YES LORD WE WILL RIDE WITH YOU
By Dan Luehrs
And the armies in the heaven were following
him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen — white and pure. Rev 19:14 (YLT)
To
have armies in heaven sounds a bit contradictory, when I think of heaven I
certainly do not think of an army wanting to destroy the enemy. But this is
God’s heaven and not our wishful thinking heaven with a cloud nine and harps
for everyone who enters. In our Lord’s heaven, He has a new bride preparing to
mount her white horse for the last battle of the ages. He is training all His overcomers
who are called and faithful to ride with Him into battle on a white horse [the
Holy Spirit’s power] to defeat the enemy of all mankind. Soon the immortal ones
of God are coming upon the earth to defeat the man of sin that is alive in
every human heart according to the words of Jesus. (See Mark 7:23). We then
will be changed into His likeness and glory because we will have defeated sin
in our bodies through the power of His manifest presence.
Spiritual
giants are now being released in the earth to help us along our way into the
fullness of God. These men and women have spent much time alone in God’s
presence to prepare themselves and us with the power of His word and presence.
Look for great anointed people to come on to the stage of life and take heed to
their words because God is speaking through them to prepare us for what is
coming next. Jesus is about to be revealed through the spirit of Elijah, Jonah
and a John the Baptist anointing bring the church to repentance.
For
as long as I can remember I have wondered what the coming of Jesus is going to
look like for those who are looking and watching for Him. I have had a little
revelation as to how He will come in great power and glory. First He will
destroy all the works of the enemy in His people, then He will destroy the
works of the devil in the whole earth through His people. We see this battle
ever increasing daily in mankind and it seems like the light is losing against
the darkness. But this is not so, for darkness can never prevail over the light,
even though it seems like it does for a time. So take courage my friend!
MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT
Even
in our own time it seems as if God allows darkness to prevail at times when we
cry out to Him for healing or deliverance of something that is troubling us,
yet no freedom comes. At these times we may want to give up on praying and
petitioning God, but I have found that God uses all these things to help and
strengthen us for a bigger battle ahead to win. God wastes nothing!
When
the manifest presence of Jesus comes in and upon our lives He will give us the
grace to overcome all the works of the devil. The battle is long and hard, yet
His grace is greater than any weaknesses we may have. Read the words Paul the
apostle in his time of weakness.
Concerning
this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to
me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in
weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my
weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well
content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with
difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Cor
12:8-10 (NASU)
Did
you read that? Paul was content and glad to have weaknesses! Do we not assume
we are to be perfected in Christ having no weaknesses of the flesh? Paul was
excited because in those very times of weakness he could look forward to the
power of the Holy Spirit to come upon Him to strengthen him and to fellowship
with God’s presence. It will be the glorious presence of Jesus that will
deliver us from our fallen nature who is called the man of sin or the sin of
man, which lives within every person and every believer. We battle him daily in
our own heart! Can you deny this? This is where the battle is and this is where
it will be won in the hearts of every follower of Jesus. How is the battle
going for your heart, are you winning or losing? The battle is hard fought over
how much territory we will give to God or the enemy who wants us to give into
our own flesh rather than God’s will.
I
have got great news for you, the war has already been won when Jesus died on
the cross and arose from the grave. All that we have been going through has
only been a time of training and testing for us to learn warfare. That’s good
news! But soon the last battle is about to rage where no prisoners will be
taken or in other words, every enemy of our Lord that is alive in our hearts is
going to be conquered and defeated by the coming of the Lord’s glorious
presence in and upon our lives. As long as we do not quit and give into
discouragement, doubt, shame, and guilt we will win. For the blood of Jesus
cleanses us from all sin, not just some sins. God’s grace is His power to
overcome sin through the manifested presence of God [the Holy Spirit] upon our
lives, which is His love. This is a tangible presence that He is now pouring
out upon us and we must be willing participants with the Holy Spirit if we are
going to be victorious. Remember He is our helper and not doer.
Many
Christians believe that when the Lord comes He is just going to snap His
fingers and we are going to be changed into His likeness. Yes our bodies will
be changed into the likeness of His glorious body, but not our character, that
is only changed by our experiences on the battle field of life. Where we are at
in this battle shows where we are at in our likeness to Jesus. Does anger,
bitterness, lust, greed, and all the other works of the flesh still have a
place in us? Or do we mostly walk in the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace,
etc. What controls our daily attitudes and motives in life is where we are at
in our likeness to Jesus. Yes we all have fleshly habits in our life from our
upbringing, but this is no excuse for our weaknesses because God is giving His
grace to overcome them. I believe Christian perfectness is only found in those
who go to Christ every day to seek Him through His cleansing blood and
forgiveness of the cross. This is where we are renewed in His presence and
where the life of God can flow into us and we receive His strength to walk in
the newness of His life giving power.
God
knows the battle is hard and heavy in these last days, but help is on the way
with the coming of His glorious presence being manifested in our lives in a way
the world and the church has never seen or dreamed of. Peter foresaw this two
thousand years ago when he wrote, “Therefore, prepare your minds for action,
keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to
you at the revelation of Jesus Christ” 1 Peter 1:13 (NASU). Peter tells us to
fix our great expectation on the manifestation of Jesus’ presence in the form
of GRACE
upon our lives. God has promised greater grace [power] and glory for these
end times because we are going to need it. God will deliver on His promise to
His chosen bride for His Son’s sake or we simply cannot make it through these
times we live in. Seek Him for the greater revelation of Jesus Christ in your
heart today.
“Looking
for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory [Shekinah] of our great God
and Savior, Christ Jesus” Titus 2:13 (NASU).
This
blessed HOPE is the GRACE that comes with His presence, which is the Shekinah
glory of our God manifesting Himself in and through us with power to live godly
in this fallen world. We must have great expectation of what God is going to do
in these dark days in us, so that we will receive His great grace to make it
through without quitting. In these hard days that we are living in, we are
being prepared to graduate into His marvelous likeness!
GATHERING IN HIS PRESENCE
“And
we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
of our gathering together unto him, that ye be not quickly shaken in mind, nor
be troubled, neither through spirit, neither through word, neither through
letters as through us, as that the day of Christ hath arrived; let not any one
deceive you in any manner, because — if the falling away may not come first,
and the man of sin be revealed — the son of the destruction, who is opposing
and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the
sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God —
[the day doth not come]. Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, these
things I said to you? and now, what is keeping down ye have known, for his
being revealed in his own time, for the secret of the lawlessness doth already
work, only he who is keeping down now [will hinder] — till he may be out of the
way, and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume
with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his
presence.” 2 Thess 2:1-8 (YLT)
Please
read carefully the first and last sentence of what Paul is writing about, “In
regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ.” – “Shall destroy with the
manifestation of his presence.” Do you see how vital it is for us to be people
of His presence? This is why Satan fights the presence of the Lord manifesting
in the church, just wanting us to have a nice religious service without any
moving of the Holy Spirit whatsoever! But it’s not good enough to just have a
nice church service, we should be seeking a fresh move of the Holy Spirit in
church and daily in our own lives until we are changed into His likeness. This
is why the devil tries to stop God’s Spirit filled people every chance he can
by keeping them busy with no time to just soak in God’s presence. If we want to
be overcomers in this life we will not do it without the manifestation of God’s
presence upon our life.
The
gloves are off as we battle hand to hand combat with the enemy of our souls.
The man of sin is raging in us to have his way in the temple of God. But God
will not have a temple with two lords or two kings because there is only one
true King that will reign in the heart of man, to change the heart man, Who is
Christ Jesus.
THE OVERCOMERS
And
I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, having been
gathered together to make war with him who is sitting upon the horse, and with
his army. Rev 19:19 (YLT)
Two
armies have now been gathered together, one righteous and holy, the other
wicked and unholy. All the works of the flesh in mankind are out to destroy
God’s army which is riding upon the white horses. The attacks that are coming
from the godless are only increasing until there is a persecution madness that
will go through the land to prepare the overcomers for the glorious victory
that is just ahead. Nothing and nobody, no demon or devil will be able to
overcome the King of Kings and His army because they are covered in the grace
of God to defeat the evil powers there be, until all evil is stamped out
throughout the earth. This may take the whole one thousand year reign of Christ
to do it, but be assured that righteousness will reign one day on the earth
through the sons of God.
"And
they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of
their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.”
Rev 12:11 (NASU)
We
overcome evil by:
1.
The blood. Knowing that our sins have been forgiven throughout our whole
life-time because we refuse to live in the sin and shame of the past.
2.
The Word of The Testimony. This is the living [Rhema] word of God in
our heart that overcomes the enemy. We fight with the sword of the spirit! The
Testimony is another name for the Ark of the Covenant that God had Moses build
to represent the presence of God in the midst of His people to protect them.
The Word is now hidden inside of us who is the true Testimony of His presence.
3.
Not loving our lives unto death. We do not love our own will and sin that
God has set us free from. When we are so much in love with Jesus we chose to
die to sin so that we can draw closer to His heart and see Him face to face
unveiled.
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 from the
Lord, the Spirit. 2 Cor 3:18 (NASU)
One
night after meeting with the brethren I decided to linger in the presence of
the Lord a little longer. I received a vision that I was a bride with a veil
over my face. Then Jesus took the veil and pulled it up and back over my head.
He then said, “You will now be able to see Me better in My bride. [Meaning, His
church]. I have often wondered why a bride wore a veil and now I know. In the
spirit we all wear veils, meaning sin and selfishness that we hide behind, it
is veiling the Master from us. The veil hides us from seeing the Lord in His
people where He is now on earth. We must continually look for Him in one
another and honor Him.
The
Lord has given to us His crown of glory, which is His grace and glory that the
Father has bestowed upon Him. “[It was] to this end that He called you through
our Gospel, so that you may obtain and share in the glory of our Lord Jesus
Christ (the Messiah).” 2 Thess 2:14 (AMP)
She
wisdom (who is the Lord Jesus Christ)
will give your head a garland of grace, bestow on you a crown of glory. Prov
4:9 (CJB) Italics mine
The
Lord has promised to all overcomers His grace and glory. What do we lack in
this great warfare that we find ourselves in? Nothing! Jesus has withheld
nothing from us so that we may win this last battle of the ages. The
manifestation or the revelation of His presence is with us at all times and is
going to become much stronger so that we will overcome the power of the enemy
in all areas of our lives. We must be seeking God for a greater revelation of
His grace [power] if we are going to be more than a conqueror in these times
that we are living in. There is coming a new full revelation of Jesus that will
be so bright that it will destroy all the works of darkness in us. Believe it!
Oh yes the enemy of our souls will give us every excuse for why we cannot make
it through these times because we are weak in the flesh. But God is in us and
He is more powerful than all our enemies put together! Do we have more faith in
devil to defeat us than we have that God is able to keep us in these times that
we are living in? My faith is in God! Even if we fall a thousand times the
blood of Jesus will lift us up as we repent and turn to Him. Never, never,
never give into your feelings of quitting or giving in to your sin because you
are an overcomer in Jesus!
Listen
to the heart of a great overcomer King David.
I
SAW THE LORD ALWAYS IN MY PRESENCE; FOR HE IS AT MY RIGHT HAND, SO THAT I WILL
NOT BE SHAKEN. 'THEREFORE MY HEART WAS GLAD AND MY TONGUE EXULTED; MOREOVER MY
FLESH ALSO WILL LIVE IN HOPE; BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT ABANDON MY SOUL TO HADES,
NOR ALLOW YOUR HOLY ONE TO UNDERGO DECAY. 'YOU HAVE MADE KNOWN TO ME THE WAYS
OF LIFE; YOU WILL MAKE ME FULL OF GLADNESS WITH YOUR PRESENCE.' Acts 2:25-28
(NASU).
David
was a great lover of God, but he was also a great sinner! Yet he always saw the
Lord in his presence and he was never shaken or forsaken by God despite all his
sin because he repented before God and knew that God would never leave him
because of God’s great love for him. Read David’s word again, “YOU HAVE MADE
KNOWN TO ME THE WAYS OF LIFE; YOU WILL MAKE ME FULL OF GLADNESS WITH YOUR
PRESENCE.” Please hear this, David knew that the path of life was the presence
of God in his daily life and everything else would be death to his spirit-man.
We should also know this great truth of His presence in our own life if we are
going to stay on the path of life, so that we can stay out of the ditch of
death.
Three
times it is written in Psalm’s 80:3, 7, 19, (NASU). “O God, restore us and
cause Your face to shine upon us, and we will be saved.” (The word [face] means
presence). We His people will only be delivered by His powerful presence in our
life, nothing can come against Him and win! Our deliverance from the power of
the flesh will only come to us through the presence of God in our life.
Depending on how much we are staying filled with God’s presence daily, so will
our victory be. For therein will our victory be found over oppression and
depression. David said, therefore will his heart be glad with hope in His
presence! When we are in someone’s face we are in their presence and God wants
us to know that we can always beholding His face wherever we are or whatever we
are doing.
Seek
to stay filled with His presence and you will be ready to say, “Yes, Lord I
will ride with You!”
www.churchinhispresence.org