DADDY'S HEARTBEAT (3) - HIS PLEASURES - THE SEASONS OF GOD

THREE DIFFERENT SEASONS OF GOD - (In the lives of believers) CONT...........

Rom 8:29 says, ‘For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.’

The Outer Court - (Modern Day Church of Christ)

In the Spirit Realm, after the death and resurrection of Christ, the Tabernacle and Temple of God of the Old Testament on earth became embodied in the body of Christ; in the fulfillment of the Scriptures; where Christ became the head of the Church (Eph.5:23) (Col.1:18) and His body and the faculties of His body; the hands, legs and organs etc. became the churches and ministries of the modern day Church of Christ.

1Cor.6:19, ‘Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?’

The Sheep or the people of God became the cells that form the body. God begins to dwell in the hearts of His people. The cells or the 'little temples' must be rejuvenated first before health comes to the body and organs; regeneration of the body needs to start from the cells first.

After the salvations of the souls, bought by the Blood of Jesus, it is the season of God to bring refreshing and rejuvenation to the cells of the church. The Children of God that came into the outer court of the Old Testament Temple which was open-aired, were subjected to the sun and the rain; the elements of nature.

Matt.5:45, ‘He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.’ Even in the presence of God, they are flesh and spirit; uncommitted and worldly, so to say.

The modern day Christians will be filled with the Holy Spirit of liberty and joy but on the other hand, they are still subjected to the influence of the world and its systems. They are also flesh. Just like the Israelites in the wilderness, they reminisced about the garlic, the onions and melons of the place they have left. Egypt was not out of them yet.

God provides purification and forgiveness of sins through the blood of Jesus (Heb.9:12) and sanctification through of the cleansing of the Holy Spirit in the present day Church which has taken over the work at the Brazen Altar, where the blood of bulls and calves were bled (Heb.9:22) for the forgiveness of sins and the cleansing bowls (Bronze Basin) where the Israelites washed their hands and feet before they entered the Old Testament Temple’s Outer Court.

Titus 3:5-6, ‘…He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior.’

The Children of God are redeemed by blood and water. 1Peter 3:21, ‘…and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also – not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of good conscience towards God…’

When the children of God are born-again, their spirits are instantly healed, when the active Holy Spirit of God dwells in their dormant human spirit and begins to influence every function of the soul and body.

The souls being abused by the fallen world with their scars and deeply rooted negative attitudes; need time for God to heal. God will slowly layer by layer, like peeling an onion, get to the core and bring healing to the entire soul. It is a long process of regeneration, sanctification by the Spirit of God. We can only received full healing when Jesus comes.

Our bodies can only receive total physical healing and overcome physical death when Jesus returns.

1Thess.4:16-17, ‘For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

When Christ returns, those who have died and are with Jesus will be given new bodies – resurrected and glorified bodies just like Jesus. So it is with Christ, there is healing in the spirit, soul and body in His time.

There would be great celebration at the outer courts as people brought their sacrifices and thanksgiving as worship unto the Lord. As they burned their bulls and calves at the Brazen Altar, there would be great fellowship and feasting in the presence of the Lord. Great joy and liberty filled the atmosphere as the presence of God filled their hearts in unity. People brought their tithes and offerings and gifts into the Temple in their worship unto God.

The modern day churches today have celebration service as they continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving – the fruit of their lips that confess His name.(Heb.13:15) Imagine you have to bring bulls and calves to the church every week for our sacrifice.

Some churches have ‘Pot Bless’ where they fellowship after the service. Due to the presence of the Holy Spirit and the mild sanctifying fire of the Refiner’s Fire, there will be great rejoicing in liberty, peace, joy and love as the body of Christ dwells in harmony.

They will bring their offerings and tithes to the church in obedience to the Lord for provisions in the House of God. And the light of the Lord will shine upon them and bless them.

In both the Old Testament Temple and the New Testament Church the musical worship is corporate worship; worshipping from afar, master and servant, father and son relationship.

Eph. 4:8, ‘…when He ascended on high, He led captivity captive; and gave gifts to men.’ (v11) It was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelist, and some to be pastors and teachers to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up.’

1Cor.12:8-11, ‘To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and He gives them to each one, just as He determines.'

In the New Testament Church, as God dwells among men, He raises up people called ‘The Five Folds Ministers’ (Eph.4:11) to help in the service of teaching of the body of Christ in the discipleship of His Saints. He also presents them with Spiritual gifts to function in the prophetic, where in the Old Testament; the ministry of a Prophet took the whole package deal.

The people of God will have to submit to the leaders and authorities God has place above them. And because of the unction of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of men to go and witness to people, there will be a great avalanche of souls into the kingdom through their effort of evangelism and missions; although the children of God are still not perfect yet. God will rejoice and will gather His angels and tell them, ‘Look at my children, although they are not perfect, they are still pressing in for Me, Oh!!! I am delighted.’

This has been the condition of the present day churches around the world today. Most of the church people of God are complacent and satisfied that they have already been saved, THEY ARE CONTENTED AND SATISFIED AS THEY CONTINUE TO LIVE THEIR LIVES BETWEEN FLESH AND SPIRIT.

But many have individually responded to the challenge of God to be Kings and Priests (King David) and be drawn by the love of God to enter into the Holy Place. It is a challenge to the people of God as a spiritual step of promotion and advancement and maturity in the Spirit; a greater reward is waiting in heaven. The veil in the Most Holy Place has been torn into two but there is an invisible curtain that separates the outer court and the inner court and that is the curtain of His love that draws men into the Holy Place for those who are hungry and thirsty for more of His righteousness. I will show you how in the next season. Amen.!!!

The second part of this message will be continued in my next chapter under 'The Perfect Will' of God, 'The Seasons of God' the second season. More revelations to come, keep your fingers crossed.

Please listen to song 'My Delight'
One night I woke up surrounded by the presence of the Lord. I was filled with the Holy Spirit
and I did not know why He had visited me. When I asked, I could hear clearly these words in my heart 'Sing to me'. I had no song book beside me but I remembered a song by Elvis Presley called 'Young and beautiful' I liked the melody so I sang unto the Lord that night. This song came out of the encounter with God that night. Glory to God.

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DADDY'S HEARTBEAT (2) - HIS PLEASURES - THE SEASONS OF GOD.

SEASONS OF GOD

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8,
‘There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.’

To know the times and seasons of the Heartbeats of our God and obey them, will give God great pleasure and also blessings to our lives.

Jeremiah 29:11, ‘For I know the plans I have for you.’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future…’

God has chosen out a plan for us before the foundation of the earth. God’s plan for us is from here to eternity. Through the eyes of God, the process of blessing us is not only for this life but also for the Kingdom to come.

Our lives on earth is only the beginning, it is for us to prove our faithfulness to Him. For His plans for us is to spend eternity with Him. What is 70-80 years on earth compared to eternity?

Yet God is preparing us through the seasons, refining and perfecting us while we are on earth.
Philippians 1:6, ‘…that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.’

We can learn a good lesson from the Israelites in the wilderness after leaving Egypt; on their way to the promise land.

Exodus 40: 36-38, ‘ In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out; but if the cloud did not lift, they would not set out – until the day it lifted. So the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel during their travels.’

The Israelites were obedient to the seasons of God and were bless by His guidance. They would loose the covering of God if they did not move on with the clouds. They were privileged to be blessed by His personal Glory in attendance.

Have you overstayed? Are you sensitive to the seasons of God? Why are you not blessed?
Sometimes by our human minds we would like to stay on in the oasis of comfort, but God says, move on!!!

Acts 17:26, 'From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhibit the whole earth; and He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.'

From the seed of Abraham to the many generations of his children and children to come, God is moving in the seasons of His great big plan for humanity. From the prophecies of the coming Messiah of the old testament Prophets, to their fulfillment in the revelation of Jesus Christ; and from the beginning of the new testament church to the second coming Jesus Christ , there is a perfect flow of God’s sequence and timing in His season. He will make all things beautiful in His time.

Hurry!!! Hurry!!! For those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. (Psalm 125:5) For weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. (Psalm 30:5)

We are living in the night in this fallen world and whatever we have labored and suffered for righteousness sake, will be no more when morning comes. We look forward to a new day of rewards. Morning may also mean when we have completed our jobs on earth and God brings us back home to rest.

1Peter:6-7, ‘In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire – may proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.’

For the phase of this season on earth will be coming to an end soon, and all that has been promised in His Words will finally be fulfilled in the New Jerusalem . Hallelujah!!!


THREE DIFFERENT SEASONS OF GOD - (In the lives of believers)

Rom 8:29 says, ‘For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.’

While men have different cycles of seasons in their lives, God has three distinct seasons for our lives. Let us break up the above verse into three parts.

'For whom He foreknew' - First Season - The Permissive Will of God

'He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son' - The Second Season- The Perfect Will of God.

'That He might be the firstborn among many brethren' - Third Season - His Love


FIRST SEASON - FOR WHOM HE FOREKNEW

Since God has chosen us, foreknew us before the foundation of the earth and we have responded through our own choice to become His children, He definitely receives great pleasure out of it. God gives gifts and favors to His children.

They have been abused by this fallen world and its systems both physically and spiritually and were in great needs before they came into the Kingdom.

Psalm 100:4, ‘Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise, give thanks to Him and praise His name. For the Lord is good and His love endures forever, His faithfulness continues through all generations.’

In this first season of God for the spiritual babies, He comforts them with streams in the desert, He satisfies their hunger and thirst and fills them with His love, peace and joy beyond all understanding and blankets them with a mild refiner’s fire in corporate worship; a fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies. The promises in the Bible are now all yours, my beloved, all yours, grab it and run, baby!!!

Zephaniah 3:17, ‘He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.’

They begin to enjoy the ecstasies of worship while God begins to woo them and draws them further into His presence with His love. Imagine the times of wooing in the ‘Bollywood’ pictures when the man begins to woo the woman.

It is the honeymoon season and God answers all their prayers from the most insignificant to the important. From prosperity, physical and spiritual healing to a taste of His divine love, they will be highly favored in this season of God. Humanity is a sponge for love.
Matt.24:12, ‘Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of many will grow cold…’

At this stage, out of His permissive will and by His grace and mercy through the blood of Jesus, God will play the part of the Father in providing for the needs of His children and He will receive great pleasure out of it but the children only know how to receive.

This new creation is made up of part flesh and part spirit. Their spirit is willing because of their ‘first love’ for God but their flesh is weak; like a spiritual monster.

Christians in this season is inward, self centered and it’s all about them; and it is a hindrance in the work of the Lord sometimes. When they open their mouths it is I, me and mine, even in the things of God. They want God to work for them instead of them working for God.

Slowly God will begin to empty their worldliness, teach them to die to self and crucify their flesh. They have come out of Egypt but Egypt is not out of them yet.

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Click for song ,'You will rejoice over us with singing'.

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