{This is an entry from my prayer journal dated 7-23-13}
Abba, yesterday I experienced opportunities to bend and humble myself…I almost didn’t. Until I remembered what You are teaching me about revival. I need to die first—there must be a death before I receive Your breath. Your breath represents Your Spirit just as You breathed life into Adam Your breath still revives. Your breath is Your Spirit.
After writing this confession God gave me an illustration: The Balloon.
A deflated balloon is like a humble and contrite vessel waiting to be filled:
The balloon can be blown up by human breath and be filled but once you tie it and let it go, it falls to the ground:
Blown up by human breath = lacks God’s Holy Spirit Power
But filled up with helium the balloon floats up and goes where the wind takes it:
“The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3:8
Then God told me to look at the word ‘helium’, and this is what He showed me:
HeLivesInUandMe. {He Lives In U and Me}
God is holy and can not dwell in vessels that choose to continually practice sin and want to remain in darkness. However, Jesus came so that He could take away the sins of the world and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all unrighteousness and God can now dwell IN US!
I have been cleansed and know this to be true–He does live in me! I know my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit of God and I am not my own. I have been bought with a price, with the precious blood of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in me bears witness with my spirit that I am a new creation and a reconciled daughter of the King! Christ lives in me! I know, that I know, that I know!
I have been like a ‘fallen’ balloon for many years. Full of myself, possessions and money and mainly my own hot air. Even after being a Christian there’s a temptation to do things in my own strength and fill myself up but I’m learning to resist the temptation to help myself, defend myself, do it myself and instead acknowledge my continual need for a Savior…to deflate myself, empty myself, so that God can breathe His life into me and I may float and rest in Him yielding to the power of His Holy Spirit and go where His Spirit leads me.
I will no longer be like balloon on the ground because I know Christ lives in me and His love edifies and lifts however, the danger for me is resisting the Holy Spirit, where He wants to lead me. Sometimes I can be filled with His Spirit but unable to float up because I am weighed down by a basket of burdens and lies:
A basket of burdens and lies prevents flight…
God has been showing me what obstructs me from floating and resting in Him and I am learning to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and to lay aside the sin and encumbrances that so easily entangles me. I am learning to empty my basket of burdens by casting all my cares on the One who loves me and to continually confess my sins so I can live in Freedom in Christ. God reminds me: Undo the bands of the yoke, let the oppressed go free, break every yoke. So I cut loose those bonds and rest in peace in Him.
“…Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts.” Zechariah 4:6
This is what God whispered to my heart:
Arcelia, I am looking for hearts to dwell in. Places where I can demonstrate My power to manifest My love. I am looking for worshipers that will bow and humble themselves, calling out to Me for help, I want to rescue you. You have been given access to My heart through Jesus Christ to have abundant life and you are free to go in and out but the green pastures are only found in Me. If you want this life abundant you must crucify your flesh. Your death must precede My breath in you. I can not fill what is already full. Empty yourself and I will fill you up to My fullness and work within you to accomplish My will to bring My kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. I will go beyond what you can imagine, for my thoughts are not your thoughts nor are My ways yours…they are higher. When you feel your flesh rising, humble yourself and call out to Me for I will rescue you, and you will glorify My name. Stay in My love my daughter, stay in My love.
*Dear reader,
God is real and He still speaks! This is just one of many secret pearls He has given me and I prayed on whether I should share it with you because it’s so special to me. You must know I am no one special, just a hungering one for Him that reveres Him. God rewards those who diligently seek Him and shares mysteries of His kingdom. But we can NOT hear God if we are entrenched in sin, or filled with ourselves or the things of this world. Most importantly we cannot have a relationship with God without Jesus Christ. He still is the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE. It is through Jesus Christ we have our access in one SPIRIT to the Father! Turn from your flesh and any disobedience and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and times of refreshing will come! God is drawing you to Himself, won’t you be reconciled to Him today? He is speaking right now to the hungry one that has tried everything but still feels empty. Won’t you come and be filled with Him today?
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” (Matthew 5:6)
Prayer:
“…I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the innerman; so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:14.21
Altar of Heaven 
August 25th, 2013 at 3:11 pm
Beautiful!
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August 26th, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Thank you my brother in Christ!
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August 26th, 2013 at 4:20 am
Sweet Arcelia! God always knows just what he is doing. I pulled up this post a few days ago but before I could read it a distraction came along. I must let you know though, I did not read it the other day because God knew I would need it today! My life has been very “full” recently, but I have been heavy as a rock. I needed these words to remind me to ask God to clean out all the junk and fill me with HIS Peace, HIS Joy, HIS Provision, HIS Rest, HIS Mercy, HIS Love, HIS Everything… Only then can I be FULL and ready to face each day. Thank you for the reminder!
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August 26th, 2013 at 12:37 pm
Ninfa…oh my sister in Christ, my friend I get to walk closely with this side of heaven…yes you are right, God’s timing is perfect {Im still learning to appreciate that}.
Thank you for sharing your heart with me as you can see in this post i do understand. I pray we will continue to take every thought captive and set our minds on the things above pressing on to the upward call we have been given in Christ Jesus. I pray every morning we cast our burdens on God and are transformed by the renewing of our mind with His Word. I’m thankFULL we are ‘new wineskins’ and He CAN fill us…He is our portion! Thank you for being one of my ‘iron’ sharpens ‘iron friends’– I love you {and your family too}
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