Thine Eyes Shall See The King In His Beauty

                                                                            
Isa 33:17  Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

There is a phrase in the Word: "Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land of far distances," and that two-fold statement can quite truly, and rightly, be applied to Him.

He is the King in His beauty; and He is also the Land of Far Distances.

Now, to come into a living relationship with the Lord Jesus is to come, sooner or later, to the impasse of the incomprehensible, and we just have to say: "Lord, You are beyond me! Lord, I cannot comprehend; You are too much for me!"

That, of course, on the one side, means difficulties, for it puts us into a difficult position in that we cannot trace Him, follow Him, and understand Him. But, on the other side,we would not have it otherwise; we would not have a 'little' Christ whom we could comprehend and altogether understand with our little minds.

No, He is beyond us altogether, and what you and I, as His people, are destined to come to if we go on with Him, is just this: that He is ever reaching farther and farther beyond us, and drawing us out beyond ourselves, beyond our resources of mind and will, yet drawing us on, and making us know that we have got to go on. We just cannot stand still; we have to go on.

~T. Austin Sparks~

Joy And Confidence On The Day Of Judgment

                                                                           
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say
unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world (Matthew 25:32-34).

On the day of judgment the first thing on the Judge's agenda will be to separate His sheep from the goats. He will not allow His righteous ones to be numbered with the transgressors.

The Bible is very clear that those who have been abiding in Christ and looking for His appearing will have boldness and confidence on that day:

And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming (I John 2:28).

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 
(1 John 4:17).

How can you have such boldness—such joy and confidence—on the day of judgment? It comes only through knowing the Judge as your friend, brother, redeemer-kinsman, high priest, advocate, intercessor, Lord, the love of your heart—your very life!

If you know in your heart you are not ready to stand before Jesus—and that time is coming very soon—then you have to answer for what I have written here. This one message is enough to damn you to eternal hell if you reject it.
It will stand as a witness on judgment day.

Have your interests—your work, your possessions or even your ministry—become more important to you than the Lord's interests? Have you neglected your family? Are you satisfied because you go to church on Sunday and say, "I've done my part for God"? God's Word to you is clear: It is not enough!

If you have judged yourself and come up short, then pray this from your heart:

Jesus, I need You. I need to be forgiven and loved by You. I confess all my sin and stubbornness. I've neglected You, Lord. I've not put You first and from
this day on, I make You my life, my everything.

~David Wilkerson~

Known ONLY After The SPIRIT

                            

2Co 5:15  And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 

We can Only Know Christ after the Spirit, so that Christ for us in this dispensation is spiritual in the sense that all that we know of Him or can have to do with Him can only be in the Spirit.

Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. (2 Cor. 5:16).

He is Known after the Spirit. Our Resources are Spiritual. The Weapons of our Warfare are Spiritual. 

Everything has got to come to us from above.

The one great effort of the enemy, which is again and again successful through this dispensation, has been to bring the things of God down to the attachment with this world, attachment to this earth, to make them something here....

You only need to read John to see how unattached everything is, how everything is lifted clean out of this world

And everything is bound up with the fact that Christ is in heaven, and that the Lord’s people are here, but not here; here, but not known; in the world, but not of it; a mystery people in this world so far as the world is concerned... unrecognized, unknown. 

And yet by that very means and for that very reason, the most potent force that this universe knows: the spiritual, hidden, secret people of God in this earth.

To take hold of Christianity and mold it, and shape it, and systematize it, and crystallize it, and make it some mighty movement here; with its roots here, with all its associations such as man can see, appreciate and approve; to register itself upon the ordinary consciousness of this world as being something; all of that is contrary to the Word of God and is contrary to spiritual life and spiritual power.

Christ is in heaven, and we are lifted out, translated, seated together with Him in the heavenlies.

Our present purpose in this world is testimony only, by which others will be taken out of the nations, a people for His name.

~T. Austin Sparks~

I WILL RESTORE TO YOU

                                                                           
I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten  (Joel 2:25). 
 
This promise is incredible! We want to make up those lost years when we weren’t following Him, to make amends and repay Him! But He says, "Wrong! You cannot repay Me for a single wasted hour. 

Walk before Me in righteousness now and turn from your sins, and I will make up all the losses, whether they were yours, your family's, or Mine!"

To repentant sinners the Lord declares, "Fear not be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things" (Joel 2:21). 

You need not be ashamed of your wasted years. God is going to remove from you the evil army, and you will eat and be satisfied. You will never again be ashamed (see Joel 2:19-20, 26-27).

You were born for His eternal purposes. He planned for you a life of satisfaction, joy and usefulness in His kingdom but then sin entered, and God's plan for your life was interrupted. The devourer moved in and years were wasted, lost.

But now, in Christ, all is new—even the calendar! The Lord goes back to the day the locust came, and He removes all those wasted years and starts counting again from the moment you repent. All those blessings you missed were stored up. All the joy, peace, revelation and usefulness that you thought were dead and gone forever were actually kept by the Lord.

In hell, the damned may be haunted with a vision of what their lives could have been. Some may see what they lost.

But this is not so for the repentant. All will be restored. They need never again say, "Oh, what I missed. What I could have been. God had so much for me, but I blew it."

No! God can restore all the wasted blessings.

The Lord desires to pour out on us all the blessings and joys in Him that we missed earlier. Yet He does not make it all up with outpourings alone. 

The outpourings become overflowings!

And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil"
Joel 2:24

There is such power in repentance.

It brings back to us all that the cankerworm destroyed. 

God resurrects it all!

~David Wilkerson~

Judgment

                                                    

Have you ever felt the grief of GOD'S heart over the sin of this world and the sin of His own people? We very much have felt the heart of GOD this week as we enter into this year of 2013. 

 

Judgment is the word for this year for the wicked and even for the rebellious of GOD'S people. Remember though that the LORD loves judgment and brings it because He wants the wicked to turn and those rebellious children of His to turn! But if they do not turn and fall upon the Rock (Jesus Christ) and be broken then He The Rock will fall upon them and grind them to powder.

 

There is not anything left if they are ground to powder. He weeps and we weep for we Know what is coming.

 

You can mock this Word you can joke and play games with this Word but Be Warned To Take Heed To This Word...and....Repent of any sin or rebellion against GOD. If you hear His Word Repent and Obey His commands then He will hear you in this hour. If you do not He will not hear you.

 

Zec 7:12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
 

Zec 7:13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:

John and I have spoke Truth to you. We have obeyed what the LORD has told us to do crying out all this time for people to come to repentance and into that deep walk with the LORD.

You will need a rooted deep walk with the LORD to endure this time. If you do not have that deep rooted walk with the LORD and have been a mocker of the way and rebellious towards God and the True Walk of GOD and come against the True Messengers of GOD then Repent today and Come to the Holy One Jesus Christ and let Him wash you clean while you still can.

A Healing Word From Heaven

                                                                                                                                                     
Jesus was drawn to an impotent man lying by the pool of Bethesda. "And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?" (John 5:5-6). This unnamed crippled man has many faces and represents multitudes of impotent Christians who feel hopeless.

Impotence comes in many forms: physical, spiritual, mental—or all of these at once. Mentally and spiritually you may be that man lying by the pool. You are in a situation that seems hopeless and you see no way out. No one really understands the depth of your suffering; not a single friend or loved one seems to have the time, love or energy to really touch the hurt in you.

Take a good look at that impotent man and think of the years of struggle, the hurts heaped upon him by uncaring, insensitive people. How often he must have lifted a withered hand to those rushing by to get their own needs met, crying, "Someone, help! Please! I can't do it on my own!"

Multitudes of Christians are spiritually helpless and impotent because of a lingering battle with some besetting sin that has robbed them of spiritual life and vitality. They lie helpless on the bed of depression and despair, always hoping for a miracle, always waiting for someone to stir things up and make something happen. They drag themselves to meeting after meeting, counseling sessions, seminars, waiting for that one great, life-changing miracle. But nothing changes.

I believe God's great love is revealed in response to a cry from the heart—and I believe Jesus came to this man in answer to a deep and agonizing cry to the Father. The Bible has much to say about this cry from the heart. "In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears" (Psalm 18:6).

A cry to God from the heart will always be answered by a merciful, healing word from heaven!

~David Wilkerson~

Getting Back The Shout Of Victory

                                                                               
King David committed adultery and then arranged for a faithful soldier to be murdered so he could lay claim to his young wife. He brought shame on Israel and on his heavenly Father's name. He hid his horrible darkness for a whole year and came to the brink of total ruin. Yet, even after all this, God called David “a man after mine own heart" (Acts 13:22). How could this be? The secret is that just before David was about to fall, he humbled himself and repented.

I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin" (Psalm 38:18). Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest (Psalm 51:4).

Create in me a clean heart, O God . . . and take not thy holy spirit from me (Psalm 51:10-11).

Are you troubled and grieved by your besetting sin? Do you feel you are on the brink of falling under the heavy load of it all? If so, then you are on your way to healing and deliverance. You see, when David repented, he was finally able to glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my trangressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. . . . Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance" (Psalm 32:5, 7).

Dearly beloved, you can get back your joy. Simply confess and forsake your sin and the Lord will pardon and deliver you. He is ready to kiss your neck, clothe you in a robe of righteousness, and spread before you a great feast. Then you will be able to testify with David:

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart" (Psalm 32:10-11).

~David Wilkerson~

The Rule Of The Heavens

                                                                               

There is a great need today that there should be the rule of the Heavens. But the Holy Spirit has got to do it, and we have got to come to recognize the fact that what we see in organized Christianity is not it.

The spiritual people of God are more and more feeling separated from the old system of Christianity and churches and ecclesiastical systems. 

People are recognizing a deep dissatisfaction with what has held the ground so long, and there is a cry for spiritual reality.

Many sermons are clever and full of mental ability, but they are starvation to the spirit. There is all the activity, but it is not spiritual Life, and I believe the Lord is going to show us the nature of the thing that is in the heavens.

The thing that man has brought down on to the earth and taken up and perpetuated is only at best a poor imitation of things in the heavens, but in a very large realm it is a caricature of heavenly things.

Man has taken hold of heavenly things and brought them down to earth and made them earthly things. That is where things all went wrong at the beginning. At the first, things were of the Spirit. The people gathered in their homes or anywhere. It was not the place. It was not the ministry. It was the Lord, and they were circled around Him. 

But then the day came when they said, "We must have public buildings," and then the architecture became a factor, and so things developed, and they became something on the earth for men to take note of.

They wanted man to be attracted, and that was the first step in one of the greatest perils that has overtaken the church. For prestige, recognition, the world to be attracted, there is the result that you get the mixed multitudes in the church. If you can attach some big names to it, you can attract the people, and one of the devil's greatest measures has been popularizing the church. The preeminent thing is lost, that the church and Christ is a mystery to the natural man and that it is no use to expect the natural man to appreciate it.

The church is essentially a spiritual thing according to the mind of God. What really governs everything is God's conception of things, not ours, and if we are going on with the Lord there is going to be a whole system of change and we are going more and more to view things from the heavenly stand­point. You have got to get into the heavenly system to get heavenly results.

~T. Austin Sparks~

GOD'S WORKS ARE NEVER DARKNESS

Mat 5:14  Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.  

In speaking of the Light of the LORD"S Heavenly people we are touching again a very solemn, and serious, and important feature, something which has a tremendous history associated with it. 

The entire history of the LORD'S people, and of the Spiritual Life, is one of Light and Darkness, of Truth and Falsehood, of Purity and Adulteration or Mixture, of Clearness and Cloudiness, of Openness and Secretiveness.... 

Truth may be in word, in doctrine, but there has to be a corresponding Truth in heart, Truth in life.

Light may be a matter of doctrine, but there has to be a corresponding state of Light in the heart. 

The enemy will not object to us having plenty of the former kind of light and truth, but, if he can, he will seek to destroy its real value by introducing a lie over against it, a contradiction....

Remember that God never builds in the dark; that is, there can be no constructiveness where there is not light.

Before ever God would bring this world back into order and fruitfulness He said: "Let there be light."

God is out for the manifestation of the truth. 

God's works are never darkness, and we can never know constructiveness and progress unless there is absolute light.

You know quite well that you cannot go on with people who are not straight, people who are crooked, people who are all the time furtive, not open, not frank, who have somewhere in the background a secretiveness. 

You have to say, "I cannot go on with that one." God is like that. He would say to any one of us who might be there, "I cannot go on with you until you are absolutely out in the open, until you have come to a place where you are going to be perfectly honest."

Reality is God's demand for any kind of work that He will do. There may be many weaknesses, many imperfections, but if there is genuineness, reality, and openness before God, where the spirit is clear and pure, God can go on with His work.

But immediately we begin to lock something up inside, hold something back, cease to be perfectly open before God, the work stops.

Light in the sense of Clearness is an essential for the building of the city of God, because the ultimate purpose for that city is to Shine Forth with that Glory of GOD in Character.

With Him there is no variableness, neither shadow cast by turning. That means that God can be relied upon. The Lord make us like that.

~T. Austin Sparks~

Face To Face With GOD

                           

Joh 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.

You and I are going to face God sometime. We are going to come face to face with God literally in eternity and then the question is going to arise, has God at any point failed us?

Shall we be able, on any detail, to say, "Lord, You failed me, You were not true to Your word"? Such a position is unthinkable, that ever any being should be able to lay a charge like that at God's door, to have any question as to God's truth, reality, and faithfulness.

The Holy Spirit has been sent as the Spirit of truth to guide us into all the truth, so that there shall be no shadow whatever between God and ourselves as to His absolute faithfulness, His truth to Himself, and to all His word. The Holy Spirit has come for that.

If that is true, then the Holy Spirit will deal with all disciples in the School of Christ to undercut everything that is not true, that is not genuine, to make every such disciple to stand upon a foundation which can abide before God in the day of His absolute and utter vindication.

But in order that this may be so, you and I, under the Holy Spirit's teaching, have to be dealt with very faithfully, and have to come to the place where we are perfectly adjustable before God, where there is all responsiveness to the Holy Spirit, and nothing in us that resists or refuses the Holy Spirit, but where we are perfectly open and ready for the biggest consequence of the Holy Spirit putting His finger upon anything in our lives needing to be dealt with and adjusted. He is here for that.

The alternative to such a work of the Holy Spirit being allowed to be done in us is that we shall find ourselves in a false position, and it is far, far too costly to find ourselves in a false position, even though it only be on certain points.

This is a false world we are living in, a world that is carried on upon lies. 

The whole constitution of this world is a lie, and it is in the very nature of man, though multitudes do not know it, but think they are true.

They are trying to build the world on a false foundation.

The Kingdom of God is altogether other. It is built upon Jesus Christ, the Truth.

~T. Austin Sparks~

BELIEVE

                                     
Believe  Ye That I Am Able To Do This? Matt.(:28)

God deals with Impossibilities! It is Never too late for Him to do so when the impossible is brought to Him in Full Faith by the one in whose life and circumstances the impossible must be accomplished...If GOD is to be Glorified.

If in our own life there have been rebellion, unbelief, sin, and disaster, It is Never too late for GOD to deal Triumphantly with these tragic facts...If brought to Him in Full Surrender and Trust!

It has often been said and with Truth that Christianity is the only religion that can deal with man's past. GOD can "Restore...the years that the locust hath eaten" (Joel 2:25)
And He will do this when we put the whole situation and ourselves Unreservedly and Believingly in His hands. Not because of what we are but because of what He is.

GOD Forgives and Heals and Restores.
He is "The GOD Of ALL GRACE". 

Let us Praise Him and Trust Him.

NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR JESUS NO MAN CAN WORK LIKE HIM

We have a GOD who Delights in Impossibilities
NOTHING Too Hard For HIM

~Andrew Murray~ 

SOMEONE To WATCH OVER ME

                                                                                                                                                           
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency (Psalm 73:13).

Asaph, the writer of this psalm, was so confused by his sufferings in comparison to the easy life of the wicked that he nearly slipped into a pit of absolute unbelief. He was ready to accuse God of abandoning him, of not being concerned, and for a moment he was ready to quit the battle and give up completely.

This godly man must have thought, "I've been doing right and
enduring hardships all this time but it was for nothing. All my
diligence, my praising and worshiping, my study of God's Word
has been useless, in vain. I have done only right; yet I continue
to suffer and it makes no sense. What's the use of going on?"

Beloved, you must be careful. When calamity falls, when a trial
comes upon you, when you are grieving, you need to guard your
heart against slipping.

You may not be in Asaph's condition, suffering and being tested,  but you may know someone who is going through something similar. Sudden calamity may have come upon a godly relative, friend or church member, someone you know who is doing right, and you have asked, "Why, God? How could You allow this? That person is so righteous!"

Asaph went to the temple and prayed. Beloved, when your time
of grief or suffering comes, you must go to the secret closet. Get
alone with God and cry out to Him. If you will get alone with the Father, He will give you understanding. That is when the Holy Spirit spoke to Asaph: "Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction" (verse 18). Asaph realized, "I´m not the one slipping, the wicked are slipping. They´re going straight into destruction."

Asaph began to see the whole picture and he rejoiced: "God is the  strength of my heart, and my portion for ever" (verse 26). He could say, "Yes, my strength is failing. Yes, I´m enduring a great battle - but I´m not alone in my struggles. I have a loving Father in heaven and He watches over me!"


~David Wilkerson~