25. The Word of Our Hearts

© Daniel Yordy – 2020

I am now engaged in a most important and complex Bible study. I am creating four lists of related verses drawn out from the entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelation.

The first set of verses will be fire and all words that I find that are fire words, including judgement.

The second set of verses will be water and all words that I find that are water words, including life. Do you know how water is formed? It’s when you burn hydrogen, the most common of all elements, by fire in the presence of oxygen. The resulting outflow is water, H₂O, the water of life. Fire creates water; judgment brings forth life.

The third set of verses will be the most complex, because there are so many words related to earth and to kingdom.

The fourth set of verses will be air and all the words that I find that are air words, including liberty.

I will try to include all relevant New Testament verses, but I will include only those Old Testament verses that are most representative of God’s meanings. This is a huge task and I must get on with it, for I would call my God into my world.

This is much easier than my past studies when I used a concordance and wrote out every verse by hand, however, because I will use biblehub.com and I will only cut and paste. Nonetheless, having written the word over and over in the past, it now enters into me in a similar way even with the convenience of technology.

The Word is Jesus in our hearts, the Word by which we exist, the Word that we speak.

Bread is Word; Word is what we eat; that is, we drink Spirit and eat Word.

Yet this drinking of Spirit and eating of Word does not go into our bellies, but into our hearts.

In the beginning [the source, the generation of life] {Christ Jesus} in action was the word, and the word actively was towards God, and God was actively the word. – All through Him became, and without him not even one thing became that has become. (This is the order of words as John wrote them.) – And the word became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:1 & 4 & 14).

Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! (Psalm 139).

Sustaining all things by the Word of His power (Hebrews 1:3).

My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. The one eating My flesh and drinking My blood abides inside of Me and I inside of Him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live through the Father, so also the one feeding on Me, even he will live through Me. This is the bread having come down out from heaven (John 6:48-50).

The word, that is, Christ, the Word God speaks, is near you here and now, inside of your mouth and inside of your heart; that is, the word of faith, persuasion, and confidence which we proclaim (Romans 10:8).

Christ lives inside your hearts through faith (Ephesians 3:17). – Clearly, you are a letter of Christ written with Spirit ink upon the tablets of your hearts of flesh (2 Corinthians 3:3 – condensed). – The word made flesh again.

These verses are most familiar to us, for they rule all that I share.

What I am developing in this present series, now, is that Word is vast and is filled with more nuances and shades of meaning than we have ever considered.

Your awareness of yourself is a quality of Spirit, but it’s not really your essence. You are the story of words that you tell yourself about yourself. And that story of words takes place first inside your heart-mind. Your brain-mind (nous – we have the mind of Christ) works only out from the meaning given to it by your heart-mind (phroneo – let this same mind be in you).

In fact, word is communication, and thus we can define every form of communication as “word,” including a gentle touch, or seeing sorrow on someone’s face. All these things become thoughts inside of us, that is, word.

Word is the fabric of God; word is the fabric of our human soul. Word is how we are most like God, that is, Spirit Word.

“Letter of the word” is a quality of unbelief only, of humans trying to “figure out” and then do word by their own energeia. Receiving word as Jesus Himself through “let it be to me” is always Spirit Word.

Now, all of these things are fundamental to our knowledge of God and of ourselves and these concepts are the fabric of all that I write. Through these next ten chapters, at least, I now want to develop for us the meaning of “word” far beyond anything we have ever considered.

Consider the Word that makes up the fabric of an infinite God.

Consider 15 + billion humans having come out from Adam – every individual one is a single set of an infinite number of thoughts inside of God, thoughts that will become them every moment throughout eternity through the active and personal speaking of Jesus.

Think of my sixty-three years. I am astonished at how complicated the story of my life through only sixty-three years has been. If I were to write all of it, it would take many, many volumes the size of the one I am writing, a very condensed version of the words of my life-story.

The ages to come are not a humdrum nothingness. The action and adventure of our lives will increase mightily, not decrease. If we were to keep a daily journal of our lives through the Age of Tabernacles, writing one page a day, on average, of our thoughts and experiences that day, then the words of our lives through Tabernacles would fill 365,000 pages, or about 750 + volumes the size that my autobiography will likely be.

One human life – just getting started – a continuous expression of word in countless and varied forms and expressions.

And every single one of these expressions of word that are the daily lives of billions of humans for billions of years is found already inside of God, in the very fabric of His being.

Yet we must assume as well that there is also an infinite number of sets of infinite numbers of words inside of God, that are His fabric, that we will never ever know.

Then there is the far larger infinite number of words that are Christ Jesus personally, the Bridge and Connection between God and us. Every word of the Bible, as it is a Spirit Word found inside the Person of Jesus, is found inside this particular infinite count of words.

I usually don’t toot my own horn, rather, I place before you that set of requirements that I first place before God. One significant requirement that I place upon God to prove Himself to me is that Word, the unveiling of Word through the Spirit of revelation inside of me must be a word that increases daily, new every morning.

Almost all preachers we have ever heard preach the same knowledge of word from the beginning to the end of their careers. This habit comes from a lack of the knowledge of Jesus Sent into them.

Only one preacher in my experience brought to us a new and living word each time we heard him speak, and that was Sam Fife. Every next convention in which he would minister placed us on the edge of our seats, expecting a knowing of the revelation of Christ to come to us beyond what we had ever heard before.

It is only natural, then, that I require this same thing from God to me as a normal expectation, and thus this quality then becomes a “proof” of Christ in me towards you, that the unfolding of Word through me is never static, but always taking us ever further into the knowledge of God.

A God of infinite Word can be known no other way – new every morning.

What I mean to say is that the WORDS written upon our hearts are more countless and more varied and more extraordinary and more alive and more new and fresh and more nuanced in description and personality and expression and meaning than we could possibly comprehend.

This is the knowing of Jesus Sent into us.

Yet the weaving of the Words in our hearts that are the Person of Jesus together with the words of our own self stories, is more complete and more fantastic than we could imagine as well – it’s called union with Christ.

Next, let’s consider creation as it actually exists.

We now know that EVERYTHING is first electrical, that the substance of all matter is electrical charge. Nonetheless, even though electricity, that is, Spirit Energeia, is the power of all things that exist in both the material side of the universe as well as the spiritual side of the universe, the two utterly tied together, in spite of that, it is the substance of the elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, etc., along with the substance of spirit in the heavens that is the fabric of our human lives. And that substance is word.

Spirit always carries Word inside of itself and all expression of Spirit is Word. Word always comes inside of Spirit and the expression and substance of all things is Word.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world (Psalm 19:1-4 – NKJV). – Indeed, His invisible qualities of unending power and divine Personhood are clearly perceived from the creation of the cosmos, being understood by the things made (Romans 1:20 – rough JSV).

I don’t teach much on Biblical numerology directly; nonetheless, I’m sure you have picked up on the fact that such thinking fills my perception of things. Here, however, I want to bring in the Bible meaning of the number four, which is the natural creation – as, the four corners of the earth, etc.

Now, non-Christian humans have perceived, completely in line with David and Paul’s claims, that the bridge between the invisible qualities of God and our human lives contains four elements, fire, water, earth, and air. These things are considered “pagan” by Christians, however; why I no longer know. Because, you see, I am finding that these four elements fill the Bible and are always speaking of Christ as that Spirit Word which connects God with us and us with God.

This is just one of the many ways that an intellectual Christianity, coming out from the serpent’s words, “Let’s talk about what God might have meant by what He said,” has robbed us of the true knowledge of Christ our life.

Now, I have been arranging these four terms and the chapters about them in different arrangements, having moved them around several times in relation to each other. Yet as I look again at the Shadowfell trilogy, which I intend to quote in the upcoming chapters, I see that Juliette Marillier has ordered them as – Fire – Water – Earth – Air. As I have laid my thinking out, now, by this arrangement, I see that this is, in fact, God’s order. As Paul said, even those who are not Christians perceive the invisible things of God inside their own spirits through considering how things are made.

Okay – I am big on setting a solid and firm foundation for the things I teach, especially things as important as this. And so everything in this letter thus far is that foundation. Now, I want to leave that foundation and simply develop the topic of these next ten letters.

Word as Fire comes first. It is the electricity of creation. It is the Energeia of our lives. It is the judgment of God.

Word as Fire is the scary part of God, however, and why we never try to connect with Him separate from the Lord Jesus Christ. You do not touch the generation of all electricity without the chosen Buffer in-between. It’s nothing personal, but you will be fried. Yet it is personal, for attempting to enter into “Christ” through any means other than Jesus is to hold God in the deepest contempt, to cut Him in the very core of His Heart.

Fire is the fire of incense, that fire that consumes all that is offered to God and turns it into the sweet-smelling aroma of Christ in every place. Fire is that quality of forgiveness by which we walk together as believers. Fire is our joyful willingness to give space to one another.

Fire gives light and warmth. Fire is the power by which plants turn carbon dioxide into the building blocks of all life on earth. Without the burning of the sun, no natural life could exist. Yet without carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, that fire could never give life to anything. By 1900, carbon dioxide levels were getting so low in the atmosphere that the extinction of life could be forecast as only a couple hundred years away. Your “carbon footprint” is saving life on earth.

Fire removes that which blocks between any human and the knowledge of God. We understand such fire very specifically, however. It is refusal inside of ignorance, unbelief, and fear that blocks the knowledge of God. Because we KNOW that the Atonement is already complete, we never see God-Fire as “burning up” anything of that person. Rather, God-Fire must burn up their false claims to a meaningless not-Christ self-identity.

As such, the fire of God really burns. But it never burns them; it only burns away the nonsense which they have seized hold of with all fear and boasting.

As the burning flame dances its changing shadows upon the wall, so God as Fire can, in a limited way, be known as the “Master of Shadows,” always catching you off-guard. We do not take this quality into accusing God of being the “trickster,” however. Rather, as David said, God makes Himself perverse towards those who treat Him and others perversely. In other words, you don’t mess with God and you don’t mess with people, for you will find yourself very “messed with” in return.

To those who bless, reaping what you sow is life. To the perverse and those who curse, reaping what you sow is fire. And this is how we understand many of the Old Testament lines about fire.

 Word as Fire, then, is the most terrible part of God’s expression. And here we will look at the bringing of justice to every evil action, to every robbery from another person for self-exaltation. God requires justice, and justice and all restitution WILL COME to every evil action done in the darkness. Forgiveness requires justice first before it can be complete. This is FIRE; indeed, it is a very lake of Fire.

For our God is a consuming Fire (Hebrews 12).

Word as Life is the direct result of Word as Fire. It’s not that Word as Life follows after Word as Fire, it’s that Word as Fire is always turning into Word as Life in every moment.

I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I but Christ.

Fire immediately and always becomes LIFE.

The water of life, the river of life, the washing of water as the word. Water reflects image. Water quenches thirst. When we are thirsty, it is water we desire. Speaking Christ our life, that is, the Jesus Secret, is how word quenches our thirst, for it fills us up with Jesus Himself.

If anyone thirst, let him come to Me and drink.

There is nothing more life-giving than to speak to people in showing them how Jesus has always shared their life with them and how their innermost heart has always been Jesus Himself.

Water comes in so many forms, in ice and flowing rivers and oceans and tears and water vapor and rain and hail and snow. Even Blood is mostly water, the life of Christ flowing from one to the other inside of His Body.

One of the most important qualities of Word as Water is rapid and unexpected change. A placid stream turns instantly into a raging current as it plunges over a rock ledge. To know Word as Water, even to be Word as Water is to be adaptable to change quickly and joyfully.

One of the greatest joys of my life was to start at the beginning of a mountain stream and to hike down its course, over rocks and among trees, as it tumbles down the mountain side, sharing its every turning joy with it.

I am talking about the Lord Jesus Christ written all through my heart and flowing out from me into you.

Word as Water, then, is also the words of our life story, ever changing, ever flowing, a continuous bubbling expression of Father arising in us as fountains of water.

We could get carried away, as Paddle to the Sea (one of my favorite childhood books), by the flowing of the Words that are our Father. We could even get caught up in writing poems that will put the shame to Paradise Lost, or symphonies that out-sing Handel and Bach.

And as we join the singing of Father with the singing of this one person’s heart, so we are sent as Jesus is sent as Words of LIFE into all.

Word as Earth is the foundation of God, the Rock of our salvation, the ground into which our roots grow deep, rooted and grounded in Love.

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 7).

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we looked upon His glory, glory as the One-Seed alongside of Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).

Earth is many things; it is rock and stone, foundation and root, solid and unmoving, fixed and certain. Fire burns and then goes out; water falls and dries; and wind comes and goes; but earth remains, fixed and dependable.

Earth is covenant written upon stone; earth is Word written upon our hearts of flesh, fixed and certain, definite and unmoving.

Earth is shelter and protection; earth is where we live.

And earth is all the ordering of it’s inhabitants, all their interactions together, their vast ecosystems of relationships. Earth is kingdom.

To know Word as earth, one must go deep, deep down into the recesses of heart. It is to know the innermost thoughts of God, His deepest desires. To plant Word as seed into the ground, one must dig deep and place that Word into prepared soil that it might spring forth and bear fruit.

Fruit comes out of that which is planted in the earth.

You can see how many incredible directions we can go with Word as earth, more verses, I suspect, than any other form of Word, prolific and abundant, fruitful in every direction.

Word as air is that which goes where it wishes and asks no one. Word as air is the blowing of the Spirit, spontaneous and uncontrolled.

Do not wonder that I said to you, ‘It is inevitable for you to be conceived from above.’ The wind blows where it wishes the sound of it you hear, but do not know from where it comes and to where it goes, thus is everyone having been conceived out of the Spirit (John 3:5-8).

Word is Pneuma, that is, Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2 Corinthians 3:18).

Wind drives the ships across the sea; wind lifts the eagle high above. Wind is the air beneath our wings. By wind we soar in the heavens, in the realm of Spirit.

God intends to prove that control brings only chaos before this age is finished. We will demonstrate, then, that order comes only out of liberty. And inside of liberty is all abundant prosperity.

And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day (Deuteronomy 8:18).

As I look at this chapter, I see that it is filled with earth words. And thus, just as fire is always bringing forth life, so kingdom is always bringing forth liberty and inside of liberty, abundance.

The “power to get wealth” was a libertarian form of governance, the only governance of complete freedom ever established before the modern age. There was no political government whatsoever. If the children of Israel had followed God’s order of liberty, they would have become the most prosperous people on earth, for liberty is the cause of abundance.

But they demanded a political government; they wanted to be ruled by violence, in order to be like all the poverty-stricken nations around them.

The Spirit is the source of all abundance; the Spirit is found only in perfect liberty.

Air is also voice, the sounds of speaking. Air is the speaking forth of Christ, the wisdom coming to every man. Air is instruction and learning.

Air is the directions we are going; air is the seasons of our life. By air and by water, all things belonging to us will come back again.

 Let’s bring all this back into the meaning and purpose of this letter, that all these things, Word as Fire, Word as Water, Word as Earth, and Word as Air, are speaking of that incredible and vast Word written upon our hearts that is the Lord Jesus Himself. Yet it is words and phrases as well, words that we can know and speak and believe on in confidence.

And as we look at these four things and see all their interactions together in the natural realm, so we also see how every word God speaks interacts together inside our hearts and flows out from us through the speaking of our mouth.

Yet Word, although fixed as a Rock, is never static; Word is that which is Sent to do its work in all creation. And that Sending is Spirit, the entrance of God through our hearts as a living Spirit Word.