“Peculiar Diamonds”

Lifting up the Body of Messiah all over the world this morning. Reading His Spirit words that burn in my bones of His endless and limitless love toward His people and His creation. Our unity is purposed through the Father’s Son which connects all the pieces. Yeshua is the Head and we are His Body. And as He is the head of the body, the ekklesia – called out ones, we know Him as the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He might have the preeminence.

I remember when I came to San Diego in May 1987. Initially, we seemed to be separated from one another – each of us with our own range of experiences, different exposures and many single visions. But when we began to communicate and pray with each other and honor each other, we discovered common threads as we worshipped, shared revelation, responded and listened to hearts. We laid hold of mutual truth in Messiah which transcended our differences. As diverse as we may have been, we learned that we celebrated similar milestones that the Father has written about, we laughed together at similar experiences that brought a witness and a testimony from our city, we shed the same tears and rejoiced as we truly learned weeping may endure for the night but joy comes in the morning. We saw the Lord together!! And Father gave us faith to see Him in each other first before we saw the weaknesses that we all have. Yes we were made into a Kingdom community.

San Diego we have come a long way. The Lord God is making us One. We are learning to truly esteem one another and move together for the bigger Vision of the Lord…the Lord’s Vision. There’s a sound that has captured our hearts that has marked a Holy cadence to move forward together as we keep our eyes fixed on the Captain of the Hosts. He has chiseled all of us. We are His peculiar treasure. Yes Diamonds rising up out of the dust!

The Glory of the Most High is covering and filling San Diego and His beautiful Presence is overflowing into our hearts and moving up into California, America and into the nations of the earth.
Our God is exalted when we love one another.
Singing this morning with a thankful heart for those of you reading this.

John 13:34-35
So I give you now a new commandment: Love each other just as much as I have loved you. For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another, everyone will know that you’re my true followers.”

We are beginning to look and sound like our Brilliant, Radiant King!

righteousness, peace, and joy.

Romans 14:17

Most of the scriptures that I am sharing today are very personal and I am so grateful to the Spirit of God for writing them on my heart and mind in the early 80s. Who would have known back in those years of studying the Word, how they would become so alive in me and actually impart into me right standing with God, peace that passed anything I could ever dream of, and fulfill so deep within me a joy unspeakable that would strengthen each day of my life.  I treasure my relationship with Yeshua, the Righteous One, the God of Peace and My Lord and Savior, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross…for me. When you go through the trauma of the loss of beautiful children and your loving spouse, you better know what you truly believe and know that the foundation of His word is established in you so deep that you will not be moved. I am so thankful that My Redeemer is forever faithful.

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Walking in the Spirit, Daily Communion, and Maturity

Recently I was meditating on what it means to really know and grasp one’s true identity, to fully walk in the Spirit and not succumb to the dictates of the flesh.  What I discovered was that if we actually do walk in the Spirit, in daily communion with Christ, we will be living out our identity and fulfilling our destiny.  Because Jesus dwells in me and my spirit is connected to the Holy Spirit, all I ever need lies within me already.  The power, anointing, authority, grace, love, wisdom, understanding, essentially all the gifts and fruit I’ll ever need lies within, as a deep reservoir of riches waiting to be accessed.  Jesus is my all-in-all and resides within me.  He is everything, supplies everything, and He is my El Shaddai, my all-sufficiency.  Why would I ever look elsewhere for fulfillment, or rely on myself?  It is a principle in scripture that what we behold we become, or what we focus on we become.  So, as I gaze upon the Lord, I become more and more like Him, and this begins the transformation process to become more and more like Jesus.  “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” II Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV).  What a thrilling promise to us!

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