I had a dream in the third watch of a particular night season. In this dream there were three separate phases, or parts, each representing our individual walk, or journey in Christ Jesus, the inner man. "Christ in us, Hope of Glory!" There are three phases that the Holy Spirit interplays’, or weaves as a tapestry upon our very lives when we become born of the very Spirit of the Living God!!
As we begin our journey, we are swayed by the opinion of man, and are out of balance with the reality of the true Spirit man, which now indwells us. We must begin to see with the eyes of our understanding, the mystery which shall be revealed in us, which is "Christ in us, the Hope of Glory!!!" For have we not been given power to become sons of the Living God? I ask you this question, do we strive for perfection, and do we strive of our own efforts? What brings us to the place of inner rest, and resolve of heart, to lay down our meager efforts of self-will, and rise up and clothe ourselves with our only Prince of Peace Himself, Jesus Christ, Yahshua Hamashia - The King of Glory - the ONE who laid down His life that we might find ourselves in Him! In the fullness of His Life - the fullness of His Glory - the fullness of His Person! What does this really mean, but to awaken to the Morningstar, arisen in our very hearts, the Dayspring from on High, clearing our understanding and perception, which has been enshrouded with the mists of darkness, which becoming clearer and clearer with the dawning of the NEW DAY, from"Glory to Glory, the realization of who He is, in us, and amongst us as ONE! Each day becoming a NEW DAY unto salvation, deliverance from the past ways of thinking and doing, strongholds of pride, which were in the past, barriers to the clarity of the purpose and Will of the Father, to reveal His Son in us, who is the express image of His Person. The God, or Wisdom of the Ages Himself. How glorious is this!!! His very nature and character, interplayed and inworked upon our hearts, revealing the inner intensity of our striving to overcome in our own strength, and ultimately our own will, for our own purpose revealing the idols hidden with our hearts, set up to ultimately reveal the "abomination of desolation" sitting enthroned upon the wills of our understanding and perception. In this particular place, in the journey to understanding the direct WILL and purpose of the Father of our Spirits, the Father of Light, in which there is no variation or shadow of turning, He begins to propel us forth on a path, that is very narrow indeed, especially to our finite minds. This path appearing to be at first glance, of narrow view, and precise direction, in tablets bearing or listing the commands, or commandments, that were to become a rock upon which a nation of people stood, in the midst of a wilderness journey through the desert places of their lives. A rock which enabled them to drink of the Living Water that flowed from within this stone, which even then was little understood, and rejected of men. Is this not the path which we tread to lead us to the understanding of the Truth, Himself, the Wisdom of the Ages, personified in the very person of the Lord Jesus Christ, Yahshua Hamashia, the Father revealed through man, Christ, the Son of God, yet the Son of Man!!! Do I dare repeat again, "Christ in us, the Hope of Glory!!!" The Son of Glory Himself, the Anointed ONE, in the fullness of the Father, through the SON, in the power of His very own Spirit! Excellent Majesty! How majestic is thy Name throughout the Ages!! How great is thy Name forevermore!! Drawing and wooing us into the Presence of the Holy One of Israel. A nation, a people, called out for an express purpose of revealing Himself to man, ISRAEL, in the heart of the nations, and He speaks I AM! I exist! He speaks, I AM THAT I AM!
"Come forth, oh Israel, come forth!!! See Me, as the ONE who brought you forth out of travail and affliction, to hearken unto the eyes of your understanding, the very living Truth, My Way for your lives individually and corporately as ONE!!!"
"Awake, awake, put on your beautiful garments, oh captive daughters of Zion, put on your strength, the uncircumcised and the unclean, shall no more come unto thee. Shake thyself from the dust, arise, sit down, O Jerusalem, loose thyself from the bonds of thy neck, you shall be redeemed without money!" Is. 51. 1-3
Even as our minds, must be renewed by the revelation of the Living Word, by the power of His Spirit, so to must His City, the New Jerusalem, the City of Truth, ascend out of the realm of our understanding to reveal His Will, to "marriage" our will to His, that the two might become ONE, the marriage of the soul and spirit. The soul, the understanding of our mind, enabled by the fullness of His Grace, now in submission to the spirit, is swallowed up in victory. We decrease, He lives.
In the next part of this journey into the Father of Light, "Christ in us, the Hope of Glory, many times we try to exert our will through games we play according to the flesh! We come to bat on our journey towards home, with dead mans’ bones, trying to exert, or bring to bear on the ball, the empty traditions of man. Oh, how we try to prove the person of the law Himself, our very own Father, through all the empty self-efforts of man! How we have perverted the Truth of the Living Word that sets free, through the personification of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Yahshua Hamashia, the Face of Grace Himself! Oh, what a delusion as we try to run to home plate, feeding upon dead mans’ bones, our own understanding, our own perception, our own self effort! Whether we are up to bat, or running the bases to home plate, we deceive ourselves in our own wisdom, instead of submitting to the Father of all Spirits and Life!!!We now enter the fire of our own will trying to exert itself over the Fathers’ Will Himself - Truth personified in Our Lord Jesus Christ, who through suffering endured the Cross that we might perceive the Fathers’ heart, His Truth, the very Shepherd of our souls, leading us unto perfection through the laying down of our lives, as we pick up our cross daily to follow Him, in obedience to the Will of the Father! The Cross unfolds, the veil of our understanding is being removed, the mystery is being revealed as we see the man, Christ Jesus - "Christ in us, the Hope of Glory!" We begin to perceive in the midst of our understanding the obedience of the Cross, which is death of our will, and life begins emerging, giving us wings of hope, keener insight, better clarity, with our hearing attuned to the heartbeat of the Father, and we see Him for a moment within and beyond the veil, the Holy Place! Truth arises in our hearts as we break forth in songs of Praise to the Holy One of Israel! Paradise revealed!!! Oh, let us rejoice, and be glad for we have now entered the Garden of His Delight, His River of rejoicing has now revealed His plan and purpose being ushered forth in panoramic display before the very eyes of our understanding, stands upon the revelation of His very character in us, and is beginning to be revealed in the Holy Place of our very being. For are we not the temple of His Most Holy Spirit?!!!
This is a place yet in the wilderness, only moments of "Paradise" revealed to our understanding. A place where doubts, and discouragement prevail. Fear continues as a stronghold. The depth of our perception of the fullness of His Grace, is still shadowed by hearts of misplaced misconceptions of the very enemy of our soul. Was it not in the midst of Paradise itself that Adam and Eve were tempted, by the beguiling serpent, the very serpent of our own desire, and self-will to partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Is not obedience better than sacrifice? To have humble, teachable hearts, obedient to the Will of Our Father is a Tree of Life unto our soul.
To partake of the Fruit of His Ways, is putting our hand in His, and allowing Him to bring us into the "Mind of Christ", the Holy One of Israel, leading us unto the Highway of Holiness in the midst of the garden of our temple, the place where His Word abides in us, and we in Him, in the Unity of His Spirit, making us ONE in the fullness of His Grace! Oh, let us continue this race of faith, let us not stumble or fall, but looking unto perfection let us run the race with endurance, looking unto the author and finisher of our faith, and laying aside every hindrance, let us run the race with assurance of the hope that lays before us!!! For will He not complete the work He began? Is He not the Alpha, and the Omega, the beginning, and the ending of our faith?!
Today is the day of preparation, and yet is already a new beginning into a NEW DAY, a transition, for even though we are being perfected - does not His Word say we are "complete" in Him, in Christ Jesus, seated at the right hand of the Father, with principalities and powers under our feet. For we have been redeemed without money by the precious blood of the Lamb, translated out of the kingdom of darkness into His marvelous light, the light of our understanding now seeing the Glory of His Countenance, His Face of Grace in the man, Christ Jesus, bringing to bear the power of His gospel toward us who believe, bringing many sons to glory by the very power of His Living Word! Hallelu-YAH! What a Father! How do we compare the sufferings of the present time with the Glory that shall be revealed in us, the sons of the Living God?!!! The Sons of the Living Word!!! The Sons of the Living Truth!!!
Oh, what glory! Oh, what foretaste of glory divine! Joy unspeakable, and full of "Glory!" Is not the Most Holy Place now being revealed in the temple of our hearts?!!! Is not the New Jerusalem descending and taking up permanent residence in our very midst, as the King of Glory is revealed, and sits enthroned upon our very lives?! Do we not hear the trumpet call issuing the song of His coming?! Do we not see Him in clouds of His people, the Living clouds of "His Glory"?!!!Do we not hear the shout to "Come up Hither?!" Are we truly not caught up in Him, in the Spirit, partaking of His Banquet as He fills us the richest, finest meat of His Word. His Living Word, His treasure house, revealed to us, room by room, person by person, the city of the King, New Jerusalem, His Israel revealed, a bride fit for a king without spot or wrinkle! The "old" city becomes "new!" Shout and sing for the King of Glory has come in, who is this King of Glory? Is He not the Holy One of Israel? "Christ in us the Hope of Glory"!!!
Listen to the still small voice now as He declares to our hearts:
"I say unto you My dear ones, My own, look not unto the inheritance of the flesh, but look unto the pattern Son, for in Him you shall behold, and see with your eyes the finished work of the Cross, and you shall see yourselves complete in Him, the author, and finisher of your faith. You shall perceive in your hearts, that is, you shall know in your hearts, your Father, that has established you as a nation of priests, set aside to do My work, My Will, My Ways, for My Purpose. Be not dismayed at the troubler of hearts, and the troubler of the nations, for My Ways have been established, and ordained before the beginning of time, as even then, the Cross stood, within My very heartbeat!!!
Lift up your heads, and rejoice for has not the MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD broken through the portals of time?! For the very essence of who I AM, the Living Word of Truth shall be revealed to the nations. THE MANCHILD stands! THE LION OF JUDAH roars...!!! THE KING OF GLORY is revealed...!! "CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY!!!"
Does not all the earth groan for the manifestation of the sons of God?!!!
Just a son in the making, Catherine Heim
"...and of His fullness we have received, grace upon grace." Jn. 1.16
"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God." Romans 8.18 & 19
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