Hello Beloved Readers,
It has been a while since I have had time to write to you. I am very sorry to those who come to this blog on a regular basis. However; I have much to report and write to you about over the next few days.
This is the first time I have not written or received a Word for the New Year and this first month is almost over. I am not sure why that is. I asked the Lord to speak to me if He desired. I have not received a "normal" Word from the Lord as I have in the past because something really different is happening inside of me and in the places God is sending me to.
I am not sure this is going to make any sense to you or not, but I encourage you to read a book by Wade Taylor called "Unlocking the Mysteries of the Kingdom." You can order it at www.wadetaylorpublications.org. This book is a critical book for those seeking to understand the day we live in. I would also encourage you to order the Anointing of the Moment that God gave me to write. It will help explain the transitional period of time we are living in within the Body of Christ.
About a year ago at one of our conferences, I began to notice that there was a change in how the Lord was responding to His people. Last year, the Lord spoke to me about the divine separation between the wheat and the chaff. He had me to read and meditate on the words John the Baptist spoke to the Pharisee's about the coming of the Lord Messiah.
Mat 3:7 But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducee's coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
Mat 3:8 Let your change of heart be seen in your works: Mat 3:9 And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.
Mat 3:10 And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire. Mat 3:11 Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:
Mat 3:12 In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.
These are most important scriptures we must rightly understand if we are going to be able to cooperate with the present work of the Holy Spirit. John declares, " I will baptize you with the water of repentance, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with FIRE!
In Acts chapter 2 we saw the beginning of this scripture fulfilled. The Holy Spirit came upon them like tongues of fire and sat upon their heads and they all began to speak in other tongues. Yes, the first thing that happened is that they all spoke another language. We also know they were acting like drunken men as the Book of Acts reveals to us. Peter had to tell them they are not drunk with natural wine, but this is what the Prophet Joel had prophesied of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon all flesh.
From that point on until the beginning of the 20th century that Baptism of the Holy Spirit faded out over time except in a few places and in a few people, but in the early 1900 the Holy Spirit fell again in Azusa Street and in Wales England. People will filled once again with the Holy Spirit and spoke in Tongues. This outpouring has continued up until the present moment of time restoring the 5 fold ministry gifts to the body of Christ and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit to the church.
What this outpouring has not done is "complete us" or "finish" the work the Lord desired to do inwardly because much of the present and past leadership focused on gifts, power and to be blessed instead of being changed. We have watched since the 1980's many ministers fall and ministries who were once strong also fall into sin and temptation.
This happened because the Fire that came upon their heads was supposed to consume us on the inside until we became one with the Lord in His desires and purposes. That would have taken a much deeper understanding of why the Fire was poured out by the Holy Spirit.
It wasn't just to bless us or give us gifts, but it was to reign in the hearts of men to make us like our Lord to this world as a witness of the Kingdom of God. Unfortunately the world has seen some of His power, but mostly they laugh at us and mock our God because the Fire was not let in to truly change our nature and character!
In 2004, the Lord gave me specific instructions not to build a church, not to build a ministry but to establish the Kingdom of God in men's heart. I am now coming to know you can not do that without a true outpouring of the very flame of the Lord to burn in those hearts as a Baptism of Fire.
At the present time during the church age, Jesus taught us that the "kingdom of God is within us." He taught us it is not meat or drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. He told us you can't see it with observation, because it was supposed to be a deep inner work of the Lord in us.
The only evidence of Christ's kingdom can be found in a heart. Not in a church building or a cathedral where you may find religion, but the genuine Kingdom of God is found burning in the hearts of those who will surrender to the Lord as King!
This Kingdom can only be found in those who have surrendered to it voluntarily. "If any man be my disciple, let him deny himself, pick up his cross and follow me." It is conditional! Notice the "if any man?" This is the divine choice of separation the Lord is looking for that will allow the Fire of God to come to His temple.
"Know ye not, ye are the Temple of the Holy Spirit?" This present fire must be chosen voluntarily by us to allow Him to burn His presence in us to refine us as gold and silver as Malachi prophesied if we truly desire to be a wise virgin.
Many go to church today and get saved, but there is no evidence of the Kingdom of God in their life. They are saved because they trusted Jesus to save them and asked His forgiveness from sins. Yet there is no "inner quality" of the Holy Spirit manifesting His life through them continually. We may do nice things, even preach to the lost and pray for the sick, but the true quality of the Spirit, His character and nature has not come to maturity in us as of yet.
The fruit of the Spirit from the Kingdom of God can hardly be seen in His people today because His Kingdom can only be seen in those who understand and submit to His Lordship and Kingship over their entire lives,and not just receiving Him as their Savior. Today, most of the church is still stuck at the cross being saved over and over again, and still trying to deal with the sin nature in them. Our best day is not "sinning" to much today! Does that sound like total victory to you?
Today most Christians never go beyond the cross to the throne room where the Lord's overcomers are to live and be next to him. It is in the throne room where the FIRE IS that we are changed from one degree of Glory to another. Our problem is we keep doing the same rituals of church service week after week and we never really change because we never receive the Baptism of Fire which comes from behind the Veil that has been torn in two!
This is not acceptable to the Lord, so John prophesies something very special to the Pharisee's ears. I baptize you with water to repent from your sins. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and with FIRE! Peter writes in His letters, " a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day. It has been 2000 years or two days since the Lord went up in the clouds to heaven. The Holy Spirit was poured out but near the end of the age or the end of the second day, it has run out.
How has it run out? We are hardly changed into the image and likeness of the Lord. We barely make it a day without sinning somewhere. We are not filled with the Glory of God where are shadow is healing people, nor are we doing the greater works Jesus said we would do. Our character has not yet gone beyond babyhood unto full grown manhood as taught in Ephesians chapter 4.
So will the Lord do something about this? Yes! In John chapter 2 we read about the Miracle of the Wedding at Cana. This is a prophetic picture of the church age at the close of the second day and beginning of the third Millennial reign of Christ begins. I could write more about that, I encourage you to order the Anointing of the Moment, I explain this in the Holy Spirit in length.
What the Lord does at Cana is produce "NEW AND BETTER WINE" when the old wine has run out. The Master of the Wedding says, "most people serve the best wine first and the cheaper wine when the people get drunk, but you have saved the best wine for last.
Where did this wine come from? There was no wine left. The only thing that was around was 6 empty pots. 6 is the number of man and it also prophetic of the number of days. At the end of the 6th day the church would be empty and almost out of wine, but these pots were set apart for consecration John tells us. They were set apart for a Holy purpose. Jesus commands them to be filled with water. They are filled to overflow, but they are not wine just filled with water.
Jesus tells the servants to "draw some out." This is a key to what I have been seeing with my own eyes as I travel this nation and the nations. The servant takes this water drawn up and "on the way" to the master of the house it BECOMES WINE! We never hear about the other pots at all. Did all the pots of water get changed to wine? However; at least we know this, the water that was drawn out first did get changed to wine!
Do you understand? One minute that cup was full of water, the next second it was wine. This is an end time prophetic picture of the miracle the Lord is about to do with this Baptism of Fire. It will change those that are getting ready as water into wine to be poured out in these end times. Do you want to be that new wine?
John concludes this time at Cana by saying, "this is the first miracle Jesus did to manifest his Glory!" It also says in verse 1 of John chapter 2 that Jesus did this miracle, "on the third day! "On the third day there was a wedding at Cana!" In Revelation 19:7-8 it states this,
"Rev 19:7 Let us be glad with delight, and let us give glory to him: because the time is come for the Lamb to be married, and his wife has made herself ready. Rev 19:8 And to her it was given to be clothed in delicate linen, clean and shining: for the clean linen is the righteousness of the saints."
His bride has prepared herself. This is what God desired to do in 2009. It was to bring the Flame of God into the Lord's church to refine it like gold and silver. The Lord was calling to all of us even louder in 2009 saying, "who is on the Lord's side and who will make themselves ready?"
This was not an easy choice for a believer to make because it would call for the most radical change from our old Christian lives as we have known it to receive the deepest fire of radical change we have ever known in God's kingdom! For the Lord to come as fire we could not then, and we can not even now, live our lives as we have known them to be.
For a believer to say yes to this fire from the Lord they needed a great sensitivity to understand what the Holy Spirit required from their lives. They also had to yield to His working in them to become one with the Lord and His purposes for our day and hour. In 2009 the TRUMPET OF THE LORD WAS CRYING with a call to the church to "come out from among them my people and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you."
In 2009, a call to come out was shouted from the Lord, and the Holy Spirit began to separate those who would come from those who would not. I would liken this to the beginning process of identifying who will choose to be a wise virgin and who will chose to be the foolish virgin.
Every place the Lord sent me in 2009, He would tell me that I would be His threshing instrument. An instrument to throw the wheat and tares up in the air to separate the wheat from the chaff. The messages he gave me to preach surely were words of separation to those who had an ear to hear from those who only heard thunder.
The message God gave me for 2009 and still in 2010 is to put the first commandment first. God must be above all. We should love Him first with all our heart, soul, mind and strength and put no strange God's before Him. I preached all over this nation and in Mexico that the church has put the second commandment of loving your neighbor as yourself above the first commandment.
I preached over and over to return to your first love and do your first work! In many places God had me expose the true motives hidden in secret in the leadership. It was found that God's people loved their place and position more than they loved God. When God asked them to lay it down for a season many got so angry at me and the word and gnashed their teeth at me.
I never saw such hatred to a word from God. In the church today is the sin of "false ministry idolatry." This sin is to love our position and place more than God. Is that not what John warned his generation of when he said to the Pharisees,
Mat 3:7 But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducee's coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come? Mat 3:8 Let your change of heart be seen in your works: Mat 3:9 And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham. Mat 3:10 And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
They too loved their places of honor, Jesus would tell them that. They loved to be seen praying in front of men, Jesus told them that too. They loved to show everyone they were fasting, again Jesus spoke this as well. Today to many of God's leaders want to be seen by men. They love the front seat. They love the places of honor specially the Worship Leaders, Elders and Deacons.
Those places of "honor" have become idols in many leaders heart greater than the Honor and worship that belongs to God. The Lord in this past year has had me speak and confront this lying spirit of Anti-Christ and idolatry and root it out in His house. I have been bad mouthed and much more. Many have said, How you can tell us this you are not perfect?
How can you judge us? Who are you to say this is not what God wants? They are so mistaken! It is not me that is telling them this word. I did not write the Word of God or His commandments. I am called to live them as well and to preach His word! It is the Refining Fire of the Holy Spirit that is speaking to their hearts and bringing conviction of sin. I always tell them the Word of God is for me as well as them. I am still under construction!
Beloved Reader,I watched God separate the wheat from the tares this past year as I have never seen, and I have been warning the church to repent and look to God! We must submit to His Lordship and His Kingship now or we will not be ready to enter the Millennial reign of Christ. But now to my point!
This new year 2010, I can't minister as I have in the past warning those who won't listen. This time the Lord said, "concentrate on the wheat." I am not sure what that means yet fully, but I did get a glimpse of this on my last mission trip to Mexico and California. On my way to California and Mexico traveling on I 8 outside of a city called El Centro,CA, both on right and on my left were herds of sheep. Thousands of them on my right and more on my left.
I asked the Lord what does this mean? Does it mean there is a harvest of souls for us? Does it mean to win the lost? In my spirit I received this word, "see the sheep without a shepherd, concentrate on the wheat." I was two weeks old in the Lord when the Word of the Lord came to me through a scripture verse found in Mathew chapter 10 about the lost sheep.
Mathew 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent out and gave them orders, saying, Do not go among the Gentiles, or into any town of Samaria, Mat 10:6 But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel, hear the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils, freely you have received, freely give."
It was apparent to me as I drove that all of the sheep I saw by this road were without a shepherd. I got an understanding of the sheep being the wheat harvest of the Lord that is now separated and being separated from the chaff in God's house in need of their Shepherd King. I also understood that judgment begins in the House of the Lord.
God was showing me and our team that he has not only begun this separation but it is now in full working bloom for us to see, and that we had to now "concentrate on the wheat" that is separated and being gathered into the barns. That is why we could not minister as we have in the past. Beloved, I can tell you this trip was such a turning point like no other trip before.
The Baptism of Fire really began to come forth in 2009 to begin this separation, but in 2010 it is WHITE HOT FIRE that is now gathering the grain into the Lord's barn. This fire in the House of God is like the fire that came between Pharaoh and the children of Israel at the Red Sea.
The flame of fire also manifested itself to Pharaoh and his army separating them away from God's people. Today in the house of the Lord it is separating the Holy from the profane, the wheat from the chaff, and the fat sheep from the lean sheep as the word of God said it would.
This fire was prophesied to come in Malachi chapter 3 verse 1, "The Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to His temple, and who can endure the day of His coming and who can stand when He appears?" I am seeing this with my own eyes.
This fire is burning in His house, and it is now keeping the lukewarm and cold away from the those that are going to burn for the Lord. To those Christians who are allowing the work of the Lord as fire in them, and in the very young that don't know the "deep ways of dead religion" there is a burning FIRE that is now consuming them and changing them from glory to glory in the image of the Lord to be His witness on this earth.
This fire is separating those in his body that are hard of heart from those who will have tender of heart towards God. The scripture verse the Lord gave me for 2010 is "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Mathew 5:8
Is that you beloved reader? There is still time for those whose hard in heart to come into the very flame of fire to change before it is to late. God can burn the hardness out of you, but if you refuse and rebel this fire will act as a shield against you who oppose the work of the Lord in those who will come as it did to Pharaoh and his armies. It will surely separate the wheat from the tares. Which one will you be?
Our team has seen it with our own eyes. We have even lost some team members last year because of this very fire. There is no escaping beloved. Everyone of us will make a choice of what we desire.
The Baptism of Fire has come now to empower the wise virgins with the extra oil they will need to go out and meet Him at the midnight hour. The foolish will resist this call. They will call the wise to spiritual or too hyper Christian! The foolish will continue to sleep doing business as usual and persecute those who are preparing to be married to our King Jesus.
The foolish will stay content with gifts of the spirit, a position or ministry and going to church. They will remain in a place lacking the real presence and power of God in their lives. They are saved and have a deposit of the Holy Spirit to witness their salvation, but they have refused to grow up in Christ.
They are being separated from the overcomers now! They are being separated for eternity from the place God has prepared for them as a bride and overcomer if they don't change.Again they may be saved and get into heaven because they have trusted the Lord to save them, but they will not be part of the marriage supper of the lamb as a Bride.
They will not rule and reign with him forever and ever. They are forfeiting their part now by the choices they are making to serve themselves instead of the Lord. They may enter heaven only as "one who has escaped from the fire" and have nothing to show for their lives. Worse, some of them may even be spewed out of the mouth of God. What will it be for you beloved reader?
I watched God fill three 14 year old boys with this fire in our last trip. I said to the Lord, "why are they all 14 except one church where the boy was 19." He said it is their "spiritual bar mitzvah!"
I believe at 13 years old a Jewish boy has a ceremony declaring his manhood and the beginning of his sonship after he completed his studies. This Jewish boy would be seen as a man and a son "in training" until 30 years old where he would be "a full grown son." That is what is happening with this Baptism of Fire upon the youth. This Fire of God is a "school master to this" Omega generation" training them for full grown sonship now!
These young sons, or "man/child" types are getting the Baptism of Fire and are being transformed before our eyes! A Pastor who came to our meetings in California testified about one young man 14 who had his pants sagging when he came in, but as God chose him to come closer into the fire, he came out of that fire ministering that flame he received. She said she saw the tangible Glory of God change him, even his continence.
These young ones are being changed in the core of their being and then enabled to minister like they were 50 years in the Lord. This hasn't been confined to this age group alone. I have seen it empower 3, 5, 7, 8 and older as well, even adults up to 8o or more are burning.
These young ones know instantly what to do and minister in the Holy Spirit. All I have to do is encourage them or point them and they do the rest until I don't even have to do that within minutes.
They instantly know what to speak. They don't talk until the Lord fills their mouths. It is not so much their age as it is the simplicity and tenderness of their heart because they have not been deluded by dead religion so they are open to partake of His Holy Fire.
I watched an 11 year old girl get so burned with the Fire of God, she said, " I can't take any more." She then proceeded to go in the congregation and hug and prophesy to adults and Pastors. They began to weep and say "Santos", Holy! She then took their hand to bring them to alter where they began to burn with God's presence. As this is happening the Lord says, "concentrate on the wheat!"
Why am I writing to you about this. Because there is an urgency in my spirit that many, many Christians are going to miss this hour of preparation. The hours is almost over. I have to write my sequel to the Anointing of the Moment called "The Highway of Holiness." This has to do with the "work of the Flame of God" in those who will receive it.
Beloved, where are you in your walk with God. Are you burning with His presence? Are you doing the business as usual thing? Are you just going to church or doing your ministry? Are you pressing on to truly know the Lord? Are you making yourself ready to marry him? Are you purifying yourself from all that would contaminate from the world?
Are you lukewarm or have a form of godliness but deny the power there of? Are you living your life with Jesus as your Lord? Do you know His heartbeat? Do you know His plans for your life and are you doing them? Or is God an afterthought? Are you living your Christian life the way you want to?
If you are you may find yourself separated as a foolish virgin and not enter the marriage supper of the Lamb. You may find yourself being spewed out of the mouth of God. You may find yourself with the candlestick of His presence removed from you. You may find God fighting against you with the Word from his mouth. Read Revelation chapters 1-3 and see the Lord standing in His church calling to us to repent.
Don't miss it? Don't be the one the Lord doesn't see when he says, "concentrate on the wheat only." Don't let your Christian life be a tare in God's kingdom and make it in only by escaping the fire. Let God make your life what He intends it to be. You can't do that being religious or rebellious against God's will for your life. You can't do it if you love your place in the church more than you love God Himself.
There is still time, but not much. He that has an ear to hear let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches!
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