A Journey From The Beginning (Fear) To The End (Perfect Love)

Preface

Proverbs 29:18 (AMP) “Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish…”

I John 4:8 NKJ “He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.”

Many years ago I was praying one night, and while I was praying I said, “Father, I desire to be just like you.” And then the only time that Father has ever answered a prayer for me with audible voice, he spoke in the most gentle and fatherly loving voice saying, “Every father desires for is son to be just like him”. When I had prayed saying what I had said, I was really not expecting Father to say anything in return. I was really just wanting the Lord to know how much I wanted to be like him. Then when I heard the manner of his voice and desire and yearning in his words, I knew that Father had a greater desire and yearning for his sons to be like him than that which any of us may desire to be like him. It was with these words everything in my walk changed. With this one answer, all my religion seemed to dissolve, as the entire focus and direction of my walk. I had just heard with my own ears the yearning and the desire that Father has for me, as well as for each one of us. It is for this single purpose that God created man; to bring each one of us into Sonship so that he might make us to be like him. From this moment on, Sonship became my destiny, the one and only focus of my walk. The Lord told me that if I became a son, then the rest of my walk would take care of itself. We all know that this kind of transformation can only come through the power of his Spirit and by works of God’s hands; for there is nothing that any of us can do to change ourselves into the image of the son that Father finds well-pleasing. But in Jesus Christ, he has given to each one of us the spirit of the son that is well-pleasing to him; the spirit of adoption that grafts us into the family of God.

Romans 8:29 “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that we might be the firstborn of many brethren.”

John 1:12 “But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God, to them that believe on his name.”

When Father spoke this word to me, the first effect that it had on me was to carefully consider just what I really knew about God, that my knowledge of him was truth and right, or whether it was just based on that which my own opinions had identified and defined God to be. Was God like the image of love that had imagined love to be, or was the love of God far greater than anything that I could ever imagine? I did not want to change the true spiritual image of God into a false natural image that was according to my own opinions. After all, if you are going to be like Father, and father is love, then it would obviously be necessary to know the truth about his love. In just the words that Father had spoken to me, my heart was opened to hear the love in his voice that desired and yearned for me to be like him; and I realized that I did not yet have the love in me that desired and yearned to be like him. Opinions of God’s love are like idols that have no heart because they have no life that really loves. I have no desire to make myself to be an idol after my own opinions, but I now do have a desire to be a son who is just like his Father. My quest began that night, a quest to know the truth about my heavenly Father ….and little did I know then, that this is the only generation since the beginning that going to come into and experience the fullness of Father’s nature, his character, and his authority through the revelation of Jesus Christ in them. My quest and my destiny is to see that Father’s desire is fulfilled in me.

You cannot know who you are until you first know God. God is light, and if you do not know God, then you will not be able to discern the light from the darkness that appears as the light. Satan is always the imitator, that darkness that always seeks to appear as the light. He is the lies of reasonings and opinions that appear as truth. He is the iniquity of self-righteousness that seems like the righteousness of God. He is the evil that appears good. He is the hypocrisy that appears as holiness. We are living in the time of the end where Jesus warned us 3 times in Matthew 24 not to allow for ourselves to be deceived. It is in these time that the seduction of lies shall become stronger and greater; and they shall do so by appearing more like that which is right, and good, and true. Those who mock and make like of seeking to know the truth about God are already deceived of themselves; and as it is written concerning the last days, these deceivers shall grow worse and worse, with each one of them desiring for others to believe what they believe rather than to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

I recently met a man who had erred in his walk, and he had been laying up his treasures on earth rather than in heaven. He had not only increased greatly in these riches, but so also had all those who had entrusted their riches to him also increased. This man thought that the stewardship that God had called him to was to watch over and control his riches, and the riches of others. Now errors can be repented of, forgiven, and corrected, but if you loose your faith and belief, then you have lost everything; and it is that faith and belief that Satan desires to sift; which is to separate us from. For as it is written in I Timothy 4:1, that in the last days, many shall depart from the faith. So when the economy began to fail, so also did the riches of this man, and those who had surrendered their riches to him, also begin to fail. Then the death of depression, and fear, and failure began to overwhelm him. As horrendous as this was, it was nothing to be compared to what happened next. He said that angel of God appeared standing right before him. He then observed as this angel then stretched forth his arm into his own body. Then this angel seemed to pull the Spirit of the Lord right out of his chest. From that moment until now, this man has been like the walking “death”; just like a zombie from out of some horror movie.

To say the least, I was amazed and stunned at what this man was telling me. Then, as he finished telling me his story, the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me that this was Satan appearing as an angel of light to destroy and steal this man’s life away from him. When Satan saw that this man was already weak in his faith through the fears and depression that had come upon him, then just like the lion that seeks our and stalks the weak of the herd, so also did Satan see his opportunity to deliver a crushing blow to this man. But then the Lord said to me, “Who do you think that Satan will transform himself into an angel of light before, those who are already of the darkness, or those who are of the light that he desires to kill, to steal, and destroy their lives through his illusions?” The Lord now has me battling for this man’s soul, and this incident has redefined the ministry that I had known. It is quite the battle because this man completely believes that God has taken his spirit from him; and that which has power over a man is that which he believes. This is the kind of deceit that Satan is going to be bringing against the church. It is written in II Thessalonians 2 that the coming of Satan is before the coming of the Lord. Remember that which Jesus also warned all of us when he spoke of these times, “If it were possible, even the very elect would be deceived.”

After what I witnessed Satan do with this man, I am sure that we would all do well to make sure that our faith is the faith that stands in the power of God, and not be deceived by that faith that comes from man’s wisdom; the faith that is defined and formed to please self and other men, rather than to please God. It is written in I Peter 1 that we are kept in the power of God by faith, and surely this is the hour that we desperately need to have the faith that is “of” Jesus Christ; the faith that the disciples called out for and asked for the Lord to increase in them. It is this precious faith that is tried and purified of all unbelief, fears, doubts, and reasonings that oppose God. Not only does this faith keep us in the power of God, but it is also the same faith that Jesus said that he is going to be looking for when he appears. How many know that it is not us that is to be found unto glory, and honor, and praise at his appearing, but it is the faith that it is in us? If this faith is not already of great value, then let it be known that it is only this faith that allows a man to resist Satan, even if may appear as an angel of light. It is written in II Corinthians 13:5 that each one of us to examine his own faith, to make sure that is that faith that is well-pleasing in the sight of God. What are you asking God and what is God doing for you?

Luke 18:8 “Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on earth.”

I Peter 1:5-8 “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.”

I would love for the Lord to give me a word that could be made clear in just a couple of pages, but that is not how the Lord has led me to write his words, or testify of those things which he has done for me. It is written that the Lord will do nothing until he first reveals his secrets to his prophets first; and here is the reason why. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. It is also written in Matthew 9:29 that Jesus said, “As your faith is, so let it be done unto you”. If a man does not first hear of that which the Lord desires to perform for him, then it is not possible for him to have the faith that will allow the Lord to perform it. True faith is that which makes the works of God, the blessings of God, the promises of God, as well as all the prophesies of God to become reality. The faith that is authored by the religion of men is only an illusion that is never accompanied with the powerful works of God.

If this word was a book in print, then there would probably be close to 14 chapters. The first 6 chapters deal with how the Lord desires to prepare how hearts with faith for the coming of Satan and for the coming of the Lord. Without faith it is impossible to please God, and by faith we are able to resist all of the lies of Satan. Fear is now here, but it has only just begun. Perfect love is also coming, and when perfect love comes it is going to cast out all fear. God has predestined from the beginning that we should all come to know him through his son Jesus Christ. God is perfect love, and perfect love is only that which is able to fulfill our destiny and finish the perfect work of God. Now that God is revealing the secrets of his love through his prophets, there is now nothing left to restrain him from fulfilling that which he has been so yearning to do: to manifest his sons.

Some of you may have read some of these testimonies before in other words that the Lord has had me post, but the Lord impressed on me to set these words “in order”, including some of the old as well as the new, as his Spirit has led me to do. The first part of this word concerns the preparation, and the second part concerns the coming of Satan in the fear that will cause many to fall away, and then the coming of the “perfect love” of God. I pray that the Lord will bless you with seeing eyes and hearing ears as you read these words; eyes and ears that will direct your heart to keep your focus only on the Lord in this hour, and not at looking on the things that are coming on the earth.

Chapter 1 We are the children of God by faith; but whose faith makes us to his children?

In 1976, I had invited a man, who I had recently met, over to my house to eat dinner with my wife and I. Though I had only known this man for a short period of time, he and I had almost instantly become best friends. I was really looking forward to that evening of fellowship. When we had finished eating dinner, we all moved into the den for conversation. We had no sooner sat down when both my friend and his wife began to witness to my wife and I about Jesus Christ. Immediately my heart sank with utter disappointment when I heard their words. I even felt betrayed that this man would actually come into my house and begin to speak about Jesus to me. The reason was because I was an atheist. I had absolutely no belief that God existed, nor did I have any belief that there was any kind of after life for anyone. I absolutely detested any conversation that contained anything about God or that had any kind of spiritual context, from Christianity to witchcraft. But because this man had become one of best friends, I just sat there, biting my lip and cursing him under my breath while they testified before us for about 30 minutes. Suddenly he said something that I had never heard before; and that was if any man would believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, then God would give to that man the gift of the Holy Spirit, which was the power of God to change a man’s life. I was around 27 years old at that time, I had never once heard of this Holy Spirit, and it also aroused my curiosity to know why would he want to change a man’s life? I even had the thought that if there was a God, then I was good guy, so why change me? My curiosity about these things only lasted for a very short time, then after only a couple of days, I forget what he had told me.

Then three years later, in 1980, all of the circumstances in my life began to take on drastic changes. My father died, my marriage was very strained, and I had no clue as to what I was going to do with my life. My first full time job was with South Carolina National Bank, and in my first year end review, they told me that I had done the best job that anyone else had ever done in the first year that was in my position. I went home that night thinking about what they had said, and the next day I went in and quit. I had never had the thought about quitting until they told me that I had done so well. I thought that if I had performed the best job that anyone had previously done, and I found no contentment or satisfaction in that job, then why stay? I then took a position as a salesman for Colgate-Palmolive, and quit after a year. Then I worked as a clerk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and quit after a month. Then I became Real Estate salesman, and a broker, and quit a couple years. Then I got my contractors license, designed and built houses, and quit after another couple of years. Then I was one of the first developers of waterslides when they first became popular, even having a 5 page pictorial display in Life magazine of one that I developed in Florida, and then I quit. I had no clue that my atheistic beliefs were destroying my life because I could not find any satisfaction, contentment, or peace in anything that I did.

As an atheist, I was trying to live all of eternity during this lifetime. The fear of death haunted me daily. I was lost, and I had no clue as to who I was or where I was going. Then came this Saturday morning when my wife had taken our children to the grocery store, and I was left there standing in my den, all confused and full of despair. Suddenly, without me taking any thought to do so, my knees just buckled, and I was headed to the floor. While I was falling, I remembered what my friend had told me about Jesus. I had no sooner hit the floor when I said, “Lord, if this is what this world is all about, then I do not want any part of it. I will do whatever you want me to do.” I had no sooner finished speaking these two sentences when the Holy Spirit fell all over me and in me. When the fear of having this tremendous power of God come in me finally subsided, all my despair and confusion were gone. All of the despair, the dissatisfaction, the frustration, the depression, the discontentment, and the confusion that had been my reality for several months was completely gone; and so also was fear of death that had visited my thoughts on a daily basis. The peace of God like nothing that I had ever experienced, had just become my new reality.

I had just got my first taste of the Lord, and he was good; so good that I started diligently seeking for him everyday. The first year I was with the Lord was like I was in heaven everyday, for his presence was with me daily. In that year the Lord completely delivered me from a 18 year, 2 ½ packs a day smoking habit; he delivered from cursing, which as an atheist I knew how do well; he delivered from that fear of death; and he began to deliver from the thing that I hated most, my disgusting temper. I was experiencing exactly that which my friend had testified that I would, the power of the Holy Spirit changing my life. I had many different testimonies of one wonderful work after another that the Lord had done for me.

Then one morning I woke up, and the presence of the Lord had completely departed from me, and I almost felt as bad as I did when I was an atheist. I thought that I must have committed some dreadful sin for him to do this to me. But I prayed and asked the Lord to show me what I had done so that I could repent and so that his presence might return to me. Then the Lord answered me and said that it was time for him to start working in my faith and my belief, and that he could not do these things as long as I was in his presence. He told me that faith and belief were those two treasured gifts that would keep me when I was not in his presence. I was so disappointed at what he had said to me, but I said, “Whatever it takes you to do Lord that will allow for me to return into your presence.“ It then took me a while before I came to realize that all that I had received on that first day was just that, only a taste of the Lord. That taste only consisted, as the scriptures reveal, to only be the “earnest (deposit)” of his Spirit; and this earnest of the Spirit consisted of the joy and the peace that is accompanied with the belief that God is real, that Jesus is truly his Son; that Jesus was crucified and then raised from the dead; and the belief that our sins are covered by his blood. I was not ready to call this taste to be the entire feast, and with hope, I sought to know if it was possible to come into that place where I could dwell in his presence at all times. This was my hope; and even though hope is not that which you can see with your eyes, I believed it to be real and true.

II Corinthians 1:21,22 (ASV) “Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God; who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

Earnest: deposit; pledge

Psalm 34:8 (NIV) “Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.”

Psalm 27:13 NIV I would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

When I came to see that I had only experienced a taste of that which is real and true, as well as that which is living and good, I obviously wanted much more because it was far better than anything that I have ever experienced in my life without him. I then came to realize that my first tastes, or that first belief that God and Jesus were real and true, only worked to satisfy my desire for a short period. I also realized that this first belief really does not identify the real and true nature of God and Jesus, and that is what I wanted to know. I wanted his joy and his peace to continue to abide in me, and it was at this time that I decided that this is what I was going to make my quest to be, even if it took me a lifetime to find it; and that was/is to come to know all that I could about this wonderful God who had touched me with his love and turned my life so wonderfully upside down. I immediately gave myself to daily seeking to know the Lord through prayer and reading the scriptures. I would not pass up any opportunity to listen to any testimonies as long as it spoke about what the Lord was doing or saying because I wanted to learn all that I could about what God was doing in others so that I might also receive it for myself. I wanted much more than the earnest of his Spirit. I wanted all then, and I want all now. Little did I know then that in the 6000 + or - years since Adam, this is the generation that is actually going to see and receive it all.

Romans 15:13 (ASV) “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.”

I Thessalonians 2:13 NIV “And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.”

I do not know how it happened, even with the great desire within me to know that which was real and true, but it did. Somewhere in the first few years of my walk, I went from hearing the testimonies told by others of wonderful works that the Lord was doing in their lives to where I just seem to be in those places were was only hearing testimonies from men about the wonderful works they were doing for the Lord. I did not even realize this for quite some time; and the more that I listened to these testimonies, I felt like I should be doing the same. When I started doing these same works, I then felt like it was my duty to testify of what I was doing, and I encourage others to do things I was doing. I had gotten to a place in my walk where I had become self-righteous, only doing those things that seemed right in my own eyes. I was not even aware of this because these works surely seemed right in my own eyes, especially seeing that the scriptures also seem to confirm that these were things that I should be doing. I fed the poor, I had a prison ministry, I visited those who were sick, and so forth, and so on; and just like Jesus instructed us, I did not tell anyone of these works that I was doing. In doing these good works, I really felt like I was doing those things that were pleasing in the sight of God, and that this would then lead me to grow closer to God.

After a time, a problem arouse that greatly troubled me. My problem was that the more I did these righteous works, the emptier I began to feel, and the more I felt like I was getting farther and farther from the presence of the Lord. I felt more like I was headed into some kind of desolate and dry wilderness where there was no life, rather than into the life that one experiences in the presence of God. Now I know that when you walk by faith that many times you do not feel the presence of God, and that was okay because I knew that true faith was not a feeling. But I also knew that the Lord delighted for us to continually come into his presence, and years had rolled by without me experiencing his presence one time. I was feeling like I was on the outside looking to get back in, but could not find out how. I felt like my entire relationship with the Lord had become very strained. My heart was still filled with a zeal for God, and I was doing more "righteous" works than ever before, but the more I did them, the more I felt like I was missing something; something really big, like joy, and peace, and contentment, and love.

Hebrews 11:6 ASV And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

I seemed to be fine as long as I was around other brethren that were also testifying about the works they were doing for the Lord, but when I was alone is when I felt empty, and lost, and completely out of fellowship with the Lord. Joy and peace had really become more like distant memories and words from some alien language that I had forgotten. The thought even came into my mind that I should at least try to pretend like I had joy and peace, but it did not take long before this thought became completely disgusting for me to even think about. I thirsted greatly for that which was/is real and true. Then these lying and pretentious thoughts became to me like the man who is in the middle of the desert who has run out of water. He sees some mirage that appears like that which will be able to quench his thirst, but when he gets there he finds that he was only deceived by the illusions that appear real and true. So also did I see the thoughts of pretending to have joy, and peace, and love, that they were only the lies of hypocrisy (play-acting) that could never able to quench my thirst for the real and true life. I was in a place that felt so empty and void of life that I knew that if something did not happen soon, then it was going to be very difficult for me to walk in the faith that I had much longer. I knew something was wrong with my walk, but what? How can a man understand what is error is if all that which he is doing he believes to be right and true? It was then that I felt the Spirit quickening to me to pray that which is written in Psalm 67:1 “God be merciful to me, and bless me; and cause your face to shine upon me so that your way may be made known to me”. So I did.

Psalm 16:11 Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy…”

Then, for the next several weeks, every time I read the scriptures, it seemed as though the Holy Spirit would always lead me to James 2:19,20 NKJ “You believe that there is one God, you do well. Even the demons believe…and tremble! But do you want to know, 0 foolish man, that faith without works is dead”. Foolish man? Was the Lord trying to tell me that I was a fool? Maybe he was trying to tell me that my faith was dead. I then wondered if there any works that the Lord requires of us that I was not doing. The Lord had quickened this verse to me, but instead of it leading me out of my wilderness, it seemed to only bring more frustration and confusion on me. I did not feel as though this word did anything to encourage me or to refresh me. I then starting getting angry with the Lord because I was blind to see what he was trying to show to me. Whatever these works were that were to accompany my faith, I came to believe that I must not be doing them. I then became offended at the Lord because I felt like I was doing more works than any 5 other Christians that I knew. After a few days I calmed down, and I began to examine my faith like asking myself, “Is my faith really established on hearing the word of God?” Even with this self-examination, I still could not see any error in my faith, or in the woks that I was doing. Finally I came to the conclusion that I must not be seeing or understanding James 2:20 in the manner that the Lord was desiring for me to see and understand.

Job 33:14 “For God speaks once, yea twice, yet man perceives it not.”

I had become so desolate of life by this time, that I was really quite willing to hear the truth about what the Lord had to say, as long as it would fill my emptiness and quench my thirst for his presence. It seemed like the Lord was using a tactic similar to a tactic that my dad used when fixed dinner for us. Though he was an excellent cook, he would still make us wait until it got late before he would serve us, making sure that we would always be really hungry when we ate. He said that the longer he made us wait, the better the food would taste. Now here I was in an identical situation, only spiritual; for I was all hungry and thirsty for the life that comes when the Lord is present, the life that only the Lord is able to prepare and serve. It was uncanny; for at next three weeks, every time I read the scriptures, even if I started reading somewhere like Exodus, somehow, without me even being conscious as to how, I would always end back up at James 2:19,20. This just agitated and frustrated me the more, even feeling as though the Lord was somehow bringing me back to this scripture to make me miserable. I even got to a point that all that I hear in my thoughts was, “Faith without works is dead...Faith without works is dead...Faith without works is dead”.

Psalm 104:27 ASV “These all wait for thee that you mayest give them their food in due season.”

I was at my wits end when one morning, at a point where I felt like I was about to explode from my frustration and confusion. I am so thankful that the Lord allowed for me to pray in this time when I did not feel like praying at all. I prayed saying, “Lord, I have done all of the works that I know how to do; the works that I feel should be accompanying my faith, and I still feel desolate of life. And besides this Lord, I now realize that I am not a smart man, for I cannot even discern between the works of the law, which puts a man under the curse, from the works which should accompany my faith. Lord, how will I know the difference between these two works if you do not show me?” No answer. Nothing. Nada. Silence. My frustration continued. I then prayed, "Lord, if you are willing, would you show me why you keep leading me to this same passage of scripture in James over and over? For I perceive that there is something in this passage of scripture that you want me to see, but I am totally blind to see it; otherwise, why would you not keep leading me back to this same passage? It was just as Jesus said, "The light was shinning in the darkness, but the darkness could not comprehend it"; and my understanding was the darkness.

Ephesians 1:18 ASV “Having the eyes of your understanding enlightened….”

Later that same day, without realizing just how broken and contrite my heart had become, I went to pray again, and before I even had a chance to say a word the Lord spoke to me and said, “If I am not working in your heart, then your faith is dead“. My first response to this word was, “Did I just really hear what I thought I heard the Lord say?” During the previous weeks, I must have entertained at least a thousand different imaginations that all tried to correctly interpret for me what works should accompany my faith, and not one of these thoughts ever suggested that it was the works that the Lord that should. This new revelation of understanding of James 2:20 was so powerful to me that it completely stopped me cold in my tracks. I then found myself actually struggling to believe what I had just heard because it was so contrary to everything that I had ever understood or believed about this verse. The more I mediated on what had just been spoken to me, the more astounded and amazed I became at what I had just heard. Wow! This changes everything.

That wow stayed with me for about one minute before a flood of anxiety and fear swept over me. For I then realized that if this was truly the Lord speaking, then all the works that I had been doing of myself were as they say, as dust in the wind, nothing. This was actually my first revelation that was in real and true in the spiritual does not at all agree with that which is real and true in the natural. Could this be? I then became very fearful as I realized how great of an error that I had made for trusting in my own understanding for the interpretation of James 2:20. My natural understanding of this verse had me focused only on my own works while the Spirit was opening my eyes to see that my focus should be on the works of the Lord. I then suddenly felt like I was stripped naked of all the works that I had been trusting in to be righteous and pleasing before the Lord. Even though I had this feeling of nakedness, I also noticed that within me this wonderful feeling of freedom from the burden that my own understanding of James 2:20 had put on myself, trying to please God with my own works. In one word from the Lord, all of works and efforts that I had done for years seem to as though they had been that mirage. I became very fearful because I saw how I had been so confident and so positive that understanding of the scriptures was that which was right, and true, and real. There is nothing that can shake you any harder than when you find out that the things that you have believed and trusted in to be real and true only turned out to be well-crafted illusions of vanity. I then felt so ashamed before the Lord because I knew that his word says that none of us should lean to our own understanding of his words, and yet that is exactly what I had done.

Isaiah 57:12 “I will declare thy righteousness; and thy works; for they shall not profit you.”

Matthew 11:28 “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

Hebrews 4:9-11 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

It was in that moment that my heart was shaken, that the darkness saw it’s opportunity to come and compass me with fear, to torment me with thoughts of reasonings and doubt. But the Lord, even without me calling out to him, having this attack on me, and he spoke to me in the most loving and compassionate voice saying, “Mitt, do not be afraid of that what your ears have just heard, but remember this one thing, I am really good at raising the dead.” For a brief moment I did not understand what or why the Lord even speak such a word to me, but then suddenly I remembered that he had been repeatedly trying to tell me that, “Faith without works is dead”. My fears were attacking me to tempt me not to believe the understanding that the Lord had given to me, to keep in bondage to my own works, but the Lord had other ideas for me. Just like before, when he spoke this word to me, then comfort and peace swept over me like a flood, and in an instant, many anxieties, and fears, and shame were all swept away by his word. Then a peace and a calm that I had not experienced for such a long time returned to me. In a moment the Lord had brought me out of that desolate, dry, and dead wasteland to sit once again by the river of Life, and the presence of the Lord returned to me. Thanks be to Abba.

Proverbs 16:25 ASV There is a way which seemeth right unto men; But the end thereof are the ways of death.”

Even though my fears and anxieties were gone, I still felt so stupid for not being able to discern what the Lord had so persistently been trying to show me. I then saw the truth in that which is written in Job 33:14, “God speaks once, yea twice, (and in my case, at least 20 times), but man does not perceive”. This understanding was all so new to me that the only thing that I knew to do was to pray and ask the Lord to confirm for me that I was truly understanding the truth of that which he had just spoken to me. I asked, “Lord, seeing how contrary my understanding of this word was as compared to that which you spoke to me, would you confirm this word for me so that I might believe it without any doubts? Would you prove to me that this is really you? Would you prove to me that it is your works that are to accompany my faith?”

Luke 24:45 NIV “Then he (Jesus) opened their minds so that they could understand the scriptures.”

Romans 4:3-6 NKJ What does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation. However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness. David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

Then the Lord said to me and said, “In the books of the gospels, of whose works do they testify of? Was it not I that healed the sick? Was it not I that forgave sins? Was it not I that gave sight to the blind? Was it not I that raised the dead? Was it not I that cast out demons? Was it not also written of me that I opened the ears of my disciples so that they could understand the truth of the scriptures?” My heart was immediately was filled with joy and excitement that the Lord had just confirmed his word for me, that it was truly his works and not mine. I then answered, “Yes, Lord, you did perform all of these works!” Then the Lord asked me, “After I performed all the works that were asked of me, what would I then say to those who had been blessed by them?” I then considered this for only a moment before it suddenly came to me, and I answered saying, “Lord, I see, for after you performed anyone of these works, you would always say to them either, “Your faith has saved you”; or, “Your faith has made you whole”; or “Your faith has healed you”. Now I see Lord. Now I believe that this is right and truth, that if my faith is not accompanied by your works, then my faith is dead. Thank you Lord for hearing my prayer; thank you so much for making your words plain and clear for me to understand.

Psalm 57:2 “I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.”

The Lord also asked me if at any time did any come before him to testify of their own works instead of hoping to see the mighty works of God. For the first time in my walk, my eyes were opened to clearly see that there is truly two different kinds of faith; the first that stands in the works that men do to prove their faith, which comes from man’s wisdom and understanding of the scriptures, or the faith that stands in the power of God, which is taught by the wisdom and understanding that comes from above. The first faith, it is seen and demonstrates itself in the works that men do through their own power, their own zeal, their own understanding, and by their own determination. The fruit of this faith is iniquity and self-righteousness, the works that seem real and true in the sight of natural man. How else could the Lord demonstrate his power than in the works that he performs? I did not take me long before I realized how much better this faith was that the faith that only focused on what I had to do for myself; for he who walks in this faith walks alone because he does not see any need from God to perform his own works. I really liked the faith where the Lord, he who is God, does all of the works for me, because it meant that I would no longer feel alone, but that I could enjoy his presence when performed these works for me. I found myself totally revived, and excited, and refreshed with this restored belief in the Lord, like I had just reconnected with him who delights in doing the things that are impossible for us to do of ourselves. As I said before, “This understanding of faith changes (shakes) everything.”

I Corinthians 2:4,5 NIV “My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.”

I then realized why I had been feeling so empty and dead in my walk, and it was because I had not been including him who is real and true in anything that I had been doing. I was thinking that I had to do everything, not at all allowing for the Lord to do anything. I then remembered all of the wonderful works that the Lord had done for me in the beginning, and how full my walk was with life because I had been asking the Lord to do things for me. It was then that I realized that I had actually gone astray from the path of life when I started believing that my faith should be proved by the works that I did, rather than the works that the Lord does. What greater evidence could a man have that he was walking in the strait and narrow path with God than to have God himself do the works that the Lord has required of us? One of the first fruits that I saw as result of this change in understanding was that I used to be afraid of reading the scriptures because I was always fearful that I might read of something that the Lord might require of me that I could not possibly do for myself. Now all that I had need of was he the faith to ask the Lord to do these things for me.

As peaceful as I was, fear then came upon me when I suddenly realized that I really did not know what the works of the Lord were that should accompany my faith. Even though the Lord had said to be, “Do not be afraid”, I saw that I was afraid. But the Lord, knowing the trouble in my heart, again comforted me when he led me to read that which is written concerning the apostles, when they all, including Jesus, got caught in that storm that was so bad that their boat got swamped out with water. Each one of these apostles was afraid, thinking that he was surely going to die soon. But when they woke Jesus up, he said to them in Mark 4:40 “Why are you so fearful? Why is it that you have "no" faith?" Wow, I thought. Here were these chosen apostles, those who had heard all of the sermons that Jesus had preached, as well as having witnessed just about every miracle that Jesus had performed; and still, just like me, they had no faith. I then felt comforted knowing that I was spiritually in the same boat as they were in. I then perceived that if “no faith” was not going to stop Jesus from working for them, then surely it was not going to stop Jesus from working for me either. But if I had no faith, then how was I going to get any of this new faith that stands in the power of God?

I was thinking about my “no faith” when the Spirit of the Lord reminded me of the only thing that the disciples ever asked Jesus to add to them, “Lord, increase our faith”. Wow, Lord, even our faith is in your hand. It was then that I began to perceive what John the Baptist meant when he said, “I must decrease so that he might increase”. How could I increase in the faith that stands in the power of God unless I first be willing to decrease in the faith that stands in the power of my own strength, my own zeal, my own confidence, and my own abilities. Like I said, “This changes everything”. I suppose that I am not unlike most other men in that I liked the idea of the “increasing”, but it is idea of the “decreasing” that I was fearful of. I was to later learn that it was not I that like the idea of my decreasing, but it was the spirit of fear that did not like that idea because it was from all my fears that this decrease would come. Then I thought about what all I was going to receive in exchange for what my decease, and became a no brainer. “I must decrease to the sins of doubt and unbelief before I could increase in the faith and belief that allows Father to work in me.

Philippians 1:6 “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

Then the Lord said, “I must first work in your belief in my words and your faith that I will perform my words for you”, says the Lord. “You must first believe that my words are true and that I desire to perform all things for you. I must increase your faith so that you may know and believe that I am well able to perform the impossible for you. I must work in your belief unto you believe that I love you, and that my love will never fail you. Let me increase your faith so that you may know that I am willing and able to perform all my promises for you. You must also trust me to wait for the time that I have appointed to perform all things for you. Remember Abraham, for he was strong in faith because he believed that I would perform the promise that I had given to him. Do not forget my words.” I then remembered what the Lord had spoken to me when he said, “Do not be afraid, for I am good at raising the dead”. I then thought, “Wow, if God could bring forth life out of Sarah’s dead womb when the natural circumstances dictated that it was not possible, then how much more will the Lord bring forth that which is living out of me when I believe?” I then said, “Lord, even though my faith has been dead, would you raise me up to be strong in faith and perfect in belief.” Then the Lord said, “As long as you are looking for me to perform the promises of my words in you, then your faith will not be dead, but very much alive. For I am faithful and true to all of my words, and to all those who believe them”, says the Lord. “Open the door to your heart, and ask me to work in you, and I will prepare your heart to receive the kingdom of God”. I then said within my heart, "If that is all that it takes is the believing and the asking, then truly this yoke that Jesus spoke of, it is truly light and easy. But what would happen if we do not ask? I do not want to know that answer.

Romans 4:19-21 NAS “Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb; yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.”

Can you see faith? Can you touch belief? Can you hear trust? I do not care what a man believes, or that which he has faith and trust in, you still cannot see belief, or faith, or trust, even with 20/20 vision. When I walked in the faith that dictated to me that I had to do all of the works, I walked alone. I chose the good deeds and righteous works that I wanted to do, I chose how I wanted to do them, I chose when I wanted to do them, and I chose where I wanted to do them. Again, without me even seeing it, I had become lord and god over my own Christianity because it seemed like the right and true thing for me to do. When I started walking in the faith that stands in the power of God, this all changed too because the only way that I could walk in this path was to allow for the Lord to be my God. It was not up to me to decide what works the Lord needs to do, nor was it up to me to tell him how, or when, or where they needed to be done. when and where they should be done, for these things were in the hand of God. Not long after I started walking in this faith, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Mitt, I am not going to make you great and mighty in my sight, but I am going to become great and mighty in your eyes.” These were absolutely the most wonderful words that I could have heard the Lord say because I knew that the only way that the Lord could become great and mighty in my sight was for him to do great and mighty things for me. I did not know what these things were at the time, but I knew that the Lord was getting ready to start answering my prayers in ways that would be, as it is written, exceedingly abundantly above what I am to ask or to even think within my own imaginations. Now that is what I call letting God out of the box.

II Corinthians 5:7 ASV “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”

Not long afterwards, I was reading one morning in Matthew 9:20-22 about the woman that had that menstrous condition for 12 years. Even though Jesus was completely surrounded by a large crowd, she pressed her way through them all until she got close enough to reach out with her hand and touch the hem of his garment. Immediately she was healed. Suddenly the Lord spoke to me and asked, “Mitt, how many people there knew what had happened to this woman?” Well my first thought was that this woman had some kind of menstrous condition which was something that I felt like she would have advertised to the world. So I answered, “Lord, even though it seemed like you had one of the largest crowds that were ever around you, I do not think that any of them knew that this woman had been healed. And Lord, from that which is written, I do not even believe that you knew that she got healed because it says that you just felt power go out of you.” Then the Lord spoke to me and said, “So also are the great and mighty works that I desire to do for you. They are works in the places of your heart and in your mind that no one can see. If you will give yourself to me, then I will make these places to be beautiful in my sight; and when they become beautiful in my sight, they shall surely be beautiful in your eyes also. Are you willing to surrender your heart and your mind into my hands?” Yes Lord, I am willing. Make all of me beautiful in your sight!” At that moment my heart seemed so full of life and purpose again, even though I did not know exactly what these works were that the Lord desired to perform in me. My heart had greatly increase in hope, joy, faith, and the peace of God. I felt like I had truly been resurrected from the dead. I was alive again.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Job 33:27-30 He looketh upon men, and if any say, “I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not”; He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.”

Isaiah 57:12 “I will declare your righteousness and your works, for they will not profit you.”

When I was an atheist, I experienced brief moments of happiness when everything went my way, but the stars in that life rarely lined up, even for a brief moment. From the time that I was a very young child, I had experienced any of the peace or joy that I have experienced since the Lord came into my life. I am so thankful that these precious that the Lord has allowed for me to taste of the goodness of his life, because it was that taste that turned me back to him when I had lost my focus and started walking in my own ways; the ways that seem right that only bring the death of lifeless thoughts. These thoughts were so miserable that it led me back to the Lord, asking for him to return me to the right path, the path that leads to life. One of the wonderful things that I have learned about Abba, Father is how much he greatly delights in forgiving us and blessing us, especially in the times that our fears would have us to believe that the opposite is real and true.

Romans 5:1 NKJ “Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

So many seek for a life filled with peace and joy through wealth, or through their own works and efforts, or through their own will, but in the end, hopelessness and emptiness seem to be all that they end up with. I am so thankful that the Lord has opened the eyes of my heart to see that the invaluable gifts of peace and joy come through believing on the Lord; believing that what is word is able to do, he is well able to perform. The joy and the peace that I had experienced when the Lord first called me, fled from me in a flash the moment pride deceived me into trying to this walk this without Abba, Father. Death and desolation soon followed. But when I turned back to him, death and desolation fled away, and peace, and joy, and faith, and praise quickly returned to me. And to think that all that I did was to humble myself, turn to him, and ask for his guidance and help; and then boom, life returned. How can we have any peace or joy unless we really believe and have faith that Abba, Father, the Lord God almighty, is completely in control over all the circumstance and situations that arise in our life. It we do not believe, then fear will be surely accompany us and be our reality as we face the uncertain circumstances and situations that daily come.

Romans 15:13 ASV “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Colossians 3:15 NIV Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.

Chapter 2 “The Mystery of Father’s Will”

Lord, we surrender our hearts unto you. Delight yourself in the works of your own hands; for your works are real, and true, and eternal. All things are possible with you, Abba, Father.

Galatians 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

I John 1:1 “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard with our ears, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and which our hands have handled, of the Word of Life (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show to you that eternal life which is with the Father, and was manifested to us). That which we have seen and heard we declare to you so that you may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and his son Jesus Christ.”

I was praying one morning when the Spirit brought back into my remembrance that which I had been taught concerning the word “covenant”, that it basically meant a mutual agreement between two or more parties with all having specified obligations to perform. But as I thought more on this, an alarm went off in my heart to question this definition because it seem to be tempting me that my obligation was for me to perform the same works that the Lord had just corrected me of. So I asked the Lord what my obligations were as specified in the New Covenant; and he immediately answered me and said, “Believe! If you ask me to do the works, believing what you ask, then I will do all of the works for you. Only believe!”. Then the Spirit of the Lord began to quicken such like verses as these to me:

I Peter 5:7 NKJ “Casting all your care upon him, for he cares for you.”

Jeremiah 33:3 NKJ “Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will show you great and mighty things which you do not know.’”

Proverbs 16:3 NKJ “Commit your works to the LORD, and your thoughts will be established.”

Philippians 2:13 “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”

I Thessalonians 4:9 ASV “But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.”

Proverbs 20:12 NASB “The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made both of them.”

Deuteronomy 30:6 NKJ “And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

When the Spirit had ceased quickening these verses to me, my eyes were then opened to see that the one thing that they all in common was that they described the works that God himself, and only he, is able to do in us. I had read all of these verses before, but my eyes had never once been opened to see that these were the verses that describe the works that God desires for our faith to be accompanied with. Then the Lord said to me, “Your belief is measured by that which you ask for me to do for you. If you ask nothing of me, then expect me do nothing. If you ask little of me, then look only for me to do little. If you ask much of me, then look for me to do much for you. It is as it is written, that he who sows little reaps little, and he who sows much also reaps much. If you believe little, then I will do little, but if you believe and ask much of me, then I will do much for you.” I then began to write each one of these verses down on a note pad, and put that pad in my prayer closet; and every time that I went to pray, I would pull that pad out and ask the Lord to perform his words for me.

Galatians 6:8 NASB ^“For the one who sows to his own flesh (who makes he scriptures the works of his own hands) will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit (allows for the Lord to do the works) will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

The more I considered what the Lord had taught me, I just became astounded at how easy and simple this walk really was. But I was also aware that the only reason that it was easy was because the Lord had opened my eyes to clearly see and understand the meaning of just one verse, James 2:20; and it changed the entire direction and focus of my walk with the Lord. So now here I was, a list in my hand of verses that detailed what works the Lord desired for me to pray and ask for him to do for me. That certainly seemed simple enough for me to do, and I felt like I was now on easy street. For a time, the fellowship and communion the Lord had restored to me was so wonderful that I felt like I was in the garden of Eden with him. But I then began to encounter a problem that I had never encountered before, and that was the enmity of the carnal mind; thoughts that by nature oppose God, and are impossible to subject themselves to the Lord. When I walked in the faith that stood in my own power, having been deceived by my own understanding, there was no reason for any adversary within to contend with me because I was already walking in darkness. But now that I was walking in the light, here came the enmity of my natural thoughts, tempting me to turn back into the place where darkness would once again be my only reality.

Nahum 1:11 “There is one come out of thee, that imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.”

All of sudden, whenever I intended to go into prayer, it was like a flood of thoughts would come into my mind trying to reason with me that there were other things more needful and pressing for me to do than to pray. Yet, I knew that if I yielded to these counsels, and did pray, and went to take care of these things of myself, then the presence of the Lord would not go with me, and I would not at all be blessed in any of those things. Even when I resisted those counsels and made it into prayer, it was like another wave of thoughts would then try to tempt me with unbelief or doubt that Father would perform anything for me that his word says that he will. I think that this was the first time that I had ever really encountered an adversary and enemy coming so strongly into the thoughts of my mind to contend with the instructions that the Lord had given to me. As I thought about it, I was not so surprised that Satan would come to contend within me because the Lord had told me that the works that he desired to do would be in my heart and my mind; so where else would the battlefield be except in those very places. The Lord then told me that prayer is always the first thing that the adversary of my enemy will always seek to attack first so that may cut the lines of communication me and my God. It is not me that my adversary is afraid, it is God. No prayer, no God.

Psalm 38:18 “But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

For the first time I realized the truth of that which Paul had said in Ephesians 6:10-13 ASV Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.” We all know that Jesus said that Satan was our adversary, but what I did not know was that he already has a strong ally in the enmity that dwells in the thinking of the carnal mind. Fears, reasonings, unwillingness, doubts, unbelief are just a few of the thoughts that come forth from that enmity to oppose any word that the Lord would speak to his people. What I was shocked to see was how strong and powerful these thoughts were when they would come to attack me just to keep me from asking and praying to the Lord. There were times that the attack in my mind was so great that all that I could do when I went to pray was just cry out and ask the Lord to help me pray, period. I would have never thought that something that seemed so easy could be become so difficult because of the opposition that would come from within.

Romans 8:6,7 AMP Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever]. That is because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot.

Galatians 5:17 AMP “For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the [Holy] Spirit, and the [desires of the] Spirit are opposed to the flesh (godless human nature); for these are antagonistic to each other [continually withstanding and in conflict with each other], so that you are not free but are prevented from doing what you desire to do.”

II Corinthians 10:4-6 “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”

This battle in my mind lasted for some time. I have tried to resist my own thoughts in the past, but this was the first time in my life that actually went to battle against them, to keep my heart from surrendering to the doubts, the unwillingness, the fears, and the unbelief. I cried out, “Father, these thoughts are not from you, and they are not right for me to believe. Would you cast these imaginations from me.” Then one day while I was praying, the Lord asked me, “Mitt, what is harder for you to do, to continually try to do these works of yourself or to just simply ask for me to do them for you?” my first response to his word was that I knew what the result would be if I tried to do these works of myself, that I could expect for a separation to come from the presence of the Lord. I wanted no more part of that, nor to walk down that path again. I already touched that stove once. I became so focused on what I was not going to do that I really did not even hear what the second part of the word that the Lord had spoken to me. Then the Lord said, “Mitt, did you know that my Spirit delights only in doing my will? Did you know that my Spirit delights in performing every word of instruction that has ever come out of my mouth?” Even then, I still did not catch on as to what the Lord was trying to tell me. I just assumed that he was saying that if his Spirit was in me, then I should automatically delight in doing his will. Then after a few days, I suddenly received this revelation, “Wait a minute! If the Spirit of the Lord delights only in doing Father’s will, then why I am finding it so hard to pray? The Spirit of the Lord was certainly in Jesus Christ, but when he went in for prayer in the garden of Gethsemane, he cried out, “Father, not my will be done, but your will be done”. I then perceived that just because the Spirit of the Lord may be in us, it does not mean that we are automatically going to do the will of God.

Matthew 7:21 NIV (Jesus said) “Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”

Matthew 26:38,39 NIV Then Jesus said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.” Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

The Lord then opened my eyes again to see more clearly that he has not called us to make us robots that have no will of their own, but he has called us to give us the freedom to choose whose will we desire to make our reality, either the will of man, which is to be his own lord and god, or the will of the flesh, which is the death that rules over the carnal mind, or the will of God. This choice awaits us daily, and all that he has asked of us is to choose. So I was preparing myself to battle against me doing my own will when the Lord suddenly opened my eyes to see that I was preparing my will to go to battle with…..my will. What a stupid thought, yet that was exactly what I was getting ready to do. Then the Lord brought back into my remembrance that which he had said to me, “Mitt, did you know that my Spirit delights in doing my will?” It was then that I finally realized what the Lord was trying to tell me, that this is not about me preparing myself for a battle against myself, a battle which I could never win, but it is simply about me asking the Lord for the gift of his Spirit; the free gift of the Lord that always delights in doing the Lord’s will. If we choose to do Father’s will, then we must be prepared to resist our hearts surrendering to the enmity of the carnal mind, and calling on the name of the Lord, asking for him to come and fight the battle for us.

II Chronicles 20:17 NIV “You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the LORD will give you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the LORD will be with you.”

Deuteronomy 30:19 NIV “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life (the thinking of the spiritual mind) and death (the thinking of the carnal mind), blessings (the works of God) and curses (the woks of man). Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.”

Psalm 40:8 NASB “I delight to do Your will, O my God, your law (Rom.8:2) is within my heart.”

Luke 11:13 NASB “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"

Then the Lord began to open the eyes of my understanding to see clearly how my works are nothing other than my will trying to perform the instructions that the Lord has given to us in the scriptures. I then saw clearly as to why all of these kinds of works had been such a burden to me because it is impossible for any man to delight himself in trying to do some other’s will, whether it be the will of God or the will of another man. He may outwardly appear that he is enjoying what he is doing, but his heart is inwardly filled with begrudging, murmuring, and complaining; at least my heart was. I found no joy in trying to love my enemies, or in trying to forgive those who had offended or hurt me. No wonder I had gotten into that dead and desolate place when I tried to please God by trying to do his will through the works of my own will. It is like I was trying to live someone else’s life that did not have the same natural desires or pleasures that I did. What an awful waste of a man’s life. I was so blind to see that this was exactly what I was trying to do, and there is no joy or life to be found when someone tries to live his life according to someone else’s will.

I Corinthians 27-29 NKJ “But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.

John 1:12,13 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

Matthew 6:10 NIV “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

It was then that I understood what Jesus was doing in that garden, taking up his cross and dying to his own will and waiting on the kingdom to come in his heart that would allow for him to freely do his Father’s will. So I decided to do as Jesus did, pray that Father would receive the offering of my will, and then bless me with his Spirit that delights in doing his will. Up until this moment I had only seen the enmity that inhabits the carnal mind as being the unbelief, the reasonings, the fears, and the doubts that come forth to oppose the counsels of God; but now I was also seeing that my will should definitely be included in that ungodly group. The will of the man is full of his “best efforts” and “good intentions”, that which men naturally use in their attempts to please God, as well as other men. It is these works that surely seem like the right things for men to do to please God because this is what men do when they try to please other men. But the Lord then opened my eyes to see that man’s will is also accompanied with the desire for some manner of recognition for it‘s efforts, whether they be rewarded with glory, or praise, or honor, or money. And if that flesh does not receive recognition for it’s own “best efforts” or “good intentions”, these works of iniquity, then it feels rejected, or disappointed, or hurt, or offended.

Matthew 7:21-23 “Not every one that saith unto me, “Lord, Lord”, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works?” And then will I profess unto them, “I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

This is the iniquity of man, those works of self-righteousness that come forth when the instructions of God are joined together with the will of the flesh. Do we not all have that natural desire that seeks for our own recognition when we do these things? Do we not all have that desire for some kind of recognition when we put forth our “best efforts” and “good intentions”? How did Cain respond when the Lord did not recognize or receive his sacrifice? The works of iniquity, are not they the sacrifices that one makes to please others through the works and efforts of his own will? In some instances, I have even wondered if we do not even feel like we must receive some kind of recognition for our efforts and deeds as though our own works is what makes our Christianity purposeful, real, and true. In other words, do we look for that which is real and true from the works of iniquity?

Matthew 23:27,28 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Philippians 2:21 ASV “For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.”

When the Lord began to open my eyes to see these intents in my heart, this horrible thought then came into my mind. I have heard several serial killers when asked why they killed all the people they did answer that question by saying, “I wanted to make a name for myself; I wanted recognition”. Is this desire for recognition so deeply entrenched in the heart of man that he thinks that he must go to this extreme just so that he can make his life real and true? Just how great is this desire within us that makes our lives seem so meaningless without some kind of recognition? Is recognition how that which is real and true should be measured? Every time they tried to recognize Jesus, he just somehow seem to disappear, as though he had no desire for that to happen.

If the will of man so desires it’s own recognition that it will even resort to these wicked works to obtain it, then to what lengths will it’s desires go to receive recognition from God for the works of iniquity? I suppose one only has to look at Jesus himself, and how the hypocrites treated him because he preached against the works that men do to satisfy their desires for their own recognition and glory. In the end, did they not treat Jesus in the same manner as the serial killer treats his victims? Did they not treat Jesus in the same manner that Cain treated Able because God would not accept or recognize the sacrifice that he brought forth according to his own will? Cain was a man that God directly spoke to in his attempts to get him to repent, but Cain felt so disappointed that he just killed his brother because he got from God the recognition that he wanted for himself. Why was it so hard for him to repent rather than to think that he must kill his own brother? When do men get envious or jealous of others but when they see others get some manner of recognition that they want for themselves. Is this the reality of this world? I suppose then that every man’s will is his own world of reality and truth. Now my eyes were being opened to see why no works of the flesh will glory in the presence of God, because they are only done to satisfy desires, and they are not done out of love.

Galatians 5:24 “Those that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and desires….26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory…”

Matthew 6:1,2 “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven.”

James 4:5 NKJ “Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?

In the years that I walked in my self-righteousness, when I thought that I could please God with my “good intentions” and “best efforts”, there were a couple of verses that I really hated to read. One of those verses was John 15:5 where Jesus said “Without me, you can do nothing”. Nothing? I do not think so! Every time I read that verse, I could hear thoughts within me saying, “This cannot be true; I am going to prove Jesus wrong.” To me, what I was hearing Jesus say in this scripture was like the words that I have heard others speak to me since I was a child, telling me what I could not do. These types of words did nothing strengthen my resolve to prove that I could do what they said I could not do. Of course, when I allowed for this attitude to come forth against what Jesus said in this verse, it just led me strait into my wilderness, separating me from the presence of God. All of his peace, his joy, and his life just seem to disappear altogether from me. So when the Lord corrected me with his understanding of James 2:19,20, I also became more agreeable with that which Jesus was saying in John 15:5; not completely, but far more than I previously had.

It was then that I asked the Lord just what he meant by saying that a man could do nothing without him. The Lord then answered and said, “You can do nothing to please God without me. I am that Spirit that delights in doing Father’s will. I am the Spirit of the Son of God. I am the Spirit of adoption that brings you into Sonship. I am he who Father said, “This is my Son in whom I am well pleased. I love my Father and my Father loves me, and all things that I see my Father do, that is what I do because I love my Father. I do nothing for my own glory or to satisfy the desires of my own will, but all that I do, I do that my Father may be glorified in all things. I am the Son who could do nothing to please Father of own will, but always sought for his Spirit that delighted in fulfilling Father’s will. Without me, you cannot please Father, because I am what allows you to delight in Father’s will. I am the gift from God for all those who seek to do Father’s will. I am the Spirit of the son that comes forth in the sons of God, in all those who my Father is well-pleased with.”

John 5:30 “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”

John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

Romans 8:29 NASB “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren.”

Ephesians 1:5 “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.”

Philippians 4:13 NKJ “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

When the Lord finished speaking this word to me, I then asked, “Lord, I do not even know what your will is, but it just seems like to me that your will is oppressive. What is your will?” Of course, I was still thinking that the Lord was going to require me to fulfill his will through the works of my “best efforts”. The Lord then answered and said, “I came into this world so that you might have life, and that you might have it abundantly. This is my will for you.” Immediately this answer quieted all my foolishness imaginations. I had never once considered that the will of God could be something so wonderful as abundant life. Then the later on the Lord added this, “You do not understand what life is. You think that when you get your will, or when everything goes your way, or when you satisfy your pleasures, or when you feel safe and secure that you have just experienced what life. I tell you that is not life because I am life. I am then nature of life. I the tree of life that is full of the fruits of love, and joy, and kindness, and faith, and gentleness, and mercy, and truth, and peace, and goodness. The fruits of life identify my nature; and my nature is that which is comes natural to me. I am the good tree of life that bears no evil fruit. You cannot find any corrupt, or dead, or rotten fruits in me. My will is for you to bear the fruits of life. Father has given you your destiny; and your destiny is that you should be conformed to my image. I am life. My will if for you to have life. My will is for life to come natural to you, not that which comes to you when get your will. I am the Spirit of adoption that raises you from the dead so that you might have life. Fulfill your destiny. I have called many, but only a few will find life because only a few desire to fulfill their destiny, to be like me. I am life. My life is your reality, now and for eternity.”

Romans 12:2 “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

Romans 8:6 “The carnal mind is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

Matthew 7:13-20 ASV “Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby. For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.”

Ephesians 5:15-17 NIV “Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.”

I greatly rejoiced and I felt such peace, having received from the Lord this clear vision as to what the destiny is that the Lord has called each one of us to. I was overwhelmed with the reality of this truth, that the almighty God actually calls us for the purpose of raising us up to be his son. I rejoiced in knowing that my destiny, my vision, and my calling, were all the same thing: to be conformed to the image of the Son of God, through the Spirit of life that is in Jesus Christ. I felt so alive to the calling of my destiny because I not only knew what it was, but because I also knew that it was not going to come forth by any of my “best efforts” or “good intentions”, but by the power of my God; my Abba, Father with whom all things are possible. I had such peace walking in this new faith that actually allows for the Lord to be my God and do great and mighty things for me.

Romans 8:2 NASB “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.”

II Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”

When the Lord became the object of my focus, opening my eyes to see that it is his works that are to accompany my faith, then one of the first fruits that I saw as a result of this new faith was in reading the scriptures. In truth, I used to be fearful and dread reading the scriptures because I was always afraid that I was going to read of something that the Lord would require of me or command me to do that my “best efforts” and “good intentions” would not be able to perform. But now when I read the scriptures, I still remember what the Lord said to me, “My Spirit always delights in doing Father’s will.” So what is there to be fearful of? If I read a word concerning what the Lord requires, I then just simply ask for his Spirit so that I may delight in doing his will. I even started asking for his Spirit so that I can delight in waiting on him. The Lord also brought back into my remembrance another word that he had said before, “Mitt, I have given you the gift of my Spirit to help you. But know this, my Spirit will never surrender itself to do your will, for it only surrenders itself to do my will. Agree with my words, and my Spirit will perform all of my words for you.” Now I find reading the scriptures to be a joyful experience as well as an exciting adventure, asking the Lord for his Spirit to perform his word; for I know now that all such requests are in his will because they come from his words. His yoke truly gets lighter and lighter, and easier and easier; for my only obligation is to believe.

Matthew 8:13 NASB “And Jesus said to the centurion, "Go; it shall be done for you as you have believed." And the servant was healed that very moment.”

Job 23:14 “For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me; and many such things are with him.”

Seeing that I was having a hard time praying, I started asking the Lord for his Spirit to do his will, so that it might become a delight for me to pray. As I sit here typing out these words, I cannot even remember how it happened or when it happened, it just happened; that is, at some time after I started asking the Lord to help me to pray, my prayers began to turn more into meetings and conversations with the Lord. The Lord began to speak so much to me that I actually had to also use my note pad to write everything down that the Lord was speaking to me because I could not possibly remember all that he would speak to me. Oh yes, the enemy still seeks to distract me in his attempts to keep me from praying, but when I pray now, it is frequently becomes like the garden of his presence; the presence my enemy cannot enter into. The Spirit has taken that which my flesh dreaded and by his Spirit has made it a delight.

Luke 18:1 NIV “One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up.”

Psalm 37:4 NIV “Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.”

I also started praying and asking the Lord to send his Spirit so that I could fulfill the righteousness of his word that says, “Husbands, love your wives as Christ loves the church.” It was like as soon as I started asking for him to send his Spirit to do this, my eyes were opened to see how clearly foolish it is for me to try and love my wife as Jesus Christ loves her. The truth is, I really had no clue as to how Jesus loved her, but my “best efforts” sure made many attempts to do it, which all ended in failure. Who knows the length, the depth, the width, and the height of the love that Christ has for his church, or for his spouse? Again, my love for her began to grow in ways that I could not see at first. It was like trying to see how a child grows from day to day; you just cannot see it in that way. But if you have not seen that child over a few months, then you will see the growth after you have been separated from them for a time.

Mark 4:26-29 NIV also said, "This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come."

There were two areas of growth in his love for my wife that were dramatic. First, as each day went by, my judgments and criticisms of her began to decrease until now they hardly exist at all. This came as no real surprise because I had once asked the Lord if he would explain what happens that causes one spouse to quit loving the other spouse. The Lord answered me rather quickly saying, “When one begins to judge the other with criticisms, accusations, comparing them to others, or finding fault with them, then their love begins to grow cold. Love does not judge; love just loves.” So I just kept praying, and the Lord kept working. Secondly, my care for her well-being became much greater than for my own well-being. We have now gone through a financial crisis and she had a very serious medical issue. In the medical issue, the doctors say that about 90% of the husbands of wives who have this condition will divorce their wives because of the amount of care they may require. I was stunned to hear this, for in the care of Christ’s love, such a thought could not enter. It was a great delight for me to care for her; and let me testify of this, when I was an atheist, there was no love unless all care was focused only on me.

They say that financial and medical problems are two of the biggest reasons for divorce, but the Spirit of the Lord has casts out all of that selfish reasonings. I will end up saying this about the love of Christ that he has put in my heart for my wife; no matter what she may face the rest of her life, she knows that she has a husband in heaven and a husband on earth that will never leave her, or forsake her, or cease from caring for her, because the Lord in heaven has given his love for her to her husband on earth. Not my will be done, (my own efforts for a good marriage,), but his will (the love that only comes through his Spirit) be done. Glory be to God for his faithfulness to his words.

Chapter 3 Belief grows and faith increases

Over the past 29 years, the Lord has taught me much about the things that I have desired to know about him; and during this time, he has also taught me concerning his mysteries, such as the mystery of iniquity, the mystery of Christ in us, the mystery of wisdom, the mystery of godliness, Mystery Babylon, etc. The Lord has increased my faith so that I can now speak to the mountains in my heart and the strongholds in my mind, and then watch the Lord remove them for me. Even though the Lord has taught me daily, and has done many great and mighty works in my life, he still had not yet moved me into any kind of ministry, other than with my own family and a few others. In fact, when I once inquired of the Lord and asked me if he was ever going to use me, he answered and said that he was, but it would be after he had finished teaching me, giving me “his” understanding of “his” words; lest I lead someone astray by speaking my opinions of “his” words .

Proverbs 21:16 “The man that departs from the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”

II Corinthians 2:17 “We are not as many which corrupt (deceive with their own opinions) the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ (Christ who is the truth).”

Then a little over 7 years ago, I was in prayer one morning when the Lord asked me if I would sell my business and my house so that he could now put me full time into the ministry. Even though I had no clue at that time as to what kind of ministry the Lord had in mind, I agreed and surrendered my heart to his request, provided that he give me to a willing heart to do so. I had learned by this time that if we believe on him, and ask of him, he is able to give us a willing heart that delights in doing anything that Father may ask of us. This is one of those works of God that should accompany our faith. A willing heart is a heart where you will not find the presence of any reasonings, or unbelief, or fears, or pride, or doubts that make the heart unwilling. The Lord had done so many wonderful works in my life by the time that he had asked me to do this that there was really no way that I was not going to follow him, regardless of where this ministry may take me. I had also learned by this time that if we desire to dwell continually in his presence, and his presence is abundant life, then we should follow him. In that first year after selling my house and my business, I waited for the Lord to direct me where to go. But the Lord never gave me any indication as to just what or where this ministry was going to take me. What did happen in that first year was that in just about every meeting of our fellowship, the Lord came to us speaking many prophesies to us concerning new things to come; and telling us that he was the new thing to come. But we still did not understand.

Psalm 110:3 “Thy people shall be made willing in the day of thy power…”

II Corinthians 8:12 NKJ “For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.”

There was one word that the Lord spoke to us that especially caught our attention, and it was a word that the Lord repeated to us several times saying that what was coming was far greater than anything any of us could imagine. This word caught our attention because it was quite contrary to all the doom and gloom that we had heard many others prophesying of. By the end of that year, we had received over 250 prophesies, and not one of them spoke about any doom and gloom that was coming at the end of the world, for all of the words that the Lord had given to us only focused on one thing, the new thing that is to come; and that new thing was Jesus coming in all of his glory. Through these words the Lord also detailed for us the works that the Lord would need to do in us to prepare our hearts and our minds to receive this new thing. I really did not know how precious these prophesies were until about three years ago when I heard the Lord speak through several different prophets saying, “My people are not prepared for my coming.”

Proverbs 16:1 “The preparations of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord (this is a work that the Lord does that only accompanies faith).”

Matthew 24:44 Therefore you also be ready, for in such an hour as you do not think, the Son of man comes.

Matthew 25:10 “And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.”

Much to the surprise to our fellowship, the works that the Lord told us that he needed to do was to prepare our hearts to receive the new thing that was coming; to cleanse of the sins of unbelief, reasonings, doubt, and fear. Again, this was quite contrary to the instructions given by those prophesying of the doom and gloom, saying that one prepares by gathering food and heading for the hills. The Lord did not have to work in us concerning any unbelief or doubts that Jesus is the Son of God, nor did he have to work in us concerning any unbelief or doubts that Jesus was crucified and resurrected from the dead, and neither did he have work in us to believe that our sins are all covered by the blood of Christ. No, it was none of these beliefs but rather it was that we needed to come into the belief and the faith that is of Jesus Christ. This belief and faith is a spiritual faith and belief, and it is the belief that makes all things possible. This is a belief that does not put any boundaries on the love that God has for us, nor does it put any limitations on the power that God is willing to show us, and give to us. I was quite excited about what the Lord was beginning to show us because I had always wondered how a man could come into that state of belief where seeing the impossible to be done is the natural thing, and not the supernatural. I knew that Jesus would not have spoken of this faith and belief unless he intended for us to come into it, to make it real and true for us.

The Lord gave me a vision where I saw a bunch of angels that were gathered together in heaven, and they were all looking at the men on earth. Each one of these angels was amazed at all of the unbelief, the reasonings, the doubts, the rebellion, and the fears towards God that they saw in the hearts of all men. But what really had all of these angels astonished was how men esteemed and believed that all such thinking was that which is real and true. It was as they were looking on men as though we were some kind of weird aliens, which we were to them because they had no such thoughts within them. The inhabitants of the earth are aliens because the children of darkness are separated from the God who created and loves them because of their unbelief, ignorance, doubts, fears, pride, and reasonings. It is these thoughts of darkness that make God to be nothing more than a fictional character in the illusions of their mind. It was this thinking in man that these angels looked on, and they could not comprehend how any man could think that these thoughts were real and true. It was like they had never seen any such creatures that had ever possessed any of these thoughts.

Colossians 1:21 “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled.”

Ephesians 4:17,18 NIV “So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.

The Lord began to show us that the only way for our faith to increase and the only way for belief to be perfected was for us to allow Jesus to increase in us, because Jesus, as that Spirit, is the belief and that faith that we do not have. For him to increase, we needed to decease in our fears, doubts, and unbelief. The only thing that we need for God to perform his promises, or his words, or that which is impossible for us, is to believe. The Lord showed us that the more we believe, the more we will ask of him; the more we ask of him, the more he will do; the more he does, the more will believe; the more we believe, the more he will do. Of course, once the Lord begins to do great and mighty things within you or for you, then your joy and peace begin to multiply, and you begin to stay in an constant state of hungering and thirsting for the Lord to do more because his joy and peace is so, so good. This path to the unbeliever may seem tedious, but that is only because he cannot see the work that the Lord is doing within, just like no one could see that the woman with the menstrous condition could see that she got healed. Who looks for joy and peace to come as a result of God working in your belief? What man is able to see what another man believes?

Mark 9:23 “If you can believe then all things shall be possible”.

John 6:28 Then the disciples asked, “Lord, what shall we do that we might do the works of God?” Jesus answered and said, “This is the work of God that you believe on him who he sent.”

Philippians 1:6 “Be confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

Romans 15:13 NASB “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

I was then praying one morning when the Lord asked, “Mitt, do you believe my words?” I answered, “Lord, I think that I do.” Then the Lord asked, “Do you love your enemies and bless those who curse you?” Knowing that the Lord knows all of the thoughts and intents of my heart, I knew that I could not hide anything from him; so I answered no. Then the Lord asked me again, “Do you believe my words?”. Again, I answered that I thought that I did. Then the Lord said, “Mitt, if you believed my word, then they would be written in your heart by my Spirit, and it would be natural for you to love your enemies and to bless those who curse you. You can only believe my words after my Spirit has been joined together with my words; and when they are joined together in your heart, your nature shall become as my words. I will join my Spirit to all the words that you sow to me; that is, I will join my Spirit to all the words that you ask for my Spirit to come to. Only after my Spirit comes to you shall you receive the belief that allows for you to delight in loving your enemies and blessing those who curse you. At this moment, you only agree with the scriptures, that they are my words, but you do not believe them. You agree that these words are from me, but how to delight in doing them you have not found because you have not received my Spirit. The power to perform my words does not come from agreeing with my word but it comes only by my Spirit; and my Spirit believes all of my words and delights in doing them all. Without my Spirit, it is impossible for any to love their enemies because only my Spirit is able to love your enemies. Ask for my Spirit.” Talk about shock and awe! I was simply stunned. My desire to enter into this new realm of the Spirit shot through the roof like a rocket. If God was willing to give me his Spirit that would change my nature, then I was willing to receive it. Talk about a new thing, I just could not reason within myself what it would truly be like to have a heart and mind that by nature would love my enemies and bless those who have cursed me. Surely this would be a great and mighty work that only the Lord God almighty could do. My heart still burns with great desire to be like my heavenly Father.

John 12:47 “Jesus said, “If any man hears my words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. He that rejects me has not received my words and he has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken shall judge him in the last day.”

Romans 7:18 “For I know that no good thing dwells in my flesh; for to will (he agrees) is present with me, but how to perform (believe) that which is good I cannot find.”

Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spoke to me saying, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel saying, “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit“, says the Lord of hosts.

It was with this explanation that I began to see and truly understand the difference between the play-acting of hypocrisy and the doing of things by nature that comes by the power (nature) of his Spirit. Who considers anything a work that he has delight and pleasure in doing? Hypocrisy is the work that comes forth when the words of God are joined together with the works of man. None of these works are real and true, but they are only imitations and pretenses because they are not that which is natural for the spirit of man to do. The only delight that those have who do such works is that they feel good about themselves because they feel justified by their own works. These also find pleasure in the praise, the honor, and the glory that others may give to him for their efforts. When belief comes in through then Spirit of the Lord, then by the nature of his Spirit a man will delight in doing God’s will. When I played the game of hypocrisy, I was really good at this play-acting because that is what seemed to come so naturally to me. If I did not love my brethren or my enemies, then pretending like I did seemed like the only choice that I had so that I could appear righteous.

I tried to make my imitations and pretenses to be real and true, but it just got to the point where I could not carry that burden any more, the burden of living the lie. Who has life who lives the lie? I was also tired of being afraid that someone, some how, might find out that I was not really who I pretended to be. In fact, when the Lord showed me the truth about my iniquities (self-righteous efforts and works) and hypocrisies, that they were neither real nor true, I saw myself as one who Jesus was speaking to when he said, “Come to me all you who are heavy laden (with play-acting) and take my yoke (his Spirit) upon you; for my yoke is light and easy.” I am so thankful that the Lord did not take long to correct me of this because even though I played that game well, it was just miserable for me to try and make the lies of pretense to appear real and true. Is this a game that any one wins at? Many will give up on God because they actually believe that it is God that requires them to play this game. Sadly, there are those who have played this game for so long, and so well, that they actually believe that they have won because they have come to believe that their pretenses and hypocrisies are that which is real and true. As for me, I was so happy that the victory is in Jesus who reveals the truth about what is real; and his truth delivered me from my own works. I knew that I was really going to love going into this deeper realm of belief where the Spirit would completely set me free from all these heavy works of hypocrisy and the illusions of pretense. Then, and only then, can a man believe that he is real and true.

Psalm 90:8 “I delight to do your will for your law (the law of the Spirit of life) is in my heart.”

Even though I really loved all of these works that the Lord has done in me and for me, I still felt like I was missing a friend, a tugging from that old faith. In those dry times, I would hear the words coming back to entice me to do my own works so that I could again feel good about myself, as though these works is what I needed to do to make my Christianity to be real and true. I also missed that feeling that my own works gave to me, like this was my purpose. But thanks be to God, the Lord would come and remind me how contrary these two understandings of faith were, and those thoughts would just go back into the darkness, like a prostitute walks back into the night when she has been rejected. Even so, I began to wonder what was coming because I wanted to get past all of this correction of my doubts and unbelief. I then had this thought “Lord, why is it that you are showing me so much about belief and faith? I mean, how much more is there for me to learn about them?” I asked this question because I felt like I was growing kind of weary of just hearing about faith and belief. To my surprise, the Lord had been listening to my thoughts because he spoke and said, “When you were under the old faith, you felt far from my presence, and that is because you were always weighed down with your hypocrisies and mindful of all the many works that you thought I required for you to perform. But in the new faith, you are drawing nearer to my heart and more mindful of me because you are now looking for me to perform my words for you. If then your only obligation in this new faith is for you to believe on me, then would you not expect for there to be much to learn about your belief and faith? All that I am able to do for you can only be done according to the faith and belief that is in you. The more you believe my words, the more great and mighty works you shall see me perform in your heart.”

Isaiah 29:13,14 NKJ “Therefore the Lord said: “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men. Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work among this people, a marvelous work and a wonder; For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”

Romans 8:5 NKJ “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.”

Isaiah 26:3 NKJ “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in You.”

Matthew 9:29 NIV “Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith it will be done to you.”

Matthew 8:13 NIV “Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go! It will be done just as you believed it would." And his servant was healed at that very hour.”

Luke 1:45-49 NIV “Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!” And Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me— holy is his name.”

Then the Lord opened the eyes of my understanding to see and comprehend that it is not possible for any fleshly understanding of his words to birth anything other than the fleshy works of man; and like-wise, it is not possible for the spiritual understanding to birth any thing other than the works performed by God. I then also understood that they that are born after the flesh delight in their own righteousness that is birthed out of the works of their own hands because it leads to them to feel they have justified themselves, and now they also feel good about themselves, just like what I was feeling for a time. So also, those who are born after the Spirit are those who delight only in the works of God; the works that are birthed out of the righteousness of their belief and faith. It is also by his hand that God justifies them by the works that he performs in their hearts and minds. I must admit that I was greatly frightened to see the reality of how far I had gotten from the Lord because of my own understanding of his words. If the understanding of that word in James had not come from the Lord, then I would have continued believing that the works of my hands and my hypocrisies were that which was real and true. It is not the words that need to be changed, but our understanding of them.

Romans 9:31 NIV “But Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the “stumbling stone.”

Luke 16:15 “And he said unto them, “Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.”

Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Romans 4:4,5 NKJ “But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works.”

The Lord then continued speaking to me about belief and faith. “I am showing you much about your belief and your faith to prepare you for my coming; for when I come, I will be looking for those whose faith has been purified and made holy. Is it not written that the trying of your faith is more precious than gold that is tried in the fire, so that your faith made be found unto praise, and honor, and glory at my appearing? Do you believe that I am as good as my word, that I will truly do all things for you as my word says that I will? Do you believe that I love you? Do you believe that I will never leave you or forsake you? Do you trust me with all your being? Do you believe that I will protect you when the darkness comes? Do you believe that I am able to deliver you from every evil work? Do you believe that you have no need to worry about your life, that I will provide all that which you have need of? Do you believe that I can change the intents of your heart? Do you believe that I can establish life and peace in all of your thinking? Do you believe that it is truly my hearts desire to give my kingdom to you? Do you believe that I am able to raise you and make you to be the son who is to be equal with God?

II Timothy 4:18 “And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work…”

Philippians 2:5 “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”

When I try your faith, it is so that you can really see what you believe and where your faith is. The trial of your faith does not come as an opportunity for you to show me how strong you are in your own faith or how determined you are in your own will, but trials come to you the weaknesses of your unbelief, your doubts, your reasonings, your pride, your unwillingness, and your fears. Are not all these things the impurities that corrupt all faith and belief? So when you are tried, do not be afraid when you see any of these impurities, but prepare to offer your weaknesses before me. Remember that I have showed you that the consciousness of the spiritual mind is belief. Will you allow for me to purge your consciousness of the dead thoughts that defile your faith and belief with fear, unbelief, pride, unwillingness, reasonings, and doubts? When I try your faith, it is to set you free from the unrighteous thoughts that separate you from life. When you confess this unrighteousness, then I will come and show myself to faithful to you, and I will cleanse and purge you of all these impurities. Be faithful to my words, and I will be faithful to you. When I have cleansed you, then shall you find that faith and belief that will cause your heart to abound with hope, and joy and peace. The more you allow for me cleanse you, the more you will believe; the more you believe, the more joy and peace will abound in you. I am the faith that is to found unto praise, and honor, and glory.

I Peter 1:6,7 NASB “In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

Luke 18:8 NASB “….However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?"

Hebrews 9:14 NASB “How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

Revelation 21:8 “But the fearful, and unbelieving…shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.”

Hebrews 3:19 “So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.”

Now and understand. In the spiritual realm, all things are possible because all have the mind of Christ, and the mind of Christ is the consciousness that believes all things. No man can come into the spiritual realm except those who are like-minded in Christ. I am your belief, and I your holy faith. I am holy, and you be holy. I am the belief that allows for you to enter into the Holy of Holies, to draw near unto Father. No man can enter into the Holy realm except those who believe that all things are possible with God. No man can enter into the Holy realm who brings an offering of his “good intentions” and “best efforts”. No man can enter into the Holy realm that honors the unrighteousness of unbelief, carnal reasonings, doubts, pride, unwillingness, or fear to be that which is right and truth. Even so, many will be allowed to enter into the Holy realm who bring their unbelief, their carnal reasonings, their doubts, their unwillingness, their pride, and their fears to present them as burnt offering sacrifices before God; for our God is a consuming fire. All these who delight in offering their unrighteousness before Father are they who will be cleansed and purged. Those who give unto Father their unrighteousness shall be they who Father gives the gift of righteousness: ME! He who decreases in his unbelief and doubts is he who increases in ME. I am the gift of God. I am the gift of faith and belief that brings forth righteousness. You can do nothing without me because I alone believe that all things are possible! I am the faith that saves you. I am the Christ, the gift that Father is offering to all who will come to me. I am the door. I am the door into the Holy of holies. No man comes to the Father except through me. I am the door of belief that opens the way into Father‘s heart. I will be the holy faith and the belief for all who will have me.

Jude 20,21 NIV But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit (believing). Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

Philippians 3:8-10 “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith, that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.”

Hebrews 4:9-11 “There remained therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he hath ceased from his own works as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.”

Hebrews 8:8-11 NKJ “The Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing. It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience—concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation. But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.

John 14:6 NIV Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

John 10:7-9 NASB “So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.”

I Peter 1:16 “Because it is written, “Be ye holy; for I am holy.”

I was overwhelmed with these words and went into much meditation, trying to comprehend the depth of the truth of all that which I had just heard. My mind went completely quiet to the thoughts that questioned why the Lord was showing me so much about belief and faith. Instead of feeling that I was full of faith and belief, I now felt like I was greatly lacking. I felt so ignorant and foolish for even asking such a question. I clearly saw the vanity of every thought that I had ever had that said that I could do anything pleasing and acceptable before God of myself. It was now all so clear for me to see, for when I was atheist, I had no belief or faith, and now I know that Jesus, as the Christ of faith and belief entered into me. Jesus is truly all in all. Here I had been focused on the belief and faith that just asks the Lord to work in my heart and mind, and now he was showing me how he, as this holy faith and belief is the door that allows for one to enter into the Holy place. Was this the plan of God, to make Jesus to be the belief and faith that makes us righteous in the sight of God? Then the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me that which is written in Romans 10:10 NIV “For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified…” That is it Lord, now I see that Jesus is that belief and faith seeks to dwell in our hearts that allows us to draw near to Father in his holy presence; for the heart that does not draw near is that heart that does not believe, lacking Jesus Christ. It is not laws and commandments that keep us mindful of you, but it is you, the consciousness of faith and belief. This is the real work that you need to work in our hearts, so that we may believe that all things are possible with you.

John 6:28,29 “Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”

The Lord confirmed this new revelation about belief while we were in worship and prayer one evening. While we were praying, the Spirit of the Lord urged me to ask, “Lord, your word says that when two or more are gathered together in your name that you are here in the midst of us. Lord, in what manner are you present with us?” The Lord immediately answered and said, “I am your belief; I am in your faith”. Wow! I then realized what Paul had been speaking of when he spoke of having the “faith of Christ” and not the “faith in Christ“; that is, he had the faith and the belief that is of the Spirit, and that Spirit is Christ; and this is that faith and belief that leads us into that realm where “all things” are possible; a realm where the darkness of Satan’s lies cannot tempt us with any of the lies of fear, or doubt, or unbelief. If a man lacks faith or belief, he does not need faith or belief, he needs more of Jesus who is that spirit of faith and belief. Now it was clear to me why John the Baptist said, “I must decrease so that he can increase”’ why the disciples said, “Lord, increase our faith; and why Paul said, “It is God who gives us the increase.“ This revelation sure takes the burden out of any human effort trying to do any of the works that the Lord has instructed of us through the scriptures. It also brings clear understanding to that which Jesus said in John 15:5 “Without me (faith and belief), you can do nothing.” All that we have need of is Jesus, he that is freely given to all of us who call on him. Then shall we believe his words and do the works of God because it is he in us doing the works in us.

The Lord gave my daughter Ansley a vision where she saw Jesus in the most restful and peaceful state that she has ever seen or witnessed in her life. She had such a desire to be in that same place as he was in that she asked, “Lord, how can I get enter into this place where you are?” Jesus answered, “Cry out for the belief!” This state of mind that Ansley saw Jesus in was probably not whole lot different than the state of mind that he was in when slept through that great and mighty storm that had come him and his disciples when they were in that boat. The storm was tossing that little boat around so that it completely swamped it out with water. Now most of his disciples were men that had grown up as fisherman, and surely they had been caught in many bad storms. But this storm was so great that they all thought that they were surely going to perish. Where was Jesus while the rest of them were working to save their lives? Asleep.

It is obvious that his disciples were still carnally minded, believing that the outcome to their situation was going to be what their fears and doubts were dictating to them, that they were soon going to perish. This storm had revealed their doubts, their fears, and their unbelief towards God; and by these unrighteous thoughts, their minds were greatly troubled and tormented. But Jesus was spiritual minded, in that spiritual realm of belief that worldly situations are powerless to dictate any “worst case scenarios”; for in this spiritual realm, one only thinks that all things are possible. Jesus had peace because he had no other thoughts than knowing that his heavenly Father is always in complete control over all the circumstances and situations that may arise in this life. Then when their unbelief and fears woke Jesus up, they said in Mark 4:38 “Master, do you not care that we are perishing?” Then Jesus arose and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace, be still.” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he then said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?” Later, we ourselves were praying when the Lord asked us, “Are you willing to get into a swamped out boat so that you may see the care of my love and the power that I am willing to work on your behalf? If not, then would it not be wise for you to cry out for the belief.”

What is easier for Jesus to do: to command the stormy winds and seas to be at peace or to command the stormy thoughts in our minds to be at peace? So many seek and ask for peace to come, hoping that the Lord will change their situations rather than to change their minds with the belief that brings joy and peace with it. Those who have no change in their belief are those who will always be looking for he Lord to change their situations because they will find themselves continually in bondage to the same fears and doubts that always trouble and torment them. Now those who have offered their fears, their doubts, and their unbelief before the Lord when the storm arose, they will be purged and cleansed of these unrighteous thoughts, and they will sleep in peace right through the next storm, because the peace of God, Jesus will rule in their hearts and minds. Jesus could have cared less about that storm because there were no storms of doubt or fear that blow through the thoughts of his mind. Jesus is the gift of God, that gift of belief and faith that freely causes all joy and peace to come to those who cry out to him for it. Where else is a man able to go to get the faith and belief that he does not presently have? “O Lord, increase our faith and give unto us your Spirit that believes all things!”

Luke 11:13 “If you then, being evil (unbelief) know how to give good gifts to your children: then how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit (belief) to them that ask him?

Chapter 4 “Oh Mr. Christian, what a big, beautiful heart you have”, said the wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing.

Strongholds: Things that are believed and trusted to be right and true.

Not long after the Lord had said to me, “If I am not working in your heart, then your faith is dead”, I received this word from the Lord, “If you will give to me your heart, then I will make it beautiful in my sight.” At that time, I thought that all that the Lord needed to do to give me a heart was to work in me to completely believe on him for all things. I was then praying one morning when the Lord spoke to me and said, “Mitt, did you know that I do not desire anything in the heart of my bride other than that which you desire to have in the heart of your bride? Just as you, I desire for my bride to be faithful and truthful with me, that she trusts me, that she honors me, that she believes on me, that she be honest and loyal to me, that she be willing to be my bride, and that she loves me with all of her heart, all of her mind, and all of her soul.” I then realized that the Lord had just revealed to me the nature of the heart that is beautiful in his sight; and the issues of that heart are truth, honesty, trust, belief, faithfulness, willingness, loyalty, honor, and love. At that moment, I could only image our great such a relationship would be after all of these principals were perfected. It is as it is written, God does not look for beauty in the outward appearances of men, but in the heart. “Lord, make my heart beautiful in your sight.”

I Samuel 16:7 “But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look not on his appearance or on the height of his stature because I have refused him: for the Lord does not see as a man sees; for a man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Matthew 23:27,28 NASB "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. So you too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.”

Then the Lord gave me a vision where I saw two R’s (RR), and my first thought was that the Lord was going to show me something about a railroad. But the Lord then said, “Today, I am giving you a choice between religion or relationship. I did not come into this world to bring religion, but I did come to restore a relationship between Father and his children. I truly realized then that this walk is not really about religion, but it is all about a people, a bride that God is preparing to spend all of eternity with by beautifying their hearts. The Lord then allowed for me to understand that all of these issues of the heart, they are the principals that are needful and necessary for the relationship, the communication, the friendship, and the marriage that the Lord desires to have with each one of us. It was then that understood why Satan attacks the church with the weapons of lies that do nothing but sow unbelief, distrust, pride, unwillingness, rebellion, doubts, fear, whoredoms, as well as all of the lies of self-righteousness; for these are the very principals that will break up any relationship. My eyes were also open to see how the hypocrisies of religion are able to break up this relationship that Father desires to have with his people because they dictate that a man should keep his focus on himself, to try to make himself to be the best Christian he can make of himself, which does not allow for men to draw near to God asking for him to make them to be his children. It was then that I finally felt like I understood why I had felt so far from God when I had tried to play-act my Christianity through my “best efforts” and “good intentions”. What else needed to be said but, “Lord, create in me a new heart; the heart of your bride.”

Matthew 15:7-9 Jesus said, “You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy about you saying, “This people draw near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.”

Psalm 51:10 NLT Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me.”

I really had no clue as to how the Lord was going to create this new heart in me, and I was wondering what I might need to be doing to allow for him to finish this work that he had started in me. I was riding down the interstate one afternoon when the Lord gave this vision to me: I saw a castle that was an exact replica of your typical medieval castle, except that this castle was much, much smaller. It’s walls were only about 10 feet high and 10 feet long, yet, it still somehow was able to possess all of the intricate features that you would expect to find on one of those large castles in England. It was a beautiful castle that seemed so alive with activity, and there were banners, and tapestries, and linen curtains everywhere that were flapping in the winds. I then observed that each wall had a door, and on both sides of each door was a guard. Each guard was completely outfitted with a full suit of armor, from head to toe, exactly fashioned in the same armor as the castle guards in medieval times had. Each guard was holding in one hand a sword, and in the other hand he was holding a battle ax that was mounted on then end of a 8 foot long staff. I was able to observe this castle for quite some time, and I was amazed at how a castle so small could have all of the details of much larger castles. There did not seem to be any detail missing. Even with all of it’s beauty and glory, the thing that still stood out the most was why would a castle so small need to be guarded with these eight men.

So I then asked, “Lord, what is in this castle that it needs to be so heavily guarded?”

The Lord answered, “Your righteousness; that is, everything that your heart believes and trusts to be right and true. For all that which a man treasures in his heart is rooted and grounded in those things that he believes and trust in. Such things as your own religion, your opinions, your abilities, your money, your own will, your loyalties, your doctrines, your politics, your self-respect, your traditions, your own understanding, your feelings and emotions, your self-confidence, your relationships, your job, your name, your own interpretation of the scriptures, your judgments of other men, as well as all of your own judgments of what you believe to be good & evil, right & wrong, and truth & lies. These are the precious treasures that every man values in his heart; and he will guard them above all things, even with his life. Do not every man protect those things that he values to be precious to him? Do you not know that every man lives his entire life according to the things that he believes to be right and true? It is this standard that men use to set the course of their lives.

Would a man treasure anything other than that which his heart trusts to be right and true? Do not all men treasure these same things? Do not all men treasure those things that they accomplish for themselves? Do not all men treasure their own reputations, that is, the name that they make for themselves? Do not all men believe and trust that the image that they have of God is that right and true image? Do not all men treasure their own opinions, that which they have formed for themselves? Do not all men treasure the judgment of their own decisions and counsels? Do not all men treasure their judgments and opinions of other men? Is it not written that every way of man, or rather, every decision or judgment that a man makes, that it seems right in his own eyes? Do not men believe and trust things to be right and true that agree with their own consciousness or their natural senses? Is it that which is natural that is right and true, or is it that which is spiritual that is right and true? Is it not also written that the Lord, he who looks on the hearts of men, that he sees that there are none who are right? Who then is blind in their seeing, man on earth or the Lord God above? It was at that moment that the word righteousness took on a much broader definition for me, going far beyond that which I had only associated with religion, but to be that which reaches into every part of man’s life, defining for him how he should live his life.

Proverbs 21:2 NASB “Every man's way is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts.”

Then I asked, “Lord, what then do these castle guards represent?” The Lord answered and said, “Your pride! Pride is your personal bodyguard that is always ready to defend and protect all things that your heart treasures to be right and true. These guards of pride will count all to be adversaries and enemies that oppose or contradict any of these things that the heart treasures to be right and true. When any counsel, or correction, or word, or instruction, or deed, or any opinion is heard that opposes or contradicts that which is believed to be right and true, then pride will come forth to fight against it as an enemy that is trying to overthrow that which has been trusted and believed in. Pride will either seek to defend and protect your treasures by either closing the door of your ears so that you will not hear, or by hardening your heart so that you will not believe, or by arguing against, or by scoffing, or by making light of, or by contending with, or by mocking, or by getting offended, or by fighting with. From where comes all of your arguments, your divisions, your anger, your offences, your divorces, your disagreements, your hatred and malice, your unforgiveness, your dissolved friendships, your revenge, your strivings, your fighting’s, as well as all of the wounds in your hurt feelings except from the words spoken that transgress that which you have treasured to be right and true? Does not the world say, “It is the principal of the matter”; that is, that you should always fight for all that which your heart treasures to be right and true? All these things will pride do to defend and protect that which has been believed on to be right and true. All this will a man do to keep from suffering any loss to that which his heart treasures. Now do you see and understand why the castle of your heart needs to be so heavily guarded, to save the righteousness that you live your life according to? Do you see how well your pride has equipped itself so that it may defend and protect your life?

Proverbs 16:5 AMP. “Everyone proud and arrogant in heart is disgusting, hateful, and exceedingly offensive to the Lord; be assured [I pledge it] they will not go unpunished.”

Pride takes great pleasure in the exalting and glorifying itself in all that it believes to be right and true. Pride is that spirit that only loves the entity of “self“, and it hates all things that are opposed to “self”. Pride works feverishly to keep “self” protected from all things that would bring harm, or injury, or offense, or any kind of blemish to it’s “self” image. Pride is only conscious of “self”, and is always mindful of those things which it considers to be beneficial to “self”. Anything that pride sees or hears that is beneficial or pleasing to “self”, or that seems to satisfy any of the desires of “self", then it will gladly open the door to the castle of your heart and allow it entrance in”, says the Lord. “If it sees or hears anything that agrees with that which your heart treasures, then it shall also gladly allow entrance also. If pride sees or hears anything that agrees with it’s feelings, or with it’s emotions, or with it’s “self” desires, then it shall be esteemed as a friend, and it shall be allowed to enter into the precious treasury of the heart. So do you see, that by pride, anything that agrees with “self”, it shall be called a friend and allowed entrance in; while anything that opposes or disagrees with “self” shall be called an enemy and an adversary?

Philippians 2:21 NKJ “For they all seek their own, not the things which are of Jesus Christ.”

Pride only loves for “self” to be in control, and it always resists in submitting itself to any authority, or power, or flesh, or spirit, or even God himself. These guards of pride will also allow entrance to those things which seem to be able to provide “self” with a sense of security, or with power, or with strength, or with authority, or with any ability that will profit or help “self”. It is by pride that a man will even make himself to be Lord and God over his own Christianity. Pride only desires for “self” to be in control over all of the circumstances and situations that may arise. These proud guards will also swing the doors of your castle wide open so as to allow in the gifts of praise, of honor, of esteem, of respect, of glory to enter in that comes to exalt “self”. Does not the heart of man greatly treasure all these and such-like words? Did you not know that there is no way easier way for an enemy and an adversary to enter into the castle of your heart than by bringing with him the gifts of flattery; especially those lying words that exalt a man for his “best efforts” and his “good intentions”. Oh, Mr. Christian, what a big, beautiful heart you have”, said the wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing. Pride only loves the beauty of it’s own castle, and it will always be envious and jealous of another man’s castle when it appears to be bigger, or more prosperous, or more beautiful than it’s own?” Can you now see the purpose of pride, and why it is pride that seeks to guard and protect the treasures of your own righteousness?”

Luke 16:15 AMP “But He said to them, You are the ones who declare yourselves just and upright before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted and highly thought of among men is detestable and abhorrent (an abomination) in the sight of God.”

Proverbs 16:5 NASB Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; Assuredly, he will not be unpunished.

After I had meditated on these words, I then asked, “Lord, do these castle walls represent anything that you want me to know about?” The Lord then answered and said, “These are the walls of self-justification; for it is through the work of self-justification that a man is able to make all things to be right and true that he desires to have as a part of his life. There is no desire that burns greater in the hearts of men than the desire to be right in all that he does, all that he thinks, and all that he speaks. Therefore, there is no place in the heart that is any busier than in the workshop that cunningly crafts out the works of self-justification. It is through these works that a man is able to make all of his ways, all of his decisions, all of his works and efforts, all of his reasons, all of his religion, all of his lusts and desires, all of his relationships, all of his opinions, all of his politics, all his judgments, all of his traditions, all of his emotions and feelings, all of his excuses, and all of the blame that he places elsewhere, to be right and true in his own eyes. This is the idolatry of natural man, to make “self” to be righteous, even more righteous that God. The more that he is able to make right and true, the more of “self” there will be to esteem, to honor, to respect, to praise, and to glorify. Now do you see how once a thing has been justified, it then becomes that which is believed on and trusted in to be right and true; and once a thing is believed on and trusted in to be right and true, then shall it be stored with all of the other treasures in the heart. Do you now see and understand what pride defends and protects, and what is hiding behind the walls of self-justification? For as pride loves “self”, so also does “self”-justification love being right. What could possibly have a stronger hold over a man’s heart and over his thinking than those things which he has justified to be right and believed on to be truth? In the natural realm, the works of “self-justification” seem like that which is right and true.

Job 40:7,8 “Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Will thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

Matthew 6:21 NKJ “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

Proverbs 21:16 “There is a way that seems right unto man, but the end thereof is way of death.”

Luke 16:15 NKJ “And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.”

The Lord continued, “Does not my word testify that I, the Lord your God, see that the heart of man is deceitful above all things? Is there anything that can be more deceitful than for a man to have the ability in his heart to take that which is not wrong, or that which his false, or that which is evil, and then through the works of self-justification, he is able to make his decisions, or his judgments, or his opinions, or his deeds, or his words to appear as that which seems right, or true, or good?” Then the Lord said this, “Mitt, if you can understand the deceitfulness of self-justification, then you will be able to understand all of the power that Satan uses to deceive all men. When the lies of Satan and the wisdom of man are joined together, then comes forth illusions of self-justification that seem real and true. It is in these illusions that make wrong ways seem right, that makes lies to appear as the truth, that makes the works of iniquity to appear as righteousness, and that make darkness to appear as the light. Satan speaks the lies that the wisdom of man desires to hear, and it is this wisdom that then goes to work to justify his lies. Has not my word instructed you not to be wise in your own eyes? Have I not said that I would freely and liberally give my wisdom to whoever lacked it? Do not men feel comfortable and justified in their own reasonings and excuses? Have you seen any shame in the heart of a man that thinks that he is right in what he believes and trusts in? Have you seen in godly sorrow in the hearts and minds of those who delight in the works of their own righteousness? This is the power of darkness; the power that deceives men into believing that things are as they appear in the sight of men. This is also that lie that says, “If it is right in my sight, then surely it must be right in the sight of God.”

Jeremiah 17:9 NKJ “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, Who can know it.”

Proverbs 16:25 NASB “There is a way that seems right to a man, but it’s end is the way of death.”

Luke 11:35 “Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.”

Luke 18:9-14 NASB “And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: “God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. “I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get”. But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, “God, be merciful to me, the sinner!” I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

You know that it is written that when I came into this world, my own people could not see any beauty in me that they should desire for themselves. Is it not also written that those who loved to justify themselves then rejected, despised, blasphemed, scorned, and hated me so much that they spit on me, mocked me, tortured me and crucified me? Is your righteousness so precious to you that you would also reject me? Did they not crucify me for the sake of self-preservation, so that they could hold fast to their treasured possessions? Would you reject me if I do not honor you, or praise you, or glorify you, or flatter you so as to not contribute to the beauty of your own castle? Are you going to be like many who I have called, but then they make light of their calling because of their ignorance of my calling? Have I not called all of you to come into the righteousness of abundant life? I see all of those illusions that disguise and fashion themselves with appearance of righteousness. I see all those things which are hidden in the dark places of a man’s heart and mind that he does not want to be made known. I do not look on the appearances of the castle of your heart, but I look deep into the castle to see that which your heart treasures. The castle that you see, this is how you see the castle of your heart, all arrayed in the beauty of your own goodness and decked out in your own righteousness.

I Kings 8:38-40 NASB “Whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house; then hear in heaven, Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men, that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You have given to our fathers.”

Then the Lord asked, “Mitt, would you allow for me to show you how I see your castle; the truth about that which some of those things your heart has been treasuring?” I then immediately froze for a moment, fearful that if the Lord had to ask me such a question, then it could only mean that he did not see the beauty and splendor of my castle as I did. Even so, I knew from past experiences that the Lord has never brought anything into the light that he was not ready to change or redeem with his Spirit. I also knew from my past experiences with him that everything that the Lord has ever brought into the light for me, that which was once treasured in my eyes, I would suddenly see it to be the foolishness or the vanity that he saw it to be. I remembered how I had treasured my own righteous works until the Lord told me that it is his righteous works that are to accompany my faith; and all of the works that he had done for me since have simply been awesome. And there was one more thing that I remembered, and that is that I have come to learn that when the Lord comes to correct or to change something within me, then it does not come by punishment, but by his Spirit; and his Spirit brings forth that good life. In fact, because all of his works have been such a blessing to me, it has allowed for him to win my trust, my loyalty, my faith, my belief, and my love. I then gave him permission to open my eyes so that I could see the castle of my heart as he saw it.

I Samuel 16:7 NAS “But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

Suddenly my eyes were opened and what I saw did not at all resemble the castle that I has previously seen, but rather it looked like one of the most terrifying haunted castles that I have ever seen, whether in a movie, or on any TV show, or any that I have seen pictured in a book. There were no banners, or tapestries, or linen curtains blowing in the wind, and neither did I see any beautiful or lively colors anywhere in this castle. All of the rooms were filled with darkness inside, and it looked as though the entire castle was completely void of life. This castle had none of the glory as I had seen in the first castle. In fact, it was as if this castle was only a habitation of decay, death, and darkness. I then saw different kinds of dark spirits floating around as though they were ghost; and they just seem to freely drift in and out of the windows and the broken down doors. This entire castle appeared to be in a total state of disrepair, and decay, and neglect. I was really shocked to see this haunted castle because I really had not been expecting to see anything like this.

I Corinthians 4:5 NIV “Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.”

Isaiah 57:12 “I will declare your righteousness and your works (of darkness), for they shall not profit.”

The vision of this haunted castle really took me by surprise. I then asked, “Lord, is this some kind of sin that may have been hidden in my heart? Is this truly how you see my heart because this haunted castle is so contrary to how I see my heart.” Then the Lord said, “If you have believed my word, then you would know that what I am showing you is true. Do not be afraid of what you see because the grace of my love always covers you. Is it not written that there are none who are righteous in the sight of God? Is it not also written that there are none who are good in the sight of God?” I knew that these words were true, but I had never really seen why they were written. I then answered, “Yes Lord. But what are the things within me that are haunting my castle?” The Lord answered, “The spirit of FEAR.” Then the Lord began to open my eyes so that I could see that all these ghost-like spirits that I had seen drifting around were nothing but spirits of fear. Then the Lord said, “All that which has been haunting your castle are these spirits of fear that have been haunting you in your own thoughts. This is the death that rules over the thoughts of the carnal mind.”

Romans 8:6 NKJ “For to be carnally minded is death…”

Psalm 94:11 “The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.”

Isaiah 65:2 “I have spread out my hands all day long to a rebellious (will not listen or trust) people, which walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts.”

Then the Lord opened my eyes to see that all of these ghosts were spirits of fear, and they all had different natures. I then saw that there were names written across each one’s chests that identified exactly what the nature of fear that fearful spirit was. These are just a few of the names of these spirits that I saw: the fear of dying; the fear of man; the fear of not being in control; the fear of loss, the fear of making a mistake; the fear of being judged by others; the fear of suffering; the fear of hearing the truth; the fear of insecurity; the fear of not being right; the fear of getting sick; the fear of failure; the fear of being different; the fear of abuse; the fear of poverty; the fear of being accused; the fear of heights; the fear of being used by others; the fear of not being able to justify mistakes or faults; the fear of losing; the fear of adversity; the fear of appearing foolish; the fear of shame; the fear of not measuring up; the fear of not understanding; the fear of the future; the fear of being deceived; the fear of the loss of possessions; the fear of growing old; the fear of being embarrassed, the fear of the loss of a job; the fear of being condemned; the fear of being late; the fear of not being accepted; the fear of change; the fear of being left out; the fear of weaknesses or sins being exposed; the fear that you will not get your will; the fear of the unknown; the fear of what others think; the fear of being asked to do something that you cannot possibly do; the fear of failing health; and the fears that one has for the safety and security for his children, or his family, or his friends, or for his brethren. I perceived that I was seeing one spirit of fear, but that this one spirit had a legion of different personalities.

Luke 8:28-31 AMP “And when he saw Jesus, he raised a deep (terrible) cry [from the depths of his throat] and fell down before Him [in terror] and shouted loudly, What have You [to do] with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? What have we in common?] I beg You, do not torment me! For Jesus was already commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For many times it had snatched and held him; he was kept under guard and bound with chains and fetters, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the wilderness (desert). Jesus then asked him, What is your name? And he answered, Legion; for many demons had entered him. And they begged [Jesus] not to command them to depart into the Abyss (bottomless pit).”

Romans 8:14,15 AMP “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear…”

As haunting as these group of fears were, it was the next group of haunting spirits that really frightened me. These were the spirits whose only nature and purpose for being was to try and haunt us in our relationship, our communion, and our fellowship with God. These were those spirits that by nature are fearful to believe God; fearful that God has lied to them; fearful to draw near to God; fearful to be corrected by God; fearful to trust God; fearful to confess sins; fearful to ask anything of God; fearful that God will not heal; fearful that God will not forgive; fearful that God would not be there when needed; fearful that God will not answer that which is asked of him; fearful of lack or coming up short; fearful of being persecuted for the name of Christ; fearful that God does not care; fearful because of it’s ignorance of God; fearful to surrender all to God; fearful that God was going to bring it’s shame into the light; fearful that God would forsake me; fearful that God would not be faithful to his word for me; fearful that I was not good enough for God; fearful that God does not love me; fearful that God will not do for me that which he has done for others; fearful that God would limit his mercy and grace towards me; fearful that I was going to be rejected; fearful of being condemned by God; and fears that did nothing but doubt God. I saw that it was impossible for any of these unclean spirits to act in any other nature other than what it’s name was. In other words, the spirit of fear that believes that God is going to reject it, to those who have surrendered their hearts to believe that it’s lying counsel is right and true, then they have no choice but to be in bondage to the belief that God is going to reject them also. As the spirit is, so is the nature of the soul that believes it; for they one in agreement.

Revelation 21:7,8 “He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful and unbelieving….shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.”

Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man brings a snare: but whoever puts his trust in the Lord shall be safe.

Psalm 34:4 “I sought the Lord and he heard me, and he delivered me from “all” my fears.”

Then the Spirit of the Lord opened my understanding so that I could see that though all of these spirits of fear were of different natures, they all had the same purpose, to haunt me with troubling and tormenting thoughts. Because each spirit had a different nature, they could only haunt me when a situation or circumstance arose that agreed with their nature. That is, the fear of heights could only trouble and torment a man when he was in a high place; but for him to haunt that man, that man had to first believe that its counsels were right and true. The fear of man could only trouble a man when a circumstance or situation arose where that man perceived some kind of threat that might come against him from other men. I saw that each fear was limited to where he could only trouble or torment a man when the circumstance or situation arose that matched that spirits nature; and of course, a man first had to believe that the counsels of these unclean spirits was right before he could believe them. Once a man believed any of their counsels, then these spirits could be seen by the fruits of their works that were manifested in either stress, or despair, or uncertainly, or confusion, or terror, or unwillingness, or dread, or hesitation, or fret, or insecurity, or evil suspicions, or distress, or rebellion, or self-condemnation, or worry, or hopelessness, or impatience, or panic, or disappointments, or anxiety, as well as in the thoughts that doubt God, that do not believe God, and that distrust God.

I John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

I then saw another group of spirits that did not appear in the same form as any of these spirits of fear, but I perceived that they were somehow or another all related. When these spirits were present they were just as troubling to a man’s thoughts as any of these spirits the fear were because when they are present in a man’s thoughts, there is then no peace or rest in that man’s mind. These unclean spirits were named envy, malice, depression, jealousy, unforgiveness, confusion, rage, frustration, contention, bitterness, covetousness, vengefulness, strife, hatred, lusts, and anger. It was here that for the first time I began to understand why the Lord says that death rules over the thoughts of the carnal mind. Up until this time, I just thought the death of the carnal mind only had to do with man’s “separation from God”, but I now I could see that the very nature of these troubling, and miserable, and tormenting thoughts was death itself. I even saw that if a man had no fear of dying, then he would never be troubled with any worries or stress about dying. I could now see that there was no peace or life in any of the counsels that these spirits were haunted the castle of my heart. The Lord also opened my eyes to see that death is not only a separation from God, but it is also this actual thinking that is separate from God’s thoughts.

Jeremiah 6:16 “Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.”

Proverbs 1:30,31 “They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices (thoughts, counsels,).”

I then saw two more spirits that seemed to travel side by side, working hand in hand with each other to haunt my castle. One had the words “What If” written across his chest area, and the other had the words “Worst Case Scenario” written on his chest. I can only speak for myself in saying that I clearly recognized both of these spirits, and how they had infected my thinking. I saw how the “What If” seemed to always lead me to into the hands of the “Worst Case Scenario” spirit. The “What If” spirit would come and try to paint many pictures in my thinking that tried to dictate to me how I should fearfully respond or react to situations or circumstance before any of these events even happened. If I have ever met a false prophet, then my eyes were opened to see how these two spirits were nothing but false prophets sent to trouble and torment with their fears about events before they even happen.

I then said, “Lord, now I see how it was these two spirits that many times in my past have had me tossing and turning in my bed, or that have kept me awake most of the night with thoughts of stress, anxiety, and worry. Now Lord I see that all of these thoughts are birthed out of the prophesies that the “What If” or “Worst Case Scenario” spirits bring forth in my imaginations. No wonder your word has instructed us to take no thought for tomorrow, because so many of the thoughts about tomorrow do nothing but open the door for these two spirits to come in “now” to trouble and torment us about tomorrow. As I thought more on how much these two unclean spirits have corrupted so much of my thinking, the Spirit of the Lord then quickened to me that which is written Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to them who love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.” Then the Lord said, “My word is true. This is the only prophesy that you need to be mindful of. No matter how bad a circumstance or situation looks, I am well able to bring forth good out of every one of them. I can part the seas; I can calm the winds; or I can cast out your fears. If you will take up your cross and die to the words of these two unclean spirits, declaring before me that none of their counsels is the right way for you to follow after, then I will come and redeem you from these haunting spirits. I will send forth the Spirit of Life that will set you free from the death that troubles and torments the carnal mind. If you will disown these lies, and not longer esteem their words to be right and true, then I will redeem the “What Ifs” and “Worst Case Scenarios” with the “All things will work together for good”. Then the Lord said to me that no matter circumstance or situation that I could be in, that there is only one worst case scenario that is true, and that is I could lose him.

Luke 9:24 NASB “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.”

Matthew 16:26 “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

The vision had ended, and many days went by when the Lord again took me right back into the same Castle Vision, but directly to the haunted castle part of the vision. This time he took me directly to two places in the castle that I had not previously seen. The first place that the Lord showed to me was the courtyard of the castle. In the first vision that I had of this haunted castle, all of the spirits that I saw were rather small faceless spirits that just seemed to drift about or hover in the air, but these spirits that I saw in courtyard walked upright on two feet. Other than being very dark black, these spirits had no other features that resembled any of other spirits that I had previously seen. These spirits seemed to be anywhere from ten to fourteen feet tall while all of the other spirits seemed to be anywhere from one to three tall. These spirits were not only much taller but they were much larger also, having very broad shoulders. Even though they were much taller and larger than the other spirits, what really separated these spirits from the other spirits was that they had faces; and their faces appeared like extremely vicious bulldogs. They not only looked like, but they carried themselves about as an extremely intimidating bully. I observed that these spirits walked about the courtyard as though they were on some kind of guard patrol, even though they were walking about aimless and random fashions. I could not see at that moment what it was that they were guarding, but I perceived that these spirits were the elite, like they were the strongest, the most skilled, and most powerful of all the spirits; something like the Nazi SS or the elite U.S. Army Special Forces.

Then the Lord said, “These are the spirits of Dread; the spirits of fear that guard and protect all of the other fears. These are the spirits that mock and scoff at anything that they do not understand or comprehend; and they do not understand or comprehend anything about the love or power of God. These are the spirits that continually scorn and make light of all things that are of God. As there is no fear in love, and no love in fear, so also are there no blessings in dread, or any dread in blessings. Any man who sets his heart to know come to know the height, the length, the width, and the depth of the love of God, he will certainly encounter these unclean spirits. These are the spirits that are always on the watch, seeking to find that opportunity to march right into that man’s thoughts to mock, or to intimidate, or to bully him around in his thinking with such counsels as “No way”; or “That is Impossible”: or, “That is just illogical”; or, “That is unreasonable”; or, “That is Ridiculous”; or, “That is irrational”; or, “That is foolishness”; or “Can’t happen”; or “Unbelievable”. It is impossible for these spirits of Dread to react to the love of God in any other manner than with scorn or mockery. What is impossible is for any of these unclean spirits to understand the grace of God; or, the faithfulness of God; or, the love of God; or, the power of God because the darkness cannot comprehend the things that are of God.

I Corinthians 2:14 NIV “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

II Peter 2:12 NIV But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.…20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

Jude 17 NKJ “But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.”

II Peter 3:3,4 NASB “Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.”

Every single thought that does not believe that God will work all things together for good, it is a thought that comes forth from these spirits of Dread. Every thought that reasons against the love of God, and the mercy, or the help, or the forgiveness, or any of the wonderful works that Father’s love desires to do for us, it is a thought that comes forth from these spirits of Dread. Every thought that does not believe that the power of God is able to perform “all” that which is impossible for men to do, it is a thought that comes forth from these spirits of Dread. Every thought that doubts the faithfulness of God, it is a thought that comes forth from these spirits of Dread. Every thought that cannot believe that the grace of God is sufficient enough in times of sin, it is a thought that comes forth from these spirits of Dread. Every thought that says that good can only come to those who do good for themselves, it is thought that comes forth from these spirits of Dread. Every thought that says, “Why bother with your prayers because God will not be bothered with listening to you”, it is a thought that comes forth from these spirits of Dread. It is impossible for any of these spirits of Dread to comprehend, or understand, or to believe, or to hope that God is able to do, or that he will bless, or that he will perform his words and promises. These spirits are enmity against God, and they watch at all times to resist any move of the Spirit of God. Everyone that agrees to surrender his heart to believe that these wicked and ungodly thoughts are right and true, he then is made like unto that unclean spirit; for a man is like unto the thoughts that he thinks. It is from these hopeless spirits that come forth the lies that say that God will reward a man for his “best efforts” and “good intentions”.

DREAD: to greatly fear; to be in extreme apprehension; to regard or look forward to with terrific apprehension; fearful expectation or anticipation

Proverbs 23:7 NASB “For as he thinks within himself, so he is….”

The consciousness of the spiritual mind is belief; the belief that God is always going to do good and to bless, no matter what the circumstance or situation may seem to dictate. You shall find not find any such belief among the thoughts where the spirits of Dread dwell. It is of these spirits of Dread that came the voices that cried out at the Red Sea, “God brought us out here to kill us”. It is these spirits of Dread that came the voices that cried out, “God brought us into this wilderness to kill us with famine”. It is of these spirits of Dread that came the voices that said, “We cannot take this land because there are giants in the land”. It is of these same spirits that came the voices that cried out, “Lord, do you not care that we are perishing”. In not one of these instances did these spirits of allow for any faith to come forth that believed that God was going to do good or perform that which he had promised to his people. Even when good does come from forth from above to do good and bless, the spirits of Dread cannot perceive or see that it has come forth from God because these spirits of darkness cannot know or understand the goodness of God; for light shined in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend.

Ephesians 5:8 NIV “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.”

John 1:5 NIV “The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.”

It is the work of these spirits of Dread to speak the lies that pervert the image of Satan, to make it appear as though it is the counsel of Satan’s words that are right and true; while also working to pervert the image of God, to make it appear as though God’s words are false and perverse. God loves all men, and he desires to do good and to bless all men at all times, but the spirits of Dread would not have any man to see or to believe that this is the way of God. It is these spirits that work to deceive men into believing that Satan is a god that should be dreaded, and that all should suffer who do not bow their hearts to believe the counsel of his demons. It is also these fears that deceive men into believing that God should be dreaded in the same manner as Satan; that is, that man should be brought into obedience to God through threats, control, fears, and intimidation. It is these spirits of dread that work to deceive men into believing that God would treat men in the same manner as Satan treats them, as a liar that cannot be trusted to do what he says. It is also these vile spirits that would have a man to believe that God looks and waits for a man to make just one error so that he can pounce on him with accusations, condemnation, and that evil is going to come upon him. Yet, in truth, it is the darkness that fears the light because the nature of fear only allows for it to fear; and the darkness cannot change. Remember that which I told you, that fear has no greater protector than fear itself. Those who worship these spirits are those who believe that their fears and dreads are real and true; and as the nature of these lying spirits are, so also will their nature also be because that is what they are in agreement with.

Isaiah 8:12,13 NASB “You are not to say, “It is a conspiracy!” In regard to all that this people call a conspiracy, and you are not to fear what they fear or be in dread of it. It is the LORD of hosts whom you should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, and He shall be your dread.”

Hebrews 6:16-19 NASB “For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute. In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil.”

John 8:44 NASB “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

These dreadful spirits work to deceive men into believing that Satan is as sovereign as God; that he is able to exercise power and authority at the leisure of his own will to kill, to steal, and to destroy the lives of men as though there were no boundaries or limitations to contain that which he desires to do. Again, let me remind you that the only power that Satan has over a man is the power that comes when his words are believed to be right and true. If a man believes the counsels that come forth from these unclean spirits of fear, then those spirits shall receive power and authority to rule over that man’s thinking; to be the righteousness that he lives his life according to. It is for this reason that these vile spirits continuously work to bully and intimidate men into believing that their words are right and true, that Satan should be feared and dreaded. Satan, that old Devil, loves to exercise his lust to judge, to accuse, to threaten, and to condemn men when he sees their mistakes, their sins, and their weaknesses because it allows for these spirits of Dread to keep fearing that any of their mistakes, or sins, or weaknesses to be manifest, lest they suffer the judgment, the accusations, or condemnation that comes forth from the children of darkness. How great, might you ask, have these spirits of Dread blinded the eyes of men? Consider how many men you know that count it joy to confess their sins, or their mistakes, or their weaknesses. This is the power of darkness, the work of the spirits of Dread, to keep all mistakes, sins, faults, and weaknesses hidden from the eyes of others.

John 8:10-12 AMP “When Jesus raised Himself up, He said to her (the woman caught in the act of adultery), “Woman, where are your accusers? Has no man condemned you? She answered, No one, Lord! And Jesus said, I do not condemn you either. Go on your way and from now on sin no more. Once more Jesus addressed the crowd. He said, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not be walking in the dark, but will have the Light which is Life.”

Revelation 12:10 “Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 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.”

It is also the work of these same vile spirits that work to deceive men into believing that God is going to recompense their sins, or their mistakes, or their weaknesses or their faults with the same evil consequence as the darkness recompenses to them; with judgment, or with accusations, or with condemnation, or with severe punishment, or with a curse, or with, or with anger, or with suffering, or with destruction, or with sickness, or with affliction, or with disappointment, or with abandonment, or with death, or with ridicule, or with infirmity, or with some form of banishment, or with rejection. It is the work of these spirits of Dread to keep many tormented and troubled with the expectation that God is going to render evil unto them for the evil they do. It is impossible for the spirits of Dread to think that God will recompense to a man for his sins and weaknesses with mercy, or with compassion, or with forgiveness, or with grace, or any other work that comes forth from love. These spirits, as well as all those who are possessed by these spirits, are not able to see or to believe that God works all things together for good for those who love him, to even see that the goodness of God leads a man into repentance for his weaknesses and sins rather than into condemnation, or into evil, or into destruction. But these spirits of Dread would not have any man to see it this way. Who are those are led into evil, or destruction, or condemnation, or rejection but those who believe the lies that say that this is how God deals with sins and weaknesses.

I Thessalonians 5:14,15 NASB “We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone. See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people.”

I Peter 3:8,9 ASV “Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded: not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

Romans 2:4 NKJ “Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?”

Just like with the woman that was caught in the act of adultery, these spirits of Dread will not hesitate to use laws written in stone or the doctrines of men to exercise there desires to keep men fearful of judgment and condemnation. The more these spirits can exercise their threats and intimidation by perverting the use of laws and doctrines, the more control they are able to gain over the thinking of men. The woman that was caught in the very act of adultery, did she have any expectation or hope that see was going to see any of the goodness of mercy and grace to come to her by the hand of those who came against her with the law of Moses? The words that I spoke to her, did they bring any kind of threat or intimidation to her? If my people, who are called by name, will humble themselves, turn from their wicked ways, and seek my face, then what will I do for them? If my people will confess their sins before me, then what does my word testify that I will do for them? The consequences that God brings to a man for his sins and weaknesses are not like the consequences that the darkness brings with it. Those who are fearful to even see their sins and weaknesses are greatly oppressed by these spirits of Dread. Again, the more these bullying spirits are able to pervert the use of laws and doctrines, then the more my people will be haunted with their intimidations and threats that condemnation, or sickness, or judgment, or some manner of evil is going to come unto them for their sin instead of the grace of my love. The mouth of these spirits of Dread delight in bringing forth the words that will stone a man with intimidation and threats for his transgressions.

I Timothy 1:5-8 NKJ “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk, desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm. But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully.”

Romans 5:20 “The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more.”

I John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Do you really believe that which the scriptures testify of me, that it is real and true? If a man were to confess his sins before me, that grace, and compassion, and forgiveness, and mercy would be the only consequence he would see coming from me? Do you really believe that my goodness would only lead him into repentance, and not into hell? And even if he kept committing the same sins over and over, but he kept bringing his sins to me; do you really believe that I would be able to forgive him seven times seventy, or even seventy times seven hundred? Would I ask you to treat your brother in any other manner than that which my heart delights in treating him with, even when he sins? When his sin, or your sins, abound, do you really believe that the grace of my love will abound even more and more? If you believe on me, then what habitation could these spirits of Dread find to dwell in?

Matthew 18:21,22 NKJ Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.”

James 1:12,13 NKJ “So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.”

Romans 2:4-9 NKJ “Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to each one according to his deeds: eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness: indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil (believes their fears and dreads), of the Jew first and also of the Greek.”

Again I want to remind you that these wicked spirits could have no power at all over you unless you first believe them to be right and true. This is that strong delusion that deceives men into believing that it is God standing in the temple of their hearts, ruling over them with the threats and intimidations that evil consequences are going to come upon them for their mistakes, their sins, and their weaknesses. In truth, it is only the adversary, that accuser of the brethren, who abuses men with his fears and dreads. No man can have two masters in his temple; for he will either believe that one is right and true while he scoffs and rejects the counsels of the other. Either he will account the lies of Satan’s fears and dreads to be his righteousness, or he will account the truth of God’s love to be his righteousness. The one will receive the wrath and the anger that he expects to come to him, while the other shall receive the grace of Father’s love. Every man’s reward shall be according to that which he believes.

II Thessalonians 2:3-12 NKJ “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

Did not my apostle Paul say that in time of his weaknesses, the only consequence that he witnessed was seeing the power of God coming to strengthen him? Did not Paul also testify that he took pleasure in his weaknesses? Is it possible for a man to take pleasure in anything when he is only expecting for dread to come? Did I afflict Paul with sickness, or with condemnation, or with any kind of disappointment when he asked for my strength? Would a loving father give a stone to his son when he asks for bread? Dread is only fulfilled in those who believe dread is coming, while good comes to those who believe that I will perform my words for them. Is it not also written that I said that if you would pray for each others faults, then I would come and heal each one of you of your faults? So what do you believe; would I bring healing or would I bring condemnation on those who believe my words and confess their faults? For by reason of these bullying dreads, many are intimidated into believing that they should keep their faults hidden in the darkness of their hearts for fear that condemnation or evil will come upon them.

II Corinthians 12:9,10 NKJ “And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

James 5:16 “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

It is only these spirits of Dread that would keep a man oppressed with blindness so that he is not able to believe or see into the grace of my Father’s love. Those who are oppressed with this darkness are never able to see themselves worthy to receive any of Father’s goodness, or faithfulness, or blessings, or kindness, or love, or to be the recipient of any of his wonderful works because they only expect for evil to come. Do not let the spirits of Dread keep you in bondage to their filthy fears. I have come to set you free. Did I not move freely, and eat, and drink with sinners, with drunkards, with outcasts, with tax collectors, and with prostitutes? Did my Father bring any evil consequences on me for showing his mercy and spreading his love? To those who look for evil, evil they will find them; those who look for good, God will find them. Let not these dreadful spirits deceive you into believing that God renders consequences to you for your evil deeds, for God renders good for evil. And do not let any of these spirits of Dread deceive you into looking for any kind of evil consequence to come from above; for that which comes from above is love, and love never thinks to do any evil. Take heed what you choose to believe about God, that it is not that which any of these spirits of Dread would have you to believe. Also take heed to whose words you choose to believe, lest the same terrifying fear and dread that these demons have of God also become the fear and dread that makes you terrified of God. That which you believe will surely become your truth and your reality. As a man believes, so let it be done unto him; either the truth of Father’s love or the consequences of fear and dread.

Job 42:7,8 NIV After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”

James 2:19 AMP “You believe that God is one; you do well. So do the demons believe and shudder [in terror and horror such as make a man's hair stand on end and contract the surface of his skin]!”

When the Lord finished speaking these words to me, the spirit of the Lord brought back into my remembrance an instance that happened about 15 years ago concerning my father-n-law. My wife had gotten a phone call whereby she was informed that her dad had just been admitted to the hospital in very serious condition. Before my wife left to drive the 75 miles to that hospital, she prayed and acknowledged the Lord and asked for him to direct her. The Lord spoke to her and said, “Do not fear their fears or dread their dreads.” This was the first time that the Lord had ever spoken anything to either my wife or I concerning any fears or dreads, and we did not even know at that moment that the word of this instruction was also scriptural. My wife arrived at the hospital and several of her aunts and uncles were there, and they all, including the doctors that were also there, were filled with nothing but fears and dreads about my father-in-law’s condition. In fact, every word that my wife heard spoken in that hospital room was filled with nothing fear and dread; so much so that she also began to be overcome by their words, and she began to fearfully dread what her father’s outcome might be. But then the Spirit of the Lord brought back into her remembrance the word that had been spoken to her, and she went down to the hospital chapel and began to pray. She just asked the Lord to help her not to believe any more of these fears and dreads, and to deliver her from the fears and dreads that she had begun to believe. The Lord came to her and took away from her all of these fears and the dreads, and then filled her with his peace; that peace that passes all understanding. He calmed the storm of fears and dreads that had been strongly blowing in the thoughts of her mind. After this, she went back to her father’s room, and she said that she then felt like a complete stranger or alien there because she no longer being affected, or afflicted, by any of the fears or dreads that were being spoken there. To make a long story short, contrary to the words that these spirits of fear had been prophesying about the future health of my father-in-law, none of the came to pass because he recovered and was soon discharged from the hospital and went home.

Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”

II Timothy 4:18 NASB “The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.”

One thing that we have observed in other instances is that when the Lord delivers you from these fears or dreads, then those that are still subject to these unclean spirits do not know how to interpret you in the times that distress men; that is, they cannot understand why you are not worried or stressed out as they are. In fact, some have even gotten angry because this peace of God is so alien and strange to them that this peace of mind appears to them as if you do not care. We have certainly been the recipient of some evil looks that tried to intimidate us into believing their fears and dreads; looks that greatly resembled the countenance I saw on the face of these spirits of Dread that appeared as these intimidating bulldogs. I now know that these are those intimidating spirits of Dread that would bullying us into believing that it is impossible for God to do any good in the situations and circumstances of life that daily confront us. Satan would only have us to focus on the evil that his spirits of Dread prophesy unto us, always trying to take the love and the goodness of Abba, Father out of the outcome.

Philippians 3:2,3 NASB “Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision, for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh.”

The Lord then opened my eyes to see what these spirits of dread were guarding. Right there in the middle of the courtyard was this eerie and frightful looking entrance into the castle dungeon. Then almost immediately I found myself down inside this dungeon; and I also became aware that what I seeing was also what was in the deep places of my heart. I then thought, “Who should be afraid to see what is exists the depths of his own heart?” But once my eyes adjusted to where I could begin to see, what I saw was not desirable, and certainly nothing that should be accounted as the treasures of my heart. The first thing that I became aware of was that this dungeon appeared to have never been cleansed in any manner, and the stench from the smell there was unbearable. I then saw that in the middle of the room what appeared to be a giant pile of dung, but after some observation I realized that what appeared as dung was nothing but a shapeless spirit of Darkness. I was really surprised to find that I was not at all frightened by what I was seeing. I then observed as several of the spirits that I had previously seen haunting the castle coming flying into the dungeon in the same manner that bats return to their caves when the light comes. I then observed several other spirits departing from the dungeon just as bats depart from a cave when night falls, and I knew that they were going to haunt the castle with some worries, or anxieties, or whatever it might take to trouble and torment a man in his thoughts. I saw that when these spirits returned to the dungeon, they would fly straight over to and land on this giant spirit of Darkness; and then it was as if they would be absorbed into that spirit. The spirits that I saw departing from the dungeon, they all came out from this giant spirit also. It was as if this spirit was the mother ship or something like that. I do not know how I knew, but I was able to discern at that moment that this giant spirit was not actually one big spirit, but rather a mass of many, many small spirits in one big mass. It was like when Jesus asked that unclean spirit what his name was, and he answered saying, “Legion; for we are many”.

I Corinthians 4:5 NASB “Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts; and then each man's praise will come to him from God.”

Nahum 1:11-13 “There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor. Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more. For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.”

I then discerned that it was from this dungeon that all these unclean spirits received their power to deceive: to make the darkness to appear as the light; to make the ways of death seem like the right way; to make lies to appear as the truth; to make evil to appear as good; to make the works of iniquity to appear as the righteousness of God; and to even make the miseries of death (the carnal mind) to be an acceptable form of life. I observed that these spirits would go in and out of this dungeon as the circumstances and situations changed. For example, I saw that the fear of heights could only haunt the castle of man’s heart when that man that believed it’s counsel was in a high place; but once that man’s feet were back on the ground, (so to speak) then that spirit of fear would return to the dungeon and remain quiet there until the circumstance would arise again that would allow for it to return to haunt the castle some more. I saw that this was the way it was with all of these unclean spirits of fear, that they all remained quiet in the dungeon until the right situation or circumstance arose that would allow for them to come forth to torment and trouble a man in his imaginations. This is the hidden place of darkness, that place in the heart that no man is able to look into; the place that only the light of God is able to see into.

Genesis 6:5 NASB “Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

Wow! Talk about a haunted castle; I saw so many types of fears that I wondered if there was any circumstance or situation that a man could face where he would not encounter at least one or more of these fears coming forth to trouble and torment him with some kind of dread, or anxiety, or uncertainty, or worry. Then the Lord said, “Do you believe me now? Do you believe me when I say to you that your thoughts are not my thoughts? Do you think for one moment that I would allow for any of these filthy, vile spirits to enter into my thinking to torment and haunt me? In this fallen world of darkness, death rules over the carnal thoughts of men through deceit. Death only rules in the darkness where fears and dreads are believed on to be right and true; for death is the reality of darkness. It is not possible for any of these thoughts to dwell in my kingdom because the darkness cannot dwell where the where the light of life reigns; neither now, or forever. Can death reign with life?” says the Lord.

Isaiah 55:7,8 NIV "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Isaiah 65:2 “I have spread out my hands all day long to a rebellious (will not listen or trust) people, which walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts.”

Proverbs 8:36 “But he that sinneth against me wronged his own soul; for all that hate me (the wisdom of life) love death (the carnal mind).”

As I sat meditating on all that I had seen and heard in this vision, the Spirit of the Lord again brought into my remembrance that which the Lord had said to me, that the treasures in a man’s heart consist of those things that he believes and trusts to be right and true. Then I suddenly realized that the dungeon that I had seen was also the treasury of my own heart; and that it was I who had allowed for these vile and unclean to dwell within me. I had been treasuring these lies to be right and true, whether I was doing this consciously or unconsciously I do not know, but now the Lord had surely brought them into the light. I saw clearly how I could make myself to be one with anyone of these unclean spirits when I had bowed my heart to agree that their instructions were right counsels for me to live according to. I saw that I was so accustomed to living my life with worry and anxiety that I was blind to see that I was doing any evil by following their counsels. I was in bondage to a bondage that I could not see. For the first time since the Lord had called me, I began to realize the magnitude of the bondage that a carnally minded man, whether a Christian or not, is captive to when these fears and dreads are the thoughts that he thinks upon. Truly, nothing can have any power over our thinking except that which we first believe to be right and true.

Romans 6:16,17 NKJ “Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?”

I was still meditating on this when the Lord spoke and said, “Mitt, do you want to see how well Satan has deceived you?” Yes, Lord, please show me if that is what it is going to set me free all of these troubling fears and dread. Then the Lord asked, “Who is guarding and defending the treasures in your castle; the fears and the dreads that dwell in your heart?” With a sudden shock of realization, and feeling extremely foolish, I answered, “I suppose I am, Lord”. Then the Lord said, “Well, this is how well Satan has deceived you, in that he has you guarding and defending the very fears and dread that have been oppressing you. Never forget that I have told you that nothing could have power over you unless you first believe it to be right and true. Neither Satan or any of these haunting spirits could have power to take the castle of your heart by force. It is for this reason that they disguise their words so that they appear as counsels that can be received to help or to guide you. Otherwise, they could not gain entrance into the treasury of your heart or make your mind their dwelling place. Neither Satan, nor any of these spirits of fear and dread, have any power of themselves, but they receive power the moment their words are received and believed. Then once they have gained entrance, they go to work to haunt a man in his thoughts with anxiety, confusion, worry, loneliness, uncertainty, strife, unforgiveness, bitterness, stress, hatred, depression, envy, and every other miserable thought that robs you of peace and life that I created man to be partakers of. I have given you power that the world does not have, and that is the power to choose not believe that which seeks to oppress you. If you do not choose to use this power, then the forces of darkness will laugh and mock at you when they deceive you with the lies that haunt you. Would you account a man to be wise or to be foolish who defends and protects the very counsels that torment and oppress him?”

Jeremiah 4:14 “O Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?”

Isaiah 53:13,14 NKJ “All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children. In righteousness you shall be established; You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.”

Then I asked the Lord the only other question that I could think to ask at that moment, “Lord, what can I do now about all of these fears and dreads?” The Lord then answered and said, “I am standing and knocking at the door of your heart, but unless you are first willing to open the door and ask for me to come in, then I will not be able to enter in. I have not come to the door of your heart to fight against your pride, to force myself in. I will never force myself upon you, or any man. But if you will humble yourself and open the door to your heart, asking for me to come in, then I will come in. I am the light of the world. I am the light that reveals the hidden things of darkness and the secret counsels of the heart. I see the thoughts of the heart with all of it’s intents and purposes. I stand at the door of heart willing and ready to come in to set you free from all these lying spirits that have oppressed and tormented you. I am willing to come in and be the truth of what to believe; for I am the truth that makes you free. I am the truth that cast out lies. I am the love that cast out fear. I have showed to you how these fears and dreads have come only to haunt you, to destroy and rob you of the abundant life that I desire for all of you to be partakers of. My love is standing at the door of heart, ready to fill you with the joy and with the peace that is able to rule over your heart. I love you, and if you ask for me to come in, then my love will come in to judge and to cast out all of these fears. I am standing at the door of your heart ready to fill your treasuries with the blessings and riches of abundant life.

Revelation 2:20,21 NASB “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. He who overcomes I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

Malachi 3:9-11 NASB “You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you! Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows. Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes,” says the LORD of hosts.

I Am the Lord your God; and I alone am to be worshipped and served. How can you call me Lord and then bow your knee to serve the counsels of these unclean spirits of fear and dread? My love is jealous for you, and my love yearns for you to allow for me to cast out these lying spirits that oppress and haunt you. I am asking you to trust me, to open your heart to me, to allow for me to come in. I am asking not to surrender your heart any longer to any of these fears and dreads, to account any of their lies to be right or true. I am here to cleanse and sanctify this haunted castle, to cast out all of these filthy and unclean spirits. I am here to tear down this haunted castle, this temple full of unclean and false idols. I am here to tear down this temple that has been built on the lies that you have believed. I am here to build me a glorious temple that I will fill with all of the riches of life. I have given to you the power that enables you to choose what you are going to believe. Will you choose me? Will you have the righteousness of my love to rule over your heart and mind, or will you continue to choose to allow these fears and dreads to be the righteousness that you live by? Will you have peace or will you have torment to rule in your heart? As Darkness cannot have any fellowship with light, so neither can death have any fellowship with life. So I give to you this day a choice between the life and death, blessing and cursing. You choose who you are going to open the door of your heart to believe, whether it be to my love that loves you, or to the fears and dreads that oppress and haunt you.

Romans 6:16 NKJ “Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?”

I Samuel 12:20 “Fear not; though you have done all of this wickedness, see that you do not turn aside from serving the Lord with all your heart.”

Psalm 127:1 NASB “Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, the watchman keeps awake in vain.”

II Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

I John 4:18 “There is no fear in love….”

I John 4:8 “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

Then the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me that which is written in I Samuel 16:7 NAS “But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” With this word, I knew that it would be vain for me to try and discern the fears of my own heart, as though I could prove to God that I am able to cast out these fears and dreads that have been haunting me. So I surrendered to the Lord, and simply stood before the Lord and acknowledged to him that I choose life and blessings. “Lord, is really that simple, that all that you are asking for me to do is to choose?“ Then I asked for him to come in and do whatever he needed to do so that life and peace would rule over my heart and mind. This was a really easy choice for me to make seeing that left alone to myself, I freely chosen to allow many fears and dreads to enter into the treasury of my heart; I had chosen my own poison to haunt me. If that was not shameful enough for me to see, then seeing that I was also allowing for my pride to defend and protect my own poison was doubly foolish. Surely, the wisdom of man is foolishness in the sight of God.

Psalm 139:23 “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts.”

Chapter 5

“You must take up your cross and crucify the righteousness of your fears and dreads. Be not joined in agreement with that old oppressive husband, that law of sin and death that brings forth all unrighteousness.”

Romans 7:3-6 NASB “So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law (of sin and death) through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.”

Romans 8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.”

As I continued to seek the Lord concerning these fears and dreads, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Do not be afraid Mitt; for there is no fear in love, and neither is there anything to dread concerning any of the works of my love. My love comes forth to deliver you from all fears and dreads. My love comes forth to set you free. My love comes forth to give you life. Seek my love! Cry out for my love! Ask for me to open your eyes so that you may see my love! Let my love be your reality. My love is the remedy for all fears and dreads. This is all the truth that you need to believe on, the truth that will allow for you to open the door of your heart so that the love of God can come in.” I then felt like I was beginning to understand why Jesus said over and over, “Do not be afraid”, or “Do not be fearful”. It would not have been needful for Jesus to keep saying these words unless he knew about the fears and the dread that dwells in the hidden places of the heart; or rather, in the dungeon of our castles. Is it any wonder that his disciples fled in fear when they came to arrest Jesus? What did Jesus know about Peter’s heart? Peter had just boasted that he would follow Jesus no matter where the Lord led him, He even said that he would even be willing to go to prison for him, and that he would also be willing to die for Jesus sake. It sounded to me that Peter saw the castle of his heart in the same manner that I first saw the castle of my heart, full of my own glory and strength. But then Jesus answered Peter by saying that before the sun would come up the next morning, that by reason of his fears, he would even deny just knowing Jesus, much less go to prison or die for him. Where Peter thought there was love in his heart for Jesus, there was actually the spirit of fear there; and that fear became his reality.

Proverbs 16:3 NKJ “Commit your works unto the LORD and your thoughts will be established.”

Romans 8:6 AMP “Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].”

Then the Lord also said, “There is no righteousness without the presence of my love and neither is there any self-righteousness without the presence of fear. You have asked for me to create in you a new heart, a heart that is beautiful in my sight, but how can I do this unless you are first willing to open the door of your heart and let me come in? Will you let me come in and change the righteousness that your heart has trusted and believed on? Will you take the righteousness off your fears and dreads so that you will no longer rely on or trust their counsels to right and true? Will you dispossess the thoughts of worry, uncertainty, dread, confusion, doubts, anxiety, evil suspicions, stress, as well as any other thought of that comes forth from the spirit of fear? Will you rely on and trust in my love to be the righteousness of your reality? Will you let my love guide you and direct your paths? As long as you hold on to believe that counsels of these fears and dreads are right and true, then how shall I be your Lord? I say to you, the possessions of a man’s heart are all that which he believes and trusts to be right and true. If you will take up your cross to dispossess the righteousness of your fears and dreads, no longer allowing them to be your trusted friends and counselors, then my love will come in and redeem you from your bondage. How shall a shall man be cast out except one who is stronger come in to do so? I am that spirit of love that will cast out your fears. I am that spirit of life that sets you free from your captivity to sin and death. I am the righteousness of abundant life.

Psalm 34:4 NKJ “I sought the LORD, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.”

Luke 9:23,24 NIV Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny (disown; dispossess) himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.”

Philippians 3:7-12 “But what things were gain to me (my valued principals), I counted those loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things (the valued principals of fear) and do count them but dung (the filth of self-righteousness) so that I may win Christ (the treasures of the heavenly principals), and be found in him not having mine own righteousness which is of the law (the law of sin and death), but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith, so that I may know him (his righteousness, his goodness, and his truth to live my live after) and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.”

Romans 8:2 NASB “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.”

John 14:6 NASB “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.”

Proverbs 12:28 “In the way of righteousness is life…”

Daniel 9:8 NIV “Righteousness belongs to you, O Lord, but to us, open shame…”

Matthew 6:21-24 NASB “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other You cannot serve God and wealth….33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness….”

Matthew 19:16-26 NIV “Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?” “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments.” “Which ones?” the man inquired. Jesus replied, “Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother, and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” “All these I have kept,” the young man said. "What do I still lack?” Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth. Then Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Are you willing to let me make the love that I have for you to be the riches that your heart will treasure? Are you willing to make my love to be your possession? Are you willing to let the love that I have for you become your reality? Open the door to your heart, and I will come in, and when I come in I will make my love to be your reality because my love is the only true reality. Only my love is able to change your reality from death unto life; but my love cannot become your reality unless you are first willing to believe on my love. My love will cast out all of your fears and dreads. My love covers all of your sins; and when your sin abounds, my love for you will abound all the more. My love forgives your sins. My love leads you into repentance. My love is able to make your heart beautiful in my sight. My love is able to transform your mind, to bring you up higher and higher into my thoughts. My love yearns to bless you. My love greatly desires your fellowship. My love for you does not change, but unless you are willing to change, to believe on my love, then you will not be able to receive my love. Will you allow for my love to cast out all these unclean spirits from your heart and mind? Do you believe that my love is willing to do this for you? Do you believe that I am able to do this for you? Where fear dwells, there is no presence of my love; and where my love dwells, there is no presence of fear. Fear only dwells in the minds of those who hearts are ignorant of my love. Open the door to your heart, and I will show you my love. Will you have me?” says the Lord.

II Corinthians 8:12 “For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.”

Romans 8:15 “You have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear…”

I John 4:18 “…perfect love casts our all fear.”

John 8:36 “If the Son shall make you free, then you shall be free indeed.”

Ezekiel 36:25-27 NIV “I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.”

Ephesians 4:23,24 “And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”

II Corinthians 5:17 NIV “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

There is a verse of scripture that almost from the moment that I first read it, it really aroused my curiosity and desire to know and understand what the Lord meant by it; and that verse is that which is written I John 4:18 NASB “Perfect love casts out fear”. From the beginning I wondered why this word would say that perfect love cast out fear? I wondered why it did not say, “Perfect love casts out all hate’, seeing that hate seems to be that which is contrary to love? Or, why is not written that perfect love would casts out evil, or pride, or wickedness, or iniquity”, seeing that the scriptures seem to portray anyone of these things to be that which is much more wicked than fear? Well, I felt like the Lord began to open the eyes of my understanding to comprehend the truth about this verse when he gave me the castle vision. The scriptures state very plainly that if we confess our sins, or offer our iniquities unto the Lord, then he will not only gladly forgive us, but he will also cleanse us from the unrighteousness of which we confess; whether that unrighteousness be hatred, or envy, or judging others, or unbelief, or wickedness, or lusts, or doubts, or impatience, or fears and dread, or pride, or even self-condemnation. But what would the Lord be able to do if our heart was surrendered to these spirits of fear that worked in us to keep us from confessing any of these things or asking for the Lord to cleanse us? Is it not written that we do not have because we do not ask? I began to see that it is the work of fear to keep us from drawing near to God, to ask for him to forgive and cleanse us. Simply put, these spirits of fear work to separate us from the love of God, lest they allow for the love of God to come in and cast them out of the castle of our hearts that they have been dwelling in and haunting.

As much as the Lord loves us and desires to forgive and cleanse us, I now know that he will not at any time force himself upon any of us. God is well able to change the most wretched of sinners, but he is only able to change that wretched sinner after he opens the door of his heart and asks the Lord to come in. The natural, or carnal mind, is not only afraid of God, but it is also afraid to face the truth about it’s own sins and weaknesses because it is not possible for the spirit of fear to respond to the truth with anything other than fear because that is it‘s nature. If there was no fear or dread, then who would be afraid to come face to face with any truth, seeing that the truth is always accompanied with the love of God, the grace of God, the forgiveness of God, the mercy of God, and the wonderful works of God? The counsels of these unclean spirits of fear will never direct any of us to draw near to God‘s love, nor will it think to ask the Lord to search it’s heart, and neither will any of these spirits allow for a man to simply confess his sins. The Lord has now opened my eyes to see how fear and love are really contrary to another; for one works to keep us from drawing near to God, while the other opens the door and allows for the Lord to draw near to us.

Isaiah 29:13-15 NKJ ‘Therefore the Lord said: “ Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men. Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work among this people, A marvelous work and a wonder; For the wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent shall be hidden.” Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the LORD, and their works are in the dark; They say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?”

James 4:7,8 NKJ “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”

After the Lord showed me these things, I then asked him how and when this spirit of fear entered into man. He answered saying, “The spirit of fear found it’s entrance into the hearts and minds of men through the disobedience of Adam and Eve. As soon as the two of them chose to reject my words so that they could believe the lies that Satan had spoken to them, then the spirit of fear entered in to bring them into bondage to darkness, and to oppress them continually with the troubles and miseries of death. It was this spirit of fear that blinded their eyes and perverted their thinking. It was then that they began to evil good, and good evil. Both Adam and Eve were both naked in the garden as well as in my presence, but there was no shame in their eyes or mine. Yet, when they fell, they did not see the shame in their disobedience to my words, but they saw the shame in their nakedness. Who told them that they were naked? The spirit of fear told them that they were naked, and because they were now in bondage to the darkness, they believed it’s words, and shame came upon them where there was no shame. It was also the spirit of fear that blinded their eyes so that they could not see or be ashamed of their sin of disobedience to my words. If the could not see their sin, then they certainly could not be ashamed of their sin. Fear had so blinded their eyes that they called their nakedness to be evil, and their disobedience to my words to be good.

Genesis 2:25 NASB “And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.”

Genesis 3:6-8 NASB “When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.”

Isaiah 5:20 “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!”

Then the Lord revealed what I consider to this very day to be one of two biggest and most important revelations that he has ever given to me concerning the darkness and it’s impact on all of man. The Lord then said. “When Adam and Eve chose to eat that fruit, their eyes were opened to see as spirit of fear sees. This spirit was not directing how they should see, and neither was this fear instructing them on how to interpret what they saw, but they were actually seeing through the eyes of the spirit of fear that had come into them. It is for this reason that when they saw themselves through the eyes of fear, they sought to cover themselves, as though leaves could justify their disobedience, and they sought to flee from the presence of God’s love. They were led to do these things by the spirit of fear because that is the nature of spirit of fear. As the nature of the spirit is in a man, so is the man who sees eye to eye with that spirit. Fear is ignorant of love, and it is the darkness of this ignorance that blinds the eyes so that the love of God seems like an alien concept. Yet, God created man to love God and to be loved by God; to be in the likeness of his own image.

Ephesians 4:17,18 NIV “So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.

Mark 12:29-31 NKJ “Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: “Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.” This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these.”

1 John 4:8 NKJ “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

1 John 4:16 NKJ “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”

Then the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me that which is written in Luke 11:34,35 “The light of the body is the eye: therefore when your eye is single, your whole body also is full of light; but when your eye is evil, your body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.” Then the Lord quickened unto me that how a man sees is dictated by the spirit within him. If the spirit of fear is within a man, then how he sees and interprets the situations and the circumstances that arise in his life, as well as how he sees and judges other men and God himself, will be as that spirit of fear sees these things. In other words, if what a man sees brings forth worry, or dread, or confusion, or unbelief, or stress, or uncertainty, or doubts, or evil suspicions, or anxiety, or self-condemnation, or self-justification, or any other manner of fear, then he is seeing all things through the eyes of the spirit of fear. If there is any of these evil fruits in the thoughts of a man, then all his thoughts are coming forth from darkness. And you shall know them by their fruits. For a long time I could not understand how the darkness could ever be mistaken for the light; that is, until the Lord showed to me that all my fears and dreads, that which I was so familiar with, were of the darkness. There truly is “no fear” in the light of God’s love. I was surely deceived, blind to see that my fears and dreads were nothing but spirits of darkness. My oppression was my nature; and my nature was fear.

Psalm 18:28 NIV You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.

Isaiah 42:6,7 NIV “I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.

Luke 1:78,79 “Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Matthew 12:33-37 NASB “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. The good man brings out of his good treasure what is good; and the evil man brings out of his evil treasure what is evil. But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Proverbs 18:21 NASB “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”

It was also during this time that the Lord began to open my eyes to fully comprehend what Jesus meant when he said to the disciples in Matthew 13:16,17 NIV “But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.” What a blessing, to eyes to never see as fear sees, or ears that never hear the thoughts of fear. The Lord has blessed me many times with visitations of his presence; and in his presence there are no fears to oppress or to torment. But they are only visitations. How great is this liberty and freedom that overcomes all of the fears and dreads that have so troubled the lives of men? Then the Lord said, “When the eye is evil, then the curses of fear and dread will seem like the right way for a man to walk in, but those ways always end in death; for darkness cannot lead a man anywhere except into more darkness. And when a man walks in this darkness, then his frets, his evil suspicions, his worries, his doubts, his anxieties, his self-condemnation, his dreads, his impatience, his unbelief, his hopelessness, as well as any of his other fears and phobias will be the thoughts that he accounts to be right and true; the thoughts of his reality. Can light have any fellowship with the darkness? O blessed are the eyes that see as the spirit of the Lord sees because they shall see that the darkness for what it is: foolishness, vanity, misery, emptiness, and oppression.

Ephesians 5:8-14 NASB “For you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. For this reason it says, "Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

Job 37:19 NKJ “Teach us what we should say to Him, for we can prepare nothing because of the darkness.”

Psalm 107:9-11 NIV “For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things. Some sat in darkness and the deepest gloom, prisoners suffering in iron chains, for they had rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.”

Psalm 107:13-15 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Isaiah 42:6 NIV “I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.”

I found one more thing that the Lord showed to me about the Castle Vision to be very interesting. Natural man lives his life subject to the desires to be as God: desirous to be in control of his own life; desirous to sit in the sit of judgment over other men; desirous to make his reality of what he believes to be right to be the reality of righteousness for all who are around him; desirous to make his own opinions to be the truth; desirous for to make his own name to be great; desirous to live his life according to his own will; and desirous for his own fame and glory. Natural man also desires great wealth because the more wealth he possesses, the more power he believes he will receive that will allow for him to satisfy these natural desires to be as God over his own life. The more a man is able to satisfy his desires to be as God, the more beautiful and glorious the castle of his heart will becomes in his own eyes. Natural man sees that his only purpose in life is to seek to satisfy all of these desires so that his dreams and goals may become his reality.

Matthew 16:26 NIV “What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?”

Even though natural man is subject to these desires, fear is that which has the ultimate rule over his own thoughts. When the Lord was teaching me these things, he finished by quickening into my remembrance four different men from out of history; and they were Caesar, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Sadaam Hussein. These were men in their own countries that had satisfied all their natural desires to be their own lord and god, over their own lives as well as over the lives of all the citizens in their respective countries. They had obtained absolute control, fame, authority, wealth, glory, a name, and that which was right in their eyes became the law in their land. Yet, after satisfying all of their natural desires, they had found no love, nor peace, nor joy, only paranoia. The more natural desires a man satisfies, the more his heart possesses; and the more a man’s heart possesses, the more fearful he is of losing it. It is for this reason that these men were not only paranoid, but they were extremely paranoid, fearful of losing all that they had obtained. They were very fearful of all those who were around them, even their own family members, that they were either going to be betrayed by them or that they were going to try to take their possessions from them. There is no amount of possessions that a man may gain that is able to deliver him from man’s oppression to fears and dread. But natural man is so accustomed to living his life trying to satisfy his natural desires that he is really blind to see the bondage and oppression that his fears and dreads have him captive to. And the Lord says, “Your thoughts are not my thoughts.”

Jeremiah 13:23 NIV “Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.”

Acts 26:15-18 NASB “Then I asked, “Who are you, Lord?” “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” the Lord replied. “Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen of me and what I will show you. I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.”

What turns a man from darkness to light? What turns a man from the power of Satan to the power of God? What delivers a man from his oppression and bondage to these vile, unclean spirits of fear? What cleanses a man from his sin? What turns a man from the iniquity of his hypocrisy to the righteousness of God? What delivers man from evil? Seeing! Seeing! Seeing! Paul was sent to open eyes; Jesus came to open the eyes of the blind to see what? To restore vision unto man so that man may see as God sees. It is written in John 9:39-41 NKJ “And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.” Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words and said to Him, “Are we blind also?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, “We see.” Therefore your sin remains.” Imagine that, whether a man is freed from his sins, or if they are retained depends on “the seeing” of that man’s vision. Adam’s sin of disobedience remained with him because he became blind to see the truth about his transgression even though he covered himself with leaves of hypocrisy and hid from God behind the lies of self-justification. Is this not the very thing that Jesus was trying to address with these Pharisees? Were not these the ones that were supposed to be experts in that law, as well as all of the rest of the scriptures? How many of these religious leaders, as well as pastors and prophets of today, have become like Adam and these Pharisees, seeing with their own eyes that their hearts are as that beautiful and glorious castle that I saw in my vision? If a man does not see with the vision that God sees with, then does he really have any vision at all, or is he blind?

Matthew 13:14,15 NKJ “And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: “Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.”

I John 3:6 NKJ “Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.

The Lord once told me that if I could understand the truth of that which is written in Proverbs 16:25 NASB “There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof is the way of death”, then I would be able to understand all of the powers of Satan. My eyes immediately focused on the word “seem”. The dictionary defines seem as who something appears to one’s own senses, mind, seeing, and judgment. Well, if natural man sees through the eyes of fear, then what seems right in his eyes is that which seems right in the eyes of fear. Adam hid from God; Abraham was fearful of those who did not fear God; all but Joshua and Caleb were fearful of the giants they saw in the promise land; the entire army of Israel was terrified of Goliath; the disciples were fearful of the storm they were caught in; Peter was fearful to even acknowledge that he knew Jesus; Ananias and Sapphira were afraid to give up all for the Lord….and so many other instances in the Bible that describe instances of how the people of God did that which seemed right in the sight of their fears because they were in bondage to see as the spirit was within them.

There is only one thing that is natural to those who are in darkness, and that is the darkness itself; and that which seems right is the darkness that appears like the light. Satan’s power lies in his ability to make wrong ways to appear as right ways, and right ways to appear as the wrong way. There was not one thing that any man will allow into the treasury of his heart unless it first seems right in his own eyes. Jesus came to open the eyes of the blind who were walking in the ways that seem right, to turn them from the ways of death to the strait and narrow path that leads to life; and to accomplish this, all that he needed to do was to open their eyes so that they could see as God sees. But have you ever seen a man repent of that which he believes and trusts to be right?

Job 34:32 NASB “Teach me what I do not see; If I have done iniquity, I will not do it again?”

I John 3:6 NKJ “Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.”

III John 11 NIV “….Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.

I John 3:2 NKJ “Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.”

Jesus said that he did not come to judge or to condemn any man according to the flesh, but he came to teach us good judgment, the judgment of God. The judgment of God opens the eyes of the blind so that he is able to see the difference between that which naturally seems right from that which is right in the sight of God. If Jesus had come to judge according to the flesh, then he would have judged the woman caught in the act of adultery with the same condemnation as the blind were judging her with. No, Jesus came to judge the blindness of darkness with the seeing of the light. It is obvious from this story Jesus walked in a different light, seeing the sin of adultery in an entirely different manner than how those who were under the law were seeing this woman and her transgression. Who among us, at one time or another, has not been fearful that Jesus/God was going to judge our sins in the same manner that the blind hypocrites accused, and judged, and condemned this woman? Where is the church today that walks in the same light that Jesus walked in, not throwing stones at those who do those things that do not agree with what seems right in their own eyes, like those who commit adultery, or that have had an abortion, or child molesters, etc? Those who throw the stones of judgment at others are blind to see that they are only bringing condemn on themselves; for every man is going to be judged with the same judgment that he has used to judge others with. Jesus came to open our eyes, to change the way that a man judges himself, the way that he judges others, and even the way that judges God when things do not go his way. Jesus came to open the eyes of the blind, to free us from the curse of darkness that has alienated and separated from the communion and fellowship that our heavenly Father created us to walk with him in.

Psalm 119:65,66 NIV “Do good to your servant according to your word, O LORD. Teach me knowledge and good judgment, for I believe in your commands.”

Psalm 34:4 “Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.”

Job 40:8 NASB (God speaking to Job) “Will you really annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me that you may be justified?

Is it any wonder that Jesus told us to take the beam of blindness out of our eyes before we judged? In the judgment of my eyes, I saw that my heart was as this beautiful and glorious castle; but in the judgment of God’s eyes, he who sees the hidden things of darkness and the secret counsels of the heart, he saw the fears and the dreads that were daily haunting me in one manner or another. Who could have ever imagined that a man’s sin is not the results of his works or deeds, but rather it is the result that comes forth from the vision of his eyes? Of course, every man’s works and deeds are directed by how he sees things. Even when the scriptures are read, one may see a verse to mean one thing while another may see it to mean another; and yet, unless the Lord has opened their understanding, neither is able to see the truth of that word. Even so, each man will make that which he believes to be that which is right and true. I remembered a time when the Lord gave me a revelation of his word, and with much joy I sat back in my chair and proclaimed, “Wow Lord, I cannot believe that I was so totally blind to see this word in this manner”. Then the Lord spoke to me and said, “You just glorified me because I alone am able to open your eyes to see the truth of my words.” The Lord then taught me that he is glorified in the works that he does for us, and not in the “best efforts” or “good intentions” that the natural man thinks glorifies God. Even Jesus said, “Father, glorify me, and I will glorify you.” And how would Jesus glorify his Father, but with thanksgiving and praise for the work that his heavenly Father did for him.

Jeremiah 2:31 NKJ “O generation, see the word of the LORD!”

Ephesians 1:16-19 NKJ “(I) do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power.”

Chapter 6

“Is that all there is to it, Lord? Is that all you have to do is open our eyes?”

Two Testimonies: From darkness into the light, from the power of Satan to God

The following are a couple of testimonies of how the power of God has opened my eyes to see his love, and his love then cast out the fears that had been blinding my eyes and greatly haunting me. Remember, the Lord told me that the reason that he desires for me to testify of the works of his love and his power is so that if there is any who will hear and believe, then turn to the Lord and ask of him, he will also do the same for them. Needless to say, these are just two of testimonies that the Lord has given to me that have been life changing experiences because when the Lord opens your eyes to see as he sees, then your even your life in this fallen world of darkness changes. God has been opening my eyes so that I no longer see with the vision of fear, but through the eyes of his love. If there is no fear, then there can be nothing to be afraid of.

John 17:15, 16 “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”

Psalm 105:1,2 NKJ “Oh, give thanks to the LORD! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples! Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; Talk of all His wondrous works!

This event actually happened long before the Lord began to clearly show me how it was the spirit of fear that was blinding the eyes of my heart. I had arrived at a place in my walk where I was reading certain scriptures that testified of how the Lord sees how hearts and our minds, yet I myself could see nothing in me at that agreed at all with what the scriptures were testifying of. Not only was I blind to see any truth in these verses, but my heart was really fearful to see if these verses actually did apply to me. These are just some of the scriptures that I seemed to be confronting on a daily basis.

Isaiah 94:11 “The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity”.

Romans 7:18 “I know that in me, that is in my flesh (the carnal mind), dwells no good thing.”

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?”

Isaiah 47:10 “You have trusted in your wickedness and you have said, “None see me (hiding behind the words and works of self-justification). Your wisdom and knowledge had perverted you and you have said in your heart, “I am”, and there is no else besides me (that is, the principles of my righteousness, and my goodness, and my opinions are truth)”.

Romans 3:10-12 NIV “As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

Revelation 3:14 (Letter to the Church of Laodicea) “So then, because you are lukewarm, and are neither cold or hot, I will spew you out of my mouth because you say that I am rich (the treasures of the heart), and are increased with goods (your own righteousness, goodness, and understanding) and have no need for nothing, and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.”

Nahum 1:11 “There is one come out of you (the spirit of fear) that imagines evil against God (fears, unbelief, reasonings, and doubts): a wicked counselor.”

Hebrews 9:14 “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

I finally came to the conclusion that no man could really know if any of these verses of scripture were true unless the Lord actually opened their eyes to see how the Lord sees; to actually give the Lord permission to come into the castle of his heart and reveal those things that are hidden in the darkness and the secret counsels of the heart. My faith was rather small at that time, so I was really not all that comfortable about asking the to do this, but I really had to know if these verses truly applied to me, as a Christian. Maybe these verses were speaking to fallen Israel or maybe even to natural man? One thing was for sure; if these verses actually described how the Lord God almighty saw my heart and my mind, then I was completely blind to see it. Because of my fears, I was really ready to just say, “Even if these verses are true, I am covered by the blood of Christ”; and then just leave it at that. But the Spirit of the Lord kept quickening these verses to me, which then did nothing but arouse my curiosity all the more to know this truth.

I Corinthians 4:5 “Therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and the counsels of the heart; and then shall every man have praise of God.”

After a time, and still not yet seeing if any of these verses really applied to me, I began to boldly pray, asking the Lord to search my heart and my mind, and to open my eyes so that I could see what he saw. I will not lie to you, I certainly had to battle with the spirit of fear to ask such a thing of the Lord. Even though I was curious, I was still afraid of what the Lord might actually open my eyes to see; but thanks be to God that my desire to know the truth was greater than the fear that desired to keep the truth hidden from me. I held tight to the words that Father had previously spoken to me, that he desired for his sons to be made to be just like him. Therefore I knew that whatever wickedness or evil the Lord might open my eyes to see, I believed in my heart that the Lord was going to redeem me by removing what I see and then manifesting more of his Spirit within me. I would rather see his truth than to remain blind have that come upon me that is written in John 3:19 where Jesus said, “And this is the condemnation, that the light comes, and men hate the light because it reveals that their deeds are evil”.

II Thessalonians 2:8-12 “And then shall that Wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all of his power, and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness (self-justification) in them that perish because they would not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion (the righteousness of fear) so that they should believe a lie: that they might all be damned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness (self-justification).”

II Timothy 4:3 “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn their ears away from the truth and be turned to fables (the lies of their fears; self-justification).”

I always thought that it was interesting that when the Spirit of the Lord quickened these verses to me, I was in a place in my walk where I had never felt more comfortable, or secure, or good about myself: I did not smoke, nor drink, nor curse, nor steal, nor hurt people, and I sought the Lord, read the scriptures, and prayed on a daily basis. So what evil could I possibly see? But then I started having all these wild imaginations as to what the Lord could possibly reveal to me that I did not already know about myself. Could the Lord open my eyes to show me that I was like Charles Manson, or Jeffery Dahmer, of Hitler, or Cain, or maybe even Judas? Though I thought myself to be a pretty good Christian, I was still uneasy about what the Lord might reveal to me. Even so, I began to prepare myself as to what I might do if the Lord showed to me that I was like these men. While I was preparing myself to see such things in me, the Lord began to open my eyes to see things like my fears, my doubts, my unwillingness, my judgments of others, my pride, my unbelief, the lies that I was using for self-justification, my distrust towards the Lord, the wickedness of my self-righteousness, my striving and arguments, as well as the pretenses and illusions of my hypocrisy (trying to appear as the best Christian I could make myself to be). The funny thing was that because I thought that the Lord might open my eyes and show me that I was like one or more of these men, I was blind to see that the Lord was opening me eyes to show me these other things in the manner that he saw them, and began to really feel awful about myself. I was still blind to see that it was the Lord who was bringing into the light the evil of my unbelief, my fears, and my doubts as well as the wickedness of my self-justification and self-righteousness.

Romans 7:13 NIV “Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

Revelation 12:11 NKJ “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.”

Then suddenly one day, the Lord finally opened my eyes to see and realize that it was the Lord that had been revealing the sinfulness in all of these things that I had been seeing in me. I was really amazed how these sins had become so evil in my sight. It was not like I did not know that these things were evil before, it was that I just could not see them in the same manner as the Lord saw them. I was here that I really saw for the first time how my fears had deceived me, blinding me from seeing the truth about these things. My fears had so deceived me that I was believing that the pretenses and hypocrisy in my heart was the right way that a Christian should walk; deceiving me into believing that I should make the best effort I could in showing Jesus in my life; deceiving me into believing that I was able to cover my sins, my mistakes, and my weaknesses with self-justification. This is when the Lord first spoke this phrase to me, “You are trying to be lord and god over your own Christianity. Do not be deceived, there is only one Lord and one God, and there will never be any more than one. I have not called you to be your own lord or your own God.” This phrase completely startled me because it just seemed so right in my eyes to do these things. It was here that I began to perceive why the religious hated Jesus with such enmity, because Jesus only goes for the “real thing”. He has no regard for the lies that deceive men into thinking that we should walk after self-righteous illusions or the hypocrisies that deceive by their appearances.

Matthew 23:27-28 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whited tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but within you are full of dead bones, and of all uncleanness (the righteousness of fear). Even so you outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.”

Matthew 22:16 NIV “They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher (Jesus),” they said, “we know you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren't swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are.”

It seemed as though I walked about for many, many days loathing myself for the evil I was seeing within me. It was not really seeing the evil in my heart that was bad, but it was seeing that I was powerless to change anything about that which I was seeing. I had never really been in this position before. So I stayed before his mercy seat, hoping daily that he could come and deliver me from that which my eyes were seeing. I was really growing weary and I had just about lost all hope that the Lord was going to come redeem me. It had become in thoughts just like the verse that says, “When it is night, I wish it was day; and when it was day, I wished that it was night” because I felt like I could not stand the imaginations for one more day that were constantly having me to think about myself with thoughts filled with shame, frustration, sadness, disappointment, guilt, impatience, failure, and much, much self-condemnation. I felt like that I had lost all hope that I was going to be able to obtain any grace or mercy from the Lord because of the depth of the truth about how sinful I was in my heart. I also felt as though I was somehow experiencing the same suffering that Job must have felt when he said, “That which I have feared the most has come upon me.” I had no idea that I could suffer so much for seeing the truth about myself. Even so, it was in that moment that I found myself thankful that the Lord had given me enough faith and belief to come and pray before him. When I prayed on this morning, words came out of mouth that had never come out of me before. I acknowledged for the first time before the Lord that I now believed that his word is true; and I acknowledged that I now believed that my heart was desperately wicked and deceitful above all things, that all of my thoughts were nothing but vanity, that I was nothing without his love, and that I was blind, wretched, miserable, poor in the fruits of his Spirit, and that the intents and counsels of my heart were naked before him. When I was blind, I saw my heart as that beautiful and glorious castle, as a pretty good Christian; but now that the Lord had given to me his vision, I did not at all see myself in that manner at all.

Habakkuk 1:1-3 NASB “The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. How long, O LORD, will I call for help, and You will not hear? I cry out to You, "Violence!" Yet You do not save. Why do You make me see iniquity, and cause me to look on wickedness? Yes, destruction and violence are before me; Strife exists and contention arises.”

Even in the midst of seeing all this wickedness and evil in my heart as the Lord saw it, that is not what troubled me the most. What troubled me was that I was treating myself with much sadness, much disgust, without any mercy or grace, feelings of failure, with contempt, with disappointment, with much hopelessness, and with continual thoughts of self-condemnation. If this was not enough to bring me down, there was one more thing that troubled me far greater than these things, and that was I was absolutely positive and completely convinced that the Lord had to be looking upon me with at least as much contempt, disappointment, disgust, and condemnation that I was treating myself with. After all, he hates sin, and I was seeing nothing other than the sins that had been hidden in me. At that time, I was at a place in my walk where I could not separate my soul from my sin; I thought that they were one and the same. I felt like I had in be in the valley of the shadow of death, except I was very fearful of all the wickedness and the evil that I was seeing, and I did not really believe that the Lord was with me. In 29 years of seeking the Lord, it was, without any doubt, the worst and most fearful dark place that I have ever been in because I felt that all that I was seeing within me was separating me from my God. I could not help but to ask this question, “How could anyone, even God, love a man whose heart and mind was as vile and wretched as mine was?”

Psalm 90:8 AMP “Our iniquities, our secret heart and its sins [which we would so like to conceal even from ourselves], You have set in the [revealing] light of Your countenance.”

Romans 7:20 NIV “Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 24 NIV “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!”

Philippians 3:21 “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”

That morning, when I had just got through praying and acknowledging before the Lord that I now agreed with his words, the Lord suddenly came and took me in the Spirit for the first time. It was not a vision that I was taken into and neither was it a dream, for I am very familiar with what it is like to be taken into both of those. No, it was as if he had had taken my entire consciousness out of my body and transported me into another realm. I found myself walking through fields of grass that were surrounded with gentle, rolling hills. Everywhere I looked I saw patches of flowers of all different varieties. All of my heaviness and burdens had instantly disappeared. My heart and my mind felt like I had just stepped out into the first wonderful day of spring after a really long and harsh winter. I found myself to be just strolling along enjoying all of the beautiful scenery that was around me. Suddenly I felt someone take my right hand and very tenderly place it in his hand so that we could walk hand in hand together. I immediately knew that whoever had my hand, he was much taller than I was because his height was so much greater than mine that it made me feel as though I was a little 5 year old boy holding his daddy’s hand. I then stopped and looked up into his face so that I might know who this was; but it was like the sun was directly behind his head, and the brightness of it’s light was blinding me so that I could not see his face. So I then tilted my head to the right, then to left, then up, and then down, as I was trying to find a position where this man’s head would not be between the sun and I. But no matter where I shifted my head to, I could not find a spot where the brightness of the sun was not blinding my eyes. Then suddenly I realized that it was not the sun that was blinding me at all, but it was the glory of the Lord on his face, and that meant that I was holding hands with the Lord himself. I knew instantly that it was not the sun at all that had been blinding my eyes, but rather it was the brilliance of his glory shinning from his face. Immediately I began to feel his love penetrating into my heart and my mind.

Psalm 67:1 “God, be merciful to us and bless us, and cause his face to shine upon us. Selah.”

II Corinthians 5:8 “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”

I was completely overwhelmed in that moment as I stood there realizing that I was really standing there holding hands with my heavenly Father. I was just looking at him in awe when he turned and looked down at me and said, “Now that we agree, we can walk together.” Then we just started walking, or rather, strolling along holding hands. Then it was like I had not heard what he had said, but I suddenly realized what he said; and I said with myself: “Agree? What in the world is he talking about? What is that we agree on?” Suddenly I remembered that the very moment before I was taken in the Spirit, I had been in prayer acknowledging before the Lord that I agreed with his word, that I saw that my heart and mind were exactly like that which the scriptures had testified of. I was simply in shock and awe when I realized that this was the agreement that the Lord had just spoken of. The only thing that I was able to say in that moment was, “Wow. Who could have ever imagined this? How could this be? How could the Lord take me by my hand and treat me with such tender love at a time that my own thoughts had convinced me that all that I was deserving of was for the Lord to treat me with some kind of harsh punishment, or rejection, or condemnation, or banishment? How could the Lord come and take my hand to walk in fellowship with me at a time when myself was so repulsed by the wickedness I had seen in my own heart and the vanity in my own thoughts?

Lamentations 2:14 “Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.”

I do not know how to describe how I felt in that moment but it was like a building that was imploding in on itself; and what was imploding in on me was all the lies that seemed to be crashing down within me. Just as Eve believed the lies that Satan had told her that God had been lying to them, so also had I believed his lies when he deceived me into believing that God was surely going to treat me for my sins and weaknesses in the same evil and condemning manner that I had been treating myself. In the twinkling of an eye, my eyes had been opened to actually see the love of God that I had been hoping to be true. Without any doubt, I knew that the Lord had just brought me into a new realm in my relationship with him. Up until this moment, I had been holding on to the belief that the love of God that scriptures testify of was true, but now I was experiencing that love in my heart like nothing I had ever experienced, and it was now my reality. To this very day, this is the single most wonderful, most powerful, most awesome and most loving moment that I have ever spent with the Lord; and it came in just a twinkling of an eye from the worst and most fearful dark moment in my entire life. Talk about shock and awe! My Father loved me.

Romans 5:20 (AMP) “But where sin increased and abounded, grace has surpassed it, increased the more, and superabounded.”

We were still just strolling along when Father looked down at me and said, “Mitt, why were so fearful to see the truth about how I see your heart and your mind? What I have opened your eyes to see concerning your heart and mind, it may be new to you, but it was not new to me. I have always seen and known that all of these things were in your heart since the day that I called you. I have loved from the beginning just as I do now. My love never changes. I have never been fearful or intimidated by any of your sins or your weaknesses; and I do not desire for you to be fearful or intimidated by them either. The grace of my love is far greater than any work of darkness; and it is the work of darkness to intimidate you, and to make you fearful to see the truth about your sins and weaknesses. My love for you today is the same perfect love that I have always had for you. I am love. I am the being of love, and I my being does not change. It is only lies that have deceived you and blinded you to the truth about my love. I do not love your self-image that tries to deny my truth, but I do love you. I do not love lies because there is no truth in lies. I love the truth; and I especially love those who love my truth. Now remember my word, that if and when sin may abound, then the truth is that the grace of my love will abound more and more unto you. My grace will always be sufficient for you, as long as you continue to diligently seek to know me. Just confess your sins and ask for me to cleanse you of them, and my love for you will do it, and my mercy will come to free you. Hold fast to the truth concerning my love for you, lest you let your fears direct you to flee from me and deny my grace. Let not your heart entertain any of these lies that would try to separate you from me.”

II Corinthians 12:8-10 NIV “Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

I then knew that the Lord had not just changed my relationship with him, but that he had also changed my world. My life would never be the same again. Never in my life have I ever felt as secure, cared for, comforted, and loved by the Lord as I did in that moment. The darkness had given away to the light, and my life had been restored. Much joy and peace had returned to me. A few days later, the Lord again spoke and asked, “Mitt, do you still see the same sins and weaknesses in your heart as you did before?” My life had been so filled with peace and joy from our little walk together that I had not really thought about any of the sins or the weaknesses that I had previously seen in me. I then considered what the Lord had just asked me, and much to my surprise, I could still see that many of these same sins and weaknesses were still there. “Yes, Lord I do see them”. Then the Lord asked, “If they are still there, but your heart is filled with such joy and peace, then what has changed?” I thought to myself about what a great question this was. I saw the same sins and weaknesses in my heart, but there was no self-condemnation or fears of any kind about what I was seeing. Then suddenly I knew. “Lord, it is my vision that has changed. I no longer see my sins and weaknesses through the eyes of fear, but I see them through the eyes of the grace of your love. Lord, I now believe in my heart that the grace of your love is sufficient for me.” In the twinkling of an eye….

I Corinthians 15:5152 NAS “Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Then the Lord said, “The light of the body is the eye. Take heed that the light that is in you is not darkness, lest you respond to your sins and weaknesses with self-condemnation and fear, instead of looking for my mercy, my forgiveness, and the grace of my love. Can darkness work anything other than darkness? Can death bring forth anything but death? It is the lies of these fears that were directing you into believing that it was right for you to be so disappointed in yourself and to condemn yourself. If you believe that it is right and true for you to condemn yourself, then condemnation will become your reality, for that will be the light that is in your eye. If you believe that it is right for you to be disappointed and to condemn yourself for your sins and weaknesses, then you will be believe that it is right for me to treat you in the same manner. If you believe that it is right for me to treat you in that manner, then you will also receive condemnation from men when they are disappointed with you or when they condemn you. And finally, you believe that it is right for others to be disappointed with you and to condemn you, then you will be disappointed and condemned when you see their sins and weaknesses. If you believe that condemnation is right, then condemnation shall be your reality. All of these works are nothing but the works of darkness that torment and trouble your soul with the fears and dreads of condemnation. Fear is always fearful of condemnation, because fear is of the darkness, and the darkness is condemned of itself. There is no fear in love. I am the grace of my Father‘s love and I am perfect in love. There is no condemnation in me, and neither is there any kind of condemnation to those who are in me. The woman who was caught in the act of adultery, from who did she receive threats of condemnation? From whom did she receive the grace of my Father’s love? He who walks in grace walks in the light of my Father’s love. He that walks in darkness walks in condemnation because the darkness condemns itself. Is it not written, “By your own words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned”? As the darkness cannot comprehend the light, neither can those who walk in condemnation understand the grace of Father’s love. If I do not condemn you, then who will?

Romans 8:1 NASB “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (They do not condemn themselves; God does not condemn them; they do not condemn others; and neither does the condemnation of others have any effect on them).”

John 8:3-12 NIV The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” “No one, sir," she said. “Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin.” When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Romans 1:17-25 “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God (the grace of his love) is manifest in them; for God has showed it to them. For the invisible things of him (the love of his grace) from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God (the grace of his love), they did not glorify him as God, neither were they thankful. But became vain in their imaginations (their fears), and their foolish heart was darkened; and professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness (the righteousness of their fears) through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves (judging one another/fearing each others fears), who changed the truth of God (the grace of his love) into a lie (condemnation), and they worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen…. 2:1 NIV “You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.”

Jude 4 NKJ For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 3:7 NAS “Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.”

I Peter 4:10 “As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.”

Colossians 4:6 “Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”

Romans 16:24 NASB “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.”

Then the Lord said, “Are you enjoying our walk through these rolling hills and valleys fashioned with lush grass and beautiful flowers? Is it a delight for you to be walking hand in hand with me?” I answered, “Lord, you know that it is. If you left it up to me, I would choose to stay here and never leave this valley if I could spend all my days walking with you.” Then suddenly I realized that I was actually walking with the Lord in the same manner that Adam walked with God on a daily basis. I then remembered that this is exactly what the Lord had taught me, that he created all men for this very purpose, to love him who loves us so that we might commune and fellowship with him on a daily basis. I then could not help but think how utterly miserable Adam and Eve must have felt when all they had ever known was this daily fellowship with the love of God, and then the darkness came upon them. And seeing that there is no fellowship or communion between the darkness and the light, they had to depart from the garden of God’s presence. fear and love. Can you have any real fellowship with someone who is always seeking to hide from your presence?

Then the Lord asked, “Do you know the name of this valley that we are presently in?” I then thought that this might be actually be the garden of Eden, but there were trees in the garden, and there were no trees here. So I answered, “No, Lord.” The Lord then said, “It is the valley of the shadow of death. Just as the darkness was able to enter into the Garden of Eden with it’s haunting fears and dreads, so also is the light of my love able to enter into the Valley of the Shadow of Death to deliver you from these same fears and dreads. Do you see any sin or death among these hills and valleys?” I answered, “No Lord; none at all.” I then realized that my sins and weaknesses were still with me, but it was the fears and dreads of them that had departed from me. I then also realized that I was walking through the valley of the shadow of death, hand in hand with the Lord, and just like the psalmist, there was no fear of seeing evil within me.

Psalm 23:4 NIV “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”

The Lord continued, “You know that the garden was the place where Adam walked with God, communed with God, fellowshipped with God, believed and trusted God, and where he shared his love for God, and God shared his love with Adam. But when Adam and Eve chose to believe Satan, desiring for his lies to become their reality, then in the twinkling of an eye, their vision was changed from light to darkness, and their eyes were opened to see as the spirit of fear sees. In the twinkling of an eye, the darkness was able to take away all of their fellowship and communion with God. Just as there is not any agreement between the light and the darkness, so also is there not any agreement between fear and love; for there is no fear in love, nor is there any love in fear. Is it not written that two cannot walk together except they agree? It was not the garden that changed, and neither was it that God had changed, but it was their seeing that had changed. In the twinkling of an eye, they became fearful of God, as well as fearful of all of those things that they imagined and perceived to be evil. It was the darkness of fear that counseled them to do that which they had never done before, to cover themselves and hide from God. This darkness is now that wall that alienates and separates man from the life that God created man to be partakers of.

Amos 3:3 NKJ “Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?”

Ephesians 4:17 “This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.”

When a man sees as the darkness of fear sees, then the Garden of Eden can become as the hell of the Valley of the Shadow of Death; and when a man’s eyes are opened to see through the vision of Father’s grace, then the Valley of the Shadow of Death can become as heavenly as the Garden of Eden. As fear is able to blind the eyes so that the love of God cannot be seen, so also is God able to open the eyes of the blind to the works of his love. Those who see through the eyes of fear have no desire for me to draw near to them because the spirit of fear has deceived them into believing that I will treat them for their sins, for their mistakes, and for their weaknesses in same manner as the darkness treats them: with accusations, or with guilt, or with finger pointing, or with disdain, or with condemnation, or with feelings of failure, or with false banishments, or with disgust, or with hopelessness, or with disappointment. Those who see through the eyes of my Father’s love, they see the truth, that I will treat them for their sins, their mistakes, and their weaknesses with mercy, with comfort, with forgiveness, with compassion, with help, with hope, and with grace. The darkness has no power to separate any from my love, but it can receive power if it is able to deceive one to surrender his heart to believe the counsels of it’s lies. It was not I”, says the Lord, “that sought to flee and hide from Adam’s love, but it was the darkness of fear in Adam that led him to flee and hide from my love.

Psalm 116:3 “The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.”

Isaiah 9:2 “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.”

Luke 1:76-79 NIV “And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High;

for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

Matthew 24:12 ASV “And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall wax (grow) cold.”

Am I like the darkness?” says the Lord. “Those who believe that I am condemnation, they are those who will flee from me, or shut their ears to my correction, or that will seek to cover their sins, weaknesses, and mistakes with the fig leaves of self-justification, or that will try to hide themselves from me behind the works of their hypocrisies. All these things are nothing but the works of darkness because darkness condemns sins, and mistakes, and faults, and weaknesses. I am not like the darkness. Those who love the darkness fear evil because they believe I am like them, that I will condemn or reject them in the same manner unmerciful manner that they condemn and reject others who do evil in their sight. These are blind to see that they are only defending their fears and hiding in the very darkness that condemns itself. Adam and Eve were both naked in the garden, and neither of them were ashamed; but in one moment, the darkness came, and their vision became as the vision of fear, and they were ashamed of their nakedness and sought to cover it up. It is not so with those who see their sins and weaknesses through the eyes of my love because they know the truth, that my love will treat them for their sins and weaknesses with much compassion, with much mercy, with much longsuffering and much patience, with much forbearance, with grace that abounds, and with much forgiveness”, says the Lord. Then my spirit returned to my body. I then knew that a man could have 20/20 vision and still not be able to see anything as God sees it.

Hypocrisy: “play-acting; pretend”

I had seen his glory. I had seen him face to face, though I could not behold the actual form of his face because of the brilliant glory of his love. I had seen the face of him whose love towards me is perfect; the perfect love that cast out my fears and dreads. I had seen the face of his love that brought death to the impatience, the disappointments, the disdain, the self-condemnation, the disgust, and the merciless way that I had been responding to my own sins and weaknesses with. I had seen the face of his love that brought immediate death to the lies that had deceived me into believing that God would treat my sins and weaknesses in a manner that was outside of the boundaries of the grace of his love. I had just held the same hands that made the heavens and the earth, and all things within. I had just heard the gentle and tender voice of his love, the voice that is able to shake the heavens and the earth. I had been compassed in the safety and security of him who is sovereign over all powers and principalities, whether they be in heaven or on earth, or whether they be of the darkness or light. I had been filled with the fullness of joy and peace that only comes from being in his presence. I was loved. I was forgiven. I was cared for. I was cleansed. I was the object of his affection.

I Kings 19:11,12 NIV The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.”

As long as I draw breath in this life, I will never forget this walk with the Lord. What was really interesting to me was to still see the same sins and weaknesses as I saw before prior to this visitation, but they were now powerless to influence me in any way concerning my relationship, my communion, and my fellowship with my heavenly Father. I had just endured the most powerful attack that Satan has ever brought against me, using my own my own sins, my own faults, and my own weaknesses joined together with a legion of fears, to draw and separate me from my Father’s love. If another man had attacked me with accusations, or with disgust, or with condemnation, or with disdain, or pointing that judgmental finger at me, then I could have just departed from his presence and freed myself from his lying words. But when Satan attacks you in the imaginations of your thoughts, appearing as counsels that desire to condemn yourself, or to hate yourself, or to be disappointed with yourself, then where can a man go to escape these miserable and relentless thoughts that torment his entire being? The last place that Satan wants a man to go to escape his attacks is into the arms of Father’s grace and love, because that is the only place that he will find escape and freedom from the lies that torment and trouble. I then knew that never again would any of my sins or weaknesses be accompanied with any of these tormenting fears that either tried to condemn me, or that tempted me to cover myself with the fig leaves of self-justification, or that tried to lead me to flee from my Father’s love. I now know that the love of God is always with me, even when I am in the valley of the shadow of death where sin abounds; knowing that the grace of my Father’s love will abound greater.

Romans 8:35 NASB “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.” But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Isaiah 65:2 ASV “I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, that walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts.”

I was reading one morning in the scriptures where Jesus said in John 15:15 “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.” I then asked, “Lord, am I your servant or am I your friend?” The Lord answered and said, “If you know that in your heart that I love you, even when you do not love me, then you are my friend. If you know that all the thoughts that I think towards you are always thoughts to do you good and to give you peace, then you are my friend. If you know that when you sin or err, that I will not condemn or be disappointed with you, but ready to show you the grace of my love, then you are my friend. If you are allowing for me to be your Lord and your God, then you are my friend. If you believe that all power belongs to me, and that I will do all things for you that are impossible for you to do, then you are my friend. If you believe on me for all things, then I am your friend. What more can I say but that the Lord has changed my relationship with him; for I am no longer in a servant relationship, but that of a friend.

Proverbs 29:21 “He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.”

James 2:23 “And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.”

I now know in my heart that for one to say that the Lord cannot love them because of their sins, or their unrighteousness, or their weaknesses is like saying that no parent is able to love his or her child because that child is not perfect. I can now walk through the valley of the shadow of death, and I am not longer afraid of the evil of any sins, or faults, or weaknesses that I may see because the grace of my Father’s love is written in my heart. Though my love for my heavenly Father may not yet be perfected, I know that his love for me is perfect; and that his perfect love is always with me to cast out my fears when I offer them before him. Though it was grievous for me to see the things that were hidden in the dark places of my heart and mind, I now know that I could never have known the greatness of his love, and his mercy, and his forgiveness, and his power, and his grace had I not asked for him to search my heart, to open my eyes to see my heart as he sees it. If I had not seen sin abounding, then I could never have known that his grace abounds more. I have said, and I will say it again; my heavenly Father has won my trust, my belief, my respect, my trust, my honor, my love, my life, and my heart. I now shudder to think what it would be like to live the rest of my life, here or in eternity, separated and alienated from the only being that truly loves me. It is now even hard for me to even imagine that I had once believed that God was going to treat me with the disdain and condemnation that these unclean spirits of fear had deceived me into believing, that the image of God was like unto their lies.

Luke 7:40 NIV Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” “Tell me, teacher,” he said. “Two men owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?” Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.” “You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.

Not long after this visitation, I was meditating on this wonderful experience that I had with our heavenly Father when I came to realize that not once in my entire life had I ever been treated by anyone as wonderfully as the Lord had treated me. I even thought to myself how my natural dad, who loved me about as much as a fleshy dad could, yet many times I had disappointed or provoked him to condemn me for my failures, or my mistakes, or for my weaknesses, or for offending him; and it was also in those times that my dad would also remind me of my past failures, mistakes, weaknesses, and offenses. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I have never been a member of any church, or bible study, or home group that would treat me or anyone else any differently than my natural dad did if I sinned against them as I saw how I had sinned against my heavenly Father. In fact, in most of the groups that I have been apart of, confessing one’s faults or sins was almost taboo. I suppose that this was one of the reasons why I was expecting for the Lord to treat me with disappointment, or with condemnation, or with disdain, or with ridicule, or with blame, or with rejection, or with disgust was because that is how I have seen Christians treating other Christians. In that moment, I also realized how wonderfully surprised that woman caught in the act of adultery must have felt when she, just like me, was probably expecting to Jesus to join in with the crowd and stone her to death. No doubt she had to be about as surprised as I was when the all that came upon her was the grace of God’s love. No wonder those sinners loved Jesus so much, seeing that he did not accuse, or judge, or point the finger, or condemn any of the them, but instead he openly loved them with much mercy and forgiveness. Thanks be to God that he has granted me repentance, and turned my heart from condemnation to grace. I still could not hardly believe the depth and greatness of Father’s love that had come to take my hand to walk with me in a time that I was not expecting any love whatsoever. I then knew in my heart that not only were all of these scriptures true that defined the wicked and evil condition of my heart and my mind, but so also were all those scriptures true that define the greatness of Father’s love, and mercy, and kindness, and forgiveness, and his grace that he shows towards us in those times.

Matthew 25:40 “The Lord of that servant shall come in the day that looks not for him, in the hour that he least expects him.”

II Corinthians 12:8 NASB “Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness " Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

Not long after this, the Lord once again reminded me of the Castle Vision, bringing into my remembrance how the Lord had shown to me that all that which I believed to be right and true was that which my heart treasured. He also reminded me of how crafty Satan is because it is by reason of his lies that I was defending and guarding the very fears that did nothing but trouble my thoughts with such things as worry, stress, impatience, confusion, anxiety, and evil suspicions. Now the Lord had opened the eyes of my heart to see how Satan had again been greatly tormenting me when I saw my sins, my faults, my mistakes, and my weaknesses through the eyes of fear. It is almost embarrassing for me to admit that through deceit, I had allowed for self-condemnation, self-disgust, self-disdain, self-scorn, self-chastisements, self-blame, as well as all of my disappointments and failures to fill the treasures of my own heart, believing that this was the righteous way for me to treat myself. If this was not embarrassing enough, it was even more shameful for me to have been deceived into believing that my Father in heaven was also feeling the same way about me as I was feeling about myself. “Lord, I open the door of heart; please come in and cleanse my of all the unrighteousness of my self-righteousness.”

Proverbs 21:2 “Every way of man is right in his own eyes…”

Proverbs 16:2 “All the ways of man are clean in his own eyes…”

Jesus said that if any man chooses to follow after him, then he must first be willing to take up his cross, and deny (disown; dispossess) himself, and follow after him. To follow after Jesus, a man must be ready to disown that which the natural man values the most, the treasures of his own righteousness. This almost seemed impossible for me until the Lord began to open my eyes to see that the very things that my heart had been treasuring were also the things that had been haunting me daily in my thoughts with some manner of worry, or confusion, or uncertainty, or stress, or evil suspicions, or anxiety. I was so familiar with and used to these miserable thoughts accompanying me on a daily basis that I thought that they would always be with me. I never even had a thought that said that the Lord could make me free from all these thoughts that were haunting me. As much as I hated the idea of having unclean spirits in me, I was ecstatic to learn that Father’s love yearns to cast all out all of them so that he might free me from all their haunts.

It is written in Philippians 3:8,9 that the death that Paul suffered was the loss of his own righteousness; the righteousness which came by the law. I know that at first, Paul counted all of this righteousness to be according to the works that he did that he had performed according to the law of Moses; which also meant that he suffered the loss of his glory, his own honor, the name he had made for himself, his own goodness, and his own respect. I know that Paul suffered the loss of these things of these things because the Lord has led me down this same path. But then the day came when the Lord gave me this castle vision, and he opened my eyes to see I had so accounted my fears and dreads to be right and true, that I was allowing for these unclean spirits to have control over how I was living my life. Then the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me that the law that Paul was speaking of in Philippians 3:8,9 was not actually the law of Moses at all, but it was also the righteousness of the law that Paul spoke of in Romans 8:2, the law of sin and death that he also suffered the loss of. It was not the law itself that Paul suffered the loss of but, but it was the righteousness of that law. The righteousness of sin is self-justification and pride; the righteousness of death is fear, and every other miserable thought For God did not create man to be in bondage to serve or be a slave to, the law of sin and death. No man is in bondage to any law except that which he sees and believes to be right and true.

Now when I see any fear coming into my thoughts in any form such as anxiety or worry, as quickly as I possible can, I take up my cross deny that any of these haunting thoughts are right in the sight, and I ask for the Lord to cast them out, and fill me with the Spirit of life that is in Christ Jesus; the Spirit that allows for the peace of God to rule in my heart because it knows that the almighty God is in complete control over all the situations, and circumstances, and cares that arise in my daily life. Now the Lord has opened my eyes to see with eyes the righteousness of his love; his grace, his goodness, his forgiveness, his provision, his mercies, his faithfulness, his blessings, his truth, and his fellowship. These now have become those treasures that my heart greatly values to be right, to be good, and to be true. What more can I say but I now value these blessings of Father’s love so greatly that I am more than willing to dispossess and die to the sin and death that did nothing but deceive me and haunt the castle of my heart. Thanks be to God, his love and his peace have now become my reality.

Philippians 3:8,9 “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord (the grace of Father’s love) for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law (the law of sin and death) but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.”

II Corinthians 1:9,10 But we have the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead: who has delivered us from so great a death, and who does deliver us: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us.”

Luke 18:9-14 The parable that Jesus speaks to all who think and trust that they are righteous.

Take heed that no man deceive you by any means…It does not say be fearful of men

I suppose that there are many ways that these spirits of fear are able to find an entrance into our hearts that we are not even aware of. When I was a child, I used to be fearless when it came to climbing trees. If my parents were not around to see me, then I would not hesitate to climb as high as I could in the biggest trees in our neighborhood. Then one night I had a dream, and in that dream I was standing on top of a high rise building. I then saw a man fall off the side of it, and I ran over to the edge and looked down just in time to see that man hit the sidewalk. When I woke up from that dream, I found that I had this terrifying fear of heights that I previously did not have. It’s impact was immediate because I never climbed another tree again because of that spirit of fear that had come in me. Thanks be to God, that is now one of the many fears that the Lord has delivered me from. Now I can, and have done, walked right up to the edge of tall buildings, looked down, and there is no fear at all. I can now fly on an airplane without any fear whatsoever. Because there are legions of fears, all having a different name and a different nature, I suppose that there are many different doors that one can unwittingly open that will allow these unclean spirits in.

I continued to ask the Lord to search my heart, to open my eyes so that I could clearly see these fears that had so cleverly hid themselves in my heart behind some illusion of righteousness. The Lord then opened my eyes one day to see a spirit of fear that I had actually allowed to enter into my heart through the very scriptures themselves. As I have testified of, I was an atheist when the Lord first came into my life, I knew that I had finally found the real thing; and by no means did I ever want to lose him. So when I starting reading in the scriptures those verses that warned us saying such things as, “Take heed that no man deceive you”, I then allowed for that exhortation to be joined with the fear that I had in me of losing the Lord, the only real thing. The fruit that started coming forth from this union was that I became very fearful that I was unknowingly going to allow for another Christian to deceive me. Then the Lord said to me, “Mitt, my word just says “Take heed (listen; pay attention)” that no man deceive you”; it does not say, “Be fearful (afraid) not to allow for any man to deceive you”. Up until that moment, I really thought that it was right for me to be fearful of other brethren so that I would not be deceived. It was then that the Lord opened my eyes so that I could again see how I had perverted his word again because I was “seeing” his word through the eyes of the spirit of fear; and when you see the word through the eyes of fear, then the only interpretation that can possibly come forth is that interpretation that is right in the eyes of that spirit of fear.

Then the Lord began to open my eyes so that I could see the evil fruit that was coming forth from this perverted interpretation of his word. I began to see that I was responding towards all of my brethren with evil suspicions; and when you have evil suspicions of your brother, then that is all that you are going to do is to seek to find evil in your brother. This fear had so deceived me that I actually thought that I was doing that which was right in the sight of the Lord. What I was blind to see was that once I allowed for these fears to be my righteousness, then I also found that it was right to judge my brethren; which is exactly that which Jesus instructed us not to do. As fear is only able to work evil, so also was it working in me to find evil in those who I was evil suspicious of. I saw that I had become so fearful that if I heard a brother speak a word that did not agree with that which I believed to be right and true, then I became suspicious of him and convinced that he was only trying to deceive. But the Lord was now opening my eyes to see how this fear was doing nothing but bringing madness into my thoughts. If I saw my brother sin, then my fears were direct me to go out of my way to keep my distance from him, just as Adam tried to distance himself from God. I also saw that my fears had me judging that some of my sinful brothers were really not Christians at all. I forgot that Jesus said that he came to save sinners and not the righteous. My fears had perverted my vision so badly that I was seeing this all backwards; just as the self-righteous Pharisees did.

I Timothy 6:3-5 “If any man teach otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine (love your brother), which is according to godliness (being like God, who is love) he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and arguments over words, from which comes envy, strife, railings, evil suspicions, perverse disputes by men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain (riches of this world) is godliness. From such withdraw yourself.”

Nahum 1:11 “There is one that comes out of you, a wicked counselor that imagines evil against your God.”

Again, it is shameful for me to admit, but I am so thankful that the Lord, in his mercy, has allowed for me to repent by opening my eyes to see the truth; and the truth is how God sees. I was so blinded that I had allowed for this madness to lead me to judge many of my brethren to be evil deceivers; and once I had judged a brother to be evil, I would then seek to break off all communion and fellowship, thinking of him to be nothing but a child of the darkness. But the truth was that I was the acting like a child of darkness because I was the one who had been deceived by the spirit of fear to have evil suspicious against my brethren. Thanks be God for the blood that covers us, even when our conscience is given over to the do the dead works of darkness. I thought that I was the righteous one who should be departing from the presence of the unrighteous, when in truth I was the unrighteous one that they should have sought to depart from. Then the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me that we are indeed to try and to discern the spirits that our brothers are speaking by. If we see them speaking in error, which may be by the spirit of fear that is in them, then we are not to judge them to be wicked, or evil, or corrupted, but rather we are to treat them in love and speak the truth in love to them at all times. I was amazed to see how my fears had so deceived me that I had been in a complete state of disobedience concerning how I should be treating my brethren. Later, after the Lord had removed this beam of fear out of my eye, I was able to observe how many responded to 9-11. Seeing that all of these terrorists were Arab, many became fearful of Arabs. Then their fears led them to be evil suspicious of all Arabs; and then their evil suspicions were perfected when they came to hate Arabs. Jesus said, “Love your enemy”. But fear cannot love your enemy because there is no fear in love.

I Thessalonians 4:9 “But as touching brotherly love, you need not that I write unto you because you know that God himself will teach you to love one another.”

James 4:11,12 “Do not speak evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother speaks evil of the law (the law of love), and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law (loving your brethren) but a judge. There is only one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy: so who are you that judges another?”

Matthew 25:45 Then Jesus answered them saying, “Truly, I say to you that inasmuch as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.”

But thanks be to God for his loving correction; and that correction came when the Lord opened my eyes and revealed to me how I had been so deceived. I am still amazed that all that the Lord had to do to correct me was to open my eyes so that I could see my brethren with the same vision that Father sees all of us with. The Lord showed to me that by reason of my blindness, I was treating my brethren like I was some kind of oppressive father who would be continually looking and waiting for one of his own children to make one mistake so that he could find just one reason to reject them, or to condemn them, or to even kick that child completely out of his house. Again, I was ashamed to see how this spirit of fear had deceived me so greatly that I was now judging my brethren as to who, and who should not be, in the house of the Lord. But then the Lord in his mercy said to me, “Love your brethren; but know that there is no fear in love. Love does not think evil of, nor is it suspicious of any. But know this, that as long as you are surrendered to believe the righteousness of your fears, then it is not possible for you to love any of your brethren because there is no fear in love. Love forbears with all. Love is patient with all. Love is compassionate towards all. Love is kind. Love is full of grace, and love rejoices in forgiveness, even when a brother speaks in error. When Peter allowed for fear to speak through the words of his mouth to tempt me, did I banish him or cast him out of my house? No; and neither should you.

Matthew 16:21-25 NIV “From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter (Fear) took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. "This shall never happen to you!” Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.” Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.”

Then the Lord said, “Those who are blinded by fear look for the good in man so that they may find a reason to accept that man. The love of God does not look for good in a man, and neither does love look for God to be in a man, for that would only mean that God is only able to love himself because there is none good but God. It is the blind fallen man that loves himself, and those who are like unto himself. There is no blindness in the eyes of love. Love sees a man’s sins, sees his faults, sees his weaknesses, sees his offenses, sees his transgressions, sees all of his iniquities, and sees all of the mistakes that he makes, and yet love still continues to love him. It is not possible for love to do anything other than love. Love just loves. I am love”, says the Lord. Glory be to God! The Lord had now taken the beam of fear out of my eyes, I could now clearly see that the only right way for me to treat my brethren, or my enemies, was in the righteousness of Father’s love; the love that does good, that forbears with, that is merciful, that strengthens the weak, that is patient with, that edifies, and that always shows itself in grace during times of darkness and weakness. Love does all these things without any reason to do it because love just loves.

Luke 6:27-36 NIV “But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even “sinners” love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even “sinners” do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even “sinners” lend to “sinners” expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”

II Peter 1:5-9 NIV “For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

II Corinthians 10:12 “For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: for they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves amongst themselves are not wise.”

Yes, yes, yes; take heed that you do not allow yourselves to be deceived, but do not for one moment entertain the lies of that unclean spirit that desires to deceive us all into believing that it is right for us to be fearful by our brethren; for the fear of man brings a snare. I then knew that before the Lord could teach me to love my brethren, I first had to die; to die to the righteous of these fearful spirits that had been instructing me to be suspicious of my brethren. I had to die to the belief that any of theses counsels of fear were right, or good, or true. When I called on the Lord and asked for him to deliver me from this fear, he came. And when he came, it was suddenly like a huge black heavy cloud lifted off of me, and I could clearly see my brethren for the first time without the vision of fear in my eyes. Though I could still see evil where evil was, there was a total absence of evil suspicions, and neither has there been any fears in me that I was going to be deceived. Here I had been fearful that I was going to being deceived by men when all along it was the spirit of fear within that was deceiving me with it’s vision.

I John 4:1 “Beloved, believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”

Acts 17:11 “These in Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind (not in fear of being deceived), and they searched the scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. Therefore, many believed…”

I Corinthians 15:36 “You fool, that which you sow is not made alive unless it dies first.”

The Lord has now delivered me from every fear and dread that I have confessed and offered unto him. He is cleansing his temple. I am now not afraid to see if there are any more of unclean spirits dwelling in me because I know that the love of God will cast them out of me as soon as I present them before him, asking for him to deliver me. Then the Lord spoke to me and said, “You have seen me deliver you from the lion (fears) and the bear (dread), and now watch me deliver you from the Goliaths that are about to come.”

Chapter 7 The spirit of the Son: Jesus

When the Lord first enlightened me, and then gave me the instruction to write these words, I could not help but wonder how many of the children of God understand what God has planned for this hour. The reason I wondered this is because if a man has no vision as to what the Lord is going to be doing in this day of darkness, then what hope could he have to hold on to, or what words could he believe in, or what promises could his faith stand on when Satan’s wrath is unleashed to torment and trouble the carnally minded inhabitants of the earth? What will those children do, those virgins who have not prepared and have no oil in their lamps when the call goes out that Jesus is coming, but they have not asked the Lord to prepare them? Surely, those who are not prepared for the coming of the Lord will not be prepared for the darkness that comes before him. How many hearts will fail for looking at and seeing those things that coming on the earth because the only eyes that they will be able to see these things with will be through vision of fear; and fear will only be able to see the doom and gloom that the spirit of fear prophesies of.

Revelation 12:12 “Therefore rejoice ye heavens (spiritually minded; the virgins that are wise), and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and the sea (carnally minded; the foolish virgins)! For the Devil us come down unto you having great wrath because he knows that he has but a short time.”

Many hearts will be unprepared because they have put their hope and their faith in doctrines such as the rapture fable; a fable that mixes the scriptures with man’s reasonings and man’s understanding, as many false prophets and false teachers have taught. Yes, there is “catching up” in the air for the saints to be with the Lord, but this event is not designed for the fearful to escape the days of ahead. Even if there truly was such an event as the pre-tribulation rapture, then those who are fearful about the days ahead would not be taken anyway because as it is written in Revelation 21:8, the fearful shall not be able to enter the kingdom of God. Yes, God surely does have a plan for the wise and faithful, the fearful shall weep and gnash their teeth. All the rapture fable has done is to keep the spirit of fear masked and hidden in the dungeon of the heart, rather than to let those fears come into the light of God’s judgment so that we may see them, and ask the Lord to show us his love that casts out these vile and unclean spirits. Seeing then that fear is truly a wicked and deceitful spirit, know that it is this same spirit that delights in twisting and perverting the truth of scriptures with it’s counsels and fables, let the truth of God comes forth to cast them out. Would it be wise for those who are see and interpret the scriptures through the eyes of fear that they could ever see any truth that would allow for that spirit of fear to be cast out?

II Timothy 4:3 NASB “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn their ears away from the truth and will turn aside to myths.”

First, ask the Lord to remove the beam of fear from your eyes so that you may clearly see the truth about what Father has planned and prepared for those who love him in the days ahead. The Lord reveals truth, he does not teach fables because fables are not able to set a man free from his fears. So is it of any surprise that I, or any who have sought to know the truth from God, that we have never been taught anything about the pre-tribulation rapture fable? Speaking for myself, the Lord has led me instead to surrender my heart and my mind into his hands, praying and asking for him to prepare me for both for his coming, and for the days of trouble that precede his coming. Can his yoke be any lighter than for us to allow for him to prepare our hearts for both of these events that are to come, and even now is? How can the faith of your heart fail if there are no fears, or doubts, or unbelief dwelling within that could overthrow the thoughts of your heart? Is this not an awesome work of God; a work that is worthy of much praise and thanksgiving? Is it not written that those things which are impossible for us to do is possible for God to do?

Proverbs 16:1 “The preparation of the heart and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.”

The Lord is coming to his temple, our bodies; and just like it was when the Lord came to his temple in the Old Testament, that temple first had to be cleansed and sanctified before the Lord could come and dwell within, filling it with the glory of his presence. It took such a burden off of me after I understood and believed that Jesus is our High Priest, and that it is his duty as our high priest to cleanse and sanctify the temple of our hearts. We just need to seek and ask him to do so. As easy as it is, it still requires us trusting his love for us enough to open the door of our hearts and ask him to come in and prepare us. I am still amazed to see how much of my uncleanness was rooted in the spirit of fear, accounting so many of these ungodly counsels to be the righteousness of my decisions, allowing them to direct me in the decisions I was making to live my life according to. How greatly I was deceived to so freely consent and allow a spirit whose only purpose was to trouble and haunt me continually with thoughts of uncertainty, or panic, or stress, or dejection, or worry, or confusion, or dread, or evil suspicions, or anxiety. It was in my sanctification that the Lord opened my eyes to see that my old religion never allowed for me to see these things hidden within, but only had me focused on the righteousness of my works and appearances. But when the truth was revealed, I saw that the Lord is really looking only at the intents and desires of my heart. Who is able to cleanse or sanctify himself of that which he cannot see, especially those things that may be dwelling in and hidden away in the dungeon of our heart? With gladness l have now surrendered and offered up to the Lord all of the righteousness of these haunts and torments came forth out of that dung pile of darkness. I have opened the castle door of my heart, the Lord has come in, and is now cleansing and sanctifying my heart with the truth of his love; and the same love that casts out my fears.

Psalm 1:1 NASB “How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked (ungodly), nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers!”

Isaiah 64:6 “But we are all as an unclean thing and all of our righteousness are as filthy rags…”

Philippians 3:8-11 “Yea, doubtless, and I count all things loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law (the law of sin and death), but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith, that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to death, if by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.”

Who can know what is coming in the days ahead when scriptures like those that are written in Daniel 12:1; Matthew 24:21; and Revelation 7:14 prophesy of troubles and sorrows that have never before been seen or experienced on this earth? If a man has not sought or asked the Lord to deliver him from his fears, then how could he expect to see anything other than the doom and gloom that has been prophesied of concerning these days? Can the darkness comprehend the light? The first word that the Lord spoke to me that gave me an indication that the days of ahead may not be all that doom and gloom which I had seen came one morning while I was praying. During my prayers, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Mitt, I have been patiently waiting 6000 years to perform that which I am about to do. Do you really believe that I would have been waiting this long to bring doom and gloom upon man? Consider how the spirit of fear had so blinded John and James that for a time, they did not even know manner of spirit they were of. They thought that I would destroy in times that I desired to show mercy and save. I came to save all who will have me, and I desire not that any should perish. I tell you that what is coming is far greater than anything that John or James understood, or anything that you could ever imagine.” These words were the beginning of my hope that something awesome is about to come forth, and it is not antichrist.

I Corinthians 2:9-11 “But as it is written, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so, the things of God no man knows, only the Spirit of God.”

When I came into this world, I did not come in the glory of my Father, but rather I came in the likeness of sinful man. So when I came to my own people, I was judged according to my appearance and I was measured by their laws and traditions. By reason of their blindness, they could not see the love in my heart that I had for my heavenly Father, nor the loyalty that I had for him. By reason of this blindness, they could not see that I only put my trust in Father, and I completely relied on him. By reason of this blindness, they could not see that I believed all of my Father’s words, nor could they see the desire in me to only give honor to him. By reason of this blindness, they could not see the holy faith that I placed in my heavenly Father, nor the hope and the confidence that I place in his hands. By reason of this blindness, they could not see that I sought only counsel from my heavenly Father, nor could they see how much I delighted in my daily communication with him. By reason of their blindness, they could not see the holy faith that I placed in my heavenly Father, nor could they see how I delighted in doing his will. By reason of their blindness, they could not see the Father/Son relationship that existed between me and he who sent me, that I was the Son who was/is well-pleasing in his sight. By reason of this blindness, they could not find anything in me that they desired for themselves, so they made light of me and mocked me.

John 5:44 “How can you believe who receive honor one another and do not seek for the honor that comes only from God?”…49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.”

John 5:30 “I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just because I seek not my own will, but the will of my Father which hath sent me.”

Isaiah 53:1 NASB “Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon Him, nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him. He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and like one from whom men hide their face, He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

John 1:10 NASB “He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.”

Matthew 3:17 NKJ “And suddenly a voice came from heaven saying, “This is my beloved in whom I am well pleased.”

When I came to my own, they rejected me because I did not come to exalt them for their for their heritage or for their righteous works, but rather I came to restore relationship between my Father and his children. My Father and I are one. My Father is holy. I am the Son of the most holy. As my Father is holy, so also am I holy because the son is equal to the Father. I am the Holy Spirit. I am the spirit of reconciliation. I am the spirit of adoption. I am the spirit of relationship. I am the spirit of the holy Son that is well-pleasing in the sight of my Holy Father. Our relationship is holy. For this relationship, I was despised, and persecuted, and mocked by all those who desire to be exalted rather than to have a relationship with Father. I became like you so that you might see that sinful flesh does not prevent our heavenly Father from having a relationship with any man through faith, and belief, and reliance, and hope, and trust, and love. I came to win you to him who passionately loves each one of you, even when you have not loved him. I was willing to become like you, but are you willing to become like me so that you can have the same well-pleasing relationship with Father that I have with him as his Son? Will you be like me? I became like your flesh, but will you have the fullness of my Spirit? Will you allow for my mind to be in you so that you may intimately know your heavenly Father? Will you let my heart be in you so that you can receive Father’s love and give him the love that he desires?

Romans 8:2 NASB “For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did; sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh…”

Hebrews 9:19 “For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw near unto God.”

Luke 11:13 NIV “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, then how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

II Corinthians 5:15-20 “And He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.

Philippians 2:5,6 “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”

I John 4:19 “We love him because he first loved us.”

Revelation 1:5 “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.”

I am coming again. I am coming as I AM is. I AM is coming. I am coming to be glorified in my sons. It will be just as it is written, “I will not give my glory to another, but I will give you me. I am the fullness of the glory of God. I am coming for all who will have me. I am coming for those who are prepared and sanctified so that they can have me. I am not coming again in the likeness of sinful flesh. I am not coming at all like the Jesus that walked this earth, and neither am I coming as the Jesus who was crucified and resurrected. I am coming in the fullness of the glory, in the fullness of the authority and power, in the fullness of the riches, in the fullness of the wisdom, in the fullness of the honor, in the fullness of the strength and might, and in the fullness of the all the blessings that I received after I took the book and removed it’s seals. In all the heavens, in all the earth, and beneath all the earth, I alone was found to be worthy to take the book and removed the seals which my Father had sealed it with. I am coming in the likeness of all that which is written in the book, and all those who see me when I come, they shall be changed into my likeness. I am coming in all of the brilliance, the beauty, and the majesty of the glory of God. I am coming in the perfection of Father’s love; and as I am, so shall you be. I told you that what is coming is far better than anything that you could ever imagine. I Am is what is coming.

Hebrews 9:28 “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Romans 8:18,19 “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us; for the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the Sons of God.”

I Corinthians 15:46-52 “Howbeit that it is not that which is first that is spiritual, but it is that which is natural; then afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, so shall we also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery; “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed; in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”

If you put your hope in me and persevere, then I shall make you to be as me when I appear because I am coming to be glorified in you. I am coming to glorify myself in all those who desire to be as I am. Then shall the eyes of all see “me” when I manifest myself in my saints. Then shall the kings, the rulers, the rich, the poor, the needy, the blind, as well as all the nations see “me” in the brilliance of the glory that shall arise up in the sons of the living God. Then shall the eyes of all be opened to see, and blindness shall perish. Then shall the light of life swallow up all sin and death that inhabits the darkness. No longer shall my sons be despised or rejected as I was, but they shall be exalted. No longer shall my sons be ridiculed or mocked as I was, but they shall be exalted. No longer shall my sons be hated or persecuted, but they shall be exalted. I am coming to exalt all those who have humbled their hearts before me. For the darkness shall pass and all men shall see me in you, and with gladness shall they all come to you, worshipping and praising God. I have purposed this, I have declared this, and I will perform it. I will perform the desire of my heart, regardless of what the blind hypocrites believe, or think, or say. Be ready for my coming; but also take heed and be ready for the coming of Satan that is before my coming”.

I John 3:2,3 “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.”

Romans 8:24,25 NKJ “For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

Isaiah 40:5 “The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.”

II Thessalonians 1:10 NASB “When He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed--for our testimony to you was believed.”

Isaiah 60:1-3 NASB “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For behold, darkness (the fear that causes the hearts of men to fail) will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you. And His glory will appear upon you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.”

Through the years, the Lord has greatly blessed me by allowing me to be a partaker of many visions, prophesies, dreams, and revelations. But he has especially blessed me in the times that he has taken me in Spirit; like the time that he met me in the valley of the shadow of death so that I could witness first hand the grace and the tenderness of Father’s love, despite being compassed with the wickedness of my sins and my weaknesses. Truly, I have had some wonderful experiences with our heavenly Father. Aside from these experiences, the Lord has also spoken a couple of words that my heart has greatly treasured above all others. The first word came while I was praying one morning around 3AM. I had just said to the Lord, “Father, I want to be just like you”; and he immediately answered me in an audible voice saying, “Every father desires for his son to be just like him.” I wish that there was some way that I could write and describe the love, the desire, the tenderness, and the yearning that I heard in his voice as he spoke these words to me. They were spoken with such life in them. It was with this word that I knew what Father’s desire and purpose was for me, as well as for each one of us. This word was so powerful that with just this one sentence, Father changed my vision, my destiny, and the entire direction of my walk with him. With this one sentence, he revealed to me the entire purpose of my calling….to become a son who allows his father to raise him up in his own image. I mean really, can there be any higher calling on our lives that to have the almighty God call us to become a son of God? The scriptures clearly reveal that this is the journey and the destiny that Father has called us to because it is written that in the Holy Spirit, he has given to us power to “become” his sons, and that it is this spirit of adoption that cries out, “Abba, Father”.

John 1:12 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.”

Romans 8:15 “For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”

It is for the purpose of this high calling that I have bowed my knee and surrendered my mind, my heart, and my life into the hands of my Maker and my Creator; worshipping him only as he that is able to transform and change this vile, earthy image into the glorious image of his holy son; and Jesus is the Spirit of the holy Son. It is for this work that I have surrendered my life into his hands, waiting patiently for him until he has finished the work that he has started in me, changing my heart and transforming the thoughts of my mind until I have completely put off the nature of the old man and fully put on the nature of his son through Christ Jesus so that I might fulfill the destiny of my calling. It is in this adoption process that made the second word that Father spoke to me be just as important as the first. I was praying one morning when the Lord said, “Mitt, I am not going to make you great in my sight, but I am going to become great in your eyes.” There were times in my walk that I do not think that I could have rejoiced in hearing this word; in those times before the Lord corrected me of my pride, when I was still desirous for my name to be made great also. But now that my pride has been dissolved, my heart just about jumped out of me with great joy and excitement when I heard these words because I knew that the only way that Father could become great in my sight was if he actually did great things for me. I did not even have a clue at that time as to what these great works could be. But I think that I could sum up how I felt about these words with that which is written in Luke 1:46 “And Mary said: “ My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior. For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed. For He who is mighty has done great things for me, And holy is His name.” Now it has been revealed, and now I know, that Mary and I, as well as all who are being prepared, are waiting to give birth to the Son of God. The difference being is that Mary gave birth to the Jesus who came in the likeness of sinful flesh, but we are waiting to birth that Jesus who comes in all the fullness of the glory of God. We are presently living in the hour that not only Father, but the entire creation has been waiting 6000 years for; the hour that will bring forth and manifest his sons in all of his glory, before all the world.

Psalms 57:2 “I will cry unto God most high; unto God who performs all things for me.”

Galatians 4:19 NASB “My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you--”

Romans 8:29 “For whom he did foreknow, he did predestinate (destiny) to be conformed to the image of his Son, that we might be the firstborn of many brethren.”

Isaiah 37:3 “And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.”

Knowing that the scriptures also identify the last days as days of trouble, as well as Christ coming forth in his elect, I asked, “Lord, why did they not have the strength to birth forth at the birth?” He answered and said, “Because they did not make me to be their strength, but tried to perform it of themselves.”

Psalm 28:7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him.

Ephesians 6:10 “Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.”

Now we know that the scriptures reveal that Father has called us to become the sons of God, but who has really considered and meditated just how awesome the purpose is that Father has called each one of us into? All of creation and all of the heavens are extremely excited about this plan of God, and are excitedly waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. But it is not so with the darkness, and all things that are of the darkness. It is engraved in the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem the words that declare that God has no son. These words stand in complete contradiction and opposition to the very purpose God created man. This statement not only stands in opposition to God, but to the very purpose that Father sent his Son into the world, and the destiny that each one of us has been called into. This religion denies that God has a Son, but it does declare that Jesus was a prophet. When Jesus said that he was the son of man, no one got upset. But the moment that he said that he was the Son of God, this so infuriated the religious hypocrites that they rose up against him and sought to kill him, accusing him of blasphemy because to say that you are a son is to say that God is your Father; and to say that God is your Father, is to say that you are equal with God. Even so, the Spirit of God bears witness with the truth; for that spirit cries out from within a man, “Abba, Father”, bearing witness that the spirit of God’s son is within.

Isaiah 9:6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called, ‘wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, and The Prince of Peace.”

Philippians 2:5,6 “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God.”

John 5:18 “Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.”

Then the Lord said to me, “Be ready, I am coming. Again I tell you that I have been waiting 6000 years to do that which I am about to do, and nothing is going to stop me; not Satan, not antichrist, not death, not the governments of this world, not any religion, nor any of the powers of Darkness. I am coming and not even an alliance of all these things joined together is going to stop me. I am coming to recover my creation. I have spoken this, and I alone am going to perform it. I am coming, but remember that the work of darkness comes before me.”

Isaiah 46:11 “…yea, I have spoken it, and I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, and I will also do it.”

In 2007, the Lord led me, along with several others with prophetic gifts, to come together in Houston, Texas. I was really surprised when the first word that the Lord gave to us came through me that said, “You can take every interpretation that has ever been written about the book of Revelation, or the end times, and you can throw them all out of the window, because they are all vain and false.” Even though we are living in the times of new revelations, it still startles me when the Lord brings forth a word like this that goes against, well, against all the interpretations that have ever been written. While I was meditating on this word, before I had actually spoken it, the Lord spoke again and said, “The reason that all of these other interpretations are vain and false is because none of them are able to show the impact that the sons of God are going to have during this time. No one knows the impact that my sons are going to have because I have not yet revealed this secret to my prophets yet.” Wow! What a word to start a meeting with. Not long after I left Houston, the Lord spoke to me and said, “The sons of God are those who are going to be doing greater works than that which I did.” I was now in state of awe as I began to think, “O my; what kind of impact could 144,000 Jesus Christs have on this world who will be walking in the fullness of Father’s glory!” Who is able to hear, or comprehend, or receive, or believe that which Father has purposed to do? Surely, it as it written, that eye has not seen, nor ear heard the things that God has prepared for those who love him.”

I cannot speak for anyone but myself, and even with all of the healings and wonderful works that the Lord has done for me, I still have a hard time trying to wrap my little mind around the thought that we will soon be walking in a greater authority and a greater glory than Jesus did when he walked on earth. I mean, he raised the dead; he walked on water; and he fed 5000 people with food that was just barely enough for a dozen. He gave sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf; he had authority over the winds and the seas; and he even disappeared at times. He healed “all” those who were sick; he turned water into wine; and he replaced an ear that had been severed. He showed the grace of Father’s love to an adulteress when others wanted to stone her and he forgave all those that had so viciously and mercilessly hated him, mocked him, scourged him, and crucified him. He pulled money out of a fish’s mouth; he cast out all manner of unclean spirits and demons; and he had legions of angels at his disposal if he needed them. Now Jesus is telling us that we should be looking to add “greater works” to these things. All of these things Jesus did in his former glory, but now the former and the latter glory is coming, and greater works are going to be done because a greater glory is coming.

If eye has not seen or ear has hear the things that God has prepared for those who love him, then how could any man even imagine what these works may be? And if these works cannot be imagined, then who can understand or know the impact that the sons of God are going to have seeing that they are the ones who are going to be doing these greater works? But the scripture also goes on to say that Spirit is revealing these things to us, and that God will do nothing unless he reveals the secrets of his plans to his prophets first. Even so, my mind cannot comprehend such a greater glory; but thanks be to God, he has not asked me to try and comprehend it, but he is only asking us to put our hope, in him and believe that he is able to perform all those things which he has promised us. If we try to comprehend or reason these spiritual things, then all that does is give birth to doubts and unbelief because who can understand how God does any of his marvelous and wonderful works? Let us be strong in faith like Abraham was, who believed that God was, and still is, well able to perform all that which he says that he is going to do. I am thankful to know that it is the Lord who increases our faith to be that which allows for him to perform the promises of his words. I am so thankful that I now know in my heart that God is able to do all of those things which are impossible for men to do, as well as those things that are exceedingly, abundantly above what we are able to think or ask. And now….a greater glory is coming, and his sons are going to do greater works than Jesus did because a greater Jesus is coming, and nothing is going to stop him from coming in us…except if we account the fears, or the doubts, or the unbelief to be more right and true than the words of God.

I Corinthians 2:10-12 NASB “For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. No we have received not the spirit of this world, but the spirit who is from God, so that we might know the things freely given to us by God.”

Amos 3:7 NASB “Surely the Lord God does nothing unless he reveals his secret counsel to his servants the prophets.”

Now this is a testimony I feel led to share here concerning the sons of God. It is not a testimony concerning the impact that the sons of God are going to have in the days ahead, but it is a testimony of the seriousness that Father has for his sons to be just like him. The Lord had sent me to Tulsa, Oklahoma to meet Ted Cottingham. When the Lord first sent me to meet Ted, it was before he had delivered me from my fear about being deceived by another brother. Just like everyone else at that time, I was very suspicious of Ted because even though the Lord was speaking to him, and to me, there was very little agreement in our understanding of the Lord’s words. The tension between the two of us was so great that I was just looking to find a fault with Ted so that I could justify myself in leaving Tulsa as soon as I possibly could. I am sure that Ted would have also loved to see me leave at that time also. But the Lord spoke to me, quoting almost word for word that which is written in John 7:18, saying, “Now Mitt, Ted is seeking for my glory, and I do not see any unrighteousness in him, and neither do I want you to see any unrighteousness in him.” Even though I agreed to not try and find any fault with Ted, my heart still burned with contention. So I called out and asked the Lord to deliver me from being wise in my own eyes; that wisdom of the carnal mind that cannot subject itself or delight in doing Father’s will. Before I left Tulsa, Ted said that the Lord had told him that “he was going to hang planets”. Even though Ted did not know what this meant, and neither did I, my foolish wisdom tempted me to just roll my eyes at Ted, as though these words came from his own imaginations. “Hang planets”; whoever heard of such a thing?

Nevertheless, after a few months, and much to my disappointment, the Lord led me once again to go see Ted. I was driving to Tulsa from South Carolina, and I had just passed over the Mississippi River when the Lord spoke to me and said, “Mitt, when you get to Tulsa, would you tell Ted something for me?” I answered, “Sure, Lord”; and of course, I am really thinking that the Lord is going to speak a word to me that will somehow enlighten Ted to the fact that I am the one that has the true understanding of Lord. But that is not at all how it went. The Lord then said to me, “Tell Ted that I created the first heavens and the first earth, but you, as my sons, are going to create the second heavens and the second earth. I told you that as I am, so shall you be. As I am a Creator and a Maker, so shall my sons also be creators and makers. If you like roses, then you will be able to create an entire planet full of roses as you so desire. If you like mountains, and waterfalls, and roses, then you will be able to create an entire planet full of mountains, waterfalls, and roses. If you like new things, then you will be able to create new flowers and new things. As I told you before, ‘Every father desires for his son to be just like him.” I then understood what the Lord meant when he told Ted, “You are going to hang planets”. For the first time, I actually was able to agree with the word that says that eye has not seen, nor has ear heard the things that God has prepared for those who love him; but they are being revealed to us through his Spirit. What the Lord was opening my eyes to see was that he was really serious about raising up his sons to be like him.

There is no doubt that I marveled at this word that the Lord had asked me to tell Ted, even going to the point of imagining just what kind of planets that I myself would create and make. But as amazed as I was about hearing for the first time what God has planned for his sons, I also found that I was feeling ashamed and foolish for the way that I had judged Ted through my own eyes. I immediately repented of that wisdom and asked the Lord to open my eyes to see through his wisdom. Then the grace of Father’s love granted me the repentance that I asked for; and my eyes were opened to see Ted in an entirely different manner, as the Lord saw him as man with no unrighteousness. All that the Lord had to do to change my entire relationship with Ted was to open my eyes to see him with the same vision that the Lord sees him. At this moment, I am sure that there are still things that Ted and I do not see eye to eye on, but there is no contention there. Now that the Lord has delivered me from that spirit of fear that had perverted my vision, my eyes are now opened to just love Ted. There is no fear in love, and no love in fear. Just a few weeks ago, I got an e-mail from Ted that only said, “I love you Mitt.” That e-mail spoke to, and meant more to my heart than any e-mail that I have ever received.

It truly is an awesome thing to see and hear that Father is going to make us to be creators and makers as he is, but to me, it is just as awesome to see the works of God creating a new heart with new vision, new affections, and new understanding in us. Truly, as it is written, it is God who teaches us to love one another; and I am now convinced that all that the Lord has to do to teach us to love one another is to open our eyes so that we can see each other as he sees us. I do not want to miss out on being his son, nor on the impact that they are going to have on the days ahead.

Titus 3:3-7 “For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts (like for vainglory) and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But after that, the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing and renewing of the Holy Spirit, which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior; that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”

I Thessalonians 4:9 NKJ “But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.”

Chapter 8 Israel & Goliath/ The Church & The Last Days

The coming of the Lord is after the working of Satan…Fear is coming first, then the perfect love of God that will cast out all fear. Fear is coming to the thoughts as the rains that descended, as an overwhelming flood, as the wind that blows, and as the waves that beat against the house. And the gates of Hell shall bring down the house that is built on the sand. Fear is coming, and it will no longer come as sport from Satan to just trouble and haunt a man in his thoughts, but it is coming as wrath from Satan to utterly kill and destroy mankind whom he hates. Many hearts will fail for fear at looking at the things that coming on the earth. Fear is coming to deceive many, and if it were possible, it would deceive the very elect of God. The enemy of this hour is not any flesh and blood, but it is the deception of fear that will deceive many and lead them to fall away. Out of fear is birthed the unbelief and doubts that make men forget who their God is. And when fear makes men forget their God, then do they willingly separate themselves from the love of God. Even though this is Satan’s plan for this hour… be comforted to know that the Lord is coming, and he has a plan that can utterly undo that which Satan does.

Revelation 12:9 “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world…12 “Therefore rejoice, you heavens (spiritually minded elect) and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and sea (the carnally minded)! For the Devil is come down to you having great wrath because he knows that he has only a short time left.

Mark 13:22 “For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and they shall show signs and wonders to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect (those who have overcome sin (pride) and death (fear) through the Spirit of life that is in Christ Jesus).”

Luke 21:25,26 “And there shall be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress in the nations with perplexity; the seas and waves roaring and MEN’S HEARTS FAILING THEM FOR FEAR for looking at those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”

II Thessalonians 2:3 “Let no man deceive you by any means; for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first…8-12 “And then shall that Wicked (the Beast: Fear) be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all his power, and signs, and lying wonders, and with all the deceivableness of unrighteousness (which is the righteousness of fear) in them that perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion (things that are seen) so that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

Nahum 1:11-13 There is one come out of you that imagines evil (the fear where all doubts and unbelief are conceived) against the Lord, a wicked counselor. Thus says the Lord, “Though they (the Legion of fears) be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. For now will I break his yoke from off you, and I will burst your bonds in sunder.

I John 4:18 NASB “…but perfect love casts out fear…”

Hebrews 3:12 “Take heed brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God.”

Romans 8:15 “You have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear.”

Colossians 3:15 “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which you are also called in one body; and be you thankful.”

We all know what happened on September 11, 2001, but there was also something else that happened while the Twin Towers were smoldering in flames that aroused a question within me. In the days following 9-11, several pictures began to show up on the internet that seemed to depict some kind of Satanic or demonic image imbedded in the smoke that was pouring out of each of the Twin Towers. There was one photograph taken by one news service that showed one of these images in the smoke of one tower, and there was another news service that had a photograph of a similar image as it appeared in the smoke of the other tower. Now I figured that if the smoke and the winds all lined up perfectly, so to speak, that some image might actually come together that man’s imagination could stretch and say that it was some kind of demonic imagine; but to have two separate images appearing at the same time seemed like much more than the smoke and winds “lining up” together. So I asked, “Lord, do these images somehow signify some manner of the death and destruction coming on the earth?” The Lord answered and said, “No, this signifies the beginning of the fear that is to come.” Fear? When the Lord spoke this word to me back in 2001, it first puzzled me because “fear” was not one of those prophetic signs that I was looking for to come on the earth.

When I began to consider and meditate on this word that the Lord had spoken to me, I began to seek out how this word lined up with what the scriptures have prophesied of in the end time. Immediately, the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me that which is written in Luke 21:26 “and men’s hearts failing them for fear at looking at those things that are coming on the earth”. I was suddenly struck by the fact that I had always looked for wars, and rumors or wars, false prophets, earthquakes, and diseases to be the signs that would signify how close we were to the end of the world and the coming of the Lord, but not once had I considered that “fear” was one of, if not the most significant of all the signs that Jesus spoke of. I was still examining these demonic images in these photos when I suddenly realized that I was actually looking at the faces of those spirits of fear that had been haunting me my whole life with thoughts of anxiety, or evil suspicions, or confusion, or fret, or uncertainty, or worry, or dread, or impatience, or doubts, or panic, or insecurity, or with worst case scenarios. As I stared at those faces, it gave me a chill to think that these were the gruesome looking faces of the voices that I had heard in some manner or another on a daily basis in times past. Now I could put a face on my enemy; a face that I could now associate with every thought of evil counsel that sought to enter into my thinking, to bring me in bondage to fear through believing it’s words. I then remembered what the Lord had said to Israel, “What you make to be your enemy, I will make to be my enemy.” Lord, let your love come and cast out my enemy; cast out these wicked spirits of fear that come with the intent to defile your temple, my heart and mind, with their unclean, filthy, and disgusting counsels.”

II Corinthians 10:3 ASV “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh; for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds, casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”

Psalm 34:4 “I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.”

I now know the Lord has truly made my fears to be his enemy because he has delivered me from all the fears that I have asked him to deliver me from. Now my heart is filled with great boldness when I go against these wicked counselors because I know that the Lord is with me, and that his perfect love will cast out every one of these vile and unclean spirits of fear as I offer them before him. Only the blind would put a man’s face to be the face of his enemy, not believing the word that says we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities, rulers of darkness, and wicked spirits in the heavenly places of our minds. Would the Lord make another man to be his enemy that we made to be our enemy? Would the Lord come and fight against that man on our behalf? The Lord is not a hypocrite who says one thing and does another, seeing that the commandment has already come forth that instructs us to love our enemies so that we may be the children of God? The blind cannot see who their real enemy is.

II Thessalonians 2:8 “Then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming.”

Exodus 23:22 NASB “But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.”

When the Lord began to show me how Satan is coming with great fear in the days ahead, one of the first stories that he led me to read was the story about Israel and Goliath. The Lord showed me that this story would give to me some kind of indication of how many in his church are going to respond to the events to come; and their response would be the same as to how Israel responded to Goliath when he appeared. The Lord showed me that his church today is much like, if not identical, to Israel in the days just prior to Goliath’s appearance. Both Israel and the church believe that they are righteous in the sight of God because they are righteous in their own eyes; and no one can convince them that they are not. The Lord also reminded me of that question that he had once asked me, “Mitt, have you ever seen anyone repent of that which they believe to be right?” Also, both Israel and the church would rather follow after a man that can be seen than after the unseen God. Benny Hinn said this, and Billy Graham said that; Pat Robertson said this, and Rick Joyner said that. My pastor said this, and my prophet said that. Now I am not saying that what these men are saying is not of God, but what I am saying is how the people have exalted these men to be their heads rather than Christ Jesus. Another similarity that both Israel and the church shared is the belief that no enemy is able to defeat them because God is with them, some even mocking at Satan and sin as though they themselves have already defeated him. Can a man say that he is walking in victory when he continues to bow his heart and walk after the counsels of his fears, or his doubts, or his unbelief, or his reasonings, seeing that this is what sin is rooted in? Yes, we are under the blood, but the Lord also corrects those whom he loves of this wickedness. The Lord taught me very early in my walk not to mock him who is so cunning that he was able to deceive one third of the angels in heaven who were in the very presence of God. Yes, it is true that there are none who are able to defeat us, but that is only if our heart continues in the faith, believing that God is and that he rewards those who diligently seek for him.

I Timothy 6:12 NIV “Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”

II Timothy 4:7,8 NIV “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

Israel believed all these things right up until the moment that the armies of the Philistines and Goliath appeared before their very eyes. Then when the Philistines set themselves in array so that Israel could clearly see their strengths, their numbers, and their weapons, their hearts began to grow weak as fear began to spread among them. If that was not already enough, then Goliath stepped forth as the champion of the unclean. Israel then saw standing before them a giant of a man who was almost ten feet tall; which in those days, was almost twice as tall as the average man (5’2”) in Israel. Goliath then set himself in array before the children of Israel, proudly displaying his great height and his massive size and strength. He then spoke with great arrogance to the children of Israel, defying their God and mocking their army. Then fear began to spread throughout the children of Israel as they became intimidated by his words and their hearts began to fail them as they beheld this giant warrior standing before them. What had become of God’s chosen people? Where did their confidence and their strength flee to?

Psalm 60:11 “Give us help from trouble; for vain is the help of man.”

If Israel was not already afraid, the Philistines then issued a challenge that pierced every man of Israel to the depths of his heart; a challenge that utterly overcame each of them with fear and terror. The challenge that came forth from the Philistines was that there would not be a battle of army against army, but rather a battle of champion against champion; one man against one man, for all the marbles as they say. If the champion of the Philistines, which was obviously Goliath, defeated Israel’s champion, then all of the children of Israel would become slaves to the Philistines. So also, if the champion of Israel won, then all of the Philistines would become salves to the Israelites. This challenge pierced every man’s heart because it made each man examine himself to see if had what it took to be the champion of Israel, to go out and fight to the death against Goliath. Could there have been a challenge issued that could have caused any more fear to come upon each man than this? I was in the army myself, and I know that, as a solider, when you fight army against army, you find some manner of confidence, and security, and strength from those who you are fighting at your side with you. But this challenge stripped each man of all that kind of confidence, and security, and strength, because whoever fought against him had to fight alone. This challenge made each man in Israel measure himself against Goliath; and as each one of them began to compare his own size, his own physical strength, and his own natural abilities against the size, the physical strength, and the natural abilities of Goliath, then fear and dread spread among them like a rapidly spreading virus. For the next 40 days, Goliath presented himself every day before the children of Israel so that they could daily get an eyeful of his great height and massive strength, to continually keep them all cowered and paralyzed in fear.

I Samuel 17:8-11 “And Goliath stood and cried to the armies of Israel and said to them, “Why are you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants to Saul? Choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then we will be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then you shall be our servants, and serve us.” And the Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.” When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed (terrified) and greatly afraid.”

So great was the darkness that had overcome each one of them that they completely forgot who the true champion of Israel was/is, the great and mighty God. Fear is of the darkness; and the darkness is never mindful of the light. Fear is a cesspool of evil and wickedness which brings forth nothing but the sins of doubt, and reasonings, and unbelief that are never mindful of God’s goodness, or love, or power. The children of Israel so believed the counsels of their fears concerning Goliath that they all forgot that the Lord their God is he who is sovereign over all of the heavens and the earth, sovereign over all kings and rulers, sovereign over all powers and principalities, sovereign over life and death, and sovereign over all spirits and all flesh. Their fears had so deceived them that they all forgot that their God is he who is able to make ways when no way seems possible. Their fears had so deceived them that they all forgot their God was the same God that had told their fathers that whoever made themselves to be an enemy to Israel, then God would make them to be his enemy; and when God made them to be his enemy, then he would come and fight for them if they asked him to. Their fears had so deceived them that they all forgot that God had promised them that he would never leave them or forsake them, that all that was needful in situations like this was for them to call on the name of the Lord.

Exodus 23:22 “But if you shall indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.”

Psalm 78:9,10 “The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to walk in his law; and they forgot his works and his wonders that he had showed them.

For 40 days, the children of Israel lay bound up in their fears like a paralytic because not one man among them repented of the sin of his fears, but chose to account their words to be right counsels for them to believe and follow after rather than the Lord. They had so allowed for their fears to deceive them that they all forgot that they were the nation of people that God had chosen for himself, to make them to always be the object of his favor, his love, and his affection. Their fears had so blinded them that they forgot to measure Goliath’s size, and strength, and abilities against the size, the strength, and the abilities of their God in heaven, the faithful and true champion of Israel. The children of Israel were so deceived that they allowed these sins of fear to separate their hearts from him who loved them. This is the work of darkness, that spirit of fear that seeks to deceive the children of God with lies until all have forgotten who their God is.

Isaiah 59:2 NIV “But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.”

John 16:7-9 “Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin because they do not believe in Me.”

Romans 8:35-39 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter”. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

When the darkness comes, it always tries that which a man has put his faith in; that which he has put his confidence in; that which he trusts in; that which he relies on; that which he loves; as well as all that which he believes in. Goliath did not come forth to prove that the children of Israel were believing and faithful to their God, but rather he came forth to prove that they were walking in sin, having departed from their faith and belief in him. If the children of Israel had been believing and faithful to their God, then God would have defeated Goliath on the first day that he appeared. But because Israel chose to reject God so that they could have a man to be their judge and king, they were left defenseless and powerless when Goliath and the Philistines appeared. Because their was no faith, or trust, or belief in the Lord their God among the children of Israel, then just the sight of Goliath was able to bring forth a great storm of fearful imaginations upon them that rocked the house of God to it’s foundation. It was not the Philistines, nor was it Goliath that brought these fears upon them, but it was their evil heart of unbelief that led Israel to choose to serve a man to be their judge and king that brought this evil upon them. The appearance of Goliath just manifested the evil that was already in their hearts. If they just repented of their sins of unbelief and doubt….then.

Isaiah 66:4 “I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.”

II Thessalonians 2:8-12 “And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

I Samuel 12:14 “If you will fear the LORD and serve Him, and listen to His voice and not rebel against the command of the LORD, then both you and also the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God. If you will not listen to the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the command of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you, as it was against your fathers…..20 Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear. You have committed all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile. …24 “Only fear the LORD and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you. But if you still do wickedly, both you and your king will be swept away.”

No, Israel brought this evil upon their own heads in the day they rejected God so that they could satisfy their desire to serve a man as their king and judge. So, God gave them a king and a judge according to the desire of their heart; and they forgot their God. Then when Goliath challenged them, they only had themselves to measure against Goliath. They not only found out that not one of them could measure up to him, but neither could their king and judge measure up to him either. When Israel made their request to have a man to be their king like the rest of the nations had, it signified the moment that they wanted God out of their lives so that they could give this man their confidence, their belief, their trust, and there faith. It was in this moment that their hearts departed from God, and they separated themselves from his protection and love. Even though God continued to love them, their unfaithfulness and unbelief in him bound up God’s hands so that he could not move on their behalf.

I Samuel 8:4-8 NASB “Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah; and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.” But the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us”. And Samuel prayed to the LORD. The LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them. Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day--in that they have forsaken Me and served other gods--so they are doing to you also.”

Matthew 9:29 NASB “…..It shall be done to you according to your faith."

Matthew 13:58 NIV “And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.”

I was still considering this story about Goliath when the Lord said, “As it was with Israel then, so is it now with my church; for many of my people have no desire for me to be their Judge or their King, but have chosen to walk after that which they see others do and to seek their counsels from men rather than from above. Many have given their hearts to their prophets, or to their pastors, or to their teachers, or to their apostles, or even to themselves, but they have no desire to let their hearts draw near to The One who loves and cares for them. Many have also chosen to seek their counsel from their physicians, or from their attorneys, or from their laws and traditions, or from their doctrines rather than to draw near and ask of me. These are they who continue to have others feed them with the milk of my words, who have not eaten my flesh or drank my blood so that they might have my life in them. Woe to these in the days ahead, for when adversity and trouble increase, so shall their fears increase when they see that which they gave their hearts to shall not be able to help them or save them. Just like Israel, their hearts shall also faint and fall away when fear comes to make them forget who their God is. In not one instance have I ever anointed any of my ministers to be the head of my body, lest my people put their trust, their confidence, and their faith in them. I only anoint my ministers to feed my people and to lead them to me. My sheep know my voice, and my voice only will they follow after. They will not follow any voice that leads them to follow after a man.

Matthew 15:7-9 “Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, “This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”

Isaiah 30:1 NKJ “Woe to the rebellious children,” says the LORD, “Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may add sin to sin.”

Isaiah 53:6 NIV “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

Acts 20:29-31 NKJ “For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.

John 10:3-6 NIV “The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice.” Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.”

I Peter 5:1-4 NKJ “ The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock; and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.”

John 5:19 NKJ Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner…30 “I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.”

Those who follow after me, they must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. I am Spirit and those who follow after me must walk in the Spirit. Those who walk in the Spirit are those who have beheaded themselves of all belief, all confidence, all trust, all reliance, and all faith in men. Those who walk in the Spirit abound in joy and peace in believing on me, and they delight in me being their Judge and their King. I am the head of the body. I am the head of those who walk in the Spirit because I am that Spirit of belief and faith that they walk in. Did I not tell you before that I am your belief and that I inhabit your faith? I am the Spirit that believes on Father, that communicates with Father, that relies on Father, that trusts Father, that has all confidence in Father, and that is faithful to Father. I am all these things because I am love, and all these virtues are the works of love. I am the Spirit of the Son that loves his Father, and those who walk in my Spirit shall be called the sons of God. He who increases in me increases in all these virtues. I am the Spirit that allows each of you to fulfill the destiny that Father has called you to; to be his son. I am that Spirit that only delights in Father being Judge and King. Those who walk in the Spirit walk in me, and they are not under the law because they walk in faith, in belief, in trust, and in love for their heavenly Father. Those who walk in the Spirit delight in drawing near to Father through me, and Father delights in drawing near to them to make them to be partakers of his love. Those who walk in the Spirit of belief and faith, they shall abound in the fruits of the Spirit because they believe on me, and are faithful to Father. The more a man beheads himself of man, the more he will get of me; and more that he gets of me, the more the fruits of the Spirit shall increase and abound in him. I am the Tree of Life, and those who believe on me shall delight in eating the fruits of life. So I now ask you, “Who will you give your heart to? Who do you desire to be your head?”

Matthew 16:23-25 NKJ “But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.” Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”

Jeremiah 17:5 NASB “Thus says the LORD, “Cursed be the man that trusts in mankind, and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD.”

Philippians 3:3 “For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.”

Romans 11:19-23 NASB You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either. Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

Galatians 5:22 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace….”

Romans 15:13 NASB “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

It was not Goliath’s appearance that caused the hearts of the children of Israel to fail, but it was their own fears that caused their hearts to fail. It is only the spirit of fear that beats a man up in his own imaginations, leaving him dazed, troubled, lost, and confused. A man’s heart will fail him for fear after that which he has relied on, trusted in, believed on, and been faithful to, fails to provide any solution, or victory, or escape, or salvation from that which threatens or troubles him. Goliath’s appearance and challenge left Israel greatly troubled because they found themselves facing a challenge that required strength and abilities that far exceeded the strength and abilities of that which they had been relying on, trusting in, and believing on: themselves. Israel had forsaken their God, and they then found themselves facing an adversary that none believed that they were able to defeat or overcome. Their hearts fainted when the source of their strength, their self-reliance, self-trust, self-belief, and self-confidence proved only to be illusions that they desired to believe to be real and true. “This situation is hopeless and impossible” became the word for the day. When the impossible is the only way for a man to escape or to be saved, then where will a man turn who has forgotten and forsaken his God?

Psalm 108:12 “Give us help from trouble, for the help of man is useless.”

Nahum 1:7 “The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that trust in him.”

Mark 13:8 “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.”

Again the Lord continued, “As it was with Israel then, so shall it be now. For as Goliath came to try the faith, the confidence, the belief, and the trust of every man in Israel, so now come the events that shall try every man’s faith, and confidence, and belief, and trust. Those who have not desired to have for me for their Lord and Judge, they shall now have their opportunity to stand in their own faith, in their own confidence, in their belief in themselves, and in that which they have given their trust to. Yes, Satan is coming with great wrath, and so also am I coming to shake the faith, the confidence, the trust, the reliance and the belief of all things that are not of me. When I come to shake to the heavens and the earth, there shall be no strength of flesh, nor any governments, nor any doctrines of men, nor any constitution of nations, nor any religion, nor any rights of man, nor any traditions, nor any laws, nor any defenses of men, nor any armed forces, nor any kind of weapon formed against me, nor any other idol that men have given their hearts to that shall be able to help them in the days ahead. But it shall not be for those who have beheaded themselves of any belief and trust in the flesh so that they might have me for their belief and trust”, says the Lord. “That which you have beheaded yourself of shall be your escape and salvation; for the crucifying of the flesh shall save you. And all shall know that I am the Lord; that the heavens and earth, and all things that are within are mind.”

Luke 9:58 NIV “Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Revelation 20:4 NASB “Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Just as Goliath daily set himself in array to keep Israel tormented in their fears, so also is Satan going to daily set himself in array saying, “Look at me! Look at me, for I am the doom and gloom that comes, and is now here; bow down and fear me! Look at me, I am the fear and dread that comes, and now is; bow down and fear me! Look at me, for I am the confusion and chaos that comes, and now is; bow down and fear me! Look at me, for I am the failing economy that comes, and now is; bow down and fear me! Look at me; for I am the global warming and the natural disasters that comes, and now is; bow down and fear me! Look at me; for I am the lost jobs, and the threat of lost jobs that comes, and now is; bow down and fear me! Look at me; for I am the famine that comes, and now is; bow down and fear me! Look at me; for I am the unjust cost of living that comes, and now is; bow down and fear me! Look at me; for I am the suffering and persecution that comes, and now is, bow down and fear me! Look at me; for I am the wars, the rumors of wars, the terrorism, and civil unrest that comes, and now is; bow down and fear me! Look at me; for I am the corrupted governments, the worthless religions, and the failing financial systems that comes, and now is; bow down and worship me! Look at me; for I am the incurable diseases and sicknesses that come, and now is; bow down and fear me! Look at me; for I am the insecurities of today and the uncertainties of tomorrow that are to come, and now is; bow down and fear me! Look at me; for I am all these things and much more; bow down and worship me with your fears. I am the vain idols of this world that have deceived men to make flesh and wealth to be that which they believe in, trust in, rely on, feel secure in, as well as that which they should put all their confidence and faith in. Look at me! Look at me! Who can stand against me! Who is able to defeat me! Send out your champion or bow down and fear me!

Luke 21:25 “Men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth…”

II Corinthians 5:7 NASB “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”

Matthew 24:21 “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world until this time; no, nor ever shall be.”

Joel 2:2 “Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all of the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord comes, and it is near at hand. It is a day of darkness (fear) and of gloominess (doom and gloom), a day of darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains…”

Daniel 12:1 “And at that time shall Michael the archangel stand up, the great prince that stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble such as has never been since there was a nation; and at that time, your people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the book (Lamb’s Book of Life).”

Revelation 2:10 “Fear none of those things which you shall suffer. Behold, the Devil shall cast some of you into prison so that you may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days. You be faithful unto death and I will give you a crown of life.”

Revelation 7:14 And I said unto him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”

Revelation 12:9-12 “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, which deceives the whole world. He was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ (the truth of God‘s love): for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, by the word of their testimony, and they did not love not their lives (the spirit of bondage that lives unto fear) unto the death. Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the Devil is come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he hath but a short time.”

When troubles come, regardless of what shape or form it may appear, it will also set itself in array just as Goliath did so that it may appear to be that which is much greater and mightier than even God himself. It is also then that a man will hear the voice of the false prophet crying out from the depths within saying such things as, “Look at this! What are you going to do about this? Save yourself! Doom and gloom! This is hopeless! Flee! What are you able to do about this? Help! It has been prophesied that Satan comes to deceive the whole world, but what I did not know until the Lord revealed it was that it is fear that is coming to intimidate and threaten men into believing the counsels of his lies. Like I said, my enemy now has a face. Given the opportunity, these fears will always prophesy the dread into our imaginations that the worst case scenario is always that which is certainly going to happen. The more overcome a man is with fear, the more he searches for a way to escape out of his circumstance or situation, not once considering that it is the spirit of fear itself that is what he needs to be delivered of. Those who are carnally minded will even think that this is wisdom, but this is only the illusion that this unclean spirit projects itself to be. This unclean spirit would never have a man mindful that the Lord is always ready to deliver him from his captivity to these fears. This is the deceitfulness of that unclean spirit. There never was, and neither shall there ever be any fear that is able to dwell in the love of God, and neither is there any fear that is able to dwell in abundant life. It is as it is written, that Satan only comes to kill, and to steal, and to destroy our lives, while Jesus has come to give us life, and give it to us abundantly. Not until men are willing to see the truth about their doubts, their unbelief, and their fears will they desire to be saved from the counsels of these unclean spirits.

Psalm 78:21,22 (AMP) “Therefore, when the Lord heard, He was [full of] wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob, His anger mounted up against Israel, Because in God they believed not [they relied not on Him, they adhered not to Him], and they trusted not in His salvation (His power to save).”

Luke 21:22 NKJ “For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.”

II Corinthians 10:3 “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds and casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. Do you look on things after the outward appearance (our Goliaths, the situations of life, or maybe those things coming on the earth)?”

The Lord recently gave my daughter Ansley a vision in which she saw some kind of virus spreading very rapidly across the land. Not long after she told me this vision, the Lord gave me the understanding that this virus is that darkness of fear that is coming, which has now begun; and it comes to cause the hearts of men to fail. Just as faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the words of God, so also does fear come by hearing, and hearing by the words of men. Fear is coming as a virus, and it is going to be spread by the words spoken of those who have been infected by it. It is as it is written, that the power of life and the power of death is in the tongue. And when fear speaks through the words of men, all those who are deceived into believing their words will then become carriers to infect others with these unclean spirits. Whoever becomes infected will then seek to infect others with same virus of fears that they believed to be right and true.

Isaiah 8:11-13 “For the Lord spoke thus to me with a strong hand and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people saying, “Do not say, “A confederacy”, to all them to whom this people shall say, “A confederacy”; neither fear you their fears, nor dread their dreads. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.”

Deuteronomy 20:8 “Then the officers shall speak further to the people and say, “Who is the man that is afraid and fainthearted?” Let him depart and return to his house so that he might not make his brothers' hearts melt like his heart.”

II Timothy 3:1 “Know this also, that in the last days perilous (dangerous) times shall come…13 evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse, deceiving (virus carriers) and being deceived.”

Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.”

Virus: 1) An infectious entity that replicates itself in its living hosts

2) Something that poisons one soul and mind; poison

3) A harmful or corruptible agent or entity

Unclean: 1) Morally defiled and impure.

Terrorism, the economy, global warming, corrupted politicians and governments, loss of jobs, wars and rumors of wars, failing banks and corporations, sicknesses and diseases, crimes, suspicions, famines, violence, false and worthless religions, lawlessness, energy costs, lost securities, and natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornados, floods, earthquakes, droughts, and tsunamis are some of the events that the fearful use to spread their virus. These events are not only now here, but they are also beginning to grow in severity and intensity, beyond the control of man. The Lord said to me, “Why should any marvel at seeing these things when my word has clearly stated that I said that I was going to shake the heavens and the earth again? Has not my word prophesied of these very events? Am I not faithful to do that which my word says? I sent Goliath, and just like now, his appearance shook the faith and the trust that my people had put in the idols of their own heart and mind. I used Goliath, just as I am using the events that are now coming on the earth, to reveal to my people the weakness, the unprofitableness, and the foolishness of giving their hearts and minds to other gods. There are no idols that are able to defend, or to protect, or to provide for my people from when the darkness comes to cover the earth. Again I say to you, it is not the event itself that causes the hearts of men to faint and fail, but it is the spirit of fear that causes them to faint and fail”, says the Lord.

The virus of fear that is to come and has now begun will only be able to attack those whose hearts and minds are already weakened through sickness of the sins of unbelief and doubt. Now we all know the early symptoms of this virus: confusion, worry, dread, anger, despair, stress, evil suspicions, panic, impatience, fret, frustration, and anxiety. And when this virus becomes full blown it can bring forth depression, paranoia, hopelessness, sadness, or some kind of phobia. There is no soundness of mind for those who are overtaken with fear because they have become weakened through the loss of that which they have trusted and believed in. It is only fear that will make them desperate, very susceptible to believe anything or anyone who may come along that appears to offer some manner of hope, or deliverance, or help, or escape, or salvation. But who sees and understands that this virus is only able to effect those who have sinned, having rejected the Lord from being God in his life? Who is able to see and understand that the only true remedy for a man in this hour is to repent of his rejection of the Lord; and then turn from those thoughts of unbelief, pride, reasonings, doubts, and fears that once led them to turn from the Lord?

Matthew 9:12,13 NKJ “When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means: “I desire mercy and not sacrifice.” For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

James 5:16 NIV “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

John 16:8,9 “And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me.”

Romans 14:23 “….for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.”

I Timothy 2:14 NIV “And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.”

Right in the midst of writing the last couple of paragraphs, my computer itself started running slow, and even cut off a couple of times. The security program that I had on my computer at that time was nearing the end of it’s subscription, and I had already decided to change to a security program that my daughter had recommended. She said that this new security program came highly recommended, and they updated their spyware and virus protection almost on a daily basis. I had just downloaded this new program and was waiting for my computer to reboot itself when the Lord spoke to me and said, “The time that you spend every morning with me, in prayer and in seeking to know me, it is the time that allows for me to download my virus protection into you, to keep you safe from all of the wiles of the Devil, the plans that he has to overcome your faith with his lies so that may separate you from my love and my protection. It is your faith that believes that I am, and that diligently seeks for me, that allows for me to guard your heart and keep you protected. My protection is just like the protection on your computer in that you cannot see it, you cannot taste it, you cannot hear it, you cannot smell it, and you cannot feel it; but through your faith and belief you know that I am protecting you, even when Satan is always trying to devise new ways to deceive you. Always examine yourself to see if you are in the faith, lest you remove yourself from my protection, and you no longer have my love and my power to guard you.”

Hebrews 11:6 NASB “And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.”

I Peter 1: NASB “who are protected by the power of God through faith…..”

Philippians 4:7 NASB “And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

II Corinthians 13:5 NASB “Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you--unless indeed you fail the test?”

The storms of tribulation and trouble are coming, and are now here. Those whose house is built on the rock, they shall endure these storms to the very end because they walk in the faith that stands in the power of God. What will the end be for those who chose not to have the Lord for their Judge and their King? The storms that are coming are not coming as a single Goliath, but as many Goliaths, like the relentless waves of a stormy sea. The house of the unfaithful and unwise shall not be able to stand when their hearts faint for looking at all these troubles that are coming on the earth. Just as Israel was confronted with Goliath on a daily basis, so also will the unfaithful and unwise see those things which shall bring wave after wave of fears, and dread, and confusion, and doubts, and terror, and chaos, and uncertainty, and fret, and unbelief when they see the foundations of their own strengths, their own self-trust, their security, and their own confidence eroded away like a castle built out of sand when it confronts the rising waves on the beach. They shall know that I alone am the Lord.

Matthew 25:1-13 NASB “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. “And at midnight a cry was heard: “Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!” Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, “Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.” But the wise answered, saying, “No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.” And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. “Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, “Lord, Lord, open to us!” But he answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.” “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.”

Matthew 7:24-27 NKJ “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

Matthew 24:11-13 “And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved…44-51 “Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, “My lord delayeth his coming”; and shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken. The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looks not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

There was a storm that came up upon the disciples when they were in that boat with Jesus. This was also a great storm that beat hard and relentlessly against the boat until it became completely swamped out with water. It was the fierceness of this storm combined with them seeing how out of control they were over their fate, that then revealed the lack of faith and unbelief in God’s very chosen. But it was not so with Jesus, he who was filled with the Spirit of God, for he would have slept peaceably right through this fierce and relentless storm, not troubled in the least bit, had not the fears and faithlessness of his disciples woke him up. As fearful as they were of this relentless and fierce storm, their hearts and minds filled again with more fear when they witnessed the power and authority that came forth from the love of God when Jesus took control over their fate. And they knew that he was not only the Lord, but that he was “their” Lord.

Mark 4:37-41 “And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

Isaiah 26:3 NKJ “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You because he trusts in You.”

Romans 8:6 ASV For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

There is no doubt that the things that are coming, if it were possible, would even deceive even the very elect because of the intensity and the fierceness that the scriptures describe these to be. Even so, no one will be able to be overcome with fear unless he first is willing to let his heart be overcome with fear. The wise will ask for the Lord to guard their hearts against these seducing and lying spirits that will come to try and separate us from the love and power of God. But this is not the hour of the churches last stand, but it is the hour that the darkness is making it’s last stand. This is the hour that those who are overcome will lies will cower in fear and terror, but it is also the hour that those who stand in faith will send out their champion, and he will perform marvelous and wonderful works on their behalf.

This is the hour for that God is going to bring forth his elect, those who will confront darkness in the same threatening and intimidating manner that the darkness tried to confront them with, just as David confronted Goliath. I now understand and see clearly why the Lord God was so pleased with David, even when he committed adultery in the flesh, and that is because David always had a heart that was surrendered to the Lord, instead of unto his fears. He actually allowed for his heavenly Father to have the “hero” role so that it was God, working through him, that could show himself great and mighty. Even when David was weak in his flesh, just like Paul, and just like the rest of us, he still trusted and believed on his God. Could the Lord possibly have prepared a David, or maybe even several Davids, to come forth in this hour of darkness? Could there be a David that has the faith and belief in God that is able to change the course and the outcome the plans that Satan in his wrath has determined upon man? Is this the hour that the Lord God Almighty might show himself to be the “hero” for all his creation? Is it?

Chapter 9 David & Goliath/ The Elect & The Last Days

I Samuel 13:13,14 NASB “Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, for now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not endure. The LORD has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.”

I Samuel 2:25 “And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed for ever.”

Revelation 5:9,10 NKJ “And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; For You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation; and have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.”

When Goliath appeared and the deceitfulness of fear covered the children of Israel like a heavy cloud of darkness, there stepped forth a skinny little runt of a kid named David who was ready to fight against this mighty giant. Now you all know that David was so young and small that if you measured him by today’s standards in the U.S., then he would surely be considered to be nothing more than a child. In fact, if this event were to happen today in the U.S., then surely some child service agency would try to come forth to take David into custody so as to prevent him from being “abused” by Goliath. By the time that David came forth to the battlefield, Goliath had inflicted so much “mental” abuse and anguish on the children of Israel that they were ready to send out anyone who was willing to accept Goliath’s challenge, regardless of his age or his size. Unlike the rest of Israel, there were no unclean spirits of fear clouding David’s vision to corrupt and pervert his faith in God because he had already proven God’s love, God’s faithfulness and God’s power when he had previously confronted a lion and a bear. David has already called out on the name of their Lord in both of those incidents, and on both occasions God delivered both in them into David’s hand, and he slew them both by the power of God. There was absolutely no doubt in David’s heart that Goliath’s fate would be the same as the lion and the bear that he had faced. David knew in his heart who the true champion of Israel was, and he was eager to go out and confront Goliath because God had equipped him with the name of Lord to call on, the same name that delivered the lion and the bear into David’s hands.

I Samuel 17:32-37 NASB “David said to Saul, “Let no man's heart fail on account of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.” Then Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth while he has been a warrior from his youth. But David said to Saul, “Your servant was tending his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock, went out after him and attacked him, and rescued it from his mouth; and when he rose up against me, I seized him by his beard and struck him and killed him. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, since he has taunted the armies of the living God.” And David said, “The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and may the Lord be with you.”

I Samuel 17:37 NASB “And David said, “The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and may the LORD be with you.”

I am sure that Goliath, as well as the armies of Israel, when they first saw David come forth, that they had to think that David was not someone that could possibly have any effect on the outcome of the situation that was at hand. And I am just as sure that David of himself could not have had any more of an impact in this situation than any of the other faithless cowards that called themselves to the children of God. David was so lightly regarded because of his age and his size that that even his own father Jesse left him behind after they were summoned to come to the sacrifice where God was going to choose from his sons who the next king of Israel was going to be. If the hearts of those in Israel failed them for fear when they measured Goliath’s size, strength, and abilities against their own, then surely no hope was birthed when they measured David against Goliath. I am sure that the Israelites were just happy to finally have one of their own come forth that was willing to go out against Goliath, but I am also just as sure that their thinking was probably in the same line as that which the Philistines was when they saw David: “Who does this little kid think that he is?” That is just it; David was not at all thinking about who he was, but he was mindful of who his Father God in heaven is.

I Samuel 17:42 NIV “He (Goliath) looked David over and saw that he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised (made light of) him.”

Early in my own walk, I attended a Sunday school class. The topic that day was, “If you could speak to anyone that is written of in the scriptures, then who would it be, and what would you say?” Immediately God came into my mind; and I thought why would anyone even consider talking with someone else. There were around 25 people in that class, and as we went around the room, with each person given the opportunity to answer this question, I was surprised that I did not hear one person answer God, and there was like only one person that even said Jesus. There were a bunch who answered Paul, or David, Joshua, or Moses, but no God. On the way home from that class, the Lord gave me a vision; and in the vision I saw what appeared like a large waiting room of some kind. I then saw all the members of my Sunday school class sitting around.

Then walked in David, and Paul, and Joshua, and John, and Caleb, and Solomon, and a few others, and they just sat down just like everyone else was sitting. After they sat down, I saw those who had been in my Sunday school class gather around the ones that they had named that they would like to talk with. It was like my classmates began to drool over them and treat them like they were some kind of movie stars or rock stars, as they were asked to tell them the stories of how they parted the Red Sea, or how they slew giants, or how they healed the sick and cast out demons. All the while, these saints were looking out my classmates like they were complete fools, and they all finally answered my classmates by saying, “Why are you trying to glorify us? Why are you attributing these works and miracles to us? We did nothing of ourselves; it was God himself that was doing all these things.” This is one definition of blindness: when men give glory to a man for that which God has done. Simply put, all David had was that child-like faith that allowed for God to deliver Goliath in to his hand; a faith that could not be found anywhere else in Israel.

Psalm 62:11 NKJ “God has spoken once, twice I have heard this: that power belongs to God.”

Psalm 78:21,22 NIV “When the LORD heard them, he was very angry; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel, for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.”

John 16:8,9 “And when he (the Holy Spirit) is come he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me.”

With the exception of Samuel, let it be said that among all the mighty men of Israel, that nation of people that God himself chose to be his own, that there was only one that stood in the true faith, while the rest cowered in holes and behind rocks. Let it be said that among all the inhabitants of God’s chosen that David alone was faithful to his heavenly King, having refused to reject him as all the rest of Israel had. Let it said that all of the children of Israel were wise in their own eyes; and seeing through the eyes of this world’s wisdom, their hearts fainted at the sight of Goliath. And let it be said that all of Israel walked in the blindness of their fears and were ensnared with the fear of a man, except for David. Let it be said that any faith or belief that the children of Israel may have thought they had in God, proved only to be illusions of their own imaginations. Let it be said that because of the righteousness of one man’s faith and belief in God, all of the doom and gloom that their fears had prophesied to them did not come to pass. There were no unclean spirits of fear in David to pervert his belief, or his confidence, or his faith, or his trust in God. In fact, by the Spirit of the Lord that was in David, he began to treat Goliath in the same manner that Goliath had been treating the rest of Israel, with contempt. Through the boldness of his faith in God, this little kid turned the tables and he began to intimidate Goliath. How could this be? Simple; David had a different spirit on him than those who had rejected their God. David had the same spirit on him that Caleb had on him when he saw the giants in the land, but was not at all intimidated or fearful by what he saw.

Numbers 14:22-24 NASB “Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice, shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it. But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it.

Proverbs 29:25 NKJ “The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.”

Psalm 111:10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom…”

Proverbs 3:7 NASB “Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.”

Jeremiah 32:40 NASB “I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put the fear of Me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from Me.”

James 1:5 NIV “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.”

Matthew 25:1-9 NIV “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish (the wisdom of this word, that which fears man, is foolishness in the sight of God) and five were wise. The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. At midnight the cry rang out: “Here's the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!” Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise, “Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.” “No,” they replied, “there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.”

Matthew 10:28 Jesus said, “Do not fear them which can kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him (God) which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”

When God took his kingdom away from Saul, he did so because Saul’s heart was weak, and in his weakness he feared the people rather than God. When a man fears man more than he fears God, then he will surrender his heart to do that which men desire of him rather than to do that which God desires for him to do. How much more unclean can a spirit be than that which brings a man to bow his heart before the desires of men rather than before God’s love? It was in Saul’s weakness to his fears that led him to depart from his faith in God and belief of God’s words. The kingdom of God is not a kingdom of the people, and by the people; but it is a kingdom that is of God, and by God. The kingdom of God is not a kingdom where the will of the people rules but where the will of God is done. The will that God has for his people is that they allow for him to be God: to be the God that desires to bless his beloved; to be the God that delights in showing mercy and grace to his beloved; to be the God who provides for his beloved; to be the God who desires to do nothing but good for his beloved; to be the God who desires to help his beloved; to be the God who provides for his beloved; to be the God that desires to give everything in his kingdom to his beloved; to be the God that guards and protects his beloved; and to be the God that yearns to fellowship, to love, and to communicate with all of his beloved. The Lord once told me, “Mitt, do not be deceived; there is only one God, and there will always be only one God.” Many fell from heaven when they were deceived into believing otherwise. Through the fear of man, Saul lost his heart for God, and his heart to do God’s will. And when the king loses his heart for God, then he will surely cut off the will of God so that God has no place among his own people.

Matthew 6:10 NASB “Your kingdom come Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”

Matthew 7:21 NASB “Not everyone who says to Me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.”

Luke 12:32 NKJ “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”

I Samuel 12:14,15 NASB “If you will fear the Lord and serve Him, and listen to His voice and not rebel against the command of the Lord, then both you and also the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God. If you will not listen to the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the command of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you as it was against your fathers.”

I Samuel 15:23-28 NASB “For rebellion is as the sin of divination (witchcraft) and insubordination (stubbornness) is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.” Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have indeed transgressed the command of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and listened to their voice. ”Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me, that I may worship the LORD.” But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.” As Samuel turned to go, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore. So Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor, who is better than you.”

When the Lord was showing this “lost love” to me, he brought into my remembrance something that I myself had experienced in my own adolescence, when I was like 13 or 14 years old. One of my very first girlfriends broke up with me but my puppy love for her was as strong as ever, and I was utterly miserable, having suffered a love break-up before. Once the love that girl had for me was departed from her, for some reason she like she had to treat me as though I did not even exist in her world anymore. And what was really painful was when I found out that there was absolutely no words that I could say or anything that I could do that could win her heart back to me. There can only be one puppy love in each man’s life because it is the only love that is not accompanied with the fear that another break-up is going to occur. It was with this remembrance that the Lord allowed for me to understand how hurt his heart was when Saul “broke up” with him because he lost his heart from him. This break-up between Saul and God had to present some kind of problems because Saul was still sitting on the throne as king and judge over the people that God had chosen for himself. And to think that this entire situation came about because of that vile, unclean spirit of fear that came into Saul that corrupted his heart and perverted his faith and trust that he has towards his Lord so that he could serve the will of the people instead of God.

Matthew 24:12 “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax (grow) cold.

Revelation 2:4 NIV “Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.”

At the same time that God has chosen to take his kingdom from Saul, he went looking from among the children of Israel for a man who did have a heart for God. I was asking the Lord just what it meant “to have a heart for God” when the Spirit of the Lord first quickened to me that which is written in II Chronicles 16:9 “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect towards him…” This is what it is to have a heart for God? It was then with this word that the Lord began to open my eyes to see that the heart that is pleasing in the sight of God is the heart that is humble before him; a heart that will actually permit God to be a God for his people, not over them. It is the humble in heart that will allow God to show himself great and mighty. It is the humble in heart that will allow for God to perform impossible things for his beloved. It is the humble in heart that will present themselves before God allowing him to create in them a new heart and a new mind. Later that night, I was still considering these things when the Lord said to me, “Mitt, who is your champion? Who will you ask to go out to fight your battles for you? Who will you ask to cast out your fears? Who will cast all of your cares and troubles on? Who will you ask to change your heart? Who are you going to put your hope in? Who do you want to come to you in your time of need?” As the Lord was asking these questions of me, my heart was silently answering, “You Lord.” It was amazing in that after the Lord finished asking me these questions, it was like a child-like faith that I had not known then entered into me, and I increased in the faith that calls out “Abba, Father”. I also knew in my heart that the Lord was truly going to always be there for me to be my champion; and there was nothing more that I could desire than that. I felt such a strong presence of this spirit of faith in me that there was no place for any doubt to enter in that would question any of these questions that the Lord asked of me. I know who my champion is going to be when spiritual Goliaths arise in my path: troubles, sickness, cares of this life, false doctrines, fears, or any other situation or circumstance that might come forth to tempt me to reject the Lord so that I may be my own lord and judge.

Joshua 24:15 NKJ “And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River (Gen, 6:5; their own imaginations), or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

Then the that the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me that which Jesus said in Matthew 18:3 “Truly I say to you that unless you are converted and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven”. Then the Lord asked, “On the day that Goliath appeared before Israel, who did my people have more need to fight for them: a man or God? Who did they have more need of: a man who esteemed the vanity that men esteem or one who is child-like in his faith, the faith that calls out on the name of his God for deliverance? It was in this moment that I realized how I had erred and perverted the vision of how I should be walking with God. I had thought that if I walked the strait and narrow path, then the day would come that I mature and be all grown-up in my faith, and that I would be some kind of a spiritual giant, a man of such strength and might that basically I would go out and confront my own Goliath’s, face to face, without having to acknowledge the Lord at all. I could not have been more wrong in my “assumption”; for our maturing is become as little children in faith, in trust, in security, in belief, in humility, and in love towards our heavenly Father. The more mature I became, the more that I would rely on God to be all things for me and to provide all things for me. When I myself was a child, I allows allowed my dad to be my day; and those who are child-like in their faith, they always have a heart that always allows for their heavenly Father to be Father God.

Isaiah 11:6 NKJ “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

I Samuel 17:45-47 NIV “David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.”

Romans 10:13 “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Jeremiah 33:3 NKJ “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things (his love and his power), which you do not know.”

Then on this same day, but later on that same night, I had just gotten into bed when I looked towards the foot of my bed. Suddenly I saw what looked like 2 white slated fence rails running between the two bedposts. This fence looked like the typical kind of wooden fence that I have seen many times at horse farms; and it even appeared to have a small gate that could swing open like the ones you see at a rodeo. My first thought was, “Is this a dream or a vision of some kind?” Then I realized that what I was seeing was actually happening before my very eyes. The next thing that I saw was 4 small angels climbing up from the backside of the fence, and when they had finished their climbing, they were stand on the bottom rail and leaning over the top, looking at me with a countenance that said they wanted me to come and play with them. These 4 angels appeared to be only about 2 or 3 feet tall, and each one of them had the appearance of the most innocent looking 4 or 5 year old child that I had ever seen. They all had the most tender, and sincere, and sweetest looking smiles on their faces that I have ever seen.

I was just staring at them in amazement when each of them began to point his finger towards my chest. I was immediately clueless as to why they might be pointing their fingers at me. There little hands were moving back and forth as they pointed their fingers towards me, like they wanted me to see what it was that they were pointing at. Because I was going to bed, I had cut off all of these lights, and the only thing that I could visibly see was these enlightened little angels and the fence they were standing on. My first thought was that maybe there was something on me, like a spider or a bug. So I started furiously slapping my chest, from one side to the other, as fast as I could. As I was doing this, I noticed that these angels were all giggling at me in the most innocent of manners, and a couple of them had even cupped their hands over their mouth as they giggled, just like small child would. Because of the manner they were giggling at me, I realized that there were no bugs or spiders crawling on my chest. Even so, they continued in pointing their fingers towards my chest. My next thought was that maybe I had some kind of lump or a bump on me, so I started feeling all over my chest to see if I could feel something. When I could not feel anything or see anything, I looked back and saw that these angels were giggling more than before, and I then knew there was no lump or bump on my chest. Then they began to move their fingers back and forth in an even faster manner than before; like I was getting closer to what they were trying to show me. I felt like I was playing the game that I played as a child that we called: “Hot and Cold”. This is a game where one picks out an object in a room, and the other children have to guess what it is. The words that are spoken are by the child who knows what the mystery object is, and when one child gets close to the object he will say, “You are getting warm”; and if he almost on top of the object, the child will say, “You are getting hot.” Likewise, if the child begins to move away from the object, the other child will you are getting cool or cold. I have never seen this game played with children that are around 5 years old that the child does not get noticeably excited when one of the other children starts getting close to the object that he picked out. This was exactly how these little angels were getting with me, noticeably excited because I was eliminating all of the possibilities. me.

Then suddenly, all 4 of these angels seem to reach a state of extreme excitement, for their hands were moving as quickly back and forth as I have ever seen. They were still pointing their fingers towards my chest when I realized that my hand was laying directly over my heart. So I said to them, “Is that it; is it my heart? Are you trying to show me something about my heart?” They all reacted to my question with pure joy and excitement, like I had finally gotten it. They literally had smiles on their faces that went from ear to ear. Then, without any words being spoken verbally, they began to communicate with me; like in some telepathic manner. I could hear their thoughts as though they words spoken aloud, and they heard my thoughts in the same manner that I heard theirs. It was real strange at first because since I could not see any of their mouths moving, I was never able to discern exactly which angel was actually speaking to me. They began by saying; "Yes, Mitt, it is your heart that we are pointing to, for we have been sent to help you understand more clearly those things of the heart that the heavenly Father is looking for; for whatever a man truly believes, he believes it in his heart; and it is those things that a man believes that his heart will treasure. It is just as it is written, “That a man is only able to look on appearances while God looks on the heart.”

I Samuel 16:7 NASB “But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

Romans 10:10 NASB “For with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness…”

The angels continued speaking saying, “Under the old covenant, on the veiled side of the word, the scriptures were interpreted with man’s wisdom and understanding; and these interpretations only minister to the works that are seen; and they are believed on to be the truth because they seem right in the sight of men. Yet, all of these interpretations come forth from the darkness of ignorance; and ignorance cannot bring forth any correct interpretations that reveals the truth about the heart’s of men or the truth about the heart of God. It is in this blindness of ignorance that that the things that are an abomination in the sight of God are seen as those things that are highly esteemed in the sight of men. It is in this blindness that you will find the deceitful lies of pride deceiving the hearts of God’s people into believing that they are able to make “self” to be pleasing and acceptable in their own eyes; and if they are pleasing and acceptable in your own eyes, then so also will men find you pleasing and acceptable; and if men find you pleasing and acceptable in their eyes, then surely God will find them pleasing and acceptable in his eyes. All lies; for when the Son of God came into this world, he who was well-pleasing in the sight of God, but he was despised, rejected, and nothing to be desired in the sight of God’s own people. So we say to you, Mitt, that God does not look on the outward appearances as man does, but he looks only on your heart.

Proverbs 21:2 NASB “Every man's way is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts.”

Isaiah 53:2,3 NKJ “….And when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men; A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.”

On the veiled side of the word, the focus of ignorant man is not on the heart, but rather it is on the things which can be seen and discerned by man: a man’s righteousness, a man’s power and strength; a man’s opinions, a man’s works, a man’s goodness, a man’s determination and self-will, a man’s zeal, a man’s name, a man’s abilities, and a man’s reputation. On the veiled side of the word a man is also measured and judged according to how he honors laws, and rules, and traditions, and doctrines, and the commandments of men. Still, the Son of God was rejected. It is because of this focus that Israel desired to have a man for a king; a man that they could then corrupt according to their blindness until he saw things in the same manner that they saw them; for in their blindness, Israel desired to be a nation of God, but without having any need for God. They praised me with their lips, but their hearts were far, far away from me.

Luke 18:9-14 NIV “To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: “God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.” But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, “God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

II Corinthians 3:14-17 NKJ “But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”

Luke 24:45 NIV “Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.”

It is on the veiled side of the word that the heart of man is proud, full of self-sufficiency. When Samuel came to Jesse’s sons, he himself began to judge each one of them according to their appearance to determine who he thought God would choose to be the next king over Israel. But Samuel was still blind and could not see as God sees, and he judged them according to the blindness in his own eyes: according to their size, their righteousness, their strengths, their reputation, their abilities, and their works. Samuel judged them according to who he thought would make the best king without any sufficiency from God at all; and it is for this reason that Samuel chose Eliab, a man who seemed to be most self-sufficient. But God rejected Eliab because of the very reason that Samuel chose him. For those who make themselves to be self-sufficient will resist and refuse any help or guidance from God. It is this self-sufficiency that makes the proud heart to be an abomination in the sight of God, while the blind see it is as that which is highly esteemed. Do the self-sufficient put any reliance, or confidence, or trust in God? If they did, then they would not be self-sufficient, would they? Do you now see how in this fallen world of darkness, it is the heart of those who seemingly appear as the most self-sufficient that are the most admired, most praised, most glorified, and the most esteemed among men? Do you understand why Samuel, in his ignorance, chose Eliab? Do you now understand that it is this ignorance that your heavenly Father is commanding all men to repent of, seeing that he has given unto each one of you the Spirit of his Son Jesus; the spirit that reveals all truth about your own heart as well as the truth about your heavenly Father’s? Remember also that it is the wisdom that is in you that dictates how you see yourself and how you see God.

I Samuel 16:7 NIV “But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

Luke 16:15 NKJ “And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Proverbs 16:5 “Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.”

II Corinthians 3:4-6 NKJ “And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

When the Philistines set their armies in array, and sent forth Goliath as their champion, where were all of the mighty men of Israel who were wise in their own eyes? Where were all those who had been esteemed and exalted for their own strength and works? Where were all those who had boasted of their own courage and physical abilities? Where were those who sought for the occasion to glorify themselves? Where was Eliab? Where was Saul? Where were any of those who boasted in their own themselves? Where were those who did not think that they had any fears dwelling in them? Do you see how the blinded the hearts of the children of Israel was, so much so that there hearts fainted when they saw the uselessness of their own abilities, their own reputations, their own strengths, their own wisdom, their own courage, their own confidence, and their own power and might when they faced an adversary that was greater in all these things than they were? Do you see now how weak and vain all the things proved to be when one mightier than them appeared? Where was he who Samuel had so boldly chosen to be king? So also, where was he who was of a humble and child-like faith; he who carried the name of the Lord around for his sword, his shield, and his spear? Do you now see how in this world of darkness, the strengths, the wisdom, the stature, and the abilities of men are only illusions that exist in the imaginations of the thoughts of men? Do you see that what these men had believed to be real and true about themselves were only false visions? Mitt, let us tell you what is not an illusion or a false vision; and that is the love that your heavenly Father has for each one of you, even for those who have “broken up” with him. But his love and his power can only seen by those who humble their hearts as a little child before him.

I Peter 1:24 NIV “For all men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall.”

Psalm 94:11 “The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.”

John 5:30 NKJ (Jesus said) “I can of Myself do nothing….31 “If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true.”

On the unveiled side of the word, where the light of God’s truth shines forth, all focus is upon God, and upon all those things which are not seen by men: on God’s abilities, God’s strength, God’s righteousness, God’s power, God’s wisdom, God’s will, God’s goodness, God’s glory, on the great and mighty works of God, and on the limitless love that God has for his people. Again we ask you to consider thee words: Did not Jesus highly esteem his heavenly Father? And was he not lightly esteemed in the eyes of those who highly esteemed the illusions of men? And he who was lightly esteemed by men, was he not well pleasing in the sight of God? This is the power of the darkness; the power that works on the veiled side of the word to keep man exalted, and praised, and honored, and glorified, and to keep him esteemed in his own eyes, as well as the eyes of all who are around him. It is not so on the unveiled side of the word, where only the heavenly Father is exalted, and praised, and glorified, and honored, and esteemed by all who trust and believe on him as a little child does his own dad. The eyes of the heavenly Father go to and fro throughout the earth, examining the hearts of all men to find those who have a heart for him. It is of such a heart that God found in David; a humble heart that yearned for God to show himself strong and mighty. Has God changed? Do you not know that as it was then, so also is even now, that is eyes are still going to and fro throughout the earth seeking the same things? The eyes of your heavenly Father are still going to and fro looking for those who he may show himself strong on their behalf. For it was of such a heart that God made David to be king over his own people; because he knew that David would allow for him to show himself strong on his behalf, as well as on behalf of his people. So also now your heavenly Father is looking to raise up kings and a priests from those who have a heart for him, just as he did with David?

John 4:23,24 NASB “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Now take heed Mitt, for it is on the veiled side of the word where you will find the darkness continuing to inhabit the ignorance of those who have not loved the truth of God. It is here that you will find unclean spirits directing the souls of men to believe in themselves, to lean to their own understanding, to delight in doing their own will, to glorify themselves in their own works, to put faith in their own abilities, to take control over their lives, to keep their focus on self, to account their own opinions to be truth, to trust in their own pride, to speak of their own goodness, to exalt and esteem their ownselves, and to always be wise in their own eyes, trusting and believing that how they naturally see and judge, it is the right way for all things to be seen and judged. These are the works of the man of sin; the man who puts self on the throne over his own heart. These are the ways of the son of perdition (destruction); the ways that seem right to those who walk in the wide and easy paths that lead to death and destruction. These are the counsels of the man of sin, the thoughts that are enmity against God because they are only mindful of man. There are no thoughts to acknowledge God in the mind of the proud and ignorant. These are these abominations that the proud delight in doing so that they may show themselves to be lord and god over their own lives; as well as over their own Christianity. Would the man of sin, that son of perdition (destruction), exalt himself in anything that is not highly esteemed in his own eyes, or in the highs of the men he desires to please? Only the foolish, the ignorant, and the blind would exalt themselves in speaking the words and doing the works that are an abomination in the sight of God. It is when the souls of men are joined together in unity with unclean spirits that the desire and zeal for self-righteousness comes forth. For it is just as it is written, there is nothing unclean of itself. All that which is unclean is unclean because it has been joined to an unclean spirit; and God did not create uncleanness in the souls of men.

Philippians 2:21 NKJ “For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus.”

Psalm 10:3,4 “For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.”

Proverbs 16:5 “Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.”

Romans 8:5 NIV “Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.”

Romans 14:14 NASB “I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.”

Isaiah 64:6 NKJ “But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags. We all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”

Romans 10:2,3 NKJ “For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.”

Hosea 4:6 NASB “My people are destroyed (the sons of perdition: the ignorant) for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest….”

Ephesians 4:17,18 NKJ “This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.”

Acts 17:29-31 NASB “Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.”

John 9:39-41 “And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.” Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, “Are we blind also?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, “We see.” Therefore your sin remains.”

II Thessalonians 2:3-12 “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholds that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now lets will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness (the uncleanness of self-righteousness) in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

Isaiah 66:3,4 NKJ “…Just as they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations, so will I choose their delusions, and bring their fears on them; because, when I called, no one answered, when I spoke they did not hear; But they did evil before My eyes, and chose that in which I do not delight.”

The little angels continued. “Remember that Jesus said, “Take heed that the light that is in you be not darkness; lest in your blindness you esteem that which is abominable in the sight of God. It is on the veiled side of the word that Satan transforms himself into an angel of light and his demons into ministers of righteousness, moving among the brethren as wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing, enticing them with doctrines that teach them to do those works that outwardly appear righteous in the sight of men of the blind. Everyone that is deceived by them shall become just like them: as deceivers who teach others to do those works that are esteemed in the sight of men. Their pride has deceived them and they are not even aware that they are doing those works that are an abomination in the sight of God. You will know them by their doctrines because their words keep a man focused on his own abilities, his own strengths, his own righteousness, his own will, his own desires for recognition and glory, his own power, his own opinions, his own goodness, his own works, and on his own self-image. Their words lay many burdens on the shoulders of the deceived, but they never allow a man to draw near to God to learn of his wonderful love and mighty power. What profit did any of these lies serve Israel when Goliath appeared?

Matthew 23:27,28 NASB “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness (iniquity)

John 14:9 NIV “Jesus answered: “Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, “Show us the Father”?

It is these ministers that seduce others with the promises of glory, and honor, and respect, and praise that one receives from men after they have done the works that are highly esteemed in the sight of men. The praise and glory of man is the only reward they shall receive for their works. Take heed that these grievous wolves do not deceive you with their vain words that work to exalt, to esteem, and to glorify a man for what he does of himself, lest you have no heart to give these blessings to your Father in heaven. It is on this veiled side of the word that a man’s self-image is esteemed and idolized above all other images, even above the true image of the Son of God, who is the image of God. Those who walk in this ignorance delight in being their own physicians, being their own savior, being their own redeemer, being their own provider, being their own deliverer, being their own healer, being their own judge, and doing their own will. These are the works of the proud who delight in their independence from God, having rejected him so that they may be their own champions. Now consider: What profit will any of these “highly esteemed” things be able to provide when men’s hearts begin to fail when they see the things that are coming on the earth? What shall it profit a man for him to walk in pride of his ignorance, seeing that it alienates him from his God, and hinders him from drawing near to God?

James 4:6 NIV “But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

I Peter 2:1 “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction (sons of perdition) and many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not…9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness (self-righteousness), and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities….12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed (sons of perdition), speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceiving (walking in those things that are highly esteemed) while they feast with you; having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: which have forsaken the right way…17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again (doing those things that highly esteemed); and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”

It is only on this veiled side of the word where Satan moves freely, establishing his kingdom on deceitful words that seem and illusions that the blind esteem to be good. It is only in the kingdom of darkness where a man is desires to be lord and god over his own life. It is only in his kingdom where the darkness is able to appear as the light; where his lies appear as truth; where abominations are highly esteemed; where good intentions, reasonings, and the works of man’s best efforts seem to be able to justify; where the uncleanness of iniquity (self-righteousness) appears as the righteousness of God; and where men’s traditions, men’s laws, and the commandments of men seem like the truth of God. Do not be ensnared in walking by sight where men are judged by their appearances. Again, we say to you: take good heed to examine yourself so that you do not account this darkness to be your light. Remember, there is no repentance after you die.

It is only in the darkness that Satan and his demons deceive with outward images that appear beautiful so that they may entice the ignorant to walk in hypocrisy. There is no lie that is of God. So, is there any truth in play-acting or pretending? Do you now see and understand how Satan uses the appearances to deceive the hearts of the children of God because a deceived heart is a heart that no longer desires for the Lord to be God. A deceived heart is a proud heart; a proud heart that only desires for itself to be great, to be exalted, and praised, to be recognized, and to be glorified. Remember that which was spoken to Saul, “When you were small in your own eyes, you believed that God was great; but when you began to believe that you were great, then God became small in your eyes.” On the veiled side of the word, Satan has deceived men into believing that they are great, and that they can be their own champions, and that they are without any need for God to be Lord in their daily lives. On the veiled side of the word, man is exalted and glorified while on the unveiled side of the word only God is exalted and glorified. On the unveiled side of the word, God is great and allowed to do those things which are impossible for men to do.

Jude 5 NIV “Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.”

On the unveiled side of the word is where a man enters the spirit realm; the realm where a man walks in agreement with God. It is here that a man communicates with God, and God communicates with him. Only those who have been converted, whose hearts have been humbled, that are allowed to enter into his realm. The proud will scoff at the humble because they cannot believe that God will do for them that he does do for the humble. Even so, the proud only wonder why God does not communicate or walk with them. When the Lord God went seeking for a man after his own heart, he knew exactly where he was going to find such a man because he had heard David’s prayers and supplications. He knew that in David, he would find a heart that was willing to let God be his champion, and the champion for all of Israel. David had a heart that desired for God to show himself great and mighty. The Lord found in David a heart that was perfect towards God; a heart that would serve him, a heart that would worship him, a heart that believed on him, a heart that trusted him, a heart that sought counsel from him, a heart that was humble before him, a heart that relied on him, a heart that was faithful and true to him, and a heart that loved him. It was God that David glorified and praised when he slew Goliath because he knew who delivered Goliath into his hands. David knew in his heart that God is sovereign over all things, right down to knowing every hair on his head. David knew that his heavenly Father loved him, that he cared for him, that he would provide for him, and that he would always be there for him. Have you ever seen the heart of any child that was not perfect towards the dad that did all of these things for his child? Have you ever seen a little child reject a loving father so that he might have another father who does not care at all for him? It is only on the unveiled side of the word that you will find those have sought for and asked for the Lord to create in them a new heart; a heart that is as perfect towards “Abba, Father”.

Psalm 51:10 “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”

Ezekiel 36:25-27 NKJ “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.”

Then these 4 little angels finished by saying, “The hearts of those who have been converted are those who have received a new heart and a new mind. These are they who have become child-like in their faith, in their reliance, in their communication, in their belief, in their humility, in their confidence, and in their trust towards their heavenly Father. These are they who have taken up their crosses and crucified the flesh with all of it’s desires to do those things that are highly esteemed in the sight of men, and they have put on the spirit of adoption that raises them up to become the sons of God. These have put off that abominable nature of the sons of perdition that delights in believing, and trusting, and exalting, and glorifying itself. These have put on the spirit of the son of God that is in Christ Jesus; the spirit that makes Father and son to become one. It is the heart of the child that chooses for God to be its champion, and it looks no where but from above for it’s redemption, it’s help, it’s deliverance, it’s sufficiency, and it’s strength to come. There are no adversaries, no circumstances, no enemies, no powers, no fleshy lusts, no situations, nor any wicked or unclean spirits that God will not arise to overthrow on behalf of those whose hearts are perfect towards him. It is of these, those who have become as little children in their hearts, that the Lord God is going raise up to be his kings and priests, forever.

Matthew 18:3 NASB “and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Isaiah 11:6 NKJ “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.”

Galatians 5:24 “And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and desires… …..26 “Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”

Ephesians 2:13-18 NKJ “But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.”

Now hear and understand: Though David had a heart that was perfect towards his God, it was not seen by those who had rejected God. It was not until Goliath and the Philistines came up against the children of Israel that David’s righteousness was manifest, the righteousness that believes and trusts only in God. It was also then that the unrighteousness of dread, unbelief, confusion, doubt, and fear was manifest in those who had rejected God. Where was the fear and dread in David as he prepared to go out to battle against the champion of the Philistines? If there had not been one in Israel who had the heart of a child, one who had the belief and trust that his heavenly Father would come and show himself great and mighty on his behalf, then where would the victory have come from, seeing that the faithless and the wicked were all cowering in their fears? Do you see how this child-like faith that was in David kept all of Israel from becoming slaves to the unclean Philistines? Who then is mightier; he who is 10' tall with arms and legs as big as tree trunks, or him that has the humble heart of a child; a child who by faith and trust faith calls out to great and mighty Father? If needed to be, would not the heavenly Father have sent legions of angels to fight for his Son on the night that he was betrayed?

Romans 4:3 NIV “What does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Romans 5:1-4 NKJ “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations…”

Revelation 7:13-15 NKJ “ Then one of the elders answered saying to me, “Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?” And I said to him, “Sir, you know.” So he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple (his presence in the temple of their bodies). And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them.”

I John 5:4 NKJ “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”

I Corinthians 2:3-5 NKJ “I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”

Matthew 9:29 NASB “Then He touched their eyes, saying, “It shall be done to you according to your faith.”

On the unveiled side of the word is the light of God’s truth, a continual flowing river of the blessings of abundant life; God's power, God’s wisdom, God’s faithfulness, God's help, God’s strength, God’s divine nature, God’s understanding, God’s work, God’s gifts, God’s peace, and the love of God. All of these blessings come to those who walk as little children before him; those who believe that all things are possible with God their Father. These are they who put no limitations on the manner that God desires to bless them, or on the love that Father desires to show them. It is these who dwell on the unveiled side of the word that continually see God doing those things which are exceedingly abundant above all that which they are able to think or to ask for. The heart that is unveiled is the heart has nothing to hide from God because they know the grace of their Father’s love. These are they who have allowed for their Father to destroy all of the wisdom of their pride. These are strong in faith, believing that God will perform all of his words and promises for them. The heart of the child is confident that his heavenly Father will finish the work that he has started in him. These truly believe in their hearts, without wavering, that their Father shall supply all of their lack and provide for all of their needs, whenever they ask of him. The heart of the child knows that it is the object of Father's affection, never doubting his faithfulness or love. He who has the heart of the child knows that all things will work together for good because Father’s love never fails to do good things for them. A child has no greater joy than when his loving Father comes to fellowship and share his love with him; and it is in these things that you will find that child-like faith that works by love.

Mitt, who do you desire to be your champion? Who do you desire to lead you? Who do you desire to cast out your fears and dreads? Who do you desire to cast all of your cares and troubles on? Who do you desire to rule in your heart? Who do you desire to lead you? Who do you desire to work in your heart? Whose glory are you seeking? Is the treasure of your heart he who dwells in heaven, or is the treasure of your heart those things that are esteemed in the sight of men? Mitt, who do you desire to be your champion right now, today? Who do you desire to be your champion tomorrow? Now, do you understand the desires that God found in David‘s heart?”

It was then that these four angels starting waving goodbye to me just like a little child that waves a little hesitantly when he really does not want to leave. As they, and the little white fence they were standing on, began to fade from my sight, they said with a fading voice, “Your heart, Mitt; it is your heart. For it is with your heart that you will believe on the Lord. Prove his love, Mitt. Prove his love so that your heart can always believe and trust on his love. Give him your heart and he will make it beautiful in his sight; for the heart that is beautiful in his sight is the heart that believes, that trusts, that loves, and that is always faithful to him. Remember David, that all Father equipped him with was his name to call on. Tell your brethren that even in this day that all they have need to be equipped with is the name of the Lord to call on; for the Lord always hears his children when they call on him with a humble heart.”

Ezekiel 18:31 NKJ “Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?”

I then just laid in my bed in stunned amazement at all that I had just seen and heard told to me by these little angels. I have heard several testimonies by others that have seen angels, and in most cases they describe these angels as being very large and tall. When the Lord has taken me in the spirit on other occasions, I have seen some of those same large and tall angels, but I have never seen or heard anyone testify that they have seen any angels like that which had just visited me. As I considered this visitation, I then realized why it was these little angels that Father sent to me to convey this message for me. The words they spoke on behalf of God mainly described our conversion to become as little children; and this message could never impacted me if God had sent a 20’ tall angel, but instead, he sent 4 child-like angels that were so innocent, so playful, so full of laughter and giggling, and so much fun to be around. It was for sure there was no religion in these little angels. I then perceived that the Lord had actually let me witness in these 4 angels the very nature of this child-like faith; which in turn is going to also be the very nature of those who God is going to make to be kings and priests in his kingdom. I was so overwhelmed in that moment that I did not even try to wake my wife to tell her about this awesome visitation. I am convinced that there is no way that a proud man could have any desire to be as child-like as these angels were that had just visited me.

As I continued to lay there, the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me that which is written in I 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". For the life was manifested (unveiled), and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto that eternal life, which is with the Father, and we manifested unto us. That which we have seen and heard, we declare unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly, our fellowship is with the Father, and with his son Jesus Christ.” It was with this word, joined with that which these 4 little angels had revealed to me, that I began to understand fully the relationship that Father desires to have with all his children through the spirit of his son Jesus Christ; a relationship of love, and faith, and humility, and trust, and belief that allows for us to walk on a daily basis, hand in hand with our heavenly Father. What else would a loving Father desire of his children? What greater joy can his children have than to be able to experience Abba’s presence on a daily basis? Even in this fallen world, we can experience a wonderful life when we allow for Abba, Father to be our champion.

Thank you Lord; thank for this visitation and the revelation that you have given through the messengers of your angels; and may it bless me, and all those who hear and receive there testimony. If it was not so clear to me before, the message of these angels made it so clear to me that I now know that I desire to have only one champion in my life: Abba, Father. I also realized from the night of this visitation that if I was going to let the Lord be my champion in all things, then it was simply going to take me calling on him when I needed my champion: I was going to call on him to cast out my fears; I was going to call on him and ask for him to deliver me from every evil work; I was going to cast all of my cares upon him; I was going to ask for him to work in me so that I might do his will and those things that are pleasing to him; I was not going to limit God, but ask for him to do those things that are impossible for me to do; I am going to call on him and ask for him to make ways for me when their seems to be no way; and I was going to start calling on him, asking for him to show me great and mighty things that I do not know, seeing that the Lord alone is the great and mighty one. For as long as I can boast in Father’s power, in Father’s truth, in Father’s faithfulness, in Father’s wisdom, in Father’s abilities, in the mighty works of Father God, in Father’s strength, as well as in the limitless grace, and mercy, and goodness, and blessings that continually flow from his love, then I am more than willing to live now, as well as for all of eternity, through the spirit of his son Jesus Christ, that allows for me or anyone else to be the object of Father’s affection,

Then the Lord said, “Behold the severity and the goodness of God; the severity and hardness of heart to comes to all those who have rejected God so that they might continue being their own lords and gods; champions of their own life. Behold the goodness that comes to all who have humbled themselves, allowing for me to be Lord and God in their lives. He who knows me, knows Father; and he who rejects me, rejects Father; for my Father and I are one. I never bring severity or hardness on those who continue seeking for me, for they know in their hearts that no matter what comes upon them, I will do nothing but work goodness for them. It shall not be so with the wicked who have rejected me, for I will deal severely with them. I do not choose to reject any, but I do reject those who freely and willingly choose to reject me. When a man rejects me, he rejects the Spirit because I am that Spirit. So when one rejects me he rejects the life and peace that dwells in the spiritual mind. I am that peace and I am that life that he rejects. Therefore I have no choice but to give them back over to their own thoughts: to their unbelief, to their confusions, to their doubts, to their worries, to their depressions, to their unforgiveness, to their loneliness, to their fears, to their hatreds, to their hopelessness, to their anxieties, to their bitterness, to their envies, to their uncertainties, and to their evil suspicions so that death may continue to rule over their thinking. The wicked and carnal mind is as the troubled sea that can never find any lasting rest or peace, or experience any joy or life. This is the severity of how God will deal with those who have rejected him, having scoffed at his calling so that they may walk in those things that are highly esteem in their own eyes. All day long I have stretched out my hands to them all, but they continually choose to reject me.

Romans 11:21-23 “For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.”

Proverbs 1:22-33 NASB “How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded? And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing and fools hate knowledge? Turn to my reproof; “Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. Because I called and you refused; I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention. And you neglected all my counsel and did not want my reproof; I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes, when your dread comes like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but they will not find me, because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD. They would not accept my counsel, they spurned all my reproof. So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way and be satiated with their own devices. For the waywardness of the naive will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them. But he who listens to me shall live securely and will be at ease from the dread of evil.”

Isaiah 65;2,3 NASB “I have spread out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, who walk in the way which is not good, following their own thoughts; A people who continually provoke Me to My face…”

Ezekiel 20:8 NKJ “But they rebelled against Me and would not obey Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, ‘I will pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.”

Isaiah 57:19-21 NKJ “I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says the LORD, “And I will heal him. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

Now comes the days that all things that are written shall be fulfilled. Now come the days when all things that are written shall be fulfilled, for both the wicked and for the righteous. Now come the days when all things are going to be revealed. Now come the days when all that which has been in secret shall be manifest, and all that which has been hidden in the darkness shall be made known. Now come the days when humble in heart shall be exalted, and the proud in heart shall be brought down; for the powers of heaven are about to change. Now come the days of judgment; the judgment that shall bring crowns of life to those who have been humbled themselves as little children before the Lord; and the days when the proud and the wicked shall throw their crowns down to the ground when they see abominations that they had highly esteemed and exalted to even be above God himself: the abomination of making themselves to be lords, and gods, and champions over their own Christianity. This is the spirit of antichrist, the spirit that leaves one desolate; alone, without any fellowship, or relationship, or true knowledge of Abba, Father. Now come the days when all who have esteemed these abominations shall be left alone with their vain idols: their own righteousness, their own strength, their own pride, their own thoughts, their own power, their own goodness, their own helper, their own confidence, and their own savior and deliverer.

I Peter 4:17 “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”

Now come the days that they shall cast down the crowns they wore when they crowned themselves to be their own lord and god, to sit upon the throne of their own heart, showing themselves to be their own champion. They shall cast down the crown they wore when they exalted their own counsels and doctrines to be above the truth of God. They shall cast down the crown they wore when they established their own righteousness to be above the righteousness of God. They shall cast down the crown they wore when they chose to sit in the seat of judgment over the lives of others. They shall cast down the crown they wore when they chose to trust in themselves and rely on their own wealth and possessions. They shall cast down the crown they wore when they chose to delight themselves in doing their own will rather than the will of God. They shall cast down the crown they wore when they chose to take control over their own lives. They shall cast down the crown they wore when they chose to pervert and twist the image of God until they had transformed him to be like an image they desired for God to be. And they shall cast down the crown they wore to be their own champion. These are crowns of idolatry; the crowns that all wear when they chose to be their own lord, their own god, and their own champion. Now come the days when the proud, those have rejected the Lord so that they could wear their own crowns, shall be left alone to face those things which are coming upon the earth. These are they who shall weep and gnash their teeth when they see their error, and for the fear that shall come as madness. Now comes the days that those who have shut the door of their heart to God shall have him shut the door on them.

Matthew 25:10-13 NIV “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut. Later the others also came. “Sir! Sir!” they said. “Open the door for us!” But he replied, “I tell you the truth, I don't know you.” Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.”

Luke 13:24-28 NKJ “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, “I do not know you, where you are from,” then you will begin to say, “We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.” But He will say, “I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.” There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.”

II Thessalonians 2:3-5 NKJ “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”

Matthew 24:15-17 NKJ “Therefore when you see the “abomination of desolation”, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (the temple; his body)” (whoever reads, let him understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.

Proverbs 16:5 “Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.”

Isaiah 2:8-21 NKJ Their land is also full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. People bow down, and each man humbles himself; therefore do not forgive them. Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from the terror of the LORD and the glory of His majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. For the day of the LORD of hosts shall come upon everything proud and lofty, upon everything lifted up— and it shall be brought low—…17 And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day, but the idols He shall utterly abolish. They shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, from the terror of the LORD and the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth mightily. In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold…”

Jeremiah 8:12 NKJ “Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; in the time of their punishment they shall be cast down,” says the LORD. “ I will surely consume them,” says the LORD.

Now comes the days that Father will finish the work that he has started. Now comes the days when the perfect workmanship of God shall come to finish. Now come the days that the sons of God shall be manifested in perfect love. Now come the days when they those who threw their own crowns down to the ground shall be crowned with crowns from above. Now come the days when the humble and faithful shall be crowned as the sons of God, to be his kings and priests forever. Now comes the days when the pure in heart shall see God. Now come the days when the humble shall greatly rejoice and delight in his appearing; for when they shall see him, they shall be changed to be like unto him. Now come the days when they poor in spirit shall be filled with the fullness of the glory of God. Now comes the days when those who have hungered and thirsted for righteousness shall be filled. Now comes the days when the meek shall inherit the earth. Now comes the days when the outcasts, the persecuted, the lightly esteemed, and those who suffered for my name’s sake shall receive their rewards. Now come the days when that which was given to the wicked and the unfaithful shall be taken from them and given to those who do have so that they may receive all things. Now comes the days when all things shall be fulfilled. Be ready; be prepared; for you do not know the day nor the hour that your Lord shall appear.

Revelation 4:9-11 NKJ “Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: “ You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created.”

Luke 20-28 NKJ “Then another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have kept put away in a handkerchief. For I feared you, because you are an austere man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.” And he said to him, “Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow. Why then did you not put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?” And he said to those who stood by, “Take the mina from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.” But they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas.” “For I say to you, that to everyone who has will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.”

Chapter 10 Revelation 5: The Unlikeliest Place for the Greatest Love Story Ever Told

Several years ago, I was seeking the Lord one morning when the Lord spoke to me and said, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, and I never change. Even to this day I am still the beginning and the end, and I always will be”. I mediated for a moment on these words, and I even acknowledged before the Lord that I believed that he was; it was I just did not know why the Lord had said this to me. Then the Lord quickened to me that which is written in Revelation 1:10 “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day…”. Then he said to me, “All of the events that John testified of throughout the book of Revelation, they were not given to him by vision or by dream, but he witnessed them as they actually happened. I just told you that I could go the beginning or the end at any moment that I so desired, and that is exactly what I did when I took John in the spirit so that he could actually witness Satan and his angels falling from heaven in the beginning, and I also took him in the spirit to the end where he witnessed the great white throne of judgment”. Until the Lord spoke this word to me, I had never really given it much consideration as to why Jesus was called the Alpha and the Omega, or the beginning and the end, but now my curiosity was really peaked, seeing that he had just revealed that John was able to witness these events as they actually occurred. From a time stand point, John died around 2000 years ago, and the great white throne of judgment will not actually occur for at least another 1000 years. Like many things that the Lord has allowed me to witness, I have no clue as to how the Lord is able to perform these things, but I do believe that he is able to do it. In fact, I just want to give glory to God in this moment and thank him for humbling my pride so that I no longer am captive to the thinking that tries to understand or comprehend how the spiritual God is able to do things that are exceedingly abundantly above what I am able to think or ask. Even so, I was now curious as to just why the Lord would even explain such a thing as this to me.

II Corinthians 5:8 “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”

I Corinthians 2:11,12 “For what man knows the things of man except the spirit of man who is in him? Even so, the things of God no man knows, only the Spirit of the Lord. Now we have not received the spirit of this world, but the spirit which is of God so that we might know the things which are freely given to us of God”.

How can man who lives under the laws of time and space understand and know the God who lives and inhabits eternity? We have a God who has said that his thoughts are not our thoughts, yet we foolishly think that God thinks like we do. It is written in Isaiah that God thinks, and it comes to pass. I have seen that most my past unbelief and doubts about God came forth through the pride of my ignorance, thinking that God was thinking as I thought. That is, whatever was impossible for me must also be impossible with God. If I could not do something, then I foolishly thought that God could not do it either; like love my enemies, or bless those who curse me, or make ways in situations where solutions seemed impossible, or the best one of them all; “How could God love a man like me.” When man uses his natural senses to try and correctly interpret the being of the spiritual God, then nothing of any truth is going to come forth. It is for this reason that I quit trying to reason out God does things like taking John to witness events as they occurred, even though they happened or will happen 7000 years apart. I then realized that the Lord would not have spoken these words to me unless he was also trying to prepare me for something that the Alpha and the Omega reveals. I then became very excited that the Lord was going to show me a new thing.

Then the Lord led me to read all of Revelation 5, when “And I saw, in the right hand of him that sat upon the throne, a book written on both sides, and then sealed with 7 seals. And I saw a strong angel, proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?" And no man in heaven, nor in the earth, neither was there any under the earth, who was able to open the book, or who was able to look inside. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy "to open and to read the book", neither to look upon it. Then one of the elders said unto me, "Do not weep, for behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the 7 seals upon it. And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb, as it had been slain, having 7 horns, and 7 eyes, which are the 7 spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat on the throne. And when he had taken the book, the 4 beasts and the 24 elders, fell down before the Lamb, everyone having harps and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sung a new song saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof; for you where slain and have redeemed us to God by your blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. And you have made us to be kings and priests unto our God; and we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels, who were around the throne, and also the beasts and the elders. And the number of them was 10,000 times 10,000, and 1000's and 1000's; and they were saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing.…”

Wow! Even though I had read this chapter many times before, I had never before realized just how big of an event this was, seeing that there was at least 100,000,000 heavenly creatures witnessing this event. The Lord even confirmed for me that John did not witness this event by a vision or a dream because one of the 24 elders actually came over and spoke to him, just like when those 4 little angels that actually spoke to me.

All of a sudden, I felt the presence of the Lord come upon me, and in the quickest of moments, I felt like the heavens just parted for me, and suddenly I found myself in the heavens in the presence of the voice of the Lord. I could not see the Lord but I felt his presence all around me as well as all in me. Then the Lord surprised me when he spoke this question, “When did I get the victory?” I thought about this for only a moment before I answered him that which I had always believed saying, “Lord, did you not get the victory when you suffered and died on the cross?” Then the Lord answered my question with a question: “Were there not thousands and thousands of others who were scourged and also crucified on those same Roman crosses as I was? Did not they all suffer greatly before they died also? I then answered, “Yes, Lord, they did". Then the Lord said, “Well then, if the victory was gotten through the suffering and the death of the cross, then would not all those who suffered and died in like manner as I did also be called victorious? Should they not also be worshipped and called Lord?” My heart just sank within me, just like it does every time that I answer a question that the Lord ask of me, because I rarely, if ever, am able to answer his questions correctly. I had always assumed that the cross was where the victory was because I had just accepted this because this is what I had been told by other Christians.

Then I paused to again consider the question that Father had asked me. Then, very timidly, I said, “Lord, I suppose that the reason that I do not worship them is because they did not suffer and die for my sins like you did?" Then the Lord answered and said, “This is true; for I willingly offered myself up for you so that by my blood could wash away your sins. I shed my blood so that the guilty blood could be redeemed with the blood of the innocent. Surely the new covenant is established in my blood. Let my blood signify to you that you have a Lord whose love for you is so great that I willingly suffered and died for each one who comes to believe on me. Let my blood always be a sign unto you that the grace of my love is greater than the sin that dwells in you. When I died on that cross, the veil in the temple tore completely in two, from top to bottom, signifying the end of the old and the beginning of the new. No longer could the sins of a man be atoned for by the blood of bulls and lambs”, says the Lord, “but by my blood only. But still, if the victory was not found in the suffering and the shedding of my blood on that cross, then where was it? The only victory that was found on the day of my death was the victory that the proud and the wicked thought that they had won because they were able to crucify me. Again, the cross is a symbol of the greatness of the love that I have for all sinners, but truly, it is also a symbol of the hatred the proud hypocrites have towards the truth of God’s love; for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believe on him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

Acts 4:26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were gathered together.”

Do not forget this truth, the only victory that the cross signifies is that which the darkness thought that it had won when they crucified me; for it was here that the heathen of this world united with the religion of the self-righteous to murder the Son of God. Have you not yet perceived that even the people of God found more value in choosing a murderer and a thief unto themselves rather than the Son sent to them from their God? In this is found the enmity that rules over all those who are kept in bondage to the thoughts and desires of the carnal mind; a mind which lusts to hate any thought, or any man, or any doctrine, or any spirit that allows for the God of life to have any reign over it. This is the blindness of this world, the ignorance that keeps those who are carnally minded separated from the life that I created for men to be partakers of. Have I not revealed unto you that my will for you is that you may all be partakers of abundant life? Is it not written that when I rule in your hearts, you will experience a peace and joy that those of this world can not possibly experience? I have no desire to reign over the lives of men through force, or by intimidation, or by control, or by cruelty, or by oppression, for all of these forms of government are of this world; the governments of the kingdoms that Satan offered me if I would bow down and worship him. Did I not say that my kingdom was not of this world?

John 18:36 NASB “Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm.”

John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

Colossians 3:15 “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.”

In truth, the world crucified me because I came to free the minds of men from the misery and the oppression that the rulers of darkness have ruled over this world with. Do you now see more clearly how that the victory that this world of darkness thought that it had won was to rid this world from my presence, from all of my influences, from all of my ways, from all of my truths, and from my love? For the presence of my Spirit, my ways, my truths, and my love free the souls of men from the corruption and oppression that the darkness has ruled over worldly governments and false religions with, as the from the worldly governments and false religions that have ruled within. Of course, the victory that this world thought that they had won over me was only an illusion of their own thinking; an illusion that deceives many into thinking and believing that it is better to live their lives in bondage to the miseries of fear rather than in the greatness of my love. Let the cross always be a symbol to you, a symbol that signifies that you truly are the object of all of my love and affection. Let the blood that I shed for you always remind you that there is no sin or iniquity that is greater than the grace and the mercy that my blood does not cover your heart and mind with. I know the thoughts that I think towards you, and they are thoughts to do you good, to love you, to give you my kingdom, and to bless you with abundant life and peace of mind. But do you believe me?

Ecclesiastes 3:11 “He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.”

I John 2:15-17 NKJ “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”

Galatians 6:14 NIV “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”

Romans 8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the laws of sin and death…6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God (law of abundant life in Christ Jesus), and neither can it be…15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear…”

Then the Lord asked me, “So I ask you again; if then the victory was not at the cross, where was it?” Was it in the tomb when I arose from the dead?” Seeing that I had erred so with my last answer, I thought the better of it this time, carefully considering what I might say to answer the question. After I considered it for a time, I then said, “Lord, I know that it is written in I Corinthians 15:26 that “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death”; so I suppose that if you had triumphed over all of your other enemies, then the victory would have surely been won when you arose from the dead.” Even though I answered, I was still wondering within me if the “last” triumph really signified “the victory”. Then the Lord answered and said, “If the victory was in the resurrection, then why did not the victory also go to Lazarus, or to Jairus’ daughter, or to the child that Elijah raised from the dead? If then the resurrection is truly where the victory is to be found, then why do you not call these your Lord, or worship them as your king?” I then answered, “Because Lord, it is written that you alone should be worshipped and served.”

Now my curiosity was peaked, and I perceived that there was one thing that the Lord was trying to make perfectly clear to me, and that was wherever the victory truly was, it would be found in something that only Jesus Christ himself was able to do. So I then asked him, “Lord, if the victory was not won at the cross or in the tomb, then where was the victory won?” The Lord then answered and said, “It is true that I overcame death, as well as all of the enemies that oppress my people; for it was with me just as it is with all men, that my fight was not with flesh and blood, but with powers and principalities, with the rulers of the darkness, with all manner of wicked spirits, and with flesh. I overcame all of the forces that rule over this present evil world. Surely, each one of these triumphs was a great victory, but just like in any war, being victorious in just one or two battles does not signify that the war has been won. In all of the battles that I won, I overcame an enemy that flesh and blood was powerless to overcome; but still, the victory was not yet. Yes, it is truth that the last enemy that I overcame of this world was death, and it was this triumph that I experienced that completed the victory over all flesh, over all powers and principalities, over the rulers of this world, and over all wicked spirits; but still the victory was not yet.

Having overcome all of these things, I was then found to be without blame and unspotted from the filth of this world. It was then that I was accounted worthy to appear before my Father’s throne; and being found worthy, I was then able to take the book from my Father’s lap that no being before me, not in heaven, nor on the earth, and neither beneath the earth, had been found worthy to do before me. Being found worthy, I then took the book and removed the seals from off of the book. It is here, in my Father’s presence, that the victory was finally won. When I suffered and died on that cross, or when I arose from the dead, did 100,000,000 heavenly creatures fall upon their faces, rejoicing and singing praises saying, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain?” If the victory had been won at the cross, or if it was in the resurrection, then would not all of these heavenly creatures rejoiced and praised me then. And if they would have rejoiced and praised me for these things, would they not have also rejoiced and sang praises of all thousands that had previously been scourged and crucified, as well as all those who had also been resurrected? Were there any among these who were accounted worthy to take the book from my Father’s lap, and then remove the seals thereof?

I alone was found worthy. I alone was found worthy among all the creatures in heaven, among all the creatures on earth, and among all the creatures beneath the earth. I alone overcame the world that is compassed with lies. I alone overcame the worldly man that is perverted through the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of this life. I alone overcame the corrupted judgments of this world. I alone overcame the hypocrisies of self-righteousness. I alone overcame the spirit of man that keeps men in bondage to fear. I alone overcame the wisdom of this world that loves to hear and believe the lies of Satan. I alone was found worthy to stand in the holy presence of the glory of my heavenly Father, and I alone was able to take the book. It was I, the Lamb of God, who all of these heavenly creatures bowed before and worshipped, and sang, and praised saying, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessings”. I alone.”

When the Lord finished speaking, I just sat there completely speechless and numb concerning these things that my ears had just heard. Never once had I heard preached or taught, or even considered of myself, that the victory was completed in the events that are described in Revelation 5. Seeing that I had not once even considered that this is where the victory was, I then realized that I really did not even understand as to why the victory was completed here. I then wondered what it was that was written in that book. Then the Lord continued and said, “It was when I was found worthy to take the book and open it that my heavenly Father gladly gave to me his prize, his entire heavenly kingdom, as well as the fullness of his power, his riches, his wisdom, his strength, his honor, his glory, and his blessings. Even though you do not yet perceive the truth of what I am speaking to you, you will shortly. Even though I overcame the world with all of it’s wickedness, all of it’s corruption, all of it’s evil, and all of it’s perversion, was it to win my Father’s kingdom for myself, seeing that I had it all before I came into this fallen world? No, I did all of these things so that I could win my Father’s kingdom for you, and all those who come to believe on me. I won my Father’s kingdom for those who would allow for me to reign in their hearts and their minds with peace, and with truth, and with goodness, and with joy, and with wisdom, and with love, and with abundant life.

Luke 12:32 NKJ “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”

Romans 14:16-18 NKJ “Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil; for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.”

I Corinthians 14:20 NKJ “For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.”

Hebrews 12:25-29 NKJ “See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.”

You know that it is written that no eye has seen, nor has any ear heard, and neither has there been any heart that has been able to correctly perceive the things that are of God, which are the very things that God has prepared for his church, my bride. Now hear and understand: It is written, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” But when the fall came, the darkness of ignorance compassed the hearts and minds of men so that man became alienated and separated from the life that God had created man to be partakers of; a life of fellowship, communion, friendship, and love with God. It is this same darkness of ignorance that has blinded the hearts and minds of men so that when they read the Word, leaning to their own understanding, their eyes cannot see, their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot correctly perceive any of the truths of the Word; for to see, and to hear, and to perceive the Word is to see, and to hear, and to perceive God himself. No man knows the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son reveals the Father to.

Matthew 11:27 NIV “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

John 17:3 NIV “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”

Philippians 4:9 “More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ.”

Ignorance of God is that which the darkness consists of; and it is out of this cesspool of ignorance that comes forth the unbelief, the reasonings, the doubts, the self-justification, the opinions, and the fears that keep a men alienated and fearful to draw near to their Creator and Maker. It is also of this ignorance that keeps those who are carnally minded blinded so that they cannot see the light that reveals the true identity of God’s divine nature as well as the extent of his power and authority. It is this ignorance of God, and of God as the Word, that has kept men in bondage to all of the powers of darkness. It is this divine nature and power that has been kept hidden behind the Words that are sealed; words of grace and truth that are able to free a man from the bondage of his own ignorance. It is for this reason that John wept because he did not believe that there was any creature in heaven or earth that could be found worthy to take the book and remove it’s seals. Only he who was found worthy to take the book, remove it’s seals, and open the book would also be he who would be able to receive all that which was written within: the authority and the power to open the eyes, the ears, and the hearts of the faithful so that they could see, and hear, and hear and perceive the Word of God so that he might know God, and his son Jesus Christ.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Jeremiah 2:31 O generation! See the word of the Lord…”

John 8:43 Jesus said, “Why can you not understand my speech? Is it not because you cannot hear my word?”

II Corinthians 3:14 “But the minds of the children of Israel were blinded: for until this day remains the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ. But even until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Matthew 13:10 And the disciples came and asked Jesus, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” He answered and said, “Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them it is not given. For whosoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever has not, from him shall be taken away even that which he has. Therefore I speak to speak to them in parables: because they seeing do not see; and hearing they do not hear, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says, “By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive. For this people's heart has grown hard, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.

I Corinthians 2:9-12 But as it is written, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so, the things of God no man knows, only the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God so that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”

I John 1:1 1That 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; for the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

Ephesians 4:17,18 “This I say therefore and testify in the Lord, that you henceforth no longer walk as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart.”

Acts 17:30 “And the times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commands all men every where to repent.”

Since the fall of Adam, man has been alienated and separated from God through the darkness of ignorance that dwells within him. It is for this reason that no man knows the abundant life that God has prepared for those who love him. But who is able to hear and understand what life is? Man defines abundant life as that which he experiences when things go his way; when he feels like he is in control; when he satisfies his own desires and pleasures; when he feels safe and secure; and when he performs his own will. My life is not like any manner of life found on earth. I am the life that no earthy creature nor any creature in heaven has ever experienced; for I am the only being that has God dwelling within him. He who has me has the Father. I am the way, the truth, and the life. I am the life that those who seek for will find. I am the life that is experienced when God himself dwells in your heart and mind. If you know me, you know Father. My Father and I are one; for I am in the Father, and Father is in me. Is it not written that the Son is equal with the Father; for that which is the Fathers is also the Sons? But who can see and hear these Words?

The darkness has kept man in bondage to it’s ignorance of God, and all things that the life of God consists of. Man has eyes to see, but he is not able to see God, nor to see as God sees, and neither is he able to understand the things of God. Man has ears to hear, but he is not able to understand the truth of the Words of God. Man has a heart, but he has not been able to define the divine nature of the Life of God. When I came into this world, I came to my own, and they did not receive me, but rather despised and rejected me because they had eyes but could not see and ears but could not hear. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so also is the nature of the life of God above the nature of the life of man. Though you have sought to understand and to know the truth of these things, and though I have allowed for you to taste the life in my heart and the greatness of my power, you still have not yet come into the fullness of this truth; the truth that reveals the divine nature of the life of God.

Philippians 2:5,6 “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God did not think it robbery to be equal with God.”

Psalm 34:8 “Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord.”

I John 3:2 “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, but it does not yet appear what we shall; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”

Even now, your heart has remained veiled and your eyes have scales upon them, keeping hidden the glory of my life from you; but day by day you are drawing closer and closer to the fullness of the time when all these things which are written in the book shall be seen, and heard, and fulfilled. I am now doing a new thing, and all things shall be changed. My life is that new thing. My life that no earthy creature or any creature in heaven has partaken of. Remember, until the fullness of time comes, you are still under the blood that I shed on the cross for you. Let my blood continue to be a witness unto you of the great love that I have for you, as well as a witness of my faithfulness; for I am the faithful and true witness; and I will perform all those things which I am revealing to you. I yearn to fill your heart with Words of truth, Words of life, and the Words of my power. I yearn to fill you with the fullness of me; the fullness of the kingdom that I have won for you. As a bride takes the name of her husband, so also do I yearn to give to you my name: my character, my nature, and my authority. I yearn for your companionship and fellowship. If you can believe, then rest in these words, and let the zeal of God perform all these promises and words for you.

Isaiah 9:6,7 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”

You have heard that my Word is living and that it is powerful, and though you have tasted of power, you have yet to experience the fullness of this truth yet. Yes, my Word has been unto you as the word of correction; as a hammer that has broken your pride into pieces. Yes, my Word as also been as a sword that has pierced your heart, revealing to you the hidden things of darkness as well as those counsels in your heart that were not of me. Yes, my Word has been to you the truth that has revealed Satan lies to you, so that I might sanctify and separate you from all his unclean and wicked spirits. Yes, my Word has been given to you to increase your faith, to dissolve your doubts, to cast out your fears, your doubts, and your unbelief. In these things, you have asked to see and to hear the truth of my words; and I have opened your eyes and your ears to see and hear the truths that have set you free from your bondage to the darkness of this world.

You have witnessed my faithfulness as you have allowed for me to build up your faith in me so that the gates of hell would not be able to prevail against you; the faith that has allowed for me to protect you so that none of powers of darkness could overthrow you. As you have asked to see the truth of my Words, you have witnessed me freeing you from the miserable thoughts of the carnal mind; from your bondage to think on such things worry, loneliness, hatred, the cares of your life, anxiety, bitterness, hypocrisy, all manner of fears and dread, rebellion, despair, confusion, depression, unbelief, accusations and condemnations of others. You have seen how I have sent unto you the truth of my Words to deliver you from the deceitfulness of your opinions, which you had used to mask the vanity of your ignorance. As you have asked to see these things, I have opened your eyes to see them. But why have you not yet asked for me to open your eyes so that you may see the truth about my life?

As you asked of me, and then witnessed my word coming to you to teach you all knowledge and to give to you all understanding. As you asked to see my words, you have also witnessed my power coming to you to destroy your worldly wisdom and to bring your understanding to nothing. As you have witnessed, when you allow for me to destroy your wisdom, then so also are those fleshy and evil desires destroyed that were birthed out of her. As you have asked of me, you have seen me send the truth of my words to you that have delivered from the snares of false doctrines; the interpretations and counsels of ungodly men. When you have asked of me, you have even witnessed my power of my word coming to destroy the evil works that oppose my will for your life. In your seeking of me, you have seen my faithfulness of my love in the words that I have sent to you, performing great and mighty things for you. Could I have sent my words to you if you had not believed to ask for me to send them to you? If you had asked nothing of me, then what could I have done for you that is beyond nothing?

Isaiah 55:10 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and does not return there until it has watered the earth, and makes it to bring forth and bud so that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater; and so shall the Word that goes out of my mouth, it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing that I sent it to perform.”

Matthew 13:58 “And he did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”

All things must be fulfilled according to my Word so that all things may be of me. For I am Spirit and I am life, and when all things are filled with me all things will be filled with Spirit and life. It is first necessary for me to prepare your hearts and your minds so that you may be willing and ready to receive the fullness of the glory that is of my Spirit and my life. Now hear and understand, it is impossible for the natural heart to receive the blessings of my Spirit; my power, my honor, my wisdom, my strength, my love, my riches, my truth, and the glory that I have won for you. Yes, in your correction I will prepare you to receive the fullness of my Word. In your correction, I will open your eyes, your ears, and your heart so that you see, and understand, and comprehend the life of God. It is of these things that no eye has seen, nor any ear has heard, and neither has any heart been able to perceive. You have not known these blessings because you have not yet asked to see the truth concerning the life of God; yet, you know that it is written that when I will appear to you, you shall see me as I am, and then shall you be changed into my likeness. Now ask me to open your eyes so that you may see the life of God, and then I will reveal this truth to you as you have believed me. No man knows the day or the hour, so be you ready at all times. You know that it is written that new wine cannot be poured into an old wineskin, lest it tear and all spills out on the ground.

John 6:63 Jesus said, “It is the Spirit that makes alive; the flesh profits nothing. The Words that I speak to you, they are Spirit and they are life.”

I 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; for the life was manifested and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life which is with the Father and was manifested to us. That which we have seen and heard we declare to you also so that you have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his son Jesus Christ.”

Matthew 7:13,14 “Enter you in at the strait gate; for wide is gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and go in there because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leads into life, and few there be that find it.”

John 10:10 Jesus said, “…I have come so that you might have life, and that you might have it abundantly.”

John 14:6 “Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”

You have not asked to see or to hear these things because I have hidden these things until this day; but now is the time appointed that I have chosen to reveal all things that have been hidden. Now is the time appointed for my people to ask for me to open their eyes so that they may see the fullness of Father’s heart, the life of God. For this is the day of the fulfilling of all the promises of my Words. This is the day that my Spirit and my life are coming to fill my Words. This is the day I have chosen to open your eyes to see all things, to open your ears so that you may understand all things, and to open your hearts so that you may perceive all things: I AM all things. Now am I preparing the hearts of all those who desire me. Now is the time that I have appointed to manifest that which many righteous men and prophets have desired to see and to hear but did not see nor hear. Now is the time that I have chosen to exalt my sons. Now is the time that I am ready to manifest I AM in my sons. Blessed are your eyes, for they shall see I AM; and the son shall be like his Father.

I John 3:2 “Brethren, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when he shall appear, we shall see him as he is, and we shall be like him.”

Even so, my Words shall continue to be sealed to the fearful, the disobedient, and the doubtful and unbelieving because they do not seek me, or trust in me, or have any desire to know me. These are they who trust in the seeing of their own wisdom, and delight in the opinions of their own understanding, which by doing they conform me into an image of their own desires. These shall not be able to see the truth of my Word because they have no desire to be compassed with my love. I am the Word, and my Word and I are one. The words that are birthed out of the opinions or reasonings of man are not my Words, but are nothing more than vain words conceived out of vain thoughts that are powerless to change anything or to perform any of my wonderful works. I have veiled the truth to preserve them only for those who diligently seek to know my life. Those who diligently seek for me shall be rewarded when I reveal myself fully to them.

Psalm 94:11 “The Lord knows the thoughts of men that they are vanity.”

Hebrews 11:6 “Without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek for him.”

II Peter 1:2-4 “Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue. Whereby are given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

Hear now, and understand; in the presence of my truth, there shall no evil thing dwell. I have spoken in parables, in metaphors, in secrets, in visions, in proverbs, in dreams, and in mysteries to keep my truth hidden from the eyes of the disobedient and unbelieving; lest at any time they also see and hear my Words and are made to be partakers of the life of God. I reward only those who diligently seek after me, who desire to know my truth. I am the truth. Have I not instructed for all to seek for me, to seek to know my truth. I am the truth of the Word. But where are they who have believed my words, who have desired to know the truth instead of settling for some vain opinions that twist and pervert my image? It is for this reason that my Words have been sealed, to keep the truth hidden from the eyes, the ears, and the hearts of the proud, the ungodly, and the corrupt, lest they should also be made partakers of the divine nature of the life of God; the divine nature that awaits for all who overcome the world through faith in me. When my Word is unsealed, the truth will come forth as the pure water of the river of life, to finish the work that I have started in you; to perfect your heart and transform the thoughts of your mind.

Matthew 13:34,35 “All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable did he not speak so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”

John 8:31 Jesus said, “If you continue in my Word, then shall you be my disciples, and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Luke 8:17 “For nothing is secret that shall not be manifest; neither anything hid that shall not come abroad. Take heed how you hear (understand)…”

II Corinthians 2:17 “We are not as many which corrupt the Word of God…”

When I brought John in the Spirit, he was not weeping for himself, but for all men. John saw that there was no being in heaven, nor any on the earth, nor any beneath the earth that could be found worthy to take the book and remove the seals from off the Words that were written within. John knew and understood at that time that if the seals were not removed from the Word, then man would forever continue in bondage to the darkness of his own ignorance, and not be allowed to enter into the kingdom of God. John wept because he knew that as long as the book remained sealed, so also would the truth of all things that pertain to the God and his life would remain hidden behind parables, dreams, metaphors, proverbs, visions, and the letter of the word. You know that it is written that eternal life belongs to those who know God; for the true knowledge of God is the entrance into the kingdom of God. I am the Truth. I am the Word. I am the Truth of the Word. God is the Word, and the Word is God. My Father and I are one. I am the truth, and no man can come into my Father’s presence except by me. No man knows the Father except those who I have revealed the truth of my Father to. Only by the revelation knowledge of my truth shall the darkness of your ignorance perish and Satan’s habitation be destroyed. It is not possible for ignorance to inhabit the place where the knowledge of the truth dwells. Satan cannot dwell in the light of my truth, only in the darkness of man’s ignorance. He that sees the truth of my Word sees me. He who sees me also sees my Father. He that sees my Father overcomes the world and is made free from all of the powers of darkness.

I John 3:6 NKJ “…Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.”

III John 11 NKJ “He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.”

Ephesians 4:17,18 “This I say therefore and testify in the Lord, that you henceforth no longer walk as other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.”

John 8:44 “You are of your father the Devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own (of his own opinions, own reasonings, own understanding); for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

Those who see me, they see that my Word is living; they see that my Word is truth; they see that my Word is powerful, and they see that my Word always accomplishes the purpose that I send it to perform for them. Those who see me see that my Word is able to cleanse them from their sins. Those who see me see that my Word is able to change the desires of their heart as well as transform the thoughts of their mind. Those who see me see that my Word is able to give life to the dead, purging their consciousness from all the dead thoughts of the carnal mind. Those who see me see that my Word is able to scatter all evil from before their eyes. My Word destroys all that profanes, all that corrupts, and all that defiles. My Word brings grace to the sinner, and mercy to the ungodly. My Word cleanses you from all the filth of self-righteousness. My Word is able to purge you of all your iniquities. My Word is able to separate your soul from the spirit of this world. My word makes all things new. My Word is able to perform all things that are impossible for any man to do for himself. By my Word, the hidden things of darkness and the secret counsels of the heart are manifest. By the Word that proceeds forth from my mouth are my people sanctified, made holy, and justified. By my Word, your sins are forgiven and forgotten, never able to come into my mind again. By my Word do the fruits of life spring forth in the hearts of the barren. My Word brings hope to the hopeless. My Word brings love to the unlovable. All the blessings that I desire to give to you, as well as all of my promises that I desire to perform for you, they can only come to you through my Word. John wept because he thought there was none worthy to open the seals to unveil these truths of my Word to the people of God.

I John 1:1-3 NKJ “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, concerning the Word of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us—that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.”

Jeremiah 2:31 NKJ “O generation, see the Word of the LORD! Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, “We are lords; we will come no more to You”? (Because they think they see and understand his words)

Isaiah 43:25 NKJ “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.”

Until this time, you have asked, and I have shown to you the Words that have increased your faith and led you down that strait and narrow path that leads to life; but you have yet to see the fullness of the life that awaits you at the end. I have also shown to you the Words that have allowed for you crucify the world that was written in your heart: the world of the lust of the flesh, of the lust of the eyes, and of the pride of your life. Just as it is written, you must first be a partaker of my sufferings before you can be prepared and ready to be a partaker of my resurrection. You must suffer the loss of your citizenship to this world before you can walk in your heavenly citizenship. Only then shall my life be able to manifest in you. The victory has been won, the seals have been opened, and the Words have been unveiled, but who will ask for me to open their eyes so that they may see behold the unsealed Words that unveils the divine nature of Father’s heart?

Matthew 7:13,14 NASB “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

Philippians 3:8-11 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.”

Galatians 6:14,15 NKJ “But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.”

I Corinthians 15:35,36 NKJ “But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?“ Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.”

Those who seek for life are those who ask for it; and those who ask for it are those to whom it shall be freely given. Who will ask to see my Word so that they may see me? Who will ask to see the Words that give life? Who will ask to see the goodness, the desires, and the love that is in Father’s heart? Who will ask to see the life of God? Because of the great love that I have for all, I came into this world and overcame all the evil that is of this world. I overcame all and I won the kingdom of God just for you; but who will allow for me to give them my kingdom? Who will ask to see the glory of that which has been won for you? I have given to you the kingdom of God that I won for you; so why have you not asked for me to open your eyes so that you may see the kingdom that is within you? Ask for me to open your eyes so that you may see the prize of the victory that my love has won for you, I will show it to you. If you do not ask for me to open your eyes, then how shall you escape your captivity to the blindness of your ignorance? Have you asked for me to open your eyes so that you may see and know the life of God; that form of life that is alien to the citizens of this world. You do not have because you have not believed to ask these things.

I John 2:15-16 “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.”

Galatians 6:24 “And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”

Do not be deceived, for I am not like a man and neither am I like any of the images that have been formed by the opinions of men. If it were not so, then it not have been necessary for me to have come into this fallen world and overcome it. If I was like unto man, then my crucifixion and resurrection would not have been necessary. No, though I had overcome the world and death, still the victory was not yet. Do you yet know here the victory was? Did not the darkness of ignorance dwelling in my people lead them to crucify me because they did not know that I was the Son of the living God? How then shall a man be able to love, and trust, and honor, walk with, be faithful to, and believe on that which he desires to kill? Would you allow for the darkness of your ignorance to crucify me?

I Corinthians 2:7 “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery; the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world for our glory; which none of the princes of this world knew; for had the known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”

The life that you have been familiar is defined between your beginning and your end, while my life is without either a beginning or an end. What you believe about life is limited because of your natural senses, while that which I believe has no limitations to constrain it because my life is eternal. I think, and it comes to past; I command, and it stands fast forever. What thoughts do you think that you are able to bring to pass without lifting a finger or speaking a word? You love only those who love you; while I love those who love you and all those who do not love you also. My love towards all men is pure, but I am only able to show the favor of my love to those who do not limit me with their doubts and unbelief. Your thoughts are vanity while my thoughts are reality. You judge others while I judge no man. You wonder what meekness really is while I am the very substance of meekness. The glory of man is as the grass that perishes, while my glory is everlasting. Can you perceive the truth of these things that I am speaking to you? Do you understand that when I unveil my Word, then shall you see me as I rally am; and that you shall be changed into my very image? Will you seek for and ask for me to unveil your eyes so that you may see my Words. My Word and I are one; and I yearn for my all of my beloved to be one with me.

I John 3:2,3 “Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.”

Hear, and understand. I came in the likeness of sinful flesh for two purposes. First, so that all men could see with their eyes the great works that my Father’s love and power are able to perform in an earthy vessel that is filled with sinful flesh. For me to overcome the world and gain the victory, it was first necessary for I me to come into the world in the likeness of sinful flesh, subjected to the same desires, the same wills, the same weaknesses, the same ignorance, and the same pleasures that all men are born subject to. I did not overcome any of these things through any wisdom or power of myself but rather it was through faith in my Father's power and belief in his great love for me that I overcame all things. Though sin dwelled in me, it was powerless to overcome the Spirit of my Father or stand against the love that my Father had for me. By the greatness of my Father's love, I was able to receive all of my Father's goodness, all of his power, all of his Spirit, and all of his love. As it was with me, so also is it now, that all those who overcome the world, they will also be able to receive the same blessings that I did, as well as walk in the same power, the same authority, and the same love of God that I did.

John 5:30 Jesus said, “I can, of myself, do nothing…”

Romans 8:3 “For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.”

I John 4:2 Hereby you know the Spirit of God: “Every Spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ come in the flesh (all flesh is sinful) is of God.”

Hebrews 4:14-16 “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities (weaknesses); but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”

Secondly, I came in the likeness of sinful flesh because it is appointed for all flesh to die once. Without the sentence of death upon me, then I would not have been able to gain entrance into the earth beneath, though by doing so it made it appear as though Satan had gotten the victory. Had I not been able to enter into the earth beneath, then I would not have been able to reveal the truth about the divine nature of our heavenly Father: for he who sees me, sees the Father. Without the gospel of this truth, these saints would have continued in their captivity in the land beneath because they did not know God. As I died on the cross, I first ascended into heaven, and appeared as the Lamb of God that had been slain. And when I was found worthy to take the book and remove the seals thereof, I then received authority to reveal the truth about my Father’s heart to all who would hear and receive him, whether they be upon the earth or beneath the earth. I revealed to them the Words of life: the nature, the character, and the authority of my heavenly Father. By my Words, the souls of the saints of old were set free from their captivity to the land beneath, and many who came out of the land of the dead then walked about Jerusalem for a time. And when I arose on the third day, I was not alone because I was able to bring all of them with me. I am the resurrection and the life", says the Lord.

Matthew 27:52,53 NASB “At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.”

Luke 24:45 “Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures (This event occurs after Jesus‘ resurrection and just before his ascension).”

Then I also appeared before my disciples for a time, opening their minds to see and understand the truth of many Words that had been hidden in parables, and metaphors, and proverbs; for I had gained the victory over all the powers and principalities that had kept understanding of scriptures darkened so that no man could see the truth about Father’s heart. I gave to them the Words of life that Peter knew before that were going to be given to him; Words that had been veiled from their eyes. Then on the day of Pentecost, I once again returned to my people as that Spirit of truth, the Spirit that unveils the eyes of the heart and mind so that they could see the Words of God. I returned in the Spirit as the power of God that gives sight to the blind and hearing to the ears, and that sets your heart and mind free from it’s bondage to the darkness of ignorance. Then my disciples began to preach the gospel, expounding on the Words of truth that even the scribes and Pharisees marveled at; and they became my witnesses before all men.

Deuteronomy 29:1-4 NASB “These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb. And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and all his land; the great trials which your eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders. Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.”

John 6:66-68 NKJ “From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the Words of eternal life.”

Though you also have perverted my Words with your natural understanding and with your worldly wisdom, be do not be afraid, for I am in this world just as you are now. I also grew in wisdom and knowledge. As my Father taught me, shall I not teach you? I have received from all power and authority from my Father to do so, and you have received my Spirit. Do you believe that I am able to give to you a new heart and a new mind; a heart and a mind where the Spirit of life will be the law of the land? Will you trust me and follow me? Will you humble your hearts and ask for me to give to you the Spirit of life? Again, you have seen my Words how they have already destroyed many old kingdoms, the old principalities, the old powers, the old ways, the old laws, and many of the old strongholds. But will you continue to seek and ask for me to open your eyes so that you may behold the new thing? I am the new thing. I am the new life. I am the life that you have not yet experienced new.

Do you not desire to see the glory of the living God filling your temple? The kingdom of God is coming. The life of God is coming. The glory of God is coming. A new heaven and a new earth is coming. Life is coming to swallow up death. All things are going to be made new. Ask for me to open your eyes to see me; to show you things that have been hidden from the sight of your eyes and from the hearing in your ears. Ask for me to show you the love that I won for you. I am not coming in a manner that natural man will be able to see, but I am coming in a manner that you will surely know. Believe on me, and I will perform all of my Words and all of my promises for you. Ask of me and I will change your heart and your mind, making them both to be beautiful in my sight and in your sight”, says the Lord.

When the Lord finished speaking these words to me, before I even had a chance to consider all that which he had spoken to me, I was instantly taken in the Spirit. In a flash, I suddenly found myself among 100,000,000 heavenly beings; and to say the least, being among this many beings at one time is quite overwhelming in itself, but the fact that they were all heavenly creatures made it even more overwhelming. I do not know how, but I then realized that I was in that moment spoken of in Revelation 5, just before Jesus Christ himself was to appear before the throne of God. The first thing that I really became aware of was the electricity and/or the excitement level that was in each one of these heavenly beings. The only way that I could possibly even attempt to describe the intensity and the excitement level that I felt from each one of these creatures would be to add these two things together. First, the intensity that I felt there was even greater than the intensity that you would feel at championship college football game that is played by two instate rivals, or a like a World Cup soccer match that was played between two rival nations. As I write this, even this explanation seems like a silly attempt to describe this intensity because these games usually only have between 70,000 to 100,000 fans attending them; and here I was among 100,000,000 intensely excited heavenly creatures.

Speaking only for myself, the most excitement that I have experienced in my life was on Christmas eve, when I was between the ages of 5 and 10. I simply could not sleep on those nights because of the anticipation and excitement of the presents that I was going to get the next morning. The build-up to that morning was incredible to me, in that the closer you got to Christmas morning, the more presents I saw going under the tree with my name on them. So what made that anticipation for Christmas morning to be so exciting was that I knew, without any doubt, that I was going to get a lot of presents because I could clearly see them all wrapped up with my name on them. I would say that between the ages of 5 and 10, my excitement level was so high that I never got more than a couple of hours of sleep. While each one of these heavenly beings was filled with even greater intensity and excitement, it was also accompanied with this great joy, like they already knew that their team had won; that the victory was secured, even before the game played itself out. It was at this moment that I became aware that I was present for what I believe to be “the greatest event that will ever occur throughout all of eternity”.

I then became aware that we were all like standing as if we were all in a very large and tall circular coliseum or stadium, but there was no physical stadium. I felt as though my physical position was about half way up, but somehow the eyes of my consciousness was somehow sitting on the very front row. When I looked to my left, I saw the heavenly Father sitting on his throne, but for some strange reason, no one, including myself, seemed to be giving him any attention, but rather the eyes of us all was focused on this small open area that was right before Father’s throne. This open area was circular and it was only about 10 feet in diameter. Just outside of this open area is where the stadium effect began; and it is impossible for me to describe how 100,000,000 creatures could all be focused on such a small area, but we were. Can you imagine the drama of seeing all of these creatures pressed in and ascending up as far as eyes can see, and all their eyes were focused on this small space before the throne of God? It is not possible to describe the drama that I felt that was unfolding before me, knowing that at any moment, all of us who were there were about to witness an event that no creature in heaven, nor any creature on the earth, and that no creature beneath the earth, had ever been found worthy to do, to take this book from off of Almighty God’s lap, and then remove the seals that had been put upon it by the power of God. I then perceived that this is where the victory was going to be found, that Jesus was going to be able to do that which no one before him, neither angel or man, had ever been found worthy to do.

Then suddenly, without me even realizing where he even came from, the Lamb who was slain was standing before the throne of God, to my right. It is not possible for me to describe to you what I actually saw before me because the form that Jesus appeared in had to be the very form that he had when he died on the cross: a form so disfigured and so bloodied that it could hardly be recognized at all to be that of a man. If someone asked for me to describe Jesus’ physical appearance from what I saw at that moment would be impossible. To be honest with you, I found it strange to see Jesus appear before his holy Father in this manner because I was not actually expecting to see him as the lamb that was slain…filthy dirty, naked, bloodied from head to toe, skin hanging off him like he had been peeled, great wounds from the scourging, the beatings, and of course, from the crucifixion itself. Sometimes the vanity of my own thoughts really surprise me because when I first saw Jesus standing before God in this fashion, my first thought was not about how much Jesus must have suffered, but it was how foolish man thinks that he must “dress up” or clean himself up before he can even go into the house of the Lord because here I was before the throne of God, and before us all is the most grotesque figure of man I have ever seen. Yet, God was not offended in the least little manner. What made this even more amazing to me was to know that if Jesus had appeared in this same physical manner before a group of humans, even Christians, they would all have undoubtedly been offended in some manner or another. Yet, there was not one gasp or one look of surprise on Father’s face or on any one of these 100,000,000 creatures; for everyone continued in the same joy and excitement as they had. I then felt like I was the only creature there that was even aware of how Jesus appeared outwardly.

Again, I think that it would be hard for anyone to imagine the greatness of the drama that was playing out before my very eyes, not only seeing Jesus but also observing the faces of these 100,000,000 creatures who had been excitingly waiting and waiting to see that which had never been witnessed before. But then I saw that which I will never forget, the most incredible thing of all, and it took place the moment that Jesus walked over to stand before his heavenly Father; for the love, the compassion, the thankfulness, and the joy that was in the heavenly Father's face as he gazed upon the face of his Son was indescribable; and the same love, and thankfulness, and joy was also in the Son's face. But it was their eyes, how they each looked on one another, that completely defined the moment; the look of the love and adoration that was in their eyes as they looked at each other. Then I heard the only words that were audibly spoken between the two when I heard Jesus say to his Father, “We did it”. I then remembered how Jesus had previously told me that he overcame all things through his faith in the power of God and his belief in his Father’s love; and now I was witnessing that very love right before my own eyes. It is for sure that I have never witnessed any such love as this in any love story or even in a fairy tale. I then witnessed Jesus reaching over and taking the book that had been resting in Father’s lap, and Father offered no resistance whatsoever. As Jesus began to open the seals, all 100,000,000 creatures began singing and praising the him repeatedly saying, “Worthy is the Lamb that slain, worthy is the Lamb to receive power, and blessings, and honor, and riches, and strength, and glory”. Then just as quickly as I appeared there, I found myself just as quickly to be back in my own body. At that moment, I did not get to physically see what Jesus might look after he was glorified with the power, the blessings, the honor, the riches, the strength, and the glory that flowed out of the Words written into that book into Jesus. I just knew that it had to be really awesome.

When I sat down and tried to write all these things which I had seen and heard, I felt that the Spirit of the Lord directed me to use a style of writing that I am not at all familiar with; to write and describe these events as though I had actually been in a fairy tale. Well, I can never recall my mother, or anyone else, reading a fairy tale to me; and the only ones that I knew were the Disney versions of “Snow White” and “Sleeping Beauty” that I saw when I was a kid. The Lord then confirmed for me to write in this manner when he then spoke to me and said, “Of all the stories that have been written, only fairy tales have endings that say, “And they lived happily together forever and ever”. Is this not the ending that all men wish that they could be partakers of? Do you not think that those who allow for me to rescue them, that we shall not live happily together forever and ever? Just like in fairy tales, my ending is only the beginning of the “happily ever after”. Do you think that any fairy tale can have an ending/beginning like the one that I have prepared for my people, seeing that my ending/beginning far exceeds anything that a man can image in his thoughts? Write these things that you have seen and heard as though it was the greatest story ever told; for my story is fiction to those who do not believe, but for those who will believe, they will experience an ending/beginning that far exceeds anything that they could have hoped for”, says the Lord.

I think that most people are like I am, in that the only time that we have ever really heard of a prince coming to the rescue of his beloved princess was only after she had taken captive or was in distress. All of these types of stories seem to be either a fictional, or a fables, or fantasies that could only occur in our own imaginations, and certainly not in real life. I cannot remember any fairy tale story in my life because everyone dies. I know that at sometimes or another, if not many times, we have all been in some circumstances or situations that we wish we had some mystical prince or superhero that would come to our rescue. I may not yet completely understand all that which I witnessed of Revelation 5, but I know that after seeing the love that I saw beaming out of Father’s eyes and face, and same love beaming out of his Son’s eyes and face, that I am now completely convinced that we have a superhero in heaven, and that our ending/ beginning is truly going to far exceed anything that any of us could imagine. With this one visitation, I am now fully persuaded that we have a Lord who loves us so much that he will go to any lengths to save us, to heal us, to lead, to help us, to teach us, to forgive us, to provide for us, or to deliver us out of any distress or trouble that may come upon us. Surely, at one time or another, have we not all had the desire to be either be the prince or the princess written of in these fables?

As I was thinking on how many times that I have desired for someone to come and rescue me in the times of my distress and troubles, the Spirit of the Lord quickened several verses to me: First that which is written in Psalm 107:13 “Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of all of their distresses”. Then that which is written in Psalm 34:4 “I sought the Lord and he heard me, and delivered me from all of my fears.” And finally that which is written in I Peter 5:7 NIV “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” I then realized that we do have a superhero in God, and that his love for us is no fable at all; but he is love for us is rendered useless unless we believe on his love for us. According to these verses of scripture, his love is not for some appointed time to come in the future, but he loves all of us right now. We truly do have a prince or a superhero that is willing to rescue us today because each one of us is truly the object of his affection. Does not the prince also love his princess so much that he is more than willing to battle dragons and witches, as well as all of the powers of darkness that he may encounter to that he might rescue his love from her peril? Is it not written in Ephesians 6:10 “Be strong in the Lord and in the power of “his might…for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities, against rulers of darkness and wicked spirits in high places”? But who will allow the Lord to love them? Who will allow the Lord to be strength for them and to show his power when he is engaged in such battles as these, seeing that Jesus alone is he who has triumphed over all of these enemies?

I was now beginning to perceive that what the Lord had spoken to me, as well as all that which I had just witnessed, it is somehow a love story that is far greater than anything that I could grasp the depth of; a story not only about the love between Father and Jesus, but also a story about the love that Father/Jesus has for his church/bride, seeing that everything that Jesus did was because of his love for us. In some of these fairy tales, you find a Prince that is so madly in love with a princess that he will do whatever it takes to rescue or save her. But these princes only have a love for one woman, while Jesus has a not only has a greater love, but a love that is for all men; and none of us, not one, has any kind of natural affection for him. It is one thing to go and rescue the princess that loves you, it is another thing to go and rescue the princess that does not know you or love you. How can we understand such a great love? In truth, is not the real prince the Prince of Peace? Is not the love of his life, the object of all of his affection, his bride the church? Is this then not a love story that not only crosses the boundaries of earth and heaven, but across all of eternity?

So in truth, has not our Lord, the Prince of Peace, set out to do whatever it takes to win his bride back from all the powers of darkness that have kept her in bondage to all of the lies that have kept her captive to such things as the unclean and wicked spirits of fear and dread; spirits that daily tormented her life. Has she not been held captive in great distress to such thoughts of worry, bitterness, depression, unforgiveness, stress, confusion, self-condemnation, loneliness, anxieties, and despair? So when the Prince considered the journey and the ordeal that laid before him, was not the length that he was willing to go for his bride then measured by the greatness of the love that he has for her? Recognizing that if he is going to rescue his bride, and also win her love, would it not then be necessary for him to first disguise himself just to be able to gain an entrance to her; that is, to appear as though he is just like one of us? Just like the prince in the fairy tales, there is no distance nor is there any obstacle that he even considers to be so great that he is not willing to travel or endure; caring not how many dragons, or how many wicked spirits, or how many evil powers, or ungodly principalities, or how many rulers of the darkness that he may encounter and engage along the way; for because of the passion of the love that burns within his heart for her, he is more than willing to take on all comers for his beloved bride. Yes, the prince in the fables, he is willing to fight dragons and travel distant lands for his beloved, but this is where the fables end, and the true story continues on.

In the fairy tale, the princess, the damsel in distress, is always waiting to be rescued by her beloved prince. But in truth, most of the church/bride is not waiting to be rescued by her Prince at all because she is not even aware of what here captivity is or the bondage that she needs to be rescued from; for the princess has been deceived and brainwashed, believing that the lies of her captor are the truth. The Prince knows that when his love sees him, that she is not going to see or find anything about him that will attract her to him. In fact, he knows that it is going to be quite different than that which is written in the fairy tales; for his beloved is going to despise him, reject him, ignore him, persecute him, mock him, refuse him, and possibly even hate him at times. The Prince knows that his princess has no love for him in her heart, nor does she trust any of his promises, and neither does she believe any of the words that he has spoken to her. Nevertheless, for the great love that the Prince has for his bride, he is not only willing to travel distant lands, battle all the forces of darkness, but he is also willing to suffer rejection and scorn from the hand of his very bride that he loves so much. He even knows that when he manifests his name and his power before her, that this will still not be enough to win her heart. Yet, he is still willing to exhaust all until he has won the love of his heart. He knows that no matter what he does, the Prince of Darkness will also come afterwards to tempt and seduce her with vain lies until she is even deceived into believing that her enemy is the Prince who loves her. Then she will not only reject the courtship of the Prince’s love, but she will even mock and persecute him. Then, by reason of the same lies that the Prince of Darkness seduced her with, she will slay her beloved prince by her own hand. As it was then, so also is it now.

Jeremiah 5:30,31 NIV “A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?”

Isaiah 39:9-11 NKJ “That this is a rebellious people, lying children. Children who will not hear the law of the LORD; who say to the seers, “Do not see,” And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits. Get out of the way, turn aside from the path, and cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

In all of his pursuit to win his bride, the Prince himself faced many trials and temptations; for he was tempted in all things pertaining to this life just as we are, but he did not sin once in turning his love away from his bride nor from turning his love away from his heavenly Father, the King who heaven. But when his Father saw how his Son was treated and all that had been endured and done in his attempts to win the heart of his beloved, he then sent forth his own power to kiss the lips of his slain Son, to breathe life back into him. And when he had raised him from the dead, he brought him back before his own throne. And when the King examined his Prince, he saw before him one who had been rejected, one who had been openly put to shame, one who was accounted as a nothing, one who had suffered greatly, one who had been mocked and ridiculed, one who was neither regarded or esteemed, and one who was so heartbroken with grief that he passed the point of unthinkable agony. The King saw that his Prince had suffered and endured all these things from the hands of those he had called his own. He also saw his Son as an innocent lamb who had sacrificed himself so greatly only to have his beloved despitefully refuse him. This is he who was willing to not only rescue her, but to also give to her all his kingdom and glory. This is he who had come out of glory to disguise himself in the likeness of sinful flesh, just so that he might have the opportunity to win his beloved’s heart.

Hebrews 4:15 “For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses; but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.”

John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you so that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

And when the Son stood before his Father‘s throne, clothed in the garments of rejection and scorn that were patterned with stains of blood and filth, he said to his Father the King, “Father, be merciful, for she has been deceived and is not aware of any of these things that she has done to me, nor the things that I have done to win her freedom and her heart. Forgive her and be merciful to her, for she is still the love of my heart”. When the King heard these words and remembered all that his Son the Prince had battled against, all that he had endured, all that he had journeyed through, all that he had suffered, and all that he had overcome in his attempt to win the heart of his beloved, at whose very hand he was even slain by, the King then said, “My heart greatly rejoices for the love that you have proved to be in your heart for your beloved, seeing that there was no amount of rejection, or scorn, or shame, or threats, or sufferings, or persecution, or beatings, or cursing, and not even death itself that was able to cause you to waver or to turn from her. Therefore, he who is standing before me is without any fault, without spot, and neither is there any blame in his heart; for his love towards his bride is pure. Can there be any greater love that one can have for another than the love that is willing to endure all things, bear all things, suffer all things, and even lose all of his dignity as that which my Son has done for his beloved? Has he not laid down his life completely for her? Because of the greatness of the love that you have for your beloved, I now give to you the victory that you have so desired. Because of the greatness of your love for man, as well as the love you have for me, I will now complete the victory.

I Corinthians 13:4-10 “Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love exalts not itself, and it is not puffed up. Love does not behave itself unseemly, and it seeks not her own. Love is not easily provoked nor does it think evil. Love does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. Where there are prophecies, they shall fail; where there are tongues, they shall cease; where there is knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when that which is perfect is comes, then that which is in part shall be done away.”

Then the King then removed his hand from off of the book and said to his Son, “I now give to you the victory. You are worthy to take this book and to lose the seals from off it. For in this book are the Words of Life: Words that have power to redeem the heart of your beloved from the lies that she has been seduced to believe. Words that have the power to win your beloved’s heart; for these are the Words of truth that will set her free from all the curses that have blinded her eyes. These are my Words, unveiled, powerful and living Words that can give life to all. These are Words that can break into pieces the lies that your bride has been held captive to believe. These are the Words of life that will free your bride from all of her captivity to sin and death”. Then all the host of heaven fell upon their faces and worshipped the Lamb, for by his great love, he who was found worthy to win that which no man had ever won before, the power and the kingdom that will be able to win the hearts and the minds of man whom God himself has loved. And they sung a new song, a song that could not have been sung before, saying, “Worthy is the Lamb who took the book and opened the seals thereof. Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive the glory, and the might, and the honor, and the power, and the blessings, and the strength, and the wisdom that are written within. Worthy is the Lamb to receive all that which is written in the book.”

Then the Lamb who was slain took the book and opened it, and all of Words of the glory of God, the Words of the power of God, the Words of the will of God, the Words of the love of God, the Words of the Blessings of God, the Words of the Wisdom of God, and the Words of the life of God came rushing forth as a mighty river, and they flowed into the mouth of the Lamb. He opened his mouth and was filled with the fullness of God. And all the heavenly creatures continued bowing before the Lamb, praising God and glorifying his Son. It was not the cross that gave the Prince the victory, though the cross is surely a witness of his love; and neither was it the resurrection from the dead that gave him the victory, though the resurrection was a witness of his Father’s love, but rather the victory was made complete when his love for the people and his love for his heavenly Father was pure. It was then that he was accounted worthy to take the book and remove it’s seals. It was his love that gained him the victory; and the victory that he won is that which awaits for all those who also overcome the world through the faith that stands in the power and love of God that is in Jesus Christ. Only perfect love could have endured and triumphed over all the trials and temptations that Jesus encountered.

By no other means could his bride be freed from her captivity except by his love and his Father’s power. By no other means could she have escaped the terrible end that was awaiting her except through his love and his Father’s power. By no other means could he have endured the cross except by his love and his Father’s power. By no other means could her heart be won except by his love and his Father’s power. If it were not for his love, there would never have been any hope to escape the curses of this present evil world. And if Jesus had not already done enough, he was then transformed into the Spirit of the Lord so that he could return and enter into the hearts and the minds of all those who would receive and believe on him. He became that Spirit of Life that comes to win the hearts of his beloved, to set her free from seducing lies that have kept her in bondage to the blindness of her ignorance.

II Corinthians 3:17 NIV “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”

Romans 8:2 NKJ “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.”

It will not be until his beloved fully comes to understand the great love that her Prince has for her before she will surrender and allow for her heart to be won. Only by allowing for her Prince to open the eyes of her heart to see his heart shall she be able to see that she is the object of his affection. Then shall the bride continue faithful to her Prince: trusting on him that through his love and his great power, she shall be delivered, she shall be redeemed, she shall be taught all truth, she shall be forgiven, she shall be healed, she shall be changed, she shall be exalted, and she shall receive the kingdom that her Prince won for her. For he has come to rescue her from death with the words of life. She now eagerly awaits for her Prince to come and fulfill all the promises of his love.

Now, the Prince is about to return again to the world that rejected and slew him; and like any good prince who comes to the rescue of his beloved princess, he will surely be riding in on a white horse. He is coming for his bride; she who allowed her heart to be won by his love. He is going to receive his bride unto himself, the love of his life. And with the sword of his words, he is going to destroy all the powers, the principalities, and the rulers of the darkness that have kept her in bondage. He is going to cast out all the wicked spirits that continually tried to haunt the castle of her heart. He is going to avenge his bride and rescue her. Then shall there be a great celebration feast in her honor; a feast so great that no man could ever imagine the likes thereof. Then the Prince is going to give unto his bride all that he had won for her; his kingdom, his power, his riches, his wisdom, his strength, his honor, his life, his glory, his blessings, and his name. He has become to her the Prince who truly rides in on a white horse to save her. Then she shall receive the reward she has desired to have; a happy ending/beginning with love everlasting. To those who are of this world, who do not believe, eternal life is nothing more than a fable that ends before it ever begins; but to those who do believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be their Prince, they shall receive “The beginning that never was and the end that never comes”.

It was then that the Spirit ceased speaking, and again, like so many times before, I sat in my seat simply overwhelmed and dazed at all that the Lord had just quickened to me. I am a 60 year old contractor, and I have never written or even read love stories; so it was quite a new experience for me to write these words, and I sure hope that I have clearly written and plainly testified of all that which I experienced so that it is encourages and edifies your faith. I myself feel like I had entered into a realm that I had never had any perception before this encounter; for truly, my own understanding of the scriptures could have never revealed such an incredible story as this. When the Lord quickened to me to believe that which is written in Jeremiah 33:3 “Call upon me and I will show you great and mighty things that you do not know”, I starting call on him and I had no idea that the Lord was going to show me that the great thing that I did not know was the greatness of the love that he has for each one of us, now was I truly aware of the great lengths that he go to prove his love for those who believe to ask him to do so.

Malachi 3:10-12 NASB “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test (prove; try) Me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows. Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes," says the LORD of hosts. All the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land," says the LORD of hosts.

Surely, I had believed that the victory was won when Jesus Christ died on the cross for us, but the reality of what he had done had never really entered my heart until this encounter was over. I then wept at this reality of his love as it entered into my heart. He did all these things just to win the opportunity to win my love, as well as the love of all will have him. I know that from this moment that I will never be able to look at my brethren, or any other man, as I had before, knowing now the full extent of what Jesus went through and what he is now willing to do for all of us. Sadly, it will only become effectual for those who come to know and to believe on him. With this one encounter, my whole perception of who Jesus Christ was/is has changed; for I found no religion in this story, only love. In fact, the Lord later said to me, “Mitt, all of the theology that you will ever need to know is the love that is in my heart.”

I have come to know the truth of that which Paul spoke of in Ephesians 3:17-19 “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge so that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God”. There is no height, or depth, or width, or length that can be used to measure the love of God; for how can the love of God, that which has no boundaries or limits be measured? I have seen sin exalting itself in my own heart so greatly that there was a time that I almost believed that it would exceed the grace of Father’s love, but I was wrong. If I had not seen how great this sin was within me, then I could have never learned the truth about his love, that when sin abounds, the grace of his love abounds even greater. The Lord has won my heart not only with that which he did for us at he cross, but with proving his love for me by opening the windows of heaven and pouring out blessings which I cannot contain.

As I continued to meditate on these things, the Lord again spoke to me and said, “I have given my all for you, but are you willing to give your all for me?” I answered, “Yes, Lord. What I have, I freely offer unto you, for I know that what I give unto you, I am going to receive you in return for it. I offer to you all of my life Lord, so that I might receive all of your life. Amen”. Then at that moment, I became greatly humbled and ashamed, for I saw clearly that I had been his love all along, but I had not believed, nor trusted, nor loved that which had been given to me. I then felt compelled to bow my knee and acknowledge, “Truly Lord, my thoughts are not your thoughts, and neither is my heart as your heart. Forgive me, Lord. But Lord, I offer to you my thoughts and my heart so that I might receive your thoughts and your heart”.

I thought that I had a great desire to know the truth before, but now I see that the desire that I had was really only a desire for some kind of intellectual knowledge. Even as great as that desire was, it now pales in comparison to the desire that is now in my heart to Father‘s love. I now know that if you cannot define what he perfect love of God is, then what knowledge do you have? I now know that in this world of illusions, where lies can appear as truth, where the way to death can seem like the right path to follow, where evil can appear as good, and where opinions can be mistaken for true knowledge, that there is only one truth, and that truth is Jesus. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus is that Spirit of truth that reveals the love that God has for us. God is I AM; and I AM is existent. I AM is love; and only those who know his love can come into this truth. All else is an illusion. I do not know what awaits me tomorrow, or what may rise up in my path, but I now know that the love of the Lord is going with me today and into tomorrow. I now know that the love of God would have no other thought to be in me other than to know that his love will accompany me in my trials, my afflictions, my troubles, my temptations, and in whatever powers of darkness that I may encounter in my journey with him. I am now willing to let him have mine, regardless of what mine may consist of, so that I might receive all that which his love has won for me.

A friend once shared a vision with me that the Lord gave to him when he was facing what he felt like was an impossible situation. He was greatly troubled because his business was failing and he was trying to decide whether to declare bankruptcy or not. In the midst of his confusion, the Lord blessed him with the faith to turn to the Lord and ask him to lead him according to his will. The Lord then gave him a vision; and in the vision he saw a giant that appeared to be much bigger and greater than Goliath. And this giant had a t-shirt on; and on written across the chest area of that t-shirt was the word “BANKRUPTCY”. In other words, his fears were prophesying the worst case scenario was surely going to happen. My friend said that all that his eyes could see in this vision was that intimidating and threatening giant. So, still in the vision, he called out on the name of the Lord, asking for his help. Then his eyes were opened to see the Lord, and that he was standing directly behind Goliath. He then said that he saw that the top of this giant’s head was not even able to come up to the top of God’s big toe. Suddenly, all of his fears, with the fruits of anxiety, confusion, worry, helplessness, insecurity, and stress just melted away, and the peace of God came in and filled all of the thoughts of his heart and mind; the peace that passes all understanding when one knows and believes in his heart that the Lord is completely in control over their lives. When all of his fears and dreads had departed from his thinking, a sound mind was restored unto him. Then the Lord led him one step and one day at a time through this situation that seemed impossible; and his company was also restored without him having to declare bankruptcy.

If we see the circumstances and situations in our life through the eyes of fear, then the principals of fear is that which is going to dictate to us that we should respond to our circumstances and situations according to that which is right in the sight of the spirit of fear. But if we allow the Lord to open our eyes to see his love, then his love and care for us is that which will determine the outcome of that situation or circumstance. that which fear sees to be the right and good thing for us to do. I was thinking on this vision that my friend had when the Lord suddenly gave to me vision that was almost identical to his. I saw this same giant, but in my vision he had written across his shirt the words. “I AM going to destroy, and steal, and kill you”, as though he was God himself and what he said was surely going to be the outcome. But then, just like in my friend’s vision, I saw God standing behind this giant, and when I looked up, I saw that he was waving a banner like one that you would see waved at football games from years past, and on that banner was written the words. “I Love You”. Then the Lord said to me, “If you will believe that my banner over you is love, then there will be no length to the blessings and the good things that I will do for you, regardless of what your adversary may say. He is liar, and the father of all lies. I love you: period.” Glory be to God.

Song of Solomon 2:4 NASB “He has brought me to his banquet hall, and his banner over me is love.”

Chapter 11

“Can you see me? I am the invisible belief that allows for the great and mighty works of God to be made visible.”

We were gathered together one morning in prayer when all of sudden I felt a pressure building up in my head just like the pressure that you would feel when you drive up into the mountains or like that which you experience when you are on a plane that has just taken off, rising up through the clouds. I immediately opened my mouth as wide as I possibly could so as to allow my ears to pop to relieve the pressure, but nothing happened.

I then remembered that this same thing had happened in one of our meetings just about a week before, and when we asked the Lord what it was, he told us that he was changing the atmosphere. I really had no clue as to what the Lord meant by this so I asked him and this is what he answered. “I am taking you higher into my thinking and deeper into my heart”. When I spoke this word to the others that were praying with me, the Lord then quickened to one of them that not only will a person feel this type of pressure in their head when they are traveling up higher into the atmosphere, but so also will he feel the same type of pressure build up when dives or swims deeper in a body a water.

Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways”, says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways and my thoughts higher than your ways and your thoughts.”

It is as it is written that our thoughts are not as God’s thoughts, and neither are the desires and affections of our heart like the desires and affections in Father’s heart; but the Lord has promised us that he would give us a new heart and new mind wherein we would be made like unto him. Then the Lord said to us, “Love thinks no evil. Love does not think evil of any man, and neither does love think fearful, or bitter, or unbelieving, or worrisome, or doubtful, or hateful, or confusing, or slanderous, or anxious, or sinful, or disappointing, or unfaithful thoughts. I am love. Just as a man is as he thinks, so also am I what I think. I AM love and I think only as love thinks. I am holy because all of my thoughts are holy. My thoughts are not your thoughts, and my love is not as your love; for as high as the heavens are above the earth are my thoughts and my love above your thoughts and your love. Now commit this work into my hands, and I will take you higher into my thinking. I will establish my thoughts in you. As I am love, so shall you be as my love. Love thinks no evil; and you will think no evil because I AM will be in you; and I AM is love. You will be as I Am. My love is I Am.”

O Lord, as your word is, so let it be done unto us!

Isaiah 65:2 “I have spread out my hands all day long to a rebellious (will not listen or trust) people, which walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts.

I Corinthians 8:2 “And if any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing as he ought to know.”

Philippians 2:5 “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”

Proverbs 16:3 “Commit thy work unto the Lord and your thoughts shall be established.”

Matthew 9:29 Jesus said, “…according to your faith, so let it be done unto you.”

The Lord began to give me this word in late May 2008, shortly after I had returned from my first visit to the “Outpouring in Lakeland, Florida.” There have been many moves of the Spirit, but this one was the only one that the Lord has ever led me to attend. I made two trips to Lakeland, and while I was there the first time, Todd Bentley spoke this word out: “The Lord is healing someone of a hip problem”. Until that night, I had a degenerative hip problem that I have had for the past 8 to 10 years; the very same problem that leads some to get hip replacement surgery. When the Lord led me to go to Lakeland, I perceived that there was going to be a move of his Spirit that he wanted me to see. I had grown so accustomed to my bad hips being a part of my life that when Todd called out the hip problem, it did not even occur to me that I could be that person. My hip problem was so bad that hip joints always burned, and for some reason, I hardly had any feeling in my feet. I could walk barefooted outside in freezing temperatures, and my feet would hardly get cold at all. So I am just sitting there, and suddenly I felt like these cool winds blowing on my hips, and my first thought was that the air-conditioning had just come on. I then looked up at the ceiling to see if could see the vents where this cool air was coming from, and I saw none. When this cool air quit blowing on my hips, the burning that was in my hips was gone, and it was then that I realized that the Lord had just healed me. That has now been at least 14 months ago, I have not since had any problems with my hips. In fact, this past winter was the first winter in many years that my feet got cold. This was the first time that I had ever received any kind of physical healing from the Lord, though he has healed me of many, many matters that were in my heart.

I also took a second trip to Lakeland, and between the two visits, I witnessed with my own eyes Father’s love moving and performing many healings, restorations, and deliverances. Not once did I witness anyone being asked about their faith, or their background, or their genealogy. It was almost just as it was when Jesus did these things; for the Lord just delights in those who come to him by faith. Even though this was my first time attending a move of God like that which happened in Lakeland, I had no doubts the Lord was doing something there than in the other moves that I had heard of. So when I got back home, I sought the Lord asking him to show me what he was really doing in Lakeland. Then the Lord said to me: “Judgment has now begun in the house of the God”. I then asked: “Judgment? What kind of judgment, Lord?” Then the Lord brought to my remembrance all that I had witnessed him do while I was in Lakeland, as well as all that which I witnessed while watching this when outpouring on God TV; but in all of these remembrances, I could not think of a single thing that I would call “the judgment of the Lord”. Then the Lord said, “Where are my prophets and my apostles who understand judgment, seeing that this is the hour that I have appointed to judge my house? This is the hour that I am going to judge my people, from the least to the greatest. I am going to judge them on how they see; for it is how a man sees that determines what he believes. This is hour that I am going to judge the sins of doubtful, the fearful, and the unbelieving; and if they will turn to me, then I will open their eyes and grant them repentance so that they may believe only on me. Now, did you see me judging the doubts and the unbelief of many in Lakeland, even in your ownself?

John 9:39 NASB “And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.” Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, “We are not blind too, are we?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, “We see”, your sin remains.”

John 16:8,9 NKJ “And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in Me.”

Romans 14:23 NKJ “…for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.”

John 4:48 NASB “So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe.”

John 20:25 NKJ “The other disciples therefore said to him (Thomas), “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”

Proverbs 28:5 “Evil men do not understand judgment, but those who seek the Lord understand all things.”

Jeremiah 8:7 “Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.”

Psalm 9:16 “The Lord is known through the judgment he executes; the wicked is snared in the works of his own hands. Higgaion (meditation). Selah (consider).

Acts 17:31 “He has appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

Do you see me? This is the hour of the “Revelation of Jesus Christ”; the revelation that is going to judge my church. Do you see me? Did you see me in Lakeland? Did you believe on me? I am the Stone of Stumbling and the Rock of Offense; I am the stone that the proud stumble over and I am the Rock that offends the self-righteous. This is the hour that the proud are going to fall and the self-righteous are going to be made blind. This is the hour that many are going to stumble and be offended at my revelation. This is the hour that the unbelieving are going to scoff at. This is the hour that the unfaithful shall despise. This is the hour that the hearts of the fearful shall faint. So also is this the hour that many will repent and shall cast away all their unbelief, their doubts, their pride, and their fears. This is hour that many shall repent of all that which they have believed on and trusted in that was not of me: their time honored traditions; their doctrines that have been established on men’s opinions of the scriptures; the works of hypocrisy; the old laws that have been annulled; the commandments of men; their trust and security in wealth and money; and all those vain lies that have exalted men instead of God. This is the hour that the proud and the self-righteous are going to be offended when they see they cannot direct or control God. This is the hour that none of these abominations shall be able to help or to save.

Romans 9:33-10:1 “As it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumblingstone and rock of offense: and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.”

1 Peter 2:7-8 “Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which are disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner; and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient unto that which they was appointed for them.”

I AM, and I am not at all like unto the idols of men’s opinions; opinions that have been formed to change me into images that satisfy their own desires of who they want me to be for them. Those who worship idols are those who are not faithful to me and neither can they believe on me. Many are going to be offended in this hour when they see that I am not coming in the manner that they have expected me to come. Did I come to the Jews in the manner that they were expecting? Did I bring fire down from heaven to destroy the Samaritans as John and James were expecting me to? Yes, I am coming with fire, and I am coming to judge because I am coming to separate my people from all sin. As I have told you, the revelation of Jesus Christ is that which brings an end to Daniel’s 70 weeks; the end of sin and the bringing in of a new heavens and a new earth wherein righteousness dwells. All things are possible for those who believe because there is no sin in the heart of those who believe. Do you see me? Do you know me? This is the hour that I alone will be exalted.

Isaiah 2:11 NASB “The proud look of man will be abased and the loftiness of man will be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.”

Romans 21:25 NASB “For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”

Daniel 9:24 NASB “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.”

I John 3:6 NASB “No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.”

III John 11 NASB “…The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.”

II Peter 3:13 NASB But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

You know that God says, “There are none who are righteous; no, not one”. Even so, you live in a heaven and earth where the darkness rules; and where the darkness rules, the eyes of men are blinded so that they see and believe that all their own ways are right. How a man sees in his heart determines that which he believes to be right. Is it not written that Father says that your ways are not his ways? So then, because of my Father’s love for you, he sent me to you. I am the way. I am the way into Father’s heart. My ways are right because I allowed for my Father’s way to be my ways. My Father and I are one. Righteousness belongs only to God, and I am the only begotten Son of God. My ways are righteous because I came forth from God. When you see his ways, then you will see me and believe that I came forth from God. I am The One; I am The One that God made to be righteousness for you. The faith that you put in Father’s love, you do so because I am that faith in you. That which you believe Father will do for you, you do so because I am that belief in you. The hope that you have of seeing God fulfilling his promises for you, you have because I am that hope in you. I am the righteousness of belief and faith. I am the belief and faith that accounts you to be righteous in the sight of God. I am the righteousness that reconciles you to God. That which you believe is that which makes you to be one with Father though me. My Father and I are one. Whatever you believe that Father will do for you, you believe because I am that belief dwelling in you. Without me, Father can do nothing for you. With me, Father is free to exercise his love towards you without any limitations or boundaries. I am the One. Do you see me?

Daniel 9:7 “O Lord, righteousness belongs unto you…”

John 8:23-27 NASB “And He was saying to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” So they were saying to Him, "Who are You?" Jesus said to them, “What have I been saying to you from the beginning? I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world.” They did not realize that He had been speaking to them about the Father.”

II Corinthians 5:21 “For he has made him who knew no sin to be sin for us so that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”

Romans 4:2-5 NIV “If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God. What does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation. However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.”

Mark 9:23,24 NIV “If you can?” Jesus said. “Everything is possible for him who believes.” Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”

Matthew 8:13 NASB “And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; it shall be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed that very moment.”

Matthew 9:29 NASB “Then He touched their eyes, saying, "It shall be done to you according to your faith."

Matthew 13:58 “Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”

I am the belief that allows the “none righteous” to become righteous in the sight of God. I am the righteousness of belief that is able to make you to be well-pleasing in Father’s eyes. He who increases in faith and abounds in belief is he who increases and abounds in me because I am the spirit of belief and faith. I believe only on my Father, and those who are in me and I in them, they will believe on my Father just as I believe on him. I believe that Father is I AM. I believe that it is impossible for Father to lie. I believe that my Father is sovereign over all powers and principalities, over all flesh, and over all spirits that are in heaven and on earth. I believe all of Father’s words, all of his instructions, all of his commandments, all of his counsels, and all of his promises. I believe that Father is well able to perform all of his words. I believe that all things are possible with God. I am the faith that stands in the power of God. I am the belief that stands still and watches for God to move. I believe that only God should be exalted. I believe that Father is able to work all things together for good for those who love him. I believe that my Father loves me, and that I am the object of his affection. I am in you, but are you in me? He who believes in me believes as I believe. He who increases in me increases in the belief of that which Father will do for him. All those who walk in me walk in the manner that is well-pleasing in the sight of God because they believe on him as I believe on him. All those who walk in faith are faithful to Father’s love because I am faithful to Father’s love. I am the faithful Son. I am the faith that raises you up as the sons of God. I am the spirit of adoption. I am the belief that grafts you into family of God. I am the spirit that cries out, “Abba; Father.” Without me, you cannot believe any of these things which I believe about Father because I am that spirit of belief. As you believe, so let it be done unto you. Do you see me? Do you need me?

John 12:44 NASB “And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in Me does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me.”

Matthew 3:17 “And lo a voice from heaven, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Romans 15:13 “Now, may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Hebrews 11:6 NIV “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”

Galatians 3:26 NIV “You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.”

Romans 8:15 NIV “For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship (adoption). And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”

Romans 11:19-23 NASB “You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith Do not be conceited, but fear; for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either. Behold the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, (if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

I am the gift of God; I am the gift that is freely given to those who desire to have me. If you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, then how much more shall our heavenly Father, who is good, give good gifts to you when you ask of him? Seek only for those gifts that come from above, for that is where all good gifts come from. Shall I not increase the faith of those who ask me to? Shall I not give belief to those who ask of me? Shall I not cause you to abound in hope when you ask of me? Ask, and it shall be given because I said that I would give all things to you. I am the gift that is freely given to those who seek to know the righteousness that is of God because my Father made me to be righteousness for all those who are not righteous. My Father so loved the world that he gave me, his only begotten Son, that whosoever would believe on me should not perish but have everlasting life. I am the only begotten belief that gives you everlasting life. I am your Savior. By grace are you saved through….Me! I am the faith that saves your soul. I am the gift that saves your soul. I am the gift of God. He who increases in faith increases in gifts of me. I am the faith in Father’s love and the belief of his words. Do you know me?

James 3:17 NIV “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”

John 3:30 NASB “He (Jesus/belief) must increase. I must decrease.”

I Corinthians 3:6 “I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.”

Luke 17:5 “And the apostles said unto the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

I am the faith that enables you to overcome this world of darkness. In a world full of unbelief, my Father brought me forth to be the righteousness of belief. In a world full of doubts and fears, my Father brought me forth to be the righteousness of faith. In a world without any hope in God, my Father brought me forth to be the righteousness of hope. To be, or, to not to be; this is the choice my Father has given to each one of you. Am I to be in you, and are you to be in me? I am the gift that my Father desires to give to all who choose to be. If you do have all of me, it is because you have not asked to have all of me. I am the gift of righteousness. I am the gift of God that sets a man free from all of the unrighteousness of doubt, fear, hopelessness, and unbelief. I am the gift of faith that comes forth from Father’s love that gives you the victory over this world. I am the faith that is born of the spirit in all those are born art that I am the faith that saves. I am the faith that works by love. I am the love that casts out all fear. I am the belief that is not limited by any doubts or unbelief. I am the hope that purifies the soul. Do you see me? Do you want me? I am the gift of God that is freely given to all who ask. I am the gift sent by Father to be your Helper. I am he who has come forth to help the humble overcome all their doubts, their unbelief, their fears, their pride, and their hopelessness. I help by giving to you the gift of God: Me. Do you need me?

I John 5:4 NASB “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith.”

He is born again is he who is born of the faith that Jesus is.

Galatians 3:26 “we are the children of God by faith”.

Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin (unbelief/doubt) is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Matthew 6:33 NIV “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”

Romans 5:17 NIV “For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.”

Philippians 3:8,9 “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.”

Ephesians 2:12,13 NASB “Remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.”

Luke 12:32 NKJ “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Do you see me? This is the hour of revelation. This is the hour that all things that have been kept secret shall be made known. This is the hour that all things that have been hidden shall be manifest. This is the hour of the apocalypse; the hour that the light of the truth is going to destroy the darkness of ignorance. Do you see me? This is the hour of the revelation of Jesus Christ. This is the hour of the revelation of Jesus Christ manifested in the sons of God. This is the hour that all flesh shall see me. Do you really believe me when I say that he who sees me sees the Father? This is the hour that all flesh shall see me in you. Do you really believe me when I say that all who see you shall see the Father? Until this hour, I have been the righteousness that the ignorant have not esteemed but have made light of. I am the righteousness that my own people despised (made light of) and rejected so that they could continue believing that they themselves were the righteousness of God. Until this hour, I have been the righteousness that the hypocrites rejected and hated. It has not been you that they have rejected or hated, but it has been in you; the belief and the faith in you that they have rejected and hated.

John 12:45-47 NKJ “And he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me. I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.”

Do you see me? I am not in the faith that is proven by the works of men, but I am in the faith that proves the works of God. I am not in the righteousness that is seen in the works men do to be seen by men, but I am seen in the righteousness of the belief that allows for God to perform his great and mighty works. I am not seen in the righteousness of man’s best efforts and good intentions, but I am seen in the righteousness of faith that allows for God to do good and to bless his people. I am not seen in the righteousness of those who seek for their own glory, but I am seen in the righteousness of faith that seeks for God’s glory. I am not seen in the ways that seem righteous, but I am seen in the faith that allows God to make ways when there seems to be no way. I am not seen in the righteousness of man’s zeal, but I am seen in the righteousness of faith that allows for the zeal of God to finish the works that he has started in you. I am not seen in the faith that stands in man’s confidence, but I am seen in those who have confidence in God. I am the righteousness of God that has no agreement with the righteousness of men because that which is unseen has no agreement with that which is seen. This is the hour that all righteousness is going to be judged, whether it be of man or whether it be of me. I am the gift of God. I am the gift of righteousness that all are going to be judged according to. Can you see me?

Acts 17:30,31 NKJ “Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”

II Corinthians 4:18 NKJ “While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

Matthew 23:26 NIV “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.”

Matthew 6:1,2 NIV “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.”

John 7:18 NASB “He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.”

Romans 10:2-3 NIV “For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.”

Do not judge according to appearances, but judge righteous judgment. I am the gift that the blind cannot see. Do you not know that Satan rules in the realm that the blind do see? Do you not know that the blind are only able to judge according to appearances? I came unto my own, and my own could not even see me. Do you not know that in the realm of the blind, Satan is able to make the self-righteous works of iniquity to appear as the righteousness of God? Do you not know that in this realm of the blind, Satan is able to make hypocrisy to appear as a form of godliness? Do you not know that in this realm of the blind, Satan is able to make those things which are an abomination in the sight of God to appear as that which highly esteemed in the sight of men? Do you not know that in this realm, every man thinks that he walks righteously? Do you not know that in this realm, the blind desire their own praise and glory; and the only reward that they shall receive is the praise and glory of men? If any man thinks that he sees me in any of these things, then he is blind. I came into this world to open the eyes of blind, to save men from the illusions of the things that are seen. So then, do not judge a man according to the works that you see him do, but judge him according to that which is not seen: the hope, the faith, and the belief that he has that will allow for God to perform his great and mighty works. I came into this world to judge my people, to give sight to their blindness so that they might be able to see me; and receive me; and believe on me; and know me; and love me. This is the hour of revelation. Do you see me? He that sees me sees my Father.

Revelation 1:1 “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him to show unto his servants the things which must first come to pass…”

John 7:24 NASB “"Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

John 9:39 NKJ “And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.” Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, “Are we blind also?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, “We see.” Therefore your sin remains.

II Corinthians 5:7 “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”

Romans 8:24,25 NASB “For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.”

I Peter 3:15 NIV “But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.”

The man who seeks to know the righteousness of God, he will find me because God made me to be righteousness for him. The man who seeks me will find the righteousness of faith and belief because that is the righteousness that my Father made me to be for him. I am the tree of righteousness, and those who abide in me and I in them, they shall bear the fruits of life through faith and patience. I am the life. I am the life of those who walk in faith. I am the beginning and the end; I am the beginning of your faith and I will be with you until the end, when your faith has been perfected. I am the abundant life of those who walk in faith. I am the belief that allows for God to answer your prayers. I am the invisible belief and faith that allows for the works of Father’s love to become visible. I am the faith that draws near to Father and the belief that calls out on his name. I am the faith that lifted Moses’ staff at the Red Sea. I was the spirit that was in Joshua and Caleb; the spirit that believed that they could take the promise land regardless of how many giants were in the land. I am the righteousness of faith that was manifested in David to confront Goliath, when the unrighteousness of unbelief and doubt caused the rest of the hearts to fail them for their fears. l am the belief that is able to move mountains, and that was able to move Abraham to take his beloved Isaac to the top of the mountain.

I am the faith that allows for the grace of Father’s love to cover multitudes and multitudes of sin. I am the belief that allows for the most wretched of sinners to pray and that is able to justify the wicked. I am the faith that was in Paul that kept him from departing from Father’s love. I am the spirit of belief that came forth 2000 years ago in that body of sinful flesh that allowed for the sick to be healed, for the dead to be raised, for 5000 to be fed, for that water to be turned into wine, that allowed for sight to be given to the blind and hearing to the deaf, that walked on water, that loved my enemies, and that forgave those who persecuted and crucified me. I am the belief that raises the dead. I am that spirit of belief that makes the impossible to be possible. Again I say to you; when my Father saw that there was none righteous, he brought me forth. I am the faith that allows for the righteousness of Father’s love to be manifest though his works. I am the faith that was from beginning and that shall be to the end. Do you see me? Do you know me?

Matthew 21:22 NIV “If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Galatians 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

Numbers 14:24 “But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land where into he went; and his seed shall possess it.”

WOW! Can you see Jesus in that which is written from Hebrews 11:1---12:2?

Hebrews 12:2 AMP “Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Psalm 105:2 “Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; talk of all His wondrous works!”

Acts 10:38 “...God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Judgment must begin with the house of God. I am not coming to judge as many suppose. I am not coming to judge a man for his own righteousness or for his own works, but I am coming to judge him according to my righteousness; according to the gift of faith and belief that has been given to him. I am coming to judge my people for the works of God that they have allowed for their faith and belief to do in them. He who increased in his faith, he has also increased in the works that faith allows for God to perform. He who has abounded in belief has also abounded in the joy and the peace that comes when God is allowed to do the impossible. As I once told you: “If I am not working in your heart, then your faith is dead.” If your faith is dead, then could that mean anything other than you did not walk me in your heart? I am the faith that is alive. Those who walk in their own righteousness, they talk of their own works. Those who walk in the righteousness of belief and faith, they talk of the works that Father does for them because that is what my presence in them allows for Father to do for them. Without me, you can do nothing because I am the belief that allows for Father’s love to work in your heart. Again I say to you, I am the spirit of faith and belief. I Am that which I am. Do you give me the glory for being all that which you believe? As it is written, “Examine yourself to see if you are in the faith”; examine yourself to see if you are in me and that I am in you. I am in you, but are you in me? Who believes but him who cries out for belief? Who is faithful but he who asks for me to increase in him?

Galatians 3:26 NASB “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.”

Romans 12:3 “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”

Ephesians 4:7 “But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Luke 19:12-27 Therefore He said: “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. So he called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten minas, and said to them, “Do business till I come.” But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, “We will not have this man to reign over us.” And so it was that when he returned, having received the kingdom, he then commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading. Then came the first saying, “Master, your mina has earned ten minas.” And he said to him, “Well done, good servant; because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.” And the second came, saying, “Master, your mina has earned five minas.” Likewise he said to him, “You also be over five cities.” Then another came, saying, “Master, here is your mina, which I have kept put away in a handkerchief. For I feared you, because you are an austere man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.” And he said to him, “Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow. Why then did you not put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?” And he said to those who stood by, “Take the mina from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.” (But they said to him, “Master, he has ten minas.”) “For I say to you that to everyone who has will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.”

Do you know me? I am love and I change not. I am never anything other than love. I am the perfect love that believes all things. I am the love that helps you overcome a world full of unbelief and doubt. I am the love that leads you through the valley of the shadow of death. I am the perfect love that casts out all fears. I am the love that protects you and keeps you safe. I am the love that is directed by your faith and belief, and the love that directs the power of God. I am the love that does not think to do evil or to speak evil of others. I am the revelation of love that reveals the power of Father’s mercy; the mercy that overcomes all judgment. I am the grace of Father’s love that is greater than all of your sins. I am the forgiveness of Father’s love that is able to destroy the desires of the Devil that judges, that find’s fault with, that does not forgive, that hold’s others accountable, that curses, that accuses, that slanders, that blasphemes, that speaks evil of others, and that condemns. I am the love that blesses those who curse you, that does good to those who hate you, that loves your enemies, and that prays for those who persecute you. He that walks in me walks in the power of Father’s mercy, and forgiveness, and the grace. I am the love that destroys the works of the law. Did you see Father’s love working to spoil the schemes of the Devil who wanted to judge, to condemn, and to kill that woman who was caught in the act of adultery? Did you see me judge this woman righteously? Every man has one who shall judge him: the judgment that he uses to judge others with. I am the love that is able to cast out the one who will judge you if you have the belief that will direct my love to do so. Those who judge without the mercy are those who judge without me. I am the mercy that triumphs over judgment. Do you know me? I am in you, but are you in me? Are you walking in love? I am the grace of Father’s love that brings down the strongholds of laws written in stone. I am the law of love that can only be written in your heart. I am the grace of Father’s love that the ignorant, the proud, and the self-righteous hypocrite cannot comprehend. Do you know me? Do you have any need of me?

1 John 4:8 “He that does not love does not know God; for God is love.”

Malachi 3:6 “I am the Lord; I do not change…”

I Corinthians 13:5 NKJ “(Love)….thinks no evil.”

Titus 3:1,2 NKJ “Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men.”

Zephaniah 3:15 “The Lord has taken away your judgments; He has cast out your enemy. The king of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst. You shall see evil no more.”

Matthew 12:37 NKJ “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

James 2:11,12 NASB “So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.”

He that walks in darkness makes himself to be a judge over those who I love. My Father so loved the world that he did not send me to judge this world, but to show the world the righteousness of his love. My Father so loves the world that he has judged all worthy to receive of his mercy, his forgiveness, and his grace. Behold the righteous judgment of God! Behold Me! Those who make themselves to be judges of those who my Father loves, they make themselves judges over my Father’s mercy, over his forgiveness, and over his grace. Those who judge my Father’s righteousness are those who will condemn God so that they may continue in the righteousness that find’s fault, that accuses, and that condemns. For God loved the world so much that he sent me forth, his only begotten Son who does not judge, or accuse, or condemn, but believes that the greatness of Father’s love is able to forgive the most wretched of sinners. “O Father, forgive them because they are blind to see what they are doing.” I am the invisible faith and belief that allows for righteousness to be imputed to you, but I am also the righteousness of Father’s love that reveals to the world that you are my disciples. Love is the not the righteousness that is imputed but it is the righteousness that is seen.

The blind cannot see my love because they are to busy looking to find fault and to accuse. These could not see me in Lakeland. I am the righteousness that overcomes the righteousness of the laws that work wrath and condemnation. I am the righteousness that loves my enemies. I am the righteousness that forgives the transgressions of all who sin against me. I am the righteousness that blesses all who curse and persecute me. Remember that which I asked of Paul when I said, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” I am the righteousness of love that intercedes for all those who have slandered me, persecuted me, and have that even have sought to kill me. I am the love that saved Saul. I am the righteousness that does good to all men, even those who have hated me. I am the love that fears no man because there is no fear in love. There are none righteous, no not one. Are you ready for me to be glorified in you? Are you ready for God to be seen in you? Are you ready to be me? Are you looking for that new heaven and that new earth wherein righteousness dwells? I am the righteousness of the new heaven and the new earth.

Job 40:8 8 “Will you also disannul my judgment (his righteous judgment)? Will you condemn me (to make wrong) so that you may be righteous?”

Matthew 25:37-40 NIV “Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?” The King will reply, “I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”

Acts 9:3-5 NIV “As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied.

I am the perfection of love that fulfills Daniel’s 70 weeks. I am the righteousness of love that brings an end to sin. There is no righteousness without me. I am the beginning and the end. There is no righteousness without the presence of God’s love. All righteousness belongs to God because God alone is love and love makes God to be righteous. The righteousness of love never changes because God never changes. Again, I say to you that I am the righteousness of God, and I do not change. I am the righteousness of love that is coming to those who have the righteousness of faith. I am coming to reveal the love of God. I am coming to reveal the perfection of love. Blessed are they who are looking for me, whose hope is in my appearing. This is the hour that I am perfecting and finishing the work that I have started, preparing and sanctifying your temples to become my Holy of Holies; a holy habitation for the holy God. This is the hour that I have been joyfully waiting, the hour that my judgment is going to open the eyes of all those who have hungered and thirsted to see my passionate love; for my love is being coming forth to bless, to save, to deliver, to heal, to forgive, to provide, to redeem, to correct, to sanctify, to do good, to give, to set free, to favor, to restore, and to make all things new. Did you see me in Lakeland? Did you see my love blessing in Lakeland? O the blessings that my love is going to bring forth for those love my appearing, and the freedom that my judgment will bring? Your imaginations cannot even perceive the freedom of the belief that is without limitations and boundaries. I am the love that believes all things. Did you see my presence in Lakeland? Did you see me as the invisible spirit of faith and belief that was allowing Father to bless and manifest his works for many who were there? Did you see the joy and peace that accompanied my presence there? This is the hour that the pure in heart shall see me.

I John 3:2 “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall se him as he is. And everyone that has this hope in purifies himself, even as he is pure.”

There are no powers of Darkness that will have authority to hinder or to prevent that which I have purposed to reveal in this hour. My love is moving in this hour to allow for all those who will see me, receive me, and believe on me to be made complete, whole, and perfect in righteousness of God. My love is moving in this hour to restore: to destroy death and bring forth life. The fire of my love is burning in this hour to consume, to cleanse, and to refine the hearts and minds of my beloved bride, to prepare her so that she may be able to receive me in the fullness of my glory. Those who see me in this hour are those who will be blessed far beyond anything that can be imagined, while those who continue to choose to be wise in their own eyes will see their heart fail them for fear as they look on those things that are coming on the earth. Did you see any hearts failing for fear of those who were in Lakeland? Did you see hearts blessed through the anointing of my presence?

Thessalonians 5:9 “For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.”

That which I have began in Lakeland is not just a healing outpouring and neither is it a revival, but this is the opening of the first of the seven seals, that which will begin to finish the victory that started when my Father’s love sent me into this world. The revelation of Jesus Christ brings forth the revelation of God; and the revelation of God brings forth the kingdom of God; and the kingdom of God brings forth the demise and the end of the kingdom of this fallen world. Just as light brings forth the demise of darkness, so also does “seeing” bring forth the demise of “blindness”. True knowledge will bring forth the demise of ignorance and righteousness shall bring forth an end to sin. Blessed are all they who will see me, receive me, and believe on me in this hour, for they shall be filled with the glorious revelation of Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 40:5 “And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.”

Other than the two trips that I personally took, I watched on God TV on a daily basis to see and hear all that which the Lord might be revealing in Lakeland. I began to cringe when I saw two things begin to happen because I knew that both of these things would contend with Father’s will in Lakeland. First, it was when they decided that they could take the anointing of God to other cities according to their own will; and secondly, when they declared what they were going to birth there in Lakeland.

If there is one thing that I have come to know about the Lord, and that is, he will never bow to the will of man nor will he be directed by the desires of men. Even though I saw these errors in Lakeland, I wondered how the Lord was going to respond to them. I was praying one morning for Lakeland when the Lord said, “Do you see that I have given to them God TV so that this could be broadcast all around the world? Do you see the people that I am bringing to Lakeland from all nations? When they were surrendered to me, did you not see my presence there on a daily basis? What more did I need to do?” Not long after the Lord said these words to me, I began to notice that his presence was no longer in Lakeland, and I was stunned to see how quickly it unraveled.

Seeing that the Lord had said to me that Lakeland was the opening of the first seal, I began to get really troubled with what I saw happening there. In my trouble, I called out on the Lord asking him to show me how this could have happened. Then the Lord said to me, “Have you ever witnessed a child coming forth on the first labor pain?” I am not saying that is not possible, but I answered, “No, Lord; I have not.” Then the Lord quickened to me that which is written in Isaiah 37:3 “They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, “This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection; for children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.” I then asked, “Lord, why was there not enough strength to bring forth in Lakeland.” Then the Lord said, “You do not have if you do not ask; and what they did not ask for was my strength to bring forth.” Then the Spirit of the Lord began to quicken all manner of verses to me about his strength.

Ephesians 6:10 NASB “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.”

Psalm 43:2 NASB “You are the God of my strength…”

Psalm 59:17 NASB “O my strength, I will sing praises to You; For God is my stronghold, the God who shows me lovingkindness.”

Psalm 68:35 NASB “O God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary The God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to the people Blessed be God!”

Romans 4:18-29 NASB “Without becoming weak in faith he (Abraham) contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb; yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.”

Chapter 12 The Revelation of the Seven Characteristics of the Perfect Love of God

The Seals Have Been Opened in Heaven, And Now is the Time for the Seals to be Opened on Earth: The Revelation of the Perfect Love of God To Be Manifested in the Sons of God

I Corinthians 2:9-12 “But as it is written, “Eye has not seen nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of a man the things which God has prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things; yea, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of man except the spirit of man, which is in him? Even so, the things of God does no man know, but only the Spirit of God.”

Revelation 1:1 “The revelation of Jesus Christ

I John 3:2 “Brethren, it does not yet appear what we are going to be like, but we know that that when he shall appear, we shall see him as he is, and we shall be as he is.”

I was praying one morning towards the end of the Lord’s move in Lakeland when the Lord spoke to me and said, “If you (our fellowship) will come together daily and pray, then I will use you”. When I shared this word with the rest of the fellowship, we were all excited because we all thought that the Lord might begin to use us in the same manner as that which we were seeing in Lakeland, Florida. So we began to meet daily, and pray, and see how the Lord would lead us.

On the very first morning that we came together to pray, the me Spirit of the Lord immediately quickened to me that which is written in Philippians 2:5,6 “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.” When the Lord had quickened this verse to me, he put the emphasis on the word “Let (allow; permit)”; and the on the phrase “equal with God.” Then the spoke to me and said, “Mitt, until this day, you have been seeking only for my divine nature to be made manifest in you, but I am telling you that this is the day that I desire to prepare you, as well as all those who will hear and receive my words, to receive my name. You know that those who receive my name will not only receive my divine nature, but they will also receive my character as well as all of my power and authority. How can I make you equal with me if you do not want to be entirely like me? It is my will to raise you up to be my son. It is my will to make my sons to be equal with me. It is my will to make you to be one with me. It is my will to give to you my name. It is my will to make you a king and to give you the kingdom. Will you “let” me perform my will in you?” I was actually speechless in that moment at what the words that I had just heard the Lord speak to me. If the Lord had had just quickened to me that which is written in Philippians 2, I would have had a difficult time in hearing and receiving this word. Later, the Lord said, “I am not going to raise up those who desire to be lords and gods, but have no heart for my heart. I am going to raise up those who desire to be like me because they desire to be my sons. As I said to you, “Every father desires for his “sons” to be like him. And being my sons, I shall you to be made equal to me in that you shall love all things as I love all things.” Then the Lord quickened to me that which is written in I Corinthians 2:7 “But as it is written, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit…” I then realized the revelation of this hour is God coming into his son; and his sons are going to become just like him.

Matthew 13:16,17 NASB “But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear. For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”

Micah 4:1 “But in the last days, it shall come to pass…5 all men shall walk in the name (nature, character, and authority) of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.”

John 5:18 NASB “For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.”

Then the Lord said, “Every father wants his son to be just like him. As I Am, so shall You Be”. Then the Lord quickened to me that he wanted each one of us to search out in the scriptures those words that identified the power and authority that he possessed. For example, he is Jehovah Jireh, God is my Provider. Another example would be that Jesus had authority over the winds and the seas, as well as the power to raise the dead, no matter how long they had been dead. If you had asked me just prior to these words what was the power and authority that the Lord wanted to give to us, then I know that I would have only answered with that which is written in Matthew 10:1 “And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.” I suddenly felt like the Lord desires to prepare us so that he can take us into a much greater spiritual realm than anything that we could even imagine. I then remembered that the Lord had told us several times, “What is coming is far greater than anything that you can imagine.” I was already overwhelmed at just hearing the words that the Lord had spoken to me, but to just think that Father desires to give unto us all of his power and authority boggled my mind.

Then the Lord quickened to me that he had the power and authority to “forgive the sins of men”. It was with this word that the reality of what the Lord had spoken to us became real to me. I immediately asked myself, “Do I really want, or am I prepared to accept the responsibility that the way other men spend their eternal destiny could be in my hands?” I have testified in other writings that the Lord has taken me in the Spirit at least 7 times to show me things to come. Everything that the Lord took me in the Spirit to see concerned either the revelation of himself, or of the kingdom that is coming. All except one time. That time I was taken into what I presume to be hell. There I witnessed a horror that exceeded my worst horror. I saw men as though they were just arriving there. I then witnessed how these men responded when the reality hit then like a ton of bricks as to where they were. In an instant of a moment, they turned into insanity; and then a short time latter that insanity turned into madness. And what was the madness that I saw come upon them? It was like the perfection of hatred, disdain, bitterness, and malice came upon them for their own selves. They then began in rage to ferociously tear apart the members of their own bodies. The hatred that I saw that they had for themselves was like no hatred, or malice, or bitterness that I have ever witnessed in my life. I also saw that there was no end to this madness. All that I could say when the Lord brought me back from that visitation was, “Lord, if you are going to have me to sit on any kind of judgment seat, then there is no way that I could send anyone there.” Then the Lord said to me, “Neither could I, Mitt. They persecuted me. They hated me. They despised me. They rejected me. They cursed me. They mocked me. They hit me. They threw stones at me. They ripped and tore the flesh from my body. And they killed me. And I said, “Father, forgive them because they do not know what they are doing.” As I Am, so shall you be also. I then said, “Lord, prepare my heart and mind to be equal with you.”

Then a couple of days later, the Lord gave me this vision. I saw myself as a new trainee in this very large business that had thousands of employees that were all under one roof. When the vision began, I saw myself as a trainee that was just following around this man as he went from one department to another. Aware that I was just a trainee, I never once offered up any of my opinions or advice. I just quietly followed this man around observing how he handled the different problems that he was asked to help with, as well as how he answered all of the questions that were asked of him. I was absolutely amazed at how this man was able to solve every problem and answer every question that was asked of him; but as amazed as I was about the extent of this man’s knowledge, I was even more amazed in the manner that he did these things. He was extremely humble and he never left anyone feeling as though they had made a mistake nor did he leave anyone feeling as though they had been put down. It was then that I realized that this was no man at all, but my heavenly Father. I then just continued quietly following and observing what my Father was doing but with far more intensity than before because I realized that I being trained to do all that which I was observing him doing. At the end of the day, I went back to where I knew that my desk was, which was like stuck way in the back corner of the building, right next to the janitor’s office. As I approached my desk, I saw that there were no papers, or folders, or files of any kind on my desk. I was thinking that since I was just a trainee, I probably was not yet ready to have any responsibilities that would require for any such materials to be on my desk. Then, as I walked by my desk, I noticed that the only item on my desk was a name plate. When I looked down at it, I saw that the name written on it was “I AM Jr.” I then just laughed out loud.

Luke 2:46-49 NKJ “Now so it was that after three days they (Mary and Joseph) found Him (Jesus when he was12 years old) in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers. So when they saw Him, they were amazed; and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You done this to us? Look, Your father and I have sought You anxiously.” And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”

John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.”

John 8:28,29 Then said Jesus to them, “When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.”

John 8:38 Jesus said, “I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.”

John 3:31.32 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifies of; and no man receives his testimony.

Then the next day, I was praying just before I was to leave and go to one of our daily meetings when the Lord spoke to me and said, “I want you to start praising me for your new identity.” I quickly agreed with the Lord, but I asked him just what was this new identity that he wanted me to praise him for. He then answered me saying, “Your new identity is “I AM”. It is now time for me to exalt all who have humbled themselves.” For 29 years the Lord has blessed me over and over with many dreams, gifts, prophesies, deliverances, blessings, visions, changes, miracles, and revelations, but this word stopped my heart like nothing the Lord has ever spoken to me or showed me. I could then not help but think that Father is really serious about making his sons to be equal with him. I then understood why Father had said to me, “I have been waiting for 6000 years to do what I am about to do”. Wow! A chill ran through me when I realized just what God is about to do when he manifests his sons in the fullness of the divine nature of his name. All that I could to say to the Lord in that moment was exactly what Mary answered when she was told that she was going to bring forth the Son of God, “Behold, the servant of God; be it unto me according to your word”. What else could I say, seeing that the only way that this could possibly come to pass is if Father himself performed it. I just want to be surrendered to his will and be prepared to receive him all of his fullness.

As I have born witness, I have been taken in the Spirit several times, and a couple of times I have actually gone before Father’s throne; and it is obviously awesome. I have also read several other testimonies by others who have testified that they had similar experiences, and what they describe is just as awesome as that which I saw. But recently the Lord let me recount these two experiences again where I was brought him in his throne room. But this time, I had the overwhelming feeling that something was really missing. Yes, God was there. Yes, Jesus was there. Yes, the 24 elders were there. Yes, the angels were there. Yes, the Cherubims were there. Even with all of these things present, I felt as though there was this huge void or this emptiness that was not only missing in this room, but throughout the entire kingdom. I was amazed that I could feel this way because of Father’s presence there. I also noticed that I was not all awed at bring in father’s presence like I had been the two previous times, but rather I had this warm and secure feeling as though I was in this comfortable den with a fire crackling in the fireplace. Then Father spoke to me and said, “What is missing here are my sons”. As I thought about what Father had just said to me, I then realized that I myself had not seen, nor could I remember of anyone else who has testified of being taken in the Spirit into heaven, speak of seeing the sons of God there. I then realized that I had another feeling come upon me, like I was in an awesome cathedral for the most beautiful and elaborate wedding that one could ever imagine, and everyone that was there was greatly anticipating the appearance of the bride…. but she is not there…yet.

Again I was praying one morning before I left for our morning meeting when the Lord spoke this to me: “I AM is love; and I AM possesses power. Love is I AM; and love directs the power and authority of God. I AM is his divine nature; and his divine nature directs his power and authority.” I then perceived that the Lord was telling me to come to know what his power and authority is, but useless I come to know his perfect love, the knowledge of his power and authority will become useless. Then the Lord said, “If you continue coming together in prayer, then I will use you (all of us) to open the seven seals.” At that moment, we still did not understand the significance of what the Lord was saying.

The First Seal: The Love that Blesses

Then later that morning, while we were praying and worshipping, the Lord said, “Did you see me in Lakeland. I am the Love that blesses all. I am the love that blesses with my faithfulness. I am the love that blesses the sinner and the righteous. I am the love that blesses those who love you and those who curse you. I am the love that speaks blessings and in whom there is no cursing. I am the love that blesses you with deliverances from all evil. I am the love that blesses the sinner with mercy and grace. I am the love that blesses with salvation. I am the love that blesses with you with forgiveness and repentance. I am the love that blesses the lost with a way. I am the love that blesses sick with healing. I am the love that blesses with restoration. I am the love that blesses the blind with sight. I am the love that blesses the hopeless with hope. I am the love that blesses the weak with strength and might. I am the love that blesses you with all that you need. I am the love that blesses the dead with life. I am the love that blesses you with abundant life because abundant life cannot exist without my love. I am the love that blesses your heart with change and your mind with transformation. I bless because I am love, and love only blesses. I am the love that blesses without end because there is no end to the love that I have for you. Did you see me? Did you not see many blessed? I AM; and as I AM, so shall you be. I AM the LOVE that BLESSES. If you desire to be as I AM, then praise me because your new identity is I AM.

The Second Seal: The Love that Grieves

I awoke a couple of days later, and as I laid there in bed, I was suddenly overcome with grief. I knew instantly that this grief had to be from the Lord because I had been so filled with joy and excitement because of the revelations that we were receiving. I was clueless as to why this grief came upon me, and I had no explanation for it. As I considered what the Lord may be trying to show me, I then realized that this was not a grief of sadness, or a grief of failure, or a grief of disappointment, or a grief of some personal loss, but rather it was a grief of separation. It was like the grief of separation that one experiences when he or she is separated from one who they greatly love. It was like the grief that a loving wife would experience if her beloved husband went on a long extended journey. I then perceived that the Lord had been experiencing this grief for all men since the daily communion and fellowship had been broken because of Adam and Eve’s transgression. God created man for the purpose of fellowship and communion with all. When Adam and Eve fell, then came in the darkness of sin that came in to blind the hearts and minds of men so that the great love that God had for them would be hidden from their eyes, their hearts, and their minds. The darkness brought with it the enmity of unbelief, distrust, rebellion, fears, unfaithfulness, doubts, ignorance, and the pride that all work together to keep men from drawing near to the God who had created them; or rather, from the Love that created them. I then began to realize that Father was allowing for me to experience the grief that his love grieves for the object of his affection: man who he created.

Genesis 6:6 NKJ “And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.”

I Timothy 2:3,4 NASB “This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth (the truth that Father loves them).”

Later on that morning, the Lord brought into the understanding that there was much more to this grief than the grief that is for those who are alienated and separated from God because of their ignorance of him. I then began to experience a grief for all those who the Lord has called, who are still under the blood of Christ, who praise him with their lips and honor him with their mouths, but they have not yet crucified the enmity that keeps their hearts from drawing near and dear to Father’s heart. The Lord then let me understand that the grief that his love experiences for these is like that which a man would feel when he is greatly in love with a woman, but the object of his affection treats him as though he does not even exist in her world. Though he continually beseeches the object of his affection, desiring for her to prove that the love he has for her is true, she refuses to hear. Though he asks for her to prove his love by asking for him to open the windows of heaven so that he can overflow her with blessings, her lips remain quiet. Though he beseeches his beloved to prove his love by asking for him to show her great and mighty things that she does not know about him, she turns away. He beseeches his beloved to draw near and come into the secret place with him, but she instead shuns him and treats his intimacy as though it is some infectious disease. He has also beseeched his beloved to cast all of her cares, and her worries, and her troubles upon him, but she does not believe on his love to help her. He calls out repeatedly to her, but she has hardened her heart towards him because she does not understand or know the height, or the depth, or the width, or the breadth of the love that he has for her. Father is grieved for all of these because through their hardness, he is not able to overflow them with the blessings of his love. God is love, and if there is no love in the relationship, then there is no relationship.

Ephesians 4:30 NKJ “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”

I then perceived that the Lord was grieved for so many of these because they had chosen to believe the lies Of Satan that always bear false witness of Father’s love, his affection, and his faithfulness. They chose to believe those counsels that come from the darkness that say such things as: “You do not measure up for his love; You have failed God; Surely God loves them, but he does not love you; You have disappointed God; You are to much of a sinner to receive any of Father’s love; God has forsaken and abandoned you; You are not worthy of God’s love; God is going to reject you; You are impossible for even God to love; God may help others but he will not help you; God will not hear you.” These are just a few of the lies that the enmity speaks to keep the hearts of the ignorant from drawing close to God because Satan knows that those who draw close to God are those who are going to see the truth about his love, his affection, and his faithfulness. It is when any one of these lies are believed that Father is grieved because that is all that it takes is for one lie to be believed that will lead a man to depart from God. I felt that Father is grieved because for their belief of such like lies that lead them to forsake the relationship of his love. Lies! Lies! lies!

Psalm 95:10 NKJ For forty years I was grieved with that generation and said, “It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.”

Just when I thought that I had experienced all that which Father’s love grieves for, he opened the eyes of my heart to see one last grief. This last grief was the grief that a father would feel when sees that his son is heading down a dangerous path. Though he gives his son really good counsel that would help keep him safe, he sees that his son is not paying any attention to any of his words. He then grieves when all communication between him and his son ceases (his son quits praying). As I was considering this grief, and how I have actually experienced this grief with my own children, the Lord quickened to me that this is the grief that the father experienced in the story of the prodigal son. Then the Lord showed me that in all of these different ways that his love grieves for us, he is also hoping that his grief will turn to joy when his sons repent and return into the arms of his love.

Luke 15:17-24 NIV “When he came to his senses, he said, “How many of my father's hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.” So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him. He ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. “The son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.” But the father said to his servants, “Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.” So they began to celebrate.”

He is our God, our Lord, our King, and he is also our Creator and Maker, our heavenly Father, and our husband; and his love desires for us to allow for him to show us the love that our God, our Lord, our King, and our Father, and our husband desires to bless us with so that we might know that he have a loving God, a loving Lord, a loving King, a loving Creator, a loving Maker, a loving Father, and a loving husband who desires to continually bless each one of us as the object of his affection; an affection that blesses us with blessings that go far, far beyond that which we are able to think or to ask of him; for his love towards us is without boundaries and limitations. Just as any Father, he is grieved for his son when he sees that he has no heart for him. Then the Lord said, “I AM. I AM the love that blesses, and I AM the love that grieves when my love is not able to bless. As I AM, so shall you be. Praise me because your new identity is I AM.”

The Third Seal: The Love that Forgives

Again, a couple of days later, I was praying in the morning when the Lord gave me this vision to me: I saw a set of scales or balances just like the ones you see that are used as symbols for justice; like in our courtrooms. Then, in this vision, I saw every transgression, or sin, or offence that that was committed against Jesus in the last 48 hours of his life. After seeing all of these transgressions, sins and offences, I again saw this set of scales. While I was wondering why the Lord was showing these scales to me, I suddenly saw the transgression, or the sin, or the offence placed on the left side of the scale. Of, course, the scale immediately dropped all the way down on that left side. But then I witnessed the word “Forgiveness” being place on the right side of the scale, which in turn perfectly balanced the scales out. I witnessed all these transgressions, sins, and offences being put on the left side of the scale, on at time in the following manner.

He was betrayed…………………and the justice that balanced the scales was forgiveness.

His disciples forsook him………..and the justice that balanced the scales was forgiveness.

His disciples denied him…………and the justice that balanced the scales was forgiveness.

He was hated and despised……..and the justice that balanced the scales was forgiveness.

False witnesses testified

against him………………………..and the justice that balanced the scales was forgiveness.

He was accused and

condemned……………………….and the justice that balanced the scales was forgiveness.

The people of God chose a

murderer rather than him……….and the justice that balanced the scales was forgiveness.

He was mocked and scorned……and the justice that balanced the scales was forgiveness.

He was stripped and

humiliated………………………..and the justice that balanced the scales was forgiveness.

He was beaten and

scourged………………………….and the justice that balanced the scales was forgiveness.

He was paraded through

the streets as a criminal………….and the justice that balanced the scales was forgiveness.

He was crucified and killed……..and the justice that balanced the scales was forgiveness.

Then I saw all of these sins,

offenses, and transgressions

all piled together on one side

of the scales………………………and the justice that balanced the scales was forgiveness.

While the Lord was experiencing this vision to me, the Lord actually allowed for me to feel in my spirit the pain of each one of these transgressions, or sins, or offences; and each one of them was very hurtful in my spirit. But the moment that I saw “Forgiveness” appear on the right side of the scales, all of the hurt and the pain within me completely disappeared. I then heard actually heard Jesus say, “Father, forgive them because they do not know what they are doing”. After a few moments, I again heard Jesus speak as though he was answering someone, and he said, “What transgression? What sin? What offence?” He was answering as though none of the transgressions, or sins, or offences ever occurred, like none of these instances existed any longer in his thoughts.

Many times in my walk I have heard the phrase said, “Jesus paid the price”; and without every really hearing anyone expound on it, I just always thought that the price that was paid was the blood that Jesus shed for us. And surely, it is written that his blood “covers” our sins. But what I was experiencing in my spirit in this matter was something that was far greater than just having our transgressions, our sins, and our offences covered by his blood, but rather they were all being completely forgotten, as though they never even occurred. This was confirming for me that which the Lord had previously taught me concerning the way that his love forgives; and that is, when he “forgives” a transgression, or a sin, or an offence, they are remembered no more; completely forgotten forever, as though it never happened. The Lord had begun to teach me this when I had asked for him to teach me how he wanted me to “forgive me of my sins as I forgive the sins of those who had sinned against me (Lord’s prayer”). The Lord had asked me then, “Do you want me to remember your sins?” And of course I answered “No”; and the Lord then said, “Well then forgive and forget the sins of those who sin against you, and I will do the same for you.” I answered and asked the Lord how such a thing could be done, seeing that when someone sins against me, it hurts, or it offends, or it wounds my heart. The Lord then said, “Ask for my Spirit; because as I have told you, only my Spirit is able to perform my words.” So I did.

Isaiah 43:25 “I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.”

Proverbs 16:3 “Commit your work unto the Lord, and your thoughts shall be established.”

Later on that morning, when we had come together for our daily prayer and worship meeting, I shared with the brethren the vision that Lord had just given to me; and that the Lord ended up that vision by saying, “I AM the love that forgives”. As soon as I finished testifying of this vision, the Lord plainly spoke to one of my brethren there and said, “The justice of the Lord is forgiveness”. After she shared this word with us, it took a few moments before these words were quickened within me. I could I think about in that moment was the vision that I had just received where no matter what the sin or the offence was that was committed against Jesus, I saw that there was always the same sentence of words that completely balanced the scales: “The justice that balanced the scales was Forgiveness.” Immediately the Lord confirmed this for me when the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me that which is written in I John 1:9 “If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us…” Obviously, that which the Lord accounts for justice has no agreement with the justice that was rendered under the old covenant: “And eye for an eye.” It was here that I really began to realize just how much more powerful the love of God is than even my own imaginations of what I thought how powerful the love of God is.

Matthew 18:21-31 NKJ “21 Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made. The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, “Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.” Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, “Pay me what you owe!” So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him saying, “Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.” And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt. So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done. Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, “You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?” And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”

We will were still praying and worshipping that morning when the Lord when the Spirit of the Lord began to prophesy to me saying, “The Lord has now showed you what is good and that which he requires of you, that you do justly, love mercy, and walked humbly with the your God”. As soon as she finished speaking this word, all of us that were there recognized this word as a word that is also written in Micah 6:8. This verse then confirmed for us that the man who walks justly is the man who forgives all those who transgress against him, who sin against him, as well as all those who offend him. Again, I could not help but to think of how contrary the Spirit of the Lord is to the flesh, seeing that the flesh is only able to see the scales of justice balanced when one extracts and “eye for an eye”, or “evil for evil”.

I Peter 3:8-10 NASB “To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit; not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.”

Romans 12:17,18 NKJ “Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.”

As I enquired of the Lord to show me more about what he meant by “doing justly”, he led me to that which is written in Jeremiah 5:1 ASV “Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, and see if you can find a man; if there be any there who does justly, and seeks the truth, and I will pardon the city.” Pardon the city? One man who does justly? One man whose heart has been so filled with the forgiveness of Father’s love that God promises to pardon every inhabitant in that city, no matter what wickedness they may have done? I then realized that I really did not understand this awesome love of God that is able to birth this manner of forgiveness. There is absolutely no way that the natural mind can comprehend out the Lord is able to account forgiveness to be the only justice that should be meted out for all transgressions, all sins, and all offences. I was now more in awe than any time in my walk of the words that Jesus spoke on the cross, “Father, forgive them because they do not know what they are doing.” I now understood that when Jesus spoke these words, he just executed justice for all of the transgressions, all of the sins, and all of the offences that had been committed against him. Jesus came to save us from our sins through forgiveness and grace, not to call down the fires of wrath upon those who transgress, or sin, or that offend. If justice came through wrath, then surely Jesus on that cross had every humanly reason to call fire down. Truly, mercy does triumph over judgment. No wonder it was not in Jesus’ heart to accuse or condemn that woman who was caught in the act of adultery, for Jesus came to show us the justice of Father’s love that annuls the justice that lusts for blood. If one man that does justly is able to win a city, then how much more shall the sons of God win when they glory of God arises upon them in the perfection of Father’s love?

Then the Lord said, “I AM. I AM the love that forgives. My love is the justice that forgives the transgressor, the sinner, and the offender. I Am the love that does not remember. Let he who has no sin cast the first stone; there is no sin in love, and love does not cast stones. As I AM, so shall my Sons Be. Praise me because your new identity is I AM.”

The Fourth Seal: The Love that Gives.

Again, a few days after the Lord revealed to us what the third seal was, I awoke to hear the Lord say, “I AM the love that gives.” My first thought was that he was speaking to us about giving to all of those around us who had a need, whether it be money, or food, or some kind of provision. But then the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me that which is written in James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights…” The Lord then allowed for me to understood that the this love of his that gives is the love that only be gives those gifts that have come to down to us from above. This is also that love that freely gives all things to any and all that are willing to receive these spiritual gifts from above. Obviously, this love would also gladly give whatever it possesses to those who might lack what they have received.

Romans 1:11 NKJ “For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established.”

Ephesians 4:7-8 NKJ “But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”

Acts 8:14-17 NKJ “Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. For as yet He had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.”

While I was mediating and considering this love that gives, the Spirit of the Lord came to me and quickened three verses to confirm for that this love the fourth seal of his love indeed gives only spiritual gifts from above.

Luke 12:32 NKJ “Do not be afraid little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give to you the kingdom.”

Matthew 10:7,8 “As you go, preach saying, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, and cast out demons; freely you have received, freely give.”

Acts 3:2-8 NIV “Now a man crippled from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, "Look at us!" So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them. Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk." Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong. He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God.”

Then the Lord quickened to that which is written in Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” What is coming from above but that which Father delights in giving to all those who will receive him, his kingdom; and when his kingdom comes, then the will of the King will be done on earth, just as it is done in heaven. Then the Lord reminded me of that which he spoke to me in the “Valley of Megiddo” (See chapter 13) vision where he said, “I am love; my will is to love and to be loved. My will is not separate from the love that dwells in my heart. I Am love. I am the love that gives, and gives, and gives because that is what love desires to do. Those who have sought for my kingdom, I shall fill them with my love; and they shall love and be loved, now and forever”.

Then the Lord said, “I AM that which I am; I AM Love. I AM the only true reality. My love is the only true reality. Without my love, there is no reality, only illusions of temporary things that seem like reality. I am eternal, and all things that are of me are eternal. Every good gift that comes from above is real, and it is eternal. I have given to you my son Jesus for the purpose of changing you into my image; into the image of the eternal one. I AM, and as I AM, so shall You Be. I AM love; and I give to you Jesus who is the Spirit of my love. I AM wisdom; I give to you Jesus who is the Spirit of my wisdom. I AM everlasting life; I give to you Jesus who is the Spirit of everlasting life. I AM goodness; I give to you Jesus who is the Spirit of my goodness. I AM the truth; I give to you Jesus who is the Spirit of my truth. I AM mercy and forgiveness; and I give to you Jesus who is the spirit of mercy and forgiveness. I AM peace; and I give to you Jesus who is the Spirit of my peace. I AM the light of life; and I give to you Jesus who is the Spirit of my light. I love judgment and righteousness, and I give to you Jesus who is the spirit of judgment and righteousness. I have power and might; and I give to you Jesus who is the Spirit of my power and might. I AM real and all things that are of me are real, and I give to you Jesus who is real and who is all things of me. As I AM, so shall You Be. It is as it is written, that I will not give my glory to another, but I will give to you Jesus who is my glory. I AM is coming to be glorified in you. Freely you shall receive, freely give. In Jesus, I have given myself completely and totally to you, but are you willing to give yourself completely and totally to me so that I glorify myself in you? Remember, it is your heavenly Father’s desire to raise up his sons to be just like him.

I increased the faith in the apostle Paul so that he could move mountains; I gave him understanding of all the mysteries of God; I allowed for him to speak with the tongue of angels; and I also gave him a taste of my perfect love. When Paul tasted my love, that which is real and eternal, then he understood that only my love gives purpose and meaning to life. It was then that Paul was able to clearly see the vanity, or rather, the nothingness of his own life that was apart from my love. Did he not experience that having all faith, understanding all mysteries, and speaking with the tongues of angels was meaningless without my love? Have I not told you that what is coming is greater than anything that you can imagine? Just as I allowed for Paul to taste of my love, so also have I allowed for you to taste of my love. Was not that which you experienced just as that which Paul experienced, seeing that you also saw the vanity and the nothingness of all that which is alienated and separated from my love? Will you freely give of the love that I am desirous to give to you?

I AM love. My love is existent. Everything apart from my love is nothing and nonexistent. I AM real and eternal. Do not be troubled at the presence of vanity and nothingness, for I have given to each one of you the love of my grace; and my grace is the umbilical cord that keeps you joined to my love; joined to the life that is real, existent, and eternal. I have given to you the grace of my love, will you give unto others? My grace has allowed for me to love you even when you have not loved me, or believed on me, or been obedient to me, or trusted me, or followed after me. Even the prodigal son, in all of his wildness and disobedience, was still attached to me by the umbilical cord of the grace of my love. When he returned to me, my love did not chastise him, nor was my love disappointed with him, and neither did my love belittle him, but my love threw him a grand feast as I loved him and he loved me. By the eternal grace of my love, I am able to call that which is non-existent, vain, and nothing to be existent, the real, and true. The grace of my love is sufficient for you. Will you give a feast to the dead and the lost on my behalf when they return to me?

Is the grace of my love sufficient for you? You cannot out give me because I am the love that gives. Give, give, give, so that more, more, more can be given to you.

Do you judge others by what you see, or do you judge them by the grace of my love? Do you judge others according to the illusions of vanity and the non-existent, or do you judge others with that which is real and true? Have you not read? Have you not seen how the religious hypocrites judged the woman caught in the act of adultery with the illusions of vanity and that which is non-existent? Have you not heard and seen how I judged this same woman with that which is real, and true, and eternal: the grace of my Father’s love? Again, I love all men, but only those who believe on my son Jesus Christ will be able to receive that which is real, and true, and eternal. If you freely give to me all that which is vain, nonexistent, and nothing, then I will freely give to you my love, that which is real, eternal, and true.

My love gives life. I Am Life. I Am the Bread of Life. I Am the Water of Life. I Am the Light of Life. I Am the Words of Life. I Am the River of Life. I Am the Tree of life. I Am the Resurrection of Life. The first born Adam was a living being…The second man is the Lord from heaven who gives my bread, my water, my light, my words, my river, the fruits from my tree, and the resurrection power for life freely to all. My love freely gives all that I AM; for I AM that which comes from above. It is more blessed to give, than to receive. My sons shall go forth freely blessing with that which comes from above. Every good and perfect gift of my love freely gives life to all who will receive it. I AM love. I AM life. AM I the love of your life? I AM the life that is freely given to all who desire to be like me. I have given you my word, will you receive it so that you may become one with me? In the kingdom of love, the beloved and the loved are all one; and one possesses all, and freely gives all of that which it possesses. I am the love that never thinks of self because my beloved are the object of my affection, and I give them all. I AM freely gives I AM because love freely gives all, and I Am the love that is eternal and real; and I give eternity and reality. I AM the love that gives; and as I AM, so shall You Be. Praise me for your new identity is I AM.

The Fifth Seal: The love that Cares

Again, just a few days after the Lord revealed the love that gives, I had just woken up and was lying in bed meditating on all that the Lord had revealed when suddenly the Lord appeared at the foot of my bed dressed in a shepherd’s outfit. I was waiting for him to say something but he said nothing. At first, I did not think much at all about the fact that he was dressed as a Shepherd. But then all of sudden, with just a small shake, he completely changed, and I was now standing before me dressed in the garment of Savior. I do not know how I knew that was the garment he had on was the garment that a Savior would wear, but I just knew. Then after a few moments, he completely changed again, and this time he was clothed as a Physician. Still, he said nothing. This went on an on for several minutes, and whatever he changed himself into, he would continue in that clothing and appearance for about 30 seconds before he would change again. Each time that he changed, I could immediately discern that which he had become. I saw him change into all of the things that follow:

A Shepherd
A Savior
A Physician
A High Priest
A Protector
A Helper
A Judge
A Provider
A Minister
A Messiah
A Redeemer
A Lover
A Father
A Healer
A Teacher
A Comforter

It is impossible for me describe how I knew what he was by the clothing that he had changed himself, but each time that he appeared, I always knew exactly what he had become. He went though all of these changes, and still he never uttered a word to me. So I was just lying in my bed trying to figure out why the Lord was appearing before me in so many different fashions. Then the Lord startled me when he said. “I AM the love that cares. Because of the great care that my love has for you and for all men, I have made myself to be all of these things for you as you have need of these things. Understand and know that I only made myself to be these things in this earthy realm because I am not needed to be any of these things in the heavenly realm. The care of the love that I have for each one of you allows me to make myself to be all things for you. Though I AM all of these things, I can only exist as these things for those who will believe on me to be all of these things for them. The only way that you can know the depth, and the width, and length, and the breadth of the care of my love for you is for you allow for me to be all of these things for you. The more you believe on me to be these things for you, the more you will call upon my name according to the need that you have of me. There are many call me Lord, but they do not believe to call on me to be any of these things for them. This is that same unbelief that grieves my heart because it does not allow for my love to care for them.”

Ephesians 1:22,23 “And he has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all.”

As soon as the Lord quit speaking these words to me, the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me that which is written in Mark 4:36-40 “And when they had sent the away multitude away, they took Jesus into the ship; and there were also with them other little ships. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And Jesus was in the back part of the ship asleep on a pillow: and they awoke him saying, “Master, do you not care that we are perishing? And Jesus arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still“. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith (in the care of his love)?” Then the Spirit quickened to me that which his written in I Peter 5:6,7 “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God so that he may exalt you in due time, casting all of your cares on him because he cares for you.” I then realized in my moment how lacking I had been in casting all of my cares upon him because I had not considered before that he had made himself to be all of these things just so that I could cast all of the cares upon him. I then also realized that we actually deny Jesus when we try to be our own shepherd, or provider, or savior, or physician, or deliverer, or any of these other things that I saw him appear as before me. How else could we prove the care of his love unless we actually started casting all of our cares upon him?

I was still meditating on what I had just seen and heard when the Lord spoke to me and said, “Fill in the blank: “Lord, ____ me!” I was a little taken back at first, but then I understood what the Lord meant by asking this question of me. I goes as follows: If I (or you) was in a situation or circumstance where I felt like my life was being swamped out with the troubles of this life, then I would fill in the blank in by saying, “Lord, save me!” If I found myself full of confusion, not knowing what to do or what to believe, then I would call out asking, “Lord, lead (shepherd) me!” If I found myself being attacked in the imaginations of my thoughts with counsels seeking to ensnare with doubt, or fear, or unbelief, then I would call out and say, “Lord, deliver me!” If I was troubled, then “Lord, comfort me”. If I am reading the scriptures then, “Lord, teach me”. If I saw sin within me then, “Lord, forgive and cleanse me (High Priest)”. If I needed help of any kind, then “Lord, help me”. If I found myself being tempted to judge another then, “Lord, redeem me”. If I needed counsel, “Lord, Father me”. If I am feeling unloved, or worthless, or dead, or hopeless, or vain, then, “Lord, minister life to me”. I was awed by all of these things that his love has made himself to be for everyone of us, and I was ashamed that I had not surrendered my heart into the care of his love by calling upon him when one of these cares arose in my life.

Each one of us is a precious soul before the Lord, and unless we humble our hearts and prove the care of his love, then it will be impossible for any of us to know or to believe just how great his great love is for us. One thing is for sure, and that is if we do not believe that our heavenly Father has made Jesus to be all of these things for us, then he will surely not be any of these things for us. Who is willing to humble his heart and surrender his life into the care of Father’s love? The church in Laodicea, having been deceived with false doctrines and by their own pride said, “We do not have any need for Father’s care.”

Obadiah 3 NIV “The pride of your heart has deceived you…”

Then the Lord said, “I AM. I AM the love that cares. As I AM so shall You Be. Praise me for your new identity is I AM.”

The Sixth Seal: The Love that Reveals

Mark 2:22 Jesus said, “There is nothing that is hid which shall not be manifested, and neither is there anything that is kept secret that shall not come abroad. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.”

Revelation 1:1 NIV “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place…”

Amos 3:7 NIV “Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.”

Not long after, we were again praying one morning in our fellowship when the Lord spoke to us and said, “I AM the love that reveals all things.” At first none of us were able to comprehend just what relation this word had to do with the perfect love of God. Then the Lord began to speak saying, “I AM the love that reveals all of the illusions of Satan’s lies. I AM the reality of love that reveals the illusions. I AM the love that reveals all of the lies that have been formed to appear as the truth. I AM the love that exposes the hypocrisy that appears as righteousness. I AM the love that reveals the false ways that seem right. I AM the revelation of love that exposes the evil that appears as good, and the good that appears as evil.

I AM the love that comes to reveal all that which the darkness works to keep hidden. The darkness always labors to keep itself hidden in the darkness because darkness is only able to inhabit the darkness. I AM the light where there is no darkness. Where there is no light there is only blindness. I AM the light that can only dwell in the light. I AM the love that brings into the light all of the works of darkness; for the darkness works to keep hidden all truth about the love of God. I AM the light of God’s love that destroys the darkness because darkness cannot dwell in the light. I AM that light that is come to reveal the perfect love of God. I AM the revelation that reveals that God so loves this world that he has not given up on it, and neither has he given it up.

I AM the love that reveals that God is real and true. I AM the love that reveals that God is worthy to be believed on and trusted in. I AM the love that reveals that there are no boundaries that are able to contain the love of God. I AM the love that reveals that there are no limits to the grace, the compassion, the forgiveness, and the mercy that flows out of Father’s love. I AM he who has come to reveal that you are “The One; you are “The One” that Father loves.

I AM the love that reveals that God is faithful to the end. I AM the Alpha and the Omega. I am the apocalypse (revelation) that brings an end to all darkness. I am the apocalypse that brings an end to all that which the darkness has worked to hide: the love that God has for all of his creation. I am the beginning and the end. As I am so, shall You Be. You shall be the apocalypse. Arise shine, for your light is come and the glory of God is rising upon you. Arise, shine, for I AM is come to be revealed in you to bring total apocalypse upon the darkness that blinds the peoples. Neither Satan, nor his demons, nor any powers or principalities, nor any wicked or unclean spirits are able to inhabit the light of my Father’s love. Arise, shine, for you the glory of Father’s love arises in you to reveal all that the darkness hides because I AM the love that has nothing to hide.

Isaiah 60:1-3 NASB “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For behold, darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; But the LORD will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.”

I am coming; I am coming in the revelation of the perfect love of God because I am the perfect love of God. When I came the first time, I was despised and rejected. When I came as the early rain in my disciples, they were mocked and persecuted. But now I am coming as the light of Father’s perfect love to be glorified in you. All shall see me, and all shall know that you are the sons of the living God because they shall see the glorious revelation of the perfect love of God shining brilliantly in you. I AM the love that reveals the majesty and the beauty of God. All of inhabitants of this world shall see my majesty and beauty arising on you; and all, even kings and rulers, shall come to you, praising, thanking, worshipping, and glorifying God. They shall all know that you are the sons of the living God the love that has nothing to hide shall be revealed in you. Arise shine, for God has so loved the world that he has given them…YOU! He who sees you shall see the Son; and he who sees the Son, shall see the Father. Arise shine, for you shall do greater works that I did because a greater glory is now rising upon you.

Isaiah 33:15-17 NASB “He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, He who rejects unjust gain and shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe; He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil; He will dwell on the heights, his refuge will be the impregnable rock; his bread will be given him, his water will be sure. Your eyes will see the King in His beauty…”

I John 3:2 “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.”

Matthew 5:8 NKJ “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

When I began to mediate and consider that which Father had spoken, the Lord then quickened to me the time that he took me in the Spirit and brought me into his very presence. He was seated on his throne and as I was walking towards him. He kept motioning for me to come directly before him. As I was walking towards him, the first thing that I noticed was he was completely translucent, as pure and as clear as crystal. I continued walking towards him until he told me to stop, which was no more than 2 feet away from him. Then he began to lean forward, and he did not stop leaning forward until his face was exactly level with my face. When he stopped, my face could not have been anymore than 2 to 3 inches away from his face. Because he is being completely translucent, I could actually see his thoughts. It is written in Proverbs 23:7 NASB “For as he (man) thinks within himself, so he is”, but now I was seeing with my own eyes that God is also as he thinks because all of the thoughts that I could see were thoughts of love. Not one time in this visitation were any words verbally spoken from his mouth or from mine, but it was his thoughts communicating with my thoughts, and my thoughts with his. Suddenly, without even knowing when or how it even happened, I actually found myself intimately joined together with his thoughts, as thought his thoughts were my very own. I could not even tell whose thoughts were whose, as we were one. I have never experienced any such intimacy as that which I was experiencing at that moment with him in me and me in him. I was not fearful in the least because there is no fear in love; and I was in his love and his love was in me. The only way that I could possibly describe the amount of love that I was experiencing is to say that all of his thoughts were as numerous and as visible as the stars in heaven are on a moonless night; and every one of them was filled with his pure love. What I was experiencing in that moment enraptured me beyond any wonderful word that you could use to describe the word “enrapture”.

Psalm 40:5 “Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us. There is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, they would be too numerous to count.

The first characteristic of his thoughts that enraptured me with his love came when I could clearly see much his love cared for me. I truly felt the care of his love totally compassing and penetrating into every aspect of my being and my life, even down to every hair on my body. His love kept asking me if there was anything that I needed, and he also kept asking me what he could do to bless me. Needed? Blessings? Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! I was so blessed in being completely enraptured in this love that could not even think on anything else. I do not even think that if I purposely tried to think of something to ask of him that anything would have come to mind because I was compassed with his awesome love; and the presence of his love was actually satisfying every desire within me. I was experiencing such bliss and utopia that there was no thought in me that could speak to anything else but what was in that moment. I then wept with great joy in that moment when I realized that I was with him who was going to love me, bless me, commune and fellowship with me, care for me, and treat me this way for all of eternity.

There is a Christian singer name Julie Meyer, and in the last song on one of her CD’s, she sings about the time that she was also taken into God’s throne room. One of the things that Julie testifies of in this song is being able to seeing the creatures that are before the throne of God, and each creature is full of eyes. She says that their eyes are always focused on God, looking at him in total amazement, as though they have never seen anything like him. Then Julie says that she realizes that these creatures have always been before his throne, and yet, they still look at him as though they have never seen him before. I heard this song not long this experience that I had in his presence, and being curious, I asked, “Lord, how can these creatures eternally look at you with so much continual astonishment and amazement?” Suddenly the Lord took me back before his throne again, and I then saw exactly what these creatures were seeing: the thoughts of God as I was seeing them, but in an entirely different way. They were visibly seeing his thoughts birthed within him, and then they were watching what was birthed then come to pass. In other words, if God was thinking of parting the Red Sea for Israel, they were watching these thoughts birthed within him, and then they watched as the Red Sea parted itself. If God was thinking on creating a new flower, they then watched as this new design was birthed in his thoughts, and then they saw it come to pass. The flower that I got to see God creating was like watching the National Geographic channel when they show scenes of flowers in time lapse photography going from its budding stage to full bloom. These creatures also watched when God was wooing one of his children with his love or when his love was casting out a spirit a fear. These eyes stare in amazement when they see the lengths that Father’s love will go to help us and to prove his love for us. These creatures have a front row seat that allows for them to visibly see the works and the greatness of Father’s love and power in action. They are continually watching Father bless many with his wondrous and glorious works that you and I are not even able to think or ask for. Obviously, what I saw was simply awesome and beyond understanding, but I will never question again how these creatures could be continually gazing on the awesome thoughts of God.

Revelation 4:6 NASB “And before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.”

Isaiah 14:24 NKJ “The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass; and as I have purposed, so it shall stand.”

Now, back into that which I was experiencing when I was in his presence. Suddenly, it was like my thoughts returned back into my own head. I could still clearly see all of Father’s thought as I did before, but now I was beginning to examine the rest of his inward being. I could see everything within him as clearly as I could see his thoughts. You have no idea how astonished I am as I write these words, remembering that I actually stood face to face with the true and living God and saw these things. I can only describe them in the best way that I can understand what I saw. As I said, Father’s entire body is translucent because there is nothing within him that he desires to hide from anyone in his presence because he is purely good and there are no evil or lying intentions within him to hide from any of us. I also asked him later why I could see him as clearly as I was without being blinded by his glory as others have been that have testified of when they also experienced being brought into his presence. The Lord answered me and said, “Mitt, since the day that I called you, you have not ceased to ask for me to come and search your heart, to bring into the light the thoughts and intents of your heart so that I might cleanse you all that which is not of me. You have continued in asking for me to come and judge your heart, to bring to light all the hidden things of darkness and the deceitful counsels that were hiding within your heart. Because you have so willingly allowed for me to bring to light the hidden counsels in your heart, so also am I now willing to bring into the light the thoughts of my love, that which has been hidden from your eyes. You have diligently sought to know me. I am love, and love is that which I am now revealing to you. Do I not reward all who diligently seek to know me by revealing myself to them? If you ask for bread, will I give you stones? You asked for seeing, and seeing is now what I give to you.”

I Corinthians 4:5 “Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.”

Jeremiah 29:13 NKJ “And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”

I Chronicles 16:11 NKJ “Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face evermore!”

Psalm 28:2 NKJ “When you said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to you, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”

Ezra 8:22 NKJ “…The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.”

II Chronicles 7:14 NKJ “if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

Psalm 14:2 NKJ “The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God.”

As I began to examine the rest of the Lord’s being, I saw that his translucent body was as a sea of liquid light; yet lights that were of many different beautiful colors, like that which you would see in a rainbow, except much, much more brilliant and radiant. It was like his body was a sea made up of many different streams of living water, and each stream had its own color. The clarity and the purity of these living streams made my entire body feel refreshed and strengthened just by looking them. I then realized that the knowledge had entered into me that enable me to know what these streams of different colors represented. I first saw seven streams that always flowed together, and that none of them ever flowed contrary to another. I knew that these seven represented the seven different characteristics that form the perfect love of God. I also saw many other colored streams of Father’s love, and the Spirit had revealed to me that one stream was the goodness of Father’s love; another, the provisions of Father’s love; another, the truth of Father’s love; another, the righteousness of Father’s love; another, the faithfulness of Father’s love; another, the wisdom of Father’s love; and another represent the holiness of Father’s love. I also saw the stream of the love that believes all things; another, the love that is patient; another, the love that is kind and gentle; and, another the love that is humble, yet full of boldness. I then felt as though all that which I was seeing of the Lord was somehow being absorbed in me, and as he was being absorbed into me, I was becoming like him. Then either the Spirit or God himself put these thoughts within me: “God is perfect in love; and his love never lacks to be anything other than that which you see in all of these different characteristics. God is today as he was yesterday, and will be tomorrow. It is impossible for God to change.

I then just stared in amazement of the brilliance of his purity and the glorious beauty of his being; and I was seeing with my own eyes that his being is everything that I AM is. I felt that God physical being was not a whole lot bigger than my own physical being, but when I gazed upon all of these streams, it was as if I was looking at an endless sea of love. This sea of love was constantly full of motion, yet, not like that which you see in an ocean. Its motion was rather like the fluidity and smoothness of a beautiful ballet. I then watched as his love came flowing out of him as a river of life. As it came out of him, the light lost all of its liquid appearance and took on the appearance of the light that you might expect to see in most beautiful and perfect rainbow. I then saw this light as it filled the entire heavens, and its purpose was not to just enlighten all that which dwells in the heavens but to continually give everlasting life that exists there. I saw every living creature and every living thing there absorbing his light just as I had seen being absorbed into me. And that light filled all things there with the life of Father’s love. I saw everything there flowing smoothly in agreement with the perfect love of God and everything was filled with existence and purpose. Just as all of the creature on earth need oxygen to live, so also does every creature and being in the heavens require this light of life so that it may have its being. The light of life is of God because God is light and God is life, and by him all things (that is, eternal things) exist. It is for this reason that all things on this earth are only illusions of life because all things of this world are only but for a moment. I have never felt just how contrary and alien the life in this world of darkness is to the life in that comes forth from God’s presence as I did in that moment.

John 8:12 NASB “Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, " I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

Revelation 24:4-6 “And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. And he said unto me, “These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”

Then the Lord said, “I am the River of Life. Out of my inward being flows the light of life that gives being to all things. I AM the life; I AM the river of life that flows in perfect love to give existence and purpose to all things. I AM light. I AM the light of life. I AM love. I AM the love that gives life to all things. I AM the light that reveals all things. I AM the love that reveals the love that has nothing to hide. I AM the love that gives being and being. As I AM, so shall You Be. Praise me, for your new identity is “I AM.”

John 7:38 NASB “Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”

Ephesians 5:13 NKJ “But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.

The Seventh Seal: The Love that is NOW

The morning that the Lord began to reveal that the seventh seal is that God loves us “now” began this way. I was praying for my son, Joshua Caleb. Josh was saved when he was 13, and at the age of 17, he decided to depart from his heavenly Father just as the prodigal son did from his. I was obviously very upset when he did this, but after a few months of prayer, the Lord finally gave me a vision in which he showed me the prayer that he wanted me to pray for Josh. Remember that Jesus said to his disciples, “You do not know how to pray”? Many times Christians will hear the voice of the Lord and think that they are hearing what they perceive is instruction from God in what to do in a matter when in truth he is giving them the instruction of how to pray in that matter; the prayer that will allow for God to reveal his love and to show himself great and mighty on their behalf. Every prayer that God teaches us is a prayer that is according to his will; and we know that if we ask anything that is according to his will, then it shall be done. I have also learned that the Lord never teaches us a prayer to pray that God is not yearning to answer for us. Some of the greatest works or miracles that Father has performed in my life have come after I have asked the Lord to teach me how to pray in that matter. When the Lord taught me how he wanted me to pray for Josh, it not only excited me that the Lord heard me, but that he still cared enough about Josh to give me a prayer to pray for him.

Job 33:14 “For God speaks once, yea twice, yet man perceives it not.”

On this particular morning, I was praying for Josh when I realized that it had been almost 7 years since the Lord had given this prayer to me, and other than just a little softening in his heart, I had seen nothing that indicated that Josh was soon to return to the Lord. I then said, “Lord, it troubles me that I have been praying this prayer for so long. How long will it be before you hear this prayer and awaken Josh’s heart with again?” Then the Lord answered me and said, “Do not be troubled, Mitt. All that is necessary for me to do is to bring Josh back into the “Now” of my love. In the “Now” of my love, there will be no history of Josh’s separation from me; for neither Josh, nor I will remember this time. There are no tomorrows or yesterdays in the “Now” of my love; for the “Now” of my love fully occupies all things that are eternal. “Now” I love you; “Now” my love desires to give all things to you. “Now” my love blesses you; “Now” my love adores you. “Now” my love is with you. “Now” my love communes and fellowships with you. I love you “Now”, and my love never thinks to do anything other than “Now”. Remember that I told you that you were thinking that you were waiting on me. I tell you that it is I who is waiting for you to believe that I love you “Now.”

Just then, the Lord gave a vision; and in this vision I saw this little box or window that appears on my computer that shows all of the internet sites that I have visited in the past. When this window appears, it not only lists the sites that I have visited, but down in the bottom right corner it is also says: “Delete History”. In this vision, instead of seeing the sites on the internet that I have visited listed in this box, I saw instead a history of all things that Josh as done during his separation from the Lord for the past seven years. Then down in the lower right corner of this box, just like on my own computer, I saw the words also written that said, “Delete History”. Then the Lord said, “Do you want to see what my forgiveness is able to do when I bring Josh back into the “Now” of my love?”. Before I could even answer, I saw the finger of the Lord just touch that link, and all of the history of what Josh had done was completely deleted. In the “Now” of my love, there is no remembrance of any sin or separation. Do not be troubled; continue in prayer. You will see me bring Joshua back into the “Now” of my love. Then the Lord brought an end to this vision by allowing for me to see into the “Now”, I saw Father occupying Josh’s time with the “Now” of his love. Halleluiah! Glory be to God! Surely God’s thoughts are not our thoughts and his ways are not as our ways; for as high as the heavens are above the earth, truly his thoughts and his ways are that much higher than our ways and our thoughts. Again, all of my troubles about “when” just dissolved. When? “Now”!

Later that same morning, as we were praying about the seventh seal, when the Lord gave us this understanding about what I personally consider to be one of the most mysterious men mentioned anywhere in the scriptures, and that is Melchisedec. To me, there was one thing written of him that I truly did not understand at the time, and it is that which is written that says, “he had neither the beginning of days nor the end of life”. I have read several prophetic words that the Lord has given to others over the past couple of years that speak of the Melchisedec priesthood that is soon to appear, and I could not grasp or understand how this priesthood could come forth from those who had “neither the beginning of days nor the end of life”. It was then that the Lord opened our understanding to comprehend that Melchisedec moved in the “Now” of Father’s perfect love; the love that does not exist in yesterdays or in tomorrows. For God is love, and God is life, and those who have their being in Father’s life move in the love that has no beginning or end. No one can dwell in the “Now” except he who has the God dwelling in him who has no beginning and that has no end.

When the Lord finished speaking these words, he brought into my remembrance several things to confirm this word for me. First of all, in the three years that Jesus went about healing the sick and casting out demons, he did all of those things in the “Now” because God’s presence was with him. Those who came to Jesus needing healing, he did it “now”; those who came Jesus needing deliverance from demons were delivered in the “now”; and those that came to him that were blind, sight was given to them in the “now”. When Jesus arrived at Lazarus’ tomb, the “Now” of Fathers love was present there, and Lazarus was raised from the dead “Now.” In the “now”, there are no minutes, or hours, or days to bind or limit when the love and power of God can move. Not even the Law of Moses could limit Jesus from showing the love of God “now“, even on the Sabbath day. Mary and Martha thought that is was necessary for Jesus to have come and healed their brother Lazarus in “their time”, but when the “now” of God’s love came, Lazarus was made just as whole as if Jesus had come in their time. God loves us all “now”, and everything that God does is in the “now”.

Acts 10:38 NIV “…God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the Devil because God was with him.”

John 5:30 CEV “(Jesus said) I cannot do anything on my own…”

The Lord has taken me in the Spirit several times; and each one of these experiences seem to last anywhere from one to eight hours. Yet, when each one of these experiences is over, my Spirit always returns to my body in the same moment that I left it. Not only do I have the knowledge of all that which I have just experienced, but it may be joined with the thoughts of what I was thinking in the moment that I was taken. It is quite an unexplainable experience. It was not as though time had stopped, but it was if I entered into a realm where time just did not exist. In the natural realm, time is measured by seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years; and when say now, we could be talking about a time as that split second, or that present minute or hour, or that day. In the Spiritual realm, there is only “Now”; and this time cannot be measured with seconds, or minutes, or days. When I was brought into his presence, I observed that with Father there is only one measure of time with the Lord, as well as the time that exists in eternity: and that is “Now”. This “Now” abides only where the presence of Father’s love abides. In truth, that which I experienced could not even exist if it were not for the presence of God’s love. When I entered into the presence of the Lord, I entered into the “Now” of his love, and when I departed from the presence of the Lord, I departed in from the “Now” of his love. The Lord once spoke these words to us, “Why are looking and believing for me to come tomorrow to do that which I have promised to do? Does your heart believe that I will love you tomorrow, because you do not believe that I love you “Now”? I love you “Now”. You must believe that I love you “Now” to allow for my presence to come upon you “Now”.

Then the Lord said this to us: “The “Now” of my love makes my love perfect. For my love desires to bless all “Now”; My love grieves “Now” for all those who will not receive my blessings; My love desires to forgive all “Now”; My love desires to give all “Now”; My love cares for all “Now”; My love desires to reveal all things “Now”. I AM the perfection of love. I dwell only in the “Now”, and those who dwell in the “Now” dwell in my presence. “Now” is the time. “Now” is my time. “Now” is the time of eternity. “Now” shall all things be fulfilled. No man that has the “Now” of my love has either beginning or end because my love knew him before he was and my love will be with him for all of eternity. I AM love; and my love has neither a beginning nor an end. I AM the love that loves “Now”; and as I Am, so shall all of my sons be. Praise me for your new identity is I AM. “Now” the mystery of God is complete.

The Hour of Preparation

I John 3:1-3 NIV “1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.”

As it is written in Amos 3:7, the only thing that restrains God from fulfilling his plan for his people is that he must first reveal his secrets to his prophets first. Then once the prophets declare his words, all those who will hear; who seek and ask for the Lord to increase their faith so as to allow for Father fulfilled in them all that which he has revealed and promised to us. We have Abraham as an example, how he was strong in faith because he believed that God was able to perform for him the very words that God had spoken to him. When Jesus comes, he will only be looking for one thing: Faith (Luke 18:8)

I now testify in the Lord, that these are the seven different characteristics of Father’s love that he has revealed to me. Now the preparation begins. The first instruction that Father gave to us concerning his perfect love was to pray and worship him as the God who is able to do that which is impossible for a man to even think, much less perform. Remember that parable of the ten virgins; that when Jesus returns, many of those who he has called will not be ready to receive him. The Lord only, and I mean, the Lord only has the power to prepare our hearts to receive Jesus in the fullness of the glorious love of God.

Proverbs 16:1 “The preparation of the heart and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.”

II Thessalonians 1:10 “When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe.

Thanks be to God who has not only revealed these things to us but who also has given to us the prayer that will allow for him to work in our hearts and minds to prepare us. It is Jesus, our High Priest, who cleanses and sanctifies his temple so he might fill it with the glory of his presence. And you know that we are his temple. It is a simple prayer that Father has given to us. First, he told us to pray, asking for him to open the eyes of our heart and mind so that we might see his perfect love; the love that blesses, that grieves, that forgives, that gives, that cares, that reveals, and the is “Now”. Secondly, the Lord instructed us to ask for him to prepare our hearts and minds so that we might receive him in his fullness Thirdly, the Lord instructed us to ask for him to work in our hearts to believe his perfect love; for when we believe in our hearts, then shall his perfect love come to be written and perfected in our hearts. The Lord told us that when he comes, he is only going to be able to perform for us that which we believe; so cry out to him, asking for his love that believes all things.

See: I John 3:2

Receive: John 3:27

Believe: John 6:29

Matthew 8:13 Then Jesus said to the Centurion, “Go your way, and as you have believed, so be it done to you.”

I Corinthians 13:7 “Love…believes all things…”

Then the Lord gave us this instruction, and that is to ask for him to bring all things into the light of his judgment that opposes, that is contrary, and that exalts itself against any of the characteristics of his perfect love, lest we be not able to receive him. If the perfect love of God delights only in forgiveness, then the man who delights in fault-finding, judging, accusing, and condemning any man will not be to receive his love. If the perfect love of God delights only in blessing, then the man who delights in speaking evil of those who curse him, shall not be able to receive Father’s heart. The Lord reminded us that when we judge ourselves, we should not condemn ourselves, but to look for his mercy and his power to cast from us all the imaginations of our thoughts and the intents of our heart that we have confessed before him. When God judges those who make confession before him, he cleanses them and changes them. He is our God, and all things are possible with him. Take up your cross, dispossess all thoughts and desires that that disagree with any thought and desires that are not of God; and then be still and watch him show himself great and mighty on your behalf. Be patient (even though the time is short), for we do not know the hour or the day that he is coming.

I Corinthians 11:31 “And if we judge ourselves, we should not be judged; for when we are judged, then are we corrected of the Lord so that we should not be condemned with the world.”

II Corinthians 10:4 “For the weapons of warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God (God is love), and bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ.”

In 1993, I received this word from the Lord: “I desire to raise up a Priesthood of Believers that I can send forth to minister healing to the body, the soul, and the spirit to everyone that is around them who is oppressed of the Devil. I will do this only in those who trust me to do this for them.” All that I tell the Lord that I desired to be in that priesthood, and would he raise me up to be so. The Lord did not say another word until recently when he added this: “Mitt, I am going to raise you up into that Priesthood of Believers, and I not only desire for you to minister healing to those who are around you, but I also desire for you to minister healing to all those who have hated you, persecuted you, and spoken evil things about you.” I answered, “Yes, Lord, not my will be done but your will be done”. I knew that if I was not willing to bless those who have spoken evil of me, or that if I was not willing to forget the sins of those who have sinned against me, then I would not be able to receive the perfect love of God. How can the Lord send forth a priesthood of believers unless they are first made perfect in his love, seeing that it is perfect love that believes all things?

Matthew 5:44,45 Jesus said, “Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those that hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you so that you may be the children of your Father in heaven…”

Matthew 24:42 “Watch therefore; for you do not know what hour your Lord does come.”

Chapter 13

If Satan comes in his attempts to steal the words of God from the saints after they hear it, then how much more is he going to come to try and overthrow the words of the prophets that God is revealing his saints to? How much more will he attempt to overthrow the faith, the belief, and the hope of all those who hear the secrets that God is revealing in this hour? This is not the hour that man will battle against flesh and blood, but it is the hour that man is going to battle against the forces of Darkness over that which he “believes”.

Luke 22:13-14 NKJ “And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.”

Romans 4:19-22 “And being not weak in faith, he (Abraham) considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised (a son/the manifestation of the sons of God), he was able also to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.”

I Timothy 4:1-2 NIV “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.”

Revelation 12:8-9 “So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”

II Timothy 3:12-13 “Yea and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”

II Thessalonians 2: 7-14 NIV “And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion (FEARS; Isaiah 66:4) so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness. But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.”

Matthew 13:58 “And he (Jesus) did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”

Note: I am capitalizing the word darkness in this chapter because I have seen in the spiritual realm that Darkness is an entity of itself, just as God is light.

In this world of Darkness, men have a saying that says that there are two things that are certain in this life: death and taxes. But there is also another certainty for those who would hear the truth of God’s word, and that is that they can always expect to receive his word with some manner of affliction to follow it. We have an adversary in Satan, and from the very beginning with Adam and Eve, he has always been devising lies in his attempts the words that God speaks to his people, lest his words be understood and believed, lest they bear the fruit of God’s works. Jesus spoke the parable of the sower to address this very issue. The understanding of this parable is so crucial to the Christian walk that Jesus also said that if you do not understand this parable, then you will not be able to understand any of the other parables either. This parable identifies several of the devices that Satan/Devil uses to overthrow the word of God after it has been heard. Tribulation, the cares for one’s own life, persecution, the riches of this world, and the pleasures of this life are just some of the devices that Satan uses in his attempts to overthrow the word of God that was heard. Many times in my own walk, I have fallen in weakness to every one of Satan’s temptations when I was afflicted by them. But every time that I have taken it to the Lord, and confessed my weakness before him, I have witnessed the incredible grace of his love remove the weakness of my flesh and empower me with the Spirit of his Son. Many times he has strengthened me so that I might keep and hold fast to the words that he has given to me.

Mark 4:13 NIV “Then Jesus said to them, “Don't you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?”

1 Thessalonians 1:6-7 NKJ “And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the Word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit.”

Matthew 26:40-41 NKJ “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

II Corinthians 12:9-10 NIV “But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

Psalm 34:19 NKJ “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.”

The parable of the sower reveals that if a man is not watching after he hears the Word of God, then Satan is able to come and take that Word of God that he heard right out of his heart so that it cannot be believed on. If the Word of God is believed on, then it allows for God himself to come and perform his word in those who heard it and kept it. If Satan did not have enough devices at his disposal, one of his strongest temptations comes when Satan tempts those who do that which seems right in their own eyes, and that is, to sow that word to the flesh. That is, he deceives those who lean to their own understanding into believing that they are able of their own selves to perform the words that they heard. These are they who through good intentions and their best efforts try to bring forth fruit through the will of their own flesh rather than believing in Jesus Christ who said in John 15:5 “I am the vine and you are the branches; he that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without me, you can do nothing.” Those who sow the word to their flesh are only able to bring forth the works of iniquity, heavy burdens, vanity, and hypocrisy. Those who sow the word of God to the Spirit are those who surrender their hearts and minds unto God, asking for him to write the nature and character of his words in their hearts and minds. These sow the Word in the belief that God is going to perform for them that which they have heard; and these are they who bear forth the fruits of the Spirit. You shall know them by their fruits; for if the Word was sown to the flesh, they will speak of themselves, but if the Word was sown to the Spirit, then shall they glorify God for the wonderful works he performs for them.

II Timothy 1:13 AMP “Hold fast and follow the pattern of wholesome and sound teaching which you have heard from me, in [all] the faith and love which are [for us] in Christ Jesus.”

John 1:1 NIV “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Luke 8:11-15 NKJ “Now the parable is this: The seed is the Word of God. Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. But the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no roots who believe for a while but in time of temptation fall away. Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.”

Galatians 6:7-10 NKJ “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”

Psalm 57:2 “I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performs all things for me.”

Now in these last days, the Lord is not speaking those words that will bring forth and bear fruit 30 fold, or 60 fold, or even 100 fold, but rather he is speaking and revealing the words that will bring forth the fullness and perfection of God in Jesus Christ that is to be manifested in the Sons of God. If Satan has fought so relentlessly in the past to keep the church from bearing 30 fold, 60 fold, and 100 fold fruits of the Spirit, then how much more is he going to attack the words that God is speaking to his prophets in this hour, seeing that the revelation of Jesus Christ is that which is going to bring an end to the kingdom of Darkness?” Thus says the Lord, “Woe (grief) to those who reject my Words in this hour! Woe to those who make light of my Words in this hour! Woe to those who do trust to hold to my Words in this hour! Woe to those who do not allow for me to be their Lord and God in this hour! Woe to those who see me, but refuse to believe on me in this hour! Woe to those in this hour who surrender their hearts to fear and dread! The seals are being opened, the Words are coming forth, and judgment begins now. But who is he who sees and understands what I have planned for this hour? Satan sees! The demons see! The powers and principalities of Darkness see! The wicked and unclean spirits see! They all see and they are all trembling! Now all of the forces of Darkness have gathered together in their attempt to overcome and destroy that which I am about to birth in all those who are holding on to and believing my Words. Satan and his demons have known from the beginning that their kingdom is only for an appointed time; and the end of their time comes when Jesus Christ is revealed in all of his glory in the Sons of God. Those who are equipped with my name to call upon in this hour are those who will endure and overcome. Do not be afraid; only hold fast to my Words. You know that you have the victory in me; now believe it, lest you allow Satan to steal it from you!

Revelation 12:1-5 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars; and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born (that which was sown in the Spirit). And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Ephesians 6:10-13 NKJ “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil; for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”

I John 5:4-5 “For whatever is born of God (that which was sown in the Spirit) overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world -- our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”

Luke 22:31-32 NIV “Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you Simon that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

John 14:23 NASB “Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.”

Surely, the name of the Lord shall be your strong tower in this day. Take heed and watch; for the spirit of antichrist goes forth, seeking to conquer and devour all who would receive of the love that I am going to birth through the revelation of Jesus Christ. Be not overcome with the enticing and deceitful lies that turn you away from the precious love of God that is being revealed. Those who allow themselves to be overcome and deceived by his lies are those who will transformed into deceivers. Those who are deceived will seek to spread their fears and dreads, their judgments, their doctrines, their doubts, their foolishness, their vain opinions, and their unbelief of my Words to any who will listen to them. Let not their words become your words lest your own tongue defile and condemn you. Let not your tongue defile you with any slander, or cursing, or judging others, or accusations, or blasphemies, or finding fault with others, or condemning any man that I have died for. Is there any that I did not die for? Take heed, but woe to the inhabitants of the earth, for Satan’s wrath and hatred towards all men is also coming forth into its fullness.

James 3:6 NKJ “And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.”

Revelation 12:12-13 “Therefore rejoice you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the Devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time. And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.”

Galatians 4:29 “As it was then, that is, he who is born after the flesh (carnally minded Christians who are deceived) persecutes him that is born after the Spirit (spiritually minded), so also is it now.”

Satan only uses words in his attempts to overcome Words. Remember Adam and Eve allowed his Words to be overcome by Satan’s words. Remember that Paul held fast to my Words as he endured relentless attacks from the forces of Darkness when they tried to separate him from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. Paul did not allow for his faith in my name or belief of my words to be overcome by their lies. As it was then, so also shall it be now for those who will see my love, receive my love, and believe on the love that I am yearning to reveal in this glorious hour. Satan is sending forth legions of lying spirits that will bring with them the deceitful words as they intend to overcome my elect.” The Lord then gave me vision of these legions of Darkness that are coming forth under the banners of UNBELIEF; and, SCORN; and, LOGIC; and, DISCOURAGEMENT; and, IMPATIENCE; and, DOUBT; and, THREATS; and, MOCKING; and, PERSECUTION: and HESITATION; and, CONTENTION; and, CONFUSION; and, UNWILLINGNESS; and, STRIFE; and, INTIMIDATION; and, FEAR & DREAD; and, STRESS & WORRY: and, HYPOCRISY; and, PRIDE. Those who allow for themselves to be overcome by their lies shall bear the nature, the character, and the authority of their lies. Take heed that you do not believe any of the counsels of these lying words lest you make these spirits of Darkness to be your friends in this hour. This is the hour that I am judging my people according to all that which they believe on. I called Abraham my friend because he believed only on me.”

Romans 8:35-39 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter”. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Daniel 7:25 “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”

James 2:23 “And the scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.”

I have now opened the first of the seven seals in Lakeland; and now you have witnessed with your own eyes how Satan was able to overcome those who did not make me to be their strength or their strong tower. Just as you saw my love blessing many in Lakeland, so also did you witness the Darkness attacking many with their slander, with their blasphemy, with their fault-finding, and with all manner of accusations. Did you not also witness division, and contention, and strife arise among those who were to shepherd my flock? Did Satan relent or show mercy in any of these attacks? No! Did you see how Satan sent in more of the forces of Darkness that tempted many with the desires for pride, for self-exaltation, and for self-glory? Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might so that you may withstand and bring forth that which I have purposed to birth in this hour. Though all of the forces of the Darkness are coming together in their attempts to overcome you, I shall keep you and protect you because of your faith in me. Remember that there are far more that are with you than there are with them.

Nothing shall be able to stop that which I am birthing in this hour. Nothing shall be able to withstand the move of my Spirit towards those who will see me, receive me, and believe on me. The first seal is the first labor pain, but the birth is not yet. Nothing shall be able to stop the revelation of Jesus Christ that will be birthed in my Sons. Nothing shall be able to prevent me from manifesting my Sons in this hour. Even so, some will allow themselves to be deceived and overcome by these lying spirits that are coming against me in this time; for the forces of Darkness are desperate to save themselves and their kingdom. Once again I tell you, I am Love, and I possess power. Therefore, when you look for me, look to see my love. If you do see my love, then you will clearly be able to see my power. If you do not see my love, then whose miracles and wonders are you seeing?

Matthew 24:24 “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”

Revelation 13:13-14 NKJ “He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.”

I John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.”

Psalm 62:11 “God has spoken once; yea twice have I heard this, that power belongs (is a possession of) to God.”

I want to remind you once again: “I am coming for judgment; to open the eyes of the blind, to reveal myself to all who desire to see me. To see me is to see the light of the truth; and the truth is that which sets my people free from the blindness of the Darkness. I came into this world to give sight to the blind, to turn them from Darkness to Light, from the power of Satan to the power of God. The righteousness of man is blindness, and in his blindness is the dwelling place for all sin. All of the good intentions and best efforts of men are blindness. All of man’s doctrines, and laws, and traditions are blindness. Man’s wisdom and understanding is blindness. Opinions of God are blindness. Hypocrisy is blindness. All self-justification is blindness. Idolatry is blindness. Lies are blindness. Judging according to appearances is blindness. Unwillingness is blindness. Unforgiveness is blindness. Unbelief and doubts are blindness. Fears are blindness. Anxiety and worry are blindness. Hopelessness is blindness. Confusion is blindness. Strife and divisions are blindness. Arguments are blindness. Intimidation and control are blindness. Hatred is blindness. Fornication and adultery are blindness. Envy is blindness. Bitterness is blindness. The desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes and the pride of man is blindness. All blindness is sin because blindness is the vision of the Darkness. They have eyes, but they do not see! Blindness is man’s captivity to sin. For judgment I came into this word so that those who do not see may see, and that those who think they see will be made blind. If I do not open the eyes of the blind, then who shall free them from these works of the Devil? Can the blind see my love? How shall you be set free unless you ask for me to judge your blindness? If you do not ask for me to judge your blindness then will not your sin remain with you also? Those who sin have not seen me nor known my love.

John 9:39 NKJ “And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.” Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, “Are we blind also?" Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, “We see.” Therefore your sin remains.”

1 John 5:17 “All unrighteousness is sin…”

Ephesians 4:17.18 “Therefore I say and testify in the Lord that you should henceforth no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their hearts.”

Psalm 13:3-4 “Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death and my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him (kept him blind); and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.”

Job 34:32 AMP “Teach me what I do not see [in regard to how I have sinned]; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?”

I John 3:6-8 “Whosoever abides in him does not sin: whosoever sins has not seen him, neither known him.”

I came to my own, and my own did not receive me because they were blind. If they had seen me, then they would not have rejected me, or mocked me, or made light of me, or crucified me. If they had seen me then they would have also seen my Father, and they would not have had any sin. I presented myself before the priests of Israel, but they refused and despised me because they were blind. I preached to the scribes and Pharisees, experts in the law as well as the scriptures that testify of me, but they were blind and could not see me. All who have not seen me abide in the Darkness of their blindness; and whosoever abides in the Darkness abides in the sin of self-righteousness. Even now, in this very day, there are many who are under the blood that say they have no need for me because they are blind and do not see that they are miserable, naked, wretched, blind, and poor. Therefore, just like the Pharisees, their sin shall remain with them, though they think that they see and know me. Where blindness is, there is darkness; and where the darkness is, there is sin; and where sin is, there is no light; and where there is no light, there is no life; and where there is no life, there is only a separation from God. Where there is separation from God, there you will find blindness, the people who do not know that God loves them. Blessed are the eyes of those who see the faithfulness and the grace of the great love that I have for them.

Jeremiah 4:22 “For my people are foolish, they have not known me. They are senseless children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. I beheld the earth (earthy body), and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens (the carnal mind), and they had no light.”

Revelation 3:14-19 “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, “These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I wish that you were cold or hot. So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. Because you say, “I am rich (in your own righteousness) and increased with goods (righteous works), and I have need of nothing; but you do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy of me gold (the judgment of Christ that opens the eyes) tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye salve so that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and repent.”

Luke 10:23-24 “And Jesus turned him to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see; for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear and have not heard them.”

Now the storms come. As it was it the days of Noah, so shall it be now. Forty days it rained without ceasing. Those who labored and built the ark were saved by grace in the ark they built. Now the great tribulation comes. Now comes the winds of uncertainty, chaos, disorder, and confusion. Now come the relentless waves of doubt, and unbelief, and fear come to beat against the house. Now the wise who built their houses on the faith that stands in the power of God shall by grace be saved through their faith in my love. The faith that stands in the wisdom of man shall fail them for fear at looking at the things that are seen coming on the earth”, says the Lord.

1 Peter 3:20 NKJ “…when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.”

Genesis 6:8 “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.”

Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”

I Corinthians 2: 3-5 NKJ “And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”

Then the Lord gave this vision to me:

I saw a large beautifully green valley that looked to be somewhere between 75 to 100 miles long and 20 to 25 miles wide. I immediately observed what appeared to be like this massive battle that was taking place throughout this entire valley because I saw this very large cloud of dust that was being continually stirred up. It reminded of fights that I saw in cartoons when I was a child were two or more beings were fighting so hard against one another and kicking up such a cloud of dust that you could not even see who was actually doing the fighting. This was certainly no small battle seeing that this dust cloud stretched from one end of the valley to the other end as well as from one side to the other side. It was then that I also began to hear much shouting, yelling, squeals, as well as screams of agony, distress, pain, and anguish. Then this cloud of dust began to clear away so that I could see what the events were that were causing so much pain and anguish. I saw what appeared to be all of mankind in this valley because I saw multitudes and multitudes of people from every race, nationality, creed, and color. I then saw countless and various kinds of arguments, fights, murders, strife, rapes, terrorism, bitterness, chaos, contention, vicious accusations, hatred, riots, malice, and wars. Even though these evil and wicked works have been around since the fall of Adam, I sensed that there was something very different about what I was seeing before my eyes; but I could not yet discern what it was. It was if there were no longer any laws or any order that was able to restrain men from freely doing any of these wicked deeds to one another. It seemed as though there was absolutely no place in this valley for any mercy or compassion. What even seemed more amazing to me than that was that I did not see anyone in this valley that desired any kind of peace or escape from these evil works. It was as if everyone was delighting in that which he was doing. Because there seemed to be no end to that fighting, it made it appear as though this was truly going to be a battle until the last man was standing.

Matthew 24:21-22 AMP “For then there will be great tribulation (affliction, distress, and oppression) such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now--no, and never will be [again]. And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would endure and survive, but for the sake of the elect (God's chosen ones) those days will be shortened.

Daniel 12:1 NKJ “At that time Michael shall stand up, the great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, every one who is found written in the book.”

II Thessalonians 2:6-12 NKJ “And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie so that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

Then my eyes were opened and when I looked back into this same valley, I not only saw all of mankind there but I also saw what appeared to be all of the forces of Darkness to be there as well. I saw countless numbers of demons as well as those lifeless, dark, haunting spirits that I first saw in the “Castle Vision”. I also saw thousands of these small clouds or mists of Darkness, each one being only about foot square in size. I then knew that these were the powers and principalities, the rulers, and the wicked spirits that formed the forces of Darkness; the forces that Paul identified as that which the true church would be battling against rather than other men. I then observed the Darkness as it just seemed to be able to engulf the bodies of men at its own will and leisure, as easy as a shark devouring a minnow. The Darkness appeared to cling to the souls of men like a very tight fitting sweater; or even better, like a scuba diving wetsuit. I then saw demons just stepping in and out of the bodies of men as easy as one would step in and out of a shower. I also observed these small clouds or mists of Darkness as they moved in to compass the heads of men. This scene reminded me of the tall mountains that you cannot see the tops of when they are compassed with clouds. I then saw wicked spirits just flying through the bodies, as well as in and out of minds of men. I observed that whatever the nature was of that wicked spirit, it became the very nature of the thoughts of the man that this spirit passed through; and somehow, it continued to be that man’s nature even after that spirit had departed from him. As amazed as I was to see how powerless anyone was to prevent or to stop these forces of Darkness from taking possession over their bodies and control over their thoughts, I was more amazed to see that no one in this valley even seemed to be trying to resist any of these wicked or evil thoughts that these spirits were conceiving in their thoughts. It was as if the peoples were mindless zombies that were completely enslaved to do that which the Darkness instructed them to do.

Proverbs 23:7 NKJ “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he….”

Ephesians 6:10-13 NKJ “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God so that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”

II Corinthians 10:4-6 “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

II Timothy 2:24-26 NKJ “And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.”

It was here that the Lord began to open my understanding to comprehend what I saw that was taking place in this valley. Again, let me say this; I did not see any wicked or evil works being done in this valley that have not been continually done by man since the fall of Adam and Eve, but there was something definitely different about the manner that these wicked and evil works were being done. Here now is the understanding that the Lord gave to me: “There is shortly coming a time when there no longer be any wisdom in the hearts of those who have not sought for the wisdom that comes from above. Wisdom is that which allows for a man to consider and meditate how he is going to react to the situations and circumstances that rise up around. Then the Lord showed me that man, without any wisdom, is a….Beast! A beast cannot discern between good from evil or right from wrong. A beast is not able to consider or mediate on the consequences of its actions because there is no discernment without wisdom. Without any discernment to consider the consequences of its actions, there can be no consciousness of sorrow, or regret, or grief, or shame, or repentance for that which it does.

Revelation 9:20-21 NKJ “And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. And they did not repent of their murders, or their sorceries, or their fornications, or their thefts.”

Revelation 16:8-9 NIV “The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire. They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.”

Revelation 16:10-11 NKJ “Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain. They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.”

When wisdom is taken from a man, then there can be no instructions, or doctrines, or traditions, or laws, regardless of whether they be man’s laws or religious laws that will have any power to restrain that which carnal man is led to do. Laws only have power when men have the wisdom to regard and honor them, and when that wisdom is taken away, then man will become completely enslaved to immediately do that which these wicked or evil spirits instruct their thoughts to do. I even saw in this valley that without any wisdom, man will not even be able to regard, or honor, or respect the most cherished of relationships, whether it be friendship, or in a marriage, or in a business relationship, or in any other kind of family relationship. What I saw in this valley brought to me a whole new definition to the word “lawlessness”. In other words, when these wicked counselors enter into the minds of men, there will be nothing within them that will be able to stop or restrain that man from immediately performing that which the Darkness counsels him to do.

Ecclesiates 3:18 “I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.”

Revelation 13:4 “And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, “Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war (resist; refuse) with him?”

As I was continuing to watch the sufferings, the madness, the hurt, the offenses, and the death that was occurring throughout this valley, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Without wisdom there can only be obedience to that which has power over you.” I then watched as these forces of Darkness continuously and relentlessly filled the thoughts of men with evil and wickedness; and they all immediately became subject to perform that thought which had just entered into their minds. I saw that there was no one that was able to stop even for a second to consider that which they were about to do. I saw men becoming subject to such thoughts as all manner of fears and paranoia; all manner of bitterness; all manner of hatred and desires for revenge; all manner of confusion; all manner of abuse and intimidations; all manner of jealous rages; all manner of helplessness and frustrations; all manner of loneliness; all manner of greed and lust; all manner of self-condemnation and self-hate; all manner of arrogance and boasting; all manner of fornication and adultery; all manner of theft and corruption; all manner of malice and unforgiveness; all manner of rebellion; all manner of hopelessness and depression; all manner of anxiety, stress, and worry; all manner of drunkenness and addictions; all manner of vicious accusations and slander; all manner of agony, and pain, and suffering; and all manner of killings and murder. Of all these thoughts, without any doubt, the paranoia seemed to be the worst because all who were afflicted with this paranoia were so unpredictable in what they did. Suicides began to greatly increase. This entire valley was full of insanity, but it then seemed like it to turned into complete and utter madness. There were many who were killing their own family members without any consciousness of what they were doing. Truly, just as Jesus, and Daniel, and John prophesied, there has never been nor shall there ever again be a time of great tribulation as this.

Matthew 24:8-13 NIV “All these are the beginning of birth pains. Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.”

Romans 6:16-17 NIV “Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey-whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?”

Mark 13:12-13 NIV “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.”

II Timothy 3:1-6 “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!”

I then began to observe what appeared to me to be the very entity of Darkness itself; that Darkness that I described before as compassing the bodies of men as tightly as a scuba diving wetsuit. This Darkness brought with it all manner of debilitating sicknesses, or fatal diseases, or even death itself. It seemed as though this Darkness was able to inflict more suffering and pain upon the peoples in the valley than all of the rest of the forces of Darkness because I began to hear multitudes and multitudes of loud voices coming from this valley that were taking the Lord’s name in vain; voices that were cursing God, or blaspheming God, or mocking God, or swearing at God, or accusing God, or that were blaming God for all the sickness, the chaos and the madness that had come upon them. I was then shocked to realize that there was not one person in the valley that could discern or see that, though God is sovereign in power, it was still not him that was bringing all this sickness, or chaos, or madness upon them. Because they were blind and without any wisdom, no one was able to call on God for help, but rather they were only able to curse him instead of repenting of their blindness. All of these miseries that I saw in this valley were nothing but the evil and wicked works that was coming forth from the wrath of Satan and the forces of Darkness. But no one could see this.”

Ps 116:3-5 NIV “The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.”

It was then that I began to observe these forces of darkness as they began their attack against the carnally minded church also, for their carnal wisdom had also been taken from them. These were not only attacked in the same manner as the rest of the peoples in this valley were, but they were attacked in what appeared to be in a much more vicious manner. These forces of Darkness had gathered together like packs of wolves to attack a defenseless flock of sheep that have no shepherd. Not only were they attacked with the same evil and wicked thoughts as the rest of the people, but they were also attacked with doubts, with hypocrisy, with fears, with finger pointing and unmerciful accusations, with hopelessness, with iniquity, with heavy burdens, with divisions and strife, and with unbelief. I saw that there was no fear of God among them nor was there any of faith that keeps us protected by the power of God. And when these were deceived, they also began to immediately obey the thoughts that the Darkness had brought upon them; and they did not repent. These appeared as defeated, and dazed, and confused sheep that had completely lost their way.

Revelation 13:4-10 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” If anyone has an ear, let him hear. He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.”

I Corinthians 3:1-3 NKJ “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?”

Matthew 24:19 “Woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck (the carnally minded that only feed on the milk of the word) in those days!”

I Peter 1:5 “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”

Jeremiah 33:40 “And I will make an everlasting covenant with them so that I will not turn away them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from me.”

Isaiah 29:13 “The Lord said, “Forasmuch as this people draw near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear towards me is taught to them by the precept of men.”

Malachi 3:16-18 “Then they that feared the Lord spoke often one to another: and the Lord hearkened and heard it; and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine”, says the Lord of hosts, “In that day when I make up my jewels and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him. Then shall you return and discern between the righteous and the wicked (Luke 19:20-27), between him that serves God and him that serves him not (Rom.1:25)”.

I then observed that it was also of these forces of Darkness that came forth all kinds of natural disasters like floods, hurricanes, droughts, and tornadoes; and that these things increased in intensity as Satan’s wrath towards man increased in intensity. It was not any global warming or Mother Nature that was bringing these things intense and violet storms, but rather it is the prince of the power of the air. As I continued to observe this attack throughout this entire valley, I perceived that all that which I was witnessing was that which Jesus spoke of when he said in Luke 21:25-26 “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking on those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.” There was no peace anywhere on earth, nor was there any peace or rest in any who were earthy minded. No longer were men empowered with that earthy wisdom that deceives them into believing that they can be their own lords and gods, but they were now nothing but wild beast that were slaves to this Darkness.

Revelation 12:12 “Therefore rejoice you heavens (the spiritually minded) and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and seas (the carnally minded)! For the Devil is come unto you having great wrath because he knows that he has but a short time.”

As I continued to observe all madness raging throughout this valley, I grew more and more amazed at how powerful the blindness was in that there was not one soul in this valley that could see that the forces of Darkness were behind all of madness and suffering that was coming forth. It seemed like every minute that I continued to watch what was taking place before my eyes, the stronger and more intense these attacks grew. Men began to respond to these counsels with more and more intensity and viciousness, including those in the carnally minded church. It was as if the power and the authority that Satan had received to kill, steal, and destroy was being fully transferred to the people in this valley to do the same thing to others was well as unto themselves. Where men had been simply jealous, that jealousy was now growing into jealous rages. Where men had been in depression and despair, there were now suicides. Where there had been arguments, they were now growing into fights with physical responses. Where there had been slander, there were now attacks of vicious accusations. Where there had addictions, there were now overdoses. Of all that I witnessed, the worst responses that I saw came from those who were completely overcome with the fears of paranoia. Those that were paranoid responded in the most unpredictable and violet manner because they responded to those around them as though everyone was trying to harm or kill them. As hate began to grow stronger and increase, I saw families, and friends, and churches completely split apart and destroyed.

John 10:10 NIV “The thief comes only to kill, steal, and destroy…”

Though no man was able to see these forces of Darkness, the fruit of their lies were clearly seen in how men responded to their counsels without any resistance. It was as if Satan was taking his wrath and anger out on man without him lifting one finger because all he had to do was to fill the thoughts of men with these awful and horrific thoughts, and they then executed his wrath on their neighbors and friends. I myself tried to cry out to those around me, and I as astounded that no one could even hear my voice as I tried to warn them about what I was seeing. It was scary to see that even though it was not man himself that was behind any of these wicked or evil works, man was still willingly consenting to do all that which the Darkness was bringing into his imaginations.

Psalm 52:2-4 “Your tongue devises destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah. You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.”

I then realized that when the Lord gave me the first vision of this valley, I was looking at with my natural vision, but this second vision where I could see all of the forces of Darkness, I was seeing things as they truly are, through spiritual vision. I just helplessly stood there as I watched the Darkness unmercifully pound away against all of mankind. Then, when it seemed like all hope was lost, I was taken up in the air until I was at distance where I could not only see this entire valley but all of the mountains that completely surrounded this valley. Suddenly I looked, and then I shook my head, and I looked again, and I just about could not believe what I seeing. Just on the other side of these mountains, standing in military type of formations, was what looked like to me to be the armies of the entire heavenly hosts. They were so great in number that they easily surrounded this entire valley, and they went at least 50 deep in their ranks. This heavenly host was lined up just at the outside base of these mountains, and they were all facing this valley. They were quietly standing there, row after row, after row, after row of them, looking just like legions of Roman soldiers that were just itching and waiting for their signal to enter into this valley.

Then the Lord said, “This is Megiddo (place of troops): the place of the final battle for the souls of men. This is not a battle between good and evil, but rather it is the final battle for that which men are going to believe. Woe be to the carnally minded who are not able to resist the lying counsels from the Darkness when they are attacked. Blessed be the remnant, the spiritually minded that have taken up their crosses and crucified the wisdom of this world, the enmity of the carnal mind; for none of the powers of Darkness shall be able to overcome them with their lies. Blessed are they who desired my wisdom more than riches of fine gold and the glory of their own name. Just as Satan has gathered his forces to kill, steal, and destroy, so also have I gathered my elect together to save and give life. I have anointed and equipped my heavenly hosts for the battle that is before them, and I am preparing my sons who will lead them.

Isaiah 29:13-14 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.”

I Corinthians 1:18,19 “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Proverbs 2:6 “For the Lord gives wisdom….”

Proverbs 8:11 “For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.”

Matthew 25:1-5 NKJ “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.”

I Corinthians 3:19 “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God….”

After I considered what the Lord had just said to me, I then asked, “Lord, what is your heavenly host waiting on? What is hindering them from entering into this battle now?” The Lord answered and said, “You! My elect! Remember that which I spoke to you in *Houston when I told you that you could throw every book out of the window that has ever tried to interpret the book of Revelation because not one of them has been able to show the impact that the Sons of God are going to have during these times? I will now begin to show you the impact that my sons are going to have in the days to come. Did I not say that whatever you loose on earth, it shall also be loosed in heaven; and that whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven? I have loosed my armies in heaven and they are now upon earth, just as you see. But my elect have yet to loose them on earth. Know and understand this. I have anointed my heavenly host with authority and power to fulfill only my will on earth, but my elect have not yet fully come to understand and know my perfect will. That which I have loosed from heaven cannot yet be done on earth until that which is on earth, my elect, comes into agreement with my perfect will. It will only be after you come to understand and know my perfect will that heaven and earth will then be in agreement; and then when earth has come into agreement with heaven, then authority will be given to my elect to loose the armies of my heavenly host on earth.”

*That which was spoken in Houston can be found in the word given to me entitled “First Love Versus First Born” Page 35 (http://www.etpv.org/2007/flvfb.html)

Amos 3:3 “Can two walk together (or in the case, fight together) except they agree?”

Romans 12:2 NKJ “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

I Timothy 2:3-4 “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”

Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come; your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

Matthew 16:10 “And I will give unto you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Understand clearly; the armies of my heavenly host cannot be loosed to perform your good intentions, only to perform my will. My heavenly hosts are waiting for my elect to come into agreement with my will; for once there is agreement between heaven and earth, then my kingdom shall come and my will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven. Then shall the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of God. I have anointed my armies with the power of my word; and my word always accomplishes that purpose which I send it to perform. When you, my elect come into unity and agreement with my will, when heaven and earth agree, then I will surrender my authority into your hands; and when I render my authority into your hands, then shall you, my elect be enabled to summon all of my armies into the battle that rages in this valley. All things in heaven are now waiting on you, my elect! While the heavenly host waits, the children of this world shall begin to greatly suffer at the hands of Satan’s wrath like the world has not seen before nor will ever see again. I do not tell you this to bring any heavy burden upon you, but I tell you this because it is simply the truth.

Romans 8:19-22 “For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself shall also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.”

Daniel 12:1-4 “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which stands for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”

Matthew 25: 1-2 NKJ “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish.”

I then asked, “Lord, what are we lacking to come into agreement with your will?”

“Love”, said the Lord. “I Am love. I Am the love that the Darkness blinds to keep hidden. I loved you when you did not love me. I have loved the world when the world has not loved me. My love is alive and well. I Am a living love. I Am a living giving love. I Am a living passionate love. I Am the love that thinks no evil. I Am a living merciful and forgiving love. I Am the love that does not judge, or accuse, or condemn, or criticize, or that keeps account. I Am the love that delights in showing mercy and compassion. I Am a living intimate love. I Am the love that makes all things one. My love is pure. I love you, and my love for you is pure. My love for your family is pure. My love for all of your brethren is pure. My love for your enemies is pure. Until now, you have only tasted of the love that I have prepared for you; that is, you have only experienced and received my love when you allowed for me bless you; as well as when I saved you; when I forgave you; when I corrected you; when I delivered you; when I worked in your heart; when I showed my favor towards you; when I healed your hips; when I showed you mercy; when I cast out your fears; when I taught you; when I gave you gifts; when I took away your pain; when I answered your prayers; when I multiplied and increased you; when I worked all things for your good; and when my presence is with you. Have you not delighted in tasting me? Is not my love good?

Psalm 34:8 NKJ “Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!”

Philippians 4:19 “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

Have you seen me? Have you seen my love? If you cannot love your brother who you do see, then how shall you love me who you do not see? He who sees my love has seen me. Did you see me when tears ran down my face for those who persecuted me, who spit on me, who scourged me, and those who crucified me? Did you see me when the tears ran down my face for those who have rejected me, who have ignored me, who despised me, who mocked me, and who doubted my love for them? Did you see me when the tears ran down my face for those who delight in believing and trusting in their false religions, men’s traditions, vain opinions, and false doctrines; those lying words that shut the door on my love? Did you see me when the tears ran down my face for those who saw me naked but did not clothe me? Did you see me when the tears ran down my face for those who saw me hungry and did not feed me? Did you see me when the tears ran down my face for those who saw me sick and in prison, and would not visit me? Did you see me when the tears ran down my face for those who refuse to forgive or forbear with the sins and the weaknesses of others? Did you see me when the tears ran down my face for those who judge and accuse the prostitutes, the weak, the murderers, the addicted, the deceived, the poor and needy, the adulterers, the unlovable, the thieves, as well as the rest of the sinners of this world? I so the loved the world that I became as the world.

1 John 4:8-12 NKJ “He that does not love does not know God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 NKJ “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up. Love does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, and thinks no evil…”

My will is to be your Lord and your God. My will is to be your Father. My will is that you allow for me to be the Father God that loves you. My will is that you allow for me to be the loving Father that raises up his sons to be just like him. My will for you is that you allow my perfect love to be released to you. My will is that allow for my love to supply all that which you lack and to provide for all of your needs. My will is that you allow for me to be the loving Father who will care for you and protect you. My will is that you allow for my love to perform great and mighty works for you. My will is that you abide in the presence of my perfect love so that my perfect love may always abide in your presence. My will is for you to be my son. My will is to make my sons to be equal with me. I Am love. I am perfect in love and those who I make to equal with me shall be made perfect in love. Perfect love only equals to perfect love. If my love is not perfected, then it is not perfect love, and you shall not be as I Am. The truth is, there are none that loves you as perfectly as I love you. Those who love me with all of their heart, with all of their mind, and with all of their soul are those who know my perfect love; and they know that I love them with all of my heart, with all of my mind, and with all of my soul. My will is perfected in perfect love.

Matthew 22:36-40 “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

Hebrews 13:20-21 “Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”

Philippians 2:5 “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”

Know this, except for that one taste of my love that I gave to you for another, you have only experienced the living love that I have for you. You have my love in your own box; a box that only contains your own experiences with my love. Surely you now know that my love towards you is perfectly pure, but so also is my love towards all of my creation just as perfectly pure. I Am love; therefore my will is to love and to be loved; and my will for you is for you to love and to be loved just as I Am. My will is not separate from the desires in my heart to love and be loved. My will is the key that opens the doors of my love; the keys that will then allow for you go outside of your box so that you might experience my love for the world as I have. Yield your heart into my hands, and I will work to tear down the walls of your box. I shall make you to be a partaker of my love; a love that does not have any width, or length, or height, or depth as a box has. There is no box that is able to contain my love. Ask for my will to be done in your heart as it is done in heaven, and I will remove the limitations and boundaries that you have put on my love. If you will allow for me to tear down the walls and remove all the boundaries and the limitations, then shall you love as I love it. Do you desire to fulfill your destiny? Do you desire to be like me?

Romans 8:29 AMP “For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.”

Did you hear me when I said that I Am love and my will is to love and to be loved; and my will for you is that you love and be loved? How many times have I told my prophets to tell my people that if you give yourselves to me, then I will perfectly give myself to you? Did you not know that I love all those that have sinned against you, that have hated you, that have offended you, that have persecuted you, that have slandered you, that have judged and accused you, as well as all those that account themselves to be your enemies? The perfect and acceptable will of God is the perfect love of God. My will is perfected in you when my love is perfected in you. Be you perfect because I Am perfect. There is none righteous, but I have loved all, even when they were not righteous. There are none good, but I have loved all, even when they were not good. There is none that understand or that that seek for me, but I have loved all, even when they have not known my love for them. I have loved all when all did not love me. If my love fails for one, then my love will fail for all; but my love never fails because I Am love, and I Am never change. My love towards all of my creation is perfect. My love is pure towards all those who have sinned against you, and my will is that you be as I Am. My love is pure towards all those who have offended you, and my will is that you be as I Am. My love is pure towards all those who have persecuted you, and my will is that you be as I Am. My love is pure towards those who have slandered you and that have spoken all manner of evil against you, and my will is that you be as I Am. My love towards all of your enemies is pure, and my will is that you be as I Am. My love towards this world is pure, and my will is that you be as I Am.

Matthew 5:43-48 NKJ “You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”

Do you know what my love looks like? My love looks just like you when you bless those who curse you. My love looks just like you when minister to the poor in Spirit. My love looks just like you when you show grace to the sinners. My love looks like you when you forgive and forget the sins of those who have offended you. My love looks just like you when you do good to those who hate you? My love looks just like you when you believe that all things are possible. My love looks just like you when you lay down your life for your others. My love looks just like you when you love your enemies. My love looks just like you when you bless without desiring any recognition or reward in return. My love looks just like you when you clothe the naked and visit the sick. My love looks just like you when you show mercy instead of judgment. My love looks just like you when you lay down your life so that you may receive the life of my love. Do you desire to be like me? Does your heart belong to self, or does it belong to me? You do now that the only way that you can look like my love is for you to ask for me to make you to be like me? Would you let me adorn you in my love? Could you believe that I am able to adorn you in the same love that will allow for you to love the world just as I love the world?

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

Would you be willing to believe that I am even able to raise you up in my love so that you will even be able to love a man in the most wicked state that a man can possibly be in? Look at the valley of Megiddo. Do you see all of the wickedness and evil that man is doing to one another, or do you see the Darkness oppressing man to do wickedness and evil to one another? There was a young man who was brought before me that was continuously being pounded on and beat down by a wicked demonic spirit. He was a wild man whose strength was so great that he was able to pound on and beat down several men at a time. He could not even be restrained by others. He not only harmed others but he harmed himself also. He was so wild that he intimidated, and frightened and terrified all those who came around him. He foamed at his mouth and he bounced off of walls. He was such a wild man that many had judged him to be beyond any help. Did his neighbors bring him before me? Did his brethren bring him before me? Did the religious bring him before me? Do you not think (reason) that if it had been given to his neighbors that many of them would have cried out, “Lord, I call fire down from heaven to destroy this wild and wicked man who threatens and terrifies me.” It was a father’s love that brought this man before me; and by the power and authority of my Father’s love, I cast out that wicked demonic spirit out that had so tormented him as well as all those who were around him. A father’s love working in unity and agreement with my Father’s love was able to cast out the forces of Darkness; and then I was able to restore him to a sound mind. Was he a wicked and wild man, or did he have a wicked and wild spirit in him? What do you see in the valley of Megiddo, wild men doing wickedly or wild spirits directing men to do wickedly? It is not my will that any should perish but that all should be saved.

Mark 9:17-24 AMP “And one of the throng replied to Him, Teacher, I brought my son to You, for he has a dumb spirit. And wherever it lays hold of him [so as to make him its own], it dashes him down and convulses him, and he foams [at the mouth] and grinds his teeth, and he [falls into a motionless stupor and] is wasting away. And I asked Your disciples to drive it out, and they were not able [to do it].” And He answered them, “O unbelieving generation [without any faith]! How long shall I [have to do] with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to Me. So they brought [the boy] to Him, and when the spirit saw Him, at once it completely convulsed the boy, and he fell to the ground and kept rolling about, foaming [at the mouth]. And [Jesus] asked his father, How long has he had this? And he answered, From the time he was a little boy. And it has often thrown him both into fire and into water, intending to kill him. But if You can do anything, do have pity on us and help us. And Jesus said, [You say to Me], If You can do anything? [Why,] all things can be (are possible) to him who believes! At once the father of the boy gave [an eager, piercing, inarticulate] cry with tears, and he said, Lord, I believe! [Constantly] help my weakness of faith!”

I told you before that I do not see as man sees. I do not look on the evil or the wickedness that the children of this world have done, but I look on the good works that my love is able to do for them. My love is able to forgive, to cleanse, to correct, to heal, to sanctify, to transform, to prosper, to change the most wretched and wicked of men, and to give life. You hear the news, and you hear story after story of corruption, of wickedness, of perversion, of evil as well as many other horrible things that men are doing to one another, and to themselves. You look on these sins, these faults, these weaknesses, and these wicked and evil deeds, and you think that you have just discovered a reason why I cannot love them. But do you know what manner of Spirit that you are of? Do you think that I should send fire down for heaven to destroy those that I came to save? I do agree, they do greatly sin, and they do wicked and horrible things to one another, but I still love them. Have you seen the tears run down my face because your ignorance of my love? Do I not cause the rain to fall on the just and the unjust? Have you not also seen me with your own eyes bless both the righteous and the heathen? My will is to love those who love me as well as to love those who do not love me. Did I not love you when you did not love me? I love those who have made themselves to be my enemies. Have you not at times made yourself to be my enemy? Yet, I loved you. Would I ask you to love your enemies if I was not able to do the same? Will you receive your Father’s will? Will you receive your Father’s love for wild and wicked men? Will you receive a Father’s love for my creation that is in enslaved to the works of Darkness? Will you receive the love that allows for heaven and earth to come into agreement?

1 John 4:19-21 “We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God love his brother also.”

Because I do not change, can I tell you once more that I am love, and I love you. I have called you to make you to be my sons; to be the Sons of Love. Would you call me Father Love? Would you allow for me to name you “Love Jr.”? Do you not know that you are my sons, indebted to love all men, even those who hate you? Is this impossible for you? What is impossible for you is not impossible for my Spirit. It is not impossible for me to love any, and neither is it impossible for you to ask for me to give to you my Spirit so that you can love as I love. How shall any satisfy his indebtedness to my creation unless he allows for me to fill him with the spirit of my love? For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, and the sons of God will so love the world that they will love their enemies; they will bless those all who curse them; they will do good to those who hate them; they will forgive from their hearts all those who sin against them; and they will pray for those who have despitefully use them and those who defraud them. Do you believe that I can put such a love in you that you will delight and rejoice in loving all those who I love? Do you believe that I am able to such a love in you that you will delight in loving a man in the most wicked state that he can be in? Remember, the victory that I have given to you is found in the love that I had/have for you when you did not love me. Would you be willing to give the same victory to those who do not love you?

Romans 13:8 “Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.”

I John 4:17 “Herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.”

I have heard the prayers of my sons who call out, “Let your kingdom come so that your will/love be done on earth as it is in heaven.” I have listened, and I have heard, and now I am ready to answer my sons. You now that I said, “All men shall know that you are my disciples when you have love for one another.” I am now raising up my sons, those who will know no cursings. My love has tamed their tongues and I have taken away their judgments and accusations of others. My love has touched their lips and given them a tongue that blesses. Love does not judge, it blesses. Perfect love blesses; it never curses. Blessings are the words that come forth from my love. I will give them a new heart and a new tongue, and they will bless all without any boundaries or limitations. There will be no length, nor height, nor width, nor depth to the love that shall come forth out of them because I am bringing them out of their own boxes and filling them with my perfect love, the love that thinks not of itself. All of my thoughts and purposes are conceived out of my love; and all of the thoughts and purposes of those who I perfect shall also come forth out of my love. Love makes two to become one. My will is to love and to be loved; and when my kingdom comes on earth then shall my love be done on earth as it is in heaven. Can you even imagine what it would be like for my love to be perfected in you?

I Corinthians 13:5 AMP “…Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].”

Zephaniah 3:15 “The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.”

James 3:10-12 NKJ “Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.”

Understand this: I desire to give to my sons my name: my nature, my character, and my authority. Do you desire for me to give to you my name? Is not my name above all names? Do you know anyone who is able to tell me what I should or should not desire to give to my sons? I desire to make my sons to be equal with me in nature, character, and authority. I desire to give my entire kingdom to my sons. I desire to give to my sons all authority over my heavenly host. I am not willing to give my kingdom to any that are not willing to surrender to my love. I Am Lord Love, and my love rules in the kingdom of Love. I am the Love that has authority over my kingdom. I will not release my authority into the hands of those who desire authority to satisfy their own desires for authority. I will not release my authority to perform the purposes of man or his good intentions. I will release my authority into the hands of all those who choose to do my will. I will release my authority into the hands of all those who agree with my will. Only love is able to bring your will into agreement with my will because I am love, and my will is love. Only love is able to unite your heart with my heart. Did I not say, “Only love is able to bring unity and agreement between heaven and earth. I Am the love that has no dimensions or boundaries; the love that the heavens cannot contain or limit. Do not be afraid little flock, for it is my good pleasure to give to you my name. Do not be afraid little flock, for it is my good pleasure to give to you my authority. Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is my good pleasure to give to you my kingdom” Did I not ask you to pray, “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” How can my will be done on earth unless my sons are first willing to receive my name, my authority, and my kingdom?

Matthew 7:21-23 NKJ “Not everyone who says to Me, “Lord, Lord,” shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?” And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who work iniquity!”

Hear me; I will not release my authority into the hands of anyone who delights in judging other men, regardless of what wickedness or evil that they may have done. I have told you before: “Love does not judge; love just loves”. Even so, the blindness of the carnally minded continues to look for reasons to judge others, while the spiritually minded look for purposes to love. My love does not think evil while the blind look to find evil so that it can justify itself to judge. In the valley of Megiddo, the blind will find countless and endless reasons to find fault with, to accuse, to point the finger at, to judge, and to condemn, while love only sees countless purposes to love. When blindness judges, then all manner of reasons come forth to put a stop to the flow of my love, my mercy, my compassion, my forgiveness, as well as all of the works of my grace. Those who judge cover the sins of others with guilt and condemnation, while those who love cover the sins of others with mercy and forgiveness. You are inexcusable O man whoever you are who judges others; for only blindness judges, and by judging your sin remains with you. Do not think for one moment that any of the accusations and judgments of the blind have any power to change me; for Satan has been standing before my throne with the same judgments and accusations, and they have done nothing to change me. I am love today, I was love yesterday, and I will be love tomorrow. The accusations and judgments of the blind are powerless to change me; that is, to cause me to cease from love. “Father, forgive them because they do not know what they are doing.” I cannot cease from love lest my entire purpose of being would cease to be.

Those who judge do not know what manner of Spirit they are of. Do you see me? Do you see the tears running down my face for those that I have called, but they are now in the valley of Megiddo because they do not know what manner of Spirit they are of? Do you see the tears running down my face when I hear one of your brothers desiring for me to send fire down from heaven to destroy and to kill those that I died for? Do you see the tears running down my face for those who are only bringing condemnation upon themselves by their own mouths because they do not care to know my love? The doors are before you/my elect; do you have the keys? You will not find any keys among those who see reasons for me to bottle up my love. I am giving you the eyes to my kingdom. Take the keys, open the doors, and let my love pour forth,” says the Lord.

Romans 2:1 “Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whosoever you are that judges: for wherein (of sin) you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you that judge do the same thing (sin).”

Matthew 16:18-19 “And I say also unto you, “You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”. And I will give unto you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Then the Lord ceased from speaking, but the vision did not end. I was still hovering in the air just above the mountains where I could clearly see the entire valley of Megiddo as well as the heavenly host that were waiting at the foot of the mountains. I was just staring at the scene before me, trying to comprehend and digest all that which the Lord had just spoken to me. Hardly a minute had gone by when suddenly I saw the arm of a man reach up and grab hold to one of the rocks at the top of the mountain that was right before me. He had been climbing up this mountain from the valley side, and I had not even been aware that anyone was even trying to climb this mountain until I saw his arm. I then watched as he pulled himself up onto the rock that was at the very top; and then he just collapsed in complete exhaustion on the very top. He then just laid there resting very peaceably. It was then that I observed this same scene repeat itself over and over as I saw others climbing and reaching the tops of all of the mountains that were surrounding the valley. I observed that each mountain had only one climber on it; no more, no less. I then perceived in my spirit that this meant that each man has his own mountain to climb. Then just like this man before me, once they reached the top, they would all lay down to rest quietly and very peaceably. Somehow or another, I perceived that all of these who had reached the top of these mountains were those who were able to escape the wrath of Satan in the valley of Megiddo because they had ceased from judging and accusing others.

I then asked the Lord who these were that made it to the top of the mountain. And the Lord excitedly answered and said, “These are mine. These are they who have sought for my kingdom and the righteousness of my life. They have not wavered nor turned aside from their journey. These are they who have desired to fulfill their destiny and be transformed into my image. They have diligently sought to know the intents and desires of my heart so that they might make it their own. They have asked for me to bring them up higher into my thinking and deeper into my heart. These are they that have hungered and thirsted to only have a heart that beats in unity with the beat of my heart; that is, when my heart beats in perfectly in love, they desire for their hearts to beat perfectly in love. When my heart beats in righteousness, they desire for their hearts to beat in righteousness. When my heart beats with desires to do good, they desire for their hearts to beat with desires to do good. When my heart beats with judgment, they desire for their hearts to beat in judgment. When my heart beats in giving, they desired for their heart to beat in giving. When my heart beats with mercy and compassion, they desire for their hearts to beat with mercy and compassion. When my heart beats with forgiveness, they desire for their hearts to beat in forgiveness. When my heart beats with the desire to save all men, they desire for their hearts to beat with the desire for all men to be saved. When my heart beats in holiness, they desire for their hearts to beat in holiness. When my heart beats with the desires to bless, they desire for their hearts to be with the desires to bless. And when my heart beats in abundant life, they desire for their hearts to beat in abundant life. These who you see resting on top of their mountain are they that have overcome the world, having taken up their crosses and crucified the beat of their own deceitful and wicked hearts; hearts that once only beat to satisfy their own desires and pleasures.

Galatians 5:24 NIV “Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.”

John 17:20-23 Jesus said, “Neither do I pray for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word so that they all may be one; as you Father are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me. And the glory which you gave me I have given to them so that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them and you in me so that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.”

These are they who have overcome Satan through the blood of the Lamb, through their testimonies of my love and my power working on their behalf, and they have hated the kingdom of sin and death that oppressed them. These are they who crucified the old master that rules over the natural. These are they who have crucified the enmity of the carnal mind, the wisdom of this world that fights to keep me out of the thoughts of their hearts through unbelief, logic, fear, pride, doubts, ignorance, and reasonings. These are they who have daily taken up their crosses and followed me, and not their own thoughts. These are they who have overcome the seemingly beautiful fashion of this world, hating all of the lies of hypocrisy and self-righteousness. These are they who have overcome all of the religious lies that glorify man for his best efforts, his outward appearances, and his good intentions. These are they who have crucified the hateful desires of the Devil, the father of their “old man”: the wicked desires to find fault with, to judge, to slander, to point the finger at, to accuse, and to condemn. These have crucified their judgments of themselves, their judgments of me, their judgments of their brethren, their judgments of their enemies, and their judgments of all men so that the love of God may be birthed in them. These are they who have sown much, and are now ready to receive much. Mine are they who have sown all, and now I am ready to birth my all in them. These are the first born of many brethren; the first born that shall receive the full inheritance of the first born. These are they who have overcome all things, and they are now ready to receive their full reward. These are mine. I am their reward, and they are my reward”, says the Lord.

I Corinthians 15:36 NIV “How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.”

Revelation 3:12-13 “Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name (nature, character, and authority) of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Revelation 3:21-22 “To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Revelation 2:26-29 NIV “To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations--He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery”-just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give him the morning star. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Revelation 2:7 NIV “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.”

Revelation 2:11 NIV “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death.”

Revelation 2:17 NIV “To him who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it.”

Revelation 3:5-6 NIV “He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Revelation 21:1-8 NIV “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.”

2 John 8 NKJ “Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.”

Fear not little flock, for it truly is the desire and pleasure of my heart to give my kingdom to you. But you think that you have been waiting on me to perform these things for you, but in truth, it is I who has been waiting on you. I have been waiting for my own to come into unity with my will; for when you come into the unity of my will, you come into the unity of my love. When the brethren come into the unity of love, then of the powers of Darkness shall be broken and pass away. When all of the powers of Satan are broken, then shall blindness be removed, and all will see and know that you are my disciples.” Then the Lord said, “These that you see on top of their mountain are they who have continued and persevered, having run the race set before them. They have suffered affliction, and persecution, and much tribulation, but they have endured, and turned not aside from the journey. I have given, and they have received many blessings and gifts along the way, but even these could not quench the passion that burns within them to have my heart. These take no thought for their own life, but they have cast aside their own desires, their own reputation, their own affections, their own works, their own feelings, their own righteousness, their own glory, as well as their own will so that they might win my heart.

John 13:35 “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”

Galatians 5:24 “They who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and desires.”

Again, I say unto you: I am love, and my will is to love and be loved; and my will for you is that you love and be loved. My will is one with the beat of my heart; for my will cannot be separated from the love that I Am. I have put my kingdom within all who I have called, but I have only found a few who have been willing to crucify the beat of their own hearts. It is the desires and affections that your heart beats to that rules the kingdom. No man is able to have his heart beat to two masters. I have sought for those whose hearts desire to walk after the beat of my heart; to walk in the love that makes all things one. My kingdom comes, and my will be done when your heart beats in oneness with the affections and desires of my love. Those you saw on the tops of the mountains, these are they who I have brought into my rest; who sought only after the beat of my heart. When my glory arises and shines upon them, then every beat of their heart shall be as the beat of my heart; and all the peoples shall know and see my love as I manifest my heart in my Sons. Just as they came to behold my wisdom when it was upon Solomon, so shall all come to see my Sons, the firstfruits of the beat of my heart; for a greater wisdom has risen upon them. Again, I say to you this day, “It is I who has been waiting on a people who are willing and desirous to walk in unity with the beat of my heart.”

Romans 8:13 “For if you live after the flesh you shall die; but if you, through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.”

Colossians 3:2-5 “Set your affection on things above and not on things on the earth. For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth….”

I then asked, “Lord, how were these able to escape Satan’s/the Devil’s wrath?” The Lord answered and said, “Every man is a slave to the desires of his heart. Like father, like son; as the desires of the father are, so also are the desires of his children. As you know, the name Devil describes a part of Satan’s nature, his character, and his authority. He hates all men, and all of his desire to kill, to steal, and destroy all, whether it be physically or spiritually. It is as it is written, “The first man is earthy, of the earth. At the fall, Satan was cursed to where he could only eat the dust of the earth; the very dust that the first man was formed of. When Satan walks about seeking who he can devour, he is only able to devour those who are of the dust, his own. You did not think for a moment that Satan could love his own or be fond of them, did you? I have put my hedge of protection around those who are faithful to me and sealed all those who walk in my Spirit. Mine have taken up their crosses and crucified the hateful desires of the Devil that are found in the first born of the earthy; the desires to find fault with, to judge, to slander, to accuse, to blame, to speak evil or, and to condemn. Those who do these things do not understand or know God, nor the nature of his Spirit. There is no desire in my Spirit to find fault with, or to judge another, or to slander, or to accuse, or to blame, or to speak evil of, or to condemn another. My spirit will not call for fire to come down from heaven to destroy or kill those that my love died for; all those who are of the dust of the earth. Mine have taken up their crosses and crucified the desires of the first born, the nature of dust of this earth.

DEVIL: ACCUSER; SLANDERER; FAULT FINDER

Micah 4:1 “But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it….5 For all people will walk every one in the name (nature, character, & authority) of his god, and we will walk in the name (nature, character, & authority) of the LORD our God for ever and ever.”

John 8:44 AMP “You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice the lusts and gratify the desires [which are characteristic] of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a falsehood, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar [himself] and the father of lies and of all that is false.”

Galatians 5:26 NKJ “And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”

Genesis 2:7 NIV “The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”

I Corinthians 15:47-48 “The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.”

Genesis 3: 14 NIV “So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.”

I Peter 5:8-9 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

The fruits of Satan’s hatred towards men are seen in the manner that he treats men, constantly tormenting their thoughts with anxiety, bitterness, stress, depression, paranoia, confusion, anger, loneliness, uncertainty, malice, unforgiveness, as well as all manner of fears. The children of the earth are blind to see that they are kept in bondage to these miserable and wicked thoughts because they continue to walk in the desires of the Devil to judge one another, to slander one another, to argue with one another, to find fault with one another, to accuse one another, to envy one another, to blame one another, to condemn one another, and even kill one another. Is it not written, “By your mouth you shall be justified, and by your mouth you shall be condemned”? What greater spell can a man put on his own head than by speaking the words that give these forces of Darkness to freely enter into their hearts and minds? How much more deceitful can this spell be, seeing that all those who judge, accuse, and condemn others are confident they are righteous in the words they speak? Those who are of the dust of the earth are blind to see that the works of witchcraft against themselves come forth out of their own mouths. In their blindness, they are only casting spells upon their own selves; for all they who judge, speak evil, and accuse others are only bring condemnation on their own heads. Love does not judge, nor think evil of any, and neither does it condemn. No force of Darkness shall be able to touch mine because I have sealed them with my Spirit of my love. I Am love, and those who are mine walk in the desires of their Father Love. Through the daily cross, they have escaped out of the valley where Satan is now devouring his own. I will say again, “Love does not judge; love just loves.” Those who do not judge, they shall not be judged or condemned. What you see in the valley of Megiddo is Satan devouring his own because he hates his own.

Revelation 12:10-12 NKJ “Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 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. Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the Devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”

John 8:10-12 “When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.” Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

Matthew 7:1,2 AMP “DO NOT judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves. For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you.”

Job 15:6 NIV “Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.”

Matthew 12: 37 NKJ “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Romans 2:1 NKJ “Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

Zephaniah 3:15 “The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shall not see evil any more.”

Just then, something strange began to happen. I felt like time was folding up all around me, in a fashion just like a piece of paper would being folded up, one piece over another, over and over. It was as if in a moment, minutes had passed, but it was also as if hours, and days, and even many, many years had also passed in that same moment. I then realized that there was no way possible for me to determine just how long the elect had been resting on top of their mountains. Some could have been there for many, many years, while others for only just a few minutes. Even so, it felt as though they had all been there for the same amount of time. It was as if an hour was a day, and a day was as a year. It was certainly something that I do not have the intelligence of the understanding to explain. I did perceive that this spacing of time was something along the lines of that which is written in II Peter 3:8-9 “But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” I still do not know exactly what the Lord was trying to show me other than time is not a law that has any power over God; for God only dwells in the now.

My attention was still focused on these men at the top of the mountains when I heard a loud voice come from heaven with a shout saying, “Arise”. Then all that had been resting stood up; and when they stood up, there came a loud explosion of brilliant light that shined from the tops of all these mountains. Though there were many explosions, it appeared as though there was only one huge one. Then the glory of God shined upon each one of these men, and they were all transfigured and gloried as the Sons of the Light. I saw that the glory of God first shined upon them, but then this same brilliant light began to shine out of them. The brilliance and the brightness of the glory that arose upon them was far greater than the glory that I had seen upon the heavenly hosts that were waiting at the base of the mountains. I have heard prophesied before that a greater glory was coming, and I was now convinced of that. I then observed that when this explosion of light occurred, the men in the valley as well as the forces of Darkness, they all quickly responded by turning their heads instantly towards the mountains that were around them. The men seemed to respond to this event in a manner that was similar to how the men that where with Paul on that road to Damascus responded when the glory of God shined upon him; with a sudden great fear. I then observed that even though there was no man that could discern what had just happened, all of the forces of Darkness knew exactly what had happened because they all trembled in great fear “knowing” what had happened.

Isaiah 60:1 “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.”

Matthew 17:1-7 “And after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into an high mountain apart. And there he was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was as white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here: if you are willing, let us make here three tabernacles; one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. While he was speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.”

Acts 9:3-7 “And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And the Lord said, “I am Jesus whom you persecute: it is hard for you to kick against the pricks”. And he trembled and was astonished and said, “Lord, what will you have me to do?” And the Lord said to him, “Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do”. And the men who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.”

II Thessalonians 1:10 “And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that do not know God, and that do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power, when he shall come to be glorified in his saints…”

Hebrews 3: 18-19 NIV “And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.”

Romans 8:18-22 “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God; for the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.”

I then realized that the Sons of God had just seen Jesus in all of his present glory, and then they were transfigured into the exact likeness of Jesus, just like the scriptures prophesied that we would. I could clearly see that the perfection of God’s love had risen upon them. I then remembered that the Lord had said to me, “I Am love, and I possess power.” I then perceived that all of these had not only been glorified in the perfection of Father’s love, but they had also received all of the authority and power that accompanies the love of God. The most amazing thing about this explosion of light was that even though it shined forth more brightly and brilliantly than the sun, it also shined forth with more colors than you would find in a rainbow. The second thing that was amazing about this light was that the brilliance of it did not at all dim after the initial explosion, but it continued to shine brightly everywhere. The forces of Darkness, as well all those who remained in the valley cowered in great terror and fear. It reminded me of how Israel cowered in fear when Goliath appeared.

I John 3:2 NKJ “Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.”

Matthew 17:1-3 NKJ “Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.”

Then the Sons of Light turned their faces towards the valley of Megiddo, and they looked upon all of the evil and wicked works that the Darkness was inflicting and oppressing all of mankind with. They saw the great torment, great fears and paranoia, much depression and hopelessness, much worry and stress, hatred and malice everywhere, great suffering and pain, extreme bitterness, confusion and chaos, and much anger and rage. It was then that I realized that though none of the people in the valley could see that all of these wicked and evil works came forth from these forces of Darkness, the Sons of God could clearly see that they all were. Just as clearly as Jesus saw that dumb spirit that had possessed that young man to do wild and mad things, so also could the Sons of God literally see that it was these forces of Darkness that were oppressing men to do these wicked works to one another. The Sons of God could also see that it was the spirits of infirmity that were afflicting men with all manner of sicknesses and diseases. After seeing all this, the Sons of God, with one heart, began to greatly grieve for the children of men; and then their hearts were filled with great compassion for everyone of them, even for those who appeared to be the most wicked among them. Then, in one accord, they each turned and summoned their part of the heavenly host that had been waiting for this very moment; and each one of them directed the heavenly hosts to attack.

Immediately the heavenly hosts raced into the battle, and the glory of God went before them. The first thing that I saw was that as the light of the glory of God came into this valley, all of the mists or clouds of Darkness just completely dissipated. The most striking thing that I observed was just how much larger, how much stronger, and how much faster the angels of God were than the fallen angels. They were at least twice as big and tall as the demons were, and they were so much quicker that the demons that they easily ran circles around them before they could even move a foot. I then perceived that this disparity in size, in speed, and in strength came from the anointing that Father had equipped his heavenly host with just for this battle. Also, the heavenly hosts outnumbered the forces of Darkness at least 10 to 1, if not 20 to 1. It was not a grueling battle that lasted for hours or days, but rather it was a battle that could be measured in seconds. In fact, what I saw did not even look like any battle of Armageddon, but rather it looked more like a rodeo where the cowboys chase down the fleeing steers, lasso them, and then tie them up. The angels of God did not come riding on horses but rather they swooped in like hawks and eagles; and they were all swinging chains in the same manner that a cowboy swings his lasso. These angels of God immediately bound up all of the demons and wicked spirits with their chains, and they carried them all away with them. It truly was a battle that was over before it really began. I then realized that there was not one man in this valley that had been able to see what at had just happened. Even so, every man was aware that something cataclysmic had just occurred.

II Kings 6:16 “And he answered, “Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.”

Jude 6 “And the angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.”

1 Corinthians 6:3 NKJ “Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?”

John 12:31-32 Jesus said, “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me.”

I then saw that even though the oppression of the Darkness was now gone, there still remained a great residue of their wicked and evil works in the hearts and minds of all the people in the valley. I then observed that the Sons of God had been perfected and filled with the perfect love of God that blesses all, that grieves for all, that forgives all, that gives all, that cares for all, that reveals all, and that loves all now. I then remembered the time that I was taken in the Spirit, and I was allowed to come before God. I literally saw the different characteristic’s of God’s love flowing out of him as streams of different colored lights, which was exactly what I was now seeing in the lights that were now shinning forth from the Sons of God. I could clearly see the love of God in his Sons in the same physical manner that I saw in Father’s body. Then the understanding entered into me that what I was seeing was the fulfilling of that which is prophesied in Isaiah 40:5 “And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it”. I had always thought that this glory would be seen when Christ physically appeared, but now I was seeing and understanding that this glory is going to be seen when Jesus Christ manifests himself in the Sons of God. Jesus is the glory of God.

Romans 8:18 NIV “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”

2 Thessalonians 1:9-10 NIV “They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out (see Matthew 25:1-9: the unprepared) from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.”

I then saw Sons of Gods begin to move through the valley, to begin to heal the bodies, the souls, and the spirits of all of the residue of the Darkness that remained in the hearts and minds of those left alive. I then found myself turning a corner and walking right into the midst of a large group of men that seemed to be randomly shooting and killing one another with guns. I walked right in front of them while they were still blasting away, and the bullets went through my body in the same manner as if it was passing through a cloud; no effect whatsoever. Suddenly, the eyes of all these men saw the glory of Father’s love shinning out me. Then, without me even saying one word, they all dropped their guns and just stared at the perfect love of God that desires to forgive all, that desires to bless all, that desires to cares for all, that desires to give life to all, and that loves all “now”. Great shame came upon them as they could clearly see the truth about God’s love; that he truly loves all with the same pure love. The Darkness was gone, and the curse of blindness was now lifted. Then miraculously, their bodies, their souls, and their spirits were healed of all sin, all death, all infirmity, all corruption, and all mortality. Though they were all changed and made new, they did not appear in the same glory that the Sons of God did; but I perceived that they were all changed and restored into the same likeness that Adam and Eve had before they fell.

I Corinthians 15:45 AMP “Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life].

I then turned and faced all those around me that had been wounded or murdered. And again, through the very love of God that was shinning out of me, the dead were raised and all they that were wounded were completely healed. It was not one thing that I was doing of myself, but it was as though the love of God shinning out of me was giving life to all who saw it. Not only had their bodies been healed but so also were all the wounds that had wounded their minds also. These were also changed and made new just like the others. Of course, all of these were praising, and thanking, and worshipping God. Everywhere that I walked, as well as everywhere the Sons of God walked, the same type of scenarios were taking place over and over.

Acts 5:14-16 NKJ “And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.16 Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.”

At the time that I was writing these things, the Lord gave my daughter Ansley this vision: A Touch of Love

Ansley: I was praying for His Heart, so that the Lord could enable me to love man in his most wicked state, and the Lord showed me how it is going to be. I saw people doing horrible things, but I just walked up to these people with pure love for them. It was a beautiful thing. The love that was in me was so sweet towards all of the people that were doing these terrible things to themselves and to others. As I got close I would touch them and speak words of love and they would be set aright. No more tormented by the demons, they were free just from the touch and the love that just rolled off of me. I would touch the victim and they would be healed from the horror of what had been done to them.

The next thing I saw was I was walking into like a hostage situation. There was absolutely no fear in me, just the sweet love of Jesus. I walked through bullets and went to the gunman who was just insane, and he kept shooting at me. I then touched him and smiled at him. He fell to his knees and wept. I just held him. He knew that Jesus loved him. They all did. I wish that I could describe the love because it was just so pure and so sweet; incredibly sweet.

The Lord told me that just as there is coming an acceleration in his Spirit, so also is there coming an acceleration of evil. Then I saw the mountains that Dad had spoken of in the valley of Megiddo where the saints are. I saw us climbing this mountain when I suddenly felt this gentle wind come and take us; and we rode the wind up to the top of the mountain. In no time at all we were at the top. End of Ansley’s vision.

1 John 4:16-20 “And we have known and believed the love that God has towards us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man says, “I love God”, and he hates (thinks evil of) his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”

I then walked into some kind of office building, into a room that had 6 or 7 people that were busy working. When I entered into that room, they all turned to look at me, and as soon as they did, they all began to vomit up what looked like thick streams of liquid tar or heavy black oil. Even though these were streams were as heavy as tar or oil, they would only project out about 2 feet before they would completely dissipate in the light of the glory of God that was shinning out of me. The Lord then spoke to me and said, “This is the pride and the self-righteousness of man. No man is able to receive of my love that is infected with these abominations. All shall see, all shall be healed, and all shall be able to receive my love. Then all who were in that office building were changed just like all of the rest were. Again, I was just walking around the streets of that city, and all who were sick or diseased were instantly healed as soon as they looked on the glory of God’s love. For the first time, I was really beginning to grasp that Jesus really meant what he said, “The works that I do, you will do greater.”

Then I was again taken in the Spirit into midst of this old, low income, government housing complex that has a bad reputation for crime and drugs. I found that I was no longer walking through the midst of these apartments, but rather I was hovering between 15 and 20 feet above the ground. Even though it was around midnight, the glory of God was still brilliantly shinning out of me, lighting up the entire place as though it was the middle of the day. People began pouring out of their apartments, and I was speaking the gospel of the kingdom with power. Every word that I was speaking was immediately coming to pass in that very moment; and every word that I spoke kept bringing forth eternal life into the bodies of all those who were before me. Again, they were all changed and made new, just like all of the others. I then realized why the scriptures say that prophesy will be done away when the perfect love of God comes, and that is because there is no foretelling of what “is going” to happen because the words spoken actually come to past as soon as they come forth.

I Corinthians 13:8-10 NIV “Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.”

Then an incredible thing happened to me. In the very same moment that I quit speaking to these people, and faster than a spilt second, I suddenly found myself about 35 miles away from where I had just been. I then asked, “Lord, what was that all about? How did you do that?” The Lord answered me and said, “As long as you are surrendered to my will, to love and be loved, then be prepared to travel at the speed of thought. If you desire to move with my love, then my love will move you as she is moved.” Whoa! Now that is the way to travel, being able to traverse miles, or continents, or the earth, or universes, or even heaven itself at the speed of thought: awesome.

Acts 8:39-40 NKJ “Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was found at Azotus (at least 20 miles from Philip at been the moment before) And passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea.”

I just meditating on the Lord one morning when the Lord gave me a vision of the most perfectly grilled porterhouse steak. Now steak is one of my most favorite of all foods; so at first, I thought that this vision came to by my own imagination. But when the vision did not go away, I realized that it was a vision. I then asked the Lord what he trying to show to me. The Lord then spoke to me and said, “How many people do you want to feed with this steak: 5,000? 50,000? 5,000,000? The power, and the authority, and the love is going to be given to you to bless multitudes.” Of course, the first thought that came into my mind was of the time that Jesus had the authority to feed the 5,000 with a couple fish and few loaves of bread. Then the Lord showed me that the currency of the kingdom of God is going to be “blessings”. I was really blessed when the Lord then showed to me that I would not be blessings others with bread and water, but with that which was the best.

The kingdom of God is coming, and it is now a lot closer than any of us really believe. It is a kingdom that is unlike any kingdom that has ever been on earth. There will be no more presidents, or czars, or dictators. There will be no more money as we know it, nor love of money. There will be no more corruption. There will be no more arrogance or pride to be offended. There will be no more hypocrisy or pretenses. There will be no more lies, or deceit, or falsehood of any kind. There will be no more arguments, or fighting, or warfare. There will be no more envy or jealousy. There will be no more threats or intimidations. There will be no more accusations, or pointing of the finger, or slander, or judging others, or condemnation. There will be no more disappointments or failures. There will be no more embarrassments, or shame, or guilt. There will be no rejections or loneliness. There will be no more boredom or worthlessness. There will be no more fears or dreads of any kind. There will be no more sickness, diseases, decay, deafness, blindness, or oldness. There will be no more betrayals or broken promises. There will be no more pain, or sorrow, or grief, or suffering. There will be no more feelings of loss or good-byes. There will be no more darkness. There will be no more death. There will be no more curses of any kind. In other words, all that a man is familiar with in this world will not even exist in the kingdom of God.

The kingdom of God is not of this world and neither does it resemble any government of this world because there is no government of this world that has God for it’s head. It is a kingdom where the government will rest on Christ’s shoulders, and it is God’s head that rests upon his shoulders. The body is Christ’s, and his Spirit shall continually be in the hearts and minds of the Sons of God and the children of God; for Jesus Christ is the law of life that shall rule over his body. The presence of God will be everywhere; the presence that will eternally bring forth abundant life and purpose for all. No longer will God say your thoughts are not my thoughts; for joy, trust, peace, excitement, goodness, blessings, faith, care, humility, belief, and love will be as natural in your thinking as Satan’s thoughts of evil, fear, pride, accusations, worry, doubt, sadness, and stress were when you were carnally minded, because God shall be your head. Love will be the law of the kingdom, but it will not be as a law that his children shall have to make an effort to obey or to serve because the desires of love shall be written in the hearts and minds of all. All will be of their Father God, and the desires of his love shall be that which they yearn to do. Love cannot rejoice unless it can be received; and all shall delight in receiving love from all. In the kingdom of God, there will be no more vying for attention because all shall have great value and purpose because all will love and be greatly loved. The currency of the kingdom of God is the love that blesses; for love desires to freely give. There will be no lack or need anywhere in the kingdom because God.

Impossible will not be found in the thoughts of the children of God because love believes that all things are possible. There will be no thought that shall not come to pass because all thoughts will be in agreement with Father’s love. There shall be no word spoken that shall not be performed. There will be no musical instrument that cannot be played by all, and neither will there be any imagination that cannot be created. Nothing will be done for one’s own accomplishment, but everything will be done for the enjoyment of fellowship and life with Father God and his son Jesus Christ.

John 18:36 NKJ “Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”

Matthew 6:33 NKJ “But seek first the kingdom of God…”

Luke 17:20-21 AMP “Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He replied to them by saying, The kingdom of God does not come with signs to be observed or with visible display, nor will people say, “Look! Here [it is]!” or, “See, [it is] there!” For behold, the kingdom of God is within you [in your hearts] and among you [surrounding you].”

Romans 14:17-18 NIV “For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”

1 Corinthians 4:20-21 NIV “For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.”

Hebrews 12:25-29 NKJ “See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.”

Your destiny, as well as my destiny, it all lies in our own hands. The destiny of all mankind lies now lies in the hands of the Sons of God.

Your fate and your destiny, as well as my fate and my destiny, is in our own hands. Not to long ago I would have completely disagreed with statement, declaring that my fate as well as my destiny were in the hands of God. Then the Lord revealed to me that he determined our destiny before the beginning of this world, that we should all be conformed to the image of his son Jesus Christ. Whether we fulfill our destiny is our choice; for God has given to each one of the freedom to choose what we are going to believe. What we choose to believe will then determine our own fate. Armageddon is truly the last battle; the last great battle for that which men will choose to believe. I do not know how any Christian could think that this battle would be between flesh and blood see that the scriptures reveal that our battle is only with powers and principalities, rulers of the Darkness, and wicked spirits in the high place of our minds, with Christ himself casting out every imagination of thought that contends and opposes the counsels of his words. There is only one thing that Satan and God have in common, and that is that they both desire to have each one of us. Satan comes to deceive with words that flesh desires to hear; Jesus comes speaking the words of Father’s love that the soul desires to here. One tempts you with his desires to judge, to accuse, to condemn, and curse, while the other desires to show mercy, forgive, and bless. The battle of Armageddon takes place between a man’s ears.

Ephesians 6:10-13 NKJ “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the Wiles of the Devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand.”

II Corinthians 10:4-5 “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”

1 Peter 2:11 “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly desires (the desires of the Devil to accuse), which war against the soul.”

After the working of all of Satan’s deceitful lies, then comes Jesus Christ to manifest the glory of his love to those who have overcome all of Satan’s lies. All of Satan’s lies hide in the blindness of men so that they cannot discern his true intention to minister his hatred to them. The light of God’s perfect love will then come be manifested in the Sons of God for all to see, because there is intent in the love of God that he desires to keep hidden. Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened to see the love of God in Christ Jesus manifest his Sons. To see Jesus is to see the light of the truth of God’s love; and the truth of his love is that which sets men free from the blindness of the Darkness. As the Lord said, “I came into this world to give sight to the blind, to turn them from Darkness to Light, from the power of Satan to the power of God. The righteousness of man is blindness, and in his blindness is the dwelling place for all sin. All of the good intentions and best efforts of men are blindness. All self-justification is blindness. Lies are blindness. Idolatry is blindness. Hypocrisy is blindness. Judging according to appearances is blindness. Unforgiveness is blindness. All of man’s doctrines, and laws, and traditions are blindness. Man’s wisdom and understanding is blindness. Opinions of God are blindness. Unwillingness is blindness. Unbelief and doubts are blindness. Fears are blindness. Anxiety and worry are blindness. Hopelessness is blindness. Confusion is blindness. Strife and divisions are blindness. Arguments are blindness. Intimidation and control are blindness. Hatred is blindness. Fornication and adultery are blindness. Envy is blindness. Bitterness is blindness. The desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes and the pride of man is blindness.

Ephesians 4:17-18 “This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.”

All blindness is sin because blindness is the vision of the Darkness that seems right. They have eyes, but they do not see! Blindness is man’s captivity to sin. The kingdoms of this world are ruled by the Darkness that blinds. When blindness is removed, then shall Daniel’s seventy weeks be fulfilled, the eyes of all will be opened to see him, and sin shall come to it’s end. All shall see the Lord arise in all of his glory in the Sons of God, and when they see him, all shall know him, and the love that God has for them. Never again shall there be a kingdom of this world, nor any remembrance of it, after the light of the everlasting kingdom of God shines forth in the brilliant righteousness of God’s love”, says the Lord. After the Lord showed me all these things, I then a voice come from heaven, whether it came from God or from an angel, I do not know, but it said, “It is done; now the rulers and lords of this world have been judged and cast out. Now the Darkness has been exposed as well as the wrath that it imposed. Now the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of God”.

John 9:39-41 “And Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.” Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, "Are we blind also?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.”

Isaiah 60:1-3 NIV “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.

See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.”

I John 3:6 NKJ “…Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.”

III John 11 NIV “…Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.

Daniel 9:24 NJ “Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.”

Now speaking for myself, what is really interesting for me to see is that when the world and the ignorant speak of these last days, they seem to only speak of the wrath of God and the apocalypse as though this word means complete and utter destruction. That is really ignorant to use this word in this way because apocalypse means “revelation”. The only thing that revelation can possibly destroy is the blindness of ignorance; the ignorance that blinds the eyes of all so that they cannot see, or know, or understand the love that God has for all of his creation. This apocalypse will occur in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, when God manifest the glory of his love to all the world through his Sons. It is in that moment that the Darkness of this world will be judged, all blindness removed, and all Gentiles shall see.

The Wrath of God & The Wrath of Satan

Why is that no one seems to be able to connect the wrath of Satan with these last days, seeing that it is only desires to do evil to man? Other than wisdom be taken from the carnally minded, the also Lord showed to me that there is one more thing that will make separate this time from all other troublesome times, and that is since the beginning of time, mankind has never been caught between both the wrath of Satan and the wrath of God. The Lord has brought forth several words recently in which he says that the gates of grace are now beginning to close in heaven. Even so, man is still not without some hope, and that is because God is transferring the love and authority of his kingdom from heaven to earth, to the Sons of God; and all the works, the blessings, the gifts, and the grace of Father’s love will no longer come from above but from earth. The scriptures are about to be fulfilled, that his kingdom comes, and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven; and it is the will of God for all men to be saved, and for all to love and be loved.

God has chosen us to make us to be ministers and priests….to him. I never really could comprehend how any of us could actually function as a minister or a priest to the almighty God, but the Lord recently changed my thinking. What I am about to share has certainly confirmed to me that old saying that God works in mysterious ways, and it will also begin to reveal some of the impact that the Sons of God are going to have in the days of the wrath of God and the wrath of Satan. First, of all we all know that it is impossible for God to lie. Secondly, we all know that the scriptures reveal and describe the judgments of God, as well as the wrath that will come against those who refuse and reject him. It is for this reason that we would all do well to reverence and tremble before our God who is a consuming fire.

The Lord woke me up one morning at 3 am, which is the time that Father usually wakes me up when he has something specific to speak to me. I went to pray and said, “Father, I am here; speak.” The Lord then gave me a vision where I could see the entire city of Dallas, Texas. I have never been to Dallas, Texas, nor do I even know anyone in Dallas. In fact, I do not even know how I knew that the city that I was seeing in this vision was Dallas, except that the Spirit of the Lord told me that it was.

The next thing that I saw in this vision was the night sky, and coming out of the darkness was this incredibly large tsunami like wave of fire. It looked just like a large wave that was violently churning and constantly breaking; except it did not consist of water, but fire. The face of this wave of fire was at least 200 feet tall, and it could just as easily be at least 500 feet tall seeing that I did not have much to measure it’s height against. Then the Lord told that this was the wrath of God, and it was headed for Dallas. My heart immediately sank with despair and hopelessness for Dallas because I knew that there was nothing that would be able to save this city from this wave of fire. I also felt extremely helpless because I could see that the speed this wave of fire was moving so rapidly towards Dallas, there was not even enough time for me to go and warn the inhabitants to immediately flee, much less to warn them to repent. I was grieved beyond description, wanting desperately for the Lord to bring this vision to an end so that I would not have watch what was going to happen.

Suddenly the Lord spoke to me and said, “Mitt, what would be easier for you to do; to go to Dallas before my wrath comes, and change the minds, or for you to come to me and ask me to change my mind?” What? Surely I did not hear what I just thought I heard the Lord say. Nevertheless, I answered, “Lord, you are God Almighty; I am but a man. Who am I to think that I could ever change your mind?” The Lord then answered me and said, “Did not Moses and Aaron change my mind? Were they not able to avert the wrath of the judgment that I had decreed?” As soon as I heard how the Lord answered me, I said, “Wow, Lord, they did. By their request and supplication, and by your mercy, you undid the wrath of the judgment that you had decreed and purposed.” I have not ceased from that moment to this day to offer up supplications and prayers, day and night, for Dallas, Texas. I now that there is not one man or woman that lives in Dallas that even has a clue that a man in South Carolina is praying for them in this manner. But that is okay, because God would not have taught me how to pray in this matter if he was not going to hear my prayers.

It is like God, in the midst of his anger and wrath, needs someone to minister to the grace of his love, reminding him of his mercy. With my measly little understanding, I could not think of another reason why the Lord would come to me and actually give me the prayers that will lead him to change his mind, and turn away his wrath away from an entire city. Recently a man quoted that which a friend of his said to him, “It has to come to pass because it is written”; and I perceived that that because of the context that it was spoken in, that he was speaking of the judgments and the wrath of God. I then remembered that the scriptures also say that mercy triumphs over judgment; like God is giving to us a trump card, a card that can be used for his mercy to triumph over his judgment. The only thing required of those who use it is for them to believe that the mercy of his love is greater than the wrath of his anger. I then began to understand that one of the greatest impacts the Sons of God are going to have in these last days is minister to the Lord, to turn the wrath of God away through their prayers and supplications. I then remembered the third seal: The Forgiveness of God’s love”; and that the justice of the Lord is forgiveness.

Jeremiah 5:1 ASV “Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeks truth; and I will pardon her.”

Recently I got a prayer request from a woman on my mailing list. She began by explaining that she had two sons. The oldest son owned a restaurant/pub. It was mainly a family type restaurant until around 9 pm; then it changed into a pub that was visited mostly by local people. She then explained that one evening, several people came to the pub that had had a little to much to drink. Her oldest son then called his younger brother and asked him to come and help out, like being a bouncer if needed. As it turned out, nothing rowdy occurred. Then after closing, when the younger son was beginning to drive away from the restaurant, he stopped at stop sign. When he did not see any cars coming in any direction, he began to drive straight ahead. As soon as he pulled out, a motorcycle appeared speeding from his left. He immediately turned his car to the right as fast as he could, but the motorcycle still hit him in the driver’s door. If he had not been able to turn lie he did, the motorcycle would crashed directly into his door. But because he had turned, the motorcycle bounced off of the door. His airbag deployed, and this woman’s son was okay; but the driver of the motorcycle was killed.

Then shortly after this accident, this woman and her family found out that the man who got killed had a brother that was what is called a “full-patch” Hell’s Angel. “Full-patch” in some gangs means that you completely all initiations, including have actually killed someone. Then they heard that this man was “rolling” to their town. In some gangs, when one rolls, they all roll, especially when it is a full patch member. This entire e-mail dripped with fear, and at first I thought this woman was going to ask for me to pray for her, that the Lord would deliver her from her fears and give her the faith that he was completely in control over this situation. Instead, she just asked for me to pray and ask the Lord for me to protect her family. Later on, when I was praying, I began to ask the Lord for his mercy and to intervene on behalf of this woman and her family.

Suddenly the Lord spoke to me a said, “I do not want you to pray for this family’s protection, but rather I want you to pray and ask me to protect the “Hell’s Angels”. Whoa! I then paused and meditated on what the Lord had just asked of me, and immediately the vision of the “Valley of Megiddo” came into my mine, where I saw carnally minded man carrying out Satan’s plans against other carnally minded men. I then realized that this scenario was the perfect situation that could open the door and allow for Satan and/or his demons to come forth with his counsels that would instruct these Hell’s angels to kill, steal, or destroy. I then realized that if the Lord protected the Hell’s Angels from these wicked and evil counsels, then this woman’s family would also be protected. So I began to pray exactly according to what Father had asked of me, that his love would protect the Hell’s Angels from the angels from hell. Awesome! I then started to e-mail this woman and tell her how the Lord instructed me to pray in this matter, but the Lord stopped me saying, “Because of her fears, she will not be able to hear or receive this word at this moment.”

Several days went by with me anxiously checking to see if this woman had sent me an e-mail testifying of what the Lord had done. I knew that whatever this woman’s fears were prophesying in her imaginations, they were only going to be nothing but lies sent to torment her. I knew that the Lord would not have given to me the instructions of how to pray unless the love of Father God fully intended to protect these Hell’s Angels. Then about 5 days later, I got an e-mail from this woman, and to my surprise, it was another prayer request about some other situation. I immediately e-mailed her back, asking her to share with me what had happened in this situation with the Hell’s Angel. She then sent me an e-mail that basically said, “Oh, that. Well, the guy came to house all by himself. He was really friendly and sat in the living room with is. He then began to describe to us that his brother had a big drinking problem, and that his entire family tried to help him, but without any results. Then when this guy was leaving, he gave her husband a hug, and then shook hands with her son. End of e-mail.

I was really surprised that there was no mention of God, nor was there any giving of thanks for the way that this event had turned out, especially after having her fears forecast this certain doom and gloom situation. The love of God had turned this situation into a “non-event”; an event where the counsels of the forces of Darkness were not able to come forth to torment and trouble. Even though this woman did not know it, I knew what God’s love had just done for all them, and I praised and thanked him for turning this situation into a non-event; an event where none of Satan’s wrath could come forth to kill, or to steal, or to destroy. Glory be to God for his love; the love that allows his power to intervene and help us.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NKJ “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

I have just testified of two separate events that the Lord has allowed for me to partake in: the wrath of God that was/is coming to Dallas, and the wrath of Satan that was desiring to come against the Hell’s Angels and this family. In both of these instances, all the Lord taught me to do was to intercede and pray; but the intercession and prayer that allows for Father to show himself great and mighty in power, as well as to show forth the greatness of his mercy and the grace of his love. This is the hour that God is raising up a very interesting priesthood; a priesthood that will minister to the mercies and grace of Father’s love, that will stand in the gap, that will pray for the justice of forgiveness to come to entire cities, and that will be battling against all the forces of Darkness for the souls of all men. The fate of all men is soon to rest in the hands of the Sons of God, and it is for that reason that God is going to perfect them in his love and empower them with all of his authority. If all Father desired to do was to manifest his sons, then it would have pleased him greatly to manifest them in heaven, in his presence. But God is manifesting his Sons on earth so that he might recover his creation from all the blindness that the Darkness has ruled over his creation with. The Lord has performed many wonderful works on my behalf. He has changed my heart and transformed the thoughts in my mind. He has cast out my fears, and I have seen demons cast out. I myself have received two physical healings from the Lord. As wonderful as these blessings are, and they are all surely wonderful, I would still not dare put any of these works into the category of the “great and mighty” works of God; miracles yes, but great and mighty, no.

When I see mercy triumphing over the judgments that have been written in the very scriptures themselves, and love triumphing over certain death and destruction, then I rejoice at being allowed to witness the move of the great and mighty works of Father’s love. It was written in the law that anyone who committed adultery should be stone to death, and the judges and accusers love to satisfy their desires to do just that. But God, through his son Jesus Christ, showed to the world that the grace of his love is greater than the laws that are written. When Moses and Aaron cried out for mercy on behalf of Israel because of the curses that God sent upon them for disobeying his words, again the grace of Father’s love prevailed. Many times I myself have cried out to the Lord when the lies of Darkness told me that God could not forgive me for the evil that I had done, yet Father has not once failed to show me the grace and mercy of his love when he forgave me.

This is the hour that Satan has set out to bewitch all who are carnally minded to play his game. This is the hour that evil, and corruption, and wickedness, and falsehood, and injustice, and perversion have already been increasing, and will increase until the beast is fully manifest. This is the hour that Satan is going to tempt all to do as he does when he stands before the throne of God, to point the finger, and judge, and accuse all of their wicked and evil deeds. Those who fall to his witchcraft will be then find themselves in the valley of Megiddo, being unmercifully assaulted by the forces of Darkness. What greater witchcraft can be cast upon the souls of men than to be bewitched into believing the lies that entice men into doing the very deed (to judge and accuse) that will bring condemnation and destruction upon their own heads. Love never points the finger, or judges, or accuse. Those who are enticed to play Satan’s game in this hour will soon find themselves in the valley of Megiddo, where flesh and blood will be battling flesh and blood, as objects of Satan’s wrath. If it were possible, even the very elect who are being sealed in God’s love, would also be deceived to play his game. Those who God perfects in love will not battle against flesh and blood, but they will battle for the souls of all those who have been overcome by Satan’s lies.

God is presently raising up a priesthood of believers; a priesthood of lovers because it is love that believes all things. These are they that will glory in knowing and understanding a Father’s love for them, as well as the love that God has for all men. These are they who will not see the wickedness and evil that men do, but they will see the Darkness oppressing men to do wickedly and evil. Even though the world or religion may not know who these are, God knows them because they are continuously before him, interceding for others, worshipping and praising him, and blessing and ministering to the Lord himself. Their impact may not yet be known, but the results of their priesthood will be experienced by all. Though no one may yet know exactly who these are, God is about to manifest them; not to show off to the world how special this priesthood is that he has raised up, but so that the world may see in them the love of God that is in Christ Jesus; the love that is able to love and care for men when they may be in the most wicked and evil state that men can be in; even when they are Hell’s Angels. The world cannot change until the blindness that covers the hearts and minds of men is first removed. Then shall the eyes of men be opened, and they shall be turned from Darkness to Light, from the power of Satan to the power of God. The revelation of the perfect love of God, manifest in his Sons, is that which will soon come forth to accomplish and finish this very work. Then shall the hearts and minds of all be changed who see the Sons of God. Then shall the world be changed, and the kingdoms of this world shall be become the kingdoms of God. Then shall it be finished.

Jeremiah 9:23-24 “Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom. Let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches. But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the LORD.

Revelation 21:6-7 “And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.”

I have now testified of all that which the Lord has revealed to me concerning how the Lord is preparing his people to receive him in these last days. I have come to see that this world is only able to exist, even though it is compassed fully in Darkness, because of the love that has for all of us. The longsuffering, the forbearance, and the patience of God’s love cannot be measured or understood by any; for how God has endured a world and even his own people who walk in unbelief, in love of self, in doubts, in reasonings and logic, in rebellion, in mocking, in pride, in being afraid to approach God, in division and strife, as well as every other wicked and evil characteristic that comes forth from the enmity of the carnal mind, is far beyond any comprehension that I have. It is easy to for to understand for ourselves the word that says, “God loved us when we did not love him.”; but do we understand that this truth, the God loves all men, even when their hearts and minds are in the most wicked and evil state they could ever be in; even towards their Creator and Maker? Truly, our victory is found in his love; and now that victory is soon going to come forth for all when that same love is manifest in the Sons of God. Oh, how awesome God’s love is that commands his mercies to stand forever.

Now it begins…for now there is nothing restraining God from performing any of his words, seeing that he has been revealing all of his secrets to his prophets in this hour.

May the Lord greatly bless you with hope, increase your faith, and cause you to abound in belief of his words, that you may be raised up in the fullness of his glory, and be like unto him, for all the world to see him.

“Father, as your word is, so let it be done unto us.”

Mitt

A Journey From The Beginning (Fear)
To The End (Perfect Love)

Mitt Jeffords
April 2009

Preface

Chapter 1

We are the children of God by faith; but whose faith makes us to his children?

Chapter 2 “The Mystery of Father’s Will”

Chapter 3

Belief grows and faith increases

Chapter 4

“Oh Mr. Christian, what a big, beautiful heart you have”, said the wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing.

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

The spirit of the Son: Jesus

Chapter 8

Israel & Goliath/ The Church & The Last Days

Chapter 9

David & Goliath/ The Elect & The Last Days

Chapter 10

Revelation 5: The Unlikeliest Place for the Greatest Love Story Ever Told

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

The Revelation of the Seven Characteristics of the Perfect Love of God

Chapter 13

The Wrath of God & The Wrath of Satan

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A Journey From The Beginning (Fear)To The End (Perfect Love)

Mitt JeffordsApril 2009

Preface

Chapter 1

We are the children of God by faith; but whose faith makes us to his children?

Chapter 2 “The Mystery of Father’s Will”

Chapter 3

Belief grows and faith increases

Chapter 4

“Oh Mr. Christian, what a big, beautiful heart you have”, said the wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing.

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

The spirit of the Son: Jesus

Chapter 8

Israel & Goliath/ The Church & The Last Days

Chapter 9

David & Goliath/ The Elect & The Last Days

Chapter 10

Revelation 5: The Unlikeliest Place for the Greatest Love Story Ever Told

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

The Revelation of the Seven Characteristics of the Perfect Love of God

Chapter 13

The Wrath of God & The Wrath of Satan

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The Manchild Rulers

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A Journey From The Beginning (Fear)
To The End (Perfect Love)

Mitt Jeffords
April 2009