Many in the Christian world have come up lacking because they didn’t get all the sand out of their spiritual foundation. They dug away part of the sand, thought it was enough, and started building. You must have all the sand out of your Christian foundation if you are to be a part of the Bride of Christ. Never let one grain of sand stand between you and your Lord.

In Matthew 7:24-27 Jesus tells us, Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. If you hear what the Lord tells you to do and you don’t do it, you are like the foolish man who built on the sand. Great was the fall of that house. How pathetic to let even one grain of sand hinder you from doing God’s complete will!

No sand will weaken the eyes of the Bride; those eyes will see the same as God’s eyes; her ears, her voice, her hands, her feet will be the same as His. She will do the very same kind of work her Master did when He walked among men, but on a greater scale. The Bride can only do this, saith the Lord, without one grain of sand. If not one grain of sand is in your foundation to come between you and your Lord, nothing can destroy you. All the demons in hell and the devil himself could come after you at one time, and not be able to defeat you.

If, however, you have that one grain of sand, you will not do everything God wants you to do. One grain of sand will hinder God’s ultimate anointings in your life, cause them to leak out. A leak in the vessel means some of the content will be lost. That one grain of sand will rob you and God as well—it’s a theft you can’t afford to be a victim of.

In this final hour, the storms of tribulation and persecution are already coming. By bringing in the sands of doubt, false doctrine and deceiving devils, the world church is going to cause—and already is causing—the true Church a lot of trouble.

Choose the Good Part

A certain woman named Martha received him [Jesus] into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her (Luke 10:38-42). Mary wanted to be with Jesus, but Martha thought she was out of order. Martha had the grain of sand; she felt the meal was more important than anything else. Jesus would have been glad had Martha joined Mary in listening to Him and not worried about the meal. His words were more important than the dinner, and Mary was hungry for the Word of God.

Rooted and Grounded in Love

Hunger and thirst for the deepness of God, and He will satisfy the inner man. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man (Ephesians 3:16). The greatness of God can fill the inner man; the capacity of the soul can hold all of Heaven. There is no limit to the things of God the soul can hold. Let not one grain of sand steal His abundant riches from you.

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love (Ephesians 3:17). What does it mean to be rooted and grounded in love? When a plant is rooted in the proper soil, it grows. If you have all the sand out of your foundation, and you are rooted and grounded in the love of God, the storms of life will not sweep you away. You will grow in the Lord, for your roots in Him will run deep.

Some Christians do not grow in the Lord because they are not established on a strong foundation of the Word of God; sand has weakened their love for the Lord. You can be established in the Word only by love. To be rooted and grounded in the Word foundation through love is to have the Lord’s love under you as firmly as the sand-free ground is under your feet. With God’s love-support for your spiritual being, your innermost being, you will be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God (Ephesians 3:18,19).

By not knowing how high God’s love is, how deep and how wide, you will fail God in prayer many times simply because you don’t comprehend what the greatness of that love will do for you. In prayer, divine love must be used. Know the love of Christ so that you might be filled with all the fulness of God. But, remember, you can’t be filled with this Bible, can’t use all the promises of God if you have one grain of sand.

Filled with all the fulness of God…what is all the fulness of God? The fulness of God includes all the promises of God, all His love, faith, compassion, determination, will, trust, full assurance, patience—and much more. Even the Bible doesn’t enumerate all that makes up the fulness of God. His fulness in your soul is a tremendous supply house, the supply house from which, as Jesus said, He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water (John 7:38).

Rivers of living waters will not flow in you unless you come into God’s love in perfection, and you won’t live in that love in perfection without speaking the love language all the time. You won’t come into love in perfection if you have one grain of sand, saith the Lord.

The more you understand God’s love, the easier it is to get prayers through and the more you will use God’s faith. Through love, the faith of God flows to you. When you concentrate and meditate on love—God’s love, not human love—you will find your faith growing. The more I understood God’s love, the more faith came.

Human love has discouraging flaws, but you will find no flaws in the love of God. The love of God is as perfect as Heaven itself. God will not use His love in perfection in Heaven any greater than He will use it here on Earth for all who will yield to Him. Freely, day and night, He serves you in the divine love of Heaven; but if you have one grain of sand, it hinders you from using the love of God in perfection.

Understand God’s Love

Not really knowing the love of Christ, the Church has been weak down through the years; Christians have not looked at themselves through God’s love. Sand in the foundation blurred their vision. Human love will not give you a clear picture of self, only divine love will let you see any blemish, will let you understand any grain of sand and what to do about it. God’s love passeth all the knowledge of man.

You can understand the love of God only through the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God must reveal God’s love, what it’s like, what it will do for you and what it won’t do. God has given you His great love, but when you limit yourself by accepting only a few of the promises of God, you don’t recognize or have the knowledge of the reality of His love. Sand has sifted in. However, with the knowledge of the love of God you are ready to say with Paul: I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me (Philippians 4:13).

Without love, you are nothing. And though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity [love], I am nothing (I Corinthians 13:2). What would it matter that you moved all the mountains in the world if you hadn’t done it through God’s love? Love is what counts. It’s love that saves, heals and delivers. When you are able to speak through the love of God, you also have the faith of God to speak that love with all boldness.

Because of God’s love, we have salvation; because of God’s love, Jesus came. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). God didn’t give Jesus because He had faith in mankind; He gave Jesus because of His love.

In looking to God’s love, you first must see Jesus, see His love in perfection. Think about Jesus; think about His love. Don’t wonder whether or not He will hear your prayers; know that He will make intercession for you because of His love.

God Has You on Proving Ground

Love is the same in every tongue, but if you have one grain of sand in your spirit, you are not speaking the love language in perfection. There is a defect in your speech that will show up sooner or later. No matter how hard the Holy Spirit tries to direct you, that sand will show. If you have a grain of sand in your personality, in your character, in your spirit, it will be exposed; and you won’t be able to work with God’s people in harmony all the time. There will be times you “get out of sorts,” say things you have no business saying, and even rise up with resentment against your brothers and sisters in Christ.

It is easy to find something to resent about the work of God if you have any sand. The devil will help you justify yourself in that resentment. Let resentment be a warning signal: If you become resentful about the work of God, you have at least one grain of sand, and maybe many more. In fact, you may be harboring a whole sandbag.

In the past, many Christians have given only part of themselves; they have given one sand-filled ear to the world and one ear to God. They thought they could serve God that way, and it didn’t work. Many Christians have brought absolute chaos to the Kingdom of the Lord because sand undermined their foundation.

Why is the Church of Jesus Christ so small today? Why is the world church growing by leaps and bounds? Because people prefer to accept what is false rather than what is true. False fits the hypocrites’ lives; it fits people who don’t want to walk close to the Lord. False fits the prayerless life, the life without fasting and living in the Word of God. It fits the sandy lives of those who live in self, those with no desire to yield to God.

How do you react to adversity real or imagined? The Lord today has you on proving ground. It isn’t the devil testing your love: God is testing it. He tests it for your benefit so you can see yourself as He sees you. You can be so self-satisfied, so convinced you have the approval of God that you don’t notice how many grains of sand still grate in your spirit. Even one grain of sand will be revealed in your pouting, in your failure to do all God requires of you. One tiny grain can hinder the work of God.

Not your spirit, not my spirit, but only the love of God can bring anyone to the place of having a desire to be free from every grain of sand. The Holy Spirit cannot show you that you have a grain of sand unless you have much love. Without that love, you are not a good enough housekeeper of the inner man to notice one grain of sand—or if you do notice, you think it doesn’t matter. You excuse that little grain by deciding that everyone has at least one grain. You are a hindrance to Heaven like that, a hindrance to the divine plan of God.

God Wants to Use You in His Divine Plan

God has a divine plan, and it will take divine love, divine grace, divine faith like Jesus served to carry out the work God has ordained you to do. You may be obedient in part, but you will fail again and again at a crucial moment if the sand grain shows up. Someone almost ready to come to God will see that little grain of sand. They didn’t expect to see resentment in you; you had kept it hidden for a while. But when they saw it, they were disillusioned about Christianity as a whole, and they lost their desire to come to the Lord. One grain of sand won’t show up every day; it may not appear every month, but sooner or later it will be exposed.

Let this be a love season for you; keep Jesus paramount, ever before you. If you find yourself in a difficult situation, don’t fall out with another child of God. The Bible teaches to be patient in tribulation, for in your patience possess ye your souls (Luke 21:19). Learn to work with others in God’s love. The ability to live in one mind and one accord with God’s people comes only through the love of God, through being in one mind and one accord with Him.

Check whether you have gotten out all the sand. When you are rid of that last grain, God will use you in a beautiful way. You who do not have all the grains of sand out: The Lord can’t make the vessel He wants out of you at just the moment He needs you. The clay must be yielded to Him so He can mold you into any vessel He wants to be used to serve others.

Be Holy and Perfect in Love

Matthew 5:48, Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Be perfect in love. Every child of God can be perfect in divine love through divine blood, free of every grain of sand. If you are holy through the blood of Jesus, you can use the holy love of God.

You will either walk with God in love in perfection or you will not please Him. Enoch walked with God, pleased God. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God (Hebrews 11:5). Because Enoch pleased God, he was taken to Heaven alive. He accepted the fulness of God, accepted God’s love. Enoch did not have one grain of sand, and he lived many years before the Law was given.

If Enoch could walk with God in love in perfection before the Law was given, before grace came, we by all means should be able to walk in God’s love in perfection now that we have salvation and the baptism of the Holy Ghost so freely offered us. It is unnecessary for anyone to have even one grain of sand. That grain of sand is of the world, it is wrong for your life, wrong for your spirit. The hands of the Master cannot work with sand. The Lord is sensitive to one grain of sand, to one imperfection in the vessel.

If you think it impossible to be free of sand, to be holy, to be without spot, wrinkle, blemish or any such thing, you don’t have enough love of God to wipe it all out. First Peter 1:16, Be ye holy; for I am holy. For you to be really holy before God you must be rid of every grain of sand in your foundation. Even one grain causes an imperfection, a disobedience. Because you disobey, that grain of sand is there. God has furnished you what you need to get out every grain of sand; He won’t take it out for you. God seeks to bring us all into the knowledge and understanding of what hinders Him.

Why does a tiny grain matter so much? Just one tiny grain of sand in your eye causes much difficulty; the whole body shuts down. How much work will you do if you are suffering from sand in the eye? Like sand in the eye, one little particle, one little speck in the body of Christ can prevent God from using you to do His perfect will. No wonder the Lord told us to watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man (Luke 21:36).

The love of God has the loudest voice on planet Earth and in Heaven. However, one day His voice will change, and in the Tribulation Period the loudest voice will be the voice of judgment. But at that time the Bride will be in Heaven with her Lord, and she won’t hear the terrible voice of God’s judgment.

Those taken in the Rapture will be changed according to the power that worketh within them, the power of the Holy Ghost. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us (Ephesians 3:20).

Doing exceeding abundantly, the Lord will go far beyond what the Bride will ask or even think. How wonderful that we have this glorious promise! All can be saved and baptized in the Holy Ghost, all can be rid of every bit of sand. Jesus told the disciples, Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you (Acts 1:8). After you receive salvation, seek the power that the baptism in the Holy Ghost brings. It’s the power that you need to be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye when Jesus comes again. But if one grain of sand is in your foundation, God’s power will not work exceeding, abundantly, will not be able to change your body into the glorious body that Jesus will take with Him in the Rapture.

Free from the Flesh

Hebrews 10:7, Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. I have come to fulfill all your desires, oh Lord, my God. This is the Lamb of God Himself speaking these words. Jesus became very man, and as such could have had a few grains of sand, but He didn’t, and He is our example. Not one grain of sand…. He carried the grave responsibility, the terrible burden of flesh so that we could take on His divine mission.

Flesh is a great yoke, such a yoke that Jesus had to die to set the flesh free, giving us a way to avoid its lust and desires. He took on the weaknesses, the desires of the flesh, and conquered them all. He came to make it possible for us to live holy like He lived. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin (Hebrews 4:15).

Jesus not only conquered the frailties of the flesh, He went beyond and conquered death, hell and the grave. His love conquered all for us. That is the kind of love He gives you, conquering love.

The greatness in God’s love is the reason there will be no stopping the Bride as she works for her Master in this last and final hour; it is the reason there was no stopping the Early Church in those first few years. God went to great lengths to keep the Early Church sand-free.

When, in the form of a lie, sand showed up in Ananias and his wife, God moved at once to get that sand out of the Church before it could contaminate others. The Holy Ghost killed them, cut off their air when they each told the same lie. Acts 5:3-5, But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down, and gave up the ghost. Acts 5:7-9, And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much. Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. The drastic way God dealt with Ananias and his wife shows the desperation of God to keep His Church pure, and we once again have come to that hour of perfection.

We Must Have the Jesus Humility

Many ignore the fact that they need to humble themselves in God’s presence and to come under subjection to every wish of God, but the time has come to surrender all to Him. Thinking they are sand-free, some still give in to bad temper when things don’t go their way. Refusing to value a meek and humble spirit, they in their arrogance reveal sand in their foundation. Sand can show up at different and unexpected times.

There is no sand in true, divine humility. From the cradle to the Cross, Jesus lived in divine humility. Every day in Jesus’ ministry He proved His humility, showing it would work. He was flesh, but He set the example of holy living for us all. Jesus didn’t have to submit to the Cross, but He did. He didn’t have to endure the false judgments and false witnesses, but He did. He didn’t have to agonize in the Garden of Gethsemane, but He did. He suffered when He was crowned with thorns, a crown He could have refused. He had the power to call ten thousand angels to destroy everyone who came against Him, but He opened not His mouth. He could have commanded His tormentors to all fall over dead, and they would have fallen over dead; but instead, He showed divine love, divine humility.

If you are going to be like Jesus you must learn what Jesus—divinity—was like in human form. How much are you like Him? How easy are you to work with? Find out if you are using your humility or the Lord’s humility. The Lord’s humility will make you strong in persecutions; your humility in face of persecutions will make you weak, insecure.

Do those around you hear the grating of sand? People don’t need another sand-personality today; they need their road paved with love, God’s love. If you expect to show them the way to God’s reality, you must have His reality on the inside, have His divine love, divine grace, divine humility. How can you claim to have these things if you are not serving them? Don’t look at the lack in others, real or imagined; look to self, to what you need to be rid of in order to have all the sand out of the way. A stubborn spirit will not examine itself in the light of God’s divine Word; be rid of stubbornness.

The power of God cannot destroy that one grain of sand unless you want it out. Why? Because God gave you freedom of choice, and He will not withdraw that freedom until the final choice for either Heaven or hell is made. If you have one grain of sand, recognize it; even if you can’t identify it, you should at least know something is wrong. You know when you are physically ill, and you should know when you are spiritually ill, also. Are you grouchy? Yes? Then face up to the fact; it’s obvious to others. Excusing irritability by blaming it on your nerves simply means you need a miracle for your nervous system. The Lord didn’t say He would excuse you because you’re nervous; He said He is the Lord who healeth you. Do you think old age excuses a crabby spirit? The Lord promises that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s (Psalm 103:5). Are you afraid of the future? The Bible says that the just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17).

Get the sand out and think through faith, not imagination. Ask and you shall receive. Ask in faith; ask in love. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full (John 16:24). Think in faith; think in love; ponder the greatness of the Lord.

Magnify Christ

Paul lost everything of the world because of Christ, but it was a loss he never regretted. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ (Philippians 3:8).

Paul was rich in Christ, and he magnified Christ in his body. He said, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death (Philippians 1:20). To magnify is to make larger. In our bodies free of sand, we will magnify Christ to the millions. We are already winning multitudes to the Lord by magnifying Jesus.

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 (I Corinthians 6:19)? In holy human temples, through the power of the Holy Ghost who dwells within, people can see Jesus for the first time. That is the reason it is essential for witnesses to go with me on the crusades, essential that each witness is free from every grain of sand.

We must give our entire minds, everything into God’s hands so He can use all of us. Paul’s writings make Jesus look great to the body of Christ today; Paul magnified the Lord. Down through the years, everyone who accepted Paul’s writings rejoiced in the love that brought Christ to all.

Even as he faced death, Paul magnified the Lord in his body. 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: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing (II Timothy 4:6-8).

With no regrets, Paul went to his death knowing a crown awaited him in Glory, and he let us know a crown awaits everyone who will live godly and righteously in Christ Jesus. Paul knew his destiny. Elevated into the realm of the miraculous faith and love of God, he knew who and what he was just as Christ knew who and what He was.

The members of the bridal company will have the knowledge of who and what they are in Christ, that their destiny is to do the will of God. Everything else in their lives will be secondary. There will be no sand between them and their Savior as they live to do His will.

Come Forth as Gold

This is an examination of great love, an examination to make sure the clay is now ready—not ready to go to Heaven, but ready for more tribulation, more battles, more fastings. Tribulations can take your appetite, make you willing to fast. You who have been sleepy in prayer: You’ll wake up. The reason you can’t stay awake to pray is that you don’t feel the need. But when you know you are going into the lions’ den, you’ll pray.

Study Daniel’s life; every grain of sand was out, and his life rested in the hands of God. Evil men couldn’t stop him from praying, from living holy, from doing the right things. Daniel spoke the love language, magnified Lord God Almighty. Daniel was chosen to be a mighty prophet of God because his clay was ready; and because that clay was ready, he was chosen to go into the den of lions. Be ready to go into the lions’ den of persecution today—if it’s for the sake of Christ. Like Job of old, come to the place you can say when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold (Job 23:10).

Foremost in our spirits must be the desire: I want the Lord to use me anywhere and any time! Take the whole world, but give me Jesus—we may have said that in the past, but now we are going to do it. Divorcing ourselves completely from the world, we will be just like our Master.

Healing Hands

The hands of the Master helped make the first man and the first woman in Eden. Then thousands of years later, in human form now, those same hands touched eyes that had never seen and gave them vision. Today that divine power, that divine faith, that divine glory in His hands can change your hands from helpless hands of clay into hands with the strength of Heaven.

When I touch people for healing, it’s not my hands that bring the miracle; it’s the hands of the Master. I cannot heal, but God can. I have never healed anyone, but I have seen the Lord heal thousands and thousands. I believe in His mighty healing power, and it works. God has been gracious to me and has let me see His hand of light going right before mine. I have seen it many, many times. When people are slain under the Holy Spirit, the hand of the Spirit goes before my hand. It touches the person just about the time I touch. That light of the Holy Spirit is the reason so many are slain in the Spirit, the reason so many are healed. The light of God’s promises, the light of God’s faith, the light of God’s love brings His miracles to believers. The light of the Gospel brings salvation and healing for soul, mind and body.

This is a profoundly serious time. You will have to know your Jesus, know your Savior. You will have to know the power of God and be able to separate the power of the devil from the power of God, be able to separate the power of God from the spirit of man and be able to separate the spirit of man from the power of the devil. But if you have that grain of sand, you will not be able to separate all the spirits. You must be rid of the sand and totally yielded to the Lord.

Unbowed in the Fiery Furnace

The Lord needed three vessels for a fiery furnace. All the dross had to be out, all the sand. Doesn’t heat take out the dross? How much dross do you have? If you have dross the size of a grain of sand, it’s too much. In the fiery furnace with the three Hebrew boys, you would have burned up had you harbored just one grain of sand; you wouldn’t have magnified the Lord in your body.

Like the three Hebrew boys, the Bride will be able to stand the fire, she will be able to stand any test because she has placed her life in the hands of God. Not my will, but thine be done! is her cry. Any member of the bridal company is willing to live or to die for the cause of Christ.

When the Lord looked at the three Hebrew boys, He knew there was not one grain of sand in them. They proved it in their response to King Nebuchadnezzar. He told them that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands? Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up (Daniel 3:15-18). Inflated egos did not appear in the three Hebrew boys, did not pull them to the world; they were not enticed when the king offered to honor them with special music. Even though they hadn’t been told that Jesus would be in the furnace with them, they wouldn’t bow. In the midst of the fire the three Hebrew boys, vessels of pure gold for the Lord, were able to shout in victorious harmony with the Son of God. They were in one mind, one accord with Jesus.

The Bride isn’t going to be told that Jesus will be in the furnace with her; she will know He will be there without being told, for not one grain of sand will be between her and her Lord. She will know He will be with her in the lions’ den, in all her valleys. He will be with her at all times whether she sees Him with the physical eyes or not. It matters not; she knows He is there. She won’t feel alone because she will know He is always with her.

Come into the reality of the fact that you have nothing to fear, nothing to worry about. If the blood of Jesus has washed away all your sins, you are in the hands of your holy God; you have His divine favor. He promised to never leave you or forsake you. Don’t look at the storm raging all around; you have the foundation, Jesus. The devil cannot separate you from your foundation when you have no sand between you and Jesus. It’s impossible. The devil knows it’s impossible, but you must know it, too, and then you can walk unafraid.

Samson Flirted with Sin

The Old Testament is the schoolmaster, bringing us into grace. Without the Old, we can’t fully understand the New. That’s the reason it is essential to study the way God moved in the Old Testament days.

In the Old Testament we read of the great power God gave Samson. And he [Samson] found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith (Judges 15:15). That jawbone wasn’t much of a weapon, but it wasn’t the weapon that counted; it was the power of God.

The strength of Samson amazed his enemies. And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him. And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron (Judges 16:2,3). What magnified God was the great power Samson had, and his enemies searched for the secret of that power. Had Samson kept living holy, his enemies would have learned the secret of his power as judgment fell on them.

Some people will never learn the greatness, the might and power of God through love and faith, but sooner or later everyone will learn it: some through judgment and some through love. One way or another, everyone will come into the realization of the power of God.

What did it take for Samson to come back to God? It took the destruction of his physical eyes. He wouldn’t keep them holy, and the Lord let them be gouged out. What a price to pay to get rid of one grain of sand! That wasn’t all Samson had to go through. He was made to grind at the mill like an animal, to be mocked. Day after day he ground around and around, getting nowhere. Samson had rebelled against God, become stubborn, and it took all that grinding to get out the last grain of sand. The Philistines didn’t know it could be done, didn’t know that every time Samson went around, he was on his way back to be the clay that God could use. Each time he made that round he was getting closer to winning the victory, closer to destroying more enemies of God in his death than he had in his whole lifetime. What a victory it was going to be!

Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us. And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars. And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them. Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport. And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life (Judges 16:22-30).

The Lord had gathered the enemies together because the last grain of sand in Samson was finally gone from the clay. The Lord had made a vessel of power in a human body that could pull down the massive pillars of the temple. Man had never seen such power, such might. Never did man dream it could be done. That is the way many are today, thinking that God cannot do the amazing things He is doing and will do. They are arrogant, audacious toward God, feeling they are beyond His reach. They aren’t.

When the vessel is ready, God is ready. Willing to give his life for this one last victory, Samson magnified the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, giving his soul, body, hands. He gave all. When you give all, the Lord can win and do all His work through you, but not until you give all can it be done. Not until you get every grain of sand out of the way can the Lord do His perfect work. He can’t use His perfect love in you if you will not accept His love in perfection.

Blessed Are the Pure in Heart

The Sermon on the Mount that Jesus preached has everything in it to make the Church what the Lord wants it to be. Everything the Lord brought, all the love, all the faith, all the humility, all the grace, all the divine plan of God was included in it. The Sermon on the Mount covers everything you need to be. Never has there been a sermon preached like it before or since. In that sermon Jesus tells us blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God (Matthew 5:8). You can see God daily; you can see Him moving for you, answering prayer. You can see God in all your valleys, in your business, in everything you do. You can see God if you are pure in heart; but if there is one grain of sand, the heart is not pure to see all, to see the face of God, to see the face of His love, His grace and wisdom. His eyes of all understanding for you and for the whole world are marvelous to behold.

Live the Love Language

Speaking the love language is possible only if you live it, for if you don’t live it, you will speak something you think is the love language, but is not. Down through the years, many have thought they were speaking the love language, but they were hurting others, injuring them and hindering the work of God.

Don’t back away from God’s will, from His love language. Move in and use it. Don’t back away from His plan for you; don’t count your own life dear; count the life that lives on the inside of you dear, the life that gives you eternal life, Christ’s. Divine love in perfection, holiness, righteousness and truth are things that make up the Kingdom of God. Love is life, love answers our prayers, dries our tears. God’s big handkerchief is love, and He cares for you. No one has ever loved you like Jesus loves you; no one has ever cared like He cares. Open your heart to Him. Yield yourself to His will. Take on whatever you need from the Lord. If you know of one grain of sand, if you are having trouble with the flesh, with self-control, there is the fruit of the Spirit to help you. How marvelous it looks! It’s on the table. If you yield to the Lord it will forever be produced in your life as long as you walk in this house of clay.

Every grain of sand, every tiny particle between you and God must be gotten out of the way. The Lord cannot accept one grain of sand in the Bride in this final hour. He is bringing the Bride into perfection, working on the clay. The Bride will be without spot, wrinkle, blemish or any such thing; she will be holy. To be holy is to be pure. In the Song of Solomon the Groom is saying to the Bride: Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee (Song of Solomon 4:7).

Those who want to see Jesus will see Him in the Bride, and many will be swept into the Kingdom in this final hour. People won’t hear grumbling, complaining, tongue-lashing, back-biting in the Bride, nor will they find envy and strife. They will hear only one language: the love language.

Give your life completely into the hands of the Lord. Like Jesus, tell the Lord you have come to do His will, and that you want to be free from every grain of sand, no matter how small. I have come to do thy will is soul-talk, and it must come from inside, from the innermost part of you. If the inner man is right you don’t have to worry about the flesh; the flesh will be brought under subjection as each grain of sand is swept out. The inner man is stronger than all the flesh you carry. Through the love of God, the inner man gives you the determination, the compassion, the love, the faith—all that you need.

Never has there been a day in which the Lord is giving so much so freely. His table is filled with His abundance, and whether or not you partake from that table is up to you. All the promises in His Word are yours to claim. Accept them as priceless treasures, more valuable than anything else you possess in life. You can’t drink silver or gold, but you can drink in all the promises of the Lord when not one grain of sand stands between you and your God.

The Lord is saying to you: I have gathered you into my arms of love; I have gathered you into my heart in great, great care. I must use you daily. The hour is late, and my harvest must be brought in. My harvest means more in this hour than heaven itself, saith the Lord. The heart of God is set on a lost world, knowing a hell is waiting each one who doesn’t accept the blood of His Son Jesus. God will sweep the world with His Gospel, shake the heavens and earth one more time, and then the Rapture will take place. One more time He will move with His mighty power because of people who have gotten every grain of sand out of the way. Be one of those people; be the clay the Lord can use any time, any place, the clay without one grain of sand between you and the divine will of God. This is the final hour, and what you do you must do quickly.