In September 2020 I was woken up by the Spirit
in the middle of the night to write down a word. Two years have passed since then and the word
has now come into fulfillment. This
proves to us that not every word He gives is a “now” word. That morning He told me that I will be going
into a season where I will have to trust Him inextricably and that He will
guide me with His eye. Not with His
mouth, but His eye. What He meant by
guiding me with His eye, was to let me understand that He will open my eyes to
see as He sees.
He also told me that the most important thing
that will carry me through this season will be His love. He then proceeded to tell me that He will
pour out His love on me. Asking me,
“Will it be as you expect? No. For you cannot put Me in a box.”
That had me wondering what He meant by the
fact that it will not be as I expect.
Well, probably about two months now He has been doing it in two ways I
really did not expect. I would have
moments where He would pour His love out on me where my body was unable to
handle it. Without going into the
details, it was for the purpose of enlarging my heart, bringing me into a
greater capacity in the Spirit to be able to deal with this season He has me
now in. Remember, love endures all
things. He then started by bringing
secular love songs on my path. I do not
listen to secular music, only Christian music.
I am aware of the music and entertainment predictive programming and
occult ties. However, my spirit was stirred by the songs, which He then would
confirm the lyrics in various ways that indeed it is Him speaking to me through
them. Song after song would come my way
in which He expressed His love to me.
The religious spirit in me wanted to resist this at first, but
afterwards I could no longer deny that it was Him. Then He started to speak to me through movies. Once again, when I watched a movie it would
be very innocent and nothing gory or worldly in nature. Always careful to keep myself pure and
undefiled. I could also not watch
anything related to horror, as I would engross myself with my whole being in
what I watched. I just could not stomach
it. However, I could not deny how
clearly He was speaking to me. The way
He confirmed different things to me through these movies is statistically
impossible. When this started I
questioned my motives and sought His face regarding this season as I did not
want to sin against Him. And to top it
off, the movies were something I would NEVER watch. Horror movies with zombies and psychopaths,
all very dark and murderous. Others were romances, historical and so on. Each time I was dumbfounded by the
confirmations that were just simply undeniable.
Each time a very clear word spoken to me and His heart revealed for His
children for the time to come. Another
example of something contrary to His Word, is that He showed me that in the
time to come He would protect me as a wolf.
What? Nowhere in scripture is a
wolf portrayed as good. I can write
pages full of confirmations of how He told me over and over again, that as an
Alpha wolf over His pack, so He would guard me.
Before I go on, this devotional is not an
excuse to go watch whatever you want and expose yourself to this world and the
lusts of this world. This is a season
that He brought me into during which He literally divinely protected me from
any defilement. In fact, I remember a
vision I had not so long ago where I walked through a pack of lions as they
made way for me to pass. They could not
touch me. He is able to close the mouths
of lions and they come in different forms with different faces. This is much like David said, “Thou has set a
table for me in the presence of my enemies.” Although it may seem from a
logical standpoint that I was feasting from the tables of devils, I was in fact
feasting from His table. It all depended
on how I perceived or discerned. The
important factor is to be in His perfect will.
Only in His perfect will is safety from all harm. Other examples of how contrary He can appear
even to His own word is the fact that He used ravens that are unclean birds to
feed Elijah. He also used Nebuchadnezzar
and Cyrus to do His will. Furthermore,
Yeshua told His disciples that they are to do all the Pharisees do, but at the
same time called them whitewashed tombs.
The Pharisees accused Yeshua from breaking the Sabbath by healing
someone and His disciples picking corn in the field on this holy day. He used unclean animals in a vision to
speak to Peter about how the Gentiles are included in the salvation plan and
pardoned the adulterous woman who clearly had to be stoned according to the
law. Surely He broke the law,
right? And yet, we know He was without sin. What was the unspoken message to us in how He
lived? He most definitely rattled some
cages.
At the same time my question was, “Why did He
choose such controversial means to pour out His love on me and to give me
understanding of His ways through something that is clearly in opposition to
His character, holiness and His word? Why
was He putting me in such a compromising position? Does this not disqualify me to speak on His
behalf? Does this not speak against my
testimony and witness? Surely it does,
but He had a purpose with it that was unbeknownst to me.”
The latest is an owl. In one week He brought the issue of an owl
eight times in various ways to me. One
of them is that my subscribers on YouTube reached 255 and in the Strong’s
Concordance, 255 means an owl. There was
no denying it. Needless to say, He had
my attention. What was He trying to say?
I knew that it had to do with vision, the ability to see. Naturally I
started looking up some characteristics about owls. Once I started exploring, I could see why He
was so controversial in His dealings with me.
I understood once again that I myself in a way am a message. Remember, we are living epistles that others
read, not just by what we say, but especially by how we live. To walk as He walked, which is by the Spirit. That means that when we are surrendered to
Him, He can use us in whatever way He wants, even if it seems contrary to His
Word. This is not a license to sin, but stresses
the importance of being guided by the Spirit at all times versus our own
understanding and knowledge.
Owls are synonymous with a bad omen or bad
luck. In scripture they are linked to
the wilderness and barrenness. Although
seen by most as a bad omen, they represent wisdom. We say, “As wise as an owl”. They have excellent hearing abilities and are
mostly known for their keen eyesight.
They can see in the day time, but are especially known for their ability
to see in the dark. Part of what Father
recently came to reveal to me is that He would reveal the plans of the enemy,
what they do in the dark. Their secrets
and plans that are behind closed doors, so to speak. To know what they do in the dark, that which
is vailed, one has to have the ability to see or discern in the dark. The owl’s
eyes are fixed with the ability of turning its neck 270 degrees. The owl cannot even roll his eyes or look
sideways. This is the reason why they
need the ability of the neck to turn. We
are told to fix our eyes on Him. They
also have 3D vision, which means that they can perceive depth, width and
height. This immediately reminded of Paul praying that we would comprehend the
depth, width, length and height of the love of God in Ephesians 3. Furthermore, most birds have their eyes on the
side of their head, not so with the owl.
Their eyes are fixed into sockets or tubes that are called rods. They have binocular vision, which means that
they see an object with both eyes at the same time. This provides them with acute depth
perception and allows them to gauge distance to perfectly time their
attacks. Where other birds have a
greater peripheral vision, owls have acute depth perception. This makes me think of discernment. The ability to zoom into what really matters
without being distracted by your surroundings or noises, represented by the
peripheral vision. They can “zoom” into
a prey.
They also have three eyelids. The third eyelid is translucent and protects
the eyes from debris. This translucent
eyelid made me think of where Paul prays that the “vail” of our understanding,
which is the ability to discern or perceive, may be enlightened. Owls also see limited color and mostly in
monochrome. Their eyes reflect light and
are super light sensitive.
What caught my attention was the issue of
light versus darkness. We can either
see things in black and white or in color.
I prefer color. A few years ago,
Father told me that I now see in monochrome, but that I will see in color. He kept bringing videos on my path about
people that are colorblind that received colorblindness glasses. Their joy of seeing color at last was very
contagious. This then comes back to the
word given to me that I mention right at the beginning, that He will guide me
with His eye. I will see as He
sees. I never truly understood exactly
what He meant, but praise God, I do now.
In the color white you find the whole of the spectrum of colors. Hence, when you look through the eyes of
love, you see color and not just in white and black, even whilst walking right
through the darkness. It is not that you
do not see the darkness, it is that you perceive and discern through the eyes
of love. There is a depth of understanding
and wisdom that transcends just the facts.
The facts being that which is obvious or logical. You
remain untouched, because you are in Him, who is love. And, you are in Him to the degree that you
are not divided within yourself. Meaning
to the degree that you are sanctified body, soul and spirit. When Father told me almost 34 years ago that
I will paint the color of His love, I did not know that it would not just be
through painting, but through words as well, as a picture is worth a thousand
words. Meaning, the ability to express
His heart creates a picture.
I find it very interesting that Paul who
emphasized love right through scripture, even being the writer of 1 Corinthians
13, was given to be taken up in the spirit to be shown revelations that were
not lawful to utter. Again, we find John,
called the disciple that Yeshua loved, who was often found with his head on
Yeshua’s bosom, to have received the revelations from Yeshua, to write the book
of Revelation. We also read 1 John to 3 John,
how he clearly emphasizes love. This
speaks of the manner of men they were whom He could entrust with these visions
and experiences. There is a connection
between having an experiential understanding and apprehension of His love that
opens our eyes to see as He sees. Remember,
Paul was very familiar with the law, even saying that he was the Pharisee of
Pharisees. But, when Yeshua had His way
with Paul, he was all about how love was the fulfillment of the law. He saw then as Yeshua saw. Having a deep and experiential understanding
of God’s love is essential for the time to come in how we will discern and
endure. But also, having a heart free
from prejudice, traditions, guile and truly living under grace, is to look at
life “unvailed’. You truly start to see
in His light. We will need to discern
not just between white and black, but see in color, just as He did.
His love truly liberates us in all spheres of
life when we walk in the light of the Spirit, by every word that He
speaks. We do not then see in the
context of black and white, but all things we see through His eyes, which is in
color. In Him is no darkness, no shadow
of turning…HE IS LIGHT and that light is very colorful. I suspect it is the rainbow that surrounds
the throne above.
John also spoke about light and mentions John
the Baptist who was not the light, but pointed to Him who is the Light of the
world in the first chapter of the book of John.
Remember, the world is in darkness, but He who is the light is the Way
to the Father in this darkness. He is
the fulfillment of the law through love.
Love is the fulfillment of the law.
We also know that the Word of God is a lamp unto our feet and a light
unto our path. The entrance of His Word
gives light and understanding to the simple.
This speaks of revelation and using the Word of God as our guidance how
to live. The one is instructions, which
points to the letter and the other is the Spirit of the law, which speaks of a
Person, Yeshua. The word or His law, is
a schoolmaster that reveals our heart to us.
It acts as a mirror to reflect back to us what we otherwise would have
missed. This reminds me of the owl’s
ability to reflect light.
In 1 John 2: 10, John says the following…
1 JOHN 2
8 Again,
a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you:
because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
9 He
that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even
until now.
10 He
that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of
stumbling in him.
11 But
he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth
not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Clearly we can see from the context of this
chapter that love is the means by which we walk in the light in this dark world. When we walk in light, we walk in His
love. Not knowledge, not understanding,
not even revelation. Through the glasses
of love is how we are to look at all things in order to discern and see as He
does. This has both to do with understanding and revelation and with truly
knowing Him who is love. In one of the
series I just finished watching, there is this lawyer that has a great range of
glasses that he wears all the time. A
lawyer has to judge or discern, and the glasses he wears will determine his
judgment. There is a clear connection
between love and light and being able to discern as we ought to. With this I would like to emphasize that what
is essential is to have on one side of the scale a clear understanding of the
enemy’s plans and devices, and on the other side of the scale, His love. We are to be as cunning as snakes and gentile
as doves at the same time. When there is
an imbalance, a greater emphasis on the facts, our hearts will be hardened and
our testimony will suffer. We might
bring understanding to those who are deceived, but not necessarily draw them
unto Him. On the other hand, if we are
all “mushy” and just speak from a place of love and prefer our heads in the
sand, then you are asking for trouble.
The key is to have balance. Some people are professors in exposing the
enemy and knowing the facts about the deception out there. However, they are lacking in their
understanding of His ways and who He is.
The letter is concrete, but the Spirit is mystical. To walk by faith requires not to depend on
that which is concrete, but that which you cannot see. Living by every word that He speaks. They will know us by our fruit, not just our
facts. Why is this important? We need to understand that when we are sent
out to be light, as the John the Baptist Company, or Elijah Company, that, that
entails both the knowledge and understanding of deception, which is to discern,
and that that discernment has to come from our vital union with Him, who is
love. They both represent light. Both these qualities are of utmost importance
and the one affects the other. They
cannot and MUST NOT be separated. I
speak this from out of experience where I was very involved in exposing the works
of darkness years ago. During that time
I did not became aware of the gradual hardness of heart that started to
permeate me even whilst fighting for the truth. I thought that because I knew the truth that I
was in His perfect will to expose all the deception and right the wrongs that
people believed, having the attitude of being willing to be persecuted for the
truth. That sounds very self-sacrificing
and noble, but the truth is that I was unware how critical it was to be guided
by the Spirit and not by facts or truths alone.
Indeed a very thin line. This
requires an intuitiveness that has been developed through the years where you
pick up the slightest nuances or clues in the spirit, which to others may seem
insignificant or completely overlooked.
They are still vailed in their understanding of how the Spirit
works. This is very much the case with
the Pharisees, having the Light, Yeshua, standing right in front of them and
not being able to discern, even though they knew the truth and practiced the
law. He who is the fulfillment of the
Law, the Truth, was standing right in front of them. This is why Yeshua told His disciples
everything the Pharisees do they too must do, but that their righteousness had
to exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees.
What did He mean by this? He was
simply saying, “Obey My commandments, but remember, love is the fulfillment of
the law.” Faith worketh by love. He was most definitely not telling them to
add the 613 mosaic laws to the already 10 commandments. There is no rest in living by the flesh. He
made it perfectly clear to us that there are 2 commandments, the new
commandments that fulfills the 10 commandments.
In fulfilling the 2, the 10 are kept.
Coming back to the reason why He drew my
attention to the owl, is that He wanted to point out that there are many in the
Body of Christ that still see in monochrome, that is to say in white and black,
and not in color. The question was asked
why He was exposing me and speaking to me through that which was clearly in
complete opposition to His holiness and walking undefiled. For some this may have looked as if I was
compromising and walking in deception.
After all, they could throw a truckload of scriptures at me to show me
the error of my ways. However, He was
showing me the liberty of love and living by the Spirit. I suppose He wanted to rattle some cages as
He did with the Pharisees as well. What
that liberty in His love means is that you are not dictated and controlled by
truths, but by the Spirit. The Spirit
guides us in all truth. You are not
controlled by “do’s and don’ts”. This
does not mean that truths are irrelevant, it simply means it does not dictate
your life. So that just like Him you are
able to heal on the Sabbath, understand why He would use a “raven” to feed you
or in my case, use “worldly” things to bring a message across. You are not then under condemnation, but
under grace by walking after the Spirit.
It is NOT a liberty to sin, but a liberty that frees you from seeing and
discerning only from the basis of facts, white and black. In my devotional reading of Oswald Chambers’
My Utmost for His Highest, November 12, it says…
What
difference has my salvation and sanctification made? For instance, can I stand in the light of 1
Corinthians 13, or do I squirm and evade the issue? True salvation, worked out in me by the Holy
Spirit, frees me completely. And as long
as I “walk in the light as He is in the light” ( 1Jonn 1: 7), God sees nothing
to rebuke because His life is working itself into every detailed part of my
being, not on the conscious level, but even deeper than my consciousness.”
The issue at hand is His life in us. Paul said, “I no longer live, but the life
that I live, I live by the faith of the Son of God.” It is Him living through us. In John 1: 5 John says that the light shineth
in darkness and the darkness could not comprehend the light. This comprehend means to take hold of, to
make one’s own, to seize upon or take possession of. Darkness cannot take hold or take possession
of light. This is why I could watch all
those movies and not once felt I needed to ask for the Blood of Yeshua to
protect me, wash me clean or think that I needed to ask for forgiveness in
watching it. Once again, please
understand that He was showing me what it truly means to walk in the light where
darkness cannot comprehend you. Walking
in His love and the protection of being in Him.
The darkness will not comprehend or take hold of me. I was at liberty in His love. By no means do I wish to continue to watch
these horrid movies and eagerly await this season to be over. The point is that if we do not discern by the
Spirit and walk in love, which is the soil of that discernment, we are bound to
condemn that which look from a logical standpoint as deception or wrong, and
lean on our own understanding, thinking we are correct in our estimation of
what we see with our eyes. We then
forfeit seeing what He sees through His eyes.
You may be doctrinally correct, but in error because you are not
discerning by the Spirit. Paul in
Galatians speaks to them about circumcision as there were some that wanted to
revert back to the law and there was disunity amongst them because of it. The hard and fast rules of the law.
GALATIANS 5
Stand fast
therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not
entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
6 For in Jesus Christ
neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which
worketh by love.
14 For all the law is fulfilled
in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
15 But if ye bite and devour
one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
16 This I say then, Walk in the
Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusteth
against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary
the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
18 But if ye be led of the
Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Paul always placed a very high emphasis on the
Church to comprehend the love of God in all his epistles. He had a very clear understanding and
experiential knowledge of the love of God and how it transcends our
understanding, wisdom and knowledge. God
is love and to know God is to walk in His love, to discern and understand from
the basis of who God is by a personal intimate relationship, where truths
become subject to The Truth.
EPHESIANS 3: 17 – 19
17 That
Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in
love,
18 May
be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and
depth, and height;
19 And
to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled
with all the fulness of God.
Note, that He prays that we will comprehend
this love, that is to say take hold of it.
Once again, I cannot over emphasize the importance of love in the time
to come, because it will be the very light by which we walk and discern, and
most importantly endure to the end. I am
not condoning watching any of these movies etc. I am merely showing through a
practical example that to walk in the fullness of His love, having comprehended
the depth, width, height and length, is the equivalent to be invincible as He
was. Can you believe this? This is why Yeshua could say to Pontius Pilot
that he has no authority over Him except that which the Father gives him. In other words, “You cannot touch me unless
My Father allows it.” In fact, this
reminds me of a number He had me look up this morning. I woke up at 5:17 and looked up the number in
the Strong’s Concordance. It means both “mother”
and “invincible”. Walking through the
lions as they make way for me in my dream.
Whilst watching all these things, the enemy could not touch me. Not because of me. I am nothing.
However, I am in Him. And if
there is anything in our lives that through sin or wrong attitudes opens a
door, you can know that the enemy will find the gap to slip in and defile. However, once your eyes are open, the vail
has been lifted, you will see everything as He sees it. You will be liberated from seeing the way you
have always seen, which is in monochrome.
Nothing will be insignificant and you will realize that it is never
about what is white or black or right or wrong.
Everything is about how He sees it.
Someone can say something scripturally correct, but the spirit of the
speaking may be in error. Is it then
true? Are you able to discern the spirit? Or someone can say something scripturally
incorrect, but are you able to discern their heart, their disposition, so that
you can correct them in love or even a strong rebuke, should you even speak? Your own heart will determine how you
discern, because out of the heart flows the issues of life. In our heart we find filters (glasses), like pain,
past traumas, prejudice, opinions and traditions that influences how we see or
discern. These all have to be sanctified
and placed on the altar. They distort or
vail our understanding, which causes us to then only see in part. They become hard and fast rules we live by
without even being aware of it. This is
why Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13
1 CORINTHIANS 13
9 For
we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But
when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done
away.
11 When
I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a
child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For
now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part;
but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Everything will fall away, and there will only
remain three things, hope, faith and love.
Love being the greatest. We see
dimly, we discern or understand dimly because we have not yet been made perfect
in love. We still think like a child
that demands what is right or pointing out what is wrong. This is not to say that we are to not expose
the works of darkness, but how we address it and if we should address it should
be under the guidance of the Spirit at all times. We will know even as we are known by Him,
even the hearts of men. Moses was vailed
and the Israelites could not handle the light that shone on his face. They could handle the law, the letter on the
stone tablets, but not the glory of the law written on Moses’ face. Now the Jews are vailed and those who are the
light sent out into this world will be His witnesses to be the full expression
of His glory, to shine as light in the darkness, and the darkness will not
comprehend that light. It is the glory
of God, the full expression of who He is, the fulfillment of the law by love
that will cause them to say, “What must I do to be saved?”
2 CORINTHIANS 3
6 Who also hath made us able
ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the
letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of
death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of
Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his
countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the
ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of
condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed
in glory.
10 For even that which was made
glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done
away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we have
such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put
a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to
the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were
blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading
of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit:
and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face
beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image
from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
The Spirit is light and those who walk in the
Spirit walk in His light and His love. This
is the liberation of His love. This
light exposes the works of darkness merely by just being in its presence, as
Yeshua did with the Pharisees. This is
also why Paul could boldly state in Romans 8 the following…
ROMANS 8: 38 - 39
38 For
I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from
the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Now you
understand why Romans 8 starts with, “There is therefore now no condemnation to
them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Chapter 7 of Romans specifically addresses the law that is
as a husband that have died and the widow is free to marry another. She would be free to marry grace through
faith. That means that she no longer
lives by what is wrong or right, black or white, but the law of love has indeed
liberated her. She is no longer
condemned, because she walks in love.
Only by walking in love is she able to fulfill the law through
faith. Sometimes the law can be a
calendar, full moon or new moon, His real name, the keeping of the feasts days,
7 or 14 years, pre or post, the earth flat or a globe and the list goes on and
on. They are all facts, but they do not
only speak of white and black, but also hard and fast rules, the letter. “Thou
shalt not…say it is a globe. Thou shalt not look at this calendar. Thou shalt not use this name. Thou shalt not…” We become married to our ideas and refuse to
die to the law they have become unto us and live by the “letter” and not the
Spirit. We refuse to die to what we know
beyond a shadow of a doubt is true. Once
again, the focus is not to do away with truth, but to be led by the
Spirit. My point is not to throw the
baby with the bath water out. Once
again, facts and love have to be in perfect balance. In the process what is sacrificed when we
hold tenaciously to our truths, is His love.
We puff ourselves up, have a “The Lord has revealed to me” attitude and
shun the leper who dare think they know better.
The truth indeed sets us free.
From what? From the law, so that
we may walk in liberty, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit so that when
we speak about truths revealed, we speak in the Spirit of love by the Spirit, able
to discern accordingly when and how to speak.
We are also then able to discern the spirits. Your ability to tests the spirits transcends
facts. It zooms in into the heart or
spirit behind the speaking as well, because of your vital union with Him in
love. You see as He sees. He guides you by His Spirit in all wisdom in
all things. We cannot fulfill the law
without love, neither can we discern without love.
There is a certain guidance of the Holy Spirit that is not
concrete. It is mystical in a
sense. Yeshua told Nicodemus in John 3: 8, The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest
the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth:
so is every one that is born of the Spirit. It has everything to do with how vitally united you are to Him and
have your being in Him. When you reach that point, His seeing becomes yours,
His hearing become yours and His speaking becomes yours. You walk in the knowing that you are
one. We prefer boundaries, hard and
concrete facts. We like a list of “do’s
and don’ts” and they surely do have their place. All children will rebel without boundaries as
their foundation. The law is our
schoolmaster after all. However, the
just shall live by faith. That is to say
from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. This is foolishness to the world that goes by
the creed of “seeing is believing.” This
why we read in 1 John 2: 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him
abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same
anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as
it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. That unction of the Spirit in you and upon you. Therefore, what today is permissible, may not
be permissible the next day as you are no longer guided by what is wrong or
right, but by the Spirit. You walk not
after the dictates of the flesh, which in the context of Romans 8 speaks of the
law, but you walk by the Spirit. In my
devotional reading this morning of Oswald Chambers he said…
“Beware
of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being
devoted to God. If you are a saint and
say, “I will never do this or that,” in all probability this will be exactly
what God will require of you. There was
never a more inconsistent being on this earth than our Lord, but He was never
inconsistent with His Father. The
important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine
life. It is the divine life that
continually makes more and more discoveries about the divine mind. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than
it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of
our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.”
1
CORINTHIANS 2
12 Now we
have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God;
that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which
the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the
natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned.
15 But he
that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. (No
condemnation for those who walk after the Spirit)
16 For who
hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind
of Christ.
As children, still immature, we need the law to be a light unto
our feet, instructing us how to walk. We
need to know what is wrong and right. It
teaches us moral values and righteousness.
However, they are not to govern us as we mature in Christ, but the
Spirit. We are to go from milk to
meat. From the letter to the
Spirit. This is the difference between
milk and meat, whether you truly live by every word He speaks to you. Yeshua discerned and walked in such a way,
saying that what He speaks is what He heard His Father speak and what He does
is what He saw His Father do. He and the
Father as one through the Spirit. Even
so are we to walk as He walked. Isaiah
tells us this…
ISAIAH 11: 3 – 5
2 And
the spirit of the Lord shall
rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel
and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
3 And
shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord:
and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the
hearing of his ears:
4 But
with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the
meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and
with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
In other words, He will discern by the Spirit that rests upon
Him. So, we too are called to discern by
His Spirit by abiding in His Word and in His love. However, when we still hold fast to our
facts, however true they may be, we can easily be more devoted to truths than
to THE TRUTH and be outside of His perfect will because we insist on them and
pointing the error of other’s ways.
JOHN 16
12 I
have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
13 Howbeit
when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he
shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:
and he will shew you things to come.
1 CORINTHIANS 3
1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as
unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2 I
have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to
bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3 For
ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and
divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
I pray you
understand that our love must grow in discernment and understanding of who He
is. In the same way our discernment
grows in His love. Discernment is more
than just right or wrong. Not only that,
but we can do nothing. We can have the
facts or truths and think we discern by addressing an issue, but it will be
done in the flesh if not guided by His Spirit.
Only that which is Spirit is Spirit.
He wants to discern through us.
We are only the vessels and by our vital union with Him in intimacy,
having died to all our prejudices and traditions, as well as our filters, can
He see, hear and speak through us. Then
we see in color because we see as He sees.
We discern not on the basis of facts alone, but discern by the Spirit
that has full reign in us. He is the Truth
that will set free those who are bound.
To discern and to see in color is to have an experiential knowledge of
His love that transcends our understanding and requires us to live by every
word He speaks. We do not know all
things and He alone sees into the depths of the heart of man. We are to abide and depend on Him with all
our heart and lean not on our own understanding, no matter how true it may
be. We are to be willing that He takes
us wheresoever He wishes and to teach us in any way He pleases. We
will be liberated by His love and not walk under condemnation. We will see through the eyes of love and no
longer in monochrome.
1 CORINTHIANS 13
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand ALL
mysteries, and ALL knowledge; and though I have ALL faith, so that I could
remove mountains, and have not charity,
I am nothing.
It does not matter how much you know, it matters how much you love. Prophecy, understanding mysteries, having all
knowledge and faith, all of it is subject to His love. When you walk in love, you will be liberated
from the law, in order to fulfil the law by the Spirit. This is a mystery. Let Him who have ears, hear what the Spirit
of God is saying to His Church.
I end this
devotional with a word I received from Father on the 30th September
2021.
BY THE SPIRIT
Abide in Me, in My word and in My love by keeping My
commandments and your joy will be full.
Even in persecution you must know that My Spirit will guide you into all
truth. This truth will always separate
you from this world.
This is so that you may be one, undivided and that I may dwell
in you and you may know that we are one.
You are one with Me and with My Father.
Therefore, do not expect the world to like you or even your
Christian brothers and sisters. Your
separated life is an offence to them, because of their compromise. Expect this and know that there are others
going through the same. The servant is
not greater than his master. I went
through it because I was separated, sanctified.
I am the Truth. Know that to you
I send My Comforter. He will comfort you
and He will speak to you My words. I
will never leave you alone.
Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of Truth is come, He will guide you
into all truth, for He shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall
hear, that shall He speak and He will show you things to come. He shall glorify Me, for He shall receive of
Mine, and shall show it unto you.
All things that the Father have are Mine. Therefore said I, He shall take of Mine and
shall show it unto you.
Scripture
reference – John 16
