The 12 Pillars of God

 

“Truth”

 

Session Two

 

By

 

Nita Johnson

 

Transcript from July 2010 New Orleans Teaching

 

We’re talking on the 12 pillars of the Kingdom. The Bible tells us to meditate on God’s Word; to whet it, to sharpen it and to let it become a part of us, morning, noon and night. It is amazing to me… I have studies by Jewish Rabbis which I sometimes read. I often notice the things they write and wonder about, feeling quite sure they must have known Christ. They speak and write with such wisdom; you just don’t hear such wisdom in the Church.

 

The above is not true of all of them. Some of the scholars are pretty bizarre. However, there are those who wrote in such a pure way that you recognize it is a higher wisdom than you are accustomed to hearing in the Church.  I think they somehow stumbled over Christ in all their studies. I share  this because one of the things these men do is meditate on the Word. Day, noon and night, their life is the Word and when you spend that much time reading and praying over the Word, somehow, someway truth will settle in your heart.

 

How many of you have heard of one of Israel’s most renowned Rabbis who just went on to be with the Lord? During the last year of his life he was visited by the Lord very often and He revealed Himself to the Rabbi as the Jewish Messiah. Jesus told him not to reveal that truth except in a letter one year after his death.  They opened it and inside was a riddle pointing to Jesus as the Jewish Messiah.

 

You know, when you hunger for truth, you’re going to get it. If the Lord Himself has to come to you—if your hunger is great enough, He will. If all you want is a visitation to say you’ve been visited, He probably won’t; but if your heart is hungry for truth, He’ll find a way to get it to you even if you’re a Jewish Rabbi. So we’re going to talk a little more about truth.

 

Isaiah 60

 

I’ve prayed for many years that God would reveal to me the twelve most important pillars of the kingdom. When I was in Fremont, California, just before a Sunday morning service I was going to be ministering in, the Lord said: I’m not going to answer your prayer and reveal to you the 12 pillars of the Kingdom. He spoke so quickly I could not write fast enough to keep up with Him. These are the pillars that will make you strong. The truth is that we’re not heading into paradise through the back door. Some people want you to believe we’re in a down-turn but it’s only for a season and then things will kind of stabilize again.

 

I can remember the Lord speaking to me. I think just before I came here to speak Jesus said these words: It’s coming! A changing world!  I instantly knew that everything was going to begin to change. Things that Jesus foretold so long ago were going to begin to take place. Some of the things that we’re experiencing right now He spoke to me about thirty years ago. I would tell the Church as I would travel and minister. Because not many other prophets were  saying it, it was difficult for people to hear. Initially, David Wilkerson, and later Dumitru Duduman and I were the only ones I know traveling across the country speaking, trying to warn the Church about the things to come. Things He was showing me thirty years ago are beginning to take place now. but we, the Church, are not ready.

 

I can remember traveling back then from church to church after so many angelic visitations; visitations from the Lord telling me what was ahead. The people would love it so much there’d be standing room only. The churches would be filled with people wanting to hear what the angels of the Lord were saying. The problem was they didn’t change their lives. It was like the Bible says that the prophetic song is a beautiful song (Ezek. 33:32). The people love to hear it sung, but if they won’t let the song go into their hearts and explode into a revelation of God’s glory and be changed by it, it will not profit them. So here we are at this very hour, the hour God has been speaking about. I have received prophetic words from people. Prophetic words that were written and distributed clear back in the earliest days of the 1900’s where God would take prophets up into the spirit, taking them across the nation. Whatever the experience was, He wanted them to impart the information He would give, telling them what would happen today.  

 

God has been preparing this nation for over one hundred years for this hour—are we ready? No! Once the Lord gave me the following experience – I can’t remember now if it was a dream or vision because it was many years ago. I was feeling very discouraged, telling the Lord: I share, and share and the people—they just think I’m entertaining them. They are not striving to prepare themselves for the days ahead, Lord; maybe I’m misunderstanding things, maybe the problem is not all of them, maybe the problem is me. Help me understand how to talk to Your Church to provoke them.

 

God has been preparing this nation for over one hundred years for this hour—are we ready? No! Once the Lord gave me the following experience – I can’t remember now if it was a dream or vision because it was many years ago. I was feeling very discouraged, telling the Lord: I share, and share and the people—they just think I’m entertaining them. They are not striving to prepare themselves for the days ahead, Lord; maybe I’m misunderstanding things, maybe the problem is not all of them, maybe the problem is me. Help me understand how to talk to Your Church to provoke them.

 

In response, Jesus gave me this experience. In this experience, I was standing on an ocean beach. I found myself in a subdivision populated by all Christians. All kinds of Christians knew each other and they all agreed that this was the subdivision we needed to buy in; the whole subdivision was Christians. I was going house to house, knocking on each door of the subdivision, trying to warn each Christian about what was coming. In every case, I got the same response: Oh, I’m not worried about that, look at this house—God gave me an answer to my prayers, God answers my prayers. I’d go to the next house and they’d say: I’m not worried about that, you see that car in the driveway? God answers my prayers; He’ll take care of me and my family. Then I’d go to the next house, and they would say: You see these children in my house? God answers my prayers, and He’ll take care of me. I don’t have to worry at all. And that is how it went from house to house. I was so discouraged. I went for a walk on the beach.

 

As I walked along the beach, I looked into the air and heard people laughing above me. Two of the people I had met earlier in the subdivision were sitting on this wind glider up in the air above me and were laughing, just having a great time, and I said, “Why are you playing in the world? Why are you up there laughing as though you’ve got no concerns about the future? What are you doing?” “We told you at our house: we have no worries. God gave us what we want, He listens to us when we pray, and He will take care of us, so we don’t worry about any of that stuff. Now we’re having a party,” they yelled. As I was talking to them, I looked out into the ocean and saw a huge black pillar jetting straight up out of the ocean. The pillar quickly turned into a black wave. It kept growing and growing until it became a huge tidal wave. I knew that this tidal wave was going to come crashing down on the city and the first people hit by it were going to be the people up there on the hang-glider having a party. I screamed at the top of my lungs and said, “Look – what I have warned you about! It is here!” They looked and their faces turned to horror because they knew there was no way to escape what was about to happen. This was a foretelling of the NOLA tragedy.

 

God wants to release a strong message into the Church of this hour. He wants to prepare you for the threshold that we are standing upon. We’re not talking about future things anymore. We’re talking about what is in our lap, what is in our face. God will do some things, I believe with all my heart, to set the plan of the New World Order back just a little bit but it’s not going to be for long because we are in the last days. We are in the time of the release of the apocalyptic horses. It is upon us, it is no longer futuristic. One of the problems with the Church, and some of you may be very offended by what I’m going to say, but I’ve got to tell you the truth. The Church thinks we’re going to be OK, hidden and beyond discomfort.  I think most of you know this isn’t true but maybe not all of you know it, but so much of the Church believes we don’t have to worry about those difficult days because the Church is going to be taking up in a pre-tribulation rapture. I want to tell you that that is not Scriptural and it’s not what the Bible teaches. We are going to be here but God will make us strong if we will press in and make ourselves ready; He will prepare us so that we cannot be overcome by the difficulties we are facing.  What do you think is going to happen to the Church around the globe that believes we’re not going to be here for those very difficult days? It is one of the greatest tricks the enemy has ever played on the Church; to cause the Church to believe we are going to be the great escape artists of the last days. It was a terrible, terrible crime committed against God’s Church. But, you know, there is something in the heart of those who want truth that knows that this teaching is erroneous and those who want truth are preparing themselves—even though by and large the Church will fight against the truth, mostly because of fear. Those who want truth are preparing their hearts and souls so they can be strong for their families in the days ahead.

 

God will help us, but what can He do if you don’t want the truth that will put you into a place of safety? Amen? So, the first pillar I’ve written down tonight is truth. Being a man or woman who wants truth more than you want to breathe. Think about the days of our Lord Jesus Christ. Think about Pilate, Caiaphas and the other people of power and influence that He stood before. Here were these officials, and there, standing before their face, was truth personified, but they were so blind to what truth really was. You know, it was all relative to them, wasn’t it—just like it is today. What is truth? It was all relative, just like today. So the truth stood before them in living color, life itself beyond anything we could imagine, and they didn’t even recognize Him.

 

But here we have today, God’s Bride, His Church, who again is not recognizing truth though it stands before us. How do we remedy this chronic problem? Can I be really tough with you for a minute? Where we quit pampering ourselves and we choose truth even when it is hard or when it hurts; even when it means that we are going to be required to endure for the sake of the truth we are given? When are we going to choose to be tough? I’ve heard that in the greatest marathons there are times when people die, even though they’ve done much preparation. They run because really deep, deep down inside they have a motivation to compete for the prize. They go through all of the rigors of preparation and running a marathon is not easy; it is hard. I used to run and it was wonderful, but you get past a certain point when you’re running when in your body you start feeling the exhaustion. You really have to go through the rigors to prepare for a long marathon and the Church needs to come to that same mentality, to go through the rigors of preparing for truth. It’s the mindset that says: I’m going to do whatever my soul needs, whatever my heart requires – I’m going to do it so that I may have truth, because truth is what is going to save me in the days ahead. Amen?

 

But here we have today, God’s Bride, His Church, who again is not recognizing truth though it stands before us. How do we remedy this chronic problem? Can I be really tough with you for a minute? Where we quit pampering ourselves and we choose truth even when it is hard or when it hurts; even when it means that we are going to be required to endure for the sake of the truth we are given? When are we going to choose to be tough? I’ve heard that in the greatest marathons there are times when people die, even though they’ve done much preparation. They run because really deep, deep down inside they have a motivation to compete for the prize. They go through all of the rigors of preparation and running a marathon is not easy; it is hard. I used to run and it was wonderful, but you get past a certain point when you’re running when in your body you start feeling the exhaustion. You really have to go through the rigors to prepare for a long marathon and the Church needs to come to that same mentality, to go through the rigors of preparing for truth. It’s the mindset that says: I’m going to do whatever my soul needs, whatever my heart requires – I’m going to do it so that I may have truth, because truth is what is going to save me in the days ahead. Amen?

 

John 14: 6Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.

We think we love Jesus because He is love; but the more we get to know Him, the more we understand that we love Jesus because He is truth. We need His love; He is love and we need that, but, if He is not truth, we have nothing to stand on in difficult times.  He said: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except by and through me. He is love; He is goodness; He is mercy; He is kindness; He is justice; He is judgment; but all that He is, He is because He is truth. If Christ could lie—if it were possible for Him to deceive—and I know some of you might think how could I say such a thing?—but you know that our doubt and unbelief convicts our heart all the time that we doubt that He is truth. Somewhere deep inside we think He can and will deceive us. We know it because we don’t believe. We lack faith; we lack the stability of faith and we lack it because in our soul we wonder if He really is truth. If we knew that we knew that we knew that He could never deceive us, we would never doubt.

 

Christ is holy truth. There is no lie in Him; He cannot and will not—and again I say it—He cannot deceive us. It’s not possible for Him to lie or give us less than truth. We don’t always recognize truth, but He’s always speaking the truth and He’ll never speak to you less than truth. If Christ has spoken it, you can take it to your last breath. We may not understand how He’s going to bring it about, but He will bring it about, even if it is in the hereafter. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob learned that, along with many others along the way, there was something greater they had been promised, something that they wouldn’t see in their lifetime, but they would see in the next life. So sometimes promises are given to us and we don’t understand how those promises are going to be made manifest or even if they can be. But I promise you—if Christ spoke it, it is the truth, and it will be. He wasn’t saying: here I am – the way, and I’ll tell the truth while I’m alive. That is not what He is saying. He is saying: I am the way, I am the truth, I am truth, I am truth!

 

How can He do anything other than what He is? He only does what He is. I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life. I am the way unto the Father who is truth; He is the light of truth, the life and essence of it and I am the way into Him. I am truth because I came from my Father and I am. I am life. What is this life? It is the living truth. To be in Christ is to be in the way, is to be in truth, to be in the life of the Father. Listen to me; don’t just let it go into your head. Let it go into your heart and soul, let it reverberate through your spirit. If you are in Him you are in the way; you are in truth. You’ve been given a new matrix from which to live, from which to flow. You’re not what you were before—you’ve become a new creation. A new creature and there is now something inside of you that is hungering to be free of the darkness and a walk in the light. There is something inside of you that is hungering to be free of the deceptions of the world and walk in the truth of the kingdom. There is something inside of you that is trying to rise and override your soul; the passions of your soul and those of your flesh. There is something inside of you screaming for the light of truth because you have become one with truth. You didn’t know the truth before you knew Christ. You may have known that there is truth, whether you understood it or not. You may have wondered if Christ was the way of truth but you didn’t know the truth. I don’t care how many people stood in front of you and said, “Well, I’m telling the truth.” The media raised you lying to you every day. You live in a world governed by the spirit of deception and living under the veil of the lie, and this lie tells you that you need what is in the world to survive. It is a spiritual kingdom that thrives within the confines of this lie. The lie that tells you that you need something other than God to survive, and everybody believes it unless you’ve come into the place of union where your mind, heart and soul have become overtaken by the Spirit of the Lord.

 

If you haven’t arrived there, deep inside of you is the belief that you need something other than God to survive. You need cars, houses, food and friends. You need all these things and deep inside, you believe it, because that lie hovers over you. That lie is the very air you breathe. There’s a veil put over your eyes that hinders you from seeing the truth if you’re not walking in union with Christ. The only way to get that veil broken is to leave the world and come into union with God. Jesus said, “I am the way, I am the truth.” You can choose to live in the world that is full of lies, full of deception, dishonoring truth every day, beguiling and blinding you, hindering your understanding and receptivity to truth. Or you can fight the forces in spiritual warfare and pave your way into the light of glorious truth. It’s up to you. Everyone is called to fight the good fight of faith, yet few fight it. When you enter into this place of reigning where you’re living in the truth now, wholly in the truth—you see all things differently, and you wonder how you could ever have been so blind to see things in such a perverted way. The world is like an insane asylum—can I be that honest? The world is insanity; the opposite of everything that is God and it is the opposite of everything that is truth; it is insanity.

 

I heard one man recently—Chuck Colson. He said, “This debt that America has gotten itself into—fourteen trillion dollars—I want to tell you the truth; I just want to state it plainly. I want you to know this is insanity. It is insanity for a nation to put itself fourteen trillion dollars in debt, and it is sin.” I chuckled and thought you might be the only person that has said that. Probably, there aren’t even many men of God saying that. Not only is it sin and insanity to be fourteen trillion dollars in debt, but it is sin and insanity to be a thousand dollars in debt if you’re an individual. The Bible says to owe no man anything but love.

 

This world is built on a shaky foundation, and God is calling you out of it. He’s calling you out of it to live in the Spirit, in the life of truth where you see everything through the eyes of God instead of through the eyes of the one who wants to deceive you. I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by and through me. Then He said in verse 17, the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart) because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him, but you know and recognize Him for He lives with you constantly and will be in you.

 

It is this truth with which God wants to consume you. He wants your soul consumed with truth, the Spirit of truth where you are discerning the truth from a lie and good from evil; you are discerning the light from the darkness. He wants you owned by the truth. He wants your soul to radiate the light of His glorious truth.

 

It is this truth with which God wants to consume you. He wants your soul consumed with truth, the Spirit of truth where you are discerning the truth from a lie and good from evil; you are discerning the light from the darkness. He wants you owned by the truth. He wants your soul to radiate the light of His glorious truth.

John 16: 13But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future].

I can say to you that this world is darkness, and you will sit there in full agreement not even understanding what that darkness is. One time the Lord visited me. He stood on the threshold of heaven. From that vantage point,  I looked up at Him, at which time He begins to speak. I do not know how to explain how Jesus does this. All I can say is that when He wants to get a message across to you, He will not necessarily use words, for He wants Himself to be the message; He will emanate that message from His whole being. At this particular time, as He stood at the threshold of heaven, He began to emanate His virtues, starting with mercy; He suddenly became holy mercy, and as He began emanating this holy mercy, I was encompassed by it. Then it dissipated and He began emanating His love; He is love. On and down through His virtues He moved. As He closed down one virtue, the next virtue would emanate. I could see and feel what love looked like. Love has a look; even mercy and faithfulness has a look when He wants it to have a look. You see and feel it. You experience.

 

After going through His virtues, He then closed all of that down, and He let me begin to feel the nature and the character of evil, and as evil began to rise and become pre-eminent in my consciousness, I could feel the spirit of murder. I could feel the spirit of hate. I was like walking down the streets of Harlem with gang wars all around me. I could feel the spirit of murder; I could feel the spirits of hate, jealousy and anger—the personification of these things all around me. I don’t know how else to say it except it was as though I was walking down the streets of Harlem, gang wars happening all around me. Passions of the flesh and soul seemed to be coming out of the very walls of the buildings, coming up from the very street and the sidewalk, coming down from the very heavens, surrounded by bitterness, unforgiveness, and jealousy; all of these horrible, dangerous, passions seemed to clothe me. I felt so afraid—I said, “Lord, please take this away; I don’t know why you’re showing me this.” I was so afraid! Suddenly, Jesus said, “Have you had enough?” I said, “What is it? What is it you’re trying to show me?” He said, “This is the spirit of the world.” I said, “Lord, please deliver me from this, this is frightening to me.”

 

And then He began to cause that to dissipate and again He began to emanate, one at a time, His virtues.

 

Drawn to the beauty of His virtues, I began to arise and go to Him. I lifted off my bed, up through the roof, to meet Him where He was. I was so compellingly drawn by the beauty of His virtues I could not help myself.

 

Now listen to me, God is calling you to truth. He is calling you to come out of the world. Satan makes the world look so good, doesn’t he? He makes it look so inviting; titillating your senses, titillating your passions, that you follow him. He shows you one thing, and you think, I’ve got to have that, and you think about it and think about it until finally you go down and buy it. He shows you another thing, and you start lusting after that.  You are like a pinball in a pinball machine being shot back and forth, lusting after this and lusting after that, and it all looks so beautiful. I just have to have some of that cake. You think, I’ve never heard of rocky-road cake before. Just a little piece—I wonder where I could go to get it. You start hungering for something you’ve never tasted before. Maybe not rocky-road cake, maybe strawberry shortcake; you do not know what you’re hungering for, but you just have to have it. And after you have it, you may love it or hate it, but you are already onto wanting the next thing. Satan makes it all look so good, appealing, and may I say, right? He teaches you how to love this, and He teaches you how to hate this. He teaches you how to want this, and He teaches you how to despise this, and he works very hard at it. The spirit of the world is ever working to keep you in bondage to that darkness, and he succeeds.

 

But God is calling you to the light of truth. What is truth? The truth is that you are born of God. You are no longer a child of the devil. You are born of God, and your life is now springing from a new flow, a new fountain. That life is springing from the life of Jesus Christ Himself, and it’s not something you’re to visit occasionally – just come to church, feel the spirit and think: I want that life, I want what that life feels like. He doesn’t want you to visit it occasionally. Jesus wants you to come out of the deception that tells you that you have to have and live by the passions of your soul, flesh and mind. He wants you to come into the truth where you’re living by the passions of Jesus Christ; the passions of love, goodness, gentleness, kindness, joy, faith; the passions of a higher reality where you’re ruling and reigning over the one who wants to rule and reign over you. He wants you to live in the fountain of truth; He wants you to stand under the waterfall of glorious light where you’re ever transformed, transfigured into the image of Christ. You were never called to live on the fence between deception and truth, dipping your toes here for a while, dipping your toes there for a while. By doing this you are constantly keeping your heart hard and indifferent to what Christ is. You don’t know or realize that. Every time you yield to the passions of your soul, yield to the passions of your flesh, you are hardening your heart and you by choice are making your heart indifferent to the life of Christ to which you’ve been called.

 

Is that where you want to live? Is that where you want to go? Jesus said that the Spirit of truth would come, and He would lead you into all truth. How long have you been saved? Five years? Ten years? Twenty years? Fifty years? And how deeply in the truth do you walk? I’m feeling the tears of the Lord Jesus Christ on my heart. How much of your time and your energies has been given to follow after the passions that to you are illegal? The passions of your soul—the passions of your flesh; how much of your energies in the last ten, twenty, thirty, forty years that you have been saved has been spent on the things that pull you away from truth, pull you away from Jesus? How much of you belongs to you instead of Him? I’m feeling the groaning of the spirit because it’s all too true. Satan dazzles, and we bite—he sets before us the dainty morsels, and we chew and desire more until the life of our spirit is brought down in utter subjection to the passions of our soul and we cannot make the ascent.

 

Don’t you know that there is life so high and so beautiful, so powerful that when you look at the lovely picture of Jesus Christ walking with His disciples among men—isn’t there something in that life that causes you to crave Him? Isn’t there something so extraordinarily beautiful that makes you want to follow Him? Doesn’t it provoke something in your heart that says if He were here today you would leave everything and follow Him? The Father designed the Gospels to give us a living picture of what it means to walk with God. The old covenant was written for us, pointing its finger at the coming Messiah, the coming holy one that would teach us how to walk with God. The new covenant rehearses, teaches, emphasizes, and describes what we saw in living color; tells us how to get there. And there, embodied in the Gospels, not only did He walk, but He spoke. He taught us and gave us the words that teach us how to get away from the world and to walk in God. Shake yourself awake. Paul said to fan the flame. You can’t just sit still and expect the Spirit to do it; you must fan the flame and shake yourself awake. The Bible said to shake of the dust, sleep, and slumber (Isaiah 52:2, Eph 5:14). You must do the shaking! You must command your soul to rise and embrace the truth, embrace the life, and embrace Christ. You must command your soul to be awakened, and you must do it now!

 

You can’t keep sleeping at the foot of truth and expect yourself to rise in the strength and the wholeness of the One who bought your soul. Neither can you sit still in slumber and expect Him to do it for you because He does not. You are the one who opens the doors of your heart to the Holy Spirit and says: Come in. I want You to shake everything that You can shake, Lord, because I want every compartment of this heart to belong to You!

 

You are the one that has to do it. He’s not going to come and barge in the door while you sleep at the foot of truth. Someone used to work for me; every time our team would go into prayer, this person would go to sleep. I would tell this person, if feel the desire to sleep, then get up and walk, but don’t sleep when you should be praying. If you have to go stand on the edge of the bathtub, then do it. Do whatever you have to do to keep yourself awake because today, sleeping is the most serious mistake you could ever make. It’s never been more necessary to wake up.

 

You are the one that has to do it. He’s not going to come and barge in the door while you sleep at the foot of truth. Someone used to work for me; every time our team would go into prayer, this person would go to sleep. I would tell this person, if feel the desire to sleep, then get up and walk, but don’t sleep when you should be praying. If you have to go stand on the edge of the bathtub, then do it. Do whatever you have to do to keep yourself awake because today, sleeping is the most serious mistake you could ever make. It’s never been more necessary to wake up.

 

God is calling you, and He’s calling you to a new place of commitment; a new place of passion. He’s calling you to chase after the truth. We are to dig for it as a man digs for human treasures; open the Bible, dig for the truth as a man digs for hidden treasures. If someone gave you a gold mine and said that all you have to do is mine it and its field for gold and you would become one of the wealthiest people on the face of the earth, would you just sit still in your living room and say, “I wish I had money while the economy is falling apart?” Or would you go at any cost, maybe even sell your house, to buy the equipment to mine the gold mine? What would you do? Listen to me. What would you? You’ve got the greatest gold mine in the world in your hands. You’ve got the greatest gold mine in the world in your soul. The wealth of the kingdom and eternity is in this place. What are you doing to mine the gold? You would sell your house and car—everything you own down to the clothes on your back—if you knew that mining the gold mine you had just been handed would make you a wealthy person. But will you pick up this Book and mine the gold? Will you plow up the fallow ground? Plow up the fallow ground of your soul and prepare it for the gold of heaven! Will you? If you sell all to mine the gold mine that this gentleman so graciously gave you, that might show you’re intelligent. But if you would mine that earthly mine and leave this heavenly mine untouched, you are a person lacking wisdom.

 

Who cares if you’re a multi-billionaire if your soul is not rich in God? What do you have in life if you do not walk in the wealth of the kingdom? What do you have? You have nothing. A person who lives in abject poverty but is rich in faith, rich in the wealth of the kingdom is of more value to this earth than someone who is a billionaire and is poor in spirit, in the wrong way.

 

We need to change the way we perceive things. What you’ve been given is of greater value than anything that this world can offer. It’s of greater value than anything this world can offer. Be wise in your pursuits—don’t be a fool. Desire the wealth of the kingdom; desire to walk in the light of His truth.

 

I just saw an incredible vision. I saw the human soul and I saw a seed planted in it. Suddenly, seemingly as fast as the seed was planted, up out of the seed came a tree of light, filling the whole soul with the glory of God. If the light in your eyes is dark, your soul is filled with darkness. But if the light in your eyes is light, your soul is filled with light. Where will you stand this day? What will you have this day? Will you allow the tree of the kingdom to arise in its place and fill you with the life, the light, the power, the glory of the living Lord? The Word of God is near you, even in your mouth. That tree is the glory of the Word of God. It is the eternal seed that has been planted in you as a most luxurious gift. It is the desire of the nations, wealth so great that those who despise God are jealous and they hate you for the treasure that is inside you, because they know the day is coming. Deep down inside God has put eternity into their heart and soul and deep down inside they know the day is coming when they are going to be dwelling in the caverns of hell looking at you dwelling in the glory of heaven knowing they could’ve had it but they despised it when they should’ve loved it.

 

Love truth; crave truth; desire truth so that the passion of God overtakes your soul and consumes you in the zeal of Christ for truth. No longer walk in darkness but live in the light for you are children of the light. Desire not the darkness of the world, but desire the light of your glorious Lord. When you finally walk through that illustrious door, you’ve broken with the bondages of the world and your soul is transformed when you’ve finally reached the glorious door of truth. When you step over the threshold into the glorious light and you shut the door behind you—all things are changed, and you are transfigured. He who desires you has become all in all. You have been brought back to the beginning. You have touched the purpose for which you’ve been created. Jesus never called you to be a seeker of the world. He called and empowered you, giving you the life to enable you to be a seeker of truth. Until you’re living in the kingdom of His glory while here on this earth—and don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do it because I’m telling you that you can and if you don’t accomplish it in this life then shame on you for wanting the wrong life.

 

Lord, sometimes your truth makes us so nervous we can hardly sit still. We feel your words penetrate and start to burn, Lord, and start to shake our soul and it just makes us so nervous we can hardly sit still. And Lord, we’re nervous because we know we’re on the wrong road and we need to change allegiance, but something inside our soul is warring against the very truth our spirit cries for. Lift us up Lord that you grace may strengthen us for the journey as we open your beautiful, marvelous book, Lord; that your Words penetrate and give strength and stamina for the journey. It doesn’t matter what we have or accomplish in this life if we do not accomplish Your will and if we do not have the life to which we’ve been called. Wood, hay and stubble—that’s what Paul called it; let us learn to cast it aside for the greater. We give you praise, Lord.

 

All things that are Mine are yours and all things that are yours belong to Me and I am glorified in and through them.

 

All are mine, which is what it should say. And He said: All that is Mine is yours. And He wants to give it to you, but you have to come after it. You have to rise up and come after it. What did the father say to the prodigal son? What did he say to the brother? All that is mine is yours. To the prodigal, whose eyes were finally opened, he gave the ring of authority. He gave to the other brother all that he had. The prodigal had already spent his father’s wealth and all that the father had, he gave to the brother. But what the father gave to the prodigal was worth more than what he gave to the brother. Learn to choose right; don’t cherish anything that you can put your hands on. Don’t cherish anything of this temporal plain—cherish the Lord. When your heart is free of all temporal belongings and the only thing you cherish in your heart is Christ, you have won it all, Amen?

 

God, you are life, and you are truth, and we have not yet learned to discern what we must learn to discern quickly. We have not learned to put our life in you, to put our faith in you and to walk in the life that you give to stand in the truth that you are. We have not learned to discern properly good from evil, but Lord, I am asking you to impart in every willing heart a greater measure of your Spirit to help them discern good from evil that they may let go of the lower life and love the higher life, and walk in the goodness and the life in the power of Your truth, in Your precious name, Amen.

 

In His Amazing Love,

Nita Johnson