“Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.” Hebrews 13:14

There is a risk in walking with God but the rewards are overwhelming. The journey is controversial, unpredictable and will take you into dark places. 

The altar of God is Holy. In the Old Testament the blood of animals provided forgiveness of sins and made the Israelites clean in the eyes of God.

However, the bodies of the animals were contaminated and were required to be burned outside the camp. Jesus was also crucified outside the camp. The camp represents the essence of God in the Holy city of Jerusalem. Today, the Holy city is the kingdom of God located in Heaven.

As a Christ follower you have to go outside the camp bearing the rebuke of God over sin. There is no continuing city for a believer sitting in a church or functioning in the world.

We are not of the world and must seek the high prize of God through our journey outside the camp.

We must go outside into the ugly morass of humanity. If you attempt to live in the camp you will be tied to the chains of religion and never experience the Living Christ. The signs and wonders of God occur in dark places inhabited by those living under a stronghold of Satan.

You and I are imperfect human vessels operating with the powerful life of Christ dwelling within us. We live and move and have our being outside the camp. This is where we can please God. The camp is reserved for you after death.

The charge from God is to offer the sacrifice of praise to Jesus with your lips and to have a heart of thanksgiving. This transcends all your troubles. We have no excuse regardless of the dire conditions of life.

God desires for you to do good and share your abundance with others.

The sacrifice of denying self and living for Jesus brings great pleasure to the Most High and you will be rewarded with the treasures of God.

The biggest misconception in Christianity is seeing Jesus for what we want Him to be and not for who He is. This causes conflict, anger and blame in your relationship with Him.

The word from God today is denigrating the name of Christ. This means to criticize unfairly or disparage. This is a widespread practice in the Body of Christ and is a pathetic response to the greatness and glory of God. 

We have tunnel vision about God and at times treat Him like a second class citizen. We do this with our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Many believers come across as proper, neat and saintly. They hide behind religion and are not in touch with the Living Christ.

We denigrate God because things are not going our way and we need someone to blame.

We believe God is the highest authority in our life but He is failing in His job.

We denigrate Christ by exaggerating His claims and whitewashing His words to satisfy our needs and lifestyle.

We denigrate God by striving through our own efforts and failing to live by faith.

We denigrate God by operating with impure motives. We put self above God. 

We denigrate God by attempting to use Him to accomplish our goals.

We denigrate God for testing us through His words and actions. We call Him disingenuous or usually speak much stronger words.

We denigrate God for the seasons of deprivation, pain and suffering. Jesus gives and takes for His purposes. Yours is not to question the ways of God. They are perfect.

Denigrating God will get you nowhere and only dig your hole deeper. You grieve the Holy Spirit and bring curses upon your life. 

God can do with a Christ follower as He pleases. Yours is not to complain but to come before Him with praise and thanksgiving believing in His promises.

When I woke up this morning God told me He favors those who feel utterly useless to Him and know they are made with a sordid (or depraved) nature. Jesus has a heart for the downtrodden.

We denigrate Christ because we have a mistaken vision of His purpose for our life. We are to die to self and live for Christ.

Give Jesus permission to do with you regardless of the cost or sacrifice. He wants your obedience to His voice without any argument or need for human logic.

Jesus desires to give you an abundant life but He wants to accomplish this His way. If Jesus were to snap His fingers today and give you prosperity and fame this would probably ruin your life and bring utter destruction upon you.

God has to make us into His people who operate by faith with the values of Christ. We have to be able to greet each day with a desire to do His will above all else. We have to accept the testing and correction without lashing out at God.

The prosperity of God comes to those who are motivated by living in oneness with Jesus and accepting life on God’s terms.

Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. He is a perfect God in an imperfect world!

“And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30

The word from God today is about the consequences of denial.

Denial is a behavior in every Christ follower.

If you are a non believer, denial is not an issue. You don’t accept the validity of Christ and can’t deny something you don’t believe in.

Denial is living for self and rejecting the desires of Christ. This nature is ingrained inside you and will never leave you while on this earth.

God wants to deal with this subject today because denial deprives you of the treasures of Christ. God knows your personality better than you know yourself. He laid down His life to crucify your self nature. He wants you to have the very best.

The Cross was an act of compassion and love for you. Denial diminishes the power of Christ in a believer. It prevents you from receiving the fullness from our great God.

Denial brings death to the Living Christ dwelling inside you. The richness of the privileges of Christ are not available to you. The door to the transfigured Christ is not open.

How can you deal with this monster of self living inside you?

First you have to admit you are an impoverished soul and can never match up to the standards of God.

You cannot overcome this monster through your own efforts or with religion. You have no will power to fight this nature of self indulgence.

The solution is to ask God by faith to do this work of transformation. He will crucify your inner nature and replace self with the character of God.

Pray each day for the will of God with an open heart. Listen to the voice of God. Invite the Holy Spirit to have authority over your mind and decision making.

Give Jesus permission to make you “Christ like”. It will be painful at times but the outcome will give you an abundant life filled with the goodness of Christ.

“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10

Soliloquy is like an oration when God speaks His words to others.

The soliloquy of Christ for today is the word “epitomize” which means to be be a perfect example of someone. 

How can you and I epitomize Jesus?

The answer is we can’t without dramatic change.

The gift of salvation comes to you by faith. It is a precious gift from God to be valued over anything in life.

God prepared this gift for you before you were born.

You must take your hands off this gift. Salvation does not belong to you. And, you have no control over how God chooses to use you for His purposes. You belong to God and He can do with you as He pleases. 

Salvation is the work of God to create a new creature in the nature of Jesus. 

This is about God working through an imperfect human vessel to do the perfect work of God.

Salvation is the act of dying to self and living for Christ. The Holy Spirit transforms you into a new creature operating with the values of Christ. He equips you with the gifts of the Holy Spirit to enable you to be a powerful witness for Jesus.

The work of God is based on the principle of binding and loosing. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. God will employ you in this enterprise regardless of your position in life.

The principle of binding is breaking the power of Satan through vigilant prayer and intercession. The Spirit labors inside you to bring down strongholds. You confront evil and execute the judgment of God.

You are also charged by God with loosing the Living Water to draw those around you to Jesus. 

As a believer, you are a powerful light for God filled with the Holy Spirit. God desires for you to reflect His renown, praise and glory in all your words and actions. The Living Water is the authenticity of Christ and saves lives.

You also may be asked by God to do the work of evangelism or counsel others with the truths of God. You will be anointed and equipped to create powerful results.

The results of binding and loosing will carry over to heaven and you will be abundantly blessed by our magnificent God.

My will be done on earth as it is in Heaven is the purpose of a Christ follower. You are my anointed ambassador to bring light into darkness.

The word from God today is scapegoat. God spoke this to me last night in reference to Jesus. He also told me apostasy is increasing in the Body of Christ. Believers are rejecting Christ for more contemporary versions of God.

The term scapegoat originated in Jewish tradition. It was a biblical ceremony honoring God. A goat was selected and upon his head was symbolically placed the sins of the people and then the goat was released into the wilderness.

God is holy and will not be contaminated with your sin. There has to be an atonement or cleansing of your sin in the eyes of God. This is the only way you can live in contact with Him.

The animal sacrifices did not work. They had no sustaining ability to purify a human being. Once a sinner always a sinner.

God replaced the scapegoat and the system of animal sacrifices in the Old Testament with Jesus. 

God created a son in His image. Jesus was appointed to be a sacrifice for sin and the method for a human being to be reestablished with God and to be transformed into the character of God.

Jesus was the lamb led to the slaughter by His Father. This is the Messianic complex. Jesus died so we can live with God forever and experience the richness of the gift of salvation every moment of our life.

The point of this discussion is you and I have an impoverished soul and can never get right with God through our own efforts or religion or doing works. You are stuck in the mud and on the outside looking at a closed door.

Jesus was innocent but prosecuted. He was punished for your sins. 

Today the term scapegoat is used to blame someone for the mistakes of others. He is a target of abuse and persecution. 

The scapegoat is Jesus. He is the only way you can be reconciled to Jesus and inherit the treasures of our great God.

“We have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus” Hebrews 10:19

The word from God for today is surrogate referring to the concept of a substitute.

Last night God gave me a vision of people traveling on an airplane without a pilot. The plane was spinning out of control. This why you and I need a surrogate Christ!

The surrogate can replace our impoverished souls with the life of Christ.

The surrogate is like a legal guardian looking over your interests.

The surrogate takes the place or stands in for your weaknesses.

The surrogate is a substitute for your sins, compulsive behaviors and rebellion against God. He substitutes the life of Christ for your natural condition at birth. He transforms you into the character of God. Your sinful condition is replaced by the righteous of God.

The surrogate is the resurrected power of Christ. This power comes from heaven and cannot be found in a non believer.

You have to get out of the way if you want the surrogate power of Christ. This power does not think or act like you. He replaces your mind with the mind of Christ.

The surrogate power comes to those who walk by faith and are obedient to the voice of God.

You can trade in your life for the surrogate life of Christ. It is a decision to live for Jesus above all else.

The surrogate is a person. Jesus is alive and desires to have a personal and embracing relationship with you.

The surrogate wants to fight for your rights and protect you.

The surrogate changes ashes into beauty!

Why waste your time chasing a storybook Jesus? The word from God today is esoteric referring to the myth about the person of Jesus.

First of all, Jesus is alive and wants to be a living reality in your life. Jesus does not live in history; He desires to live in every moment of your life. He is not illusive or distant.

Jesus is an every day God who wants to come down from heaven and meet you personally. Jesus desires to have conversations with you and share the attributes of His life with you.

Jesus is not religious man. He is not asking you to keep laws, practice religion or do works to please Him.

How do you remove the esoteric label? This happens through prayer and opening your heart up to Jesus. You don’t have to jump in with both feet. He will definitively prove to you that He is worth more than anything in the world.

Reach out in prayer by speaking honestly about your feelings and ask Him to help you with all your needs. This is not a monologue; you must listen to what Jesus has to say.

The cornerstone in a relationship with Jesus is built on faith. He wants you to believe His words and walk by faith and not by what you see with your eyes.

The government of God is on the shoulders of Jesus. He wants you to obey Him and live under His authority. This is for your own protection and to provide you with an abundant life which you can never achieve on your own.

Now lets deal with the Bible. Jesus doesn’t look upon the Bible as a historical manuscript. Jesus lives and communicates through His words. He desires for you to extract the truths from the Bible and appropriate His values into your life.

The miracle of Jesus is the gift of salvation. This has nothing to do with time. Jesus seals you with the Holy Spirit. He is the life of Jesus and is your direct link to the Living Christ. He is the source of the unlimited strength, wisdom, joy and protection of God.

Jesus does not want you to live on the surface and short change yourself. He wants you to live in the depth of His heart and receive the fullness of His greatness and glory.

How can you say no this awesome God?

“Before Me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after Me. I, even I, am the Lord” Isaiah 43:10-11

Do not marvel that I said to you, “You must be born again.” Matthew 3:7

The word from God today is intrinsic which is defined as belonging to the essential nature or constitution of something. In the context of a believer this refers to belonging to God.

The intrinsic nature of God does not exist in you at birth. The gift of salvation comes to all those who make a decision to live for Jesus. You then belong to God and are born into His nature.

The Holy Spirit seals you with the life of Christ. He is the intrinsic nature of God. Jesus lives in your mind, soul, and personality.

The desire of the Holy Spirit is to transform you into the character of God.

This cannot happen unless you are totally devoted to God and seeking His will for your life.

The intrinsic nature will remain at a static or dormant stage until you abandon yourself completely to God. And, religion will stifle the growth of God in a believer.

This is a decision to come into oneness with Jesus and seek His will for your life. This cannot be consummated by words, emotions, or works. You must come into a personal and embracing union with the Living Christ.

God wants you to be obedient to His voice regardless of the cost or sacrifice.

The purpose of the intrinsic quality is to allow the translucent light of God to pass through you touching others

The Living Christ wants to fill you with strength, wisdom, joy and protection and help you deal with the troubles of the world.

Salvation is not an escape from troubles, it brings more troubles.

The advantage of Christ is that He is on your side fighting for your needs and working to deliver you. He is advocating with God on your behalf.

Make your goal to know the Living Christ and walk in oneness with Him.

Jesus will give you a life you can never achieve on your own!

“It will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!” Matthew 10:15

I did not want to write this narrative but I have to comply with God.

This is about the reality of God and the future for believers. The compunction of God is coming like never before. I have witnessed this wind of judgment. It is frightening and all powerful.

We are in the end times and believers have to understand the night is over and the day is here. Your salvation is nearer then ever before.

There is a brandishing light coming from heaven.

This light is a powerful beam bringing conviction on all believers

You can no longer shuffle between light and darkness. This is about insatiable greed, sexual immorality, and debauchery. The list goes on and on. They grieve the heart of God.

The days of mediocrity are over.

If you are not all in with God and living in the light you will be subject to the consequences of His judgment.

God has taken me into the eddy of this brandishing light. Believers will collapse, lose consciousness and stumble to the ground. This is the hand of God dealing with conviction and judgment.

This will happen because God is angry over sin and the lack of respect for His name.

You will not be able to argue or compromise with this light.

God told me the impunity (exemption) to escape His judgment is to turn away from sin and open your heart up to God with a desire to seek His will for your life.

Jesus loves you! He has power and dominion over the heavens and earth.

“Salvation belongs to the Lord” Psalm 3:8

God spoke to me last night about understanding the reality of the gift of salvation and the relationship of God to man.

Salvation is God at work in a human being. It begins with God and has no ending. Salvation is God transforming you into His character. You have no control over your salvation or the ability to manipulate this gift to your advantage.

Salvation is yielding to God without any purpose. Salvation is not writing your own script; you allow God to do with you as He pleases.

Salvation is the work of breaking your compulsive behaviors and fleshly desires.

Salvation is living by faith with obedience to the voice of God.

Salvation has nothing to do with religion. You worship God in Spirit and truth.

You lose your rights to the will of God.

Salvation does not operate on human logic or make any sense in how God directs your pathway.

The goal is to live in oneness with God without seeing any purpose or goal for your life.

Salvation can be nourished by prayer, meditating on the Word, listening to the voice of God, and living under the authority of the Holy Spirit.

The practice of religion, doing works or keeping laws will not enrich your salvation. It will deter you from the heart of the Living Christ.

We attempt to manipulate God by thinking if we do something good for God He is under an obligation to bless us. This is a heresy perpetuated by religion. The blessings of God come by your faith in Christ and in His perfect timing.

Salvation is asking God how you can please Him without any strings attached.

Salvation is the revelation of Christ in the life of a sinner!