All His Ways Are Perfect
by Daniel Yordy
www.dyordy.com

In this letter, I am stepping aside from an introductory sharing of the life of Christ inside of us that this series of letters has been, and I want to open briefly the veil onto what God is really doing. Therefore, I will refer to things in the Word that I will not develop in this short letter, but assume your understanding. Please bear with me, what God is doing in our lives right now is so extraordinary and so age-shattering that I would be amiss to be silent.

I have been reading the "Annie" visions, again. Some of you may be familiar with them, a series of visions given to a young lady under the covering of R. Edward Miller in Argentina in the late 60's. These visions have formed a significant part of the definition of my life over the last 30 years, having obtained them from my mother in the mid-70's. Always before, the goal set forth in these visions was just beyond reach, something to hope and long for, oftentimes the very catalyst that took me forward, determined to be a part of what God is doing in the earth. I hope to post some of these visions on dyordy.com, soon.

But now, as I read them again, they are no longer a description of something to long for, but a confirmation of what God is doing in me right now.

This is the time of fulfillment. The appearing of Jesus is now. What is happening in our lives is momentous and definite.

In reading the Annie visions, it is possible to come under a sense of condemnation, "Oh, dear God, have I prevented in some way, Your doing what You would in my life?" It would be a mistake to yield to that temptation. Wednesday night, I was awake before the Lord for some hours, battling in the Spirit for a position in Him -- He in I and I in Him -- a place of knowing and seeing. Further bonds of not seeing all things through God were broken. Then, Thursday morning was chapel at school.

The believers in the school where I teach do move in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and there is an anointing of seeking God as good as any in these realms of the church. And in speaking of them, I do not want to disparage or condescend in any way, they are precious brethren, beloved of the Lord Jesus. However, their experience of God consists of one foot and one eye looking into the Holy Place, but the rest of themselves in the outer court. Entering fully into the Holy Place requires separation from the world, and they love the world too much to do that. Now, the Lord does move wonderfully in the chapel, but there is so much mixture, so much seeing by the natural light of the sun with an outer court and worldly view.

So, while I rejoice in what the Spirit of the Lord is able to do among the students, I allow the "pressure" from the "Christian unbelief" to press me further into the revelation of Christ that He is opening to me now. In other words, to escape from what is often painful, I wrap myself in Jesus until I am lost in Him.

Before going to school that morning, for some reason, I had thought that if I could share one thing with my seventeen year old son to send him on into life, it would be this: "Always, always, son, justify God in whatever happens in your life. No matter what comes at you, justify God. He orders all and He is always perfect in His doings. No matter how hurt or confused you might be, how much a success or failure, do not blame anyone, but find God right."

During the praise, I entered into the Lord's presence. Three things came together for me: the Annie visions -- that God is doing something incredibly awesome in and through His sons upon this earth, reproducing His inner being inside of them, and we can embrace or refuse every thing He sends. If we embrace it, we receive all the life and power that God intended, if we do not, it passes, and we never get a chance at that provision again. Second, the thought: justify God in all things. Third, my life of seeking God through His people in community, in the wilderness, through loss, through glory, through years of Holy Place teaching and anointing, through great failure and pain and crushing loss, through God taking me all apart and putting me all back together again.

In that moment, I justified God as I never have before. "Father, all things You have ever taken me through are perfect. All Your ways regarding me are perfect beyond measure. Not one thing in my life should have been different, neither more nor less, but precisely everything I have ever needed You brought my way in such a way that it could not possibly have been better. Oh God, You are holy, in all Your ways concerning me, You are perfect. I have not missed nor lost one thing You intended for me."

In that moment I knew the holiness of God as I have never known. At the same time, I felt that I had taken an irreversible step forward into the fulfillment of all God has spoken, into the parousia of our Lord.

Then, the understanding of what was happening in my experience came to me from years of sitting under a Holy Place word. For me, in God's dealing with me (and for each, His dealings take a different shape, yet they all issue from the same place), this was the final fruit of the altar of incense before the veil. It is the ascension of that incense by which we enter forever into the Holy of Holies.

Do not think that I imagine myself to be something I am not. I am a simple-hearted, silly, and often frightened man. But inside of that human shell, I fiercely believe in Jesus. And all things that He speaks, He fulfills in me.

I am a human vessel, in all the messiness of my human person. But I am filled on the inside with all the fullness of God and I am encased on the outside with the nature and power of God. God's throne is my covering; I am the fulfillment of the Ark of the Covenant. What I might see with my natural eyes makes no difference whatsoever. I stand utterly in faith in what God speaks, and I call those things that be not as though they are.

Before I was conceived in my mother's womb, God had already glorified me in all the glory of Jesus. If you're not sure about that, read Romans 8:30. Then having already glorified me in Jesus, God made me subject to vanity, He placed me under Adam's sin, and He created me human and weak. This is the perfection of God. It is here that God triumphs, here in all of my weakness that the power of Christ is perfected in me. Never again will I see any part of my life or my history except through the incredible wonder of this thing God has done. The perfection and triumph that God seeks cannot be found in heaven. It can be found only in the revelation of Jesus in our mortal flesh.

We must engage with God to change how we see so that we see all things out from the position of the ark of the covenant -- a human vessel, filled on the inside with God, covered on the outside with God, not as a future hope, but as a present reality, and with the throne of His mercy as our covering. From that place, in the Holiest of All, we see all things. We are no longer going towards the Holiest, we are moving out from the Holiest.

Our heart is the throne of His mercy. In the chapel, a precious fellow teacher read from Isaiah 6, where Isaiah saw the Lord seated upon His throne and felt as a man with unclean lips. He led the student body in a time of "repentance." I stood there thinking, "No, no, you are not an Old Testament human. You are already clean by the blood of Jesus. You are, you're very heart, is the throne upon which God sits. Isaiah was seeing you! Do you not understand how holy you are?"

I am the Ark of the Covenant, but my heart is the Mercy Seat.

The truth is, that is who we have always been, we just could not see it because God had not yet opened our eyes. There is a season for everything. But now is the time of His appearing, our eyes are opened to see Jesus as He is. Seize upon the seeing that you must have. Timidness is not an option right now. Any thought of unworthiness or littleness or maybe-maybe must be ruthlessly cast down. We are not making something up. We stand utterly on what God speaks in the New Covenant. Christ is my life, I have no other life. I am filled with all the fullness of God. Rivers of living water flow out of me. I cast down all things that oppose or limit God, all things that suggest, "Maybe in heaven, God, but not here, not now, not in me."

It is here, it is now, it is in me. All things that God has spoken into this earth are fulfilled in me.

Corruptible must put on incorruptible; mortality must put immortality in this age and on this earth. Nothing is more certain or real.

What does it mean to see all things out from the Holy of Holies, never again leaving that Holiest Place? I don't have a clue; I'm just beginning to learn. Even re-writing this message three days later, I am having to take myself back from the altar of incense "seeing" where I have been travailing since Thursday night, into a "seeing" out from the Holy of Holies as the Lord showed me.

From here on, I will contend with God until I see as He sees. To the one who questions, "Is this really the time," my answer is simple. If I die, I will die in faith, believing God for the fulfillment in me right here right now of all that He speaks, and if I live, I will continue to call those things that be not as though they are.

There is nothing else that interests me.

And the Jesus who fills me says to you, "Seize the time. Today is the day of My appearing."

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I have added the transcripts of the first three messages in the "What Is Man" series onto the front page www.dyordy.com. I will be adding the remainder over the next few weeks. If you haven't read the "Current Word" on www.sonsofgod.com, please take the time to do so. I have never met these people and know little about them, but God is speaking the same word through them and I know they share the same heart and vision that I have.

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