is to find out exactly what it is - and then to multiply it – and to know what it is our God does desire from his family is to come to know God as the Father of our family –
For it is with such personal unfolding of himself - that he is allowing us to come to know him at such a deep level – for so personal is it that it is not without pain for him – but he is handing it to us with still his fragrance resting on it – with still the warmth of his hand penetrating it – and still the touch of his lips sealing it - and it is now, how we take it from here - as to where we will make it to - to where the extremes of the life of God does really begin to emerge in its full strength of power and glory; and the truth of his word exalts to its pinnacle the one and only true God and Jesus Christ whom he sent - for that is when our eternal life begins on this earth - and that is when our eternity of eternities begins within our God ~

And right now his sword of his word is doing its job as always to perfection, and it will find in us and bring out in us exactly what our responses are to our God after he has unveiled and shown us through his intricate and the all so private details of himself – through his deepest parts of his inner chamber, and has allowed us to see the doors which open into the rooms which hold a piece of his heart which holds in it the revelation of the written word and the insight into unprecedented life which is still to come …
And the Lord wants to know what we are doing with what he has given us out of his private collection of visions and holy deep truths …
What our hearts did with it – what our hearts saw in it -
Whether it has formed in us more word - and more powerful reactions and responses to our Lord as he allows us to move more into his life.
Is there a difference in to the way we now look at him and the way we reach out to him and in the way we listen to him-
Has it made a change in the way we honour him-
Is our zeal for the Lord now rich and with substance, or still of a nature which will dissolve when our zealousness and jealousness has run its course and turned lukewarm. –
Did we feel the crushing of our hearts as the pressure increased as we went deeper into the Lord, as we stepped into his bottomless ravines, and felt under our feet the fast flowing and strong current of his mighty unfailing love and his never ending endurance.
Have our responses to his voice and his moods and his movements been sharpened, and our interchange with the Lord become more acute and precise as our words to him are words which seek out and search through every vein in his heart to see where word did first come from – to see life before it became form – to see where were the formless does reside as it waits for the Lord to draw it out of its resting place.
Have we endeavoured to grasp the revelation and use the measure of it to lift our level of commitment, and to bring our faithful obedience into the beyond of what the Lord is already being offered by us - by raising the bar and then raising it again and again for it will never be too high - it will never be too deep and it will never be too wide……
Has our love for him increased - and can we feel the difference in the increase – can we feel God is love – can we feel what that love is to its very core and feel the intense heat in it as it was released into the existence with a roar and a rush of fire and exploding power – a mighty force came into being when God released his word, for then the truth of God, the truth of love, was indeed exposed and brought into the light - as the all of the truth carried his wholeness and completeness and his perfection and the power of it into all and every place, for it is not to be contained and not to be quenched, and God did make himself seen and known, and the journey for him had begun and is now racing with great speed to its destination –
Can we now feel the strength it takes - the courage it takes – the pain it takes – the sacrifice it takes – the fire it takes – and the outcome of which it takes to bring God to where he is meant to be… to bring God to his destination …
Then if we have, the Lord has now exploded onto the scene within us in a way which is his powerful majesty being seen in the truth of its supreme excellence –in its supreme authority – it is the total supremacy of the Sovereignty of our God.
For the Lord’s heart has been opened to us and it is not without intense emotion that he brings out of himself what only he takes mastery of within the privacy of his dwelling – but he has drawn them up from a great depth for we have asked for the more and we were given it - and now it is what will we do with it – how we treat what is without measure in its value and worth…

How do we take into our person what is to the Lord, the very fabric of his being and the very life in his heart and the very fire in his soul ~
How do we take that, and know for certain that we will never betray him with it.
How can we ever take it, if we have not drawn from the Holy Spirit that extra we so need – for if we have taken of what the Lord has given us – it is our responsibility to make sure we are ready to move into excessive humble submissiveness to the Holy Spirit – for if we do not give fully way to him to have his complete way in us – if we have not moved into the excessiveness of submissiveness to the Lord we can never carry in holiness and complete silence what we have taken out of the Lord’s hand - we ourselves with only a dash of the Holy Spirit cannot do it – we would betray the Lord – whether we deny that we would or not – we would betray him for without the completeness of the Holy Spirit having his way, and guiding each of our steps and refining all of the words out of our mouth - the weight of what the Lord hands us when we ask for the more, will bring us, without the total possession of the Holy Spirit, to where our strength will be our own – our words will be our own - and what the Lord has given us of his own will have fallen from its place of complete and pure holiness within us, because what he has given us, and who he has given us to enable us to carry the all of Christ has not been used by us …and we have not released the all of ourselves to be submerged into an excessiveness of submissiveness which is now essential because it has to match the excessiveness of what God is now giving us - if we cannot submit as Jesus did then it is not our place to take of the more out of the hand of God ~

For the doors of great royal and regal standing will now be closed –
All the doors which were opened for us and to us by the hand of God himself have now been placed back into their sealed positions - and all the chests and vaults of which the Lord has revealed from will now be secured again - for to men it has not been given before and has not been for them to taste or handle or to be in the presence of its aroma which only goes before God - and it will be now for God to see how we do handle what he has released – what we do with what we have asked for -
If we indeed did do what we said to God we would do, if it was given to us – or will our betrayal be so subtle that in appearance it seems as though we have fulfilled our word to God, but it will be to God that our word has been rendered nil and void, for we have partaken of the Lord and dwelt in the luxury of his private quarters only to let it lay dormant in us –
And laying dormant in us is not the same as remaining in holy silence after he has surrendered his inner secrets to us - laying dormant is to relinquish what we have been presented with – to have given it up in either false humility or to have proudly spoken of what should not be spoken about.
It will be to God, if we recognise or even remember what it was made out of, that of which he did reveal to us - did we take of it and feel it in our hearts and our flesh to know of its every nature - did we feel God in it - was it smooth and soft or with sharpness and definition – or was formless and only having a fragrance of which was its signature – did we look to see what it was encased in and held in before it was lifted into its place within God’s revelation – did we notice how secured and guarded it was and how it was that through the many rooms he lead us, before we did reach where it was rested – did we even see how carefully and with mighty tenderness the Lord raised it up into our view and into our hearing – and then see how he replaced it after his light had shone the depth of it into us - Did we see and feel what his robe was made of and feel how his garment of majesty swept through his hallways of intensity, and how all of which makes up his nature moved in him, and yet moved in their own royal stature – it will be how we honoured his dreams and how carefully we held his hopes – and how we centred our attention on his visions coming to realise that the more we focused on them, the more we could see how God indeed has an empire of visions; an empire of which is yet to come forth from him –
Did we see it – did we wonder and stretch our hands out to touch that of which God alone has only touched and felt – did we think to explore his footsteps and to see the depth of the imprint they left as he moved to different doors - and did we see his hand as he reached down into parts of himself which had not been given voice or come into the personal presence of God before that moment – did we see if his hand was clenched or whether his palm was outstretched – did we take the time to hear his heart beat as he took what was enveloped in mystery, and drew back the covering and showed us what was behind the curtain of his heart which was of such great pain and distress to him ; but in his distress he still made it visible to us so we to see the pulsating of it as he held it - did we notice his distress and the tears which sprang to his eyes -
Did we see it - did we hear it - did we then walk away with the more of God revealed in us – or did we walk away back to where we were – back to asking for more, when the more we have just been given lay unreconciled and unknown in all its aspects still at our feet where the Lord had placed it…
Placing it there so we would pick it up and feel it for ourselves – so we would feel what he had felt, so we would experience the weight of it - so the power of the truth held in it could surge through our bodies and melt our hearts so we could feel where his liquid word did come from – did we let ourselves experience our God, or did we feel nothing – did he reach out to us and his hand just pass through us without any of our senses reacting to his touch –
Or even responding to his total embrace of us, as he divulged to us what no man should hear or see or touch or smell –
How did we walk away from our encounter with the Lord of Lords – how was our lives changed and how did we change the life of our Father and our brother and God’s Holy Spirit - Do we think we can walk away from this – from what the Lord has taken the covering off for us to see – do we think we can now walk away and not have to accept the consequences of our actions and words now to the fullness of God’s measure of discipline – we want to walk the edge – then this is one of the sharp edges of our walk with the Lord – how we now walk with what we now know – how we now talk with what we now have heard – how we now use what God all powerful has released –
Released to us to see how we would walk with it – how we would handle it - and to what level of excessive humble submissiveness we would reach for -
For us to have a taste of the fine line we have to walk, we have been ushered down the fine line of his hallways and have stood on the finest of edges of God’s heart as he showed us the rawness of truth – as he showed us into the heart of life before it became manifested life, and as he drew back curtain after curtain for us to partake of what we have asked for – for he had decided to show it to us in its naked unblemished form - and as he watched us then – he watches us now to see what we do with what is his ~ if we really use everything he has given us – if we really submit to his Holy Spirit who he has given to us ~ for what he gives us will never reach its intended purpose if the power of it is denied - and we deny the Holy Spirit when we take of God and do not allow God’s Spirit to now bring out of it the full riches of God - which will go unreleased until all of us, and all in us is placed in the hands of the Spirit of the revelation of God.

God’s grandest display of revelation to us is that he showed us what precedes the unveiling of the truths of himself – for they are all indeed preceded by the light and the aroma of his presence, and it is God giving us of himself in the prescribed way - for the prescribed way is the perfect way – it is the powerful way life brought forth life - and it is with undiluted perfection that the Lord releases to us the great truths of which are our life and our eternity – and he does this by first displaying to us his life and his eternity.
For the revelation begins its journey into its unfolding the moment we ask and the moment God moves to answer us in the power of his perfection - for that is the only way his truth can be disclosed, for it is only the perfection of God which can personally disrobes them for us and to allow even the eyes of our heart to perceive their presence.
For the unveiling begins as God lead us into himself and allowed us to see the process of revealing the truths of his word – it is seeing how he walks through his hallways - how he moves with such power and grace and peaceful ease - how he bends to lift the truths of himself out of their place of surging raw and pure life which is unformed, to meet with us who are of form and of human flesh – how he takes of us and lifts us up to levels and heights which have not been before declared or permitted – it is how his head tilts as he watches come into view that which he himself has kept in deep concealment within the deepest and most untravelled recesses of his inner core, where the fire of new life is continuously roaring with the expectation of what is to come.
It is for us to marvel at the wholeness of him as he reveals to us more of the truth of life and the place from where it came from – it is to take in all of the revelation and all of what precedes it and proceeds it – it is watching our Lord and his movements and his manner, and when he smiles, and when he turns his head and when he bends and when he gives voice to his heart and mind and how he holds what is rare, and how his fingers touch it and how his eyes never leave it – God is the revelation to us for he shows us how to handle the amazing and astounding truths of himself, as he wisely takes us back to the truth of ourselves – he shows us how to hold them and how to respect the power in them as we are powered back to know and feel the great surge of life which gave us our breath - It is our God who is not only showing us his secrets and the depth of his wise knowing and the kingdom of his understanding and the voice of his counsel and the holy place of his power – it is the whole stature of him which has to be taken in and appreciated and acknowledged, if we are to partake of the whole revelation and see the fullness of the perfection of it - for as we watch him with eyes which never leave him, and as we take in his every movement – in his every step and turn, we see the miracle of our God and how he comes into existence with his every word and with every miracle which comes into a manifested form – and to watch him, as we listen to him is to see how the miracles come into existence in the way that they do - it is in the handling of the truth – how we handle it, how we hold it, how we speak with it, how we respect it – there is nothing the Lord does not show us – there is nothing which is not encaptured in him, whether in spoken word, or whether it be in seeing the word in the flesh and watching his person – it is in listening to his breathe and searching out his every step and watching the position of his hand and hearing the unspoken pain of his heart – we are to learn from him…for he teaches us how to live and what to live and why to live - and there is nothing he will not show us or tell us if every breath he has given us, when released out by us again comes to him and has held in it the language of his heart - the language of the total unification of his heart with our heart.

We ask for more revelations and he begins to unfold them as soon as he moves to release them from within himself – that is the start of the revelation of God – his first movement is the first striking disclosure of what is held in the divinity of the truth – and we do not have the whole revelation if we do not look at he who is the revelation himself to see that God is revelation – that there is no revelation without him -
He has so many ways of giving us what is only known and done by him so we do know how to handle, and lay our hand on, and our mouth to, and our ear to the truth of God so it manifests in the precise way it manifested for our Lord because we have watched him and know when he sits and when he rises - we have watched his every movement, and joined it with what he has shown us and have taken in the complete fullness of the revelation of God - of his person – of his personality – of his nature - of his manner – and the truth of him has found its mark when we recognise what he is really uncovering – when we understand what is really set before us in all its nakedness – and he will show us in the form of the formless – in the form of his opera – in the form of his word – in the form of his touch – in the form of his love - and always in a form which will confront our hearts and our thoughts – always in a form to give more freedom to our spirits and to release more fire into our souls - because we will be shown exactly what we have asked for, and it will be shown to us exactly as it really is – with what encases it - with the power surrounding it – with the breath of creation filling it - we will get it all in its original state – in the state it was in when held in God and when the breath of men had not breathed on it – for when they did breathe out murderous threats then the origins of all life was hidden from our view - hidden from our view until when we asked for the more of God to be revealed to us – we meant it – and when we reached out for the extremes of him we reached out with a pure heart – and when we when we felt the pain of separation from him we lived it as he lives it – and when the Lord takes of the heart of himself and says to us ‘take it’ we take it because we want the best for our God – we take it because we are ready to go into the excessive because we want not for ourselves but to bring him into his eternity and into the embrace of all which is calling out to him - and when we say we want to be a son or daughter it is because we are willing and have been made ready in our heart of hearts by the Holy Spirit to say those words and to know what they mean in the hearing of our God – we know that when we say those words that they are not empty words we are saying to our Father - but they are filled with knowing knowledge – they are filled with pure love – and they are filled with the fullness of Christ for only he enables us to say them and to mean them.

Every single inch of our God holds an eternity of revelation in it, all waiting to be given disclosure and to be received by us in the knowing and the acknowledgement of what we are really witnessing – and God is allowing us to witness him in a very detailed way - for it is only in the detailed way which will give us rise into where he is going next when he enters into his new life – and it is only in the detailed way that we can see that the Lord puts himself on the line each time he discloses to us the deep personal truths still held in him – for there is always the chance that we will not take what he is giving us to rise to the greater heights with him in his eternities - but we will use it to betray him – but what he will receive if we take of it and give ourselves in holy excessive obedient submissiveness to his Holy Spirit – what he will receive from that to him is of such a proportion – that he is willing to risk our betrayal ~ for he knows why he chose us and he sets his sights and his heart, and uses all of his almighty strength, to bring out of us only what he has planted in us; and to bring us only to the place where we will see only the Father and the joy in his heart as his face expresses what cannot be said, for his face will now be displaying all his eternalised features - for now the display of it is the creation and the beginning of the new life of God – the new life of his newness -

And the newness of his life has to preceded by us witnessing for Christ to the highest of levels - when we ourselves become the living example of the character of God, even down to his way of walk and the gestures of his hands and his facial expressions - for all are a witnessing of God and the revelation of him - all is a witnessing and a proclamation of the beginning of the new life of God – the new life of his newness – the new life held in his eternities –
He has proclaimed it, and he will live it, and all will be as our Lord and God so desires, and has so dreamed and has so envisaged – and it has always been for us live the newness of his life with him – for us to live the newness of the life in him – it has always been for us to be the new life which is held in the breathtaking newness of all of his eternities ~

AMEN
I Love you my Father

What is Your Passion? (Part II)

Do not suppose it is a small matter to have a desire to know the things of God, to understand the mysteries of what motivates Him, to have in your soul a hunger for His Word and to know the part of Him from where His Word is birthed to take its designated form.

Do not suppose it is a small thing to care about and want to protect the plans of God, to glorify the love of His Son and to honour the power of His Holy Spirit. Do not suppose either that your zeal, your commitment, your enthusiasm and your passion for the Lord counts for nothing, for even though what we present to Him may look and feel like a mere drop of an ocean to He who is forever abundant, they are in truth mustard seeds, which are the smallest in size, yet when it grows in the stature of the truth and grace of Christ and the power and humility of the Holy Spirit, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a fully grown tree of righteousness, so that birds of the air come to pick the fruits you are bearing to present to the Father, who is a lover of all fruits everlasting and especially delights in fruits blossomed out of justice, righteousness and kindness .

Or do not think that the mere action of closing one bible and immediately reaching out to read your next, without so much as lifting your eyes, is a forgettable thing to God. Even though we may have the humility to think, what’s one bible, 5, 10 or even a thousand- can the hunger for the word ever match the number of times we read and highlight, eat and breathe it? For we are to always hunger and thirst and breathe of the Word more that we actually read it, because our hunger, thirst and need to inhale the word and the desire to reach out and caress and kiss the words that Jesus said, will keep us going and growing, lest we grow lazy, complacent, proud and become a stumbling block to God.

It is hunger at its initial emergence, this tiny drop of the ocean, a dash of star dust in the expanse of the night sky, which in its infantile stage may still be impure and diluted because we have yet to grow into the full stature of Jesus by the full power of the Holy Spirit. But this hunger grows and transforms as a craving, from a craving to a need to a passion, from passion to an entrenched, deep-rooted love within you to co-create the eternity that you alone can help contribute towards the Father’s dream family house. If you have in your heart to hand-make a royal crown for our God as gift to the Father for His eternity, see that we are all unique precious stones and gems. His eternity is His life, for the life of an eternal God is eternity, and don’t you dare think He will not notice one diamond missing from the crown.

This initial hunger that feeds to grow into passion is a gift from the Father, active and living in us through Jesus as we abide in His Word, and as the Holy Spirit passionately and attentively does His work in us as He not only lives in us but fills us completely, only if we let Him. It is our Father who looks into the core of our cores, and the Holy Spirit scrutinises each of our thoughts and motives, sifts us like sands till He finds the gold nuggets He is looking for, as if He is unwrapping a gift within a gift, and there, He finds the purity and cleanliness of our hunger, that tiny 1% that He finds useful to advance His plans and realise His dreams. And He is gracious and loving to show us the speck of purity amidst the mass of impurity in us while we are still sinners and hostile to Him, show us what we were made of from the dust of the earth when it was still uncontaminated by sin, and His breath of life exhaled into us from His mouth which overflowed from a heart which has not been grieved by men- and there it is, He shows us the tiny drop of who we are as He sees us and has always known us, and indeed is what keeps His from destroying us altogether. And it is for us to stand in complete awe of Him because we have grown so jaded and world-weary that our hearts are hardened to believe that there can be any God-worthy goodness in us, that our Father in heaven should send His one and only begotten Son to salvage our souls for greater things than these, so that we may truly love Him more than these, when we have become so arrogant in our distance from the one who is truly humble and graceful to consider why He should even do anything for us, or backslide into reverse thinking that we are not sinners in need of repentance- that He should do anything for us after all that we have done and said to Him- let alone show us how He sees us, how He wants to see us, how He saw us before He brought us out of Himself, and what He has always imagined us to be for we are made in the goodness of His image. He cups the specks of diamond dust in His hands with a gentle smile on His face, the diamond dust shimmering in the glory of the light of His face, to coax us and encourage us to continue, to go further, to love, to believe, to have faith, to never stop seeking Him, to never stop wanting to be where He is, to never stop wondering what He thinks about every moment, and to never stop loving Him as He never stopped loving us.

He takes that bit of diamond dust that we stirred up within ourselves in hunger and want when the calling of God through Jesus and the magnificent convictions of the Holy Spirit reached our hearts and took its root there, for it is from the initial conviction of the Holy Spirit that we confess we are sinners saved by grace and by the Spirit that we may confess “Jesus is Lord”, a truth in which goodness can start to take its course in our lives. And with His own hands, the Father stoops over us as He once did when He brought us forth out of His perfect imagination and knowing wisdom, and He sweeps away the sands and sediments that had collected and settled there as an unsteady and destructible foundation that had no truth in it, it had no Jesus in it, and while we are still on our knees in repentance and in tears, He shows us the diamond dusts that is scattered amongst us, speckled and confused because they have yet to resume oneness and sameness and togetherness with God, as they eagerly wait for us step forward to answer to God’s call. And when we do so, the diamond dust which are as numerous as the stars and invisible to the naked eye but visible to the all-seeing and all-knowing eyes of God, begin to congregate and gather together and form the likeness of a diamond, and what were once shattered and crushed treasures of God because we said NO to Christ will begin to take its new but original form in us when we say YES YES YES to Christ and AMEN AMEN AMEN to the Holy Spirit. But it is still a diamond in the rough- it looks like shattered glass because we once represent the shattered fragments of the Father’s kingdom of dreams because we still have a long way to go in Christ- and it takes the conviction of the Holy Spirit, the work He continues to do in us, the cleansing and the chipping away of the parts and make-ups that is of the man in us and not Jesus in us, and He works hard as He looks at us, looks at Jesus and looks at the clock, and He feels in His bones that the appointed time nearing, and the increasing urgency and importance of His work at hand. For it takes the passion of the Holy Spirit to see the potential in each of us as God has given us talents according to our abilities in hope for us to exceed His expectations and traverse beyond His visions. It takes the wisdom and perfect knowledge and foresight of the Holy Spirit to see and distinguish the true treasures that we are while we are still raw mineral ores in the eyes of God. And it takes His passionate love for Jesus and God to counsel and help us to allow ourselves to sit in patient endurance and God-inspired humility as He without complains and groaning, whittles away the fragments of us that are hostile and useless to the Father, while carefully retains and preserves our individuality and unique God-given natures so that we are not items on a mass produced line, but each of us is a refined, hand-crafted gem by the hands of the Holy Spirit, by the will of the Father and in the exact cast of the Son. How else can we take hold of a life that is truly life, unless we follow and take the exact likeness and representation of He who is the Way, and go with Him into the whole truth so that we too can be the Life? The firstborn of creation and the firstborn from the dead, so that we who look to Him and believe in Him will be raised up for eternal life, which is a renewed lifetime to know God and His Son in a realm where there is no more time or limitations. So that we are not born again in the resemblance of what we were when our sinful minds were hostile to God, but we are newborns in Christ because all that was lost in us has been restored and resurrected, namely our desire to honour the Creator and be in habitual fellowship with Him as our Father, a desire once lost to God which caused the muddy, trampled waters of sinfulness to flow onto God’s lap as an offensive fountain of fear, hatred and indifference. And now we have the Lord’s living waters which is continually welling within us unto eternal life to wash the Father’s lap clean of our offences and trespasses. The Holy Spirit knows which parts of us must be resurrected, re-installed, renovated, restored and discarded. It is not us who can see ourselves as the Lord sees us because He is the seven-fold Spirit of knowledge, wisdom, understanding, perfection and the fear of the Lord. It is not us who would have repented in tears, on our knees but for the conviction of the Holy Spirit done out of love. God is love, and so too the Spirit of Truth which goes out from the Father is love. The Holy Spirit is love, and He loves to convict us in regard to sin, righteousness and judgment because the verdict of His conviction is just and righteous, and the fruits of His conviction in us are justice and righteousness, and the effect of that on the Father is delight and pure satisfaction. This can only occur if we not only love the Holy Spirit for His passion for us, but we must believe the verdict of His convictions and accept the correction, discipline and rebuke. We must not only accept them, but welcome them, and see them as pivotal as the air that we breathe, for in truth it is by the Holy Spirit that we may sustain God’s breathe of life in us.

Yes, it is the Lord who says “I am making everything new”. But is it not up to us individually to take this word by faith and apply it now into our current status at this present age, and not delay or hinder for its fulfilment the age to come of the Lord so desires? Is it not us who have the authority to turn our faith into practical knowledge, and testify with the Holy Spirit about Jesus for we have been with Jesus from the beginning? Since the Lord is making everything new, then let it begin now and continue beyond the eternity of an eternal God, and let it make everything in us new so that we are truly born again to be like the first born, grow to be newborn grownups, and not remain as newborn infants, all the while retaining the innocence and blameless quality the Father so dearly prizes. Did He not choose His Son to enter the world with the full innocence as a newborn baby? And are we not to be imitators of the Lord, who died as a Son of Man and Son of God, fully reconciled into one glorified body, bringing harmony between the two so we may follow suit? And as each parts of the body of Christ, are we not to be in perfect harmony and unison with His body, so that we may bring more glory to the one who the Father has glorified again and again?

If we don’t affectionately allow the Holy Spirit to guide us into ALL truth through sword-wielded, razor-sharp, double-edged revelations to bear the harder teachings, which leave us on either side on the Word if we don’t attain the ability to walk in its polished cutting balance, and with that comes conviction in the form of rebukes, disciplines, corrections for the requisite improvements, we will never acquire the exquisite taste and preference for the finest wine and the most brilliant treasures God has in offer in His private vaults. Ones that He longs to show you because He loves to share with you the goodness that is Him, and He freely but stealthily puts on display through Jesus for us to be His eternal witnesses. Jesus is the image of the invisible God and since the creation of the world, God has made His invisible qualities in His Son, so that men who have clearly seen and understood from what has been made but STILL do not believe, are without excuse and await judgment. The love of His firstborn the Father has freely given you as He has so freely received, so that He may excite you, entice you, attract and encourage you to confidently and freely give to Him as Jesus has so generously and willingly given us. Through Jesus all things were made, without Him nothing was made that has been made, and without Him no right to become children of God can be inherited and so through Jesus we are all born again and made new by the power of the Holy Spirit.

In New Jerusalem, the brilliance of an eternal God is openly on display so that all eyes may see and all hands my touch her. She shines with the glory of God and her brilliance like a very precious jewel, like jasper, clear as crystal. She has gates made of single pearls and foundations made of precious stones. She has walls of jasper and streets of pure gold, where the gold is good. She has fruit trees with seeds of colour diamonds, and the bride of the King of Kings has a tiara fashioned in the likeness of a rainbow which glows with radiance, as it basks in the glory of God and the lamp of the Lord.

But all this is the outward display of our God who has His flamboyant and opulent public persona, but what of His private, more elusive and introverted personality? If He has New Jerusalem displayed as His prized extravaganza as the most brilliant and luminous treasure, a bride fit for His firstborn, then what of His private collection of riches reserved for those who have always shared His heart and understood His dreams and longed for the realisation of His empire of visions, for His sake and the sake of His kingdom? What treasures has He set aside to show those who have answered His call early and diligently, lovingly and delightfully, just like His Son Jesus Christ? What are those treasures like- the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places? Will not those treasures, the ones He hides away in His bed chambers under His covers, appear plain at first sight, but are with much more intensity and lustre than a mile high jasper wall as pure as glass? A simple man with His simple pleasures, who can fathom, unless they see and comprehend and come to love the distinctive dichotomy of His character and personality? The double-edged sword that makes the dual side of Him- His creation and destruction, His gentleness and wrath, His silence and thunders, His justice and mercy, His simplicities and His luxuries. And who better to show you all facets of the Father but Jesus who knows Him, and the Spirit of God who goes out from the Father? The simplicity and unfussiness of our God who chose His Son to enter the world as a carpenter’s son, instead of the luxury of a king’s palace, though He is the King of kings and Lord of lords. And as we observe the life of Jesus, He was not the one who parted the Red Sea, who called down fire from heaven, or who ascended to heaven in a firey chariot. Jesus performed miracles all of the Father’s prophets were privy to. He healed the sick, raised the dead, multiplied food for the multitudes. He was not like David who was particularly handsome, or like Samson who was strong, nor was He highly regarded as the prophet Elijah. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him- but yet this was the image of the invisible God- expressive of the power of simplicity in our Father- like the many facets of a diamond caught in a ray of sunlight, so that we may ponder and remember and be familiarised with the outward public expression God chooses to manifest in, and also the quiet and personal side of Him that He reveals perfectly through Jesus, His most prized treasure, with whom He is well pleased and by whom He allowed us to mature by imitation. The Father who was looking for the one good pearl, and when He found it in Jesus, that was the standard by which are pearls are assessed, and we must form the full likeness of Jesus in us so that we are not casted out, but reserved for His private, solitary moments when He loves to take His treasures out to enjoy and admire.

The luxury of God is His simplicity, and the simplicity of God is His luxury. The one who loves to walk in the cool of the day in His garden, now wants us to walk with Him in the cool of the day when there is no more day or night, to walk with Him throughout eternity, to be His companions as fully grown sons and daughters like Jesus, to converse with Him and confide in Him, to walk with Him to the edges of eternity where decisions do not yet manifest in its designed form, sit and hover there with the same passion as the Holy Spirit when He hovered over the waters, our legs dangling over the edge of the cascades of timelessness and ask each other, “What shall we do next?” And if He says to you, “I want another harvest”, then if all this was to repeat itself in another eternity, and another sacrifice needed to be made, then you may step up and save Jesus from it. Not because we can replace Jesus, or that we would even consider it, but because we love our brother, and one sacrifice of the Lamb is more than enough. Not that we want to take over our Lord or usurp His position in God’s heart, let God have the kindness to strike us if we do, but because we treasure Him, and we have grown in His precise stature and likeness that as sons and daughters of God, any sacrifice we make on His behalf has the same significance and worth as the sacrifice He had made for us when He was calling us ‘friends’, and as friends, not as fully restored brothers and sisters did He lay down His life for us, only for us to take it up again in Him when we take on the fullness of official Sonship and Daughtership. If you want to give our God options, to give Him maximum freedom to move and soar in His eternity, then we must treasure what we have been given. The Lord has set and planned eternity in our hearts and minds, so that we can fathom what God has done from the beginning even to the end, and to work out which edge is beginning and which edge is end.

So let us continue to change through repentance and free ourselves from all things worldly, temporal and not of God that are in our hearts and minds, so that the eternity the Lord has set and planned in us may be let loose on earth as it is let loose in heaven. Let us honour our Father in imitation of Him by going the extra mile for Him, and also set and plan His eternity in our heart and mind, soul, spirit and strength. So that we may store up treasures on earth as the Spirit of Revelation releases the Lord’s treasures of truth to us, and also store up treasures in heaven for our God for His eternity. Grab hold with fervour and zeal, each revelation the Holy Spirit gives you whether He whispers in your ear or proclaims on the rooftop, let us cherish, respect and hold on tightly to the diamond sprinkles and the avalanches, because we are going to need each and every minute particle to reach and attain the fullness of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Eat them as your food, inhale them as a pleasing aroma and wear them proudly like a royal diadem and let them wash over you like a rushing surge of living waters. That even though you may feel like you have lost your footing and will be swept away by the enormity of God’s revelations as they hasten their pace towards you when time runs short, remember that your foundation is in Christ, the only Rock and chief cornerstone, that even under the immense power of the Holy Spirit’s waterfall and the force of His storms, you will achieve and retain stillness and quiet confidence.

For this is the passion of the Holy Spirit, to carve out from willing and agreeable diamonds in the rough, hand-crafted and personalised by His hands, perfect precious stones and gems in the likeness and brightness of Jesus Christ, to join the ranks of an official Sonship and Daughtership, offering unto our Father an eternal service of love and a love of service. And in our oneness and togetherness with the Holy Spirit, He persistently and without complaints takes on the enormous and essential task of carving and shaping us into the likeness of our brother, and He delicately but resolutely whittles away while we are still in our confined bodies with the brittleness of clay jars, because He can see into the core of our cores. He was there when the Father wrote and set His eternity in our hearts and minds, and He is here with us now as eternity lights up like a fire in us, like an inextinguishable flame which propels our thoughts and motives in motion as we aspire to our full calling in Jesus, an infinite desire for God’s perfect eternity which burns in our hearts and minds so that all dross of silver is burned out to reveal the white gold as pure as glass. To be just like the perfect Son for the perfect Father by the Spirit of perfection- to be the perfect gift for God for His private collections of treasures.

To say that the Holy Spirit’s passion is in Sonship and Daughhtership is merely scraping the surface or stepping into the mouth of a deep and mysterious cave. If we long to know the full depth, width, length and height of the Holy Spirit’s passion, even those passions that are not related to us, then we not only have to ask, knock and seek in the prescribed way, we must attain at least the same level of passion and commitment, if not more, so that we may approach the right door to knock, seek and ask. It is going into the private collection of the treasures of the Holy Spirit, and it is about adding to His collection, not taking any away from Him. It is first seeing that the fruits of His passion are an eternity of Sonship and Daughtership, and going the extra mile, to make the fruits of eternity a passion for Sonship and Daughtership when it is reconciled and united as one. And it all begins with a drop of an ocean, a trickle of desire and a sprinkling of star dust for the Holy Spirit to run with it and take it to its greatest stature and magnitude.

So I ask us all again- what is your passion? And how far into all facets of God do you want it to take you?

AMEN HOLY SPIRIT