Sunday, June 8, 2014

1965 Prophecy except..Judgement in My House

Date: Jun 8, 2014 5:34 PM
This is an excerpt from a 


1965 PROPHECY BY STANLEY FRODSHAM
   posted 

by  holyfireorg .........................I think the whole prophecy can be found at 

http://theflamingherald.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/1965-prophecy-by-stanley-frodsham/

I just couldn't help but be drawn to the fact that there is a reason God is working in what this calls My House.....so that we can stand when judgement comes to our cities.   I can only wonder how many of us are really submitting to that judgement NOW so that we are equipped IN HIM for what lies ahead, that we are equipped to stand in Him.   Meri

My wrath shall be manifested against all ungodliness. It shall come with great intensity. You have known my love but have not experienced My wrath or My severity. My judgments are literal and not a thing to be passed over lightly. Realize the severity of My judgments and My intense anger against the sin in My household. My judgments shall begin in My house, for I will cleanse My house that it be not a partaker of My wrath against the iniquities of the cities. Before I visit the nations in judgment; I will begin at My house. When I do cause My wrath to come upon the cities of the world, My people shall be separate. I desire a people without spot or wrinkle and such will be preserved by Me in the time of My wrath, which will be coming upon all iniquity and unrighteousness.
I am going to prepare you for the coming days by a hard path that will cause many to cry out continually unto Me. For when the going is easy men do not seek Me, but rejoice in a temporary blessing. And when that blessing is removed they so often turn this way and that way but do not come to Me. I am showing you these things in order that you may seek Me continually and with great diligence. As you seek Me I will open up truths to you that you have not seen before, and these very truths will be such that will enable you to stand in these last days. As you are persecuted, reviled and rejected by your brethren then you will turn unto Me with all your heart and seek Me for that spiritual life that you need. So that when the tribulation comes you will have that which will enable you to stand. For many will be tossed to and fro, men's hearts shall fail them because of trouble on every hand. These days shall be very terrible, the likes of which have never been seen before.

Pentecost Sunday

Jun 8, 2014 4:54 PM

I write this on Pentecost Sunday...the day many of us are taught "the church was born."  All week I have traveled into what we call town, the Chehalis/Centralia area where we go to the gym, Walmart, doctors, etc,. and each time we've gone into town we pass a big new LED reader board sign from one of the the largest churches in our community. It's a big new sign that calls out to everyone that drives north on the I-5 corridor. For the past two weeks the sign has blazoned  with this saying: New Series Beginning,  BECOMING THE CHURCH.   I was intrigued by the title of the series and went up to the Internet to  see if they had a podcast or anything. One of the wives of the men that my husband has breakfast with attends that congregation and shared a bit of what the sermon was about last week so I had hoped it would be on podcast so I could get the full intent. I could locate none!


So, as I write today I can't with any measure of truth, tell you what that congregation heard preached about "Becoming the Church." But it has intrigued me this week and stirred up my thinking about who we are.   I kept asking myself, Can I become what I already am? How do I become what I am?   

In the last couple of years God has been unfolding in my life who I am in Christ and who Christ is in me.  It has never been about becoming something , but the unfolding of who I am...and who the I am is in me.   Christ is the head of His body, even the church.  How do I become the church?  Now if you were to ask me how I am to function being who I am...that might be another whole matter...and perhaps that is what the pastor's series is about...coming to understand how I walk out who I am in Christ Jesus...what are the ways that I am to "express" the reality of who Christ is in me and my relationship with Christ as He lives and dwells in other believers.  I hope that is what the sermon series is about. 

 I have grown up in the culture we call Christianity, my father being an American Baptist pastor and then when I was in 4th grade he had to return to the work as a public school teacher due to lack of available pastorates who wanted what was then a 55 year old man.   We've always been associated with those who call ourselves the church. And yet,  I can recall almost no awareness of us "functioning" as the body of Christ" or having any sense of identity in Christ Himself, other than, we were 'saved" by believing in the work of the cross and inviting Christ into our lives....and of course being baptized...and then eventually baptized with the Holy Spirit (in a Pentecostal congregation I attended in the evenings with my boyfriend..not at an American Baptist fellowship.)

Most of my life was about "doing what I was supposed to do"   Doing what I thought God wanted me to do. Doing what was right versus wrong.  And since I so often fell down there was over the years that guilt and shame that  piled up because I didn't know who Christ was in me or who I was in Christ.  Did it mean He wasn't in me and I wasn't his son? Of course not!! Did it mean I wasn't a part of His body?  Of course not. But what it did mean, was I wasn't functioning in who I am and out of who Christ is in me.   I was still an infant, and at one stage probably a teenager testing out my own abilities apart from the governing powers of His Spirit. I didn't know who I am....the Son of the Living God...a son of the King...with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places....a joint heir with Christ, a co-laborer with Him in the gospel of the King...oh maybe should add..Kingdom.

I didn't understand the gospel...even today I love asking folks...what gospel did Jesus preach?  If we say we preach the gospel of Jesus Christ then that must be the same gospel Jesus preached when he walked on the earth as a man.    If you had asked me this a year ago, I would have been dumbfounded ...without an answer...yep...Meri would have had no answer!! grin!!  

I later began to study and found Jesus preached that the kingdom of God was at hand...ok , so what.........the Kingdom of God is near...........I remember someone saying years ago after a brief conversation I had with them,  something about  being near the kingdom I didn't understand.  Oh, but here on this Pentecost Sunday 2014.....I understand a bit more..........I think I have some understanding today.  Jesus preached the good news of the kingdom of God...because he was the KING...and he manifested the power of the King of Kings in healing, deliverance, multiplication of food and and many other miracles.  The King is here....

Is that the message of Pentecost today?   We may not hear it in the service we attend but the reality is . the King is here!!!!  He was there alive i where I attended this morning in most of the saints that were crying out to Him...unaware that He is come...and we can "rest in Him" that HE IS OUR REST. As I left service, a song welled up in me...and since I don't remember song words worth a nickle when a song rises up I know it comes from my spirit through Holy Spirit .  it was ..Ps. 132:14...This is my Rest forever, here will I dwell, for I have desired it...for my habitation.

I sensed many of those in the pews "crying out" wanted "visitation"...they were unaware that the church was already birthed in them... and that it is time to Rest in him that we might learn to co-labor with him, follow His leading and direction from the inside out.  I had such a peace during the service...and during the time of "praise and worship"...that Peace flooded my being with awareness of  situations where Holy Spirit was at work, places his Spirit was ministering, healing he was doing....wow...Seeing what He cares about and what He is doing by His Spirit, sure takes a load off my shoulders. which is why He says, Come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light and I will give rest for your souls.

As one of those "called according to His purposes"...as His Spirit leads and directs me, I can trust all things to work together. I can trust that He will show me where He is working and invite me to work along side him by His power, with his Words, with his heart and mind.  I spent my life "working for God", standing up against injustice and other social wrongs.   One time  I had a lady call me a crusader ...and I was...but I wasn't doing and saying what He was doing and saying, I was doing according to my sense of right and wrong.   And I will be faced with reckoning myself dead to my "old ways" and the "old man that ruled my old ways" and alive unto Christ in me and what He says and what HE is and who He is in me...until this body of flesh falls off or I am translated.  

Jesus said that we were to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow him.....and that HE would "make us" fishers of men.
The power of my own self-directed way of life I inherited from Adam is something I must deny access to  recognizing it is dead and produces death. And I will be going through that process of my humanity, being "put to death" so to speak, putting that to death, which is my cross, until I die....only as this is done can I follow Christ...for He is always on the other side of the cross...I am helpless to die myself. I can kill myself which is suicide, but I can only reckon myself dead in the face of all Jesus was and is and shall be...knowing that when this house of flesh falls off I shall be like him....as will you as you follow Christ as I let Him be who he is in me.

Pentecost Sunday...the birth of the Church.....It is birthed...and it IS...and we are encouraged to allow Him to be formed in us...that all that He is come forth in us as we function as the church that we are in Christ Jesus.  Ok, that could be translated...becoming the church...but I'd rather say...I am becoming all that I am, was and ever shall be in Him who was and is and is to come.. and all that I am can only be fully developed as I have relationship with others who live and move and have their being in Him,The Lord Jesus Christ revealed in us by Holy Spirit himself.



Meri

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Mudslides and other natural occurances in the Pacific NW

The big mudslide north of Seattle is something that is very hard to comprehend even though I've seen the pictures on TV and on the computer.  I live in Washington State as others on this small list do...some closer to the Seattle area than others.  But it is incomprehensible to me, that the whole side of a mountain could fall off.  In listening to the current update just now on the news, they say that there was a 1.1 earthquake within a short period of time before the hillside collapsed covering a square mile with mud and taking out at least 10 homes, a construction site and a mile of a main roadway.

At present 176 are still missing and unaccounted for, though they are reconciling that list even now and anticipate that there are some duplications on the list. At present 14 bodies have been recovered and I haven't heard any number as to those hospitalized. It seems they got out with minor cuts and bruises or they didn't get out.  This square mile area is covered with 15-20 feet of fluid mud.

i ask you to seek God about this occurrence because I was reminded by someone on this Renewedhope List, that I have learned to trust over the last 15 years, who mentioned again  the vision of the  eruption of Mt. Rainier and potentially some interaction between Rainier and other of the mountains in the Cascade Mountain Range which is a part of the Ring of Fire.

Years ago I traveled up into the mountain range and on the way I wept as I "saw" mounds of mud and dirt where once were hillsides and valleys where many folks lived.   So I know something is coming that God would desire His children be a part of and prepared for.

This area has a history of major eruptions every 350 years or so and since you easily can see our high peaked mountains, volcanic activity continues.  Volcanic activity continues inside Mt. St. Helens as the dome continues to grow where it once blew it's innards pouring toxic gas and it's own composition of organic material down the hillside and into the rivers killing many just back in the 1980s.  

This whole natural area is spiritually unstable even as it is unstable geologically. This area has seen more than one great move of the Spirit of God. But sadly, many ended without people realizing that when Holy Spirit is poured out, all the dross and filth (mud) must be cleansed out; it must be addressed or new life can't come forth.  Holy Spirit comes to cleanse....requiring the saints to put off all the clothing and behaviors of the old man and be renewed in the spirit of the mind according to the mind of Christ.

Been reading in Ephesians this morning...of how when we "learn Christ"...when we "see Him" we at the same time see that which is in us that is not of Him.It is given to us the power and strength, knowing our acceptance in the Beloved, to put off those filthy garments, the coarse jesting, the carnal talk, the lusts and desire for that which  satisfies the appetite but only creates more hunger and desire.  We put on Christ and He equips up to cast off all that is not of Him; he allows us to see what inhibits the free flow of His love to another. Oh what Love is this!!

Many have been the declarations of the West Coast falling into the ocean.  Seeing the results of this mudslide and thinking of the short distance of Mt. Rainier to Puget Sound...it is not inconceivable that a major event on that mountain could pour mud and other elements of the earth right into the waters of Puget Sound in the Tacoma area...wiping out  a population.   If that happened at the same time that a tsunami  hit from such an earthquake itself...think of the consequence.  What then are we called as the children of God to do and say?  We are to seek His Face and be a part of whatever it is He is doing on the earth, that we can, in a good conscience, rest in knowing that we are obedient sons of the Father and that his love for his people in the State of Washington is beyond comprehension. God doesn't  come to destroy, but to reveal the greatness of His love.

The head of the office of Emergency Management in   Snohomish County today said that  he believes in miracles and is trusting that just because it has been three days since the mudslide, that he has hopes that there will still be some of that 100+ missing who miraculously survive. May it be so to the praise of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ who is bigger than earthquakes and mudslides and who asks us to be found secure in HIm when these things happen!

Meri