“Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the LORD of hosts.”
(Malachi 3:1)
I’d left the work of the ministry in East L.A. and was now just…floating…I cast some demons out of a satanist and was offered a position as the staff evangelist for my fiance’s church. I prayed about it and God gave me a vision clearly saying no. Just a short time later the pastors who wanted to hire me were exposed and the church closed down.
I remembered that John Bevere, at that time just getting started in his own ministry, had preached the hardest message of repentance I’d ever heard…directly at the leadership of that church. I received his message as from the Throne Room and rejoiced at the mighty confirmation of God’s will for my life. He laid hands on me at the altar and imparted the Elijah anointing to me in power. My belly was ignited with a fire for holiness, my heart filled with divine understanding, and even years later when I was completely bound by sin, I could not forget what I heard at the altar that day.
Long hours of prayer and days of fasting while in ministry in L.A. had produced in me a desire to obey instantly and the power to do so. God empowered me, by His grace, to lay down my will in near complete submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. This resulted in the miracles, signs and wonders promised to all who follow Jesus. It is, however, the quiet moments alone with God, that I remember most from those years. Times of searching for Him through the night watches and then suddenly…finding Him. In such stunning Beauty and Glory that I could do nothing more than fall on my face. Those hours and days spent in the presence of His Glory transformed me forever. The things that He spoke to me in those face to face encounters were confirmed in 1994 through Bobby Conner and John Bevere. He sent His servants and allowed me to hear from their lips, what I had never told another living person. I was still full of myself and proud. Foolish and not broken enough. We were married in 1996 and things really got tough.
Fifteen years of wandering in the Wilderness of purification. If we happened, during those years, to wander into a church service or conference, the divine spotlight would fall on us and even hiding in the back could not stop the flow of prophetic declarations and words that God was determined we hear. For months at a time, every sinful and rebellious thought captured me and overtook me, intent on devouring me, punctuated by brief times of refreshing and freedom. His mercy and Perfect Justice would not allow me to be utterly destroyed. And there were all the prophetic words that had yet to be fulfilled. I entered the dark night of the soul. The stark contrast between His blinding Goodness and my absolute wretchedness, haunted me, illuminating as by a mighty incandescent Fire of TRUTH, every corner of my heart. The darkest chambers of hidden depravity and utter self worship were revealed in the presence of His Glory and caused even those acceptable perceptions and paradigms from which I’d lived when being “good”, to become by comparison, hopelessly dark. Until, Finally. When all was nearly lost. Hell itself breathing down my neck and my fraying sanity a snap away from eternity; REPENTANCE.
Your will, not mine, O God. Your timing, not mine, O God. This is Your life, not mine, O God. Thank You for loving me. I love You.
From that day of February 15th, 2010 until now, the Elijah fire has been fanned into a raging bonfire of love for Jesus and a cold hatred of sin. The ache of the Bride Groom for His Bride has become the ache of my heart. She will be prepared. She will be made ready by the friends of the Bride Groom and I am one. So are you. The enemy of the Bride is jezebel; the devil’s bride, if you will. Actually, the devil in drag. A transgendered demonic fraud which has insinuated itself into the daily life of the church, undermining authority, seeking to control and stifle the flow and life of God’s Spirit in His Body.
(I Kings 18)
The feminist movement was birthed from the Great Rebellion of Woodstock, August 1968. This demonic gathering in Bethel, NY was the great coming out party of jezebel and her consorts ashera and baal. Witchcraft, homosexuality, utter rebellion against authority of any kind. The fabric of our nation was ripped and burned just as so many American flags were. The sex industry, pornography, prostitution, abortion…free love…the sexual revolution…the age of Aquarius. I submit that demons freely traversed their own “jacob’s ladder” gaining power and unprecedented influence in the heavenlies over our nation.
The divinely appointed structure of authority previously seen in families across America…crumbled and quickly became outdated in the face of the hip new emerging social norm; divorce. Years before, the industrial revolution set the stage for this collapse by the introduction of a counterfeit worship; one’s work ethic was their expression of worship. In the post WWII United Sates of America, WORK was king. A man showed his worth by proving his ability to work harder and longer than his fellow man. The quality of his lawn, shininess of his Made From American Steel car and the performance of his wife, children and dog named Spot all PROVED to the world that he was a God fearing, hard working AMERICAN MAN.
The children raised in these homes, were for the most part, ripe pickings for the counter culture hippie movement of the sixties. Behind the manicured lawns and pristine white picket fences, alcoholism was quickly setting it’s hooks deep into this brave new world. Wives, whose entire identity was tied to the cleanliness of their homes and their ability to cook well WHILE keeping the children out of trouble;) soon became bored and worse yet; boring. Husbands began and ended affairs constantly, while the wives pretended not to see, the kids, ignored and lonely, didn’t know what they were seeing, and Spot just got older as dogs do. Television was born and flourished; the insidious message of rebellion against God was snuck in to America’s living rooms and dens with a chuckle and a wink, while entire families sat transfixed in the flickering light of the dawning Age of Media Technology.
Identity. Of men. Of women. Of children. The Identity of a nation once called America the Beautiful, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, was undermined and reformed from then until now, into…
The Divided Sates of America, A Violent, Apostate, Money Grubbing Fiefdom being devoured from within.
I recognize the great power present in our tongues and I must resolutely say that my beloved country, the U.S.A., is not the nation our forefathers envisioned. You may ask,”Will she ever be?” And I say to you,”Will we repent?” Are we a Nation under the One True God or a Nation under many gods? False gods who demand the sacrifice of millions of babies on the altar of convenience. Demons actually. If you are offended by my words, I beg your forgiveness and I ask you. Will you repent? Nationwide repentance begins with me and you. The Lord Jesus Christ is coming back. Soon. His mercy compels Him to warn His people of His coming glory. Remember Ananias and Sapphira? The Apostle Peter rebuked them for lying to the Holy Spirit, told them they would die and they fell dead. They fell dead in church for lying to the Holy Spirit. That’s not an Old Testament account, beloved brothers and sisters. That occurred in the Book of Acts. WE ARE STILL IN THE BOOK OF ACTS. We say we want the Glory…are we ready? For months, now, the Lord has spoken one consistent message to my heart, where it BURNS unless I release it. GET READY.
Get ready for what?
His coming Glory. The weighty presence of God that causes the people around us to fear Him and us. Fear as in walk with reverent awe around those who are called Believers in Jesus Christ. The Name above all Names will be restored to it’s rightful place of honor.The Terrifying Goodness of God is seen clearly again and again in His Word, the Bible. When Jesus died and the earth shook, sky grew dark, veil was torn and the dead resurrected…the captain of the guard who put Jesus to death, exclaimed in terror, “Surely this was the Son of God!” When the seven sons of Sceva were beaten bloody and naked by a demon who had no knowledge of them as having been with Jesus( cause they weren’t) the result was that people poured out of their homes to have a giant bonfire of magical scrolls and paraphernalia. Money was no object. The people were afraid because their eyes were opened to the truth of their devil worshiping ways. Many were saved from miles around and the fellowship and authority of the believers grew. We just talked about Ananias and Sapphira; the result of their deaths was that the fear of God swept through the community and many were saved. A reverent awe of the Name of Jesus Christ and His followers.(Acts 5)
There are many accounts like this. Here’s an example, free of my paraphrase, of what it looks like when one is walking in the Glory:
“Saul, also known as Paul, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and he looked the sorcerer in the eye. Then he said, “You son of the devil, full of every sort of deceit and fraud, and enemy of all that is good! Will you never stop perverting the true ways of the Lord? Watch now, for the Lord has laid his hand of punishment upon you, and you will be struck blind. You will not see the sunlight for some time.” Instantly mist and darkness came over the man’s eyes, and he began groping around begging for someone to take his hand and lead him.
When the governor saw what had happened, he became a believer, for he was astonished at the teaching about the Lord.”
( Acts 13)
Here is another example, just a few verses after Ananias and Sapphira fell dead, lest any reading this become dismayed:
“The apostles were performing many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers were meeting regularly at the Temple in the area known as Solomon’s Colonnade. But no one else dared to join them, even though all the people had high regard for them. Yet more and more people believed and were brought to the Lord—crowds of both men and women. As a result of the apostles’ work, sick people were brought out into the streets on beds and mats so that Peter’s shadow might fall across some of them as he went by. Crowds came from the villages around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those possessed by evil spirits, and they were all healed. ( Acts 5:12-16)
Finney, Wesley, Wigglesworth and others like them, shut down whole towns with their preaching. Why? The Glory of the Lord was upon them. The fear of God emptied jails, shut down bars, closed business’s and packed churches and outdoor meeting areas until they were overflowing. No more room. People were begging to be saved. The conviction of sin was upon them with such power that they could do nothing else but make it right with God. The priority of their whole lives became getting into right relationship with God. This is what the Glory does. People come trembling to the Glory. Those who are proud in their hearts, deceived because of willful rebellion to the word of God, will stumble into the Glory, lying, manipulating, schmoozing…and die. Just like they did then.
The Glory of Our King is not just for the warm fuzzy kissy fests so many of us have tried to make it. This trivialization of God’s Holiness is an attempt to justify sin filled lives of rebellion against Kingdom Authority. He IS LOVE of a kind and caliber that so far exceeds our ability to comprehend it, describe it, box it in and control it…that we are left with two options. Receive Him and His Word at face value *WOOOOooHoo00000* or reject the love of the truth and be swept away by the strong delusion being poured out even now. Where is that strong delusion coming from?
The devil….right?
WRONG.
God Himself is sending a strong delusion to those who reject the love of the truth and justify their enjoyment of unrighteousness. Lying signs and wonders will accompany the coming of the lawless one. That spirit is active in the church right now. A false gospel of grace which endorses the sinful life of the believer, is being mixed with a very old demonic doctrine that ALL men are saved. Not just those who willingly submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, but ALL of humanity is saved.(2 Thessalonians 2)
In the Glory is ALL the Goodness of God, ALL His Holiness, ALL His Beauty, ALL His Majesty…everything that God is…we find in the presence of His Glory.
The golden honey glow of love soaked, tear streaked, ecstasy flooded, explosive shouts of joyous laughter tumbling into reverent adoration and sweetly whispered pledges of undying devotion…eventually…if coupled with radical obedience, lead one into a place of such weighty Glory that to breath becomes an offense against one’s own senses. Absolute silence becomes the impossible mandate, for one cannot still the traitorous heart thundering wildly between them and the floor. Holy Terror. Breathe. The air is Holy. Swallow. The spit is Holy. The Voice that rushes through every fiber of your being, electrifying cells and transforming things along the way. No more awareness of the flesh at all. Just being with Him. Breathing Him in. Tasting the Life of the place where He is. Hearing sounds of such impossible beauty, angels and others ecstatic in adoration, sweeping fire through every part of everything you are intended to be. A Touch that awakens, resurrects and kills…forever and all at once.
GLORY.
BEAUTY.
JOY.
LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. SO MUCH LOVE…
“They don’t know Me. I want you to tell them about Me. About the real Me. Who I AM. Will you tell them about Me?”
“Anything for You.”
“Some won’t like what you tell them about Me. Will you still tell them about Me when they reject you and hate you?”
“Yes, Lord Jesus, Anything for You.”
“Some will call you a heretic and false prophet. They will want to hurt and even kill you. Will you still tell them about Me?”
“Yes, Anything for You.”
“I will put My Words in your mouth and no man will stand against My Wisdom and My Spirit by Whom you speak. You must speak only what I tell you to speak. Some will try to worship you and give My Glory to you. Teach them in My Spirit of gentleness and love, to worship only Me. Tell them to get ready. Turn them from their false gods with the power of My Love seen in the Cross. Fear no man. Preach repentance from sin and salvation through faith in My Name. I will be with you to confirm the words of your mouth. I call you My friend and My son. Always Remember, I Love you.”
>>>>July 2010<<<<
The church is a joke. Literally. One of the top two least respected, most reviled forms of human organization on the planet…the church. God is about to take Man’s filthy hands off of His Bride. The end of the world as we know it, is quietly and quite literally, just a few more of these >>> away. God, in His mercy is now releasing those He has been preparing in the Wilderness for right NOW. A great company of men, women and yes, children, who have been taught of the Lord, in the barren wilderness of loneliness and deprivation…how to obey INSTANTLY.Those to whom dwelling in the Wilderness is now a choice made out of extravagant love. An Elijah Generation who will only speak and do as moved by the Spirit of Truth. The opinions of men have neither appeal nor importance. There is only One opinion that matters.These sons and daughters of the King are not known for their venomous rants against their fellow man, but are instead marked with the excellence of Divine Love. Fierce, unflinching, speak the truth no matter what…Love. Humility. Brokenness. Wisdom. Authority. Love. The King has marked them with his Glory for a time such as this.
Will you be His friend?
The friends of the Bride Groom; the voices of those crying in the wilderness, “REPENT! THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND! MAKE STRAIGHT THE PATHS OF OUR GOD! RENOUNCE YOUR IDOLATRY OF THINGS FASHIONED BY THE HANDS OF MEN! THESE THINGS ARE PERISHING! EMBRACE THE FIRE OF HIS CORRECTION! BE PURIFIED IN HIS PRESENCE! RENOUNCE THE DEAD TRADITIONS OF A WEAK AND COMPROMISING BELIEF SYSTEM!
Thus Says the Lord God, the One True King of Eternity…I AM ALIVE!!!!! I AM THE LIVING GOD!!!! I AM THE ONE TRUE GOD WHO LOVES YOU!!!! REPENT AND BREAK BREAD WITH ME!!!! REPENT AND DRINK DEEPLY OF MY LOVE!!!! YOU ARE MY EVERYTHING. I CREATED YOU FOR MYSELF. LEAVE YOUR OTHER LOVERS. COME BACK TO ME. I WILL GIVE YOU REST FOR YOUR SOULS. DON’T BE AFRAID OF THOSE WHO CAN DO HARM TO YOUR BODY. I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN DESTROY SOUL AND BODY FOREVER. I have loved you with an everlasting love. Return to me. Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light. The time is short. Don’t waste another moment running from My love. I AM COMING BACK SOON. The days of peace on earth are few. Don’t be caught outside the protection of my embrace. I love you.
‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked— I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
(Revelation 3:14-22)
Be Blessed!