TS GN 21: LOVING JESUS!--Part 1
DO/TS
7/95
--By Maria
1. Since Dad has gone Home to be with Jesus, he and the Lord have done so many wonderful things in my life. The most outstanding one has been having the Lord speak so much to Peter and me in prophecy. It has been so marvelous! It's just wonderful! I just can't get over the fact that the Lord, the God of the universe, answers the many questions that I bring before Him! He not only answers, but He expounds on the answers in a beautiful and eloquent way! In His great love for us, and knowing how happy it makes us, He even allows Dad to speak to us and continue to give us his wise counsel. There's no doubt that he's still with us, and I just love it!
2. Besides being awed at how abundantly the Lord is pouring out His Words, I'm tremendously thankful for it, as it has made my job of feeding the Family so much easier! The Lord has been pouring out to us in great volume, so I would be surprised if we could ever get it all out to you! Almost every day the Lord gives us something new, as Peter and I pray together and bring our questions before Him.
3. Sometimes we don't have questions, we just ask Him if He has something that He wants to say to us, and when we do, He always has something special to say! It's just so marvelous, I can hardly do the subject justice! I just love to hear from the Lord. Haven't you enjoyed reading what the Lord has been saying in all the prophecies we've been printing? Hasn't it been a help to you? It sure has to me!
4. While the CROs were together, the Lord spoke to them a great deal about spending time with Him, having more intimate fellowship with Him.--That if we are going to have His strength and power, then we are going to have to spend time with Him to get it! These points were covered in full in an earlier GN, so I won't go over them again here, but I want to include a portion of one of the prophecies which I believe shows that the Lord is looking for us to have more special closeness with Him:
5. "I am as a Lover who waits in the side room calling out to you, longing to spend time with you, and I am calling and calling and calling, and yet you do not hear! ... It is so sad, because the most important things, the most beautiful and wonderful and lasting things will be found with Me in this side room where I call you. If you would but enter into this room with Me, then these crises and these emergencies and these things which tumble about you and distract you and worry you and bring you down and make you tired and make you fret, would I take care of."
6. As Dad has said over and over throughout the Letters, and which the Lord is saying again in this prophecy, He wants us to spend time with Him, and if we do, He will reward us by giving us the answers we so desperately need to take care of all our problems.
7. Here's another recent example of the Lord saying the same thing: "Are you drinking from the Word? Are you daily partaking of My Spirit, delving into My Words and drinking and finding Me? Are you doing this? Are you living in the Spirit? Cry out to Me and I will bring these wonderful solutions! Cry out to Me and I will open the riches of My Spirit, the riches of My Word, and this world I will lay at your feet."
8. Oh how we need to make sure we are taking that time with Him to receive the power and strength we so desperately need to do the job of reaching the lost and teaching and shepherding the sheep the Lord has given us! We just can't do it properly without regular spiritual communion with Jesus. If you try, "You're going to get awfully tired and weary and upset and fearful and doubting and discouraged and worried and flurried and hurried, because you haven't been renewed in the temple of His Spirit with the voice of His Truth and the Heavenly vision, and because you haven't breathed that Heavenly air, and enjoyed that delightful fragrance!" (ML #191:12).
9. Ever since the beginning of the Family the Lord has been trying to hammer this point home, that "we cannot do the Master's work without the Master's power!" Recently, however, He has been emphasizing it much more strongly. He's been speaking to Peter and me about the need to pray more, praise more, listen more, spend more time with Him, to become more intimate and to abide more fully in Him. The wonderful thing about it is that He's not only telling us to do it, but He's also telling us how to do it!
10. There is a great deal that He's said on the subject of loving Jesus, drawing closer to Him through His Words, prayer, praise and intimate communion with Him. Much of it will be directly from the Lord Himself as I share with you what He has said to me. I believe you will greatly benefit from His Words, as I have, and that it will help you to "draw nigh unto Him" so that He can "draw nigh unto you" (Jam.4:8).
11. Almost everything the Lord is showing us about our need to be closer to Him has already been expressed throughout Dad's Letters, but it seems that the Lord is giving us some further insight, a new outlook, and is making us more desperate for it! Recently the Lord said that He is opening up some of the things Dad has said that we didn't fully understand before. He said, "I am pulling back the veil on My Word, on that which was written by My servant David, to give you a greater understanding and a fuller knowledge of what I meant. The time was not then but the time is now, for we enter into the dark days, the days coming, in which there shall be gross darkness upon the people and upon the Earth." Part of what He is opening up more to us is the new, closer, more intimate relationship He wants us to have with Him.
12. Throughout this GN I will make some references to the MO Letters, and will include quotes to show what Dad has written on the subject, but I will mostly focus on those things that the Lord has said more recently on the subject. This doesn't detract from all the counsel that Dad has given--it adds to it! But because you are fairly familiar with what Dad's said, and since the Lord has given some added information, it is important to focus on what He has recently said.
13. When asked by one of the Scribes what the most important commandment was, Jesus said, "The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment" (Mark 12:29-30). As Christians, loving the Lord fully with all that is within us should be our main goal and desire. He gave His life for us so that we could have life here and life eternally, and He's blessed us beyond measure! He's given us the truth, joy, peace and a reason for living, so of course we love Him and want to express that love to Him the way He wants us to!
14. If you love the Lord with all that is within you, it means, of course, that you will obey His will, and thus you will serve Him, you will witness His love to others, and do all the other things He says for us to do. In the following prophecy the Lord brings out how proud He is of the Family for our love for Him, which we have manifested in a tangible form through our witnessing and our living for Him, and how He wants to bless us more greatly than ever before by drawing us even closer to Him through intimate fellowship with Him.
Be Kissed with His Words in the Bed of Love!
15. (Prophecy:) As a bride learns the ways of love and the ways to please her husband, so must My children learn of the ways to please and to love Me. I am well pleased in their service, in their love for Me as they go forth day by day to love others with My Love. I am well pleased with their sacrifice, their labors of love. I am so proud of My children, that they will reach out and touch the unlovely and the uncomely; that they will go forth where no man dares to go, to bring My Love and light to the lost, to the lonely, to the broken, to the war-torn, to those that weep, to those that are in darkness. And, yea, they bring the great light of My Love and the warmth of My Spirit to the cold and dark places.
16. Oh, I am so proud of My children and I love them so dearly! In this they have shown Me great, great love. But now they too must learn that I desire them and their love in My bedchamber, that they too must take that time to come and lie down in My arms that I may caress and love them, that I may fill them, for they too need My seeds and My strength and My power.
17. For as the dark days ahead come upon the Earth as a strong storm, so must these at that time know how to communicate with Me, how to hear My voice. They must learn and know how to hear the whispers of My Spirit in their ears. The way for them to learn this is to spend time with Me in the bed of love listening to Me.
18. And they must let Me kiss them with My Words, even the Words of David. For within the Words is great power and great strength. For within them is My voice, and within them is My Love, and within them is My strength and My power. But they must take time to let Me love them through these Words, to let me strengthen them through these Words.
19. They must let Me whisper unto them Words for these days. They must hear from Me fresh day by day. They must learn to rejoice at My voice as they would rejoice at the voice of their lover, and they must take time for My caresses and My Love.
20. My little one, I am well pleased that you are seeking Me, that you are searching for ways to woo My Love, and that you are learning the deeper things of the Spirit that you may instruct and teach this, My Bride, the ways of love. And how can you learn these ways unless you, too, spend time with Me? (End of prophecy.)
21. (Mama:) What a commendation from the Lord! He's greatly pleased with our service and our witnessing. He also brings out, however, that along with that service He wants time with us in His bedchamber, time to love us, and us, Him. We've spent much time with others sharing His Love; now He wants us to spend more time with Him, showing Him love and receiving His Love. As the dark days come, we will need to have a much closer link with Him and be used to hearing from Him, not only from the written Word, but also from hearing from Him fresh every day through His voice speaking to our heart, and also His voice speaking in direct prophecy.
22. Although we have all had the Words of David for many years, the Lord is wanting us to take the Word more seriously and be even more attached to it, because of the power, love and strength contained in it.--Strength, love and power that we need now and in the future!
23. The Lord is stating two major principles in this prophecy: First, that we need to absorb the printed Word, the Words of David, which are the Lord's Words, new and old; and second, that we need to hear His Words for us, fresh instruction daily for our own particular situations, through listening to Him speak to us through prophecy, visions, verses, or His still small voice speaking to our heart. Accomplishing these two goals requires us to take time with Him, time which He describes as being in the bed of love with Him.
24. In this prophecy, He is telling us that we need this time with Him--not only so that He can show His Love to us through His loving Words, but so we can learn of the ways to please and to love Him. He states that He wants us in His bedchamber because He wants to fill us with His seeds, strength and power! Sounds sexy, doesn't it? Well, that's because it is! We're His Bride, and the thing the Bridegroom wants to do most with His Bride is to make love to her, and she should want to do the same with Him. He has stated here that we need to take this time, and in the following prophecy He tells us the benefits of doing so.
Take Time to Love Him, and Be Strengthened!
25. (Prophecy:) Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. For I call you out of the wings and into My bedchamber, that you may lay your head gently upon My bosom, that I may wrap My arms around you, that I may stroke you and whisper unto you. For by taking this time in rest and repose you are calmed, you are strengthened, your faith is renewed, your spirit is uplifted. For time in the bedchamber with Me is time in My temple, is time in My Love, and is time in My strength. You will be renewed and refreshed for the battles that you face. And when you come to these battles you will have a renewed strength, a renewed vigor, for you have had a time of rest in My arms.
26. So neglect Me not and fear not to take the time that is required. For I say unto you, seek first the Kingdom of God, the arms of your true Lover, and all of these other things will be added unto you, all the strength that you need, and the wisdom and the faith. For as you take time with Me I will answer you, I will guide you, I will speak to you, and I will give you strength that you know not of, that you will be able to perform My will with ease. For you will be fighting with My strength and My power and My anointing. So neglect Me not. Do you understand? Neglect Me not. For it is in the time and the love spent with Me that you will have that which you need.
27. Look not at what is not being done, but look at what is being done; that you are building up a reserve of strength, and of wisdom, and of love. And I will pour forth unto you all that you need to do the things that you must do. For now you must walk by faith and not by sight. As you seem to fall further and further behind, it becomes a test if you will still love Me and put Me first. And as you do this thing, your strength will grow, and your capacity for understanding, for wisdom, for receiving My answers, for knowing and understanding My direction will grow.
28. This will be a wellspring of new faith, of new strength, of new confidence in Me! For you will truly know what these words mean, that the battle is not yours, but Mine, saith the Lord. And not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit.
29. For as you set these things aside by faith, you are showing that you trust Me and that you trust the way that I am leading, and that you trust My Word; that if you will lie in the bed of love with Me, I will empower you with My seed and with My Spirit and with My anointing in a new and greater way.
30. So shed these things of Earth and set your affections upon things above! And as you let go of the things that you think you must do, I will pour forth unto you a new way and new things. I will speak and I will comfort. I will encourage and I will strengthen you. And you will find renewed faith in My ability and capacity to perform all that I have promised you. (End of prophecy.)
31. (Mama:) Isn't that just beautiful? Who wouldn't want to spend time in bed with the Lord, especially when He wants to give us so much through it! As His Bride, we should be jumping at the chance to spend time with Him, making love and fellowshipping, whispering words of love and talking and sharing our hearts. The Lord is in love with us, and wants to kiss us with His Words!
32. The Lord explained how, through loving Him, we will receive many blessings: We will be calmed and strengthened, we'll have an uplifted spirit and renewed faith, strength and vigor. He will guide us, speak to us, and we'll be able to perform His will more easily. We'll fight with His strength, power and anointing. He will also empower us with His seed, His Spirit and His anointing in a new and greater way.--All of this if we will spend time loving Him!
33. Knowing how much each of us has to do, the Lord wisely included that it will be a test for us to take this time, as we will seemingly fall behind in our work. But He promises that if we keep at it, our strength, our capacity for understanding, for wisdom, for receiving His answers, and for knowing and understanding His direction will grow!
34. When you consider what He said in the earlier prophecy, about how we need to be able to communicate with Him and to get His answers for the dark days ahead, then it becomes even more clear why we need to spend this time with Him and His Word. From all the Lord has been saying on the subject of listening to Him and getting His answers from His Word and from prophecy, it seems that He really means business! He wants us each to become better connected to Him, to have a deeper, fuller relationship with Him.
35. No matter who you are or what your job is, you undoubtedly have a full schedule and you're busy from morning till night, and it's probably difficult for you to find sufficient time to spend with the Lord. If so, you will have to desperately pray for the Lord to show you how to make this necessary time for Him. Maybe the answer is to discuss it as a Home and try to work it into the schedule, which the Lord will certainly bless, as He has promised.
36. So far, the Lord has told us that He definitely wants us to spend more time with Him and His Word, and He has told us about the blessings that are there for us if we will! Now in the next prophecy He wants to show us how this will enhance our witnessing, and how if we take in His Words and His Love, we will be more like Him, more full of Him and His Spirit. Again, notice how sexy the Lord is--how He likens spending time in communion with Him to sex with Him!
Suck the Seeds!
37. (Prophecy:) Do you feel the comfort and rest in My arms? Do you feel the rest that you find as I hold you, as you lay your head upon My breast after sweet lovemaking, and you feel at ease and at peace, and you feel filled with My Love and satisfied in Spirit? And thus with this strength and this peace and this calmness you can go about the duties of your day. For there is much noise outside the bedchamber. There is confusion there. There are many voices and many duties. But if you have spent time being filled with love and with peace before you enter your day, you will take this peace and this love with you, and you will be a bubble of peace and love in the sea of the confusion of the world.
38. They shall see you, and they shall come to you and say, "We can find peace and rest with you. We can feel in the Spirit your peace and your love, and we want to know how you can have such peace in the midst of our storm and in the midst of our confusion." And you can then tell them of Me, of your Lover Who gives you this peace and love, and will give it to them if they will know Me and love Me.
39. But if you go forth into your day without receiving My peace and love, then you are much more like them. You do not reflect this calmness of Spirit, and it is more difficult for them to see the difference between you and them. For as you spend time with Me receiving My seeds, and as they become part of you and we become one, then you become more like Me, and this is reflected upon you as you are out there in the sea of confusion, and this reflection is seen clearly.
40. Therefore spend that time with Me each day. Spend that time with Me before you face the cares and duties of this world. Just as you wrap your arms around your loved one to kiss and caress and speak of love in the morning, so you must wrap your arms around Me and we must kiss and caress. You must let Me whisper My Words into your ears, and you must drink My Words into your heart, and you must be filled and filled and filled with My Words! For as you eat them, they strengthen you! As you suck on them and suck them into your heart, so they become part of you. They become part of your being if you digest them. They become you, and you become Me, and we become one for all to see!
41. For when they looked upon Peter and James and John and saw that they were ignorant and unlearned men, they marveled, because they knew they had been with Me. It reflected upon them and we were one. So it is with you.
42. Suck My seeds, suck My seeds, suck My seeds! Swallow them and they become part of you. Eat them and they enter into you, and they strengthen you, and they become you, and you become Me, and we become one. And when they see you, they will see Me; and when they feel your love, they will feel My Love.
43. This will give you more power in your witness, for it will not just be words, but it will be deeds. They will not just hear My voice, but they will see Me, because you are so filled with Me. So do not neglect time with Me in the quietness of My bedchamber. Do not neglect our sweet lovemaking. And do not forget to suck the seeds, to absorb into your very being the seeds of My Word, the seeds of David, the seeds that I have implanted in My children. For the seeds of David are the seeds of My Word, and these are the most powerful seeds on Earth!
44. These seeds fill you, these seeds strengthen you, these seeds give you power, these seeds transform you, and these seeds give you new life, new love, and new anointing! For these seeds are Me, and these seeds are My Spirit, and as you suck these seeds, so you suck Me; and as you imbibe these seeds, so you imbibe Me; and as you become one with these seeds, so you become one with Me. I in you and you in Me, and we are made one. (End of prophecy.)
45. (Mama:) Isn't it just marvelous how the Lord makes things so clear? If we just take that time in the bed of love with Him, He will give us such peace that those we witness to will see it and it will make them hungry for the same. Also, as we fill ourselves more with Jesus, His Word, His Spirit and His Love, we will become one with Him, He will fill us and He will shine brightly through us.
46. Like Dad said in "Glamour or Glory": "You have to have the Holy Spirit, which people recognize as something great. ... But you have to remember it is not you, it's something divine, the Holy Spirit, so people recognize they're not seeing you, they're seeing the Lord. We're showing God to the world. They don't know what He's like. The only way they're going to know is by seeing God in you, and that's not you. If they only see you like they see in the churches, ugh! But if in seeing you they don't see you, they see the Lord, that's the difference" (ML #328:12,13).
47. So if you want to know how to have Jesus shine through you so others will see Him instead of you, the answer is, spend time with Him! Spend time in His Word, in prayer, in praise, in lovemaking with Jesus. Just get full of Jesus!--So full that He oozes out of you!--Through your eyes, through your mouth, and through your spirit. Be full to overflowing! Speak His Words, think His thoughts, give His Love! You're His--His Bride--so spend time with Him! Love Him and He will bless you beyond measure!
Let God's Motor of the Spirit Empower You!
48. One morning Peter and I were praying desperately for the Lord's help and strength. We were both feeling very weak in body and spirit, and so incapable of the big job the Lord has given us in shepherding you, our precious Family. After a period of desperate prayer, beseeching the Lord to help us, and to do the job through us in spite of our weaknesses, He spoke wonderfully, encouraging us that as we sought Him He would give us the answers that we need.
49. (Prophecy:) Do you see the strength of weakness? Do you see what this means?--That through your weakness My strength is made perfect? For when you have no strength of your own, and you are weak, and you are weary, and you are desperate and feel that you know not what to do, and have no wisdom of your own, or strength of your own, or ideas of your own, and you get desperate with Me and seek Me, I then pour forth My Spirit upon you. I give the answers that you seek, and the strength that you need, and the power that you desire, so you know that I do these things, and you take no credit to yourselves. You say not that your own arm has saved you, but that the arm of the Lord has been raised, and in the power of His might, all has been taken care of.
50. For this is the power and the strength of weakness, that you have no mind of your own, no thoughts of your own, no ideas of your own, no plans of your own, but that you seek Me and that you operate according to that which I show you. Oh, that My children everywhere would learn to stop, to look, to listen, to hear My voice, to seek My will, that they may know that which they should do day by day, hour by hour. For I will lead them and I will guide them if they will diligently seek Me, even as I lead and guide you as you cry out to Me for My answers and My direction.
51. And they shall hear a voice behind them saying, "This is the way, walk ye in it!" It may be the voice of My Word. It may be the voice of My Spirit. It may be the whispers of the helpers. It may be the burdens. It may be the voice of leadership. But they must listen and they must cry out and they must seek Me, that I may give them that which they need, and the power that they must have to accomplish My will and My purpose.
52. But when they move according to their own power and their own strength and their own plans, I can only use them at a minimum. They do accomplish good things, but they don't accomplish the best thing. But those that hear My voice, that follow Me closest, that let Me lead and guide, and who operate according to the plans that I give unto them, and they that seek Me, diligently crying out to Me, these are used to the maximum. For I can pour forth unto them all of My will, and they can accomplish all that I intend to bring forth. They can do it with effortless ease because it will be according to My plans.
53. So seek Me in weakness and in humility, knowing that you are nothing, that I may pour forth unto you My strength, My plan and My will; that you in your weakness can operate in My strength and thus accomplish that which is much greater than you could do in your own strength or in your own flesh. For your power is very, very small, but My power is very, very great!
54. Your little motor is very weak, but My grand motor has power that you know not of! And if you will let Me empower you with My motor, the power of My Spirit, you will have strength that you never dreamed possible, for you will operate in the strength and power of God, empowered by the motor of My Spirit, to take you to places you never imagined!
55. So let your weakness lead to My strength. Let your weakness lead to My power. Let your weakness lead to My anointing.
56. (Vision:) Accompanying this, there was a little picture of our motor, which was like one of those tiny battery-operated motors they have in toys. And next to it was God's motor, which was like a huge turbine engine about two stories tall. There is absolutely no comparison between the two! (End of prophecy.)
57. (Mama:) Again the Lord is bringing out the importance of our taking time with Him, crying out for His answers, listening to Him and applying what He shows us to do. He's making it quite clear that He's not only speaking to Peter and me about this, but that it's His Message for each one of you. He says He will show each of us what to do if we'll take the time to ask. If we will operate according to His plan He will use us to the maximum, getting the job done with effortless ease. What a promise!
58. He says if we stop, look and listen, we will get His answers, but that His answers can come from different sources--from the Word, prophecy, checks of the Spirit, burdens, and the voice of leadership. We can't just assume that He's always going to speak to us in only one way. He's not limited, He can give answers in so many ways, so be sure you're listening! He may speak to your heart, He may have someone give you a suggestion, He may show you to read a certain Letter which contains just what you need, or He may lead you to ask Him to speak to you directly through prophecy. So be listening, be sensitive to the Spirit. And as He said, don't be so full of your own plans, ideas or thoughts that you miss what He's trying to show you.
59. Isn't it wonderful how the Lord says that if we will listen to Him, we will operate according to His mighty power, instead of our own, that we'll be empowered by His motor of the Spirit?--And that as we do, we will clearly recognize that it is He that is doing the work, so we will give Him the credit. Praise the Lord!
60. Both Peter and I feel very incapable of doing the job the Lord has called us to do, as we're sure many of you do about the job the Lord has given you. But we've found that going to the Lord daily and crying out to Him for help, and seeking Him specifically for answers to specific questions has greatly lightened our load. He has given us wonderful answers, many of which we have shared or will be sharing with you shortly, D.V. However, the Lord isn't limited to speaking only to us. He wants to speak to you as well. He wants you to take the time to love Him, to commune with Him in prayer, praise and through His Word, to rest in His arms so that He can whisper to you, so He can love you and fill you!
61. Listen to these precious Words of Love which show just how the Lord sees the time we take in intimate fellowship with Him in the Word and prayer:
Our Love Draws His Words!
62. (Prophecy:) Behold, I come into you with My Words to love you, to ravish you, to squeeze and to hold and to kiss and to caress! Behold, as you call unto Me in the bed of love, crying out for Me, so I come in unto you, and so I love you, and so I caress you, and so I give unto you My Words. Your love draws My Words out of Me as your love draws the seeds out of the penis.
63. For I love you, My child, I love you! No good thing will I withhold from you, for My Love for you is so great. And your desire for Me is so great, and this pleases Me well. I want to love you with an everlasting love, with a love that you have never known. For I want to be one with you, in you every moment of the day.--To be with you, to speak with you, to love you, to guide you, to strengthen you, to whisper in your ears the Words of Love and direction that you seek. And I am here and I will be with you always, for My Love for you is so great.
64. I am well pleased with your love. I am well pleased with the desires of your heart, your desire to love Me and to woo Me and to win Me and to caress Me and to let Me love you, to let Me hold you and to let Me be in you. I am well pleased, and it thrills Me! (End of prophecy.)
65. (Mama:) What a Lover! How sexy! How wonderful! He says that as we love Him by communing with Him, it draws His Words out of Him. Wow! Again, He's likening the intimate relationship He wants us to have with Him to that of ardent lovers, whose lovemaking is wild and passionate! Isn't that neat? And He says it thrills Him! In other words, it excites Him! If we spend time loving Him, He will give us the Words, the answers, the guidance and direction we need. Lord help us to do it!
66. The Lord says that He wants to love us with a love that we have never before known! This implies that there is much more to come in our relationship with Him, that we can fall more deeply in love with Him, and that we can become one with Him in a way that we have not been previously. He wants to be in us every moment of the day--to be with us, to speak with us, to love us, to guide us, to strengthen us and to whisper His Words of Love in our ears!
67. Since the Lord has told us these things, Peter and I have tried to take time every morning in prayer and praise, loving the Lord, thanking Him and seeking Him for answers. It's been so inspiring to have such sweet time with Him each day. The following is a prayer I prayed one morning, and the Words the Lord spoke afterwards.
Morning Prayer and Praise!
68. (Mama prays:) We're absolutely nothing without You, Lord! We're handicapped. We can't even function at all without Your care. Jesus, help us! Give us Your wisdom in everything that we do. We need You, Lord. We don't want to make a move without You, not in anything, because we're so in need of You. We're Your children and we know that You'll take care of us because You love us.
69. Jesus, we love You! Thank You for showing Your Love for us by the wonderful answers You give us, Your bountiful supply, Your unending strength, Your continuing protection. Right now we come to You to talk to You, to tell You that we love You. You don't even have to talk to us, we've just come to tell You that we are nothing and that we love You, that we need You, we want You, we desire You, we praise You!
70. We confess our need before You, that without You we are nothing! We humble ourselves before You and admit that we are incapable of shepherding Your wonderful Family. We need You to show us how. We're desperate for Your help, Jesus!
71. We just woke up, so before doing anything else we want to spend time with You. We want to tell You that we love You and that we need You. We're thankful for You, that You take such good care of us. We are Your Bride and You are such a good Husband to us, You're such a good Friend to us and such a good Father to us. You're such a good Teacher. You're such a good Lover, You're such a good everything! We just can't live without You! We don't even want to try!
72. There are so many matters before us this day, things that we have to make decisions about, but we have no idea how to make the right decisions unless You show us. We don't want to have any of our own ideas. Strip us of our own ideas, Lord, our own thoughts, because we only want Yours--Your mind, Your Spirit, Your Words! We want You to dwell in us richly--Your Words, Your Spirit, Your voice.
73. Lord, all to You we surrender! We lie here before You and just say, "Help us! We need You! We love You! We want You!" We're nothing and You're everything! You are the Creator, we are the creation--created to love You, for Your pleasure. Help us to be pleasurable to You. Help us to love You with all of our heart, all of our soul, all of our mind, and all of our strength!--In Jesus' name.
Please the King!--And He Will Please You!
74. (Prophecy:) Oh, children, you do well to confess before Me your need, your nothingness and your nakedness, for how true it is! If you understood the power and the might of God, you would more greatly understand how nothing you are. And you would truly understand how great and how wise you could be if you were filled with Me, and the depths of the wisdom that you can have when you tap into Me, the Source of all wisdom and the Source of all knowledge and the Source of all power.--He that knoweth the future, He that is all-seeing, the All-Knowing!
75. Oh, the power and the strength that is there, that is waiting, just waiting! For, yea, I am Wisdom. I am Love. I am Strength. I am Knowledge. I am Power. All the things that you seek to do your job, I am. And as you come to Me for your empowerment and your love and your strength and your wisdom, and as you empty yourself of your own, so can I fill you with Me--My power, My wisdom, My strength, and My Love.
76. But this is only found in communion with Me--in the communion of praise, in the communion of prayer, in the communion of My Word. And this is only found in the quietness--in the quietness of spirit, in the quietness of self, in the quietness of prayer and praise and the seeking of Me and My Word.
77. You cannot receive the full power and the full love and the full wisdom that you need unless you take time in the quietness, seeking Me and praising Me. For there are so many things to be done, and they are always there, and it is a constant temptation to hurry, a temptation to push ahead, a temptation to accomplish. But I say unto you, in quietness and confidence shall your strength be. For it is in the quietness that you will hear the still small voice of God speaking to you, saying, "This is the way, walk ye in it."
78. Oh, the power and the might and the wisdom and the love that can be found there in the quietness, there in the peace. And, oh, how many neglect it! It does not take long. Oh, if you could see in the Spirit the riches that are given unto you in the quiet places, the quiet times, the quiet moments, in those moments when you seek Me and you lay down all else and say unto Me, "Come! Come! I am here for You!"
79. If you could see the jewels that I have and the strength that I can empower you with; if you could see tangibly, right there, the answers that I have for you, or the angels that I beckon to help you, or the wise men that I instruct to guide you, you would have greater understanding and you would not fail to stop, to look, and to listen!
80. But you do not see these things, and so often you simply see that there is so much to do, and feel, "We must labor, we must labor." But I say labor to enter into My rest. For as you enter into this labor, so do I send forth those who will labor for you and who will help you, who will guide you.
81. For it is at those times that I instruct those with the wisdom to guide you, and it is in those quiet moments when they can speak this wisdom unto you. So neglect not to come unto Me in quietness, and in doing so, receive all that I have for you. And, oh, I can make your job, your life and your ministry so much easier! I can give you that life that you need and desire, and I can give you the wisdom that you seek and the strength that you need. I can give you the power and might of the Spirit of God!
82. As Moses' face shone when he came down from the mountain from being in My presence, so will your face shine and your spirit shine and your soul shine, for it will shine with the presence of God! For it will be as if the shekinah glory is upon you, and you will shine and glow, and you will have peace, and you will have rest. You will have the answers, because those that I have instructed will be helping you, and My voice will be saying, "This is the way, walk ye in it." And then you can walk in peace and in confidence and in faith and in love--with no more worries or hurried and fretting feelings, but at ease.
83. Come! Come! Come, let us lie together! Let us hold one another and speak words of love one to another, and let Me whisper in your ears. Remember, I am a King, and when you please Me, I will please you, for I have many, yea, legions that I can instruct and say, "Go and do this! Go and take care of that! Give them this wisdom! Give them this anointing! Give them this love! Give them this strength!" And I do so willingly! But how much more can I do this when you please Me and when you come to Me and say, "This is My need." I can send forth many to help you as you seek Me in the quietness and in the solitude and in the communion of your love for Me. (End of prophecy.)
84. (Mama:) What precious Words of comfort, love and direction! Again, the message is to take time loving Jesus and He will give you all you need. He will give us the depths of wisdom because we will be tapped into the Source of wisdom, knowledge and power. He says that all the things that we need to do the job, He is! If that's the case, then we certainly should go to Him in prayer to seek the strength, power, wisdom and direction we need.
85. The Lord makes it very clear, though, that all of this is only found in fellowship and communion with Him, the communion of His Word and prayer. He says it doesn't take long, but that we are constantly tempted with the need to hurry, to push, to get things done! He says if we're going to labor, then we should labor to seek Him, and that if we do, He will make our job, ministry and life so much easier. I know it's true because that's what He's done for me!
86. Again in this prophecy He likens this fellowship with Him to lovemaking. However, this time He includes a slightly different aspect. He says, "Seek Me and ... lay down all else and say unto Me, `Come! Come! I am here for You.'" He's making the point that all of the time we spend with Him shouldn't be us receiving from Him, but that we should also be giving to Him.
87. Like any love relationship, there has to be an exchange of love, both the giving and receiving of love. The Lord says, "Come! Come! Come, let us lie together! Let us hold one another and speak words of love one to another, and let Me whisper in your ears." See, He's saying that you need to speak words of love to Him as well as hear His loving Words to you! So it would seem that the Lord wants us not only to receive His written Words, to read and study them, to drink them in, and His spoken Word through prophecy--both of which are His Words of Love to us--but that He expects us to tell Him of our love for Him as well!
88. This pleases Him, and as He says, He's a King, and if we please Him He will bestow His Love and favors upon us. Isn't that just beautiful? What a picture! It really makes sense, doesn't it, that He would want us to not only spend time with Him in the Word and listening to Him, but also in loving Him, praising Him, and telling Him how thankful we are for all He's done for us, how much we love Him and appreciate Him!
89. In this next prophecy the Lord again shows us that He is the One we need to constantly go to for our wisdom and strength. This was a personal prophecy for Peter and me, showing us how we need to depend on Him, because without Him we can't possibly do the job, but what He says to us applies very much to you as well!
Let Him Lead You to the Promised Land of His Love!
90. (Prophecy:) In quietness and confidence shall be your strength. It is in the quietness of your bedchamber away from the noise, and away from the multitudes, and away from the business where I will speak to you and give you that which you need to rule this, My great people, My chosen children.
91. For it is I that know their needs. It is I that see all things and know all things. It is I that see ahead to the future. It is I that have planned the destination and the route, for I know exactly where I want My children to go, and I know exactly the means by which they should get there. And you know nothing at all, for how can you know these things? You cannot see them. But I can reveal them to you. I can show them to you. I can lead you and guide you and direct you, if you will but listen.
92. Oh, the joy it brings Me when you wait to hear from Me and when you seek Me, and when you take this time together to stop to hear Me. For this is how I wish My children to be, that they would take time to stop and to hear from Me, to seek Me.
93. If you are willing to take this time with Me each day, seeking Me, crying out to Me for My guidance and My strength and for My wisdom, if you acknowledge that you are nothing and know nothing and need Me, so will I pour forth unto you all that you need. You must then just follow Me step by step. For I will show you this step and I will show you this place to go. I will lighten your path and make it plain and clear.
94. So follow faithfully by listening to Me, by seeking Me, by hearing My Word, by reading the Words of David, by praising Me and loving Me and by listening to the voice of My Spirit that I may help you, lead you and guide you. So will I inspire you and strengthen you and empower you!
95. For I know that you are but children and that you have not that great depth of understanding that My David had. But what you have is Me! What you have is the ability to seek Me and to hear My voice, to receive My Word, and thus you have the depth and the wisdom that you need.
96. For though you are weak, I am strong. For though you have no wisdom, I have given unto you wisdom through those that I have placed at your side to help guide you. For truly you are as children, but I am your Father and these are your counselors, and together we give you that which you need.
97. But never think that you can do this thing on your own or in your own strength and in your own wisdom. You have no strength and no wisdom, but you have Me and the things of My Spirit, and through this I will empower you. But you must hear from Me. You must seek Me. You must be strengthened by Me. You must seek My will, and you must move according to Me and My Spirit and My strength, that you may accomplish that which is My purpose. For without Me you can do nothing, but with Me you can lead this, My great people.
98. So hearken unto Me, seek Me, hear from Me, cry out unto Me and I will give you all that you need to direct and to guide My children into the Promised Land of My Love and of My Spirit and of My anointing!
99. Do you know the way to the Promised Land? Do you know what direction to lead? No, no! But I do! As you place your hand in Mine and as you hold on and follow, so can you lead My children in the path, and I will lead them on to this Land of the Spirit. (End of prophecy.)
100. (Mama:) One thing the Lord brings out very clearly, something that both Peter and I know for sure, is that we don't have the same depth of understanding that Dad had. But what we do have is Jesus, Who has promised to lead and guide us step by step if we seek Him daily, which we do. The Lord has even let Dad speak to us on numerous occasions.
101. I feel very desperate about shepherding the Family, as does Peter, and I am determined to cry out desperately for the Lord's guidance. Because like He said, I don't know the way to the Promised Land, but I do know the One that does!
102. Again in this prophecy the Lord speaks of the bedchamber and of spending time listening to His Word, His voice, reading the Words of David, as well as in praising and loving Him, which is something that He expects us all to do, as He has brought out previously!
103. This last prophecy I want to share with you is one the Lord gave when Peter was rather discouraged about the weight of the responsibility of the job the Lord had given him and with all the work that had stacked up, as well as the personal victories that he needed to win. Undoubtedly many of you also must feel that you already have so much to do, and now the Lord is asking even more of you--to spend time in the bedchamber with Him, loving and listening to Him. I believe this prophecy will help you, as it did Peter.
Look unto Him and Be Lightened!
104. (Prophecy:) When the Enemy comes in like a flood, My Spirit will lift up a standard against him! For he would fight you to defeat you, and thus defeat My purpose and My will in your life. But I am there as a strong wall to stand against his flood, and you must only step behind the wall, and thus be protected. For My Name is a strong tower; the righteous runneth into it and are saved!
105. When you look forward to all that is ahead--the work, the weight, the responsibility, the job, the many things that must be accomplished--you see that you cannot do these things in your own flesh or in your own strength. But if you will look unto Me and follow Me step by step, heeding My checks, listening to My voice, listening to the whispers, doing those things which I show you to do when I show you to do them, these things will be taken care of and all will go well. For you will not be carrying these in the arm of the flesh, but they will be floating in the arm of the Spirit as I will be carrying them for you.
106. And so it is with these, My children, who have so many things that they too must do, for they too are burdened and they too look forward and say, "Oh, there are so many things that must be done. How can I do them all?" But if they too will seek Me and hear from Me, if they will listen to My voice and follow My instruction, and do those things that I say unto them to do, they too will be able to operate with the arm of the Spirit, with My right arm carrying the load, and My left arm opening the doors and showing them the way.
107. For Satan would have each one look at the weight, the job, the burden, the load; but I would have you to look unto Me! As he that climbs a steep mountain and looks down freezes for fear, so is it when you look at the waves, the wind, the storm, the weights, the burdens, the responsibilities, the job, the faults, the failings, the incapabilities. He that looks up, focusing upon Me, looking always upward, upward toward the goal, upward toward My Heavens, upward into My face, he it is that has strength to carry onward and upward, ever moving upward, not fearing the heights, not fearing the weights, not fearing the depths.
108. So come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest, for I will carry the load. Listen not to the voice of he who would discourage you, or who would tell you of the weights, or tell you of your incapabilities, or tell you of your sins and faults and failings. Look unto Me, the Author and Finisher of your faith, for I am Love and I encourage you and I strengthen you. I look beyond these things, for I am He that went to the cross and paid the price that you could be free from these weights and burdens, that you could look unto Me and be lightened--lightened in load, lightened from sin, and enlightened with My Love, with My strength and with My power.
109. So look up. Look up to Me! Look ahead! Look forward! Do not look back, do not look down, do not look at the loads. Look unto Me, the Author and Finisher of your faith, and know that the burden is Mine, the weights are Mine, and I will carry them gladly! So let Me. Let Me by asking Me what you should do. Let Me by praying for My strength. Let Me by being led of Me. Let Me by having faith in Me. Let Me by trusting Me. Let Me by loving Me. (End of prophecy.)
110. (Mama prays:) Oh, Jesus, please help us all to let You! Help us to cry out to You so You can show us exactly what we are supposed to do! The loads are too heavy, we are incapable, we are weak, but we have You. Please help us to look upward into Your beautiful face, always trusting, always praying and praising and loving You! Help us to come to You, to tell You of our love for You, to constantly show our appreciation for You and to give You all the glory.
111. Help us to bring our specific questions to You, asking You for specific answers, so that we will know what to do--what You want us to do, not just what seems good to us. Help us to pray and to listen so that when we do take action on some matter, we can know we are operating according to Your plan, Your will, and not our own.
112. And, Jesus, when You show us what You want us to do, then please help us to do it! Give us the faith to carry through on it. Oh, Jesus, we need You so desperately, each of us! Please help us to draw nigh unto You so that You will draw nigh unto us. We want to be close to You! We want to enter the bedchamber with You! We want You to hold us in Your arms and to give us Your Word-kisses. We need You, Jesus! We love You and we ask You to help us to draw even closer to You! Help us to have a closer walk with You and a more loving relationship. Help us to be ever nearer to You! Amen.
113. Folks, I pray all these Love-words from the Lord will help you to better understand that Jesus wants you to be close to Him, to spend time with Him, to love Him more! Please make an effort to do so, because if we are going to get the job done that He's given us, then we are going to have to do it His way! And His way is by loving Him, listening to Him and doing those things that He shows us to do.
114. God bless you with good lovin'!--Lovin' with Jesus, lovin' His Word, lovin' His voice, and reaping the benefits of His Love!
LOVING JESUS!--Part 2
7/95
--By Maria
DO/TS
1. In the first Letter in this GN I shared with you a number of prophecies in which the Lord spoke of His desire for us to be closer to Him, more intimate, to have a deeper, more loving relationship with Him. He expressed His desire for us to feel toward Him the way He feels toward us! He loves us so deeply and wants to spend time with us, and He wants us to do the same with Him!
2. He said, "I am as a Lover who waits in the side room." "For I say unto you, seek first the Kingdom of God, the arms of your true Lover." "And you can then tell them of Me, of your Lover." It should not be surprising that the Lord would call Himself our Lover, as in the Word He calls the Church--us and all those who are joined to Him through Salvation--His Bride. And of course a bride and bridegroom--a husband and wife--should be lovers!
3. Dad taught us that "marriage is a type of the spiritual union of the believing Bride with Christ" (ML #332C:84). Also, that "God in His wisdom has created this sexual union, this husband and wife relationship, this lover and loved intercourse, to be a marvelous picture, an illustration in the physical of your spiritual relationship with Him and your union with your Heavenly Bridegroom!" (ML #1188:78).
4. Dad often referred to our relationship to the Lord as a bride, and a sexy one at that! "Are you the love-hungry, sex-hungry, intercourse-mad nymphomaniac new bride who never gets enough and who always wants more? `Give me more, more, more!' Are you the kind that never gets enough Letters, you never get enough seed, you're always crying for more and devouring it with everything you've got and always begging for more, and always producing new children, new disciples, always conceiving and bearing new fruit and spilling over into new areas with your increasing family, sending your children into new fields and gaining new territory, increasing the size of your domains by your burgeoning population?" (ML #1017:24).
5. You'll remember that the Lord also said, "They must learn to rejoice at My voice as they would rejoice at the voice of their lover!" (See "Loving Jesus!--Part 1.") Think about that. Just as we love to listen to someone that we're deeply in love with, He says we should rejoice at His voice, both in His written Word, as well as in all the other ways that He speaks to us, like in His still small voice, the burdens He gives us, Godly counsel, prophecy, etc. When you are with someone that you really love, don't you just love to talk with them, hear them, kiss and caress them? Don't you enjoy their company almost more than anything else? Well, the Lord is saying that's how we should be with Him!
6. Recently when taking walks with different folks in our Home, I asked them how they looked at their relationship with the Lord. What was Jesus to them? One of our men said that He was like a best friend, someone who completely understands him and to whom he can tell anything. One of our women said that He was a very close friend. Almost everyone I asked said about the same thing, that He was someone who was very close, a friend who is always there.
7. So I asked one of them, "Have you ever been in love before?" He said, "Oh yes! I was very much in love with my wife!" So I asked, "Did you ever have a very close and dear friend?" "Yes, I have," was his reply. So then I asked, "What was the difference in your relationship with your wife and that of your friend?" "Well," he replied, "I really liked my friend and I enjoyed his company, but I craved my wife's companionship and I longed to be with her all the time."
8. That's really something to think about, isn't it? Although Jesus doesn't mind being our friend, and in fact likes to be our friend, He wants to be more than that! He wants us to love Him with all our heart and all our soul and all our mind and all our strength!--With everything there is within us! If we love Him this way we won't just think of Him as a friend, but He'll be our lover as well. He wants us to crave Him, His Word, His voice, His Love. He wants us to feel a burning desire for Him, a desperate need to be with Him and to communicate with Him.
9. Once while speaking to Peter and me about our love for each other, the Lord told us: "Remember, the way you love one another, and the feelings you have for one another, and the desires to touch and to speak and to listen, are all just a manifestation of how you must be with Me. For it is an example of how I wish for My children to love Me and to lie in the bed of love with Me and to hear My Words and to feel My kisses and My caresses."
10. So as I said before, the Lord is looking for us to draw closer to Him, to be more intimate, more loving, to crave Him and all that He has for us. The following prophecy says it much better than I ever could.
Those Who Love Me Most, Show Me the Most Love!
11. (Prophecy:) I love your love! I love your kisses and your caresses! I love the sweet things that you whisper in My ear. I love your desire for Me. The more that you desire Me, the more I desire you. For as I have said, draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you. And as with a lover, when you say you want them, and you say you want to be with them, and you kiss them and caress them, and so they desire to be with you, to remain with you and become married unto you, so it is with Me.
12. For I love all My children; every one is dear and precious to Me. But I spend more time with those who want Me and who love Me and who create a vacuum which I can fill; who lie in the bed with Me and call for Me and woo Me. When you woo Me, I will come.
13. When you are stopping and calling, kissing and caressing, it creates a vacuum in the Spirit which I will fill. For as I hear your voice calling Me, saying, "Come, come. I want You! I need You! I love You!" so is My attention drawn to you. And so I come to you and love you and speak to you and hold you and caress you and fulfill your need. For as I said, ask and it shall be given unto you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you. So when you ask for Me to come, when you seek for Me, when you knock at My door and say, "Oh please, I want You," then I am there.
14. And think it not strange, for have I not said there are brides with oil and brides without? Those that are without do not come into the bedchamber. So knock, knock on the bedchamber door. Come, come into My room. Seek Me and you will find Me, ask Me and I will be there. For they that love Me most follow closest, and they who love Me most show Me the most love. And they that love Me shall have the most of Me.
15. For this is how I work. I am there for all, but they that call upon Me with their whole heart shall have Me, and they that seek Me early shall find Me; and they that shall call out to Me and call My Name shall have Me. (End of prophecy.)
16. (Mama:) If we want more of Jesus, then we need to give Him more of us! If we want His Love, then we must give Him ours! He wants us to show Him love by taking time with Him. He certainly is making that clear, isn't He? And if we do, it creates a vacuum that He will fill. He wants us to desire Him, and the more we do, the more He desires us! Imagine, the Lord really wants us to love Him richly, fully and deeply! That's how He loves us! Hallelujah!
Pour Forth the New Wine and I Will Give You More!
17. After a special time of prayer and crying out to the Lord, He spoke to us some very special Words that greatly encouraged us and stressed the importance of getting out this message to you:
18. (Prophecy:) I hear the whispers that you whisper in My ear, the whispers of love, and the tenderness of your hearts. I hear the love, and I smell the loving incense of your prayers unto Me, and behold, you make Me feel loved.
19. I do have more to show you, I have much more to show you. But first you must give out that which I have already poured forth unto you, in order to make the vacuum, that I may fill you with more. For I have filled your cups to overflowing, and now you must do your part to pour from your cups into the cups of others, the cups of My precious Family, for their cups are empty and outstretched.
20. They say to you, "Please come, come fill us with the water of the Word, with the juices of Love, with the refreshment that will refresh our souls! For you have freed us and made it easier for us, but we hold forth our cups for the Spirit of Love! These cups are our vacuum and we suck and we say, please fill us! Please show us, for we know there is more and we wait in anticipation. For there is an excitement in our hearts and a longing to know that which our God has shown you!"
21. I do have more and I will give you more abundantly, but I too understand that as I pour forth and pour forth and pour forth unto you, that it builds up more pressure upon you, the pressure of feeling that you need to get it out, and there is just so much. I will not pressure you, as I am teaching you not to pressure them. I have shown you much, so work to get it out, to feed the children and fill their cups! And they shall rejoice and they shall feel inspired and they shall feel loved. They shall drink it in and it shall quench their thirst!
22. For you must mix this love juice, this joy juice, to just the right potion, and as you pour it out, it will then fill their cups and quench their thirst. Fear not, I will lead you as you prepare. I will show you all that I have said unto you and I will make it easy for you, for it is My will that you pour forth this juice, the clear refreshing waters of My Word and the ecstasies of My Spirit mixed together, that you may quench their thirst and give them a new understanding.
23. And while they are assimilating this and being strengthened by it, taking it step by step, I will show you more so that you can feed them and show them the next step. For we are all on the trip together, and I keep you a little ahead of the flock so that you can lead them and guide them. But I would that you would have them close behind you, as a good shepherd does not venture out too far ahead of the sheep, lest they worry and be concerned. But I would have you just at the head, showing them the way step by step by step by step. I am just ahead of you showing you the path, and showing you the waters, and showing you the green fields, because we are all in it together.
24. Oh how I love it when you stop, when you praise Me, when you sing to Me! What true joy it brings Me! And it is even a greater joy to Me to know that you will be faithful to share these ecstasies and these secrets and these mysteries with My people, for they too will learn to love Me in a new and greater way, and it will bring Me great joy!
25. So feed the flock of God which is before you, and pour forth unto them this beautiful, nourishing, refreshing, golden elixir, that as they drink, it will fill them with My Love, with My strength and with My power! Give! Give, I say unto you! Pour forth, and I will pour forth unto you an even greater measure of My Love and of My understanding. Take the step of faith and give, and I will match you step for step.
26. And as you begin to give, I will begin to pour forth My blessings in a new and greater way, and you will know that it is because of your faithfulness, and because of your love, and because of your faith, and because of your humility that I have done this. For it does take humility to share the intimacies that you share with Me, with others. But your great humility will show your great love, and your great love will be multiplied in the hearts of many. And you will be held in great honor for your great humility, for before honor is humility.
27. And My children will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I have ordained you as a queen and as a king, as the Queen and King of My Love. This will be a proof to them that I have ordained you and I have anointed you, and that I have poured forth My Spirit upon you. For they shall taste of the waters, and they shall see that they are good. They shall be nourished and strengthened, and they shall say, "These are the Waters of Life! And these are they that pour forth this water unto us. We shall follow and we shall drink and we shall rejoice, for it is a new wine and it brings the joys and the ecstasies and the intoxication of the Spirit!"
28. So bottle the juice, bottle the wine, cork it, package it and ship it! And I shall send forth a new harvest, a new crop which shall even be sweeter and stronger and more potent, more intoxicating and more exciting! Your vats are full, therefore pour forth and empty them that I may fill you again and again!
Pour it! Pour the wine!
For it is fine.
It is yours and it is Mine!
(End of prophecy.)
29. (Mama:) Doesn't this sound exciting? It is! Praise the Lord! Peter and I and all of WS are doing all we can to bottle and ship what the Lord has given. Please pray for us, as it's a big job, since, as the Lord said, He is pouring it out abundantly!
30. I think it's so precious that the Lord said that our prayers, our tenderness and our whispers of love make Him feel loved. It makes me want to be sure to regularly tell the Lord that I love Him, and show Him by spending time with Him.
The Bridegroom Cometh!
31. One night after an extended period of singing praise songs and love songs to the Lord and crying out to Him, telling Him of our love for Him, He said some wonderful things to us!
32. (Prophecy:) Behold, I have heard your prayers, and I have seen your tears, and I will heal you. I have heard your songs of love, your words of love and endearment unto Me. I have heard your words of praise and of giving glory unto Me. I have heard you listening to and absorbing My Words and turning them into prayers unto Me. These have come before Me as incense, as beautiful smells that remind me of you and of your love and of your praise. It draws My heart near unto yours. For as I love to speak to you, so I love it when you together speak to Me. As you think it is precious when I speak to you, so I feel it is precious when you speak to Me!
33. Oh that My children everywhere would speak such words of love, such words of praise, and would sing unto Me such songs of love and of devotion, and would sing from their whole hearts, as you have done this night. And, lo, how I would empower them for their love! How I would greatly rejoice in the words of praise that they would say and sing unto Me. For, oh, how I wish to teach My children to seek Me desperately with their whole hearts, and to love Me wholly!
34. I am teaching you and I am showing you the rewards of giving yourself wholly unto Me. I am teaching and leading you to the ecstasies of the Spirit so that these can understand how I wish for them to be with Me. In doing so, they will give Me great pleasure, and I will give to them great gifts. For if they give, they shall receive. If they give Me the things that I wish, I will pour forth unto them the things that they wish. Give and it shall be given! Yea, I say, give unto Me and it shall be given unto you.
35. For does not the wife who gives praise and adoration and love to her husband receive of him good gifts and great love? So it is with Me. Why do I speak unto you so much and pour forth so much unto you? Because you speak unto Me in praise and in thanksgiving and in love and honor. You say to Me the things that are pleasing to My ears, and you send up such sweet perfume that it fills the Halls 'round about Me. I think well of you, and I pour forth unto you. And so do I wish for My halls to be filled with the praise and the adoration and the love and the songs of My children!
36. When I walked the Earth, My disciples said, "Lord, teach us how to pray." And I say unto you, teach your disciples how to pray. Teach them how to praise. Teach them to commune with Me, with the communion that I wish to have. The come-union, the love-union, the praise-union, the glory-union, the worship-union. The loving union of a man and a wife.
37. For I am teaching you. Slowly am I leading you step by step as this mystery unfolds, to teach My people the ways of Love, as a mother teaches a young virgin before her wedding night. And those that teach the virgin well, bring great joy to her bridegroom. So teach My virgins well, that you may bring great joy unto Me. Be not ashamed and be not afraid of what they will think, for I will work in their hearts and help them to understand. But you must teach them and speak the things that I have given unto you to show them. For they are young lovers and know not the ways of true love. But I have taught you these things, and you must be faithful to teach others, that they too can come to know Me in a new and special way.
38. This is a test for you, a test of your faith, and of your willingness to humble yourself in the sight of man that I may get the glory and the praise of these, My children. So be not afraid to tell of your great love for Me. Be not afraid to expose yourselves to them as you have exposed yourselves to Me.
39. Be not afraid to let them hear the words of love and the ecstasies of your love that you have poured forth unto Me! Yes, it will be humbling, but though it is humbling for the man and the woman to be naked one with another, it is soon forgotten in the ecstasies of lovemaking. So shall the humbling of the words and the exposure to all be soon forgotten when you rejoice that they are loving Me, and as they rejoice in their love with Me and in the fruits of that love. I look forward with great, great anticipation to a great lovemaking of My children! I know it is coming!
40. And as a bridegroom looks forward to the day of his marriage, so I look forward to the day when My children will call unto Me in a new way, and will cry out to Me in desire. And oh, I shall rejoice! And oh, I shall be glad! I will shout with great joy! I will burst forth with great love! And I will bestow My gifts upon My children for their great love for Me. For they will be giving and giving and giving unto Me, and I will be giving and giving and giving unto them. This is the beginning of a great new marriage, and My Bride shall rejoice in the ecstasies of My Love! They shall be exceeding glad at the fruits of My Love, and they will be grateful to you for your faith and your faithfulness, and for your great love for Me.
41. So do not hold back. Give unto them! Give unto them all that I have shown you, and in due season you shall reap a great and mighty harvest because of your faithfulness. For as you two have loved Me and have received the seeds of My Love, so shall it bring forth great fruit unto the children of David. For I say unto you, we are going to have a spiritual orgy! We are going to have an orgy of the Spirit and we are going to be loving and loving and loving, and fucking and fucking and fucking!
42. The world and the church are going to stand back in awe, and they are going to scoff and say, "The children haven't changed!" But I say unto you, the children have changed, because they are no longer children, they are brides! They are going to be experienced lovers, and they are going to revel in the ecstasies of My Love!
43. So come, let us love together! Let us revel together! For you are My Bride and I am your Husband, and the bed of our marriage is undefiled. And as the husband and the wife learn the ways of love together, and as they discover new and exciting things to do one to another, so shall we learn new ways to excite one another, and to pour forth to one another, and to show one another great love. Oh, what a marriage! Oh, what a loving! Oh, what a time we shall have together, My Bride and Me! And, oh, what love we shall have, and what love we will show the world together.
44. So prepare yourself, the Bridegroom cometh! Trim your lamps, yea, trim your lamps and be ready and waiting! We shall have a great feast and we shall have great love, and we shall have a great, great, great big orgy together! This is My call to all the young virgins: Come, come, come! Come unto Me. I want to marry you. I want you in the bed of My Love. Come, I say, come unto Me! Do not think, "Oh, there are so many," for you are all one. I love each of you, and I will ravish each of you, and I will ravish all of you! And we shall rejoice together in a great love one for another!
45. So I'm coming!--And it's coming!--And you'll be coming!--And we'll all be coming together! So come! Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest--rest in the bed of My Love. And through this rest and through this love there will be great strength and great fruit. For soon we will be naked together in the bed of love! So hear My call and heed My call. Be ready! (End of prophecy.)
46. (Mama:) What a beautiful, powerful and wonderful Message! Wow! How sexy! I can't get over how much the Lord is trying to show us the importance of loving Him. It's just amazing to see things as He sees them. God is anything but conservative! He's radical and He doesn't seem to care if people know He's wild and free!
47. Like Dad has said, the Lord is a sexy God! "If you can accommodate this new wine without asking why or trying to analyze its ingredients, God has such thrills and intoxication of the Spirit in store for you that you will be glad you drank it without question!--And you'll be whisked off into a world which you never dreamed existed, where you'll enjoy the very wonders of total intimacy with a sexy, naked God Himself in a wild orgy of the Spirit, as His totally surrendered Bride!" (ML #286:23).
48. See, it's nothing new--even the Lord talking about us having a spiritual orgy with Him--it's been there all the time! The Lord just wants us to put it into practice. He wants us to love Him, to desire to be with Him like we desire to be with a sexy lover. He loves us, and we love Him, so let's learn to love Him the way He wants to be loved!
Usage of the Word "Fuck"!
49. You undoubtedly noticed that the Lord used the word "fucking" in this prophecy. Some time back there was some question if we, as the Family, should be using this word or not. Dad used it on appropriate occasions, not as a derogatory "four-letter word" but as the natural synonym for sexual intercourse.
50. When Dad said "fuck," he never did it in a demeaning or dirty way. I can never remember Dad saying "fuck you" in an angry or swearing way. There were lots of times when he said, "I want to fuck you," but the way it was said was very sweet and loving, meaning that he wanted to make love with me. He just used it when referring to sexual intercourse. Of course, the System uses it plenty in a derogatory way, and some people use it in just about every sentence! Unfortunately, I've heard that some of our immature young people have been using it as a swear word, which just shows how polluted by the System even our own kids can sometimes get!
51. One of our leaders wrote quite some time ago asking if we should refrain from using this word, as he felt it seemed to be better to use the term "making love." At the time I basically agreed to suggesting that the Family not use the word "fuck," and wrote him and some of our other leaders letting them know this. We didn't make it official in a printed publication, but just informed the leadership of this suggestion.
52. However, in light of the Lord saying it Himself in this and some other yet to be published prophecies, I thought we had better pray further about this and ask Him about this matter. As you can see, when we bring matters before the Lord He will answer and show us what to do. Following is my prayer, along with His answer.
Mama's Prayer About Using "Fuck" in Our Terminology!
53. (Mama prays:) Jesus, we come before You to ask You about reinstituting the use of the word "fuck" in our pubs and vocabulary. This question is quite a dilemma, because Dad used the word "fuck" throughout the pubs in a very pure way; but the world uses it in exactly the opposite way, in a dirty, gutter, filthy way. Dad was an iconoclast, and his revolutionary, unconventional, untraditional ways, including his radical vocabulary, helped to drive a wedge between the Family and the System. He wanted to break us out of our churchy System ruts! He wanted to separate us from the world! He wanted to shock us and shock society!
54. Also, Dad figured, "Why can't we put our own pure connotation on words?" He felt he had as much right to make a word mean whatever he wanted it to mean as the System does! Why not? It's society that puts these bad connotations on words. Look at the word "gay" and how they've changed it so nobody can use it any more in its original, sweet, delightful meaning.
55. There must not be anything wrong with the word "fuck" in Your eyes, Lord, as You have even used it in some of the prophecies You've given us recently! But many of our young people have gotten very evil, corrupted, ungodly attitudes about sex from the world, which they have brought into the Family and incorporated into their own way of thinking, so now to them the word "fuck" is very tainted and perverted; to them it carries a carnal, dirty, lustful connotation.
56. Of course, we can understand how they can feel that way, because they've gotten that from movies and other contact with the System. Anybody that has much contact with the System at all knows the way they use the word "fuck," and you can get propagandized pretty quickly by that kind of negative worldly input. So it's no wonder, Lord, that most of our young people, and even many adults, don't use the word "fuck" and don't like it when other Family members use it.
57. If we reinstitute the usage of this word in our pubs and vocabularies without a good explanation and a cleansing of our people's minds, many Family members are not going to understand it or have the right attitude toward it. But if we just give in to the protests we've heard from various Family members and stop using it, then they'll conclude that we are admitting that the way Dad used it was wrong and impure and dirty, which is not the case!
58. To complicate matters even further, if we reinstitute the word "fuck" in the Family, in a widespread everyday use to equate it with having intercourse, some will inevitably use it outside of the Home. What we say, the terms we use, our speech habits, anything we do on a broad scale is eventually heard of by our friends and the general public; it's not as though we can keep such things to ourselves. If we start using "fuck" and putting it in the pubs, maybe our adults could try to use it discreetly and only within the privacy of our Homes when talking with other Family members, but it seems some of our younger people will likely not be so discerning in their use of it.
59. Society certainly will not understand our use of the word "fuck," which could hurt what we have tried to do with our friends and contacts to help them see that we are Christians, and that we love Jesus and that we have a standard of the Word and righteousness. Just the use of that one word alone is enough to give the impression to the System that you couldn't possibly be a Christian! Or if you could by some wild stretch of the imagination be a Christian, you certainly aren't a good one! The immediate impression they get when hearing you say "fuck" is that you are dirty, impure, unrighteous, unholy and ungodly!
60. What are we going to do, Lord, if we've been a good sample and witness to someone and then they hear us saying "fuck"? Even if we try to explain it, how are we going to explain it well enough to them so they'll understand, so they won't be stumbled, and so our good won't be evil spoken of? If we've ministered to people and they look to us as real Christians, as a sample to follow, and they're drawn to us as their link to the Lord and to the Words, but then all of a sudden they hear us using the word "fuck," that can't help but lower their opinion of us, because they can't fathom anything else! They don't understand how we could possibly use that term and still be Christians or still be Godly!
61. Lord, this is really a dilemma! We have some very good reasons for continuing to use the word "fuck." It's a very precise word, everyone knows it means intercourse. Whereas "making love" covers the whole range of sexual activity, sometimes including intercourse, but not always. Also, Dad used "fuck" throughout his Letters, so what business do we have to change it, unless You tell us specifically to change it. But if we are not going to change it and You want us to use it in the pubs and as part of our normal vocabulary, You will have to tell us how we can handle the results and pick up the pieces! It's not just the System that doesn't understand and that thinks we are being dirty and carnal and vulgar when we say "fuck," but it is our own young people too.
62. Lord, we ask You to please do something about this dilemma, and help us to understand and know what we are supposed to do! If we are to use the word "fuck," help us to know how we can deal with the repercussions and what explanations we're supposed to give people. Help us, Lord!
63. Thank You so much for giving us beautiful Words from You, so clearly and simply. We don't have to figure them out, we don't have to try to interpret them, they are so clear. And thank You for giving Peter a clear channel and a beautiful gift from You! Help him, Lord. We know it's a battle and the Enemy fights, but You are greater! Your power is so great it can overcome the Evil One, and You've promised, "greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1John 4:4). We claim a clear channel and every Word that You want to give us. Whatever You want to do about this matter, that's what we want. We have no will of our own, Lord. We don't know anything of ourselves, and we need You so much to show us the answers. We love You, Jesus, and thank You for caring for every detail.
To the Pure All Things Are Pure!--But Walk in Wisdom Towards Those Without!
64. (Prophecy:) To the pure all things are pure, but him that is filthy, let him be filthy still. The Words that I speak unto you are pure Words, golden Words, fitting Words, fulfilling Words! And if I use these words when speaking to you, then how can you say that these are filthy? For the Word of God is pure, and it is pure unto those that are pure. But those that are filthy, let them be filthy still! For do they not call all the goodness of God evil? Do they not call the freedom of God evil? Do they not call the freedoms that I have given to you evil? Do they not reject you for the freedoms that I have given to you? And do they not say that your actions are not of God, but are from Satan, and that you are deceived?
65. But do you stop the freedom of God because of the opinions of man? Do you cease from sharing My Love one with another because man says that this is not of God? For whom do you listen to?--The voice of man or the voice of God? The voice of man says, "This is the way. This is what you must say!" But I say unto you, look at man, look how they seek to change all things that are true and right. Look how they seek to change My Word and to make My Word of none effect. For they say that they seek correctness and purity of word so that it offends no one. But I say it is hypocrisy, it is a cover-up, it is deception!
66. For My Word is Truth! I speak truth. And My Word is clarity. When I called you to Me out of the life that you led before you knew Me, did this word have a holy meaning?--No, it did not, for you were not pure. But neither was My Name holy unto you. For some it was even a curse word. But when I brought you to Me, when I washed you by My Spirit and cleansed you through My Word, and when I instructed you with the Words of David, so did My Name become pure unto you.--And so did this word ("fuck") become pure unto you. So unto you who are pure, unto you who are holy, unto you who are called out from this world, so have I made these things pure unto you; and so have I given unto you My pure Words, My pure freedom, and My pure joy! And those that are without, let them be filthy still!
67. But walk in wisdom towards them that are without. Become all things to all men, that you may be winsome. When you speak to those that think they be pure, use words that they think to be pure; for they understand not the true purity of God, and because of this they think that which is truly pure is defiled. For they be as Pharisees who think they know the ways of God, but who only know the way of man--man's interpretation of the ways of God. For they have the law and the letter, but are without the Spirit.
68. Unto them, show yourselves wise and show yourselves loving, and be not offensive. But when they challenge you, as they challenged Me, speak then the truth, the whole truth, that they may hear, and that they may decide, and that they may be accountable.
69. For your children who have been sullied and dirtied in their minds and in their spirits, I say unto you, cleanse them with My Word. Read to them that which your David has said unto them--that love is pure, that the giving of love, the making of love, the making of babies is pure, a pure gift from a loving Father!
70. For did not your Father David teach you the ways of love, and the purity and holiness of sex? Did he not change your minds through the Words that he spoke? And will not these Words speak to your new generation and change their minds? Did not the Words of David cleanse you from the pollutants of the world, of all that which you grew up with? Did it not wash you clean? Did it not show you the truth and give you the wisdom and understanding of the ways of the Lord your God?
71. I say unto you, these Words are alive today!--And as they cleansed you, they will cleanse your young people, and they will cleanse future generations. For the Words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and Life! They are alive, they are pure, they work! They worked then, they work now, they work tomorrow, they work forever!
72. And as your children, your loved ones, have been polluted by the deception of Satan, and by the world about them, so I say unto you, cleanse them! Cleanse them with the pure waters of My Word, and fret not to speak unto them the truth, to give unto them that which I have given, that which is holy, that which is pure, that which is clean. Help them to understand by the reading of My Word and by your ensample of love, of purity, of holiness, of faithfulness, and of loyalty.
73. So study with them, that they may show themselves workmen that need not be ashamed, that they learn to rightly divide My Word of Truth! Lead them to My Words. Read with them My Words. Explain to them My Words. Help them to understand. For My Word is powerful! My Word is eternal! My Word is health and life unto you and unto your children. My Word is the antidote to the poison and the impurities of this world.
74. You cannot keep yourself from all the poisons and all the impurities. You cannot shut your eyes and shut your ears and take in nothing from this world, for this world is all about you, and you are in this world. But if you would not be of this world, then you must cleanse yourselves and purify yourselves with the antidote of My Word, that you shall become clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you.
75. Unto you young ones I say, heed My Words and listen unto them, and believe them, for Satan has desired to have you, to defeat you!--Not by a great flood, but by the little foxes that eat the vines. A little here, a little there; a little weakening; a little chipping away of the foundation here, a little chipping of the foundation there; a little disbelief here, a little doubt there; a little of your own wrong conclusions.
76. If you would have a strong foundation, you must read and believe and drink in and be cleansed by the Words of David. When you read them, think not, "Oh, I have read this before. Oh, I know what this says. I know all of the Words of David." For you know not what you say. For though you may have read the Words of David all your life, you must also believe them and put forth a believing will and put them into action and let them be your standard--not that which you see about you and that which you view or hear.
77. And I say this unto all: Let the Words of David, the Words of God, the Words of My mouth, the Words of My Book be your standard!--Not that which man says, not that which is politically correct but is a deception and a deceit and a lie, perpetrated by those who would destroy the Word and the works of God! For am I politically correct? Was David politically correct?--Or did he speak the Words of Truth as I spoke through him? Is the Bible politically correct? No, these things are an offense to man, but they nevertheless are the pure Words of God!
78. And to those of you who are pure, these Words are pure, they are life-giving waters! They cleanse your spirit! They nourish your soul! They strengthen your minds and your hearts, and they draw you nigh unto Me. But to this world they are a stench and an offense because they are strong Words, and they are true Words, and they are convicting Words, and they are precise Words, and this, My Word, cuts to the heart!
79. And these [of the world] would have nothing be strong and nothing be true and nothing be sharp, for they wish to have it all blended together in one great big mass of confusion where there is no right and there is no wrong, there is no up and there is no down; that no one is offended and no one is hurt, no one is convicted, and thus no one knows where lies truth, nor which direction they should go. Thus do they hate and thus do they speak against anyone who gives direction and who speaks the truth.
80. Become not as they who have no guidebook, who have no map. For I have given you clarity and direction and absolutes, and these things be of Me! So be not deceived! Be not taken in by those who would blur everything, for I have given you clarity of thought, clarity of direction, clarity of sight.
81. Though you may see so much through a glass darkly, these see not at all, and thus they lie in confusion and they seek to confuse. But I seek to clarify and to give you truth. So forsake not the Words nor the ways of David, for he spoke unto you truth, and he spoke unto you clarity, and he gave unto you absolutes. And I would that you would follow these--My Truth, My Words, My life--and that you would speak with clarity and with purity, using wisdom towards them that are without. (End of prophecy.)
82. (Mama:) Aren't the Lord's answers amazing? He always answers above and beyond what we even expect, and gives us so much more than we even asked for! Not only does He give us the answer, but He explains why things are the way they are. He also helps us to know how to apply the knowledge He gives us.
83. The Lord makes it clear that we are to use the word "fuck" purely, not derogatorily. Therefore, if any of you are using it as a swear word or in an unloving manner, then you are using it wrongly. He also says that when we are with those who think the word "fuck" is impure, that we shouldn't use it; that we are supposed to use wisdom and love in our interactions with others. So if it is going to stumble some outsider, then it shouldn't be used. But within our own Homes and in private conversation, it can be rightfully used.
84. What an expos of those who want everything to be politically correct! If you've wondered about "political correctness," here's what the Lord had to say about it!
85. Also, the Lord takes this as an opportunity to drive home the importance of cleansing ourselves with His Words to counteract the evil, polluting influences of the System! It doesn't matter how strong you think you are spiritually, if you take in the System's thoughts and words and pictures and attitudes, you are going to be contaminated by them. Not everything in the System is bad, of course, but the System is filled with many negative influences and you are bound to pick up some along the way.
86. The only thing which will keep you pure is to be cleansed by the Words! If you have more intake from the System than you have from the Word, you're bound to be weakened, no matter who you are! This is one of the laws of the spirit world: If you get more of the Devil's input than you get of God's input, then you become weakened. Even Peter, when he comes back from his missions in the System, asks for cleansing prayer, and makes the time to get refilled with strengthening Word to wash him clean from the System's thoughts and words and attitudes, which are so contrary to God's.
87. Folks, it is a spiritual battle! Sometimes we can't help taking in the poison of the world and getting dirtied, but we can prevent ourselves from staying that way and from being weakened by it. The Lord has provided the antidote, the remedy, the cure! He says, "Now ye are clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you" (John 15:3). So please make time for His Word, make time for loving fellowship with Him, and you will be strengthened by the renewing of your mind and spirit.
88. May God bless you and help you to spend good loving time with Him--time in His Word, praising Him, telling Him you love Him and letting Him fuck you with His Word!
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