Wake
us oh Lord to the full measure of your truth. We will not be content
with only the resemblance of truth. Baptize us in your truth. Immerse
us in your person. Let us put on the Lord Jesus Christ and be a
living example because He is in us.
Go
back to the beginning! God is the beginning and in Him we live and
move and have our being. He is the beginning, the beginning of time,
the beginning of creation, the beginning of life, the beginning of
man, the beginning of love, etc. James 1:16, “Do not err, my
beloved brethren. 17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18Of his own will begat he
us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of
his creatures.” In this chapter, James is addressing the mortal
weakness of man and his propensity to sin. And right in the middle,
he plants this golden nugget. Sure there is imperfection all around
us but our life comes from above, from the Father of lights who never
changes and there is not even an allusion to His changing. He is
always the same, consistent, loving, compassionate, powerful,
delivering, victorious Father.
Before
the existence of anything, God was! In the beginning, God! Genesis
1:1, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” I
feel that He is pulling us back to Himself as in 1 John 1:1, “That
which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen
with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled,
of the Word of life;” John’s reference is to Jesus, the Word of
Life being the incarnation of God who was from the beginning.
He
has been with us from the beginning of THIS journey and He wants us
to understand that it is through Him that we will finish. There is no
other power, presence or virtue sufficient to complete our
assignment. He will magnify our efforts and ministry as He receives
the honor and glory for the results. The Holy Spirit is calling “come
wrap yourself in the power of His presence and allow Him to perform
in you His glorious works!” I am weak but He is strong. If we allow
Him to fully control our lives, we are made strong in our weakness
because our weakness is God's strength. There is no enemy that can
stand against Him, there is no foe that He cannot overcome. There is
no fortress that can withstand Him and no opposition that He cannot
vanquish. Come, come to Him now. No! Run, run to Him now and allow
him to wrap you in His mantle of authority and shelter you from the
storms ahead.
I hear the rumbling in the distance, the sound of a
mighty army moving into position. It is a well-prepared force, each
warrior is in his place and prepared to do his duty. There is no fear
in their number because they have been washed clean. Though their
sins were as crimson, their raiment is white as snow. And there is
one with them whose name no one can know except that His eyes are a
flaming fire and He is clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and His
name is the Word of God. Out of His mouth comes a sharp sword to
smite the nations and rule them with the rod of Truth and He tramples
the wine-press of the wrath of Almighty God. And He has on His
garment and on His thigh written the name, King of Kings and Lord of
Lords. At His appearing, every knee will bow and every tongue will
confess that JESUS IS LORD.
Go
back to the beginning. The beginning is the revelation, the vision,
the dream, the communication of heaven. What is the foundation of
your revelation, vision, dream or Word from the Lord? Your future
depends upon your revelation. Is your life built upon Jesus Christ
and His Word? Matt. 7:24, “Therefore whosoever heareth these
sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man,
which built his house upon a rock: 25And the rain descended, and the
floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it
fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26And every one that
heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened
unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27And the
rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat
upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.”
We
look at the condition of our world and know that we are living in
perilous times. But it is going to get worse. We don't know exactly
when the Church is going to be caught away (raptured), but we do know
that conditions are going to get progressively worse. The foundation
of our revelation must be the Truth of God as revealed in the Lord
Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost! Go Back To The Beginning!
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