đź’–Saturday, February 15
My second letter to the rising kings was intended to be sent out yesterday.
Though meant to be sent on Valentine’s Day it was delayed. It was not right,
and I went to bed last night struggling with it in my head. There were just too
many of my words. Tho’ I cannot commit to give a letter every day, or week, or
month, or ever again, if He directs, may I be faithful to share. In recent days, I
Holy Spirit has opened my understanding to put together many different
pieces of a puzzle we’ve been working on. Unlike my last letter I will not
attempt to “preach” much the biblical passages and explain them, Holy Spirit
can do that. This letter is simply some snippets from my journey and some
biblical passages that I pray will bring increased understanding to you, as they
have me. May you in turn share your own understanding with others.
John 16:13-15 When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the
truth, for He will not speak on his own authority, but whatever He hears He will
speak, and He will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me,
for He will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is
mine; therefore, I said that He will take what is mine and declare it to you.
Proverbs 25:2-3 It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings
is to search it out. As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart
of kings is unsearchable.
Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things
that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the
words of this law.
In recent days there has been a shift of focus in my own spiritual journey from
having “faith” for great things, and the need for the kings of the Kingdom to
arise, to simply being a Jesus lover! The former things are still true and
essential, which is why I am writing this letter. Holy Spirit has been
magnifying Jesus in my heart. The past few days as I have listened to some old
80’s love songs, from my generation, and trying to apply them to Jesus as my
love. But even when I meditate on Jesus being my love there is still a twinge of
pain that touches my heart, feelings and thoughts of years of not truly be
known and/or understood by someone, with whom you were, or are, in
relationship. The Pharisee might say, don’t listen to that stuff it’s a foothold of
the enemy…feelings. Strangely, I believe for me it was necessary to process
something deep inside. We all need to love and be loved on the most basic level.
Maybe there is an innate faint memory of those powerful hands knitting us
gently, uniquely, in our mother’swomb for Himself, of Himself. We think we
might find it in a person, who may be able to fill that place, but it is the Love
that is only found in Him. In Him all things consist, we are held together by
Him. The longing for those hands, the ones that know us inside and out, every
longing, every desire, every goal, every intention.
John chapter 1 (written by the disciple that “Jesus loved” John 13:23)
is one of the most profound revelations of who Jesus is. Verse 4 says “In Him
was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in darkness, and
the darkness has not overcome it.”
Light has eminent (complete/absolute) authority (exact obedience/command)
over darkness. When a light is turned on, it does not fight with the darkness, it
simply wins out.
Matthew 5:14-16 You are the light of the world, a city set on a hill cannot be
hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand,
and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine
before men that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father
who is in heaven.
First heard Pastor Shane Christopher teach this from John 13:23, where John
refers to himself as the “disciple that Jesus loved”. Did Jesus truly love John more
than the others? No, it was rather that John understood that if we can get even a
small glimpse of His love for us, then we can in turn begin to love Him back.
Romans 2:4 God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
I have been on such a journey of faith for a few years now, believing with my
whole heart in the promises of the Word. In honesty, I can NOT say beyond–
ALL-doubt-at-all-times, but I know His grace covers the flitting moments that
my heart and mind are prone to wander. “Believing” promises for those that I
love so very much, has been reason for zeal and focus on faith and authority.
Just done with oppression, pain and sickness, when I know Jesus came that we
may have life and have it to the full. The other day as I was praying and
walking, I asked the Holy Spirit, “do I really love God the way I should, or am I
just standing in faith for the sake of faith, or what faith can do for me and
others?”. I was in a place of complete brokenness. Even thinking of all the
believers who have seen Jesus, or God in the spirit realm, or heck even angels,
something I have never experienced… He spoke as clearly as I have ever heard
Him speak. He showed me the faces of people for whom I am standing “in faith”.
He showed me the pain in their faces, pain in their hearts, and pain in their
physical bodies. He said to me “this IS love of God, you have seen Me in the face
of others.”
1 John 4:19-21 We love because He first loved us. If anyone says, I love God”,
and hates his brother, he is a liar, for he who does not love his brother whom he
has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we
have from Him, whoever loves God must also love his brother.
It appears my reasons were right, but I had the order wrong. Love of Jesus first
then the rest will fall in line. When I see someone hurting or in bondage, my
thought does NOT need to be, “do I have enough Authority to speak as Jesus
spoke, or touch as Jesus touched”, but rather can I comprehend Jesus’ love for
myself and show His love enough to others, to bring heaven to earth. Jesus told
us to pray “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done earth as it is in heaven”.
What is the relationship between love and light. The nature of light is obedience
to the law of God.
Matthew 22:34-40 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the
Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a
question to test Him. “Teacher which is the great commandment in the Law?”
And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great, and first
commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as
yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and Prophets.”
My understanding is that when Father God sees a generation of Jesus
lovers/kings (lovers of His Son), who in turn are lovers of others (rather than
lovers of ourselves first and foremost), He will rend the very heavens to bring
heaven to earth, to break chains of bondage, sickness, and oppression. I believe
the Father is passionate about the price His Son paid, and He will honor the
Words His Son spoke while on earth.
John 14:12 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in Me will also do the
works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to
My Father.
This “law” is Love itself. I’m guessing if we really can digest every word in 1
Corinthians 13, we may be able to learn what it means to love.
1 Corinthians 13 If I speak in tongues of men, and of angels, but have not love,
I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and
understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to
remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have,
and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and is kind; love does not envy or boast, it is not arrogant or
rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does
not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for
prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for
knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but
when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke
like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a
man, I gave up childish ways. For now, we see in a mirror dimly, but then face
to face. Now I know in part; then, I shall know fully even as I have been fully
known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these
is love.
Go to obey love for Jesus and your brother, then reign and carry out exploits of a
king.
Just some songs that I have been listening to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeNgBIRyqsc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv8XHiTkDYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XwbVCI_mkw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6txhXfITBiYw