I give myself to You today
To be completely swept away
Lost inside the glory of Your love
As deep calls unto deep Oh Lord
my soul cries out for You alone
Drowned within the river of Your heart
You bring Your life to my soul
I’m alive in You
Let Your Kingdom shine through my life
I want more of You
I wanna go to the deeper places
Deeper places Lord
To know the dreams of Your heart
I wanna find all the secret places
The hidden places Lord
until there’s nothing left to know
I’ll be completely Yours
Awaken every part of me
The buried places I can’t see
Ignite my heart with love uncompromised
Your Presence is my sole desire
I long to burn with holy fire
And demonstrate Your power here on earth
The Mountain of the House of the Lord stands tall and formidable, mighty and authoritative, certain and undaunted. It radiates love, compassion and forgiveness. It teaches justice, responsibility and destiny. This Mountain is the permanent Home of the King of Glory. It is the storehouse of all things Divine and merciful. It is the place where hope is born, wisdom lives and power flows freely. It is the Mountain of the House of the Lord and it is in within you. How can you possibly lose?!
Most cannot or will not hear His voice because we can only hear what confirms the things that we already, personally believe. True disciples of Christ do not have that option. They have died to personal opinion that He may live His own life, have His own thoughts, through them. This is the Kingdom of God at work.
Man loves to separate natural from spiritual so he can do what he wants with impunity. Whether someone owns a construction company or holds a religious title; whether a factory worker or a preacher, a governor or a school teacher, a stay at home mom or an entertainer, all activity holds profound and simultaneous natural and spiritual consequences. My life, no matter how inconsequential I perceive it to be, has eternal impact in this life and in the heavenlies.
"And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one." (1 John 5:8)
The blood atonement of Jesus on the cross blots out our sin, as if we had never sinned. But we still have the Adamic nature. In water baptism, as we are totally immersed, our Adamic nature goes down to the grave, and we come up out of the water as a new creation, with our capacity to function in the spiritual realm restored.
"Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." (Romans 6:4)
Now we can walk in "newness of life." Under the Law, righteous living was required, but man was incapable of this and utterly failed. In the New Covenant the ability to live a righteous life was given by the creative work of the Holy Spirit within our heart.
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new Spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments, and do them." (Ezekiel 36:26-27)
The Baptism in the Holy Spirit provides this "ability" that will "cause," or give us the "power" (Acts 1:8) that will enable us to live above sin as we become witnesses of “His Life”
(Acts 2:38) Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
The "blood" forgives our sin; the "water" changes our nature; and the "Spirit" gives us the ability (enabling power) to enter into the realms of the spiritual, above all that is earthly. These three together, as "one," provides a full salvation experience that will enable us to enter the Kingdom.
