1/29/26
There is an eternal mystery unfolding in this hour. not newly conceived, but newly unveiled. It adds depth, beauty, and holy wonder to the life we are living with God. Though we are experiencing its movement now, this work has been in operation from the very beginning. It is an eternal plan, hidden in the heart of God, preserved through the ages.
By His mercy, He has always kept a remnant, a people set apart, who guarded the threshold, ensuring that His life and truth remain established in the earth when He rises to judge and restore all things to right order. This is not merely an outward work of correction, but an inward work of formation.
It is a work He performs within all His people, yet it is experienced with such personal intimacy that it can feel like a secret shared between the Father and His son. Those who yield to this process are being formed into living epistles, who are written onto the tablets of the heart by the Spirit of the living God. Our very lives become readable, bearing witness to the reality of a life, walked with God.
In every age, by His mercy, the Lord has preserved His order, His priesthood, a set-apart people, through whom the life of His imperishable seed, remains anchored in the earth. When He comes to judge and restore all things to right order, He does not begin from nothing. He moves upon a foundation He has already been faithfully laying within His people.
This is that hidden work of the Melchisedek Priesthood.
It is the inward formation of sons. The personal inscription of the Father writing upon the heart. Though it belongs to the whole Body, it unfolds with such intimacy that it often feels like a sacred exchange between Father and son. Those who submit to it are becoming living epistles, lives inscribed by the Spirit of the living God, readable witnesses of what it means to walk with Him.
The way I experience life lived with God, will not be the same as others around me, which only adds to the depth, beauty, wonder and mystery of it all. As a living epistle myself, the testimony of God’s work in me is remarkable. Not because the experiences themselves are the highlight, or because I am anything special myself. The excitement of what I am sharing is because of the invitation of unity and oneness the Lord is offering among His people at this time. I pray the Holy Spirit brings clarity where my words fall short.
Several months ago, I had an experience with the Lord. It was a vision, but several of my senses were also involved. I could actually feel, physically, what was taking place. Since that time, my life has not been the same. The Lord has remained with me in a very intimate way; His presence has not left me. I do wish I could share every supernatural detail of it all, so He can have all the reverence and awe that is deserved. But those details are much better shared in person.
The Word says that if we draw near to Him, He will draw near to us; that if we seek Him, we will find Him. I can tell you that I have been in the depths. I have been down in the pit, but in that place, I cried out to Him with everything in me. I chose to go under His shelter and submit to His hand of discipline over my life. I found, that His ways are not something to be feared, but a place of safety. He knows me. He wants to bring all of His children into a place of unhindered communion. So, under His instruction is truly the best place to be. This is where He transforms.
And because I sought Him in the depths, He has come to me and our lives have intertwined. The light of His presence is continually, healing me from the inside out. Being intimate with Him in all aspects of my life has changed literally everything. Currently, I am navigating a season of excruciating physical pain. Yet, in the midst of that physical reality, I am experiencing a supernatural sustaining, a joy and union with the Father that brings my Spirit a peace that passes all human understanding. Not only is He undoing my old nature, but He is building within me His own. A remarkable aspect of my testimony is not found in the events themselves, but mostly un the unnoticeable places by man. The secrete places only I would know. The ones the unsettle me deeply. The questions of why. The fear of what is to become of me. The panic of enduring a debilitating pain that has no end in sight. The places of me that seek for recognition and fairness. All of these “hidden” deep places, the Spirit of God is settling within the depths of me. To be in union with Him, means that even while the body is in the fire of trials and suffering, the Spirit remains settled in a quietness that the world cannot give.
This love far exceeds any kind of love I have ever known. Who could settle these deep recesses of the heart and mind but God. It is impossible. So, it is without question that I would in turn, I eagerly accept the invitation God is extending any who is willing to yield and consecrate themselves for God’s purposes in this time.
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with Me. The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with Me on My throne, as I also conquered and sat down with My Father on His throne.” (Revelation 3:20–21 ESV).
The Bridegroom stands at the door and knocks, inviting us into the communion of His table and the union of His throne.
He who has ears, let him hear what the Spirit is saying.
For a season, God has positioned His remnant in a protective cave. This cave has not been a place of punishment, but of provision. It has been shelter, a strategic space of separation, comfort, healing, growth, and hidden development. It was necessary. It was a mercy and blessing, but it is no longer the path. The Lord is now both warning and inviting us, to move forward and step out into the season that has shifted.
God provided the cave as a strategic season, but it was never a permanent station. We must stay moldable, for the ways and modes that once sheltered us will restrict us if we try to carry them into the new. Eventually, a womb that is not exited becomes a prison; what once fed our life will begin to crush our growth because the “old wine skin” cannot contain the expansion and corporate maturity needed for the land of promise. Like a child after nine months, we have reached the limit of our confinement. The birth is no longer a choice…it is a necessity.
The Lord is summoning us forward to be rightly aligned and established in our appointed place, that we might carry our portion of responsibility within the advancing order of His Kingdom in the earth.
God has been establishing a hidden work within His people, a work in the inner man. Those who are His living epistles are being drawn into nearness before Him, filled from the treasury of His heart. The fruit produced in hiddenness will, in its appointed time, be made visible. What has been formed inwardly will emerge outwardly. The bondage of the barren winter season is ending, and the bride of Christ will bring forth the offspring God has always desired. The sons of God will shine as lights, in the midst of darkness, revealing the life of Christ, that has been formed within them.
“Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.” (Daniel 12:3 NIV).
As God is moving and expanding, He is saying that cave of protection graciously given to us was merely the shallow waters of the depths, width, length, and height, He has been preparing for those of who bear His name, to enter into with Him.
Many of the mindsets we are holding onto are good; they are even pleasing to the Father. This is why it is hard for many to grasp the need for a change. But God is moving us into maturity as a unified Body. He is moving us into not just the good or pleasing, but into perfection, completion, full stature, and maturity. He is leading us into oneness in fellowship with Him and with all those led by the Spirit. No more going in and out of the temple, for He will dwell among us. He is establishing the reality of an Immanuel Company, God with us, within us, and among us.
For the Body to move into this maturity, we must understand that God will wait to build a permanent establishment in His Bride, until He has captivated her heart. He is waiting until she has given herself to Him wholly, without any reserve.
“…until we all attain oneness into the faith, until we all experience the fullness of what it means to know( by experience) the Son of God, and finally we become one into a perfect man with the full dimensions of spiritual maturity and fully developed into the abundance of Christ.” (Ephesians 4:13 TPT).
The wilderness is not a detour; it is the essential journey into the inner man. Every Son who is to inherit the Kingdom must first pass through this terrain to be tempered. Remember Caleb and Joshua? Though they were advanced in years, their hearts had not grown old. While the other ten spies were blinded by the ‘giants’ of their circumstances, Caleb and Joshua had been trained by the wilderness to see from God’s perspective. They saw the promise where others only saw the circumstance.
True preparation is not counted in years, but in what the wilderness forms within the soul. A meek and contrite heart that holds a deep and total surrender, and a steadfast trust that endures, until the heart can fully desire, “Not my will, but Yours be done.”
This schooling happens in every season of life. It takes a process of learning obedience, contentment and faithfulness, whether we are in the low valleys of pain, or on the high mountains of breakthrough. The wilderness is the framework that strips us of all self-dependence, until we are fully and completely dependant and intertwined with our Kinsman Redeemer.
“Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? … Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.” (Song of Songs 8:5–6 NIV).
Scripture quietly reveals a mature people, spiritually born ahead of the greater birth. They are a company known as the living firstfruits. (James 1:18; Romans 8:23)
Just as the first sheaf of the harvest was waved before the Lord to sanctify the entire field, this company is a sign of what is to come and are sent to prepare the greater body. Revelation 12, shows this, that as the woman travails, she brings forth a Man Child, who is caught up to God and His throne, before the rest of her offspring appear.
This is the, “birth before the birth”, a people positioned in authority, not for their own sake, but to serve the greater ingathering. They are the “first fruits unto God and to the Lamb”(Revelation 14:4), sent ahead as a living sign of what the Bride of Christ is destined to become.
The Lord says, “Consecrate yourselves fully. Test Me in this and see what I will do. I will open up the treasury of heaven to you, so that My House will be full of the reverent fear of the Lord.”
It is hard for me to grasp the holy exchange, the Father is opening to His people! Do we realize that the substance and weight of what He is offering and entrusting to us? He want to open up Himself inside of us. His unlimited nature and boundless love. Unimaginable to our human capacity. Beyond the dimensions of this earth.
Those who respond to this call, will require more than a verbal agreement. It is a recognition in the inner man, in the heart and will be evidenced in the fruit of their lives given wholly first unto God, and then one to another in love. Again, this is not by the standard of man, but judged by God’s measurement alone. They will emerge as a “mercy company”, a Melchizedek priestly portion of the body of Christ, set apart unto the Lamb. They are His ‘treasured jewels’ (Malachi 3:17), who will stand in a place where they no longer dispense power from themselves, but simply reflect His light without distortion. Through their yieldedness, He will measure out mercy, wisdom, provision, correction, and judgment, into the earth according to His will, in His perfect timing and in His perfectly ordered way.
The work of bringing about this maturity and completed work, is anchored in God’s covenant.
The Hebrew word חֶסֶד (Hesed)
It is the steadfast, loyal, covenant faithfulness of God.
Chet (ח), the fence or inner chamber; Samekh (ס), the prop or support; and Dalet (ד), the door of access for the poor and needy.
Hesed is the mercy that flows from a promise He swore by Himself.
This brings my heart to a place of such settlement in the sovereignty and goodness of God. He indeed will bring to completion, what He has sworn to Himself. His work is not upheld by our consistency or ability, but by His unchanging nature. He is the God who binds Himself to Himself to complete this work. He swore an oath on His own integrity to keep the promise as sure as God exists! (Hebrews 6:13-16 TPT).
But this covenant door is only a point of access.
The Lord is inviting us a higher fellowship in the Spirt.
We imagine we must produce love for God, when in reality He is trying to make room in us for a covenantal love that already exists between the Father and the Son. The life of the Spirit in a son is the quiet forming of an inward space where the Father can establish the love He has for His Son.
I know I have said this several times already, but it is the key. That space is made through surrender, meekness, and yielding.
As we yield, He can build His love up in us. That is how the life exchange works.
It can feel like emptiness or loss, yet it is not absence; it is how He prepares our hearts, our inner man to house the vastness of who He is. The “empty” places we resist, are often the very places where the love of God longs to dwell and set loose the chains that bind us from within.
It is in this way, the Son receives His inheritance from the Father. And when that same covenant love begins to grow and mature in us, and the Father recognizes the Father looks upon a surrendered vessel, He sees the likeness of His Beloved and says,
“This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3:17 NIV)
We often think of our lives in such personal ways, and they are, but they are never isolated. The life of God planted in us, the eternal Seed, is not meant to mature alone. It is designed to grow in a Body, in a fellowship formed by the Spirit. We must realize that our fellowship must first be vertical before it is horizontal. It is born first from our union with in Christ. The Father is not forming Christ in individuals who stand apart, but in a family joined together by His Spirit. Our growth is bound to one another.
The life of God planted in us, the eternal Seed, is not meant to mature in separation. Therefore, the enemy’s primary target is not our activities, but our Fellowship. We must realize that any offense, any attack within the body of Christ, is an opportunity to strengthen the operation of love. It is to our advantage to not neglect these opportunities! We can each guard this union, by refusing to operate in self-preservation or self-justification. We can choose to bless, instead of curse. We can choose to love, when it is easier to turn away and ignore.
Preserve the bonds of peace. Pursue self- giving love. Lay down your own life for the benefit of another’s life in the Lord. When others cannot understand, do not let any arrow penetrate and ask for the Father to forgive. These are our spiritual warfare tactics.
The inward space God creates in us, the inner temple, the hollowing and making room for His love, is not only for our own transformation. It is so His love may flow between us. What the Father forms in me becomes supply for you. What He forms in you becomes strength for me. The covenant love between the Father and the Son becomes mercy among His people. It circulates through the members of Christ’s Body. This is how we move from what is merely pleasing to what is perfect, mature, and whole.
It is wilderness, the trials and sufferings, the bearing of the daily cross and the daily renewing of mind, whether in the form of valleys or mountains, that forms the children of God. The process cannot be avoided.
It is His mercy and covenant love that he will not leave us where He found us. Jesus too learned obedience through what He suffered, and showed us how to learn the Father’s heart through this same process. And when we come out of the wilderness, we will have learned the value and desire to abide, to trust, to be led by the Spirit. We naturally become wholly dependent, wholly given, wholly His.
This is the Seed maturing and the formation of many sons becoming ones who carry His name, His nature, and His work in the earth. This is the covenant love of the Father and the Sons, a family of His own, whom He can reign and bring from glory to glory.
In a wedding, a quiet kind of death takes place. The bride lays down her former name and receives the name of the groom. She leaves what was hers behind and comes into union with what belongs to the groom. What marked surrender in one setting is called joy in another. This is the mysterious wonder of being a born-again spiritual being. Our surrendered hearts are the ignition key that allows the Living Word to keep our whole Body full of light. At the table of the Lord, the Melchizedek priesthood is not a distant doctrine, but a living communion. Communion, then, is not a tradition we try to maintain, or a ritual we perform. It is the living reality of how we exist with God, in our every day moments, and how this reality changes they way we interact in the relationships around us. It is the way we live in truth, pouring our lives out first unto Him and then one unto another. Daily communion.
True unity is not an outward conformity of behavior, but an inward participation in the life of God. Here, His wisdom, His love, and His nature form the very foundation of our shared existence. At this table, the grain of self is ground into bread that dies so that Christ within may live. At this table, the fruit of pride is pressed into wine that gladdens rather than intoxicates. “Eat My flesh and drink My blood,” He says, until My life becomes your life, until what I am becomes what you are able to give.
The Spirit of the living God longs to bring the fullness of light into your entire being. But we are like windows through which the Kingdom is meant to be seen. The question is not whether the light is shining, but whether the window is clear. When you feel that quiet unrest, that “holy inflammation” or ache when you are out of harmony with another, realize that is Christ within you, witnessing against separation within the body. It is the pain of dislocation in the Body. The Spirit will not dwell comfortably amid cold hearts and silent offenses. Our duty is simply to agree with Him, and allow Him to cleanse the glass. How wonderful and beautiful is the conviction of the Spirit!
“Create in me a clean heart, O God!”Psalm 51:10).
And as our hearts are cleared, the view of His Kingdom, His live through us, becomes a living, undistorted testimony.
God longs to bring His people beyond all limitations that keep us from knowing Him in fullness, not just the sins that bind us, but also the confinements of the natural world, the nature of its temporal existence. Do we not know that our God is limitless!
“He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.” (John 6:56).
This is marriage language. This is Quantum Entanglement, where you don’t know where one begins and the other ends. We are being brought into the eternal nature of God, who is All in All. If this is what we are longing for, we must desire to shed the old wineskin of humanistic, lower-realm thinking. Have faith!We are being renewed into the mind of Christ, where even the darkness is not dark to us, and the night shines like the day! (Psalm 139:12).
God gives to us the daily cross, as the altar , the place of exchange. It is not punishment, but a place of exchange, that we may co-heir with Christ, with no old attachment to the old.
In this place, a life is given and a Life is received. What we surrender is not lost, but replaced by more. He is always a fulminant. A greater reality of what we had.
And all that He is becomes our treasury. The Hesed covenant offered to us, becomes stored within us, because we abide in Him. As mature Sons, we learn to carry the harder piece of the yoke for a brother in need, just as Jesus did. We take the crushing weight without removing another’s God-given responsibility. This is the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. We lead them to our Father in the same way they was done for us.
But before His image can fully come out of us, as a people, each individual must be willingly sanctified. This will always be our choice. We must recognize the immense privilege and honor of being shown how to draw near to the God of all creation. This is not a collective generality; rather, we have each been allocated a specific portion of the revelation of Christ to steward within our own lives. As God’s work progresses within us, a holy transformation occurs: we ourselves begin to become small meeting places on the earth. We become living ‘windows of heaven’—the very ground where mercy and truth meet, and where righteousness and peace kiss (Psalm 85:10).
Jesus was the perfect demonstration of this union, showing us how to bring these two altars together with absolute perfection. We must understand that His judgment is not a sentence of condemnation, but a necessary ignition point for restoration. It is the means by which God clears away the clutter, sets His standard, and restores right order within His people. It is only within this restored order that His covenant love can truly flow and fill us with Life. When we stop resisting and willingly give our lives to Him, He ceases to be a distant deity and becomes the all-consuming fire that captivates us from within.
Finally, we reach the place of indwelling glory. the soul becomes a resting place for God Himself and in “mercy the throne will be established; And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David, Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.”
(Isaiah 16:5 NKJV)
What was once seen in the tabernacle at the mercy seat, is now seen in us. We are the image-bearers He created to bear His name, and prove His manifold wisdom, to the principalities and powers in the heavenly realms.
As we stand, fully possessed by the Lord, serving His will and not our own, no matter the cost, His joy IS our joy. He IS our first love. Our eyes ARE singly focused like a dove, and our whole body IS full of light. This is not something we have to try to manufacture. It just becomes who we ARE. Christ IN us.
The climax of God’s work in us, is union. Jesus received perfect love from the Father, and He prayed that this very love would be in us. The Son receives His inheritance as that same love matures in us as a people. This is the mystery: that the love which was eternally perfect in God finds its visible fulfillment when it is brought to birth within us. This is marriage language. We accept the invitation. We receive the seal. We become the people who can truly say, “I am Yours and You are mine. We are One.” “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’” (Matthew 25:34 ESV).
The climax of this work is union. Jesus received a perfect love from the Father, and He prayed in John 17:26 that this very love would be in us. The Son receives His inheritance as that same love matures in us as a people. This is the mystery, that the love which was eternally perfect in God, finds its visible fulfillment, when it is brought to birth within us. This is marriage language. We accept the invitation. We receive the seal. We become the people who can truly say, “I am Yours and You are mine. We are One.”
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’” (Matthew 25:34 ESV).