Good evening, Chuck. Thanks so much for being here and for the kind reply. I can't get away of the beauty of Jesus and the life He has called us to, and placed us in. It is stunning, breathtaking really. Each moment really is filled with glory when we behold Him. Amen🙏🏾🌸. Blessings, brother.
Sister, this was not just something to read, it was something to sit with, pray through, and let the Holy Spirit gently search and restore. The way you wove scripture, revelation, and personal reflection revealed the finished work of Christ so beautifully, not as religion, but as living union with him. The imagery of the temple cleansing, the call back to prayer, and the reminder that the glory now abides within us stirred both conviction and deep peace in my spirit. I could feel the Lord inviting me closer with every section. This writing carries weight, anointing, and truth. If this is a glimpse of what’s coming in your book, it’s going to bless and transform many. Thank you for being obedient to share what the Spirit is unfolding in you.
Sister, I love you so much. I'm grateful you are here and that this glimpse of what is unfolding stirred you, which is what I believe the Lord is doing in all of us. The Baptism of the Spirit has in many respects been forgotten but we see here that it is the power that enables us to be witnesses for the cause of Christ and His Kingdom. When allow the anointing to have His full expression in us, we pray in the Spirit and rivers of living water flow through the temple and outside it bringing life and light to all it touches. We are being brought into alignment, filled fully with the fullness of Him and I believe we will see increasing glory as we prepare for His coming🙏🏾
Hello Christina, Im so glad you are here and that this word has ignited a flame in you. I'm grateful for your kind reply. I am deeply encouraged by the Lord and what He is doing in and through us. Truly, we are filled in and by Him and the understanding of this allows us to walk in His confidence and authority. We can use the name of Jesus to evict those things that try to linger outside the temple, that attempt to attack and condemn us, rightly applying the blood of Jesus over the doorpost. Amen. God bless you🙏🏾🌸
My darling sister, you pour from a rich depth because you drink continually from the Fountain of Life. When I think of a biblical picture that reflects you, I see Mary, the one who chose the better portion, (more suitably, the one thing) who sat at Jesus’ feet and lingered there, fully attentive to His voice. I see Mary who broke the alabaster box, holding nothing back, pouring out her all in worship. Your heart is marked by a relentless pursuit of Him, and your desire is evident in worshipping Him without reserve. I have only skimmed through this and will be coming back to it. May the Holy Spirit continue to grant you insights and understanding, and may the Lord strengthen you to make this book a reality. Blessings and love to you.
Your words are balm to my soul—such a sweet confirmation of what the Lord has been pressing into my heart.
TheOneThing—The good portion. It's kind of funny that He gave me this name for my publication. Even in this moment, it's a warm hug of confirmation. I'm giggling inside, really. Because this is the ministry He has sown in me.
Oooh, I am overjoyed there is more unveiling happening. I am grateful for you, Sis🩷🩷🩷. I love you, sooo!!
Andrea, thank you for sharing something so rich and prayer-soaked. This truly reads less like an article and more like a lived meditation, the kind that comes from walking with a truth long enough for it to reshape how you see Christ, yourself, and the Church.
Your reflection on Jesus entering the temple before cleansing it really stayed with me. That subtle shift reframes sanctification: He doesn’t cleanse from a distance; He comes close first. Presence precedes purification. That alone removes so much fear and striving.
To your questions, a few gentle reflections:
• When we don’t fully rest in Christ’s finished work, the “temple” can feel vulnerable, not because His work lacks power, but because our hearts revert to self-effort. We start managing instead of abiding. Grief work has taught me similarly: healing deepens not by control but by surrendered presence.
• If we truly believed the Spirit abides rather than visits, prayer would likely feel less like an emergency hotline and more like continuous companionship. Authority would flow from intimacy, not urgency.
• And when prayer and praise grow quiet, I don’t think God withdraws, but we often lose awareness of His nearness. The cost is relational more than positional: less peace, less clarity, less shared joy.
Also, regarding writing while living the message. yes! Many of us find the book writes us before we write it. Formation often precedes articulation.
Thank you for the honesty, depth, and reverence here. This feels like sacred ground rather than mere content.
Ze, Thank you for it entering this word with me!! That kind of presence is a gift I don’t take lightly, and I’m always grateful for our conversations.
What you shared about Jesus coming close captured the very heartbeat of what I was trying to articulate. His nearness is not a threat but a refuge, intimate, hands-on, and safe. When we see Him near rather than distant, fear dissolves, which is balm for the weary heart.
Your reflections on abiding versus managing struck me deeply. I know personally the subtle drift back into self-effort is so human, yet so costly to peace. I especially appreciate you sharing your experience in grief work, particularly how healing is not forced into being, but received through surrendered presence. Our Lord is so patient, gently healing us from the inside out. I think of His love, how He waits on us. He waits on us.
And your description of prayer as companionship rather than an emergency line, yes, yes, and more yes🙏🏾
Worship is what we were created for, and prayer is the sacred space of communion where that worship breathes.
As we behold Him, we learn to walk in authority that is wrought out of intimacy. In this way, we are aligned with the rhythms of grace, walking in His power, and cloaked humility.
A Scripture came to mind, “A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not quench” (Isaiah 42:3). His authority is gentle, restoring, and rooted in love.
All of this points back to His love and His design: we are created by Him, for Him, to live from within His embrace.
Lastly, thank you for affirming that the book writes us before we write it. This season feels very much like formation giving way to overflow.
Cole, thank you for reading, commenting, and sharing. It took me a bit to hit send, but I am glad I did. I pray the Lord is glorified in these words and that we simply see and enjoy Him in all His fullness🙏🏾
Hello Joycelyn, I’m grateful for this connection and for your kindness in reading and commenting. It means a great deal to me. My prayer is to steward this word and this work with humility and a heart fully yielded to the Lord. May Jesus be most glorified🙏🏾🌸
This piece carries the unmistakable mark of grace—unhurried, Christ-centered, and saturated with Scripture rightly divided. Its greatest strength is not its theological depth alone, but its clarity of union: Christ in us, the Temple complete, the glory returned and abiding.
What makes this writing compelling is that it does not strive to convince; it reveals. It leads the reader gently from cleansing to communion, from authority to prayer, from effort to rest. If this is a glimpse of what the book will hold, it will be a timely and necessary work—calling believers back to the simplicity, power, and intimacy of the finished work of Christ. Amen 🙏
Pastor Leslie, thank you, truly. Your words feel like a benediction over the work. I’m deeply grateful for the care with which you read, and for how clearly you discerned the heart of what the Lord is unveiling.
This work has been a long time coming, and seeing it now on the page makes my soul sing.
If this work calls even one person back to the simplicity and intimacy of the finished work of Christ, and encourages them in the fellowship and blessing of the Spirit, then it has done what it was sent to do.
Thank you for your encouragement, your covering, and your Amen; it is received with much humility and joy🙏🏾🤗🌸
Wow… thank you for sharing this so openly and deeply. I’m struck by how tender yet uncompromising your heart is—how you linger over Jesus’ authority and zeal while simultaneously inviting us into the intimacy of His Spirit dwelling in us. What really resonated with me is how you connect the cleansing of the temple to our everyday lives....the “thieves” that sneak in when prayerlessness or distraction creeps in, and then remind us that His presence doesn’t just visit, it abides. That perspective shifts everything. It challenges me to consider not just the act of prayer, but the posture of my heart: am I leaning into His finished work, letting His life flow through me, or am I trying to carry things in my own strength?
Thank you, Victoria, for your gracious reply. I agree; it truly does shift us. The more we come to know Him, the more we begin to see that it is not simply the cross, but also His resurrection and ascension that continue to shape and inform our lives now.
We are not only a people redeemed from sin, but a people raised into newness of life and seated in Him, learning to live from that finished reality.
Like you, I am leaning into the completeness of the finished work, which means living in the holy tension of being spirit, having a soul, and dwelling in a body. This awareness keeps drawing me back to dependence, not striving, but abiding where Christ’s life within us becomes the Source of all I do.
I believe this is how we learn to walk, how we do life, led by the Spirit. We live in the reality of a physical body, yes, but we are invited to embrace a far superior reality: life in the Spirit.
Wow, what a powerful unpacking. The kind of revelation that deserves more than one read. But honestly, that’s always the pattern with your work: it’s full of substance you can’t possibly digest in one sitting.
Thank you for inviting us into your intimate moments with the Lord. It helps uncover deeper mysteries and calls us to slow down, read with intention, and learn with humility. And even when something is repeated, we know we need the reminder. Your oil continues to flow because you prioritize presence.
I’m praying for your strength, for your mortal body, and for the Lord to keep unveiling His truth in your life, even when the challenges feel like a thorn in your side. His grace is sufficient, and you have both the power and the authority to speak healing.
Thank you for this word. I’m saving it so I can come back and sit with it again.
Shenica, thank you so much for reading and for such a thoughtful response. This truly is just a glimpse of what He has entrusted to me to steward, and my prayer is always that I would honor Him, first in posture, then in the penning of the revelation.
I believe the Lord is calling us back to the heart of worship where we worship the Father in Spirit and in truth. Prayer becomes our language in this space, the deep place of fellowship where dependence replaces striving and authority is received because we are abiding in Him.
In the book, we’ll launch out into the deep discovering the beautiful sacred space of praying in the Spirit, where He intercedes through us, building the house from the inside out.
I’m grateful you’re willing to sit with the Word, return to it, and let it do its quiet, faithful work. Thank you for walking alongside me here and in this stewardship of this body of work. I am grateful for your mentorship and our sisterhood🙏🏾🌸
Dear Father, "Thank You for making us a house of prayer where You dwell. " Andrea, so beautiful is our sweet salvation, our redemption, our oneness with Jesus.
Hello Deborah, yes we do have such a sweet salvation. Jesus left nothing to chance. He finished the work and we are the beneficiaries of His unlimited grace🙏🏾. We are so deeply loved, Amen🙌🏾
Hi Hannah, thank you for being here and commenting. I would love to know more about your writing on truth if you wouldn’t mind sharing. My book is about the finished work of Christ particularly the life He has brought to us in the Spirit. It continues to be an amazing journey indeed.
Gosh, I am so sorry! Yes, I would love to share - and I am in the thick of it, so might not be as coherent as I’d otherwise like :) It’s for a chapter in Battle Field Guide, on the armor - the Belt of Truth. It is just painting the picture of how truth is not supposed to be the moving, changing, subjective construct it is today. That the deep anxiety this generation feels, is often attributed to unsure footing, shaky foundation. But - there is a truth that never changes. It’s written in the stars, the mountains, the seas - but it’s also written in a manuscript thousands of years old. And the truth will set you free!!
(that’s the gist:))
For you; if you don’t mind - is your book called Fit for Glory?? I am so intrigued, interested by this!! I was doing a teaching with a friend (in the exploration/research stages, about that I think we are ‘vessels built for glory’. I really had no idea what glory meant I am realizing!! I would love to hear more :) Thank you for your kindness.
The emphasis on prayer as dependence instead of effort fits well with the broader theme running through many of these posts lately: that transformation happens through abiding, not forcing. It also connects to something I’ve been writing about recently — how love and meaning begin to change when we stop trying to secure ourselves and instead live from what has already been given. If you’d like to read it, it’s here: https://theeternalnowmm.substack.com/p/eternal-love?r=71z4jh
Wow, thanks for reminding of the richness and fullness of his glory in us…present reality!
“…and we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness, from one degree of glory to another.”
Yes, today, beholding glory, being changed!
Good evening, Chuck. Thanks so much for being here and for the kind reply. I can't get away of the beauty of Jesus and the life He has called us to, and placed us in. It is stunning, breathtaking really. Each moment really is filled with glory when we behold Him. Amen🙏🏾🌸. Blessings, brother.
Sister, this was not just something to read, it was something to sit with, pray through, and let the Holy Spirit gently search and restore. The way you wove scripture, revelation, and personal reflection revealed the finished work of Christ so beautifully, not as religion, but as living union with him. The imagery of the temple cleansing, the call back to prayer, and the reminder that the glory now abides within us stirred both conviction and deep peace in my spirit. I could feel the Lord inviting me closer with every section. This writing carries weight, anointing, and truth. If this is a glimpse of what’s coming in your book, it’s going to bless and transform many. Thank you for being obedient to share what the Spirit is unfolding in you.
Sister, I love you so much. I'm grateful you are here and that this glimpse of what is unfolding stirred you, which is what I believe the Lord is doing in all of us. The Baptism of the Spirit has in many respects been forgotten but we see here that it is the power that enables us to be witnesses for the cause of Christ and His Kingdom. When allow the anointing to have His full expression in us, we pray in the Spirit and rivers of living water flow through the temple and outside it bringing life and light to all it touches. We are being brought into alignment, filled fully with the fullness of Him and I believe we will see increasing glory as we prepare for His coming🙏🏾
I love this so much Andrea, I keep reading and rereading and reflecting on cleansing
Whoops I fat fingered that and hit send before I finished. That’s the bits that are standing out to me. So good! 😍
Hello Christina, Im so glad you are here and that this word has ignited a flame in you. I'm grateful for your kind reply. I am deeply encouraged by the Lord and what He is doing in and through us. Truly, we are filled in and by Him and the understanding of this allows us to walk in His confidence and authority. We can use the name of Jesus to evict those things that try to linger outside the temple, that attempt to attack and condemn us, rightly applying the blood of Jesus over the doorpost. Amen. God bless you🙏🏾🌸
My darling sister, you pour from a rich depth because you drink continually from the Fountain of Life. When I think of a biblical picture that reflects you, I see Mary, the one who chose the better portion, (more suitably, the one thing) who sat at Jesus’ feet and lingered there, fully attentive to His voice. I see Mary who broke the alabaster box, holding nothing back, pouring out her all in worship. Your heart is marked by a relentless pursuit of Him, and your desire is evident in worshipping Him without reserve. I have only skimmed through this and will be coming back to it. May the Holy Spirit continue to grant you insights and understanding, and may the Lord strengthen you to make this book a reality. Blessings and love to you.
Dear Sister,
Your words are balm to my soul—such a sweet confirmation of what the Lord has been pressing into my heart.
TheOneThing—The good portion. It's kind of funny that He gave me this name for my publication. Even in this moment, it's a warm hug of confirmation. I'm giggling inside, really. Because this is the ministry He has sown in me.
Oooh, I am overjoyed there is more unveiling happening. I am grateful for you, Sis🩷🩷🩷. I love you, sooo!!
💖💖💖
Andrea, thank you for sharing something so rich and prayer-soaked. This truly reads less like an article and more like a lived meditation, the kind that comes from walking with a truth long enough for it to reshape how you see Christ, yourself, and the Church.
Your reflection on Jesus entering the temple before cleansing it really stayed with me. That subtle shift reframes sanctification: He doesn’t cleanse from a distance; He comes close first. Presence precedes purification. That alone removes so much fear and striving.
To your questions, a few gentle reflections:
• When we don’t fully rest in Christ’s finished work, the “temple” can feel vulnerable, not because His work lacks power, but because our hearts revert to self-effort. We start managing instead of abiding. Grief work has taught me similarly: healing deepens not by control but by surrendered presence.
• If we truly believed the Spirit abides rather than visits, prayer would likely feel less like an emergency hotline and more like continuous companionship. Authority would flow from intimacy, not urgency.
• And when prayer and praise grow quiet, I don’t think God withdraws, but we often lose awareness of His nearness. The cost is relational more than positional: less peace, less clarity, less shared joy.
Also, regarding writing while living the message. yes! Many of us find the book writes us before we write it. Formation often precedes articulation.
Thank you for the honesty, depth, and reverence here. This feels like sacred ground rather than mere content.
Blessings,
Ze Selassie
Ze, Thank you for it entering this word with me!! That kind of presence is a gift I don’t take lightly, and I’m always grateful for our conversations.
What you shared about Jesus coming close captured the very heartbeat of what I was trying to articulate. His nearness is not a threat but a refuge, intimate, hands-on, and safe. When we see Him near rather than distant, fear dissolves, which is balm for the weary heart.
Your reflections on abiding versus managing struck me deeply. I know personally the subtle drift back into self-effort is so human, yet so costly to peace. I especially appreciate you sharing your experience in grief work, particularly how healing is not forced into being, but received through surrendered presence. Our Lord is so patient, gently healing us from the inside out. I think of His love, how He waits on us. He waits on us.
And your description of prayer as companionship rather than an emergency line, yes, yes, and more yes🙏🏾
Worship is what we were created for, and prayer is the sacred space of communion where that worship breathes.
As we behold Him, we learn to walk in authority that is wrought out of intimacy. In this way, we are aligned with the rhythms of grace, walking in His power, and cloaked humility.
A Scripture came to mind, “A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not quench” (Isaiah 42:3). His authority is gentle, restoring, and rooted in love.
All of this points back to His love and His design: we are created by Him, for Him, to live from within His embrace.
Lastly, thank you for affirming that the book writes us before we write it. This season feels very much like formation giving way to overflow.
I’m grateful for your kindness! Blessings🙏🏾
Amen!
What a word Andrea! Thank you.
Cole, thank you for reading, commenting, and sharing. It took me a bit to hit send, but I am glad I did. I pray the Lord is glorified in these words and that we simply see and enjoy Him in all His fullness🙏🏾
There's so much in here, as always! Amen and amen!
Hello Joycelyn, I’m grateful for this connection and for your kindness in reading and commenting. It means a great deal to me. My prayer is to steward this word and this work with humility and a heart fully yielded to the Lord. May Jesus be most glorified🙏🏾🌸
Amen it's beautiful to see🙏🏾
May He always be glorified through you💜
This piece carries the unmistakable mark of grace—unhurried, Christ-centered, and saturated with Scripture rightly divided. Its greatest strength is not its theological depth alone, but its clarity of union: Christ in us, the Temple complete, the glory returned and abiding.
What makes this writing compelling is that it does not strive to convince; it reveals. It leads the reader gently from cleansing to communion, from authority to prayer, from effort to rest. If this is a glimpse of what the book will hold, it will be a timely and necessary work—calling believers back to the simplicity, power, and intimacy of the finished work of Christ. Amen 🙏
Pastor Leslie, thank you, truly. Your words feel like a benediction over the work. I’m deeply grateful for the care with which you read, and for how clearly you discerned the heart of what the Lord is unveiling.
This work has been a long time coming, and seeing it now on the page makes my soul sing.
If this work calls even one person back to the simplicity and intimacy of the finished work of Christ, and encourages them in the fellowship and blessing of the Spirit, then it has done what it was sent to do.
Thank you for your encouragement, your covering, and your Amen; it is received with much humility and joy🙏🏾🤗🌸
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, kindly for reading Pam🙏🏾
Wow… thank you for sharing this so openly and deeply. I’m struck by how tender yet uncompromising your heart is—how you linger over Jesus’ authority and zeal while simultaneously inviting us into the intimacy of His Spirit dwelling in us. What really resonated with me is how you connect the cleansing of the temple to our everyday lives....the “thieves” that sneak in when prayerlessness or distraction creeps in, and then remind us that His presence doesn’t just visit, it abides. That perspective shifts everything. It challenges me to consider not just the act of prayer, but the posture of my heart: am I leaning into His finished work, letting His life flow through me, or am I trying to carry things in my own strength?
Thank you, Victoria, for your gracious reply. I agree; it truly does shift us. The more we come to know Him, the more we begin to see that it is not simply the cross, but also His resurrection and ascension that continue to shape and inform our lives now.
We are not only a people redeemed from sin, but a people raised into newness of life and seated in Him, learning to live from that finished reality.
Like you, I am leaning into the completeness of the finished work, which means living in the holy tension of being spirit, having a soul, and dwelling in a body. This awareness keeps drawing me back to dependence, not striving, but abiding where Christ’s life within us becomes the Source of all I do.
I believe this is how we learn to walk, how we do life, led by the Spirit. We live in the reality of a physical body, yes, but we are invited to embrace a far superior reality: life in the Spirit.
Thank you for leaning into this with me🙏🏾
Wow, what a powerful unpacking. The kind of revelation that deserves more than one read. But honestly, that’s always the pattern with your work: it’s full of substance you can’t possibly digest in one sitting.
Thank you for inviting us into your intimate moments with the Lord. It helps uncover deeper mysteries and calls us to slow down, read with intention, and learn with humility. And even when something is repeated, we know we need the reminder. Your oil continues to flow because you prioritize presence.
I’m praying for your strength, for your mortal body, and for the Lord to keep unveiling His truth in your life, even when the challenges feel like a thorn in your side. His grace is sufficient, and you have both the power and the authority to speak healing.
Thank you for this word. I’m saving it so I can come back and sit with it again.
Shenica, thank you so much for reading and for such a thoughtful response. This truly is just a glimpse of what He has entrusted to me to steward, and my prayer is always that I would honor Him, first in posture, then in the penning of the revelation.
I believe the Lord is calling us back to the heart of worship where we worship the Father in Spirit and in truth. Prayer becomes our language in this space, the deep place of fellowship where dependence replaces striving and authority is received because we are abiding in Him.
In the book, we’ll launch out into the deep discovering the beautiful sacred space of praying in the Spirit, where He intercedes through us, building the house from the inside out.
I’m grateful you’re willing to sit with the Word, return to it, and let it do its quiet, faithful work. Thank you for walking alongside me here and in this stewardship of this body of work. I am grateful for your mentorship and our sisterhood🙏🏾🌸
Dear Father, "Thank You for making us a house of prayer where You dwell. " Andrea, so beautiful is our sweet salvation, our redemption, our oneness with Jesus.
Hello Deborah, yes we do have such a sweet salvation. Jesus left nothing to chance. He finished the work and we are the beneficiaries of His unlimited grace🙏🏾. We are so deeply loved, Amen🙌🏾
What beautiful and incredible revelations. Thank you for sharing with us!! I would love to hear about your book! What is it about?
I'm currently writing on truth.
Hi Hannah, thank you for being here and commenting. I would love to know more about your writing on truth if you wouldn’t mind sharing. My book is about the finished work of Christ particularly the life He has brought to us in the Spirit. It continues to be an amazing journey indeed.
Gosh, I am so sorry! Yes, I would love to share - and I am in the thick of it, so might not be as coherent as I’d otherwise like :) It’s for a chapter in Battle Field Guide, on the armor - the Belt of Truth. It is just painting the picture of how truth is not supposed to be the moving, changing, subjective construct it is today. That the deep anxiety this generation feels, is often attributed to unsure footing, shaky foundation. But - there is a truth that never changes. It’s written in the stars, the mountains, the seas - but it’s also written in a manuscript thousands of years old. And the truth will set you free!!
(that’s the gist:))
For you; if you don’t mind - is your book called Fit for Glory?? I am so intrigued, interested by this!! I was doing a teaching with a friend (in the exploration/research stages, about that I think we are ‘vessels built for glory’. I really had no idea what glory meant I am realizing!! I would love to hear more :) Thank you for your kindness.
Wow, great piece, would like to connect!
The emphasis on prayer as dependence instead of effort fits well with the broader theme running through many of these posts lately: that transformation happens through abiding, not forcing. It also connects to something I’ve been writing about recently — how love and meaning begin to change when we stop trying to secure ourselves and instead live from what has already been given. If you’d like to read it, it’s here: https://theeternalnowmm.substack.com/p/eternal-love?r=71z4jh