Received on March 2nd, 2008 - 1:15PM Last Updated: March 20th, 2008 - 6:13PM
A woman in my church gave a word from the Lord about some people having bitterness in their soul.
She saw it as a rod of iron from the top of their head to the soles of their feet, that prevented them from being flexible.
Her word was that God was going to dissolve that iron, if the person allowed Him, and then they would be able to bend freely: both to bow unto God in worship and to stoop down to serve man in humility.
The HolySpirit then gave me a further prophecy using the same imagery. He said that, with that dissolved iron, He would do what happened to Joseph (Psalms 105:17-19). That verse in literal Hebrew can be read to say that "iron entered into his soul," until God's word came to pass and proved Him true.
The HolySpirit said He would reorient that iron, that had previously prevented the person from worshiping God and serving others, to become a hardening for the person resist temptation and trials more easily.
The same strength that they had used on being bitter would now be freed up to serve God; and in that bitterness' place, would be an improved independence from circumstances.
Yahweh is able to transform our personality defects into new structural supports for our spiritual life. He is wise beyond our knowing, and deserving of all our praise!
Submit to His work and let go of your bitterness!
Discerning Yahweh
Yahweh has power over all His creation. What has seemed unchangeable can be transformed in an instant; indeed, He can bring something out of nothing.
As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations."{Genesis 17:5} This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were. (Romans 4:17)
Don't think you have to live with any of your defects; God has promised to transform you by the renewing of your mind (Romans 12:1-2): this is intimately connected to offering Him your entire body as a sacrifice.
He will fashion you into exactly what He intended you to be!
As you read this site, you will hopefully come to know Yahweh more fully.
But all of this continuing knowledge is useless unless and until you come into union with Him. I use the word union because it is truly a marriage. It is that deep connection we all seek, for which we most often look in other people. However, the truth is that our hearts will only be fulfilled when we enter that union in fullness with the One Who made us.
This is the grace of God, that He has not stayed distant for us only to worship as Creator. But He has come unto us, even become one of us—in His Son, ChristJesus—in order to share an intimate union with us. He desires such closeness that it truly will envelope our entire life, transforming us into something new and wonderful.
You may have already entered this union with Him and only seek to know Him better through reading here. But if you have not, as you do read, let this Gospel sink into your heart as you read it now.
God loves you, and has cast your sins into the sea. He has sent His only Son as the Savior of the world—that includes you.
That Son, JesusChrist, was born as a man through a virgin who had given her life to Yahweh; He lived without sin, reflected the glory of His Father, God, in all His words and deeds, and was persecuted even unto death because of it.
His death upon a cross was the powerful explosion that separated you from your life of death. It remains for you, now, to enter into that death with Him. As you die to the one you are now, a person separated from God from your many sins, you will be born anew, with a nature predisposed to live rightly. This gift is free to you, with nothing you can do to earn it. It is the mercy of God to offer it to you, as He loves you so much! All you must do is receive it by trusting Him to have delivered you. Simply place your life in His hands and embrace the freedom that came through that death on the cross.
The Gospel is that Jesus did not remain dead, but rose again on the third day after His crucifixion! Death could not hold Him, as He was without sin. And so death will not be able to hold you, as you identify with Him fully through your trust in Him. Let go of yourself and confess Him as Lord of your life. The power of His death and resurrection will work in you all that your Creator has destined for you. You will truly enter a new life and experience that intimate union you have been seeking all of your life.
So ponder these words as you read here of this great God—Yahweh—and all that He has revealed to His creation. Let His Spirit testify to your heart that these words are true, that God is Love, and that He sent His Son so that you might receive the life that is unbound by time and space. As you feel that witness in your heart, simply believe and receive what He is offering to you, even now, and begin your new life as a child of God.
Please write to me and let me know when you take this step, as I will be your brother in Christ—we will be one in Him!
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