What if someone planned an elaborate wedding reception in a fancy garden venue in a beautiful location, with the best foods and wine, fragrant overflowing flowers, a light-enhanced bubbling fountain, and soul-stirring music. Not only this but the invitation reads, “no gifts accepted as each guest will RECEIVE a gift and we have also bought and paid for wedding attire for each guest to wear into the dinner, but please don’t be late to the reception as the doors will be shut and locked when the food is served to the guests”
What if you decided not to come because it seemed strange or different than other wedding receptions you have attended? What if you ignored the invitation because it just seemed too good to be true? What if you made excuses that your life circumstances were too pressing to drop everything, and besides, how would they know what size I wear or what I look good in? What if your rational, logical mind talked you out of coming? What if you didn’t know you were betrothed and it was all for YOU? Or, what if you woke up LATE, were late to the party and found the doors locked and no matter how hard or long you knocked on the doors, they never opened again?
The King of glory has courted and betrothed his bride and only the wedding reception and consummation of the marriage hasn’t happened yet, but the table is already set with all the finery in the spiritual dimension of the kingdom of heaven on earth, and the Father of the Bridegroom is overseeing getting the new home prepared so the Royal King Groom can move in with his bride; making YOU a royal of the lineage of King David by marriage!
Your body is the house that Wisdom and Power (Christ is both) is trying to build now so the King of glory can enter in all his LIGHT, GLORY, and manifest PRESENCE! The old wineskin will burst if you tried to put His new wine into your old body and soul and spirit. All we have to do is come to Jesus, rest your soul, learn from his gentle, humble heart, and yoke with him! Yoking with his Christ, his Spirit, is to become betrothed, setting in motion the washing and regeneration of the Holy Sprit, the oil and spices preparing your body like Esther’s was prepared to go into her earthly King! But our King is King of kings and Lord of lords and is over all of heaven and earth, and YES he wants an intimate relationship with YOU and to marry YOU and he is betrothed to YOU but you just have to wake up and realize he has asked for YOUR HAND and his Father has given his Blessing and is overseeing the building of your new heaven on earth home!
This is no pie-in-the-sky dream! This is no smoke and mirrors show! This is not false signs and wonders in the sky! This is not a second coming deception, a counterfeit of the real! This is the REAL and all you have to do is wake up and receive Christ and RSVP yes and amen to the Spirit and Bride who say, “Come to your wedding reception feast!”
“Blessed is she who eats bread in the kingdom of God…’Come; for ALL is now ready.’ But they all alike began to make excuses…’Go out and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled…or they will not taste my banquet.’ ” Luke 14:15-24
“O taste and see that the LORD is good!” Psalm 34:8
“How precious is thy steadfast LOVE, O God! Take refuge in the shadow of thy wings. Feast on the abundance of thy house, drink from the river of thy delights. For with thee is the fountain of life; in thy light do we SEE LIGHT” Psalm 36:7-9
“This God–his way is perfect; the promises he made us PROVE TRUE!” Psalm 18:30
“I will restore you DOUBLE for your trouble!” Zechariah 9:12
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to you and eat with you, and you with Me. The soul who conquers unbelief, I will grant to sit with me as my royal bride with my Father!” Revelation 3:20-21
“When we are saved [soul made a spotless bride], we are like jewels in his Crown, we shall shine in the NHONE…new wine makes the bride flourish…our hearts shall be glad as with wine…our hearts exult in the Bridegroom, our Beloved…Our Father signals for us to come for he has already REDEEMED US…he brings us into our new marriage Home” Zechariah 9:16-10:12
Be a betrothed bride, let the Holy Spirit and fire baptism of LOVE purify, refine and make your soul white as snow! Take the glory Jesus is offering you, its radiance like a most rare jewel, clear as crystal; take ascended Christ’s refined pure gold and let him clothe you in your white wedding garments, your soul and spirit filled with his glory as its light, your body lit up like a lamp! (Revelation 3:18; Revelation 21:11-23) Say YES to the invitation: “The Spirit and Bride say, ‘Come!’ And let those who hear say, ‘Come!’ And let those who are thirsty come, let those who desire the consummation of our soul’s marriage to the Bridegroom, take the water of life without price!” Revelation 22:17
“Under the apple tree I AWAKENED you…My LOVE flashes like fire, a flame. Many waters cannot quench my LOVE, neither can floods drown it…we are Christ’s vineyard…we are asked to dwell in his new Garden…” Song of Songs 8:5-14
“I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me. Come my beloved, lets eat!” S of S 7:10-11
New Heaven on Earth! 
The “game” is over for the enemy/destroyer/deceiver; he knows it and so he is trying to play his hand before people wake up. But the TRUTH is our Lord Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One who is LIVING, ACTIVE, POWERFUL above all powers and principalities has ALREADY WON and already DISARMED the powers and principalities of darkness/evil and He who is IN YOU is greater than he who is running a counterfeit “show” and playing the “game” of the world! Do not eat anything else form his tree of good and evil. Just DROP EVERYTHING and COME TO JESUS! This is YOUR WAKE UP CALL! Turn to God now! Run, don’t walk to Jesus, rest your soul, learn from his gentle, humble heart and YOKE WITH HIS CHRIST: both Wisdom and Power NOW! (Matthew 11:28) It is our individual AND collective “come to Jesus moment” if we want a future for our children and grandchildren. This is the game (http://thedoggstar.com/secret-societies/illuminati/the-game-illuminati/game-illuminati-cards/) not for the faint of heart; this is a watchman’s warning “Not on my Watch!” Jesus removed the GAP; stands in the breach between heaven and earth, our Father and his human being, and intercedes for us 24/7 as High Priest and Holy Spirit! JOIN HIM in interceding for the world, for your nations, your cities and states, your family and their lives! We put on the whole armor of God, the armor of Christ’s LIGHT, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and then STAND FIRM; prepare for your mind to be blown but the truth will set you free, but you have to know the counterfeit from the REAL to be set FREE. Put the “game” of the enemy back where it is disarmed: nailed to the cross and TAKE THE HAND OF OUR FATHER THAT IS STRETCHED OUT STILL (shouting from the mountain tops). Your place of security and safety and wellbeing and JOY in the midst of tests/trials is in the Hand of our Abba Father; his Son’s heart knit with yours, meaning you are in our Father’s Heart in his Son’s and their Heart is in you: the secret heart, the safe place, the secret place of the Most High God Almighty who is above the highest heavens AND IN YOU. He who is in you is GREATER than he who is in the world! From your right standing, your upright position in our Father through his Son, your right position in the one TRUE GOD, declare, decree, and proclaim the truth that the Lamb of God has overcome the world and is glorified above the highest heavens in Victory; his LIGHT has already overcome all darkness and darkness can NEVER overtake his LIGHT and his LIGHT is in you, making you an overcomer too! There is tribulation in the world; but DO NOT FEAR for he has OVERCOME the world and his PEACE and Kingdom are within you! Let them out to share with the world the TRUTH to set them free as well! The Spirit and Bride say, “Come!”
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Thank you for this one, Yvonne. There is so much distraction to take our eyes off of the goal (prize). I’m reminded of a story, probably an urban legend, but still with a message worth remembering.
A donkey fell into a well. It was old, and after whimpering for a time, it’s owner decided to simply fill in the well to bury it. Only with every shovelful of dirt and rock thrown on the donkey, it shook it off and took a step up. Finally, the donkey simply stepped out of the well and went on its way. The advice, to “shake it off and step up” seems like good advice to me, where it comes to ignoring the many distractions and hurts of this world and to keep walking toward the kingdom.
Even now there are distractions, the attention to which takes my eyes off of the beautiful … this scripture comes to mind:
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. (Philippians 4:4-8 ESV)
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You are so right about DISTRACTIONS that take our eyes off the beauty, the goodness, the good, true and right, the right standing in our Father through his Son, our unity in the One Spirit a bond of peace, the JOY we receive in HIM ALONE: the glory he was given from enduring the cross and finishing the work his Father gave him that we get for FREE! I love the Philippians verse you quoted “think of these things!” I LOVE you Abba Father! The fragrance of Christ in your creation is SO BREATHTAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!
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Our Father says, “I am not taking you into the new garden because you are perfect, I am taking you into my new heaven on earth because my Son is perfect and if he lives in you, you live in His Perfection!”
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