The Lord spoke to me earlier this year, about understanding being made manifest to His children. He said that things we've read, but haven't understood, will begin to be made clear to us. Proverbs 4:7 (Amplified) says, "The beginning of Wisdom is get Wisdom, skillful and Godly Wisdom! For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing. And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation)."
The Holy Spirit speaks to the Church in 1Corinthians 1:30 (Amplified) saying, "But it is from Him, God, that you have your Life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, He revealed to us knowledge of the Divine Plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as our Righteousness, thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God, and our Consecration, making us pure and holy, and our Redemption, providing our Ransom from eternal penalty for sin."
The above scripture IS WISDOM! We still walk and act like "mere men and women," without understanding. Understanding this Wisdom is the key to walking in the deliverance and the place the Father has raised us to, in Christ Jesus. We haven't understood who God has made us to be and our adversary (the devil) hopes we never understand this Wisdom.
John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "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."
We won't receive these Spiritual Blessings from Jesus when we leave this earth. When we were born-again and the Holy Spirit now lives in us, these Gifts and Spiritual Blessing are ours and are at work within us, by Jesus Christ.
The Same Holy Spirit Who raised Jesus from the dead now lives within every born-again child of God. The Same Holy Spirit of God Who worked the Super-natural Blessings in Jesus' Life, now lives within you. This isn't reserved for only a few, but for all who are in Christ Jesus and have been made a new creation.
The above scripture tells us that, "All received and All had a share and were supplied with" the things Jesus came to give us. We can read God's Word which says, "God has made unto us Wisdom in Christ Jesus." It's not that we haven't received Wisdom, but we don't have understanding. The understanding we're to get, is Spiritual insight and comprehension of Truth. Jesus tells us 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 (Truths), that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
We'll never have understanding of Spiritual Truths, when we try to understand God's Word by the flesh or natural man's thinking. Much of what we've learned over the years, is man's understanding without the discernment by the Holy Spirit. This has resulted in so much difference in today's Church, when it comes to the Super-natural things of God. Although satan is totally insane, he isn't stupid. He knows that if he can hide understanding of Spiritual things from the Church, then the Glory of God and the true function of the Church will never be manifested. Without understanding, we're only the saved, in a world of unsaved people. Without understanding, there's little difference in how the enemy moves in the lives of the saved and the unsaved.
Jesus gave us the authority and Power of Attorney to use His Name, but the Church has mostly only used His Name as a P.S. at the end of our prayers. Peter and John were at the Gates of the temple, when a crippled man asked them for money, in Acts 3:6-7 (Amplified). Peter applied the Name of Jesus in authority over the man's crippling disease, saying, "Silver and gold (money), I do not have, but what I do have, that I give to you , in the use of the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk. Then he took hold of the man's right hand with a firm grip and raised him up, and at once his feet and ankle bones became strong and healthy."
If we don't have understanding, then we'll use our carnal minds and say, "These things are only for the Apostles or certain people." God's Word says that we "have All received the authority of Jesus' Name. When we lack understanding, we don't know that the Name of Jesus has no bounds in it's authority. Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus said in Acts 1:8 (Amplified), "But you shall receive Power, ability, efficiency and Might when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all of Judea and Samaria, and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth." After telling them this, Acts 2:4 (Amplified) says, "And they were All filled with the Holy Spirit."
After the crippled man was healed, Peter says in Acts 3:16 (Amplified), "And His Name, through and by faith in His Name, has made this man whom you see and recognize well and strong. Yes, the faith which is through and by Him (Jesus), has given the man the perfect soundness of body before all of you."
What did Peter say made this man whole? "The faith which is through and by Jesus, has made him whole." Do you have the same Holy Spirit, the Same Name, the Same Jesus and the same faith in that Name? In Romans 12:3 (Amplified) Paul writes, "For by the Grace (unmerited favor of God), given to me I was everyone among you not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought (not to have an exaggerated opinions of his own importance), but to rate his ability with sober judgment, each according to the degree of faith apportioned by God to him." The King James Version says, "That God has given to every man the measure of faith." God has given everyone the same measure of faith, by which we are to believe Him.
God didn't give the Apostle Paul any more faith or a bigger portion of the Holy Spirit than He gave to you or anyone else. It's not how much faith you have, but how and what you invest that faith in. If your faith is invested in anything or anyone other than Jesus and His Word, then it's without merit. Understanding will only come by Revelation and Revelation will only come by the Holy Spirit. Romans 10:17 (Amplified) says, "So faith comes by hearing what is told, and what is heard comes by the preaching of the Message that came from the lips of Christ, the Messiah Himself."
Your faith will grow and develop, as you feed it on God's Word. We must understanding that faith in God comes from hearing God's Word, into our spirit. Faith in anything else, comes from hearing something other than God's Word.
Faith in Buddha, comes from hearing about Buddhism and believing what you hear. We are hearing and believing things that God's Word doesn't say, even in today's churches. When you're told that you "don't have what other Christians have," or that speaking in tongues "isn't for us today" or "God only did these things for the early Church" or that, "These things have passed away," then you're hearing deception, with no understanding and it will hinder your faith to believe God for the things He wants to do in your life. We've been given Wisdom in Christ Jesus and this is the same Wisdom for all who are born-again. You received the Same Jesus as your brothers and sisters in Christ, the difference though is understanding what Wisdom says.
The Name of Jesus is the Name above all name, in Heaven and earth, and under the earth. It's the Name by which you are called and is yours to use, because He has delegated you His Power of Attorney. The Name of Jesus was powerful enough to heal the man at the Gate in Acts 3:16 (Amplified), where Peter says, "And His Name, through and by faith in His Name, has made this man whole." Christians have the authority and privilege to use His Name. The Name of Jesus hasn't lost any of its Power, but we've lost sight of His Name. His Name and faith in His Name, will still cast out demons, open blind eyes, heal the sick and speak in tongues today, just like it always did. Jesus tells us in Mark 16:17 (Amplified), "And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe." Are we still believing? If we are, then these attesting signs will follow us, like they followed the disciples.
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