PSALMS 84:10 - I WOULD RATHER BE A DOOR KEEPER IN THE HOUSE OF MY GOD

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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Restoration

The Spirit spoke a clear word to me, and I felt it was a word for most all of us, so I'm sharing it below:

Job 42:10: And the LORD restored Job's losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed, the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

My children, this is a critical hour to understand what I did with My servant Job.  Though his friends wronged him and gave him false counsel, it was important that he let go and forgive them. Even beyond that, Job's repentance before Me brought his own healing.  I want to do that for you, each one of you. Search your heart to find that person you have not forgiven. Perhaps the hurt does not come to your mind much anymore, but is there a root of resentment still buried there? Do not let it hinder My blessing! Repent before Me, let go of the loss, the bitterness, and any trace of anger; as you set that person free, you open the storehouse for your own healing and restoration! I called My servant Job to act as a priest before Me and pray for his friends who betrayed him. This is a high calling. Pray for your enemies and those who persecute you. I want to restore your losses.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

A New Order

We have had a chance to take a breath, do some laundry, and "change our shoes and socks" (as John says) since our journey from Colorado through Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas. God worked so powerfully through the various stops on this trip that this blog could take up pages and pages if I shared it all! So, I will just give you a few of the glorious testimonies, and then launch into the Shabbat message I believe the Spirit wants me to impart.  And let me quickly add that we DO (by faith) have our tickets for our ministry trip to Kenya, with a departure of May 27, so we certainly still need your help for lodging expenses, food on the trip, and hopefully a worthy gift for the orphanage where we will minister.  If you can make an end-of-the-year charitable contribution to DoorKeeper Ministries, we will greatly rejoice in your offering, and you will, in the Lord's view, be tucked into our suitcases and made fully a part of all that He will allow us to do there to advance His kingdom! Click here for donations, or send a check to DoorKeeper Ministries, PO Box 233, Eaton, CO 80615. Thank you!!!

In Illinois we found my parents in amazingly good spirits, ready for us to join with Mom in celebrating her 90th birthday! She had moments of clarity and great joy as we shared cake and ice cream, presents, singing, and lots of laughter.  This is my favorite picture, which John caught in a tender moment.



In Missouri we had the incredible blessing of staying with two young families - each of whom have four children under the age of 8. They are living out the example of the apostles in the early church, selflessly pooling their resources and sharing all they have with one another. There is no TV in the house and we spent the evening praising Yeshua together with two of the parents on guitars and the children beating drums, shaking eggs and dancing with abandon, as David danced! At the dinner table eight little children sat respectfully and used manners we have not witnessed in years - all showing one another love and blessing - a great encouragement to us about the young families in Messiah!

We ministered again to the Gates to Zion congregation in Columbia, South Carolina, and it was there that the Ruach began to speak to us in a "four-fold witness." We know that scripturally it only takes two witnesses to confirm a matter, so when the thread of this message kept unfolding more and more during our trip, we felt the spirits within us were leaping for great joy!  I brought a message to this congregation based on Isaiah 60:1-2: "Arise, shine, for your light has come, and glory of the LORD rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and His glory appears over you." I had not shared the title of this message, so when the children of this congregation came up on the stage just before I was to speak, I was not prepared for what was about to happen! The lights in the auditorium were shut off completely and we were plunged into darkness.  Suddenly each child lit their (battery-operated) candle and they began to sing, "Arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the LORD rises upon you!" Needless to say, the hair stood up on the back of my neck and I was overcome with this astonishing "illustration" that YHVH had planned without any of us knowing it!

 My message was a pleading with the people to rend their hearts in repentance in order that we could become a people ready to receive this outpouring of YHVH's glory upon us. He has promised this last-days outpouring of His Spirit in Joel 2, and it is coming! The phrase "glory of the LORD rises upon YOU" should be taken personally! And yet as many of us gather in prayer meetings and cry out for the Lord to visit us with the weight of His glory, or like Moses begged, to "show us His face," we need to understand that if He came in the fire of His glory before we are made ready, it will kill us!

After the message was delivered, pastors Jan and Craig O'Dell shared with us a book they had been reading entitled The Sons of Zadok by C.R. Oliver. We read it aloud on the way home, and our spirits became more and more excited that this must be the breakthrough we have been praying for!  For the last several years I have been calling congregations to see the difference between going to church and asking God to bless and minister to us, and going before His Presence and ministering to Him!  The example I use is found in Ezekiel 44:15-16, which, of course, is taking place during the Millennial Reign: "But the priests, who are descendants of Zadok, and who faithfully carried out the duties of my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from Me, are to come near to minister before Me....they alone are to enter my sanctuary, they alone are to come near my table to minister before Me and perform my service." 

They alone! With all my heart and soul I have sought to understand who these "sons of Zadok" are that the LORD desires to minister to Him in that Millennial temple!  They are a new priestly order - in the Order of Melchizedek! C.R. Oliver writes, "the third millennium will hear a spiritual trumpet blowing. It is a heaven-born sound announcing the rise of the true Sons of Zadok. God has been preparing them in the wings for many years. They are like the hidden multitude of Elijah's day, 'who have not bowed the knee.' They are the Gideon 300, not the 10,000. They are a breed far different than history has ever seen. Willingly they have already counted the cost, and willingly, they will lay down their very lives to usher in the Kingdom of our LORD and of His Messiah."

After this thrilling revelation we received an article over the internet with excerpts from a book by Dr. Rachel Elior, who has been deeply researching the Dead Sea Scrolls and the many references to the purity of the sons of Zadok. In this article she literally takes on the issue of the modern-day folks who are "scanning the sky for the new moon, disagreeing about the sighting among themselves, perhaps even erring."  Is Yah really looking for a new priestly order of people that think this is all about the correct keeping of a calendar and sighting of a moon? Is He concerned about who has it all exactly right, and who has the most knowledge? Is He looking at our heads - or at our hearts?

The response to this question given by our friend Mike Clayton was riveting: "The moon did not hang on a tree for me - Yeshua did."  Selah - stop and ponder that!

Our fourth witness came yesterday in a prophetic word of the LORD delivered by prophet Michelle Holderman. Listen to the confirmations of all I have written above, which appeared in the pages of Michelle's prophecy:
"It's about to get really good for those who are on board with My Order.
I AM calling My prophets to not only rend their own hearts, but to call My people into rending their hearts also (Joel 2). I AM lining up your hearts with My own in what is coming, for a time like no other looms on the horizon.
I AM preparing you to carry such a great message of My heart to those who do not know what - or precisely WHO - they are missing. Yeshua is the message!
All those who in this past season have remained hidden and concealed by My Order are going to be let out and released to serve the people of God.
I AM pouring out a fresh, new sound.
I will awaken this sound through you who are My prophets as you carry My Order to My people.
Your place is before My throne.
Unity and not division among my saints - this is what the times are calling for. All the petty bickering and all the false bearing of witness against one another MUST STOP.
I Am gathering My own to carry Yeshua's message of love and hope to a dying world.
Yeshua is the message!"

Will we desire to become a part of this new Order who will draw near to the Holy One of Israel to minister to Him? Or, will we continue staring into the sky, arguing over the calendar, while thousands die without the True Message?

"Arise, shine, for your light has come, and glory of the LORD rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and His glory appears over you."


Are you ready????





Monday, December 9, 2013

A Return to Room 110

I have not written for an entire month - and that is because we have been on the road for several weeks. I have had little to no time to sit at my computer and hear what the Lord would have me write, but several things have really struck me in the past few hours and I had to find a few moments in this Meridian, Mississippi hotel to compose a blog message.

At the beginning of this trip we stayed in a Holiday Inn Express hotel in Highland, Illinois and were given a key to room 110.  It had been a year and a half since I wrote my blog on Room 110 (June 23, 2012), so I didn't think too much about it. But last night we checked into the LaQuinta hotel here in Meridian, MS and were once again handed a key to room 110! I had to return to my June 2012 blog to remember all that the Lord spoke to me about this, and when I read it I realized that He is undoubtedly STILL trying to speak to us through all the busyness, noise, travel, family gatherings and ministry of the past weeks. And it is certainly not just a message for us! From Colorado to Kentucky, Alabama back to Kansas, it is and will be a message that the Creator of the Universe is trying to get through to His people in these days; so I am reposting it here below:

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Room 110

We journeyed to Winnipeg, Manitoba this past week to teach and lead worship with our friends from Voice of Torah.  On the way up we stayed at a Super 8 Motel and we were given a key to room 110.  On the way home we stayed at a Day's Inn and we were given a key to room 110.  As you know, I do not take these things as "coincidences."  The Ruach uses them to give us important messages, if we have ears to hear.  So, when I got home I looked up my notes on the Hebraic attributes of the numbers 100 and 10.  Here is what I found:
100 = Holiness, or "to come closer."
10 = Humility
"Come closer to Me in holiness and humility" was the message of the room keys.  The Father was speaking; this is indeed the KEY to this season, my friends.  It suddenly hit me that He has named us "DoorKeeper Ministries" and He is giving us the key to the Door!  "I tell you, I am the door for the sheep.  All whoever came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door; whoever enters through ME will be saved." (John 10:7-9).

 "Come closer to Me in holiness and humility," says the LORD.  "It is a season of judgment.  I AM drawing lines in the sand between "Ammi" (My people) and "Lo Ammi" (not My people)."  This message begs the question: how do we know who His people are?  What are we to be found doing during these days of judgment, these days in which the God of Israel identifies HIS people?  He has not changed; He is the same yesterday, today and forever.  And when He answered this question in the beginning, I believe He gave a timeless answer (Exodus 31:12-13): Then YHVH said to Moshe, "Say to the Israelites, 'You must observe My Sabbaths.  This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am YHVH, who makes you holy."  Keeping the Sabbaths and the Feast Days of our God is a Covenant SIGN that marks His people!  We may still be in "Egypt" (the world, the nations), but we cannot look or smell or act like Egypt. We must be SET-APART.  This is the very definition of the word "holy" - to be a "peculiar people," defined in 1 Peter 2:9 as "a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God."

Are we ready for this season of judgment and separation?  Will we be found with HIS mark on us?  Our walk is not to be a walk of legalism, or a quest for higher knowledge, or an attitude of arrogance and self-righteousness.  Our calling is defined by room key 110: "Come closer to me in holiness and humility!"  This is the key, this is the room for His chosen ones, His set-apart people.  This is where we are to go, pursuing the LORD with all our hearts, minds, souls and strength, bowed low before Him, in fear and reverence.  He is calling us to abandon man's traditions and man's calendar, and hear the clarion call of the shofar to get in rhythm with HIS time, HIS calendar, HIS cycles, HIS feast days! 

I have never felt more urgency than I am feeling right now, to sound the alarm.  Get ready, for the days of judgment are soon.  "Where shall we flee?" people all across America are asking me.  "Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by."  This is the LORD's answer, found in Isa. 26:20.  Even though America will suffer great judgment for her sins, we do not need to run to another nation.  We need to run to HIM - in holiness and humility.

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