Received 13 August 2022
My children, I’m about to transition things… to turn the upside down understanding of the church right way up. From the hierarchical, celebrity pastor, some-people-have-more-gifts-than-others, look-to-man-before-God show… to the fullness-of-Christ and the fullness-of-anointings-and-giftings-in-every-believer adventure. This action story is the opening of the treasure chests in each heart. Can you hear the roaring as they open collectively?
Oh my people, you are not going to know your world after you realise what is in your own heart right now!
What has been heralded of God and celebrated and looked to before, is going to hold no attention in the coming days. You won’t even see it or look at it as it falls. Manmade structures tumbling to the earth and the nakedness, pretense and immaturity of many being exposed won’t even turn your head in the midst of the glory of your God that you are about to see shining through the nameless and faceless army who walk in oneness with Me.
The key is maturity of love. Laid down, sacrificial, utterly aligned with My heart, not-your-will-but-My-will love… even-to-your-own-hurt love.
I am raising up the lovers of My heart. The mature ones, the ones who I can trust to obey Me and align themselves with My heart of love no matter what. The ones who aren’t trying to build something for Me, but are allowing Me to build them into the house I am building. They don’t seek a stage or a spotlight, they seek to walk as one. They seek to be one with me and walk wholeheartedly in my ways, together.
They know I’ve not set one man on a pedestal, but that they are all Kings and priests unto our God, carriers of the collective riches of glory, and that it’s only when they are together that My true face is displayed on this earth.
You have all of Me right now. You’re not waiting for Me to give you a gift. You’re only waiting for you to choose to walk in the gift I have already given you in fullness in My Son.
The ones who carry My heart, know My secrets, and will demonstrate My power, are those who know the cost of love.
Maturity of love is a sign and a wonder to me. It’s what took My Son to the cross. I know the price it takes to walk in it. A costless love has no maturity attached to it. But it’s the love that has no end or no limits that brings you to the knowledge of My Heart and makes you live as My Son did on this earth.
So make your choice, My church. Because the lovers of My heart are about to be seen on the earth carrying My power and My name. They are on assignment for Me. They have My spirit in them. They have My anointing because they have humbled themselves before Me… because they have humbled themselves before Me… because they have humbled themselves before Me… and chosen My heart over their own.
When they thought they could not move forward in the difficulty of what it took to love, humble themselves and walk in my ways and not give up because love was their focus, they chose love, they chose My heart, and I have given them My power and they are empowered for battle.
You must know today that I have only one army. The army of humbled lovers who look only to Me. Now all will know who they are, the distinction will be unquestionable. They will walk in such maturity, that what you have considered to be maturity in the body of Christ in the past, will look like toddlers squabbling in the sandpit.
Today you choose. Are you going to hold onto what you were told was the way to serve Me, or are you going to lay down everything you thought was true, refuse to partner another moment with your flesh, and choose to join the ranks of the most powerful force on the face of the planet, no matter what it costs your heart and your will and your dreams to walk in it? Maturity of love is the key, it’s how you live in My royal family.
There is a divine mystery – a secret surprise that has been concealed from the world for generations, but now it’s being revealed, unfolded and manifested for every holy believer to experience. Living within you is the Christ who floods you with the expectation of glory. This mystery of Christ, embedded within us, becomes a heavenly treasure chest of hope filled with the riches of glory for his people, and God wants everyone to know it! Colossians 1:26 – 27 (TPT)
Fasten me upon your heat as a seal of fire forevermore. This living, consuming flame will seal you as my prisoner of love. My passion is stronger than the chains of death and the grave, all consuming as the very fleshes of fire from the burning heart of God. Place this fierce, unrelenting fire over your entire being. Rivers of pain and persecution will never extinguish this flame. Endless floods will be unable to quench this raging fire that burns within you. Everything will be consumed. It will stop at nothing as you yield everything to this furious fire until it won’t even seem to you like a sacrifice anymore. Song of Songs 8:6 – 7 (TPT)
Your calling is to fulfill the royal law of love… For keeping this law is the noble way to live. James 2:8 (TPT)
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