Trusting

Lord, I come to you. I need you tonight. I need you desperately. Become my life and my everything. Become my first love and only love. You are the desire of my heart, and there is none on heaven nor on earth that I desire but you. Lord Jesus, I just want to love you back, with my whole heart, with my whole soul, and my whole strength. I lay everything I desire, my goals, my dreams, my aspirations on the altar. Burn away everything that does not belong to you. Burn away my natural man- everything of my self. Lord, I am willing to experience the death of the cross that your resurrection life may come out. Whatever you like to do in my life, I amen to you. I consecrate my whole being, especially my heart, entirely to you. I want nothing else in this world but you. You are my treasure, and you are my heart's desire. 

I'm realizing everyday more and more how much I need my Lord Jesus.  He is my only hope and my only dream.  Everything else will fade away. Everything else in my life is just a shadow. But I know my Lord is always there for me, no matter what.
I just feel like I'm so tired of trying so hard to accomplish God's will according to my own strength. I cannot do this anymore. Just like I wrote in my last blog post about my feelings for the guy, it just feels like he doesn't care or even want this at all. So it's kind of like why am I trying so hard when he's not fighting for me at all? What is the point of all this? On the one hand, I still feel the Lord is the initiator and wants this relationship, but on the other hand, God doesn't want me to do anything in myself anymore. The Lord doesn't want me to keep asking him to go out, to keep pushing him and pressuring him to be with me. I just feel now is the time to stop completely my every doing, actions in trying to get this guy to be with me. I'm learning to wait upon Jehovah, and rest in Him.
I'm realizing that no matter what happens in the future, God is sovereign. His ways are higher than my ways. Even if this guy decides to leave to china, I say amen. I am willing to let him go back. The guy is not my hope, and he is not my goal in life.  At least in that day I can say to the Lord, I am your faithful slave, and I have done your will.

"But if the servant plainly says, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free; Then his master shall bring him to God and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever." Exo 21:5-6

Footnote 5 for love: "Love is the motive and prerequisite for a slave's continued service. The Lord Jesus loved the Father (His Master), the church (His wife), and all the believers (His children). Motivated by such a love, He was willing to be a slave. All who believe in Christ, belong to Him, and have His serving life should take Him as their pattern."

I still can praise you Lord for every situation, because I love you. I only love you. I love my master, and I will not go out free. I want to serve you forever and ever.

Although it's so hard to let go of him- as in to let him go back to China- I feel it's time for me to stop. Stop trying so hard. Stop taking so much action. Stop using my natural strength to get him. Stop asking him to go out with me. Stop caring so much. Stop using ways to get him to stay in the US. Stop trying to convince him to be with me.  I want him to want to be with me, not to be forced to be with me. 

But I'm realizing that him going to china is not the end of the world and it's not the end of a future together. If God opens a door, no one can shut it. Not even with the distance and separation. I think there's a phrase which says separation makes the heart grow fonder. If that's the case, I'm happy he's leaving back to china to try to figure out his next career move -maybe it'll get him to miss me more haha. I just always pray that wherever he goes, he is preserved always in the church life and body, because wherever the body is, there the real home is. There is rest and joy when you're with the other members of the Body. The Lord needs every member of the Body and even if they are young in life, every member is indispensable. God NEEDS him for the building up of the Body. He is such a precious member of the body, whether he believes it or not. I rest in the Lord completely because I believe no matter how far we are, no matter where we go, what the future may hold, that if God wants us to be together He will open the way. Plus it's like in this age with all the technology it's not like you can't contact each other on a regular basis lol. Look at all the social media options nowadays. It's so easy and simple. Where there is a will, there is a way. I feel I am just waiting for the Lord, waiting for His timing, trusting that He can and will open this relationship up. Because this relationship is for his Body, for God's interest His good pleasure, His heart's desire for a corporate built up bride, and for His move and testimony on this earth. During the Memorial Day Conference, they said "where the building is there is the spiritual warfare". Satan has continually tried to hinder us from being together through outward circumstances. Satan even uses both of us sometimes especially by injecting lies in our mind to attack us. Satan will say these lies: "there's no way that we can be together if we separate" or "he/she doesn't even care about you- why should you wait for God timing" or "if he leaves to china you will never have a future together". LIES. ALL ARE LIES FROM SATAN. This is what I've been always thinking for the past 3 months. Satan is a liar and he's the father of it. I declare that I don't believe in his lies any longer. God is on the throne and as his Body we have ascended with him to the highest place in the universe. We are in the heavenlies with him.  God has a way to work in this relationship, in both of our hearts and to even bring us together again. Because this is all for His body. For his church and his building, His dwelling place. 

It's time for me to stop looking at this relationship in an outward fashion, or to see it according to how it's been going so far. The Lord showed me I need to set my mind on the things which are above, not the things in the earth. or be so emotional in trusting the outward situations and base my living on my feeling.  It's time for me to stand one with the Lord- to declare the facts and claim what the Lord has obtained and attained-He is the Lord and Head over all things to the church. He has attained the highest place in the universe and is seated at the right hand of God in the heavenlies, far above all rule, authority, power and lordship. How much more can the Lord work out this relationship for the church. He will do it according to His perfect will because the body is one with the head in the heavens. God will not stop until He gains a group of people for His good pleasure. And if relationship is for His good pleasure, and for His interest, then I support and stand with Him in believing that this relationship will work out. 

Whatever happens in the future though, I can say I still love my Lord Jesus. 

"Whom do I have in heaven but You? And besides You there is nothing I desire on earth. My flesh and my heart fail, but God is the rock of my heart and my portion forever." Psa 73:25-26 

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Matt 5:8

Lord I don't go along with the present situation. I disagree with Every Lie from the enemy. I believe only in your promises because You are the one who is in the heavenlies. As your body we are in the heavenlies with You and we take the ground of your Ascension and claim your lordship over the present situation. I agree with You Lord for your ways. I won't allow Satan to interfere into my thoughts any longer. Renew my mind.  Praise the Lord that You will work everything out according to your good pleasure- including our relationship. I offer up all the Praises To You. Praise you that he is leaving to China and praise you that you have a way to arrange the circumstances for us to be together, according to your perfect will, your perfect timing, and your perfect way. I praise you because today Jesus is still Lord.

Memorial Day Conference Msg 5

The Formation of a Corporate Joshua to Possess the Good Land by Defeating the Satanic Forces

• When we talk about the spiritual warfare, we are fighting this warfare for God's interest- for the interest of the good land. For God to gain His expression and dominion on this earth.
• The good land, the land of Canaan, is a type of the all-inclusive Christ, the Christ who is all and in all and who is everything to us. There is a wonderful type of the good land. this is the ultimate type of Christ. This good land is to be everything to us. 
• "The allotted portion of the saints"; portion is the all-inclusive Christ for our enjoyment. We apply this all inclusive Christ to the experience of the saints. For us to possess and gain. 
• We need to walk in this good land-we are rooted in Him. Being built up in Him. Christ is likened to the soil. We are rooted in Him. In which we have been placed. We are built up in this land, rooted in this land. 
• Christ, the reality of the type of the good land, is everything to us. 
• Christ is not only to be our savior, Lord, master, but everything to us. 
• Their whole existence is related to the land. They were eating, drinking- the land was everything to God's people. God uses his land to typify this Christ should be everything to us. We live by Him, we drink Him, we breathe Him, we live by Him. Everything we do, are involved in is about this Christ.
• God's goal is for us to gain the all-inclusive Christ. That this Christ will become everything to us. 
• In this one new man, it is about the one new man. There is only one person in our midst: Christ who is all and in all. If we do not have this reality of experiencing this Christ to be our everything and our all in all, we are still short of what the one new man is. 
• In our daily life, is Christ our food, our drinking, conduct, ? Can we say that this Christ is everything for us? This burden of the one new man- He needs to gain this burden in us. Do we allow him to grow up into Him in all things, for Christ to become our everything? 
• If we would possess the good land, we must engage in warfare to defeat the satanic forces. God charged them to grow up and fight against. The land that God promised us is a land flowing with milk and honey, but it is a land also filled with enemies. In order to possess we need to fight our way into it. 
• Even the day we were saved, we have been engaged in a spiritual warfare. We should not think that spiritual warfare only happens outwardly. These enemies are not outside enemies, but inward adversaries. Always trying to defeat us, and defraud us going forward from gaining Christ. 
• If we have this view, we have a different perspective of fighting the warfare. We need to engage in this warfare to defeat the satanic forces. 
• The spiritual warfare is in our daily life. Satan is doing his utmost to hinder us from enjoying Christ as the all-inclusive one. He will do whatever he can to keep us from enjoying Christ as the all inclusive One. Our fighting is here. Right in your thoughts and concept are these things to frustrate you and distract you from enjoying Christ from the all-inclusive one. 
• 1st tactic used by the enemy: The enemy blinding us from seeing the all inclusive Christ, but not to see Christ in his all inclusiveness. The God of this age has blinded the thoughts of the unbelievers. 
• God will give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation that we may see- our eyes being enlightened. To open their eyes, turn them from darkness to light, from the authority of Satan to God. A lot of the battle takes place in our mind. This enemy is not that far from us. Many of the thoughts we take in. For the bringing forth of  the new man, we need to be renewed in the spirit of our mind. 
• The warfare seems so unnoticeable, quiet but there is a struggle going on. The enemy veiled us with these 4 layers veils. 
• 1st layer: Our natural life: we were born in our natural life-our ethnicity. We were raised in our culture- causing us to behave and think in a certain way. We were educated in certain philosophies. We were saved in religion.
• Christ is our good land, and God wants us to gain Christ, but there is a layer of devilsh, demonic forces between us and the good land. If we would take possession of the good land for our enjoyment, we must defeat these satanic forces.  God has given this man to us, this is our inheritance. We need to be rooted, allowing this Christ to make his home in our hearts-be rooted in Him as this good land. 
• Everyday by receiving our roots into this land, absorbing all his riches, we are strengthened- may be full of strength to apprehend all the dimensions of Christ. We need to be strengthened.
• We cannot be wishy washy, we need to be strong.  Lord, I want to gain more of you. It's not good enough to be tranquil, resting, having Christ increase in us to be our all and our everything? 
• Anti-Christ is not just against Christ, but it's also things which may take the place of Christ- instead of Christ. Not only to be against Christ, but to substitute Christ. 
• We need to be strengthened to be today's Joshua and Caleb. To reject not only the things which are opposing Christ, but substituting to Christ.
• Without Joshua book, we cannot understand the spiritual warfare in Eph 6:10-20: 
• God brought them through many things- From Genesis to Deut. God has gained a group of people separated from the world, who will gain this purpose of inheriting the good land. In Joshua, everything is ready, just like Eph 1. 
• Josh 1 presents this situation
• God needs to gain a proper person for the bringing forth of Christ: Rahab. Rahab by faith she became one of the enjoyers of the good land. 
• We have now become the proper person for Christ to be brought forth to enter into the good land. 
• The enemy hates this conference- especially when the msg touches the defeating of God's enemy- Satan hates this. There are things going on in the spiritual realm that are invisible. There seems to be a delay in the answering, but there seems to be a delay in the battle of the scene. There is a spiritual warfare taking place in the invisible realm. 
• There is a spiritual warfare in the invisible scene BEHIND the visible scene means that in addn to war on the earth, there is a war between God and Satan.
• Eph 2: in the heavenlies there are different layers 
• Christ is in the highest layer, the 3rd heaven, to be our everything as ourr good land
• Lower layer: the air where Satan as the ruler of the authority of the air is frustrating the people on earth from contacting God and receiving Christ, this is typified by teh Canaanites, who were frustrating Israel from entering the good land. 
• Behind our natural life are the forces of evil to frustrate us from taking possession of the good land. Our natural life is the SOURCE of our sins. Those who live according to the natural life are sinning continually-whether it is good or evil. We must hate it, and be willing to drive it out. 
• We must fight against and defeat the satanic forces in order to gain more of Christ for the building up of the Body of Christ. We want to defeat the enemy to gain Christ. The gaining of Christ is God's purpose for us. 
• In order to possess the good land and defeat the satanic forces, we need to be formed into a corporate Joshua. This fighting is not against flesh and blood, but against these spiritual forces, especially these enemies within us. 
• They must partake of the passover, leave Egypt (the world), have the tabernacle established in your living (having the testimony of God in our life- a practical church life with the testimony), experience Christ as the reality of all the offerings, experience Christ as our High Priest, participating as the priesthood. --> how to be 
• 5 Qualifications to be Part of the Army:
• You must have a lineage in God's family- Not anyone can just drop in. 
• You must be 20 years of age - you need to have growth in life. 
• Everyone must be under his own standard. -You don't have any choices in what tribe you are, aka what church locality you are in. 
• We must be put into a proper order. This implies submission. For the formation of this army, there needs to be the exercise of the Lord's arrangement.
• We need to be fresh and young. The old has to be buried. 
• Christ is ready to be taken and possessed by His believers. He is ready, but are we ready??
• The Lord has a goal to reach: a people that will enter into the good land to build the temple and city for his kingdom. 
• Why are we still here? 
• Equipping, perfecting our mixed generation for the readying for the entering of the good land .
• We have to exercise the initiative to stand one with God's word to take the land. This requires us to deny ourselves, our passivity, and all the things that try to hold us back, and render the Lord our cooperation. To take the land- we are told that as God's people enter into the land to defeat all those tribes, God told them he will not drive out all the tribes all at once. Even though we have to defeat all the satanic forces, the natural life, and the self, God will wipe out these enemies little by little. If all the tribes are wiped out, we aren't ready to fill the land. We will not defeat the natural life all by ourselves.
• The more we grow in the Lord, the more extent the defeat of the enemy will be. It requires our cooperation to be active passive.
• Joshua is the Hebrew word for Jesus. He is the one who would lead us into the good land.  
• After being formed, constituted, disciplined, trained, and qualified, God's people had come to the plains of Moab, where they were waiting to enter into the good land, to take it and possess it. 
• The Lord is preparing us to be a corporate Joshua. All together we are being equipped, and we are being ready to become a corporate Joshua for the taking of the land.
• The formation of the children of Israel into an army to fight for God typifies the New testament believers' being built up into the organic Body of Christ to fight for the carrying out of His economy.
• God's army, a corporate Joshua, was prepared and ready to take the good land under the blessing of God in Hi Divine Trinity and also under the blessing of Moses, the man of God.We are under the blessing of the Triune God. We enjoy God as the Father as the source of all the blessing, Christ the Son as the embodiment, and enjoy the Life-giving spirit to flow out to reach us. We are under the blessing of the Triune God to encourage us to go forward, to possess the land. 
• Deut 33: God will still enable his chosen people to enter into the rich Christ. This is God's success, and the boast and glory belong to no one but Him. God is able to bring His people into the good land.  It is NOTHING of us. He is the one to take us in.
• We rise up to cooperate with Him. We say Yes Lord, we will be one w/ you for the entering of the good land.
• The Lord's recovery is uniquely for the bringing forth of Christ so that this Christ will be everything for God's people. We are just a group of people to enter into the good land, to possess this land, for this all inclusive Christ to be everything to us. We are not here to be today's Christian movement. We are just here to be purely for God's interest. For the defeat of Satan for God can be all and in all for us. 
• We only have one person: Christ who is all and in all. He is readying us into this corporate Joshua. This is a corporate built up body. We cannot go on into the good land as individuals. 
• We need to be those who have another spirit like Joshua and Caleb. We should not be afraid of the difficulties of the enemies.
• We must be those that follow faithfully God's word (Josh 1:8). We need to be faithful to God's word.
• We must be those who are one w/ our God, and God one w/ us. Wherever you go, I shall be with you. 
• God is still with us. The sense is corporate, we are not many separate individuals. We are faithful in continuing in his word, and enjoy his presence, and his being one w/ us all the time. 
• 4 fold responsibilities: 
• Preach the gospel to sinners
• Concerning Satan, there is a spiritual warfare.
• Concerning the church, we need to hold fast to what we see today.
• Concerning Christ, we exalt Christ that He be all and in all. 

Memorial Day Conference Msg 6

The Prayer of the Age to Fulfill God's Economy and the Sacrifice of Praise to Display Christ's Victory

• To have a spirit of faith, to see what is really going on in the universe. Everything that happens on this earth is just a reflection of what is really happening. What is really happening is this warfare between God and His enemy. 
• God has raised up the church to deal with His enemy to bring in His kingdom. 
• Praise is eternal. Prayer has an endpoint. Prayer has a destination: praise. Praise in God's entire economy is higher than prayer. 
• We need to look at what has been ministered to us this weekend. The work in God's economy (to build up the church) is a warfare. This work of God to build up the church in itself is a warfare. As we are here endeavoring to build up the Body of Christ, we are engage in a warfare. 
• This work in a warfare. This work is a warfare because Satan's will is set against God's will. The church is in the middle. We can say the spiritual warfare has its source in the divine will and the satanic will. Every decision we make has to do with that conflict. How we align our will with the divine will with the satanic will?
• God wants man, his creature to deal w/ satan. 
• The human will MUST stand with the divine will and fight against the satanic will. We are in a warfare and God's will is at stake. Our will is key. Our will line up with God's will to subdue the satanic will.
• His will be done on earth and His kingdom will be done. The kingdom of God is to exercise that divine will to overflow the power of satan by the power and authority of God.
• All spiritual work is a warfare. There is no such thing as working without fighting. You are fighting by being engaged in God's work. 
• Don't be afraid. We know that God is with us. Christ is the victor. Jesus is Lord. 
• When we fight, we are with the victor whose leading the fight. We join Him, and share His position, and His authority. 
• Whatever touches the spiritual realm, is in the nature of warfare. The nature of the church is warfare. What hinders the gospel is not outward environment is the satanic power of darkness. The reason for all the confusion and conniving is Satan.
• We don't agree with Satan. We are one with God, we are for God's will. We don't deal with things on the surface. We are not only in resurrection, but in ascension. 
• We deal with the power of darkness that schemes behind these things and reigns on the earth. 
• The church has a commission. The commission is not even given to the angels, but given to men, the church. How important the church is. That is why Satan hates the church because it will cause his end.
• Among the children of God, there are not enough that are fighting the spiritual warfare. 
• We are not watchful because we think we can take a break. This is why Satan still rules and active in the air and on the earth. 
• Why are we covering the spiritual warfare now?
• There is an element of warfare even as we love the Lord. When we tell the Lord we love Him, it means we will fight with Him. 

The need is that we would transcend. The prayer of the age is the prayer of the church. This prayer exercises the authority of Christ. 

 That the ^1aGod of our Lord Jesus Christ, the ²Father of glory, may give to you a ^3bspirit of ^4cwisdom and ^drevelation in the ^efull knowledge of Him, Eph 1:17

• All this is to the church. We are on a receiving end that all Christ obtained. All that is given to him. His overruling power, His transcending power, His position in the highest place, His enthronement as the Lord and leader, His all subjecting power that subjects every creeping thing under His feet. The prayer of the age is the prayer of the church.-the fulfillment of God's economy.
• Don't look at the church w/ your eyes. 
• To enter into this kind of prayer, we need this kind of heavenly vision to see something beyond our natural concept.
• Lord, unveil me. Let me see through my own concepts. Help me to see what is Your concepts. 
• Ascension of Christ:
• the entire work of redemption has been completely accomplished.
• The lordship of Christ has been established. Christ was the Lord, and King but as a man.
• We need to see the heavenly fact. LEAVE YOUR FEELING BEHIND-STICK TO THE FACTS.--> Christ has been exalted by God, established as the Lord of the universe, made Head over all things to the church. All things are under His feet, and everything that He has obtained and attained is being transmitted to the church, which is His body.
• Speak the facts to the devil. NOT conversation. Read the facts to him directly.
• Faith needs to be nourished by the word of God. Not by feeling. Do not go to feeling. Go to the word. 
• Church's position as the Body of Christ. The church is the Body of Christ. We are His body. This is reality. Where He is, there we are. We are with Him in the heavenlies right now. Our spirit is connected to the throne.  The position of the Body is exactly the same as the Head.

And what is the surpassing greatness of His ^1apower toward us who believe, ²according to the ^boperation of the ^cmight of His strength, 20 Which He caused to operate in Christ in ^1araising Him from the dead and ^2bseating Him at His ³right hand in the ^4cheavenlies, 21 Far above all ^1arule and authority and power and lordship and ²every ^bname that is named not only in this ^cage but also in that which is to come; 22 And He ^1asubjected all things under His feet and ²gave Him to be ^bHead over all things ³to the ^4cchurch, 23 Which is His ^1aBody, the ^2bfullness of the One who ^3cfills all in all. Eph 1:19-23

• Faith needs to be nourished by the word of God. Not by feeling. Do not go to feeling. Go to the word. 
• We rightly assume the authority of the church. The only way we subdue Satan is by authority. Authority > Power.
• It's time that the church exercises this authority. We must exercise this authority. 
• Prayer of the church as the Body of Christ: 
• Not individual believers, but prayer of the church as the Body of Christ. Physically by ourselves, in our room, but spiritually, one w/ the Body. 
• Ie: Daniel: Even though he was by himself, his heart was for Jerusalem. He was praying for God's interest on the earth-for Him to gain His house, His city, and the land.
• We need to pray these kind of prayers. Can you imagine what will happen tomorrow when these kind of prayers happen?
• This kind of prayer is not begging to do something. Instead, we CLAIM what the Lord has obtained and attained. 
• Christ has ALREADY obtained the lordship and headship. He is the Lord and Head over all things to the church.
• Christ has ATTAINED the highest place in the universe; He has been raised from the dead and is seated at God's right hand in the heavenlies, far above all rule, and power, and lordship in the universe. --> This is our BASE, and we claim this reality and pray from that.
• Lord, we do not go along with the present situation; as Your Body, we take the ground of Your ascension and CLAIM your lordship over your present situation.
• Lord, open the way for you to rule and come in and work. Lord, we claim what you have already attained. Lord, I declare you are victor. You are in ascension. We are in the Body. The Body is in the Head, and the Head are transcendent and so are we. We are in transcendency in the heavenlies. This is the place where we fight. 
• We can tell all the negative things: "DO NOT bother me. Go to the lake of fire!!!! I am transcendent. You cannot touch me. You are under my feet." 
• Prayer causes us to be one with the heavens, and one w/ the throne, and one w/ God. We have the authority to bind and loose what has ALREADY been bound and loosed in the heavens. We need to realize that the Body is ONE with the Head in the heavens.
• The church is built upon a rock, and this rock is the ascended Christ. The gates of Hades cannot prevail against the church.
• The moment we lose our guard, this is the moment we cannot enter in this kind of prayer. We need to live, act, and move in the Body. In our DAILY life we must always put off the old man, and put on the new man by being renewed in the spirit of our mind; the new man is composed of the Head with the Body, Christ with the church.
• Praise is the highest work carried out by God's children.
• Prayer led them to a transcendent state. Thanksgiving is a form of praise, giving thanks to God. We need more of this in our meetings. Look up! Look beyond your situation and yourself. Look at the throne and God! Sing praises to Him! 
• God's throne is the HIGHEST point in the universe. 
• Especially when we are going through the valley of shadow of death, we can praise Him. God's name and God Himself is exalted through praise. 
• When you praise Him, God can be enthroned by our praise. 
• The Christian life is a soaring life, a flying life, because we mount on eagle's wings. Because Jehovah is our strength, and we are seated with Him in the heavenlies. Lord, I want to soar with you in the heavenlies. Praise you Lord!! You have already won the victory!! 
• Christian life soars through praises; to praise is to transcend everything to touch the Lord.

Saying, ^a"I will ¹declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the ²church ³I will sing hymns of praise to You.'' Heb 2:12

12³ This is the firstborn Son's praising of the Father within the Father's many sons in the church meetings. When we, the many sons of God, meet as the church and praise the Father, the firstborn Son praises the Father in our praising. It is not that He praises the Father apart from us and alone; rather, He praises within us and with us through our praising. In our singing He sings hymns of praise to the Father. If then we do not sing, how can He sing? The more we sing to the Father, the more we enjoy His presence, His moving, His anointing, and His life-imparting within us. Thus we will grow in Him and be brought into His glorification above all.

• Through Him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of lips confessing His name" 
• The book of Psalm is a book of praise, but the Psalm contains chapters not only of praises but also of sufferings. God wants His people to know that the praising ones are the very ones who have been led through trying situations and whose feelings have been wounded, yet God perfected praises out of these ones.
• For us who are suffering, that they don't even understand, it's harder to praise. But it's out of the environment, that will create a deeper part of praise. 
• Praise comes from suffering, pain and loss. God desire His children to praise Him through everything and in every situation. The nature of praise is an offering, a sacrifice. You don't understand this, you have no ways to reason or rationalize, you can only use faith and look at God and praise Him.
• You praise Him for what you don't understand. --> Principle of a sacrifice and offering. Nothing matures us like this kind of praise. It is in these moments we are being stripped, but being matured. 
• Loudest praise comes from the ones who are passing through harrdships, adverse environments, downtrodden feelings. This kind of praise is most pleasing to God and is blessed by Him.
• Praise is the way to display Christ's victory and overcome spiritual attacks: 
• Whenever we praise, Satan flees. We need this reality. The ultimate goal of Satan is to stop all praises to God. 
• Paul and silas, while praying sangs hymns of praise to God. 
• Even though they were shut in an inner jail of the Roman Empire, 
• Whenever you run out of strength to pray and you find your spirit heavily oppressed, wounded, sagging; praise Him. If you cannot pray, try to praise. 
• When you encounter unusual circumstances and problems and are bewildered and feel like collapsing, just remember one thing: Why not praise?"; if you offer you praise at that moment, God's Spirit will operate in you, open all the doors, and break all the chains. 
• Every time you encounter a problem, you should pray for mercy that you would stop manipulating and plotting and that you would learn the lesson of praising instead; much warfare can be won by praise. 
• Praise will last for eternity. It will never cease. 
• A person who praises God transcends everything; he overcomes continually by his praise; this is a principle and a fact. 
• To Praise is to glorify God; God is worthy of all glory; may God gain abundant praises from His children.
• The One new man is needed for the building work of God. The new man for warfare, for building, and constitution. 

 

Memorial Day Conference Msg 4

Draw me, we will run after thee.

·         Kiss me with the kisses of His mouth.

·         We need a private relationship with the Lord. The King has brought me into His chambers. We need the Lord as the King to bring us into His chambers, which is our human spirit. Our relationship is private and spiritual.

·         Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, what God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them through the spirit, for the spirit searches all things, even the things of God.

·         For our realization, enjoyment.

·         If anyone does not love the Lord, let it be a curse.

·         For the Lord of Christ constrains us so we no longer live to ourselves, but to Him who loves us. Lord, constrain me w/ your love.

·         When you pray, enter into your private room and shut your door. Private relationship with the Lord. We need a spiritual relationship with the Lord. We need to set our mind on the spirit, pay attention to our spirit. I was in spirit on Lord’s day. We use our spirit, we exercise our spirit to become spiritual men. Who move by their mingled spirit.

·         The entire Bible is speaking about God’s economy. The content of God’s economy in brief is God falling in love with His chosen people. This is the subject of the entire Bible.

·         He became a man to court man, incarnation was God’s courtship of man. He courted a country girl. He had to come down to her level to reach this country girl.

·         Human life apart from Christ is vanity of vanities.

o   Everything in life is just chasing the wind. People are chasing after nothing.

o   God has put eternity in man’s heart. He has put a divinely implanted sense of purpose, but only God can satisfy. This purpose is working throughout the ages, and nothing can satisfy this purpose except God.

o   She is attracted by Christ’s love. To pursue Him and be led into the church life.

o   She is called to remain in the cross to be freed from her introspective self. We need to be freed from our introspected self. If you examine yourself you will be very discouraged.

o   Looking away unto Jesus

o   3^rd stage: Called to live in ascension, and within the veil. To experience the stronger cross to be one w/ God, in her spirit even before rapture. We are called to live in ascension. We are seated w/ Christ in the heavenlies-the fact is that He is in ascension and we are one w/ him that we are one in ascension.

o   We will become the wonderful Shulammite- the duplication of Solomon, the counterpart of Christ. We are becoming in our experience.

o   If we love the Lord to the uttermost, we will engage in spiritual warfare for the defeat of God’s enemy.

·         Fighting the spiritual warfare

o   We keep the neck like the tower of David. Give me a will like the tower of David.

o   Bucklers: shield to defend yourself with

o   The human will under God: The Lord considers the submission of our will the most beautiful thing. Lord, I want to fully give you the full submission of my will. Lord come into me to submit to you.

o   Your people will offer themselves willingly, in the days of the warfare, in the splendor of their consecration. Your young men will be to you like the dew of the womb of the dawn. Psalm 110:3

o   We need a serious and thorough consecration. Our private, personal time to the Lord must be personal and intimate. Having a time with the Lord, waters the Lord, it makes us dew to him. We need a willing consecration.

·         Phil 2:13: For it God who operates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure.

o   Operate in me the willing for your good pleasure.

o   Having a will that is submissive to Christ is rich in the defending power.

o   She has been adorned w/ the triune God.

o   Her hair signifies the submission of Christ. Her beauty and obedience to the transforming spirit.

·         If we have a submissive will, our will is expressed by the tower of David that holds agains

o   The lover of Christ has come out of her snatur

o   Subdue my will Lord, the more our will is subdued the more our will is aligned with God’s will. God’s will is for us to have the Body Life.

o   Heb: I come to do your will O God. For He can be our pure unalduterated enjoyment.

·         Our will needs to be subdued by Christ, and resurrected with Christ. Subdue my will Lord, and resurrected with Christ. Though we walk in the flesh we do not war in the flesh. As we overthrow every reasoning and every thought that comes. Take captive every thought and take every thought of Christ.

·         The experience of Christ death and resurrection has brought the seeking one into ascension. Christ calls his lover to live with Him to remain in His cross.

·         He calls His lover to be with Him in His ascension.

·         The victory has already been won, Christ has already been victorious.

·         When the lover of Christ is living in ascension, she and Christ is living in oneness. They are perfectly matching each other. We have to stand w/ the facts.

·         We are seated together with Him in the heavenlies. We are in resurrection and in ascension no matter how we feel.

·         There is no more fighting. The position of prayer is ascension. It is a heavenly position.

·         If we are going to fight the spiritual warfare, we need to be a garden to be Christ’s private enjoyment.

·         A garden enclosed is my sister my bride.

·         She is beautiful as Tirzah, but to the enemy is she is beautiful as an army to banner.

·         You are beautiful my love as Tirzah.

·         We are walking in newness of life, our love for the Lord is new, fresh, loving. We shouldn’t be old, dead, dry. Lord, cause me to walk in newness of life. Lord, make me new and fresh. I don’t want to stay in myself and my old creation. In my deadness and anxiety. Keep me in you as my new Christ daily. Lord, keep me in yourself.

·         Banners: The victory has been won.

·         A life within the veil is before the Lord, and before the enemy. We have boldness for entering the Holy of Holies through the blood of Jesus.

·       Wherever the building is, there the battle is.

We cannot afford to be down, what about the saints? We have to forget about ourselves, and forget about our situations and fight for the brothers.
Fighting always accompanies the building, and building always brings the victory in battle. 
The terrible army terrify God's enemy Satan. Satan is afraid of ONLY one kind of people: people who do not love their soul life. The enemy is afraid of Bethel, the house of God. 
The enemy is afraid of the church as the city of God, for God's expression. 
The evil angels are terrified of the one new man. He stripped off the ruler and the authorities. He stripped off the rulers and authority and triumphed over them on the cross. 

Christ is all and in all the members. 
His name is called the word of God. The armies followed him. The overcomers follow Christ as the Word of God their whole life. 
When Christ comes to fight against the antichrist. 
This image represents the 4 major powers in the universe: 
The overcomers overcome to eat the tree of life, and have not heard of the second death. 
It's one thing to be the church, but it's another thing to be an overcomer in the church. The overcomers fight against the self which is the most evil adversary. 
We don't want to be anti the anointing. 
Obsession: Believe what is a lie to be the truth. 
We more than overcome through Him who loved us. 
He wants only the feeble ones, the weaker ones. He doesn't want those strong in themselves. Lord, I desperately needs you today. Lord, I need you desperately. I need you so much. I cannot get through today apart from you. Keep me in yourself, Lord Jesus. I am desperate for you. Lord, I am a foolish thing, and weak thing. Things which are not . I am the thing which are not, but now we are bringing to God the things which are. 

Memorial Day Conference Msg 3 Enjoyment

Message 3: The Victorious Christ 

• We are able to fight the spiritual warfare because He has already won the victory. The victory of the individual Christ has everything to do with the victory of the one new man, and is our basis of the spiritual warfare. 
• Christ in every stage has defeated God's enemy. However, if that's where the story ends, Satan has boast.  In order for Christ to have a complete victory over Satan and works of Satan, the corporate Christ must also defeat him.
• At every stage and every step, Jesus was engaged in warfare, and He won the victory.
• The victorious Christ defeated the devil and destroyed his works. 
• Aka: Undo his works 

Since therefore the children have shared in ^ablood and flesh, He also Himself in like manner ^bpartook of the same, that through ^cdeath He might ^1ddestroy him who has the might of ^edeath, that is, the ^fdevil, Heb 2:14

• The one new man will ultimately fulfill Genesis 1:26 (God's purpose for the created man). The created man has a 2 fold purpose: He was created in God's image so God may have a corporate expression in humanity.  He was to represent God with his authority over all the things that oppose God, especially Satan himself and his kingdom.
• Christ came as the 2nd man. In His human living, He fulfilled both of these aspects. He fully expressed God, and fully bore God's image. 
• In His human living, He expressed God's authority-every where He went, the demons were cast out. At the very beginning of his public ministry, he was led by the spirit to have a direct encounter with Satan. Before he did anything else, the spirit led Him after his baptism to face Satan directly.
• His earthly ministry would be a failure if he had not defeated Satan as a man. 
• After He had fasted for 40 days, the tempter came to him. It is written, Man shall not live on bread alone. Satan addressed Him as the Son of God but He answered as the Son of Man. o
• 2 Tim 3:17: That the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
• You need to be equipped by praying over God's word.
• The warfare is a battle of wills- battle of satanic will and God's will.
• Satan fights by speaking lies by telling the truth. Satan uses God's word and twists God's words. Satan adds doubts to God's word. Satan's way is to inject thoughts by speaking. Satan speaks to us, so sometimes we need to speak to him. 
• When the devil spoke to the Lord, the Lord had an answer: God's word. When the Lord Jesus quotes God's Word, He is not just quoting the Bible, He is and lives the Bible. He is the word of God.
• We have to realize how the enemy fights: Satan speaks by speaking lies. You have to counter with the truth.
• The truth is Christ Himself experienced by ourselves, constituted within us. We need to contact Him as the Spirit in the Word. 
• Jesus knew how to eat God's word. 
• Jesus overcame the temptation that is common to all men:
• Human Living: anxious about eating, necessities; Satan has systematized human living into a satanic 
• Religion: Religion is Satan's invention. It is something against God, but it sounds like it is something for God.  
• Worldly glory, success, and ambition
• Jesus destroyed the works of the devil, they work on everyone else but do not work on Jesus. It was an absolute failure.
• the "Word of our testimony": Sometimes remind Satan: You couldn't even defeat a man, angels should be more powerful than man. You might have defeated me before but you will no longer defeat me forever. I am part of the one new man. 
• Every minute of His human living was defeat to Satan-we want to follow Him. At the end of His human living (John 14:30)- The ruler of the world is coming, and in Me he has nothing.
• In His crucifixion Christ destroyed the devil. If the devil was destroyed why is he still bothering me so much? There are stages in his execution. The word that is translated "destroy" - "bring to nought, render useless, abolish" 
• Also the old man rendered to no effect. It doesn't mean that the old man does not exist 
• It doesn't mean that Satan doesn't exist, but he doesn't have anymore power.  Satan's power has been nullified, but he is still there so he is active.
• The cross of Christ was the center of the entire universe. The devil was there, the angelic rulers and authorities in the air was there. There was a warfare at the cross. On the cross, He was creating in Himself one new man. God was there judging sin, and nailing to the cross, the ordinances that caused the emnity in the old man. While God and Christ were working, the evil rulers and authorities came to frustrate that. 
• In His death, Christ is victor. He released His divine life into all the members of the Body. He created one new man. 
• Death has been nullified through the victorious crucifixion of Christ!
• Christ resurrection:what a victory over death! over Satan, Hades and the grave
• It was NOT possible for the Lord to be held by death-death and Hades tried to hold Him. He not only resurrected, but He is resurrection.
• The resurrected Christ is the living One, and He has the keys of death and of Hades. He is the forever Living One, so death cannot touch him.
• Who has the power? Death/Hades of Jesus? Jesus has the keys of death and of Hades.  Death is subject to Him, and Hades is under His control.
• Christ's Ascension: Eph 4:8 (Earthly ministry of Christ becomes the heavenly ministry of Christ)

• Therefore the Scripture says, "Having ^aascended to the ¹height, He led captive ²those taken captive and gave ^3bgifts to men.'' Eph 4:8 

• A man, Jesus is Lord! God made Him Lord over all. 
• He led captive those taken captive : "He led a train of vanquished foes" --> Vanquished foes: Satan, his angels, us the sinners 
• The height: to God Himself. This is where Jesus took us in His ascension to where God dwells.  
• Christ has released us from Satan, and brought us to the heavens where we are Sons of God and members of Christ.  He has brought us to the HIGHEST place in the universe!!! 
• He has brought us to the heavenlies- atmosphere with a heavenly nature and characteristic. 
• The Victorious Christ WILL COME as the fighting General with His army to fight Antichrist, the kings under him and their armies at Armageddon 
• The war at Armageddon will end quickly because when the Word of God says, Antichrist, False prophets, go to the Lake of Fire; and Satan go to the abyss. 
• The Word of God- that Sword is much more powerful than any weapon. He only fights by the Sword, by the speaking of the Word of God. 
• Christ is "Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war" 
• He is righteous and in righteousness.  He will defeat Antichrist and judge the rebels who follow him.
• The fighting General, the Warrior is the Word.  His fighting = speaking of the word of God. All the Lord needs to say is Go away Satan.
• Because He has won the victory, we can fight from the position of victory.