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Fullness Of Revelation

Bob Neumann, 2004?

To be REFINED by FIRE, Stephen requires being willing to STAND BEFORE HIM…in HIS PRESENCE. To hear HIS VOICE and to give ANSWER. But to KNOW…to UNDERSTAND requires a price on our part. A price few want to pay.

I can not really blame them….the greatest of FEARS any human has is THE UNKNOWN. And if they really do not know who they say they serve….they are lost and alone in the DARK.

How do you KNOW the security of HIS HAND until HE PLACES you in THE CLEFT OF THE ROCK? How do you KNOW the strength of HIS HAND until HE pulls you OUT OF THE PIT and PLACES YOU ON HIGH GROUND?

Really Stephen, until they are IN HIS PRESENCE it is just cute music and polite talk….it will never be real. There is no way you or i can get anyone there by our words, prayers, screams and rants. So we sit and wait, hoping some will call out in time. They have no clue how we grieve for those we have been “shown” who will be found lacking and unaware.

Tonight, Shabbot during THE DAYS OF AWE, i hear a song. It sings my lone desire….HIS PRESENCE.

I want to go where the rivers cannot overflow me

Where my feet are on a rock

I want to hide where the blazing fire cannot burn me

In Your presence, O God

Oh Steven, they love the RIVER…but do not see “the rivers” of Isaiah 43:2

² When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee

I want to hide where the flood of evil cannot reach me

Where I’m covered by Your blood

I want to be where the schemes of darkness cannot

touch me

Isa 59

¹⁹ So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him

Stephen, they do not see or know THE LORD’S STRENGTH so how easily will they fall to the enemy’s games?

You are my firm foundation

I trust in You all day long

I am Your child and Your servant

And You are my strength and my song

You’re my song

OUR FIRM FOUNDATION….they do not have it…do they actually seek it? or is it just semantics?

In Your presence, that’s where I am strong

In Your presence, O Lord my God

In Your presence, that’s where I belong

Seeking Your face, touching Your grace

In the cleft of the rock

In Your presence, O God

It is in HIS PRESENCE does REVELATION BECOME REALITY. Face to FACE. Standing to HIS QUESTIONS….For HE IS MASTER and LORD…SAVIOUR AND REDEEMER … LION AND LAMB.

Paul told Timmy about it….

2 Th 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

2 Th 1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

2 Th 1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of [this] calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of [his] goodness, and the work of faith with power:

2 Th 1:12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Our TESTIMONY is our willingness to DIE for HIM. Whether on our own cross….or the one the world will use for us. But to overcome is THE WORDS OF OUR TESTAMONY…that we feared not for THIS LIFE… but we FEARED THE LORD…WORSHIPED HIM ALONE… and ONLY SERVED HIM.

Before you build a tower, you add up all it will cost you…and then YOU CHOSE TO BUILD IT….even when it costs everything…which was the PURPOSE to begin with.

SHABBOT SHALOM

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