The Power of Consecration: A Prophetic Word to the Church

by Jeremiah Johnson

If someone is contin...

habitually engaging in sexual im...

calling themselves a Christian, they are dec...

Amos indicts the spirit of harlotry in leadership: “You made the Nazarites drink wine” (Amos 2:12).

The Harlot Bride will be governed by her love of money.

She will sacrifice the truth of the gospel for pleasure and entertainment.

Let these friends of the bridegroom arise! Oh, how we desperately need them in these days!

Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.

Peter calls it “the war against your soul” (1 Pet. 2:11).

“To some extent, the degree to which we actually groan for Christ’s return is a measure of the spiritual condition of our lives right now.”4

The gift of the groan keeps our hearts awake when they are inclined to sleep.

The inner groan keeps our hearts in love for God. It

keeps us hungry to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of Hi...

When Jesus walked the earth, fasting was associated with mourning.

It was an expression of sorrow, desperation, and brokenness typically over sin.

The invitation will be simple: Come and learn how to fast from the place of tasting and seeing that God is good and aching and longing for more of where that came

from! The Consecrated Bride is going to fast because She is so lovesick for her Bridegroom King, she cannot eat.

This new kind of fasting is hunger for fullness.

Fasting increases our hunger for God. It fuels our desires for a deeper encounter at His table.

It reveals how many

masters we are serving (1 ...

“If you do not crucify your flesh privately, your flesh will crucify you publicly.”

Without a lifestyle of fasting, we cannot cultivate the kind of hunger and extravagant desire for Jesus that he is so worthy of.

“If we do not feel strong desires for

more of God,” John Piper points out, “it is not because we have experienced him and are deeply satisfied. It is because we have worshipped the gifts he has given us for so long. We have stuffed ourselves with ...

The most dangerous enemies of the Consecrated Bride are not necessarily the evils of this life but the good gifts God has given us.

Luke 14:16-24.

We will always reject God’s invitation to journey deeper into His heart so long as

we lack or have an incomplete revelation of who He is and what He has provided for us at His table of encounter.

Many Christians hear the invitation to go deeper in God, to consecrate themselves further, to separate from the things of this world, and many of them

just can’t seem to get there. Why?

“You have made known to me the path of life. In your Presence is fullness of joy, in your right hand there are pleasures forevermore” (Ps. 16:11).

This is a real paradigm shift for the Consecrated Bride. We are no longer just allowing the Holy Spirit to convict us of the sin that separates us from God; we are constantly and continually sacrificing the good things of this life in

order to enjoy the legitimate pleasures of heaven.

Luke 14 that our

level of encounter is determining our level of surrender, my approach and response to the message of consecration has completely changed.

our level of surrender is determining our level of encounter.

When we attempt to obey God apart from intimacy with Him, we model ourselves after the Pharisees and our obedience is motivated by religious legalism.

If we ever find ourselves in a place of abiding in

Him without obeying His commands, we have fallen into hyper grace theology that will eventually lead into wickedness and sin. Thus the goal and ultimate desire of the Consecrated Bride...