Pathway of relationship that leads to deeper intimacy with God .Focus is about conformation into the image of sonship through transformation .Purpose is to be manifested as sons of God living in dual realms fulfilling the creation mandate to restore all things.
Gen 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule…. Rom 8:21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Cleansing gateways is about removing blockages and obstacles to the flow of heaven, the river of life, through us. The 4 chambers of the heart is about engaging God for the transformation and conformity into the image of Jesus as mature sons of God.
5 aspects of marriage .Lakah – Garden .Segullah – Dance Floor .Micvah – 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 .Micvah and Ketubah preparation.
Rom 12:1 do not be conformed to this world – removing the programming that has come from outside in from nature, nurture or trauma is a key . Rom 8:29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
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
A large dark cloud appeared over the whole area where you are. This changed….into a Canopy which was stretched right over the WHOLE area where your center is. It had thick, strong ropes coming off of it which were securely rooted. The Canopy was Green, which speaks to me of LIFE!
These were my thoughts….. The Cloud (representing a Rain Cloud) hovering & brooding over your area is changing the atmosphere which will in turn become a Canopy. A Strong covering of God over the land which is yours will be a safe haven for many. A City of Refuge. At times this place will become ‘unknown’ to your enemies but ‘Known’ to all those that He will bring. Multiplication upon Multiplication….
Are we willing to embrace the Micvah to be transformed? Joseph was prepared in the pit, in slavery, in stewardship and in the prison of obscurity until the time is right when his dreams and destiny would be fulfilled.
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.
Matt 27:45 Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. Dark cloud covered the cross. Heb 12:2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
A convergence of time and eternity occurred in Jesus first coming and was consummated at the cross. We are in another convergence at the end of time. Eternity, present, future meet where what was transforms what is to enable what will be to be aligned with what was.
1 Cor 10:11 Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. 1 Cor 10:1 …our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
Moses embraced the burning bush. Moses engaged the fire and smoke in the cloud on the mountain. Moses engaged heaven on the sapphire pavement. Moses met God face to face and also engaged God back in eternity.
2-year season of becoming a maturing son of God through the discipline of the transformation process. I walked the pathways of relationship and responsibility daily they are now my lifestyle.
Daily cleansing and opening my gateways flowing from inside out. Daily presenting myself as a living sacrifice stripping everything away from the outside in. Daily surrendering, denying myself embracing the cross where I have been crucified with Christ under the cloud.
This process was not random. I now see it was my marriage process. It led me to the dark cloud the huppah of consummation. I became untethered from the earth and soul and spirit became separated and reintegrated.
Dual realms living became possible as spirit and soul became unified and connected in heaven and on earth. Expanding kingdom as a gateway of heaven into the earth became possible by being joined to the Lord and one spirit with Him.
Soaking Room is the place of preparation in the river of life and the river of fire. Soaking to immerse, submerge, submerse, dip. To baptize in water, spirit and fire. Baptized in 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 both produce 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 lives will need the increased heat of God’s fire to change our hearts.
Heating – temperature rises. Transition – softening of bonds. Degradation – bonds break. Decomposition – release of gases. Oxidation – combustion. Transformation – change of substance.
Heb 12:29 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 Chron 7:1 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. Prov 27:21 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.
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. Heat comes through situations, circumstances & relationships. 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, because it is still to come at the appointed 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.
Zech 13:9 “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.
He has fire in his eyes and a sword in his hand and he’s riding in a white horse all across this land. And he’s calling out to you and me “Will you ride with me? He has a crown on his hand. He’s leading the armies.
And he’s calling out to you and me. “Will you ride with me? We will stand up and fight” “We will ride with the armies of Heaven.” “Going to be dressed in white “.
You see that fire in his eyes? Is his love for his bride. And he is longing that you be with him riding by his side. And he’s calling out to you and me “Will you ride with me?
Metamorphosis, transformation, transfiguration a process of change to bring spirit soul and body into sonship. A complete change of form. Body Soul Spirit to Spirit Soul Body. Human being – spirit being – living being – godlike being.
Caterpillars 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.
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’s 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.
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 Micvah. The process deepens and when we willingly engage soaking room it also opens up corresponding heavenly realm experiences of places of fire.
The judgment seat where the consuming fire can purify wood hay and stubble of our 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.
2 Cor 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, 1 Cor 3:11-13 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 transforming fire of God will consume and burn up all those things that are not of Him but will purify and affirm those things that are.
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”
Luke 9:23 And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.24 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. I must be willing to follow Jesus’ example of self-sacrifice by embracing the fire.
Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Denying self and dying to self-rule. Everything of self must be surrendered, me myself and I have to die.
We need to die to 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 a channel for God’s glory not our own. 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 need to die to 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 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 and has a purpose for 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 death on the altar if there is to be true resurrection life and dual realms living.
1 Cor 6:17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Rom 8:29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son. This is what the soaking process is about. I am willing to embrace it to become conformed no matter the cost.
Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.
Close your eyes. Activate your imagination as the doorway to encounter. Begin to think about that door. Begin to picture the door.
Picture the door handle now reach out and open the door.
Begin to picture the glory and fire of God’s presence flow into your spirit. Engage the river of fire. The river of fire is flowing as God’s glory and presence starts to envelope you.
Engage the river of fire. Invite the river of fire to flow into your heart.
Embrace the crucible. Embrace the fire and soak in its refining and purifying power.
Let the heat cause the dross in your heart rise to the surface.
Let the fire of His glory purifying and refine your heart.
As the realms of heaven open. 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.