Virgin of Vladimir (+ image by the hand of Stephen Allison 2008)

Sunday, 22 May 2016

I shall pour out my Spirit

Notes of meeting on 17 May 2016

Picture of a great flame descending upon us all, the flame separated and entered into each persons heart and spiritual being, healing and cleansing. The flame then came together again and in front of us burning brightly, within was what looked like a bush but was in fact a vine, the fire consumed it but didn't harm its green verdant leaves. Then the flame disappeared heaven bound.
The vine was lush and laden with juicy fat grapes ready for harvest.

Jesus says:
"My people I send My Spirit to each one of you not only to cleanse and heal but to fortify your strength. This flame will grow within you and will be seen by all in a tangible way drawing them to you and to Me.
Be not timid but reach out for you have the gifts within you, My Holy Spirit will teach you how to call men in My Name and to share all that He has given you.
I long for so many souls, My Heart burns with love for them. My people be bold, pray to Our Mother and the Holy Spirit for Mercy rich in salvation for your brothers and sisters.
Do not be afraid I am with you.
Your Jesus."

Acts 2 v 16 -21
16 On the contrary, this is what the prophet was saying:
17 In the last days -- the Lord declares -- I shall pour out my Spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young people shall see visions, your old people dream dreams.
18 Even on the slaves, men and women, shall I pour out my Spirit.
19 I will show portents in the sky above and signs on the earth below.
20 The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the day of the Lord comes, that great and terrible Day.
21 And all who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.


Galatians 5
1 Christ set us free, so that we should remain free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be fastened again to the yoke of slavery.
2 I, Paul, give you my word that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all.
3 I give my assurance once again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law;
4 once you seek to be reckoned as upright through the Law, then you have separated yourself from Christ, you have fallen away from grace.
5 We are led by the Spirit to wait in the confident hope of saving justice through faith,
6 since in Christ Jesus it is not being circumcised or being uncircumcised that can effect anything -- only faith working through love.
7 You began your race well; who came to obstruct you and stop you obeying the truth?
8 It was certainly not any prompting from him who called you!
9 A pinch of yeast ferments the whole batch.
10 But I feel sure that, united in the Lord, you will not be led astray, and that anyone who makes trouble with you will be condemned, no matter who he is.
11 And I, brothers -- if I were still preaching circumcision, why should I still be persecuted? For then the obstacle which is the cross would have no point any more.
12 I could wish that those who are unsettling you would go further and mutilate themselves. 
13 After all, brothers, you were called to be free; do not use your freedom as an opening for self-indulgence, but be servants to one another in love,
14 since the whole of the Law is summarised in the one commandment: You must love your neighbour as yourself.
15 If you go snapping at one another and tearing one another to pieces, take care: you will be eaten up by one another.
16 Instead, I tell you, be guided by the Spirit, and you will no longer yield to self-indulgence.
17 The desires of self-indulgence are always in opposition to the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are in opposition to self-indulgence: they are opposites, one against the other; that is how you are prevented from doing the things that you want to.
18 But when you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.
19 When self-indulgence is at work the results are obvious: sexual vice, impurity, and sensuality,
20 the worship of false gods and sorcery; antagonisms and rivalry, jealousy, bad temper and quarrels, disagreements,
21 factions and malice, drunkenness, orgies and all such things. And about these, I tell you now as I have told you in the past, that people who behave in these ways will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 On the other hand the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness,
23 gentleness and self-control; no law can touch such things as these.
24 All who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified self with all its passions and its desires.
25 Since we are living by the Spirit, let our behaviour be guided by the Spirit
26 and let us not be conceited or provocative and envious of one another.

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