On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with His disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.” Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.  And He said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it.  When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” This, the first of His signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee and manifested His glory. And His disciples believed in Him (John 2:1-10). 

This passage is a gem when looked at from a prophetic perspective! I believe God is alluding to the end time glory and giving us a mystery in plain sight in these passages.  May God give us eyes to see and ears to hear! Jesus’ ministry began with a wedding, and the end of days is going to end with a wedding (Revelation 19:6-9).  

Let’s break this passage down:  

• “and the mother of Jesus was there” – Prophetically speaking, Jesus’ mother can represent the Church. We as believers become born again through the Church, so the Church represents our mother. 

• “the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.” This is a picture of us as the Church petitioning Jesus to move on our behalf in the last days.  This is why the scripture says, “The spirit and the bride say come!”  (Revelation 22:17) The Holy Spirit is rising up within us as His Church to long for and call on Jesus more and more with our whole hearts. Scripture says Jesus’ love is better than wine (Song 1:2). Wine represents the fullness of God, His love and glory.  

• “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.”  This is a picture of God first testing our faith.  This sounds like a rebuke from Jesus to His mother, but it is actually the Lord drawing out her faith. How will she respond?  (She responds in faith as we see in the next verse).  Likewise, we need extraordinary faith to move mountains in the last days.  And we will if we respond to the Lord as He also draws faith out of us.  

I believe this verse also alludes to the last days being cut short.  Matthew 24:22 says, “If those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.” Jesus’ earthly ministry began early at the request of His mother. Likewise, His return will be early at the request if His bride. 

• His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you. I believe this is a picture of our partnership with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is always leading us to Jesus. These are our prayers, but they are in alignment with God’s will. The bride of Christ is empty; she has learned to die and let God live through her. The life she lives is by faith alone. (Galatians 2:20) 

• “Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification.” 6 is the number of man (Rev 13:18). The Bible calls us vessels (2 Corinthians 4:7, 2 Timothy 2:20-21). This is a picture of His sons and daughters. Also, these jars were used for cleaning the hands and feet of guests. So this is a picture of the human heart being humble. The bible says these are the ones who will inherit the earth. (Matthew 5:5)

• Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.  First, we are the ones crying out to Jesus and now He is the One taking charge. He fills us with the living water of His presence in the wells of our hearts (John 4:14). 

• “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” Jesus shows the Father what He has done in us. He is the author and finisher of our faith and is getting ready to showcase His bride to the Father (Ephesian 5:25-27, Revelation 19:6-9). 

• “But you have kept the good wine until now.” This is the last day Glory! We will be filled with Him, with His glory and goodness. We will also spread that glory wherever we go. (Acts 2:17, Habakkuk 2:14) 

Now that we see what is going to happen, let’s discuss how it is going to happen… 

Deeper Trust leads to Divine Alignment.  

There is a greater emptying to come, where we dig farther down and are giving even more to God. Dying more and shedding more. The deeper places within Christ Jesus lead to a deeper trust and a greater glory. How low can we go? We start by asking Him to take us deeper and show us His glory.  

This is what I hear Him saying… 

“There is a deeper place still, sons and daughters, where My glory dwells. My heart, My goodness and faithfulness. Are you not treasure hunters? Called to search out the deep things of Christ? (1 Corinthians 2:10).  

Do you see treasure when you look at Me? My eyes roam the earth looking for faith. When I come, will I find it? (Luke 18:8) Am I not calling and commissioning my saints to come higher, higher, and higher still? Are you not called to climb the stairway to heaven and bring My kingdom to the earth? (Matthew 6:10) 

There is a place of deeper abandonment I require. Deeper trust is needed for the last days. To come higher you must go lower. Lower, lower… and lower still. Is this not how wells are dug? You, my sons and daughters are living wells of life (John 4:14). I desire to place My glory within you. Do you not know it? Do you not perceive it? Do you feel Me tugging on your heart strings to put away the little sins and distractions that beset you (Hebrews 12:1)? I have called you deeper. Many are called but few are chosen. Few accept the invitation. Choose Me this day and serve Me (Joshua 24:14-15)). Know what love is, to lay down your life for Me (John 15:13). Learn to love Me the way I love you. I invite you My children.” 

We have access to His glory by faith. This comes from sitting in the secret place.  

God wants us to live with an end times mentality. He wants us to know the days are short and live with fervency to see His kingdom come.  

Mark 13:33 – Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come.  

He is awakening fervency within us, a burning within, a spiritual sobriety. It is a fervency to know Him so we can spread the fragrance of His knowledge throughout the earth. He wants our home to be the secret place. Divine alignment leads to divine strategy. He wants His sons and daughters to know what He is doing. We are His partners in the work of ministry. From us flows the Well Spring of life, Jesus. When we are full, then He will pour us out. This is how His glory will cover the earth.  

Please say this prayer with me

Father, I come to You in Jesus name. Empty me, take me to the deepr places in Christ Jesus. Fill me with the knowledge of Your will. Tether my heart to Yours. I give You permission to search me out, to test my heart and reveal everything that gets inbetween You and I. I want to Know You. I want to be an end time vessel of honor filled with Your love, glory and goodness. Set a refiners fire within me that will never go out. Nothing is off limits to You. Thank you for this. I love You, in Jesus name I pray… amen.

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Isaiah 60:2-3 says, For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the people. But the Lord will arise upon you, and His glory will be seen upon you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

We, the body of Christ, are on the brink of the greatest move of God the world has EVER seen! There are pockets of revival starting and stirring all over the world. Now is the time, today is the day for our hearts to be ready and right before God. Revival, lasting revival flows from a place of intimacy. What can’t God do with a devoted lover? The bible says love is as strong as death. (Song of Solomon 8:6) Truly, Love Himself has conquered the grave. He is a consuming fire. His desire for us is unyielding. In Song of Solomon God asks us to set Him as a seal upon our hearts (commitment of love) and a seal upon our arms (commitment of service).  

Only those who hold the heart of the King will have the character to sustain the anointing He is pouring on His sons and daughters for the end times.

God’s end time army is His bride.

She has made herself ready (Revelation 19:7). She is pure, spotless before God. She has a heart only for Him, eyes only for Him. Even in the midst of deepest darkness, she is resolute, steadfast. Her yes means yes (Matthew 5:37). Why? Because she has crossed the threshold of extraordinary love and entered the Kings heart. She has made Him her dwelling place.

Psalm 27:4-5 says, One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. To gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple. For He will hide me in His shelter in the day of trouble. He will conceal me under the cover of His tent. He will lift me high upon the rock.

So how do we, as His Bride, get to the threshold of extraordinary love? This is what I will unpack in the coming weeks. 😊

2 Kings 20:12-18

¹² At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick. ¹³ And Hezekiah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them. ¹⁴ Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, from Babylon.” ¹⁵ He said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”

¹⁶ Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord: ¹⁷ Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord. ¹⁸ And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” 

We see here that Hezekiah became vulnerable to strangers. He revealed everything in the kingdom to them because they were friendly. He believed they were safe. But obviously they were not. In the same way, God won’t reveal the deep things of His kingdom to everyone.

Once, when I was spending time with God. Jesus asked me to turn to this passage of scripture. I read it out loud and then He told me, “It is the same with Me Veronica. This is why I don’t show the deep things within My kingdom to everyone who shows my kindness. There are many who come and go, who settle on the outskirts. Who love and delight because they receive something in return. I desire a Bride that will love Me simply because of who I am.”

This is why hearts are tested. The refiner’s fire is for gold and silver. Jesus doesn’t want His house, His kingdom to be turned into a den of thieves. There is a secret place reserved for the lovers of God. A place of rest and safety within Him. The fire turns you into treasure, does it not? If you are His, then you are His forever. God will hide you in the shelter of His wings and keep you safe from corruption. He will tether, bind your heart to His through the trials you endure. What can’t He do with a sold out, laid down, surrendered lover? He can trust them, and He will protect them. You are one such treasure. He calls you a treasured possession in all the earth.

Deuteronomy 7:6 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Matthew 21:13He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

Malachi 3:2-3 ² But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. ³ He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord

Proverbs 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

There is a secret place reserved for the lovers of God, where they sit and receive the revelation secrets of His promises. Psalm 25:14

In the book of Esther, Esther was one of many women taken through a process for a year to become beautiful. This process included six months of oil and six months of perfume. The women would then get to spend one night with the King. This King wanted the women to look beautiful, feel nice for touching, and to smell good. The Bible says the King found Esther the most pleasing. She had more grace and more favor with him than all the other women, and he fell in love with her. He married Esther and made her queen.

We as followers of Jesus go through the same sort of process during our lifetime. The Holy Spirit metaphorically can be compared to the King’s Eunuch. He devotes His life to us, to prepare us to meet Jesus. He is our oil and perfume. He is the One who makes us look beautiful, feel nice and smell good to the King.

Jesus spoke to me once about beauty. I was in my car, going to pick up my children from school, just thinking about Him. I was thinking about how much I love Him and how beautiful He is, when His presence flooded into my car in a special way. He began to show me what He saw, how beautiful I am to Him. It was like that of a husband taking great pride in His wife’s beauty. He was showing me that He knows He is responsible for that beauty. In the same way, Jesus recognizes that His love for her, the Bride of Christ – the way He has treated her and the gifts He has given to her have been special to her. Who He is and how He has loved her has formed the beauty within her. She carries that beauty with so much grace and fortitude. He has given her life. She in turn touches the world around her with the life she has been given.

Yes! He showed me all that and it was so beautiful! My heart became mush. But what is it that makes us so beautiful to Him? What is the beauty standard of God? The short answer is that we live this life in pursuit of Him, which causes us to become like Him. What He really wants to see is Himself in us.

Have you ever met an old married couple that looks like they can be brother and sister? It’s like they are two halves of a whole. They can finish each other’s sandwiches (just kidding). Very often, they begin to think alike and find they were thinking the same thing at the same time. They dress alike, they know just by looking how each other is feeling. They know each other’s likes and dislikes and they make room for each other.  They have lived their lives for each other for so long that they are one. I believe walking with Jesus is similar. We become increasingly molded to His image over time and we start to look like Him.

Jesus is pleased by our beauty within. A beauty that is outwardly reflected to the world around us. The Bible calls praise a garment and wisdom a beautiful crown. Faith in Him and believing He is who He says He is pleasing to Him. I would even say brokenness is a beauty mark because when we are weak, then He can become strong in us. The greater our need for Him, the more He will give us of Himself. Jesus is gentle and humble, quick to forgive. The fruit of the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, gentleness, and self-control. This is what Jesus longs to produce in us because this is the beauty standard of God.

This is one of my favorite scriptures.

Song of Solomon 6:10 says, “Who is she who looks forth as the morning, Fair as the moon, Clear as the sun, Awesome as an army of banners?”

This scripture is poetic and prophetic. From a prophetic perspective this is King Jesus making a statement about His Bride.

Who is she who looks forth as the morning, this is a picture of His bride walking in the way of righteousness and bringing hope to others.

Fair as the moon, is a picture of her reflecting the light of Jesus (because the moon doesn’t have its own light).

Clear as the son, is a picture of God’s glory surrounding her.

Awesome as an army of banners, is a picture of Her leading God’s people to victory.

Esther 2:12-18, 2 Corinthains 2:15, Isaiah 61:3, Proverbs 4:8, Hebrews 11:6, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Matthew 11:28-30, 1John 1:9, Galatians 5:22-23, Proverbs 4:18, Zechariah 2:5