The Young Man with the Flower Girl "Help! Help! Catch the quail for me!" Page 2

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2 "Help! Help! Catch the quail for me!" Page 2

3 "I have always had this quail long time ago since I finished preparing the spiritual sacrifice to the Lord. But a man of God came to me with God's message. He said to me, God wants your spiritual sacrifice to be borne on a living body as a living sacrifice, and brought to the altar of acceptance where all sacrifices to God are accepted by God and none shall be rejected on that altar. I asked him to show me where the altar of acceptance is located, and I will bear my spiritual sacrifice on my own body to that altar at once. But he replied to me, You are not the one chosen to bear that spiritual sacrifice in your body and to bring it to the altar of acceptance because your body is aged already. God has prepared a youth with a holy and acceptable body to bear the living sacrifice to the altar of acceptance. He will send the youth to you, and the youth will be told where the altar of acceptance is located. Then I asked again, how will I know the youth when he or she comes? And He replied, The youth will be the one that would bring back this quail to you. And now, God has brought you to me, bringing back this quail to me. You were the one in the prophecy." "These are some of the reasons I don't like helping people whom I don't know on the street. Putting forth my hand into such helps is always like getting oneself entangled into something else, and those being helped keep asking for more from their helpers as if one should practically do everything for them. Grandma, if you have an issue with God fix that with Him and don t involve me whom you barely know for an hour. Here is your quail, and I have mine own life to fix with God too. Have a nice day. Page 3

4 Why? How have I gotten myself involved in all this? I should have just passed and allowed the quail to be free. How was I to have known that the freedom of the quail would have kept me free from this woman? Page 4

5 If the elderly woman was nearly half the beauty and elegance of this young woman, I would have easily done everything to please her and her burden. This here is influence, and I will do everything, anything, for her. Page 5

6 Hello, dear fairest one. Hi, esteemed one. I have always thought that sunshine is only manly until now that I meet you. And your lights have cast out the dark shadows and glooms away from my inner being, which the traditional sun could not cast out from me. You are truly the light that has entered into me deeply beyond that which the sun s cumulative rays had. Tell me fairest one, what is the name I should use to immediately invoke this face of glory and beauty within my soul each time it sounds? Lily. Just call me, Lily. Page 6

7 Lovely. Even the syllables that make up your name sound like a pair of twins in musical notes. One syllable is either the prefix or suffix of the other. I would not hesitate to also sound my name... I already know your name, and I know everything I needed about you. I m stunned, but it also makes our getting to know each other easier and faster. It s now me getting to know you since you already know me. Kindly tell me where you came from and who you are. I am from Sharon where my relatives and siblings, who are flowers and lilies, dwell. You mean you are a literal flower? Yes, I am one of the lilies of the Valley there in Sharon. I was assigned to you by the Chief Rose, to guide you into presenting acceptable offerings to God with your holy body, which is your primary service. You were chosen to bear and to offer up spiritual offerings acceptable to God on behalf of yourself and others. Weird stories, if you ask me. But like I promised myself before approaching you, I am willing to do anything you want just to Page 7

8 please you in order to have you. And that includes listening to whatever you have to say even when it makes no sense, provided it makes up chatting with you. Your beauty and attractions already made all the sense I would need from you, and so your words doesn t have to further make sense to me but just to make chats with me would be enough to make my moments. Every spoken truth of God makes sense to those who believe, but unbelief and doubt find no sense in the wisdom of truth. It is truth that makes sense, which is wisdom. Wisdom and true senses come from the Truth of the Word of God. To have me, you don t have to please me but please God. I am to be given to whoever pleases God. And whatever pleases God is acceptable to God; and if it is acceptable to God then it pleases God. You have been chosen to offer things acceptable to God, which is to offer things pleasing to Him. Without Faith man cannot please God. I am sorry to have scorned the wisdom of what you just told me about yourself and my calling. I am still a stranger and babe in these ways of faith and God s matters. I come from a world where things are more pragmatic and physical in sense making. In that world, evidence means sense and nothing less than evidence. Truth or faith is neither without evidence, nor opposed to evidence. Rather true faith adopts evidences from God even when it cannot be seen on the natural levels, and truth declares both the things of God that cannot be seen and those that can be seen. The world only wants evidences that can be seen with the natural minds because the world limited itself to only sight. Yet there are Page 8

9 evidences of things that cannot be seen naturally, except by the Spirit and Word of God, and by faithful witnesses. The harder it is for you to accept the truths of faith, the more impossible it is for you to please God or present what is acceptable to Him. You must not be conformed to this world in your mind, but be transformed by renewing your mind away from the world s mentality; so that you may prove what is good and acceptable in the perfect will of God. But kindly explain the things you told me about you being a flower or lily because I have never seen or heard a flower becoming a woman or man before. Flower was what I became, not what became me. I am not a flower turned into a woman, but a woman made a flower of grace and love to those called to be accepted in the Beloved. As a man hands a flower of love to the woman he loves, so has the Lord handed us to His beloved ones chosen to be His bride. I am His given flower to you, indicating His love and proposal to you. Just that I am a living flower with attributes of a person, and I am fully going to be yours when you are dressed in wedding gown or white ready to be married to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. I desire to also become a flower of grace and love. How would I attain that? Page 9

10 First go back to that elderly woman whom you despised and forsook. Extend this light and grace you have seen here to her, and lighten up her life again. Just as I was sent to you, so were you sent to her but you rejected God by rejecting her. You would eventually lose me if you don t avail yourself to the service of the Lord. Now return to her with the consolation of the Lord for her who s presently mourning. I don t think leaving you for that elderly woman will be an easy thing for me to do. We don t easily get a woman recommending a man to leave her for another woman in the world of jealousy and strive among women over a man. But here you are suggesting I should leave this light for the darkness I left behind? I don t think so. But I will consider that instruction if you go with me back to the elderly woman, just as Deborah the prophetess was willing to go with Barak into the war zone where she sent him according to the Lord s instruction. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of feasting, as the bible said. If you have seen what that woman could become, you would not have described her the way you just did. She has been called to become one of the brightest priestess in the royal household, and she would be turned into a young and new pretty lady again if you help her. You did not notice how pretty she was when she was young because you did not pay enough attention to her. You must learn to see people by how the Lord sees them, and not just by how they presently appear in the natural. It s true that Deborah agreed to go with Barak to the war, but the victory was also given to a woman rather than to Barak. If I go with you, my light will outshine yours and I will take the crown of the credit that should have been yours in this matter. I am only sent to guide you, Page 10

11 not to follow you. I will be waiting for you where you would need me, and we are all with you because the Lord is with you even when you cannot see any of us. Now go and get her offering to the Lord, and bring it along to receive further directions. Behold, the Lord s Spirit will be upon you to direct your words to her when you meet her again. Yes ma am, what you are now thinking is true for I have returned to present my body to bear your spiritual sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God on your behalf, even as I am called. Arise now and shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. As the Bible said, Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts Page 11

12 your works with pleasure. Let your garments be always white; and let your head lack no ointment. Now place your spiritual offering and your blessings on me, and I will be on my way. Lord, Your servant will now appoint your chosen messenger to deliver my spiritual offering acceptably to You at the place You have chosen as Your House of Sacrifice and Altar of Acceptance. Let Your Spirit control this. These are my respect and spiritual offering to the Lord my God, and the bests I have among all to honor Him with. As you have considered me being a widow, the blessing of the God of the widows shall rest upon you. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you! Page 12

13 May He send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion! May He remember all your offerings and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah May He grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans! May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the LORD fulfill all your petitions! For as much as you have chosen to honor the Lord with your respect offering, the Lord will surely honor and respect you. Amen sir. Page 13

14 Oh dear Esteemed one, I now bear more respect for you because you bear respect offerings to the Lord our God. He who offers respect to our God is to be respected by all of us, for whoever honors the Lord shall be honored and whoever disregards Him shall be disregarded. Thanks fairest one, I owe this to your mentorship and grace. I have a question though. Why do you keep referring to me as esteemed one? You are a vessel of honor, and therefore you are honorable and esteemed. It is the honorable persons that should be allowed before the dishonorable ones, not the dishonorable ones before the honorable ones. In our kingdom, a person is termed dishonorable, not because of the person s status or capacity but, if the person lacks what it takes to recognize the values of giving due honor to those it is due and protecting the honor and values of all things in honor. For instance, if you don t possess your vessels or body in sanctification and honor, you are not an honorable person in our kingdom because you dishonored your own body in fornication and uncleanness. Page 14

15 And if you don t have respect for God s Word, for God s virtues, for God s dignitaries, for God s protocols and for God s orders, you would abuse their values among the honorable ones because to you it will be like anything goes provided it is simple and cheap in providing pleasures for the immediate cravings or lusts. A man or woman who does not place value in honoring the ways of honor would only care for just making herself feel good, expressing herself in whatever way she likes, and eating whatever or however she pleases without care. However, the greatest mark of honor in anyone within our kingdom is in the degree such one is willing to take up reproaches, pains and losses, just to honor and respect the Lord our God, even at the detriment of his/her own honor before all. Your honor is measured by how much honor you bring to God and how much you lose in doing so, not by how much you presently have. David the king almost went naked in the public while dancing with all his might to the Lord before all the young women and men watching. But instead of that diminishing his honor, rather his honor and esteem were highly raised even among those who saw him despising the security of his own honor in his dancing steps that glorified the Lord his God above all. Plain enough, but does that mean I am more honorable than the widow before the Lord? No, but means you have a more honorable role or calling than she attained in her lifetime and years spent so far. Your role is not your rank in our kingdom. A man s role as a bishop may be higher than the role of a church sweeper, but it does not mean the man s rank in our kingdom is higher than that of the church sweeper. Page 15

16 Your role is your temporary position as the calling of God during these times and seasons, but your rank is your eternal position when all saints and angels are gathered before God. Here roles are assigned by God s calling, talents and commitments to a course; but in our kingdom ranks are assigned by the degree of God s closeness, God s love, God s nature, God s humility and God s honor, found in any man or woman. I understand. John the Baptist s role was to baptize the Son of God, and yet the Son of God was far greater than John the Baptist. Even the least in the kingdom was greater than John the Baptist in ranks, although none had a role greater than John among all born of a woman. Yes, dear esteemed one. Alright then, teach me how to offer these gifts to God in acceptable manner that He will not reject. Learn from a man that offered God an excellent sacrifice, and that was Abel. He did it by faith, and it was more excellent than that of Cain his brother. I believe Cain also had some degree of faith because he too offered up his gift to God as his brother did. And yet Cain was not accepted. So how was the faith of Abel different from that of Cain or what kind of faith made Abel and his gifts accepted? Page 16

17 That which made Cain to offer up his offering to God was not true faith, but acknowledgement. True faith is not based on mere act of acknowledge, but of knowledge. Some could acknowledge God without knowing God, and yet they could be destroyed for their lack of knowledge of God. Many had acknowledged and worshiped God without knowing whom they worship, just as the Samaritan woman did according to John 4:22, or just as the Athenians did according to Acts 17:23. One of the days when it will be more evident that many people have been having acknowledgement rather than true faith in the Lord is in that day when many who are saying to Him, Lord, Lord, shall be prevented from entering into the kingdom of heaven, but only those who truly did the will of His Father in heaven by true faith shall be allowed into the kingdom. In that day you would realize that it s only those who truly knew God that God would know at the entrance into His everlasting Kingdom. On the other hand, what Abel had was true faith that was the reason he was able to please God with it. You would know it is true faith because it would have ability and willingness to please God indeed, and without faith it is impossible to please God. That faith in Abel was seen as respect for God in him, and God therefore respected Abel and his offering because in him God was pleased. He respected God from the best of what he had as his offering, and so he offered respect offerings to God just as you are about to do for the widow. Now these her marks inside my body are really becoming thorns inside my flesh. What is this? Page 17

18 Let no man trouble you with extra burden as long as you bear in your body the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ on behalf of the widow. Jesus Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses on His Body, which was later broken for us. And by His stripes we were healed. We are to bear one another s burden to fulfill the law of Christ. How do I get these pains and marks out of my body? When you get to the altar of acceptance, the Lord would take the widow s spiritual offering and yours from your body. Then the pains of the widow s marks would be taken away also, and instead of those marks would become the marks of honor and medals of glory on your inner man. Where is the altar of acceptance located? The altar of acceptance is located on the Lord s Holy Mountain, called the Mount Zion. In the book of Isaiah 56:7, the altar of acceptance is connected with the Lord s house called the house of prayer. But in the book of Ezekiel 20:40-41, the altar of acceptance is connected with the height of Israel. In the book of Matthew 23:19-20, the altar of acceptance would sanctify any gift that is on it irrespective of how unholy the gift must have been. It is the altar of acceptance, which means nothing on the altar is rejected or unacceptable to God. But how can unacceptable things make their way to enter through the gates of the holy place where that altar of acceptance is located? So Page 18

19 getting to reach the altar requires more than getting to reach the acceptability of God on the altar of acceptance. But is there a temporary measure I could take to mollify these pains until I reach the altar of acceptance on Mount Zion the Holy Mountain? Yes. The more you make the times around you to become Time accepted, the more the Lord will save you and help you and make His grace perfect in your weaknesses. For He said, I have heard you in time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I helped you. Behold now is the accepted time, and today is the day of salvation according to 2 Corinthians 6:2. Spend your time and days doing things acceptable and pleasing to God, and the more you offer up your times acceptable to God the more God who is glorified in your days would save and glorify you. Those pains would help to keep you on course, and because of them His grace would entrust more to you. Etc. Page 19