Last night we sat and had a
bible discussion with a small group. Some of these truths surfaced and so I
wrote some for everyone’s benefit. Like all that gets written it is not exactly
light reading but no matter as it is not about such. Just put it aside if it is
not where you’re at.
God spoke and it happened and
as we rest in him the ability to speak and have happen is birthed. It is not something
that is subject to natural laws and understanding it is in fact a spirit
statement of life. Much like when God spoke and said “let there be” and there
was. It is within the spirit framework we start to have unveiled the manifestation
of life as we are life. It is in this manifestation of life we speak and life
is, it is within this manifestation I am at complete rest and see a complete unveiling.
The scripture speaks about
the earth groaning awaiting the revealing of the sons of men and that groaning
is a spirit groaning as the world we live in awaits those who will indeed step
into the spirit life and be true spirit life. This is something that goes
beyond the conscious mind and into the spiritual core of a man. When we can say
I know, that I know, that I know, it
will happen. That knowing is beyond natural ability, circumstances and revealing
and dives into the spiritual core of who we are.
We spend so much time running
hither and thither doing for Jesus and miss the fact Jesus has a revealing in
us to undergo.
The bible says be still and
know that I am God and that stillness is not a work it is in fact a state. It
is not something we attain to it is something we are when and as we are seated
with Christ in heavenly places. That seating can only come from a flow of our
spirit man to live the impossible and be the creatable.
We can see this demonstrated
in the bible in various passages. Jesus taking a coin from a fishes mouth and
Elijah having the woman use a jar of oil that never ran out and feeding the
thousands with 5 loaves and two fish. It is of interest that the disciples sat
right through such and never saw, of certainty they saw the leftovers but
walking with Jesus in a carnal mindset they missed the spiritual default. Perhaps
it was the lack of fan fair as Jesus just lived spirit life. Perhaps the
distractions of life stole their position. Or more than likely they were
consumed following Jesus and never grasped the fact they were to be Jesus. It
was later as they sat in the boat after feeding thousands they were concerned
about where their bread would come from. Read it this passage is wonderful
Mark 8:13 And He left them, and getting into the boat
again, departed to the other side. 14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take
bread, and they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat. 15 Then
He charged them, saying, “Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and
the leaven of Herod.”16 And they reasoned among
themselves, saying, “It is because we have no bread.”
17 But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “Why do
you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet
perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened? 18 Having eyes, do you
not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember? 19
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of
fragments did you take up?”
They said to Him, “Twelve. Also, when I broke the
seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of fragments did you
take up?”
And they said, “Seven.”
21 So He said to them, “How is
it you do not understand?”
Today how is it we do not
understand, Jesus spoke of a hardened heart and such is ours. We see but we do
not see and we hear but we do not hear and we never remember. I have personally
observed our natural mind forgets the spiritual outflows. The natural mind
cannot grasp or own a miracle and it is in these spiritual truths we often fall
short as we use the wrong set of ears, eyes and use the wrong mind. Our carnal
man needs ownership and refuses to come under the other world of the Holy
Spirit. For certain this can only happen as Paul said when we die daily. My
spirit ears rejoice and my spirit eyes rejoice and they can only do such with
the baptism of the Holy Spirit. A baptism that men have turned into
manifestations of knowledge and spiritual prowess. They missed the point
Pentecost was and is all about romance of the Holy Spirit. We have made it all
about love and for many it has become a labor of love devoid of romance.
Pentecost totally redefined, recreated and put the romance into Gods love in
and around us. That romance is unpredictable and certainly not manageable it is
merely a choice will I enter and will it enter me? When I live Pentecost and
when I am Pentecost I now have a new set of ears and a new set of eyes and the
life to live the new default of the Holy Spirit.
These miracles went beyond
mans ability to see with natural eyes as with our natural eyes we look for the
design to do it again. I have a friend who drove his car for 12 months without
putting gas in it. He placed a piece of cardboard over the gas gauge and drove
and it never ran out. We can desire to copy that but in reality God in his
romance may never do the same thing twice. The natural core of a man desires to
find the formula he can apply or control but the Spiritual positioning of a man
reveals the needed life. As I live the needed or revealed life with my eyes on
the spirit then I am able to see creation follow. This may sound strange and it
absolutely is to any person, me included who wish to approach with carnality.
But as I sit in the spirit of God and allow the revealing of every good thing
in my life I can and will see life exposed and it again gets back to mortality
being swallowed up by life.
So yes on my personal journey
there has been amazing creation but as we stop to identify such all we fall
into is the desire to have it happen more. The needs never seem to stop and as
we even pause to observe the need then I am giving the very life of who I am in
Christ into carnality. Yes I need be still and know and it is in the being
still man usually gravitates to the lazy part of who he is and the self
gratifying part of who he is and all that follows is not of the Spirit. How
would and could it be if instead of striving to be anything in God we just sat
and let life be revealed from within. Then instead of trying to create what is
needed we may actually start to understand the spirit creates with Spirit
words.
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