Grace No Matter What ???
Rhonda Baim
Indiana USA
The Lord has had me studying deeply (and has me continuing to study deeply) the revelations of Holy Spirit (which led to Him authoring two words about Holy Spirit...'Jesus' Best Gift' Parts 1 & 2). And now we continue...
Over the weekend I received a message from someone I never met - it wasn't even much of a "message", instead it was one line that said, "The check is in the mail". It was a reply to a bulletin the Lord had me post on MySpace by one of His prophetic voices (December 9th, 2006 @ 4:31 P.M.).
On MySpace, when you post bulletins (for all non-MySpace readers) for all on your "friends" list to view, they can then click on a button (if led) which allows them to "reply to poster". I post bulletins as the Lord orders, whether it be that which He speaks through me or through another - I post whatever He asks.
So this person sent that one-liner attached to a bulletin I'd posted by someone else. Many times (most of the time) the Lord won't allow me to read what He has me post via someone else - the Lord knows what it says and I post, in obedience, that which He wants posted. When this stranger responded to something I hadn't read with the comment "the check is in the mail" I didn't pay much attention to it - I in fact thought it was perhaps a wry sort of comment, like perhaps the word said something about people promising something but not following through (thus when people say 'the check is in the mail' but it really isn't).
That thought...of someone promising to do something but not doing it LITERALLY turned out to be prophetic).
The next day (December 10th, 2006) I posted something else that the Lord asked me to post. At 3:59 PM the same person replied...he said, "Please let me know when the check get's their...ty (thank you) for all you guys do".
THAT caught my attention. "Your people"....I was like, "WHAT 'my people'"? My team isn't really ministering online for In His Unfailing Love Ministries yet...who does he think 'my people' are. And, "mailed a check..."...WHERE?!?! When people are led to bless the work I do unto the Lord they write to me personally and ask for my mailing address - but there is NO MINISTRY ADDRESS posted anywhere...and until the building the Lord has chosen for us is paid for and released into our hands, there is no 'ministry' address per say. So, where and to whom did this person send God's money???
I said, "Lord! What would you have me to do?" For I KNOW that the Lord expects us to ask Him about EVERY PENNY we are blessed with (all of us individually - God owns 100 percent not merely 10 percent and we are to ask Him what to do with each cent). In that this person claimed to send a check to who knows where, I knew the Lord would want me to fix this. The Lord then confirmed that to me and told me to contact them immediately.
The Lord had me send three messages (like emails) via MySpace message system on Sunday (the last one was sent at 7:56 PM 12-10-2006). The Lord sent me to their MySpace, where He then showed me a link to their ministry web page. On the ministry web page was a "contact" link - where I found an email address and three phone numbers: one for the "office", one for the "bishop's mobile phone" and one for the "executive secretary". The Lord had me send an email first, then had me call the "bishop's mobile phone, going right to the source.
I must interject - I do not even have long distance on my home telephone and their ministry was many many states away (different area code, different time zone, etc). The Lord insisted that I call - and allowed me to use a cell phone to do so - but no one answered, so the Lord told me to leave a message and my telephone number.
Brethren, that's FIVE ATTEMPTS to let this person know that wherever they sent the Lord's money, it wasn't coming here.
It had nothing whatsoever to do with the money or getting the money redirected here because the Lord never even had me give them my address - not in any of the five messages (my address is unlisted). My concern was for THEIR ACCOUNTABILITY UNTO GOD FOR THAT WHICH THEY DID WITH GOD'S MONEY (because I am CALLED TO GOD FIRST AND FOREMOST and my ministry is unto Him and those things that He tells me to deal with). It is no different as when someone calls your house and they leave a message on your answering machine or voicemail - they dial the number thinking they've reached someone else, leaving a number for that someone else to then call them back. Obviously that person they THOUGHT they'd reached will NEVER call them back if NO ONE EVER TELLS THEM they called the wrong number! The Lord ALWAYS has me call the people who leave messages on my machine while thinking they are reaching someone else- ALWAYS! It's called WALKING IN LOVE! It's walking UPRIGHT BEFORE THE LORD! Don't you think that if someone left a message for someone else on Jesus' answering machine, He'd let them know about the mistake?!?! What if someone was urgently trying to reach you about something truly serious and they dialed the wrong number, and the people they mistakenly reached did nothing to make things right??
This incident with the check was the exact same principle. They claimed to have sent it to me - which is impossible. If I didn't tell them, how would they know? The people receiving it may not be honorable enough in Christ to rectify the situation. I did that which the Lord instructed of me to do.
By the way, WWJD is MORE than a cool slogan to commercially merchandise Jesus Christ to the masses. Do you TRULY ever consider - IN EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE - WHAT WOULD JESUS REALLY DO???
Ask Him! He'll TELL YOU!
Thus the Lord had me call this person about their check going to the wrong place.
WALKING IN LOVE.
The next day I was eager to check all of my message centers - the Lord appointed me to reach these people and make things right, and I longed to make sure that it was accomplished for His glory (yet another facet of walking in righteousness - never leaving anything the Lord has asked you to do UNDONE!)
After three MySpace messages, one email and one long distance phone call, these people did not even bother to respond. The entire day went by - NO RESPONSE.
Let me interject - I have met VERY FEW CHRISTIANS WHO WALK IN LOVE - so it didn't upset or particularly surprise me that they didn't bother to respond. If they had been about the Father's business and it kept them away from all forms of communications for a day, hey! Praise the Lord! But after 24 hours, the Lord sent me back to their ministry website to get one of the other telephone numbers (the one for "office") and had me CALL AGAIN (long distance AGAIN!). God does not ask me to waste His time, so this was done to elicit the response GOD EXPECTED FROM THEM.
This time a man answered. I explained that their bishop had contacted me with a vague reference to a check via MySpace and also explained there is no way he could have sent it to this ministry. I did not go into a lot of detail because the Lord instructed me to speak to the bishop himself to straighten it out. The person on the other end of the phone line wasn't very welcoming - abruptly saying that the bishop had "Uh just stepped out" but they'd have him call. I quickly said (before they could hang up) "Don't you want to write down my name and phone number or do you have caller ID?" They said "caller ID" and hung up. It was very cut and dried.
As of THIS WRITING (1:59 A.M. December 15th, 2006) it has been FOUR DAYS SINCE I LAST CONTACTED THEM and THEY STILL HAVE NOT CALLED TO STRAIGHTEN THINGS OUT!
THAT WAS THE SET-UP!
NOW....
When I had finished making the second phone call, the Lord told me to go in and study. It was Monday December 11th, 2006 @ 9:52 P.M. I knew where this was going - He has had me studying (at that point in time) Zechariah and Holy Spirit (alternating between the two) - this particular evening He wanted me to take up where we'd left off studying Holy Spirit - and when I'd stopped the day before I knew what was coming next because I'd glanced ahead. But as always God does EVERYTHING IN ORDER in ABSOLUTE PERFECT TIMING.
As I knew what I was about to read, I actually took a moment and stopped to ask God to forgive the person who I spoke to earlier and the person who promised to send that check - asking for mercy - because, again, I knew what today's lesson was about.
Where I was to begin THIS NIGHT was with the FIVE SINS AGAINST HOLY SPIRIT as revealed in the New Testament:
---resisting Holy Spirit
---blasphemy against Holy Spirit
---grieving Holy Spirit
---quenching Holy Spirit
..............and..............the one that everything spoken prior to getting to this point has been leading up to:
LYING TO HOLY SPIRIT
Do you remember this very important story from the Book of Acts?
Acts 5
1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
6 And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.
7 And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
8 And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
Did you know this was the FIRST SIN (recorded) by the New Testament Body of Christ/Church?! Does it at all SHOCK ANYONE that it had to do with MONEY and LYING ABOUT MONEY/holding back for PERSONAL GREED?!?!
Brethren, THE RESULT OF THIS ONE LIE WAS DEATH!!!
I told this story to my beloved sister in Christ, and she responded, "Thank God for Grace!!!" YES YES YES and AMEN! Thank GOD FOR GRACE! FOR MERCY! But WAS THERE NOT GRACE AND MERCY EVEN THEN IN THE EARLY CHURCH at the time of that which happened in Acts Chapter 5?!?!
The answer is YES! To the believer, the one who has accepted Christ as personal Saviour there is GRACE (unmerited favor):
1)Christ bore for the believer the curse of the law when He died upon Calvary
Galatians 3:13: "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:"
2) In Christ's death and resurrection He redeemed the believer both from the penalty of the Law and from the dominion of the Law
Galatians 3:13,25: "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Galatians 4:5-7: "To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ."
3. The believer is both dead to the Law and saved from it - He is no longer under the Law but under Grace!
Romans 6:14: For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Romans 7:4: Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
I Timothy 1:8-9: But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
But...even WITH GRACE Ananias and Sapphira DROPPED DEAD.
EVEN --- UNDER --- GRACE!
What was the result of this upon the church?
...and great fear came on all them that heard these things -Acts 5:5
...and great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things -Acts 5:11
God repeated it twice:
THE RESULT WAS REVERENTIAL FEAR OF ALMIGHTY GOD!!!
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO REVERENTIAL FEAR OF GOD??? God is the same yesterday, today and FOREVER...WHY ARE THOSE WHO LIE TO GOD NOW, IN THIS HOUR, NOT DROPPING DEAD???
Holy Spirit gave Peter the words:
"...thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the Ghost" (Acts 5:4-5)
THOU HAST NOT LIED UNTO MEN - BUT UNTO GOD
This (again) was during the TIME/DISPENSATION OF GRACE!
So....
When did it become OK for the church to make vows and not keep them? When you got married, you VOWED UNTO GOD - if you break it, you are a LIAR! When you promise God money - or time - or yourself - or anything and everything - when did you decide it was OK TO NOT FOLLOW THROUGH?!?! ARE YOU NOT IN THE LEAST BIT CONCERNED THAT OTHERS WHO LIED TO GOD UNDER GRACE DIED AND YOU HAVE NOT? DO YOU REALLY THINK THERE CAME A TIME WHEN IT BECAME OK FOR BELIEVERS TO NOT KEEP THEIR VOWS UNTO GOD???
BELOVED! If you SAY YOU ARE IN CHRIST - YOU MUST REPRESENT HIM WITH HONOR! EVERY WORD YOU SPEAK IS UNTO HIM! Every promise made to ANYONE is A VOW UNTO GOD! (2:10 A.M.)
I tell you truthfully - I FULLY SUBMITTED MYSELF UNTO HIS THRONE OF JUDGMENT WILLINGLY BEFORE HE ASKED ME TO SPEAK THESE THINGS UNTO HIS PEOPLE ON HIS BEHALF - SO THAT I COULD ENSURE THAT I WAS BLAMELESS IN HIS SIGHT. BECAUSE THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS WISDOM.
IF THEN GOD is the same yesterday, today and forever, if, then God is no respecter of persons - when YOU lie unto God as did Ananias and Sapphira did - WOULD IT NOT FOLLOW THAT YOU TOO WOULD DROP DEAD?
The Church has become ENTIRELY TOO COMFORTABLE in their lies/sins unto God because it has SEEMED TO THEM that He no longer deals with people the way He used to....right??? You haven't dropped dead, haven't been swallowed up by the earth....as of yet.
Remember....the SAME yesterday, today, and forever.
THEREFORE - WHAT IS STOPPING HIM???
HAVE YOU EVER EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT IT?
DO YOU CARE ?
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW???
JESUS CHRIST IS STOPPING HIM!!!
JESUS CHRIST - YOUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST - SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER...I can SEE HIM RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT IN THE SEER REALM AS I WRITE THIS ON HIS BEHALF (12-15-2006 @ 2:36 A.M.): Jesus is seated, turned toward the Father, looking intently into His Father's face, the Father looking down at us - Jesus praying non-stop, fervently, lovingly, pleading your case and mine, STAYING THE HAND OF THE FATHER'S RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT
RIGHT NOW - THIS MOMENT
THE FATHER IS SAYING UNTO YOU:
"But for a little while longer will I hold back judgment - but verily I say unto you, it is upon the threshold even as this is spoken on My behalf. Is My Son's blood upon the doorpost of your heart? Your character? You must walk in integrity and honor, righteousness and truth. In all things...ALL THINGS you MUST REPRESENT MY SON in WORD AND DEED." (2:42 A.M.)
THE FATHER's WORD is to stand alone for now - I am not allowed to speak on the above further at this time.
What about the ministry that said they were sending financial support to THIS ministry that I do unto the Lord? Did they lie to God? God only knows - as I spoke earlier, still no response. A nifty little feature on MySpace: when you send someone a message, it lets you SEE when they are finally read (not the date and time, it just goes from saying "sent" to "read"). After several days this person FINALLY READ the messages the Lord had me send (those three via MySpace) but did not respond. I asked the Lord what He wanted me to do now. He said that I am not to even bother with those who are not willing to walk in His love because to not walk in love is to not walk in righteousness and honor. I am not to fellowship with those who do not keep their word, or bother to make things right (2:10 A.M.) (Because the Lord said that He has more who DO LOVE HIM, who WILL keep their words in honor of HIM!
"But I say unto you (says the Lord):
NOW IS THE TIME! THIS IS THE HOUR! YOU MUST NO LONGER HOLD BACK" saith the Lord. (12-15-2006 @ 3:27 A.M.)"
The Lord also said:
"NO ONE WHO REPRESENTS ME CAN EVER BE TOO BUSY TO WALK IN HONOR AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS" (2:20 A.M.)
The Lord knows my heart is NOT TO SPEAK AGAINST ANY WHO WALK IN CHRIST - thus their ministry/names/web addresses are NOT BEING MENTIONED - ONLY GOD AND I know who they are. But I TELL YOU THE TRUTH - EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAPPENS AS I WALK THE PATH HE HAS PUT ME ON WILL BE SPOKEN OF AS GOD DIRECTS ME TO SPEAK - BECAUSE "TRUTH IS TRUTH (saith God 2:39 A.M.)" If you are offended then you are WALKING IN PRIDE and ARE NOT DEAD TO SELF. For truly the Lord speaks forth ALL TRUTH - EVEN CORRECTION - OUT OF LOVE FOR US, THAT WE MIGHT HEAR, HUMBLE OURSELVES, AND SUBMIT UNTO HIM - SO THAT NOTHING HINDERS OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.(2:51 A.M.)
As The Lord Speaks
Via His Messenger
December 15th, 2006
1:24 A.M. - 3:27 A.M.
In His Unfailing Love Ministries
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"For I, saith the Lord, Will Be Unto Her A Wall Of Fire Round About"
Rhonda Baim
Who has ears to hear and eyes to see - this was a supernatural event and you need to perceive with spiritual perception to catch the many facets of this amazing occurrence...
Around 7:00 PM Sunday evening on December 10th, 2006 I was awakened by the sounds of fire trucks outside my window (I sleep when the Lord tells me to sleep as my hours in Him are 24/7 so it is not according to man's schedule that He has me sleep). Holy Spirit said, "Go and see..." so I hurriedly went to my window and looked outside.
There, along the sidewalk that leads to the pool (that He named Siloam this summer) was a long fire line, along the side of one of the townhouse buildings, from the front of it to the backyard fence.
It was surreal-looking, a nice even line...it is hard to explain because I have never seen anything like it (and I was a firefighter when I worked for the National Park Service so I've seen fires and fought fires before).
I also helped my family for many years when we had a huge front yard filled with trees - I was the main person alongside my dad who raked, bagged and burned those leaves, so the Lord had given me previous experience with fires among leaves also (which this appeared to be yesterday - there were piles of leaves along the side of that building). The amount of leaves there compared to the steady burn was supernatural - it should have gone higher, faster, and spread more quickly - but it did not -- for it was contained by God and had a purpose.
The woman who lives in that end unit was outside holding a small plastic bowl filled with water in her hands. NO ONE ELSE EVEN CAME OUTSIDE TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON (there are about 20 units of tenants which could have seen it but no one paid attention!).
The fire department put it out quickly - from the moment I saw it until the flames were gone was less than two minutes.
I finally saw the assistant property manager by the firemen, so I walked over to her and asked what happened. She said that they were cooking out on the grill (it was a whopping 40 degrees yesterday, a virtual heatwave for December)...and one of the sparks from the grill supposedly flew and caught the area on the side of the building on fire.
Another interesting observation: it didn't catch anything on fire behind that townhouse where the grill had been cooking - if it had been in back by their patio, I would not have been able to see it. Instead the winds carried the spark to flame the area that I COULD SEE.
The lady with the plastic bowl of water looked at me and said, "Did you see it too? I thought I was seeing things - nobody else came out and nobody else saw anything"
When I said "yes" and described what I had seen to the woman and the assistant property manager, the manager said, "REALLY?" because SHE DIDN'T SEE IT EITHER (yet she was out there!) - as the fire department (who did also see it) were rolling up their hoses, the manager went to the side of the building and she was stunned to see the charred remains (how big it had been).
How interesting that no one saw it but myself and that lady...(and the firemen were allowed to see it also)
And then in the Lord's perfect timing later, as I was reading His word...I must always interject the importance of HEARING ALL THINGS FROM HIM, BEING DIRECTED MOMENT BY MOMENT BY HIM...for He tells me when to do everything, for how long, etc. This night He said that I was going to continue reading in Zechariah where I had left off several days ago - He had told me that day (the last time I read in Zechariah) exactly when to stop and where. So this day (the fire on Dec. 10th, it was now after midnight, so it was now December 11, 2006 @ 1:23 A.M.) when He had started talking to me about this fire and had me read, beginning in Zechariah Chapter 2.
The exact place I had left off after my previous studying was the beginning of the next vision given unto Zechariah, with the man with the measuring line. In verse 5, it read, "I will be unto her a wall of fire round about and will be the glory in the midst of her" (1:32 A.M)
This the Lord said unto me was the purpose of the fire - that I may see the wall of fire He has placed round about me and those who will co-labor with me for His glory. For He said this scripture also confirms that which He had already spoken (regarding the new building we are to have, that His presence will reside there) - and that we are protected.
As I continued to read Zechariah 2 He revealed more things - by verses 8 and 9 (2:06 A.M.) He said "You are the apple of My eye" (after He had had me eat an apple - I tell you the truth He directs even that which I eat and I had gone to the store earlier and He told me to buy this small 5 pack of apples - then He told me to eat one after the fire and just before He sent me upstairs to start studying Zechariah 2...AND I had been having a problem with my right eye - it was swollen and hurting...as I read this verse He said, "Touch your eye" ..the swelling and pain was gone)
At 2:16 A.M. He said, "For he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of MY eye - for behold, I will shake mine hand upon them....I will curse him that curseth you"
At 2:18 A.M. Holy Spirit put the song in my Spirit and I sang unto the Lord, "Unquenchable fire...many waters cannot quench this love...O it burns with holy burning...fire fire fire...fire fire fire river of desire..." (a song from the Song of Solomon CD from IHOP-KC released around the year 2000 or 2001) - I sang it unto Him until 2:20 A.M.
Beloved LET HIM ORDER YOUR STEPS - it will be one amazing moment to another...He will reveal Himself in every way imaginable.
"Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation" ---Zechariah 2:13
Via His Messenger
December 10th-11th, 2006
7:00 PM - 3:00 A.M.
In His Unfailing Love Ministries
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