Rain reign, come today, let your glory sweep us away.

There's something that happens inside of you when you experience the power of the Lord through faith. I've talked before about this idea of "Faith in Him", but even since then the same principle applies, but my individual experience has changed exponentially. Before I was making the argument that Faith in Him is what would drive you to do good works, to step out. Now I know that Faith in Him is what drives you to change from the inside out. There is something that shifts, or lurches when you begin to know, understand, and experience the Lord. When you've asked for Him to press His face against yours (Ezk 22), you start to get the revelation that Our God is an All Consuming Fire. (Heb 12:29) Once you've realized the Fear of the Lord doesn't just look like reverence, or acknowledgement that God is The Righteous One that we hear about in the word, or that He will one day come to claim vengeance on His enemies. It doesn't look like having a knowledge that Jesus is humble, gentle, and gives us a yoke that is easy. It looks like shivering on the ground, letting Him impale you, presenting to Him a sacrifice that is only remotely worthy of His praise because of His mercy. It looks like when you're standing high, falling before him, nose to the ground, with full awareness and inability to compare anything even remotely close to His glory, and when He asks you to stand, you stand and present to Him a bowl of incense, that He's given you the responsibility to carry in your heart at all times. It is being in awe and rejoicing in His judgment. Psalm 58:10 Says "The Righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance, The Lord will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked." Wow. Can you even fathom what it would be like to be washed in the blood of your enemies? By your Lord? In so many ways the culture we live in today is so averse to war cries, to outward expressions of battle and faith. We've become engrossed in being as docile as possible, and we've lost the zeal that the Lord Himself says He will cloak us in. (Isa 59:17) 

So what does it truly look like to see the Lord reign in our lives? If you ask Him to reign in your life, I hope you really truly mean it. The NET version bible Translates Adonai Tzevoat into 'The Lord who commands armies'. Otherwise more commonly accepted as "The Lord of Hosts." The reason they did this is because in Old English the traditional understanding of "Hosts" was not someone who invited you over to their house so that you could have dinner with them. While this is an aspect of God's character He graces us to experience, the word hosts captures this legion, or militaristic regime which the Lord is the head of. Now obviously we can go into this as a church, but we must remember that this war is not with Flesh and Blood, but with Dominions, Principalities, and Spirits. (Eph 6:11-12). We are not going to be bathed in the blood of those who live and die by the flesh, but instead we are going to be covered in the Glory Train (Isa 6:1, Psa 68:18) of the victory that Our Yeshua has won. He has been rewarded the keys of Hades, and of Heaven to allow whom He wishes, and banish whom He wishes. He has presented you a fair warning, it is your responsibility to choose. Do you want to be covered by the train, or be enslaved by it? Either way God has won. 

"Come, enjoy the meal I've set before you my love. For you, see, I have filled my temple with sacrifices. You may eat of the finest breads and meats, and drink of the finest wines. My love, I want to experience you, enjoy your presence as a husband enjoys his wives bosom. I have sent you to many places, and we have had many works together, but this day my love it is just you and I. Your enemies once surrounded you, there was once when you saw nothing, only bleak images wishing to drown them out by drowning yourself, but this day, my love, we have had victory. Take my hand, and I will bring you into my arms, come and fall for me as I have fallen for you. I have chosen you since the beginning of time, and from the beginning of the foundations of the earth. Now, you are with me, and I am yours. Thank you for remaining faithful, as I have remained faithful to you."