So, I'm walking through a mall when i see a movie poster for "Singing in the Rain" and the Holy Spirit draws my attention to it by giving me that familiar heart tug. Funny thing was, I'd recently decided to watch this exact movie for the first time. Believe it or not, I'd never seen it! I'd seen songs from the movie, including the iconic title song but I'd never seen the entire movie.

As it turns out, "Singing in the rain" is a timely prophetic cry of God's heart for his people in this present generation.  Those of us who love and welcome the Holy Spirit will be "Singing in the Rain" - we will be experiencing his presence like never before,  like the "latter rain" prophecied in Scripture, poured out on all flesh, like the flood of Noah's day, no one on earth will be able to escape his presence but it's only those of us who love him who will be singing and dancing for joy at the coming outpouring of his presence.  We will, literally,  be "singing and dancing in the rain" for joy - sheer, unadulterated joy!

In the movie, a famous actor is with someone who is pretending to love him, she even convinces herself he loves her but in reality she is using him to advance her career, for her own gain and glory.

He meets a woman who is her exact opposite  - unassuming, humble, not seeking fame or fortune,  who refuses to idolize him and put him on a pedestal.....and he promptly falls in love with her, for her honesty and truth.

In the season we're entering,  God's people, i.e. his actual bride, will stop allowing "fake lovers" to use them for their own selfish agendas, for their own gain and glory. These false Shepherds, thieves, hired hands, wolves in sheep's clothing,  will be exposed and deposed. The ones like the actress in the film, full of pride, arrogant,  unable to see their own arrogance, unable to see their owm faults, who belittle and mock the humble  and contrite in heart, who come against the true children of the Most High  and seek to cast them out of their presence and keep them away from the ones they've deceived, will be exposed like never before, exposed like the actress was at the end of the film. In essence,  Saul's are being replaced with David's in this upcoming season.  Like the humble woman in the film, God's anointed and appointed will not seek applause or attention  for themselves. God's true saints are being exposed even as the false are being deposed.

Watch the movie and notice the tag line "What a glorious feeling!" ( from the poster). Ghat just about sums up what it's like to be in his eternal presence,  embraced by his Spirit, wrapped in his loving embrace  - one cannot help but sing and dance and shout for joy! Let God open the eyes of your understanding.  Join me this year as I'm "Singing and Dancing in the Reign"! 

Like Gene Kelly, as he performs the title song, let's become so in love with God, we'll lose all inhibitions. We won't care anymore who sees us loving and worshipping our beautiful God. We will even sing and dance out of love for him in public!

Apostle Chris

 I sometimes get the impression I've seen it all before,

 like a bus ride in reverse, like a print that's been restored 

And I think it may be because the One my soul loves

 sees and knows it all from His Throne in Heaven above

My spirit has always existed where time and space are not

 My life does not consist of this flesh in which I'm sought

I am not confined to my mortality

 for my soul belongs to Christ in eternity

  I'm on a bus in Sri Lanka when I see a dog start barking at and chasing the bus. And I thought, for believers in Christ,

       The Devil is like a dog barking at a moving bus. He can make himself heard but that's about it. He can't do anything to the bus. If he tries he'll be killed or badly hurt. It would be foolish for the passengers to fear the dog. He can't touch them or hurt them unless they leave the bus, which is the Covenant Body of believers. 

Looking at all the Buddhist and Hindu idols in Sri Lanka, thousands of them, i start thinking,  If your god can be fashioned with your own hands, he isn't much of a god. I'm glad i serve the God who fashioned ME with HIS hands, not the other way around. The gods of men are created by them - from their imaginations, therefore man is the ruler of his gods - in essence,  man is worshipping man - Buddha, most Hindu gods, all take human form - because man is worshipping himself...his own image.

 I have a Father

who takes notice

of every fallen sparrow.

He cares for

and provides for squirrels.

So how much more does He

provide for and care for me?

How great His love

for me must be!

So

be anxious for nothing,

oh fearful heart of mine!

He has proven His love for you,

time after time!

There is nothing He won't do,

to love and care for you  -

Your needs will always be met, 

oh my soul do not forget

to remain in His peace and rest

 Friendship with the world is enmity with God.  We are in the world but not of it. Compromise is the hallmark of the spirit of this age. The plagues were all a result of a series of compromises offered to God's people. Had Moses accepted any of them, God's people would never have made it out of Egypt. 

I believe the compromises offered by Pharoah are a type of Satan's strategy with God's people today, at the end of the age. His strategy hasn't changed much in all this time. I believe each time Satan offers another compromise, some of the people accept it and BOOM! - another denomination is born. Yes, denominations are a result of compromise with Satan but a faithful remnant will march triumphant through the sea - untouched.  

"Seas" in Scripture represent fallen, unsaved, unredeemed humanity,  so the passage of God's people thru the Red Sea unharmed is a picture of our journey through this world - in it but not of it - untouched by the wickedness all around us. The remnant in our day, those who have not bowed the knee (of their heart) to Baal (self, pleasure) must endure our own "desert wandering", for the Desert is a barren place,  void of anything of man - man's thoughts, man's ways. We must all be stripped and purged  of Egypt's way of thinking (or in our case, Babylon's), which is - "man is in charge of man" - man must be submitted to man. 

After being infected by, and affected by the spirit of religion  - which enthrones man (flesh) over God's people (and in their hearts) God's people need their own desert experience  where they each must encounter God as Moses did (burning bush) and as the Israelites did ( pillar of fire) - all of us must come to know God as a God of Fire "I will baptize you with the Holy Ghost AND FIRE" and "Our God is an all consuming FIRE"! The fire of the Holy Spirit must be allowed to rage out of control in our souls - burning and cleansing us of all that is of this world, with it's pernicious ways, corrupt beyond redemption.  And too, we must also encounter  and come to know God as a cloud, for in a cloud we are blinded and cannot rely on ourselves, i.e. our own senses - we are blinded to the world around us, with it's wickedness and it's hatred for God and all that is holy. We must rely on the Holy Spirit to guide us in the cloud where we, like the priests of old, cannot stand to minister.  

We are humbled in the cloud and in the fire - outwardly and inwardly  - we become unable to  trust and rely on the wisdom and strength of men, especially the man ( or woman) that is us - Hallelujah! We fall on His grace and His mercy  in the wilderness  - we learn to survive on what He provides us, not what we or any man can provide.  We develop a taste for Manna - The Bread of Life, come down from Heaven that we might live. Give us this day, Father, our daily Manna, Jesus Himself,  and, when we've been cleansed of man's ways and thoughts,  of all reliance on man, including ourselves,  lead us into our "Promised land", not into temptation and deliver us from the evil within us, as well as without us. 

Apostles and Prophets today must sound a clarion call in these dark days - a clear witness  of God's heart and intent by rightly dividing the Word of Truth  and by obeying the Holy Spirit's will and His words - we are calling the Body of Christ to purity and maturity,  not mixture and compromise as so many are doing today. Many pastors and musicians with a national platform are given great influence, not by God but by satan for they are serving his agends. When people like Ellen Degeneras invite Christians on their program and are comfortable with them, having no conviction or remorse for their sin - it's a stain on the gospel of CHRIST who's central theme was "repent or perish" not "God loves you as you are". Beware when all men speak well of you (or lesbians, Lauren). The more popular we become  with the world, the less popular we become with God.

So i thank God for anyone who is awakening God's people and leading them out of Babylon and into the New Jerusalem,  where they belong. Let us build up God's house (people) with a trowel in one hand and a sword in the other! Building up people while tearing down Satan. Let's finish this journey we're on with a flourish,  for Heaven awaits all who choose not to compromise but follow the Holy Spirit and Him alone, no matter how difficult the path gets. He will make a way where there is no way. We will pass through the sea of humanity untouched,  unscathed, for we are called to abide in a holy place in the midst of an unholy place. As well, we are called to the Desert - where a massive amount of people (some say the Israelites were upwards of three million strong) is called to exist where it is impossible to exist without God.

Apostle Chris