Seek And You Shall Find

From the depths of the sea, there arose within me

a desire to see the world as those in the heavenly

realms perceive it, the purity of a heart set

upon a reality more true than experience, than mere

emotion, than the limiting sight of immediacy.

Upon the waters of my mind came a Man walking

upright, the soles of His feet hovering

above the deep, reaching out His hand

and lifting me from the midst of the sea.

He bore me upon His shoulders, set me upon the seat

of mercy, showed me the secrets hidden

behind appearances, the truth of His Spirit

moving upon the still waters, stirring the heart

of man to repentance. Out of His mouth

flowed rivers of living waters, a Rock

in the wilderness struck by the rod of Moses, and as I drank,

my heart was filled to overflowing with a love

more true than experience, than mere

emotion, than the limiting sight of the immediate,

that I cannot help but go out and share it.

For this is His promise to us, that He will not leave

us orphans, that as to as many as who believe,

He has given the right to be children of Light,

that all who abide in Him, the Everlasting Vine,

shall not die but have eternal life, that He

is coming again, to judge both the living

and the dead, to fulfill His Word with a wedding

ceremony, to set His kingdom upon this earth

and bring an end to the sin of fallen man,

to rule now and forever with a rod of iron,

sitting at the right Hand of the Father,

and us with Him, a Bride of the Son

of the most High, pure and spotless before Him.

So lift up your heads, oh you gates!

And be lifted up, you everlasting doors!

And the King of glory shall come in!

The Word You Are Looking For Is Truth

We string together words to create meaning,

desegregating ancient syllables in an effort

to communicate, each new sentence unique

in structure. Language is no barrier, but a bridge

between minds, spanning across space and time,

aligning one thought with another, and imitation

is simply a reflection, an echo of a former glory

sounding and resounding throughout history,

binding one generation to the next. Originality

is but a genuine conversation bearing the mark

of experience, exerting influence over an area far

greater than one's immediate surroundings, imbued

with the ability to persuade, to lead, or mislead, as one

blind leads the blind; those who have bound them-

selves unknowingly to one lost and struggling

simply to keep his head above water cannot help

but follow, sinking ever deeper into the snare of des-

pair placed before them by one altogether unaware of

his present condition. But what of the One whose words

radiate truth, who speaks of being a Light in the darkness, a

Shepherd to His flock, to all those who hear His voice and

believe, who hold tight to His promise of eternity,

of life everlasting? For He holds the key to heaven,

His words a fountain of living waters flowing into the

hearts of those who receive Him, giving sight to the blind

and restoring all who are broken and hurting, pouring out

His rest upon the weary and calling the wicked to re-

pentance, into right relationship with the Father,

who originally spoke the universe into existence,

and whose Word became flesh and dwelt among us,

bringing us the Way, the Truth, and the Life, all three

One and the same, to lay the foundation for thousands

of years to come, the cornerstone of a life complete

in Him, and these are His words to us, a letter of

love in two parts, and the order is of utmost im-

portance - love Him first with all that is within us,

and then one another, in the same way that He first

loved us. You see, this covenant is a reflection of His

majesty, the unending echo of eternal love proven

true by the blood of His Son as He hung upon

the beams of a cross, bearing the weight of the

world upon His shoulders, this undeserved curse

the consequence of our sins, of our unwillingness

to set ourselves aside and look to Him for guidance.

We are His creation, created for perfect communion

with Him, our hearts bearing the mark of His image,

the unique capacity among every living thing to

love, and be loved in return, and it is His Word

alive in us that works all things together for

our good, that our lives might bear witness

of the splendour and glory of His existence. In

Him, we are a new creation, dead to our old trans-

gressions and alive to His eternal mercy, our hearts

bearing the mark of the Word made flesh, the Spirit

of One whose tongue is imbued with a truth more

powerful than any earthly being has ever spoken

before or after, the perfect revelation of the heart

of the Father, His love reflecting love re-

flecting unending love for all of eternity

spent in absolute unity with Him.

The Truth About Our Words

Calling things by their rightful name is one of the most powerful tools of illumination that we have. To believe that our words have no meaning apart from the meaning that we assign to them is a fruit of the lies of this world. Words have inherent meaning, and in this is the power of words, that each word is a light that illuminates. Precisely this is why the enemy, who is the father of all lies, has taken words and twisted them over time, so that we are unable to rightfully illuminate the true nature of that which we are speaking forth.

In this way, psychology has simply given names to demons and claimed them as part of a person's identity, justifying demonic influence and perpetuating Satan's stolen kingdom here on earth. Casinos are simply temples where people go to worship, pray, and sacrifice to the god of luck. To be in debt to someone is to be bound to them until that debt is payed, just as a slave is bound to a master, for a slave works for the profit of the master without pay. Slavery is not a race issue, but a human race issue. Addiction is also slavery to a substance or a behavior. The Greek root word for drugs, or pharmaceuticals, is pharmakeia, which is also translated as sorceries, as in Revelation 9:21, "And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts."

I could go on and on about all the different ways that words have become twisted over the years, but the point that I want to make is this; that our words hold power, and when we speak the right words at the right time, we are able to wield this power effectively. In Revelation, the Almighty One, the One who is and was and is to come, is described as having a sharp, two-edged sword proceeding from His mouth. We know this to be the Spirit of God, which is the Word of God, which we are also called to wield as children of God. In Hebrews 4:12, it says, "For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper that any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."

As we have been born into a world steeped in deception, it is impossible for us to discern truth from lies, for our language reflects the age that we live. Only when we believe on the One who calls Himself the Way, the Truth, and the Life are we given the Spirit, which opens the eyes of our understanding and allows us to see clearly, to discern right from wrong, truth from deceit. This is done in part when we eat of the scriptures, when we read the written Word of God and store it up in us, so that we might wield the Spirit within us effectively, for it is the role of the Spirit to call forth the Word of God in us.

Only when we are rightfully grounded in the Word of God, which is the authority, can we rightfully wield the Spirit of God, which is the power, for without authority, power is lawless, and without power, authority is empty. Christ Himself bears witness of this, saying, "However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you." (John 16:13-15) and again, "And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying 'All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.'"

In addition to this, the power of the tongue is such as the power a rudder has over a ship. Whatever we declare with our mouth, the rest of us follows. By storing up the Word of God within us and allowing the Holy Spirit to have authority over our tongue, what comes out of our mouth is life to our whole body. However, if we are not filled with the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom, it is easy to disregard much of what the Word says, or to try and fit it into what we see in the modern world around us, and in doing this, we begin to wield the sword of our mouth as one swinging madly about in the dark, to almost no effect, or even worse, to the detriment of our own selves as well as those around us.

What we must first realize in order to wield the Word of God effectively is that it is impossible to look at our modern day world, a world that is completely immersed in deceit, where words have been twisted and changed into that which they are not, and try and fit the Word into what we see. This is only leads to confusion. Why is this? Because when we approach the Word this way, what we are really believing is that what we see and hear all around us is truth, and then trying to fit the Word of God in where it makes sense.

In order to properly wield this weapon that we have been given, we must do exactly what Christ commanded us to do in the first place, which is to die unto ourselves and live unto Him. This goes the same for dying unto the age that we are born into and living unto the eternal truth, the living, breathing Word of God. We must not believe that something is good just because our modern age says its good and then try to use God's Word to justify it, but we must let go of our own ideas, or the ideas of our day and age, of what good is, and look instead to the Word of God to teach us what is good.

What we are living in the midst of is the mature fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of those who claim to know what is good for the body, good for the mind, good for the heart, good for the soul, but whose words are empty and full of death. If we are to become followers of Christ, we must cease from eating the fruit of this tree and eat the fruit of the tree of life, the living bread which is the flesh of Christ, as He says in John 6:51, "I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world." How do we eat His flesh? By consuming His Word, for He is the Word made flesh. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1)

The Word of God is offensive to this age, but we must realize that the Word is always offensive to this world, for it is not of this world, but of Heaven. The culture of the world says that by changing your appearance, you can change yourself. In this way, the modern age is caught up in a false idea that everything is new, simply because everything appears to be new. Ecclesiastes 1:9 is very clear about this deceit, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."

We must let go of our ideas of what is good and let the Word of God take His rightful place in us. Only by standing upon Him, by taking Him at His Word and believing that His Word is truth, can we get the correct perspective through which to view the world around us. Confusion cannot stand against the Light of His Word, and it is clear that confusion is increasing daily, in both the church and in the world. The only way to stand in this hour is by standing on His Word and speaking it forth, by dying unto ourselves and living unto Him, by laying down our ideas of what is good, or what love is, or attempting to cover up and ignore His righteous judgement of the earth, and instead asking Him to show us how He is perfectly good, perfectly just, perfectly loving, that His judgements and statutes and laws are perfectly merciful.

This is not meant to be condemning in any way, but encouraging, for what He corrects in us is for our good. On a regular basis, He convicts me of falling into deceit, not so that I might be ashamed, but that I might know the truth and be set free. "Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, 'If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 9:31-32) "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent." (Revelation 3:19)

The words we choose to use carry so much more weight than we realize. I encourage you to get into a conversation with God about the things that you see all around you that you take for granted as being that which they claim to be. Ask God to reveal to you in His Word the truth about these things. The more that you see in this way, the more that you begin to line up your perspective with His heavenly perspective, and the more you come into agreement with that which He is doing right now upon the earth. This is invaluable in this hour. Begin today, right now, for there will never be an easier time to get in the flow of what the Spirit is doing. It only gets harder to stand with each passing day.

"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people." Ephesians 6:10-18