The Spirit of the Lord is constantly speaking unity to the house of the Lord. He is saying, “Ye shall not walk divided. Ye shall no longer look upon thyself as an individual, but ye shall look upon thyself as part of a Body” (Ephesians 2:19–22). Ye shall prepare thy hearts to walk together.
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Romans 12:5.
Ye shall no longer arise and say, “This is my opinion,” but ye shall all speak the same thing. Ye shall all seek after the same thing. For the Lord shall lead thee together. For doth not the Word of the Lord say that they shall see eye to eye when the Lord bringeth again Zion?
Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion. Isaiah 52:8.
Yea, let thine heart be single that ye shall so walk in love one with another, and ye shall so walk before the Lord in the things that He hath prepared for thee to walk in (Ephesians 2:10).
Surely the Lord’s hand is upon every one of thee to bless thee. Shall He bless one and not bless thee all? “Behold, thou art raised up to walk together,” saith the Lord.
Let thine heart within thee burn with the revelation of His Word. Let His presence in thy midst be glorious unto thee that thou shalt know that the Lord thy God reigneth (Isaiah 52:7).
For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. Zechariah 2:5.
Christ the Lord is in thy midst, and He shall govern this house (Colossians 1:18). He shall lead it; it shall be a delightful house unto Him. He shall instruct it in all its labors. They who live in this house of God shall be quick to do the will of the Lord that they shall be given to the ministry of the saints, and that they shall be members one of another, by the grace of God (I Corinthians 6:15–16; Ephesians 4:25b).
Behold, this is love, that ye love one another. Not as the world loveth, but thou art to love even as Christ loveth thee (I John 4:10–12; John 15:12). Open thine heart for the Lord will fill thee; enlarge thine heart that thy capacity for love may increase.
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you. II Corinthians 6:11–13; 7:2–3.
So shall thy love reach out unto thy brother and to thy sister, and ye shall be blended together in one Spirit, in one Body, to do the will of the Lord.
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. Ephesians 4:2–4.
Yea, it is not the soul that walketh before the Lord alone that shall please Him in this hour, but it shall be the saints of the Most High God that shall walk arm in arm. Yea, they shall go shoulder to shoulder, they shall not break rank and they shall not thrust one another through (Joel 2:7–8). They shall see eye to eye; they shall be given to love one another with a pure heart. This is the will of the Lord that thou shouldst open thine heart unto this great truth that thy God would make real to thee.
Thou shalt open thine heart and thou shalt confess thy love unto the Lord, and thou shalt open thine heart and speak of thy love unto Him. For He hath loved thee and has shed abroad His love unto thine heart (Romans 5:5). Then shall the Lord also make thee one with one another, for thou shalt speak forth and minister love one to the other. So thou shalt know that the Lord maketh one through the love that He sheddeth abroad upon thine heart.
Thou canst not say that thou art one with thy brother if thou hast no love for him. Yea, thou art wicked in thine heart, and a slayer of thy brother and not a blesser, if thou hast enmity in thy heart against him.
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom He hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. I John 4:20–21.
Let the Lord search out the hearts of men and let there be only love one for another. Yea, look not and say, “Behold, one hath caused an offense against me.” Thou shalt not so say it, but rather thou shalt bear the wrong and thou shalt love him with thine whole heart. Thou shalt rather suffer the wrong at the hand of a brother and love him and turn not against him in thine heart.
Let thy heart be open unto the Lord thy God and love Him, for the Lord shall do thee good, and He shall bless thee. He shall rain His love upon thee; He shall make thee a house of blessing unto all that come unto thee.
How shall the unity of the Body come if it cometh not from thy God? What shall make this Body a unit of one, except it be the love of God as He doth pour out upon thee? The Lord saith, “For unity cometh through perfect love, and shall I not pour out My perfect love unto thee? Shall I not draw thee together as one? Shall I not unite thee in love in thy God alone? As I and the Father are one, shall not ye be one in Me and in each other?” Follow close after thy God and learn and seek of Him, for from Him doth come the perfect love that shall unite thee as one.
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. John 17:22–23.
Behold, the battle is great and the enemy that would divide thee is a subtle enemy. Behold how he shall come unto thee even as a minister of righteousness and shall even speak unto thee in order to entice thee to create a spirit of division within thine heart.
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. II Corinthians 11:14–15.
Blessed art thou if thou shalt hold fast together with one Spirit, and ye shall contend together in one Spirit for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints (Jude 3). For the battle is great; behold how the house of the Lord has been divided, but now the Lord shall cause the sheep that are scattered to return. Shall He not send His voice upon the hillsides where the sheep are scattered? Shall He not search them out where they have been made a prey? (Ezekiel 34:5–12.) He shall call them together as one. It is not the will of the Lord thy God that they should not hear His voice nor that they should wander on in their own way. This is the hour that thy God speaketh that they may hear Him and turn together in one Body.
Yea, the Lord shall cause the shepherds that have spoken a deceitful thing to be revealed. Yea, the innermost heart shall be revealed. Though they have come in sheep’s clothing, the Lord thy God shall expose their vicious nature and men shall see them for what they are.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matthew 7:15.
Yea, the Lord shall deliver them up to the carnality of their own hearts, and they shall be exposed before the sight of men. They shall not hide it any longer. Though they have hid themselves in cloaks of hypocrisy, yet they shall be stripped of their cloaks and the Lord shall reveal the viciousness of their nature. They have preyed upon the house of God; they have fed themselves, yet they have been clouds without water.
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots. Jude 12.
They have not nourished the flock, neither have they fed them; but they have taken them, and have not ministered to them in their need. Now the Lord shall raise up those that shall lead the flock of the Lord, and He shall deliver the sheep out of the hand of the false shepherd and shall deliver them into the hand of the true shepherd.
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord. And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the Lord. Jeremiah 23:1–4.
Thou must have faith for this. Everywhere, doth not the false shepherd build an armed camp to divide, to defend, and to hold captive the sheep according to his own will, and do his own pleasure? But the Lord shall deliver them from all that. He shall create a snare, and the shepherds shall stumble that feed not the flock of God.
For all over the land, is there not a hunger? (Amos 8:11.) Is there not a stirring within the hearts of the people? There is a stirring in the hearts of the people to turn their hearts unto the Lord.
It shall not be enough that thou shalt open thine heart unto a few things that thy God doeth. Thou shalt not just open thine heart to prophesying, to a little ministry of revelation, or the gifts of the Spirit; but thou shalt go even further. Yea, thou shalt open thine heart to the Word that God sendeth forth in the earth, that God’s people shall be made one. Thou shalt hear it and it shall be a thing unto thy heart to wonder at, for the mind cannot understand it nor reason it out. The Lord thy God saith that thou shalt embrace it in thine heart, that the Lord’s Body is one Body. There is one faith, there is one Lord, there is one baptism (Ephesians 4:4–6); and thou shalt come into this unity; thou shalt come into this oneness—with the Lord and with one another.
Thou shalt not forbear to go unto thy brother or thy sister because he beareth another label upon him, because it should antagonize the evil shepherds that hold them prey. For the Lord saith unto thee that thou shalt take opportunity that thy God giveth thee when He layeth the sheep before thee. Thou shalt set bread before them, according to the Word of the Lord. For the sheep search, and wilt thou withhold bread from them that hunger and from them that thirst? (Isaiah 58:7.) Yea, the Lord saith that thou shalt open thy heart, for the Lord shall lead thee.
He shall order the way for thy feet, and this shall be a day in which thou shalt set the sheep free. Thou shalt loose them; thou shalt speak a Word that shall be like seed planted in due season, and it shall spring forth and it shall bring harvest. For the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof (Psalm 24:1).
The people whom He hath redeemed unto Himself are bought by His precious blood (I Peter 1:18–19), and thou shalt be filled with love for thy God, and with a love for thy brothers and sisters. Thou shalt not be able to forbear declaring unto them the Word that shall set them free (Jeremiah 20:9).
The Lord would speak yet another Word unto thy heart and mind. These are days and this is the season in which the movings and the ways of the Lord dealing with this house are changing. For the Lord is changing the hour in which thou shalt come together just to be ministered unto thyself, for He has created this house a house of blessing. Those that come within thy midst are finding that fountains are opened up and food is set before them graciously in the Lord.
This is the will of the Lord, for this house shall be a testimony unto the land. It shall be a place that men shall seek out in the name of the Lord. For here shall a Word of the Lord be found, and here shall hearts be faithful to pray and seek after the will of the Lord, and to minister unto all that cometh unto thee. For has He not said that this house shall be a house of deliverance unto all people? He shall bring them from the east and the west, and from the north and the south, and here shall He lead and teach them by the word of wisdom, and by the word of knowledge. They shall be instructed and they shall enter into the things that thy God has prepared for them in this day.
Therefore open thine heart, for little hath the Lord required of thee. He hath not called thee to great sacrifices. Thou hast not been hungry; thou hast not shed blood. Behold, many of thee have labored but little for it, yet thy God hath rained upon thee great mercy and grace, and has required only one thing of thee: that thou shalt walk as one, that ye shall walk in love one for another (Ephesians 5:1–2), and that ye shall walk humbly before the Lord. No matter what thy God bringeth forth before thee in excellence of moving and great glory that covereth the house of the Lord, yet shalt thou be humble for all of this (Micah 6:8), and know assuredly that none of these things are by thine own zeal or the labor of thine own hands; but it is the Lord that is glorified.
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence. I Corinthians 1:27–29.
It is His Word that cometh forth unto the people to feed them. The Lord has required that ye shall love one another with a pure heart fervently (I Peter 1:22), and that ye shall be in humility before the Lord. So shall He make you a testimony in the land and He shall make thee a blessing, in the name of the Lord.
Ye are to be people of open hearts, for those that would come unto thee are not always those that were bidden to the feast, for many have heard the call and they have turned aside because their hearts were not right, and their spirits were not right within them. Nevertheless, the Lord saith unto thee, “I shall bring them from the highways and the byways, the lame, the halt, the blind, the maimed, and ye shall minister unto them for My house shall be full” (Luke 14:16–23). And these that have been invited, behold they were not worthy (verse 24); yet the Lord shall bring in thy midst those that are worthy, and in the name of the Lord thou shalt minister to their blindness. Thou shalt minister to the maimed that they shall see and walk before the face of the Lord. Thy God shall do great things in thy midst. When the poor and needy come and there is no help or deliverance, shall not the Lord thy God open up floods and fountains in Zion, that there shall be satisfying portions to him who hath a need.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim. Joel 2:32; 3:18.
The Lord would have thee to be a people of blessing and not of cursing (Ephesians 4:29–32). Yea, the Lord would have thee to speak only words which are a comfort and exhortation to the Body, that thy Word shall be full of life (I Corinthians 14:3, 12). The Lord hath anointed thee, and thou shalt speak words of life and of health unto thy brother and thy sister. The Lord shall cause people to draw nigh unto thee because of the love within thy heart for them. The Lord has given unto thee the anointing that thou should heal the brokenhearted, that thou shalt raise up them who are oppressed (Isaiah 61:1).
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Luke 4:18–19.
The Lord has put the Word of blessing in thee that thou should speak it out. Thou shalt bless thy brother and thou shalt find that he shall come unto thee, even as the Lord has said, “If I be lifted up, yea, I will draw all men unto Me” (John 12:32). Surely it is the Lord that speaketh to thee that men shall be drawn unto the Lord; and thou shalt see how the Christ within you has come to maturity, and thou art not a child any longer. You will find that your words have become as life, wisdom, and health to those who are oppressed. The Lord has not ordained that thou shouldst continue to be a weak house that shall be shaken when every wind bloweth, and when every flood cometh; but the Lord ordaineth that thou shalt speak the Words of the Lord.
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ. Ephesians 4:13–15.
From season to season, thou shalt behold how strongly the Lord thy God shall build His house. The Lord shall enable thee to enter into the battle (Ephesians 6:10–18). Behold, thine heart hath not been able to understand the need of men, neither hath thine eye seen those things which shall come to pass upon the earth; but yet the Lord shall make it real unto thee. Thy heart shall bleed for the slain; thy spirit within thee shall mourn for the slain of the daughters of Zion. Thou shalt understand how the Lord thy God bringeth a scourge unto Zion. He searcheth it out. The Lord thy God bringeth a Word unto Zion that He may separate it from those that shall not seek after the Lord, but turn aside unto their own way. So shall the Lord bring deliverance unto His people; He shall establish His truth. Believe the Words of the Lord and prepare thine heart to walk in them, for yet the Lord shall have a great testimony in Zion. Thou shalt be able to speak strong words that shall help many.
Know that this is the hour of searching; this is the hour when the Lord doth shake every man that heareth the Word of the Lord. When he heareth the Word of the Lord, then the Lord thy God shaketh his soul to see whether he will walk therein or not. So doth the Lord build a strong house; so doth He build a people that shall be set to do the will of the Lord, and they shall walk in it.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: for our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12:25–29.
Then shall the Lord reveal unto thee the fires that shall be rained from heaven, the plagues that shall visit the earth, and thou shalt understand how that the hour of judgment is reserved unto these times, and thou shalt know that these are the days that thou art walking in when these things shall be visited upon the earth (II Peter 3:3–13). The Lord shall give thee understanding that thou shalt be as messengers that shall seek out those that are ready to be slain and deliver them. For behold, the Word of the Lord hath come unto thee this night that thou art to be as a city of refuge to those that are under condemnation.
For the time is coming unto this house in which every elder shall be stirred, and he shall minister unto the flock. Those ministries who are appointed, who shall minister the Word and bring forth revelation of these times, shall separate themselves unto this work (Acts 13:2). More and more shall it be done. Behold, there shall be many ministries that shall stand together and shall labor side by side. None shall be jealous of his brother or desirous of vain glory (Galatians 5:26); but he shall desire to build the house of God strong by the grace of God that rests upon him, so that ye may all labor together. It is the work that the Lord would bring forth in this hour.
It is the Lord’s stirring of your hearts that each of you shall be ready to do that which the Lord should set before thee. Ye shall find that in the seasons that are ahead of thee the day shall unfold unto thee in a way that thine heart cannot understand or perceive. Thou art not to make plans ahead of time, but thou art to look unto the Lord day by day and to trust Him with all thine heart. For this shall be the house of prayer (Isaiah 56:7). Shall not the Lord guide it continually with His eye? (Psalm 32:8.) He shall uphold it, for He desires His house to be a house of prayer. He shall delight in thee as thou shalt give thyself to prayer.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Psalm 32:8.
And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. Isaiah 58:11.
So the Lord shall bless this house when ye shall minister unto the poor of the flock (James 2:5). Ye shall take all that come unto thee in refuge, and ye shall help them and minister unto them (Isaiah 58:7–10).
Yea, strengthen thy hands, ye ministers of the Lord; purify thy heart and thy garments, ye that minister between the porch and the altar, that bear the vessels of the Lord (Joel 2:17; Isaiah 52:11). Yea, be ye anointed that ye shall minister to the people of the Lord.
Ye shall stand in the sanctuary and minister unto the Lord thy God in thanksgiving and praise, offering up to Him the sacrifices most acceptable (Hebrews 13:15).
Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord. Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord. The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion. Psalm 134:1–3.
So shall ye turn and minister unto those that come seeking help and are needy; ye shall not turn any aside of those that come unto thee. Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God and thou shalt not cast any of them aside, for the Lord shall bless thee. Ye shall minister to them until the lame and the wounded are healed, and they shall stand upon their feet in the presence of the Lord.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. Isaiah 35:3–6.