I Will Establish My Church

 I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 

That which is of the Spirit is spirit. That which is of the flesh is flesh. 

Those who worship Me must worship Me in Spirit and in Truth. 

I looked and there before me was a pale horse. It’s rider was Death and Hades (hell) was following close behind. 

In order to understand any scripture let alone the verses mentioned above according to Spirit and Truth one must be born from above.  While still in a man’s body, Jesus spoke only from the Spirit. I only say what My Father is saying. I only do what My Father is doing. We, as Sons of God, are being established in Christ to learn to think and live the same way that Jesus lived while He was in the earth. 

Jesus came to show mankind the Father. The Father is not a fantasy or a figment of mankind’s imagination, nor is He a product of mankind’s religious traditions and doctrines.  He’s the real and living God and creator of all things who desires a relationship with mature Sons of God. He is in all life that we see and experience around us and He holds all things together. Without Him nothing can exist. 

This is not to say He doesn’t love all His Sons no matter what stage of development they’re living in.  Love flows freely from the Father’s heart at all times toward His family whether we are infantile in calling out to Him only seeing Him as the One who meets our needs and desires or whether we have learned to hear and obey His voice in the slightest whisper and we give everything up just to honor Him in obeying. He loves us while we were His enemies.

God, Himself who desires not to be known as God the Almighty with great power and all authority in the earth but as a Father who loves us and is involved in the details and thoughts we have moment by moment, abides in us to empower us to come up into continual growth and expansion of wisdom, understanding and knowledge that is from above but all of it is to reduce us to love. 

With maturity, all the characteristics of the seven-fold Spirit of God and all power available from His throne abide in us; however, all of these great endowments of the Spirit of God brings us to love. Love restrains us from abusing His power in any way that promotes diminishing His character and nature. 

To experience this love He has to heal us from the wrong thoughts and attitudes that have developed as a result of our human consumption of learning and experiences apart from Him. Until our minds can be renewed to think as He thinks, we abide in the throes of a mind dominated by what we have learned from unregenerate parents and family, and mankind’s systems and cultures even when we attribute many things to being God's ways.  The Spirit of God has to remove all the carnal, sensual and devilish misconceptions of our Father who is God. 

Until we witness a world that considers everyone and everything in it as important as our Father does and honors how He created it all, we will continue to fall short of exhibiting His glory. No matter how much growth and understanding we think we’ve achieved, until our mind is healed and we are no longer bringing harm to others and ourselves will we have arrived at being established in love like our Father’s. 

We’ve followed after all kinds ideas and earthly understanding of benevolence,  purposing to build what we consider to be good and what we think God wants from us. 

We make laws to protect and serve the people and pay people exorbitant sums of money to build up governments and environments that provide for us.  We build what mankind calls churches to provide environments that support praise and worship of the God that we think we know. We invite people in to experience Him in our establishments that are supposed to exhibit love and they only provide draining activities that are supposed to support loving relationships. If one happens to make it into a clique in the environment where they “feel loved and validated” we tend to ignore all those around us who don’t. We tend to think something is wrong with them. Hence, Jesus Christ declares we need salve for our eyes.

These “so-called worship centers” claiming to show the way fall short of the glory of God and are failures. Is it pride that keeps us from admitting it or are we that deceived?   They fail because they don’t measure up to love. Man’s idea of love has never been able to provide what any of us need for very long. It looks like the pharmaceuticals doled out by doctors that dulls the sense of pain and heartache, temporarily. Just like pharmaceuticals only treat symptoms, what mankind has built that they call church has no power to heal the person and make them whole.

We cannot operate in God’s love until we know Him and become established in Him and Him in us. This cannot be achieved by going to thousands of meetings or doing untold benevolent things for people that offer temporary relief. 

God's love changes us. He, literally, pulls us up out of darkness just like He called the Light to appear out of the darkness. How would I describe spiritual darkness? Spiritual darkness is the absence of God’s Light. It is the absence of love. It is mental distress and depression and anxiety and fear that is mental illness. It is self harm, self hatred and continual, disturbing agitation. It is unforgiveness and hatred and hostility and murder. It is a physical illness caused by mankind’s greed to make money from chemicals sprayed on food that maims and kills, etc. Such is the world we live in.  

Does God change the laws of the land to try to control this darkness?  No! For whosoever will surrender to Him and learn to hear His voice and follow Him He heals their minds. He heals their thoughts. He renews their minds with the truth. He helps them see spiritually with wisdom and understanding from above. We can’t live in and practice love until we live in and practice truth so we can be healed from all the harm that lies have brought to us. 

How can we come into the true House or Family of God of our Father where we will experience provision that the religious world states it provides in His Name and just doesn’t? When and if we ever grasp the truth that there is nothing…absolutely and equivocally nothing any of us can do to achieve this pipe dream maybe we will humble ourselves to let our Father establish us in Himself and His plans that only the Holy Spirit can achieve in us. 

He won't do any of it in any of us until and unless we bow to the Sovereignty of our Father and quit insisting that any of us has the ability to bring healing to people apart from leading them to depend on the Holy Spirit. 

I am grateful for every Son of God who has willingly laid down their lives to show me the Father. Those that our Heavenly Father has raised up that have humbled themselves and learned to hear and obey His voice are the sent ones and are the only ones that can represent Him in Spirit and in Truth. 

Mankind’s way is to send someone to school or seminary to learn all they can be taught and be pumped with knowledge that is supposed to equip them to lead. Our Father’s way to train leaders is to strip them of their own ways, their own thoughts, their own will and their pride and anything else that keeps them from representing our Father in Spirit and in Truth. This reduces them to love. 

It’s only when we recognize the Father in leaders and their willingness to walk in truth that leads to the Holy Spirit that we should even consider listening to what they say.  We must have the Spirit of our Father abiding in us that bears witness that  we are hearing His voice through those who claim to be sent to carry the truth. 

If they are sent we will recognize the power of our Father’s heart and mind, His will and His plans working through them in love. They will never try to control or manipulate anyone. They will do exactly what Jesus did when He was on the earth. They will speak and live out of the truth imparted by the Holy Spirit. The life of the Spirit of God will be obvious and strong. 

This not to be misconstrued with the knowledge and wisdom of mankind. The knowledge and wisdom and understanding that mankind offers apart from the spirit is carnal, sensual and devilish. It tells you can get where you need to be by doing something other than surrendering to and following Christ who lives in you by His Spirit. 

it’s important to understand that to build anything in Spirit and in Truth it cannot be assimilated by the mind or will or ways of mankind and/or reproduced. You can’t pick up a hammer and nails and build a church. The Church-individually and corporately is built or established by the Holy Spirit. Each Son is established through healing that manifests the love of the Father. That cannot be replicated by mankind. This is what mankind has attempted to do with what they call their ideas of churches. To establish the Church starts with each individual. We can’t do it. Jesus said I will build My Church. 

While there are mature leaders, tutors and guides, spiritual fathers, apostles, elders, evangelists, prophets, teachers, and pastors (shepherds) equipped throughout the body they’re placed to encourage and light the way to dependence on the Holy Spirit. They equip the Saints by watching over their souls so they’ll only do what the Father is saying and only do what He is doing.

The only way the gates of hell (a fallen spirit or Angel holding people in bondage to lies) won’t prevail is if we quit following mankind’s ideas that mislead us into believing that the benevolence that comes out of the of places called churches can replace healing that has to come through surrender to Holy Spirit. We have the Holy Spirit living in us but we are not the Holy Spirit. Only the Holy Spirit can empower you to overcome fallen angels. Fallen angels lie. Only knowing and living according to the Spirit of Truth empowers Sons to discern lies and overcome them with truth.

We follow Christ by obeying the Spirit of Truth that lives in us, daily. He lives in us and we live in Christ. We are One Body made up of every tribe, tongue and language and nation. We are one holy nation. (Church) There is One Spirit. There is One God and Father of us all and He is all in all. 

The world will know we are His by how we love one another. 

A new commandment I give you that you love one another. 

This isn’t possible until the Holy Spirit establishes love in us through healing our minds.