5 aspects of marriage.
Lakah–Garden.
Segullah–Dance Floor.
Mikvah –Soaking Room.
Ketubah-terms of relationship.
Huppah–Bridal Chamber.
Matt 11:28 come to me and find rest for your soul gentle and humble in heart, identify and authority yielded to a higher purpose. This is a commitment to be yoked or betrothed to Jesus to only do what the Father is doing. Mikvah and Ketubah preparation.
Metamorphosis, transformation, transfiguration a process of change to bring spirit, soul and body into sonship. Different processes for tadpole and the butterfly one is water, and one is fire. Both processes are restricted. Tadpole can’t live outside of the pond and the caterpillar can’t live outside of the cocoon or chrysalis.
Isa 43:2 “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; …. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, nor will the flame burn you. We need embrace the water and the fire of transformation. Places of restriction where preparation and transformation take place.
When Jesus was 12, the age of responsibility, He was in the temple I must be about my father’s business. Jesus increases in wisdom with God and man in the restriction and preparation of apprenticeships in His earthly father’s business for 18 years.
Jesus could have been the greatest rabbi even at 12 but chose the restriction that enabled him to be unveiled as the son of man and son of God at the right time.
Esther 12 months of preparation before she could meet the king.
The Soaking Room is the place of preparation to be baptized in the river of life and the river of fire.
Dan 7:10 “A river of fire was flowing and coming out from before Him.
River of fire is God’s glory the intensity of His presence represented by fire.
Not a real fire but an intensity of light that produces a form of transforming heat. Infra-red light can cook and ultra-violet light tans -producing both heat and changes. It is a place of refining and purification to make us ready to engage God’s person face to face.
There are three things you need for fire: heat, oxygen and a fuel source. God’s glory presence is the heat. The wind of the Holy Spirit is the air (the more the wind blows, the hotter the fire). Winds of Change can be engaged. Now, who is willing to be a fuel source?
There is no other fuel for this fire but our souls. Fire changes the composition of a substance at a molecular level. This transforming process in our life needs the increased heat of God’s fire to change our heart.
Heating -temperature rises. Transition –softening of bonds. Degradation –bonds break. Decomposition -release of gases. Oxidation -combustion. Transformation -change of substance.
Heb12:29 for our God is a consuming fire. Fire transforms the molecular structure of substances. Example of burning wood -the outer structure gets very hot it releases gas and turns to charcoal. Wood is changed to a new substance.
Lev 9:24 Then fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
2 Chron7:1 Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
I feel the heat rising, the flames of my horizon, are at my door. I’m staring at the ruins, the embers of our brokenness, scattered on the floor. This fire never sleeps. His fire never sleeps.
I see that hope is coming, so pull me from the ashes, ignite my soul. Please, burn away the darkness because love is like a furnace. Where Your fire never sleeps. Burn oh my soul; set me on fire.
Something new is being born and we were born for this. Lord, we know a day is coming (it is here). When we’ll look into Your eyes and see a fire that never sleeps.
Are we willing to embrace the fire and allow God to apply heat to our lives in the crucible?
Crucible -the Cocoon of transformation.
Prov27:21 The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold,
Place of restriction where heat and pressure can be applied to bring transformation or alignment.
Mal 3:2 “But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. 3 He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord offerings in righteousness.
Purify -purge, cleanse, clear, free, unburden, deliver, relieve. To remove contaminants or undesirable elements, remove dirty or harmful substances from. To make ceremonially clean and pure. To free from guilt or moral or ceremonial blemish, defilement or imperfection.
Refine -: purify, clarify, clear, cleanse, strain, sift, filter, rarefy, distil, better, enhance, enrich, perfect, improve, concentrate. To free (as metal, sugar, or oil) from impurities or unwanted material. To improve (something) by making changes.
Refining with flame is one of the oldest methods of refining metals. In ancient times, this form of refining involved a craftsman sitting next to a hot fire with molten gold in a crucible being stirred and skimmed to remove the impurities or dross that rose to the top of the molten metal. With flames reaching temperatures in excess of 1000 degrees Celsius,
Are we willing to be refined and purified? Are we willing to be metamorphosed into a son of God? It will require heat!
Refiner’s fire operates on the crucible the more the wind of the Spirit blows, the hotter the fire burns. To enter glory we must go through the fire of transformation. We are being prepared so that we can engage Him in person in face-to-face innocence.
Purify my heart, let me be as gold and precious silver. Purify my heart, let me be as gold, pure gold. Purify my heart, let me be as gold and precious silver. Purify my heart, let me be as gold, pure gold.
Refiner’s fire, My heart’s one desire. Is to be… holy; Set apart for You, Lord. I choose to be… holy; Set apart for You, my Master, Ready to do Your will.
Are we willing to look into the fire in His eyes? Are we willing to embrace the fiery sword of judgement in His mouth to engage the fiery words that pass judgement upon the dross in our lives? Are we willing to be living sacrifices?
You provide the fire, and I will provide the sacrifice. Am I willing to embrace the altar? Fire awaits to provide the heat necessary to refine and purify our hearts. Am I willing to stay in the crucible to let the fire increase the temperature to allow the dross to rise to the surface and be removed?
Altar, crucible or furnace, it is all about the fire. These are places of engagement that we can proactively choose and experience by desire and choice. Heat comes through situations, circumstances & relationships that bring a realization of the issues so that things buried or covered up will come to the surface or into the light.
Dan 11:35 Some of those who have insight will fall, in order to refine, purge and make them pure until the end time;
Dan 12:9 He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time. 10 Many will be purged, purified and refined.
Zech13:9 “And I will bring the third part through the fire, refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are My people,’ And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
Refiners fire my heart’s one desire is to be like you Lord. Increasing levels of darkness and heat that will enable us to be ready to meet God face to face in the dark cloud. Everything is leading us to consummation so let’s embrace the purification so we will be ready to meet the king.
When we engage face to face, we will see that fire in his eyes? It is his love for his bride. The fire is an expression of His passionate love for us not a form of punishment. God disciplines those He Loves.
Metamorphosis, transformation, transfiguration is a process of change to bring spirit, soul and body into the wholeness and harmony of sonship. A complete change of form. Body, Soul, Spirit to Spirit, Soul, Body. Human being –spirit being –living being –godlike being.
Caterpillar’s body is dissolved. Heat -the body turns to mush. DNA caterpillar genes switched off. DNA encodes new genes to form a butterfly. Struggle from cocoon produces strength to overcome & fly.
Don’t try to help the butterfly out of the cocoon. Struggle enables flight. Encourage & support but don’t try remove the struggle. Don’t try to avoid the process. Pursue the process of change and transformation.
Butterfly can live in dual places on land and in the air. Transformation enables us to live in dual places of heaven and earth. The order and flow of our life changes. Body –Soul –Spirit outside in. Spirit –Soul –Body inside out.
It can be disorientating. Where am I? Who am I? What am I? Why am I? Cloud overshadows -Spirit is brooding. Pursue & embrace the transforming cloud & fire of God’s presence. Don’t run from the fire.
James 1:2 Consider it all joy.. When you encounter various trials
Pressure & Heat
Dark, restricted, hot, disorientated it might feel like you are falling apart. It takes heat & pressure to turn coal into diamonds. Our identity as a son is forged in the fires of adversity & challenge both natural and spiritual.
James 1:2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Act 14:22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, “Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.”
The marriage requires a Ketubah and the Ketubah requires a Mikvah. The process deepens and when we willingly engage the soaking room it also opens up corresponding heavenly realm experiences of places of fire.
Isa 6:4 And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke. Then I said, Woe is me, for I am ruined! In the fire of His presence there is nothing we can hide, nothing that is not revealed. In the presence of God’s fire, we see things for how they really are.
Isa 6:4-7 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. He touched my mouth with it and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is purged”
We need to surrender to our self-centeredness. It can be very difficult because we are at the center of all that goes on in our lives. Our focus and purpose changes so that we become an expression of sonship for God’s glory. We become led by the spirit, not driven by the soul.
Selfishness is putting myself first above everybody else. Jesus said, “I have not come to be served, but to serve”. That is a different attitude. I can seek to serve the Father as a son of God rather than be served. We are not servants but can choose to serve.
We need to surrender our self-importance, self-promotion, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, even self-belief. We can have no self-righteousness, self-help, self-expression. Anything that is derived from self is negative, and however hard we find that, we have to surrender.
Self-respect, self-esteem, self-worth. Self-respect comes from what I have done myself (I did it my way). Self-esteem, self-worth comes from what I can do in my own strength. It is following the humanistic DIY pathway of the knowledge of good and evil.
I want my esteem to come from how God sees me; from knowing who I am as a child of God. From knowing the love of God, from knowing the value He places upon me.
My worth comes from knowing that I am God’s child, that He loves me. My image is not how I view myself, but it is seeing myself as God sees me. If we could really see ourselves as God sees us, it would transform everything about our lives.
I can only truly be the me that God patterned in eternity if I am fully dead to the world as my independent source. There must be surrender to the altar if there is to be true resurrection life and dual realms living.
2 Cor 3:18. are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. Process of change to display glory –the manifest presence of God on earth as it is in heaven. We can choose to embrace, pursue the process of change or maturity or stay babies, toddlers or infants.
The judgment seat is where the consuming fire can purify wood hay and stubble of our life scroll. The altar of the temple where my DNA can be unraveled and purified. The river of fire flowing from the throne of the ancient of days.
God is going to look at the scroll of our lives and see how it matches up with our scroll of destiny, all the vast thoughts God had about us; all that was written about our lives (Ps 139:16-17). Do our lives match up with how God intended them to be? We need to be ready to face that question and receive that judgment.
1 Cor3:11-13 If we build with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, the quality of our work will be tested with fire. It is the quality that is tested, not the quantity. The scroll of our life is purified.
The transforming fire of God’s love will consume and burn up all those things that are not of Him, but will purify and affirm those things that are. Scroll of your life is compared to your scroll of destiny.
As the realms of heaven open .Be willing to engage the river of fire. Be willing to engage the altar in the temple for your DNA to be refined. Be willing to look into the fire in His eyes at the judgment seat. Be willing for your scroll to be opened and the wood hey and stubble to be purged with fire. Be willing for the river of fire to flow through your soul through your first love gate.