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Life Around "The Fire"
Life Around "The Fire"
Another Hour In Time Has Come: Transformative Revelations in God's Kingdom
Divine timing marks significant moments where heaven's reality breaks into earth's limitations. Throughout history, when Jesus declared "the hour has come," everything changed—and now another such moment has arrived.
This transformative revelation explores how God's kingdom operates in the eternal now while still interfacing with our time-space reality. When we enter covenant relationship with Jesus, we experience a divine exchange where our past, present, and future become His, while His life, nature, and kingdom citizenship become ours. This isn't about improving our old self but embracing an entirely new identity and way of functioning as kingdom citizens.
What makes this urgently relevant is the recognition that we've entered a season where encounters with Jesus are increasing in frequency and intensity. These divine meetings reveal dimensions of Christ beyond what many have previously experienced—transforming not just individuals but entire communities. Most striking is how these manifestations often bypass traditional religious structures, with God's presence filling warehouses as easily as cathedrals.
The spiritual hunger awakening in believers represents a divinely-implanted desire—not something to fear but to nurture. As walls of non-essential doctrines come down, a united people emerge, made ready through yielding to the very presence that purifies. Whether you're experiencing this divine outpouring or searching for it, this message will fan the flames of holy anticipation for what God is doing right now.
Join us as we explore what it means to participate in this unprecedented manifestation of God's glory—not tomorrow, not someday, but in this eternal now moment where the kingdom breaks through.
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Shalom to you and your home.
because those of us who live on planet Earth function within the construct of time and space, the realm of time and space. Things happen to all of us and to the things that we are involved in at certain times. For example, if a person is baking a cake, you put it in the oven and it comes out at a certain time. If you're playing sports, depending on the sport, there are times in which you function and then you take a break. If you're a farmer, there's a time to plant and then there's a time to harvest. There's this aspect of time and we're looking at the kingdom of God in this particular podcast series right now the rule and the reign of God, the construct of his realm, how things happen in the kingdom of heaven, in the kingdom of God, how things happen within God's way of doing things, his thought process, what's on his heart, his kingdom he's king and what's in his heart is what is established in his kingdom. And an amazing thing takes place for those of us who have encountered Jesus and have experienced that radical relationship covenant with him, where there's that divine exchange what's ours becomes his and what's his becomes his and what's his becomes ours. We're talking about life. I give Jesus my everything, my past, my present, my future. I say it is yours. My present, my future, I say it is yours. And he does the same to me at the covenant. It's a divine exchange. He gives me his life. That's so powerful. He gives me divine nature and as part of becoming one who is possessing divine nature, I get born into a kingdom, god's kingdom. I get born into it Like I was born into the realm of time and space on earth through my mother. So through Jesus, by work of Holy Spirit, I am supernaturally born again into the kingdom of God. His kingdom, his way of doing things is eternal. His kingdom, his way of doing things, is eternal. And so, in it being eternal, the time in the kingdom right now is just that. It's right now. It's always now. It never was, it never will be, it's now. That's eternal, powerful Again. The reality that we are born into that kingdom, which involves us being born into the ways of God, which are higher than our ways, his thoughts, the thoughts of God are supreme. They are higher than our own thoughts on our own, than our own thoughts on our own, sounds a bit redundant, but you get the point. Our own thoughts are not as high and lofty as God's thoughts are, but because we're called into his divine nature and we possess it, and we're given citizenship into his kingdom, we begin to learn his ways.
Speaker 1:I'm just not trying to do good things. It's not me, david, trying to polish up my old way of doing things so that I'm a better version of my old self. I'm a new creation In Christ. I am new. I'm a new creation in Christ. I am new. I have a new way of living, and sometimes that way of life coincides with the culture that I live in, but sometimes it clashes, and my first loyalty is to the kingdom of God. Sometimes that produces friction. That's really not the point of this particular podcast episode.
Speaker 1:The point that we're getting to with this particular episode is this this aspect of timing. There's something going on concerning timing, and Jesus wants us to know how to understand the times, not just by virtue of what we receive via the media, but the times concerning the movement of his kingdom, the ways of his spirit, his thoughts, his motivations, his timing, Because God works within the realm of time and space, even though he is eternal. Time and space. Even though he is eternal, we have the opportunity of learning things within this carved out place called time and space, of which it will come to an end at some point in time and we will experience a new age. However, we still have the time and space continuum and we will experience a new age. However, we still have the time and space continuum that we work with, and so, in that respect, god does things here within the scope of his timing.
Speaker 1:It's not just at random that things are taking place. There's a specific plan, god has a plan and it's unfolding. That's really good news to know. We're called into something that has a purpose to it, there's some direction to it, there's a plan that's going on and God is very committed to that plan. There's some direction to it. There's a plan that's going on and God is very committed to that plan. It's not as though he gets caught off guard by what's going on like we do. He can see things from a completely different perspective and also his plan is what literally was the establishing foundation for creation, because we are created from God and before we were created there was a plan, and from the dawn of creation until now, that plan has been unfolding and there have been different times, different things have taken place and we've seen God reveal himself in different ways at different times as his plan has been unfolding. And we are now in a time in which his plan, as it's unfolding, is going to be revealing a greater dimension of who he is, not just things about him, but him Encounters, encounters with Jesus, encounters with Jesus, encounters that are so mind-altering, life-altering.
Speaker 1:They take a person and transform one from the inside out by virtue of the dynamic of the encounter with him and his love being so strong, so revealing of who he is and revealing who we are and who he's called us to be, that it transformed us. It will transform entire villages, it will transform entire nations. It will eventually transform the entire villages. It will transform entire nations. It will eventually transform the entire earth. It's been prophesied that the knowledge of the glory of the Lord will cover the earth. Just like the waters cover the sea, so the knowledge of his glory will cover the earth. The earth, the entire earth, will radiate the glory of God.
Speaker 1:And in John, chapter 17, there is a prayer that John records that Jesus prayed. It was on the night in which he was betrayed, the night in which he was being handed over to eventually be crucified as a criminal on the cross on our behalf. But prior to that betrayal taking place, jesus prays a prayer that if there's ever a prayer that's going to be answered and God answers prayer. Let me be very clear. God answers your prayers, he answers our prayers. God answers your prayers, he answers our prayers, he answers my prayers. I have lists of answered prayer, but if there's ever just one prayer that would be answered, that would be John, chapter 17. That would be the prayer and because we've been using the scripture as our baseline concerning our discussion pertaining to the kingdom of God and specifically the gospels Matthew, mark, luke and John, the reason being, Jesus taught concerning the kingdom of God continually throughout what's recorded in those Gospels, and sometimes he prefaces things by saying the kingdom of God is likened unto, and then he gives an illustration like to a mustard seed.
Speaker 1:Then, when it grows, it gets to be a large tree and even the birds of the air can find a place in it. Or it's like a seed that someone, a farmer, it's like a seed that a farmer plants and he goes to sleep and he wakes up and while he's even sleeping, the seed is growing. He doesn't know how the kingdom of God is at work. So Jesus illustrates things by prefacing them and then teaching us parables, but then also, he just does it. He just his life is a lesson, his life is a teaching. And in John, chapter 17, he teaches us something concerning the kingdom. By the few words in his opening expression to the Father that night, he goes Father, the hour has come. Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son so that he may bring glory to you or give you glory. The hour. This is the point. The hour. This is the point. The hour has come.
Speaker 1:Jesus made a very powerful statement, giving us the understanding that something was going to change radically in the way things were done on planet Earth, and he didn't say it's going to be coming. You can look forward to this happening. We can hope for it to be like this. He didn't say that. He said the hour has come. That's a very definitive statement, meaning that the kingdom of God has precise moments in which things take place, and this was one of those precise moments. There was going to be a covenant that was going to be cut between God and mankind, and Jesus was going to be the one who is the sacrifice, the one in whom the covenant is made whole, complete. Jesus brings about the fullness of the covenant that's going to change lives eternally. From that point on, you and I are part of that very thing. You and I are part of that very thing. You and I are part of what took place when Jesus said the hour has come.
Speaker 1:If it hadn't come, we'd still be sacrificing animals. That wouldn't take away our sin. Animals would just their blood would just cover our sin for a year and then we'd have to do it over again. But because of the blood of Jesus, we don't do that anymore. His blood is sufficient to not just cover us but to eradicate, to take away, to remove from us our nature. Death was in us. Now life is in us through him. He said the hour has come, it's going to take place, and it did and, as a result, you and I are born again with his life in us right now, as citizens of his kingdom, learning how to function in his ways, realizing that there are things that we have not been doing, that we really have access to, and there are things that we have been doing that have prohibited us from functioning complete, that they prohibited us from functioning in a complete way as citizens of the kingdom. We're unlearning some things, and we're learning some things at the same time, and so what we're learning is that our identity is far greater, even the down payment of what is promised to us before the resurrection of the dead. Prior to that, we have his life in us and his spirit is called a down payment. The down payment is Holy Spirit in us and it's called. His spirit is called the down payment. The down payment is Holy Spirit in us and his down payment is even greater than what we've been utilizing and the revelation.
Speaker 1:And here's where, here's where I want to really look straight into the heart of the matter, really Look Straight Into the heart Of the matter and say what Jesus said Concerning the hour had come. It Did, did come. There are certain things that we've been hearing for a long time about God revealing himself across the nations in a magnificent way that's never been seen before. And, granted, we've seen some very significant things, and yet it's important to state that that's not, that's not the fullness of what God intends to demonstrate to us and through us. Jesus said the hour has come. I'm saying an hour has come. I'm saying an hour has come. I can't say the end has come, but I can say an hour, an hour has come. We're not waiting for it, it's not on its way, it's here and now it's. Things are changing.
Speaker 1:Divine encounters are beginning to take place on a more and more regular basis, where the revelation of Jesus is absolutely going beyond what people have ever known of him before, and it's transforming not only their individual lives but entire communities. And the funny thing about it is this a building that has a 501c3 status attached to it in order to function. He doesn't need a non-profit organization building, he doesn't need a recognized church location in order for him to manifest his presence. In fact, some of the places that are recognized in that status are going to be overlooked, because they are rejecting the very person of Jesus wanting to make himself real in his own house. It's gone by his name and it's just an ease for him to keep moving and fill a warehouse. God can fill a net with fish in a moment. He can fill a warehouse with people who are just overwhelmed with his presence because his presence is in that warehouse just as easily as he can do it in a building with a steeple on it or a marquee in the front or a marquee in the front. Some of the local churches are going to be experiencing that. There's a local church near you that is probably beginning to experience that, and if it's not in your fellowship, go in and find out what's going on and bring that revelation back with you.
Speaker 1:That's a dangerous thing to say. Not really. It's actually a very healthy thing to say. The dangerous thing to say is well, we don't want to be unbalanced in our approach. I'm so tired of hearing that, because that's really just an excuse for us to keep waiting or to actually ultimately do nothing, or to be afraid of what God is doing because it doesn't fit within the way that we would envision it to be if we were to do it, or the way it's been done, before an hour has come. Oh man, part of me, the reason for me saying this is because every time I hear spoken from the lips of another person, it brings encouraging. It brings encouragement to me. I get encouraged, I find strength in hearing that.
Speaker 1:I say, oh god, tell me more. Tell me it's real. Tell me it's real, because the hunger in my heart is crying out for that. God, I want so much of you that, even though I tell you to stop. Please don't stop, because I want more. I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry, I'm so thirsty, I'm longing, and that longing is going to be fulfilled because that hunger and that thirst, that's actually something that's been placed within me. It's a divine thing and I'm so thankful for it. It's not a tormenting thing, it's a passion.
Speaker 1:I have a passion to meet the one that I love. I want more of him, not less of him. I want more of him and I want more of him, together, collectively, with others, to see that take place, to see us be united and wanting more of him and then being satisfied with him, to receive more of him and then to enjoy fellowship. In that, I don't care what your background is. At that point in time, I really don't. I don't right now.
Speaker 1:It's really not fair for us to prejudge the motivation of people when we really don't have a full revelation of God going on in our lives, a full revelation of God going on in our lives. It's important for us to know what we believe, but, man, there are so many things that are non-essentials that we've made essentials, and those non-essentials have been walls that have divided us, and God himself is taking those walls down, because he's going to have a united people. He's going to have a bride who's made herself ready no spot, no wrinkle, no blemish, but purified, made, ready, made, complete, made herself, ready Made. We making ourselves ready, and his presence being that very power that makes us ready. An hour has come, an hour has come, an hour has come, it's here, it's here, it's here and again, if it's not happening in the group that you're in, it's not saying you can't, but if you know where it is, man, man, the water is really made available to all and it's going to continue to sweep more and more.
Speaker 1:You might be the one to help bring about a real encounter in the group of people that you fellowship with, a real encounter in the group of people that you fellowship with. That type of thing happens all the time. Yes, it's great when it happens because the leadership helps usher it in, but that's not always the case. Sometimes it's a result of someone who doesn't consider himself to be much at all, who encounters Jesus in a very great way and just makes his presence known by virtue of expressing what they can't hold back anymore because they're so full of the Holy Spirit. Oh man, the people full of the Holy Spirit, who have the joy of the Lord, who are really beyond their own limitations, functioning in a way that is actually organized and productive, that accomplishes great things, without concern of who gets credit.
Speaker 1:As long as Jesus, oh Lord, we are in that time, we are in that group of people, we are functioning in that alive, right now, and it is growing, it's growing, it's growing, it's growing, and I encourage you to continue to nurture that hunger, continue to nurture that thirst, and to know that what's inside of you is something that God has placed there and he is going to fulfill it. An hour has come, jesus said, concerning what he was doing at that particular time. He said the hour has come and it came. And, as a result, here we are. Well, now he's unfolding himself, his presence in an unprecedented way and encounter with him, because we need it, and the hour has come.
Speaker 1:Praise God, let's pray Father, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you that you have timed things out the way they are and that we are alive right now to participate in the manifestation of your glory. Hallelujah, we honor you, we give you praise. We ask you, holy Spirit, to do it to us and through us in a magnificent way. Help us be a people that honor Jesus and exalt him as head, and that we are united together in the bond of peace. In the name of Jesus, we pray and we say so be it. Amen, amen, amen, amen. All right, folks, I love you. If you have any thoughts, questions, concerns, please feel free to drop us a line at lifearoundthefire at gmailcom, or type in lifearoundthefire and look us up on the web. We would love to hear from you. In the meantime, god bless you. Adios amigos.