When outer powers provoke the inner powers in a body, then it is when the Civil War starts. It is sneaky. You need it though for a whole powerful and a whole heartedly body. A Civil War is needed for a longer term run. Dont avoid Civil Wars. Be thankful for them. Know that it is for your change. It is hard but when it is needed, then a change is good.
Let me share with you a recent Civil War that I have personally witnessed:
It was a beautiful rainy grey day...Cloudy...Fresh air. There was smoke on the top of the mountain. The only alive powers had put their Victory Banner on the top of the Great Mountain. As long as the Holy Wind exists, that Victory Banner will be waving in the air for the body. For your body. For your future.
It hadn't been easy to reach the top of the mountain. The Civil War was severe, long term and it took many lives.
The Civil War had taken lives everyday before the Victory Day. However it was worthed. No matter what it had cost, it was worthed.
I still remember the bad smell of all the dead powers laying down the Great Mountain...It is scary and disgusting to look down and see them all, feel them all. Although they are disgusting when they are dead, they were more disgusting when they used to be alive...
I still remember the glorious warriors of both sides..Neither of them had fear..They had one goal in common: It was to put the Victory Banner on top of the Great Mountain. I remember the scary clashes of their heavy swords, the scary noise of their galloping horses..The screams of the lovely mercy..The tears of the precious forgiveness. The bitterness, stabbing the sweetness. The Old Nature, roaring at the New Nature. The shame, shading the beauty of true repentance. The rudeness, breaking the sense of fairness. The lack of love, hurting the kindness. The bleeding self esteem, running away from the insulting voice's sword. The selfishness, cursing the self curicification..
I know I said 'they are the glorious warriors of both sides..' However don't you think in this picture one side looks more powerful and the other side looks just losing ? Power is not what you can see always: Power can be sometimes what you cannot see yet. We see the current situation, the current war, but God sees the end , He knows the end, and The End is good. It is gonna be hard but it is gonna be good.
God said" The first will be the last."
It is the sinful powers in a body that looks winning at first, but they will be the last!
The sinful powers and their servants, no matter how hard they want to be the first, they have to be the last.
So remembering this, I tried not to be too scared of this picture of the Great Civil War.
Each person's civil war can take a different period of time. Depending on how much you are renewed by your Commander, how much you are walking close to Him in this civil war, how much you are obeying His Words and Commands determine your steps.
I remember the joy of the Victory Day.. The enemy wasn't defeated through violence but through obedience to the Great Glorious Commander and renewing of the mind in the Word.
I won't forget the moment when His Glorious Warriors reached the peak of the Great Mountain and put the Victory Banner: It said on it: The love of the King of Kings.
I won't forget the symbol on the banner either: It was: the Cross ...When I looked carefully on the Cross, I saw His Blood and His Tears too.
A daily life is hard but the Commander is alive.
The Commander has defeated the enemy side.
It has been a long time since the rightiousness and justice has been kissing and hugging eachother.
They celebrate the Victory Day, the Great Victory Mountain, the Commander and His Banner.
So rejoice! Whenever you smell the stinky dead powers, rejoice in His power. Dont let the stinky smell scare you or discourage you: Remember that they dont have power over you, they are dead in their graves.
There was a river of pain,the River of Adversity where the little girl was born.
She was very familiar with this river.
The river had never disappeared away.
This river always existed as long as she remembered it.
The river was scary and strong.
It wasn't like any other rivers, it was the River of Adversity. This word was difficult for the little girl to understand it completely but she knew that something was wrong with it because she felt different whenever she passed near by it or when she wondered around the river.
As she grew older,she was more curious about the river and she even put her feet in it from time to time. First she tried a little bit, not much deep in the river. The bitterness of the water hurt her feet so much. The river wasn't that far away from her home. That's why it was hard for her sometimes to stay away from its bitterness. She knew she needed to be carefull with it because she had heard that there were some other people before who fell in the same river and they never came back.
As the little girl grew up more and she became a young lady, she came across with this river more often in her life. Actually she was a very blessed girl since she had a special Person in her life who was guiding her from the Very Beginning; even when she didnt know about this Person.
One day she had to go to another village but it was impossible to cross the way without being get wet by the splashes from the river. Ahh... the splashes burnt her legs and she was crying in pain and she decided to move to another city where there was no River of pain like this! Yes, that would be the solution for her and also for other people maybe? Certainly she would find a place where no River of pain and sorrow was flowing...
She didnt have any strength anymore to face this River one more day. When she was all ready to leave, she heard the Voice of the Special Person, in her deep being, the Voice was coming from her Heavenly Father...He met her for a short moment at her house gate but it felt like a very long sweet appointment.
After He was finished with His Words she was convinced to stay..She wasn't going to run away from the River anymore. When the Heavenly Father speaks He speaks firm,convincing and lovely. You know you are safe when He speaks. The girl was happy to know that she was safe and she was going to keep her Father's words even when she would become an old woman. And she did: She did keep those precious Words from the Father, even after many years. It was those words that changed her attitude towards the life with the River of Adversity.
Her Father had said to her that day... : " My dear Child.. Running away from the Pain is never the solution, it never helps you to overcome it. In every city and village, you will run into the same River. You cannot run away from it but you can face it. My child...overcoming the pain means to continue living in spite of the pain. Going through pain is not meaningless: Trust me that it is meaningful, trust Me that it is meaningful even when the meaning is hidden in Me. Don't be afraid of such deadly rivers in your life, don't be afraid of tears in your life. You are strong enough in Me if the splash comes onto your feet from that river but your feet won't be affected as long as you walk with Me. I will bless your feet. Pain is a life calling sometimes but your attitude should not be to run away from it but staying with Me during it. Pain is not for your damage but it is for your growth my child. That river will be flowing here and there as long as you live but I will be here as well during your lifetime. Dont forget that it is Me ,your Heavenly Father who is sailing your Boat.
His Face was shining on her tears. Young girl said to Him:" I love You and your Word, Father."
Father said: " Good child, continue loving my Word and loving Him means obeying Him too."
The girl knew this was real and she wasn't just dreaming.
He said " Tell other people too if they see you that you are not afraid of the River of Pain. Tell them that it is Me, the Father who is sailing your Boat on the river. You will overcome the river because first I have overcome it for you."
There was a person with a precious garden.
He loved His garden and He took good care of her from the Very Beginning.
He had created and prepared His garden so that she would admire Him during her entire life time.
He also sealed His beautiful garden so that nobody harmful would walk in.
He sealed her, so that she would belong to Him forever.
He called her ' My sealed garden'
He took His garden in His hands and looked at her with great compassion. She was His creation, His beloved.
He addressed to her and said:
" I am who I am. When you feel thirsty, only I am,will water you, if necessary with my tears too.
My mercy will not abandon you.
When you have a need, I am, will meet your needs.
My mercy will not abandon you.
When you are lonely or scared, I am, will come down and comfort you.
When I am, wind over you, remember that you belong to Me.
Look at My face, look at My hands...
Sing for me " ....
Then He put His garden back, on the ground.
She was content and not scared.
She trusted her Owner's words.
She trusted Him for her entire life.
I am His sealed garden
Sealed to be only His.
Sealed to be Holy as He is.
You are His sealed garden too.
Did you know that?
