BEGUN WITH HIM? CONTINUE WITH AND IN HIM!

Before the year begun, I had a vision as I was awake at the time, in the vision, I could see Christians being called to congregate in a large field. God stood in this field and each one of those who called themselves Christians had an altar of some sort and we all stood before our altars. God spoke so clearly and said that to those who wanted to truly follow Him, should set themselves on the altar to be set on fire. To my surprise, a good number left. From the number that remained, God asked that we lay our lives down, as you can already guess, some did and some did not they instead opted out. The rest had laid their lives down, but then another instruction came and all the altars with men on it were set on fire, some jerked out almost immediately, others left when the heat begun to touch their bodies, the fire was being increased and at the end, a small amount of people were left, these ones literally lost their lives to the fire, I saw ashes on the altar, but then I saw men who looked like Christ completely, they were glowing, their works were of God. Loose your life so that you may have it (Matthew 16:25, 10:39).  I remember waking my husband up and told him what I just saw, I knew very clearly that this new year and the years to come thereafter before Jesus comes, Christians must be willing now more than ever to loose their lives for the sake of Christ, there are so many things that will demand us to give them up for the sake of the Lord.  The question is, are you truly ready to be tried by fire? It is until He sees His image imprinted on yours! The best things is that even in the fire, you still are in His hands. SURRENDER!

A few days into the new year, there was a specific night, I could not sleep at all, so I woke up to pray, I prayed till I reached a place where I felt like I was desperate, so desperate for God that I could not help it. I wanted God! My desperation was not just for God only but I really wanted, in the depths of my soul to see Him and hear Him, as I prayed, I was not just making room but also pleading with Him to show me His face and speak to me, like Moses on the Mt. Sinai. I wanted that so badly. I got lost, lost in Him and He said there is more than what Moses had, if I sought after Him with my all heart (Jeremiah 29:13) I responded, Your face Oh Lord will I seek! I wanted to just sit in His presence and enjoy Him, be saturated by Him. I did not want to loose sight of Him, now that I had found Him. All I wanted was to dwell there, gaze at His loveliness intimately because when you see Him, you cannot turn your face away from Him. I wanted to be bound to Him forever. His voice! What amazed me too is how much He spoke in His silence and what reignites my hunger is the fact that there is more. I cannot explain how much the God who hides Himself also delights in revealing Himself to men who seek after Him, the God who dwells in unapproachable light (1 Timothy 6:16) yearns to commune with His sons, oh so intimately now than ever before, such that they radiate with the glory of His presence. There is such an outpouring of unusual favor of finding Him while seeking Him. The time is now: SEEK HIM!

A day or two ago, I was at home praying and the Holy Spirit led me to pick up my Bible and literally pray the Word. I obeyed and I begun to pray, specifically on wisdom. I looked for every scripture concerning the theme and prayed, and when I just finished, the presence of God flooded our house and I just begun to pray, speaking in tongues and speaking the Word as the Holy Spirit led me. He came mightily! There is so much power in the Word than we have recognized or know yet. The devil will stop at nothing to ensure that you do not delve deep into the Word and keep blabbering words in the name of prayer, or drive you to think you are Gods favorite yet the greatest hypocrite in the world. You cannot pray right without the Word. You cannot greatly defeat the devil without the Word. If it is not a priority in your life, and you are a Christian, there is a huge problem! GIVE YOURSELF TO THE WORD! STUDY IT!  PRAY THE WORD!

The other day, I decided to start watching a series. This was weird because, one we rarely watch movies at our house and if we do, it is investigative series because those are my husbands favorite, two, I can never watch a movie or series without my husband, not because he has to be there but I can barely go through half of it and three, we made a decision that from the start, a movie that is not of God or approved by His Spirit to us is a no. Somehow, I went past the three and chose to watch the series. Before I begun, my instincts told me to back off, I disobeyed, I was like what could go wrong, next day, something was off, I stopped watching the movie and chose to pray telling myself to spend time in prayer, third day, something was just so off, my spirit was disturbed, I could feel so clearly that there was a problem somewhere, I switched everything off and I asked God what was happening and I was made to see what the things the devil will cause the children of God to invest in will do to them because of lack of sensitivity, it was so real, I begun to tear up as thoughts crossed my mind of what people have walked into unawares and especially Christians...follow through! The Lord said, that now more than ever, the devil is set to make Christians not want to be intimate with Him and he will do this by introducing things and people who will take the place of God in your life and His time in your life. Right now, intimacy with God is what we should after, but the devil has fashioned distractions and unless you are focused and alert, you will not see it and fall into the trap. His tactic is to make men unstable in all their ways, to believe also that, you can seek God and after, indulge yourself in anything anti-God and then go back to seeking God and it is okay. The devil wants to give men an ungodly obsession but they do not realize, but anything that you are obsessed with that is not God is a graven image that stands at the center of your life. The devil will cause men to do things, listen to things, watch things even sermons that are okay to them, and make sure it takes deep roots in their lives. He will use something that resonates well with you and use it as bait. 

The devil has tasked himself to infiltrate everything that he can get his hands on and is using it to take our minds off Christ into what is not of Christ and it is dangerous. If the devil manages to take you out of the confine of God, you are done. The devil is masquerading himself as the angel of light and many of us are falling into the ditch he has set for us. Social media, music, movies, friends who just show up when you want to spend time with God with great plans etc. He is using what you thought he could never use to detach you from God. One problem that we have is saying with our mouths how much we want God and our hearts do not mean it. Look, we cannot fool God. Nothing about the frame of man is hidden from Him. You have set your 2022 goals and even shared it out about how your desire is to know God more, yet in your heart, that post is for men to see, that goal is for you to feel like you have a powerful one. If the devil in this times manages to steal you, unless the Lord saves you and you want to be saved truly, it will be a matter of time before he kills and destroys you. The devil will always use that which is good to lure you- what is good does not mean it is God. Guard your heart diligently, that is your duty, keep and set your mind on the things above! Open your spiritual eyes, hear with your spiritual ears, ask that your spiritual antennas be alert, your frequencies tuned to that of heaven, because until you have understanding of what is happening, you will never ready yourself for what is to come and what the Lord is about to do right.

Everything that is happening around you, in your life has a spiritual essence attached to it and cannot be regarded as normal. What we need right now more than ever is God. There is a huge call to intimacy with God, in prayer, in His Word and it all begins by loosing yourself to Him. You have to be yielded through and through. Just because a movie is cool does not mean it is from God, just because music has Jesus in it does not make it of God, or a book, and so on. The devil right now will not necessarily derail you by causing you to sin, he will use lies, he is dealing with the minds of Christians and he will ensure by all means, your mind is not renewed- Romans 12:1-2. Until we are immersed in understanding the knowledge of Truth, we cannot defeat him. Until we are soaked in prayer and fasting, this flesh will not be subject to the Spirit. The solution is IN HIM, IN CHRIST. The cry of the Lord is ABIDE IN ME AND I IN YOU. This season is one in which the Sons of God will manifest greatly, but He that abideth in the Lord and the Lord in Him, this one shall yield much fruit, fruit that lasts, for without Him, he can do nothing. This is a command and not a request and unfortunately, we, Christians are everywhere else except in Him. It is either we are driven by the desires of the flesh or the desires of the Spirit.

See, we are supposed to experience miracles, be blessed, etc. But, if we have reached a place we are experiencing all this things and not Him, then we left Him a long time ago. If everything we ask from God is minus Him, there is a great problem. The instruction is clear, we do not seek after what the heathen seek for, we seek after His Kingdom first and HIs righteousness and all the things are added to it. You must be wealthy, but to be wealthy without God is nothing. What we have experienced about God is just the tip of an iceberg. Cultivate intimacy with God. This seasons and those to come require us to be totally fixed on God. Everything you do, say, meditate on must reveal God to you and to men. Awake from your spiritual slumber, test every spirit behind everything and everyone you give yourself to. You cannot afford to not be entirely consecrated to God. Stay in His courts.

There is a cost to pay for your next dimension in God, a dimension in His divine presence. Now is not that time the church fakes the glory, it is not time to fake the presence, it is not time to fake miracles, it is not time to fake the sound of heaven. Creation awaits the manifestation of the Sons of God (Romans 8:19) and we cannot manifest the fake, it has to be REAL. The epitome of our desire has to be God (Psalm 42:1). We must fellowship with the Holy Spirit who will reveal Jesus to us, the deep things of God. (1st Corinthians 2:10). You see, God has given us everything, but until He is everything, you can never truly enjoy the other pleasures. The greatest pleasure is to know Him and have Him. 

There is an abundance of grace to be able to live above men in the consciousness of Gods presence. HIM IN YOU is you, being a temple that can accommodate Him and nothing or no one else so those graven images have to be laid down, never to be picked up again. You have to come to a place where you want Him to pour of Himself to you because to you, He is more than enough. Be willing to have sessions like Jesus when you go away to be just with Him. Love the habitation of His house and the place where His glory dwells. Make holiness your delight and the appeal of this world have no hold on you. On the 2nd day of the new year, I looked at Jesus and at that moment, Luke 14: 26-33 resounded in my spirit, and all I saw was how worthy Jesus was of my yes, my obedience, my time, all my days...He is worthy! I pray that from the moment you read this, your life from then will have a God distinction! It is until you are empty of everything else, that you will know what it means to have the fullness of the Godhead reside in you. He has to be our treasure, our priority, everything to us. You cannot claim to be a follower of Jesus and live as though you are sufficient in yourself and do not need Him. You cannot be in prayer only when your plans never survived like God is this ninja that appears when your part of the plan fails. God knows exactly where you stand, so pick a side, the flesh or the Spirit!

     Revelations 3:14-22

       And to the angel of assembly in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the trusty and faithful and true Witness, the Origin and the Beginning and Author of Gods creation: I know your works and what you are doing; you are neither cold not hot. So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold not hot, I will spew you out of My mouth! For you say, I am rich; I have prospered and grown wealthy, and I am in need of nothing and you do not realize and understand that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind and naked. Therefore, I counsel you to purchase from Me gold refined and tested by fire that you may be truly wealthy and white clothes to clothe you and keep the shame of your nudity from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, that you may see. Those whom I love, I rebuke and chasten, be zealous therefore and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. He who overcomes, I will grant to sit beside Me on My throne as I myself overcame and sat down beside My Father on His throne. He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Lord, stir the hearts of every person who will read this to know and follow hard after You. Reveal Yourself to them, You heart, Your will and purpose. Let glory fall! Set their hearts on fire for You. In Jesus name. Amen.

If you feel the need to reach me in any way, kindly do.

In His Service,

Imani.