Colossians 1:26 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.
27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
28 Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
29 To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.
My Beloved Sister Shari sent this writing which appeared four days after we were given the Word to Wait on THE LORD back on 2/22:
Let it be said that repetition and remembrance of where we are and who we are as Overcomers is necessary in this day. Remember that we are not to be frustrated with the long time it seems to take for the Lord to work out His purposes in the earth, but rather we are to be thankful that He has included us in this working even though we do not deserve it. No one who is of the company of first fruits can lay any claim that they recognize that trait in their own life. Right now at this present time the company of Overcomers are in a state of frustration over their long drawn out testing and over their deferred hope that makes the heart sick. There is no reason to think your hope is deferred! Hope makes us not ashamed! We are on track if we recognize that the Lord has brought our dross to the surface and has eliminated in us any ability we thought we had in ourselves to make any kind of acceptable stance of faith before the Lord without His enabling. We have learned to not trust in ourselves and to not see our carnality as the guiding rule and principle in our lives. Instead we have learned to trust implicitly the word and promise of God that we are first fruits unto Him, even though the opposite seems to be the truth.
I have said this before many times to many people that the Lord chooses the losers. He chooses those who cannot do anything for themselves not that He would accept that anyways. His promise is still right on track, He has not deferred from His promise and He will bring us forth for righteousness sake and for the sake of co-ruling with Him in this age that is dawning.
There IS going to be a resurrection of your deadened state.
There IS going to be a rising that cannot be undone.
There IS a promise that will not fade away.
There IS a surety of a bond with God which cannot be broken.
There IS going to be a first fruit company of Overcomers which will overturn the world.
You ARE part of it!
When you look at the world around you a continuity is there where things seem unchanged. Things seem to be the same as they always have been. For me I thank God for that because living in a peaceful nation is almost impossible nowadays! When I see peace around my home, I pray it continues! But we know that the end is here, the heat of testing in the nations has been pumped up and the pressure of the Lord to disannul all man has done outside of the parameters of the Lord’s person is now coming into view as being unusable. Man is running out of options and the violence between factions and nations is only increasing each day. BUT THERE IS AN END. The end is very much going to be a peaceful conclusion to a rather drastic pattern. The Lord is going to end for us all that has to end for the world in time. The entire creation groaning in this tribulation has to now come to liberty which can only happen when our manifestation happens.
All you see around you will melt in fervent heat. There is nothing in the world of man that will not be consumed in the fiery jealousy of the Lord. He must and will bring all this to a rapid conclusion and will bring – at last – His Kingdom. We don’t stand here insisting that men turn to the Lord’s salvation because we use weaponry and theatrics and pressures to make men turn. We stand as light bearers shining forth the light of Christ in our hearts which convinces men to know the love of God in truth and to abandon all other things. Yet this will now be placed upon the nations when the manifested Sons of God appear on the horizon, that alone will undo all man has worked to achieve in their own strength. They who have been forgotten and who have hidden themselves away in God not attempting to make any name for themselves, these will be shown forth as Overcomers who come with the Lord to rule and reign with Him in full authority.
Remember that you cannot see this in yourself. In yourself you do not see the manifested hope of His appearing as though it had already taken place, you wait for it with hope and understanding of the promise of the Lord to make all things new. I have stated these things many times before, and am led to state it again. The Lord’s promise and coming are sure. He is not late, He had not forgotten, He has not fallen short of His promise! There is a millennial reign of Jesus in front of us which is going to happen and which you will be resurrected into! Yours will be the right to enjoy this creation with the full measure of the Lord upon you in infinite weight and power. It is not by what you think of yourself with your natural mind now, but what you are in spirit and in faith that will bring this to your mortal body changing it like unto His raised body. There simply is no other hope for this world and there is no other hope for you personally either. If the Lord does it not, then it won’t be done. But to do it He will and it will be fully done and accomplished and you will see it firsthand!
Time is a servant of the Lord. He uses time to His advantage. The next age will also be based on time for those in the nations who will be schooled in the things of the spirit. But for the Overcomer, those who wait for the Lord, time is no more, even now, we are entering a state where time matters not! Our hope secures us whether we live or die waiting for the Lord we are beholding the present promises of God as ours to possess today and not some other day. As far as I can see, we only wait the change of our bodies. Silence has come for the space of half an hour to us, but this half hour of silence is needful for us to come to a rapid decision that our time of waiting on the Lord will in the end bear all the fruit it needs to bear to bring us to completion as risen glorified persons made like unto their savior. We are in such a place that the coming of the Lord is now absolutely next on the very scale of the Lord’s purposes. The dross is risen in us and is ready to be abandoned and our redemption draweth nigh!