AWAKE! ARISE FROM SLEEP! CHRIST IS APPEARING NOW!
(Part 3)
I predicted in 1988 in the news letter that I author that this day was bringing in a new order in the Spirit. The same year that Edgar Whisnant wrote and published a book proclaiming "88 reasons why Jesus is coming in 88." I chided the brother about it, and when his predictions didn't transpire, Edgar sent me a new revised version of his book. I still have it somewhere here.
The prophet Zechariah said, "Who has despised the day of small beginnings?" This New Day has brought in a higher order that is completely contrary to the order we have lived in.
Through the revelation of Christ Jesus you can arise into His likeness, in His New Now Presence appearing. This new order has arrived while the sleeping ones have been unaware of it. 1 Peter 3:4. The glory of God that is now present to fill you while you live on earth is beyond words. Cease to look at the darkness, for He is saying: "Arise in my likeness, it is for you now." This transcends what you are able to ask or think. His kingdom is advancing now. "Arise, o sleeper, and call on your heavenly Father." He has new garments for you to put on. Isaiah 6:1-6.
I have to tone this down, for there are people whom it would stymie-founder. If this could be explained, even here, the unified overwhelming qualities of it would make one stand in awe and wonder. But He said, "Your eyes that have not seen will see, and your ears that have not heard will hear."
This appearing of Christ Jesus is dynamic, it is moving, it is advancing onward, upward, inward and outward. It has no confining barriers. When we use the word "fullness" that limits its ever-fillingness capacity. The grand scale of this ever-unfoldingness is destroying the non-light with the brightness of the Father and Son appearing in such spiritual cadences of their glory and appearing.
He is revealing Himself now in His Spirit nature and character. Zion of Godarise and meet your descending Day Star. For He has unfamiliar resurrection in His wings (sun beams). "The Lord has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: Surely I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and (the invading sons) of aliens shall not drink your new wine for which you have toiled." Isaiah 62: 8.
Beloved, shout! Our Father has chosen us in Christ to be His king-priest restoration nation, even sons of Zion the city of the Great King. "Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion, put on your beautiful garments O Jerusalem, the Holy City: for henceforth there shall no more come unto you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
"Therefore my people shall know what my name is and what it means; Therefore they shall know in that day that I Am He who speaks; behold, I AM." Isaiah 52:1,2.
I exhort all to enter into sincere praise, worship and thanksgiving. The Lord's personal intervention is at hand. He is giving us spiritual eyes and the spirit of discernment to see and know the spiritually uncircumcised who would come to defile His lambs. Those who would fleece the flock of His pasture.
That New Day garment is Himself in all His purity, glory and majesty. "Put you on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof." He is clothing us in the "light that he is dwelling in, which no man (carnal man) can approach unto; whom no man has seen, nor can see..." 1 Tim. 6: 16. When Saul of Tarsus looked on that light as the noon day sun, it blinded him, and the Holy Spirit had to loose Saul so he could see again. Acts 9.
Are you ready to be clothed in the light of a thousand suns? No! Not yet. But don't quit before the finish line. For the prize is not going to the swift nor to the strong, but to those who obey the Emperor Christ Jesus voice."Your Maker is your husband, the Lord of Hosts is His name and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called. For the Lord has called you like a woman forsaken, grieved in spirit and heart-sore, even a wife (wooed and won) in youth, when she is later refused and scorned, says your God. For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion and mercies I gather you to me again." Isaiah 54: 5-7.
Your heavenly Bridegroom is making Himself known to you in this hour. He is drawing you near unto Himself in personal union. To make known to you His name, His Holy undefiled name and character. he is your Redeemer, delivering you from self-centeredness. Then you will be conscious that He is all that is left. Yes, you will praise and extol Him as he calls you near to Himself in His personal embrace of love union. He is the greatest Lover there is. And the God of the whole earth is He.
During the 1940's Latter Rain revival we exalted the healing ministries. we were blessed by these greater gifts of the Spirit. We were engrossed in prophetic utterances, and these shall increase. Now He is calling, "SEE ME NOW." "You have been engrossed with that which passes away, look unto me and be ye saved." And many will react negatively as they are led away from church lecturing. That has been the order of the day. Traditions are hard to forsake. "SEE ME NOW!" You must lift your eyes from temporal fleeting objects to the eternal realities, which our Father is. You cannot be unemotional during our Father and Son's accessible unveiling.
Beloved, worship Him in spirit and truth often. Show delight to the Husband of your youth. Open your communication gaps. Come before his Kingly Presence with thanksgiving. Cease feeling unworthy and commune with Him in this new rain. We need not approach him tearfully, though it is acceptable. Renew your love to Him, kiss Him more. He is a Lover who wants to be loved personally, and very often. Not just when you don't have other things to do. "Come unto me." He said with a smile. Smile at your Father often. Your motto should be, Jesus is delightful. He is perpetually fun and delightful. You can call Him Darling, Honey, or my own Husband. "I have come into my garden [your heart), my sister, my bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice (rich perfumes, I have eaten my honeycomb with my milk: Eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly of love, O precious one." Song of Solomon 5:1.
The Lord delights in you "O precious one. "Drink, drink abundantly of love, Eat, O friends." Be joined to Him in spirit union. Why do we bury our faces so much in His presence? We have stood at a spiritual distance and begged: "Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth." S.S. 1:1. It sounds romantic but she is only in the courtship stage. If she weren't she would go ahead and kiss Him. However, this is essential and satisfactory. She said, "Draw me and I will run after you. We will be glad and rejoice in you." S.S. 1:4.
Did you ever get away from the stereotyped praise into a new realm where the delicate essence lingers? Be simple and sincere. We no longer have to sit or dangle in unresponsive solitude. Those who walk with the Father of lights are simply given His spiritual treasures now. Having the mind of Christ has priority now. Admittedly new priorities are essential now.
Let the spirit of revelation in the knowledge of Him take over full operations, for we know little as we ought to know without it. Eph. 1:17, 18. And realize that a new kind of transfiguration is taking place now as you see Jesus in the Spirit. 11 Cor. 3:18. "But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transfigured into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Lord the Spirit."
The objective of Almighty God is to transfigure you into His glorified image. Our Father's preoccupation is to take us beyond Pentecost or even the glorious charismatic revival. Rev. 21:5, 1 Cor. 2:9, Eph. 2:7. Jesus said, "Heretofore I have spoken to you in parables, but the time is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in parables, but I will show you the Father plainly." John 16:25. He said, the TIME COMES. So it is not in heaven (eternity), it is in time.
This endowment the lord has imparted to us is for an entirely new realm of functioning. This massive giant called the body of Christ, is filling the universe, and is far above principalities and powers and might. This goes beyond sonship, Isaiah 56: 5, "to them in my house and within my walls, will I give a name and a place better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off." It is marvelous that He has intents to clothe you now before men and angels in His brightness, and His robe of righteousness.
He has promised to give you a name better than of sons. Your place is at your Emperor's side (that is Christ Jesus), clothed in His majesty. Spiritual disability can be cured by permitting new learning to enter ones spiritual maze. The new learning goes deeper than water baptisms or being a crusader for the poor. It's deeper than being intellectually wholesome in religious teachings. It's essential to come to grips with the very person of Jesus wherein He has more than mildly left you with and impartation that introduces one to His spiritual characteristics.
My son Benjamin when nine years old came down with Partheus disease. That is deterioration of the bone. The hip and thigh bone was deteriorating.At first he began to stumble over nothing. We would observe him falling over nothing at all. then he began to complain of his thigh hurting. We took him to the doctor, and he sent us to a bone specialist. After examining Ben, the specialist gave us a grim report. He said that he could arrest the bone deterioration, but that when he got to the age of thirty-five, he would be in pain in the thigh and hip the rest of his life. This was bad news, but God is not the Author of bad news, but the Author of Good News.
We were having services on Saturday evenings, and the Holy Spirit revealed to a black sister in our gathering that it was time to pray for Ben. The doctor had him on a Toronto Bar. It had an iron bar on each leg, and they gave him built up shoes on the outside. And there was an iron bar built in between that was in from of the boy. And he was given a pair of crutchesto hop between as he walked or hopped along He went to school in that bar and stayed in it till he went to bed. We surely was not pleased with all of this. And had been praying about it. One day we went to the San Francisco beach and Benjamin and our two daughters were wading in the water and a wave came along and washed the water from under Ben, and he fell down in the water. I rushed to his aid, and one of the crutches was washed out to sea. But I grabbed him and the other crutch and brought them out of the water.In the gathering one Saturday evening a precious sister knowing the moving of God's Spirit, said, "We are going to pray for Benjamin and God is going to heal him."
WOW! I and my wife, Louise were astonished. We knew that God heals. It is His covenant promise. Yet this was close to home. Yet, we were in expectation as we laid hands on Ben. One leg was one inch shorter than the other. I had laid hands on men and women before and they were healed. One man was healed of cancer, as I and two brothers prayed for him. And it was of no holiness that I or they had, it was faith in the healing power of Jesus Christ the Lord.
Many times God has showed me that someone in services needed a healing of some ailment or other. And I have had to pray for them alone, as brethren in the churches were asleep and would not assist me in prayer for their own congregations. We prayed for Many Benjamin and God healed him of that Partheus disease, and today you wouldn't ever think that he had at one time had a disease that threatened to cripple him for life. Hallelujah! God is still healing today! Jesus paid the price. And He will heal you too. "I am healing your broken hearted. I am causing your blind to see, I am making your lame to walk again, I am setting your captives free. And I the Lord am reigning in Zion for it is God's Sabbath day! Every prison shall be opened, every yoke I'll take away, and I the Lord shall reign in Zion, for it is God's Sabbath day! Every valley shall be exalted, every mountain shall be made low. Oh, the crooked shall be made straight again, for my Spirit has begun to flow. Like rivers in the high place, like on the burning sand, upon the poor and needy my Spirit shall descend. Rivers are flowing in the wilderness, floods from heaven descend, all the earth shall be filled with my fullness, forever without end. To my chosen who are thirsting for this promised Latter Rain, with mighty signs and wonders, I now proclaim my word again. You shall enter into my power and glory, for you are being filled with love divine. I now proclaim my word from heaven, I have chosen thee, thou art mine."
Scott Paris
Pastor's church in Modesto, CA.
Live in Stockton, 35 miles south of Sacramento.
Author's Call Of The Kingdom, a monthly news letter that goes out internationally, by snail mail, at no charge for the asking.
Scott & Louise Paris, 2037 Del Rio Dr, Stockton CA 95204-1620
