Being Adorned and Prepared

This is already the halfway point for the seminar, "The Heavenly Bride Adorned and Prepared for Her Husband" which lasts from last Thursday to the Thursday to come and thus far I have thoroughly enjoyed myself for every single day. Why? For the simply reason that this seminar is the seminar which I have received the least amount of work possible by far. I spend the majority of the hours in the mixer room and that to me is a sanctuary within the sanctuary. The equivalent of the Hiding Place found in Glory Place Mantin, it's just that reclusive though it is stuck right in the middle of the sanctuary.
During this time I am often found lurking around the sound room for the full duration of the day, from morning to afternoon, evening, night, and some more after I'm always around the mixer room and that is something I thoroughly enjoy through and through. People may be ever so elated that they have been chosen to take part as teachers and helpers in the Harp School but as for me, I have since longed to join the Bowl sessions because ever since the Harp School began I have yet to fully attend a single one. But now, I'm involved with each and every Bowl session and it is ever so good. As far as I am concerned my breakthrough has already come and I see what Elohim is bringing me through is right and setting me aright.

This truly is the season for a hideaway and by the grace of Yahweh I have been chosen to come away for a while to rest and just be in the presence of Yahweh by the Spirit. Where everyone else desires the company of others and even their loved ones, what I desire most as of this season is to be left alone to be with my thoughts and Messiah. That is not to say I don't enjoy the occasional banter but in these times and seasons that Elohim brings us in, what I want is just to be somewhere where I can just be myself before Yeshua Messiah and have sweet fellowship with Him. It's what's been keeping me going and strengthening my faith in Him all the more, you would be surprised to know of the mighty workings He is accomplishing in my life and of the words which He speaks to me.

Onto the breakthrough, I have been given the almost daily prayer watch of 3-5am together with Caleb and in the beginning I thought that I had been thrust into the thick of it at the get go, but instead Elohim is gracious unto me as per His usual favour. As I worshipped, the presence of Yahweh just fell on me and greatly refreshed me for the time of my watch, and not just during those times either. Having only 4 hours of rest per day does something to the body but what Elohim has shown and reminded me again is that I am able to experience His supernatural power by just believing it. Whenever I come into the presence of Yahweh, especially during times of worship I believe and am fully convinced that whenever I open my mouth to join worship singing, I shall be refreshed, and I always am. Never once since He revealed this secret to me that it failed. But I'm diverting. Back to the breakthrough; whenever I finish my watch, my hands drip with oil. I don't see it, but my hands are just coated with oil and is so fragrant that with just one whiff, I know that it is fragrant anointing oil. But beyond that, the real breakthrough is when I'm during the mixer room. That's when as I sleep, am at rest, or when I am on watch duty for the needs as each day may require; Messiah speaks to me through His Word and the surroundings. Everything He speaks becomes so real, revealing things to come. More so He speaks concerning me in that He shows me my ways and I found that once again inasmuch as I have already attained to I still have yet to experience perfection. I am not perfect yet but I have this confidence that He shall perfect that which concerns me shortly. It's even written in the Bible.

[Psa 138:8] YAHWEH will perfect that which concerneth me: Thy mercy, O YAHWEH, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of Thine own hands.

This walk that we walk with and in Messiah, it's ever so real. If only we'd believe then we will see, if only we'd believe then we shall have it, if only we'd believe then everything becomes alive in Messiah. For only in Him do we begin to live, to move, and to have our being. Praise Yeshua. Onwards for much more!

-Sunday, 27th August 2017, 1 year 11 months 20 days, 0220

Secret Place

You know, as I'm pondering as to what exactly Elohim is working in my life, I found that more than anything He is opening my eyes and ears and stopping my mouth. This is yet another new season in Yahweh and this season calls for silence, I think I had mentioned this in the previous post as well. But everyday that passes I find that the time to voice out, the time to speak is most definitely not now. Despite everything that is happening I have found that the best answer that one can give is one that is first drawn from in silence. In this present age and time I am seeing that we all have so much to speak forth but I find that those who speak forth so much in the end prove nothing more than those who utter little.

For me, I am finding my solace in the stillness of places and moments where I can just be with Yeshua and just myself. Because it is in those moments that I draw strength, vitality, life, and everything that I will have need of; whether knowingly or unknowingly so, for the expanse of each day's requirements. However I have learnt that just because the situation that I am in is less than ideal for Scriptural meditation, quietness in spirit is a completely different thing than being quiet in surroundings. Many of us enjoy times when we have company, and also times when we have time to ourselves and Elohim alone. However it's in the nature of the sons of Elohim that they are immovable in spirit. Though the world around us and even our own worlds shake and tremble so much, we have a river which flows within us that makes us glad, at peace, and at home with Elohim.

[1Co 15:58] Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

[Psa 46:3-4] Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of Elohim, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

Though we may busy ourselves with many things, one thing is needed which will really see us through many a seasons in our journey with the Messiah, and that is quietness in the spirit. Not just the quietness in the surroundings because that will only last for so long. But quietness in spirit will allow us to be able to be continuously connected with Yahweh by the Spirit even though our surroundings beg to differ. And this is the season as I believe that Elohim is looking to cultivate this particular aspect in me and surely all the more as what will take place during the seminar in a few days' time. Everything leading up to this seminar is surely a big dent in the enemy's camp and we can expect mighty, awesome things to take place during the seminar and especially all the more when other churches will be coming as well.

All the more reason then to find ourselves hidden away in the hiding place of Yahweh for what is to come. Because whether it may be due to the workload, or because of situations surrounding us and others, the only solution is when we come to the point of nothing of ourselves save for the fact that we know for certain we're in the hands of the Almighty. It's the inner man that will motivate and cause a change to occur to the outwardly. Though the physical came first, it is the spiritual that influences and controls the physical body. And thankfully we are joined to the Head of all principalities and powers governing. Situations don't dictate what we do, we make a decree and it shall be done despite circumstances telling us otherwise. That is the role of a king.

All this comes firstly from the fact that we must come to a point in our walk where there is nothing else that we can do, even if it's something for the Kingdom. There's in truth, nothing that we can do apart from the Messiah and as we first quieten ourselves, we will see that it is the Spirit who works in us thoroughly so that Messiah Yeshua alone receives all the glory. We can have peace and quiet in our vicinity but that doesn't mean we have peace and quiet inside of us. Once we lay hold of the latter, then even if it becomes noisy and a hoo-haa, we are at peace because the Elohim of peace crushes satan underneath us. And that in due time. Praise Yahweh.

-Sunday, 20th August 2017, 1 year 11 months 13 days, 2052

Journey Ahead

It's been over a week since I last blogged and for the simple reason that this week was quite the interesting week that I had to see it through before writing anything beforehand. In line for the upcoming prayer advance being held in about one week's time, Pastor Jean has made a 24 hour non stop harp worship in groups of 3 happen. And as such, it has been exciting. The staff and helpers of Glory Place and Semarak come together at Mantin to worship in watches ranging from a minimum of one hour to a maximum of 3 hours per watch. I have had the privilege of worshipping in the morning every morning from 8-10am as well as together with the children from 6-7pm just before the corporate service every night. Of course, prior to all this I had other plans but you know, this is what Elohim wants and as His children we abide by the will of the Father in heaven. Because what He desires is something good for us and what good it turned out to be for me.

I really enjoyed this week, despite the fact that I had to wake up early which I never liked. Throughout this week many things have happened to me and surely it is all by the leading of His Holy Spirit that He brings me to each and every moment through and through. Throughout the week I had learnt a lesson that I had known but perhaps needed reminding: the tongue. What we speak is important, and sometimes in the spur of the moment we speak beyond what we are called to share and in the end it leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. Which is why I believe that it is timely that Elohim is teaching me that if we do not know how or what to say, sometimes the best answer for the moment is an answer of silence.

Many people in the Old Testament, whenever they hear a word from Yahweh's messenger, speak neither good nor bad because it comes from Elohim. There's nothing to say or add to it other than let it be done and I found that that is the right attitude in such moments of time. We get spurred on, we feel our emotions surging but it is in those times that we must learn the best answer to give may not necessarily be a spoken answer.

This week I was reminded, I really enjoy talking and listening about the Word of Elohim. It's Elohim, plain and simple and He gives me life whenever I share or am being shared to from His Word. But if the topic should come to other matters than I'm much more a bystander because such things don't interest me. Curious wise, perhaps sometimes I might involve myself into the conversation but I'd much prefer to be left in silence and to observe. Many people have many things to say and impart but I found especially during this week that not everyone who speaks much speaks wisdom from Yeshua. Many speak of their own learnings in the past life, in the world; others speak about their issues and needs, such things do not concern me nor does it stir me as much as the Word does. Why do we not speak the Word more? Instead we speak about others more and as we know, strife begins from the gossip of one to another. And strife is like a breach of floodwater, therefore stop it before it begins.

This is a new season and time and I found that once more this season calls for much silence on my part. My part to share will and should be nothing except Messiah crucified and glorified in my life and the living out of it. However, the act of living it out does not come from me, the living out comes from faith in the Messiah Himself. Just like Paul said,

[Gal 2:20] I am crucified with Messiah: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Messiah liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of Elohim, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.

In other words, I am crucified with Messiah. I no longer am alive, my desires, wants, passions, and dreams are all dead. My character that defines who I am is dead but my physical life and body are still alive. The life in my physical body I live by the faith in the Son of Elohim Who loved me and gave Himself for me.

It's not what we can do, we're dead. It's all about Yeshua Messiah now because only when we are in Him do we live and have our belonging.

[Act 17:28] For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.

I don't understand how we came here. Any ways what's done is done and now looking ahead I see the road marked for me and it is a quiet road, one where I can just be together with Yahweh in the stillness and know Him for Who He really is to me. Praise Yahweh for that.

-Friday, 18th August 2017, 1 year 11 months 11 days, 0053

Faith in Messiah

It's the second day of the 3 days of corporate fasting and prayer and of the 10 days of fasting in conjunction to the upcoming prayer advance and as everyone lying flat on the carpet or either really lethargic, here I am with much time to spare. It's in this time that I contemplate just what exactly is the purpose of this month's fast for me and what I have found thus far is indeed wonderful.

The first day has already breezed by in a flurry and I find myself ever so grateful to Elohim that in this fast He had revealed to me many things. The main reveal of course is about faith. Just midnight I had received the revelation of faith and it has changed my perspective on many things already. Faith is not something that required us to do anything, faith is void of human application. Faith is simply to believe and it is done. Not a matter of how to apply it or how can I live it out, else we will fall into the same category of people that asked Yeshua what they must do to work the works of Elohim. There is no contribution or needing to prove ourselves worthy to attain to the unsearchable riches in Messiah. The fact is we are not, and it is only by faith in Messiah that we have access. Everything of the promises of Elohim are first in Messiah and only the faith in Messiah accesses and taps into the power, the kingdom of heaven manifest. On our part we must come to the realization that there is nothing we can do, nothing we can add. If there was, then faith would no longer be faith, it would be works and then our faith in the Lord would be meaningless.

Another thing which He graciously revealed in me is that He showed me exactly when the Spirit takes over when I pray and I find that to be true. I won't expound further on this because this is only for me as the Spirit moves me to give utterance. However, the revelation that He had given me is astounding. Now, I no longer need to try so hard, so much. I just believe and act on that belief in Yeshua Messiah and I will see everything done in due time. And prior to this, He had already shown me it is true. Everything that Pastor Jean is able to do I can as well. I speak not in the manner to boast but rather as truth of the matter because we each, though we may have been given different measures of faith, are given different measures of one, singular faith in Messiah. The factor that separates is simply those who have exercised their faith to what extent. Is your faith still a mustard seed? Or has it grown into a mountain range already?

If we cannot trust Yahweh now to fulfil His promises through Messiah then I cannot see how we will stand in the near future. The time is coming where only those who are in the faith of Yeshua shall remain, the rest shall experience such dryness because for too long we have been putting our faith in ourselves and others around us. It's time to allow Messiah to carry us through as He had promised. From birth to hoar hairs He is the One Who shall deliver and carry us through all things so long as we believe He will then He will. If not, then we are left to our own devices.

-Thursday, 10th August 2017, 1 year 11 months 3 days, 1520

Changing is Revelation

Being continuously in the house of Yahweh changes a person, one way or another. I found that in my time here thus far that there has been subtle changes taking place in my life and the life of others as well. Nothing so grand like fireworks but something like a ripple in the water; a change not many will notice but a change nonetheless that ripples on unto bigger shock waves. One way or another, we are all not the same person we used to be when we first entered into the fellowship of the Spirit. As to whether it is good or bad, it is entirely up to the person in question but as for me I realise that Elohim is launching me into a journey that will fully change me immensely.

We are all growing, without growth plant is useless and ought to be cut down. Progressive revelation keeps us moving on in the path of righteousness because without it, people cast off restraint and perish.

[Pro 29:18] Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

A footnote in my Bible says that without vision, people are made naked, laid bare. And rightfully so, because I find that unless we move from glory to glory then does it not mean that we have entered not the rest of Elohim but stagnancy? Without a vision, or being contextual; revelation there is no real depth to our knowledge and understanding and walk with Messiah. It's all just in the head. Where is the chewing, the meditating, the moving up the rings of the ladder that comes from heaven down to earth? To have a revelation is not the same as having understanding in a particular word in the Bible. That's clarity, in my perspective. Revelation changes lives. The book of Revelation of Yeshua Messiah changed forever the life of John the apostle and all those who read it, even in our times. What fervency they put in to ready themselves for the coming of the Lord, what zeal, what turning of lives it had done. That's the change that ought to be seen in us as we continue in the faith. Not just to remain as a mustard seed, but to die and then begin to bear the fruit of Messiah. So that even from death to life to the bearing of good fruit, Messiah fills all in all.

Progressive revelation is not just understanding what a word in the Bible means after some time, that's clarity. Revelation is what has that clarity of word done in your life? Has it affected you as all the Word of Elohim should have? Where is the change it produced in you and I? Revelation is as I would liken it to the act of John and Ezekiel eating the little book. It was sweet in their mouths but bitter in their bellies. The Word which we hear is sweet in the mind but when it comes down to it, the Word is spirit and spirit confronts flesh. The belly of a man also speaks about the heart of a man and so when spirit and flesh confronts one another, it becomes fiery and bitter. There must be a change.

This is another topic that can go on and on and I believe in due time, Elohim will reveal yet more. But it doesn't matter how much He reveals to us, what matters most is what we do with what He has revealed to us. What's the point of Him revealing His secrets to us, His disciples and children if instead of conforming ourselves to His will to allow His Word to take root and grow and change us, we instead conform ourselves to our own will and cause His Word to just tickle eardrums? How will we stand in the days to come? If we learn not to change, then eventually there will come a time that when we desire change, it will be withheld from us because we do not want to take it now.

-Friday, 4th August 2017, 1 year 10 months 28 days, 0108