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“I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day,...” Now, you can't do any good until first you get in the Spirit; God can't use you. You're. All your efforts are--are in vain until first you do it in the Spirit. "If I will sing, I will sing in the Spirit. If I'll pray," said Paul, "I'll pray in the Spirit." And then if there is anything that comes to me that's any good, it has to be revealed to me by the Spirit and confirmed by the Word (made manifest by the results it bears). ~ 60-1204E  THE PATMOS VISION

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What does it mean to be “in the Spirit”? You can be “in the spirit” at a ballgame, meaning you are involved. You can be “in the spirit” at work, meaning you are engaged in whatever project you might be assigned to do. But being “in the Spirit” of the Lord doesn’t mean you have an anointing, or are emotional, or you are really interested, but it means you HAVE the Spirit. Christ IS our life. Whatever He has or is doing, that same Spirit in you has done it. To be “in the Spirit” is not to just be an observer, but to be a participant.

You know, India is a poor country and they pick up the rocks on the field, and make their fences. And the little birds build their nests in these rocks, the crevices, and in the holes. They go into there and make their nests to get out of the rain. And then the cattle, all of an afternoon, when the sun goes across towards the west, why, the cattle stands in the shade of these-- these certain fences and big towers to get in the shade. But for about two days the strangest thing happened. All the little birds got their babies, their little baby birds all together, and flew away from the walls and didn’t even return back at night. They went out in the middle of the field and set down. The cattle would not come up in the afternoon. They stayed away from the walls, and got together, and stood so close together that they made shade one for another. ~ 60-0229  THE ONCOMING STORM

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This quote really struck me. The cattle, that normally got shade from the walls, moved away to the middle of the field and got shade from each other. The walls were coming down. Think of shade being cooling. The prophet spoke of the sitting under the leaves, which are fellowship, of the tree and getting cool. Think that once we fellowshipped with the world and the things of the world, but now we get that satisfying cooling from each other.

29   And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.   30   For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.     31   But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.    32   Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. ~ LUKE 12:29-32

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“For it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” This Kingdom Jesus speaks of is a condition that was never touched by the curse of sin. It is a place where the kingdoms of this world are controlled by the God Who created them. All things are in harmony with His great purpose. It is our home. It is the fulfillment of all our desires down inside, our election. It is not far off in a dark place in the universe. It is all around us. It is the light we walk in. Why would we worry about our earthly needs when it is His good pleasure to give us this beautiful kingdom? Nothing is greater.

3   Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,    4   Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:    5  To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. ~ GALATIANS 1:3-5

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In the beginning there was the perfect creation of God, that when it was finished, He looked at it and said, “It is VERY good”. Man was placed in the garden, a place where God could walk with him and fellowship, and that was to be the condition he lived in forever. Then, sin came, deforming God’s creation into this “present evil world”. Man could not return to this original condition because of sin. What would happen if sin’s requirement was paid? Wouldn’t we have access back to our original position that we held before sin? What would happen if, at the end time when all the Bride is called, He confirmed the effect of the removal of sin by showing us what a placed Son is like? Shouldn’t it give us the faith to step into our position? I say “YES, IT SHOULD!”

17   So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.   18   But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. ~ ROMANS 10:17-18

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The context of this scripture is Israel’s rejection of the Word (read the whole chapter). The proof is verse 18, which Paul quotes from Psalm 19:4, where David speaks of the creation of the heavens and the sun in its course being a voice that went into all the earth. The sun is often used to illustrate the light of the gospel. He (David) then immediately begins speaking of the Law of the Lord in verse 7. The assumption is that the Law, the Word in that day, had “went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world”, and was a sound that every language had heard (verse 3). It is an interesting thought given the age we live in and that after two thousand years the assumption is that all the world has not heard. In Matt 13:43, in the parable of the wheat and tares, after the separation the wheat is said to, “shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father”. In other words, a placed Bride is known throughout the whole world. Things are not as they always seem to be because what God sees and what man sees are often disconnected.

1   Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.   2   For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.   3   Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.   4   And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. ~ ZECHARIAH 14:1-4

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Notice that when the Day of the Lord comes the Lord will put His feet on the mount of Olives and the mount of Olives shall cleave, forming a great valley. If you look closely there is a great mountain that has pushed up, which is Christ Himself. Certainly, the kingdoms of the earth have become the Kingdoms of God, for He has taken possession of the whole thing. Also notice, the same image is presented in Revelation 10 when the Angel puts one foot on the earth, and one on the sea. Spiritually speaking, He is also pushing up out of a Bride, taking possession of this part of the earth. While our flesh is cleaved, what remains is HIM.

The hour is upon us, darkness, gross darkness. Gross darkness on the people now, that's what it is. What does it all mean? Where we standing? What hour are we in? How close are we to the Coming? Well, you say, "When all they have a revival." "Fear not, little flock, it's your Father's good will to give you the Kingdom." All right. What does it mean? God has begin to separate the Light from the darkness, see, pressing it behind, like He did in the beginning, to show the dawn of a new day. The Church Ages are fading out. Pardon me. The Church Ages are fading out. God is pressing the darkness into a place, it has to do it, to fade out the church organizations, fade out the world. The world is covering the thing over, and worldlyism has took the whole thing. Then isn't God right? By worldly things, and worldly dressing, and worldly acting, and worldly living, it's the world! You are not of the world, little children. You are of Heaven. This is not your Home. ~ 64-0112  SHALOM

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We are living in the hour when the light of a new day has come, revealing exactly what was uncovered in Christ’s death and what was proved in His resurrection. It is a day when light is pressing darkness, causing it to fade out. The Bride is not trying to escape the darkness. She is not afraid. She is turning on the light, causing the darkness to flee away.

14   Do all things without murmurings and disputings:    15   That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;    16   Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. ~ PHILIPPIANS 2:14-16

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“Among whom ye shine as lights in the world.” The Bride is a testimony of a different world, a world in which God is King. It is the world as it was created before sin stained it. The Day of the Lord is the return to this original condition. It is a purging of all that is deformed. You are a shining proof that there is another condition beyond their sight. That is why Paul reminds us not to be complainers. If there is any election there, they recognize Who and what you are ambassadors of, maybe not consciously, but from a depth that they have never known before. Hold forth the word of life. It will not return void.

5   Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:   6   And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. ~ MALACHI 4:5-6

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There is a Day of the Lord coming, a day when the kingdoms of this earth become the Kingdoms of our God. All that are not part of the thought of God will be judged. It is that same day that is breaking on the Bride by the Baptism of the Holy Ghost under the fullness of the Word. It is separating soul and spirit (Heb 4:12). It is this realization that causes our heart to be turned. We MUST know who we are by this new heart perspective. Amos 5:18-20 depicts a dire condition of those who THINK they are ready for the Day of the Lord but are not.

4   Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,    5   Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;    6   Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; ~ I CORINTHIANS 13:4-6

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I’m sitting here trying to put into words the enormous love that I see in these words. There is no way for us to humanly mimic this wonderful love of Christ. I think about what type of world we will live in for eternity. It will be a place of indescribable beauty, with love echoing through every fiber of creation like music. Can we achieve that on our own? Absolutely not! It will take a complete renovation, a day like no other day. II Peter 3:10 calls it the “day of the Lord”. For us to come to a place, personally, where we “seeketh not her own”, we will have to have our own “day of the Lord”. There is no way we can achieve Love’s true qualities without it. Let the eternal fire of God fall on you and bring you, bring me, to this great Holy Mountain of God.