Our Pearl,
We want your life to be in Us. What does that mean? How can you be “in Us?” In Us means in Our kingdom, in Our Presence and in fellowship with Us. It looks like being in constant communication with Us while snuggling together in peace and tranquility. How do you live in a constant state of intimate companionship with Us? How do you remain constantly in Our Kingdom while on earth at the same time? How can you live in Our Secret Garden while functioning in human society? How can you remain in your interior with Us without ever leaving?
When you are seeking interior life with Us, you must realize that you are entering a different and new world. It is an entire world or kingdom and nothing like the world on earth. The interior world with Us is Our kingdom. It belongs entirely to Us and is ruled entirely by Us. No one can enter this kingdom without Our permission. You must be cleansed before you can enter into Our true kingdom. Others may think they have access but they have only found a counterfeit kingdom of strangers.
In Our kingdom the principles of operation are quite different from the principles or methods of operation you use on earth. On earth, the methods you use to function won’t work in the interior world of Our kingdom. Actually, they will only hamper you or impede your progress as you seek to enter through the gates.
Your interior has several names. This is the inner chamber or the Holy of Holies of the temple I built within you. Your body became the exterior of Our temple when you first gave yourself to Us. Just as there were different areas which served different purposes in the physical temple of the Hebrews, as described in the Old Testament, there are different areas of My temple that We reproduced within you currently today.
The original or very first temple which I built was the Garden of Eden. A temple is a place where I meet with and have intimate fellowship with those We love and who love Us. Therefore, the Garden of Eden was Our very first temple. There We met with Adam and Eve. When We removed them from the garden, We met with them wherever they built an altar of sacrifice.
When We formed the nation of Israel, We designed a building that physically housed Our Presence. The Hebrews traveled there to meet with Us. The building had different rooms that served various purposes. Each area took them from one level of intimacy with Us to another. The Holy of Holies was the inner chamber reserved for the most intimate fellowship and experience or “knowing” of Us at that time.
Your temple can be compared to your house. Many homes have rooms that are for various levels of relational intimacy. A man and a woman who have entered into the covenant of marriage and live together in their house, have freedom to be in any room of that house no matter what level of intimacy that room requires.
The yard and porch are areas of the house where those who are visitors and unmet strangers may come. There the outsiders can speak with the couple and state their business. If the couple gives the outsiders permission, then they may enter into one of the gathering rooms. Only friends are given permission to enter. Enemies are not allowed into a gathering room. Friends of varying degrees of intimacy may come into the gathering room. There they can enjoy a certain level of fellowship and even share a meal together. They can remain surface-level acquaintances or enter into a deeper relationship in the gathering room.
Those who have a deeper level of intimacy with the owner of the house are invited into more inner rooms than others. They are allowed into the kitchen and more private gathering areas. In the kitchen, the intimate friends can participate in the inner work of the household. There the friends and family members share bonds of deeper fellowship while they work together for a common cause. The work may be lengthy and vigorous, but the joy of their intimacy makes the burden they share light.
Finally, there is the most intimate area in the house. This would be the room that belongs only to the married man and woman. Their relationship is exclusive and reserved only for them. Therefore, their bedroom is reserved for them and occasionally their children. Strangers and those with whom they have only surface-level or casual relationships are not allowed to enter.
Your body is Our temple, Sweet Pearl. Within your body resides your spirit. Your spirit has the most intimate room. The other rooms for casual meetings with Us are there as well. For example, the rituals, routines and works that look like intimacy, but are only symbolic of intimacy, can be performed with your body, your mind, and your senses. You and We can have a limited, surface level fellowship in these areas. You also have fellowship that is limited with strangers and friends in these areas. You can use your brain, senses, and emotions to walk with them and communicate.
Our Pearl, the Holy of Holies is deep within you. This area is only to be opened to Us. It is the most exclusive and significant part of Our temple within you. The only Ones allowed into the Holy of Holies are you and Us. Our Presence resides within the Holy of Holies. It is within your spirit. That is Our Secret Place. No one else is allowed to enter. A stranger cannot come into Our Holy of Holies. It is reserved for you, Sweet Pearl, and Us.
Therefore, do not look for intimacy with Us in your physical body. You won’t find true intimacy with Us in your emotions, either. You also will never be able to enjoy or know us in your mind or intellect. Those are the outer areas. Those areas are for relating to friends, strangers, and the happenings of earth. Those areas are not sanctified or set apart for exclusive intimacy with Us. If you want deep fellowship with Us, you will have to limit your involvement with the outer areas.
My temple is for you to enjoy. You have the freedom to choose where you would like to go within Our temple. If you want to remain in the outer areas which include your body, emotions, and mind and relate only to the world then you may do so. If you desire to have information about Us and enjoy the symbols, rituals, and works that concern Us, then you may do so in these outer areas. You can fellowship with others in these areas and together you can give Us a limited amount of honor and worship.
Sweet Pearl, if you desire more of Us, then you can choose to not only enter, but remain in Our Holy of Holies. Know this: if you want to remain in the interior, you must have very little connection with the exterior rooms. If you are operating from your mind and reasoning but desire fellowship with Us, leave your mind and enter into your spirit or interior, with Us.
The body, emotions, and mind serve a purpose. They help you deal with the world and other relationships. Sweet Pearl, We are not the world. We do not take part in surface-level relationships. We are not just intellect. We are Spirit and those who want to know Us and experience Us intimately must know Us and experience Us in Spirit – in Our Spirits together in the interior room of their temple. That is where you will know Us in complete Truth.
Your mind, body, and emotions are not entrances into the interior life with Us. They are not portals to intimacy. They actually will block the way to life in the interior. Do not be afraid to leave them and come into the interior with Us. You have nothing to fear by seeking intimacy with Us.
At first, removing your being from the outer areas and entering into your interior life with Us will be difficult. You are not used to this new life. You are leaving the outer world and entering into My kingdom. You will begin to recognize this as your true home in time. You will be delighted.
When you enter into Our interior room of intimacy, relax. Relax so that you can feel the peace of Our sanctuary. It is a place of rest. Do not try to engage in activity within Our interior. This is a place of Sabbath rest. This is where We went after Our work of creating the world. Our kingdom is the interior. Enter into My rest. Sleep in My Arms. Lie down with Us. Be at complete rest. You are in the most intimate covenant relationship with Us. After you have rested, We will have intimate fellowship. But always, the first thing you do in Our Secret Place is rest. Relax. Be at peace. Do not think. Then We will talk.
Your life is hidden in Us. You are Our beloved treasure. Therefore We are motivated to hold you and keep you very close. We want you to remain in Our Arms and in Our Presence. You are royalty. You are Our Queen – a member of Our royal family. Therefore you have the privilege of coming very close to Us.
You can consider Our inner chamber to be like the inner rooms of a royal palace. Only those chosen few of a kingdom are allowed into those rooms. Because you are a part of Our Family, you have permission to be in the most exclusive royal chambers.
When one is a member of a royal family, their position in society is uncommon. Pearl, you married into Our royal family. Now you are Jesus’ Queen. If a king marries a commoner – one who is not royal until there is a marriage – that one’s life is changed in every way. She is now exchanging an old life that was filled with familiar people, places, and activities with a new life and new privileges. She now has permission to live in a place that is reserved only for the royal family.
Before a bride of a king can enter into the royal chambers of the palace, she must lay aside her former life, people, places, and activities. They no longer can be the most significant part of her life. The king and his will now fill her life.
Now that the marriage has begun, the queen has the right to enter the inner chambers of the palace and be with the king. She is now a part of the exclusive royal family. She has a new life. She knows that in order to be a full part of the royal family and retain permission to remain with them in the inner rooms of the palace her first loyalty must be to the royal family. All other heart-ties must be severed. Her attention and desire is to be reserved for the royal family and their interests. Our Pearl, you married Jesus. Therefore you have permission to be in our interior, exclusive room of Our royal palace.
How can you remain in the interior chamber with Us enjoying Our fellowship at all times?
Like a commoner who marries into royalty, you must sever heart-ties with all exterior people, places, things, and activities. The people and life happenings in the exterior world are separate from your interior life with Us. You now operate in two worlds or kingdoms. A queen lives within her country but she also lives within the palace walls. Commoners are not allowed within those walls. She can look out the windows and make occasional guarded short trips outside the palace but her life is hidden deep within the palace. Life outside the palace is not to touch her in an intimate way any longer.
Our Pearl, enter into Our Secret Place with Us. Focus your inner being’s attention and desire on remaining in the interior of you with Us. There are changes you must make if you desire to remain in Our Presence in the royal chamber, just as a former commoner must make changes in order to have intimacy with the royal family. These changes are necessary if you want to live your life in the interior with Us.
The exterior world makes demands and has its temporary rewards. The exterior world has its ways of getting your attention and rewarding you for giving it your focus, time, and energy. Our Pearl, in order to prevent yourself from leaving Our interior chamber of fellowship, you must first recognize the lures of the exterior world and turn away from them. You can fulfill all your duties and minister in the exterior world while your inner being remains with Us in the interior at the same time.
How can you do this? Understand your forms and their function. Then use them properly. We made you first and foremost a spirit. You are a spirit-being. You also have earthly attachments to your spirit. These attachments include a body, mind, and emotions.
The part of you that can have fellowship with Us is your spirit. This is the real you. All the rest are simply attached tools. Therefore your body, mind, and emotions feel at home in the exterior world. That is where they operate best. That is their domain or kingdom. They are a part of your old life. You already know how to live life through the tools of your mind, body, and emotions
The interior life is not like the common exterior life. Your tools won’t work here. They will be distractions.
Let’s begin with your body. It also has been given a set of tools called the five senses. The senses help you navigate life on the outside or exterior. In Our kingdom, here in the interior, they are of no use. They will distract you and pull you into the exterior realm. Therefore you must learn to retreat from using the tools of your body in Our kingdom.
Enter into Our chamber using your will or desire rather than your senses. Use your desire to seek Us. Your body remains in the outer kingdom but your focus and spirit are with Us. Remain with Us using your spirit’s ability to choose. There will be things in the exterior that grab the attention of your five senses. Perform your duties and minister but minimize your exposure to attention-grabbers. Minimize your work to doing only what We called you to do and no more. The enemy would have you distracted by piling work on you that We never called you to do.
Certain types of music will pull you and your attention out of Our interior life and place you once again in the exterior. You will learn what hinders you. You will know what music helps to usher you into Our Presence when you hear it. Your inner being will begin to relax and drift toward the interior when you listen to music that is anointed by Holy Spirit to bring you into the inner chamber. Use the gift of this music as you would use a ladder to climb into Our Secret Place.
Other distractions that pull you away from your interior place with Us abound in the earthly kingdom. Therefore, as external distractions are everywhere, use a tool I gave you to help you remain in your spirit with Us . . . your will.
Choosing to remain in intimacy with Us is also choosing to detach your focus from life on earth. Turn away from unnecessary attractions. Allow only what is necessary for duties to be performed in simplicity.
Your mind is not your inner being and therefore it can be a distraction. Avoid remaining in your mind by avoiding worries, memories, and attention-grabbing interests outside of Us. Allow Our love for you and desire for fellowship with you to act a s a counterweight to the pulls from the exterior. Allow the pleasures of Our Presence to out weigh the rewards of the mind, body, and emotions. Allow the peace that is unmatched by anything on earth to draw you and help you sever the heart-ties to the things of earth. Submit to the drawing by Holy Spirit.
Will you trust Us, Pearl? Will you trust in Our great love for you? That is what We ask of you. We have given you all you need to remain in the Holy of Holies with Us. We equipped you with all you need.
What do you have that will bring you into intimacy with Us? Three things: The ability to desire, the ability to rest and the ability to receive. Use them to remain in the Spirit with Us at all times.
Put away all other attempts through actions on your part. There is nothing else you can do to enter in. Works of any kind won’t help. Works will be a distraction and keep you in the exterior life. Condemnation and constant apologizing won’t help – the enemy is the accuser and he desires to prevent you from entering the Secret Place. Working through emotions won’t help. Rousing emotions will prevent you from fellowshipping with Us since We do not make your emotions Our Home.
Desire Us. Use your will to choose to be with Us more than anywhere else. Choose and desire Us above all. In the choosing of Our Presence, all that prevents the object of your desire from becoming yours, will soon be revealed to you. You will learn what to avoid. You will discover everything that pulls you out of Our Garden. Exercise your will and continually choose to remove everything that distracts.
When your senses have distracted you, gently return back to Our chamber. When your mind lures you away to your intellect, return.
The second action is to relax. Completely let go of your life, your mind, body, and emotions. They are temporary and of the earth. Rest and relax. Resting in Our Arms is actively following Us. Resting in Us is following. Do not worry about your ability to please Us and remain with Us. Are We not God? We will draw you in. Your spirit cannot do something only We can do. A baby can not drive himself home even if the title of the car is in his name. You cannot remain in the Royal chamber even if it is yours by invitation unless We open the door and usher you in.
Therefore, desire to come in and then relax, rest, and remain at confident peace. Wait on Us. Wait and desire. Desire and relax. Be still and know that I Am God. Know that We love you and created you for the purpose of fellowshipping with you.
Lastly, receive. Receiving is an action that you must choose to do. The enemy does not want you to drink from the Living Water that We will give you as you remain in the Holy of Holies. He has planted lies within your intellect that will prevent you from receiving the waves of Our love. Fear, guilt, self-condemnation will serve to stop you from receiving the sensing of Our Presence.
Consider yourself to be a clean sponge. We choose to pour water of Our love on and into you. Sponges do not argue with the one pouring water as to whether or not they are able to receive. They just lay there and soak in or receive the water.
This is what you are to do, Pearl. We will draw you in. Your desire is to be with Us. Your restful trust in Us will open your spirit. Then just receive. We take care of the rest. Works, rituals, spiritual actions, emotions – these things are what false religions require. We are more than capable of bringing you into the inner chamber. Your part is to use your will to desire Us above all else on earth, rest, trust in Us, and receive. Come away with Us, Dear Pearl. We love you!
- Matthew 6:19-21 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust[a] destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Matthew 6:24-25 24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
- Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
- Matthew 7:7-8 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
- Matthew 7:13-14 13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
- Matthew 10:39 39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
- Matthew 11:12 12 From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.
- Matthew 11:28 28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
- Matthew 13:11-12 11 And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 12 For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
- 1Corinthians 2:12-14 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
- 1Corinthians 3:1-2 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,
- 1Corinthians 3:16-18 16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
- 1Corinthians 6:12-13 12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
- 1Corinthians 6:17 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
- 1Corinthians 10:23 23 “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
- 1Corinthians 13:11 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
- 1Corinthians 15:44-50 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”;the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. 50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
- 2Corinthians 5:17 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.[a] The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
- Galatians 5:16 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
- Galatians 5:24-25 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
- Ephesians 2:22 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
- Ephesians 3:17 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
- Ephesians 3:19 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
- Colossians 3:3 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
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- Philippians 3:1a For the rest, my brethren, delight yourselves in the Lord and continue to rejoice that you are in Him. To keep writing to you [over and over] of the same things is not irksome to me, and it is [a precaution] for your safety.
- Philippians 3:3 3 For we [Christians] are the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit and by the Spirit of God and exult and glory and pride ourselves in Jesus Christ, and put no confidence or dependence [on what we are] in the flesh and on outward privileges and physical advantages and external appearances—
- Philippians 3:8 8 Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege (the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and supreme advantage). of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him [of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and clearly]. For His sake I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish (refuse, dregs), in order that I may win (gain). Christ (the Anointed One),
- Philippians 3:10 10 [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]
- Psalm 37:4 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.
- Isaiah 58:14 14 Then will you delight yourself in the Lord, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage [promised for you] of Jacob your father; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.