Experience and the Upper room

Experience and the Upper room.

The gauge to divine experience and the now of God, when nothing remotely close comes from heaven and stops at our door and we wonder why?

What are the vast differences?

The timing of history and the planting of the first Jesus followers assembly and a witness to the Jewish nation about a God who was changing the parameters of their box and burning the books of man made laws and the slavery it was putting His people into.

So of course there was a necessity of a shaking and tongues of fire and the first display of heavenly power since Jesus had now removed Himself from the stage and reappears in the other personality of the God head... Holy Spirit Himself is dropped onto a group of misfits and a mishmash of nobodies. Who by the way were in complete unison waiting for the next 50 days. There was a definitive statement to be made by God that He was going to do things His way... as Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except by me", through Holy Spirit, who would draw all men unto Him and point them to the truth.

They would have power to be His witnesses, and they were going to need it!

The next few centuries would prove that.

But still the continuation of refusal of the Jews to welcome this Messiah and His timing would become and still is their stumbling block to this day.

The next step was for a bona fide hard nosed young Jewish scholar to meet with an unusual experience one day as he was going about his business killing the followers of Jesus. Saul meets Jesus head on in a heavenly vision and is remarkably changed forever and suddenly the hardhearted Jews are passed over and God now turns His heart and grace on to the Gentile nations. Saul's name is changed to Paul, because once you have encountered Jesus there is no returning to the old you.

This was all foretold in old testament prophecy as God's grace is poured out upon all mankind.

The next incidents of power from on high touching the lives of Gentiles is seen and the experience is almost as strong as the first encounter. They too would need this power in their lives to assist them in seeing more of the world impacted by the gospel of Good News.

Paul himself taking this Good News to many nations and experiencing the personality of Holy Spirit in his life and through demonstrations of that power into the lives of others. Healing, deliverance, dead raised and so forth. This was all necessary for the gospel to impact their lives.

We are looking back on 2000 years of Christ's impartation of Holy Spirit. Throughout the centuries the Christian Church has experienced a diversity of architectural, structural, doctrinal differences, shapes, sounds, dressed up and dressed down. Everything imaginable has been built around, beside, over, and on top of the foundation carefully laid by Christ. He remains the cornerstone that cannot be shaken and everything that is attached to Him and His name will be shaken and tried by fire to see what will remain.

We consider the experiences of our faithful forerunners and we seemingly expect a similar rendition of the first symphony and that all the notes should align themselves to the order of our day. We played the tune but you did not dance?

I am reminded that these experiences were a surprise to those who found themselves in the midst of them at the time.

I do not believe that we need a carbon copy of something that was not designed for us and for the particular circumstances we are presently in. We need a NOW experience of God for the NOW we are in.

We are not building the Christian faith as they were. We are living it, if we are presently walking in and being led by Holy Spirit. The question is what are we doing with all that we do have in this present moment?

i have to ask myself; would an upper room experience really change anything about me? i have a relationship with God, i love Jesus and the word and i'm open to being led by the Spirit and to walk in the Spirit.

Do i need supernatural experiences? You betcha!!! i long for them always.

Do i receive them? i have had some powerful and awesome moments of His presence touching me, blessing me, loving on me, speaking to me, directing me, healing me, chastening me and times of Him asking me to be still.

If i look within myself for something from inside of me to empower me, that is other than Holy Spirit generated i will become disappointed and disillusioned. But if i remain steadfast in my faith and my security in Jesus work on the cross and Holy Spirit's careful direction for my life, i will feel the wind of His presence blowing, i will feel the shaking of all the things within me that are not part of Him, and i will experience the tongues of fire burning deep within my heart and the continued renewing process burning through my mind. In this i am content that He can empower me to meet the now for my life and i will have the boldness to continue being His witness in my world of influence.

So what does our world need most of all from us?

Our devotion of love to and for one another is the most powerful resource we have at our disposal and our willingness to soar like an eagle with prayer and intercession into the heart of God. Humbly standing in the gap for another and being the bridge of life for them to cross over.

Some men find God, some men know God, but Moses KNEW the WAYS of God and was called a friend. One of the greatest intercessors next to Jesus.

That is my goal, and to experience daily a waiting on Holy Spirit in my upper room.

To Be or Not To Be Who We Are Designed To Be

We are:

Spirit: To Have NewLife>New Directive>New Personality>Connected

Disigned to abide in the vine, and receive revelation

Able to Comunicate with Holy Spirit

Raised to the life of our New Creation

Soul: Existing Character>Personality

Designed to become a unique individual

With a willingness to follow divine truth,

accepting the revelation of our spirit

For we are formed in Their image

Body: Shell>House>Temple

Designed to hold the Life Giving Fullness of God

A living witness empowered to enact the very essence

of the Godhead, in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,

goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control

Set apart from and rising above any binding law

A House of Prayer, A House of Blessing

An ever flowing River of Life

HE IS/I AM

Father: The Total embodyment of all creation/Everything>Omneity>

All Encompassing/Panoptical>All Inclusive

Son: Jesus>The Soul Complete Character of God come in the Flesh, for us

because of His Enormous Love

One and Only able to fulfill the Father's purpose

Holy Spirit: Fullness of the three>Breath of Life> Creator>Lover>Teacher>Fulfiller of the Father's Plans>Gift and Mercy Bearer>Who brings all this into us>that we might be like Him!

Given to us as a gift of grace set apart from laws

Mandated to fill the earth with like minded unique personalities

predestined to draw all mankind unto the Father,

through Jesus the Son

Making Sons and Daughters

of Intimate and Infinite proportion

In the Spirit

unravelling the web

elastic thought

and bring coherent

revelation

to a slippery

surface

my feet

emerge

the wet

surface of dew drops

lingering

the air

calm

stillness

hanging before me

and

the presence of God

is here...

i lift my head

his whisper

caressing my ears

this voice

of calming morning mist

i am drenched

in this love

for me

saturated in a second

time has no meaning

my heart dances

through a kaleidoscope of colour

like jewels

brilliant

sparkling

overwhelmed with joy

an angel

touches my hand

we dance through the mist

until we both

disappear...

revelation and dream

dream and revelation

melt into one

my spirit

steeped

in the depth of love

i am

forever

changed...

the mighty lion

a symbol of power and freedom

unless...

that power and freedom are captured and placed in a zoo

the only thing he can do here is assume the position

all other rights have been stripped away.

i find that there is a similar issue within the church today we have taken the power and freedom away from the very one who has given it freely to us.

Such a huge tragedy that men and women of God are handcuffed and placed behind a wall or fence and restricted from moving in the power of the Holy One, the majestic King of Glory.

There is an ever increasing unbelief that there is no power only a name.

i'm supposed to be endowed with the power of Holy Spirit in my life . A power to change me from glory to glory and for the fruit of the Spirit to be prevalent, having a freedom within me to be like a tree beside the river of life, bearing fruit in all seasons and conditions.

i am wondering about the ministries and ministers i have come to know that will have to answer for grieving Holy Spirit from doing all he was given authority to do. Will they have to answer to an angry God over their control issues and placing all effort into one aspect of the Kingdom business and pushing down the other features because they failed to see results in their own lives, therefore it must not exist for others.

How duped have we been by a liar and the one who can only go about "as a roaring lion", who's power was stripped away and made a public spectacle of before the whole world and heavens?

Col. 2:13-15 "He forgave all our sins, having cancelled the written code with all its regulations, that was against us, that stood opposed to us; he took it away nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them triumphing over them by the cross."

Today we seem to hardly have the power to rise up in our spirit just to praise such an awesome God and Father in Heaven who has done these things for us in Christ.

We are the temple... "let us come in through the gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise." Let this be alive in us continually.

God forbid that we become like those descibed in the last days in 2 Timothy 3.

In Isaiah 55:1, there is an invitation to the thirsty. "Come all who are thirsty, come to the waters: and you who have no money, come buy and eat! Come buy wine and milk without money and without cost."

There is another passage about buying in Rev. 3:17,18.

"You say I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing! But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve for your eyes so you can see."

i do not want to lose my thirst for more of the Kingdom in my life, nor to stop going after the treasures of Heaven.

What is the cost for us who have no money?

Drafting

Writing

The pen is mightier than the sword someone has said... at this moment i can't recall who said it! It doesn't matter.

i write on my blog, because i can.

Whether anyone other than a select few actually read it matters not.

It helps clear my head of jumbled thoughts, hopes, dreams and it's a release for my inner person.

Things written don't have to make sense to anyone else. It can be good therapy.

While suffering as a younger man with depression, writing was one of the things that helped keep me sane, rescuing me from the torment pounding inside my head.

Artists, musicians, poets, sculptors; every sorted member of these type mindsets needs an avenue of escape for their particular unique vision, dream scape, an outlet for their creative genius.

We are fearfully and wonderfully made... Ps. 139

There was genius in our creation. This is such an understatement to our creator.

i am saddened by those who refuse to see this. They would deny their very own specific, unique, person, even the DNA that is impossible to duplicate and would rather accept a random throw of the dice and say this is creation and i'm just a human being, a mammal with no particular function but to live and to die.

The seagull is drafting the air alongside of the boat we were using as we returned from watching whales in the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Gloucester Mass.

He is closer to the will of God than i am, because he is doing perfectly what he was created to do.

He doesn't have to think about it, nor have a debate in his mind, nor choose good or bad at the beginning of his day. He doesn't have to prove himself to anyone or worry about being judged for the things he will do during the day or at the end of his lifetime. He exists to do the perfect will of God in all and every circumstance and is at the right place at the right time for his life to be complete.

And... the only work he has to do is get to where the food for this day is going to be provided for him. In this case where the whales were feeding and when he was finished he hopped a ride on the current of wind from our boat, drafting alongside for the 45 minute ride back to shore.

He is also fearfully and wonderfully made!

Woman in the water

Sunday

oh yes

i remember

a sudden

appearance

out of no where

a wall

i slam it

very hard

strange

i was not expecting

not at all

it left me

dazed

for days

why?

words

even great words

spoken

received

then

the

wall

what day

did

Humpty Dumpty

fall?

or was he

pushed?

We struggle at sorting out our soul and it's inclination to be down cast, thrown for a loop. Like falling from a bicycle while descending a steep grade; you're just a kid, but you remember every detail of the lashing you took from the gravel and still have the scars.

"Why are you down cast oh my soul..." David lamented more than once.

Is it because we chase after the heart of God? That very little on this earth has our attention or our heart. We pursue, we fall down, we get up to pursue again, we are pushed back only to arise again and again. We refuse to quit.

i made a comment about a young boxer who never made it out of the small time, who gets old but thinks he wants one more chance to prove something, but in the quandary feels he's running out of time.

The soul, is a trap. It's the realm the roaring lions dwell in. Where the roar is meant to strike terror, fear and displace all hope and turn you into a panicking disturbed blind, wounded, mindless, lame brained lackey. A servant of the wind.

"David a young man, reached down and picked up five smooth stones from the brook..."

It only took one... the prophetic utterance of the truth of God.

i am not a captive of my soul, but a champion of God's eternal word. A warrior, prophet, intercessor, priest of the Most High and deliverer of men.

Walls will happen, i temporarily forgot i was to jump over it.