Knowing God Lesson 11

      Jesus prayed in John17:3(Amp), saying, "And this is Eternal Life; it means to know, to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with and understand You, the only True and Real God; and likewise to know Him, Jesus, as the Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah) Whom You have sent."  How many believers don't truly know the Father for themselves?  We've trusted in the knowledge and relationship of others, instead of knowing Him for ourselves.  Being unsure of what God's will is, being void of understanding His nature and not knowing how He corrects and disciplines His people, poses a downfall for many of His children.  We've believed that God disciplines His new covenant family, like He did those under the old Law and the old covenant.  By doing this, we've allowed the world and the enemy to direct us and steal God's Word from us.

     Believers today must be able to differentiate between the old and new covenants.  We must know that the people of the old covenant weren't born-again and God needed to deal with them by their flesh.  John4:24(Amp) tells us that, "God is Spirit (a Spirit Being), and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)."  In John6:63(Amp) Jesus says, "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've educated our intellect with God's Word, without allowing it to penetrate into our new creation spirits.  This has left us with very little Revelation, because the flesh "conveys no profit."  Religion has overruled Revelation, leaving us to make excuses for why God's Word doesn't work for us.  Prov.20:27(Amp) says, "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."

     Knowing God doesn't come from being in His Word alone, but understanding what it says, by Revelation through our new creation spirit.  I don't just spend time in God's Word, but in His Presence, fellowshiping, listening to and asking Him questions.  I ask Him for His Wisdom and understanding, according to James1:5(Amp), which says, "If any of you is deficient in Wisdom, let him ask of the Giving God Who gives to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly (without reproaching or faultfinding), and it will be given him.

     Many say, "I wouldn't dare question God."  We're not questioning God or His integrity, but asking our Father for instruction and seeking His Wisdom for our lives, just like any child would ask of our earthly father.  We've mostly been taught about our Heavenly Father from religion, so we don't know Him by the Spirit.  We've created our own ideas about why things don't work, instead of asking His instructions how to to them correctly.  

    Are you tired of praying prayers that don't seem to get answered and then blaming God for not answering them, instead of going to Him for Wisdom to pray correctly?  It's like making a phone call without knowing all the numbers and then expecting the phone company to know who we're calling.  If only takes one incorrect number to make the call incomplete.  

     The Spiritual Laws that govern God's Kingdom are "forever settled in Heaven."  We're expected to learn how God's Kingdom works and walk in His way of "doing and being right."  When we learn to do things the Kingdom way, then it will work every time.  Jesus said in John14:13-14(Amp), "I will do, I Myself will grant, whatever you ask in My Name as presenting all that I Am, so that the Father may be Glorified and extolled in and through the Son. Yes, I will grant, I Myself will do for you whatever you shall ask in My Name as presenting all that I Am."

     Do you desire to have this scripture be true in your life or are you content to continue making the religious excuse of "Well, it must not be God's will for my life?"  If answering the prayer wasn't God's will, then Jesus would never have made the above statement.  Will we continue on like we have or will we choose to spend time in God's Word and in fellowship with Him, asking for Wisdom, so we will ask in Jesus' Name, presenting all that He Is?

     Psalm119:130(Amp) says, "The entrance and unfolding of Your Words give Light, their unfolding gives understanding, discernment, and comprehension to the simple.  Psalm105:8(Amp) says, "He is earnestly mindful of His covenant and forever it is imprinted on His Heart, the Word which He commanded and established to a thousand generations."