The FIX an Indicator

As I was reading my morning mail, I saw something that is just another indicator of what we are seeing manifest in the natural in this hour.  This isn't to share any sense of blame or accusation, but to share an "indicator" which I saw this morning.

propose on Thursday an administrative fix to a central element of his signature health care law, allowing Americans 

As I read this, it spoke so clearly to me....something maybe some of you also have seen the importance of.   Today we are in a day of "executive orders" and "administrative fixes."

What does this mean and so what?

First, how many of us have tried to fix something that we screwed up from the beginning and maybe weren't even supposed to have done? 

We are in a day when the power to "fix" things both good and bad rests in "executive privilege" in a degree unlike anything this country has known.

And as never before even Congress who passed the bill in question, is looking to the administration to fix it, because it will get done faster.

Interestingly this "fix" is one more step in presidential authority into the daily operations of the whole insurance company and therefore our lives as citizens.  The administration can now tell the insurance company that they have to reinstate cancelled policies, policies that first told them weren't up to standard.

The significance of this issue: nothing new, just another "step" towards what we are seeing is the establishment of what the average citizen of this nation wants: someone to make their lives happier and solve their problems.  When we operate on this basis, which is the root basis of sin in our lives, wanting something from people, places, and things rather than from the Lord GOD, we will increasingly get more and more problems in the guise of making things better for the people.

Is this conspiracy? Not if you read the scriptures. It is the well written, explained plan of the enemy of our souls to bring forth his government over the lives of men before the coming of the Lord Jesus when the kingdoms of this world which he has reigned as prince of for a period of time, will become the Kingdoms of our GOD and King!

Our role....be wise as serpents and harmless as dove.  And what is "Wisdom" in this hour of 2013. It comes wholly and exclusively in and from the Spirit of GOD Himself as we rest in Him and seek Him.  There is no room for anger, and when we find ourselves seeing "things that we think shouldn't be" it is our choice and freedom to choose to trust in the fullness of the Lord GOD's plan from before the foundation of the world.  Lies and halftruths are to be expected rather than looked to as some abomination that caught us by surprise.  As the Sons of God begin to be formed upon the earth, it is essential that we understand the Plan of the Ages so we aren't caught up in the turmoil and whirlwind that will surround us as the end of the age comes and we are able to stay serene and at Peace with Peace Himself at our core.  

This means for many of us that we will be fervent to encourage one another in Christ, in the Anointing, to "return unto My Rest", to stay "still" before Him in quietness in the midst of the storm. We don't deny anger, but we move from that place where things are seen that "aren't as we think they should be" to that place of total acceptance that HE IS LORD and HE IS IN Charge.

Does this mean we do nothing?  Of course not! But it means as we are quiet in Him, we see what HE is doing and participate in it.  We as typical human beings, tend to want to deal with situations according to right and wrong and rise up against injustice and inhumanity, and we usually do so in our own human strength and power, often "asking God's assistance."  How then do we know what God is doing and how to walk as co-laborers with Him. It requires a personal walk and time spent with Him, being known of him, sharing the depth of our own deceitful hearts with Him so that we can be known of Him so that we can know Him in His righteousness.  Here is where we are uniquely lead by His Spirit in His Ways, by His empowerment, accomplishing with Him what He is doing upon the earth.

As I close this I see a message coming in saying that there is a presidential speech coming that will be directed towards this "fix" that is coming from the administration. Whether the administration fixes it or congress, we now know that the Lord GOD is in charge, that man can't do anything without the Lord GOD's permission and that it is a time for His children to seek Him, seek His righteousness and  begin to move out in what the Lord says He is doing in this hour in Is. 61:1-4.   Yes, there is the proclamation of the day of the Lord's vengeance and we will see vengeance upon the wicked  but we are also to preach the day of the Acceptance of the Lord.   Remember, that acceptance is the opposite of anger. Anger says...Things aren't as I think they ought to be...the opposite is Acceptance.....things are as they are, the I AM is in charge, we are accepted in the Beloved, just as we are because of the blood, all things work together for them that are the called according to His purposes.  

May you be strengthened and encouraged IN CHRIST JESUS in this day of national confusion as we see and know the day of the Lord is soon at hand and the coming of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

Meri

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My Cross

Tuesday November 5, 2013

My Cross        

As I talked with the Lord in the early morning, in my mind's eye I saw a tapestry hung on a wooden pole/rod. The tapestry was a beautiful deep forest green and the threads(fringes)  on the sides and at the end were gold. The pattern on the tapestry was indistinct and was more a molding of lighter and dark shades of the green.   I saw the rod as the cross bar that two hands were holding  up and I recognized them as Jesus hands and the rod/pole was MY cross.   And as I saw this I saw the dark threads being pulled out to the side of the tapestry and left behind were just the gold threads.  No distinct pattern was discernible but I knew it was pure gold.

I had been meditating on what the Lord had been showing me in the last few weeks out of the scripture.

Matt: 16 :24  Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.

Some weeks ago this scripture was referred to in a service I was in and it stirred me to seek the Lord as to what "my cross" was. I have heard so many messages about it being my calling, my mission, etc. and it didn't ring in my spirit as Truth.  I began to see this scripture as a three step process.  

1. Let him deny himself. 

2. Take up his cross, 

3. Follow me.  

 Now some places in scripture the #1 is left out and just the 2 and 3 are included. Some places Jesus calls to individuals with just aFollow me but in each instance it involves what is written in #1 and #2.

The denying himself is something so different from what I imagined for so many years.  I have come over the last 4-5 years to understand  how the power in my natural man or my adamic nature from birth seeks to take care of myself, to provide for things I have need of: my emotional needs, my spiritual needs and my physical needs and every other kind of need I could have.   This refers to the power I have to manipulate and control the circumstances of my life in order to meet my needs.  It is well known that a newborn learns within the first couple of weeks that when he cries his mom holds him and feeds him. So he learns quickly that if he cries even when he isn't hungry that his mom will pick him up.  We don't have to be taught how to manipulate to get our needs met. This is the very fiber and thread of our life tapestry from the time we were born.  When Adam and woman choose to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they choose to become personally responsible for their life needs as opposed to having been totally provided for by the Spirit of God as they walked with God.  And of that nature we were born.

So, the first step in following the Lord Jesus is to come to the awareness of our basic bent, the fabric of our nature which is  to take care of ourselves.

The second step, similar to the first, is taking up our cross.   This has come to have such new meaning to me and so different from what has been in my knowledge base over the years. And I don't know who I might have first heard teach on this, so I can't give credit to anyone specifically. Whoever it was, God by Holy Spirit has stirred and quickened my understanding and I have sought further to learn of Him what it meant for me.  What I have come to understand is that  "my cross" is the cross of MY humiliation.   My humiliation is in the fact that I am totally helpless to do anything but meet my own needs, and that it is the very essence of my humanity apart from the working of the Spirit of God in me. Humiliation comes from the word "human".  My humanity and the power in it to meet my own needs not only is greater than my ability to change it, it is totally destructive to me and to every other human being I contact. It leads to death!   So when I take up "my cross" it means owning my own humiliation, the total inability to change my nature.  

Jesus' cross was the cross of His humiliation.  All who hang on a tree are accursed.  I am accursed as I hang on my cross...dead, deserving of nothing but death. My cross represents my total inability to change myself, to change the manipulative nature that I have come to recognize.  Then and only then is my heart such to follow after the Lord Jesus. Then is when I am open to regeneration and rebirth, the resurrection Life of Jesus. Jesus who was perfect, who never sinned, who never partook of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, took on himself MY HUMILIATION, my human nature that was accursed, and He became a curse for me that I might share in His eternal life and fellowship with our Father in heaven.   This is why the cross of Jesus Christ is the center point of our faith. Without the cross, there is no relief from the burden of my humanity, no freedom from the curse, no freedom from the guilt and shame and condemnation of not being perfect. The shed blood of Jesus on the cross paid the price for my humanity and paved the way for the coming of the Holy Spirit to inhabit this "house of flesh." Guilt, shame, condemnation taken care of once for all at Calvary! And once for all provided for in the coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, when we received in Him, resurrection life!!

As you read the scriptures you will see that Jesus invited a variety of individuals to follow him but they had other things they felt responsible for, bury their father, etc. One fellow came to Jesus whom he addressed as "good teacher" and was looking to be perfected as he had kept the law.  He had not yet come to the place to realize that his own efforts could never make him perfect. Under the law which is Holy and Perfect, he would always fall short.  Jesus added one more thing to the man's efforts to be perfected:  go sell all you have and come follow me.   Jesus was showing forth the truth that none of us are perfected under the law, that there will always be "one more thing" for us to do to be perfected, an impossibility considering our human nature.  This young rich ruler, as he is called, came to Jesus to learn how to be perfect. He missed Jesus, the Way the Truth the Life. He wanted something FROM Jesus.  This young rich ruler may have been the only person to leave Jesus sorrowing and disappointed.  Riches are not what keep us from the Kingdom. It is our inability to let go of the power that riches hold by which we can take care of ourselves and manipulate and control our circumstances.

When you look at the calling of the disciples, you see something different from the above people who were invited to follow Jesus.  They left everything. They left everything behind, their livelihoods by which their needs were met, representing their old nature.  And after Jesus was crucified, we well remember they went and picked up their nets again but until Jesus came to them they weren't very profitable.  Until the Resurrected Christ, the resurrection Life of Jesus Christ indwells us, we are powerless to do anything but yield to what Paul in Romans so aptly calls the sin principle within us. But Christ in us is our hope of being like Christ...hope of glory.  The only way God's nature can be in us and we can be like Him is as the very power and presence of Holy Spirit indwells us and endues us with Himself.

Many a time clients sat in front of me in my office and said, I can't wrap my mind around that (as we were talking about God.) And I used to kind of chuckle and say, there is no way your mind can wrap around God as he is just too big, too infinite, beyond comprehension. However, His mind is so big it can wrap around yours and fill it with Himself.  No man by his effort can comprehend God or provide for himself or deal with his own mindsets, his own desires. We are totally dependent on the power of God within us to even come to the awareness of Him. So it is as we come to recognize the power of our old nature and take up our cross. And we continually engage in this process throughout our time in this earthly coat.

When I saw the tapestry, I saw the dark threads being pulled out to the side. I knew it represented the recognition of our thoughts and desires being put off and recognizing the gold of His thoughts.  The dark green threads weren't kept....they appeared irrelevant once pulled out of the tapestry...only the gold of the main fabric of the tapestry shown forth.   

Part of the process of denying ourselves and taking up our cross is what Paul speaks of in Romans 4-12 and he points to the process of being "renewed in the spirit of your mind."   Another place he speaks of casting down every thought and imagination that exalts itself before the throne.   These are other ways of illustrating steps 1 and 2. For when we follow Jesus, we are yielding to His mind, to His heart, to His strength.I lay my way of thinking down, my way of feeling, my choices, my energy recognizing them to be limited, imperfect and leading to destruction. And by my will I yield to all that HE IS, the I AM working and flowing through me by Holy Spirit.

The image of Christ ultimately appears on that tapestry which is my life. It becomes a full reflection of Himself. He is the perfect one and while I am in this house of flesh,  His nature is being perfected in me...not my nature, but His nature is being perfected, for he alone is Perfect, the perfect embodiment of Father himself!

Meri Ford

 

Power Grid Issues and Deadlock

 

October 14, 20013

 

Hello Friends,

God has allowed me on the desktop computer this morning even though it has not been working for several days as I asked Him to get me into it if this article was important.

There is much talk about the US Power Grid and a simulated shut down coming in November. At the same time we have "grid lock" in Congress.

Last night as I was praying it seemed as if I had one of those Ah Ha moments and suddenly I began to see a correlation between our power grid and gridlock in Washington DC.

We eat breakfast with an electrician who worked for years for Bonneville Power Association and I asked him a little bit about the power grid and the shut down spoken about on November 13-14. And in double checking a NY Times Article those are the dates for the "simulated shut down." There has been talk that if it is shut down they won't be able to get it started again.

Suddenly as if I "saw" something, I realized that the most important "power failure" is what is happening in Washington and the supernatural electronic pulse thing (EMP) that some have seen taking place over the East Coast has in part to do with the principality and power that is "shutting down" government operations and the "power of government" all over this nation. I think of one "dream" someone posted about the two electrical engineers who were looking over the nation's grid system and unbeknown to them two Russians were looking over their shoulders gaining full insight into our power grid layouts.

Please don't take what I am saying that this doesn't have anything to do with our power grids as it relates to the flow of electricity across this nation although what is natural has a certain reality or relationship to what is happening spiritually. What I am saying is that many of these dreams and visions about "power grids' seem to be pointing to what is happening in Washington DC and across this nation and the principality and powers that hover over the nation literally sucking up the strength and power of this nation through the shut down and the damaged "power grid" in Washington DC

. The electrician told me this morning that the whole national power grid system has a system of checks and balances so if one area goes out, power can be diverted to another area through series of relays. That seems to have some relationship to our balance of powers that works in and on the basis of our constitution. When that system of backups and relays isn't working then the whole system can be blown up. And a person who is blind in one eye and can't see out of the other probably can see how this is working out in Washington DC.

So, what then to us to whom this is being revealed?

First, it seems to be that the Lord is asking us to Above all else..or first of all to pray for those in positions of leadership...and for many of us that means "changing our mindset" (repenting) of being more focused on complaining about the failed power grid than trusting the Lord to be the Lord of ALL Power...The Lord God ALMIGHTY!! Unlimited Power....is in Him.
And we know that since forgivingness is in Him, we can then receive the wisdom and understanding of What HE is DOING in this nation.

Second: Begin to walk in the power and authority that is IN HIM and begin to call forth all that He is and HE wills and plans and purposes for this nation according to the revelation that He gives you according to the Word....a Rhema Word....and breathe into the current system the very will and purpose and plan of God in this Kairos hour.

Even in His Body, the arms and legs have a different function when accomplishing the same task....so as we come into agreement IN HIM, some of us will see Him working in one area and speak that forth and others will see other areas. God IS the power that REIGNS over the USA....not the entrenched principality and power that hovers over the halls of justice and congress and the White House which Russian and China have access to.The Lord God is the Power that reigns over the Nation of Israel as He IS the Lord God of Israel. Some of you will be seeing His hand upon various places across our nation and even the globe..as we STAND TOGETHER putting our active, operational faith into the areas that He is showing as to the areas He is doing what He is doing!!

Jesus always did what He saw His father doing and said what the Holy Spirit is saying. We are called this hour to turn to Him...He is calling us, turning us to Himself and to what He is doing...turning from the civilian affairs of this world (power failures in the national grid, government shut downs, military support and pensions, Medicare, ACA). Many of us have been focused on what is RIGHT and standing against what is wrong and as we look to Jesus who is the Tree of Life, we see that even "standing for right" can be destructive and bring forth death. But Standing in His Righteousness and operating in Him and flowing in the Word of His mouth brings life and is Truth and is The Way and He will accomplish that which He sent forth His Word to accomplish.

May the God of All Strength, unto Him be all POWER and Glory, NOW AND FOREVER, Amen!!

Meri Ford