DREAM QUEEN!--The Holy Ghost!    DFO1304          10/82

         1. THE LORD SURE IS GOOD TO ME, LETTING ME SEE HER AGAIN! She must love me.--She acts like it. She acts like She enjoys it as much as I do. And I guess the Holy Spirit does. We talk about the Holy Spirit wooing us, so that means the Holy Spirit makes love to us. Let's face it!--She stoops to make love to all of us just like Jesus did & like God does!
         2. SOME PEOPLE MUST THINK IT SACRILEGIOUS & EVEN BLASPHEMOUS THAT I SHOULD HAVE INTERCOURSE WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, BUT ISN'T THAT WHAT WE'RE REALLY TOLD TO DO, to have the Holy Spirit in us & to be baptised in Her?--Filled with Her, baptised with Her. So aren't we supposed to have communion with the Spirit? What is communion but intercourse with the Spirit in a sense, symbolised by sexual intercourse!
         3. IT'S FUNNY HOW GOD PUTS WOMEN LAST. It's very Oriental & very Jewish, even though She's the Mother. Well, that's the way it is in the Jewish & Oriental cultures--the father & the son are the most important & the mother comes next, & then the daughters. But actually She was there first before Jesus, or maybe all Three at the same time?
         4. JOHN SAYS OF JESUS: "HE WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD & WAS GOD. All things were made by Him & without Him was not anything made that was made." (Jn.1:2,3) She as good as says the same thing in Proverbs--that She was there in the beginning before the World was!--She says, "I was there!" (Pr.8:22,23) Yet it says that Jesus was the Beginning of the Creation of God. (Rev.3:14) And if He was the first Creation, She must have already been there, like a Mother would be, like God, Who always was & always will be. Like a mother & father seem to their children, to our children it seems like we've always been here.
         5. IF JESUS IS THE BRIDEGROOM & WE'RE HIS BRIDE, WHERE DOES SHE FIT IN? She's got to be the Mother if God's the Father. A mother is a beautiful conception of the Holy Spirit. If She seems to be like the human relationship, it would only be natural to liken Her to the Mother. She certainly fulfills the ministry of a mother in every way, gentle, wooing, loving, caring, praying, feeding & empowering.
         6. IF YOU BEGIN TO ACCEPT THAT MOTHER CONCEPT & APPLY IT TO HER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TRINITY & WITH US, IT FITS BEAUTIFULLY! I think it helps you get a much better idea of the beauty & the wonderful ministry of the Holy Spirit, amen? I think it's a beautiful idea, whether you want to accept it or not. I like it, it appeals to me, & it helps me to grasp the true meaning of the Holy Spirit by picturing Her as a Mother, the Mother of the Trinity, the Mother of Jesus spiritually, the Mother or the Wife of God, the Three of Them as the Holy Family of God!
         7. SO MUCH HAS BEEN SAID & TAUGHT ABOUT GOD THE FATHER & GOD THE SON, BUT REALLY VERY LITTLE HAS BEEN SAID OR TAUGHT OR EVEN UNDERSTOOD ABOUT GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT, the Mother of the Trinity & Her beautiful relationship with the Others as the spiritual Wife of God & the spiritual Mother of Jesus, the way She is certainly pictured in the Book of Proverbs (Pro.8) as well as throughout the whole Bible by the Spirit & Mary etc.
         8. I THINK WE HAVE AS MUCH RIGHT TO CALL HER FEMALE, TO LIKEN HER TO A FEMALE MOTHER, AS THOSE JEWISH TRANSLATORS WHO INSISTED ON USING MALE PRONOUNS IN MANY PLACES WHERE IT ALSO MEANT "HER" OR "SHE"! They apparently couldn't stomach the idea of the Holy Spirit being female, they wanted the Trinity to be all male.--What Jewish male chauvinism!:--Heaven run by a bunch of men, nothing but men & no likeness of a woman in Heaven! If you want to insist on the idea that there are Three Men running Heaven, I wouldn't really know who the other guy is supposed to be like if not a woman! One's a Father & One's a Son, who's the other guy?--Uncle, brother, cousin?
         9. I JUST STARTED TO SAY, I WONDER WHY THE ARTISTS NEVER GOT AN IDEA LIKE THAT, TO PICTURE THE HOLY SPIRIT AS THE MOTHER?--But it immediately came to me, "Well they did, they painted lots of pictures of Her, but they got Her confused with Mary because of Catholic doctrine!"
         10. ACTUALLY THE WAY THE CATHOLICS WORSHIP MARY IS THE WAY THEY SHOULD BE WORSHIPPING THE HOLY SPIRIT, IN THE SAME WOMANLY CONCEPT. Mary's not God's female counterpart, like God--omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent! She's just another Saint like we are. Maybe through the exaltation of Mary they were really getting into a truth that they didn't quite understand: The Fatherhood of God & the Motherhood of the Holy Spirit, one with the Sonship of Jesus!
         11. LOOK AT THE ADORATION, THE WORSHIP THAT'S BEEN GIVEN TO MARY JUST AS THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE TRUE QUEEN OF HEAVEN, SHOULD HAVE. Instead of saying, "Holy Mary, Mother of God", they should be saying "Holy Spirit, Mother of God". This doesn't mean that She's God's Mother, but that She's God's Wife in a sense, the Mother of the Holy Trinity, & Jesus is their Son. Like we're the Wife of Jesus, the Bride of Christ, She's the Mother of the Family of God. That must be where the Catholics got all that idea about Mary & her glorification & adoration--undoubtedly many people have seen visions of her, & all that time they must have been seeing the Holy Spirit like I did, but because of the Catholic doctrine of Mariolatry, they thought it was Mary!
         12. SO IF YOU WOULD TAKE ALL THAT THE CATHOLICS HAVE SEEN & HEARD & ENVISIONED OF MARY & CONCEIVED OF HER, her glorification as Queen of Heaven, including all the inspired art masterpieces of her etc., I think you'd have a pretty good picture of the Holy Spirit as the spiritual Mother of Jesus & therefore the Wife of God & therefore the Mother of the Holy Family, the Holy Trinity, & then it all makes sense, right?
         13. IN A WAY, LIKE JESUS IS A PICTURE OF GOD, MARY WAS IN A WAY A PICTURE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. That's literally what it means by the Word of God, it means the Logo of God, the Expression of God, the Message of God. I remember we studied that in Greek when I was in Bible College, what a deep meaning there was to the Greek word "Logo" which is translated in John One as the "Word". It was sort of like the Logo was a little bit of God Himself, an Expression of Him, a Manifestation of Him in Jesus His Son.
         14. YOU MIGHT SAY THAT JESUS IS LIKE THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, the part you can see, but by far the greatest part of the Iceberg, God, is out of sight, hidden underwater, & only a tiny Part is visible to the human eye, like Jesus. Jesus is a representation or expression of God, or the Word of God, the part of Him that we can see & understand. Even though you can't see the rest of the Iceberg, you have a faint idea of what it is like by the Part that shows above water in this World, in this realm, the realm of man. So we know that God must be Love by the loving part of Him that we can see in Jesus, the warmth & the humanness of Christ.
         15. AND MARY HIS MOTHER IS ALMOST LIKE A PHYSICAL EXPRESSION OR PICTURE OR REPRESENTATION OF WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS LIKE, THE MOTHER OF THE TRINITY. What a beautiful picture of the Holy Spirit we find in a mother, like in the mother of Jesus! So no wonder the Catholics got the two confused, Mary, the Mother of Jesus, with the Holy Spirit, the true Mother of the Trinity.
         16. JUST AS WE THINK OF GOD AS FATHER & JESUS HIS SON, I THINK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AS THE MOTHER OF THE TRINITY. How fitting, amen? How understandable, comprehensible & honourable, giving Her Her rightful place & due deference & reverence as the very Wife of God Himself, the Mother of the Trinity, the true spiritual Mother of Jesus, of which Mary is a rather beautiful, physical, natural & earthly likeness.
         17. HAVE YOU RECEIVED HER? HAVE YOU BEEN THRILLED WITH HER, FILLED WITH HER, IMMERSED IN HER, EXCITED BY HER, CARRIED AWAY IN THE SPIRIT BY HER?--If you haven't, you've missed something! She's right there in Proverbs 3:13-18; 4:5-9; 7:4; 8:1-36; & 9:1-12 as plain as day--in fact, all the way through the Bible, if you accept the fact that She's the Spirit of God, everywhere it mentions His Holy Spirit, there She is! PTL!--Make love to Her Today!

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