Building the Temple

The progression the Lord has taken with me since He called me has been absolutely astounding. The very first thing he ever said to me was "Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you." - Ex 25:9 So who is the tabernacle or temple now? The temple now is the church. He dwells and reigns within us. So the first thing he begins to talk about is the foundation. Isaiah 54: 2-3 - Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities. Then He says don't be afraid. And He start talking in Jeremiah 31:28 Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, and to overthrow, destroy and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant," declares the LORD. He says we have lies and strongholds embedded in us from Satan and we have to do some reconstruction. We have to uproot the lies, and tear down the walls, overthrow the strongholds, destroy the destroyer, and bring disaster to the road he has built into the church. Then we can build the tabernacle or temple new and plant new seeds for the harvest. He used the example of this battle compared to the one Jeremiah fought in Jeremiah 30 - 32. Then He sends Jonathan to Nehemiah 5. Where the people are actually building the wall with a sword in one hand a trowel in the other. And despite that they are actually succeeding building the wall. They get half the wall built and satan says this isn't working so he changes the attack to come from within. Incidentally, that doesn't work either because God is all powerful and He always wins but there was much heart ache getting that wall built. Then He takes me to Haggai where what are they doing again? They are called to build the House of the Lord. He says give careful thought to your ways. you have planted much but harvested little. Again He says give careful thought to your ways. He says go get the materials and build my house so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored. He says His house is in ruin because the people are more concerned with their own houses, or their own affairs. So He says he is going to bring a drought on the land. And then the people feared the Lord. He said I am with you. So then the people began to work on the house of their God.

So he asks who even saw my house in its former glory. How does it look to you now? Does it seem to you like nothing? Be strong all you people of the land and work for I am with you. This what I covenanted with you and my spirit remains among you. Do not fear. The glory of this present house will be greater than glory of the former house. and in this place I will grant peace.

Then he goes on to talk about the priests and ask them about their rules. He says if you are carrying something Holy and you accidentally touch something does it make it Holy? and the priests said no. So he says if you touch accidentally touch a dead body does that make you unclean. and they said yes. So what he was saying is we can not touch someone and make them Holy but we can let "the world" get in us and make us unholy. I am the gatekeeper of me. What I see, what I hear.

So then he says one stone is laid on top of the other. step by step by step. When we turn to the Lord and abide in Him and do His will. This is our foundation. Hag 2:18 - give careful thought to the day when the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid.

He ends chapter 2 with from this day on I will bless you.
(a secret: verses 20 - 23 are about the tribulation and Israel)

Learning to Walk In It

The Lord says to me that a true prophet of God can both confront sin and lovingly care for sinners. I'll go wherever He wants me to go as long as he goes with me. I know I cannot learn on my own with the knowledge that I have already been given. I can only learn when he gives me more knowledge and understanding. but to get more I have to knock down the walls he told me to knock down first. Then He can build new ones in their place. This is the reciprocal indwelling he keeps telling me about. I put a DVD on for Hannah this morning and she kept saying, "it's not working Mommy." Over and over again. I kept saying back to her, "It will just calm down and wait. " Then The Lord says to me. DUH! I couldn't help but laugh. I have prayed the prayers and I walk with Him hand in hand day in and day out. In His time He will fulfill His plan. God could easily do His task without me being present but He summoned me to be a part of the battle so I could See/witness what He is going to do. For the church/ the body to be strong all positions - All areas of Jesus' authority must be present. And through Jesus in us He will fill all those positions. The Father sends Jesus to anoint us and appoint us then He sends His army to protect us.

1 Kings 1 - There were two major springs that supplied Jerusalem water. Adonijah was procaliming himself king at one and David was proclaiming Soloman king at Gihon. The real vs. the counterfeit. There is always a troublemaker. the Gihon spring was east - where God's glory and authority comes from. The Gihon spring did not provide a steady flow, but "gushes out at irregular intervals" . Twice a day in the dry season, four to five times a day in the rainy season. Water issues from a crack 16 ft. long in the rock. Gihon in hebrew means bursting forth. A new power is bursting on the scene to supply the church with security and authority.

Thank you Jesus that you don't give up on us even when we quit because we can't fathom your plan. Thank you for coming to get us when we wander away. Please give us your strength to do the tasks that you have appointed us to. I love you Lord. In Jesus name, Amen.