Let us “put on” the armor of God.

The LORD has been impressing upon my heart for a while about “putting on.” In our walks with the LORD we are told to “put on” and “put off”, I will not address the “putting off’ at this time, there are a few scriptures that tell us what to “put on” I want to focus on “putting on” the armour.The LORD had me re-study this topic, again and I have to say you can never know all things in scripture, it is so refreshing to keep going over things you think you know, because truthfully it  winds up that you get a fresh revelation. The timing of me studying this was God, as it showed me the weakness and the breach  that I had left opened or allowed to be opened, for the enemy to attack me, This new year has been a challenge for Rob and myself we have been attacked left right and center, so I know the LORD has a purpose in everything, thank God I never let myself continue in my defeat, but I picked myself up and brush off the “bullet dust” and carry on!! Proverbs 24:16 says for a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

Remember, it is ok to fall …as long as you get back up, that is the key, do not let the enemy hold you down!! The areas he tried to attack us in was concerning our health, for myself the LORD showed me I had opened a door to “offenses” (which is a whole other topic)allowing my guard to be down, and letting the enemy in to cause havoc !So it was a lesson learned hard. Glory to God though I do not stay down, I always say “he did not bring me thus far to see me fail” So all that to say that we have to “put on” our armor or we will be flying ducks to the enemy, let us go through Eph.6 and see what we can find.

Here are some scriptures that state we “put on”

Col.3:14- put on love

Col.3:12-put on, mercy, kindness humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering

Col.3:10; Eph. 4:24- the new man

 Eph.6:11- armor of God; 1Thess.5:8

Gal.3:27; Rom.13:12-14, Put on Christ, Light

Metaphorically (a figure of speech) “to put on” light of Jesus

What does it mean “to put on?” In the Greek it is as if you are slipping into a garment, it also speaks of being endued with some quality or power. When you wake up in the morning what is the first thing you do? If we are truthful, a lot of Christians probably do not “put on” Christ, I know I did not do that for years, I gave him my time when it was convenient, and usually it was not my best, I was tired and drained from the day, then I was left wondering why my day always went to the dogs! Until I started to habitually train myself, discipline myself, and yes it is discipline ;( Let me say here there is no excuse, when I had three small children I found time to spend with Him, back then it was not in the morning but when they were in school or napping, so make time for him however you have to) He is the first thing I go to! Actually I get my coffee first! And we have our coffee together! My day cannot start without being clothed, endued with His power, his word. I understand people are busy, and work, some are up very early, but the truth is that is no excuse, we find time to do other things, why can we not find time for the One who gives us life! And the truth is it is for our own good, it prepares us and keeps us in the secret place of knowing who we are in Him! Find what time is best for you, but just do leave Him to be last thing in your life. He so desires to meet with his children, He longs for it.

So looking at the meaning of the words, “put on” it means a fixed position. This is what I want to address, when we get into that fixed position we are letting the enemy know we are not going to budge in anything he throws at us .As we put on Christ we come into that position of being ready and able to take the Land!!! Just as the meaning says in state, place, or time. No matter what state you are in  no matter what time it is and no matter what place you are in.

G1746-put ye on (sinking into a garment, to invest with clothing to endue, a fixed position (in place, time or state)

Enduo-1746-to enter into, get into, as into clothes “to put on”, to provide or endow as with some quality or power, to put on.

Now I believe that in order to put on the armor of God you have to clothe yourself first with Christ, (which is a lifestyle) and allow the clothing of the new man also, you cannot put the armor of God on the carnal man, right? When the new man which is renewed in knowledge arises, he then knows to endue himself with the things for war!

PUT ON THE ARMOUR OF GOD

Eph 6:10 finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. (Being in a fixed position with the whole armour of God)

Eph 6:12 for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Eph 6:13  Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

1)-Put on Christ

2) Put on the new man-Col.3:10(which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him) Eph4:24; 2:15 (which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness)

3) Put on the armor of God.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE WAYS TO GETTING INTO THAT “FIXED POSTION”?

 Remember: WE POSIION OURSELVES WITH WORSHIP WITH PRAISE AND DECLARING THE WORD OF GOD, WE DANCE, WE ARE THANK-FUL WE LOVE,   And YOUR WORSHIP IS YOUR WEAPON!! YOUR PRAISE IS YOUR WEAPON!  DECLARING OUT LOUD (setting the trumpet to your mouth, (metaphor) (is to prophesy) IS YOUR WEAPON! (READ Numbers 10:9)

Num 10:9 and if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

The land is your life your very existence, and when the enemy comes to disrupt things, SOUND THE ALARM!!! YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED BY GOD!!!

There is a responsibility on our part to all this when a man goes to war he does not just sit around and let all the other men do all the work , he gets himself into the position that he has been enlisted for and gives his all and fights! Continue below with the rest,

WHAT IS THE ARMOUR OF GOD?

Armour-3696-any implement or tool for preparing a thing, arms used in warfare, weapons. Well we know full well that we do not go and literally put on implements for war, our warfare is not carnal, amen? We do have an enemy, and we are not to be ignorant of his devices 2 Cor. 2:11.

Read 2 cor.10:3-5

 WE DO NOT FIGHT WITH CARNAL MEANS,

 Amplified Version:

 3For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons.

    4For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds,

    5[Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One),

King James Version:

 2Co 10:3 for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

2Co 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds ;)

2Co 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

The battle is in the mind!! We are told to cast down those things that exalt themselves above the knowledge of God, So if you know who you are in Christ you will be able to do this but unfortunately a lot of the church does not know who they are, in Him, they walk around with there tail between there legs all bruised and beat up and lying in the gutter wounded!! If you are hearing anything other than good things in your thinking then you are under attack, if man is telling you that you have no ministry, that there is no room for you in this place(religious system) do not loose the vision or dream that God has given you , it is God who opens doors for you not man!and it is up to you to take action and cast that down, using promises and scripture, we have to do our part!! There are to many wounded Christians who are waiting for the heavens to open and God to deliver them of all there trials, when the reality is we have the means to deliver ourselves from the situation, We have the word abiding in us, the anointing that abides in us is life and power, and if we have placed ourselves in the “fixed position” then we can fight and over through our God!!

Look at David in -1Sam.17 (please read)

Here David is gong to fight Goliath,(I am sure everyone knows the story)David is a young boy with the confidence of knowing who his God is, after all God has delivered him from the enemy before and he lets Saul know this, that just because he is young , he is a warrior, verse 33-37. Now Saul tries to arm David with his own armor, but David was not use to it so he took them off. Let me at this point tell you who Saul is, he is a “type”: the apostate king” the false, the religious system. Goliath is a “type” deifier of Israel. David knew he could not fight Goliath with the means of religion (mans ways) he went in the Name of his God, verse 45-46, he knew the LORD would deliver him into his hands and cut off the head of Goliath, so he took 5 smooth stones, and they representing this: 5-number of grace and atonement, life, the cross, stones are symbolic of strength and stability in Christ and the believer, Jesus is the Corner Stone! We overcome the enemy with the work of the cross and the life of Christ in our lives, for it is by grace that we can overcome his grace not of works (religion). Man will give us means and programs and ideas, but God wants us to KNOW him, and to LIVE in him and have our being in HIM!!! If we do not know who we are in him we will continually be taken down by the enemy!!!

So where did the stones kill Goliath? Right in the forehead! The forehead is symbolic of thought, reason, mind and memory. Remember 2 Cor 10, Casting down every high thing that exalts itself above the knowledge of God!! WOW!!! This is good preaching!!!! Are you hungry for truth? Do you need answers to why you are always overcome with depression and misery, and sadness and lack? The bible is a manual for equipping, did you know that? We are so blessed to have the privilege to be able to have this manual, to have the right to read and study it, but the sad thing is a lot of us do not even pick it up, except on Sundays. There may come a day where we will not be able to have bibles, then what? Thy words have I hid in thy heart…., Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and light unto my path. Church, READ AND STUDY YOUR BIBLES, NOT WHAT THE PASTOR IS SAYING, READ READ READ READ READ!!! The truth is when the trials come you are really in it a lone, so who is going to fight for you? Sure we have friends and families that pray but as I know, from experience, you are battling a lone, and if you do not have the armor on and you are not “fixed” in that position you will succumb to your adversary!!

Eph 6:10 finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

 EL ELYON-the strong one. JEHOVAH NISSI-the LORD is my banner of defense! Glory to God he is the strong one, he is our defense and our banner, these are His Names that we can declare to the enemy that our God is EL ELYON!!! He is JEHOVAH NISSI!!!

WHAT DOES PUTTING ON THE ARMOUR OF GOD ENABLE US TO DO?

STAND!!!!

Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

G2476-stand- abide, appoint, continue, establish, hold up, stand still

Read Joshua 3:8-11

Here is a story of Joshua, leaving Shittim and journeying to the Jordon, before they were to pass over the Levitical priest were to go before  them with the ark of the covenant(which is the presence of the LORD) You must have the presence of the LORD to follow, you cannot stand without it! In verse 4 it says,

 , 4Yet a space must be kept between you and it, about 2,000 cubits by measure; come not near it, that you may [be able to see the ark and] know the way you must go, for you have not passed this way before. When we have the presence of the LORD before us we will know the way in which we should go, for usually when the attack of the enemy comes we do not know it until it hits, right? Then is verse 5 it says sanctify yourselves, separate yourselves from the things that oppose the truth of Gods word if you are playing with sin or whatever is opposite of Gods way then do not expect to prevail against the enemy! So far we have first the presence then setting ourselves apart, we are in the world but not of the world. The priests moved forward and they stood still in the midst of the Jordon, while Israel passed over, verse 8 and 17. As we know there is no more a Levitical priesthood we are the priest of the LORD, so it is with that we can learn and see that as we put first the presence of our Lord and set ourselves apart, and stand, we will overcome!

 Josh.7:1-12; (please read) also read Joshua 6. Here is another story of Joshua, where they are told to march around the walls of Jericho (chapter 6) this is all about obedience. They were told in verse 17-18 to keep themselves from the accursed and devoted things, other wise it would trouble the camp. In Chapter 7 we see that they did commit a trespass, and as they went to fight Ai, about 3000 of them , it says they fled, and 36 of then died, verse 5 says the hearts of the people melted and became like water (amplify) Even Joshua cried out to the LORD and said why have you brought us here? Was it to give us into the hands of the enemy? But what was Gods response? Verse 10, GET UP!!! Israel has sinned. Verse 12 says that is why the Israelites could not stand before their enemies, but fled before them. Church we cannot expect God to cover us if we have sin in our lives, if you are overtaken in battle and you do not understand ask the LORD to show you why and he will just as he showed Joshua. Get up!! Repent; get into the presence of God, set yourself apart to God and get back in the fight!

Isa.21:8; 1 cor.2:5;1 Cor.16:13;2 Cor.1:24;Gal.5:1Phil.1:27;4:1;1Thess.3:8;2Thess.2:15

WHAT ARE WE STANDING AGAINST?

Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Wiles- it comes from the word “method” cunning arts, deceit, craft, trickery, and schemes, to lie in wait. Eph 4:14 (to lie in wait)

 Just as the devil has methods of deception, God has strategies of truth; those are our weapons against the enemy! He is waiting to trick us, to deceive us, and we are not ignorant of his devices, as you see in Eph 4:14 he uses man and the doctrines of man, 14So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of [c]unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead.

 If what you are believing is comfort to your soul realm then you are in error, the truth of Gods word is a two-edged sword cutting asunder the soul and spirit. The gospel I know is not about comfort but about killing the flesh and crucifying the carnal man that opposes itself and sits on the throne thinking it is god! If anyone out there can tell me that dying to the flesh is comfort, let me know! Now do not get me wrong here, God is my comfort and my life is hid in Him therefore I am at peace and rest, but if you are feeding your carnal man with the delicacies’ of this life so you do not have to change, and you like what you are hearing because it does not require you to change then you had better think twice about what you are allowing into your ear gate!

Heb 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

 We have to arm ourselves with the TRUTH OF GODS WORD, SPEAK IT, WALK IT, ACT IT OUT, REPEAT IT, SING IT, and SHOUT IT. That is part of the armor of God.

 Again go back to 2 cor. 10 (casting down vain imaginations)

 2Co 10:3  For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

2Co 10:4  (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

2Co 10:5  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Think on good things, Phil.4

Eph 6:13 wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to **withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

**G436-withstand

To stand against, that is, oppose: - resist, withstand.

 We need to resist the enemy and the only way we can do that is with the armor on; you cannot do it any other way!

Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

So we are in that fixed position,(putting on) standing with the amour of truth, and where is the truth? It is girded about our loins, so let’s look at what the loins are.

G3751-loins

Of uncertain affinity; the loin (externally), that is, the hip; internally (by extension) procreative power: - loin.

The procreative power, that is where we create words, thoughts, intents, it is where we think and what we believe, again, 2 Cor.10 casting down everything that exalts itself above the knowledge of God!! The thoughts the mind are to be fasten as it were with a belt of TRUTH!!! 1Pe 1:13 wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

What are you creating in your thought life? What lies do you believe? Recognize the enemy and cast them down so that you can arise into the man and woman of God that you are suppose to be!

GIRT ABOUT-From G4012 and G2224; to gird all around, that is, (middle or passive voice) to fasten on one's belt (literally or figuratively): - gird (about, self).

From G2223; to bind about (especially with a belt): - gird.

Probably akin to the base of G2218; a belt; by implication a pocket: - girdle, purse.

From the root of ζεύγνυμι zeugnumi (to join, especially by a “yoke”); a coupling, that is, (figuratively) servitude (a law or obligation); also (literally) the beam of the balance (as connecting the scales): - pair of balances, yoke.

WITH TRUTH-the word with is the same meaning as the word “put on”, a “fixed position” so having a “fixed position “of TRUTH, I cannot express enough, you must find truth in your situation and then fix yourself in that stand and do not move till you see the salvation of your God, I do not care what you have to go through DO NO MOVE FROM YOUR POSITION IN GOD!! If you are not use to doing that, I will not lie it will not be an easy fight, but you already have won you just have to get there.

 Joh 14:6 ;1Jn 2:27; 3Jn 1:4 ; 1Jn 1:5 ; 1Jn 1:6 ; 1Jn 1:7;  1Jn 1:8 ; 1Jn 1:9 ;

1Jn 1:10 

I will end with that and we will continue this study next time.

In His Service      Michele

JACOBS WELL

On the 23 rd of December I woke up as usual, no sooner did my eyes open and I heard the LORD say “The church will be mine in 2009” as I got my coffee and sat down, it was then the Lord spoke to me and said “Jacobs well” for a few days I kept asking the LORD to show me what he was saying about Jacobs well, The only account in the bible I could find was in John 4, I did not rush in about anything I just continued to pray.

Today is New years eve, the 31^st of December, 2008,it is early morning, and I am asking the LORD again if there is anything in what he gave  me, it was then the Holy Spirit brought my attention to how many days it was from the 23^rd to the 31^st (counting the 23^rd of Dec. as 1) it has taken me 9 days to hear what the LORD was saying concerning this. I love it when I hear the heart of the Father, as I have written before many times that is my passion to know Him and hear his heart beat! Well as some of you know by now that read any of my writings will know I am all about interpreting scripture right, weather it be literal, symbolic or in type, we have to know what the LORD is saying. So as the LORD brought to my attention the number of days  I thought upon this, that it had taken me 9 days, which caused me seek out the meaning of the number, and then I thought, 9 days, and 2009 is approaching. So with that I did a search and found the meaning of the number 9. It means;

  Judgment,, the conclusion of an ending, or a matter, it represents the conclusion of mans works, it represents finality. So I swear in my wrath they shall not enter into my rest.(Hebrews 3:11) the phrase “my wrath” in the Greek has the numeric value of 999.The Hebrew meaning for the number 9 is ;to look at or to regard, gaze at or about.

  1Pe 4:17 for the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

1Pe 4:18 and if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

2009 will be fast upon us, it will be here as you are reading this. I do not think judgment is a bad thing; judgment is the LORD chastening us.  The church will be His not mans not any organization nor any program, nor any idol or god, the church will be his; the conclusion of mans ways and works are coming to finality, it will be handed back to him, even if it is through judgment! For some that judgment will be brought on because what you sow you will reap, and your own wickedness shall chasten you, Jeremiah 2:19.

Here are the meanings of the words;

JUDGMENT-

From G2919; a decision (the function or the effect, for or against [“crime”]): - avenge, condemned,  damnation, + go to law, judgment.

 to distinguish, that is, decide (mentally or judicially); by implication to try, punish: - avenge, conclude,  damn, decree, determine, esteem, judge, go to (sue at the) law, ordain, call in question, sentence to, think.

In 1 Peter4:17, for the time has come that a decision must begin in the house of the LORD.

 Church we are in a time, where there needs to be a lot of decisions in our heart about whom we are going to serve. The line is being drawn in the sand!

Let’s look at the what the wrath of God is; “my wrath” Read Hebrews 3:1-19

Heb 3:10 wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, they do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

Heb 3:11 so I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest.)

We read in Hebrews that we are not to harden our hearts as they did in the wilderness; He was grieved with that generation has it changed today? In verse 10 it says they always erred in their heart and they did not know his ways. Just as He swore in his wrath then I believe he is doing the same today in his church, look at the meaning of the word wrath.

WRATH

From G3713; properly desire (as a reaching forth or excitement of the mind), that is, (by analogy) violent passion

Middle voice of apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary (compare G3735); to stretch oneself that is, reach out after (long for): - covet after, desire.

Feminine of H5676; an outburst of passion: - anger, rage, wrath.

His wrath towards his children is that of passion and desire, He is a jealous God and he covets our love and commitment. He will reach out after us and long for us until he apprehends us. And it may be through means that we may not like. That is love! That is chastening!

 Ezek 22:13-33; 31

Eze 22:13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.

Eze 22:14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD has spoken it, and will do it.

Eze 22:17 and the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Eze 22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

Eze 22:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Eze 22:20  As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.

Eze 22:21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.

Eze 22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.

Eze 22:31 therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

Now I am not saying that wrath and judgment does not entail a sentence or a verdict, and that it is all “lovey dovey”, but I believe with all my heart that his wrath and judgment is what’s going to change the church, in this hour, and it does not mean it will not be a good year either, again I am a firm believer that the way we think and the way God thinks is two different ways, and it is high time we line up to his standard! Are we going to be able o stand in the day of his purging? His fire is blowing on the church this year!

 So let’s go back to Hebrews 3

 Heb 3:18 and to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

Heb 3:19  so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

REST- From G2664; reposing down, that is, (by Hebraism) abode: - rest.

From G2596 and G3973; to settle down, that is, (literally) to colonize, or (figuratively) to (cause to) desist: - cease, (give) rest (-rain).

A prime. Verb (“pause”); to stop (transitive or intransitive), that is, restrain, quit, desist, and come to an end: - cease, leave, refrain.

That rest is a coming to the end of our works, mans works, the arm of the flesh! It is us coming into the abode, the dwelling place of God, where we trust and believe Him with all our hearts and look to him and not man anymore, nor to our own abilities and strengths.

This is where I see the judgment coming, the church has been in a state of unbelief for a long time, God contended with Israel in the Old Testament and it is no different today, they were our example, amen? How much did they waver and grumble in the wilderness? They looked to man and idols then it is no different today God will go from generation to generation until he apprehends his people.

UNBELIEF-570-faithlessness or uncertainty, distrust, unbelief, in the New Testament, lack of acknowledgement of Christ, lack of acknowledgment of Christ’s power.

It is those who Do not acknowledge Jesus in any situation but put their trust in the things of this world in the money system in the doctors, and so forth, we have to ACKNOWLEDGE HIM!!! I am not saying do not go to a doctor, but in going remember, “Whose report will you believe?” These are the ones that do not enter his rest.  When the trials come and they will, it is then you will be really tested (I know what I am talking about) where will you look? To whom will you run, who will be your supply? We think we have it all together until the adversity hits until the trial arises and all hell breaks loose! Those who know there God will find their abode (rest) in Him, Those who know God will drink from the fountain of the Living waters.

WHAT HAS JACOB’S WELL HAVE TO DO WITH JUDGMENT?

Jacobs’s well-   Joh 4:5  Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Joh 4:6  Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

Joh 4:7  There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

Joh 4:8  (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

Joh 4:9  Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

Joh 4:10  Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

Joh 4:11  The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

Joh 4:12  Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

Joh 4:13  Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

Joh 4:14  But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

 So what could Jacobs well have to do with all this? Well as you read the above scripture it is pretty plain that Jesus is the living water leading to eternal life, have we forgotten that he died a gruesome death? FOR US!!! Crucified that we may live and have eternal life, not just the life after this, but here and now life abundantly, and for those who think temporally, like prospering with things of this world that is not what I mean, because when you truly have a drink of the living water and you keep drawing from that living water you will not ever want nor be thirsty again!! GLORY!!!!! After all that is what he said to the Samaritan woman, are we any different today? There are a lot of thirsty people out there who quench their thirst with the things of this life, and the LORD is saying no more!! I AM the LIVING WATER I HAVE COME TO GIVE YOU A DRINK! THAT IS WHY I DIED, THAT YOU MAY HAVE LIFE! The message from the beginning has been that, to you who are thirsty come and drink for I am the fountain of Living water, where can we go but to the Rock! God has always called us to come and drink, but man always wants to do it his way, man always wants to create and build other means, and attach the Name of God to it, this year 2009 will be a year of Gods divine judgment on mans ways and actions.

What I saw that the LORD showed me was this, The Samarian woman represents the church, the church has drawn from the well of man, I thought about the well of Jacob and why was it not called the well of Israel? I mean after all Jacobs name was changed to Israel, Well Jacob means supplanter (which means to take the place of, by scheming, to replace)Man has taken the place of Christ to long, and just as she said to Christ in verse 12 “are you greater than our father Jacob?” In today’s church it is no different; we have made man greater than our God! If we continue to look to man draw from mans source we will be thirsty, but when we draw from the fountain of living waters GLORY!!!!! YOU WILL NEVER THIRST AGAIN!! Let us look for a moment at what a well is, symbolically it is a symbol of refreshment, source of water of life, the Webster’s dictionary say it is “source of supply” .Who is your source of supply?

 I believe also this New Year will be a year of sending forth those who have been hiding in the caves and waiting for the thrust of their God, it will usher a new breed of men and women who have been waiting and hoping in their God, and drinking from the source of heaven, their Creator, Living water. The day of mans works are coming to an end; God will shine in this new year in those who have KNOWN their God, and His heart!!

Look at Jeremiah chapter 2, we will go through this chapter, and see the heart of God for his people, and know it has not changed today, for God is the same yesterday, today and forever! Here the word of the Lord comes to Jeremiah, he is reminding the people of their commitment to Him, their marriage and love to one God. They were the first fruits of his harvest. In verse 5 God is asking what unrighteousness did your fathers find in Me, that they went far from Me and habitually went after emptiness falseness and futility and themselves became fruitless and worthless? Even today God is asking what has caused his people today to trust in the arm of the flesh, and the things of this world.

 And in verse 6 no one says “where is the LORD”? There is no remembrance of who and what he is and did to them, they have left there first love. If you leave your first love you will most assuredly go find another love.

Even the priests and the shepherds and the prophets do not say “where is the LORD?  They follow after things that do not profit (gods of this world) they make their own agendas, only causing the hearts of the righteous to suffer.

 In verse 9 it says,

Therefore or some translation say wherefore A primitive root; properly to be erect (that is, stand perpendicular) the word perpendicular means upright or vertical, plumb rule, perpendicular position moral uprightness, a plumb line.

So now let s look at that verse again

Jer 2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

The Amplified version says this; Therefore I will still contend with you (by inflicting further judgments on you), says the LORD and with your children’s children will I contend.

God loves the church so much he will contend with her, He is coming to her with a plumb line in his hand a standard of uprightness, moral uprightness , until He sees her standing perpendicular,(morally upright to his standard) until she raises that plumb line just as he is that plumb line himself.

Let me at this point say this, the god of this world is coming down in 2009, it is the god of greed and lust of money, the pleasure of self, no longer will those false gods raise their ugly head in the house of the LORD! God is a jealous God and he said himself you will not have any other gods before him. That is why the economy is in the state it is in, and I believe it will get darker, but alleluia!!! the Light will shine through a people who are willing to let go of the gods of this world and serve the One True God!!! Jehovah!!!!

Jeremiah goes on to say in verses 11-13

Jer 2:11  Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

Jer 2:12  Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

Jer 2:13  For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Today the church has changed their God for the things that do not profit, she has hewed out cisterns (to dig), when you dig you have a well) that hold not the things of God but they are broken, they have only carried worthless empty things. There is no water in them, Jesus cannot condone the works of man, and he can not bless the works of the flesh! If you are wondering why you are not seeing freedom and blessing and victory, is it because you have trusted in the arm of the flesh, the things that do not profit? In the Amplified version Jeremiah 17:4-5 says this ,And you ,through your own fault, will loosen your hand and discontinue from your heritage which I gave you; and will cause you to serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn throughout the ages. Vs 5 Thus says the LORD: Cursed (with great evil) is the strong man who trusts in and relies on frail man, making weak (human) flesh his arm, and whose mind and heart turn aside from the LORD.

Jeremiah 17:6

For he shall be like a shrub or a person naked and destitute in the desert; and he shall not see any good come, but shall dwell in the parched places in the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. (John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.)

    7[Most] blessed is the man who believes in, trusts in, and relies on the Lord, and whose hope and confidence the Lord is.

    8For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters that spreads out its roots by the river; and it shall not see and fear when heat comes; but its leaf shall be green. It shall not be anxious and full of care in the year of drought, nor shall it cease yielding fruit. (Those that trust and lean upon their God with all openness of heart and willingness of change, will not fear when the judgment comes, they will rest in the everlasting arms of Jesus, and say change me LORD make me like you)

    9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it [perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind]?  

(I am amazed how Christians are so adamant about protecting what is in their heart they will build fortified walls around their “doctrines” never open to possibly being in error, contorting scripture or believing w hat “man” has taught them, or believing a lie about themselves, I will never make it, I will not amount to anything, when we have that attitude we are basically saying God is liar, he will not get me through this situation, church that is not FAITH!! And without faith it is impossible to please Him .These are the people who never study to show themselves approved 2Tim.2:15 they are unteachable, and stout hearted, because the truth is the heart is deceitful above all things, those are not my words, that is scripture, but we go on protecting our scared cows, whether it be a belief system we have set up or whether it be what was taught to us)

    10I the Lord search the mind, I try the heart, even to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

   13O Lord, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be put to shame. They who depart from You and me [Your prophet] shall [disappear like] writing upon the ground, because they have forsaken the Lord, the Fountain of living waters.

    14Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for You are my praise.

 Joh 7:37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

Joh 7:38  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

 Rev 22:17  And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

Rev 21:6  And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

GLORY TO GOD, IF ANY ONE IS THIRSTY; ARE YOU THIRSTY FOR TRUTH AND THE THINGS OF GOD NO MATTER WHAT THE COST WILL BE? Then come and drink, take in consume digest all that he is and partake of the LIVING WATER, and he will quench your thirst.

2Pe 2:17  These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

2Pe 2:18  For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

2Pe 2:19  While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

Here in 2 Peter it talks about those wells with out water, they have no living water flowing through them they only have SELF and DESIRES OF THE FLESH, while they promise liberty, they are servants of corruption, OF WHOM MAN IS OVERCOME, now that is so simple in understanding, For when they speak GREAT SWELLING words of VANITY, what is vanity? SELF, THE god OF SELF!!! The flesh loves to hear the things that tantalize the flesh creature.

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 Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

What does your well consist of? Does it have the living water springing up or is stagnant water, polluted water, bitter water?

 Now let us look again at the meaning of the number nine; The Hebrew word for nine is tish-aw derived from a word meaning, to look at, or to regard, gaze at or about, judgment.

It is my conviction as I felt the LORD giving me this that is what I sense the LORD is saying for 2009,I do not know what the word of the LORD is “out there” I can only seek him for myself and pray it is confirmed. To re-cap on all this I believe that 2009 is a year where we will see the judgment of God, on His church first 1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

It is my conviction that judgment is not a bad thing; it may hurt, and may cause sorrow but godly sorrow does cause us to repent

2Co 7:10  For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

I believe in the last days the ministry of Elijah will return, which is the ministry of repentance Malachi 4:5-6, Elijah returned in the Spirit of John the Baptist, but now it needs to return in the day of the LORD. I believe it will come and is here and we must heed to the message of it as it will change us and make us into what the Father wants his church to be!

So you who are thirsty Jesus say’s “come and drink of the fountain of life”

 In His service,

 Michele