Servias Ministries Blog

Sharing from Shari:

Hello again from your friend in Oklahoma! The Christ in me is being compelled to share and edify in Love. We should be seeing more of this as John compels us to do "so much more as we see the day approaching", Heb 10:23-24. The context of Hebrews chapter 10 begins with Jesus’ worshippers discarding the "shadow"" Law, who once purged should have no more conscience of sins. His Body must purge out this old leaven that we may be a new unleavened lump, 1Cor 5:7. The old Law served its purpose for the Age for which it was sent. Just as Moses did not enter the Promised Land, the New Creation cannot bring the old leaven forward into the New Age of the Millennium. There has been a change of the Law from Moses to Melchizedek, to the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. He is at the right hand of Authority seated in the Divine Court and has become the Law of God written on our hearts of flesh by the finger of God, His Spirit. We must put to death our identity with the Law of Moses and gird our loins with the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. As kings and priests, we must identify with Christ the King and Melchizedek the Priest.

We all KNOW this, but our words are Messengers therefore our choice of words is VITAL to the MESSAGE we convey and the IMAGE we show forth. We have to get our Message right to Manifest the Angel of His Presence and bring forth the Manifestation of His Sons.

Discernment came forth on October 19 that concerns IDENTITY. "We are what we say we are", just as "We are what we eat". The Body of Christ cannot have any old leaven that could cause DOUBLE MINDEDNESS and distort His IDENTITY. The Physician must heal Himself by clearing up His marred Image. When Jesus was in the world He basically said, "stop offering YOUR sacrifices and start preparing Me a Body", Heb 10:5. It is His Bride, His Body that prepares Herself and makes Herself ready to receive Him, her Head and Husband. This cannot occur until we come into Unity with One Another in Him, as "bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh".

We must remove any division that could cause a speck in our "eye" and create double mindedness. We must get our eye off of SELF. If what we say is self-serving and does not Manifest Christ, then we must spit it out and cast it to the ground as salt that has lost its flavor. We are One Body, and our Profession of Faith must not waver, as this produces double mindedness in our members. Just as the Israelites got tired of eating Manna, some of the "Spiritual Bread" we have been eating is just as stale and void of flavor as the wafers we swallow and call "Communion". This is what Disunity tastes like. Peter and Paul had a difference of opinion, Jew vs. Greek. Instead of THIS or THAT, it was BOTH. If BOTH are TRUE, then Love of the Truth requires that BOTH be eaten in COMMON-UNION. Read 1Cor 11:16-34, and dig into the Strong’s meanings of those words.

The last thing Jesus did with His disciples before the Cross was share the Lord’s Supper. He told us we must eat His Body and drink His Blood, which brings me back to Heb 10:23-24, as there is so much MEET in this verse. John is describing the "Assembling of the Lord’s Body".

"HOLD FAST" describes possessing the LAND, or bringing the Internal to the External, Heaven to Earth. http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G2722&t=KJV.

The verb is "echo" http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=G2192&t=KJV. That word in English implies that Jesus hears His Bride’s VOICE in us clearly calling out to Him, with no distortion or disunity. The meaning of the Hebrew word "echo" is to have, own, and possess external things such as pertain to riches (treasure), furniture, utensils, goods or food used by those joined to any one by the bonds of natural Blood (inheritance) or Marriage or Friendship by duty or by law (legal right) of attendance (tending to) or companionship (in the Presence of). Just as Jesus was in Mary at her wedding, as we clean SELF out of our treasure trunk His Bride makes herself ready with His Manchild and calls out to Jesus for the Wedding Supper.

John says to "CONSIDER One Another to provoke unto Love and to Good Works." The Good Work being "prepared" in His Bride is CHRIST IN US. The wise virgins are watching, taking HEED, and filling their lamps with the OIL of Christ. This oil must be extracted from His Olives (all-lives) as His many members take heed to consider one another. "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their Angels do always behold the Face (Presence) of my Father which is in heaven.  Mat 18:10. What we do to the least of these, we do to Christ in us.

The Hebrew word for flesh is the masculine noun "basar" whose verb means to bear news, bear tidings, publish, preach, SHOW FORTH, to gladden with good news, to announce (salvation) as good news. The Hebrew word Adam used for his wife, or "bone" of his bone is the feminine noun "etsem" which means essence or substance of and its verb means to be vast, be numerous, be mighty, to make strong, to shut (the eyes), close (the eyes). Chew on that awhile!

The flesh and bone Body of Christ SHOWS FORTH the Good News, His Word Manifest in Flesh. His many Members are mighty in strength because they walk not by sight, but by the Spirit. Likewise the closing of the eye indicates that SELF has been put to death in order to put on Christ and open the eye of the Spirit. The natural man gets his life from his blood. Since Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, SELF must be sown in death to be raised in Life with a Flesh and Bone Body like unto His. This is the First Resurrection at the Last Trump. The New Creation is the Temple of God and the Wine in His Vessels is the Lifeblood of the Holy Spirit. The Flesh and Blood of the New Creation IS the Bread of Heaven and the Wine of His Spirit served at the Lord’s Supper.

Everyone who has this Hope PURIFIES Himself, just as He is Pure, 1Jn 3:3. We should be seeking the Lord and feeling after Him to find HIM in Whom we Live, Move, and have our BEing–for we are His Offspring (Acts 17:27-18). To bring forth the Manchild’s Birth, we must bring the Internal to the External, but first we must assemble His Body. HOW DO WE DO THIS?

Every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven [must be] like unto a man that is an householder, which brings forth out of his treasure things new and old, Mat 13:52. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: which when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into VESSELS, but cast the bad away, Mat 13:47. We must NOW reach into this dragnet and sort through all the fish. Fish are not people, they symbolize spiritual food. There is much "food" being eaten and proclaimed as the Lord’s Supper that is NOT His Flesh therefore does not proclaim Him. We must sort out the good from the bad, and gather the good into Peter’s net of 153 "large" fishes http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G3173&t=NKJV. This net symbolizes the Manchild with Pure Blood in His VESSELS.

After this, Jesus said “Come and eat breakfast.” This morning Meal symbolizes the Dawn of a New Day, the Kingdom Millennium. The disciples did not recognize this Man as Jesus but they KNEW it was Him when He came and took the bread and gave it to them, and likewise the fish. This IS NOW the third time Jesus showed Himself to His disciples after He was raised from the dead (Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles). So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus posed the same question to Peter 3 times, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” Each time Peter said Yes, Jesus gave Him a Command. Jesus is showing us that if we Love Him, we will do what HE Says.

“Feed My lambs." (Passover)

“Tend My sheep.” (Pentecost, "tending" indicates a "tarrying")

“Feed My sheep" (Tabernacles)

These three times Jesus questioned Peter symbolize Him making an assessment of His Church. It stands to reason for this assessment to come at the Head of the Year since that is when we expect to hear the Last Trump. To be "trumpeted" as His Body or His Assembly we must have a Pure Heart that has His Pure Love running through our vessels. For Perfect to come, we must come to the Unity of the Faith. There must be is a Consensus of Agreement.

There was a Census taken last year that I believe initiated the Lord’s summons of His Members to change the Water of Instruction into the Wine of His Spirit. Silver coins were collected to represent His Remnant. Silver represents Redemption. This is pictured in Mat 22:19-21 when Jesus said, "Show me the tribute money." (like Jerry Maguire). And they brought unto him a penny. And He said unto them, "Whose is this IMAGE and superscription?" They say unto Him, "Caesar’s." Then said He unto them, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s." When Silver changes to Gold, we will possess His Divine Nature. When the face on our coins reflect His Image, then He will pay His Tribute to God. We must be about Our Brother’s business of fishing out these coins!

We cannot rob God, being prevented by our false humility and fear of stealing His Glory, John 7:18. When He gave us His Holy Spirit, He gave us all power and authority to do the Greater Work of producing Christ In Us, therefore Jesus Himself enlisted the New Creation and made this a JOINT effort on our PART, Eph 4:16.

We are His House-Holders. His Kingdom is at our hand!

We must identify ourselves as Jesus, the Son of Man. If "We are what we say we are" then:

Instead of our own "prophetic" works, "We must Do ONLY what we saw Jesus Do."

Instead of our own "Divinations", "We must Say ONLY what we saw Him Say.

He who has ears to hear, Let Him Hear.

The New Creation is the Son of Man and rightful King of heaven and earth. We are transitioning out of Babylon into the Kingdom of His Dear Son. Beltshazzar was the last king of Babylon. He was dethroned after he saw the handwriting on the wall because he drank wine out of the vessels from the temple of God.  He was weighed in the balance and sentenced to death. I see this as a type of death in the old becoming Life in the New, 2Cor 4:12. When Jesus the Master of the Feast has tasted PURE WINE in His vessels from His Temple, the Mind of Christ in US, He will confirm that the old has passed away, and sound the Last Trump to declare "Behold, I make all things new.", Rev 21:5.

May Christ be lifted up.

Love in Him,

Shari

A gap is an unfilled space or interval; a break in continuity, a cleft, a divide, a fissure.  In the Old Covenant, the Levitical priesthood served in the Tabernacle.  Aaron and his four sons were called to be the high priest, five in one.  Only Aaron was to singularly enter the Holy of Holies on the Day of Atonement.  All other administration was accomplished by all five:

Exodus 28:1  “Now take Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to Me as priest, Aaron and Aaron’s sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.”

The job of the high priest was to enter into the Holy of Holies on behalf OF the people and exit the Presence of FATHER to minister TO the people.  The priest acted as a mediator or intermediary, standing in the gap.  The Levitical priesthood had a five-fold ministry (Aaron and his sons) just as the Pentecost Age had an expanded five-fold ministry:

Ephesians 4:11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,

13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

The five-fold ministry in both ages was to minister revelation of Who the FATHER is in a world that desperately needs to know.  Both ministries had the same purpose of promoting a more mature and greater relationship of the people with Our Creator.  The meanings of the names of the first five-fold ministry points to the ministry of the third Age of ministry- the Order of Melchizedek:

Aaron = "light bringer"

Nadab = "willing and generous offering"

Abihu = "he is (my) father"

Eleazar = "God has helped or Divinely enabled"

Ithamar = "country of palms"

We are to bring light and revelation to all mankind.  We freely and generously offer ourselves up in Love on behalf of Our FATHER.  HE Divinely enables us to operate as priests to the world of palms (mankind in his varied conditions).

Palm (Hebrew: Tamar) denote bitterness through and through and is a feminine plural word.  The feminine aspect points to the soul.  The priestly ministry is to replace bitterness in men’s souls with peace from Above:

Hebrews 12:14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

The third Age of Tabernacles will see the fullness of the priesthood and it will be one without limitation.  It is known as the Order of Melchizedek, the enduring priesthood.  Psalm 110 prophesies of this priesthood:

1 The LORD said to my Lord,

​​“Sit at My right hand,

​​Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”

2 ​​The LORD shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion.

​​Rule in the midst of Your enemies!

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3 ​​Your people shall be volunteers

​​In the day of Your power;

​​In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning,

​​You have the dew of Your youth.

4 ​​The LORD has sworn

​​And will not relent,

​​“You are a priest forever

​​According to the order of Melchizedek.”

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5 ​​The Lord is at Your right hand;

​​He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath.

6 ​​He shall judge among the nations,

​​He shall fill the places with dead bodies,

​​He shall execute the heads of many countries.

7 ​​He shall drink of the brook by the wayside;

​​Therefore He shall lift up the head.

This third and final priesthood will bring forth the knowledge of HIS Glory to all the earth with the ultimate result of filling the earth with HIS Glory.  The calling for this priesthood has gone forth.  Those who have been chosen to be the “generous offering of Love” for all mankind are in the final stages of preparation.  They know that the fullness of their calling is yet to be manifested and are anticipating the day of full activation of authority and power to bring forth the ministry to all of mankind.  They will bridge the gap between OUR FATHER and mankind.

Many have believed the Old Testament is of minor value since we have the New Testament.  Clearly, the Jewish nation focuses on the Old Testament as its religious basis of study.  When I was a young believer, the ministers promoted the idea of the limitations of the Old Testament thus marginalizing its value.  The exceptions were typically Psalms, Proverbs, and tithing.  In my personal walk, Our Heavenly Father decided to correct this.  HE removed Pam and me from church and then for 18 years my studies were highly impacted by the Old Testament.  Why, would you ask?

The Old Testament contains the seeds that are harvested in the New Testament.  The Divine Intent displayed in the many stories and sage advise in the Law and the Prophets point to the manifestations in the New Testament.  The Old Testament was a manifestation of the physical whereas the New Testament reveals the manifestation of the Spiritual.  The types, shadows, numbers, name meanings, stories, and prophecies all point to the reality in the Spiritual realm.  As we study the Law, we can appreciate the Lawgiver.  The Law was given to Moses and then we were shown how Israel could not keep the Law.  In the New Testament, Our Heavenly Father moves the Law from external to internal.  HE proclaims to the “Remnant of Israel”:

Jeremiah 31:31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—

32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.

33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

The above passage is repeated and confirmed in Hebrews 10:

15 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,

16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”

17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

The New Testament is the culmination of the seeds planted in the Old Testament.  It contains the fruit of the harvest.  The Divine Intent of Love comes into full manifestation in Jesus Christ being formed in the womb and brought forth as the first begotten Son of Our Heavenly Father.  The Law and the Prophets pointed to Jesus Christ from every observable viewpoint.  Children need physical examples as they grow and mature.

When we were first married, the house we bought had a floor furnace.  The 720 square foot house was built in 1939.  Back then a floor furnace heated the whole house… more or less.  The furnace had a metal grate and it became scorching hot after the furnace had been on for awhile.  Pam needed to educate our toddler concerning the danger of the furnace.  He was not old enough to reason with so it was necessary to show him the “physical”.  She took him close enough to the grate for him to feel the discomfort of too much heat but not enough to burn him.  He responded accordingly.  From that day, he stayed away from the grate.  Had he been more mature and experienced in understanding the physical laws and their ramifications, she could have simply warned him.

When we want to gain the greatest perspective and appreciation, we must consider both Testaments.  We can surely appreciate how NOT to do things as recorded in the many stories in the Old Testament.

The feasts and the Tabernacle in the wilderness provide us excellent external examples of the internal process of maturity.  We are provided with great detail of this Tabernacle.  Each word, description, name, and number were carefully selected by Our Heavenly Father to point us to the culmination of the Age to come.  The immature read those descriptions and get bored because they lack the wisdom, understanding, and knowledge to embrace the mysteries being revealed.  Others attempt to hold on to Old Testament methodology at the expense of Spiritual progress.  They form external traditions with the expectation that Our Heavenly Father will be coerced into performing in response to their diligent acts.

The same Author wrote both Testaments and HE did not change between the two writings.  Both represent HIS Divine Intent and the old points to the new and is a progression toward the fullness of time on earth.  The three feasts are physical representations of the Sons’ spiritual progress in being perfected.  Justification, sanctification, and glorification are expressed in order by those feasts.  There is no way to bypass any portion of this process.  Salvation must occur first.  Leaving Egypt was accomplished by those who embraced the Passover Lamb’s blood.  Those that didn’t… perished.  This first feast revealed the Love of Our Heavenly Father.  It pointed to the ultimate fulfillment of the feast by Jesus dying on the cross.  First the physical, then the Spiritual.  First the seed, then the fruit.  Embrace the process and full maturity will come.

The First Son was the “seed”.  The many-membered Body of Christ is the fruit.  As Genesis 8:22 declares:

“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”

The Apostle Paul concisely stated the essence of both Testaments:

Colossians 2:16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.

Paul also reveals the fruit being “many-membered” in nature in the following verse:

1 Corinthians 12:12  For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

Just before Jesus went to the cross, He planted “seed” on behalf of the Sons.  He understood the need to speak, proclaim, and plant the Word in the physical.  In this passage, He speaks of the unity of the many members in Christ.  Since He only spoke what FATHER instructed Him to speak, we are provided with details of FATHER’S Divine Intent:

John 17:20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word;

21 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 sent Me.

22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:

23 I in them, and You in Me; 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.

Everything in Scripture, ultimately points to the “substance” of Christ.  The harvest is ripening!

Hebrews 2:10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 saying:

​​​“I will declare Your name to My brethren;

​​In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.”

​13 And again:

​​​“I will put My trust in Him.”

​And again:

​​​“Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.”

Jesus Christ is the firstborn Son of Our Heavenly Father.  The word “firstborn” indicates the reality that other sons are to come.  We will have the benefit of His resurrection power and therefore the fullness as well.  This enables us to do the greater things Jesus spoke of.

The purpose of these sons is to bring HIS government forth on earth.  This government will replace all other current forms of government.  The wars will cease, poverty will be replace with sufficiency in all things.  Repentance will be widespread and the tears will be wiped away as men turn from their wicked ways.  All the enemies shall be dealt with and place under His feet.  Death will no longer be an issue.

The church age was know by it various “moves”.  We were given an earnest of the Holy Spirit.  We were given gifts, those impartations with some limitation.  We were given the five-fold ministry to train us up when we were childish and immature.  But when we are fully mature, we no longer are given the “earnest” of the Spirit, we are given the fullness of the Spirit just as Jesus operated in the fullness.  But we have even greater things to accomplish as He explained:

John 14:12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.

He spoke of His resurrection power which would become available to the Sons after the cross.  Our Heavenly Father will be glorified in the many Sons who have been apprehended for HIS purpose.  These are the ones who are drawn upward into full maturity.  These are the ones who are ascending in Love to the point where they can truly say “as He is, so are we”.

These are the Sons who do not need to promote types, shadows, timings, prophetic signs, or the like.  When the manifestation has arrived, you no longer need a sign pointing to that day.  In the past, many were led to believe that we could only receive a limited portion of the Spirit and that the fullness was only available to Jesus Christ in unlimited measure.  I am fully persuaded that Jesus meant every word that was given to Him by Our Heavenly Father in the above passage.  Have you seen anyone operate in the anointing Jesus spoke of in the above passage?  Jesus operated without limitation in His earthly ministry and we will too as we come into fully maturity IN HIM!  It has been foreordained that we be here at this point in history, HE foreknew us.  Accept this reality and you will begin to overcome the old fleshly man’s pull to keep you away from this precious truth.  It is time we be led fully by the SPIRIT and set aside all the focus on the world’s path toward destruction.

The Pentecost Age was the age of “in part”.  We could receive a portion of this and a portion of that but not the fullness.  There are those who are satisfied with this realm.  I have no issue with their goal and purpose in life.  There are those who desire the deeper things of the Spirit, who want to ascend to HIS fullness in order to serve all of mankind.  These Sons have HIS vision of the entire earth, not just a circle of friends, neighbors, towns, cities, states, or countries.  The whole earth!  Do we dare consider that we could be a part of something that big?  Nothing is impossible to him who believes!  We are only bound by our self-imposed restriction.  Our Heavenly Father in HIS Wisdom provided us with the Revelation of Jesus Christ so that those with ears to hear and eyes to see would be able to comprehend the Truth that HE is bringing many Sons to Glory!

One of the benefits of age is the first hand experience of recent history.  I have personally witnessed past “moves” of the Holy Spirit.  We attended “Faith” conferences, “Healing” meetings, and witnessed the “Toronto Blessing”.  I watched great evangelists minister live on TV, some with hundreds of thousands in attendance.  Some people call those the good ol’ days, I simply call them the past.  The ministry of Jesus Christ is to move us forward, upward, and into full maturity.  We are not to stop or return to the past.  We are to move onward and upward.  He stated in Luke chapter 9:

57 Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.”

58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”

59 Then He said to another, “Follow Me.”

But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”

60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.”

61 And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.”

62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Foxholes and nests have one thing in common, they are permanent, immovable locations.  They represent past moves of the Holy Spirit and there are people and ministries today that cling to those past movements, somehow hoping that they will find the key to glory.  Standing water stagnates and begins to stink after a period of time.  Water in movement doesn’t.

If there is anything consistent in church history, it is the fact that over time revelation turns into church doctrine and later becomes empty traditions of men.  Martin Luther had a revelation and later the Lutheran church was born.  The baptism of the Holy Spirit was “revived” in Topeka, Kansas, around 1900 and later the Pentecostal church arose to prominence.  Once church buildings are built, you can be assured that the revelation of the movement is coming to a close.

I recently made a trip to Glastonbury England to visit Brian and Frieda Williams.  Those of you who attended Port Austin meetings in the early 2000’s may have met and heard Brian speak.  Our Heavenly Father orchestrated the trip for manifold purposes.  One such purpose was to hear “reel to reel” tapes of William Branham, one of the “fathers” of the past moves of the Holy Spirit.  Bill was an uneducated man that was used by Our Heavenly Father to do great and mighty things.  Many were healed and he often operated in the “word of knowledge” identifying those who had sickness and disease… they were healed.  There is no doubt that his ministry was very fruitful.  William Branham is gone and so is that move of the Spirit.  Let’s move on and not try to resurrect a past move or revelation.  There is no need to bury the father.  There are those who have built permanent residences in the wilderness that have plenty of time to bury the dead.  The will continue to focus and live in the past.

Some have participated in recent moves.  Some of these moves may were prophetic in nature, other included healing methods, and yet other areas were of some specific spiritual focus.  These are moves in the “current” house but Jesus instructed us to move on and not look back.  Don’t look back at your past work.  It’s done.  It’s finished.  We must focus our attention of what Our Heavenly Father is doing now.  This is exactly why the children of Israel were to dwell in tents rather than build permanent structures.  When the Cloud moved, they packed up and moved.  I’m sure they kept it simple!  This is a type and shadow of our spiritual walk.  The wilderness represents the Holy Place where the candlestick with seven candles is found.  Those seven candles represents the church age, the age of trials, testing, and tribulation.  The Holy Place is not our destination, it is the Holy of Holies… in Heaven, the highest realm, the third Heaven, not the second.  Candles have to be managed and maintained, the Shekinah Glory doesn’t.  Do you want to continue living in the “high maintenance” realm?  Not me, I see no need to focus on the past movements and try to reproduce them.  We must keep our focus on the path before us.  There are less and less of us on this path.  That is okay.  We are drawn toward the Light of HIS Presence.  There is no going back!

The ultimate destination of a Son is to ascend in the Spirit to the highest realm of existence, HIS Presence.  In order to do this, we must first “come out”:

Revelation 18:4   And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.

“Come out” means to depart.  We must leave “Egypt” behind, we must depart from the sin nature.  Egypt is where the children of Israel were in judgment and bondage.  This is where the captives must be set free.

2 Corinthians 6:17 Therefore

​​​“Come out from among them

​​And be separate, says the Lord.

​​Do not touch what is unclean,

​​And I will receive you.”

18 ​​“I will be a Father to you,

​​And you shall be My sons and daughters,

​​Says the LORD Almighty.”

The first step to sonship is to come out and away from the old man.  We must leave behind the old nature and “self”.  We must get away from the worldliness and forsake the former path we were on.

Next, we are called to “come up”:

Revelation 4:1  After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.”

Our focus and priority must move toward HIS higher ways.  We are to meet HIM in the air in order to be shown greater mysteries, not below in the muck and mire.  Jesus Christ ascended and so shall we.  We must not look at the external but focus on the internal.  If you think that FATHER will do an external work first and then somehow you will absorb HIS Glory internally, you have it backwards.  Inside of us is the Temple of the Holy Spirit.  We are called to a higher revelation and understanding within us.  As we change internally, the external fruit will be produced for others to see.  Jesus had a corrective interview with the Pharisees concerning their focus:

Matthew 23:25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.  26 Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

We must have a change of heart, then we must proceed and focus on the the higher aspects of Spiritual maturity.  The fruit we produce should be easily seen and inspected.  Are we promoting life or death, Love or hate, peace or division?

Revelation 3:20  “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.”

How would you like to have Jesus Christ as your dinner companion?  As you ascend in the Spirit, you are transformed into the express image of Christ.  You become One with Him!  You are fed Word wrapped in the revelation and intent of it.  This is what will nourish your spirit, soul, and body.  The toxic substances of your carnal nature will be removed as you sup with Him.  When you come in to HIS Presence you have ascended beyond the Outer Court and the Holy Place.  The veil is no longer a hindrance to you since He initiated the ingress into the Holy of Holies, the highest realm.

Do you feel unworthy?  Don’t let the old man keep you from coming out.  Jesus always focused on restoration no matter what state the person was in.  After all, the whole world was ungodly when He arrived on the scene in the physical.  He is not moved by your imperfections just as a refiner knows how to remove imperfections in precious metals… just turn up the heat!

Come out, come up, and come in.  Don’t delay.

I must conclude that many who continue to read this site are being drawn toward full maturity in Christ.  If you are like me, you have an intense desire to proceed to full spiritual maturity and you know you have not yet arrived.  Deep inside there is an expectation of a calling that has not yet fully manifested.  You will know it when you see it.  Your path has taken you beyond the understanding of those who were once your teachers and it seems as though you extracted all the revelation they had to offer but there was still something missing.  “You know that you know” there is more.  Paul reveals this reality in Ephesians 1:

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will

Our Heavenly Father chose us in HIM before the foundation of the world, before our formation in the womb, and before our “birthday” to our designated set of parents.  Do you dare comprehend this reality?  We were chosen before the foundation of this world was laid!  Once you embrace this truth, you come to realize the quest to ascend to the fullness of maturity in HIM.

My friend Roy and I have made several backpacking trips to Colorado.  The mountains are majestic.  Of course we sought to go to the top of the mountain.  Why?  Because it is there, we saw it.  From the base of the mountain, it doesn’t look that far away but as you proceed up the mountain, you find that it takes hours to ascend… not minutes.  The air gets thinner and you are easily winded.  How do you get to the top?   One step at a time, slowly but surely.  One particular mountain we ascended is known as Pyramid Peak.  At times we had to crawl by hand and foot in the ascension.  There was more than one trail option to arrive at the top, some were easier than others.  When we finally made it to the apex, there was a tube with pencil and paper to record your success but more important, the view was second to none.  You could see other peaks for miles and miles.  It was breathtaking.

Our road to maturity is similar.  Less and less people will be found as you are ascending toward maturity.  Many will try by emotion but that fades as the air gets thinner.  They will look back at the comfort of the valley and turn back.  But you will continue the climb as you are drawn to the mountain.  Yes it can seem lonely at times but Our Heavenly Father will send like-minded brethren across your path.  The trials and tests are offset by HIS blessings and encouragement providing you with assurance that you are on the right path which will get you to the desired destination.

Exodus 34:2 So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain.

3 And no man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountain; let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.”

When Moses was told to get the “stones” of the renewed Covenant, he was to go alone.  He did not lead an entourage with him.  When we are called into HIS Presence it will be fulfilled at the individual level.  No one will be with us as we enter the Holy of Holies of HIS Presence.  A door or portal separates us from HIS Presence.  Each of us must open this door when we hear the knocking.  As we open the door, we will hear the words “Come up hither”.  Don’t hesitate, HE chose us before the foundation of the world.  Let me encourage you to proceed on and be not dismayed.  What appears to be a delay is actually ordained to complete the process of your maturity.  The wheat and the tares were allowed to grow together until both were fully mature.  Each of us must focus on our individual journey.  Don’t think that the actions of others will somehow transfer to your account.  Each must make the trip up the mountain individually.  See you at the top.

The summary of the process to maturity:  foreknow, predestinate, called, justified, glorified

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

In October of 1971 I was being fed the Word and received the Holy Spirit at a Christian coffee house by the name of “The Open Door”.  I knew hardly anything of the Spiritual nature back then but a whole new life opened before me.  I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit that particular month in the “upper room”.  Yes, they literally had an little upper room accessible by a set of wooden stairs inside the building.  This is when I met my wife-to-be as well.  It was quite a month!  At this point in time, I became Heavenly minded.

This was the time when the Door was opened for me to go through in order to hear and see the Spiritual.  Heaven and its attributes became alive to me and our Lord Jesus Christ became personal rather than a distant Lord.  I experienced the Holy Spirit as an immature “child” in the WORD.  Spiritually speaking, the Door was opened to me at that time.  I now had eyes to see and ears to hear.  Little did I realize that 43 years later I would experiencing such greater aspects of HIS Kingdom.

A door is a portal separating two realms: the inside from the outside.  The outside environment encompasses our house and our front door acts as the entrance into the house.  The house itself is contained in the environment.  While inside the house, I am restricted from the greater expanse of the outside environment.  The door allows me access to this greater expanse.  A closed door is designed to limit access, normally for our protection and especially for immature children.

Jesus Christ is the Door into the Heavenlies:

John 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.  NKJV

HIS Door is the portal to abundant life.  This life is not in some distant far away country.  It is here and now surrounding us but in a higher realm.  Just as radio waves are all around us and we cannot see them does not negate the fact that they are there.  We simply need a receiver to experience and enjoy their existence.  Those waves seem to defy distance.  Cell phones operate under the same set of laws and we have no problem in accepting those laws we cannot see.

Now is the time for us to be “Heavenly minded” rather than “earthly minded”.  The solutions to the problems of mankind are found in a higher state than the world’s thinking.  Focusing on worldly things will not produce a solution.  The solution is found only at a higher level of understanding and knowledge.  Accessing the Wisdom from Above will lead us through the portal.  The world is searching for answers in the external but the answers are found in the internal.  Our spiritual eyes and ears must be fully opened to see the abundant life all around us.

The types and shadows in Scripture point to the reality of this higher realm.  Would you prefer to act out the types and shadows as the Levitical priesthood did in the Old Testament or fully experience HIS Presence in the here and now?  People continue to run to and fro looking for a formula to bring forth HIS Glory when in fact you only need to go into your prayer closet and seek, find, and open the Door.

Hebrews 11:6   But 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 diligently seek Him.   NKJV

Martin Paulat had this particular vision concerning me in the late 1990’s:  I was in a jail cell that had two adjoining walls of brick and the other two walls were bars.  There was no apparent door.  I was pacing back and forth trying to figure out how to get out of the jail cell but could not find a door.  Suddenly, the door appeared among the bars and I was able to open it and left the confinement of the cell.  (End of vision)

Now is the time of the fulfillment of this vision!  Rejoice, this vision was not for me only but all who have been apprehended by HIM.

(As a side note, my wife-to-be’s phone number in 1971 had the assigned suffix of 3168.  This number happens to be the gematria (numerical value) of “Lord Jesus Christ” (800 + 888 + 1480 = 3168) and is the foundational prime number of the universe according to Bonnie Gaunt.  I had no recollection of her number and its coincidental relevance until yesterday.)