The Bible shows us that the first miracle manifested through Christ was at the wedding of Cana. In this atmosphere filled with love and celebration, Jesus moved “before His time” and turned water into wine. As a result of this new wine, the wedding guests began to exclaim, “You saved the best wine for last!” The book of John adds that Jesus did this, the first of His signs, and it revealed His glory (John 2:11)! This first miracle of water to wine had unstoppable effects. The greatest of these effects was that the disciples began to believe in Him.

 

A new wine paradigm is emerging and has been heralded throughout the Body of Christ. This “new wine” truth is not just about new structures, patterns and systems, it is a call to return to, what I call, the “face place” of God in pure and abandoned worship of our Bridegroom. The Bride, surrendered in love, will encounter Christ in ways which ignite faith and action like never before.

 

Truly, Jesus saved the best for last. The revelation of the healing power of His love will ignite the nations with revival.

 

 

I heard the Lord say, “I long to kiss My Bride.”

 

The Song of Solomon 1:2 records the bride's first desire: “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth – for your love is better than wine.” Her sincere longing was to be kissed by the bridegroom with the kisses of his mouth.

 

Between the Bridegroom, God, and us His Bride, this kiss isn't just a peck-on-the-head kiss or even a sweet cheek kiss. This kiss, the better-than-wine kiss of our lover, is a mouth-to-mouth kiss.

 

The cry of the Bride should be to experience this “face place” with God. His love is better than the effects of wine. Wine affects the mind and reason; it enters every part of the human body. However, it doesn't heal like Jesus' love can.

 

The Lord is releasing miracles to those who are “wedding ready.” We need to celebrate His every kiss as better than wine. Each revelation, each understanding, each strategy, fills us with the joy and wisdom of God. Song of Solomon 8:5 reflects a picture of us, as the Bride, being awakened to life in His presence:

 

“'Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved?' Beneath the apple tree I awakened you. …”

 

Our lives begin in the love of God and are sustained through His love.

 

 

In Numbers 12:8, we discover the secret of the intimate relationship between the Lord and Moses. The Lord spoke to the prophets in dark sayings and parables, but to Moses He spoke “face to face” or “mouth to mouth.” The words used in Scripture and in the Hebrew language indicate mouths that touch. Bible scholars teach us that this indicates God touched the heart of Moses by pressing His mouth against Moses' mouth. This kiss translated volumes of life.

 

From the kisses of His mouth, His life, His desires, His heart and His ways were revealed to a nation. Moses knew the ways of God, where the children of Israel only witnessed His acts. These mouth-to-mouth or face-to-face encounters empowered him to endure and to persevere with an obstinate and rebellious people. This kiss, the glory kiss of His presence, caused Moses' face to shine.

 

We have just entered into this new year 5780, the year of the power of pey (mouth). It's time to be kissed and then use our mouths to decree and declare what the Lord says. Roar and speak Heaven into the earth with a new authority and confidence. It's not only the year to open our mouths to decree, it is a year to use our mouths to love on the Bridegroom!

 

 

Drink deeply of His love until your heart burns with fire. His love in us and upon us becomes wine. We don't have to search for the wine or buy it with money; the Lord gives us the wine.

 

Psalm 104:15 (TPT) says, „You provide sweet wine to gladden hearts. You give us daily bread to sustain life, giving us glowing health for our bodies.” This new wine comes from the kisses of His mouth.

 

It is through these intimate exchanges that transformation begins. His kisses alter our old mindsets and paradigms and bring about renewal. It is the new wine which brings the new paradigm in our thinking. The light and love of Christ shines in our hearts and minds so that we can understand our identity and authority. We can emerge from the King's chamber of love with an understanding of the authority we have as sons of God and the Bride of Christ.

 

 

This kiss requires us to turn our faces toward our Bridegroom. We must turn toward Christ and away from idols and distractions. When the people of God turn their faces to Him, He promises to respond (2 Chronicles 7:14).

 

The turning of our faces represents the return of our whole hearts unto the Lord. As we seek His face, His face turns towards us with His kisses of life. As we choose Christ and acknowledge our dependency on Him, He then kisses and heals the land of our lives and our nations!

 

He has given us full access and invitation to His kisses. We must draw near enough to receive these kisses of wisdom, revelation and love. When we still ourselves in the bridal chamber, it will soon become a delivery room of purpose.

 

Ask for the kisses of His mouth. Be strengthened in His kiss. Come on, pray it with me, “Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth!”

 

Kim Black

As God's people, with the biblical decade ‘Pe’ we have entered a new era of the Kingdom of God, which requires to be led by the Holy Spirit into a higher realm of God's government, similar to what John experienced when he saw the door in heaven opened in the realm of the Spirit (see Revelation 4:1-2).

 

1 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.

 

 

=> An era is a fixed point in time from which a series of years is reckoned. An era can also be a memorable or important date or event in the history of a thing, person, or nation. An era is a system of chronological notation computed from a given date as basis. An era is a period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic feature or stage in development. <= (note: The text set in ‘=>’ is a partial excerpt from the book ‘A Triumphant Kingdom’, page 3 by Robert Heidler & Chuck D. Pierce.)

 

This new era includes, among other things, governing in the royal reign of Jesus, which arises from the dominion rest in God's domain (see Isaiah 32:1).

Isaiah 32:1:
1 See (note: Look – a new era begins!), a king will reign in righteousness and rulers will rule with justice.

Acting from the Dominion Rest of God

This rest has its seat in the facet of Jesus as King who sits at the right hand of God (see Mark 16:19).

Mark 16:19:
19 After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.

It is our mission to seek the place of this eternal government and to responsibly act from there (see Colossians 3:1-2).

Colossians 3:1-2:
1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

Dominion rest implies to live in the state of a higher level of faith and triumph of Christ.

The continuous 'stay' in this place of rest presupposes that a person has previously gone through different levels of personal breakthroughs (note: from the soulish to the spiritual realm) and has let go of one's own ideas.

This enables a saint to reign in Christ in challenging circumstances (see Colossians 3:1-4).
 

Dominion rest is also a stage of rest in the Father within the Sonship of Christ with the understanding that He is the ruler over all and has granted or conferred the freedom to govern with Him, so that one lives in the dimension of deep trust and peace – Shalom in the Holy Spirit.

The Spiritual Shift and the Apparent 'Loss'

We should be aware that this type of government is associated with a significant spiritual shift. This helps to move the value of time to a higher place according to God's biblical standard. As a result of this shifting, we get to a higher place within God's eternity with the authority (note: given responsibility) and identity assigned to us by God in Christ.

Here we cannot fail to first come into contact with a certain kind of 'loss' or 'decrease', because the Holy Spirit is about to lead us to the next destination in Christ.

It is in the plan of the Heavenly Father that we fill our future with the beauty He has given us, in order to walk in a new identity and greater authority as well as in a higher discernment of time.

 

The Heavenly Father is placing His ministering spirits (note: angels; see Hebrews 1:14) by our side, so that we are prevented from becoming hopeless as they help us to reach the place of new identity and greater authority in Christ.

Hebrews 1:14:
14 Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

 

Before we enter into our new identity and greater authority in Christ, the value of time will shift to a new place, which will lead to the glory assigned by God shining and thus entering the phase of 'God's suddenlies'.

Entry into the 'Suddenlies of God'

Entering the 'suddenlies of God' is caused by the fact that you correctly understand the biblical appointed times of God in a prophetic context and go deeper into them.

This knowledge is like a rope increasing in substance and encompassing greater breakthroughs in times of spiritual warfare according to Ephesians 6:12 (see Ecclesiastes 4:12 i.c.w. Deuteronomy 16:16-17).

Ephesians 6:12:
12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Ecclesiastes 4:12:
12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Deuteronomy 16:16-17:
16 Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread [Passover], the Festival of Weeks [Shawuot] and the Festival of Tabernacles [Sukkot]. No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed: 17 Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.
In connection with this entering into the 'suddenlies of God', the anointing of prophets plays an important role, because they communicate the revelatory light of truth, so that the recipients are able to enter by their free will into the new identity and authority in Christ.

It is similar to the time of Kish, the father of Saul, who lost his female donkeys and sent his son Saul with his assigned servant in search of them (see 1 Samuel 9:1-3).

 

1 There was a Benjamite, a man of standing, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bekorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin. 2 Kish had a son named Saul, as handsome a young man as could be found anywhere in Israel, and he was a head taller than anyone else. 3 Now the donkeys (note: represents the value of time – the right discernment of time) belonging to Saul’s father Kish were lost, and Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants with you and go and look for the donkeys.”

 

 

It is very important that we develop the correct discernment of time in a biblical context and return to the Father's presence with this developed discernment.

 

The apparent 'loss' in our lives is predestined by the Father in His wisdom, so that we return to the governing presence of Him with a new identity and greater authority as well as with a greater discernment of time. It is no coincidence that the tribe of Issachar is associated with the symbol of the donkey and the discernment of times (see Genesis 49:14 i.c.w. 1 Chronicles 12:32).

 

14 “Issachar is a rawboned (note: strong) donkey lying down among the sheep pens.

 

… 32 from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do – 200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command; …

 

While Saul and his father's servant were searching, Saul wanted to return to his father after some time because he could not find the donkeys (see 1 Samuel 9:5).

 

5 When they reached the district of Zuph (note: means ‘honeycomb, overflow’ => revelation), Saul said to the servant who was with him, “Come, let’s go back, or my father will stop thinking about the donkeys and start worrying about us.”

 

But the servant at Saul's side encouraged Saul to step into the presence of the prophet Samuel to receive guidance and revelation for the future (see 1 Samuel 9:6).

 

6 But the servant replied, “Look, in this town there is a man of God; he is highly respected, and everything he says comes true. Let’s go there now. Perhaps he will tell us what way to take.”

 

 

Saul's encounter with Samuel resulted in Saul deciding to invest first in the prophetic anointing into the Kingdom of God, from which came guidance, greater authority, and a new identity for him.

During the encounter with the prophet Samuel, Saul got trained by him in how to get to heavenly places and to operate from there (see 1 Samuel 9:7-10.14.19-20.25-26 i.c.w. 1 Samuel 10:1).

 

7 Saul said to his servant, “If we go, what can we give the man? The food in our sacks is gone. We have no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?” 8 The servant answered him again. “Look,” he said, “I have a quarter of a shekel of silver. I will give it to the man of God so that he will tell us what way to take.” 9 (Formerly in Israel, if someone went to inquire of God, they would say, “Come, let us go to the seer,” because the prophet of today used to be called a seer.)

10 “Good,” Saul said to his servant. “Come, let’s go.” So they set out for the town where the man of God was. …

14 They went up to the town, and as they were entering it, there was Samuel, coming toward them on his way up to the high place. …

19 “I am the seer,” Samuel replied. “Go up ahead of me to the high place, for today you are to eat with me, and in the morning I will send you on your way and will tell you all that is in your heart. 20 As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, do not worry about them; they have been found. And to whom is all the desire of Israel turned, if not to you and your whole family line?” …

25 After they came down from the high place to the town, Samuel talked with Saul on the roof of his house. 26 They rose about daybreak, and Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way.” When Saul got ready, he and Samuel went outside together.

 

1 Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it on Saul’s head and kissed him, saying, “Has not the Lord anointed you ruler over his inheritance?

 

Furthermore, Saul's stay in the prophetic anointing led to the lost donkeys being found without Saul having to continue searching for them (see 1 Samuel 10:2a-b).

 

2a-b When you leave me today, you will meet two men near Rachel’s tomb, at Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you set out to look for have been found. …

 

This means for us that if we are ready,

 

the seemingly lost things will return to their place (see Matthew 7:7).

 

7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

 

This maturity, which can be attained in this level as a saint (note: based on readiness/voluntary attitude of the heart), is recognized by the Father in the heavens who shows His favor – to those who humbly follow these three aspects and experience positive turnings in the form of ‘suddenlies of God’.

 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel Glimm