The Lord make His face

 to shine upon you and in you...

 May your spirit meet with Hid, face to face...

 Forever caught in His embrace, 

 your heart a holy place,

 guarded and kept as deep unto deep

 by The One who never sleeps. 

 May He guard and keep your soul

 as the revelation of Him

 continues to unfold  -

Those who inhabit Mt. Zion -

 The Righteous  - are as bold as a lion

 causing their enemies to tremble and fear,

 for in them the Lord of Hosts draws near,

 for true prosperity comes

 wnen the Lord of Life,  the Holy One

 is found in you -

  and you become

   His daughter,  His Son

 for His seed will never fade or die

 but will eternally prosper  -

 will bloom, bear much fruit,

 will soar in the Heavens as the Eagle flies -

 My heart is content in perfect peace

 knowing He watches between me and thee

 Dear fallen, fellow man -

        

          My past self can't blame you

          but my future self can.

          Thank You God for different 

          kinds of people to love.

          Thank You for helping me

          to understand  -

          I need to give as well as receive 

          the love You've given me.

          Though I judge righteous judgment 

          I give mercy, not consent.

          I stand in condemnation 

          of my past, sinful self,

          so that my future self

          may avoid going to Hell

          And too I stand against 

          The version, dear reader, of you

          that hates all that is 

          right, holy and true.

          I love my future self by hating my past self -

          the one that's going to Hell 

          You're present self must choose

          which version of you 

          will be the one who bows before

          The God of love and mercy

          who wants to love you forevermore 

          on the great and fearful Day of the Lord...

 We are naturally attracted to stories. We like narratives.  Every Newscast,  every movie or TV show - tells a story. We like hearing tgem and we like telling them. In ancient times,  skilled storytellers were highly sought after.  Yet, so few are interested in the story of God. His story is ongoing, daily being told around the world.  It did not end with the last verse of the Bible. You are a chapter in His story and so am I. Some are content to read the stories He shares with us in the Bible but care not to hear the stories He's telling us today. Some read His Word and call it truth with their mouths but in their hearts they believe it's fiction.  Jesus was a Master Storyteller - His parables are all mini-stories aren't they? 

And He's still telling them today - He's still imparting wisdom to all who will hear and obey the Father. He is still revealing the Father, as the Spirit is revealing Jesus  - will you look and see what He has to show you? Will you hear His voice today? Will you let Him make your soul so attractive to the Father that He will want to snatch you up to Heaven to be with Him forever?  And yet I show you a more excellent way.....

Part Two

 

When Jesus welcomed the Spirit fully - when He received Him completely  - His Father cried out from Heaven "THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED!" - This was and is a fulfillment of one of Jesus' primary reasons for coming to earth - to cause mankind to hear the Father's voice, to hear and understand His words for they are Spirit and they are Life for all mankind.  When Jesus and the Holy Spirit combine in us - we too will hear the  Father's voice - as did they who witnessed the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan river that fateful day. 

But why was the Father pleased with Jesus? It was because of his obedience to the Father's will.  John protested when Jesus came to him to be baptized  - telling him he (John), needed to be baptized by him - not the other way around,  but Jesus told John to allow it in order to "Fulfill all righteousness". The Father is always pleased when we, his children,  seek to be righteous  - And He is always pleased with obedience  - which is always better than sacrifice.  Better to obey in the first place than to disobey and have to come to Him later with a sacrifice to atone for your sin. Ask any father - obedience is very pleasing to them. Will you obey your heavenly Father  - who only loves you and desires your good? Will you be baptized today in His Holy Spirit? Holiness is attractive and pleasing to God and the only way we can become Holy is to have His Spirit abiding witjin us, in our hearts, therefore in our bodies. 

Our spirits must become holy. Our souls must become righteous,  pure. The Holy Spirit in union with our spirit makes our spirit holy. Jesus makes our souls righteous  by becoming one with our soul - for Jesus after all, represents our Father's soul - so let the Word become flesh again  - by inhabiting your flesh. 

What pleases the world is not pleasing nor attractive to our Father. Music, movies and TV shows are full of every spirit imaginable but our Father's  - human spirits or demonic  - usually both working in unity, fill our TV sets and movie theaters. Very few honor or are inspired by Jesus or the Holy Spirit. 

 You've got to make your soul attractive to God. God calls holiness beautiful.  He wants to make us attractive and beautiful which is why He anoints us with His Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is attracted to the Word. The Word is in love with the Father. The Father is in love with you. Our Father is attracted to both the Spirit and the Word - so fill your soul with both. Each day court anew both the Word and the Spirit; for the two are inseparable.  They were inseparable when the Father introduced them to each other and they are inseparable today.

When you invite Jesus - the Word made flesh, into your heart  - when you seek to become one with Him - you cannot do it physically  - you must do it spiritually.  To answer your prayer - for Jesus to come and abide in you He must do it by sending His Spirit to you, for the Spirit always honours and glorifies the Word.  The Spirit reveals the Word to us - line upon line, here a little,  there a little  - so, as John teaches us, when we meet Jesus  - He will in turn baptize us in the Holy Spirit  - who introduced us to Jesus to begin with. Though the baptism into the Holy Spirit is a seperate experience from being born again  - the two experiences are intertwined   mutually dependant on each other, just as a baby is born of the flesh, but must begin breathing air to survive outside the womb and truly begin life as it was meant to be lived - so too must spiritual babies be born of the Word of God  - but must then breathe in and breathe out the Spirit of the Living God  - in order to survive spiritually.  We need, in our earth, our flesh, the witness of all three - the Spirit and the Water and the Blood - i.e. the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost.  Meeting Jesus therefore and meeting the Holy Spirit are inseparable experiences  - if you meet one you will meet the other and by doing so you will have met the Father - for Jesus is the perfect image of the Father in the natural  realm - and the Spirit is the perfect likeness of the Father in the Spirit realm - if ypu accept Jesus you must also accept the Spirit - for they are both equally God - you cannot receive one and deny the other - this would be like accepting your wife's body but not her soul - yet, this happens in some denominations because there is a counterfeit Jesus  - a demon who calls himself  "Jesus", who will deceive and mislead - by seeking to seperate Jesus and the Holy Spirit  in the hearts and lives of people.  He tries to convince people to reject the Holy Spirit but accept "Jesus". Entire denominations exalt Jesus over the Holy Spirit  - ignoring the gentle,  precious Spirit of God - even despising Him and quenching Him - even teaching against Him - twisting the Word to support their heresies. 

The Holy Spirit is attracted to Jesus and Jesus loves the Holy Spirit.  Both are equally attractive to the Father. By filling your soul daily with the Word, dining on it, and by bathing in the Spirit, communing with Him and welcoming Him into your life - you will find the Father attracted to you - you will find yourself pleasing to Him.

Part two soon - apostle Chris