INSIGHT FOR INTERCESSORS
Kolyah
June 22, 2020
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“INTIMACY PROTECTS AGAINST ERROR”
Kolyah
In this hour, the Lord would say to us SHEMA!!!!! Shema in Hebrew means hear, but on a deeper level, it literally means “listen with the intention of obeying what you hear”. We must HEAR WHAT YHVH IS SAYING, so that we can understand a bit better what He is asking of us and what He is doing. Our obedience is vital, but we won’t honor Him with that obedience, unless we hear/discern His requests accurately, and then understand them from His perspective. There is so much deception and disinformation … even fake news … spinning around, that without the leading of the Lord on a minute by minute basis, we all could quickly be misled and fall into serious error. I believe that everyone reading this WANTS to obey the Lord. I trust that all of you want to HEAR what He is saying, as well as to understand it, through the interpretation and explanations of the Holy Spirit. YHVH very much wants us to avoid the end-time pitfalls that so many are tumbling into at this moment. Have you noticed how divided the Body of Messiah is right now … not just the institutional church, but the true Body of Messiah? Satan is pulling out the stops. He is creating as much chaos, fear, rage, distractions, and deceit as possible. Only the people, who desire truth, and who seek to walk in truth will be able to make their way through this bombardment. Satan is seeking to increase his following by snatching up those, who don’t value YHVH’s truth, but, who prefer their own truth, derived from emotions, from impressions, and from human intellect. All those things just seek to pull us away from the Lord of all Truth. Scripture has given us some clear warnings about these days and their challenges.
2 Thess. 2:9-10 (NASB)
9 The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and FALSE wonder, 10 and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
First, of all we must not refuse the LOVE of the Truth (truth with a capital T) … i.e. the LOVE, which is innate to the Truth, the LOVE central to the Truth … that love is Yeshua, Himself. It is also vital that we LOVE the truth that YHVH gives to us through Holy Spirit revelations and His written word. We are to value truth to such a degree that we recognize and reject all falsehood. But what about the church … that entity that is supposed to love the truth and love what He loves? Have you noticed how many of those, who identify themselves as Christians, are aligning themselves with anti-Biblical agendas, goals, personalities, and platforms? Have you seen how many are standing with the deceptions of Humanism, and of politically correct rebellion, set up against the standards and words of the Lord? Recently, I heard a believer say that we are all little versions of Yeshua … that we have the very same power and authority that He possesses, because He gave it to us. That is a grave error! It leads to pride and to spiritual danger. Yeshua gave us power to make disciples for His Kingdom. He gives us His power to USE so that we will be successful in our calling, and reflect His glory, truth, and power in the world. We are NOT mini Messiahs full of divine authority and power. We are humble children of the King, who are honored to be given His power to wield at His command, for His purposes, for His glory … in obedience to His call.
Matt 28:18-20
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
1 Peter 5:8-10
8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering. 10 And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ,will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you. 11 To Him be the power forever and ever. Amen.…
Acts 1:7-8
7 Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Our ALL-POWERFUL God wants to EMPOWER His faithful ones.
Mark 16:17
17And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison (suggesting that if anyone poisons you, or you accidently ingest something deadly), it will not harm them (as you are being obedient to fulfill His assignment). They will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.” NOTE: handling poisonous snakes and drinking poison as an act of faith to prove that the Lord will protect you is foolish and arrogant. If He didn’t ask for us to step into danger … and He didn’t arrange for/allow a threat to intercept us, it is prideful presumption to set one up to test Him.
The Lord loves to demonstrate His power through us, so that the testimony of His reality and His love comes shining through us. The meaning and success of our lives must be about HIM, and not about us. To walk in that proper order, we need to really knowHis heart, by spending time with Him; hearing and experiencing that heart. The less time that we spend with Him … because we are too busy, or too satisfied with living our own lives (to the point that we neglect the gift of having an intimate relationship with Him) … the more likely it will be that we can be deceived and fall into error. The more time we spend watching NBC, CBS, FOX, BBC, Sky News or CNN in order to know what’s going on … to show us the course that we need to take … or to discover the opinion that we need to form and project … the less likely it is that we will be on the right track with what YHVH is doing and requesting of us. Perhaps the saddest thing about the church walking in carnality, rather than being a Body living in intimacy with YHVH, is that the truth of the Lord becomes skewed, absent, or lacking. Where the Divine power is not being demonstrated, too often the false power is manifesting. Those without discernment, are easily sucked into the ruse, and thus get off track regarding the Kingdom truth and life.
When we spend focused, intimate, time with the Lord in His presence … seeking His face … worshipping Him in spirit and in truth … amazing things happen! We have those moments when we just soak in His love. When our time spent with Him is a conversation … when we share our hearts and questions, and then listen for His … we truly become aware of His greatness as well as His holiness. We are in awe of Him … totally in awe. Because of that awareness of His manifold greatness, while being so aware of His deep love for us, we WANT to be free of error. Why? We want to honor and serve Him, because of WHO HE IS … not just seek Him for what He can do for us. We are far less likely to take Him for granted, when we stand in awe of Him as the result of being so close to Him. Can you imagine the heartbreak of hearing these words from the Lord? “You claim to know Me, but your heart is far from Me.”
Isaiah 29:13 reads:
13 Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men. (Rules taught by men can be ritual, dogma, rote tradition, etc.)
Can you imagine the heartbreak for the Lord, when we, in our arrogance, claim to know Him, and what He approves, based upon our own presumption and assumptions! What impertinence to declare His heart on a matter, when we don’t really know it! How painful it must be for the Lord to watch church committees and denominational boards declare the policies that supposedly have YHVH’s stamp of approval, but which do not. In fact the align with the Enemy’s camp and approval.
Matt 22:29
29 Jesus replied, “You are mistaken (are in error) because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
2 Peter 2:18-19
18 With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error. 19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him
1 John 4:5-6
…5 They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
We must speak from the Lord’s perspective, never from our own or from others. When you were a child, did your parents ever stop you from talking by saying: “Just be quiet for a minute and listen to me! I will explain.” I truly believe that much of the time, as the Lord listens to doctrinal debates, and to lofty interpretations of scripture, He would like to say,
“Just be silent for a while and listen to what I would say to you about these things.”
I love what the prophet Isaiah wrote about those, who would speak wisdom to the Lord.
Isaiah 40:13-14
13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or as His counselor has informed Him?
14 With whom did He consult and who gave Him understanding?
And who taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge,
and informed Him of the way of understanding?
Vs 25:
25 “To whom then will you liken Me
That I would be his equal?” says the Holy One.
Vs. 28:
28 Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth
Does not become weary or tired.
His understanding is inscrutable.
Know Me! … Attend Me! … Sit with Me! This is what the Lord would say to us.
Isaiah 51:4
4 Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.
I suspect that human beings feel comfortable making lofty statements about what the Lord would approve as justice, and righteousness … even declaring definitively what He is doing … because they lack a holy FEAR of Him. That FEAR of the Lord comes from knowing Him … from witnessing and recognizing the movement of His hand … from sitting in His presence and being pressed into a holy hush; being consumes in total awe of Him. If we don’t invest the time to becoming intimate with the Lord, we won’t desire Him in the way He deserves. If we are so casual and so confident in His approval of what we think, believe, and do, we can quickly fall into arrogant error. If we think of the Lord as an all loving “chum”, who is much like us, we can quickly become blind to His total HOLINESS and awesome power. We enter into His courts saying “HOLY< HOLY< HOLY!” Why? Because that is the reality that consumes us, along with deeper revelations of His love, when we approach Him in spirit and in truth. When we spend time with Him, we come to understand what He really desires and requires from us, because He clearly tells us.
Micah 6:8:
8 He has shown you, O mankind, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Note: The justice, mercy, and humble walk mentioned in that text are based upon His word, His heart, and His standards; not upon our human thinking and what seems right and comfortable to the flesh.
And just think of how many times we speak correction or criticism to others, as if our words and perspectives are the Lord’s, when our own soul is actually behind them. An agonizing example of that error can be seen in the book of Job, in the 22ndchapter, when Eliphaz is heard chiding, correcting, and admonishing Job … suggesting that it is his sin, that has brought Job to such a low place.
Job 22:5
5“Is not your wickedness great,
And your iniquities without end?
Vs 21-23
21“Yield now and be at peace with Him;
Thereby good will come to you.
22“Please receive instruction from His mouth
And establish His words in your heart.
23“If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored;
If you remove unrighteousness far from your tent,
Vs. 27-28
27“You will pray to Him, and He will hear you;
And you will pay your vows.
28“You will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you;
And light will shine on your ways.
Eliphaz presumes to judge Job as being sinful and therefore stripped by the Lord. He presumes to school Job on the mind and methods of YHVH, but he is totally without understanding about the Lord, and about what is happening to Job. He states that IF Job is righteous, he will be able to decree something and it will appear. He is in error! In truth, any decree of the Lord has the power to override all of our decrees, according to the His wisdom and purposes. Too often our decrees probably don’t have agreement with, or permission from, YHVH, but are only comprised of misapplied scriptures that we have decreed to give ourselves a sense of power and control; decreeing things without waiting for the input of the Holy Spirit. Eliphaz is totally missing it … clueless about what YHVH is doing, and thus, giving him wrong interpretations/applications of scripture … because of his presumption and arrogance … because of his own lack of intimacy with the Lord. Oh, that the Lord would never find us doing these things. Forgive us, Lord!
In this tumultuous season of the earth, we will not survive without the help of YHVH. We will not be able to find our way, nor to be able to understand what He is doing, unless we make time with Him our priority. We need to be silent in His presence … wait for Him to speak. When He, and we, are in agreement, nothing will be impossible in this impossible world.
In closing, I want to share with you a very serious rhema that the Lord spoke to me on June 1st. It took me to a very deep place … to a place that I suspect He would like to take all of us. So please, slowly read through these words, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to see what He might be saying to all of us. He wants to have intimacy with us, and to keep us from error.
“And so, it comes … the time of the sorting. I have waited for this day, when My righteous will arise into the level of understanding and authority that they have shunned, for the more comfortable aspects of faith-fellowship among themselves. The members of My Body were always intended to be fire starters among the lost. However, they became content with warming themselves, while leaving the deceived to remain deluded, and ignorant of My truth and of My reality. Now, you are seeing the fires of evil, for it is evil that has been given the upper hand in many areas of your society, due to the lack of obedience and investment of those, who call Me their Lord. Would My own dear ones, who know My name, be complacent against the encroaching darkness? Sadly, may are and have been. And so, this is the time of sorting … not of the lost from the saved, but of the surface believers from the truly committed ones.
The storm clouds have gathered and the sound of violence is being heard in the streets. And yet, what lies underneath those streets remains undetected and largely intact. Who discerned the evil that lies beneath your social structures? Who asked Me to reveal it? Surely, there has been a handful of the righteous, who have done so, but unless those, who identify with My name, were impacted personally by that evil, they were content to let it go on unexplored and unchecked. I can no longer tolerate that indifference and that arrogance of Self. I can no longer allow the advances of the Evil One to be ignored by the larger assembly of those, who claim Me as their Savior, but who do nothing to bring others to the saving truth that rescues them from the Enemy’s hand.
Will this nation fall? It already has in many ways. The standards that I set, and which were embedded in the nation that originally honored Me, and My ways, has fallen down. He, who I placed into power to raise up that standard, has been demonized and decried by multitudes of those, who claim to know Me, but who are yet apart from the understanding of Who I truly Am, and what I require. They have been worshipping a false god that enables their own carnal conclusions, comforts, and convenience. It grieves Me to see it. As a result, I have called forth the shaking that will expose the existing hazards, and which will disquiet the apathetic and deceived communities and individuals, who claim to be in the faith. The remnant of My righteous ones among them, will feel the heat of the fire in the shaking, but rather than being destroyed, they will be refined into gold, and galvanized into a wall against the armies of evil that are marching across the land. What authority do the organizations of faith currently have against this incoming flood? Very little, because they have assumed that their power is in their own will, understanding, and intentions. Their minds have drawn as close to Me as their capacity to do so, on their own, will allow. However, their hearts have been kept in self-possessed sealed boxes, so that I may not acquire complete access or possession of them.
You ask if this nation will continue, or if it will fall. If I stand back now, and if all the natural, and the earned, consequences are allowed to come, surely it will be crushed. Because I have heard the cry of the Remnant, I will intervene, yet, not without pain and not without loss. Will a Kingdom awareness come in the midst of the fearful agony? Will it remain after the storm has passed? History has proven, time and time again, that the turning of the people back to Me has been only temporary; lasting only until one crisis ends, and the next crisis begins. So, should I now allow crisis after crisis to come forth as waves crashing to the shore; eroding all things that are not established upon My rock? I am justified to do it. I am merciful and wise enough to order it, and yet the cry of the Remnant, for an awakening of the populations, has touched My heart. The case presented before Me in the My High Court has stirred Me to act. Should I delay in revealing and in enacting My ruling, so that the reality of this world’s sin becomes more clearly realized? Sadly, that realization will not come to the multitudes, because those, who should be speaking the truth about the sin of these days, are standing silent. Some are even making wrongful connections and declarations; applying labels from scripture to nations, and to individuals … labels that I did not declare nor approve. Offense, in the souls of the believers, have often set their words and actions against the wrong threat, and against the wrong perpetrators … against things that their minds have formulated to be the reality, without hearing from My Spirit about the truth of it. Fear and pride have mingled together to create a cocktail of deception and error. They drink of this cup, and they pass it to others, so that they too might drink; spreading the falsehoods, while claiming them to be My word on the matter.
Little ones, YOU KNOW NOTHING unless you hear My voice through hearts of purity and surrender. Surrender means that you come to Me empty … not full of your own expectations and opinions. Your assumptions are your own undoing. How often I hear in your prayers and petitions the problems, spoken from your own point of view. Such a thing is a useless exercise of your own voice. You need to come asking Me what the problem is, and what I would like to see and hear from You, arising in support of what I am doing. So many of you go about throwing around your own weight of assumed authority and power against the incoming enemy. Not only is this a wasteful use of your time, but it is dangerous to you spiritually. You fend off your fears, with exalted declarations and demands against the Enemy, while never sitting in silence before Me to hear what I want from you. You take My word as putty in your soulish hands and conform it in ways to make you feel empowered, knowledgeable, and noble. In this, you formulate great errors, speak them out, and pass them on to others. What is prospered by these things? Sit before Me. Worship Me as you seek Me for Me alone … not for Me to be a vending machine into which you deposit your prayers, and wait for a sweet treat to come down to your hand. I am weary of hearing you decree from your own wisdom and perspectives. Far better for you to pray only in the Spirit … waiting upon Me until revelation comes forth. Stop comforting your hearts by declaring presumption! Stop engaging the Enemy with soulish decrees that you believe to be from the Spirit. Sit in silence before you gather your thoughts on any matter in this season. You do not have all the pieces of the puzzle, and yet so many of you act and speak as if you do. Even those, who have the admiration of throngs of the Redeemed, have been seeing and hearing in error; not realizing it before they speak.
It is so easy to gain a popular following in the times of distress … when people are hanging on every word that they hear through a human voice to give them hope and direction. Have I been consulted regarding who you are to believe? How many of you consult the media for prophetic insight, rather than Me personally? How many of you hunt and peck through My scriptures to find passages that fit your thinking, doctrines, and expectations, without consulting Me to gain the deeper understanding about what My word is saying and where it applies? You assume wrongly that I give authority and opportunity equally to all who believe. Authority and power are based upon intimacy, surrender, humility of heart, and in contriteness of spirit. I bequeath abilities, authority, and opportunity according to what I see in the heart, as well as what is done through the hands, and spoken through the lips. Humble obedience, along with establishing Me as the highest and most consuming authority, is what I favor among the redeemed.
I have told you that if you have faith, you can move mountains. What is faith? It is not mere belief in what you have read, seen, or been told. Empowered faith is based in a relationship of intimacy with Me. It is KNOWING My heart because of attending to it as a priority. It is being in unity with My heart, but it is also yearning to know My mind in any matter, and thus, setting aside your own mind to apprehend My thoughts. When My heart and mind overshadow your own … when your understanding yields to the knowledge of what I desire for you to know … when your actions and words are constrained to apprehend what I want you to say and do … you will have the empowered faith to do impossible things. Why? Because you will be in unity with My way, will, word, and heart, as well as in My timing. You will be operating solely in My truth and reality, against which the Enemy has no recourse but to submit. True faith says that IT WILL BE DONE, because the one declaring has become a transport vessel of what is all-consumingly true, according to My heart, purposes, and intentions. Do you see the folly of presumptuously decreeing a thing that is contrary to what I am doing in the moment … when you apply a scripture to certify your own understanding or strategy? What if I desire for a fire to burn to accomplish My purposes? Do you see the foolish arrogance of decreeing for the fire to stop … declaring that you have the authority to certify that its extinction is My will? Using the power of your words can enact change, but those changes may not line up with what I am doing. Thus, they prolong the sin and delay the revelation or understanding of that, which I am working to accomplish for Kingdom gain, and for course corrections that will impact the eternal destinations of many.
Then there is the issue of holy blood … the blood of the sacrificed Lamb. My blood is precious and powerful. It is to be applied as My Spirit leads, not splashed about as an antidote to everything that distresses you. Can you understand the arrogance of applying this sacred blood to counter the very thing that I am trying to bring forth? Too many treat this blood as a magic potion, which you are free to apply into any troubling situation. This is error. YES, this blood changes whatever it touches! YES, this blood sets up boundaries! YES, this blood heals, delivers, and restores! However, it is not paint that you are free to apply to everything that distresses you, or to every situation that is painful, terrifying, or deteriorating. In this hour I am destroying, uprooting, burning, and weakening many things, so that My Kingdom will be able to acquire broken human hearts, in which I will be welcomed to abide. There IS power in the blood, but it must be applied according to the leading of My Spirit, to not quench your fears, or to give you a sense of control, regarding the distressing things that I am doing, or allowing, in this season of the earth beyond your understanding.
Oh, Beloved ones! How I long to tutor you in the deeper things that will be required of you in these days. How busy you are! How locked into your doctrines and expectations you are! You are missing what I am doing. You are misinterpreting what I am asking of you, because you are not spending time with Me … not approaching Me with open, surrendered, humble, hearts to KNOW ME. Too many are busy serving Me in things that they assume I need or desire. You serve Me best by attending to your relationship with Me. Only by attending to Me, coming away from your mindsets, busyness, and chatter will you become effective and properly enabled to thwart the evil that is consuming your world. Only by setting aside all anxiety and control will you be able to hear Me clearly, and without the filters of soul that so often drive your thinking as well as your prayers. The formula for empowered faith is simple. LOVE ME PASSIONATELY to the point that what I love, and who I love, will be your love. When there is no longer offense, competition, control, and jealously among you, you will begin to hear My heart with clarity. Why? Because I want you to be in unity with Me, and in unity with each other, so that your thoughts can begin to align with Mine in a powerful unity that will defeat the Enemy. Your thoughts, hearts, and conclusions are so divided about many things. Shalom is perfect wholeness … perfect unity with Me … with My heart, with My intentions, and with My instructions as they come to you in unity through My Spirit. Until that is your greatest desire as a Remnant, you will continue to struggle; battling each other as well as the Enemy.
How I long for you to make the shift into the depths of faith and unity in Me. Only there will you have the wisdom and the power to co-labor successfully with Me. Until then, you will have some victories, but not the glory that I intend for you to steward upon the earth. I will have to withhold the fuller glory until you make the shift. Therefore, come to Me now, with greater focus, greater humility, greater surrender, and greater passion in love. Stop doing and speaking what you think I would approve, or what you think My word recommends. KNOW ME. SIT WITH ME. ATTEND TO ME with open hands and with open hearts in silent worship … waiting for Me to overshadow you. I once overshadowed a humble Jewish virgin girl to implant the seed of pure love and glory within her. Now, I need to overshadow you, My Remnant, to implant the seed of My Kingdom and of My heart within you … a seed that must grow into a mighty wonder before all the nations of the world … a seed that will transform you into a mighty army of holy warriors that will endure in victory to the very end. And thus, I will accomplish My will in you and through you. Even in the darkest of days you will shine with My light. You will be My witnesses, who will declare My truth, and who will accomplish My purposes until I come to overthrow every evil power. This, Beloved, is My heart’s desire.”
Now, just sit quietly with the Lord. Have a pen and paper, or a journal, in hand. Go slowly, deliberately, through each line and paragraph again; waiting quietly to hear if there is anything He wants you to note, to repent, or to apprehend as you sit with Him. Write it down. Do what He requests. Enjoy the time with Him. If you haven’t been able to hear Him up to this point, then SHEMA right now … listen/hear with the intention of obeying what He says. There is too much error circulating in the atmosphere right now. We MUST be able to hear His voice, so that we obey Him and prosper the Kingdom … so that we can avoid being blinded, blind-sided, or misled into error. There is no time for error now, because every misstep will be exceptionally dangerous in this season of the earth. At the same time, YHVH’s voice will be clearer and louder than ever before. As His sheep, we will HEAR His voice … we will RECOGNIZE His voice … and we will FOLLOW HIS VOICE in obedience, wherever He leads. And this obedience is not only safety and joy for us, but there is divinely intimate fellowship to be experienced right now, rather than waiting for that amazing experience to occur on the other side of the veil. And that, dear ones, is treasure beyond words.
Be blessed!!