Dear friends,
I want to thank you for your love and
prayer support over Nita and WFJM over the last several months. Just
like our New York Gathering of the Eagles last December, through your
intercessions, the Lord is strengthening and preparing Nita for the
upcoming Washington DC, Gathering Of the Eagles in March. He has been
speaking to her in order to prepare the way for us to go our Nation’s
capital and intercede on behalf of our country. It is with great
excitement that we head out in a couple weeks pray the heart of our
Father on behalf of this country! If you haven’t signed up yet, there
are only a few seats left so prayerfully consider joining us for this
powerful GOE! The deadline for booking your room at the reduced rate is 2/22/2014.
Please continue to keep the ministry
finances lifted up in your daily prayer time. The enemy often hits us in
this area prior to a GOE so we appreciate your prayers on this issue.
We do have two new ways for you to give to the ministry directly from
this email! I’ve included links for both CedarWood and our General fund
which helps to support the work of the Gatherings as well as the
development of our Joel’s Army Prayer Cells around the globe. Many have
asked if they can set up automatic monthly donations, this can be done
through these links as well.
Following is the next installment of
Matthew 6: When Union Comes. Last week Nita shared with us the need for
the Church to be ready. It takes prayer and worship into depths many of
us are just reaching but we must seek out His Kingdom in this hour! This
is a tumultuous time in our nation, and we must be ready to take our
place when God calls us forth. How do we do this? Prayer and study of
the Word. Seek His face – pursue His purpose in your life. Often we
forget the necessity of prayer in our lives but it is only through time
in prayer that we develop true relationship with our Lord. It is through
this conversation with Him that we learn to hear His voice and
understand His will for our lives. If we have not learned to hear His
voice in the quiet times, how will we effectively hear Him when chaos
erupts? Take time with Him every day so you can become sensitive to
hearing His voice. He longs for this connection with you
and spending time with Him is how that it is developed. Do not tarry,
go, run to your prayer closet and seek His face, He will meet you there
and begin to prepare your hearts for the days ahead!
Blessings in Him,
Ricci
MATTHEW 6:
WHEN UNION COMES
Part C
By
Nita Johnson
New Orleans Revival Services
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done. What
did He say? “If they tell you, 'Go out into the desert to look,' don't
go.” (Mt 24:26) Don't go because the kingdom is where? In you. Thy
kingdom come—in you. The revelation of the kingdom must flow out of you.
I have seen the kingdom. When the glory of the kingdom breaks forth on
the earth, it is going to break forth from the sons of God—those who
have come into union with Christ. It is going to break forth through
their heart, from their bosom, into the earth. So great will be this
breaking forth of light that it would be unbearable except by the grace
of God. The kingdom is not going to come forth out in the desert, nor in
the valley, nor in the city, but in the Church. It is going to come
forth from the very bosom of the Church. The light of the glorious
kingdom is going to break forth on the world like a new dawn from the
bosom of those who have paid the price to go into
union with Christ. We can ask Him to come to New Orleans and bring the
greater revival. We can ask Him to come and let His Spirit of
reformation pour forth on the city. However, revival, or even
reformation, is but a foundational work. What He is really after is the
release of the kingdom. He wants the kingdom to explode on the earth,
and He wants it to explode through the heart of His completed ones.
If God has you in a fiery trial today,
praise Him. Thank Him for it because you want the flesh to be cut away
and gone. You want the chisel of the glory of God to cut away the flesh
so that the light can break forth from your heart. You want it, and the
trial is the only way to help you get what you want. So praise Him! That
is not to say the trial is not difficult. Why would we call it a trial
if it was so easy? It must be difficult, and we must quit fighting the
trials. The trials must be so difficult that you cannot survive without
pressing into God.
It is similar to the pressing of grapes.
The grape is not completely pressed and fulfilling its highest purpose
until it is squeezed out beyond measure; the skin can no longer contain
the meat, and the meat is no longer solid, but has become wine. The
trials and tribulations that come into your life are God’s gift. Paul said there would be tribulations, and that word tribulations
speaks of a pressing until all that is inside is pressed out. It is a
compressing of your very person until the glory is squeezed out like
wine.
We can and we must thank Him for the
trials. The heavier and more dramatic the trials, the more you must
force yourself to praise Him because they are a gift. The minute you
say, “I’ve never hurt so bad,” well, praise God. “I feel bruised and
buffeted. I feel squeezed out,” and my favorite, “I don’t even know who I
am anymore.” Praise God! If you have gone through this kind of trial
where you are squeezed beyond measure, to the point where you cannot
cope with your trial without pressing in, you are getting close.
However, if you have never gone through these kinds of trials, you are
far from the glory. If life is so peaceful, you need to start crying
instead of praising God. Do not say, “Oh, I'm so glad I never have the
kind of trials that Miss Nita has.” You do not want to do that, because
you are missing out on what you need to have the glory. Trials are a
gift.
Your kingdom come. One night, I was in my
room, and the Lord opened up a funnel of revelation. He came down from
heaven, and a glorious light came upon me. Coming through this funnel
was revelation to help me understand human nature. It gave insight to
help me understand my own soul, God's thinking, and to help me relate to
what He does and why He does it. I understood what He has done in man
and what sin has done in man. I could not write fast enough to record
all that He was giving me. I would like to share just one nugget from
that night.
The nature of sin lives in the soul of every man, woman, and child. By saying “the nature of sin,” I am not talking about the acts of sin, but the sinful nature.
Sin entered in, and sin lives in the soul of every man. You were born
in sin, as David said. A place that was designed to house God has been
corrupted, and because of this corruption the soul lives in silent agony
from day one. It is devoid of that for which it was created, namely the
living God. The soul of man was not the only thing created to house
God. You have the temple, the soul, and the spirit. If you are not born
again, your spirit is still alive because you are a spiritual being. The
spirit is still alive, and if you are not born again, your spirit is
not filled with God, so it seeks a spiritual connection; it will
automatically connect to the kingdom of the evil one. It has to. It has
to connect to a spiritual kingdom. Every spirit and
every soul does this. Since this is a kingdom of darkness and death,
your spirit lives in death if you are not born again. It is filled with
the darkness of the evil kingdom, and this filling gets darker and
darker the older you get. Your soul is in this quiet anguish. You do not
know that you are in anguish because you need God. It is quiet, but
deep in the inner sanctums of your soul. Your soul feels it and is under
its dominion in constant anguish.
Now, as a child, it creates within you an
intense need to cling to love: your mother, your father, your sister, or
your brothers. If you cannot relate to love and have love relate to
you, then even greater damage is done to this area of the soul that was
made for God but has been filled with corruption. As a young child, you
are not totally corrupt; this corruption is something that increases
over the years of a person’s life. The more it increases, the more
anguish your soul enters into. If you cannot get a healthy love from a
mother and a father, a sister or brother, friends, family, and so on and
so forth, you start looking for other things to fill this area that is
in this quiet anguish. You may look for money; this is how the love of
money becomes intensified and becomes a veritable stronghold. You may
look for inappropriate love from the same or opposite gender. You may
look for material things. You may be someone
who grows up to be a taker. You just want, want, want from people all
the time because you are trying to fill this void. Some turn to drugs.
Some turn to alcohol. There are probably fifty-nine ways that the soul
turns to different elements in this lower plane to try to heal the
anguish. What it really wants is to have God dwell where He wants to
dwell. You want to have this part of you filled up with the love that
can only come from God. When He comes in and dwells there, there is a
security that is unlike anything you have ever known before. When He
dwells where He is supposed to dwell, where He intended to dwell, He
then clothes you with Himself, like a house. You feel locked away, shut
off, and cut off from everything that is not like Him. You are no longer
in active communication or communion with the spirit of the world.
...to be continued next week...
In Him,
Nita Johnson |
