Dancing in the Rain

New Jerusalem: Heaven on Wheels!

Revelation 21: 1 say, "I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending out of the heavenly realm from the presence of God, like a pleasing bride that had been prepared for her husband, adorned for her wedding."

The Whole of Bible is a brochure for a City, of where we are going...

Mothers Anointing flows through Generations!

As we honor mothers today – I want to talk about what lessons can we learn from the women in the bible, and how it applies to every one of us…

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Hannah's prayer in 1 Samuel 1: 11

And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”

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Mahatma Gandhi once said,  “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” 

Thats right, we cannot beautify the moms, but this is just an attempt.

 

New Heaven and New Earth

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Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. 

The Heavens - (My hope is built on nothing less)!

No one goes to heaven by accident. Heaven is God's prepared place for prepared people.

• We prepare for heaven and then God prepares heaven for us.

I hope you will be standing next to me in heaven…

We will not be bored in heaven… we are going to enjoy, working, filled up, learning, worshipping, fellowshipping with Jesus, Resting, asking questions, eating…   This place is not our home…

 

Just as the old hymn says - 

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name.

Brazen Laver - It is not a one-time effort – it is a daily act!

Placed between the tabernacle door and Brazen Altar. Is very interesting.

*** It is in-between, the burnt/guilt offering and the presence of the Lord.

*** Between giving our life and going into the presence of the Lord.

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What is the significance of the Brazen Laver - is what we have discussed in this meditation!

My Home is marked by the Blood of Jesus!

 

*** The good news is not that just that Jesus died on the cross, but His blood is posted on the door posts of your house and mine.

 

• Applying the blood of Jesus in our door post – removes the access for the enemy.
• The devil cannot stand when you plead the Blood of Jesus over your life.      
• Breaks the strongholds… no weapons formed against us will prosper…

When you put that blood on the door post of your life, there is power in the blood.

He is Risen - He has stripped every power and Authority!

1 Corinthians 15: 20 says,

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

 

Isn't that amazing - Jesus was the first fruit ….  many of us are going to follow, but He is the first!  Where the death has no sting, nor power nor authority!

Amen and Amen!

Tetelestai – The Work Is Complete!

In his last words, Jesus was communicating that the world - He said, "Tetelestai" - which means, he has completed, what He came to accomplish.

• The task of earning the salvation of this mankind was completed with this work on the cross.
• No more additions or adjustments were necessary – salvation was completed.

The Book of Hebrews (Hebrews 9:12, 26)  describes how Jesus was the ultimate Lamb of God and by his sacrifice, the work of forgiveness was finally complete.

 

He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption…

But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself

Prayer with Sandals ON/OFF!

 

All Prayers can be summarized as:

1. Prayers with sandals ON
2. Prayers with sandals OFF

There are twice in the bible – where it is talking about removing sandals…

Moses (in Exodus 3) and Joshua (in Joshua 5:13 – 15)

• When we take the sandals off, then we are not moving.
  When we wake up in the morning, the Lord doesn’t want us to move…
  Look at where Moses is now, on top of the mountain, where stones, and thorns are.

This is where prayer of supplication comes… prayer of adoration and Thanksgiving happens,  prayer of worship… prayer of confession happens…

The Altar of Incense - Part 2

Today,  we are going to look at the third and last piece of furniture in the holy place was the altar of incense with its four horns.

What does the incense represent?

• It represents, prayer of the Saints…

The tabernacle that God gave instructions to Moses is only a replica, the original is in heaven and let’s look at what God showed John in the book of Revelation, about what happens now as we meditate…

Revelation 5:8

Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

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