RHEMA 1/11/09  FACE TO FACE 

PIX:  Today during worship, when we sang the line about the same power that resurrected Jesus lives in me, I saw a picture.  It was the face cloth of Jesus that He left in the grave and it was all perfectly folded. The first thing that came to me was the revelation, “It is Finished!”  I believe that it was a sign to Peter that it was the Lord Who had left that sign at the tomb just for him, because he had probably seen the Lord do fold His napkin many times after eating.  The next thing that came to me was that Jesus face was now visible, as the veil had been rent and so it should be with our face.  I thought all these things during worship after seeing it.

Then Pastor got up near the end of worship and prophesied that the veil was ripped off the box and he talked about the power of the resurrection and mentioned the same song. 

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UPDATE CONFIRMATION 1/13/09

EXPERIENCE:  Today, when I was driving in the car, I had a picture of my going up to someone and gazing into their eyes.  I specifically took their cheeks in my hands and looked into their eyes and prophesied into that person with all the love I had.  I had the feeling that the gesture was significant, that I really needed to reach deep inside to that person’s heart.  After seeing that, I told the Lord after seeing that picture that I really wanted to prophesy over people with this same deep level of love into their need.

A few hours later we went to a house meeting and 3 people prayed over each one of us and gave the Words of the Lord. The 3 were behind the hot seat, laying hands on the person sitting there.  When it was my turn to be prayed for, one of them heard the Lord tell her that she was to go around to the front of me and hold my cheeks and look into my eyes and tell me something.  So she went around and did exactly that.  What the Lord said to me through her hit such a deep chord inside of me that I have not been the same since.  It was a resurrection Word after having gone through a long season of suffering and finally death to self.  I was overwhelmed with tears.  It was too intimate, too precious to share publically.  All I can say is that when the Lord speaks to our heart’s depth of need, only His Words can bring us back to life. 

Heb 4:12-13  NKJV

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

As we were leaving the meeting, she specifically again mentioned that she was told to take my cheeks and look into my eyes.  Upon her repeating that, the Holy Spirit brought back the picture I had a few hours earlier of my doing that very same thing.  All the love and yearning I experienced when seeing that picture - to reach the depths of that person I was speaking into!  That was the LORD for me!!!!!!!! 

WORD TO PONDER:  MY FACE YOUR FACE OUR FACE  1/11/09

When you lay down your life and die to self, yes, My precious, it is a cold and dark time.  But now you know that even in the tomb our love knows no boundaries.  Beloved, it is the resurrection power of My love for you and your response that brings you back to life. 

You have waited a long, long time to see My face.  Yes, My precious, I have always seen yours.  But I have waited an eternity to see our face together.  I am looking into your eyes and you are looking into Mine.  I see our deepest reflection of our mutual love that we share.  My beloved one, when you look into the face of love, all the veils of the heart are stripped away.  And, yes, before the face of the world, we shine together.  Precious one, when you melt within our love, does the world really matter?

2 Cor 3:16-18  NKJV

Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face , beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

1 Cor 13:11-13 NKJV

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face . Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.