The Fabric 7/10/07
Beware of false prophets ~ devouring wolves.
We can recognize them ~ fully ~ by their fruits.
Do you pick grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?
Do you get bacon from chickens or cookies from cows?
Every healthy (sound) tree bears good fruit (worthy of admiration)
but sickly (decayed, worthless) trees bear bad (worthless) fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad or worthless fruit!
A diseased tree cannot bear excellent fruit!
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.
Therefore, you will fully know them by their fruits.
(not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but he who does the will of My Father Who is in heaven will enter in.)
We must be responsible for what we let in and let out.
Good fruit is not automatic! It is not the result of which church we go to, who are parents are
or what music or teaching tapes we listen to. We must control the in-take valve.
Col 1:9
We continually ask and make special request that you may be filled with the full deep and clear knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom ~ in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God and in understanding and discernment of spiritual things.
We see only in part but we need to embrace the “whole” realm of God.
We need each other to do that!
The best we see is a fraction – a piece.
The more we encompass, the more of God’s wholeness we bring in.
The more we bring in, the more we are able to give out!
To see fully is to be full to the eyeballs.
It is to have or contain what we have space to hold!
The idea is we must increase our holding capacity! Increase our fullness potential.
Do we want teacups or tankers?
Teacups can be lifted by one hand, with one pinkie extended.
Tankers can carry a huge load and need extra wheels to do it.
Which are you willing to do?
We need each other!
“Katartizo”
Jonah 1:17 God “prepared” a big fish to swallow Jonah at exactly the right time.
Matthew 20:23 To sit at Jesus’ right hand is something only God knows,
He has “prepared” and even ordained someone to sit there. Mk 10:40
John 14:2 Jesus went to heaven to “prepare” many mansions, one for each of us.
Romans 9:23 beforehand He “prepare” us for His glory!
1 Cor 2:9 eye has not seen nor ear heard all that God has “prepared” for those who love Him!
Our minds can’t even think of it!
Hebrews 10:5 When He comes into the world,
He said “Sacrifices and offerings you don’t want, but a body you have “prepared” for Me.”
“katartizo” is to furnish completely. To equip, fit together, join, frame, to perfect.
To mend, restore, to heal as in restoring a dislocated joint.
Gal. 6:1 restore those who have fallen with a spirit of meekness
“harmos” disjointed ~ joint is harmos or harmony!
Hebrews 4:12 inward soul and spiritual being inside a man, brought together.
Ephesians 4:12-16 the whole body fitly joined together!
Sunday morning, one of my children saw 2 squirt bottles facing each other. Both bottles gave off a tiny mist. The mists collided and formed a sharp line, from top to bottom. This “line” created a new color! The line began to spin and swirl ~ it went around each squirt bottle. Each time they squirted, a new color would swirl where the mists met. The swirls and spins created tunnels of colors that encircled the bottles, until it grew into a huge rainbow of God ~ the “O” of God!
One depth of this vision is that ~ unity brings creativity, beauty, power and strength. And fun too!
Acts 15 (from kids also) there is need for unity between gentiles and Jews. Dissention hit this early group. After it was settled, the spirit of dissention did not leave. It hovered over Paul and Barnabas ~ they ended up splitting up, one with Silas and one with Mark.
Gal 6:1 again, be careful in restoring others, lest you yourself end up divided!
Experiencing Lambeau field on 07 07 07 the unity! I heard 8,000 were there at one time. I don’t know the numbers yet, but Leap might count the registered folks and know.
God reinforced this with a “sighting” ~
As Christians enter the kingdom, they receive salvation, and are changed into a new creation. (2 Corinthians 5:17 Galatians 6:15) He showed me His newborn, as if changing the material they are made of into a new cloth… a new wineskin. As we become born-again, we are changed into this glorious fabric ~ spread out into eternity and back to the dawn of time. Like when someone is about to make a dress, a bridal dress… how the fabric is prepared and seamless. Yet if all that fabric does is lay on a cutting table and look beautiful, what good is it? How many Christians do this? We join the fabric of God but refuse to become what they are destined and called to become?
So then, we are fabric, laid out, utterly beautiful and smoothed ~ wrinkle free.
And comfortably looking like everyone else. Leaving only the adventurous, the truly hungry, to venture further ~ allowing Holy Spirit to cut them. (We get cantankerous when next to someone being cut ~ just grips us wrong and we judge them. We don’t “get” it very often.)
If you have ever sewn a garment, you know how incredibly diverse each pattern piece is. The more intricate the garment, the more you need to follow a pattern, especially if it is a garment you have never made before. (my first ridiculous attempt at making a skirt… how I learned to set sleeves in with one arm backwards. You can get very confused ~ very ahead of yourself ~ and ruin it all if you don’t pay attention to the order in which things are sewn together. Especially a garment as detailed as a wedding gown!
Each piece is so important. The tiniest stitches are needed to fasten valuable gems or pearls. Delicate stitching is needed to hold the interfacing in place. The interface is never really seem, but without it the bride’s body is free from irritating stitches or harsh netting. Bold stitches hold the grand sweep of the bridal train, which is magnificent enough to fill the temple! Each stitch is important, each piece of material, no matter what kind of material it is or how small the piece.. is important. Vital, in fact.
View the completed bridal trousseau and you have the church, operating in unity to bring glory to the King.
“sighting” # 2
I lamented over the church, it looked to be continuously dividing. Fragments and pieces 
were scattered everywhere…. as far as my eye could see. The most disturbing thing was that most of these fragmented groups were lead by people I knew and trusted! Even people I love and respected in the Lord.
As I asked for understanding I saw a huge ~ I mean so very huge ~ jigsaw puzzle. It was in disarray, as if someone had just dumped it out to work on it. Piles of pieces were lay everywhere; one pile had flat edges, while another had similar colors or looked as if they might be part of some object or texture. Each “pile” was very different from all the other piles. (is this the church?) There was even a pile of “un-united” pieces which didn’t seem to match anything at all! It was as if the organizer didn’t know quite where these guys would fit, so saved them in an “unmatchable” or miscellaneous pile, lumped all together for a later time.
A later time!
Suddenly laughable is my lament over church divisions! For when you work a puzzle, you look for the outer, flat edge pieces and gather them. Or you start with a particular color, or item, and pile them together. Sometimes it takes a day just to organize your pieces ~ even then, even then, it can take forever to complete a puzzle. And through it all, you make room for those miscellaneous ones. You never throw a piece away. Because you realize that each piece is unique and divinely needed to complete the puzzle. Each piece is needed to make a “new thing”, a new creation. Some folks grow so proud of their hard-worked, completed puzzles, that they frame and hang them!
You cannot complete a complex puzzle
You cannot create a dazzling wedding gown,
without a complete piecing process.
It is this process which looks hopeless. It is this process that causes us to lament. Yet it is this process that enables us to proceed to the fullness of God. The joining, the katartizo ~ of God.
So ~
1) Do not lament over division. It could be the puzzle-sorting moment.
2) Beware lest you fail into division yourself.
3) Be faithful (faithfilled) over each tiny request God asks of you.
It could be the hinge on which a great big door of opportunity pivots.
4) If you are filled with His knowledge, you will know that God will enable you,
through those tiny hinges, to do successfully whatever He has asked you to do.
Lastly, be ready. The time is now. Rg has had a series of words lately and they all pertain to the “now” moment. That “now” is the time and He will supply us with accurate details ~ the how, the where, the when ~ so be open. Be excited. Be ready. Be joyful. Be encouraged!
Be playful even!
The pieces are about to combust into the passionate fire of God!
View the completed bridal trousseau (the completed billion-piece puzzle) and you have the church, US, operating in unity bringing glory to the King.
