Holy Ghost!

Some years into my walk along THE WAY, I got married and we bought 100 acres of bush along a river, that I cleared and built a farm

My life was busy from dawn to dusk, building the house and outbuildings, tending to our gardens and orchards, while also working in surrounding commercial orchards, and raising our little daughter.

One day however, I felt God wanted me to go to a town a few hours away up north. It was the town of Nimbin, which is commonly regarded as the hippie and greenie capital of Australia and I really didn't want to go there. It was the start of winter and I had a lot of work on my plate, and my family to care for.

However, as hard as I tried to ignore it and resisted, it just got stronger and stronger. God has a way of getting His way.

My wife couldn't understand why I felt I had to go there, of all places. She thought I was being crazy and refused to come with me. So I stayed, but as time went on, I grew more and more irritable with it and before too long, my wife decided she couldn't take it anymore and kicked me out, which was a blessing in disguise as it turned out.

I left with a small bag with a few clothes and ten dollars in my pocket. When I arrived, I had no idea where or what I was supposed to go or do. I saw the 'Rainbow Cafe' in the middle of town and 'sensed' God leading me to go in.

As I stepped through the door, I felt really out of place. As usual, I was dressed all in white and as I scanned the premises, I saw that most of the people were dressed all in black and sitting in the shadows. It had a dark and sombre atmosphere.

Just then, as I stood in the doorway, the Lord spoke to me, saying, "I want you to come in here dressed in white overalls and paint the place white. I don't care if paint is dripping into people's coffee, that's what you are to do."

Like I always say, I am in the lord, as the lord is in me, but I am not the lord, I am not he. Nor do I see myself as a prophet or other such thing, merely a humble actor and servant voice who follows His direction for my part in His end time movement. I asked Him however, "How am I going to manage that without being thrown out or locked up?" But He didn't give me an answer.

In the next few days, I somehow managed to get hold of a pair of white overalls and on the third day, I found myself sitting at one of the tables in the Cafe with a group of people, and as it turned out, the woman sitting beside me was the manager of the Cafe. During the conversation, she stood up and interrupted briefly, to make an announcement to everyone in the Cafe. She announced that the following week, the Cafe would be closed for three days, for some renovation work.

When she sat back down, I asked her, "What renovation work are you doing?" You need to understand that this was a very large, old building, with high ceilings and plastered walls. She told me they were planning to scrape it all back, fill the gaps in the plaster and give it a new paint job. I asked her what color they were planning to paint it and she replied, "Slightly off-white."

I just love it when God's plan comes together in surprising ways, and I immediately told her, "Count me in! I'll be there."

When I walked through the door on the first morning of work, there was one person up on a high scaffold, scraping away at the ceiling, with about a half dozen others sitting around a table smoking weed. I jumped up on the scaffold and before I started to work with the guy there, I called out to the others to join in.

The manageress replied, "Don't bust a gut, it'll take a miracle to get this place done in three days." I answered her, "Well then! It's a good thing I work for someone who can do miracles in three days."

They perked up and got motivated, and joined in. I worked for three days and nights on the place, and in the early hours of the second night, I was naturally feeling very tired. So I prayed to God, "Lord, the spirit's willing, but the flesh is weak." It suddenly felt like a gust of wind was blowing over me, gave me a burst of energy and I felt wide-awake.

At dawn on the morning of the fourth day, as the commercial cleaners were coming in to clean up, we'd just finished cleaning up after completing the job. The place felt much lighter and brighter, and word spread around the town, that a small miracle had happened, and the place was constantly packed with people from then on.

However, it was still like a lawless, wild-west town in many ways and as we sat at the large, round tables, drug dealers would circle around like vultures, asking everyone and anyone, if they wanted to buy drugs. The Holy Spirit would compel me to stand up and command them to leave and I took that stand, not sitting until they did.

One afternoon, I'd been talking to the Aboriginal elders in the area and as I got up to leave, I said loud enough for everyone to hear, "There's a great fire coming." That very night, a thick, dense smoke blew through the valley, with a searing hot wind that was so hot, you couldn't stand in it for more than a minute. It was one of the lushest, greenest parts of Australia and the middle of winter, and as I walked into town the following morning, the streets were lined with people staring at me with fear and bewilderment, as everyone knew it was an act of God, because for one thing, not one blade of grass or leaf on a tree had been affected. Revival broke out and there were many signs and wonders that followed.

I was staying in different places of people who would put me up for a night or two, and one night, around midnight, I'd been sitting in the street talking to some young people, after which an elderly woman who'd been sitting off to the side and listening in, came over to me and told me God had told her to put me up for the remainder of my time there. Her house was in the middle of town, not far from the Cafe. I thanked her and she let me sleep on the day bed in her living room.

As I entered her house I sensed the presence of the Holy Spirit very strongly and began to have intense visions and revelations, beyond anything I'd ever experienced before. They were truly mind-blowing and I couldn't begin to describe them, as they were literally and absolutely, beyond everyone's wildest (carnal, instinctual, egoistic) imagination and shadow of any doubt. It went on for a week or so, non-stop and my body shook and trembled through it all, because of the intensity. I was reminded that the honest to God truth hurts, as it shakes the sh*t (sin) out of you.

When they eventually stopped, I was feeling completely numb, physically, mentally and emotionally. God had revealed so much to me, that I had no more questions left in me and one night, as I was laying on the day bed, I suddenly felt the urge to sit up. There was a knock at the back door and at the same time, in an instant, the Holy Ghost presence of God's divine nature and characteristics of absolute, undying, true love and virtuousness, came upon me like a waterfall. However it wasn't flowing over me, His love was flowing through every fibre of my being like a mighty, rushing river and out of every pore of my body, like a fountain of eternal life, love and youth. The holiness I sensed was so overwhelming, it made me fall to my knees in absolute humility, reverence, repentance and awe, and the virtuousness was so majestic it made me feel like a mighty king in a throne room and completely transformed my character and posture, into that of an absolutely perfect gentleman of His true love, a saint by any other name. I was being sanctified in the Holy Ghost.

I, that is, my soul, the spark of eternal awareness and divine inspiration, the morning star of endless dawns, was set free of the carnal, instinctual, egoistic mind of the flesh and its central nervous system and the ONLY thing I sensed was absolute love, virtuousness and unfathomable, heavenly bliss, that was so overwhelmingly peaceful, graceful and gracious, etc., I felt like I was floating in the air like a feather on cloud nine.

For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters. And God (absolute love) will wipe away every tear from their eyes.Revelation 7:17

The woman whose house I was in, entered the room and immediately fell to her knees in absolute, reverential awe and gasped, "It's you!" She wasn't talking about me. She was addressing Christ, who she saw in me and all I found myself saying was, "Yes, heaven is on earth right now."

As I said, I was not in the mind of my flesh and I saw it before me, like a computer is the easiest way to describe it and I saw a thought rise up from it, like a dark puff of smoke. The thought was, 'What I could do with this!' I just knew that it was a wrong thought and asked God where it came from, as it didn't come from me, I wasn't in my mind, I was in His.

He replied, "It came from the subconscious realm of the carnal, instinctual, egoistic mind of your flesh and you need to be made absolutely humble and brought into the full knowledge, understanding and awareness of the truth, the way and the life (true way of life) in the eternal, egoless presence, realm and reality of My divine nature and characteristics of absolute love and virtuousness, without the slightest, spot, stain, mark and blemish of the characteristic pride, vanity, envy, selfishness, ambition, lust, greed, desire for creature comfort and fear for survival of the carnal, instinctual, egoistic nature of your flesh, so you are able to walk in it 24/7 and no thought like that will arise."

Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power (Holy Ghost) has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (and other characteristics of the carnal, instinctual, egoistic nature of the flesh).2 Peter 1:2-4

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal (instinctual, egoistic) mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God (characteristic virtues of absolute love), nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh (corrupted, blinded, deceived, governed and ruled by their instincts and ego) cannot please God.Romans 8:5-8

I replied, "Whatever it takes lord, whatever it takes." Because when you have experienced His absolute love and virtuousness, in absolute, supernatural power, glory and bliss, that's all you crave and the saying, "Love is a drug", is an absolute reality and you're hooked, line and sinker. That's why for the past 33+ years, I've been going through the mill, winepress and wringer, to overcome the carnal, instinctual, egoistic (self-centered) nature of my flesh and for my character to be cleansed of every spot, stain, mark and blemish of its sinful (unvirtuous) characteristics.

Assuredly (without a doubt), I say to you, unless your nature is transformed and become as little children (without the slightest spot, stain, mark or blemish of pride, vanity, envy, selfishness, ambition, lust, greed, desire for creature comfort and fear for survival), you will BY NO MEANS enter the kingdom of heaven.Matthew 18:3

When it came time to leave town, God pointed something out to me that ought to serve as a warning for all the false disciples in the halfway house (church) who never had the courage and faith to forsake all and WALK the narrow path of TRUE discipleship.

"So likewise, WHOEVER OF YOU does not forsake all that he has cannot be (IS NOT) My disciple."Luke 14:33

The whole time He was using me for revival in the streets and Cafe in the middle of town, there had been a Christian tent ministry set up in a park on the edge of town. They'd put up flyers all over town, to come to their revival and they'd sat there in their comfort zone the whole time, missing out on the real one that happened right under their noses. They'd only got it half right in that there was to be a revival in that town, but it wasn't what they thought it was and was the best the religious egos (tares) and lukewarm fence sitters in the halfway house can do, and God told me that everything that had happened, was merely a foreshadowing, a taste of things to come.

GENEROSITY

passive lamb-like characteristic of true love's divine nature

Generosity is giving and sharing. You share freely, not with the idea of receiving something in return. You find ways to lift the spirit of others, and give just for the joy of sharing. Generosity is one of the best ways to show love and kindness.

But a generous man devises generous things, and by generosity he shall stand.Isaiah 32:8

Challenge yourself to be aware of any and all opportunities to practice and apply generosity in your life this week, and the times you should have, but didn't because of the characteristic pride, vanity, envy, selfishness, ambition, lust, greed, desire for creature comfort and/or fear for survival of the carnal, instinctual, egoistic (self-centered) nature of your flesh.