REFLECTIONS

These are a few reflections that I  believe that I have received from the Lord over the years.  Some of them are recent and some are in the past.  They will not necessarily be in order but I will share them as the Lord leads me.

June 20, 2019

" I challenge you my children to walk in the light of  My presence for I am calling you to a higher level; a higher level in your walk with Me; a higher level in your gifts from Me and a higher level in your intimacy with Me.

Let my love, My joy, My peace reign in your hearts now and forevermore!!  I love you."


September 15, 2017

"Child of mine, I say to you to be prepared.  Watch, pray.  Be prepared, for many trials are coming upon the earth.  For My voice will be heard.  Be it by thunder, or rain, or flooding.  My voice will be heard!  Be My Voice.  Utter My words.  Go before Me like Elijah.  Proclaim the Good News!  Revel in it.  For I proclaim to you that heaven and earth will not pass away until all of My promises, My Word, My Kingdom shall be established upon the earth.  It's a new day.  It's a new dawn.  Walk in it!  Walk in it!  Walk in it!"

October 14, 2017

"My child, hear the whistle of the train?  See the smoke from the stack from the train as it approaches?  When you see these signals, you know that the train is near.  The train is nearing, the time for the gathering is near----you can almost hear the sound of the trumpet as the angel prepares to sound the alarm!  Be ready!  Be ready!  Be ready!  Call others to the train station.  You need a ticket to board!"

June 22, 2019

"Child of mine, be prepared for I am coming very, very, very soon!"  (I was given this message three times in a row.)

In these last messages, it appears the Lord is telling us to prepare for His Second Coming and that it is very, very near!  How do we prepare?  We prepare by making sure that we are in a right relationship with the Lord.  We need to confess our sins on a daily basis and we need to make sure that we are living a life pleasing to the Lord.

In the parable of the ten virgins (Matthew 25:1-12) the foolish virgins did not have enouth oil in their lamps when the bridegroom came.  Oil is  symbol of the Holy Spirit and is active within Christians who has surrenered their life to Christ.

Jesus is warning us that there are people who look like Christians, call themselves Christians but will be shocked when they learn at the return of the Lord that they will be left behind.  In Matthew 25:8-13 it speaks about the wise and foolish virgins,  "And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.  But the wise replied, There will not be enough for us and for you; go instead to the dealers and buy for yourselves. But while they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came and those who were prepared went in with him to the marriage feast; and the door was shut.  Later the other virgins also came and said, Lord, Lord, open (the door) to us!  But He replied, I solemnly declare to you, I do not know you (I am not acquainted with you.)  Watch therefore (give strict attention and be cautious and active), for you know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of Man will come."

Some can recite the sinner's prayer for salvation and go through the motions of looking like a Christian but they have never fully been born again by the Spirit of God.

Those of us who have been born again need to be watchful at all times.  We  know that the coming of the Lord is even "at the door."  We need to be ready and be covered by the oil of the Holy Spirit.  We need to confess all of our sins every day, obeying God's commandments, doing His will upon the earth and spending time with the Lord.  When the Lord said, "I do not know you," He was talking about intimacy with Him.  Does a bride not  have intimacy with her bridegroom?

Let's watch and pray and be ready for our bridegroom when He comes.  Yes, we must be ready at all times because we don't know when our time on earth is complete.  If we are here when our bridegroom comes, let us be ready to go out and meet Him!!  Maranatha, come Lord Jesus come!

AUTHORITY OF THE BELIEVER

Authority is part of our inheritance in Christ.  Jesus said in Luke 10:19, "Behold!  I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and (phyisical and mental strength and ability) over all the power that the enemy (possesses); and nothing shall by any way harm you."

In Acts 1:8 Jesus said, "But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth."   (Amp.Bible)  These were Jesus's last words to His disciples.  These were  not words just for the disciples but also for us as His followers.

Jesus has imparted divine authority through the workings of the Holy Spirit in believers.  The promise of the Holy Spirit was to give them strength and wisdom and spiritual gifts that they would need on their journey winning souls and healing and delivering souls from the demonic.

We are emissaries for Christ because we represent Him on the earth and as a representative, we are given authority to RE-PRESENT Jesus to the world!!

OUR INHERITANCE IN CHRIST

When someone inherits a parcel of land or money or whatever has been bequeathed, it is usually passed on to a loved one.  Christ came to hand over our inheriance from the Father.  Through Jesus's death and resurrection we are able to receive the inheritance passed on to Jesus through the Father and then to us so that we can carry out His purpose and his plan for the redemption of mankind empowering us to be the manifestation of His glory here on the earth!

In John 17, Jesus says, "I have manifested Your Name (I revealed Your very Self, Your real Self) to the people whom You have given Me out of the world.  They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have obeyed and kept Your word.  Now (at last) they know and understand that all You have given Me belongs to You (is really and truly Yours).  For the uttered words that You gave Me I have given them; and they have received and accepted (them) and have come to know positvely and in reality (to believe with absolute assurance) that I came forth from Your presence, and they have believed and are convinced that You did send Me."  John 17:6-8

Matthew 10:7-8, "And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand!  Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons, freely (without pay) you have received, freely (without charge) give."  (The Every Day Life Amplified Bible)

CREATED IN GOD'S IMAGE

We are created in the image of God.  We are a resemblance of God created to manifest His glory thoughout the earth.  When God created Adam and Eve, it appeared that He wanted to share His love and be loved, and He loved mankind so much that He gave him a will of his own.  God did not create robots but people with a free will who would choose right from wrong and also choose to love or be loved by their Creator God.

Adam and Eve forfeited their identity when they fell into the trap of decepton when Satan convinced them that if they ate of the forbidden tree that they would become like God.  Satan has been trying to steal our identity since the Garden of Eden.  "And he (Satan) said to the woman, Can it really be that God has said, You shall not eat from every tree of the garden?"  Genesis 3:1  (The Every Day Life Amplified Bible)

He even tried to steal Jesus's identity when he said, "If you are God's Son....."  Matthew 4:3  All the evil one needs to do is put a seed of doubt into our minds and that is where deception begins.

Don't be deceived by the world.  Don't let the world tell you who you are.  Stand up for who you are in Christ.  We are who Almighty God says we are!!


BIBLICAL IDENTITY DECLARATIONS:

1.  I am chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world that I may be holy and blameless before the Father.  Ephesians 1:4
2.  The Father has accepted me in the beloved.  Ephesians 1:6  I have redemption through Jesus Christ's blood and the forgiveness of sins.  Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:4
3.  I am saved by grace through faith.  I am not saved by my own works.  Ephesians 2:8-9
4.  I am God's masterpiece.  He created me anew in Christ Jesus, so I can do all the good things He planned for me long ago.  Ephesians 2:10
5.  I am strenghtened with might through His Spirit in the inner man according to the riches of His glory.  Ephesians 3:16
6.  Christ dwells in my heart by faith.  I am rooted and grounded in love.  Ephesians 3:17
7.  God gives me the victory through Jesus Christ my Lord.  I Cor. 16:57  I have the mind of Christ.  I Cor. 2:16
8.  I am in Christ Jesus and therefore I am a new creation.  Old things have passed away and all things have become new.  II Cor. 5:17  (Igniting Hope Ministries, June 10, 2015)