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CHAPTER 7 Who is Jesus? When the Lord first enlightened me, and
then gave me the instruction to write these words, I could not help but wonder
how many of the children of God understand what God has planned for this hour.
The reason I wondered this is because if a man has no vision as to what the Lord
is going to be doing in this day of darkness, then what hope could he have to
hold on to, or what words could he believe in, or what promises could his faith
stand on when Satan’s wrath is unleashed to torment and trouble the carnally
minded inhabitants of the earth? What will those children do, those virgins who
do not have any oil in their lamps, when the call goes out that Jesus is coming,
but they have not asked the Lord to prepare them? Surely, those who are not
prepared for the coming of the Lord will not be prepared for the darkness that
comes before him. How many hearts will fail for looking at and seeing those
things that coming on the earth because the only eyes that they will be able to
see these things with will be through vision of fear; and fear will only be able
to see the doom and gloom that the spirit of fear sees and interprets these
things with. Many hearts are unprepared because they have put all their hope and
faith in the rapture doctrine rather than in the Lord himself. The Lord reveals
truth; he does not teach fables. So is it of any surprise that I, or any who
have sought to know the truth from God, that we have never been taught anything
about the rapture fable? Speaking for myself, the Lord has led me instead to
surrender my heart and my mind into his hands, praying and asking for him to
prepare me for both is coming, and for the days of trouble that precede his
coming. Can his yoke be any lighter than for us to allow for him to prepare our
hearts for both of these events that are to come, and even now is? How can the
faith of your heart fail if there are no fears, or doubts, or unbelief dwelling
within that could overthrow the thoughts of your heart? Is this not an awesome
work of God; a work that is worthy of much praise and thanksgiving? Is it not
written that those things which are impossible for us to do is possible for God
to do? Revelation 12:12 “Therefore rejoice ye heavens (spiritually minded),
and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and the sea (carnally
minded)! For the Devil us come down unto you having great wrath because he
knows that he has but a short time.” II Timothy 4:3 NASB “For
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have
their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance
to their own desires, and will turn their ears away from the truth and will turn
aside to myths.” Proverbs 16:1 “The preparation of the heart and the answer of the
tongue is from the Lord.” The Lord is coming to his temple, our
bodies; and just like it was when the Lord came to his temple in the Old
Testament, that temple first had to be cleansed and sanctified before the Lord
could come and dwell within, filling it with the glory of his presence. It took
such a burden off of me after I understood and believed that Jesus is our High
Priest, and that it is his duty as our high priest to cleanse and sanctify the
temple of our hearts. We just need to seek and ask him to do so. As easy as it
is, it still requires us trusting his love for us enough to open the door of our
hearts and ask him to come in and prepare us. I am still amazed to see how much
of my uncleanness was rooted in the spirit of fear, accounting so many of these
ungodly counsels to be the righteousness of my decisions, allowing them to
direct me in the decisions I was making to live my life according to. How
greatly I was deceived to so freely consent and allow a spirit whose only
purpose was to trouble and haunt me continually with thoughts of uncertainty, or
panic, or stress, or dejection, or worry, or confusion, or dread, or evil
suspicions, or anxiety. It was in my sanctification that the Lord opened my eyes
to see that my old religion never allowed for me to see these things hidden
within, but only had me focused on the righteousness of my works and
appearances. But when the truth was revealed, I saw that the Lord is really
looking only at the intents and desires of my heart. Who is able to cleanse or
sanctify himself of that which he cannot see, especially those things that may
be dwelling in and hidden away in the dungeon of our heart? With gladness l have
now surrendered and offered up to the Lord all of the righteousness of these
haunts and torments came forth out of that dung pile of darkness. I have opened
the castle door of my heart, the Lord has come in, and is now cleansing and
sanctifying my heart with the truth of his love; and the same love that casts
out my fears. Psalm 1:1 NASB “How blessed is the man who does not walk in the
counsel of the wicked (ungodly), nor stand in the path of sinners, nor
sit in the seat of scoffers!” Isaiah 64:6 “But we are all as an unclean thing and all of our
righteousness are as filthy rags…” Philippians 3:8-11 “Yea,
doubtless, and I count all things loss for the excellency of the knowledge of
Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do
count them but dung that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having my
own righteousness, which is of the law (the law of sin and death), but
that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by
faith, that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship
of his sufferings, being made conformable to death, if by any means I might
attain to the resurrection of the dead.” Who can know what is coming in the days
ahead when scriptures like those that are written
in Daniel 12:1;
Matthew 24:21;
and Revelation 7:14 prophesy
of troubles and sorrows that have never before been seen or experienced on this
earth? If a man has not sought or asked the Lord to deliver him from his fears,
then how could he expect to see anything other than the doom and gloom that has
been prophesied of concerning these days? Can the darkness comprehend the light?
The first word that the Lord spoke to me that gave me an indication that the
days of ahead may not be all that doom and gloom which I had seen came one
morning while I was praying. During my prayers, the Lord spoke to me and said,
“Mitt, I have been patiently waiting 6000 years to perform that which I am
about to do. Do you really believe that I would have been waiting this long to
bring doom and gloom upon man? Consider how the spirit of fear had so blinded
John and James that for a time, they did not even know manner of spirit they were of. They thought that I would
destroy in times that I desired to show mercy and save. I came to save all who
will have me, and I desire not that any should perish. I tell you that what is
coming is far greater than anything that John or James understood, or anything
that you could ever imagine.” These words were the beginning of my hope that
something awesome is about to come forth, and it is not antichrist. I Corinthians 2:9-11 “But
as it is written, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered
into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them unto us by his
Spirit: for the
Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For
what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of man which is in him?
Even so, the things of God no man knows, only the Spirit of God.” When I came into this world, I did not come
in the glory of my Father, but rather I came in the likeness of sinful man. So
when I came to my own people, I was judged according to my appearance and I was
measured by their laws and traditions. By reason of their blindness, they could
not see the love in my heart that I had for my heavenly Father, nor the loyalty
that I had for him. By reason of this blindness, they could not see that I only
put my trust in Father, and I completely relied on him. By reason of this
blindness, they could not see that I believed all of my Father’s words, nor
could they see the desire in me to only give honor to him. By reason of this
blindness, they could not see the holy faith that I placed in my heavenly
Father, nor the hope and the confidence that I place in his hands. By reason of
this blindness, they could not see that I sought only counsel from my heavenly
Father, nor could they see how much I delighted in my daily communication with
him. By reason of their blindness,
they could not see the holy faith that I placed in my heavenly Father, nor could
they see how I delighted in doing his will. By reason of their blindness, they
could not see the Father/Son relationship that existed between me and he who
sent me, that I was the Son who was/is well-pleasing in his sight. By reason of
this blindness, they could not find anything in me that they desired for
themselves, so they made light of me and mocked me. John 5:44 “How
can you believe who receive honor one another and do not seek for the honor that
comes only from God?”…49 Jesus
answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor
me.” John 5:30 “I
can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just because I
seek not my own will, but the will of my Father which hath sent me.” Isaiah 53:1 NASB “Who has believed our message? And to whom has the
arm of the LORD been revealed? For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of parched ground; He
has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon Him, nor appearance that
we should be attracted to Him. He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of
sorrows and acquainted with grief; and like one from whom men hide their face,
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. John 1:10 NASB “He was in the world, and the world was made through
Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and those who were His
own did not receive Him.” Matthew
3:17 NKJ “And
suddenly a voice came from heaven saying, “This is my beloved in whom I am
well pleased.” When I came to my own, they rejected me
because I did not come to exalt them for their for their heritage or for their
righteous works, but rather I came to restore relationship between my Father and
his children. My Father and I are one. My Father is holy. I am the Son of the
most holy. As my Father is holy, so also am I holy because the son is equal to
the Father. I am the Holy Spirit. I am the spirit of reconciliation. I am the
spirit of adoption. I am the spirit of relationship. I am the spirit of the holy
Son that is well-pleasing in the sight of my Holy Father. Our relationship is
holy. For this relationship, I was despised, and persecuted, and mocked by all
those who desire to be exalted rather than to have a relationship with Father. I
became like you so that you might see that sinful flesh does not prevent our
heavenly Father from having a relationship with any man through faith, and
belief, and reliance, and hope, and trust, and love. I came to win you to him
who passionately loves each one of you, even when you have not loved him. I was
willing to become like you, but are you willing to become like me so that you
can have the same well-pleasing relationship with Father that I have with him as
his Son? Will you be like me? I became like your flesh, but will you have the
fullness of my Spirit? Will you allow for my mind to be in you so that you may
intimately know your heavenly Father? Will you let my heart be in you so that
you can receive Father’s love and give him the love that he desires?
Romans 8:2 NASB “For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus
has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do,
weak as it was through the flesh, God did; sending his own Son in the likeness
of sinful flesh…” I
John 4:19 “We
love him because he first loved us.” Hebrews 9:28 “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many;
and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto
salvation. Romans 8:18,19 “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present
time are not worthy to compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us; for
the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of he Sons
of God.” Romans 8:29
“For whom he did foreknow, he did predestinate (destiny) to be conformed to
the image of his Son, that we might be the firstborn of many brethren.” Isaiah 37:3 “And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This
day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are
come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.” Knowing
that the scriptures also identify the last days as days of trouble, as well as
Christ coming forth in his elect, I asked, “Lord, why did they not have the
strength to birth forth at the birth?” He answered and said, “Because they
did not make me to be their strength, but tried to perform it of
themselves.” Psalm
28:7 The LORD is my
strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my
heart greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him.
Isaiah 9:6 “For
unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be
upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called, ‘wonderful, Counselor, The
mighty God, The everlasting Father, and The Prince of Peace.” Philippians 2:5,6 “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ
Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal
with God.” John 5:18 “Therefore
the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath,
but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.” Then the Lord said to me, “Be ready, I am
coming. Again I tell you that I have been waiting 6000 years to do that which I
am about to do, and nothing is going to stop me; not Satan, not antichrist, not
death, not the governments of this world, not any religion, nor any of the
powers of Darkness. I am coming and not even an alliance of all these things
joined together is going to stop me. I am coming to recover my creation. I have
spoken this, and I alone am going to perform it. I am coming, but remember that
the work of darkness comes before me.” Isaiah
46:11 “…yea, I have spoken it, and I will also bring it to
pass; I have purposed it, and I will also do it.” In 2007, the Lord led me, along with
several others with prophetic gifts, to come together in Houston, Texas. I was
really surprised when the first word that the Lord gave to us came through me
that said, “You can take every interpretation that has ever been written about
the book of Revelation, or the end times, and you can throw them all out of the
window, because they are all vain and false.” Even though we are living in the
times of new revelations, it still startles me when the Lord brings forth a word
like this that goes against, well, against all the interpretations that have
ever been written. While I was meditating on this word, before I had actually
spoken it, the Lord spoke again and said, “The reason that all of these other
interpretations are vain and false is because none of them are able to show the
impact that the sons of God are going to have doing this time. No one knows the
impact that my sons are going to have because I have not yet revealed this
secret to my prophets yet.” Wow! What a word to start a meeting with. Not long
after I left Houston, the Lord spoke to me and said, “The sons of God are
those who are going to be doing greater works than that which I did.” I was
now in state of awe as I began to think, “O my; what kind of impact could
144,000 Jesus Christs have on this world who will be walking in the fullness of
Father’s glory!” Who is able to hear, or comprehend, or receive, or believe
that which Father has purposed to do? Surely, it as it written, that eye has not
seen, nor ear heard the things that God has prepared for those who love him.” I cannot speak for anyone but myself, and
even with all of the healings and wonderful works that the Lord has done for me,
I still have a hard time trying to wrap my little mind around the thought that
we will soon be walking in a greater authority and a greater glory than Jesus
did when he walked on earth. I mean, he raised the dead; he walked on water; and
he fed 5000 people with food that was just barely enough for a dozen. He gave
sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf; he had authority over the winds and
the seas; and he even disappeared at times. He healed “all” those who were
sick; he turned water into wine; and he replaced an ear that had been severed.
He showed the grace of Father’s love to an adulteress when others wanted to
stone her and he forgave all those that had so viciously and unmerciless hated
him, mocked him, scourged him, and crucified him. He pulled money out of a
fish’s mouth; he cast out all manner of unclean spirits and demons; and he had
legions of angels at his disposal if he needed them. Now Jesus is telling us
that we should be looking to add “greater works” to these things. All of
these things Jesus did in his former glory, but now the former and the latter
glory is coming, and greater works are going to be done because a greater glory
is coming. If eye has not seen or ear has hear the
things that God has prepared for those who love him, then how could any man even
imagine what these works may be? And if these works cannot be imagined, then who
can understand or know the impact that the sons of God are going to have seeing
that they are the ones who are going to be doing these greater works? But the
scripture also goes on to say that Spirit is revealing these things to us, and
that God will do nothing unless he reveals the secrets of his plans to his
prophets first. Even so, my mind cannot comprehend such a greater glory; but
thanks be to God, he has not asked me to try and comprehend it, but he is only
asking us to put our hope , in him and believe that he is able to perform all
those things which he has promised us. If we try to comprehend or reason these
spiritual things, then all that does is give birth to doubts and unbelief
because who can understand how God does any of his marvelous and wonderful
works? Let us be strong in faith like Abraham was, who believed that God was,
and still is, well able to perform all that which he says that he is going to
do. I am thankful to know that it is the Lord who increases our faith to be that
which allows for him to perform the promises of his words. I am so thankful that
I now know in my heart that God is able to do all of those things which are
impossible for men to do, as well as those things that are exceedingly,
abundantly above what we are able to think or ask. And now….a greater glory is
coming, and his sons are going to do greater works than Jesus did because a
greater Jesus is coming, and nothing is going to stop him from coming in
us…except if we account the fears, or the doubts, or the unbelief to be more
right and true than the words of God. I Corinthians 2:10-12 NASB “For
to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things,
even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of man which is in
him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. No we
have received not the spirit of this world, but the spirit who is from God, so
that we might know the things freely given to us by God.” Amos 3:7 NASB “Surely the Lord God does nothing unless he reveals his
secret counsel to his servants the prophets.” Now this is a
testimony I feel led to share here concerning the sons of God. It is not
a testimony concerning the impact that the sons of God are going to have in the
days ahead, but it is a testimony of the seriousness that Father has for his
sons to be just like him. The Lord had sent me to Tulsa, Oklahoma to meet Ted
Cottingham. When the Lord first sent me to meet Ted, it was before he had
delivered me from my fear about being deceived by another brother. Just like
everyone else at that time, I was very suspicious of Ted because even though the
Lord was speaking to him, and to me, there was very little agreement in our
understanding of the Lord’s words. The tension between the two of us was so
great that I was just looking to find a fault with Ted so that I could justify
myself in leaving Tulsa as soon as I possibly could. I am sure that Ted would
have also loved to see me leave at that time also. But the Lord spoke to me,
quoting almost word for word that which is written in John 7:18, saying, “Now
Mitt, Ted is seeking for my glory, and I do not see any unrighteousness in him,
and neither do I want you to see any unrighteousness in him.” Even though I
agreed to not try and find any fault with Ted, my heart still burned with
contention. So I called out and asked the Lord to deliver me from being wise in
my own eyes; that wisdom of the carnal mind that cannot subject itself or
delight in doing Father’s will. Before I left Tulsa, Ted said that the Lord
had told him that “he was going to hang planets”. Even though Ted did not
know what this meant, and neither did I, my foolish wisdom tempted me to just
roll my eyes at Ted, as though these words came from his own imaginations.
“Hang planets”; whoever heard of such a thing? Nevertheless, after a few months, and much
to my disappointment, the Lord led me once again to go see Ted. I was driving to
Tulsa from South Carolina, and I had just passed over the Mississippi River when
the Lord spoke to me and said, “Mitt, when you get to Tulsa, would you tell
Ted something for me?” I answered, “Sure, Lord”; and of course, I am
really thinking that the Lord is going to speak a word to me that will somehow
enlighten Ted to the fact that I am the one that has the true understanding of
Lord. But that is not at all how it went. The Lord then said to me, “Tell Ted
that I created the first heavens and the first earth, but you, as my sons, are
going to create the second heavens and the second earth. I told you that as I
am, so shall you be. As I am a Creator and a Maker, so shall my sons also be
creators and makers. If you like roses, then you will be able to create an
entire planet full of roses as you so desire. If you like mountains, and
waterfalls, and roses, then you will be able to create an entire planet full of
mountains, waterfalls, and roses. If you like new things, then you will be able
to create new flowers and new things. As I told you before, ‘Every father
desires for his son to be just like him.” I then understood what the Lord
meant when he told Ted, “You are going to hang planets”. For the first time,
I actually was able to agree with the word that says that eye has not seen ,nor
has ear heard the things that God has prepared for those who love him; but they
are being revealed to us through his Spirit. What the Lord was opening my eyes
to see was that he was really serious about raising up his sons to be like him. There is no doubt that I marveled at this
word that the Lord had asked me to tell Ted, even going to the point of
imagining just what kind of planets that I myself would create and make. But as
amazed as I was about hearing for the first time what God has planned for his
sons, I also found that I was feeling ashamed and foolish for the way that I had
judged Ted through my own eyes. I immediately repented of that wisdom and asked
the Lord to open my eyes to see through his wisdom. Then the grace of Father’s
love granted me the repentance that
I asked for; and my eyes were opened to see Ted in an entirely different manner,
as the Lord saw him as man with no unrighteousness. All that the Lord had to do
to change my entire relationship with Ted was to open my eyes to see him with
the same vision that the Lord sees him. At this moment, I am sure that there are
still things that Ted and I do not see eye to eye on, but there is no contention
there. Now that the Lord has delivered me from that spirit of fear that had
perverted my vision, my eyes are now opened to just love Ted. There is no fear
in love, and no love in fear. Just a few weeks ago, I got an e-mail from Ted
that only said, “I love you Mitt.” That e-mail spoke to, and meant more to
my heart than any e-mail that I have ever received. It truly is an awesome thing to see and
hear that Father is going to make us to be creators and makers as he is, but to
me, it is just as awesome to see the works of God creating a new heart with new
vision, new affections, and new understanding in us. Truly, as it is written, it
is God who teaches us to love one another; and I am now convinced that all that
the Lord has to do to teach us to love one another is to open our eyes so that
we can see each other as he sees us. I do not want to miss out on being his son,
nor on the impact that they are going to have on the days ahead. Titus 3:3-7 “For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish,
disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts (like for vainglory) and
pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But after
that, the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works
of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by
the washing and renewing of the Holy Spirit, which he shed on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ our Savior; that being justified by his grace, we should be
made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” I Thessalonians 4:9 NKJ “But
concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you
yourselves are taught by God to love one another.” For More Information: Mitt Jeffords South Carolina, USA To Support Mitt you can cut and paste this email address to send money via Paypal |
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