The Backward View
I'm simply amazed at the teaching that premeates the church. The backwardness of it all. It seems that we are living in an age that is parallel with the time Isreal lived by "everyone did what was right in his own eyes". We have taken the word of God and chosen the portions of scripture that agree with our view. Then we discounted, argued away, or changed the meaning of those parts that either we don't understand, or haven't experienced.
Is it to hard to believe that God meant exactly what He said? Are we sure we speak the same language as our bibles? Does, "I change not", mean that, or a variation of that for our time? Are we all lawyers, and judges, that have been given authority to interpret the words of God? Has higher learning made us unable to comprehend the simple truth?
In other posts I have already addressed a lot of issues where we assume to know better than God. This is primarily about the availability of the Lord. For some reason we think that it is hard to get the Lord's attention, and even harder to get an answer to prayer. And next to impossible to be able to know Him personally! I have read countless accounts of the people whose lives and love and ministries have impacted the world for God. The recurring theme in these men was there unyielding commentment to know the Lord better, and to remain in His presence. This is the focus of the greatest men of God.
Paul was blessed with muliple revelations of the Lord. But his stance was," that I may know Him". Obviously paul did know him in part, it seems that the more that is revealed, the more revelations are desired. God is to awesome to fully know in this life time. But we are told to seek His face. It is apparent to me that, "those who know God, shall do exploits". On the other side those who don't, can't. We can start this at conversion, for we are born of the Spirit, and have the witness (life) of God. The Holy Spirit will lead and quide us into all truth. He will take the things of God and show them unto us. These are the facts.
In our experience I feel we short-circuit the work of the Spirit. We take spiritual things and try to understand them in our natural mind. Cutting off the waiting on God for revelation. Thinking we know, the spirit is quenched. Regarding the waiting on God. God is not playing a game. The Lord instructs "line upon line, precept on precept". In other words, He teaches things in order of importance to each of us individually. From where we are to where we should be. According to our ability to comprehend and assimilate. He does a through and perfect work. It won't be by our design, we're not perfect, and don't know the way. I have a lady friend who the Spirit spoke to and said, "of the top 10 things on your list, not one of them is in my top ten"!
I'm certain that our progress is slowed due to our lack of understanding of the spiritual. We are so naturally, and physically minded that we haven't learned how to walk and live by the spirit. The scripture says we are the temple of the Holy Ghost. Yet in our daily life it doesn't make the impact that it should. Having the power of God the Spirit alive in us should make a dramatic difference in our lives, and He does. We are not yet full grown. The realm of the unseen is still a mystery. The angels are a mystery, and yet they are vital to the work. The presence of the Lord is not fully manifest, and the watchfulness over us by God is hardly reconized. He has quaranteed that "the Lord is a present help".
Regarding answers to our prayers, "while they are yet speaking, I will answer them". If we are praying for something in the will of the Lord. While we are still praying, God answers Yes, and Amen (so be it). For in Christ is the yes, and amen. "will He not with him (Jesus) freely give us all things". "What things soever you ask for in prayer, believing you have received, you shall have what you ask for". We are to know that our prayer is answered yes, while still praying, and receive that God given yes, and know we have it. We aren't talking God into anything, we are agreeing with what God has already told us. "Ask, seek, and knock, for everyone that ask shall receive, and everyone who seeks shall fine, and to him that knocks, the door shall be opened".
Is it to hard to believe that God meant exactly what He said? Are we sure we speak the same language as our bibles? Does, "I change not", mean that, or a variation of that for our time? Are we all lawyers, and judges, that have been given authority to interpret the words of God? Has higher learning made us unable to comprehend the simple truth?
In other posts I have already addressed a lot of issues where we assume to know better than God. This is primarily about the availability of the Lord. For some reason we think that it is hard to get the Lord's attention, and even harder to get an answer to prayer. And next to impossible to be able to know Him personally! I have read countless accounts of the people whose lives and love and ministries have impacted the world for God. The recurring theme in these men was there unyielding commentment to know the Lord better, and to remain in His presence. This is the focus of the greatest men of God.
Paul was blessed with muliple revelations of the Lord. But his stance was," that I may know Him". Obviously paul did know him in part, it seems that the more that is revealed, the more revelations are desired. God is to awesome to fully know in this life time. But we are told to seek His face. It is apparent to me that, "those who know God, shall do exploits". On the other side those who don't, can't. We can start this at conversion, for we are born of the Spirit, and have the witness (life) of God. The Holy Spirit will lead and quide us into all truth. He will take the things of God and show them unto us. These are the facts.
In our experience I feel we short-circuit the work of the Spirit. We take spiritual things and try to understand them in our natural mind. Cutting off the waiting on God for revelation. Thinking we know, the spirit is quenched. Regarding the waiting on God. God is not playing a game. The Lord instructs "line upon line, precept on precept". In other words, He teaches things in order of importance to each of us individually. From where we are to where we should be. According to our ability to comprehend and assimilate. He does a through and perfect work. It won't be by our design, we're not perfect, and don't know the way. I have a lady friend who the Spirit spoke to and said, "of the top 10 things on your list, not one of them is in my top ten"!
I'm certain that our progress is slowed due to our lack of understanding of the spiritual. We are so naturally, and physically minded that we haven't learned how to walk and live by the spirit. The scripture says we are the temple of the Holy Ghost. Yet in our daily life it doesn't make the impact that it should. Having the power of God the Spirit alive in us should make a dramatic difference in our lives, and He does. We are not yet full grown. The realm of the unseen is still a mystery. The angels are a mystery, and yet they are vital to the work. The presence of the Lord is not fully manifest, and the watchfulness over us by God is hardly reconized. He has quaranteed that "the Lord is a present help".
Regarding answers to our prayers, "while they are yet speaking, I will answer them". If we are praying for something in the will of the Lord. While we are still praying, God answers Yes, and Amen (so be it). For in Christ is the yes, and amen. "will He not with him (Jesus) freely give us all things". "What things soever you ask for in prayer, believing you have received, you shall have what you ask for". We are to know that our prayer is answered yes, while still praying, and receive that God given yes, and know we have it. We aren't talking God into anything, we are agreeing with what God has already told us. "Ask, seek, and knock, for everyone that ask shall receive, and everyone who seeks shall fine, and to him that knocks, the door shall be opened".
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