Post by nicfos on Apr 14, 2006 13:26:26 GMT -5
Ezek 43:10 KJV Thou son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.
The pure holy remnant are becoming forerunners to lead many into the fresh reality of becoming holy as He is holy. The Bride in all her glory is being formed into New Jerusalem as Babylon is burning. God is calling, come out of her My people come into My extreme passion of love, hope and faith. My mercy is now this day sufficient just as it was in the days of Noah until the day the ark was closed. The prophets are speaking destruction and the plucking up of that which God has not planted and correction to that which has left her first love.
The words of Jesus are ringing out in love. "..except you repent you will all likewise perish" (Luke 13:5). In the words of David, "While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, 'Who can tell whether the LORD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?' (2 Sam 12:22). There is yet opportunity today for God to spare repentant masses that will become intensely passionate for Him and turn to seek Him with their whole heart. Though the sickness of death is upon them, the "child is not dead yet."
"Now, therefore," says the LORD, "Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning." So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.
Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him; A grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God?
Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her dressing room.
Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, "Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'" Then the LORD will be zealous for His land, And pity His people. Joel 2:12-18:
The kingdom of God will not come through passionless Christians. The victory is to the conqueror. Jesus has conquered all. Every principality, every evil power is defeated in Christ Jesus. The failure of those who name His name is caused by being apart from Him and His victory.
Jesus did not abandon us when He went to the Father. He returned in the Holy Spirit to abide within His people. Many have left Him as they quenched the Spirit. Manifestations of evil principalities and powers are dissolved in the world and the kingdom of God manifested into the world by Christ in His people through the Spirit. "Christ in you" is the mystery that unlocks the victory and releases the glory of God to cover the earth. Repent and return to your first love and be reformed into the image of God in which you were made.
Rev 2:4-5: Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place; unless you repent.
People of the wilderness arise and come together before Him and cry out. Cry out for cleansing of the people who are called by His name. Cry out for those in whom there is no salt to season the world. Cry out for those in whom there is no victory. God is fully able to deliver us unto pure holiness and spare us from violent desolation.
Forerunners move out and lead the way - show forth the brightness of His glory - move out with passion and boldn ess. You are "more than conquerors" through Him. All things are possible to Christ in you. Do the works of Him who has sent you while it is day. Pray until you hear His biding and then obey until it is finished. Hear and Obey. You shall overcome Islam and all false loveless religions and all godless immoral secularism.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. Rev 12:11
It's Time to call a solemn assembly, declare a Holy Fast
Isaiah 58:1-14
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ?
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy reward.
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
There are at least twelve specific benefits of the fast that God has chosen in this passage of scriptures:
1. REVELATION 2. HEALING AND WHOLENESS
3. RIGHTEOUSNESS 4. THE PRESENCE OF THE SHEKINA GLORY OF GOD
5. ANSWERED PRAYERS 6. CONTINUAL GUIDANCE
7. CONTENTMENT 8. REFRESHING 9. STRENGTH 10. WORK THAT ENDURES (LIKE AN EVERFLOWING SPRING)
11. RESTORATION 12. RAISING UP OF FUTURE GENERATIONS
Jesus told his disciples and their critics that prayer and fasting would be a part of their lives after he left them, nothing has changed since he said those words. He is the same, yesterday, today and forever.
He may lead you to fast 12 or 24 hours per day one day per week or for 3 days, 7 days, or more.
The pure holy remnant are becoming forerunners to lead many into the fresh reality of becoming holy as He is holy. The Bride in all her glory is being formed into New Jerusalem as Babylon is burning. God is calling, come out of her My people come into My extreme passion of love, hope and faith. My mercy is now this day sufficient just as it was in the days of Noah until the day the ark was closed. The prophets are speaking destruction and the plucking up of that which God has not planted and correction to that which has left her first love.
The words of Jesus are ringing out in love. "..except you repent you will all likewise perish" (Luke 13:5). In the words of David, "While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, 'Who can tell whether the LORD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?' (2 Sam 12:22). There is yet opportunity today for God to spare repentant masses that will become intensely passionate for Him and turn to seek Him with their whole heart. Though the sickness of death is upon them, the "child is not dead yet."
"Now, therefore," says the LORD, "Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning." So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.
Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him; A grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God?
Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her dressing room.
Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, "Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'" Then the LORD will be zealous for His land, And pity His people. Joel 2:12-18:
The kingdom of God will not come through passionless Christians. The victory is to the conqueror. Jesus has conquered all. Every principality, every evil power is defeated in Christ Jesus. The failure of those who name His name is caused by being apart from Him and His victory.
Jesus did not abandon us when He went to the Father. He returned in the Holy Spirit to abide within His people. Many have left Him as they quenched the Spirit. Manifestations of evil principalities and powers are dissolved in the world and the kingdom of God manifested into the world by Christ in His people through the Spirit. "Christ in you" is the mystery that unlocks the victory and releases the glory of God to cover the earth. Repent and return to your first love and be reformed into the image of God in which you were made.
Rev 2:4-5: Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place; unless you repent.
People of the wilderness arise and come together before Him and cry out. Cry out for cleansing of the people who are called by His name. Cry out for those in whom there is no salt to season the world. Cry out for those in whom there is no victory. God is fully able to deliver us unto pure holiness and spare us from violent desolation.
Forerunners move out and lead the way - show forth the brightness of His glory - move out with passion and boldn ess. You are "more than conquerors" through Him. All things are possible to Christ in you. Do the works of Him who has sent you while it is day. Pray until you hear His biding and then obey until it is finished. Hear and Obey. You shall overcome Islam and all false loveless religions and all godless immoral secularism.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. Rev 12:11
It's Time to call a solemn assembly, declare a Holy Fast
Isaiah 58:1-14
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ?
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy reward.
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
There are at least twelve specific benefits of the fast that God has chosen in this passage of scriptures:
1. REVELATION 2. HEALING AND WHOLENESS
3. RIGHTEOUSNESS 4. THE PRESENCE OF THE SHEKINA GLORY OF GOD
5. ANSWERED PRAYERS 6. CONTINUAL GUIDANCE
7. CONTENTMENT 8. REFRESHING 9. STRENGTH 10. WORK THAT ENDURES (LIKE AN EVERFLOWING SPRING)
11. RESTORATION 12. RAISING UP OF FUTURE GENERATIONS
Jesus told his disciples and their critics that prayer and fasting would be a part of their lives after he left them, nothing has changed since he said those words. He is the same, yesterday, today and forever.
He may lead you to fast 12 or 24 hours per day one day per week or for 3 days, 7 days, or more.