2012.08.02 - The Word of God at the feast of the Saint prophet Elijah - Lord Jesus (the reading list .txt) 📗

in the garden of paradise, in the place where man lives, for the weeds are only tares, they are tares in the flowers just as tares are in the wheat, the tares that the devil sows and not God.

 

It is not the same with the greenness for the flowers; it is not the same with the briers, the thistles and the weeds, which have a bad name and an ugly face and grow on the earth in places uninhabited by people. Anyone who does not work his paradise does not know to keep it, for this means watching: that is, the man to work his paradise and not leave it without being worked. I, the Lord, do not eat like man. I am nourished with the beauty and with the fragrance of the flowers, and man is nourished with the fragrance and the taste of the food, and he who takes care of his body cannot take care of God too, for he who takes care of God has put an end to his sin, with the worship of his body, for man has accustomed his body to eating all the time and eating much, and this gives him much work, much running about and much labor, from dawn to night, and the time weeps elapsing in vain and not redeemed, and man wears himself out uselessly for heaven, and he does not have any repentance for his lack of power to love God with his life. 

 

Oh, My people from everywhere of this word of Mine, it is written into the Scriptures a big and deep word in its meaning: «Unless the Lords builds the house, they labor in vain who built it. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. It is in vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for He gives sleep to His loved ones». Oh, sons from everywhere, when the Lord is absent from all these, then all things are useless and they pass away as well as man does.

 

Behold, not all of those who are gathered together for the Lord dedicate themselves in the same way; not all get up at the same time early in the morning, so that their step may be only one for all of them until evening comes when man leaves his work and gets his rest. Those who come to be with this people have to come and be useful to God’s work and not to themselves, for they can be useful to themselves only there where they get used to come, and behold, some do not know what the coming into this heavenly work means, and some have already come and have not known and by so doing they have become a burden; and it is not only that, for they want to be big and are not obedient and they are not dedicated too, and if there is this distinction, for which all kinds of pains appear among those who live together, then where does the prayer go, the prayer of the one who mourns in all manners of way over his brother? However, all these things bring about pains too because of the lack of work, because of the lack of watch and because of the lack of brotherly dedication, for when man falls and hurts himself and damages his body, then why does this happen? It happens because he does not watch so that he may not fall and he does not watch for his spirit as well, and the one who falls does not watch for his body too, and he falls because he does not have God as love in him and because he does not have any guidance upon him.  

 

It is hard for man with guidance upon him, it is hard for him in this way and that is why he has got many falls and blows. The example of Israel, who could not stay under guidance and rebelled according to the law of self-freedom, is a bad and hard example, and he who wants to learn can learn from it. Man has to see his faults, he has to humble himself for them and he also needs to let himself be guided by those who have the Lord in them by God’s gift. When man has God in him, then he can show the Lord to the people. He who has God’s kingdom in him, that one can truly know God, and also the one who shares Him to those who seek Him, not to those who seek and do not want the Lord.

 

Elijah cried out to the people to repent and to clean themselves from idols. There were so many holy disciples around him, who had the spirit of prophecy upon them and an angelic life in the mountains, far from the sins and far from their places on the earth, and these had love for God, for the faith by which man gives himself to God is love, which does not go out and which always longs in those who have faith, because faith becomes longing of God in man and the longing is the greatness of love and this has to feed those who come together to serve God.

 

Those who give themselves to God with their love and with their work have to bring forth fruit to God. Elijah, the prophet, brought forth fruit to God on earth and turned the sons of Israel from idols to God and he brought a great sacrifice, and his hunger for God cried out to heaven, and he fasted for God not only from food. Oh, if God had not given a house to Elijah, he would have not had one. If God had not protected him in the city, he would have watched in vain. If the Lord had not given him to eat by the angels, he would have sought in vain to work from dawn till night for the bread of pain. The Lord would give him sleep and the angel of the Lord would come to him and tell him: «Get up and work upon Israel, for the king Ahab says that you have brought trouble over Israel», and Elijah got up and told the king: «I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and you have followed the Baal. … Now let us bring a burnt offering to the Lord, you and I, and see to whom the Lord will answer in the Mount Carmel, for you waver between two sides… I, even I only, am left a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are many hundreds men. Let us, therefore, bring a burnt offering and put no fire under, and then let each of us call on the name his God, and the God who answers by fire, let him be God». (See 1 Kings 18: 17-24) And the prophets of Baal cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances until the blood gushed out on them, but there was no answer. Then the prophet Elijah called the people of Israel near to him and he told them what to do and then he cried aloud to the Lord and said: «Lord, God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Israel, answer me with fire, and let it be known in Israel that You alone are God in Israel, and that I am Your servant and that You have turned their heart back again». (1 Kings 18:36, 37) And the ministry of the people of Israel happened as Elijah the prophet said and Elijah’s loud prayer came true and fire came out of haven and consumed the burnt offering soaked with much water and the people said: «The Lord is God», and then the people gave all the prophets of Baal to Elijah and the people slaughtered them all, and this work was done after Elijah spoke to the rain not to fall for three years and a half, and on the day of his burnt offering, rain came down on earth and watered the land which was so dry for such a long time, without a drop of water or dew on it. Behold how much fruit a servant of the Lord can bring about among people, and how much damage a servant of the devil can bring about too, as king Ahab with all his subjects did. 

 

Oh, My people from everywhere, receive wisdom from My word upon you and get up to serve God with much life in you, as My prophet Elijah did, and your life will be seen and it will be light around you and there will be works of resurrection over many, for God is not confessed by many words but through the deed done by the man who is illuminated by God’s love in him. Amen.

 

— This was my life before You, oh, Lover of my soul, oh, Lord! I was one of Your great prophets, and I have served You with fire in My little heart, and today my spirit has been dwelling in Your Spirit and has been perfected in Your word over Your people today, and Your Spirit has been in my spirit, and I was one with Your Spirit in the word for the teaching over Your Israel of today, ordained to be yours from the Romanian people and to stay today and listen to Your voice, which has been released from the clouds upon them, as in the time of Moses when the people of Israel listened to Your whole word coming out of  Your mouth, and Moses wanted to give it further to the people of Israel, and as in my time, when You gave to Israel Your word that was upon me, and I turned the Israel from idols to You and then the people have confessed You on that day on the Mount of Carmel as true God, my God, and the people said: «The Lord is God!»

 

Oh, how greatly You have confessed on my day of feast both the man’s obedience and his lack of obedience, the man’s work of paradise or the lack of its work, the view from heaven of the Christians’ works from everywhere, and on which Your will is still much to be fulfilled, Your word spoken to the man whom You set in the place of his dwelling for him, in paradise, so that the man could work it and keep it, oh, Lord. Let all pay attention to Your voice of today, all those who call themselves Christians on earth and those who have dwellings and gardens around them to work and to keep them into the midst of the earth. Those who serve Baal do not have time to serve God and they stop the rain in heaven from coming down on earth, and there are no longer prophets as I was so that they may speak and release the rain to come when it is stopped by the people from coming and when it is kept in heaven.

 

On this day, You have called the people to the obedience of God and You have breathed from haven and it has been written on the earth Your word of today, which can teach any man that in the same way he works and keeps by his working his house, his garden and his place of dwelling with those around him used from near him, in the same way he works his life between him and You; oh Lord, he does the same. Man makes much garbage, very much, and he leaves it everywhere, and the garbage smells so badly because it is garbage; on the contrary, man should be like a flower, he has to smell like a flower, which comforts You with its beauty and its fragrance, oh Lord.