The Fire has come: Flames of Unity Part 12

Hello Beloved Reader:

It has been over a week or so since I have been able to write on this site. I am overwhelmed at the number of people reading this blog and the profound impact it is having in many believer's life. I am so grateful to God for allowing me to hear and share His heartbeat for this historic moment in time.

I am just one of many that are beginning to see and understand the new day that is dawning in our midst. I tell all that know me, if I have received any thing substantial from the Lord it is only as big as a small white spot on His finger nail. There is so much more to see, hear and understand in the days that come. This site is just a very small part of God's larger picture of revealing Himself as the Omega God to His church.

Working in two large cities and suburbs I am struck by the difficult time it is for us as the Body of Christ to come into the unity of the Holy Spirit. There are many reasons for this and most of them are pretty obvious to those who have a discerning eye and ear. I have written extensively about the flame of God that is now burning in many nations beginning to reveal Jesus Christ to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. What will it take to bring the true unity found in Ephesians chapter 4 :9-16?

Eph 4:9 Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth? Eph 4:10 He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete. Eph 4:11 And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching; Eph 4:12 For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

Eph 4:13 Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ: Eph 4:14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

Eph 4:15 But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ; Eph 4:16 Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

Looking at the present state of the church in America and in the world, you have to wonder if this "genuine unity" can truly come into being. Laboring day to day, trying in the Love of the Lord to declare this new day, I often find this the most difficult challenge of all. Often we are met with suspicion, pride, arrogance and even great persecution. Those things don't deter me, but cause me to cry out to the Lord to go lower and lower to serve my brothers and sisters in Christ and for Him to be exalted in my words and deeds.

I realize that but by the grace of God, I have had that same heart in the past and could not endeavor to work in true unity. I like so many others have had my "own plans and agendas" that I felt God gave me to do. I could only work with those who agreed 100 percent with me. So beloved reader, I can not judge anyone.

With that being said, it doesn't' change the truth of God's word for His desire that we should be one Body of Christ even as He is one with the Father. I don't know what your experience is with the "unity movement" in our nation or in yours. Here is how I would describe it. Pastors in local cities have felt a call to come together in fellowship. Each month they have a Pastors' gathering to get to know one another and talk "shop." With the exception of a few cities here in America, these gatherings have produced little to no "true unity" of the Holy Spirit as the Lord would declare it to be.

They are a beginning perhaps at best, but the unity that the Lord desires in Ephesians is not seen. I have asked the Lord why is this so, for such a long time. He has instructed me that "true unity" can not come UNTIL WE CAN STAND NAKED AND UNASHAMED IN THE FLAME OF THE LORD BEFORE HIM, AND THEN BEFORE ONE ANOTHER!

I had to ask the Lord what this meant and He gave me a vision. In the vision I was entirely naked before the Lord. He could see every imperfection in my physical body. My overweight, my scars, everything, plus the fact I was naked. He had me turn to the left and allowed me to see my Pastor friend entirely naked with all his bodily flaws as well. We were both standing there vulnerable before God and one another. My first sense was to look for a place to hide, because I knew the Lord was looking at me and so was my brother.

The Lord spoke a voice in this vision to me and said this, "when you can stand naked before me and your brother and NOT SEE or JUDGE His imperfections you will be unified with Me. In that moment you will understand the power of my blood and the new and living way I have made for you. In that moment you will see how love covers a multitude of sins, and you will love him the way I love him and I love you. This is the only true unity I produce. It is the unity of the Holy Spirit"

In that split moment of this open vision from God, I no longer saw my brother naked but fully clothed in the most perfect white raiment, yet I knew he was still naked. I said what is that white raiment and He replied, "IT IS GLORY!" You see beloved reader, I had received a prophetic word early in my ministry call that said, "make the Glory of the Lord" your main function." This nakedness before the Lord and one another was the "Glory of God." In the book of Genesis chapter 1, Adam and Eve were naked before each other and didn't know they were.

The Glory of the Lord was their covering. Only sin, exposed their nakedness and they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord. Their true unity with God and one another was destroyed by sin! The Lord called to them, "Adam where are you?" His answer paraphrased, was that "we hid ourselves from you because we are naked!" The Lord replied, "WHO TOLD YOU, YOU WERE NAKED?" Again beloved, their unity with God and one another was destroyed, they knew they were naked. It is this nakedness we tend to cover with our fig leaves called "ministry!" We pride ourselves in our calling and what God has asked us to do. This is why we can only see each other under what we "understand" as ministry.

Beloved reader, this is why we can "work together," but not "love together!" This is why we can come together for a national day of prayer and then go back to our "own works, our own lives, and our own ministries." Our "coverings of figs" is the absolute barrier to the true unity of the Body of Christ! It is this mentality that causes Pastors and Ministers to see their own WORK as BETTER THAN OTHERS! It is this heart that can not see the value of our "unassuming" parts mentioned by Paul to the church. How can the eye say to the foot, "I have no need of you?" Yet we do that every single day in America. We hardly care for the other church down the block, never mind laying our life down for them who God calls our friends.

In that vision of nakedness, God imparted to me an understanding of what true unity has to look like from His perspective in the days that are to come. Do you understand the importance of why I have been writing about coming and standing in the FLAME OF GOD, and allowing that flame to become a refining fire in our heart? Jesus prayed in John chapter 17 that we would be one, even as He is in the Father and the Father in Him, that they and we would be one! Only being naked and unashamed before God and one another can bring about the true unity of the Body of Christ.

This flame of God does more than just remove the spots, blemishes and wrinkles in our own life, but it does that in every one who enters the flame with you producing a true UNITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT! The removing of these spots and wrinkles in the flame of God is where God can birth what the "unity of the Holy Spirit really is." One moment we are naked before Him and want to hide so no one could see our nakedness, the next moment we were naked but covered in white raiment by God Himself able to stand before Him and one another. We did not have to hide from God or from one another because He alone was our covering. We were covered in the Lord and through the Lord, and He was all in all.

This why I have to write about LOVE-BOND relationships verses WORK-BOND relationships, and the difference between the 2nd and 3rd day. Let me explain this a little more and hopefully I can develop the theme over the next several days. Let us review our two pivotal third day scriptures.

Luk 13:32 And he said, Go and say to that fox, I send out evil spirits and do works of mercy today and tomorrow, and on the third day my work will be complete. Luk 13:33 But I have to go on my way today and tomorrow and the third day, for it is not right for a prophet to come to his death outside Jerusalem.

Luk 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not! Luk 13:35 Now see, your house is waste, and I say to you, You will not see me again till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.

The King James version says the following: "and the third day I will be perfected." This perfection means the completing of His Body to be one with Him as He is one with the Father. This happens in the THIRD DAY!

Contrast this now to Ephesians chapter 4 where Paul writes these words: Eph 4:13 till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a full grown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

This is the unity ONLY THE FLAME OF GOD can produce in the church. Every man made attempt to do this has failed and will continually fail until we come and live in the Flame of God with Him in the Holy of Hollies. God has a design to bring forth, it is called the MATURITY of HIS BODY, HIS BRIDE! It is seen as a new city coming down from heaven all adorned as a Bride in Revelation chapter 21.

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. Rev 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

Rev 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God:

Rev 21:4 and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away. Rev 21:5 And he that sitteth on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.

Beloved the "true five fold ministry ascension gifts have been released by the Lord to help bring this true and genuine unity about. This unity has nothing to do with "my work" or "your work." It has nothing to do with trying to bring ministries together to "work for the Lord." I know we don't get this, but we keep trying to do it anyway. In this "man made" or infant understanding of unity, EVERYONE gets to KEEP THEIR LIVES AND MINISTRIES for THEMSELVES.

We may even work together, but we won't TRULY LOVE TOGETHER as the Lord commands us. You may think I am being judgmental of others by calling this an infant understanding, but that is where we are in the Body of Christ here in America. All our intellectual knowledge of the word of God concerning unity is nothing. This intellectual or human understanding of unity produces nothing because it does not come from the Abiding presence found in the VINE that can produce it. Unless we are filled with the FLAME OF LOVE HIMSELF and ABIDE IN THAT LOVE , we will never be unified in the Holy Spirit. Let us read the words of the Apostle Paul to understand that the present fruit of "our unity" is still an infant or carnal understanding of true unity. He explains this in the third chapter of 1st Corinthians.

1Co 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. 1Co 3:2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able; 1Co 3:3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?

Beloved, I have been in cities where God sent me to share the vision of city wide gathering for prayer of the entire Body of Christ in a region where I have encountered suspicion, judgments and worse. Why? It is because we can not even be open to see that God may send missionaries to help your city? Often times I am seen as an outsider, or told I have not been there long enough to speak. I am often told politely, that there is no room, we are already doing that.

In some cities, there is warfare against another work being sent to the region to bless and labor with the local church there. Some have said, "you have only come to start another church?" Others have said, "we already have regional prayer, why do we need another?" But the truth is that there is no tangible regional prayer going forth. Those who were called to pray for the region to pray went back to pray at their "own" church! There even may be a building to pray in for the region, but no one is praying there. The churches in that region have not yet come together to pray for the region consistently, but are convinced their is a regional prayer center in their region.

In other cities, I am often asked, "who is going to pastor over this work."Immediately the regional leaders want to put the work "under" them. There is not an openness to understand the joint and marrow concept. There is little understanding of the working "with God and one another." This "under someone" when it comes to a region often comes out of a place of pride and a false authority spirit, that says, "we have the same authority as you" as Aaron and Moses did with Moses. The enemy came to break the unity of the Spirit in Israel by putting a place or a position or a revelation above love and God's government.

Moses family elevated themselves in their own estimation and put themselves on the same governmental authority as Moses. The Lord came and judged that situation and established God's TRUE AUTHORITY in the midst of the people. As the Flame of God begins to burn hotter in our nation, we will see the Lord judge this "false authority" spirit as well. Please remember the good word spoken to the church at Ephesus was that "they tried those who SAY THEY ARE APOSTLES AND ARE NOT!"

This false authority spirit is alive and well here in America, and it works under the guise of "unity." It wants to produce a false fire, false ministry and false unity based in work rather than the "true love of God." This spirit manifests in many ways, but it denies the true word of God that says, "if you want to be great in the kingdom of God, then you must be the servant of all." It opposes the word of God that says to, "esteem others better than your self and no greater love than this that a man lay down his life for his friends."

This may be true in your country as well. This spirit produces factions, wranglings,even denominations and produces church splits because it wants to recognize men's place above the God who makes a place and is the ONLY PLACE! This is the heart that was in Corinth. They were un-spiritual and unchanged men, mere babes in the things of Christ. 1Co 3:4 For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?

Paul writes that this kind of heart is un-spiritual, carnal of the flesh, and immature as to mere babes in Christ. This is why there is no true unity in the Body of Christ. It is our regards to "positions, places or our portion," that produces the "me and mine" mentality. This heart is the very heart that said, "let us make bricks, let us build a tower, let us make a name for ourselves" which was the heart of the people at Babel.

This is the false unity of today that is being paraded about as "real" unity. Much of the heart of that unity is the "let us" mentality. "Let us" win our city for Christ. "Let us" build a regional prayer center. "Let us" have fellowship meetings of Pastor's. All of these are good ideas rooted in the heart to unify the body as long as you stay in "my ship" or you get the "right foot" of fellowship.

Unity for the sake of "unity" itself is not what GODLY UNITY is! The idea of working together is a "good" concept, but the Lord does not ask us to work together but to LOVE TOGETHER AS HE HAS LOVED US! Matter of fact, Paul tells us of our true importance in relationship to God and His importance to us in the 3rd Chapter of Corinthians, let us read on.

1Co 3:5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him. 1Co 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 1Co 3:7 So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

Oh how these words ring loudly to our present generation of church leadership. If we only understood that NEITHER IS HE THAT PLANTS ANYTHING, NEITHER HE THAT WATERS, BUT GOD THAT GIVES THE INCREASE! This is in direct opposition to that "spirit of competition," that is driving much of the church leadership today. The focus of much of our ministry today is based on the lie that confuses "well done" (the quality of the work from the right heart of love) for "much done, or the let us make mentality"(the quantity of our work to prove our worth and minstry to God).

As long as "much done" is our motive of the heart, the "spirit of competition" will have a home in our hearts and in the church. This heart condition is now open to be controlled by a lying spirit that drives so many ministries. It actually will not let you ever rest. You have to do more and more, and you have to keep the people busy or they will leave the church. It produces let us give them a job to do right away instead of teaching them a relationship with God first. It teaches the precious saints that what "we are doing" is the most important to God than "what we are becoming) in Christ." This demonic inspired driving to do "more for God" causes us to see us or our needs, our works, our call and it CAN NEVER be fitted together by the Lord into the rest of His body.

Oh beloved readers and leaders in His Body, let us stop lying to ourselves. We say we want unity! We say we want the churches to come together, but do we really? Who will lay their life down for another Pastor or church? Who will see the church down the block as their own flesh and blood? Who would take up offerings to help their sheep or their Pastor? The truth is, we are more like the Pharisee's and Lawyers who walked by the man who was robbed and left on the Jericho Road rather than the Good Samaritan. If we stop believing the lie of "success at all cost", we could then see the truth about our spiritual condition! OUR HEARTS ARE NOT READY FOR THE GOD KIND OF UNITY YET!

Only when we come into the flame of God to test and appraise our real motives can we ever be ready for the Unity of the Body of Christ. When the Refiners fire and fuller soap are welcomed into our lives and we stand in the Flame of God naked and unashamed, God can show us our true motives and desires. When we repent of these hidden motives in our hearts, we can be made ready as a Bride for our Husband Jesus Christ.

Beloved, we must look squarly into the mirror and see that we do not have a sober estimation of ourselves as the Lord requires. We have said, "we are rich and in need of nothing," but in truth we are poor, blind, pitable and naked. When we see that reality we can truly repent be ready to walk in the UNITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

The FLAME OF THE LORD will bring forth a true repentant heart in His Body that will allow God to show us all that we are still CARNAL, STILL UN-SPRITUAL MEN, in which the flesh controls as mere BABES IN CHRIST. This is our true condition here in America, and it is keeping the Body of Christ discected and apart from one another! Will we ever be willing to come into that fire naked and unashamed and trust the Lord to burn His righteousness in us so we can stand with our brother or sister in the same nakedness before God? Will we stand naked and unashamed before one another and not see ourselves, or each other, but see the GOD WHO GIVES THE INCREASE? Then beloved reader we will be prepared to be a Body with each part supplying what the other needs as in Ephesians chapter 4.

I will continue to write more about this in the coming blogs. This is a very hard word to write, because this is us, and not them! This is our sin as a nation! It is all of us, here in the American church and perhaps in your nation as well. God must purify our motives and desires to be one with him, until we all come to the unity of faith found in Ephesians chapter 4.

Beloved leaders, it is not enough to teach this or preach this, WE MUST LIVE THIS! Are there any Pastors and Leaders that are hearing this cry of God out therein the USA and the nations? Is anyone longing to have the true love bond relationships with the Lord and with one another? If there is, then Brother or Sister let us get in the Flame of the Lord while there still is time. Let us get the Omega Revelation of Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Let us fall like a dead man in His presence as John did in Revelation chapter 1.

Beloved Reader, let us stop saying "let us make." Let us stop resting in "much done" good and faithful servant and exchange that for the "well done" which comes from absolute humility and brokenness from the Lord. This is the Third Day that is being revealed in those who have an ear to hear and eyes to see.

Dear Lord take us deeper into the TRUE UNITY OF FAITH, found in the FLAME OF GOD!