Dear friends,
We are so excited about the changes that
are coming our way! We’ve faced numerous struggles along this journey,
but God has taught us through prayer and patience how to endure these
hardships and learn any lesson we can from them. We are working hard to
set up our Joel’s Army Prayer Cells throughout this Nation. We have a
representative in almost every state now and more are joining each week.
Our team is working to connect them to each other so that they can come
together and pray for our Nation. These intercessors are essential to
our goal. The heart of an intercessor understands the need for prayer
and prayer is what Joel’s Army is all about. As a ministry, we work to
bring about change through prayer.
That said, let us remember, in just under
two weeks, our DC Gathering of the Eagles conference will begin. As a
ministry, as a nation, and as intercessors, we will come together and
pray for this nation. We only have a few seats left, so if you are able
to join us please be sure to register in order to reserve your seat.
In addition, as part of our ongoing
service we continue to work to serve those in need. We have many
families who utilize our CedarWood Pantry every single month. Our
CedarWood team counts it a joy and blessing to get to know each and
every person who walks through our doors. These visitors are quickly
becoming like family to us. With their permission, the team prays with
them and many have even come to know the Lord as their Savior. We never
require that people listen to our message in order to get food and
clothing, but the opportunity is always offered. Many have shared with
us how loved they feel from those who work in the Pantry. We believe
that these people keep coming back because we don’t judge them. It is
such a blessing to know that we can have such a positive impact on our
CedarWood friends.
I remember the first time I read about the
life of Jesus throughout the New Testament of the Bible; I felt that He
desired to meet both the needs of people’s souls and their
physical needs. Jesus often encouraged caring for the widows and
orphans, people who were often shunned by the general population at that
time in history. In fact, he did so, Himself. We can read in the book
of Acts how His disciples carried that mission on after Christ’s
ascension, even developing a process to ensure that those who were in
need, particularly the widows and orphans, were properly cared for by
the Church. I think that this serves a powerful lesson for the Church as
it is today. We should carry on His heart toward those in need. I want
to thank you for your contributions to this effort; not only do you
help fill empty stomachs, but you are helping to meet the physical needs
of others. Thank you!
The last three months have brought with
them tremendous focus for this nation from the Lord. Since the New York
Gathering of the Eagles (GOE) in December, Nita has been hidden away in
prayer, seeking Him through prayer for direction and guidance. She is
doing this not only for World for Jesus Ministries, but for the nation
we are fighting for through our prayers. The upcoming GOE, held just
outside Washington, will be birthplace of something profound in the
spirit and we hope you will be able to join us! While in DC, Nita will
share with us what He has shown her for this Nation in order that we
might better pray and be prepared for the days ahead. God is a merciful
God who truly cares for His people. He has not turned His back on this
country and neither should we.
Following is the final installment of "Matthew 6: When Union Comes." Last
week Nita shared with us further revelations that the Lord has given
her regarding Union. It is no longer us, but Christ living through us. A
life wherein one’s own will is absorbed into the will of the Father.
This is the life that the Lord makes available for all who desire.
Blessings in Him,
Ricci
MATTHEW 6:
WHEN UNION COMES
Part D
By
Nita Johnson
New Orleans Revival Services
This temple area inside of you, created by
your Creator so that He could fill it, is now filled with light.
Because it is filled with God, it is filled with love and glory. On top
of that, He clothes you with the fire of God so that you become like the
fire of a torch. It is glorious. At last, you are complete. All of the
things you thought you needed to be complete before that moment have
lost their power and hold over you. You no longer need anything of this
world; you are sustained by God. That does not mean that you do not eat,
drink water, or sleep. You still do all of the normal bodily functions,
but you do not eat as much; you do not need as much because His will
become your food.
Your kingdom come, Your will be done. What
is God? He is love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, grace, and truth.
When His kingdom has come, He is all of these things in you. Your
natural human personality is ingested by Him who is Life. You no longer
feel human love; you no longer feel human happiness. All of that dies,
and it was not very satisfying anyway. The lower life is gone, and the
higher has come. So now you are walking in divine love and divine joy.
You are walking in divine goodness and all the other attributes of God.
Jesus has literally opened up your soul and walked right into it and has
taken up residence. When union has come, you are lost in God, and you
stay lost in God. Your will is now swallowed up in Him and in His will.
You have no will except to obey His will when union comes. You look at
the world through different eyes. You do not see people through the same
eyes. You never again look at people in
terms of what you need from them.
During one of these kinds of visitations
from Him, He spoke to me and said, “Love divine is a love that is
fulfilled in what it gives, not in what it receives.” You are brought to
a place where the love that is in your heart is fulfilled in the
essence of love—not in whether or not the person receives it or returns
it. Human love feels fulfilled when the love is received and returned,
right? Not so with divine love. Its fulfillment is just in loving.
So the life of God has burned out all
corruption, and you are free to be absorbed in the life of Christ. You
are no longer just living for Christ; He now lives His life through
you. He lives His will through you. The Bible says Jesus went up on the
mountain to pray, and when He came back, He selected His twelve
disciples. He went up to discern the Father's will. When the Father's
will was totally revealed to Him, then He came down and did what He
needed to do by selecting His disciples. How many times the Bible tell
us, “And Jesus prayed,” and then He acted? It is just like what I
experienced that day. I am talking to Him; He is talking to me. Suddenly
our conversation comes to an end. He did not say, “Excuse me,” or
“Pardon me, I'm sorry.” He just turned around and was absorbed in the
glory, having fellowship with the Father. You know, in human terms that
is downright rude, but as it goes in the
divine life, it is the only thing that could have happened because the
Father called.
There is a place in this life where your
will is no longer yours. Your kingdom come, Your will be done in me as
it is in heaven. In this place is where God begins to give the
revelations that carry you through the plan and purpose of God. It is
not enough, for instance, for me to just simply try to do what He is
asking me to do. I need all kinds of information in order to walk out
what He is asking me to do. However, of all that He has commissioned me
to do, the highest of all of these things is to love God with all of my
mind, all of my heart, all of my soul, and all of my strength. The
second highest is like it—to love my neighbor as myself.
Unless I am fulfilling those two things
first, there is so much in my calling I cannot fulfill. Because of my
complicated makeup, there are many things I need to know and many things
I need to understand in order to be able to fulfill those two things.
Someone else who is simpler may not need to know all the things that I
need to know. But I am complicated, so unfortunately He has to tell me
lots of things. Whatever we need, He will give it, if we make Him our
first choice.
I do not know how to tell you the kinds of
things He has to reveal to a person when He is equipping them to
fulfill His will. Because it is a supernatural kingdom, so much that He
has to put in that person is of a supernatural nature. You cannot even
retrieve the information and the insight in the natural; you have to get
it straight from Him. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done. Because God
does not have enough of this kind of people that have been separated
away from the world and separated unto Him, the earth has not been won
for the Gospel. It takes this kind of people to receive all of the
divine instruction that is needed to win the world the way it needs to
be won, with power and authority. In order to receive this divine
instruction, there must be an altering of our mentality, the way we see
things, the way we think, and the way we perceive. The alteration must
be a complete alteration, so if you are the kind of
person who can never be corrected, you can also never be altered to
receive the higher things of the kingdom. And yet, it seems that so much
of the Church refuses to be corrected. If you tell them that they did
something wrong, they will attack you or justify everything they have
done, rather than be corrected. They do not realize that if you cannot
be corrected by man, neither can you be corrected by God. If it takes
Him five years to correct something in you that could have been
corrected through an authority figure five years before, how far are you
behind His purpose and His plan? Five years.
So, if this happens a few times, you may
find that you are sixty years old and God's will has never been
performed. It is imperative to allow God to humble you. Plead with Him
to humble you. Plead for the humbling, so that you can be teachable and
breakable. He must break you to use you. He must break you so that you
can know Him. May I say one more thing? You are not going to like this
one. He must more than break you—He must crush you like cinnamon. There
are certain flowers on the earth that have no fragrance until they are
dried and crushed. Only then is their fragrance released.
Once, in a prophetic experience, I saw
myself walking down the street. I came up to a man and he held in his
hands a dried bouquet of roses. As I walked up to him, he said, “I'm
selling roses today.” And I exclaimed, “But your roses are dried.” He
responded, “Watch.” He began to break and crush the roses in his hands. I
asked him, “Why are you doing that? You want to sell those to me. Why
are you breaking and crushing them?” He answered, “Because there is no
beauty in the rose until it is crushed. Only then can heaven smell the
fragrance of the rose. Will you buy them from me?”
We do not run from the crushing. We learn
to endure by the grace of Jesus Christ. If everything in your world
seems to be topsy-turvy, in a whirlwind that just will not go away,
praise God for it. He is crushing the rose to create the fragrance that
only heaven can smell.
One time, around the year 2005, I was
going through a horrible storm. As I was ascending a small flight of
stairs, suddenly the Lord appeared at the top of the stairs. I asked
Him, “Why are you here?” He held out His hand, and the palm of His hand
was filled with crushed cinnamon. He held out the cinnamon to me. The
crushing is so that He can own us, and so the kingdom can come and His
will can be done in us, even as it is in heaven.
There is a glory—a greater glory. There is
a glory of the light flowing from heaven. This glory awaits His people.
There is a fellowship that is yearning and burning in the heart of God.
This fellowship is born in the light. Let your life be crushed to
powder. Let His mind fill your soul. When you let go of this earthly
kingdom, His kingdom and its glory will come. Rush to the feet of your
Master, for He alone knows how to make you into the image of His Son,
born of the light of glory.
His kingdom come, His will be done—in you.
Pray for it. Contend for it. Stop the compromise. Let it go. It is
stealing the light from you. It is stealing the kingdom to which you
have been called. Stop the compromise. God wants commitment to Him and
commitment to the quest for the higher life. Contend for the life of the
kingdom. Give God what He wants. You need it more than He does. Stop
the self-justifications. Stop the reasoning. Just die. Go ahead; do it.
Come out of the life that is attached to Babylon. Run in the life that
is attached to Zion. God will meet you there.
I love this. He said, “Go to Jerusalem and
wait for Me. Wait for the Promise of the Father.” He wants you to leave
Babylon and meet Him in Jerusalem. He wants you to meet Him in
Jerusalem, where He becomes your all and you become His. Let go of the
compromise. Cling to commitment. Cling to the quest. Go after God. Go
after Him with all of your mind, your heart, your soul, and your flesh,
and He will meet you. He will do it. There are things that no man can
do; God alone can do those things, and He will do it. He will do it, but
you have to die. You must die. You cannot enter into life except you
pass through death. Run after Jesus. Run after Him. Run! Run! Don't
walk. Don't skip. Run! Run to win the marathon! Run after Jesus! Give
Him your best. Give Him your all. Fling away the world. Run after Him.
You will never be sorry.
Listen, it is love that calls. Do not run
from love. He will teach you how to leap over the mountains like a hart.
He will give you strength, valor, and courage. He will beautify you as
no man can do. It is love that calls. Repent. Repent for not running
after Him harder today. Tell Him you are sorry, and go after Him.
Precious Jesus, You captivate our hearts.
You captivate our hearts, Lord. What can we say? You do. Lord, we are so
sorry we take so long. We are so slow, but You do captivate us. You are
the King of glory, and it is at Your feet that we will bow. We want You
to use us, Lord, but more than that, we want to be one with You.
In Him,
Nita Johnson
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