Refuse to know anything else.                                                     3/18/08                     

Remember the Hebrew word for way?  derek ~ meaning

The way, the path, the road,

the highway, the distance, the journey, 

the conduct, the condition, the destiny,

the power, the rule???

To zoom to the heavenlies means to go clean through the atmosphere, which

becomes thinner the higher you go.  Then you enter the exosphere, and the world

literally ceases to exist as you knew it.  No rules, no boundaries, no limits.

Space ~ is a vacuum ~ it contains nothing that limits you.     

You are “unimpeded by friction”.

From this position, I’ve felt an intensity building.  From this place ~ unimpeded ~ I’ve

felt a push to move like I’ve never moved before.  To trust and believe like never before.

But I was frightened too.  Frightened and misunderstood, I made a few blunders. 

Was trigger-happy with my children, irritated with myself. Fumbling and insecure with Him.

So I went to Father, to our silent place, to talk it out.   Then I waited.

Finally, He said, “Fear.”

I was so impatient!  Of course, I know I have fear.  We all have fear. 

Not feeling particularly enlighted I heard Him say, “You need to conquer fear.”

My flight of impatience ended mid-stride. 

I understood this was bigger than me.    Conquer fear?   Me?

All I could choke out was, “How?”

All He answered was, “I love you.”

This made no sense at first, until I felt one sharp claw of fear loosen. 

Love ~ it is the only answer!  Love God.  Love others.  Love self = no fear.

We know this, we all know this ~ but do we really know it in our secret knower? 

And if we claim to know this ~ do we live in the light of it?

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          I am in a hollow tube; standing on the circular bottom, looking up to the opening.

Drops of love randomly fall.. drip rather.. down the sides of this tube.  It is His Love.

I acknowledge them.  I say.. Yes yes of course.. you are God’s Love for me.  But I didn’t understand it.  I had no fear of God in it.  (The loving fear of God is the only fear allowed)

I saw His Love as an endless, gentle stream; I smelled His Love as a healing fragrance; I

reached out and touched it on occasion.. this is all so supernatural and wonderful.  But this kind of Love experience only temporarily corners fear.  It does not drive it away permanently.

So I stay in this position, I purposely linger in this tube; waiting to see what effect liquid Love might have on the fear, which controls all of mankind.

I discover that each Love droplet is permanent, no matter how small. 

It doesn’t evaporate and it can’t be given away.  No, really, it can’t.

This Love He has for me ~ it is totally and only and completely mine. 

And it stays with me always, wherever I go ~

And it ever increases ~

And it builds on itself a Love Kingdom, from which I reign.

          The platform for our personal reign is the Love Kingdom we posess.

For a long time I held this position, enticed in the Presence of His Love.

Not His general love for the universe, but His particular and personal Love, for me.

Without warning the drops of Love filled the floor of my tube.  Liquid Love began to saturate

my shoes.  Brilliant light raced from that saturation and began ~ effortlessly, without

that being it’s purpose ~ to drive out fear!   Fear did not challenge.  It did not fight. 

Every nugget of fear fled in terror.   And as it fled, my feet began to sing..

 “I AM NOT AFRAID!”

In this position, in this “Receiving Tube”, I discovered some love secrets.

His saturating, penetrating, emancipating, personal love.  Dear Jesus! 

His Love does drive out fear, for real. 

His Love soothes and anoints all wounds and tears. 

His Love cheers and does not dismay.

It has no ability to carry offense or fear.  There is just no container for them.

(How those 2 are closely related.  You can hardly have one without the other.)

I am breathless with the knowing which radiates through my damp feet!

Father bends close then, and cups His hands to my ear.  He whispers “I love you.”

And His Words tumble into me and throughout eternity.  They will never come back void!

I am loved!  I am changed!  I am filled!  I am joy-filled!  I have peace!  Endless bliss ~

I cannot imagine living in this tube when it is filled with His Love.  I am undone with just

this slightest moisture of it. 

…beyond my wildest dreams or highest hopes.

…like entering the exosphere, past all friction and limits.

The world, as I know it, literally ceases to exist and is instead replaced with one where

His Kingdom rules.    How amazing.

Space ~ a vacuum ~ containing nothing to limit ~ “unimpeded by friction”;

We become saturated with His Love.   Incredible.   Selah!

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Oswald Chambers ~ First thing in examining the power that dominates me is to take hold of the responsibility.  Yielding is to become a slave to it.  Yield for one second and be a slave for life.

You cannot give up a slave habit, a slave chain.  Only yielding to Jesus breaks the yoke.

Do we yield to fear, and become its slave? 

Or do we tenaciously cling to His Word, even when our feet find no firm place to stand?

Divine Clearance.

There is a general room filled with believers.  It is a very pleasant place, very friendly and warm.  But He asks me to come closer, to a place filled with faith and joy.  A new place.

In this place of Extreme Clearance, I receive a new mission. 

It is permission to not listen to negative thinking.

          To not listen to negative preaching, singing, self-help books, videos, emails, dvds, etc.

          No.  It’s so simple.  Just say no.

This place of Clearance is one of courtship.  All those who enter are restless with love.  They don’t care about the future.  They don’t care about the past.  They don’t even care about the present, as long as they are with the One they love. 

Those who discover this place of Kingdom Love, this Receiving Tube, this Divine Clearance ~

          They walk with the gay bounce of lovers.

          They move with profound grace ~ so focused on another, so unselfishly given.

          They grin and giggle, they squirm and wiggle!  The irresistible aroma of lovers!  Whoa!

This Receiving Tube mentality ~ is to allow yourself to be so in love ~

to be so filled with His Love ~

so focused on Him alone

that there is no room, no container for fear, for criticism, for demands or rigidity.

Only soft, pliable, heart-melting love.

To enter that Place I must have Divine Clearance.  It isn’t a card to scan.  It isn’t my fingerprint

or voice code.  To gain admittance to this Love Place, He Himself finds evidence in my eyes.  Eye to eye, He looks for His own reflection.  He sees past my mind, my will and my emotions.  He looks deeper than my actions, my words, my intents.  He dives into my innermost being with His eyes, and if He finds Himself there ~ I am invited in to this Place where nothing negative is allowed.

Excitement is mounting!   Joy is on the increase ~ like “Aslan… He is on the move”.

The more I practice Divine Clearance, the more excited I become! 

Contagious, outrageous, it eats folks alive ~ including me!

Hannah Smith, Quaker of old who wrote The Christian’s Secret of A Happy Life, knew all about the joy factor.   “… to grow in grace.. I must be planted in the very heart of this Divine Love ~ enveloped by it, steeped in it.. let itself out to the joy of it and refuse to know anything else!

I must apprehend it daily and have no doubt.”

Refuse to know anything else.  Apprehend it daily.  Have no doubt.

I want that.

In my severe wanting, I ask Father’s advice once again.  How can I get this message of supreme hope, of exquisite love, of joy… joy… JOY…. across to those I am in contact with?  Chomping at the bit, straining on my leash, ready to smack the rock for the water it contains…

And He said,  “Wait.”

W.  Wait? ~  Why?  When?  Where?   What? 

A.   He lets me know that “Anxious” is not His word, but “Arrive” is.

I.   Impatient!  I’m terribly impatient!  He says, “Intimate, I AM terribly Intimate.”

T.  Temporary.  The waiting is temporary and timely.  You must come Together.

I allow my heart to be calmed, my soul comforted ~ filled with You in my Receiving Tube.

Let my spirit leap for joy, like John the Baptist.

Wait.  I feel myself physically climb the W.  I rest in the bottom crevice and flop ~ belly first

Over the middle peak.  As I crawl up the last leg of the W, it bends gently, like a tree limb and deposits me on the A.  The A. swallows me quickly, flings me up and over ~ like a roller coaster ride and splashes me onto the I.  I stand up slowly, dizzy, until my head fills the top most dot of the I.  The rapid downward stroke launches me at the foot of the T, which becomes the cross.

Where I am confronted, enveloped and permeated with, His Faith and Love.

Refuse to know anything else. 

Apprehend it daily. 

Have no doubt.

There is a decision we each have to make every day, perhaps many times a day.

Do we live in His Love, where no negativity can exist ~ the Promised Land?

Or do we dwell in the wilderness,

always seeking and never finding,

eating but never satisfied,

seeing but never comprehending,

hearing but not understanding.

journeying, but never arriving.

(After 40 years, they arrive at the same place, only now they have to cross a river as too.)

I want to be His Lover, filled to the brim with His Love.

To reflect His joy, His strength, His grace, His peace, His power ~ satisfied.

“Unimpeded by friction”; saturated with His Love.  Incredible.  

This is our derek ~ our way, our path, our destiny ~ to choose Love and Joy!

Albedo ~           Whatever I listen to  ~ I hear.

                    Whatever I hear ~ I believe.

                    Whatever I believe ~ I obey.

                    Whatever I obey ~ I reflect.

Albedo ~  Whatever I reflect, I AM.