Proverbs 4:20-22 (Amplified) says, "My Son; attend to My Words; consent and submit to My sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart for they are life to those who find them, healing and health to their flesh."
The new creation that we've now become, has dominion in the Spirit and also in the natural realm. Through the new birth, we've once again become alive to God in the Spirit. We now can operate as He intended man to operate in the First Creation. Man walked in the Spirit with the Father, according to Genesis 3:8 (Amplified) which says, "And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day (in the Spirit)."
We now, once again through Jesus in this new creation reality, are alive in our spirit, to hear the voice of God, just like Jesus did. He doesn't lead us by our senses and intellect, He leads us by our spirit. Proverbs 20:27 (Amplified) tells us, "The spirit of man (that factor in human personality which proceeds immediately from God) is the Lamp of the Lord searching all his innermost parts." The only avenue to truly hearing or knowing God, is by your spirit.
There are things in God's Word we've come to know by our intellect, but this is just intellectually knowing them. We're intelligent enough to read and understand the Words, but they haven't become Life and Healing by Revelation. Remember, "the spirit of the man is the Lamp of the Lord." It's when the Word is revealed to your spirit, that the power of the Word is released into the rest of your being.
The old covenant people knew what the Word said, but they had no revelation of what it really meant to them. Jesus asked in John 7:28-29 (Amplified), "Do you know Me and do you know where I Am from? I have not come on My Own accord and as self-appointed, but the One Who sent Me is true (real, genuine, steadfast) and Him you do not know. I know Him (Myself) because I come from His (very) presence, and it was He (personally) Who sent Me."
Without the Holy Spirit's giving life to God's Word, we simply read it with our intellect, while educating our senses to understand the Words, but not the spirit. Jesus said in John 6:63 (Amplified), "It is the Spirit Who gives life (He is the Life-Giver) the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no profit in it) The Words that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life." It doesn't matter how much we think we know about the Word, without the Holy Spirit's revealing the Life within them, they are simply of "no benefit."
We've come up with many things by reading the Word of God, yet we have so many different interpretations of what it really says. The Holy Spirit is the only One Who can convey the truth of the Word to us, and then only into our spirit. We can educate the natural man to a fault and still know know what the Spirit is saying to us. This is why it's so very important to understand that we've already become a new creation in Christ.
Somehow, we've thought that most things we read in the Word are only for a future time. God is already in the future and has already raised us up into what we would call the future. If you're born again, the you are now, already a new creation. This isn't something you are going to be, but something you already are. Through Jesus, we've become a new creation who is made in the very Likeness and Image of our Father. We've been created into the class of being of the living spirit, who will walk, know, respond to and hear the Spirit of God in our own spirit man.
We've viewed men and women who have done great and mighty things through God, as being "special." True! Some were called for certain things like the five-fold ministry, but they were all people who heard God and were led by His Spirit into awesome things. We refer to Smith Wigglesworth as "The Apostle of Father," and I'm sure he was. He started by hearings God's Voice and obeying it, then later became the great man we all read about. We've somehow been led to believe it's a lottery and that our number didn't come up. If we will only seek Him out, like hunting for "Silver and Gold, and will spend time allowing the Holy Spirit to lead us, then we can "make ourselves a vessel to be used by the Master." 2Timothy 2:21 (Amplified) says, "So whoever cleanses himself (from what is ignoble and unclean, who separates himself from contact with contaminating and corrupting influences) will (then himself) be a vessel set apart and useful for honorable and noble purposes, consecrated and profitable to the Master, fit and ready for any good work."
There has always been those who will deny the super-natural things of God. Some will poison others saying, "those things have passed away and are not for today," or that, "those things are of the devil." These are things that will "corrupt and contaminated" your faith and your ability to actually hear the Voice of God for yourself. If you truly believe that all of the super-natural things of God have "passed away," then you will never seek the Spirit of God, in order to pursue those things in your life.
We are new creation who've already become a super-natural being. Walking in the super-natural is natural to Him. We're called to walk here in this realm, walking naturally super-natural. Jesus walked naturally super-natural and made it look simple. He was never concerned wondering "Will it work?" He simply said that, "He didn't come to do His will, but the will of Him Who had sent Him." In John 5:30 (Amplified) Jesus said, "I am able to do nothing from Myself (independently, of My Own accord-but only as I am taught by God and as I get His orders); Even as I hear, I judge (I decide as I am bidden to decide, as the voice comes to Me, so I give a decision), and My judgment is right ( just, righteous) because I do not seek or consult My Own will (I have no desire to do what is pleasing to Myself, My Own aim, My Own purpose) but only the will and pleasure of the Father Who sent Me."
We spend so much time trying to decide whether something is the Father's will. Jesus did everything He did because He "heard and obeyed" the will of the Father. If it was the Father's will to heal when Jesus was here as a Man, then has the Father's will changed since then? We're always wondering, "maybe it is God's will to make me sick" or "God makes me sick as a way of teaching me things."
To know Jesus is to know the Father. He said that, "The Father and He were One" and "everything He did was the Father's will." In John 6:38 (Amplified) Jesus said, "For I have come down from heaven not to do My Own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me." Why do we continue arguing and dividing ourselves over things the Holy Spirit has already revealed to us, by Jesus and His ministry?
Are there people who do not get healed today? Of course, but is that really God's will being done or is is a lack of understanding what God's will truly is? Are there people who have passed away or who are alive today, who weren't saved or are not saved? Yes, there are. Is this also "God's will?" 2Peter 3:9 (Amplified) says, "The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people's conception of slowness, but He is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance."
It is God's will, then, that "none should perish, but that all should turn to repentance." Still, though, that not "all men are saved." Why? Because it's not God's will? Or, is it because some choose to do their own will? Our job, as new creation people, resides in the "will" of His love and His Spirit. Like Jesus, we're to know the will of God, not as men have portrayed it to us, but as God's Spirit has portrayed to us. We've decide in our own selves that it's not His will to heal some people, or in some case, not to save them either. We've decided that His will only exists for some and not for others.
We've allowed men to determine what God's will and purpose is, instead of asking or knowing what His will is. A young lady approached me in tears, because she "didn't wish to go to hell." I responded by assuring her that she could easily solve that and told her the way of salvation. She'd been told in some fellow-ship, that God had chosen some for perdition and that she was one of them. She was told that her fate was sealed and she could never be saved. Acts 16:30-31 (Amplified) says, "And he brought them out (of the dungeon) and said, Men, what is necessary for me to do that I might be saved? And they answered him, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ (give up yourself to Him, take yourself out of your own keeping and entrust yourself into His keeping) and you will be saved (and this applied both to) you and your household as well."
Men's ideas would have left this young woman tormented and fearful, but God's idea was that she have salvation and peace with Him. Men have contrived so many things from the Bible that are not the will of the Father. Jesus taught us to pray "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." If sickness, disease, pain, fear, cancer, death, hunger, homelessness and bondage is God's will in heaven, then we're all in for a sorry time when we get to heaven. Hebrews 2 (Amplified) says, "He (Jesus) is the sole expression of the glory of God (the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine), and He is the perfect imprint and very Image of (God's) nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty Word of power."
When you watch the ministry of Jesus, you will know the will of God. He is unchangeable. This erases all doubt and fear of not knowing how to pray and releases faith in His Word for the lost and sick. Remember, there will always be some who will not believe, even Jesus ran into some of these. But, there are also those who want to know, "What must I do to be saved?" Please, don't tell them they must never cut their hair or do certain things that are "after the customs of men." Tell them they must only believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, because all who call upon His Name will be saved.
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