John 1:16-17 (Amplified) tells us, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
As we read and understand the above scriptures, we realize how we've been living far below what God's will is for His family. The Father intended we walk in and actually above, what the first Adam had in the Garden of Eden. Adam had all the earth could produce. We have been made joint heirs with Christ and have been given dominion over all the earth again. Romans 8:17 (Amplified) says, "And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ; sharing His inheritance with Him; only we are to share His suffering if we are to share His Glory." Jesus' suffering that Paul spoke about, isn't the cross and everything He endured there. The cross and His suffering was for us, as well as for the removal of sin and unrighteousness. The suffering Jesus endured was the rejection and misunderstanding from those He came for and loved.
If you walk into the very depths and mysteries of God, then many will reject your teachings and speak ill of you. God's children are now only receiving a small portion of what Jesus paid for. There's so much the Father has planned for us, that is above everything we can ask or even think.
Many fear losing fellowship of their church members, if they dare to walk deeper with the Lord, but this isn't true. God will use you as a Light, to open their eyes to a brighter and more rewarding fellowship. We're not called to be led by the majority, but by the Spirit. No one has to stop in their search for Truth, because someone else has stopped. James 4:8 (KJV) instructs, "Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you." This is a call to every believer. One doesn't need to leave his/her fellowship or start their own ministry, in order to draw closer to the Lord.
Every believer has the right to pursue the Lord on their own and is commanded to do so. We somehow believe that when God reveals something to us, that we don't need the rest of the Body of Christ. We think we can stay home and watch T.V. and Internet evangelists and teachers, but nothing is further from the Truth. You might learn things from those teachers, but it doesn't excuse you from coming together as family, at the House of the Lord.
There are no limits set by man, that will determine how far you can go into the depths of God's Presence and Wisdom. I'm not confined to what other's ideas about what God wants for me, but I have the privilege of seeking Him on my own and learning from others. I also have the privilege of not accepting what others think, if I know it's not from the Holy Spirit. God didn't form us from a cookie cutter. Our depths of desire for Him, are uniquely different too.
We've often view men and women of God, like God sprinkled them with the "Dust of the Holy Spirit," making them Superheroes and exalted. Most of the persons of God I've admired over the last 43 years, were humble, little known people who sought God only after discovering they needed Him. They searched for God's hope and deliverance and began to realize how much God Loved them. When you begin understanding the unthinkable, unimaginable depth of God's Love for you, then you cannot help but seek Him out in Truth.
People have disagreed with me throughout the years and God has given them the freedom of choice. As they disagree, I listen, pray, seek God and go to the Word. If the Holy Spirit shows me they're correct, then I will change. If He doesn't, then I remain the same, at all costs. The more I check with others, to see what they think about something, the more cloudy the vision becomes and I find myself in the same place James speaks about in James 1:5-6 (Amplified), where he says, "If any among you is deficient in Wisdom, let him ask of the Giving God Who gives to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or fault finding, and it will be given him. Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting), For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind!"
Paul writes in 2Timothy 2:23 (Amplified), "But refuse, shut your mind against, have nothing to do with trifling, ill-informed, unedifying, stupid controversies over ignorant questions, for you know that they foster strife and breed quarrels." If you know that something is from God, then don't question when others don't believe. Just because someone else doesn't believe it, doesn't mean that God won't do it for you.
Paul testified to the Church in Galatians 1:11-12,16 (Amplified) saying, "For I want you to know, brethren, that the Gospel which was proclaimed and made known by me is not man's gospel (a human inventions, according to or patterned after any human standard) For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through a direct Revelation given by Jesus Christ (the Messiah)." He goes on in Verse 16, "To reveal (unveil, disclose) His Son within me so that I might proclaim Him among the Gentiles (the non-Jewish world) as the Glad Tidings (Gospel) immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood, did not consult or counsel with any frail human beings or communicate with anyone."
Do you think the brethren who had lived the entirety of their lives under the Law, would believe Paul if he tried explaining how there wouldn't be need for sacrifice or rituals any longer and that the Gentile wouldn't be just covenant, but family? Or, do you think they would try telling Paul he didn't really receive a vision or that his vision wasn't from God? Paul's Revelation was given to him by and through the Word. God would never have given Paul this Revelation, without the written Word to back it up. When it was shown to him, it became implanted in his spirit and no one could ever tell Paul that it wasn't God's will and Word.
There have been many "revelations" preached throughout the world. Some have been true, while some have been lies of the devil. The children of God are "to study to show themselves approved unto God, a workman who has no cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing (rightly handling and skillfully teaching) the Word of Truth," according to 2Timothy 2:15 (Amplified).
When we divide God's Word by the Holy Spirit, we will always find Truth. Everyone still might not accept it as being Truth, though. When you share and teach this Revelation, make certain that it's from the Holy Spirit, because we will be held accountable before God for everything we teach or don't teach. If I shy away from things God shows me, just because I'm afraid of losing my congregation, then I will be judged for that and I never want to be judged for this.
God won't show us things, in order to impress us. Most of the Revelation teachings and things I preach, I have received from calling out to God in deliverance. I teach the things I've walked out over the past 43 years of knowing Him. Even when teaching these things, the old carnal mind of some will say, "But God doesn't do this for everyone." I answer, "He will do it for and through all who will believe and seek Him out."
It seemingly takes more times for us to "unlearn" some of man's teachings, than it would be to study for ourselves. Many believe "It's the Pastor's job" to learn for them, while denying any responsibility for reading, praying, and seeking God for themselves. It's easier to remain in tradition and believe "This is God's will for you," instead of entering into the Promises of God, in the face of giants.
You'll never receive from God, without satan's messenger buffeting you (like it did Paul), but you will find the Revelation of Grace is more than enough to deliver you from all the trials. You're always going to have trials, but Guidance from the Holy Spirit will lead you to victory. If you don't have Revelation knowledge to know, understand, and hear from God, then you might suffer great loss. This isn't God's will for your life. If we close our eyes, refuse and refuse to enter into God's Promises, then we might have to endure things that we could have walked out of.
You weren't brought into God's family, in order to be satan's lap dog or for him to kick around. You were brought into God's family, in order to set others free from satan's lies and to deliver them from his bondage. You are the "Head and not the tail." Satan is the tail.
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