It is Time.

Last year the Lord gave me a vision. I was in a church building and on the stage was a statue. It was Jesus frozen in mid motion, like the statues in the movie the Lion Witch and the Wardrobe. Then I saw the congregation of people. The color in their faces were fading and their eyes were glazed over as they just stared off in to space. I could hear God say, this is what happens when people take a piece of me and create an idol out of it. Then behind the statue on stage was Jesus. He was waving His arms back and forth trying to get the peoples attention. Finally He yelled, sounding like a lion, ENOUGH! The statue crumbled, and the things that were covering the peoples eyes fell off. Everyone fell on their face because they realized what they had done and who they were now in front of.

We can't only have a piece of Him! God is loving and kind and gentle yes, but He is also just as much a judge and a consuming fire, the all powerful one. If you think you will skip by this part of Jesus because you are now saved you are sorely mistaking! You can't erase a peace of God.

There is a side of me that is caring and that loves to take care of kids, but I also can get very angry and not so nice. You can't pick and choose pieces of me, I am me and that is that. It is the same way with God.

We know of His love, we always hear how He is loving and kind and how He paid the price and all these things are 100% true, but he is also a judge, a king, the one who spoke something in to being out of His might and power. He is also a consuming fire and He is the one who will shake up and shake off anything that is dead.

PLEASE HEAR ME!!!

God is shaking things up. ARE YOU ASLEEP? If you are asleep this shaking will shake you off. Has reading your bible become a disciplinary duty that you do in order to check it off your list? How do you pray? Do you talk the entire time? Praying without words is sometimes more powerful and needed than praying with them. Have you fallen asleep?

Are you holding on to a piece of God that has now become an idol?

The book of John explains something interesting about the crucifixion. When Jesus was on the cross, the guards were going to rip his undergarments and divide them amongst themselves. They decided instead to cast lots to see who would receive it. You can not only have a piece of God or a piece of the Gospel. You need to have the whole thing.

Before God was able to reveal to me the part of His being that is a consuming holy fire and all powerful judge, He first had to reveal His love. It is out of His love that you see His consuming fire and powerful judge like qualities. I would be unable to understand His loving judgment  expressed in His consuming fire and earth rattling judgment until I first encountered and continue to encounter His love. I feel like we are beating a dead horse on this topic. All we hear about is His love, if you only know His love and haven't encountered it yet... may God have mercy on you and reveal it to you! I am all about love, in fact I have preached more messages on love than anything else, but I'm not here to talk about love to you know. No more warm fuzzes. I hope I rattle some cages because if I don't there is a shaking and rattling that is coming but instead of finding love and mercy you will find judgment.

Isaiah 57:11 Whom of you so dreaded and feared that you have been false to me, and neither have remembered me or pondered this in your hearts?
Pause, think about that for a min. Who has DREADED that you have been false with God? Have you even pondered it in your heart?
Continue, Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me?

Side note: there are 56 chapters leading up to this question, is it not because i have been long silent that you do not fear me? I don't think God was silent. I think He was yelling and trying to get there attention and it is the same here in this hour. God has been saying it over and over and over again, WAKE UP!!! NO MORE COMPLACENCY!!! The excuse I haven't heard you doesn't pardon the lack of fear that needs to reside in our hearts.

Now wait a min, we haven't been given the spirit of fear and we haven't been made slaves again to fear. How can you say we need fear in our hearts?

I'm glad you asked. :) Now listen to the answer. The Devil loves to create counterfeits! he perverts everything. The fear we are not to live by is this griping fear that will keep us back from God and doing the things we are meant to do. We are not given over to be slaves to this binding fear that ties our entire being down and pulls the focus on the object of ourselves. The fear I'm talking about is this kind that frees you. The kind that has your focus continually on Him and your heart in check with His. You're constantly aware of His greatness and power. You're quick to repent and line yourself back up with His love and holiness. When the fear of the lord is ruling your heart there is no room for complacency!

I'm constantly asking God, am I in the group of people you are rebuking? Is there any part of me that is not pleasing to you? Is there any part of me that would causes me to die in your presence?

Five years a go I was in a worship service with about 300 other believers of all denominations. It was so powerful and amazing. God's Spirit was in our midst and you could almost eat Him. I felt this thing rise up in my heart, almost like an anger. I said God, I'm not fooling you! You already see what is in my heart. I don't want to worship you. OH my goodness sakes! Did God ever show up. Instantly I felt His all powerful presence standing right  in front of me. I fell to my knees and begged God to spare my life. I felt as though I was going to die. He took a sward and touched my shoulders then said arise. I said uh hu. He said it again arise, your name is now Rose-Mary you will blossom in the sea of bitterness and heal in my name.

I encountered the Holiness of God and a holy fear in that moment and I have never been the same since. I have recently encountered something similar, it was as if the fear of the Lord was being refreshed in me. When you encounter the fear of the Lord, when you encounter His holiness it forever changes you! Something shifts inside of you.

The fear of the Lord is like water that causes the flower to bloom and flourish. I'm referring to the deep relationship with the Lord. The fear of the Lord causes your love to explode.

God is calling us back to Himself as a pure and white bride. To make sure the oil in our lamps are full. There is no more time to be dancing with sin. There is no time to be dancing with unforgivenes or shame or guilt. STOP trampling on the cross by dancing with sin, guilt, shame, condemnation and the like.

On November 15, 2012 I felt God say this: I want to reestablish hunger in my people. It is time to clean house.  In Hebrews it says without Holiness no one will see the Lord.

It is time to encounter His holiness; it is time to encounter the fear of the Lord. Just as it is different to know God's love and encounter it, so it is with the fear of the Lord.