The Fire and the Fear of the Lord! Part 4

By

Nita Johnson

6.23.22

 

 

 

Well, we are on Part 4 of the Fire and the Fear of God! I hope this brief writing will prove to be of value in the future as you learn to walk with God.

I kind of had to chuckle when our dear friend Jon said something like “The Lord has been busy doing small things in relation to the Gatherings”. Small things – President Trump was a BIG thing! We have had lots of GOOD THINGS that have transpired that man said could never accomplish on his own. And greater is coming, God told me He would do it and He is going to do it!

The fear and fire of the Lord is a major step enroute to Divine Union!

So, rejoice, just rejoice, every day that you think about it, thank Jesus for what He is about to do!

 

DEAD TWIGS COME TO LIFE

Elizabeth bought me an arrangement of hydrangeas a couple of weeks ago. They are beautiful – and they last forever, it seems like. This time, she put old dead twigs in them from the flower shop. You are not going to believe this – to me it is a SIGN: she has these old dead twigs in the arrangement, and they are SPROUTING living LEAVES. Now, how can this be? There is no root system to these twigs. They were dead twigs! But in this last week they have sprouted leaves ALL OVER THESE TWIGS. I really believe that it is a SIGN. I believe God is telling us: “it may seem dead, but new life is beginning to sprout.”

 

So, praise God! It makes you want to stand up and clap or dance!

 

I would like to share with you a message that has been brewing in my heart for a few weeks. It is because God wants to give the Church something that is so beautiful in His sight. You need to know what that means. Where He is going with it. Why He is doing this, so you do not fear it. Instead, you will jump into the river and swim in it! This article is about the Fire and the Fear of the Lord.

 

Prayer:

Jesus, you are just so wonderful; You have had me in and out of tears all day, with such an expectancy for Your goodness. I always seem to really lack the vernacular that can depict my heart and my love for You. My respect and my trust are in You. It is just amazing to walk with You. Thank You for the privilege of doing this very significant thing in the healing of our nation. Because of your great plans for mankind and your great plans for the Church and for the nation, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

 

 

Revelation Ch 1: 1-11 (AMPC)

 

After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice which I had heard addressing me like [the calling of] a war trumpet said, come up here, and I will show you what must take place in the future.

2 At once I came under the [Holy] Spirit’s power, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with One seated on the throne!

3 And He Who sat there appeared like [the crystalline brightness of] jasper and [the fiery] sardius, and encircling the throne there was a halo that looked like [a rainbow of] emerald.

4 Twenty-four other thrones surrounded the throne, and seated on these thrones were twenty-four elders (the members of the heavenly Sanhedrin), arrayed in white clothing, with crowns of gold upon their heads.

5 Out from the throne came flashes of lightning and rumblings and peals of thunder, and in front of the throne seven blazing torches burned, which are the seven Spirits of God [the sevenfold Holy Spirit];

6 And in front of the throne there was also what looked like a transparent glassy sea, as if of crystal. And around the throne, in the center at each side of the throne, were four living creatures (beings) who were full of eyes in front and behind [with intelligence as to what is before and at the rear of them].

7 The first living creature (being) was like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature had the face of a man, and the fourth living creature [was] like a flying eagle.

8 And the four living creatures, individually having six wings, were full of eyes all over and within [underneath their wings]; and day and night they never stop saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty (Omnipotent), Who was and Who is and Who is to come.

9 And whenever the living creatures offer glory and honor and thanksgiving to Him Who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever (through the eternities of the eternities),

10 The twenty-four elders (the members of the heavenly Sanhedrin) fall prostrate before Him Who is sitting on the throne, and they worship Him Who lives forever and ever; and they throw down their crowns before the throne, crying out,

11 Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and dominion, for You created all things; by Your will they were [brought into being] and were created.

 

HEAVENLY EXPERIENCE

The Lord took me up into Heaven to relive this very scene, line upon line, three times throughout my Christian Walk. I do not know how or why He did what He did. I was not praying for this. Each time I saw or heard it, what I felt was so amazing. Again, I do not know that there is earthly vernacular that can adequately describe that which I experienced. 

 

I could never thank God enough for what He did. One of the things that I learned through those three experiences was the profound love, worship, and holiness that is in Him. 

 

Those in Heaven love Him profoundly, and He loves them. They are pure and holy because there is nothing left of the world that can touch them. He is pure and holy. They are worshiping Him in this state of holy perfection. Releasing something I do not even know how to describe except that it is so awesome, wondrous, and excellent. It is so majestic because He is majestic.

 

He has come to me for this purpose a few times. I cannot tell you how many. This experience He took me to Heaven, and I literally experienced it with the people. He was there in His majesty! Unless He says something or does something to enable you to be in that presence, you cannot. As a human being and as a created being, the awe of it just takes your breath away. The awe of His Majesty is beyond human expression. 

 

There is a fragrance the Lord carries. I do not know how to describe the fragrance. He allowed me the privilege of experiencing the different fragrances of the Lord so many times. There is one that reminds me of the Holy anointing oil that is here on the earth to be used in the worship of the Lord. This worship to His Majesty is so fragrant that the fragrance alone is inebriating! Not mention the excellencies of His presences. 

 

He carries His fragrance wherever He goes, but there is an added dimension when it is mixed with the worship of the Saints. We see that in the Book of Revelation. The angels are mixing the fragrance, and you have an entirely different combination. The fragrance is so beautiful and inebriating to the heart, spirit, and soul of the believer.

 

The inebriating fragrance fills that incredible place(heaven). The Bible describes things that happen in heaven. John looking on from a perspective of heave. When you are up there in it you realize that there are countless Saints and Angels present from all over Heaven. Being there worshiping Him like this with our brothers and sisters who have gone on is incredible. One of the things that it stirs is the Fear of the Lord. This is not an ungodly fear. This is a holy reverential fear.

 

The Fear of the Lord provokes and encompasses awe, reverence, adoration. You have a righteous confidence in His goodness. There is a desire to honor and worship Him. You also experience thankfulness, love and fear. It provokes contrition, holy awe, divine respect, and reverence. There we go again. There is also dread, wonder, and selfless love for the Majestic.

 

One writer wrote that this awe, this Fear of the Lord is an overwhelming feeling or sense of reverence. Holy fear and wonder produced and provoked by His holiness and Majesty, incomparable purity and perfection.

 

This is all true. You can look at some of my writings and find so much more about the Fear of the Lord. You will learn what the Fear of the Lord provokes in the heart of a believer who has it.

 

Personally, I would never want to live a day in this life without the Fear of the Lord.

 

He gave that to me. I won’t go into details (I have done it in other messages). He gave it to me at a very young time and season in my Christian Walk. It has had a profound effect on my life. I have experienced a profound otherworldly living that was granted to me because of it.

 

THE AWARENESS OF THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD

 

It is like I am ever aware of His holiness. Sometimes I am aware of the spirit of the world, and different spirits and principalities that try to steal the heart of the Christian. I can’t stand their presence. It is not because I fear them. I don’t.  You do not fear them if you have the Fear of the Lord. I cannot stand their presence because – there is no fragrance. It has a profoundly ugly odor. 

 

THE HATRED OF SIN, THE LOVE OF PEOPLE

Ricci Wilson

 

The feeling of sin is just dreadful. I hate sin. I really hate it. But I love people. The Angel of the Lord told Ricci that very thing when she was young in the Lord that the Lord hates sin, but He loves people. That has had a profound effect on her life as well.

 

You feel compassion and mercy for people whose lives are being directed by the evil Kingdom.

 

I am so thankful for the Fear of the Lord because that is a fragrance that has a profound holiness, sense of purity, and of perfection. It is incomparable. It is something every believer should want with all their heart and all their being. That is why He wants me to talk about it. He does not want you to be afraid. Desire it, so He can make you more like Him.

 

THE DARK CLOUD

 

The first time He allowed me to experience this glorious presence, He came to me in a unique way. Something I rarely talk about (because people have a problem with it, but it is in the Bible, and it is attributed to God, not to evil). I want to share with you that just before the Lord entered in this majestic presentation of Himself, a dark cloud appeared and stood between Him and me in the beginning.

 

I often wondered what that dark cloud signified. I felt like He told me that I was not yet ready to see the highest of His glory. He was too brilliant; my heart could not deal with it. Even my spirit man would have had difficulty.

 

THE REMOVAL OF THE CLOUD, THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY

 

He did remove that cloud before He left only for a moment. I did see Him. It was not at the height of His wondrous glory. It was not until recently, the glory that He allows me to see is getting more and more profoundly bright. It is at the point that it is so difficult to look at Him with my eyes, nowadays.

 

When the Bible talks about the glory that emanated from the Lord, I know that he who saw Him, said: brighter than any launderer could whiten them (Mark 9:3). He was wrestling for words to explain what he saw. If you look at the whitest white paper or a beautiful white snowfall, and the sun shining down on that beautiful snowfall, you still cannot touch the whiteness of His glory. It is so far higher than that.

 

He allowed this dark cloud between us in the beginning.

 

During that visit, that kindness made a way for Him to be able to remove that cloud so that I knew that I knew that I knew it was my Savior and Lord.

 

Let me share something a prophetess wrote.

I do not know that she calls herself a prophetess but she really is. I have known her from the past, and she has a beautiful walk with the lord.

 

She asked an angel what the dark cloud was? She too saw it.

 

 

The Fire and The Fear of the Lord

(The Dark Cloud by Anna)

 

I asked, “What is the dark cloud about which my Father spoke, Elijah?”

 

He replied, “The dark cloud that surrounds God is the dense oil of the Spirit, a great good, a visible sign of the magnitude of the anointing, incomprehensible to mankind and therefore seemingly dark.

 

Ex 20:21

To the majority of mankind,

He is hidden in darkness

 

Light that they cannot see, emanates from Him. To many of His children He seems hidden, but the fire of His love is burning through the density of that oil now and will allow His children to see His love, His mercy, and his fatherly compassion. They can also see the startling reality of His holiness.

 

This fire will burn all that is wood, hay, and stubble in the lives of His children. They must desire the fire and long for His Holiness. His heart is turned toward them, and the fire of His love will reveal this.

 

The hearts of the children will long turn toward Him, who walks through the fire of purification, and rest in His arms.

 

As the enemy hates the fire, so must God’s children love it, for in and through the fire, they will see God.”

 

 

When I tell you that I will talk about the Fire of God and the Fear of the Lord, there you have it all compressed into the above excerpt.

 

The Fire of God begins to provoke and implement the cleansing of your inner man of soul and even your spirit. Your mind and heart are cleansed with it. Everything it touches is put in a cleansing process.

 

Now, it is not easy to go through that. I am not trying to tell you something that is not true. It is difficult to go through it. I have been there and done it. That fire is like fire burning through a log.

 

When I was child, I would go camping for a week with our class. When we lit the fire, it would burn into the center of our log over which we cooked. First, it would burn from there and consume the center, then it eventually incinerated the outer part of the log. Likewise, the Fear and Fire of God burns in the center of our souls and from there begin a sort of reconstruction with light and fire to provide a place for the Son of God to dwell.

 

  1. A) Is not that exciting?

 

 When it is getting difficult, do not run away from it. The more difficult it becomes the more adamant you must be that you are going to stay and let Him finish what He wants to do.

 

Decades ago, my daughter, Ricci had a spiritual experience. In the experience, she was lying in bed when her inner man caught on fire and it blazed and blazed until she was in pain. She tried to jump out of bed to protect herself from this pain, not knowing what it meant. When she jumped out of bed, she could not stand up straight because of the discomfort. When the fire had done its work, she suddenly stood up straight and experienced a strength she had never known in her whole life. The reason that happened was because the Spirit abode where once the weak spirit of man lived. This is a very good thing. That is why the Angel spoke the way He did.

 

You see the Fire of God in revival. If someone has been baptized in the Fire of God, and you sit under their ministry, although revival may or may not break out. If you sit under the teaching, you know you have met God. It is just different. I do not know how to describe it. I have been used in revival in the past. It affects those in the meeting and those being used. It is amazing. God be glorified!

 

He is so different than we are Church. He expects a lot, but He gives so much more than He expects. He will empower and enable us to do and be all we need to be to walk these things out and let Him perfect the work that He is doing.

 

This place of the Fear of the Lord that I shared with you in Revelation 4 – Oh, my brothers and sisters, the Bible (in the book of Revelation) talks about the way John saw the Lord Jesus Christ,” He was like fire from His feet up to His waist, and waist up to His head, this glorious fire.” When He is at this highly exalted state, I can hardly bear it. It is so painful but so divine. 

 

At this highly exalted state, He is depicting the Father above. He is emanating His Person. He is revealing the Father’s Personage. If you are standing near when He is in that state, the glory is so great. Oh, my goodness, it is so great. I have been there, done that, and I know what I am writing about.

 

His presence consumes you. You are divested of self and filled with His glory.

 

Filled with His glory! 

Holy is the Lord, Holy is the Lamb,

Holy is the Great I AM, glorious wonder! 

The majestic of all that is!

A song of the Spirit!

 

 

If He invites you into such a relationship. Do not say ‘no’ to the purification and training of walking in that place. When He is done and He brings you into Union, you live in Heaven while here on this earth. He took me there. He told me that He has put me there. He takes me places when I intercede for Him. When I say He takes me places, across continents. He has purified me to the point where He is able to do that. 

 

It is not my glory, it is His. We could never in ourselves do something like that to ourselves. Oh God! He wants you to know it is the most glorious way to live in this life. Do not ever say, no keep saying yes. Give me grace Lord to say YES to Your glory. He will!

 

I love my team. They are beautiful people. I love my daughter. I adore her. I love her hunger for the Lord.

 

It is a wondrous life, nothing to fear. God is love, and He loves you more than you could ever love Him. 

I am lost in Him right now.

 

Prayer:

 

Oh God,

My soul, my heart is on fire for You, oh God. 

Oh God You are a holy God, You are a holy God!

Wondrous Father,

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord! 

Holy is the Lord.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord!

There is no God like our God, there is no God like our God.

You captivate my soul, my heart, my mind, my spirit,

I am yours!

Oh God: pour out Your Spirit tonight,

Let us know this sacred majesty!

Pour out Your spirit, Lord.

Pour out Your spirit.

Oh God,

May we, Lord, become one with You!

Oh, let us have the Fear of God –

That we may walk

In Your life

In Your life

In Your life

And we become wholly Yours.

Oh Father,

Send the fire of revival.

Oh God, my heart’s so aflame, it is unbearable.

More of You God, more of You, my Father.

More of the Son!

I yield it all, I yield it all, I yield it all!

Oh God! Oh God!

Your love is like a river that flows from everlasting to everlasting.

The Fire of Your holiness, oh God;

Your love and Your Holiness!

Oh God, oh God You take us.

You embrace us

You bring us into Yourself

You make us a new man

There is nothing like walking with You in union,

There is nothing that could be compared

With the glory and beauty of it!

 

Oh God,

Make us worthy of You, Lord

Make us worthy of You, Lord

You are what we hunger and thirst for,

The pure in heart shall see God.

We want to live in You.

We want to live before You.

We want to walk before you in Your pleasure, Lord.

We want to be so filled with Your Son.

Oh God,

Glorious Father

Glorious Father

Oh, the fire; the fire, glorious Fire!

Glorious Son of God!

 

Oh Lord,

How beautiful, how wonderful You are.

I ask You right now, Lord,

To meet every uplifted hand, pour out Your fire.

Pour out the Fear of God.

Pour out the Revival, the Fire of Revival

On every lifted hand to every soul who loves You

And wants Your love in them to flow up to You

Oh God, Majesty, Majesty, Majesty!

Majestic One. Majestic One. Majestic One.

So worthy are You, so worthy!

 

Oh, that the Son of God may worship You through me, my Father.

The worship that You are worthy to receive!

 

The Fire of Heaven.

The Fire of love.

The Divine Holiness, oh God!

To become more holy still, Lord, for Your pleasure.

That I may know You yet more deeply, more intimately,

Then I have ever known You before!

To be filled with such holiness and purity!

For this I live, my Father.

Enable me, Father to please You, to please the Son.

 

Make me a sacrificial offering Lord to Your pleasure.

I put no boundaries on You my Father!

You do it all! You have it all!

You are worth it.

You are worthy of it,

Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!

In Him,

Nita Johnson