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Whenever we hear new truth or receive
a revelation from the Spirit, it is incumbent upon us to ensure that this newly
planted seeds in our heart are nourished.
This is our responsibility towards the Word of God. We are to allow the Spirit to further open up
this new truth and make it part of us and ultimately shift us from one place to
another. This is so that we in fact
change and not just be amazed by new truth and accumulate knowledge. A new revelation is supposed to affect our
disposition, if not change it all together.
We are to meditate on it, chew on it, and swallow until it becomes part
of our bowels, our gut. Knowledge that
does not change us has no purpose.
Character is built when we appropriate, not just when we are revealed a
truth. Unfortunately, in today’s society
people demand sermons at the press of a button and have an assembly line
attitude regarding teachings. With our
mouths wide open at the end of the assembly line, we swallow teaching burger
after teaching burger. We end up full of
new teachings, but we are not changed. Year
in and year out we are saturated with knowledge, but we still remain the same
person. We are in fact immature
Christians boasting about our knowledge without the character to back it
up. This disrespectful attitude towards
the Word and he who brings the word, whether through teaching or prophecy is that
of, “It is his calling and so it comes naturally”. There is no appreciation for what went into
the delivering of this teaching, by the forming of the teacher or prophet
themselves. Afterall, today everybody is
a teacher or a prophet. The years the
Lord God invested in him by stripping him and keeping him accountable for what
he knows are not even considered. In the
same way we easily make empty promises, even unto ourselves, and do not see how
lightly we look upon words. We treat His
Word or revelations flippantly. Easy
come and easy go. There is no waiting on
Him to allow Him to flesh something out and lay prostrate before Him to make a
new truth a reality. Insisting that you
do not leave the room the same. Our
flippant attitude towards words in general is directly relative to our flippant
attitude towards His Word or new revelations, because we have not sufficiently
counted the cost of delivering that word or the nature of Him who speaks to us
and that we are in fact made in His image.
Therefore, we frustrate the purposes of God in our own lives and in the
Church by not waiting on Him to make a new revelation part of our being and
reality. It is my prayer that even
before reading or listening to this devotional, you would pray and allow the
Spirit to give you eyes to see and a desire to appropriate by faith what is
revealed.
I will be writing three devotionals
that follow up on one another and are vitally connected to each other. They constitute three words…to “see”, to be
“sent” and “to serve”. This devotional
is about seeing, which is the prerequisite for being sent. To be sent, is to be Apostolic. To be Apostolic is to serve. This sending does not come just because you
raise your hand, but rather as one chosen.
The Word clearly says that the Lord God is not a respecter of persons,
but because as one prepared, you are chosen and then sent. We are sent in order to represent the One
that sent us. Therefore, we can expect
that we have to be made in His image in order to be sent and that is far more
important than just being able to do miraculous exploits. It is our character that will sustain us in
the time to come. And those He sends, He
not only prepares, but equips. In Isaiah
6: 8 we read, “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us? Then said I,
Here am I; send me.” This devotional
bears a bit of light on those chosen to be sent.
JOHN 8: 42
…for I proceeded forth and came
from God; neither came I of myself, but He sent me.
To be Apostolic is to serve the church from a
basis of being prepared and sent from His Kingdom. The office of Apostle is more than just being
able to do miracles, prophecy and preach the gospel, but has with it the
responsibility of overseeing and serving the Church in community. Therefore, it is more than just a call or a
purpose, but it has to do with the man in his totality, whether he truly
represents the One who sent him. Community
is directly linked to Apostleship. If
you wish to know more about this, please see chapter 8 and 9 in the free book
on my blog, called “A Kingdom of Priests”.
Let’s read John 13…
JOHN 13: 3 - 5
3 Jesus knowing
that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from
God, and went to God;
4 He riseth from
supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.
5 After that he
poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe
them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
In verse 3 Yeshua makes a statement
that He kept on repeating in John 8, which bears great significance to being
sent. This statement is, “knowing
from where He came, and where He was going to.”
Knowing from where He came and where He was
going, having received all things from the Father…, the Word says, “He rose...” This is more than just getting up from His
chair, but was a resurrection statement in itself. It was the foundation for the rising. This foundation, from where He came and where
He was going, was the enablement of all His rising. This word “knowing” tells us that it
was not just a mere statement for us to know that He came from the Father,
rather it beckons us to find out about this knowing. Why did the Spirit inspire John to write
this? Why is this significant? And does it apply to us? And what did He rise to? He rose to wash their feet. If anything, although an act of great
humility, but having been sent from the Father, it was Apostolic. Not only Apostolic, but also Kingly in its
essence. The King rose to wash their
feet. Not only Kingly, but a divine
demonstration of who God is. Yeshua, who
is the divine expression of God, was demonstrating who God is, which is exactly
what we as sent ones are to do.
Matthew 20: 28 says…
The Son of Man did not come to
be served, but to serve…
This “knowing”, should cause us to ask whether
there be any other way for us to serve? As
the Patterned Son, He came to show us how to live. We will not be able to do acts of ultimate
humility or servitude, to which we are called, except we ourselves know from
where we come and where we are going, and that all things have been given unto
us. John writing this was letting us
know that Yeshua would not have been able, unless He knew. Just like Him, we too need to have this
“knowing”. Knowing constitutes a
confidence and assurance, an unwavering disposition in order to get up and go
down. And so, we can understand that any
act of serving that does not come from this knowing as a natural outflow, is
affectation. An effort as opposed to a
natural outflow from this disposition in the Father. True service is an outflow of who we are in
the Father, just as Yeshua demonstrated to us.
Which beckons the question, what is this knowing?
“This
knowing is not cognition or mental consent to truth, but a deep inward
appropriation of such a kind that permeates the entire personality and opens it
to a conduct that cannot be otherwise given or expressed.” – Art Katz
This is why I started this devotional with
understanding our responsibility to allow the Spirit to make what we hear or
read a reality to us, which is true knowing as opposed to mental consent.
Yeshua also knew where He was going, which
constitute an eternal perspective as well.
We read the same of the cloud of witnesses in Hebrews 11, always knowing
where they were going. It is imperative for the Bride of Christ to have an
eternal perspective.
Hebrews 11: 8 - 10
8 By faith
Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after
receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he
went.
9 By faith he
sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in
tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked
for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
The Kingdom of God is an eternal Kingdom. It is Davidic and will be on earth as it is
in heaven, with the root of Jesse, the Son of David, Yeshua reigning as King of
kings from a redeemed Zion.
Daniel 7: 27
27 And the kingdom
and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be
given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an
everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
On the 3rd of February the Spirit
led me to watch the movie Joan of Arc.
If there was someone who had an eternal perspective, it surely would be
her. She was obsessed to have France and
Burgundy united, as she received visions from the Lord and felt that she was
sent by Him to do so. She was absolutely
fearless in her resolve. It made me think
of the Northern and Southern tribes, the
two sticks that Ezekiel were told to hold together, prophesying that this was
the intend of the Most High at the end of the age. The Jew and Gentile that will be one under
one King. It was said that when she was
burned at the stake for being a heretic, all of her consumed, but not her
heart. I believe her heart was already inflamed
with the zeal of God’s Kingdom to be established on this earth. The Kingdom of God suffers violence and the
violent take it by force. Zeal is that
which consumes the heart, where you are willing to risk it all, just like Joan
who left her family and the safety of her home, to stand before kings and
challenge them with the Word of God. To
be eternal minded is to be Kingdom minded, for His Kingdom is eternal. People need something bigger than life to
fight for. Something greater than
themselves to believe in. In the same
way, Yeshua left all for the Kingdom of God on this earth. All of what we see now on this earth is the
battle of kingdoms. The enemy says, “As
above, so below”, simply meaning that they want this earth to resemble the
kingdom of below. Whereas Yeshua said, “Pray,
Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven.” Here we have the
desire of the Father to establish His Kingdom which is already in heaven, to be
on earth. This is why He sent His Son…to
establish that which is in heaven on earth.
It is a battle for Kingdoms. This
is the Son’s inheritance, a Kingdom on earth, which is also our inheritance as
co-heirs. But how real it this to
us? Even though we know that we will
rule and reign with Him, we are still not Kingdom minded. It is something that will happen one day, as
if we are not vitally a part of establishing this Kingdom. This is what we are now about. We ascribe to reality, but live outside of
it. Many are now presently focused on
this world, focused on tomorrow and whether they should go to this or that
place on holiday, or their children’s future. But the Kingdom of God is not
even given a thought. They do not see
the fact that they are called as workers in context with the Kingdom. The Kingdom of God seldom passes over their
lips. It is a lofty idea of something
that will be at the end and not a reality now.
It stands to reason when the order of these considerations have changed
that only then we are affectively in the Kingdom and not waiting to be
translated. Only when we have left all
for the Kingdom’s sake does the Kingdom become our foremost consideration and
not a side issue. How we deceive
ourselves and are blinded to the reality of our lives and our true disposition
towards His Kingdom. There is a longing
to be used by Him, but if we are to be honest, it is because of us. Our intention is to be of use, to have
meaning and purpose. Hence why we flock
to the words, “God have a purpose for you”.
We fail to see how we use His gifts for our own uplifting, when in fact
all is for His Kingdom. This has to
change if we are to have any zeal for His Kingdom, because without this zeal
for His Kingdom He cannot send us. The
Kingdom of God suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. His Kingdom has to become literal, a reality
to us and not something in the sky up there as if it is something that can be
only categorized and pinpointed to a location, and not a vital dynamic of His
sons and daughters that live in it even now.
It has to be tangible. Each time
we hear that word, something must fan the flame of zeal in us. It is the rule of God over all the nations of
which Israel will play a pivotal role. Eternity
is not only given to affect the future, but given in our knowledge now to
affect the present. It shapes the way
you perceive your life. We have to have
an eternal perspective now. We have to
factor in the things that are eternal, less we live beneath the glory He has
intended, which is eternal life now. Not
in quantity of life, but quality of life.
This will make you not only distinct from this world, but even from your
Christian brothers and sisters, who do not share in this knowing. We have to be the thing in itself. Stop and ask yourself whether you have an
eternal perspective. Not whether you are
going to heaven, but whether you live in such a way that all your present doing
and speaking are done in the light of how it affects eternity. That is an eternal perspective. This zeal can only come when we have a
knowing from where we have come and are going.
This zeal is the absolute burning love for the King and His Kingdom that
cannot be separated.
Hebrews 10: 34
34 For ye had
compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods,
knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring
substance.
They were willing to be stripped from all
their substance, their goods, their savings, their homes, because of the
compassion, the love they had for Paul, but they also had a view of an eternal
reward. Do not think that this came
easy, but rather it stripped them each time.
They basically walked the talk.
Note, they joyfully took the spoiling because they knew, that knowing, where
they came from and where they were going, and that they have been given all
things. Something that we no longer see
amongst the brethren that was typical and characteristic of the first
Church. Mere assent to doctrine does not
do it. It has to be a knowing within
yourself, because it will affect how you see the world and how you live.
Knowing from where He has come needs to be
something that we ourselves meditate upon and receive revelation, in order to
understand where we have come from. The
one is relative to the other and the greater the revelation by the Spirit, the
more this knowing forms the foundation of being a sent one. “As My Father has sent Me, so I send you”,
Yeshua said. This sending comes with a
knowing. One would be hard pressed to
find sermons on the preincarnate Son of God and the Church has left this very
important factor from out of her consideration and have suffered terribly in
her understanding of the full weight of what He did for us because of this lack,
as well as the having an understanding of her role in establishing His Kingdom.
Yeshua came from the bosom of the Father, from
out of the glory of heaven. All we know
is that it must have been unspeakably sublime.
No words have ever been afforded us to describe that divine union of
love and glory. Before there was time or
anything created, He was. And yet, it
is from this place He left. From the
bosom of the Father. A place that we
will never leave for anybody should we just have one small taste of it. However, this knowing was the provision for
Him to leave and be sent. Only through
knowing from where He came, could He strip Himself from His garment and
leave. What an outpouring! Yeshua had to leave voluntarily. He is the Lamb slain before the foundation of
this world. And so when Yeshua said in
John 10 that nobody takes His life from Him, but that he lays His life
willingly down, He was speaking not of what was to come on the cross only, but
what already took place in heaven. It is
from this place you pour out, whether water in a basin, your blood or your
life. In the same way, Yeshua saw the
pouring out of the alabaster box, which was no small container, lavish in her
love and devotion, as no small expense on her part. This a reflection of the pouring of His
Spirit from out of the throne of God, the living water of mercy to a dying
world, by the lavish giving of His Son.
God, lavish in His mercy. And if
this is our disposition, our knowing, how can we not ourselves be lavish in our
giving, whether in goods or our lives in service? How can we then not serve as He did, knowing
as He knew, from where we come? Can
there then be place for stinginess, self-pity or an identity crisis? Of
course, if we ourselves would be spoiled by the Father to taste just one drop
of the relationship enjoyed between the Father and His Son, we ourselves would
be ruined in our categories, and will too joyfully take the spoils of our
goods. We would be lavish in our giving
and serving, even as the Son was. This
type of relationship is not born in a moment, a point of time, but it is
eternal.
Yeshua’s faith was built on this reality. There was no doubt and He knew that nothing
is impossible for Him…all things were given unto Him. He operated and lived
from out of both realities, that is to say, operating from being seated in
heavenly places with His Father, as the Son of God, whilst being on earth as
the Son of Man. This is also the reason
why we have not come to that transcended place of spirit and truth, because we
only relate to Yeshua from the basis of the Son of Man, even though we know He
is the Son of God. This is reflected in
our own lives, because by the same degree that we relate to Him only as the Son
of Man, we relate to ourselves only as sons and daughters of man, and not sons
and daughters of God. How radically
different would our lives be if we truly believed. We may be able to verbalize it, but it takes
an opening of the spiritual eye to see things as they really are. The question we need to ask ourselves is, “Do
I truly know that I am a son or daughter of God or am I only mentally agreeing
to it? Is it my reality and does it show?”
Therefore, we live beneath the glory and
only live as mere men. We have yet to
come into reality and our faith suffers for it. Therefore, we cannot think of Yeshua only in
terms of His earthly life. That would be
inadequate thinking. We cannot only
consider the Man on the cross and not the God on the cross. We have to consider from where He has come. When
this veil of our understanding is lifted, it will enable us to arise and take
off our outer garment too. You rise from
knowing where He has come and where He is going and see this in context from
where you have come and are going as a sent one.
We need to consider the cross not only in the
light of what happened on Golgotha, but what took place in heaven, the
pre-incarnate Lamb that was slain. For
the cross, the coming down, is the full expression of who God is. God is love and love gives lavishly and
sacrificially, but how lavish and just how sacrificial it is will not be fully
appreciated by us unless we know what He left in order to come down. We have to see and deeply consider both sides
of the coin. The cross is the
manifestation of the God we serve, not only with what happened on earth, but
what have always been in heaven. The
cross is central to the Church’s understanding not only of who God is, but who
she is. His will was done on earth, as
it was already done in heaven. He is the
Lamb slain before the foundation of the world.
Think of that. Ponder it and let
it sink in. When He created all, He also
foreknew that Adam and Eve would sin and even before the creation, He was the
Lamb slain. There is always a
corresponding type and shadow on earth as it is in heaven. For the Lamb to be slain, there had to be an
altar. And so a type and shadow is seen
on the earth when Moses was instructed to make exactly as the heavenly
blueprint shown to him, a tent in the wilderness. As it is in heaven, so also on earth. And again, we find this right through the
history of the Bible until the manifestation of what already took place in
heaven was seen on the cross. I do not
know how He was slain before the foundation of the world was made; all I know
is that it is clearly what the Word tells us.
Questions need to rise within us, such as whether it was a suffering
then as it was on the earth? What did it
cost Him to leave the Father’s bosom? And
why would He leave? What was in it for
the Father? He came to serve, but also
to save the lost. Souls have an
immeasurable value to God, for it is He who is the life of every soul. And if that was the price He was willing to
pay for lost souls, how much more should we value our own souls, knowing that
we are the sons and daughters of God that have come from His bosom? How will this transform the Church who is
only the Church as He intended when there is true fellowship? When we truly value our own souls and those
of our brothers and sisters we enter into authentic fellowship, where brothers
and sisters dwell in unity. It is there
He commands His Spirit to dwell amongst us.
And how can fellowship be true in any other way? Also, how can He send us if we ourselves do
not value the souls of the lost for whom He left heaven to die for? This is why we need to apprehend His
pre-incarnation in conjunction with the cross.
We need to understand the magnitude of the sacrifice He made for our
soul’s sake to come into that place of adoration of Him, but at the same time
the value of all souls. When we know, it
will be a natural outflow to serve as He served. It is then that we value the Christ
in one another as His Body and will love one another and give lavishly as He
did. Our eyes will have opened to
reality.
All of this adds depth and dimension to the
mystery of the faith and the true intent of God for the Church against which
the gates of hell will not prevail. How
can it, if this is our reality? Who
shall separate of us from the love of God in whom we are? This understanding of the pre-incarnate
Christ is the foundation of the love that believes, bears, hopes and endures
all for the sake of the King and His Kingdom.
It transcends human understanding and requires the light of revelation
only found in the Holy of Holies. This
will take a supernatural grace, because the enemy especially wants to keep us
from knowing the love of God from this perspective, wanting to prevent the
Church from coming into her full inheritance.
He would rather want us to analyze our past and be occupied with the
things of the earth than consider the place where we are from and will spend
eternity. We need to deeply apprehend
and know this truth, for this truth will set us free. This knowledge of God needs to be restored
unto the Church and brought once again as foundational to the faith and our
sending, as was the case with the first Church in Acts.
Paul states in Ephesians 2 that we have been
raised together with Christ and are seated in heavenly places. Surely, we need to consider this and really
meditate on the practical and spiritual reality of this truth. How does this affect us presently, or should
we ignore it, because we do not understand it?
When the word says, “walk in the Spirit”, it is not just in dependence
with our whole being on the Spirit, but literally to walk in the spirit realm.
This is why Yeshua said that he was in heaven, whilst standing right in front
of Nicodemus in John 3: 13. We are all
aware that right around us at all times, the spiritual dimension is a reality,
but we cannot see it. It does not make
it less true. Also why Paul wrote in
Hebrews 12 that we come to heavenly mount Zion and that we enter the throne
room of God to receive grace and mercy in a time of trouble. When we go into the Holy of Holies in our
prayer closet, we are not to think of it as symbolic, which we tend to do, but
we are to understand that by faith, we truly do enter into that very place in
the heaven. Faith is not seeing that
which must be or what you desire it to be, faith is seeing what is. It is the evidence of things not seen with
our naked eye. That changes everything. It changes our day-to-day life? What we do and say. It changes our faith and how we read the
Word. Everything changes once we understand
from where we come and where we are going.
It also gives understanding to what Yeshua said about seeing what the
Father does and then He does it and that He only speaks what the Father tells
Him to speak. Together we are raised up
with Christ in heavenly places, even whilst here on earth. Just as He was. When we say that we are sojourners, we tend
to see this from a perspective of where we are going…to heaven. But the truth is, we are sojourners because
we are seated in Christ, in the Spirit. We
are not of this world, not just because we are not like this world, but because
we are seated in heavenly places even now.
To know as He knew, we need to understand that just like Yeshua, we are
sent not from man, but from the Kingdom of God.
We too are sent from the bosom of the Father. Sent from that place which we have been born
into by the Spirit of God. You have to
ask Him to show you this, which is by faith…the only way of seeing in the
Spirit. How it works, we may only get to
know when our bodies are resurrected.
Listen to what Romans 8 tells us.
Romans 8: 9; 11 – 14; 29 - 30
9 But ye are not
in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
It is clear that we are on this
earth, however, our being is also in Christ in heavenly places. How real is this to us? Our spiritual eyes do not see this reality,
but it does not disqualify what the word says, just because we cannot see it
with our natural eyes. We are all
presently just like Christ was, both on earth and heaven (John 3: 13) when we
are born of the Spirit.
11 But if the
Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised
up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit
that dwelleth in you.
12 Therefore,
brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
14 For as many as
are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not
received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit
of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit
itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if
children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that
we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
And…
29 For whom he did
foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,
that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom
he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also
justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Please note that the word glorified
is in past tense. Our bodies may not be
glorified, but in the spirit, we are already glorified and in Christ. It is from this context, when the Spirit of
God reveals to us that we are in fact sent, not from man, but from the Father,
that we are to have our being. “As My
Father has sent Me, so I send you.” Still
in our bodies, but glorified within, divinity residing in earthly vessels. Just like His Son. Can anything be impossible for us when we
live by the Spirit and in the Spirit?
Can anything be against us? Man
without God is beastial, but with God, as Adam was created, the image of God. Man
is the supreme expression of God, in the same way that Yeshua was the expressed
image of God. Until we see ourselves
as in Him, His deity in us by His Spirit and that we are to walk by faith as
His Son walked by faith, in utter dependence, we will only walk as mere men and
live beneath the glory He intended, which is to be the express image of Him. Everything
in the spirit works on the basis of faith.
Man is not man without God, man is man with God.
John 8 is about seeing and sending. Yeshua says that He is the light of the world
and then He tells the Pharisees that they cannot believe. And what they cannot believe is written in
verse 14, which is from where He has come and where He is going, exactly what
He says in John 13. They cannot see this.
Yeshua who is the Light, that light not made by hands, but that comes
from the Holy of Holies that gives wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
God, the ability to see, came that we may have light. And so
He tells us that we too are the light of the world. So that those who believe, may see and in
that seeing, the truth sets them free. The Pharisees are in darkness, and therefore
they did not see him as the Son of God.
They only saw Him as a man. “Is
this not the son of Joseph?” they asked.
They see the Son of Man, but not the Son of God. It requires faith to see that which is right
in front of us. And that faith comes by
means of a veil that has to be lifted in order for the light of revelation to
fill us and be set free. In the following chapter, John 9, Yeshua heals a man born with blindness. In verse 20 this man’s parents tells the
Pharisees, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind…” David says in Psalm 51, “Behold I was shapen
in iniquity and in sin my mother did conceive me.” We are all born in darkness,
blind to the truth of who He is and who we are, until He comes and opens our
eyes. After clay was placed upon the
man’s eyes, Yeshua told him to wash himself in the pool Siloam. We know clay resembles what we are made of,
and is this not exactly what needs to happen to us in order to see. That as we walk by the Spirit, we are to also
see by the Spirit and not with clay eyes that are blinded. The pool he had to
wash his eyes in is by interpretation the word, SENT. The word says in verse 7, He went his way
therefore, and washed, and came SEEING.
Should we forget the prior chapter and the context, we will be bound to
see this seeing merely as a miracle of a blind man that now sees. However, this seeing is that knowing, which
not only set the man free, but after he washed himself, which speaks of sanctification,
he was sent. Sending comes from a place
of seeing and knowing, after sanctification.
And this seeing is knowing from where He has come and where He is going,
together with your own knowing of where you have come and are going. How can we be sent, unless He opens our eyes
to see first? In verse 35, Yeshua asks
the man, “…dost thou believe on the Son of God?”
The truth is that we do not really know who we
are and from where we come. This is why
we still struggle with trying to make a mark or desperately seek the approval
of man. This is why we are trying to
work for His love, if only just subconsciously.
This is why we get so easily offended and live a “tit for tat”
life. We live as mere men when in fact
we are the sons and daughters of God who is sent from His Kingdom to establish
His rule. Unless we truly know this by
revelation, we will fall short of the glory He intended, which is to
demonstrate His love by a life poured out for one another. As in heaven, so on earth. Representing the Father as sons and
daughters, by being the express image of our Father, just as His Son. His Spirit is given to us in no lesser degree
than the measure given to Yeshua when He walked this earth. How then can He ask us to emulate Him when we
are at a disadvantage? But the truth is,
we are not. And our unbelief is our
blindness, because we do not truly know, that knowing, that He loves us just as
He loves His Son. Not one drop
less. And it should be our deepest
consideration to think upon the love that the Father has for His Son, seeing
that He loves us the same. Not in the
context of an earthly Father, but a heavenly Father that is love. Not love as an attribute, but the very thing
in itself. And we are the object of His
love. May He open our eyes that we may
see and truly be set free. May we wait
on Him to show us His divine love that is in heaven.
When we know who we are, from where we have
come and where we go, it is then that we operate from that transcendent place
where others will not know where God begins or you end. The unity of that bond of love can no man
separate. No thing on earth or in
heaven. No calamity or darkness. Indeed who can separate us from the love of
God? Not being insecure and unsure, but
a deep knowing of the love of God that transcends mere human understanding and
can only be known through the eyes of faith.
This seeing only comes when we come to the Great Revelator, the Spirit
of God who is the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God. Paul prays in his letter to the Ephesians for
this knowledge.
Ephesians 3: 14 - 21
14 For this cause
I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the
whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would
grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might
by his Spirit in the inner man;
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.
20 Now unto him
that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be
glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.
Amen.
May we all hunger for a greater and deeper
revelation of the love of God that does not come from a human perspective or
from the context of an earthly Father, but from that which transcends, which is
from Heaven and is eternal, by His Spirit.
So that knowing from where we come and where we are going, all our
present day categories will be radically aligned with this reality, which is to
establish His Kingdom on this earth.
I felt led to combine part of a word I
received on August 2021 with a word that I received from Father on the 2nd of
November 2021. You may have heard it
before, but know that the Spirit led me to these words because of how it is
applicable to what He is saying to us in this critical time. I call it a letter from our Father.
My child,
YOU ARE LOVED.
I have loved you with an
everlasting love.
Not just because I stand in
covenant, but because I am your Father and you are My child. Not because I formed and molded you in your
mother’s womb, but I have set My love on you.
All your days I wrote in your
book and have planned only good for you.
For as your Father I desire good in your life. That you may KNOW Me. That you may KNOW My love. For My love is set on you and I have indeed
watched over you to teach and guide you.
All your ways shall be peace, even in the midst of turmoil. For the paths I have set for you lead to the
Prince of Peace. Do not fear My child. I will keep you in the hollow of My
hand. Nobody can snatch you out of My
hand. Remember that.
Even though the oceans roar, in
Me is peace. Therefore, remain in Me no
matter where you are, for I will keep you.
I love you My child. You are not as a child, YOU ARE MY
CHILD.
KNOW THIS.
Know this in all you do. I desire you to be secure in My love. Live from the KNOWING that you are loved by
Me
I AM LOVE.
You have not chosen Me, but I
have chosen you to bear fruit, to bear abundant fruit. This can only be as you remain in Me and in
My love.
KNOW therefore that you are
loved.
Therefore, let us run
together. Cast your eyes on Me and let
us go forth to the nations, to the highways and byways, to the cities, and let
the river of life from Me flow through you.
For you can do nothing without Me, but when you surrender all, nothing
is impossible. Look unto Me and
live. Look unto Me and see My Kingdom in
Me. For I and My Kingdom are one. Inseparable.
For it is not a Kingdom ruled and governed by that which is physical,
but spiritual. Therefore, when you walk
in the Spirit, you walk in the ways of My Kingdom. You walk in Me and I and My Kingdom are one.
Therefore, do not look to man,
but look with spiritual eyes and you will see.
Nobody can see or enter My Kingdom unless they become as babes. See through the eyes of a child, in simple
trust. Not wavering, in simplicity,
without guile and purity of heart. This
is My Kingdom.
The door of My Kingdom is wide
open for all those who wish to enter, but many stay at the gates, the
everlasting doors and are not willing to leave the kingdom of this world
behind. You cannot be in two
kingdoms. You have to forsake the one to
enter into the other. Yes, through birth,
through death you enter into life.
I long for My children to enter
and I long for My Bride to know that My Kingdom is her inheritance. Unto such is the Kingdom of God. Be therefore zealous to enter through the narrow
gate. Leave all riches behind that you
may enjoy the treasures of heaven. A new
heaven and a new earth. The masterpiece
of My hands for My children.
Out of the abundance of who I
am, I give to My children, to My Bride.
For theirs is the Kingdom. And I shall
rule and reign over you and love you My children. I will draw you continually to Me and love
you.
For you are Mine. You belong to Me…Sons and Daughters of the
Living God.
Your Father.
