"What you are giving birth into is confronting that which is left within you"

"What you are giving birth into is confronting that which is left within you"

 

 

 

What you are giving birth into is confronting that which is left within you. You are contending for the faith to prevail. Nothing shall overcome you or overwhelm you if you set your face towards Me. You must not let the voice of apathy, or the voice of spiritual weakness, or the voice of old failures speak to you. You must allow faith, the faith I placed within you, to drive out all that remains to be unseated within you. What I have determined for you is true, for your scroll is ever before Me, and is destined only for you to do. Let Me arrange it all fully for you. You must defeat the death that contends within you.

Life is confronting the death that seeks to remain within you and to secure it's weakening foothold again. You must understand the process for liberty that is at work deep within. I am setting you free from every entanglement, from every deep seated root, and from every tendency that leads you astray from faith in Me. You are gaining the victory. You must let the rest be removed by Me so that you can walk victoriously and also unwaveringly in your thoughts before Me.

Do not look at yourself, or at your present situations, and at your inability to walk fully in me, and try to measure yourself from within. This causes you to reinforce the things that are leaving you, and it causes you to fear My ways, and when you do, you begin to walk back into your ways again. You must fortify your thoughts with Me. You must measure yourself by Me, by My Word, and by My Spirit that speaks to you from within. Lay your walls with Me to see clearly.

You are learning to build with My tools and not yours. You are learning to establish new principles based upon Me and not about your capability or inability. What I am able to do is greater than you. It is greater than you can perceive, or understand at this point. You have to establish faith in Me, and you must trust Me unquestionably. This is the root of your instability. Your lack of trust in Me, and your lack of trust that I can make you into what you shall be.

I have brought you to birth, and now you are warring for the things of eternal worth. But you cannot measure them by the world's worth, or ideals. Allow My scales that are within you to recalibrate your thinking, to reharmonize your soul to Mine, and let My Peace set your boundaries by which you will walk ahead. Trust in My measurements, and not in your perceptions of what you think you shall be. Leave the remodeling to Me. I am transforming you entirely!

Set your thoughts on the things above, and let My Peace grow like a dove. I am flowing within you at a gentle pace until you are whole. Then when you are totally whole, My Power will surely within you more fully unroll. You are on target for My Goal. Set your sights upon Mine. Sit down at My Table and feast on My Wine. I am creating a whole new design, and you will have to allow Me to finish what's left within you to redesign. When I am done, you shall break out in joy divine.

Your feet are upon My Paths. You are where I have placed you to be. You are seeking My Face, and that is why you have endured this fight for your race. You must not waver anymore, for this is the Hour of My Favor beginning to pour. I am moving things around you logistically, and you must wait until all things fall where they should be. Be still before Me, and rest. I shall move even more, and you shall understand what is left to be done, as you choose to trust in My Hand and in My Oversight of your life. Let go of the last remaining fears, and let Me have them, and shed no more tears. It is a time for joy, and for peace, for I am at work, and you shall live your life within Me.

I have abundance for you, but you cannot draw it out, or walk in it fully if you continue to look at what I am extracting from within you. Set your eyes on My things above. Set your face upon the mirror of My Word, and see those things more clearly from within My Pages, and you shall more fully understand that I have been healing you in stages. I am building you into a new work that is emerging from within you. Do not limit Me by what you think you see. Let Me build you fully.

Don't you realize that when I build something within you that is to be, that I use nothing from you, nothing from this life, and nothing from the past. I destroy all of that which was, and that which is, to now bring forth that which is to come? I have a future for you, and it includes a future and a hope, and a faith that is greater than yours. You must trade in your building materials for Mine. You must not try to help Me finish the building process that is left within you. You must yield to My ministrations, and allow Me to hasten you to your final destinations.

 

I am finishing your walls with My Peace. I shall not only give a full and complete new birth from within you, but I shall violently break forth from within you! I shall do great things that will amaze even you! I have set My Heart upon you, and nothing shall prevent Me from removing the last things from within you, only that which is within you can prevent Me. I want you to let go, and rest in Me, let Me finish you as you emerge in your new reality. You must see Me through My Reality. I am not like yours, and this is your struggle. You are trying to see everything through yours. You must allow Me to remove that and then you can see through Mine.

I have a rich wine to pour, and as you open more fully to Me, I shall pour it out liberally. Thankfulness shall break forth from within, and you shall not look upon things only as they have always been. No, for I shall transform all things into what shall be, and you shall drink My Wine of Sincerity with Me. You shall rise up with Joy, and shall walk with fortitude and with boldness into the new that is opening up before you. Set your feet fully on My Paths, and walk them knowing that you sit within My Higher Seat, and your vision shall be complete. Our faces shall fully meet, for you shall rule from Love's seat.

Scriptures:

Isaiah 25:6 And on this Mount [Zion] shall the Lord of hosts make for all peoples a feast of rich things [symbolic of His coronation festival inaugurating the reign of the Lord on earth, in the wake of a background of gloom, judgment, and terror], a feast of wines on the lees--of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. 7 And He will destroy on this mountain the covering of the face that is cast over the heads of all peoples [in mourning], and the veil [of profound wretchedness] that is woven and spread over all nations. 8 He will swallow up death [in victory; He will abolish death forever]. And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; and the reproach of His people He will take away from off all the earth; for the Lord has spoken it. 9 It shall be said in that day, Behold our God upon Whom we have waited and hoped, that He might save us! This is the Lord, we have waited for Him; we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.

 

Psalms 149:1-4 Hallelujah! Sing to God a brand-new song, praise him in the company of all who love him. Let all Israel celebrate their Sovereign Creator, Zion's children exult in their King. Let them praise his name in dance; strike up the band and make great music! And why? Because God delights in his people, festoons plain folk with salvation garlands! 5-9 Let true lovers break out in praise, sing out from wherever they're sitting, Shout the high praises of God, brandish their swords in the wild sword-dance— A portent of vengeance on the God-defying nations, a signal that punishment's coming, Their kings chained and hauled off to jail, their leaders behind bars for good, The judgment on them carried out to the letter —and all who love God in the seat of honor! Hallelujah!  TM

1 Corinthians 15:54 And when this perishable puts on the imperishable and this that was capable of dying puts on freedom from death, then shall be fulfilled the Scripture that says, Death is swallowed up (utterly vanquished forever) in and unto victory.

2 Timothy 1:10 [It is that purpose and grace] which He now has made known and has fully disclosed and made real [to us] through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, Who annulled death and made it of no effect and brought life and immortality (immunity from eternal death) to light through the Gospel.

Philippians 3:13 I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward. 15 So let those [of us] who are spiritually mature and full-grown have this mind and hold these convictions; and if in any respect you have a different attitude of mind, God will make that clear to you also.

1 Corinthians 9:24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but [only] one receives the prize? So run [your race] that you may lay hold [of the prize] and make it yours.

Hebrews 3:1 SO THEN, brethren, consecrated and set apart for God, who share in the heavenly calling, [thoughtfully and attentively] consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest Whom we confessed [as ours when we embraced the Christian faith]. 2 [See how] faithful He was to Him Who appointed Him [Apostle and High Priest], as Moses was also faithful in the whole house [of God]. 3 Yet Jesus has been considered worthy of much greater honor and glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house [itself]. 4 For [of course] every house is built and furnished by someone, but the Builder of all things and the Furnisher [of the entire equipment of all things] is God. 5 And Moses certainly was faithful in the administration of all God's house [but it was only] as a ministering servant. [In his entire ministry he was but] a testimony to the things which were to be spoken [the revelations to be given afterward in Christ]. 6 But Christ (the Messiah) was faithful over His [own Father's] house as a Son [and Master of it]. And it is we who are [now members] of this house, if we hold fast and firm to the end our joyful and exultant confidence and sense of triumph in our hope [in Christ]. 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts, as [happened] in the rebellion [of Israel] and their provocation and embitterment [of Me] in the day of testing in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tried [My patience] and tested [My forbearance] and found I stood their test, and they saw My works for forty years. 10 And so I was provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and intimately acquainted with them. 11 Accordingly, I swore in My wrath and indignation, They shall not enter into My rest. 12 [Therefore beware] brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God. 13 But instead warn (admonish, urge, and encourage) one another every day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you may be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [by the fraudulence, the stratagem, the trickery which the delusive glamor of his sin may play on him]. 14 For we have become fellows with Christ (the Messiah) and share in all He has for us, if only we hold our first newborn confidence and original assured expectation [in virtue of which we are believers] firm and unshaken to the end.

Hebrews 6:1 THEREFORE LET us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah), advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity. Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which you turned] to God, 2 With teachings about purifying, the laying on of hands, the resurrection from the dead, and eternal judgment and punishment. [These are all matters of which you should have been fully aware long, long ago.] 3 If indeed God permits, we will [now] proceed [to advanced teaching].

Philippians 4:8 For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them].

Romans 14:17 [After all] the kingdom of God is not a matter of [getting the] food and drink [one likes], but instead it is righteousness (that state which makes a person acceptable to God) and [heart] peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 He who serves Christ in this way is acceptable and pleasing to God and is approved by men.

-Susan O'Marra 

01-25-13

"I Have Sprouted The Seeds Of Prayer"

"I Have Sprouted The Seeds of Prayer"
 

 

During the All-Night Prayer Watch at SOG Church, I heard the Lord say, "I Have Sprouted The Seeds Of Prayer." I then was shown a vision of hard ground that was being softened over time by the Lord, through the prayers of the praying Remnant, who have been calling on the Lord for change in America. I saw the Lord answer the Remnant's prayers, by releasing rain to soften the ground of the corporate slumbering church's heart, and the rain began to stir them to seek Him more.

 

I saw the ground around the stoniness began to give way, and the waters of the Spirit began to saturate the ground of their hearts towards prayer. I then saw a renewed desire for prayer begin to be birthed into the church. Where there had been a hardness, a resistance, and a lack of prayer, now I began to see a new fertile desire to pray begin to stir within the church. People began to gather to seek the Lord for answers to their situations, for family breakthroughs, and for change.

 

I saw the rains of the Holy Spirit penetrate even deeper into the hardest of shells of the church in America, and a new fervent call to prayer began to ripple through the whole national church. I saw only a few respond at first in the vision, but over time more began to press in, and as I watched, the rains of the Lord continued until the grounds of those who opened up to the Lord's rain were saturated.

 

I saw the seeds of destiny that had lain dormant underneath/within the church, and also under/within the lives of the slumbering people begin to change. I saw those dry seeds begin to drink in the rains. The seeds swelled up as the water awoke them progressively. As they swelled, their hard shells began to crack, and a new surge of desire began to ripple through the people, and fresh hope came, and new vision was stirred, and a deeper passion was aroused, and a new corporate faith began to reach out to God again in prayer.

 

I watched the old shells exterior fully gave way, the rains began to work down into the deepest of layers of the seed within. Softness began to transform the seed of destiny, and a new vitality stirred deep within. I then watched a transformation begin to happen within the seed. It began to sprout and a change occurred in it's insides. I saw very tiny sprouts of destiny begin to press slowly through the seed and then aggressively outwards. The sprouts began to push within the soil. The soil began to give way to the sprouts that were pushing through it's soil covering, towards the light that was shining above ground. Destiny was born!

Psalms 143:3 The enemy hunted me down; he kicked me and stomped me within an inch of my life. He put me in a black hole, buried me like a corpse in that dungeon. I sat there in despair, my spirit draining away, my heart heavy, like lead. I remembered the old days, went over all you've done, pondered the ways you've worked, Stretched out my hands to you, as thirsty for you as a desert thirsty for rain.  TM

2 Chronicles 6:26 When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, yet if they pray toward this place, confess your name [and You Yourself ], and turn from their sin when You afflict them, 27 Then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, [all of ] Your people Israel, when You have taught them the good way in which they should walk. And send rain upon Your land which You have given to Your people for an inheritance.

Jeremiah 5:24 Nor do they say in their hearts, Let us now reverently fear and worship the Lord our God, Who gives rain, both the autumn and the spring rain in its season, Who reserves and keeps for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Romans 11:2 No, God has not rejected and disowned His people [whose destiny] He had marked out and appointed and foreknown from the beginning.

Interpretation: In 2013, A new phase of emergence has begun! Life is breaking through the barriers of prayer resistance, and the prayer is prevailing against the darkness, and God is forging a new path for manifestation, a fresh sign is beginning to be seen, and a more complete sense of the end time purpose of the church will now come into our full view.

The Lord then said:

 

"That vision is about you. That vision is also about My People. That vision is the beginning of the emergence of the labors of prayer that you and others, have been birthing forth unto Me for your homes, for your churches, for your City, and for your Nation. I have been doing a deep and hidden work in your midst. I have been turning your hearts back to Me in prayer. I have been dealing with the hardness that is stubbornly resident you, and also within My Church towards prayer. I have been plowing the soil of your souls, and of your flesh. I have been drawing you each fully to My Breast. I am breaking through the hardness of your hearts, and I am saturating the grounds of your hearts, as well as the ground of your nation. I will have a Church of Prayer, and I will have a House of Prayer for all Nations. I will have a People willing to be at their Prayer Stations. I will have a People that are called by My Name, that will humble themselves and pray, and that will call upon Me, night and day. I have sprouted the seeds that have lain deep within you, and I shall cause them to sprout even more in all of My Children that obeys My Call to pray. I will have a Company of Fruitful Prayer! Then I shall sprout you everywhere! I shall scatter you upon the face of the nations in prayer! I shall hasten your prayers and I shall bring a great acceleration. I shall fully man My Global Prayer Stations!"

"The Sprouting process has begun. My Fires of Conviction shall go deeper and shall burn and shall run. I shall strongly deal with those who will not obey Me and pray, and many shall repent and obediently run. I will also harden and remove those who refuse to come, and I will prosper those who yield to Me in every way. I shall fall upon you a new way! I shall do a new thing deep within the earth - also within your earth, within your souls, within your bodies, and within your lives! In My Place of Prayer you shall thrive! I shall sprout forth as you discover and uncover your new prayer worth! I shall blow, and blow, and blow upon you all! I shall ignite you in prayer, both great and the small! I shall birth forth a greater prayer cry until My Furnace of Prayer in My Church, and in your nation, climbs fully into the sky! I want sincere devotion, and heart felt prayer rising up unto Me! I want hot passionate prayer, and fertile prayer rising up to Me! I shall have My Prayer Sprouts fully break out!"

 

"You shall leap and shout, and you shall decree and thoroughly rout! It is time for victory to break out! It is time for life to manifest even more! Let My Prayer out and let it become a roar! Lift your prayers daily unto Me, and shake the heavens with Me! It is time for us to agree! It is time to break forth out of apathy. It is time to gather to pray even more corporately! It is time to break down the barriers that prevent you from emerging triumphantly! It is time to rise up and prayerfully climb! Reach out further to Me in prayer, and rise up and become who you are meant to be! Sprout yourselves in prayer before Me! Press! Press! Press! That is your destiny! Stand up, My People! Break forth, and Watch and Pray with Me! My Light Houses of Prayer shall sprout forth everywhere! Lay hold of Me! Lay hold of Me! Lay hold of Me! Then you shall fulfill your destiny! Then your Light shall be visible for all to see, and then you shall radiate the Knowledge of Me corporately!"

The prophetic birthing/sprouting process of prayer as also seen through the Pattern of the following Scriptures:

Psalms 65:9 You visit the earth and saturate it with water; You greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; You provide them with grain when You have so prepared the earth. 10 You water the field's furrows abundantly, You settle the ridges of it; You make the soil soft with showers, blessing the sprouting of its vegetation. 11 You crown the year with Your bounty and goodness, and the tracks of Your [chariot wheels] drip with fatness.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light and create darkness, I make peace [national well-being] and I create [physical] evil (calamity); I am the Lord, Who does all these things. 8 Let fall in showers, you heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness [the pure, spiritual, heaven-born possibilities that have their foundation in the holy being of God]; let the earth open, and let them [skies and earth] sprout forth salvation, and let righteousness germinate and spring up [as plants do] together; I the Lord have created it.

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.10 For as the rain and snow come down from the heavens, and return not there again, but water the earth and make it bring forth and sprout, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

Genesis 8:10 He waited another seven days and again sent forth the dove out of the ark.11 And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a newly sprouted and freshly plucked olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the land.

Romans 15:11 And again, Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise Him! 12 And further Isaiah says, There shall be a Sprout from the Root of Jesse, He Who rises to rule over the Gentiles; in Him shall the Gentiles hope. 13 May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing (bubbling over) with hope.

Hebrews 9:3 But [inside] beyond the second curtain or veil, [there stood another] tabernacle [division] known as the Holy of Holies.  4 It had the golden altar of incense and the ark (chest) of the covenant, covered over with wrought gold. This [ark] contained a golden jar which held the manna and the rod of Aaron that sprouted and the [two stone] slabs of the covenant [bearing the Ten Commandments]. 5 Above [the ark] and overshadowing the mercy seat were the representations of the cherubim [winged creatures which were the symbols] of glory. We cannot now go into detail about these things.

Numbers 17:8 And the next day Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony, and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and brought forth buds and produced blossoms and yielded [ripe] almonds.

Isaiah 11:1 AND THERE shall come forth a Shoot out of the stock of Jesse [David's father], and a Branch out of his roots shall grow and bear fruit. 10 And it shall be in that day that the Root of Jesse shall stand as a signal for the peoples; of Him shall the nations inquire and seek knowledge, and His dwelling shall be glory [His rest glorious]!

Jeremiah 23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them. And they will fear no more nor be dismayed, neither will any be missing or lost, says the Lord. 5 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch (Sprout), and He will reign as King and do wisely and will execute justice and righteousness in the land. 6 In His days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is His name by which He shall be called: The Lord Our Righteousness.

Revelations 22:16 I, Jesus, have sent My messenger (angel) to you to witness and to give you assurance of these things for the churches (assemblies). I am the Root (the Source) and the Offspring of David, the radiant and brilliant Morning Star.

-Susan O'Marra   

-01-19-13

Jesus is Our Pattern - Jesus is Our Wisdom

Jesus is Our Pattern - Jesus is Our Wisdom

 

Acts 1:1 IN THE former account [which I prepared], O Theophilus, I made [a continuous report] dealing with all the things which Jesus began to do and to teach 2 Until the day when He ascended, after He through the Holy Spirit had instructed and commanded the apostles (special messengers) whom He had chosen. 3 To them also He showed Himself alive after His passion (His suffering in the garden and on the cross) by [a series of] many convincing demonstrations [unquestionable evidences and infallible proofs], appearing to them during forty days and talking [to them] about the things of the kingdom of God. 4 And while being in their company and eating with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father had promised, Of which [He said] you have heard Me speak. 5 For John baptized with water, but not many days from now you shall be baptized with (placed in, introduced into) the Holy Spirit.

Baptized with the Holy Spirit  (Diffused throughout their souls with the Holy Spirit)

Placed into the Holy Spirit      (The Abiding Life within Him, flowing into and through you)

Introduced to the Holy Spirit  (The Relationship w/ the Holy Spirit - maturity in Him developed throughout your life)

6 So when they were assembled, they asked Him, Lord, is this the time when You will reestablish the kingdom and restore it to Israel? 7 He said to them, It is not for you to become acquainted with and know what time brings [the things and events of time and their definite periods] or fixed years and seasons (their critical niche in time), which the Father has appointed (fixed and reserved) by His own choice and authority and personal power. 8 But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth. 9 And when He had said this, even as they were looking [at Him], He was caught up, and a cloud received and carried Him away out of their sight.

His Pattern is our Direction!   -  UP!!!!

We must rise upwards in our spirits -in prayer and communion with God- to the Higher Calling in Christ. We must look into the Heavens to obtain the Lord's Wisdom for the earthly life below. Just as He ascended and descended, so shall we too, on spiritual assignment. We ascend and descend in our spirits in that place of abiding in Him and fellowshipping in/with the Godhead. We ascend within our spirits, to the higher realms to obtain His Wisdom, and we descend within our spirits back to this life to dispense that wisdom that we gained. The angels also ascend and descend on assignment as well.

10 And while they were gazing intently into heaven as He went, behold, two men [dressed] in white robes suddenly stood beside them, 11 Who said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into heaven? This same Jesus, Who was caught away and lifted up from among you into heaven, will return in [just] the same way in which you saw Him go into heaven. 12 Then [the disciples] went back to Jerusalem from the hill called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, [only] a Sabbath day's journey (three-quarters of a mile) away. 13 And when they had entered [the city], they mounted [the stairs] to the upper room where they were [indefinitely] staying--Peter and John and James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas [son] of James. 14 All of these with their minds in full agreement devoted themselves steadfastly to prayer, [waiting together] with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers. 15 Now on one of those days Peter arose among the brethren, the whole number of whom gathered together was about a hundred and twenty.

Acts 2:1 AND WHEN the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all assembled together in one place, 2 When suddenly there came a sound from heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting. 3 And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were separated and distributed and which settled on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words].

 

Through learning to develop a regular disciplined prayer life, and also maintaining a habitual corporate fellowship lifestyle, they all became one in their souls, they agreed to be knit together in thought, purpose and in deed. When they were mutually one, then the Holy Spirit came to fill that unity in their souls, with His Oneness, and diffusing Himself into theirs, He would now empower them to as His Image and Pattern, to live and witness for Him as the True Body of Christ.

Diffused: To be poured, spread, intermingled, intertwined, interwoven, merged into, etc.

5 Now there were then residing in Jerusalem Jews, devout and God-fearing men from every country under heaven. 6 And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together and they were astonished and bewildered, because each one heard them [the apostles] speaking in his own [particular] dialect. 7 And they were beside themselves with amazement, saying, Are not all these who are talking Galileans? 8 Then how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own (particular) dialect to which we were born? 9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and [the province of] Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and the transient residents from Rome, both Jews and the proselytes [to Judaism from other religions], 11 Cretans and Arabians too--we all hear them speaking in our own native tongues [and telling of] the mighty works of God! 12 And all were beside themselves with amazement and were puzzled and bewildered, saying one to another, What can this mean? 13 But others made a joke of it and derisively said, They are simply drunk and full of sweet [intoxicating] wine.

The Transformation Process cannot be understood by those who are walking not in the Lord's Abiding Relationship.

The Spiritual dimension cannot be understood by the natural dimension. It must be transformed first into spiritual, then it can be unfolded from within them, to be understood throughout their being, and then outwards.

(The Divine is communicated/transferred to the Spirit to the Soul, then Soul to the Mind, then Mind to the Body, then Body to the World.)

You are an Eternal Spirit, which is connected to the heavenly realms

You have a Soul - (mind, will, emotions, personality)

Your Soul perceives and functions through the faculty of your Mind

Your Mind then signals and instructs the Body how to function

You use your Body to function in the natural realm on earth, and to do God's will.

Romans 8:5 For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.

Jude 1:19 It is these who are [agitators] setting up distinctions and causing divisions--merely sensual [creatures, carnal, worldly-minded people], devoid of the [Holy] Spirit and destitute of any higher spiritual life.

Mark 8:35 For whoever wants to save his [ higher, spiritual, eternal] life, will lose it [the lower, natural, temporal life which is lived only on earth]; and whoever gives up his life [which is lived only on earth] for My sake and the Gospel's will save it [his higher, spiritual life in the eternal kingdom of God]. 

Jesus said, The eternal Kingdom of God is alive and active within you!

Mark 12:29 Jesus answered, The first and principal one of all commands is: Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord;

30 And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment. 31 The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

1. Out of and with your heart  (spirit)

2. Out of and with your soul   (mind, will, emotions, and personality)

3. Out of and with your mind  (thought, reason, understanding)

4. Out of and with your body  (action)

The Various Expressions of the Holy Spirit in, and through, and with His People:

14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them: You Jews and all you residents of Jerusalem, let this be [explained] to you so that you will know and understand; listen closely to what I have to say. 15 For these men are not drunk, as you imagine, for it is [only] the third hour (about 9:00 a.m.) of the day; 16 But [instead] this is [the beginning of] what was spoken through the prophet Joel: 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, God declares, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels] and your young men shall see visions (divinely granted appearances), and your old men shall dream [divinely suggested] dreams. 18 Yes, and on My menservants also and on My maidservants in those days I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels and predicting future events pertaining especially to God's kingdom]. 19 And I will show wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth beneath, blood and fire and smoking vapor; 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the obvious day of the Lord comes--that great and notable and conspicuous and renowned [day]. 21 And it shall be that whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord [invoking, adoring, and worshiping the Lord--Christ] shall be saved.

Prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels]

Visions (divinely granted appearances)

Dreams [divinely suggested] dreams

Trances, Experiences, Revelations, Manifestations, etc.

Translations - Transportations (Philip, Peter)

Miracles, Signs, and Wonders, etc.

Great Spiritual Awakening, Fruitfulness, and Harvesting of souls

22 You men of Israel, listen to what I have to say: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man accredited and pointed out and shown forth and commended and attested to you by God by the mighty works and [the power of performing] wonders and signs which God worked through Him [right] in your midst, as you yourselves know--

Jesus was accredited by God

Accredited: (officially recognized as meeting the essential requirements, accepted as authoritative)

Jesus was pointed out by God

Pointed out:

Matthew 17:5 While he was still speaking, behold, a shining cloud [composed of light] overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, This is My Son, My Beloved, with Whom I am [and have always been] delighted. Listen to Him!

Jesus was shown forth and commended by God

Shown forth:

John 10:25 Jesus answered them, I have told you so, yet you do not believe Me [you do not trust Me and rely on Me]. The very works that I do by the power of My Father and in My Father's name bear witness concerning Me [they are My credentials and evidence in support of Me].

John 14:11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me; or else believe Me for the sake of the [very] works themselves. [If you cannot trust Me, at least let these works that I do in My Father's name convince you.]

Jesus was attested to by God

Attested to:

1 Timothy 2:6 Who gave Himself as a ransom for all [people, a fact that was] attested to at the right and proper time.

23 This Jesus, when delivered up according to the definite and fixed purpose and settled plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and put out of the way [killing Him] by the hands of lawless and wicked men. 24 [But] God raised Him up, liberating Him from the pangs of death, seeing that it was not possible for Him to continue to be controlled or retained by it. 25 For David says in regard to Him, I saw the Lord constantly before me, for He is at my right hand that I may not be shaken or overthrown or cast down [from my secure and happy state]. 26 Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted exceedingly; moreover, my flesh also will dwell in hope [will encamp, pitch its tent, and dwell in hope in anticipation of the resurrection]. 27 For You will not abandon my soul, leaving it helpless in Hades (the state of departed spirits), nor let Your Holy One know decay or see destruction [of the body after death]. 28 You have made known to me the ways of life; You will enrapture me [diffusing my soul with joy] with and in Your presence. 32 This Jesus God raised up, and of that all we [His disciples] are witnesses. 39 For the promise [of the Holy Spirit] is to and for you and your children, and to and for all that are far away, [even] to and for as many as the Lord our God invites and bids to come to Himself.

Us:  We also reveal the Knowledge of God, and the Reality of God through our Lives!  -  (Body, Spirit, and Soul)

2 Corinthians 4:10 Always carrying about in the body the liability and exposure to the same putting to death that the Lord Jesus suffered, so that the [ resurrection] life of Jesus also may be shown forth by and in our bodies.

So, yield all of your heart, all of your soul, all of your mind, and all of your strength fully to Him, and then love your neighbor as yourself with His Love, and let God out of you!!!

-Susan O'Marra

-01-17-13

 

Spiritual SOS Update

Spiritual SOS Update:

01-13-13:

We have found out that Patrick's computers motherboard went, so it goes to the dumpster.

Mine has issues with starting up and even though it does start up repair a hundred times, and even does a restore to a previous time period, it still has troubles.......ugh!

We get it to work sometimes when we override the start up repair.

Sooooo, we are in the hunt for a more hardier computer!

Thank you to the 2 dear saints that sent us $98.00 via paypal towards a new laptop!

Patrick and I are very thankful!

God is on the move, and we are moving!

Thanks for praying for us!

-Susan

Wisdom: The Master and Director of the Work!

"Wisdom : The Master and Director of the Work"

Proverbs 8:

1 DOES NOT skillful and godly Wisdom cry out, and understanding raise her voice [in contrast to the loose woman]?

*      Loose woman: Anything that draws you away from Him or from the position of His Rest- (IE: Temptation - Test - Trial)

*      Matthew 18:7 Woe to the world for such temptations to sin and influences to do wrong! It is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the person on whose account or by whom the temptation comes!

*      Luke 11:4 And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us [who has offended us or done us wrong]. And bring us not into temptation but rescue us from evil.

2 On the top of the heights beside the way, where the paths meet, stands Wisdom [skillful and godly]; 3 At the gates at the entrance of the town, at the coming in at the doors, she cries out: 4 To you, O men, I call, and my voice is directed to the sons of men. 5 O you simple and thoughtless ones, understand prudence; you [self-confident] fools, be of an understanding heart.

*      Job 17:4 But their hearts [Lord] You have closed to understanding; therefore You will not let them triumph [by giving them a verdict against me].

*      Proverbs 2:1 MY SON, if you will receive my words and treasure up my commandments within you, 2 Making your ear attentive to skillful and godly Wisdom and inclining and directing your heart and mind to understanding [applying all your powers to the quest for it];

*      Proverbs 20:5 Counsel in the heart of man is like water in a deep well, but a man of understanding draws it out.

6 Hear, for I will speak excellent and princely things; and the opening of my lips shall be for right things. 7 For my mouth shall utter truth, and wrongdoing is detestable and loathsome to my lips. 8 All the words of my mouth are righteous (upright and in right standing with God); there is nothing contrary to truth or crooked in them. 9 They are all plain to him who understands [and opens his heart], and right to those who find knowledge [and live by it].

*     Mark 12:29 Jesus answered, The first and principal one of all commands is: Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord; 30 And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment. 31 The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.  32 And the scribe said to Him, Excellently and fitly and admirably answered, Teacher! You have said truly that He is One, and there is no other but Him; 33 And to love Him out of and with all the heart and with all the understanding [with the faculty of quick apprehension and intelligence and keenness of discernment] and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. [I Sam. 15:22; Hos. 6:6; Mic. 6:6-8; Heb. 10:8.] 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered intelligently (discreetly and having his wits about him), He said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God.

10 Receive my instruction in preference to [striving for] silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold, 11 For skillful and godly Wisdom is better than rubies or pearls, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. 12 I, Wisdom [from God], make prudence my dwelling, and I find out knowledge and discretion. 13 The reverent fear and worshipful awe of the Lord [includes] the hatred of evil; pride, arrogance, the evil way, and perverted and twisted speech I hate.

*      Proverbs 5:2 That you may exercise proper discrimination and discretion and your lips may guard and keep knowledge and the wise answer [to temptation].

*  Luke 18:7 Woe to the world for such temptations to sin and influences to do wrong! It is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the person on whose account or by whom the temptation comes!

14 I have counsel and sound knowledge, I have understanding, I have might and power. 15 By me kings reign and rulers decree justice. 16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges and governors of the earth. 17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me early and diligently shall find me. 18 Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness (uprightness in every area and relation, and right standing with God). 19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than refined gold, and my increase than choice silver.

*  Wisdom's Fruit:   (We are also known by our fruit!) Whatever comes out of our mouth is in our heart!

  *    James 3:13 Who is there among you who is wise and intelligent? Then let him by his noble living show forth his [good] works with the [unobtrusive] humility [which is the proper attribute] of true wisdom.14 But if you have bitter jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry, selfish ambition) in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus be in defiance of and false to the Truth.15 This [superficial] wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual (animal), even devilish (demoniacal). 16 For wherever there is jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry and selfish ambition), there will also be confusion (unrest, disharmony, rebellion) and all sorts of evil and vile practices. 17 But the wisdom from above is first of all pure (undefiled); then it is peace-loving, courteous (considerate, gentle). [It is willing to] yield to reason, full of compassion and good fruits; it is wholehearted and straightforward, impartial and unfeigned (free from doubts, wavering, and insincerity). 18 And the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to God's will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace by those who work for and make peace [in themselves and in others, that peace which means concord, agreement, and harmony between individuals, with undisturbedness, in a peaceful mind free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts].

*     1 Peter 4:8 Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins [forgives and disregards the offenses of others].

*     James 5:16 Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].

20 I [Wisdom] walk in the way of righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation), in the midst of the paths of justice, 21 That I may cause those who love me to inherit [true] riches and that I may fill their treasuries. 30 Then I [Wisdom] was beside Him as a master and director of the work; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing before Him always, 31 Rejoicing in His inhabited earth and delighting in the sons of men. 32 Now therefore listen to me, O you sons; for blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are those who keep my ways.  33 Hear instruction and be wise, and do not refuse or neglect it. 34 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For whoever finds me [Wisdom] finds life and draws forth and obtains favor from the Lord. 36 But he who misses me or sins against me wrongs and injures himself; all who hate me love and court death.

 He is A Master and Director of the Work! 
 

On 01-01-2013, I awoke to a vision of a sword hovering in the air. It was being dipped into different things. The first thing it was dipped into was a vat of sand. The next was a container of wool. The third was a vessel of a silvery liquid. Over and over, the sword was dipped into each thing, one at a time, and repeated many times in it's circuit of sand, wool, and oil. Then the final thing was the sword was then placed within the folds of a beautiful garment that hung in the air nearby.

Then the Lord spoke:  

I am tempering you.

I am rendering you impervious to cracks, to fractures, to schisms, and to divisions. I am hardening you to temptations and to demonic assaults.

I am making you inflexible to compromise and to mixture of any kind.

I am making you rigidly righteous, and strong in your faith in Me, so that I can wield you fully.

I am polishing the last of the smudges in your personality that mar My image from being fully seen.

I want you to gleam with Me in a new sensitivity and reveal a brighter countenance of Me.

I am enfolding you into each other, My Robe, My Church, and I am adding into your layers a new corporate strength. I have tempered you each individually, now I will form you corporately into a formidable weapon for Me.

This is the Year 2013, when I will form, I will assemble anew, and bring My End Time Army into full battle view.

More scriptures:

 

Matthew 26:41 All of you must keep awake (give strict attention, be cautious and active) and watch and pray, that you may not come into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Luke 8:13 And those upon the rock [are the people] who, when they hear [the Word], receive and welcome it with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while, and in time of trial and temptation fall away (withdraw and stand aloof).

Psalms 46:1 GOD IS our Refuge and Strength [mighty and impenetrable to temptation], a very present and well-proved help in trouble.

Psalms 105:4 Seek, inquire of and for the Lord, and crave Him and His strength (His might and inflexibility to temptation); seek and require His face and His presence [continually] evermore.

Psalms 138:3 In the day when I called, You answered me; and You strengthened me with strength (might and inflexibility to temptation) in my inner self.

1 Corinthians 10:13 For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently.

James 1:12 Blessed (happy, to be envied) is the man who is patient under trial and stands up under temptation, for when he has stood the test and been approved, he will receive [the victor's] crown of life which God has promised to those who love Him.

1 Peter 1:5 Who are being guarded (garrisoned) by God's power through [your] faith [till you fully inherit that final] salvation that is ready to be revealed [for you] in the last time. 6 [You should] be exceedingly glad on this account, though now for a little while you may be distressed by trials and suffer temptations, 7 So that [the genuineness] of your faith may be tested, [your faith] which is infinitely more precious than the perishable gold which is tested and purified by fire. [This proving of your faith is intended] to redound to [your] praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) is revealed.

Romans 8:6 Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].

Philippians 4:7 And God's peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

* God has sound wisdom for you!

* God has clear direction for your path.

* God has understanding of what to do next.

* God has a deep well of insight to draw upon from within your heart.

* God has soul peace for you to live in daily.

- He is the Master and the Director of the work!

* Let Him lead, and you follow!

 

-Susan O'Marra

01-13-13