Subject: Matthew 6: "When Union Comes" Part C

This Week's Events:
Dear friends,
 
I want to thank you for your love and prayer support over Nita and WFJM over the last several months. Just like our New York Gathering of the Eagles last December, through your intercessions, the Lord is strengthening and preparing Nita for the upcoming Washington DC, Gathering Of the Eagles in March. He has been speaking to her in order to prepare the way for us to go our Nation’s capital and intercede on behalf of our country. It is with great excitement that we head out in a couple weeks pray the heart of our Father on behalf of this country! If you haven’t signed up yet, there are only a few seats left so prayerfully consider joining us for this powerful GOE! The deadline for booking your room at the reduced rate is 2/22/2014.
 
Please continue to keep the ministry finances lifted up in your daily prayer time. The enemy often hits us in this area prior to a GOE so we appreciate your prayers on this issue. We do have two new ways for you to give to the ministry directly from this email! I’ve included links for both CedarWood and our General fund which helps to support the work of the Gatherings as well as the development of our Joel’s Army Prayer Cells around the globe. Many have asked if they can set up automatic monthly donations, this can be done through these links as well.  
 
 
 
 
Following is the next installment of Matthew 6: When Union Comes. Last week Nita shared with us the need for the Church to be ready. It takes prayer and worship into depths many of us are just reaching but we must seek out His Kingdom in this hour! This is a tumultuous time in our nation, and we must be ready to take our place when God calls us forth. How do we do this? Prayer and study of the Word. Seek His face – pursue His purpose in your life. Often we forget the necessity of prayer in our lives but it is only through time in prayer that we develop true relationship with our Lord. It is through this conversation with Him that we learn to hear His voice and understand His will for our lives. If we have not learned to hear His voice in the quiet times, how will we effectively hear Him when chaos erupts? Take time with Him every day so you can become sensitive to hearing His voice. He longs for this connection with you and spending time with Him is how that it is developed. Do not tarry, go, run to your prayer closet and seek His face, He will meet you there and begin to prepare your hearts for the days ahead!
 
 
Blessings in Him,
Ricci
 
 
 
MATTHEW 6:
WHEN UNION COMES
Part C
 
By
Nita Johnson
 
New Orleans Revival Services
 
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done. What did He say? “If they tell you, 'Go out into the desert to look,' don't go.” (Mt 24:26) Don't go because the kingdom is where? In you. Thy kingdom come—in you. The revelation of the kingdom must flow out of you. I have seen the kingdom. When the glory of the kingdom breaks forth on the earth, it is going to break forth from the sons of God—those who have come into union with Christ. It is going to break forth through their heart, from their bosom, into the earth. So great will be this breaking forth of light that it would be unbearable except by the grace of God. The kingdom is not going to come forth out in the desert, nor in the valley, nor in the city, but in the Church. It is going to come forth from the very bosom of the Church. The light of the glorious kingdom is going to break forth on the world like a new dawn from the bosom of those who have paid the price to go into union with Christ. We can ask Him to come to New Orleans and bring the greater revival. We can ask Him to come and let His Spirit of reformation pour forth on the city. However, revival, or even reformation, is but a foundational work. What He is really after is the release of the kingdom. He wants the kingdom to explode on the earth, and He wants it to explode through the heart of His completed ones.
 
If God has you in a fiery trial today, praise Him. Thank Him for it because you want the flesh to be cut away and gone. You want the chisel of the glory of God to cut away the flesh so that the light can break forth from your heart. You want it, and the trial is the only way to help you get what you want. So praise Him! That is not to say the trial is not difficult. Why would we call it a trial if it was so easy? It must be difficult, and we must quit fighting the trials. The trials must be so difficult that you cannot survive without pressing into God.
 
It is similar to the pressing of grapes. The grape is not completely pressed and fulfilling its highest purpose until it is squeezed out beyond measure; the skin can no longer contain the meat, and the meat is no longer solid, but has become wine. The trials and tribulations that come into your life are God’s gift. Paul said there would be tribulations, and that word tribulations speaks of a pressing until all that is inside is pressed out. It is a compressing of your very person until the glory is squeezed out like wine. 
 
We can and we must thank Him for the trials. The heavier and more dramatic the trials, the more you must force yourself to praise Him because they are a gift. The minute you say, “I’ve never hurt so bad,” well, praise God.  “I feel bruised and buffeted. I feel squeezed out,” and my favorite, “I don’t even know who I am anymore.” Praise God! If you have gone through this kind of trial where you are squeezed beyond measure, to the point where you cannot cope with your trial without pressing in, you are getting close. However, if you have never gone through these kinds of trials, you are far from the glory. If life is so peaceful, you need to start crying instead of praising God. Do not say, “Oh, I'm so glad I never have the kind of trials that Miss Nita has.” You do not want to do that, because you are missing out on what you need to have the glory. Trials are a gift.
 
Your kingdom come. One night, I was in my room, and the Lord opened up a funnel of revelation. He came down from heaven, and a glorious light came upon me. Coming through this funnel was revelation to help me understand human nature. It gave insight to help me understand my own soul, God's thinking, and to help me relate to what He does and why He does it. I understood what He has done in man and what sin has done in man. I could not write fast enough to record all that He was giving me. I would like to share just one nugget from that night.
 
The nature of sin lives in the soul of every man, woman, and child. By saying “the nature of sin,” I am not talking about the acts of sin, but the sinful nature. Sin entered in, and sin lives in the soul of every man. You were born in sin, as David said. A place that was designed to house God has been corrupted, and because of this corruption the soul lives in silent agony from day one. It is devoid of that for which it was created, namely the living God. The soul of man was not the only thing created to house God. You have the temple, the soul, and the spirit. If you are not born again, your spirit is still alive because you are a spiritual being. The spirit is still alive, and if you are not born again, your spirit is not filled with God, so it seeks a spiritual connection; it will automatically connect to the kingdom of the evil one. It has to. It has to connect to a spiritual kingdom. Every spirit and every soul does this. Since this is a kingdom of darkness and death, your spirit lives in death if you are not born again. It is filled with the darkness of the evil kingdom, and this filling gets darker and darker the older you get. Your soul is in this quiet anguish. You do not know that you are in anguish because you need God. It is quiet, but deep in the inner sanctums of your soul. Your soul feels it and is under its dominion in constant anguish.
 
Now, as a child, it creates within you an intense need to cling to love: your mother, your father, your sister, or your brothers. If you cannot relate to love and have love relate to you, then even greater damage is done to this area of the soul that was made for God but has been filled with corruption. As a young child, you are not totally corrupt; this corruption is something that increases over the years of a person’s life. The more it increases, the more anguish your soul enters into. If you cannot get a healthy love from a mother and a father, a sister or brother, friends, family, and so on and so forth, you start looking for other things to fill this area that is in this quiet anguish. You may look for money; this is how the love of money becomes intensified and becomes a veritable stronghold. You may look for inappropriate love from the same or opposite gender. You may look for material things. You may be someone who grows up to be a taker. You just want, want, want from people all the time because you are trying to fill this void. Some turn to drugs. Some turn to alcohol. There are probably fifty-nine ways that the soul turns to different elements in this lower plane to try to heal the anguish. What it really wants is to have God dwell where He wants to dwell. You want to have this part of you filled up with the love that can only come from God. When He comes in and dwells there, there is a security that is unlike anything you have ever known before. When He dwells where He is supposed to dwell, where He intended to dwell, He then clothes you with Himself, like a house. You feel locked away, shut off, and cut off from everything that is not like Him. You are no longer in active communication or communion with the spirit of the world. 
 
...to be continued next week...
 
In Him,
Nita Johnson

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