Thank
you for your continuing support of WFJM. Our time of
corporate intercession is so powerful and we value your presence
tremendously during these times. Your prayers over Nita have proved
invaluable as we see the work of the Lord in her life each day.
As
we approach the GOE, those of you who have been involved with us know
that we pull deep into prayer prior to a GOE. The DC Gathering of the
Eagles is no exception and if anything, it requires even more focus
intercession and preparation to ensure a successful outcome. As such,
the Lord is asking many of our staff members to go into intensive
research, preparation, and even requiring them to set themselves apart
during the next several weeks in order to make ready the ground for the
GOE. Some will go into hours a day of seclusion and others on staff will
take over their responsibilities in order to make that possible. We
will all do our share and in the end, the work we are being sent to DC
to accomplish, will be done!
In order to make this possible, starting next week, we are moving our Thursday & Friday night services to a more focused corporate intercession via phone or Skype. (The call in information is the same as our Sunday and Wednesday
times of intercession.) We will pray the prayer points that the Lord
gives to Nita during our time together. Nita has been instructed to pull
back into intensive prayer and preparation but will send me the Summer
of Prophetic Messages to distribute to you via email as the Lord
delivers them to her. This is an exciting time my friends, and I
encourage each of you, whether you can join us in DC or not, to separate
yourselves and take part in this season of preparation for the DC
Gathering of the Eagles, 2013! We, the body of Christ, have been chosen
to represent Him in this hour. This is not a season of quiet slumber,
this is a season of preparing
our hearts for what is to come! Praise Him as you run to your prayer
closet for you have been counted as blessed among men for God will bless
you for every moment you sacrifice as you pray for this Nation and the
upcoming GOE!
Below
is the next segment in our teaching on Union. This is such a powerful
message that brings to the forefront what we long to have, a deep,
passionate relationship with our Lord and Savior. As you read through
this message, ask the Lord to make the reality of this truth come alive
to you today and cause the nuggets contained within this message to
change your relationship with the Lord forever!
Blessings in Him,
Ricci
UNION
Part B
By
The hardest thing for us to give up is
self. We want to have our way and do our thing. Some people like their
personality so much that they think they feel they do not need the
Divine Personality in them. We have so many reasons we do not want to
give up the world. It may not be money, furniture, new trucks or cars,
going first class when you travel, or anything like that. Maybe all that
He needs to remove from us is love of self. We need to yield up the
fruits of the soul and cling to the higher life of the Spirit.
Unless you have felt such a love, you cannot imagine how consuming and
overwhelming it is. It is so wonderful to think that He had a plan, so
great and so filled with divine passion that He would be willing to
endure even the death of His own Son to bring it to fruition. He looked
at the death of Christ, not for the suffering that it brought to His Son
or to Himself, but rather, He saw in it the freedom to manifest Himself
to us. The sufferings of the cross were nothing compared to the joy of
what He would someday realize in His Church. Our God is so lovely, so
wonderful, and so gracious. I am feeling His overwhelming love for these
truths even as I speak.
In 1989, I was going through a terrible trial. It was probably one of
the most difficult years of my life. As it would turn out, He chose that
time to give me a tremendous blessing. On Thanksgiving Day, while I was
worshiping, the Lord gave me the following experience. The Lord
appeared to me, looking five hundred pounds fat. Now, do not get
offended. I do not want you to be one of those great religious folks who
think Jesus would never do something like that because He will at times
do some strange things to get His point across.
So, He appeared to me, and He was five hundred pounds fat. I started
laughing. Wouldn't you? I exclaimed, “Jesus, You're so fat!” He smiled,
but He did not change a thing. What He was emanating from within was
living truth. It was not mere rote memorized Scripture, but living
truths from the Word, pulsating with the very life of God. He was five
hundred pounds fat with the Spirit of Truth. It was His Spirit that I
was beholding.
After a few minutes, that reality began to move to the hidden place in
Him, and Divine Love came to the forefront. I do not know how to help
you to understand what Divine Love looks like, but it does have a
certain look and an essence which you can perceive. This love was not
anything like you and I experience in human relationships. Even in
church services, the love of God that we experience flowing down over
our hearts is on a different level. That is a kind of mushy,
“ooey-gooey” feeling that makes you feel good all over. The love I was
now beholding was more like Mount Gibraltar—a solid mountain of rock. It
was not that it was hard, but rather that it was firm and immovable.
His powerful love could not be shaken. No one could approach Him in
prayer saying evil things about you and cause Him heart change towards
you. His heart of love was immovable, unwavering, and so strong that His
tender care could keep you standing through the worst kind of
trials. It was amazing.
Then the revelation of His love began to fade and in its place emerged
His joy. It was so light and effervescent. This joy bubbled up with
life. I said to Him, “When I see and feel Your joy, it's light like the
helium in a balloon. Lord, how could You keep Your feet on the ground?”
Again, He chuckled. He too thought that was funny. To this day I do not
understand how He could have touched the ground as He walked, with all
that rapturous joy that He possessed.
Then His joy began to diminish to my understanding and His peace came
to the forefront. He said that He would give a peace that was beyond
worldly peace. (John 14:27)
I am sure that many of you have experienced this peace when you are
thrust into a major trial. The minute the trial makes its’ impact, this
peace comes upon you. No matter what is going on about you, you are
okay. Everything is okay. You feel peace, not as the world gives, but as
only God can give. That is the kind of peace He walked in.
Sequentially He had allowed me to see His love, then His joy, then His
peace, gentleness, kindness and so on, until He had opened my eyes to
see each respective virtue listed in the nine fruits of the Spirit found
in the book of Galatians. Each of these fruits has a different look and
obviously a different feel. I was amazed and in awe.
Galatians 5:22-23a
Amp. But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence
within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even
temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness,
gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint,
continence).
Then He said, “Nita, come and stand next to Me.” When I stood at His
side, He stretched out His arm and wrapped it around my waist. As He did
so, everything inside me went down, down, down, and out from my feet
until I was totally emptied of self. I felt it drain out like water out
of a bottle. When I was completely void of self, everything that was in
Him began to fill me until I was saturated with His living truth, divine
love, divine joy, divine peace, divine goodness, divine gentleness—all
of the nine fruits of the Spirit. He then spoke to me saying, “Nita,
what you were feeling and experiencing was what John wrote about in My
Word.”
John 1:14
Amp. And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and
tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we
[actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only
begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor,
loving-kindness) and truth.
He said, “This is what it means to be filled with grace and
truth—living truth, the Spirit of truth. What I have shown you, one
after another, were the fruits that are living-- alive, and exuberant in
the Spirit of truth that overtakes and overcomes you. What you were
experiencing was what John wrote about.” Then He spoke the Scripture in
John 1:16:
John 1:16
Amp. For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received [all had
a share and we were all supplied with] one grace after another and
spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and even favor upon favor and
gift [heaped] upon gift.
So what did He teach us through the revelation? That out of His
abundance of grace and truth, He lets us appropriate all this power,
according to verse 16, exactly as I had just experienced it. He looked
at me, and asked, “Nita, would you like to live here?” I was stunned. I
replied, “Live—here? Here?” I thought that until now I had already been
experiencing the full heights of Christianity. Yet, I had just
experienced my sin-nature being emptied out through my feet, only to be
replaced with the life of His soul-filling Nature.. It was no longer I
that lived, but Christ was living in me. (Gal 2:20)
I was so shocked and stunned because this felt like I was living right
in the middle of the Godhead. It was as if the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit were all holding hands, encircling me within their Presence.
This was a completely different existence, unlike anything we feel
here. I knew I was not the same person that I had been just a few
minutes before. That person was gone. Feeling like I had been placed
right inside the Godhead was just amazing to me. This was not to say I
had become a god, but rather surrounded and filled with Him!
He had asked if I would like to live in that place with Him. “Was it
even possible for me to live in such a blessing?” I pondered. You have
to understand that when God gives you these outstanding revelations, you
think you expect to react one way, but find that, instead, you act so
human, usually saying stupid things. Of course, He was sure of what He
was offering me. However, I could not, as the youth of today would say,
“put my head around it.” The experience itself was something so high, so
holy, and so other-worldly, I could not comprehend it even as I was
experiencing it.
Graciously, He asked once again, “Nita, would you like to live here?” I
said, “Lord, if it is possible for a human being to live here in this
place with You—” Do you hear the doubt? I was so full of doubt! I know
you would never go through that, right? (smile) I said, “If it is
possible, You know me, and You also know that I want it so badly that
I'll go through anything to have it. Whatever You require of me, I will
do.” Whatever you demand of me I will give. He simply responded,
“Alright then, you shall have it.” Isn't that simple? Isn't that
incredibly awesome? Isn't that so amazing?
But I want to tell you something. What I am sharing with you is the way
He intended for normal Christianity. Anyone can go therein. This is how
He said it, “Anyone who will can have this place in Me.” So, this is
the criteria, not that you want, but rather that you will to have it.
That means that you are going to submit your will to His. He will be the
Divine Owner of your will from that point on. You will to yield up
whatever you must yield up. When He starts requiring that deep rudiments
of sin be turned over to Him, you are not going to balk. You are not
going to get angry, offended, and turn away. You are not going to
complain that it is just too much or too hard. You are not going to
whine, “Why do you make it so hard, Lord?” You must put your will into
the race now. You must will to have that life in Him.
To be continued next week...
In His Love,
Nita Johnson |
