Hidden in the flow of the Spirit, one voice remains. Beneath the flow of time and life, only One Thing matters.

One Thing I asked of the Lord, this one thing I seek, that I might dwell, gaze, and inquire, hidden by thy wing.

Within the realm of the Spirit, all else ceases to matter.

Consumed within His fiery love His Gaze rises above the rest.

One Thing I asked of the Lord, and this I shall receive.

When His love is all we feel, and His name is all we know, we glow with a light of a gospel son that never has waxed dim.

It is the same bright light that raised the dead, and made the leper whole.

When our eye is single, our body is full of His light, as though His lamp upon our face is shining.  When our eye is focused upon just this one thing, no dark corners remain.  For, what could distract us from His light, from His glory, from His ever increasing sight.

The Kingdom consists in all righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.  It is His presence that we see life.  There is no life in another, nor is there any true light.  For, with Him, and only Him, is the fountain of life.

Eternal in the heavens, grand and beautiful He stands, ready to judge the living and the dead.

His ways are powerful, and His acts, glorious. And, are surely as they are past finding out, so are all those who are led by the Spirit.

Lost within His domain, we speak wisdom in a mystery.  Joining one with another, we are one, continue in one, and experience no separation.

What is the man that is caught away, but the man who did not surrender everything.  What is the man distracted, except a man who has not yet laid down all.

For, in the day of His power, the people volunteer willingly (Psalm 110:3), but in this day, it is no longer I that live, but Christ in me, that I live by Faith (Galatians 2:20).

What is this flow, but the continual pouring of the Oil of His Spirit?  What is this river, except for His excellent life, His Mercies, new and refreshing, bringing me life, and goodness, and peace?

This place, this Eternal place, this hidden and covered place, far Beyond the noise and the distractions, is like a tree planted beside the rivers of living waters (Psalm 1).  Here is the place of rest, fruitfulness, and peace.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Psalm 34:19

Were I to lose all but a remnant, when all I have is Him, then great or small, big or tall, all I still have is still Him.   Were He to multiply what He has given, if I am pure, then all I would be would be His.

May nothing pull your children from this place, and no deception separate us from its only door.  For, it is by faith in Christ that we have access to this Grace, and by it, we grow and grow.

When the door is closed, and we are shut away in an innermost chamber (1 Chronicles 18:24), we see in the Spirit, and we obey His commands.

When all we stand in is His light, and have no attachment to anything else (Luke 14:26), we have entered into His success.

The difference between those who say that are complete in Christ and those who continue to stand is the activity of faith in their lives, their freedom from the hardness that would kill the new growth, and the disconnectedness from the cares of this life.  If we find no fruit, we must assume it either due to the seed never found root at all, it died quickly, or it was choked out!

But, in the flow of the Spirit, in the place of “selling all” (Matthew 13:44), we experience much fruit, we enter into His vibrant life which has already conquered death, hell, and the grave.

We stand in the freedom of the Son, not of this life, but in it, for a short seaons, to be a demonstration, a proclamation of His dominion upon this Earth, where no demon, no forces, no wickedness could ever penetrate.

The prophetic is only a part that becomes useful when we are in it.  The different gifts are only to assist in this place, and to bring others to glory.  For, though they can operate without being in this place, they only exist to serve the King, His Kingdom, and His purposes.  Though we can operate them with levels of mixture, to the measure that we are still operating in the soul, they are abominable, and God hates them.  He is only interested in what He can do through us, for what we birth our of our flesh is still the flesh, and must be put off.  But, as we are in Him, we listen to Him, we follow Him, we obey Him.  Not to minister first to people, but to Him, as the sons of Zadok did, who didn’t serve to please the people.

There is no greater thing, no fuller place of love, than in His presence.  There is no abandonment sweeter than to know the bliss of His name, and to be in the sweetness of His Spirit.

And, what distracts you, what grabs your attention still, matters, and, until you have dug to the root of it, crucified it, and found the rock upon when we are called to stand, Christ, we are liable to buffetting, affliction, and hardship.

Truly, if He had not given us the Spirit, we would be orphans in this life.  This is the life of a Christian, not to asceticism, but to the extreme and total and possessive presence of God Himself, the Holy Spirit, who raised Christ Jesus from the dead.