A Great Harvest of Souls is Upon Us

In a vision Jesus showed up and said, “I am the way, the truth and the life. no one comes to the Father except through me.” What was so very poignant about my clear awareness of His presence before me is that more often I sense the Father and the Holy Spirit. At the same time, I sensed all three and yet Jesus was being very forward. Time draws near for His preeminence in the church. He is about to do house cleaning, gutting the structure of the church for a major remodel where church is about Him and evangelism. The old structures pushed aside for a restructuring. There is something about stepping aside to let Him be who He is. John the Baptist said, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” Our priorities individually and corporately are about to be reorganize. He said evangelism was about testifying to the reality of His presence that He’s alive and real. Telling our story. “For the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.” – Revelations 9. A great, great harvest of souls is at hand. I was outside on my deck and saw in a vision about 1/2 dozen or more huge angels 100 feet tall and apparently these were no ordinary angels, but great and powerful ones. I asked them what was their purpose. They said, “It’s time.” For several days I kept hearing the song At The Cross then Jesus What a Savior. Here are two Youtube videos of those songs. Enjoy. At The Cross

Jesus, What A Savior

Let Us Love

BELOVED, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.  1st John 4:7 & 8   This is plain and simple. There's no telling us to love only certain people.  We don't see any hint of God rejecting us. Not even those who are not loving, thus not knowing Him, yet.  God, Himself, IS love. It says here that everyone who loves is born of God. That's quite a statement.  We all know that pre-christians can certainly love and love well even. Just think on this for a bit. God is not trying to shut anyone out. If we love at all we are carrying His very nature in us. This, in and of itself, should help us to get rid of any "us and them" thinking and just love! Knowing what the fruits of love are is exceedingly helpful when observing our own day to day living. Do I bear the fruit of love? One great place to find out if we are operating in this love and bearing it's fruit is in that scripture that's always used in weddings; 1 Corinthians 13:4 - 7. Try meditating on this passage of what love is and isn't. We can see if what's coming from us is the fruit of love (God) or if we need to sit at the feet of Love some more before being around others.

The Divine Exchange

On Good Friday as we remember the self-sacrificial act of our Savior Jesus dying on the cross, we marvel at the extent to which the love of our Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit went to include with them all of humanity into face-to-face communion. This isn’t just amazing, it’s what actually defines all of life, it’s what gives us purpose and it’s what points us to our eternal destiny of belonging with God for all eternity. I love the fresh, vivid language in the Mirror Bible from portions of 2 Corinthians 5:14-21. May I suggest that you sit quietly and allow the Lord to encounter you—his Spirit to your spirit—with the astonishing truth of the Good News that contains supernatural transforming power: “The love of Christ resonates within us and leaves us with only one conclusion: Jesus died mankind’s death; therefore, in God’s logic, every individual simultaneously died. Now if all were included in his death, they were equally included in his resurrection. This unveiling of his love redefines human life! Whatever reference we could have of ourselves outside of our association with Christ is no longer relevant. Now, in the light of your co-inclusion in his death and resurrection, whoever you thought you were before, in Christ you are a brand-new person! The old ways of seeing yourself and everyone else are over. Acquaint yourself with the new!  God was present in Christ when he reconciled the total cosmos to himself. Deity and humankind embraced in him; the fallen state of mankind was deleted; their trespasses would no longer count against them! He now announces his friendship with every individual from within us! This is the divine exchange: he who knew no sin embraced our distortion; he appeared to be without form; this was the mystery of God’s prophetic poetry. He was disguised in our distorted image and marred with our iniquities; he took our sorrows, our pain and our shame to his grave and birthed his righteousness in us. He took our sins and we became his innocence.” Oh, happy day! Oh, happy eternal life! We are blessed beyond measure!! With Love, Pastor Brent

Your Inclusion In Christ

We are approaching the week leading up to Easter Sunday on April 17. This is the perfect time to take a few moments each day to marvel at the breathtaking miracle that, by the Father’s choice before the foundation of the world, YOU were included in Christ’s death, burial and resurrection where you are now seated with him! Read all the scriptures below today and then re-read one each day next week, agreeing wholeheartedly with the truth as our Father see it—the only truth there is!   Sunday, April 10: “God [our loving Father] was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s sins against them.” (2 Cor 5:19)   Monday, April 11: “For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.” (2 Cor 5:14, NIV)   Tuesday, April 12: “And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him.” (Romans 6:8, NLT)   Wednesday, April 13: “My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20, NLT)   Thursday, April 14: “For since we are permanently grafted into him to experience a death like his, then we are permanently grafted into him to experience a resurrection like his and the new life that it imparts.” (Romans 6:5, TPT)   Good Friday, April 15: “For we’ve been buried with him into his death. Our ‘baptism into death’ also means we were raised with him when we believed in God’s resurrection power, the power that raised him from death’s realm. This ‘realm of death’ describes our former state, for we were held in sin’s grasp. But now, we’ve been resurrected out of that ‘realm of death’ never to return, for we are forever alive and forgiven of all our sins!” (Colossians 2:12-13, TPT)   Saturday, April 16: “Christ’s resurrection is your resurrection too. This is why we are to yearn for all that is above, for that’s where Christ sits enthroned at the place of all power, honor, and authority! Your crucifixion with Christ has severed the tie to this life, and now your true life is hidden away in God in Christ.” (Colossians 3:1,3, TPT)   Easter Sunday, April 17: “When the extraordinary compassion of God our Savior and his overpowering love suddenly appeared in person, as the brightness of a dawning day, he came to save us. Not because of any virtuous deed that we have done but only because of his extravagant mercy. He saved us, resurrecting us through the washing of rebirth. We are made completely new by the Holy Spirit, whom he splashed over us richly by Jesus, the Messiah, our Life Giver.” (Titus 3:4-6 TPT)

Open Doors to Create New Worlds

Last Saturday night during Blazing Fire Church’s worship service, the Lord gave Bill Hernandez this significant prophetic word to share:

To here this word, click here and go to 1:22:37

The Lord showed me an open door individually in front of every single person (in this room). He’s saying, “You are on the cusp of history in the making. This is a historical event where you will look back on it and say, ‘I remember back in 2022 when this door opened for everyone, and we were all ignited with the power and presence of the Lord.’”   During worship, I walked through the open door with lots of light around it. Each step that I took was like the Lord taking a step, and every place he stepped, new life emerged with trees, flowers and grass. Wherever he steps, he makes worlds. The Lord was saying, “This is what you’re going to be doing, you’re going to be making worlds where you step. Your destiny is that you’re going to create new worlds as you step out.”   I asked, “What kind of new worlds?” and the Lord said, “It’s not just for you, it’s for everyone—worlds of hope and courage and love. Wherever you step, you’re going to be spreading these virtues and creating these worlds. As a result, other people’s destinies will also be released as you do this.”   My Commissioning   We are being commissioned to do this. Above the door in front of each one of you, I saw the words, “My Commissioning.”   I asked, “My commissioning into what?” and the Lord responded, “What does that sound like? The Great Commission! You’re going to be more of me, more of Jesus, to the world.”   This is about an evangelism anointing on every single person like no other time. In the Jesus movement days of the early 1970’s, the talk of the town was Jesus-this and Jesus-that. Almost everyone was talking about Jesus and spreading the Gospel. I feel like this is what the Lord will be doing anew as part of this great outpouring. Another part of it is releasing people into intimacy with the Lord like no other time.   Bill then released this evangelism anointing: “I thank you, Lord, for this spirit of evangelism that you’re pouring out on us—a boldness and the testimony of Jesus on our tongues and on our lives, flowing through us into the marketplace and every place that we go—spreading the Gospel and life and hope and destinies. Thank you, Lord that you are commissioning! I commission each of you into evangelism, that your evangelistic gift would be awakened. I see preachers of the truth and the Gospel, so I release your tongue to preach the Gospel of truth. Thank you, Jesus!”