The Fire has come: Pt 16 Unity and the third day watchman

Dear Beloved Reader,

This is going to be the last blog on this series and a foundation to a new book called, "The Highway of Holiness." These blogs are but a skeleton for what the next 20 minute of "spiritual time" is going to bring to the church and those who are preparing themselves to be a bride for the Lord Jesus Christ.

I wish I could concur with all the prophetic voices proclaiming revival and "great days" for the church lie ahead. I do believe our greatest days are ahead, but not how most of the prophetic writings I have read suggest, if I am hearing the Lord correctly.

Dear reader, you have to discern the voices that are speaking today. Which ones are from the Holy Spirit of the Living God and which ones are not. This will take a deep abiding with the Lord and living in His presence to discern the voices that are speaking today, even in the name of the Lord.

It is very difficult to explain the overlap of the closing of the 2nd day of the church or 2000 years and the beginning of the third day of the next 1000 years of our history. I have written much about Jesus speaking to the Pharisee's when they told Him Herod wants to kill Him. He said, "go tell that fox, that today and tomorrow I heal and due cures, but on the third day I finish my course." Luke 13:32. This utterance of the Lord is so strategic for understanding the overlapping of these two days.

I mentioned in an earlier blog how is it possible to be in two different days at the same time. Here is a way to explain it in the natural world. I am planning at the end of this month to be in Johannesburg South Africa. I am going to leave on one day and get there the next day. When I arrive there, it will be a day ahead of my home in Tucson. Right now on the planet earth there are two days going on at the same time, for a period of time throughout the day. Those days overlap together perfectly. For those in the western part of the world, they in the east are a day "ahead" of us. To them in the eastern part of the world, we in the west are a day "behind" them.

Beloved that is a distinction we must understand for these end time events to unfold accurately to our senses. God can do two things at one time! Matter of fact He can do millions of things at the same times or billions and more. So this overlap is no big deal to the Lord. If you notice how times is measured, it begins with the sun rising in the east and sets in the west. So the beginning of the new day comes with an arising of the sun in the east! The bible speaks of this event coming in the Eastern Gate! (Ezekiel chapter 40)

Now this East gate is very significant for us to understand the upcoming events that are about to happen on the earth, and it is the very place the "true 3rd day watchman" of the Lord must take their place. This eastern gate is where "the prophetic utterances of the third day are to come from." They are to come forth from God with His understanding for these end times.

In the natural world, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Those living in the eastern hemispheres are technically "a day ahead"of us. We living in the western hemisphere are "a day behind them." This is a prophetic picture of what God desires us to see about Revelation chapters 1-4. We must begin to see and know the God who is to come and the one that is "ahead of us and the day that is ahead of us as well. This is what John the Beloved see and hears when He is caught up a "second time" in the Holy Spirit in Revelation chapter 4:1.

In Revelation 1, we see John is in the spirit on the Lord's day and He hears a voice come from behind Him as the sound of many waters. John, "the one that Jesus loved" had to turn around to recognize that voice. This prophetic act was necessary for John to understand the work of the Omega God who was going to show him His finishing work of the days of mankind. John had to turn around to see the "new" that was to come. He does see the new when He sees Jesus in the fullness of His Glory. He doesn't even recognize Him and falls at His feet like a dead man. The Lord strengthens him and allows John to see the fullness of mankind and their eternal place with the Lord. John is able to see a new heaven, a new earth, and a new city of Jerusalem coming down like a Bride all arrayed for her Bridegroom.

John is about to see the "finishing work of God." The very work Jesus speaks to the Pharisee's about. Go tell that fox, today and tomorrow, (two days) I heal and do cures, but on the THIRD DAY, I WILL FINISH MY COURSE! What a statement we need to consider.

Up to this point, John is literally in the first day when he gets this revelation from Jesus. The Lord allows him to look into the second day(our present day and our spiritual condition as a church), and then John gets to see the OVERLAPPING of the church from the 2nd day into the third day. The Lord allows Him to see the second day and the end of that day in Revelation chapter 1-3. At the end of the church age or the end of the second day, Jesus is standing on the outside knocking on the door for us to open to Him so He can come in and eat with us and us with Him.

I have written extensively about that in the previous blogs, so I won't waste time on that again. But the overlap of days begins with John seeing Jesus in the midst of the church WITH EYES LIKE FIRE AND FEET OF BRASS CALLING THE CHURCH TO REPENT OF HER LUKEWARMNESS AND THE SIN IN HER MIDST!

John watches Jesus standing on the church door knocking to get inside but then in chapter 4 begins to hear the same voice in chapter 1, Jesus Christ calling him to come up into the future day, or 3rd day in Revelation chapter 4 verse 1. Let us read the account of this overlap and calling Him into the third day from verse 1 of Chapter 4.

Rev 4:1 After these things I saw a door open in heaven, and the first voice came to my ears, like the sound of a horn, saying, Come up here, and I will make clear to you the things which are to come. (This is the doorway into the THIRD DAY REVELATION OF THE OMEGA GOD THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT)

I want you to notice two important things; one the first voice came to my ears. (He that has an "ear to hear" let him listen to what the Holy Spirit says to the churches)This is the same voice that John heard standing at the end of the second day like the sound of many waters. In that voice and place John's eyes are open to see the true condition of the church at the close of the second day and beginning of the third day. Again it says it was like a horn, or war trumpet.

Then a word come to him. A word that will cause him to come up through the OVERLAP of days and it calls to him: COME UP HERE! This is the same voice we hear in Isaiah 60:1-3 that proclaims: "Arise and shine for your light has come, and the Glory of the Lord has risen upon thee." With that command to "Come Up Here," John crosses the bridge between the two days. In the natural that would be like taking a jet from New York at 6 am in the morning and landing in South Africa the next day at 6 am, but only travel 12 hours on a plane and not 24 hours needed to be the next day. 6 am to 6 am is 24 hours in the natural, but a jet can cross that time line in 12 hours of flight time, yet still bring you 24hours ahead into the next day.

By jet you can leave your destination on one day, say June 4. As you left on June 4th and travel the distance of miles to your destination you literally OVERLAP time zones and get to your destination in the next day without completing a 24 cycle of time. This can happen because of how God made the rotation of the earth around the sun. God made the earth rotate on its axis and then around the sun to be a prophetic picture for us to understand the beginning and the end of days that is just about to come upon us.

As John is called to come up here, the Lord speaks to Him the reason: "COME UP HERE, SO I CAN MAKE CLEAR TO YOU THE THINGS THAT COME!" Beloved, this is our destiny place, and that which is to be unfolded in and through us as we cross over between the two days.

I know this is hard to understand and it is for me. I am just seeing this from a thumb nail perspective, but enough to begin to declare it's existence. Others may add much more to it, and make it more clearer than I in the future, I sure hope so. For now however: I must declare as the Lord allows me to do so.

It is vital for us to see the things that are to come. Many believers think this means the declaring of the Anti-Christ, the fall of Babylon, the false prophet, or the mark of the beast and the unfolding of end-time events. Those things are sure to happen. But for me the Third day is to be so much more than the unfolding of events. For me it is the REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORD! IT IS OUR HEAVENLY BRIDEGROOM COMING FOR HIS BRIDE! The events are important to understand, but the purpose for these events is of much GREATER VALUE to us in revealing the heart of God towards us!

It is the explaining of these events that God is now placing HIS WATCHMAN on the East Gate of His temple as found in Ezekiel chapter 40. Why on the east gate? Because it is only in the east can you see" THE RISING OF THE SON! Don't you get it! Not just the SUN but the SON! It is in that gate the Glory of the Lord will fill all the earth, and God will fill everything everywhere with His ALL IN ALL!

Ezekiel is going to get a picture of the temple that has not been built yet, and the ones the Jews desire to build. Solomon's temple was built for "the name of the Lord." This temple that has yet to be built is for the "Lord to be in the midst of her " forever and ever! The temple that was destroyed by the Romans was built for "for the name of the Lord." This is the temple the Jews to this day want to rebuild to make a "name for the Lord."

Ezekiel's temple is to be built for a permanent "habitation of the Lord" like the "new city" exemplified in Revelation chapter 21 1-3:

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea. Rev 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband. Rev 21:3 And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.

This is the "THIRD DAY" Temple! The one made up of "LIVING STONES BUILT UP INTO A SPIRITUAL HOUSE OR HABITATION OF THE LORD! This is the Tabernacle God is truly building. 1st Peter chapter 2 testifies:

1Pe 2:1 So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk, 1Pe 2:2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation; 1Pe 2:3 If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:

1Pe 2:4 To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God; 1Pe 2:5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

1st Peter 2:6-10, "Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame. And the value is for you who have faith; but it is said for those without faith, The very stone which the builders put on one side, was made the chief stone of the building; And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God. "

But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven. In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.

The second day church is still consumed as the Jews are of building a house for "the name of the Lord." Many ministries exist for that one purpose, to declare or proclaim the name of the Lord through their ministries. It is to this backdrop Jesus warns us with this warning in Mathew chapter 7:

Mat 7:21:23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Do you understand this beloved? The Lord is no longer building a "house for his name!" He is building a house for HIS PRESENCE to permanently abide! That house is us, the living stones of the Lord who are being built up into a SPIRITUAL HOUSE, to show forth the praise of Him that has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. What house are you building? Which day are we to continue to live in? The today and tomorrow of miracles and cures, or the third day where God finishes His work in us. It is a tough choice considering the world needs to see the power of God!

This is the message of the THIRD DAY WATCHMAN! These watchman are the ones that God is allowing to understand the OVERLAPPING of the days. They are bridge builders to show the way for the wise virgins to come and be married to the Lord. They are the pointers in the Song of Solomon to point the bride in the direction of the Lord to finishing testimony, "I am my beloveds and his desires are towards me." They are the ones showing the way to true victory and the overcoming power of the finishing work of the Lord. "To he that overcomes, will I give him authority over the nations!"

John the Beloved was one of these prophetic watchman on the wall of the Lord. He saw in pictures, visions, the unfolding of this glorious day and these end time events. He saw the revelation of the KING OF KINGS, finish the work He spoke out at the cross, "IT IS FINISHED!"

Let us see the place these future WATCHMEN are given in Ezekiel's temple and their place in the Eastern Gate:

Eze 40:1-3, "In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there. In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me. He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway."

Eze 40:4-5, "And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel. And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod."

Eze 40:6-8 Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide. And the watchman's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod. And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside,

Notice what the Lord shows Ezekiel: He tells Ezekiel to give an account of all that He sees and hears there as he beholds the Glory of God's holy temple. This is exactly the same reason the Lord tells John to write down what he sees in the vision as well. In Psalm 133 we wrote about the true spiritual unity that God must bring. The Lord had me to write that unity can never come by man's effort. Fellowship is not unity it is being together for a purpose, but it is not DWELLING TOGETHER IN LOVE. The Lord says His temple will be filled with true and lasting unity and the prophet writes these words: "O how good and pleasant it is, when brethren DWELL TOGETHER in unity! It is like the dew of Mount Heron or like the oil that flowed down from Aaron's beard."

These 3rd day WATCHMEN, those called to be in the WATCHMEN rooms are called to see the GLORY OF THE LORD! THE VERY GLORY THAT WILL BRING ABOUT THE TRUE AND LASTING UNITY OF THE BODY OF CHRIST! These watchmen are called to declare the Glory of the Lord, and to proclaim that the God of Glory is going to fill the temple (us His people) with the fullness of GOD HIMSELF, THE ALL IN ALL! That Glory is going to transfigure us and finish the very work Jesus has started in our lives, and it will bring true HOLY SPIRIT UNITY that we have not seen since the day of Pentecost.

What could ever bring us beloved into full cooperation and unity of the Holy Spirit? We are such a mess, divided by denominations. We are divided by doctrines, beliefs, and you can name 100 other things that separate us. We have dissected the Lord into bits and pieces and filled our Christians bookstores and television programs with the "bits" of God. This 2nd day condition is why the Lord is standing on the outside of the church trying to get in. It is why He is standing today in our midst with feet like brass in Revelation chapter 1.

THE LORD IS GOING TO BE DISSCECTED NO MORE! HE IS THE KING ETERNAL, IMMORTAL, INVINCIBLE, THE I AM THAT I AM! THERE SHALL BE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM! He alone is the ALL IN ALL! Beloved it is only that ALL IN ALL that is going to finish the work in all that are cooperating with the Holy Spirit and preparing Him a place for Him to dwell. Have you heard the cry of the Watchmen, prepare a way for the Lord. It is going to happen in everyone that opens the door and invites him to sup with them and them with Him.

This Revelation of Jesus Christ as King of Glory is going to transform us forever and the WATCHMAN are now being positioned to declare it. Listen to the word of God prophesying the coming of these watchman. They are going to be called doors and everlasting gates as in Ezekiel's temple. Let us read Psalm 24 with the cry of the rising of these watchman.

Psa 24:1-3 A Psalm of David.

"The earth is the Lord's , and the fullness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?"

Psa 24: 4-6, "And who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully. He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, And righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of them that seek after him, That seek thy face, even Jacob. Selah." (DO YOU GET IT YET! YEAH GOD!)

Psa 24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in.

This is the call to the third day watchman. John the beloved had to turn around to hear the voice of many waters. He fell at Jesus feet like a dead man. He later got called again to come up higher into the third day to see the things that are to come. He not only saw them, he wrote them down for us.

We are in the day for the fullness of what he saw from a distance to become manifested forever in our life time. It starts with a revelation of the Bride and the Bridegroom in Song of Solomon.It grows to see Jesus as our Bridegroom standing in the church as a refining fire. It explodes as we understand Ezekiels temple, a place for presence of the Lord to fill forever and ever. It helps us understand the place of the third day watchman. They are to be the WATCHMEN in the WATCHMEN"S ROOM IN THE EAST GATE OF THE TEMPLE OF GOD!

These watchmen are to be in the place of "seeing" or "beholding" the Glory of the Lord and the fullness of the work of that GlORY that is now to come! They have a message to proclaim "who can ascend, go up, the mountain of the Lord? He that has clean hands and pure hearts. These are the ones that help prepare the bride to hear the call of the THIRD DAY, or the sound of the bridegroom in Mathew 25:6!

These watchman are speaking with a call from God, to overcome all the things in Revelation chapter 1-3 tells us to overcome. They are proclaiming to the church to allow the work of the Holy Spirit to refine them like Gold and Silver. These watchman are speaking in harmony with the Holy Spirit, "he that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

They have a burning word in them for the bride to "have clean hands and a pure heart!" These watchmen will proclaim Revelation 19:7. "The bride has MADE HERSELF READY!" Beloved, we must hear this cry with all our heart to be permitted to wear the white linen gown of our righteousness worked in our life by the Lord Himself!

The Watchman are here to announce to the church, but who will hear? LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, OH YE GATES, AND BE LIFTED UP YOU EVERLASTING DOORWAYS! AND THE KING OF GLORY WILL COME IN:Who is this King of Glory, THE LORD STRONG AND MIGHTY, THE OMEGA GOD! THE LORD MIGHTY IN BATTLE TO FINISH WHAT HE SAID HE WOULD DO IN US! "He that has begun a good work in us, will BE FAITHFUL TO COMPLETE IT! The watchman will declare it again in the beginning of the 3rd day and the place of all who will enter its call: Lift up your heads, oh ye gates: lift them up, ye everlasting doors.

John hears the voice of many waters sounding like a war trumpet, "Come up here, so I can show you the things that are to come." There is a place the Lord is waiting to bring His bride to see Him in His Glory that will be the answer that Jesus prayed for us in John 17 20-24. It is this prayer that the WATCHMAN in those rooms will proclaim to us Jesus answer to us, "LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, oh ye gates, and lift them up ye, EVERLASTING DOORWAYS!" Beloved this is what we are about to behold as we hear the Lord say to us like to John, COME UP HERE, SO I CAN SHOW YOU THE THINGS THAT ARE TO COME!

THE ALL IN ALL, OUR GOD, JESUS CHRIST, THE HOLY TRINITY HAVE WON! THEY WILL FILL EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE WITH THERE ALL IN ALL, OR THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHALL FILL ALL THE EARTH.

Let us have a heart ready to "go up" in the Lord now. Let us stop doing rapture practice for the catching away, but let us go up now into the very manifested presence of our King Eternal who will transfigure us with His very Glory. This is what is about to come. It is not a revival, or another move of God of the second day, it is what Hosea prophesied in chapter 6 verses 1-3,

Hos 6:1 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

Hos 6:2 After two days will he revive us: (this is the close of the second day and the work of the second day, I heal and do cures...)

ON THE THIRD DAY,HE WILL RAISE US UP, AND WE SHALL LIVE BEFORE HIM! AMEN!!!!

Hos 6:3 And let us know, let us follow on to know THE LORD his going forth is sure as the morning; (DO YOU SEE IT BELOVED? HIS GOING FORTH IS SURE AS THE MORNING? WHERE DOES THE SUN RISE? IN THE EAST! WHERE ARE THE WATCHMAN WATCHING FROM THE "east gate!" WHERE DOES THE NEW DAY START, IN THE EAST? YES, YES, YES! Which part of the world is a "day ahead" of us? THE EASTERN PART! Let us find the watchman words that will lead us to cross, the bridge out of the second day into the third day of the OMEGA GOD and His finishing work!

Beloved, if it is God's will, we are going to examine the following prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ in John chapter 17. This is is the prayer he prayed right before His crucifixtion! Let them explode in your heart for the "the things that are to come!" Our Jesus is in our midst now as a refining fire and fuller soap, let us go on to know the Lord, for His coming is as the latter rain to a generation that will desire to truly know HIM!

As we close with this prayer of the Lord, thank you for reading these 16 blogs, I hope it began to reveal to you the FLAME OF GOD that is burning in our midst. He is coming with a mighty baptism of fire in all those truly seeking the Lord with all their hearts. Please write to me by email or make a comment if these blogs are helpful and if you bear witness to them.

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Please read the following prayer of our savior before you close down this site to prepare us for the next series God has for all of us:

Joh 17:20 Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word; Joh 17:21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

Joh 17:22 And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we are one; Joh 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.

Joh 17:24 Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. Joh 17:25 O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me; Joh 17:26 and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.

The Fire has come Pt 14! The Exposing Flame of God!

Dear Beloved Reader,

It has been very difficult for me to continue writing on the Flame of the Lord, and it's desire to produce Oneness with God and oneness with one another. The difficulty is not in the spiritual concept, but in the lack of spiritual substance in the Body of Christ to explore. Unity from God's perspective is hardly understood never mind hardly seen.

Psalm 133 means so much more to me know than it ever has in the past. It has always been a great spiritual concept, but for me it lacked a living expression all these years. I have mentioned, there has always been in my heart and the hearts of God's people that we would be one. We even pray for it every day.

Many in the Body of Christ believe that the teaching gifts of the five fold ministry is the tool God is going to use to bring this about. But the more I ponder psalm 133, I believe that true Godly Unity can never be taught, it has to be an experienced! Teaching unity, preaching unity has not produced unity. Trying to be united by having Pastor's associations, church's coming together in a region has not produced it. All of our feeble attempts to produce it has not produced it either.

Why is this one word unity so difficult for us to behold, never mind live it each day. Husbands and wives are hardly united. Parents and children hardly understand the unity of the family in our country today. Even the political season in both political parties is not bringing unity. Oh they may come together for the common good of winning an election, but believe me they will never unify.

The more I ponder the true "unity of the Holy Spirit," the Lord keeps burning in my heart, that Unity of the Holy Spirit is BEYOND ME AND MY UNDERSTANDING! I am not sure why this is important for me to know, accept the fact that it will make me STOP TRYING TO BRING IT ABOUT IN MY OWN UNDERSTANDING! Matter of fact, I am not trying to do it another day, but the desire for it STILL BURNS IN MY SOUL HOTTER NOW THAN EVER!

If what I am hearing is from the Lord, you dear reader have to discern that. If it is beyond me and my understanding than MAN CAN"T TEACH IT or MAKE IT! Unity of the Holy Spirit is above us as God's ways are above ours, and God's thoughts are above our thoughts. With these words "it is beyond me and my understanding," points me to the true source of UNITY, GOD HIMSELF WHO IS UNITY! He is UNITY. He is the fullness of the expression of what unity is.

I am going to share an experience I had in the Lord to help explain why this is beyond our comprehension, but it can be obtained. It can be obtained by the revelation of Jesus Christ burning in us a Holy Flame of God! It can be obtained by coming deeper into the very flame of LOVE, until we hear LOVE'S HEARTBEAT and we hear LOVE'S voice. This is an allegorical vision, or a painting of a spiritual truth!

The scripture verse burning in me is Psalm 133:1-3! This 1st verse of this Psalm is a key and a window into the depth of God's heart where true and lasting unity begins. So let us endeavor for the Holy Spirit to open our hearts to the true revelation of the UNITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!

Let me start with a time of prayer back in the early 90's when a dear Pastor friend and I were together in prayer for our perspective churches and for one another. We were in prayer and worship, when I lost sense of everything around me, and my eyes were opened to a heavenly vision. As the Lord opened my eyes, I was standing in front of a great white throne that was burning in fire. I did not see anyone sitting there on the throne, but I did see a brilliant light as coming forth from that throne and a form that had sleeves filled with fire coming from it.

I could hardly breath because of the intensity of the flame. I knew I had entered into the throne room of God with clothes on, but as the flame brought me closer to Him, I realized I was absolutely naked! Every part of me was exposed before the Lord. I was so ashamed at my nakedness, that I went to place my hands over my exposed areas to cover myself.

I can't tell you what that felt like, but I knew that light was not only looking at me, it was looking through every fiber of my being inside and out. It was so intense I just wanted to fall down like a dead man. I wanted to lay down and prostrate myself before the Lord, but He would not allow me to do so. He made me stand up.

All of a sudden, I felt a hand turn me to the right and there was my Pastor friend entirely naked as I was. The same light that was looking at me was looking right through him. He also was trying to cover himself exactly in the same manner I was. All of a sudden, I felt my hand be pulled to the side and I could not even try cover myself anymore, and at the same time out of the corner of my eye the same thing was happening to my Pastor friend. Then out of no where a force hit both of us and we were standing next to each other facing each other and staring at each other's nakedness.

Now I just wanted to die right there. For I knew my brother could not only see my outside, every part of me, but he had the ability to see everything inside of me as well. This blew me away, I wept and wept, because I was so ashamed of what was on the inside and outside. He could see every imperfection in my outer body and in my soul. It was awful! It was probably the worst experience of exposure I ever had in God up to now. I was undone. A man of unclean lips in the midst of a people with unclean lips.

I tried to do all I could to do to cover my bodily parts but I was forbidden to do so. I was embarrassed, ashamed, and wanted to die. Now I am a little chunky Italian guy, and I knew my friend could see all my love handles, rolls, scars, etc. It was humiliating for me. This went on for what seemed like an hour. I was being stared at by God and my Pastor friend. Thank God this was only a vision!!! LOL

What I didn't realize at the time was that my pastor friend was doing and feeling the same exact way as me. He was trying to cover himself. He was a skinny European guy, but he had scars and imperfection on his body, and he also had them on the inside. He was trying violently to get loose to cover himself but he could not either.

Then the same force that made us face each other, pushed us to look at the great white throne, and now we were both being examined by those eyes of fire. They penetrated every fiber of our being. I don't know how we were surviving in that Glory! I really thought it was over for us at this point, because we saw all each others imperfections and flaws in our bodies and souls.

There was no reason to live at this point, we were undone. I really was expecting God to rebuke or kill me at this point, but the strangest thing happened to me there. A voice came out of the Fire! Did you hear me, Beloved! A VOICE spoke out of the fire and said these words to the depth of my being. "When you can stand here before me naked, and before one another and not be moved by seeing your imperfections in each other. When you can just love each other as I have loved you, you will understand WHAT TRUE AND LASTING UNITY IS! IT IS THE ABILITY TO SEE EACH OTHER AS I SEE YOU AND NOT SEE ONE ANOTHER'S FLAWS ANYMORE AND STILL LOVE EACH OTHER!THIS IS UNITY BEYOND ANYTHING YOU UNDERSTAND.

This is where I began to get a little glimpse that the UNITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,was much different than just working together or doing things together. It was much different than trying to unify. It was a unity beyond description. After the Lord spoke these words to me, I know longer saw my brothers imperfections. I still could look right through him, but I did not see anything in him but the love of God. It was like a great light within him. I knew those other things may still be there, but I could not see them anymore.

It is here I began to understand the words. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when the brethren dwell together in unity! Psalm 133:1 You see unity begins with the words BEHOLD!Behold means to: look at, see, regard, gaze upon, view, watch, discern. It means: To perceive by the visual faculty; see: beheld a tiny figure in the distance. To perceive through use of the mental faculty; comprehend.

The Word of God in Psalm 133:1 begins with BEHOLD,HOW GOOD IT IS! What was God trying to teach me in this vision. He was teaching me that the only way there can be true "unity of the spirit is by BEHOLDING! The first thing I experienced was GOD BEHOLDING ME! His beholding burned up my clothes, go figure. Isn't that what He did to Adam and Eve? He made them remove their fig leaves. He did this because Adam said, "we hid from you because we were afraid and WE ARE NAKED.It was their understanding of NAKEDNESS that cause them to hide.

I wanted to do the same thing in this vision as well. I wanted to hide, because I was ashamed and naked. God was looking right through me and at me, every fiber of my being. There WAS NO PLACE TO HIDE! Do you get it? Behold, How good and pleasant it is. Beloved, there was not one pleasant thing about me or the Lord at first in this vision! I was undone, yet I was not burnt up! I was able to stand there before the Lord vulnerable, naked, with His eyes piercing me, but I was not condemned by God, but my own heart.

If you remember the last blog, I talked about the heart of Cain. God was not rejecting Cain, but the offering he was bringing him. I was ashamed in that moment, because something in ME WANTED TO BE RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD! There was not one thing I could find that was RIGHTEOUS! NOT ONE! No wonder the word of God says, "our righteousness is but filthy rags before the Lord." Don't you see beloved? God burnt up my filthy rags on the way to the midst of the flame. I had nothing to cover myself with or a place to hide.MY RIGHTEOUSNESS WAS GONE,or better yet all MY SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS WAS GONE

Oh, if we could only hear that in our hearts. Most of our attempt to unify the body of Christ can be rooted in our SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS! That is why it never happens. That is what this vision had to explain. I did all I could to try to cover myself before God and worse before my brother. It was bad enough that God saw me, but worse my brother saw me is that way. What a horrible heart, huh? I was more concerned with my brother seeing me naked than my God?

Yet, at the same time, my brother is feeling the same exact way. Beloved, this is our true spiritual hearts towards God and one another. It is the reason why we can never be truly united in the Holy Spirit. I wish I could explain this better. Please forgive my feeble attempt to do so, but I pray the Holy Spirit will make this truth alive in your spirit. The Lord was beholding me AS I REALLY WAS! Yet, He did not leave. He did not tell me He did not want or love me. Truth is, I had the sense He was not going anywhere and neither was I. Could this be the essence of the unity of the Holy Spirit is. Seeing each other as we are, and not going away!

The Lord allowed me to see that my brother was feeling exactly the same as I was. We were no different from one another. We both had flaws in our outer bodies. We both had flaws on the inside of our hearts as well. We both were naked before God and exposed. We both wanted to do anything to cover ourselves. We both wanted to hide before God and each other. We both were ashamed and feeling guilty in our hearts. We both were forbidden to cover ourselves and both our clothes were burnt up in the fire.

I wonder what oneness would look like from God's perspective? I think we have confused perfection with oneness. That the only way we can be one is when we all believe the same, or think the same or we are both perfect. It is this misconception that causes us to to belittle ourselves or exalt ourselves like the Pharisee's. At least I didn't lie, cheat or steal, like that publican! It is our misconception that causes us to see ourselves accepted or rejected by God.

Cain saw the Lord not receiving his offering as rejecting him. His worth was based on what he did and what he brought the Lord. This was His clothing and covering. What did God do, burn it up and leave him naked before his brother. His brother had another kind of clothing. God was His covering. This provoked Cain so much that He rose and killed Abel. Abel brought the better and accepted sacrifice to God and that covered him, Cain did not!

So instead of unity, there was murder because one offering of self-righteousness was not received. Both myself and my pastor friend had NOT ONE THING TO JUSTIFY OURSELVES BEFORE GOD, NOT ONE! We were as naked as anyone could ever be. Everyone of our flaws, faults were exposed by the flame of the Lord, yet we were still there beholding God and beholding one another.

Wow! We were also beholding God. What did I see, Fire, flames, brilliant light, examining and searching love looking in, at and through me, yet I was not consumed. I saw light come out of His sleeves as He turned me to behold my brother. Remember the definition of BEHOLD? To See, look out, regard, gaze upon, watch and discern, To perceive by the visual faculty; see: beheld a tiny figure in the distance.

This psalm of unity begins with the word "BEHOLD!" I was able to see, look out, regard, gaze upon, watch and discern the Lord. I knew exactly what He was doing. Then as He turned me to see my brother and him to see me, we saw, looked out, regarded and gazed upon, watched and discerned each others spiritual condition. We were BEHOLDING GOD, and BEHOLDING ONE ANOTHER! Where we doing this? IN THE VERY FLAME OF YAHWEH! IN THE BURNING EMBERS OF HIS BEING! We were undone, naked, guilty and ashamed in those moments. Our own hearts were condemning us not God's. We were already washed in the Blood of the Lamb.

We were condemned because WE WERE TRYING TO REACH PERFECTION IN THE FLESH LIKE THE GALATIANS'S CHURCH! We were bewitched to believe that somehow our own works and efforts were good enough to stand before God. Beloved, they weren't even good enough to stand before each other, never mind God! This was our self-righteousness, and it is the ROOT CAUSE why we don't see a real expression of the KIND of UNITY! We can't see true unity because GOD IS NOT OUR COVERING!

In my vision WE WERE LOOKING for OUR CLOTHING! We did not like the fact that we were naked, no more than Adam did in the garden. There is the simple truth! WE ARE NAKED, CLOTHED OR NOT! As long as our faith is in our clothing or are own righteousness we can never stand before God or one another. So we beloved, can never experience the unity of the Holy Spirit.The Lord spoke to me, "When you can stand naked before me, and before one another and not see each others flaws, than you will be unified."

Oh beloved, what a simplistic thought isn't it. So easy when you get down to it, but so hard to live, because our flesh wants to BOAST IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD! That is why it has to be crucified. The only way to remove that boasting is to come into the very FLAME OF GOD, who is LIGHT! There is nothing humanly possible to do to remove this from the heart. You can't study it out, pray it our, or even fast it out.

IT HAS TO BE BURNED OUT! That is what this vision taught me. MY clothes, my righteousness had to be burned up as I approached the Lord. This was going to leave me totally vulnerable before the Lord and my brother. What path would I take now? I wanted to hide and cover myself, but the SPIRIT OF GOD CONSTRAINED ME! Yes, it forbade me to cover myself. Why? Because, PERFECT LOVE CAST OUT ALL FEAR!

The only thing the flame of the Lord was going to do was work a DEEP SURRENDER in my heart, until I stopped trying to hide and cover myself. This work can only be done in the "Flame of Holy Love. A LOVE that is a person who will not reject, or leave you alone. A love that will stand there with you until you can see as He See's and your whole world will change with the knowledge and Glory of the Lord WHO IS OUR COVERING.

This constraining love stopped me from covering myself. It stopped my brother from trying to cover himself UNTIL ALL WE COULD DO IS STAND NAKED BEFORE GOD AND ONE ANOTHER AND EVERY TRACE OF SHAME AND GUILT IS REMOVED! Beloved, this is where the Unity of the Spirit begins. This is what the very flame of God has come to bring. This is only the first word in Psalm 133. But when you give up and surrender to that flame and stop trying to cover yourself in self-righteousness and your brother and sister does the same thing. WE CAN BECOME UNITED IN HIM! We can stand before one another and God naked and unashamed.

Because that flame that pierces us also heals and restores us until we do not see the FLAW IN US OR OTHERS, WE JUST SEE GOD AT WORK IN US, WHO PROMISED TO FAITHFUL TO COMPLETE THAT WORK IN US! This is the HEARTBEAT of what UNITY really is! We will continue dissecting this psalm in the next couple of blogs until God opens our eyes to see the Highway of Holiness that He has brought before us. It starts with unity of the Holy Spirit THAT BRINGS US NAKED BEFORE GOD AND ONE ANOTHER!

I leave you know with psalm 133 verse 1. BEHOLD, HOW GOOD AND PLEASANT IT IS, WHEN BRETHREN DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY!

"Stay tuned for the next lesson!

The Fire has come: Love bonds not work bonds Pt. 13

Greetings in the Lord, Beloved Readers,

I am so grateful that you are led to read this blog site. I knew God has instructed me to do this even if I was writing for myself. What is encouraging me the most is how many of you are hearing many of the same things by the Holy Spirit, and are embracing this work of the Lord in your heart.

Beloved, you would not believe these blogs take me over 8-10 hours each to write. I write them and rewrite them to get the flavor of what the Lord is speaking to my heart and to all of us.
Literally, the last 3 blogs alone, took over 24 hours to write and re-write. It is a labor of great love for me to do so.

I pray they are a blessing to those who read them. If they are a blessing, would you consider really laboring with us in prayer for the Body of Christ, our cities and nation. We are in perilous times Beloved reader. There is a famine in the Land for the Word of God. Please consider praying for this work to go forth to the nations, and if the Lord would touch you to help us, please pray about sending a donation as well on our donation link.

We have been invited to visit three nations to share this glorious message of the Flame of God's love and intercession, and we need help by prayer and giving for us to go. We are a very small ministry with a very BIG GOD! So thank you for helping us in any way the Lord leads you!

As I begin writing this blog for the third time, the unity of the Body of Christ seems so unreal and impossible to see ever come to the church. With all the denominations, non-denominations, independent churches we have, how could God ever make a Holy Nation and a Royal Priesthood from all these scattered parts? Up until last year, I almost gave up on the idea coming in our lifetime or in reality at all. I believed God's word, but the way we treat one another, and the lack of the depth of love in all of us (me included), made me faint I am ashamed to admit.

I do believe that God is about to change that impossibility into a living reality in His Bride. As I travel to many cities in this nation, I have noticed when the believers in our prayer and encounter God meetings desire to enter the Holy of Hollies and stand in the FLAME OF GOD, the passion for loving Him ignites.

The smell of anointing oil fills the entire room as we meet the Lord. This manifestation has happened in big meetings and little meetings we have been involved with. Many people have smelled the anointing oil fragrance when not a drop of it has been poured out naturally in the room. The fragrance comes in waves, stronger and stronger, as we go deeper into the presence of the Lord.

I asked the Lord why do we smell anointing oil? Let me preface this with the fact I am highly allergic to the anointing oil that has the myrrh and frankincense in it. This is the kind most ministers anoint the sick with. So when I use oil to pray with people, I use unscented vegetable oil instead. (Doesn't God have a sense of humor?)

In one of our home meetings, the Holy Spirit took us deep in the flame of His love, many people received great deliverance's from things in their life. They were delivered from demonic influences that were oppressing their flesh. The deeper in love we came with the Lord, the greater the fragrance was smelled in the room. It was literally poured all over us.

At many points in the meetings, I could feel the tangible oil for a moment or two stay upon us. We looked to see if any one brought oil with them or if they opened up any bottles. The answer was no! I believe this was a sign and wonder and a revelation of His manifest presence in our midst. He desired us to know He was there with us and in us. This happened also at a conference in Greeley Colorado, and in other boot camps throughout that city. It also happened here at home in Tucson at some of the prayer meetings we were having.

As I have mentioned earlier, last year I was ready to give up on the whole "unity" thing. Maybe God would bring a few people together in unity, but the whole Body of Christ? Not in my life time, I said. It seemed to impossible! Beloved God's ways our NOT our ways and HIS THOUGHTS are not our thoughts! Praise God forever more.

Then the Lord brought us the revelation of our God as a consuming fire. We understood that He was present in our midst with eyes of fire and feet of brass. This is found in Revelation chapter 1. As the Lord began to reveal Himself as the Omega God, our hearts began to burn more intently for Him. A deeper love began to fill us along with a deeper passion for Him. As we continued to diligently seek Him, we began to see each other differently. All that would have separated us in the past didn't make any difference now. A genuine love and care for each other had begun to manifest in our midst and in the meetings.

I am writing this blog to help tie somethings together about the flame of God being here now in our midst, and what that fire desires to produce in our lives. If this is your first reading, please go back and read the other 12 to understand this blog message.

The heart of the outworking of His will that God has birthed in us is to bring to the nations is the training up of a royal priesthood, and the understanding of His Governmental authority. In America, we have preached the Son ship(power) side of anointing for service, preaching, building churches, evangelism and etc. There is another side of our walk with God that we need to develop to be a "full grown man." That side is becoming a Bride for our Heavenly Bridegroom and a Priest for the Lord.

When the Lord sent me to Arizona, He gave me a word that I would never do business as usual again. He imparted His vision for our region to me, but said a very important instruction to me as my first work and this is what is was. "YOUR FIRST WORK IN TUCSON IS TO BUILD LOVE-BOND RELATIONSHIPS AND NOT WORK BOND RELATIONSHIPS, WORK-BONDS CAN NEVER LAST AND LOVE-BONDS CAN NEVER BREAK!"

I came to Tucson with very high hopes of seeing these types of love relationships be established. I knew that these love-bond relationships were not the kind I had presently seen in the church, but a deeper kind. The kind of relationship that David had with Jonathan as God knitted their souls together as one. The first four years of being here, this had not happened. But in 2008 God has begun to birth this type of love for Him and one another in some of the Pastors and leaders in our city.

To understand this kind of relationship that the Lord desires for us to have, I had to understand the difference between a work-bond relationship was and a love bond relationship. The Lord explained it to me in this manner. Since most ministers have a vision from the Lord, that vision becomes their LIFE and their WORK! That work or vision becomes their passion and they begin to pursue people that will "HELP" them do that work. The relationships that get established are rooted in our need "to work" together to accomplish our vision.The Lord explained much of the present church structure is based upon this "working" mentality.

The unpleasant part of this "work"mentality is that much of the work we do for the Lord may be rooted in the "Babel" mentality of "let us make bricks, let us make a city, let us make a tower that reaches into heaven or "let us make a name for ourselves." As you read in Genesis chapter 11, the people were of one language and they purposed to produce a "man made unity." A unity rooted in the NEEDS OF MEN, and not the needs of God.

Beloved this "man made unity" is still alive and kicking today in the church. This man made unity has its roots in "doing" something instead of "becoming" something with God. This man made unity gets its power from the "WORKS OF OUR EFFORTS." The source and root of this work bond relationship is the ambition to achieve or succeed in God to satisfy your own needs or to prove "our worth" to God. Another words, the root source of the work is "self gratification in pleasing the Lord."

If we are going to understand the difference between "work-bonds" and love bonds" then we need to see what the foundation of our work in God is really rooted in. Genesis 11 tells us the heart of what the Lord showed me as "work-bond" relationships.

Gen 11:1 And all the earth had one language and one tongue. Gen 11:2 And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

Gen 11:3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth. Gen 11:4 And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves (Henry Falcone powerful apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, teaching and pastoral ministry)! (LOL), so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

Gen 11:5 And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building. Gen 11:6 And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

Gen 11:7 Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another. Gen 11:8 So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town. Gen 11:9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

The thing we should notice at this time in history was that the people were all of one tongue and had one language. When I first pondered about this, I was more focused on their common language like English, Spanish, etc. Then the Lord said look closely at what the language really was. As I waited for the Lord to explain this to me, He said, "listen closely to their language, it was the language of their heart."

Verses 3-4 begin to describe the "language of the heart" in this people. They said something! Do you notice where the conversation begins? It is not an inquiry of the Lord or His will or His desires. Matter of fact, they don't even inquire of the Lord or His will. They began to walk in their own "thought and imaginations." THEIR HEARTS desire were to fill themselves with there own ideas on how to achieve success. These (fleshly) purposes, thoughts, ideas and plans were separated from God and His will.

This separation from God's true thoughts, and the choosing of our own thoughts is what many in the church in America chooses every day. The American church often chooses to SATISFY HERSELF EACH DAY WITH HER "IDEA" OF GOD AND WHAT HE WANTS! There is little to no concern for what God's desires or what His plans might be. At Babel, the heart of the people was to "let us" build a tower to reach into heaven where God is, "let us make a name for ourselves!" We can do it without HIM!

How much of this kind of heart is the American church today, "let us make a name for ourselves?" Watch TBN or a Christian television network and listen to the voice that says, "Let me prove my calling and worth to God by how many people I reach or how big my church is, or how many miracles are happening." "Maybe it is making sure we have the 5 fold ministry in our church or region." It is always something "we have to do" to believe "WE ARE SUCCESSFUL!" There is nothing wrong in sharing what "GOD IS DOING for His Glory, but most of our boasting of the Lord is so we "can feel good!"

The people of Babel had that kind of prideful "language of the heart" speak loudly to one another. Their language did not speak or consider God at all, but it did speak TO ONE ANOTHER! This is where the heart of WORK-BOND relationships begins! When we begin to speak to one another first, and not seek the wisdom of God or His desires for us, we can not please God or live in righteousness. Mathew 6:33 says, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness..." The word righteousness means, "God's ways of doing things, God desires and plans being done." Notice in Babel, they had no concern for God's righteousness, they only had concern for their own."

How can you tell this "language of the heart" is based on work bonds in the city of Babel or in our hearts as well? Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. What you see is what you get! Satan has always tried to usurp God's authority. This is why he was kicked out of heaven and cast to the earth. With Adam and Eve's fall in the Garden of Eden, that nature of usurping God became our nature. Their eyes could now see the difference between good and evil, or the two offerings.

From the beginning with Cain and Abel, there has always been TWO CHOICES. These choices are made plain all through out the Bible. We are either going to bring to God what we want Him to accept, or we are going to bring God what He desires and requires. It has always been that simple. Work-bonds have their root in the first of these two choices. In Genesis chapter 4:3 we see the birth of two sons. These two different sons are also two different types of seeds planted in the heart. One son's blood cries righteous! The other son's blood cries murderer! Two sons, and two seeds, both bring God an offering.

Gen 4:1 And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord. Gen 4:2 Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.
Gen 4:3 And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the earth. Gen 4:4 And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;

Gen 4:5 But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad. Gen 4:6 And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad? Gen 4:7 If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.

Gen 4:8 And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death. Gen 4:9 And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper?

Gen 4:10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth. Gen 4:11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand; Gen 4:12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

Both Sons of Adam gave the Lord an offering. Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flocks. This is quite important to understand if we are ever going to understand the unity of the Holy Spirit that is coming in the 3rd day. The young lambs was something GOD MADE! Abel did not create the lambs. All Abel could do was "TEND TO WHAT GOD HAS ALREADY MADE." His job was to pasture the lambs and protect them, make sure they were fed and cared for. It wasn't an easy job, but much easier then Cains. "And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering." This is the heart of the "love-bond" relationship. "No greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." The true UNITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT is NOT MAN MADE! The TRUE UNITY OF GOD IS GOD BREATHED!

God was pleased with Abel's offering because it was what He asked for from both Him and Cain. God has already imparted to them what offering was pleasing to Him and what was not. It was the "knowledge of knowing what pleases God" that Abel brought to the Lord. The bible tells us in Hebrews chapter 11, that the Blood of Abel is still speaking." His blood that was shed was "righteous blood." It was righteous because Abel brought to the Lord what the Lord desired for an offering. This is the heart of what a love-bond is.

LOVE-BONDS work is to please and serve the one who is giving you that love." It does not see it's own needs or desires, but sees the needs of the one that truly loved them. Abel loved the Lord with His whole heart, so He gave to the Lord what He required out of that love. His work was rooted and founded deeply in love and it was credited to him as righteousness.

Beloved, the FLAME OF GOD has come to separate the "flesh" from the "Spirit!" It has come to separate the HOLY from the PROFANE! The Fire has come to separate the offerings of unrighteousness which is "WHAT WE WANT TO GIVE GOD," from what the "righteous" offerings the Lord requires of "WHAT HE WANTS US TO GIVE HIM."

Cain brought an offering also. He brought, "an offering of the fruits of the earth." Cain brought to the Lord the fruit of what He had planted and tended. It is much harder work to tend to crops then watch lambs. Cain had to plant the seeds, water, protect the crops from animals. It took much more time and harder labor to do. Cain believed that because He "sweat" over all this labor and that the offering was a fruit of "his hard work," God would be thoroughly pleased with it. His flesh and effort was in all the fruit that he brought to God. His sweat was so much more than Abels', he believed God would be well pleased.with His gift above His brothers.
I hope you heard that precious leaders in Christ.

Beloved, this is the heart of what a "work-bond" is. The heart of this kind of work-bonds is in achieving our "success," based entirely on our works. Cain believed His "sweat and blood" would somehow be more pleasing to the Lord than Abel's. The harder he worked for God, the more fruit he could bring ot Him. God would now give him a great big blessing. He expected the Lord, to say "well done, good and faithful servant."

This is what brings the spirit of competition in the church in America as well. All over this country I hear this song all the time, "my church is better than your church, my church is better than your, my church is better because we do "so much more," My ministry is better than yours." Oh we might not say it outwardly, but it is very apparent. I see it all the time as I try to present regional prayer to many cities. There is so much distrust and positioning for power or fear we might loose a little influence, it breaks the heart of God.

In America, this other seed rooted in Cain's understanding about God is the same in many people. Cain's understanding of God came from his "own thoughts and imaginations." Cain was going to determine what God would accept and what He would not, and so do we." This condition of the heart is a called a usurping heart or "false ministry idolatry."

It is a heart that proclaims that we "know things better" than God. It is a heart filled with ideas, suggestions that "seem right to a man," but the end leads to destruction. Cain imagined in his heart that the Lord would be so pleased by his hard work and efforts, it consumed him. He was so sure that this was what God wanted, that no other offering could even enter his heart or mind.

Did you ever wonder why Cain got so angry with Abel? Truthfully, all he had to do was say to the Lord, I am sorry Lord. I will go out and bring you what you desired. But Cain could not do that! Why? Because HIS WHOLE LIFE WAS BASED ON WHAT HE BELIEVED! HE BELIEVED A LIE! A LIE THAT SAID, "THE HARDER YOU WORK FOR GOD, THE MORE PLEASED HE WILL BE WITH YOU! "

This heart was in him and it is in the American church as well. It is a heart that is based upon its "own efforts" to earn God's love and approval. This heart always has to "prove" its value to itself and those around them, and finally prove its value to God!

Most Christians would declare that we are not saved by "work" but grace. Yet, somehow when we "get saved, "the church teaches us to go back under the law of "working for God, or living for God." Able knew the difference between the two choices in bringing God an offering!

The Bride of the Lord is learning the difference now and making herself ready to bring the Lord only what is pleasing. her final testimony will be, "I am my beloved, and His desires are towards me."(Song of Solomon 7:10) Abel didn't choose to "work or live" FOR God, but to "work and live" WITH GOD! This is what separates a work-bond from a love-bond.

Listen to the Apostle Paul's writing to the church in Galatia. This church started out understanding that it is by grace alone they were saved, but they tried to walk out that salvation in work-bond relationships rooted in the flesh.

Gal 3:1 O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross? Gal 3:2 Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Gal 3:3 Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?

Gal 3:4 Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.
Gal 3:5 He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith? Gal 3:6 Even as Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness. Gal 3:7 Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

Paul was warning the church in Galatia about their walk with Christ. They started it entirely in faith and in the Holy Spirit, there was a unity of the Spirit amongst them. They understood and gave the Abel offering at the start of their new life in Christ. The offering they had to bring was a "living sacrifice" (Romans 12:1-2) the same kind Christ Himself who was the lamb of God brought to the Father. There was not one good thing in them that could justify themselves or earn God's love for them. Yet here they are "under a spell." They were bewitched into believing that they could NOW EARN GOD'S FAVOR ON WHAT THEY DID, HOW HARD THEY WORKED FOR GOD." This is FOOLISHNESS TO GOD!

Beloved reader, back in the late 1980's God gave me a dream. In it were two pastors I knew and myself. The two pastors said, Brother Henry, it is time to go to Home Depot to buy what we need to build the Lord a church." Each brother had a measuring tape with them. They took out their measuring tape and began to measure all they would need to get or buy to build the church. I watched as they did this, and the Holy Spirit tapped me on the shoulder, at least it felt like that. In the tap, these instructions were imparted to me in the dream. "YOU CAN NEVER GO WITH THEM IN THIS MANNER AND BUILD MY HOUSE, NOR CAN YOU EVER USE YOUR OWN MEASURING TAPE. TELL THEM YOU CAN NOT GO WITH THEM."

The two Pastor's came and said, "Brother Henry let's go, we are going to be late." I said to them, "Brothers I can't go with you, I am sorry." They both got very angry with me and tried to pursuade me that I had to go with them, but I told them I would not go. Finally they went off to build the church, and I woke up."

Cain had a good idea of building the church also. Let me give God the best of my crops that I sweated over. The people had a good idea at Babel. They SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, COME LET US MAKE BRICKS, LET US BUILD A CITY, A TOWER AND A NAME FOR OURSELVES! This is where "work bond relationships begin."

Workbonds start when we SAY SOMETHING TO ONE ANOTHER! "Let us go to HOME DEPOT!" Let's have a chicken barbeque and invite the neighbors to come and preach the Gospel to them." "Let us have a crusade meeting downtown and win the lost." "Let's start cell groups in our churches, Paul Yunge Choe did." "Let's do a marketing survey of the people in our area and see the things they would like in their church." "Let's have a Pastor's fellowship." Beloved we do this all the time in the Body of Christ here in America.

At one of our conferences, a person literally brought me a "gold brick" from a famous person's healing ministry. They said, "that God told them where they placed these bricks, healing revival would take place." They had the brick in a picnic basket with a red cloth over it! I believe in prophetic actions God might have us to do, and as well intented as these beloved believers were, I knew there was something very wrong with what they were bringing.

What was wrong with giving this brick to me was that it was rooted in the "let us" do something for God mentality. When we say, "let us" (apart from God's instructions) we are usurping God's authority. How are we usurping His authority? Don't you remember Genesis chapter 1:26-27. God said, "Let us" make man in our image, "like us", and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth. Gen 1:27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS AUTHORITY TO SAY "LET US" IS THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT, THEY ARE THE "LET US!" When the people of Babel said, "LET US", they were usurping God's authority and government. When Cain brought the offering from the ground, HE WAS USURPING GOD'S AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT! The church in Galatia when they started to work out their salvation in the flesh, or their own ideas of what God wanted they were USURPING GOD'S AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT!

When we as God's leaders, don't take the time to wait upon the Lord, listen for His voice and obey His commands, then all we have left are "good ideas." These good ideas when put into action USURP GOD'S AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT, and we are all guilty in the nation of doing this. Many of our Pastor's fellowships are based in this same heart of "good ideas." That is why there is so little change in the spiritual atmosphere in our cities, regions and nations.

The unity of the churches that we are desiring to see in our Pastor's fellowships often comes from our "understanding" of unity. It is always based on "what can we do for God now." The first question at most Pastor's fellowship is "how many members do you have." Then we plan how are we "going to take our city for Christ." Wouldn't it be better if Christ "took us first" before we try to "take a city?"

Cain was so determined to give God what he desired that he got angry with God. He was angry that God rejected his sweat, and received the "little to no sweat" of His brother Abel. His jealousy and anger turned from God against his brother. His brother was received by God and He was rejected, so he thought. Cain did not realize that only his "offering" was rejected, NOT HIM! This is how satan lied and decieved him into believing HE WAS NOT ACCEPTED!

So he had to let his anger out against Abel by killing him. He believed God wasaccepting Abel and rejecting him and that was unfare. The truth was, they were both ALREADY ACCEPTED, just the offerings were tested by God. One offering was "accepted", the other was "rejected", not the people who gave them.

Beloved, this often is the same reactions I receive when I preach this message. Daggers are thrown at me from the heart. When the Lord begins to show us that our motives for what we are doing are not pure, Pastors and Leaders get quite angry. They no longer want you "in their" fellowship. They see themselves as being rejected by God, when in fact, God is only looking at the offerings we are presenting to him. In America our offerings are our "work for God!" This is why we as leaders can't accept that God might not want what we are doing or the "offerings we are bringing." (Read Isaiah chapter 1)

If we truly knew we were already accepted and loved by God we would not need to prove another thing to God to "earn our worth." If we would allow the flame of God to burn up this false ministry idolatry in our hearts, we would be free to love God and each other as He loves us. Beloved, then we would live the scriptures that say, "How can the eye say to the foot, I have no need of you, or the foot say to the hand, I have no need of you."
We would now understand each others worth and value and we could begin to "dwell together in unity."

We would begin to understand each other and receive each other as the gifts we are to God and to one another. The competition between us would be destroyed. I want you to minister in the church God has me watch over, and you can build as long as you need and we will work together. We won't compare our "anointing" with one another or be jealous over each other. We would become secure in who we are as His beloved, already rooted in His love.

Psalm 133, O Good and Pleasant it is when brothers "fellowship" together in unity?" Work-bonds produce fellowships. You are a fellow in the ship as long as you agree with me, disagree then their is something wrong with you, and you get the right foot of "fellowship." Most of our Pastor's fellowship produce very little I am sad to say. Yes, we get to know one another. Even some friendships can be produced, but Beloved, IT NEVER CHANGES THE SPIRITUAL ATMOSPHERE OVER OUR CITIES, CHURCHES, OR NATIONS. IT CAN NOT!

Psalm 133 says O good and pleasan it is when brethren DWELL TOGETHER in unity! Dwelling is not fellowship. Dwelling is abiding in God's love and God's love abiding in you. Jesus said in John chapter 15, "Dwell in me and I will dwell in you, live in me and I will live in you." This is the TRUE ESSENCE OF THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT! IT CAN NEVER BE DEVELOPED IN WORK BONDS!

Why is the FLAME OF GOD manifesting in our midst? Why is the revelation of the Omega God so imporant? It is important for each one of us can come in the flame personally and stand in it. In this flame we become naked and exposed. Our nakedness is the place God begins to birth unity. In stead of us wearing fig leaves to cover ourselves, He becomes are covering! We become united in our dwelling with Him naked and unashamed.

When you my brother or sister come into that same flame. and God deals with the hidden motives in your heart as He is doing in me in that flame, we become naked together before God and each other. It is here, He can become the same covering to all of us! Now, beloved we are UNITED BY THE VERY SAME COVERING TOGETHER! We are now one with Him and one with one another, because we both are naked and unashamed before God and one another but not condemned, because LOVE COVERED A MULTITUDE OF SINS!

To often beloved reader, we have gone in the ways of Cain who saw that his "brothers" offering was accepted and his was not. This made him even more angry with God and his brother. His anger led him to murder. How many times in prayer meetings have you prayed against "the spirit of murder" in a city and nothing change?

We ourselves may be filled with that very same spirit of murder that has come from a heart filled with jealousy, anger and striving to succeed for God. We are angry when God begins to point out the hidden motives fo our hearts. So many Pastors say, "Oh, we need to throw away our agenda and plans, but they NEVER DO IT! Why Beloved? Because it will cost ALL THAT YOU EVER WORKED FOR!

This is where the "rubber hits the road." This is the place where God is watching what choice will you make. Will you choose His way or your ways? I am not talking about habits and stuff. God removes them in the flame as well. I am talking about what kind of offering will you bring, a work bond, or a love bond? Cain brought a work bond and he killed his brother. Interesting isn't it what competition can bring to a family, churh or a city?

The spirit of competition in the churches in a specific region I am being led to is overwhelming. No one trust anyone that isn't like them. A new work of God in a city is looked down upon or wants to be put under them. They won't let the work of God go all the way and touch the people of "their church," because they didn't birth it. They see a man or a ministry birthing it like they did in Corinth. The same spirit found it the Corinthian church is all through America.

In the church in Corinth, they had divided themselves into factions. They said,"I am of Apollos, I am of Paul." Paul writes to the church in Corinth that "you are still babe in Christ, unspiritual men, still needing milk." "What is Apollos? What is Paul? Are we not just MINISTERING SERVANTS not heads of parties! I plant, Apollos watered. But neither is he that plants ANYTHING or He that WATERS, but it is GOD WHO GIVES THE INCREASE."

If the present leadership in America could understand this truth, we could change and the spritual atmosphere over our lives, families, churches, cities and regions. But beloved readers, we God's people are afraid God might use "someone" else besides us. The people in my church might like the new church, ministry better than me! They might like the regional prayer center and go there more often then to "my" church. I see this competiveness everywhere I go. It is rooted in our insecurity of being loved by the Lord. If we had God's love burning in us, no one in the Body of Christ could ever be a threat to us or our place in God.

I see a lot of talk amongst leaders about unity, but so little real change that could bring about the "true unity of the Holy Spirit." Why is is this so in 2008? The reason is that we won't get in the FLAME OF THE LORD, and understand our time of visitation with the Lord! We are just to busy to hear His call to come into the flame, or for His flame to come into us! We have to much to take care of, to much responsabilty and a wrong idea of true unity and ministry. Beloved leaders, we don't own the work God has given us, it is God that owns us!

We fail in the realization of true unity because we just don't understand what God's love really is. That is why we MUST RUN TO THE FLAME OF GOD WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME! We are filled with selfish ambition, strife and envy just like Cain and God must remove it in His Holy Fire! We don't even recognize the gift each one of us is to each other and the Body of Christ to help build it as He commanded.

The enemy continues to put thoughts in our minds that we "own" our church and work. This ownership produces us to work harder and harder to prove our love to God and our ministry call just like Cain did by the sweat he gave in the fields! Beloved this kind of heart is still an abomination to God today in 2008. And there is a call to all of us, "if you do well, will not God receive us? " Remember the warning in the Gospel of Mathew chapter 7:

Mat 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Mat 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Mat 7:20 Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.(Did you read that, but only those who do the will of my Father, not what they think that will is) Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name mighty works? Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

This is heart that will always produce work-bonds and not love-bonds. The work-bonds may have the appearance of living and working for God and even have some success, but in the end what does the Lord say to them, DEPART FROM ME I NEVER KNEW YOU! They had good ideas, (didn't we cast out devils, prophesy in your name) but their actions were rooted in the "need to do something, or prove something, or become something and not the pure love of God."

Mat 7:24 Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock: This is the heart of what LOVE-BOND relationships are to be. Here our hearts only desire is to hear what God wants from us and do it. It is not rooted in any other motive but to love Him. Jesus said, in John chapter 15, "IF YOU LOVE ME, YOU WILL OBEY ME, AND KEEP MY COMMANDS." Where is the "LET US" in this commandment?

Beloved reader, I am sorry to have to put these negative things out first. However; if we don't see what is wrong, we can never search for what is right. In the next 2 blogs we will finish this comparison of love-bonds verses work-bonds. We will continue to seek the Word of God on this topic. The two "bonds" are determined by the two offerings given and the two different hearts that give them.

As I close this blog, what does this have to do with the flame of God? Everything! Only in that flame can God separate the soul from the spirit. Only in this refining fire can the Holy Spirit shows us the true motives of our heart. This FLAME OF GOD IS GOD ALMIGHTY, and He must come and refine us like Gold and Silver. Don't you want Him todo this in you?

Dear reader, Do you really want to stand before the Lord as He reviews your whole life and find out you built your life with wood, hay and stubble? Pastors, do you really want all your service in the Lord to burn up, because the motive of what you built was not in the pure love of God? Do you just want to enter in by escaping the fire?

Let God prove us now. Judgment begins in the House of the Lord. Let Him test our life now, test our work now. What do we have to be afraid of? Wouldn't you rather start over now, while you still have time, then see all your work be burned up because you were bewitched as in Galatia?
I am going to close with scripture from Malachi chapter 3. These scriptures tell us why the Lord suddenly comes to His church as a refining fire and fuller's soap. There is a divine purpose and I will highlight it blue for us to ponder to next time.

Shalom, faithful readers and let us enter the flame together!

Mal 3:1 Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.

Mal 3:2 But who can abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap:

Mal 3:3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer unto Jehovah offerings in righteousness.

Mal 3:4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto Jehovah, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.