As I was meditating upon The LORD, He brought me over to this portion of scripture: Philippians 3.

Today has been a quiet day. As I pressed into The LORD I began to travail in prayer. I felt the need to press in toward The LORD seeking the more of Him as He began to reveal to me these broken-down toilets that were in need of repair. I realized these toilets represented the Dung Gate!

The dung gate was a place were there was a great need for cleansing — both physically and spiritually.

I believe that this particular gate was named this to discard the filth and the garbage that entered in and out the city, as an exit point!

However, in the dream, in this house was nothing but broken toilets. I looked in one of the toilets and the toilet had fallen all the way through the floor!

I said to myself in the dream, “I am so glad I didn’t buy this house!” It looked good on the outside but on the inside, it was broken.

But, as I prostrated myself before The LORD I felt in my spirit there is a need for the altar and deliverance, I begin to groan in my spirit for the more of God as my spirit yearned for the more of Him this morning!

I believe The LORD is calling for more intimacy with His people in this season.

I believe He is withdrawing Himself on purpose just so we will come after Him because it is in that place; the secret place that we will find Him people. Not based upon the experiences of what somebody else is saying (or what they have gone through) but what The Holy Spirit is saying personally to each one of us as individuals.

Apostle Paul, one of the greatest Apostles, knew and understood what true suffering was all about. He noted that no matter what we accumulate in this world we must count it all a lost to win Christ!

It may seem that in this world God is and has asked a lot of you like: education, home, family, riches etc., but remember — it is all for the excellence of Christ!

Dung is feces or manure that came from what has been chewed up and comes out the drought or the anus to be defecated. But you notice Apostle Paul said,

“Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.”

I believe that The LORD is saying in this season that suffering and persecution are how The Church is going to experience Him in His resurrection!

Be careful of what you ask for when you say, “I want to know you LORD! I want to be closer! I want to be like you LORD!” Because it will be in this suffering that you will get to know Him!

Suffering is how you will come to die on the cross and to be raised up with Him in His power!

Oh you might not understand it now because your flesh is squirming saying, “Let me off this cross and take this cup away,” because it is bitter but by and by you will come to appreciate the suffering He has placed before you.

And, because of it you will become one of His most treasured witnesses to bare a testimony for Him before many that you bare the marks of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Just as Apostle Paul did.

Paul understood that it was not because he was so great that he had been called to suffer for The LORD but it was what he needed in order to become who he was in Christ and it was there that he would find his true identity in Christ!

For he said, “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.”

And, he went on to say that, “brothers, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press {toward} the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

My my my my! Apostle Paul was ready mentally to go on with The LORD!

His spiritual mind had been renewed, changed and his mind made up that he could not go back to where he had come from and that the only direction he could take was to press (to apply pressure to/ push down hard) forward in order to obtain the promises God had promised unto him!

Apostle Paul was encouraged to go on with The LORD. Come hell or high water, he was not going to allow defeat to over take or overcome him!

He wanted all the promises God had for him because he knew he was an heir to the throne now that he had been transformed in the image of Christ.

He wasn’t worried about whether or not he was perfect because he understood that he was not walking by sight but by the faith of God!

Faith said to him, I am still in the fire going through the process and if in any thing be otherwise revealed, God shall reveal even this unto me as I press toward the high calling in Christ Jesus!

God wants His people to know that He has not forgotten about them and in the midst of the trials and testing He still on the throne working out somethings on the behalf of His people just as He was doing for Apostle Paul as He was making him into His own image that He might be glorified!

Hold on help is on the way!

“But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.”
Pressing Toward the Goal
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you,” Philippians 3:7-15.

 

~ Apostle Geraldine Fisher

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Apostle Geraldine Fisher has a World-Wide-Social Media Net-Work Ministry. As a Missionary, God moved her into the Office of a Prophet, revealing to her the qualities of a True prophet, humility, humiliation, loving others, interceding in prayer, as she keeps her own life clean to accurately hear from God. Since hearing the audible voice of God calling her to ministry, she’s been called to intercede and pray for others in ministry as God speaks, instructs, directs and gives prophetic words for her to give to others. God promised He would bring her to sit and to learn before great men, all of which He did!

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