The Fire of God

The Feast of Shavu’ot began at sundown last night and ends at sundown tomorrow. The meaning of the word Shavu’ot is 'weeks', so it is also known as The Feast of Weeks. That is because it is celebrated seven weeks after the second day of Passover. As Believers in Yahshua, we know it as Pentecost, which in Greek means “fiftieth,” referring to the fact that it happens 50 days after Passover.

You will know if you have joined our online teachings at His Fragrance or have had the opportunity to listen to them online, that this is a very significant time for us as believers! And not more so I believe, than in this season right now!

Shavu’ot celebrates God meeting with His people in a powerful way. He made a covenant when He came down on Mount Sinai in fire, yet now it is a celebration of the new covenant and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, who comes to each of us as a fire!

We need that fire, more than ever before we need the ‘dunamis’ power of God, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, His fullness, counsel, guidance and leading!!!

When the disciples waited as Yahshua had asked them in the upper room, 'suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.'

Of the hundreds in Jerusalem that day, they heard the sound of the mighty rushing wind, they heard the disciples speak in in their own languages, some were perplexed and some mocked. Peter stood up and said:

‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your young men shall see visions,
Your old men shall dream dreams.
And on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
And they shall prophesy.
I will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath:
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.’

I pray that this Shavu’ot, if you haven't already been baptised by the fire of God, that you would cry out to God for this! Those of us filled with the Holy Spirit, that we would be filled once again by the fire of the Holy Spirit! That He will fill us with His fire and the power that we need in these last days to walk in His purposes and to do even the greater works God has called us to!

"..For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?  If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

Let us earnestly desire it, as our Father gives liberally and I pray you will take time to call out from your innermost being to the Lord this Shavu'ot....

Have a blessed, peaceful and Holy Spirit fire filled Shavuot!

In His love Michèle 

OH HOW HE LOVES US

God, our loving heavenly Father, who is perfect in all of His ways, created for Himself a family.

His desire always was to fill His Royal Household with His own. He determined to make His family in His own likeness and desired they would be filled with His own attributes, walking freely in these for eternity.

A family filled with love for Him and each other, knowing boundless joy, with a deep inner peace because they know to whom they belong. Those who are patient in the waiting. Who are exceptionally kind, full of goodness and unswerving in faithfulness. A family overflowing with gentleness and self-control.

To such as these He gives His entire kingdom! His desire is to share everything with us and reveal all His hidden mysteries. Mysteries hidden not from us, but for us from time immemorial.

His longing has always been to shower us in His love, this God who cannot hate, who loves us with an everlasting love. Who has made unfathomable provision for us and who holds all things in His hand.

His desire for us is greater than our desire for Him! His desire is not only that we would come to Him, but that we would walk with Him and come to know Him in deeper and deeper ways.

This God who has from the beginning been all about love.

His story is the ultimate love story, there is no other! He has longed for us to turn our hearts towards Him. He has longed for us to see what He has planned for us. As we make that choice to say yes to Him and turn our hearts towards Him, we step into eternity. We become true royalty as part of the Royal Household of our God and King. We become a royal priesthood, a holy nation.

We are transformed and we go from glory to glory.

He wants all to turn towards Him, but sadly they won’t.  But those of us who have and who will, step into the love story of all eternity and are caught up in the everlasting mystery with our beautiful heavenly Father forever….

For this reason [grasping the greatness of this plan by which Jews and Gentiles are joined together in Christ] I bow my knees [in reverence] before the Father [of our Lord Jesus Christ], from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name [God—the first and ultimate Father]. May He grant you out of the riches of His glory, to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through His Spirit in your inner self, [indwelling your innermost being and personality], so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your faith.

And may you, having been [deeply] rooted and [securely] grounded in love, be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His love [fully experiencing that amazing, endless love]; and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself].

Now to Him who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do super-abundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3

In His love Michèle

COME UP HERE!

……. behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice which I had heard addressing me like [the calling of] a war trumpet said, Come up here, and I will show you what must take place in the future. [Revelation 4:1] AMP

So much is happening in the world and around us as the battle intensifies. All this year God has been saying “Come up here – HIGHER!” He is saying this to us all, because He wants to share His strategies for the times that are coming upon us.

That we would be ones like eagles soaring up into His presence. As an eagle soars on the thermals of a storm, so we can do this by facing the storms, soaring on the thermals of His love and power, in His strength. In that secret place of complete rest with our Lord Yahovah, He gives us all we need.

As He expands within us and dispels all the things of this world, it fades in the brightness of His love. His peace and strength flood our hearts and our minds, all anxieties and fears have to flee away. The door stands wide open for us to be taken up into the heavenly realms. As we overcome we step into our true inheritance.

Why will you tarry here in darkness,

Why will you wander, sad at heart,

When Jesus has bidden you, “Rise up,

My love, and come with Me apart?”

By Frances Metcalfe ‘from the book Ladies of Gold

In times past some were chosen to see into the realm of heaven, Jacob saw a ladder with angels ascending and descending; Isaiah saw the King of Glory seated on His throne and His robe filled the temple; John saw Jesus in His glory and fell down to the ground at the sublime glorious sight of the man who on earth had been his best friend.

In His grace He has opened that door wide to us. As we encounter the God of the seen and unseen realms, we are ‘raptured’ into the heavenlies. There we can see and commune with Jesus and angels. We see beyond the veil and we are changed into His likeness.

He wants us to realise all He has established for us through His son Jesus Christ since before the foundation of the earth. He wants to bring us into full unity with Himself.

Perfect submission, perfect delight,

Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;

Angels descending, bring from above

Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

Blessed Assurance by Fanny J. Crosby

In His love Michèle

NEW BEGINNINGS.......

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—

NKJV

I sat down to begin writing a blog some years ago and now after all these years I am so excited as Papa leads me to begin writing again, sharing His heart, light and truth. Sharing the exquisite kisses from His beautiful mouth.

All those years ago I set my heart on calling our blog ‘Fire Starter’ or ‘Trail Blazer’ or something fiery. After all He’d set me alight and as I was burning to release this fire to others…..  I was certain God would agree!

As I set about searching for these domain names for our blog, it was evident they were already taken.

So I stilled my heart and said “Ok Lord – I had my heart set on something like that, what would You like it to be called?”

We can so easily get carried away with our own desires, with our own ideas, going our own ways. We want God to bless our plans and yet His are infinity higher, more anointed and blessed beyond measure.

As we walk in that deep place and begin to surrender all of our desires, He speaks to us. In that hidden place, He speaks His heart’s desires and of course they become ours, because they always were….. He had placed them there deep in our heart eons ago. And they fit us perfectly.

On that day Papa whispered to my heart “Michèle I want you to call it ‘His Fragrance’. And so ‘His Fragrance’ was breathed into existence in this natural realm by the Rhema word from God’s lips. In eternity it had always existed! I am so blessed and privileged that He chose me to hold this precious treasure for Him.

His Fragrance has bloomed into an incredible hand-picked bouquet as a ministry and I know it will flourish as Papa tends it as only He can.

My prayer is that each of you reading the words our beautiful Beloved kisses us with, will be touched and encounter our magnificent God and Lord Jesus Christ in deeper and more amazing ways than you could have ever dreamed or thought possible!

In His love Michèle