Ephesians is a great book of warning and direction. It lets you know what God will and won’t accept. One thing God will never accept is man’s sinful nature, and so Jesus came to bring salvation to men, women, boys and girls. When you come to Jesus and receive salvation, a born-again experience, you are made brand-new; you have a new self. Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness (Ephesians 4:24).

When you receive salvation, the old self should be completely gone, buried so deep it will never be resurrected. No power from Heaven will come to resurrect the old self; Heaven’s power comes to resurrect us from the deadness of trespasses and sins and to bring us into the light of the Lord’s righteousness and holiness.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17). How does man become a new creation? In the righteousness and holiness of God, through the blood of Jesus we are made new, re-created. Reject the old self and be willing for it to be buried deep, deep, deep by the Holy Spirit.

Being born again means you are under the blood and in the blood. Always remember that the devil can’t do a thing with the blood. It’s a stated fact in the book of Revelation that just one chain will bind Satan as one angel drags him to the bottomless pit and throws him in where he will remain for one thousand years—one chain of blood will do it.

Some people feel they have moved into the new self that salvation brings, but if they were to take self to the Word of God, they would find they haven’t received salvation at all. The devil deceives people, making them think they have on the new self when they don’t. In the presence of God, I have come to the conclusion that the reason many have so much trouble in receiving from God and knowing the reality of Him is that they haven’t gotten rid of the old self. Then there are others who had at one time taken on the new self, but they let it become contaminated, and are no longer walking as Jesus walked.

We are to grow into the perfect nature of Him, to be as tall in the Spirit as Jesus was when He was here on Earth. We are to grow and to continue growing in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ (Ephesians 4:13). And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man (Luke 2:52).

Take on the mind of Christ. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5). You can’t take on the mind of Christ with the old self. Through His blood, Jesus brought the means to put on the new self.

Paul, talking to people who had gone back to the old ways of self, says that ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts (Ephesians 4:20-22). Put off the former conversation, the old man. The new self doesn’t talk the way the old self talked. It doesn’t whisper, backbite or gossip. A love bridle fits only a clean tongue, a clean mouth.

Many declare that it is impossible to be rid of the Adamic nature, the sinful nature that Adam inflicted on the human race. They are wrong. You must get rid of it. There is no place in God’s holiness for it. The Adamic nature is from the devil. When man fell into the hands of the devil he took on the devil’s nature, not God’s.

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind (Ephesians 4:23). Paul told the Ephesians that they had things in their mind that shouldn’t be there. They had contaminated themselves, going back to the old self, and so they must be renewed in mind.

Do Away with Traits Foreign to the New Self

How sad that today not much honor is placed on truth. Even Christians tell what they call little white lies. But no deliberate lie is innocent. The Bible clearly spells out what will happen to liars. It doesn’t classify the lies, it simply says all liars. All liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Revelation 21:8). Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another (Ephesians 4:25). As part of the body of Christ, we are members one of another. Only love can join us together in the Lord and keep us together.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath (Ephesians 4:26). Keeping one’s temper can be quite a project. It’s best not to get angry, but if you do lose your temper, make sure you do not sin. Use self-control, patience, on that unruly temper; be careful. The Bible does not tell you that you have to get angry, but it does tell you that in your patience possess ye your souls (Luke 21:19).

Neither give place to the devil (Ephesians 4:27). Give the devil no room in your life, in your mind, no room to use your tongue, your eyes or your ears. Give him no place at all. Shut him out completely. He loves the dark, so leave him there.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers (Ephesians 4:28,29). Speak that which blesses. Evaluate your words by the degree they bless those who hear them. Let nothing come out of your mouth that won’t bless. Minister grace to your hearers. If you are not speaking unto edification, if people are not edified by your words through the love and Spirit of God, you are not ministering grace to your hearers.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30). One word said wrong can grieve the Holy Spirit. We load much work onto the Holy Spirit by saying things we have no business saying. The Holy Spirit must work days, weeks, even months to heal the hurts that thoughtless words can cause.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice (Ephesians 4:31). Bitterness, wrath and anger shed off with the old self. Let it all go, the clamor, the evil speaking, the malice.

Walk in the Spirit

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you (Ephesians 4:32). Are you kind or unkind to others? Do you have the forgiveness with which Christ forgave you? Do you believe that you were completely forgiven? When Christ forgave you, did He forgive you of everything, or did He keep back a few things to hold against you? Christ had a tender heart, and He forgave with divine forgiveness.

Don’t depend on the flesh to forgive others; depend on divinity as you walk in the Spirit. It’s a must to walk in the Spirit. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16,25). Walking in the Spirit, we will have divinity to help us with all these teachings of the Lord that we must do and serve to others. We can’t do His will without Him.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us (Ephesians 5:1,2). Are you walking in the love that Christ Jesus had when He died for you? He makes intercession for you, looks out for you; through the Holy Spirit He provides for you the fruits of the Spirit. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law (Galatians 5:22,23). (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) (Ephesians 5:9). Study the book of Ephesians. The Lord is opening His Word to us, pinpointing what He had given us in the past and bringing it into a greater reality to us. You must have Heaven’s hearing to hear all Heaven is saying to you, all the Holy Spirit is saying. It’s divinity speaking.

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him (Colossians 3:9,10). The new man, created after the image of God in righteousness and holiness, was made in such a way that he could walk and talk with God. God could come down and talk to Adam just any time. There were no sacrifices, no offerings to be made, nothing to be forgiven, no sin, no hurt, no wrong. It was all love…a heaven here on Earth. Adam had no cares; he never wondered about his needs being supplied. In fact, he didn’t know what it was to be in need—until he left God.

Today when man finds God, he has this wonderful promise to claim: But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). God proved He had plenty of riches for the first man and woman in the Garden of Eden, and He still has all the riches we need today.

Many thought God’s power was out of reach, that Jesus set an impossible example to follow. Not so. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name (John 1:12). Jesus became our brother, bringing divine blood so we could be sons and daughters of God with Him. Because of His sacrifice on the Cross, divine blood would flow in the lives of human beings as it had flowed in the lives of Adam and Eve before the fall, making it possible for us to live and walk in the Spirit.

Physical and Spiritual Senses

The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17). The just will live by the spiritual senses, and they will keep the physical senses pure, clean and holy. When you walk in faith, the devil can’t defeat you.

The devil talks to you through the physical senses, not through the spiritual senses. The spiritual senses are divine. What can the devil do with divine sight? Nothing. Can he put out God’s eyes? Of course not. What can the devil do with divine hearing? Can he make God deaf? Can he dull God’s senses in any way? No.

The devil didn’t come after Jesus until Jesus had the form of a human being with the five physical senses. But Jesus demonstrated that when those physical senses are yielded to God, holy like God gave them in the first place, they resist the devil.

Before he fell, Adam had everything that Jesus in human form had. Adam was not forced to listen to the devil; Jesus didn’t listen. You can absolutely have the holiness and righteousness of God like the first Adam and the first Eve had when they listened to God and not the devil. However if you do not keep the physical senses holy, the devil will deceive you again and again. He will talk to you, and you will listen. Jesus said that the devil is a liar, and the father of it (John 8:44). If the devil tells you something, it couldn’t be the truth; the truth isn’t in the devil.

Why give over to the wrong self? Take on the new self, take those five dedicated, consecrated, perfect-in-love senses. In that condition you don’t have to listen to the devil; you can turn him off. Jesus is your example; you are to follow Him.

Jesus, the Son of God in a physical body, came under subjection to everything we are under. What did He use to sustain Himself? Thus saith the Lord. Three times Jesus told the devil what the Father had said: It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Jesus said unto him [the devil], It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him (Matthew 4:4,7,10,11).

There is great power in what the Father says; His Words can’t be changed. God does not change. What He says is recorded in Heaven, and the devil certainly can’t enter Heaven to destroy God’s Word, neither can He destroy God’s Word here on Earth. However, the devil can blot the Word out of people’s hearts if they listen to him. He can deceive people through the five physical senses.

If the five physical senses are not contaminated, and if you are using the six spiritual senses, the devil cannot cast you down. The Word of God lets you know that you have power to cast down the devil, power to trample him underfoot. Unfortunately, all too often this process has been reversed: the devil has been trampling God’s people underfoot.

The devil hates the Spirit of God; when that Spirit is in you, the devil hates you. Trying in every way to drain God’s Spirit from you, the devil knows how to work on you if you yield self to him. But if you don’t yield self to him, he doesn’t have a chance with you.

A Perfect Blend of the Senses

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7). Resist the devil through the spiritual senses. Using the sixth spiritual sense, the sense of faith, you are protected with a shield the devil cannot break through even with one of his fiery darts. That shield of faith is divine faith. Human faith, however, is not protected like divine faith is; the devil can wear it down and penetrate it, but divine faith cannot be penetrated in any way. Be careful to keep the five physical senses in order, pure, clean and holy; and then they will come together and blend with the six spiritual senses. In that condition, you can’t be defeated by all the powers of hell.

Outside Eden, people need both the six spiritual and the five physical senses, but the five physical senses must be made new so they will blend and be in accord with the six spiritual ones. When you are covered with the blood of Jesus and have not only consecrated the five physical senses to God, but also are using the six spiritual senses, you are as safe as though you were in Heaven. The devil has no chance to defeat you, to cause you to fail God, or to miss the will of God for your life in this final hour. Decide that the devil cannot keep you bound in body or spirit in any way. If we were supposed to be sick every now and then, Jesus would have had bouts with illness. Jesus was never sick because He had the five perfect physical senses blended with the six perfect spiritual senses.

What kind of faith is available to you through this perfect blend of the spiritual and physical senses? It’s the faith that went into the lions’ den and rejoiced as an angel shut the lions’ mouths. It wasn’t by human faith that Daniel survived in the lions’ den. Human faith isn’t that strong; Daniel used divine faith. And we know that the lions were hungry because they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den (Daniel 6:24).

Contend for the Faith of the Saints

Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3). Have the faith of the Bible saints of God, saints we read about in both Old and New Testaments. The faith those saints used kept them free from all sin, kept them seeing with Heaven’s eyesight, kept them on their divine, heavenly walk. Like striving in combat, fight for that faith, struggle for it. The faith of the saints won’t be handed to you on a platter; you will have to come against the powers of darkness in order to stand up and be counted on the Lord’s side all the way.

Jesus taught us how to contend for the faith. When He took on the form of flesh as we have it, He came under subjection to everything we are subject to; and He didn’t use any more power than we can use. How much of that power have we used?

To have the faith once delivered to the saints, you must go into the new self. Enoch, Noah and Abraham had this kind of faith, divine faith. They went far beyond human faith. We see this faith in a few characters through the thousands of years in Bible days. If those few had that divine faith, it means God’s few today can have it, too. Jesus said, Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it (Matthew 7:14). Few will walk that narrow love road—but never doubt that you can be one of those few.

The faith of Joseph is the same faith you can have. He was falsely accused, sold as a slave, imprisoned—who would have thought God had a hand in it? Who would have lived such a life and not had bitterness? Joseph would. His father loved him above the love he had for his other sons, and they were jealous. That spirit of jealousy caused the brothers to try to destroy Joseph, snatch him out of his father’s arms of love and protection.

Think of the dark nights, the lonely hours Joseph endured. He learned a foreign language, thinking he would never go home again. But Joseph didn’t realize what good things would happen to him through his unusual faith. Joseph needed a bed of divine faith to be reared in, to prepare him for the work God planned for him to do. He was very young when he was sold into slavery, and that faith had to be imparted into him early. Because his mother worshiped idol gods, she had to die so she couldn’t influence Joseph.

If you were reared in a godless home, you have your family’s unbelief to battle against before you come to God and give yourself to Him. A home with no divine faith, no divine love, and little human love marks a child.

Joseph had the divine faith that gave him Heaven’s forgiving spirit, Heaven’s divine love. He found the greatness of the power of Calvary for his life—Heaven’s divine grace—in a day before grace was given on the Cross. The Lord held him up, gave him wonderful strength and favor. With the faith of Joseph, God was able to save Joseph’s whole family. The faith of Joseph is the kind of faith we are contending for so we can bring the lost to Jesus no matter how far from God they are.

Moses said to the Lord: I beseech thee, show me thy glory (Exodus 33:18). This is the faith that was once delivered to the saints. The Lord told Moses: And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen (Exodus 33:22,23). Outside Eden, man lost the greatest of privileges, that of looking right into the face of God. What a beautiful face His must be!

Moses got to see the back of God, and that incredible experience marked his life for the greatness of the mission ahead. He went on with God, doing whatever God wanted.

And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot’s house, named Rahab, and lodged there (Joshua 2:1). Rahab the harlot, a sinful woman, looked to God and honored Him. The Lord in that moment gave her faith to help His servants. It wasn’t human faith she used; it was divine faith. She put her life in jeopardy, as well as the lives of all her family, to aid Israel. The scarlet thread she bound in the window, the signal that spared her and her family’s lives, became a token of the blood of Christ. Without realizing it, she put faith in the blood. Giving her mind over to God’s influence, Rahab was drawn by the Spirit into the place she could aid the servants of God. She and her household were protected while all the others in Jericho died. By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace (Hebrews 11:31). A scarlet thread representing divine grace, divine love, divine faith, divine goodness and mercy saved her. Divinity saved her.

The Lord called Gideon to deliver his people. And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites (Judges 6:13).

You may think you are mistreated, that God has left you in the valley, but compare your problem to Gideon’s. And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee (Judges 6:14)? Thirty-two thousand men came to make up an army to deliver Israel from their oppressors. Gideon must have been feeling rather confident to see such large numbers, but then the Lord said to proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand (Judges 7:3). When twenty-two thousand turned back at one time, Gideon decided he had a problem. But a worse “problem” was to come. The Lord wasn’t through. He told Gideon to take the people down to the water and He would try them there. Those who drank and forgot everything but self were rejected. But those who watched for the enemy as they drank were accepted. When God was done, only three hundred remained. Now Gideon looked at an army of three hundred against all the Midianites. God, is this it? It was. The enemy was defeated by the hand of God and Gideon’s brave three hundred.

Gideon’s faith is the kind of faith we must have to win this war for Jesus. God’s dedicated few will bring in the millions in this short while we have left.

The Lord wants you to be able to stand against the devil, the armies of the enemies of God, and to defeat them all. Don’t look at who will stand with you; look to the power of God. If you stand for God, you will be victorious. Gideon and Joseph obeyed God, followed His instructions and buried self. Self must be given to God completely to take orders that require such miracles.

Samson had miracle strength. That is the faith we are to contend for. He stood alone with God, and yet he was never alone. As long as Samson obeyed God, no one could conquer him. With a jawbone of an animal he killed a thousand Philistines. He could have killed ten or twenty thousand. With God all things are possible.

How many people look to the faith of the Old Testament saints of God? The Bible tells us to contend for it. The Early Church went in to this kind of faith in the beginning. We see Peter in jail; then the angel of the Lord brings him out, delivers him. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands (Acts 12:7). On a different occasion when the angel of the Lord freed Peter and some other apostles from prison, they were back on the street preaching before the officers discovered they were missing. The angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life (Acts 5:19,20).

Anything can happen to us in this final hour as we receive the faith that was delivered to the saints; the Bride will have that faith. All kinds of miraculous things will take place because of the faith of God in His people. Stand fast in the faith (I Corinthians 16:13). Have the faith of God, divine faith.

What was the difference between David with his slingshot and King Saul with his massive armor? Divine faith, divine spiritual senses. David had five physical senses that were pure and clean. He had a clear conscience toward man and God. Saul’s conscience was seared; he had backslidden. Had Saul not backslidden he, no doubt, would have been the one to kill Goliath. The Lord, however, couldn’t find a man to use, so He used a boy. The Bible says that a little child shall lead them (Isaiah 11:6). The Lord uses children.

Don’t consider who you are, but what you are in Christ Jesus. David had confidence because the Lord had given him divine faith to kill a bear and a lion. He told King Saul, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine (I Samuel 17:37). David, directed by divine faith, was able to defeat Goliath.

And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens (Hebrews 11:32-34). Saints of God being put to death for the sake of Christ, shouted the praises of God until they had no more breath. The pain of the fire was quenched—their bodies felt it, but their spirits were beyond, their spirits were liberated. The divine Spirit of God had taken them over, the divine faith, the divine sight of God.

Others seeing the martyrs go to their death singing and praising God, came into the Kingdom, too. The blood of the martyrs became the seed of the Church.

The true martyrs had divine strength, divine faith from Heaven to endure being sacrificed in such terrible ways. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection (Hebrews 11:35). Those saints of God refused to accept deliverance; in other words, they didn’t compromise. This is the faith that was once delivered to the saints, the same faith that will take us through to Rapture ground. This is the faith that we must contend for in this final hour if we are to be victorious like our Lord, victorious each day, each night. In everything, in every way we must be the hands of the Lord, the eyes, ears and mind of Him so we can be used here on Earth.

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented (Hebrews 11:36,37). Fugitives because they were Christian, people would cover themselves with the skins of animals and go out at night trying to find food. To not turn their backs on Christ they had to have divine faith, divine love. (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth (Hebrews 11:38). This is the faith of the early martyrs. Do you still want this faith? What price are you willing to pay? This is the faith of the new self. If you feel like giving up, you are living by your feelings; but, remember, the just shall live by faith.

The Bride Will Not Be Separated from Christ

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God (Matthew 5:8). One day we will see God face to face. Blood holiness, Calvary, made it possible. Without the holiness and righteousness in your life of the blood spilled on Calvary, you will never look upon the face of God. At the Great White Throne judgment, the wicked dead will not be able to look upon the face of God. They wouldn’t have the strength to do it if it were allowed. Adam and Eve didn’t want to see God after they had sinned; they hid from Him. Even when God killed an animal and made coats of skin for them, they did not look into His face. They robbed themselves and all of us as well.

In Luke 4:18,19, Jesus gives us insight to what the Spirit of the Lord in His life meant: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Jesus went forth in the power of the Holy Spirit. It was a victorious period as the Spirit of God worked, bringing miracles, greatness, power and strength to all who would accept Him. Jesus went in the Spirit of all Heaven’s knowledge and wisdom. If we live in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit and are filled with the Spirit, we will go forth just as Jesus went forth.

The Bride will not be separated from Christ. She will have His characteristics of love, devotion, dedication. Her veil of consecration will be just as wonderful, holy, great and faithful as the veil of dedication to the Father that Jesus wore.

Jesus said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always (John 11:41,42). Jesus told the people just what the Father gave Him to say, and the Bride will say again and again just what her Lord gives her to say. I give you the Word of God; I give you the Gospel only, the Gospel of Heaven’s truth.

Jesus came to bring a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh (Hebrews 10:20). The new and living way is living in His presence.

Go Nowhere without the Presence of God

God told Moses: My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he [Moses] said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence (Exodus 33:14,15). Moses refused to go if God’s presence wouldn’t be with him. The faith of Moses was great, but he knew he was nothing without the Lord. With the ultimate faith of God once delivered to Moses, we, too, must decide we won’t go anywhere without the presence of the Lord; but we will go anywhere, do anything if He goes with us. And the Lord promised to go with us all the way. For he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee (Hebrews 13:5).

Accepting God’s presence, His anointing, brings great peace. It’s for you, Bride of Christ. In His presence is love, joy and understanding. You don’t have to worry about people understanding you as long as you know God understands you. If loved ones happen to understand you, count it as a bonus.

Abraham had the presence of the Lord. When his son asked where the lamb was for the sacrifice, Abraham replied: My son, God will provide (Genesis 22:8). God did provide. This is the faith that was once delivered to the children of God. God’s presence with Abraham, His presence with Daniel gave visions. God’s presence means He will provide.

Daniel saw world kingdoms to come, and he saw the time when the God of Heaven will set up a kingdom that will stand forever. He saw it all and was given understanding.

God’s Spirit is with man if man wants to be with Him. His Spirit will never lag behind, never come up lacking or be weak. In all the decisions you make, you must be aware of His presence. Wait for the mind of God.

The Bride will have direction. She will never walk alone; God’s presence goes with the obedient—God working with men and women. His presence dwells in temples of clay. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s (I Corinthians 6:19,20).

Man’s spirit that is yielded to the Holy Spirit one hundred percent gives God no problem doing all He has promised in His Holy Word. There are no weaknesses in God’s promises; the weaknesses come from man’s doubt that God will do what He says. God cannot perform what He wants when man will not yield to Him, and man’s failure to yield has caused many to doubt God. The Bride will yield all to God day and night, and rejoice in doing so.

In the form of the Holy Spirit, the presence of God moves with greatness. His Spirit surrounds us and lives within when we are baptized in Him. We have the cloud of His glory. God is moving in closer and closer to His people who are believing Him more and more. The Word of God is finding lodging in many hearts.

When the Holy Ghost lives and dwells on the inside of you, what a holy presence is yours! What holiness you should feel through the Spirit of God, knowing the Holy Ghost tabernacles all the time inside you when you are baptized in the Holy Ghost! Spend time away from people and in the presence of God. Be alone with Him as much as you can. His presence furnishes all the extra strength you need. When you are God-conscious and conscious of what the Lord will do, you have His strength.

The strength and power of God flow to you if you depend on them, but you must depend on them. I can’t do my work without the anointing of God. I can’t preach without it. I can’t study the Word of God without the anointing. I must be in the presence of God. God separated me unto Himself. I know I am weak without Him. I know I can’t do all the work God wants me to do or keep up all the hours if I don’t depend on Him. It’s impossible. I could never think of the answers people need on my own, so I trust God for the answers; He gives them to me. He holds me accountable to look for His wisdom to help people. I deliver what God gives me, and then it’s up to people what they do. It hurts when people won’t take the answers, but God doesn’t hold me responsible for their refusal. It grieves the Spirit of God, too.

All the ammunition you need to defeat the devil is found in the presence of the Lord. In His presence you have everything Jesus used to defeat the devil, all the strength, power, grace and love. Put self down so that the Spirit of God in the new self can rise up and be foremost in your walk with God.

Many times God’s presence comes in the form of a human voice. He uses godly people when we don’t realize it. A child of God with the six spiritual senses can be used by God anytime He wants. That’s the reason, oh Bride of Christ, you must hurry and come into all these things God has for you. The door to the Upper Room is the door that leads to spiritual Canaan.

It’s wonderful to think that a human voice can be so dedicated that His presence goes forth in it when that one speaks! His love presence, His love faith is in the voice that speaks as He desires. The Holy Spirit speaks through dedicated, holy tongues. In any tongue, in any dialect He speaks. The greatness of the Holy Spirit is beyond us all. I marvel at Him; I marvel at God who has given us such a plan of redemption! Without counting the cost, He gave His only begotten Son.

Never count the cost of serving the Lord. Through His presence you can serve Him. In His presence you find direction, you find each step to take; you know your paths will be plain. In His presence you find the green pastures for refreshing and the still waters to help you along the way. We are just human, and we need those green pastures of peace and serenity as well as we need the still waters. When we go into the spiritual battles, it’s anything but calm, but then the Good Shepherd takes us over and leads us beside the still waters into His garden of love in the green pastures of life. There is no death in the pastures where He leads His lambs.

The presence of God was in Paul when a poisonous snake bit him. And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm (Acts 28:5). Paul shook off the snake and felt no harm because he had the presence of the Lord with him. When you have the presence of the Lord you have life.

An earthquake of power came for Paul and Silas. At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed (Acts 16:25,26). Two men were locked in with the presence of the Lord. It was like having God locked up in a cell. When you live in the presence of God, whatever happens to you is the same as though it were happening to God. It’s the same as though it were being done to Jesus Christ, to the Holy Ghost or to all the armies of Heaven. You have nothing to fear, nothing to worry about.

Stop looking at self and thinking you can’t live in His presence. God says you can, and that should be enough for you. You have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying. Take courage. Why put so much stress, so much value in this life? This life is short. It doesn’t matter what you have to suffer, what you have to go through as long as you have His presence with you. Like Moses, don’t go unless His presence goes with you.

The presence of God was with Paul when he cast out the demons from a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination (Acts 16:16). The devil sought to annoy Paul, but he just stirred up Paul’s spirit until Paul whirled around before the devil could get fixed, and commanded the fortune-telling devil to come out—and out he went. Paul had the presence.

Paul in his dying hour wrote a jubilee letter to Timothy. He advised Timothy to preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine (II Timothy 4:2). Then Paul went on to say, For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: (II Timothy 4:6,7). Paul was ready for the final blow that would open the gates of Glory for him.

I can see Timothy crying as he read that letter, but through his tears his face must have lit with the glory of the Lord, knowing that the crown of righteousness awaited Paul in Heaven. What strength Timothy must have received from the words of Paul!

The presence of God in our voices can destroy, tear down or build up; it can do whatever the Lord wants. Through a shout, the Lord tore down the walls of Jericho, but first He had to get the people in a unity of divine faith, divine love. In that moment those divine senses were working for the Israelites. That unity didn’t last long, but it lasted long enough to cause the walls of Jericho to fall down flat. The people who walked around the walls of Jericho had to consecrate themselves to be ready for God to use them, had to humble down before Him. They must have decided it was either die or yield, and that’s the way it is for us today: die or yield. If you don’t yield to the Lord, you will die many deaths. The Spirit of God in the shout of a human voice brings perfect victory.

Samson had a way of shaking himself that would bring the Spirit of God to take him over, and amazing things took place. How marvelous to think that a human being could move in a certain way and bring so much divine faith that the Spirit of God could take over. Samson would shake his body: Lord, it’s time. I need the presence for this ordeal, for this victory! The Church of Jesus Christ had that kind of faith in the beginning. They moved and God moved with them. They moved, and the presence took over. They moved, and iron bars had no power to keep them imprisoned. Nothing could stop them, not even the threat of death. Their lives were on the line day after day. How wonderful was their faith!

Israel had to get ready for God to shout through them, and we must be ready for God to shout down the walls of opposition through us in every nation we go into. The work God did and is still doing in Malawi is wonderful. In visions God takes me back to Malawi many times. I will be praying, and the vision of Malawi becomes a part of my prayer. It amazes me. I have never before had such experiences. God keeps showing me what He is doing. People are still coming to God, still moving for Him. God will deliver many people in different nations like this. We are on our way. With God’s presence in you, you are God’s hope, God’s help for the people.

Thus Saith the Lord

I am here. I am here giving you my heart today. I am here giving you all my heart today, saith the Lord. I am giving you my heart so you will desire to come into my heart and live in my heart as my Only Begotten lived in my heart when He was here and walked among men. I am calling unto you, and I will anoint you to come into my heart, come into a place you have never been and never thought possible. Yield to my love. Yield to my Spirit, saith the Lord. Yield to my power.

I the Lord thy God am with thee in a great and mighty way, and I am drawing you closer to me so I can manifest my greatness more and more to a lost and dying world. Feel my love for you. Feel my power for you; feel my arms around you now, saith the Lord. I am here. Feel my presence now. Feel my love for you; feel my faith for you. Do not count yourself out. Do not take yourself away from me. Oh come into my heart now! Come into my heart! Yield to my presence now like you have never yielded before. Yield to my presence now, saith the Lord. This is your hour of visitation; this is your hour of revelation. I have much for you to do—yield to my presence, and you will do it. Yield to my presence and the lost will be brought in in an unbelievable way in this final hour. I am here reaching to bring you into my heart where you have never been before, into the innermost chambers of my heart, saith the Lord. Yield to my Spirit, saith the Lord.

Yield to the Spirit of the Lord and put on the new man, the new you created in the righteousness and holiness of God. Through the blood of Jesus, walk daily in the presence of the Lord, rejoicing as divinity gives the strength and knowledge to serve the fullness of the Gospel of Christ to the ends of the earth in this last and final hour.

Off with the old;
on with the new.
The new self to God
will be true!