Less of me, more of You

Revelations 2:²⁹ “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches.

Hebrews 3: Jesus Is Greater Than Moses

3 And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and^[a] are partners with those called to heaven, think carefully about this Jesus whom we declare to be God’s messenger^[b] and High Priest. ² For he was faithful to God, who appointed him, just as Moses served faithfully when he was entrusted with God’s entire^[c] house.

³ But Jesus deserves far more glory than Moses, just as a person who builds a house deserves more praise than the house itself. ⁴ For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God.

⁵ Moses was certainly faithful in God’s house as a servant. His work was an illustration of the truths God would reveal later. ⁶ But Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God’s entire house. And we are God’s house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ.^[d]

⁷ That is why the Holy Spirit says,

“Today when you hear his voice,
⁸     don’t harden your hearts
as Israel did when they rebelled,
    when they tested me in the wilderness.
⁹ There your ancestors tested and tried my patience,
    even though they saw my miracles for forty years.
¹⁰ So I was angry with them, and I said,
‘Their hearts always turn away from me.
    They refuse to do what I tell them.’
¹¹ So in my anger I took an oath:
    ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”^[e]

¹² Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters.^[f] Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God.¹³ You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. ¹⁴ For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ. ¹⁵ Remember what it says: 

“Today when you hear his voice,
    don’t harden your hearts
    as Israel did when they rebelled.”^[g]

¹⁶ And who was it who rebelled against God, even though they heard his voice? Wasn’t it the people Moses led out of Egypt? ¹⁷ And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom was God speaking when he took an oath that they would never enter his rest? Wasn’t it the people who disobeyed him? ¹⁹ So we see that because of their unbelief they were not able to enter his rest.

Hebrews 12: God’s Discipline Proves His Love

12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. ² We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith.^[a]Because of the joy^[b] awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.³ Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people;^[c] then you won’t become weary and give up. ⁴ After all, you have not yet given your lives in your struggle against sin.

⁵ And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as his children?^[d] He said, 

“My child,^[e] don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline,
    and don’t give up when he corrects you.
⁶ For the Lord disciplines those he loves,
    and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”^[f]

⁷ As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father? ⁸ If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. ⁹ Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn’t we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever?^[g]

¹⁰ For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness. ¹¹ No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.

¹² So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees. ¹³ Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong.

A Call to Listen to God

¹⁴ Work at living in peace with everyone, and work at living a holy life, for those who are not holy will not see the Lord. ¹⁵ Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.¹⁶ Make sure that no one is immoral or godless like Esau, who traded his birthright as the firstborn son for a single meal. ¹⁷ You know that afterward, when he wanted his father’s blessing, he was rejected. It was too late for repentance, even though he begged with bitter tears.

¹⁸ You have not come to a physical mountain,^[h] to a place of flaming fire, darkness, gloom, and whirlwind, as the Israelites did at Mount Sinai. ¹⁹ For they heard an awesome trumpet blast and a voice so terrible that they begged God to stop speaking. ²⁰ They staggered back under God’s command: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.”^[i] 21 Moses himself was so frightened at the sight that he said, “I am terrified and trembling.”^[j]

²² No, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless thousands of angels in a joyful gathering. ²³ You have come to the assembly of God’s firstborn children, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God himself, who is the judge over all things. You have come to the spirits of the righteous ones in heaven who have now been made perfect. ²⁴ You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks of forgiveness instead of crying out for vengeance like the blood of Abel.

²⁵ Be careful that you do not refuse to listen to the One who is speaking. For if the people of Israel did not escape when they refused to listen to Moses, the earthly messenger, we will certainly not escape if we reject the One who speaks to us from heaven! ²⁶ When God spoke from Mount Sinai his voice shook the earth, but now he makes another promise: “Once again I will shake not only the earth but the heavens also.”^[k] 27 This means that all of creation will be shaken and removed, so that only unshakable things will remain.

²⁸ Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe. ²⁹ For our God is a devouring fire.

June 24, 2026. Jesus, Holy Spirit what a few days it has been, doing in the waiting, all for the souls in the Great Commission. The rent where the Holy Spirit has me has been due since the 21st of the month, as it is thru an app and a woman runs the building for her family member. The building is rented to foreigners thru that app, which come to do things that they would not do in their countries such as buy sex for money, but thru the words the Holy Spirit gives me they get to hear the Good News of Jesus with a lot of HIS love and very personable ways. There is also addiction, witchcraft, unbelief, human trafficking, and much more and that is why the Holy Spirit placed me in this area with HIS anointing and power. There are nights where I do not get much sleep hearing and sensing everything that is going on spiritually so that I understand with compassion and the Holy Spirit what needs to be prayed for and what people will be delivered from as they receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior, as that where deliverance comes from in Jesus name. One thing the Holy Spirit has also reminded me in the midst of it all is the distraction that we get sent from time to time and a lot of evil so our hearts harden and we do not do the Great Commission. The enemies of our souls, the principalities and the devil come to steal, kill and destroy but the Lord does not allow it and uses it for us to learn so we can teach others with Mercy and compassion. In this area as in many parts of the world unbelief is rampant, as well as idolatry, as the Holy Spirit told me a while ago that because the devil can not kill us all at once, he was going to make people so busy and worried about their own things so that the power of the Holy Spirit would dim, but that is why the pandemic was sent, as we read in 2 Chronicles 7: 11-16, so that people can understand the redeeming power of the Holy Spirit and walk in it, for those who were and are meant to understand to understand.

2 Chronicles 7: The Lord’s Response to Solomon

¹¹ So Solomon finished the Temple of the Lord, as well as the royal palace. He completed everything he had planned to do in the construction of the Temple and the palace. ¹² Then one night the Lord appeared to Solomon and said,

“I have heard your prayer and have chosen this Temple as the place for making sacrifices. ¹³ At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you. ¹⁴ Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land. ¹⁵ My eyes will be open and my ears attentive to every prayer made in this place. ¹⁶ For I have chosen this Temple and set it apart to be holy—a place where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.

I was led to ask a couple of people for part of the rent or the whole thing and they said NO, the Holy Spirit revealed where there hearts are and why HE said to ask them, to expose that they are collecting treasures on earth and not in heaven, that they believe that everything they have is because of their own strength, that they need an encounter with the Holy Spirit to understand giving and collecting treasures in Heaven. That does not mean that the Holy Spirit won’t confront them and give them time to repent, come to Jesus, understand, and give, as the Lord will do, as the Lord will do. The Lord exposes to give us opportunity to repent, not to condemn us, but to save our souls. HE also reminded me that who ever does not give HE will take, that who ever does not seek the Lord will not have rest, as there are consequences for not doing the Lord’s will, as it is with everything, not for the Lord’s gain, but for the souls. The Lord is more concerned about the souls than anything else, we have never and will never see a funeral with a wagon behind it, as what goes is the souls depending on where WE decide for it to go as we are alive, as the Lord will and has given the two choices clearly, and it is not coming back until everyone has heard this Good News of Jesus, so that also no one will be able to say that no one told when HE comes back to get HIS people who have loved HIM, have been Loved by HIM and have obeyed HIM. It is simple and hard at the same time, but worth it, as those who are meant to understand will understand.

Revelations 21: The New Jerusalem

21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. ² And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.

³ I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them.^[a] 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”

⁵ And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.” ⁶ And he also said, “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give freely from the springs of the water of life. ⁷ All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.

⁸ “But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars—their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Matthew 16: ²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me. ²⁵ If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. ²⁶ And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?^[l] Is anything worth more than your soul? ²⁷ For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father and will judge all people according to their deeds. ²⁸ And I tell you the truth, some standing here right now will not die before they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.”

Isaiah 57:²¹ There is no peace for the wicked,” says my God.

Matthew 25: ²⁹ To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away.

¹⁴ What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good^[a] is that? ¹⁷ So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

¹⁸ But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.¹⁹ You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! ²⁰ Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? ²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? ²² You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; ²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.²⁴ You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.²⁵ And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? ²⁶ For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Matthew 6: Teaching about Money and Possessions

¹⁹ “Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰ Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹ Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.

Everything that the Lord allows to happen is to learn and teach others, as the enemies of our souls the devil and his principalities can neither create or destroy or take us away from the Lord, as we read in Romans 8, take the time to read it, as well as Ephesians 6:10-18. Anytime the word from the Bible will be read, we need to ask the Holy Spirit to let us understand what HE needs to be understood and put into action in Jesus name. In the meantime as the money for the rent arrives the Holy Spirit in me keeps moving and doing in each person also who gets to hear the testimony, including the people who manage this place, as well as the owners and where ever the Holy Spirit sends me. I was led to ask a few brothers and sisters to please pray for what is happening with the rent and to share as the Holy Spirit leads, in Jesus name. Everything is Spiritual, who ever does not have a relationship with the Holy Spirit yet is easily manipulated by the enemy and his principalities, just as the Holy Spirit needs bodies. Nothing is personal, everything is spiritual. That is why the daily surrender to the Lord is so important. All for those who are meant to understand, for the souls in the Great Commission.

1 Thessalonians 5: ¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

Maturity, resources, fruits, gifts, and everything necessary for the Great Commission that we read in Matthew 28:16-20 are obtained through the time we dedicate daily to the Holy Spirit and the Bible, surrendering everything to the Lord each day. In Jesus’ name. We were born to be loved by God, the Holy Spirit, to love Him, and therefore, to obey Him. We love because the Lord first loved us by dying on the cross for us.

Thankful for those who are praying for both my daughter and I, as well as for those who have and will be of monetary support all for the souls in the Great Commission. Take the time to read or re-read the Bible verses mentioned here, asking the Holy Spirit to help you understand what HE needs you to understand and put into practice in Jesus’s name. Take the time also to go into this page and read and or listen to the other teachings and testimonies, as well as sharing and subscribing, all for the souls in the Great Commission. Please share how this blog post spoke to you, in Jesus’s name.

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