The Bride: Love, Acceptance, and Validation

The Bride

Jesus wishes to love you. Jesus made you from the foundation of the world. In this, you have access to all blessing, love, acceptance, and validation.

It is my hope that we will return to what is the Lord’s will, the will of God in terms of imparting acceptance instead of condemnation and equity rather than hierarchy so that we can work together to accomplish a fruitful and productive life impacting and changing the spiritual landscape of the world within the church.

Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits– Song of Solomon

di dodi li He is my beloved and my beloved is mine. Song of Solomon

Jesus wishes to be our tallit kaftan covering us with the peace of His love, validation, and acceptance. Jesus is praying for us this moment an eternal blessing of life from the right hand of the Father in the Holy of Holies. From the realm of Heaven Jesus sees us as the perfection of who we are in His creation. From the realm of the earth Jesus wishes to be our deliverer out of the bondage of Egypt: He wishes to part the seas with solutions to every trial, tribulation, or dilemma. Jesus died so we will never die, so we not only are saved from the wages of sin, we are given every opportunity to live in the Shalom of a Kingdom Life in the grace of  Life, and life more abundantly. Jesus is the Pillar of Light and Glory cloud guiding us through to the Promised Land of a life motivated by love into the fullness of the Gospel. The Promised Land is the New Covenant of Grace, a Kingdom, and a destiny.

When we look back on the garden of Eden, why was the fruit on the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil so beautiful? Why was the fruit on the Tree of Life so unappealing? This is the first glimpse into the paradox of the Kingdom of God. The fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil illustrates how appealing sin appears but in essence tastes bitter. The devil is beautiful, charismatic, and convincing but underneath, “the author and finisher” of unbelief.  Unbelief is nothing more than following “natural sight” in terms of thinking we can navigate our own way through life.  The Tree of Life may seem unassuming but inside sweeter than honey that nourishes the completion of our faith. Jesus is the “author and finisher of our faith.”

He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. ..He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Isaiah 53

The Tree of Life was in the garden from the beginning because God knew what was going to happen. God made a way for redemption through The Cross which the Tree of Life represents. When we taste of the fruit of the Tree of Life that is found in Jesus Christ and feasting on the Word, there is nothing more fulfilling, nor will there ever be a lack of His Goodness.

The Bride of the King

The Lord wants to hear what you have to say from your own unique soul. The Lord wishes for you to talk to Him as He watches from a distance your engagement in fellowship with those closest to you. He longs to have a private conversation with you and is jealous of your attention. You are His Bride.

Thou that swellest in the gardens, thy companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it –Song of Solomon

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy, therefore, is fulfilled. Song of Solomon

“I say to the Lord, ‘You are my Lord. I have no good apart from you.'”

When we take the cup and break the bread of communion, we remember that we are One Spirit with the Living God through the broken body and blood of Jesus Christ. We are the Bride. Each person in the Body of Christ is given the “goodness” of God because we are His elect. Psalm 16:2 “I say to the Lord, ‘You are my Lord. I have no good apart from you.’ The Hebrew word: “towb” (tobe) meaning GOOD is both adjective and noun, both in the masculine and feminine, singular and plural. (But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. We are now One Spirit in Jesus) The fact that the Hebrew word “good” in this context indicates that it is a universal concept. We are the Bride in His goodness.

This word “good,” (towb) means:  anointing, attractive, approve, beautiful, best, better, blameless, bountiful, cheerful, discerning, enjoyment, favor, glad, fine, feast, gracious, handsome, merry, more, pleasant, precious, profitable, promise, prosper, pure, rich, right, save, suit, sweet, welfare, upright, fruitful, morally correct, proper, and convenient. These are what accompanies salvation for every believer. The good of God is His love, validation, and acceptance. Not just for the “anointed few,” but for the anointed all. This idea is what the Body of Christ will hear with the sounding of the shofar to fill our lamps with the oil–He is filling our lamps with GOOD from the sap of THE TREE OF LIFE because we are His elect. 

For the saints of the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. (Psalm 16:3). This is one of the prophecies in the Old Testament of the elect–the beloved Bride of Christ. The Lord delights to give us the “good.” Our lamps are full of good overflowing onto others. This is the essence of “Good News.”

We are the Bride and we are getting ready for a wedding. The shofar of the Lord is calling His church out of the chains of legalism based on performance and judgment. The Lord is breaking the chains of religion. This means we are returning to our “First Love” in a relationship of Love with Jesus and His Body. This is the oil we fill our lamps with and it is His goodness that overflows. We are one with the Father through Jesus Christ–we are one with the Body of Christ through Jesus–one Lord, one faith, one baptism. We are the Bride. In this hour the shofar call to awaken the Bride from a slumber of doctrine and religion is a message of the goodness that God has for everyone when we open the garden of our spirit to Him. The garden of our spirit will be opened when we get off of the pews of a system rather than a relationship filled and led by the Holy Spirit of the Living God.

You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain Song 4:9.

The Lord wishes to “open the garden of your spirit” and fill us to overflowing with His Spirit. He does this through our intimate relationship with His Word. The Word is the Love letter of the Lord. It brings revelations, comfort, words of knowledge and wisdom to our situation; the Word is Living and it transforms us into Kingdom beings while developing and nurturing whom we are created to be. It brings out our purpose and calling. Take scripture. Read, and ponder on what Jesus is saying to you. Listen for the voice of “the lover of your soul.” Pray and meditate on the Word. This is the oil we fill our lamps with. This is a relationship in His goodness.

His eyes are like doves by the water streams, washed in milk, mounted like jewels. Song 5:12

You see me.

I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. Hosea 2:19

Dear Jesus my King, I will love, honor, and obey you all of my days.

For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is the LORD of hosts; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of all the earth. Isaiah 54

Oh how I love your Law (Word).

My Bride

I Formed you

The Plans I have for you are for a future and a hope

All the years the locust have eaten I will restore to you

We are one just as I and the Father are one.

You are Mine my beloved

I will never leave you nor forsake you

Nothing in all creation can separate us from my love forever

I set your feet upon a rock,

And established your steps.

I am that rock of your salvation

Trust me and I will give you the desires of your heart

You are mine

I will betroth you to me forever

I am your husband

I am your beloved and my beloved is mine.

Come Lord Jesus. Cause your Body to be of one mind in one accord in bringing the Kingdom to earth: “on earth as it is in heaven.” May the world  see the brilliance and love of God and desire the same gift of  what we have and come to the knowledge of the truth. “Glory to God the Father and Peace be with you all the Bride of Christ, His Saints.”