My Love Shall Set Them Free
The Bride of Christ is yearning to be held by her Beloved. Yet, throughout her life, Lucifer has conspired to keep her and her one true love from being together. Straying from the path that God foreordained, she drifted further and further from the mark of her high calling. Building a life from choices made by and for her, she languished in a dungeon of unfulfilled dreams.
For many, who are called to be God’s wife, this type of desperation is their reality. Though they desire to serve and be with Him, from where they are it seems impossible to do so. Yet, still their hearts feel the call of their Bridegroom and they hope against hope.
Love stands before us
The truth is, God is about to visit us in a mighty way. Everything people declare impossible, or we’ve dared not hope for, is right around the corner. God manifest in the flesh, in the form of another human being, is about to personally rock our world.
Moreover, when it comes to trusting God in another, it is a big leap of faith. Many times it feels like we’re stepping out of a sinking ship just to place our feet on the raging waves. The only person who gives us the confidence to risk the inevitable for the impossible is the person of Jesus Christ.
The handwriting on the wall is all about Emmanuel
Spiritual connections are God manifest in our flesh. God flows through another’s eyes, speaks through their lips, and touches us through their heartfelt embrace. In short, a spiritual connection is our own personal Jesus sent from above to love us.
There comes a point in every person’s life where we must simply choose to believe. There’s no earthly rhyme or reason to it, we just open up our hearts to God’s calling. This type of abandon is actually the whole point of creation. Coming back to the Garden is, quite literally, a return to the first love of Eden.
The handwriting on the wall
In our generation, God’s handwriting is on the wall. True love beckons us to reach out to one another as His Spirit leads. God dwelling in us, reconciles the world to Himself one person at a time. He saves us through personal contact with Him through members of His Body.
There are clergy who feel securely in control of God’s people. Some act haughty even while profaning the vessels of the Lord. They feel as though they possess some divine right to do as they please with God’s vineyard. However, the handwriting is on the wall and this time God is saying “My Love Will Set Them Free“. When God’s love fills His people, their kingdom will fall and no one will regard them anymore.
The unified Body Of Christ
In conclusion, God’s handwriting on the wall declares that He loves us. YHWH’s message declares He meets our needs and desires through His people. Let those who read this, run with it. Amen.
This is great!
I especially love this line: “True love beckons us to reach out to one another as His Spirit leads. God dwelling in us, reconciles the world to Himself one person at a time. He saves us through personal contact with Him through members of His Body.”
It seems to me that since Jesus established His church on the earth, the way God has now chosen to minister to His people is through each other. We see in the book of Acts, that the widows’ needs were not met with manna from heaven or a miracle similar to the multiplication of loaves and fishes, but instead, their needs were met through the Body of Christ.
And in Galatians 6:2, Paul says that we should, “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Why would God ask us to bear one another’s burdens, when He, Himself, is more than capable of bearing them for us?
I believe it is because it has always been His intention to love and minister to us through His Bride. Many people think that God is done with the miracles we see in the Old Testament. But I think part of the reason we don’t see Him move in miraculous ways anymore, is because we are looking in the wrong places. Instead of looking up to heaven to see Him work miracles, maybe we need to be looking into the eyes of our brothers and sisters in Christ.
When God divinely assigns you to a spiritual connection, His desire is to meet your needs of love and healing and wholeness through that person, and their needs through you. This is His divine plan for His bride, and something that I believe has been grossly neglected since He sent His Spirit to fill us and lead us.
Thanks for generously sharing your insights! They are much appreciated!
Big hugs
Dear CL,
Very well put! I love how the Spirit of understanding flows through what you write. Truely, you have the revelation of Tabernacles and are helping to make it accessable to many believers.
Thank you so much,
Very well done,
Michael
Thank you Michael for these insights.
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THIS. This is how I describe (in my prayers to God because I really don’t talk to anyone else much about him) the man I believe is my Divine Mate. He absolutely acts as the earthly representation of God to me. I am closer to God when he is in my life/ so far from God when he is not. He has borne my shame in front of others, with never a complaint. He has behind the scenes studied me, watched over me, protected me, taken up for me, so many times when I didn’t realize it (I see it now looking back so many years).. And he waited for me, and persisted after me…though patiently. And when he’s in my life I get comments from people all the time how great I look in every way… strangers even. I easily surrender to his wishes…maybe he doesn’t think so but let’s just say I know myself and it happens more quickly and readily with him by far than with any other. I’ve often said that he reflects God to me, and I reflect God’s love, given through him, to the world.
And yet it’s been so hard to trust that God is in this, since it breaks many earthly structures.
Another thing I’ve been thinking…not sure if I’ve asked it here yet or not. There’s the parable of the hireling and the true shepherd. And “husband” actually derives from husbandman, which connotes provider or gardener or keeper. So here are my thoughts…curious what you think:
If marriage is a type of Christ and the church, and that is why we are not “supposed to” get divorced…
And, some marriages are anything BUT types of Christ and the church and will not be because one party refuses to work in that direction but instead is destructive (I’m describing mine here… I feel so FAR from God with the spouse)…
And if there’s a false shepherd and a true shepherd…and a false gods and a true God…can’t there be a false husband and a true husband? Wouldn’t the true husband manifest God to his wife? Wouldn’t she obey him out of love, when obedience is not even a natural state for her at all?
And if there is a true husband, but the woman has an earthly marriage with the false husband…and if marriage is a type of Christ and the church…well, what would God say about the worship of false gods/ idols? Wouldn’t He say to put them away, destroy them, and come worship Him?
So then, why not the false husband? If the husband is the earthly stand-in for God in this type, then it would make sense that a woman would need to leave a false husband and be married to the true one, no?
Finally, I add that the false husband in my case…twice I have prayed to God to help me see him with the compassion God sees him with. Both times beginning that day and within the weekend, the man I’m calling false husband did three awful things that showed his continued path. So… this seems much to me like God’s answer. It happened twice, in clusters of 3, and now to be fair I’m a bit scared to ask again. And Gideon only asked twice so maybe I’ll stop there…
That said, the Divine Mate…God has seemed to bring us together. Push us together. If I try to leave that relationship out of pride, or if I’m about to mess things up., God intervenes. Literally told me out loud one time to “be his peace.” I’ve never heard voices before. But more often gets into my head and outright lectures me…thoughts I didn’t come up with on my own. “Do you really want to leave him because of your foolish pride?” or whatnot.
Anyhow. This site is comforting but also….well, a bit disturbing. I’ve been thinking these thoughts and talking to God about them for awhile now, a couple of years at least. I’ve been thinking I must be wrong since I’m the only one coming to these conclusions. I think maybe I’m just trying to justify my own selfish behavior (though I really don’t think so).
Just curious your thoughts on all of it. The false husband/ gods analogy… God’s apparent answers and guidance to me… what I describe does/ does not sound like Diving Mates and good reason also for Divine Divorce?
Thank you, and blessings!
Dear Anon,
You wrote,
“I think maybe I’m just trying to justify my own selfish behavior.”
Then you answered,
“Though I really don’t think so.”
It sounds like God has already answered you.
Big hugs and lots of love,
Michael
Dear Anon,
Your situation may be more common than you might expect. This is one reason I like it when other share what they are experiencing in God. Often times, the Holy Spirit is broadly doing something withing His body that is new, but people don’t understand that is widespread. So I appreciate you taking the time and having courage to honestly share what is going on in your life with myself and others.
Many times, what we all face is that the Holy Spirit leads us one way, but convention, friends, family, and doctrine demands we go another. Which course do we choose? Of course, every believer wants to please God and to obey His commandments, but what if what God is directing us to do goes against what is commonly held to be proper christian conduct?
In reality, this has been the central question in following our Father’s voice from the beginning. Do we do what He says simply because we trust Him, or do we have to understand what He directs us to do in order to follow it? For first century Christians it was a hard choice to leave established Judaism for the new “Way” the Jesus taught. However, in order to follow God in that time, you had to break with long standing tradition. However, and this is very important point to realize, it was not that the early Christians were out of order with God, it was that our Father was moving His people forward and they needed to follow.
Likewise, in our day and age, one of the areas that God is highlighting to His body is that sometimes we marry out of His will. This causes problems in our own lives – such as being so disheartened we can barely function – problems in our spouses life – they are not free to unite with the person God would chose for them – and problems in our children’s lives – strife in our family and how their generations are steered of course.
Any disobedience has a ripple effects in our lives. Disobedience in something as important as who we marry effects everything we do and everything Jesus wishes to do through us. As I have said before, many times God can and does work with the choices that we have made if both spouses are willing to submit to His Spirit and follow His voice together. Also, not everyone is so committed to God that they will hear His voice and do His will when it means that it will disrupt their lives and bring difficulty. However, there are some times when people make unwise choices and foolish vows that harm them and prevent very important things happening in their lives and, even more importantly, to others around them. In such circumstances if one or more of the people burdened by a vow that they made in some degree of ignorance, God can, through His sovereign will, simply decide to dissolved their earthly contract. He can do this simply because He never put them together in the first place. Also, since each person in a marriage has free will, if one spouse decides they will not allow God to lead and guide them together, God may call the other, willing spouse to move on.
What we must recognize is that only God’s involvement makes anything holy, including marriage. Even the Temple, which God led both David and Solomon to build, was not holy if those who used it would not do as God commanded and God’s presence was not in it. Likewise, there is nothing holy about matrimony if God is not in it. Many labor under a false assumption that merely saying “I do” somehow forces God to recognize and bless your union. Truthfully, our Father is never forced to do anything. If He has led you to marry that person, or if that person fits in with what He wants to do in your life, He will bless your union. If not, you will simply have a natural, earthly marriage that follows the course of natural life, subject to random chance events like everyone else.
The main difficulty I see with trying to describe what is and what is not of God is that “what is God’s will” is very specific to each and every individual. No one can know what God knows about you and thus, whatever people say, their counsel is always less than perfect due to incomplete knowledge, understanding, and wisdom in any given situation. Thus, hearing God’s voice for ourselves is paramount in determining the correct way forward in any serious situation.
Many also get hung up with wanting to be perfect in their decision, thinking the longer they consider it, the more they agonize over it, the more people they talk to about it, the better choice they will make. Personally, I have found that God knows exactly what He wants and will communicate it clearly to us if we are both willing to hear and, even more importantly, obey. Indecision when it comes to God’s direction can often result it talking yourself out of what He has plainly told you to do, or missing it completely. Pretty much nothing in life is worth doing that.
In conclusion, I do agree that sometimes their is an Anti Husband or wife that gets in the way of what God wants to do. I have seen people who were dating what appeared to be their Holy Spirit mate, only to drop them at the last minute when Satan paraded some other choice that was more pleasing to their carnal eyes or pocket book. Our Father knows our hearts and the hearts of those we will wed, it is always best to allow Him to choose.
Big hugs and lots of love,
Michael