Lena Journals to Psalm 84 Today

What is and who are His dwelling places? Let’s find out from His word….

Isa 66:1 This is what the LORD says: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you ever build me a temple as good as that? Could you build a dwelling place for me? (speaking with King David)
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—
John 15:17 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
Matthew 26: 61 "This fellow said, "I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days."
Matthew 27:51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split,
John 2:21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body.
Col 1:18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
2 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
Eph 2:21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
Romans 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
John 17: 20"I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me because of their testimony. 21My prayer for all of them is that they will be one, just as you and I are one, Father—that just as you are in me and I am in you, so they will be in us, and the world will believe you sent me. 22 "I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are—23I in them and you in me, all being perfected into one. Then the world will know that you sent me and will understand that you love them as much as you love me.
Behold we are His dwelling place, the place of long ago he choose to abide in forever, human temples of the Holy Spirit, Temples made without hands.
Matthew 14:58 "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this Temple made with human hands, and in three days I will build another, made without human hands.'"
2 Samuel 7:5 "Go and tell my servant David, 'This is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build me a temple to live in?
Amos 9:11 "On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old;
Acts 15:16 'After this I will return And will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, And I will set it up;

Do we need to wait till we all get to heaven to rejoice in His temple, or His house?
If as it is, we are the house of God, what must come down in order to be joyful in the courts of our God?
Attitudes, doubt, unbelief, and unthankful-ness do.
So many (deceptively) wait for the outward in order to change their thinking. They’ve be taught naturally speaking in natural mindedness, we’re all born into naturally, that the outward will change the heart feelings inwardly.
Listen, the struggles on the outward are our opportunities to be the Holy House of God the place His glory dwells in, buildings on earth.

1 Peter 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Again I write, the outward is not what God is interested in developing in us. He’s a God of the heart, of the heart issues, out of the heart flow the true issues of life! He is into using the outward that comes, that already is, to purify the inward heart issues.
My Peace I give unto Thee, not as the world gives, give I unto Thee.

John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

It is not the desire of the Lord that we continue to think we just can’t wait to be taken away from here and brought straight to heaven, where the present problems go away, so we can get out and escape the present situations.
God is glorified in the fact that the midst of whatever, we are well in spirit, soul and body. We choose Him, we choose wellness, even when the outward is dark on all sides.
If it is well, if we are able, through Christ, to be made well and be made whole, and even be restored inside of chaos, in this He is glorified. That inside of a dark place, we can be made into light, and actually have light shine and enlighten us. In that place of reliance of faith and trust, He is made known, there He is greatly glorified, lifted up and exalted on high.
This is not a magic appointment made for us or a wad randomly waved over us, as appointed to blessings. It is for those who choose to believe in His power alive in them to overcome.

Our Father is glorified when a dead stick brings forth buds, which bring forth fruit.

What joy God has when His children choose to really believe Him and in any and every thing they rejoice in their faith in Him. What glory He receives from the children He has, arising in the power He’s provided and has been inviting them to partake in, for their earth journey. He receives honor when they live as He has made plans and provision for them to live, by faith in Him in.

How can a valley be a spring? Does it miraculously change into a spring? Or was it ever really a valley? Is what we walk through what it is, according to our faith and perceptive perception?

How does one get strong in a weak place? How do the weak become strong? Do supernatural muscles develop? Do their outward trials change? Or do the trails change into tests that they overcome and pass rather than fail?

Decisions, decisions!
Multitudes in the Valley of Decisiveness. We’re all here everyday.

He will.
He did.
I will?
I do?
When Jesus came to the earth, lived, and died, then rose from the dead and ascended to heaven, did the whole system on earth instantly change? Did the government instantly change and from then on to now, have all government systems changed into being righteously ruled?
Why not?
If He fought, and won, and overcame, why has it not physically changed?
He did not come to merely change natural governments, and deal with natural opposition. This will happen, but it was not and is not the prioritial order of His kingdom rule.
He had to deal with the root systems of corruption, change spiritual governments, that man could begin to choose, having the freedom to effect natural governments by being under Divine government.
If freewill man would choose to be governed spiritually speaking from the inside out, the world would change both inwardly and outwardly.
Why else is satan so interested in keeping man distracted and religious and focused on the outward?
If the inward is neglected and never dealt with, there will be no outward change made, no victories won, God will not be exalted on earth.
So, as Jesus said for example, when we love the unlovely, we begin to deal on the inward, on a personal level. If and when each of us deals with the inward on a personal level, we will begin to unify with Him. As enough of us are willing to deal on the inward man and setting up the Divine Government of God there, in the holy temple made without hands, the Temple of God who we are; then the world will begin to be effected without hindrance. His power flowing form the inside of us will be as a river, that will rise and it will build into a strong sweeping current, everything in its pathway will be swept away into it.
This has not really happened in a significant manner yet. Man has been too busy centering on the outward and has followed after deception, being led into thinking that if circumstance changes that is where there will be true peace. This is just NOT so.
Eternal peace is inward, and must happen on the inside first.
Outward peace is not the same as eternal peace. It is more like relief form say taking a pill for a neck ache, the pain leaves for a time, but the pill did not heal or deal with the problem.
World peace is waiting for sons and daughters of the Most High God to allow the inward dealing of the Spirit of Christ.
Once we all get this, watch out darkness, watch out evil, watch out circumstance, the flood waters of His Spirit will break forth!
The earth is waiting for men to allow the words of Christ to live within the true and Holy Temple of God.

Isa 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD As the waters cover the sea.
Hab 2:14 For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.


Why shall they not hurt or harm or destroy? Is it because they don’t touch or approach to touch the righteous?
Or is it because the righteous are fully clothed and covered with the armor and the glory of God, is it because they can take sin upon them and be victorious over it, unaffected by its power over them, its power to take their lives and consume them?
Or is it because they forgive easily and do not hold a grudge? Is it because they bless those who curse, without struggle, and do not judge situations at face value? Is it because they can see beyond people to a greater fight, that of the stealing away of an eternal soul? Is it because they do not take things personally, and they live life as dead men, offering their lives to God continually, not as their own, but as His own (-ership)?
They are unhurt-able in Him. Yes, they make take a lickin’ or two, yes they may be mocked for being and doing good, they may experience loss, or be they may be imprisoned, but their love can never ever be taken, thus they suffer no eternal harm, which is the greatest harm a soul could suffer if allowed. They know this the harm their enemies are looking to inflict upon their lives.
Father make us One in this.
That we would love, that we would keep faith, that we’d believe in Your strength - no matter what. That we’d submit our lives to the inward dealings of God, and unify with others who will do the same, that we’d become a strong community of witness. Father Help us become one’s who exalt Your Holy Name in whatever we are involved in, whatever surprises us, or wherever we go in life.
Ezekiel saw the flood waters of the Spirit flow from the church sanctuary (who we all gathered together as one in Christ are), he then saw these same waters rise up and go outside of the Inner Temple. He saw them begin to fill and heal the earth. The earth needs healing from these waters, where men and women allow God to flow from their insides out.