Posted: 02/02/2012 at 2:02am | IP Logged

I had been praying, worshiping, seeking God and just adoring him...and was in a deep place of intercession, when I saw a vision of three individuals wearing long flowing white priestly robes, standing in a line, with their backs towards me.  The hair of two of them was quite short, so they could have been either male or female...it was non-descript, and the one in the middle, looked like a female. 

They each held a flame in their hands.  Each of the flames were about as big as the length of a hand, and the fatter lower part of the flame, as wide as a wrist. They were all slightly bent forward over their flames ....as they held them carefully and almost protectively.....

Behind them, (in front of their backs), was a huge white altar candle with a fresh wick that showed it had never been used before.....it was about chest high and very broad......as though it in itself was an altar.

Exodus 27   v20+21

And you shall command the children of Israel that they bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to cause the lamp to burn continually. In the tabernacle of meeting outside the veil which is before the Testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend to it from evening till morning before the Lord.  It shall be a statute forever to their generations on behalf of the children of Israel.

1Peter 9 But you are a chosen people a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of the darkness into his wonderful  light.....

Revelation 1 v6 To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father – to him be the glory and power for ever and ever amen.

I prayed for days after this asking God what the three flames represented....I asked him ...what does the first flame mean?....and eventually I heard him say THE FIRE OF HIS PRESENCE.

 Jeremiah 33 v 3 Call to me and I will answer, and tell you the great and unsearchable things you do not know.

This passionate relationship with our Father..... the time that we spend with our heavenly Father in his word, talking and praying, worshiping  him, listening to him, seeking his heart, this connection and this relationship with him is so precious....and its out of this that we walk ,and know him... and within this, feel cherished by him.... and from this, we know who we are....sons and daughters of the living God....1 John 3 ‘See what the father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God!  And that is what we are!’ ....in his presence we are changed more into his likeness....in his presence we are healed...there is nothing like his presence.....he is awesome.....   

Then I asked God about the second flame.......this one I felt from deep inside my spirit.... the refining fire of his HOLINESS......and as I was praying and asking God for a confirmation of this, I felt the spirit of holiness  (not in its complete fullness, otherwise I would have been on the floor probably weeping and unable to get up).....as I worshipped....it’s one of those moments that is very hard to explain on paper...but experiencing his holiness really grounds you, in that you realise how awesomely holy he is.....it goes right through you to your core revealing who you are....in a loving way, yet the fear of the Lord is all over you.....and this holiness for him....to be set apart for his purposes, to be yielded to him....to his adorable Holy Spirit...our helper....our comforter....

Leviticus 19 v2......Be holy because I the Lord your God am holy.

Leviticus 22 v32  I am the Lord who makes you holy...

Hebrew 10 v9 + 10 ‘He sets aside the first to establish the second.   And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.’

And with the third flame I heard him say TRANSFORMATION.....in his presence, as we spend more time with him, we are transformed..... into his likeness....the transformation of the church into everything we were meant to be....

2 Corinthians 3 18  And we who with unveiled faces all reflect God’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever increasing glory, which comes from the Lord who is the spirit.

these flames were held so protectively,  as a mother covers her children, so no sudden gush of wind would blow them out, so nothing can destroy them, that no works of the enemy can travail against them......so that this most precious thing, having being born in hiddeness, out of deep intercession enduring intercession, warrior intercession, that the oil of the Holy Spirit, fresh oil, fresh revelation of the fullness of walking in the word, the true word which is so upside down to the natural....to die is to live, to give is to receive, with the fullness of the word manifesting in their lives, a new glory within, in their DNA, shining rooted in their DNA, this passionate body for this time and this place and now, is being put into its place realigned, separated unto Him, loving adoring him worshiping him, resting in him, warring with him, crying with him rejoicing with him, and  keeping these flames alight, ....I believe this to be to do with the new wine...as yet unseen corporately, but oh yes it is coming, full of the water, fresh waters of revelation, and yet full of a burning fire and yet compassion of Him....and when the time comes for the revealing of the revelation of the fullness of Him, the altar will be set alight and will shake the kingdom of darkness, they will be shaking...but before this will come an intense time of warfare....as we are immerging hell will be freaking out...this is the time when we have to KNOW  who we are....as sons and daughters of the living God, that he is our Father!!  That we have to know we belong to him, are hidden in him, that we can put on the full armour of God, new wine, fresh oil, new wine skin, ready to burst, a wave full of the spirit, a new wave full of the fresh anointing, in power of the spirit, where the glory of the latter day house is greater than the former glory...........  we want the blind to see, we want the captives free.......

And then a few weeks later as I prayed about the altar as yet unlit......I saw the vision again of the three holding the flames.....and I saw them each in turn , turn round to face the altar, each stretched out their hands....and each laid one hand and flame ontop of the other and reached forward and lit the huge altar, (candle).  And I heard God say RESTORATION......

Isaiah 61 v4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins, and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations......And you will be called priests of the Lord you will be named ministers of our God.......

This word is so heavy in my spirit.....it is like one that needs to be birthed through prayer....it is for now.....its a powerful thing God wants to do in us through us , in us and with us.....

He wants to restore to us our destinies, and our dreams....many of which have been stolen.....the things we have been called to do and may feel we’ve lost....these things he wants to restore in us too.....

Posted: 02/02/2012 at 8:11am | IP Logged

Hi Emily, Cindy...I also agree that this is for now & is also a confirmation for me.  In praying with my friend last night we both realized anew how very important this intimate time with Father really is.  We read John G. Lake's one lecture where he explained how our physical weaknesses can be an indicator of a weakened spirit within us if we aren't re-charging ourselves in HIs presence daily or as needed. 

And just this morning I was asking Him to please share His vision & purpose for me in greater detail...that I need to be grounded in His purposes or I'll be open to discouragement or misdirection.  I accept through your timely word that it's His heart to bring that healing to our spirirts & out through our bodies just as it is to restore to us the dreams & destiny that have seemed to escape us.

Thank you for carrying this through to such a deep level of meaning for the rest of His body.   You are a faithful heart to Father & one He can trust with very important & significant food to nourish His Body.  Bless you!

Posted: 02/03/2012 at 2:27am | IP Logged

Emily,

This is a NOW WORD!!! It comes through relationship and faithfulness, to those who have truly turned their life over to him and have come to know him for who he is to them.

God bless you,

Posted: 02/04/2012 at 7:29am | IP Logged

Amen to this word Emily.

As I was waking out of sleep yesterday, I was quoting one of your Lev. versus over and over and over.

Bless you!