Testing and Promotion of the Bride
The eyes of the Lord are searching hearts in this hour. He is searching throughout the Earth for those with a pure heart, love sick for Him. God is searching for those who have consecrated their hearts and life to Him alone. There is great glory and great promotion coming but first, it’s inspection time! God is testing His Bride.
I heard God’s voice thunder from Heaven “Glory belongs to me, Alone!”
God is not saying this because He is an egomaniac that needs us to prop up His importance! No! The glory belongs to God alone because He knows it would crush and destroy His people. He is looking for a pure Bride who will seek His face and not His hand. A Bride who is truly after His heart.
Urgent Plea to the Ministers of God
I feel such an urgency and pleading especially to the ministers of God! Do not take for yourself that which belongs to God! I plead with you, keep your hands and hearts pure before Him! The all encompassing glory God wants to pour out far surpasses anything we have ever seen! I feel the fear of the Lord so strongly and beseech you! Do not muddy His glory and take it as your own!
To the Prophets of God especially, there is a charge from Heaven right now. Guard your mouth! Do not let anyone pull words from your mouth that God has not spoken! Do not let anyone pull words from your mouth that God HAS spoken but has not released you to speak yet!
People will consume you and pull on your gift, not realizing their true hunger is for God. We are cheap substitutes for Him! They need Him! Do not allow anyone to put you or your gift on a pedestal. The idols of the Church are being torn down and removed. Make sure no one puts you on a pedestal that will be knocked down.
Do not prostitute the gift of God for the consumption and accolades of man!
God is testing hearts. Will you eat the fruit that belongs to God? Will you consume the harvest for yourself? Will you take His glory for yourself?
The Testing
Everything we do in this life will be tested by fire. At the end of the day, it is not worth it to receive glory in this Earth. Your reward will be limited to just that…accolades in this life ONLY. You will not store up any treasure in Heaven if you prematurely receive your reward in the Earth. It will not pass the test of Heaven!
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” – Matthew 6:19-21
The Burning
Whatever we do must be done with the fear of the Lord. Good works, not mandated by God will NOT pass the test. Everything we do will be tested by the fire of the Lord and only the things of true value will be able to withstand this fire. The fire must come. The fire of God is the great revealer. The fire will reveal what is truly from the Lord and what originated from man.
“For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.” – 1 Corinthian 3: 11-15
My Prayer
I plead with you! May the cry of our heart be “God, keep me humble, keep me pure, keep me devoted ONLY to YOU! If you decided to enlarge my influence, let my limp from wrestling with you like Jacob, be so obvious that my dependence and source of strength is you ALONE! Let me never take the glory for myself but only glory in YOU!”
The Promotion
Promotion is upon us. The testing has come to make way for that which God wants to pour out. I declare the pure Bride of Christ is rising in His Glory and Power! I plead with you, do not stay in the grave and be buried with your accolades and accomplishments.
God is a consuming fire and He will have a PURE BRIDE!
Poem: The Journey of the Bride
She prayed for blessing but it came packaged in breaking. Dumfounded, confused. Her world rattled and shaken.
The accuser took great pleasure in her tormenting. Confusion, despair all consuming and suffocating.
Hope deferred, promises shattered. Persecuted, tormented, as if her vow to God didn’t matter.
Left lying for dead, the Earth closed in.
Her casket was lowered, death and darkness pressed in.
When barely just a flicker remained, life held in the balance, she whispered His name.
All Heaven grew quiet as the angels gazed down. Their hearts beating wildly, His great justice renown.
The Earth rolled with thunder as all Heaven pressed in. His voice roared like a lion as resurrection power broke in.
One breathe from His lungs was all it took.
The chains of death were broken off, as every demon silently shook.
Power invaded, redemption burst in.
His fierce love pierced her heart and His supernatural life flowed in.
Every cell of her body, awakened and stirred. Empowering vision burst forth, her identity secured.
All Hell could not touch her, afraid of even one word. Darkness cowered at her feet, His radiant power she incurred.
Triumphant and victorious, His Bride stands in reign. A Queen resurrected, with a passion for His name.
Exquisite jewels from Heaven mantle her crown but with nobility and honor, she cast it back down.
Ruling and reigning, declaring His word.
Empowered by humility, all Heaven and Earth now altered.
