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A Journey From the Beginning (Fear) To the End (Perfect Love)Mitt Jeffords catsmittiv@aol.com South Carolina USA April 2009
Preface Proverbs 29:18 (AMP) “Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish…” I John 4:8 NKJ “He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.” Many years ago I was praying one night, and while I was praying I said, “Father, I desire to be just like you.” And then the only time that Father has ever answered a prayer for me with audible voice, he spoke in the most gentle and fatherly loving voice saying, “Every father desires for is son to be just like him”. When I had prayed saying what I had said, I was really not expecting Father to say anything in return. I was really just wanting the Lord to know how much I wanted to be like him. Then when I heard the manner of his voice and desire and yearning in his words, I knew that Father had a greater desire and yearning for his sons to be like him than that which any of us may desire to be like him. It was with these words everything in my walk changed. With this one answer, all my religion seemed to dissolve, as the entire focus and direction of my walk. I had just heard with my own ears the yearning and the desire that Father has for me, as well as for each one of us. It is for this single purpose that God created man; to bring each one of us into Sonship so that he might make us to be like him. From this moment on, Sonship became my destiny, the one and only focus of my walk. The Lord told me that if I became a son, then the rest of my walk would take care of itself. We all know that this kind of transformation can only come through the power of his Spirit and by works of God’s hands; for there is nothing that any of us can do to change ourselves into the image of the son that Father finds well-pleasing. But in Jesus Christ, he has given to each one of us the spirit of the son that is well-pleasing to him; the spirit of adoption that grafts us into the family of God. Romans 8:29 “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that we might be the firstborn of many brethren.” John 1:12 “But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God, to them that believe on his name.” When Father spoke this word to me, the first effect that it had on me was to carefully consider just what I really knew about God, that my knowledge of him was truth and right, or whether it was just based on that which my own opinions had identified and defined God to be. Was God like the image of love that had imagined love to be, or was the love of God far greater than anything that I could ever imagine? I did not want to change the true spiritual image of God into a false natural image that was according to my own opinions. After all, if you are going to be like Father, and father is love, then it would obviously be necessary to know the truth about his love. In just the words that Father had spoken to me, my heart was opened to hear the love in his voice that desired and yearned for me to be like him; and I realized that I did not yet have the love in me that desired and yearned to be like him. Opinions of God’s love are like idols that have no heart because they have no life that really loves. I have no desire to make myself to be an idol after my own opinions, but I now do have a desire to be a son who is just like his Father. My quest began that night, a quest to know the truth about my heavenly Father ….and little did I know then, that this is the only generation since the beginning that going to come into and experience the fullness of Father’s nature, his character, and his authority through the revelation of Jesus Christ in them. My quest and my destiny is to see that Father’s desire is fulfilled in me. You cannot know who you are until you first know God. God is light, and if you do not know God, then you will not be able to discern the light from the darkness that appears as the light. Satan is always the imitator, that darkness that always seeks to appear as the light. He is the lies of reasonings and opinions that appear as truth. He is the iniquity of self-righteousness that seems like the righteousness of God. He is the evil that appears good. He is the hypocrisy that appears as holiness. We are living in the time of the end where Jesus warned us 3 times in Matthew 24 not to allow for ourselves to be deceived. It is in these time that the seduction of lies shall become stronger and greater; and they shall do so by appearing more like that which is right, and good, and true. Those who mock and make like of seeking to know the truth about God are already deceived of themselves; and as it is written concerning the last days, these deceivers shall grow worse and worse, with each one of them desiring for others to believe what they believe rather than to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. I recently met a man who had erred in his walk, and he had been laying up his treasures on earth rather than in heaven. He had not only increased greatly in these riches, but so also had all those who had entrusted their riches to him also increased. This man thought that the stewardship that God had called him to was to watch over and control his riches, and the riches of others. Now errors can be repented of, forgiven, and corrected, but if you loose your faith and belief, then you have lost everything; and it is that faith and belief that Satan desires to sift; which is to separate us from. For as it is written in I Timothy 4:1, that in the last days, many shall depart from the faith. So when the economy began to fail, so also did the riches of this man, and those who had surrendered their riches to him, also begin to fail. Then the death of depression, and fear, and failure began to overwhelm him. As horrendous as this was, it was nothing to be compared to what happened next. He said that angel of God appeared standing right before him. He then observed as this angel then stretched forth his arm into his own body. Then this angel seemed to pull the Spirit of the Lord right out of his chest. From that moment until now, this man has been like the walking “death”; just like a zombie from out of some horror movie. To say the least, I was amazed and stunned at what this man was telling me. Then, as he finished telling me his story, the Spirit of the Lord quickened to me that this was Satan appearing as an angel of light to destroy and steal this man’s life away from him. When Satan saw that this man was already weak in his faith through the fears and depression that had come upon him, then just like the lion that seeks our and stalks the weak of the herd, so also did Satan see his opportunity to deliver a crushing blow to this man. But then the Lord said to me, “Who do you think that Satan will transform himself into an angel of light before, those who are already of the darkness, or those who are of the light that he desires to kill, to steal, and destroy their lives through his illusions?” The Lord now has me battling for this man’s soul, and this incident has redefined the ministry that I had known. It is quite the battle because this man completely believes that God has taken his spirit from him; and that which has power over a man is that which he believes. This is the kind of deceit that Satan is going to be bringing against the church. It is written in II Thessalonians 2 that the coming of Satan is before the coming of the Lord. Remember that which Jesus also warned all of us when he spoke of these times, “If it were possible, even the very elect would be deceived.” After what I witnessed Satan do with this man, I am sure that we would all do well to make sure that our faith is the faith that stands in the power of God, and not be deceived by that faith that comes from man’s wisdom; the faith that is defined and formed to please self and other men, rather than to please God. It is written in I Peter 1 that we are kept in the power of God by faith, and surely this is the hour that we desperately need to have the faith that is “of” Jesus Christ; the faith that the disciples called out for and asked for the Lord to increase in them. It is this precious faith that is tried and purified of all unbelief, fears, doubts, and reasonings that oppose God. Not only does this faith keep us in the power of God, but it is also the same faith that Jesus said that he is going to be looking for when he appears. How many know that it is not us that is to be found unto glory, and honor, and praise at his appearing, but it is the faith that it is in us? If this faith is not already of great value, then let it be known that it is only this faith that allows a man to resist Satan, even if may appear as an angel of light. It is written in II Corinthians 13:5 that each one of us to examine his own faith, to make sure that is that faith that is well-pleasing in the sight of God. What are you asking God and what is God doing for you? Luke 18:8 “Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on earth.” I Peter 1:5-8 “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.” I would love for the Lord to give me a word that could be made clear in just a couple of pages, but that is not how the Lord has led me to write his words, or testify of those things which he has done for me. It is written that the Lord will do nothing until he first reveals his secrets to his prophets first; and here is the reason why. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. It is also written in Matthew 9:29 that Jesus said, “As your faith is, so let it be done unto you”. If a man does not first hear of that which the Lord desires to perform for him, then it is not possible for him to have the faith that will allow the Lord to perform it. True faith is that which makes the works of God, the blessings of God, the promises of God, as well as all the prophesies of God to become reality. The faith that is authored by the religion of men is only an illusion that is never accompanied with the powerful works of God. If this word was a book in print, then there would probably be close to 14 chapters. The first 6 chapters deal with how the Lord desires to prepare how hearts with faith for the coming of Satan and for the coming of the Lord. Without faith it is impossible to please God, and by faith we are able to resist all of the lies of Satan. Fear is now here, but it has only just begun. Perfect love is also coming, and when perfect love comes it is going to cast out all fear. God has predestined from the beginning that we should all come to know him through his son Jesus Christ. God is perfect love, and perfect love is only that which is able to fulfill our destiny and finish the perfect work of God. Now that God is revealing the secrets of his love through his prophets, there is now nothing left to restrain him from fulfilling that which he has been so yearning to do: to manifest his sons. Some of you may have read some of these testimonies before in other words that the Lord has had me post, but the Lord impressed on me to set these words “in order”, including some of the old as well as the new, as his Spirit has led me to do. The first part of this word concerns the preparation, and the second part concerns the coming of Satan in the fear that will cause many to fall away, and then the coming of the “perfect love” of God. I pray that the Lord will bless you with seeing eyes and hearing ears as you read these words; eyes and ears that will direct your heart to keep your focus only on the Lord in this hour, and not at looking on the things that are coming on the earth. For More Information: Mitt Jeffords South Carolina, USA Mitt has a paypal account at: |
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