The Fire has come: Naked and Unashamed PT 1

Hello Beloved reader,

This word is so burning in me, I had to change it being attached to the conference report less you miss it. I am also going to post it as a word of the Lord and Prophetic Alert because we must not MISS THE HOUR OF OUR VISITATION! I am going to write more extensively about it as the Lord reveals it to me, but the miracle at the wedding at Cana is at our doorstep! Please read this slowly and let the Holy Spirit speak to your heart.

Something is happening in our land, little flickers of fire are beginning to spark a real call to return to our first love Jesus Christ and to answer the call of 2nd Chronicles 7:14... If my people called by name, will humble themselves, seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their land. This call is beginning to echo through out the Western and Mountains states as the prophetic voice is being released, "PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD."

Beloved reader, I pray that God is stirring up your heart to seek Him like never before. We pray that the Holy Spirit is working in you to prepare yourself like the Bride in Revelation 19:7 and you are making yourself ready. Beloved, by now we must understand as God’s people that we CAN NOT fix ourselves, change ourselves, or even make ourselves white. In spite of that fact, God still wants to remove the spots, blemishes and wrinkles in our lives to have a pure, spotless bride to present to Himself.What came forth from the Holy Spirit at these conferences is the following. The way of removing the spots and blemishes from our lives or the preparation we need to do in making ourselves ready for our Bridegroom can only come by BEING WILLING to be TRANSPARENT and NAKED before God and one another. It is time that we take the fig leaves off and become vulnerable to God and one another.

What is hindering this process of God in our life at this time is simple. We are afraid for God to see us as we really are. Like Israel did when the Lord came down to meet them at Mt. Sinai, we too are running away from that mountain, “lest we be killed!” Just as Israel said at that mountain, “Moses you listen to God for us and we will do all He says, but let God not come nearer to us or we will die," we Christians in America have said the same thing. The Isrealites ran away because of the conviction of their sins that came from being close to the presence of God. For the second time God's people again went to hide from His presence and find another fig leave to cover their sins. What are we so afraid of that would make us hide or run from His presence coming in our midst?

We are afraid we will be rejected because of all our faults and sins that still remain in our heart. Another words we are convicted by the Holy Spirit, but condemned by the spirit of this world. That spirit says you have not measured up to God’s standard so you are no good. It says you must stay away from God because you are not worthy enough. It speaks, God does not love you enough, your failures, the sinful places in your life are just to much for God to bare. He won’t even look at you and if He does you will be a crispy critter burned up in His judgment.

Most Christians live this life everyday, yet still want to go to church and work hard for the Lord. They need a way to ease their conscious which is condemned daily because of the inability to measure up to the law and standards of God. The Body of Christ here in America knows their nakedness in their hearts but just won’t admit it. If we were to admit it what would God think and what would my friends think of me if they really knew the REAL ME! We are afraid if people see the real me, with all my wrong attitudes and motives, they will not want to be around me. So we continually put on a religious mask called "working for God" or “pretending how spiritual we are” to cover our nakedness. To the church in Laodicea the Lord warns them that “you say you are rich and need of nothing, but I say, you are poor, blind, pitiable and naked.”

There is that word naked again. Jesus tells the last days church, the majority of it, that they say they are OK with God and need nothing. These are the masks we all wear everyday. I am OK, your OK, there is nothing wrong with me. I am a child of God, filled with the Holy Spirit, tongue talking, gift filled, tithers of the most High God! Yet to this church, Jesus is standing on the outside of the door to their heart. He is knocking to get back in and sup with them and them with Him.

Beloved, think about that for a minute. We the church in America think we are all OK and there is nothing wrong with us. We say we are rich every day. We pretend we are spiritual. We pretend to be OK by our works alone. The more we feel convicted the more work we try to do for God, not knowing that most of what we are doing is our own way of making ourselves right with God. This is called our own righteousness and it is a filthy rag to God. So filthy that we are really naked and not even covered before Him. Our sin is ever before Him like David said.

Yes, beloved our sins were washed away when we accepted Christ, but we are to work out that salvation with fear and trembling. We are to put away the old former way of living and live totally for God. Every place we compromise with the truth, every unholy thought and desire, shows the real condition of our hearts. As a man thinks, so is He!

We do not love like He does, or lay our lives down one for another, matter of fact we are the only army in this land that kills its own wounded. We have walls up between us because we are filled with pride and arrogance. We say my church is better than your church. My church is growing faster. We are the “cool church” the “happening church.” We got what the other churches don’t have. We say it all the time on radio, television by comparing ourselves one to another. We do it as churches and we do it as individuals. When someone is walking closer to God then us, we look for their flaws, find them and then tell others so we can lift ourselves up! Is this a Bride without spot, blemish or wrinkle?

At both conferences, God said become naked and unashamed! How do we do that? By the only way God demands, HONESTY! We must allow the Holy Spirit of REFINING HONESTY TO SEARCH OUR HEARTS, MINDS AND MOTIVES! He is the only one who can judge accurately. Will we allow Him to do His work and bring conviction of sin, righteousness and judgment? Or will we continue to run away from Him and His presence like Adam and Eve did who hid and covered themselves?

Can God really show you the dross still in your heart? Can you possibly believe that God who knows all and sees all knows that the dross is there and yet is not rejecting you? Matter of fact He came not just to save you, but to finish the work in you. YEAH GOD! Remember the scripture that says, Faithful is He who began the good work in you, faithful will He be to complete it?

What are we afraid of when God knows everything about us? Who can bring a charge against God elect? Can it be God who died and gave Himself for us? So why are we afraid to see how we really are in the light of God’s love? I believe it is because we can’t face the fact we must have a sober estimation of ourselves. A truthful examination of our lives by God is the only standard for a sober judgment. Our judgment will always make ourselves look better. Most of us lived under such rejection all of our lives, WE CAN’T BEAR to hear one word of rebuke, correction and truth from God. Many have been called failures all their lives, that the thought of falling short or failing God would crush them beyond measure. Some can’t bear the thought because they have been so “sure of themselves and their ability all their lives,” there could not ever be anything wrong with them.

Isn’t the truth that we want to just look good, always and everywhere? Don’t we want people to think the best of us? So we put on masks and fig leaves to cover our sins and to pretend to be the person who “we think” we are and not the one God said we are. Sister Tiffany brought a great word about Humpty Dumpty. She read the poem to us, but asked this question. Why did Humpty fall of the wall? How can Humpty put himself back together again? Yet don’t we try to put ourselves together and look good in our own eyes and in everyone else’s lives when we fall off that wall? The question came to us in the meeting, "can we allow the Lord to push off the wall, smash our lives as we have known them or wanted them to be, and allow Him to make us and put us back together?"

The Lord expected an answer from us. Would He be allowed to do put us back together as He sees fit? Would be willing to be made as He wills even if we could not eve recognize ourselves as we used to be? Here in America, we have not desired to hear this question. Up to this moment in time we (the American Church) have created ourselves into our own image and likeness. Now the Lord comes to us in two conferences and asks us will we allow Him to make us into His Image and Likeness? WOW!

The Lord did not instruct us to have conferences or boot camps to build a name, or ministry or any such thing. He called us to have these meetings to "establish the Kingdom of God in men's hearts!" These two powerful encounters with the Lord were about being made into the New Jerusalem,as a Bride coming down from heaven! These meetings were to help bring forth a Bride coming forth from the wilderness leaning upon her Beloved.

We must ask this question, if Jesus is standing on the outside of the church or hearts and knocking to get in, then what happened to us here in America and the world? We were supposed to be the temple of the living GOD! We are called to be the Temple of the Holy Spirit filled with the Glory of God Himself that nations would come to brightness. (Isaiah 60) Where is that Glory that must be seen in us and through us? The "naked" truth is that the best we are all doing here in America is trying to create ourselves in our "understanding and image" and not God's! OUCH!

Could that be true beloved reader? Could that be you and me and the church in America? Well meaning, trying so hard to reach the world, but beautiful on the outside, but empty on the inside? Could we be that Humpty Dumpty sitting on the wall getting ready to HAVE A GREAT FALL! Does not God RESIST the PROUD, but give GRACE to the HUMBLE?

Whom are we hiding from? Does God not know every single hair on our heads? Don’t we understand that He can see through our religious masks? Why is it so hard to be real and not pretend with God and one another? When we meet other Christians we have to be on our "best behavior". We need to put on our appearance! We say, “praise God, Hallelujah, talk all the church talk and even pretend to be interested in their lives. I know this is a bit hard to swallow, BUT WE MUST BECOME NAKED AND UNASHAMED BEFORE GOD NOW WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME!

If we continue to have this heart of being fake and phony, we can never see God. Matthew writes in chapter 5, “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." This heart of being plastic and fake before God and others has made a generation of believers always ready to perform, always striving to "BE SOMETHING or DO SOMETHING FOR GOD!

The church in America has produced Christians that can't be real, transparent or naked before God or each other because we are performance driven instead of God led. We have hardened the very heart that God broke when we were saved. Paul writes to the Galatians in chapter 5, "Who has bewitched you? Who has cast a spell over you? You who began this new life in the Holy Spirit, why are you trying to reach perfection by your trusting in your flesh to do it?

What a question? Who has cast a spell upon us. That we must be performers instead of real, transparent and Holy before God? This heart that hides, covers and lives to perform to prove it's worth and value can NEVER REALLY KNOW GOD OR WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH! Why does the church in America have to be entertained? Why do Pastor's not preach against sin anymore? Why are our churches becoming "seeker friendly?" Why are we taking marketing surveys to see what people want from in their churches?

Brothers and Sisters, We are really rich and in need of nothing? On Sunday mornings, we put on "our best face" before God and the people. We dress up nice, say all the right things, even convince ourselves the message was for us, but we never become real, open or honest before God or each other.

Think about this truth for a moment.If our heart is hiding and being covered by fig leaves so we can‘t be real, honest and open before God, than how can our worship be real and pleasing to God? I encourage you to read the first chapter of Isaiah sometime and hear how God viewed their times of worship or services. He said, I hate them! Why? Because you don’t give me your heart, just lip service. That is what the church in Laodicea was doing and they were lukewarm ready to be spewed from God’s mouth. Can our worship of God on Sundays or Wednesdays really be in Spirit and Truth, when we are hiding with Adam and Eve from the presence of the Lord lest He see we are naked?

Beloved, I do not have it all together as I am writing this to you, if I said I did I would be a liar. Truth be known, God is so dealing with me as that refining fire and fuller soap. He is thoroughly purging this threshing floor of my heart. I do not like some of the things that are coming out of me during this process, the dross is coming to the top. But I have learned not to look at the dross, but the God who desires to remove it! YEAH GOD! I have set my heart like flint, not to run away from Him and asked for the Grace to do it in me! Paul wrote, “not that I have attained, but I look away from everything that distracts me from Christ and I press on to the prize of the High Calling of God which is in Christ Jesus.”

Yes, there is still stuff in me, much stuff, many places that still need the sanctifying power of the flame of God's love burning in my heart. I am far from perfect, but I am willing to be made perfect in His perfect love. That is what these conferences revealed of His nature to us. That this Wonderful Father, Perfect Husband, and Powerful Helper is not afraid of the desires that still remain in my heart that are not His. He is ever ready to finish that work of sanctification in my life. He is just waiting for me to believe Him and do the one thing He asked me and you do. BEHOLD HIM CONTINUALLY!

It is time to BE STILL AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY! At these conferences, God revealed the powerfulness of being still and knowing that He is God. I am a mess, but HE IS GOD! If I can just seek Him with all my heart, soul, mind and strength, and desire to do one thing, BEHOLD HIM AND LOOK INTO HIS EYES, I will be transfigured by His Glory and will hear God say to the deepest darkness still remaining in my heart. LET THERE BE LIGHT!

I am not going to run away from Him or His presence. No matter what I see He is removing from me, or exposing in me. I am not going to run away from Him, no matter how ugly my motives might be. I am going to run to Him, and hold on to Him for dear life! I can't change any other way and neither can you! It is only standing with Him in the flame of His perfect Love, can we be changed.

Beloved reader, He so desires to change us into that pure spotless bride that nothing will stop Him in those who are willing for Him to do it! The neat thing about God is that He doesn't run away either by what He sees in us. Matter of fact, His jealous love burns over us. As we BEHOLD HIM, THE FLAME OF YAWHEH, will begin to focus on that darkness still in us and BURN it out of our life and leave us intact. Is that not the promise of Malachi chapter 3 to purify the Sons of Levi that they may bring offerings of righteousness to the Lord? YES, YES, YES!

He will have a pure and spotless bride, Royal Priesthood and Holy Nation, Blameless before the Lord God Almighty! We must learn not to run away and hide from His presence, but to run to His presence. We must stop running away from the cross's work in our hearts, but run to it and let it do it thorough work of death in our hearts. We must learn to allow our stare at Him to pierce deep into His eyes, so He can see pierce into ours and remove everything that is not like Him.

We have tried everything else haven’t we? We tried studying our sin out, fasting it out, praying it out, yet it is still there. It only comes out by the SPIRIT OF BURNING AND THE SPIRIT OF JUDGEMENT! Yes, beloved! Judgment begins IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD! Only as we behold His beauty, stare into His eyes can that FLAME OF PERFECT LOVE DO ITS PERFECT WORK IN OUR SOUL! Why do you think Satan will allow you to do so much working for God instead of you LOOKING AT HIM! Satan knows that WHEN WE SEE HIM, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM! Do you get it beloved reader?

When we look into the window of His eyes they lead to depth of His soul and who He is, God Almighty. His eyes, that mirror, becomes a place of transfiguration in me and you. As we behold Him the lover of our souls, we are changed from one degree of glory to another. The Apostle Paul writes in 2nd Corinthians chapter 3:15-18, “But unto this day, When ever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart (of men). But when (that heart) ever it (the heart) shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. "But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit."

Do you see it Beloved reader? What are we afraid of? Why won’t you run to Him instead of running away to hide behind the bushes and make yourself some fig leaves to cover ourselves? We were saved for this VERY PURPOSE! His blood has made a way for us to come and His flesh was broken for our complete entire healing, spirit, soul and body.

We have the priceless privilege to BEHOLD HIS FACE AS LOOKING INTO A MIRROR (that actually changes us). Yet here is the best part! THE REFLECETION LOOKING BACK AT US IS NOT OUR FACE, BUT JESUS'S FACE REFLECTING BACK HIS GLORY TO US, AND WE ARE CHANGED BY THAT GLORY!

As we gaze into His piercing eyes, His eyes pierce back through our eyes and WE CHANGE FROM THE INSIDE OUT! HIS REFLECTION IS THE VERY FLAME OF YAHWEH, THE IAM THAT IAM! HIS REFLECTION is NOTHING LESS than PERFECT LOVE appearing as a REFING FIRE! That FLAME HAS COME TO FINISH THE WORK HE STARTED! PRAISE THE LORD FOREVER MORE!

Beloved reader, the flame of Yahweh is to FOREVER burn in us, through us, and out of us. It changes us daily to become a Bride without spot, wrinkle or blemish! There is no other way to make ourselves ready. WE MUST be willing to come to Him NAKED AND UNAFRAID, knowing His perfect love will cast out all our fears. We MUST become real, naked and transparent before Him and one another.

Will you allow the Fire of God's presence to come to your life? Will you take the mask off and be naked before the Lord? Will you allow Him to search your true motive and desires and refine them into just His desires? Will you be naked before your brother or sister and stopping being what you think they would like you to be?

If you will, then you will begin to answer the cry to "Repent, the Kingdom of God is at hand." When you do you begin to answer the call, "Prepare ye a way for the Lord and make the crooked places straight in your heart." It is here you will find your Beloved Bridegroom waiting to FINISH the Good Work He started in you, when you asked Him to save you. It is worth it Beloved, The Spirit and the Bride says, "Come Lord Jesus!"