- Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
Dear One,
Violence is all around you. You participate in the violence with your own desires. Each one is driven to carry out his or her own desires through the violence of their will. The outward earthly manifestations of violence are only the secondary result of the inward violence of the will. When you choose for your will to be accomplished no matter what, then your will becomes a violent force on the Earth. Your will can align with the forces of hell and darkness to cause great destruction all around you, or your will can align with My Will and My Kingdom to cause great Light and Truth to come upon the Earth.
You can use the violent force of your desire to reach My Kingdom of Heaven. You can use the violent force of your will to bust through barriers each day to climb Jacob’s ladder and reach higher and higher into My Kingdom and My Presence.
It is as if there were two men who lived in a kingdom ruled by a great and kind king. One man was filled with the desire for power and fame. He used the resources he was given at birth to build a battering ram. During the night he positioned the battering ram outside the palace gate with the intention of destroying the gate and taking over the kingdom. The king ordered his servants to quietly remove the man and banish him from the kingdom. The next day another man came to the gate with his battering ram. As he proceeded to bust down the gate, he was also met by the servants of the king. Before the servants could take him away, he cried out and overcame them by force. He demanded to see the king. The king allowed the servants to bring him a message from the man. The man said, “I have fought my way through the wilderness, swamps, deserts, storms, and dangers to see you. I will not let a gate come between us. I am your long lost child and I demand to see you. I want to be here and nothing has stopped me so far.” The king jumped for joy and ran out to greet his determined and brave son. He knew the man was his son, because only a son of the king’s own blood would fight so hard to be with him.
Use the violent force of your will to bust through the gates of the wilderness of distractions, the swamps of the lures of the world, the deserts of pride and self interests, the storms of self-protection and fear, and the dangers of clinging to relationships and reputation in order to reach My Kingdom and My Presence. I will give you this kind of will and desire for Me, if you only ask with all your heart, mind and strength. Desire to have a violent desire for Me and My Kingdom. Do not let anything come in between Our intimacy with you. Take Us by violence…the violence of your desire.
- Genesis 32:24-30 24 Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25 When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him. 26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” But he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” 27 So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” 28 He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.” 29 Then Jacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there. 30 So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved.” 31 Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed over Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh.
- Song of Solomon 3:4 “Scarcely had I left them When I found him whom my soul loves; I held on to him and would not let him go Until I had brought him to my mother’s house, And into the room of her who conceived me.”
- 1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
- 2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith . . .