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Topic: Stormy Winds that do His Bidding (7th October 2016) ~ Christine Beadsworth
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Tina Sundstrom
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Stormy Winds that do His Bidding
(7th October 2016)
Hurricane Matthew is presently hitting Florida, having
decimated Haiti and the Bahamas. It is followed by
tropical storm Nicole forming in the Atlantic. A state
of emergency has been declared by the earthly government
of the regions. But who can discern what is before them
on the TV screens? Who can hear intelligently the coming
roar in the eye of the storm? Some hear thunder, some
hear a sound, a few hear a voice. That voice has a Name.
It is the God of Glory who thunders. And what does He
say? “Lift up your heads o you gates. The King of Glory
is coming in. Yield, you princes at the gates!!” and the
ignorant and scoffers say to themselves, “Who is this
King of glory? Why should we heed His voice?” and
immediately comes the roar, “the Lord of Hosts. He is
the King of Glory!”
It is no coincidence that these hurricanes hit their
exact locations during the exact time of the Days of Awe
– those days between Rosh Hashanah, the Day of Trumpets,
and Yom Kippur, the Day of Judgment(12th October this
year). God is not willing that any should perish and
these Days of Awe are meant to be a breathing space, a
pause in which to do final examinations of our hearts
and lives before the Heavenly Accountant does His final
perusal of the books of our lives in this pivotal
crossover season. When the bookkeeping is complete, will
we be weighed in the balances and found wanting? Will
the writing appear on the wall for us, even as we feast
and feed our flesh? Have you learned from the mistakes
of those who have gone before you about the danger of
walking in pride, or are you drinking of the same cup as
Belshazzar, abusing the vessels of the house of the Lord
with your words and praising the gods of gold and
silver? (Daniel 5) Are you looking back at the success
of your ministry and planning huge expansions for the
coming year, not giving God all the glory for any good
thing that has come your way, during these Days of Awe?
If so, you may be unaware that in the dark night that is
at the door, your soul will be required of you! ( Luke
12:14-21) The heart of the wise is in the house of
mourning in this period but the heart of fools is in the
house of feasting.
Ecc 7:4 The heart of the wise is in the house of
mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of
mirth and sensual joy. Ecc 7:5 It is better for a man
to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of
fools.
Have you heeded the rebukes God has brought your way
through the mouth of the wise in the last month... and
is there fruit of repentance? Those whom He loves, He
tells their faults. In this season, only a fool would
think he is rich and has need of nothing (Rev 3). Are
you poor in spirit, painfully aware of how much you need
the covering of the Blood of the Lamb? Or are you still
judging both unbelievers and the godly, unaware that you
are stinking with pride and guilty of the very same
crimes before God? (Isaiah 58). Is your lifestyle the
fast God has chosen or do you still think that all He
requires is a day to humble yourself? Are you washing
the outside of your cup but inwardly have a heart full
of wicked thoughts toward your unsuspecting neighbour
who dwells beside you?(Luke 11:39) Have you shut your
ear to the cry of the poor, not knowing that this means
when you cry out yourself, you will not be heard by
Heaven?(Proverbs 21:13) Have you learned to rightly
divide the Word or do you think all the scriptures about
judgment are for those around you and all the words of
blessing are your rightful due? Will you be able to say
like David the following words when the accounts are
balanced on Yom Kippur and the recompense for the year
to come is released by the Great Judge’s gavel?:
Psa 18:20 The Lord rewarded me according to my
righteousness (my conscious integrity and sincerity with
Him); according to the cleanness of my hands has He
recompensed me. Psa 18:21 For I have kept the ways of
the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God. Psa
18:22 For all His ordinances were before me, and I put
not away His statutes from me. Psa 18:23 I was upright
before Him and blameless with Him, ever [on guard] to
keep myself free from my sin and guilt. Psa 18:24
Therefore has the Lord recompensed me according to my
righteousness (my uprightness and right standing with
Him), according to the cleanness of my hands in His
sight.
It’s easy to look at the sky and see a natural storm
coming in, but are our ears tuned to a layer of sound
beyond the realm of the earthly? David could hear it:
Psa 29:3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the
God of glory thunders; the Lord is upon many (great)
waters. Psa 29:4 The voice of the Lord is powerful; the
voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
What do you hear? Do you hear His voice in this season
or do you just hear thunder? Do you just see the heavy
rain approaching and run to batten down the hatches of
your earthly homes? Or do you, like Elijah the faithful
intercessor, hear the sound of the heavy latter rain and
gird up your loins and outrun the Ahabs in the power of
the Spirit.
First the natural; then the spiritual. It was God who
battened down Noah’s hatches after all his years of
preparation, then lifted him and his family above the
flood, and then Noah could open the upper window for the
double portion of heavenly light. Some hear and see in
this season with their natural senses but do not
understand. Have you prayed for a wise and understanding
heart? Can you see a hurricane on the horizon and
understand that it precedes the coming of the King of
Glory? Or do you just see coming destruction and try to
save your lives? Do you batten down your own house
hatches and run to the nearest natural shelter or have
you already lost your life for His sake and run into the
shelter of the Most High. Are you one of the sinners in
Zion who are afraid as the Spirit of judgment and
burning approaches or have you prepared your heart
through repentance and already dwell on the heights in
the Lord’s secret place (Isaiah 33:14-17) where you only
witness the reward of the wicked?(psalm 91) Are you
exactly where He has instructed you to be at this time
because you know and obey His voice? Or will you be part
of the long queues on those interstate highways,
following the fleeing crowd but not knowing where you
are going?
Have you stocked up your storehouse with the Bread of
Life for the days of famine ahead? Is the spring of
Living Water in your heart flowing freely or is it
clogged by boulders of unforgiveness and pride? Have you
washed your hands of your spiritual adultery and made
your heart pure through sincere repentance so that you
may ascend the hill of the Lord (psalm 24:3-5) or are
you going to cut another groove in pathway round that
same mountain, ever learning but never seeing the Truth?
Have you read the Book of Joel recently, not leaving out
the uncomfortable verses? Or do you still believe the
restoration of the years the locust has eaten arrive at
your door, without your repentance and realignment to
the God Who calls you to be holy as He is holy?
These are such searching questions but if you haven’t
asked them yourself by now, I pray the Holy Spirit will
grant you grace in these next days to wrestle with them
to a place of breakthrough.
Are your spiritual eyes open or do you only see with
your natural eyes? What does it look like when the God
of glory thunders, what accompanies His coming as a
response to the cry of His intercessors?
Psa 18:9 He bowed the heavens also and came down; and
thick darkness was under His feet. Psa 18:10 And He
rode upon a cherub [a storm] and flew [swiftly]; yes, He
sped on with the wings of the wind.Psa 18:11 He made
darkness His secret hiding place; as His pavilion (His
canopy) round about Him were dark waters and thick
clouds of the skies. Psa 18:12 Out of the brightness
before Him there broke forth through His thick clouds
hailstones and coals of fire. Psa 18:13 The Lord also
thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered
His voice, amid hailstones and coals of fire.
Where are those who have understanding of the times to
know what His people ought to do when they see the
hurricane approaching and hear the roar in the wind?
David has some timeless advice for this tired old world:
Psa 68:32 Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth, sing
praises to the Lord! Selah [pause, and calmly think of
that]! Psa 68:33 [Sing praises] to Him Who rides upon
the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, He sends forth
His voice, His mighty voice. Psa 68:34 Ascribe power
and strength to God; His majesty is over Israel, and His
strength and might are in the skies. Psa 68:35 O God,
awe-inspiring, profoundly impressive, and terrible are
You out of Your holy places; the God of Israel Himself
gives strength and fullness of might to His people.
Blessed be God!
Do you ascribe strength to God or take pride in your own
spiritual prowess? Do you tremble at the Word of the
Lord or are you settled on your lees, unable to discern
the signs of the times? The year 5777 is indeed the year
of the Sword, but before you get to be appointed worthy
to wield the sword of the Lord, the double-edged sword
of His Word comes to deal with you! Have you learned to
subdue your flesh and sow to the Spirit – because that
two-edged sword is coming to deal with all flesh IN YOU.
Isa 66:15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,
and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his
anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. Isa
66:16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead
with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
Have you been rejoicing at the thought of the year of
the sword bringing you a knighthood from the Throne?
Know you not that an encounter with the One who wields
the sword has caused all righteous men in the past to
fall on their faces as if dead. Yes, the King of Glory
is coming on the clouds and sending out His cloud of
witnesses to the four corners of the earth for the final
harvest, but only those who have survived His dealings
with the unclean in His House, will be carried on the
wind of His Spirit to their assignments. Are you sure
the one you are worshipping is the God of all the earth
or have you fallen victim to doctrines of demons and
consumed unclean teachings, dancing around a counterfeit
‘god in the midst of us’ crafted by the prophets of
Baal?
Isa 66:17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify
themselves in the gardens behind one in the midst,
eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the
mouse, shall be consumed together, says the LORD. Isa
66:18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it
shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues;
and they shall come, and see my glory. Isa 66:19 And I
will set a sign among them, and I will send those that
escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and
Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the
isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither
have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory
among the Gentiles.
When we can hear with our spiritual ears the source of
the spiritual Sound behind the natural sound, and
realise the fearsome truth of the moment in which we
stand; when the eyes of our hearts are opened to see
just Who is heralding His approach with shakings and
thunderings and lightning bolts of revelation, then we
will, like Isaiah, also realise the true state of our
own hearts and lips. It’s not like he was visiting
houses of ill repute before this encounter. Isaiah was a
man of God. Yet what he saw shook him to his
foundations:
Isa 6:4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at
the voice of him who cried, and the house was filled
with smoke. Isa 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! For I am
undone and ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips,
and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;
for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!
Then a live coal from off the altar will be commissioned
to bring a personal message of cleansing for us,
straight off the fiery golden altar of incense that
stands before the Throne. Then our ears will be allowed
to hear the counsel of the war room in Heaven and their
dilemma. They don’t know who will go for them. There are
so few willing to follow the Lamb wherever He goes these
days, especially when they must volunteer before knowing
the destination. The Father is looking for holy seed,
willing to fall to the ground and die in any soil of His
choosing, that a rich harvest may be reaped. Not an
attractive tour destination for unsurrendered flesh. Can
your ears hear the heartbreaking yearning in the Voice
that asks, “Who will go for Us?”....Who is willing to
become a ‘burning one?’...Who is willing to walk with
the fire of Lord shut up in their bones?
By the time Hurricane Matthew passes and exits, Yom
Kippur will be here. Be found presenting only the Blood
and not the filthy rags of your own righteous deeds that
day. Matthew is closely followed by tropical storm
Nicole forming in the Atlantic. How interesting. Do you
have your face to the current gale force wind, willing
to let Him blow from you every encumbrance that hinders
your holy walk? Matthew means ‘gift of God’. As the God
of Glory thunders and orders the princes at the gates to
yield before His advance, it is an ancient echo of that
long ago day when the Son of God, so recently slain,
swept like a whirlwind into the place of the dead where
the demonic hordes were celebrating their victory over
the Lord of Life, and He took captivity captive, before
sweeping out again carrying gifts for men in His wake.
1Pe 3:19 In which He went and preached to the spirits
in prison, 1Pe 3:20 [The souls of those] who long
before in the days of Noah had been disobedient, when
God's patience waited during the building of the ark...
Perhaps you have been held, imprisoned in the place of
the dead through your disobedience to the convicting
voice of the Spirit in times past? Then the present
shakings and violent urging wind of the Spirit swirling
around you is a hurricane called ‘Matthew’, a gift from
a Father who wants to give you as a gift to men....if
you obey His lead. There is a place of peace in the
centre of the whirlwind that anyone can reach if we are
willing to humble ourselves. The secret place of the
Most High is situated in the eye of the storm and the
way there is a narrow path but once you are there, He
guards you like the apple of His eye. There is a place
of perfect peace for those whose minds are anchored on
Him, no matter what unfolds without.
And what is this storm Nicole that comes in Matthew’s
wake? Nicole means ‘victorious overcomer’. Can you not
hear the echo of the messages to the seven churches in
Revelation? “I know your works....and I have this
against you....He who overcomes, I will grant to...”
Beloved, if we will submit to the jealous whirlwind of
Love that comes in these days of awe, cooperating with
the slightest conviction of the searching Spirit of
Truth at the unveiling of the smallest wicked way in us,
we will find ourselves in the ‘glorious afterward’; part
of the cloud of witnesses that form the stormy wind
called Nicole; that band of glorious overcomers who have
been weighed in the balances and not found wanting; the
ones assayed and sealed with the signet of the
Silversmith as vessels of honour, fit for every good
work.
Can you hear, above the roar of the storm, the request
of the Heavenly Bridegroom concerning our works and our
ways? Can He confidently set His seal signifying the
hallmark of a pure vessel on your heart and your arm?
Will you only say what He says and do what He does from
here on?
Son 8:6 Set me like a seal upon your heart, like a seal
upon your arm; for love is as strong as death, jealousy
is as hard and cruel as Sheol (the place of the dead).
Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame
[the very flame of the Lord]! Son 8:7 Many waters
cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.
Will you be fully His or is your heart still divided?
Are you completely His, body, soul and spirit or are you
still flirting with the world and its ways? Do you think
these questions would be good for other people to read,
or do you allow their painful light to pierce the
shutters of your complacency? Do you understand how late
it is, Bride of Christ? He is trying to get you to the
Church on time! Don’t miss the wedding....
Jas 4:8 Come close to God and He will come close to
you. [Recognize that you are] sinners, get your soiled
hands clean; [realize that you have been disloyal]
wavering individuals with divided interests, and purify
your hearts [of your spiritual adultery]. Jas 4:9 [As
you draw near to God] be deeply penitent and grieve,
even weep [over your disloyalty]. Let your laughter be
turned to grief and your mirth to dejection and
heartfelt shame [for your sins]. Jas 4:10 Humble
yourselves [feeling very insignificant] in the presence
of the Lord, and He will exalt you [He will lift you up
and make your lives significant].
How can I ask all these piercing questions? Who do I
think I am to suggest that many in the Body of Christ
are beyond unprepared for what is about to hit planet
earth? Quite frankly, I thought I was becoming
‘someone’...that is until the Spirit of the Fear of the
Lord took me up on my request for a visit. And He
decided to stay a while, seeing as I had asked for
wisdom very earnestly. It didn’t occur to me really just
what I was asking for at the time.....but now I
understand. And am grateful He came.
It is fresh fom this encounter with the Lamp of the
Lord, that I dare to share a portion of the meal He
prepared for our ‘date’. I have been sitting under an
appointment with the Spirit of Judgement and Burning
(Isaiah 4) for at least 6 months and have been horrified
at the sight of what the searchlight of the Lord has
unearthed in the depths of my heart. I fancifully
supposed that I had advanced quite far along the road of
sanctification...until the veil of spiritual pride was
lasered off my blinded eyes! Since that operation, I
have prayed the words of psalm 51 so often, it is almost
as if they originally rose from the foundations of my
own weeping heart. With swipe after swipe of that
fearsome two-edged sword over my trembling head, I have
taken the stinking pockets of secret pride,
unforgiveness or worse, and cast them far from me day
after day, despairing that there can be still more to
deal with....until finally, I can say I am beginning to
learn what entering the Kingdom like a little child
might mean. Perhaps I see a glimpse. But then I remind
myself that I may be able to understand all mysteries,
but if I have not love, I am nothing (1 Cor 13:2)... and
here I am, back to worshipping Him for the sweetness of
the sound of His amazing grace to a wretch like me.
I have learned to love the Refiner’s fire and the
incredible kindness of the Lord in leading me, the
daughter He loves, to repentance - by telling me my
faults. I understand He is preparing me to share His
glory and the only way I will ever even be apportioned
the honour of carrying a minute measure of His glory, is
if I truly grasp that without Him, I am nothing; that
unless He gives me words to write, I have nothing of
value to say; that the robe of righteousness my
Bridegroom bought for me is the most valuable garment I
will ever possess! It is vastly superior to any tailor-
made couture garment that the Harlot Church of Babylon
could ever conjure up for me; for without it’s ruby
fold’s enveloping my frail earthen vessel, I will never
see Him face to face or be able to enter the full glory
of His manifest presence. And I want to. Even more now.
I will never understand how or why He chose me or gave
me a fountain of words that flows like a torrent, or why
He chose to give me eyes that see the extraordinary in
the ordinary and ears that hear a message within a
message or a poem behind the sound of the wind. But this
much I do understand, that when I hear and see, if I
will wait ‘til full understanding settles in my ever
impatient heart, then perhaps He may allow me to be of
help to my fellow searchers, who distain the riches of
this world in favour of the least crumb of Truth that
falls from His heavenly table.
My whole journey has been about learning to walk in step
with the Spirit; discerning when the correct moment is
to deliver a message. An apple of gold in settings of
silver is easier to draw than paint with well-timed
words spoken to the music of the Throneroom. Funnily
enough, I am not a very good dancer. I struggle to dance
in time to the music and the only man I can dance with
is my husband, because he is a Ballroom Dancing
Champion. You don’t need much imagination to see that
this has been a picture of my dance class with the Holy
Spirit. How many times I have stood on His toes and
blundered into another couple on the dance floor in my
eagerness to say what I have heard the Father saying
without waiting for the moment appointed for me to take
that step. For all those times when I have spoken out of
turn or sung the wrong words to the tune or even worse,
been off key and out of tune with Heaven’s pure sound,
grating the hearing of my listeners, I ask for your
forgiveness; and for grace as I rehear, at times, the
echo of some sounds heard long ago and see with newly
lasered eyes, what He was really trying to convey. A
brief application of a laser beam of light achieves far
more than much sawing with a blunt kitchen knife. May He
work this deep within me, for the sake of His Bride.
My prayer is that this burning season in which I dwell
may remove any remaining old flesh in the shofar of my
earthen vessel; that I may release from this point on,
as He wills (and not when men demand a word), a clear
concise heavenly sound, that cuts through all the
earthly jangling sounds confusing His precious Blood-
bought Bride. If the message of my life can be somehow a
signpost to the banquet on mount Zion, then the journey
will have been worth it all. How about you?
Isa 4:3 And he who is left in Zion and remains in
Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who is recorded
for life in Jerusalem and for eternal life, Isa 4:4
After the Lord has washed away the [moral] filth of the
daughters of Zion [pride, vanity, haughtiness] and has
purged the bloodstains of Jerusalem from the midst of it
by the spirit and blast of judgment and by the spirit
and blast of burning and sifting. Isa 4:5 And the Lord
will create over the whole site, over every dwelling
place of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and
smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night;
for over all the glory shall be a canopy (a defense of
divine love and protection). Isa 4:6 And there shall be
a pavilion for shade in the daytime from the heat, and
for a place of refuge and a shelter from storm and from
rain.
Selah
Christine
freshoil@polka.co.za
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Hi Tina
Thank you for such an awesome post. Last night I did a meeting in the
time of the Feasts on a topic that resulted in some mid meeting
opposition that was a bit unexpected. I believe God wanted me to
speak on the coming face to face judgment of His temple found in 1
Peter 4:17 and Mal 3:1-2 and Rev 3. I spoke on the coming face to face
judgment where the Lord will come with His sword to cleanse His
temple of idols so that His people can go into the End Time Warrior
Movement which is an army of Intercessors. I also hesitatingly
predicted that the face to face judgment could be on this coming Day of
Atonement. So I thank you for your post which had all of the words that
I believed God wanted me to speak as I was a bit taken back by the
opposition that I received in the middle of my message.
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El Elyon
You are welcome. I always try to post Christine's words
as soon as I find them in my email. What she has to
share is always so full of meat, that it will take a long
time to fully digest it all.
Blessings. ;o)
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This is a very sobering word. May we all come before the Lord and allow him to shine his search light into our hearts and show us what is there that we may be granted the gift of repentance during this season, so that when the books are open we will ready. This article is long but adequately describes the season we are in so that we can take a sober look in the mirror. Looking in the mirror is not easy. It is easier to walk away and forget what we see but then we deceive ourselves. May we stand in the fire until all the impurities in us come to the surface and get skimmed off so that in due season He can look into the mirror of our lives and see his reflection and be able to say to the creation that is my son/daughter they look just like Me. Thank you Father, for grace and mercy. I bow before you my King and give you entrance into my heart to do what you must until my kingdom is fully surrendered to yours and the King of Glory rules and reigns in his seat of authority on my heart. I bow before you my King rolling out the red carpet of my heart and saying, come Lord Jesus come, have your way. Will anyone join me?
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