At that very time He rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I praise You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight. Luke 10: 21.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלוהים) says:
Why are you moping around worrying and giving up about illness, pain, wrinkles and finances? Why are you so downcast? Why are you giving up and asking to die?
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power. Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly, yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary. Isaiah 40:28-31.
Have I not promised to heal you, to take your pains, to renew your youth, and to supply for all your needs according to My riches in glory in Christ Jesus? Do you not know that all My promises are “YES” to you in Christ Jesus your Lord? I gave you My Son, will I not give you everything good with Him?
For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not yes and no, but is yes in Him. For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us. Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge. 2 Corinthians 1:19-22.
Act like you believe that and rejoice. Sometimes you need to remind your soul of these things and tell everything in you to rejoice.
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits: He pardons all your iniquities, He heals all your diseases and pains; He redeems your life from the pit, He crowns and surrounds you with lovingkindness and compassion; He fills your days with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle. Psalm 103:1-5.
Forget not any of My benefits, these are promises that are “YES” to you who are born again in Jesus. THERE SHOULD BE NO ONE HAPPER THAN YOU!
You have what the whole world is looking for. The truth. And it is all in one book. The Bible. And it is so easy to find. Happy are those who find My Words, for they are LIFE to ALL who FIND them and HEALTH to all their flesh.
And you have within you the Holy Spirit, who is One with Me, teaches you ALL things and guides you to ALL truth. You have what the whole world is looking for and you got it ALL just by coming to Jesus.
Yes, you have what the whole world is looking for. You have the truth. Philosophers from every nation have spent years searching for it. Scientists have spent many hours and days seeking it. But they have not found it. And yet I have revealed it to the merest children. Why? You cannot raise yourself up to the spirit through the arm of the flesh. You cannot get to the spirit by way of the flesh. Spirit begets spirit, and flesh begets flesh.
In one rather small book you have all the truth. The Bible. And the guide to all truth is within you. The Holy Spirit. You have what the whole world from ancient times until now is searching for. You have hit the treasure vein and within you is the treasure.
To understand the truth, you must be born again. And once you are born again, you cannot go back to what you were before. Once the caterpillar is born again as a butterfly it cannot go back to being a caterpillar. You must see yourself new. A butterfly CANNOT live like a caterpillar even though he once was one, but that all changed in the transformation. When he went into the secret place of his cocoon, died to himself, his fleshly little crawling self, and was formed into a new creature, born again to fly thousands of miles in migration and to drink the nectar of flowers.
The old man is gone, crucified with Christ, you cannot go back to the arm of the flesh, you are now in the Spirit. That is, if My Spirit lives in you. You are not of the flesh anymore; you are of the spirit.
Philosophies and programs that try to get you to the spirit level (perfection) through the flesh are never going to get there. The flesh must be crucified with Christ and left behind to go to the Spirit level. The flesh is not salvageable, it is corrupted with sin, it was born of a lie.
All mankind knows that there is something very wrong. That is why you see so many “self-help” programs and medications for depression and other mental problems. But the problem is sin. The sin nature cannot be broken by the flesh, that is what got you into the slavery of sin and death. So those that are trying to get to perfection, things like nirvana, through the flesh will not work. Flesh and spirit have nothing in common. Flesh is from below, devilish cunning, and tends toward death. Spirit is from above and is pure and it tends toward life filled with light and peace.
You are never going to get to the spirit through the flesh. You must go through the Spirit to get to the spirit. Flesh and spirit are hostile to one another. You have to stop taking in the lies of the world, which are centered on flesh (all man and no God), and go to My Words, which are Spirit and life.
You do not have to back down to the flesh and those who are walking in the flesh. You are in the Spirit and are wiser than all worldly professors, philosophers, or scientists who do not know Me for they will never find the answer they are looking for in themselves without Me, without Me your spirit is void and shrouded in darkness.
But you have the answer they are seeking in Christ. He is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to Me but through Him and I am your answer to everything. I am Spirit and to come to Me you must come in spirit and truth. Flesh is hostile to Me, it is controlled by lust and the spirit of disobedience. Rebellion is like witchcraft and is at work in the sons of disobedience.
But for you who have come to Jesus, I have taken care of the flesh that would hold you down, that would imprison you in sin and death. I have released you. And how did I do that? In Jesus, I crucified sin in the flesh, made Jesus to be wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption for you, created you anew in Christ, raised you up by the Spirit, put My law and My Spirit in your hearts so that you can walk in holiness and truth.
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. Romans 8:1-11.
Do you see how I took care of the sin problem? I accounted all your sins to Jesus, your Messiah, as your spotless sin offering and He was crucified in the flesh to release you from the condemnation to eternal death. In Him you died to sin, which is of the flesh, and were raised up to newness of life with Him with the sin gone. The old man was crucified and up came a who new creation. I set you apart and made you holy, blameless and beyond reproach in Him. Washed in the blood of My Son, My Spirit came to dwell in your newly created spirit and you became holy. Where I touch, where I AM, becomes holy.
And there is your answer. I touched you and made you holy.
In the letters of My apostle Paul, you will see that he calls all the believers “saints.” Why is it calling all believers, even the Corinthians, who he was reprimanding for not walking in the holiness to which they were called. And what did he attribute that to? They did not know each believer’s body was a temple of My Spirit and that they had within them a beautiful sanctuary of holiness.
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test? 2 Corinthians 13:5.
Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. 1 Corinthians 6:18-20.
The word translated “saint” is the Greek word “hagios (ἅγιος),” which means sacred, holy, set apart by or for Me. Its fundamental meaning is “different.” A temple is different from other buildings, it is holy. When you call on the Name of Jesus, you are changed. You are set apart as holy, a saint. You are no longer common and ordinary, you are sacred.
My presence touching you consecrates and separates you as sacred. It changes your status from ordinary and profane to holy. When My presence touches you in the new birth it changes your status. You are no longer ordinary and common, vulgar, no, do not see yourself that way or walk and talk that way. It is no longer you. Washed in the blood of My Son, sealed with the precious work of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, you have been made holy, a saint. Set apart and called to be holy, different, sanctified, separate from the category of the normal human being to a new creation. My presence sets you apart.
You understand this with respect to the Bible. It is called the Holy Bible. It is set apart and different from any other book. It has My Word in it. It is a book filled with My presence.
Let us talk about sacred fire for it is burning in you. Fan it into flame.
When My presence touched down on Mt. Horeb before Moses it was perceived by him in a burning bush that was not consumed by the fire in it.
The messenger (malak (מֲלְאָךְ): a messenger) of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. Exodus 3:2.
And as he approached and heard My voice from the midst of the bush, what did I tell him? This was no longer an ordinary place where he would walk about in a profane and common way, he was to remove his sandals in reverence for he was on holy ground. He was suddenly out of the ordinary into the sacred. The status of that mountain had changed. And from then on Mt. Horeb (which is also called Mt. Sinai) was called a holy mountain, the Mountain of God. A place graced by My presence never loses that touch.
So Elijah arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God. 1 Kings 19:8.
Do you recall what Peter called the mountain where he, with James and John, saw Jesus transfigured (metamorphoo – transformed)? The holy mountain.
For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. 17 For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an [a]utterance as this was [b]made to Him by the Majestic Glory, “This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased”— and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain. 2 Peter 1:18.
When, from the burning bush, I told Moses he was to bring the Israelites out of Egypt, I told him the sign that I was with him and had sent him was they would come to that same mountain where My presence had made it holy ground and worship. And when they came, I met them there in a blazing fire and spoke audibly to all. And in preparation for the holy encounter, I told them to consecrate themselves for two days and meet Me on the third day. It was not the ordinary. I was about to change their status from common slaves to a royal priesthood, a people set apart, a holy nation who heard My voice and lived.
“You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself. Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own special treasure among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” Exodus 19:4-6.
And the fire that burned in that bush, and then set the top of Mt. Sinai ablaze at My presence did not leave them. In fact it was about them as a shield as they escaped from Egypt.
The messenger (malak (מֲלְאָךְ): a messenger) of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them. So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud along with the darkness, yet it gave light at night. Thus the one did not come near the other all night. Exodus 14:19-20.
I so desired to travel with and be with My people that I gave Moses the plans for the tabernacle, and what I spoke of first was the secret place, the Holy of Holies, where Moses would hear My voice above the cherubim on the mercy seat atop the Ark of the Covenant. And My presence with them set them apart as holy.
And emanating from and towering above the Holy of Holies was a pillar of fire in the cloud of glory. And when I wanted them to go forward the cloud would lift as the Levites packed up the Tabernacle to move on, but at night you could see the blazing fire in the cloud denoting My presence.
As for the promise which I made you when you came out of Egypt, My Spirit is abiding in your midst; do not fear!’ For thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Once more in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land. I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the wealth of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the LORD of hosts. Haggai 2:5-7.
And now that fire that lit the burning bush and made Mt. Horeb a holy mountain, that hid and guided the Israelites out of Egypt and protected them from attack, that burned in the cloud of glory over My presence in the midst of them on their journey to the Promised Land, making their camp sacred and set apart, that fell from the sky and consumed the sacrifice set up by Elijah making it holy ground, that emanated from My throne in Heaven in the radiant visions of My glory that I gave to Ezekiel, Ezekiel 1:26-28, and Daniel, Daniel 7:9-10 (His throne was flames of fire, its wheels were a burning fire. A river of fire was flowing and coming out from before Him.”), and it is that same fire that came with a rushing wind in blazing tongues of flame going into the heart of each believer making hearts ablaze, making sacred hearts consecrated and set apart, is in you. That fire that followed and made My people holy is now burning in your heart.
And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12:26-29.
What is this flame, what is this sacred fire that consumes the wood, hay, and stubble of your lives but makes the gold brighter and purifies it to come forth solid gold with no alloy. I will answer you as I always do with My Word:
“Put me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, Its ardor is as inflexible as Sheol. Its flames are flames of fire, the very flame of the LORD. Many waters cannot quench love, nor will rivers overflow it; if a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, it would be utterly despised.” Song of Songs 8:6-7.
My love burning in your heart, the lamp that is your spirit. Never leave your first love. I never do. Do you remember that when John saw the risen Jesus on Patmos he described that His beautiful eyes were like a flame of fire. Revelation 1:14. My loving eyes are gazing on you.
“I will look from My dwelling place quietly like dazzling heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” Isaiah 18:4.
Come live, abide, rest, remain in the light of My love, it is a living flame to touch you and put you always on holy ground, My holy mountain, Zion.
And what set the hearts of the disciples on the Road to Emmaus ablaze? My Word as revealed in Jesus. And it is still the same. Fan that fire into flame by feeding it My promises and knowing they are all “YES” to you in the One whose eyes are like a flame of fire.
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits: He pardons all your iniquities, He heals all your diseases and pains; He redeems your life from the pit, He crowns and surrounds you with lovingkindness and compassion; He fills your days with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle. Psalm 103:1-5.
There should be no one happier than you.
I love you. Remember, the Holy Spirit is Holy fire and when I touch you with His indwelling presence you are set apart as holy. Never allow sin in again to rule your mortal body. Burn it out with holy fire. Never bring profane fire into your temple. You are holy. Remember Nadab and Abihu. Leviticus 10:1-3.